NASCAR TO RACE INTO GOLUB GALLERY
by Ron Hedger

The MOONSHINE TO MILLIONAIRES -NASCAR's History, Heroes and Technology exhibit will feature cars from Herb Thomas' nearly stock Hudson Hornet that was the car to beat in the early 50's right up to a Penske Dodge  'Car of Tomorrow ' with the side removed to let visitors see how the car is constructed.  Add Curtis Turner's purple '56 Ford, a Thunderbird that led the first Daytona 500, cars driven by NASCAR heroes Bobby Allison, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and Kevin Harvick and a championship winning truck wheeled by Ron Hornaday and you have a close-up of NASCAR through the decades.
 
And thanks to Tony Stewart, we'll have both the Dallara Indy car and the Pontiac he used in scoring racing's most famous double, the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca Cola 600, in 1999. The exhibit will mark their first time in public since Stewart acquired what he calls his 'most prized possessions.'
 
Additionally, we'll have a state-of-the-art carbon fiber seat that visitors can sit in while wearing a HANs device, a piece of tungsten ballast that is unbelievably heavy for its size, an ATL Sprint Cup fuel cell and Bill Wimble's Carnegie Medal, an honor earned by rescuing Marvin Panch from a fiery Daytona crash.  We'll also look at a handful of NASCAR's most famous rivalries and tell the stories of the sanctioning body's greatest heroes, from the days when cars were built by active moonshine runners right up to today's stars.  Join us for an exciting ride, which will also include appearances by a number of NASCAR legends to share their memories.