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Home > Everything In Stock > 1969 David Pearson #17 AUTOGRAPHED East Tennessee Motor Company Ford Torino Cobra 1:24 NASCAR Diecast
1969 David Pearson #17 AUTOGRAPHED East Tennessee Motor Company Ford Torino Cobra 1:24 NASCAR Diecast
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Item Number: UR69DP429BKAUT
Manufacturer: University of Racing
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In Stock Item
Tentative Expected Ship Date: 1-2 Business Days
University of
Racing
1:24 Scale Legendary Series Hood Open Trunk Open
Estimated Production Quantity "1 of 5,000"
Product Description
Known as The Silver Fox for his graying locks and sly driving style, Pearson spent 26 years chasing Richard Petty’s taillights all over the circuit. He’s second on the all-time Grand National/Winston Cup win list with 105; he won the Daytona 500 in ’76; took 11 of the 18 Cup events he entered in ’73; and took the national championship three of the four years he contended for it.
Pearson, with Holman and Moody in 1968, campaigned a fleet of gold-over-blue, fast-backed Ford Torino’s. His crew chief that year was the recently retired Holman and Moody driver Dick Hutcherson. With Hutch's help, 1968 became Pearson's single most successful year of racing, and he started the season with a second place at
Riverside. New Fomoco teammate Cale Yarborough dominated all comers at the Daytona 500 in his slippery Wood Brothers' Mercury, but after that Pearson was literally off to the races. A big win came at
Darlington in the Rebel 400, but as in 1966, Pearson picked up the balance of his fifteen other wins and sixteen top-five finishes on the short tracks. Yet a win is a win, and in this case, sixteen wins in forty-seven outings won Pearson his second Grand National driving championship and (although H&M Fords had been winning since 1957) the first national title for Holman and Moody.
The year of the "Aero-Wars" in NASCAR racing was 1969. When Chryco engineers cooked up a slippery new version of their fuselage-bodied Charger called the Charger 500 for obvious reasons-Ford engineers and Ralph Moody responded with a droop-snouted aero car of their own called the Torino Talladega. Ford engineers also had another ace up their sleeve called the
Blue Crescent, or Boss 429 racing Hemi. Both were waiting for the new Mopar menace when Speed Weeks 1969 dawned.
Though the bosses of NASCAR put the Boss motor on hold until later in the season, Ford Talladega pilots like David Pearson and LeeRoy Yarbrough were still able to stop the new Dodges' "charge" at Daytona using the previous year's 427
Tunnel
Port engines. Pearson was the fastest at Daytona that year and his
Talladega scorched the tri-oval with a best speed of 190.029 mph. Yarbrough won the 500 in his junior Johnson-prepped
Talladega while Pearson finished sixth. The No. 17 car's first win of 1969 came two weeks later at Rockingham in the Carolina 500, and Pearson went on to win the Yankee 600 (at Michigan) that year, but again, as in 1966 and 1969, his short track success clinched him his third Grand National driving championship. In so doing he became only the second man (after Lee Petty) to win three national driving titles.
After that season, Pearson announced that he would no longer run for the championship. He said he had achieved his goal of winning a championship ring for each of his three sons, so in the future he would only run at selected races, not the full circuit.
Note: Item will be signed on the hood in by David Pearson in Silver Sharpie and will feature the "Black" hood version of David's 1969 Ford Torino.
Collect your 1969 David Pearson #17 1969 East Tennesse Motor Company Ford Torino
Autographed University of Racing 1:24 Scale Legendary Series NASCAR diecast collectible car today!
Product Details
University of
Racing 1:24 Scale Legendary Series NASCAR diecast collectible cars feature:
- All diecast body and chassis
- Opening hood
- Detailed Holman Moody 429 power plant engine
- Detailed interior with David’s Motorola radio installed inside
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Detailed chassis
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Die-cast tie rod assembly
- Detailed exhaust
- Rubber tires
- Fully decorated, fully licensed and designed personally by David Pearson and Lee Holman for complete authenticity
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Tampo-printed graphics and high quality paint
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Actual size measures approximately 8" in length and is handsomely packaged in closed, decorated custom box (coffin style with Styrofoam insert)
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