To clear the air up in here cause it does seem kinda stuffy!!!

I wanted to write to let everyone know that it is true!

Dale Jr. Not Dale Earnhardt (2 different people) actually does have a 2002 Cooper S. I was an assistant MA in Charleston, SC. I worked for MINI of Charleston and for Rick Hendrick (Nascar owner) We had just received the franchise and Rick took a MINI to Charlotte. Jr. saw it and Rick let him take it for awhile. He did go and special ordered that MINI from our dealership. It is fully loaded for an 02 model. Lapis Blue leather, Navigation, Cold Weather, Premium & Sport Packages. You have to remember that in 02 they didnt have alot of stuff like they do now! He went through the whole process just like the rest of us that have ordered a MINI.

When the MINI arrived at the dealership. He actually had one of his covered trucks come and pick up the car. I wish he would have came so that I was able to go over the car with him.

So I do know for a fact that it is HIS MINI!!!!

 

Too bad you weren't here a few days ago.
But then I suppose the conspiracy theorists would have assumed that you were in on the scam as well.

Now that they have posted the notice on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s official web site there should no longer be any doubt of the legitimacy of the auction though.

 

Um... I don't care much for Nascar, but...


I'll bid...


...only if Jr is included in the sale

 

We could make a game out of this.
Everyone post what you think the final sale price will be.
Whoever's closest will win a Mini Nascar badge or something

 

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I'll start... $25K (I'm at work ... and bored.)

 

The auction is already at $28,501.00
I'll let you try again unless you didn't really want to win in the first place.

My scientifically calculated approximation (I asked my dog) is $34,788.11

 

My guess is 4 ba-jillion dollars!

Annette

 

I was originally thinking around $34K, but since Godzilla beat me to it, I'll guess $36,480.00.

 

*** DALE EARNHARDT JR'S MCS GAME ***

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Contest ends Jun-29-06 09:07:12 PDT

 

Dale jr. is a racer, NOT only NASCAR, but Daytona prototypes in the Rolex Grand Am series driving a Crawford in 2004 with Wallace and Stewart, in 2001 he ran the 24 hours of Daytona in a Corvette with his dad as partner and they finished 4th overall, he was burned in an American LeMans series warmup crash in the factory Vette CR-5 GTS at Sonoma right before the start, At Gingerman (Mich.) his times were a few hundreths off of Boris Said's times, an acclaimed road racer.
June 25th is Sonoma for NASCAR, and there are some ringers brought in just for the road courses, but they have NEVER beaten the NASCAR regulars on a road course, not once !,
If there is nothing else on TV I will watch some NASCAR, but I usually fall asleep in the middle, if I have the volume set just right I will wake when I hear someone yelling "trouble in turn.....", or 10 laps to go But I just don't understand all the ridicule directed at them by some of the people posting here,
OK so the roots of NASCAR go back to Southern moonshine runners, and it gets the redneck label, but why are they looked down on and not considered "real racers" when Indy Car and CHAMP can run around on an oval for a few hundred miles and it's OK ?, I will be at Barber for the Rolex Grand Am races July 28-30 http://www.barbermotorsports.com/ and a few NASCAR drivers usually join in on the fun, racing IS fun, whatever the venue.
Dale jr. is making a very nice income doing something he truly loves,
Manuel

MINIMANIA is one of the vendors on this site and will be listing all the details of the upgrades and mods done to his car,
http://new.minimania.com/web/Display...s/ArticleV.cfm

 

That will be pretty funny if you actually win

 

I'm going to guess $41,010.58

:P

 

My Guess: $32,650.00

 

Duh ... I didn't even look.

Closest without going over or just the closest?

OK, I'll guess an even $35 grand.

 

I will have to say $39,999.03

 

Hmmmm....it seems to me most MINI fans wouldn't also care about NASCAR much, and vice versa.....and it's not like the car is done up all that nice...I'm gonna say it won't go over $30K, so my guess is $29,850........

 

$31,550.00

 

$34,600

 

Since I am in NC and surrounded by *ahem* rednecks.... I will guess $74,500. Who knows, I may be waaaaay off on this, but I know that there are plenty of BIG Nascar fans around here that would give anything to own his car and get to meet him to take delivery... we'll see what happens in a few days!

By the way.... are we just going by the top bid? Because those can be false at times... And also, if someone really wants the badge, lol, they could just wait until the last minute and post their guess......

Drew

 

Gentlemen, and i use the term very loosely, i am so ashamed i am a member of the same organization (NAM). Just because a celeberty (Dale Jr) wants to sell his car on e-bay you make fun of his father's death,going so far as to post a picture of the crash that took his life,then make jokes about it. Jr's car is for real,purchased from Flow Mini,in Winston Salem,Nc. I knew Dale Sr and also Jr, i happen to work for a team that competes against him 36 weeks a year and consider him a friend and also a neighbor. Please be respectful of others even if they happen to own a Mini.

 

I totally agree. I am amazed that people actually think that's funny and that those sorts of vile comments are permitted to sully this forum. They are heartless, vulgar, and crude.

 

Bad taste is not a site violation, but I hear you, and I agree.

 

I appreciate that, Clover. Things like that really reflect poorly on this site and it must be frustrating when the people that make the decisios don't stand up for what is decent.

 

I'm adding a new rule.
You must submit your guess before 06-29-06

So if you haven't posted your guess yet please do so now.