Nascar.com Robby Gordon Shop Tour Video

The latest installment of Robby Gordon's True Character series is now up at nascar.com. This
video features the shop tour.

http://www.nascar.com/video/cup/2009/06/23/cup.lou.beam.gordon.nasc...

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on June 24, 2009 at 12:27pm

TOG, What's up with the #55 Jim Beam Dodge???? In the last 10-15 seconds of the video this car is visable in the background. I don't recall seeing this car in the past so I can be wrong, but is this a car for Montreal?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 24, 2009 at 12:44pm

Robby has a ton of cars, probably just havent gotten around to doing anything with it. No big deal really.

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Permalink Reply by NIKAL on June 24, 2009 at 12:48pm

If you notice next to the #55 Dodge is a black COY Cup car and it looks to be a Chevy. So like TOG said I'm sure RGM have a few cars that are being kept for reasons. I'm sure Robby will never sell the COY that he won the road races with. That car was his and he brought that car to RCR when he raced there.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on June 24, 2009 at 1:07pm

That makes sense. Don't know how I missed that one. Probably had something to do with the 3 kids in my house under the age of 7.

Sorry, bad post on my part.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 24, 2009 at 1:18pm

He has a huge shop, so there is plenty of room for storage.

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Permalink Reply by Matt on June 24, 2009 at 1:15pm

I noticed a few fun things in that video, including the Busch cars. My favorite though was the old CART indy car on the right towards the beginning of the video.

Nikal, is that a fact that was Robbys car that won those races at RCR? I know he developed that car with Simo, and kept it when Team Gordon was shelved, and then brought it to RCR; I just was never certain it was the car that won those races. Good to hear verification.

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Permalink Reply by NIKAL on June 24, 2009 at 1:24pm

I am 99% sure it is. Yes Simo, Robby and one other guy who's name I dont remember built that car. And I was told 3rd hand that RCR duplicated some of the geometry on that car for their other teams.

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Permalink Reply by Matt on June 24, 2009 at 2:17pm

Oh RCR duplicating the car is a definate. Kevin Harvick even brought that topic up a few times in the past.

If Robby ever sells that car, Ill be in line to buy it for the historic racing series.

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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on June 24, 2009 at 1:16pm

Looks like he has an Indy car in there too. I always wondered if he hung on to one. Good to see. Maybe theres hope for another 500 someday!

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Permalink Reply by Matt on June 24, 2009 at 2:15pm

As I mentioned above your post, that is a CART car, not IRL. You can tell from the front wing and overall profile.

It looks to be the same car pictured here:

http://www.robbygordon.com/cgi-bin/Imagefolio31/imageFolio.cgi?acti...

That car was from the team Robby ran in CART in 1999 before he jumped back to Nascar.