Spade Racing Opens a Blaster Box of 2024 Panini PRIZM Cards—2 of 6

I’m changing things up a bit for 2024, as instead of “hobby boxes”, I will be exploring the world of “blaster boxes” for NASCAR trading cards.  

Pack 2 of 6: Pixelation, Domination, and the Awesome Nation

First Look: As odd as it looks, I’m a fan of this variant card which gives it a real “80’s scoreboard” kind of look to it.  Helps that it’s a neat throwback paint scheme too, even if Dale Jr. had a meh race that day.

To the Back: Happy really had an under-the-radar all-timer career, didn’t he?  Maybe it’s because he followed Dale Sr., or maybe it’s because he was in sub-part RCR equipment for a few years.  Or maybe its because of that lame Reese’s Caramel commercial that ran ad nauseam in the mid-00’s.

Say What: “I got the vote out, even if that vote was for Most Popular Driver—now that’s awesome”.

Final Rating: 5 pit stops out of 10

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Spade Racing’s Stars in Unusual Cars: Bobby Allison (part 2)

Bobby goes his own way midway through the 1985 season

Join me throughout this year as I take a look at when some of the sport’s biggest stars drove some unusual cars! (Presented in no particular order).

Why? From 1982 through the middle of the 1985 season Bobby Allison was successful on track with the controversial DiGard team, but behind-the-scenes drama was ready to break the pairing apart.  The split finally happened after the 1985 Firecracker 400, which saw a DiGard R&D entry for Greg Sacks win the race.  Allison, feeling DiGard was putting its focus elsewhere, left the team immediately to restart his own race operations.

How successful were they? Considering he started the team IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON, I’d say he did pretty well for himself—even though the mid-season change would have probably sank any other driver’s chances, he still managed to finish 12th in points.

What was the aftermath? Allison would move to the Stavola Brothers car in 1986, winning three more races (including the 1988 Daytona 500) before injuries ended his career.  DiGard would enter Sacks for there rest of the 1985 season, then would run only a handful of races before shutting down in 1987. 

Ranking on the Strange-O-Meter? 8 Champagnes of Beers out of 10—even if Bobby Allison was known to be hard-headed, leaving a team in the middle of the season is still a wild move.

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Frankney Munizfield

This is a work of parody

Last Saturday I heard Brad Keselowski refer to Frankie Muniz as a “comedian”, which I found odd, since I only knew him as an actor and racer.  Then, after the Truck Series race, Muniz said he “definitely don’t get respect out there” in reference to being hung out to dry in the draft.

Then it all made sense to me.

Frankie Muniz was a stand-up comedian whose act revolved around racing!

Thankfully I was able to find a clip of Frankie working on some new material—I have transcribed it below:

“What a crowd, huh, what a crowd!  I tell ya I’m doin alright THIS weekend but LAST weekend I was in a lotta trouble.  I tell ya what was I thinking running full time in the Truck Series this year—I was in Racing Stripes, but I didn’t know about rookie stripes!

I tell ya it’s rough out there!  Just last weekend I was hung out to dry in the draft.  I tell ya I felt like Agent Cody sliding UP the Banks!

I never have ANY luck on the track.  I don’t get the lucky dog, I’m not even an underdog, I’m just My Dog Skip—and it skips me every time I have a shot for the lead!

I’m telling ya I don’t get no respect, no respect at all!  Look at my truck after Atlanta—it looked like it was Dancing with the Scars!  But at least I stayed Mal-CALM in the Middle of all the action!

Hey you’ve been great, thank you and try the olive oil!”

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