Davey Allison "Superstar" 1992 Ford NASCAR Race Car Bring A Trailer Auction for the MSHFA Ends Wednesday
Not everyone can be a "Superstar" but now you can own one if you are the top bidder in the latest Bring a Trailer charity auction benefiting the non-profit Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. Ending this Wednesday, February 5, at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST, this exclusive BaT auction features a Taurus-bodied Ford stock car raced in its competition prime by Davey Allison (MSHFA Class of 2021) as one of the successful Robert Yates Racing (RYR) Texaco/Havoline Ford Thunderbirds.
This NASCAR race car was campaigned by RYR with Allison during the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Referred to internally as “Superstar," the Thunderbird participated in three races, leading all and scoring a second-place finish after leading 190 laps in the GM Goodwrench 500 at Rockingham Speedway. The car suffered mechanical issues at the Food City 500 race in Bristol (pictured below) and crashed out of the Bud 500 later in the season.
The car was rebuilt and used as a backup for the 1993 season and was later fitted with a Ford Taurus-style body for use as a show car to honor Dale Jarrett and his 1999 title win. Coincidentally, Jarrett is the MSHFA Stock Cars category inductee this year and will be formally inducted next month along with his peers in the Class of 2025 at the 37th MSHFA Induction Ceremony Presented by Toyota Racing at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Tuesday, March 11.
The MSHFA acquired the Ford several years ago after it spent its final years on the road as the Taurus show car. After it was verified as "Superstar," the MSHFA elected to put the Ford up for sale to give historic stock car aficionados and collectors the chance to properly restore this rolling piece of NASCAR history.
The car is located at the MSHFA Museum in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is offered with a bill of sale, period images and an authentication letter. All proceeds from the auction — including the BaT buyer’s fee — will be donated to the Motorsports Museum & Hall of Fame of America Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that shares feats of leadership, teamwork, innovation, originality, and competition — all critical American motorsports values — with current and future generations.
The non-running Ford stock car was donated to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America circa 2001 and has not been started in over 20 years. The Taurus body aside, the car retains its 1992-season racing equipment including the Robert Yates 358ci engine, four-speed manual transmission, steering wheel, floor pad and Richardson Racing Products aluminum seat with a black, red and gold cover.
Additional details include pins securing the hood and rear decklid, black 15” Aero steel wheels with yellow pinstripe accents, cooling vents, an adjustable rear spoiler, side-exit exhaust pipes, power steering, Penske Racing dampers, Wilwood calipers over directional rotors and side skirts along with longitudinal stabilizing strips and cowl and roof flaps. Inside the cockpit's full roll cage is an aluminum Richardson Racing Products seat that is fitted with a Simpson latch-and-link racing harness. Additional interior elements include a Hurst shifter, a window net, and a race suit-cooling system.
The three-spoke steering wheel is mounted to a quick-release hub and fronts an AutoMeter Pro-Comp Memory tachometer, which is flanked by a Laughlin Racing Products switch panel and readouts for gauges for oil pressure, coolant temperature, oil temperature, voltage, and fuel pressure.
The 358ci Ford V8 is equipped with a four-barrel carburetor, a dry-sump lubrication system, a remote-mount oil filter, and dual MSD ignition control boxes. Although the engine has not run in over two decades it turns over by hand.
Included in the sale is an authentication letter from Joey Knuckles (pictured in collage above), who served as an Assistant Crew Chief for RYR acing from 1988-1997.
Upon completion of the auction, the winning bidder will directly pay the Motorsports Museum & Hall of Fame of America Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The MSHFA is housed in Daytona International Speedway's Ticket & Tours Building located in front of the famed 2.5-mile DIS tri-oval. Access to the MSFHA museum is included with every Daytona International Speedway tour, which run throughout each day, or as a museum-only ticket. The museum is open daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. nearly year-round except major holidays. It is visited by more than 150,000 guests each year from every state in America and countries all over the world. For museum tickets call 1-800-PIT-SHOP.
For more information or to purchase tickets for the 2025 MSHFA 37th Induction Ceremony presented by Toyota Racing, visit the MSHFA at www.mshf.com or contact George Levy at (248) 895-1704 or glevy@mshf.com.
Click on Bring a Trailer Auction for more information and to register on BaT and bid directly on the Superstar stock car auction.
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MotorsportsHOF/ and Instagram and Twitter at @MotorsportsHOF. Learn more at www.mshf.com.
About the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America: The MSHFA is the only hall that honors all major American motorsports: cars, motorcycles, airplanes, off road and powerboats. Its mission is to celebrate and instill the American motorsports values of leadership, creativity, originality, teamwork and spirit of competition. Founded by Larry G. Ciancio and led by first President Ronald A. Watson, it held its first induction in 1989. Watson spent the next 30 years tirelessly building it into the nation’s premier such hall until his passing in 2019. Originally based in Novi, Mich., it relocated to Daytona Beach, Fla., in 2016 and greets close to 150,000 guests a year in its museum. MSHFA is operated by the nonprofit Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame of America Foundation, Inc.
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