Can you imagine the guy at the merch stand at Indy? I think he was like: "I'm excited to see Todd Bodine behind the wheel of the #35 Tobasco Pontiac Grand Prix! Wait, that's not a Pontiac Grand Prix, that's a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and that's DW not The Onion... I am so fired!"
As someone who grew up close to Tabasco’s HQ, I really wish they hadn’t been screwed over. NASCAR isn’t a huge deal in Louisiana but had this fiasco not gone down, NASCAR could potentially be way bigger in the market.
I just got this dicast at an antique mall the other day for $1.50. I only got it because the packaging and car looked cool, now I know it’s full backstory.
I was born in 2006, so obviously I never got to watch the Tabasco car race but I got a diecast of it at a swapmeet 5 days ago made by Racing Champions that comes with a stand and a card
That is one corporation that I feel bad for getting ripped off! I mean, as a business, getting ripped off would suck, but Tobasco is a solid product, and I am sure the general demographics of NASCAR fans were, and still are, hot sauce consumers, so would have been great as long-term sponsors. Too bad they went with that particular race team, but I am sure they got sweet-talked into an unbelievable deal for that $6M.
I believe this problem was a product of its time. NASCAR was booming in the 90's and major national companies with enough money to burn were approaching small racing teams, which was (and lets be blunt, still is) a recipe for disaster. Hope Tabasco managed to sell all those cookbooks, at least!
Kinda pathetic on Tabasco's part that it apparently took them weeks to figure out that Todd Bodine had been fired. How do you go all in on a team like that and not even watch the races?
Them people wasn't watching because they had more enjoyable things to do - They hunt alligators for fun down there and ride horses everyday -:which is why I love to winter down there
That company is actually a scam that just buys bulk delta alternative brand distillate and cuts it with some ok quality terps, sell a cart that is about $3 to produce for $25. Maybe they have some cred as a sponsor but not as a delta 8 brand lmfao
@@thetechfromheaven the screen alone is about 80 in bulk but that stats you are using is probably the in house cost and not the out of house cost. Samsung makes half the phone for iPhone these days except the chip and os
Went to Charlotte in 98 and the 35 car was the first car I saw on the track coming out of turn 2 I remember seeing the tobasco car and the 97 John deer good times I think I was around 13 then
Easily 2 of the best looking cars in NASCAR history, aside from Kyle Petty's Hot Wheels car, shame they didn't hang around, they had some great paint schemes! Incidentally, since you brought up the John Deere car, Athearn's John Deere train set wears a very similar paint scheme to that car, it's a pretty cool set, especially if you're in to John Deere collecting!
Next they should do a video on the way Chad Little helped piss away a big time sponsor in John Deere! They could have done better in a driver and when the last year they sponsored a car, they put a young and now a very talented Kurt Busch in the car! What could have been! Would have been some strong competition for the Caterpillar company
@@darenroush8428 yea for sure agree I’m not sure what happened but I always look at the other side of things sometimes guys make the jump too soon to cup thinking they can compete and it just doesn’t work out
I had a diecast of this car way back when too. One of my very first diecasts when I was a kid. Might even have something to do with my lifelong love of Tabasco, lmao.
Yes MB2 bought the team and despite winning twice Ginn bought the team and later merged that team with DEI. Then the remaining number by then 01 was discontinued after Ganassi merged with DEI. Today any traces of this team can be argued as Trackhouse Racing since they bought Ganassi. Just not any of the remaining numbers that this team up to the DEI era had. Since the only numbers that Earnhardt Ganassi had were the 1 and 42. Today it's the Trackhouse 1 and 99.
Tyler Jet basically took the 35 and renunbered it 45 in 1999 for sponsor 10-10-345. That sponsor left at the end of 99. The team was unsponsored going into 2000. Ricky Rudd had just shut down his team and so the #10 was available so they switched to it. They picked up sponsorship from Lycos but by mid season that deal ended mid season. The team ended the deal due to non payment. They ran a few mores races and had just picked up Arron’s sponsorship when they sold to MB2 making them a 2 car team. It was at the beginning of 2001 when Valvoline came on board. It later became the #14 when Scott Riggs and Valvoline left for Evernham and took the #10 with them.
Honestly they had the money and would have made nascar way bigger than what it is today but it's funny that I don't really see them advertising at all anymore
Fact check, that first Atlanta race you mentioned was actually the first held in the then new track surface. The last was held earlier that spring. You're welcome.
@@thetechfromheaven DC Solar was run by crooks, Tabasco was undone by crooked team owners Obvious difference that should keep the two from being compared...
Tabasco should come back as a sponsor but just but own the team and put there food down but idk is it not worth it anymore? Is nascar not as big as it once was? Even tho most of its fans watch it on TV now and don't go to the races? But tv has helped it make a slightly more main stream comeback but tba I hardly see any nascar sponsor commercials anymore when I was a kid I used to all the time
@@ericedison9654 One of the big problems in America is we used to strive for excellence but now many have been conditioned that accepting mediocrity is good enough. If you are woke, you are a joke.
@@ericedison9654 Last I checked a solid finish was 10th or better but in your world, the post-race interview would go something like this. It's obvious we had the car to beat today. We had them all covered from 27th on back. And if the 25 cars in front of us had dropped out we would have won.
I have to wonder what’s wrong with you then. Todd is always a kind and decent person that’s never given any normal thinking person a reason to think he’s a liar. Always the nicest guy around.
Lets get real if you want to sponsor anything and are putting in six million. Better have a contract and hire someone to watch the store. Lets say Tabasco was asleep at the switch.
1998 had some of the best paint schemes ever.Tabasco,M&Ms,Skittles,Hotwheels and on and on.
Can you imagine the guy at the merch stand at Indy? I think he was like: "I'm excited to see Todd Bodine behind the wheel of the #35 Tobasco Pontiac Grand Prix! Wait, that's not a Pontiac Grand Prix, that's a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and that's DW not The Onion... I am so fired!"
I still have the car. I was a big Todd Bodine fan back in the day.
As someone who grew up close to Tabasco’s HQ, I really wish they hadn’t been screwed over. NASCAR isn’t a huge deal in Louisiana but had this fiasco not gone down, NASCAR could potentially be way bigger in the market.
What are you talking about NASCAR isn't a huge deal in Louisiana man if it's in the south like Louisiana is the Nascar is a huge deal buddy.
I just got this dicast at an antique mall the other day for $1.50. I only got it because the packaging and car looked cool, now I know it’s full backstory.
That’s a steal
I'll give you $2.00 for it.
I jus got a hat on ebay team Tabasco same! Everything has somethin behind it!
I was born in 2006, so obviously I never got to watch the Tabasco car race but I got a diecast of it at a swapmeet 5 days ago made by Racing Champions that comes with a stand and a card
I always loved the look of the Tobasco car.
That is one corporation that I feel bad for getting ripped off! I mean, as a business, getting ripped off would suck, but Tobasco is a solid product, and I am sure the general demographics of NASCAR fans were, and still are, hot sauce consumers, so would have been great as long-term sponsors. Too bad they went with that particular race team, but I am sure they got sweet-talked into an unbelievable deal for that $6M.
I believe this problem was a product of its time. NASCAR was booming in the 90's and major national companies with enough money to burn were approaching small racing teams, which was (and lets be blunt, still is) a recipe for disaster. Hope Tabasco managed to sell all those cookbooks, at least!
Kinda pathetic on Tabasco's part that it apparently took them weeks to figure out that Todd Bodine had been fired. How do you go all in on a team like that and not even watch the races?
Them people wasn't watching because they had more enjoyable things to do - They hunt alligators for fun down there and ride horses everyday -:which is why I love to winter down there
@@davidrice3337 Maybe so but you think you could flip on Sportscenter once in a while to check on your multi million dollar investment 🤦🏻♂️
It's funny how a weed brand nowadays has more cred as NASCAR sponsor than Tabasco sauce 😂🔥
That company is actually a scam that just buys bulk delta alternative brand distillate and cuts it with some ok quality terps, sell a cart that is about $3 to produce for $25. Maybe they have some cred as a sponsor but not as a delta 8 brand lmfao
@@TheMW2informer Dude, the iPhone costs $60 dlls to make and yet ppl pay $1000 for it, it's the same. 3CHI is Walmart Weed.
Works for me..
@@thetechfromheaven the screen alone is about 80 in bulk but that stats you are using is probably the in house cost and not the out of house cost. Samsung makes half the phone for iPhone these days except the chip and os
This seems more like a team problem than a corporate problem.
i used to have like 3 or 4 of those those tabasco car diecasts
The Tabasco, John Deere and Purolator are awesome paintjobs
Went to Charlotte in 98 and the 35 car was the first car I saw on the track coming out of turn 2 I remember seeing the tobasco car and the 97 John deer good times I think I was around 13 then
I loved the sponsors and paint schemes in those days.
Best era of paint schemes, hands-down.
Easily 2 of the best looking cars in NASCAR history, aside from Kyle Petty's Hot Wheels car, shame they didn't hang around, they had some great paint schemes! Incidentally, since you brought up the John Deere car, Athearn's John Deere train set wears a very similar paint scheme to that car, it's a pretty cool set, especially if you're in to John Deere collecting!
Next they should do a video on the way Chad Little helped piss away a big time sponsor in John Deere! They could have done better in a driver and when the last year they sponsored a car, they put a young and now a very talented Kurt Busch in the car! What could have been! Would have been some strong competition for the Caterpillar company
@@darenroush8428 yea for sure agree I’m not sure what happened but I always look at the other side of things sometimes guys make the jump too soon to cup thinking they can compete and it just doesn’t work out
Too bad Todd couldn’t take the sponsorship to Joe Falk. That would have much better for both the driver and sponsors.
I had a diecast of this car way back when too. One of my very first diecasts when I was a kid. Might even have something to do with my lifelong love of Tabasco, lmao.
Tyler Jet eventually evolved into MB2 and later evolved into Ginn right?
Yes MB2 bought the team and despite winning twice Ginn bought the team and later merged that team with DEI. Then the remaining number by then 01 was discontinued after Ganassi merged with DEI. Today any traces of this team can be argued as Trackhouse Racing since they bought Ganassi. Just not any of the remaining numbers that this team up to the DEI era had. Since the only numbers that Earnhardt Ganassi had were the 1 and 42. Today it's the Trackhouse 1 and 99.
Tyler Jet basically took the 35 and renunbered it 45 in 1999 for sponsor 10-10-345. That sponsor left at the end of 99. The team was unsponsored going into 2000. Ricky Rudd had just shut down his team and so the #10 was available so they switched to it.
They picked up sponsorship from Lycos but by mid season that deal ended mid season. The team ended the deal due to non payment. They ran a few mores races and had just picked up Arron’s sponsorship when they sold to MB2 making them a 2 car team. It was at the beginning of 2001 when Valvoline came on board. It later became the #14 when Scott Riggs and Valvoline left for Evernham and took the #10 with them.
I'd like to see a video on Mach 1 Racing. All I've ever really known was it was owned by Burt Reynolds and Hollywood stunt man Hal Needham.
Wow never heard of that but would love to know more now haha
@@TWOhype23 yup, the Skoal Bandit Monte Carlo
Harry Gant
McIIhenny paid for a front row team and did not get one. Spending sadly does not guarantee success.
It usually guarantees getting ripped off😂
You would think this sponsorship would have been a great match for NASCAR.
Honestly they had the money and would have made nascar way bigger than what it is today but it's funny that I don't really see them advertising at all anymore
Fact check, that first Atlanta race you mentioned was actually the first held in the then new track surface. The last was held earlier that spring. You're welcome.
Ngl Bob really pushed Tobasco's buttons and really fucked over his own team
Saw this car at the national automobile museum in Reno Nevada today.
Wish they come back and sponsor again.
They have no cred in the sport, It's like if DC Solar try to come back even after what happened.
@@thetechfromheaven DC Solar was run by crooks, Tabasco was undone by crooked team owners
Obvious difference that should keep the two from being compared...
my 2nd favorite paint scheme with the 1st being Joe Nemechek's bellsouth scheme
Nice story, you know I can go for some nice good Tabasco sauce right about now.
Love it solid 26th place.. made me giggle
I had that NASCAR cooks book lol. Wonder where it’s at…
I had a diecast of this car.
Tabasco had awesome commercials in 1998
So is this the same ISM that owns and runs Phoenix speedway?
Finishing 26th isn’t solid.
Well he DOMINATED over the 27th place guy! Haha
I swear I have heard this story before
I think Black Flags Matter or S1apSh0es did a vid on this
Tabasco should come back as a sponsor but just but own the team and put there food down but idk is it not worth it anymore? Is nascar not as big as it once was? Even tho most of its fans watch it on TV now and don't go to the races? But tv has helped it make a slightly more main stream comeback but tba I hardly see any nascar sponsor commercials anymore when I was a kid I used to all the time
I have both die cast red and green
The team owner torpedoed his own organization
Talk about getting screwed over.
In other words Tabasco got burned!
Would it kill folks to generate some original content?
Go for it.
A solid 26th place? 26th is not a solid finish, that is not even in the top half of the field. I'm out.
Considering that they used to field 43 cars during that time, it's not bad for a new team.
@@ericedison9654 One of the big problems in America is we used to strive for excellence but now many have been conditioned that accepting mediocrity is good enough. If you are woke, you are a joke.
@@nojunkwork5735 Definitely not woke, but I'm saying for a new team at that time, it's not bad.
@@ericedison9654 Last I checked a solid finish was 10th or better but in your world, the post-race interview would go something like this. It's obvious we had the car to beat today. We had them all covered from 27th on back. And if the 25 cars in front of us had dropped out we would have won.
The fall 1997 Atlanta race was the 1st race on the current configuration.
very old news
I love The Scene Vault but I haven't watched that particular interview because I don't believe anything a Bodine says
I have to wonder what’s wrong with you then. Todd is always a kind and decent person that’s never given any normal thinking person a reason to think he’s a liar. Always the nicest guy around.
A waste of awesome paint schemes.
Lets get real if you want to sponsor anything and are putting in six million. Better have a contract and hire someone to watch the store. Lets say Tabasco was asleep at the switch.
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Obviously the owner was a sweet talking man.
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