Paul Newman's 'Nobody's Fool' Race Car
Paramount Pictures had marketing budget left over from Paul Newman's 1994 film Nobody's Fool and spent it on a Roush Racing Mustang Cobra at the 1995 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, numbered 70 for Newman's age. He hadn't raced there in 16 years and assembled the team in three weeks: NASCAR's Mark Martin, five-time IMSA champion Tommy Kendall, and longtime friend Mike Brockman as co-drivers. The car ran a 6.0-liter naturally aspirated Roush-built V8 making around 750 hp through a five-speed manual, won the GTS-1 class, finished third overall, and gave Jack Roush his tenth consecutive GTS class win at Daytona. It spent the following three decades on display at the Motorsports Hall of Fame in Daytona Beach. The original race panels still carry the dirt, scuffs, and scratches from that February.

