{"id":168836,"date":"2025-08-23T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168836\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:46:08","slug":"blue-oval-collection-of-nascar-ford-team-owner-abandoned-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168836\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Oval Collection Of NASCAR Ford Team Owner Abandoned: Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mitchell, owner of a NASCAR Ford Truck Series team, died over a decade ago, but he\u2019s survived by a priceless collection of vehicles that have sadly sat abandoned for quite some time. YouTuber Stringer Media was able to gain access to Mitchell\u2019s collection, documenting the somewhat sobering state of the Blue Oval vehicles that have been lost to time.<\/p>\n<p>Stringer declines to disclose the exact location of these vehicles in the interest of protecting them from vandals. All of them are parked inside a small museum on the grounds of an RV park formerly owned by Mitchell, also abandoned. The auto museum houses half a dozen cars and display cases commemorating important NASCAR races that Mitchell\u2019s team, Circle Bar Racing, participated in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fordauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tom-Mitchell-NASCAR-Ford-owner-abandoned-collection-video-screenshot-002.jpg\" data-original-width=\"1441\" data-original-height=\"673\" data-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-230544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tom-Mitchell-NASCAR-Ford-owner-abandoned-collection-video-screenshot-002-720x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"336\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few open wheel race cars inside the abandoned museum, parked alongside a NASCAR Ford Thunderbird stock car that belonged to Mitchell\u2019s team. Right next to it sits a derelict Ford GT40. All the tires are flat, and Stringer comments that it\u2019s depressing to see such a beautiful vehicle stuck in time.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford GT40 is accompanied by a bright yellow Ford pickup that\u2019s surprisingly clean, the engine bay still shiny with chrome. There\u2019s also a NASCAR Ford truck, along with several boats owned by Mitchell. Behind a large collection of trophies sits a Shelby Cobra, let to rot. It\u2019s in incredible shape, having been inside its entire life. And, finally, there\u2019s an orange and blue <a href=\"https:\/\/fordauthority.com\/fmc\/ford\/ford-bronco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ford Bronco<\/a> that\u2019s fairly clean itself, but now, just sits parked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fordauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tom-Mitchell-NASCAR-Ford-owner-abandoned-collection-video-screenshot-003.jpg\" data-original-width=\"1803\" data-original-height=\"853\" data-index=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-230545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tom-Mitchell-NASCAR-Ford-owner-abandoned-collection-video-screenshot-003-720x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"341\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stringer says Mitchell\u2019s family used to come air up the tires, but now, the vehicles have been abandoned for a while. Mitchell died in 2014, just four years after he shuttered his NASCAR Ford Truck Series team, which ran 336 races and racked up five victories compliments of driver Rick Crawford.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell\u2019s collection mirrors that of <a href=\"https:\/\/fordauthority.com\/2023\/10\/shuttered-ford-dealership-shelters-preserved-classics-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an abandoned Ford dealership<\/a>, which houses a handful of Blue Oval relics from the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Mitchell, owner of a NASCAR Ford Truck Series team, died over a decade ago, but he\u2019s survived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-168836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115077446722385793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}