A fleet of race cars packed with motorsport history from the Roush Automotive Collection will go under the hammer at Mecum’s first Nashville auction this September, including several fan favorite cars driven by NASCAR Champions and Hall of Famers.
In total, Roush’s personal collection contains more than 150 vehicles, along with race-winning engines, memorabilia, and engineering relics. But, later this year, select vehicles from the Roush Automotive Collection, assembled over 38 years of collecting, restoring, and preserving cars and racing artifacts, will headline the Mecum Auctions Nashville sale.
Across five decades, Roush made a place among the pillars of American racing through programs with Ford Motor Company in NASCAR, IMSA, and Trans-Am competition.
Among the headline non-motorsports offerings sits a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Fastback, a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe carrying a 221 CI flathead V-8 engine, and a 1990 Ford F-150 Concept Sport Truck. The Sport Truck was actually built by Roush Industries as a promotional vehicle for Valvoline and made trackside appearances with NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin.
A 1966 Ford Mustang GT Convertible will also cross the block after a restoration completed during the winter of 1971 to help fund Gapp and Roush racing operations. The car entered Roush’s possession around 1967-68 after suffering a wreck and a fire under a previous owner.
On the racing side, one centerpiece catching the eyes of fans is a 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra IMSA GTS-1.
The Cobra scored a class victory and third place overall at the 1995 Rolex 24 at Daytona with Paul Newman, Tommy Kendall, and Mark Martin behind the wheel. Carrying sponsorship drawn from Newman’s film Nobody’s Fool.
Another non-NASCAR offering drawing attention is the 1997 Ford Mustang Cobra Trans-Am piloted by Tommy Kendall during his 1997 title campaign. The car secured 11 victories in 13 races that season, established the standing record for the longest winning streak in professional road racing, and anchored one of the defining campaigns in Trans-Am history.
On the NASCAR side of the auction catalog are ten race-used cars from different eras of the team’s many entries across the three NASCAR National Series.
That lineup stretches from a 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ford F-150 driven during Kurt Busch’s rookie season, to the car that Jeff Burton led all 300 laps of the Dura Lube 300 with at New Hampshire in September 2000, and even the 2012 Ford driven by Matt Kenseth in his next-to-last win with the team at Talladega.
The listing also features cars and trucks driven by Erik Darnell, Mark Martin, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Carl Edwards, and two cars (one from the Busch Series and another from the Cup Series) driven by late NASCAR legend Greg Biffle.
Of the two cars driven by Biffle going to auction, proceeds from the sale of his 2004 National Guard car will benefit the Biffle Family Legacy Impact Fund. The auction will take place on September 23 through 26 at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee.
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