On July 11, Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted a picture of a vintage shirt celebrating his father’s Rookie of the Year campaign in the Cup Series in 1979.
Earnhardt already owns two copies of the shirt, but they don’t fit. He said in the tweet he searches daily for an XL sized version of the shirt on eBay.
Earlier this week on the “Dale Jr. Download,” an old family friend and fan named Connie Goodman surprised Earnhardt with multiple old racing shirts, including the rare Rookie of the Year shirt.
The shirt was still in the packaging it had been wrapped in almost 40 years ago.
“We followed your dad’s career and once he got the Rookie (of the Year award), we bought the souvenirs,” Goodman said. “I thought, I’m going to buy one, that we wore ... and I thought, ‘I’m going to keep one, because he’s going to be very famous one day.’ Just knew it.”
This is the shirt I’m looking to add to my collection one day. I have one that fits Amy. But I’m looking for an XL of my own to wear. It’s literally the one reason I search eBay daily. #ThrowbackGoals pic.twitter.com/xMImz9aXPx
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) July 11, 2018
If you caught my podcast this week, you know about this moment. Watch it go down today on the #DJD tv show on @NASCARonNBC. pic.twitter.com/7DB0zsDGEs
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) July 19, 2018
