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Mopar151

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7. Penske has some experience in blacklisting "rental car hell drivers"
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:33 PM
Jun 16

His star racing driver in the 70's, Mark Donahue, had a reputation as a serial abuser of Rent-a-Cars. His favorite trick? Making a front wheel jump a high curb, then "rail grinding" along the curb with 3 wheels clawing sideways and sparks coming out where the curb was grinding the bottom of the car! By all accounts, Donahue was otherwise a nice guy, and a favorite of the press.
There were several NASCAR drivers of that era who were "banned for life" from what Junior Johnson called "U-Drives". One wildman managed to put one into a motel pool "in the day".

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