Fenderbumpers exhaustive review of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Yeah...it's okay...though a bit disappointing. I think the biggest problem is that there are so few people that "belong" to the HOF. Every other major sport has a HOF that is there to honor individuals...and, while you're there, also serves as a cool museum. The NASCAR HOF is a museum, with a few folks honored. I think that's my biggest complaint. It feels hollow. Once it becomes a place that every person associated with NASCAR dreams of being honored (like Canton, Cooperstown, etc) the whole building will take on a much different aura. The whole thing is still too new.
 
Sounds like it was neat to see the first year or so that it was open.Now since it has lost so much money I bet they are doing as little as possible.
 
FenderBumper said:
Yep. The cars on the fake track is cool, but there's nothing else on that floor. The 2nd and 3rd floors are all glass display cases with mostly mundane items. There's a theater downstairs, but there were so few people it wasn't open. I was shocked at how little floor space and effort was put into it. I tried to really take my time, but it was done in 1:45, including lunch in the small pre-made sandwich lounge.

I definitely had a feeling of being used when they made me exit thru the large souvenir shop, which had 10 X's the floor space of most of the racing displays. At the back of the shop is a tiny doorway that dumps you into a grimy service hallway where you figure out which way to the exit.

Total trash and a rip off at $20. It's as if nascar put out the call for drivers to donate items and they haven't done anything since. The building is impressive, but it's 95% office space.
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So I should go to Cooperstown way before the Nascar Hall is basically what you are saying.;)
 
I went to the HOF the year opened on Coca Cola 600 weekend back in 2010 & I too was a little disappointed. It just didn't seem to me either like they put the work into it that should've been put into it. I didn't feel like for as long as NASCAR's been around that they had enough in there, the building was just not big enough. Maybe the location was wrong. I feel like a NASCAR HOF should be warehouse sized with lots of cars from the beginning all the way up to now. There should be a champions hall with all the Champions from different series of NASCAR on display. There should've been a courses hall with all the different racetracks that NASCAR has competed on & drivers who were dominant on them. Maybe a small arcade for kids I dunno, it seemed to me that the whole thing was just kind of thrown together. The REAL NASCAR museum is pretty much the entire city of Mooresville aka RACECITY USA. Just go there & get on one of those race shop tours or just get a shop map & drive yourself. All the major shops are there & they all have some history inside. You wanna see some NASCAR history, then that's the way to go...
 
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