Full Throttle Collecting

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500, October 31, 2004, at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. (Photo by Darrell Ingham/Getty Images)For many of us who spent time in the grandstands during NASCAR’s late-1990s and early-2000s boom, the memories never really fade. For me, it was the roar of engines at Texas Motor Speedway rolling through the stands like a Texas afternoon thunderstorm, the smell of burnt rubber and fuel, and the endless line of brightly painted race ca