More than three decades after “Days of Thunder” first brought Cole Trickle to the big screen, Tom Cruise is officially preparing to climb back behind the wheel.
With a second “Days of Thunder” movie now in the works, NASCAR fans have plenty of reasons to revisit the 1990 original. And while Cruise, Robert Duvall and Michael Rooker played fictional characters, several real NASCAR stars were hiding in plain sight.
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So, which NASCAR drivers actually appeared in “Days of Thunder”?
Richard Petty, Rusty Wallace, Neil Bonnett and Harry Gant all made cameos as themselves. But the movie’s connection to real NASCAR drivers went even deeper than what audiences saw on...
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