The famed No. 3 car Dale Earnhardt Jr. drove to victory in this month's Nationwide race at Daytona was added as a temporary display at the new NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday. The Wrangler-sponsored yellow and blue Chevrolet, which honors his father, the late Dale Earnhardt Sr., will stay at the downtown Charlotte facility through Sept. 19. The car carries extra significance because Earnhardt, who didn't attend the unveiling, has said he doesn't plan to drive a No. 3 car again. "That was Dale's meaning around it, a tribute to our dad," said Kelley Earnhardt, Dale Jr.'s sister and co-owner of JR Motorsports. "So it's not something he wants to do every day." Earnhardt entered the No. 3, a replica of the car his father drove in the 1980s, in the July 2 race to honor Dale Sr.'s induction into the Hall of Fame's first class. Earnhardt then ended an 85-race winless drought in points races in an emotional night at the track where his father died in a last-lap crash in the 2001 Daytona 500. Getting the car to the $195 million Hall of Fame, which opened in May, had been a goal of director Winston Kelley for months. http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/nationwide/news/story?id=5380624
