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The Tom Cruise vehicle reunited him with his Top Gun director and producers, and for that reason was nicknamed Top Car during the pre-production stage. It failed to deliver the sizable audience or inspire the fervent devotion that Top Gun had, but Days of Thunder remains a minor cult favorite today among Cruise aficionados and racing enthusiasts. There was a driver named Dick Trickle, who made his NASCAR debut in and won the Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award at the record-setting age of 48, but apart from the last name, he had nothing in common with Cruise's flashy playboy. She and Cruise started dating while the movie was being shot, and were married on Christmas Eve , six months after the film's release. Among Simpson's many excesses was making screenwriter Robert Towne write in a small role for Simpson's new girlfriend, an actress named Donna Wilson. She had only one line, but it was enough of an excuse for Simpson to bring her to Daytona for the entire shoot. While there, the relationship ended because of Simpson's Herculean drug use, and Wilson ended up with the director. She and Scott married in and were together until his death in
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Depending on whom you ask in the NASCAR garage, "Days of Thunder" either made stock car racing look forever cool or clumsily taught an entire generation little more than how to use Sweet'N Low packets to illustrate the aerodynamic draft. No matter where they stand when it comes to those debates, there's a pretty good chance that if they are surfing through their cable channels this summer and "Days of Thunder" pops up, they'll stop flipping long enough to hear Robert Duvall say, "Rubbin', son, is racing. In honor of the film's 30th anniversary, we tracked down the filmmakers, actors and racers who lived those "Days of Thunder" to re-create that journey, down roads that took us into the wall at Darlington or into the haze of a late-night party in a Daytona Beach gentlemen's club parking lot. Because we know that if we go to the outside, we can hold it. Harry Hogge said so. A new generation
