Dale Earnhardt Jr. Drives A $40,000 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is reportedly worth $300 million, but you wouldn’t know it from his daily driver.
During the latest edition of his “Dale Jr. Download” podcast there was a funny exchange where his wife, Amy, texted the producer to ask him where the keys to his truck were.
It turns out they were in his pocket, but he’ll be getting a new set soon because he’s trading it in for a new one.
“Big news, huge news, I’m getting a new truck,” Earnhardt announced. “I am so excited.”
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“I drove race cars for 20 years, through that relationship with Chevrolet they were always supplying me with a vehicle, which was awesome and I loved it, but around 2021 I decided I want to buy, I want to own my truck,” he said.
He said the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Trail Boss had 32,000 miles on it now and needed new tires so he decided to get a new one. He mostly drives it from his home to the JR Motorsports race shop in Mooresville, N.C., which is only about a seven-mile trip.
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“I’m going to trade it in on a new truck and the trade-in value on this ’21 with 32,000 miles is like $40,000,” he said. The Trail Boss trim is now offered on all of Chevy’s pickups, including the Colorado, the Silverado HD and Silverado EV. “The trade-in value is really good,” he said.
He bought another Trail Boss, with the biggest difference being a switch from white to black paint, although he said his current truck has an “elaborate decal wrap” on it and the new one’s will be “more so.”
“I like pretty simple stuff, I don’t need the options, I don’t need all the extras because I don’t even think to use them,” he said. And that includes heated seats.
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“I rarely ever even think to use those, it’ll be freaking 30 degrees outside and it never crosses my mind to turn on the heated seat even though it’s there,” he said. “I’ll be driving down the rod and I’m like, ‘s—, the seat’s getting warm,’ and Amy will have turned it on.”
Earnhardt didn’t say where he bought the new truck, but it sounds like he didn’t have it delivered from the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet dealership he co-owns in Tallahassee, Fla.
But while he drives his truck every day, there’s another type of pickup he’s never driven. In a recent podcast, he mentioned that he never raced in the NASCAR Truck Series, but would be interested to do it if the right situation came up.
“I really do want to do a truck race, but I just can’t figure out where to run one that’d be fun for me,” he said. “I have certain things that I think are fun.”
He noted that he likes Martinsville, but that the stages are too short in the Truck Series and Xfinity Series to get to the “bad side of the tire” where the racing gets challenging.
“Like, if you’re smart, you can do good things early in the run that’ll make your car really great at lap 80 and 100, which is so much fun, but they never get to that point. They never do. The stage is over, and there ain’t enough power too in the Xfinity cars at Martinsville. You stand in the gas and it’s like stepping in a bucket of water.”