We got an update on the current location of Freak from Daniel Webster, the truck chief for many of Fontaine's races: "It's currently sitting at Fontaine's shop still, crumpled. People have offered to try to fix it one more time. But for now it's sitting in rough shape :/"

*Freak* : Was I a good truck? *Death* : No. _silence_ *Death* : I was told you were one of the best.

Freak should be nominated in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Cause of death: a freak accident

Can we make this a series where we follow chassis because this is awesome.

How can a chassis survive 14 times being smashed against the wall and still be competitive? Dear god...I´d like to think about it as a marvelous piece of backyard engineering

It would be really cool to be rebuilt and giving its original Dodge sheet metal back.

This is so cool! My dad, Tim Horton, built the Freak, Timmy, and a few others on that BHR list!!

I swear to God Chris Fontaine wrecks a car every time he drives

When the truck chassis lives longer than xxxtentacion

If Freak were a person, it's name would be Mark Martin.

it was in creative mode

Awesome and fascinating video! Safe to say, Freak died in a freak accident at Talladega... Rest in Peace, Freak. 1998-2018 Gone but will never be forgotten.

Wow. I was actually given my first 1:24 scale die-cast by an old work friend, and it happened to be Bobby Hamilton's number 04 Tech-Net truck. I had no idea it was essentially the same truck that ran Dega last year! That's crazy!

It's unreal how much punishment that chassis went through.

Freak needs to be displayed in some sort of racing museum or rusting peacefully in Junebugs graveyard.

Man, it's a Freak because it's survived so many gnarly crashes.

Something I didn't even realize recording this video was that Fontaine had the "Freak" nickname on the tailgate. I love little details like that!

This is one of the coolest stories in NASCAR I’ve heard.

Freak looked best as a Ram and I will always remember it as such.

Fontaine always seemed to be caught up in something. His light blue and orange paint scheme must be some sort of target for crashes.

Hopefully Freak goes into the Hall of Fame

Spent time working on Freak at BHR and was in the stands the day it ran last. Brought a year to my eye when it hit the wall. Glad to see this video about it, it sure was a hot rod. It even survived catching fire when somebody left the oil heaters plugged in on the chassis dyno overnight lol. Hope somebody picks it up and restores it. I hear Danny Rollins has it's twin, Slim, sitting in his garage.

Andy Hillenburg still names his chassis.... In the shop right now we have, Pumpkin Joe Leonardo Champ Rusty Pinky Tuscadero Yoda(Died as the 10 car at Talladega at this years ARCA race) Tiger and Abe I think naming chassis is so cool, noone does it anymore.

I worked for Bobby Hamilton Racing when they moved operations to Virginia. If Im not mistaken Freak was involved in a fire on the dyno back in 2009. I cant remember the cause.

Freak found out it was now a Chevrolet and wasnt gonna stand for that. RIP Freak.

The Freak is not dead yet Crew chief Kevin Ingram CFI

Ive got that "dont take me out coach,i can still race" clip from "cars" in my head now.

Hey nascarman! You should do a review on the 2006 Dollar General 300 (October 13, 2006...it was Friday the 13th!). That race contained all of the following: - An exciting finish!! - Big crashes! - Underdog winner - Michael Freakin' Waltrip finishing 2nd! - Stacey Compton finished 3rd! - Leader Jinxes! - Scoring Loop errors! - Danny O'Quinn, Jr.finishing 5th! (Never heard of him? Me neither!) - Virtually nobody on the lead lap! (5 cars) - Champion (mathematically) determined! - Probably the first time Brad Keselowski's name was ever mentioned in a race! - Casey Mears' last Busch Race in the Texaco/Havoline Dodge And much more!

My dads had the same shovel passed on from his dad 80 years ago, it’s on its 4th hand and 3rd head but it’s sure is a good old shovel

If Jr doesn't want Freak then it should go into the Nascar Hall of Fame. Accompanied by this video, what a great representative of the Truck Series and it's long legacy.

And in the distance, you can almost hear 'Amazing Grace' being played on bagpipes. You will not be forgotten Freak!

You should do a video on Robert Pressley, he’s my good family friend for many decades, neighbor, and boss. I’d love to see a video on his journey throughout the years from someone else’s view

I've never heard of Freak, but after watching this video, I think at a minimum Freak should be on the $1 bill.

Well, you never forget a good car.

2008: Headline: “Car has sex-change”

Justin Haley killed FREAK!! 😭 The ghost of FREAK will now haunt him throughout his career. I do remember the chassis being pointed out at Dega,, didn't know it had such a storied career. GREAT VIDEO 👍👌🏁🏁

someone rebuild this truck NOW

I never knew that a racecar could be as interesting as the person that drives it. I know some people make fun of NASCAR, saying that "It's just driving in circles." but these are the types of things that make racing interesting.

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while. More like this, PLEASE!

The truck should be restored & placed in a racing museum somewhere not in Jr's graveyard or where-ever the hell it is now...

the freak was a tough truck should have been rebuilding sent to the Hall of Fame

Good story my man . Huge NASCAR fan and I even was on speed channel in 2009 on NASCAR trivia and won and I I'm shocked I never knew about this truck. God bless you my man !!! And LINE UM UP AND LET'S GO RACING

Thank you Nascar man!!! We need more......... EDUCATIONAL Nascar vids like this.

If there are any other stories like this, I'd love to see a video on them! This was pretty cool!

I'm not crying, you are😭 *RIP*

Thanks Nascarman and Brock!

That was an awesome video. Great stuff. Subscribed.

Best video on your channel I’ve seen so far that’s awesome

Do a video on Rusty Wallace's car "Midnight".

Freak: “I am immortal.” Fontaine: “Hold my beer!”

What an incredible story about a truck and Chris Fontaine, great video.👍👍

They should've gotten sponsorship from Jimmy John's. Freaky Fast.

Put that truck in the NASCAR Hall of Fame

This thing should go to the hall of fame!!

I was hoping uncle Chris could bring home in that 2018 dega race after playing heat 3, ah yes innocent 13 year old days

Gotta love those 2gen rams grill 😩

I have never felt sorry for a truck chassis. But this video did! Keep making videos like this.

Great video!

Fantastic video, I have always been fascinated by the history of chassis of all race series. I remember Jayski's Nascar site used to contain history, some with very interesting facts of various cars such as Clint Bowyer's 2012 Fall Richmond Winner, which was the same chassis that got wrecked by Jeff Gordon at the Fall Phoenix Race in 2012 and Dale Jr's wrecked 2014 Bristol Night Race chassis in his graveyard originally debuted at the same race 2 years prior. Please do more videos like this, it would be interesting to know the longevity of some of the COT chassis cars in the Xfinity series, I think there may be some interesting stories there. I know Mike Harmon's Dodge Challenger that finished up last year was from 2010, maybe there are some older than that currently in the field?

Becomes a Chevy: immediately totals

What a Fantastic Video!!

You never see this in Formula 1. Imagine if the Williams F1 team brought out the 1990 FW13B in the upcoming race in Cota few weeks from now. This is why Nascar is so special to me

when you said "slim shady" eminems "im back" started playing in my head lol

Wow this was an amazing film, I had never heard of it but i think this story needs to be better known

IndyCar had one with Jerry Karl's McLaren chassis which saw use between 1973 and 1981. It even saw homemade ground effects and bodywork by the late 70s.

Gotta respect that they kept using it after all those crashes, always respect someone who rebuilds something once it is destroyed just to put it back into doing what it did before

Rip Freak. You were an inspiration

TFW you're not rooting for the driver or the team, but the chassis. 😂

Thanks for the info!

Pretty cool to be at Freak’s final race.

Awesome! Can you make a video taling about Billy Ballew's trucks?

Great video.

This truck feels like a person

Welp guess I subbed now this was a great video

R.I.P FREAK 1998 - 2018 Gone but not forgotten, you legend.

Back to visit my favorite video

That chassis should go into the Hall of Fame. It is worthy.

R.I.P. Bobby Hamilton

if it can't race anymore restore it to 98 specs and put it in the Nascar Hall of Fame

Save the freak!!! Put it on display at every truck race and call it "the freak show!"

Me: *watching video* Dad: WHY YOU CRYING SO DAMN LOUD! *shows video* Dad: *Starts crying too*

What a sad anime death RIP Freak

Interesting note I found while looking up just how often Chris wrecked - his first three starts in the truck series in 2005 was in the #4 BHR Truck.

Arca is interesting when you think about the cars in that series especially the gen 4 are from a different time when nascar was the most popular American sport

That ending made me sad.

My asphalt pro truck they are fiberglass truck bodies from ARP on a limited latemodel chassis but built for truck class was built in 1997 and ran in thousands of races never wrecked won hundreds of races and tons of series championships I got it in 2016 and it's still racing to this day running up front and way older then half the kids that race with us and this truck has a big 500 horsepower v8 in it too it's a Chevrolet motor

Awesome Story

F: For "Freak" and to pay respect

Why did that video make me cry

That truck is 2 years older than me, and I watched it crash out for the final time live at Talladega last year. Happy I could be there in person for its last race :(

RIP Freak. A true legend

Dude that truck is 1 year younger than me! It would be so cool for a big team like KBM or Thor sport to buy and rebuild freak and give her 1 last win! 1 last hoorah just to honor her as one of the most reliable if not the most reliable chassis in NASCAR history she deserves to be in the hall of fame! RIP Freak

That thing needs to be restored to original and put in a museum, or maybe 2 replicas to see freak in all of her colors

This video needs to blow up

Should be put in the hall of fame, awesome story

Can you do a video on the history of Riverhead raceway and / or the history of racing on long island? This was a great video on the history of a historic chassis..

I'm not emotionally attached to a chassis *cries when it died*

That chassis was in so many wrecks, what about that last wreck finished it off? It didn’t look any worse than the others.

Like Darrell Waltrip used to say "My car owner, Junior Johnson used to say boy, that car don't know where it is" I guess in this case that truck don't know where it is.