Did Dale Earnhardt Sr. drive a late model sportsman pink Nova between 1975 and 1979?
Not to my knowledge, he did drive a pink Ford. The k2, which was
his first race car.
He drove the pink car for part of 1980 and the other part of
1980 he drove the Oldsmobile owned by Rod Osterlund and it was
sponsored by Mike Curb productions.
His first dirt-track car was a 1956 hot-pink Ford Sedan, which
he got from his neighbors, David and Ray Oliver. His father had
built the engine, and some other friends, Frank and Wayne Dayvault
and their cousin Gregg, tuned it. They intended to paint the car
avocado green, but a paint mishap resulted in the car being pink.
They could not afford to repaint it, and he raced the pink car on
dirt tracks around Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dale Earnhardt did drive a Pontiac in 1981 sponsored by
Wrangler, but it was not pink
In 1980, Dale Sr. drove 28 races with a Chevrolet and 3 races
with an Oldsmobile. He only drove a Pontiac during the 1981 season.
The pink car was his first dirt track car and it was a Ford.