NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, 44, finds lost vintage car after searching for it for a year in his massive 'Racecar Graveyard' where he collects wrecks on his North Carolina property Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr has been looking for a land speed car that once belonged to Xfinity Series owner Wayne Jesel for a year He stored the car in his 'Racecar Graveyard' on his North Carolina property He has a collection of 75 racecar wrecks in the famed automobile graveyard Neither he or his property manager could find the vehicle for a year On Thursday he finally located it deep in the woods 'I’ve been looking for it because my property manager never tells me where he puts the new additions. That’s just adds to the mystery of the graveyard,' he said By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 03:14 BST, 3 May 2019 | Updated: 03:15 BST, 3 May 2019 Viewcomments Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr found a racecar he's been looking for a year buried deep in the woods of his renown 'Racecar Graveyard' on Thursday. The two-time Daytona 500 winner, who comes from a family of NASCAR racers, has a massive graveyard of 75 trashed race cars, damaged from fast and furious races, on his North Carolina property. Earnhardt, 44, posted to Facebook saying that he had been looking for a vehicle known as a 'land speed car' that once belonged to Xfinity Series owner Wayne Jesel for 'about a year'. Despite his impressive collection, he couldn't find the particular car despite searching for it for a year because his property manager didn't keep track of new additions. Then on Thursday he finally stumbled upon the prized vehicle deep in the woods on his property. Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, 44, has been looking for a land speed car that once belonged to Xfinity Series owner Wayne Jesel for a year and finally found it on Thursday tucked away deep in the woods in his 'Racecar graveyard' On Thursday he found the 'land speed car' that once belonged to Xfinity Series owner Wayne Jesel deep in the woods of his North Carolina property He shared his surprise discovery with his followers on Facebook on Thursday 'I’ve been looking for this car for about a year. Deep in the Racecar Graveyard is Wayne Jesel’s land speed car that was converted from an old xfinity car,' he announced on Facebook. 'These cars would compete on airport runways to run over 200 mph in a one mile trap from a standing start. I say I’ve been looking for it because my property manager never tells me where he puts the new additions. That’s just adds to the mystery of the graveyard,' he added. Earnhardt has 75 cars stored in his 'graveyard' and meticulously updates his followers on his new additions, their former owners, and victories, according to website It's A Southern Thing. Many of them are vehicles he's wrecked himself from his racing days, and others come from other admired NASCAR stars. The two-time Daytona 500 winner comes from a family of NASCAR racers Welcome to the graveyard: He has 75 Nascar wrecks in his 'Racecar Graveyard' on his North Carolina property He meticulously documents the cars he adds to his graveyard collection on his website 'We get a forklift or a tractor with a forklift or front-end loader and just carry it into the woods and just set it out there somewhere,' he said to Yahoo on building his collection. He documents his extensive list of famous wrecks on his website and is still expanding his collection. While Earnhardt is retired, he still competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and will race this August at Darlington Raceway to pay tribute to his late father NASCAR Hall of Fame member Dale Earnhardt Sr. In that race he'll drive a car that resembles the one his father drove in his very first NASCAR Cup series race in 1975. Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility