CONCORD, N.C. -- The winningest car in NASCAR Cup history will be on display at the new NASCAR Hall of Fame when it opens in 2010.

Seven-time points champion Richard Petty won 36 races in 1966-67 -- including a record 10 straight on the way to his 1967 championship -- in his blue No. 43 Plymouth. Petty agreed to lend the car from his own museum to the Hall of Fame, set to open in 2010 in downtown Charlotte.

"Really that was when we really built our career," Petty said today as he pointed to the car outside the Charlotte Convention Center. "Even though we had done pretty good, I think that pretty much cemented us in and we were able to go from there."

But Bobby Allison, a longtime rival of Petty, joked that the car was missing something.

"I'm so pleased to see this thing as one of the first things going in, but it's not really authentic," Allison said. "I put lots of wheel marks (on it), and they're not there. Maybe I can get them on there later today."