From the Marbles - NASCAR

No sport offers up a more bewildering array of souvenir crap memorabilia than NASCAR, and They Make It digs deep into the corners of the Internet to bring all that strangeness to light. Today: the finest in high-quality eyewear.

Item: The Estrada sunglasses from the Tony Stewart Burger King commercials, available through an ebay auction.

The deal: This officially qualifies as the creepiest They Make It post -- hell, the creepiest post, period -- I've ever done. I'll explain why in a moment.

Anyway, these are the fabled "Estrada" sunglasses from Tony Stewart's bizarre but undeniably fascinating Burger King commercials. They can be yours too, provided you win an ebay auction for one of the 150 pairs. However, please note that these are not actual sunglasses and should not be used as such. You can use 'em to attract the opposite sex at racetracks all the livelong day, though.

Now for the creepy part -- and I swear this is true -- as I was putting the final touches on this post, a UPS truck rolls up. The deliveryman brings a small package to the door. Inside the package was this. I kid you not. About the only thing that would've made it creepier was if the Burger King himself had delivered the shades, but no -- it was just a plain ol' UPS dude. Still, I may be on to something ... next post, I'm writing about a winning lottery ticket atop a basket of Five Guys burgers and Chick-Fil-A sandwiches.

But now I feel like Estrada is watching me ...

The hat tip: Estrada, of course! Plus Burger King and their crack ad agency. Got some NASCARiana for us to check out? You'll have to go high to top this, but give it a shot at jay.busbee@yahoo.com. Estrada!

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  1. campaignhack
    1. Posted by campaignhack Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:50 am EDT

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    How will you ever fight off the pit lizards now?
  2. RICK C
    2. Posted by RICK C Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:57 am EDT

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    Lucky you Busbee... Sunglasses, that don't function as Sunglasses.
    Chick magnet? ..only time will tell. Use these when you drive around in your Geo Metro. Let us know if they work for ya. lol
  3. Beer Is My Anti-Drug
    3. Posted by Beer Is My Anti-Drug Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:30 pm EDT

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    Jay needs to post a pic of him rocking the Estrada's.
  4. Simon M
    4. Posted by Simon M Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:42 pm EDT

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    Hey Jay, are you by any chance Woody Harrelson's long lost uncle?
  5. RICK C
    5. Posted by RICK C Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:55 pm EDT

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    Beer- up top , click on " was this"
  6. Dani
    6. Posted by Dani Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:36 pm EDT

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    Jay - Very cool pic. Reminds me of Horatio Cane.
  7. Mike
    7. Posted by Mike Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:49 pm EDT

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    Jay.... Share the love and make those glasses a prize in Marbles Fantasy Racing.
  8. Oliver Klosov
    8. Posted by Oliver Klosov Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:58 pm EDT

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    That line through CRAP just never gets old, does it.... uh... yeah... it does! 17th time is the charm!!
  9. Phoenix H
    9. Posted by Phoenix H Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:23 pm EDT

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    Estrada's a little too rich for my blood. Wow
  10. DICK SMOTHERS
    10. Posted by DICK SMOTHERS Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:33 pm EDT

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    E-s-t-r-a-d-a.
  11. Kim
    11. Posted by Kim Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:03 am EDT

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    I think the funny thing is that in the commercials, Erik Estrada says his name twice. Once with no accent...once with the accent he had to learn to act in the novelas!
  12. Jessy S
    12. Posted by Jessy S Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:40 am EDT

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    Great post. The Estrada sunglasses made my day.
    Seriously, Tony Stewart says that we should endorse something we believe in. Hey Tony, how about taking us NASCAR fans out to lunch sometime.
  13. JustinH
    13. Posted by JustinH Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:35 am EDT

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    Those are going for like $50+. You can get them for like 18 bucks though and do Buy It Now:
    http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=estrada+glasses&_sacat=See-All-Categories
  14. JustinH
    14. Posted by JustinH Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:35 am EDT

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    Those are going for like $50 . You can get them for like 18 bucks though. Just search eBay for "Estrada glasses."
    shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=estrada+glasses&_sacat=See-All-Categories
  15. Carol
    15. Posted by Carol Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:31 am EDT

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    What, they didn't come with an Erik autograph? Jay, you've been robbbed!
    Srsly you should go ahead and use that photo as your FTM header. hahahahaa....
  16. RICK C
    16. Posted by RICK C Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:00 pm EDT

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    I'm taking my Ray bans and going to," In N Out " burgers

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