WATCH: SHR’s Noah Gragson shows off rare Mini Cooper pickup truck

Noah Gragson recently unveiled his new 1981 Mini Cooper pickup truck in an official Stewart-Haas Racing video on X (formerly Twitter). The red truck with a custom-fitted bull horn on the roof features a right-hand drive with a four-speed manual gearbox. Gragson thought that its size compared to a Ford F-350 was indeed funny.

Noah Gragson will join his fourth NASCAR Cup Series team in four years. He started as a part-time driver for Kaulig Racing in 2022, joined Legacy Motor Club in 2023, and Stewart-Haas Racing in 2024, and is now slated to move to Front Row Motorsports in 2025. He currently drives the No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang Dark Horse, with Drew Blickensderfer as his crew chief.

Stewart-Haas Racing posted the video where Gragson showed the viewers around the latest addition to his garage and wrote,

"Mini truck, big energy. Cool ride, @NoahGragson! 🔥"

Watch the video below:

Gragson said that it was his new go-to vehicle to go around the town. Although he wouldn't drive it every day, Gragson felt that it would be cool if he could do that. The Cooper looked small but was surprisingly spacious. The machine even had a mini bed in the back.

"I just got this 1981 mini Cooper. It's kind of funny. It's a Mini Cooper pickup truck. Wait till you come see this thing. It's so small," Gragson said. "Decided to put bull horns on the roof here. There's a full-size, not full-size bed...a full-size mini Cooper bed in the back. This is my new vehicle to go around town. Inside, we got a right-hand drive, four-speed manual, front-wheel drive car. So the motor is mounted sideways in it. A lot of room in here for how small this vehicle is."

Furthermore, the car had windows that opened sideways. Noah Gragson remembered that one time he drove the car to a nearby Chick-fil-A outlet and a lady in the parking lot started taking pictures of the car, thinking it was the coolest thing she had ever seen.

"The windows are kinda crazy. You've got dual sliding windows but they don't really open up all the way so it's not the most efficient thing ever. The first time I drove it, I drove it to Chick-fil-A, and right when I parked it, there was a lady taking a picture in the parking lot so I'm like, she thought it was the coolest thing ever," Gragson smiled.

Meanwhile, Noah Gragson is getting ready for Sunday's Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway, also known as the "Tricky Triangle". Currently, he sits 23rd in the Cup Series standings, with 353 points to his name.

Noah Gragson shed light on an "exciting" 2025

Following his suspension in 2023 for liking an allegedly racist meme on social media which was about the murder of George Floyd, Noah Gragson was not sure when he would get the opportunity to drive again. However, after being reinstated in September 2023 and sitting out the remainder of the season, Stewart-Haas Racing took him in.

Unfortunately, SHR is closing its doors this year, never to return to the Cup racing arena. Thanks to Front Row Motorsports owners Bob Jenkins and Jerry Freeze, Gragson has a home even after his current team's NASCAR exit.

"It’s definitely exciting times,” Noah Gragson said in a recent interview with NASCAR. “When we started out this year, I didn’t know how I was going to run. I didn’t know if I had the potential to run in the Cup Series just based on how the 2023 season went, and to be able to get my feet underneath me with the opportunity at Stewart-Haas, it definitely opened people’s eyes."

"And with the challenges that have come about with Stewart-Haas, we were looking for a home for a long time, and that’s when I got introduced to Bob (Jenkins) and Jerry (Freeze)," Gragson added.

Front Row Motorsports announced on May 29 that they would expand to a three-car team. While Michael McDowell will leave FRM, Todd Gilliland will retain his seat behind the wheel of the #38 machine. Noah Gragson will join as Gilliland's teammate. However, Gragson's crew chief, car number, or partners have not been announced yet.