By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

Press Pass introduced its Power Pack program last year where the company offered bonus packs with exclusive content to customers.

The packs contained the Power Pick set, autograph buy backs, memorabilia cards and instant win prizes.

Press Pass has released a new Power Pick set for 2013. Some of these packs can be found in 2013 Press Pass Racing, but can also be obtained through local hobby shops.

Contact your local shop to learn how you can get your hands on the packs.

One of the buyback autographs in the newest Power Packs is Dale Earnhardt, who died in a crash in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Earnhardt consistently signed for products in the late 1990s. Since 2006, his autographs have appeared as cut signatures or buybacks in racing products (Click here to see a checklist of Dale Earnhardt cards in the Beckett database).

Check out the gallery for other buy back autos available in the Power Packs.

The 2013 Power Pick set includes three levels of 25 base cards: Blue (numbered to 99), Gold (numbered to 50) and Holo (numbered to 25). Names on the checklist include Kurt and Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick and Travis Pastrana.

Autographs of many of the top drivers can be found in the bonus Power Packs along with instant win prizes.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here.

Join Beckett Media’s Chris Olds and Dan Hitt as they rip into a pair of 2012 Press Pass Showcase racing boxes in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? What can you win? Watch and find out …

Join Beckett Media’s Dan Hitt and Chris Olds as they rip into a pair of 2012 Press Pass Redline boxes in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? Watch and find out …

(Need a checklist or OPG for this one when it is available? It will be here.)

Join Beckett Media’s Tim Trout and Dan Hitt as they tear into two boxes of 2011 Press Pass Legends racing. Which legends did they land? Watch and find out.

By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

You don’t see these every day.

Some classic names and race cars from yesteryear are brand new once again as Lionel NASCAR Collectables has unveiled its second offering of NASCAR Classics diecasts.

Among the latest offering of replicas, which are now available for pre-order via the company or soon to be available at a nearby hobby shop, are a racing pioneer, two legends and, of course, a pair of Earnhardts.

Each of the five diecasts costs $59.95 with the lone more modern stock car of the bunch being Dale Earnhardt‘s No. 96 1978 Ford Torino (top), which has never been released as a diecast before, according to the company. It’s the first Ford he raced in the top series and he finished 10th in it in the 1978 Firecracker 400 at Daytona.

The second Earnhardt is a replica of one driven by Ralph Earnhardt, a 1940 Ford coupe with the No. 8 made famous on the track by his grandson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. It, too, according to Lionel, has not been a diecast before.

Rounding out the offerings are three more 1940 Fords — one for one of the most successful female drivers in NASCAR’s past, Louise Smith, and cars for Tim Flock and Tiny Lund.

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.