Dale and Ned Jarrett share incredible racing stories with Kyle Petty (Part 1) | Coffee with Kyle

[Music] thank you guys for coming I appreciate y'all doing this I have to admit I'm a little bit nervous because I'm a little bit of a smart aleck I'll say that okay so I'm gonna ask Dale to ask you the questions I'm gonna say they'll ask your dad that's no I'm not really no I'm nothing but I wouldn't talk about racing life gonna talk about a lot of things but I want to start with you read at an early age you were already driving a car did your dad go to races did your dad take you to races I mean what what was your fascination with the automobile when I was about 14 or 13 14 15 long there he did take me to some races and dirt track races at North Wilkesboro Charlotte and so he made a race fan out of me but never thinking that I might one day drive race cars and then when they started to build the Hickory Speedway it was the big thing in the community you go down to the country store and and all those farmers and solvers were sitting around that's what I grew up in the atmosphere that I grew up in and then say boy wait'll I get that thing built said I'll go up there and show them how to drive and so I worked it out so the first race had never Vick refrigerated 19 I was there one half interest in a race car in a poker game and so didn't talk to my dad about it my dad was a well respected man in the community he couldn't see where his son participating with that group of people which most of them were bootleggers back in those days he didn't think that was kind of image that I needed to be involved with till my partner would have been a former motorcycle racer so he said I'll Drive the car nobody did one night he got sick and didn't feel like driving it was on the Saturday night and pretty dark in the infield I said let's go out in the infield and will change Church he had on his checkered shirt I had on the sprocket shirt it was hard to tell the different centers freely and so anyway I drove the car that night and came to second he knew and used his name and he hadn't done that well so we just got my with it that night so we just kept doing it for a little while till we lucked up in water race and then the word got out into community my dad heard about it and he said okay said if you're so determined to drive one of those things said use your own name and get credit for any accomplished much that you might have along the way so let me get this straight you one part interest and a race car yeah in a poker game yeah your partner was a motorcycle guy and you were hanging out with bootleggers that's my whole family so you talked about learning or hearing about Hickory Motor Speedway and everybody in the community it was a big deal I'm fascinated by that because I know how Dale and I got into this you were his hero and Richard Petty was my hero that's we just followed you know kids like you said played around now they're out here racing with each other so I know I'm real proud of the whole thing but I'm fascinated that you grew up on a farm and saw milling and then said this is for me was it after you ran that first race and you said yeah can put it on the burner could you will you put it on the back burner I think I would had a hard time burning for a long time but still I respected my dad so much that I wanted to go along with his wishes you know that that is and the stuff that I've read recently and getting ready for this the the two words that keep coming up and almost any conversation when people talk about Ned Jarrett is devotion to their family well I have three children my oldest son Glenn is 15 I have a son Dale who is nine and a little girl patty who is six and of course they're all avid Ned Jarrett racing fans so I watched the thing the other day shot with you guys at home and you're at the dinner table and you asked the drill to to give grace the values that your father taught you how important was that to you because aunt you were gone I mean I know what was like the girl for that that was a racecar driver and a lot of that was left to Martha but for you when he was home how important was that a party on your family well I think we we understood you know the life and what it was about and as you well know you know in those days we're running 70 some races a year so you know it was three and four races a week at at times you know they'd get gone the northern swing yeah California it wasn't jumping on your airplane and flying out there and running a race and flying back they drove across the country and back and you know so we've gone for long periods of time so yeah we look to to my mom you know she ran the household but yet when dad was there you know it was a huge amount of respect because of what he did how hard he worked he talks about his dad you know my grandfather we called him pop and I mean he worked all the time he worked hard but he was a good man and so you could see that in my dad and so when he was there you know it was time that we cherished whenever he was at home but you know we also were fortunate that a lot of the races were close by it so we'd load up in the station wagon as a family and and go and that's what we did you know we lived out of that station wagon we were at the racetrack it was in the infield and you know that's where we had our lunch and ever how long we were there you know that's where we did our mill so I think Ford did that movie if you will about my dad and you know what it was like in the little town of Camden at that time and I mean you know he was a hero there you know he was a star Ned Jarrett is in a somewhat unusual business at least some people think so Ned Jarrett's business is stock car racing the two words that best describe Ned Jarrett our dedication and devotion he is devoted to his family dedicated to the sport of stock car racing and to the business of racing you know I'll never ever forget as long as I live one of the things that happened was in 1965 that went on to win the championship but it's when he won the southern 500 taking the checkered flag in the sixties of course you know we're only 30 miles from Camden being at Darlington and but he won by 14 laps which is a record that will never be broken and but we we finished everything at the racetrack and we drop back and I'm telling you it looked like the entire town of Camden South Kelowna was at our house I mean it was hard to weave through everybody was there because it pretty much clinched the championship for him and and to win that race was just incredible but you know made me realize then just what a special person he was come on stay on this lovely and in that same piece you talk about Glen maybe not wanting to be a race car driver but you said there's a nine year old Dale Jarrett and in that piece you say I think Dale's destined to be a race car driver well the son Glen he really does not have a desire to become a race driver but Dale he seems destined to become a race driver what made you think that about that nine-year-old little boy in your house well first of all he had a lot of god-given talent as an athlete whatever sport that he chose he was going to be good at I had no doubt but what he would be good at and he had the determination and the work ethic to to be good and that's what you have to have in any sport it doesn't matter period and I will have to say I got to interject this you said you had him covered that day I will never forget I won at Rockingham and almost laughed everybody and you came down next week and you came up and you said congratulations and you said enjoy that they only come along once in a lifetime yeah I mean and and you're exactly right I mean those are rare moments but that record for you 14 laps but it's the distance nobody's ever won a race by that many miles I already need to clarify that a little bit I didn't have them covered that well I ran in the top five all day and then they started dropping out like what I just happened to to nurse it to the end and but I'm gonna correct you you did have them covered because that was part of the game man part of the game was making it to the end but I don't I don't think in this day and time that people realize how hard it was to get a car to run an entire southern 500 a lot of that fell in the drivers hands and their jarrett was the best that day of making that thing come home I want to go back to Hickory and I want to go back a little bit before that and you were young you would have been what two three years old and at that point in time so you probably don't don't remember hanging out at the shop stuff you ended up in 59 with a car that was junior Johnson's you ended up with a car but she'd had no money to pay for it well we had I was was bumming a ride from a guy from Kannapolis North Carolina though the name of our segment dangles he had a 57 Chevrolet and 57 Chevrolet were good race cars back in those days but he didn't have the money to get the parts that he needed he'd go to the junkyard or what somebody was giving and fill in the car and then variable that thing would break down Ned Jarrett trying to avoid trouble bounces off the guardrail so we've raced the Greenville South Carolina on a Friday night one of my brothers and the Goblin name of John Tate we're with me I said guys I got to change my career they said what you gonna do I said well that car the junior Johnson been driving winning races with it this for sale they want $2,000 for it they said what are you gonna pay for it with I said well I'll wait while the bank closes on Saturday that's when it stayed open on Saturday till noon I said I'll give them the check for it and there was a race at Myrtle Beach South Carolina on Saturday night they 950 dollars to win and there was a race that they will show up Fairgrounds which was ethanol they're cracked and Charlotte on Sunday afternoon it also fade 950 dollars to win okay here's what we have to put the disclaimer in for young people out there don't do this this they said you don't believe that you can you sure you don't think that you can do that I said oh yeah I can do it car cars been winning races and taking win tonight well and so you got down there to Myrtle Beach got there late then you get any practice and I know you your granddad was for one of those that I had to beat the fireball Roberts and Buck Baker and I mean those guys that have been winning races in the embassy reason anyway boil down to two Jim Paschal a knife at the last lap so I passed him going into turn three knowing that he's gonna pass me back going into turn one on the white flag lamp they looked up in a rearview mirror and he's headed to the pits he broke a wheel down and so I'm home free with good ways ahead of the trip my second place car so we won that race worked all night on the car and back then you might have seen some of the car at the way that you know the steering wheel was no bigger than your thumb there to grip and it just crimp your fingers and I didn't know until the green flag dropped that whoever wrapped it put the electricians tape backwards and and the edges were sticking out and there I was for 200 laps on a rough dirt track so on that wheel and just cutting my hand I didn't know how bad it was a still checkered flag failings and they had to put a tourniquet on this right arm to be able to do Victory Lane ceremony because it was the bleeding so bad Wow and so we got through with that and it was a little hospital under way out of Myrtle Beach and that's like well I got to drive a race tomorrow they said they have no way there's no way you're gonna drive a race car without the hands of Mormon Dan does that though I said I got to and so anyway got Charlotte worked the rest of not on the car and the other ready to go and was running in the top five the next day and everything was going along good except and I was tired worked all that lost all that blood and anyway Joe Weatherly was in the pits and so the crew won over and got him to get the car and Joe was so short he had a hard time reaching the pedals but he kept him in contention and jr. was driving a Wood Brothers car that day and he blew the engine in it I went over to talk to him I said Jim did you get in that car Joe just can't reach the pedals and he said yeah I'll Drive it so anyway another caution came and brought him in and a junior got the car and went on one device and way and so I got the credit for it because I had started yes and we won a racing the word got around the pits about the bad check that I do enjoy and so they wouldn't take any money for driving the car because I knew I needed that whole nineteen hundred dollars and having to scrape up the other 100 for the bank open on Monday morning hey NASCAR fans thanks for checking out the NBC sports youtube channel make sure you hit subscribe below for the latest NASCAR news race highlights and digital exclusives thanks for watching

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Length: 13min 39sec (819 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 13 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

I get chills when Ned Jarrett calls Dale's first Daytona 500 win. Ned Jarrett was embarrassed and apologized to Dale Sr and Dale Sr laughed it off and said I am a father too.

[u/abarbone88]

How much would you pay to be the 4th person at this table?

[u/trophyguy]

Awaiting part 2 of this. Imagine Ned got his 1st car by winning a poker match. How funny was that.