Reacting To Incredible Stories About A Young Dale Earnhardt | DJD - Top 10 Moments of 2023: No. 5

I didn't know that there was an issue at the time and lovees junkyards right there on 29 your dad and I raced out that junkyard that's where you got your parts that's where we got our parts and I I needed a motor so I went out there and got a motor out the out the junkyard and it was all greasy and so I didn't think nothing about it so I said well let's just stop over here at Roberts cuz he got a pressure washer and we wash the grease off of it and uh who's with you you dead okay y' went in the junkyard and pulled the motor out oh we was in the junkyard every Tuesday damn but anyhow um my Uncle Jimmy uh my Uncle Jimmy G says that dad was in that junkyard in the mid midnight sometimes yeah he sneak in there oh yeah like I said we that was my uncle's uh junkyard oh oh yeah okay but yeah we was in the junkyard every Monday or Tuesday yeah mainly Tuesday CU Monday we tore a par Tuesday got there junkard stuff but anyhow it took that block it was laid on the back I had an old ramp truck and it I had it you know chained down on the back of the ramp truck and all and uh we pulled into Roberts out there right beside the whale housee right in front of the shop there yep and uh Dale sitting in the the car there and I get I said Robert I says uh I need to use your pressure washer and Dale gets out and walks toward the back of the thing here comes Robert out with a fan belt about that long going to whoop Dale w why he run him around well he and his mother got into it about some I don't know exactly what details was there Denver dead ass but anyhow Dale's running around the wellhouse right there and uh he saids we got to go we got to go and he jumped back in the truck and I jumped in the truck and we left yeah didn't get to was the motor no so we don't know why he was so mad at him cuz something him and mom was fighting yeah him and his mother was fighting about something oh Dale Junior's mom I got you I see I see what you're saying um and so yeah robbert G's got to stick up for his daughter I guess he's got a fan Bild I'm telling you it's a long one he's going to whoop him that's going to oh yeah damn oh yeah I mean it's just crazy hearing stories about it you know back back then when Dad wasn't Dad wasn't had no notoriety no Fame not not a whole lot of money and was just trying to survive but making so many terrible decisions right uh you know that it's it's I mean good he made they were bading decisions you know some yeah fighting with mom and all that but at her dad's house yeah yeah if you go fight with her yeah losing losing his license driving around with that license how in the hell he made it I don't know you dad was Fearless he was he was Fearless I'm telling you right now there's only one of them and he was the only one he wasn't scared of I mean anything and you could not dare him to do nothing I mean yeah we we would lead the racetrack and he'd grab a handful of lug nuts throw them on the dash and somebody you know passed us or done run us off a ramp or you do something wrong pitch a couple lug duts in their windshield damn good Heavens oh yeah what a wild man he was he was he was he'd always get lug D he'd always have you know eight or 10 lug dut some messed cuz I guess pulling that car around open trailer you might get run off the tra Dam Road by new competition well I I know another time that uh and Tony Tony Yu probably tell you this here too is uh he come home and uh you the trailer that had fenders on it and there beig cars running up down the road there that had wheel marks on the side of them oh Lord he put the damn Tire he put the trailer of the damn Park cars on the street well I mean they they come off that ramp if he didn't like the way it was coming off at ramp and that was going to be at the same time timing was everything you know bam he's crazy oh yeah and then throw a lug nut over oh my gosh oh we had uh we had loud speakers he had this he had the same kind of truck I had but he had a box truck and pulled open trailer and I had the ramp truck the same model same trucks yeah just a little different right there but anyhow uh in his truck he had a loud speaker sitting over in the rightand corner with the c everybody had CVS and so he could holler at people and stuff like it right there you know going to a CB you be hollering at somebody in a car exactly and uh so once he got to run it with me he said now listen we got to go get you a c uh get you a CB and a a microphone so I can talk to these people why driving down the street I driving down the street and and every time we go to lunch we come up here your grandma would cook us lunch and stuff and she worked at a little place right there under at Cafe yeah Conor we cuz we didn't have no money so she beat us and we are coming off of yesterday's show uh where we had a great conversation with Tony fur Tony fur probably not a name that a lot of our newer NASCAR f are aware of won a couple races at the cup level uh was one of the guys that was always always kind of had a reputation for cheating or you know creative ideas uh within the NASCAR rule book and we pushed him a little bit to give us some of those stories one of the things that I was pretty excited about was to be able to learn some of the things that he knew about my dad my dad drove race cars for him at Metrolina back when Dad was flat broke and things were tough man and Mike we learned some things about Dad that I didn't know which rarely happens but it does happen and when it does happen it's always at this table Yeah like I'm not learning these things out in the out in the wilderness but we learned that Del and Hart uh run around without a driver's license yeah uh probably had a couple of uh you know DUI whatever um Tony wasn't sure but he' lost his license and uh I Knew You Know by listening to Tony Senor and um my Uncle Robert G that Dad was wide open on the highways you know um speeding breaking laws doing whatever so that's no surprise to me I guess that he run a foul and got himself in a little bit of trouble and lost his license but um yeah the fact that he might have been running around for years without one and no care in the world still driving up and down the road pretty crazy Brazen very Brazen Tony might have been sarcastic but he might not have been when he said that he thinks that de ard's first driver's license might have come at the age of 31 yeah and so I was good Heavens I asked Tony about about what disagreements that to my dad and my grandfather Robert G might have had my grandfather on my mother's side so you know Dad and Mom get split up and divorced right around the time that Tony is uh has my dad driving his dirt car 7778 and I had heard stories where my mom had to talk some senson to my father after a r B at Metro Lina where I guess Dad was driving someone else's car but got into an argument or a fight at the racetrack with with Robert G and um Dad was you know was was really out of his mind and Mama had to talk him off the ledge there but and I was trying to see if Tony knew anything about that particular story but he's telling me a whole different story where Dad you know goes over to Robert G's and Robert G comes out of the building uh going to give him a whooping with a uh with the belt with the fan belt yeah which is interesting and and you know I hey man they had a divorce they had fights they had arguments they I know my mom and I know my dad and I bet there were some really nasty nasty arguments um and I'm sure that if Mom went over to Robert G's and told him what all went down he's absolutely going to be INF Furious right and S and and and want to take after and look after his his daughter um and so for I the B that dad had to even go over there knowing there could be some potential hurt feelings and frustrations I can't even imagine these the t i the times that my dad lived and the way they lived in the 70s uh right before Dad's cup career took off right before that right 76 7778 he was a pistol he was a handful how about the St of throwing out the uh the the lug nuts out of the car just to break Windows people that pissed him off which that's crazy it's crazy it don't sound like the same guy I know you know I mean I did some dumb um hitting mailboxes with mail baseball bats and and I regret it everybody and anybody ever tore up your mailbox I feel like a real um and and it's kind of along those lines I guess um me and some buddies we bought some eggs going egg some cars egg some d you know egg some egg some things I don't know what the hell we're going to do we're going to throw throw eggs yeah we're driving down the road we got the eggs and eggs carton eggs sitting in my buddy's lap in my pickup truck I was probably 16 and we're driving in in oncoming traffic right uh on in the other lane he tossed an egg over the top of the truck and it and it hit the front of this box van and sound like a damn shotgun cuz it's on my side I didn't know what the hell he threw of I couldn't believe egg made such a loud racket but um dangerous you know and and you know so I I I'm not going to sit here and be a hypocrite and say what the hell was Daddy thinking done a lot of dumb stuff but goodness man well the hypocrite the hypocrisy would be if he got mad at you for the eggs that's the thing like he did he he would he you know I stole a traffic cone right he who doesn't steal a traffic cone in every time right we're riding around in the back of the mall ain't nobody in the parking lot hey man grab it damn cone when I drive by it grab the cone and just kind of swing it into the bed of the truck and and here we go I take the cone home and Daddy gets all pissed off because I got a cone where'd you get the cone take it back I'm like man ain't no big deal there's aund of them out there um you know everybody needs a traffic Con in their bedroom and uh you know I wished he was here I'd be like hey what the hell dude sit down and tell me some of these stories we don't got to record it for the podcast damn dude yeah like come on clean up tell me about it come clean with all this stuff nitrous and everything nitrous it started yeah and listen I didn't ask that to Tony yesterday but it was Tommy Russell that told us the NIT the first nitrous story right and as I put the timeline together Tom he drove for Tommy Russell before he drove for Tony fur that's right so you know that those Tony fur Tony fur is like everybody had to run nitrous you know he was running nitrous with Tony fur too we didn't I didn't ask him it's in my mind I'm just assuming that he's saying everybody ran it yeah so and you he's talking about the different ways um you would hide it hide the bottle but anyways you know that that was going on I don't think it was a one time thing with Tommy Russell but um how about the story Dale of uh them getting run out of the race for him planting the uh the wrecking the guy Dicky Armstrong or whatever his name was yeah wrecking him the rain coming out and then him having to jump off the truck and onto the I mean like have you ever heard that no that is insane it also is feels a little heroic too I mean like I I thought that that just added in a good way to this whole like Legacy and bad of Dale Earnhardt I don't know if you felt the same way I did all right so they're broke and they know they need the first or second place money mhm and they are they get passed by Granddaddy's car and he he tried to uh you know from listening to Tony Daddy tried to move him but didn't you know didn't have the speed to do it and don't know that he would have planted him into the guard rail being that his Granddaddy's car and they Park right next to each other but he wrecks the hell out of the other guy that he don't know hell this guy com from Florida some hot shoe from you know this you trying to take the money yeah he's like you know hell this guy help I'll wreck his and he hooks him and wads him up and uh cuz I'm guess that's that's how bad he needed that money yeah that's a hell of a thing man I've never ran a Race So I can't put myself in that frame of mind because I've never ran a race sitting there going oh I can't lose this position because I'm not going to make the money I need to make you know what I mean with a hole in your radiator too like but I'm just saying how do you how how I've never fortunately for me I don't know that I or a lot of people in this day and age have ever been in the race car thinking I'm going to finish in this position I don't give a damn what it takes and and literally wrecking a guy into the fence is what one of the things I'll do yeah and he does and he does it um desperate times man yeah I was just thinking racing to survive sounds a lot like what that would be anytime else use it that sounds like an overstatement but I think that's exactly what they were doing so listening to Tony Sor tells some stories about Dad um around this time during this time right Dad worked as a um dad worked as a welder at Great Dayne um and would if he needed to go race and the work would not accommodate that he quit because he knew that he could walk in there a month later and get the same job back CU he was he you know he was a hard worker knew how to do this and they needed it they needed the guy um so but he the thing about that is is what I'm trying to bring up in and listen to my mom tell stories Tony's fur confirmed it a little bit here Tony Senior dad wanted to race and he did whatever it took to race he he would quit work he would quit you know he would quit a job lose his pay check for however many weeks um we'd eat scraps you know we'd eat balona sandwiches every day the ren or the power or whatever the electrical all that stuff would get pushed back um not paid on time we'd go without the uh you know heater you know that they had these tanks on the on the back of the trailers that you'd have to fill up to C to to have heat to have to burn the flame and heat the house and he'd come in there with $2 Worth or $5 worth just kind of piecing it together right never filling that 40-gallon tank up or whatever you know whatever that 55 gallon tank and so you know he just was like day to day just like Tony said you know they had I I can't get it today I ain't got the money all right we'll try to get it tomorrow what do I got to do tomorrow what do I got to do now to get that money to do that you know and it was literally going from you know Buck to buuck and he would quit his job to go race and everything else had to suffer you know bills the family Christmas whatever right and he he knew what he needed to make to race or to get to the racetrack and buy the tires he needed and if he couldn't you know and he's all he's running around getting but you know he's running around to Robert G Tom pistone Russ Tommy Russell and anyone else who would give him something for nothing you know hey man I got a hold my radiator I ain't buying a brand new damn radiator breaking into junkyards yeah midnight right probably the same junkyard he was in earlier that day getting the motor out of exactly he's walking around in there going damn I need that too I'm come here tonight I'm going to come in here at midnight and get it and just Brazen so braz I can't believe how just Brazen he was like Tony said he was he was Fearless yeah but I mean there's there seems to be context around that now that really is telling about about your dad to be for me at Le at least we've had a bunch of guests on here that have talked about your dad and was even from that time but to be honest with you this is the first time that I was listening to stuff where I'm like okay maybe this actually explains a lot about him I mean like hear me out on this if he's if he's literally racing to survive or racing to make it to the next race right and you're saying to yourself I must finish here to be able to make it to the next paycheck or the winter yeah like get through the winter right I I had a a great aunt who grew up in the Great Depression she ended up she died extremely wealthy extremely wealthy you never know it she'd never threw anything away she grew up in the Great Depression and so it it affected her the rest of her life 90 years where you would never know cuz she never would throw anything away because she grew up in in the most impressionable years her young years were in the Great Depression also trying to survive I'm just saying sometimes if that's when you're growing up and that's maybe that's maybe he's racing that way the rest of his life just because that's all he knew that's in his most impressionable years when he's trying to make it he's like hell yeah I'm going to put a dang door to you doesn't matter how successful or how many championships he has at that point yeah it's who he is as a racer yeah it's how he grew up I don't know it just to me Tony fur gave us a lot of context behind how we ended up with the Intimidator and that was from it sounded to me like a guy that was just trying to make it through the winter like you said yeah that was a hell of a way to say it yeah I was glad he was honest we had to we had to we had the pride out of him he wasn't he cuz he didn't want to talk bad about Dad he didn't want to say he was like man you know some I don't want to I don't want to tell you about the lug nuts right you know but we eventually broke him got him comfortable and he doesn't have much of a poker face so like he's like he he would grin through through everything what did you think oh go ahead I was just you know I'm glad that he finally you know trusted us we're like hey man just share just tell us the truth if if we think it's you know too insane you know it's a podcast it's not live we can make adjustments but um anyway I I was a greaters I was glad we got him over here I was you know interested in his own career as a cup cup Crew Chief and so forth and good to hear some of those stories and and his frustrations over some things that happened in his career and the you know how he learned how to get those cars to go really fast at Daytona and Talladega and so forth the rate you know he ends up going there and winning in in in uh with John andred in kale yarber's car you know in a car that nobody thought was a front running car but he could find ways to make it go fast and um I really felt like he is an innovator I think we use we use innovator almost as tongue and cheek about talking about a cheater but like I I got really Innovative it's a less insulting way I mean you don't want to sit across from a guy like that and go tell me how you cheated man tell me all the things you did to cheat you're G to you know you you say innovator because you won't you don't want to insult them you and you want them to tell you the story and you know it's so much time has passed let you know I hope I love I hope these guys you know understand that it doesn't mean any it doesn't mean anything it's not a knock against their you know compliment yeah it's a compliment so at least here it is for him yeah it is in this room you're going to be appreciated for you know sharing some of the ways that you were creative and saw holes in the rule book or found ways to get a car through tech and and you know past the prying eyes of you know NASCAR officials the bre the Breakaway Jack bolts um you know good Heavens in what a genius yeah hey if you like that video like and comment below and don't forget to subscribe so you'll never miss another piece of dirty mode media [Music] [Applause] content

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Length: 20min 16sec (1216 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 11 2023