So glad I found your channel. Love this video. I believe for sure Jr. would have at least one championship if not more if DEI were still around. Dale would have never let it fail. Such a tragic end to a taller then life personality in Dale. He never liked to be called Dale Sr. he would say Im. Dale Earnhardt and this is Dale jr.
I’m glad you found my channel Whit. I had a great time filming this video and putting all together. Thank you for taking your time to watch it. I really do appreciate it. Have a good day friend.👍
Loved this video my friend! I have a brochure on the Dale Trail and that is something I want to do someday. Loved the statue of Dale. It looked so life like! I have been to DEI many years ago and then you could go inside and look around. It's a shame that it is closed now. Really wish Teresa would open it back up. Also wish you could go and see where Dale is buried at. It would be nice for all his fans to go and pay their respects. I have been to RCR before as well. Both the old and new shops. I love the museum and I agree with you its better than the Hall of Fame. It was so cool that the owner of that shop gave you a tour. I have never been to that spot before. Thanks for taking me along on your adventure. Looking forward to this weekend and the roar of the engines. Great video my friend!! Keep up the great job and we will see you in a few weeks. Take care!!!
I had a great time making this video. It was so cool to see all these legendary garages. The only garage I missed from his full time Winston Cup Career was Bud Moore Engineering in Spartanburg, SC. Due to my time constraint I could not make it to that shop. Thank you for watching and I will see you soon. Take care my friends!
I'm impressed you can state all his career stats from memory without a prompter. NASCAR should use the street cars body shape instead of a sticker and race in the rain to boost ratings. Thanks for #3 tour!!
Hey Robert. I had a lot of fun traveling the roads between Charlotte and Welcome, NC searching for all these legendary garages. Thanks for watching my friend! Have a good sir.👍
This was a really cool video! I was at DEI in 2000, when my oldest sister lived in Concord NC. Me and my dad went to the 400 in Daytona we lived and grew up in central Florida, and took a relative back to North Carolina and went on a tour of the Charlotte Motor Speedway, and me and dad went to the dirt track and saw Tony Stewart race when he was pretty new in nascar, and then DEI. There was a spot for the 8th championship trophy as well as juniors rookie of the year trophy, sadly none of them trophies were ever in those spots. It's cryptic to see it as just an empty building with one probably showcar, and his images. And I visited RCR in 2001 after Dale Earnhardt senior's untimely and most tragic death as I was a big fan of him and everything DEI and RCR related and every driver they had. It is February 19th 2024, rainy and I watched a couple of really good documentaries on him and thinking of that most sad Daytona 500.
I remember in Welcome, North Carolina When you walked into RCR in 2001, the very first thing you saw on the left startled every Dale Earnhardt fan, the 1998 Daytona 500 winning car with the lucky penny, and Stevie Waltrip's Bible verse taped to the dashboard. And we all touched the car it was really cool, they didn't mind. I found a picture I took of Kevin Harvick's car he won the first race in just the other day.
Hey Denny. Thanks for sharing your memories with us. I love reading stories like these. If you would like to see my RCR Museum Tour? Click the link in the description of this video. Have a good day my friend.👍
@@HitchHikingYeti You're a class act my friend! I'm 63, and nobody was a bigger Dale fan than I. Thank you very much for this vid. Be safe out there. God bless you! 🙏
I like your Buc-ees shirt you are wearing in your profile pic.👍 I appreciate you liking the video. Making a video about Dale was fun. I was a huge NASCAR fan back then. I was so passionate. Also, congratulations on working for a well known race team like Roush. Thanks for watching my friend.
That is so cool. I have heard Chocolate Myers is at the shop often. It seems he always takes the time to talk to fans. Thanks for watching Mark! I hope you have a good day my friend.👍
From south dakota and made it to world finals at the dirt track at Charlotte back in November.went by the old homestead as well. So crazy to think of them in that garage
I agree with you about the Ralph Earnhardt house. It is a surreal experience to see the garage where Dale and his father worked on cars. The seed that was planted there bloomed into an unbelievable NASCAR career. Thanks for watching my friend. Good luck with your future races.
I went to the RCR museum in 2020. I loved it. Hope to go back. I went to Talladega and the Hall of Fame down there last weekend. That was a lot of fun. Have you been to the Greenback Castle? It's next to where I grew up. It's very interesting.
Hey Justin. I looked up Greenback castle. It looks awesome. I added to my list of places to go see. Next time we stay over night in Pigeon Forge I will plan a day to go visit the Castle. Thank you so much for telling me about it. Really cool. Have a good day my friend!
Not possible. Teresa allows nobody on former Dale Sr properties. That first house, and garage, belonged to his parents, Martha and Ralph. Osterlund shop, he only won one championship there. The other 6 was while he was with RCR. No, DEI museum is only open on weekends for only a few hours.
I’m not sure what they are doing at DEI. I think it would be cool to turn it into a race shop museum. They could sale tickets for a self guided tour through fab/body, engine room, and other day to day race operation areas. Thanks for watching buddy.👍
Can’t believe DEI is closed ! Fans around the world are really getting screwed because of one woman’s poor attitude! Very sad! Great content ! Thanks for sharing, Brings a tear to my eye about what might have been!
Hopefully some day she has a moment and God puts an ounce of kindness in her heart so she leaves alot of that to Jr, Kerry, and Kelly. That shop could be full functioning as Jr. Motorsports, and race shop for the grand kids. while I'm sure they'd have all that stuff open for people to enjoy. But she didn't give him as much as a picture from that place. It's really sad! I imaging Kelly and Kerry wound up with nothing as well.
You know I think it’s because it’s Teresa Earnhardt. She had a lot to do with us and she had to respect his wishes but now she’s going to be marrying somebody else and she has all the. I think Dale Junior should be a part of that because he raced for his father three years after them, but I think overall, you know I think when he starts his own team in the cup series down the roadways you know I want him to do well and become a great person on that race track
I think Dale Jr should be running DEI. He has stated interest in buying a charter to race in the Cup Series. DEI would be a great facility to start a Cup team up. Thanks for watching and have a great day my friend.
Nascar would be nothing like it is today if he was still alive. Jr probably has multiple championships. I wonder if JR motorsports would exist, if it did, it might be different. More involved with DEI. His death really derailed JR's career in a lot of ways. That said , It made Jr the man he is today as well.
I can’t verify the exact moment. But, I believe I heard it was in March of 2020 when the world went crazy. All the race shops stayed closed for year or more. DEI never reopened. I wish they would turn that place into a walk through museum.
Earnhardt would not like a full helmet or hans device it was mandatory after his death 2002 he would still be alive but something h!ppen to his seatbelt harnesses crushed his skull on impact
4:51 that’s where Kerry Earnhardt met dale sr in the garage working on the racecars and Dale said hey son wyd Kerry said just coming over want to meet you
well my Dale Earnhardt’s letter was in 1993 & his wreck in one where he stopped on track! & went to rusty car! it was a safety thing! he set me a letter & signed thing of his he looked into it! ( ok if i walked in to nascar & said you turn car back word at speed this happens because of air spoiler or wing it works if wrong if air comes in wrong side) i had a well known person racer, do it hay this is wrong!) ps I alive today because of a talk to a mr gates & ibm computer & the manual wrong and there needs to be addon to the computer! i told him this was his job! this guy looked like a kid stood looking at me in shock! I saw something really wrong i in area that people though i was nut-so but he was in Microsoft & could fix it & wire the world put them in every hospital & wire them to gather! for my illness i was sick the whole time i have a name & number it from my seal adoption the 3 rd known man! to be my relation in said family the last name i have! i was special rules sealed by court my real father asked info! threw the 3 rd known man he my step father real brother! he related to my mom & he had a 100% death rate cancer & lived threw it the records and sample of blood saved over this is how they knew i was sick how & what it is & its fully controlled ok & who or what caused it in me! ( it lead to big brother, MIB, area like 51, testing zones in nevada & my old us goverment Job it was in secret area's one them was to close to a test area & what injury I had happen to me ) ok other odd thing I worked off base injured i was over a baby named Busch & i heard voice say this he going to grow up and be where I should be at! I sat here for years looking at this Dale Earnhardt’s letter on my wall how this ever gonna work out He in The RCR 8 car now! I so upset i lost all my backing the end of 2023 none re new ok by 1-10 2024 every bill on loaned or owed was fully paid off! i can not believe it!
It is so cool you have an autograph from Dale. Congrats on paying all you stuff off. That must be a good feeling. Thanks for watching and have a blessed day.
Wish Jr and Kelly would of got to take that over and ran it I think Kelly could of handle it together him and her can of tan it but Treasha was to bullhead to turn it over to them
I don’t think your hero told NASCAR how to operate at all. I do believe he could have run much cleaner races and not have wrecked so many good cars. I suppose it sold tickets. It is a shame that he is gone.
Jimmii Johnson actually tied petty and earnhardt lol. Considering dale won 7 before johnson did. You can thank Teresa for ruining d.e.i and destroying everything dale built for his family and legacy to live on. Absolutely terrible.
