Ingenuity at it's finest. To have had this hotter-than-a-$4-pistol illegal AF but brilliant piece of masterful craftsmanship stored in this engineer's home loft since 1992 only to be given to Dale Jr after he said he wanted it, is like having Smoky Yunick point a crooked finger at you, givin' you a sly wink, and lettin' you run wild through the Best Damn Garage in Daytona to take anything you want. Jr is definitely stepping between the raindrops.
I used to work for Dean and I saw this deck lid in the barn everyday. I can assure you he has WAY more stories like this to tell. He worked Leo Jackson in the '90s, Dave Marcis in the '80s and has been in racing forever.
"The stuff going on today" in NASCAR is boring as all hell...........not to mention the entire nascar cup scene is barely even a shell of it's former self. Sorry, but there will never be the excitement, wonder, intensity, and greatness in today's nascar like there used to be, end of story. I mean for crying out loud, they're all running a generic car set up BY nascar officials nowadays. Not to mention how most of today's punk ass cup car drivers couldn't handle a 500 mile race non-stop. No Sir, today, they get to take breaks a few times throughout each race.........so they can all have ice cream & snow cones.
@@howabouthetruth2157 ok fair enough but I was kinda talking about pre Next gen stuff. Like what did hendrick have in their motors last year because the rumor was they were up a lot . Also when MTJ was dominating with Cole Oearn , what kind of stuff was in that car .
@@davidrice3337 It's damn near impossible for them to cheat nowadays anyway. And you're right, ain't nobody gonna care about these drivers. Cup racing has literally been castrated and perverted in every way a person could imagine.
This was an incredible little segment. “Cheating” stories has been my favorite thing from these podcasts with guys from previous generations, so hearing one from someone who worked on this stuff behind the scenes was amazing. Hopefully we can see more of this in the future
Krispy, it definitely belongs in Harry Gant’s HOF display, once NASCAR finally gets around to being serious about inducting their greatest drivers…and quits inducting “ancillary” sanctioning body members like Mike Helton and broadcasters like Ralph Moody…
It would be super cool if Dale took an early 90s gen 4 car, put a decklid like this on it, steel shot in the roll bars, nitrous under the seat, and all the other cheated out stuff that his guest have told him. Then give it a cool ass Dirty Mo paint scheme and kinda have it taken around to different racing venues or a museum as somewhat of a history lesson for fans as to how Ingenuity used to be done.
So I love this guy brought this by! This is one of the top guest in my opinion that’s ever walked in! You just can’t put a price on the cheated up parts. On my stock cars and even legend cars I used a lot of DTMF controlled devices with different radio controlled (by my spotter) he would send tones and open different vents up to change the low pressure region. Also I had 5 fins on the grill to open all of them. (Key radio: Press: 6) to open Individually. Key radio: press: 1-2-3-4-5 or if you only wanted 2 & 4 open which is what we ran 99% of the time. We would key radio: press: 2-4. Those were the good ole days. After the series put onboard cameras I knew I couldn’t be flipping switches so I had to have someone remotely run that stuff.
THATS BADASS... also thanks for bringing the guy in to speak about it, great story and also cool to highlight the little guys behind the scenes. Also we need a close up of it
The legendary crew-chief's, like Dale Inman, Leonard Wood, Ray Evernham ect...are absolutely not gonna be lining up to tell their cheat'n stories, but the lesser known crew-member's who never received any public credit for helping their legendary bosses create the ingenious device's, well that's a very different story now ain't it 😏 Whomever thought this segment up, freaking pure genius!!
Im 64 From Conway S.C Jr knows where we at he came thru every Saturday on the way to Myrtle Beach Speedway but i grew up watching Jr Johnson, Firewall Roberts on my mini-bike in the infield at Darlington, and thru the Dale Sr, Harry Gant, D.W. Rusty to name a few but i would love to hear-see more of these guys who were behind the scenes and were not recognized for there creativity, man i enjoyed this segment there are Lots more we would love to hear,bring them on!
Such an awesome show! Love it! Races were won in the shop and I love hearing these types of stories to enlighten how! Just like where nascar comes from... Bootlegging😀
Bobby Allison had a rear bumper "fall off" and went on to win race, areo and weight advantage Crew chief Gary Nelson. Bobby Allison to hot in race car, Gary Nelson cuts hole in roof with air chisel during pit stop, suspected. Areo-downforce advantage for Die Guard racing team. This stuff was on live TV during races. ESPN and TNN had far better race and pit road coverage than the networks of today.
I so wish y’all had interviewed Brad Francis before he died. Brad taught Andy most everything he knew. He invented the track bar adjuster with Earnhardt Sr.
Hearing this guy is crew chiefing the #94 CARS Tour this weekend at Dominion. Everything tricked out in the #94 which is really serving as a test car for McCumbee.
This was amazing! These kinda people and stories are what I love seeing on DJD. Always cool to hear the juiciness of a Harvick or Mayfield pod, but man I have to stop everything I’m doing and turn the brain on to listen and analyze everything going on with the “ingenuity” discussions. Great stuff, MORE PLZ!!
These are the absolute best videos man. Everybody knows that all competitors across the board do whatever they can to win, so nice to hear some of the secrets!
seeing that Old 3 in the back was great, when I was a nitride operator here in reidsville n.c. I was given 300 lugnuts to harden through our nitride process. Verified count, 300 in,300 out.. each one engraved with that number 3( figured they thought some would be stolen) ,I even had a friend I took care of, Parkinson, he had a big square box ship fan from Dale's garage, had the crew in it, and in the background was that can, he would never sell it, don't know what happened to it after he died.
I don't know if Dale Jr. would remember this or not, but he was running the 400-miler at Daytona one year; the night race. Jr. had about the strongest car, but at one point in the race, he is jus' ridin' 2nd behind Kyle Busch, making laps. I'm listening to his radio channel on my scanner and Jr. starts to chuckle. He then proceeds to describe--in detail--what he is seeing on the 18 car right ahead of him. The 18's entire decklid is lowering itself, as if being pressed down by the airflow over the car, or by actuators like the ones being described in this video, as the car proceeds down the backstretch, bringing the rear spoiler down out of the air. But, lo and behold, the decklid then raises itself back up, flush with the rear quarter-panels, as the car entered Turn 3. This happened lap after lap, with Jr. absolutely giddy seeing this !!! It must've gone on for about 10-15 laps, and then pitstops began, and that was the last I heard him talk about the decklid during that race. A precious moment that I will never forget !!!
Talk to much during racing, drives some of us. Nuts! Getting so bad & so loud we have a large group ready to leave NASCAR! To many commentators talking continually through races. We want to to hear engines, spotters, drivers, etc. Please guys keep the loud mouths down!
