The Gray Ghost Was So Fast It Quite Literally Scared The Competition | Dale Jr. Download 

I wonder what legendary car they will be talking about 44 years from now..... oh wait, not a god damn one of those piles of bolts.... Long gone are the great days of racing.... at this point, the teams should show up at the track and draw for a car...

I can't believe this man's nearly 90 years old. Still razor sharp and looks at least 10 years younger.

Dale Jr, you are the person keeping NASCAR alive. Facts!

One of your best interviews yet junior. Back when nascar had creativity and ingenuity.

It would have been nice to have a picture or two of the car while you were talking about it.

The grey ghost now that's a legend

When racing was racing....love these stories. Just like when Ernie Elliot built that engine for Bill Elliot at Talladega, and he blew them away. The next year was the first year for restructor plates.

Mr. Buddy Baker behind the wheel

One of the best interviews ever. The Grey Ghost lives!

This is literally racing history. Thanks Jr and Dirty Mo for keeping it alive and out to the fans. 👍👍🏁 And Buddy Baker was the kindest most generous (with his time) driver I was ever fortunate enough to meet. The photos are a fixture in our house.

See those were the days at my grandparents on Sunday laying in the back of the station wagon listening to the race on the radio ❤❤❤❤❤

1980, yes sir, the Grey Ghost was a rocket ship

This is the kind of stuff that I can't get enough of. These stories are pure gold .

Loved the grey ghost , all you have to do is hear those two words and know exactly what what era and car it was .... great interview

Never knew cowls played such a part in a teams testing and strategy

Never was a Dale Jr fan or on the opposite side of things a hater, but I can say this, his appreciation of the history of the sport makes me respect him beyond belief. There are a handful of people that want to keep the history of our sport, and motorsports in general, alive, and Dale Jr is among them. In this era, the likes of Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham come to mind, and it’s not secret, nor no surprise, that those three are close friends.

Holman Moody had some fantastic employees.

Let the man talk Junior

i love this car frankly ! You know what? This podcast really motivated me to create this car with a Racing Champions. I really want to do it. Thanks, Junior, you motivated me to do this new custom.

Nascar needs to run a year and let teams build cars like they were built in the past. Bring back the great crew chiefs and banana shaped cars before nascar dies.

mr wilson has so much knowledge and experience with nascar that his book is still relevant to this day and very hard to find because everybody wants a piece of knowledge.

I could’ve listened to Wardell forever

JR when are you and Kelly going to go run NASCAR so we can have people like this back in the sport instead of running IROC Trans am cars with BU cameras cup holders on board navigation. NASCAR has told so many old fans the history don't matter cars should all be the same they should race all tracks like Daytona and Talladega in a pack. I miss watching races but I do enjoy these type interviews thanks for showing the respect these Men deserve.

Nascar is like monster jam, everything's the same, no builders, no nothing.

Agreed. Beautiful paint job.

Post pics and videos of y’all are talking about please. It would add even more quality to the show. Bad ass race car though!

Reasons why today's cars are so different!! No cheating fun anymore

Great Interview 🎉 You guys got me so curious about the Grey Ghost that I went back and watched the 1980 Daytona not knowing how it was going to end was nice. The '98 race is my favorite. Thanks for the entertainment ‼️

I remember those races and it seemed to me that Buddy Baker had a lot more engine than anybody else too. He could run anybody down. Greezzed lightnin'- Waddell built some great motors!

"That's the grey ghost with the ins on it swimming through the hood like it got fins on it" -the game

Thanks for keeping up modern-day NASCAR but thank you very very very much for letting people know about old school NASCAR that's what you have to do is study the past thanks again

Drivers ,crew chief's and people that work on cup teams of today are the best and smartest that you can find but very few have the character the old timers have, I love listening them.

I’m a old nascar fan from the 70s til 2001 this interview is classic nascar it’s all stories now. what we have today I don’t watch, not the same not even close

Look at some of the all motor Import racers, and their cows :) LOL!

Love these stories!!

This was back when NASCAR was innovative and exciting out working the competition was the name of the game who could figure it the quickest dang I miss that

Hell yeh you know the tech guys were all over that car at night, I was hoping this story would surface one day, thanks Jr love ya brother ✌️🇺🇸

So cool listening to this stuff!!

This was so awesome Thank you so much 😊

My car is grey and I call it the Grey Ghost

It's been a long time but to me Buddy was faster in 1979....he was probably more ahead with that Oldsmobile than everybody else at that time. The car never came up to speed, if it had he would've drove away from them.

Just started watching that 1980 Daytona heard they had 80 cars try and qualify for that race OMG.

Haven't watched Nascar in years. Too woke for me. This is the Nascar I used to love.

Those were the days !!!!!!!!!

Nothing will ever match that #9 of Bill Elliott

Boy howdy talk about a history lesson. Can't beat in person recounting. Think about that, 34 years later and the man still remembers who was behind his car.

These videos would be exponetially better if they could cut to actual video footage while talking. I know they would have to pay to show the clips but just imaging how awesome it would be.

wasn't watching NASCAR back then. What, exactly, was the gray ghost? I get that it was an oldsmobile, but what year and model was it? I've tried looking it up but get scant information about it. Thank you.

Junior, you never heard of Bill Elliott's 85 and 87 T Birds? They were the fastest of all time.

baker said about turning the 180 at dega in the lead was like jumping out of a plane with a parachute on and pulling the ripcord and looking up and nothing but pots and pans came out

Wait? I JR coming around to Ford? Was for Blaney winning Championship, Loved the Ford Grey Ghost

Jr does a great job with the history of NASCAR not to mention his personal experience both on and off the track. Wouldn't it be awesome to have him rebroadcast all the old races so the younger generation can see what NASCAR racing really was like -vs- today's scripted garbage?

Lenny Pond won at Talledega in 1978 in the same car # 54, that became the Grey Ghost.

I have ADD really bad, did they ever show a picture of this car? If they did could somebody tell me about where.

Those were the day's

do not talk about how great the gray ghost was and not show us a photo(s)

What happened to the other set and your co host?

🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

Some pictures would've been nice!

More old guys before they pass please

When did GM start to corporatize the racing programs across the board? Olds were running Olds?? Pontiac running Pontiacs???

New studio? I like it. Where is Mike?

I remember the car.

😎🔥

This was Nascar's heyday, it's been downhill ever since. Stockcar racing has been ruined by Nascar. It will never be the same, with all their cookie cutter cars.

I thought this was a Waddell interview.

10 grand for a racecar? That's shockingly cheap even for 1980

Is it cow or cowl?!

The only car we will talk about from today is Amelia

A bygone era, when Sex was safe, and racin' was dangerous!!

Bernie Elliot was way fast, Waddell didn't stand chance, other Ford teams got his cyl heads pronounced illegal, they couldn't figure it out nor even keep up with hid draft

Because the new GM Metric chassis was not understood and the body has aerodynamics of a turd, Nascar allowed the team to continue racing a 3 year old body style.. The Chevelle had a flat nose and the Oldsmobile had a more aerodynamic front end and so everyone that wanted to win switched to Oldsmobile. The 83 Monte Carlo SS was only good as a short track car but it was competitive against the 80 Ford Thunderbird which was a shoe box. The Thunderbird made the older body style obsolete. The Pontiac 82 Grand Prix was a better body style than the Monte Carlo..it was just using what ever was available. The rear end was cambered. You had to grease the drive flange because the axle was moving around in the housing. When Nascar figured it out they outlawed it. I thought Wadell Wilson was the engine builder not the Crew Chief..

Now you can't even touch the cars... The genius and improvisation of Nascar is dead. Its just dumbed down one make racing now. im glad everybody is ecstatic over the last finish but it was not a good race despite the close finish. Nascar is losing the little things that made it special

NASCAR used to be true Automotive craftsmanship, Now it's just cookie cutter garbage.

It was NOT faster than Bill Elliotts 1985 Thunderbird. Let’s be honest.

ELVIS

How can you talk about a car for 15 mins and not show any pics 😂

NASCAR is now so boring now! Cars all alike, too many rules, no competition, stupid stages, and a caution at ten-laps-remaining to bunch the field and get the preferred teams back into contention. I live 5 minutes from Charlotte Motor Speedway and NASCAR is not worth the drive.

These cookie cutter cars make fabricators and skilled Craftsmen obsolete

I thought this interview was about how Waddell made the gray ghost fast....NOT Jr. interrupting Waddell to tell about his car and how they did it....WTH!!

Jr needs to keep his mouth shut for five minutes and let waddle talk

NASCAR ruined NASCAR..