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Rodney Combs On The Diecast Industry | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone, and welcome in. And boy, do we have a special
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  show for you today. There he is, the great Rodney
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  Combs. And Rodney, how are you doing,
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  my friend? Man, I'm doing great and getting
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  to do this with you. This is just special, very
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  special for me. We've been friends for a long,
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  long time, all of the Wallace family.
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  Well, I appreciate you, Rodney. All right, everybody.
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  Today's quick little show is about Rodney's company, ADC
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  American Die Cast Company. But before we do that, we got to
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  remind you all, not just is Rodney Combs a NASCAR driver,
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  but you're looking at one of the greatest dirt Super Late Model
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  racers of all time, the 198019911992 Hillbilly 100
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  winner. And not just that, the great
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  Rodney Combs is in the National Dirt Late Mall Hall of Fame,
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  inducted in 2001. Rodney, we're going to do
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  another show on you another day. Your accomplishments, I'm
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  getting goosebumps. Your accomplishments are unreal.
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  But tell me what you're doing nowadays with ADC.
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  Well Kenny, it's a the greatest thing I've been involved with.
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  In 2002, Edge Free and myself got together and wanted to come
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  up with die cast at the short track guys all over the country,
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  including New New Mexico, Canada, Australia, everywhere.
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  And we hit a little modified back then was a little IMCA car.
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  Now they've got such beautiful bodies.
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  They look like late models or just a trickish looking thing
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  that there is. And I think you might have the
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  first one prototype that we're going to be doing on Kenny
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  Wallace. Yes.
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  And Rodney, thank you. Yeah, and we hope There it is.
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  There it is. That's the new mod from American
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  Die Cast that we've worked very hard on to get that thing to
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  look like what they do now with the chassis, the body, the side
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  of it, the nose and all totally redone.
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  And a lot of a lot of work, a lot of time, lot of money.
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  And we just can't wait to get them out across the country.
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  And we'll be, you know, later on letting people know when they're
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  going to be available. Mr. Kenny Wallace there will
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  have the very first one and then it'll be a lot of other guys, a
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  lot of late model guys has got them and and even I mean the
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  mods is everywhere. They will actually be.
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  I don't think we'll have that one done, but Kenny might have
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  it there at the Dome. And but far as ADC, we did so
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  much with the late models that you see here.
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  These is this very special to us and these is all the big dolls
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  that wins all the all the races and but the modified's our main
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  thing and just, you know, can't wait to, you know, to be able to
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  get it out to everybody. And it's just such a project
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  that we went through. Alex worked very hard with China
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  to make this thing happen and it just it just turned out so nice.
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  And my first thing, I wanted Kenny Wallace to have the first
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  one. And you love your modified dirt
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  racing, even though you're a retired guy.
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  And one other thing I love that hat, my buddy Blue, you know?
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  Hot shoe, my buddy baby. Yeah.
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  Hot shoe. Gary Blue.
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  Hey, let me. I don't know how many years old
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  this is, you know, I don't know how many years old that hat is.
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  You. Know got the 36 on it back
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  there. Got the 36 on it.
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  Yeah. I mean, far, you know, far as
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  everything we done and wanting this thing to, you know, it's
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  done in America, it's done in Valencia, PA and so all the
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  finished work is done there. And you know, we're just proud
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  of our company and our 6-7 that all makes this happen.
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  And the girls puts everything together, put some decals on
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  them. Kathy takes care of everything
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  from the shipping, everything. You know Katie, Katie's a head
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  dog. Ed's laid, laid back off of it
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  she takes. Care of it Let me interrupt you.
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  When I rub my fingers on this beautiful metal die cast, I
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  don't feel decals and I I mean this is quality stuff like like
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  when I'm rubbing right here. God, this is high quality all
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  metal. Yeah, all metal, all this
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  chassis, all the rear end, all the bars.
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  It's just like they race it, you know, it's, it's not just a,
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  it's not just a toy. It's a true die cast.
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  It's first class. And that's how our company runs.
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  We want it to be 110% and they are very particular on getting
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  them things to be 110%. And that thing's just, it's just
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  badass. I mean, we were so happy to
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  finally get that thing in the building, you know?
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  So the mods are the largest car, even though they're the 3rd or
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  4th, the vision down, the UMP modifieds all the modifieds,
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  Rodney, They are the largest car count.
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  This car right here is the largest car count of race car in
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  America. I'm sure your company, ADC,
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  American die cast company, I'm sure you took that into
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  consideration. Oh, yeah, that, that's why when
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  we, when we first did O3O4, we had the little IMCA cars and the
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  late models and that the little, you know, modified basically
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  almost outsold. Damn.
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  And now Kenny, I think there's more, you know, out of the
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  modified all over the country more than late models because
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  they're very little bit easier to take care of, little bit
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  cheaper to race. And the Late Models has got
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  very, very high tech and a ton of money to race One.
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  These little things you can put on that little open trailer
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  pickup truck, go down the road and win race for $5000 or three,
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  you know? Yep.
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  I There we go. Oh, you.
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  Put them on your shelf, right, everybody?
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  We put them on our shelves just like.
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  They're there it is. OK, Rodney.
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  We can't wait for the people to get them and put them on their
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  shelf. You know they'll be available
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  shortly. Right.
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  So your people wanted me to, wanted everybody to know,
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  listen, these are not mass produced toys.
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  They're authentic, collectible scale race cars built by the
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  people who love racing as much as the fans who collect them.
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  So let's wrap it up. Rodney, this is a quick little
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  reminder. Christmas is around the corner.
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  When will the modifieds be out? If if people want those late
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  models right there, how do we work?
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  They can. Start getting, you know, they
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  can start getting to ADC and get, you know, get get with us
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  get maybe their favorite driver, maybe their drivers can know
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  this is happening. They can get a hold of us to get
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  in line, you know, because it's going to be a big line and I
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  don't want to say right now it will be December, but I'm sure
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  it's going to be January at the latest.
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  These things will start flying out the out of the shop.
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  OK, everybody look right here, right there, There it is.
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  American Die Cast company.com. Check it out and order what you
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  want at americandiecastcompany.com.
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  And yeah, all right, there is the great Rodney Combs.
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  If everybody wants to know what Rodney's doing, that's what he's
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  doing. And we'll do an in depth
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  celebration of your career at a later date.
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  But thank you so much my friend. No, man, I you don't know how
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  much we appreciate it at ADC and myself.
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  You know, like say longtime friends and sometimes you don't
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  burn bridges. You got friends.
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  And I know the whole Wallace family.
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  I raced with everyone of them and it was the greatest.
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  I don't think any of us ever got together with all the we did in
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  40 something years. Love you, Rodney.
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  All right? Love you.
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  Buddy. Until the next whatever we do
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  next, we'll see you next time, all.
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  Right, man, I'll be glad to. I'll be waiting.
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  Take care, everybody. Thanks.