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Bob Harris On Building Race Cars, Old School Dirt Stories & The Famous Harris Clash | Kenny Conversation · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to Kenny.
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  You're looking at him one of the greatest chassis builders of all
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  time and and I don't use the word great lightly, the great
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  Bob Harris. Bob, how you doing?
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  I'm doing good, Kenny. Everything's been good.
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  Can't complain whatsoever. It's a beautiful day today.
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  T-shirt weather wasn't raining finally, so life's good.
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  You know, I want to brag on you for a little bit and I want the
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  audience to know this. You know, I'm 62 in August and
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  you're getting up there too. You are up to date with
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  technology. And I just think that's awesome.
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  I mean, you logged right on and you got right on Kenny
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  conversation. Usually we got to tell everybody
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  what to do. But man, you are really up with
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  technology and we're going to talk about that.
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  But how'd you how'd you learn all the technology?
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  Did you did you just stay up? Just tried trying to keep up
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  with it, you know, Of course, Chad Weirs and I do a show every
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  other week. It's called Speed Tips with Bob
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  and Chad. So I've learned quite a bit with
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  that and I just like keeping up with stuff.
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  Yeah, you're really good at it, and that's why you're
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  successful. All right, let's talk about this
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  first and then I want to talk about you.
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  The Harris Clash. This legendary race that you put
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  on is coming up June 24th at Boone, IA.
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  I'm just going to let you go. I don't want to tell everybody
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  everything, but tell me about this legendary Harris Clash.
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  Well, it's a race that, you know, we started back in 1992.
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  It was just a race basically to reward the, the fans or the, the
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  racers that had won races at specific race tracks.
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  Well, then as we evolved, you know, we started taking it to
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  different places and then we ended up going to Knoxville and
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  we raced at Knoxville quite a quite a bit.
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  And now it's kind of a neat deal because it was an open deal.
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  Nobody raced Knoxville, so there wasn't a local favorite or
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  anything like that. So that worked out really well
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  and we had a lot of fun there. And it's just evolved since
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  then. We've been doing it for 34
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  years. We've been at Deer Creek the
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  last few years. That racetrack is an awesome
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  facility. I mean, it's, it's just a great
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  deal. But we got to the point where we
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  kind of needed to move it back to Iowa, get it more in, in the
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  heartbeat of IMCA World and Boone Speedway.
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  I mean, there's, I don't know, there's a lot of racers and a
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  lot of fans within 100 miles of Boone Speedway.
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  Boy, it really is. Boone is so legendary.
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  All those race tracks you just said, but but Boone is the one.
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  I mean, to me, that's a modified IMCA Capital of the world.
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  It seems like. I want to brag on you and I want
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  you to talk about this. The Harris Clash is 34 years old
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  and it is the oldest one day event in racing.
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  That's incredible. How have you been able to keep
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  this event going so long, so strong?
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  You know, it's just, it's something that I've had in my
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  heart. It's something that you know, we
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  put on for the racers. You know, it's a situation where
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  we try to put together and get enough sponsors and enough
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  support that these guys can come run a one day show and get paid
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  a lot, a a pretty good chunk of money.
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  And the racers have supported this deal all along.
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  I mean, it's it's been it's been wonderful.
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  And once again, like I said, you know, we get them in there, we
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  get them out of there. You know, a lot of these big
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  paying shows are two day deal. Well, that's an expense to the
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  racer, You know, and, and I just these guys got enough expenses,
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  we got to figure out ways to cut some of their expenses.
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  And so keeping it a one day show, I think it's been part of
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  the success. It sure is nice to hear somebody
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  that knows about the sport, understand it and then implement
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  it. You know, we hear a lot of
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  promoters talk about the expenses, but to actually
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  implement it like you are, I want to thank you for keeping it
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  in a one day event, making it a legendary race.
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  So I told my dear friend and yours, Kenny Schrader.
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  I said Schrader, I'm going to have a Kenny conversation with
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  Bob Harris. And to this day, Kenny Schrader
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  is a NASCAR great. He he's ran Daytona, he's ran
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  the Darlington Southern 501 of his favorite races.
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  Is that Harris clash? Can you tell me some of your
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  memories with Kenny Schrader Racing in your Harris clash?
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  Well, he, he, he, he ran a lot of the races at Knoxville and,
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  and, and the one I mean, we had, we had a good car for him.
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  You know, the car was pretty new and, and, and it was just it, it
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  was just good. And so we went to Knoxville and
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  he qualified goods. So he started, I think he
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  started like third row and didn't take him long to get in
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  the lead and he led that thing till the white flag lap.
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  They put the white flag out. He went down into Turn 1 and
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  broke the pan art bar and got him up in the in the marbles.
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  And that was such a sad situation because he was going
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  to win the Harris Flash. Yeah.
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  So he was kind of bummed about that.
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  And he still is. He told me he told me on he told
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  me a little bit of goat that he he is bummed out about that.
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  It is it is amazing that NASCAR drivers, you know, they they
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  race at the highest form and Kenny Schrader's won a truck
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  race, an Xfinity race, a cup race and here, here the one that
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  haunts him is that Harris clash at at that legendary Knoxville.
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  So everybody listen up. Remember, just a reminder here,
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  it's coming up June 24th, the Harris clash at Boone, IA.
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  It's a one day event and tell me some of your highlights, some of
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  your memories. Who's the winners?
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  What finishes stick out to you besides the Kenny Schrader
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  stuff? Well, you know, Kelly Shireck
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  won it twice, you know, and, and, and both times when he was
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  when he won it, he was working for me.
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  So that was pretty cool. Kyle Stricker won it
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  back-to-back and and that was pretty neat.
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  We've just had a lot of great winners, but nobody has ever won
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  that race three times. Wow, in 34 years, nobody's won
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  it three times. We've got some two time winners,
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  but you know, Tom Berry and Cam Rhymers were were two time
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  winners last year at at Deer Creek.
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  So I mean it's just it's it's not over until it's over.
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  I mean, it's just an awesome race.
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  And this year we've added stock cars besides the sport mods.
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  So that's going to be a pretty cool deal.
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  We're going to change the format up a little bit.
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  We're going to run the stock cars first.
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  They'll be first in the order and then the sport mods and then
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  the modifieds. And from what my experience have
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  been by watching races at Boone, the stock cars, when the
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  racetrack gets kind of wore in a little bit, they tend to be a
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  little more bottom features. And so then the show's not, you
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  know, I mean, it's still a good show, but it's kind of a bumper
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  car type deal. So I want to run them first so
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  that they will have a top and a bottom and be able to put on a
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  good races, you know, good races for the fans and good races for
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  the competitors. The sport mods, they're pretty
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  capable of running top and bottom no matter what the
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  conditions are. And, and the modifieds, of
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  course, they can run anywhere. I mean, the last weekend it was
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  an awesome show. I I tell you what, they, they,
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  they've really done a great job with the racetrack this year
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  and, and the racing's just been phenomenal.
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  Yeah. All right, everybody, once
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  again, June 24th, Boone, IA, the hairs clash.
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  And I will say this about Boone. They got the best track prep in
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  the world, man. They can, they can get it done
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  in a heartbeat. So you're never, ever at Boone
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  going to run on a rub it up track.
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  And I think that goes a long way for such a big event.
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  OK, Bob, it's time for us to take a deep breath and I want to
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  celebrate you. Let's change subjects.
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  OK. You are world known for Harris
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  race cars, you know, years not years ago, but a little bit ago,
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  you know, you, you built framing cages, you built race cars and
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  those things would win everywhere all the time.
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  Tell me and and your fans out there what is happened to the
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  Harris race cars and what you're up to now.
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  Well, you know, the we started building race cars probably.
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  Well, I started business in 1980 when they quit racing.
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  I raced for three years and kind of come to the conclusion every
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  time I put a driver in my car, we did better.
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  So it didn't take too much. It didn't take too long for me
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  to figure out I was making more money paying the driver than I
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  was doing it myself. And so then I started in
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  business and we started doing sheet metal and stuff like that.
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  Well, then we got into building race cars and I think we build
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  our first modified in 1986. And you know, we just, I just
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  enjoy it. I enjoyed building them and, and
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  I really enjoyed it. It was just one of those
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  situations where time had went on and, and, and a guy offered
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  me a situation that that where I could go to work for him and he
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  would own the company and, and it was a pretty good deal.
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  So I chose to do that. And then that kind of worked out
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  sort of OK, not exactly like it. You know, it's just like
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  everything when you're used to running the company and then
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  somebody else is running the company, you know it it.
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  You're going to butt heads. You have different ideas.
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  You know, you, you, you and, and it's not their fault.
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  I mean, a lot of it was my fault because I'm just used to doing
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  things a certain way. And so then I kind of got out of
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  it. Well, then we decided to get
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  back into it. And actually Joe Garrison, who's
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  a good friend of mine, he, his product was very similar to mine
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  and his theories were very similar to mine.
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  And so him and I got together and we started selling Joe's
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  cars, the TRT cars, and that was real successful.
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  You know, nothing big. I mean, when I owned Hair Solder
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  Racing, we were building 120 cars a year and, and now, you
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  know, we do probably somewhere between 15 and 20 and it's just
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  a lot more, a lot scaled back. I, I had at one time I had 22
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  employees and, and now I have 7. And, and so, and, and then we
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  got into the shock business and the shock business is really
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  good. My son Bobby takes care of that
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  pretty much him and Braden, they're the two shock guys and
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  the, the shock deals nationwide. We've got customers all over on
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  the shock thing and and that works really well.
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  One thing I learned, and I wanted to talk about it is my
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  CPA account. His name's Ashok.
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  He's from India. And I would say to him, I'm
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  like, it's time for me to downsize.
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  And he would say, no, my friend, it's you're right sizing.
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  So you're telling me that things are right now?
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  Yeah. 120 cars a year. That sounds really good.
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  But I'll bet that's a lot of work, isn't it?
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  Oh, man, I'll tell you, you know, and, and just, and you
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  were really kind of on the verge of whether you were really
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  making decent money or not, because sometimes, you know, you
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  got caught in that profitability deal because you're trying to
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  pump out too much. But you know, the demand was
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  there. And so we just tried to keep up
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  with the demand And, and it isn't it, it got to me.
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  I mean, it was just just too much.
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  You know, I admire you and I admire anybody that can build
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  race cars, but I look at the great Ed Howe and his son Chaz
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  is kind of I would compare you to because they are so big in
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  asphalt parts. You know, they build some
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  specialty cars, Rd. course cars, but do you find making parts,
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  building shocks, do you feel that's a little more rewarding
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  because you can specialize a little more?
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  I just see a similarity in both of you now.
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  Yeah, you, you definitely can. And then you open yourself up to
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  a whole lot wider market, you know, so, you know, like with
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  the shock business, I mean, you know, we've got all kinds of
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  chassis brands that run, run our shocks and, and so it, it opens
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  it up, you know, and, and we're really good about keeping
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  private information private. I mean, you know, somebody gets
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  their stuff from us. We don't advertise it.
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  We don't tell people, well, Joe's running this or whatever.
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  We keep that that's confidential and that works really well.
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  But like, you know, we've got all kinds and, and you know, our
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  bases IMCA stuff, but you know, we've got some of the soda
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  stuff, we've got some UMP stuff, you know, so it, it's pretty
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  broad. So if I'm going to get shocks
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  from you, Bob harrisenterprise.com and what,
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  what does the shock look like? What is the name?
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  How can I see one of your shocks?
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  Like what kind of decals on it? It's it's our BHE decal that's
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  on it. Your hat.
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  OK, that's the logo. That's the logo.
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  And we, we build Afco's, we build Bill stains, we build
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  Penske's and we build Jr. is and we do some Integra stuff and we
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  do a lot of repair, shock repair on other brands.
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  I must say that BHE logo is very famous.
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  Bob it it's it's out there, it's out there.
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  You know, one thing I want to touch on, you know, I'm a racer
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  and I race every week. There is a lot to hey, I
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  appreciate you guys building my shocks, you know, because it's
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  hard on me. It's complicated.
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  There's a lot of shims and oils and valves, but yet I like it
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  that you brought up. When a driver starts a
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  relationship with your company, you don't share that shock
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  valving with anybody else. Is that hard to do or you just,
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  you just know that's the heart of your business, keeping that
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  driver's information well? And see, the thing of it is in,
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  in the way we do our business is like if you bought a set of
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  shocks for me, I'll sell you a set of shocks, which I think
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  would be the best possible set of shocks for you and your UMP
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  car. OK, You get these shocks and you
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  run in a couple weeks or whatever, three weeks, whatever
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  the case is. And then you call and you say,
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  you know, Bob, I, I needed to get on the right front a little
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  sooner. It just doesn't seem like it
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  wants to get on the right front as soon as I would like it to.
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  OK, well, send me that shock back.
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  We'll soften the valve on the compression side.
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  And now all of a sudden, see, that's your shock.
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  That's not a generic shock that anybody else has because we tune
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  it to you and your needs. I like that.
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  That's good stuff. All right, there you go,
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  everybody. Bob harrisenterprise.com Shocks
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  is a big business for him right now.
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  All in the all in the family. You mentioned your boy and
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  somebody else and. My daughter runs the office.
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  I love this. This is great.
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  So yeah, we it's it's kind of a family affair.
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  Switching subjects, you've created this heartfelt
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  relationship with Chad Weirs. I want to bring Chad up because
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  when my Big Brother, Rusty Wallace would race in Milwaukee,
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  I remember seeing AU sack stock car sponsored by Weir's
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  Chevrolet. And I'll be darned if it wasn't
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  all these years later, somehow myself and Chad, we had each
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  other's phone number and Chad would start texting me pictures
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  of lacrosse, you know, vintage racing day.
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  And I'm like, Chad, I know this sounds crazy, but your, your
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  dad. Did you guys have a Chevrolet
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  dealership at one time? And it's really cool to see
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  Chad, is what I'm saying. The son, sure.
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  How did you and him? I guess a likely pair, but
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  unlikely pair. How did you and Chad become such
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  good friends? You know, just over the years,
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  you know, we, we bought a lot of his products and Chad originally
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  was a relatively shy guy. Yeah, I didn't, didn't talk a
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  whole lot and stuff. So I convinced him into do
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  because I do in the winter time, I do chassis schools.
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  And so I convinced him into doing a chassis school with me.
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  And he's like, oh man, I don't talk that much.
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  I don't, you know, I'm like, trust me, I'll lead you in.
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  You'll be just fine. And heck, he's been doing
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  chassis schools with me for, I would say 12 years or so.
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  I mean, I, I don't, I'm kind of getting to that point where at
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  this age, I don't, I don't know, exact dates on stuff.
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  It's like it's just been a while.
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  And so we just got to be good friends and, and I promote his
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  product very well because I believe in it and, and I believe
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  in what he stands for and the American made stuff and, and we
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  just got to be good friends. And now we'd, like I said we'd
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  do that show every other Monday night on Facebook.
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  That's speed tips by Bob and Chad.
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  And we, we started that during the COVID season because of
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  course, you know, you, you couldn't see nobody.
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  You had no way of getting a hold of people.
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  So we started that deal and as it's just been successful and we
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  just answer questions, give people Technical Support, you
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  know, we get some guests on there.
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  In fact, we really need to get you on there and talk about what
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  you're doing. And so, you know, it's been
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  pretty neat and it's just been a lot of fun.
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  And him and I are just good friends.
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  That is a pair made in heaven. One thing I do like about Chad
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  is he compliments people. When you go through Chad's, you
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  know, folder, his his magazine, if there's a part that is
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  different, he'll say, you know, Bob Harris inspired, you know,
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  Nick Hoffman inspired, David Stremi inspired.
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  Have you and Chad, you know, on your side?
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  Do you have a part or piece in his magazine that you inspired
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  that you're proud of? I wouldn't say that I have one
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  specific piece, but we have a lot of pieces that I feel we
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  contributed to updates and, you know, or he'll send me a part.
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  Try this. Tell me what you think.
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  You know. So we do a lot of experimenting
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  for him and I kind of like to run under the radar.
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  I mean, I don't, I don't, you know, fame is not something
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  that's a big deal to me. So if if we can make something
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  better for the racer, that's what it's all about.
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  They're the guys that are paying our bill.
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  But this what we're doing right now, this is a good thing in our
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  sport. I think getting information out
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  there and, and let's change subject again and, and let's end
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  like this. We, we got 9 minutes left or so.
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  We wanted to do a half hour conversation with you, Bob and,
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  and I appreciate your time. I want to talk about IMCA right
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  now, every IMCA racer and what I know about IMCA and Brett Root
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  and I've run plenty IMCA races. The IMCA modified.
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  That division is meant for a man that goes to work but yet loves
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  racing, wants to compete at a high level.
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  How do you see IMCA today? How was it doing financially?
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  Are are the cars out of hand? What do you think of IMCA today
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  compared to 40 years ago or more?
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  Well, I think they have done an exceptional job at keeping the
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  relative cost down. And what I mean by relative, I
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  mean face the facts. I mean, it's just like a Big Mac
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  at McDonald's costs a lot more than it used to.
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  And so costs are going to go up. But I think they've done a real
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  good job with it. You know, their tire rule, you
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  know, I'm not a huge fan of the particular tire that they run,
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  but everybody runs on the same tire and we make it work.
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  But the sports growing, I mean, you know, they're, they're doing
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  quite a few specials now and, and some of the specials are
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  starting to pay well. And it's like the Harris class
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  modified deal, you know, whoever wins, that's going to be 4 grand
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  and it's $250 to start. So they're, they're quite a few
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  racers that are doing that and some of them are picking and
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  choosing, you know, some of them are IMCA started more, more like
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  a weekly deal. And, and, and I think weekly is
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  good to a point. Now I like the idea that there's
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  some specials out there that you can go because, you know, the
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  weekly grind sometimes can get, you know, you've got family,
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  you've got softball games, you've got baseball games, you
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  just got stuff to do. And so I think they have went in
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  a great direction. I, I think they're growing.
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  I, I think they're doing an awesome job.
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  You know, Brett's doing a good job with their tech support and
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  stuff. You know, they, I think they do
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  an awesome job. Yeah, and I do too.
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  I wanted, I wanted to give you the platform.
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  I think I am CA is the best division in the world.
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  And by the way, everybody a little known fact I am CA is the
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  longest, oldest running association in America, far
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  older than than than NASCAR. So I think they're doing a great
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  job. Just a little bit more the the
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  racer in me, Bob, this is the racer coming out of me.
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  Sure. We all know that they kept the
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  stock front clip because they did not want geometry to get out
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  of hand financially. They wanted to keep, you know,
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  front geometry intact. So we, we've gone through all
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  the front clips and now you can buy front clips and then you got
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  to have them, you know, welded together.
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  Do you ever see in your heart of all hearts and your brain of all
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  brains? Do you ever see an affordable
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  front clip being built out of normal tubing?
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  I don't see that happening. There's a certain amount of
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  illusion that we have to put in perspective to these cars.
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  You know, if we made it out of a tube front clip, then what
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  difference would it be between that and a late model car?
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  So now from a manufacturer's standpoint, yeah, I'm all about
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  a tube clip. But the illusion is we would
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  lose the actual modified identity if we did that.
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  You know, I've always wanted to talk about this with somebody
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  that's seen it all and you've seen it all when I race at
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  Volusia, you know, for the dirt Car Nationals and I live in
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  Saint Louis, so UMP is my jam. And when my high end engineer
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  friends come from NASCAR and they want to see my car, I say
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  come to the back first 'cause if I take them to the front of my
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  modified, they're like, Oh my God, it's, it's a car front
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  clip. I'm like, yeah, they keep it
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  like this to, you know, try to keep the cost down.
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  And I've never heard anybody put it your way.
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  I want to commend you. You've really changed my mind on
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  this sometimes illusion. You're right.
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  We, we don't have any business competing with super late
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  models, do we? No, I mean, that's their
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  division. They get to do what they want to
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  do. That's their rules.
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  Don't mess with our modifieds because how many cars do they
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  have and how many modifieds do we have?
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  You know that and and let's end like this because I tell
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  everybody they're like, tell me about them modifieds.
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  You know, like they're trying to talk bad about the modifieds and
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  I rebelled because sometimes I'm a little defensive and I said,
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  well, let me tell you about modifieds.
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  They're the largest car count of race car in America.
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  So. They do they doing something
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  right, ain't they, Bob? Yeah, yeah.
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  So, I mean, it would, it would be, you know, I, I know people
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  have tried that idea that tube clip, but it, it, it, it would
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  just be a big mistake. OK everybody, I'm sure we could
• 27:29
  celebrate Bob in a three-part series.
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  There's much more to that man. But right now it's June 27th,
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  the Harris clash. 24th. 24th thank you so much.
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  The Harris Clash on June 24th, The Harris Clash on June 24th,
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  We say it two times and it is the oldest one day event.
• 27:53
  It's 34 years old, so make sure. So what do we do?
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  Just go to harrisclash.com for tickets, Bob.
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  Actually, you need to go to boonespeedwaywhichitsraceboone.com
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  and then it's also going to be on IMCATV.
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  For those who are way out of state and can't come, you can
• 28:15
  still log on to imca.tv and watch it live streaming on
• 28:21
  there. They do an awesome job.
• 28:23
  They put on a good show. A lot of times I'll stay home
• 28:28
  and watch the streaming if I just don't feel like going to
• 28:31
  the races some nights. And I only live 30 and I only
• 28:34
  live 36 minutes from the racetrack. 36, That's my number.
• 28:38
  How old are you now, Bob? You're, you're acting like
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  you're old. You look good though.
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  I'm 71. Oh man, you.
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  You I'm a year older. I'm a year older than my buddy.
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  Oh, my God, we're not. We're not going to date this
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  show because we want to, you know, go over the next month.
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  But yes, Kenny Schrader will be 70 years old when this airs, and
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  that is a big thing. And all right, everybody listen
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  up. Want to thank you, Bob Harris
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  for coming on any conversation. And remember, you'll see this on
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  the Kenny Wallace YouTube show. And we appreciate you, Bob.
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  Anything else to say? Thanks for having me on.
• 29:19
  I appreciate it. It's an honor to be on a show.
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  I mean people like Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt, Junior, Kenny
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  Schrader, I mean the list goes on and on and on of the people
• 29:29
  that you have. Had well, we're friends with all
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  of them because we love racing. What one thing we share in
• 29:35
  common Bob we've got an Infinity love.
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  Our love is deep for racing and all right everybody.
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  That's it. Until the next Kenny
• 29:44
  conversation. We'll see you next time.
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  Goodbye everybody.