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Classic NASCAR Stories From The Shop | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Kenny Wallace Show,
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  brought to you by Jags, the leader in high performance
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  aftermarket car parts. Remember to go to jags.com for
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  everything you need to fix your hot rod up.
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  All right, it is a new year, 2025, and boy, it's going to be
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  a good one. 2024 was good to me though.
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  I'll remember 2024 is a great year for me, all right, but we
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  are looking forward now. So it's like show and tell right
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  here. We are going through the Ray
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  shop and everybody always says show me your shop, Herman.
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  All right, got a couple things here.
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  What is the deal with three? Why does everything always come
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  in threes? I got three pieces here, 2 that
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  you might have seen. Oh God, here I go again.
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  Seen or saw respond right here. I'm thinking of my old boss.
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  I'm I'm thinking of Steve Craddock right now.
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  I, I, he said, I don't like the way you used the word seen or
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  saw. It's got to have have the form
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  like stop me and Larry Matt Reynolds, we just talk.
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  All right, deal with it. You might have seen you might
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  have saw this piece on the Kenny conversation with Dale Junior.
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  Remember we talked about this and for all of you that don't
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  remember this piston Richie Gilmore gave me this and Richie
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  said this was Dale Junior's idea.
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  When Steve Park got hurt and I drove the number one Pennzoil
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  car back in 2002, thousand and one, I set QuickTime at at
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  Rockingham, Love Rockingham, Groovy Racetrack.
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  You're on the bottom on the middle, run the top.
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  But anyway, I set QuickTime and we had special qualifying
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  motives back then. So you qualified with the motor
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  and that was it. They took it out.
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  Well, they started a tradition at DEI dealer Norton
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  Incorporated and for Christmas or after I set QuickTime in that
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  car. This was one of the real
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  Pistons. So this piston, let me show it
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  to you a little better. So you see what it says right
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  there. All right, I'm going to read it
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  to you. For those of you that can't see
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  it says Pop Secret 400 pole winner Rockingham.
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  Kenny Wass. That's me baby.
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  November 4th, 2001. So there it is.
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  And what's interesting is this was the real piston.
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  You can see the weight of the piston #2 cylinder.
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  Check this area out right here. See that?
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  Got some marks on there. So this piston, we show this on
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  the Dale Earnhardt Junior Kenny conversation.
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  Sony, like just something that I'd leave in the shop here.
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  What a great positive memory. That's one thing I've learned
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  lately. And we're going to have some
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  Kenny coffee with Kenny's about positive mental attitude.
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  And when people meet me, why don't they bring up something
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  positive? When people meet me, they always
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  want to say, I remember when you repped.
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  Hey, I remember when you blew that motor, Mike.
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  OK, how about when I set QuickTime at Martinsville?
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  Yeah. And that trophies over there.
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  Actually, that's it. That's another show.
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  So we got pole trophy over there from Martinsville and man, my my
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  mind's just going that now you got me going.
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  OK. When we went to Texas Motor
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  Speedway 1997, the inaugural season gave us all a belt
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  buckle. Isn't this pretty cool?
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  So if you ran the very first race at Texas Motor Speedway
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  like I did, I. It just says I Texas Motor
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  Speedway inaugural season of Speed 1997.
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  Kenny Wallace. Pretty cool, huh?
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  So that lays around the shop here and love that.
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  All right, the real reason we're doing this, this is something
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  nobody has ever seen. This is something nobody has
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  never saw. Respond right here.
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  This is something nobody has never seen or saw.
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  Do you use the word seen or saw in this particular?
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  This is something nobody has never seen.
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  This is something nobody has ever saw.
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  What are you doing? I'm kicking my ass.
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  OK, 1994 Ernie Irwin gets hurt. Now remember they called me the
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  Super sub. For all of you kids that don't
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  know, they called me the Super sub.
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  I was just good enough that when anybody got hurt, they called me
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  and boy did I do good. That is what kept my career
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  going in NASCAR. Kenny Wallace, how did you run
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  905 races since you sucked? Well, to be honest, I was good
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  and just was never great. But Steve Parr got hurt, was set
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  quick time to run second in that race, that's another story.
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  Damn it run second got Joe Nemechek.
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  They short pitted and they came in for tires.
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  They got new tires and they kicked my ass and I came in
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  later on and I was catching and then they threw the check for
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  flag. All right, this is probably the
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  coolest piece I've ever ever been given as a as a as a gift.
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  All right, what is this everybody?
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  What is this? This is the right front brake
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  rotor off the number 28 Havilland Ford.
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  All right, how about that, huh? 1994 Ernie Irving gets hurt.
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  I drive the 28 Texaco Haviland car and I run forth at
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  Martinsville. I think that's why earlier I
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  said I said QuickTime at Martinsville and I did and that
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  trophies over there. So but check this out.
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  So when I ran forth at Martinsville, hell of a run for
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  me. New Year's came about and we're
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  around New Year's right now and that's why I am sharing this.
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  I believe it was Larry McReynolds.
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  Larry McReynolds and the team, they had a New Year's party.
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  They invited me and they, they gave me this as a gift.
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  This was the right front brake rotor and brake pads off the
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  car. And they were, they were so
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  impressed. I had always heard that Butch
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  Lindy was really good on brakes and brother Rusty taught me how
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  to run Martinsville. And don't you know Martinsville
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  was good for me. We've got 2 Xfinity wins there,
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  got a couple grandfather clocks. I love Martinsville.
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  Did I ever tell you that I like Martinsville?
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  So anyway, Martinsville was awesome for me.
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  And they were surprised that I had so much brake pad left on
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  the on the right front. And then this is the brake pad
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  off the the rear that is a lot of that is a lot of brake pad
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  even surprised to me. So let's get a close look here.
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  Here we are. Check it out everybody.
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  So it says Kenny Wallace, 4th place finish at Martinsville, VA
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  September 25th course 1994 and RYR that's Robert Yates racing.
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  OK, now I'm going to tell you some of the names on here that
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  really kind of blew my mind when you look back at all right,
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  first of all, for all of you tactical handling crew members
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  from 1994, Doug Yates. Wow, right here.
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  Look at this. There's Doug's name.
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  This baby ain't too light either.
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  So there's Doug right here where my thumb is.
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  Doug Yates. And then I think that's Lair.
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  I don't think that's Lair. McReynolds right there.
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  Ain't it? Right there.
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  Look at all these names. I'm going to go around the
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  corner here. I think that's Robert Yates
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  right there. OK, We're just going to spend
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  this thing. If you're a crew member, you see
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  your name on there from those awesome days.
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  Just, you know, tell me you see that's a great signature.
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  I know Looter was still a crew member there, but just pretty
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  cool. Oh, look at there, Raymond Fox
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  the third the kid Raymond. Look at there, buddy.
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  There you are. He's a good friend of mine.
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  This pretty awesome, right? Look at these names.
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  Is that Jeff Clark? I think that's Jeff Clark right
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  there. What a memory.
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  Hi, everybody. All right.
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  I think we made one big 360 and then of course, so 1994 OK,
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  let's go in order here. The brake rotors, 1994 the bolt
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  buckle, 1997, 2001. All right, everybody, hope you
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  enjoyed this little Kenny Wallace show.
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  A lot of people say, boy, Herman, you got a lot of stuff
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  going on. Want to thank you all.
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  We're super successful because of all of you.
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  I just bragged on myself. Well, hell, I'm not going to
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  feel guilty for working hard. The Kenny Wallace show are
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  things like this. Then you got coffee with Kenny
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  in the morning. That's just like, what's up?
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  And then, of course, Kenny conversation.
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  Well, we got some good Kenny conversations coming up in the
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  first month of 2025. Amy Earnhardt's coming on.
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  How about that Amy Earnhardt? Oh man, I'm a big fan of her
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  over there on the Dale Junior download when she talks about
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  Dale Junior secretly ordering candy.
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  So we've had Caitlin Larson on, we've had we've had some great
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  ladies on, but I'm looking forward to talking to Amy on an
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  art. All right, respond right here,
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  everybody. Is it seen or saw?
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  Are you at English Freak? Are you in?
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  Do you major in English? And it drives you nuts when I
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  use words in the wrong spot. Happy 2025 everybody.
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  Hope you enjoyed a little show and tell.