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How Ken Schrader Ended Up With J.D. McDuffie's Truck Then Returned It | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  He was all over the place. Happy.
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  What day is it, Kim? What day is it?
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  Thursday. What?
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  Yeah. Happy Thursday, everybody.
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  We are at Bailey Land. Look at this guy.
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  Look at this guy. All right, we're going to get
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  out of here. I don't want them hearing what I
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  got to say. We're going to stand in the
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  round rain. We're going to do coffee with
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  Kenny. All right, so Kenny and I just
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  went to Rockingham, and the story is amazing.
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  And Kenny's on his phone. Hey, this is perfect.
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  You come over here with me. All right, This is coffee with
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  Kenny Thursday morning. This is our dear friend John
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  Bailey, and we just went to Rockingham and the JD Mcduffie
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  team. Will you hold my coffee?
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  This is all about JD Mcduffie. So I got my JD Mcduffie shirt so
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  Dale Junior would love this. So the story goes is how far are
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  we from Michigan International Speedway right now?
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  15 minutes. John Bailey, everybody.
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  Bailey Excavating. You used to sponsor JD
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  Mcduffie's cars. Yes, yes, yes.
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  OK. Seven late 70s, early 80s.
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  Yeah, but you're he's one of the good ones.
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  John is one of us. He's got a beautiful family,
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  married, two kids. And so here's a story.
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  We're going. So Kenny Schrader saves.
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  No. Yeah.
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  But this is a good story. You might want to be here.
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  OK, so, so, so Kenny does the sport of service, in my opinion.
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  He buys up everybody's. He bought Dick Trickles old
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  hauler. Talking about how you all became
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  friends. Oh, yeah.
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  He bought Dick Trickles old hauler.
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  Then Kenny Schrader buys JD Mcduffie's old hauler.
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  He beat me out at the auction. OK, now this is where I want you
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  to take over. This is a story about JD
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  Mcduffie's hauler Kenny Schrader buys.
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  Kenny likes history. OK, So tell us what's standing
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  there. OK, tell us a story about Kenny
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  Schrader getting JD Mcduffie's hauler one of the whole deal.
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  So my dad bought the truck for JD when he was sponsoring him.
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  And when I went traveled with JD for about a year, that was my
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  job taking care of the truck and got lost after the accident at
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  Watkin Glen. And then Gene got it back and it
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  was in the shop. And then finally when she had
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  the auction in 94, I called the auctioneer and says I got to
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  have that truck. That was my job taking care of
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  that truck. I drove that truck to California
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  and I said, what do you think it'll bring?
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  And he says 3500 bucks. I says, well, so I got a
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  banknote for 7500 bucks. He put somebody in the crowd
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  because I couldn't be there. So I figured we were going to
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  get the truck and bring him home to Michigan and called him up
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  the next morning and said, did we get, oh, blue?
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  And he says, you're not going to believe this.
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  You're not going to believe this.
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  NASCAR superstar Kenny Schrader sent somebody down there and put
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  him in the crowd and said don't leave without that truck, he
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  says. And you're like, that's the son
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  of a. So now at this time, you don't
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  even know Kenny Schrader. No.
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  No, no. So what happens?
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  Do you make a phone call to Schrader?
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  Oh. I called down to Hendricks, I
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  says. OK, Schrader drive for Hendrick
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  at this time. No wonder Schrader had so much
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  money he drive for Hendrick. So I said I need to speak with
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  Kenny Schrader and he said, well, he comes in here about
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  once a day, but I'll give you his shop number.
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  So I called over his shop and he was on the road going to out
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  West for a late model race. Kenny always travelling.
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  And he stopped and called me back from some truck stop in
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  Texas and I said hey, I says I really need to have that truck.
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  And he says no, no. I've always hi Julie always want
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  hold on. This is his missus.
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  So we're doing coffee with Kenny on the on the story of how he
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  ended up getting J DS truck. So OK, Schrader's out on the
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  going off the West Coast. He he calls you.
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  From truck stop before cell phones.
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  He says no, I've always wanted that truck.
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  He says so. Annie, we're tell.
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  We're telling the story of how he ended up with the truck.
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  It's a good, it's a good story. We got a lot of Dr. Bys so.
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  So that then we became friends and he still didn't want to get
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  rid of the truck. And then he called me up one day
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  and said he says I got Daddy's tow truck back.
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  I got Daddy's tow truck back his.
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  Dad's Bill, Bill Schrader. So Kenny, that was a big deal.
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  He got Bill Schrader, his father's tow truck, back.
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  OK. And he says, I know what old
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  blue means to you, come and get it.
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  I had to buy it but. Yeah, but Schrader's always
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  going to do things with heart and and fairness.
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  He picked us up into the airport, give us a car to drive.
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  Got us. Yeah, We sent a wrecker after
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  it. It didn't have any breaks.
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  Never. Never had any.
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  Breaks What do you think your dad paid?
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  So your dad was the original owner of JD Mcduffie's Holler.
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  What do you think your father paid for?
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  That about 7500 bucks. I'll be darned.
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  Yeah, but it was only, you know, it was only 5 or 6 years old
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  then. Yeah.
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  Right. OK, so John, thank you.
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  John Bailey, his wife Julie, the kids and.
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  And by the way, pure. Pure everything in Michigan.
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  You know, you come in the state of Michigan and you see pure and
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  your boys tell me that pure means your weather's crazy.
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  What does pure mean? No that.
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  What is that used to be? Before it was UNION 76, it was
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  pure. But OK, but when you come in the
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  state of Michigan, when, when you're on the road.
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  That's Pure Michigan, yeah. What does that mean?
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  What does pure mean? You don't know?
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  Not really. Sure.
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  He's like us. It's pure.
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  It's pure. It clean, baby.
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  OK, so if you don't mind, we're going to roll in there real
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  quick. Tell me you don't got to go with
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  me so much that I want to roll in there.
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  I want to look at this red JD Mcduffie Pontiac that you have.
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  What's the story behind that Pontiac?
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  So that was the car he drove two months before he died at Watkins
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  Glen. I'm sorry.
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  And some guy in a Square D car was lapping him on lap 264.
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  And how do you remember that? And got into the back of it and
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  knocked him out of the race and. Hold on, are you kidding?
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  I wrecked JD. Well, he's probably on your way.
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  Oh my God, I feel horrible. That's what you were trying to
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  tell me last night. That's why I sent you the
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  picture on the robot. You can watch it on YouTube.
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  Dear Lord, please forgive me my sins.
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  I love you. OK?
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  So hold on now. I want all of you to play along.
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  Respond right here so we can go on YouTube right now.
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  Can you watch you watch me getting into JD?
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  LEP 264. At Watkins Lane.
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  No at. Dover at Dover at Dover.
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  Oh I am so sorry man. I I should have?
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  You were going twice as fast. I should have had better control
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  of my car. You.
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  Were going twice as fast. He was just he was saving his
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  tires. Yeah, well, we all love JD
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  because he was right there, you know, with the original, what
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  did we call those race car drivers?
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  Independence. Independence where they they
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  could say, hey, I can run 10th, I'm going to lose money if we
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  run 20th and we don't put on a couple sets of tires, we're
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  going to make money today. Or wear the motor out.
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  Or other motor outs. So back then, independents raced
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  for a living. Great story Kyle Petty tells me.
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  Kyle Petty says Diddy, that's what they call their dads down
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  South. Diddy said, run these leaf
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  springs over to Buddy Arrington. Kyle Petty says, I take these
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  used parts over to Buddy Arrington's house and he's got
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  this. Kyle says it looked like a
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  mansion to him. He said that that day, Kyle
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  Petty said that dawned on me. We were racing for a living and
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  we were broke. The independents were racing for
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  a real living, you know? Yeah, winner, winners.
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  Here's the bottom line there. Winners spend all their money on
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  winning and they're broke. Independents were smarter.
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  They they're like, OK, we could win, but we got we got family.
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  We got to feed. Do you agree with that?
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  Yeah, that's exactly right. I lived with him on and off for
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  about a year and it was. That's the way it was.
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  That's the way it was. Wow, that's pretty heartfelt,
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  everybody. OK, we're going to end this
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  video by just going inside and doing a 360 of the great JD
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  Mcduffie's car. And John, we love you.
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  So that car was bought at the same auction that the truck was
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  bought at, and it went to Texas and got put back together and it
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  was in a Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant.
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  I'm hanging. From the ceiling.
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  That's amazing how that great stuff just gets lost.
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  And a friend of mine, Dean Richardson, we found it on
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  Craigslist and he went down and got it.
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  Wow. OK, we're going to end like
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  this. Everybody, it's time to go eat.
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  We're going to do a great America.
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  We're going to go do a quick 360.
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  We're doing a we just had a great story.
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  Kim, say hello. We're going to eat lunch.
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  But here it is. Everybody look at this and you
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  know, the seats back in those days, as we all know that that
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  was Earnhardt made that seat famous.
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  Wasn't that often like an old Ford Mustang?
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  What those seats like? Old.
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  Yeah. So.
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  So this seat originated from a Ford, and Earnhardt was famous
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  for those. That's the seat that they all
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  ran back in the day. That was the seat that JD drove
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  in. That's the seat.
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  Here's where the cables hung up from the ceiling.
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  Oh my God. Well, at least it's still there.
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  It's going on old blue. You're going to put this on old
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  blue where is old. Blue down the street.
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  I'll be damned. OK, well, we got to go eat.
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  Let's do a quick 360 here. Some really good stuff.
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  JD look at that. Is that Schrader?
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  No, that's Finland, that was. A Schrader.
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  Car. Yeah.
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  All right, we're going. We're going.
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  Let's go. OK, everybody, I hope you
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  enjoyed this. And the Baileys are wonderful
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  people. What a great story about the
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  legendary JD Mcduffie. Have a great Thursday.