This is awesome! They should do a semi-regular segment and bring in unknown/ lesser known guys for bite size stories like this!

Ingenuity at it's finest. To have had this hotter-than-a-$4-pistol illegal AF but brilliant piece of masterful craftsmanship stored in this engineer's home loft since 1992 only to be given to Dale Jr after he said he wanted it, is like having Smoky Yunick point a crooked finger at you, givin' you a sly wink, and lettin' you run wild through the Best Damn Garage in Daytona to take anything you want. Jr is definitely stepping between the raindrops.

Dale, Mike, Matt PLEASE have more guys like this!!! This is fantastic

My favorite line..."They aint smart nuff to figure it out" ...meaning Nascar Inspection! They were right!

I used to work for Dean and I saw this deck lid in the barn everyday. I can assure you he has WAY more stories like this to tell. He worked Leo Jackson in the '90s, Dave Marcis in the '80s and has been in racing forever.

It would be super cool if Dale took an early 90s gen 4 car, put a decklid like this on it, steel shot in the roll bars, nitrous under the seat, and all the other cheated out stuff that his guest have told him. Then give it a cool ass Dirty Mo paint scheme and kinda have it taken around to different racing venues or a museum as somewhat of a history lesson for fans as to how Ingenuity used to be done.

This was an incredible little segment. “Cheating” stories has been my favorite thing from these podcasts with guys from previous generations, so hearing one from someone who worked on this stuff behind the scenes was amazing. Hopefully we can see more of this in the future

I remember Andy being nervous to talk about it, love the ingenuity and was a big Harry Gant fan, so cool so much fun!! 😂😂😎

More of this! Love old school cheating stories , because one day in like 15 years we can hear about the stuff going on today

A “Cheater” of the highest order & regard. THAT, is amazing. Man I miss those good ole days!

When he said “it’s yours” Dale was thinking of all the phone calls he needs to make to have a “creative rule interpretation” area in the hall of fame.

So I love this guy brought this by! This is one of the top guest in my opinion that’s ever walked in! You just can’t put a price on the cheated up parts. On my stock cars and even legend cars I used a lot of DTMF controlled devices with different radio controlled (by my spotter) he would send tones and open different vents up to change the low pressure region. Also I had 5 fins on the grill to open all of them. (Key radio: Press: 6) to open Individually. Key radio: press: 1-2-3-4-5 or if you only wanted 2 & 4 open which is what we ran 99% of the time. We would key radio: press: 2-4. Those were the good ole days. After the series put onboard cameras I knew I couldn’t be flipping switches so I had to have someone remotely run that stuff.

OMG. You have got to hook a battery up to that actuator and show us how it works! :P

The legendary crew-chief's, like Dale Inman, Leonard Wood, Ray Evernham ect...are absolutely not gonna be lining up to tell their cheat'n stories, but the lesser known crew-member's who never received any public credit for helping their legendary bosses create the ingenious device's, well that's a very different story now ain't it 😏 Whomever thought this segment up, freaking pure genius!!

These are the kinds of things I love watching. All of the interviews with the older guys talkin' about "shenanigans" makes me smile!

Ok that was amazing! And I very glad he decided to share with the world.

I would like to hear from more team members of the 70s, 80s and 90s and hear their stories.

Freaking awesome! That is so very cool and what a story. I agree, more of this type of history. And he was a wonderful storyteller!

I love these stories and the personalities that tell them.

Not sure if I missed it or not but Gary Nelson is a must have on the show in the future.

THATS BADASS... also thanks for bringing the guy in to speak about it, great story and also cool to highlight the little guys behind the scenes. Also we need a close up of it

Love these videos of the engineers & the “cheating” not cheating but coming as close to… these are great stories.

Such an awesome show! Love it! Races were won in the shop and I love hearing these types of stories to enlighten how! Just like where nascar comes from... Bootlegging😀

Love the ingenuity of the NASCAR teams back in the day…

"They're Just Not That Smart Andy" Lmao 🤣😂...I Like His Attitude lol....

Awesome gift to the studio/Jrs collection. Sounded a bit like the guy just wanted his space back and knows it has a good home with Dale.

That was actually really cool to hear about how they did all that, the full story was awesome to hear

You have got the bring this man back for a full episode please!!!

It absolutely needs to be on display at the hall of fame

You need to get Tom Peck on here.. he has some good stories of his days of racing with Dale Sr.

Once a month we need these guys on just to talk about this

very cool. smart dude and excited to be there with Dale.

I really hope these secrets keep working their way to us. Such a great history for the sport.

We need a nascar "cheat" hall of fame. Probably be more popular than the regular one!

Man this was so fun to listen to, and even better to watch it. I'd love to see this thing work again

Great addition to the Bojangles Studio ! REALLY cool story,!

Gotta love Jr and I don’t even have to be a NASCAR fan. Dude is cool and keeps me tuning in to have a chuckle. Peace

What a great Surprise episode as always thanks for the great content

These stories are one of the coolest things about NASCAR 👍

I’m right down the road, Church St Mooresville. I am coming to see the deck lid soon.

Ask that dude more questions!!! Lol love it!

I wonder all the “techniques” Larry Mac tried throughout his career on his team’s cars, I know he’s been on the show but I just love his commentary!

They should take him out to one of there cars and really explain it so everybody will get the enginuity of this! It's amazing

This is one of my favorite episodes.

I so wish y’all had interviewed Brad Francis before he died. Brad taught Andy most everything he knew. He invented the track bar adjuster with Earnhardt Sr.

This was amazing! These kinda people and stories are what I love seeing on DJD. Always cool to hear the juiciness of a Harvick or Mayfield pod, but man I have to stop everything I’m doing and turn the brain on to listen and analyze everything going on with the “ingenuity” discussions. Great stuff, MORE PLZ!!

great surprise visit. its stories like these that make me miss the old Nascar more and more.

Y’all have to make a display stand a n d power it up for all fans to see it operate wow what a historic piece to have and see it operate WOW

MORE OF THIS 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 this is INCREDIBLE!!

That's so cool that he brought it to you!! This is one of my favorite Nascar cheating stories!

The stories just keep on getting better. Really need more guys on who knew how to skirt the rulebook from this era and before!

I remember hearing NASCAR hired Gary Nelson cause he was one of the biggest cheaters in the garage

Great show and content! I love old NASCAR!

The ingenuity is amazing!! Can’t wait to listen to this weeks Pod!

Super cool of him. I love Nascar.

wat an awesome story...luv it 👍

Really enjoyed this segment and love the ingenuity stories from past times!

These are the absolute best videos man. Everybody knows that all competitors across the board do whatever they can to win, so nice to hear some of the secrets!

Hearing this guy is crew chiefing the #94 CARS Tour this weekend at Dominion. Everything tricked out in the #94 which is really serving as a test car for McCumbee.

If you told me when I was watching NASCAR as a kid in the 80s that we’d have access to this knowledge 30+ years later I’d have flipped out…

Dean Jones: Andy Petree used my name in vain. Also Dean Jones: All the credit for this is mine. Oh, and this beauty almost made Andy wet his pants.

That is what made nascar so great back then

Great as always!

Love these kinds of stories!👍

Great video. I love Dale Jrs podcast!!!

Cheating stories are the best

I absolutely enjoy these “ingenuity” shows. The creativity is really amazing.

Now is this is a great interview. Much more interesting than the usual guest.

That’s freaking awesome! What an awesome story!!

If you ain't cheatin, you ain't winning 👀😜

How cool is that fella! You guy's podcasts are absolutely over the top. Great work.

Love that guy and you brougt the content.40 year fan,this is awesome

One of the best episodes to date!

Great story. How did Bill Elliott make up 2 laps under green to win at Talladega in 1985?

Love cheating stories! Please do more of these. Also, love the N. Wilkesboro news (I'm late on that) Well done Jr!

Best episode to date. BarNone! Just couldn’t be cooler!

seeing that Old 3 in the back was great, when I was a nitride operator here in reidsville n.c. I was given 300 lugnuts to harden through our nitride process. Verified count, 300 in,300 out.. each one engraved with that number 3( figured they thought some would be stolen) ,I even had a friend I took care of, Parkinson, he had a big square box ship fan from Dale's garage, had the crew in it, and in the background was that can, he would never sell it, don't know what happened to it after he died.

So freakin’ awesome.

👍😎 I never comment. That was awesome. I miss those days. Thanks Matt & Dale. First race I watched was at Riverside.

For the Earnhardt family to go to the Cup serious would be great. Between You Kelly and Rick Hendrick. And the Fans! It's all good!.

Love this!

I’ve literally been trying to hunt down this video since I listened to djd today

Damn. I wish I had that deck lid so cool and smart cheating and working in the grey are a part of NASCAR!!! Awesome!!!

That was AWESOME!!!

That was so AWESOME

I don't know if Dale Jr. would remember this or not, but he was running the 400-miler at Daytona one year; the night race. Jr. had about the strongest car, but at one point in the race, he is jus' ridin' 2nd behind Kyle Busch, making laps. I'm listening to his radio channel on my scanner and Jr. starts to chuckle. He then proceeds to describe--in detail--what he is seeing on the 18 car right ahead of him. The 18's entire decklid is lowering itself, as if being pressed down by the airflow over the car, or by actuators like the ones being described in this video, as the car proceeds down the backstretch, bringing the rear spoiler down out of the air. But, lo and behold, the decklid then raises itself back up, flush with the rear quarter-panels, as the car entered Turn 3. This happened lap after lap, with Jr. absolutely giddy seeing this !!! It must've gone on for about 10-15 laps, and then pitstops began, and that was the last I heard him talk about the decklid during that race. A precious moment that I will never forget !!!

loved this!!!🤣

We all know this stuff was going on but Seeing this gives everyone satisfaction seeing how inventive people really were!

This guy was awesome. Prob had some more stories to tell.

You should ask Dale Jr about the "rear end cooler fans" on the 5 and 88 cars on the 2009 speedway cars for JRM...I can remind him if he's forgotten...

Really enjoyed this guest.

Please show a closeup of how that works

This was super cool!!

This is the part of Nascar that I love ,ingenious solutions created by true craftsman which all started by running shine back in the day . ❤ it !

You got to love the stories that were behind the scenes. ....trying to cheat the sanctioning body is always cool

That was awesome but Dale looks irritated the whole time. I wonder why. I'll take the deck lid. Lol.

Pretty cool. So many people involved in Nascar that no one really knows that have really cool stories definitely something I'd watch more of

I figured this out once as much as Andy Petree. when I was just 13 years old and loading bagged groceries into a Cadillac Fleetwood at my first job. after bagging all of the goods, I rolled the Buggie to the car and began loading them into the trunk. when all of the sudden, the woman/customer slammed the trunk on both my hands and I began to feel the pinch of steel on fingers,(no anti pinch mechanism back when they were first introduced) I knew right then and there.. Hey I bet this would move a spoiler quite well!!!! Billy Ingle took it a few steps further with Ricky Rudd's team so ---- maybe I should develop that throttle linkage i been thinking about, the kind that lifts the carburetor slightly when you go past 3/8 throttle.. we could even use it at the Martinsville LMSC fall event along with that nice " Illegal aluminum firewall" we placed around the fuel cell. & of course we had to change that panel out to a steel one per the rule book before the start of the qualifying races.. (cuz we got busted with the aluminum but, we already had a replacement prepared) but hey we are NOT smart enough to cheat on purpose right? Phil Warren#47 Mike Buffkin#84 Bubba Adams#9 Billy Smith#89 ... the secret was poly locked carb studs.. just a we bit loose ... and great for when your nice and straight up off the corner across the concreate to asphalt transition - - - - let'er eat.___

Good Job Mathew.

That awesome “cheat” piece should be in Harry Gant’s NASCAR Hall of Fame exhibit…(when NASCAR finally gets serious about inducting him…🤬)