The memories i have of rusty wallace and his career are the moments you are showing me. I love NASCAR for the sounds and never really dove into the men or women or teams behind the cars until you started making these videos. Its really awesome how much i am enjoying learning about the history of motorsports. Thank you Logan and Mitchell.

RW performing the pit maneuver on DW hands down my favorite moment in Rusty’s racing career.

Tri-state Speedway.... Pocola,Oklahoma... Right outside of Fort Smith,Arkansas

I have a vintage 88 Gatorade windbreaker that I got at Daytona when I was a kid. We would watch the 500, camp out in the infield, and watch my dad race his motorcycle the next weekend. I grew up 15 min away from DIS. All my early racing experience as a kid started there. My older brother got to spread our dad's ashes at DIS. I have friend on the inside and got access to the track when no one was there.

Water bottle incident kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJebkrR5zsnMnHU.html

Thank you so much for those pictures Troy!!!

Been several days late to the party for this video but finally able to watched this and again Stapleton, thanks for posting! To me the stories being told here are gold! Just a quick story of my own: when I was 16 I worked at a jewel food store in Elmhurst, IL. There was a manager by the name Debbie Newberry who worked there. One day I was in the lunchroom sketching out my newest drawing of Rusty Wallace's Miller car when she walked by me and asked if I was into nascar. Well of course I was, I exclaimed! She asked if I can make another skit of that drawing for her and in returned she would get me something old that's nascar related. I agreed. Once I gave her the drawing (which she loved) she gave me a double sided photo of RCR's Wrangler 85/86 unocal pit crew champs. Which I was floored when i saw it. I asked how she got this, she told me she use to be part of the pit crew for Rusty Wallace's ASA team as a time and score keeper. Who knew?! Wish I could of asked Rusty If he still remember's her.. Also that same store, "Fearless" Freddy Lorenzen use to come in all the time buying groceries. I got few stories about him as well...

Man thats awesome. I was actually thinking it would be really cool to talk with him about the original Joe Gibbs shop down the street!

Your dad was awesome so is your mom

Cool to see people so close to the sport commenting. I'd love to know what Chocolate is doing posing with the Blue Max team at the 7min mark.

Yea we know who your dad is. Damn that makes me feel old. I remember watching them win the 2000 Winston cup. Pretty cool man.

I agree with that completely. On the way out he pulled over to take some pictures before driving away. Pretty special to see that. He is very proud of what he’s accomplished and rightfully so. What’s the point of living a life of high achievement if you don’t allow yourself to enjoy it afterwards?

I Love That! That was on a whole nother level.

That's what I did

😂😂😂

Yeah, like Darrell, but he wasn't the grratest loser.

Teresa would never go for it

That’s awesome. Did you ever visit blue max at this building?

@@Stapleton42 yes I think Tim Richmond was still there we went to The world 600 in 1985.

@@Stapleton42 I think my I have alot of pictures where we toured there if I can find them I'll make copies and send to you. That day and eating breakfast with Darrell waltrip and bristol in 90 or 91 the fan club was huge for me at that age would of been 12 or 14. If I can those pic I'll send them. I really enjoy what you. You have brought a smile to my face I lost since my son passed. Thank you

Thanks man it means a lot!

Heck yeah man welcome to the team!

You’re welcome sir! We are glad you’re here!

I hope so!

I don’t know what it is…These guys accomplished a lot and I think they enjoy talking about it to people who care.

Thanks man!

This would be way cool!

I been there yearrssssss ago though

Thanks mark!

I played that game too 😂

Dirt too Daytona is the best nascar game ever made.

Yep. Capture these stories NOW while these guys are still around so 50 years from now the next generations will have access to this information!

@@Stapleton42 yes! The more history that can be preserved, the more people will know about NASCAR

Hey man at least you were there to witness this era. I wasnt.

Don't feel bad; I remember the late 60's and watching NASCAR on Wide Wirld of Sports! Fun times.

Thank you James we are glad you're here!

Thanks man!

If you find those pictures email them to me!!

I agree on both 😂

Absolutely man!

thanks man!

Thanks man!

Welcome to NASCAR and the history

Thanks Robbie!

Thanks man I appreciate that!

Man thats awesome! You mean Lakes 66 car was using space at Osterlund's shop??

@@Stapleton42 This may have been the later part of 81 season. I remember there was several weeks it seemed Lake Speed was involved in wrecks and we took sheet metal to them. If I remember right the car was orange, green and white.....

Yep Harold Elliott

Thanks man. I wish we could have seen the MGD scheme on the Grand Prix 2+2 days. Man that’d be a great looking car

Absolutely it would have been.

Thanks man. Rusty definitely holds a seat a the legend table thats no question.

Glad you enjoyed it!

That’s awesome

Thanks man. We hope it does too!

Man that’s awesome can you email me those? Mdstapleton42@gmail.com

Much appreciated!

Thanks Justin!

Thanks man. We do our best

My pleasure man, can't wait til the next one. Goin to watch the video of Rusty's motor cycle shop soon as this ones done. Thanks again for bringing this history to our generation. I can remember watching these guys race with my grandpa. Hed get so mad when Rusty would beat Bill Elliott, bring back some great memories

Thanks man thats awesome!

That’s so awesome! I didn’t really think of that video being a map to see all the race shops, but that is a great idea. Hope you guys enjoyed your week! 😄

@@loganerwin42 it absolutely is! A perfect one. I did a little detective work on google, and my wife replayed your videos as we drove... we would notice a building, or background in your vids, and Dee it in real life, and knew we were in the right area. Absolute best historical guide! Maybe a new venture for you 2? Keep up the great work!

@@Stapleton42 seeing your video of the RCR museum, and then seeing it in person, was something I thought I'd never get to do! Keep it up!!! I was hooked in the early 80s, and loved it from then on. Your historical content is truly one of a kind!

Absolutely agree

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Just about fainted. 🤯

@@markmartin5477 Legend! Still have Valvoline stickers on all my childhood things.

You don’t think that if they ran a whole Race Flag to Flag. That it Would not be able to hold the Fans attention? I think they are forced to do other things nowadays. There has to be storylines within the Race itself. I personally hated when someone ran off and killed everyone in a 4 or 500 mile marathon. It’s boring. People nowadays aren’t conditioned for that. That have to remain stimulated or they loose interest. 🤷. It’s hard these days to be a Promoter, Track Owner or Series Director. They have to almost come up with the impossible to satisfy their fans. It’s a VERY HARD thing to do.

@@matthewhicks1725 Yeah, They had to do that because they made every car almost exactly the same and it's considered NASCAR which it's not really NASCAR anymore because "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing" The key word being "stock car" meaning you can go to a dealership by the car and take it to the track. They should change the name altogether cause they're not even on that method anymore. Everyone loses interest because of the way that they tinker with the body style of the car every year. All the cars are made the same except for the nose cone and the back end of the car. But every single one of them gets the same type of wrap and so on and so forth. At least in the '40s to the late '90s early '00s the cars looked exactly how it was when you were driving them on the street. Now it's all about the same template nothing is actually like the car that you get from the dealership. That is why you have to have stage points and all that stuff because they're driving damn near the same exact car if it was a Chevy to a Ford to a Toyota. I wish Dodge/Chrysler would get back into it. Just like all the other model of cars like Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Mercury which is no longer in business, Buick GM and so on. It's just not exciting anymore because people that did are no longer watching it because all their favorite racers retired.

I get what your saying. But u can’t stop time and u can’t stop change. Grieving for the 80’s and 90’s just doesn’t accomplish anything. Not Everyone is gone!! I’m still here. Racers’ dont stop Racing just because your favorite guy retired! I guess that’s the difference between a Casual Race Fan and A Pure Racer. Did u know that There are only 3 Drivers in the field now. That were racing when Big E was Alive? Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. . It wont be long and it will be a complete generation change.

@@matthewhicks1725 That's the key word here stock car. Need to change their name then because they ain't stock anymore. It's a Custom piece of shit that ain't worth putting any money into because it cost way too much to get the damn frame from Nascar itself. I'm a true racer because I race lawn mowers and go karts in the lower tiers. I'm 40 and I still love what I do. I'll probably be going into it till I'm 60. I love building the car from the ground up. Besides I'm building a golf cart using a Nissan Datsun engine from a late 1970s forklift... The only thing that was worth anything on that late 1970s forklift was the engine. Going to try golf cart racing when I'm finished with this golf cart. #78 from when Martin Truex Jr raced with furniture row. I know everybody doesn't like the stage points cause Tony Stewart called it out. As he points out a lot of stupid stuff too. Pretty soon they're going to fluctuate and move stuff around hopefully they bring back the old tracks because a lot of the young guys like Chase Elliott want to go back to Rockingham, North Wilkesboro, and so on.