Kenny, you are living what I call “The correct retirement Dream.” Its all about work because thats all we ever known. But the dream is fulfilled when the work is doing what you love on your timeline. Thats it! Well alright, if you know, you know. Love ya Kevin

Pretty impressive to get your whole team to shuffle so quietly behind Charlie during the 360 shot 😂 Thanks for the video.

Congratulations on 50K! That's a damn good looking race car Kenny.

I like that you don't apologize for your success and you live life bouncing off the limiter!

You shouldn't have to apologize for anything. Even if you bought all your things with "NASCAR" Money it's still something YOU worked for. You are one of the most humble people I know you deserve everything you have because of all the sacrifices you gave over your career how many days you were on the road without your family because you were out there putting in the work so that your wife and kids could have a good life. You probably have the money to buy the great big semi with the biggest stacker trailer money can buy but you don't. I'm soo happy you get to do something you love because of the hard work and dedication you have people need to watch some of your older videos or watch the one you did with Stapleton and talked about only being able to afford one meal a day while you and your brothers worked on your car's keep being you Wallace because a world with you in it is something special good luck on your season sir.....

Kenny I grew up watching you race and I'm glad to see you keeping up with the tradition of racing you are always going to be one of the amazing people that make the sport what it is Thank You Again !!!

Working on the dirt car is the greatest therapy ever known to man 💪👌🙌

So many racecar driver now days have never even turned a wrench on a car in their life..glad we still got some good ole old school boys around.

Kenny, Big fan. I raced for 14 years and really miss it. I'm a 68yo retired cop from just south of Little Rock Arkansas.Steve King

Kenny brother, I'm a 4th generation racer, and there are few drivers in all of motorsports that i have as much respect for as you. i grew up watching you race both nascar and dirt, and have always been a fan. I have watched you race at my home track(Quincy Illinois) and numerous other tracks countless times, and even when you're racing against some close friends I still have always cheered for you. love what you do, and your love and dedication to the sport.

I met you late October of 1994. It was at a Nascar/toy show in Painesville, Ohio. My table was next to your the table that you were signing at, what a GREAT day. You signed my TIC hauler. I have been a fan ever since. I wish you all the best not in just racing but in life.

CONGRATS on the 50 thou mark Kenny - much deserved for keepin it real! Have fun racing. Cheers...

Growing up I used to go to the fairgrounds in Springfield Missouri, and watch Rusty, Mark Martin, Ken Schrader and the late Larry Phillips race. I miss those days, wished they wouldn't have done away with the track

Congratulations on the 50 thousand subscribers. Don't change you. Love the way you are so honest. Keep the shiny side up and go fast.

Always enjoy your vids Kenny. It's always a pleasure racing with you. I respect you for doing your own thing! Enjoy the success you earned brother!

Kenny I feel very fortunate that I get to watch and hear you talk about these things now in my life that I’m grown up and a huge dirt fan. You were running nascar when I was young and to see all of this now when I’m an adult and understand what your doing for fun and loving life just makes me so happy inside. Your a great man and a very big motivator. Thank you for everything you have been doing to educate everyone who has no clue what dirt racing is all about. If im lucky enough I’d just like to shake your hand one day and say thank you.

Congratulations on your 50,000 subs!!! We really enjoy your vlogs!

I helped crew on a Northeast Big Block Modified , I remember back in the 90's our engines were from the famous Jack Tant of Littleton NC and they weren't cheap $35,000 back then , but they made some serious power. Good luck racing this season Mr. Wallace.

I used to change my modified oil every 2 races. I had a set of Pontiac heads that I was told was used by your brother. Black Jack Boggs , son Jackie told me that's where they got them from.

Congratulations on your 50k+ subscribers. People like spending time watching videos when the person making them are real, and have a good personality. You are a straight shooter, informative, and always can make what ever you are talking about fun.

Grats on the 50K Kenny! I think I found you when you had like 10 or 12K and watched it grow pretty well. Honestly, I was enjoying being in what I thought was a small crowd, and I said at the time, well Kenny won't be lonely for long once people get to seeing what you're putting out here for us because you and Rusty, like a lot of other racers, are people just like like everyone else. I don't think I ever thought you didn't work on your stuff, you are just that kind of person that absolutely would work on his own car. And I'm also happy that "All that NASCAR money" has allowed you to do what makes you happy. that was kind of the point of doing it all in the first place, and I congratulate you for all your success. Truly mean it. So many people are consumed with envy, greed and as my 101 year old Grandma, who still lives at home on her own would say, "That's just ugliness" and to those people she would say "Just go on and git now" cause she wouldn't ever waste time on such foolishness. And then she would go pray for them because they need some fixin. Best of luck!!

Thanks for the tour Kenny, work for a speed shop part time, enjoy the atmosphere and been around racing my whole life! keep on trucking!

Thanks Kenny. Your one of the last of the best .There will never be another Kenny Dale Mark or Buddy.

You can spend as much as you want on whatever you want. Some of the kart engines we use are sometimes upwards of 8-10k for a open.

Thank you very much Mr. Wallace for everything you have done on your channel for your fans and sponsors. 🙂

Great video you don’t need to apologize for anything but the fact that you do shows you are a person of appreciation and I appreciate that I love that you are still racing kind of like Dave Blaney I guess it never gets out of your blood and longtime dirt fans like me appreciate it!

Kenny we owe you a Huge Thank You for your enthusiasm and entertaining content. Love your videos.

Congratulations on the subscribers! Thanks for the video.

Thank you Jegs for sponsoring Kenny. Kenny Keep it up your genuinality and personality bring joy to my day with your videos.

I grew up watching Rusty race ASA in Cincinnati, Winchester, and some other places. In fact, my Son raced 1/10th scale r/c and we always had either a Rusty Wallace (2,27) bodied car and a Darrell Waltrip (Tide car) body. I didn't think much of your NASCAR commentary but oh well. I'm glad to see you carrying on the racing tradition. There was a time when I complained of your "high dollar" operation, but in the end you earned it. Am I jealous of your shop? Hell yeah. I'm glad you have put out some of the prices involved in racing and explained some of the technical side. Thanks for the video and I hope you have a good year. If you ever race at Florence and need some help, my Son would be glad to help you. Just contact me!

Awesome, thank you Kenny. Great video, love the info and details. Would love to see a video of you working on the engine/car!

Congratulations on 50000 subs, love your no bs attitude, you the real deal Kenny

Kenny, nothing but positive thoughts from me. Love your channel and enjoy your perspective on almost anything.

52k now! It's been fun to watch the page grow and the comments pile up. Congrats!

I grew up with my uncle's tire shop directly across the street from John Utsman's race shop. Seeing this dirt car really takes me back to those days. The locals always hated Utsman because he hardly ever lost a race. My grandfather was his friend, and I was always so happy to sit in that car, as a kid. Thanks for the video, Kenny; takes me back to better days.

Kenny you are the man!! I love listening to your stories!! I'm from North Carolina and raised by used to be my neighbor and you know him!! The good ol Jr Johnson and I used to sweep the shop as a teenager and been a racing fan for life and that's why I love your personality!! Keep staying Kenny and the hell with the haters!!

Thank you for sharing your experiences on your KZfaq channel. Don't stop your stories. I could listen to them all day. Hope your KZfaq channel goes over 400.000 subscribers and more. I really do enjoy your KZfaq channel!!

You are the man Kenny. You don't need to apologize about anything. Everyone makes choices and race with what they have. Glad to see you have a backup motor. Thank you for sharing this with us.

You're absolutely right Kenny we changed the oil weekly after running Friday and Saturday nights the cheapest maintenance you can do. Hope you make it to Lincoln, Ill again this year I haven't seen the schedule.👍🇺🇸🤙

Thanks for sharing that information. It was interesting. You worked hard and deserve what you have and do.

Nice video. Was always wondering about all that stuff. Thanks for sharing with everyone. Good luck this season.

Love it sir and you are the real deal. We love you and what you do, I admire all that you do, you are in the zone. Hang in there and change nothing. I bet if cup drivers were honest they would be jealous of where you are and what you do Herm. Rock on!

thanks for the great videos, keep them coming, look forward to seeing you during summer nationals, maybe a few races at Macon Speedway, and seeing your Nascar show at Gateway in June

Love you Kenny. Thank you for your KZfaq channel and I always respect your prospectives.

Kenny,Good luck this year.I enjoy watching your videos and keep them coming 😎

I would love to sit down and have a beer with Herman. The stories he could tell, the wisdom he could share. An all around awesome human being.

Really good explanation of how your so fast everywhere you race. Doesn't take a race team with 10 crew members to go beat their asses on any given weekend. Good luck this year Herm!

You have worked for what you have and do. Enjoy watching the podcasts. Keep it up. Thanks.

Kenny was so nice, I was 13 years old and I met him in the pits at a dirt track in Antioch ,Ca. He was yakkin it up with a bunch of guys and I wedged my way into the circle of men and he stopped talkin , looked down at me and said “HEY LIL BUDDY HOWS IT GOIN!” We took a picture and he signed my dirty ass (Shaw racing chassis) t-shirt. … I never washed it and had that shirt hanging on my bedroom wall until I became an adult. - I’ll never forget the way he stopped talking to 15+ grown men about that nights race just to make sure I was noticed… thanks for the great memory Kenny- even though it was only 3 minutes of your time. That moment has stayed with me for the past 18 years

Congrats on 50K!! Engines aint cheap. Back in the early 90's my "stock" engine I had built Buy Total Seal East ran me @ $6k which is a drop in the bucket compared to what you and other spend. After my wallet seized up and I stopped racing due to crazy costs involved and no increase in winnings, I sold all my stuff. And ended up spending a few seasons working on a friends Pro Stock that was mainly raced at Lee Speedway here in NH. This was @ 97-98 and he rented Rousch engines. They were sealed engines and I dont recall what he paid for rent , but he did tell me that if either of the seals ever got broken he would have to write a check to Rousch for $55k. Rousch really didn't want anyone looking inside those engines. My dad used to tell me that his cousin Olen Runion in Decatur Ill used to build engines for your buddy Schrader early in his career.

Thank you Kenny for the info. I have always loved watching you race and your you tube thingy. (Bahahaha). Great stuff and much respect!

Kenny. I grew up watching you race. I love to hear about your racing connections. I don’t know folks from when I was a kid. The racing world is such a tight bunch. Have a great racing season.

I enjoy the shop time videos. You’ve got a really nice shop. Have fun runnin’ that “ole dirt car” this year.👍

I left my job at RoushYates for a few years to take care of my Dad with Alzheimer’s. When he passed on New Year’s Eve 2022, DY called me and asked if I’d like to come back to work. I’m back now building engines at Robert Yates Racing Engines, for the NASCAR Wheelen Modified and ARCA etc. Darrell Hoffman was in our shop last week. Keep up the good videos Kenny, I’d like some pointers! Come see me if you’re in Mooresville

Kenny I just singed my 7 year old grandson SON to a kart team out of mass we live in VT state I loved watching you race and enjoyed you calling races it cost a lot to race anyone doing it knows that you should never apologize for your success you have earned all that your able to get love the talks lol

Really liked this video. But what I don’t like is how people think just because he was a Nascar driver, that he didn’t work his tail off to get there? Most of these guys that raced nascar when Kenny raced were not the owners family? These guys worked countless hours with sub par equipment most of their life. Look how humble Kenny is when he talks about the local driver….. He was that guy. Thanks for you who you are and for making these type videos Kenny! I don’t like how negative people can be when the local driver actually makes it in the big show. How about being happy for somebody instead of jealous! Love it Kenny!

Ed here not Bonnie. My first time watching, and I'm hooked. I'm a Farmer and 45 year small time tractor puller. I thought your engine cost was reasonable. Even at our level of pulling a built diesel pulling engine is $50,000 built by a pro builder. I really like your down to earth attitude.

Great content, appreciate the transparency and really cool to see!

your transparency is so inspiring. Love you up here in Peoria, ILL :)

Kenny, stay humble. Racing is supposed to be fun. Glad you have never forgotten that.

Very good... Wow you've gained 114,000 subscribers since this video was added... Including me. Hell yea Herminator!!! Thank you looking forward to future videos.

Kenny I have to THANK YOU and DALE EARNHARDT JR for SAVING MY LIFE. I was laying on my couch with covid getting sicker by the day. I had the tv on and listened to one of you podcast that you posted. You talked about how Dale ask about you and your wife. You told him that your wife was laying in bed and had covid. He told you to get her up and you did. That inspired me to get up, and sit and sleep straight up in my chair. At that time it took all I had to get that far. It took several days but each day I felt a little better. My wife had contracted covid at the same time and chose to go to the hospital. She passed March 5th of last year. I so wish she would have stayed home. From the time she was admitted she stayed in bed flipped from her back to her stomach. I believe she would still be with me if stayed home and took your advice. I wanted to let you know how thankful I am. If you could some day thank Junior for me also.

Worked at Bobby Gerharts racing for twenty years I know we're your coming from Kenny your shop is immaculate, good luck on the upcoming season.

Keep up the great work, Herm! Charlie, too! I hope to see you at the track!

Two of the good ole boys, you"re very much appreciated !

Just started following you Kenny . Enjoyed this Video! Always have been a Kenny/Rusty fan! Look forward to more! Chas,,SC

Thank-you for sharing Kenny, From Australia. used to race speedway but retired now!! good onya mate ! stay safe friend!!

Congrats on 50k, everything is well deserved......that's what happens when you work hard.

Finally somebody gave an educated and honest answer of what a SBC cost. Heads, valvetrain, and induction can easily swing $5000 to $25,000. Forged crank with balance can be $1000 from the Peoples republic or a $10,000 piece of billet steel jewelry from Callies or Winberg.

Thanks for giving us some real numbers Kenny, (things we otherwise wouldn't know but are VERY interesting !). It seems some things never change with engines (noticed your new mill has a BIG wet sump oil pan & you're running 50 weight oil. Smokey Yunick told me once that racing a wet sump is like sitting next to a coild rattlesnake. I guess dirt clods etc. would play hell on a dry sump belt.

Love you all and your content from the STL.

I've seen videos by all the Wallace brothers and they've all said almost word for word about the same thing about being a 1 man race team at one time or another during their racing careers and we all know how much they are respected by most everybody in Nascar and I've been around local dirt track short track racing enough to have met and known guys who race at that level (weekend warriors they're called a lot)😊

Kenny I love your videos. Good luck this year,go get ‘em.

Hi Charlie. Your all good people. Small Town racing. Down to earth. It does not go unnoticed. Thank you from Belews Creek, NC.

I was never a fan of Rusty, but I have always been your fan. But I appreciate your family tradition. I'm a second generation driver who has always built my own cars, not motors. Now I have my son's both racing.

This is gotta be a great time in life for you! You make me feel like I know you and l'm just hanging out at the shop!!! ⛽😁

When Jeff Gordon became big, I went Nascar crazy because he was the same age and my dad rutted for E. I couldn't get a job in a garage, so I became a cab driver when I was 24. Since then I've been driving. 10 years ago I got my CDL. I know that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt, but that's who we all want to be. My daughter paid for your brothers racing experience for my birthday. My dad was dying for cancer and bought a dodge rumble bee then took the engine to a engine shop and it was supposed to be around 800hp. I drove his truck afterwards (when he died) and I drove your brothers 400 and sum hp on a 1/4 mile oval and dam that is amazing . But the radio sucks. Freaking awesome. I knew I'd start figuring it out after every lap so I need to go back. That's awesome what your brother is doing!

I love how u keep it real! Keep up the good work and being REAL.

Hermmmm! I like the maintenance breakdown ya gave! Do more of that! Moving to modifieds this year so all new for me! Would like to see your maintenance program!

I like this type of stuff way better than complaining with Kenny. Congrats on the 50,000 subscribers

I'm impressed; a mechanic, a driver and a great story teller...not just another pretty face! Full throttle buddy!!

Nice to know about the motors. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

I always had tremendous of respect for you and rusty y’all are some damn good guys even though I never met yall . I’m hoping here about year or so getting me a late model I’m fixing to build a 350 4 bolt main I already got I can’t wait

Pure respect for Kenny. I love the videos man!

Thanks for another great video. Hope your looking at the checkers soon.

I use the work on a late model team in altamaha nc ( ace speedway) I believe Justin labonte was running mini stock at the time... anyway I guess the point I'm trying to make is people that see a nice garage, trailer and a couple race cars , think your rich... truth is their actually broke, living payday to payday , working late nights, just to hopefully lay down a good qualifying lap... or that second job you had to pick up just to replace the front clip you lost last weekend with 2 laps to go... the friends and volunteers that actually make it even remotely possible for you to even to do it in the first place... I won't even mention the wife and kids that never get to see you.... I have much respect for anyone who does this and still does. Thanks 4 sharing man, brought back a few memories.

Back in the 80s I was the crew chief on a supermodified team. We raced at San Jose speedway California. We race under NASCAR. These cars were a sprint car only difference was the bottom rails were 2"x 4" tubing from the firewall back. We ran a wing. I built the chassis and the wings and the owner/ drive built the engines in his automotive machine shop. 377 cubes Max aluminum heads Algon injection putting out around 800 HP. We were a top three team. Because we built everything ourselves it cost us $22K per year sometime a little more or less. We would win around $11K per year. We raced against guys that spent $750K. Howard Kading had two cars his and his son Bret's and one year spent $1M and we were betting them. Now that is what I call fun. I am 74 and have been a metal worker as a welder/ Machinist / and Sheetmetal. I was a welding instructor also. I made parts that are on the Voyager satellite and other air craft. So being a person that has worked starting at 9 in my fathers service station I have the upmost respect for racers like you. So keep up these great videos and God bless you.

Your the man Herman, love these videos. Wish I could watch you race but I'm located on the east coast (PA) maybe some day. God bless you .

Great video Kenny! Definitely love the paint and wrap scheme! Sweet!

Awesome video, love that you take so good care of your equipment. That’s what most racers don’t understand. Take care of you equipment, and your equipment will take care of you.

Congrats on 50k Herman!! Thanks for the bonus story time ❤️🏁

Thanks, nice video! Glad you are a hands-on guy, a "real' racer!

keep on keepin it real.... 50k congrats

Love Jegs and love Kenny's comments. Just bought a new high torque starter and parts for the 57 Chevy - delivered in 2 days- awesome.

You seem to be the same cat I met decades ago. I’m not a racer, always wanted to try but approaching 50, folks say I’m too old, and personally I don’t even know even where to start, I live in Chicago and the racing scene is tough enough. Can ya point me in a direction. Anyhow I really enjoy your videos, your shop and your attitude! Gracious, kind and proud as you should be. Looking forward to more of your videos!

Great video Herm! I had no idea you did all of your own work. 💯to you!

I have always had great respect for the Wallace boys

you are one of the best drivers of all time, youve always been one of my favorites in all of motor sports... i hope i see you on dirt some day k dawg!

Excellent Precision and knowledge, thanks for sharing. Also what sunglasses are you and Tony Stewart wearing at the bike week videos? Thank you

Great vid Hermanator, and congrats on hitting the 50k mark. 👍