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More Wild Stories and The Evolution of Racing

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Legendary Racer Gary Balough’s Cheating Stories: The Miami Gang was WILD in the 1980s

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The group shares more wild stories, such as a driver getting his hearing aid stolen and retrieved from a bird, sneaking a carpet past customs by hiding it in a car, and setting a police station's parking lot ablaze to hide an illegal engine. The conversation concludes with a discussion about how racing has changed, becoming more professional and strict, leading to less of the 'wild' behavior from the past.

Goal: Conclude with more outrageous racing tales and reflect on changes in the sport

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I got worried that they're going to take it pull the intake off of it." Now, the intake matched the head, so you had to use that intake. There was no nitrous in it, but all that underneath there. Yeah. Yeah, but it wasn't hooked up. So, you know what he does? You know what I mean? That intake's on that motor and we're on the ball for all of water. I said, "We're going back and crawl over the wall." Eddie, what? He takes me, he buys steak, a bunch of steak, goes down the end, throws it over the fence. Dogs in there. In the morning, the dog took off from the states. Come on. We got in the trailer, didn't take off, swap in, take off. Big took it off as one old American 400. Hey, how about the one? How about the one going through inspection and the nitrous bottle goes off and blows all he put he put the line together in blue. He goes, "What the hell was that? What the hell was that?" An infection. Hey was right behind said, "You know exactly what it was." What about Mark Martin calling? Pas behind it. Well, Gary was messing with the button make the maroon shift weren't working right. Yeah, he kept kept messing with the marine kept going like this. You know, he calls on the phone and said, "Hey, go there. Tell Gary's crew." He broke something and keeping back and forth. And how would lay in a corner on the ground look at the car like how could that left tire be in? It was out. I know it was out when he went out. The deal was it had to be in line with

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