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Darrell's NASCAR Hauling Career

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Darrell recounts his 18-year career as a NASCAR hauler driver for Junior Johnson and Associates. He details the Peterbilt 359 and Kenworth K100 cabover trucks he drove, explaining how Peterbilt once gave them two 359 models. He elaborates on how they modified the chassis of these trucks, reversing and flipping them to convert them into cabovers, which allowed for better weight distribution when hauling race cars. He also briefly mentions the Ford Aeromax trucks that Ford sent for Junior Johnson's team to try.

Goal: Share experiences and details from his time as a NASCAR hauler.

Tools and materials

  • Ford Aeromax Truck Ford — Sent by Ford for testing as a potential hauler
  • Kenworth K100 Cabover Truck Kenworth — Hauling NASCAR race cars
  • Peterbilt 359 Truck Peterbilt — Hauling NASCAR race cars
  • Race Car Transporters — Transporting NASCAR race cars

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>> What kind of truck did you drive at Junior Johnson's? >> A 359. When I started out driving me and Henry Benfield we went to California on the had a K100 just like that. Big sleeper. And then in '84 Peterbilt, Darrell Waltrip was driving for us and Peterbilt gave us two 359s with big KT600s on them. We went 14th from 11th to 12th. Man, did that thing fly. Had 12 520 things in them. We took the 13. Henry took them and and reversed flipped the shaft counter shafts around in them and made them a triple overdrive and they would fly. >> So you had modified trucks to haul the race cars even back then. >> I worked at Junior's and when we

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