Pit Lane Conversations and Racing Anecdotes

Well, look at this. I mean, these Henry Benfield, Richard Bosik, some of the best. Have you ever wanted to make tractor trailers? There they are. Those are the legendary tractor-trailer drivers. Junior Johnson, Kale Arbor, Melo Yellow, Melo Yellow. Who did you make? Anyone else besides Junior back then ? I did the best I could. I am young. 1984. I am a team leader at Levi Gar. And I keep telling you this story. I'm 22 years old and he takes an air pacifier from a nitrogen model and that little one, what was it? The little ones fell asleep in a rental car and it rained, but it's still raining . He is sleeping in a rental car. It has an air chamber. He got in line. I don't know what it was. You put that on, you put the chuck on and it turns, opens the bottle and that damn thing couldn't make it explode. The entire garage area was staring at that damn car; the rental car left. He and she were fast asleep. We were waiting for that thing to explode. That was a good day indeed. Well, anyway, listen. Did you have your camera on when I was talking? Yes, I had it. Feel free to say whatever you want. Yes, but I'm referring to Henry Benfield, one of the legendary ones, one of the great truckers, both of them died. And then Richard Boston, these two drivers and they confuse them. He's older than me. How much? He's not older than you. You need to get to know each other. Hey, you know what? Just never drink his... I've never met him before. Are you kidding? Don't drink their lemonade. I'll leave it at that. No. Hello, Winston Kelly. How are you? The voice of MRN. I just want to be like Kenny Wallace. I don't want to. You just missed out on a great story. Well, he's recording right now. This is good. Back then, MRN radio, you know, had a team like they have now, but the team was more united back then. Tell us the story of Ned Jarrett in Martinsville. Ned Jarrett was a pit reporter at Martinsville and during a commercial break, he let the booth know that he was going to have to take a one-minute break. He was going to stop talking on the radio. And about 2 minutes later, Richard Petty came down the pit lane and they forgot he had gone to the facility and came down saying, "Ned, Richard Petty is coming out of the pit lane." He was at the facility and called for the pit stop from the facility, only hearing by ear. And he said the funniest part was the guy standing next to him at the facility and his face when he saw a two-ton tire stop going to the bathroom. It's a true…