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Visiting Dale Earnhardt's Childhood Home

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We Went To Richard Childress Vineyards! (Monte Carlo Road Trip)

What happens here

The car arrives at Dale Earnhardt's childhood home. The presenter recounts the story of his first visit in 2015, where he unexpectedly met Dale's mother, Martha Earnhardt, who still lived there. He describes her as being happy to talk about her son, even interrupting a phone call to engage with them. He notes her resemblance to Dale and her passion for sharing stories and showing off trophies and memorabilia. He also mentions her passing in December, leading to the symbolic nature of this current visit. He shows a photo of himself as a child dressed as Dale Earnhardt for Halloween and a signed hero card from Martha Earnhardt.

Goal: Pay respects at a significant location

Tools and materials

  • 1972 Monte Carlo Chevrolet — Driving to the location

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so we can't do that i'm like you know how grandmas are like they like talking to people you like my grandma you get her talking about something she'll just talk and she's happy as to be that's just so i thought you know what we're here we should do that so we stopped pulled right into this parking lot right here and got out and my friend was being like real lame about he's like okay dude man i'm too scared i'm like okay well i'm gonna do it so i got out and he followed me kind of hid behind me ring the doorbell and this little old lady opens the door she looks just like dale it was like no question that that was his mom and she was on the phone and she kind of like you know puts the phone down and puts her hand over it and she said can i help you boys with something and yeah i was just like uh we were just in the area and heard you like to talk to people about dale so we stopped by to see if you were around and then her eyes kind of got bigger and she just didn't say bye to anybody she didn't say anything she just took the phone and went boop what do you boys want to know she just hung up just like that she didn't say like i'll call you back nothing like i don't know if she was on an actual phone call or what but she just like whatever she was doing didn't matter anymore so we stood there and talked to her for a while and she told us about the siding on the house and how dale paid to put that on there she's like he's standing right where you were he said mom you're gonna fix the siding on here so he came and redid that it's like stories like that about how ralph built that garage back there which is where uh that was like the first place of dei for dale's cars um it was really cool and i showed her this picture that i had of me for halloween in 2002 when i dressed up as dale earnhardt with a like my mom made me a stick-on mustache and like put tape on some black jeans they looked like the fire suit and stuff and she just thought that was the coolest thing ever so she's like you boys want to see my trophy room so she actually invited us inside the house started showing us all these sam bass pictures and a little die cast that people gave her and telling her stories and showing her pictures of her grandkids and stuff and i don't know we must have been there for half an hour 30 40 minutes and then she's like i don't get visitors that much anymore used to but not really anymore um sometimes on race weekends but rarely and i was like oh well you know we're from…

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