"You didn't know what you was looking at, unless you knew what you was looking at" classic line lol

Listening to old NASCAR stories is 3x more interesting and entertaining then watching a modern cup race

I love these "bending the rules" stories.

Tony Furr should be a permanent voice on this podcast. I could listen to him talk racing stories and etc all day.

I love the stories of bending the rulebook. Such a great part of the history of the sport.

"You didn't know whatcha lookin at unless you knew whatcha looking at" 😂

The transmission that Tony was referring to was made by Rankin. When you shifted into high gear, it disconnected the counter shaft inside, so the only thing rotating was the main shaft. The horsepower it freed up was 3 tenths…NASCAR immediately outlawed the transmission. It was still legal in ARCA, some guys ran it for years.

I had the privilege of my father working for Mark Martins neighbor and good friend. Back in the 90's, we would get all access pit passes, when that was still a thing. One Daytona 500, we're standing outside Marks hauler chatting. A crew member runs in, opens a cooler, and pulls out 4 shocks, we inquired why keep them on ice? The reply was, nascar tells us the required ride height, but not what temperature the shocks need to be. Always thought that was cool

We need more innovators like this in racing today. Great stories!

Wait for the day Chad Knaus, can come on and tell stories. Tony Furr is true classic.

Man I wish you could have guys like this in today's NASCAR. The racing would be so much better.

i love the Dale Jr Download. I used to watch NASCAR all the time then I just stopped and haven't watched it in years, but listening to all these Dale Jr podcasts has got me back into it. Thanks Dale Forever #3

I love Tony Furr! He worked with us all through 2015 and I enjoyed my time with him more than anything, i mean he had SOOO MANY awesome stories! I could listen to him all day! Haven't seen him since though. Miss you bud!

Tony is a great storyteller.

In the mid 90s I helped a local guy race an ARCA car. At that time most of the cars had a vacuum gauge in it measuring cowl pressure. I know for a fact that a Sneaky Pete bottle was used in many qualifying laps. The driver would hide the bottle in his firesuit and when he got in he hooked the hose from it to the hose for the cowl gauge.

Would love to hear the story of winning the Pepsi 400 with Andretti That car was so crazy dominant

I could listen to his stories all day long! He really paints a picture... Dang what professionalism Junebug to continue on with your timeline of the conversation of the parts and races after he mentions that lovely but difficult story on your Dad hopping in the car at Daytona - it's pretty amazing what your Dad was and then what you have become - two sides of a coin but both gems (he more on the racing side - you on the announcing + history side to be remembered by - both of you racers/ owners carrying on from what your Grandpops started back of your MeMaw's house shop ; ) 🏁 M in Miami

Great podcast! Back in 1999 - 2002 I worked as a CNC machinist, small mom & pop shop. We did mostly aerospace work, but a neighbor in our industrial park was a NASCAR racer. Long story short, on our night shifts, we would make parts for this guy, out of titanium, and T-6, T-7 aluminum, giving him a little extra 'edge' against his competition. It was always fun helping, and we never charged him anything, aside of a case or two of beer :)

I love hearing how these teams pushed the limits. Everyone trying something and how they did it.

"Bad-ass fast!" love Tony Furr, lol.

A damn shame Dale didn't get the chance to help Tony the next Tuesday. Much more than a shame but words won't come to describe it.

“I had a fuel cell inside of a fuel cell” -Tony Furr

"You wouldn't know what you looking at unless you knew what you were looking at" Dale Earnhardt Jr 2023

I asked Dale Sr in 90 if he hit the Nitrous at Talladega and Benne his PR man said no no no and Dale just grinned!!!!

I could listen to this all day! Some narrated clips along with these stories would be awesome.🥃

The more we can hear these "innovation" stories, the better! I just can't get enough!

Nascar is missing guys like this!

Ol' Tony Furr, Hendrick's forgotten Genius. Thank you Junior, for having TF on your ultra popular podcast, because this Man was all but forgotten, but not now! 😉👍

Crazy to think they were all running nitrous. This might just be about the absolute best talk out there about cheating things up in NASCAR. Absolutely amazing all the stuff he came up with. The fuel light was really clever. I'm sure Jr was thrilled to learn all that new stuff. Very creative to just make the NOS bottle part of the cage/support bars.

I could listen to that guy all day long.

I love it!! I wish we could go back to this in NASCAR...so much more interesting!!

bending and breaking the rules stories are the best. Tony has lots of good stories and a great voice for the podcast.

These Bending the Rules stories are always top tiered.

Man these stories about “innovation “ are great.

One of the best ones yet, he was GREAT

As he talks about his fuel cell, all I can think about is the Nascar Thunder 2003 scenario where you recreate Jerry Nadeau running out of fuel with the lead in Atlanta and you have to make the car reach the end and win.

Furr is a legend.F*cking genius.

These stories are PRICELESS AND HISTORICAL because there wasn't too many people who had "INNOVATIONS " AND THE SMARTS AND TENACITY TO PULL OFF BENDING RULES AND STILL BE FOUND LEGAL AFTER THE RACE!!!!!LOL 😂😂😂😂😂Keep these awesome entertaining stories coming Dale,They're PRICELESS TREASURED BLESSINGS for fans from way back in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Those individuals were BRILLIANT 👍😁🏁🏆🏁 and irreplaceable!!!! These stories bring back so many HAPPY MEMORIES!!! THANKS DALE 💞 🤗 🙏

Cheating stories are the best they never get old

From Metrolina to Daytona, these are great stories!

Those times (70’-early 80’s) in NASCAR were so interesting !

That is one of the best episodes yet! I’d heard his name and it was always associated with cool teams but I had NO idea he was behind so much INNOVATION!

That what racing is about. Knowing how to win. It's all about science

Putting the nitrous bottle inside the radiator tank is brilliant. You didn't have to worry about if your bottle was warm.😆

I love these old stories. 😊

"It ain't cheatin, until they catch ya doing it."

I never realize how much of an innovator he was

When Nascar was a bunch of good ole boys!

NASCAR will never have racers like these again. That was a special time.

These stories are awesome!! I love it! 👍🏻

There’s no show as interesting as when you and Mike are together. Loved this content!

Great interview, love the stories about bending or gray area of the rules. The older guys had it going on.

Cheat'n stories is one of my favorite things in racing

Man it don’t get no better than them old dogs and there tricks i could listen to it all day love it

More of this PLEASE!

Love to hear him talk about when NASCAR was great!

NOS in NASCAR, The two have never crossed my mind. LoL

Love these episodes with Tony. Some great accounts of what really went on behind the scenes back in the day.

Why i love racing and pulling tractor/truck pulling. When you go explore the "Gray" areas of the rule book 😂

In it’s entirety (whole) the best conversation/interview EVER, regarding your Father/Crew/you/racing. RAW, COURAGES!!

Idk how many guys are willing to come on and tell their stories like this but I’m here for it

Great stories from Tony. I could only imagine the way the old boys would do the magic to win races back in the day. That's why I always watch Junior's Show . He and Mike always bring the goods !!!!!!👍

In 1957 and 1958 we'd go to a tiny dirt track near Cuba NY. It was barely 1/4 mile oval. There was a driver called Doc Hocter (Hoctor?) He had a '37 ford flathead that almost won every race. He always "just" won in the late laps of a race. My dad noticed the tone of the engine would change and the exhaust pipe flame would turn blue. AND the smell of the exhaust changed. 20 years later I was reading about WW2 german fighter planes using nitrous. My brother finally crossed paths with Doc in the 80's. He asked him about his car. It turned out he was a tech sergeant in europe and was in a group that did technical research on german aircraft. He learned all about nitrous during the war. His "required" fire extinguisher was the nitrous tank.

If ya ain't cheatin, ya ain't trying.

What great interview, Tony should be in the Hall of Fame. What a great history.

I love hearing these stories

The best stories are the innovative stories. It's what made nascar nascar.

I’m going to have to watch this one five times.

I like how JR said he ain't never seen one..

Racer to official: “That guy is cheating!” Official: “How do you know that?”….Racer: “Because I’m cheating and he’s beating me!”

These are my favorite stories. I could listen to all the old guys tell tales on how they were innovators. 😂

I love these old stories! They should create a category at Hall of Fame for these guy’s creative engineering

These are the best stories. So interesting to hear all this behind the scenes talk

Loved your dad I grew up in Riverside CA saw him race slot any story about Dale I love it keep up the good work.

The nostalgia of that thumbnail. I miss that HMS 25 car. When Joe Nemechek was in the UAW Delphi Chevy, that's when I started getting into NASCAR

these are my favorite stories. Also, LOVE hearing about the innovation and the thoughts behind these ideas!

Priceless. Thank y'all!

Hearing these old guys who are genius when it comes to getting around a rule just to get an edge is great listening

I find these stories fascinating. Pulling the curtain back so we can hear how creative these guys really were and still are

Those kinds of conversations are the best! Thanks for the video 😎👍

Lol, is it true about "Fire Ball Roberts?". Everyone ran out of gas, he was still runing, lol. After the win, nascar imounpded his car on the front staight grass. Inspecters took out the gas tank and was checking this and that, no infraction. After a couple of hours, Fire Ball jumps in the car and drives away, lol.

This content is just great, the stories that go with year's past being told by the legends are truly grand.

That cool stuff learning about Dale Sr out side of racing! And what they did to win racing in the day! Pretty awesome! Theses are super hero of racing!

Love these stories!!

I was 12 when jr won his first race in texas sitting in turn 1 11 rows up. Greatest day of my racing life--finally 22 years later i get to hop in my own racecar. Listening to these old stories brings back some of the best memories of nascar in its best time

"Innovator" lol

I love these "innovation" stories so much!

I love the drama you create it really is engaging. Keep it up!!!

Thank you Jr for giving backing to nascar I am Jamie skinner the son of mike skinner my dad was a teammate with your dad at rcr we raced late model stocks together thank you for giving back to the sport with everything your doing I am a huge dale Jr fan now shoot me plug racecar solutions down in Florida

One of the best interviews

This is one of my favorite episodes now. ❤️

Now you need Ray to come back on and ask what special setup he had on Elliot’s car that sat on the pole in 01. If the 9 was faster than the 25 who was “cheating” then I’m curious on what Ray got passed tech with lol

My favorite stories are always about the “innovations”.

Great story , love all these innovative professor's that spent tons of hours making new things work ...

LEGENDARY GENIUS INNOVATIONS❤

" well imma tell ya what happened " 😂

We got busted in the mid 80's for having adjustable trailing arms. It didn't say in the rule book you couldn't have them. But it didn't say you could. That was at the track Kenny Schrader owns now.

Dale I had just given up on anything NASCAR. Racing to me just wasn't what it was and I tried to watch races but when a race without your dad on the track left a big hole then when you stopped I did also. Your podcasts however take me back to those good Ole days , teach me some interesting facts and I really enjoy it. Thanks so much and keep it coming.

A fantastic piece

This was one of the better episodes of late. Really enjoyed this