Becoming Earnhardt Vol. 9 - The Dust Settles On 1979
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The sensational driver from Kannapolis, North Carolina, Dale Earnhardt, in the Australian Racing Oldsmobile. Earnhardt continues to show the way. You can't say enough about this young driver. He made the veterans sit up and take notice of his driving style.
All right, so welcome to Episode 9 of Becoming Earned Heart, presented to you by Chevrolet. The first eight episodes of Becoming Earned Heart encompass the season. And this is a roundtable, and I have some guests with me today. My Aunt Kathy is here, and my Aunt Kay, who actually helped make the scrapbook. How you doing? I'm doing good. And y'all have been featured in the show. You've done some extra work for us to help sort of promote the series. But we'll talk about that. And also with us is crew member in 1979, Doug Reichert. Very good. Thanks, Dale. Yes, sir. Thanks for being here. I'm thankful that y'all are here, and I kind of have a lot of questions. But basically, when we started out the series, we explained how I get these two scrapbooks, Kay, and you made these back when the moment was happening, right?
Going through the 29th season. You make the scrapbooks, and they just literally just laid around the house. Under my bed. For 40 years or whatever.
For years, yes.
When you made them, do you remember making them? Do you remember those moments?
Yes, I do.
How did the Becoming Earnhardt roundtable introduce the 1979 scrapbook and guests?
I mean, I bought blue and yellow because that's the car Dale was driving at the time, the Wrangler car. And each week, you know, articles would be in the paper or either somebody would give me an article. I'd cut them out and I did not wait. I went ahead and placed them.
Where they go.
Yeah.
So anytime I had anything, I put it in the scrapbook.
Do you remember this, Kathy?
Well, credentials, anything we had extra, we gave them to Kay. Gotcha.
Because they're in there too.
Yep. Yep. She kept all credentials, tickets.
I kept my own credentials and tickets, too. I mean, for the first year or two that we went to the race, we always got passes.
And we all kept everything, but mine's in a tote somewhere. They're not in a scrapbook. They're still up in a tote up in the attic.
So this is Dad's very first year full-time. Why did you want to make the book?
Because we knew it was a big thing. Hoping, you know, this was going to be his start to something wonderful. And it just seemed like the right thing to do, to document it and remember it.
You know, you've got to realize that we watched him sacrifice an awful lot in the Sportsman Series and dirt tracking and following in Daddy's footsteps and giving up so much that when he finally got this break, I mean, I don't – I can't speak for Kay. She's the one that made this awesome scrapbooks. But I know how we all felt as a family just watching him sacrifice and try so hard, you know, try so hard to be something and make something of himself.
So the great thing about the scrapbooks is really when you open it up and you start going through them, it's perfectly in order. You did it just like you said. As the articles came out, they went in the book.
And it's a good thing I did it that way or they would not have been.
They would have been all over the place. It's a history book. Yeah. And that made it easy for me really to come. I had been talking to Mike for a couple of years about doing a show around a story. And so I had this article around the boycott of the Talladega race that happened in 69 or whenever that was. And I wanted to do a podcast around that story, you know, and really tell it in detail. But this was a better idea. Right. Obviously put right down in my lap that, you know, had this scrapbook. And I know about. I can look in a website or I can look in a magazine and find the finishing order and find the statistics. But the scrapbook had the quotes, right, from the articles. It had dad's own words. It had other drivers.
And it really gave you the temperature of the moment. and how funny it was how, like, at the start of the season, Dad's very, I just want these guys to respect me. I'm just trying to earn their respect.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:50
2
How did the Becoming Earnhardt roundtable introduce the 1979 scrapbook and guests?
1:50–5:06
3
Why did Kay make the 1979 scrapbooks and what unique material did they contain?
5:06–18:47
4
How did Doug Richert and the Osterlund crew establish credibility and teamwork in 1979?
18:47–29:52
5
What was Jake Elder’s crew chief style and how did it affect Dale Earnhardt on track?
29:52–57:34
6
How did the Bristol win celebration and family reaction shape Earnhardt’s early legacy?
57:34–1:19:55