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The Dale Jr. Download

DJD Classics w/ Rusty Wallace: The Intimidator's Most Respected Rival

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps no other driver in NASCAR history earned a similar off-track relationship with Dale Earnhardt as Rusty Wallace.  Unsurprisingly, it was Rusty's gritty racing style that garnered that admiration, and while Dale Sr. and Rusty stayed fierce racing rivals, they also spent many years vacationing together. In this episode of DJD Classics, which originally aired 3/25/2019, hear all about Rusty's rise to the top of the racing ranks, from his initial big break to capping off a Hall of Fame career. Rusty recounts his decision to retire early and pursue another passion of his - calling races on TV and MRN.

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0:00.0

The following is a production of Dirty Home Media.

0:04.3

Hey, let's rewind a DJD classic. Enjoy.

0:20.3

All right, so we've got our guest here, Rusty Wallace.

0:22.9

How you doing, Rusty?

0:23.7

Everything's good.

0:24.5

First time I've been over here. I like your room. It's pretty cool. Yeah, it is. So what are you doing these days? Well, car dealership stuff. A lot of car dealership stuff. I remember my boss man, Mr. Penske, told me, said,

0:36.0

hey, man, you're going to quit driving one of these days.

0:37.8

You better have you act together ready to go.

0:39.9

I said, I hear you.

0:41.0

And so, you know, 28 years ago, man, it's been a long time, a long time. My first deal was a Pontiac dealership in Tennessee. And a guy calls me up and said, hey, man, why don't you come over for an autograph session. So I went there, we had like 1,500 people online. And then I went to Bristol, I won to race.

0:57.7

And he calls me up and said, hey, man, why don't you come over for an autograph session? So I went there and we had like 1,500 people online.

0:55.6

And then I went to Bristol.

0:56.5

I won the race.

0:57.7

And he calls me up and he said, hey, would you come again? I said, yeah. He said, okay, I'll show up. And he says, hey, man, you know that buddy you're Dale Earnhardt? He said, would you bring him to? And I said, all right, let me look.

1:07.8

And so I called them up.

1:08.7

And I said, hey, you want to go to the Chevrolet dealership or this Pontiac dealership with me?

1:12.9

I think I'm going to buy it or be a partner in it. I said, all right, let me look. And so I called him up. And I said, hey, you want to go to the Chevrolet dealership or does Pontiac dealership with me?

1:12.9

I think I'm going to buy it or be a partner in it.

1:15.5

He says, okay.

1:16.3

He said, if you go to yours, if I go to yours, you got to come to mine. I said, all right. So he flew up there and me and Dale back there 28 years ago doing autograph sessions of my Pontiac dealership.

1:25.7

So that's where it started.

1:26.7

But then we built more stores.

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