Ep.283 – Dinner(s) with the Rileys: Bob and Family, Pt.2
Dinner with Racers
Dinner with Racers
5.0 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Following our video series “Dinner(s) with the Rileys,” currently available on MotorTrend, we offer a series of long-form, less-edited editions of each of our sit downs. Our second is with Bob Riley, along with wife Bea, son Bill, and Bill’s wife Mary…in what would turn out to be Bob Riley’s last recorded interview. A true legend of the sport, Bob’s career has spanned from helping to build Saturn V rockets, to working on the historic Ford GT MK IV, to designing Indy 500 winning cars for AJ Foyt, all the way becoming the most successful car designed in the history of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Bob’s story is one-of-a-kind. Dinner was served at Bob and Bea Riley’s home in Mooresville, NC, with the song “The Dreamer” by John VIncent taking us out. Thank you to Continental Tire for making it happen!
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| 0:00.0 | Bob Riley and the Riley family. |
| 0:02.5 | Part two. |
| 0:03.7 | Meal. |
| 0:05.9 | All right, we're going to start in five, four, three, two. |
| 0:13.2 | During a lot of this bill is now, like even as a teenager, sort of helping you a little bit |
| 0:17.2 | as your programs are growing. |
| 0:19.5 | So when I was a teenager, I was very active with |
| 0:23.6 | stuff that wouldn't necessarily be considered. It was fun stuff, but it was very career-oriented |
| 0:28.4 | stuff with some of the racing I was doing and professional sports I was involved in, et cetera. |
| 0:33.7 | My mother used to get on my case about not having enough fun and working too hard even as a 15 or 16 year old. |
| 0:39.3 | Were you ever on Bill's case that he needed to be more social or be less focused on work? |
| 0:44.3 | No way. |
| 0:46.3 | No. |
| 0:47.3 | Oh no, Bill was very social. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay. |
| 0:50.3 | I mean, there were people coming to see him, calling him, wanting him to do this and that. |
| 0:55.8 | I had a good friend group in Detroit. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.3 | Yes. |
| 0:58.8 | I did. |
| 0:59.6 | Yes. |
| 1:00.6 | What's the favorite thing you had to? |
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