TMCP #418: Clay Millican – Becoming an NHRA Top Fuel Drag Racer by the Definition of “The Want To!”
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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This week is a very special show is with NHRA Top Fuel superstar Clay Millican! I caught up with him at SEMA 2019 and had a chance for a good long chat. His story of humble beginning to the top of Top Fuel is truly amazing, and you'll learn a phrase I hope you'll remember forever: "The Want To!" He is even a listener of The Muscle Car Place and Kibbe and Friends shows and his comments proved he has an insiders knowledge of the show!
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 418. |
| 0:03.6 | This week, an interview with Clay Milliken, an NHRA top fuel superstar who rose to the very peak, |
| 0:10.1 | all from a little grocery store in Tennessee, and took his first ride down the track in the general eight. |
| 0:16.0 | Everything I just told you there is true, and in this hour-long interview, you are going to learn about the key phrase, |
| 0:22.5 | the want to. You don't know that you'll ever get there, but to quote mama, you know, |
| 0:27.8 | she always said I had the want to. This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 0:38.7 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 0:44.6 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 0:51.0 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 0:57.2 | Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby. Welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. You know, I'm proud of every show, but there are some shows that I'm |
| 1:03.3 | proud of than others, and this is one of them. We have an amazing feature guest here, Clay |
| 1:09.0 | Milliken. He drives Top Fuel in the NHRA. He's a listener to the show. And like so many wonderful people, that's why I got to meet him because he is a listener to the show. What luck. This is an amazing interview. I'm pretty much going to run right to it just because of the length of it. You're going to be so inspired when you hear Clay's story. |
| 1:30.3 | That's another reason I really want to run this here in January. |
| 1:33.3 | I really can't even set it up for you. |
| 1:35.6 | Clay is the kind of person that when you have a discussion with, |
| 1:38.4 | you genuinely feel like your lifelong best friends. |
| 1:42.0 | His story, his family story, it's just amazing. Don't worry, |
| 1:46.1 | this isn't generally discussion a little bit of it is, but this is about understanding what he |
| 1:53.9 | calls, I guess what his mother calls, his mama, that's what he says, the phrase the want to. |
| 1:58.9 | And that's the only way that I can explain what you're about to be in for. |
| 2:03.0 | This is an amazing, amazing discussion. You're going to dig it. I'm very, very proud of this. |
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