Stapleton42Join Brian Keselowski as he unveils his modernized restoration of a legendary Dodge Ram NASCAR truck from their family Craftsman Truck Series team! In this video Brian takes us through the journey of collaborating with brother Brad Keselowski and uncle Ron Keselowski to bring this iconic piece of golden era NASCAR history back to life! As the son of Truck Series veteran Bob Keselowski and brother to RFK Racing owner Brad Keselowski, Brian pours his racing heritage and passion into every detail. Brian will be racing this former Dennis Setzer Mopar truck at Watkins Glen for the HSR NASCAR Classic series. Brian worked on the K Automotive race team at the time of this trucks life and has some VERY interesting behind the scenes stories from that era. If you enjoy this stuff and read the entire description make sure you hit subscribe to see when we post new videos!
Brian Keselowski’s Vintage Dodge Ram NASCAR Truck Resurrection! Reunited After 18 YearsStapleton422025-08-09 | Join Brian Keselowski as he unveils his modernized restoration of a legendary Dodge Ram NASCAR truck from their family Craftsman Truck Series team! In this video Brian takes us through the journey of collaborating with brother Brad Keselowski and uncle Ron Keselowski to bring this iconic piece of golden era NASCAR history back to life! As the son of Truck Series veteran Bob Keselowski and brother to RFK Racing owner Brad Keselowski, Brian pours his racing heritage and passion into every detail. Brian will be racing this former Dennis Setzer Mopar truck at Watkins Glen for the HSR NASCAR Classic series. Brian worked on the K Automotive race team at the time of this trucks life and has some VERY interesting behind the scenes stories from that era. If you enjoy this stuff and read the entire description make sure you hit subscribe to see when we post new videos!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comHistory of Dodges NASCAR Small Block Engines: Secrets Up Close With Danny GladStapleton422025-07-28 | How much does the Dodge R5P7 have in common with a Magnum 360? Lets find out! Dodge/Mopar has had several different small block engine platforms in NASCAR since the 1970s. The evolution ramped up FAST with the return of Dodge Ram to the Craftsman Truck Series in 1995 and then Winston Cup in 2001 with Evernham as the factory operation. Today we are with iconic NASCAR engine builder Danny Glad at his engine shop where he has ALL the versions of Dodge's NASCAR engines such as the R3 W8, R5 P7, and R6 P8. Danny is best known as Alan Kulwicki's engine builder in 1992, but he also has extensive knowledge on these Dodge platforms as he was involved in the Chrysler R&D work on these engines since the mid 90s. He has deep dive technical insight and interesting things to show us while he is able to explain it all in a super easy to understand way!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comLectric E Bikes XP 4.0Stapleton422025-07-27 | We love our Lectric E bikes! #adLectric E Bikes XP 3.0Stapleton422025-07-27 | Thank you to Lectric E Bikes! #adTuro Test!Stapleton422025-07-27 | Thank you Turo! #turo #adTuroStapleton422025-07-27 | Thank you Turo! #turo #adNASCARs Ultimate Underdog: Alan Kulwickis 1992 Championship Thunderbird - With Paul AndrewsStapleton422025-07-19 | THE car Alan Kulwicki used to win the 1992 Hooters 500 and capture the title over Bill Elliott (The Underbird) is in the basement of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in sad shape. AK Racing Chassis 008 sat mostly unprotected in the Hooters Las Vegas casino for many years. Layers of dust, dents, and random vandalism have taken its toll on the fateful restoration performed by then Geoff Bodine Racing employees back in 1994. Today we go over the car in detail with Alan's former crew chief Paul Andrews. He shows us the neat construction tips and tricks that made this car so effective for Alan back in 1992 along with untold stories! Shoutout to @S1apShoes for the backstory cameo!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJohn Finger’s Private Car Collection: Former IMSA Racer’s Vintage NASCAR StashStapleton422025-07-09 | John Finger is a man of all auto racing forms! He has raced vintage NASCAR stuff for 30 years but prior to that he was a veteran IMSA racer for Mazda and the rotary engine program. John also ran a lot of HillClimb and formula vee competition. During his day job as a car dealership owner, he has collected race cars, NASCAR engines, and tons of unique parts in his Greenville South Carolina race shop for the last 50 years. John has a reproduction GT40, Shelby Cobra, and some wild custom creations like an Rx8 rotary swapped Mini Cooper and street legal Dodge R5P7 powered NASCAR cart!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comThe Sketchy World of Vintage NASCAR Sales: Avoiding The Scam with Aaron BrownStapleton422025-06-28 | Aaron Brown at @TheGarageShop200 is a long time NASCAR veteran and has seen a lot of things, good and bad. Today he takes us through 3 different NASCAR cars all bought through Bring a Trailer (Sam Hornish Dodge Challenger, Kevin Harvick Goodwrench Monte Carlo, and Mark Stahl Hooters Thunderbird) to point out details that you need to pay attention to when purchasing a former NASCAR stock car on the internet. We also learn a fair amount about safety and the proper way to install certain components demonstrated by the improper installation on some of these cars here!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comDale Earnhardt Incs Secret Weapon of Restrictor Plate Domination: The Wind Tunnel EngineStapleton422025-06-13 | After Dale Earnhardt was killed in 2001, Dale Earnhardt Inc began doing their own R&D testing internally with extreme creativity. Aaron Brown used to work for the R&D program at Dale Earnhardt Inc and managed to reclaim a super unique of early 2000s NASCAR history that he helped create over 20 years ago. This "Wind Tunnel Engine" is powered by a massive electric motor and an F1r ProCharger supercharger. Specially built to draw air through a custom made airflow measurement apparatus for testing cowl pressure and airflow efficiency into the engine during wind tunnel testing. Dale Earnhardt Inc won a TON of restrictor plate races at Daytona and Talladega between 2001 and 2006 and super creative high tech devices such as this one here are a large reason why Dale jr and Michael Waltrip ran so well at the superspeedways. Huge thanks to Aaron Brown at The Garage Shop in Newton North Carolina for sharing his story!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comInside Bobby Allisons 90s NASCAR Race Shop: Jimmy Fennig Revisits HistoryStapleton422025-06-09 | Bobby Allison Motorsports opened this race shop in 1990 with Jimmy Fennig as crew chief. Today we have both Jimmy and Jeffrey Fennig here to tell us what life was like back in the golden era! Use code STAPLETON to get 55% off your first month at Drift.codrft.info/4m05f14
After Bobby Allison's career ending crash at Pocono in 1988, a group of family and investors came together to form Bobby Allison Motorsports with the number 12 Raybestos car in the Winston Cup Series. The team was mostly comprised of former Stavola Brothers Racing crew who worked on Bobby's car over there. Jimmy Fennig (who later became known for winning with Mark Martin and Kurt Busch at Roush) became crew chief of the team. Jimmy's brother Jeffrey Fennig left his job at Jerry Gunderman's ASA team in Milwaukee and came to work for the team as a fabricator. The team had drivers such as Hut Stricklin, Jimmy Spencer, Mike Alexander, and Derrike Cope before closing its doors in 1996 due to lack of sponsorship. Today the shop in Concord NC is occupied by Rev Racing, who races in the ARCA Menards and Craftsman Truck Series. It is located right behind the former Alan Kulwicki Racing building in the complex right behind Charlotte Motor Speedway.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comBobby Dotters NASCAR Race Shop: He Lived In a Truck To Chase The Dream (It Worked)Stapleton422025-05-31 | Bobby Dotter is a NASCAR Xfinity series team owner (SS Greenlight Racing) and has a long history in the sport with roots in Chicago and the ASA series. Bobby's Dad Bob Dotter was an ARCA series regular back in the day. Bobby moved to North Carolina to pursue NASCAR racing while living in the back of a pickup truck camper in the elate 80s. Prior to that he raced for Jerry Gunderman's ASA team in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the same team Mark Martin raced for just before he went down to NASCAR as well! Bobbys first ASA win came against Dale Earnhardt so you know that comes with a great story!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comVintage NASCAR Cars With Modern Horsepower: Aaron Browns “Garage Shop” Custom Creations!Stapleton422025-05-27 | Aaron Brown worked as a NASCAR crew member for over 20 years before starting "The Garage Shop" out of the garage at his house, hence the name. Now over 10 years later Aaron and his team are doing high tech projects with OEM level R&D precision. They have everything from vintage NASCAR cars, landspeed Bonneville racers, to drag and drive turbo cars! Aaron spent time working at Dale Earnhardt Incorporated and Evernham Motorsports, where he gained a ton of experience working in the wind tunnel. They leveraged this experience with their R6P8 powered 1970 Dodge Daytona Bobby Isaac tribute and Ford FR9 powered Torino Talladega. Modern tube chassis and engines wearing 1970 sheetmetal. You will find a lot of "classic meets modern" here at The Garage Shop!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comMy First Race EVER in Vintage NASCAR Monte Carlo! (Grand National Super Series)Stapleton422025-05-17 | The long anticipated day has finally come... My first stock car race EVER! What felt like being completely unprepared I have only driven this car a couple times before today and I have no idea what will happen. Let's find out!
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This is the first race of the Grand National Super Series season at Newport Speedway in Tennessee with familiar faces from past videos in the field such as Jeremy Mayfield, AJ Henriksen, and Bob Schacht. The cars are former NASCAR Cup or Busch series cars, ARCA cars, or Hooters Pro Cup cars. My @Pennzoil car was originally a 2004 Joe Gibbs Racing Monte Carlo driven by Bobby Labonte, Joey Logano, and Aric Almirola. #Pennzoil #Since1913 #LongMayWeDrive
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comThe Biggest Vintage Race of The Year Is NO JOKE! Old NASCAR Cars and Shelby Mustangs Unhinged!Stapleton422025-04-30 | Thanks to Turo for sponsoring today's adventure! Head to https://turo.yt.link/3qr0LdQ to rent through Turo!
"The Mitty" is an annual event hosted by Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) at Road Atlanta. This is the biggest event of the year for vintage racers of both NASCAR cars and production cars alike. They all want to be here and the ALL want to run as good as they can. These guys take museum quality cars and run the absolute snot out of them, wheel to wheel. SOMETIMES bad things happen...
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comRockinghams NASCAR Return: Behind The Scenes! Former Ghost Track Back In Action!Stapleton422025-04-21 | Come behind the scenes at Rockingham Speedway's return to NASCAR with the Craftsman Truck Series and Xfinity Series races! We recorded several videos here back in 2021 capturing the history and the very beginning of revitalization efforts for the track. Back then the future was uncertain but we always hoped NASCAR would return, and now it is. Thank you to Black's Tire and the Benton family for allowing us the opportunity to capture the first green flag here in decades up close! We also get a special cameo from our friend Kenny Wallace, and some unique "then vs now" comparisons from past videos here before the repave and renovation. This was a great weekend!
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The race shop has survived almost untouched from its last race attempts in 2004 thanks to long time Donlavey shop foreman Kenneth "Ding" Bell, who now owns the building. Ding shows us around the shop where he has worked since 1969 along with a few other former crew members. Mark Irving brought his 1993 Forth Thunderbird raced by Bobby Hillin and Mike Wallace over to the shop to add to the already mega nostalgic effect of the shop tour. There's leftover Heilig Meyers crew uniforms and all kinds of stuff still hanging around inside! Donlavey Racing is best known for the 70s Truxmore sponsored cars, Ken Schrader's big break in the Red Baron Pizza car, and the Heilig Meyers cars with Dick Trickle. Junie used to work on garbage trucks during the day and the volunteer employees would work on race cars at night!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comInsane Private Racing Museum! Phil Combs Shows Us His Massive Collection of NASCAR HistoryStapleton422025-03-01 | Phil Combs has a family history in NASCAR with both his parents working in the sport and archiving items of the era. Located in his backyard, is the Combs Family Museum! It is just a normal 30x60 garage that seems unassuming on the outside but is PACKED with racing artifacts, documents, and memorabilia! Phil's father Roby Combs was a flagman in the early days of NASCAR competition and his mother sold tickets to races. They began this collection with Phil was a young boy preserving programs and brochures from some of the earliest races in NASCAR history. Over the years Phil's collection has grown through donations and items on loan from the greater racing community to feature artifacts from Jack Ingram to AJ Foyt! Today we bring Phil a surprise with Bill Elliott's final nascar race fire suit from 2018 courtesy of Mike Beam!
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Many people may think TransAm Racing is a series full of Pontiac Trans Am Firebirds, or just have no idea what it is in general. TransAm is America's oldest road racing series that, much like NASCAR, originated from lightly modified production vehicles. Where TransAm and NASCAR split in their philosophy is TransAm TA1 does NOT have a large rulebook, only basic requirements. The approach to the car construction, materials, engines, and driveline is wide open for ingenuity! There are no Spec Cars in TA1 and no two cars are alike unless they were built by the same shop. Pancho Weaver here has been fabricating race cars almost all his life, starting with Parnell Jones in high school for off road racing. He raced in the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series before moving into TransAm racing where he has been for over 30 years. Pancho also worked for Dale Earnhardt Inc spearheading the in house chassis fabrication program. You may remember the TA1 car in AJ Henriksen's shop from our previous video, that car was built right here by Pancho Weaver!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comInside a Massive Private Race Car Collection: Vintage NASCAR to TransAm! (AJ Henriksens Garage)Stapleton422025-02-14 | The Engineered Components Co warehouse in Elgin Illinois houses a large collection of vintage NASCAR race cars. AJ Henriksen shows us what they have stored inside such as this Days of Thunder Cole Trickle Lumina! Go to http://www.hometitlelock.com/stapleton42 and use promo code STAPLETON to get a 30-day FREE trial of Triple Lock Protection and a FREE title history report!
AJ Henriksen raced in the ARCA series for a long timed has long been associated with NASCAR veteran Bob Schacht (who also makes an appearance in this video!) AJ and Bob run the Grand National Super Series, which some of you may know that is the series that I am competing in this year with the former JGR Monte Carlo I just finished building. The ECC headquarters here used to be home to Chicago Armor and Limousine until 1999. Much of the limousine assembly line components are still visible in the shop today!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comChicagos Abandoned Racetrack Nobody Knows About - Inside Forgotten Meadowdale RacewayStapleton422025-02-06 | Today we explore the grounds of Chicago's Meadowdale Raceway, a 3.27 mile long road course built in 1958 and abandoned in 1969. Mark Donohue won the final major Trans Am event here in 1968 with the famous 67 Penske Camaro. Many other racing icons found success here such as Augie Pabst, Harry Heuer, and Fred Lorenzen to name a few. We meet with local racer AJ Henriksen and Midwest Racing Preservation Association (MIRPA) director Linda Daro to get the inside details on how this forgotten racetrack used to work back in the day. The property is now known as Raceway Woods preserve and is open to hiking with bike trails as well. Linda obtained special permission for us to explore the grounds with motorized vehicles which are otherwise not allowed. Thousands of Chicago area residents drive past this place every day and have no idea that it exists!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comRobert Huffmans Race Shop History Tour: Toyotas ORIGINAL NASCAR Champion!Stapleton422025-01-23 | Robert Huffman won 5 NASCAR Goody's Dash titles and helped Toyota join NASCAR in the early 2000s! Go to tryfum.com/STAPLETON or scan the QR code and use code STAPLETON to get your free FÜM Topper when you order your Journey Pack today
Huffman Racing in Claremont North Carolina is currently home to @LandonHuffmanRacing Late Model Stock racing operation, but the compound started out with his father Robert and grandfather JV Huffman Sr! Robert raced at the Hickory Motor Speedway in the 1980s before moving onto the Dash series of NASCAR where he raced a Pontiac Sunfire for many years with great success. The race shop Landon uses today was built on top of a tennis court and retains its asphalt floors along with Robert's "abandoned" time capsule trophy room!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comDick Trickles 1969 Mustang & Mark Martins Camaro at Historic Auto Attractions Museum!Stapleton422025-01-15 | Wayne Lensing shows us Dick Trickle's record setting 1970 Mustang fastback and Mark Martin's ASA Camaro up close! Wayne (best known for Lefthander Chassis) takes us around the Illinois Stock Car Hall of Fame museum within his Historic Auto Attractions museum!
There are only a few surviving examples of short track legend Dick Trickle's early race cars, and maybe only a couple Mustangs. Wayne spared no expense restoring this car after purchasing it from Ken Schrader and Dick himself! Wayne Lensing is a racing legend in his own capacity as well having founded Lefthander Chassis manufacturing thousands of race car frames over the last 40 years. This museum is located within the greater Historic Auto Attractions Museum that we have featured in a previous video!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comRicky Rudd Bought His Old NASCAR Road Course Car Back! (Bonus IROC Dodge Daytona)Stapleton422024-12-20 | When you think of NASCAR "golden era" road course racing in the 1990s and early 2000s there is one man who is known for his road course footwork than any other driver... Ricky Rudd. This Ford C3 powered 2002 Taurus from Robert Yates Racing is the car that not only holds the distinction of Ricky's final race win, but ALSO the final race win for Robert Yates Racing's (formerly Ranier Racing's) iconic number 28 car. This particular car was also a Tide sponsored car originally built by Ricky's own team before he went to drive for RYR. There are several unique features and modifications made to the chassis by crew chief Fatback McSwain that make it stand out compared to other road racers of the time. Ricky goes into details about the specifics of his pedal configuration and racing seat positions for optimal road racing performance. The other car is the body from Ricky's 1992 IROC series champion year Dodge Daytona, which is an absolute UNICORN car in IROC world. The Daytona bodies just do not exist anymore!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comInside Alan Kulwickis Private Trophy Room & Museum in Greenfield WisconsinStapleton422024-12-14 | Kulwicki Park in Greenfield Wisconsin is home to the Brooks Pavilion, which houses the Alan Kulwicki Trophy room and many other artifacts from Alan's home and racing career! The Pavilion is NOT open to the public (only for rented events via the Lions Club) so today we show you what is inside with one of the founding members!
After the Hooters plane crash on April 1, 1993 the efforts began moving to create a memorial to Alan in his hometown and build a place to keep all of his trophies and memorabilia since Alan does not have any living relatives. Bob Trinastic was part of the group who made that happen and also went to Alan's house to retrieve the artifacts donated by his father and heir Gerald Kulwicki. Bob shows us exclusive photos he took inside Alan's house that shows the exact condition of how the house was left after the plane crash. Alan had no trophy room or anything on display inside his home, it was all stuffed into a small room beside his garage with sheets over the trophies. Including his 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship Trophy! Today they are on display and under proper care from the Greenfield Lions Club.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comBobby Labonte Explores Bill Davis Racings First NASCAR Race Shop with Crew Chief Chris HusseyStapleton422024-12-10 | Bobby Labonte may be known for the Joe Gibbs Racing 18 car, but he made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut with Bill Davis Racing in 1993 based out of this very building in Thomasville North Carolina! Go to bit.ly/41msJpd and use promo code STAPLETON for Mando’s Holiday Bundles. They are a great deal for new and returning customers AND just for my followers, Mando is offering an extra $5 off plus Free US Shipping on orders over $30. Thanks to Mando for sponsoring this video!
In 1994 his crew chief was Chris Hussey who met us at the building to see what it looks like today and paint the picture of how it looked back in the 1990s glory days of NASCAR! Bill and Gail Davis the car owners started this race team with Mark Martin as the driver in the late 80s. Then Jeff Gordon became the driver for BDR in the Baby Ruth car with a young Ray Evernham as his crew chief. At the same time Mark Martin started his iconic Winn Dixie number 60 Busch Series team out of this same building with his cars being worked on side by side with the Gordon/Evernham Baby Ruth car! Mark and Bill Davis go way back from their hometown of Batesville Arkansas. Bill worked for Mark's father Julian Martin's trucking company (J Mar Express) before starting his own trucking company which he used to form this race team and continues to operate today.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comOne Mans INSANE Car Collection! Presidential Cars and Joseph Stalins Armored Packard! (Full Tour)Stapleton422024-12-07 | Tucked away in Roscoe Illinois you will find a place called Historic Auto Attractions, and it is far from your ordinary roadside tourist stop. Wayne Lensing, best known for Lefthander Chassis race cars, has amassed what is probably the most incredible private collection of famous cars and artifacts in the entire world outside of the Smithsonian Institute. He stared with a Cadillac once owned by Howard Hughes that fueled an unstoppable snowball that includes obscure cars like Miss Belvedere the 1957 time capsule car from Tulsa! Wayne has under one roof a vehicle owned or used by almost every US President since cars were invented (like Ronald Reagan's Cadillac limousine and even Ulysses S Grant's Carriage). He has cars of Soviet Union leaders like Josef Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Nikolai Khruschev. You can also find one of Elvis Presley's cars alongside pieces of James Dean's Porsche. He also has John F Kennedy's Security Service Cadillac "Queen Mary" that was directly behind his 1963 Lincoln Continental in the final motorcade with an entire section of the massive facility dedicated to Kennedy's personal items and artifacts relating to some of the most significant events in modern world history!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comKen Schraders Hometown History Tour: The Early Days Before NASCAR in St. LouisStapleton422024-11-28 | Ken Schrader's Home town of Valley Park and Fenton Missouri (greater St. Louis area). Kenny's father Bill Schrader had an auto repair shop right next to the now defunct Lake Hill Speedway where he raced for many years against other future NASCAR drivers Rusty, Kenny, and Mike Wallace! (Crew Chief Paul Andrews is also from Valley Park).
Today we ride with Ken in his Nissan Cube to various locations around these areas to see the homes his family lived in and the stories that come with them. We also get to meet Ken's sister Sharon, brother in law Pat Walsh, and cousin Ed. The first "K Schrader World Headquarters" shop where Ken and Pat built many cars including the famous Red Baron Pizza dirt late models. We also get to see Ernie Jumper's shop where Impressive Chassis was started and the former Sieveking's shop where Ken raced USAC stock car series with a Ford Granada in the early 1980s before going to NASCAR to drive for Elmo Langley and later Junie Donlavey in the Winston Cup Series.
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comBrad Keselowskis Hometown History Tour: Inside His Former Family Race Shops!Stapleton422024-11-17 | Take a ride with NASCAR Driver/Team Owner Brad Keselowski as he shows us where he grew up in Rochester Hills Michigan!
Before becoming a NASCAR Cup Series driver and co owner of RFK Racing, Brad's father and uncle both raced in NASCAR but that does not mean he had it easy. Brad shows us his hometown to see where the Keselowski racing family legacy was forged! (and where some kid mischief occurred) Video sponsored by BRUNT: bruntworkwear.com/STAPLETON Use code "STAPLETON" for $10 off your first order of $60 or more
Brad is very likely to be the first NASCAR driver to get a start by Sim Racing, which originated in the basement of the family home visited in the beginning of the video. Brad's father Bob Keselowski is best known for his number 29 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Dodge Ram but he also raced in ARCA in the 80s and early 90s. Brad's uncle Ron Keselowski drove in the NASCAR Cup Series and USAC stock cars in the 1970s using Mopar products as well. The original race shop Ron and Bob raced the famous Charger's out of still stands and is a stop on our tour!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comLarry Pollards Abandoned Go Kart Track & Historic NASCAR Busch Series CollectionStapleton422024-11-02 | Behind the former Harry Gant Steakhouse in Taylorsville NC is Larry Pollard's LP Gear shop and this epic go kart track covered in kudzu. Larry grew up racing on Canada's west coast before moving to NC in 1981 to work for Richard Childress, eventually having his own Busch Grand National driving career after a stint as Richard Petty's crew chief. Larry is the first Canadian to win a BGN series race and found himself in the Skoal Bandit 7 car. In 1988 he suffered a near fatal accident at Dover and founded his LP Gear service and the Pollard Raceway kart track shortly after recovering. Today Larry and his son Chase Pollard are most known for their work building transmissions and rear ends for short track racing. Chase Pollard is Harry Gant's grandson and the compound is found on the appropriately named Bandit street.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJeremy Mayfield Still Racing After NASCAR: Behind The Scenes of His Championship Race!Stapleton422024-10-22 | Jeremy Mayfield is the Grand National Super Series Champion! They use vintage Gen 4 NASCAR race cars on short tracks. Take an inside look at Jeremys race day. Fimed at Dominion Raceway in Virginia. FlexiSpot is having a Fall Sale now. Use my code ’’C750'' to get an extra $50 off on the C7 chair. Buy more, save more. FlexiSpot C7MAX ergonomic chair: bit.ly/3UeuXlQ -US bit.ly/3YqNRZr -Canada
In 2009 Jeremy Mayfield's life changed forever. No longer allowed to compete in NASCAR races he has found other forms of racing to compete in over the years. Most recently he has joined the Grand National Super Series where they compete on short tracks across the southeast with the fan favorite generation 4 race cars! This is the most affordable form of racing for these type of cars and it is also extremely fun to watch! Featuring a guest appearance from Chase Pollard, who is the son of Larry Pollard and grandson of Harry Gant! The race cars can use almost any engine. Several are powered by the Chevy SB2 such as Jeremy's. My own car has a Dodge R5P7 engine while others are using LSX based platforms or even the classic SBC!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJeremy Mayfields Garage: The Car That Rattled Dale Earnhardts Cage & Redneck ShenanigansStapleton422024-10-11 | Jeremy Mayfield has endured the most well known fall from NASCAR fame in the modern era. Most of us know the story...but what has he been up to for the last 10 years? Today we find out! He is currently racing in the Grand National Super Series with his own car and has kept some significant artifacts from his racing career, including the Penske Ford Taurus from Pocono 2000 when he "rattled Dale Earnhardt's cage" a bit. Jeremy also shows us his pet pigs and launches his mechanic into a pond!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comLake Speeds Final Ride: Running His 1993 NASCAR Ford Thunderbird Wide Open (In Car Cameras)Stapleton422024-09-28 | Retired NASCAR driver and World Champ Kart racer Lake Speed hops in his 1992 Ford Thunderbird race car for the final time today. Likely the only man to claim he beat both Ayrton Senna and Dale Earnhardt in the field, Lake had his vintage stock car sitting for over 20 years until we asked him if he could still drive it during the shop tour video. That turned into a whole engine rebuild tech series with the authentic Ford C3 engine Lake had for the car. Now two years later his third track day with his faithful chassis named Jobe, he is calling it a career when it comes to stock car racing. Fortunately someone showed up with a 2015 Hendrick Motorsports Jimmie Johnson car to give Lake his final showdown!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comSurprising Mark Martin With Lost Trophy! Inside 1980s Wisconsin Race Shop Shared With Alan KulwickiStapleton422024-09-21 | Before Mark Martin made his rise to NASCAR he raced in the ASA series for Jerry Gunderman's All Star Racing team in Franklin Wisconsin. Originally founded in 1983 for Bobby Allison's part time ASA schedule with Jimmy and Jeffrey Fennig doing the cars, Alan Kulwicki ran some races for the team when Bobby wasn't racing. They went full time in 1985 with Mark in the Miller Brewing sponsored car. In 1985 Mark's team was on one side of the shop and Alan Kulwicki had the other. Only a thin wall separated the Martin/Fennig brothers team from Alan's independent operation and there was some competitive tension between the two future hall of fame racers. The current owner of the building, Rob Christiansen, saved a handful of busted up trophies from the dumpster when he bought the building from Jerry Gunderman many years ago. He saved them not knowing what they were... until today! One of them was won by Mark in 1985 and he only had one ASA trophy in his own collection survive over the years. We brought the pieces with us to IROC at Lime Rock to surprise Mark with the discovery! Huge thanks to Rob and his son's Milweb1 Vinyl Shop for allowing us to film and keeping those trophies safe for many years!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJack Roush Racing Museum Full Tour: Legendary Ford Racing History From NASCAR to NHRAStapleton422024-09-10 | The Roush Collection in Livonia Michigan is home to all things significant to automotive and racing icon Jack Roush! Here you will find everything from the early Gapp & Roush NHRA drag racing days, 24 hours of Daytona car driven by Paul Newman, NASCAR cars, and Ford Concept vehicles like the 2004 Ford GT test mule! Historian Tyler Wolfe takes us into the private storage areas with iconic driver suits, crew uniforms, Jack's personal hat stash, and new old stock merchandise. Jack's daughter Susan Roush McClenaghan shows us some of the drag racing cars of her father's early days and the private workshop with her current supercharged NMRA Mustangs, one of which runs on propane! We also get a special cameo from Mark Martin himself telling the story of chassis JR17, his innovative road course Thunderbird from the 1990s! The car itself is still in original condition from the Suzuka Japan NASCAR race in 1997!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comNASCAR Classic Series FIRST Race: Vintage Stock Cars Officially Home! (VIR Road Course)Stapleton422024-08-31 | The Historic Stock Car Racing Association (HSCRA) has been operating under the vintage race events hosted by HSR and SVRA for many years now in varying numbers. In recent years the interest in the Gen 4 NASCAR race car platform has grown so much that NASCAR itself has taken notice and officially created the NASCAR Classic division! This group will serve as a support race for some NASCAR Cup Series road course race and IMSA race weekends! This particular event is the very first one to carry the banner in conjunction with the IMSA race at Virginia International Raceway. Is this the beginning of something great?
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJimmy Spencers 90s NASCAR Busch Series Shop: Former Home of Mr Excitement! (Spencer Motor Ventures)Stapleton422024-08-14 | Get 50% off your first order of Sundays: sundaysfordogs.com/stapleton or use code STAPLETON at checkout.
Jimmy Spencer was one of the the most memorable NASCAR drivers the golden era of the 1990s. This shop was most known for his Busch Series team, Spencer Motor Ventures, with the Zippo car and Schneider Trucking car of Dick Trickle. In 1989 he built this building after moving down from Pennsylvania to serve as his home base for all things racing. Jimmy rented the shop to Rod Osterlund where he drove the Heinz Ketchup car before absorbing Osterlund's equipment after several missed rent payments. Michael Kranefuss also started his Winston cup series team here with driver John Andretti! Jimmy built a bigger shop in 1999 and eventually sold this shop to someone else. He has not been back inside in a long time...until today!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comJohnny Bensons Hometown Time Capsule: Inside The Benson Familys Backyard Race Shop!Stapleton422024-08-03 | Johnny Benson Jr became a fabricator before the age of 10 by working with his father John Sr, who is a local racing legend himself. The whole Benson family fabricated race cars and parts in the garage behind their house in Grand Rapids Michigan. Johnny Jr ran late models and the ASA series before going to NASCAR where he became a Busch Series Champion in the BACE Motorsports car. He raced in the cup series for several years before going to the Craftsman Truck Series where he won a championship in 2008. The entire time Johnny's parents continued to make race car parts in the shops right here!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comIROC Returns! Legendary Drivers Reunited With Historic IROC Race Cars! (Behind The Scenes)Stapleton422024-07-24 | Ray Evernham and Rob Kaufmann recently announced that they had acquired the rights to the historic International Race Of Champions (IROC) series that Penske had started in the early 70s and run until 2006. Since then its fleet of race cars driven by the biggest names in worldwide motorsports have been scattered across the globe to live different lives. Ray and his team have been painstakingly tracking down as many IROC cars as possible to bring them back to their original glory. July 2024 at Lime Rock Park marks the first official event under the IROC banner since 2006 with many of the former IROC racers coming to drive one of the historic cars on track, sometimes even from their personal collection! Among are names you may recognize! Mark Martin Bobby Labonte Al Unser Jr Geoff Bodine Ken Schrader Greg Biffle Davy Jones Boris Said Ron Hornaday Scott Speed Mike Skinner Danny Sullivan Jay Signore
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comRay Evernhams IROC Race Car Fleet Getting Ready For IROC at Lime Rock Reunion!Stapleton422024-07-15 | Ray Evernham has led the effort to bring the iconic IROC racing back after being dormant since 2006! The very first IROC event takes place at Lime Rock Park July 18-20 2024 and the cars in this video will be there! Richard Childress sent his ultra rare Dale Earnhardt raced gen 3 Camaro IROC race car over to Ray to participate in the historic revival event!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comIT RUNS! Building My 2006 NASCAR Monte Carlo: Dodge R5P7 First Startup! (Oil Lines and Wiring)Stapleton422024-07-10 | Have you ever wanted to see a former NASCAR race car be built for ACTUAL racing with professional guidance and not just someone doing it clickbait shenanigans? This is the place for you! I am building this car to go short track racing in Grand National Super Series! This car is a 2004 Ronnie Hopkins chassis used by Joe Gibbs Racing from 04-07. It was driven by Bobby Labonte, Aric Almirola, Joey Logano (who won Busch East title in 07 with it), and Jeff Anton.
In this video tackle the dry sump oil lines and other plumbing needed on the car. I also change the connectors on the Dodge R5P7 distributor to connect to the existing MSD ignition system in preparation for the very first startup of the engine in this car! (spoiler alert: IT RUNS!)
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comVintage NASCAR Monte Carlo Build: Dodge R5P7 Engine Install with Doug Richert! (Part 1)Stapleton422024-07-04 | Have you ever wanted to see a former NASCAR race car be built for ACTUAL racing with professional guidance and not just someone doing it clickbait shenanigans? This is the place for you! I am building this car to go short track racing in Grand National Super Series! This car is a 2004 Ronnie Hopkins chassis used by Joe Gibbs Racing from 04-07. It was driven by Bobby Labonte, Aric Almirola, Joey Logano (who won Busch East title in 07 with it), and Jeff Anton.
In this video I start from ground zero after finishing the bodywork and figure out how to get the Dodge R5P7 engine mounted in the chassis which was configured for a small block chevy. Iconic NASCAR crew chief Doug Richert helps keep me on track and provides invaluable advice on what I should and should not do!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comDarlington Raceway Stock Car Museum Tour! Legendary NASCAR Cars and Personal ArtifactsStapleton422024-06-13 | Originally built in 1965 as the Joe Weatherly Stock Car Museum, Darlington Raceway's home of history is likely the oldest NASCAR museum open and often completely forgotten about! We take a tour with Russell Branham who now works in the front office and has been in NASCAR since the late 1980s, starting his career at Darlington Raceway! Some noteworthy items inside include the 1985 Ford Thunderbird Bill Elliott used to win the Winston Million Dollar bonus, Dale Earnhardt's 1996 Daytona 500 car, Cotton Owens/David Pearson Dodge, and personal artifacts from almost every legend in NASCAR and beyond!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comBarn Find 1980s NASCAR Thunderbird & Buick Saved From Time! Abandoned After Days of Thunder FilmingStapleton422024-06-06 | Hidden in South Carolina we recover a once race ready Bud Moore Ford Thunderbird used during Days of Thunder and a Bobby Allison Miller Buick Regal!
Carlus Gann of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Stock Car class called me up and said "Hey I bought this old Ricky Rudd Thunderbird that has been stuffed in a trailer in the woods for 30 years. Do you want to come film it?" Of course I said yes! The car was a race ready engine Bud Moore Engineering 1989 Thunderbird that was used during the filming of Days of Thunder in 89-90. During the filming it was banged up and needed new fenders. The owner took it home, repaired the damaged bodywork to primer, and shoved in a trailer. As we see it today is exactly how it was left in 1990 engine and all! The other car painted as a Bobby Allison Miller High Life Buick Regal of Stavola Bros racing was left in an old service station recently recovered and purchased by Carlus friend Mike!
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comIndy 500 Legends Testing Day: Inside Access! Classic Race Winning Cars Back On TrackStapleton422024-05-29 | Get 15% off your Carly purchase with code "Stapleton" (auto-applied) until 30 June when you click: bit.ly/Carly_Stapleton Carly's scanner and free version of the app with standard OBD features are compatible with cars that have an OBD2 port. To see if Carly's advanced features — like coding or manufacturer-level diagnostics — should work with your car, make sure to check out their website. To access these additional features, you'll need to get their yearly license.
This is a process most never get to see! Before the Indianapolis 500 begins, the pre race ceremony has a parade lap with historic cars driven by the legends themselves. Mario Andretti, Al Unser Jr, Lyn St. James, Simon Pagenaud, and others hop in a few days before to make sure their car is working properly. We drove up there for our friend Luke Edwards of the IMS museum to show us around and give an inside look at how these museum cars are fired up and brought back to the track that made them famous! Everything from a 1909 Buick originally driven by Louis Chevrolet to Penske's Gil de Ferran 2003 Indy 500 winner are here making noise in the same place.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comClassic NASCAR Stock Cars Take Road Atlanta: Racing Hard and Mistakes Were MadeStapleton422024-05-18 | Every year the Historic Sportscar Racing group hosts The Mitty at Road Atlanta. Today we went to check out the NASCAR Stock Car class that had something like 38 competitors on track at the same time! We have everything from authentic survivor cars, recreations, and some that are purpose built for these events like the one Joe Nemechek has. There has never been one place to hear every type of engine and exhaust combo in one place! A live example of the old superspeedway X pipe sound compared to the 1987 Monte Carlo Aerocoupe of James Hylton. I would highly recommend attending an HSR event if you are into classic NASCAR! Mike Helton was even walking around in the pits that day.
📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comDarlington Raceway History Tour! Inside Forgotten Details of NASCARs Most Unique TrackStapleton422024-05-08 | Download Raid for free iOS/Android/PC t2m.io/Stapleton42_Raid Darlington Raceway is more than Throwback weekend for NASCAR. Most older racetracks have been updated heavily over the years but not Darlington! The near forgotten original frontstretch still looks just like it did 30 years ago! A quick walk to the other side of the track is like going back in time to experience the original setting of the Southern 500 for yourself. The original 1950 ticket office is still being used today! We take a deep dive with Josh Harris and Russell Branham to explore the track property up close. We show you the details and buildings you don't get to see on TV!
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📩 Business Inquiries: mdstapleton42@gmail.comRon Hornadays Trophy Shed & Garage: NASCAR Truck Series Legend Still Building Race Cars!Stapleton422024-04-16 | Ron Hornaday is a four time NASCAR Truck Series Champion One of few who's name defines an entire era, becoming a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame and named one of its 75 greatest drivers. He was hired to race trucks by Dale Earnhardt in 1995 and is well known for driving the NAPA Auto Parts 16 truck. He later assisted a young Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson with their own transitions to NASCAR world. After a couple years between AJ Foyt's cup car and RCR in the Busch Series, Ron eventually went to race for Kevin's KHI truck team in the famous 33 where he found massive success and cemented his legend status. Unlike many retired drivers of the golden era, Ron never changed who he was after retirement. He continues to fabricate race cars along with some hot rods for the street while mentoring the next generation of racers on and off the track.