NASCAR legend Harry Gant reflects on career with Kyle Petty | Coffee with Kyle | Motorsports on NBC

getting my shot and anyway, it was a lot of fun, but I have to go with everyone in front, yeah, they had a bunch of Body Slam Megaforce, this whole group of them, so you want that. When they were making movies and stuff, you would come and go and hang out with him. Did he ever talk about some of the stunts he had done and stuff like that? These were some of the crazy things that he, the things that really really It's crazy when one of them, everyone sees it when Bert drives that car and whiskey, you know, white light, yeah, jumps on that barge, yeah, well Hey, that thing settled the deals, well, here comes Hale.

He's in the car, you know it doesn't say Miss 70 Miles there because of that dirt bank he built with it, well, that barge is kinda fast, no right, hey, yes, like you. Yes, yes, but it's a good shot. She broke his back. Watch the actual movie. If you see the real movie, put cameras in the camp. It's very low on the floor. He sees that car. Yes, they can't move. They have to get him out of there. He went to the doctor and his bike was broken, you know, he came back, he didn't make a dime, he didn't do any more stunts, since he comes back to finish his job, you know, no, wait, those guys are crazy, yeah, yeah, I I mean you. he thinks we're people he thinks you're crazy when you drive a race car that's crazy what made him want to have a race car have a cup car in the first place we were pretty hunched he's at a diksha speedway in atlanta yeah okay He's just down and he'd like to go, you know, maybe we'll resume racing.

I don't really know, but how come filming movies in the East was risky? Okay, yeah, yeah, anyway, he's coming in a limo with two girls, you know? then he sweetens and meets humpy will hump, invites him to leave the grand marshall, which is a short motor speedway, and then he said: i want to do something more fantastic, you know, the same radical change or something, so get a helicopter. I'll hang from your helicopter with American flight, yes, not even strong, Spangled Banner, my foot, yes, well, anyone's back, come live, those big old banner bearers dragons the heart, but they cross in it, well, then he cuts the candy and wants that race. and he said, man, that's what I want right there and Humpy told me there's hope, he said, I said it first, you gotta be so receptive, yeah, you got a sponsor, then you gotta get a driver in our garage, and so on. says.

Back in California, he's trying to put something together, he's watching TV and he sees Walt Garrison doing a outreach commercial on TV, yeah, so he immediately contacted Burt and Burt so that people could finally find out what the number was on the captain, so right after he got someone mr. Banned from our board of directors Burt stomps: Yeah, and tell him what he has in mind about starting a racing team and coming to California to fly them to California. In hell, he chose him to be vice president of a couple and with two flying limousines. There they go to Burt's house and he gets interested in the stairs, you know, they go down and they start waiting and there's a deal done, there's no way, so how does Humpy meet hell?

How do you have the idea for the team how it is born to sell? the deal - Skol and this is how it all happened for you it was a great few years as a

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, I mean what was it like that September because you want Darlington Richmond Dover Martinsville and it was kicking his ass, he looks for it and the brakes run out? In that, yeah, and that's what I'm saying, but I mean, for us, because we were competing against you, it was like what they got because you know what it's like when someone beats you as bad as they all beat you and it was Not only were you not winning races for a fender if they call Reggie Jackson sir.

October and Harry Gant has to be Mr. September I think a little bit of people could be working harder and we would know that we had what we had, yeah, and we didn't change everything in the same car to try, but you know, when I look at your

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and I go back and look. In that, there were several times in your career where you were there at the championship, right there, you were able to see it and did you ever look at it and say you know we'll have it again next year? I know I'm going to get this, he thought he was around the corner, how come season 92 was going well and we were so excited and we had a debt party?

You know, at the end of the season, that day at night I had that party, I know who will win the championship next year and we are going to win long races, yes, so the last part is already starting to roll, in which everything it's ready and everything's great, and we had Terry Satchel kind of staying on the sidelines and Andy. and then though, Leo cost me Christmas for a few weeks, he actually had a bank for next year that Andy had left to go to the kids, so you know, and well, that was like a boom for you and for me, compared to the rest of the team. you know you just couldn't come back, we would want to run, you know, yeah, and you won your last race, the last race you won Michigan, you were 52 years old, two hundred and nineteen days old as established and still Otis Otis in winter and This sport existed in some time you looked at him and thought, man, here's a guy from Taylorsville when he was racing at Darlington, when he was racing at Daytona, hanging out with how cool I am, a Burt Reynolds, Sammy Davis Jr.

Dean Martin, do you ever look at him and say, man, racing has been good for me? Everyone, yes, yes, thank you for coming and doing this, thank you very much. Hello

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