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Appreciate it. Oh man, we're going to have a good time. I can feel it.
No doubt in my mind. Glenn was born the son of a short track racer in mid-Ohio and went on to be a NASCAR announcer and host of a very successful radio show. He is now the CEO of Performa Premier Solutions. He's here to answer your NASCAR questions. So together we can answer all of your automotive questions. So be ready. Grab that phone over there. Pick it up.
Doll 800-224-9090 or you can call 706-863-5800. And that's on any Saturday morning, 805-10 Eastern Time. And I want to remind you that you can also watch this very show live on Facebook at CC Auto Show Facebook page.
And you can also watch it at ccautoshow.com. Okay, hop in, buckle up. It's time to ride. And let's start by laying out the tech tip. Glenn, I know you may not be familiar with the show, but during the show we always lay out a tech tip quiz.
And somebody calls in to answer that tech tip quiz. And it's kind of a big deal when somebody wins one. We have a coffee cup sitting here. You can grab that cup there. Glenn, with that cup on it, it says official tech tip quiz winner. And that's when somebody gets to sit there and drink coffee and show to their friends as they're drinking coffee that they are a winner. They get a trophy every morning, right? Yeah, it's a big deal. Yeah, it really is.
Okay, now this is your chance to go down in history as a tech tip quiz winner. And here is the question. And actually it's left over from last week. We didn't get an answer to it last week.
But I will say that if we don't get an answer to it by the second hour, I won't give the answer, but I'll kind of hint somebody along so somebody will get it. Susan lives two hours away from her dad. Last year she bought her dad a gift to use in his 2003 Acura. He recently went to visit her but because he was cutting tomatoes, and because of the gift she had given him last year, he was not able to go home for a week. Why?
What happened if anybody knows the answer to that? A little bit of a tougher one. That's tough, man. Yeah, somebody will get it. So no doubt in my mind. The listeners here, they are amazing with answering tech tip quiz. They'll be one that I swear there's nobody gonna come up with the answer to this one. And boom, they'll answer it. I wouldn't have a clue.
Let's start the ball rolling. You had mentioned that you grew up with your dad racing short tracks. What role did you play as he was in that team?
Yeah, we started out racing up in the Midwest. I wasn't very big. I was about eight years old, but the shop was in the backyard.
So to keep me out of trouble, what he did was brought me in. So I had the normal duties of an eight year old, which is cleaning up the shop when they were done at the end of the day. But back then, my dad was a shift supervisor at Goodyear. So he got his tires from Goodyear, but they were all racing slicks. We ran asphalt and dirt. So my job was not like it is today where you have dirt tires that are already grooved and the grooves are in the tires and the tread. I actually put those grooves in with a tire iron. We would take the slicks and put them on a little jig and I would actually heat up the tire iron.
We had a depth gauge on it. My job was to make crisscrosses on that racing slick to make it into a dirt tire. When we were going dirt racing, we would get enough for a couple sets.
That was my job for the week, to get those sets ready. We ran a lot of different types. We ran a couple of tracks over on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. One was Heidelberg, which a lot of NASCAR drivers came in and ran periodically through the year. It was like a half mile dirt track.
Then we ran another place called South Park, which was just outside of Pittsburgh. We ran over around the Indianapolis area. We ran up at Cleveland in the Cloverleaf Speedway. We also ran Mid Ohio. We ran some races there.
We pretty much rode races to dirt to asphalt pretty much everywhere. Wow. I bet that was a lot of fun.
It was. You ready to go to the cause? Yeah, let's go. We're going to go to one. Let's go to Billy. Billy, welcome to the show. Yes, sir.
I'm going to try the tech tip quiz. Oh, wow. You know, we have to put you on stage first.
Absolutely. Billy, you are on stage. Everyone's looking at you to answer this troubling tech tip quiz that we have here. What is it? Read the question one more time. Okay.
I will do that. Susan lives two hours away from her dad. Last year, she bought her dad a gift to use in his 2003 Acura. He recently went to visit her, but because he was cutting tomatoes and because of the gift that she had given him last year, he was not able to go home for a week.
Why? I would say she must have bought him a knife or something to cut them tomatoes with and he cut himself because he couldn't leave. Well, he didn't cut himself that deep. He just cut himself a little bit. And after that, he really wasn't hurt that bad. Good to go? Yeah, he wasn't hurt that bad.
It was just a bad, bad cut on his finger. All right. Well, just give me the oohs and aahs and somebody else can try it. Yeah. You know the routine. Here we go.
I do. All right. You know, you took that well there, Billy, because a lot of people have to have therapy after that, but you did great. Well, I've had enough oohs and aahs and enough wonders that don't bother me no more.
Yeah, you have. You do fantastic. Okay.
We do appreciate the call. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Bye-bye. And Glenn, this is a lot of people's opportunity. Those listeners that love NASCAR, if they have a question that they may have about NASCAR, that would be a real good thing. What's one of your favorite track stories? Yeah, you know, most every track has an unusual story, but the most unusual one that I can think of off the top of my head here has to do with Talladega. And most people don't realize that Talladega was actually built, originally built over an Indian burial ground.
They've moved a lot of the artifacts and a lot of the grays out to the backstretch area of Talladega, but they don't think they've got all the spirits out. And so when you, there's stories that go around the garage area back in the 80s and early 90s where, you know, teams would take their cars in after final practice. You know, they close the doors, they lock them, the car's perfect, ready to go for the next day. They'll walk in the next morning and there'll be fluid on the ground where a hose has come off or there'll be tires that are flat. And there's absolutely no reason for it. The tires, the air was just let out of the tire, there was no leak, there was no hole, there was no nothing. And they attributed it at that night when the garage doors closed that an Indian spirit would go through the garage and find someone that they felt like they needed to prank, so to speak, for building that track where they built it.
So that's probably the most unusual one that I know of. Wow. They probably talked about that a good bit. Okay. Let's let off the gas for just a little bit. And when we get back on the road, we'll be ready to answer your NASCAR questions and your automotive questions.
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We encourage you to buy online, then pick up curbside together. We're committed to getting through this. Let's head back down to the car care studio with Airman Clements and John Ryan Mooney. And we welcome you back to the CNC auto show. Glen Campbell is here with us to help answer your NASCAR questions. And I'm here to answer your automotive questions. Just pick up that phone and give us a call. 800-224-9090 or 706-863-5800. And that's on Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern time.
You can also catch us live on Facebook or at ccautoshow.com. And we have a few callers, but I want to ask you real quick, your favorite driver story. Oh, wow.
There's a ton. You know, the guy that I would always go to when I just needed a laugh was Sterling Marlin. And I was in Rockingham one day.
And in Rockingham, small town, everybody kind of stayed in local hotels. Back then, there was a little bit of a rivalry between Sterling and Terry Lebani. It turned out they were in the same restaurant one night. So I went into the hauler and Sterling was telling about how we started a mashed potato fight with Terry in the restaurant to where he just didn't like something Terry had done. So he picked up his spoon with full mashed potatoes and just sort of flung it across the restaurant at Lebani. Of course, that retaliated and it was coming, you know. And he said before they knew it, just before they got thrown out of the restaurant, they had a huge food fight, but not just the two drivers, but also fans and everybody else were taking part. So they got kicked out that night and had to go somewhere else to eat supper. A potato food fight.
A potato food fight. Oh, wow. All right, let's go to the next caller. Edwin, welcome to the C&C Auto Show and what can we help you with?
Good morning. I want to take a crack at the tech tip quiz. Well, we're going to need to put you on stage real quick. You ready? Ready. Edwin, you are officially on stage. Everyone's looking.
What is the answer to today's tech tip quiz? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Too much excitement. It's pressure. The pressure's on. You want me to read the question again? Sure. Go ahead. Just for those that have tuned in late.
All right. Susan lives two hours away from her dad. Last year, she bought her dad a gift to use in his 2003 Acura. He recently went to visit her, but because he was cutting tomatoes and because of the gift that she had given him, he was not able to go home for a week. And the hint so far is he actually cut his finger. What is the answer to today's tech tip quiz, Edwin? Well, it doesn't have anything to do with an Acura because, I mean, you know, they run forever.
As far as I know. He got to her house and, like, he was cutting tomatoes. So they're obviously coming on.
And when they're coming in, you got to go and move with them. So she had a brand new jar of Duke's mayonnaise and two fresh loaves of white bread. And we stuck there because that's all he needed. So he was going to have a wish sandwich. He'd put the tomatoes on it and wish he had some meat. Well, it's nothing better than a tomato sandwich with Duke's mayonnaise, man.
I mean, there's no other one. All right, Edwin, that was a good story, but unfortunately. Oh, wow. But thank you for a good laugh, though, Edwin. Appreciate it. You have a good one.
You too. Number to call 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 or 2 2 4 9 0 9 0. Okay, let's go over to James. James, welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help you with? I had two things I wanted to ask your guests today about NASCAR. Yes, absolutely. Okay, Glenn, you're up, man. Keep them easy, man. All right. Here we go.
Yeah, good. Since NASCAR is sort of like a live radio broadcast, what do you all do when you get a rain delay or something that causes a track to stop? Where do you get your material to keep the viewers or listeners interested when there's no racing going on?
Yeah, you know, that's kind of tough. But the thing is, there's tons of people behind the scenes that are just prepared for that kind of situation. Normally, you know, for a radio show, for example, if it's an hour long talk show, you've got about two hours worth of material that's sitting right at your fingertips that if there are no people calling in, you can talk on your own for a couple hours. It's the same thing at the track. Also, you've got to realize, too, that most of the guys that are on the broadcast team spend a ton of time together.
And so they have a good relationship with each other. And so what happens is you end up just talking about just like you would sitting around the barbecue out back. You know, you just start coming up with stories.
You know, you've got stories from guys that are in the turns. You've got stories from guys that are in the booth down in the garage. And then you've got this big team of tech people out in the parking lot that's in a big trailer with a bunch of computers that are just saying, hey, what's cool about this particular area or this particular track?
I know sometimes when I ran a camera for a pay-for-view TV, which is Speed TV, we did always in the breaks when things were live, we would always span the camera around and find interesting points on the horizon or in the stands. So in case something did go wrong, we had that video already there that we could talk about what we saw, you know, whether it would be a landmark or whether it be a t-shirt on somebody or whatever it might be. So, yeah, that's, you know, we're prepared for that.
Normally, if it's a four-hour broadcast, you've got about eight hours worth of material that you can draw from. Mm-hmm. That sounds like a good plan. But, James, you probably wouldn't tell them about the potato, mashed potato fight. No, I would tell them about that story. Oh, you would?
I would tell them about that story. Okay. And I have a question about the cars a little bit.
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And again, we're answering automotive mechanical, just about any automotive question, including NASCAR questions. Okay. We will go over to William. William, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
Oh, I'm sorry. William. You still got James on hold.
Yeah. I'm going to put you on hold just for a second, William. And I'm going to go back. I was going back to James. James, I was trying to input some different pictures for the Facebook while I was gone and I got all tangled in there. Okay. Welcome back to the show. And James, you had another question that you wanted to ask Glenn having to do with, uh, with, uh, NASCAR.
I do. Uh, your guest mentioned in the beginning of the show, how his job as a youth was to groove the tires that were slick. So they would work on dirt tracks that made me remember something that I wanted to know if it was true. Isn't there a direct relationship between traction and rubber hardness on tires and that the race tires and maybe performance tires on automobiles for street use is a softer rubber, giving you the better traction, but then they, uh, wear out much quicker because of that soft rubber compound. Is that true how they're designed?
Well, not exactly. Um, a tire today now back when, when we ran the tire was the same softness, hardness, whatever from side to side, from sidewall to sidewall. And today's tire Goodyear actually engineers this thing to where, you know, based upon the track and the wear and the friction of the track, the, the, uh, the, whether it's been repaved or not, the heat in the track, those tires are designed to where they, they match that track surface. And so in some cases, the tire is not the same hardness from side to wall to sidewall. Sometimes they make, uh, make it to where if they know that the outer edge of that tire is going to be harder, uh, going to wear far more, they'll make that side a little bit harder so that it doesn't wear it, you know, it doesn't wear faster than the other side. So it's, it's a, it's a, not always the same thickness or the same same thickness, but not the same hardness and softness from side to side based upon the track that you got. Sometimes they are the same, but sometimes most of the time they're not.
So the net would makes me think of something additionally in technology. Then since we have directionally oriented tires on street cars, now, if you have an oval track, then I guess you might even have tires that are specifically designed for the right side of the car and another configuration for the left side of the car because of that consistent, let's say frequent left-hand turn only. So in one side of the tire harder than the other side of the tire, making a difference which side of the car you put it on. Would that be true too? Yep.
No, that's exactly right. In fact, sometimes you'll hear on the broadcast that people say they got a mix match of tires. That mix match of tires means they got left sides mixed in with the right sides. And if you were to go down in the garage area and look at the tires that they lay out before the race, they lay out their whole set of tires and glue lug nuts on that they're going to use that day. But if you actually look at the rim of the tire and sometimes on some shots you'll get from TV, you'll see an R or an L because those tires are meant to go on the right side of the left side.
But if they get them a mix match of tires, if you hear that comment, that means they got lefts and rights mixed up and that messes up their grip. Someone's in trouble in the pit at that point, I guess. Somebody messed up. Well, that was what I wanted to know. It's interesting. I learned more than I expected and that's always a nice thing. Thank you both for letting me in. James, I will say that you always have fantastic questions.
Always. Well, good. It's a great show. Thank you. Well, thank you. And I appreciate the call. And the number to call is 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800. If you have a question about your car, truck or SUV or NASCAR, you give us a call because we are ready and we will go over to William, William, welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help you with?
I'm going to take a stab at that tech tip quiz. Oh, William. Oh, just the gentleman, Glenn, William calls from time to time and I might be wrong, but I think that William is the gentleman that has the chickens in the backyard. Is that right, William?
That would be correct. All right. You're in the backyard or you're in the front yard or are you somewhere not around them?
I'm actually pretty close. Okay. They never make the noise though.
When you try to make it, they used to be pretty loud, but, um, that was, that was fog horn remember? And he went away. All right. Well, we won't go to those. We'll just put you on stage in. All right. William, you are now on stage and you're close to the chickens. And what is the answer to today's tech tip quiz?
Well, I'm thinking since Mr. Proctor was on the show last week, when you threw out this question, it's got something to do with paint and body. So I'm thinking he was, there they go. All right. We got one. That is awesome. That's Blackbeard. Anyway. I'm thinking that she gave, he was cutting tomatoes and his back got sore. So she gave him something like a heated seat or something for the actor and he had to make an appointment where she lived to get it put in. And it took him like a week to get either to paint job or something like that. Yeah. Something like that. She had to wait until the part that she bought him. Oh, that is so awesome. That's got to be relaxing with you, but she had to wait until the part that she had put in it is installed. Is that what you're, you're saying there?
That's what I'm saying. That is an awesome tribe, but it's just not the, uh, it's just not going to be the one, but you do win the loudest chicken award. How's that? That that is fine. I get that pretty much every day. I bet that would be relaxing though, to sit there and listen to the chickens and watch the chickens.
I like that. They can't, they can be aggravating though. I mean, they are spoiled rotten. Well, y'all have a great day and sounds good. And William, I was going to say the only spoiled rotten chicken I get is if I accidentally leave it out on the counter. Oh wow. That's bad. That wouldn't be good at all.
I hope they didn't hear that William. Okay. Oh, y'all have a good one.
Okay. Number of calls, 706-863-5800. And if you have a question about your car, truck, SUV, or NASCAR, you give us a call and we'll, I'm just going to check with you. And who was your favorite driver? Hey, you know, you know, that's a tough question because you have, you have some that you like to watch race.
You have some that you like to talk to, um, you have some that you just kind of avoid because the relationship just doesn't work. Yeah. But, but I've got to say that, that, um, I got to, uh, Richard Petty was always awesome. Um, the stories about Richard Petty staying over and signing autographs, things like that are absolutely true.
And he does the same thing with the press. And when I first started, uh, I worked with a guy by, by the name of Steve Richards for PRN. He took me around the garage area and introduced me to every single driver. And back then in the seventies, when you, when I came on in 92, um, and started and started doing my reporting, the, um, uh, it was a small group and it was like a family inside of the garage area.
If they knew you, they'd talk to you if they didn't know you, they wouldn't talk to you. And so, and all the drivers used to stand outside their haulers or be accessible to the press because there wasn't that many of us at that time. But Richard Petty was always, always able to stop what he was doing and give me an interview.
I don't know why that, that I was always the one that he never turned down, but he never turned me down. And, uh, I can say one thing about it. I'm, I'm, I was at Rockingham one year. It was a kind of an overcast day. A lot of the drivers weren't out, I stand in the middle of the garage area. I just kind of scanning around trying to see if anybody was out that I could talk to, uh, get an interview, get a story for whatever it might be. And I heard somebody behind me rustling like a potato chip bag. And I thought, man, somebody's sitting there.
I don't know who it is. I turned all of a sudden the guy behind me says, Hey, man, you're looking for somebody to talk to. I turned around. It's Richard Petty. I saw you stand out here looking. I figured out my balls come on out, take a seat, ain't nothing going on.
Let's chat for a while. And so he's always been great. So he's probably my, my most favorite driver. Wow.
That is amazing. Okay. We, uh, Glen Campbell's here with me. Watch us live or watch past shows on Facebook.
Don't hold that car question inside. Give us a call at 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800. We'll be right back. Welcome back to more of the CNC auto show with Aaron Clements and John Ryan. When you need auto parts, O'Reilly auto.com is just a few clicks away. They offer convenient options for you to get your parts quickly. Order online at O'Reilly auto.com and pick up for free at your local O'Reilly auto parts store. They'll even bring it out to you curbside or have your parts delivered right to your door with free shipping on most orders over $35. Get your auto parts quickly with O'Reilly auto parts visit O'Reilly auto.com past NASCAR announcer and radio show host Glen Campbell is here with me. So if you have a NASCAR or any automotive question, give us a call.
That's 800 2 2 4 9 0 9 0 or 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800. That's on Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern time. You can also watch the show on Facebook or at CC auto show.com. We are ready to go back to the phones and we will ease in on Gary. Gary welcome to the CNC auto show.
What can we help with? I want to answer a tech tech quiz. We're going to, we're going to have to put you on stage. Okay. All right. You were standing there.
The curtains opened and you were there for the whole world to see and answer today's tech tech quiz. I'm going to read that bad boy one more time. Susan lives two hours away from her dad. Last year, she bought her dad a gift to use in his 2003 Acura.
He recently went to visit her, but because he was cutting tomatoes and because of the gift that she had given him last year, he was not able to go home for a week. And the hint earlier was he had actually cut his finger. Gary. What is the answer to today's tech tip quiz? Well the clue is he cut his finger.
I think he had to use his, he had to wait for the bandage just came off his finger to use his fingerprint to start the car or get into the car or something. Oh my goodness. Went to the judges.
The crowd is going wild. And that's only the judges. Oh man, Gary, that is awesome that you answered that.
It really is. And it's Susan's dad loves gadgets. And so she bought him a biometric start kit for his 2003 Acura. The car would not start without his right index finger fingerprint. And he installed the kit and it was working well until he was visiting his daughter and he cut the end of his finger and while, while he was cutting some tomatoes for him and he had a really sharp knife and that did it. So he had to wear a bandage so he could not start the car until the bandage came off and his fingerprint grew back.
And that took a few days to get his fingerprint completely back. So that is the answer to today's tech tip quiz and you can be considered a winner and now you will be entered into the official tech tip quiz winner hall of fame and you'll probably have these news buses and trucks pulling out in front of your house sometime in the next little while. And they'll be saying that they heard you are now a tech tip quiz winner.
Some people decide to go out of town for a few days just to digest it all. But you stay on the line and they'll write your information down and get some biometric information from you and, uh, thank you for calling in and answering our tech tip quiz. Cool. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to put you on hold. Okay.
Now the number to call is 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 and that is, uh, also 800 2 2 4 9 0 9 0. Let's go over to Greg, Greg, welcome to the CNC auto show and what can we help you with? Good morning. Good morning.
We are ready for you. Yes, sir. I just wanted to share something. I grew up in a Rockingham, North Carolina with a, you know, racetrack was, uh, you know, I just heard, heard mentioned of, of Rockingham anyway. Um, I worked for a radio station there that sponsored the Saturday race and I used to get, uh, invitations to, um, all the get togethers with the races, all that kind of thing. So one day I was at the station and, and somebody said, would you like to have lunch with Mr. Parsons tomorrow, Benny Parsons? And I said, yeah, let's do that. And so, you know, I thought it was going to be a, you know, a small, uh, you know, up there or just, you know, he and I had a few, maybe a few other people. I got there, it was a great big table.
Okay. And there were, uh, announcers from all over. And so we went around the table and everybody, you know, introduced their names and, uh, I introduced myself as Greg and, and so there was a fellow there from, uh, Raleigh and he really dominated everything with the interview of, of Benny Parsons while we, you know, while we dine and, um, not knowing a whole lot about racing and, you know, the nuts and bolts of racing. So, you know, I just sat there and after introducing myself, I didn't have anything to say. And so, um, about a year later, I was standing in the theater there in Rockingham in the, in the lobby and then walks Benny Parsons. And I looked up and I said, good evening, Mr. Parsons, how are you? And he looked at me and he said, I'm fine, Greg.
How are you? Wow. That is amazing how he could remember that just at one dinner, then he was really good with names. Uh, he, he, he could meet you once and you would, uh, he would never forget you. I don't know how he did it. I can't remember mine sometimes.
And so, but he could remember everybody. Wow. That is absolutely amazing. Yeah. I was, I was floored.
I was absolutely floored. Wow. That's my story. Well, that was a great story and we appreciate that. Yes, sir. Y'all have a good day now. Oh, you do the same.
Thank you for the call number to call 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 or 2 2 4 9 0 9 0. And we, uh, we're talking with Glenn Campbell here, a past radio announcer for NASCAR also had a very successful radio show having to do with NASCAR. And did you, uh, ask you real quick, did you ever introduce Richard Petty, I mean, interview Richard Petty?
Oh yeah. Probably 10, 15 times. I'll tell you what's unusual when I did with Richard was here in Augusta and, um, we, we've met out. I can't remember the, the, the sponsor that he was at, I think it was a car dealership, but, but anyways, he, um, went in, there was reporters from all different stations here in town.
And obviously none of them knew anything about racing. Uh, and so we went into this little conference room and, and, and Richard knew me from being at the track. He, you know, he recognized who I was and we had talked before, so we started asking questions and the other end. And so the other people asked a couple questions and it was like, just really weird stuff. Um, got to me, I started asking some questions and it was more racing and his sponsors and the things that they like to talk about. Um, and so he answered that question. We kind of perked up, you know, so he said, and I asked another question and then we went to the next reporter and they said, why don't we just let Glenn ask the questions?
Because it seems to be better this way. And so I ended up, you know, just like the fellow was saying, one kind of guy kind of dominated the interview. I was that guy in that situation.
Uh, uh, because you know, if you don't follow the sports, you don't know exactly what they want to talk about. You know? And so that was, that was good. But Richard's a great guy. Yeah. That's what I've heard. I've had the opportunity to see him a few times and I've had the opportunity to tour a few of the, uh, racing garages around.
And I'm, I'm sure you've seen a huge number of them, but most of the people that I meet in those are very, very humble, very nice to talk to, uh, you do run into some that's not quite as friendly as others, but, uh, but each one of them were very nice. So that, that must've been a great thrill to be able to do that. Uh, Glen, the time clock's on E for this segment. Uh, we need to pull over for now, but we will be back on the road. No time. Glen Clements here with Glen Campbell past Nescar announcer and CEO of Performa Premier
