TMCP #564: 15 Year Anniversary Throwback – The Time I Landed Richard Petty, The King of NASCAR!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It is hard to believe that in May of 2024 it will have been fifteen years since I carved out a hole in my basement and started recording this podcast! Many listeners have tuned in and followed along as I met people from all across the automotive world and simply asked the questions we all wanted to know about business and cars. I had no idea that 15 years later I'd still be in the business, nor did I have a clue what a life defining thing this would become. In a nutshell, this podcast (and you) have changed my life.

I am blessed to have started the show during the pre-podcast boom and have been able to use it to go places and see things that were far above my punching weight. I've had backstage passes, met stars, and attended events with all of you listeners along for the ride. I've raised a family along with way too, lost a parent, and had the chance to build and drive cars with my best friends. You have given back to me with friendship and support for chasing my dreams while creating a place we all can enjoy, The Muscle Car Place.

Many great and exciting things have happened since that start but one of my most memorable was getting to talk to the King himself, Richard Petty. At the time the "new" Challenger was still fairly new, and who knew it would go on for another twelve years and the most amazing cars that were not even imagined yet. It was pretty exciting to see Daytonas once again on the streets, even if in limited numbers, as Petty Garage made special editions of the Challenger with the iconic nose and wing of the NASCAR heydays. I did get to ask him about his racing career and recorded every glorious second of the conversation in Episode #76 way back in 2011.

In every great sitcom there is the throwback episode where they queue the wobbly lines and memories from previous episodes come back based on a vague story line. This week the throwback episode, is my interview with Richard Petty. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 564. This week, I'll look back at some of the most
0:07.3	amazing interviews from the past 15 years. 2024 for me is the 15 year anniversary of Muscle Car Place.
0:14.8	And one of the craziest interviews I ever did was the time I landed Richard Petty. I'd been in business for about a year and a half.
0:20.9	I'd gone full-time just three months prior, and talking to Richard was like landing on the
0:25.3	movie. He sounded exactly like he did in the movie Cars, too. Listen into a discussion on the
0:30.0	history of NASCAR, the vision of Petty's garage, and what was really Richard's favorite
0:34.2	race car. And it wasn't the Super Bird. Seventy. 73 Dodge was probably the best car as far as just being a natural good race car, as far as
0:44.0	our numbers and handling the car.
0:49.8	This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought you by National Parts Depot.
0:56.7	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:03.0	If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:09.3	Now here's your host, Rob Kibby.
1:12.9	Yes, indeed I am, Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:17.0	Well, here we are, everybody.
1:18.7	Wouldn't you know this was supposed to be an off week for me, but that didn't last.
1:23.4	I couldn't stay away.
1:25.0	We like having a regular release schedule, and I've got to admit, I didn't realize this
1:30.3	was the 15 year anniversary until earlier this week.
1:34.0	2024 will mark 15 years of muscle car place.
1:37.0	I launched it in May of 2009.
1:40.0	After a year and a half of doing that out of my basement. I went full-time in entrepreneurial stuff,
1:45.5	and here we are 15 years later.
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