Happy Birthday, Ironhead.

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

You're chit-eatin' grin and oil covered mustache are missed. That and the black car that was so feared on the track.

Racin' ain't the same without Ol' Ironhead. He could do stuff at Daytona and Talladega that other drivers wouldn't even think in their wildest dreams about attempting.

 

[cattitude]

"If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass."

"Getting up next to a guy and rubbing him, that ain't rough that's racin'"

"Didn't mean to spin him out, I just meant to rattle his cage.” (I can so see his grin as he's saying this when he spun Terry LaBonte at Bristol.) And it was even funnier when Jeremy Mayfield did the same thing to Earnhardt at Pocono the next year and used Earnhardt's line...he took it fairly well.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

"If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass."

"Getting up next to a guy and rubbing him, that ain't rough that's racin'"

"Didn't mean to spin him out, I just meant to rattle his cage.” (I can so see his grin as he's saying this when he spun Terry LaBonte at Bristol.) And it was even funnier when Jeremy Mayfield did the same thing to Earnhardt at Pocono the next year and used Earnhardt's line...he took it fairly well.

Mayfield at Pocono. Remember Earnhardt flipping him off?

TNN reporter asks him what the gesture was. Dale smirked and said, "Oh, I was just telling him he was number 1."

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

"If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass."

That line was an instant classic.

Dale DID NOT like those restrictor plates at all.