Got to know Ken back 20 years ago when Inwas a Legends dealer. Did some racing with David and even got to Know Marvin when I raced in Cordele. Great family.
Ken is a awesome person forsure! His son David is also a awesome person as well, after he won the talladega race in 2013 when the racing family went to darlington David had stakes for the entire garage. Awesome family and glad I was around in that good time in racing. Thank you for having a wonderful guy on!!!
One of the coolest memories I have from working on David's ARCA team in 2005 was at the end of the year at Talladega. The cars were impounded after qualifying, so there wasn't much going on in the garage area. I was at the back of our trailer purging air from our race tires and setting pressures with the nitrogen. As I started taking out the valve cores out of the first tire, I heard David talking behind me. I look up, and I see David and Ken talking with Donnie Allison. Ralph Sheheen was standing next to them listening in on the conversation. I put my head back down and got back to work since I had 16 tires (with inner-liners) to prepare for the race. After I finished setting pressures on the last tire, I go to the cooler to grab some water bottles to take over to the 4 of them so I could ease my way into that convo, and realized there was no way I was going to get to them. In the time it took me to get the race tires ready, those 4 guys had been completely surrounded by at least 50-60 people all looking and listening in, taking pictures and such. Can't say enough good things about Ken and family, they are great people.
Painted that Buick that Bosco Lowe Drove in 1983 at Daytona It Came In The body shop A Valvoline Buick that Cale had Driven went out of Body Shop Painted a #32 Clinomint Tooth Paste White-Blue Buick
Good interview with Ken. Just out of curiosity i pulled up Ken's 11th place finish from the 1984 Talladega 500 on TH-cam when he said he was in the lead pack. Unfortunately, truth be told, the video tells a different story.
This interview very well sumerizes my criticism of our sport’s sanctioning body as well as the network people. Where was this interview in 2006’s Dover race when David could have really benefited from it while he was taking unfair criticism from some of the sports most shallow, vapid and uneducated critics. And the only reason we did not have this is because one or two corporate cubicle dwellers refused to listen to the opinions of people like Steve Waid and Rick Huston and so many more. Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, throughout the years have completely ignore the success of content makers like Kenny “SSI” Wallace & Stapleton42 (no relation). And the reasons these producers were ignored was because the marketing department couldn’t figure out how to install a price tag on it and bring this stuff to market until TH-cam provided them with a platform. Hear that Mainstream Media you being betting soundly by a group of talented individuals who’s combined budgets don’t not equal a fraction of one percent of anyone of mainstream’s marketing budgets. And all the corporate consultants somehow cannot not help you understand that. Just like they couldn’t help you understand that it was Tim Breuer who put ESPN’s cup coverage entire orders of magnitude better that channels 3,6&10. And “they” still don’t get it. Thank you Scene Vault. 10/10 bravo 🎉another great interview. You guys make it look easy!!!
I realize now that I misspelled Brewer. It was not intentional. All apologies especially to my third grade teacher who, thankfully, will probably never read this
Ken has a side of him that he exhibited when he was at 600 Racing that paints a pretty negative picture of the man. He ruined a kid's chances of making it with his race fixing at the Summer Shoot Out at Charlotte in 2005. Fixing that rewarded David's ARCA sponsor, Grisham Insurance. David is a great guy, he didn't become a sell out and throw away his morals. He stayed true to his roots. I can tell the story if anyone wants to hear it.
@@RickHitt Ken Ragan, the man that destroyed Jordan Phillips (WKA National champion) chance of ever being a professional driver. Jordan won the Summer Shootout Championship over Bubba Wallace & Ryan Blaney etc. But Ken over ruled the DQ of David's ARCA sponsors son, Max Greshim , of Greshim Insurance, and gave the championship to David's sponsor. Ken over ruled the National Tech Director in an appeal meeting that it was voted unanimous by INEX, the sanctioning body that Jordan had won fair & square., until Ken interrupted and announced HIS decision. Then a couple years later Ken Ragan assaulted my girlfriend at the Summer Shootout because Ken had a personal vendetta against me, so he assaulted her after telling him how disgusting it was that he had one of my clients, the Weatherman brothers father, who's Bandolero cars I prepped for them, Ken had him stop payment on my check for payment on the work I did, then I got sued for the parts bill, that sent me into near bankruptcy and eventually led to me leaving the sport all together because Ragan threatened to make life miserable for anybody that hired me, so I was black listed, lost all 3 of my clients, & was negotiating with 2 more at the time and eventually within a year, run out of Charlotte, unable to work in racing. So Mr Ragan has a dark side, deciding futures with zero concern for how he ruined a poor kids dreams and black listed a former Truck Series crew chief that finally got back into racing full time rising from the ashes of 9/11 with a race prep & driver development business, 5 years after 9/11 wiped out so many Truck teams, NASCAR crew chief jobs were hard to come by for a few years. And working with kids and their families was so much more fun than the NASCAR grind anyway, it really hurt to lose that. The problem for Ken was, a "nobody" as he called me, is not supposed to beat the chosen ones. If you do, your future will not go your way. The hardest part of that to take, was that for a man that came from nothing with the help of a brother, to take down talent with race fixing & boycotting because we were beating the Blaney's Wallaces, Elliots, & McReynolds of the world with worn out equipment, shows he lost his way, money replaced his morals IMO... If Ken's brother didn't get him started, he would probably be a "nobody" in racing too. So after all of that, why would he fix races to help rich kids over the ones with pure talent winning races in worn out stuff? Winning on the track, I could do, winning on their turf with just talent and no money and without a racing household name against a man with a billionaire as a boss? I couldn't do it... I have to say, David Ragan is a good guy, that in spite of his father 's actions, he was ALWAYS respectful and kind. He was humble and acted like he was just one of the guys that wasn't any better than any of us, even when he was running cup. I really like David because he stayed true to his nature. If Ken got anything right, it was the way David was raised. Ask David what I did for his brother, getting him so excited at the Summer Shoot Out, getting kisses and posing for pictures with my Hooter Girls pit crew., Yeah, I had 7 Hooter Girls in full costume on my team. Having the girls give Davids brother the attention (He has Downs Syndrome) my way of sending the message that even though Ken treated my racing family terrible, I would never to do the same to his...
There was no need for Rick to act like a complete dick to Ken at 19:48 about the table. What are you a Kindergarten Teacher? Way to try to embarrass poor Ken like that.
Finally back to long form podcasts! Thanks Rick!!!!
Classic Guy. Enjoyed watching.
What a great interview.
Got to know Ken back 20 years ago when Inwas a Legends dealer. Did some racing with David and even got to Know Marvin when I raced in Cordele. Great family.
Another super interview! Loved his stories. Thanks for posting.
Ken is a awesome person forsure! His son David is also a awesome person as well, after he won the talladega race in 2013 when the racing family went to darlington David had stakes for the entire garage. Awesome family and glad I was around in that good time in racing. Thank you for having a wonderful guy on!!!
Great stories! Thanks for your videos
Excellent interview. Thanks
Ken Ragan Drove Number 77 Ford Thunderbird From 1987 Thanks For Uploading Rick And Steve
One of the coolest memories I have from working on David's ARCA team in 2005 was at the end of the year at Talladega. The cars were impounded after qualifying, so there wasn't much going on in the garage area. I was at the back of our trailer purging air from our race tires and setting pressures with the nitrogen. As I started taking out the valve cores out of the first tire, I heard David talking behind me. I look up, and I see David and Ken talking with Donnie Allison. Ralph Sheheen was standing next to them listening in on the conversation. I put my head back down and got back to work since I had 16 tires (with inner-liners) to prepare for the race. After I finished setting pressures on the last tire, I go to the cooler to grab some water bottles to take over to the 4 of them so I could ease my way into that convo, and realized there was no way I was going to get to them. In the time it took me to get the race tires ready, those 4 guys had been completely surrounded by at least 50-60 people all looking and listening in, taking pictures and such. Can't say enough good things about Ken and family, they are great people.
Painted that Buick that Bosco Lowe Drove in 1983 at Daytona It Came In The body shop A Valvoline Buick that Cale had Driven went out of Body Shop Painted a #32 Clinomint Tooth Paste White-Blue Buick
You know you could have edited the stage direction about the table out instead of embarrassing Ken on camera.
Got that right. Very small on the interviewers behalf.
Fully agree there was no need for Rick to act like a Kindergarten teacher on that part in the interview.
Good interview with Ken.
Just out of curiosity i pulled up Ken's 11th place finish from the 1984 Talladega 500 on TH-cam when he said he was in the lead pack. Unfortunately, truth be told, the video tells a different story.
Easy to see why David is such a likeable guy, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
This interview very well sumerizes my criticism of our sport’s sanctioning body as well as the network people. Where was this interview in 2006’s Dover race when David could have really benefited from it while he was taking unfair criticism from some of the sports most shallow, vapid and uneducated critics. And the only reason we did not have this is because one or two corporate cubicle dwellers refused to listen to the opinions of people like Steve Waid and Rick Huston and so many more. Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, throughout the years have completely ignore the success of content makers like Kenny “SSI” Wallace & Stapleton42 (no relation). And the reasons these producers were ignored was because the marketing department couldn’t figure out how to install a price tag on it and bring this stuff to market until TH-cam provided them with a platform. Hear that Mainstream Media you being betting soundly by a group of talented individuals who’s combined budgets don’t not equal a fraction of one percent of anyone of mainstream’s marketing budgets. And all the corporate consultants somehow cannot not help you understand that. Just like they couldn’t help you understand that it was Tim Breuer who put ESPN’s cup coverage entire orders of magnitude better that channels 3,6&10. And “they” still don’t get it. Thank you Scene Vault. 10/10 bravo 🎉another great interview. You guys make it look easy!!!
I realize now that I misspelled Brewer. It was not intentional. All apologies especially to my third grade teacher who, thankfully, will probably never read this
I would like to hear it.
Ken has a side of him that he exhibited when he was at 600 Racing that paints a pretty negative picture of the man. He ruined a kid's chances of making it with his race fixing at the Summer Shoot Out at Charlotte in 2005. Fixing that rewarded David's ARCA sponsor, Grisham Insurance. David is a great guy, he didn't become a sell out and throw away his morals. He stayed true to his roots. I can tell the story if anyone wants to hear it.
I would like to hear it.
@@RickHitt Ken Ragan, the man that destroyed Jordan Phillips (WKA National champion) chance of ever being a professional driver. Jordan won the Summer Shootout Championship over Bubba Wallace & Ryan Blaney etc. But Ken over ruled the DQ of David's ARCA sponsors son, Max Greshim , of Greshim Insurance, and gave the championship to David's sponsor. Ken over ruled the National Tech Director in an appeal meeting that it was voted unanimous by INEX, the sanctioning body that Jordan had won fair & square., until Ken interrupted and announced HIS decision.
Then a couple years later Ken Ragan assaulted my girlfriend at the Summer Shootout because Ken had a personal vendetta against me, so he assaulted her after telling him how disgusting it was that he had one of my clients, the Weatherman brothers father, who's Bandolero cars I prepped for them, Ken had him stop payment on my check for payment on the work I did, then I got sued for the parts bill, that sent me into near bankruptcy and eventually led to me leaving the sport all together because Ragan threatened to make life miserable for anybody that hired me, so I was black listed, lost all 3 of my clients, & was negotiating with 2 more at the time and eventually within a year, run out of Charlotte, unable to work in racing.
So Mr Ragan has a dark side, deciding futures with zero concern for how he ruined a poor kids dreams and black listed a former Truck Series crew chief that finally got back into racing full time rising from the ashes of 9/11 with a race prep & driver development business, 5 years after 9/11 wiped out so many Truck teams, NASCAR crew chief jobs were hard to come by for a few years. And working with kids and their families was so much more fun than the NASCAR grind anyway, it really hurt to lose that.
The problem for Ken was, a "nobody" as he called me, is not supposed to beat the chosen ones. If you do, your future will not go your way. The hardest part of that to take, was that for a man that came from nothing with the help of a brother, to take down talent with race fixing & boycotting because we were beating the Blaney's Wallaces, Elliots, & McReynolds of the world with worn out equipment, shows he lost his way, money replaced his morals IMO...
If Ken's brother didn't get him started, he would probably be a "nobody" in racing too. So after all of that, why would he fix races to help rich kids over the ones with pure talent winning races in worn out stuff?
Winning on the track, I could do, winning on their turf with just talent and no money and without a racing household name against a man with a billionaire as a boss? I couldn't do it...
I have to say, David Ragan is a good guy, that in spite of his father 's actions, he was ALWAYS respectful and kind. He was humble and acted like he was just one of the guys that wasn't any better than any of us, even when he was running cup. I really like David because he stayed true to his nature. If Ken got anything right, it was the way David was raised.
Ask David what I did for his brother, getting him so excited at the Summer Shoot Out, getting kisses and posing for pictures with my Hooter Girls pit crew., Yeah, I had 7 Hooter Girls in full costume on my team.
Having the girls give Davids brother the attention (He has Downs Syndrome) my way of sending the message that even though Ken treated my racing family terrible, I would never to do the same to his...
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There was no need for Rick to act like a complete dick to Ken at 19:48 about the table. What are you a Kindergarten Teacher? Way to try to embarrass poor Ken like that.