Cale Yarborough drove for the Junior Johnson-led team beginning in 1974 and lasting through 1980. In this clip from our library, the two discuss the upcoming season.
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00:04 Unmistakably, it's time for driver and crew to regroup.
00:09 There's no more fitting a place for a meeting of minds
00:12 than amid the beauty and serenity of the mountains of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
00:17 Often described in racing as Junior Johnson country,
00:20 it is here that the legendary former driver and folksy team manager lives,
00:25 on a chicken and cattle farm, and operates his racing shops behind his home.
00:29 [male speaker] Well, when a new team starts out,
00:32 it just takes a little while to get everybody used to working with each other,
00:36 get everything settled down where you can,
00:39 we know what you need, and you know sort of what the car needs to feel like for you,
00:45 and it just takes a little while to work some kind of problems out.
00:48 [male speaker] Yeah, I know what you mean.
00:50 I'm ready for it to start working out.
00:52 [male speaker] Well, I think four years or less we'll get it all together,
00:56 and when we do, then I think we'll have a hard combination to beat, really.
01:02 [male speaker] Well, I sure hope so, because this Chevrolet is sure running good.
01:06 If we just had a little bit of luck, it'd go along with everything else.
01:10 [male speaker] It's just--you've got to have that luck.
01:13 That's all there is to it.
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