Ralph Earnhardt, a former Late Model Sportsman national champion, was in his garage in Kannapolis, N.C., making carburetor parts for his son’s race car when a heart attack killed him in 1973. He ...

The story told of Dale Earnhardt in Amazon Prime Video's docuseries, Earnhardt, was an emotional rollercoaster, to say the ...

Ralph Earnhardt worked briefly in a textile mill and a neighborhood garage before going ”serious” racing in the mid-’50s. He built cars and engines in a garage behind his house, Dale always ...

Dale Earnhardt's first racing garage was his dad's side-yard shop. Behind Ralph and Martha Earnhardt's house on Sedan Avenue, where Martha still lives, Ralph built a garage that served as his race ...

It’s the place where her husband Ralph worked on his cars, back there in the garage. It’s the place where Dale grew up, as feisty at 4 as he was at 40. It’s the place rich with the aroma of ...

The Earnhardt family tree has been long, and it is still expanding. But its roots are rarely looked at – Ralph Earnhardt, ... in the garage. Earnhardt passed away in 1973, aged 45 years old, ...

Ralph Earnhardt was one of my dirt test drivers. Dale was always hanging around the garage. He looked like something you needed to sweep out because he was always dirty with stringy hair.