Start Your Engines Radio Show Podcast

At 11 we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Duncan Park baseball stadium with our legends guest Susan Pope. Her father Ty Wood is a true DP baseball legend from the 30s and 40s and we’ll discuss more Spartanburg baseball history. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with all the latest news from NASCAR and at 11:20 former Cup Crew Chief Mike Hill will be on from Junior’s Farm...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. So he can get some sleep from an overnight flight from California, our Legends Guest at 11:40 will be all time O’Reilly race starting record holder Jeremy Clements. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11 on the morning of the 104th running of the famed Pike’s Peak Hill Climb, our legends guest will be two-time winner and former record holder Paul Dallenbach. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with al...

At 11 am we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of WSPA-TV with our legends guest Fred Cunningham, currently anchor of the morning and noon newscasts on Channel 7. Fred is a two-time winner of the AP Best Sportscast award in South Carolina and has attended 56 straight Indianapolis 500 mile races. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with all the latest from trackside at Pocono Speedwa...

At 11 am we will present our annual D-Day show playing the recording I made many years ago of Bud Moore recounting his landing on Utah Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Powerful stuff! At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with all the latest from Nashville and Michigan and at 11:20 former Cup Crew Chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres with his views on everything. So tune in to...

. For the entire show we’ll have Rhonda Wade Richards, former Spartanburg resident and the youngest daughter of Billy Wade who lost his life testing tires in Bud Moore’s Mercury in 1965. He was also NASCAR Rookie of the Year in 1963 driving for Cotton Owens. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will be live trackside from the Nashville Super Speedway with all the latest and at 11:20 former Cup Cre...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. Beginning at 11:00 am I am going to take a nostalgic look back at the history of the World 600 and the Indianapolis 500 with facts, figures, and historic radio clips. At 11:20 former Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on f...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our legends guest will be the owner of Rare Sports Films , historian Doak Ewing. HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us at 10:20 with the latest news from Watkins Glen and All Star Weekend at Dover. At 11:2...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our legends guest will be local drag racer with the Southeast Gassers Association Ernie Smith. HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us at 10:20 with the latest news from Texas and Watkins Glen and at 11:20 f...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our legends guest will three-time Indianapolis 500 mile race winner, Lone Star JR, Johnny Rutherford. HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us at 10:20 with the latest news from Talladega and Texas and at 11:...

Technical issue with the stream and over the air at the Beginning and Join the show already in Progress Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our special guest will be race car restorer Harold Tarter. Deb Williams will join us at 10:20 with the l...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. My cohost and special guest will be Fox Sports Spartanburg personality Kenn Blankenship. At 11:00 we’re going to talk baseball history here as his father Hub Blankenship was the General Manager of the Spartanburg Phillie...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our special guest will be video-historian Zach Gillespie who will discuss his newly released documentary “I Found An Abandoned NASCAR Track in My Backyard” about the fairgrounds track in Spartanburg. Deb Will...

Tune in this Saturday morning at 10 for a special three-hour edition of Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. We’ll be live from the Darlington Raceway with our guest line up as follows: 10:00 am - Open with Jeremy Clements, 10:20 - Josh Harris, 10:40 - Deb Williams, 11:00 - Mike Hill, 11:20 - C...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 11:00 am our special guest will be dirt track legend and Sebring veteran Spartanburg’s Chuck Piazza. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with the latest racing news and after her we’ll have my special pr...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 for Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, and online around the globe on our listen live link and the World Wide Web. At 10:15 our special guest will be President of Darlington Raceway Josh Harris to discuss the big weekend of racing there in two weeks. At 11:00 am HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with the latest racing news fro...

Tune in this Sunday morning at 10 am for a three-hour edition of Start Your Engines on Fox Sports Spartanburg at 98.3 fm, 1400 am, online around the globe on our listen live link, and the World Wide Web. At 10:00 am we will start our Black History Month celebration with legends guest Frank Scott, son of NASCAR HOFer Wendell Scott. At 11:00 am Toni Arnold McFarland whose dad Ray Arnold was on Wende...

At 11:00 our legends guest will be 1978 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year and great story teller Ronnie Thomas. At 10:20 HOF journalist Deb Williams will join us with the latest news from trackside at the Daytona international Speedway ahead of the Daytona 500 later in the day. At about 11:20 former Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres with Daytona 500 memories. So tune in to cohost B...

At 11:00 we will have on our favorite guest, O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Jeremy Clements to discuss his new alliance with the Haas Factory Team for 2026 and beyond. At 10:20 NASCAR HOF'er Deb Williams will join us for an extended segment to discuss all the news from the off season. Former Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres at 11:20 with his take on the recent 24 Hou...

At 11:00 we will have our favorite guest, Xfinity driver Jeremy Clements to sum up the year and look ahead to 2026. HOF'er Deb Williams will join us after weeks on the road with her thoughts on 2025. She will also be awarded the prestigious Nelson Crozier Cup as the 2025 SYE Points Championship Winner. Former Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres at 11:20 with his take on the ye...

At 11:00 we will have our Veterans' Day tribute a week early when we play my interview with Bud Moore ten years ago. In it he tells the tale when he and his Jeep driver captured a German HQ and couple of dozen soldiers and officers. HOF'er Deb Williams will join us with the news from trackside in Phoenix, but with the time difference I'm not sure when. The same goes with former Cup cre...

At 11:00 our legends guest will be my brother, Smoky Wood, a military historian who is going to tell us about Spartanburg during the American Revolutionary War. At 10:20 HOF'er Deb Williams will join us with the news from trackside at Martinsville Speedway. And about 11:20 Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres with his take on everything. So tune in to Ronnie Black and me, Perry...

At 11:00 our legends guest will be me, Perry Allen Wood. I'm going to tell a tale of Spartanburg racing history I am pretty sure you've never heard. It's kind of a Halloweenish story. At 10:20 HOF'er Deb Williams will join us with the news from trackside at Talladega. And Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from down on Junior's Farm with a Talladega tale or two. So tune in to...

At 11:00 our legends guest will Bill Blair, Jr., son of racing pioneer Bill Blair, Sr. Bill is going to give us all the details of the Moonshiners' Festival in North Wilkesboro the following weekend. At 11:40, HOF'er Deb Williams will join us with the news from Las Vegas three time zones away. Sometime during the show we'll have former Cup crew chief Mike Hill on from Green Acres with...

At 11:00 our legends guest will be 1990 Busch Series Champion Chuck Bown. At 10:20 HOF'er Deb Williams will join us with the news from race week at The Roval. At about 11:20 former Cup crew chief Mike Hill will be on from Green Acres with his take on racing and farming. So tune in to Ronnie Black and me, Perry Allen Wood, Sunday morning at 10 for SYE. SYE