Dale Earnhardt Jr Reveals His Dad Had a Slightly Disrespectful Nickname Before Being Enshrined “The Intimidator” to the NASCAR World

Seven-time Cup Series Champion Dale Earnhardt Sr was called the “Intimidator” for most of his racing career. As it turns out, Sr had a very different nickname when he was a child. Recently, during one of Dale Jr’s latest podcasts, Junior revealed the nickname associated with his father, when the latter was younger and had not walked into the world of racing.

Junior stated, “I got an opportunity to work with umn, a company to be able to develop this book, same company that we worked with Mike to do our last book ‘Racing to the Finish.’ They said hey man you wanna do a kid’s book? I said, yes let’s give it a shot. So buster, why buster right? If you look at the car and the art around buster.”

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He added, “This is really fun we actually got to work with a couple of different artists and landed on one we really liked. The car itself is a bit of a nod to my grandpa, Robert G’s car. That my dad actually drove a few times in the 70s, a dirt car, Camaro. We talked about that car on this show several times. Buster was dad’s nickname when he was a little boy… Buster was dad’s nickname when he was 3, 4, and 5 years old…”

Who was Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Grandfather?

The Earnhardt family extends its racing heritage through three generations at this point in time. Way before the iconic Dale Earnhardt Sr dominated the NASCAR scene back in the day, his father Ralph Earnhardt was the first in the family to have set rubber on the track.

Ralph Earnhardt used to build his own cars and raced across to multiple victories and state championships in the 1950s. He also raced in the NASCAR Grand National and also had a championship win in the NASCAR Sportsman Championship. He was often called ‘Mr. Consistency’ for his relentless passion to race around 4-5 times a week.  Throughout his career spanning 23 years he picked up 350 NASCAR race wins across different series and cemented himself in history, never to be forgotten.

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Sadly Earnhardt passed away young at the age of 45 on September 26, 1973. But his legacy lived on, after his son, Dale Earnhardt Sr went on to dominate the Cup Series and win a record seven Cup Series Championships.