The little Diesel that could, did and conquered

Need required action. Back in late 1988 my beloved super VW/KW Rabbit took a nose dive. Some assholes at a truck stop in Jerome thought it would be to sell me oil in an antifreeze jug. I needed coolant not oil.

Half way down the big road near Kimberly exit 182 I-84 the little truck blew its slugs and I was stalled. Call to a friend or two got the truck in, me on a bus, to Blackfoot, and LexiBelle on the way to Twinky Flatts to fetch. Once back at Blackfoot there were few if anyone skilled in automotive diesels. Not just mine but every ride running these heavy A-fuel cars, pick-up’s etc. So thought was why not open one. The question became, had anyone ever hot rodded these little diesels? This was long before BullyDog and PDI, you might even say our shop opened a door, a big door, how about a shout to us for that friends.

So that year in a Oldsmobile Toronado needing refuel pulled through Saint George, Utah, and sitting there was the name. Dixie Diesel Service And Towing. That name started a burning inside of me that even to date has never been put out. Two years later during a respite of my relationship with Monkee, I decided to venture forth and open the Dixie Diesel Shop. Similar sounding, means something different. Okay how to get the word out? Shopped many radio stations in Utah, no bytes. Although KSL was running the Road Gang with Dave Nemo, they were not looking at taking something new on. However a shy little station in Price Utah called KOAL AM did. Not only did they accept our ads for the remains of ITRN, that they were running at the time, but allowed me to run on behalf of the newly formed UAITA but what to call the new show? Input from my pal Tommy, who created both the name for our hot rod shop there and the subsidiary of the Dixie Diesel Shop, called Cooter’s Kustmz(customs) but the slogan, at Cooter’s Kustmz its not customized, its Cooterized. So he said why not just call the new show simply Dixie Diesel Radio. The handle of the show caught on and has become phenomenal to the point Dixie Diesel is known and copied from coast to coast. Remember we did it first.

But there are those that just love to step on anything we do. Example, put a thing up on Wikipedia, get a thing back saying they were deleting it. On the flip side, HazzardAyre Radio, Dixie Diesel Radio’s offspring still has a brief article there.

There is a deep feeling that people in or from Hazzard develop over the years, residents here call it Hazzard County tenacity, We call it Rebel determination. Don’t tell us it can’t be done, cuzz you’ll damn well find out we did it, or are there already. Just like many said that a mini VW Rabbit could not be turned into a mini Kenworth. With a bunch of welding, cutting, hand formed metal the little diesel did, and was. Its remains are still rusting in the back yard of Wally's Automotive in Chubbuck Idaho. We needed and desired a performance diesel shop, none existed, we built it. Likewise, when truckers were looking for time sensitive information out west here, and the other networks from the Bozo, Midnight Cowboy Bill Mack Show, and the Road Gang were at least 3 hours past us here. Those blazing snow storms, slick roads and slide off’s that 411 was needed. NOW!! This was of course before Smartphones, IPhones and the like. We were and continue to be that lone long haul driver out there’s connection. And we still deliver. Any mile, going out siting for new Idaho HQ for the network, but before anyone wants to throw us in pile 13, as not so, best check back 30 plus years ago, I’ll bet money in some archive of what was the Gooding County Leader there’s stories of the TeenAge Truckers Association. Likewise I’ll bet your next tank of diesel, that if both KLIX radio and KMVT ch-=11 would find a few injections of Dixie Diesel, in their vaults.

Slow us down, put up the hurdles, don’t matter, Hazzard folks find a way over and around obstacles .

L8R Ya’ll

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