HOT ROD Interviews the King, Richard Petty HOT ROD sits down with the King of NASCAR, Richard Petty on the occasion of his 80th Birthday to reflect on life, legacy, and his years behind the wheel.

It was 1991, mere hours before 24-year-old David Freiburger went to interview for a staff writer job at HOT ROD magazine. He walked into a “long-hair, rock ’n’ roll kind of hair-cutting place” on ...