KANSAS CITY, Kan. – No, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not about to become the next Bob Vila.
And the do-it-yourself home improvement show that will feature Earnhardt and wife Amy early next year isn’t related to the driver’s impending retirement from Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing.
Rather, it’s a way for Earnhardt and his wife to make improvements to their home in Key West, Fla., without breaking the bank.
“We bought this property in Key West a long time ago,” Earnhardt said. “We didn’t know what to do with it. And I was trying to figure out a way to renovate it but stay reasonable on our expense. And we also had some friends that we knew at the DIY Network and HGTV. And we reached out to those guys and said, ‘Hey, we really want to renovate this property.’
“There’s kind of a cool process that you go through in Key West with the historical foundation on how you can renovate homes down there and what you can fix and can’t fix. Like if you have a rotten board, they only let you replace the rotten area. You’ve got to keep the rest, and so on. And they go through the whole house sort of picking apart what you can and can’t fix. So, I was thinking this would make a great show.”
What will air is a four-part series that highlights the renovations to the home.
“I think people connect this to the retirement, and it’s absolutely not connected in any way,” Earnhardt said. “We were talking to them two and a half years ago about could we do this and would this be interesting to them. Would I have the time to do it? And we finally got it agreed upon to put it together.
Source: Reid Spencer / NASCAR Wire Service
