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In the summer of 1995 Dema Elgin told me he had heard of a guy who was working on exhaust systems and was responsible for the strange-sounding exhaust on the NASCAR Winston Cup car driven by Sterling Marlin and owned by Morgan-McClure racing. The Kodak-sponsored number 4 Chevrolet car was getting a lot of attention because the exhaust sounded different, and it was going fast. They won the Daytona 500 and Dr. Jerry Punch interviewed Tony Glover, Marlin's crew chief. The Doc asked Glover if the sound was due to some special 180 degree headers? Glover, tongue firmly in cheek, answered, "Actually they're more like 140 degrees." Glover went on to credit hard work by their engine builder, Runt Pitman. Runt must have found something, because Marlin won two of the four restrictor-plate races this year.