Filming Locations and Crew Experiences

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Randy elaborates on the filming locations, stating that much of the movie was shot in Florida at Volusia County Speedway and an old lumber yard. He shares an anecdote about driving one of the race cars (an actual race car) through a neighborhood to get to the track, highlighting the impromptu nature of some of the filming logistics. He also discusses the extensive use of special effects, such as camera mounts all over the cars, and the sheer volume of film that never made it into the final cut. He recalls how the crew would frequently engage in betting, often involving large sums of money, on various challenges and even on which fireworks-laden toy cars would cross the motelier roof first. The 'cracker barrel' (referring to a Cracker Barrel restaurant) became a memorable landmark for the crew. The conversation concludes with a general reflection on the fun and craziness of working on the movie.

Goal: Explore the diverse filming locations and the unconventional experiences of the movie crew

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for a long time and they actually ran rent ren leased us out of old dealership down there that was closed. So we had a service department offices, body shop, everything in in Daytona. We they leased out a big lumber company that used to sell like 84 lumber that used to just sell building materials, you know, big warehouse buildings. So, we had one of them in Daytona that we had like the Fab Shop and all different kind of stuff in that one big building. And then they rent they leased me a body shop over away from that a little bit, a closed down body shop in Daytona. So, I used that in Daytona. I used to dealership in Florence when we was down there doing them at Darlington and Florence down in there. And then a lot of that movie was filmed in Florida at Valuchia County Speedway. All of the pit stops scenes, most of that was done at Valuchia County Speedway. And they learned real quick not to stand behind the car when it come off the jack. It didn't take long. They got beaned in the hill with about 17 lug nuts. And It's not bad. It didn't take them long. Did you have to do any coordinating with Hendrickk or like what was their involvement? I kind of This right here kind of fell under the Hendricks umbrella. We got That's kind of the way we got paid. That's kind of how we worked this thing. It was all kind of under the Hendricks. I don't want to be the only one asking questions here. These are your cars. What did you want to talk to him about? Do you like recognized, you know, like that car was from this scene or that car was from that scene? Or a lot of times I was in the shop working, so I wasn't at everything that they filmed. You know, I I did sneak off sometimes if it was fairly close where I could go watch something. You know, the FX people was in that same building we was in. So, and in Daytona, they was down at the end of the building we was in. So they did a lot of that special effect stuff, the smoke and the part where the motor blows up and the piece comes out of the hood. I actually cut three hoods with a plasma cutter with a little star and skimmed them with body filler and they had a small cannon on the roll bar and it when you shut the hood it was right there and it would blow that piece of out of it and it would peel up like that, you know, and look like something come flying out of it. So I had to do one so they could play with it and see how it worked and oh yeah, that works good. Then you got to do three more because we going to film it…

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