Film-Modified Chassis, Racing Helmets, and Industry Reflections

Stewart drugged behind his Mahindra tractor for that commercial that's it you just they're just like you want this so we have our gazebo um from the Tony Stewart commercial so I I I say this has been fun for me I I do I do appreciate you doing this because I got to see and think of things that I haven't thought about in in years but uh that one's from a couple years ago and we set it up there by so it' be in the shade and so there's stuff everywhere I guess uh I just haven't uh there's a bunch of these you're bringing up I haven't seen a lot of these I'm going to have to go watch them now the the the Carl Edwards clown one that one's that one's pretty good I think type in Carl Edwards ESPN and you'll see that one oh it was one of the ESPN ones yeah I'm driving the clown car those were always funny so right here Mitchell it seems like every corner I can find you something new this is our camera car which right now is tucked away but there are two seats in there The Stunt Driver on the uh the driver's side and the camera operator on the right and they do all the pan and tilt for the camera we built this car I'm going to say about 1998 or so it's probably worked in oh five or six movies and uh oh gosh at least 50 commercials um my best memories of this car are driving through downtown Charlotte at a probably 80 M an hour right down Trion Street uh that was that was pretty neat camera mounts on the back camera mounts on the front then we can bolt them on the sides as well uh have a roof mount will used the roof mount twice one was a Dodge commercial when a Dodge race car jumped out of Charlotte Motor Speedway that was actually us with the camera on on the roof it's been at least two years since we've used this car um used it on the Goodyear commercial that we filmed uh with Dale Jr did it start Life as a Buick um it looks like 88 89 R it actually raced in the Sportsman series over here when NASCAR had the Sportsman Series in the early 90s and this was one of our race cars after the Sportsman series shut down like well what am I going to use this for and next thing you know there was a commercial coming in do you have a camera car I was like uh yep and uh we built this and like I say used it used it quite a bit over the years did it have a cup history or did you build it from scratch you know used to I knew my race cars as well as I knew my children I could tell you where it came from when I got it what we did to it what races it ran but in the last 30 years…