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Fabrication Area and Component Assembly Rooms

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Bahari Racing's Former Golden Era NASCAR Shop: Ahead of Its Time in 1989! (Michael Waltrip Pennzoil)

What happens here

The group moves into the fabrication shop, where Rambo points out the location of his old toolbox, welding bench, and welder. He recalls working alongside various team members like Mike Fox and 'Zoomer'. The tour proceeds to specialized rooms, including one where a blind employee built rear ends using talking calipers, as well as a cleaning room and storage areas.

Goal: Learn about the specialized tasks and unique personnel within the shop.

Tools and materials

  • Atlantic Press Brake Atlantic — metal fabrication, Forklift Clark

What they say

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you want to walk in here, the fab shop. And I know there's a lot of stuff in here, but that's the door that went up to to the apartment. The apartment's up there. And this all was a fab shop, including the the part room up there. This is where it changes a little bit. The big door wasn't there. And this come around this come around to about right here was about it. And the reason why I know that is because my toolbox sat there. My welding bench was there and my welder sat right here. And from here that way was the fab shop which was um way bigger than what we had and definitely roomier. And we had you know all the equipment and everything. Carrie worked in here. Mike Fox, Zoomer was in here, and this is where we spent most of our time. Like I said, I was I was right here around this corner, and then there was a wall there. This is where we put them together, where we built them, did all the fab work, and then uh where' the chassis come from? The chassis back then, you would get a a Hutch chassis, um a Banjo chassis, a Hopkins chassis. You had the chassis builders that you would buy the chassis. Very few people were messing with uh making their own chassis, building their own chassis. This was actually really nice because we could line the cars up. We'd have all the cars lined up there. We had a surface plate right there. Man, is it hot in here? It's hot in here. Hang on a minute. Oh, he came prepared. You had me fooled. How about that? Epic. I think it shrunk when it was hanging in the closet. But anyway, pretty nice little touch, isn't it? Yeah, I wasn't ready for that. Yeah, how about that? So, anyway, uh we had the surface plate here and then this was our assembly shop. We had tables along the walls because I actually come here when it was actually Penso. I was a fabricator and then I was a mechanic. I was over there. I did all the front suspension, everything. I worked up

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