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Final Overview from the Balcony

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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 tour ends with Rambo and Kelvin on the balcony, looking down into the main shop. They highlight the view, emphasizing how it allows one to appreciate the scale and transformation of the facility over the years.

Goal: Provide a concluding perspective on the building's journey.

Tools and materials

  • Michael Waltrip Team Set Card TRAKS — identifying key personnel

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here. I probably got rid of at least 30, 40 sets of tires that was in here. I don't know who they were from. I didn't see any date codes, anything that I paid attention to. So, you you had came with artifacts then, too. Oh, it came with artifacts. Absolutely. Right. I mean, that's the stuff we want to know about like the the random things, stuff on the walls, this things, evidence you find. I mean, you come in here and you see Bobby Hamilton Jr. So, they came through here. Tires and pit stop equipment was in here. Had some airlines hanging out. And they would well I was told they would come down through here because I moved three jersey barriers from along this wall over here that apparently they were jumping off of and that's what they used back then. So they were jumping over and stuff for here. Don't you have a body shop to put trucks in? A paint shop. Yeah. Paint shop. Biggest shop I ever seen. Yes. The biggest body shop I ever seen. This is where the haulers and the buses was kept in the latter days of uh the race teams and everything. So this was a swamp when I was Oh yeah, this was there were snakes and everything else in here. So now we just uh so this was a drive-thru bay. Come off the highway and drive through. We set this up as a paint booth and now we paint some NASCAR haulers and stuff in here and do stuff. So, uh, but yeah, this is where the haulers were. And matter of fact, when we got here, there was a motor home kept here by one of the drivers. Uh, Laurance was uh renting it out and they were keeping it in here and it was plugged in and everything and they kept it in here for a week or two after we purchased it. Is it bad that it's almost kind of funny how this just keeps going and going? Like, oh, you think it stops here, but wait, there's more. There's a lot more. I think this is it, right? This is an outside. Oh, this is it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, this is when I think Lurance and Chuck Ryder said, "Hell, we're out of

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