Reflecting on NASCAR's Evolution

paint booth in. When I came here, this was uh Renzy was using this as the uh part of the fab shop and paint shop. So, they were handling all of that here. We would sand the floors or we would sand the walls and we would come back to red McDonald's and we would come back to the Viagra colors from Ill River and then we would go sand all the way down till we got to the Peninszor and then uh Country Time. So the walls and where in there? Yes, in here. So that's funny. We just talked about that. Like I wonder if you could sand it down and find yellow. Oh, you can you can find yellow in spots and everything and it's really cool. you put up a picture the other day and I was trying to look at that picture on Facebook and find where that spot is in this uh building. So, is that the cars in the back? He just showed me that picture. Is that the one you just showed me? So, this is where the transporters parked when it was just this overhang here, right? Because this room over here before this was added on was the paint room. It was not a paint uh booth. It wasn't a paint booth. They just went in there room. Yeah. When we purchased the building in 2011, Lorance, he owned the building along with the estate of Chuck Ryder. So, up until then, I had always heard of Chuck Chuck Ryder had owned the race team, but Lurance uh was big huge distributor of Briggs and Stratton engine parts. So, he was like the largest guy, I think, in the country at that time. But he was kind of the money guy. They would come to him and they would need to build on and he would front the money for the race team to build on and then obviously we get paid back. But he was kind of like the silent partner, but he was the cash. He was the he was It always takes two different people. And Chuck was Chuck was the guy that was at the track shaking everybody's hand, walking around with the suits on and and he was he was he was the go-getter and and Lorance was in the back, quiet guy. And um I mean he was he was a pretty cool guy. And uh like I said, he was he was the guy. There's always one guy that the buck stops there and that was Lorance in 1989. They tell me and there's a