Restoration Details and Childhood Travel Stories

parking that doesn't really make sense. So when my dad went to he got a second hauler. He had two haulers at one time. That's exactly what he did. He paved a little wider so he could park both haulers. The flip spot. Gymnastics. Here we go. So the race hauler would park like right here. It's a really nice building at the time. Now it's a gymnastics center. Look at that. One of the fun things about this building you can kind of see it. See the line on the wall right there? >> Yeah. Uh when they were building it uh we had like an unexpected thaw and frost event and the the wall froze and caved in right on that line right there. And they're just like, "Oh well, we'll see what we can do to fix it." Cuz they were supposed to move in at the start of the '99 season and got pushed back to the middle because the building collapsed. And me and Brad sitting at think at like Flat Rock. I probably was I don't know, eight or nine. Brad had been about six or seven. I remember in some of his stories where they made him stay with grandma while you would go and work on the car. Yeah. Was it more when when he went on the trip were you like, "Oh, you're bringing Brad?" Like What was crazy my brother had a driver's license. But he wouldn't let me ride with him. So I had to ride the bus. Was he too cool for you? Oh, definitely. I was a freshman, he was a senior. He was too cool for school. I was like the dweeby younger brother. Or was it more fun when he was there? always went, right? And during the the times uh the spring or the fall where we couldn't go to the races, then you know, we spent a lot of time at grandma's house or my sisters would watch us or something, right? So my grandfather built this house and uh when he built it, you can see the tall part. That's what he built. It was this tiny house and he put this extension on it. Uh when I got old enough to go to the race track when I probably didn't look old enough, but they they called it good enough. >> My brother looked like he was 18 when he was 14, but I looked like I was 14 when I was 18. And uh so my my parents took full advantage of that. And uh they falsified my brother's NASCAR license when he was 14 and said that he was 18. And he got to travel with them and I didn't. You know, it is what it is, right? I didn't like it at the time, but I got it, right? Like he got he could get away with it and I I was not going to get away with it. I was probably about 12, 13 years old and and actually going to the…