Early Occupants and Shop Operations

actually we did it inside. Um you know, back then nobody practiced pit stops and uh I used to always joke these younger guys I'd say you know, when we practice pit stops I said when? I said the 125s at Daytona which are 150s now. I said that was first pit stop we did all year. Uh that was my office. The bathroom? Yeah. Yeah, literally. That was the door. Plate glass window like that right where that cabinet is and that was my office. We've been in a lot of these shops but I've never seen somebody's office turn into the bathroom. Me either. So this was my office. The desk would have sit right here. And have a plate glass window right there where I could look out over the shop. That wasn't there. And obviously none of none of this was here. So, That's funny. I've got Now I'm really glad I got photos of my office at home from You do? Yeah, so I can I can go back and uh do some remodeling this a little bit. That'd be cool to see. None of this kitchen stuff was here. A car A car would sit here, you know. Actually, this was the break table. Our break table was right here. Right. But the cool thing about I guess we probably had a vending machine and a refrigerator and that kind of stuff. But this was the break area right here. But none of the wall and none of the counter The whole shop was just one big open area. So, you were here before No, I was just here in Florida. Bobby raced out of here in '93 and Rookie of the Year. Yeah. Oh, wow. And I was Second. Second. Rookie of the Year. Yeah. It was my rookie year. Your rookie year. Um Tim Brewer was crew chief for me. Yeah. So, yeah, Tim was here. So, I was thinking that for that in '93, I don't I don't know that we had that many employees. We might not have quite a lot of them. Cuz I know I was I was probably an employee then because we were behind uh Yeah. getting ready for Daytona. I remember I think I I was here every day for 25 days in a row. Couldn't when she was in duck work or whatever, you know. You know, that was Bill and Gail's office. In there? Yeah. There was a picnic table right here. Yeah, so I said this was the uh break area. Yeah, which was a picnic table. Right? Yeah, yeah, it was just And And what was that before your office? I have no idea. When I came here, it was the That's Brewer's office. Yeah, it was Brewer's office. It was crew chief's office. They had two desks in here that faced each other. Yep. They had two desks in here. What was a meeting usually like if Bill wanted to see you in his…