Shop Layout and Racing Practices

Obviously. Yeah, a lot. Parts room. None of those rooms were built. No, this was one big open area. Right. And there was workbenches and parts washing bats and workbenches all the way down that wall and did rear suspension, front suspension, all that was against that wall. That was the whole suspension area. And then, like I said, you had This was assembly of cars. You had assembled cars here. You got to You got to remember we only had five, six cars at the most. We had two Speedway cars, an all-time backup, my road course car, and and then What was your setup plate? Didn't have setup plate. Okay, where was the Where did you set I forgot where we set one up at. Out here. Did you never have one in here? Did one get added later? Never had one. And not not while I was here. Setup Setup was right here. Um There was a telephone right there. Remember telephone the only telephone in the building? It's right there. Yeah. And this This was the setup plate right here. Bill's toolbox sat about right here behind the setup plate. But yeah, we'd bring the four scales out. We didn't have scale pads, roll-offs, anything like that. It's just a common doesn't mean the the floor was very level, either. It was just a common place that you set it up like that every week. Where was the door that you rolled cars in and out of? Through here. So you had to do like a three, four-point turn with the car to get it? Yeah, see this is the original door. Yeah, it is. Yeah. You know, which would park two cars over here. Um just as storage. Might be the road course car and the speedway car, something like that. Just just as storage and and that women's restroom, that was the only restroom. Right there. We just We just went to the bathroom. One little One little story is we had a Pontiac owners meeting here one time. They'd spread the owners meetings around. We had a Pontiac owners meeting here one time. So, some of the guys had never been here before and I remember Richard Petty came over. And he came in and Bill didn't like smoking and obviously Winston was was the the series sponsor of our our day off. And Bill had no smoking signs everywhere. And right here under the exit sign, he had no smoking sign right there. And I remember as Richard Petty come walking up to it, Richard looked up at that and he pulled his glasses down and he said, "Somebody forgot who paid for this place." And I always remember that. I tell that story a lot about about Richard, but yeah, he uh he knows that no…