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Visit Fabrication and Engineering Rooms

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Dale Earnhardt History Tour! Richard Childress Racing Museum & Abandoned/Former Race Shops!

What happens here

Enter the fabrication and engineering rooms, which are part of the original shop. Note how these areas have been left largely untouched, with original tools, equipment, and even an engine crane still in place. Observe the various racing models, including wind tunnel scale models and full chassis frames, that showcase the engineering and design process behind the race cars.

Goal: Gain insight into the engineering and development of NASCAR race cars.

Tools and materials

  • Clay model of 1990 Lumina — Illustrating early design processes
  • Engine crane — Demonstrating original shop equipment
  • Full chassis frame — Demonstrating race car construction
  • Wind tunnel models — Showcasing aerodynamic development

What they say

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tire richard shoulders is literally the man you can see there's more rooms over there like parts room suspension room gear room magnaflux for crankshafts and stuff there's like a bunch of chairs in that hallway and there's still wind flags hung up in there that i don't know if you can see because the lighting but they like really left everything the way it was this is his daytona 500 car which you can see is not modified at all it's faded in some places like it was parked in the sun somewhere but the big plus on the hood is red and even though it's faded it's still orange i noticed that the front wheel has the red orangish circle on it this one's blue now i can't confirm but i would speculate that since at this time mike skinner was his teammate and drove a 31 car it was low it was blue they probably used one of their wheels on one of the last pistops in the race or something because i don't think that they've changed anything on this car at all even a little bit well on this side it's got yellow rings around it yep they're both yellow i don't know if the camera can see that so at least this side is how it was left and you see a little tv camera on there so whenever they cut to that shot those logos are all big little stinky things it's funny i like how beefy all these braces are on the spoiler and how they each have a stud on them that's adjustable before the race there was a make-a-wish kid that gave dale a penny a lucky penny and he glued it to the dash it's still there i don't know if you can see that but i could see it and i could tell you that it's still there and when you move back through here there's still a engine crane thingy there unmessed with it's like literally exactly how they left it everything is exactly how they left it yeah this is where we'll just look at this real quick this is where they have the hauler that's how it was but before we jump over there this is like the wash bay where they'd unload stuff bring the car in here and then pick it up clean it off before they started doing other stuff to it after a race all the floors raped they got drains there okay turn around i wish there was a way to zoom in i don't know if you can see it that is what these shirts that i'm wearing are modeled after they'll pick through uniforms in the early 90s you can find these at stabletonautoworks.com and these hats are out of stock right now but we're getting more so check that out shameless plug onward oh that's cool oh yeah you can see the tire…

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