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Exploring the Office and Electrical Panels

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Dale Earnhardt's Early Days: Inside Rod Osterlund's Former Race Shop with Doug Richert! (Crew Chief)

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Doug and Art begin their internal exploration of the shop, starting with an office area. Doug recalls that this area used to be Roland Lacon's office. They also examine a nearby room that features old electrical panels, confirming the significant power requirements of the original race shop operations. This segment highlights the contrast between the building's modern-day appearance and its industrial past.

Goal: Identify the former office and inspect original electrical infrastructure.

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room was out in front of this section here I could I was we saw that thing out of there it took weeks you know it was huge hey it still fits that's impressive that's from 79 a lot of people that couldn't do that look at that that's awesome yeah yeah even I can't even forget who I was who painted a face on your back I know I can't I can't look at the back of it I have no idea I I don't know who did it somebody messing around of course you know you roll the window up so did you have to walk around the track back in the day with a smiley face on your back one day or was that like your shop shirt no this was like after I got gone well look speaking of the train yeah train here it comes so these two rooms right here was where we did final preparation on the race car uhhuh so we'd go in there we' put the motor in we'd set them up and stuff like that we kept the hauler out back here we all loaded from the behind but yeah I don't know what's behind those doors now storage for storage for a business out front oh you're obviously doing pretty good because I drove by the front it looked like all occupied it's a home run absolutely home run racing to retail racing to retail some RR like I said that that Center building was the only building here up on top was the full cran system was that here when you got here yes it's still there still in there yeah yeah so that was the one thing we really we liked that was our Fab shop that's where we did all the building we built our own chassis um rear ends all the suspension work everything like that is all done in there pick a car up go down to the end awesome and they had the lights that would swing in and out yep just to get out of the way and that was because of the crane yeah so we can we can move stuff along and then swing the light back out okay I didn't realiz yep it makes perfectly good sense I didn't realize that the necessity was the crane so we didn't have a full-blown Body Shop The Body Shop was just right over here built in into the double doors there and it was just basic enough to get a car painted which that's what I was thinking was double do right there those on painting that was a that was a pain Bo that's right okay all three paintings so you see where the square the squares are in the door that's where the filters yeah this this is the kind of stuff we like to look at is what what is still left from that that you wouldn't notice yeah cuz you could walk back here

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