Mezzanine/Lounge Area Transformation

notice yeah cuz you could walk back here and look at this but you wouldn't know that that's where filters went unless somebody was here to tell you that's what it was like a tattoo shop in there now you know so but when I was talking about the body shop part all we did was paint and Bondo work in there but over there like nowadays you have a rotisserie they call it and they put they hook it on each end of the car and you just turn it upside down and you stand there and you paint it we didn't have rotisseries back then but we had a crane so we pick the car up we go all the way out as far as it would go and we made 6ot tall jack stands and we just set the car on jack stands and we stood there and we painted the car that's that's how we did the bottom of the car back then nice but it was the crane we were really kind of one of the first shops that actually had our own parts room in it which Butch Stevens uh created BSR products they were very successful but he was here and got our parts department started we were building our own chassis we actually started selling chassis to other competitors and things like that out of of here too Jim Delaney and JY Simpson was our two main Fabricators that worked in here and they both passed unfortunately but that they they were spearheaded all the mechanical side do you remember uh Lake speed renting a spot in the building next to that one oh yeah you were there when he was there uhhuh huh well I remember it let's say that you got to remember early on I left early but I do remember it after the fact and that's what it was for we built that just for leasing out okay tell people I had no idea what to do this building I thought this was going to this was going to be my nem so it was like there there's a huge mezzanine up here that had a steel floor you could look down yeah and we use that a lot for storage that's what I was thinking that it was oils greases we used to get a lot of stuff from unical and and it had lock up cages and stuff and that's because it was also a parch department on this end of the building okay was there the staircase up to the mezzanine right here yeah yeah we can go up there you'll laugh yeah oh try to unlock the door somebody in there maybe what was this room was that there before oh good good good good oh cool cool cool somebody's in I didn't even know it locked so this was this is all original here yeah so so this right here you get