Wayne Lensing's Garage Door and Hall of Fame

talk about your story. Yes. Yes. My son gave this to me for Father's Day from Souper Avenue, where I used to live . I moved out of there, and this was my garage door, and we painted it with a character from "Wile E. Coyote ," because if you win the kids over, you win the adults over . And I could attract the children's attention because they loved cartoon characters, so I always drew them on my car. In short, my son went to the person who owned the place three years after we moved out and said to the current owner, "We'll give you a new door if we can take this one." " I want to give them to my father for Father's Day." And he agreed, and man, I almost cried. This is incredible. So, this handle right here, many famous racers held onto it when entering that garage. So this is also special in its own way. Do you understand what I mean? Did you build the chassis? For me, these old doors, I don't even know...They hold a very important place for me. This is very touching. Yes, I love seeing things that come from such buildings, because cars end up in museums and become exhibits, and buildings where stories were created and born simply live their own lives and are forgotten about, because you can't just take a garage and put it in a museum. He just becomes something else. Yes. Well, in our career building race cars, “Left-Hander,” we’ve built almost 3,000 cars, which is a lot. Yes. And I worked a lot of the time while I was doing this. So I myself was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a chassis developer. What workshop are these doors from? I see. Here. You will see this door in the workshop. The second photo is from the back. Good. Yes. This is that door. And this door stood there with all those drawings from '86 until a few years ago . Yes. This is incredible. This is simply incredible. Yes. Well, you see, they're a little old now. But, uh, they built a lot of race cars in that garage, but now our workshop is across the street. But near that workshop there was a steep hill that I had to drive up to get the car. And in the winter it was a real workout. This is my very first racing car that I ever owned. Um, I didn't have , I couldn't scrape together a hundred dollars. I went to the dump. Do you see the safety cage? Aha. These are drive shafts. We sawed them off and an old guy in Belvidere arc-welded them . If I had taken a hammer, I'm sure I could have broken them off. I've heard of frames made from water pipes or exhaust pipes, but I've never heard of a frame…