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Direct Historical Inquiry with Darrell Waltrip

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Exploring Robert Gee's Former Race Shop: Old School NASCAR History (Stories From Darrell Waltrip!)

What happens here

While exploring, use a phone to call Darrell Waltrip directly for immediate insights. Describe the discovered artifacts and elements of the shop to him, asking about their historical context, who used them, and any stories associated with them. Specifically inquire about the significance of items like the old airbox, fuel bezel, steel mid-plate, pistons, carburetors, old jacks, glass cleaner bottles, and various cardboard templates for body panels. Note any details Darrell shares about past events in the shop, such as paint schemes or car builds.

Goal: Obtain firsthand historical accounts and anecdotes from Darrell Waltrip.

Tools and materials

  • Phone iPhone — Communicating with Darrell Waltrip and documenting the conversation

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i can stand on about anywhere yeah okay oh where there's pliers it's dirty enough to stand on that's a back window out of a second-gen camaro light bezels got parts for an old oil pump it's at least a two-stage yeah two-stage pump yeah three-stage pump there's the third one are there any dates on any of this stuff the serial numbers yeah one of them we had let's see it's the original gate cluster out of one camaro yeah we had one here we had a box it dated back to the 60s the heck is that faucet contraption thing over there i have no clue i mean back then they i think that was their water heater because it looks like it's got where gas can go into it is it attached to the floor is it just sitting there it's just sitting there there's a lot of old stuff that they just tossed up here i mean i could see why it stayed up here it'd be hard to get it out there's this like old piston i wonder god old single barrel carburetor and i wonder what year like what's the story who carried that up the ladder who threw it up here when did that happen yeah it's just they haven't made these for years i'm going to bed it's probably at least before schrader had this place when i texted him he said he bought it um right after robert died so it went straight from robert to him is that a factory jack from a camaro nope that's actually a toyota okay you never know what you'll find up here it doesn't make any sense but okay yeah there's a lot of stuff like that what could you tell us if you could talk mr a.n fitting that's an old light bezel there's a whole set of pistons right there oh six six of them probably for the same inline sex those gaskets are from beat away glass cleaner is there anything more back there there's actually something surprising back there there's a pa speaker for some reason don't know who had that but for some reason there's a pa speaker out there like hooked up to hook just screwed into the wall and the wires run somewhere i don't know where they have them run into oh is that it over there that silhouette so does somebody have a something like hey get your ass back in here it's time to work kind of thing or it's like oh probably everyone in shops mess around that fan up there i'm surprised that there's as much as there is i mean this is like 1994 two years before i was born and i'm 25. so that's a lot of time for things to not be somewhere anymore what is this thing it might be the windows where the ac vent is oh yeah that would make sense and those have…

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