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Mooresville/Lakeside Park Area Exploration

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Forgotten Classic NASCAR Race Shops Ultimate History Tour! (What Do They Look Like Today?)

What happens here

Head to the Mooresville area, often referred to as 'Race City USA', and specifically explore industrial parks like 'Lakeside Park'. This area once housed numerous race shops, including locations for MB2 Motorsports (M&M's car, now Detroit Speed), Joe Nemechek / NEMCO Motorsports, former Penske South (Rusty Wallace #2 car), Red Bull Racing, and Jasper Motorsports. Drive through these areas, carefully observing buildings for clues to their past racing identities, such as old architectural styles, faint logos, or historical signage that might not have been updated. The video mentions a sign in Lakeside Park that still lists many defunct race teams, suggesting the importance of looking for these historical anomalies.

Goal: Identify and document former race shops within Mooresville's industrial parks.

Tools and materials

  • Camera or Smartphone Camera Any — Documenting current building appearances and any historical clues
  • Smartphone or GPS Device Any — Navigation to specific areas within Mooresville
  • Vehicle Chevrolet — Transportation to and through industrial parks

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at all wish i did because there's probably a lot of really cool i'm pretty sure there were other race teams in this little uh call the sack park here but we do not know what they are if you worked for any of them leave a comment because that's that's how we figure this stuff out we're gonna move over to it's called lakeside park there were i don't even know probably like 20 shops in there back in the late 90s or early 2000s you could have gone through there and it was just like do do do do every single one and it's pretty evident that a lot of those places used to be race shops and not very many of them are anymore but there's a lot to be had in there there's even signs to say caution race fans ahead like there used to be so many race shops in here that it was a known thing this hre's hattori is a truck series team now i'm sure that used to be something i've been told that was formerly rusty wallace's and that that was his helipad back there don't know that for sure but it would make sense because this msi building right here that used to be penske that was the penske south like where you know rusty wallace and the two car that all that came from right here and i'm pretty sure that's what red bull racing was um in later years right here at sri performance was roush racing there's pictures online of that sign right there when it said penske and penske cranifess the building used to be brown i think but i mean that's it right there it's pretty neat it's pretty rare to think that penske and roush were right next door to each other and this is not the first roush building the first roush building was in liberty this was the original roush racing shop in liberty north carolina we were actually going to get a project car for logan and ended up being a rust bucket which you know that happens but like oh we're right by liberty we need to go see if we can find the old roush building we found it and it's even got the og logo on here still kind of visible it's like painted over and the other side has the newer roush fenway logo on it that's so freaking cool they tried to paint over it but i can't even imagine we're literally like in the middle of nowhere there's nothing out here just thinking the old mark martin javelin hauler coming in and out of here back in the day looks like it was added on to multiple times i don't know which structure was the first one or not probably the middle and then the ends were added later and then these back buildings i have no idea…

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