Former Golden Era NASCAR Race Shop Time Capsule: INSIDE Tour From a Crew Member! (Stavola Brothers)

There Look. Oh, Amazing. I have it. Can you take it down? ? That one Look. You are that Is it in the picture? ? What am I? Thinking ? That's Harry. It's Hyde. There There is Billy. Oh, under this Still Fuel pump Yes. 30 years ago I am here. When they arrived Like that Lying down I Remembering. Was cleaning . They are light. Changed. They have 10 razors. Blades Got it back. Everything Rusty ones. Yes. They How So much Things What was done? Now To you Don't you understand? . That thing Look. Good Person. That's it. Big Here About people You Have you heard? ? We Stavola Brothers' Real race For the shop Ahead Standing, There that day Work used to Greg With Peterson. . You are here. When? For work Climbed, When? Stopped? I am here. Started in 1988- The Daytona 500 was held in Immediately afterwards , that year Bobby Alison I won. Was in Rayok . That's different. It's a story. But I finally Arrived here. The team of the day Manager Ron Furrer, I am Lived In the subdivision Lived . I Him Called, " To you When? To get here "Can you?" He Asked. So I 1988- At the Daytona 500 after Work per week Started. That's good. All of that Here. Same It happened. Yes. We are inside Climb up and everything To see Going, But This historical Travel here Let's start. We thought. Here is a Gate There was . You know, To you To enter Permission Must have . Therefore, this Whole And the place Fence around Tied up , all that Original Of the fence Part. But This gate Always Closed Locked Was on the ground . Therefore, Yes. Yes, Pillars Still There it is. Paint. Oh, That's great. This Amazing. Oh, Yes. Barbed wire The pillar is still There it is. Yes. Yes, in it Barbed wire There was , that was it Main gate, Former office. That Part, then Shipping Accepting It was there. , for that door Right behind Machine shop There was . Okay. So, yes, Everyone is there. Through the front door I have to come. You are here. Work If not This side Through the door Wouldn't have come . Finally You When? Did you go inside? Around 2000 I am the last one. Went inside. What is that? That was it. I am the last one. Time to go there. That When closed Donnie Johnson The team was Manager, Properties To take care of Stavola Them Maintained . They me To come here Tools To use Used to allow , later they Was selling A few things I bought it, They had Extra Parts And so on. Therefore Around 2000 I am the last one. There That you went It seems. That's good. Yes. So this Very It will be interesting. . For 20 years After For the first time There Going, No. Yes. Okay. Let's Through the back Go Joey. to find Is it possible? Let's see, Here Current The owner is He. He is a fiber. Glass, carbon Fiber Composite Molds and more Doing . That's very Excellent. There Inside Significant No changes. It happened. Doesn't seem like it . Okay. This is very It will be interesting. . Here What was it? What was ? It was here. , I started Location This was it. I am a Parts Runner Was, Tires Unwind and Wheels Clean up What happened there? It was placed . Then That was it. Old paint Booth, that The current EPA- For You might not like it. , but What's funny? , Inner liners To take out We Forklift and And the chain Would have used . That On concrete A lag There was . It still is Is there? That There is doubt, Because I Two For teams Work for Did. They When returning 30 per team Set Tires Wheels I will be there. All of that Untied , Inner liners Take it, Wheels Need to clean , that's how it is I am here. Started. That's good. Then two Teams, Beyond What was it? ? That's Allison. Shop Was. Oh, what is that? Yes. We To go now This is going 8th in the shop Number car, For Bobby Injured After Mike Alexander As a driver When appointed From 12 to 84 Changed It was a car. What was . Okay. Then this Both It is Stavas. Yes. Okay. Then They each From the place Each car Just a little There was only . Yes. Okay. Yes. They Now there What is What is being done? I don't know. . Second The building is When? Added ? When I came That's it. Building There There was . I As said, That's an 8th. Number car 12- Number It was a car. . In fact, That Started in 822 It is My memory, Later they It changed. Bobby number 12 Used That It seems. Yes. Therefore, I There had Two at a time For cars Special Shops There was . And inside Two For teams For Engine shop There was . Okay. Later They are this building. Built, Keith and Earl Almonds Containing Allison Team, So three Almonds There was . They are Allison. Motors, 12 Car The motors are In the building Built. Okay. So that's it. Two Different As identities Look, look, Eight car It was here. , and the motor Everything. 12 car It was here. , and the motor Everything. That wasn't it. Wiki's Engine Building. Bobby That's Hillan. Building Built It seems. That day he A little bush At the races I ran. It seems, Later He is that. Transaction When stopped That For rent Given, yes It was there. Wiki's Motors Made . Hmm. Yes. That's interesting. It's a matter. Two Cars Is it here? Paint What did? They did it. Adding Until they do it Did. Then Bobby Allison's Daytona car Were you there? Or Were you here? Paint What did? That Already Maybe there was. , and I As said That Developed by , I It seems Now there A spray Booth That there is. Hmm. But a During April in it From Came out. They are here. Lots of red Cars Paint Used to do . Yes. They still are It is red. Red chassis. Oh, are those them? What was it? At that time, many Chassis It was red. . Yes. Its Evidence Still To see What can Interesting. Yes. We Robert G- In the shop of Video When done, On concrete Levi Garrett Some of the yellow Scars It was visible. . I yesterday In my shop Work When A little of it Part Was watching , but I To listen Only It's over. I have that. To see the whole Couldn't. That's great. It was a discovery. . More time Daryl By phone Was listening . Therefore Daryl Speaking . He is very He is funny. . You are a welder. Using Footwear Sounds It's not being made. . That's interesting. Here What is it? Let's see. Hey, All of you Door To open Ready Standing. Good. That That's here. For me It seems. All of you Own Like at home Just think about it. This is Joey. Hey, Craig. Hey, man. Hey, man. I love you. Before this Have seen . Yes. Yes. That's right. It seems. Yes. You are with Ray. Were you here? ? Ray Hudson Was here. . Yes. Yes. Here While standing What first? Yours To the mind Coming? This was Shop. This is where We Working on cars What was done , this was For us All that was . At that time Our Service available Plate Nothing There was no . Actually That corner is In the shop The most Level Place It seems. Therefore We are cars. Set there Done. Yes? Yes. Because That day Our Pakal Surf Plates There was no . And that part Fab Shop Was. In that room. Yes, That was it. Your Fab shop. That's part of it. Later Added . Then you Here in 88 When I arrived All Machines It was there. . They are there. Chassis and Used to do . Harry Hyde When I arrived We On your own Chassis To build Started. Yes? Yes. Then The chassis is there. Built, Body Weighing and more It was there. , but Required All Equipment There There was . That's me. First time Tig Welding To do Tried. Tig welders There Behind Against the wall together There was . Yes? Yes. To you Inward Want to go? Yes. Okay. There Interesting Few There are things. . Yes. You Go away. Okay. You Guide Shouldn't we? , you Go away. You Go away. Okay. You Will do Good. To him About this Good There is knowledge. I have little Only knowledge, Except... You too I'm studying. . Yes. Oh yeah. Oh, wonderful! Okay. Then You When it came Wall There was. , right? Yes. Yes. Yes. They later That Demolished , But you It was here. They are set. What is done? It seems. That's where Cecil Built. That was it. Body plate. Therefore Work here Did. Me too With Cecil Work Done , yes, body Plate It was there. . Yes. That's where Bodies were hung. What was put. Okay. I am now To you For Back Let's stay away. That Separated , because in the past Parts room Where was it? I Let me show you. But they are Fab Shop When built, this Parts room It became, the other Side gear, Transmission, Suspension It's a room. Oh. Yes. But a During All this Open It was a place , because That's all fab. Shop Was. Okay. Chassis jig That Was on the side , that's all Open It was a place . This one here Squares You said Body Hanging Is it the item? ? Yes. For me I don't remember, But they are a Plate It was placed. , that How was it? I think so. Exactly I don't remember. Cecil said Floor Concrete When done Someone Something To do If you wish For that, this tie- Downs It is said that it was placed , but they Small Chained Tie-downs Only. Yes, Right. Nobody does that. Never used . Yes. That never happens. Not used . Floor Concrete When done They did it. It is placed. Yes. This concrete Very Excellent. Yes. I For work When it started had This is the same color. Is it true? Yes. Yes. You Were you here? ? This When you build Here There was no . This was built by It's Billy. And then, that welder First To use When I tried That Where was it? ? This wall Because I am here. For me Sure. That Wall had Will be in place That TIG machine What was . That's where With plug. Yes. There is a There is a plug. Oh, Amazing! Yes. Yes. There it is. Yes. That's it. Interesting It's a matter. Still There Stickers There are others. Yes, I am a Sticker Found In it Pasted. That's interesting. It's a matter. I am here. Sticker Found, Year Calculated Look. About 35 years This is from before. . This decal After construction 35 It's been about a year. , it's on paper From To separate Even It is difficult. . That pit The board is also very Excellent. That's you. From here? Found? That's a buck. Shot It belonged to Jones. . Brothers Pitboard In size The rest These are the goods. I will say. Then This is a catch. There is also material. Oh, that's a bed. . Amazing! All this Here The first room Only. We are nothing. Haven't seen it. Here To arrive Long ago I Noticed Started. Therefore, This is this Of the room Of the wall The other side. Now you Good here Things are happening. Doing. Yes. This is Vaughn. Gon's It's a Mustang. Oh. For them For Repairs We Doing . Amazing! They All this A lot Is being used . Now They have a School It's like. One five There are cars. It seems. Hmm. So they Is being used . You Are you keeping me busy? ? Yes. New For parts A large order We For them Completed . That To you Square Tubing To bend Can be used. Oh, then this is it. Original It's a thing, isn't it? Yes. What is this? I always I have thought . I have that. To understand Couldn't have . Yes. This is a It is Mandel, Square Tubing To bend To be used . This is a gear- Transmission- Suspension As a room When changed That Right there Lay down. I Work here To do Since it began Five-six For years. To you In Texas From Always Goods Is it possible? . Yes. Denny Way Long time Our gear It was a deer. Something like that He, Total I was in bed. . Around it He Cardboard Cut. Yes. Save it. Don't do it. That's steel. Lying down. I am that. That it was done It seems. On that wall For us Gear rack There was . And his Gear and Transmission The table is there too. There was , my Suspension The table is there too. Was, And there Workers There was . But I That's right. There Was sitting . Total What was Brake Clean Bars Then A small fan Was only . Oh, they're you. Nothing. To do I wouldn't agree. . Let me tell you, Racers To you To kill Can't. Everything, everything Grounded Rooms. Airless Grinding Rooms. Unventilated Paint Booth. I love you. Let me show you, Cylinder For heads For motorcyclists For us For everyone With had Old Grinding Room. This In the part Harry High When I arrived We are Chasi Jig Made by. We On your own Chassis Was building , and I That's what they said. Parts room Made To turn, Then Our gear And suspension Room too. That's why How many doors? Big I understand. , because we Last time When it came Parts The room is very Big That the doors It seemed . Yes. For them Whole Cars Here To bring Could have . That's the thing, You are very Secret They are temperamental. . Just a little. Yes. That much It's okay. Just a little. That much It's okay. Paul Wise Was Oh yeah. Chassis Most of the Made by It was him. And then he Rick Wilson too. No. Rick Wilson here. Driven. He is our Everything Hit Broken. Good Is human. But. Rick's The last one My name is Memory Not coming. Later on. I will remember. But the chassis Built Important people They were, And the body Work Those who do and more There was . Therefore But for this Top What? Up To go There is a ladder. Storage Is. Just Storage. Yes. Old During, You As said, For us, In front Original Parts room There was , but they Oil and Gear Oil and Cases Everything is there. Was kept . That day, Stock Body panels I would have gotten , cut it My roof Quarter Made it like, And then the sides Built, So big Goods Windows Everything is there. Be careful. Okay. There Still There are some. Is that true? Yes. Old things. One or two There are windows. Is it true? To you If necessary There Go away. Yes. Let's Let's go and see. Finally You are here. Came When? my God. No, I As said, Donnie for me A little Goods When sold, That's about 99. Will be. I am through this. A thousand times Has climbed and descended. . Aha. Miracle. Yes. Head up To stand There is no space. They are here. That's a priority. Not given. Yes. This is a Thunderbird's Rear Glass It is For me It seems. So to see That's right. Just Guessing. . Oh, Pro Glass. Yes, yes. They are Accent Windows What was done . Inside this is a Attic Is it like? Yes. Yes. Get in there. Need Of the roof To do work. Oh. Then Holes To close. There Is there anything? ? There Nothing. Oh, okay. Let's have one. Should be checked. Yes, yes. That's where we came from. Small door See? Yes. That extra part I As said, Fork Lift Using Goods with Was going to come . That chassis Up To deliver They are that part More Open Put it. That Right here In the middle Sitting That It seems. Is it true? Yes. Miracle. Yes. That's it. Bad The situation was . A type Scary Condition. Do you understand? Yes. That Talladega Car I am I have heard. . Pocono. Yes. Pocono car. That's when he In danger Also included Seriously Injured . That thing is up to 98 Here Was lying down . That Was here. . I am in my 90s. Even when you leave That Was here. . End of 98 Until. 98's In the middle. Miracle. Yes. That was 1988- It was. That Unbelievable . Yes. That extra Part Opening Hinges See you there. That's it. It was handmade. . Oh. Okay. You What is it about? What do you say? They do this. Widened That's it. Oh yeah. Because the chassis Through this I wouldn't have passed. . So they That part Demolished Changed. Later Someone That's the hinge. Maybe it was done. . Fork That's in the elevator. Up Brought by I Remembering. Me too Might have helped . We do that. Chassis On dollies Put it. That Rolled Here Brought. Miracle. Yes. A little ham, Oh, there. Stay away. Thank you. Third's It is the same height. Here What happened? I Remembering. Before that That Was it outside? ? That Was outside . To the yard To go It was the door. That. All this To build Starting time I never I will not forget. We are very I was excited. . I told you. , for the fab shop For For us What was That was it. Then All this For us It was state-of-the-art. . They are a lot. New Tools Bought , that plasma Pattern cutter I never I will not forget. That was it. The first Step, one Pattern Should have been cut. , but that On the machine Trace Could have done . That's it. It was in the corner. Sitting. Yes. But yes, This It was state-of-the-art. . No, I said so. That old cutter Isn't that it? No, you Maybe Magnet Using Working It could be about one thing. Saying. That Later It has come, But this is it That. That's...no, That's it. That. Yes. Oh, wonderful. I Didn't you say? It's in the corner. Was That. Yes, Plasma Through this Going. Yes. Yes, that's it. That's right. That It's the same. . Yes. Miracle. This has a pattern. To follow A laser Don't you have eyes? Yes. Here See? This It is a pattern. Yes. That's it. That's right. We love this. Beautifully Untied . Still You this Using . Yes. But Getting hot Until Have to wait. . It's getting hot. About two Hours Will take. I am a teacher. Learned. Just turn on Made Not to put Need, because First When using , The first Two or three Once upon a time Hours After that To work Will begin. Machine It's getting hot. Apart from that I Especially Nothing Didn't. Here Light As if coming. For me Got it. Yes, that's it. That's right. That Old That's right. To you Really If you want to do it Only that Okay. Yes. Yes. To you Something If you want to cut That much Desire is needed. That one over there Is it a clock? That clock There Since I am here. Than when it came It's been a while. This building When built Original posted Clock It is For me It seems. To see this It's old. Yes, All the papers It turned yellow. Still this Working . Working Any clock Continued To sit It should be allowed. In it In the USA Made by That Written . That's why It still is Working . Of course. But yes, I am. Believing That's it, But how much It's time. I will look. Not trying . You know, That day I In this Would have gone , but work To ask Only I didn't have the courage. . Is it true? Yes, true. Amazing! Old things When I remember, Now This Owner That you are When I think How are you? For me Big It's like being rich. It seems. Right. That day Work To ask Even we I was hesitant. . That Unbelievable . Yes, That is correct. Method. Yes, I have it. Liked. This barbecue Truck Did you build it? Yes, Good. Oh, wonderful! Yes, that's it. Rat Road Is. Yes. Is that why? Outside That much Goods Lying down? Yes, old. Trucks Collecting There is a habit. For me. Whatever is there What? Oh, that's God. That's it. Rotax It is punch. Those Both Right here. . Yes. Yes. This Used For me Well I remember. Amazing! Because At that time Racing That's it. . I am the suspension, Brake, And so on. Would have done , but Sometimes Under the car Lying down Exhaust Repair or Panels Correct? Have to do Will come. That day Everyone is one Special work Not only that What was done . Car To fix What is it? Need, That's all we do. Together Would have done . To you Do you understand? So yes. This one here All the things Because of me Many things Learned. That was it. The most The best thing. For me A lot to study Done. Later DEI At, Me Suspension Confined in the room. That is, you Front Suspension Only Just do it. That's all. M. I really I'm tired. That Understandable. . Yes. Oh my God! That one over there Did you see the barrel? Yes. Okay. What is that? Did you know? That was it. Our hose Barrel. Hoses To keep. Is it true? Yes. Two Barrels Added It is combined. . Who is that? Made That started I don't remember. . All Hoses It was inside. Rolled up What was placed . Your dash Three, four, Then six, Eight, ten, Twelve, Sixteen or so. That's all. Still in it Written It has been placed. . Amazing! Right there. Yes. See? Oh my God! enough According to That's for the car. near Rolled Let's take it. Then Fittings Everything To put Anything else? One with That there was It seems, But Exactly I don't remember. However, this The place is full. Required Goods There was . Yes. That's all. Still in it To see able to For me Unbelievable . That's it. It's crazy. Good. Yes, You are everything Very well Used . This bolt Bands in the past On that wall Was. Those Everywhere There was . All over this place Bolt Bins There was . Yes. Here There were some. That I know, But that wall Whole. Yes. There. Bolt Bands Lined up It was placed. All of them took Thrown away. Therefore, Now Nothing. But fine. There is a thread. This Of the building The only one That's the problem. For the wall Beyond a Emptiness There was , that's also a dyno Pipes came out And the place Between. Therefore Engine dyno When Exhaust Straight to this To the building Was.…