Introduction to the Collection

before we could move it it had a tree growing through the shifter hole and out the windshield it's perfect for a vintage guy just insane cheap what I have is very random started looking pretty rough and then it sat next to so Junior has that car currently it was the backup car that he had at his final race at Homestead I happen to be the last one to drive for juny dony were you swindled or did the guy not know um we're here in Elgen Illinois engineer components and uh they got a pretty awesome car collection in there AJ's going to show us what's going on yeah let's go check it out so you used to race an ARA yeah um my dad's been involved in Motorsport since he was very young he got involved with uh Bob shaed in the mid 80s about 84 or so like that we started our own thing in in in the march of 2000 and then that's when ACC Motorsports basically started some of these cars are active race cars others are displays and that one in particular catches my attention because it's been in one of these videos before but not in this building there there was many cars at that kissing me auction that that I that I really wanted it was just what which ones could we afford and it end up being just the one but it it was that was kind of a sad deal um that whole way all went down there's probably even more history behind that we don't know I'm sure there's a lot of race cars that you just people like oh yeah it was this and then it was this but before all that there's there's there's probably some hidden history that that we don't really fully know yet um which happens with some of these other cars to where I'll have them for a few years and not know the whole story and then little by little you know by giving people you know chassis numbers and asking around cuz this was an old Junior Johnson car so who knows what the heck it did who drove it exactly as you lean on a legitimate Ira car this is uh how did you get the this car is I guy in Colorado had it and he got it at the auction in I think it was 2009 um when they liquidated Iraq yeah which actually I I there was it was one of the first time I ever tried to mess with a computer cuz it was online auction as well for that deal and we saw these cars go for just insane cheap to where I called my father said hey we need to get one of these things and he's like well what are we going to do with it you know at the time we're our full