Discussion of Alan Kulwicki's Early Career and Personality

was over here doing his did you interact much or was it like oh yeah we shared the office actually that's the office it wasn't very big it's only that wide and probably about that long it was right there yeah it was right against that wall but it was only that wide so we we shared the office he was on one side of the dog the table knives on the other in fact that was his phone that was mine when you hear a lot of people talk about like the kind of the stigma of alan kalwicki is that nobody worked for him for more than six hours and all that stuff like what was he well what was he really like as a as a person he was really a good guy i mean he really was but he was serious about his racing he was serious about the engineering background because he used that in racing and uh you know me and him been in a few arguments because i didn't understand his thinking and he didn't understand mine but we got along fine at the end of 86 after he won the rookie of the year the xerox thing come in and and he wanted me to go to work for him and rent the whole place and i said no i've got my own business going so one other place you might want to check with would be dennis friends then his friends he left here went to dennis springer's shop that's where he was until he built his building out behind speedway and dennis is from wisconsin he built i think dennis built him some cars also back in the you know in the asa stuff this was big and asa stuff in mark martin mark would come here and see alan and all them guys that they ran with i will say that that when allen came here he he i ain't gonna say mark was his idol but mark was his main go-to guy he thought a lot of our part so that is cool but then it still owns that building yes dennis was just here the other day i don't know he's getting pretty old he's probably about 85 but he still gets around good we keep him around he says he's gonna open the gate so you can get in the back okay i told him i could probably leave here okay yeah we'll go there you better go while you can i'd add it on again right here from the very end too to where that jig is probably so it to that downspout and he went that was his office door y'all the office is the same from bobby's uh the rest of the shop is different so this is bobby alex's office for his race team before he finished his his building how long was he in here for before his