Tour of Norman Negre's First Shop

here um i don't know if you can see the picture but that's where alex's car set set in that area right there so that's the same yeah it does the same doors over there uh them are but the we had an office there it's gone we took it out is it right there probably this is pretty much the same that way so like right here is where kind of where this booth is yeah i said okay let's have to shop yours in that house that's kind of what we've done and that's pretty much all the same except that when it wasn't there we built cars down here and uh we also done all allen's sheet metal hanging on his car he only had one car to start with just one car yeah and that was a sirloin they called it and i had built a car for uh larry coleman coleman taylor transmissions out of memphis tennessee and larry hadn't used it any so i called larry and i said hey alan kawiki's down here and only got one car maybe you two need to get together and they did so that gave him two cars so he ran two cars that year look at here that's funny uh sirloin cars in that museum over in mooresville oh is it yeah yeah we just saw that a couple weeks ago so that was that was the car that started it all started out right here yeah these two cars here see one of them sirloin and one of them is uh is larry coleman's it was a speedway car actually we ran it in charlotte daytona talladega what was he towing the cars with he just had an enclosed trailer it was a long gooseneck and a and a crew cab dually where did he park that at right here just anywhere along in there straight out he said that one pad right there yeah just this first pads on the pedals here the rest of it just grabbed me was there any pit crew practice going on oh no no i don't remember i don't remember him having pit through pit cruise practice i i really don't i don't know if he did or not i don't remember having it we was here day and night so i don't know things all run together after a while was there any um love perfect level spot in the concrete here did he just no not really we uh we would make our own level spots with the level of stuff now we didn't have surface plates back then so while allen was over here doing his stuff what were you doing over there nice cars over here i have business and degree enterprises with building race cars what would you do in here uh body hanging mostly uh but we that was our body shop then also that was our paint booth and everything bondo room back in the day but we done kale stuff when he changed…