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Analyze Shop Layout and Workflow

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Inside Bobby Allison's 90s NASCAR Race Shop: Jimmy Fennig Revisits History

What happens here

Visually compare the current interior of the shop to historical photographs. Identify areas that have changed, such as the removal of a wall that once separated the shop. Note how the shop was designed with a 'rotational system' for efficiency, allowing cars to move from washing, to bodywork, to assembly, and then to the body shop for completion. Observe the unchanged elements, like the floor plan and potentially some equipment like car lifts. Also, note the presence of modern race cars and a classic black Camaro within the shop.

Goal: Understand the functional layout and historical workflow of the race shop.

Tools and materials

  • ATV Honda — Shop transportation
  • Car Lifts — Elevating cars for work
  • iPhone Apple — Displaying historical photos for comparison
  • Race Cars Chevrolet — Current shop projects
  • Toolboxes Snap-on — Storing tools

What they say

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gear room over there the wall was right after the first ridge right there me and Keith Almond laid this place out to get built. Nathan Sims built it. The same guy that built Dale Nard's. Keith was responsible a lot of this stuff too. He's very sharp person. Is that the same lift that was in here back then? I believe so. And then we have one outside too cuz we had one outside to wash the cars and we put drains in. So when the car come back from the racetrack, we could pressure wash it. It would drain and everything was combined. then bring it in here, debrief it, take it apart. Kind of made this a rotating system where we had a wall I would say back over here and then from there you could go back to the body shop once the car was built and then the body shop come back here and go out together. So it was a big circle we kind of planned it out to do be efficient, try to be more efficient. When did So you came down here first before Yes. this right. And he stayed in Wisconsin for a little bit, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then he come back down. Then he come down here. I was with Bobby over at Stabola Brothers. Um fact I was with Bobby at Dyard one year, too. Yeah. The all all the race cars we hung the bodies over here. There's a plate couple plates here. We'd hang two cars at a time. get done, put them through that through that door over there and uh to the body shop that we that was a like a machine shop for the mechanics, you know, or building the cars if we needed something milled or drill press or punches, you know,

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