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Examine Salvaged Car Body and Discuss Sponsor Relations

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

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Examine a piece of Bobby Allison's Miller High Life #22 car body from the 80s, which was salvaged from a barn in Wisconsin. Note the hand-lettered details on the fender. The discovery of this body prompts discussion about the car's paint scheme and how Miller (the sponsor) insisted on specific angles and colors, leading to a humorous anecdote about using a beer can to measure angles. This piece serves as a tangible link to the team's history and challenges with sponsors.

Goal: Connect with a historical artifact and understand challenges in race car livery design.

Tools and materials

  • Sharpie — Signing the car body piece

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running a business. That's all hand lettered. Yeah. This one. Yeah. Look at that. Holy. Yeah. That's what All right. So, what I got to do to get that from you. Well, this is just what we fit in the truck. We actually have the entire body. Really? Yeah. somebody whose dad was worked for Gunderman's. Um, he had this in his barn out in Wisconsin somewhere and we bought it from him. We just didn't have room for the whole thing. So, we even the windows. I don't know if it was an ASA body cuz the nose was probably Arca Arco. It was really really slanted like really aggress aggressive looking. Yeah. I think we took this car out the the Phoenix for the Copper Classic. Copper Classic out in the Phoenix. We took this car to Bobby Don. Huh? Out of Gunman's shop. Yeah. We wanted you to you guys to sign the fender where it has your names on it. Where do you want it? Wherever you think it should be. You built it. Well, I'll put it next to here. That is awesome. This is still a survivor. I know. And he when he told us about that, I was like, "Oh my god, how did how did all the pieces stay together? Those things usually get pilered and split up. And this is this is what is this 8 uh 84? Yeah. 83 84. 834. Yeah. Yeah. The funny part about the the miller naturally being from Wisconsin. Miller's in Wisconsin. They always come out to our shop and look at the cars. And they were upset the way I painted the car with all the red and everything. So they came out one day. Yeah. that that there that there was and they uh I don't think that racetrack but that racetrack in Phoenix. I don't know what that place they brought the art department with them and uh they said you can't have the red on the car car strips everybody. Yeah. And uh that was a long time ago. It's got to be all white cuz that's how Bobby's cars were down here when he reached for the Yeah. So I say Yeah. Yeah. And they made a big fuss about it and Gunerman was there and I'm shaking my head. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm listening. So, and then he says, "How did you come up with the miller has to be on a certain angle?" And they don't talk English like we do. Like, uh, let's just say a 45 degree angle. Then our people, they come up with different ways of a formula. Let's put it that way. And I said, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." He, "Oh, it looks like you got it right." I said, 'Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I do. The Miller people left the building and Jerry says, looks at me. He said, 'D did you understand anything they said about…

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