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

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What happens here

Investigate the specialized 'machine shop' area. This room was originally used by mechanics for milling, drilling, and punching parts needed to build cars. Notice the various pieces of metal stock and equipment used for fabrication. Reflect on the past processes of building race cars from raw sheet metal versus today's practice of purchasing pre-fabricated bodies. This transition illustrates the evolution of manufacturing in NASCAR.

Goal: Understand past fabrication methods and the role of the machine shop in early NASCAR.

Tools and materials

  • Sheet Metal Roller Cart — Transporting and shaping sheet metal
  • Sheet Metal — Fabricating car body panels

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metal in for building the cars. Cuz you'd get a 4x8 piece of sheet metal and that's how you build your cars back to him. We buy the chassis from Ronnie Hopkins or Mike Laughlin and uh bring them in here and put them together and then roll them over here, put them on the plate, you know, put suspension on here, put them then bring them over here and then the body shop and then backing the wire and everything else. So, was he working in the body shop? No, he was in the he was fabricating then. Yeah, I was a fabricator. They wouldn't let me in there. When did you start working here? 198. Well, I came down here in 1989,

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