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Explore the Paint Booth

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

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What happens here

Visit the paint booth, the 'dirty area' of the shop, which still bears the original 'Bobby Allison' lettering. This room was designed for the final paint application before cars returned to assembly. The fact that the original lettering remains underscores the historical continuity of the space despite changes in ownership and function. Note the transformation of the shop from a production line to a restoration/customization shop.

Goal: Understand the function of the paint booth and its historical significance.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Booth — Applying paint to race car bodies
  • Paint Cans/Supplies — Painting work
  • Parts Storage Racks — Storing car parts and tires
  • Tires — Storage in the paint booth area

What they say

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or drill press or punches, you know, hole punches, whatever. What that's where we kept everything right there in that little room there. I don't remember what was in that room, but that hole right there used to be a sheet metal rolling cart that we slid all our sheet 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

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