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

What happens here

Enter the race shop and meet Jimmy Fennig, the crew chief from 1990-96 for Bobby Allison Motorsports, and Jeffrey Fennig, a fabricator from 1989. Listen to their accounts of the shop's original layout and functions. Pay attention to their personal connections to the team and their roles during its operation. Observe vintage trading cards featuring Jimmy Fennig and Keith Almond, an engine builder and key figure in the shop's design.

Goal: Gather first-hand accounts and visual aids detailing the shop's past operations and key personnel.

Tools and materials

  • Vintage Trading Cards MAXX — Visual representation of key personnel like Jimmy Fennig and Keith Almond

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the Bobby Allison BA logo was. Hey, how you doing? Nice to meet you. Been looking forward to doing this for a while. Yeah. Jimmy was what make made Mark Martin a million there. Have no good. I had a bunch of good ones. When was the last time you were in here? I was telling the easy guys I've been with uh Jack for I think 29 years so and this was the last place I worked so doing the math you know I don't know and thing really hasn't changed much looking at it we used to have a wall over there you know different stuff I mean all the rooms are the same that used to be the 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

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