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Personal Reflections and Future Outlook

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Inside North Wilkesboro Speedway's ORIGINAL Buildings: Full History Tour Before The Renovation!

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The final part of the tour focuses on Ronnie's personal history and the emotional connection many have to the track. He shares his experiences working pit crew for Junior Johnson and racing in Japan. He expresses his hope that the new generation will appreciate the track's history and that it will continue to be a place for families to enjoy. He mentions that the old, deteriorated grandstands are being removed for safety, but the steel structure and other buildings will be retained and refurbished. The tour concludes with Ronnie showing the garage where his crew once worked.

Goal: Conclude the tour with personal reflections and insights into the track's future.

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just uh just a real good building still this whole paneling look great paneling awesome yeah awesome just takes you back to the takes you back to the day family's gonna make a comeback i'm sure i'm sure no doubt know that wow this is cool so like i said most of the history i urge you to take you want it most of it thank you there you go okay most of the history is here but there's history throughout the whole ground what was the big water tank for water tank was this thing was run by whales and so you had to have holding tanks for storage water and then pumps pumping around the facility so that's sort of what that was sowing this grass for me in the infield getting it ready for august so he can have some grass standing up [Music] so you know later on they fixed this for a rescue station you know early on this was another this was one of the concession stands and you actually stood here in a long line order here so then later you know they moved it backwards and the concession stands back there and they had this area where you could eat and table set up so naturally you crowd what's standing out here in your crowd that makes sense so do you remember um standing in this line when it wasn't functional i do i remember coming down through here to see what kind of problem was going on so did you work at the track when it was working yes i actually grew up wound up working here and uh it was an awesome thing to do you know being able to come down when all of it was growing so so here's the winston suite up here another old building here come on later so this is where all the rj reynolds people pretty much stayed in here oh that's cool all the rj reynolds people were in here flossie johnson junior's wife would make sure everybody had a good time in here had food did you used to work for junior i said i worked for junior johnson till they closed in 1995 and we won the world pit crew championship in 1995 rockingham and uh got done with that and uh that really helped me i wound up i helped my friends at daryl waltrips for about three races and then i wound up coming to north wilkesboro that spring and changing tires for morgan mcclure on the four kodak film car sterling marlon was driving and did that for three years uh went to japan three times as you watched nascar at japan that we were over there had an awesome time and then about uh 2000 they were deciding to do a daryl walter farewell tour and wanted as many as those guys that worked at juniors could get back…

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