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Interior Tour and Moving Day Anecdote

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Jimmy Means' 1975 Chevy C60: Old School NASCAR Hauler Stuck In Time! (The Owner-Driver Era)

What happens here

Jimmy opens the side door to the box truck, revealing a surprisingly wood-paneled interior. He points out a tire rack on the left, an engine stand on the right, and built-in cabinets, demonstrating its design to carry everything needed for a race weekend. He shares that back then, they would drive the race car in and out manually, as they didn't have winches. He notes the sleeper area accessible from the box, emphasizing how large it was. Means recounts how he used this very truck as his moving van when relocating his family, driving it from Daytona to Huntsville after a Daytona 500 race.

Goal: Showcase the interior layout and highlight its multi-purpose use for racing and personal needs.

Tools and materials

  • Cabinets — Storage for tools and supplies
  • Chevy C60 Box Truck Chevrolet — The subject of the tour
  • Engine Stand — Holding spare engines
  • Tire Rack — Storing race car tires inside the hauler

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too? No. Actually, I got it back. You know. It's going to It's going to melt melt the melt the uh winch and never got around to it. Yeah, tire rack in the back. Put in tires. Oh, this thing is This is really cool. I had room to put a motor in. Used that sitting in that corner. And you know, pull the car in. And back then we drove the car in cuz we didn't have a winch. And you could open the door to the sleeper. See how big the sleeper is? Okay. And you could open the door to that, check on things back here. The car's back here doing this all the blah blah blah. So, yeah, it's All right, yeah. There's there's a You can crawl back through there into the driver compartment. You can't see that from down here, so It was a lot thinner back then. Now it's a little thinner back then. It was easier to get in, but you still get in it. Just so someone in the comments is like, "You're driving around with your kid in the back of the truck. You can't like No, he could go through there. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Cuz I mean, even if you did, it was a different era back then. So, it was probably normal for people to ride around in the back of box trucks. you rode around back then with the kids kids standing up between the seats and you holding them with your arm, you know? So, that's You go to sleep in the back package tray of your car. So, little different times. So, Verheely had this truck outfitted like this when you got it? Uh Yep, basically. I mean, didn't Apparently, it wasn't as nice and the sleeper wasn't as nice. What would you have driven that got pulled around in this thing but so I can find pictures of them. Probably 77 Monte Carlos. Uh 78 Monte Carlo. I think probably 82 Buick 82 Buick. Cuz uh I think I sold this thing probably anywhere from 83 to 84. So whatever we were running back then. Huh. So you had this when you moved here to this building you were Did you drive here for the first time in this truck? Yeah, actually I uh This is my moving van. Really? moved up, you know, when I'm when I actually moved, I mean it I came here I said before my family. But uh Like I said, I was looking for a house and all that sort of stuff. So I found all that. And my family didn't move till right after the Daytona 500. And I drove from Daytona to Huntsville. Uh picked my family up and whatever we didn't have already here we uh Huh. Actually moved here right after Daytona 500 in this truck.

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