Sponsorship and Race Logistics of the Past

of the truck now. Did you ever have anything on the side, or was it just that's all we ever had on it. The guy I feel like he painted the side when he had it, so Who was Broadway? That is Stud Murray. He He had a car wholesaler dealership. Not a dealership, but he wholesaled cars. We got hooked up when I first moved here, and he was my sponsor for 2 or 3 years. Gave me $500 a race. So, but at the time I got that, that was a big deal. It got us from you know, from one race to the next. So, it's hard to do what we did without Huh. I mean, back then we had We could buy with one room. We might have had eight people sometimes or six people. So, And did you ever back the car out and then have people sleeping on the floor where you parked the car? No, never did. Huh. We were fortunate we never had to do that, but And they have showers and stuff in the infield for guys that were sleeping in rigs? Oh. Or did everybody just We never We never stayed at the racetrack back then. That's going to allow when you know, they're going to allow truck drivers if they park, you know, the night before they'll allow the truck drivers now to stay in their trucks. Oh. But they didn't back then. Hm. And most time back then we went in 7:00 in the morning. We never parked the night before. Huh. We'd load up here, drive all night to where we were racing, and get there in time to go to go in the racetrack. When we went in the racetrack, we went to work. You know, they wouldn't allow parking the day before. You drive overnight cuz it's easier, less people on the road, and drove overnight cuz we didn't get done. It's the only way we could get there. Oh. And one less hotel bill, too. Well, you know, we would probably left, you know, had a motel if we could leave early enough, but we never did. Just too much work to And the back door of this thing got that Winston Cup decal on it. This is incredible. You can see the faint outline of the car here. This is actually pretty much what's on the back of the hoodie I'm wearing right now. It's all old Winston Cup style. I don't know if you can I'll put in a picture. But, uh, if you like what we do, you want to support the history, you can go to stapletonautoworks.com. Get one of these hoodies. We have it in t-shirt form, too. Matching hat. It's actually a like the Winston type eagle on the side, but his wings are boom tubes and he's holding a wrench. If you think this stuff is neat, you can hit the subscribe button and that'll just notify you when…