Main Shop Floor and Expansion

Oh, David was a great guy and memories. That would have been in the '9s. We were we were we won races and a lot of great memories. Yep. Does more stuff come back to your memory standing here looking at things than it does if you just tried to recall it sitting somewhere else? Well, I had a lot of good guys. I you know I a lot of young kids come through. A lot of young kids come through and uh a couple of them are the older guys are dead and I used to have a guy come by uh was worked in NASCAR. He painted my cars. Uh so he said they need a paint booth. So we'll go to the paint booth. You know, it was just a matter of you you build it in time. You build it in time. It wasn't where you could just build stuff overnight. Today, they just, you know, the money is so different. Back then, you had to beg borrow to get money to go. These guys do nice work. Look at this car. GTO. That's badass, man. My favorite car. C2 Corvettes. I have two of them. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I love them. Cuda with a Timmy. Damn, man. Plum crazy. Then we had stuff back along here. This is where we mainly we would take the cars from there and then this is where we would finish with aluminum work. This had all that was a band saw, shears. I had a a shear for sheet metal. I had a shear for big steel drill presses. Then this was the aluminum shop. We had a brakes, 8ft brakes, pan pan brakes, I forget the small, I can't even break brakes. And this is where they put the aluminum and stuff all together. Then they roll the car through the door outside to the paint booth and that was the prep area. We only ever had like six cars was the most we had. I built a bigger building in in the late I started it in the early late 80s early I'm sorry late 90s and I think I moved in around 99. So I was here for about 10 11 years. What was interesting was is that this place started and then uh when I moved I quit racing my own teams to concentrate on cup and Tim Brewer came in here and rented this whole shop and started Cranopus Hos racing Michael Cranifus it wasn't Hos Cranopus and another name but Michael Cranifus started his cup team in there where John Andred drove for John's past but they uh number 37 I believe it was a Ford. Yeah. Kmart car, wasn't it? Yeah, it was Kmart. And they had they had built their they started building their cup team right here in the shop. Didn't know that. Yeah. Other shop in Morrisville. Big shop. A lot bigger than this. Three time four, five times the size of this. I put the…