NASCAR Evolution and Career Reflections

And if all we have for this one is a little bit of a cleaner section in the floor where the where you know you could see like the where the the hardcore prints were cuz you know those those surface plates were so heavy. So heavy you didn't need to bolt them in. All you had was studs. So then you you put a big Allen wrench in there and you turn it and it might lift it up a little bit. So it had like a little foot every so often. Yeah. And and so you you really never bolted surface plates in the floor because they weighed thousands and thousands of pounds. So by this time you weren't working on the car anymore. I wasn't. No, I really wasn't because it it it's kind of funny. It's always a joke. I always tell people, you know, it's Wallace's, you know, to this day I you know, I work on my race car, but it's kind of like uh a full, you know, 180 because or a 360. I guess they say life is full circle. I'm at the end of my career right now, but I'm winning dirt races and I'm doing everything myself. My hands look good today. But when I was here, I was helping. But it was at that time where they had these things called crew chiefs. These were these guys that made your car handle. It's a joke, right? Because, you know, I did all my own stuff back then because that's the way it was. You know, you you look at old pictures of Richard Petty up in Randleman, North Carolina, the you know, Richard Petty, Lee Petty, they Richard was working on his cars. It wasn't until later in NASCAR when corporate America come in and then the driver had to go do all these appearances. It's like, I ain't got time to work on the car anymore. I got to make my sponsor happy. And that was, you know, cause and effect. What was the cause? We needed more money. So now the driver is out selling product. And by the way, team, I'll be back. I'm going to drive the car. So it went from race car driver did everything with some people to race car driver had to get somebody to do everything because I had to go out and like when I was in this shop, I think I did maybe 30 appearances a year for Square D all over America. Hell, I got to where, you know, there was a time in NASCAR where I made a lot of money. I had a King Air 200 and I bought that plane specifically because of this shop because I had the Square D uh you know Square D first of all square D uh what they do is they take electric off the telephone pole and they bring it in here. So you just can't run a wire in here. The wire comes into a big…