Discovering the Engine Shop and Racepak's Origins

Moorsville area. Uh October September October of '89. So where was Lulosa's venture? Let's see if we can go figure out that hole. You're reading my mind with these questions. I got a question in my mind. Then you go tell the story that answers my question. So I don't I don't remember a lot about this this this right here. This But this was this was the engine shop. this this side of the building and uh the entrance way I don't we didn't have any upstairs that I remember but the entrance way there was a hallway from the racetrack right through there that brought you into the engine shop and all the equipment was in here one of these rooms here that I'm seeing boarded up which must be part of the other side now was actually the dino room but yeah that's you know the the the building was built u nothing's been added onto the building that I can tell. But the building was built where the race shop was over there and then this was going to be the engine shop. I'm curious. So, it looks like these were rooms. So, did they like do like engine assembly? Yeah, the the Now, one of these rooms here, and like I say, they've got them boarded off, but I get a feeling one of these there was several rooms behind this wall, and one of them was an assembly room. One of them was Lula Rosa's office and then as I mentioned one of them and I think it may have been may have been this one was the dino sale. We had a dyno uh but no these rooms here one of them was like a tear down room. All the big machines like the the the lathes and the the the meals and all that was in this big main part right here. But one of those was like a cylinder head room. just just different areas of the room where they did different different things about the engine itself. But yeah, this I mean they've changed it up, but for the most part it this is exactly what it looked like other than they kind of boarded off those different rooms there. So you sometimes there's uh labels on phones and breakers that'll tell you where things used to be. We didn't have cell phones back then, that's for sure. and Lou Laorosa did have a uh a pretty big hand in designing the engine shop. And the good thing about bringing Lou on board is from in 1988 we lost those 11 engines in races, DNFS. 1989 we came here. There were used to be an award called the dieh hard race team of the year and it was the team that completed the most miles over the course of the season. We actually won that award in 1989. I think we maybe had one…