Eldora Truck's Journey to Tony Stewart's Museum

brickyard 84 lumber. Then we ran it again at Charlotte. How' the 84 lumber deal come about? Cuz they're local, aren't they? They're local. I That's why I had that number for so many years cuz Joe Hardy kept saying he was going to get involved and he ended up getting involved but not for a whole lot of money. Mhm. But then it was it's was crazy like 2 weeks later Lowe's was involved. They came out and Home Depot got involved and it was all because I came out with 84 lumber. They're the third biggest in the country. That's interesting. So the other two had to come out and they got big money. I I didn't. But uh and then what did they decide they weren't going to try to compete with them or what? I mean, they they sponsored me here and there, but they just never never spent enough money to make a big difference. Now, where were you preparing these cars at back in this era? They were all down Morrisville. So, you lived here, but had uh did you have like a different team putting those together for you? Yeah. I mean, I always had people all my stuff always came from down there in Morrisville. That was banquet there, Arca Banquet. I was I was up to third in the points that year. ended up fifth in the points. That's the Cup car that came from DEI. Back then, how did you buy cars from teams like that? Did you just know people or Well, I I had Show Dean Homes out of Chicago sponsoring me and he's the one that was paying the bills and at the time that was when the Coot Cars came out and that was I thought was the best car I could get. So, we went and ran Daytona with it. And and then that was Charlotte. Also, I ran I don't know how many total cup races I ran, but a lot of them were Daytona and the Winston Open, which they don't consider that a race because they don't give you points. But I I ran at least 10 of those Winston opens. And did you have 57 because of Hines? Right. And if we had a board meeting and there was there was one lady on the board that just I couldn't get her to do that. So that Hines football field was the money I I was supposed to get. Oh. Oh man. She uh they spent all that money on on the Hinesfield back then. And now it's not Hinesfield anymore. Yeah. Now it's Acush or something something. I don't even know what it is. I don't even know. But it was such a perfect fit. You know, I'm from Pittsburgh. They're from Pittsburgh. Yeah. Oh, I tried for I don't know how many years.