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Suite Maintenance and Vintage Utilities

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Rockingham Speedway's Former Track Manager of 30+ Years Has Crazy NASCAR History Stories

What happens here

Inside one of the suites, Ronnie explains how they used to hang plastic over the windows after each race to prevent the sun from fading the carpet. He shows a section of the carpet that is significantly faded, illustrating the problem. An old electrical panel and HVAC vents from 1965 are shown, indicating the age of some internal components. Ronnie also describes how small heaters were used to prevent pipes from freezing in the winter due to the lack of a proper boiler system.

Goal: Showcase interior maintenance practices and the vintage utility infrastructure.

Tools and materials

  • Plastic Sheeting N/A — Protecting carpets and interiors from sun fading (historical practice)

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that's the type of thing we had to go through because we didn't have the money the racetrack didn't have the money that daytona would have what palladega would have or whoever they we didn't have the money and we were like a little old family mr d which i mean we just we we just like the main office didn't have nine or ten people working there and they went with two of us in the maintenance i mean we had a we had to go so that's that's original 65. that's been there since the very first cup race here that's crazy let's go look at this thing i want to i want to look at it yeah we didn't go up to these buildings in the full tour video which you should go check out if you haven't seen that already this is kind of like the um wow so yeah we got them all the way down made in usa you know it's old that way he had just done too much to do with his people about he had a big farm in the middle and they did all this this this walkway here yeah the welders they brought the welders down here and made it bigger because it was real small back then but this is one of the oldest buildings we just remodeled it when was the last remodel in here like what era is this carpet and stuff when we built that build we remodeled this okay so like late 90s we always want plastic up to keep this carpet from fading see how it's fading yeah we all had to hang plastic after the race to keep them from fading that makes sense that's what we did you hang plastic over the glass over the glass to keep the sun from fading the carpet huh yeah see how it stayed i mean the front face of the stair is almost white see how it is yeah it makes it look red what color this so these used to be red yeah it was red like that i've gone but see we have a plastic here yeah keep the sun out these chairs say september 99 on them it's okay so was this carpet like red red or was that that salmon color back there red dark red right really back up here this this is the color right here look right there that's color oh okay that's cool wow yeah this does look like 1965 stuff yeah that's probably it did you write any of this semi truck thing wow look at those i don't even know what i'm looking at there but it just looks like vintage well there's a few little heaters that we'd cut them on in the wintertime to keep everything from freezing up we couldn't afford the fire bee on the so we just put little heaters in like that most of these still work oh yeah huh and you can turn them on low and they leave just enough…

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