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The Parts Room and Resourcefulness

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Roush Racing's Former NASCAR Shop History Tour: Mark Martin & Jeff Burton's Glory Days Built Here!

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Rambo guides the host through the parts room, noting its original shallow depth. He recounts the specific moment he realized he needed glasses due to impaired vision from welding in that room. He emphasizes that Roush Racing had to build everything from scratch when they took over, as nothing was inherited from the previous owner, Dick Moroso. He credits legendary crew chief Buddy Parrott for making it all work.

Goal: Showcase the parts room and highlight the team's self-reliance.

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I can remember having my welder in here are we in your way I'm so sorry um they had a welder in here and stuff this right here is where I realized I think that's probably about 40 years old I was welding something and I couldn't see it and I finally realized and I still remember this setting that I realized that I was gonna have to get glasses that's what this reminds me of out of all the stuff that's going on that's what this reminds me of and like I said it wasn't that deep because that Wall's moved out and I mean it wasn't it wasn't really that big and we had some you know we had some equipment in here and our furniture room was literally that that little Breezeway up there I'll wait whatever you want to call that mezzanine that's a big word and that was it and everything else was stuffed in here I mean what I'm telling you we didn't have nothing we didn't get nothing from Liberty everything we did we did on our own and we didn't have nothing with and the way buddy pair and if you heard about Buddy parrot nobody parrot he's a freaking Miracle Worker I don't know how he did it but we got our stuff together and we come out of the box and we were running we were running real good when did the they eventually move Mark's team to here wasn't that like 98 or something yeah 98. that's that's what's happening and I was like Peace Out Boys

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