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The Red Paint Story & Paint Booth

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

What happens here

Rambo shares an amusing anecdote about his time at Roush Racing. After painting the red lines on the shop floor, he got frustrated by people constantly stepping on them. So, he decided to sit on a stool in the middle of the floor with a shotgun to guard the freshly painted lines. He laughs as he admits the stunt backfired, causing him different types of trouble later on. He also shows the location of the original paint booth, which featured a floor grate for a down-draft ventilation system. The host uses a flashlight to show paint residue in the grate, confirming its past use.

Goal: Share a humorous personal anecdote and locate the former paint booth.

Tools and materials

  • Flashlight N/A
  • Red paint N/A — To paint lines on the floor

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Peace Out Boys is that what drove you to go somewhere else or yeah pretty much pretty much and then uh this was The Body Shop and this is hard this is hard to uh this is hard to tell because they put the mezzanine and everything out but what I remember is we had a we had a body shop in here where you could work it wasn't near this big and it had a paint booth back in the corner I think you can still see where it was in the floor yeah I'm pretty sure there's uh there's a surface plate there it still says Roush on it so what's the what's the red paint story but I don't the red paint story I told you the red paint story I don't think the camera was on though oh that's good no I just um first of all I'm a little confused because we went on the front of it and that Wall's in a way to come on the front of it looks like it was right there and I think it was steel not not epoxy but anyway I painted for some reason we had to paint the red around there and see this wouldn't have been it because this when this guy puts these plates in he colors them and when we this one that we had over there was steel and we had to paint it so I painted the red on it and I put jack stands up with a rope around it and the guys kept going through and stepping on it so I thought it would be funny I went and I got a stool and I sat it in the middle of the plate I went and got my shotgun out of my truck and I sat in the middle of the plate holding the shotgun daring somebody step on my paint and everybody laughed they thought it was funny but um that come back to haunt me in different ways I don't want to mention but it did somebody remembered that down the road yeah I'm pretty sure the body shop was there because that was it was the body shop in the next one over did they have it here originally then add it and then move it down because there's definitely Body Shop there's like paint on the floor still back here but this from there to here was it you know what I mean this was outside for over here back in 97. this was outside I'm pretty sure I mean I'm not saying that they didn't is that a downdraft booth yeah this is what I was wondering what this was here yeah you know I might could be wrong with that that chop was but yeah you can see where the walls were bolted down and yeah look at all the paint back there must have been where they mixed it yeah yeah so maybe I'm mistaken maybe it was a little deeper than what I thought

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