Body Shop Insights and Final Reflections

called the whole team in. And he looked at all of us and he he started he was crying. Birdie, I'm sorry, buddy. and he said, "I have emphyma." But but Birdie smoked a lot. Birdie's doing good. He's living in Florida now. But that office right there is where Steve Bird, the great crew chief that took Rob Moroso to all his wins and made Randy Loy uh you know, one of the 75 greatest drivers. That crew chief, Steve Bird, he was my crew chief and took me to my wins. That office right there is where he told us he had empa. Wow. A lot of memories in here. When did that get added on? So, we always had an overhang. This channel and doing these videos is our full-time job. It's a lot of work and we'd like it to grow. If you're enjoying this stuff, it would cost absolutely nothing for you to help us by hitting the thumbs up button. So, when we sold it to Felix Sabatus and and created the the number 40 Dirt Devil cup car, it was housed out of here. But then Felix sold this place to it's a legendary name, great uh he ended up starting the NASCAR race day planes. Uh Brooks, but it was pretty cool watching, you know, back in the day. This was one of the state-of-the-art NASCAR shops. Now it's an old beat body shop. Diamond Ridge had it for a while, right? I think that was the last one that was in here. Those are Diamond Ridge colors. Yeah, these colors are Diamond Ridge colors. Gary Beal, I think that was him, but it was Diamond Ridge Motorsports when we came in here. You know what I was paint? This was already like that. Oh, it was like this. Oh, wow. What year was that? Yeah, you did. Good job. What year did we buy this place? 2000 2002, something like that. I'm heading back to St. Louis. My flight leaves later. So, I'm really glad I came here because this shop is in a lot of my dreams, you know. A lot of memories. A lot of memories. Yeah. A lot of memories here. Out of this shop was the very first Cup car I ever drove in my life. And an insurance man, forgot his name, but anyway, we built that cup car and I went to North Wilsboro for the Cup race and I'm running good. I'm running like top 10. Dave Allison in the 28 Texas Havlin car. We're going down into one and he loses his brakes and Davey's good friend of mine and Davey just knocked the ever living hell out of me and spun me out and wrecked me, put me out of the race. Uh, but that car was built here. So, my very first Cup car I ever drove, I think it was 99, number 99, was out of here. Yeah. Fabric built the cars…