Garage Area and Key Anecdotes

then. Everybody had shrubbery. Oh yeah, it's different. Oh my god. It is. You don't even know. So, my name is Kenny Wallace. We originally We originally built this building. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry to intrude. This is a good friend of mine. This is the Stapleton YouTube channel. They do a lot of history. Awesome. I think we watch some of your videos. You do all of the local garages and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So, what would happen is what would happen is we'd come in here and that was the parts room. So, that wall was never there. And there was a beautiful, this was all green carpeting. That was Rusty's office. Rusty's Rusty's 1989 Winston Cup trophy sat right behind his desk between those two windows. See where that Gerber collision glass is? Yeah. Rusty's massive Winston Cup championship trophy sat right there behind his desk. That was Rusty's office. This was just stuff. This is where the secretary sat. Dick Pacers, one of Rusty's business partners. Still to this day, his daughter worked here. This is here, but that really would have been over that way. And there it is. What's going on? My name's Kenny Wallace. I know Kenny. We built this building. That's right. This is crazy. Hey, Kenny. Wow. Bernie right there. Hey, Bernie. Bernie. Good to see you. Kenny Wallace, right? He's here to visit us. He was in this building a while ago. I tell you what, it's it don't look bad. That's right. You still got it. We try to keep it up. It It doesn't look bad. Yeah, we I got I got to tell you about that right there. So, uh How are you? I'm Kenny Laws. Oh, yeah. I got to tell you, this is a big deal. So, before we had 1 in be before we had 1 in uh level metal plates to jig our cars on, this was a big deal. This this was Rusty Wallace's idea. This was our setup. This is where we put the race cars. And at the time, this was the most level we could get any concrete person in the United States. Mhm. It didn't turn out right. And Rusty made them chop it all out. It was a disaster. Yeah. And we had it reoured and at that time that was thought as the most level piece of ground around. Yeah. Yeah. And that was a big deal. Yeah. Then they had the metal plate back there. Then that was that was our fabrication. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I remember we sold that plate. I'll be down. Yeah. So then that's where we built the cars. This is where they were right here. That room right there is what we called our transmission and gear room, you know, because we had the 9-in Ford rear ends. And…