The Shop's Construction and Early Days

we rent David if's shop in Lake Wy, South Carolina, 1989. And I win I win the Bush Grand National Rookie of the Year over Jeff Burton. 89. Now, at the end of ' 89, Rusty said, "Okay, I'm going to build that building." My brother Rusty Wallace built that building for me. So when I tell everybody how much I love my brother and I'll never be able to repay him, that's why. So 90 the car is still kind of green and white, but 91 we turned that Cox Tree lumber car to black with daylow 36 numbers. Now we built the building at that time. This is a state-of-the-art building. It's brand new. I mean we don't got a we don't have a 1- in metal surface plate, but we got these legendary concrete people. They come in and they pour this as level as they can, you know, floating concrete. And then later on it got enclosed because come on, come on into your shop. These people right here are like, I'm going into my shop. I know it was my shop before it was theirs. We go down there and tell them that. Yeah. Get out of my old shop. So, um, then I end up making it on my own and Rusty sells this shop to Felix Sabatis. Okay. And uh actually there's a little more to the story, but in uh 8991 92 I drive the Dirt Devil car out of here. Now I win the Martinsville race in the Dirt Devil Bush Grand National car out of this shop. Uh then time goes on and Felix ends up selling the team to go a legendary old cup owner. Forgot. But anyway, uh and then they enclosed it. We always had a top on it out. So that overhang that was open. We always had an overhang. We always had