Back of the Shop: Fabrication and Messy Work

stuff there was a lot of fabrication that went on down here i remember that last door right there they were always in there and that's where they would bring the framing cages in when you buy them from ronnie hopkins or whoever were buying the cars from back in those days and uh they were back there fitting them up you know putting the bodies on them doing a lot of the fab work then put the interior sheet metal work mountain seats stuff like that a lot of that happened back in here i'm a little bit foggy on some of this stuff i'm sure some of the past crew guys would go man rusty you're wrong that's not what we did there remember we did this but i'm pretty close about what i'm saying and uh so when you think about it i mean look at that that building from there all the way down here it's real narrow building yeah what it's pretty big still had a lot of space to get the job done i mean you had tire storage you had fabrication you had an engine shop you had race car assembly and there was a body shop somewhere in here maybe maybe that was all the fabrication there and this part was the body shop maybe that's what i was screwed up on it looks like a big vent in the wall right there or that could have been yeah one of like the engine dyno exhaust or something maybe like there's big holes are patched up there now that you say that yeah the engine stuff had to be right behind all that behind it where air compressors and stuff were yeah maybe they had the water tanks back there or something i don't know well we had we had fabrication we had an engine shop we had an assembly shop we had an area to paint all the cars that's all we needed and we had one lady in the very front like i said judy tucker making all the reservations for everything every time you show up your cars were there your hotel rooms were ready she did the whole nine yards and she would travel with the team a ton and she was a team spotter most of the time yeah almost every single one of those races i won with blue mac she was a spotter that would be up in that stand spotting every time we go around really yeah sure did judy did almost all that stuff i had never heard of a female spotter before i don't you never heard of that yeah i didn't that one guy's wife oh yeah yeah they didn't have um it wasn't electronic back then i mean the card go by and she put a little check in the box or whatever they did just logging every single lap that that car went by as a backup to nascar you know and so let's…