Building Layout and Shop Operations

it was blue max racing from right here all the way down to the end of that big building the offices were only with the very end car fabrication we had body shops we had the engines built behind here it wasn't all these different companies that are in this one building but this was a uh this is this is where we got it done man i mean blue max race you never where was the front door so like it's it's 1989 you're gonna walk in here and walk into the front office where are you going okay i'm gonna i'll i'll go down and show you but i don't remember all these other doors being here at all they probably weren't i don't think it was this is just one flat building and like i said behind there we had uh fabrication they were hanging bodies back in there harold elliot his engine stuff was about the middle over here let's walk down so we can find where the front door used to be okay i bet the front door is probably still there they just added all these other doors to put these units in yeah i would think so i would think so was the parking lot always like this yeah real soon i remember driving in like this it was always all crooked and you had to kind of angle your way in when i show up and most of the time i came and i go through the gates that the gates were open and i parked behind the back that's where the race haulers were all at there wasn't any room for the hauler to go inside of a building like all teams have got now but um yeah we uh we parked a hauler out back and i remember when the cars get done we used to take them off the jack stand we'd roll them outside if we roll them in the back by the truck we'd fire them up and light them off and make sure they didn't leak everything sounded good we load that baby right up and off we go head over to charlotte when to cook 600 go out to sonoma california when the road courses out there go into atlanta 500 everything was right out of this building blue max racing did he move in here after oscar lund or stacy or whatever was out of there how did that what was do you know when they got here well that would have been osterlund that was uh before blue max yeah because that was like in um that'd have been like oh my gosh one was that like 81 81 well blue max i didn't go to work for blue max in 1986. so i worked for blue max 86 87 88 89 and last year was 1990. i remember in 1990 we won the coax hunter and we went and won the road course out in sonoma california and then after that that was it and uh and raymond uh folded…