ProFab Origins and Race Car Showcase

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The Miami Brothers Who Invaded 1980s NASCAR: Rahmoc's Race Shop Time Capsule

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What happens here

The owner leads the way to an old, wooden building, which once housed ProFab, a company that built race car headers. He then reveals that the building he's currently standing in was where Kyle Petty's team and other teams, including one called 'D.B. Builders' that Tim Snook drove for, used to operate. He proudly shows off a red race car, highlighting its 18-degree engine and custom parts. He then moves to a gray, pixelated car, identifying it as a 'Clash car' driven by Bobby Labonte. This car, a Toyota, shows minor damage but is in great shape, still featuring its original clip and frame. He attempted to give the car back to Bobby Labonte, but Labonte declined, stating his favorite car was 'Midnight,' a Ford model.

Goal: Understand the former businesses that operated on the property and view various race cars from different eras.

Tools and materials

18-Degree Engine — Performance engine
ProFab Headers ProFab — Race car exhaust components
Race Cars — Historical and operational racing vehicles

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Well, yeah. From the the Ray Mock era? I didn't get to live through that era. This is the closest thing I have to a time machine, so. This, you know, this is certainly the time machine. Look here. We had Whitney out back, Rusty's old Whitney. Because that became an ARCA car and Baloo drove it at Charlotte. And then it was owned by a guy Jim Rosenblum and Kerry Teague was in it. I don't know if you know Joe Jackson, but he recently got it. But I tried to tried to give it back to Rusty because, you know, it was his championship car, but he said his favorite car was Midnight, his Ford, and he wasn't ever good at history, so he didn't have any interest in it. But we we could go back to restrictor plate wars, you know, that was that was one of the restrictor plates that we had, you know, and we we really did have a good restrictor plate program. And uh that's just some of the wildness of the shapes and what we were dealing with back with Morgan Shepherd in, you know, '89. I'll throw away very little. Unfortunately, I I tell the NASCAR people, we blow up an engine and we lose a lot of internal parts, but the intake manifold is something that rarely gets hurt, but unfortunately, the part numbers change every year and the one piece that you could save is obsolete in terms of rules or legality or excuse me, as I was told, it's not illegal, it's not an approved part. Oh, that makes sense. >> there's a distinction. >> Yes, there is. The uh when somebody's uh rebuilding a a car, like we we did an an old car for uh Dale Jr., the the three sportsman car that Dale has, we did the engine in that. Uh DW has a uh Mountain Dew car. So, they wanted authentic. Well, this is the only place you can come and get a real piece of Aeroquip hose with the old-fashioned rubber lined asbestos. And everybody now is, you know, using crimp fittings, lighter fittings with Brown & Miller and much nicer stuff. But it but if you want it original, we can do it. We got a little piece of everything. From the Grand National Ford, we bought the front engine plates for the D3 Fords. Got this from Ernie Elliott. And uh he made them out of magnesium. And you can see the erosion there. Oh, that's interesting. I never seen one of those before. >> But anyway, yeah, there's uh Grand National Ford, we had that. Some of some of these main caps, uh steel main caps we used to put on stuff. I mean, this is a brand new set, 17° 350 Chevrolet, probably built by the one of the best…

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