Vintage Engines and Chassis Components

everything from the 80s cuz I've never thrown anything away so but yeah a lot of this like I said we kind of built from piece by piece by piece by piece until we had everything we needed or we thought we needed. You can tell what where your priorities were cuz most of these older shops the engine room is like a corner but this is like half the building is for engines and then you just like the engine's the star you just throw it in the car over there. These guys were engine oriented people so. Yeah I think we looked down on [clears throat] the fab guys. >> [laughter] >> We when Dick and I were down in Florida building the engines of course you know the team was up here since since 1980 81 the guys just couldn't quite keep the cars reliable and of course when you you're an engine builder everything's about reliability so you look at things through a little bit different lens and I remember Dick telling tell me one day you know Bob we got to get up to North Carolina because we're building these engines and then you know it'll run 100 miles and the right front shock mount breaks so you know we got to get up there and and tidy up what they're doing with the cars and and we did and we we finally got to the point where yeah we [clears throat] could produce reliable race car and reliable engines which you have to have you can't finish you can't win a race till you finish it. Now y'all y'all definitely had a lot of good people come through here. Yeah yeah we did had a lot of people I did you know Jimmy Pettergrew? Oh yeah I knew him real well. All right well Jimmy's you know started with us. Him and Robbie Robbie Hoover. Yeah Jimmy started with us and and are these all the same machines that you've always had in here? Yeah. Everything is I'd say that the balance machine would be about 1978 the Mauser Brown and Sharpe and the four Cincinnati mills that all came from IBM plant that they had in Charlotte. I got to go everybody I got to get back up to my office good luck with your video. Thank you. That was about 19. You got your wallet handy one of our business cards if you need one. That was about 97 we got that when BSR went out of business I got got that crimper but the main home line homes and all that stuff if you they all have a plaque of their own 1977. Wow.