Richard Petty Museum Full Tour: Epic Racing Stories From Dale Inman! (Former Petty Race Shop)

this ain't no make-believe this is a car my grandfather would take the whole back seat out and he would put crates of shine in there obvious that I kicked him but I didn't I don't think he was cheating I think we're surviving but did you enjoy the drag racing no we've got it all grouped together to kind of show you how Adam kind of started his career because I think he was for real so sad the video you're about to watch is one of three different videos we filmed at the petty Museum former Petty Enterprises complex this one's about the museum cars inside what Dale Inman has to say about him the other videos are Dale taking us around the property showing us the history of the buildings including the very first shed that we've had he started working out of a car from it's still there and the other one is Richard Petty showing us the house that he grew up in and was born in upstairs so if you haven't seen those yet you'll want to watch them after this one it crazy that Dale is almost 86 years old and he remembers almost everything he can look at a picture and it takes him back to that day I think that's pretty crazy yeah so you're gonna get a lot of pretty cool stories from Dale just as he sees things around the museum and and some more information from Rebecca Petty Moffett who's Richard's daughter who kind of runs the day today there at Petty's garage and you'll learn about Petty's garage too towards the end it's really cool they do cool frustration stuff in there you're gonna like this one so now we're in the Museum Part of the compound that's what Winston gave him when he retired in 92. He's Got The Sweat Band and everything but Tiffany's in New York made it a car like he when he's 200th race in I was with Terry Bonnie then oh okay we won the championship that year uh I had a boy to ask me said why wouldn't you in the picture when he won his son in a race I said pretty busy winning my eighth Championship I'm I'm being smarter like yeah I saw that I saw that green come on your face and you said you were you were doing that here four hall of famers been out of here you know Victor went in the first year his dad's the second year I went in the third year and already went in the fifth year was Maurice the engine guy yes and uh he is on the pit crew some you know he he fought polio but uh he was still really active with us he was awful protective of Richard Richard didn't have to protect himself as far as that I worked on 59 Daytona win look how that's what Lee wanted to race in a car like that that's a huge car here's an actual picture of it and you talk about aerodynamics screen on the front there to protect the windshield from sand blasting but we run it on dirt too to keep the mud off see it that's sometime in the 70s that's Richard that's Maurice that's myself it was an old barn over on my property and it accidentally got burned down but the Ducks and the chickens and everything we got a string tied to their leg and a nail hold them in the ground so they could run away they sold more magazines that month and it ever sold at that time see the see the sticker in the window yeah yeah back there that's just before we went to Daytona look at Lee's blue boots Esquire shoe Pilots come by and made some petty blue shoe polish shoe dye that we dyed all our shoes so that building right there is the one with a little and you heard you heard uh Rebecca talking about the gas pump yeah that's the pump and that building right there is still there so you see what's in the background this is 1964. okay just before Daytona the reaper shed original would have been kind of over there yeah that's early uniform right there there's probably both of them after they've managed to raise for getting ready to start a race early uniform AKA what they drove to the track in that's me and Richard did Darlington in 1957 I guess that is is that the other part of the museum in there or is that the red floor building with the temples on the wall at later years you know at least Lee's still with us he gave a cowboy hat to a NASCAR Foundation and we went to Iowa Speedway to the auction that night two women got to bed and on it and it got up to 22 500. wow yeah and he took the one off his head so both of them got one so the foundation hit a pretty big lake at night well that's really cool is it really really cool guy like that you never hear any any story about it I thought well that's what I tell people I said I'm kind of more proud of what he's done off the racetrack than what he's done on the racetrack because what he's done off the racetrack's not in the history books you know they should be it is now it's not a history book but it's not a history a digital form yeah like we saw every decal in there it's like two bucks and every single one of them has a signature on it that's impressive this is the car we built at 1966 and we built a new car in 67 and couldn't do no good with it went back with a 66. I think it won 13 races in 66. and went back and started running in 67 and there's 48 races and at 127 of them of this this car this car and then used to when the season was over one week we'll see if it was over November the 7th the season started November the 14th the next week so I think it won a couple of races from 68 too so that car's probably won 35 or 40 races there's this car this isn't a recreated version ma'am this isn't a recreated version this is the car that won this is the car this ain't no make-believe this is a car and like I say if you look right here I told you we built we built the car around Richard Petty if you'll notice the roll bars are slaying it and it's just the way we put them in that year for Richard is a seat crooked is that the good seat car guide for him was that something he liked to have to see that's the way he was sitting you know and he is a lot than a lot of other race car drivers yeah Buddy Baker was a pretty big boy and David Pearson was about Richard's eyes kale was muscular but he wasn't quite as tall great guy kale you know and everything but uh was there anybody else that any of you or the crew got into fights with all over the years besides Bobby Allison well was it Wilkesboro one Sunday and we'd huh had a pretty close race with Bobby Allison so after the race they didn't have a winner circle so Richard stopped on the racetrack and we just had got radios I had one in the pits and Richard had one that we could talk to each other with the crews didn't have them you know just somebody to come up with a pretty good set and speakers were in the helmets Richard got out of the car a few people gathered around Maurice got there before I did and handed Maurice the helmet and uh somebody took a hold of Richard or something Mars hit him right in the face with a help he thought he was gonna hurt but Richard I kind of caught the guy before we went down he said I was going to congratulate him I said well I don't know why he hit you I was worried about tearing the helmet up with the ready but just some of the funny stories it's told you know and so Maurice was ready to go all the time I was ready to go all the time he was looking for it yeah he was certainly the protector of Richard why did they call him squirrel I've never seen that before well when you'd make a mistake we'd call somebody a squirrel so we got to call in him squirrel senior and Richard Squirtle Jr that didn't last long it just it just happened to be on at that time but there's the famous Superbird did you guys do any uh tweaking to the body panels or anything on these things nothing much you know they they were pretty fast you know we worked on the front spoiler but everything was back legal then and then that blade back there from left to right boy you could tweak that eye a degree and just make all the difference in the world we tried to set it on our car when we went we tried to set it at zero to the world and worked on the chassis as much as we could and then tweaked that wing and it made difference what year around do you remember being in a wind tunnel for the first time when did Arrow become a conversation of work in the shop 64 for sure big on this 66 and 67 car for sure with the wooden templates or they don't have templates back then yeah they they had templates then of course they still made us run the door handles you see that you know and then they finally they were being knocked off during the race and where the door handles functional back then or they're just still on there they just had to be on there to look like a car you know and they went down one year this one wasn't but I when we had to run them I cut them down but I'd stick in maybe a half inch one of the mechanics come by trying to show an official but now they've been cut down I think Maurice told him get his hands off the car I ain't gonna call him names but were you ever uh messing with a post to get the windshield laid back or anything like that before they started making rules we always tried to get them as high as we could here for Daytona where he could see around the corner you know so you're trying to raise the windshield up uh just to get him out of his vision because like you mentioned he was pretty tall you know and we could only get the seats so low and everything you know do you ever recall anything you guys were doing that ended up being like having a rule written against it just any random thing he figured out was helpful and then they were like oh well we're not going to do that anymore no not I can't remember that part of it I don't want to remember that part of it but the last race of the 90s 1966 season was it Rockingham and we went down and I say we I keep saying we it was a Pettis we put made a little spores on it something probably something just like this but we made it out of Bondo because we figured we'd have to file it all right and they looked at it and says uh oh you can go ahead and run it because we're going to let them run it next year and ain't no telling how much it helped us and we didn't even know it at the time you know because we hadn't been in the Wind Tunnel or nothing to visit today you just knew from conventional wisdom that it would help it was fours and stuff and just so much history of what Nascar came from okay I know you keep saying whenever you're like well it was them not we but you're one of the guys on that thing it's just it's it's to me it's everything about Richards look how big that car is Lord have mercy it's huge and we painted it to a new car paid that v on it so we could recognize the car and then of course we keep saying we had two super Birds just like Pete Hamilton drove one of them you know he won both daytonas and both talladega's and maybe the Daytona 500 that year but we put a big red nose on it so we could tell them apart and Richard's car today if you watch a race Sunday it'll have a red number on the top huh and if you watch that and that's for us to pick out better you know what I mean do you remember the origin of the petty blue color how that was came about well they had a little bit of blue paint and a little bit of white paint they mixed them it come out petty blue was that an accident yesterday it was an accident it was just have enough paint to paint the car they might have done the paint thing while I was in service but that's that's the way it come about they was they need to know paint to paint a car so they mix two together and that's the way it turned out but now Richard created I mean he was he was in on a lot of this stuff he wasn't only just a driver he he worked on him he was capable working on them you know I'm not saying he liked the work but he didn't work The Fan Appreciation tour you know it was Richard hit it all after 92 and had put a lot of strain on a lot of us because we certainly didn't want to get him hurt you know what I mean you know wound up doing the fan appreciation to her with this car and this car right here I think we started running in 1972. he run a we had a 70 71 we had the Plymouth and a Dodge and they wanted Betty Baker to drive the Dodge so we stayed with a Plymouth all in 71 come to find out the Dodge was a little bit better in the Plymouth so 72 and 73s 74 75 76. 77 they let us run it that long because they didn't have another car that was wasn't supposed to run a car for three years but I'm a NASCAR changed the rules where we could run it longer and uh this was an awful good car for me that's the picture of it we took it to England oh a good one Professor wanted it to Goodwood and I I was fortunate enough to get to go with him over there for that and it not is farewell to a year he wore a different uniform at Everett racetrack like there's two races at Bristol he wore the same uniform and a helmet and I've got that uniform and helmet and I don't know who's got the rest of them you know and he's uh was either one of that okay somebody asked him while ago how many races he wanted Martinville I believe you said 15. and uh I've got the grandmother clocked from 1969 I believe wow and it you know I've got a lot of stuff that I passed on when I pass you know and um he's he's been awful good to me I've got a couple of Rolex watches from Daytona wins they all tell the same time but they're kind of special you know is there anything on these cars when you were the crew chief of that you're proud of like little tricks or gadgets that you had figured out in them that nobody picked up on Long I tell this all the time you know Dale General had me on the show and wanted me to try to pick out my our cheating points I I don't think he was cheating I think we're surviving but we we built a car around Richard Petty I mean we Chrysler say in 1964 come with some racing pieces bigger spindles different tie rod ends and axles and different Springs and it had these cars had torsion bars and Petty Enterprises took them for Richard along with Richard's help and everybody that worked here we we changed the steering on it made it steer a lot easier this was way before power steering the cars were just built around Richard Petty that's that's what made it so successful I guess but uh but if yet we altered everything we could to our advantage I'm not saying was cheating because when you worked with Harry Hyde and Junior Johnson and Paul sellington and all that crowd that come along then you had to be competitive if you weren't pushing that you weren't you weren't going to be up he's doing everything to this Advantage you know what I mean of course you know the window Nets came along after his big wreck at Darlington in 1970 in the Road Runner you know and you know I helped get him out of the car I thought he was dead then and he uh kind of his upside down just hanging by his seat belt when we released it he kind of moaned a little bit and that's the first time I know he was alive you know of course he got hurt real bad at Pocono did you ever weigh the car having lead-filled radios or a lead-filled helmet and pull that out of the car after it got waited may have heard something like that did some of them do that some of them did they just trying to cheat us then I think Daryl Waltrip had a helmet that was made out of lead weighed 50 pounds and they put it in the car they tell the story that he he dumped his lead BB 's like out of the egg spun out in them yeah you've heard that story okay and I can't prove it but I've heard it I've heard it from quite a few sources I think it's pretty pretty interesting yeah and stuff that was done have y'all talked to Daryl yeah yeah not about that stuff we heard him talk about that okay um Junior's show but you know then of course they of course there's the big Hemi that is huge who made the headers on that thing back in the day who was the guy who did all that stuff you know that was people that that would come here and make headers you know of course I I don't know but they're you know they're made out of stainless steel and everything and of course Carson I'm trying to think of some names but there was people that went around made headers because if you locate your motor a little bit different you know you couldn't it wouldn't you couldn't go to AutoZone by set ahead and for a hammy for a race car you know of course we had to make the tailpipes and everything of course this is a calorie finish his career in we got in a wreck earlier Atlanta on his last race in 1992. and uh took it to the garage and kawiki and Bill Elliott was running for the championship and we didn't want to get in the way but when they throw the white flag Richard went out went under the white plane come back around got to check her just to make sure he finished the season here and we must have set in the pitch maybe 150 laps or so wow but running the last lap that's cool and then of course in 1965 they didn't Outlaw the hammy but they said if you run the Hemi you got to put in a big Fury body Chrysler didn't want to do that we didn't do it because it was a bigger family car you know so I think told Richard and the petties to go drag racing so that's what we've done about halfway through the about three quarters of the way through the 65 season and then they finally let us come back and run the Hemi into Belvedere at um it tracks a mile and Below but they wouldn't let us run the big tracks did you enjoy the drag racing no why not well it happens so quick you couldn't overcome a mistake if you made a mistake it killed you I know I don't know it was just different I come up with like I said I come up with his Cup racing now which was Grand National Race and then I think you're the first person I've ever heard be honest about drag racing like it's over so quickly you can't enjoy it that I didn't like it yeah it's like you do all this no it's just it's a lot of preparation to just like go down there for 10 seconds yeah yeah you work hard for the harder you work seconds yeah the harder you work now the less time yeah Top Fuel stuff yeah I don't even know what was running but we run a lot of we run a lot of quarter miles maybe run some eighth of miles and maybe some half miles you know I don't even know but uh but it crosses her Chrysler done it to keep Richard Petty's name and I've been with him just about all over the world he's recognized everywhere he goes I've never and they we've tried it without the Hat somehow they still recognize him you have to have like a full disguise he's just you just know that yeah but you know like I said we've been him been together since about this big you know played High School football together double dated together in fact we went to the Martinsville about 45 miles away so the crew went up early and my wife came up with Richard Linda in 1969. we won the race and she gets in line to get an autograph from him yeah so it you know at one time we was all young if it was I guess did you ever try driving no you never got in a car to test or anything no I Lee probably would have let me but I just couldn't see tearing up somebody's car and Lee trust me Richard tore up some cars on the way up you know like I say I every time I come through I see something different you know he had a cable that run up after a spring held his head up really oh to for the the left side yeah was anybody else using the mask from a fighter jet like that uh I don't think so here's a little tribute to the Wood Brothers we have not been there yet but we'd like to okay Eddie Wood talk to him a lot but Glenn and Eddie Glenn and Leonard Leonard Leonard if I got a hero and if I got a hero and raising it'd have to be Richard number one and then Leonard would be right up there Leonard Wood he was he was super and still is he made that he made Richard Ness and made me one it's the authentic Leonard Wood RC car never seen one of those before that's awesome it's all that's handmade it's just amazing what he could do and uh but like I said and when I talk about Richard I don't know where he's my cousin the hero or my boss boss man I don't know what he is but we've just been together a long time I think was it the Wood Brothers for uh I think Lynn's 90s 91st birthday and uh I believe Donnie and Bobby Rex White that's me Richard some of the other Wood Brothers that's Eddie the son Lynn the other son High School monogram jacket report cards are they uh are they good or bad but but when we played football you know and when I tell this people don't hardly believe it but he weighed 210 pounds really and uh I weighed about 145 and but he he's got his weight way down I don't know where the race car done that he said he said they took a couple of ulcers out of him and one of them had Dale on it another had Linda that was his wife who was that you guys got in a fight with up on the driver introductions we're at uh I can't remember I heard a story about that was it someone with Lee um it was like was it buddy Baker I can't remember it was like two on one or something wait Mar we had a little trouble with Bobby Allison Longview was and I slept New York was it Dad I don't know did you get affect Bobby Allison before he claims I did but I didn't uh Maurice was had him on the ground but I slept New York and they would several of us in a pretty good mix-up Bobby said I kicked him but I didn't he said well it's your shoe that hit me somebody wasn't I don't know but I can't prove it is there anything along the lines that you wish you would have kept or could find again yeah there's some stuff that I that we've donated to Charities you know and me and my wife have donated charity stuff and they've auctioned off and if it was for a good cause no I don't regret none of that you know but but he was gonna it changed the history of the petties because I think he was for real 20 year old so sad so this is our Adam Petty section of the museum and we've got it all grouped together to kind of show you how Adam kind of started his career so he started in a flat car racing go-karts when he was uh uh probably 10 or 11 and raced at that level for a couple years then by the time he's like mid teens like 13 to 15 maybe he raced in the Bandolero cars which is the the card back there in the back and then he graduated up to like the the piece of car that's up there was when he raised for another race team so he had to run their number but that's from a bush uh card that he races I think like three or four times one season but then the Sprint car is his ARCA car so and then this this car right here was finally from his cup debut which was at Texas so it kind of shows the steps because he you know he drove more out of anybody in my family he drove more different levels of racing not just straight two cups I think I've heard of some documentary was that before this race that he was so nervous he was throwing up before the race because he didn't want to screw up or make the name look bad probably probably because it was a big deal and like everybody made such a big deal out of it because you know he was first fourth generation in any sport and he had made it to the level that his great grandfather you know grandfather father had all been to so well his motorcycles from the charity ride because you know of course he did the charity ride with his dad and so that's where where the motorcycle comes from I remember being real little I always liked the way that car looked it was a cool looking paint scheme do you know why he ran Chevys instead of Pontiac at the time I do not know that I always wondered that too I mean it's a Pontiac here then he goes the and then he's a Chevy then I always wondered that because we were going to dodge yeah it's like nothing like during the time that he was racing we went to dodge and I don't know if we went with another race team that's a good question um did you ever want to race nine I have ATV too bad you're like especially like 600 laps are you crazy I need a radio or some type of entertainment were these both pe2 cars um I know that his ARCA cars were built right here so yeah pity Enterprise and that's what I'm saying he might have drove a Monte Carlo because he might have been Racing for another team and we just took the number I don't know hmm yeah I wonder if this was an old uh Bobby Hamilton or John Andretti car probably this is good probably more than likely PE 193 on it is this seat is bolted to this bar down here and it's it's standard today so the seat's bolted to here yeah right so the pennies were the first team to do that and that's because if you got hit in the door the seat would slide over whereas in cars of this time period they did not have that and the seats were bolted either to the frame or they were bolted to the floor so if you got hit in the door the seat stayed in place and you got hit and that was one of Richard's deals that he came up with that is they still they still do that to this day maybe I don't know about now but they did it for a long time so you look at all these kind of newer cars yeah they still do that same with this one and then the the bar that goes from uh roll cage to behind the driver's seat yeah is this a crash bar but my grandfather invented that so that when the car started rolling it didn't close the end on the driver and harmed them so everybody talks about the Newman bar you know because Ryan Newman came up with it himself well that's I think they called this the petty bar I recall I think they used to and then Richie bar is the guy we were talking about earlier who's a fabricator for ever um he came he did the peace sign headrest there which this car is really known for huh to point out a couple things that my grandmother did in um 1970 my dad had a wreck at Darlington it hit the inside wall and it knocked him out and he he was unconscious so he was like his arm was going in and out of the car and in and out of the car my grandmother always scored for him and it scared her so bad to see his head and arm coming out that she came home and created the window mat huh she found scrap Fabric and sewed it together and then of course my daddy and my grandfather figured out a way to bolted into the car and make it I mean it's today you're winning that's down you're off the track you know let other people see that I'm like that's a good idea I want one let me let me point out something else and then the other thing is the uniform that's right here in 1967 Dupont came out with flame retardant fabric that was the first year that not 67 I'm sorry 1969. uh Dupont came up with flame retardant Fabric and my grandmother felt like it was safer because you know fires were like very common back in the day so she pretty much created the first uniform too in 1969. which of course today is mandatory does she make that too no but that was the cool suit that they went before they started blowing air in the helmets they daddy was the first to try it so it's like from the early 80s but you would put it on up under your uniform and then the these Contraptions on the floor they would Mount them behind the driver's seat and put dry ice in it so that while the rice was drying all the bikes or fumes from the dry ice would run through those hoses in the suit and keep your body cool did it work the first version it worked for the most part but one AC was at I'm sure I'm probably like the world 600 because you know that race was like half your life and um anyway um the the ice had melt had melted all the way and the floorboard had gotten so hot that the water started getting hot hot water on top of him already being hot and he had to stop and get out and take it off so it cost him some laps wow so it turned into a boil suit and that's obviously that Randy Cox that that guy still works here and I think Randy started in mid to late 70s and he still works here at Petty's garage huh he's the one that packages all our orders and sends them out we were shooting a commercial in here one time uh for Odyssey Battery and so we had taken all these all the chains down and everything we had set up like a classroom in here a production crew had had some parts with the uh that was part of the set and not knowing they just came in here and slid some of the uh set pieces up under the car well it's still leaking so hit leaked motor oil all over all over their set piece and like a lot of people one of the myths that I've heard is that uh that I've seen on Reddit is that the 1992 car was so uh busted all the pieces that they took it back and they brought the backup car out and fixed it so that he could make his last race and I've talked to all the guys that were around that time period and they said there's no way like they just fix it as best they could and send them back out right it's a great place for misinformation yes it is one of those old cars down there for I don't think we talk about those so the Model T is in here it was my grandfather's but my grandfather kept it in his collection because it was like the kind of car that he learned to drive in yeah so he just always loved the model too you know of course that was the first car but it was his first car as well and what he learned to try again and then this 33 Dodge yeah um actually it's my daddy's but my daddy remembers my grandfather having a car like this when he was a kid and my daddy said the back seat this this is this is a the personal part of this car the back seat my grandfather would take the whole back seat out and he would put crates of shine in there and he would cover it with a blanket and they would go out to do deliveries and then he said little by little by the night the crates would get down and down and he said if him and my uncle if their butts made it all the way to the floor like they hadn't made it to the floorboard then on the way home that grandfather would stop and get him ice cream or get him a hot dog so you know it was a good night like if your butt was on the floorboard of the car and it's a pretty car so we like it way to Nowhere that I know of and this is one of them door to Nowhere when you add a building and then you add a building and then you add a building the door for the guy to unclog this drain is that the original color of the building yeah that's really neat huh is this where you put people in timeout yeah actually I think it was like a smoke break Place back in the day employees that smoked and there's another one not an exit definitely not [Applause] and this one's even weirder because it kind of comes in on itself oh yeah they're not parallel oh wow that's funny that I didn't even realize this exists I've been working here for two years I didn't realize that this right here existed until like two three weeks ago and you saw the sign on the door that said well not Todd had it open and I was like what in the world I was like oh wow another door that leads me nowhere so what do you do in in here the the this is like the most recent newest cup shop area isn't it what year was this I said 96. we create Parts this this is like a cool cool covers and that we pay them any color like any any um OEM color so like if you've got a grabber blue car and you won't ever blue cool covers just order them and grab the blue yeah so this is a this is a rear strut for our track series for our uh Dodge Challengers I painted any OEM color and so all online sales so it's like penniesgarage.com go on there check out our Instagram Facebook I usually try and when I take pictures and video stuff like this try and tag it so you can see it is really nice Wells yeah they're all they're all handmade who does that uh our guys Todd and Zippo we got two guys that everything you see on pennysgarage.com the same fabricated like cold pack covers these two guys yep huh when did the race team stop operating out of here and move to was it took the place in Mooresville first yes I we moved out of here in 2008. okay because we merged with a another we actually got bowed out by a group called Boston Ventures and they moved the race team over to Concord okay and so that's basically when we started doing all this because we said what are we going to do with the location well really the only thing we knew how to do was go cars so we started we started kind of restoring some of Daddy's old race cars and that led in the people coming in off the street saying can you do this to our car and we'd say sure and then it led him to you know of course newer like you know 2016 17 18 whatever you know people wanting to get more power more suspension more you know whatever so we do a lot of aftermarket and restoration it's cool it's really a lot better than this just turning into a storage warehouse for something or you know you see those once it's not a shop anymore the buildings of History just kind of go downhill until they disappear and it's it's really cool to see that this place is not having that happen to it yeah this is Greg Stedman he started with us when we started Petty's garage back in like 2010s when we actually got paid his garage up and running so he started with us then and he's kind of oversees everything how we doing very good nice to meet you nice to meet you probably weren't expecting to walk into a film situation why not they don't catch me off guard in here anywhere in anything anything so they were you around here in the 90s when this was built when this was yes I started here in 1994 December we raced out of this whole shop up until 2008 when we moved 2009 moved to uh Mooresville for the one year but this actual shop here with the gray floor of this whole facility on this side was built in 2000 and it's late 90s 2000. because I was supposed to crew chief Kyle that year and then Robbie Loomis Left Right went to the 24 car and all this was brand new when we were doing a Dodge deal so this this building was built I think in in somewhere in 99 it was being built um and the engine shop was actually from that wall back over here and then that side Was a Race shop on the other side we're gonna have the 43. 43 car was up front the red floor which you went through which the museum has engine shop was here we had a Fab shop in the middle that hung bodies and did all the fabrication and then this shop right here from those offices over there was a wall and that was going to be the Finish Fab was over there in that area where the Viper is and the 45 team Kyle seeing the 44 at that time sorry was going to run out of the other area in a 43 up front all right so this is all engines in here yep this because we we had changed though we were going to dodge and 2001 um and they started expanding all that and and grew that so 2000 was sort of a transformation year of two teams and then in 2000 and 2001 it actually became three teams The Buckshot in the 40. four Kyle ended up in the 45. and John in a 43 for that for that year so we had three teams 200 and 20 people on site roughly where did they Park everywhere a portion of those at any parking area for the museum so they parked some of them parked out front because the museum was not really here and I'd say there was maybe a portion of that that was over at Sunrise Center and Adam's old shopping across the street where we hung the bodies and I don't know if you remember marketing all the Marketing sales people used to be in Concord and when they moved back here they were in the trailers and trailer park out front yeah but this part this half of this building was built as as an engine shop originally so it had cnc's in here in assembly bays and rooms for the engine builders and all the engines were taken apart and put together in this side um after we in 2002 2003 somewhere in there we we ended up leasing engines from a couple of different sources on a cup side we actually turned this into the 45 Race shop on this side the wall was still there there was a pass-through that's why it's got a the red surface plate over there yeah it was for setup for the 45 car the the other one was over there for the uh 43 car back to two teams at that time so the 43 and 45 were in this building and then about 2003 I actually came off the road as a crew chief and orchestrated sort of pulling it all into one team more like the the common thing that you see now with the things it's not just three separate teams or two separate teams or four everybody sort of works under one umbrella so we ended up knocking the walls out and the cars were built over there in the in the fabrication area and and set up and basically we had 43 and 45 that worked sort of as one group that's where the metal surface plates come from um had backup cars primary cars that you set up each week so we had surface plates in here for both teams to work off of to build and set up cars you know so a lot of equipment is left over from the race team that we use and we just repurposed it for building custom cars like what in here gets used for the custom stuff that was here back then everything I mean when we when you build a car from the ground up like that it's it's very similar to building a race car um just you know street cars are just different rules than race cars have so but the shears and uh in the brakes um you know of course we don't necessarily use an English wheel that much um but all the saws and the shears and the brakes all that stuff gets used and for fabricating parts that we build you can see all the parts on the shelter the strut braces and transmission cross members they're built very similar to what we build race car parts so all that technology is pretty pretty much the same and and obviously the workstations because that one's still branded paid Enterprise that one was built by the David Hider himself so a lot of a lot of good guys that worked here in the years past that just a lot of good Craftsmen Zippo was back here in the day so he's he's still going but like I say so a lot of a lot of good Fabricators and especially the guys it's kind of a fun fact is that like some of these workbenches you can see some of them are you know obviously this color and then we've got others that are red yeah why are they red so they're red if I recall correctly when Dodge was doing there kind of sacred stuff around here the Dodge the Dodge section the Dodge Center all had red workers ah that Dark Viper rabbit r d stuff that Ray Abraham did in 2000 we were we were R d'ing the Dodge stuff that we were still racing Pontiacs building the Dodges they actually leased some office space out by Maurice and them in the back back there by the in their building and actually did all the r d for a lot of the Dodge stuff back there and all race stuff like that and everything was red so some of them tables are things probably came from that area so Ray in the Dodge r d stuff was happening here too A lot of that happened here on site back there in Maurice's building yeah probably 90 of them before he moved to States yep before he got his building and everything yep interesting yeah if you like the shirts that we were wearing during this video you should check them out on stapletonautoworks.com I pack all of your orders and we both sign your notes but I do pretty much everything not Shelby's trying to ruin the filming my leg the whole time it is pretending it's not happening well because I'm like trying not to ruin it well that's if it sailed either way this is our puppy but you haven't met yet I guess this will be her intro if you want to see the day we got her there'll be a video on the Staples and 42 extra Channel Shelby stop it she's teething so she wants to like chew on everything really needy she wants attention all the time also we have a bundle box option where you get the Hat both of those black shirts and five different stickers for a discount as opposed to getting them all individually the white shirt's not part of the bundle because this is like the first white shirt we have ever done ever and there is nothing on the back so you don't get the screen print stuck to you if you're outside on a hot day like you know in the bleachers at a racetrack or something like that at your kids football game yeah you're your kids football game another's trying to think of situations where I would want a white shirt and you know I'm not going to any football games so you know you're not everybody else I'm not I don't have the ability to think like other people because I'm just me the eagle his wings are boom tubes and he's holding a wrench because we build stuff in here Paris Lou of Lou creative did these for us and did a really good job you like racing history like we do and you want everybody to know it Deeds are for you this one's my favorite and we got less of these and I've been this one's like just like really cool we typically only order stuff once and then once it's gone we don't get any more we'll just replace it with something new so if you see something you like on the website and you wait for it to go away in your size you may never get one at all I think a long sleeve t-shirt would be nice because it's like not a hoodie yeah it's like 80 degrees outside and you're wearing a hoodie right now because it's cold in here yeah so these are the backs and that's the front and these are the stickers it's basically the same logos that are on the shirt a nice high quality boom kind of like a contingency decal well you mean like like kind of like exactly like like contingency well yeah it's the smaller we also got these ones too which are our own unique designs with the Super Speedway x-pipe boom tube and it's got it on the front too if you like Richard Petty I don't know if you're in a Good Wrench stuff but if you are have that too this is the Monte Carlo you just saw over there and if you like your standard cotton shirt we got regular thick fitted type sure for you guys too all these ones are next level branded these ones are not the Winston style ones are district brands so if you whatever size you like to wear in next level go size down on these ones because I wear an extra large in all of these but I like a large not all of these are the district funds I think the district wants to stop at like three or four eggs oh yeah that's also worth noting we have up to six decks in almost everything we have all the way three four five six x we got you covered and also if you're new here and you haven't left yet and you didn't know we do build stuff in here so we have playlists for all that we have playlists just for the racing history we got playlists for the builds um you're gonna be a lot of build videos coming up soon because we do work in here in between the history videos and then have you know the builds have a longer lifespan of start to finish from the video itself so they take a while to make finally got the torque converter yes yeah got the Monte Carlo kind of finished up at least in this stage and we're about to start working on Uncle George again brag or anything but I feel like I did a really good job you did it looks brand new it looks like crunchy's turd like that and I painted the gas tanks oh and if you are new here um and you see the Rolls-Royce thinking why are these people have a Rolls-Royce that car was flooded and it was full of mold so we're not freaking balling or something in case that's what you were thinking there's no interior in it we had to tear it all out wearing hazmat suits and there's a video about that too if you would like to see our misery that it took about a week to tear that car apart and it was still wet sorry I'm just having post-traumatic stress just thinking about it so I'm glad you're here and if you'd like to see more of our Shenanigans and regular nonsense you can check out Stapleton 42 extra or not but you could and if you're still here and haven't left yet leave a comment if you want to see more dog stuff this is Shelby with Shelby yes the toy Australian Shepherd who likes to chew on fingers because somebody doesn't tell her not to well I don't want to yell at her when the camera's on [Music] she's not hurting me

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Length: 50min 38sec (3038 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 12 2022