Walking through this place I cannot believe it was built in 1988. So forward thinking its crazy. Looks like a shop designed today! Check out stapletonautoworks.com for channel merchandise!

Fun fact Tony “Rambo” Liberati was Jimmie Johnson’s Busch series crew chief during the famous Watkins Glen brake failure season

My favorite team back in the early to mid 90s - thank you for unearthing more of Bahari's history!

The blind crewmember's name was Robert Myers; there was a feature on him during the broadcast of the 1990 GM Goodwrench 500. Oddly enough, I just watched it about a week ago. Call it a happy coincidence. Great video! Thank you for sharing it! 👍🏼

A lot of people don’t realize that Bob and Dick Bahre developed a lot of the first race shops in Charlotte.. Bob also built NHIS and started the Oxford 250 that for a long time was the richest short track race in the country. RIP Bob and Dick Bahre.

I remember back then watching a race & they profiled this race team. They had the largest fleet of chassis back then & I remember someone making the joke that they needed every one of them the way Michael Waltrip drove... I need to go to Mooresville again for another shop tour, ain't been back there in quite a while...

I remember first hearing about the blind mechanic back in the day. He was brought in because they where having a lot of wheel bearing and rear end failures. He could feel if the bearing had any kind of rough spot where no one else could.

I’ve driven past this place for probably 15 years and never knew this. Super cool. Good ole mooresville

How cool to have Rambo showing you around. Him, Buddy Parrot, Gere Keenon and Chris Hussy on the Scene Vault Podcast was hilarious. I remember building that 30 Pennzoil model when I was teenager. Y'all are doing a great job with these NASCAR videos.

Those old Pontiacs were sooo cool...! I miss the Buicks and Olds too... Heck I miss the old days when they had ALL the manufacturers, even the non-GM stuff... I even miss the the Ferds and Slo-pars...! Thanks for this tour and keep up your awesomeness...!

You have become the master of the untold history of Nascar Mitchell. It was awesome that the current owner has his own ties to the past history of this shop. The fact that Rambo had the forethought to wear his Country time shirt was cool. I can't wait for the next history lesson. When you were back at the large paint booth I noticed a rain-x sticker on an electrical box and now I wonder when it was put there.

Man it brightens my heart to see Ranbow is doing better. We almost lost this piece of history.

Man.. hearing all these references to different parts of Mooresville brings me back. I went to NTI in 2007 and lived off of Brawley School Road. It makes me want to go back and see what it looks like now

This was built in 1989? It looks like something put together in the early 2000 to mid 2010's. This was and is a state-of-the art race shop. It looks way way ahead of its time. This looks like something teams today operate out of. One of the first Racing Champions diecast cars I got was of the #30 Pennzoil Pontiac and I also got the hauler too. I remember this team very well. They didn't get a Cup win, but Bahari did get a couple of Busch wins with Michael Waltrip and he won the Busch Series race at Bristol after Alan Kulwicki was killed in 1993 and the Charlotte 300 Busch race.

Most people say they would buy a mansion, exotic cars, or beach front property, if they came into a lot of money. I would build a massive garage like this, away from civilization, and would never stop tinkering with my hot rods. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. It doesn’t get more pure than this.

That building is impressive!! When you have multiple semi trucks and busses sitting around and the building still looks big that's when you know IT IS BIG 😂 Yet another great video!! Thanks!

Cool to see Rambo doing well. Learned he had bypass surgery not long ago.

Thanks for the video. I was in the shop with my pregnant wife in May 1994. I was Michael’s biggest fan! Made the drive from Canada 🇨🇦 to go to The Winston and check out the shop. Have a photo in the viewing area with Michael and my wife.

Enjoyed the video. I can remember the #30 Country Time Pontiac and of course Penzoil. It's cool seeing what the shop are now and the history behind the buildings.

Love when you guys walk through these og shops. Remember the bright yellow Pennzoil cars from the 90s in my childhood/teens. Still have Racing Champions 1:64 die-cast of Michael Waltrip Pennzoil 1994, 1995, Johnny Benson Pennzoil 1996 1997, Derrick Cope Gumout 1998.

When my youngest daughter was three I took her to see the Penzoil show car at a local store. We got there just before the guy was going to leave. We looked at the car and I talked with the guy for a bit. My daughter had never seen a race car in person. The guy said he had to get going. He climbed in the car to put it in the trailer and I stood back . My daughter had also never heard a race car start and run. The car fired off and my daughter climbed up me like a squirrel being chased by a dog up a tree . One of the thinks the guy told me was, after showing the car ,he went to a hotel. He came out the next morning and there was the truck and trailer lacking one bright yellow car . Imagine having to make that phone call to the boss

When Rambo talked about the blind rear end tech at 5:11, it reminded me of one of the best wrenchers I ever knew from when I lived in Southern Minnesota. His name was Eric and he had a junkyard between Rochester and Byron, MN and he could tell you anything about cars and could turn a mean wrench. He was blind and I never found out exactly how. I heard he was shot in the eye with gasoline while working on a car and that took his eyesight. But I also heard other stories. Brought back good memories to hear Rambo talk about that tech. Eric was a heck of a guy. Wonder how he’s doing now…

How you are able to find these places and gain access to them is incredible. Thank you for the content. Great decision moving from Texas.

This might be one of the best tours yet! Great info, and even better stories!

That was a good video. I like the mutual respect you see from the guys that worked NASCAR in the past.

Can’t wait to see it! My favorite driver started his cup career with this team and elevated it to a level that it never saw before! I have a soft spot for that #30.

Don't know if Rambo will remember me but I worked with him at Bahari for a few years. I even made some tools in the machine shop for him, mostly fixtures for shocks, etc. I started working for Ron Puryear (A J Foyt, Stavola Brothers, etc.) as a machinist in the engine room in Nov. 1993 and left at the end of the 1998 season to follow the Pennzoil deal with Earnhardt. The "Bob" Rambo mentions in the Tommy oversleeping story was Bob Burum (engine builder/dyno/machinist) who had worked for teams like Junior Johnson and Buddy Baker just to name a couple. We only had around 7 people in the engine room at any one time. Mark Cronquist was going to the track for us in the engine shop. Ron Puryear ran the engine shop and some of the engine guys were Keith Russell (dyno operator) who started at Holman Moody in the late 60's, Charles Sheffield (Shade), Vic Hurdle, Darrin Fulk, Bill McCloud in the cylinder head room, Jerry Horton (assembly), and I am sure I will think of one or two more (Sorry to anyone I omitted, it's been a minute). Eel River did run for a season in the Bahari shop while they were trying to finish the new shop in Talbert Point. The owner had sold the Steinway Piano company for a pretty penny and the story goes he bought a race team to show his son the business ropes of high finance. He did learn how to make a small fortune out of a large one. Ha! I don't think they ever raced out of the new shop before they sold out and packed it in. I am pretty sure the room with the drag car in it with all the overhead lights (at about 24:40) was our remodeled CNC / machine shop we built when Derrik Cope brought in Steve Leavitt and Mark Osborn to build chassis in house and I had started doing our own reverse modeling and machining of our in house cylinder heads. It was originally the tire shop with a tire machine and stacks of tires. When Mark and I annexed the room we were concerned about the thickness of the floor to support our CNC equipment because we witnessed Doug Hewitt brake off a corner of a concrete pad where two sawed joints met just on the other side of the wall where that crooked roll up door is located with a forklift which wasn't all that heavily loaded. Chuck argued that we were crazy for doubting the quality of the floor, but Mark and I drilled a hole in the floor where the machines would be located and hit mud at about 2 inches deep. That ended up costing around $17k because the floor is now 1 foot thick. Chuck chomped pretty hard on the end of that cigar on that one. Ha!

Happy to see Rambo doing well. Triple bypass is no joke

I live in Scotland, a different world.. knew little about nascar yet I'm watching all of your videos and being educated on pure gold. I love the engineering, the cheatin, the characters. Thanks you guys look forward to more of the same.

Great work! It kills me that I'm 1 hour away from everything you're covering and I've only seen 1% of it. Keep it coming!

I went to church with Tommy Riggsbee's father. Growing up, I was a Michael Waltrip fan (later became a Robby Gordon fan, go figure) and Mr. Riggsbee was the church greeter, so Every Sunday I would talk to him about how Michael did because, as his son was the driver and catch-can man. Needless to say, The Sunday after the 2001 Daytona 500 was very bittersweet, knowing what Dale did to get Michael in Victory Lane.

That #30 Pennzoil car is one of my favorites from that era of NASCAR. Most of the cars of the early 90s are iconic to me because those were my formational years as a young fan, but I loved the yellow ones... this, the Kodak #4, and the #5 Kellogs

This is awesome. I love this stuff. A great age of racing history. Keep up the storytelling and the people that used to work at these race shops that are no longer a shops.

So true...gone are the days except for maybe some small truck and ARCA teams where crew members did everything....mechanic, fabricate, road crew, pit crew. As teams have grown, it has become so specialized and factory oriented to where you have your one job.

Great video! I loved the Country Time shirt, I had a hobby shop I would visit with my old man, and they had Country Time in a can. So good! Really cool the new owner bought the building directly from Mr. Harry and he is 1000 % right about how impressive the old crews were. Those guys built every aspect of the car not just one section. Not a dig at today's crews but having do it all workers back then and the fact that they also used to paint the cars too, really cool stuff. Can't wait for the Yates video and keep up the good work!

Another informative video showing how it used to be. Thanks!

Bobby Waltrip was a work contact and we spoke on the phone often, the company I worked for was also NASCAR sponsor at the time. He told me one time my older brother is good but wait until my little brother gets to Cup. Virtually every time we spoke you could hear the pride in his voice, when he spoke about his little brother Michael, and I became a Michael fan before he ever turned a lap in a Cup car. This is my favorite episode so far just because I was such a fan and I felt like I had a connection, I also believe being a Michael fan was a little deeper than being a fan of most other Driver’s We definitely were not just fair Weather fans and each loss actually made us bigger fans because we wanted it for him even more. As someone that had a small connection to the sport back then these episodes are fantastic and also make me realize how much I took for granted back then, now as I can only dream about walking through the garage area and not actually do it.

That was SO FRIcKEN AWESOME when He busted out the Country Time uni Hiding underneath the hoodie❕ What A Rad Dude 😏 💪

Geez Mitchell seeing Winston Cup on Rambo's shirt, Pennzoil Cars, hearing about Johnny Benson--man I miss old time racing. Thx!!!

Mitchell and Logan, congratulations on another awesome "Golden Era" video! Love how you find the people behind the scenes that were the ones that made things happen. Kudos to all that performed the magic.

Really neat seeing these videos always wondered the back story on a lot of those old shops when I go to the parks to pick up parts for the late model Keepem coming!

I moved to Mooresville in 2002 and left in 2017. I lived just up the road from Lake Side Park and drove past that building all the time I always wondered what was going on in there. Very interesting video.

I’m really enjoying this historical content. So many stories that will never be known. You are doing great scratching the surface.

Awesome video. I am a late 80 to early 2000's nascar fan and love seeing the history. I told my wife about your videos and told her I want to va action and go see all the or well some of the museums in the area. Especially anything with the Earnhardt's. Thanks again and keep putting these videos out.

These history videos are great thanks again guy's

Crazy I remember going to that old shop they started at in statesville when I was a kid and seeing the race cars. I Grew up about a mile away. Good vid!

Pretty amazing. I drove by that shop on race weeks so many times in the 2000's as the Team Marines shop and never knew it held a cup team. Love the historic stuff!

I still have a set of JE pistons that came from Bahari Racing in 1988. I bought them at a racing auction in Charlotte. Smokey Yunick was there that day and I was too shy to speak to him.

Definitely shows you have to think outside the box, and imagine bigger than you can fathom.

WOW. I have been there, we ran an outdoor power equipment company and they owned Briggs&stratton distributorship. We won a free tour and race tickets one year!

Ha Ha. Good video. I was in that shop several times when it was Rensi! My boys worked there. Also Rambo did a good job.

You two have no idea how important the stories you are telling or maybe you do! all I can say is thank you. With modern NASCAR the way it is your videos are a chance for us that remember to get a taste of the past.

You Guys are awesome love the content. Im from the United Kingdom. Use to watch NASCA in the 80s. The history lesson is so pact full of info. Again Awesome thank you. MAD LOVE TO BOTH OF YOU x

The tractor in the background at 6:08 caught my eye as it says “R&S Farms, Granite Falls, NC”. That’s very close to where I grew up in Caldwell county. I wonder what the tractor was doing all the way down in Moresville.

This was a great video, I love this history stuff of guys remembering old stories and places. It really puts things into perspective when they talked at the end of the video about the differences between old and new race shops and what the guys on the team do now versus back then. Again great job Mitch and Logan, love your content. P.S. I have a set of those Raycon earbuds for a couple years now, and I love them just as an FYI

such awesome nascar history thanks for these videos...brings back childhood memories going to races

I have a couple pictures from that shop when we visited it back in the day .

25:13 I worked with a team whose main sponsor was an oil company. I won’t mention the sponsor or type of racing. We ran Mobil1. We would swap Mobil1 into our sponsor’s bottles, and hot-glue the cases closed before loading those cases into the hauler. Our Mobil1 supplier had no idea who they were really selling to. We also made sure we didn’t put any Mobil1 trash into the shop dumpster.

Keep them coming. I really appreciate you bringing these videos. Thank you

Mikey's Bahari Racing Pennsoil Pontiac is so nice and a new personal fav

Another good history vid. It is good that you can find some of the old guys that worked and lived there for the real stories and some of the funny shit that is interesting. Also as an old audiophile I have been through many iterations of sound equipment. I have tried a lot of big name high dollar ear phones but the Raycons beat them all and do exactly what the ad copy says.

Kelvin used to be on Trick My Truck! Very cool to see him.

That new owner was also part of the tv show trick my truck 😂 😂😂

My shop now is twice as big as the shop jack Ingram ran out of for many yrs.still stands at 191..l- 26 connector ramp asheville nc.

Bahari Racing Number 30 Driven By Michael Waltrip Pontiac Grand Prix From 1988 To 1993 Thanks For Uploading

First of all I had No idea Bob Bahre had a Brother and I REALLY had no idea His brother was a founder of Bahari Racing. I learn something new every time i watch a Video of yours

My guys I rooted for in 89 and forward until August 91. Dale Sr., J D McDuffie, & Mike Waltrip. After August I lost one 😢. Thank you for continuing this epic journey of Nascar yesteryear. It's my most enjoyable entertainment. To anyone who's thinking of getting merchandise from Mitchell & Logan. Just do it. I wear mine weekly. Have one on right now. Also I've got 2 different kinds of Raycon ear buds. Epic sound in my opinion 😎 🤟

Thanks for the tour! The people, stories, and content you guys roll out are the best!

You are living the dream brother. Thank you for bringing us along. I love the tours and history lessons.

Well done as always crew! That building looks like a maze. It's amazing that all of the people that you interview are so open and honest and enjoy talking about their race team days.. In all these shops you have been to, I don't recall seeing one asshole. In todays world that is refreshing.

To clarify that last statement… We know you’re watching, Michael .. so hit us back please and let’s put something together. 😂 Great job guys. These race shop tours are awesome. I hope they open doors and reach more folks in the NASCAR circle. The more the merrier.

4:43 You knew that Pontiac Race Cars were cool when a subpar slow as molasses street ride turns into a sexy body style and fast too.

Can’t wait!!! Hope you guys are having a great Friday!!!

That was great I never worked in NASCAR but always wanted too

These old shop tours are so interesting.

Great job and very entertaining. I made it to the end and I got to see Shelby.♥️🐶👍🏼

props to the guy wearing that shirt under his hoodie. well played pal.

Hello Mitchell, I'm from the Pittsburgh area as well. As you know it's not exactly a hotbed for NASCAR. I always had a soft spot for Bahari because it was the first stock car I saw in person. It was on display in the parking lot of Trader Horn in New Castle around 1992. Great channel and I found it funny to see a pic of you in a North Pittsburgh jersey in a previous episode!

Wow! More gold! Another awesome job! Thank you for what you do!

The blind guy got me. When I first started drag racing I drove for a blind owner who built our engines. He had the tools that talked to him as well. We ran a rear engine dragster with a 311ci sbc that the Rev limiter was set at 10800rpm. I shifted at 9800 and launched at 6700. Rarely hurt engines as he built them

Rambo's jersey looked perfect 👌

We should look it up on here. I think the show was Inside Winston Cup with Ned Jarrett. They did a feature on the blind fella that worked there. At the time they did it,it was current.

Awesome video, random Newells and all! Thanks for sharing!

Love this! What a huge shop for the time! Also, I've used Raycons for 3 years and think they are the most underrated in-ears ever. They are amazing! Im on my second pair and couldn't be happier. They are a class act and so are you! Great content! As always!

Mitchell,Logan,absolutely fantastic!!! I’m loving the golden era,love all the videos you do I’m slowly working my way through all your stuff as been a very hectic few months with the baby boy!! I’m getting there slowly though when I get a bit of time to myself in the evenings! Loving it guys,you are living my dream for me! Keep it up 🤘🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A building that size would be great to start filling with crazy project ideas...

Someone please find the blind guy that built the rear ends. That would make for a great story. Wow.

Kelvin was the shop Manager on "Trick My Truck" TV Show on TNN for a few years after Brian & 4 States left (Chrome shop Mafia)

Loved this team especially that #30 jimmy dean car in the 1999 season

Watching this video makes me wonder what life would have been like, for me, if I had accepted the offer to go 'big time' with Frank and been a part of Jimmy Spencer's crew.

Awesome video brought back some memory's. Can't wait to see Lake Speed car run again.

Those Pennzoil cars were unique with their yellow rims. Good looking cars then and now.

Tar Heel Speedway = Guilford/ Randolph County Line on old 220 , last NASCAR race was in early 60's, lost and forgotten NASCAR track, Ned Jarrett raced there with Richard Petty.

I’m here in the UK and love these videos

I like their thought we got bonus money let’s build on!!!

Can't wait for this one guys. Got a long drive to to today so this is already added to my que !

Dude, love the videos. This era was kinda at the hight of my fandom. Ended up working in the sport and owning race cars. I would also recommend taking a look at the stories of the old Concord Speedway. It was Concord Motorsports Park when it closed a few years ago. An online auto salvage auction bought it but a LOT of Cup guys came through there and it was the nicest short track in the country. Anyway love the videos!

I always thought the Bahari Racing #30 Pennzoil Pontiac was one of the best looking cars in Winston Cup back then. Nice video Stapleton42 😊👍

Love these vids. I've often wondered about Bahari racing & what happened. Another famous team from the Winston Cup days that always interested ne was Race Hill Farms & M.C. Anderson from Alabama.

Thanks for a great tour of that building.