Rod Osterlund Race Shop

Ralph, you will probably get more on this by posting it on the forum.

Hi Jeff, I’m still trying to get the hang of this. Thanks, I will look on the forum

It was on Old Statesville Rd, just north of Charlotte.

Thanks Dave, you wouldn’t happen to know what there now?

I haven’t been around there since maybe 1982. If my memory serves me, it was around the intersection of Sunset Rd. & Old Statesville Rd. The first time I was there in late 1980, I remember part of the shop was being rented out and there were a couple of cars there that were supposed to be driven by David Pearson, but the owner had died (in a hydroplane crash, I think) and that part of the shop was locked up.

Thank you so much for the info. Is that where the Carolinas Auto supply is now?

This is the correct address for the old Osterlund Racing shop. From a brochure posted by RR member, Dennis Garrett:

March 2008 photo of the location at 8424 Old Statesville Rd, Charlotte, NC 28213 where Osterlund Racing built and prepared the cars for Dale Earnhardt that won Dale the 1979 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year title and his first NASCAR Winston Cup Championship in 1980: