Pictures of Junior Johnson's race shop.

Anybody know where I can find pictures of Junior Johnson's old race shop at Ingle Hollow or any pictures of the Wood Brothers or Holman & Moody.

just drive up there and ask Flossie if you can take some pix's. I'm pretty sure she won't mind one bit.If you real lucky she might even be cooking some of her cakes and pie's. I've had my fair share and there was never a bad one in the oven.BB

Mr. Biscoe that's a great idea but I'm afraid I'm not that bold. I grow up about 30 miles from the speedway,but I have no idea where the shop might be, I've tried Google earth but I'm not sure what to landmarks to look for anyway I may take some of my older friends by there one day and see if the place. Thanks for your reply.


Billy Biscoe (arustyracer) said:

just drive up there and ask Flossie if you can take some pix's. I'm pretty sure she won't mind one bit.If you real lucky she might even be cooking some of her cakes and pie's. I've had my fair share and there was never a bad one in the oven.BB

The shop is here It is the building complex on the left. You should be able to see the famous creek run in between the two main buildings if you zoom in close enough.

I have not been to the shop, but would love to someday (kind of hard seeing that I live in central Maryland). But if anyone has any pics/videos of the shop, especially during Junior Johnson & Associates heyday, then I would Love to hear from you.

I also know of a recent video from a NASCAR Now segment "Brewers Tour" that was filmed in 2008. It is a short clip, but definitely worth a look.

If anyone has any information regarding artifacts or anything from the old Ingle Hollow Shop, please let me know.

Thanks

Eric Kincaid said:

Mr. Biscoe that's a great idea but I'm afraid I'm not that bold. I grow up about 30 miles from the speedway,but I have no idea where the shop might be, I've tried Google earth but I'm not sure what to landmarks to look for anyway I may take some of my older friends by there one day and see if the place. Thanks for your reply.


Billy Biscoe (arustyracer) said:

just drive up there and ask Flossie if you can take some pix's. I'm pretty sure she won't mind one bit.If you real lucky she might even be cooking some of her cakes and pie's. I've had my fair share and there was never a bad one in the oven.BB

Eric, if you can get to the old Junior Johnson shop, ask if there is still a picture of Richard Petty taped to the urinal at the shop. Junior disliked Richard and did that according to the ESPN book "Did You Know?.

Pete

Is that video on Youtube by any chance? I couldn't find it though?

If your talking about that Tim Brewer video, no, I have yet to see it on youtube. Here is a link: http://videos.apnicommunity.com/Video,Item,3114221069.html

I have seen on a different site pics of the inside of the shop from I would guess the late 80's judging by the cars. I also have pics of the Wood Brothers original shop, and pics inside Petty Enterprises from the late 70's. I'll see if I can't find them tonight and post them here. Always on the lookout for pics/videos of the places where these famous cars were built. I guess not many people cared about taking photo's/videos back then of those places.

Eric Kincaid said:

Is that video on Youtube by any chance? I couldn't find it though?

If anyone is interested in seeing old video of Junior Johnson and his shop, please watch the Nascar Hall of Fame video of Junior Johnson on Speed. I believe they are re-airing the episode all week on speed. It has great shots not only of the old garage throughout the years, but also the original house that Junior grew up in. I seriously want to track down the video of that one interview they had of Junior at his old original house. It looked like it was from the late 60's.

I grew up in Lenoir which is 32 miles from N. Wilkesboro Speedway. I had heard rumors that sometimes they would actually run the race cars to test a motor out the road by Junior's shop. This rumor was confirmed by Jeff Hammond in an interview that Jeff Gilder did with J. Hammond. Hammond said that they did alot with a whole lot less than most teams. He said they actually shook down the cars on the road out by the shop, I think it is a dead end road. Now wouldn't that get the attention of the neighbors. I all so read a story somewhere a few months ago where Junior explained why he switched to Fords after D.W left. He said that he had sent a carborator to GM and that it didn't come back on time, so he called them and they said they would check on it, he said a few days later it arrived and had been shipped to him from Hendrick Motor Sports, so he figured he couldn't trust GM and switched to Fords because of the carborator ending up at Hendrick. The article says that D.W. was stunned to find out what had actually happended. Pretty neat. Yea, I wish I could find a video or something. I remember in the early 90's that during a race, Neil Bonnett took some ESPN guys into the shop to show where they used to build the cars and what not. A friend of mine visited the shop quite often and he walked all round the woods and stuff and said all kinds of all race cars were sitting around in the woods, mostly wrecked.