Pictures of Junior Johnson's race shop.
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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.
