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Transporter tour

Posted: Tuesday August 03, 1999 04:43 PM

NASCAR Know-How CLICK THE IMAGE TO LAUNCH CLIP A tour of the hauler Start (1.9M .mov) Archives • Click here for past editions of Rusty Wallace's NASCAR Know-How

People always are amazed when we tell them how much is carried in our car transporters, or haulers, as we like to call them.

One thing is for sure, these aren't your daddy's 18-wheelers. Especially our brand new hauler for Penske South. I still haven't figured out if that thing is a space ship or a tractor trailer. While the outside is rather, well, abstract, the inside is rather practical.

We'll start up top. Here we have room for two cars. The one in the front is always the back-up car and the other is the primary car. Also up top we keep miscellaneous things like our gas cans, tarps, and windshields.

Below we have enough parts and pieces to build a couple of race cars. We keep two extra engines in here, shocks and springs, brake ducts, air ducts, batteries, braking systems, electrical systems, all the fluids needed in the car. Those just start the list because you can find about anything you need to make a race car go in here.

Also in here is our shock dyno. At the track we'll try at least four to five different sets of shocks on the race car. We build those at the track each weekend. But before they go onto the car they are tested on this computer so we know how they should work on the car before we put them on.

Then there's my favorite place in the hauler. This is the lounge and of course we have all of the essentials. Satellite TV, nice place to sit, air conditioning. In fact, I think I'll watch a little CNN/SI right now.