Former Golden Era NASCAR Race Shop Time Capsule: INSIDE Tour From a Crew Member! (Stavola Brothers) 

That gold Miller High Life Allison/Trickle Buick is absolutely killer looking. I think the Stavola Bros team history should be more well known than it is. What do you think?

This kinda took me back hearing about Dick Trickle cause when I was a small boy he was my favorite driver at Slinger , great times hanging out with my uncle Dave at the short track

Cool that the new owner was nice enough to allow this. He could have been a total tool and said no. He seems to have an appreciation for the piece of history that he owns.

I enjoyed the Dick Trickle stories. In the early 90s we were camping in the infield at Pocono & after Saturday afternoon practice here comes Dick making his way from camper to camper. He sat down & had a beer with us & chatted a while & then went on his way. He was just one of us & gave us a lifelong memory.

These videos could literally be about anything and I’d watch it. It’s the passion for the subject matter that the people you have on and y’all have that I enjoy.

I was a big Bobby Allison fan from when I was a kid in the 70s. I reallly enjoyed his career resurgence when he got with Stavola Bros in 1986. Great years. I also became a huge Davey Allison fan when he came on in 1987

I loved to hear him reminiscing about Dick Trickle. I was fortunate to be around him and his team in the ASA and Artgo days when I was growing up. He was truly a legend and I miss him. As a suggestion, I would like to see a segment on Alan Kulwicki's first shop that he rented from Dennis Frings. Thank you for all of your videos!

Love the history. I Like the Trickle content. He had the 8 car sideways through an entire turn on one of the big tracks during a cup race. People just don't do that. In the interview he said "I wasn't getting passed, and wasn't catching anyone so I tried to pick up the pace. "

It was really nice that the owner let you go all over his shop. Not many would do that. I can just immagine how many old memories were there. A lot of great drivers drove for the Stavola Bros. Bobby Allison is quite the man. I hear that he's still doing well. Keep doing what you enjoy for as long as you can. Cheer up my friend, things have to get better.

I loved the part with the Dick Trickle memories. Watched him as a kid in Wisconsin before he went down south. Guys up here were way more than drivers, they had to build a lot of their own stuff, set it up, and win to pay bills. In his heyday he could race 5 nights a week and make more money than a cup driver. And the long winters left alot of time to build and learn everything about chassis setup and engines. He would even race snowmobiles too! A true legend.

It was so cool to hear Greg talk about Dick Trickle. I was kid in the 70s and Trickle was racing supper stocks , his mustang was bad ass.

It's so much oral history that you are capturing that makes this important. The one off's like Morgan McClure in Abington, VA or Junior Johnson in Wilksboro NC that could be most interesting if any of it still exists.

The person he is referring to at 31:39 is Ed Brasefield I believe. My parents met and became friends with Ed when they were shopping for an RV in 1980. Ed was working part time at the RV dealer and was employed full time at Trap Rock Industries which Billy & Mickey Stavola owned in New Jersey. Through the friendship with Ed my father eventually became a "weekend warrior" in '84 & '85. He mainly brought the tires into the pits and ran and got the gas cans refueld between pit stops. In January of '86 or '87 he was offered an opportunity to drive one of the haulers since he drove a truck for a living. I was too young to remember why and my father has since passed away many years ago but he ended up not taking the job and came back home to Jersey after about a month. I always wonder what could have been if he stayed and took the job. I remember Bobby Hillin having dinner in our motorhome after a race in Dover in either '84 or '85.

Thanks for another excellent video of an important NASCAR historical era, Mitchell. Bobby Allison was one of my childhood HEROES growing up (I grew up in Miami FL, and saw him race quite a bit in the early days of his professional career down there in Hialeah) and seeing the shop where his ‘88 Daytona winning car was fabricated & prepared for that incredible victory was AWE INSPIRING! The late 80’s Buicks were always “the weird cousin that took a lot of time to love,” but once Allison won in that body style, he made your “Granddad’s Buick” COOL! Great video tours. Keep ‘em coming! And YES, I watch them from beginning to end…

I was a huge NASCAR fan in my early teens through early 20s. That was the time period most of the legends you are doing historical dives into were at their prime. Utterly love seeing all the historical and behind the scenes stuff that went on in that era.

Thanks Mitchell and Logan just what I need with a couple of beers on a Saturday evening,I’m addicted to all this history I could sit for hours listening to all these stories absolutely love it!!! Keep up the excellent work can’t wait for the next one!! Keeps that history alive let’s not forget it 🤘🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Allison’s Miller High Life Car has always been one of the best looking NASCAR’s in my opinion. That paint scheme just looks so crisp.

Outstanding video. The stories of Trickle. I watch plenty of your other stuff, but going to these old race shops is great content.

I love this type of video. I worked in racing my whole life Racing shock company NASCAR show cars. Old race shops are really cool when you have someone that worked there go thru it tell it like it was. Great video.

It is funny that this video came out today because last week I just received three Ken Wilson crew chief collector cards from when Ken Wilson was crew chief for the Stavola Brothers. He was the one that resigned after the holes in the roll bar incident. I grew up with Kenny in one of the worst trailer parks in Greensboro North Carolina. He was Dale Inman's nephew I think. Keep up the awesome videos I love it

The history revisited videos are so neat because you forget a lot of things that went on or happened and it all comes back and more, the racing community is smaller than people think as there is so many people that know people at it all reconnects. Even when everybody is doing something different in racing it all connects as everybody follows in someway so you can hopefully put the puzzles together and get the stories out there and help put the history to the next generation.

Thanks for this tour video. I grew up going to, and still go to, my home track Wall Stadium here in New Jersey. The Stavola's were involved in racing here for as long as I can remember. When they decided to field a Winston Cup team, to us locals, that was the coolest thing ever. It was pretty big news around here at the time. It gave us a Jersey connection to a very southern sport. To see the shop where it all happened brought back that sense of local connection. To see how the operation grew addition by addition spoke to the history of the team. Thanks for that. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us in future episodes. P. S. Tell Joey that we need some build plans for that smoker at the end there.

One of the things Greg mentioned really perked my ears about the body panels being sent from the manufacturer and the race teams would trim/massage the panels for the car. Answered a question I had about these cars I've always wondered about. I am a big fan of 80s Monte Carlo's and I knew therace teams used a ton of stock parts on the racers but always wondered about the roof, fenders and qtr panels. Just a great era in NASCAR.

It makes me feel old knowing the names on the plaque & remembering them coming into their "prime". I am glad that you DO dig it up. Thanks.

The Stavola Brothers team was my favorite when I first started getting into NASCAR, one of my favorite memories was Bobby Hillin Jr in the Snickers Buick at the Pepsi 400 in 1990, he nearly won the race but spun on pit road from the lead. The team always seemed like they were just on the cusp of being a top tier team but just couldn't quite get there after Bobby Allison's crash.

That was great! Stapleton , from Wisconsin,the Trickle stuff is awesome, I've met him several times at Slinger, Milwaukee, 9 years ago on the 16 the of may he took his life, people still can't get over it up here,I will be attending the Memorial in Rudolph Wi on May 22, thanks for the videos

Awesome video Mitchell I love that you and Logan are going back in time doing the old race shops that made the sport what it is today before it got so commercialized those guys built cars in two bay shops then added on and continued till another add on Greg was a wealth of knowledge and historian of that old shop. My first Daytona 500 Bobby 1st and Davey 2nd 1988 what a great memory. I became the biggest Davey Allison fan that day. Keep up the fantastic work love all your videos.

53:20 I can't tell you how much I hear what you're saying here. The are so many things that I can't stand in today's society but we won't get into that here. I'll be 48 this year. 80's and 90's NASCAR was my era as a fan so everything you're doing is feeding my jones directly. I feel lucky that people like yourself are making connections and these videos 20-30 years after the fact. Thanks for going to the lengths that you do in making such great content. It's appreciated!

Thanks for these tours of NASCAR history. Even though I cannot get into that racing today, I really like seeing the history back when I first started watching NASCAR. You guys are lucky that you can support yourselves with this channel. I am still doing the day job and trying to get videos out.

As a huge NASCAR fan throughout the 80's, 90's and 2000's these videos are absolutely awesome ... keep 'em coming!

I was a big Bobby Hillin jr. fan. From the early 80s till he retired in 2000 I was a loyal fan. Thank you for this video!!!!

Thank You Both for making these. This is the nascar I care about, the modern version doesn't like the old fans.

Great history from great NASCAR days. Keep it up!

this is the kind of content i have been wanting to see, back in the late 80s and 90s i always wanted to see the race shops ... thank you for keeping the era of nascar that i loved alive!!! i cant wait to see what you have coming up ! thank you!!!

Sir you have one of the best channels in RU-vid hands down. The history you find and the way you present it is perfect. Keep up the awesome work.

Awesome content. I absolutely love being able to get a tour of these old race shops but really liked having a tour guide that worked there. I think it was Awesome to have Greg talk about working there and his stories. Keep it up guys, you are doing a great job a of helping preserve the history of Nascar.

I love going back in time to bring back so many great memories. I would love to go to some of these shops.

Another cool history video. Learning all of these old stories is really intriguing. I can't wait until the next one!

I enjoyed the video. I was cleaning out a storage shed and found a DW 88 Gatorade inflatable car from 1998 (has a NASCAR 50 anniversary logo), a Unocal 76 Gas Can inflatable and a Mark Martin Santa Figurine. If you want them, let me know!

Another great nascar history lesson! Thanks for taking us along on your adventures.

I watched the whole thing, I enjoy watching all your videos ! Looking forward to the next one ! Love your channel !!

I really hope these NASCAR history videos have old racers or stuff member reaching out to you to do a video on them. can't wait to see who's next on the list. love all that U do. from 🇭🇲

This is just awesome NASCAR history.

Thanks Joey for opening the doors it means the world to people you don't even know!

Never heard of the Stavola Brothers before and because of that almost did not watch this video. So glad I watched! Great history and great down to earth people! Thank you!

Greg is in his element, reliving his life/work experiences with us! Super Cool!

Man another great video, keep doing these videos of old shops. Man this brings me back to when I first started watching Nascar back in 1990.

I watched this video today and decided to go down and get a Miller High Life in honor of Bobby Allison and Dick Trickle!! Great Video! Sometimes I think you are too "in the weeds" when I am watching these videos, and yet I end up watching til the very end. I'm thinking "who cares if the post holes for the barbed wired fence still show in the parking lot"? Then 20 minutes later I realize I am still watching the smallest little details of your videos. Nice work guys. Now that I bought a Miller High Life based on this video, I need to get to your store and buy one of those GM Goodwrench style t-shirts......

Awesome old school videos. Love them. Would be cool if there were old pictures of these shops in action back in the day as you go through them. Keep doing what your doing!!!

Keep up the Great Work !

Thanks for doing all these NASCAR history tour videos . I like hearing about the history behind these places you visit

Awesome video again as always it's amazing to see how small those shops were back in the day to what they are now and it's amazing the operated Nascar teams out of those shops

You're keeping it real, and i love the tours thru time. It would be really cool if there was old video you could insert of the working shop and people building the racecar parts, painting , pit practice etc. While you are touring. But what your doing is really great. That bbq chicken made my mouth water! Thank you for the content.

The stories are amazing. Love your videos. I live close to the old Ronnie Hopkins Engineering shop where a friend of mine was a welder before he was hired by Roush Racing. I got to see a lot of race cars come in that shop. Have just a few pictures but it was a good time. Keep up the great work!!

Dude, seriously, this channel is amazing. These videos blow my mind. I'm older than you, but just as much of a geek about this kind of stuff! Keep them coming!!!

Stavola Brothers are from my area in Jersey - their Construction/Paving company is still going strong. Think one of the brothers passed away awhile back. Love the old shop videos!

My dad raced in concord, and I remember going by that building when I was a kid he told me it was the Allison’s shop! Right across from foils scrap yard!

I watched the video in its entirety. I appreciate you filming the inside of the Stavola Brothers race shop. I always felt the Bobby Allison Buick Miller High Life car was a nice looking car. I was always Trickle fan also. Thanks!

fishing at earnhardt lake.. have a nice week.. enjoy the channel and great stories... HISTORY.. its all around us. and yes its heavy, its important.. it is embedded... i was born in 1971 and started attending the best short track in America in Hampton Virginia in 1976

Don't get much better than that, another banger Stapleton42 video. Two thumbs up!

I've watched a lot of your videos and something about going through an old race shop, finding stuff and hearing the stories from guys who lived it is so awesome and especially this one.👍👍👍

We all know what happened on Sundays ,now we get to learn what happened Monday thru Saturday. Thank you

Great job keep it up I lived through it all Iam 51 this is nascar Winston cup not what today is great work

This is absolutely awesome i was a kid in the 80s watching the races 🏁 with my Dad who worked At Gm in Michigan loved the 80s G body Gm platform's keep up the great work!!!!!!

I will admit, I am more of a drag racing guy, but I love the history of all motorsports.... the history is much more important to me than current modern racing. Everything today is too corporate and politically correct. Today's racing is all about who can bring the most sponsor money to a team. Drivers buy their rides today instead or working their way to the top. I was born in the early 70's so I was able to watch the heydays of NASCAR Winston Cup, and NHRA Winston drag racing on TV. I'm just like you.... I'm always looking for the little details anytime I am somewhere that has history.... An old shop, an old race track, or even looking at old race cars. Finding the long lost hidden details is very satisfying to me. These old shop tours are right up my alley. Also the videos where you visit with the old drivers (Mark Martin, Kenny Wallace, Darrell Walt rip, etc.) Are also really cool. Usually when you see these old drivers on TV today, they're talking about modern racing. You rarely get to hear them just talk about the good old days without some interviewer cutting them off and asking another question before they finished answering the last question. When these people are on your channel, you just let them do the talking and let them tell their story. It's perfect. Keep 'em coming, and I'll keep watching. P.S. Don't forget about doing your drag racing videos.... we still want to see those, too. 👍

Dam near a religious experience. Dick Trickle was my favorite. According to Rusty, Dick needed an hour of sleep the night before a race for every hundred miles the race was. Awesome video, Thank you

Your speech at the end, is exactly why I am here. I don't watch TV, or have 99% of social media platforms. It drives me nuts how fixated modern society is with the "Now" It's all backwards, people seem to have forgotten the simple Kiss principle. Great video, thank you.

Love your videos. Appreciate what you do! It’s really cool to see all of this awesome history. I was at the coke 600 when Jeff Gordon won his first race. I also remember going to see some of the shops. I was in 5th grade at the time. It’s really cool to see them how they are today with your videos

Amazing and super cool I love these videos that tell the stories behind the history. Keep up the good work. My railroad career started when i was young like you 30 years ago. and now I get to tell stories of my history. Keep up the good work .it's good to see someone of your generation interested in history. My hat's off too you can't wait to see the next one.

Another incredible video! Thank you for doing what you do guys!

Amazing video. Keep these coming. History is what it's all about. Also like said before that new building owner is a top notch person for allowing you to show this to everyone.

One of the damn ABSOLUTELY best channels on RU-vid!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏☝️☝️☝️😎!!! Please keep’um Coming!!!

Hut Stricklin is from my home state and officiated with my hometown in hueytown. This is exciting to see

Stapleton I have been by that building so many times there on 49 in Concord I would drive my Folgers car Tim Richmond tribute car that is where I met Jim Cook he was blown away about my car thank you for taking time on doing this video

Well Logan was very helpful spotting the clock and picture it's neat to see that history and the little things that you can still see from years ago and it was great how he recalled were everything was and that freaking air compressor was huge I couldn't imagine changing 32 sets of wheels Thank you for sharing this Thank you Logan for spotting the the little things that were pretty cool!!!! You two be safe happy healthy in all you do and want take care of each other can't wait for the next one

I’m on a run watching through your videos. Loving them! Thank you for doing these

Another excellent trip down memory lane. I probably know more about this area of NASCAR now than I did when these folks were working it, thanks to these videos. The char smoker at the end was pretty badass, too,

Thank you for taking the time to show us all this lost memories, and tales from the past, all the best to yous and your loved ones

I loved this video as a 2000s kid I never got to live through 80s and 90s nascar but after watching yalls videos I feel like I lived it. Keep up the great work and I will buy some merch! eventually. I'm broke lol

Loving these old shop tour’s and stories awesome stuff can’t wait to see more. You are doing a valuable job saving the history of one of your countries biggest and oldest sports. 👏👌👍😎🇦🇺

The video is mega interesting to watch. Greg was awesome I agree. I was at the Daytona 500 when Bobby won. Another tidbit I was almost hit by a hood from Donnie Allison's crash in the Saturday's race. I will remember that forever it was like a Frisbee coming off the car and went fairly high in the air then as it descended it just kept coming toward us. Luckily for us it landed a few rows down and a little bit over. People were injured and ambulanced to hospital. Soon after that they tethered hoods and stuff so they wouldn't fly into crowd. Great work enjoyed video

Absolutely awesome videos man. Love the history behind the teams.

Keep pumping this history out Mitchell. Love this stuff.

This was awesome! Lost of history in that building. Cool you were able to go through it.

Absolutely killing it with this series. Keep up the great content. Back when nascar is worth watching.

Keep these coming! I’ll continue watching!

Of course I watched the entire video. Cool history and stories. Thank you

Thank you for the video(s) & please keep the NASCAR history lessons & field trips going they are very informative & always fun 😎🏁 (BUT... don't forget the drag racing ✌😉) Thanks again (#3) 🙂👍

Loved this video. Greg was a real cool dude and Joey was great for letting you all tour. Bad ass vid.

Great vintage stories. Loved it. I know Hendricks isn’t that old but man that would be a great one to see.

Another good one. Enjoying all of them, keep it up, looking foward to the next one.

Keep Up the Excellent Content, I don't miss a second of your videos, that's how fascinating the stories are.

Awesome video, I’m loving your channel. I’m like you 1981- 2000 is my favorite era of NASCAR.

awesome thanks to the owner being a super cool guy!!👍

Anything tied to the Allison’s gets my attention.. great stuff! “You forgot the pickles..”

What he says about Trickle is totally true. Saw him weld a driveshaft with a stick welder in the pit at Oregon Wisconsin in the early 70’s and won the feature. He took tire temps with his fingers.

DAYEM!! Just when I thought you did the coolest vintage race shop tour you topped it! Old Jaws had plenty to say but that Greg dude was there down in the trenches, one of the working stiffs with a lot of inside stories. Keep it up! I'd love to tour an old shop like that sometime. As I said before I have toured the Earnhardt Garagemahall twice when they were doing car shows and I had my mid-engine V8 Corvair that I built in the shows. Cool beans ya'll, keep it up. I'll be anxiously awaiting the next shop tour.

Man this stuff is too cool. I don't watch nascar anymore, it's become to commercial for me. The 60s thru the 80s was the era I liked best. But I still love all the fab stuff, and engine and chassis stuff that goes into building the cars. Touring an old engine garage or shop like Holman moody would be neat being I'm a ford guy. The new owner seems like a real nice fella. You can tell the former employee was having a good time remembering how it used to be.

All that history really cool guys keep up the good work.

looooooove the Fabulous T-Birds decal on the wall- not often you catch a pro wrestling reference like that in the wild