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Talking Indy Race Cars with Lyn St. James

1992 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Lyn St. James visits the Dream Garage to share her automotive expertise with Bob. Together they look under the hood of lumberman Tony Shelpey's racing Camaro that he's brought by for the occasion. With temperatures outside falling, Bob parks his 1974 Jaguar E-type B-12 roadster in the barn for the winter. Lyn's advice: top off all fluids, disconnect the battery and check the air pressure in the tires. To be especially meticulous she suggests putting the car up on jackstands or blocks but cautions that the stands should be put under the axles, never under the car's frame.

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" Let's say hello Lyn St. James it was the rookie and in the Indy 500 in 82 -- Welcome. I'm really glad you could join us now this is a car that we borrowed from my friend Tony -- but it's kind of typical of those sorts of carpet you've been involved with right."

" Plus and started very similar what I started with and one of the neat things about race car is isn't it removed everything you don't -- it that you -- donated it is not a race car everything has a purpose. So it's real clean easy to follow. It's what I learned about cars and in about suspension you can say that there's a suspension sticking out here. She thought shock absorbers are actually underneath railing which is think you listen to sway bar and so the most rent cars production cars and suede barn that there underneath that are hidden you don't understand what they do you can tell that this bar keeps the front suspension. From swaying to much -- is called it has the sway bars and actually keeps it nice and tight from the front and hasn't -- he's been gripped."

" So you know a lot about what's under the -- you must know a lot of bottling got a workshop preparing outward it but tools and stuff you know we've. We've got a lot of trouble that to build this little barn area. This car part of it and I've got some brand new benches in fact this one is that -- for the wellness of the really neat neat item C -- that is the same thing that opens the GDO a garage door opener also. Lock us might tools that there could -- the back. But what we have figured out why is exactly where to place tools and work -- in the like."

" Bond with the the really beautiful space and that's the kind of garage that any of us would really love to work out of them out but it you know there's this thing hit the really important to me and that's my pick her. I never want that really defied where everything goes I mean they're pros like they don't tell me how to drive on until hospital shops."

" You don't really know much about it I think it was that we as we've got to carb base here that would be able to have one car over here that. Basically in storage -- that you basically just cleaning up in the tree using. And -- in mind. But you gotta have the ability to. Approached the staircase up to the storage slot along here. And then I was thinking on that side. Where we've got the tomorrow we have a perfect situation for creating. An area where you can actually have tools and and maybe even build the workbench and here."

" Yeah that makes -- having Award department on the outside so that it's accessible to the car that you're using most of time."

" Exactly and what I love about most of these tool boxes. Is that you could wheel them around anywhere you want to go out and lock them out so they don't know -- and I can go through one door in here and into the other edible work of the of the -- we're gonna storm well. Anymore. --"

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