Britton Paying Homage to "the King"

Britton and I stopped by Petty Enterprises for his first NASCAR shop experience. This was especially exciting for him because this is "The King" Richard Petty's shop. He has no idea who Richard Petty is but in Britt's favorite movie, Cars, the blue car is called "the King" and is supposed to be Richard Petty. He was so excited to see a real race car up close. He's been around others, but i think now that he's older he understands them better and thinks it is really cool.


We stopped by during lunch, so no one was really working. Also, it's the end of the season so there is not a lot going on. During the season there would be 10 or so cars being built at all times. Look how clean it is...


This is a race motor. It puts out about 800 horsepower for hundreds of miles.


This is the King's Car... Actually its Richard Petty's son Kyle but it's blue and Britt thought it was his, so that's good enough for me.

We were only there a few minutes but it was very fun to see how excited he was. Next we'll finish up all the shops around my work (Dale JR, Kasey Kahne and a few others) then we'll go to the other side of Mooresville for the rest. Eventually we'll end up at Tony Stewart's new shop where hopefully we can get Britton to meet Tony!