Theodore Cletis Hunt

Theodore Cletis Hunt, known as T.C, was born in April of 1926 in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1952, T.C visited a race at the New Atlanta Speedway, then owned by Bob Flock, eldest of the Fabulous Flock Brothers. Hunt had really taken notice of a hot shoe on track driving a Ford Coupe, #50 with an Indian head on the door, named Gober Sosebee. After Sosebee had won the race, T.C had climbed down from the spectator stands and went to talk to Gober. He wanted to race against Gober one day, so Sosebee suggested to participate in his friend and driver, Jerry Wimbish's racing school held at the Peach Bowl Speedway. T.C took the advice and found the Peach Bowl to be a challenging track, but he still graduated from driving school after just one week of instruction.