While racing locally and being successful at it, T.C began to gain a good reputation to himself. In 1957, T.C was named Sportsman Division Champion of MARC (Now known as ARCA). It was a year for Georgia drivers as fellow Georgian, Roz Howard, won the National MARC Championship that year.

In 1961, T.C became a member of the prestigious of the PURE Darlington Record Club. In one of his few NASCAR Grand National Starts, he placed his self-owned and underfunded Dodge at a record time to become a member.

Recently, I talked about the old NASCAR Grand American series, in which T.C was a fierce competitor in. He would pilot a Camaro in which he would have some moderate success in. In fact, he led the points in the inaugural season up until late August, when he had to miss two races in Pennsylvania and California due to lack of travel funds.

[caption id="attachment_4494" align="alignleft" width="267"] TC Hunt - Record Breaking Dodge[/caption]

Throughout his career, T.C was a weekly racer across the South-East. And by racing weekly, I mean 3 or 4, sometimes even 5 races per week. He would race all over Georgia, Alabama, North Florida, Tennessee and the Carolina's. He and his car builder and fellow Georgia Racing Hall of Famer, Jimmy Summerour had a yellow #88 1965 Chevelle that just couldn't be beat. The car was a feature attraction at the Peach Bowl and Lakewood, and later MGR, Columbia and Jefco.  Many of his friends and competitors such as the Allison brothers, Ronnie Sanders, Freddy Fryar, Jody Ridley, Gober Sosebee and dozens more have all said that the only thing T.C knew what to do on track was to put the accelerator to the floor and turn left in the corner. It was said that T.C could handle the car like no others. This was in the days of no power-steering, no fire suits, and real metal cars.

T.C passed away in the summer of 1998, less than a week after he and other racing legends traveled to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega to promote the soon-to-be-built Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, that eventually opened in 2002. He would be inducted into the museum that he helped get off the ground, in 2004, among his many friends and competitors.

Oh, and by the way, one of his favorite race cars was named "The Bad Goat".