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Billy, there was an interesting post in August 2013 on the Race Rap message board by Emanuel Zervakis' son, Butch Zervakis about a Chevelle he built for your dad driven by Al Grinnan and Bill Dennis:
Posted by: 
Butch Zervakis on August 11, 2013 at 7:05pm
In Reply to: A question for Butch Z. by Old Bars Man on August 11, 2013 at 5:10pm
my dad (Emanuel Zervakis), Melvin Bradley and Billy Oglesby started building front end conversion kits for chevelles, that's when we started selling Stock Car Products parts from Calif, the next move we started building complete cars, while doing so an engineer named Garland Rickets came on board and we starting building cars with planned roll centers and spindles that we designed that are still being used in cup cars today, during that time we meet Greg Deeth and he came to work for us and went on to start building his own cars, then add Tommy Ellis to the list of chassis builders, our chassis design was so successful Mike Laughlin used it for a base line of tubular chassis that is the standard that is used in cup racing now, the first late model my dad and myself built together was a 1965 chevelle to help promote late models at Southside Speedway to attract a younger fan base that didn't know what a modified was, Ray was the first driver that drove that car, Bill Dennis, Melvin Bradley, Ted Hairfield and then Sonny Hutchins all drove that Zero One car to many wins, our car building really did well to due to Sonny winning so many races and when we built a new car for a customer that felt like we wasn't giving them the same thing, we would get Sonny to drive it and the stop watch would prove that they had a good car, the 57 chevy you are talking about was my Limited car that came from Jack Ingram, that was my first car, my second car was a 66 chevelle I built all by myself to prove to my dad that I could build a complete car.
Our cars were so good that a car we built a car for Coleman Mann that Bill Dennis and Al Grinnan drove gave us fits while driving that car which made it easy to sell cars
Mr. Robert Edward Gee, 62, of 6945 Hudspeth Rd., Harrisburg, died Oct. 14, 1994, at Presbyterian Hospital. Funeral is 11 a.m. Monday at Hartsell Funeral Home, Concord. Entombment will be in Carolina Memorial Park mausoleum in Kannapolis. Visitation is 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
