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Thursday October 10 2013, 8:24 AM Authors
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...
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The NASCAR Grand-Touring/Grand-American Division The NASCAR Grand-Touring or Grand-American division, your preference on the name, was created by Bill France at the start of the 1968 racing season in response to the popularity of similar racing...
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Are NASCAR Fans Being Penalized for Actions Detrimental to Stock Car Racing? I've waited several days to write this, thinking I might change my point of view as I cooled down from the results from the Richmond mess and yet another cause to wield...
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Saturday August 31 2013, 3:40 PM Authors
Lloyd Seay - Georgia Racing History The short, but daring career of Lloyd Seay began somewhere around the summer of 1934 in the hills of Dawsonville, Ga. When he was as young as 13 years old, he was driving some sort of Jalopy to haul a small...
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Fancy People Changed Racing -  I like Dirt Tracks By Jeff Gilder One of the comments made by Humpy Wheeler in a recent edition of his new video blog related to the escalation of corporate involvement in the 90s and the fancy people in those...
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Wednesday July 31 2013, 10:13 AM Authors
Red Vogt - Racing History Last time, we talked about Red Vogt up to his 1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Championship with Red Byron and Fonty Flock's 1949 NASCAR Modified Championship. For 1950, Red Byron was beginning to not win - for the first...
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Saturday July 27 2013, 3:12 PM Authors
Red Vogt [caption id="attachment_2253" align="alignleft" width="150"] Cody Dinsmore[/caption] After WWII, Red Vogt's Garage and Speed Shop was booming. With all of the GI's, privates and other members of the armed forces coming home, they...
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Sunday July 21 2013, 11:35 AM Authors
Red Vogt Racing History Series #2 [caption id="attachment_2253" align="alignleft" width="150"] Cody Dinsmore[/caption] When I left off with last week's 'Vogt Tribute Series', I told about how Atlanta businessman and long time customer of...
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Wednesday June 19 2013, 9:50 AM Authors
Georgia Racing History - Tim Flock [caption id="attachment_2253" align="alignleft" width="150"] Cody Dinsmore[/caption] Tim Flock, the youngest of the "Fabulous Flock Brothers" was born in Fort Payne Alabama in May of 1924. Although he came...
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Wednesday May 22 2013, 1:15 PM Authors
Southern Nights - That Dawg Won't Hunt Southern Nights -  We got that greasy little race car home and it was a mess.  Even the little truck was messy but a lot of elbow grease and pressure washer use cleaned both up to the point they were...
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