For those of us that got into the racing business many moons ago we were all helped by Mr. Earl Parker with the Champion Spark Plug Company. Earl did not care if you were one of the racers with zero dollars or the Wood Brothers he never turned down anyone. Earl would always read your spark plugs, give good advice, and always make sure you had all the spark plugs you could use. On more than one occasion Earl would give us plugs to take back home to supply the local racers also. He traveled to every race on the Grand National schedule and even took in the Late Model Sprotsman races when his schedule allowed. The man lived in motels and at race tracks. The good Lord broke the mold after he made Earl Parker.
There were other companies that always helped such as Moog, Permatex, and never forget how many of us left the race tracks with all of our dump cans full of racing gas. The tow truck ran good on that stuff.
Another good one was Ben Arnold after he quit driving he worked for Echlin, Ben was another one that always helped. He made sure we had new dist. and plug wires. Ben would take your dist. home with him and always bring it back better than it was.
Hey just remembering the good old days and just a few of the fine folks that made the sport a real pleasure to be in.
updated by @mike-ashley: 03/12/17 03:07:52PM
