One of the main reasons was as a young man I got to race on the same tracks at the same time(not very successfuly) as many great Drivers.
Here is list of some of them:
Fonty Flock, Curtis Turner,Buck Baker,Jimmy Thompson,Jimmy Lewallen,Lee Petty,Jim Paschal,Frank Munday,Cotten Owens,Fireball Roberts,Bill Blair,Ray Duhigg,Shorty York,Bill Widenhouse,Ted Swaim,Speedy Thompson.Earl Moss,Ralph Liguori,Billy Myres, Bobby Myres,Bill Champion,Alton Haddock,Leon Sales,Gwyn Staley,Marvin Panch,Buddy Shuman,Perk Brown,Banjo Mathews,Joe Weatherly,Carl Burris,Ned Jarrett,Doug Yates, George Dunn, Glenn Wood,Dick Mendenhall, and many more.
It was fun!
updated by @jim-streeter: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
