glad to see your post, I first kew ervin in the late fiftys. as a teen I built my own car to run the local tracks like Robin Wood and others. I met ervin through friends I met racing, in the first of 1960, I lived with Neil Castles and went racing with him. ervin came around a lot I had acctually met ervin earlier and we became friends. he came by my house one day and I wanted to go see my girlfriend but didn't have any nice clothes to wear so ervin took off his shirt and pants and i put them on and took his new convertable and went to see my girl. boy was I trying to impress her all decked out and driving a new chevy convertable. ervin stayed at the house using the phone to connect with his friends. one night we decided to ride out to the river. had us a bottle of booze. we went down an old road off the beaten path and parked the car. I went down to the river bank and ran accross an old wooden boat. kinda boozed up, I paddeled the boat a little ways out. when I stuck the oar in the water, I found the water was only knee hi. I started yelling that I was sinking and soon here came ervin swimming out to save me. when he got to the boat, I was standing there laughing my butt off. his face was red enpugh to light up the night. we had other mutual friends who had cars and ervin was all ways there to drive. me neil and ervin went to a lot of races together. he drove Neils car at one race I remember. I had to join the Air Force and was gone for ten yrs. coming back yrs later, I caught up with him at Metrolina a couple of times. didn't have many chances after that to get up with him but I still talk to Neil some times and always ask about ervin. only recently learned of his passing, very sorry to hear that. he brought a lot of great memories to a lot of people.
