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Racing History Minute - May 19, 1962

Stock Car Racing History

Mr. Wood - Please see my response to Mr. Fulton's question. Angela Prince

Racing History Minute - May 19, 1962

Stock Car Racing History

Mr. Fulton,

Richard Fowler was my father. We are not kin to Danny Fowler with Bud Moore's team. My father was close associate and friend of Joe Littlejohn, Bill France Sr., Cotton Owens, Fireball Roberts. These are the people I remember as a child, attending my first Daytona race in 1951 and present as an 8-week old at the beach house post-race gatherings of the drivers and officials at that race. My dad worked for Joe Littlejohn and Bill France from the late 40s until shortly after Fireball Robert's death. At times my dad was referred to as an official (newspaper stories I have), as a general manager/steward, and they fondly called him "the professor" because he was a brilliant mathmetician and in the days before computers, they relied upon his observations, notes and statistics during the races. As a child I recall being at the homes of the Littlejohns, Cotton Owens and others nearly every weekend during race seasons. All of us were from Spartanburg. I went to high school with Bud Moore's son Brent. My brother often played golf with Joe Littlejohn, as did Bud Moore. I was googling my father's name and your question came up. I joined this group so that I could tell you more about my father, who passed away after Joe Littlejohn, in 1973.