Here's the next installment and it's dedicated to Jeff in honor of his birthday. Hope you enjoy them even if it's a little late. I've been waiting until the previous post cycles off the front page.By the time the 1961 Southern 500 was over there was a lot of crow being served to some of the veterans that gave newcomer Nelson Stacy such a hard time about how tough "their" race and racetrack was. Seems that Stacy was a veteran himself, not only of the rock'em sock'em M.A.R.C. sanction of John Marcum but his driving career also included a little stint with a guy named Patton driving tanks in a little dust up overseas in the mid-forties. Bottom line is that the first time he saw the end of a Southern 500, he saw it from victory lane! The 1962 season saw this guy in his second season in a front line Chevy and defending the first of his two Grand National Championships. Racer, father, champion and broadcaster only begins to describe the man that Ned Jarrett is. Proof positive that nice guys sometimes DO finish first. Here's the ride for the winner of the very first World 600 for the '62 season. Chattanooga's Joe Lee Johnson shared this Chevy with a few other drivers during the season but since I wanted one of his rides and those resin '60 Biscayne's are so expensive he wound up in this one in my collection. If I could "fix" anything in Darlington's long and storied history one of the first would be to wipe out the scoring mixup that cheated my friend Larry Frank out of a victory lane celebration at the '62 Southern 500. Can you tell me another driver that would have been so gracious as to go back to the deserted speedway the next day to shoot victory lane pictures in front of a deserted grandstand so they would have them for the next years program.? If you look up "class act" in the dictionary, there should be a big picture of Larry beside the definition, for sure.