The 2017 AIRPS is rapidly approaching, make sure you have it marked on your calendar for September 15th for the Hall of Fame Banquet and September 16th for the racing reunion. All competition vehicles and driver are invited to the reunion , and bring those Hero cards. This reunion/show is the Joe Cawley Memorial. Contact me at 706-829-6825
15th place finisher Clarence Pickerell was the proprietor of the famed Clarence's Steak House, just down the road from Martinsville Speedway and a longtime sponsor of NASCAR Modifieds, often driven by Ferrum, Virginia's Paul Radford.
The photo below shows 26th place finisher Radford with one of his Clarence's Steak House rides.
Winner Perk Brown hailed from Spray, NC and 15th place finisher, Carl Burris from Leaksville, NC. Both were one-time competitors at the old Draper, NC Speedway - Draper also being the home of racers Jimmy Griffin and Monk Tate. None of those 3 communities exist under those names today. At the height of the hippie drug tripping era, in 1967, Leaksville, Spray and Draper merged to form the new city of Eden, NC.
North Carolina had its own Cooper brothers, both NASCAR Grand National drivers - the late Bob and Doug Cooper of Gastonia. Doug was awarded the 1964 Grand National Rookie of the Year title over my first GN hero, JT. Putney.
