Enveloped within the smell of racing fuel and burned rubber, we made our way by the doorway gates for my first National Event in 1987. Racers have been already lining up in the staging lanes to make their time trial passes and check out their gear quarter mile monitor on the Texas Motorplex was geared up with the most recent in racing tools and practically model new at the time.
Then, within the late 1970’s a younger man from Dawsonville, Georgia start his career in NASCAR, Bill Elliott. Growing up within the Atlanta area we had been excited to see someone from our space out there with the large boys. Also, being an avid Ford fan that just enhanced our excitement to see him out on the observe in a vehicle that we might related too. In the 1980’s his fame and his wins grew and our excitement intensified to …