By way of introduction, Walt Kinsley was the son of a pig farmer. Walt had owned and driven dragsters, and by the 60s he owned and drove the #325 modified, which he raced at Vineland Speedway. He drove under the name of Walt Donald, (Donald was his middle name), supposedly so that his grandmother wouldn't know he was racing. Eventually, Walt would marry Jackie McLaughlin's widow, Sandy, who's. first husband, Van Johnson, had been killed in a Sprint Car. Walt, not wanting to be her third race driver husband killed, wisely, sold the race cars, and got into horse racing, instead.  (Yes, this will eventually tie in with Pee Wee Griffin.)

In the mid 60s, Walt had a race shop next to the house on the former pig farm, where he kept his #325 modified. There was a row of garages next to the race shop. When Pee Wee Griffin first came up north, he stabled his cars at Leon Manchester's welding shop in Paulsboro, along with Bobby Brack. Soon after that, however, Pee Wee, Bobby, and Gil Hearn, a trio of Floridians, all moved over to the garages at Walt Kinsley's place. I don't know why they left Manchester's, but my guess is that Pee Wee ticked Leon off. He was good at that.

Walt also owned the house next door to his place, and had rented it to Sonny Dornberger. In return, Sonny was doing work on Walt's #325 car, next door. Sonny was building and/or maintaining several race cars around that time, including my sportsman, Stan Ploski, Jr.s car, ( we called him "Butch"), the Gus Mateo owned #16 sportsman that Jackie Hamilton was driving, and others. Bobby Allen, (Scruffy), who later became a big Outlaw Sprint Car star had just arrived from Florida towing a "Bug" type modified on an old hot rodded Ford Panal truck, with a pretty young girlfriend, who would soon became Bobby's wife. He was stabled at Dornberger's place and racing in Pa., since the 32-34 Ford coupes, like his, weren't legal in NJ. Sonny then bought the Mateo #16, which he had built, changed it to a modified, and put Rags Carter in it.