08/19/04 |
Daddio |
There's Old PeeWee in "Big Red". If he couldn't pass them,
he'd push them out of the way, which brings up the fact that you could drive a
Modified on the street. He only lived a couple miles away with his family in
total poverty in the back of an old roach infested gas station on Rte. 130. I
remember visiting the shop with my cousin during a rainout, and yep, my cousin
Charles sponsored him; that's our name on the roof. Don't worry, those
belts will hold, the half shell helmet will keep the brain from spilling out, and
the kids can survive on one sterno cooked hotdog a day, but man that big block ran
sweet and there were always new tires on the car. How he ever got real men
like my cousins Charles and Lenny, and a real cool guy named "Coach" to
help him out was really beyond me. I read an article years later that Gary
Balough was running Daytona in a car owned by "millionaire" PeeWee Griffin
and I was stunned, found out later he was involved in the same drug scandal as
Balough, Billie Harvey, etc. Just amazing how fortunes turn. |