My family had a car on the first race track in Nashville Tennessee in 1948- - - - -a 34 Ford 3-window coupe with a flathead V8 running on a mixture of alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide. The 47 Merc I built in the early 1960's was running a bunch of Dad's leftover dirt track parts after he got out of the racing business and decided raising a family was more important than following some of his peers to Daytona and elsewhere when Bill France started NASCAR. Our driver chased Coo Coo Marlin under the grandstands at Columbia Tennessee one night and threatened to cut his throat with a big hawkbill knife because he had spun our car out in the main event that night. That was in 1954, Coo Coo's rookie year.
