Raymond parks nascar biography of donald

By Buz McKim

The black car made its way down the dirt road that ran from Dawsonville, Georgia to Atlanta.

Parks was not only instrumental in establishing NASCAR, but as a team owner he won the first two NASCAR championships in and At the.

Raymond Parks' name will ring out in Friday night's NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony some 80 years after he first became involved in stock-car racing.

Raymond Parks was a former moonshine runner who owned the cars that won the first Nascar “Strictly Stock” championship in

While the France family has long had a monopoly on who founded NASCAR, team owner Raymond Parks was also considered a founder and provided a lot of start-up.

Byron teamed with already famed car owner Raymond Parks to win the first race ever sanctioned by the fledgling outfit NASCAR, a Feb. 15, Modified event.

In the early morning stillness just outside of town, it stopped next to a stream and under a bridge where the driver got out. Pulling a bucket and towels from the car, Raymond Dawson Parks cleaned off any traces of red clay to avoid attention, put on a three-piece suit and, looking more like a doctor than a whiskey hauler, blended in with the traffic making its way to the big city.

Not the traditional way one would picture a hauler plying his trade.

But Parks was never caught on the road.

He was born in 1914 in rural Dawson County, set in mountainous North Georgia, where he was the oldest of 16. At 14, he ran away from an abusive father to work in his uncle’s gas station in Atlanta.

By 16, he’d set up a lucrative side hustle. After working all day in the garage, he’d take off for Dawsonville where he’d load 60 gallons of moonshine and