Joe Pinkston Class Act

[Joe Pinkston]

Sean;

You need to tell the whole story when you tell it. Getting the T-top panel for Hugh was a combined effort from a couple of people. Hammer spent plenty of time on the phone calling places as I fed him the phone numbers. Another person highly involved in this effort was former stock racer W.B. Hutto. W.B. told me about a local bracket racer who was there at the event that might possibly have one. When Hugh and I went to find him in the pits we discovered that what he had didn't fit Hugh's car. Our luck changed right after that when we talked to another local bracket racer named Frank Doyle parked in the next pit space over. Frank told us he had a Camaro with T-tops at his house in Keystone Hieghts and we were welcome to go get it and Hugh could use it for the weekend. Frank gave me the directions to his house and I drove over to Keystone Hieghts and picked it up. Hugh had to do some slight modifications to the brackets on his car to make it latch down properly, but atleast after making the long trip from Montgomery he would be able to race.

What I did was nothing special. I just passed along one of many favors that I have recieved in the past from other racers. Sean, you know that this is the same thing we have seen done by your dad and many of the other great racers you and I have grew up around. I'm not patting myself on the back in saying this, but afterwards Hugh tried to offer me money for the time and fuel involved in getting what he needed. I declined and told him that he would probably have the opprotunity to do a favor for another racer in the future, and that racer may be me one day. That is the #1 reason racing is so enjoyable and I have the desire to be involved in it as long as the good Lord will give me life and the ability to do so. The people you get to meet and the friends you make are the greatest.

Now off this subject. Everyone please keep the family of Doug McRobie in your thoughts and prayers. Doug was a Super Gas racer from Ohio who was involved in a fatal accident yesterday at the Jegs Sportsnationals race in Ohio. Check over on the .90 section of this site and read the post by the people that knew Doug well as they tell about what a great person he was. It will really touch your hearts.

Thanks Sean for those unwarranted props, You and everyone involved with the Southern Stock/Super Stock Association are some of the greatest people I have ever known.