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April 01, 2009 at
10:57:22 PM by brian26
I have picked up that Lloyd was proud that this event was in the works and if he could, he would damn sure have been out there! Yet once again, it was not about being famous- it was about just having fun with others from the same kind of people he knew.
He lent his name to the show, was willing to come out and sign some autographs. In turn a lot of old vintage race cars would come out and along with them were old drivers and their kids and THEIR kids kids and have a ball. He was great with everybody, but especially with kids. You have no ideer as to how many stories I have heard this past week about a kid he was nice to 5-10-20-30-40-50-60 years ago! Let alone what I have heard in the last 2 years or even all my life.
No, I never spent more than 5 minutes with the man myself. I never stopped wishing I had the nerve to take up his time when I could either. I know he would have.
I did grow up around people from his community and youth. Those people were much more alike in ways BEFORE the force of the outside world came in with tv, internet etc. In those days a car with a radio was a luxury considered as an option.......ya paid extree on the dotted line fer that. It was not unheard of to pull the car up next to the window and turn the radio up to hear the latest news, Lash Larue or Amos and Andy.
Spring break and Fall break were for planting or harvesting cotton. It was hard to stop a kid from dropping out of the ninth grade if he wanted to help more on the farm.
The outside world was larger, the inside world was smaller. Now and then you wondered if you had the gumption to handle the outside world and be somebody. Most never got that chance and when somebody did, that said something for the whole area. When they never moved, or even lived in the high mortgage district, that means they usually never forgot their rasin's.
A few of my now deceased relatives were very good friends of his BEFORE he even sat in a race car with four wheels. Burk, Vernon, Electra, Iowa Park, Wichita Falls, Harold, Bowie, Okie Union, Henriyetta,Petrolia and the list goes on. They were from the Greatest Generation we have ever, or will ever know.
This event has got to be for the right reasons, in good honor, and fun enough for everybody to get along. We did not light this fire, it is simply our turn to keep it going.
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