Legends of NASCAR - Flock Brothers Traditional Geocache
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Legends of NASCAR - Flock Brothers
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This series is in honor of the legends of
the sport of NASCAR racing who have passed away. There is something
for everyone (the numbers hounds or the history buffs). The series
is meant to be done from east to west. Please park completely off
of the road and use caution at all times. Most weekends, there
isn't more than a handfull of cars along this road but 2 weekends a
year this becomes one of the largest cities in the
State!
As great of an example as Junior Johnson is
as a bridge from bootlegging to NASCAR racing, he may not be as
good an example as were the Fabulous Flock Brothers -- Bob, Fonty
and Tim. They were bootleggers. Actually their uncle, Peachtree
Williams, was the bootlegger and the two older Flock boys -- Bob
and Fonty -- were his drivers. They came from their home in Ft.
Payne, Ala., to make moonshine runs in rural Georgia during the
prohibition era. When they were not making runs they talked with
other drivers about which car was the fastest. And that talk led to
NASCAR ... if you follow the progression. According to legend, the
drivers would find a pasture and drive around in circles -- about a
half-mile circle -- until they had worn out a path in the grass.
Then they would race. The Flocks were among the instigators of this
racing. And the racing grew by word of mouth as a small crowd got a
little larger and larger until some entrepreneurial people started
building racetracks. It is from those tracks that NASCAR grew. The
Flock family as a whole was a very interesting family. There were
eight children born to Lee and Maudie Flock and many of them were
colorful, to say the least. Carl, the oldest boy, was a speedboat
racer. Reo, one of the girls, was a wing-walking daredevil. She
also was a stunt parachutist. Another sister, Ethel, was a racecar
driver with more than 100 races. She had one Grand National (the
precursor of NASCAR's Cup Series) start and finished 11th. Then
there was the trio of Flock boys that actually made it onto the
NASCAR circuit -- Bob, Fonty and Tim. Bob, the oldest, and Fonty
got into racing first. They were competitors in the 'moonshine'
races held in pastures in Georgia, which probably was the genesis
of what is now NASCAR. They both drove those circuits in the years
before NASCAR came along in 1949. Bob, who was born in 1918, had
the shortest career in NASCAR. He started when the circuit was
founded in 1949 and raced until retiring in 1956. He had 36 career
starts and won four races. Fonty had a pretty good NASCAR career.
He started 154 races and had 19 wins and 33 poles during a career
that lasted from 1949 through 1957. But the star of the family was
Tim, the baby. He was one of the most colorful NASCAR drivers
ever.
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