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Keith Sayre's 66 Plymouth Belvedere 440
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1972 Challenger
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22nd Cruisin Saturday night Carshow Racine Ohio
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22nd Cruisin Saturday night Carshow Racine Ohio
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38 Ford Tow Truck at 22nd Cruisin Saturday Night Carshow Racine Ohio
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22nd Cruisin Saturday night Carshow Racine Ohio Carshow Live
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Southside Dragway W.v #dragracing 9/5

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I love seeing new racers come into the sport and start finding success. There’s just something special about watching somebody gain confidence, make good passes, and realize they belong out there.

This summer at Southside Dragway, I’ve had the chance to watch three young women make their mark by earning runner-up finishes in the Street Class. Last night, Alisha Hunter, from the Atkins Racing family, added another strong night to her season by finishing Street Class Runner-Up for the third time.

Three runner-up finishes are no accident. That shows consistency, determination, and a racer who keeps putting herself in position to win. Every trip to the staging lanes, every reaction time, and every pass down the track adds another piece to the experience.

What I enjoy most is seeing the next generation becoming part of our local racing story. Drag racing has always been about families, friends, competition, and passing that passion along. Seeing young women like Alisha stepping up and succeeding is good for the sport and good for the future of tracks like Southside.

Congratulations to Alisha Hunter and the Atkins Racing family on another great performance. Keep knocking on that door...... one of these nights, that runner-up is going to turn into a win.

And to all the young racers coming up: keep making passes, keep learning, and keep showing up. Your story is just getting started.

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One thing I have learned while digging into local racing history is that a lot of names never make it into the newspaper clippings, old race results, or records we find decades later. That is where all of you come in. Sometimes one old photograph, one memory, or one name in the comments can bring an entire piece of history back to life.

Fred Chapman recently shared a photo with me after my story on the history of Kanawha Valley Drag Strip, and one of the names connected to it really caught my attention....my fellow New Haven Road Angels member, Kim Neal.

I can remember first seeing Kim back when I was in junior high. He always seemed to be cruising around in some cool classic car. Years later, after I joined the New Haven Road Angels, I got to know him better, and about two years ago I even did a video featuring some of the classic cars he owns today.

But when I saw Fred’s old photo of a station wagon with “Wappid Wagon” lettered down the side, I learned something I never knew.

I always knew Kim and his brother Kit were car guys, but I had no idea they had a race car back in the 1960s. So naturally, I had to ask him about it.

Kim told me that he and Kit had a 1962 Plymouth Savoy or Belvedere with a 361 engine that they raced during the 1960s. That was the kind of information I probably never would have found digging through old records alone. It took an old photograph and somebody who remembered the story behind it.

And here is the part that makes me laugh.

Can you imagine their wives driving that Plymouth around through the week with “Wappid Wagon” still lettered down the side, then the guys taking it to the drag strip on the weekend? Different times for sure!
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Stories like this are exactly why I enjoy doing local history. The cars are important, but the people behind them are what really make the history worth remembering.

There are probably hundreds of racers, mechanics, car owners, and families from Kanawha Valley Drag Strip and other local tracks whose names never made it into the official records.

So if you recognize somebody, remember a car, have an old photograph, or know a story that I missed, put it in the comments. You might be helping preserve a piece of racing history that otherwise could disappear forever.

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Did you ever wake up one morning and realize you just don’t have the same flow you once had?

You tire out a little easier. Things you used to enjoy don’t seem to hit the same anymore. You find yourself forcing things that once came naturally. Even that one smart aleck who hates his own life and always has something negative to say starts getting under your skin, when a year ago you would’ve just laughed and kept moving.

Maybe it isn’t that you’ve become weaker.

Maybe you’ve just changed.

As we get older, life has a way of changing what matters to us. Our energy changes. Our patience changes. The things we’re willing to put up with definitely change. Sometimes we spend so much time trying to keep doing what we’ve always done that we forget it’s okay to turn the page.

You don’t have to prove you can still run at the same speed you did ten or twenty years ago. You don’t have to keep going somewhere just because you’ve always gone there. And you sure don’t have to keep giving your time and energy to people who do nothing but drain it.

Maybe the answer isn’t quitting.

Maybe it’s changing direction.

Find something that makes you excited again. Slow down when you need to. Spend more time around people who appreciate you and less time worrying about the ones who never will.

Life is too short to keep forcing yourself into a version of your life that doesn’t fit anymore.

Sometimes change is scary.

Sometimes change is exactly what you need.

And maybe waking up and realizing things aren’t the same isn’t the end of something.

Maybe it’s the beginning of whatever comes next.

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