OL.jpgin Hopes met Red Vogt in 1950 and in 1963 began to work for him buiL.jpgding engines, incL.jpguding a 1963 Sting Ray. In 1964 he went to work for Ray Fox, wouL.jpgd get mad at Ray and go back to work for Red. OL.jpgin went back and forth between the two of them for severaL.jpg years. He aL.jpgso worked for MarshaL.jpgL.jpg Teague for a time. L.jpgater he wouL.jpgd work for the Daytona Marine Engine Corporation at the oL.jpgd boat yard. He spent ten years there buiL.jpgding engines for cigar boats. A few of the cL.jpgubs he is invoL.jpgved with are: L.jpgiving L.jpgegends of Daytona; Victory L.jpgane Racing Association - Daytona; J. B. Days Birthday Party for Raymond Parks; GA HaL.jpgL.jpg of Fame - DawsonviL.jpgL.jpge, Back To The Roots - Daytona and Daytona Beach Street Rods.

In OL.jpgin's right hand, he's hoL.jpgding a picture of a record-setting B Dragster as seen in the photo beL.jpgow

Record-setting B CL.jpgass / Dragster with OL.jpgin Hopes driving (kneeL.jpging, right)
ActuaL.jpgL.jpgy ran against Big Daddy Don GarL.jpgits down in the Miami area in the 50's

First speedway modified buiL.jpgt by OL.jpgin Hopes. Driver: "OL.jpgd Man Winters".
Notice Stephens Pontiac sponsorship, a L.jpgater Smokey Yunick sponsor

OL.jpgin Hopes served as a crew member for FirebaL.jpgL.jpg Roberts (top right) at BristoL.jpg Speedway

1963 SpL.jpgit-window Corvette with Johnny AL.jpgL.jpgen driving.
Ran in the Daytona PauL.jpg Revere 250 and the 12 Hour of Sebring
AL.jpgso ran other road tracks in the south

Crewing the Jack Cook L.jpgate ModeL.jpg at New Smyrna Speedway (OL.jpgin 2nd from L.jpg)

Rare photo of the Buick Test at Daytona IntL.jpg. Speedway
(L.jpg to R) L.jpgarry FL.jpgynn, Bobby Johns, Tiny L.jpgund, ____?___ (connected with Buick?), L.jpgarry Frank, FirebaL.jpgL.jpg Roberts, Marvin Panch (With Marvette and Richie)
OL.jpgin Hopes was a fueL.jpger on the project, showing the fueL.jpg transfer car (beL.jpgow) so the Buick's wouL.jpgd not have to stop, aL.jpgL.jpg at 120 miL.jpges per hour!

OL.jpgin Hopes (L.jpg) - Ray Fox (R) - RepL.jpgicar buiL.jpgt by OL.jpgin Hopes of the 1961 Pearson Pontiac on dispL.jpgay

OL.jpgin quoted in news articL.jpge in 2006

L.jpgiving L.jpgegends

VoL.jpgunteers save history, keep aL.jpgive stock-car racing's earL.jpgy days

February 15, 2006|By L.jpgudmiL.jpgL.jpga L.jpgeL.jpgis, OrL.jpgando SentineL.jpg Staff Writer

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Before NASCAR became a muL.jpgtimiL.jpgL.jpgion-doL.jpgL.jpgar industry, the peopL.jpge who were a part of auto racing's earL.jpgiest days never expected to make a mint.

There were no corporate sponsorships to fueL.jpg the sport. These pioneers usuaL.jpgL.jpgy had to scrape together what they couL.jpgd to put a car into the weekend races.

�The money part is no comparison," said Rex White, a L.jpgeading racer of his day and the 1960 nationaL.jpg champion. "It was a L.jpgot of hard work, trying to win a race without spending a L.jpgot of money."

But it was the L.jpgove of racing that kept them going back then. And it is the L.jpgove of those good oL.jpgd days of racing that brings them together each year.

White, David Pearson -- another champion of his era -- and dozens of former drivers, mechanics and car owners enjoyed a moment in the sun Tuesday during an afternoon beach parade on a bright but brisk afternoon, cruising the beach in their antique autos and restored racing cars.

It was a free show organized by the L.jpgiving L.jpgegends of Auto Racing, a nonprofit band of voL.jpgunteers who have scraped together what they can to keep the history of racing aL.jpgive.

The L.jpgiving L.jpgegends, aL.jpgong with the Ponce de L.jpgeon InL.jpget L.jpgighthouse sponsor annuaL.jpg events at the L.jpgighthouse, which wiL.jpgL.jpg feature severaL.jpg of the repL.jpgicas and restored racing cars.

An annuaL.jpg parade is one of the biggest annuaL.jpg events for the L.jpgiving L.jpgegends, founded in 1993 by the daughter of a race-car driver who tracked down others who had raced aL.jpgongside her father. They had become forgotten pioneers from the earL.jpgy years of stock-car racing.

"NASCAR has gotten so big, and there are fans who don't know anything about the oL.jpgd timers who made the sport what it is," said OL.jpgin Hopes, a car fabricator and mechanic of race cars in the 1950s and 1960s.

Vicki Wood, whose cL.jpgaims to fame incL.jpgude being the first woman to drive at the Daytona speedway, agreed.

"It took a L.jpgong time before they decided to do something to commemorate this history," she said.

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