Legends of NASCAR - Lloyd Seay Traditional Cache
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Legends of NASCAR - Lloyd Seay
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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!
Lloyd Seay (pronounced See) was well known
to Georgia lawmen. "He was without a doubt the best automobile
driver of this time. He was absolutely fearless, and an excellent
driver on those dusty, dirt roads. I caught him eight times and had
to shoot his tires off every time," said one deputy. Another told
of a night when he stopped Seay for speeding as he headed north for
another load of ‘shine. Seay handed the deputy two $10's. The
officer said, "You know the fine is only $10.00." Seay responded,
"I'm paying for my return trip later tonight." At age 18 Lloyd took
his tripper skills to the track. At age 21, he joined his cousin,
Roy Hall, for the beach races in a car owned by another cousin,
Raymond Parks. "Lloyd Seay put his heart and life into racing long
before the era of great material reward. He raced flat out simply
because he loved going fast," says racing historian Greg Fielden.
Although Seay started 15th in the August 24, 1941 beach race, he
led the entire 50 laps for his first win in five starts. He won his
next race at High Point on August 31 and left immediately for the
September 1 Labor Day race at Atlanta's Lakewood Speedway. He
arrived late, missed qualifying, and started last. By lap 35 he was
leading. He battled Bob Flock all afternoon and won the race -- his
third in 15 days. It was his last race. After winning at Lakewood,
Lloyd drove to the home of his brother, Jim, in Burlsboro to spend
the night. The following morning their cousin Woodrow Anderson, who
had a police record for making moonshine, came to the house to
settle a disagreement about some sugar that Lloyd had purchased and
charged to Woodrow. Lloyd, Jim, and Woodrow left Jim's house and
went to the home of Woodrow's father. Jim later described the
shooting in a police statement: "Woodrow got out of the car to see
if it needed any water. Then he told me if I didn't want to get
mixed up in anything I had better get out of the car. He jumped on
Lloyd, hitting him with his fist. "He pulled a gun out of the bib
of his overalls and as I spoke he shot me in the neck. He turned
the gun on Lloyd and shot him through the heart and told me if I
opened my mouth he would finish me off." Woodrow told a different
version: "We had a little fuss about a settlement. Lloyd had bought
some sugar and charged it to my credit and when I asked him about
coming to some agreement about it he said, ‘Well, you got it,
didn't you?' I told him, ‘Yes, I got it, but it ought to be
figured in when we settle up.' Then both of them jumped on me and I
run. I run through the house and got my daddy's .32 Smith and
Wesson pistol and come out and tried to get in my car. "They
wouldn't let me get in and it looked like they were about to give
me a whuppin' so I started shootin'. One word led to another. The
first thing I knew we was quarreling, then I was runnin', then I
was shootin'. That's all there was to it." Woodrow Anderson was
tried in late October and sentenced to life in prison. From the
Atlanta Constitution Lloyd Seay, lanky, blond and youthful, was
well known in Atlanta and all along the highways to the mountains.
Federal, state and county officers knew him as the most daring of
all the daredevil crew that hauled liquor from mountain stills to
Atlanta. They had many a wild chase when they hit his trail, but
they only caught him rarely, for he handled his car down the
twisting blacktop hill-country roads at a pace few of them cared to
follow. He will be missed by race fans as well. Fifteen thousand
people saw him race his souped-up Ford around the track at Lakewood
Monday, running a hundred miles in 89 minutes to win more than
$450.00 in cash. Lloyd Seay, the smiling blond Georgia daredevil
who gave speed fans at the July 27 stock car race here their
biggest thrill when he turned his No. 7 Ford up on its running
board as he negotiated the north turn, and who won the August 24
race here, will race no more.
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