My Dad graduated high school in 1962, and had never been very far from NE Oklahoma up until that point. Then he got a job with a company that was tearing up old rail road tracks. On his first trip north he experienced his first look at big time drag racing. The Gebhart boys have heard the story over and over again about Art Arfons and the Green Monster at Great Lakes in Union Grove, Wisconsin.

It was also his first look at the 63 Max Wedge cars! If not for that fateful day, I might be Stage 1 Billy, or Buick Billy!!

I was really hoping for Joliet, and Earlville Iowa. I've been to Cordova twice, but never made a pass there, so that would work as well!