Rufus "Brooklyn Heavy" Boyd
From Brooklyn, NY. Heavy was a street racer who started a business called "Heavy Racing Enterprises" under which he owned several professional race cars, and hired several drivers to do the shoeing. Notable drivers he hired included Ronald Lyles of the Mutt Brothers, Levi Holmes, Herb McCandless and Carmen Rotonda. Heavy had a son, known as "Heavy Jr." It appears Boyd spent about 25 years in jail supposedly for "tax troubles". He was arrested in the mid-'70s in the midst of a successful Pro Stock campaign, and I believe he was released in 2002.
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