Mark McCarter: Remembering a good racer, great friend in Grant Adcox
(WorldNews Sport)

The standards for employment on a NASCAR pit crew were somewhat less strict, to put it lightly, 36 years ago. That´s when such employment might simply be a perk of spending the occasional evening in the company of a race car driver, with frosty mugs on the table and music in the air. Which is how I found myself lugging the gas-can wagon from pit road to the fuel station at the July 1983 race at Talladega as Grant Adcox raced the No. 29 Chevrolet sponsored by his father Herb, a Chevy dealer in our hometown of Chattanooga. After the green flag...