Raymaond parks biography
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Raymaond parks biography
Raymond Parks (auto racing)
NASCAR team owner
Raymond Parks (June 5, 1914 – June 20, 2010) was an American stock car racing team owner. He was the owner of Red Byron's car which won the inaugural NASCARStrictly Stock Series championship in 1949.
Parks was announced as one of the members of the 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame class.
Background
Parks was the first child of Alfred and Leila Parks and great-great-nephew of settler Benny Parks, who found gold in the state of Georgia in the early nineteenth century.
Born in Dawsonville, Georgia, on June 5, 1914,[1] Raymond was the oldest of his father's sixteen children, six of whom were born to Leila, and ten of whom were born to Leila's sister, Ila. Parks left home at age 14[2] and began hauling moonshine.
He served nine months of a one-year and one-day sentence in the federal penitentiary in Chillicothe, Ohio, from 1936 to 1937.[3] Parks served in World War II during the famous Battle of the Bulge in B