Close-up of Lloyd Seay’s headstone showing a photo of Lloyd ‘sitting’ behind the wheel of his 1938 Ford Modified carved into the stone. The headstone was paid for by Raymond Parks.
After Dec. 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II, and racing ended for the duration. From 1942 to 1945, Raymond Parks served with the 99th Division of First Army.
After the war, Raymond Parks returned to his businesses and racing but Lloyd Seay was dead and Roy Hall was older; so Parks turned to another war veteran, a driver by the name of Red Byron, and one of his former drivers, Bob Flock, among others.
In 1947, Parks and his driver, Fonty Flock, won the Modified Championship under a sanctioning body known as the National Championship Stock Car Circuit (NCSCC), which was run by Bill France.
In December 1947, Bill France called a meeting of prominent owners, car builders and promoters at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach.
France proposed a national group that would sanction all stock car racing. Parks and Vogt were among those shown in the group photo taken after the meeting.
The Contest Board of AAA considered any racers who competed outside their sanction "outlaws," and southern stock car racing was not worth the effort to sanction; after all, AAA had the Indianapolis 500. France decided that these ‘outlaws’ should make their own rules.
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