I was born and raised in London, ON, Canada and in 1973 a family friend got the call to drive for Junior Johnson in the Daytona 500. A large group of friends and family got the opprotunity to go including my dad.
I was 5yrs old and although I was that young I still remember a few things.
One of which was getting to meet "the King" Richard Petty, he was incredibly nice and went on to win that race.
By the way, the family friend was a not so well known Earl Ross who went on to be "rookie of the year" a first for a Canadian.