Buck Simmons: The Living Legend

In the early 1960’s a teenager by the name of Charles Leroy Simmons began driving the water truck on Satur-days at the Banks County (GA) Speedway. A short while later he began his journey, as a driver, into the dirt rac-ing world. Simmons drove jalopies, modifieds, super modifieds, skeeters, and dirt late models to 1,012 check-ered flags.

In 2001 he was inducted into the inaugural class of the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame. The year 2003 saw him climb out of his famous #41 for the last time. By then he was known to the dirt racing world as “The living Legend.”

Buck Simmons: The Living Legend includes many pictures by award winning photographers such as David Allio, Gene Lefler, Robert Turner, and Tony Hammett.

Author Gary L Parker

ISBN 978-1-935186-90-8

Description:

6 x 9 softcover on archival paper
130 pages
100 photos in color and black & white

March 2017

Covers the career of Baldwin, Georgia’s, Charles Leroy Simmons, “The Living Legend” of dirt racing. By his mid-teens he was racing against some of the best drivers in the South, in jalopies, modifieds, skeeters, and then dirt late models. Simmons went on to score 1,012 career wins, and a place in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017903833

Cover, type and design by Karen Paul Stone.