The Start of Wendell Scott's Racing Career

he had some bootleg cars, but he wasn't going to expose them. So he had a brother-in-law had a car. He borrowed his car. He was a he was a he was a preacher and he he always wanted to make money, right? So they had to convince him, man, we're going to get rich. Anyway, he bought his car and cured it in there that night and of course it came all to pieces. The seat broke and jumped out of gear and all. >> Was he a bootleger? >> Who? My dad. >> Yeah. >> Notorious. Notorious. He was the bootleger. >> Yeah. I mean, history. It's all in the history books. He the first one who had power brakes on on 44s. He had the the killer switches on his brake system where if he hit the toggle switch, his tail lights would stay on but the brake lights wouldn't light up. He'd make the police wreck. >> Were that from this garage, too? >> Everything >> really. So, he built bootlegging cars in here. >> Yeah, but they were in disguise. He would >> That is so cool. >> He had a place out in the country relative that had a barn. He kept his bootleg cars out there. But I've seen them sitting all around the yard. He'd have them They didn't look like bootleg cars. He'd had the wheels off them and have them sitting on on blocks and everything. Then when he got ready to run, he put his stuff on them and and go. >> So he tried to make them look like they weren't >> just regular car, but basically he kept it those particular ones hidden. They were hidden, you know. So yeah. >> Huh. >> That's the legacy. What else got >> When did he actually move here? >> In the 50s. Uh he bought this property.