Wendell Scott's Custom Race Car Trailer

>> This is a trailer that we hauled We hauled a car on. We even had extra engine. That's a That lets up and we can put extra engine up in there. >> What years were your dad racing with this trailer? >> Uh we had just in the in the late 60s >> really. And for many years what we only we had a u another trailer we had a toe bar with a toe bar. Uh you know we had no trailer but then we got a couple of trailers and this was the last one we used. >> So would this have been the trailer he's using kind of in his like the prime like the in the 70s and all that? >> Wow. >> You build it here? >> Yeah. Mhm. >> Did you build it with him? >> Yeah. Really? >> I did everything with him. I did everything with him. He and my father, me and my father, and I had another brother who was here some of the time. Guys who who cared was interested. >> How did he get into racing? >> He got into racing. Um there was a track here in Danville Speed uh fairground raceway and they were trying to attract more African-Americans to the to the race to the races. So the promoter came with the idea of going to the police station. They found out uh African-Americans who had speeding records who known to drive fast. So I think the story tells that they had they went to seven. My father had a a myth that he was a boot the bootleger and uh they came to him. Of course he was excited cuz he used to go watch the races and uh he thought they were going to furnish a car. So the week of the race, he came back and said, "When are you got you gonna be there this weekend?" They said, "Where's my car?" He said, "You got to furnish your own car." So anyway, he had some bootleg cars, but he wasn't