Racer: Don Emde
Don Emde beat Mike Hailwood, Paul Smart, Gary Nixon, Gene Romero, Cal Rayborn and just about the entire cast of On Any Sunday. He won the Daytona 200 in 1972, 24 years after his father won it on Daytona’s beach using an Indian. I set out to talk to him about racing Daytona’s step-sister, Talladega, but he ended up giving me a first-hand account of American racing and living out of a van in the early ‘70s. Click below for the feature.
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