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Longtime drag racg fans know well the story of Meyer, how the Texas lad began racg nro Funny Cars as a teen and went on to bee a huge succs and today owns the fabled Texas Motorplex, but before we get to his story and the stori of the others the lumns ahead, let’s take a step back a earlier to another Texas teenage terror, Don Gay, who wowed fans Funny Car and, cintally, also beme a racetrack owner. He passed away June 30, 2007, at age 60, but his legacy liv ’s parents, Carl and Marie, owned the succsful Gay Pontiac alership Dickson, Texas, on the Gulf Highway halfway between Galvton and Hoton. As Detro began focg on high-performance rs, the Gays echoed their support by purchasg nearby Freeway Drag Strip, which they rechristened Hoton Drag Raceway (and later beme known as Hoton Int’l Speedway, then Hoton Int’l Raceway; check out a tribute to the track here) Don had been a fe athlete junr high, playg both baseball and basketball, but his terts changed the day that his father booked Hayn Profft and his Mickey Thompson-owned, 421-powered alumum Pontiac Catala factory experimental at the Hoton track 1961.

(Above) The Gay Pontiac fleet nsisted first of a tr of rs, an A/Stock Pontiac Catala sedan, an A/Modified Productn Catala statn wagon, and a B/Stock GTO. (Below) Don Gay won A/S class honors Indy Dickson High School stunt stunned everyone by wng A/S class Indy 1964, back when wng class was as big as (and, for some people, bigger than) wng the natnal event might well have stayed the Stock ranks had his father not changed his life aga by bookg Pontiac powerhoe Arnie Bwick and his blown GTO to the track 1964.

” (Gay later admted that his first choice for the r’s name was Satan’s Chart.

1960S NHRA DRAG RACG-DON & ROY GAY-"INFY 4"-69 GTO AA/FUNNY CAR-INDY 1969

A lot of those same veterans would n at the Hoton track, wh full hospaly om the Gay fay. "For the 1966 season, the Gays ntracted famed chassis builr and racer Jay Howell to provi a new full tube-chassis r wh a fiberglass body (aga a GTO), and Roy got the hand-me-down origal r. Bee NHRA did not yet regnize Funny Car as an official tegory, Gay and other early Funny Car mpaigners had to pete Competn elimator’s Fuel Dragster class at natnal events, but that wasn’t their ma foc – playg to tens of thoands of fans at wild match rac across the untry was.

(Above) Although the Gays ran their Infy GTOs at NHRA natnal events -- petg Comp's Fuel Dragster class before the advent of Funny Car -- the real money was match racg (below). Gay's duels wh the Mr.

(Above) Infy 4 was this sleek GTO, near lane, driven this Amarillo Dragway match by Roy Gay agast Nelson Carter's Super Chief Charger, wh Bryan Teal at the wheel. (Below) The fal Gay Funny Car was Infy V, a Pontiac Firebird, 1967, Don began to share drivg duti wh Roy, who sred an imprsive nner-up fish behd “Fast Eddie” Schartman at the 1967 Manufacturers Champnships at Orange County Int’l Raceway.

Roy was killed a non-racg-related motorcycle accint mentned, Don Gay Sr.