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Reading about all these old guys out of the past brings Roy Robbins to mind. As a teenager I was lucky enough to work with Roy. He was an Iron Worker and I worked in the fab shot for the same company. He was one of the nicest most down to earth guys I've ever met, and strong as an ox. He had what they called Popeye arms realy big fore arms and I have seen him lift a flat head block off the ground and set it on a work bench as if it was nothing. He drove for my dad and dad said he was one of the best dirt track guys he had ever seen with just natural ability. I know the didn't care much about stager and shocks back then they were just getting into long torsion bars and jacking weight. Roy said once the car was on the track it was his job to make it work and I guess he did. I heard he was a real scraper at the track he didn't start but finished a lot of fights. I heard he once wrecked into a pond at a race track and couldn't swim and of course he took an old borowed car out to Iowa and won all their money.
I met him at Little Salem about 15 years ago. A mutual friend of our's talked him into coming to the track to see me. He said that was the first time he had been to a race track almost 20 years and was nervous and couldn't wait to get away from there. He would have to be almost 90 now and I was wondering if he is still alive. Last I heard he was living around Scottsburg in.
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