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Now that I know he is still up in Marion I need to take an afternoon and go see him.
Interesting story, for some reason he asked me to drive his midget with his Chevy II at IRP for a USAC show. As I was climbing in the car he tugged on my uniform and said. "Uh, you know if you tear it up, you will have to fix what ever you break". LOL. I almost climbed back out, but I liked Pepi and I was happy that he asked me to drive his car. It was the white car with the blue #5. Funny thing, he didn't buy a new RR because we thought it was going to rain us out. Then because of the used up RR in hot laps, I spun it coming off of four and the announcer said, "Race Fans it looks like Pepi Marchese has spun coming off of 4." That was actually nice to hear.LOL. That was all I got to drive because the rains came and ended our evening. We didn't hook up again.
I need to make plans to go see him. He was always really nice to me and we raced a lot together back in 1986 -1989. I can't recall the year he got hurt at Eldora. I know it was the four crown. His head actually got hung up on the outside of the cage net as he barrel rolled. It was a shame that a safety device was the reason for his head injury. In fact, my cars never had a cage net.
George Wilkins
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