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Southern Indiana Living JulAug 2012

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Roger Brown inched the car forward until<br />

the light beam was broken by his front tires,<br />

making the top yellow staging light on the<br />

pole come on. The light indicated he was<br />

on the starting line. He pushed the transmission<br />

lock button on the custom gearshift<br />

down with his thumb and waited. The car’s oversized<br />

souped-up engine idled roughly with a “urumpurump-urump”<br />

sound. The crowd in the bleachers<br />

at the U.S. 60 Raceway on Hardinsburg, Ky., dug into<br />

buckets of popcorn and compared the two cars on the<br />

track, evaluating which one was their favorite.<br />

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