PHOTOGRAPH BY VAN ABERNETHY FARMINGTON DRAGWAY • MOCKSVILLE , NORTH CAROLINA • SATURDAY , JUNE 14TH , 2008
FARMINGTON FLEX
Josh Chester flexed his muscles both on and off the track ! Chester was a regular on the Don Plemmons-founded Quick-8 Racers Association circuit back in the mid-2000s when the series would tour to area tracks around the Carolinas . They don ’ t call this tiny community in North Carolina “ Farmington ” for nothing , as the old-timey scene and machinery matches the name perfectly . The harvester who ’ s laboring away in the background paid no mind to the 185-plus-mph doorslammers as they would scream past the finish line , then quietly tow past him on the return road . Plemmons launched the Quick-8 Racers Association in 1990 , and the series was a mainstay for the next decade-plus at area tracks . Farmington Dragway was among the very first to host the series after it was launched .
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