1941

Lloyd Seay’s car is loaded and ready for Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Seay had a “skimping engine” and finished fourth while teammate Roy Hall won.

Parks’ Novelty began it’s domination at Daytona Beach with four victories in a row, starting with a win by Hall on their inaugural trip in March of 1941, followed by wins by Bill France, Sr., Buck Mathis, and again, Hall, all driving for Parks.  And, in August, Seay grabbed his first and only Daytona victory to complete a team domination never before seen, winning five of the seven beach races in which they competed.

And the original dream team was just warming up.

Roy Hall and Lloyd Seay scored more wins on the 1941 AAA stock car circuit than any other drivers.  Combined victories included wins at the beach course, Langhorne and Allentown, Pennsylvania, and High Point, North Carolina.  Roy finished ahead in points over Walt Keiper, Joe Purser and Bill France, Sr.

Seay’s season, however, would be cut tragically short.

In September of 1941, only one day after another Lakewood victory, Seay would be shot dead.  His cousin, Woodrow Anderson, killed the 21 year old at his uncle’s house in Dawsonville.

“Anderson was a very hot-headed individual,” GARHOFA member Bobby Sutton told us.  “Woodrow worked at the Ford plant in Hapeville after he got out of prison in the early fifties, and on his way home he would occasionally stop by our sandwich and beer shop in Ben Hill.

No longer finding Dawsonville a suitable place to return to, Woodrow had moved to Douglasville, outside Atlanta.

“He was a friendly, wiry fellow with a very short fuse,” Sutton said.  “I went hunting with him once and he shot his dog.”