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Parks is generally recognized as the first team owner in NASCAR..

Raymond Dawson Parks was born in Dawnsonville, Ga., on June 5, , the oldest of 16 children.

Raymond Parks' name will ring out in Friday night's NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony some 80 years after he first became involved in stock-car racing.

Parks is generally recognized as the first team owner in NASCAR.

Raymond Parks was a former moonshine runner who owned the cars that won the first Nascar “Strictly Stock” championship in

Raymond Parks, a one-time moonshine runner from the north Georgia town that later produced Bill Elliott, will be inducted into the NASCAR.

Raymond Parks (auto racing)

NASCAR team owner

Raymond Parks (June 5, – June 20, ) was an American stock car racing team owner. He was the owner of Red Byron's car which won the inaugural NASCARStrictly Stock Series championship in Parks was announced as one of the members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame class.

Background

Parks was the first child of Alfred and Leila Parks and great-great-nephew of settler Benny Parks, who found gold in the state of Georgia in the early nineteenth century. Born in Dawsonville, Georgia, on June 5, ,^[1] Raymond was the oldest of his father's sixteen children, six of whom were born to Leila, and ten of whom were born to Leila's sister, Ila.

Parks left home at age 14^[2] and began hauling moonshine. He served nine months of a one-year and one-day sentence in the federal penitentiary in Chillicothe, Ohio, from to ^[3] Parks served in World War II during the famous Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.^[4] He served in