Driver Harvey Jones, and car owners, builders and mechanics Johnny Cooper and James Cooper with their race car at the Thunderbowl Speedway in Valdosta, GA.
Do you remember going through all those small South Georgia towns and seeing some kind of race car at a garage or gas station? This is the story of one of those little towns and three brothers that had a garage just like that.
The place? Ray City. The time? Late sixties into the seventies and later. Johnny Cooper is the oldest and grew up fast in that little town. The Cooper brothers are, from oldest to youngest, Johnny (July 22, 1945), James (August 18, 1947) and Tommy (August 27, 1956 – who has always gone by the name Skeeter and prefers it that way. “My uncle gave me that name is what my mother told me”).
Before the weather got hot a few years back, Jerry Ivey and I went to Ray City, Georgia to meet the Cooper brothers at their garage on the highway east of town. It is an old cinder block building that looks like it has been added onto at least once. It sits just far enough off the road where you could unload a trailer and still be off the roadway.
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“Daddy was John T. Cooper,” he said. “Our mother was Sarah Lucelle Merritt Cooper. He worked for the railroad as a welder but had a garage and worked on cars on the side and farmed. But he was a construction worker. There was a small construction company and he was in charge of the company – Studstill Construction. He also worked at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta as a mechanic and as parts manager.
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