Billie Hester (left) and Gober Sosebee (right) following a win at Daytona Beach in 1950.
Georgia’s Billie “Sunday” Hester was named after the famous American evangelist Billy Sunday, whose preaching against the selling of liquor made him a major player in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) in 1919.
Our Billie Sunday lives by the same ethics…to a degree.
“I never made the stuff nor allowed it in my garage,” he said recently. “I told my mechanics you could sit on my workbench and use it as a toilet, but don’t ever sit a bottle of liquor there. Times were I’d work on trip cars for friends but they had to come in unloaded.”
Born in Atlanta, Georgia on May 11, 1915, Billie lived with his family on North Avenue until 1925, when, at ten, they loaded up and moved further north to Lathemtown, north of Atlanta.
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Billie had a knack for repairing things.
“As a kid still in Atlanta I worked relining brakes on T-Models. You had to get your hands in small places, which is tedious work. I only got paid a dime a car but I just loved fooling with ’em.”
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