After 66 years of car racing in Morrison, Bandimere Speedway packed its bags and bid its quarter-mile strip goodbye last year ...

MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. — A paralyzed Knoxville man living in a nursing home got his final wish: coming back to the drag racing track, one last time.

Dan Owens first met Gary Lee “Red” Greth in 1965, when Owens and his family moved next door. Owens was 6. And Greth? At the time, Greth was deeply involved with the Tucson Dragway as a racer.