Josh Chester flexed his muscles both on and off the track! Chester was a regular on the Don Plemmons-founded Quick-8 Racers Association circuit back in the mid-2000s when the series would tour to area tracks around the Carolinas.
[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #188, the World Series of Pro Mod Issue, in May/June of 2024.]
They don’t call this tiny community in North Carolina “Farmington” for nothing, as the old-timey scene and machinery matches the name perfectly. The harvester who’s laboring away in the background paid no mind to the 185-plus-mph doorslammers as they would scream past the finish line, then quietly tow past him on the return road. Plemmons launched the Quick-8 Racers Association in 1990, and the series was a mainstay for the next decade-plus at area tracks. Farmington Dragway was among the very first to host the series after it was launched.
Photograph by Van Abernethy
Farmington Dragway
Mocksville, North Carolina
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
This story was originally published on July 26, 2024. 
