French Grimes is a character right out of a dog-eared paperback. Grimes says what he thinks, no matter what the consequences, no matter whether you like it or not. Working out of a shop with no door to separate garage from home, Grimes labors in the mountainous cutback of rural Virginia. Chickens scatter through the farm-like yard as dogs, each of them appropriately fat, walk in and out as if in charge of life itself.
Phones ring all day with the top names in racing on the other end.
There's no central heating system here and no air conditioner either. There isn't even a street address. The address for UPS, Federal Express, everyone, is half-mile south of an old post office. There's really no street. The history of sprint car engines is a history of magneto engine systems.