Known to many as the "Wild Injun", more so because of his hard charging style than because of his heritage, Georgia's Gober Sosebee, competed in seventy-one NASCAR events in his career, spanning from 1949, when he drove for Atlanta's Cherokee Garage, to 1959. Sosebee had a solid career, earning two victories, thirty-three top-tens, four poles and four top-seventeen points finishes. Although 1953 was his best year points wise (14th), Sosebee's victories came at Augusta in 1952 and Macon in 1954. Poles came in 1949, 1951, 1954, and 1958 and led. at least 503 laps in his career. Gober died from injuries suffered in a 1966 agricultural accident.
Here he wins the Feb 4, 1950, first Daytona Beach Speed Week race, a 100 mile Modified race on the 4.17 mile beach/highway
course ahead of Fireball Roberts and Red Cummings.
Cherokee Garage, Atlanta, GA
My 3 1/24th NASCAR early modifieds including my Sosebee version (with a little artistic license) as raced in Pelican
Park's Jalopy class
