Stanley And Weiss Racing Awarded Best Appearing Team, ADRL Topeka
By Camp Stanley / Photo By Roger Richards
Hagerstown, MD – In the early winter months of 2010 the drag racing team known as Stanley & Weiss Racing decided to out source a new design for a t-shirt to sell to our many loyal fans worldwide. We settled on Tyler Clark’s WickedGrafixx t-shirt emporium as our newest supplier of a quality shirt that anyone would be proud to wear.
Camp and Tyler burned up the internet and the phone lines over a 2 month period tweaking and perfecting what became a GREAT design for our newest shirts Showing off Our ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro! While Tyler provided the insight to the design, Camp provided the essence of the team and all were melded into a design that said much about who the Hillbillies from Appalachia really were.
These shirts were debuted at the ADRL race in Houston in March to rave reviews! There were orders via mail and phone for them from literally around the world!
And then later there was a new avenue opened for the WickedGrafixx / Stanley & Weiss Racing partnership. The ADRL powers that be had very wisely asked that all the teams wear at least a collared shirt while on the starting line. Now the hillbillies had been doing this for some years and had carried over their Pro Street uniform shirts to the ADRL.
The edict from the ADRL prompted them to revisit this issue and the decision was made to go all out and order some REAL, DOUBLE THROWDOWN, PROFESSIONAL crew shirts. There was no one besides Tyler Clark’s WickedGrafixx emporium to do this after our good friend Steve Hall had a very serious bout with a cancer bug.
Tyler had never done a crew shirt before but was game to give it a whirl. So Tyler and Camp set off to design a shirt befitting of the world class Pro Extreme Camaro piloted by John Stanley. And after weeks that became months the finished product was delivered to The Hill in Appalachia and then they were hung in the trailer with care for their debut at the ADRL race in Topeka, KS.
And on that bright, sunny, hot Friday morning they were worn and profiled for all to see by the crew that maintain the Appalachia on Steroids ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro Pro Mod. And unsure of the response they would receive we played it very low key while in the staging lane for first round. So you can imagine what at first was astonishment and then instantly became pride when the two marketing ladies from the ADRL made their way down the staging lanes and stopped to compliment Camp on how well they thought the new crew shirts were. And then they informed him that everyone who had a vote had agreed as well and that they were to be given the Best Appearing Crew award for the Topeka race! How cool was that? Really, really cool we think!
And now Tyler Clark has to think about getting completely out of the crew shirt business. This being his first and only design and being a winner instantly says that if he quits now he will go out with a record unequaled by anyone else in his industry. But knowing him like we do that will most definitely not happen!
