Asphalt regular Corky Cookman in his famous #04’s tries his luck on the high banks of LV for what I’m sure was a special show, perhaps the LV 200 or an Sunday open show.

Corky was a strong runner with the NASCAR modifieds, but might be most remembered for the night he was involved in a horrible accident at Stafford Motor Speedway when his car went into the grandstands coming out of turn 4.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19830807&id=MewTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iQYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4206,3444346. 

Luckily, nobody was killed.

Sadly, just a few years later, Corky was involved in a fatal crash of his own at Thompson International Speedway on July 19^th, 1987, at a time when a number of NASCAR modified drivers were killed at an alarming rate in the late to mid 90’s before NASCAR mandated some much needed rules to make the low slung modifieds safer.

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