It was truly a special day.. Butch originally started out racing with Chevrolet as did many of these guys. It was very neat to hear stories about the old Impala's and Z11's 1 of which Butch recieved he also had a spare complete aluminum front end that his dad got sick of see in the garage so one day he decided to throw it out one day!!! Butch was very close to H.L. Shahan and he kind of took Butch under his wing and later introduced Butch to Bill Thomas and Butch raced with them until Chevrolet pulled the plug in late 63'. There are some very interesting reads on Butch's site
www.butchleal.com
Great stories about all the greats. Grumpy, Strickler, Sox, Martin and all the others that were so great in those days.
I think it would be very cool to try to get some of these guys to come to this years MCACN show. Id be more than willing to help put it together it would be great to get a good display of all makes and models of vintage race cars and the drivers and then have a story telling session for the public.