Right from the Start  Holman-Moody's ascendance, told by
Employee No. 1  ''They had built up what they called a body shop
from the main building, which was where a lot of the fabrication
on the cars took place (editor's note: Team co-founder Ralph
Moody is in the black shirt behind the nearest car). This photo
would have been from 1967. Ford had already come out with the
current-model car for 1968, the Torino. The building had all
glass around it, and this is where they did the bodies and
painting. Holman-Moody had already signed David Pearson as its
driver for 1968, after he had been with Cotton Owens. Cotton had
gotten to the point where he didn Pin It  Feature Article from
Hemmings Muscle Machines  November, 2011 - Jim Donnelly  In
early 1957, Ford's program of stock car racing was strongly
backed by the factory under the management of Peter DePaolo,
who'd driven to victory in the 1925 Indianapolis 500, and was
operating the stock car show out of shops in Charlotte, North
Carolina, and in Long Beach, Calif