​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Gene Anderson ​​​​​​Remembers the Thrill!

worked for a semester  to earn enough to enroll in a nearby junior college, still working at the station on weekends. 

After graduating from high school, Gene

He then transferred to the University of North Carolina to pursue a degree in Pharmacy, working during the summers and on weekends to pay his way.  Eugene Anderson graduated and then passed the Boards, obtaining his pharmacy license in 1968.  

​He fondly remembers how his family attended the races together, carrying along bag lunches of boiled eggs, sandwiches and fried chicken and sometimes sleeping in the car. On Sunday afternoons, the family gathered with cousins at Granddaddy and Grandmother Anderson’s for a filling noon-day meal and stories about racing cars, motorcycles, motorboats, horses and even moonshiners and revenuers racing down country roads.

Gene Anderson was born in a small town in Northeastern North Carolina, the second of four children. His father and uncles owned service stations where Gene held his first job as a teenager. His father built cars for NASCAR-type races back in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s, creating in Gene’s core a love for performance automobiles. ​