Jerry Summers: Charlie Griffith - First Or Third? Thursday, May 6, 2021 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers One of the talented local stock car drivers in the Southeast Tennessee-Northwest Georgia area during the 1940s-1950s was a young man born on September 4, 1929 who claimed Red Bank, Tennessee as his home base for his number 18 1957 Pontiac automobile that won many local dirt races. The old Moccasin Bend race track, Boyd’s Speedway and the Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville were three of the venues that Charlie, Harold and Freddy Fryar, Joe Lee Johnson, Friday Hassler, Bob Burcham and many others competed for prize money at the small ovals before adoring fans.