Carl D "Lightning" Lloyd Seay was an early stock car racing driver from Dawsonville Georgia.
11 Facts About Lloyd Seay
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Lloyd Seay was shot to death by his cousin Woodrow Anderson over a moonshine operation.
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Lloyd Seay's cousin Roy Hall was a racer who was the subject of the Jim Croce song "Rapid Roy, that Stock Car Boy".
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Lloyd Seay began racing in 1938, winning in his first stock car race at Lakewood Speedway driving a 1934 Ford owned by his cousin Raymond Parks and tuned by Red Vogt when he was 18 years old.
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On November 21,1938, Lloyd Seay won a 150-mile darkness shortened national championship stock car race at Lakewood.
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Lloyd Seay flipped his car twice during the July 27,1941 race at the Daytona Beach Road Course and finished fourth.
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Lloyd Seay returned to the track later that year on August 24,1941 against his cousin Roy Hall in Parks' cars.
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Lloyd Seay had to start last, and he passed into the lead on lap 35.
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Lloyd Seay battled Bob Flock all afternoon before winning the $450 race.
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The next morning, their cousin Woodrow Anderson came to the house to settle a dispute over sugar that Lloyd Seay had charged to Woodrow's account.
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Carl D "Lightning" Lloyd Seay was one of eight drivers inducted in the first class of the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in 2002, along with Bill Elliott, Tim Flock, Red Byron, and Seay's cousins Parks and Hall.