Ken is a native of Roanoke, VA and was exposed to NASCAR very early in the mid 1950's and early 60's due to the popularity Curtis Turner, a Roanoke native, and Martinsville Speedway which is only 50 miles down US 220 from his boyhood home. Although not an avid fan early on in his life, his favorite driver was Fireball Roberts.

While trying to help earn spending money for college (his parents said they would pay the tuition and room and board but he had to supply the spending money) so, being and entrepreneur early on in life, he decided to become a promoter. Beginning his freshman year at VMI, it was promoting dances in the Roanoke area with Rock n' Roll groups during his Christmas and Spring breaks.

Those promotions earned him enough money to get through one semester but not enough for the entire year and dances didn't go over very well during the summer months…everyone went to Myrtle Beach and he needed to make some more money during the summer for the fall semester. Finally one day in the Spring of 1965, a "redneck" buddy of his suggested he run charter buses to a NASCAR races at Martinsville. A planned one bus charter grew into 4 buses by race time and since that was so successful (and profitable) he added trips to Charlotte, North Wilkesboro and Rockingham.

Ken likes to tell the story of a 19 year-old kid borrowing his mother's car, driving from Roanoke down to Martinsville Speedway during Spring Break in March of 1965, walking into the Speedway office and introducing himself to a man he had never met, had not a clue who the man was, or, at least in NASCAR history, who that gentleman would become…H. Clay Earles.

Even to this day he is still shocked that he left Martinsville Speedway that day with a 100 discounted tickets (which increased to 200) to the next NASCAR race without putting up a dime…just a handshake and a promise to pay them. They just told him to send the money for the tickets within 7 days of the end of the race. After the success of the 1^st Martinsville Charters, getting tickets on credit was easy. He just gave Martinsville Speedway as a credit reference. Can you imagine a track doing that today…not very likely.

For the next 3 years, Ken promoted a couple more dances but soon gave up on that idea (he says it was too much work) and concentrated on running charters to NASCAR races. Ken is very serious when he says that NASCAR substantially helped getting him financially through college, at least, the fun part of college.

After college, Ken's NASCAR days were put on hold and by the mid-70s he was actively involved in computers. After moves to Richmond for 11 years and then to Northern Virginia where he founded his own software telecommunications firm. By 1997 he decided that 83 children (his employees), 150,000 miles a year on airplanes living out of a suitcase and 70 hour weeks were going to put him in an early grave so he sold the business in December of that year and went into semi-retirement.

By March of 1998 he had already begun building a home back in the mountains of his boyhood and deep in NASCAR territory, Hendersonville, NC (home of APR). By September of that same year he had pulled up all stakes in NVA and moved to "Hooterville" along with his two daughters, CooCoo and Sable, who, according to him are two of the greatest labs on this earth.

Today Ken's less stressful life is devoted mostly to selling items on E-Bay, playing a little golf, duck hunting in the winter and devoting time to NASCAR. According to Ken the timing is great, just about the time the NASCAR season ends, duck hunting season comes in and E-Bay sales reach their peak and about the time for Daytona, duck season is over and E-Bay sales have begun to decline . Additionally, he says that his extra free time has allowed him to revitalized his interest in NASCAR into a passion and he has become a NASCAR Fantasy Team "Junkie." He says he get a real kick out of whipping "the local life long NASCAR experts at their own game."