A Night with A Racing Legend

American Racing Legend Charlie Kemp will sign any of the winning bid items at your request!

This Silent Auction compliments our Dinner and a Movie with American Racing Legend Charlie Kemp who drove the Winningest Shelby in History. He has many impressive wins under his belt!

Charlie Kemp of Hazlehurst, Mississippi has raced in over 400 races and won 200 in a racing career that started on a dirt track in Jackson, Mississippi and then winning three state championships drag racing. After that he took up sports car racing winning five championships and becoming one of only 7 Americans to win a CanAm race against such drivers as Jackie Stewart, Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, Mario Andretti, and others. He raced a Shelby GT350 R and won 34 of the 42 races he finished. He won the Worlds Manufacturer’s Championship for Chevrolet driving a Corvette and a Lola 222. He also won the Touring Championship in the Daytona 24 Hour Race and finished 3rd overall in 1975 driving a Porsche in the Daytona 24 Hour race. He later designed and built a Kemp Cobra ll to compete in IMSA. It was a revolutionary race car with speeds of 212 mph at Daytona.

Charlie has agreed to sign any item purchased from this auction!
Proceeds will support the Southern Heritage Air Foundation Museum!

Seeing a need for energetic, nonprofit work in this area,in 2004, the late MS. Governor Kirk Fordice and his son Dan, formed our organization, to preserve the stories of local and regional WWII Veterans and to preserve aviation history by keep Vintage and WWII aircraft flying and educating all who walk through our doors! We've consistently grown since then, all thanks to the helping hands of this amazing community!