Richard Pearson

National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame driver Stan Massey of Mableton, Ga., a four-time Dixie-Rome Speedway champion and two-time winner on the National Dirt Racing Association, died Sunday morning. He was 67.

The driver known as "Handsome Stan," who had nearly 400 victories during a career stretching with victories from 1972 to 2000, was inducted into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2019 and three years earlier into Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, which reported his death.

Among 69 victories at Dixie Speedway, where he regularly captured championships in the 1980s, were NDRA wins in 1981 and ’83 at the Dixie Nationals, the first one paying $17,000.

Other major victories included the 1995 Ice Bowl at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., the Turkey Shootout at Valdosta (Ga.) Speedway and the Miller 100 at Senoia (Ga.) Raceway.

Among Massey’s car owners were his father Ed, Jack Diemer, J.R. Foster, Calvin Cheek and Ronnie Dobbins, who owned Shane Clanton’s World 100-winning car. Massey himself was later a car owner for fellow Georgia Hall of Famer Ricky Williams, a Dixie-Rome champion from Fayetteville.

Survivors include his wife Cathy Massey and a daughter. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16, at Davis-Struempf Funeral Home Chapel in Austell, Ga. and from 11 a.m. Thursday until the 1 p.m. funeral. Interment will follow at West Georgia Memorial Park Cemetery. For a complete obituary and streaming video of the funeral, visit davisstruempf.com.

Editor's note: Updates with arrangements.