David Into (died April 20, 2015) is an American

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who won the

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Weekly Series national championship in 1984.Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. . pp. 17-22. Born in

Ridgeland, South Carolina Ridgeland is a town in Jasper and Beaufort counties, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,749 at the 2020 census, a 7.1% decrease from 2010. It has been the county seat of Jasper County since the county's formation in 1912. As defi ...

, Into has lived most of his life in

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, with the exception of a few years in

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. He graduated from

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in 1957, and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia for a few years before joining the U.S. Army. He served from 1962–64, and upon returning home he pursued the field of architecture, becoming a draftsman.

Racing career

Driving a Dirt Late Model for owner Fred Hughes, Into won 23 of the 67 races that he entered. Most were at Summerville Speedway in South Carolina and Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia, with some at several other tracks in three states. Into won the track championship at Oglethorpe that year, starting a string of ten championships in eleven years there. He worked for the Savannah architectural firm of Gunn, Meyerhoff and Shay.

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