Oscar Koveleski , Founder of Auto World Dies At 88

[TooOld]

I grew up with Auto World and became friends with Oscar thru his KidRacer program at the Daytona 24Hr race . He will be greatly missed .
God Speed Oscar .

[davevan1]

Oscar introduced me and my wife......................

OK....not first hand. BUT....if not for Oscar we would have never met. See we moved from SoCal to NC between the 7th and 8th grades. I was suffering from culture shock on a MAJOR scale. On the first day of 8th grade I just kept to myself, not knowing anyone and had already been told 'I' talked funny. (Y'all??)
But in my last class of the day a guy walks in, pulls a desk into the corner and pulls out a Auto World catalog. Not only was it a Auto World catalog it was the newest one and I had not seen yet. So I went over and introduced myself. We became good friends and he is now, for 41 years, my brother in law.
So I always say Oscar introduced us!

[41chevy]

I believe I was pitted near him at the Bridge when I attempted to race there in the early 70's. I did spend hours with my nose buried in the AW catalogs when I was in school.