Mickey Domen:  

I was born December 11, 1949 at 5:12 a.m. at Mobile Infirmary, I haven't liked getting up early ever since then. I attended Kate Shepard Elementary, Azalea Road Junior High, Davidson High, Yancey State, Faulkner State, University of South Alabama, a few classes at Springhill College and finally Troy State University at Pensacola N.A.S. for my final degrees, Andrea Sue Smith and I married May 17, 1969 & have endured each other ever since. I have always loved muscle cars as some of you may remember my red '58 Impala convertible w/348, tri-power carbs, etc. Later, in late 1971, I was minding my own business street racing a SS454 Chevelle, when a State Trooper in, at that time, an AMC Javelin w/401 motor, disrupted the proceedings and began to chase me for several miles at 2:00 a.m. on a full moonlit early winter's night. I lost him on I-10 before the Mississippi State line. While me and my '70 Road Runner, 440 six barrel were napping for the next few hours until things quieted down (woods of the rest stop), I got to thinking of how much fun the Police must have, at times, at their job. I knew quite a number of Officers from our family business of chrome plating or bluing their guns and other items. About a week after the chase, the State Trooper that had chased me & knew my car, a hard to spot lime green '70 Roadrunner called "Green Slime", approached me at the parking lot of "Chick's", a local drive in fast food place where fast cars also gathered to talk up races. The trooper who as it turned out I knew, told me "Mickey, if you insist on staying up riding around mo...Expand for more