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Eugene "Gene" H. Tapia (March 16, 1925 – April 12, 2005) was an American race car driver from Mobile, Alabama.〔 He competed in four NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) races,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gene Tapia driving statistics )〕 but he is best known for racing in the #327 supermodified. He was nicknamed the "King of the Supermodifieds." ==Early life== Tapia was born on March 16, 1925, in Mobile, Alabama, to Ada and Homer Tapia.〔 When he was nine years old, he attended a dirt track race with his father.〔 His father began taking him regularly to motorcycle races in the mid 1930s.〔 At the age of 17, Tapia got married. That same year, he was involved in a street fight〔 and the county district attorney suggested that he should leave town to avoid prosecution.〔 In order to resolve the matter amicably, he left Mobile to work as a civilian on a military base in Alaska. Tapia was wounded when the Japanese attacked Dutch Harbor in June 1942.〔 While Tapia was away, his wife gave birth to a boy named Larry Eugene Tapia in September 1942 at Memphis, Tennessee.〔 Before either parent was able to see the baby, he was stolen by Georgia Tann's baby theft ring that worked at the hospital.〔 In June 1943, Tapia returned to Mobile where he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.〔 He served with the Third Marine Division in Guadalcanal, the first-day invasion of Guam, and spent over 35 days on Iwo Jima. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gene Tapia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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