By
Todd Silvey October 14, 2018The McGees have always been a racing family. Sons Rob and Ron McGee grew up with father, Ron McGee, Sr., while competing in the IHRA Top Sportsman class for many years. Racing for the family trio came to a stop when both Rob’s father and brother were lost shortly after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Though Rob took a hiatus from the drag racing for a while, he did actively enjoy quad runners and off-road racing. Ultimately though, he was drawn back to the dragstrip because of another hardship.
A few years ago, Rob’s wife had a stroke that left her paralyzed and unable to speak. At that point, he thought it was time to get back into automotive racing. This was also the opportunity to bring his son, Devin, into the sport, thus making a McGee team whole again.
“We went back to drag racing, and have been racing for the past five years,” Rob says. “We had a tube-chassis ’96 Monte Carlo for the first couple of years. We tried running the Top Sportsman field at
Eddyville Raceway Park and qualified, but we were always on the bump. We knew we needed to build a car that could make the field every time.”