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This picture was taken by me when we got to meet Alan Kulwicki at Hooters in Jonesboro, GA (Altanta) during the May 1992 spring race. This was the year he won the champship and died in a plane crash in 1993 while flying into Rockingham, NC for the second race of the 1993 season. On the way to time trails for the May 1992 spring race on Thursday my brother John, good friend Dean Schniederman and I were driving pass this Hooters and seen them rolling the show car off the trailer and decided to stop and take some pictures. We took some pictures and had allot of time to kill and decided to get something to eat. As we were going inside we noticed a poster saying that Alan would be there between 6 - 7 PM that night. So after time trails we came back and grabbed something to eat and had some beers waiting. We were talking to the manager and found out he was born and raised in Janesville and just moved down to the Atlanta area. His Dad owned Friendly Tap on Rockport Rd and as we were talking I told him my ex wife worked there at one time and he knew her! He gave us the Hooters racing hats and t-shirts for cost. Alan came in a little before 6 PM and there was only 13 people in the place and 6 staff memebers. So after everyone went through the line to get his to sign a few things we got to sit there and talk to him for about 20 minutes. We talked to him about Slinger when he raced there and some of the people we knew growing up who raced there. He knew them and said to say HI to whoever we ran into later. He was very shy, but a great guy and talked a little more once he started to only up.