Dink Braithwaite

Dink Braithwaite
Sex	M
Birth name	Delmer Braithwaite

Dink Braithwaite was driver who tried out for MMSA at Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1950. He'd had a modified '37 Ford which he'd put a lot of time and money into but it got wrecked a couple of weeks previously.

After a try-out running with Mel Austin and then running in a heat and the feature race he was offered a place with the outfit.^BR1-8

He returned home to Wisconsin at the end of the 1950 season and returned for the start of the 1951 season.

He often went to church if they were not making a long jump between races on a Sunday.

Dink was one of the MMSA crew invited to Hoss Korodan's wedding in June 1951. He rarely drank but got plastered at the reception. He woke up the next morning with a hell of a hangover, sandwiched between two nude and snoring girls that he said had to have gone three hundred pounds each.^BR1-18

Winter 1952/53 Dink stayed in Livonia sharing a house with Rocky, Pepper, Mel, Chick, Hattie and Carol. He bunped into the heavyweight cousins he'd met at Hoss's wedding and spent three or four nights a week with them.^BR1-20

Dink took second place in the 1952 MMSA Championship. That winter he stayed with his two girlfriends and worked on the cars with Rocky, Pepper, John and Spud.^BR1-25 He got a job with the Buick dealership so he could stay with the girls and make the arrangement a bit more permanent so didn't go racing with MMSA in 1953.^BR1-26

When the 53 car was wrecked at Schererville and sent back to Herb Kralick Ford in Livonia Dink joined Hoss, Peewee and Chick rebuilding it in their spare time.^BR1-33

Dink and his girls invited Rocky, Pepper, Spud and Mel over for New yerar's Eve 1953/54. Unable to decide between the two girls Dink said he’d given some thought to becoming a Mormon or a Moslem so he could marry both of them. ^BR1-35

They never did marry and had six kids between the two women and another one on the way when Mell Austin saw them at the MMSA reunion in 1964.^BR2-19