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"Lemon" Racing Lifts Economy in Kershaw, SC

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Automobile racing has meant big business to our state for a very long time.  Think NASCAR and Darlington.  But there’s another race track in a rural area of our state that’s also bringing in some money with a very unusual auto racing event.

Mike Switzer interviews Jay Lamm, founder of 24 Hours of Lemons, a national “lemon” car race now entering its second decade at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC.  The event dates are Sept. 14-16, 2018.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.