An area resident and local business owner receives national honors for dirt track racing.  Al Purkey has been named a 2024 inductee to the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame.  He is one of four to be named to the 2024 Class and the first from Kansas or Oklahoma.

 

Purkey says he’s proud of the fact that he made the Hall of Fame with his own car and own team.

 

Purkey has also been named to the Ozarks Area Racers Foundation Hall of Fame.  Now retired, he has compiled more than 400 feature wins over six decades from the 1970s through the early 2020s.  

 

Purkey, who lives in rural northeast Oklahoma and owns Purkey’s Used Cars just south of Coffeyville will formally be inducted at a ceremony in August 2024 at the Florence Speedway in Walton, Kentucky.