American auto-racing driver. As a third of NASCAR's famed Fabulous Flock Brothers & a brother of sister-racer Ethel & pioneer stuntwoman Reo, he worked as an illegal moonshine deliveryman before making his racing debut in 1938, followed by his first career win two years later at a 100-mile racing event at Georgia's Lakewood Speedway. The following year, he qualified for the pole position at Florida's Daytona Beach Race Course, but his run ended early in the race when he & "Rapid" Roy Hall collected & crashed on the South Turn, leaving Fonty severely-injured. Not long after he had fully-recovered from his injuries, he was drafted & served four and-a-half years with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Not long after he was honorably-discharged in 1947, he made his National Championship Stock Car Circuit (NCSCC) debut at the inaugural race of North Carolina's North Wilkesboro Speedway, winning both the pole & the 30-lap heat event. Later that season, he took over his brother Bob's racecar after Bob was injured in a crash & drove it to win another six of the 47 races of that season & that year's championship title. Two years later, he finished second in NASCAR's inaugural Strictly Stock Series race at North Carolina's Charlotte Speedway, & later won NASCAR's National Modified Championship. In 1950, he made his first regular-season NASCAR win at Pennsylvania's Langhorne Speedway. In 1951, he began racing full-time with NASCAR, finishing second in points that season. In 1952, he won the 3rd Annual Southern 500 at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway. At the 1953 Daytona Beach Road Course Race, he was leading by more than a minute before running out of gas on the final lap, finishing second behind Bill Blair. The following year, he switched back to racing part-time after opening his insurance agency. In 1956, he won his final race at Charlotte Speedway. He announced his retirement from motorsports while hospitalized on the evening of September 2, 1957, after he & drivers Paul Goldsmith & Bobby Myers wrecked on the 27th lap of the 8th Annual Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. In his nine-year career with NASCAR, he had made 154 starts, 19 wins, 72 top-fives, 83 top-tens & 33 poles. In 2004, more than three decades after he passed away from cancer, he was posthumously-inducted into both the Talladega Walk of Fame & the Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame.