In South Australia, such a shelter is known as a "wurley" (also spelled "wurlie"), possibly from the Kaurna language.
Born as an only child in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Meyer began her first "novel," Humpy the Caterpillar and Gladys the Snail: A True Life Romance at age eight.
H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler and the speedway then sponsored the funding for the traveling sculpture exhibition to be featured by Belk College of Business on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where a self-guided tour of the campus-wide display was extended to the end of July.
In 1991, Charlotte Motor Speedway owner O. Bruton Smith and former track president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler approached Musco with the challenge of illuminating the 1.5-mile track for the 1992 Winston, famously promoted and remembered as "One Hot Night".