David Into

David Into (died April 20, 2015^{[citation needed]}) is an American racing driver who won the NASCAR Weekly Series national championship in 1984.^[1]

David Into
Nationality	American
Born	Ridgeland, South Carolina
Died	April 20, 2015
Teams	Fred Hughes
Starts	67
Wins	23
Championship titles
10× Oglethorpe Speedway Park Champion
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Service / branch	Army
Years of service	1962–1964

Born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, Into has lived most of his life in Hardeeville, with the exception of a few years in Savannah, GA. He graduated from Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School in 1957, and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia for a few years before joining the U.S. Army. He served from 1962–64, and upon returning home he pursued the field of architecture, becoming a draftsman.

Racing career

Driving a Dirt Late Model^[2] for owner Fred Hughes, Into won 23 of the 67 races that he entered. Most were at Summerville Speedway in South Carolina and Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia, with some at several other tracks in three states. Into won the track championship at Oglethorpe that year, starting a string of ten championships in eleven years there.^[1]

He worked for the Savannah architectural firm of Gunn, Meyerhoff and Shay.^[3]