ALLEE MILLS CLOSES HER LAPTOP and sets it back on the kitchen
table, her new workspace in her parents’ Tulsa, Okla-
homa-area home. She would normally spend this Fri-
day afternoon in the office at her father’s construction
business, Mills Truck & Tractor Services Inc., but like
most of the country, Mills has relocated her work to the
confines of her home to comply with COVID-19 social
distancing practices. ¶ “I really don’t know how this
is going to affect our racing schedule this season,” Mills
says, referring to the novel coronavirus and the shut-
downs that it’s caused throughout the racing industry.
“We are so very last minute as it is. We don’t really have
a set schedule. It’s usually like two weeks before a race
we’re like, ‘OK, there’s a race next weekend. Let’s go.’
Our plans change quite a bit.” ¶ But don’t mistake
Mills’ nonchalance for indifference. The pandemic has
thrown an industrial-sized wrench into the works for
Mills, who is destined to take over the driver’s seat of the “Golden
Kong” ’68 Camaro usually driven by her father, “Big Daddy” DeWayne
Mills, at some of the biggest no-prep races in the country, including
stops on the Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings tour. ¶ Mills’ no-prep
debut, on hold for who knows how long, was first announced at the
KALLEE MILLS, THE DAUGHTER OF RADIAL VS. THE WORLD GREAT
DEWAYNE MILLS, IS READY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
‘Golden Kong’
BY NATE VAN WAGNEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICK BELDEN, CHRIS SEARS, JAMES SISK AND JIM DYAS
April 2020
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