![]() ![]() Shepherd said it costs him $9,000 a race weekend to compete in the Xfinity series - the Triple A of NASCAR - including $2,400 for a set of tires. We have a clothing company back home, Tommy Hilfiger, that gives, shirts, underwear, pants. ![]() We’ve had a charity that’s going in its 32nd year, the Morgan Shepherd Charity Fund where we help handicapped people. “It changed my life and that’s why you see the cross on the hood of my car. Then, I learned to hate everything about alcohol. It felt like a thousand pounds had been taken off my shoulders. When I got done I felt like I could jump straight through the roof. I fell down on my knees and started praying. I had been to church all my life, but it didn’t really stick. “It was 8:30 at night and I had to either shoot myself in the head or do something about it. “I got saved in ’75, February 23, stopped drinking,” recalled Shepherd. Shepherd is a born again Christian and serves as a lay minister to the racing community.
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