CHRISTIANSBURG -- They didn't last long at the after-prom party.

"It was boring," groaned Shane Green.

His date, Becky Looney, disagreed.

"It was really neat. They had a poker room and this jumpy thing with a slide. Meaghan would have loved it!"

But Meaghan, Looney's 6-year-old daughter, didn't get to go to the Giles High School prom. Her grandparents took her to the carnival so her 27-year-old mother could get all dressed up and accompany Green, 18, to his senior dance.

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At the Motor Mile Speedway awards banquet on Dec. 9, Becky Looney catches up on Shane Greene’s life since their trip to the Giles High School prom.

Mike and Becky Looney make the rounds at the Motor Mile Speedway awards banquet Dec. 9 in Christiansburg. Mike Looney drives car No. 47 in the limited sportsman division.

At 349 pounds, Green considered himself romance-challenged.

Looney, however, jumped at the chance to go to the prom with Green. She was only 17 when she married Mike Looney -- her race car-driving husband -- and had missed her own prom. With her husband's blessing, she made a date with Green.

"I think it's fine," Mike Looney said in May. "She never got to go to the prom with me because I was racing. That was a no-brainer for me -- go to a stupid dance or race."

So Becky Looney bought a dress, Shane Green rented a tux, and off they went.

They hadn't talked since the big night until they met up at Motor Mile Speedway's awards banquet Dec. 9 in Christiansburg.

"You dating anybody?" Looney asked Green.

"No," he replied. "I'm a lonely guy. I ain't never dated nobody."

"Well, you had girls all over you at the prom," Looney countered.

"That's because you were there," said Green, shrugging.

Green said a lot has happened to him since the prom in May.

"I graduated. I got a job. I lost a couple of jobs. I started wrestling."

New Age Wrestling -- or NAW -- is now his calling. Green said he signed up for Handsome Jimmy "Boogie Woogie" Valiant's wrestling camp. He's already made an appearance on local TV and hopes to make more. He even has his wrestling persona worked out in his head.

With his trademark bib overalls and boots, he thinks he might call himself "Moonshine."

"I'm going to be a pro wrestler," he said, grinning.

"If I can get my money together," he added.

In addition to wrestling, Green's other dream -- to work on a pit crew -- came true this past summer.

Motor Mile Speedway's late model stock car driver Jimmy Johnson made room for him in the pits.

"He got to fulfill his dream of being able to work on the race car, and we were able to turn out a good season," Johnson said, noting that Green was a lively addition to the No. 53 crew.

"He's a fun guy to have around. Good times and bad, he can make you laugh," Johnson said. "He made me laugh."

Meanwhile, Becky Looney spent the summer in the stands at Motor Mile Speedway, watching her husband, Mike, take the most checkered flags in the limited sportsman division.

Although he won the most races in his No. 47 car, Mike Looney lost the title to Ray Sowers, whose consistency in 12 top-five finishes earned him the championship.

Mike Looney said he enjoyed the racing season but wishes the story about his prom-going wife had never appeared in the newspaper.

"I got enough ribbing about that thing at the racetrack," he said. "People were giving me a hard time."

His wife -- who's still as pretty as ever -- said she's glad she went to the prom with Green, even though it didn't turn out the way she expected.

"You feel so out of place. You feel like you have two left feet."

"But it was fun," she added. "It was really different. It's definitely for the teenagers."

The Giles High School prom, she said, was her first.

And her last.

"I'm done. I had my little fun."

Original story from May 5: Two dreams will come true at Giles prom