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Salute to Parnelli Is No Drag; Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum Honors Jones.(National Hot Rod Association honors.)
Byline: TRICK C. PATERNIE
Why, you may ask, is the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum featuring a "Salute to Parnelli Jones'' through Aug. 31?
The answer reaches further back in history than the Vel's Parnelli Jones-sponsored 1976 Mustang Funny Car that is one of the seven car featured. It reaches as far back as 90-year-old NHRA founder Wally Parks' high school days.
Looking as ready to roll as any of the museum's 80-plus cars, Parks recalled at the Jones exhibit's unveiling that two of his classmates went on to make important discoveries. Glenn T. Seaborg, class valedictorian, won a Nobel Prize in 1951 as co-discoverer of plutonium and headed the Atomic Energy Commission. Another classmate, Omar Danielson, opened a junkyard in Colton that sponsored a jalopy race car.
Danielson hired a crew-cut kid to drive his jalopy and told Parks to "watch him, because he'll win the Indy 500 one day.''
Rufus Parnelli Jones won a lot of other races besides Indy, and that makes him a perfect fit for Parks' desire for a museum that recognizes all areas of motorsports.
"I'm the kind of guy who ...
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