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EVERYBODY LOVES WALLY; Hot rod patriarch celebrates his 94th with friends.(Revs)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
If there is someone in the world who does not love Wally Parks, we have never met him, and that person has certainly never met Wally Parks.
The founder of the National Hot Rod Association, first editor of Hot Rod magazine and living icon of motorsports in America turned 94 a few weeks ago, and a few hundred friends dropped by to celebrate. The birthday party was held, appropriately, in the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, a few quarter-miles away from the NHRA season-opening Winternationals going on that same weekend.
The museum was packed with everyone you've ever heard of in drag racing and hot rodding, as well as a large number of people you haven't heard of but all of whom love Wally Parks.
Carroll Shelby was on hand for the festivities. He and Parks took the stage in nice, comfy chairs and swapped a few stories.
"I'm only seated because Carroll was tired,'' said Parks.
Shelby told some sports car stories and some chicken-farming stories. Parks told a good one that doesn't translate well to the printed page but ends with a waiter saying to Shelby, "You've got your foot in the pie.''
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