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The Wally is the trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event. They have been handed out at national events starting with the 1969 NHRA race season. With an antique brass plating over a standard metal mix and a solid walnut base, the "Wally" (named after NHRA founder Wally Parks) is 18 inches tall and weighs 12 pounds.
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, located in Fair plex, Los Angeles County, houses a collection of memorabilia, automobiles, and motorcycles related to the sport of hot-rodding. History [ edit ]
Winners of National Hot Rod Association national events are awarded a trophy statue nicknamed the Wally. The trophy is a bronze statue of a Top Gas racer next to a tire on a wooden platform. As the NHRA celebrated its 60th anniversary season in 2011, pewter Wally trophies were awarded to all of the winners during that season.
With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world. [1] The association was founded by Wally Parks in 1951 in California to provide a governing body to organize and promote the sport of drag racing. NHRA's first Nationals was held in 1955, in Great Bend, Kansas.
She once lost a race, and a highly coveted NHRA Wally Trophy, to a professional driver by two thousandths of a second, mere inches. Wayne has won two 12-pound, 18-inch-tall, brass-plated Wallys ...
Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: Pomona: San Gabriel Valley: Automotive: Memorabilia, automobiles and motorcycles related to the sport of hot rodding Warner Bros. Museum: Burbank: San Fernando Valley: Media: Part of the VIP Tour of Warner Brothers Studio, motion picture and television memorabilia Wende Museum: Culver City: Westside: History
The NHRA's national event known as the Springnationals bounced around among three different sites from 1965-1971. Wally Parks, founder and head of the NHRA at the time, decided to move the Springnationals to National Trail Raceway in 1972, based on the popularity of drag racing in central Ohio. According to National Trail Raceway's website ...
Bob Glidden (August 18, 1944 – December 17, 2017) was an American drag racer.He retired from Pro Stock racing in 1997 and returned in 2010. [1] Glidden retired as the driver with the most wins in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) history at that time — a feat recently topped by 16-time Funny Car champion John Force — and he was the third-most successful drag racer of the professional ...