b02.04.05_001_POT_REA_0074

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02/04/05	3-Wide	I didn't know that Lauden drove this car as it was often found at Flemington with the Taylor Twins (Lee and Larry) behind the wheel. There are not that many pictures of this car, even though most of us remember it very well. Probably because the photographer's knew that most fans were more interested in the sleek and the pretty.... and I'm sure that Wally Marks was more interested in finding ways to make his racecar faster rather than filling the scrapebook with a bunch of pictures.... Definitely not going to win best of show... but from everyone I know who used to work with Wally, it was ugly by design.... Wally had some amazing ideas and probably the less showy, the less likely people would notice.... I hope some of the guys like Ray Neary, Fred Menschner, Bill Nash, Ralph Barone and others who worked on Wally's #1's could add some of their stories about Wally. From what I hear, not a lot was left to chance from the way the throttle linkage angles had to be calculated to get an even distribution of the driver's request to the engine, to the reason why this car didn't have doors and instead just had panels on the roll cage painted to match the body... Wally was always looking for an advantage... It may not have won best of show, but it you can be sure that this thing was one Wally Marks innovation after another from bumper to bumper... Speaking of bumpers, did you know that that Wally used to pack the bumpers with wood to keep them from kinking? (At least I think that's why... maybe you guys who worked with Wally can tell us if there was even more to it than that... I heard he had it in the frame rails too...).
02/05/05	Walter Onora	Boy, this modified stood out like a "Sore thumb". Quite a few drivers drove this car. The Taylor twins, Red Coffin, just to name three. Good trivia question, how many others drove for Wally!!!
02/05/05	3-Wide	But it was fast... I can still picture this thing sweeping past Harry Dee, angling into turn one with Lee (or Larry?) inside driving with his left hand, with his right hand holding on to the side of the cage.
02/05/05	Walter Onora	Hey, Joe. The difference between the Taylor Twins is, Larry was more prone to drive the car one handed, where Lee was a little more coventional(both hands) If you have any pictures of the Briggs X-15, Larry would drive that modified one handed, as well!!
02/10/05	Fred Voorhees	Hey 3 Wide, I also remember this car being extremely fast. I remember many a night when, at Flemington in the mod feature, this car would be kickin butt and taking names. Also, I don't know how true it is, but I understand that Wally also used to use actual 2X4 lumber in/or for the framerails to aid in chassis flex. The car sure was butt ugly, but it went!
02/10/05	3-Wide	I'm sure Fred Menschner or Ray Neary could give us the story on the 2 X 4's if they could only get their keyboards working! Hey Fred and Ray... how about a little help here....
02/12/05	Rich Havens Jr.	Dad ran this car acouple of time. I remember once at Flemington. Dad ran good in his heat, they changed the gears in the car for the feature. When he went out to take the green and stepped on the gas, the car didn't go, here they put the gears in upside down..:) He also ran this car at the first race at Bridgeport, the track was so bad that the floorboard fell out and the mud held his feet on the padels.. I remember Dad saying, that the car would run.
04/18/07	Bucky	Pete Madsen also was a regular driver in this car. He said it had a monster motor and was a bear to handle. It did have two by fours in its frame. This was an old school (by 1970's standards) method of stiffening the frame. You really couldn't weld on the frame. It was welded on very rarely at the track and usually with a lot of water around. Most repairs were bolted to the frame. Wally was really sharp and taught me how to read the weather and track surfaces for tire set up. A nice man with a gentle soul.
11.13.09	fltlnjok	This, my friends is the QUINTESSENTIAL CLASSIC modified, handling or not. '37 Ford coupe, note the rear windows and the deck slope. Screaming engine, sturdy construction, same family of engine and lots of rust and wrinkles. Look again @Hoop's 95. The drivers then were drivers who could make nearly anything run. I think they laughed at Buzzie for power steering. Didn't laugh long though. My son, approaching 40, happened to look at my computer left on 3 WIDE. His comment? " I was looking at those racers from when I was a kid. Too bad we couldn't go more often". Yes Steve, WAY too bad. We used to sit on our neighbors front lawn on rte 202 in Bridgewater and watch cars going to Flemington. Even those were wonderful times just seeing the cars on the way to the track.

Photo ID #	b02.04.05_001_POT_REA_0074_1
Car #:	#1
Driver (s) :	Driver: Lauden Potts, Owner: Wally Marks
Location:	Reading
Date:	1974
Photographer:	Mike Feltenberger
Photo provided by:	Mike Feltenberger
Comments:	Comment from Mike: Here is a photo of the Wally Marks #1 at the Reading Fairgrounds in 1974. The driver on this occasion was Lauden Potts. As you can see by this photo beauty was not something Wally strived to attain. Look closely and you can see the door panel and the door frame were not together and the door panel actually was attached to the front roll cage while the door frame extended out a few inches further.This car was very fast down the straightaways but did have some handling problems.