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Photo ID # b01.25.05_001_MAR_FLM_0080O_1
Car #: #1
Driver (s) : Wally Marks (car owner since the 40s in victory lane here with Frank Cozze in the 80's)
Location: Flemington
Date: 1980's
Photographer: Ace Lane Jr.
Photo provided by: Ace Lane Jr.
Comments: If you get a chance to talk to anyone who worked with Wally.... pull up a chair and listen....  "Wood packed into the bumpers to keep them from kinking", "Racers spend 35 cents on soup and $35 on the race car", "When you file a sharp edge, file into it, not around it".... 

Working out of a garage in Trenton, Wally provided an education for many including Bill Nash, Ray Neary, Fred Menschner, Bob Barone, and many, many more who later went on to become drivers, owners and crew members for many of the cars that we all remember from the Trenton, NJ and Morrisville, Pa area.

Many of the Vault Visitors will remember the awkward little #1 Coupe driven by Lee (or was it Larry...or both) Taylor in the mid 70's.   Many thought it was just plain ugly, but word is that Wally intentionally made the car look kind of pieced together so that it was very difficult to figure out what he was doing as far as set up, off set, etc....  (Come to think about it, I don't remember anybody sneaking up to it with a tape measure... or to copy the look of it and from what I hear, that was just fine with Wally.)

Many may not know that Wally owned cars wearing the gold #1 all the way back in the 40's and it was Wally's car that won the 1951 Nascar Modified Championship with the late Wally Campbell at the wheel.

It is our understanding that Wally provided some of his 50+ years of experience to help the DeBlasio Team in the #1 pictured above that later became the #5 driven the following year by Billy Pauch. 

It was with this car, and the photo above that we think the one and only Wally Marks last visited Victory Lane.  

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