| Photo ID # | 12.28.02_001_CAM_UNK_0052_1 |
| Car #: | 1 |
| Driver (s) : | Wally Campbell |
| Location: | Unknown |
| Date: | 1952? |
| Photographer: | Bruce Craig |
| Photo provided by: | Ray Neary |
| Comments: | Wally
Campbell in a Wally Marks #1. If you're a true fan of short track racing, find out
all you can about what these 2 names mean to our sport. For more info about Wally Campbell and Wally Marks, check out Jeff Hardifer's great site at: http://www.wallycampbell.com/index.html |
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| 03/16/03 | Bud Fischer | What a surprise! WALLY Campbell was one of my racing heros... when I was about 4 or 5 years old - 1950-1951. Watched him at Ruppert Stadium and Hinchclif Stadium in the Newark NJ area. Met him once in the pits. A bit later in the 50s, Wally was killed in a "big car" crash. Other favorites from that era were Bob Reed of Hope PA, Jerry Maurissi (sp), and Bill Chevalier . Later at Oldbridge, I favored Lenny Brown who used a GMC truck six with a turbocharger. What about about Parker Bohn? 30s vintage Pontiac with a highly developed GMC six. He raced mostly at Wall Stadium... forever! |
| 03/22/06 | Bill Darcy | Did Wally ever drive the Strupp Miller Special? |
| 07/05/06 | Merit O'Neal | Wally Campbell drove Sam Traylor #25 offy sprint car at
Hatfield in July 1954 and was killed in Nyquist offy six days later at Salem Speedway.
Mike Nazaruk was also killed in Nyquist offy at Langhorne in 1955. The 3 Traylor cars ran at Hatfield in July of 1954. They were driven by Wally in the #25, Al Keller in the #19 and Johnny Thompson in the #9. I worked for George Marshman in the '50s at Hatfield-Sanatoga-and Philadelphia Municipal Stadium. |
| 07/05/06 | 3-Wide | It took too long... roll bars, roll cages, wider
seat, shoulder and lap belts, firesuits, full face helmets, fuel cells, safer tires, safer
speedways, in car caution warning systems, safer walls, safer seats... How strange is it that probably about 50 years ago some people were still saying "How much safer can you make them... What else can they possibly do"? Here we are in 2006, feeling like we've reached the top of the safety ladder, and somebody will read this 10 years from now and say, "Those guys thought they knew it all, and they still hadn't figured out ________. What took them so long? Those reading Merit's comments from above may not know that George Marshman's son Bobby went on to race Indy cars, but also was also killed in a racing accident. The dangers will never totally leave the sport, but we can only hope that we never become complacent. If the Han's Device was developed and required for use in Nascar beginning Jan 1st, 2001, would Dale still be with us? I guess we'll never know. It may be an unfair question and one that's better left un asked, but if it challenges us all to do more to improve safety, than let it be asked. What will be the next major improvement? Before we say there's nothing much left, let's all let history be our best teacher and never stop pushing. |
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