wally parks is the man that appears on the wally trophy.
who is the man that appears on the wally trophy?
wally parks
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. contrary to popular belief, the wally trophy does not feature parks himself, but is rather modeled after top gas racer jack jones. according to the june 30, 1995 edition of national dragster, in early 1969 jack jones was at his day job, and got a call from wally parks. parks asked him if he would be willing to pose for pictures for a trophy at pomona raceway. pomona is a 16 minute ride from glendora where the nhra is based. jack agreed and a number of pictures were snapped, including the now iconic photo of him with his safety equipment and a tire. later that year, the famous wally trophy was introduced. it is the same design as in 1969.
the wally
at amsterdam two men took a very prominent place thanks to their intelligence and modern spirit. the first, hendrick laurensz. spieghel (1549–1612) was a humanist, less polemical than coornhert. his chief contribution to literature was his "twe-spraack van de nederduytsche letterkunst" ("dialogue on dutch literature"), a philological exhortation urging the dutch nation to purify and enrich its tongue at the fountains of antiquity. that spieghel was a catholic prevented him perhaps from exercising as much public influence as he exercised privately among his younger friends. the same may be said of the man who in 1614 first collected spieghel's writings and published them in a volume together with his own verse. roemer visscher (1547–1620) proceeded a step further than spieghel in the cultivation of polite letters. he was deeply tinged with a spirit of classical learning. his own disciples called him the dutch martial, but he was at best little more than an amateur in poetry, although an amateur whose function it was to perceive and encourage the genius of professional writers. roemer visscher stands at the threshold of the new renaissance literature, himself practising the faded arts of the rhetoricians, but pointing by his counsel and his conversation to the naturalism of the great period.
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