Walt Gamache really
stuffs her into the old boards in this detailed picture from 1959. Walt’s number had quite a bit of significance to
him and many others back then. A bunch of racers chose their
race car #’s from WW2 war fighter planes in the 50s, such as P38 -P51- B 29, all prop jobs. Walt was one of the few at the Valley
to use a Jet fighter number (F86). One
of the other’s was F84 Driven by John Perry .
Back in the day owners came up with clever and fun numbers such as "One Lap Lena", ‘1CUP” (was actually meant to be “I see you pee”, but the announcers called it one cup) and one the all favorites was "11 teen'' just to name a couple.
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