Willie Walter "Pee Wee" Wallace

Willie Walter "Pee Wee" Wallace was a drag racer. He started racing in the 1950s & raced up into the 1970s. In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, he drove in thousands of races at hundreds of drag strips, traveling the East Coast from Canada to Florida, with occasional forays as far west as California.

Mr. Wallace built and maintained his own dragsters, campaigning most of his career in cars nicknamed "The Virginian." He was hard to beat. He won countless match races, and in 1974, '75 and '76 was the AA Funny Car champion of the National Hot Rod Association's Division 1 — the organization's tough Northeast region.

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Willie Walter "Pee Wee" Wallace was a drag racer. He started racing in the 1950s & raced up into the 1970s. In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, he drove in thousands of races at hundreds of drag strips, traveling the East Coast from Canada to Florida, with occasional forays as far west as California.

Mr. Wallace built and maintained his own dragsters, campaigning most of his career in cars nicknamed "The Virginian." He was hard to beat. He won countless match races, and in 1974, '75 and '76 was the AA Funny Car champion of the National Hot Rod Association's Division 1 — the organization's tough Northeast region.

At one time, he held speed records simultaneously at 10 drag strips. He is celebrated as the first person to exceed 200 M.P.H. in Canada.

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