The name "Walts Puffer" has been applied to several drag race cars and all were very successful in their respected classes, winning several National Championships. The first car was a 1937 Ford Chrysler powered A/A in 1957. Our first Fiat to bare that title was in 1959 as a high boy supercharged A/A. In 1961 we brought out a new chopped top Fiat powered by both a supercharged 392 and later in the year a 454 which raced as an A/A285 and later it became a AA/A285. 1961 also introduced our first roadster "Walts Puffer too"A/R284 and that also became AA/R284 as classes were slightly modified a year later. Both the Roadster and Altered competed at the same time in there own class. Later events, which I attribute to NHRA directly to me because of the speeds we were running, we had to run both cars as an Altered. I bitched like hell as I felt it was personal and because of me that they consolidated the Altereds and Roadsters in to one class. We did have a clash of egos in 1963 at the Nationals and they won. It was really over the numbers assigned to the cars. They wanted them changed to AA/A385 and AA/R384. I insisted that since the model in AMT`s Double Dragster kit contained the numbers 285 and 284 that it wouldn't match. Well, I lost the discussion and it took me out of something I really missed, notably the NHRA for ten years. I raced as an outlaw with a Fuel Roadster from 1968 until 1970. After a brief AA/FC in 1970 I built another Fuel Altered Fiat until I had an explosion at Martin in 1972. I was finally readmitted in 1973 at the Englishtown Summer Nationals with a brand new Woody Gilmore AA/FR {altered}. Buster Crouch and I shook hands at the starting line ending a long absence from the best racing group in the country, the NHRA.

... All of the Walts Puffers are owned and driven by Wally Knoch