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- ↑ "Trampas Parker AMA results". racerxonline.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ↑ Motorcycle Hall of Fame Archived 2008-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Trampas Parker career profile
- ↑ Vohland and Parker Come Up Short, American Motorcyclist, November 1995, Vol. 49, No. 11, ISSN 0277-9358
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