Shampine began drag racing in 1959 at the quarter-mile ESTA Safety Park Dragstrip in Cicero, New York. Then in 1962 he bought his friend Nolan Swift's championship-winning “Ten Pins” numbered modified, converted it to a supermodified, and renumbered it the enduring “8-Ball”. He went on to win seven (1967, 1970, 1972–1974, 1976 & 1979) Oswego Speedway track championships, as well as an International Supermodified Association championship competing at venues throughout the northeast. Shampine concurrently campaigned his modified at New York's asphalt speedways:
Fulton,
Lancaster,
Shangri-La in Owego,
Spencer in Williamson, and
Utica-Rome in Vernon. He also competed successfully in a dirt-track modified at
Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania and
Weedsport Speedway in New York, and captured the 1970 track championship at the
Rolling Wheels Raceway in Elbridge, New York. Shampine died in a modified racing accident at Oswego Speedway on September 4, 1982. He was inducted into the Eastern Motorsports Press Association, the
Northeast Dirt Modified and the
New York State Stock Car Association Halls of Fame. ==References==