Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Vintage LM Race vintage tachymeters

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Another point of reference:  Watch the opening scene in
the movie Grand Prix, aka "Stickytach".

Hans.

On 1/4/07, red5hilser [at] aol.com <red5hilser [at] aol.com> wrote:
> Beats me. Back in the 1950's/60's, when I used to haunt the pits at such places 
> as Riverside, Pomona, Paramount Ranch, and Laguna Seca, it was common in pure 
> race cars to see the tachs move in increments of a few hundred revs. It was so 
> common that I think it was SOP. Both Smiths in the British cars and Jaeger in 
> the Italian Ferrari's Maserati's, and OSCA's were the same. My Jaguar XK120 and 
> Austin-Healey 100 had mechanical Smiths which were smooth, but they were road 
> machines. I remember watching Carroll Shelby warm up John Edgar's 4.5 Maserati 
> in the pits at Pomona, and the tach jumped back and forth a few hundred revs at 
> a time as he 'bliped' the throttle. Had I known this would come up 50 years 
> later on the List ... I would have asked 'Ol Shel' or John, who always sat in a 
> director's chair on top of his 18 wheel hauler to watch the races. In those 
> days the vast majority of cars were towed to the races using either a pick-up 
> or panel truck. Needless to say, I was impressed
>  !
>
> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba