Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Now Jim Hall...Re: RIP Phil Hill

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Helo  Lash - a good read about this happy innovative time is "Chevrolet 
Racing?  The Raucous Sound of Silence."  Not even Chevy knew what was going 
at their private Skunk Works.  It was also about that time McLaren scoped 
out the CanAm tracks - a series of drag strips interrupted by a slight turn. 
So they hired dragster engine builders.  The DNA of those motor may also 
have been from the same caustic aluminum vat as Jim Halls.  No honor amongst 
racers - heh heh
DOUG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LS" <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 11:30 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Now Jim Hall...Re: RIP Phil Hill


How much influence/innovation did Chevy provide for Chaparral?

I know Jim Hall is a smart dude...was he as smart as the Chaparral 
innovations would suggest?

LS



----- Original Message ----
From: "red5hilser [at] aol.com" <red5hilser [at] aol.com>
To: LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:40:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] RIP Phil Hill

I've been a huge fan of Jim Hall ever since I saw him drive his 4.5 Maserati 
during the Palm Springs?Sports Car?Races held at the local airport in 
January, 1959. Jim was an engineering student at Cal Tech at the time and 
had just started racing on weekends. I guess it helps if Daddy owns half the 
oil wells around Midland, Texas. <g>

Johnny von Neuman had just gotten a divorce, and had to sell his stable of 
Ferraris as part of the settlement,? I?went to see Jack Nethercutt, who 
bought several, race the Ferrari that Phil Hill had won the L.A. Times Gtand 
Prix at Riverside Raceway, the previous October. Believe it or not, one of 
the cars that Jack bought was a 1962 GTO that was his daily driver when he 
went to school at UCLA! Anyway, Palm Springs was?his tune-up for the Sebring 
12 Hours that was coming up in April. I talked with Jack on the grid, and he 
came off as an arrogant SOB. Of course it might have been me. I'm sure he 
had other things on his mind more important that talking to a young sports 
writer.

What could have been better, warm Palm Springs January weather, beautiful 
sunshine, watching some of the world's finest sports cars scream by, and a 
nice hot tub before a prime rib?dinner and bed?

Yer faithful scribe, Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug and Terri
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] RIP Phil Hill



In 1966, at the Times Grand Prix at Riverside - and thanks to Bubba Willi, I
had photog passes. Jim Hall had the foresight to hire Phil to drive his
Super Secret automatic transmissioned high wing Chaparral. I am at turn
one, a lazy left hand dog leg taken by those Grp 7 cars at sixty gazillion
miles per hour - it had a slight bump caused by the infield tunnel - not
unlike Indy which made the turn a bit hairy. It was Friday practice and
here comes Phil down the back stretch, into turn 9 and poooof - smoke and
he's on fire!! He manages to stop the car about at the pit exit and turn 1
on the track. Fire truck douse it, fire is out. Phil is out of the car -
not too much damage so it seems, so he gets down on his knees and is looking
under the car when that long legged Texan Mr. Hall comes bounding up - he
sees Phil (who doesn't know what makes these car work either) looking under
Mr. Hall darling skirts - he says in a low voiced Texan drawl - Ahm payin
you to drive this here car - NOT to be looking under it. Imagine that -
pretty uppity for a 31 year old entrepreneur with only 3 F1 grand Prix
points to be talking to a World Champion, uh, employee. heh heh
DOUG
PS - Now that's a real nice picture, Steve.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jenkins" <steve [at] stevejenkins.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:10 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] RIP Phil Hill


> I had the pleasure of meeting him twice. Once in Seattle, and once at the
> Indy F1 race in 2000.
>
>
>
> When I took this picture, I was walking by a trailer at the Seattle
> historic
> races, and he was sitting all by himself on the steps a trailer. I walked
> over and said "Mr. Hill?" He was very nice, and we chatted for about 10
> minutes. I was shocked that nobody else around seemed to care who he was.
>
>
>
> SteveJ


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