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

Good point Willi - when some bozo newspaper guy - present company excluded - 
at the Times GP in the Riverside garage asked "Hey Jim - why the wing?"  Jim 
just drawled - Ever stick your head out of a car window at over a 100 mph?" 
End of story.  heh heh

DOUG
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From: <red5hilser [at] aol.com>

To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:20 PM

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Now Jim Hall...Re: RIP Phil Hill
>From what I've been led to believe, Chevrolet provided materials and some 
>technical assistance to Jim, but the inovations were his or his 
>refinements?of other similiar ideas. I'm sure that his engineering degree 
>from Cal Tech was put to some good use. After all, Cal Tech is considered 
>the M.I.T. of the West Coast.
Yer pal, Bubba

-----Original Message-----
From: LS
Subject: Now Jim Hall...Re: [Ferrari] 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

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From: "red5hilser [at] aol.com" <red5hilser [at] aol.com>
To: LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
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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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Re: Now Jim Hall...Re: RIP Phil Hill	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Doug and Terri Anderson (dntdock.net)
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT)