Ferrari Mailing List: Re: £3million Ferrari 275 GTB attacks Goodwood hill

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

iPhone or Android? Some devices have either a physical “hold” switch, or it could be in your general/camera settings.

 

With my Android phone, just rotating it causes the camera settings on the side of the screen to rotate to match the horizon (regardless if the phone is pointing vertically, or sideways). I check that prior to taking the pic. Also note if you’re sending these messages to the ‘List from your phone, hold it sideways and either attach it, or insert inline to the message. That should keep it in Landscape orientation.

 

Peter

 

Sent from Mail for Windows

 

 

From: Hans E. Hansen
Sent: October 1, 2021 7:35 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] £3million Ferrari 275 GTB attacks Goodwood hill

 

Sort of what I'm trying to say is that my phone's camera is vertically oriented like the screen. The book is horizontal. 

 

Hans. 

 

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 7:29 PM Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:

Uh.. Did it show up upside down? 

 

I took it sideways because of the book dimensions. Orientation was determined by the location of the camera lens and glare from light source.

 

Hans. 

 

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 6:44 PM Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Check if your smartphone camera setting is on Australia.

 

Don’t think it’s set to New Zealand as I don’t see the back side of a sheep anywhere in the pic…

On Oct 1, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:



OK, I think something screwed up there. Retry of an image send

 

Hans. 

 

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 5:26 PM Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:

Doug:

 

A piece of memorabilia until recently lost on my shelf.

 

This is a 95 page auction book for 917/10-003 that was prepared by Mecum for the 2012 Monterey August car orgy weekend. Tons of history of both the car and the program as a whole. Lots on the development, and Penske's (and Donahue) involvement. Historic photos, etc.

 

Hans. 

 

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 12:08 PM Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

Peter notes “. . . figure out that ain’t no four cylinder!”

 

Oh yeah.

 

Some short 40 or so page B/W document booklet (Cars in Profile?) put out by one of the motor books publishers (there was a collection of such booklets – Brabham, Alfa Romero Type 8, etc) that goes over the development of their subject had a booklet on the 917.  So someplace I read when Porsche mounted up the Type 912 air cooled vertical fan motor in the testing room and pulled some high RPM’s the fan evacuated the room and dislodged (I believe it said sucked in but I don’t trust my memory and honestly, that sounds pretty ludicrous) the windows.

 

Interesting crankshaft(s).  To minimize torsional vibrations the engine had another ‘crankshaft’ beneath the regular crankshaft.  Really not a crank shaft but a simple power take off shaft located in the center of the 12 cylinders.  This arrangement also drove the oil scavenge pumps and fan.

 

It was really quite a motor.  As you may already know, the Porsche dealer who was quite involved on the west coast as a racer and subsequent race car preparer was Vasek Polak.  He was the first exclusive Porsche dealership in the U.S.  Others were tied to VW of America.

 

Anyhow – Vasek was privy to factory firsts and as such had a bevy of the first 917’s and CanAm 917’s.  I recall his driver, Milt Minter, at a gathering talking about the 917 normally aspirated CanAm 917 that became a turbo charged 917.  To begin with, Joe Seifert had raced the regular (as if there is such a thing) 917-10 in 1971 in the CanAm’s and settled for some 2nds and thirds and a 4^th place over all.  Then Penske came along and with Donohue developed the car into a McLaren Killer Car.  And that it did.

 

But back to Uncle Milty – so Milt is driving the car early in the 1972 season, pre-Penske L&M sponsored 917, and getting waxed.  Vasek tells Milt – skip the next CanAm and send the car back to us at race Hq in Hermosa Beach, CA.  Milty did as requested.  The car then returns and shows up to the next scheduled race, I forget the track. 

 

So Milt suits up – notices things look a bit strange in the engine compartment but was told never mind – test it out.  So he takes a few warm up laps and then gets on it.  The track has a long back straight and a slight rise – as he cleared the rise the engine redlines and fills the open cockpit with smoke.  Oh MY Milt tells the audience – I think I just ruined the clutch.  He continues – I immediately returned to the pits and as I entered I saw people clapping and giving me a thumbs up.  What’s that about?  When I make it to my pit the crew starts slapping me on the back . . . you were smoking the rear tires down the back stretch.  Vasek had put in the factory turbo engine.  Handle with care.

 

In the early 1980’s Vasek’ s race Scuderia curator, Carl Thompson, who oversaw Vasek’ s huge collection of race cars.  Those were stacked two or three high in individual cubby holes, nose pointing out, in a very large ware house in Torrance, close to the Hermosa Beach Hq.  We were invited down there for a look-see and a chat with some of the crews – no cameras please.  In one of the aisles I noticed stacks, as in at least 4 high and many feet long, 917 engine crates.  Open crates, not boxes.  It honestly was the first time I ever had a chance to look at a naked engine.  On all of them, the spark plug wires were about as big around as a #2 pencil.

 

Some time later, 1997, Vasek crashed a 911 Turbo S on the Autobahn and was severally injured.  He was 82 and old folks don’t heal quickly.  On his way home in a special private jet made up like a hospital room, he had a heart attack and died.  Then the sea gulls came in to raid Vasek’ s treasure trove.  As I recall there was a questionable number of items missing.  I believe it got worked out.

 

                    

 

Vasek’ s old store.

 

Ach – the memories

Doug

 

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