Showing posts with label Phil Remington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phil Remington. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Ray Brown, Fred Carrillo, Tom Sparks, Phil Remington, and Ed Pink all worked at the Eddie Meyer at the same time
Fred and Tom met when they were 9 years old as neighbors living across the street from one another.
https://www.facebook.com/sparksandbonney/photos/a.207283299462011/468871746636497
Friday, March 27, 2020
Phil Remington
When the Cobra broke a stub axle during its debut at Riverside, he fabbed up a replacement that went into production and never broke again. He reworked the trouble-prone fuel-delivery system of the first Ford GT after riding in the cockpit, sans seat, with Bruce McLaren during hot laps at Brands Hatch. Later, he designed quick-change tools that allowed worn brake pads to be replaced during pit stops.
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/11/15/real-story-behind-ford-v-ferrari
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/11/15/real-story-behind-ford-v-ferrari
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Another legendary icon in hot rodding and sports car racing has passed away, Phil Remington
Phil Remington, last of the soup to nuts mechanics
When West Coast hot rodders started tearing up the dry lakes before World War II, he was there. When Sterling Edwards won the first bonafide sports car race staged on the West Coast after the war, he was there. When Lance Reventlow ran the first American Formula One car at Monte Carlo, he was there. When Carroll Shelby's Cobras crushed all comers from Riverside to Daytona, he was there. When John Holman and Ralph Moody were dominating the Southern stock car scene, he was there. And when Dan Gurney's All American Racers finally won Indianapolis 500, Phil Remington was there.
As director of research and development at Shelby American, Remington was responsible for hundreds of modifications to the all-conquering Ford GT40s, Mark IIs and Mark IVs. On the sketches for these fixes, there used to be a legend: " Draftsman: Remington. Designer: Remington. Engineer: Remington. Approved: Remington." Just call him the last of the soup-to-nuts mechanics.
As soon as the Scarab operation folded in 1962, for instance, Remington landed on his feet with the Cobra program. In fact, when Shelby started leasing shop space in Venice from Reventlow, Remington more or less went with the building. As he puts it, "I just changed payrolls, I guess you could say." A few weeks later, when Billy Krause broke a rear hub carrier while leading at race at Riverside in the Cobra's maiden race, Remington was the guy who picked up some forging blanks from his friend Ted Halibrand and made a set of new ones. These served as the prototypes for all future rear hub carriers which, by the way, never broke again.
Excerpts from http://www.allamericanracers.com/rem/rem-story.html
posted on July 2011, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/phil-remington-last-of-soup-to-nuts.html
I just got the news from http://www.rodauthority.com/news/performance-and-hot-rod-legend-phil-remington-dies-at-age-92/
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