[Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...

[Gt6steve at aol.com]

I was aware of that work going on but not too involved as I was changing an  
engine myself.  But I well remember the disappointment of not having those  
two cars on track with us.  Steve
 
 
In a message dated 8/23/2008 8:45:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
cartravel at pobox.com writes:

Bill,  that is what Paul Harvey would call "the rest of the story".  I lost  
track of what Jack did after his car was pronounced done for the  weekend.  I 
knew he spent a lot of time working on the Tornado and that  the spare head 
went from Jack's engine to yours.  I didn't realize it was  another liner 
problem. He was probably spent by the time it got to our all  night marathon.  I 
forgot to mention that my son, Tom, was working all  night too.  I let him work 
underneath the car, so the oil could drip in  his face rather than mine. I 
didn't have a spare oil filter, so we had milky  oil on Sunday morning too.  We 
ran it anyway.  All the water  vaporized off during the first race, and the oil 
was clean after  that.
Larry

_BillDentin at aol.com_ (mailto:BillDentin at aol.com)  wrote:  
I could be wrong, but Larry might not be remembering that  Hallett story 100% 
correctly.  In fact, I think Jack was working on our  Thunder Bolt (not his 
car, and it certainly was not his mistake).  The  two and three liners were in 
wrong.  J K Jackson pointed it out, and  Jack Drews led an effort to make 'at 
track' corrections.  It was an  ill-advised, albeit enthusiastic effort, (the 
figure eight gaskets got  compromised).  Kas couldn't bear to watch, and left 
the area with a  grin on his face.  We had a ton of kibitzers, and Jack was 
getting far  more help and advise than he needed.  I've got some great pictures 
of  Jack working to first get the liners out (enough to turn them), and then 
to  get them back in.  We were using a really big hammer.  Can't  remember why 
we needed Larry's head, but we did, and I returned it to Jack  after I got 
back home.  We actually got the car running, but the oil  looked like a light 
chocolate milk shake.  We had plans to change the  oil and run it a BARBER the 
following week end, but decided that was a bad  idea.

Bill Dentinger



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