[Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...

[Kas Kastner]

I've put the great photo that Bill Dentinger had of Crafty Jack caught in the act, hard at work with trustworthy tools in my last book (Myths) on page 38 with the story of Jack and Tony racing. 
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  From: Gt6steve at aol.com 
  To: cartravel at pobox.com ; BillDentin at aol.com 
  Cc: fot at autox.team.net ; saabhuman at netscape.net 
  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...


  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 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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