At that time John Caldwell was doing the engines for PLN and I sent them a
special Camshaft for which Newman (always a good guy) came down and bought
me lunch on his birthday after winning the Nat'ls.. It was very cool that
in a much later years I was running the Nissan factory stuff and Paul was
again in the group and much a part of our running of good guys. Good racer
and a very very nice man.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Warner <bwarner@mediaone.net>
To: <GRMTim@aol.com>
Cc: <mlcooknj@bellatlantic.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: racing Vitesses
> Don't know when PLN would have run the JK Jackson car. The third Group 44
car
> which I have, was the old Paul Newman car and when I purchased it over 11
years
> ago, it was still in the silver and black livery that Newman ran (under
Sean
> Smith Racing). Sean Smith was the son of PLN's personal secretary. After
the
> car left Group 44, PLN had the car completely revamped at Bob Cuneo's shop
> (Chassis Dynamics) in Connecticut where it received a heavier roll bar and
> internals cage (something an agent would want for his racing client), coil
> overs, and some stiffening.
> Additionally, it had some special gear box with heavy duty straight-cut
gears,
> which neither Lanky Foushee or the late Brian Fuerstenau recognized. As
far
> as I can determine, this is the only TR-6 driven by PLN and I have all the
log
> books to document it. Bill Warner
>
> GRMTim@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 8/20/00 10:46:47 PM, mlcooknj@bellatlantic.net
writes:
> >
> > << Now we need to find Paul Newman's 2.5 PI. >>
> >
> > JK Jackson has a TR6 that he swears was run by Paul Newman. I don't know
if
> > it was fuel injected.
> > Tim Suddard/Grassroots Motorsports
>
>
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