Right you are, Kas. When I bought the TR-6 from T. Ciccone, it had a Datsun
shift knob on the gear selector shaft......I guess this was the one concession
to Bob Sharp. By the way, who did the special gearboxes for that car? I heard
Marv Webster, but I thought he only did Climax engines. Bill
"R. Kastner" wrote:
> 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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