Scott;
Well, if you insist...... Bob finished 13th at Laguna Seca and 10th at
Riverside in '72. I forget which race it was where we blew the engine in
practice but I think it was at Laguna.
I just checked the results at
http://bruce.sitepak.net/results/canam/canam1972.html#8 and it looks like
if that's correct, Jackie Oliver DNF'ed in the Shadow. Sounds like a movie
plot!
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cowle [mailto:scowle@mentorcollege.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:03 PM
To: Albaugh, Neil
Subject: RE: Visit to Arroyo Grande and Another Scoop Method
So finish the story, how did the car do in the race after all that
thrashing????????????????????????????????????
Scott At 02:48 PM 2/5/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Doug;
>
>I still owe the guys on the Shadow Can- Am team a BIG thank- you for
loaning
>us a set of Crane roller rocker arms thirty (!) years ago . We blew up our
>aluminum big- block Chevy (built by Gearge Bolthoff) in practice at Laguna
>Seca or Riverside (?). The timing chain broke so we lost a few pushrods,
>rocker arms, etc. and didn't have our spare engine with us, so without
being
>able to fix our one engine, we were SOL. Bolthoff was at the track and
>volunteered to tear down the engine back at his shop (Engine Systems
>Development?) so we pulled the engine out of the McLaren, put it into a
>friend's van and drove it over to George's shop.
>
>We all worked feverishly to tear it down and inspect things to access the
>damage. By then-- very late Saturday night-- all the speed shops were
closed
>so Bolthoff scrounged in his parts bins and found some reasonably straight
>pushrods and other used parts we needed to reassemble the engine. No roller
>rocker arms were to be had ANYWHERE in the wee hours of Sunday morning, so
>we buttoned everything up-- hoping to find some rocker arms somewhere-- and
>hauled the engine back to the track.
>
>We installed the engine back into the car (McLaren M8C) and went to the
>other Can- Am teams looking for roller rocker arms; the UOP Shadow team
>fellows were very helpful. They lent us their spare set and we installed
>them, adjusted lash, timing, buttoned up the top end and fired up the
>engine. Bob Peckham smoked the tires through the crowd of spectators in the
>paddock area, scattering them like a covey of quail, to get to the starting
>grid (the race officials were holding the start of the race a few minutes
>for us-- unbelievable for a bunch of no- name unsponsored guys) and our
>McLaren started the race thanks to George Bolthoff and the Shadow team.
Nice
>guys!! BTW, pushing a car out on the starting grid while 100,000 people
are
>waiting on YOU is a little stressful.
>
>Somewhere, someone must have some photos of that car (#64, as I recall)-- I
>don't have one single picture. One thing I learned is that working on a
race
>car crew is lots of hard work and probably the worst spot to see a race--
>too many things to do, no time to watch!
>
>Thanks for this stroll down memory lane, Doug. BTW, we finished around 13th
>place; never DNF'd.
>
>Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DOUG ODOM [mailto:popms@thegrid.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:48 PM
>To: Jim Dincau
>Cc: rtmack; DrMayf; land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Visit to Arroyo Grande and Another Scoop Method
>
>
> Mayf, This a different Joe Leonard. This Joe worked for the Shadow
>Can-Am team back when they we running.
> Doug Odom in big ditch
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