This is the reason that I would use SW to create tubes.  They are easy to
cut using a surface created on the face the the adjoining tube. After the
ends of the are cut, they can be exported as an IGES file, which, if
brought back into SW, will automatically form a solid again.


BTW Gary, did you ever work in car racing?

Paul Lamar

I was at Chaparral for several years and also McLaren. :-)

G

That is amazing. You were there just before me. Small world now.
You and I ought to co author a book. When did you leave McLaren?
Did you go to the Oxford World Motorsport Symposium in 2008?
Last time I saw Jim was at Phil Hill's funeral.
His son has a go cart track near me in Ventura.

Paul Lamar

 I left McLaren Engines at the end of 1987.  I didn't go to the Symposium
 in 2008.  I left Chaparral (the first time) at the end of 1964 and joined
 McLaren in England.  I was back at Chaparral in '69 & '70 and then went to
 McLaren Engines in Livonia, MI.

 Gary Knutson


 Gary, You will get a kick out of this picture. Teddy is copying my
 quick jack design at Daytona  in 1965 (as I recall).
 Scat AKA Carroll Smith worked for Ford at the time.
 Who is the guy on the right?
 He may have been a Chaparral mechanic?

 Paul Lamar

I don't recognize the guy on the right but he appears to have on the same
jacket as Scat, judging from the visible stripes.

Gary Knutson

He may have been a Ford mechanic.

I think that was the first race  for an endurance car with
a wing. As I recall we were 19 laps ahead (and 600 pounds lighter than
the Fords) and Phil got in the car after a rest stint got into the
marbles and hit the wall. We had no suspension spares so we were out.

Phil took me around the banking the night before at 200 MPH to show
me he could not see because the head light beams were not adjusted
properly :)


Ford won :)

Paul Lamar

Thanks for reminding me why I chose not to go long distance racing. :-)

Lots of familiar faces in that photo!

Gary Knutson


Nothing more miserably than being up all night out side in freezing cold :)
Perhaps if it were raining.

Paul Lamar

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