As you can imagine, Huth knew pretty much everybody.
“Shelby was running a driving school. One day he said, ‘Bill, do you care if I tell people that I own this racetrack?’ I said, ‘Carroll, I don’t give a shit, you can tell them whatever you want to.’ ”
Movie stars? “James Garner wouldn’t fit in the car when they made Grand Prix. They brought the car up, and he couldn’t get in the son of a bitch. They said, ‘You’re going to have to lose some fucking weight.’ ”
And, “Oh, Steve McQueen, one time the transaxle in his Porsche broke, and he ordered six of them. They flew them in, six fucking axles! I says, ‘You must have a lot of trouble with them.’ ”
Huth is also developing the low-buck Formula Pacific, a sort of super kart with a motorcycle engine that he’s hoping will break Willow’s current lap record: 1 minute, 6.05 seconds, set in 1987 by Michael Andretti in a Kraco March Cosworth Indy car.
http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/aaron-robinson-gambling-whiskey-and-willow-springs-raceway-column for the whole article.
“Shelby was running a driving school. One day he said, ‘Bill, do you care if I tell people that I own this racetrack?’ I said, ‘Carroll, I don’t give a shit, you can tell them whatever you want to.’ ”
Movie stars? “James Garner wouldn’t fit in the car when they made Grand Prix. They brought the car up, and he couldn’t get in the son of a bitch. They said, ‘You’re going to have to lose some fucking weight.’ ”
And, “Oh, Steve McQueen, one time the transaxle in his Porsche broke, and he ordered six of them. They flew them in, six fucking axles! I says, ‘You must have a lot of trouble with them.’ ”
Huth is also developing the low-buck Formula Pacific, a sort of super kart with a motorcycle engine that he’s hoping will break Willow’s current lap record: 1 minute, 6.05 seconds, set in 1987 by Michael Andretti in a Kraco March Cosworth Indy car.
http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/aaron-robinson-gambling-whiskey-and-willow-springs-raceway-column for the whole article.
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