Phil Remington died yesterday

[SunDude]

Phil Remington -- the self-taught engineer and master fabricator who "came with the building" when Carroll Shelby acquired Lance Reventlow's facility in Venice CA, and who worked with Ken Miles and Alan Turner to quickly develop the Cobra into a world beater -- died yesterday.  Another great man lost to the passage of time.  May he rest in peace.
   
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   Hot Rod Pioneer Phil Remington Dies at 92
   Integral to Racing From the Scarab to Cobra and Ford's GT 40 LeMans Program
   Written by: Thom Taylor on February 9 2013 1:50 PM
   
   
   
   One of the true hot rodding pioneers died last night. Phil Remington will be most remembered for his involvement with the Shelby Cobra and then GT 40 and Mark IV LeMans programs for Ford, but he started out in Santa Monica as a hot rodder running the Lakes before and after WWII with his cool modified. Burton, Michigan’s Dan Webb recently replicated that car. Carroll Shelby more than once said there would be no Cobra without Rem. Most of his 92 years were spent in racing, with stints running Lance Reventlow’s Scarab program in the late-50s, as well as working five days a week until very recently at Dan Gurney’s All American Racers in Santa Ana. He’s been there for over 30 years. HOT ROD was fortunate enough to get an interview with him that will be running in the June issue. He was one of the most humble people you could meet; yet one of the most accomplished—and he maintained a great backyard garden, too. His daughter Kati, and two grandsons survive him.
   
   
   
   Source: http://blogs.hotrod.com/hot-rod-pioneer-phil-remington-dies-at-92-46159.html#ixzz2KV3zrWq4

[SunDude]

In case you haven't seen this yet, Dan Gurney's All-American Racers (where Phil worked until his passing) has just published a wonderful tribute on their website:  http://allamericanracers.com/a-tribute-to-a-legend-phil-remington/
   
   They've also reprinted an article about Rem from the Jul 1990 issue of Sports Car International: http://allamericanracers.com/mr-fix-it-phil-remington/
   
   And they have also added a photo gallery of Rem's life: http://allamericanracers.com/phil-remington-picture-gallery/

[aaron]

Nice one Brian for posting the links, a sad loss ,hopefully you will be posting these links to my group on Flickr.

[BBK]

Brian, thanks for posting.  What an amazing guy he was.  It would be neat if one of the car centric TV channels (Velocity, Speed Channel) would do biographies on some of the great people like Phil Remington, Carroll Shelby, Jackie Stewart and other greats, well known and not as well known.