[DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera

[michael at michaelshortt.com]

My race cars all had either Mark 8 or 9 Hewlands.
One of my heaviest and most cherished boxes was my homemade wooden box with
dividers that held about  30 gear sets and lots of dog rings.
There was a list of closely guarded recipes for each track that was
probably the nearest thing we had to top secret. That was one of the
questions like How much is your Pantera worth or How much do you make per
year that people just knew that you shouldn't ask and that nobody would
answer.
Once you had a bunch of practice and if nobody interrupted you, you could
change them out in 30-45 minutes. Most people caught, strained and used the
fluid for that weekend, new fluid was used the next time weekend.
The truth is that if you had the formula for each track, you changed it out
back at the shop or at home before arriving at the track, changing gear
sets in the great outdoors, on grass, in the rain or in the cold, bent over
on your knees isn't fun.
What's worse is not having a big parts washer and lots of hot water to wash
up afterwards.
You could always tell you didn't have the right recipe at the driver's
meetings
by their smell, dirty fingernails and stained clothing.
God I miss all of that stuff.

Michael Shortt
On Feb 2, 2014 4:02 PM, <jderyke at aol.com> wrote:

> The only exception I know of to what Les said was Warren Tope's
> non-factory Pantera racer that used a Hewland. It was pretty blatant given
> that he competed against Hugh Kleinpeter's Pantera- that was required by
> IMSA to run a ZF. It was a big deal at the time because a Hewland's gear
> ratios could easily be changed for different tracks while the ZF's took
> hours to change and available ratios were few. Kleinpeter was the ZF rep
> for the eastern U.S. and even then he couldn't get the ratios he needed.
> There were several protests over Tope's car but nothing ever came of them.
> Kleinpeter said it was because Tope's father was a Ford vice-president and
> at the time, Ford was still in all kinds of racing.... 43 yr old dirty
> laundry.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: L GRAY <tipo874a at msn.com>
> To: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
> Sent: Sun, Feb 2, 2014 10:31 am
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera
>
>
>      Julian,
>           The factory Group 4 race cars were required to use the ZF
> transaxle. I'm pretty sure that the Adler's Group-C car used a Hewland
> originally.
>
>                                                                 Les Gray
>  ------------------------------
> From: julian_kift at hotmail.com
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:43:06 -0800
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera
>
>  I came across a Ford to Hewland LG bell housing, and got wondering did
> all the GP4 and other racers of the period ran ZF's or did any use a
> Hewland?
>
>  If my memory serves me I have seen a photo of a Hewland in a Pantera
> at some point.
>
>  Julian
>
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