Re: Barney Pollard
Posted by Bill_OBrien On 2010/7/27 20:40:18
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Mr. Pollard's grandson purchased an Twin Six race car that his grandfather had worked on. Here is his story regardign that car.:
Barney Pollard had worked on racers when he worked in the experimental department at Packard in the teens I became obsessed with finding some remains of the racer he worked on. My grandfather died in 1981 and sadly nine months after he died I ended buying the remains of a Packard racer built in the experimental department and raced by Ralph DePalma.
One car he had worked on was a Twin Six racer (one of two he said were built)which many "experts" said did not exist. One of the examples of this car was found in the jungle in South America and about 5 years ago was brought back to the US and restored. I have been fortunate to travel and enjoy the awards at numerous shows including Pebble Beach, Meadowbrook, Amelia Island and most recently at the Glenmoor Gathering last fall.
The neat thing is that my grandfather worked on this car and he had told me in a number of conversations that he and a friend in the Packard Experimental Department had worked on the car and had torn down the engine after one of the shakedown runs. That friend was Carl Smith. Much of the racing work was put on hold so that Packard could ramp up their efforts to build the Liberty aircraft engine to fight the Kaiser so these racecars were sadly put under wraps for the duration of the war.
He told me Carl was very interested in race cars and also worked for Ralph Depalma as one of his pitman for the car when it was at Sheepshead Bay (Packard had a racing garage there and used the track somewhat frequently for their speed tests) and also possibly for Ralph in later venues.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-213230.html
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Mr. Pollard's grandson purchased an Twin Six race car that his grandfather had worked on. Here is his story regardign that car.:
Barney Pollard had worked on racers when he worked in the experimental department at Packard in the teens I became obsessed with finding some remains of the racer he worked on. My grandfather died in 1981 and sadly nine months after he died I ended buying the remains of a Packard racer built in the experimental department and raced by Ralph DePalma.
One car he had worked on was a Twin Six racer (one of two he said were built)which many "experts" said did not exist. One of the examples of this car was found in the jungle in South America and about 5 years ago was brought back to the US and restored. I have been fortunate to travel and enjoy the awards at numerous shows including Pebble Beach, Meadowbrook, Amelia Island and most recently at the Glenmoor Gathering last fall.
The neat thing is that my grandfather worked on this car and he had told me in a number of conversations that he and a friend in the Packard Experimental Department had worked on the car and had torn down the engine after one of the shakedown runs. That friend was Carl Smith. Much of the racing work was put on hold so that Packard could ramp up their efforts to build the Liberty aircraft engine to fight the Kaiser so these racecars were sadly put under wraps for the duration of the war.
He told me Carl was very interested in race cars and also worked for Ralph Depalma as one of his pitman for the car when it was at Sheepshead Bay (Packard had a racing garage there and used the track somewhat frequently for their speed tests) and also possibly for Ralph in later venues.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-213230.html
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