Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his path.
Phil began his journey through motorsports history as one of the original Southern California hot rodders, building and driving “lakesters” at legendary top-speed venues like the Muroc and El Mirage dry lakes. Returning from flight engineer duty with the Air Force in WWII he continued his education working with Indycar builders Emil Diedt and Luigi Lesovsky. There he built a two-seat sportscar for San Francisco industrialist Sterling Edwards whose innovations included a fiberglass body, the adaptation of Beech aircraft spot brakes for automotive use and the introduction of recapped slick tires for road racing.
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