Hamill SR2
#1
Posted 20 February 2005 - 13:16
I'm desperately looking for pictures of the Hamill SR2. If anyone can assist, it would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks!
Kind regards
Russell
Dubai, UAE
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#2
Posted 20 February 2005 - 14:41
Originally posted by Russell_Sheldon
Hello,
I'm desperately looking for pictures of the Hamill SR2. If anyone can assist, it would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks!
Kind regards
Russell
Dubai, UAE
OK, then. I'll be the one that asks. What's an Hamill SR2?
#3
Posted 20 February 2005 - 22:14
I can only presume that it is the car built by the American Ed Hamill before the SR3 he raced extensively in the 1966 USRRC and CanAm races, but, Russell, about the SR2 I know nothing and can find nothing, as yet.
John
#4
Posted 21 February 2005 - 06:32
Hamill entered the 1966 Can-Am series at Bridgehampton in September 1966 driving a SR3 with a Repco engine. By the next race (Mosport, 25th September 1966) it had a Chevrolet engine. It's this car's predecessor.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
With kind regards,
Russell
Dubai, UAE
#5
Posted 21 February 2005 - 12:10
Sorry, I meant to check further into my files, but just a quick look turned up nothing in the photo department. Later today I will scour the files a bit more closely.
Offhand, I would not be too surprised to find very little since the coverage of the USRRC at this point was already getting spotty. However, I have a few places left to look since I got diverted from this last night to handle another project.
#6
Posted 21 February 2005 - 14:42
http://www.autocours...ison1966/usrrc/
#7
Posted 21 February 2005 - 14:55
John
#8
Posted 25 February 2005 - 10:02
I was delighted to receive an e-mail from none other than Roy Kumnick himself! Roy wrote:-
Russell,
I am not a member of Atlas F1, but I review Nostalgia Forum. I raced Corvettes in the
early '60s and raced in USRRC and Can-Am from '64 to '68. Ed Hamill built his cars
in the same building as my Corvette shop. (Tero-Corvette) The SR-1 was an Indy car
which never qualified at Indy (1964). The first sportscar was the SR-2 which I put
upside-down while testing at Meadowdale Raceway in May, 1965. Car was totaled.
Ed then built two SR-3s in late ''65. He raced one first with an Olds engine and then
switched to Chev. I raced the second SR-3 with a Chev. We both ran in USRRC and
Can-Am.
Hope this helps a little. Are you considering building a model of a Hamill?
Let me know if you receive this, or can give you any more information.
Regards,
Roy
In another message, Roy confirms that the SR-2 and SR-3s had the exact same bodies.
"The only differences were some minor chassis changes and moving the brakes from inboard to the wheels. All three bodies were fiberglass and came from same mold. My car was dark metalic purple with white scallops and Ed's was white with a blue stripe."
With kind regards,
Russell
Dubai, UAE
#9
Posted 25 February 2005 - 17:38
http://www.tamsoldra...lHamillSR3.html
Tam McPartland
#10
Posted 26 February 2005 - 07:03
Now that Roy has confirmed that the body of the SR-2 and the SR-3 was the same, it makes matters a lot easier!
Here's another picture that I came across:-
Incidentally, I see that a "1965 Can-am Hamill-McKee SR-3" is available for sale ! The car is referenced as the "former Carl Haas USRRC/CanAm race car witha 366cid Chevrolet engine with Webers, a Hewland transaxle and has been winning many vintage USRRC races."
Tam, you have a fabulous website! It's a great reference source for modellers.
Thanks again!
With kind regards,
Russell
Dubai, UAE.
#11
Posted 10 April 2005 - 11:45
Friday May 28, 1965. The first Hamill sports car (SR2) just completed.
Saturday May 29, 1965. Roy put the car upside-down while testing at Meadowdale Raceway. The car was totalled.
SR3 at Road America USRRC, September 1966.
SR3 at Riverside Can-Am, October 1966.
SR3 at Johnson Wax HQ, Racine, WS. Johnson Wax was the principle sponsor of the Can-Am series in 1967 and 1968. Taken with the Board of Directors and an interested onlooker -- Stirling Moss, pointing at the rear spoiler.
Many thanks, Roy!
With kind regards,
Russell
#12
Posted 10 April 2005 - 15:06
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#14
Posted 28 April 2005 - 05:00
#15
Posted 28 April 2005 - 09:36
Hamill entered the 1966 Can-Am series at Bridgehampton in September 1966 driving a SR3 with a Repco engine. By the next race (Mosport, 25th September 1966) it had a Chevrolet engine. It's this car's predecessor.
Is there some sort of mixup here ,the pictuer below is the Australian built Matich SR3 Repco 1967 ,at Riverside .It seem strange that these two sports cars used the same index numbers ,and Repco Power plant did not come by that easily.It seem to be a strange coincidence going on here.
#16
Posted 28 April 2005 - 19:10
Bud
#17
Posted 05 July 2005 - 01:55
In conversation with Ed Hamill today and tonight, he states that SR2 was actually the first car he started to build, but, in the midst of it all, he was offered the job of building an Indy car, which was actually the first car he completed. There never was an SR1. He then finished the SR (sports racing) and, because it was the 2nd car actually completed, he designated it the SR2, which was pretty well destroyed at Meadowvale. He then built SR3, then used the usable bits of SR2 in constructing another Hamill SR3 for Roy Kumnick. This is the car now offered for sale, the body of which was supplied by Ed some 10 or 15 years ago. He still has the original SR3 he built. It will be of some interest that the SR2 body was some 3" approx. narrower than that of the SR3, and that the SR3 had clearance bumps in the tail section for the rear tires, the necessity of which, he says, he learned the hard way. There were minor differences in the tail sections of all 3 cars.
The SR2 or the SR3 was sold in model form, in clear plastic, by Lancer. I did have one copy, but gave it to a friend some 25 years ago; he is not sure if he still has it; if he does, I will get pics of everything that was in the box, and the box itself. If he did sell it, he knows who bought it, so we should be ablt to track it down.
edward_skakie@bigfoot.com
#18
Posted 05 July 2005 - 10:34
#19
Posted 05 July 2005 - 12:02
I'd like to mention here the enormous generosity afforded the racing fraternity by the general public, many of whom had no connection to the events, the participants, or the racing itself, but helped out only because they were asked. The Sawyer family is a case in point: when the cracks were discovered, Ed said that the ball joints would have to be pressed out of the uprights; I knew that Mike Sawyer's family had a well equipped workshop on their farm nearby; a call to Mike resulted in an instant invitation to use their facilities; during the work, we were assisted and encouraged in keeping our spirits up, at various times during the night, by Mike, his brothers, their respective spouses/girlfriends, his parents, and his grandmother, who, at 3 or 4 AM, brought out freshly made doughnuts, tea, and coffee, served on a silver platter service! In such circumstances, it is difficult to pinpoint the highlight of the whole experience, although a contender would certainly be Ed's experience, on the way to the Sawyer farm, of crossing a small bridge at speed and having his Pontiac station wagon, and the trailer with the SR3 on it, all becoming airborne.
Copies of pics will be most appreciated, as most racers did not have time, or, in a lot of cases, money, to build their own collection. One illustration is that, until I described it to him yesterday, Ed Hamill had no previous knowledge of the Johnson Wax pic posted on this site.
I've not seen it on the 'net in black & white, but the members of all these various sites should know that racers in general are very appreciative of all the postings of memories and pics, and are generally blown away by the general esteem in which their exploits are held, which is expressed indirectly by the mere fact of such postings.
edward_skakie@bigfoot.com
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#20
Posted 09 March 2006 - 17:54
#21
Posted 10 March 2006 - 22:29
If anyone has any other pics of the Hamill cars, I would be interested in purchasing copies, both for myself and for Ed. I can be reached at: info@SkakiForm.com. I've also obtained an original Hamill SR? clear plastic slot-car body that I bought in 1967, and later gave to a friend, who has now given it back to me, unmolested, to forward to Ed Hamill.
Many thanks.
#22
Posted 09 March 2014 - 18:53
I Ed Hamill still alive and if so could someone give me phone number and address
Bill Keogh
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Tel 905-8712341
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