Okay, it's not quite completely different. But it's not Greater Vancouver and it's not Pacific northwest. It's one of those tangents I can get on.
While looking at the Prince George Citizen from the early 1970s I came across the above article on Jim Dilamarter, crew chief for the Bignotti team, and now working with Parnelli Jones at the private museum Jones has in southern California.
I was reading a story about the museum in the latest issue of the UK magazine Motorsport and it reminded me of the PG story.
Dilamarter was originally from Ontario. Can't say the article says his racing roots were from there but the article does say he still had his Ontario driver's license back in 1972.
In many ways, and for many reasons, Jim Dilamarter should be in the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.
Now to chase him down, get his story, submit it to the CMHF committee and hope for the best....
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