Our own P. A. Schilke's Name in Road & Track!

[Glocker]

Check it out!: https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a33229297/scca-racetruck-challenge/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_rdt&utm_medium=email&date=082620&utm_campaign=nl21177774&utm_term=AAA -- High Minus Dormant and 90 Day Non Openers

Phil Schilke was part of that community. As a lead engineer with Ford’s light truck division, he was the one who reached out to Dinkel in 1986 to convince him to let a pair of Rangers run at Road & Track’s Manufacturer’s Challenge Cup.

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Of course I would typo his name in the title...

SORRY PHIL!

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[aeroshots]

Cool beans. ? star among us.

 

[FoD]

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Click the link for more!

Of course I would typo his name in the title...

SORRY PHIL!

Wow, good read! I was race excited for sure. Does this mean the forum peeps get a secret decoder ring now and phil will send us a secret link to another good story once a week?

Good to know some of the exploits of Phil "more draft" and the ranger race miracle. Congrats phil.

 

[r1ch999999]

Cool article, I would love to get my hands on an old Ranger in good shape, but there aren't many left.

 

[IdahoRanger]

Fun read.

 

[egilbe]

I'm sure I've read that article before

 

[Glocker]

Cool article, I would love to get my hands on an old Ranger in good shape, but there aren't many left.

Image one of those old rangers with the new 2.3 EcoBoost stuffed in it! I've always wanted to try that with one of the old Ford Courier or Ranger pick-up trucks. That with a MT-82 6-speed would be fun!

 

[Glocker]

I'm sure I've read that article before

Do you subscribe to Road & Track? It says it is in the magazine.

 

[Anthony]

Awesome!

(and I fixed the typo in his last name in the thread title)

 

[egilbe]

Do you subscribe to Road & Track? It says it is in the magazine.

I think Phil may have posted that before on here, or I'm just having a really weird deja vu moment

 

[Glocker]

Awesome!

(and I fixed the typo in his last name in the thread title)

Thanks!

 

[RedlandRanger]

I think Phil may have posted that before on here, or I'm just having a really weird deja vu moment

Phil did post a copy of the article a while back.

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/we-almost-killed-jason-bateman-road-track-article.8322/

 

[Nevada_Bob]

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Glocker, thanks for sharing this! It was a super interesting read.

Phil, Thank you too! I remember this series as a young man and read every Road & Track cover-to-cover. You brought a smile to my young face then and now. Evidence of a life well spent, my friend!

 

[Augie81]

I always enjoy Phil's posts, knowledge and back stories. I'm glad he posts here. I'll give him a rating of 5 out of 5

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[P. A. Schilke]

Hi Folks,

Here is a picture or two of one of my SCCA Racetrucks I build at Livernois Engineering, that was purchase by a fellow (now a friend) in Columbus Ohio....Amazing to see a truck that was raced almost 30 years ago. This is me with the truck and the 2nd picture is of the restored truck as displayed at the Lemay Auto Museum in Tacoma Washington. Amazing that things like this bubble up after so much time has passed! Also a pix of my trucks at the 1990 GP in the hands of Steve Saleen, George Follmer and Calvin Fish...

1990 Detroit Grand Prix

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