| Website visitor Bob Norton
sent me the following:
"A couple of comments
regarding Ken Miles. His initial claim to fame in racing in Southern
Calif was not just in driving MG specials, but of course he made these
specials (R1 and R2) himself. I believe that both are frequently
shown at the Monterey Historics. It would be nice to add these to
his page." (Anybody? TM)
"Later he did the chassis
design for the Scarab. His development work on the Cobras and the
GT40s was invaluable, and of course he was killed at Riverside doing testing
on the GT40."
"The reason I stumbled
on your site was due to Ken Miles. I saw on "RPM2Night" that he had
been added to the Motorsports Hall of Fame, and they showed the category
as open wheel. To my knowledge he only drove open wheel racers a
small number of times, so I did a Google search for Ken Miles and was led
to your site! Later I found the Hall of Fame at www.mhf.com and they
had him properly listed as "sports car".
"While I was at Caltech
in the late 50s I was chairman of the SAE chapter one year, and invited
Ken out to talk with us. He was kind enough to come out for a very
interesting talk. While I'm aware that he rubbed many the wrong way,
he was delightful with us." |
