Very sad to hear this belated news below, I used to correspond with Charlie/Chas Pollet of the Ohio Mini Owners club back in the 1980's pre-internet/email days when it was much harder to find out what was happening in the Mini scene overseas. We had to write letters!Chas Pollet wrote:I'm Charlie Pollet, the dude that Rachel got into this journey. I am a long time race mechanic working on various cars, but always preferring Minis. Before retiring in 2004, I worked for Joe Huffaker as crew chief on the Huffaker Mini, plus working on other Huffaker cars. We won 9 national championships from 1997 to 2004, which I consider the best time of my life. I was friends with Bob Kimes from back in the 1960's when I started working on Minis and considered him the Mini guru here in the midwest. Before I got sick back in February, I had started to compile information on all of Bob Kimes' Minis and other race cars for a book of some sort. I will be getting back on that soon, I hope.
Now to Rachel's Kimes Mini. If you have any doubt about what the car will look like when finished, check the following link of pictures of her Mini that Andy has raced the past two years. The photos were taken at a race, not a car show. I know this is somewhat off topic, but it is ok with all. Charlie Pollet
http://www.BritishRaceCar.com/RachelNel ... ooperS.htm
Mid-Ohio aims for largest all-Mini starting grid
"The weekend will also feature a tribute to Charlie Pollet, a fixture of the classic Mini community who reportedly never missed a Mini race at Mid-Ohio in the past four decades. A former crew chief for Joe Huffaker during numerous SCCA Runoffs at Mid-Ohio, Pollet died last March."
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014 ... ting-grid/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater
