Race Team Mechanics.

[khyndart in CA]

Allan was working at McLaren's when the terrible news came that Jim Clark had died during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim in Germany. This was a harsh time in motor racing and too many drivers lost their lives and especially someone as great as Jim Clark.
Bruce was a big help to encouraging Allan to expand beyond the team and go out and build his own race cars. Bruce showed his true kindness by letting Allan have a lot of redundant F2 M4 and F1 M7 wheel and suspension parts and Allan quickly produced a very well built car the "Tui". The first one was the Tui AM 1 (AM for Allan McCall). Throughout this time he also helped Bruce McLaren with Can Am and with the valuable experience of being with Lotus at Indy in 1966 was now a big help with the McLaren Team at Indianapolis in 1970.
(My personal memory of that time was seeing the news of Denny Hulme suffering burns during practice in the M15 Indy car and Chris Amon did not like driving there and I had a premonition that something was going to go wrong during the race and I was relieved when the results came in and nothing had happened to the McLarens, so it was a complete shock when the news came a few days later that Bruce had died at Goodwood after returning from the USA. A moment you never forget . )


Allan with the McLaren Team at Indy 1970.



(Ken Hyndman )