Hi All - I thought I'd briefly let those of you who've been around the early Porsche scene know that Hayden Burvill passed away a couple of days ago.
He's the ex-pat Aussie you those of you driving sweet shifting early gearboxed cars can thank for the shifter and internal components that that really tidied up the sloppy box. Hayden was a particularly accomplished engineer and worked behind the scenes in major motor racing outfits from Penski and FI to Top Fuel drag cars. He was pretty good behind the wheel also, some of you know he competed the Peking to Paris in a 356 and the story of his backroads engineering solutions to fix a 70 year old car were amazing. He also had a dab hand with his brother Brett in the his family's world championship winning sail boats (Windrush) He settled in northern California in the late 90s as a central work location and that's where he passed.
He was a shy and humble bloke who wasn't a fan of crowds, but amongst friends he was super generous and just a pleasure to hang with, and nearly always the smartest guy in the room. He fell ill about 5 years ago with brain cancer and fought it gracefully and with humour to the end. I'll miss him.
Cheers
John
He's the ex-pat Aussie you those of you driving sweet shifting early gearboxed cars can thank for the shifter and internal components that that really tidied up the sloppy box. Hayden was a particularly accomplished engineer and worked behind the scenes in major motor racing outfits from Penski and FI to Top Fuel drag cars. He was pretty good behind the wheel also, some of you know he competed the Peking to Paris in a 356 and the story of his backroads engineering solutions to fix a 70 year old car were amazing. He also had a dab hand with his brother Brett in the his family's world championship winning sail boats (Windrush) He settled in northern California in the late 90s as a central work location and that's where he passed.
He was a shy and humble bloke who wasn't a fan of crowds, but amongst friends he was super generous and just a pleasure to hang with, and nearly always the smartest guy in the room. He fell ill about 5 years ago with brain cancer and fought it gracefully and with humour to the end. I'll miss him.
Cheers
John
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