Heinz Werner Bade

[McLaren-TAG]

Thought to share this with the community here in case anyone knew him, or knew of him. He was a PCA member in our region, a living legend and someone that you could talk to for hours about car stuff.

Hans was a WWII Luftwaffe pilot at the age of 18, and would drive a seriously bad assed 993 to our club meetings. He was 90 some odd.

Here's an excerpt of what he did in between those book end ages.

The man was the wizardly engineer for the unstoppable “King Carrera” Jennings all the way back to the 1959 SCCA racing season with the 1958 Carrera GT Speedster. Unstoppable? Imagine 26 wins in 1960. Ground-breaking engineering and superb driving led to over 300 trophies through the career of “King Carrera”.

Heinz attended to the Formula One cars of Sir Stirling Moss during the 1960 and 1961 seasons. Yes, Sir Stirling Moss. The allotted space for “The Starting Line” doesn’t do justice to the roads traveled by Heinz. You are encouraged – if your timing is right – to listen to a page or two of Heinz’s storied history on a Saturday morning in Hunt Valley. Your home encyclopedias are most likely in hibernation. In this case, that’s just fine. They have nothing on living history.

[Joe Bob]

Rip

[steely]

Rip

[Uncle914]

Just saw this. Heinz built my 914 2.0 motor. I was very fortunate to spend alot of time at his shop in Monkton, MD. in the early 90's.

[tirwin]

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Godspeed to another one of the greats.