Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 1114 | Page 11

R E M E M B E R E D
WORDS JOHN LAMM
PHOTOS AL SATTERWHITE

“Kid, I’ve got a word of advice for you. Stay away from automobiles.”
This sage suggestion was given to young Phil Hill by his father.
“I was an older teenager,” Phil recalls. “I think I’d been caught for
driving the car on the street without a license. I said, ‘Yes sir.’”
Happily for all of us, he then ignored his father.
In 1961 Hill, a Santa Monica resident who began his racing career in
California, raced throughout Europe to become the first American who
could call himself a Grand Prix automobile champion.
Though his birth certificate, dated April 20, 1927, was issued in
Miami, Florida, Hill’s real home has always been Santa Monica. Moved
to California when he was one, the driver’s childhood remembrances
are of that city and growing up just a few hundred feet from the
famous race track that wound through its major streets.

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