Jere Stahl in hospice
 

Just got this e-mail.

had the opportunity to visit with Jere Stahl yesterday.
> Jere is receiving care from hospice at this time.
>
> He was in good spirits considering his health situation
> knowing that he will not be with us much longer.
>
> He told me that he is ready to go. He is grateful for the
> life he has been able to live and thought that
>
> on Memorial Day he was going to leave us with what he
> thought was possibly a mini heart attack. I
>
> felt it important to let our group know of my visit and
> that he was very appreciative.
>
>
>
> In our adventurous lives in drag racing we have come upon
> some distinct hidden gems that we just
>
> take for granted in our busy lives. One such gem is Jere
> Stahl. I was hoping he would be with us to
>
> receive accolades on his day during York US30 Heritage Days
> on Saturday, July 9th. If that happens it will
>
> be nothing short of a miracle.
>
>
>
> Our fraternity has always been there for our heroes and
> legends thru the good times and the sad times.
>
> We have reserved a block for his memory on the wall at
> EMMR. He would appreciate his memory be
>
> with our drag racing group. My pledge to him was one that
> he will never be forgotten. He knows his
>
> fate and he knows that we care for his many contributions to
> drag racing and motorsports in general.
>
>
>
> I will be in touch with him again soon, as he asked for me
> to call. Great spirits, but his pain and condition
>
> has taken a toll. We’ll try to bring as much solace as
> humanely possible to his remaining days with us.
>
> Please say a prayer for him. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,

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Sorry to hear that another of our pioneer is leaving us. Real nice man, glad that he got to enjoy racing in a Miata in road racing these past couple of years.CR

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SO sorry to hear this. Jere has been one of my heros for fifty years. Absolutely one of the very brightest men I ever met. I got to play gofer for him and Bill Stiles at the World Finals here at Tulsa in 1966. He helped me win some races with my first Jr Stocker. Sold me pistons, rings, headers, "cheater cam" before they were actually legal. (It passed a tear down by Red Anderson) listed for me the gears, tires, wheels, clutch, flywheel, internal clearances to use, what jets for the carbs (each hole different) It was a '56 9 passenger wagon with 2 4bls, like he set records with. All the tune up specs, everything to make a 23 year old kid look smarter than he (I) actually was. Had that Street Hemi when I met him. I feel fortunate to have one of the last sets of headers out his door on my car right now. Talked to him well over an hour when I ordered them. He will be missed.

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A real important person in the development of Stock and SS from the days many of us were only learning about Drag Racing. Back when attention to minutia in the building of a competitive Jr. Stocker was key. He will be missed. I still have my Stahl Headers in a box. The box and saying which came on the box are another part of history.
Thanks Jere for all you did to further Drag Racing and educate us as we learned.
Dick Butler

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Prayers for Jere and his family. This has got be a tough time for them. Even though they know the end is coming, it never is easy when it happens. Have they given a time frame for how long Jere has, just curious.

Like others have said, and we all know, Jere was a very BIG part of stock and super stock racing for all these years, especially the 60's and 70's and longer.

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God Speed Jere Stahl. Had your sweet sounding headers on my Z11 in mid 60's.

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Jere took a great deal of his time to educate and mentor me, for which I owe him a debt that I can never repay. I wish that I was as apt a student as he is a teacher. I hope some day to realize the potential Jere seemed to see in me. Jere has often been pretty hard on me, but I have come to realize that it is because he believes that I was capable of more and better things than I have accomplished. I count myself to be incredibly blessed and fortunate know him and call him friend.

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He spent a lot more time on the phone with this "wanna be" that he should have.

May God bless him.

Bill

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Saddened to learn of this...prayers to Jere, Judy, and Family. I too saw Jere for the first
time with the Street Hemi at a nearby points meet...in the Stock final he was duking it
out with that fellow from Berwyn and his Chevy II...Jere prevailed...

Jere was quite an experimenter and innovator... Many of his ideas
became products...not only with Stahl Headers..but also with early endeavors like
Stahl & Associates...and Stahl/Moroso...most of us...including myself...used these
pieces over the years...His vision of making parts specific for the Class-type racer...
(along with Dick Moroso)...will not be forgotten...

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I still have a set of headers he built for me over 25 years ago for my SS car when we both were young men. Still not a speck of rust even though they were just VHT painted. We spent hours on the phone and he couldn't have been nicer or more informative. Jim


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Darwin Doll who sent me the e-mail says :

For those who would like to send Jere Stahl a card his address is 1505 Mt. Rose Avenue,

York, PA 17403. Jere would appreciate your thoughtfulness. Thanks.

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So sad to hear this. Prayers for Jere and his family.

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All of us who come from the early years of drag racing know that Stahl headers were the ones you always wanted, whether you could afford them or not. Sure, you used Hookers, which weren't a bad header in their own right, but the absolute, no-questions-asked best header in the world was Stahl. To illustrate, those of you who know your Chevy history know that the headers that were shipped in the trunk of first-gen Z/28s that had been ordered with "factory" headers were Stahl. GM could have anybody's product and they went with the best. That is Jere's legacy. He was the best.

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Wow.. Another legend...sure wish him peaceful days.
Think everyone has had a set of Stahl's...they just worked !

My dad (89) is in and out of hospice.!
Now home for a while.. and it is tough caring for him.

d

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From Dickie Olges
In 1968 my partner and I spent 2 weeks with Stahl & Jenkins setting our new 1968 Z-28 Camaro for E-stock. We would spend the day at Jenkins shop and night with Jere , Jenkins was building the engine for the car Stahl was building the headers and traction system. In the 2 weeks I learned more than any one should be able to learn. After that 2 weeks with Stahl & Jenkins they took this dum midwest drag racer under their wing from that point on we never looked back. Jere was with out a doubta person who was way ahead of his time. Sure hope he can make it.
Dickie Ogles SS/A 3133

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He had a big sign saying "Plymouth" under the front bumper of his 1966. I guess back then people thought it was an advertisement, and did not realize he was running a spoiler! Very smart, capable racer, a true legend.

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I'm saddened to hear this but I'm not surprised as life has a way of taking us all.

I had the good fortune to work closely with Jere on a Pro Stock R&D project back in the 90s. Without a doubt, it was the most challenging thing I've had to do.

Jere is a person who could make my brain hurt. He was so extremely intelligent that it was a challenge to keep up with what he was saying. He'd make a comment which was so revolutionary that it could take weeks or months to think about and then say another one just as startling a few seconds later.

Though we did have our issues towards the end (as happens often with sincere differences of opinion) I thank him for the incredible insight he gave me into increasing performance on almost every area of a race car.

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A e-mail from Div 4:

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One of the best person in motorsports. I spoke last with him in 2009 and like Jere we spoke for several minutes and as always enjoyabe and very helpful. Best wishs to him and famliy.

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Keeping Jere in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you for your contributions to Drag Racing Jere!

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Praying for Mr. Stahl and his family. He was a friend to my dad and to another of my heroes Jerri Ball, both who used his headers exclusively on their junior stockers. I still have 2 sets of his old headers. Praying for his life now and beyond!

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The Legend ,himself

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Stahl Tires

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picture off super stock legends

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Great pictures, guys. Truly a legend in the sport of Drag Racing.

Let's hope his final days (how ever long that may be) are as peaceful and pain free as possible.

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Won top stock at 1966 Nationals;

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also won 1966 Springnationals in this car, when I think of him it's in this car.
Sorry I never meet him.

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Jere passed last night in his sleep.

from Billy Nees

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Sad news. God speed Jere. Prayers and thoughts to his family and friends.

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Sad news indeed. Jere was an icon in the sport, especially for the stock and super stock guys and gals. My condolences to his family and close friends at this sad time. May his memories live on forever.

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I remember talking to Grumpy at the motel in Pomona and picking his brain about things. He was really interested in how/why we had mounted the carbs and the neat totally adjustable linkage we had fabricated for our tunnel ram. We went on to somehow got to talking about headers and he suggested Stahl headers told us the sizes to get and that he would talk to Jere personally explain what we needed and to fabricate up a set. Next race we saw Bill in Gainesville at the Gators and he delivered a brand new set of Stahl headers for our car...We put them on and immediately picked up about 6-7 hundredths and about a 1/2 MPH. After visiting his truck we had him weld some collector tabs on our new set of Stahl's and noticed he had copied my idea of carb mounting and linkage exactly. Said he wondered why nobody had never thought about doing it that way. Those headers were a work of art ,perfect fit and "they worked" from then on we always ran Stahl stuff... Never actually met Jere but had many phone conversations with him. My sincere condolences to his family.

FED 387

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RIP Jere,A great racing innovator.

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Condolences to his family RIP

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RIP. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Very sad news, condolences to the family.
MB

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rest in peace

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So sorry to hear this but he will not suffer any longer - Condolences to his Family and Friends he will be missed - Our Prayer's are with you Jere "God's Speed"

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Godspeed Jere. You were the best.

Wayne

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Very sorry to hear this...Thoughts and prayers to wife and family...May the memory of
Stahl Engineering live on......