Originally Posted by
Rod Grimwood
Skips real name was Robert and his father was way up there in the senate also Robert F Scott I think it was. (Attorney General I think)
Skip also drove the 'Allen Green Chevrolet' Trans Am Camaro back in the day as well as numerous Sports Cars.
Skip passed away at Bay Of Islands Hospital about 8/9 years ago.
Skip raced and flatted with Peter Revson, they were very good mates and when Peter was killed, Skip never got over it and resorted to drink and other things and slowly went down hill.
Skip was very much like a family member and i would pick him up and he would come up for dinner or lunch depending and we used to sit out on the deck and chat about the old days of racing and when I would show Skip a photo or mention something from years back he would slowly open up and talk about things. Very interesting about his association with Mr Ford also who was a personal friend back then. He was proud of their Le Mans effort in GT40. He said that Mr Ford gave him the GT40 after Le Mans and he sold it years later.
Amazing really that some one with such a back ground should spend his final years in a quite little seaside suburb so far from the States. He came here for his love of game fishing and had a big new boat built and fished as much as he could. He had a full time skipper looking after the boat. They ran the boat for about 5 years before Skip became more ill.
We used to keep in touch with his children back in the States and keep them in the loop as to how he was getting along, as it was hard work to keep him 'dry'. When he finally went down really quick in the end we called them and they came to be here, but unfortunately Skip passed before they arrived. I was with him for the last couple of days and he would not have known.
Sad for a man who had done so much, but after Revson's death and a couple of other friends the resort to substance and alcohol caught up in later years.
When he was dry he was very interesting and great to be with and some great days were had discussing the days of past and the racing.
RIP Skip (Robert) Scott