Charles O. Forge

I met Chuck around 1961 in the Continental Sports Car Club in San Jose. We use to battle it out auto-crossing and later competing in Porsches in SCCA racing.
I also had the pleasure of competing with his friend Bob Jones, listed in the Guest Book on September 04, 2009.
Obviously we both have the same names so I was nick named Bob (Other) Jones.
I'll never forget when Chuck showed me his tremendous, what I called, Taj Garage. He was so proud of it.
I live just a few blocks...

Chuck and I worked together at Boschert. He had to be one of the best Engineers in his generation, and they were probably the best electronic engineers in history.

We shared a shop in Santa Clara and occasionally sent work each others way.

He will be missed.

Ron Vinsant

I met Chuck in 1980 at Boschert and quickly learned what a great Engineer he truly was.
Chuck had established design guidelines for the Power Supply Engineers to follow and his efforts were rewarded by helping to train less experienced Engineers.....they also helped everyone so you did not overlook critical elements prior to release into production.

He was a selfless guy whose experience, both electrical and mechanical was appreciated by all.

I am very fortunate...

My wife and I have known Chuck for over 30 years, we met through our love of fine automobiles. We always enjoyed our time with him at the tracks in SCCA or in the garage deep in restorations. Chuck had a unique ability to see complex issues in a different light, and find solutions for them. As with our racing cars Chuck could innovate, engineer and manufacture, his understanding of situations was uncommon, he had the ability to talk to you about it, never talking above or below but seeming to...

I have known Chuck for over 40 years. I worked with him at Hewlett-Packard and followed his technical Porsche advise for many years. He was an Engineer's Engineer and a quite, gentle (except in his race car) person. I have posted many of my pictures of Chuck and of his cars on my Facebook wall. So far no death I have experienced in my life has had the impact that chuck's did. He was a truly wonderful person. James H. Fleming, Phoenix, AZ.

I met Chuck about seven years ago at the SCCA championship races in Sonoma. He was a quiet but pleasant guy who could make you feel as if you had known him for years. As my wife and I traveled to National races over the years we would always say hello and find out how things were going for him that weekend. If only we had known how much we had in common, from Bellarmine to our love of racing. When we talked in Monterey at the historics, we discussed when we might next touch base at the next...

I was introduced to Chuck Forge in the summer of 1957 by Jobst Brandt. This resulted in a friendship that lasted till now. Chuck was of my life’s mentors that covered an unbelievable array of topics. Chuck would explain complex systems to me in simplified understandable language. In our twenty’s we went on three summer vacations exploring and driving around the western states. We both joined the Continental Sports Car Club. This lead to auto crossing and later to joining Sports Car Club of...