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Racing Legend Dan Gurney is a cool car guy

Rare footage and photos of Dan Gurney's amazing racing career. Dan also shares his early passion for cars. The entire interview can be seen in the "TV Shows" section of carcrazycentral.com. Episode 7005 Clip 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNleLhlZ4E8

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[h=1]Dan Gurney talks about Le Mans Race[/h]Dan shares about his great racing wins including the LeMans victory. See old historic photos and learn about his most recent projects. The entire interview can be seen in the "TV Shows" section of carcrazycentral.com Episode 7005 Clip 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmYSxg6qR0

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[h=1]Dan Gurney, at LA Auto Show[/h]Legendary racer, racecar manufacturer and team owner. One of the most popular F1 Grand Prix drivers ever. The first driver to win races in the four major categories of motorsports: Grand Prix, Indy Car, NASCAR and Sports Car. Episode 7005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvL7rqZM5VA

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[h=2]Rolex 24 teams and drivers honor Gurney[/h] Saturday, 27 January 2018


Marshall Pruett (words & images)


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Respect is being paid to the late Dan Gurney by some of IMSA's finest teams and drivers during this weekend's Rolex 24 At Daytona.

Gurney, whose All American Racing team terrorized IMSA GTO and GTP competition in the 1980s and 1990s, holds a special place in the hearts of many in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Roger Penske, Wayne Taylor, Bob Stallings, Corvette Racing crew chief Dan Binks, and Bill Riley were among the first to insist their cars carried the Gurney memorial stickers, and numerous drivers – from Mazda Team Joest's Jonathan Bomarito to United Autosports' Fernando Alonso – asked for the logos created by artist Andy Blackmore to carry into the race.
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Dan Gurney also is in the Indianapolis 500 History around post #149:

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...history-4.html

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[h=2]Video: Goodwood Road & Racing remembers Gurney[/h] Tuesday, 30 January 2018



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=qvQ2FB0X9Lk

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Retro: 1981 AAR Eagle Pepsi Challenger highlights

Monday, 04 December 2017


By Marshall Pruett (words & image)



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Take a tour of the 1981 CART IndyCar Series season with the convention-defying All American Racers Eagle – the stock block V8-powered "Pepsi Challenger" with which driver Mike Mosley starts in the middle of the front row at the Indy 500. Then move to the Michigan 500 where Mosley stars and Bruce Jenner interviews team owner Dan Gurney, and look for the sweeping yellow tail of Mosley's No. 48 as an early in-car camera system – weighing 10.5 pounds and mounted four inches off the ground in the nose – is utilized. Despite the age of the VHS tape and its inevitable decay, the footage is stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=XouipzhgqDk


The highlight reel jumps to Riverside where Geoff Brabham starts from pole on the winding Southern California road course, and closes with the car's finest day as Mosley, who was unable to qualify at Milwaukee due to an engine problem, storms from 25th and last to win the Rex Mays 150.


As a byproduct of its radical aerodynamics, the Pepsi Challenger continues to stand as one of the great open-wheel achievements in the last four decades. It's also the car, among the dozens of unique designs to emerge from AAR, that Gurney rates as his favorite.

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[h=2]1968 Gurney Eagle F1 restoration a labor of love[/h] Tuesday, 13 March 2018


Marshall Pruett / Images courtesy of Justin Gurney


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Still reeling from the loss of his legendary father Dan Gurney, All American Racers CEO Justin Gurney has found the perfect project to honor the Big Eagle by restoring and finishing the 1968 Eagle Formula 1 car that was never completed.

Following Gurney's iconic win at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix in the AAR-built Eagle Mk. 1 chassis, plans to improve upon the car for 1968 went as far as fashioning a new tub and ancillary components. But with a steep reduction in funding from AAR tire partner and sponsor Goodyear,

Gurney's F1 program was shuttered soon after the 1968 season began.
Using a modified version of the Mk. 1 in those early rounds, the 1968 chassis was moved to the rafters where it sat for decades. Now, back where it belongs on the AAR shop floor, Gurney has made the car an after-hours priority to celebrate family history.
"Walking down the hallways, there's just an empty, weird feeling in the shop, and of course there are pictures of Dad everywhere," he told RACER. "I was just thinking about what we could do to bring everyone together, and I'd talked about building that car with Dad several times, but we

never found time to do it. I know he always thought it was always on the sketchy side, and all those cars from back then were, but we've already had a lot of people contact us about helping with it."
The use of lightweight titanium and magnesium in the Mk. 1 was carried over to the 1968 chassis, and as Gurney recalls, his father raised an eyebrow on the topic of driver safety.
"I do recall Dad telling me of that picture with him sitting in it that it felt really thin," he said with a

laugh. "It had magnesium skins like the Spa winner, and he said, 'It feels kind of thin and flimsy...I don't know if I'm liking this...' So they didn't do many F1 races in 1968, and did it with the 1967 car that sprouted some wings, and when they shut that program down, they concentrated on the 1968 Indy car."

The 1968 car, designed by Tony Southgate, was meant to be powered by the same Weslake V12 engine featured in the Mk. 1. Two main challenges will face AAR in the restoration project, with the first centering on the acquisition of rare Weslake parts to finish the motor.

The second hurdle, more on the stylistic side of the project, will be to decide on the looks of the car.
"I've been in communication with Tony Southgate on it, and he's been really helpful," Gurney said. "But since the car was never completed, all we have to go on is a couple of clay mockups they did. The tub looks a lot like the 1968 Indy car that Tony also did, but some of the [F1] renderings

go a lot further and make it look like what they built for Indy in 1969. There are no drawings of the finished car, so that's a decision we'll have to make on how it will come out. I tend to like the 1968 look more, which is where I'm leaning."
With plenty of work to do, Gurney says the project could extend into the next decade.
"I'm not sure how long it will take, but I'd guess it would be at least two years," he continued. "We have to take care of all our paying work first, so it will have to get done on our own time.

It's locating the missing engine parts that will take some patience. The block attached to the tub had some pistons and rods in it, but we've already started contacting Miles Collier at the Collier collection (who owns the 1967 Spa winner) to see what he might have for motor parts. The rest we can build here."
Some of the original but long forgotten 1968 parts also made a recent return to AAR.
"One of the guys in the original picture at the front, Terry Malone, is still around and he even brought some of the front suspension pieces over," Gurney said. "He told me they'd been sitting

in his tool box for ages – since they were new. So we've got those, and I'm in contact with a few other guys like Pete Wilkins' sons; their father did the original headers.
"There were also some other miscellaneous pieces in the tub when we brought it down, so when

it really gets going, I know a lot of people want to help. Tony Southgate's done some new drawings of the car and emailed them to me. We're excited about getting the car finally done and ready to make its first appearance."

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IMS Museum Seeking Donations to Complete Restoration of Dan Gurney’s Lotus

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Indianapolis, IN — The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund — a new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only 501(c)(3) non-profits — to close out the funding required to put Dan Gurney’s legendary Lotus 29/1 back on the racetrack.

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The museum’s Restoration Department has been working on the car and its Ford 260 cubic-inch V8 with the goal of having it turn laps on the legendary 2.5-mile IMS oval. The museum is posting regular updates, photos and videos on its


The project got underway about 18 months ago and great progress has been made, but approximately $15,000 of the $103,000 budget required to restore the Lotus remains to be raised, and that’s where Spotfund has stepped up to help bridge the gap. Donate to the project.



The Lotus 29 represents one of the greatest technological revolutions in motorsports history; it ushered in the “rear-engine revolution” at the Indianapolis 500 after the race had been dominated by front-engine cars from the dawn of racing.



Team Lotus founder Colin Chapman brought three Lotus 29s to IMS for the 1963 race: one for Jim Clark, a second for Gurney, and a third as the test “mule.” The 29/1 was the mule, but Gurney crashed during practice and the mule quickly got a promotion. Gurney qualified the car 12th and finished the race in 7th place, while Clark finished 2nd and earned “Rookie of the Year” honors.

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IMS Museum Will Proceed With Restoration of Dan Gurney’s Indy 500 Lotus

by Cyndi Paceley INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum announced yesterday (Jan. 16) that the support of more than 140 donors has fully funded the museum’s restoration project for the groundbreaking 1963 Lotus 29/1 that Dan Gurney qualified and drove in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.
Photo: IMSThe goal — while subject to change — is to debut the Lotus 29/1 during 2020 Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge activities in May. Incredible progress has already been made as noted auto restoration expert George Lyons is returning the car body to its original, white-and blue paint livery while the IMS Restoration Department is completing engine and suspension work, and new wheels have been sourced from the United Kingdom. Watch a video update from Jason Vansickle, IMS Museum Curator of Vehicles.

The Lotus 29 represents one of the greatest technological revolutions in motorsports history; it ushered in the “rear-engine revolution” at the Indianapolis 500 after the race had been dominated by front-engine cars from the dawn of racing.

Team Lotus founder Colin Chapman brought three Lotus 29s to IMS for the 1963 race: one for Jim Clark, a second for Gurney, and a third as the test “mule.” The 29/1 was the mule, but Gurney crashed his primary car, the Lotus 29/2, during practice and the mule quickly got a promotion. Gurney qualified the car 12th and finished the race in seventh place, while Clark started fifth and finished second to Parnelli Jones in the Lotus 29/3 to earn “Rookie of the Year” honors.

Scotland native Clark, a two-time Formula One World Champion with Lotus during his Hall of Fame career, took the pole position for the 500 in 1964, and with the new Lotus 38, delivered the first Indy victory for a rear-engine car in 1965.