Happy 86th Birthday, Dan Gurney!
By RACER Staff / Images by Albert Wong, Marshall Pruett, LAT
Henry Ford III, Dan Gurney, Edsel B. Ford II, A.J. Foyt Jr. with the 1967 Le Mans-winning Ford GT Mk IV. (Image by Albert Wong). RACER would like to wish a Happy Birthday to Dan Gurney, who turns 86 today. Thursday, 13 April 2017
The all-American motorsports legend achieved fame first as a driver, winning races in Formula 1, Indy cars, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, NASCAR, Can-Am and Trans-Am. Along the way, Gurney becoming the only American to take a car of his own construction to win an F1 World Championship event. After his driving career, he enjoyed many more successes as a team owner and manufacturer of the All America Racers Eagle racecars.
Gurney and Foyt's Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans, 1967Prior to last weekend's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach,
RACER sat down with two of motor racing's biggest legends, Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt, as the winners of the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the amazing achievement with Ford and the iconic GT40 in an April 7 ceremony at the Road Racing Drivers Club dinner.
In 2014, Robin Miller visited Gurney at the AAR shop in Santa Ana, Calif., for a series of video interviews for The RACER Channel –
Dan Gurney: All American Racer, presented by Bell – in which Dan recalls some of the highlights of his epic career. Watch the first episode below, and
click here to view the other five episodes in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4eK...CD1rdBLPU-cq1J