As if to further punctuate the Gurney’s performance and racing past with Ford, two other interesting cars are parked up near the GTs. They being a 1968 Dan Gurney Edition Mercury Cyclone Spoiler muscle car, fully and highly optioned to include factory air conditioning and the requisite 390 FE big-block V-8. Another is a perfectly faithful Superformance recreation of the black #15 Shelby Cobra that Gurney raced at Sebring in 1963, teamed up with Phil Hill. A period photo of the original car appears on the cover of the Rip Chords’ Hot Rod Hits album featuring the song dedicated to the car, Hey Little Cobra. Dan Gurney’s original Shelby American Cobra team jackets quietly hang over the #15 Cobra’s rollbar.



It’s clear that Justin Gurney really loves his family’s legacy in motorsport, and equally enjoys this dazzling pair of crimson GTs dedicated to his father -- but with one major and two minor disappointments. The big downer of course is that his father passed away just prior to delivery of the 2019 GT, so Dan never got to see this car in his garage, nor drive it. Justin also wishes that the new GT could be left in its lowest ride-height position with the engine off, which it cannot; so it could be shown and displayed with the rear wing fully deployed, and the car hunkered down for the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. (The car can be lowered to minimum ride height while the car is running, but pops back up -- about an inch or so -- once the engine is shut off.) He also quietly wishes there were an easier way to integrate the Gurney Bubble into the new car’s roofline.

No matter, seeing this fabulous pair of GTs in his family garage, both liveried and dedicated to his famous father, begs the expected question: “Isn’t that cool?”

Yes, young Mr. Gurney, that’s most definitely cool.





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