Reply to "Dan Gurney - RIP"

During the Sears Point/Bondurant School/70's Dan Gurney would visit the track and join Bob for book signings, interviews and featured appearances. On one such afternoon visit while Bob was busy in his office, Dan wandered out to where 3 of us instructors were lapping/teaching/timing our students with our Datsun Z's, using what we called the "first loop" of the road course by making a right turn after the turn 6 carousel, racing along the drag strip wall, and then making another right turn to climb that hill into turn 2. An impromptu timing session quickly erupted in one of our instructor Z's between the 4 of us wherein a smiling Dan was faster than all of us, humbling us with our own race car in our own backyard.
Dan Gurney was the consummate gentleman racer and will be missed, and I still cherish/treasure the Gurney Eagle belt buckle he presented to us that day...........