Dan Gurney - RIP

A couple of the cars...

The LeMans 1966 Winner - with a Gurney Bubble.

GT-50P S/N 1075, a Double Lemans Winner.

Well respected - Wish he was around today for this role....

Well, If you guys won't post them, I will...

One More...

One more after that...

More constituents for the Presidential campaign....

Three pictures

This one is Jimmy Clark in the foreground and Dan Gurney behind.

Its Indianapolis 1963. Both driving Lotus 29 chassis powered by 375 BHP small block Ford push rod V8s.

(those engines marked the beginning of engine development headed by Bill Gay which culminated in the 351C)

A personal note: Jimmy Clark finished second that year behind Parnelli Jones. Jones was driving an Offenhauser
owned by JC Agajanian. Jones and Agajanian were local heroes where I grew-up.

Indianapolis, I think 1963

Left to right

Dan Gurney, Colin Chapman, Jimmy Clark

Indianapolis 1965, the front row.

Pole position: Anthony Joseph (AJ) Foyt
Middle: Jimmy Clark
Outside: Dan Gurney

All 3 cars are powered by DOHC Fords which were based on Ford's small block V8.

Gurney DNF'd with mechanical problems. Foyt led 10 laps, but DNF'd with mechanical problems. Jimmy Clark led the other 190 laps and won the race. He went on to win the Formula 1 championship that year, the only driver to ever win both Indianapolis and the F1 championship in the same year.

Thanks, George -

Very cool pictures. Thanks for posting. Those were the days...

Rocky

Apparently Dan Gurney was the only driver that Jim Clark feared.

What a talented man.

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...........