Road America recently announced that the AAR Eagle would be the featured marque of the 2022 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and facilitator to racers, honchos, and journalists alike, always ready to assist in any way possible. After commencing his career covering motor sports for his hometown newspaper, the San Jose Mercury...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
Dan Gurney has been selected as the next recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right here in California. It had our own brand of aerodynamics. It had a stock block Chevrolet—essentially a sprint car engine we had done a bit of development on. It was...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits the appellation, it may seem somehow diminished. Well, the shining light that was Dan Gurney will not be diminished by being called an icon, for he is truly deserving of...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
Last Wednesday afternoon All American Races CEO Justin Gurney hosted an 85th birthday party for his father, AAR Founder Dan Gurney and, continuing a tradition established last year, presented him with a restored Eagle racing car from a significant moment in his career. Last year that car was Dan’s 1967...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in our 20 years of monthly publication, there is a person featured on the cover, rather than a car. The last time was in 2008, when Phil Hill passed away. Now,...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called “The Eagles Have Landed.” The exhibit in the museum’s Charles Nearburg Family Gallery will showcase the diversity of the various racing cars constructed by Gurney’s All American Racers in nearby...
Goodwood’s 76th Members’ Meeting, set for March 17-18, 2018, will offer a pair of new races, named for American racing...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the age of 84 following an extended illness. Leonard, a San Diego native who moved to San Jose, California, as a 16-year-old to chase his racing dream, established himself as one...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 First engine ever designed by Ernst Fuhrmann, the Porsche Type 547 (Carrera), runs in Zuffenhausen for the first time (1953). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
The “Eagles Have Landed” exhibit honoring Dan Gurney at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum opened last Friday night with a reception at the museum. A full house heard welcoming comments from the museum’s executive director Terry Karges before board member Charles Nearburg, in whose Family Gallery the Eagles are being displayed,...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade from U.S.-sourced vegetable-dyed leather. The dark brown is harness leather, will turn to a slightly lighter, reddish brown color. Leather thickness is 8-10 oz., 3.2mm-4mm. The side panels are saddle...
