1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s dominant international racecar drivers when, in 1965, he set out on a path that select few drivers ever pursue—to build and win in a car of his own making. Back...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
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...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing soon thereafter to the urban sprawl that has blighted most of Southern California. In recent years, however, local resident Doug Magnon has opened the Riverside International Automotive Museum to celebrate...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising and aerodynamic devices changed the sport forever. Is adversaries were some of the greatest names in Grand Prix history, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Graham Hill and perhaps the greatest of...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s Monterey Peninsula, this year’s event celebrated a man rather than a marque. Just as Juan Manuel Fangio was honored in 1991, so was Dan Gurney the event’s featured guest in...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as a shock, and one of those was the news that David Loring had died in mid-September at the age of 62. Although he had endured and survived previous internal ailments,...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
Forty-eight years ago, Dan Gurney qualified his All American Racers Eagle-Ford in the middle of the front row for the...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. The record that helped Gurney garner the award should be well known to most, but to capsulize let’s just say he started 312 races in...
Last Wednesday afternoon All American Races CEO Justin Gurney hosted an 85th birthday party for his father, AAR Founder Dan...
The RM group of companies, RM Sotheby’s and Auctions America, will handle the sale of 49 vehicles from the Riverside...
Dan Gurney has been selected as the next recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his role in founding All American Racers and subsequently building Eagle racing cars for more than 30 years. Although he will not be in attendance, Gurney will be honored Saturday night,...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
The “Eagles Have Landed” exhibit honoring Dan Gurney at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum opened last Friday night with a reception...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras winning the 1965 FIA GT championship, Shelby took over command of Ford’s struggling GT40 program and in 1966 finally handed Henry Ford II the 24 Hours of Le Mans victory...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build...
Two black and gold Indycars campaigned by the legendary Smokey Yunick will be crossing the auction block this coming January 17 at Worldwide Auctioneers’ Scottsdale sale at the Scottsdale Auto Park on McDowell Road. The first is the 1969 All American Racers Eagle Mk7 Santa Ana, chassis number 69-703 (above,...
