Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
In this final installment of Casey Annis’ interview with Dan Gurney, Dan discusses his “second” career as a constructor and team owner. Click here to read the first installment where Dan Gurney discusses his days as a driver. VRJ: What has been more satisfying for you – your career as...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
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...
The new-and-improved Petersen Automotive Museum continues to impress with its selection of interesting exhibitions, including the latest titled “The Eagles...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion enters a new dawn of historic racing by honoring one of the true legends of...
If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project, Gurney’s revoultionary Alligator motorcycle was recently introduced at Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotvie Museum. This radically different looking motorcycle, with its low center of gravity and feet forward riding position, features...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
American racing legend (and all-around nice guy) Dan Gurney was recently honored during the Wine Country Classic vintage race weekend...
The Petersen Automotive Museum awarded motorsports icon Dan Gurney with the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award at its 22nd Annual Gala on Saturday, October 22nd, 2016. Barry Meguiar presented the award in recognition of Gurney’s six decades of achievement in racing as a driver, team owner and manufacturer, as...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
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,...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at Suzuka in a Porsche 962. It is the 31st (of 35 races) and final win for the 956/962 in Japanese competition (1989). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2,...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
This month’s featured site is the official Web site of Dan Gurney and his All American Racers (AAR). Formed by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1965, after their victorious year at Le Mans, AAR went on to produce 157 racecars from 1965 to 2000. During its nearly 40-year-long history...