Road America recently announced that the AAR Eagle would be the featured marque of the 2022 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
In an era when Lewis Hamilton and Sebastien Vettel brook no challenge from team mates and examples of ‘win at...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an opening, but it really does apply to my time in Germany from April 1967 to July 1968. I was a young Second Lieutenant in the Army assigned to the 97thEngineer...
An Eagle Indy car raced by Roger McCluskey in the 1966 Indy 500 is one of over 170 rare and...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were very lucky to be close to Dan and his family. Casey Annis and I sat in his office and he told revealing stories, and occasionally from the other room Evi...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
Toyota-Eagle GTP MkIII I truly believe a good car does not have to do only with good performances, but also its opportunities to be right on the money, even if you go sometimes a little away from the good changes. Of course, the big secret to any good car is...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
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...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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 RM group of companies, RM Sotheby’s and Auctions America, will handle the sale of 49 vehicles from the Riverside...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had...
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
Forty-eight years ago, Dan Gurney qualified his All American Racers Eagle-Ford in the middle of the front row for the 1967 Indianapolis 500, then managed to lead that race briefly before being sidelined by an engine problem. Later that year the car (chassis 212) was sold to A.J. Foyt who...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Eddie Rickenbacker Soichiro Honda 1 Eddie Rickenbacker takes control of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1923). 2 F1 World Champion Alan...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died while Murphy was two and his father succumbed to injuries suffered in the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 which left Murphy an orphan. Forced to work for a living...
