There’s no middle ground with A.J. Foyt, no compromising your feelings. You either love him or hate him. You either think he’s the greatest racecar driver who ever lived, or the most over-rated, or, perhaps like Chris Economaki, the luckiest guy who ever put on a racing helmet.
Whatever your feelings, this story is not about Foyt—not directly—but about the racecars built in his Houston shop between 1966 and 1981, cars that delivered 25 champ car wins, two Indy 500 victories, two national championships, and one very serious crash. The cars are the Coyotes and, as we shall see, reveal quite another side of the legendary Texan.
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