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It’s pretty hard to quantify a career and a life as great as those of Dan Gurney, American racing hero, but the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has given it a try. The Petersen has ...
ELKHART LAKE – As a mist hung over Road America, Dan Gurney’s cars were grounded. While these Eagles were meant to race, many now live in museums, three, four and five-plus decades after they ...
In celebration of his prominent role in racing history, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will host the exhibit “Dan Gurney, the Cars He Built, the Cars He Drove,” Aug. 13-15. Displayed ...
Dan Gurney, a leading player during one of auto racing’s most intriguing eras and, in the judgment of many, the best driver never to have won the Indianapolis 500, has died of complications from ...
Dan Gurney, whose storied career as a race car driver included numerous firsts, and who went on to become equally successful as a team owner and car builder, died Sunday in Newport Beach ...
ELKHART LAKE – As a mist hung over Road America, Dan Gurney’s cars were grounded. While these Eagles were meant to race, many now live in museums, three, four and five-plus decades after they ...
Dan Gurney was a racing car driver, race car builder and it really wouldn’t be a stretch to call him an inventor. In the world of racing, he was active from 1959 to 1970 and he won races in ...
Before he beat the world’s best on track, Dan Gurney was just a kid street-racing his flathead Ford through the backroads of Riverside, California.
Dan Gurney died Sunday at age 86, and to say that he lived a full life would be an enormous understatement. He wasn’t just one of the world’s most prolific racing drivers, or the namesake of ...
Mr. Gurney told The Times in 2014 that he became fascinated by auto racing as a teenager, when he watched races at Freeport Stadium and became “infected with the virus.” ...