If you're a Dan Gurney fan, you'll wanna watch this video.
Barn Find Hunter on Dan Gurney
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, Mar 15 2025 08:09 PM
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Posted 15 March 2025 - 08:09 PM
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Posted 16 March 2025 - 08:04 AM
Fantastic! Worth the time to watch it.
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Posted 16 March 2025 - 10:09 AM
Thank you so much for posting!!! A great piece of history of my childhood hero!!!
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Posted 16 March 2025 - 05:11 PM
I didn't know PdL had an attic... 
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Posted 16 March 2025 - 05:53 PM
"Gurney for President."
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Posted 17 March 2025 - 12:08 PM
This was a good informational video. I had seen Gurney talk about that photo gallery in another video. His son Justin seemed to know as much about them as Dan did. I enjoyed seeing the 900 lb., Westlake V12 F-1 car that was never completed. Hopefully, it'll be complete in a year or two.
Does PdL still own the Eagle Indy car built using a spare tub? Or was it sold to Bruce Bader or someone else? Last year there was a meet that included 30 Eagle Indy cars. The next one is scheduled for 2026. They hope to get even more cars then.
It surprised me that AAR was still open. No longer involved in auto racing, but they are involved with aero-space projects.
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Posted 17 March 2025 - 04:57 PM
Hi Bill,
Perhaps you saw a video of Robin Miller interviewing Dan Gurney in the photo gallery?
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Posted 17 March 2025 - 07:36 PM
That is probably right, Nate. I just couldn't think of who it was at the time I was posting. That was quite an assortment of photos and trophies. Dan's son Justin said they had more of each at home,
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Posted 18 March 2025 - 06:59 AM
This was a good informational video. I had seen Gurney talk about that photo gallery in another video. His son Justin seemed to know as much about them as Dan did. I enjoyed seeing the 900 lb., Westlake V12 F-1 car that was never completed. Hopefully, it'll be complete in a year or two.
Does PdL still own the Eagle Indy car built using a spare tub? Or was it sold to Bruce Bader or someone else? Last year there was a meet that included 30 Eagle Indy cars. The next one is scheduled for 2026. They hope to get even more cars then.
It surprised me that AAR was still open. No longer involved in auto racing, but they are involved with aero-space projects.
PDL sold the car a couple years ago to two people active in the vintage Indy car world. The car is located in Indy now. He drove it one last time at the first “Gathering of Eagles” event at Road America a couple years ago before turning over the keys so to speak.
It is no longer in the white Eagle AAR livery that it originally was. It is now in the 1973 Indy STP livery of Swede Savage.
Interesting trivia note the car has the engine in it that was the Offy Bobby Unser had in his car when he won the Ontario 500.
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