Road America recently announced that the AAR Eagle would be the featured marque of the 2022 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
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...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right here in California. It had our own brand of aerodynamics. It had a stock block Chevrolet—essentially a sprint car engine we had done a bit of development on. It was...
Toyota-Eagle GTP MkIII I truly believe a good car does not have to do only with good performances, but also...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade from U.S.-sourced vegetable-dyed leather. The dark brown is harness leather, will turn to a slightly lighter, reddish brown color. Leather thickness is 8-10 oz., 3.2mm-4mm. The side panels are saddle...
Goodwood’s 76th Members’ Meeting, set for March 17-18, 2018, will offer a pair of new races, named for American racing...
Two black and gold Indycars campaigned by the legendary Smokey Yunick will be crossing the auction block this coming January...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build a simple, small displacement racecar—like a Formula Ford—and his prototype’s success would catapult that individual into becoming a major racing car manufacturer, eventually reaching the pinnacles of the sport, F1...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
The “Eagles Have Landed” exhibit honoring Dan Gurney at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum opened last Friday night with a reception at the museum. A full house heard welcoming comments from the museum’s executive director Terry Karges before board member Charles Nearburg, in whose Family Gallery the Eagles are being displayed,...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
Dan Gurney has been selected as the next recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his...
The RM group of companies, RM Sotheby’s and Auctions America, will handle the sale of 49 vehicles from the Riverside International Automotive Museum Collection, including the 1966 Eagle Indycar, chassis 201, that was the first Eagle racing car produced by Dan Gurney’s All American Racers organization, and Gurney’s personal ride...
Last Wednesday afternoon All American Races CEO Justin Gurney hosted an 85th birthday party for his father, AAR Founder Dan...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded...
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...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive the 1979 March 79V Super Vee that Dennis Firestone drove to that year’s USAC “Mini-Indy” championship. I have a certain affinity for Super Vees, both in having raced a Ralt...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls, Motschenbachers, Parsonses, Poseys, Rodriguezes, Sifferts, many more…none of them ever won a race. How surprising is it that so much talent came up so dry? Pete Lyons Frankly, not that...
