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Dan Gurney
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Re: Dan Gurney
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Kentucky
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Re: Dan Gurney
Nice tribute. Great videos.
Thanks for posting.
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Mystic CT
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Re: Dan Gurney
I woulda voted for him for president when he was the "Car & Driver" candidate in 1964 but I was only 15 and not old enough to vote!
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01-18-2018
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: San Antonio area
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Re: Dan Gurney
He wasn't on the WI ballot ... I wrote him in.
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Mystic CT
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Re: Dan Gurney
😋 Glad someone knows what I'm talking about!
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01-19-2018
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: diamond lake /washington
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Re: Dan Gurney
one of the best ever
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01-20-2018
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: San Antonio area
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Re: Dan Gurney
snip
But there was also no one faster in the States, even when it came to crossing those states as quickly as possible. On the track Gurney won in Can-Am, Trans Am, you name it. Off the track, he went just as fast. In 1971, one year after he'd retired from formal competition to focus on life as a team owner, he was coaxed off the bench by racing writer Brock Yates to participate in the still-new Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. They won the highly illegal secret event's second running, using a Ferrari Daytona to cover 2,863 miles in just under 36 hours, receiving only one speeding ticket. "At no time did we exceed 175 mph," Gurney deadpanned. A decade later, "The Cannonball Run" was released and Burt Reynolds essentially played Gurney on the big screen. Yeah, that's how cool Dan Gurney was. snip http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/st...ns-sports-cars
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