Thread: RIP Dan Gurney
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Old 18 Jan 2018, 15:06 (Ref:3793575)   #18
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Originally Posted by fieldodreams79 View Post
Read a great article this morning about Dan's early days of motoring after his family moved to California, where he got started into racing as a Hot Rodder. He built cars from junk parts, would be recruited to drive others' cars because of his abilities and there's racing on SAC bases involved - the essence of post war motor racing!

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0709sr-dan-gurney/

There wasn't much he didn't on 4 wheels...

Think we can get a merge of the two threads??
Thanks for posting that. I knew some about Gurney's background, but not all of that.
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