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??