Bits & Pieces,
Historical & New

• The GURNEY - FOR - PRESIDENT Campaign by Editor-in-Chief David E. Davis Jr., from Car and Driver Magazine, May 1964 edition.
  
  
• MOTOR TREND Magazine - February 2003 issue: Story about Dan's five MOTOR TREND 500  NASCAR wins in Riverside in the 1960's. Story by Matt Stone
  
  

• Since Jan, 1, 2000: Guide to stories published by magazines in the US and over seas about AAR/Gurney.
  
  
• December, 2002: AAR Christmas card 
  
  
• Press Release October 23, 2002: Establishment of American Formula One Team.
  
  
• Feature Story: Gurney Gets the Cheers; Waltrip Gets the Win. Out of retirement after almost 10 years – Dan Gurney driving "Old No. 48" moved up from seventh to third place in the Winston Western 500 at Riverside International Raceway, it seemed more a showcase for Gurney than a battle among the world’s fastest stock car drivers. From a story in the Sunday January 20, 1980 Los Angeles Times by Times Staff Writer Shav Glick. 
  
  
• Feature Story: The Lotus-Ford Plot to Overthrow the Offy Roadster, Dan Gurney put together the corporate might of Ford Motor Company and the innovative genius of Colin Chapman to end the era of the front-engined roadster at Indianapolis.
  From VINTAGE MOTORSPORT Magazine - July/Aug 2001 issue.
  
  
• Feature Story: Evi Gurney writes about her years with Porsche in the 1960’s
   in a chapter she contributed to Racing/PR Director Huschke von Hanstein’s Biography
  "The Racing Baron" published in German and English in 1999.
  
  
• December, 2001: All American Racers' 2001 Christmas Card 
  
  
• Feature Story: The Eagle Gurney-Weslake F1 Effort, 1966-1968
  
  
• Feature Story: The First Cannonball Run. Article by by Brad Niemcek
  from the December 11, 1971 issue of Competition Press & Autoweek
  
  
• Feature Story: Dan Gurney's Challenge to a Duel between F1 cars and Indy cars. Story by Jack Berry from the Detroit News, January 17, 1973:
  
  
• Feature Story: "Sometimes It Just Flows"; Dan Gurney's impromptu blast of bubbly in 1967 spawned a popular custom. Story by Lewis Franck from the August 1996 issue of INSIDE SPORTS.
  
  
• January 22, 2001: Happy 80th Birthday Phil Remington 
  
  
• December, 2000: AAR Christmas card celebrating 35 years of winning Gurney Eagles.
  
  
• Feature Story: "Gurney Flap" by Keith Howard; from  Motorsport Magazine, England, September 2000 edition.
  
  
• May 21/22, 2000: Dan Gurney honored at Chrysler-Jeep Wine Country Classic, Sears Point Raceway. 
  
  
• Dan recalls the birth of the Long Beach Grand Prix in the preface of the 25th anniversary program of the race in 1999. And a Historic Gallery of the Inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix. 
  
  
• Nov. 2, 1999: AAR Press Release after last CART Race at Fontana.
  
  
• Dec. 20, 1999: AAR Press Release announcing withdrawal from CART.
  
  
• Jan. 5, 2000: Dan Gurney's Appreciation letter to fans. 
  
  
• Biographies of AAR's Champcar drivers 1996 -1999.
  
  
• AAR Sponsor Hospitality at the race track ( CART season 1996-1999)
  
  
• Feature Story: In Focus: All American Racers' Eagle MKIII GTP car, from Racer Magazine; Photography by Rick Graves 
  
  
• Feature Story: In Focus: All American Racers' Eagle 987-Toyota car, from Racer Magazine; Photography by Rick Graves 
  
  
• Feature Story: "In the Beginning / Gurney's White Paper" by Ned Wicker on the Formation of CART in 1979. Also published in CART 20th anniversary yearbook.
  
  
• Feature Story: "The Angriest Celicas" by Matthew Hayashibara on the Toyota GTO championship effort.
  
  
• Feature Story:  "The Day the Dinosaurs died" by Dean Case on the rear engine Revolution at Indianapolis 1963 and the role Dan Gurney and Jimmy Clark played.
  
  
• Car and Driver moment (Dec, 99 issue): "When you gotta go, you gotta go" 
  
  
• On Track Magazine (Dec 99 issue): "Car of the Decade" (The Eagle GTP car).
  
  
• Auto Racing Shav Glick Award to Dan Gurney.

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