Word: gurneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gurney has run at Indy every year since 1962. Starting in 1966 he began building his own cars. In 1968 Bobby Unser won the race in one of Gurney's Eagles, and Dan placed second, the first time that he had actually finished the race. He finished second again last year. Gurney gave up Grand Prix racing last year so that he could focus all of his energy on his domestic racing efforts. This year he has entered a team of Plymouth 'Cudas in the SCCA Trans Am series. If he wins at Indy, he would like to go back...
...accident, and sat out a year. Then ?? seriously burned his hands in ano??wreck. He could only get second ?? rides, and when the track ?? May first Rutherford at the age ?? thirty-two had the look of a never ?? was. His car, a many times rebuilt sion of one Dan Gurney's original Eagles, couldn't even make qualify ?? speeds. Then his crew started ma?? ?? chassis adjustments, and everyday ?? started to come together. He wou?? ?? in the middle of the first row, and st?? ??ticians figured that if he and pole ?? Al Unser had raced together...
Saturday afternoon, shortly after the checkered flag falls at Indianapolis, car owners Roger Penske and Parnelli Jones, along with drivers Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, George Follmer, and Dan Gurney, will board Roger Penske's Lear jet, and fly to an airport near Concord. New Hampshire. The next day they will be racing Mustangs, Javelins, and 'Cudas in the third race in this year's SCAA Trans Am series for small sedans...
...Faculty yesterday set up a special committee-to be chaired by H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science-charged with providing an opportunity for students and Faculty to participate actively in the 1970 political campaigns "with minimal interference with the University's educational programs...
...extent, it is. After plumbing the depth, of public support for Carswell, Kirk and Gurney invited the judge to Gurney's Winter Park, Fla., home and persuaded him to make the race. Then, says Gurney, "We decided to run it past Harry Dent," the South Carolinian who is Nixon's chief political adviser for the South. Gurney says that Dent and Rogers C.B. Morton, the Republican national chairman, bought the idea. But Morton flatly denies it. When Dent called Morton, seemingly trying to get him to ask Cramer to step aside for Carswell, Morton says he refused. Later...