On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Great story, Paul! And by that I mean the actual events and your rendition. > > That car is a treasure. > > Always loved the they had to build a bump in the roof to accommodate Gurney's > lanky frame.
Sort of like a Cotty bump. I was wondering if someone was going to point that out. Lots of stories associated with this car. At the time, the press pundits assumed that Foyt and Gurney, who were competitors, would be so involved in bettering each other that they would kill the car before nightfall. They were wrong of course, and both drove with an eye on finishing. At one point during the night Scarfiotti in the second place Ferrari 330 P4, who was four laps down, pulled up behind Gurney and flashed his bright lights as though he wanted to pass. Gurney slowed a bit to let him by, but the Italian continued to flash his lights. So Gurney pulled to the side of the road and parked. Scarfiotti pulled in behind him. Then realizing the futility of the exercise, Scarfiotti drove back out onto the racetrack. Gurney did likewise and followed him to the finish, still more than 30 miles ahead of the Ferrari he was following. Paul > > cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > Sent: March 22, 2013 3/22/13 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: A Classic American Race Car > > I had some fun yesterday writing a piece for The Times about the Ford Mark IV > GT40 that won the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans in what amounted to a cakewalk. > That win has to be considered one of the most significant of all time for an > American race car. The occasion that inspired an article was some maintenance > work on the car, which belongs to The Henry Ford Museum. My article is here: > > http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/preserving-a-famous-american-racecar/ > > The Times only used one photo. (They were overwhelmed with other work and > might add more later). So for the PDML, I posted the other pics that I got > from The Henry Ford here: > > http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1050777 > > Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
