Saleen has partnered with American racing legend Dan Gurney to develop a limited edition Ford Mustang, which was unveiled today at the New York Auto Show. The car is called the Gurney Signature Edition and it’s been designed to mimic Dan’s original 1969 Trans Am series Mustang racer. It’s characterized by a unique ‘duck bill’ rear spoiler and ‘stinger’ hood and features trademark Gurney Eagle insignias throughout the interior.
All Gurney Signature Edition vehicles feature Saleen’s 465hp supercharged 4.6L engine, the same unit found in the S281 model. The cars also come with a host of other performance accessories including a short throw shifter and 3.73 Max Grip rear axle.
With input from Gurney himself, engineers also installed a specially tuned Racecraft suspension, Generation-II Watts-Link rear set-up, and a custom two-tone interior with either red or blue Alcantara seats. Stopping power comes from 12.4in vented discs up front and smaller 11.8in discs out the back. These reside within 20in powder-coated wheels wrapped with high-performance Pirelli Corsa tires.
Production will be limited to just 300 cars and each will feature Dan Gurney’s signature on the center of the dash.
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He's the sonofabitch that *STARTED* the whole dousing the crowd with champaign thing. He and Shelby started "All American Racers" back in '62 or '63 and by '65 made the team official, backed by Goodyear originally wanting to dominate Indy which turned into European Road Racing as well, driving the "Eagle" I think it was.
He won the Belgian Grand Prix in '67 - kicking the snot out of Jackie Stewert's BRM and Jim Clark's Lotus in the process, also managing to set fastest lap and winning by OVER a minute.
He also took the 24 hours of LeMans, which is where the champaign victory thing started where he was teamed with Foyt and won in a GT40.
He is also who the Gurney Flap is named for, converted Indy cars to rear engine, introducing full faced helmets to Indy and so on and so forth.
The list is endless!! I'm shocked you don't know who he is.
Personally, I love it.
edit: haha how's THAT for a moronic typo. 25 hours of LeMans. Hm. Only 24 hours in a day. I r slow.
Modified by Gary C at 3:09 AM 3-20-2008
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Jesus. You would think that in this day and age of information at your fingertips, even the newb kids could *click*click* here and *click*click* there and Google-up a Wikipedia article on a mother****ing legend.
"You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos, mother****er!"
"History in the making: Called "one of the most beautiful Grand Prix cars ever built", the Eagle / Gurney - Weslake V12 number '36' is racing through the Ardennes Forest to win the Grand Prix of Belgium in 1967, making this the first, and so far, only victory for an American in an American Grand Prix car in the modern era."
Jesus. You would think that in this day and age of information at your fingertips, even the newb kids could *click*click* here and *click*click* there and Google-up a Wikipedia article on a mother****ing legend.
The kids want a link they can click. Nothing more.
Colin Chapman? I'm pretty sure Lotus was responsible for the rear engined revolution.
You'd be sort of correct, it was actually Gurney who got Chapman involved with Ford, after bringing him over on his own dime in '62, to persuade him to GET into Indy, after he saw the Lotus 25 over in Europe.
You'd be sort of correct, it was actually Gurney who got Chapman involved with Ford, after bringing him over on his own dime in '62, to persuade him to GET into Indy, after he saw the Lotus 25 over in Europe.
For the most part. If memory serves, it's also the cucumber capital of Japan. Hence the home-market ads for the FT-86 featuring Takeichi-kun, the cartoon cucumber whose meteoric rise through the underground drift world has shamed him in the eyes of his school-master.
Well done, imo. I would not buy it, but I would take a second look if I saw it on the street.
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