Dan Gurney turned the British Touring Car Championship on its head in 1961 when he unleashed a high-powered Chevrolet Impala on the field. The Big Eagle, driving the big American sedan, wore out the Jaguars and other marques who previously dominated the championship, and it wasn’t long before they took action and halted the Impala’s progress.
Acquiring the car from the U.K. has been a passion project many years in the making by his son Justin, who runs the family’s All American Racers business in Southern California, and it finally happened, as captured in the video below:
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