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[sammyb]

The Yates/Gurney Ferrari Daytona is alive, well and living in Bruce McCaw's Vintage Racing Motors garage in Redmond, WA. I was there last year and snapped this pic...By the way, it was sitting next to the Gulf Porsche that ran the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour race as a camera car for McQueen's movie.

And I gave up my Car and Driver subscription last year after another year of trying to find something interesting other than Yates' column...Csere has been a sell-out in my humble opinion -- spending too much time being a cheerleader for the manufacturers in exchange for great fringe benefits (which is what most auto journalists fall into.)

I also find Automobile more interesting. I do still like Autoweek (for Corey Farley...and because they print my reader response letters, such as last week.) I also find Road and Track's Peter Egan very hard to beat -- one of the best columnists ever. As for new car reviews, it's a wash between R+T and Automobile. It just depends on the writer and the cars.

But on classic cars, I can't find any domestic mags I like -- just the Brit pubs. (And I hear that "Sound Classics" newspaper column is good sometimes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

 

[Guest]

I'll agree with that, Peter Egan is one of my fav jounalists, automotive or otherwise. I'd love to pick up those books that have all his collected side glances in them. R&T is really the only domestic car mag I read these days other than Mustang and Fords. I picked up C&SC a few years back when I bought the TR and, although it took me a bit to get used to the Brit style, I'm hooked on it now. Shame it's so darn expensive over here though, especially with the dollar taking such a pounding (no pun intended) overseas.

 

[aeronca65t]

Sammy:

Thanks for the picture...I'd forgot that the Yates/Gurney car was blue (I'd guess, American Racing Blue).
Wonder if they cleaned it out all the junk food wrappers and empty Coke cans.
As I recall, they made it Sea-To-Shining-Sea in less than 27 hours.

 

[sammyb]

Curiously, I have my Brock Yates Cannonball book:
Yates/Gurney made the run in the Daytona in 1971, finishing first that year in a time of 35:54 (which is hauling butt!) There's a picture of Dan Gurney holding a $90 ticket.

The fastest run ever was the last race -- 1979. Dave Heinze and David Yarborough ran a '79 Jaguar XJS in 32:51 -- which for you math majors is an average speed (including gas stops) of just north of 88mph!!!

Oh, and just to show that the soda cans and junk food was cleaned-up (but that Brock Yates' tush outline is still there).......