......and hoping that whiney STP car breaks down......love that WWofS intro as I remember it as a kid. Go Jim!
Andy must have had some cheap perfume if he wanted that in the tank.
......and hoping that whiney STP car breaks down......love that WWofS intro as I remember it as a kid. Go Jim!
Andy must have had some cheap perfume if he wanted that in the tank.
Katharine's Legge is in the gravel!--Jenks
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12-7-1941 Never, Never Forget 9-11-2001
LOL'd at McCluskey's quote.... "It's a real nice machine but it's still a stove, you know...(chuckles)"
Gordy was right.
"You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music." - Jim Carey
Thanks so much for posting this, the last time I saw it I was... 11 years old.
I'll see YOU at the races!
Parnelli had 'em covered that day. And then Foyt had to work his way through some carnage to get the win.
Have a very blessed day!
In racing I miss the innovation......the turbine, the SuperBird, the Sucker car, the name "mystery Eagle"......and the 1967 rendition of the turbine was a place we will never visit again. Back then racing was unlimited, computers made it plain vanilla........and that's not necessarily good........I really enjoyed the old WWofS intro before even Vinko Bogatag and his ski jump disaster which was still 5 years away.......and we're about the same age, I was 10.Originally Posted by Bruce Spencer
I can't think of anyone who got so much publicity for finishing out of the money at Indy, like Parnelli did that year. He parlayed it into a tremendous amount of Fame....
ZOOOM
"Doc, just set them fingers sose I can hold the wheel"
James Hurtubise, June, 1964
I remember AJ as saying "That ain't no race car, it's just a god**** airplane".
I also remember the 4WD turbocar as being the realization of every car builders dream, to be able to keep your foot down all the way around.
Funny how once the thing everyone sought was achieved, it then became the worst thing that ever happened (to some, anyway).
"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less" - R.E.Lee
I believe that he got some of his "fame" from being the one to break the 150mph barrier at Indy and for winning the 1963 Indianapolis 500.
the good old 'whooshmobile'. thanks for the vid.
Great video, watched the whole thing. Thanks.
If one followed Parnelli's career, specifically at Indianapolis, one would see that he "knew" how to handle the brickyard. He drove the track better then anyone before or after, IMO. One only had to watch him drive Calhoun on his qualifying run in 1963, the car was almost sideways in the turns, yet totally under control. While a completely different driving style, he handled the turbine perfectly because of it's 3 second throttle delay.
The only one to come close to Parnelli was Rick Mears. He retired WAY to early.
"You just don't know what Indy Means" Al Unser Jr.
I was always an AJ fan, but on hindsight it would have been cool for Parnelli and the turbine to have won that year. Sure made for an interesting race that year. I was there, for the first 18 laps. I was junior in HS, and we had finals the next day so we couldn't stay for the rest of the race.
I was always an AJ fan, but on hindsight it would have been cool for Parnelli and the turbine to have won that year. Sure made for an interesting race that year. I was there, for the first 18 laps. I was junior in HS, and we had finals the next day so we couldn't stay for the rest of the race. I agree Rufus was one of the best at Indy.
Likewise, though I was only 9 at the time. First race of any kind and its over after 18 laps, after which I sat around eating Pay Day candy bars and generally freezing. But it made me a lifelong racing fan and 30 years and 3 months later I met Parnelli at Monterey and got his autograph -- the only one I've every asked for in my life. Very personable guy and could still get it done on the racetrack -- won the vintage Trans Am race in his 1970 Mustang, the same one he won the championship in.
Parnelli and Follmer battling Donahue in Trans-Am was epic stuff.
Oh, this is too easy. Like shooting fish in a barrel. I gotta go there. Can't believe someone hasn't already.
Try, oh, let's see, the fourth place finisher in the 2005 race.
This thread is about the 1967 race, Parnelli and the turbine. Don't let it get derailed into another useless Danica bash.
If you call yourself Calhoun you have to know better.
It was pretty amazing to see the same guy in the same car 27 years later. Both he and the car seemed pretty much unchanged from when they first worked together.
I loved Foyt looking into his crystal ball and telling Jim McKay "I think Parnelli won't finish the race because he has a bad gearbox." (paraphrased)---Foyt may have known something or was just lucky in his prediction. Anyway I am on record here---loved Granatelli and his innovations, Novi, etc...but never liked the Turbine. Thought it had an unfair advantage.
My 2 1/2 cents.
IIRC, the turbine had some gearbox problems in practice; don't know if they were related to the famous $5 bearing that failed in the race.
It has been very nice having Andy at the Drivers Meeting each Saturday before the 500.
Glad he had 69 with Mario to make up for 2 years of heart break with the turbines, let alone his efforts on the Novi.
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