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Indy Qualifying Day 1967

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    Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 4:10pm
First attempt to Qualify a Turbined Powered Indy 500 Race Car. Parnelli Jones got the ride of his life In this one of a kind Big Andy Granateli creation.   Qualified 6th. Led the first lap. Spun out into the grass without touching anyone. Recovered the leed and broke with 7miles to go.   I was there .   Anyone else on the forum there for the 67 Indy 500?
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I aint quite sure how I'd feel about them guys in STP pajamas messing around with my car.
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I was about 15 years old... Dad took me and two brothers to the race. Sat between #3 and #4 curves... All I remember is  them screaming by and you could hear VROOM, VROOM, SHWOOSH...... turbines didn't make much noise compared to the pistons engines.
Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Back when independents still had a chance, Andy, Joe and Vince were real mavericks that always brought something new to the table , even when it was something old like the infamous Novi. The turbine cars were awesome, but USAC and other competitors were afraid of them, sadly, their day in the sun ended before it ever really began. I was there in '67 to see it qualify, little did I know that I'd be there 16 years later with an independant team that was the first to make serious use of titanium in race cars. 
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You guys will never guess who you can buy firewood from around these parts.......well, maybe you can....
 
Gordon Johncock!
 
He would also show up incognito driving someone else's stock car for a night every once in a while at the tiny little fly speck speedway in town.  Pretty cool!
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Gary Benttenhausen and I were High School Classmates. I was in class with Gary when the principal came in to take him to the office to tell him his Dad, Tony was killed in a practice crash at Indy. 
      Gary always had a new Mopar to drive .  We met often to do some friendly drag racing. Nothing Gary drove was match for my 1960 Studebaker  Lark .  Wish I had a Little 60 Lark V8 Hardtop to play with now.
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    A.J. Foyt never know it, but I always cheered for him to do good. Folks took us to the Brickyard back when. The track tour guide gave me a STP sticker and it graces my tool box today. 

    When I win the 500 someday, I will be driving my Oldsmobile powered Oreo Cookie Car to victory lane. Flowers around my neck, beautiful women as far as the eye can see, and the cold bottle of milk in my hand. I will dip Oreo's into it. After I have eaten 5 or 6 and I have that small cookie burn in the throat, I will drink the entire quart of milk nonstop.   
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I graduated from high school on 6/7/67, remember listening to the race on the radio.  As I remember, it was kind of boring as the turbine powered car just kept going around and around, until it broke.  I seem to remember is was a $5 bearing.
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wonder how the turbines would stack up against the recips of todays formula/Indy cars
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I worked at Victory Junction camp when it started about 2005 and that car was parked in our workshop . Was given to Richard Petty and was part of his collection. After the awe of seeing it became a pita as it was always in the way. Was moved after several months and I assumed it went to where we were storing the rest of his card
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I was there with my Dad and my Brother. I was in the 7th grade.Was there the next year to. Andy ran 3 wedge turbines. The track is only 50 miles away. Thanks Dad!!
sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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