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Title: Dan Gurney
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Dan Gurney began drag racing as a teen-ager in Riverside. He turned into a Renaissance driver: in 1967, he became the first driver to win driving Grand Prix, Indy cars, stock cars, and sports cars. And, after winning the 24 hours of LeMans with teammate A.J. Foyt, Gurney inaugurated the tradition of spraying champagne into the crowd from the winner's podium. Photo dated: May 23, 1968.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048867
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4245.
CARL0000052966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17393
Subject: Gurney, Dan
Automobile racing
Automobile racing drivers
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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