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This extraordinary photograph captures the fatigue, the relief, and the jubilation showing on the faces of Bob and Dan Gurney winning the GT III category for the United States in the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, a full lap ahead of the Fifth place 250 GTO Ferrari after 24 grueling hours. The scuttlebutt was the two hot rodders from Southern California driving a small-block Ford hot rod didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Ferrari at Le Mans. The emotions of the moment have stayed with them both all their lives, not just finishing Fourth in class, but finishing Fourth overall in June 1964. (That wasn’t a Ford or Shelby man about to whisper congratulations into Bob’s ear, but the Porsche racing director Fritz Huschke von Hanstine, saying to call him if Bob ever wanted to drive for Porsche. Bob later took the “Racing Baron” up on his offer.) View Related Article
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