Mathieu HeurtaultGooding & Co.
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers produced various extraordinary race automobiles over the a long time, and it began right here. That is AAR Eagle Mk1, chassis #101. So far as American race automobiles are involved, it does not get a lot better.
All American Racers was shaped in 1965 with the intention of profitable the largest races on this planet. In Europe, AAR raced as Anglo American Racers, first coming into Components 1 in 1966 with this automotive, the Mk1. Probably the most well-known Eagle Mk1 is chassis #104, the one Gurney drove to victory within the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix, changing into the primary and solely American automotive to win an F1 grand prix by the hands of an American driver. The ’67 automotive was powered by a 3.0-liter Weslake V-12 and used an progressive chassis made partly of titanium and magnesium. This earlier Mk1 was powered by a Coventry-Climax 2.7-liter four-cylinder paired with the de rigueur Hewland transaxle.
Chassis #101 was utilized by AAR within the 1966 and 1967 F1 seasons earlier than making method for the V-12 automotive. With Gurney on the wheel, it managed fifth place finishes on the French and Mexican Grands Prix and a seventh on the German Grand Prix. Additionally of word, Phil Hill and Bob Bondurant each raced the automotive for AAR. After its time with AAR, the automotive was offered and campaigned by Al Pease, a Canadian who holds the ignominious distinction of being the one driver disqualified for a Grand Prix for being too gradual. (In Pease’s protection, he had a lot success elsewhere in Canadian motorsport.)
AAR constructed simply 4 examples of the Mk1 and it was its solely F1 automotive, because the workforce switched its focus to American open-wheel racing. This automotive comes with its authentic Climax engine, although the consignor has put in one other engine for competitors use. Gooding and Firm notes that chassis #101 was handled to a “sympathetic” restoration by racing store J&L Fabricators in Puyallup, Washington, and comes with a trove of paperwork courting again to its time as a workforce automotive. Since new, it is solely had 4 homeowners, and Gooding and Firm estimates that it’ll promote for between $3 and 4 million. A ton of cash to make sure, however this is without doubt one of the most important American race automobiles of all time. This specific chassis could solely have a number of F1 top-tens to its identify, but it surely additionally marked the start of one of many world’s biggest race constructors.