A Chance Meeting with a Gurney Eagle Mk 2

After some work in Muncie, Indiana, in February 2014, I was on my way homeward through the Indianapolis Airport when I came across this gem of a race car in the airport lobby. It was on temporary display from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.

A few years earlier, I was lucky enough to see Gurney-Eagle chassis 101 at Griot's Garage in Tacoma.

Chassis 101 was fitted with a four-cylinder engine (2.7-liter Coventry Climax), because the intended 3-liter V-12 was not ready in time.