Although Camoradi’s Maserati took an epic overall victory with the dream duo of Stirling Moss and Dan Gurney driving, the Corvette suffered a wheel bearing failure early in the race and retired.

Dan Gurney’s name permeates the history of American ... made this car—a nearly bone-stock 1961 Impala with naught but a Corvette swaybar and brake cooling ducts—such a legend in Gurney ...