With the late, great Parnelli Jones' passing last year, the presence of his 1970 Ford Mustang racer feels especially ...

Instead it sat side by side with driver Parnelli Jones. It produced more ... friend and rival A.J. Foyt went on to win. The crew pushed the broken jet car behind the wall.

He won, the second-to-last front-engine roadster to win ... Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing and he won two more Indy 500s as an owner, with Al Unser driving. By 1974 VPJR was fielding a car in ...

But Parnelli didn’t have much use for road racers back then. As he told his car ... him win everything from the Indy 500 to the Mexican 1000. He’d shut down his Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing ...