Bobby Unser Racing Up Pikes Peak, July 4, 1960

Summary

Bobby Unser is in the car that carried him to seven of his 13 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb victories. Unser continually modified the Chevrolet-powered car over the years, reducing its weight by changing the frame and substituting aluminum components wherever practical. The car won Pikes Peak in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1968.

Bobby Unser is in the car that carried him to seven of his 13 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb victories. Unser continually modified the Chevrolet-powered car over the years, reducing its weight by changing the frame and substituting aluminum components wherever practical. The car won Pikes Peak in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1968.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1960

Collection Title

Bobby Unser Papers 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.123.205.264

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Bobby Unser.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.00 in

Width: 10.00 in

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