A.J. Foyt

Reading the last part of what you said was pure cl***ic, Ryan. You da man!!!!! Off to the races..........KNUX!

 

Cool footage...

This guy wrote a song about a racecar driver too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMm4bhs6GYY

 

he's a real neat guy...i had a chance to talk to him at Elkhart Lake in 1989

 

One racing driver singing about another...that's a tribute...

 

IMHO A J was the best American race car driver ever.

 

Have a safe trip!

 

It's not bragging if you can do it and AJ could do it anywhere and everywhere.

 

I recall having the chance to walk through several of his warehouses here in Houston, completetly packed with all of his cars...this was before he sold it all off at Indy. All of them had about an inch of dust on them, but it was an amazing trip back in time. What a legacy AJ has!

The only thing missing from the music video is AJ gettin' into someone's face after the race! Anyway, great stuff. Thanks Ryan.

Patrick/Houston
The Venus Project

 

I wonder how many childern were named after AJ? My second son has the AJ initials.

DW

 

A.J. is DA' MAN.

His tossing the laptop computer at Indy 10+ years ago at Indy after his crew member made a fuel mileage miscalculation was priceless. I can just imagine what he was saying when he gave it the heave-ho!!!!!!!!!!

In his days of racing, the only guy I'd put up against him in any kind of car is Mario Andretti.

Met him several times when Larry Foyt was going the ASA Series. He's a neat guy to talk to. As they say, "he's one of us!!!"

 

While on the Salt, I saw a reporter get between AJ and the car when AJ had a wrench in his hand. That reporter will not do that ever again.
AJ is my hero. I saw his last ride at Indy, I had a tear in my eye when his wheel came off, but he still waved to us on the way by on three wheels.

 

AJ Foyt is a legend indeed.



But that music video sure won't be haha.

 

A pencil sketch done by a young man who is no longer with us.

 

anyone ever figure out where AJ found the room to get his gonads in the ****pit with him?

 

Man, when I was a kid I thought that AJ Foyt was the ****. I has a version his biography written for children...

the coolest part was that he had his own lion..

- Joe

 

Cool to see a friend of mine in the video. Tyler Walker playing the part of AJ. Tyler is becoming a good driver himself

 

Another A.J. vid.-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2a3X7VdzNw

I was standing at the pit wall in N.H. Speedway when his driver Robbie Gordon brought the car in at practice. A.J. strattled the car and got in Robbie's face with his two fingers an inch apart and told him with some very unkind words how close he wanted the car to the wall while closing the distance in his fingers at Robbies nose.
You could really hear the compe***ion in him. Something i'll never forget. He's a great American Legend !

 

Was it AJ that beat on his car with a hammer at Indy sometime in the mid to late 70's? Some rookie mashed him during the warm up lap if I remember correctly. Whoever it was, he was RAGING MAD. Sounds like AJ anyway.

 

Super Tex will live forever!!!!

I remember when Danny Ongais moved from drag racing to Indy cars, and some wags were laying the smack on him.
Foyt defended him thusly, "He's a race car driver, and he drives race cars - don't matter what track he's on!"
Of course - Ongais went on to several wins in open wheel.

 

AJ was the ****in man and still is.The only thing close to him as far as driving and winning in anything is Tony Stewart.There both cut from the same piece of cloth JMO. GREGG

 

Here's a story about AJ that not too many people have heard, this one involes Ed Wilburn the VP of GM's Global Design. Back when Mr. Wilburn (Eddie as known through the Design Center) was a Designer with the Oldsmobile Brand Charactor studios (if that dosen't date this story) was working on a "secret project" of an Olds Aero Tech. Aurora (mid 1984ish/1992ish) AJ Foyt Supplied alot and the use of his facilites for testing it. And to Ed Wilburn, (who at the time and is now, a very trim and neat designer) AJ stated "Ed, you're in Texas, you need some boots!" and thus kicked his very own sweaty beat up cowboy boots and gave them to Mr. Wilburn. And he put them on, and he still owns them (doesn't wear them) today. for pictures of that car:www.fe3xolds.com/ billporterfieldaerotech.htm Oh-well, short story and I've probaly *******ized it some how, but I remember going to Indy Every year, from Upsate New York (which could go into many many family drama stories) and hearing stories of AJ. then I heard this story the other day, and thought, he really is one cool dude. He gave a city guy (Ed's from Philly I beleive) his boots. that's bad ***! He the guy who owns the boots because whose boots they were, is bad *** too! It takes alot to fill his AJ's shoes...err boots, and there problably won't be another like him.

 

My dad and I were at the Speedway in 1958, AJ's first year. My dad told me to watch out for that guy, he'll be something.

DW

 

AJ is cut from fabric woven from cactus and ****leburrs , with gasoline , alcohol and pure moxie as binders. He is not a corporate dream poster boy and raced by his rules !

 

AJ is one bad*** MF That sums it up. I don't think anyone has the drive that AJ had and it's obvious in all his winnings. I'm not an autograph hound but if I had a choice of any driver's autograph, I believe AJ's would be the one I'd want. I think he's seen it all.

 

My little A.J. story..in the late 80s? my friend John H. had a part-time job with Dee Howard in San Antonio, He is one of the nations top car/airplane collectors and inventors..Dee and A.J. are good friends and they were building a 32 Duesenberg three window coupe? to go after a certain LSR at Bonneville. The car was chopped,channeled,slicked for Bonneville, with a supercharged original V/12, and A.J. was going to drive it..the chance to tag along with John,see the car, and listen to Dee and A.J. talk about it and their plans was priceless and a great memory..Anybody familiar with this and how the car did?....

 

I remember that too. It took a bfh to "fix" his car. Unconventional for sure but got the job done. The poor sob that mashed him got a lesson