Penske's 80th BD Surprise

[indy]

The Captain's 80th was yesterday. Look what Cindric and other Penske employees were able to do. A very cool piece of racing history that typically gets overlooked for the racecars.

www.indycar.com/News/2017/02/02-20-Penske-Blue-Hilton

Jordan

[clm1545]

That is really cool!

[pje]

Very cool.

Paul Erlendson

[racerbrown]

now that's a heck of a surprise .
i'd like to see his face when they give it to him.
duane

[indy]

I would have loved to have seen RP's reaction, too, but I have not found it.

This article has another shot of the finished truck and also a shot of the frame during restoration:
motorsports.nbcsports.com/2017/02/20/team-penske-restores-iconic-blue-hilton-indy-500-winning-transporter/

Jordan

[indy]

A different picture of it parked out in the woods. Would be nice to see a more in depth piece on this piece and the resto.
www.racer.com/indycar/item/138271-team-penske-restores-iconic-blue-hilton-transporter

Jordan

[trevor83]

So who's going to build a model of that? lol

[indy]

Team Penske's FB page has a video of the truck getting towed out of the wood and collection of 20+ photos of the resto process. Cannot figure out how to link it all here individually so you will have to go to FB and scroll down to the 2/20 posts.

www.facebook.com/TeamPenske/

Jordan

[Gary Davis]

Now THAT is really KOOL! I'd love to build that Transporter. Does anyone know what year the Truck is? I see it's an HI. I do have a few 917s also. Hmmmm..this looks like a future project...Thanks for posting this info Jordan.