Vic Yannacone
November, 1969
"The Impossible Dream," speed merchant Anthony Granatelli termed it in his early-1969 autobiography, They Call Me Mister 500. He was writing about a win for one of his cars in the Memorial Day classic at Indianapolis. His pessimism was understandable: Since his 1946 Brickyard debut, when he and his brother Joe drove (rather than transported) their entry to the track from Chicago, Granatelli had brought a host of radically innovative machines to Gasoline Alley--only to see them break do...
