Parnelli Jones offers his analysis …

-P.F.

Parnelli Jones is a man who has figured prominently in the lives of two generations of Granatellis. Looking only slightly older now, twelve years after his near-historic run in Andy Granatelli's STP turbine car, his trim physique, maintained by five-mile runs at sunrise, he has a justifiably self-assured attitude and a subtle something that says he is every bit the man he was. He still looks as though he can take any machine to its limits and give as good as he gets, and then some, in any battleground, be it boardroom or race track. As a part of the pre-race pageantry before the 10th annual running of the California 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway, Jones was the driver of Vince Granatelli's turbine-powered Corvette for a 5-mph parade lap, then for…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 1979

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