{"id":492103,"date":"2011-11-01T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=31679"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:08:08","slug":"roy-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/roy-gane\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Gane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>To say that Roy Gane has strong opinions would be to say that Cadbury\u2019s makes chocolates. It\u2019s evident as soon as you open a conversation with Roy that he has strong opinions on people in racing, races, racecar preparation and on racing politics. Perhaps it\u2019s because he has done nearly everything in race prep that could conceivably be done. From working with the early racers in his shop in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to the creation of Roger Penske\u2019s Zerex Telar Special, to the tasks of preparing the lightweight Camaros that Mark Donohue used to humiliate the mighty Ford teams of both Carroll Shelby and Bud Moore, Roy has done it all, seen it all. Now retired\u2014temporarily at the age of 77\u2014in Delaware, Roy expressed his views on racing history to VR Contributing Writer John Wright.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_551871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551871\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-551871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-551871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roy Gane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>How did you enter the sometimes arcane world of racecar preparation, and who were some of the people with whom you hung out in the early days?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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From working with the early racers in his shop in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to the creation of Roger Penske\u2019s Zerex Telar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":551881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,261,18114],"tags":[11807,18323,12013,12461,1433,597,11657,1857,324,548,11665,18435,11766,12052,11617,11597,11739,13608,13790,16462,583,604,11795,1307],"class_list":["post-492103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-people","tag-scca","tag-2010s-all","tag-briggs-cunningham","tag-climax","tag-cooper","tag-general-motors-gm","tag-grand-prix","tag-lola","tag-maserati","tag-motorsport","tag-penske","tag-people","tag-a-j-foyt","tag-bud-moore","tag-carroll-shelby","tag-mark-donohue","tag-roger-penske","tag-tommy-cole","tag-hansgen","tag-interview","tag-monaco","tag-f1","tag-indycar","tag-shelby"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roy Gane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Wright speaks with one of Roger Penske\u2019s earliest collaborators about his days racing with The Captain and some of the tricks they employed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/roy-gane\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/roy-gane\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roy Gane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Wright speaks with one of Roger Penske\u2019s earliest collaborators about his days racing with The Captain and some of the tricks they employed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/roy-gane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-02T01:00:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-27T03:08:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/INT201111-p2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John R. 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