1972 Parnelli VPJ01 Indy 500 Finished

[Sbenford]

Thanks Alex for the pictures. They are great!

Paul, right you are! Mario kept the same style helmet even after Viceroy sponsorship was gone. He widened the red stripe and replaced the gold stripes with blue.

Michael, you are also correct. Big Joe was highly underated for some reason. Maybe it's because Indy was more highly regarded than the Championship at that time and Joe didn't have one? Just a guess.

[indycals]

Thanks Alex for the pictures. They are great!

Paul, right you are! Mario kept the same style helmet even after Viceroy sponsorship was gone. He widened the red stripe and replaced the gold stripes with blue.

Michael, you are also correct. Big Joe was highly underated for some reason. Maybe it's because Indy was more highly regarded than the Championship at that time and Joe didn't have one? Just a guess.

I'm sure not winning Indy had something to do with it. Also, accoridng to Joe (via a friend who spoke directly with Joe at length), Viceroy was not pleased that 'average Joe' and his Samsonite sponsorship was upstaging their superstars Andretti and Unser.

[Sbenford]

The guy that bought my newest Parnelli, also bought an old one I did a few years back. He just sent me pictures of both cars. This is the car that Paul was referring to before.

Stu

[PJE]

When Alex told us that the car had been at Goodwood last year I did a little searching and found these photos:

Paul Erlendson

[heezonit]

Hello Folks,
I'm new to this site, found this post on these cars, but there are no pictures on any of the posts-not sure if the "expired" or whatever, anyway, here's a few pictures (I think) of the '72 VPJ's I built.

[chaparral2k]

Very nice