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Kevin Bacon Drives NOT This Volvo
Kevin Bacon Drives NOT This Volvo
February 20 2009 01:59:52 AM EST
However, anytime you see the Gulf colors, The Six Degrees Kevin Bacon Game can get you from Gulf Racing to Corvette. So, racing team managers from Aston Martin, Audi, McLaren [old and recent], Porsche, and Ford should all hit their knees and thank Corvette for Gulf Oil.

For if it was not for Corvette, then Grady Davis of Gulf NEVER would have been bitten by the racing sponsorship bug. It is where the all the Gulf Racing $$’s started.

* Articles abound about the Gulf One Corvette that recently went to auction. Video here.
* And the 1962 Gulf Corvette that went before it a few years prior. More.
* But, the Gulf Racing Story starts with Don Yenko + Grady Davis + Don’s Dad’s Chevy Dealership + Corvette.

BTW- The Bacon Game goes off the Gulf deep-end when you Google ‘Gulf + Indy + Miller + Ford’ and find Preston Tucker behind the famous 1937 Miller-Ford disaster [read the 1937-43 section] and a 1941 Gulf-Miller-Ford 'let’s-pretend-we-are-building-an-AutoUnion-for-Indy' entry. But, we digress.

PS- Bacon and Kyra drive a Volvo XC70. No report on the color.