Anthony Joseph Foyt was born in Houston in 1935, the son of a mechanic who built midget racers, and was racing them himself as a teenager. He was big, fearless and famously short-tempered, and for three decades he was the face of American oval racing.
He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977 — the first driver to win it four times — and seven American national championships. He won the Daytona 500 in 1972 and the Daytona 24 Hours twice.
In 1967, barely ten days after his third Indianapolis win, he went to Le Mans with Dan Gurney in a Ford GT40 Mk IV and won. On the podium Gurney shook his bottle of champagne and sprayed it over the crowd — the first time anyone had done it, and the start of a tradition. Foyt remains the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the Daytona 24 Hours and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The GT40 of that year is in this catalogue.
He survived several serious accidents, including one in 1990 that crushed his legs, and raced on at Indianapolis until 1992 — thirty-five consecutive starts.
His own team, A. J. Foyt Enterprises, still races at Indianapolis.
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The cars
Cars in the catalog he drove, won in, or that were named after him.
