Did someone actually think uploading a commercial to youtube would help their sales? Wait I just looked at the page, who uploaded the same commercial 6 different times. Jesus is some middle manager calling the shots on this, someone too old to realize how the internet works but thinks they have all the answers? You aren't even selling good automobiles. Chrysler and Jeep are consistently at the top of the list for unreliable vehicles. Anyone who regularly uses the internet is laughing at you over this, just FYI.

I'll never forget the time Gary beat Sammy Sessions at the Winchester Twin 50s....and he came from last to first in a backup car!

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_/buys a Fiat 500 in the fall_ _/proceeds to have worst winter in town in over a decade_ This video speaks to my soul

Met him at Du Quoin circa 82 I was a kid went up to him after race got autograph glad I got to meet him I knew he was an all time great driver

I think I saw Gary Bettenhausen race at Weatern springs New Zealand many years ago.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME! To , say Gary was "Great for not achieving something." Personally reminds me of the T.V. show on the Weekend racing shows, (so, a spoiler mine is from REAL memory, not video!) Dale Earnhardt was asked, some B.S. about never having a "Full" career without wining Daytona? He laughed... I hope Gary did too.

I had the MAGNIFICENT FORTUNE to meet Gary and his son's at the shop out around Avon, Indiana?!?! I was a kid, the details escape me. I know it was the Genesee Beer White with Blue and gold. Gorgeous!!! And to a kid... it's like I went to the Moon. Gary was MAGNIFICENT. Period. Nothing else to be said! He gave me hats, buttons, shirts, autographs, AND (engine porn spoiler alert) I got to watch them dyno an Indy car engine to failure!!! Awesome! and Gary gave me one of the connecting rods. Class act 100%. Thank you Gary, I will never forget you.

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jeeze 12 years racing on one good arm, and on unrully dirt and winning, thats badass, but like soo many indy the grandest of all to openwheel fans is without mercy, but soo many ledgends that have the stats and abillity soo often dont have the rings or trophies that man and women of lesser skill but greater luck do. but this is why he has a race named after him though saddly there are few mile or big tracks of dirt left to race at.

A Hoosier Legend? He was born raised and LIVED in Illinois. Born in Tinley Park, IL. Hoosier legend? No. Indy 500 Legend YES!

You were stuck on 499 likes so I gave you your "500th" like in honor of Mr. Bettenhausen.

I live down the road from the bettenhousan family homestead. The driveway has a street sign that says Gary's way. And checkered flags on the front gate. My dad always told me to race car driver lived there but I never knew much about him.

There appears to be an extreme lack of pulling the handbrake in this video.

I was a teen when attending the Indy road race at Sears Point (Sonoma, California) back in the Spring of 1970 where he gladly autographed a Sears Point Raceway bumper sticker for me. The upbeat enthusiasm he displayed left a lasting impression with me.

Wonderful vidio. Robin Miller is the best. Thank you 🇺🇸

The saddest four words ever written...........What might have been. RIP Gary, may you travel faster still, through the heavens.

I got Gary's autograph when I was a kid back in the 60s, still have it today

Great stuff. Racecar driver's are my heroes.

Just happened accross this gem of a video. This sums Gary B up so well. The guy was one of the best and would give you the shirt right off his back. RIP Gary B

I was at the track (IMS) one year during practice with my dad. There was a crash and the number 16 car stopped and the driver ran to the crashed driver to help. I asked my dad "Who is that guy? He's my driver." His name just sealed the deal.

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I know this guy from the Juvie days.

My first time at I.M.S was 1972 I was a chubby 8 yr old cub scout and had ZERO idea what it was I was looking at. The month of May had just started (I'm not exactly sure the day I was there) but Dad had some pull and we were able to get close to drivers and cars, and the moment I saw the Penske cars (the blue and yellow Sunoco) matched my cub scout uniform and I had to get close. Well it was close to lunch time, and I was able to sit down between Mark and Gary. Mark was talking with someone, so I asked Gary if he would like to share my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chips, Gary looked at me and kind of brushed me off. I looked up at Mark and he said Hello, and asked me my name, and how old I was, I answered him and then asked if he was hungry, and did he want to share my lunch, he smiled and said that he was very hungry and would love to share my lunch. So I gave him half of my sandwich and sat the bag of chips on the wall between us and chowed down, and when we were finished he asked me if I would like to see his car up close, and as i stood there looking at his car I looked up at him and said, "You are going to win the Indy 500" he looked at me and asked how I knew that, and I said to him, Because your car is the same as my cub scout uniform, and because he liked peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Mark was kneeling down to talk to me and he looked at me and smiled, my 8 yr old reasoning had made itself clear. Well as we know Mark did win the indy 500. So being from Terre Haute, and having been to many days during the month of May, and many indy 500 races, I saw drivers come and go, and I decided one day to see if I could find Gary, so I poked around Monrovia one summer day and was pointed in the right direction. As I pulled up at Gary's house there he was fooling around with some buckets, and he asked if he could help me, I said yes sir, that I had come to see if I could have 5 minutes with one of racings best drivers ever, and the buckets got thrown to the side, and he said he could spare 5 minutes. I grabbed a couple of things out of my truck, and we opened up the tailgate and sat down, he asked me my name, and I said it's not really important, and I pulled out his qualifying photo from 1972 at indy, and he said boy that's one good looking fella right there, and I asked if he would autograph it for me, which he did, and I pulled out a couple of other photos and off we went, talking about racing. And about 20 minutes later I said that I had wasted enough of his time and that I should be going, but Gary laughed and said that he was happy that I stopped by, it really made his day, so I smiled and said Gary, now I have something for you, and went to the front of my truck, and came back with a small brown paper sack. I said Gary, my first trip to I.M.S was 1972, and I was a chubby little 8 yr old kid in a cub scout uniform, and I had asked you if (and I started pulling it out) you were hungry and would like to share my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chips, but you kind of just brushed me off, so I asked Mark if he was hungry, and I saw Gary's eyes widen and he said, "I remember you, and I also remember that you told Donahue that he was going to win." I nodded and then asked him if he was hungry, he looked at me for a couple of seconds and said "little late now, but he was a little bit hungry" so we sat there in silence and each of us with a half of sandwich, and a small bag of chips between us until it was finished, I went back up front and pulled a couple bottles of water out and returned to the tailgate, he looked at me and just laughed, he said, "I wish I had taken that offer" and asked if I thought it would have got him to the end instead of breaking down, I could only shrug my shoulders and smile. I guess we'll never know he said, and still couldn't believe that I had come to make his day, even though I was trying to make his day 25 years earlier. We shook hands and I jumped in my truck, and Gary said stop by anytime you're around, and I nodded and as i was leaving I looked in the mirror and saw Gary wave and I waved back, I had actually made his day. You're never forgotten Gary having watched you on the dirt in Terre Haute to the pavement of the Indy cars, but most of all finally getting to share my lunch with one of the Greatest ever! !!

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I remember as a child we would go to watch the races in Salem Indiana. All the great USAC racers would show and race, Tom Bigelow, Pancho Carter, Dana Carter, Sheldon Kinser, and Gary. I remember that he would have an electric start on his 99 car, always loved that. We could hear it crank from the stands. The announcer would make comments about it. The guy had a lot of heart, I remember talking to him in the pits after it was all over. He was just the nicest guy. I sure do miss the old days, they dont make me like Gary any more.

I almost got to see him a Flemington in a silver crown race in the 80's .Warmups were just ending when I got to the stands and he was just slowing on the front stretch trailing blue smoke in the Rose car. When he didn't come out to qualify they announced he had blown the only motor they brought. Good race,but I all ways have been disappointed that I didn't get to see him in action.

Never met or saw the man in person, but was a Gary B. fan after getting interested in Indy 500 right around the time he almost won in 1972. Then I tracked him every year at Indy. Out within laps in 1974, a valiant 3rd in a beater car in '80. I remember one year (?) he was piloting a car on 3 wheels down the main straight after a wheel came off. Felt awful in '89 when his car didn't fire at the start - it was a beautiful paint scheme. New life with Menard and the Buick V6 in the '90s. Fastest qualifier in '91. Was having a top 10 run in '92 when, as he said, a tire came out of the sky and damaged his car beyond repair. Favourite memory in '93 on Bump Day when he did a quick mentoring of Eddie Cheever who had never driven the Buick. With only a few laps practice Cheever qualified the car. A great member of America's open wheel fraternity.

I Remember 1961 As If It Was Yesterday,,,

awesome video!!

Nice KIA!

i was a GARY B fan from the first time i heard his name a saw him race!

Still one of the "Top Five that Should Have Won the Indy 500" in my book. It was exciting to hear on radio & then via tape delay on ABC-TV's Indy 500 coverage of 1980. Rutherford, Sneva, then Gary B. Wow! That would have been "super history" of the Indy races: Sneva from 33rd or Gary Bettenhausen from 32nd to win the race of '80. And actually, I was pulling for Gary to win - a first victory of Indy cars teams who literally never won a big Indy race, and, another win for the dying Offenhauser type engine power plant. The saddest interview I ever saw of an Indy driver was the one where Gary was asked by the interviewer what his feelings were now that his career in racing was about to end. Gary was actually shaking and in tears that he knew "the clock was running down, and he just wanted to win Indy for the family of the Bettenhausens." I, myself, was teary eyed in watching that interview end on that note. His passing a few years ago was one I'll always remember...like the passing of the great Lloyd Ruby...men who dearly wanted to conquer & win just one Indy 500. (Oh - that goes also for the late Eddie Sachs & Mike Mosley)

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Gary was, is, and always will be a class act. Always pulled for him to get a 500 win, but it wasn't to be. The Bettenhausen family gave a great deal to the sport. Royalty for sure...

Nice video Chris unfortunately I live way too far away to drop in and look. And by you a tea!