# Eagle T1G (Gurney-Weslake)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/eagle-t1g/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Eagle
- Discipline: formula, historic-racing
- Series: f1-historic
- Era: 1960s
- Last updated: 2026-11-05
- For sale on RCN: https://racingcarnetwork.com/for-sale/eagle-t1g/ (0 live listings right now)

The T1G is the most beautiful F1 car by acclamation: Gurney's Eagle — the Weslake V12's Spa 1967 victory, the American constructor-driver's only crown — museum pieces whose engine parts are essentially unobtainium, as the KB has always noted.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 3.0 Weslake V12 (Rye-built) |
| Power | ~410 hp |
| Summit | Spa 1967 (constructor-driver crown) |
| Canon | Most beautiful F1 car (acclamation) |
| Population | Handful (museum custody) |
| Diligence | Unobtainium law + generational apparatus |
| Years | 1966–1968 |
| Class | Beauty canon's summit |

## History

Dan Gurney's All American Racers built the F1 car aesthetics canonised: the Eagle T1G (1966) — the beak-nosed design's acclaimed beauty (a routine citation: the most beautiful F1 car ever), the Weslake V12's Rye-built power (the Gurney-Weslake partnership's twelve), and the campaign's summit: Spa 1967's victory (Gurney winning in his own car — the American constructor-driver crown the Brabham-only club's second member earned the same month as his Le Mans win) — the programme's brevity (the Weslake partnership's engineering-and-funding frictions closing it by 1968) sealing the type's small population and the legend's concentrated perfection.

One rule governs absolutely: real T1Gs are museum pieces (the handful's custody institutional and collection-grade), and Weslake engine parts are essentially unobtainium — the V12's support reality making running examples works-of-scholarship whose custody the tier's apparatus alone sustains.

The market is the beauty canon's summit: per-chassis biographies individually famous, generational-trade apparatus, and the Spa-1967 romance pricing everything the badge touches.

## Palmarès

Spa 1967 — Gurney's victory in his own Eagle, the week of his Le Mans win — the American constructor-driver crown's concentrated perfection.

## What to check before you buy

The rule: real T1Gs are museum pieces — the handful's identities individually documented at institutional custody, market appearances generational events at the auction summit's apparatus — and Weslake engine parts are essentially unobtainium: the V12's support reality (the Rye programme's small production, the priesthood-beyond-priesthood scarcity) making running custody a scholarship project budgeted accordingly. The beauty-canon premium (the acclamation's permanence) prices the type beyond results arithmetic; demonstration life at the marque-heritage tier is the public role.

## Did you know

- The most beautiful by acclamation: the T1G's routine citation atop the aesthetic polls — beauty canonised as the type's identity.
- Gurney's week of weeks: Spa 1967 arriving days after the Le Mans win — the greatest fortnight an American racer ever drove.
- Weslake unobtainium: the V12's parts scarcity making the engine the custody question the chassis' beauty never answers.

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