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Rufus Parnell " Parnelli " Jones[1] (August 12, 1933 – June 4, 2024) was an American professional racing driver and racing team owner. He is notable for his accomplishments while competing in the Indianapolis 500 and the Baja 1000 desert race, and the Trans-Am Championship series.
Jun 4, 2024 · Rufus “Parnelli” Jones passed away peacefully Tuesday at the Torrance (CA) Medical Center at the age of 90 after years of suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. His wife and family were by his side.
Jun 5, 2024 · Parnelli Jones, a hard-bitten, hard-charging race driver who came out of Torrance and won the controversial Indianapolis 500 in 1963, then was the hard-luck loser four years later, died Tuesday...
Jun 5, 2024 · TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner, died Tuesday at Torrance Memorial Medical Center after a battle with Parkinson’s disease, his son said. Jones was 90. At the time of his death, Jones was the oldest living winner of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
Jun 4, 2024 · Parnelli Jones, who had been the oldest living Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the greats in American auto racing, died Tuesday at age 90.
Jun 4, 2024 · Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones, who was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, on August 12, 1933, and raised in Southern California, and who won the 1963 Indianapolis 500, died on June 4, 2024, at...
Jun 4, 2024 · Parnelli Jones, who as a teenager traded in a horse for a hot rod and went on to become one of the biggest stars in auto racing and a storied figure at the Indianapolis 500, died on Tuesday in...
Jun 5, 2024 · Parnelli Jones, who died in Torrance, California, on June 4, 2024 at age 90, had no regrets in a motorsport career that spanned more than 40 years, and included wins as in the Indianapolis 500,...
Jun 4, 2024 · Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones, an Indianapolis 500 winner and a racing icon from an era when a driver of his skill could run and win in any type of car he pleased, died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
Jun 4, 2024 · Parnelli Jones, the Southern California racer whose career arced from the earliest days of wheeled competition on long-gone Southern California dirt tracks to the Indy 500 and beyond, has died....
