There was a time during the 1960s and ’70s when a small, brick-front building in a Los Angeles industrial area, squeezed between Helen’s Café and Jim Narin’s Machine Shop on Jefferson Avenue, was one of the most important race shops in America.

During a career of diverse and remarkable achievement, Dan Gurney’s proudest moment, and perhaps his most significant victory, came 50 years ago when he won the 1967 Belgium Grand Prix in a car of his own design and construction.