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THE SECRET LIFE OF TOLY ARUTUNOFF.(Revs)
Byline: PHIL BERG
James Thurber's character Walter Mitty actually wanted to become Anatoly Arutunoff, we believe.
"Toly'' raced with Bob Bondurant, Phil Hill, Richie Ginther, Dan Gurney, Ak Miller and Carroll Shelby back when cars slid, drivers were visible, and an average privateer like Arutunoff could finish fourth in a Grand Prix race against the factories. His father invented a special pump that served the oil-industry boom and relocated the family from czarist Russia to Oklahoma. His sister invented a holographic art medium collected by Salvador Dali.
Arutunoff began racing in "normal'' sports cars, such as his Porsche Carrera Speedster in 1957, and then a really quick short-wheelbase Ferrari in Italy's spectacular Targa Florio enduro in 1967, but he considers them just tools of their times. You get a sense that he's bored with these superclassics.
He drove in two Cannonball Baker coast-to-coast races and on just about every road-race circuit in the United States and many in Europe. He built his own road course, the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, near Tulsa. He still drives in European vintage rallies and was seriously considering the latest Bullrun jaunt from Montreal to Key West, Florida.
These days, what gentleman racer ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, THE SECRET LIFE OF TOLY ARUTUNOFF.(Revs)