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This is my first post here. Wayne Leary was my friend since 1971, and spent quite a few of his days in the past two years, visiting our shop in Costa Mesa where we play with vintage slot cars as well as full-size vintage race cars.
The whole time I knew Wayne, he was simply one of the good guys and a heck of a good crew chief. Without truly bad luck happening to Dan's Eagles several times at the IMS, he would have five Indy 500s under his belt.
We saw him in worse condition every time he visited, but were somehow hoping that his doctors would be able to yank the cancer out. It did not happen.
What is even more sad to me is that we just finished restoring one of the most famous cars he crewed, a 1972 Eagle-Offy decorated as the one that Bobby Unser drove the the pole that year, and I am sure that he would have really enjoyed to see it running. We missed by a week.
May God take care of his soul.
PdL
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