Born in 1933 in Texarkana, Ark., Rufus Parnell “Parnelli” Jones was a legendary driver and team owner known for competing in many types of vehicles including IndyCars. Jones won the 47th running of ...

I read the headline along with everybody else yesterday: “Parnelli Jones, 1933-2024.” The race car drivin’, middle finger flippin’ fan-favorite has passed on at 90 years old. Death isn’t always cause ...

Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 champion and one of the most versatile and successful drivers to have competed in 20th century American motorsports, died Tuesday in his hometown of Torrance, ...

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. PJ Jones, Parnelli Jones’ son, first confirmed the news of ...

From NASCAR to open-wheel Indy cars, and from sprint cars to midgets to off-road vehicles, Parnelli Jones never met a four-wheel ride he couldn’t conquer. While the Torrance, California, resident’s ...

Parnelli Jones, who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1963, died Tuesday in Torrance, Calif. He was 90. "The racing world has lost a great competitor and a true champion," read a statement from Indianapolis ...

Parnelli Jones was born in 1933, a couple of years after Dan Gurney and a few years before A.J. Foyt, Mark Donohue, and Mario Andretti. In a generation of versatile American drivers, Jones may or may ...

He was born Rufus Parnell Jones. But nobody called him that — except maybe his mother. At an early age, when Jones was growing up in Torrance, a teenage friend knew Parnell had a crush on a girl named ...

(WISH) — Former Indianapolis 500 winner Rufus Parnell “Parnelli” Jones has died. Jones’ son says his father had battled Parkinson’s disease for the last few years. Jones won the 1963 Indy 500 as a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WXIN/WTTV) — Racing legend Parnelli Jones ...

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. He was ...