I have ridden with him many times on Ortega, he was fast, never did slow down with age.
I was lucky enough to attend many west coast, and five European car races with he, and the All American Racers group.
He was a larger than life person that lived like the normal guy racer he was, and always will be remembered being. He, and another personal friend, Steve McQueen, spent a lot of time at bike races at places like Laguna in our Team Kawasaki pits. Dan would just hang out, and help out any way he could. Steve'd pick up a broom, and sweep the area, do other things for us.
There were more great people that "hung out" with us, we had a lot of car racer friends that rode bikes.
But.....this is Dan's day.
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