Hard Luck Lloyd - The Complete Story of Slow-Talking, Fast-Driving Texan Lloyd Ruby

Some remember him for his ever-present cowboy hat. Others remember him for his laidback nature and slow, measured speech, the direct opposite of his intense competitive nature behind the wheel of a race car. But most remember him as a man accursed with "hard luck" at the crown jewel of the USAC Championship Car race circuit: the Indianapolis 500.

From his humble but successful beginnings on the dirt tracks of Texas and Oklahoma, to his shining but all to brief run with Ken Miles as a factory driver for the Shelby American Ford GT40 program and his glory days as a USAC star, Lloyd Ruby's career exhibited excellence across multiple forms of motorsport. Ruby raced and won in Indy cars, stock cars, sports cars, midgets, and motorcycles, only to have the hard luck of his attempts at the Indianapolis 500 cloud his page in American automobile racing history.