Penske PC-6
Team Penske
MarqueTeam Penske
Power800-1000 hp
Race record1 (known) 1979 Indianapolis 500 wins from 3 (known) 1978 Indianapolis 500 1979 Indianapolis 500 1980 Indianapolis 500 races
Team Penske
Among the 16 Team Penske entries in the MotorJury library, the Penske PC-6 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Penske PC-6, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
On paper, the Penske PC-6 reads like this: quoted output is 800-1000 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 1,603 lb. Worked together, those figures give roughly 499 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Team Penske's own catalogue the Penske PC-6 sits alongside the Penske PC-10, the Penske PC-16, the Penske PC-17, the Penske PC-18. The record names the Penske PC-5 as its predecessor and the Penske PC-7 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Geoff Ferris.
The Penske PC-6 also has a competition record: 1 (known) 1979 Indianapolis 500 recorded wins from 3 (known) 1978 Indianapolis 500 1979 Indianapolis 500 1980 Indianapolis 500 starts. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Penske PC-6 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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