Evi Butz Gurney, born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany, joined Porsche in 1960 as a personal assistant to Huschke von Hanstein upon graduating from the Foreign Language Institute (Dolmetscherschule) in Stuttgart. She worked for Sonauto, the Porsche subsidiary in Paris in 1963 and after a year as editor of a women's magazine, rejoined Porsche at the beginning of 1965 as head of the Porsche Press Department. She wrote two automobile related books and did freelance work for various publications. In 1969 she married Grand Prix driver Dan Gurney and moved to the United States. They are the owners of All American Racers, where Evi has been a PR executive for over thirty years. They have two grown sons and live in Newport Beach, California.