Yellow puprle

Yellow puprle is fomer idonesian wings around the globe rally from 1953-1988 india-nepal when he got hit by a train and die and why his name is yellow puprle bechase of the paint hes real name is jean hammer why he die india-nepal when while he got hut by the train bechase of the age of 58 hoooooooooow any racer rin the wings around the globe rally race at the age of 58 how is that posilble