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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: 1968 DICK HARRELL COURTESY FRED GIBB CHEVELLE
« on: January 21, 2016, 02:09:11 AM »
my mind was on road racing NASCAR never came to my mind great thought.
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Jerry Heasley doesn't always let the facts get in the way of a good story.
he writes what the owner turns in.Some mags don't pay for research.
Evidently not. Peyton Cramer and Paul Dombrowski purchased the former Enoch Chevrolet dealership in August '66, renaming it Dana Chevrolet. Cramer was no longer employed by Shelby at that time. This car as shown in the article was not built until November 26, 1966 according to the NCRS Muscle Docs service. Evidently we are supposed to believe that Peyton Cramer bought a 327 powerglide car in a state he did not live in from Brown & Hoeye Chevrolet in Mesa, AZ many months after purchasing his own Chevrolet dealership in Southern CA where he lived. If you own your own dealership, I would think that you would order a car in the color you wanted but this car was originally Sierra Fawn with a gold standard interior even though the real DC-1 drag car was all black. I would think if you want to build a 427 drag car, you would probably want to start with an SS350 but this car was a base V8 with an automatic. This car also had tinted windshield and the Z21 exterior chrome package which the original DC-1 car did not have. Dana also advertised in early November that they were building 427 cars and this car was not built until several weeks later. There is no paperwork to prove it and no proven continuous chain of ownership. Former Dana employees Dick Guldstrand and Don McCain were asked to authenticate this car and neither would do it. Now that Dick has passed away, this article has appeared. This is a free country. Use your own judgement as to whether you believe the article or not.