Dave MacDonald was a Corvette and Cobra racing legend who died too soon, in a Mickey Thompson Indy car in 1964. I was fortunate in being part of recreating his revolutionary 1961 Corvette special. It was late 2019 while working with Shine speedshop, I was shown a couple of bent up tubes that represented a Max Bolchouski Old Yeller chassis and a few photos of the car back in 1962, and was tasked with figuring out how to recreate it while Master builder Paulo Dosdoglirian started the fab work .

   Like a crime scene detective I then scoured every source I could think of to find clues and information about the car, figuring out every possible detail and then acquiring those pieces.

   First of all we would have to figure out how to recreate that modified Vette body, no small task. I tracked down a reproduction vette body company in western washington and with a blueprint I had made,  had them create a body. And that body was awful! after many hours of personally cutting and reshaping it we had a buck to bodywork and then pull a new body from. 

  Shop owner Jimmy Shine tracked down the complete correct numbers 327 fuelie and 4 speed and figured out the crazy torsin bar rear suspension. I pieced together a full set of correct 1963 Magnesium american mags and actually had the rare Pontiac finned brake drums and 6 tail light set up in my own stash. The drums had been in storage on my moms patio for almost 20 years:)... figuring out and finding the correct 59ish Benz gauges, Porsche seat and various period parts and do-dads to make it right became a huge task... and we even had things like the flat vette style steering wheel made.