Dana Chevrolet

[Jon Mello]

From my personal collection, this is an interview with Peyton Cramer and also Dick Guldstrand. These were
printed in the August 67 issue of Raceway magazine, which was connected with Riverside Raceway.

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Dick Guldstrand poses with Riverside race queen Pat Breunig for a promotional
photo shoot in advance of the '67 Trans-Am race in September of that year.


Copyrighted photo courtesy of Tim Lopata


Photo: Tomy Drissi Collection

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For sale ad in Aug 5, 1967 issue of Competition Press & Autoweek.

Courtesy of Ron Lathrop

[Jon Mello]

Red arrow in "Late News" section of Competition Press & Autoweek shown below points out that Dick Guldstrand and Dana Chevrolet
have parted ways. This is as of October 28, 1967. Guldstrand went on to open his own shop down in Culver City, CA.
Click here to see some pics of Guldstrand's shop preparing James Garner's L88 Corvettes for the February '68 Daytona 24-Hour race.


Courtesy of Ron Lathrop

[OCTARD]

The above noted Dana Chevrolet Camaro can also be seen here in a support race during the 1967 Laguna Seca USRRC weekend.  Photo from the Dave Friedman collection, with the full set of the Laguna Seca weekend found here.  Many more A-Sedan cars to be found within this set.

And here is this Dana Chevrolet Camaro in a support race from the 1967 Riverside USRRC weekend.  Photo from the Dave Friedman collection, with the full set of the Riverside weekend found here.  Also many more A-Sedan cars to be found within this set from the weekend.

[Jon Mello]

Terrific links, Chad. Thanks for posting those. Very exciting to see those photos posted for all to enjoy.

[Jon Mello]

January 1967 ad for Dana Chevrolet as seen in the Motor Trend/Riverside 500 program.

Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk

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Another ad for Dana Chevrolet featuring the new Camaro for 1967.

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Dana Hi-Performance brochure for 1967.




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More from the brochure...




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Last pages.





Close-up of the special Dana scattershield with molded-in lettering.

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[OCTARD]

Though I like all the DANA Camaro detail, it's also great to see their tube-frame McLarens.  The small block Chevy with the side-draft Webers, bolted to a Hewland LG-500 transaxle, which is sitting on top of a wooden shipping container labeled ELVA (who produced the "customer" McLarens), is pretty cool too.

Great stuff.  Thanks.

-Chad

[Jon Mello]

Photo taken on the streets of London, April 1967. This is the "sister car" to the Dana Camaro
driven by Dick Guldstrand. It was built at the same time by Bobby Joe McDonald at Dana Chevrolet
and it was driven by car owner and driver Thomas F. Lynch. It ran as car #28 at Sebring and then
left immediately afterward to race in England and Europe over the summer and then returned
Stateside to race in the Las Vegas 350 Trans-Am in the fall of '67. Raced by Tom in Trans-Am thru 1969.


Photo: Mike Haemmig Collection

[JoeC]

Jon, great stuff

Dana really had a full plate in 1967 with the Z/28 Trans Am car, the 427 Camaro drag car, the 427 street cars, the ELVA, the L88 Corvette LeMans race car, and running the dealership.

maybe was too much, as they seemed to taper down in 1968

the L88 at LeMans