Dave MacDonald Driving Corvette Race Car at Pacific Coast Championship Race, Riverside, California, March 1962

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Artifact Overview

Chevrolet's early Corvettes all came with six-cylinder engines and automatic transmissions -- a combination that didn't impress racers. When a V-8 and a manual shift became options for 1955, opinions changed. Dave MacDonald drove Corvettes to victory at 28 events during the 1962 sports car racing season. MacDonald was killed in a crash at the 1964 Indianapolis 500.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

04 March 1962

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.6054.36.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Dimensions

Height: 0.875 in
Width: 1.375 in

Inscriptions

Handwritten on back of contact sheet in red ink: MacDonald / Bob Harris