Dave MacDonald Driving Corvette Race Car at Pacific Coast Championship Race, Riverside, California, March 1962
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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.
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
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
04 March 1962
Creators
Keywords
United States, California, Riverside
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
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
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