Arriving at Chris Evans Shop near the Portland Airport, we met Pat MacElreath (right) and Doug McGriff (left). The get together of them with Dick Pierson (middle) was quite something. Tons of racing memories came up, as well as some funny stories about the "cheater Dodge" as Pat called it, at the wheels of which Douglas McGriff won the Oregon State Championship twice in the early seventies. Pat McElreap was Herschel McGriff's crew chief in those days and also took care of setting up Doug's Charger for the 1976 24 hours of Le Mans. Dick was one of the pit crew and had trucked the Charger cross-country from Portland to Virginia, in order for it to be shipped to Le Mans.
We went on setting up the project in order to get the re-build started. Pat's shop mechanics checked out the Charger. Their eyes got bigger, as he told them that this would be clad over a stock car chassis soon! Pat McElreap, who maintained the original Mc Griff Charger as a crew chief, drew up a plan on how to make is as exact a re-build of the original one. We will keep you posted!
