1956 -- Released from Roosevelt High School

• Boeing Aircraft R&D -- Test Technician for Guided Missile Electronics

Trevor visits old garage in 2003 where Trevarri was built

1959 -- Designed and built full independent suspension tube frame "special" and fiberglass body for personal transportation.  Car developed over a 4 year period.  Car used for daily street transportation and racing.

1960 -- Moved out of garage into a shop which became a hub of activity for many projects including the final body construction of the Harris special

1963 -- Last photo before Bob Holbert's spinning King Cobra destroys car while parked in pit lane -- Harris' driver, Stan Burnett sitting in car, severely injured

1964

Designed and built the rear engine Chevy V-8 BARDAHL SPECIAL, driven by Jerry Grant.  Qualified on pole and won first race, only car to lead all the 1965 West Coast Pro-Series races.

1965 -- Designed and built 2 Car X chassis for 1966 CAN-AM series -- due to budgetary constraints, uncompleted

1966 -- Designed and prototyped the Crown Corv-8 Kit which allowed a car owner to install a Chevy-V-8 in the back seat of his/her 1965 Corvair in a weekend

1969 -- Conceived and designed the most radical CAN-AM car in history, the tiny tired AVS-SHADOW

Mario sitting in Shadow Mockup

Parnelli Jones tests Shadow at Orange County Raceway, writes to Don Nichols:

"This car is great"

A Pensive Trevor

George Follmer testing at Laguna

1969 -- Trevor and Don promote Shadow to potential driver, Jackie Icks

1970-93  -- Designed Nissan chassis that have won 15 national championships. 

• Earliest work was with the chassis design of the Datsun BRE 510 and the BRE 240Z cars. 
• The BRE 510 Datsun won the 1970 & 1971 2.5 Challenge Series Championships. 
• The BRE 240Z, driven by John Morton, won the SCCA C Production National Championship

1971 -- Invented, built and ran for 60,000 miles a novel low pressure production car fuel injection system for personal transportation

1972

• BRE Formula 5000 Lotus.  John Morton -- Driver, Trevor Harris -- Chief Mechanic

• Chronicled as The Stainless Steel Carrot by prize winning author, Sylvia Wilkinson

1974-5 -- Patented a unique variable speed transmission for industrial and bicycle applications -- featured in:

•  Design News, and

• Machine Design

1975 -- Designed and built the 2 B210 Datsun C Sedans which were driven to 3 SCCA National Championships by Dick Davenport and Frank Carney

1977-8 -- Developmental work with Huffy Bicycle Company on the "HARRIS VARIABLE SPEED TRANSMISSION" for commercial distribution 

Jan Lammers, Elio de Angelis, Trevor -- Belgium Grand Prix 1980

1980 -- Designed the body and chassis of the first factory supported turbo charged American Datsun race car, the Turbo 280Z driven by Paul Newman

1979-80 -- Developed with Joe Cavaglieri and owner, Brad Frisselle, the first FRISSBEE CAN-AM car

1981 -- Designed the VDS-001 rear suspension and modified the monocoque chassis.   This car won the 1981 CAN-AM series championship with Geoff Brabham.   It also won the 1984 CAN-AM series

1981 -- Chief Designer for Dan Gurney's All American Racers Indy car team

1982 -- Designed the Galles GR3 which won the 1982 CAN-AM championship driven by Al Unser Jr.  The same car won the 1983 and 1985 CAN-AM championships

1982 -- Joe Cavaglieri and Trevor Harris before winning Laguna Seca and the CAN-AM Series

1983 -- Designed the 1983 Galles -- All American Racers Eagle Indy car driven by Al Unser Jr.

Testing at Phoenix

1985 -- Redesigned the Nissan Electramotive stadium truck which won the national championship with Roger Mears

1986-7 -- Designed the Rogers Mears 2WD, Class 7 Nissan national champion desert truck and designed the Nissan 4WD Class 4 desert truck which won the 1989 and 1990 national championships

1987 -- Designed the new Nissan GTP monocoque and front suspension for the 1988 season. 

• Chassis #1 won eight races in a row in 1988

1988 -- Chassis setup engineer for the GTP championship Nissan driven by Geoff Brabham

1989 -- Designed the new Nissan NPTI-90 GTP chassis

1989 -- Designed Nissan GTO 300ZX Chassis (tube frame)

1990 -- Introduced new GTP car mid-1990 and won championship for 3rd consecutive year with Geoff Brabham -- track side chassis set-up engineer

1991

• After nine years of waffling finally forced Freddi to tie the knot

• Team note to Trevor before race

• Portland  7th win in a row

1991 -- Won Pikes Peak Pickup class with 4WD Nissan truck (1987) driven by Steve Millen

1991 -- GTP championship -- 4th straight year with Geoff Brabham -- track side chassis set-up engineer

1992 -- Second in GTP championship with Geoff Brabham -- track side chassis set-up engineer

1993-4 -- Harris Dynamics designed a very high performance street commuter electric vehicle.  The vehicle utilized a unique new continuously variable speed transmission

Freddi tests mockup seating position

1996 -- Designed the Infiniti IRL engine installation package for the factory

2000 -- Designed for Chevrolet the Vortec Trailblazer SUV trophy truck chassis.  This chassis competed in 3 races:

• Won the Baja 500 race

• Won the Nevada 2000 race

• Finished 2nd and 3rd at the Baja 2000 race

2001 -- Continued development of unique variable speed transmission for automobiles

2001 -- Trevor discovers his home town during a trip to Italy

Trevor's best invention yet

A # 1 Son -- Trevor Todd Harris
born 2-13-66

Is he performing his own Magic Show?

We love trucks

Runs in the family -- Trevor Todd's best invention

Let me feed him

         So Intent

Such buddies