Trevor L. Harris

Bio-Resume

 Harris Dynamics

Lucerne 250 mile test of Pflueger's bodyless new truck

10820 Wicks St,
Shadow Hills, CA 91040
818-353-8478 ² FAX: 818-951-6716

Mobile: 818-804-8191
www.TrevorLHarris.com
e-mail:  Trevorh@earthlink.net

Highlights:

• The Trevarri

• Maserati Street Machine

• Bardahl Special

• CAN-AM & others

• The SHADOW

• The Datsun BRE

• The Harris Vertical Up and Down Pedaling Bicycle

• The Variable Speed Transmission

• The Datsun B210 C Sedans

• The SHADOW Formula 1

• The Frissbee CAN-AM

• The VDS-001 Rear Suspension

• The Galles CAN-AM Champion

• The Electramotive Stadium Truck

• The Nissan GTP Champion

• The Vortec Trophy Truck

• Popular Science article on New Pflueger truck

  1954-1957 -- Sectioned & built for personal transport a 1937 Lincoln Zephyr, called "The Trevarri"

Oversized Trevor standing by undersized Zephyr

1956 -- Released from Roosevelt High School

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

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.  Became the hottest local (Seattle) street machine

• 121 in 1/4 mile

• 0-120-0 in 20 sec

• Fastest street machine in Seattle

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, broke track record and won first race.

• Only car to lead all the 1965 West Coast Pro-Series races.

1967 -- Designed and prototyped the Crown Corv-8 Kit which allowed a can 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

1969

• Parnelli Jones tests Shadow at Orange County Raceway, writes to Don Nichols: "This car is great"

• A pensive Trevor at the race track

1969

• Trevor and Don promote Shadow to potential driver, Jackie Ickys

• George Follmer testing at Laguna

 2006 -- Below photos for 2006 Bonhams & Butterfields historic auction of # 1 Shadow

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

1972

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

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

1972 -- Designed and built the Datsun factory supported 1200 sedan chassis driven by Don Devendorf to the C Sedan National Championship

1973 -- Designed, built and patented the unique "HARRIS VERTICAL" up and down pedaling 20 speed bicycle.  Featured in Popular Science, Bicycling, and Der Spiegel

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

•  Design News, and

• Machine Design

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

Jan Lammers, Elio de Angelis, Trevor Harris -- 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 and Sam Posey

  Qualified on the Pole
   and won 1st race
   (Edmonton)

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.

• Qualified on the Pole at 1st race
     (Elkhart Lake)

• Trevor testing at Phoenix

1985 -- Facilitated redesign of the Nissan Electramotive stadium truck which won the national championship with Roger Mears

• Designed the Rogers Mears 2WD, Class 7 Nissan national champion desert truck

• 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

• Won the GTP championship for the 2nd year with Geoff Brabham driving the '88 car. 
• Designed the new Nissan NPTI-90 GTP chassis which won 2 GTP championships -- 90, 91 and 2nd in 92

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

1991

• Seventh Heaven in Portland with 7th win in a row

• Team note to Trevor before race

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

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

1995 -- Chassis engineer for Comtech

• 1st Honda engine CART Pole

• Michigan -- Parker Johnstone drive

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 & 3rd at the Baja 2000 race

2004 -- Popular Science article by Preston Lerner
             on the future of racing, features comments from Trevor described as:

  . . . an innovative engineer who’s designed some of the most successful
  and iconoclastic racecars in motor sports history

 

Read 2004 Article Featuring Trevor

2005-7 -- Development of a new Alan Pflueger Trophy Truck

  -- Introduction BAJA 1000 - November 13, 2007

  -- Lucerne 250 mile test of Pflueger's bodyless new truck

Read 2006 Article Featuring Pflueger's New Truck Design

Education -- University of Washington, Seattle, WA -- Physics