Dana Chevrolet opened the Hi-Performance Center at 9735 Long Beach Blvd., in South Gate, CA in the late fall of 1966. This center was in addition to regular Chevrolet dealership.
The two owners, Peyton Cramer (former Shelby Race Team Manager) and Paul Dombroski purchased the Dana Chevrolet passager car dealership I believe in late 65.
Before forming Dana Chevrolet both men had established successful careers in the automotive and performance fields. The famous 427 DANA Camaros, the 67 Le Mans L-88 Corvette race car, two DANA 67 Z-28 Trans Am race cars and two DANA built Group 7 McLarens were built and raced in the 1967 season. These cars were campaigned in the USRRC and Can Am series. Additional cars were prepared for customers drag racing and road racing divisions.
Dick Guldstrand headed up the road race division and Dale Armstrong the drag race division. Dick later drove the DANA 67 L-88 Corvette with Bob Bondurant and Don Yenko at LeMans.
Dale Armstrong has led an amazing drag race career including crew chief with Kenny Bernstein.
So the "Heartbeat"
goes on.........and if you study the motorsports history of the 60's you will see how there were very few of the movers and shakers in the industry and they all got their start working for Chevrolet, Ford, Chrysler and performance dealerships.
Peyton Crammer is retired and living in Florida near Ft. Lauderdale. Paul is still in the Los Angelos area. If anyone knows where, I would love to find them both for a in depth 'history' story I am working on.