About Me
I've been a Chevelle enthusiast since I bought my first Chevelle in December of 1967 almost 52 years ago; a black/black SS 396 L34, 4-speed, bucket seats, and 4.10:1 Positraction car. I was in the U.S. Army stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma for Advanced Individual Training at the time with my parents living in Fairway, Kansas. Every Saturday at noon after inspection 4 or 5 of us would pile in the Chevelle and make the 6+ hour drive to KC for the weekend. We would all meet up on Sunday afternoon and make the drive back to Ft. Sill. I did this for 7 of the 8 weeks I was stationed there. On my last weekend before shipping out to Korea for 16 months my best friend drove me back to Ft. Sill and took the car back to my parents house. I spent 21 months in the U.S. Army with a tour of Korea in 1968 and 1969 before returning home to civilian life.
I owned several Chevelles over the years (see my personal website at http://dalesplace.com/ for more on those).
My Web Sites
After bouncing around 'normal' jobs for a few years I reentered the
U.S. Army in the early 70s for a total of just over 11 years service
when I decided it was time to settle down in one place and stay with
my family. I began working for the U.S. Government as a computer specialist.
Someone in our office got a copy of Microsoft's web design program FrontPage.
I was hooked. Since retiring from government service in the early 90s
I've been building and maintaining personal and somewhat commercial websites.
These are my major current endeavors:
http://chevyworld.net/
http://caminoworld.macswebs.com/
http://camaroworld.macswebs.com/
http://ls6registry.com/
http://ssregistry.macswebs.com/
http://l78registry.macswebs.com/
http://l79registry.macswebs.com/
http://ls3registry.macswebs.com/
http://ls5registry.macswebs.com/
http://chevelleregistry.macswebs.com/
http://SS
396registry.macswebs.com/
http://yf3registry.macswebs.com/
http://elcaminoregistry.macswebs.com/
http://novaregistry.macswebs.com/
http://hhrregistry.macswebs.com/
http://camaroregistry.macswebs.com/
http://mcregistry.macswebs.com/
http://ssrregistry.macswebs.com/
http://musclecarrestorationanddesign.com/
http://wichitachevelle.com/
http://midamericachevelles.com/
http://midwestchevelles.macswebs.com/
My Books & CDs
I began doing a CD on 1967 Chevelles since those were my passion at the time. I added 1966 Chevelles and several others over the years. I was contacted with some questions about the 1965 Malibu SS 396 option (RPO Z16) by a gentleman that turned out to be an author representative of a book publishing company. He asked if I would be interested in writing a book on 1964-1972 Chevelle information. That book, Chevelle Data & ID Guide 1964-1972, was published in 2016 and has been a good seller. Since then I've written two additional Chevelle books, co-authored a fourth, and am now writing my fifth book tentatively titled, 1969 Chevelle SS 396: In Detail that is expected to be released the summer of 2020.