Dale has always had an interest in cars, especially Chevelles. From his early years his brother had some 'hot rods' like a 1948 Ford coupe with dual exhaust exiting out back through the rear fenders and a 1954 Ford coupe. Dales first car was the family 1956 Chevy with a 265 and 3-speed. A variety other cars followed such as a 1956 Chevy panel truck with a 348 and 4-speed and a 1962 Dodge Dart with a 318 and dual 4-barrel carbs. Many 1955-1956-1957 Chevys followed along with several 1967 El Caminos and various sundry other makes.

He purchased his first 1967 SS396, a black, 4-speed 396/350hp with 4.10:1 gears in the fall of 1967 while home in Overland Park, Kansas, on leave between US Army basic training as his next duty assignment for Advanced Individual Training.

Dale's Advanced Individual Training was done at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. Dale did not want to leave his new car at home, so he took it with him to Fort Sill. During his eight weeks of training, he would leave Saturday at noon and drive his Chevelle the seven-hour one-way trip to Overland Park to meet up with his friends and go out Saturday night. On Sunday about noon, he would make the seven-hour trek back to Fort Sill. When he learned he would be leaving for a tour in Korea, it became obvious he could not take the car with him, so he enlisted his best friend to make the final trek from Overland Park to Fort Sill, and his friend dove the car back to Dale's house. His parents cared for the car during his 16-month stint in Korea, keeping it registered and driving it occasionally to keep everything running in good order.

As is often the case, life came along with it's responsibilities. After returning from Korea, Dale had several automotive mechanic jobs, worked the counter at numerous auto parts stores, and did a second stint in the army with a tour in Augsburg, Germany. As luck would have it, Dale was stationed again at Fort Sill in 1981 after his tour of duty in Europe where he stayed until the fall of 1984 becoming an instructor for Artillery Survey. With his promotion to Sergeant First Class he was required to have a minimum 6-month commitment upon promotion. Dale had already decided after 11 years it might be time for a career change so he accepted the promotion and a 6-month extension of his service commitment.

Dale's tour in Germany from 1978 through 1981 had introduced him to computers, and he began to put those skills to use. After leaving the military in late 1984, Dale continued with those computer skills, first working for a military contractor then as a GS-9 computer specialist for the government at Fort Sill. With his love of Chevelles and those computer skills, Dale began developing Chevelle-related computer websites. His first website, ChevelleStuff, was a constant update of information and tech articles for 1964-1972 Chevelles. During the 17 years of his ownership of ChevelleStuff, Dale built and maintained many Chevelle-related registries.

Dale became involved with the Midwest Chevelle Regional Governing Council in the early 2000's that has several Midwest Chevelle Clubs that rotate shows every year. Dale either hosts or hosts and maintains the websites of (currently) three of the four Chevelle club's websites. His Midwest Chevelle Regional website is sort of a central hub for general information on the four club's car show information with direct links to the Mid-America Chevelle Club in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the Wichita Area Chevelle Owners club in Wichita, Kansas, the Queen City Chevelle Club in Springfield, Missouri, and the Heartland Chevelle Club in the Omaha, Nebraska area.

Along with his club involvement with their websites, Dale now had 25 Chevrolet-related showcase and registry websites and several 'World' websites such as ChevyWorld, ChevelleWorld, CaminoWorld, CamaroWorld, Tri-Five World, and a number of CorvetteWorld (currently C1 through C6) websites that keep him busy. Along with all of these 'worlds' and registries, Dale has his ChevelleCD.net website where he offers CDs and DVDs of primarily Chevelle-related informational CD/DVD programs.

In May of 2015, Dale was asked about Z16 Chevelles in one of his numerous emails he gets each day. His answers apparently struck a chord with the sender, a writer/editor for CarTech books, that Dale was asked if he could do a book on 1964-1972 Chevelle information. This effort led to the first of Dale's five book he would do for CarTech. His Chevelle Data & ID Guide was finished in August of 2016. A second book, the first in a series by CarTech on muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s called 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS quickly followed. A third book released in 2018: The Definitive Chevelle SS Guide 1064-1972 is one of Dale's favorite. Rick Nelson along with Bill Lessenberry provided valuable proofreading, photos, etc. for the book and many Chevelle owners provided photos and data. Most, if not all by the time this is finished, of Dale's books are now out of print and scalpers have jumped on the bandwagon selling those they have at inflated prices but they are still out there. Dale's ChevelleBooks website has information on what is in each book along with credits and errata.

This book is a collaboration effort with Rick Nelson with Rick supplying the majority of the photos and technical expertise and Dale handling the writing and editing chores along with proving general information of 197001972 Chevelles in general. We hope you find the information educational and a worthwhile addition to your reference material collection.