Don's passing is a personal loss to someone who has been co- worker,employer, student, advisor and always a friend thru the years. His accomplishmets on the salt and dry lakes were but a smidgin of the things he did. His turbocharging expertise , composite and chassis fabrication efforts were incredible. Besides the white car that Hoover drove to I believe a top time at Muroc -a car intended to be the first 300 mph dragster ( politics killed that effort), and his work with Jim Fueling, plus the Eyeball and Dempsey electric record holders, Don also fabricated the chassis on the MOB first five-second Fuel Altered and Rod Hynes McGee 4 valve powered Altered along with trick aero stuff, not to mention, the two Buick "Batmobile " bodies for Bernstein and even chassis work for Chrysler -Shelby on devlopment cars, among many other things.
Yours truly has never known an individual with more FOCUS and DETERMINATION than Don.
I already miss him and will always.