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:

   

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

 

 

 

Trevor's recent visit to garage where
the Trevarri was built		 Removed 8 inches from the Zephyr mid drift Will the top ever see the bottom again?

 

 

Top half welded to bottom half

Oversized Trevor standing by undersized Zephyr

 Slow progress

Creating fenders at the front curb Amazingly -- capable of devouring fuel-injected Corvettes Now it's time to move on to a real high performance sports car

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

1965 -- Designed and built 2 Car X chassis for 1966 CAN-AM series -- due to budgetary constraints, uncompleted
1966 -- Designed and built with partner, Bruce Burness a complete Group 6 prototype coupe for Toyota.  Contracted by Pete Brock - BRE

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
1971 -- Invented, built and ran for 60,000 miles a novel low pressure production car fuel injection system for personal transportation  

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

 Trevor Chief Mechanic
 

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

 
1975 -- Designed and built the 2 B210 Datsun C Sedans which were driven to 3 SCCA National Championships by Dick Davenport and Frank Carney
1976 -- Designed the unique Yamaha factory short track motorcycle chassis ridden by Kenny Roberts which won its first race -- Dallas, 1976

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

 

 
1979 -- Chief designer, SHADOW Formula 1 Team

Jan Lammers, Elio de Angelis, Trevor Harris -- Belgium Grand Prix 1980
1979-80 -- Developed with Joe Cavaglieri and owner, Brad Frisselle, the first FRISSBEE CAN-AM car

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

1981 -- Designed the VDS-001 rear suspension and modified the monocoque chassis.   This car won the 1981 CAN-AM series championship with Geoff Brabham.   It also won the 1984 CAN-AM series.

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

1981 -- Chief Designer for Dan Gurney's All American Racers Indy car team

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)

  
1982 -- Joe Cavaglieri and Trevor Harris before winning Laguna Seca and the CAN-AM Series

1983 -- Designed the 1983 Galles - All American Racers Eagle Indy car.  Rookie Al Unser Jr. qualified 5th.

  • Trevor testing at Phoenix

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

 
1986-7
  • 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

 

1989
  • 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
1991 -- GTP championship -- 4th straight year with Geoff Brabham -- track side chassis set-up engineer
1989-1991 -- Won the 12 hours Sebring Race (only American designer to win 3 consecutive years)
1991 -- Chief Designer, Nissan Group C chassis (First all carbon fiber monocoque and roll hoop to pass stringent FIA tests)

1992 -- Second in GTP championship with Geoff Brabham -- track side chassis set-up engineer

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

1994-5 -- Designed and patented
a new rear suspension for mountain bikes
for Rock Shox Co

1995 -- Chassis engineer for Comtech

  • 1st Honda engine CART Pole

  • Michigan -- Parker Johnstone drive

1996 -- Designed the Infiniti IRL engine installation package for the factory  
1996-7 -- Chassis engineer for Jonathan Byrd-Cunningham Racing IRL racing team  

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

2001 -- Continued development of unique variable speed transmission for automobiles

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

  
Additional -- Holds 11 US and foreign patents on variable speed transmissions and bicycles