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At a young age, he loved cars, playing with Matchbox cars, dinky toys, building car models, slot cars, and soapbox derbies, a go-cart that would go 35 miles per hour, and in high school, he built a T-bucket Hot Rod. After he attended his first road course race, he knew he had to race someday. In 1975, he pit-crewed with Bob MacDonald’s Chevrolet Camaro racing team, and they won the Moosehead 300, a three-hour endurance race. In the late 1970’s he tied for first with his 1977 Z/28 Camaro at the Atlantic Sports Car Club Regional Slalom Championship. In 1979 he bought the team Camaro from Bob MacDonald, did a complete refit to compete in 2 Molyslip 3-hour National races, at Sanair, Que, and AMP, NS. Finished 2nd in both and won the GT-1 Class at AMP. 1982 at AMP, he set a fast time track record that stood for over 10 years. In 1983, Dave, Eugene Pettipas and Bob MacDonald built a car to compete in the Sports Car Club of America legal Camaro Trans-Am for professional racing. The chassis was built by Blair Crooke Racing. In 1984, Dave ran his first professional race, the Budweiser Trans-Am event at Mosport, Ontario. Dave retired in 2008.