Chevron B24 'B24-73-05A'

This is one of the successor cars to the B24-73-05 crashed by James Dunkel in 1973. In 1974, an incomplete car, presumably the original crashed car rebuilt by Dunkel, was bought from Dunkel by Mike Koslowski of AME Racing.

OldRacingCars.com apologises to Mike Koslowski if his name has been mispelt in this history.

1974 - James Dunkel

Dunkel advertised his main car (listed here as 'B24-73-05B') in July 1974 and mentioned a 'spare car in spares'. It is assumed that this is what was bought by Koslowski.

Source: Autoweek 6 Jul 1974

1974 - AME Racing for Skeeter McKitterick

Koslowski bought an incomplete car from Dunkel, consisting of an apparantly new tub, a damaged nose and most other parts except the rear wing. He acquired the missing parts from Chevron.

This car first appears under the banner of AME Racing, of Sherman Oaks, CA, in 1974. It was raced for them by Skeeter McKitterick and crewed by Walter Morris. The car first raced at Riverside in October 1974.

1975 - AME Racing for Skeeter McKitterick

AME's advertisement in Autoweek at the end of 1975 (22 Nov issue) says that the car is just four races old - i.e. McKitterick's four races at Riverside 1974, Long Beach 1975, Laguna Seca 1975 and Riverside 1975 - thus implying AME was the first owner of the car.

Source: Autoweek 22 Nov 1975

Koslowski cannot remember who he sold the car to.

1976 - Bob Ferstl

Dan Johnson, who bought this car for the 1977 season, recalls buying it from an owner in Memphis or Texas. So it seems highly likely that the September 1976 advert placed by Texan Bob Ferstl is for this car.

Source: Autoweek 18 Sep 1976

1977 - Dan Johnson

The log books still with the remains of this car show that it had been raced by McKitterick before Johnson.

Johnson remembers buying the car from an owner in Texas or Memphis.

The annual June Sprints were held at Road Atlanta on 4-5 June and Johnson led the FA race from start to finish in what was described as the 'only decent FA car' in the field. This gave Johnson a lead in the Central Division FA title race that he was never to lose.

Source: Autoweek 2 Dec 1977

1978 - Dan Johnson

Crashed at Road America and very badly damaged. The car was stripped and the tub was put to one side with the intention of repairing it. However, before this could be done the tub was stolen, presumably for its aluminium, then a relatively valuable material.

Johnson kept the remaining parts of the car and they travelled with his replacement car, B24-73-02, through the later owners of that car. They were with Chuck Haines in March 2001.

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