Corvette Magazine

he drag raced on weekends.
In 1985, Chevy dealer Bill Hagee invited Danny to come help his Escort showroom stock Corvette team race prepare their cars. Danny quickly became the team’s crew chief and throughout the late 80’s he worked as crew chief for various winning Showroom Stock and Corvette Challenge teams. In 1989 he joined the Texas American racing team. The team had four Challenge cars that were raced by Stu Hayner, Scott Lagasse, Al Lamb and Tommy Riggins. While managing the Texas American racing team, Danny found time to work at his GM job and build his own showroom stock Corvette racecar. He named his first racer Tinker Toy because of all the different parts he used to construct the car. He began racing this Corvette successfully at Waterford Hills in Michigan and was named Waterford’s Driver of the Year in 1989. From 1989 to 1995 Danny kept building Tinker Toys for himself and customers. He always kept looking for ways to bring all of the old C-4’s together to race in one series.