Dawe's Motorsports Development

Chesapeake Region

Dawe’s Motorsports Development

By: Randy Richter

The current June issue of Panorama has an excellent article on the “The Magician” who is PeterDawe. During the recent Pocono’s Parade there was a suggested side trip to the gearhead shrinethat is Dawe’s Motorsports Development. On Tuesday of Parade, Peter had kindly opened his shopand provided lunch to attendees. Arriving there I was quite frankly dismayed at the paucity of visitors.In fact, only one other person was visiting at the time. I will not cover anything in the articleas that is an excellent read. Rather, I will provide an anecdote or two from my visit and some additionalpictures.

After entering the facility, I walked among the various cars and took some photographs. The shopis overloaded with engines, cars, parts, parts, and more parts. In fact, speaking with a lady whowas greeting visitors, I was informed that Peter had a whole huge warehouse off site full of historicparts, potential project cars and rare unobtanium.

Finally, after passing through several rooms Peter was sitting on a stool in front of parts for a 962engine. More on that later. Peter was in discussion with the other visitor to the shop, so I headedto the wall of historic pictures. Seeing those pictures brought me into my own private way backmachine as I recognized many of the venues and the cars.

After Peter finishedspeaking to the othervisitor, I went over tothank him for openinghis shop. I allowedhow the pictures remindedme of seeingthose historic cars runback in the day. Specifically,I mentioned toPeter, my stint as apress photographer atTexas World Speedway and Riverside. He allowed how our paths probably crossed as of course hewas at those races working as a mechanic.

Finally, I mentioned the 962 engine parts in front of him. He could tell I was fascinated that such parts still existed. He very studiously set my assumption to rights when he mentioned that the only way to have these parts is to manufacture them. I left the shop amazed and impressed that this outpost on back street in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania held such an amazing amount of talent and such a vast storehouse of Porsche knowledge.

Custom built parts for a 962 by Dawe’s Motorsports

Peter working on a CanAm Porsche at Lime Rock