Jim Baldwin (CORR CEO) ordered another Chenowth DR2V chassis in the late 80's for his race team. Before the car was finished, the car was sold to Butch Dean so he could build Michael Gaughan (Owner of the Barbary Coast and GoldCoast casino's) a new class 1 race car. The car featured 3.0 Kuster coilover shocks on all 4 corners, unheard of at the time because those shocks were only for trucks. Bruce Fraley and Eddie Webb did a lot of the design work to fit the huge shocks to the Chenowth chassis.
Glenn Harris was the original driver during the 1990 season, with NASCAR Craftsman truck driver, Brendan Gaughan (Michael's son) as co-driver. The 1991 season saw Jack Johnson race the car a couple races with Pat Dean finally taking over the driving duties for good.
1993 was the break through season for this car with an Overall win at the HDRA GoldCoast 300, beating the supposedly faster factory teams like Toyota, Chevy, Ford and Dodge. SCORE created the Trophy Truck class in 1994, marketed as the "Elite" class of the SCORE series. That same year, Pat would go on to win the San Felipe 250 and the Baja 500 (later disqualified for an on track infraction) Overall much to the chagrin of the Trophy Truck teams. From that moment on, the Chenowth was affectionately known as "The Trophy Truck Killer".
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