 The car then made appearances at several Southern California drag strips setting record breaking runs until it was turned away by track owners; few competitors wanted to be embarrassed by the little gold supercharged Devin C.

With the supercharger removed from the engine, racing driver Pete Woods, qualified for the October 1961 L.A. Times-Mirror Grand Prix at Riverside International raceway alongside Jim Hall, Dan Gurney, Stirling Moss, Roger Penske, Bruce McLaren and other international racing champions.The car was a DNF but Woods and Devin weren’t done racing a Devin C.

Subsequent improvements to the Corvair engine by Chevrolet raised output to 90 hp and then 102 hp.In April 1962, Chevrolet introduced a 150 hp turbocharged Spyder engine and made one available to Devin.