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Volume 7 - Number 9 September 1990 In -This Issue ••• > ... • < -~ >: • "~ • r O , . . Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Associate _ Winnie Essenberg Editorial Assistant Sherry Elderd Controller John Calvin Circulation Jerry Lawless Traffic John Howard . Contributors Darla Crown C & C Race Photos Leonard Day Darvl D. Drake Homer E·ubanks Deb Freimuth Judi Gooch Martin Holmes Elaine Jones Rod Koch Jan Flick Mazzenga Cam McRae David Ryskamp Judy Smith 3-0 Photography Trackside Photo Enterprises Ken Vanderhoof Art Director Larry E. Worsham Typesetting & Pr~uction Michelle's Typesetting Services SNAPSHOT Subscription Rates: THE Off1CIAL VOICE OF CALIFORNIA RAilY SERIES PROFESSIONAL • AMERICAN • CANADIAN Off-ROAD tl_ RACING,-.,~ ---:~~ ~'? $15.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign subscription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes unsolicited contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Classified Ads will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or · error.s. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES, USPS-305-690, ISSN 8750-1732, is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0, Agoura, CA 91301,(818) 889-5600. Copyright 1983 by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permis-sion from the publisher. Second Class Postage paid at Agoura, CA 91301. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Dusty Times, 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0, Agoura, CA 91301. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0, Agoura, CA 91301. I I OF THE MONTH ••• FEATURES Page HORA Fireworks 250 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 TORA East Coast Racing ................................ • 20 Brian Stewart Profile .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 . MTEG Stadium Racing - L.A. Coliseum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 WCR Rally of New Zealand ................... ............ 27 Australian Off Road Racing - Round 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Spring Run 101 ......................................... 32 Glen Helen Off Road Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 GMC Rally Van ..... . ............................. _ ...... 41 A.D.R.A. Desert Championship -Round 2 .................. 42 Ventura Raceway Short Course Action ............•....... • 44 Susquehannock Trail Pro Rally ............................ 45 Report from Georgia ................................... . • 46 VORRA Virginia City 200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sand Drags at Glen Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Middle East Rally Championship . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 51 DEPARTMENTS Off The Side by Darryl Drake . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes ...................................... • • • • • • • • 4 Competition Review Board Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Pony Express ......................... .................. 10 Tech Tips by Bill Savage ................................ • • 40 The Losers by Judy Smith ............................. • . • 4 7 California Rally Series by Mike Gibeault .................... 47 Good Stuff Directory .................................... 52 Pit Team Reports ........................................ 57 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . 59 ON THE COVER-Walker Evans scored a personal triumph at the HDRA Fireworks 250, winning the race overall in his Class 8 Dodge, and winning by just under a minute. Walker's drive was not without a flat on the rocky route, but overall trouble free. Walker scored an overall victory once before in the Baja 1000 to La Paz, but this was a first for him on a multiple lap event, and his first Class 8 victory of the 1990 season. Congratulations to the entire Evans team. Mike and Jim Zupanovich drove their Raceco through the tough course with no real problems, and they took the win in the competitive Class 10 ranks by a goodly margin, nearly five minutes, and the family race team finished a nifty eighth overall at Barstow. Our congratulations to this fine group also. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Inc. /\~ DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! D 1 year - $15.00 □ ~ears -$i5.00 D 3 _years - $35.00 Take ac:tvantage of your subscription bonus ••• Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. (Form _on inside back page) Name---------------------------_ :::; .. -.«'~>... -~-• "For Chris sake, get a'move on. We're at Check 6 and the dog is still beating us by two seconds," might be a caption for this shot of the GMC of Mike Horner and Steve Ball in Baja. Mexican dogs apparently like to touch race cars as much as their masters do, but we understand this pooch. survived without injury in this encounter with Baja Internacional traffic. Photo by Trackside Photo Inc. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-2ddressed envelope. Only black & white prints, 5x7 or 8x10 will be considered. Address _________ _ City --------------------------State _________________ Zip---------Send check or money ·order to: DUSTY TIMES 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0, Agoura, CA 91301 (Canadian - 1 year $20.00 U.S.• Overseas subscription rates quoted on request) I I I I I I I I I I Dusty Times September 1990 Page 3

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Off The Side By Daryl "No Brakes" Drake I've always been a little envious of Judy Smith's "Side Tracks" column, both for the adventures and the humor. So I'm starting "Off The Side" -and if you're reading this, my illustrious publisher and mentor, Jean Calvin, is giving it a chance. I hope you do, too. It's going to feature the adventures and misadventures going to and coming from the races. Like the time a certain Class 10 racer's luxury motorhome overheated in Mexico and his son had forgotten to fill the water tanks and we had used all the water in the coolers already so we had to pour the Coronas in and we finally made it home but a bicycle would have been quicker. Or the time a couple of former members of a certain Class 8 team found out that the Nevada Highway Patrol also watched "The Rockford Files" and "The Rat Patrol." Or the time a certain pre-runner came loose; or the time a certain contributor lost high gear in Mexico and drove all the way home in second, cruise-controlled at 42 mph, or ... Those kind of stories. This month's installment started two years ago on my way to the '88 "High Country 250" and ended with the trip home from this year's edition. I guess I'll call it "A Fool and His Fuel Pump." It was 110° in the shade (and there wasn't any shade) so we were looking forward to a cool weekend of racing in the White Mountains. Some bad gas was being passed in Arizona that summer and the most vaporlock troubles I'd seen since the '50s were _occurring. But as my Type 181 (Safari, Thing, Watachamacallit) sputtered to a stop 7 /8ths of the way up the Rye hill on the old Beeline Highway, I thought it might be the fuel pump. So when the umpteenth vehicle stopped (thanks,- folks!) and it was some friendly racers, I said, "Grab me a fuel pump in Payson, get lunch and if I haven't caught up by then, come get me." Well, I got the idea to wire a cold can of Coke to the carb so it would sit on the fuel pump, and we all went to lunch in Heber -which you may remember had a UFO back in the '70s, and still has the best damn chicken-fried-steak-special in the state, if not th~ world, at the Rim Cafe. "Thirty bucks for a VW fuel pump?!" I lamented. "Oh, well, I've got a spare now", and threw it under the hood, until my way home this July, when as I climbed the hill out of Heber, my trusty 181 sputtered and died. Luckily, a break in the busy Sunday traffic let me whip a U-ee (I watched "Rockford" too), coast back into town, just making it to the Only Open Service Station, G & K Exxon. Of course, this time I figured it was vaporlock, and a real square fella name of George Alexander said, "Got any grapefruit?" Then I knew he was a Mechanic, 'cause the only other person I'd heard that from was my Dear Old Dad, Ducky. And though a lot of people though it was a quack idea, I'd seen him coax a lot of hot engines over Cajon and up 395 to Bishop with grapefruit. "Otherwise, I can't help you today", continued George, intimating that he didn't carry fuel pumps for no 16-year-old weird Volkswagens. "I've got a fuel pump", modestly boasted your intrepid reporter. "But let's let it cool off and see if it starts." George returned to a welding job, and Billy, polite pump jock extraordinaire, kept me amused with his banter and exchanges like this: "Got Tany Battrooms?" customers ask. ''No (long pa use)", replied Billy as . he actually pumped their gas and washed their windshields, "But the station does, inside." Turned out it was the fuel pump, and seeing as how my knuckles had just about healed up' since the last time I'd worked on the Thing, I told George to put my "spare" on. How come none of you told me the alternator style pumps needed a shorter rod? George and Old Ivie (an ex-ranger for the Border Patrol back in the days when horses were Off Highway Vehicles), were nice enough to go get the fuel pump off George's old hunting buggy. But it wouldn't work either, so George called up to Overgaard and Browne's Auto Parts opened up special to sell me a fuel pump and 01' Ivie went to fetch it. George told some jokes (ask him about virgin wool), I told some jokes and 01' I vie eventually got back. Cheapskate that I am (having gulped at the $41.08 list on the fuel pump's invoice from Browne's), I inquired if my jokes had been good enough to earn the "jobber" price, figuring that George'd charge me $20-30 for the hour labor and two hours of entertainment. "I gotta make something!" retorted George with a laugh. But he did give me a break on the pump and only charged me ten bucks for his time. So I was on the road for just $42, which I think is a real good deal in this day and age, considering it was a Sunday and a LIFETIME GUARANTEED pump. (Next time you're in Heber, tell 'em I said "Hey!"), and I made it home okay, by George, but only to find that Manny, Moe and Jack had LIFETIME GUAR-ANTEED fuel pumps on sale for $12.99. By the way, know anybody who wants to buy a brand new two year old, alternator style VW fuel pump with no guarantee for $30? I'd like to hear your stories, too. Drop me a line c/ o Dusty Times or give me a yell at (602) 263-5329. (Sorry, I'm too cheap to return long distance calls.) Trail Notes ••• TOYOTA TRUE GRIT POINTS-Robby Gordon continues to lead the SCORE-HORA Toyota True Grit standings after five races in the eight race desert seas n. True Grit is a measure for off roaders based on cumulative average speed over each driver's best six races of the year. Gordon has the opportunity to win $6,667 if he can hang onto first overall as that would also assure him of the heavy metal division share of the $10,000 prize money posted by Toyota. While Gordon and his co-drivers pushed their•disabled truck across the finish line at the HORA Fireworks 250 to remain in the True Grit running, a dnf would have put him out of the running altogether. Gordon's average speed now is S 1.07 mph while second place Ivan Stewart has averaged . 50.88 in all five events. Paul Simon leads the Mini Metal standings and is 15th overall with an average speed of 42.S 1 mph, followed closely by Rob MacCachren. A total of nearly 300 individual drivers have been in the running, but only 91 remain eligible for one or more of the three top cash prizes. Of those, only 17 are still eligible for Toyota's Milestone Awards, given to those few drivers , who make it through the season completing every racing mile in all eight events. STOP THE CARDS - Despite appeals for it to stop, 10 year old Craig Shergold still receives hundreds of get well cards daily from strangers trying to help him win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Craig, who suffers from a rare form of brain cancer, broke the record months ago, but cards keep coming; over 16 million have arrived. "We don't want any more cards because now we would be taking them for no reason. Craig's record will be included in the 1991 edition of the records, published in October, with a count above 16 million. So the family says, thank you but please no more. GM SUNRISE USA-They held a race for solar powered cars last July and 32 entries started on July 9 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and ended July 19 at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan.Ten days seems a long time to drive that distance, but the University of Michigan's Sunrunner won the race with an average speed of just over 22 mph. Western Washington University's Viking XX took second, about 90 minutes behind and the University of Maryland was third. For their accomplishments, the top three finishing teams will be sponsored by General Motors to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge race in Australia in November. All the cars shown on TV were exotic bodied low drag machines, but a 22 mph winning average speed on the open road doesn't tell us that the solar powered car will be in the showroom soon. SCCA RACETRUCK -Scott Gaylord overcame drizzling rain to collect his first career SCCA Truck Guard/ Shellzone Challenge victory at the Ruan Des Moines Grand Prix. Gaylord drove a Genuine Nissan Parts/Gener.al Tire Nissan pickup, and stayed out of trouble on the rain drenched streets to beat closest competitor Don Marcum, also in a Nissan, by just .620 second. The race was shortened from 28 laps to 23 after the drizzle, which started early in the Racetruck contest, soaked the 1.8 mile, 12 turn temporary circuit on the streets of downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Tommy Archer was third in a Jeep, followed by the Nissans of Chuck Hemmingson and Ray Kong. · On July 29 Scott Gaylord took his second straight SCCA Truck Guard/Shellzone Challenge victory at Road Atlanta. Gaylord started in second spot and along with teammate Ray Kong held the lead for most of the race. The two Nissan drivers finished just seconds apart, followed by the Mazdas of Peter Cunningham and Chet Fillip, third and fourth, and the Ford Rangers of Max Jones and Steve Saleen. Now Gaylord has a narrow lead over Cunningham in point standings. The victory gives General Tire the lead in tire points and Nissan the manufacturer points lead. Need action photos? Call us ! ROBBY GORDON captured his third IMSA OTO victory of the season at the Meadowlands Grand Prix. The rookie OTO driver's win follows his victory at the 24 hours of Daytona and the 12 hours of Sebring, and moves him to first place in the Drivers' Championship. With trans trouble early, Robby was only able to challenge for the win on the final three laps. Leader Pete Halsmer then tangled with Steve Millen enabling Gordon to charge past to the checkered flag, less than a minute ahead of Halsmer. Robby's comment was about the old saying "I'd rather be lucky than good", and he figured that worked for him at this race. He also said that he feels he drove a lot more smoothly than before, having no spins or an accident in the Mercury Cougar. Trackside Photo, Inc.-Racing photography since 1970 . - . J . 1 /1 Trackside Photo, Inc. Photos for Public Relations, Promotions, Ads Commercial & Product Photography Page 4 P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, California 90009 (213) 670-6897 September 1990 FORTIETH DURYEA HILL CLIMB - Competitors from all over the• Northeast will converge on City Park in Reading, PA on August 25-26 to challenge the 2.21 mile narrow blacktop climb to the peak of 600 foot Mount Penn. Some 100 cars, from stock to pure race, will negotiate the eight hairpin turns and fast straights. Drivers will compete for trophies, cash prizes and points toward the divisional Solo I and PRO Rally SCCA Championships. Admission is free and it's too bad we didn't get this news in time for an earlier edition. SCCA PRO RALLY / SOLO -Ron Schneider has joined the Sports Car Club of America Rally/Solo staff as Marketing Manager. It is the first time the Rally/Solo Department will have a Marketing Manager working full time on various programs including sponsors and communications. Also Howard Duncan has joined the SCCA Rally/ Solo staff as Solo Events Manager. Duncan has a background as not only an event organizer and Solo Events Board Member, but as a competitor, and has a thorough understanding of the sponsors, manufacturers and members needs. Duncan will organize and coordinate all Solo programs nationwide. , RALLY SPRINTS - The release doesn't say exactly where the events were, but Ken Stewart organized four Sprints on the same day, on an 11 mile course with two stages included. What is interesting is that the sprints were from two different SCCA Divisions. Dave Thomas won the first round in his Mazda and Ken Stewart won the third sprint in a Chevrolet and both were Midwest Division events. Dave Thomas won again in Sprint number two and Ken Stewart repeated as a winner in Sprint 4, both Southwest Division events. It is an interesting idea to give folks a reason, points, to tow a long way to compete. THE FINAL FLAG-It is sad to report the tragic passing of]ohn Ionides of Las Vegas on July 13.John owned Hi Tech Off Road just down the street from the Gold Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, and gave a lot of time and effort to the off roaders in town and out of town race visitors. It was only recently that cancer was detected in John, and it took him quickly. John was only 35 years old. His family, friends and everyone in the off road community will miss him greatly. God be with you John! This sad news was sent to us by Tim Bartlett of St. George, Utah. We also express our condolences to his family. (see page 9) Dusty Times

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Competition Review Board Report . By George R. Thompson The Competition Review Boar d for the 1990 HDRA Fireworks 250 was convened at 8:30 Saturday evening, one hour after the last car finished; in conditions which would melt a computer disk, the air conditioned atmosphere of Rosita's would have been a welcome relief, had it been effective. However, it did keep the back room at Rosita's down to about 90 degrees, which was almost tolerable. Board members were Don Adams, Class 3; Bill Church, Class 1/2; David Westhem, Class 8; Craig White, Class 9; Darren York, Class 7 4x4; Art Savedra, SCORE/HORA Tech; Danny Cau, HDRA; Jerry. Bender, HDRA Race .Steward; George Thompson, CRB Marshal, and Clarence Carter, Checker Presi-dent and Board Administrator, who was concerned when advised of the nine cases scheduled to be heard. However, the various racers waiting to speak before the CRB took up residence in the cocktail lounge, just outside the meeting room door, and seemed somewhat more patient than usual. During the course of the evening, three charges of abusive nerfing were dropped when the principals, discussing the cases amongst themselves in the bar area, apparently came to some mutual understanding while their cases were still pending. There may be something to be said for the presence of a bar as a waiting room for the CRB. At any rate, this knocked the case load down to six, and that is just as well because the first case was so complicated that it took over two hours before the Board was able to reach a decision. Because this case involved two Class 8 teams, David Wes them was disqualified from the entire matter and directed to leave the room. until the remaining Board members had decided the case. In a very interesting complaint, officially-filed by Glenn Harris on behalf of the Brian Stewart entry from Walker Evans Racing, against the Venable Racing entry driven by Robby Gordon, the Venable T earn was charged with a violation of Rule G-38, illegally assisted finish, when the drive line of the big Ford truck failed just a few hundred yards before the finish of the race. In an effort to Whether you're on a chase crew, a push the 2 ½ ton beast across the finish line, Robby called for assistance from two other members of his crew, waiting at the finish line. As the truck was pushed across the finish, HDRA Officials checked all four members of the Venable push team to be certain that they were legally banded to drive or ride in the vehicle and found that they were all legally signed up to compete in the Venable entry. In spite of the fact that HDRA Officials at the finish line saw no reason to protest this entry, Brian Stewart's crew considered this procedure to be a violation of Rule G-38 and put up the $500.00 protest fee to find out.· The arguments presented by both sides of this complaint would hinge on the last sentence of Rule G-38 which states: "The vehicle must cross the finish line while under power (engine running and propelling the vehicle, ve~icle coasting, starter cranking engine or physically pushed by its occupants)." The decision made by the Competition Review Board would be based on a definition of the word ''occupants''. To find a definition the· Board took a close look at the 1989 Baja 1000 decision in Poe vs. Blain. As background, the members of that board were Butch Dunn, Check-ers; Rich Richardson, Class 9; Lloyd Sukut, Class 5; Russ Welch, Class 2; Roger Mears, Class 7; Frank Vessels, Class 8; Wayne Cornelius, Class 30; Bob Bogdanoff, Armstrong Tires. Quoting from the Baja 1000 CRB Report: "It was unanimously decided that "occupants" means anyone banded to race in that particular vehicle, so it was deemed legal that both Blain and Peralta were occupants and, therefore, eligible to push this entry across the finish line." Having discussed the exact wording of this rule amongst themselves, the Competition Review Board called Glenn Harris and Brian Stewart to present their case. They both felt that this was an illegal finish and that the term "occupants" should be defined as meaning "anyone who had been in the race car, either at the time the car broke or at some time during the race." They argued that since all the banded members of Gordon's crew had not been in CALL FOR COURSES AND DATES racer or a 4WD enthusiast, the Rod Hall off-road driving school can help you AHi MOTORSPORTS 340 WESTERN ROAD #1 RENO, NEVADA 89506 702/786-9922 be your best! But be ready. .. the road isn't smooth! Pagc6 the car at some time during the race, this was a violation of Rule G-38!" Robby Gordon was called in to present his side of the story and was accompanied by Bob Bowers, one of the members of his crew who helped push the vehicle across the finish line. Robby stated that his understanding, based on the results of Poe vs. Blain at the Baja 1000, was that anyone banded to race in the vehicle was eligible to assist in pushing the vehicle across the finish line and, therefore, since he acted according to the definition, as clarified by the Competition Review Board, of G-38 he had done nothing wrong at the finish line. Having heard both sides of the story, the Board discussed Rule G-38 in some detail. While some did not agree with the Baja 1000 CRB definition of the term ''occupants", everyone agreed that the Board had an obligation to uphold this definition, because the results were published and the Venable team acted in accordance with that definition! The case against Robby Gordon and the Venable Racing Team, was dismissed and no action was taken.· (Times have apparently changed since Mickey Thompson pushed his single seater, with a little help, across the finish line at the Parker 400, and was a dnf -ed.) Just when we thought we had seen the last of Robby Gordon, along came Tom Malloy leveling the serious charge of unsafe driving against him. Malloy, driver of Mini Mag #1297, charged Robby with running over his front wheel at about the 7 mile marker, just after the college. "I was in the wash area, coming up to a turn just before going into the mountains. I was on the pipe going about 50 mph coming off the berm, on my line into the turn, when here comes Robby and he was really hooked up. There was only room for one vehicle going into that corner and Robby was running out of room. He saw me in plenty of time to slow down, but he just ran right over me and it was my line! Robby gambled that he could get there before I did and he took my car out in the process. Two more feet and I wouldn't be here to talk about it. I've raced trucks and buggies in many different classes for years, but some of these guys are getting out of hand. Robby's a great driver and I have a lot of respect for him, but he gambled with my life out there and I think it was careless and reckless driving." Robby and his co-driver were called in to answer the charges and stated that they had no recollec-tion of having hit anyone on the course. "I never hit a Mini Mag! I never hit anyone all day. I remember seeing a Mini Mag on my fourth lap in that area, but he was parked on the right side of the course, broken down. I never touched him! I was really hooked up, trying to chase down Walker, about that time and if I had hit anything, it would have sent my truck flying. I know I didn't hit him." Frankly it was impossible, given the conflicting testimony, to establish fault, let alone reckless or unsafe driving. This is not an uncommon problem in these cases, since there are seldom any witnesses to these events. In the hopes that the two driveri,; could September 1990 work out their. problems, the CRB instructed Robby to discuss the incident with Malloy and see if some sort of sportsmanlike understanding could be reached through communication. In reality, if people involved in accidents out on the. course, would take the time to seek each other out after the race and discuss these incidents, I think we could see a lot less of these sort of cases before the Board. Many times, what seems like abusive nerfing, in the eyes of the victim, takes on a completely different appearance when viewed through the eyes of the other driver. True, .it does take some time to track down another entry, but it takes a lot more time to appear in front of the Review Board to defend yourself. This sort of Sportsman-ship would certainly cut down on the work load in the CRB. According to the Checkpoint Captain at Check #6, "At about 8:09 a.m. #124, Tom Koch, entered the checkpoint area at a high rate of speed and out of control, completely missing the turn, and proceeded to drive straight off the course. After finally coming to a stop, he backed up, running over my tent in the process, re-entered the approach to the checkpoint taking out the banners in doing so, attempted to pass a vehicle slowing to negotiate the turn, got into line and sped through the check, dragging my tent along behind him." Amazed by this description of events, Dave Westhem asked, "Didn't he stop and say anything to you?" "No! There were four or five cars in the check at this point, and since the damage had already been done we just let him go. He just took off as though nothing had happened. He never said anything. He didn't really even slow down." Tom Koch was called , but failed to appear to give his description of these events. (Being an early dnf in Class 1/2, Tom probably went home before the scores were flagged. -ed.) It was the unanimous decision of the Board to disqualify his entry and fine him $500.00. Part of the fine will be directed to replace the checkpoint workers' tent and the remainder shall go to the Roger Roderick Foundation. Checkpoint 1 was a big problem for the RCR entry of Bob Richey who apparently failed to stop at that check on two separate occasions. According to Checkpoint 1 officials, Bob went through "like it wasn't even there" on laps 2 and 3 . In considering the case, members of the Board tried to imagine a reason for running that check once and of course could not possibly understand how he could blow through it on two • The Big Push passes the FAIR pit about a quarter mile from the finish line at Barstow, with, as stated, just four guys pushing. On the left, an unknown crew member steers and pushes, and Robby, left, and his co-driver, stripped of the top of their driving suits push, while another crew member pours cooling water on Robby. Obviously there is no rule about finishing in a full driving suit and helmet. Photo by John Alabaster. different laps. Unfortunately, Bob was not on hand to explain the reasons to the Board and his entry was disqualified. (Richey only finished three laps anyhow. ed.) In an Official decision rendered on the spot by HDRA, entry #906, Armando Tiznado was penalized one lap under Rule G-38 when he was caught towing his vehicle within one mile of the finish line. · A Letter of Reprimand was issued to entry #902, Keith Lucas, new member to the SCORE/ HDRA series, when Checkpoint Officials at Check 1 complained that he had been too quick to anticipate the light at that location and rolled through the check. Several cases of abusive nerfing were mediated by the Competition ' Review Board and the principals were instructed to discuss these incidents amongst themselves in the hopes that each of them could reach some sort of understanding by communicating about the incidents. To insure such talks proceed in the proper spirit, the CRB Marshal was asked to monitor the results and report back to the CRB members. Rule G-38, which was the focal point of the Fireworks 250 CRB, seems to be a rule for which everyone has their own interpre-tation. This is fast becoming one of the more popular complaints, and in the interest of cutting down on misunderstandings and the_ hard feelings which always seem to result from these no-win cases, the IDRA has asked both SCORE and HDRA to redefine this rule in such a way as to eliminate all ambiguity from its definition. There is considerable disagree-ment over the current definition of this rule as defined by the Baja 1000 CRB and this controversy is not necessary. IDRA has asked that the clarification of Rule G-38 be communicated to all Drivers of Record before the HDRA Nevada 500 in September. (HDRA does not seem to have a problem with it, as they docked Tiznado a lap at Barstow. It seems the CRB has the problem. ed.) Finally, a word about filing a protest against another entry. If you feel that you have a grievance against another racer and want to bring it before the Board, go to the start/ finish line and find the Race Director who will assist you in filing the proper paperwork. If you want advice before doing this seek out the CRB Marshal. The Race Director will usually be able to tell you where I can be found and I will be happy to advise you on how to proceed. Remember, when you file a protest against another entry, the burden of proof is on your shoulders, so have your facts and witnesses in order when you come to the CRB meeting! Dusty Tlma

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I. 1990 HAPPENINGS ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34810 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 September 1, 1990 Snowflake Buggy Bash Snowflake, AZ October 6, 1990 Penasco Twilight 250 November 10, 1990 Sonoyta to Rocky Point 250 December 8, 1990 Annual Awards Banquet Phoenix, AZ BADGERLAND VW CLUB,INC. Terry Friday 5913 Fond Du Lac Road Oshkosh, WI 54901 ( 414) 688-5509 (All events located in Chilton, WI at the Fairgrounds Racing Facility) BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 September 21-23, 1990 Gran Carrera de Campeones San Felipe, BC, Mexico October 6, 1990 Ensenada Gran Prix Ensenada, BC, Mexico BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 · Ogden, Utah 84402 (801)627-2313 October 6, 1990 Bonneville Challenge Wendover USA 1990 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon, WI54520 (715) 478-2115 / (715) 4 78-2688 September 1-2, 1990 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Mike Gibeault 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 September 8, 1990 Stock/ Stock GT Class Annual Meeting September 22-23, 1990 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ October 12-14, 1990 Rally Workshop (school) and Pace Note Rally November 3, 1990 Hollister Hills Rally Hollister, CA December 1-2, 1990 Indio Endurance Rally Pacific Crest Trail Rally Indio,_CA CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 FORDA Aorida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 1717 Marker Road Polk City, FL 33868 (813) 984-1923 (305) 823-4487 September 2, 1990 DE UNZIO October 14, 1990 November 11, 1990 January 13, 1991 February 10, 1991 March 23, 1991 RACING PRODUCTS OFF-ROAD RACING EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES ~ for free catalog phone (805) 683-1211 , ..... (all ewnts at Lakeland Speedway) RJDPUCKER RACINGTEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 September 29, 1990 Plaster City Blast IV Plaster City, CA December 31, 1990 Dunaway Dash IV Plaster City, CA GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 2937 San Bernardino, CA 92406 (714) 880-1733 November 18, 1990 Off Road Challenge GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association Box 11093 Station -A Atlanta, GA 30310 ( 404) 253-1033 September 23, 1990 Vienna, Ga October 28, 1990 Vienna, Ga November 24, 1990 Vienna, Ga GREAT LAKES FOUR WHEEL DRIVE ASSOCIATION Bob Moon 915 So. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Ml 48103 (313) 665-0358/ (313) 996-9193 GREAT PLAINS OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION K.C. Huggins 2233 N. 140th Avenue Omaha, NE68164 (402) 496-9431 September 9, 1990 Castana, IA September 30, 1990 Castana, IA ( All events at Timber ~idge Ranch) GREAT WESTERN POINTS SERIES, INC. Ron Kiel 12840 Dexter St. Thornton, CO 80241 (303) 452-4013 September 1-2, 1990 Central City Gran Prix Central City, CO September 16, 1990-Adams County Fairgrounds Denver, CO October 14, 1990 Colorado State Fairgrounds Pueblo, CO HDRA High Desert Racing Association 12997 Las Vegas Blvd., South Las Vegas, NV 89124 (702) 361-5404 September 7-9, 1990 Nevada 500 Pahrump, NV October 12-13, 1990 Gold Coast 300 Las Vegas, NV December 1, 1990 Off Roadsman Awards Banquet Las Vegas NV HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Pat Roberts 878 Main St. Deadwood, SD 57732 (605) 578-1654 · September 22, 1990 Deadwood Off Road Grand Prix Deadwood, SD October 20, 1990 Last Chance Baja Wall, SD IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All events staged at the club g-rounds' in Cleves, Ohio) KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB Randy Chamberlin 835 Wawn Road Kamloops, B.C. V2B-6N3 September 1990 • September 8-9, 1990. Twilight 400 Kamloops, B.C., Canada LA RANA DESERT RACING 22769 Chambray Dr. Moreno Valley, CA 92387 (714) 924-2226 October 5-7, 1990 Mini Baja 150 Ridgecr~st, CA November 16-18, 1990 High Desert 150 Lucerne Valley, CA December 15, 1990 T.B.A. Awards Banquet MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15519 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-5200 MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY ASSOCIATION Keneth Coleman 742 E. Roosevelt Road Ashley, MI 48806 ( 5 1 7) 838-4483 (All events at Mt. Pleasant Speedway) MIDWEST OFF ROAD BAJA SERIES Rick Vasquez . 1421 Lee Trevino D-1 El Paso, TX 79936 ( 915) 594-8266 All Desert Races September 23-24, 1990 Albuquerque, NM October (TBA), 1990 Deming, NM November, 3-4, 1990 El Paso, TX MIDWEST OFF ROAD RACING Tommy Bowling 9801 E. Highway 80 Odessa, TX 79765 (915) 561-5222 September 23, 1990 Sand Drags Odessa, TX October 28, 1990 Sand Drags Odessa, TX (All events at Notrees, TX) MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92823 (714) 938-4100 September 15, 1990 Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV September 29, 1990 Mile High Stadium Denver, CO October?, 1990 Candlestick Park San Francisco, CA (Schedule is tentative) ONT ARIO ASSOCIATION OF OFF ROAD RACERS Barry Wannamaker P.O. Box688 Bancroft, Ontario, KOL lCO, Canada (613) 332-3811/ (613) 332-16_10 ONTARIO OFF ROAD Ken Jackson - Dick Gillap R.R.#2 Tiverton, Ontario, Canada N0G 2T0 (519) 368-7874 OUTLAW MINI STOCK RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box204 Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 (213) 375-4570 (213) 719-7036 PAC OFF ROAD RACING P.O. Box323 Seahurst, Washington 98062 (206) 242-1773 October 12-13, 1990 Millican 400 Bend,OR PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 SAREEA AL JAMEL 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 526 Indio, CA 92202 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. King P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/ (518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 October 25-28, 1990 Press On Regardless Rally Escanaba, MI November 9-12, 1990 Mazda Coachman Stages Rally Olympia, WA SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818) 889-9216 November 8-11, 1990 Baja 1000 Ensenada, BC, Mexico December 1, 1989 Off Roadsman Awards Banquet Las Vegas, NV SCORE CANADA 390 Chemin Du Lac l..ery, Quebec, J6N 1A3, Canada (514) 692-6171 SCORE SHOW Edgell Expositions P.O. Box 19531 Irvine, CA 92713 (714) 250-8060 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Jack Kolan (619) 292-4444 September 9,1990 Dusty Tlma

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mo,e ... TRAIL NOTES RACE-A-THON 1990 held in conjunction with the HORA-Fireworks 250 in Barstow last July was a big success, gaining the participation of more than 275 business associates, supporters, and friends of off road racers. The Race-A-Thon was a fund raiser for the Crippled Children's Society and called for each racer to obtain money pledges for each mile they raced at the Firecracker 250. According to Wayne Lee of Val Electric, a Class 7 desert racer and the force behind the Race-A-Thon, pledges from the participants total just short of $30,000. "We are so glad that we succeeded in enlisting the support of some of off road racing's best who came together to raise money for the Crippled Children's Society", said Lee, "and we anticipate that the participation at next year's Race-A-Thon will be even more overwhelming." The racers who obtained pledges came from nearly every class and pledges ranged from $100 to nearly $13,000. lt is a good cause and a fine method ofremembering Walt Lott who died at the race two years ago. THE EVERGREEN 1000 RALLY is a Two Day Monte Style Tour of Washington State organized by the Rainier Auto Sports Club. This year the combination tour and TSD event will route teams through the southwest corner, exploring the coastal highway and a light house where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. In past years the rally has ranged over the North Cascades Highway, across the Grand Coulee Dam, to the devastation of Mt. St. Helens and many out of the way scenic spots in Washington. In 1990 the 600 mile weekend rally will happen on September 15-16. For full information contact the Rainier Auto Sports Club, P.O . Box 53, Kirkland, WA 98083-0053 or call Rallymaster Mark Nolte at (206) 226-3155. The entry fee is $80, beginners are welcome, no special equipment is required, but a resetable odometer is advised. The rally will start at Coachman Mazda in Olympia and overnight in Kelso, then finish about two hours away from Seattle. THE LA RANA DESERT SERIES is getting very popular with southern California racers, and there are some familiar names on the points list, just published through the first four races in 1990. The Class 1/2 leader is Bob Richey with 98, well ahead of young A.J. Martin, 48; Keith Jackson, 33; Steve Martin, 28; and Aaron Hawley, 25. Steven McMullin leads Class 1-2-1600 with 132 points, followed by Greg Akins, 109; Scott Ryan, 94; David Ardolino, 78; and Howard Gregory, 71. Mick Newton leads Class 3 and 6 with 98 points, ahead of Mike Duncan, 59, and Rick Mancha, 3 7. Scott Weir has 107 points in Class 5 over Ed Pauley, 60, and Doug Wager, 58. In Class 7, 7S and 7-4x4 Bill Bunch and Mike Mitchell are tied at 64, and Douglas McCoy is next at 31. Thomas Coon leads Class 8 with 63, one point ahead of Greg Saavedra, and Billy Bunch has 43 points. It is tight in Class 5-1600 as David Allan leads with 93 over Darryl Gibson, 90; Mike Abbott, 86 and Reid Ferguson, 79. Class 9 is the biggest in La Rana racing, and James Clements leads with 169 points over Dave Girdner, 105; Charles Ortega, 96; Brian Maginnis, 90, and Robert Kleber and Duane Smith are tied at 87. Michael Harman leads Class 10 at 60 points, followed by Jeff Akins, 49; Mark Mueller, 42 and Bob Scott, 35. In Class 11 Butch Burch has 66 points over Travis Howard, 54, and Bill Swisher, 52. Daniel Groff leads Class 15 with 101 over Kenneth Parr, 87, and Larry Boman leads Class 44 with 51 points. Space does not permit a complete rundown in each class, or the use of the points chart supplied by La Rana. Check it out at their next race. PIKES PEAK RESULTS -They changed the class designations some at the hill climb this year, but the results show that off roaders did quite well. Don Adams won Division Cina new Eagle Talon Tsi in 13:50.46, followed by Shannon Millen at 13:50.60, real close, in her Mazda 323 GTX Turbo. Rally driver John Crawford was third in another Eagle Talon. Jack Flannery won Division Fin a Ford F-150 4x4 at 13:14 36, followed by Don Adams in a Jeep CherokeeV8 at 13:29.22. Clive Smith won Truck Division in a Chevy S-10 at • 12:42.48, and Bill Holmes was second in a Ford F-150. Open Class went to Dick Dodge, Jr. in an Eagle Talon Tsi Turbo at 13:08.86. Australian David Eadie was second at 13:12.70 in a Mazda 323 Turbo, followed by rally driver Tim O'Neil in a VW Rally Golf at 13:26.92. Open Wheel honors went to Robby Unser in an Unser Chevrolet at 11:32.86, followed by Bill Brister, Wells Chevrolet, 11:40.44, David Donner, Donner/ Dykstra Chevrolet, 11:47.11 and John Wells, Wells Chevrolet, 11:53.89.1..eonard Vahsholtzwon the Stock Car Division again at 12:35.90 in a Ford Probe, followed by Roger Mears, Chevy Camaro, 12:39 .09 and that is close. Roger Jr. a rookie on the hill, was seventh in Open Wheel Division A.We expect to have a complete report on the 1990 Hillclimb next issue. October 14, 1990 November 11, 1990 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 September 28-30, 1990 SNORE 250 Desert Race Jean, NV October 27-28, 1990 KC HiLites Midnight Special Desert Race Nelson Hils, NV December 1, 1990 Showboat 250 Desert Race Las Vegas, NV SHORT TRACK OFF ROAD ENTERPRISES S.T.O.R.E. Co-Ordinator: Torn Schwartzburg 2620 West Washington West Bend, WI 53095 { 414) 334-3858 SUPERIOR OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 257-9422/(414) 542-3821 September 1-2, 1990 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI September 15-16, 1990 Badgerland Short Course Sprints Oshkosh, WI TEXAS OFF ROAD GRAND PRIX Short Course Racing - Texas Style Class 10, Sportsman, Challenger Mike Bernardo 1606 Lancelot Circle Grand Prairie, TX 75050 (214) 855-2232 September 7, 1990 Boyd, TX October 5, 1990 Boyd, TX TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Carney, Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association P.O. Box 211 Dunellen, NJ 08812 (201) 752--0299 (201) 359-2745 (All races at Trailways Speedway, Hanover, PA) VENTURA RACEWAY Business Office 2810 W. Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93035 (805) 656-1122 September 8, 1990 Motocross - 7:00 p.rn. Class 10 Buggies October 6, 1990 Motocross - 7:00 p.rn. Class 10 Buggies October 2 7, 1990 Motocross - 7:00 p.rn. Class 10 Buggies November 17, 1990 Motocross - 7:00 p.rn. Class 10 Buggies ( all race dates subject to change withattt notice) VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 September 1-2, 1990 VORRA/ Fernley 250 Fernley, NV October 28, 1990 Championship Race Prairie City OHV Park Sacramento, CA WHEEL TO WHEEL,INC. P.O. Box 688, Dept. 4W0R Bancroft, Ontario, Canada KOL ICO (613) 332-1766/(613) 332-4128 WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION 19125 -87 A Ave. Surrey, British Columbia, V3S 5X7, Canada (604) 576-6256 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP September 13-1 7, 1990 Rally of Australia October 7-13, 1990 Sanrerno Rally of Italy October 27-November 2, 1990 Ivory Coast Rally November 25-29, 1990 RAC Rally England ATTENTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! Send your 1990 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column. Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 5331 Derry A\le., Suite 0, Agoura, CA 91301. PARKER PUMPER HELMET CO. ~e'-~</ 714-923-7016 · v~tt':J~ 985 SNELL APPROVED HELMETS ~~~ WE HAVE IN STOCK A COMPLETE LINE OF 0 SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS, ON DISPLAY AND AVAILABLE AT LOW RACE NET PRICES! Each helmet has shield and skirt included. 1990 SCORE SHOW • While we were unable to attend the show in person this year due to a conflict in dates, we have heard more bad than good about the 1990 edition. We have not received any follow up press releases from the organizers, Edgell Expositions, as yet. We do know from some exhibitors that the crowds were way down from previous years, many blaming move from the Anaheim to the Los Angeles Conv~ntion Center for the lack of attendance. Apparently the City of Los Angeles also imposed a busin~s~ tax on exhit:,itors who were doing retail business, along with the already ex1stmg sales tax m the city. Most of the major tire companies, always involved in the past, did not exhibit anything this year, nor did many vehicle manufacturers. The space was filled by watercraft equipment and accessories, but we are told there was considerable unsold space. ~, . 0" .. t\..O~ ~~ ,.. i..,~ \'o• Next year the show will be in May, much better for sales, and will move back to Anaheim, a wise idea. Hopefully the SCORE Show will be able to regain some of its former glory and gain back some of the truly off road type exhibitors that have fled the scene in recent years. An off road show should be justthat, with vehicles, tires and hard parts; the license plate frames and T-shirt vendors should be relegated to some fat corner off the beaten path if they are sold space at all. The tentative dates for next year are May 3-5, and an exhibitor advisory group has been formed to assist show management in planning a new style SCORE Show that will attract more folks. OFF ROAD NETWORK sent us a copy of the video they did on the 1990 Baja Internacional, and folks, this is one of the best off road shows we have ever seen. These guys had photographers everywhere, and they caught the essence of Baja, the different terrain you drive through and the different foliage you see, from cactus to pine trees. They even caught some of the classes trying to cross the flash flood rivers in the washes. To make the show even more interesting, Ivan Stewart joined producer Steve Weiss as the expert commentator, and nobody knows off road racing and Baja better than Ivan. We applaud the Off Road Network for showing action from all competition classes, from motorcycles to Mini Mags. The show aired on TNN late in July, but if you missed it, like we did, all is not lost. For $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling, you can get a copy to watch over and over again. We usually don't recommend videos but this one would make a great gift for an off road buff. Send to Off Road Network, P.O. Box 413, Conifer, CO 80433. Dusty Times . .,0 ftl" fi>'o CE> +'1>'"' ,~~~~~~l>.1'<> . i...\0 ~~0 ..i ~ t-01 ~ .... "I' 'Ii'~ ~0~ ~~ c,t-t,,~ ~.. ~~ ;..o, 0 t::,O ~~ '1,'?J-..,'b O~ACH HAS RACHET SHIELD - MORE NOSE ROOM MUCH LIGHTER - SEALS BETTER AGAINST DUST . . ALSO AVAILABLE FULL LINE OF SIMPSON PRODUCTS -BELL HELMETS - GLASS SHIELDS - DRINKERS KOOL PAC'S - PUMPER MOTORS - 4'-8' HOSES September 1990 • We Convert Customer's Helmets -"IT'S ALMOST LIKE CHEATING" PARKER PUMPER HELMET COMPANY . 2318 South Vineyard, Ste B, Ontario, CA 91761 714/923-7016 5FWY Page 9

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Pony Express ••• I would like to take time to looking a little uncertain about commend Judy Smith for a job what his role was, still he worked well done reporting on the off on. I even wondered to myself road community events. I whatmyrolewas.Janet,mysister particularly enjoy her articles and co-rider, was in tears, and the regarding pre-runs and the course ran three feet deep in a challenges and adventures had torrent of water. along the way. The experiences All the surrounding country had during a good Baja pre-run was draining an inch of sheet can build spirit and good water,whichwasflowingintothis character which generally rubs off newly formed river. Hail stung and helps form a good race car our hands as it pelted our Bug. driver. It's unfortunate that so Our race speed was reduced to 1 many of the new off road racers or 2 miles per hour, and visibility have not had the opportunities to was down to zero at times. experience a long Baja pre-run Sometimes the water flowed so complete with its adventure and strong against our front tires it continual challenge. In addition, was as if two people were water in my book, the challenge and skiing at 70 mph five feet in front adventure is really what off road of us. This was a rare moment in racing is all about. Personally I my racing experience where I view each race as an adventure not began to question my reasons for just another race. I have watched being where I now was. I quickly our sport grow from its very early pushed thoughts of quitting aside days and have participated in andbecameevenmoredetermined quite a number of races over the to continue pressing on. years, and still each race is unique We tried to find a suitable river and provides its own adventure crossing. I stopped and walked experience. across the river to test the water For example the recent Baja depth, and it was well above my 500 really dished it out to our knees. Finally we found a spot 5-1600 entry this year. Our where we figured we could cross. team's entry was well prepared As we tried to cross we became and believe it or not we knew that stuck. We backed up and tried the potential for wet driving again and this time the motor conditions existed. This possibil-quit. We were well stranded in ity we knew would simply add to this river with water reaching the the challenge and adventure of base of the carburetor on our 5-race day in Baja. 1600 Baja Bug. As race day progressed, Janethikedovertothehighway leads were washed away, and due to our respective starting numbers, some teams found themselves well refreshed with class leading times. No handicaps were given and none expected. The rain and its experience just provided another part of this race's adventure and challenge. The rain just as easily could have been an endless silt bed that could cause our entire class hours to struggle through. Needless to say the Class 5-1600 cars had quite a sprint to the finish line. Each class finisher truly deserved its finishing position. One could go on and on. Each competitor had his or her own unique adventure in Baja this day. My point is simply this. These races are more than just another race, and don't for an instant take these race days for granted. They are all adventures. Where else and what other motorsport offers the opportunity to test your ability to plan, build, compete and measure your personal character against such a hardy group of individuals? If you are outside this motor-sport your ability to relate to many of these experiences can only be through written articles like those ofJudy Smith. So thank you Judy for all the good words and continue on with your excellent work. Tom and Bobby Neth Costa Mesa, CA We too enjoy Judy's tales of the fun part of off road racing, pre-running, and in years past we shared some of those experiences in the same car. Her race coverage is the very best also, and we thank the Neth team for their most interesting letter. thoughts of rain and mud quickly for help while I continued to work faded in the clear sky and warm to mbve the car to high ground. sun. The pace of the race was My best efforts were in vain, yet quick, not leaving much time to even while I watched the water think about potential weather. As swirl around our severely we set up our racing pit along the disabled Bug I considered the day Gulfawaitingourcar'sarrival, the a real adventure. Last month at the HORA 90 degree temperature and Gulf Despite our rather unusual Fireworks 250 on the first lap, I weather seemed to make threats situation, my brother, who drove came to a 90 degree corner. I was of any poor weather conditions the first half of the race found us in a dust cloud and didn't see faraway.However,aswechanged after an hour. Still no other cars much from my Class 2 car. I drivers and headed inland had passed by, and little did we stepped on the brakes, and there towards the San Matias area, you know that the entire race had were none. So I went straight into could occasionally steal a glimpse come to a halt several miles down the desert. Upon backing up to of the skies above Mike's. We stream.We proceeded to the Bug make the corner I backed up over knew then that the day would and pulled it free. After another a two man tent that somebody set soon become an adventure. half hour Bobby and our pit crew up on the outside of a corner, Once we hit the short section of had the old Bug running and ready which is a bad place in any race. pavement leading up to the to resume. As we headed back The next lap we lost a ring & Mike's turn off, it was clearly towards the course our entire pinion and we were out, so I obvious from the black skies and class was racing by. My brother worked at the Checker main pit lighteningthatwewereinforrain. Bobby continued on as co-rider; for a while, and we went to As we reached the end of the short in all our years of racing, only one dinner• I never checked any pavement section we were already other time had we been together results, as we were a dnf. Anyway' rain soaked, but it wasn't raining in the race car at the same time. Monday I talked to Dave Kreisler in Baja buckets just yet. However We figured it would take all our and he told me we were disquali-as we dipped off the pavement it experience to make it to the finish fied. I just didn't even think we was a down pour. We knew we line. did anything wrong, or I would wereintroublewhenwesawmost As our class resumed, it have been at the Review Board pit crews scrambling for higher basically restarted, similar to a meeting. The only other thing I ground. The hardy SCORE desert motorcycle race. All can say is that we didn't pre-run, fla~n at the gate crossing was . previously earned positions and not allowed, so I didn't know the r,-~--~-...;.. ____ ;;.,.,_..;...~.;..-----....:...;. ____ . corner was there, or I might have CACTUS RAC/NG made it. Thanks. Tom Koch RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES 5153 BOWDEN AVE. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92117. TEL. (619) 279-2509 HELMET $195 COMPLETE SYSTEM $320 A FRESH AIR HELMET AND BLOWER ASSEMBLY DESIGNED FOR on~ ROAD USE AT A REASONABLE PRICE BUILT AND BACKED BY BELL HELMETS LIGHT WEIGHT-!tl:DUCES NECK STRAIN Page 10 COOL, COMFORTABLE TERRY CLOTH LINER BW WER MOTOR AND ASSE~ffiLY ARE GUARANTEED FOR ONE FULL YEAR SNELL SASS APPROVED Ridgecrest, CA As we editorialized in the CRB report in this issue, nobody who is out after one of four laps is going to stick around for hours to see if they are flagged for an appearance at the CRB meeting. Most dnfs go eat and go home. We think the Board gave you far too heavy a penalty for the unintentional damage done. For another opinion of the power of the CRB, read on. After reading the Competition Review Board Report of the Baja Internacional incidents involving #503 and #1008 I felt some additional input was needed. Let me explain at the time of the September 1990 incident I was co-driving in #503 the Van Kirk vehicle.We were hit twice that day by the same vehicle #1008. (What follows is the same description of the incidents given by the Van Kirk team at the CRB meeting last June.) However, subsequent to the race, Rick Rowland was treated for severe whiplash, a compression fracture in the middle of his back, and damage to his lower back. LeRoy Van Kirk also suffered back injuries that required extensive medical attention for weeks. The point is we have a review board briefing that starts with "abusive nerfing" which is fast becoming a common complaint heard by the CRB. Then the driver of #1008 says he was driving at race speed in heavy dust and did not hit anyone intention-ally.We believe that. But, the real problem is that the review board is not issuing some type of caution, so have stamped their approval on "unintentional" extreme driving habits. Abusive nerfing or tapping, which is it? This is not just about our incident because ours is over and done with. This is about the border line drivers that read this review, read what the offending driver had to say and saw that the review board never even said, "let's at least try to be more cautious in blinding dust." We didn't want blood, we just wanted someone to say, "hey guys, if you can't see, back off a little until you can see." The CRB is the group that will be sending the real message as to what can be done on the race course. It doesn't mean they should slam dunk every accused offender; it means that they should consider all aspects of a situation. Safety should be involved in every decision, and that is the message that should get out. I sincerely hope the CRB doesn't convene only to deal with who is right and who is wrong. After each race we should be a better, safer, more professional sport because of CRB meetings. This letter is written out of concern for racers, spectators, and the future of the sport in general. There is no malice or ill feelings intended in any direction. Rick Rowland St. George, Utah Sorry we had to edit your letter because of space requirements Rick. Your points are well taken. As for us we are still trying to reconcile the· CRB giving no penalty to driver(s) doing bodily harm to other competitors (such as in your case), and fining another $500 and disqualifying him from the event for damaging an unoccupied tent. Regarding Daryl Drake's "The Arizona Score" in the July 1990 issue, SCORE/PIR Class 9 competitor Vince Evans is the uncle of 1983 ( not sure of the date) SCORE Class 1 champion Glen Evans, who used to operate "Dirtrix", which is now John Dyck's shop in Phoenix. Tony Tellier Scottsdale, AZ While attending the race in Kamloops, British Columbia on the 16th of June, we were in process of getting our pit vehicles parked when I stepped out of my vehicle and slipped in the mud, it was like grease. My wife ran to get help from the racers in the pit area ahead, and they all rushed over and very professionally took charge. Within minutes I had a splint ( course markers and super tape) on my leg, and I was very gently picked up and loaded into our VW van. The racers trans-ported us to the Kamloops Hospital, twenty minutes away, where I underwent surgery ( receiving eleven screws and a four inch plate in my leg). I remained a guest of the hospital for the next three days. I didn't get the chance then, but I now would like to thank all of the people who came to my assistance. I am very grateful. I consider myself lucky to be associated with the people in the Northwest off road community. Todd Francis Vancouver, WA After weeks oflate nights in the garage, we finally finished our Class 11, just in time for the Fireworks 250, only to be rear ended, not nerfed by a Class 1 buggy 15 miles into the first lap. This Class 1 had plenty of room to pass but hit us anyway. Going at least twice our speed, it did major damage to the car, eventually putting us out of the race. Afterwards we asked the Driver of Record why he hit us. He said his co-driver was at the wheel and he hit us on purpose, and what were we going to do about it! We are not a bunch of cry babies, we didn't even report it to the CRB. But I would expect a pro to have a little more consideration for the slower low buck cars, especially the ones with no engine protection, when it comes to nerfing them out of the race. Steven Ryan, Desert Snail Racing Victorville, CA The sort of action you describe seemed to be common at the Barstow race, and a lot of slower cars were wrecked unnecessarily. It won't stop until the organizers hang heavy time penalties on the "hit and run" artists in the high powered vehicles or someone is badly injured. Read the CRB Report comment in this issue for our solution to the problem. A check is enclosed to renew my subscription for three years. As my previous subscription expired 2 /90, and you've continued to send papers to me, I expect this 3 year sub to expire on 2/93. Dusty Times is the best publication on off roading on newsprint, slick paper or what-ever. The reason for delaying renewal was a belt tightening program. It was unbelievable that you carried me through my lean time. I would never expect nor ask any business to take care of a customer the way you have. Thank You. Richard Parcells Palmdale, CA DUSTY TIMES welcomes letters from all comers of off road activity. · The Pony Express column will feature all the maii we can flt mto the space. Please keep your words fairly brief. 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HDRA SOUTAR MOTORS/-DWEISER RREWORIS 150 Walker Evans Back In Victory Circle --,... , . .,.,. -,+' .¥.& ;,-v•,:;i,;,~:-;;;.,;: Walker Evans ended his recent slump in the desert in the best way possible, not only by winning Class 8 by a goodly margin, but Walker put the thundering big Dodge home first overall, a real feat on a course said to be the roughest in the series in years. After a dry spell of just over two and a half years, Walker Evans put everything together just right and won the HORA Fireworks 250 overall. With his big Dodge truck just skimming the tops of the bumps, Evans really poured on the steam on the last lap, to edge Toyota's Ivan Stewart out of the overall slot by 48 seconds. This year's race, the second event on HDRA's calendar, had a new contingency and tech inspection area, on the access road for the giant Factory Merchants Mall at the Lenwood exit, off 1-15, right at the spot where the first Barstow races, some 19 years ago, lined up for the green flag. The start and finish were relocated also, and instead of the convenient parking lot of Barstow College, a whole new site, at the Sidewinder Exit, the 1,1ext exit south from Lenwood, was set up. In plan it was like any other HORA start/ finish area, with the course traversing a broad flat area, fenced off parcels allocated for timing and scoring, press, and post race tech, lots of parking, and a long straight line of pits all on one side of the track. It was a comfortable site, and close enough to the gas stations, mini-marts and fast food em-poriums of the Lenwood area that no one felt deprived of civilized amenities. But there weren't any shade trees. The course was an amoeba shaped 62.25 miles long, traveling in a clockwise direction, with eight checkpoints in addition -~ «.,>~-... to the start/ finish check. The race started at 7 a.m. and the time allowance for the event was 11 hours, and everyone except Class 11, which went around only three times, was required to do four laps. There was no pre-running for this race, and, as at the Nissan· 400, those who own planes flew over the course for a look-see, and those who could afford it hired a ride in a plane or 'copter to try to ascertain the layout. There was a specially marked area for "testing", open on the Thursday and Friday just before the race, for specified hours during the day, and most racers had to be content with just that little look at the terrain. Although the desert tortoises, van tewart was Iust 48 seconds behind the Dodge at the checkered flag, ,s radical Toyota bodied Class 1 racer running without fault from flag to flag for the Class 1 /2 win and second overall. Flying high until the last mile, Robby Gordon continues to amaze off ~oaders. He had such a lead at Barstow, that he still took second in Class 8 and third overall, after pushing the truck the final mile. cause of the restrictive regulations about pre-running and course width, had not been much in evidence during the laying out of the track, the officials had a few panicky moments the evening before the race, when, as the water trucks dampened the area down, numbers of tortoises, apparently smelling the water, came lumber-ing into the start/finish zone looking for a drink. But they had all dispersed before race morning, and none were sighted during the day. _ ..,f,m," Race day weather was typical Barstow July stuff - searingly hot and dry, with almost no breeze. The starting order was l /2 Unlimited, 8, 10, 5, 4, 1-2-1600, 7 4x4, 7, Mini-Mag, 7S, 5-1600, 3, 9, 6, and 11. It was billed as a one-every-15-second start, but the first few classes were separated by 20 seconds. A total of 227 racers took the green flag, and the last vehicle left the line at 8:02 a.m. Then there was a lull of about 16 minutes before the first car finished his fir_st_la ... P ... · __ _ Brian Collins, with Pat Dean riding along, flies his Chenowth Porsche past a 1600 on his way to second in Class 1 /2, fourth overall. Danny Latner, a double 6-50 club winner, is not slowing down at all and he drove the Raceco Porsche to third in Class 1 /2, sixth overall. Brian and Michael Church, here being hotly pursued by the Robby Gordon Ford, finished fourth in Class 1 / 2 in the Chenowth Porsche. Brian Stewart kept his Dodge tidy on his way-to third in Class 8 and fifth overall, missing second by just a minute and 13 seconds. Page 11 ·---..Ji@k~~ .The crowd cheered when Ron and Greg Kishiyama finished; the John Hays drove the entire distance in his spt y aceco and e popular brothers drove their self built Ford to a keen fourth in finished a very close second in Class 10, a flat tire out of the win. Class 8, seventh overall. September 1990 Dusty Times

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Rick Lind and Frank Golden, shown whipping past a spectator area, had some troubles but finished a fine third in Class 10 competition. LeRoy Van Kirk and Rick Rowland whipped over the rocks in the Porsche Bug, and despite minor problems nailed down second in Class 5. Gary Bates and Dave Baeskens drove the conventional Class 5 Bug to a strong finish, third despite trouble with a hastily rebuilt trans. And it was Danny Letner, in his Porsche Raceco, who'd passed the one car that started in front of him, and then enjoyed a dust free lap, and put himself into the lead with the fast lap for the class at 1:18:27.7. Running second, and later saying he "never had a dustier race", was Ivan Stewart in his Toyota, almost six minutes behind Letner. Brian Collins, Porsche Chenowth was a half-minute back in third, and then Bob Gordon, in a Type IV Chenowth was 14 seconds behind him, and Bill Church, in another Porsche Chenowth, was three seconds later in fifth. Things evened out a bit on lap two as Letner ran into traffic, and · while he still led, he had only 34 seconds on Stewart now, and Gordon was up to third, another 30 seconds back. In fourth it was Mike and Jim Zupanovich scored their second win of the season in Class 10 driving the J.R.M. to a five minute class victory and eighth overall. Marty Hart has become the dominant force in Class 5 this season, and at Barstow he drove the Jimco built Bug to victory by a huge margin of 0l(er 33 minutes. Rodney Hall and Jim Fricker did it again in the big Dodge, taking the Class 4 lead on the second lap with class fast lap, and staying out front to the finish line. Dusty Tlma Ed and Tim Herbst in a Porsche Chenowth, and in fifth, Stuart Chase in a Porsche Raceco, after breaking a shock. Stewart, who was having another mechanically perfect day, took over the lead on the third lap, and Letner was second, five minutes back. Chase, running very consistent times, was now third, Collins, who'd been stuck on a Mini-Mag for a few moments, was back up to fourth, and Brian Church, in a Porsche Chenowth had moved into fifth place. The Herbst brothers, and Bob Gordon were out of the race with broken transmissions. Stewart, finding it a very trafficky race, continued to run ' smoothly, discovering one flat just as he got to a pit, and needing no mechanical help at all, to take the class win by 17 minutes. ' Collins, who also felt it was a "real dirty" rll.ce, was second, finishing with only second gear left in his transmission, Letner, who'd had a flat on the last lap, finished third, 43 seconds behind him. In fourth it was Brian Church, down to only • fourth gear in his trans, and Corky McMillin and Brian Ewalt, in their Porsche Chenowth, who said they'd been "out dusted", were fifth, with Ewalt driving and McMillin in the passenger seat after wearing himself out changing a tire in the heat. The Class 8 trucks were the second group off the line, and one of the top contenders, Dave Shoppe in his Ford, was out early on lap one when he endoed his truck. Dave and his son, Brant, who was riding, were unhurt, but , the truck was terminally damaged. : · In the meantime, Robby Gordon put his Ford into the lead, sailing through the dust with x-ray vision, and was ten minutes , up on Brian Stewart in a Dodge, who ran second. Behind Stewart it was Walker Evans, the other half 1 of the Dodge team, only a minute f and 12 seconds later. Greg and . Ron Kishiyama were fourth about two-and-a-half minutes further back, in their privateer Ford, and 1 Mel Vaughan and Roger Rolfe were fifth, another minute-and-a-half later, in another Ford. On the second lap Evans surged . to the lead with a minute and 42 I seconds on Stewart who now ran 1 second, as Gordon lost some time with tires flattened on rocks that . "·ere invisible in the dust, and , dropped to third. The Kishiyamas, ; whose non-factory effort is very popular with the spectators, held I fourth still, followed by Robin T ulleners and Noah Sanchez, in a · '72 Ford, as Vaughan and Rolfe lost two hours with some; problem. Evans had had some flat tire problems also, but lap three was a good one, and he ticked off the , September 1990 fast lap of the race, a beautiful 1: 17:23.3, to put himself more firmly into the lead. Gordon was now second, almost 10 minutes back, while Stewart, who also had a couple of flats, dropped to third, three minutes later. The Kishi-yamas, who~ had only one flat, were fourth, three minutes back, and now Frank Vessels, who'd been having fuel pump troubles with his Chevy, had moved into fifth place, over an hour down, and not having many clean laps. As he finished his third _lap .--.. This is the system run by most off road race winners Evans' crew told him that he had Class 8 secured, and a good chance at the overall if he wanted to go for it. And he decided he did. So he really poured it on. He had a flat, which he had to get out and change himself, worrying all the time that Gordon would catch him, but he got to the finish line first, squeezing out the overall victory by that slim 48 second margin, but all by himself in Class 8. It was almost 20 minutes before the next Class 8 truck came in, and it was Ill"' TRl•MIL BOBCAT • CHROME DUAL CAN BOBTAIL FOR BAJA BUGS 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (213) 234-9014 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 13

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John Dyck and Jerry Sterling led the first lap in Class 4 in the Jeep J-10 and they kept up the pace to finish well in second place. After missing a few events, Curtis and Louie Farrar came back in style, driving the ORE quickly to second in Class 1-2-1600, 16th overall. Larry Martin races constantly and he flew the NRW SS to third in Class 1-2-1600 where second through fifth were just six minutes . .,,.,, . .~ When Rod Hall's engine died he coasted m o e hecker am pit, w ere there was plenty of help, and it was Tom Koch, in the truck bed, who fixed the frayed battery strap in short order, Photo by John Palvin. Paul and Dave Simon took off like a rocket in Class 7 4x4, led all the way in the Ford Ranger, got fast class lap, and won by a big margin, over 33 minutes. ~~-t ~i~~ ,,,.. ··;..-,. The Las Vegas team of Mike Spina and Keith Underwood got the Bunderson over the rough stuff in good time, fourth in Class 1-2-1600. Jim Moulton and Fred to in the 44 car Class 1-2-1600 close running field, just 15 minutes out of the win. Page 14 apart. Tom and Bob Denault are well on the way to defending their points title in Class 1-2-1600, taking the victory by over nine minutes at Barstow, and their Chenowth was a smart 13th overall as well. It was a great day for the Mears Gang as Roger led Class 7 from flag to flag with Tony Alvarez riding in the Nissan; they made just one extra stop on the way to victory and 14th overall. !Jr Gordon, but he was about the way Gordon finished, steering a box full of neutrals, and the matter was referred to the while his arm-banded co~rivers Competitive Review Board. The pushed his truck the final half Board decided that because of the mile. Stewart, who finished decision it had made after the immediately behind him, had to 1989 Baja 1000 when co-driver shove the Ford out of the way Dan Blain had helped Lou Peralta with his Dodge in order to get past push their defunct single seat car the finish line, and took third into the Class 10 win, and it had place, just one minute and 13 been allowed, they would have to seconds after Gordon. The allow the Gordon finish at this Kishiyamas were fourth, a minute event. It was noted that the only and four seconds later, and people who pushed the car were Vessels was fifth, over an hour those who were legally banded to latec. , ride in it, and since it's a two seat There was a great hue and cry vehicle, there were a total of four Jerry McDonald and Jeff Lewis had a good run in the Chevy S-10, but at the checkered they had to settle for second in Class 7 4x4. September 1990 banded individuals, just barely enough manpower to move the heavy vehicle. Nothing was made of the fact that driver and co-driver finished without helmets and fire suits. In Class 10, the next group to start, the front runners had a hard time making it to the finish line. Jerry Leighton took the first lap lead, with just 19 seconds on second place Scott Flamson, in a Raceco, who was a minute-and-a-half in front of Jim Zupanovich, in a JRM. Fourth place belonged to Mike Peterson, in a Chenowth, but he was having electrical problems, and never came around ag_ain. And in fifth it was John· Hays, in a Raceco, only three minutes and 28 seconds behind the leader. On the second lap Rob Myerly moved to the front in his Bunderson A-arm car, with the fast lap for the class, at 1: 17 :3 7 .9, almost a minute faster than the quickest Unlimited class time, and only 15 seconds slower than Evans' fast time. Leighton fell to second, about two minutes behind him, and Zupanovich was still third, followed by Bob Miller, in a Raceco, in fourth place. Hays, who was having trouble with a sticking throttle, was still fifth. On the third lap, Zupanovich's · dad, Mike, took over the driving, and he found himself in the lead, about four-and-a-half minutes up on Hays, who was now second. Leighton dropped to third, and Myerly, Miller and Flamson all broke for good on lap three. Fourth place was in the hands of Rick Lind, who'd been stuck on a hill, and Dan Blain had moved his Toyota Mirage up to fifth place, after a struggle with a broken accelerator spring. The only problem the Zupano-vich team had, was a need to add gear oil. They had no flats, no trauma, and carried on smoothly to take the win. Hays, who had two flats, finished second, about four-and-a-half minutes later. Leighton broke a lower control arm and tried to go on, but the motor got hot trying to push the dragging arm through the dirt, and he stopped so he wouldn't ruin it also. Lind, and his co-driver, Frank Golden, who was driving his first race, finished third. Blain, who runs Armstrongs and notes that he hasn't had a flat tire since the '89 1000, finished fourth, and Rick Romans and Barry Cavanaugh, in a Raceco, were fifth. Class 5 was in the hands of Steve Sourapas, who drove Rich Minga's Porsche Bug, as Minga nursed his injured back on the sidelines. Sourapas had a two second lead on Marty Hart in his Jimco Bug, and in third it was Bill Dusty Times

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i Rudy Townsley and son Charlie did it again to the Mini Mag Class, leading three of four laps but a broken shock dropped them back. They won the class again, but by only 19 seconds. Hernquist and Mike Lund, in another Jimco convertible, about two minutes later. In fourth it was LeRoy Van Kirk, in the other Porsche Bug, and Lyn Mocaby and Dave Bonner were fifth in their automatic transmission car. Hart moved into the lead on the second lap, with just under two minutes on Sourapas, and Van Kirk was now third, some eight minutes later. Mocaby and Bonner ran fourth, and Hernquist had dropped to fifth, having serious carburetion trouble· with his new Type IV motor. Hart was having a really good run, and his lead stretched to 2 7 minutes on the next lap, as the Minga car had lengthy troubles, and Van Kirk moved into second place. Gary Bates and Dave· Baeskens were now third. Their hasty transmission replacement on the night before the race had netted them stock first and second gears, and second gear had gone away very early in the race. In fourth it was Greg Vaughan and Val Dodd, and Hernquist and Lund, whose alternator wasn't working, were still fifth. Hart had only one flat all day; and took the win with a half hour Wayne Lee and Marc Cartwright pressed on through sundry troubles, but they kept the Chevy S-10 moving and finished second in Class 7. Kirk McDaniel and Rory Chenowth had the Mini Mag victory in sight for most of the last lap, then a flat tire dropped rhem to second. Willie Valdez and Gil Divine had thrEe flats on the Ford Ranger along the rough and rocky trails, but the¥ came 1n second in Class 7S. Dusty Times ____ ~~~~:~sJiJ\ Rob MacCachren recorded fast lap lass 7S on the second lap when he took the lead, and he built that lead to 43 minutes as he won the class handily in the Jeep Comanche. to spare. Van Kirk was second, thirditwasTimmyLeePruettand followed in by Bates and Bill Holmes, in Pruett's Ford, and Baeskens, who drove the last Steve Kelley_ was fourth in his three miles with no right front Chevy. Rodney Inch had his Jeep tire. George Seely, who'd started in fifth place, and only Mike aboutl3minuteslate,andbehind Schwellinger, Ford, found all the 1 /2, 1600s, because he had himself broken on the first lap. to make a last minute valve cover Hall put together a better gasket change, managed to finish second lap and moved into the fourth, and Vaughan and Dodd lead, but lost about 5 minutes were fifth, after a long last lap. when a piece of sheet metal'wore Hernquist and Lund lost over two through his battery cable and hours and two positions when shorted it out, causing the truck they ran out of gas on the last lap, to quit. He coasted into a big but thought it was a problem efficient pit, not his own, and related to the broken alternator. temporary repairs were speedily In Class 4, the leader at the end · made, so he could get to his own of lap one was John Dyck, in his people. At that, it was still the fast Jeep, who had about five minutes lap for the class, at 1:29:56.5. on Rod Hall, in his Dodge. In Dyck was second now, about seven minutes back, and Pruett and Holmes still held third, while Kelley, who'd lost his suspension about 20 miles into the race, ran fourth, with Inch fifth, but doomed to break on the next lap. Hall continued to lead through lap three, with Dyck hanging in there, his shocks going away, still second, only four minutes and 21 seconds back. Kelley had moved up to third, but was hating every minute, saying the truck felt like "a swing axle (VW) with about six inches of travel." Pruett and Holmes were fourth, after losing about an hour and 20 minutes. And they finished in that order, Hall taking the win by just 17 minutes, Dyck second. Kelley a weary third, and Pruett and _Holmes a distant fourth, and last. The biggest group, the 1 /2, 1600s were next to start, and at the end of the first lap it was Mike Spina, in a Bunderson, in first place, with the fast lap for the class at 1:25:57.2. But just 35 seconds behind him came Tom DeNault in the family Chenowth, and 10 seconds later it was Brian Steele, in a J .M.R. Scott and Bill Reams were fourth, in a Chen, owth, a little over a minute later, but never did another lap. In fifth it was Cameron Steele (no relation to Brian Steele), in a Raceco, and Gary Sewell, in a Lothringer, was sixth, just five minutes out of first place. DeNault, having a trouble free run, movedr;.,. • COMPETITIVE PRICING • UNSEA TABLE CiUALITY EXCELLENT SERVICE LOUIE UNSER lA(/IG IIG/IIS BOB ~~N TOYOTA .. ~ RM:ING0EVELOPMIEN'T R.L.H; ENTERPRISE unldenR':~7~ SHERMAN BALCH 1A e -j RACING ).. 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Rich Fersch and Pat Todd took the lead on lap 3 in the hard fought 5-1600 battle, broke the front suspension on the last lap and still won the class title by ;ust over a minute. of the next car. The Farrars were second, unable to get second gear, only two minutes in front of Martin, who'd had just one flat tire. In fourth it was Spina and Underwood, with blisters, and Jim Moulton and Fred Ronn brought Moulton's new JMR home fifth, new torsion bars sagging, but otherwise unfazed by its first race. Craig Deardorff soloed to sixth place, finishing on three cylinders. In Class 7 4x4, Dave and Paul Simon put their Ford Ranger out front right away, with almost exactly five minutes on Darren and Doug York in their Ford. Jerry McDonald and Jeff Lewis ran third in their Chevy, 19 seconds later, followed by Gregg Symonds and Marty Reider, in their Toyota. The Simons, who changed drivers every lap, had the spectators whistling and cheering as they flew the bumps, recording the fast lap for the class, at 1:24:38.3, and built their lead to 14 minutes at the end oflap two. McDonald and Lewis were second now, with the Yorks, who were having some engine troubles, in third, and Mike Lesle, in a Jeep Comanche, fourth, already missing part of his front bumper. Symonds had to replace a broken ' axle and dropped back, then was out when an oil line ruptured. By the end of lap three, the Simons had 24 minutes on : ~ *· Davia Ashley with Mike Bakholdin continues to dominate Class 3/14 in the Ford Bronco, winning the Fireworks by 45 minutes, despite some obvious problems; note the bashed in door. ~ McDonald and Lewis, and the Yorks still ran third, having broken a wheel. Lesle held on to fourth. At this point John Swift had lost about two laps changing a transmission in his Ranger, and was a very distant fifth place. la'"' , into the lead on lap two, as Spina lost his power steering and faded back. Sewell moved to second place, Cameron Steele came up to third, but lost his rear brakes, Joe Flinn, in a Neth, ran fourth now, followed by Spina, and then Larry Martin, in an NR W SS, in sixth place, and separated from first place by only seven minutes ( or one flat tire). was now third, a~d Spina's co-driver, Keith Underwood was back up a bit, in fourth place, still with no power steering. Curtis and Louis Farrar ran fifth in their ORE, followed by Scott Steele, who'd taken over for his brother, Brian. Brian had been "knocked senseless" when another 1600 racer had hit him while he was trying to change a tire on the second lap. The DeNaults made a driver change at the end of lap two, and brqther Bob got in. Sewell didn't make a driver change, having decided the time for the change could lost the race, and he moved into the lead, with the DeNaults second by three minutes. Martin Sewell led part way around the last lap, but flattened a tire and broke a tie rod, losing 30 minutes in the process. The DeNaults, who say they work "really hard" on their race prep, finished their flawless race 10 minutes in front N! SAHARA __ .., _____ _,.:i: ~ ' !-I.I,; X ::i :;>I ~ . SIRIUS ·~---------.o ..J ~ ;;!: cc > '> SPRING MTN. ..J VDO - Chenowth - Simpson T riMil - K & N Filters - Bugpack Bilstein - Centerline - Cibie Hewland - Porsche Turbo CVs Beard's Seats-Parker Pumper Yokohama Tires -Super Trapp Gem Gears -KYB Shocks Sway-A-Way Transaxle Parts Wright Place -Dura Blue Ultra Boot - Neal Products SEE PAT OR DAVE OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK Monday-Friday - 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday - 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. NEVADA PHONE ORDER HOUSE 3054 So. Valley View, Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 871-4911 • (702) 871-5604 Page 16 The Simons continued their nearly unblemished run, making only one unscheduled stop when they thought they had a flat, but didn't, and took the win, finishing 10th overall in the process. McDonald and Lewis were second, 33 minutes later, followed in by Lesle, another 34 minutes back, and then the Yorks. Swift took fifth place, three hours later. Class 7 belonged to Roger Mears and his Nissan all day, and he had eight minutes on second place Manny Esquerra, in a Ranger, at the end of the first lap. Wayne Lee and Marc Cartwright were third in their Chevy, followed by Mike Noval and Bill Driggs in a Ford, and then Russ Jones in his Ranger, who lost an alternator belt by the time he'd · gone 10 miles. Mears still had 9 minutes at the end of lap two, with Esquerra second, and now Jones in third, and Lee and Cartwright in fourth, and nobody else was moving. Mears made only one un-planned stop, when he got out to tighten a rear spring shackle bolt, and at the end of the third lap he had two hours on Esquerra who was still second, in spite of losing . over an hour with some major problem. Lee and Cartwright, also having trouble, were now third, as Jones broke a tie rod and his crew couldn't get to him right away. It was Mears' day, and he had the fast class lap on lap four, at 1:30:32.3, and took the win by over three hours, finishing 14th overall. Lee and Cartwright were second, Jones was third six minutes later, and no one else finished. The Mini-Mags got to start a September 1990 little further up toward the front this time, and there was a fair sized group, with nine entries. Charlie Townsley put himself in front on the first lap, with a bit over four minutes on second place Kirk McDaniel in second. Mark Bowman and Doug Dawson ran third, eight minutes later, followed by Randy Pettit and Jeff Digby, another 10 minutes back. Un the second lap Townsley held his lead, now with six minutes on McDaniel, who came in with a tweaked front bumper, after a race truck ran over him. Dan and Don Weaver were third now, but were an hour and 24 minutes back, followed by Bowman and Dawson, another hour and some behind them, in fourth. Both lead cars had driver changes at the end of lap two, and Rudy Townsley, Charlie's dad, took over, and broke a rear shock. That let Rory Chenowth, McDaniel's co-driver, take over the lead, as he recorded the fast lap for the class, at 1:33:02.4. The Weavers were still third, but were now four hours off the pace, followed by Scott Steinberger, who'd been having carburetion troubles all day. Steinberger broke a hub just before he finished the third lap, and by the time he got to the start/ finish line the officials declared it closed, and wouldn't let him go out to try for his fourth lap. Townsley put together a good fourth lap, and had a close duel with Chenowth, passing and being passed, and ended up in first place, by just 19 seconds. Chenowth, who'd had a flat on that last lap, was right behind him at the finish line, providing one of the more visually exciting moments of the race. The Weavers were a late third place, six hours later, and no one else did four laps. Spencer Low started out in front of the Class 7S group, his Nissan just over a minute in front of Rob MacCachren in his Jeep, who'd had a flat already. In third place it was Willie Valdez and Gil Divine, in their Ranger, then Mark Hansen in the Toyota, and Turbo Lamke was fifth in his Jeep. MacCachren recorded the fast lap for the class, at 1:31: 19.5, and moved up to the front on the second lap, as Low's torsion bar mounts ripped out, and he lost his power steering. Valdez was now second, 14 minutes back, followed by Terry Brown and Bill O'Brien, in their Ranger, just under three minutes later. Jerry Whelchel and Dan Reynolds moved into fourth place in their Toyota, but then they never managed to finish their third lap. In fifth it was still Lamke. Terry Brown and Bill O'Brien had the usual Barstow troubles, but put the Ford Ranger in third in Class 7S by ;ust a minute 41 seconds. Steve Taylor and Wayne Lacher moved into 5-1600 contention on the second half of the race, and they took second, a minute 47 seconds out. Steve and Tim Lawrence started out plagued with flat tires, b1,1t moved up late in the race to finally arrive third in Class 5-1600. Dusty Tlma

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Jimco, only nine seconds later. In fifth it was George Erl and Gary Colbert, in a T-Mag, 50 seconds later. Jones, his motor feeling strong, held the lead, and now had over six minutes on Thompson and Lothringer. Richardson and Perrault moved up to third, just two minutes later, and Armando and Arturo Tiznado, in a Jimco, ran fourth another minute later. Reed, running his first Barstow race, was now fifth, but still very close to the leader. Glen Helen regular Jack Millerd teamed with R.C. Jones in the new West Class 9 car, and Jones led the first half, Millerd led the second half and they won the class by over nine minutes. It wasn't much of a contest in Class 6 as Scott Douglas jumped right out front in the Jeep Cherokee and built his lead to almost two hours after four laps of racing. Millerd got in his car for the third lap, and he maintained the pace, and held the lead, as Lothringer and Thompson dropped out. Paul Huffman took over for Reed, and moved up into second place, with Richardson and Perrault third, a minute later, but destined for collapse on the last lap. The Tiznados were fourth still, and Billy Kem and Pat Smith had moved their ORBS into fifth place, finding this a very trafficky event. On the third lap MacCachren, who was having smooth sailing, built his lead to 30 minutes, and Brown and O'Brien had moved into second place. Valdez, who had three flats all together, was third, six minutes later, followed by Lamke, and thenJohnJohnson and Chuck Johnson, in their Ranger, who'd lost a driveshaft when a rock flew into it on the first lap, and lost a steering stabilizer later. · MacCachren's crew kept him informed of the whereabouts of his competition, and he was able to slow down a bit, ensuring a finish, and the win. He had over an hour on second place Valdez and Divine, while O'Brien and Brown, who had a rear flat just two miles before the finish, were third, a minute and 41 seconds later. Johnson and Johnson finished fourth, and Vinje and Hansen, after losing almost an hour with a broken drag link, were fifth. In Class 5-1600 the third racing member of the Stewart family, Craig, had what amounts to a whopping lead for this class on lap one, running the fast time for the class at 1:37:33.2. He was (ive minutes up on Darren Hardesty and Kreston Pons, who ran second, followed by Doug West and Gary Cogbill, third, only 59 seconds behind them. Darryl Cook, driving the old family car, was less than two minutes behind them, in fourth, while Rich Fersch was "fifth, another four-plus minutes back. Stewart continued to lead through lap two, and had nine-and-a-half minutes on Hardesty ·and Pons. Cook was now third, less than three minutes later, followed in 59 seconds by West and Cogbill, and then Mike front torsion adjusters broke, and he drove the lap with virtually no front suspension. But he held onto the win, finishing only a minute and 4 7 seconds in front of Taylor and Lacher, with whom they'd been dueling hotly all day. Lacher had a slight list to one side, the result of the driver's seat breaking, and tilting to one side for much of the last lap. The Lawrences, who ran out of gas a mile before the finish, were rescued by the Gutierrez team, who refueled them so they could finish third, about 28 minutes later. The Cooks, with Wayne at the wheel for the last two laps, had lost a c. v. center, but rallied for a fourth place, while fifth was taken by Bruce Nogrady and Ryan Harbottle, who'd broken. two tie-rods on the first lap. Curt LeDuc put Madelene Lesle's Jeep into the lead on the first lap, with about a minute-and-a-half on Dave Ashley, in his Bronco, who was second. In third it was Sherman Balch in his Nissan, followed by Jerry Daugherty, in a Jeep. LeDuc continued to lead through the second lap, with only a minute and 34 seconds on Ashley. Balch was out when he lost his oil and melted down his speed reducer, and Daugnerty also disappeared, and now Don Adams and Larry Olsen moved their Jeep Wrangler into third, followed by Carl Cook in his '72 Homebuilt Jeep CJ2. It was LeDuc and Lesle for the third lap also, but still by only a minute and a half, and Ashley, having no mechanical problems, ran second. Adams and Olsen developed carburetion and steering problems, but held on to third, as Rick Sieman and Eric Heiden moved their Bronco into fourth place, almost three hours behind the leader. On the last lap LeDuc and Lesle broke a rear spring mount, and that damaged their shocks, and Ashley moved to the front and took the win, finishing his ninth race with no flat tires. LeDuc and Lesle were second, 45 minutes later, followed in by Adams and Olsen, over an hour later, in third, and then Sieman and Heiden, only 24 minutes before the cut off time, were fourth. and no one else Kalicki and Steve Spiker were Defending points champs Wayne, Alan and Darryl Cook haven't had a good fifth. year in 5-1600 action but finished fourth in class at Barstow. On the third lap Stewart broke a spring plate, and some shocks, losing an hour and 20 minutes, while Hardesty and Pons disap-peared for good. Fersch, and his co-driver, Pat Todd, who was now in the car, moved into the lead, and had just over three minutes on Steve Taylor and Wayne Lacher, who were having some trouble with rocks under their clutch pedal. Ruben and Robert Gutierrez were third, and Steve Lawrence moved up to fourth place, taking over for his son, Tim, who'd had a couple o( flats. West and Cogbill lost the pivot bolt on their rear trailing arm and dropped to fifth spot. Fersch got back into his car for the last lap, and undoubtedly wished he hadn't, because the Dusty Tlma Curt LeDuc and Madelene Lesle fly the well known road crossing jump at Barstow, led Class 3/14 for three laps, but a broken rear spring dropped the Jeep Cherokee to second at the flag. September 1990 finished in Class 3. In the Challengers, or Class 9, R.C.Jones, in Jack Millerd's West Chassis, had the class fast lap, at 1:47:13.6, to take the lead with two minutes on Steven Thompson and Kent Lothringer, in a Lothringer, who were second. Shane Reed ran third in a La Plant LP 1, another minute back, and Rich Richardson and Doug Perrault were fourth in their Millerd and Jones, whose biggest problems had been a loose tie-rod and a dinged wheel, took the win, finishing a little over nine minutes ahead of second place Huffman and Ir DESERT LOCK OUTER 3.000 WIDE OUTER FOR SUPER STRENGT 8-1.125 HOLES TO REDUCE DIRT BUILD-UP...__.L.::_,--...1 Standard Lock Outer Red Anodize Constructed of all Aluminum 6061 T6 For light weight and optimum strength Tire Located Off Inner Ring • At last,a quality bead lock designed for Off-Road racing • All parts are available separately *In stock-Ready for shipment For Todays' Sophisticated 15" UNLIMITED SPORT TRUCK BAJA BUG 13" MIDGET 8"-10" MODIFIED MIDGET QUAD RACER ATV MINI STOCK MODIFIED MIDGET WE HAVE DEVELOPED THE TOUGHEST, MOST DURABLE BEAD LOCK FOR YOU ! 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-~ Reed, who'd had "not one problem". In third it was Kem and Smith, and, as the Tiznados broke five miles before the finish, Ray McClain and Mike Daghlian, in their Ghoster, moved into fourth spot, followed across the line by Roy Prince, in his Chenowth, almost two hours later. second in their El Camino, only seven minutes back on lap one, followed by Arne Gunnarsson and Greg Moser, teamed in Moser's Ford Ranchero, which Gunnarsson, usually in his Saab, had never driven before the race. Danny Ashcraft, in a Bronco, was fourth. Spradling moved into third in their Chevy, followed by Ashcraft, still fourth. At the end of the-third lap Douglas had an hour and 45 minutes, and the Jordans had lost their motor and were out. Ashcraft was now second, while Mike Horner and Steve Ball, in a Jimmy, had moved up to third, about eight minutes later. Gunnarsson and Moser were fourth, as Schwacofer and. Spradling lost three hours, and then couldn't do the last lap. Scott Douglas dominated the Class 6 entry, taking the lead early in the Jeep, and never looking back. Randy and Dale Jordan ran As Douglas whipped out the fast lap for the class, at 1 :40:58.4, his lead built to 27 minutes, with the Jordans still holding second place. Larry Schwacofer and Sid HORA FIREWORKS 250 Results - JULY 7, 1990 I Pos. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Class 1/2-Unlimited Single & Two Seat - 34 start -14 finish 114 1. Ivan Stewart (solo) Toyota 112 2 Brian Collins/Pat Dean Chenowth/Porsche 102 3 Danny letner/Henry Bergdahl Raceco/Porsche 122 4 Brian & Michael Church Chenowth/Porsche 107 5 Corky McMillin/Brian Ewalt Chenowth/Porsche Class 1-2-1600 -I600cc Restricted Engine -44 start -32 finish 1600 1 Tom & Bob DeNault Chenowth 1616 2 Curtis & Louis Farrar O.R.E. 1620 3 Larry Martin (solo) NRW SS 1614 4 Mike Spina/Keith Underwood Bunderson 1642 5 Jim Moulton/Fred Ronn ~ Class 3n4 -Short WB 4X4 - 9 start - 4 finish 300 1 Dave Ashley/Mike Bakholdin Ford Bronco 308 2 Madelene lesle/Curt LeDuc Jeep Cherokee 348 3 Don Adams/Larry Olsen Jeep Wrangler 310 4 Rick Sieman!Eric Heiden Ford Bronco Class 4 -Long we 4X4 - 6 start - 4 finish 401 1 Rodney HalVJim Fricker DodgeW-I50 403 2 John Dyck/Jerry Sterling Jeep J-10 402 3 Steve Kelley/Ben Metcalf Chevrolet K-1500 449 4 Timmy Lee Pruett/Bill Holmes Ford F-I50 Class 5 -Unlimited Baja Bug • 9 start .a finish 502 1 Marty Hart Baja Bug 504 2 LeRoy Van Kirk/Rick Rowland Raceco/Porsche 547 3 Gary Bates/Dave Baeskens Baja Bug 505 4 George Seeley, Jr JRosie Strait Baja Bug 548 5 Greg Vaughan/Val Dodd Baja Bug Class 5-1600 • 1600cc Baja Bug • 23 start - 10 finish 598 1 Rich Fersch/Pat Todd Baja Bug 591 . 2 Steve Taylor/Wayne Lacher Baja Bug 552 3 Steve & Tim Lawrence Baja Bug 550 4 Wayne & DarrylCook Baja Bug 587 5 Bruce Nogrady/Ryan Harbotttle Baja Bug Class 6 - Production Sedan • 8 start - 4 finish 605 1 Scott Douglas Jeep Cherokee 602 2 Danny Ashcraft/John Paul Moncey Ford Bronco II 607 3 Mike Horner/Steve Ball GMCJimmy 619 4 Ame Gunnarsson/Greg Moser Ford Ranchero Class 7 -Unlimited Mini-Midi Pickup - 5 start - 3 finish 701 1 Roger Mears/Tony Alvarez Nissan 704 2 Wayne Lee/Marc Cartwright Chevy S-10 703 3 Russs Jones!DennisAlhneier Ford Ranger Class 7S - Stock Mini-Midi Pickup -14 start -10 finish 720 1 Rob MacCachren Jeep Comanche 727 2 Willie Valdez/Gil Divine Ford Ranger 726 3 Terry Brown/Bill OBrien Ford Ranger 725 4 John Johnson/Chuck Johnson Ford Ranger 759 5 Malcolm Vinje/1\Aark Hansen Toyota Class 7 4X4 -Stock Mini-Midi 4X4 -6 start - 5 finish 760 1 Paul & Dave Simon Ford Ranger 761 2 Jerry McDonald/Jeff Lewis Chevy S-10 798 3 Mikelesle Jeep Comanche 765 4 Darren & Doug York Ford Ranger 799 5 John Swift/Dino Pugeda Ford Ranger Class 8 • 2WD Standard Pickup -15 start - 8 finish 804 1 Walker Evans Dodge Ram 150 809 2 Robby Gordon /John Herzberger Ford F-150 807 3 Brian Stewart Dodge Ram 150 810 4 Greg & Eon Kishiyama Ford F-150 800 5 Frank Vessels/Ivan Scoppettone Chevrolet Class 9 - Restricted Buggy • 18 start • 6 finish 912 1 Jack Millerd West 908 2 Shane Reed/Paul Huffman laPlant 996 3 Billy Kem/Pat Smith oms 911 4 Ray McClain/Mike Daghlian Ghoster 995 5 Roy Prince Chenowth Class 10 -Unlimited 1650cc -21 start - 7 finish 1012 1 Mike & ~m Zupanovich Raceco 1008 2 John Hays (solo) Raceco 1015 3 Rick Lind/Frank Golden 1005 '4 Dan Blain Mirage 1018 5 Rick Romans/Barry Cavanuagh Raceco Class II • Stock VW Sedan • 6 start • 4 finish • 1199 1 Saul Zambrano/Howard Anderson VWBeetle 1102 2 Travis Howard/Mike Monahan "/WBeetle 1104 3 Michael Duenas/Will Williams VWBeetle 1105 4 Gary & Keavin Anderson VWBeetle Class Mini- Mag - 9 start • 3 finish 1200 1 Charles and Char1ie Townsley Mini Mag 1298 2 Kirk McDaniel/Rory Chenowth Mini Mag 1204 3 Dan & Don Weaver Mini Mag Starters • 227 Finishers -122 finish ratio - 53.7% Time 5:26:54 5:43:17 5:44:00 5:50:19 5:51:56 5:59:41 6:09:02 6:11:06 6:12:32 6:15:07 617:49 7:03:28 8:25:58 10:36:26 6:20:44 6:37:08 6:41:24 8:30:49 6:06:15 6:39:47 7:03:18 7:09:32 8:00:16 7:29:27 7:31:14 7:59:59 8:04:15 8:14:13 6:58:01 8:50:10 9:37:05 10:31:51 6:04:29 9:58:36 10:04:25 6:21:54 7:04:56 7:06:37 7:27:04 8:11:32 5:51 :10 6:24:27 6:58:29 7:14:49 10:24:36 5:26:06 5:42:32 5:43:45 5:44:49 6:52:41 7:22:27 7:31:45 7:49:50 8:32:42 10:22:36 5:48:33 5:53:16 6:12:19 6:13:22 6:43:12 7:24:32 7:29:56 8:59:53 10:27:53 6:31:06 6:31:25 10:44:49 Race Distance - 4 62 mile laps (Class 11-3 laps• ) Time Allowance -11 hours · Fast Time Overall - Walker Evans • Class 8 Dodge -5:26:06 Page 18 0/A 2 4 6 9 11 13 16 17 19 21 22 53 85 115 24 35 41 86 15 37 52 57 80 64 66 79 82 84 49 94 104 114 1,4 105 107 25 55 56 63 83 Douglas took the win with nearly two hours on second place Ashcraft, who was followed across the line by Horner and Ball about 40 minutes later. Gun, narsson and Moser finished fourth, late, after having trouble on that last lap. The Class 11 cars had to run only three laps, and a pair of them couldn't even get through the first one. Eddie and GilberrFergerson, who came all the way out from Anahuac, Texas to try their first off road race, disappeared on lap one for unknown reasons. And Richard Preher and Steven Ryan, traveling only from Victorville, found themselves out early, when, after being rear ended hard by a lapping Unlimited car, they also broke their front adjusters. But the rest of the group carried on. Howard Anderson took the first lap,and,a,half in Saul Zambrano's "Cheap Thrills" car, and aside from a little trouble getting up one hill, had an easy time of it, and took the lead, with a little over five minutes on second place. That was Travis Howard and Mike Monahan, whose shocks started to go away towards the end of the lap. In third it was Will Williams, about 13 minutes later, followed, in fourth, by Gary and Keavin Anderson ( no relation to Howard Anderson), still another 15 minutes later,. Anderson handed the car over · to Zambrano midway through the second lap, and Saul also found himself having to make two tries at the hill. He also had a worrisome trouble light, but once he'd added a half.-quart of oil, that went away. Howard and Mona, han, driving their first 'HORA 10 event, had some trouble with a 28 slippy clutch, but held on to 50 second place, now 15 minutes 59 back. Williams shared his driving with Michael Duenas, and they had to replace a couple of c.v. 112 1 bolts, and fix a flat, but stayed 3 solidly in third, a half hour behind ~ second place. The Andersons 46 were still running along in fourth place. · 62 Zambrano and Anderson 68 continued their perfect string, 76 having won every race they've 87 entered this year, and won this 111 one too, and all on the same set of Armstrong tires .. Howard and 1: Monahan put on a last lap dash, 18 recorded the fast time, at 20 2:20:47.5, and got up to within 43 five minutes and 24 seconds of 32 34 118 them, for second place. Duenas and Williams, who by now had lost their starter, were third, over an hour later, followed in much later, by the Andersons, who'd had a very long last lap. On what is one of the toughest courses for the little cars, four out of six had made it to the checkered flag . . The 1990 Fireworks 250, with 227 starters, was 28 short of last year's entry, but still a good sized September 1990 Undefeated this season in Class 11, Saul Zambrano and Howard Anderson won again in the "Cheap Thrills" Beetle, but they only won this time by just over two minutes. field for the track. It was one of the dustiest ever according to the racers, and also very rough and rocky, but generally enjoyed by all. The Competition Review Board had a full slate of complaints to settle at their Saturday evening meeting, and most were handled with a minimum of difficulty, resulting in no penalties.or disqualifications for racers who had finished the event. Rule G,38, which came under discussioh because of the Gordon case, and also an incident with the Tiznados, states that a "vehicle must cross the finish line while under power ( engine running, starter cranking engine or physically pushed by its occupants).'' The Competition Review Board has asked that SCORE and HORA "redefine this rule in such a way as to eliminate all ambiguity from its (sic) definition." The HORA folks move from this race straight into the September 7,9, Pahrump Station Nevada 500, headquartered in Pahrump, Nevada. f-----~-------------.i: Shane Reed and Paul Huffman kept the La Plant with the leaders all day in Class 9, and the team finished close, taking a second in class. Danny Ashcraft and John Moncey have really improved their Class 6 Bronco, moved up to second place midway and finished second in class. Travis Howard and Mike Monahan drove their first series event, fought A slipping clutch but finished a very close second in Class 11. Dusty Times

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Craig Deardorff, who drove the distance, gets by a slow truck with ease and he took sixth in Class 1-2-1600 in the West. Dan Blain drove solo on the rugged route in his tidy Mirage, and he had few woes and finished tight in fourth in Class 10. Gorky McMillin and Brian Ewalt shared driving the two seat Chenowth Porsche and they finished very close, fifth in Class 1 /2. Rick Romans and Barry Cavanaugh kept the Raceco roaring in Class 10 and the team finished fifth in the 21 car field. Ray McClain and Mike Daghlian had some troubles on course, but kept the Ghoster moving to take fourth in Class 9. Mike Horner and Steve Ball kept the GMC Jimmy ,,~ together at Barstow, and ~~;:; finished the four door truck . ,_ - - • ~~¼ third in Class 6. :~,:x·::~~--.::1;:;_ ... -~-;: No more playing "octane roulette." These mysterious numbers are only as good as the results they earn for you. Whether you race 50 laps, 1000 miles or 24 hours, UNOCAL 76 leaded and unleaded racing gasolines are proven winners, designed to maximize horsepower under high RPM conditions. As a result, UNOCAL 76 racing gasolines have fueled more winners in the past 35 years than any other gasoline. With these credentials, shouldn't UNOCAL 76 racing gasoline be your choice? Try it! GAS AVAILABILITY: BAKERSFIELD Roger Mears Tire Company-(805) 833-6179 BRAWLEY Seabolt Oil Company -(619) 344-3761 MONTCLAIR George Follmer Racing, Inc. -(714) 625-4881 NEWPORT BEACH Beacon Bay Enterprises -(714) 833-0660 ORANGE C.O. Thompson Petroleum, Inc. -(714) 634-4214 WINNER: Grand National Sport Truck Off-Road Championship Gran Prix, Los Angeles ROGER MEARS . Bakersfield, CA Winning Gas: Unocal 76 Leaded Racing Gas WINNER: Class 7 HORA Fireworks 250, Barstow, CA ROGER MEARS Bakersfield, CA Winning Gas: Unocal 76 Leaded Racing Gas CONTINGENCY PROGRAM.--HDRA NEVADA soo CLASSES: 1. 1/2-1600. 3/14. 4, 5, 5-1600. 6, 7, 7 4x4, 7S, B. 10 CLASSES: 9, 11, Mini-Mag 55 gallons Unocal 76 Racing Gas to Winner 40 gallons Unocal 76 Racing Gas to Winner 30 gallon's Unocal 76 Racing Gas to Second 25 gallons Unocal 78 Racing Gas to Second 15 gallons Unocal 78 Racing Gas to Third 15 gallons Unocal 78 Racing Gas to Third 110 OCTANE LEADED RACE GAS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE C.O. THOMPSON PETROLEUM 605 N. ANAHEIM BLVD., ORANGE, CA 92668; (714) 634-4214 Dusty Times September 1990 PARKER,AZ Parker Oil Company-(602) 66~2617 PASADENA Lee's Unocal -(818) 441-3392 PASADENA Western Air-(818) 405-9701 POMONA R&W Petroleum -(714) 62~2559 RIVERSIDE Campbell Oil Company-(714) 686-1676 SAN DIEGO Apollo Oil Company-(619) 28~6884 STOCKTON Valley Performance Center - (209) 943-7637 TAFT Brown & Reich Petroleum - (805) 765-5457 VICTORVILLE Victorville Oil Company -(619) 245-4191 · VUMA,AZ Seller Petroleum - (602) 783-8876 Page 19

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TORA Off Road Racing in the East By Ray Camey -Hurricane Hills the day before, got tangled with another driver in the dust. Scott's Jeep J-10 pickup got forced into the mud bog with the rear of the vehicle blocking part of the track. After a short intermission, to pull Scott out and to water the infield, the action resumed. The crowd didn't seem to mind the delay and cheered the racers on as loudly as before. Both the crowd and the track owners appeared pleased with the quality of racing, with plans already made to hold the event again in 1991. Danny Kochenash has his Chevy Blazer a half car length ahead of "Wild Bill" Sims in his Jeep CJ-5. At Georgetown Kochenash won the feature race after a good dice, and Sims, who won at Potomac, was second in Delaware. On June 16 fifteen trucks arrived at Potomac Speedway, Maryland to do wheel to wheel battle off road sytle. Again Jim Ladiga's GMC took the early lead from pole sitter Sims. "Wild Bill" Sims wasn't about to let "The Off road racing in the East is alive and well. TORA, Truck Offroad Racing Association, has completed its third race of the year with good results. Spectators at Skyline Speedway, New York, Patomac Speedway, Maryland, and Georgetown Speedway, Delaware have had a chance to see off road racing up close and personal. Judging from the cheers from the crowd, they liked what they saw. Perhaps one of the reasons they liked it has been the close competition for the lead. The Skyline race on May 28 saw three lead changes between Jim Ladiga of Franklin, CT, Bill Sims of Troy, PA, and Gary Young of Willimantic, CT. Ladiga's 355 Chevy powered GMC truck led: much of the way but lost the lead twice in traffic, once to Sims and once to Young. The 600 horse-power Chevy eventually over-powered the other two competi-tors to come home with the win. The Cortland event was held on Grizzly" Ladiga get away easy and Memorial Day Monday in kept the pressure on. Both conjunction with a street truck machines were getting big "air" mud bog and a Monster Truck over the infield jumps on every display. The twelve TORA trucks lap. The pressure worked. With ran two heats and a 20 lap feature two laps to go, smoke started racebeforesome2,500spectators. coming from Ladiga's automatic The site was the neatly groomed transmission and Sims took over Skyline Speedway sitting high up the lead for good. Thanks to race on an isolated New York hillside. sponsor, Trick Trucks of Wal-The track consisted of the full dorf, Maryland, Sims collected a front straight, turns 1 and 2 and a cool $1,000 for his efforts. winding section through the The only major event again infield that included two well -involved Connecticut's Scott ramped jumps. After the jumps, Smith. He had an oil line let go the trucks bounded over a and a rather large, smoky oil fire drainage ditch onto turn 3 to do it ensued. The smoke made it all over again. impossible for drivers to see, and With one exception the events the track caution lights came on ran smoothly with plenty of wheel indicating a full track caution. to wheel action. The incident that Scott was towed off and racing caused the only significant delay resumed. Other than Basil was caused by a lack of water on Foster's tire and broken axle the infield section. A communica- chasing a tlagger across the infield, tion gap caused the water truck the rest of the action was strictly driver not to water the track close and fast racing. before the feature. On lap 9 Scott After the Smith fire incident, Smith, fresh from his win at TORA officials ruled that all .. 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From then forward TORA will have no "area cautions" as are common with other off road events. TORA's events are held on stock car tracks that all have caution lights, and when a yellow comes out the trucks are put into formation and circle the stock car track until restarted. Thenextday,June 17, TORA's racers were at Georgetown Speedway in Delaware. This time "The Grizzly" Jim Ladiga sat on the pole with a tranny borrowed from a fellow competitor. The long front straight of George-town's% mile track gave Ladiga's big motor a real edge over the rest of the field and he took full advantage. Danny Kochenash, of Danielsville, PA, "Wild Bill" Sims and the others gave chase but Ladiga continued to .stretch his lead. This one looked like a runaway, but no! Smoke started coming from the second trans-mission. Then, to complete his run of bad luck, Jim had a flat tire. He pitted for the flat, but the overheated tranny kept him from returning. With Ladiga gone, the lead was up for grabs bewtween Kochenash and Sims. The resulting duel kept the fans on their feet the rest of the race. Kochenash's 368 Chevy Blazer had more power down the early part of the front straight, and he could out jump Sims in the infield. But Sims AMC 304 Jeep CJ 5 had the gearing to get by on the second half of the straight, and he could corner better in the tight infield corners. The lead swapped back and forth on virtually every lap for the last seven or eight rounds. In the end Kochenash used his machine's jumping ability and quick acceleration to put Sims away. Kochenash stated that he was damn glad the flagging tower was in the middle of the straight, not at the end. As most of Sim's passes were made at the end of the front straight, the Kochenash victory was possibly dependent on the position of the flag tower. That is how close this race was. The newly formed TORA seems to be off to a good start. Drivers seem happy with the smooth operation of events and the good paybacks. Track owners and fans seem to enjoy the "flying" trucks. Crowd size has been good, and events are already being planned for 1991. The next TORA event is bade at Skyline Speedway near Cortland, NY. Additional events for this year are being discussed for Afton Fairgrounds and back at Georgetown Speedway. Anyone interested in seeing or hosting a TORA event may contact Ray Carney at 607-625-5676 eve-nings or weekends. This tidy looking Jeep created from a J-10 pickup corners har . t may e driven here by Scott Smith or perhaps Basil Foster, as the photos were not identified. The trucks of TORA line up on the grid and they cover a wide range from stock looking mini trucks to winged ex Class 14 style creations. Dusty Tima

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on ROAD RACING RUNS IN THI FAMILY Brian Stewart is a Rising Young Star '\1.:,, ~ion &ew-0:d, \ l «. . Dressed in Nomex for his chosert profession, Brian Stewart looks like a Hollywood casting director's choice for a racing driver. But this young man is for real, even though he does work in the reel -world. Brian Stewart hopes to follow Ivan started out with the sport of in his famous father's footsteps off road racing in the late 1960s and be a professional driver like when the sport was born. His wife Ivan "lronman" Stewart. Racing Linda and the three growing boys, does run in the Stewart family as Brian, Gary and Craig, were a team then supporting Ivan as he worked his way from co-driver up to driver, ending his buggy career with the Modern Motors Team where he earned his nickname because of solo drives to victory in Baja California. Brian is the oldest of the Stewart boys at 25, but he is a veteran off road racer, starting by riding with dad Ivan back in 1972, and having paid his dues driving in a wide variety of vehicles. Brian has driven all manner of buggy classes, even Challenger, in trucks in Class 7 4x4 with Mike Horner · and in Class 14 as well, and has co-driven in brother Craig's 5-1600 Bug. He says off road racing is in his blood and figures that every race is more good experience for him; and he was ready when he got the bid to drive the Charlotte Corral Class 8 Ford truck, doing quite well as a privateer entry. In fact in 1986 Brian was voted Rookie of the Year by his peers. Brian picked up occasional good rides for a time after the Corral truck was retired, and late last year he was picked by Walker Evans to replace Walker's injured son Evan in the factory backed Class 6 Jeep Cherokee. Stewart drove the Jeep in the Nevada 500, leading the class until the last miles, and, as Evan's co-driver, won the Baja 1000. That was the big break for Brian Stewart, because when one of the Walker Evans Class 8 Dodge trucks needed a new driver for 1990, •Flying the big Dodge over a cattle guard in Baja · California is fun as well as serious business for Brian, and consistent top finishes have kept him in the Class B points lead all year. Brian was the obvious choice. Brian says he can't remember when he didn't want to become a professional racer. He says "I have worked on building vehicles, putting in some time with Cal Wells, been a chief mechanic, co-driven as well as raced, but the Dodge is my first fully sponsored ride. It is really exciting to have the opportunity to drive for Walker Evans and, having learned a lot from my dad, I can continue to learn from Walker's ex-perience." Always on the go, Brian is also a painting contractor, having his own business. In his free time lately he has been doing some stunt driving in the motion picture industry, having done several segments recently for the Matlock TV s.eries. He keeps in shape playing racquetball and goes skiing whenever he has time, to keep in top physical condition. He feels being in excellent physical shape helps his endurance on the roughest of the rough events, and that his background as a mechanic and crew chief helps him communicate with the crew when one of the unforeseen incidents, common in desert racing, occur. Truly Brian Stewart is having a great year for his first time on the Dodge team. He is leading the Class 8 point standings, and has been for some time, with consistent top three finishes all year. In fact he has finished in front of his mentor Walker Evans more than once this season. At the recent Fireworks 250 Brian was fifth overall behind Walker and 1van. Not too shabby a performance. The desire to race and win does run in the Stewart family, but it also takes the hard work and dedication shown by Brian Stewart to make it all happen, and right now it is happening for the tall, brown haired, handsome young Stewart. FOURTH RACE oF THE Budweiser/Bud light 1990 SERIES AMA SANCTIONED CHAMPIONSHIP FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM • AMA DISTRICT 38 PLASTER CITY BLAST IV LOCATION: SATURDAY Sponsored by: _ WEST OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1990 Race Ready Products, The Wright Place & Schilling Corp. EL CENTRO, CALIF. BIKESSTARTAT7:00A.M.•BUGGIES:NOON INFO (619) 427 5759 60 MILE LOOP Drawing Sept. 15th at Race Ready Products : • Dusty Times September 1990 Page 11

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By Homer Eubanks Mears Drives Away With LA Coliseum Title Photos: Trackside Photo Ent. itoger Mears had a good July, winning at the Fireworks, and taking his. first stadium victory this year. Roger was fast qualifier at the Coliseum, and led the main event from flag to flag, as smiling Nissan and Brtdgestone execs looked on. Round seven of the Mickey Thompson Off Road Champion-ship Gran Prix returned to its place of origin on Saturday, July 21. Eleven years ago the late Mickey Thompson unveiled a totally new motorsport concept. The LA Coliseum hosted this historic event and now this national series returns once a year to its birth place. Mickey Thompson's intention was to eventually produce a series of stadium events, and today this sporting event is put on at 10 major stadiums across the country. And with the added ESPN coverage this sport has quickly grown into the most viewed motorsport event in the country. Many changes have occurred since this new form of auto racing began. But one thing that distinctly belongs to the Coliseum is the "Peristyle Space Shot". Today the track design has racers make not one but two trips up and down the Peristyle per lap. When Thompson first met with the Coliseum officials back in 1979 they were somewhat skeptical Trucks lined up for battle. With that a vehicle could climb the the inverted starting order, fast seven story expanse. To prove his qualifier Roger Mears sat at the point Thompson jumped in his back of the pack. Roger wasn't street car and drove up the steps . worried though as he had his Ace and then back down. This in the hole sitting on the pole. convinced the officials and they Roger's teammate and son Roger allowed several rows of seats to be Mears, Jr., shared the front row removed to create this unique with the Jeep of Glenn Harris. challenge. Ivan Stewart, the current points The Coliseum track also has the leader, sat outside of row three. honor of being the longest track in When the racing began it was the 10 race series. Measuring Harris piloting the Craftsman 2,020 feet this track design is 160- Jeep Comanche that came out of feet longer than in the past. And the Peristyle first. At the the added distance makes this the intersection heading into the back fastest of 'em all. straight Harris found some close This year's· track included a competition. Harris held onto the new "split lane" design which lead for two laps until transmis-gave the drivers an option of sion troubles allowed his team-choosing a longer but faster route mate Walker Evans to take over at the Peristyle end, or a shorter the event. Evans' glory was short butrougherandslowerchoice.A lived as Ivan Stewart came new "table top" jump was added charging past on the fourth lap in along with a series of regular his Toyota. Danny Thompson jumps, moguls and other rough entered the picture and the three terrain to ·make this "Chunk of front runners ran away from the Baja" demanding for the contest-others. By the white flag lap ants and exciting for the fans. Stewart had pulled a comfortable In the opening heat race a total lead but on the last lap Evans was of 10 Grand National Sport able to close in. •;; After 1wo years of dyno and racing development. FAT Performance ........ J announces the availability of Toyota off-road racing engines. ii Including Unlimited 3.0 V6. 16-valve 160Jcc Class 1 O (sh.ort cour~ H and desert). Classes 7. 7S and 7-4x4. 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Cose, Orange, CA 92667 or coll (714) 637-2889 Page 22 Scptanbcr 1990 Danny Rice nailed the elusive Super 1600 main eve~t victory in ~is Colorado Chenowth, and he also placed second in his heat behind cousin Mitch Must.:rd. ~ Larry Noel continues to roll through the UltraStock r~nks, here p~ssing Tim Lewis. Noel won the main event again, and was second ,n heat 2 tn his VW. At the checkered flag it was Larry Noel. Noel is no stranger to Ivan Stewart taking the heat win. the winner's circle at the This win added 25 points to Coliseum as he won the main Stewart's already strong war even t here last year. N oel chest. W alker Evans kept his therefore was set to make it a championship effort alive by clean sweep this year but he forgot adding 1 7 points for his second to announce his plans to the other place finish. Danny Thompson racers. When they got underway brought his Chevrolet across Noel jumped out front but had a · third and Roger Mears, who determined Lloyd Castle in suffered brake and suspension pursuir. Then coming out of the problems, managed a fourth. Rod Peristyle, Castle put his Jeep Millen earned fifth place with his Cherokee in the lead. Before Noel Ford. could lick his wounds Castle got After the· Sport Trucks heat by and then Tim Lewis drove his came two UltraStock heat races. Porsche around him as well. In the first heat seven cars lined up When headed into the next lap to battle five laps. The event Lewis let it be known he came to belonged to last year's class race and snuck inside Castle for champ Jeff Elrod (Elrod also set the lead. By the third lap Noel had fast qualifying time) as he took off gotten his act together again and and never looked back. Elrod found a way around Castle. Noel didn't get to go for a Sunday drive had some real estate to make up in as Brad Castle was within striking the next two laps if he wanted to distance most of the way. Chris beat Lewis. Noel caught up on the Neilwasinthirdplaceandhadthe last lap and gave a worthy other four contenders knocking challenge in the rough section but on his door throughout the race. found his VW off the pace. Just before the checkered flag Tim Lewis was able to keep his came out Brad Castle fell to the lead and earn the win. Larry Noel wayside and Neil inherited second finished a close second place and place. Newcomer Jack Millerd early leader Lloyd Castle managed brought his Jeep around for third. third. Doug Bath was fourth. Vince Tjelmeland debuted a new The first heat of 4-Wheel A TV Pathfinder in this event but had to events had 16 competitors. As far retire after rolling in tum one. as Doug Eichner cared he was the The second heat race had six only one on the track. Eichner cars competing. On the pole was won the event with Niclas the event's second fastest qualifier Granlund ta kin second lace . ran rciero, Jr. is always close in 1600 racing, and at the L.A. Coliseum he placed second in his heat and the main in his Chenowth. Dusty Times

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Defending points champ Mitch Mustard flew his Chenowth to the first heat victory, but traffic woes dropped him to sixth in the main event. ======= Sean Stubs managed to earn a caught Chavez -sleeping. Moving third place spot. Fourth was Don Chavez to third place. Turk and Derek Hamilton was When the battle ended it was fifth. John Gersjes taking a wire to wire Charles Shepherd likes the victory and Don Archibald took MTEG series. Shepherd has been second. Frank Chavez ended a virtually unbeatable this year and close third. First woman to cross the Coliseum event also fell to his over and fourth overall was dominance. Shepherd was staged Mercedes Gonzales. Allen Yaros in sixth spot and had to work for was fifth. the win. Danny Robinson took Heat two of the six lap off as the early leader. But Super Lite event brought out misfortune was ·soon to strike. another set of 12 racers. The Robinson was coming off the current points leader Rory Peri sty le on his Honda when Holladay used his pole position to second/lace Gary Denton grab the lead early. Ron Pierce attempte to pass. The two got pulled his Triple E into second into one another causing a lead place and Holladay couldn't change. shake him. Pierce pressed so hard At the checkered flag it was the two ran away from the other Shepherd out front, Gary Denton racers. These two put on a good salvaged second and third was show all the way to the end. Tony Fox. Fourth went to Mark Rory Holladay won the event Ehrhardt. Donny Banks was fifth. but Ron Pierce was only a wheel SuperLite racing had 12 cars behind. Third place went to Joe competing in the first heat. John Price and Chuck Parker took Gersjesgrabbed the early lead but fourth ahead of Holgier had long time rival Frank Chavez Oknsnevad. andGregGeorgeonhistail.Early A total of 15 Super 1600 cars on Greg George dropped out with took the field in heat one. Fast his Nature's Reci2_e Special man of the day was Jerry sputtering to a stop. Gersjes now · Whelchel in his Sage Council had a comfortable lead with Chenowth. Whelchel then Chavez running second. On the followed up with winning the first last lap Don Archibald man-heat race. This win could be the euvered through the pack and . starting point of all new tech-anny Thompson chased hard for the truck win, but his Chevrolet ended up second in the main event, and third and fourth in the heats. nology in the Super 1600 class. Whelchel introduced an auto-matic transmission in his Chen-owth at the Coliseum. Whelchel later commented, "We're really happy because the new transmis-sion built and designed by crew chief Nye Frank is really working well." Nye Frank later added that some development was needed with the torque convertor but that things looked promising. Automatic transmissions have been used for a while in the Sport Truck and UltraStocks but this is a first for short course Super 1600 cars. Ivan Stewart flies off the peristyle en route to winning the first truck heat in his Toyota and he nailed second in heat 2 as well. Frank Arciero, Jr. brought his BF Goodrich Chenowth around for a second place and third place went to Brad Castle. Marty Coyne held onto fourth and Jimmy Nichols was fifth. ----.,, , ,.,..,:'<,.··,:, Walker Evans flew his Jeep Comanche high over the bike jumps, won the second truck heat, was second in heat 1, but dfopped to third in the high attrition main event. Heat two of the Super 1600 event brought out 14 drivers. Out front early was Wes Elrod who had Greg George in hot pursuit. The two had some exciting racing going on until Greg George slipped inside on the sweeper. They tangled, causing Elrod to drop back. For this infraction the Rough Driving Committee decided that Greg George should sit in the penalty bQx. On the following lap the dreaded flag was brought out but George didn't notice it. Then it came out again and George later said he thought it was for someone else. Then the third time around Greg figured it ·must have been him they wanted and pulled in with only two laps to go .. "I don't think the officials saw_. QTY FANTASTIC ·cARDS . l'"f r,tAS cHR ~ from Paul Oxman Publishing For the off road enthusiast Each of these large-format (4 3/4" x 7") cards features a full-color illustration depicting Santa, his helpers and your favorite machines in a whimsical-and very tasteful-manner. Designed by Richard Hoffman exclusively for us, these unique cards are top-quality all the way! The cards are sold in sets of 12 of the same subject, with matching envelopes · included. INSIDE each card carries a tasteful HAPPY HOLIDAYS message printed in red. 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Thirteen cars in all competed. When the flag came out Larry Noel showed his class competitors the short way around the track. Noel entered this event fresh from winning the Rose Bowl and wanted to add another main victory to his credit. Noel also won the Seattle and Houston e·vents earlier this year. Stadium rookie Kevin Smith learned the peristyle act quickly, and he sailed the Mirage to fourth in the 1600 heat 2 and the main event. Tim Lewis brought his Porsche around for a second place finish and made the event a 1,2 victory for BF Goodrich. Jeff Elrod kept on a consistent path and managed to bring his Bridgestone shod VW around for third. Chris Neil, also on BF Goodrich, finished fourth ahead of the Goodyear Jeep driven by Jack Millerd. Jerry Whelchel won the first Super 1600 heat going away in the Sage Council Chenowth, but troubles dropped him out of contention in the feature race. Chris Neil digs out of a ditch in his VW UltraStock on his way to second place in the first heat, and he took fourth in the main event. ,_.. everything that was going on out there, because there wasn't anything I could do other than what happene9," stated George. One person seeming! y uncaring about the penalty flag was last year's champ and current points leader Mitch Mustard. Mustard was out front with only one concern and that was Danny Rice. However, when the fat lady had sang it was Mitch Mustard winning the event. Danny Rice took second and third went to early leader Wes Elrod. Fourth was Kevin Smith and Billy Beck managed fifth. Greg George was seventn. Mike Craig showed his champ, ionship style· in the first Ultra, Cross heat race and put himself across the finish line first. Second place was Lowell Thomson and Randy Moody captured the third place spot. Fourth place went to Derek Natvig and Russ Wageman was fifth. Midway in the race an exciting battle was in the making between Mike Craig and Jim Holley. Holley unloaded hard though in the rhythm section while challenging Craig for the lead. Holley was sent to the hospital but later released. There were 13 riders out in the second UltraCross heat race. Jeremy McGrath has had a remarkable season this year by winning the first two events of the season and coming from the Rose Bowl victorious. So it is only understandable that he grab the heat win tonight. McGrath's closest competition came from Mike Young aboard a Yamaha. Chris Young brought his Swuki across third and fourth was Larry Brooks. Tommy Clowers man, aged fifth. · In the second heat race for Sport Trucks there were 10 trucks present. At the end of the event it was Walker Evans bringing his Goodyear shod Jeep across first. Evans had put the Jeep around three competitors to earn valuable passing points. Evans totaled 23 points for the win. The only problem for Evans is that his rival Ivan Stewart earned 22 for the event by starting further back in the pack and earning six passing points which were added to the 16 for second FIBERGLASS TRUCK BODY FABRICATORS 8641-70 Industrial Drive• Wentzville, MO 63385 314-639-6724 We have the ability for Custo~ Design • Hand Laid AVAILABLE NOW - 90 Chevy Full Size & 90 Ford Full Size COMING SOON -90 Dodge Dakota & 90 Ford Ranger Supercab "We Build Them One At A Time" Page 14 September 1990 place. Roger Mears, who unfor, tunately is not in the heat of the points battle, stayed glued to Stewart's bumper throughout the race and finished third. Danny Thompson, who is very much in the points battle, kept his Chevrolet intact to earn 13 points for fourth place. Jeff Huber brought his Toyota across in fifth. The Sport Trucks are constantly being built lighter to gain a power to weight ratio advantage. However, this can work against you as Roger Mears, Jr. found out in this heat. The Nissan of Roger Jr. broke its frame about midway. causing the Nissan to almost fold in half when hanging on the tow truck's hook. This put the younger Mears out for the evening and also sent the designers back to the drawing board. Getting the main events underway were the UltraStocks. In the SuperLite main event Ron Pierce drove his Triple E across the finish line ahead of the other 17 competitors. Pierce's closest competition came from second place finisher Gilbert ·Valdez. Last year's champ Rennie Awana kept his Goodyear sponsored Briggsbuilt within striking distance to Valdez but had to settle for third place. Joe Price kept his Triple E in the groove and came home in fourth place. Don Archibald seems to always finish with the top runners and this evening was no different. Archibald, driving one of only two H&R cars entered, came across in fifth place. A total of 18 riders entered the 4, Wheel A TV main. Charles Shepherd, who has come in strong in the second half of the season, brought his Honda across Jack Millerd forsake open wheel short course racing for the Jeep UltraStock, and he placed well, third in heat 1 and fifth in the main. Always a contender, Brad Castle zipped his Toyota powered Raceco to third in 1600 heat 1, but suffered from traffic in the feature. Rally champion Rod Millen flies his Ford down the peristyle, and Rod drove to fourth in the truck main and fifth in the first heat. Dusty Times

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Number 2 plate holder in Super Lite stadium racing, Rory Holladay waves to the crowd after winning the first heat at the Coliseum. for his third main event win of the season. ·shepherd also won at Houston and Phoenix. Honda came out the big winner as the first eight riders were aboard Hondas. Niclas Granlund rode hard and earned second place but had his hands full keeping third place finisher Doug Eichner at bay. Fourth place honors went to Mark Ehrhardt and Gary Denton came across fifth. The Super 1600 event is always full of excitement and with 18 of America's top open wheel off road rac·ers competing, the Coliseum event had plenty of excitement. And one of the most excited drivers of the Super 1600 class was Danny Rice. Rice kept his Chenowth out of trouble and ahead of the other racers to finish first. The last time Rice had a main event win wa:s at the Las Vegas event in 1988. Frank Arciero, Jr. was able to keep Rice within his sights throughout the event but had to settle for second place. Arciero so far this year has suffered from traffic problems. His only main event win this year came in the opening round at Anaheim. Wes Elrod, driving a Mirage, captured third place for his effort. A relative newcomer to the Super 1600 war is Ke.vin Smith. This 19 year old was able to best many veterans by finishing fourth. Smith was driving a Mirage. Marty· Coyne, who turned in his two wheel ride a few years ago for a buggy, drove a consistent race and finished fifth. Second heat Jimmy Nichols whips his Raceco around a tight turn in the Super 1600 action, and Nichols finished strong in fifth in the first heat. Billy Beck, fresh from a big victory in Wisconsin, kept his Berrien up front to . finish fifth in the second Super 1600 heat race. Dusty Tlma Defending points champion in Super Lite racing, Rennie Awana got a third in the main event, but had troubles and was down to seventh in heat 2 for the tiny racers. winner Mitch Mustard finished in sixth place and the first heat winner Jerry Whelchel drove over one of the hydro barriers and lost a wheel, dropping him to 17th place. In the battle for UltraCross top place honors, it was Jeremy McGrath taking the win. McGrath's closest competition came from teammate Mike Craig who came across in second place. Both riders ride Kawasaki's for Team Green. Third place went to Lowell Thomson aboard a Yamaha. Chris Young brought the first Suzuki across in fourth place and Larry Brooks, another Team Green rider, came home fifth. There were 20 riders competing. When the main event contest~ ants came onto the field it was September 1990 Ivan Stewart and Roger Mears, Sr. sharing the front row. Ivan Stewart has won three mains this season and Mears hadn't won a main since last years mile high conflict in Denver. Walker Evans shared row two with Danny Thompson. Evans has won two events this year and Thompson has one to his credit. Row three was Rod Millen and Jeff Huber. The fourth row was made up of Dan Esslinger and Glenn Harris. Roger Mears,Jr. and Lloyd Castle were scheduled to make up row five but neither were able to show. Before the green flag came out I heard the comment that it looked like Ivan's night. But someone forgot to express that feeling to Roger Mears. Mears took off at the starting line and poured the power to the Nissan. A stroke of luck for Mears was that in turn one Ivan Stewart and Walker Evans both were spun around, one on the inside option the other the outside option. This held the pack up just enough that Mears was all alone with no one to contend with. Ivan Stewart and Walker Evans were able to get going quickly and had a full swarm of Sport Trucks to contend with. In fact the battle for second place was between Evans, Thompson and Stewart. But out front, and hooked up, was Roger Mears heading for his first victory of the season. On the last lap Stewart appeared to have second place. However, he had Walker Evans breathing down his neck. Evans had tried to pass at the end of the front straight on the last two laps but wasn't able to out maneuver Stewart. Danny Thompson had been close by and made his move on both Evans and Stewart as the trio exited the Coliseum. It is here that the Rough Driving Com~ mittee decided that Thompson spun Stewart around to gain the second spot. As they crossed the finish line it was Roger Mears taking a wire to wire win. Danny Thompson crossed over second but was later set back to sixth place. This gave Walker Evans second and third went to Rod Millen. Jeff Huber was fourth and Ivan Stewart was credited fifth. Page 15

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lngvar and Per Carlsson stayed close all four days in the Mazda 323 4WD, but the Swedes were second overall by a mere minute and 31 seconds. Sliding through some strange looking plant life, Erwin Weber and Matthias Feltz had a good run, placing the new VW Ra/lye Golf G60 third overall. Australians Ross Dunkerton and Fred Gocentas ran hard to be the best Antipodean team and took fourth overall and in Group A in the Mitsubishi. ROTHMAN$ RALLY OF NEW ~D Victory Again for Carlos Sainz . missing the traditional pre-event test day. This was Toyota's first visit to New Zealand in five years, and they only pressed the Enter button after the Acropolis when Carlos' World Championship potential became obvious. Text & Photos: Martin Holmes For reasons never explained Mazda's Asian Pacific champion Rod Millen was now driving a car built by the MR TE team in Brussels. Now on equal terms with official team driver Ingvar Carlsson, the New Zealander Rod Millen was ready for a showdown. Subaru had two Legacys, obvious rivals to the Australian run Mitsubishi of Ross Dunkerton. Down the field Daihatsu had a team of five, old style Group N Charade GTtis. The Japanese weren't the only well represented foreigners. The South Americans had come to the party as well as the race for Group N points hots up. Two Lancia 16 valve lntergrales were there for Jorge Recalde and (on only his second World Rally outside his native continent) Ernesto Soto, while Gustavo Trelles from Uruguay was present as well. Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya won their second successive World Championship Rally in New Zealand in the Toyota Celica GT-Four, and after six rounds Sainz leads the World Championship for Drivers by a big 25 points. It was a typical New Zealand event, a four day rally. The first day made a loop north of Auckland, the second went down to Rotorua, the third made a loop to the east and the fourth came back to Auckland. The forest content was reduced by taking out some rougher sections, and only three stages were run twice. There was a pre,rally scare when snow fell on some parts of the route, but it was soon gone through many higher altitude stages were sometimes icy in the early mornings. It doesn't snow in paradise, though it sometimes rains. The official test day three days before the start was held in lashing storms and high winds. The World Championship for Drivers seems to be heading towards Spain for the first time. Carlos Sainz won his second successive World Rally, going ahead when his Toyota finally started working right halfway through the Rothmans Rally of New Zealand. For the first two days he was plagued with engine related problems but soldiered on, knowing always that he needed to finish to capitalize on his Championship potential. lngvar Carlsson, driving an official old style Mazda 323 4 WD on its last outing, ran "the race of his life", but only came second, while Erwin Weber came third in the 4WD Rallye Golf and suffered only propshaft troubles. Carlos is now 25 points in the lead of the World series, while his Spanish speaking colleague Gustavo Trelles closed the gap to three points in the Group N series behind leader Alain Oreille. This was an event where four wheel drive was paramount. Oreille's Renault was the best 2WD car and came 11th . . Apparently the Italian machine works for.the glory of Lancia, not the edification of its drivers, only one of whom was even Italian. The Italians were p;ying lit!le SUMMERS BROS. BULLET-PROOF DRIVETRAINS ! SEND $2.00 FOR YOUR DIRT RACER'S CATALOG! SUMMERS BROS., INC. 530 S. Mountain Ave., Ontario, CA 91762 (714) 986-2041 • FAX: (714) 984-7908 Page 16 more than lip service to the challenge· of the WCD; what mattered to them was the WCR. Plans for Argentina were (ar more important than agonizing over which of their superstars should be thrown into the bull ring with Sainz in New Zealand, a drivers only championship event. There were two visiting Lancias on the entry list, both being run privately. The only European manufacturers present were GM, cont1nuing their challenge on the World Ladies Cup front, an~ VW on the second WRC outing for ·their 4WD compressor powered Golf. Louise Aitken,Walker had worked hard, the first of visiting drivers to start practicing, and this was the first time she had done a stage on gravel since the 1989 RAC. The VW arrived late, Carlos Sainz started slowly on the first day due to an electronic fault, losing some 20 seconds on the second stage. Then he made fastest time on all but one of the remaining stages that day. Erwin Weber's VW had transmission trouble, eventually the gearbox was changed during the long service break before the round the factory estate stage at the end of the leg. The weather was as Rothmans Rally of New Zealand Results Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya lngvar Carlsson/Per Carlsson Erwin Weber/Matthias Feltz Ross Dunkerton/Fred Gocentas 'Possum· Bourne/Rodger Freeth Tommi Makinen/Seppo Harjanne Gustavo Trelles/Daaniel Muzio Jorge Recalde/Martin Christie Gilberto Pianezzc Lucio Baggio Alain Oreille/Miche1 Roissard Louise Aitken-Walker/C. Thorner E s D AUS Nl SF u I¾ I F G3 Lancia Delta lntegrale • Mazda 323 4WD VW Rallye Golf G60 • Mitsubistii Galant VR-4 Subaru Legacy 4WD T Mitsubishi Galan! VR-4' Lancia Delia lntegrale Lancia Delta lntegrale Toyota Celica GT-Four Renault 5 GT Turbo Opel Kadett GSi" 65 starters - 40 finishers • • Group A & N winners, " Ladies winner Winner's average stage speed • 88.07 kph September 1990 6:48:26 6:49:57 6:56:24 7:00:28 7:05:48 7:09:13 7:11:14 7:17:17 7:23:58 7:25:35 7:27:38 changeable as the lead. Carlsson· and Millen enjoyed themselves while Sainz sought to make good lost ground, but by stage 6 the Spaniard was ahead. On stage 8 Sainz had turbo woes, got it fixed then made fast time by four seconds on the final stage. The first day was remarkable for reliability, with only one crew retired. Some chanced their luck; David Ayling hit a traffic island on the first stage; on stage 2 Paddy Davidson crashed his March Super Turbo, while Neil Allport was slowed by brake and overheating problems. The only retirement was the lady Daihatsu driver Vanessa Slee with electrical µ-ouble. The top three crews were pulling well ahead of the field. Ross Dunkerton passed 'Possum' Bourne into fourth just before the end of the day, while Weber was sixth despite running stages with three gears inoperative. In Group N T relies was ahead even though his Lancia engine had troubles. Soto had turbocharger pipe problems on the first stage, and Recalde had the same trouble on the second. Recalde also lost his auxiliary lights on the first night stage. Oreille was struggling on, the little Renault uncom, fortable in the thick mud patches at Riverhead, now efghth in Group N, but second best 2WD car nonetheless. Oreille was happier that the weather was better on day 2, and was best placed 2WD car in 18th overall. Two places behind him Louise was hoping only to finish in the top 20 and be eligible for Ladies Cup points. At the head of the field, Sainz was no happier however. The engine wasn't right; he lost about a minute on stage 13 and dropped behind the two Mazdas, as the engine almost stopped three times. Stage 13 was the end of the line for Mike Kirkland. Local TV showed it all; he slid wide in some fast bends, the tail hung out over the edge of the road and the heavy Legacy slid down the bank, irretrievably, despite the efforts of spectators, and finally the clutch failed. • Carlsson was going well, saying His peers call him the "Matador", but Carlos Sa111z looks calm here as he contemplates perhaps going all the way to the World Championship in 1990. Dusty Tlma

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~ New Zealanders 'Possum· Bourne and Rodger Freeth had some troubles with the Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo, but drove it to a fine fifth overall. Working hard to earn tne 1990 FIA Ladies Cup Louise Aitken-Walker and Christina Thorner took the Ladies prize and 11th overall in the Opel Kadett GSi. Churning up gravel, Alain Oreille and Michel Roissard managed to hold onto the Group N point lead placing tenth overall and fifth in Group Nin the Renault 5 GT Turbo 2WD. "I've never driven better." Trelles had a clear run, Recalde lost over a minute at a control after a turbocharger change while Soto was delayed, firstly by going the wrong w~y at the Manukau City Superspecial, the first stage of the day, and then with his engine not pulling well, and it started to lose oil, up to a liter a stage. Rayneri spun his Lancia twice, and was upset, but still hoped to catch Dunkerton who was coping with the wrong gear ratios. Bourne was trying as hard as he felt he should with his bad gear ratios, not able to use top gear. The third section east of Rotorua included the Motu Road, so twisty that it is possibly the slowest rally road in the WRC series. Sainz's time for the over 27 kilometer stage was over 25 minutes, but 74 seconds faster than Carlsson achieved last year. The pace was quickening and the casualties started to multiply. We lost Rod Millen on stage 24 with turbocharger failure. He tried limping to the end of the stage but the engine failed. Then both Soto and Stokes went out with engine trouble. Sainz regained the lead on the third stage of the day; when Carlsson lost some 40 seconds on the following stage due to poor tire choice, things finally started going the Spaniard's way. The Italians had a shock when Rayneri breasted a crest flat out in top gear to find cows in the . track, an experience suffered seven years ago not far away by the late Attilio Bettega. Michele went off the road and retired, the organizers were distraught as local farmers thought all their animals had been accounted for earlier. Neil Allport went off the road blaming a pacenote error, and Dunkerton fell back when he changed a flat tire in mid stage. His fellow Australian Greg Carr went off for about ten minutes but restarted, and Bourne fell back running without first or second gear in the Subaru. In Group N Tommi Makinen challenged on the forest stages at night and took half a minute off Trelles. Oreille was still the best two wheel drive, now up to 13th, and Louise•~ Opel was 15th. On the fourth section Carlos car was going well and it was time to cruise home, even though this final section was the longest of the event. He had one puncture, hitting a stone, but no other troubles. Carlsson continued without problems to the end as did Weber. They had propshaft trouble twice during the rally, forced to stay in fwd mode. But three times in the rally the German car made fastest times on the stages. Dunkerton went home wondering what was going on. "We did our best, b~tnow we are Dusty Times up against' European built cars out· here. Our five speeders just cannot keep up." it." He also went off the road on the final stage. Meanwhile Makinen had no troubles. "This was the· first time we used pace notes properly. My only trouble was the Galant wore out the brakes faster than anticipated and we ran out of pads." Reclade had no sooner decided, at the final rest halt, to cruise to the finish when In Group N Trelles lost the lead when the turbocharger failed .on stage 3 7; it was changed but was never quite right. He lost 40 seconds to Makinen, saying "this is the third time we have held the lead on the last day and then lost . '"··· .-... .·, . ',•· .. •.. . ; .. . . I . .. :.w···• : ·• , IA"'(S." . . . ,. .. . . •I ,A f 10 •. · •· .' · ~c;,r,the B.ig· , r I ·. . , Sh9wdoy,rn i!:l off road , ... j ·. .. . racing's d~sert arena; these . D_odg·e B6¥.s c;harge-ifl packih' some · powerful lighting .. 'f:ht,y rely QO. the p~W~r of · KC. Day_lighters to· shoot dqwn the pom-, . ' .' .. petition on !heir way to'the "Heavy._Metal'~ ... ,. · tr_uck victory. ,:he 11ame lights you.can. buy · . . . that.come race-ready out 61 the box:: ·: ·s~~on't ~ttie:tq~ .second; Ai~ yoµr$~1/witti ; . , . ·t~~'. p~wer C>! genuin,e _KC ~ylighteta: . . ~ . September 1990 the Lancia's gearbox broke and he drove the final stage without second or third. Most spectacular event of the day was Greg Carr's exit, straight off the road and 50 meters down a bank. An on board camera captured it all. Ray Wilson ended a miserable rally with turbo~ charger failure and Bourne had to change another gearbox. Inoue retired, once more with turbo problems. Once again the Spaniard ruled the rail y. Prince Felipe, son of King Juan Carlos, was in Auckland on business, but arranged at short notice a formal celebration meeting the next morning. Wherever Carlos goes, he is a king himself. ~ "' .., ~ .2 II) II) ,..: tit E ~ .. u Q) ... '6 Q) :c .! 'i;j > l'O f l'O II) .. u :::, "0 0 ... C. 0 lil: <O .., ~ a: f .... ij ~ iii u -5 0 >, 'iii f l'O Q) C ... Q) iii Q) "0 Q) :S ... 0 u.. ,._ 0 <O N ,;, .., co .... "' 0 co • co i ~ ri E :! ; . II) Q) u ::, ~ Q) Q Ill "0 ·c Q) ~ . 0 ! en w I-:i :i: 0 lil: Page 27

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AUSTRALIAN on ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Two In A Row For Peter Glover D·own Under Text & Photos: Darryl Smith/ Mick Myers Peter Glover and navigator Tony Getson fly high in the Porsche powered Hornet. Glover not only qualified fastest, but led all four 100 kilometer laps to win overall and in Class 1 with apparent ease. Victorian driver Peter Glover is · closely by Bob Mowbray, Bruce certainly the in form driver of the Watman and Mick Myers in a 1990 Australian Off Road Yokohama team car. Championship series. The Reigning Baja National Class Bridgestone Team driver not only champion Ron Schmidt put in the won the opening round of the fastest Baja time in his rotary championship, but he backed that powered car. Neville Taylor, then up with another over-all win in Clem Harris followed. Class 5, for Round 2: The Mallee Rally held at all two wheel drive machines, had the tiny town of Sea Lake in 25 starters and Steve Knott, in the Victoria. The Mallee Rally is radical Hankook tires, Renault Australia's longest running event, V6 powered Karmann Ghia was and 1990 was the 16th year the quickest. Bill Eames in his Hemi drivers have raced around Lake powered Chrysler pickup was Tyrr~ll. the largest salt lake in next, followed by Ian Jackson, Victoria. Chevy powered '64 Holden Peter Glover and navigator Sedan. Class 6 is for restricted Tony Getson not only qualified buggies, only in their second year fastest in their Porsche powered of recognition, and six vehicles, Hornet, but led on all four 100 fronted with Neville Day fastest kilometer laps to win overall and over Shaun Goss. Class 7 are the in Class 1 with an average speed of almost stock 4x4s, and five times 73 mph. One of the favorites for national class champion Les the event, Goodyear's Dave and Siviour was by far quickest Jayne Stuchbery had trouble on qualifier in his late model Nissan Saturday during the all important Patrol. Reg Owen, also in a late time trials. An oil line on their Patrol, was next, with Grahame turbo Toyota motor split and the Baxter in an earlier Patrol engine expired, ending any following. chances of even starting. Then In Class 8, the modified 4x4s, much interest centered around Ian Hedley's recent . trip to the reigning Australian Champion USA for some go fast gear paid and seven times winner of the off, as he cleaned up the 12 car Mallee Rally, Craig Martin. class in his Bronco. Behind him Martin had driven in Round 1 in a were: Fred Parker, rear engine V8 borrowed car, but all rumors said Land Rover; Fabio Zarfati in a he was going to make the change Mitsubishi Pajero; Peter Hadlow to a single seater. Well, the whole in a turbo Mitsubishi pickup; and day passed and Martin hadn't Norm Parker in a V8 Holden showed. It turned out he would arrive that night with a single seater and apply to be seeded into Sunday's starting order. There were no real surprises when the starting order was posted Saturday night. Peter Glover was to be first away, followed by Darren Wells, Yokohama Class 1; Richard Bennett, Cosworth powered Class 2; Keith Owens, Yokohama Class 1; Bob Strawbridge, Southern Cross single seater; and Andy Brown, ARB Class 1. Neville Boyes and Mark Burrows, both from Bridgestone, were r Rodeo. As mentioned Bob Strawbridge was the quickest in Class 9, single seat buggies, while Craig Martin was next, seeded in at 12th outright. Si Heaslip, therefore, was third in class. Sunday morning arrived with perfect weather, fine sunny skies with a strong, cool breeze blowing. The cars were sent off in pairs at 30 second intervals. Glover was to beat Wells off the line as they headed off on the first lap around the lake. The track in the main is very quick, although the surface can change from mud to clay to sand very quickly and catch drivers unaware. One of the first to find this out were Terry and Maureen Rose who executed a nasty roll over in their Class 2 buggy, writing it off in the process. Stopping to help were Mick and Lyn Myers who soon after were completing their own end for end roll over, but with minimal vehicle damage, although Lyn suffered a broken arm. Ian Hedley's Bronco sadly came to an early stop with a blown head gasket. Current Class 6 champion Keith Whisker was another to roll, but he tore a rear wheel off ending his race. Blown head gaskets were almost as ·common as roll overs, stopping Bruce Watman and Ian Cotton's Class 3 turbo Mitsubishi pickup. Other la£ 1 retirements included Jeff second and third in the 44 car Les Siviour and Peter lseppi not only won Class 7 in the stocker Nissan Patrol, Class 2 field. In Class 3 Brian but they were the first 4x4 home and finished 23rd outright in the high attrition Jones was quickest, followed race. Page II September 1990 Stuart Lord had a great run as he flew to the Class 2 victory and was fifth outright driving the 1600cc buggy that ran without fault. Bryant's radical Class 1 Corvette, and current Class 5 champion Jeff Barnes in a Scout. Peter Glover meanwhile was having a dream run out front and clocked a 50 minute time for lap 1. Darren Wells followed, then came Richard Bennett; Bill Croft, Class 1; Craig Martin, Class 9; David Leach, Class 2 and Keith Owers, Class 1. Lap 2 began immediately without stopping, but Craig Martin withdrew with a cooked motor due to radiator damage. Leading Class 2 driver Neville Boyes also dropped out after one lap of frustrating electrical problems. Also out on the second lap was Charlie Albins with problems with his electronic fuel injection. Brothers Gl~n and Chris Owen rolled their Class 2 Funco during the second lap. Mark and Glenn Manns were now carving up the Class 5 field -in their U.S. copied Holden Rodeo pickup. · They suffered through the first lap without wipers in the mud. Glen Hadlow had fixed a carb problem in his Class 7 Mitsubishi, while his father, Peter, was leading Class 8 in his Mitsubishi. Les Siviour, though, was astounding everyone in his Patrol, not only leading Class 7 but beating the modified 4x4s as well. After two laps drivers were required to have a one hour break before starting the last two laps. Quickest lap 2 time was again Glover and Wells once again was second. Croft and Bennett had swapped places. Les Brown's Goodyear Class 2 was next quickest for lap 2 after he solved his alternator problems in lap 1. Jim Adness' rotary Class 1 followed on time, then Stuart Lord and Bill Sharpe, both in Class 2. Sharpe got a shunt from behind in lap 1 damaging the extractors on his Rabbit -motor. Bob Mowbray was way out front in 1200cc class, but alas his little motor gave up and dropped a valve. Class 2 champion Mark Burrows also retired midway with a bent trailing arm resulting from a roll over. Grahame Lee's exotic . Porsche withdrew with front torsion arm damage to the Class 5 car and Yokohama's David Leach had dropped back with a disastrous lap 2; electrical problems, then a fuel pump and finally a throttle cable ended his chances of running up front. Both Keith Owers and Bob Strawbridge had runoff the track. The fencing they carried behind them was the give away. By now the 100 km loop around the Salt Lake was chopping up severely with the mud holes getting deeper, the sand corrigations growing wider and nastier and the undulating clay tracks getting quicker and more challenging. So lap 3 began with Glover intent on building up his lead over Wells; this was obvious after Glover posted fastest lap of the day on this lap. Baja driver Ron Schmidt's race came to a spectacular end with a wild roll over, tearing off a rear wheel. The jovial Barry Johnson was limping back to the pits with broken gearbox mounts in his Chevy V6 Goodyear buggy. Also to retire after that lap were front runner Peter Standerwick and Wayne Gibson who was well up in the Class 5 race in his Holden pickup. Into the final lap it was obvious only a disaster would stop the charging Glover. Bill Croft, in the Hankook Tires Class 1, had stopped to top up his oil before the last lap, while Keith Owers was restricted to third gear only for his last lap. Peter Hadlow in the Yokohama turbo Mitsubishi was comfortably leading Class 8 until the last lap when the top control arm broke, slowing him dramatically. Mark Manns also suffered some last lap bad luck when the clutch in his Rodeo gave trouble. Bob Strawbridge was somehow lucky, when at a control point the officials spotted his alternator about to fall off, so this was quickly fixed. Reg Owen ~""~~-io,-«-4 ~ ... i~ •¥<"«~•.:r~ ... The 2WD Class 5 was very close all day, but in the end it was the Renault powered Karmann Ghia of Steve Knott that won, less than a minute in front of Ivan Robertson's Holden pickup. Dusty Times

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Bob Strawbridge drove the first single seater that finished, his Southern Cross car, and he held his lead in Class 9 for the win and was also eighth overall. i Heaslip drove the second single seater that finished, and he was second in Class 9 by less than three minutes after 400 kms. Neville Day won the time trials in Challenger Class 6, but he ended up second in class in the 400 kilometer endurance race. ·-+•>"<··"•'• Jan Hedley flew her big Ford F-100 to third in Class 5, and she did much better than husband Ian, whose Bronco was a dnf. Clem Harris was first in Class 4 on elapsed time, but a 40 minute time penalty dropped his tidy Baja Bug down in the standings. Correspondent Mick Myers had a rare roll over, put photog Darryl Smith in as a replacement co-driver and finished sixth in Class 3. meanwhile had a front wheel come adrift from his Patrol while running second in Class 7. The checkered flag came out to . greet Peter Glover as he took the overall win as well as a great win in Class 1. Second were Darren Wells and Ian McPhee, only two and a half minutes behind Glover. Third overall was Bill Croft as Class 1 took all the honors. The attrition rate in Class 2 was high but Stuart Lord had no problems as he took the 1600cc class and came home fifth outright. Peter and Rosalie Dawson were next, followed by Paul Osbourne in the Trekka. Class 3 also saw the favorites drop out, leaving Brendan Payne the class winner. Multiple Class 3 champion Peter Richards came home second in class, then announced his retirement. Jamie and Russell Robinson were third, while down in sixth came Mick Myers with Darryl Smith as stand in navigator. In the Baja Class 4 Mike Keenan took the title. He~as lucky though, as bad luck had hit second home Neville Taylor in the form of a flat tire and alternator problems, and third home, Clem Harris had receiyed a 40 minute penalty. The 2WD Class 5 was very dost all day. In the end it was Steve Knott's Karmann Ghia less than a minute in front of Ivan Robertson's Holden pickup. A minute and a half behind was a great drive for Jan Hedley in her Bridgestone FlO0, definitely more lucky than husband Ian in his 4x4 Bronco. Mark Manns was fourth in the Holden Rodeo. The Challenger buggies in Class 6 had only two finishers. Louie Binios won out over Neville Day. The amazing duo of Les Siviour and Peter Iseppi stormed through the 400 kilometers in their Class 7 Patrol to not only be first 4x4 home but to come in 23rd outright. Grahame Baxter's · Nissan was coming apart body wise as he took second in class . over the Mitsubishi pickup of Eric Whitbread. In the modified , 4x4 Class 8, Fabio Zarfati scored Fabio Zarfati sails past the spectators in his Mitsubishi Pajero, nee Montero; he has won Class 8 in· two consecutive events in the stock appearing rig. Bill Croft came in third overall as Class 1 drivers took all the top honors at the Ma/lee Rally around Lake Tyrrell, a salt lake. Dusty Times his second class win so far in a Mitsubishi Pajero, while Robert Knott, in a Nissan Pathfinder, was second. The race for third place was close with Ken Smith's Rodeo edging out John Bloem's Loida Niva by only 20 seconds. Bloem's Niva has been lengthened and is powered by a Nissan 2400cc fuel injected motor. Peter Hadlow struggled home for fifth. Bob Strawbridge had held on to his single seat Class 9 lead and came home eighth outright as well. Si Heaslip was less than three minutes out for second, while Douglas Wood was third, Of the 176 cars that started, only 83 completed the four laps, giving a finishing rate of 4 7 .2 percent. All drivers and crews now direct their attention towards Australia's roughest and toughest event, the Bridgestone International at Kempsey on the New South Wales mid coast in late July. A Winning Tr~dition In Off-Road Racing Bilstein gas pressure shock New Applications absorbers were first introduced to the Dimensions Valving American market in off-road racing in e!!t! H2, D!il~S.CIR112D (;111.~2II, B!11!;2,l~2mR, th~ late 1960's. Over the past 20 AK1310 3/4"shaft 36.02 X 20.86 150/50 years, more off-road races have been 15.15 inch travel won on Bilstein than any other shock AK 1320 3/4" shaft 33.00 X 19.48 170/60 absorbers. 13.5 inch travel Today, with their proven record of performance, Bilsteins continue to be AK 1330 3/4" shaft 27.00 X 16.88 255/100 the choice of serious off-roaders who 10.11 inch travel coil over run to win. Now Available -Repair and Revalving Services. September 1990 Contact: Motorsports Department BILSTEIN CORPORATION Of AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road, San Diego, CA 92121 • 619/453-7723 For additional technical information and a complete catalog send $2.50 Page 19

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Spring Run 101, The Mud, The Dust and The Race l}y Barb & Marilyn Schultz Photos: Dan Maimer /Deb Freimath Fay Statezny leads the Class 6 herd down the hill off the start, followed by Al Fannin in the_ battle of mostly Chevy sedans. Spring Run 101, Crandon, Wisconsin, June 23 & 24; seeing and physically feeling the entire SODA Race Event was to see and feel weather, racing and track conditions change! America's premiere short course off road racing series and the Brush Run 101 two race series presented racers and fans with the true challenge. Could you and your machine take both the mud and the dirt? Could you handle rain, wind, sun and heat? Evidently a large number of racers and. spectators could, as Spring Run 101 was well attended by both! Rain, rain, go away; but it didn't; thus Friday's hot laps were cancelled. It didn't matter whether you were in big rigs or a pickup and a race machine hauler, everyone was parked with the aid of the front end loader. Campfires sputtered in the rain, but things got better - a lot better! Saturday dawned overcast with a hint of dampness in the air, the parking lots filling and racers be n revving their engines. The announcer, Party Marty, came on the P A System with "Let's Go Racing!" Spectators scurried with blankets and lawn chairs in hand and racers in Class 11 D headed to the staging area. Twenty-three entries took the wave of the green flag and the fun began. With all the rain on previous days the track was anything but dusty. The 1 ls had problems building up enough speed to take the initial jump over the water much less the double jump that followed.Todd Attig, on General tires, took the ···>;: ¼ Dave Woulf gave chase both days in Class 11 and 11 S, and though he was a close second on Saturday, he was a long second place on Sunday. Dave "Nutcracker" Vandermissen Jr. had a good run in Class 10, taking third in his older car, only a minute behind the winner. lead and steadily pulled away maintained almost a minute lead leaving Dave Woulf and Chad on second place Art Schmitt. Ramesh to battle all the way to the VandermissenJr. "Nutcracker checkeredflag.Ittookhimawhile Jr." finished third, with Varider-but Woulffinally passed Ramesh missen Sr. "Nutcracker Sr." for second, Ramesh taking third. behind him. In Class 5-1600, new Cory Friday ran a consistent driver in the Therriault machine, fourth until the white flag lap Scott Taylor, steadily picked off when he and Dennis Payne hard charging Mike Brue and on tangled, putting Payne out of the final lap managed to get action and dropping Friday to around Terry Wolfe. Wolfe sixth. brought home second and Brue Next to staging was the Class placed third. Time between first 5-1600 and Class 10. Class 10 and third place was a mere 18 had seven entries at the green flag seconds. The winner came in on and by lap 3 the field was Armstrong tires. Now that's narrowed to four. Jeff Probst and racing! his Armstrong Tires grabbed the Class 3 came to the line with n*o problem __ ni~e entries_. "Grandpa Fuzzy" ~ A!<:#. _.,_'-"} -1c • -_,N• Michael Brue led the 5-1600 bash until the white flag lap, when a · Jerry Bundy led the Class 3 charge, nine strong down the hill bobble dropped him to third, just 18 seconds behind the winner. I and over the ditch, but after leading a good distance, his trans \ failed. Mike Savage stayed close in the wild Class 3 action in his eep CJ, and he finished tight, third in class and in the 4x4 Challenge also. Todd Attig began his winning weekend with victory in two seat Class 11, leading flag to flag in the Jeff Probst won Class 10 Saturday morning by half a minute in_the two seat Berrien Laser, but luck muddy muck. Attig also won single seat Class 11 the next day in the same car. deserted the Probst team for the rest of the weekend. Page 31 September 1990 Dusty Times

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Scott Taylor also started his weekend with a victory, this one in Class 5-1600 in a borrowed Baja Bill Schirm flies his Jeep CJ7 high past the spectators on his way to a hard fought Class 3 victory, Bug, like Probst, scoring an early victory for the group from Illinois. -==:::---, winning by just two seconds at the checkered flag. John Greaves, leading here, and Greg Smith ran this close a/111 1-1600 laps, and Smith ended up second, just four seconds in arrears. Jeff St. Peter kept the Class 1-1600 leaders in sight all the way, and he drove to fourth in the big class, just half a minute back. One of the founders of the Brush Run race, Gary Bradley of Crandon is still a strong competitor and drove his car to second in Class 6. Bill Schirm and Ron Hill dueled from start to finish with Schirm taking first on BFG tires and Hill a scant car length behind in second. Mike Savage ran a consistent third. Canadian drivers Milan Mazanec and Dean Wilson finished a hard fought fourth and fifth. The crowd watched in amazement as Rob Roberts controlled his T earn Bronchitis machine through a series of rough one wheeled landings. Hot dog, Roberts made a final four point landing and finished the race! John "Airborne" Greaves and Greg Smith led the Class 1-1600 Pepsi-Cola sponsored race weaving in and out of 21 other entries to finish with Greaves and General tires in first and Smith in second. Jim Wiggins and Jeff St. Peter gave equally fine perform-ances to end third and fourth respectively. Despite the large number of entries, all drivers showed skill and mechanical know how to keep their machines in the race. Class 6 with a strong showing ( 11 entries) had the largest attrition rate. Those new front jumps created the biggest problems for Class 6 drivers. Fay Statezny put his foot to the floor and he and his General tires never looked back. Hometown favorite Gary "The Legend" Bradley tip · toed through the junkyard of broken vehicles to finish second. · Bob Hartwig limped his vehicle to a third and final finishing position. The Class 9 race was a race be~een states as Texan Billy Beck and Missourian Don Ponder battled with Wisconsin's own Jeff St. Peter. With a total of nine entries, this was a fast paced race. Holy Cowboy Hats, it was Billy Beck and General Tire in first place at the checkered flag and Muddy Waters Don Ponder in second by the length of a bucket. Jeff St. Peter came in a respectable third, keeping Wisconsin in the Dusty Times top three. Class 2 green flagged after Class 9 with another hair raising race! Art Schmitt and his Armstrong Tires bested Dave Vandermissen Sr. in a well driven battle for first. Vandermissen came across the finish two seconds behind Schmitt. Scott . Schwalbe was right on both Schmitt's and Vandermissen's tail pipes to reel in third position. The Class 7 Race was "beefed-up" by the Pendaliner Bedliner Corporation, and what a race it was! Todd Attig must have been a Happy Camper all the way through the race! Not only did he race in first place from flag to flag, he had the honor of having Olga Vernon of General Tire Motors-ports as a co-driver. These two took the win on Generals. Spencer Low drove through the traffic for a well deserved second place. Tom Hockers duked it out with Jeff Kincaid, Hockers squeaking by for third. The number of entries in this race, fifteen to be correct, was a sight to see! These Stock Truck drivers put on a dazzling show of man and machine opposing the track. While Class 2-1600 had a high attrition rate, three outstanding drivers put on a fantastic show! Genral tired Greg Smith, with "Airborne" Greaves and Scott Taylor waiting for an error, led the race from beginning to end. Neither Smith, Greaves or Taylor made an error so the top three never changed position. Greaves scooted across for second and Taylor took third. Except for a group roll over on the second lap, this class also had a good clean race with mechanical problems taking more drivers out than accidents did. Talk about "Racing Thunder", Class 4 gave everyone a taste of thunderous power and driver skil. It was Joey Flannery out of the start in a burst of speed and Jack Flannery in an out of the start roll Dr . 091 HEAVY DUTY DIFFERENTIAL Made from 4340 Chro-moly. All surfaces ground for high concentricity. Pre-cision machined for the tightest tolerances. NEW FOR '89 ! CV BOOT HOLDERS Machined from extra strong alloy steel. Designed to provide for maximum axle angulation. Larger ball clearance. Available for T-2, T-4 and 930 CV's. Tired of replacing com-plete CVs? We now have the 930 CV Center Stars available as a separate item. These new units are made from heat treated aircraft quality 300M Alloy steel and feature case . hardened ball grooves. NEW FOR '89 ! 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John Greaves survived a wheel to wheel dice to win the 23 car Class 1-1600 battle and Greaves also Class 6 is a big bunch in SODA racing, but Crandon's own Fay Statezney won again on his home won the Limited Challenge and was second in Class 1-1600 in the same car. ==-c-:----:-:---:= track, and won by a good margin of just over two minutes. • Art Schmitt won the eight car Class 2 bash in his Berrien, and the Pennsylvania driver also finished Todd Attig leads the charge off the line to the water hole, right, in Class 7 action, and he went on to a strong second if} both Class 1 and Class 10 action. win the class in his Ford and take second in the Class 6/7 Challenge. i;.-over. Joey Flannery led for two laps before pulling off in a cloud of blue smoke. Jack got the wheels down and digging but also had to pull off on lap seven. Who was in the lead? Geoff Dorr took off like a shot with John Heidtmann right on his tail. Dorr went down with a broken pitman arm right before the timing building on the white flag lap. Heidtmann, on BFGs, came into the lead and held it in an outstanding performance. Mark Seidler power-housed to second place with Tom Ferro right behind him in third. If thirteen was an unlucky number, no one in Class 13 knew it. Class 13 had thirteen entries and came roaring around the first corner intact. Unfortunately by the time the pack made it to the timing building, leader Tom Jensen had rolled over. Fortun-ately, neither Jensen or his co-driver were injured although Jensen's machine sustained heavy damage. Sha-Boom's Lowell DeGreeflost a tire on the first lap but came back on the track to finish. Joey Sears on Yokohama tires grabbed the lead and kept it in spite of the best efforts of Dave Vorpahl to make the pass. Vorpahl had to settle for second \ I ., with John Konitzer taking third place honors. More Racing Thunder came pounding around the first corner with Class 8, promoted by Heartland Chevrolet Dealers, action turning hot and heavy! What should have been a run away by Walker Evans turned out to be a race plagued with flat tires for Walker. Evans stayed comfortably in front of Jack Flannery until his first flat tire put him in the pits andJumpin' Jack in the lead. Rob Renkas moved into the second place slot with Walker easily coming back onto the track and gaining on Renkas and Flannery. Rats, another flat put Evans back in the pits and out again but not with enough time left to catch Renkas and Flannery. Jack Flannery on Armstrong tires took the win, Renkas stayed with second and Walker Evans had to be happy with third. Dave Hackers hung in for a nicely driven fourth. Class 11S rounded out Satur-day's racing program. This highly restricted class came off the start without mishap until they hit the gravel pit. By lap 3 approximately half the class was out of the race with either mechanical blues or run-ins with other machines. This time Todd Attig and his Generals had to drive their way to the lead with Chad Ramesh taking an early jump at first position. And don't forget Dave W oulf! That fellow DRIVES! While Attig may have finally gotten the best of W oulf, Dave finished in second place. Keith Berad did a phenomenal job of driving up through the ranks to take home a well earned third. Believe it or not, Class 1 lD started the day's racing in knee-deep mud; Class 1 lS finished the day's racing in desert dust! Track announcer Party Marty and Trackside Interviewer Jack Schaefer said "finis" for the day ,,,,. Bob Hartwig, with a rumpled nose on his car, here passes John Schwittay on his way to finishing third in Class 6, three laps down. · Dave Vandermissen Sr. sailed over the tough Brush Run course in his Nutcracker, and finished second by a mere two seconds in Class 2. Scott Schwalbe held up the honor of Wisconsin in Class 2 when he flew his race car to third, just one second behind Vandermissen. Todd Attig, leading, and Sce>tt Taylor ran most of the Class 7S race glued together, but Taylor's Ford dropped out late in the game. Page 34 Scott Taylor ran with the leaders in 1600 racing, but his best finish in his self built two seat car was a third in Class 2-1600. September 1990 Don Ponder came from St. Louis to contest Class 9, where e took second by four seconds; he later drove this car to third in Class 1. Dusty Times

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Greg Smith and John Greaves renewed their duel in Class 2-1600, and Smith won the 15 car class by four seconds and was second in the Limited Challenge. Rhonda Smith won the Ladies Cup in Billy Beck came from Texas to capture the victory in 1650cc Class 9 and he also won overall in the the same car. Unlimited Challenge, besting all the big engine racers in his Berrien. ' Jeff St. Peter flew throught he mud to a fine third in the fast a;;d furious Class 9 contest. Class 9 is 1650cc Unlimited in SODA. Mark Seidler noses out of a ditch in his Chevrolet and he kept it together to take second place honors in the hectic Class 4 action. Joey Flannery moved to Class 4 this year, and led the first two laps at Crandon until forced into the pits in a cloud of blue smoke. leaving spectators to load up the lawn chairs, blankets, souvenirs and kids for the trip home. Racers and spectator campers headed back to camp fires, the ever popular bench racing and repair work. The track did a number on almost everyone, fortunately there was an on site welder available and the usual help,your, neighbor attitude present to get as many racers as possible ready for Sunday's big events. The weatherman made certain that Sunday was the perfect day for Off Road enthusiasts. It was sunny, down right warm and the track had been smoothed to perfection. Class 1 started the day's racing action with Todd Attig and General Tire taking yet another trip to victory! And the Probst machine had to chalk up another case of mechanical blues. Kevin Probst took the early lead but was off the track early giving the race to Attig. Art Schmitt had it all dialed in for second place with Lee W uesthoff in third. Billy Beck had a good shot at the lead but lost a wheel in the front turn and nose dived into the sidelines. Chuck Johnson was running a dynamite race when, right after the Barn jump, Johnson landed wrong and did a sprint car tyf)e series of three roll overs. Love those 14s and the show they put on! There were fifteen entries in this unlimited, blow 'em away class. It was Gutsy Greg in a run away when, Don't Have A Cow Homer, he blew the engine on the white flag lap! His truck ready to do it Geoff Dorr, and his BFGoodrich tires qui~kly took over first for the win with Matt Foltz hanging on for second. Brad Mihalko, who has basically retired from racing this year in favor of his new boat, ran a consistent third. John Heidtmann with sheet metal flying ran fourth throughout most of the race. The Budweiser Rear Engine Limited Challenge saw some Dusty Times familiar drivers zipping by! Cowabunga , it was John' "Airborne" Greaves fending off 1 Greg Smith at every possible straight and corner! With 23 entries, this Challenge was fun to watch and hard to determine who was where. Greaves and his General tires took the checkered first with Smith right after him. But, you don't leave out Jim Wiggins and Rob Renkas as they played hide and seek for position with Wiggins coming across for third and Renkas in fourth. It was nice to see the Seefeld ts out on the track pulling in a hard won fifth. The General Tire 4x4 Pro, duction Challenge saw both Matt Foltz and Gentlemen Geoff Dorr keeping pace with 2x4 Challenger Walker Evans. Dorr was on Foltz' bumper the entire race but never got to make the pass. Foltz took first with Dorr taking second by 20 seconds! Mike Savage came in an impressive third place. The General Tire 2x4 Production Challenge was flagged off just after the 4x4s in a hair raising race of their own! Walker Evans, on Goodyears, easily led the contest with the battles for position remaining in the back of the pack. With Walker in first, it was Rob Renkas across for second and Dave Hockers ready to eat his bumper for third. The True Value Rear Engine Unlimited Challenge began with ten entries and by the checkered flag, was reduced to half the field. From the wave of Lee Halverson's green flag to Larry Statezny's checkered flag it was General Tire's Billy Beck! Beck had Todd Attig knocking at his back door for almost the whole trip, Attig proving once again to be a competitor worth reckoning with. Attig must have felt like the peanut butter in a sandwich as he had none other than Lee Wuest, hoff right on his tail. This Challenge ended with Beck in first, Attig 0.-,:::,,. •••• ., ..... .. 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...it John Heidtman survived the mayhem in the Class 4 competition, and as rigs fell out on all sides of Joey Sears drives a conventional looking Class 13, a Wisconsin invention, and he survived the him, Heidtman went on to victory in the General Tire Ford. attrition to win the class for Crandon, and he also won the 2x4 Unlimited Challenge. ,,;:;, ""' 'Jack Flannery took advantage of others who had flat tires, and drove his F;;,.d to a resounding Class 1 got the fresh track on Sunday and Todd Attig started the day right again, this time driving victory in Class 8, winning by well over a minute. his unlimited single seater to the win, and he took second in the Unlimited Challenge. -· i:;~ ~· Geoff Dorr, one of the early Class 4 leaders, flew his Jeep pickup to victory in Class 14, and later Matt Foltz had some close challengers in the 4x4 Challenge race, but he took the victory, along with an earlier second in Class 14. placed a close second in the 4x4 Production Challenge. Dr in second and Wuesthoff in third. These gentlemen were challenged by the likes of Don Ponder, Scott Schwalbe, Jeff Probst, Bill LeFeuvre, Todd Wallace, Jim Struble and Jeff St. Peter. Next on the racing program was The Valvoline 2x4 and 4x4 Non~ Production Challenge. The 2x4 Non~Production Class flagged first looking at first glance like a re~run of the day before's Class 13 race. ln,a Beetle Built machine Joey Sears and his Yokohama tires took away an early lead by Lowell DeGreef. These two played touch and tag through every corner, every straight, and even over the jumps for the coveted first place. It was Sears one second ahead of DeGreef at the checkered flag , ~ with race action worth standing up to see. Pat Barney came in with third position while John Schultz slipped across for fourth. The 4x4 Non~Production was a hybrid mix of Class ·4s and Class 14s with Marc Pelletier taking an early lead and having to drop out more than half way through the race. Michael Rauch was right there behind Pelletier to slide into first and stay there. While Al Drews and Linda Lou Schlamb may have been in the back of the field at the start, endurance proved to be the . name of the game putting these two competitors in for second and third. Drews took second and Schlamb finished third. Ten entries tried out the new Master Mechanic Class 6 and Class 7 Challenge with only four vehicles finishing. Whew, the track and the competition was hard on these racers! Once again Todd Attig was out in front and looking untouchable until Spencer Low drove through the traffic and took the lead out of Attig's hands. Low kept the lead for the win with Attig coming in sixteen seconds behind Spencer for second. Surprise!! It was Al Greg Gerlach was the second leader in Class 4 action, but soon dropped off the pace and well back in the attrition plagued field. Dave Vordahl has a passenger car body on his Class 13 racer, but he took second in class even with the unusual aerodynamic styling. Rob Renkas, another Crandon driver, kept moving to finis second in Class 8 and he also finished second in the 2x4 Challenge race. Page 36 September 1990 Dusty Times

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Walker Evans, who was third in Class B with tire trouble, came on strong to win the 2x4 Production Spencer Low came from Arizona to race his Class 7 Nissan and took second in class, but on Challenge contest oy a full minute and 35 seconds. Sunday Low won the Class 6/7 Challenge race by 16 seconds. ' :..J''~y~L ,, ,:.-:~-_y:-- I Dave Hockers stayed with the leaders most of the way in Class 8, and he came in fourth, a lap down in the 14 truck field. Lee Wuesthoff took fourth in Class 1 in his Chenowth Magnuf!), but later on Sunday he finished third in the Unlimited Challenge race. Brak Mihalko charged hard in his Class 14 race car and he took a well earned third in the class at the checkered flag. '=-Lowell DeGreef drives an odd but typical Class 13, and he drove the Sha-Boom creation to second place in the 2x4 Unlimited Challenge. Al Fannin catches some air near the infamous pond at Crandon, The track was gooey Saturday morning for the Class 11 race and this trench caused most of them a lot of stuck type trouble. Fannin in his red hot Class 6 across the finish for third place, hometown competitor Fay Statezny having pulled off early with over heating troubles. Terry Friday in his Class 7 finished in fourth, good to see an "older" Off Road friend sta~ing with the ''whippersnappers''! Hats off to both SODA and Brush Run 101 for handling the Ladies Classes with the same professionalism as the "mens" Classes! The ladies driving both limited and unlimited rear engine buggies took the track first. Rhonda Smith took the top honors but not without her troubles. Her Class 2, 1600 took a 180 degree wrong turn and refused, for a while, to restart. But just let Rhonda get that rascal started and she's gone! Smith on her General tires took the checkered first but had to contend with Paula Parsons in her Class 11 restricted buggy . . Another Class 11, Teri Moser rounded out the top three with third place. The Women's Front Engine Class had a Heinz 5 7 variety of Class6s, 7s,8sand 13swithsome ladies who know how to drive! Gail Brand in her Class 8 came off the line in first and despite the best efforts of Class 13 Nancy Subscribe to DUSTY TIMES See Form Page 3 Dusty Times and he drove his Chevy to third in the Class 6/7 Challenge race. Vanden Huevel, Brand stayed there to take the win. Gail races on General tires. Vanden Huevel was followed by Class 8 Marie Wilke who placed third. Hard charging Kris DeGreef and Kathy Jensen driving a Class 6 pulled in fourth and fifth respectively. A Race Event at The World's Championship Brush Run 101 is NOT over until The Good Ole Boys run. Sometimes it's a race and sometimes it more resembles a demolition derby. This Spring Run 101 sawtheGOBSruna two heat Race! Walker Evans outfitted some of his crew members in GOB cars and they gave good competition to the rest of the field. A GOB car is required to have a roll cage and an ALL stock configuration from suspension to engine. It's sort of like taking the family Grocery Getter out on an Off Road track and giving it everything it has! W owsers, you have to see it to believe it! As the Spring Run 101 drew to a close, it was evident that there were differing opinions of the track, the racing and probably a whole lot more. Comments ranged from "It's too rough", to "I'd like to see it rougher". Walker Evans can be quoted as saying that this track " ... is the Indy of Off Road Racing in the Midwest." Spencer Low promises to be back as does Billy Beck and the Bundy Crew. All of our Canadian friends will be back and you can bet, we will be too! See ya' trackside! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Robby Gordon :--"V_e._nable Racing Tee Shirts Yes send me! Robby Gordon Ford Desert Truck Tee Shirts D Quantity Small D Quantity Large D Quantity Medium D Quantity Ex-Large $12 Q.Q. plus $2 Q.Q. for postage and handling per shirt. Rush to me, postpaid: NAME __________________ _ ADDRESS ________________ _ CITY _________ STATE ZIP Send check or money order to: Tee Shirts 118 W. Cleveland Ave., Suite B, Warren, Ohio 44483 September 1990 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I , I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Page 37

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Eric Arras Back in Saddle Again at Glen Helen Miller Off Road J3y Elaine Jones Photos: Custom Photography Eric Arras showed no signs of the painful foot injury as he had a perfect run in Class 10, driving his Chenowth to victory in both Class 10 heat races and he led the main event from flag to flag despite finishing on a flat tire. =--------------t Gary Gall had some engine trouble in the first heat, but he came back strong to keep Arras honest as he finished second in heat 2 and the Class 10 main event. A lot of Moms gave Dad a day mistakes that never came and at the races for Father's Day and 3radley, all the way from Las they got beautiful weather and Vegas, rounded out the top three some hotracing at Glen Helen as a with the third. bonus. The holiday did hurt the The Main had Arras on the pole entry and spectator count to and Bradley on the outside and it some degree, but those on hand was a drag race to the first tum were true enthusiasts. with Arras having an edge on Eric Arras coming off an injury horsepower and getting the lead. showed the guys in Class 10 that Gary Gall, coming off of the he is back and hasn't lost his second row, wasn't letting any touch. He served notice to Gary grass grow under his feet as he Gall that he is going to be looking wasted no time getting around for back to back championships Bradley to take over second. in Class 10 as he went a perfect Arras was having none of that and 1,1,1 and it doesn't get any better even though he ended the race than that. In the first heat Gary with a rear flat , tire Gall was Gall in the Mancha Racing/ unable to capitalize on it and he Radiator Man/Rev Power VW settled for second place money. Rabbit Chenowth went out first · Gersjes put it all together to come with Arras in the McDonald's/ up with the third holding off a Shock Tech Magnum Chenowth hard charging Bradley at the end. in hot pursuit. Gall was only good There were only three Mini for two laps before engine Mags on hand and they shared the problems sidelined him and Arras wealth pretty good with Kirk took over the lead with Art Gersjes in the Advanced Engine Mgmt/Champ Competition • Engine/ Bridgestone Ford Chen, owth getting by Tommy Bradley in the Alenco Windows & Bradley Window Corp Bradley Rabbit to take over second. After that everyone was content to just finish and they finished in that order. In heat 2 Arras had to come from the back with the inverted start and he did just that taking Mc Dan-i el fn the All Temp Control/Nelson Hardwood Floors/Pacific Offroad Chenowth Yamaha taking the win in Heat 1 and Don Weaver in the Mesa Del Mar/Don Weaver Backhoe Service/Easthills Chiropractic Yamaha Chenowth taking the second heat and Mike Myers in the M&D Racing Yamaha Chenowth having trouble in both. Weaver got the pole for the Main on a tiebreaker and that was all he needed to c·ome up with the overall. McDaniel was second and Myers was unable to start. The 1,2,1600 Class was one of the most hotly contested classes of the day. In the first heat Steve Bishop in the J.G. Tranwerks/ Bishop GffRoad Racing VW got the holeshot coming from the outside and took the lead with Chris Bowen in the Zuniga Auto Body/Foreign Unltd VW a close second and Rick Boyer in the Independent Pipe and Tubing Funco VW in third. Status,quo was held uq.til the third lap when Bob Mathews made a pass on Boyer. Unfortunately the rough driving committee thought it was a little too rough and set him down three positions giving Boyer the third overall. In the second heat the inverted start worked great for Andy Anderson in the Anderson Racing VW and Tim Riordan in the F.E.X. Engines Mirage VW. Anderson got to the corner first but Riordan caught him in two laps to take over the lead and the @& The afternoon last June was marked by red ;lags and restarts in the big classes. This jam up in the first turn by the 1600 cars is typical of the traffic problems. Rick Boyer ran third and fourth in the 1-2-1600 heats, but he bided his time in the main, watched the mayhem in front of him and took the lead on the last lap to win the main event. win. It didn't hurt that something went very wrong with Anderson's car and he made a "B" line fot the pits and shut it down. Mathews, meanwhile, in the Bill Siberman Construction/Dan Bentley /Ladd Liquor/Cadillac Plating Raceco VW was driving a good race on his own and had worked his way past Boyer to lock into second. Randy Bishop in the So. Horizon Contractors Bishop Racing VW had worked his way from fifth and was a comfortable third when the checkered flag came out. The Main was better than the fourth of July and the fireworks started at the drop of the flag. Steve Bishop starting on the outside of the first row beat Riordan to the comer and was out in front. Riordan held on to second for one lap before Boyer did a super spectacular pass on "Animal Leap" to take the spot. That seemed to unnerve Riordan and I think some mechanical problems came into play because he dropped way back allowing Mathews to crack the top three for two laps. Then all of a sudden we had a Bishop sandwich with Steve in the lead Boyer in second and Randy Bishop in the third. The brothers Bishop were definitely looking for a family sweep of the event. Boyer not only held onto his cool but put pressure on Steve and it paid off when he claimed the front running spot when the white flag came out. Randy made a major mistake and it cost him as he rolled and it totally took him out of the running which Bowen didn't mind at all as he quietly moved into the third and rounded out the field. The Challenger Class keeps growing and the racing is really getting intense. In the first heat they were sorting each other out and it was Jack Millerd in the West Engine Chassis & Suspen, sion/ Armstrong Tire West VW that held school and led the boys home. Content to play follow the leader were Kevin Davis in the CLS Landscape Mgmt lnc./Loth, r:ing_er Engineering VW and Norbert Staudt in the Kyler Racing/ Fortune VW. The second heat wasn't quite so tame as Davis got out first and tried to get as far away from the rest of the field as he could. Millerd did a little of his own distance making and it paid off for him as he rolled after the finish line but had a big enough lead that he was able to right himself and not lose a position. Jamey Long in the Ramtek Contractors/West Engine/ Maga Don Racing/ Longs Drilling VW Dog got by John Scharf in a VW to take the third. Scharf and his passenger were the only ones doing this act as a duo. It was a wire to wire romp for - the lead by the end of one lap and never looking back. Gary Gall with problems solved was right there in second waiting for the A pair of 5-1600 cars leading the class fly down the major landmark at Glen Walt Mathews started out in fifth, moved to second in the second heat, and kept Helen's off road course, a ski jump nicknamed by the racers as "Animal Leap." out of trouble in the main event to take the victory in Class 5-1600. Page JI September 1990 Dusty nma

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Steve Bishop won the first heat, dropped back in the next, but lost his lead late in the 1600 main and finished the day second in the close running class. Chris Bowen started out with a strong second in heat 1; had some trouble, but inherited third place on the last lap of the 1-2-1600 main event. Randy Bishop ran in the 1-2-1600 traffic all day, held third in the main until he got pushed off the course and rolled on the white flag lap. Davis in the Main as he left the battling to those following him. Millerd was out second and Long had the third. There was a major traffic jam in the first turn after the finish line and those that found reverse the quickest picked up some spots the easy way. Fortunately or unfortunately this did not affect the top three. The team of Scharf and Nelson were out early taking a goodly portion of banner with them and Long kept trying to roll his car in the same turn that had backed up traffic. When the roll finally came he had enough of a lead to hold his third place position. The 5-1600's started a full field of twelve in the first heat but by the end of six laps on the tricky Glen Helen course they were down to seven. Paul Molina and Russel Ludwig in the NEO Oil/Baker Bearings/Old Speed Baja VW had the track wired as they led from start to finish with out seemingly any problems. David Hendrickson and Kristine Hendrickson in the Pirelli Armstrong/ Courtney Tire/John Rogers Photo/Race Ready Products F.A.T. Daveco VW was not about to be budged from second. Walt Matthews and Eric Barton in the A-Door Co./Small Car Connection/Goodyear/ Hayes Offroad Fab. VW were not quite as lucky as it only took two laps to unseat them. Third was the moveable spot. Kathy Fay and Leslie Hung in the Armstrong Tires/Engine Machine Service VW took over the spot on the third lap and then had to battle sister Stacy Fay and Renee Tedesco also in an Armstrong Tires/Engine Machine Service VW for the next three laps before they were sure of the show spot. The second heat was a destruc-tion derby to the 10th degree with cars all over the place. The scorers had their hands fu[l just trying to keep track of the players. Stacy Fay gets the award for the most spectacular roll over of the day and passenger Renee for the bravest because she got back in the car with her. Molina and Ludwig logged their second win of the day with Matthews and Bolton picking up the second on the last lap and Carlos Zuniga and Mary Baldon in the Zuniga Auto :Body/ Foreign Unltd. VW getting the third. The Main had almost everyone back on the grid and it was a super start for Matthews and Bolton as they came off the second row to have the number one spot by the end of one lap. 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Paul Molina had a side by side dice in the main after winning both Jack Millerd won the first Challenger heat, and stayed up front 5-1600 heats, and he ended up second by some yardage at the all day with a second in the other heat and a close second in the Gilbert Valdez does a little wheelie in his Odyssey, en route to a pair of seconds in the heat races, but he dropped to fourth in the feature. checkered flag. main event. ----------------------.. piece of cake for Holladay as don/PEP /SCR/O'Neal/Trick/ he held school for those that Shoei Suzuki as he cruised to . could keep him in sight. Valdez second. Erik Cobb on the BV and Gersjes battled for the first Performance/K&N/ AXO/Bob's three laps before Gersjes broke on Krazy Brush/Sunstar /PEP Honda the uphill and Valdez had the and Michael Means on the second to himself. A battle , Rubber Ducky Racing/Suzuki Royale was shaping up between Country/Race Graphics/Unocal Chuck Parker in the Walnut Auto 76/ Mack Racing Products Suzuki W orks/BV Performance/Briggs- battle_d for third with the nod built Honda and Joe Price in the JD Price Co/CT Products/ La Puente Honda/ Goodyear/ Triple E Honda. So tight was the battle that it was a photo finish with Price taking the third by the width of a bumper. The Quads are growing again and a good field was on hand to see who would come out on top. Would it be the vets or the new kids on the block? In heat 1 it was Derek Hamilton on the PEP-/Bel: · Ray/ AXO/Scott/Graydon/ Shoei/Tsubaki/Performance Concrete Cutting Suzuki who going to Means. In the second heat David Barnes on the Skat Trak Honda got out first and held on for two laps before Helsley took it away. Meanwhile Cobb was on the gas and two laps later it came down to a drag race on the front straight-away and it was Cobb over Helsle , and with one lap to go the -showed everyone why he has number 1 on his plate. It was an easy start to finish lead for the young man from Laguna Niguel. Equally at home was Roger Rory Holladay is a top runner in the Odyssey-Super Lite class, and he won both Helsley on the Klemm/Gray-heats and the main event last June at Glen Helen OHV Park. TECH TIPS By Bill Savage, HDRA/SCORE Technical Director There really isn't any burning issue to deal with in this edition, because with the help and cooperation of the class reps, manufacturers competitors and officials of both SCORE Inter-national and the High Desert Rac-ing Association, plus the able negotiating of the Independent Desert Racers Association, most of the controversies over current and future rules have been laid to rest. One factor remains that could grow into a full scale con-troversy. I a~ probably asking for trouble by bringing it up, but whether we air the issue here or not, it's going to be something that is discussed in the weeks and months to come. It's the influence of major manufacturers on our "unlimited" class, Class 1. So far this season Ivan Stewart" has been dominating Class 1 in his Toyota. A few of the car owners and builders in the class have been rumbling and grumbling about the enormous resources that Toyota employed to create this domination, and there are other manufacturers who promise to become major factors in Class 1 next season and the years to come. The idea is that a manufacturer covets the right to brag about fin-ishing first overall, preferring that to first in a truck class. So the company car can start up front with the all out desert race cars and take its chances on winning Page 40 overall without having to fight its way through the dust by starting farther back in the field in one of the more limited classes. Toyota was sort of a pioneer in this respect. Back at the start of the old HDRA Frontier 500 several years ago, when rules were different between the two sanc-tion bodies, Toyota's tricked up truck didn't qualify as a Class 7 entry in HORA, only in SCORE. So the company entered in the unlimited Class 1 and came very close to winning the race overall. That encouraged Toyota to think about winning races overall, and the manufacturer committed itself to a long range program which is just now paying off with overall and Class 1 victories. At our own shop we are work-ing on the Nissan equivalent of that program, and for well over a year Chevrolet has been working toward the same goal with the S-10. Just recently Jeep announced its intention of jumping in the same arena in 1991. So the trend is clear. There will be factory bat-tles in Class 1 in 1991 and beyond. · There is an obvious downside to this exciting prospect for off road racing, the effect it is having on the regular competitors in Class 1. Now, Class 1 is not a "poor boy" class, but the private entries do have limited budgets. The average Porsche powered desert race car is being put together these days at a cost of $60,000 more or less, and cam-paigned for up to $40,000 a sea-son. Into this arena have come the $500,000 to a million dollar fac-tory race team budgets. The reac-tion by regular competitors was predictable. If you can't see the effects of factory racing in Class 1 by merely looking at the vehicles or count-ing noses in the racing pits where most private teams use volunteers while factory teams pay their crew members, by the way, you can notice a significant change in the way some of these new teams operate. At the recent HORA Fireworks 250, for instance, the factory teams were out "pre-. running" the course in helicop-ters. Since pre-running on the ground was prohibited, this gave them a big advantage to be able to inspect the course from the air. Helicopters are well outside the budget restraints of the average private race team. I am not bringing this up to stir up a controversy, but if we could focus a little on the issue to see if there is a way to solve the problem -of mixing factory and private teams in this class, I believe the discussion would be worthwhile. How do the politicians say it - I "misspoke" on a rule interpreta-tion· recently. The front wheel mount in 1991 will be measured plus or minus one inch from stock position on a centerline from the spindle to the back of the B pillar post in the cab in Classes 3, 4, 6, 7, 7S, 7 4x4 and 8. I had said it would be a half inch, but that was wrong. September 1990 win was his. Helsley was second and Hamilton was in for third assuring himself a good position for the main. The wiley veteran Hamilton unleashed it all when it counted in the main and he was gone leaving the battle for second. Helsley was what he thought a comfortable second but he didn't count on ~ Cobb who was putting on some kind of show at the back of the pack. A bad start had him in sixth but he was on the gas and by the fifth lap was fourth and on the white flag lap was riding double with Helsley. It was close at the flag but the second was still Helsley's with Cobb a well earned third. Derek Hamilton flew in A TV competition, finished first in the first heat and came on strong to win the main event as well. I do caution builders, tnany of (new this year) combined Class whom have been calling in on this· 1/2. The combination of these point, not to push the technical two classes has just about finished inspectors too far by using every off the single seaters, and only a last fraction of that inch to set the few are competing regularly this cab rearward. The rule is intended year. But Ivan Stewart's single seat to help constructors, but if they Toyo~ with a body made to look misjudge even by just 1/1,000th like a truck, has done a ~ot of of an inch, we will have to reject winning. thevehicleintech.It'smuchsafer So, for 1991 we suggest an to move everything three-unlimited class for open wheel quarters of an inch rather than the cars and one for full fender full inch, just to make sure the bodied cars, which would be for offset is legal and will pass the manufacturers who not only inspection. want to win overall but want to do Yes we've been getting calls it in something they can put their about the rule book. No, the rule name on that looks vaguely like a book has not been published yet. car or truck. That could be Class 1 Danny Cau has made some excel- and Class 2 could be for single or lent changes in the format to make two seat open wheel unlimited it more readable, but the changes cars, as Class 1 / 2 was intended to have made it necessary to hold up be this year. That, we think would. production and to call for addi- be the simple and no cost to tional proofreading. So the 1991- anyone solution to the factory 92 rule book is not at the printer invasion of the class. Look what yet, as this is being written. the factory invasion did to the If you have a question about Class 7 entry and it is now doing next year's rules, we would like to the same to Class 7 4x4. While it suggest that you contact your is keen to have such good factory class rCrP or call George Thomp-interest in off road racing, there son of the IDRA. They have a set still has to be the big classes like of rules for each class, and until 1/2, 1-2-1600 and Challenger to the book is out those are the best make the numbers that support sources for information. the promoters via entry fees and The DUSTY TIMES Solution make the host city happy with the extra business from a big race to Factory vs Privateer entry. This is the most simple of There are a few methods of all the solutions we thought of solving the unlimited class dilema while reading Tech Tips, and for as more and · more factory cars those who want no more classes, appear wanting to start up front. include the few existing Class 7 To date, the Toyota, after years of trucks in the new factory class. trying, is the only one able to keep The privateer 7 trucks should do up with the Porsche powered well the first year as new factory open wheelers. We are assuming spec race cars do not have good that when he said Class 1 in Tech track records of finishing desert Tips that Bill Savage meant the races. Dusty Times

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The GMC Rally is a Really Big Van By Jean Calvin When the local GMC Public 'Relations folks offered us the use of a GMC Rally van for a week, we thought it would be ideal to take to the FR T Rock Around the Clock Race. The mini van would give us space to stretch out to rest during the long night hours as well as being maneuverable in the pit areas. We were a bit surprised to find out the Rally model is a long way from a mini van; in fact, it is one big moose that comes in either a 125 inch wheelbase or the extended version, new this year, of 146 inch wheelbase. Of course, our lmperial Valley cruiser was the 146 inch' wheelbase 03500 Rally with STX trim, and all sorts of other goodies. This vehicle could carry 15 passengers in the super size version, or a dozen folks with a · generous cargo area, which was the configuration of the van pictured here.You could use it for car pooling for sure, carry the entire little league team and the family or incredible amounts of cargo. Even with all the impedi-menta we carry, like a tent, ice chest, bundles of papers plus luggage and wheelchair, etc., we couldn't begin to fill this vehicle up, but it was nice not to have to pack carefully utilizing every inch of space available. However, the only sour note was, with the 15 passenger layout, the spare tire rack was centered right in front of the rear swing out doors, so you couldn't take the most rearward seat out to make cargo space. We took out the second bench seat which gave us plenty of room. The 5. 7 liter V-8 is standard on the van, but this HD Extended Rally STX carried the optional 7 .4 liter EFI gas engine in its nose mated to the standard three speed automatic transmission and a 3.73 to 1 final drive ratio. The GVW rating was listed at 8600 pounds and the window sticker listed heavy duty chassis equip-ment. The van rides on 8.75 x 16.5 tires, and has a 33 gallon fuel tank. Standard on this model is power steering, a must, disc/ drum brake system with rear wheel anti-lock brakes, all sorts of gauges and a clock, tinted glass, side window defoggers, intermittent wipers,. AM/FM stereo system and cassette player, a trip odo, and halogen high beam headlights. It had so many extras that it would fill a book just to list them all. A neat feature on the rear double doors is that the glass swings out to let fresh air pass through the vehicle, sort of a Mexican air conditioning, but, of course, the van was fitted with air condition-ing units front and rear, part of the $3200 value package added to the roughly 20 grand list price. On the road heading southeast from Los Angeles we enjoyed the super ride quality of a big vehicle fitted with all the good time stuff as well as functional options. Something more vans should have is the folding arm rests on both sides of the reclining front bucket seats, but oddly· enough this unit didn't have a center console stowage box. We did find a handy storage box under the passenger seat though. There was plenty of leg room for driver and ' Photos: John Calvin front seat passenger, nice to have · over the road, and plenty of performance when needed on the two lane highway heading to El Centro. There is no substitute for cubic inches in a big truck hauling a load. Even though the 7.4 liter gas engine is listed at 230 net SAE HP, it feels like more, and one could surely tow a heavy trailer with this unit without any problem. For our purpose, covering a race that lasted 24 hours in the middle of the desert, this rig was just a dandy choice. While we originally had some reservations for taking such a big and heavy 2WD out around the sandy pits and start/finish area, the van was driven carefully around the soft spots; so it took us around the pits all day and night, and out to visit a checkpoint with no problem, although some of the folks were suryrised to see us in the middle of nowhere with the big van. With fewer seats it could make a good pit vehicle with space to carry most anything, but its forte is as a people hauler. Whilewedidn'tgo any distance with a load of folks, we did have a few visitors in the afternoon who came in to sit a spell and enjoy the air con-ditioning. Some of the options that come in the value package we consider a must. Things like power windows and power door locks on such a wide vehicle made sense, as do the good sized outside mirrors. For a mere $135 you get an engine oil cooler, a definite must it you plan to haul_a heavy lo?,d 9r ~Jrailer. .; ... , .:, ... ..... :-.. The extended version of the Rally STX van was a good sized package, but it sailed over the sand with no trouble, and didn't leak dust at all, quite a change from older models. The double swing out doo;s·o,t the ;;de .are most handy; one can walk in and to the rear, or stow vast amounts of cargo without any difficulty through this wide opening. Dusty Times September 1990 The rear doors are swing out style like those on the side, and a neat feature is that the rear door glass swings out too, to provide flow through ventilation in mild weather. ' And we have been spoiled by the roadside gravel get you. PR fleet cars which all come with Overall we enjoyed our week tilt steering wheels, most withtheGMCRallySTXvan,but important in a family truck, and it sure filled up the driveway atthe some sort of cruise control. family homestead, and is a tad The styling is sleek with a bit of awkward to park in tight places. It a nose drop for aerodynamics, would be great for a large and and we like the dual headlights, . growing family or any number of that not only look good but make other uses, and it sure provides a sense on the western highways comfortable ride on the long haul. where a lot of remote area stores Check it out for your van pool or I still don't stock square replace-your scout troop, or just for the ment headlights, should the fun of having a really big van. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■mm■nmmmnm[I!■■ ■■■ ■■■ I ■■ I II I I■ I I■ I I RadnglXKBnlka ,-----,11 l Front $500 I I Rear (dual • colper) $150 I ■■■111■■11 I ■■■■■■■ I I I l I I. I EADY 103 Press Lane, Suite # 4 • Chula Vista, CA 92010 (619) 691-9171 • (619) 691-9174 • FAX (619) 691-0803 .,... Page 41 -

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-.. , ADIIA INTERNATIONAL ROUND •I McMullen Mows 'Em In Mountains By Daryl Drake Photos lry Curt Hummel/3-D Photography Al McMullen flew hard and fast to pick up the Overall and Class 10 honors in his Rabbit-motored Funco. Phoenix Phlyer Al McMullen charged to his first Pro Overall and Class 10 wins here at the American Desert Racing Associa-tion's Sixth Annual "High Country 250" on an early July Saturday. Making a molehill out of the mud-splattered mountain, -McMullen roared across the finish line with an elapsed time of 5:22: 12, a 37 .99 mph average and an 18-minute margin over runner-up Tom Murray, Class 1/2 winner. Carrying McMullen to victory was the same Funco that earned him his first Sportsman Overall at the last edition of this event in 1988. Now running Rabbit power, and sponsored by Yoko-hama/Foddrill Fabrication/Trick Fuel/Ay-N-Hi, McMullen turned hot lap of the day on his third circuit with a time of 51:45. "This week sure ended better than it started. First I put a screwdriver through my hand, then I burnt my back on Si'mmons' exhaust in the shop ... Hit some trees today, but no troubles other than a sore hand and back!" laughed McMullen. "The rain was a big factor", added -""· McMullen. "People were going off the track left and right. When you;d get in the mud, you couldn't see and that's when you hit trees. Thanks to Pat Hughes f9r the tranny, Jamar for the brakes and Summers Brothers. Fun to beat the Porsches!" The race, originally scheduled for seven laps inside of eight hours over a 34 mile long course, without recording a lap. was shortened by one lap during Rain had begun to fall early in the race at the promoter's option. the race and the wind began to That made things a little easier for howl, but McMullen was moving McMullen; he crossed the finish up through the mud and had line with a rapidly leaking rear tire · taken first place on the road well and a loose front end. But it cost before Checkpoint 3 on the at least one team a finish. second lap. Positions on the clock Theroutefollowedmanyofthe remained the same with the same powerlines, ranch and exception of Calvelage, who logging roads as in the past, but moved into fourth after Pierce this year's edition featured a ruptured an oil cooler and lubed section named "83 Turns" the woods. instead of" 38 Turns". And after Lap four saw the storm hit the taking a trip through this section racers in earnest as I hastily Friday before the race to scout retreated to the relative comfort photo locations, I advised the of the ADRA motorhome. Beard racers to shorten their vehicles to broke a pivot bolt on the left rear 80 inch wheelbases. trailing arm and slowed to a wet Before the 12:30 p.m. start of crawl. the Pro Division, ADRA had Us desert dwellers were cold planned a trophy and check pups! But McMullen stayed hot presentation for the winners of and in the lead for the duration, 1989's Sonoyta to Rocky Point picking up time again on the last race. Time grew short so the items lap as conditions grew tacky after were handed out individually, and the rain stopped. Cheuvront was the racers lined up for the start in second, 31:59 later. A landscaper thisclassorder: 10, 1/2,8,4, 1-2-by trade, he couldn't resist 1600 and Challenger. moving a few trees around (his From the beginning, it was to be comment: "Just a little wood-McMullen's day in Class 10 as he cutting ... "), and bounced off built up a 2:35 lead over SCORE Class l/2's Jerry Finney. Third World Champ Ed Beard on lap and final finisher was Stan one. Steve Cheuvront was third a Calvelage, who, after a troubled couple more minutes back, ahead· first three laps, was right in step of Jim Pierce and Stan Calvelage. with McMullen. One of the infamous "Jumping ADRA has now combined Junipers" h.ad waylayed the Classes 1 and 2, and I urge them Overall 1989 ADRA Desert and the other sanctioning bodies Championship winning team of to rename the class "Unlimited" Bill Capatch and Tom Higgins by or. at least just call it Class 1, and neatly clearing off the left rear 1-2-1600 could become Class 2. suspension; they were done Well,anyway,thiswasthebiggest Al McMullen and daughter Lindsay shared the victory circle. Wish we could show you just how blue her eyes are. Tom Murray piloted his Woods Vulcan to the Unlimited class win, whlie Theresa McQuown brought the car in for First Overall and Unlimited Novice. class of the race with seven entries, and the Finney / Foddrill team, with Jerry Finney at the helm of a Porsche-powered single Chaparral, was out front with a 54:44. Jerry Everett was about a minute and a halfback for second, with Tom Murray third, the team of ·Paul Nolte and Conrad Monroe fourth, and Greg Holman fifth in a new Porsche-powered single DirTrix. On lap two, Finney apparently blew a turn and got onto the minibike course for Sunday's motorcycle races. This took him down·an old railbed 'til he got to where an old trestle used to be. But he saw arrows on the other side so he plunged down the face of the canyon and clambered out the other side only to rapidly realize the trees were soon to be less than six feet apart and that a major navigational error had occurred. . But Murray was on course and on the gas, taking the lead. Everett stayed in second, Nolte/Monroe and Holman moved up a notch and Steve Simmons slipped into fifth. Bill Cook was finally on the pace after his fuel injection dropped three cylinders due to a loose wire. Finney, meanwhile, was back in the canyon, trying to Don Weiser and Jeff Wester were slow but sure in Class 1-2-1600 and endured a cold ride to the win. Jack Rose entered his first Class 4 race in the Pro division, finished with less than a 'minute left on the ·clock, but with the class win. Frank Turben was all alone in Class 8 and ran respectable times until steering trouble stopped him. Team Struttman found themselves upside down less than two miles off the start but came back to snatch the Challenger victory. September 1990 Dusty Times

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Jerry "Snatch-um Strap" Finney was a feared contender until he Jim and Gail Allison kept it on the road this year and earned the Team Marciano cruised to an easy victory in the Sportsman made one simple mistake. Time then ran out before the car Sportsman Overall and Class 10 trophies. Unlimited class. could finish. Mike Woods came from behind to win Sportsman Class 5-1600. Joel Schildkrant and Kirk Keating gave this poor old Datsun a beating, taking the Sportsman fourth OJA and Class 7 win positions. Fred Wilson piloted the R.K. Smith Beard's Challenger to second 0/A Novice and Novice 1600 Ltd. honors. go back the way he'd come to no. avail. Murray pitted for a driver change before the final check, and Everett snuck by to take the lead by 21 seconds after three laps. Greg Oswskey was now at the wheel of Murr.ay's machine. Nolte/Monroe were now fourth behind Holman. Finney was now headed up the canyon in a westerly direction, figuring the course would be out there somewhere. The Everetts were forced into a long pit stop by race officials before they could begin lap four. Seems their exhaust system was in the self-destruct mode. Simmons would soon lose the transmission. Oswskey, relying on co-0river Shirley Gertsen for direction since she'd been in the car for two circuits earlier, slid into a muddy lead. Nolte/Monroe took over second, Holman stayed in third, the Everetts were now fourth and Cook was fifth. Finney was back on course again after Frank Thomas tied a few tow straps together, and from the rim, pulled Finney out of the canyon with the ADRA Rescue 4WD. And to add insult to injury, on his next lap, the admittedly overdriving Steve Cheuvront put the tap on him in "83 Turns." Dan Foddrill took over the wheel for the final three laps and ran trouble free except for the clock. Oswskey brought the Murray entry in the winner at second 0/ A witn a time of 5:40: 16 and a 35.97 mph average for the Murray Racing/Woods Wheel Works/Woods Off Road Pro-ducts Woods Vulcan. "The car was really dialed in, and I'd like to thank Jack Woods and Tracy Springman for their excellent race prep, and all the ADRA volunteers," said Murray. "And Greg for bringing the car back in one piece!" Oswskey added, "It was still in good shape when I got it and Woods had the car set up well, really good in the rough. But poor Shirley was freezing!'' Twenty-four minutes back were Nolte and Monroe. Everett was out with a broken stub axle. ADRA had cut the time limit by one hour along with the final lap, and Foddrill, running 53 minute laps, was in for third at Dusty Times 7:05 after six, so if all seven laps had been run, he's confident the team would have finished on time. "We were prepared to go seven laps, and we were going to go seven laps," said Foddrill. "Of course, Mr. Cheuvront, you know this means war!" laughed Rnney in reference to the tap. Flying Frank Turben was all alone in Class 8 and ran two strong laps only to retire the big Chevy on lap three with major steering woes. And in Class 4, Jack Rose proved that size isn't everything, keeping it up for 6:59:12 in the little Desert Rose Racing CJ-5, while the big Jim Bell/Walt Laycock Honcho truck went limp with a tired rear end on lap two out of a race shortened to five. Nels Dutton had the Borel/ Dutton Chenowth in the lead by 1:43 over Don "The Motor's Weak" Weiser after lap one in Class 1-2-1600 with Jim Nelson third and Bill Krug, Sr. fourth. But the margin dropped to ten seconds after lap two, and at the end of three Weiser took over for the duration in the T.U.F. Off Road/Safari Landscaping/Kama Racing two seater, turning in a time of 5:56:36 and a 34.32 mph average. Borel drove the last three laps for second, picking up 1 :40 in penalties for clearing o·ut the stakes at the finish line chicane in the process, and Krug was third. Nelson can tell his "loser" story to Judy Smith. "It's my birthday and we won so I'm happy!" said Weiser. "Last week was my little girl's birthday and she won her first motocross, so it's worked out great!" Co-driver, Jeff Wester, confined to a wheelchair by MD, added that it was a good ride and not nearly so scary as riding with his sister on the road at night. Just three Challengers started; one completed six laps. Ron Dalke held the lead in his new bug-eyed Baja Bug, Tom and Mike Struttmann were second after a slow roll two miles out, and Pete Gannon was third in his new 5-1600-styled Baja Challenger. Dalke held the lead 'til his coil went on lap four. Team Struttman then took over to bring the Bert Minshall backed Chenowth two seater in with a time of 6:51 :41 and a 29.73 mphaverageforninth 0/ A. So out of the 23 starters, ten Pro racers earned a finish. Earlier in the day, the Sports-m an and Novice (formerly Beginner) divisions raced with the former running three laps and the latter two. First off was Sportsman 10 followed by 1/2, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 (isn't this getting ridic-ulous!), 7S, Novice Unlimited and Limited 1-2-1600. Lap one saw former ATV ace Steve Melton out front in a Beard's, with the team of Bruce Mills and Randy Miller second, Jim Allison third, James Taggert fourth, Reuben Wood fifth, Rudy Warren sixth and Travis Sellers, sans right front spindle, seventh. Melton increased his lead to 8:05 as Mills/ Miller fell to sixth with brake woes on lap two. Jim Allison ran his best lap on the final circuit, to earn the Sportsman 0/ A and Class 10 wins in the Allison Automotive Hi-Jumper with a time of 2:54:44 and a 35.02 average. "Nice to be out front again. I saw a deer but.he was faster than me", grinned Allison at the finish line. Gail, his wife and co-driver said she had told him to go for it the whole way, "Then I realized this was where he took us off the side of a mountain two years ago!" Taggert was seven minutes back for second, Wood third and 1 Warren fourth after tire and fan belt troubles. But Wood was DQ'ed for leaving the course illegally. Class 1/2 was the Marcianos' and they brought their Marciano Graphics Woods Vulcan in at fifth 0/ A with a time of 3: 17:54 Challenger. He only completed one lap but had a scenic tow home. Joel Schildkrant earned a fourth 0/ A finish and the win in his 7S Nissan's race debut. "I drove this truck from '79 'til '85, put 130,000 miles on it and then parked it", said Joel. "It needed a rest." Kirk "No relation to Charles" Keating, co-driver, old friend and ex,motorcycle racer, added, "I broke my back in '86, so I said 'let's build a race truck. Took us 'til now to get it going. But I didn't ever have to get out, and being in a wheelchair, that's good! We had a great time, and I'm glad it was his side of the truck that Joel put into the trees ( referring to the fresh bodywork)." Out of 13 starters, seven Sportsmen finished. In Novice action, Theresa McQuown brought the Murray Woods Vulcan in first 0 / A and Unlimited with a timeof2:18:27. And Fred "Wildman" Wilson piloted the R.K. Smith entry, the Beaver's Exterminating/General Tire/Country Tire Store Beard's Challenger to the Limited 1-2-1600 win and second 0/ A five minutes slower. ·1.,, --·-SiiiiE - . -· "I had to save the car for Tom, so I didn't get over my head and drove my own race", said Theresa. '<.( had to sit on big foam pads just to reach the pedals and I slipped off 'em a couple of times. But I think more women should race!" "Yabba Dabba Do!" said Fred. So two out of three Novices · finished, giving the division the best finishing ratio: 66.66666666 ( this is getting ridiculous!) % . Although the entry was way., down, all in attendance had a good time and are looking'. forward to the "Snowflake Buggy Bash" over the Labor Day weekend. Various reasons were cited for the low turnout - the Fireworks, the fire fears ( the "Dude" fire was just 50 miles away), the date change from the schedule, Arizona's economy, higher entry fees, fewer contingencies, and protesters upset about the delayed payout of 1989 points series awards and monies. ADRA is now relying on volunteer help to run checkpoints, etc. If you'd like to help, give Tim Abril a call at ( 602) 848-14 25 for more information. "BIGGER 1s· aETTER l · and a 30.92 mph average. . Upgrade t_he_ C.V.s and torsion axles on ·your pre-runner, IRS And Bob Burns was Class 1-2-BaJa Bug or hm1ted horsepower off road race car by letting us 1600 'til his motor went away in convert your stub axles and transmission output bells to accept the the same spot as at the last High larger C.V. joints. Country. Convert Type I stub axles and output bells to accept Type II or R G d h ld r Type IV or 930 C.V. joints. on ar ner e sway ror the . . Convert Type II stub axles and output bells to accept 930 C.V. first two laps in 5-1600, building 1omts. • upa 2:11 lead but was never heard All axles and bells for Type II or Type IV C.V.s can be threaded -from again, and Mike Woods ¾-24 or stock 8mm. · brought the D.R.T./The Shop/ All axles and Bells for930 C.V.s can be threaded ¾-24 or stock Wade's Automotive/Fox Shox/ 10mm threads. SuperSeats by Beard/Y okoharna FIT YOUR OFF ROADER WITH UPGRADED AXLES AND JIELLS sedan in with the win and a time of Only $49.95 per_ flange on your supplied parts. . 4:ll:59anda24.29mphaverage. MARVIN SHAW ENG. Unfortunately for Woods, his long last lap broke the time limit P.O. BOX 845 • 101 BROADWAY of four hours. 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Steve Yost hustled his seasoned two seat Class 10 car into the lead from time to time, and got over the jumps to a pair of fourth place finishes, in heat 2 and the main. Steve Rhoades ran his 1600cc race car with the Class 10 chargers, and put on a fine show with a string of fifth place overall finishes. Ken Seale started out strong, finishing second and third in the heats, but ended his night on a sad note by breaking in the main before completing the first lap. Carter Continues Reign at Ventura Raceway Text & Photos by Richard K. Schwalm The buggy ra~ers ar~ gaining strength and are popular with the spectators as they run in tight bunches like this every time they take to the tight turns and jumps on the track. Each month Ventura Raceway hosts off road buggie races and each month veteran off road racer Ron Carter sprays dirt on all the competition. And this month was , no exception. Promoter Jim Naylor and his dedicated staff continue to provide a favorable venue for off roaders who want to run their open,wheeled off road vehicles just for kicks or have some friendly wheel,to,wheel competi, tion. Naylor and his staff also welcome racer's suggestions to improve the buggie race format, payback schedule and track design. This month's track design was an improvement for the buggie racers due to the addition of some 1989 FORD RANGER FIBERGLASS , NOW AVAILABLE! Update your current Ranger to 1989 aero styling; design to retain stock appear-ance and allow 34" tall tires. SCORE/HORA legal, bolts to stock panels or DZUS on. Reinforced hood to stop distortion at speed. Racers Price Available. Dimple Die Sets now In stock-½" -1" -1½" -2" CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN 39067 Orchard St. Cherry Valley, CA 92223 Curt Leduc, Owner (714) 845~20 Page 44 Heat Treated and Plated. Midwest Division Chuck Johnson Off Road Racing 8403 Vicki Road Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 332-9681 September 1990 l Ron Carter won the second heat and the main event in July and the short course veteran is currently the dominating force in Class 10 in the series at Ventura Raceway. new turns and mogols at each end of the quarter,mile dirt oval. Also new was the race format without the individual qualifying session. Just two heat races, with inverted grid positions, and one big main event at the end of the night's program. To open the racing program and as an added treat for the race fans, SCORE champion Mike Schwellinger drove his Class 3 Jeep around the track carrying our American flag during the playing of the national anthem. After a few practice laps to learn the new course and set the cars up, and some bike m~to~, the first heat was next up on the busy program. The cars lined up in rows of two with Steve Rhoades ( in the only Class 1600 buggie) on the inside pole and Ron Carter on the outside. Steve Yost in his trusty two,seater was inside second row with young Jimmy May at his side. Richard Litton and Ken Seale made up the last row. As the first green flag flew, Carter was well on his way to take the holeshot in the first tum and the lead as the rest of the field gave chase. Yost made a strong start and ran a strong second with Litton hot on his tail. Seale Ma Richard Litton drove hard all night and nose walked his white racer into a first heat win and a strong second place in the second heat and the very quick main event. Young and eager Jimmy May, with wise consul from his father, had a lot of early lap success, but had to settle for third spot in the first heat and the main. Dusty Times

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and Rhoades had their own battle going with position changes on every lap. After opening up a big leading gap, Carter experienced some troubles with lapped traffic' and soon Yost, who was having a· heated duel with Litton for the second spot, and most of the field passed Carter. Looking and sounding like his troubles were over, Carter took off after the pack to retake the lead. But on the last lap, while in the lead, Yost found himself high-centered on the big tire marker two turns from the checkered flag. That allowed Litton to win the first heat race of the evening followed by Seale, May, Carter and Rhoades. After some repair time and more bike heats the cars gridded for the second heat with Ken Seale on the inside pole position and Jimmy May next door. The second row was Steve Yost and Richard Litton with Ron Carter and Steve Rhoades behind in the last row. May made the best start of his young racing career by taking the lead from the first turn. Litton, Seale, Carter, Yost, and Rhoades followed as the race of the night began to take shape. Litton was all over May for a few laps until Litton passed to lead the field. Next up to do battle was Seale and soon passed May for second place. Meanwhile, Carter was driving like wildfire, passing orie car after another on his way up to the lead. The crowd loved the chase and roared with Carter's every pass. As the white flag was waved, Carter was in second place challenging Litton for the lead. With the crowd on their feet and Litton doing a superb job leading the race, Carter just could not be stopped. By the time the check, ered was waved Carter was in the lead with Litton only inches behind. After a small gap came S(ale in third, Yost, Rhoades, and May. Now the stage was set for a shootout between Litton and Carter in the last race of the night. For the main event Litton had the inside pole and Carter on the outside. Seale and May were behind them with Yost and Rhoades filling out the last row. Off the grandstands jump they flew and Carter barely took the holeshot and the lead from Litton in the first turn. May made another strong start closely followed by Rhoades, Yost, and Seale. The hot start took its toll on Seale who pulled off the track on the first lap with a wounded race car. Turn after turn and lap after lap Litton dueled with Carter for the lead. They set the fastest pace of the night and no one could keep up. Soon they were lapping traffic, passing on different sides hoping one would get an advantage. Carter wanted more room in front and Litton wanted room to make the pass. This was serious racing and the crowd loved every lap. But the laps ran out, as they always do, and the field finished in the same order·. Carter winning again, Litton a very close second, May hung in for a solid third, Yost finished brakeless with his brake lever in his hand, and Rhoades soldiered on to another_ fifth place overall finish. So once again Ron Carter took the main event victory and handsome trophy home from this month's Ventura Raceway event, but he really had to work for this one. Who knows, maybe next month's race results will be different? Dusty Times SUSQUEHANNOCK TRAIL SCCA PRO RALLY Californians Jeff Zwart and Cal Coatsworth First Overall By Judi Gooch Jeff Zwart and Calvin Coatsworth claimed their first ever overall PRO Rally victory, driving the Mazda 323 to a 38 second overall win and they also took the overall points lead in the close running Open Class. Jeff Zwart and Calvin Coatsworth, both from Corona del Mar, CA, were first in Open Class and overall at the Susquehannock Trail Pro Rally in Pennsylvania. The pair took their first overall win in their Pro Rally careers in their Mazda 323, after fighting dust, fog, mud and rain all in the same event. The team has been consistent throughout the season, always finishing in the top five, and this win puts them in first place for the championship by only three points. Bruno Kreibich and co,driver Jeff Becker were second in their Audi Quattro. Paul Choiniere and co-0river Scott Weinheimer managed a great third place in their Audi Quattro despite losing over five minutes on the first stage when a fuse controlling the fuel system malfunctioned. The event started with a charity rally Friday afternoon to raise money for the Special Olympics. The organizers put together a fairly easy time and distance rally, .,, Gary and Ju California w Toyota and and held a school on Thursday night. They were rewarded for their effort by a large local turnout for the charity event, and raised over $600 for the local Special Olympics fund. The Pro rally started Saturday with a traditional display of cars around the Village Green, and then it was off to the first stage for the 62 starting vehicles. There are always several hundred people watching the cars plow through the creek on this traditional stage in the middle of Stony Fork creek outside of Wellsboro. The creek was a little higher than usual this year, only a couple of inches, but it seemed to have caused a lot more problems than usual with several teams blowing engines because of the ingested water. Chad Dimarco and co,driver . Erick Hauge broke the front suspension on their Subaru RX just before the creek crossing. They were able to limp into service but lost twenty,one minutes in making repairs. These road points moved them from fourth to 17th overall. They were luckier than Sakis Hadjiminas and co,driver Henry Noga, who went into the creek crossing with a flat tire and hit a rock that broke the front A,arm on their Audi Quattro and put them out of the rally. The weather this year was typical STPR weather, hot and humid in the afternoon, with thunderstorms, rain and fog during the night stages. The afternoon stages were dry and dusty. The roads were. very fast and in perfect shape until the thunderstorms hit; then they were very muddy and slick. After the four daylight stages, there was another Park Expose around the Village Green. Only 46 of the original starters made it this far. Doug Shepherd and co,driver Joe Andreini had taken the lead in their Dodge Daytona. Their lead was short lived however. They broke an axle on the sixth stage and spun the car off the road, into a creek, and were not able to get out with one wheel drive. Tim O'Neil had ingested water into the VW Rall ye Golf's supercharger in the creek crossing. The team, including driver and co,driver, worked frantically to dismantle the supercharger and dry it out during the dinner break. In the rush to get everything done, the fuel needed for the next section was miscalculated and O'Neil ran out of gas about six miles from the end of the stage. When the rally ended there were only thirty,one cars that made it to the final control. This was the first time in-several years that less than half the starting field finished a national event. The rally also put some new faces in front at the awards ceremony on Sunday. Dan Theil and co,driver C.R. Shalvoy won Group A in their Volvo 142. Chad DiMarco and Erick Hauge managed to finish second in Group A even with 21 minutes in road points .. David ·Lapham and co,driver Susan Ferretti took their Mazda 323 to its first Production GT win, and Tom Ottey and Pam McGarvey were second in another Mazda 323. . Production Class was the one nobody wanted this time, as four of the top five class contenders did not finish. Mark Molner and co,driver Y orgi Bittner had a great run in their VW GTI to win the class and finish fifth overall, bested only by Open Class cars. John Desyn and co,driver Andy Mayfield were second in another VWGTI. The truck class started off to be another close battle between Roger Hull and co,driver Rob Cherry in their Jeep and Gary and Judi Gooch in their Toyota. There was only 12 seconds separating them at the restart. But Hull had problems on the muddy evening stages and eventually slid off the road. Gooch won the class and finished tenth overall. Swedish driver Tibor VonDenes and co, driver Boyd Smith finished second in their Dodge despite V onDenes still being sore from his crash at the Tiadaghton Pro Rally. As usual competitors at Susquehannock Trail Pro Rally were blessed with a beautifully organized event. The organization here is evident in all the small details of the rally, and the town of Wellsboro goes to great Ieng ~ to make everyone feel welcome and support the event. It is definitely worth the trip to Pennsylvania. Jeff Zwart leads the Open Class points followed by Paul Choiniere and Bruno Kreibich. Chad DiMarco is tops ahead of Dan Thiel and Demitri Andreou in Group A, while Gary Gooch leads Roger Hull and Tibor VonDenes in Rallytrucks. Noel Lawler leads David Laphan and Alan Freed in Production GT points, and Mark Molnar tops Cal Landau and W .G. Giles in Production Class. PUT YOUR FUEL IN A SAFE PLACE. This is a Fuel Safe Rac-ing Cell after a rear end collision. The Fuel Safe Bladder survived with only minorscracthes and No Leaks! And the car went on to WIN the race. Fuel Safe Cells are ap-proved by all major rac-ing associations. And for a good reason. 5271 Business Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92849 (714) 897-2858 (800) 433-6524 Mark Molnar and Yorgi Bittner survived the rigors of the course m their VW GT/, and the team won the Production class handily and the win gave Molnar the class points lead. · September 1990 Fuel Safe Racing Cells. A safe place to put your fuel for over 15 years. Manufactured by Aircraft Rubber, Inc. Pagc45

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Georgia Report By Bob Rule Photos: Keith Williams, Lithia Automotive Mike Hester made his first visit from Orlando in July, and he wa"i up front most of the way, a·ndpulled off a last lap pass to · win the race overall. The Georgia Off Road Racing' Association (G.O.R.R.A.) was formed twelve years ago. Three times a year they venture down and race with their sister club in Florida, the Florida Off Road Driv, ers Association (F.O.R.D.A.). -.GORRA runs five 50 mile races, two 100 milers, one 150 miler and their annual showcase, a six hourThanksgiving250 each year. The first Saturday in December of 1990 they will host their 12th Annual Awards Banquet. The GORRA club runs their races on a 44 acre (plus access to another 150 acres) plot that they lease from four of their members. Using their own property they can run a two mile track or a 1 ¾s course. The shorter course can be viewed entirely from both the pits and the spectator area. Race day for June-was hot and dusty. To try and make for a safer· race, we ran the three mile track outside Vienna to let the cars spread out. The woods were really dusty as welf as the front part of the track. As usual the competi, tion started with the heat races. Florida's Mike Notary won the 1600 heat with Bob Rule in second and Lindy Herrell took third. Dusty Chitwood won the Challenger heat with Robin Williams in second, and Larry Porter was third driving Steve Rule's #970 Challenger. There were several unusual happenings at this event. Challen, ger driver Steve Langley arrived too sick to drive and went home before the first heat race. Sammy Herrell broke a c.v. joint in the I laps, although Rick turned the car 1600 heat race and could not find over on lap 9 and then Mickey got a spare. So he had to sit out the in to finish. Mike Notary got in 12 feature. A driver was docked a lap laps before he was knocked out of for speeding through the pits, and second place when-a bolt fell out lastly, the final results were of the front torsion housing. changed on Tuesday. Here is why! In the Challenger action Chris Bob Rule in #670 had led the Williams covered 15 laps, losing feature for 45 of the 50 miles. On two laps with a flat tire, but he still the next to last lap he tore the left won the class, just ahead of Robin front wheel completely off the car Williams who had his flat tire on going down into the woods. The the last lap. Dusty Chitwood was car ran very well even on three third, breaking a spindle on lap wheels. Lindy Herrell in #671 got 13, and Larry Porter lost his past Rule on that lap to take over clutch on lap 9. Darrin Stephens first place. Rule continued to run, was fifth, doing merely five laps and, while closing fast, he held off before blowing oil put him in the James Hester on the last lap to be pits, and Darrel McKie got in just flaggep second with Hester a close four laps before breaking three third. Through a misinterpreta, shocks and parking. tion of the rules Rule was scored Midyear James Hester leads the and declared second. He himself 1600 points at 125, followed by went home and read the rules and Lindy Herrell, 122; Bob Rule, called Joy Porter on Monday and 117; Mickey Smallwood, 116, pointed out the error. The rule and Mitchell/Lucas, 112. Robin plainly states you can only finish Williams leads the Challenger thelapyoulostthewheelon.Rule· points with 134, followed by passed the scoring stand twice on Mitchell/Williams and Steve threewheels,ano,no. The last lap Langley tied at 121, and Dusty did not count so he was moved Chitwood and Clint Hurst tied at from second to fourth. It was nice 112. These points totals do not to see Mike Notary back up from yet include the season end throw Florida again. He is a nice person out events. and a good racer. The July 100 miler marked the Many drivers had major or fifth of the nine race season. minorproblemsduringtheevent. GORRA runs two classes, Those without troubles included Challenger and 1,2,1600. The Lindy Herrell and James Hester, top three points leaders after the and third placing Jeff Lucas, as July race are James Hester, these three 1600s all covered 17 followed by Bob Rule in 1600s laps. Bob Rule, as mentioned was with Lindy Herrell and the fourth with 16 laps done and a Mitchell/Lucas team tied for broken spindle, and Rick and third. Among the Challengers, Mickey Smallwood covered 15 Robin Williams is the runaway . ,.., Chris Williams did a great job with brother Robin's car, taking the Challenger class victory, leading flag to flag. Robin is way ahead in Challenger class points. leader, followed by Steve Langley, third, also covered 33 laps and and the Mitchell/Williams team was GORRA's first and only car in third. in the top five and the lead lap. A nice field of cars showed up The FORDA drivers did a good for the July 100 miler including job. Now I guess we'll have to go seven Florida ca·rs and one from south and try to make up for this North Carolina. As usual in the poor showing. longer races, no heat races were Sam Pace covered 31 laps with run. The drivers draw numbers at a bent front beam finishing the drivers meeting and line up fourth, while Marty Neri covered accordingly, with the 1600s first 30 laps in fifth, stopping to fix and the Challengers next. Not throttle linkage. James Mitchell havingatruebluereporter,actual was sixth at 29 laps despite race facts are scarce. Our pit flipping, and getting a right rear reporter does a good job but flat and a broken left shock. Jack racers are not real swift about Thompson got in 28 laps, Larry giving out information, even to Porter did 26 before the rack and see their name in print. pinion broke, and Ray Short In the Challen__ger action Chris managed 23 laps before having Williams pulled Rick Breitenbach engine trouble, then hit a tree. off the line and was never seen Buddy Lancaster covered 16 laps again, winning with 32 laps before he bagged not one but two completed. First year driver, trees and broke a rear hub, young 18 year old Dusty Chit, but earned tenth place. Sammy wood; ended up second, a lap Herrell managed only 13 laps down. And Mike Isola covered 30 before breaking a trailing arm and laps for third place. Despite a Marty and Steve Pounds lost their valve cover leak and a broken tranny after just ten laps. right rear shock Steve Langly got GORRA has four races left on in 29 laps for fourth. Jim the 1990calendaratthiswriting, Szczepanski covered 28 laps for in August, September, October fifth place. and November. It will be a shoot J.D. Mitchell did just 19 laps, out for the points. GORRA delayed by broken left rear member~ are well on the way to shocks. Another first year driver, finishing the water truck. Thanks Steve Rule, had his run for the to Rabbit who got us a pump and front short circuited on the first a 1000 gallon tank, we are almost lap when the transmission went there. Hopefully that will assist sour. Patched up, he ran 18 laps our dust problem. and until the next to last lap We are lucky to have such good before breaking a spindle. volunteer workers. Thanks to There were 13 1600s but their Cheri Prall for handling the gate race started out looking like a and then calling numbers, and to Lindy Herrell runaway. He pulled Rodney Carnes for working the Ray Short off the line and led the concession stand. Thanks to Ann first 15 laps. On lap 16 he burned Prall for calling numbers and a piston and was through for the Nancy Short for helping with the day, credited with 11th place. scorekeeping. Florida's Mike Hester, who had Anyone interested in more done such a good job in the 1989 information on off road racing in Mint 400, took over the lead and the Southeast please contact, for led for the next ten laps. Then, GORRA, Joy Porter, 404,758, another Florida driver, Mike 0731, work, or 4044594720, Notary, got by Hester and led for home. For FORDA contact Bob seven laps. On the last lap, out of . Bohres at305,8234273, work or this reporter's view, Hester got 305,823,4487, home. And, if back around Notary and took the , you want to have a good time, win. It was Mike Hester's first trip plan to come to Vienna, Georgia to Georgia this year, and he make on Thanksgiving weekend. You'll the best of it. James Hester, in· be glad you did, Y A'LL COME! ike Notary, another fast Florida driver, was leading with less than one lap to go, and saw the win slip away. Mike's done a good job at the Georgia races this year. One of Florida's hardest chargers, Sam Pace, came in to finish fourth after experiencing several problems. He'll be back for another race. J.D. Mitchell was the pilot of the Lithia car last July. He went well until he broke two rear shocks and he eventually finished sixth. Page 46 September 1990 Dusty Times

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The Losers The Fireworks 250 was a tough one this year, so tough that Ivan Stewart, who's not known for grousing, said he'd "never had a dustier race ... never had so much traffic." And he was having a good day. Many other racers remarked about the rocks on the course, and the dust was a problem for everyone at some point. The helpful breezes that always show up late in the day were too late to help much this time, since the finishers began pulling in to victory circle at about 12:30, and the bulk of the racers were finished before three p.m. Even with the tough conditions a healthy 53.7% of the starters made it to the finish line, due partly to the fact that Barstow's course has easy access, and you never find yourself hundreds of miles from your race car, and in part to the good radio communi-cations. Some of the Losers developed very early in the day, for example, Jerry Penhall and Bud Feldkamp, • who got eight miles into the race, and then saw the oil light come on, stopped to investigate and discovered that their drain plug had fallen out, and they'd lost all their oil. Luckily, it turned out they stopped soon enough that they hadn't damaged the engine, and they figured they were all ready for the next race, early. Troy Herbst rolled his car uphill somehow, and tore off the right rear corner. Another racer who saw him parked where he'd ended up, said, "It looked uncomfortable." Grant George's Mazda truck, which did so well at Phoenix, was quick here too, but not for long. They broke an axle early on, and decided to just run without it, and then they broke a CAUFORIYIA RALLY SERIES l am sorry to report That Jim Jacobson has had to resign as CRS Director, due to an increasing work load. While Jim will not be able to finish out the year he got a lot of good things started, such as the Associate Member program, which should be beneficial to the CRS for many years. Hopefully by the time you read this we will have a new director to finish out the rest of the year. There is good news about the upcoming events calendar: it is the busiest it has been in years, with several new rallies and a rally workshop. First on the calendar: Sam Moore and Mike Blore will be holding a combined Stock and Stock GT class meeting on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 1 . p.m. to discuss any rule changes that might be appropriate for next year. The CRS classes are unique in that you, the competitor, make the rules, and this is your opportunity to be a part of that process. If you have any sug-gestions for the agenda you should contact either Mike (213) 425-0984 or Sam (714) 982-7889. Dusty Times By Judy Smith second axle, and that effectively stops forward motion. The new suspension they'd built for the truck is so new that they didn't have any spares. Also new, is the Frank Vessels pickup, which was entered this time in the Unlimited class, with Larry Ragland driving. It's a great way to test a new vehicle, a little expensive, but it does give a chance to test under actual race conditions. It apparently needs a little more work, since it lost its water pump and fried the motor on the first lap. Steve and Joseph Grier were also finished on lap one, after apparently going end over end very hard in their 5-1600. And Dave Shoppe did the same thing in his big Ford truck. Ray Croll and Tom Day, coming off an easy win at the Baja 500, lost their trans mount on the first lap at Barstow. And Steve Ryan and Richard Preher, in Class 11, were rear ended by an Unlimited car who caught up with them suddenly. The impact pushed the back end of the car into the motor, flattened their skid plate, knocked off a valve cover, and pushed the muffler into the engine. They tried to go on, but the motor was overheating badly, and then their front adjusters broke, and that really was the end, still on their first lap. Out on the second lap was Bernie Thompson, who somehow tore off the left front corner of his car, and Jimmy Smith, who lost his transmission. Sherman Balch, in Class 3 / 14, lost his oil and melted down his "speed reducer", and was out on lap two. Don't expect an explanation of what a "speed reducer" is, that's Sherman's term; to us it sounds like an anomaly at a race. Mike Peterson was also out on lap two when some mysterious electrical problem drained his battery, and he ran out of juice. And Yoshi Ogasawara and Koichi Shofu had terminal suspension problems with their Mini-Mag. Ed and Tim Herbst lost their transmission on the third lap, as did Bob Gordon, Dale and Randy Jordan, in Class 6, lost their motor on lap three, while Gregg Symonds, who'd already replaced an axle, pinched an oil line, and found the oil was running out faster than it could be replaced. Pancho Bio and Sergio Gutierrez, in Class 9, were out of it on the third lap when someone rear ended their car very solidly. Gutierrez, who was in the car at the time, wanted someone to do something about it, but he hadn't been able to get a good look at the culprit, and didn't know who it was. Dave Kreisler started the morning in a new car with a V6 NASCAR type aluminum block Chevy motor in it. The car, which he describes as "the fastest thing I ever drove." also has an Audi automatic transmission. It was a fairly unusual looking vehicle, since it was built originally to be a pre-runner, and it had four seats, but they'd taken out one of the extra seats and installed a second gas tank, since the car got only three miles to the gallon. Kreisler drove the first lap with minimal problems, and then Rick Vasquez, who owns the car, did lap two. Then on lap three, Rick Scalzo took over, and he had a brake caliper problem, but it was ultimately the transmission that put them out. It overheated, so they decided to park. Quite a few racers got all the way to the fourth lap before disaster struck, and Stuart Chase, who drives in the Unlimited class, was one of those. He'd broken a shock on the first lap, but, in The next event in the series will record cornering and acceleration be the Prescott Forest Rally on data while you drive a stage. After Sept. 22-23. Organizers Rob the event we will send you a Cherry and Roger Hull will be printout of your data for your using the three mountain stages, analysis. Saturday will be capped which have been favorites every off with a seminar by Rod Millen time they have been run. Each and Tony Sircombe on advanced stage will be run twice for a total rally skills. Sunday there will be a of about 70 stage miles. The event. rallysprint where pace noting will will be a triple points event, with be encouraged. You will have an the first stage starting as the sun · opportunity to write your own goes down on Saturday night and pacenotes, or you can use those ending about 2 a.m. For those of prepared by Tony Sircombe. This you who have not had a chance to will be a unique experience for run Prescott before you are in for I most competitors since pre-event a real treat, as these are really great pacenoting is expressly forbidden rally roads. · at most rallies in the United OnOct.12-14Paulaandiare States. We hope that this organizing a rally workshop weekend will be a lot of fun, and (Friday evening and Saturday) that everyone will learn at least and a rallysprint {Sunday), one new skill. hopefully at the Hungry Valley On November 3 Gary Luke will off road vehicle area (Gorman). be putting on the Hollister Hills As I write this we are not sure yet Rally (double points). This will whetherwecangettheuseofthe be Gary's first attempt at park, so we may have to use a organizing a PRO Rally so let's all different location. By the time give him lots of help and support. you read this we should have Roger Allison and Randy more details w9rked out. The Hensley will be putting on their rally workshop will have some-rally weekend extravaganza on thing for everyone. Advanced Dec. 1 & 2 . They will be competitors will get to broaden beginning with the East oflndio X their rally experience by learning, Rally during the day on Saturday European-style pace noting. (triple points). On Sunday they Beginning and intermediate will be following that with the competitors will get both "chalk\ Pacific Crest Trail Rally, another talks" and hands on experience triple points event, in the with advanced competitors Warner Springs area. Roger and providing advice and helpful tips. Randy will need lots of workers to Drivers will get to practice their make this new event happen, so skills while getting feedback from please see if you can help them if both videotape and the "G you have friends who would Analystt'. The " G Analyst" will enjoy working. September 1990 general was having a good day. he went on to finish the lap and But Stuart's car is a two seater, turn the car over to his brother, and his passenger became car sick. Scott. Scott had a good lap, and He wanted out. In fact, he was moved back up to sixth place, and beating on Stuart's leg, demanding he was really enjoying the race, to be let out of the car. So Stuart having a lot of fun, when a rear let him out. And, since he'd wheel came off, breaking the radioed the problem to his pit studs as it went. When he got out crew, they stuffed another rider to survey the damages, he into the seat, and he went on his · discovered a hole in his oil cooler,· way. But pretty soon Chase began and when he checked the dipstick to worry about whether his new he found there wasn't any oil left passenger was a legal rider or not. in the motor. He'd stopped in the (He was. He'd been signed on to nickoftime,savingtheirnewDon another car, and arm banded Hatz motor. properly.) In Class5-1600, Norm Francis Stuart, trying to decide what to and Bill Champion got into their do with this passenger he fourthlapandlosttheirtransmis-suspected might be bogus, started sion, whileJohnDeVitoandJerry querying his pit crew about what Foyt, who ran in Class 6 , he thought might be a bad collapsed their suspension and situation. Someone overheard his were out on their fourth lap. And radio conversation and reported Armando and Arturo Tiznado, in to the HORA that Chase had an Class 9, broke something major illegal passenger in his car, and about five miles from the finish, apparently the HORA was on the while running fourth in that way to disqualifying Chase. But competitive class. he'd been having fuel injection In Class 10 Jeff Quinn broke a troubles, and then a rear wheel fell stub axle at mile 30, and lost two off, and his crew couldn't find hours, partly because the crew him to fix it, and he became a wasn't sure where he was. They DNF. They did get the ar band finally got him all fixed and he situation straightened aw y with went on, and on the second lap the HORA, but the iron c thing lost the other stub axle, but, was that since he drives in the somehow,discovered the problem Unlimited class, ( cir 1/2 - single while in a pit, which simplified the or two seat), Chase didn't have to repairs immensely. Jeff's morning have a passenger in his car at all. wasn't going well, really, because He was so racey he'd forgotten all he'd also lost three fan belts, and about that. J the power steering for a while. Brian Seeele took the f~rst two On the third lap Kurt Pfeiffer laps in the family 1-2-16p() car, got in and he had a good lap, but and had himself in third place, when he got two miles into the when he flattened a tire. H~ pulled fourth lap he broke a tie rod end. off to the side, and procerded to By then their radio wasn't get out to fix it. While he was workingproperlyeither,andKurt working on the flat another 1-2- decided to use one in another race-1600 car came along, got a little car, to send a message back to his wide, and ran into Brian . . It crew, telling them where he was. knocked him down, sent the tire But it was an hour and a half flying, and left Brian a little goofy. before a car with a radio happened The other driver apparently along. His crew came and fixed didn't even know he'd done it. A him up, and he went on to finish nearby HORA official ca~1 e over the lap, but when he got to the and helped Brian round u his tire finish line he was 11 minutes over and get things back toget er, and the time limit. THE WRIGHT PLACE~. COIL SPRING YOUR FRONT END! The coil springs you are seeing on cars in magazines and at the finish line, are products of The Wright Place. _You can use them on Fox, Bilstein, or Rough Country's Nitro Charger. Springs are available in 1, 2, or 3 sfages, and various lengths. Easy to install and adjust. Wrenches come with the kit f9r adju~tments. Another great idea from the front end experts of off road racing. 9420 FLINN SPRINGS LANE, EL CAJON, CA 92021 (619) 561-4810 Page 47

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VORRA DESERT RACING The Virginia City 100 Classic Text & Plwws: Ken Vanderhoof (Focus West) Ace Bradford and Chris Oberg have been the class in Class 10 this year, with three victories thus far, including one at Virginia City. Kevin McNabb ran trouble free, with most consistent lap times and here he zips into the Virginia City finish area to capture a long overdue first overall VORRA desert race title. It was dubbed "Rocky 10" by many of the long time VORRA racers referring to the tenth anniversary of the Virginia City, Nevada event. The theme this year was rocks, bone jarring, frame breaking rocks. At one point more than a dozen cars could be seen from the pits struggling feverishly up a single hill. The 200 mile, ten lap race did have some relief from the rocks in the form of fast, smooth, marbly roads that caused a few problems also. K.T.M. Racing's Kevin McNabb ran a remarkably trouble free race to capture the overall win with a time of 6: 19:2 7. The pre-race favorites were brothers Patrick and Eric Verling, especially when they drew the number one starting position. Pat Verling's first lap was clocked at 33:22, a full two minutes faster than anyone else. Next it was Larry Zimmerman and Garen McCune, with Larry Z at the wheel for the first five laps. The increasingly dusty conditions were making it difficult for the rest of the 78 car field on the short course. Pre-running was a must and ground clearance was precious. Kevin McNabb was to clock some amazingly repetitive 36 minute lap times in his bid for the overall win. Michael Thornton was making good time as well and . was in overall contention until a mid race dnf. Sam Berri didn't draw very well but logged some good times. He had a fine chance until a.broken spark plug detuned his Cobra. The Unlimited Class 1 and 2 was very competitive and very fast in the early going. Once they began lapping the restricted class cars problems began to develop. A couple of the narrow rocky uphills became clogged with· wounded race cars. Most drivers were very courteous, but this was a race, and a rough one at that. Less than 18% would eventually get the checkered flag. In other class action it was Mel Tom in command of Class 10. Class point leaders Chris Oberg/ Ace Bradford kept within seconds of Mel Tom, but were plagued by small problems such as flats, a ~ Iv' R.L.H. COMMUNICATIONS 1111111111 ~ RACE RADIO SYSTEMS 337 W. 35th STREET, SUITE "F" NATIONAL CITY, CA 92050 (619) 585-9995 THE CHAMPIONS CHOICE TOM & BOB DeNAUL T RICK VASQUEZ PERRY McNEIL REG. PRICE 1599"" RACERS SPECIAL 1989 OVERALL H.D.R.A/SCORE 1989 OVERALL MIDWEST RACING 1989 OVERALL GRAN CARRERA Intercom HELMETS WIRED $175.00 HANDHELD RADIOS 10 CHANNELS $450.00 REVOLVING LIGHTS AND ELECTRONIC SIRENS/HORNS Official BFGoodrich Radio Relay Page 48 broken steering wheel and traffic problems. Other top Class 10 contenders were VORRA new-comer Larry Deaton and Jour-neyman Dale Smith. This four-some traded places several times througho~t the day. Mel Tom looked as though he might be the victor, but the nasty rock staircase put an end to his day on lap 8. Ace Bradford/Chris Oberg struggled all day, but it paid off. They pulled off another fine win in the tandem. Chris Oberg strained himself while man handling another buggy off a boulder, so Ace Bradford got back in to complete the eighth and ninth laps, one lap down from the overall leaders but best in class. cot chaupp and Fritz Weichers captured their second Class 1-2-1600 win in as many tries, taking the Virginia City title by a good, nearly ten minute, margin. Class 1-2-1600 was a close contest. Reno, Nevada's Scott Schaupp and Tracy, California's Joe Gordon produced identical 37:52 first lap times. Chris Cash, Roy Gust and Roger Caddell were also keeping pace and made it a five way run nearly all the way. It wasn't until everybody's final trip up the rock pile that the finish order was determined. Scott Schaupp/Fritz W eichers survived the whole day to take their second class victory in a row and pull into a tie for the class point title with Ken Ruff. Chris Cash finished the day second in class after a last lap pass over Roy Gust. Joe Gordon suffered rock damage and got relegated to fourth in the late going and Ken Ruff rounded out the top five. Class 4 turned out to be a squeaker. It was Wes Banks battling with Tom Scahill for much of the race. Then Josh and Chad Hall had their hands full of Don German. Don Roemer put in Don German by 20 points with three races remaining in the VORRA series. Fourth in class went to Mitsubishi mounted VORRA newcomer Scott Liver-nash. As expected the Challengers had a difficult time in the rough. Class point leader Mike Bishop was out of the race on the first lap. Donavan Skaggs produced consistent lap times to lead the first half of the race. The dreaded rocks then put an end to his day. From Saratoga, CA, Steve Reyling took the lead for a short time, but relinquished the position after down time in the rocks. It was Jack Bonesteel/ Gerald Croft putting their problems behind them to take the class lead. They actually made the class fastest two laps near the end of the race while others had slowed from rock damage. They went from fourth to first in class in the process. Steve Reyling finished the race problem free to take second in Class 9 with his Baja. Grover Anderson kept it going to finish a good third, one lap down from the leaders. The mighty Sportsman Class sustained several casualties, but the competition was fierce. Lompoc, California's Keith Stoodley and Rex Lewis led this a pair of fast laps but was a dnf soon after with transmission woes. As the race wore on it was Tom Scahill taking command and Wes Banks suffering yet another dnf after running in the front. . Don German ran five minutes !% behind Scahill heading out for the final lap and came in four minutes ahead to take the checkered and the win. Tom Scahill unfortun-ately lost nearly ten minutes between a flat and worsening traffic problems. Third in class went to the Hall brothers who still class from start to finish and did so with authority. They later commented on how courteous the overall leaders were when passing. It was the runner up spots that made the action. Dick Weichers, Bill Lott, Willa-man/ Canoic, Everett Paul, Rich Bryden and Sportsman point leader Jeff O'Callaghan all · ran within a minute after the first twenty mile lap. They all had traffic problems in the rough but lost equal amounts of time in getting through. In the end long time VORRA racer Dick W eichers took Chris Oberg's old car to a fine second place finish at V.C. His only problems were getting through the bottlenecks. Petroholic Racing's Jeremy Gordon isn't just flashy with his pink and black color scheme, he is fast. After losing over half an hour on lap 1 he played catch up all day to place a strong third in class. Fourth went to Bill Lott. Bill got caught twice in the problem areas, but dislodged himself to steal the spot away from Jim Duncan, who did finish a respectable fifth. Dick D'Amato's Baja crossed the line sixth and was the last car to finish the required laps. Most of the rest of the class became part of the terrain until after the race was have the Class 4 point lead over class by four minutes in his highly modified Jeep powered by a Chevy. Scptanbcr 1990 Dusty Times

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+ ~>.~ --~.t. ...,,.. ~ :a:2"'\.,.~ .,,, Pat and Eric Verling nearly did it again, but dropped time with a clogged fuel filter but placed second in Class 2 and gave their bottle of champagne to Kevin McNabb at the finish. Scott Hall knows his way around this Virginia City course, because it is his own back yard, and he finished third in Unlimited Class. Larry Deaton led Class 10 for a while, but then he paid his dues to the rock gods, and he finished second in class, a lap down. Chris Cash passed Roy Gust late in the Class 1-2-1600 battle, and took home the second place points, trophy and money by three minutes. Roy Gust got stuck on the rock hill on lap 10, the last lap, but he got loose to finish the lap and finish third in Class 1-2-1600. Tom Scahill rolls past the finish line in downtown Virginia City and he finished a close second after leading Class 4 most of the day. :,;,:,:-.:ic-., ,,, » ,r, ..,, ~,)✓-..r.. .-..;. ., .-~ .. ~ . · ~ '.~·. ,~ ~1t£~,;::;< : __ Josh an a a tac e e roe , ,n t e ,g o ge, an t e eve Reyling had trouble on lap 1, but came ac w,t p enty o Dick Weichers picks his way up through the rocky switchbacks second generation racers finished third in Class 4, a lap down. hot laps to work up to a close second in Class 9 in his Baja Bug. on his way to a second place finish in the 26 car Sportsman field. over. Team Verling pulled away from got lost when Pat Verling suffered the finish. The pit row was very got in for a sixth place finish. As the overall challenge Kevin McNabb and the restto the a rear flat. His top of the line pit busy in the closing stages. More It was Scott Hall finishing the developed throughout the day, ~une of two minutes per lap. That crew changed it quickly, but Pat tires were being changed than at a day in third place Unlimited in only got a few hundred yards NASCAR race under the yellow what is basically a Class 10 car. when he popped the bead off flag. Reigning overall VORRA cham, another one. Steve Bradford Kevin McNabb picked his way pion Bob Lemos got involved in startedfurtherbackbutkeptpace through the downed racers. Eric traffic jams a few times but for more than a hundred dusty Verling radioed that the continuedtofinishfourthinclass ' miles. It ended abruptly for him "Chrisco" was not delivering full over a fine run by Larry Webster. when the fuel tank went dry. Gas power. A clogged fuel filter had In the end it was Kevin mileage goes down in traffic. been robbing the power. Once McNabb's professional survive Jack Bonesteel and Gerald Croft came from behind in their Challenger racer and the team finished first in Class 9, winning by a margin of three and a half minutes. New to VORRA racing, Keith Stoodley drove a flawless race in his tidy car, and he came away with the victory by 47 minutes in the very crowded Sportsman Class. Dusty Times Larry Zimmerman ran only replaced Eric drove a real fast lap, attitude that carried him to a well four minutes back at the halfway but time ran out. One more lap deserved overall win. As the point when he turned the and there might have been a competition fell by the wayside, Chenowth over to Garen different outcome. GLM's Garen McNabb, from Loomis, Califor, McCune. Virginia City resident McCune had plenty of power to nia, continued towards his goal of Scott Hall maintained a fine the ground until the slippery six the overall victory at the "Biggest fourth in his 1699cc buggy. The milecanyonlefthimrestingonhis Little Race of Them All", The stage was now set for a sprint to roof for over an hour. The team Virginia City 200! NorthemC · perts. HpRA1··· /engi rl i • FoxSh • Wee GHll Y." BOSCH• AMA• SWAY-A-WATKINS INDUSTRIES• 780 Second Ave.• A September 1990 Page 49

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Gary Hess Wins Uon's Share of Sand Drag Purse Bracket 6 it was Greg Hess a produce buyer from Covina who posted a 4.952 for 57.21 mph. His sponsors are Dunemast-ers/Bear Frame & Wheel and Doo Dah Racing. Bill Gonzales, 62 years young, retired, from Barstow showed the youngins he has the touch as he turned a 5.544 for 60.20 mph in "Bill's Bantam" a 461 Chevy sponsored by Al's Auto Wrecking and Avalon Salvage to win Bracket 7. It was a worthwhile trip for Don Fox who is in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Tucson, Arizona. "Heavy Metal", a 350 Chevy sponsored by his wife's paycheck took the win in Bracket 8 with a time of 6.070 for 43.12 mph. By Elai~Jones Photos: Custom Photography """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""~~ It was a restful night for those eight competitors as they had assured themselves a spot in the final sixteen for the run for the dough on Sunday. Sunday was a whole new ballgame and for those who had not made the final they got another crack at it as they went looking for the final eight. Gary Hess survived the entire round robin run offs to win the big bucks at Glen Helen. Here he poses with his winning 396 powered buggy and the big trophy he took home to Covina, CA. Steve Parker got rid of the anxiety early as he posted the win in Bracket 1. The mechanic from Riverside in "The Animal" a 2575cc VW acclaimed the world's fastest and quickest VW Buggy went down the lane in 3.785 for 80.21 mph. He is It was a simple formula at Glen Helen on June 9-10, 1990. Double elimination over two days of racing. On Saturday USA Sand Drag Association ran eight brackets based on dial in times and from each bracket a winner. -"emerged that was automatically seeded into the final run off on Sunday. Those who did not make the cut got to try it all over again on Sunday when the other eight winners were determined. An-other little twist was the drivers were allowed to change their dial in time after each round. Even being allowed to do this did not cut down on the large number of break outs, which is a driver who goes faster than what he said he would. The purse was advertised at $10,000.00 but the large response from drivers drove the stake up to $14,000.00 with the -overall winner pocketing a neat $6,700.00 and the runner up a not too bad $2,800.00. There was still more with the final 16 being guaranteed at least $200.00 and if you survived the first round it went up to $400.00 and the third round a cool $700.00. The purse may have been one of the reasons such a good turnout of drivers came from as far away as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Greenwood, Missouri and quite a contingent from Las Vegas, Nevada and a couple from Arizona. Bethany Import was the big backer of the Oklahoma drivers. Jerry Zagami in "Blue Thunder" got things off in fine style on Saturday as the San Diego Executive turned a 3.279 for a speed of 95.23 and the win in Bracket 1. Claremont Equipme_nt of San Diego is the sponsor of the · ·sponsored by the Dyno Shop and 400 Chevy Buggy. • Specialty Fastener. Russ Bailey It was "Groves & Co." with came all the way from Greenwood, Todd Groves at the wheel that Missouri to take "Dirty Tricks" went down the lane in 3.922 for his 1995 VW to the lightin3.657 78.39 mph for the win in Bracket for 90.81 mph and the win in 2. Virgil Graves is the owner of Bracket 2. The elevator repair the 396 Chevy Buggy. Allan man got his help from Bet Racing Morris subbed for John Baumann Products. in Bracket 3 and it was good It was another long hauler that enoughwhenheturneda4.08for picked up all the marbles in 77 .58 mph in the 231 Buick Bracket 3 as Harold Ritter from Buggy. Dwayne Morris a Miller Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Beer Salesman from Barstow, posted a 4.130 for 73.58 mph in took his 400 Stock Chevy his quest for the big bucks. His Dragster to the finals with a run of 2287 VW is sponsored by R&R 4 .382 for 60.00 mph in Bracket 4. Custom Trim and Dow Diversi-Golden State Enterprises/O&R fied. Gary Chez, in a car borrowed 4 Wheel Drive/H& W Welding from John Keller, got such an helped Contractor Larry Brown understanding of the way it of Riverside put "Mr. Excite-worked that he took it all the way ment", a 289 Ford Jeep in the to the win in Bracket 4 with a time Finals as he posted a 4.651 for of 8.030 for 27.49. Now this time 67 .61 mph in Bracket 5. In sounds really slow but when your --------opponent red lights all you have to do is cruise and that is just what he did. Not having any stats as to what was under the hood the only thing that can be said for sure is that Auto Cosmetics is one of his sponsors and the Jeep appearing car had a sharp paint job. "Her Money" a 350 Chevy Buggy topped 17 cars to take the win in Bracket 5. Gene Hansert a truck driver from Bermuda Dunes is the one who put it all together and Backyard Buddies and Viking Tire helped with the effort. "Rat-T-Now" a T Bucket with a 427 Big Block Chevy with Greg Den Hartog at the wheel was the quickest in Bracket 6. The Chino driver is sponsored by Den Hartog and Sons Trucking. Bill Schroeder from Fontana outfoxed 1 7 cars in Pro 7 to assure himself a spot in the final runoff. The 350cc Yamaha Banshee turned a neat 5.586 for 48.25 mph for the win. He is sponsored by SES Enterprises. The final slot was filled by David Den Hartog, father of Greg as he topped the field in Bracket 8 with a time of 6.259 for 44 .07 mph. His Yamaha 350cc Quad is sponsored by The Curling Iron -Upland and Den Hartog & Sons Trucking. The first cut of the run off saw Zagami /Groves /Morris I Chez/ Brown/Hess/Schroeder and David Den Hartog making the next round. When all was said and done again it came down to Groves/Chez/Hess and David Den Hartog. One more round and it was down to the final two Gary Chez in the borrowed car and Greg Hess and the nod went to Hess with a 4.804 for 55.83 mph. The Pee Wees and the Juniors ran the same way the big guys did with double eliminations and the whole nine yards. Ten year old Deidra King, a student at Hesperia Christian School won the Pee Wees on a 200cc Honda with a time of 11.593 while Tim Guinn took the Junior win with a time of 7 .236 for 35.87 mph. He was aboard a 400cc Odyssey. Both kids got $100.00 in Disney Bucks plus their trophies while runners-up Jaclyn Kurtz and Daniel King got a plaque and a Disney gift. Jerry Zagami, from San Diego, CA, was the winner of Bracket 1 on Saturday in the Blue Thunder 400 Chevy rail, but lost in the second round on the final run offs on Sunday. Gary Chez borrowed this Jeepish creation from John Kellog, won Bracket 4 on Saturday and got all the way to the final on Sunday to take home second overall money. Tim Ross came from Phoenix, AZ to race the AMC Jeep style Sand Dragon, but he hit the brakes once too often and was eliminated in Bracket 8 in the final run off. Kathy Hunter, in a 350 Chevy powered front engine buggy took it all the way to the final before she lost to Steve Parker and his 2575cc VW. Page 50 Shades of Lions! Dave Newman in "The A Team", a 193 Model A with a 350 engine, lost out to Wendell Smith in "Plumb Loco", a 401 AMC Jeep in Bracket 5. September 1990 Daniel King is just 11 years old, and a student in Hesperia, CA, but he drove the Yamaha 225 Mini Rail Dragster to runner up in the Junior Division. Dusty Times

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Rallying is the Sport of Kings in the Middle East Text & Photos: Martin Holmes •Mohammed Bin Sulayem and Ronan Morgan came from Dubai to overcome six flat tires on the Toyota Celica GT-Four to win the Jordan Rally. It was the third consecutive win on the event for Bin Su/ayem. Prince Faisal, son of Jordan's for more peaceful battles on the King Hussein, flagged off the cars banks of the River Jordan. at the start of his country's FISA Toyota Celka Gt,Four driver Middle East Championship Rally. Mohammed Bin Sulayem from In the next two days he followed Dubai scored his third consecutive the cars at various points of the win on the Jordan Rally despite event by car and heliclpter, six punctures during the two day sympathized with the national event. He gradually overhauled champion Issa Haliba who had the Mitsubishi driver Suhail been lent the King's Ford Sierra Khalifa who conceded victory Cosworth for the big event, and · when he had suspension trouble personally congratulated Suhail as well as punctures, but held on Khalifa's efforts in bringing the to second overall. Group N Mitsubishi to second place. It favorite Tony Georgiou retired seems that cars are taking over the first day after running out of from horses as royalty's favorite fuel while current Jordan competition vehicle in these champion Issa Halabi retired his regions. Even in times of financial Ford Sierra Cosworth with engine stress for this small, non,oil trouble. The best placed Group S producing Arab country, rallying (B) car, running in a parallel non, is continuing. A year after championship, was Saudi driver economic pressures forced Khayyat's Mitsubishi Pajero cancellation of all motor sport in ( third overall), after Bustami 's the country, rally cars had been Nissan 240 RS was badly delayed brought across the endless deserts with gearbox trouble. Based at from the Gulf states in readiness Amman, but with rest halts at the Suhail Khalifa and Mubarak Al Hajri led the rally for a time in the Mitsubishi Ga/ant VR4, but the Group A car lost a bit of time late in game and finished second. ;~~.. .,,_" ~ ~~<i . \w ~-.. ~.,.--~-\~ .. ~:;.;,,"' -~,. .... ;., historic cities of Jerash and Petra, the rally used special stages over a wide variety of conditions, mostly on loose surfaced roads. This was the first time Khalifa, also from Dubai, had become a major threat in Middle East rallying. His five speed Galant VR4 proved to be marginally fast, er on the open desert tracks than Sulayem's Toyota, though the Toyota team had arrived tired after difficulties bringing vehicles from an earlier event in Cyprus. The rally was marked by the entry of several Russian crews with Lada cars as one older model finished third in FISA Group A/N, but two of the three front , drive Samaras retired. The rally gained a world first. This was the first time a special stage had been run at the lowest point on earth. Stage 3 ran along the shores of the Dead Sea, some 300 meters BELOW sea level. Khalifa was fastest on this three kilometer section, one second up on Sulayem. "I have never had so• much trouble with tires as here, but at least the victory was pleasant after so much difficulty for the team in the two weeks beforehand", the winner said afterward. Of the 35 starters, 18 finished the two day Jordan Rally. Middle East rallying is a heavily cigarette industry promoted activity, with both Marlboro and Winston highly visible. Many are waiting for Ford to come to their sport. Two time official FISA Middle East champion, Saeed Al Hajri, is to drive the 4WD Cosworth when it is homologated -later this year. This brings a European manufacturer into a market dominated by the Japanese. Rallying is standing the test of time in a realm where Arab playboys traditionally chase after the latest crazes , power boating is the newest. Since the sport got going in Lebanon in the late sixties it hasn't expanded at the rate one might expect. This year's champ, ionship rounds are being held in six different countries, but with a distinct sense of transition. They are waiting for the newer cars, the Subaru, the Ford, maybe the VW. The old 2WD normally aspirated cars are things of the past out here, one top driver explained. In these times of transition, orthodox rallying is being rivaled by off road racing. "These events are much easier to organize", Jordan Rally promoter Derek Ledger explained. "We take great Mohammed Bin Sulayem and Ronan Morgan, left, celebrate their outright victory on the Jordan Rally in the traditional world wide fashion, standing on the hood of the Group A Toyota Celica GT-Four. trouble to make our rallies as smooth as possible; the off road events don't need to. Rally cars would get stuck on their routes." It is difficult to know whether this trend is a distraction or whether there is room for both acitvities. · While he is waiting for his new Group A car to be available, Saeed Al Hajri is keeping his hand in, rallying a Ford Bronco on these events. The old Group B cars are being phased out with the current emphasis on Group N. Driving over desert tracks must always be potentially damaging on cars, but despite the largely flat terrain, the brakes are still the most limiting factor in the Production Group N cars. Bill Gwynne of Branbury, Great Britain, is the most experienced preparation expert of rally cars for the Middle East. "You always have more bumps on these events than in European rallies. This means you must get as much suspension travel and make the suspension as hard as you can. This stresses the axles a lot ( sounds familiar, ed.). The higher speeds of the rallies means that you don't get overheating· troubles on the cars, but we have to lower the compression ratios, as the fuel is only 93 octane, and it is essential to fit good air cleaners." Gwynne was given the responsibility of running the Royal Jordanian rally cars and .~.,. . training Prince Abdullah (Faisal's brother) who went on to become national champion. Rallies in the Middle East vary a lot. Oman had the most interest, ing terrain with twisting mountain roads and thousands of available tracks. Jordan offers a wide variety of stages ranging from wide open desert to asphalt roads, and Lebanon has an event in October. Dubai is the strongest financially, and its event tradi, tionally rounds off the series which starts in Qi.tar. Also running strong nearby is the Kenyan National Champion, ship. African driver Patrick Njiru won the Firestone 300 Rally on May 20, which was the fourth round in the series, at the wheel of one of the Safari Rally Subaru Legacies. He set fastest time on every special stage, although the similar car of Jim Heather,Hays, the only surviving Group A Legacy driver on the Safari, retired with engine trouble on the first stage. Second on the Firestone 300 was Steve Anthony, a Daihatsu driver on the recent Safari, at the wheel of a Mazda 323 4WD Group N, while in third place was Jas Matharu in another Legacy. This was the first every rally win for Njiru, who last month became the first and only driver of a Group N car to finish the Safari Rally. He now leads the Kenyan Rally Series. Mamdouh Khayyat and Abbas Al Masaivi drove the Mitsubishi -Pajero to third overall and first in Group S, which is a haven for former Group B rally cars these days. Heading into the rough stuff here, ·Naser Bustami and KhadderAI Kassir placed their Nissan 240S fifth overall and third in Group S. Viatcheslav Roubin and Aidgarde Outans placed the Lada eights ' overall and third in Group A. Check that beautiful open Jordanian qesert background, ideal for rallying or an off road race, of course. Dusty Times September 1990 Page 51 ...

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. OFF-RO-AD RAGf.NG 'l'-EAM 'The Straight Poop From The Big Wahzoo' FIREWORKS 250, On a typi, cal hot Barstow summer day 17 Checkers attacked the typical dusty and rocky terrain south of town, with most of them having trouble. All, that is, except Saul Zambrano in 'Cheap Thrills'. Saul, with Howard Anderson co, driving, put it to the class again, for about the sixth time in a row. Hey Sumners, that 16 wins in a row record of yours just may be in trouble! Saul is now getting pretty cocky, speaking his mind at the weekly meetings and even talking about putting a type 4 motor in his car and racing it Class 1/2. Hey Koch, ya ever been bumped in the ass by a full bodied sedan? Zambrano and Anderson, first place in Class 11. Congratulations guys again, great race! Master Bates teamed up with Rod Gabbert to grab a third place in Class 5, just ahead of Seeley and that non,stop talking pa,, senger oi his. Hey George, it's just about time that you won one of these races, I mean it's about your turn ain't it? The Cooks brought their 1989 championship car out of the closet and picked up a fourth in 5 I 1600 as did Frenchie in his Class 10 car. Greenway had axle problems but managed to fin, ish sixth in Class 1/2, with Hymes back in eighth place. Gary seemed to ask every Checker pit as he passed "how does the car lookl" Hey Gary, all the wheels were going up and down, the paint job was pretty and it was right side up. That's about all you can see when you go by at about 60 MPH in the dust! Louie Silvas bent up his roof alittleandgota 13th in 1,2,1600. Hey Louie, your car didn't look quite as good as Hymes' as you went by, but then again you didn't ask did you? I think that was all the Checker cars that finished , -Good race guys! The Steele's 1,2, 1600 car looked great and was up near the front for most of the race but dis, appeared late in the race. Chase and Utquart were running third overall during the middle stages of the race but went out on the fourth lap with engine trouble. Koch put his Ridgecrest Rocket on the trailer after his tranny went south early. Well it looks like Symonds finally solved his engine cooling problem but his rear end, which is not used to running any more than a few miles at a time lately, gave up near the end of the race, although Greg earned a sixth place in class. BJ's car found a large rock that got thru the skid plate and into the cylinder head. Stoops and Crowder were in the car at the time, patched it after a number of hours and got it going again but dropped out later to the relief of all the outlying pits who were only waiting on Minor Bates car before closing up and getting out of the heat. LA RANA RACE , Three · Checkers entered this race in Lucerne and all three finished. Doyle Mosley put his 5/1600 car into the winners circle in class along with Mark Harman in his Class 10 car. I think this is the first win for both drivers and surely not the last . Great race guys! Speaking of last. . . Dave 'Pick Dusty Times your part' swept the course as the last official finisher, scaring tur, des and tearing up pit signs. Dave is quickly getting another reputa, tion about being late. Late to the races, late to the pits and late to the finish line. This is strange since, when he's running, he's one of the fastest Bajas at any race. The weekly meetings are once again the scene of in,depth discus, sions over the lack of pitters at some of the races and a whole lot of them at others, mainly the close ones. This is not surprising since it seems that there is a race almost every weekend somewhere. This does not make The Wahzoo's job any easier either since I also have a day job, wife, kids, yard work, etc, etc just like most of the other Club members. The simple fact of the matter is that our sport is just getting bigger and more popular, and therefore supporting more race promoters, who in turn are putting on more races. The Checkers must either adapt to this growth or choose to support only certain ones. Simple right? Wrong, this weekly debate will surely go on and on with no easy answers. Well so much for my soap box portion of this column because I have to go pack up my stuff and head out to the desert. I mean hey, Wahzoo's have to get their 10 points too! B"I Rich Persch F.A.l.R. posted a whopping 15 entries for the HDRA Fireworks 250. Only 6 of those finished, attesting to the brutal conditions out on the course. Rich Fersch and Pat Todd, with Harry Dundee the alligator man riding shotgun, scored the biggest prize with a first place finish in Class 5, 1600. John Hays, one of FAIR's many Class 10 standouts, nailed down the runner,up spot and is definitely due up for a win. Daniel Letner, way out in front in the early going, succumbed to heat exhaustion and flat tires on the last two laps but still finished a fine third in Class 1/2. Mark Hamilton brought his Raceco home ninth in Class 1 /2. Martin and son, stating that they were leading at the time, leading what we don't know (suffice to say that they were ahead of somebody), had a battery go away three miles from the finish and had to wait for the chase crew to supply some new juice. The final result was a 26th place finish in Class 1,2,1600. Not bad considering a flat tire in that class can drop positions like an elevator with a cut cable. The Toms, Tom Ebberts and Tom Rhodes, also had end of last lap problems, running out of gas and slipping from about ninth to 19th in Class 1,2,1600. These two teams would be just about unbeatable in a Fireworks 240. · FAIR's list of nonfinishers includes Bob Richey in Class l /2, with a defective ring and pinion. Bob also claims that one of the checkpoints was camouflaged. Wayne R. Morgan snapped a king pin and went for a ride on the wild side in his wild and wooly Giese, . Mirage unlimited car. Wayne said that he was tapping on the fuel gauge to see if it was working when the left front wheel buckled under the chassis and the car did a rather easy barrel roll or two. Nobody was hurt, but Wayne was slightly disoriented as he thought his partner Darryl had been driving when it happened. Aaron Hawley got in just one lap before the alternator siezed on his big Porsche, and with no cooling fan, his day was over. Mark Temple in Class l / 2 lost the only stock part remaining in his experimental automatic transmission. Before that it was the power steering that went bad. Class 10 bad guy Ray Croll sheared a drive flange on his Jimco about half way around lap # 1 and ended up watching the rest of the race from there. Lester Fulkerson's Class 10 car broke a torsion bar right off the trailer on Friday at Danny Cau's little test track. A frantic drive back to L.A. netted Lester another pair of torsion bars, and you guessed it, one of those broke leaving Lester with the dubious honor of posting the second fastest 3 lap dnf in Class 10. Not wanting to be out done, Brian Parkhouse was able to post the second fastest 2 lap dnf in Class 1,2,1600 by virtue of a pinion gear tooth wedging itself into the rack and eliminating the car's ability to turn right. Brian drove it back to the main pit but it took a while. Rick Pew's 5, 1600 broke a rear trailing arm for no apparent reason and put him on the trailer on lap 1. Scott Steinberger the W eatherboy, completed 3 of the required 4 laps and ended up fourth in Class Mini,Mag. The FAIR main pit was at Sidewinder Road, the start/ finish. Splitting the course into quarters, FAIR had three outlying pits located at the Slash X, Wild Wash, and Hodge Road. Tires with air in them and welding seemed to be the most popular items on race day. The FAIR main pit did extensive welding to a competitors' Challenge car, and that was before the race! All in all, a great time was had by everyone. As an editorial note I might add that all the drivers were over, whelmed by the course markings and the use of actual stop lights at the checkpoints. I personally think that Danny Cau and the whole HDRA crew deserve a big round of applause for a job done to perfection! The La Rana Promotions Lucerne Valley Jam 200 mile desert race was also a Jim Dandy according to the three FAIR members who tried their luck at it. A.J. Martin, the son of Steve Martin by a previous marriage, almost won the whole thing in the Martin Brothers Racing/M&M Metal Sawing Class 2 prerunner. Only a lack of gasoline just before the finish line was able to halt AJ's charge for tbe winner's circle. AJ had to settle for second place. Dad Steve took the blame but rumor has it that it was those darn OPEC Arabs. Ed Pauley whipped his . Pauley and Sons Plumbing sponsored Class 5 prerunner to an impressive second place finish only 11 seconds out of first, and this after a myriad· of problems · out on the course. Darryl Gibson put in two laps of spirited driving behind the wheel of Wally Sleppy's brand new D.G. Racing/ Sleppy Construction Class 5, 1600 Baja Bug. It seems that on the second lap Wally broke his left hand when it got caught in the spokes of the steering wheel after a particularly hard landing. Wally called in on the race radio to September 1990 notify Darryl of the problem, but after repeating the message several times all Darryl could figure out was that the left something was broken. Darryl then proceeded to pull left trailing arms, spindles, stub axles, everything left that he figured could have gotten broken, out of the spare parts box so that they could fix the car when it came in. The end result was a fine second place finish in Class 5, 1600 and a cast on Wally's left hand. FAIR meets the first and third Wednesday of every month at the Holiday Inn, corner of Harbor Blvd., and the 91 Freeway in Fullerton. Meetings start at 8:00 and guests are welcomed. See you there! DESERT RACE SUPPORT By Craig Lane The dust has cleared from the Lucerne Jam 200 last Saturday, and Desert Race Support did quite well with the cars we had running, thanks in part to some new members that ran the race with our duo. At this time I would like to welcome them to Desert Race Support and con, gratulate them all on their fantastic finishes. I'll start by welcoming Tom and Vicki Coon of Canyon Country, in the big Class 8 Ford, who finished first in class. And staying in the truck classes DRS welcomes and congratulates Daniel and David Groff in their Class 15 Toyota for a first in class. Also new to our club is the Cohen Racing team, Ellis and Mike, who brought their Class 9 car in for a sixth in class. Congratulations and welcome to DRS. And our ace in the hole, Greg Atkins came in thfrd in class with his Russ Stevens prepared 1,2,1600; congratulations Greg. Not too bad a showing I'd say; seven cars for DRS and four of them placing in the money. And Larry Boman, Vince LaPorte and Paul LaPort and Jay Porter, who had unfortunate problems that put them out of the race, will be back and running strong, you. can bet on that, for the next race in August. DRS should have even more cars running in August. Ed Keefe and his Thunderbird should be roaring around the course, as will Bryan George and Dennis Petersen in their brand new Class 9 cars. Maybe we can get newly married Mark Barnes and Jeff Akins to enter in their Class 10 cars. Jeff was the points leader in Class 10 going into this last race, and Mark had the honor of being the overall winner of the La Rana Race in Barstow earlier in the year. But, all these new racing members bring a small problem as well, and that is the need for more members that are not drivers and are in our club to provide the pit support for DRS cars entered in these races. So if you know anyone that wants to get involved, get them to our meetings. We Want You! · And speaking of the next race in August, at the awards presenta, tion a vote was taken by the drivers concerning the start time, and it. will apparently be changed to accommodate the racers and pit crews. On this note I think Ed Castro of La Rana deserves a hand. It is refreshing to have someone listen to the drivers when they voice their opinion, rather than just let it go in one ear and out the other. Ed is for the racers and, being fairly new to promoting off road racing, needs our support as a club and as individuals. Ed also needs our · help when he is putting on these races in the form of people to help him in marking the course or as course workers. So again, if you can help him out or know someone who would like to lend ( continued on /)age 59) West Coast Distributor· fOR HEWLAND . OFF ROAD GEARS ALL GEARS . . AVAILABLE SEPARATELY NEW RATIOS AVAILABLE OUR PRICE $:695.00 Per Set 2 Ratio's Available Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 702/873-1002 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 57

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Classified •••. FOR SALE: Class 10 short course single seater. Taylor built frame. The 1988 G.O.R.R.A. points ~hampion! 6/6 rear trailing arms l½ longer than stock front trailing arms. Wright rack and pinion, Neal pedals, and cutting brake, 20 gal. fuel cell, 930 CV's, . 25"' axles, bus stub axles, close ratio gears, Centerline wheels, · Oberg filter, 1650cc air cooled with 64/90.5. Very competitive! $5500.00. Will sell minus engine. Call John, or Casey at (901) 925-4 254, "Tennessee". FOR SALE: Class 5 or Pre-Run. 12"' wide front and rear, Woods Arms 2½,. Longer Front, 6"x3" rear, Combo 'Spindles, Wright Rack, I.H. Tie rods, Power steering, Fields Tranny w/ Hew-land Gears, 930 cv., Summers Bros. Axles, Beard Seats, Fuel Safe Cell (30 gal.), 12 Fox Shox. dual batteries, 2076 air cooled, 16" wheels, Girling MST Cycls., New B.F. G. tires, and Paint{since Photo) Pro Built, Nice car. $10,000.00 (214) 438-5610 or (214) 554-1886. "" ::::-:: ,.m·:1~4 FOR SALE: Single seat class 9. Super clean, all freshly painted. Best of everything. Dirtrix chassis . . All running gear fresh. Ready to race. 4,500.00 with trailer. Call Johnat{602)492-0934, or (602) 934-3444 ext. 48. FOR SALE: Class 1 O.R.E. w/3.5 liter Porsche motor and Hewland DG-300. The motor is FO SALE: Class 1-2-1600 Single Seat ORC "A proven. winner" 1989 SCORE points leader. Ready to race with Hatz motor, Mendeola trans and more. If you want to be competitive, you need this car! Asking$10,500.00. Call Bill Reams (619) 270-0900. fuel injected, twin plug-twin FOR SALE: Class 10-Two seater ingition Porsche racing motor Toyota 1630 cc motor combo's (approx. 600 miles on motor). and Curnutt Shocks runs and The gearbox was prepared by works well. Includes spare motor Doug Fortin and has first class & trans., needs some frame work. parts throughout. UMP P/ S, 1$8,000.00. Call Jeff (619) 228-Wright rack, Palmer arms, 2916 Awn. · Summers hubs front and rear, .vented rotor rear brakes by Cone, with Corvette calipers, Tilton Pedals, Patterson sump tank, Fox shocks, mil-spec sealed switches, the list goes on ... Car complete, ready to race with spare shocks, · tires & wheels, dump cans, misc motor parts, etc. MAKE OFFER, .. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY. FOR SALE: Bronco, 351 with NO TRADES. Call Mark at (805) 'extended frame. Best of every-541-2012. thing, fresh rear suspension, 'motor, trans, rear end. Lots of extra parts, 2 sets new tires. ready to race. ·$5000.00 oho including "trailer. Ask for Joe (714) 590-5075. FOR SALE: 1988 3.2 Po:sche with modified factory injection, SS headers, W eh cams in car & running $8500.00. Hewland DG FOR SALE: Race package 300, $6000.00. Call Stuart, days complete. Jeep Commanche 7 (818) 841-5080, nite (818) 845-4x4, all new October '89. 9 races, 4 714. 7 finishes & points competitive. T_h_e_N_a_t_i_o_n_a_l_M_u_d_R_a_c-in-g Professionally built & maintained. Association is governed by racers Will consider breakup if race for Mud Racers. For more truck goes first. 4 generators 4-information concerning pro, and 6.5kw, 24' Ford box truck sportsmanchampionshipMud w/ built in rest room, hot water, Racing nationwide, contact the bench, parts, tires & fuel racks. NMRA. Membership: $50.00, Box trailer H .D. w/winch, Associate Members: $30.00 per cabinet & rack. Welders, 110 gal year. NMRA 11842 Jason Court quickfill, .sun shade. All ~pares, Madera, CA. 93638, or call (209) suspension parts, engine & 266-5558. transmissions $45,000.00. . Contact Bud Sebelius (714) 688-FOR SALE: Class 5 fast & strong. 7300 or (714) 780-7742. 1st & 2nd in last races. Wright, ----'----------SAW, Simpson, 22 gal fuel cell, FOR SALE: FRESH ITS THOR-Centerlines, Yokohamas, Bilstein TON TRANSMISSION BUS all & coil-over secondarys, 930's, Hewland Gear, super differential, pumper, Dura Blue, Pro Built two extra ring and pinion. 4:56, 2180, strong trans. Must sell. new torque limits. $3000.00. Call $10,000.00 oho. Call (702) 482-Don Hatz (619) 425-1639. 9298. FOR SALE: Fast, reliable 5-1600 car. 5 2nd place finishes in last 11 SCORE/HDRA races. Fox shocks, Wright Place combos, arms & rack. New Beard seats, DJ trans, all the best parts. $9000.00. Call Ross Craft at (805) 272-4344 days or (805) 272-1198 eves. FOR SALE: Ball joint front end, 6" wider Sway-A-Way adjusters and torsion bars, Thing trailing arms & spindles, 4 bolt disc brakes, Doetsch remote cooler shocks, ZF steering box. $4 7 5 .00 oho. 2 front, 2 rear Geise built aluminum Challenger shocks $1.50.00 each. Call (714) 630-8078 or (714) 860-4082. F R ALE: Chenowth Magnum Mickey Thompson Super 1600. VW Rabbit water cooler, the newest Mendeola trans, Neal hydraulics, UMP power steering, very competitive car. Albert Arciero. $22,000.00. Call (619) 579-1750. NEWCOMER to Off Road Racing with Class 5 Car, looking to trade new carpet, pad, and installation for anything to do with Racing, Pre-Running or Support. I have hundreds of samples to choose from. Leave message. Mark (619) 270-6970. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Hi Jumper Chromoly frame, converted 10 car, everything new, Fox Shocks, 14", 12", 10" rear 10" with reservoirs front, Neth arms, combos, Wright box, Summers axles, new motor and trans. Every part new. Less than 100 miles on car. Extra tires, wheels Quick fill etc., $6,000.00 (702) 878-5155. FOR SALE: 5-1600 Goshen Motor, RACECO trans, front rear adjusters, Sway-A-Way and much more, let's make a Deal, $4,900.00 will sell race ready or anyway you want, call Dave Black Hm. (714) 363-1838 or Wk . (714) 588-7377. FOR SALE: Chevy SlO, 7S., late model race ready w/trailer, Iron Duke Motor, Summer Bro's rear end, Bilstein, all the good stuff, many spare parts and spares. $20,000.00 OBO or will trade for two seat Class 10 or 2. Dave Black (714) 363-1838, (714) 588-7377. FOR SALE: Challenger Chen-owth, two seat, new car never driven, 90% complete, Raceco Trans, Bilsteins, Yokohamas, need motor, paint, and wiring and you're done. Will sell complete or ? Let's Make A Deal $4,000.00 OBO, Dave Black, (714) 363-1838 or (714) 588-7377. FOR SALE: ALL PARTS MUST GO-2.6 Wasser boxer, water cooled FAT motor 175 Horse power dual webers, $3,500. OBO, 2.0 Wasser boxer $1,000.00, Race front ends for limited cars and many other parts. Everything must go-Dave Black, FOR SALE: Complete car, race · (714) 363-1838 or (714) 588-re ad y. Che no wt h Magnum ri7;;;;;3;;;;;7;;;;;7;;;;. ==-=;;;;;;;~;;;:;;;;;;:;;;;;.,;;;.;:.,;;;.;:~ Stadium Pro 1600. FAT air cooled motor, 091 with Hew land gears, Neal hydraulics and UMP power steering. Best reasonable offer. Could include Chaparral trailer with utility box. Wayne • Cruze at (214) 241-0005, leave message or call (214) 790-3817. FOR SALE: 76 WellsCargo-36' fifth wheel dual axle trailer. Best Offer - Call Jerry at (714) 938-4100. FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevy, brand new extended front end, reser-voired shocks, 500hp motor, custom springs. Completely legal. . ·r------....... - -....... ------ - - - ·----------------------- ----&iii.......,. Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I . $10,000.00 oho. Money talks . Call John at ( 619) 344-0707. DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $10 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very '>harp color print. NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIM£$ - A 45 word .Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish tQ use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All classified ads must be paid in advance. I I I I I I, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Enclosed is$ ___ _ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. I I Name------ ---------------------------II Address ----'-------------------Phone ______ _ . I .. City __________________ State _____ Zip ______ _ . Page 58 September 1990 Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 5331 Derry Ave., Suite O . Agoura, CA 91301 I I I ,. L . WANTED: Any parts for Class 7S Chevy LUV. Skid plate, xtra cage mad, super seats, and cond. Building 7S; need help and/ or ideas. Call Mike at (818) 963-0135. FOR SALE: Stadium Super ite, new Bills pipes, FL 350 water-cooled motor, fuel cell, Roberto gear box, New Works shocks, sway bar, HRD clutch, Simpson safety, Beadlocks, MTEG Specs, extra parts. Very competitive. Will sell less engine $8000.00, with engine $10,000.00. Call John days (213) 327-8323 or eves. (714) 842-7238. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 45' Competitive trailer. Star room, closet, TV, VCR, radio, couch, loft bed, ice box, air conditioning. Work area, air conditioning, work bench, cabinets, generator, air comp-ressor, exterior lights. The best of everything. Need to sell! Have semi in production. Call Troy at (702) 798-6400. FOR SALE: Class 10 RACECO, originally built by Larry Bolin, coilover, power, air cooled VW, all the good stuff, 1850 lbs. This car has won many SCORE & HORA races. If you're looking for a winning car that's priced to sell, please consider this one. $12,000.00. Also 2 seat pre-runner, 125"' wb, potential for Class 10. $5,000.00. Call Mark at (619) 252-8485. .. ..,.;; FOR SALE: '62 Class 5 Pre-runner, 5-1600 style. Full Chassi, Wide Beam fresh Trans & Paint, Fuel Cell, 2180cc Motor, KC's, Centerlines, Sand Blasters, Superdiff, Wright, S/W, Beard, $3,500.00 O .B.O., call Ron (602) 274-6607. FOR SALE: Class 5-1600 Baja Bug -Recent winner of the SCORE Off Road World Champ-ionships. Fully equipped to go racing. Less than 700 miles raced -available for testing. Contact Doug at Sage Council Racing (714) 831-8000. Dusty Times ~'O" ~~:•_,.;;· ·;4.;..oi.:~-~-~ l',;/ "4.c-o . ,,.. ,..,..~ FOR SALE: Class 5 Baja Bug -Took second place in SCORE/ HORA points for 1989. Built with the best parts available. Powered by a FAT Performance prepared dual Weber Type 4. Contact Doug at Sage Council Racing ( 714) 831-8000. $; • Serious lnquides: Georgia's Finest-Berrien Class 1 or 10. Loaded with excellent parts. Wright-Fox-Beard-Superboot-Simpson Master Craft-VMP DuraBlue-Summer Bros., Center-line, Complete Hewland Trans-mission. 1650cc 2180cc, 40HP and many extra parts. Complete Funco SS 1. Everything goes $10,000.00 OBO. Bruce Mitch-um (912) 986-5119/(404) 994-7541. FOR SALE: Excellent pre-runner, needs motor, wiring. Many extra parts. Custom built roll cage. Must sell to pay for new baby's hospital bills. $1800.00 Brand new size 7½ Parker Pumper helmet $400 .00. Size 71/4 Bell Mag 4 $75.00. Call Andy at (714) 849-4234. FOR SALE: 1985 Chevy Silver-ado Crew Cab dually. 26,000 miles. 454, beige interior, PS, PW, PB, PPL, CC tinted windows, A/C chrome wheels, running boards, 91 tags. Shell color is red. Full truck cover. Excellent. $14,000.00. Call Billy at (619) 247-5831. FOR SALE: New 4 seat Chromoly pre run chassis. 125"' wb, complete transmission mounts, 1 ½x6 .. Rr chromol y trailing arms, SAW 31 ½n torsion bars, sec-ondary bars, chromoly spring plates. Complete 10n wider coil-over front beam, Fox coil-overs, Summers Bros. front discs, Wright rack & pinion. All aluminum for body & roof and fiberglass hood. Call Kevin (619) 691-9171 or (619) 267-5008. -..• , ---·· -w !._Osi -----FOR SALE: 1972 W.innebago, fully self-contained, Omney generator 26,000 miles, excellent condition. $6000.00 20' trailer set up for racing. Yamaha 5000 generator, welders, torches, awning, jacks, tools & more. $10,000.00 or $15,000.00 for both. Call Billy at (619) 247-5831. Sell your surplus parts and pieces RIGHT HERE! Classified ads are just $10.00 each month-$5 .00 more each month for a picture. FOR SALE: CLASSIC 1965 FORD CLASS 8 TRUCK, 3/ 4 ton; 429 cu.in. engine. Detroit Locker Differential, 40 gal. gas tank; BFG Tires, great paint job! INCLUDES: Custom built tandem axle trailer with brakes, Two-way radios, Two gas dump cans, extra tires, lights and accessories, $16,000.00. Contact Nels Tomlinson, Days ( 602) 258-7213, Eves. (602) 944-2329. HELP WANTED: Precision Preparation Inc. is looking for an outgoing, organized individual who enjoys traveling and motor-sports, to fill a Travel Coordinator position. Duties include: Organiz-ing hotel, flight and rental car reservations, reconciling travel expenses, and coordinating special events. Competent office skills required, including phone answering and word processing. Must be willing to travel approximately 20 weekends per year. Good salary and benefits for the right person. Send resume to: Personnel, 15041 Goldenwest Circle, Westminster, CA 92683. Desert Race Support from page 57 him a hand, contact him at (714) 924-2226. We will keep you all posted on changes or develop-ments as they occur, by newsletter and at our regular meetings, which are held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at Nick's Pizza at Navajo and Bear Valley roads in Apple Valley. If you can make it, be there. · INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Bllsteln Corp. of America ....... 29 Cactus Racing ................. 10 California Pre-Fun .............. 44 Champion Beadlock ............ 17 Christmas Cards for Off Roaders ............... 23 Competitive Trailers ............ 35 DeAngelo Associates . . . . . . . . . . . 37 DeNunzlo Racing Products . . . . . . 8 FAT Performance .............. 22 Fudpucker Racing Team ........ 21 Fuel Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 German Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31 GTS Fiberglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Guard Transmissions ........... 25 Rod Hall Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 High Desert Racing Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 HI Tech Off Road ............... 20 KC Hllltes ...................... 27 La Rana Desert Racing . . . . . . . . . . 7 McKenzie Performance Products . . . . . . . . 33 Nevada Off Road Buggy ......... 16 Parker Pumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PCI Race Radios ............... 59 Race Ready Products ........... 41 RLH Communications .......... _48 Marvin Shaw Engineering ....... 43 SNORE Ltd ...................... 5 Mr. Sticker ..................... 15 Summers Brothers ............. 26 Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group . . . . . . . . . . 2 Toyota Motor Sales, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover Trackslde Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tri MIi industries ............... 13 Union 76 Gasoline .............. 19 Valley Performance ............. 57 Watkins Industries .............. 49 Wright Place ................... 47 Off Roads Winningest Radios OVER 1324 ON THE COURSE Comlink V The Ultimate Racing Intercom 16-CHANNEL ROADMASTER "A LEGEND" • Helmets wired - $100. (CF) ONLY s53900 September 1990 New! RF Pre Amp $95 30% to 50% more range! 2888 Gundry Avenue Signal Hill, CA 90806 We're next door via U.P.S.I (213) 427-8177 .,.

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