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Volume 9 - Humber 7 July 1992 In This Issue ••• CALJFORNIA RALLY SERIES FEATURES Page Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Janay Smith Controller John Calvin Circulation 0. Osborne Contributors John Ames Jim Baker Darla Crown C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Leonard Day Don Dayton Daryl D. Drake Homer Eubanks Deb Freimuth Martin Holmes Elaine Jones Rod Koch Matt Marcher Jan Flick Mazzenga Michael Ross Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Darrell Smith Daryl Smith Judy Smith 3-D Photography Trackside Photo Enterprises Art Director Larry E. Worsham Typesetting & Production Michelle's Typesetting Services SNAPSHOT Subscription Rates: '11ridSerieslf~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 errors. 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 permission from the publisher. Second Class Postage paid at Agoura, CA 91301. POSTMASTER: Send address change 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. OF THE MONTH ••• I I I I I I I I I I SCORE/Tecate San Felipe 250 by Judy Smith ... , ........... 10 SCORE San Felipe Motorcycle Race by Fud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 MTEG Stadium Racing in Texas ........................... 20 FRT Rock Around the Clock by Jean·Calvin ................. 26 SCCA Prescott Forest Pro Rally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Sou'wester Divisional Rally by Dave Clark .................. 31 SODA Series Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 GMC Safari Van by John Calvin ........................... 36 Firecracker 250 Revisited by Jean Calvin .................... 37 WRC Tour de Corse by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 La Rana Spangler 250 by Jean Calvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Chenowth Mini Mag by Homer Eubanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 FR T Buzz Bomb 150 Bikes by Fud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Kamloops Bronco Busters 400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7 HDRA Ford Motorcraft Nevada 500 by Judy Smith .......... 48 Australia Griffith Ciry 450 by Darryl Smith ................. 54 DEPARTMENTS Soap Box by George Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes .............................................. 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Competition Review Board Report by George Thompson ...... 24 CRS/SCCA So-Pac Division Report by Paula Gibeault ........ 39 Desert Race Support Report by Craig Lane .................. 47 Good Sruff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Checkers Column by the Big Wahzoo ................ ...... 61 Classified-Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ON THE COVER -Our cover winners this month lead off with Bob Richey, who never has much luck in Mexico, but he got his Class l / 2 Raceco around the SCORE San Felipe course the quickest of anyone. And rubbing a little salt in the V-8 fanciers wounds, he did the job taking first overall with a Type 4 Volkswagen engine in the tail, figuring the lighter weight from the usual Porsche motor would save wear and tear on the car, and the theory worked in spades. Our hearty congratulations to the entire RCR Plumbing crew for beating their Baja· jinx. Sailing over the Nevada outback Billy Bunch had his Ford Ranger in shape for the 500 plus mile contest. With Manny Esquerra driving in relief on the top loop on the enduro route, they had no trouble all the way, except the silt, averaged 5 mph, finished in 10:41:35 and won Class 7Sl 7 4x4 by 40 minutes. Our congragulations on a privateer win in a truck class. Color photography by Trackside Photos Inc. /\~ _, DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$15.00 □ ~ears -$15.00 □ 3 _years -$35.00 CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS -NEW SALES TAX!!!!!!!! Add: $1.25 - 1 year, $2.00 - 2 years, $2.75 - 3 years Take advantage of your subscription bonus ••. Free one time classified ad up iu 45 words. (Form on inside back page) Name----------------------------"You know, this sitting around Barstow watching the grass grow isn't too bad a deal. I suppose later they'll want me to take some pictures; but what to do now ... I know, I'll get married." We couldn't resist spoofing Joel Miller ofTrackside Photos who dozed off in the warm January sun in contingency row at HDRA's Barstow race. It will be a lot warmer now for the July Fireworks 250. 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. ff you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, 5x7 or Bx 10 will be considered. 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SOAPBOX The Times They Are ByGeorgeR. Thor!~Changing Our sport has many problems which continue to threaten the future of desert racing from one event to the next. In Nevada and California we have to struggle with rabid environmentalists who want to place the outdoors under protective custody. The recent Endangered Specie listing of the Desert Tortoise has escalated the costs of promoting stateside races, and a sagging economy has sidelined many of our fellow racers and also taken SCORE and HORA to the brink of financial ruin. In spite of these problems, those of us who remain have always been consoled by the promise of Mexico, where the rules are simple and. the price is right. Well, that's all changing in the '90s if our most recent experience in San Felipe is any example of what we can look forward to in the future. Though the SCORE/Tecate San Felipe 250 race last April filled the town to overflowing, the American tourist in gen e ral and the American Off Road racer, in particular, seem to be the vehicle which many unscrupulous Baja businessman have chosen to carry them out of the recession. My roach infested hotel room cost more than double what it did just over one year ago, the TV was defective and the patio door was pop riveted shut. The food, and I use that term loosely, was an insult to my taste buds, the cost was highway robbery and many who availed themselves of the hotel cuisine found themselves sick as dogs on race day. At what used to be a very affordable race, San Felipe now has the dubious distinction of being the most expensive race on my schedule! And San Felipe was not the only place where we had trouble. Many of our contingency spon-sors were forced to submit to lengthy searches at the border on their wa'y into Mexico, some 0 00 00 00 CPD CID 00 0o O DESERT LOCK OUTER Red Anodize Co·nstructed of all Aluminum 6061 T6 For light weight and optimum strength • 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 ! SIMPLE TO ORDER Prices are Per Bead Lock-installed on your wheel, fully machined and trued 8" ........ $69.95 1 0" ........ $84.95 13"/15" ...... $125.00 1 S"Desert Lock ..... $132.50 delayed well over eight hours. Apparently Mexican officials at the Mexicali border crossing, supposedly concerned that our sponsors were taking sales away from the locals, were taking inventory of the trucks at the point of entry, and at the point of exit, would "tax" them for anything missing from that inventory when they tried to leave. Many of our sponsors have vowed not to go south of the border again until this problem is reconciled with Mexican authorities. As far as the race is concerned, SCORE continues to improve with every event and San Felipe is no exception. Sal and Paul Fish, Jim Conner and the rest of the staff at SCORE International put on a great race. The course markings are. improving and the medical and communications operations are first rate. All of them are to be commended for the job they do. Presumably, the problems at the border are something which Sal can work with our friends at the Department of Tourism to reconcile. I hope this will be done in time for our next meeting at the Baja 500 in Ensenada. As far as I am concerned, next time I go to San Felipe, I intend to be fully self contained. I will cruise the motorhome and prepare my own food and drink. For my part, I would like to see another venue in Arizona to replace the San Felipe 250, but as long as I MUST go there I will not patronize the local merchants for the same reason I refuse to do business with unscrupulous businessmen in America. I hate being taken! ApJwrently ThomJ1son was staying at the same hotd as your ix.I itor. While 0tff room was cle£m, no touds «'L"Te prot1ided without seR"Tal tri/1s, a cou/1le a day, two lilocks away to the receJJtion desk, whL"Te they doled out one hand toud and on~ hath towd for two /1eoJ1le. And it had a slick batlwJ1 that looked irwitin[{ until we discot1ered it luid no faucets, L'r[{0, you cottldn't take a hath. And, of course, one nuijor truck r.eam had most of the /1arkin[{ s/)(lce at our h11ildin[{, indttding the lwndicap/1ed s/)(lces, taken tt/J with their cm [{Ding /1it work. One thin[{ he for[{Ot to mention too was that while the major tire com/Jany and fud comJ)(lny rigs WL"Te the major tar[{ets for the hordL"T L,ossin[{ h£m[{tt/1s, all had the kttL"T from the De/wrtment of Tourism of Jwssage J1ermission and it meant nothin[{ to Mexican customs men, who made some outfits JJOst a hond for the inwntory, which they could redeem Monday mornin[{, althottgh most would haw left Sttnday. Prit1ateer race trucks in enclosed mru «'L"Te also delayed, one so long that thL'Y left and L,ossed the />ordL"T furthL"T west, nuikin[{ their tri/1 et1en longer. It was a [{HIJ1hic remindL"T that it is their country and their officials can chan[{e the rules anytime thL>y J1lease. But, we agree with Geor[{e comJ1letely -it was a great race and we do con[{ratulate SCORE on the on [{Oing im/1row-ments in the orJ!anizaticm. CALL OR WRITE TO: o D=O (]] 00 [J) D rn 00 0o O 1671 N. Brawley Fresno, CA 93722 (209) 275-5183 Same Day Service Shipped U. P.S. Calif. Res.Add 6% Sales Tax \?olttntecrs are int1ited to dimh on their "Soap Box" and fill this sJXlce uith their thottghts alJOut what is , good and what is not so good al>out the state of the sJ1ort. Your words, I short of hcing lil>clous , will he J1rinted. So, send along your Jmiise or · damnation on your Soa/1 Box toJ1ic to Dusty Times, 533 1 D<.."Try At1e., Suite j 0, AJ!ottra, Ca 9 1301 . Page 4 July 1992 Trail Notes ••• THE MTEG LA COLISEUM event has been quite a topic for conversation since the street rioting within blocks of the facility took place just weeks ago. The neighborhood is not the best going in, but since the riots there were some concerns about having any sort of audience att(action at the facility. Security was a concern for competitors, sponsors and MTEG and the other concern was if anyone would buy a ticket to come to a race in that location. Well by the first of June the streets were back under control, although much of the rubble remained in some neighborhoods; so, on that date MTEG announced the Coliseum race complete with the famous peristyle jump would take place as. scheduled on July 18 with the Supercross race rescheduled for July 11. The word is that both events will start much earlier than in the past, so that all the on track activity is over just after dark. It sure would be nice for the press to have some daylight pictures of the races. However, this is being written six weeks before the car and truck race date, so check it out before you plan on attending the event in the LA Coliseum. SCORE SHOW..:.. We were off covering a race at SCORE Show time last May, so we didn't get a look at the annual Anaheim Convention Center displays this round. Oddly enough we have not received the usual press release telling all about how many companies were involved, how many people strolled the aisles, and so forth either. No doubt the riot business hurt the gate to some degree, but Anaheim is quite a distance from the main area of civil unrest. We did get a note from Bill Moeller, who organizes the Truckarama & Specialty Vehicle Showcase each year, and he said they set a new record this year with 82 vehicles on display in this section. He also informed us that the 16th Annual SCORE Show is scheduled for April 23-24-25, 1993. If that date sounds familiar it was the date of the SCORE San Felipe 250 race last April. Sounds like more calendar capers. FIELD HEARINGS on Senator Alan Cranston's California Desert Bill, S-21 were held early in April. The bill is nearly identical to one passed in the House of Representatives and introduced by California Representatives Richard Lehman, Mel Levine, and George Miller. The land that would go into protection or wilderness status is vast, most of the entire East Mojave Desert, and the pros and cons have been belabored here many times. Should the Senate bill pass, off road recreation in motorized vehicles could virtually end in this part of the country. The majority of the several hundred attending the Field Hearings in Palm Desert were against either bill, and it would not only affect off roading, it would oust some mining operations, cattle grazing leases, and prevent military training on some five big parcels of desert land currently being used for military training. Yet another group has come to the fore, the equestrians, who ride the trails and hold endurance races. Of course they have checkpoints, veterinary checks, and water supplies along with access for crews. But of course the bill would snag part of the riding land for Wilderness, and ban the ATVs and 4 wheel drive vehicles that service these events. One horseman in the Eastern High Sierra Distance Riders claimed that in four years of riding more than 250 miles of trails used for their events, he had never seen a hiker. We can add to that the statement that we have been racing and boondocking the southern California deserts for over 20 years, and we have never seen a hiker, other than a race driver walking to the nearest pit area to get some mechanical help for his stopped race car. The Bush Administration claims to oppose the bill, basically because of the howls of the military, and we sure hope so. Happily Alan Cranston is retirng, but the boys in the House are equally rabid about shutting the citizens out of the desert. We can't hike any more, nor can thousands of other handicapped folks, and barring vehicles of any sort from public land use is rank discrimination against this ever growing segment of the population. In this election year it won't hurt to let your elected representatives know your feelings on the House and Senate land grab, better known as the California Desert Protection bills. Don't put it off, do it today, or they just might sneak this thing through if Bush becomes a lame duck President next November. ODYSSEY / PILOT RACERS NEWSLETTER -We just received our first copy of this publication, that has been around apparently for a few years. It is sort of a super newsletter with articles on where to buy goodies, calendars of events from the east coast through the mid west and a few in the west, and a classified ad section. There are ads from A TV shops all over the country and the whole thing is put together by Rampage Racing, 2253 Hi Vue Dr., Akron, Ohio 44312-5519. Contact them if you want to get on the mailing list. THE MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME OF AMERICA, held their fourth annual Induction Ceremony and Banquet last June 3, during the Detroit CART / Indy car race week. The Hall of Fame is located in Novi, Michigan, and yes that is where originally the Novi Indy racer was hatched. Of the ten inductees Parnelli Jones is the only one who has raced off road in the sport as we now_know it. The others being honored included J.C. Agajanian, Bobby Allison, Bill Cantrell, Ralph DePalma, Amelia Earhart, Connie Kalitta, Joe Petrali, Carroll Shelby and Bill Vukovich, Sr. Of the group only Parnelli Jones and Connie Kalina are active racers today. MTEG UPDATE -The Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group has retained the services of Sports Consultants International to develop a broad based review of sponsorship opportunities available through the popular Off Road Championship Gran Prix series at major stadiums in the west, primarily. As a sanctioning body and promoter MTEG has the ability to offer sponsors a very complete and uncluttered promotional package. It must have worked well, because the first ever title sponsorship for a MTEG series event was soon announced with an agreement between MTEG and Conoco Motorsports. Conoco's "Rumble in the Rockies" will be run in Denver's Mile High Stadium in September. MTEG's new president Gary Campbell commented that Conoco is already a familiar name in the series as a long time sponsor of the Roger Mears Racing T earn, and an associate sponsor of the Dallas event last spring. They also sponsor Roger Jr., Casey and Clint Mears in the MTEG series, the two teenagers driving in the Superlite Division. A LATE FLASH FROM MTEG states the Coliseum races are a go. The Supercross on July 11 and the car and truck bash on July 18 will be held during daylight hours. Also the dates for the final three events in the Off Road Gran Prix series have been finalized, too late to make out' calendar section this month. They are September 26, Denver, October 3, Las Vegas, and on October 24 Candlestick Park in San Francisco replaces the Oakland Coliseum for the season finale. i;r Dusty Times

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1991 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34810 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 July 18-19, 1992 Family Campout-Trail Ride Cinder Mountain Flagstaff, AZ September 5-6, 1992 Snowflake Buggy Bash Aripine, AZ December 5, 1992 Sonoyta to Rocky Point Sonora, Mexico AMSA Jim Webb P.O. Box 26084 Fresno, CA 93726 (209) 439-2114 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPONSHIP Darryl Smith 47 Teenan St. Ferny Hills, Q 4055, Australia 011-18-07-851-0444 July 19, 1992 Kempsey New South Wales September 20, 1992 Waikerie South Australia AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars only Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B lHl · (514) 434-5792 August 1, 1992 Autodrome Rive Sud La Prairie, Quebec, Canada August 29, 1992 Autodrome Rive Sud La Prairie, Quebec, Canada BADGERLAND VW CLUB,INC. Terry Friday 5913 Fond Du Lac Road Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 ( All euents located in Chilton, WI at the W innehago County Ex/m Center) BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Desert Series (cars) August 21-23, 1992 Gran Carrera de Ensenada Ensenada, BC, Mexico September 25-2 7, 1992 Gran Carrera de Campeones San Felipe, BC, Mexico Special Event July 23-26, 1992 The Mint 400 Invitational Las Vegas, NV January 15, 1993 Year End Awards BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. July 4, 1992 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV August 29, 1992 Twilite Special Delle, Utah October 31, 1992 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 {613)475-1102/Fax{613)475-3250 July 24-26, 1992 Off Road Canada Jamboree September 12-13, 1992 Off Road & Mud Bog Races Page 6 1991 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon,WI54520 (715) 478-2222 June 20-21, 1992 Spring Run 101 Crandon, WI September 5-6, 1992 True Value World's Championship Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI BUMP Bob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 42263 50th St. West #108 Quartz Hill, CA 93536 (805) 256-8520 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Gary Luke, Director 13675 Spring Valley Road Morgan Hill, CA 95037 (408) 779-3589 Mike Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 June 20, 1992 Glen Helen Rallycross San Bernardino, CA . August 16, 1992 Annual Rally Picnic Silverwood Lake, CA September 19-20, 1992 Angeles Forest Rally Palmdale, CA October 24, 1992 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, 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 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 9385 Florence Ave. Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 291-1215/(305) 823-4487 July 12, 1992 Naples, FL August 9, 1992 Lakeland, FL September 6, 1992 Tallahassee, FL October 11, 1992 Sharpes, FL November 8, 1992 Lakeland, FL January 10, 1993 Naples, FL February 14, 1993 Lakeland, FL March 27, 1993 Talahassee, FL FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 August 1, 1992 Superstition 250 Lake Superstition, CA October 3, 1992 Plaster City Blast · Plaster City East, CA December 31, 1992 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West, CA ATV, BIKE & DESERT SUPERLITE SCHEDULE August 22, 1992 Night -Team Race September 13, 1992 Desert Sprint October 1 7, 1992 Bob Patterson's ATV E Ticket Ride (Evening/night event) October 25, 1992 The Attack Kamakize Desert Gran Prix followed bv a T earn Race November 22, 1992 The Notorious Dawg 3 Hour T earn Race December 6, 1992 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix followed bv a T earn Race ( All euents in the El Centro, CA area) GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 2339 San Bernardino, CA 92406 (714) 880-1733 GORRA Georgia Off Roacl Racing Association Box 11093 Station -A Atlanta, GA 30310 (404) 253-1033 July 26, 1992 100 Miles August 23, 1992 50 Miles in Heats September 2 7, 1992 100 Miles October 24, 1992 Rules Meeting October 25, 1992 50 Miles November 28, 1992 Thanksgiving 250 December 5, 1992 Awards Banquet ( All euents at Vienna, GA) GREAT LAKES FOUR WHEEL DRIVE ASSOCIATION Bob Moon 915 So. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 (313) 665-0358/(313) 996-9193 GREAT PLAINS OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Keith Koesters 4605 N. 130th Circle Omaha, NE 68164 ( 402) 496-0846 August 1, 1992 August 29, 1992 ( All short course races and held at WestFair in Council Bluffs, lou,a) GREAT WESTERN POINTS SERIES, INC. Bertram Productions, Inc. 15073 Hwy 119, Rt. 4 Golden, CO 80403 Colorado Off Road Championships ( 303) 936-5960 July 26, 1992 Erie, Co August 23, 1992 Erie, Co September 13, 1992 Erie, Co (All at 1.M.1. MotorsJ>orts Complex) September 2 7, 1992 Deadwood, SD GRR Golden Rule Racing P.O. Box 40211 · Phoenix, AZ 85067 ( 602) 263-5329 October 3, 1992 TBA November 7, 1992 Wickenburg, AZ HORA High Desert Racing Association 12997 Las Vegas Blvd., South Las Vegas, NV 89124 (702) 361-5404 HORA U.S.A. CUP June 20, 1992 Publicity Run Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA July 4-5, 1992 Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA August 1 , 1992 Publicity Run July 1992 Color Country Runoffs Brian Head, Utah August 14-16, 1992 Color Country Runoffs Brian Head, Utah September 18-20, 1992 Willow Springs Raceway Rosamond, CA October 3, 1992 Publicity Run Gold Coast 300 Las Vegas, NV October 9-11, 1992 Gold Coast 300 Las Vegas, NV HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Harvey Wald (605) 224-6678 days (605) 224-5534 evenings August 23, 1992 Oahe Short Course Pierre, SD September 2 7, 1992 Deadwood Off Road Gran Prix Deadwood, SD October 1 7, 1992 Last Chance-Baja Wall, SD IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All euents staged at the du/, grounds in Clews, Ohio) INTER-SHOWS . MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 July 10, 1992 Motorcycle Swap Meet Fairplex L.A. County Fair · Pomona, CA July 31, 1992 Motorcycle Swap Meet & Bike Show Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA August 2, 1992 California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA August 23, 1992 California Volkswagen Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA October 2, 1992 Motorcycle Swap Meet Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA · October 3, 1992 VW /Porsche Off Road Swap Meet Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA December 4, 1992 Motorcycle Swap Meet Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA December 5, 1992 VW / Porsche Off Road Swap Meet Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB Randy Chamberlin 835 Wawn Road Kamloops, B.C. V2B-6N3 Don (604) 372-9501 days Randy (604) 579-9621 eves July 12, 1992 Short Course Race September 2 7, 1992 Enduro Race October 11, 1992 Short Course Race (combined with WORRA) (all events start 7 miles northu-est of Kam/oops) LA RANA DESERT RACING 22769 Chambray Dr. Moreno Valley, CA 92387 (714) 924-2226 June 19-21, 1992 Lucerne Valley Jam 250 Lucerne Valley, CA July 18-19, 1992 Glen Helen Desert Challenge #1 Glen Helen OHV Park San Bernardino, CA August 28-30, 1992 Johnson Valley 150 Lucerne Valley, CA September 12-13, 1992 Glen Helen Desert Challenge #2 Glen Helen OHV Park San Bernardino, CA October 23-25, 1992 California 200 Ridgecrest, CA November 20-22, 1992 High Desert 300 Lucerne Valley, CA December 19, 1992 Awards Banquet Marriott Hotel Ontario, CA MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road . Grand Ledge, MI 48837 (517) 627-6200 July 25, 1992 Fowlerville, MI July 26, 1992 Caro, MI August 2, 1992 Ingham County Fair Mason, Ml August 6, 1992 Samilac County Fair Sandusky, MI August 11, 1992 Huron Community Fair Bad Axe, MI August 14, 1992 Mt. Pleasant, MI August 25, 1992 Kalamazoo Fairgrounds Kalamazoo, MI August 28, 1992 State Fair Detroit, MI MICHIGAN SPORT BUGGY ASSOCIATION Keneth Coleman 742 E. Roosevelt Road Ashley, Ml 48806 (517) 838-4483 MIDWEST OFF ROAD RACING Tommy Bowling 19019 W . CR 128 Odessa, TX 79765 (915) 561-5222 "The Texas Challenge Off Road Points Series" ( All et>ents at Notrees, TX) July 11, 1992 125 Miler Night Race Notrees, TX August 7-9, 1992 Rock 'N Roll 250 Notrees, TX September 12, 1992 Twilite 125 Night Race Notrees, TX October 24, 1992 150 Miler Notrees, TX November 7, 1992 Awards MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 938-4100 July 18, 1992 Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA September TBA, 1992 Mile High Stadium Denver, CO October TBA, 1992 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV November TBA, 1992 Oakland Stadium Oakland, CA MTEG CAMEL SUPERCROSS July 11, 1992 Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA tJ1r Dusty Times

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NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION 11842 Jason Court Madera, CA 93638 (209) 486-4590/(209) 266-5558 June 20, 1992 Goldendale, WA June 21, 1992 Merrill ville, IN June 21, 1992 Johnson, VT July 4, 1992 Bascom, OH July 10, 1992 Bloomsburg, PA July 18-19, 1992 Nipigon, Ontario, Canada July 19, 1992 Johnson, VT July 25, 1992 Barre, MA July 31 or August 7, 1992 Keene, NH August 16, 1992 Johnson, VT August 23, 1992 Merrillville, IN August 23, 1992 Nipigon, Ontario, Canada September 13, 1992 Johnson, VT September 26, 1992 Orange, MA September 2 7, 1992 Barre, MA October 4, 1992 NMRA Super Series Johnson, VT OFF ROAD JAMBOREES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 June 19-21, 1992 Ghost Town Adventure '92 South Lake Tahoe/ Stateline, CA September 25-2 7, 1992 Kern River Jamboree Lake Isabella/Kernville, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-9767 ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Jeff Sargent 1480 Lakeridge Rd. N Ajax, Ontario, Canada (416) 427-4782 July 23-25, 1992 Off Road Canada Jamboree Brighton Speedway Brighton, Ontario August 14-16, 1992 Janetville, Ontario August 22-23, 1992 Motor Monster Mania CNE Toronto, Ontario September 12-13, 1992 Brighton Speedway Brighton, Ontario October 23, 1992 Skydome Motorsport '92 Toronto, Ontario PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado SpFings, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 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 Date TBA Sunriser Rally Chillicothe, OH August 28-30, 1992 Ojibwe Rally Bemidji, MN October 2-4, 1992 Page 8 Gold Rush Rally Westcliffe. CO • October 23-25, 1992 Press On Regardless Escanaba, MI November 6-8, 1992 Coachman Stages Olympia WA December 4-6, 1992 Maine Forest Rally Rumford, Maine SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818) 889-9216 November 12-15, 1992 Baja 1000 Ensenada, BC, Mexico SCORE SHOW Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group Tom Lewis P.O. Box 25148 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714) 938-4155 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Jack Kolan (619) 292-4444 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 July 25-26, 1992 Midnight Special Las Vegas, NV September 18-20, 1992 SNORE250 Jean, NV December 5-6, 1992 Eldorado Valley 250 Las Vegas, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W . 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Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 656-1122 July 11, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross August 1, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross August 23, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600 (Tent) Fair Motocross September 26, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross October 1 7, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross November 7, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross November 21, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross December 5, 1992 Class 10, 1-2-1600, 5-1600 Motocross (otht.?r car dasst.?s wdcome if thrt.?e or more show u/>) VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916)925-1702 June 19-21, 1992 Virginia City Classic 200 Virginia City, NV July 26, 1992 Summer Sider Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA September 5-7, 1992 Yerington VORRA 250 Yerington, NV October 16-18, 1992 The Bend 300 Brothers, OR November 1992 TBA 1992 Championship Race Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION 19125 -87A Ave. Surrey, British Columbia, V3R 5X7, Canada (604) 576-6=25=6'----WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85032 (602)971-3730 (All en.'lltS at Thwsherland, , 17th Aw. & Glendale in Phoenix, AZ) FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP June 25-28, 1992 New Zealand Rally Auckland, New Zealand July 20-26, 1992 Argentina RAily Buenos Aires, Argentina August 25-31, 1992 1000 Lakes Rally Jyvaskyla, Finland September 18-22, 1992 Rally Australia Perth, Australia October 11-16, 1992 Rally d'Italia Sanremo, Italy October 27-November 2, 1992 Ivory Coast Rally Abidjan, Ivory Coast November 9-12, 1992 Rally of Spain Catalunya, Spain November 22-26, 1992 RAC Rally Harrogate, England ATTENTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming et>L'!lts in DUSTY Tl MES free! Send yottr 1992 schedttle as soon as possihle for listing in this co111mn. Mail yottr wee or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 533, DL'TT"J Aw., Sttite 0, Agoura, CA 91301 July 1991 "'orc._ •• T.RAI L_._NOTES SEARCHERS WORLD -Just when we thought we had heard every possible type of promotion connected with off road travel, some folks in Cortez Colorado have come up with a new angle and sent along a dandy four color b'rochure explaining how Searchers World started by selling video tap~s of scenic trail rides from Maine to California. Now the Searchers have their first private retreat and game preserve, and plan more. The retreat is in the heart of canyon country overlooking Moab, Utah's red rock canyon lands and Arches National Park. The concept of a 'country club', that members can call home and companies can use for a major sales tool is not new, but one in the Canyon Lands of Utah is certainly novel. If you are curious and want to see the literature and get more information, contact The Segrchers, Box 1445, Cortez, Colorado 81321. · RIM OF THE WORLD SCCA PRO RALLY -The "Rim" had a huge entry of 56 starting teams in Palmdale, CA last May, and it was the first full points event on SCCA's National Pro Rally circuit. The rough roads m the Angeles National Forest took a heavy toll as merely 33 rally cars completed the event. The two day competition features National and Divisional rallies. Local Southern Pacific Division competitor Lon Peterson ran both divis-ionals, and with co-driver Bill Gutzmann they not only won both divisionals, they registered the fastest overall time on the course by almost a full minute in their 1977 Plymouth Arrow. Peterson is also the 1991 Divisional Pro Rally Runoff Champion. Second fastest overall and overall National winner was the Audi Quattro of Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker. Next came the fancy 1992 Acura Integra in Production class driven by Peter Cunningham and Steve Nowicki. Roger Hull and Rob Cherry from Prescott, AZ won the Rallytruck honors and were seventh overall in their Jeep Comanche. We'll have a full report next month. GRAN CARRERA DE MEXICALI -This round we did not receive a story and photos on the Baja Promotions race, but we do have results. Tim Morton, Tim Funk, Tom Wimberly and John Flores came out of San Diego County to take the overall win on a 250cc Kawasaki. They were followed by David Jones, Joey Lane and Craig Smith, also on a 250 Kawasaki, and the Honda CR 250 from Mexicali of Ricardo Malo, Miguel de Rueda and Earl Roberts was third overall. Fourth overall and the first car home was the Chaparall of Arizonans Jim Travis and Ron League, followed by Californians Brent Miller and Steve Wright in a Chenowth. Next was the Mini Mag of Rory Chenowth, Charlie Townsley and Jim Harris. The next car at 11th overall was the 1-2-1600 ORE of Guadalupe and Manuel Perez, followed by a Class 5 Baja Bug driven by Conrad Diaz, Jr. and Sr. Chris Garrett and Randy Long drove another Mini Mag to 14th overall while Lee and Scott Bilinski got their 2-1600 Raceco in 18th overall. Apparently not too many finished this race, but then the production on our results copy is not very good, and often hard to read. THE SNORE CALIENTE 250 results are in and the race in the high country way north of Las Vegas drew SNORE's biggest entry this year. The route wound around big trees, that buggies couldn't move, through water crossings made deeper by rains the day before the race, and the usual hazards of running in mountains and canyons, but a fun change from the usual desert climate. Bryan Pennington won the race overall in his 1-1600. None of the Unlimited cars finished the seven laps of a 35 mile course, but Aaron Hawley went the farthest the fastest in his Chenowth. Brent Bell, with Scott Bedford riding in his Chenowth, won Class 10 and was second overall, just two minutes behind the fast 1600. Once again Mike Dixon, who really likes this course, won the Class 9 honors over 11 other Challenger cars. Patrick Carter and John Pellissier took the win in Class 5-1600 and Bill Dickton and friends got the Dodge 4x4 home first in the combined Class 4 and 8. For the third race in a row Steve Ogle and Jack Bassett won Class 7, a class that includes all manner of mini trucks, in their well turned out Toyota. The six Class 7 starters were also hunting the $1,000.00 bonus prize put up by Yokohama at every SNORE race, and it is non contingent. We'll have a full report and some water splash pictures from the SNORE Caliente event in the next issue. THE OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND sent us a newsletter recently, and it sounds like they have some keen off road racing there. One picture shows a mud covered buggy and another a full size pickup rising out of a stream or a mud patch.We met the Event Director and editor Vince Beckett when he was roaming around the Las Vegas contingency row at the Nissan 400 last March, and he was very enthusiastic about getting some coverage in Dusty Times on the New Zealand races, the series organized by ORANZ in Aukland. The first race of the season, last April, was held on what he called a farm course, a 200 kilometer enduro sponsored by BP. More than half the field fell victim to mechanical damage on the tough run near Parakai. The overall winner was Mike Cameron in a Class 3 Eagle open wheel racer. We will have more coverage on the New Zealand racing when we sort out the classes and details. Coming in October is the Tasman 1000 Off Road Challenge, 1000 kilometers long. Write for race info to P.O. Box 56206, Auckland, New Zealand, the same address as ORANZ. That sounds like something we ought to cover in person, ~nd if the airlines keep on slashing fares, we just might make it. LATE FLASH FROM BAJA - Ivan Stewart led almost wire to wire at the SCORE Tecate Baja 500 on Saturday June 6, 1992. He stopped only for gas and fresh tires en route to first place in Class 1 and overall by over 20 minutes. Doug Fortin Jr. and Jason Baldwin both stayed close to Stewart for the first 200 miles. Baldwin finished second overall but Fortin didn't finish due to front end trouble on his Class 1 truck. Provisional results as we go to press show Rob MacCachren winning Class 8 in the Ford and taking third overall. John Swift was in the top ten overall winning Class 6 in his Ford. Steve Sourapas and Dave Richardson won Class 10 in a Chenowth. The Ampudia brothers won the close dice in Class 1-2-1600 on elapsed time but the results are still pending. Scott Douglas won Class 7 again in the Dodge Dakota and Mike Lesle won Class 3 in his Jeep Cherokee. Jerry McDonald overcame various troubles, finished with the rear end tied by rope to the back bumper, and won Class 4 over Rodney Hall in his Dodge. We believe that Darrin York and. family won the Class 7S honors and had no mechanical troubles en route. As we go to print there are no known results for Mini Mags or Class 11 and some restricted engine classes are still under discussion in Ensenada on technical problems. Full report in next issue of DUSTY TIMES. Dusty Times

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TECATE/SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 Bob R_ichey Beats 'Em All By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. Bill Church made a Class 8 GMC out of the former Class 1 Chevy, and he won Class 8 by over eight minutes and finished a swift third overall as well, and Church drove the entire distance too. Bob Richey ably demonstrated that the VW air cooled Type 4 engine can still beat big horsepower on a rough course, taking his new, lightweight Raceco to the overall victory with Boyd Cox riding shotgun. Bob Richey drove his mild-before it headed north again. Th~ was really not up to the effort, and motored two seat Raceco to the major part of the hated beach he pulled out early. Bran~ broke overall victory at SCORE's San road, with its bone jarring whoop-an output shaft at ~bout mil~ 10~. Felipe 250, demonstrating the old de-doos was avoided this time, Evans broke a wishbone m _his saw that "you can't win unless but in its place there was soft truck, and needed len_gthy repairs, you finish". Richey had decided sand. It sucked in a number of an? Gordon lo~t an 011 pump belt, to run with his Type IV motor vehicles, and attrition was high in tw1c_e. By th~ t1~e Robby got to instead of his high powered 3.6 the first 35 miles. Oasis, 76 miles mto the race, he liter Porsche number, because he But Gordon made it through was an hour down, and he knew felt he could run at a steady pace with no problem, and, graced he could look forw_ard to more all day and not have any trouble with the first start position, troubles. So he decided to park with the VW. And he was right. scattered spectators, rocks and the truck._ . While his competitors fell out greenery as he showed 'em all how Dave Simon took over for ~1s around him, Richey drove to do it. Fans hadn't settled in broth~r, and got to Check 4, mile steadily on to get his first Baja from the excitement of Gordon's 146, m front of the horde. But overall win. fly-by when they were treated to he'd no sooner gone past his pit The course for the San Felipe 250, second SCORE race of the year, was a loop within a loop, and totaled 263 miles for one long lap. Pre-runners described it as fast/ rough, with lots of hazards, particularly buried rocks, to catch the unwary. There was a good deal of soft sand also, and a high speed run across Diablo Dry Lake to take a toll of persnickety motors. The weather turned hot, even hotter than anticipated, but there was some breeze to clear the dust off the trail. The consensus was that the winner would average 60 mph, and be back at the San Felipe arches in time for lunch. Paul Simon's passage, and whenhediscoveredthathe'dlost another shower of rocks and his brakes, and a few miles later an twigs. Some quick math brought axle broke. As Simon settled in delighted grins to the spectator's for a long repair job, the Herbst faces because it was evident that car went by, but didn't get much there was going to be a RACE! In further along before they tore up fact, Simon had about a minute the right front corner of their car. on Gordon, and he'd had to pass Now Richey was first on the road, some intervening buggies on his and having no troubles. He'd had way to the front of the pack. a flat, conveniently timed so he VW powered Raceco, who'd lost some time early in the day when he'd slid in under Fortin's stalled truck in the dust, was running strong, and slowly catching up. Richey kept on driving steadily, and, while he felt the course was as rough as a Barstow course, finished at ten minutes to one, with an elapsed time of 4:47:01, and his car was still in fine condition. McEachern came in about six minutes behind him, finishing with his left rear tire absolutely shredded. Bradley, also on a flat left rear tire, was third, almost a half hour later. In fourth it was Jackson, who'd been without third gear for the last 30 miles, and also had power steering troubles. And Renezeder, who lost his clutch late in the day, finished fifth. The second group to start was Class 8, and they were mixing it up with the buggies early on. There were only five of the fire breathers, since Larry Ragland and his Chevy had withdrawn, as had Scott McMillin and his Ford. In fact, McMillin, his brother, Mark, and father, Corky, had all planned to race, but a business crisis of some sort had reportedly called them all back to San Diego on Friday. At mile 35 the first truck on the road was Robby MacCachren in his Ford, but he had Brian Stewart and the Dodge just about tied with him on elapsed time, and close behind on the road. And Steve Kelley had Dave W esthem 's GMC just another minute back. Then there was a gap, and along came Bill Church, in the Chevy truck that he ran as a Class 1 car a few times last year. And, already There were plenty of folks with the equipment to give it a good try, including Tim and Ed Herbst, Troy Herbst, Jimmy Smith, and Pat Dean and John Gaughan, all in Porsche Chenowths, Jason Baldwin, Ron Brant and Stuart Chase, in Porsche Racecos, Steve McEachern in the Jeep, Walker Evans in his new Dodge truck, Dave and Paul Simon in their exotic Ford, Robby Gordon in his Ford truck, and Danny Letner and Jerry Penhall in Letner's Chevy truck. There was lots of horsepower in the staging line. Also in attendance, but not too hopeful, was Doug Fortin,Jr., out for his first race in his Chevy truck, but considering this likely to be a test drive more than a full out race effort for the virgin vehicle. Very quickly then, along came could have it changed at his gas Richey, and Tom Bradley, Sr., in stop, and he had to add oil his Type IV powered Raceco. occasionally. Otherwise his car Then Tim and Ed Herbst, was behaving well. At mile 159 McEachern, Troy Herbst, Bald-McEachern was next to come win, Brant, Evans, and Mike along, about six minutes behind Williams in his Mazda powered him, and then it was Jason MECO. Fortin had already Baldwin,actuallyrunningsecond stopped for a loose wire, while on elapsed time. Bradley was next GaughanandDeanhadbrokenan in line, and then the limping axle. Simons, looking for more repairs. But the big race was not to be. And behind them came Carl Gordon had a series of flats, and Renezeder, in a Porsche Chen-the Simon truck pulled out in owth, driving in his third race, front. Paul's good showing was and with his throttle foot in a cast. more of an accomplishment than He'd been without his air cleaner was obvious, because he and his for about 150 miles. The Herbsts, brother, Dave, had both been with no shock on the right front very ill in the morning, suffering corner and a dangling brake line, " from some form of Turista and a rear tire on the other side, apparently. were also looking for more help. · delayed by some problem, Perry McNeil, in his new, not quite As Gordon fell back the Herbst Richey and McEachern contin-·'i: i }£1 '. '; . Q:Jt ,P •i¢ ·\ finished Ford, which he really hadn't planned to race. Kelley broke a rear brake rotor before El Chinero ( mile 44 ), and then ran without brakes for a long time. Church lost a caliper, and had power steering trouble all day. He said he's installed a new type of steering, and it needed lots of adjustment. His truck also lost oil pressure ifhe ran it over 5000 rpm. But Stewart and MacCach-ren were having no troubles, and were fighting a close duel all the way. At Borrego MacCachren was the seventh vehicle on the road, but Stewar'r was right there, breathing down his neck. When they got to Check 4 MacCachren was the fifth vehicle on the road, and after Simon and the Herbsts broke he ran third for a moment, a~d then lost his transmission. At mile 159, as the leaders came through, Ivan Stewart, Brian's dad, who was not racing this event, played chase crew. He stood nervously, with radio in hand, ready to report each car through to the pit crew up the course. He confessed that he is a "poor chase person - really bad", because he forgets to radio in his reports, and he gets lost, "I can't find the access roads", he said. With no clear idea which car to expect next, Ivan watched the three lead Class 1 cars go by, and radioed ahead to his pit. When the next vehicle along could be heard through the tall brush, it was apparent that it was a truck. But, who? "Migod, it's Brian!", said Ivan, and he gave a thumbs-up, then signaled the truck to slow down. Then he turned to us and asked, "That was Brian, wasn't it?" It was, and he had the overall lead at that point. While MacCachren's crew The trail headed north from the arches, through the municipal dump, and then across the highway and out to the beach two seater moved up to the lead ued to run smoothly, though the pack, behind Simon, followed by Jeep did have one flat . But Richey, then Gordon, McEach- Baldwin's left front corner came em, and Baldwin. That was their apart, literally, about 20 miles • order of arrival at Borrego, 120 before he got to Check 5, which miles into the race. In the was 183 miles into the race. He meantime, Fortin struggled with limped in and his crew made rear suspension problems, Troy extensive repairs, but it wouldn't Herbst broke an axle, and Bradley steer right after that. Bradley also lost the front shocks on his car. lost his front shocks again, just Jimmy Smith had done a spec tac- before that pit, and had to stop for ular rollover at the first road help, while the Herbsts, their crossing, ending up with his front front end patched up, lost their wheels in the bed of a spectator "electrical box", and had another truck. He'd gone on, but the car long pit stop. Keith Jackson, in a Just like earlier this season, the old style paint scheme and a VW Type 4 engine were the magic touch for 'the Chenowth of Steve Sourapas and Dave Richardson who won Class 10 handily, by a hefty 23 minutes. Page 10 July 1992 Dusy Times

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Looking tidy here Steve McEachern finished on a shredded left rear tire, but solid in second overall and Unlimited class in the modified Jeep Cherokee. Tom Bradley Sr. soloed the race in the Class 2 Raceco, finished on a left rear flat also, but finished third in Class 1 /2 with VW power in the Raceco and was fifth overall. Making his first start in Mexico in Unlimited class, young Keith Jackson also used VW power in his Raceco to snare fourth in class and sixth overall. replaced his transmission, Kelley forged on, brakeless, and, "ran out of talent", and got stuck in the soft sand below Three Poles. Church was making a lot of stops, but ,kept moving on, while McNeil was out early. Stewart continued to run well, and, knowing his competition was having problems, decided he didn't really have to push harp. But as he neared Check 7, on the bottom of the course, and only about 15 miles from the finish, he went to make a turn and his steering froze. The truck dug in, then turned over, making about three revolutions before coming to rest on its side. Brian and his co-driver, Jeff Geiser, couldn't manhandle it back on its wheels alone, so they had to wait for the chase crew to come in and help them. Church moved up to the front of the pack, and on to the finish line, to take the win, and finish third overall. Kelley was second, nine minutes later, and in another six minutes it was MacCachren, in third. Stewart came in two minutes behind him, and the first words he said as he exited the truck were to his disappointed father, "But, Dad, I was just cruisin'. " The ca use of the rollover, it turned out, was that the power steering fluid had gone dry. He had dropped to 11th overall. The third group to take the green flag was Class 10, and in this bunch were a number of potential winners, including John Marking and Scott Reams in the new Jimco, Tom Schilling in hisJimco, Jim Pierce and Jim Kirk in their Raceco, Rick Romans in another Raceco, Steve Myers and Mike Sullivan in their Raceco, Steve Sourapas and Dave Richardson in ·a Chenowth, and Richard Binder in his ORBS. By mile 35 Binder had the lead, but Richardson, who'd started at the back of the pack, was only about a half minute behind him. Romans, also running well, had brought his car as-is from the Nissan 400, where he'd been d.q. 'd for making an emergency pit stop in a "spectator area" after two laps. He said ifhe finished the San Felipe race he'd know that he would have finished at the Nissan. Dave Bufe, in a Neth, which was basically a Class 1-2-1600 car with a bigger motor, was also running well, but Marking had already had problems, and was back in the pack. Mark Fry, in his Raceco, was plagued with flat tires. The Reams/Marking team and Schilling both fell by the wayside, and Pierce and Kirk broke their gear shift, and couldn't get a gear, so they were out too. Romans took over the lead, with Richard-son pushing hard behind him, and . Dusty Times Binder, Bufe and Higman, and Myers and Sullivan still close enough to threaten. . Then Romans lost his trans-mission and was out, and Higman lost a rear shock reservoir, and a carburetor spring. They'd also lost the motor for their pumper helmets. Sullivan got in for his half of the trip and lost second gear, then third, and, on Diablo, fifth went out. Then he had the gearshift lever come off in his hand, and he used a wrench for a while, to find what gears were left. Binder, meanwhile, had a frustrating five flat tires, and had also lost his rear brakes. At one point, while he was repairing a flat he also helped put Don Currier's 1600 car back on its wheels, helped Kirk find a gear in his shiftless car, and set Darren Ebberts on all fours also. Sourapas, learning that Romans was gone, and aware that his competition had fallen back, was able to "pre-run" the second half of the course, having no problems at all. So Sourapas and Richardson took the win, while the others struggled. Higman and Bufe, who'd had to add oil a few times, finished second with out a drop of oil in the motor, 24 minutes later. In third it was Myers and Sullivan, who'd done the last 35 miles in first gear. Fourth, an hour and 20 minutes in back of the winner, was Binder. And Fry finished fifth, five minutes later, and was the last of the class to make it in. In Class 4 the competition was hot and close from the start line, but not for long. Jerry McDonald, in his Chevy, had a flat very early, and Dave Ashley charged forward in his Ford, flying low through the shrubs. But at mile 38 he was parked at the side of the road with a broken tie rod, which cost him 45 minutes. In the meantime Mike Schwellinger put his Ford in front on the road, until he had a flat at about mile 50. McDonald, who'd been only about a minute been outlawed for this class, so he behind him, now leap frogged to ran with VW power like everyone the front. Rod Hall, in the Dodge else, and had been seriously stuck truck, had already lost 15 minutes in the soft sand on the beach. by the time he got to mile 35. Todd Pankratz and John Currier Ashley got things together and were even further back, changing ran strong again, but now he had a broken torsion bar at mile 15. to get around some Class 7S Hartmut had his nephew, trucks, the Mini-Mags, some Adrian, riding with him, and he 1600s, all of Class 5, and a lot of reported that Uncle Hartmut miscellaneous wounded traffic stuffed the car into a ditch while before he could catch McDonald trying to get around Parsons. But andSchwellinger.But,catchthem they didn't have any other he did, as McDonald was having troubles. Parsons, who runs a trouble with bent wheels, one of Type I motor with a Bus which took out a spindle and transmission, went on, and front brake caliper. He later said i there were "lots of buried rocks." ; Ashley had no further troubles, stopped only for fuel, and had no flat tires at all. He took the win, finishing 14th overall. Schwel-linger, who drove all the way, was second, just five minutes behind him. And McDonald, after lengthy repairs, managed a third place. Hall did not get a finish. Class 5 took the green flag next, and first to fall out was Bill Hemquist. It seems he'd had last minute oil pressure problems with his big fast race motor, so he'd installed a puny Type I motor in his Bug. He got four miles into the race betore it blew. Some of the others were doing much better however, and Dave Parsons was the first one to our vantage point at mile 35, with Hartmut Klawitter running second, and still feeling out his new rear air shock suspension. Then there was a gap of 13 minutes, and along came Rudy Cortez and Leo Diaz, whose car sounded decidedly unwell, and right behind them was Luis Ramirez and Salvador Casas, a team from Caho San Lucas, at the tip of Baja. Conrad Diaz was next to come along, and then it was another long gap in time, l 0 minutes, before Rich Minga made an appearance in his Porsche 911 shaped car. He can't run his Porsche motor any longer, it's This Is the system run by most off road race winners 'ii; -\ ·l,-:t;_,, __ . . · .• ', ",'" stopped to put his co-driver, Bob Gustafson, in for his turn. The Klawitters went by while they were making the change. Wolf-ram, Hartmut's brother, then managed to stay in front of Gustafson, who had enough oomph to catch him, but just couldn't manage to get past him. Meanwhile, Diaz was having a couple of flat tires, and Pankratz and Currier lost their brakes, lost a tire and wheel, and lost their way. Cortez and Diaz had terminal troubles, as did Ramirez and Casas. Minga,i;r TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME JEEP STRAIGHT 6 "NEW SUMMER SPECIAL CHROME" 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (213) 234•9014 Dave Ashley had an early broken tie rod in the Ford, but no more down time as he flew to the victory in Class 4, working hard for it and winning by just five minutes in the F-150, WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED July 1992 Page 11

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Sliding past some ocotillo Steve Kelley made it a 1-2 finish for GMC in Class B, driving Dave Westhem 's truck to second in class and fourth overall. Dave Bufe and Jerry Higman had only one problem with the Neth, it drank a lot of oil late in the race, but they finished second in Class 10 anyway. Steve Myers and Mike Sullivan plow up a dust cloud with the Toyota powered Class 10 Raceco, but finished third, doing the last miles with first gear only. Despite having five flat tires and losing his rear brakes on the ORBS, Richard Binder kept it moving to finish fourth in Class 10 in the big car. Mike Schwellinger flew out of town in the Class 4 Ford, and he kept right on flying low to finish second in class, and he was just five minutes back. Dave Parsons and Bob Gustafson breathed new life into this Class 5 Bug, drove hard, finished on a flat left rear tire, but were second in Class 5, just a couple minutes behind. Hartmut and Wolfram Klawitter had no troubles save one flat defending their Class 5 championship in the tidy Jimco built Bug, and a pesky Bug splattered on the face shield the last few miles, making it hard to see. r;.-. had left his chase W olfrarn could report was a big crews stuck in the sand, so he did bug that splattered all over his rnostoftherestofthedaywithout face shield, and made it very their assistance. He lost a power difficulttosee.Hedroveoneeyed steering belt, had a flat and had to for quite a while. Parsons and replace an oil line, all by Borrego. Gustafson, corning in on a flat left From then on he had no more rear tire, were second, two trouble. minutes and 26 seconds later. In The Klawitters, who liked their third, almost an hour later, it was new air shock set-up, carried on Diaz, and then Minga finished smoothly to take the win. The fourth, still another hour behind. most serious problem that Pankratz and Currier, with their It's getting to be a habit with Curt LeDuc, winning Class 6 in his Jeep Cherokee, and he did it again last April, having no real problems along the way and he finished eighth overall! Page 12 Larry Martin came out of the close pack of 1-2-1600s in his NRW to take over the lead around Borrego, had no apparent problems with the NRW, and he won the class by a skinny three minutes and change. transmission fading away, were but others had problems. Like fifth, and last, still another hour Brent Gride whose Chenowth back. was hit by a truck early in the day, The 1-2-1600s started next, which pushed his header pipe into and they ran in the expected tight his alternator, and lost him an clump, still pretty much in hour. The Harrises had a couple starting order at mile 35. But Jim of rear flats, and Larry Smith and Fishback, Sr., in a Neth, and Larry Jon Kennedy had a lot of small Cossio, in his Raceco, were troubles with their MECO. looking strong, as was Scott Cossio had shock trouble, Webster, in his old ORBS, who beginning before he'd covered a was about even with Fishback, hundred miles, and Fred Wing and dueling for the lead at that lost the power steering ram point. Webster and his co-driver, mount in his Borgward, by the Randy Anderson, hadn't decided time he'd got to Chinero. Jon to enter this race until Friday Tanklage rolled his Suspensions afternoon. They got to San Felipe Unlimited car after Oasis, when at about 4:45 a.rn., Saturday, just he tangled with a tree, and it in time for late registration and didn't run well after that, and tech inspection. Coppola had his points close up Also running well were Alberto on him. Coppola, in a Chenowth, Larry Martin took over the lead, but Martin in his NRW Single Seat, always had some fairly close Andy Estrada and Jeff Bennett in challengers. Coppola, who lives in their Jirnco, and Hector Manuel Caho San Lucas, had taken an and Guadalupe Perez, San Felipe extended off road driving lesson residents, driving in their first at the Nissan 400, when he rode SCORE race, in an ORE. Darren with Torn DeNault in the Class 10 and Dale Ebberts had their car. He definitely felt he learned a Suspensions Unlimited car in the lot from his ride, and was pleased thick of things also, butJ arnes and to be staying close behind Martin. Timothy Harris had already had a Vince Von Dahlen, in a Mirage, flat on their Chenowth, and Ron had a rear flat as he got into and Ryan Nielsen were off the Borrego, but that was his only pace in their Jimco. problem, and he gradually pulled The lead group stayed close, out to be the first 1600 car on the July 1992 road, and part of the lead pack. Webster broke a link pin, and had to stop for a replacement, while Fishback had a flat, and lost some time when the car fell off the jack. Martin took the win, obviously having few or no problems, but didn't stick around long enough to tell anyone one way or the other. He had just three minutes and 15 seconds on Coppola, who also drove all the way. In third it was Von Dahlen, another soloist, who agreed with Klawitter that it was hard to see once the bugs got smeared on the glasses. He was only two minutes and 34 seconds behind Coppola. Webster and Anderson were fourth, another five minutes later, and Fishback and his co-driver, Sam Castro, were fifth, just under three minutes further back. All together, 16 of the tough little cars finished. In Class 6, Curt LeDuc had his Jeep in front on the road as he went past mile 35 in a cloud of dust while trying to work his way through the 1600s. Danny Ashcraft who had changed motors in his Ford Explorer the night before the race, was running second, and then lost his ring and pinion five miles down the road. Evan Evans, who'd had a flat already, was third in his Blazer at that point, followed by John DeVito and George Adler, in their Blazer. Darren Skilton and Eric Heiden came along in their Jeep, and John Swift already had his Ford parked and waiting for his trailer. LeDuc had no troubles, never got out of his car, and took the win easily. Behind him the others struggled a bit. Evans had three flats, and Ashcraft had to recover from the 45 minutes needed to replace the ring gear. Skilton and Heiden had a flat, and then lost all their electrics when an alternator bearing went out. DeVito and Adler fell away completely. LeDuc had finished eighth overall. An hour later Evans finished second, his grin lighting up the countryside, as he accepted congratulations for his first finish in the Blazer, which ne drives with Dusty Times

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.. Alberto Coppola came all the way from Cabo San Lucas to race and he did a fine job in his Chenowth that still looked new at the finish line, and he was a close second in Class 1-2-1600. • Vince Von Dahlen and his Mirage are under that silt cloud, and they came out of it to finish third in Class 1-2-1600, 1 ½ minutes out of second. The Brawley boys, Scott Webster and Randy Anderson flew their ORBS over the desert in fine style to a good fourth, ten minutes out of the 1-2-160 win. } ~,;; f ~ ~ k: ¾.;; Evan Evans had some flats, but he got his first big finish in the hand control car, and Walker's son had a broad smile and a happy face at the finish. Jeff Lewis finished the 4x4 Chevy some eight minutes back for second in Class 7S, then had to sweat out a CRB meeting, but Darren and Doug York had brake problems and shock trouble with the Ford Ranger, but despite the down time they finished third in Class 7S ranks. hand controls. Ashcraft was third, coming in gingerly with one less cylinder than normal, nine minutes behind Evans. And Skilton and Heiden were fourth, another hour later. In Class 3 Dan Smith brought his· Ford home the winner, after losing his power steering belts, and the mounts on his fuel cell. He said the truck had run hot, and he'd had to slow a bit to save it. Mike Lesle, in a Jeep Cherokee, was second, but almost two hours down, after having to remove his entire front end in order to repair his broken u-jointand front axles. Dale White and Don Adams, in White's Blazer, didn't make it to the finish line. Class 7 self destructed. We had situated ourselves at mile 35 because we figured that Pamelli Jones, in his Ford, would surely get that far, and it would be fun to watch him go by. We saw Scott Douglas in his Dakota, first in line, and then a half hour later George Bustos and Luis Lopez went by in their Nissan. Racin and Slick Gardner didn't come by in their Ford, nor did Jones. What a disappointment. Douglas got to Check 1 and broke a camshaft. That should have been the end of the day, but his crew took the motor apart and welded the camshaft together, and sent him on his way. Bustos and Lopez went by during the repair, but by the time Douglas got to Check 2, he'd passed them again. He also had a problem with his wishbone suspension, and had to make repairs at Borrego, but he and his crew are persistent, and the Dodge kept moving. Douglas got to the finish line and took the win, using up 20 hours and 1 7 minutes. None of the others made it in. In Class 7S, which is now a combination of two wheel drive and four wheel drive mini trucks, Chuck Johnson took issue with the argument that the four wheel drive trucks have the edge. He brought his old 7S · Ford (last year's points winner), to the race, and with .himself as sponsor, determined to show them all what Dusty Times he held his position. Dan Smith lost power steering belts, fuel cell mounts and the truck ran hot, but though he slowed with overheat, he still won Class 3 in the Ford. he meant. At mile 35 he was first necessities he had no more on the road and leading, but Jeff untoward incidents, and went on Lewis, in a four wheel drive to take the win. He seemed to Chevy wasn't far behind him in think there should be no more second place. Then came Darren talk about four wheel drive trucks YorkinhisfourwheelddveFord, having an "edge". Lewis was and Ray Swift and Steve Barlow, second, in his four wheel drive in another Ford. Mark Hansen truck, only nine minutes back, was off the pace a bit in his but failed to report what, if any, Toyota, which ran hot, and problems had troubled him. In Brendan Gaughan and J.C. Dean, third, almost two hours down, in a Jeep, were also overheating, was York, who'd lost a rear spring and had lost at least a half hour by as he neared Borrego the second the time they gotto mile 35. Terry time. Ernesto Arambula finished Brown, in another Ford, a two fourth in his Dodge D-50, and wheel drive truck, looked to be in Brown was fifth, and last. good shape there, but lost a front In the Mini Mag class, the first brake line shortly afterward. car through mile 35 was Rory Johnson sailed on smoothly, Chenowth and Jim Harris, their chased by Lewis, while York top already flapping, as if they'd discovered that his new shock had to get out and fix something. valving wasn't quite right. He also They were about two and a half lost his brake rotors, about 90 minutes ahead of Kirk McDaniel• miles into the race. Vinje and and Larry Plank, who came Hansen lost a head gasket, and through side by side. About seven also hit a tree stump, after which minutes later it was Chris and they changed a sector shaft, drag Greg Garrett, and 20 minutes link, tie rod and tire. Brown lost ·behind them came Hideki his transmission at the base of the Takahashi and Yoshi Ogasawara. mini summit, and Gaughan and Takahashi had rolled over by the Dean went out when their head first beach camp, about 19 miles gasket blew. into the race, and had tom off a Johnson's biggest problem was shock. that the shrubbery pulled the hose Plank ran smoothly, and had a outofhispumperhelmet,andhis good lead by Borrego, while drink tube out of his water McDanielbrokeacoupleofbelts. supply. Once he re-routed those The Garretts spent an hour July 1992 Once again Scott Douglas was the lone survivor in Class 7 despite a long down time to weld the camshaft, and the Dodge Dakota won Class 7 honors, coming close to using up the time allowanae. changing clutches in their car, only to discover that the problem had been a loose accelerator cable, and Ogasawara and Takahashi were completely out of shocks by the time they got to Chinero, and they'd beaten their chase crew. Plank's co-driver, Scott Stein-berger, had only one broken belt to bother him, and he ran steadily, to get to the finish line first. McDaniel, who soloed, was second, 11 minutes later. In third it was Chenowth and Harris, seven minutes later, followed in by the Garretts, who were two and a half hours back. Ogasawara and Takahashi finished fifth. The 5-1600s were next to leave the start line, and Darryl Cook had his Cook'n car in the lead by mile 35. But the rest of them weren't far behind, and it was Jesus Luna and Bill Rodriguez, then Alfonso Acosta, a resident of Ensenada, who had discovered that his rear susension was too soft, and Robert Gutierrez, in a tight clump fighting for second place. Also looking good was Steve Lawrence, and Brian Goodrich, who'd already had a flat at mile 8. 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Kirk McDaniel did the solo act at San Felipe in his Mini Mag, and he broke a couple of belts, but finished second anyhow. only 11 minutes out of a win. Brian Goodrich and Charlie Wafters had a string of woes, flats, shocks and brakes, but they patched and fixed and got the car home second in 5-1600 action. There is no doubt about the sponsor of the 5-1600 driven by Ruben and Robert Gutierrez, and they had no big trouble on their way to third in class. i;r the belts wouldn't stay on. Goodrich was working his way up through traffic, and was second by the time he got to Borrego, where he stopped to fix another flat. Acosta had some motor trouble, but his super pit brother, had discovered that his crew, Ramon Castro, fixed it for timing wasn't right. • him. Guillermo Quintero was Cook needed three tries to get running with his pre run motor, past a Class 1 car stuck in a which wasn't as powerful as he'd narrow wash, but that was his like, and Javier Quintero, his only problem, and he gave the car ---------------------------to his brother, Wayne, in good SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 - Results April 24-26, 1992 # Pos. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Class 1/2 - Unlimited Single & Two Seat -25 start -10 finish 106 1 Bob Richey/Boyd Cox Raceco VW 112 2 Steve McEachern/Ed Autenrieth Jeep Cherokee 105 3 Tom Bradley SrJTed May RacecoVW 124 4 Keith Jackson/Gordon Zabrecky Raceco 108 5 Carl Renezeder/Bill West Chenowth/Porsche 1619 1 1612 2 1607 3 Class l-2-I600-I600cc Restricted Engine - 24 start-16 finish Larry Martin (solo) NRWSS Alberto Coppola/Francisco Zumaya Chenowth 2 seat Vince Von Dahlen/Dick Butterfield Mirage SS 1699 4 Scott Webster/Randy Anderson OffiS 1616 5 Jim Fishback Sr JSam Castro Neth 2 seat Class 3 - Short WB 4X4 - 3 start - 2 finish Time 0/A 4:47:01 1 4:53:00 2 5:21:30 5 5:22:21 6 5:23:25 7 6:01 :18 21 6:04:33 22 6:06:07 23 6:11:22 26 6:14:12 27 301 Dan Smith/David Ashley 300 2 Mike Lesle/Curt LeDuc Class 4 - Long WB 4x4 - 4 start - 3 finish Ford Bronco Jeep Cherokee 5:43:56 7:31:40 18 51 shape, and leading. Wayne had no mechanical trouble either, and sailed on around the course to the checkered flag. Goodrich put his co-driver, Charlie Watters, in for the second half, and he lost the shock reservoirs by the time he got to Borrego the second time. He also lost his brakes, but if he pumped the pedal five times could manage to slow the car, and he had two flat tires. But they finished second, about 20 minutes behind the Cooks. In third, it was Robert and Ruben Gutierrez, who'd had no troubles, and were five and a half minutes back. Steve and Tim Lawrence were fourth, and Javier Quintero was fifth. Chuck Johnson drove his older privateer Ford Ranger to the Class 7S victory and here demonstrates how to pass a buggy, Scott Webster, without touching or running another car off the road. 400 1 David Ashley/Dan Smith Ford F-150 402 2 Mike Schwellinger Ford F-150 404 3 Jerry McDonald/Ben Metcalf Chevrolet K-15 Class 5 - Unlimited Baja Bug - 8 start - 5 finish 500 1 Hartmut & Wolfram Klawitter Baja Bug 503 2 Dave Parsons/Bob Gustafson Baja Bug 504 3 Conrad Diaz/Luis Barragan Baja Bug 549 4 Rich Minga/Russell Pond Baja Bug/Porsche 507 5 Todd Pankratz/John Currier Baja Bug 550 1 557 2 559 3 Class 5-1600 - 1600cc Baja Bug - 12 start - 9 finish Wayne, Alan & Darryl Cook Baja Bug Brian Goodrich/Charlie Watters Baja Bug Ruben & Robert Gutierrez Baja Bug 561 4 Steve & Tim Lawrence Baja Bug 558 5 Javier & Miguel Quintero Baja Bug Class 6 - Production Sedan & Utility - 6 start - 4 finish 602 1 Curt LeOuc/Mike Lesle Jeep Cherokee 601 2 Evan Evans/Phil Fareio Chevy Blazer 619 3 Danny Ashcraft/Oave Mason Ford Explorer 618 4 Darren Skilton/Eric Heiden Jeep Cherokee 701 720 1 722 2 724 3 757 4 759 5 Class 7 - Unlimited Mini-Midi Pickup - 4 start - 1 finish Scott Douglas/Dana Cote Dodge Dakota Class 75n4x4 - Stock Mini-Midi Pickup - 10 start - 5 finish Chuck Johnson/Steve Olliges Ford Ranger Jeff Lewis/John Chapman Chevy S-10 Darren & Doug York Ford Ranger Ernesto Arambula/Armando Tapia Dodge 0-50 C. Terry Brown/John Johnson Ford Ranger Class 8 - 2WD Standard Pickup - 5 start - 4 finish 801 1 Bill Church/Jim Thomas G.c 804 2 Steve Kelley/Dave Westhem G.c 802 3 Rob MacCachrentMike Schoffstall Ford F-150 806 4 Brian Stewart/Jeff Geiser Dodge 0-150 Class 9 • Restricted Buggy -15 start - 8 finish 911 1 Russ & Ray Miller/Dennis Daniels Chenowth 904 2 George Erl/Rich Richardson T-Mag 998 3 Edward Mclean/Charlie Bignell Jimco 910 4 Howard Goldsmith/Dave Beverly Smith-Co 999 5 Michael Shatynski/Leonard Dixon Sandhawk Class 10 - Unlimited 1650cc -16 start - 6 finish 1099 1 Steve Sourapas/Oave Richardson Chenowth SS/VW 1098 2 Dave Bute/Jerry Higman Neth SS 1005 3 1011 4 1009 5 Steve Myers/Mike Sullivan Raceco!Toyota Richard Binder (solo) ORBS/Toyota SS Mark Fry/Don Garbis Raceco/VW Class II - Stock VW Sedan - 7 start - 2 finish 1100 1 Martin Garibay/Ulysses Acevedo VW Beetle 1197 2 Enrique & Alberto Avalos VW Beetle Class Mini -Ma11-6 start • 5 finish Scott Steinberger/Larry Plank Kirk McDaniel (solo) 1200 1 1297 2 1203 3 Rory Chenowth/Jim Harris 1298 4 Chris & Greg Garren 1201 5 Yoshi Ogasawara/Hideki Takahashi Mini Mag Mini Mag Mini Mag Mini Mag Mini Mag Starters Cars · 145 Finishers Cars• 80 Finish ratio - 55% Starters Bikes - 38 Finishers Bikes -32 Finish ratio - 84% Starters ATVs - 9 Finishers ATVs - 5 Finish ratio - 56% Race Distance - 263.3 miles • Time Allowance -11 hours No interim times available for scoring the non-finishers Absolute Fast Time Overall -Ted Hunnicutt - Kawasaki - 4:32:22 Page 14 5:32:23 5:37:27 7:59:50 5:26:58 5:29:24 6:22:42 7:32:47 8:39:30 6:29:04 6:47:56 6:53:04 7:09:56 7:15:21 5:25:57 6:24:41 6:31:39 7:46:23 10:17:25 5:40:36 5:49:12 7:39:23 7:45:52 8:02:08 5:11:53 5:20:32 5:26:42 5:28:42 7:17:06 7:33:16 7:33:20 8:17:39 8:26:19 5:31:50 5:55:10 6:39:32 6:50:58 6:55:26 9:39:18 10:16:55 6:08:30 6:20:48 6:27:42 9:04:00 9:58:28 14 16 63 10 12 29 52 69 34 40 42 46 47 8 30 35 61 80 17 19 56 60 64 3 4 9 11 50 53 54 67 68 13 20 39 41 45 75 79 25 28 33 72 76 The Class 9 cars came next, and the first one to get to mile 35 was Rich Richardson in George Erl's T-Mag. But he had some folks pushing hard behind him. Russ and Ray Miller and Dennis Daniels, in their Chenowth, were right up there, and so was Pancho Bio in his Tubular Design car. Also running close was Joel Stankavich, in a Raceco, and Charlie Bignell, in a Jimco. The good sized field of Mini Mags had quite a battle, but in the end the winner was defending champion Scott Steinberger, who had 1989 front runner Larry Plank drive the first half here. ?" """'"'W{ .,, .. ; .. t... Wayne Cook and his brothers Darryl and Alan seem to have a lock on Class 5-1600, and the 1991 points champions won again at San Felipe, by almost 19 minutes, and had no troubles en route. July 1992 · Richardson had the lead ey the time he got almost to Borrego, but he ran out of gas about 15 miles out and lost about 40 minutes. Bio, who'd been bumped early in the day, had a bent spring plate, and it had broken just as he got to Borrego, so he had to wait for his crew to come and make repairs. Bignell handed his car over to Ed McLean, and the Millers and Daniels motored on with no troubles, except for one wrong turn on Diablo. Stankavich put his co-driver, Mike Currier, in for the second half, and they were running second. But they blew an oil line on Diablo. They fixed it, but after that the car made bad noises, so they towed it in, and went to find a fish taco stand. The Millers listened to their father's advice, took it easy and their three man team took the win. They thought it was about time, since it was their eighth race. Richardson and Erl were second, only 16 minutes later, a good save after the out of gas episode. In third it was Bignell and McLean, who'd had only one flat, just four seconds behind Erl and Richard-son. And in fourth it was Howard Goldsmith and David Beverly in their Smith-Co. They'd both been in the car all day, switching seats midway. Near the end, with Goldsmith driving, the car ran out of gas. So Beverly got out of the car and started jogging down the course, to find someone with some fuel they could appropriate. Meanwhile, Goldsmith flagged down a roving pit crew, and talked them into letting him have some gas. They siphoned seven 7Up cans of fuel out of their car, and dumped it into the race car, and Howard took off, to try to find Dave. He drove about a mile and a half before he caught up with him. The seven cans of gas just barely got them back, and Goldsmith had to swerve the car Dusty Times

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George Erl and Rich Richardson, car-hopping this year, had a good run in the T-Mag, and despite running out of gas they took second in Class 9. Edward McLean and Charlie Bignell, had just one flat for trouble in the Jimco, and they got close, finishing just four seconds back, third in Class 9. Former top runners returning to off road racing, Howard Goldsmith and Dave Beverly kept their Class 9 running, except they ran out of gas, but still finished fourth in class. from side to side to slosh gas into the pickup, but they did finish fourth. In fifth it was Michael Shatynski and Leonard Dixon, in a Sandhawk. They'd had trouble with a sticky throttle, but said it was "o.k., because it made us go faster." Class 11, last to start, had seven entries, but only two made it to the finish line. John and Peggy Jacobs were reported to have rolled early in the day, but we have no information on the other dnfs. In first place, to no one's surprise, it was Martin Garibay, the bartender from Ensenada, who debuted his new car for this race. He lost a fender in a collision about five miles into the race, and was briefly stuck at the mini summit. Terry Brown's pit crew pulled him out and sent him on his way to victory. In second it was Enrique and Alberto Avalos, who were also stuck near the mini summit, and also before Oasis. They broke a front shock and had a rear flat, and finished about 37 The happiest winners of all were Ray and Russ Miller and Dennis Daniels as all three had driven the Class 9 Chenowth. They said they stuck to a pace, the car ran fine.and they won. minutes behind first place. In general the course was well liked, both for the variety of terrain, and the fact that it was relatively accessible by chase crews. The Competition Review Board had only three complaints to discuss the evening of race day. One case was put on hold due to Martin Garibay and Ulysses Acrvedo were one of two Class 11 survivors and the defending 1991 points champion is well on his way to another title; he got stuck once and lost a fender from his new car, but he won. the absence of the "defendants" SCORE goes right to work to ( due to illness), and the other two finish up the details of their Baja were cl ism issed. Still they 500, which is hard on the heels of managed to take three hours to the San Felipe race, in Ensenada, come to their decisions. June 5th through the 7th. The ~.C.~. Vlumbine ~acinl!! Team •• • Would like to thank the following people for their help in our 1ST OVERAIA.L WIN AT THE SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 BILSTEIN CORPORATION WEB CAM PERFORMANCE CAMSHAFTS YOKOHAMA TIRE CORPORATION CALIFORNIA MOTOR SPORTS SWAY-A-WAY LEE MANUFACTURING CO:MPANY PARKER PUMPER HELMETS P.C.I. RADIO NORTH AMERICAN RACECO FALR. SUMMERS BROTHERS HAUL-A-WAY CONTAINERS ANAHEIM AUTO BIG "0" TIRES JAMAR Dusty Tirnes July 1991 Page 15

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The Bikes at SCORE's San Felipe 150 ByFud Starting at first light, when the weather is the best on the east coast of Baja California, Ted Hunnicutt) r. and Greg Zitterkopf uncorked a beauty of a ride across the rugged desert on their Team Green Kawasaki Open Class machine that carried them to victory lane, first overall in the quick time of 4:32:22. The pre-race talk had been about how rough certain sections were. The start was especially scary as there were lots of big hidden rocks that would put you on your head if you were just a little careless. The morning ride to the beach into a rising sun was not for the faint of heart. The mini summit descent was the rocky horror show. However, when the racers reached Diablo Dry Lake the top speeds were in the triple digits for nearly twenty miles. The game ATTENTION PIT TEAMS Send in your tales of triumph and troubles to DUSTY TIMES 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0 Agoura, CA 91301 plan by most teams was to ride hard and steady, and with a little luck have a trouble free race, and breeze to victory. The Open Class motorcycles were first off the line with one bike starting every 30 seconds. Ted Hunnicutt's game plan was shot down on the starting line. He had a nail in his rear tire. Too late to fix now, he would have to ride as hard as he could for 44 miles to the first pit for a tire change. The flat did not hinder him much as he was the first bike in, and 30 seconds later Greg Zitterkopf was • off for his first section. Garth Sweetland followed two minutes later and handed off to Paul Ostbo. Kawasaki had the first two positions-. Third overall was the prototype Honda ridden by Miller and Ashcraft. They were only 2½ minutes off the pace. One hundred and twenty miles into the race the teams switched riders again. A fresh body was needed for the ride over the mini summit. Teddy "Bear" Hunnicutt Jr. was back on the lead bike and Sweetland was squeezing the second place steed. Sweetland was at home here and on the descent came within sight of Hunnicutt. However, that was as close as they would get. The next pit stop required a seat change which dropped them back a little. However, it was the last gas stop I that did them in Kawasaki uses a fuel tower. When the barrel was put on top, the vent cap was not removed. There was enough fuel in the hose to fill Zitterkopf's tank, but when Ostbo arrived seconds later, no fuel would flow. That was all she wrote. By the time the bike was finally fueled and on its way, the gap was just too large to close with the finish line only a few miles ahead. The first two teams were sponsored by Team Green Kawasaki and finished about 2½ minutes apart. Miller and Ashcraft's goal was to ride the prototype Honda into the ground until they found every weak spot there is, and then win theSCOREBaja 1000.AtSanFel-ipe they almost finished before it broke, and they are sponsored by American Honda and Hondaline. In the 250 motorcycle division the Brent Farrell/Steve Ogren Kawasaki team was first into Check 1. The next few teams were A Winning Tradition In Off-Road Racing Bilstein gas pressure shock absorbers were first introduced to the American market in off-road racing in the late 1960's. Over the past 20 years, more off-road races have been won on Bilstein than any other shock absorbers. Today, with their proven record of performance, Bilsteins continue to be the choice of serious off-roaders who run to win. Celebrating 20 Years of Winning in Off-Road Racing. We thank all the teams and drivers for their loyal support over the years. It's been great! Now Avallable-Repair and Revalvlng Services. Page 18 Contact: Motorsports Department BILSTEIN CORPORATION OF AMERICA 8845 Rehoo Road, San Diego, CA 92121 • 619/453-7723 For additional technical information and a complete catalog send $2.50 July 199i Jeff Martinez/ Fred Willert/Troy Pearce, Dave Donatoni/Johnny Campbell/Jamie Campbell, and Tim Funk/Tim Morton/John Flores. The leader on time was Funk/Morton/Flores, all of them were only a couple minutes apart on adjusted time. The next 90 miles decided the race. Dave Donatoni was aboard for this section. On the way to Oasis he picked off a couple of slower Open bikes and then when he started getting wisps of Fred Willert's dust he went for the 1 gusto and reeled him in. However, to make a pass stick, the rubber side must remain down. It didn't and Mother Nature gave Donatoni a ground hug. Just about the time Fred Willert started to smile, Mother Nature tripped him. Donatoni was on the move before Willert, and from now on the rest of the 250 class would have to fight for second place. Stepping into this fray was John Flores. He slipped around the Willert/Pearce/Martinez team and was bearing down on the leaders when he ran out of fuel. And now there were two. Who would it be? Lane/Morris/Smith or Willert/Pearce/Martinez for second? At the finish the Lane anchored team was second by about 20 seconds over the Willert team. Meanwhile at the finish the winning Donatoni team began examining their Race Tech prepped American Honda. The front rim had a huge dent, but the horror story was the rear wheel. The rim was broken up the center for 6 to 8 inches and the spokes were gone. It had gone as far as it could go. Dave Donatoni and Johnny/ Jamie Campbell would like to thank FMF White Brothers, Bill Boren Honda of Oxnard, Motor-sports of Thousand Oaks, and their pit crews and chase teams. The second 250 team of Lane/ Morris/Smith was sponsored by Team Green Kawasaki, Western Cab Co., Duralube, Tsubaki, Scott, FMF, Renthal, GA Racing Sprockett Specialists, Acer bis, Art Lanier Suspension, Bell and Team Threat. (Wonder how they get all those decals on a bike. ed.) The third 250 team, Willert/ Pearce/ Martinez rode the only Yamaha in the race. The 125 class had it easy. John Brausch and company were the only team entered, so Team Green won again. The Vet class for those 30 years of age and older looked to be a repeat of the Parker 400 where Dan Worley /Earl Roberts edged out the Kenny Parry team by a few seconds. In Baja Brian Schmuckle and Dave Jones joined the party. Things weren't looking too good for the Parry team when his partner crashed at El Chinero warming up before the race started. Earl Roberts seized the Worley machine before Check 1. From there on it went downhill for everybody except Jones and Schmuckle. They walked away with a wire to wire victory on a Kawasaki. The Class 50 riders, 50 years plus, winners wives were dancing in the streets when "Ole" Al Guzman and Bob Ashcraft dragged a Honda to victory. As Bob Ashcraft sat gasping for air he declared that the bike was way over geared for as fast as they were going to go. He asked how his kid did, and then said if we can build this thing and make it finish, I guess I will have to do the same for them. The Guzman bike is definitely a one of a kind. It has a Suzuki carb, 1986 forks, a silencer bearing, and a host of other hand-me-downs. However, it has one very important characteristic. It finished and it's a winner. In the ATV Division Ben Schlimme and Steve Mamer hooked up in a battle royal with Greg Row and Jim "Jimbo" Zinn. First one team would lead and then the other. At the finish it was the team that had no problems that earned the bragging rights; they belonged to Schlimme/ Mamer. Greg Row passed Ben Schlimme before Check 1. Both teams switched riders. Zinn for Row and Mamer for Schlimme. Nearly 90 miles later Mamer was two heartbeats in front of Zinn. The mini summit loop turned out to be the deciding section of the event. Row passed Schlimme however, when the next rider change was made Zinn also picked up an unwanted Gremlin. First this little critter flattened a tire, which let Mamer by, and then to add insult to injury, the flat caused Zinn to use more gas than expected, and he ran out. Game, match and set to Ben Schlimme and Steve Mamer. They won the ATV Division overall and the 250 class on a Honda. Schlimme has now won both Parker and San Felipe putting him in line for a run at the championship. At the finish line Schlimme/Mamer discovered they had trashed their machine. The swing arm was broken, the skid plate gone, and there were cracks everywhere. They were lucky. Greg Row and Jimbo Zinn were second 250 and second overall A TV on a brand new Doug Roll Development and Design ATV. The only thing stock and that's what makes it a Honda is the motor, delivered at 3:00 a.m. Thursday morning, which made their second place finish even more remarkable; it had not been tested. Winners Ben Schlimme and Steve Mamer would like to thank their sponsors: Pep, Tsubaki, Daeco, Shoie, Douglas Wheels, Doug Roll, K&N, C&M Cycle, IVCC, Lawson Products, Gary Hamlin and Team Threat. The Open A TV class turned out to be a demolition derby with the underdog team of Mitch Tevlin /Ron Sanchez/ Carl Sosa the unlikely winners. They had to enter their 250 Honda in the Open class for points because their awesome ATKA TV was not finished. While they were the last Open quad to Check 1, they were first where it counted. At Check 1 the Engen brothers were first. However, the Banshee was only running on one cylinder and soon it was headed for the graveyard. Charlie "Lampshade" Lampson and Mike McGee on their Suzuki inherited the lead but passed away soon after Borrego. That left Tevlin/Sanchez/Sosa in the driver's seat and at the finish line it was a very happy driver's seat. Carl Sosa had taken a wrong turn in the junkyard, Sanchez survived 101 degree heat on Diablo Dry Lake, and the winning smile was brought home by Mitch Tevlin. They were sponsored by CT, Pep, Imageit, ITP, OMF, CEET, Camelback, Duralube,JP, Action Honda, Kawasaki of Mission Viejo and Sidewinder. Dusty Times

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Rod Millen Wins His Third Main Event For Toyota In Texas Rod Millen tied a series record ash~ flew his _Toyot_a to the main event victory in GN trucks at Texas Stadium. It gave Toyota a perfect four for four score in the senes, tying the record set by Mazda when Millen was on that team in 1988. Early in April the Mickey Thompson stadium racing group left the west coast for the first time in 1992 and set sail for Texas Stadium at Irving, TX near Dallas. This was the fourth event in the eight race stadium series this year, and was expected to be a pivotal race for the serious points hunters, both drivers and manufacturers. The concept of stadium racing has become most familiar to people all over the country through the magic of ESPN's television coverage, and nearly 21,000 Texans showed up on April 4 to see the show live, up close and personal, and most arrived in time for the autograph session prior to start of competi-tion. Rod Millen seems on quite a roll this season, winning two of the first three Grand National Sport truck main events in 1992, and he qualified his Toyota number one, the fastest in the afternoon. His teammate Ivan Stewart was second fastest in qualifying. The pair of Toyotas were going for a series record here. If either Millen or Stewart could win the sport truck main event in Texas, they would tie the record of four straight victories tangled, allowing Mears to squirt by a vehicle manufacturer set by past for second. Rob MacCachren Team ~azda in 1988. Incredibly won by five lengths over Mears Rod Millen was the second driver with George, Millen and Brian on the Glenn Harris team in 1988 Stewart, Dodge, trailing. But Rod and part of that record achieve- Millen was penalized one position ment. by the rough driving committee As is the pattern, the Grand for running into Greg George on National Sport Truck first heat the last lap, which dropped Millen opened the actual racing activity to fifth place in the first heat. in the evening. There were 11 Only nine Ultrastock teams starters facing eight laps. Former made the trek to Texas, and they Supercross star Rick Johnson had ended up having just one 6 lap the pole spot in his Chevy with heat race, with all nine surviving Greg George, Ford, alongside. practice and qualifying and in The. two Toy~tas were last with place on the grid. Early in the bat-the inverted field for the heats. tle Tim Lewis pushed his Porsche The Fords showed immediate 911 to the front of the pack open-power. George took off and' ing up a sizeable lead with the moved into the first lap lead, with Toyota 4-Runner of Don Kolt his teammate, 1_991 winner R<;>b trailing. Farther back the Jeep MacCachren, in hot pursuit. Cherokees of points leader MacCachren caught George on Tommy Croft and defending the fourth lap and passed on the points champion Larry Noel were next lap. Meanwhile Rod Millen on the prowl. The Jeeps closed in was on the move, third after four and by lap 4 Croft took com-laps and then began pressuring mand, and Lewis was busy trying George for second. The Ford and to fight off the challenge of Noel. Toyota. fought for the next three Halfway through the last lap Noel laps, with Roger Mears Sr. also made good his bid and took first joining in with his Nissan. George ahead of his Jeep teammate for a was ~ble to hold_ his_ground until 1-2 finish. Tim Lewis salvaged the fmal lap. Gomg mto the back third, followed by Kolt Jack Mil-s tr a ig ht Millen and George lerd, Jeep, and the Ni~san Path-Tim Lewis got his long sought main event victory in UltraStock action as he drove the neat Porsche to third in the heat race, and then came back to lead from flag to flag in the main event. It was a popular victory. Page 20 July 1992 Walker Evans got the jump on the restart in the second truck heat, and he got the lead in an odd manner, a collision with Rick Johnson's Chevy and Evans won the heat, crossing the finish line upside down. tinder ot Chris Neil, and Brian Collins, Porsche 911. There were 11 starters in the first 7 lap A TV heat. Gary Den-ton was on the pole with former two time champion Donny Banks alongside. From Macon, 'GA Banks has returned to this series after a long layoff. Denton took off in the lead with Banks after him, but Banks soon faded as defending champion Mark Ehrhardt began his move. Gary Denton hung on for the win on a Honda, Mark Ehrhardt nailed second on a JP and Banks' JP was third. Next came Joe Byrd and Doug Eichner. The second 7 lap A TV heat had ten starters with 18 year old Greg Stuart on the pole. Stuart also claimed the lead at flag fall and hung on to it to win aboard a Honda. Niclas Granlund and the 1990 champion Charlie Shepherd were dogging the leader at every turn, and their battle allowed them to pull away from the rest of the herd, headed by Mike Olm-sted in fourth. Greg Stuart was never headed as he crossed the line ahead of Granlund and Shep-herd, both on JPs, and Olmsted held fourth on his Honda ahead of Roger Helsley, Suzuki. The first 7 lap Superlite held eight starters including cousins C.J. (Casey) and Clint Mears. Marty Hart took the lead at the start in his Triple E and never lost it. The crowd pleaser was the battle between 16 year old C.J. Mears and two class veterans. Mears took second on the first lap and, when challenged by veteran Rennie Awana, went wheel to wheel, with Awana spinning sideways. C.J. then held off a challenge by defending class champion Greg George until, with three laps to go, George got his Briggsbuilt by. Mears stayed close, and when George's car came up limping on the last lap, C.J. Mears (Roger's youngest son) scooted home to second place while cousin Clint Mears (Rick's son) was fourth, both driving Triple Es. Joe Price was third in his Triple E, and Allen Yaros was fifth. Another 16 year old, Jimmie Johnson was on the pole for the 7 lap second Superlite heat which had just seven starters. As expected Johnson took an immediate lead but Tim Baker kept within striking distance. Mercedes Gonzales ran fourth but got tangled up on lap 3 and dropped to sixth. By the fifth lap, however, she had moved up to Rob MacCachren, here passing Millen, started out with a win in the first truck heat for Ford, and he also placed third in the main event grabbing some good points for Ford. Dusty Times

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Roger Mears leaps over the track in his slick Nissan, and Roger placed second in the first truck heat, but had sundry troubles later in the event. Greg George is new to the Venable Ford team this year, but has Defending Super 1600 points champion Frank Arciero Jr. driven every cla~s in stadium racing, and he flew his truck to looked. as smooth as always taking the Chenowth to second in third in the first heat. his heat and again second in the main event. Gary Gall had to fight every inch of the way in the Super 1600 second heat, but he maintained his slim lead all the way to win by a car length in his fancy new looking Chenowth. One time champion Marty Hart started out strong in Superlite competition by winning the first heat in the Triple E, but he faded some in the main event. third in her Briggsbuilt. Johnson came in the winner by a big margin in his Briggsbuilt. Baker was second in a B&R and Gonzales finished third, followed by Rick Marshall and John Sarna. Ten Super 1600 cars faced eight laps in the first heat, and they produced one of the most exciting races of the night. Kevin Smith, Mirage, Marty Coyne, Chenowth, Jerry Whelchel, new special, and Frank Arciero, Jr., Chenowth hooked up into a four way battle that lasted for five laps. Back and forth, side by side, they carried on the war. Then Coyne began to fade and Whelchel moved into position to challenge Smith for the lead. Using his Toyota power to advantage, Whelchel took the lead on the seventh lap. With one lap to go Arciero went wheel to wheel with Smith, winning that battle on the final lap. It was Whelchel, Arciero, Smith and Coyne at the finish with Aaron Hawley placing a safe and sane fifth in the heat in his Chenowth. The second Super 1600 heat had nine starters, and it was another close 8 lap heat. Gary Gall won his first ever even tin the This Stewart family portrait shows son Brian in the foreground in the Dodge Dakota, but it looks like dad Ivan just might have the edge by a nose in the Toyota at this point in the race. Dusty Times stadium series competition in his place, followed by Johnson, who lead, but defending champion Chenowth, going wire to wire but was later disqualified from the Mike Craig, also Kawasaki not without a fight from Bob heat and he would gain no passing mounted, was moving up through Gordon, who was only a car points and start last in the main the pack. After only two laps length behind at the finish in his eventasapenalty. This put Danny Lowell Thomson, Yamaha, took Chenowth. Gall had opened a Thompson, Chevy in second, theleadasLarryBrooks,Yamaha, comfortable lead by the end of the followed by I van Stewart, Rod moved to second and Craig was third lap, but a yellow light slow Millen and the Roger Mears, Jr. now in third. It then became a down for Wes Banks, who rolled then Sr. Walker Evans said that three way battle. And it was a his car, bunched up the field, and "the checkered flag looked blanket finish with Thomson allowed Gordon to close up tight. awfully good upside down!" getting the win closely followed But Gall held the lead on the The first 7 lap UltraCross heat by Brooks and Craig. restart to win the heat with had 11 starters. Dennis Haw-The second 7 lap UltraCross Gordon a close second. Defending thorne on a Kawasaki p~ssed Roy heat s~arted ten bikes. Jason points champ Mitch Mustard was . Schellenberger on the first lap to Krempm out of l:r third ahead ofJimmy Nichols and Marty Hart, all driving Chenowth ..... ••• • cars. As usual it was exactly the same ' 11 truck cast in the second 8 lap heat, but they were inverted according to where they finished the first heat apparently. Still Rick Johnson, Chevy, was on the pole with Roger Mears Jr., Nissan, alongside. The Toyotas were still well back in the field. Surprising -some Johnson moved right to the front off the line and showed every sign of staying there as the rest of the field· bumped and banged for position. But the I yellow lights came out during the I second lap when Greg George rolled his Ford causing a restart, with George going to the back of the pack. On the restart Johnson · grabbed the lead followed by Walker Evans, Dodge, Mears Jr., Danny Thompson, Chevy and Ivan Stewart. Johnson clung to the lead but Evans and Stewart were nipping at his rear bumper. The trio ran nose to tail with Johnson holding on until midway in the race when Rob MacCachren flipped his Ford. He had been running eighth. Johnson, Evans, Stewart and Thompson led the restart away. In front again Johnson appeared capable of staying there, but in the sweeper turn his body English didn't work · as well as it had on a bike and he did a complete rollover. The Chevy landed on its wheels, and he kept going, but lost the lead. In the melee trying to miss hitting Rick Johnson, Evans and I. ' Stewart got bogged down, and Thompson pushed his way into the lead. The third yellow came out with a restart on lap six, when Brian Stewart rolled his Dodge. It seemed more like a main event than a heat race with the carnage. Somehow Rick Johnson was first in line followed by Evans and Ivan Stewart as they were running on the previous lap. In a spectacular finish, Walker Evans pulled alongside Johnson with half a lap to go. The Dodge and the Chevy were bumping coming into the last turn, and as they approached the finish line jump, with Evans barely in the lead, they bumped again with Evans going sideways; his Dodge did a barrel roll across the finish line in first July 1992 IS ee . ' n . ' ~~ITT ... CENTER LINE ---------------------RACING WHEELS THE STRONGEST OFF-ROAD WHEEL MONEY CAN BUY! 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.. ,.... ... ·•· ~w--%1•·,., -----~-Jerry. Whelchel had the Nye Frank special dialed in and drove to the first heat win, and then went wire to wire for the main event victory in the Toyota powered car with automatic transmission. Youngster Jimmie Johnson dominated the SuperLite action, as he won the second heat and led his four car team to a 1-2-3-4 car finish in the main event, the Briggsbuilt Nature's Recipe team scoring a first in stadium racing. pa-Austin, TX, led the first lap but quickly fell back as Jason Edwards took over on a Kawasaki. Kyle Lewis, on a Yamaha, took up the challenge on lap 3 and began dogging Edwards. Ryan Carlisle, on a Kawasaki, made it a three way fight, and on lap 5 Gene Naumec also joined in on his Kawasaki. On the final lap Lewis jumped just a few feet further and took the lead from Edwards, which he held to the checkers. Naumec came through for third dropping Carlisle to fourth. The main event started with the 8 lapper for the UltraStocks. All nine were back, and Tim Lewis went to the front in his Porsche. But, Larry Noel in one of many Jeep Cherokees, quickly moved in to challenge. Twice, on laps 4 and 5, Noel made attempts to pass, but Lewis held him off and went on to victory. Nice to see a real car replica win this class. Meanwhile, Noel's Jeep teammate Tommy Croft challenged for second and succeeded in passing Noel on the white flag lap. So Tim Lewis won UltraStock honors in his tidy Porsche followed by the Chero-kees of Tommy Croft and Larry Noel, Chris Neil, Nissan Path-finder was fourth and Brian Collins in the series other Porsche 911 bodied race car was fifth. The Skat-Trak ATV Main event was 8 laps long for the 18 starters who came from half a dozen different states to compete. The heat race must have gotten the competitive edge honed in Donny Banks after his long layoff, and he made his return to the MTEG stadium series a winning one in Texas. The former A TV series point champ took the lead from Charlie Shepherd on lap 3 and was never headed en route to the checkered flag on a JP. Gary Denton took over second at the halfway point on a Honda and held off Greg Stuart, also on a Honda, who was third. Shepherd got the fourth followed by Mark Ehrhardt, on JPs. The SuperLite main event bid fair to be a busy eight laps. Info' is scarce on this event, but we do have results. The Natures Recipe Team of Briggsbuilt made series history by sweeping the top four positions, led by 16 year old Jimmie Johnson, a fast rising star with natural talent who we predict will go on to greater things as a race car driver. Jimmie was followed across the finish line by all three of his teammates, including Greg George, the defending points champion, Rennie Awana, a past champion, and Mercedes Gonzales, the only girl racing in the stadium series. Marty Hart saw his hopes fade with only two laps to go when his Triple E dropped out of second place and the race when he lost a wheel. Another teenager, 19 year old Clint Mears was fifth in his Trip le E, but his cousin C.J. Mears, the star of the first heat, didn't finish the race in his Trip le E. A full field of 18 were on deck for the Super 1600 main event, 12 laps on a crowded course. However,Jerry Whelchel took up where he left off in the heat race by grabbing the lead at the green flag. Frank Arciero Jr. was right on his tailpipe and Gary Gall was riding close in third. Cory Witherill brought out the caution Marty Coyne usually has his Toyota powered Chenowth right with the 1600 leaders, and in Texas he flew high to fourth in his heat, the first one. Don Kolt moved from buggies to this UltraStock Toyota 4 ·Runner for stadium racing, and he kept it together in Texas to take fourth in the heat race. Danny Thompson got his Chevy home second in truck heat 2, but it was to be the last appearance for the team, canceled out in a few weeks by Chevy. Bob Gordon is always close, and was in Heat 2 in Texas, but it was no cigar for Bob as his sleek Chenowth finished second by a mere car length at the flag. ,.;,i... ... ~-.. A former Superlite winner, Tim Baker wrestles his B&R racer around a tight turn en route to second in heat 2, with a Mears in his rear view mirror. Page 22 The youngest of all four wheel drivers was Casey Mears, who showed he is a real Mears by driving his Triple E Superlite to second in the first heat. The 1990 Super 1600 points champion Mitch Mustard does a keen wheelie on his way to third in the second 1600 heat and third again in the main event. July 1992 Defending Super/ite points champion Greg George did double duty in Texas, and took second in the main event, part of the triumphant leading team. Kevin Smith drives the only Mirage chassis in the 1600 action, and he flew nicely into third in the first heat, but dropped to fifth in the feature. Dusty Times

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Tommy Croft is the points leader in UltraStocks in his Jeep Cherokee and he added to the count in Texas with a second place in both the heat and main event. Chris Neil runs a Nissan Pathfinder in UltraStock class and came off a win in Seattle to finish the Pathfinder fourth in the main event in Texas. Ivan Stewart did not disappoint the fans in Texas, leaping his Toyota into third place in heat 2 and placing a close second to his teammate in the main event. lights when he flipped his Chenowth on lap 4. This caused the field to bunch up behind Whelchel 's fancy light weight, automatic transmission car with Toyota power. Jerry Whelchel did regain his advantage on the restart and Frank Arciero was never able to close on Whelchel for the laps remaining. Whelchel won with apparent ease, and Arciero finished second by eight car lengths, but he was only two car lengths ahead of a fast closing Mitch Mustard, whose Chenowth always seems to get its second wind in the closing laps of a main event. Gary Gall was fourth in his Chenowth and Kevin Smith was fifth in his Mirage. The program was winding down but the action was still heavy as 20 bikes lined up for the UltraCross main event, 10 laps of traffic. Jeff Fine, Honda and Brian Deegan, Kawasaki headed up the front row. Defending class champion Mike Craig started ninth. Fine led the first lap but Craig was in second and moving. After rwo laps Craig was the new leader with Scott Myers second on another Kawasaki. Larry Brooks moved his Yamaha into third on lap 3, but Craig was pulling away from everyone by now. Mike Craig showed his championship style and won easily, leaving Myers and Brooks to duke it out for second and Naumec and Lewis to battle for fourth. Larry Brooks got the better of his duel, second in the race on a Yamaha, followed by Scott Myers.Kyle Lewis, Yamaha, was fourth followed by Gene Naumec, Kawasaki. As always the Grand National Truck main event was the finale of the program, and all eleven trucks made it back to the grid, albeit a few slightly battered ones, facing the 12 laps coming up. Rod Millen had the pole with Ivan Stewart behind him. Roger Mears' Nissan shared the front row with Millen's Toyota behind him. However, once the green flag dropped it was an all Toyota show. Millen went immediately to the front of the field, and two laps later Ivan Stewart passed Mears for second, and the pair finished the race in that order. Mears ran third until the seventh lap when MacCachren's Ford got by as Roger faded with a smoking engine. Once past Mears, Rob MacCachren began closing on the leaders but there was not enough time to catch the Toyotas, and the Ford finished third. Walker Evans was fourth and Brian Stewart fifth in the two Dodges, after Thompson rolled his Chevy out of fourth spot on the last lap. The win is Rod Millen's third of the season and the fourth for Toyota, who remain unbeaten in main event competition thus far Dusty Times this season. The win streak of four ties the 1988 series record for a vehicle manufacturer, set by Mazda. The MTEG stadium series took a longer than usual break after the Texas event. Our favorite stadium in southern California for this action, the Rose Bowl, was not on the schedule this season in its usual May date. So the racers had from April 4 to July 18 when racing resumes at the L.A. Coliseum to rebuild and rethink their schedule. But MTEG is also doing a little rethinking, apparent-ly. 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Competition Review Board Report By George R. Thom/>son The San Felipe 250 Competi-tion Review Board assembled on race evening, and the members were John Lippitt (Tight Ten), Board Administrator, Dave Parsons, Class 5; Dan Smith, Class 3; Jeff Lewis, Class 7 4x4; Larry Martin, Class 1-2-1600; Carlos Orozco, Baja Pits; Dave Donatoni, Class 21; Jim Conner, SCORE International; Reese King, SCORE Officials Associa-tion; George Thompson, CRB Marshal. For the first case Ernesto Arambula, #757, came forward to protest Darren York, #724, for allegedly being off the course on a graded construction road in the area leading in to Diablo Dry Lake. It was established that it was clearly marked "Do not run on the graded road." Arambula seemed to think that York was running on the road for about six miles before reentering the marked course in front of him. There did seem to be a lot of confusion about the location and the distance which York might have traveled on this road. According to Conner, it is difficult to gain access to this road and it quickly turns into a gravel pit, making its use as a potential shortcut hardly seem like an advantage. Beyond that, the road begins to pick up elevation shortly after the start. Arambula had indicated that in the spot where York had reentered the race course there was little difference in elevation. If this was true then Conner speculated that he could not have been on the road for six miles distance, because, at that point the road was quite a bit higher than the course. York said that he knew Ernesto was in front of him because they had been changing a leaf spring back at mile marker 175 when Arambula went by. "By the time we got back on the road we were about 5 minutes back. We were running on the marked course about 2 or 3 miles after the start of the graded road when we caught up to him in the dry lake. We were running over to the left, trying to avoid his dust so we could get by." Apparently York was not following the course at this point, but was committed to following Arambula, since he was unable to see around him because of his dust. According to York, Ernesto ·must have strayed over to the right, on the graded road at a point prior to the change in elevation, because once they passed him and got into clean air, they both recognized the fact that they were off the course and moved back onto the dry lake. York estimated they couldn't have been on the graded road for more than a few hundred yards before realizing where they were and at this point both corrected their course. York's testimony was enlight-ening in that it placed Arambula on the same graded road which Ernesto himself considered an illegal route. Also there were great inconsistencies about the length of time each spent on the graded road, although based on Conner's description of this road it seemed unlikely that York had been there for any great length of time. The Board asked Arambula if he had been on this road and he denied that he had. Still, after hearing all of the testimony, from both sides, it seemed impossible to establish any wrong doing on either side and the case was dismissed. The NEW ULTRA WHEELS 15X3 15X7 17X8 FOR BUGGIES "IN STOCK !" $75.00 $80.00 $80.00 st>.\J\~GS oo\'1\0~~~ r>. sE-'1 ~ eui\\, ~'°'€.~ fO\)~ Come see us during upcoming Las Vegas races Qf ALSO· , Compare Our Prices On; 930 c.v.'s Cibie Lights SAW Products OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK MON - FRI 8am to 6pm SAT 9am to 5 pm Simpson Tri-Mil Page 24 Wright Place ~~ -~rs> ~ Call Now - Mention This Ad 3054_ S VALLEY VIEW ~ -~°-' -~~" ~~ LAS VEGAS NV 89102 702-871-4911 702-871-5604 Board does want to acknowledge the vital role played by Mr. Carlos Orozco, pit support Board member representing the Baja Pits. In addition to his duties on the Board, Carlos assisted us as translator and provided an invaluable service to the CRB. Another case of short coursing was brought to the Board by SCORE officials, and involved Board member Jeff Lewis, driver of vehicle #722. Jim Conner, SCORE Race Director had this to say about the incident. "As most of you will remember, at the drivers' meeting we outlined certain areas where race traffic was not allowed to travel. The area from Checkpoint 7 to the finish line, which I marked several times was one area where people were starting to pre-run off to the right. This was not the way we marked the course. I discussed this route with Paul Fish who agreed with me and went out and posted a wrong way sign on the route. I specifically mentioned this area at the drivers' meeting and pointed out that no one was to use that route during the race. Today, when I was up in the helicopter, I looked down and there was Jeff, off to the right. I took some pictures, identified his number and watched as he completed the deviation. I returned to this area after the race and took some measurements. The marked course is 1. 7 miles while the shortcut is 1.3 miles. The entrance to it is marked with an arrow to the left and a course marking ribbon. It is not marked to the right! I drove both routes and found the shortcut to be considerably smoother than the marked course. · After hearing this indictment of his choice of route, Lewis had these comments. "My situation was that I came through the canyon and passed the check-point. I had just been passed by 1619 and was following this guy for however far it is from the checkpoint to that spot. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in some guy's dust and not having enough (room) to get by him. When I got to that point, he did go left and there wasn't any wrong way sign; there was nothing and it was clear to me that this was obviously a better track. I do agree with that you did say something about a shortcut in this area at the drivers' meeting, and it was probably my fault for not coming forward and clarifying exactly where that road was. 1619 went left and I went right and when the course came back together he was still in front of me and I was still in his dust. As it turned out, the only advantage was that for 1.3 miles I didn't have to eat any dust." In an ironic twist of fate it turned out that Larry Martin, one of the Board members, was the driver of 1619 and remembered the incident with remarkable clarity. "Did you have a flat tire when I passsed you?" "No!" replied Lewis. "Were you in that car? You 're tough to get by! (laughter) In all honesty I did not think that this was a road at any issue." Conner broke in. "You July 199i know we've got to draw the line passing through the checkpoint somewhere. We have got to come when a huge truck passed him on up with some sort of definition as the left, knocking him off his to what constitutes being off the quad and causing extensive course. The rule book says S0ft., damage to both the vehicle and and that seems a little unforgiving, the rider. After the incident the I'll grant you, but this shortcut at truck disappeared in a cloud cif its widest point constituted a dust without hesitation, never 2500 ft. deviation from the · stopping to render assistance to marked course and we thought the downed biker As everyone that was more than a little knows, Hit and Run is possibly excessive." one of the most serious offenses Larry Martin, who actually we hear in the CRB carrying with witnessed the entire affair itapotentialpenaltyofdisqualifi-commented, "You know, if he cation and suspension from had been in my class and would competition. have beat me by doing that after it The fact that neither Paul nor had been addressed at the drivers' Dave Simon were available to meeting, l would have been discuss the incident was a very raving mad." Others agreed with serious matter and the CRB this line of thinking, but since this Marshal called for Rough Rider offense seemed to result in no team manager Frank DeAngelo to clear advantage, and since no explain the absence. DeAngelo results were affected by Jeff's said that the entire Rough Rider actions, the entire Board seemed team has a standing rule that all unwilling to drop the hammer on drivers will be available to report him and the case was dismissed. to the Review Board, no matter Afterdoingthisjobforoversix what the circumstances and years I have seen these sort of informed us that most of the cases come and go. Seldom do l Simon crew had been taken ill just feel moved to comment on them, before the race and returned to content in my role to report on California immediately after events as they occur, with tongue finishing. DeAngelo said that they in cheek, as it were. I do reserve were prepared to accept the the right to comment on any judgment of the CRB, since the decisionandlamgoingtodosoin Simons had failed to appear. the case of SCORE vs. Lewis. I Because of the seriousness of the remember disqualifying Dan charges and the potential penalty, Smith, himself a member of this the CRB did not wish to make a very Board at Lucerne several decision without first hearing years ago for being no more off from Dave Simon, the driver at the course than Jeff Lewis. I the time of the incident, so the remember penalizing Robby case was tabled until the CRB Gordon at a Baja 1000 several Marshal could conduct the· years back for cutting a corner interview and report back to the because he was avoiding some-members of the Board. one's dust and I still catch hell On Monday Dave Simon from some racers because they reported that he remembered felt the penalty was not stiff passing the Quad, which was enough. In some respects the running on the right side of the prime directive of the CRB course about 60 mph. Simon Marshal is like that of the took this as an invitation to pass Enterprise, a reference Startrek and pulled over to the left.side of fans will readily relate to. My the course and went by the quad. function is to advise and report He said that he had no recollection but never to interfere. I like Jeff of having contacted the smaller Lewis, and I think that he is a vehicle, and that if he had he credit to the sport, but I think this would have pulled over immedi-was a bad decision. Some action ately to render assistance. He should have been taken. At some commented that he felt that he point the line has to be drawn in may have exercised bad judgment the sand, and I think Jeff crossed in trying to pass in such a tight that line. On the other hand, it's area and demonstrated his easy to be critical when the concern for the quad racer by pressure of the vote is not on your asking for his phone number so he shoulders. could contact him directly. After An injured Steve Brackett a letter to the CRB members and limped into the CRB meeting to numerous phone calls to Simon protest a hit and run incident and the CRB Marshal it was involvinghisquadwhichwasside decided that while Simon swiped by the first four wheel probably was not aware that he vehicle on the course, a truck, just had hit the quad, most felt that he a few miles after Borrego I had been guilty of a dangerous checkpoint 3 at about 10:30 a.m. error in judgment for passing in A quick look at the checkpoint such a tight area. In a split records indicated that the only decision the Board elected to vehicle that could have hit him penali;:e Dave Simon one position would have been the Class 1 truck for unsafe driving and issue him a entry of Simon and Simon. Letter of Reprimand for his Brackett stated that he was failure to appear. So ended the cruising along, on the right side of saga of the San Felipe CRB action. the race course, several miles after Coming Next Month ••• SCORE Tecate Baja 500 SODA Memorial Day 100 SNORE Caliente 250 B.O.R.E. Wendover Express SCCA Rim of the World Pro Rally VORRA Hollister Hills Short Course WRC Acropolis Rally SODA Antigo Kiwanis Short Course ... Plus all the regular features Dusty Timcs

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FRT ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Bob Hummel and Crew_ Win The 14 Hour Enduro in a 1600 By Jean Caltiin Dave Dietrich, Steve Reynolds and more drove this Challenger not only to the class victory, but the team was second overall after 24 hours despite having to weld the frame back together. Brewer and the Vegas group had the transmission fail, didn't have another one, so they loaded up and headed home. They came to win, having been third two years ago, and win overall the Bob Hummel assembled 1-1600 team did in this well prepped Funco. Any one of the nine drivers could be in this picture as they won by six laps. removed because it was too heavy and too distracting. Ryan Arciero, obviously a chip off the old block insofar as off road racing is con.cerned, was first around. In a minute and a half Hummel appeared and the FA V was next, 30 seconds later, followed in two minutes by the Pratt MECO Challenger. Ham-mack's 1Hi Jumper was five minutes back followed in a minute by the #999 Dietrich car who had Giti Gowland up his tailpipe. Then came Bob Reamer and the other Dietrich Challenger, in the same minute. Mike Hart was next in the same minute with So far the leading 1600, with the pit stops directed by crew chief Don Basore had stopped only for driver changes, the above mentioned problems, fuel and a fresh fuel filter, and the drivers were being good about staying on the agreed upon pace. While the field was strung out all over the course the two Challengers from the Dietrich stable were still running almost nose to tail. One was entered as a mobile parts house for the other, but it was leading the race car most of the time when we saw them on course, as we did a bit of pit hopping and checkpoint visiting in the afternoon. The FR T Rock Around the Clock 24 Hour World Endurance Championship idea began with a motorcycle and quad run for a 24 hour off road record in 1989. It was a howling success with the two top riders separated by just seconds after 24 hours of racing. Well the car and truck racers clamored for their own 24 hour run, and in May of 1990 it came to pass, on the Mother's Day weekend, and there was a date conflict with the SCORE short course race at Phoenix. Still 24 teams started the long haul near El Centro on a 15 mile course and the overall winner was a 1600 car driven by James Tucker, Larry Wyatt and Scott Webster. The Fudpucker Racing T earn decided that the 24 hour race would happen each May, one year for bikes and the next year for cars. It seems a good format, and the date was again set for the car race on Mother's Day weekend in May of 1992. But, the race starts at 7 :00 a.m. Saturday, and is over at 7 a.m. Sunday, plenty of time to go home, clean up and spend time with the family. However, this year the support for the event waned, only one local area driver, Craig Corda, entered, and the total entry came to 18 cars. Undaunted, the tech inspection hour went on Friday evening, then the campers, and there were lots of support troops in this patch of desert west of Plaster City, CA near El Centro, settled in for dinner and a good night's sleep. Fud was awakened around two in the morning by a very late entry, the Chenowth Fast Attack Vehicle prototype brought by Mike Thomas who decided Friday to enter the race, rounded up some support troops and some Navy Seals to drive along with his son Ryan, and they did go racing in the large vehicle entered in Unlimited Class. The Drivers meeting was at 6:30 a.m. at the start/ finish line, and Fud briefly described the 15.5 mile course, that was an hourglass shape, so the pits could see the Page 26 cars pass by about 100 yards away the last minute. And the oversize Bea Hoskins, and four minutes midway each lap, so there was Fast Attack Vehicle was off next back cafne the other Class 100 of scant need for many chase with Ryan Thomas at the wheel Steve Johnson. Just another vehicles. Each entry was allowed a dwarfed by the cannon hanging minute back was the Baja Bug, maximum of five hours down over the cockpit. Other team followed closely by Gary Brewer. time, but to be classified as a members included Navy Chief Next came the FAV, who had a finisher the car had to be running Bill Weber and several other clevis pin in the clutch replaced en at the 24 hour plus change mark Navy Seals, who did have time in route and Craig Corda who was and pass the finish line under such a vehicle in less friendly cruising in his Ford truck. power. Almosteverythingbutthe territory. Then the nostalgic Ryan Arciero pitted so his chassis itself could be replaced, if looking Hi Jumper of Bill brother Rob could take over, and the crew could work fast enough. Hammack, Andy Blue and later in Rob's stint a front spring The FR T starting order is George Deware took off, the last retainer broke and the pit had to predicated on how the classes of the Unlimiteds to depart. They disassemble the right front end to finished the last event, so the were followed by a semi bodied fix it all. Then the Hummel car 1600 class would be first away, Baja Bug, actually a pre-runner, with Duane Basore up pitted to having won the 1990 event. driven by Brian Ryba, Brian get a new radio, and then Mike Enthusiasm was high as the cars Zientek, Ed Holman and Don Cohen got in to drive. About an lined up to depart one every 15 Hughes. Craig Corda and Robert hour later they had a long stop to seconds, and most seemed well "McGyver" Wagner took off in replace a link pin nut, that just prepared for the long grind the big Class 8 Ford, in a wouldn't come out easily. Then through the day and the night. gentlemanly manner without the FAV ran without a fan belt Th h dusting the spectato_ rs or spraying before pt'ttt'ng and now was e consortium put toget er by Bob Hummel of Race Ready rocks. Thanks Craig. circulating with a loose head. Bea Products, who had enlisted 11 A pair of Class 100 cars left Hoskins hit a ditch just wrong and drivers in 1990 and finished third next, led by the Steve Johnson/ ' broke a spring plate, and before overall, was first away with MikeDouthittChenowththeycall she could get help the transmis-Hummel at the wheel of the 1- a Chen-I-Co. The Funco of Mike ' sion was gone, so she was on the 1600 Funco that had undergone Hart and Dave Fessenden had a trailer. The sun was warm by ten extensive rework by Jimco. The strong team, just the two drivers in the morning, but a light breeze driver rotation was selected by for the single seater. The last class kept the weather comfortable, drawing names out of a hat, and to start was the biggest, six Class 9 and all the cars save one were still the crew included Hummel, cars. The Meco driven by Kevin running, some with problems, Duane Basore, Mike Cohen, and Ken Pratt, Wayne Ritayik and some quickly. Now the Charlie Watters, Bob Snaith, and Steve Wunsch led this pack Hummel team was in the overall Dale Snaith, Kevin Basore, Phil away followed by the Chen-lead finishing eleven laps well Green and Dave Kinworthy, nine owth /Ra yco of Dietrich & before noon. Meanwhile Gary in all. They had all brought along Gilmore Off Road Lawyers appropriate parts and equipment, driven by Dave Dietrich off the enough to almost build another line. Giti Gowland and Barry car, and their goal was to set a new Bates were next away in a Viper, record and win overall. followed by the Challenger of Gary Brewer, Duane Steele, Terry Leckser, and Richard Franta who towed all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada. Bea and Billy Hoskins, Jeff Hartsuyker and Tracey Raybson were next to leave in their Jimco. Last away was the other half of the two car Dietrich &. Gilmore team, a Rayco driven by Thomas Ottenberg, Madelein Kern, Robert Gillingham and Sharen Day. We received a well documented account of the race from the Reamer team who drove the Unlimited Class Chenowth # 102. They had three complete crews for the two seater. Robert Reamer with Fred Lovell drove the first five hours, and had a few minutes down time with fuel stops and a delay to fix a shock absorber. The next five hour shift was taken by brother Ken Reamer and his wife, Sis. They cruised around the course with no problems, maintaining the 28 to 29 minute lap times of the starting team. The third crew was Robert's usual co-driver Dale Shubert and his other brother Tom Reamer, who got in the car around 5:00 p.m. They maintained the consistent lap schedule through lap 28, then during lap 29, about 9:30 p.m., the large ditch after the View Point jumped out and bit the car, causing it to endo. They were at that point out of the race because of substantial damage to the car. They were credited with 29 laps, but not a finish. Reamer asked us to thank all who helped their effort, especially Jack Mateer and Second in line was the B & B Racing Class 10 Funco VW driven by second generation drivers Ryan and brother Rob Arciero and Jimmie Johnson. Pit boss was Frank Arciero Jr. and Gary Johnson was second in command, and these dads had a formidable arsenal of parts. Ryan was the starting driver in the car. The team of Bob Reamer, Dale Shubert, Tom Reamer and Fred Lovell were next away in an Unlimited Class VW powered Chenowth, with riders Ken Reamer and Sis Reamer added at Midway in the first lap Arciero had a good lead, Hummel was next, and the Chenowth FAV cut across to the pit to get the cannon Bill Hammack, Andy Blue and George De Ware finished with a broken frame but finished first Unlimited in the Hi Jumper despite having to cross the line wobbling just a little bit. July 1992 Dusty nmes

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Finishing third overall was the other team Dietrich Challenger Giti Gow/and, Barry Bates and crew were third in Class g with drivers led by Tom Ottenberg and Robert Gillingham just finishing in a tie on laps completed for fourth overall at the flag. one more lap behind after 24 hours. Mike Douthitt and company in the Steve Johnson Chenowth got close to the down time limit, but a fast lap got them the finish and seventh overall. his C.J. pit crew, and Fud for putting on a great event and the other racers for being sportsman-like and fun to be around. We thank Robert for the report, it sure makes our job easier. ~----~-~::::.::-:::::::.::-::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;;;:----electrical problem that let it run The others fired up and next to finish was the Dietrich team, first the race car, then the parts car, followed in by Mike Hart and Dave Fessenden in the Class 100, Craig Corda in the Class 8 Ford, Bill Hammack, Giti Gowland and Mike Douthitt. After Jimmie Johnson, who set fast lap of the race, finished his stint in the Arciero Class 10 racer it was parked, according to plan. The boys were there to gain experience, and the team managers wanted each to have some daylight time and some time racing in the dark, to prepare them for entry into the HORA Fireworks 250 this month. So, to keep from breaking the car before dark, it just sat in the pits until it got dark, and the rotation of Ryan,-Rob and Jimmie started over again. However, they had already used up their five hours down time, so no times appeared on the lap chart after the fifth hour. Mid afternoon the Class 5 car was in the pits as the Chenowth group graciously welded the rear frame together. The team confessed to being twice a year racers, in fact they ran the Baja Safari last year, but they got back on course and running. Phil Green pitted from mid course in the race leader with what sounded like a bad clutch but it turned out to be the transmission. However, this team came to win, and hordes of people attacked the tail of the 1600, taking the engine out, replacing the entire trans, putting it all back together, this in the heat of the day, and Phil took off again just 58 minutes after he stopped. Quite an effort from a lot of people, and if we are reading the lap chart correctly they either maintained the lead or were close to it. The Bill Hammack/ Andy Blue Unlimited Hi Jumper also chose mid afternoon to act up. They stopped for a fuel pump, got pushed off and were back after going a half mile, for yet another fuel pump, or at least something in the fuel system was haywire. The problem cost them a lot of time, but they had no more major Craig Corda and Bob Wagner were the only truck in the race, so they set a pace in the Ford and finished, eighth overall, and the last official finisher. Corda rode or drove and stayed in the truck for the entire 24 hours. problems. running a pace, except tl)e FAV, Heading into the night the Ken which was trying to make up a lap Pratt Challenger developed an and a few minutes on the leading appetite for ball joints, chewing Hummel 1600. The two Dietrich up two of them at different times. team Challengers were still The team also had down time with running in sight of each other and a broken brake line and not one sounded good, now with the parts but two broken shocks, again at car running behind the race car. different times. But they were Both of the Class 100 cars were in running well at dawn. Giti motion, but the Hart/Fessenden Gowland's Viper Challenger had team had had quite a night. a pesky alternator problem that Actually they broke a trailing arm eventually put the car in the pits on one side of the Funco in the for over two hours before it was afternoon, and then the other side fixed. But they were running well broke around 2 a.m. taking two at daybreak also. shocks with it, but they got back At this point every~ne was up and running. Ryan Arciero started the race and was first around on the first lap, flying like a veteran. The car also driven by Rob Arciero and Jimmie Johnson all teenagers, was not a finisher on purpose. With average lap times of about 22-24 minutes, pit planning became crucial around 6:00 a.m., and nine cars were still running, more than half the starting field. The rules allowed you to park, after 6:00 a.m. near the finish line and wait out the time, but some were in contention and tried for an extra lap or two. The Gowland Challenger started another lap at 6:12, and around 6:40 the Mike Douthitt Class 100 tried for another lap, having until 7:24 to get around. At 6: 17 the lead C-Program 1600 pitted for insurance gas and a driver change to Charlie Watters. The FAV pitted also, for oil, and Bill Weber took off to try for another lap. But it was not seen again, down with a major Dusty Times July 1992 for a few yards, then quit again. After some work in the field Mike Thomas and crew saw .their time run out, so they towed the car to the pits. Watters did a conservative lap, and when Fud waved at the parked assembly, the C-Progr~m 1600 roared across the finish line, having done what they set out to do, win the 24 hour enduro overall, even though the power steering gave up early in the race. 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Frank Arciero Jr., left, gets some sage advice from Chenowth's Mike Thomas when the teenagers' Funco stopped for a front end fix, with plenty of experts around, the car was fixed in good time. Mike Thomas did some fancy fixing on the FA V before sundown, and it ran for another 2 plus hours without serious down time, but didn't make it home. The Iron Man, as always was Fud himself, on the si t flag station from start to finish, here flagging in the Ottenberg Challenger for a 24 hour finish. The Class 5 had no upper body past the front windows, had troubles, from the second hour, but ran for over eight hours before it was parked by Brian Ryba. The Bob Reamer Chenowth had three full crews for the effort, but the car rolled in the night before midnight, and became a did not finish this race. Kevin Pratt and Wayne Ritayik had a good run going in the Class 9, but it started breaking ball joints and they ended up with too much down time to get an official finish. i;.,.. the trans change, and stopped only for gas, a couple of shocks and a fresh driver all the way to victory. They wish to thank their sponsors who helped get the program going, VP Racing Fuels, Yokohama Tires, Race Ready Products, Mendeola Transmissions, Bilstein, Master-craft, Racer X Promotions, PIAA Lights, Dusty Times, Courtney Tire, Southern Petroleum/ Ken-dall, Parker Pumper, Sign Pros, CNC and Southern Impressions. And a special thanks to the special crew, Don Basore, Ellis Cohen, Mike Ceniceros, Ralph Kin-worthy, Cherri Harrold, Todd Acosta, Niles Alden, Brian Snaith, Steve Drop, and Vince Zani for staying awake all day long and through the night as we raced the Funco Hustler to victory. They won the $400 FR T bonus and other monies for first overall as they covered 765 miles in 51 laps, not a record, which is 851 miles. The dynamic duo of 999 and 903 finished next with the race car beating the parts car by one lap, 675 miles to 660 miles. As best we could sort it out along with the signed on drivers, Tom Ottenberg and Robert Gillingham recruited more folks, like Mike Pfankuch, Jack Hettinger, Rick St. John, and Ray Neff during the 24 hours to drive the 999 car, and they were still having a good time, taking third overall. Originally only Dave Dietrich was signed on to drive the 903 Rayco racer, but Steve Reynolds, Larry Kern and Ramsay El Wardani were also signed on and drove. They lost some laps when the frame bars broke, and it took some time to first get to the pits and then get it all welded back together. They covered 45 laps, 675 miles and were second overall. And the drivers seemed interchangeable on this two car team. Completing the trio of Class 9 finishers was the Giti Gowland Viper, that started its last lap at 6:12 a.m., but finished 41 laps, 615 miles, putting the team in a tie for fourth overall. With Gowland, were Barry Bates,Jerry Miller and Mark Anderson on the team. Page 28 Along with losing the alternator, Ford pickup the entire 495 miles, they changed the front end at the 33 laps. He said he wanted to 12 hour mark as a precaution. finish, so started easy, got on a They had no other big problems. better pace when it cooled off in The Bill Hammack #200 Hi the night, but still cooled it and Jumperalsocovered41 laps,615 got his finish with Bob Wagner miles, and their late breaking riding along or driving. They problem was a major chassis stopped only for gas, never had a crack. Andy Blue heard an odd flat, and ate lunch, dinner and noise, discovered that the frame more on the fly. That was quite a was broken and babied it in, feat! waited out the time and got the Fud started the brief awards finish, first in Unlimited Class ceremony at the start/ finish line and tied for fourth overall. at8:30 a.m. so everyone could get Ironically their big competition, on the road or back into bed. the FA V, covered 49 laps, but There would be two nice plaques could not run across the finish for each entry and Bob Hummel line. and crew got half their entry fee The Chenowth FA V had to be the heaviest open wheel car there, even with the cannon removed, had a long pit stop to fix a loose head and more and started the last lap with plenty of time to finish, but the car quit half way around. The Class 100 Funco driven by back plus the $400 FR T bonus Mike Hart and Dave Fessenden for first overall, and all the other finished sixth overall with 600 checks were awarded, the plaques miles done in 40 laps. They had would be inscribed and mailed. crew help from Dusty Willey, Fud thanked all who participated, Barbara Hart, Don Gibson, the all his helpers, particularly the Culver family and the Harts from checkpoint folks who all stayed Imperial, They had no real down awake. He also thanked Mike time, fuel and driver change, ThomasforbringingtheFAVout nothing more, not even a flat, and to race and create some excite-had a real good time. The Class ment for the spectators who were 100 of Steve Johnson and Mike around Saturday afternoon. It 1 Douthitt had· two major down didn't take long for the pit area to time sessions, getting close to the empty out after the awards, and five hour limit, but they ran the we apologize to those whose war last lap in 31 minutes and finished stories we missed recording. 36 laps, 540 miles, good for This 24 hour race is a fine idea, seventh overall despite their but it is costly to run. The troubles. Eighth overall and last Hummel idea of a consortium of to finish was Craig Corda, who ' 10 drivers, all with pit support played it cool all day and into the : and suitable parts is the way to go, night. Talk about an Ironman, and either a 1600 or a 10 car Craig either drove or rode in the : seems the ideal vehicle for Half the winning team greeted Charlie Watters after the checkered flag, and team leader Bub Hummel, left, gives the war story to Bob Steinberger, who happened by Sunday morning, after working another race, on his way home. July 199! longevity and ease of service. We from San Diego, a pair each or would like to see double the entry more from Las Vegas, Phoenix, in May of 1994, and we plan to and Tucson, and teams from put together a city challenge with Orange County and Los Angeles some extra bucks for the winner. County. The more the merrier. Let's put together some teams You have almost two years to from the Imperial Valley, more promote your team and,your city. 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SUBARU PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Rod Millen Rolls To Victory At Prescott By ]~an Calvin - Notes by Andy Schu/1ack Photos: Lome Trezise Displaying his usual style, Rod Millen, with Tony Sircombe navigating the Mazda 323 came back from a slow start to put a minute on the competition after four stages, and the team went on to win the rally overall. The SCCA Prescott Forest the midwest. SCCA Pro Rally champion Rod Rally, both a national and a Whilethefirstpositionsoffthe MillenrolledhisMazda,smashing divisional, attracted a goodly pack line were filled with past and the windshield. Millen rolled after of rally teams on the national present champions including passing the timing light, so he got circuit as well as CRS drivers former Asia Pacific Champion fast time for the stage, but very going for So-Pac Division Points. Rod Millen, the Rally Truck class nearly took out the timing table. The event started as a divisional was the strongest in quite some Millen still led the rally and rally six years ago with just time with six pickups in the field posted fastest time on stage 4 as regional entries, and has grown to including former series champion we II. At the Chino Valley become an international rally Guy Light, six cylinder GMC Safeway,thesiteofthe60minute with top teams and champions Sonoma, Roger Hull, six cylinder service break after stage 4, Millen from around the country and Jeep Comanche, who won the needed to find a windshield to Canada participating. In 1992 it season's first event in Texas, and continue in the r a II y. Gary was expanded to include new Gary Gooch, Toyota. Hull is from Gooch, driver of the Toyota stagesaroundtheArizonamining Prescottandwillhaveasubinthe pickup in Rally Truck class, town and it now meets the right ·seat, Nobel Jones of providedhimwithhisspare,that requirements of the Subaru Pro Prescott. Hull's usual co-driver was a close enough fit to last the Rally Championship schedule. Rob Cherry is the rally organizer. night, fitted expertly by Millen's This year the Prescott event will A record 40 starters, the service crew with yards of grey count 60 percent points towards maximum allowed by the Chino tape. the national championship for Valley Ranger District of the At the end of four stages, the drivers. unofficial times show the Rod National Forest Service, took the Co-promoter Rob Cherry, gn, n flag at Lamb Subaru in Millen/Tony Sircombe Mazda in himself a national champion co-Prescott at 3:00 p.m. on April 25 first place by 1 :08 over the Audi driver in the rally truck class and a for Round #2 of the Subaru Pro Quattro of Paul Choiniere/Jeff Prescott resident, said the local Rally Championship. Two cars Becker, while the Mitsubishi Prescott Forest Rally Associa-did not start, both divisional Eclipse of Carl Merrill and Jon tion's responsib1e activity at entries, but there had been 42 on Wickens, which had beaten previous events has allowed it to hand at any rate. Choiniere in two of the first four grow. "Because we use existing stages, is third overall. All three forest roads and street legal No sooner had the rally begun, compete in Open Class. vehicles, there is minimal impact juSt two miles into stage one to be Fourth overall here about four to the environment, and, as in the exact, than one of the three FIA minutes behind Millen was the past, we go back through the drivers and defending Subaru Pro GMC Rally truck of Guy Light forest after the event to make sure Rally Championship title holder and Jimmy Brandt, surprising we have cleaned it up or repaired Chad DiMarco had his mount some but making the spectators any areas which need attention," come to a halt. A piece of the happy to have a domestic rig said Cherry. This will be the first newly designed suspension, a leading its class. Jim and James time thatthe Prescott Forest Rally lower A-arm, wore thin and Wilsm1 were fifth overall and first will be part of the Subaru PRO broke forcing the DiMarco/ Erick in Production GT Class, in a Rally Championship, the national Hauge Subaru Legacy out of the Mitsubishi Galant, another 24 professional championship rally rally. Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens seconds behind followed in just series in the United States. won the first stage by nearly half a six seconds by local heroes Roger This year the Prescott Forest minute in the Mitsubishi Eclipse. Hull and Noble Jones, Jeep Rallycovered280milesincluding Rod Millen/Tony Sircombe, Comanche,secondinRallyTruck 96 competitive stage miles. The Mazda 323 4WD were second on class. Seventh overall and dozen stages range in length from the firSt stage about a half a Production Class leader was four to 16 miles and the bulk of minute upon Paul Choiniere/Jeff W.G. Giles and Bob Pierce, two the mileage is on the transit runs Becker, Audi Quattro. However, more minutes back in the trusty between stages. The roads vary Millentookstage2overChoiniere VW Golf GTI. No divisional from hard packed to loose gravel and Merrill, followed by Guy times were posted, but we do and to some very rough surfaces Light/Jimmy Brandt, GMC know that the California Rally whichcanbeverymuddyifwetor truck. Series standard bearer and snow packed. The Prescott Forest Then, right at the finish of stage National SCCA Divisional Rally runs in elevations from ' 3 Asia Pacific rally competitor, champion in 1991 Lon Peterson, 4000to6000feet,quiteachange Mickey Thompson stadium withBillGutzmannavigating,ran from the flatland forests rallies in · trucker hot shoe, and four time as high as second overall, and they Page 30 July 1992 , J ... . ,.; - ... ,. ... ✓ :r· ... Jeff and Chris Griffin are really quick in the older Volvo, and the California based team finished right behind the Audi, third overall and first CRS Open Class car in the Divisional section. National competitor Roger Hull, with Noble Jones subbing for rally organizer Rob Cherry in the right seat, zipped his Jeep Comanche into fourth overall, and he won the national title by just 29 second. were usually up with the overall field, putting him well back in the top five almost all night. standings. He was about 2 ½ Starting with stage 5, organizer minutes behind Millen before Rob Cherry, with series manager stage 7. At this point Guy Light John Buffum, decided to go to led the trucks by inches over Hull, two minute starting intervals to Wilson and Wilson still led combat the rising dust and dying Production GT but went no winds. Rod Millen won stage 5 by farther, and W.G. Giles held his 0.26 over Paul Choiniere, as Carl Production Class lead in the VW. Merrill dropped time but held There were still no Divisional third over Roger Hull. There was times available, and Lon Peterson no position changes after stage 6, was on a great run in his Plymouth but a lot changed after stage 7. Arrow, up front with the Millen still led by over a minute, sponsored teams. After stage 7 however. Lon was running second overall, Carl Merrill's Mi tsu b ish i even though he started to the rear Eclipse became the latest leading as a divisional entry. He sadly lost entry to DNF after stage 7 as the both fuel pumps on stage 8, transmission locked up. lnspec-putting an end to his rally. Henry tion of the component at service Joy's Mazda 323 GTX was forced revealed a longitudinal crack from out of the rally on stage 5 after his front to back. Merrill retired car went airborne and came down while lying second in Open after so hard that the front passenger seven stages, about six minutes seat went through the floor. Bet behind. his navigator Scott Gillman Paul Choiniere held third wasn't too happy about that! Open, close to two minutes back, Other DNFs through stage 7 so while he was not out of the include Paula Gibeault/John rally, he sure had a lot of catching Perrige, Subaru RX CRS Open, up to do. At the beginning of stage John Kerby /Terry Stonecipher, 7 he had a small engine fire after Toyota CRS Stock, Doc Shrader, adding oil, then during the stage, AMC Eagle CRS Open, Tony the turbo booster hose came off, Tavares, Toyota Prod. GT, Bill causing the Audi to stop on Malik Volvo 142, CRS Open. course. Choiniere fixed the Running well back but running problem himself, but lost almost were Karen Burrows, Mazda RX 7 five minutes to the rest of the CRS Open, Tony Shumaker, jt~ This was the view that W.G. Giles and Bob Pierce presented to the entire Production class, and they not only won the national honors in the VW G Tl, they finished a great ninth overall. Dusty Times

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The National Rally Truck class had fierce competition. Guy Light and Jimmy Brandt just missed the national honors driving their well prepped GMC Sonoma. Another Millen, Rod's teenage son Rhys with Trish Devreau navigating had a good run in their first national rally, driving the Mazda MX6 to 12th 0 /A. A rollover at the end of Stage 3 saw the crew tape plenty of plastic on the windows, borrow a windshield, and Rod Millen went on to win the rally. ~ -~-~ Victor Brasil and Tony Tavares drove their Subaru GL to third CRS Open Class honors, and they also finished the tough run eighth overall. Ken White and Adrian Crane have great fun rallying the Toyota Rui Brasil and Frank Nunes run in Production GT, but they had pickup in the CRS Open class, finished down the ranks but to change a tire midway on stage 5, and for other reasons the finished well for CRS points. _T_o'-yo_t_a_C_e_l_,·c_a_d_id_n_o_tf_in_i_sh_. ____________ _ CRS Mitsubishi PU and Rui Brasil, Celica CRS GT was a dnf. Peter Lahm finished stage 7, but then a broken throttle cable finished his Datsun 510 for the event. Rod Millen/Tony Sircombe continued to lead through the last three stages and won outright by ten minutes. Fresh from three straight MTEG stadium race main event victories in a Toyota truck, Rod Millen still enjoys the rally world the most, and will do more shakedown on his Mazda 323 at the Rim of the World National ' Rally in mid May beforeneading Nobel Jones, just 26 more· eight seconds by John Lannom, There were 26 finishers out of for the Asia Pacific circuit with it. seconds back and 41 seconds and Doug O'Toupal in, of all the 39 starters listed, not a bad Taking second was Paul Choin-ahead of Guy Light and Jimmy things, a VW Beetle, who were ratio for a mountain rally. The iere/Jeff Becker in the Audi Brandt in the GMC PU. B.J. and fourth in CRS Open Class. rally ran on time from start to Quattro. Paul, who won the Big Stuart Beal were sixth overall, Sorting out the results it iish, and the organizers are Bend Bash, isnowatoptheoverall second CRS Open in their Mazda appears that Dave White/ Dave 1,erit iuning for a full National standings with 22 points, and 323,followedbyHarrisDoneand PeterbaughweresecondCRSGT, status next year. We sure think Chad DiMarco is second with ten Larry ?co_tt w~o won CRS followed by Rhys Millen/Trish they ought to be eligible for that, points. Production m their Mazda RX 7. Devereau in a CRS Open Class and they seem ready and willing to Jeff and Chris Griffin got the Victor Brasil and A. Tavares were Mazda MX6. Gary and Judi start the long months of work it Volvo 142 home third overall, a eighth overall and third CRS' Gooch,. Toyota PU were third takes to do the job. Maybe the minute 22 seconds behind Open in their Subaru GL. Ninth national Rally Truck. Dan PrescottForestandtheRimofthe Choiniere, winning CRS Open overall went to national competi-Hook/ Mike Borek were second World could be arranged so that Class. Fourth overall and first tors W.G. Giles and Bob Pierce CRS Stock class car; Tony and Liz back east regulars on the tour CRS Prod. GT was the Jeep whowonSCCAProouctionClass Shumaker were third CRS Stock wouldn't have to trek west twice Comanche of Roger Hull and I in the VW GTI, followed in just, in a Mitsubishi PU. within a month's time. SouWester Divisional Pro Rally the Boston and Costello Mazda. by Scott Simons and Scott Parsons The Rally Lite class was won in the Honda Care Center Honda yet again by Gene and M'Liss Civic, followed by Jim and McCullough in the Muffler Magic Christy Breazeale in the Black Datsun. Second was nailed down Hole Racing VW Rabbit. Horsepower was the name of the game for this year's Sou 'wester Rally out of Hoquiam, WA early in May. The roads were very straight and fast. The rally, which attracted 18 cars, started in Hoquiam and ran on two new roads in the Olympic National Forest. Each road was used three times for a total of six stages. From the beginning it was a battle of the RX-7s. John Christensen and Rod Chelgren in the B& W Imports Mazda were two seconds quicker than Tim and Penny Paterson on the first stage. Then the Patersons put their RX-7 out front by one second on stage two. It went on like this all day until the two Mazdas were tied going into the last stage. But, after a storming drive, the Patersons earned themselves a well deserved victory by winning the last stage by seven seconds over Christensen and Chelgren. Although finishing a minute behind the leaders, the battle for third place was just as hotly contested. Proving once and for all that there is no substitute for cubic inches Mike and Jan Halliday came in third fastest on the first three stages in their Walt's Radiator Ford Mustang. Vern Johnson .and Ben Bradley were hot on their heels in the Engine Rebuild Supply Toyota Corolla, though. It wasn't until the last couple of stages that Halliday slowed a bit, a rrd Dusty Times Johnson seized the opportunity and slipped past to beat him out by four seconds. Still, fourth overall was an excellent result and gave the Hallidays the Class 2 win by a large margin. Following closely behind in fifth overall were Greg and Lynne Lund taking things easy in their freshly painted Pacific Race & Rally Mazda 323 complete with new roof. Holding down sixth overall was Erik Thompson and borrowed co-driver Mike Huff-man who were breaking in a fresh engine in the IPDIGW Perform-ance sponsored Volvo. Gary Smith and Terry Simons in the Mazda RX-3 and Gary Michael and Noel Rydborn in the BMW 2002 rounded out second and third in Class 2. Class 3 was won by Scott Fuller and Sean Wade despite collecting a one minute road penalty in their VW Golf. Second in class was the Datsun 210 team of Cooper and Dimler in their first ever rally. Much to the other Class 3 competitors relief, the very quick Techworks Dodge Omni of Steve Walker and Dave Lowe blew its engine on the second stage. Others to hit trouble included Rick Beson and Don Gibson who had a turbo hose blew off twice on the Mazda on the first stage, costing them ten minutes. On Stage 1 John Sparks and Don Schroeder retired with a gearbox full of neutrals in their Toyota. The only other non-finisher was HOWE ALUMINUM RACING RADIATOR 16.5 POUNDS SIZES · AVAILABLE 16 X27 18X24 19 X28 19 X 31 CURRENTLY USED IN CLASS 2, 8, & NASCAR STOP IN. AND SEE US I K;:tc:rm1@1: AMSOIL, AUTOFAB, CIBIE, FILLER, personalized FUEL SAFE, HELLA, KC, K&N, service ! MASTERCRAFT, DOUG THORLEY AND MOR~! ... .,.. C!lj --I.ASVEGAS702 \,-~,._._· 3867 S. YALLcY VIEW 362-2089 FU~~F.~~~iA~~o~~~IP OFF SPRING MTN. RD. . OPEN MON-SAT . July ~1991 Page 31

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The SODA Off Road Championship Series The 1992 SODA Series in the northern midwest is beginning as we go to press with this issue, and there are some changes this yea r and far more sponsorship and media exposure than ever hefore. While the series name is still SODA, the acronym coined from Superior Off Road Drivers Association is now the Short Course Off Road Drivers Assoc-iation. But we think, a bit belatedly to be sure, that a look back at the 1991 season and a listing of the champions is in order before we begin the reports on the even more busy 1992 season. Last year it all began with the Great Northern Challenge in Ionia, Michigan covered by ESPN. It was a good show there at the fairgrounds. The series moved to the traditional Memorial Day 100 at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin next, and it started in the mud and finished on Sunday in heavy dust. Next it was Antigo in northern Wisconsin, on a very fast and dusty track that turned to mud Sunday morning, but the show played to packed grandstands anyhow. _ Two weeks later, still in June, came the Spring Run 101 at Crandon, Wisconsin, with ESPN once agan filming and enjoying the hospitality of this keen little town. As always there was a huge entry and packed spectator areas. _ For once there was no rain at the Fox Riverfest Challenge at Green Bay, WI, and again the grand-stands were packed all weekend. The rain caught up with SODA drivers at the UP 100 at Bark River on Michigan's upper peninsula, but both entry and attendance 'were still up from 1990. Labor Day in Crandon is an off road racing tradition, and the True Value World's Champion-ship, on this best of all short Jack Heidtman -winner Class 4. 1 991 SODA Class Champions Classes 1,2 & I 0: Art Schmitt Ill. Pittsburgh. PA. Berrien Laser Chassis. Motor: Classes I &2-BC Gerolamy Nissan; Class I O-l 650cc Rabbit built by Bob Goshen. Occupation: Owner/ Operator, Bestwick Service. Inc. Age: 37. Family: Wife Sue. daughter Stacey-I 0, Son A.J.-7. Sponsors: Armstrong Tire, Web Cam. Ron Davis Radiator. UMP. CNC. Class 3: Herb Rosborough, Rockford. IL. Chevy Blazer 4x4. Motor: 406 cu in small block. Occupation: Owner. R.C. Auto & Truck Service. Age: 38. Family: Married 18 years. 3 children. Sponsors: B.F. Goodrich, MAC Tools. Tietz-Lynck Co., R.C. Auto & Truck Services. Class 4: Jack Heidtman, Marquette. Ml. Ford F-1 50. Occupation: Logging industry. Age: 40. Family: Son Jeff-22. daughter Jennifer-21 . Sponsors: Yokohama Tire. Crossroads Totul. Pellow. Heidtman Logging. Interstate. Valdweld. Class 6: Fay Statezny, Crandon. WI. Chevelle. Occupation: Forest County Highway Department. Age: 32. Family: Leslie. son Christopher-4. Sponsors: Rancho Suspension. CPF. Inc. Classes 7S & 8: Scott Taylor. Belvidere. IL. Class 7S-Ford Ranger; Class 8- Ford F- 150. Motors: Class 7S-2500cc Ford; Class 8-408 cu in Ford SVO. Occupation: Engineer/ Machinist. Age: 35. Family: Mom & Dad !Ed & EllaJ. sister Debra, Brother Tom. Sponsors: Ford. B.F. Goodrich. Sway-a-Way. Shell, Bell Racing. Inc. Class I I Single Seat: Mark Steinhardt, Rhinelander. WI. I 990 Gilson. self welded chassis. Stock 1600cc motor. Occupation: VWautomotivetechnician. Age: 26. Family: Single! Sponsors: Shimkus Auto Body. Shoeder's Auto Center. Advanced Vynil Design. Clem's Place. Class I I Double Seat: Glen Mathews. Rhinelander. WI. 1990 Friday built chassis. Stock 1600cc motor. Occupation: Triumph Twist Drill. Age: 27. Family: Parents. I sister. 2 brothers. race-oriented girlfriend. Sponsors: Tushoski Auto Body. Northwoods Ford. Class 13: Lowell DeGreef, Green Bay. WI. Ford chassis. 454 cu in Chevy motor. Occupation: Owner. Shabooms & Lotharios Night Clubs. Age: 45. Family: son Jeff-22. son Randy-22. Sponsors: Miller High Life. Rancho Suspension. Yokohama Tire. Shabooms. Class 14: Geoff Dorr. Rockford. IL. Jeep Honcho chassis, 40 I cu in motor. Occupation: Homebuilder. Age:44. Family: wife Ginny, son Mitchell-5. Sponsors: B.F. Goodrich. Team TIA, Sunoco. Performance Products. Classes 1-1600 & 9: John Greaves. DePere. WI. Class 1-1600: Taylor built chassis, 1600cc VW motor; Class 9: Taylor built chassis. Toyota motor. Occupation: builder. custom window s & doors. Age: 25. Family: wife Kathy. Sponsors: LC. Engineering. Toyota. Ro n Micke. ASI Transportation. Rural Insurance. Class 2-1600: Jim Wiggins, Dixon. IL. Wiggin-Berrien chassis. secret Wiggins t 992 RACING SCHEDULE engine. Occupation: Outside salesman. Auto Parts Warehouse. Age: 23. Family: Mom & Dad l"BullJ. brothers Jeff. John &Joe. girlfriend Lisa Vandermissen. Sponsors: B.F. Goodrich, Sinew & Weinman, Inc.. Dixon Garage Supply. Attig Racing. Morely Signs. Harden·s Radiator Service. Class 5-1600: Chuck Johnson. Rockford. IL. VW Baja Bug chassis. stock motor. Occupation: Professional racer/electrician. Age: 35. Family: son Eric-6. Sponsors: Joe Eppers. B.F. Goodrich. Smith Imports. Lakeland Marine. Class Women's Limited Buggy: Paula St. Peter, Belgium. WI. l -2/l 600Taylorchassis. VW air-cooled motor. Occupation: Local race distributor for Tyton. Age: 27. Family: Married 2-112 years. Sponsors: Yokohama Tire, Tyton Cable Ties & Fasteners. Unique Metal Products, Weld Specialties Supply Co .. Bares Car Care. Wester Electric Co. Women's Class 1 I : Joan Silloway. Ripon, WI. "F.riEbWay·. a Friday chassis w/ modifications by Mark Eberhardt & Bob Silloway. stock VW 1600cc motor. Occupation: seamstress. Age: 28. Family: husband Bob, stepchildren Tracey & James. Sponsors: Yokohama Tire. Friday's Off-Road Center. Creative Waves. K&N Engineering. Dare, Fox Shocks. Faas Wheels. Eberhardt Painting. Women's Heavy Metal: Shari Recla. Green Bay. \IV!. Ford chassis. 454 cu in Chevy motor. Sponsors: Miller High Life. Rancho Suspension. Yokohama Tire, Shabooms. Lake Geneva Memorfal Day 1 00 - Lake Geneva. WI .... May 23-24 U.P. Off-Road I 00 - Bark River, Ml .... , ................... July 18-19 Antigo Kiwanis Off-Road Race -Antigo. WI .................... June 6-7 Fox Riverfest Challenge - De Pere, WI .................. August 1-2 Spring Run 101 -Crandon, WI .................................. June 20-21 The Great Northern Challenge - Ionia, Ml ............. Aug 15-16 Road.America Off-Road Race - Elkhart Lake. WI .............. July 4-5 ' True Value World Championship - Crandon, WI ........ Sep 4-6 Midwest Points Championship-Oshkosh, WI ................... Sept. 19-20 Page 34 July 1991 Fay Statezny -winner Class 6. John Greaves -winner Classes 1-1600 and 9. Jim Wiggins -winner Class 2-1600. <;;huck Johnson -winner Class 5-1600. DustyTimcs

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The comfortable front bucket seats were covered in grey velour, The Safari from GMC with all wheel drive is a great people good in any climate, and the driver's seat had a battery of carrier and good looking as well, the side door and a rear lift electric controls for added adjustment and comfort. door, provide access to any part of the van for cargo or people. With the two rows of rear seats removed there is vast space fo r cargo in the Safari, and it is wide enough to slide a standard sheet of plywood in the.back door, a rare feature in a van today. 1991 GMC Safari AWD Van Safari! I'd love to go on Safari! But, you don't have to go to Kenya to get involved with a Safari; they are available at your nearest GMC dealer, ready to take you anywhere in comfort and luxury. The 1992 GMC Safari All Wheel Drive passenger van is a thing of beauty and a pleasure to drive. Once again, my dear friend "M" at Vista Group in Los Angeles graced us with a vehicle for test, and boy what a vehicle. The All Wheel Drive Safari passenger van has lots of power, lots of comfort and was able to transport enough gear for a real PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA DENNY'S ~] RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS SERVICE EVERY DAV YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT FOR OVER 40 YEARS Page 36 live safari in the wilds. We took it to the wilds of the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas during the week of the HORA Nissan 400 last March, and its handsome appearance and equipment excited the hotel parking attend-ants, always a sign of a good all purpose vehicle. Our Safari was equipped with Uniroyal Tiger Paw steel belted radial tires sized at P215175R15 M&S, good on the highway, potholed LA streets, in the rain and on desert roads. Brakes are the near standard power assisted front discs and rear drums with the four wheel anti-lock feature. The van was equipped with a four speed automatic transmission with overdrive, variable ratio power assisted steering and a 4.3 liter V6 that provides all the horsepower and torque you could want. Add the All Wheel Drive and you really have a package! Remember, A WO by viscous coupling operates all the time, you don't have to shift something to engage it. You get maximum traction on all wheels all the time, especially soothing to the mind in rain, snow or whatever else Mother Nature might be throwing at us. The instrument panel is the' usual functional package, speedo, resettable odometer, fuel and temperature gauges, and all the usual warning lights and chimes. The headlight and running light switch is located on the upper left July 1992 The instrument panel has all the usual gauges, vertical and easy to use air and heater controls, and in the center the sound system, plus cup holders for refreshments on the fly. portion of the console. Immedi-ately to the right of the instrument cluster is the vertically oriented climate controls, easy to use and well illuminated at night. Further to the right is the ETR AM / FM Stereo with compact disc player, feeding four speakers with lots of audio power. Top center of the console is the control for the rear heater, the fog light switch and, best of all, a switch to turn off all the indicator "door open" lights. I like this feature because when you're sitting around with the sliding side door open or a rear door open for an extended time, there is no interior light on to get hot or worry you about a battery drain. A small centrally located glove box is almost adequate for storage and just above it is a good sized shelf for coffee cups, etc. This particular Safari came with front bucket seats with arm rests on both sides (another favorite feature), a rear bench seat behind the buckets and yet another bench seat behind that, seating for eight. Both bench seats have a center section that folds down as an arm rest or drink holder. Both rear seats are removable and pop in and out in a minute. All these seats are upholstered in gray velour cloth, and of course, the entire Safari was carpeted from front to rear in a nice thick durable fabric in color coordinated fashion. Looking for complete utiliza-tion in the Safari, GMC has provided a little over four feet between wheel wells in the rear so that the occasional sheet of plywood fits in easily. Also, there is over nine feet available in length from the rear doors to the back of the front buckets, so it can easily be used as a utility vehicle when required. The front bucket seats have adjustable backs as well as dual arm res~s, and although the driver's seat has all electric controls, the passenger seat is on a manual slider. Leg room is more than adequate on the driver's side, but the passenger's footwell lacks that ~pace. It is cramped, even for a small person. Finishing off the interior, there was tilt steering wheel control, new entry assist grab handles, the left stalk on the steering column controlled the wipers, with intermittent action, and the cruise control. Power windows and power door locks were an option on this Safari and frankly, it's hard to live without them. A 6000 pound towing package is available, more than adequate for your normal live-in trailer or race car. Other options available are a 3.73 rear axle, rear locking differentia1 and numerous color and trim packages. We plowed up the highway to Las Vegas in the Safari during the local March monsoon season, and made the trip in absolute comfort. You sit high in the Safari, increasing your visibility on the road, and the arm rests really come into play on a long run. Power was more than adequate on the long grades and our overall mileage for the trip, including quite a bit of city driving, was a respectable 17. 7 miles per gallon. Coupled to a 27 gallon standard fuel tank, you have a range of all'l},OSt 500 miles, which you could do in perfect comfort. Our overall evaluation of the GMC All Wheel Drive Safari was as follows: pretty, comfortable, versatile, roadable, off roadable, and, if you are looking for all the above, then you should look at the Safari. We enjoyed driving the van, we were able to schlep along all our goodies and then some, with lots more room for other things. Actually, there is more than 153 cubic feet of space available with the rear seats removed. An enjoyable trip is made even more enjoyable with the GMC A WO Safari. Dusty Times

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FIREWORKS '76 The Firecracker 150 Revisited By Jean Calvin 0/f Sometimes you find real treasures as you clean out file cabinets, and we recently unearthed stuff about the Bicentennial Firecracker 250 off road race put on by AR VRA at Barstow, CA in 1976. We were heavily involved in promoting that event, and thought a few pictures of what it was like at the Lenwood exit when off road racing began there might make some old timers wistful and some younger folks wonder how it was The dynamic duo of off road racing around the 1970s Bobby Ferro and Gene Hirst were the overall winners driving Gene's Sandmaster Funco Hustler, on Western Auto tires, the biggest tire contingency company of the era. ·" possible. As it does today, the race started at four o'clock in the afternoon, but not out in the boonies. The lead picture shows the starting line just yards from the pair of gas stations and single restaurant on that side of 1-15, and there was nothing more but desert then, plus the single truck stop across the Interstate. The very spot pictured here as the cars roared away is where we had con-tingency last year on the paved road alongside the outlet shop-ping mall. Bob Gordon, who is still winning races in a two seat Chenowth, drove this. early model with Larry Kirby to the Class 2 victory. The car numbers show that the random draw for starting spots was still in effect. J.M. Bragg was the man to beat in Class 4, then Modified 4x4. He drove his Jeep CJ to the Class 4 victory in 1976, and now his sons are beginning to go racing in a Ford, in Class 8. Dusty Times Shteen years ago the race was much longer, the cars a bit slower, and the entry fee was $250. Six laps of a very rough course often made the run a bit more than 250 miles, but it did get nice and cool around midnight. Unlimited pre-running started a few weeks before the race, and that was fun too, as the Slash X was the only watering hole along the route, the rest you carried with you. It was a popular event anyhow, and the Bicentennial hoopla drew a huge entry, and, going on memory only, it was over 250 cars. Who won? Who else but Bobby Ferro and Gene Hirst in the tough Sand-master Fuoco Hustler SS, and they won almost $2500 in purse alone plus a ton in contingency prizes. Our Judy Smith placed fourth in Unlimited single seaters in her Funco Hustler. This is but a glimpse of the past folks, but the Fireworks 250 is still fun, a land-mark midsummer off road happening. July 1991 ARVRA had its own Class 11, born in Barstow, and the specs were for stock VW body cut to street looking Baja Bug looks and a 1200cc stock engine. Son of Sandmaster partner Don Arnett, Damon won the class with Don Shapen co-driving. Waiting for the start, #26 was Michael Gaughan, then running the Royal Inn Casino, now off roadings best friend in Vegas, followed by another Class 2 driven by Frank Snook and Don Rountree. Gaughan's car is a Funco, Snook's a Sandwinder. ~, ·The Off-Roader's Choice· . ~ c,~~ 0116\"t.\ • E-Z UP"' INSTANT SHELTERS Imagine setting up a free-standing shelter in less than 60 secondsl NO missing parts NO center poles NO ropes· · NO hassle • 5 sizes • 24 colors • Custom Graphics Instant Pit Shelter La Rono Contingency Sponsor HORR Contingency Sponsor E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS~ INC. 1044 N. Cole Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 , CALL: 213 • 462 • 1468 Page 37

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Didier Auriol Wins His Fourth Tour De Corse Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Didier Auria/ and Bernard Occelli took their fourth win in a row on the Tour de Corse, their second this year, and effectively led from start to finish, putting Lancia in the lead for the constructors points as well. Didier Auriol became the first driver to score a second win this season and has staked his claim in the race for the 1992 W arid Drivers Championship. Lancia Martini enjoyed their third win of the year, but their rivals Toyota suffered tire related trouble, only achieving fourth position. The Jolly Club run Martini team are pulling well away towards another Lancia constructors' title. The rally was shortened on the final day due to difficulties faced by medical workers following the Bastia football stadium tragedy, but by this time the event had been played out anyway. Francois Delecour was the only driver regularly able to challenge Auriol, but his Ford had many small problems, driveshaft failures on three occasions, but luckily he lost virtually no time because of this. The rally was marked by an amazing degree of reliability among the top teams and because Carlos Sainz had pulled ahead in the World Drivers series even ~--·· ~c; UP IN 30 SECOf\1)$ Pit Protection from Sun and Showers Add your team or sponsor"s name above your car in an instant with a KO Kanopy. We can print most logos and names. Call for cost. Original steel or new aluminum Kanopy frame sets up in seconds. Our tough. waterproof polyester cloth top is available in ma'!,' colors. Each Kanopy comes with a heavy vinyl carry bag. Factory Direct Prices 10' x 10' Start at S439. 10' x 20' Start at S779. ~ VISA~ _.... KD Kanopy®.........._ 5758 l..itmar SI Atvada. CO 80002 1-800-432-4435 Page 38 though his points have been wearing out, thegreatertheriskof gained, apart from the Safari, by a an accident." series of minor results. The world's most competitive rally so far as the engineers are concerned is the emphasis on tire development this year. While lightness still played its role the teams, at least those running Michelin ATS inserts and therefore without spare wheels, felt they were getting too close to the minimum limit to play around. Lancia, Ford and Toyota were all running 17 inch tires for better braking and traction, and ran one grade softer compound and could go further on a set of tires. Toyota reduced weight on their new car by redesigning the rear subframe. Lancia was running new stickers from ERG, an Italian fuel company in place of Fina who previously supplied their special fuel. Mobil report-edly blended their own fuel for Ford for the first time. The all asphalt nature of the event and the history of tragedy in the past created the customary mixture of emotions. Triple winner Didier Auriol, who had been vociferous in condemnation of the route in Portugal, said "Some dangerous stretches remain, but that's not new; there are in every rally, you have to adapt." Carlos Sainz, his ally last March added, "I am against the long stages. The longer they are, the more dangerous. The more the brakes and the tires are After a beautiful day for scrutineering, when the tops had come off the sun worshippers on the beach and the journalists hid in the shade to interview the drivers, there was heavy cloud in the Ajaccio sky and more than a hint of rain on the morning of the start of Etape l. However, it warmed up surprisingly quickly, catching several teams off guard on tire choice. Along with Toyota tire woes Sain.: also had gear selection trouble on the second stage, and was unhappy to finish the day nearly a minute behind Auriol, who had Delecour only two seconds behind. At this point of the rail y last year, over the same four stages, Schwarz had been ahead; this year the Lancias and Fords were faster than their times last year while the T oyotas were slower. In fact, Auriol came in 30 seconds quicker, and Schwarz 13 seconds slower. The day had started with the usual short publicity stage over the Sanguinaires peninsula, and Auriol equaled the best time of last year and Delecour equaled Auriol's time on stage 2. Sanremo Group N winner Giovanni Manfrinato overturned his Sierra and lost ten minutes while on Stage 3 Carlos Menem crashed and retired his Group N Lancia. Miki Biasion was slower, com-plaining that the rear axle was pulling the car to one side, and Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya had shock absorber troubles and flats on the Toyota, but they carried on to fourth in the rally, and Carlos holds the points lead. July 1991 Francois Delecour and Daniel Grataloup mounted a serious challenge for the win, but three driveshaft failures on the Ford put them second OJA in the rally, but they did manage equal winning time on the first stage. this was changed at the service Delecour had his exhaust haltattheendoftheday.Renault flattened on stage 12, and twice had been fooled by the unexpected had driveshaft breakages, both increase of the temperature times just before the end of the during the day, saying they made a stage. Once his gearbos started mistake and overheated the tires jamming and both he and Biasion in the warmers before the stages, had the brakes stick on. Biasion so they went off toward the stage was very unhappy. "It's the same finish. At one point their rival car I drove at Monte Carlo and it team Peugeot got marginally still has the same handling ahead, but even so Jean Ragnotti trouble." The car was understeer-was only two seconds in front that ing all the time. night. Fernando Capdevila was 19 The Renaults of Oreille and seconds in front in Group N_but Ragnotti both had injection second, third and fourth places troubles. Oreille started consum-were separated by -One Second! ing fuel at about 5 miles per gallon One driver thankful to see and had to free-wheel to his Ajaccio again was the Citroen service after the longest stage of semi-works driver Patrick the day. The Citroens were going Magaud. He started number 87 in well, still leading three classes: his AX GTI. "On Stage 2 I passed Christine Driano was having no threecars,threeonstage3,andon trouble, but Yves Loubet was stage 4 we passed five!" Citroen delayed with power steering led three different classes at the trouble. Patrick Bernadini retired end of the day. after he pulled off a wheel against ToyotawonderedwhatEtape2 a bridge and momentarily on Monday would have in store. blocked a stage. Bruno Thiry Tire manager Maurice Guaslard retired just before the long stage said "The first four stages were on when the differential input shaft a type of surface not usually broke on the Opel. In Group N found elsewhere." Carlos and Capdevila had a hub failure and Armin fitted softer tires on the retired, allowing Jean-Marc cooler opening stage beating all Santoni into the lead in a Ford the Lancias save Auriol, then Sierra Cosworth. reverted to yesterday's tires when The third Etape saw Auriol the sun got up. On every stage continue to increase his lead, but except one, there were record Toyota started extremely badly breaking times, but all the while when they under-warmed their Auriol increased his lead using tires before the first stage. During Michelin S22 tires on the short the day Sainz started to try out stages and S41 on the long ones. 640mm instead of 660mm tires His two second advantage the and found these were better in night before became a 62 second back to back comparison with lead by Bastia. Sainz had shock Armin Schwarz. They both absorber trouble, had them planned to use them for the final changed but it did not improve day exclusively. On the long stage, matters; then on stage 7 he had a just before arriving at Corte for slow puncture on a mid-stage the morning halt, Aghini swerved stretch of gravel roadworks. to avoid a rock in the road and Shortly before the end of the stage punctured. He drove on without the tire disintegrated altogether. loss of speed, but shortly before Whereas the works Lancias ran the end the suspension collapsed like trains, their only problem all and this cost over four minutes, day was power steering failure for dropping him from fourth to Aghini. Piero Liatti thought he seventh. Delecour had yet had a turbocharger failure but another moment of good luck, his eventually found it was a faulty third driveshaft failed on the water pump on his ex-works HF. ensuing road section. "It took the The Fords were having troubles. mechanics only four minutes to Jean Ragnotti and Gilles Thimonier finished ninth in Group A in the Renault Clio 16v, lost time with injection problems, but made it to the finish line. Dusty Times

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,, ... -----· The redesigned tubular rear sub frame was part of Toyota's Patrick Magaud and Herve Sauvage drove the Citroen AX GT/ to weight reduction program, and they actually pared 40 kg off the a good finish, first in the 1600 Group A class and a fine 13th Phillippe Bugalski and Denis Giraudet did a great event in the Lancia HF Integrate, and the Frenchmen finished third overall ahead of factory teams. car since the Portugal rally. overall in the fast rally. Bruno Thiry and Stephane Prevot had handling problems with the Opel Cali bra on its WC debut, but carried on until an input shaft broke, putting them out. On the Citroen team Yves Loubet sacrificed his position for Christine Oriana, right, who won the ladies prize at 14th overall with Loubet finishing 15th 0 /A. Overall winner Didier Auria/ spends a quiet moment with his wife Sylvie and son Robyn after the victory celebration was finished. replace it, fantastic!". No sooner had that been done than he knocked off the side mounted exhaust on a rock and had a hot floor for the rest of the next stage. Schwarz had brake trouble because of a faulty pedal box, and Bugalski had a lot of trouble with his back. "We thought I had a problem with a nerve, but actually found it was a problem with my car seat." He was given pain killers and continued. Soon after the Corte halt FISA officials -weighed the cars, and the truth about the Toyota was out: they had evidently made a major effort and pared over 40 kg off their cars, with a complete rethink on the suspension, and quantities of old equipment was thrown away. When asked why they still had tire trouble, Sainz said "Actually we don't think either the suspension or the tires are individually wrong, they just California Rally Series SCCA Divisional News B:,i Paula Gihca11lt Some great news: a new fall event, and the return of the annual CRS Rally Picnic! Lon Peterson, Sam Moore, and Dan Hook will be the organi:ing trio for an as yet unnamed event set for September 19-20. They are in the unique position of having the Forest Service Permit already issued, without having laid out their course yet! Their permit was part of the one Master Permit issued for their rally, the Rim events, and Gorman Ridge, all in the Angeles National Forest. However, they were asked to stay off "their" roads until having competed in Rim, since four of their stages were the new roads used Friday night at Rim. Details on the event, which will be at least a coefficient 2 and possibly a 3, will be coming soon, but mark your calendars! Gorman Ridge, with organi:ers Mike Blore, Harris Done, and Paul Barrows, will again be a coefficient 3 event, and is set for October 24. By the way, do you reali:e that each of these six Dusty Times don't work together as they the previous evening had caused should!" Ford had taken almost many people to wonder what 10 kg off their previous lightest, would happen to Etape 4 of the Lancia another 15, but despite the rally. Apart from Aghini catching widespread absence of spare up after his earlier trouble there wheels, the Lancias had grown was little going on. The organizers fatter since a year ago. Then their checked up and found all their lightest was 1114 kg, today it was security forces were available and 1134 kg. decided the event would go ahead. The struggle for the unofficial FFSA President Balestre said "I "Formula 2" category (2 liter, am not sure if they would have normally aspirated, two wheel canceled the football match if we drive) came to an end when had experienced such an acci-Fabien Doenlen, who had been dent." But later it was discovered having gear selection trouble, hit a that the medical staff had been bridge and retired. Clios were the working all night at Bastia and for top four cars in their class, ninth this reason only three of the to 12th overall, while Citroen planned seven stages were held. AXs were next. Loubet felt the Citroen lost Laurent Poggi, the limitations of the GTI with 15 leader of the 1600cc Group N inch wheels. "We need a new category, with engine trouble. crown wheel and pinion, as the And, on stage 23, the last to be gearing is far too long at the held, Andrea Aghini got ahead of moment. Mind you, it goes Miki Biasion, securing sixth place. incredibly well downhill." Jean-Pierre Manzagol, the most The football tragedy at Bastia experienced driver on the event, organi:ers gets a "win" for· their event for both SCCA Divisional Championship and California Rally Series points?!! We are looking for folks to help put on events in favorite areas such as Indio and the Sequoia National Forest (or anywhere). Think about it and call Mike and Paula, Divisional Stewards, at (619) 375-8704. A big "Thank You!" is due to John Elkin and Sam Moore for their perseverance in getting the Glen Helen Creekbed Rallyspt'ints off the ground! Rallyists certainly have a lot of stamina. An aside: have you ever seen so many clean new helmets at a rally? The white is blinding. Kerri Kerby has volunteered to revive an annual favorite, theCRS Rally Picnic, set for Sunday, August 16 at one of our favorite locations for this affair, Silver-wood Lake. Kerri and John Kerby and John's co-driver Terry Stonecipher, have got to be candidates for Rookies of the Year, it we create such an award. They are brand new to the sport hut have proven helpful and sportsmanlike on numerous occasions. Coordinating th~ picnic is just one example! And all this as they are expecting their first hamhino! If you've never heen to Silverwood Lake (in the mount-ains above Glen Helen ORV Park), it's a real treat: a lake to swim in, room for volleyhall or badminton, hiking, hiking, and harhecuing, and then:'s even · fishing and boat rentals! As in previous years, plan to arrive hy 10 AM to get in ($6 per car day use fee) because they fill up and only allow in 400 vehicles. Kerry tells us they will get there early and secure a big picnic area. Just bring your own beverages (beer is allowed), something to barbecue, and something to share at a potluck-style buffet: beans, salad, chips, dessert, etc. Also bring a swim suit, sunscreen, and an appetite! This is an all day affair where the kids all get to run amok while their parents sit around, eat, and bench race. Details and a map will he sent out with the Glen Helen results. Kerry would appreciate some help organi:ing games with prizes, and in incidentals such as videotape player/TV monitor/good foot-age. Please call her for details or to voluntet-r your assistance: (805) 836-9306. See you there! July 1992 pulled out after one stage on hearing his co-driver's brother had been injured at the stadium. So both Citroen and Peugeot each won two classes. Citroen drivers played tactical games, Loubet incurring a voluntary five minute penalty to fall behind the Oriana car, so the best two Ci troens were of different types, to increase their championship points. Meanwhile Didier Auria! and Bernard Occelli won for the fourth time on Corsica driving a Lancia. Francois Delecour and Daniel Grataloup stayed close in the Ford for second place followed by the Lancia of Philippe Bugalski and Denis Giraudet. As mentioned Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya were fourth followed by Toyota teammates Armin Schwarz and Arne Hertz. Then came Andrea Aghini/Sauro Farnocchia in another Lancia and Miki Biasion and Tiziano Siviero in the Ford. Jean-Marie Santoni and Marcel Cesarini won Group N in a Ford Sierra Cosworth at 16th overall. Christine Oriana and Catherine Francois were 14th overall and won the ladies prhe in a Citroen AX Sport. With local drivers and the prize winners wearing black armbands, it was a quiet ending to a · remarkable event in which three different makes from as many different countries took the top four places. RESULTS -1992 TOUR DE CORSE Didier AurioVBernard Occelli Francois Delecour/Daniel Grataloup Phillippe Sugalski/Denis Giraudet Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya Armin Schwarz/Arne Hertz Andrea Aghini/Sauro Farnocchia Miki Siasion/Tiziano Siviero Piero Liatti/Luciano Tedeschini Jean Ragnotti/Gilles Thiimonier Alain Oreille/Jean Marc Andrie Christine Driano/C. Francois (14th) J-M Santoni/M. Cesarini (16th) • Group winners - •• Ladies Cup winner F F F E DIS I I I F F F F Lancia HF lntegrale A• Ford Sierra Cosworth A Lancia HF lntegrale A Toyota Celica Turbo A Toyota Celica Turbo A Lancia HF lntegrale A Ford Sierra Cosworth A Lancia HF lntegrale A Renault Clio I6V A Renault Clio I6V A Citroen AX Sport A .. Ford Sierra Cosworth N• 105 start - 46 finish - Winners average stage speed - 91.31kph (record) WRC Makes Championship points - Lancia n, Toyota 63, Ford 46, WRC Drivers Championship points - Sainz 57, Kankkunen, 47, Auriol 40, Alen 28, Delecour 25, Siasion 22, Jonsson & Sugalski 20, McRae 15. -_-_~RACER X -=--=--HOTLINE 5:34:49 5:36:15 5:38:04 5:39:22 5:40:42 5:42:19 5:42:21 5:48:42 5:55:09 6:01:03 6:15:18 6:17:48 1-900-988-0054 Ext. 889 * Latest off-road racing results * Trivia * Products $2.00 Per Minute • 24 Hours A Day Updated Weekly Pag~ 39

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.. LA RANA SPANGLER 200 . Don Cornell Sweeps the Field at Ridgecrest By Jean Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography Don Cornell with Sam Davis blasted around the tricky course in the Porsche Raceco, had no trouble at all, turned fast lap of the race on the second lap and won overall and won the Unlimited Class by laps. May was a busy month for southern California Desert Racers with a pair of events, the La Rana Desert Racing annual May run at Ridgecrest and the HDRA Nevada 500 out of Pahrump, NV on May 16, plus the lone area SCCA National Pro Rally of the year, the Rim of the World, ran on May 14 and 15 out of Palmdale, Ca. The prior weekend was no better as the FR T biannual Rock Around the Clock near El Centro ran on May 9 and 10 as did the HDRA Publicity Run for the Nevada 500. Desert racers split the May 16 activity with around 100 starting in both Ridgecrest and Pahrump, and one driver, Joel Stankavich, commut-ed between the two, starting at Ridgecrest and finishing at Pahrump. The La Rana activity began mid-afternoon on the Friday, right downtown in Ridgecrest at the beautiful Kerr McGee Community Center, where registration was inside in heavenly air conditioned comfort, and the contingency row and tech inspection was in the closest parking lot, which means you only have to unload the race car once to get all the Friday business handled. With fast food empor-iums and inexpensive motels lining the nearby highway, this event is by far the most convenient for those racing on a budget who do not arrive self contained. In fact it is convenient for everybody. Some more miles had been added to the rough and often narrow course this round, which is a bout ten miles out of Ridgecrest, and the start/ finish area was new again, and is getting more and more to be a level area, but still with bumpy pit access roads. Most of the course is open OHV area, some bordering the· U.S. Navy China Lake property, but nonetheless chase crew and pit acess roads were clearly marked on the map as were the checkpoints and road crossings. There were five on course checkpoints plus some road crossings, so it took plenty of workers to staff the 53 .8 mile course. There were five on course pit areas plus start/finish, so a driver was seldom far from help should he need it. All car classes were required to cover four laps for an official finish within the eight hour time allowance, except Class 11, and the Stone Stock trucks who had to cover two laps plus the Odysseys who cover just one lap. Competition was tight for a while in Class 10, but running solo Bob Miller turned fast class lap on the second round, had three flats on lap 3, but led the class from flag to flag and won, the Raceco placing fourth overall. After a 7:00 a.m. drivers' slowing a tad on the last two laps, meeting the cars staged and were almost two laps ahead of the ready to start at 9:00 a.m., but a competition in class. It was just radio malfunction held them for a after two in the afternoon when few minutes. Class l /2 started the beautiful black Raceco sailed first with Don Cornell first away across the finish line, the overall in the Raceco/Porsche followed winner by about six minutes. by the single seat Raceco of Steve Brown ran a good second lap, and Brown and Jeff Hibbard. Usual co-driver Jeff Hibbard did a 1 :20 contender Keith Jackson was third lap, but the team didn't among the missing, because his finish lap 4 for unknown reasons, Raceco was too wounded at San but were second in the class Felipe to be repaired in time for anyhow. this race. So only two started in Class 10 started next, eight the unlimited ranks. strong, but only three finished. In Cornell with rider Sam Davis fact three didn't complete a lap, whipped off a 1:13:51 lap on the including Robert Harman whose first round clearly in the lead after Funco lost its trans. Bob Miller word came that Steve Brown had going solo in his Raceco, led the rolled his single seater. Worse firstlapat 1:15,andclosesttohim than that he was in the no mans was Hal Hibbard/ Dave Atwood, landofnopitsandnochasecrew about four minutes back. access. He did find enough help to Favorites and often winners Tom get righted, had some damage and Koch and Rex Keeling lost the flat tires. Finally a Checker pit power steering the first lap and crew was able to get Brown had a flat, then another on lap running again, but he had lost 2. Paul LaPorte ran third after one over two hours to Cornell. lap, but his Hi Jumper vanished Cornell had no trouble, save one on the second round. Burl flat tire, and the second driver, Beveridge and Mike Abbott had reported to be David Kreisler, their Raceco in third at this point. turned a 1:10:43 on the second Bob Miller whipped off class lap, fast lap of the race. fast lap on the second go, a 1: 13 The leading Raceco continued flat to hold the lead, while to boom around the course, Hibbard/ Atwood did a swift Kevin Davis and Adam Wik were the fastest sprinters in Class 1-2-1600, as it was a close battle, but they had no trouble at all with the Lothringer and won the class and finished second overall. Steve Brown and Jeff Hibbard had a disaster on lap 1, but the pair came back strong in the Raceco to place second, a dnf, in Unlimited class. Hal Hibbard and Dave Atwood had a clean run in their Raceco, running second in Class 10 most of the day and second at the checkers plus seventh overall. Tom Koch and Rex Keeling had a tough day in home territory, but despite a few pit visits that cost time, they got the Raceco in third in Class 10. Page 40 July 1992 Dusty Times

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Billy McCool and Ed Pendley got their Mirage into second in Class 1-2-1600, by just five minutes, and the second generation team took third overall. Craig Deardoff and Randy Bose placed third in Class 1-2-1600 and fifth overall in the Raceco, as the 1600s swept the overall positions at the race. Robert Lofton brought his brand new Jimco north to Ridgecrest, had some new car woes, but flew to fourth in 1-2-1600 action and sixth overall. 1: 17, but did not finish the fourth lap. Meanwhile Koch/ Keeling did a 1: 19, then went into the main Checker pits where the oil leak was discovered in the oil cooler, but the team replaced it with one off a broken car. Keeling took off on his two hour last lap, good for third in Class 10. Hal Hibbard and Dave Atwood had arrived over an hour earlier happy with second place, as Dave's son Brian got a taste of off road racing, in the right seat while his father drove. They did a swift 1: 16:4 7 on the final lap, to place seventh overall in the race. They asked us to mention how the drivers appreciated Steve Brown standing by his downed car waving the race cars around the course hazard. Take a bow Steve! They also appreciated the amount of contingency donors that showed up and the 100 car entry despite the date conflict with HORA, and said the course was well marked and they used a low compression Type 1 engine and were happy with the performance. It was almost no contest in Class 5 after the second lap for Michael and Traci Only one of the five Class 8 trucks finished the race, and it was the Chevy of Nix, who were second on lap 1, picked up the lead on the next lap and had Steve Kreiger and Tim Clark who played it cool in the early going, and moved only one flat to slow them on the way to victory. right into first and the class win on the fast lap. But the winner and race long class leader was Bob Miller who had his delay on lap 3, having three flats all on that lap. He did a 1:14 final round to not only win Class 10 but place fourth overall. He liked the rough course and said the dust was terrible. Unfortunately he hit the flipped Brown car on the first lap, but did no damage. Class 1-2-1600 was next away, the largest class at 19 starters, of which half could take the win. Billy McCool served notice on the first lap that he came to win, doing al: 16:53 in his Mirage. But Kevin Davis was just 15 seconds back in his Lothringer, and several more were in the same minute. Although the La R ana results have improved 1000% in the last year, they do not include cumulative time, lap by lap, and with a big class the math required to figure out who was leading when is more than we can handle. All the 1600s finished one lap, but three, Howard Gregory, Scott Ryan and George Fishback Jr. went no farther. Getting in two laps before parking somewhere were Don Lampus Sr., with a five hour first lap, Ed Pauley, no visible trouble, Dave Mansker and Dennis Crowley, who hit one of the slow moving Stone Stock trucks in the heavy dust and wiped out the right front side of the car. Midway it looked like a three way battle with Kevin Davis/ Adam Wik virtually tied on time with Billy McCool/Ed Pendley, with Robert Lofton only a minute or so behind, and Craig Deardoff trailed him by another couple minutes. Three more failed on the last lap, Brady Wisdom, Larry Wyatt and the potent team of Bob Stockton/Don Chase. Meanwhile the class leaders moved into overall positions. It was a sprint race to the checkered flag, and Kevin Davis and Adam Wik won the dash in the Lothringer. Kevin said this was the last race on this car, and after two years of trying he finally won a race. He and engine builder Adam Wik had no trouble at all with the car, "it ran perfect", and this happy crew got even more excited upon finding they were second overall in the Even though Mike Duncan had company in Class 3 at the race, a Scout, he was the sole survivor on the course in his Jeep CJ-8, adding another trophy to his La Rana collection. Dusty Times race. Ed Pendley finished the McCool Mirage about five minutes later for second in class and a remarkable third overall. McCool said they had no trouble, the course was dusty and rough, but they stopped only for gas and the driver change. About 3 ½ minutes back Craig Deardoff and Randy Bose took third in class, fifth overall. Craig reported happily, no flats and just one broken shock for trouble on the third lap. Maxine Bates, got the Bug up and running, but it still didn't finish the second lap without breaking another CV. This time they got help a bit quicker, and finished lap 2 in 4:27:24, having done a field driver change to Gary Bates and Shirley Scott. They went on with a 1 :24 third lap, but they had used up more than seven hours, so were not allowed to start the fourth lap, but they got second place anyhow. Meanwhile Michael and Traci Nix had a clean day, got one flat in the SIF area so the pit changed it, and blew the same turn every lap. It was the second race for the Nix Class 5 car, built by Jesse Rodriquez and prepped by Jerry Penhall, and they thanked the FAIR pit team, Yokohama and Pipeline Trucking for their support. They not only won Class 5, the only finisher, they also finished eighth overall. There were five Class 8 trucks on the line, only one finished but all the rest did three laps. The first lap saw Lance and Kent West leading Allen Repashy/Dan Thomas, Ford, by merely three minutes, A name out of past J.M. Bragg and his sons Mike and Greg were next in a Ford, about ten minutes back followed in some minutes by Tom Coon, Ford and Steve Kreiger/Tim Clark, Chevy. All but West slowed noticeably on lap 2, and the Chevy led Repashy and Bragg, almost equal on time, by a good 20 minutes, while Coon dropped a half hour, and Steve Kreiger, who had a slow first lap, was on the comeback trail. Lap 4 did in all but one truck, with Coon just vanishing from the field, and the Braggs had a 4½ hour lap,i;r Part of the group that towed from the Imperial Valley Bob Lofton had a smooth run on course, said there were too many rocks, and had a flat on his brand new Jimco, its first time out. The throttle stuck and they had trouble refueling too. He stopped once to help fellow Brawley racer Larry Wyatt turn his car back on its wheels and still finished only a minute behind Deardoff, sixth overall and fourth 1600. This front four ran away from the field, THE "ACCURATE" TUBING NOTCHER as Brad and Herm Maurer, who The "Accurate" Tubing had three flats, fifth in class, were Notcher uses industrial hole 42 minutes back and still ninth saws to cut clean accurate overall, followed home by Roberto Arzate, tenth overall, notches in tubing tor better, Jim Joyce, Jeff Trimble and Don stronger welds. The V-block Chase as nine finished in this clamping system and oilite class. bushing are tied together by There were five in Class 5 and it the steel backplate for started out to be a whale of a perfect alignment every time. battle between Michael Nix, the Because of its solid Bates team and Pete Swift. Scott construction, chatter is not a Weir didn't do a lap and David problem. If cutting fluid is DeWitt only made one nearly used, hundreds of notches three hour round. Up front BJ can be cut by a single hole Bates, with his mom Maxine I saw. Cuts tubing 3/4" to 2" O r~ding shotgun, led the _first lap by I to 45 degrees, steel, chrome five _se~onds over ~1chael_ and moly, or stainless. # D-550 279.95 (hole saws sold separately) Trac1N1xandPeteSw1ftwas1usta i little over two more minutes back. The battle waned on the second lap as the Bates car broke a CV joint and didn't have one on board. Tr:oublewastheywereina Call or write for our FREE CATALOG of fabricating tools no access area. Swift used an extra 21 minutes on the lap and then was seen no more. Meanwhile the resourceful Checker pit figured out a way to get the needed parts to BJ and July 1991 RACERS TOOL & SUPPLY 4290 Bells Ferry Rd. • Suite 10634 • Kennesaw • GA • 30144 (404) 924-4543 24 Hours a Day 7 Days a Week Page 41

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.. Brad and Herm Mauer finished 42 minutes behind the winner but fifth in Class 1-2-1600, and attrition was heavy as they were s1111 ninth overall. Gary and B.J. Bates started out leading Class 5, but losing two CV joints on the same lap kept them from a finish, but they placed second in class. Allen Rapashy and Dan Thomas were in a tight dice for the Class 8 lead for a time, but vanished into the desert on the last lap, still placing second. finisher, pushing the eight hour time allowance, finishing in 7:58:36. After the first lap in Class 6 the Don-A-Vee Jeep Cherokees dominated the Joel Stankavich worked out a deal with Wade Prince and Mike Currier to start class, and despite some trouble Eric Heiden was the fastest and the only four in Class 9, then go to the Nevada 500 and drive his own car. Wade and Mike There were nine starters in Class 5-1600 but two didn't cover a lap and two more only did one lap. Allen Bowen and Rick Pew grabbed the first lap lead with class fast lap of 1:32:23, followed in three minutes by Brian Logan, and in four more minutes by Hector Burnell and Robert Snyder, tied on time. Bruce Landfield had a three hour plus first lap, but carried on. Up front midway Bowen/Pew had about four minutes over Logan, who was a couple minutes ahead of Hector Brunell and Robert Snyder, still tied on time. Allen Bowen and Rick Pew did another 1:35 third lap, while the four behind them all had trouble, and along with Landfield, Robert Snyder and Steve Thomasson did not do another lap. Burnell dropped ten minutes and Logan dropped 11 minutes, keeping them both in the hunt for second place. Meanwhile the team of Allen Bowen and Rick Pew, who drove the first two laps, did a 1 :37 and won Class 5-1600 by 28 minutes. Pew said it was his third Ridgecrest race and he had a third and a second, and now a first place finish to show for it. The Bug, that gets some prep help from Rich Fersch was a little tattered, and the windshield uprights both had lap finisher winning Class 6. held up their end, winning Class 9 in the Prince car. ,;.,.. while West had a 3:22 lap and Rapashy slowed some with a nearly three hour lap, and was not seen again. Having his slowest lap on the fourth round, and a little down time on the third lap, Steve Kreiger and Tim Clark finished all four, with over an hour to spare, and they won Class 8. Steve said they all passed him on the first lap, but he ran hard later on and had no flats, no trouble at all, and his time was good fot 17th overall. There were two in Class 3 at Ridgecrest, defending champion Mike Duncan in his new Jeep CJ 8, and Ray MacMillan and Mike Ismail in an IH Scout, which unfortunately didn't cover a lap. Duncan, who was combined with Class 6 for purse stayed with them for the first two laps, then cooled the pace by several minutes and got the Class 3 win and points and second place money. Class 6 was a mixed bag with a pair of Don-A-Vee Jeep Chero-kees for Eric Heiden and Darren Skilton, the Chevy Carnaro of Brian Coats/Neville Sharpe, and Mick Newton's Snortin' Nortin Chevy Nova. Coats had them covered on the first lap with a quick 1 :26, fast class lap. Heiden was next at 1 :31, followed by Skilton, 1 :38 and Newton, 1 :39. Midway Heiden had an 11 minute lead over his teammate Skilton, Newton now was only seven minutes further back, and Coats was slowing. Newton did not finish the third lap, Coats slowed even more and so did Skilton and neither made the fourth lap, while Heiden sailed on. So Eric Heiden with Brad Allred was the sole survivor in Class 6, but he would have won anyhow by his lap times. He reported on! y a couple of problems like carburetor flood-ing, and then the mirror kept corning adrift, but Eric was a very happy man at the finish line. A big bunch, 18 in all, started in Class 9, but three didn't cover a lap, four only made one lap, including Bruce Mangold. Joel Mohr had a five hour first lap, did one more round and parked. The talk of this race was Joel Stankavich, who is running both La Rana and HORA this season for points. Since all races count in both series, Joel started at Ridgecrest as Driver of Record in the Wade Prince car, drove the required distance, then hopped into a street vehicle, drove over the mountain to Tonapah, Nevada to get in his own car started by Warren Messick, we think. It was quite a scheme, and it apparently worked. The fast first Class 9 lap honor went to Danny Richardson/ Randy Westbrook at 1 :33:20. Three minutes back came Stank a vich /Prince/ Currier followed in a minute by Dave Girdner/Tom Craig, and in another minute by Mike Hamp-ton. This was a real horse race shaping up. Midway the lead by a couple of minutes belonged to Richardson/Westbrook in a Mirage. Next it was Stanka-vich/Prince, and in two more minutes Girdner/Craig. Some of these chargers were involved in a visual race it was so close. After three laps Michael Rix was out of time for another round, credited with tenth, and in ninth Dee Jay Owens faced the same problems after a three hour third lap. Jim Pierce averaged two hours a lap and gave it up after three rounds too. Out front by four minutes it was Richardson and Westbrook, but they didn't finish the last lap. Next it was Girdner and Craig, with Stanka-vich & Co. eight minutes back as they headed into the final lap, with a couple more contenders. Mike Currier and Wade Prince split the rest of the driving chores, with Tracie Prince riding all the way. Despite a broken trailing arm beginning the third lap right near their pits, where they spent only 12 minutes getting back on the road they did a 1 :35 final lap to bring Joel Stankavich the Class 9 winning points. Rick Johnson '. and Lee Perfect lost brakes on lap 1 losing 36 minutes, but then had no other troubles with 1 :30 plus lap times all the way to second in Class 9 . They were about 14 minutes behind the winner, but eight minutes ahead of Mike Hampton who was third in class. Hampton liked the course even though he lost the starter motor and broke a shock. VORRA racer Jack Bonesteel, with Gerald Croft and Jeff Bonesteel had most consistent lap times, nq apparent stops except for gas and finished fourth, another 19 minutes back. Dave Girdner and Torn Craig had a three hour last lap, but finished fifth, followed in by Torn and Lita Whitehead, sixth and the last Class 5-1600 had a high attrition rate, but Allen Bowen and Rick Pew led the first lap, and when it counted, the last lap for the win, despite a Bug body that was coming unglued. Darren Skilton ran close to his teammate in his Jeep Cherokee, Rick Johnson and Lee perfect had serious brake trouble, but but he too was swallowed by the desert on lap 4/but placed they raced on to.finish second in Class 9, just 14 minutes behind second in Class 6. · the class winner. Class 9 spread out at this race, and Mike Hampton, who had a couple of unscheduled stops, was another eight minutes back, third in the big class. Pagc41 July 1991 Dusty Times

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broken and were grey taped together. They figured they were due for a fresh Bug body. The battle for second place was resolved on the last lap as Brian Logan, who ran solo the entire distance, had no trouble except a flat on both lap 3 and lap 4 and was second, just nine minutes to the good. In third came Hector Burnell and Jim Miner who said the course was really rough and got even rougher late in the race. The team stopped only for gas and the driver change and Jim, who started, had his daughter Heidi ride two laps, while Doug Andersson was the other team member. Class 7 had two starters but only one finisher. Robert Reynolds and Bill Driggs started out with a three hour lap in their Ford, then did two good laps but had no time left to finish the fourth lap. Up front from flag to Class 7 had just two starters, and this Toyota was out front from wire to wire driven by Art Becker, who finished a happy man, and Mike Becker plus Brian Grouws, with only some front end trouble to slow them. Ed and Raul Flores and Chuck Fureman set fast lap in Class 7S in the Toyota on lap 3, and moved into first place on that lap and held it to the finish line, outlasting the competition. flag was Art Becker, who finished, by lap 3, which was over two and Mike Becker and Brian hours with the quick fix. They Grouws in the trusty Toyota. said they appreciate the help Mike said they had a good day, they've been getting from but the front end was going away Yokohama and Toyota. In Class 7S, one of the three Toyota, just three minutes even starters didn't do a lap, Dan ahead of Ed and Raul Flores and Cannon and Darryl Gibson. It Chuck Fureman, Toyota. After was close on the first round with two rounds Azevedo still led by Gordon and Carl Azevedo, nine i;r-VORRA racers Jack Bonesteel and Gerald Croft turned very consistent laps, had no visible trouble and finished fourth in the tough Challenger Class. Dave Girdner and Tom Craig ran up front in Class 9 until a three hour last lap put them down to fifth in class at the finish in the refurbished Funco. You Can Win Even if You Don't Win •.. When You Run '/i✓• Announcing the KC HiLiTES "SHOT IN THE =K" 1992 Contingency Award Program. KC will pay you $200.00 if your finishing position is first, last or somewhere in between, and your entry is picked in the "KC SHOT IN THE DARIC' random drawing at the end of each SCORE and HORA race this year. It's that simple! All SCORE and HORA four wheel classes are eligible! There's more! If you run KC's exclusively all year and earn your class points championship, you'll win $2,000.00 from the year end Driver's Points Fund! All this just for running the winningest off road lights around ... KC Hil.iTESl Stop by contingency row at any SCORE or HORA race this season for complete details on how to take advantage of this rewarding program orcontact: Jim Conner• P.O. Box 1129 • Lake Havasu City, AZ 86405 • 1-602/453-8889 ,--------AND THE WINNERS ARE Brian Logan ran solo and also ran second most of the distance in Class 5-1600 action, had one flat and finished a close second in the class. Dusty Times Southem ca, 250 Class 3 -Dale White Class 5 -George Seeley Jr. Class 6 -Curt Le Due Class 7 -Racin Gardner Class 8 -Larry Ragland Class 9 -Charles Ratliff Class 11 -Travis Howard Parker400 Class 3 -Mike Leslie Class 7 -Scott Douglas Class 1/2-1600 -Fred Wing Class 11 -Erny Martinez July 19ft Nlssan400 Class 3 -Mike Leslie Class 6 -Curt Le Due Class 7 -Scott Douglas Class 8 -Brian Stewart Class 11 -Saul Zambrano Stock Fu II -Ken Parr San Felipe 250 Class 7 -Scott Douglas Class 8 -Brian Stewart Class 11 -Martin Garibay Class 12 - . Yoshi Ogasawara Class 5/1600 - . Guillermo Quintero, Jr Nevada500 Class 3 -Dale White Class 5/1600 -Steve Lawrence Class 6 -Evan Evans Class 7 -Scott Douglas Class 7S -Brendan Gaughn Class 8 -Larry Ragland Class 11 -Martin Garibay Stock Mini -Scott Sells Page 43

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Hector Burnell and Jim Miner said the course really got rough on the last laps, but they had no problems on their way to third place in Class 5-1600. Erik Rice and Jeff Hayden were happy with second place in Stock Mini Truck action in their Toyota, having only small troubles on the tough course. Hopping down the trail in his Honda, Tony Benda lost a very close race in the Odyssey class, taking second by less than a quarter of a minute. i;rminutes now over Flores, but the Azevedo truck did not finish the third lap. Meanwhile the Flores Toyota motored on doing class fast lap at 2:22:36 on lap 3, but now had used 7:42 of the eight hour time allowance, so Flores, Flores and Fureman won the class. Class 7 4x4 also had three starters, all Toyotas with Jay and Donnie King leading the first lap by 16 minutes over Jim Log-gins/David Allen and Richard Robbins and Alberto Tejera were another seven minutes back in a good race. On the next lap Loggins blew a slave cylinder and was finished. Midway the Kings had well over an hour lead, even with three flats, all on the second lap. Robbins used well over three hours on the second lap and reportedly lost the rear end, and he only finished two laps. Up front the King machine kept on a steady pace covering all four laps in good time, 7:39:35. They had ongoing trouble with a brake release rod, and said the engine was detonating all day when they put the power on heavy, so they didn't and cruised to victory. Of the trio in Class 7 4x4, all Toyotas by the way, Jay and Donnie King had a good lead on the first lap, increased the margin of time each lap and won the class, the only four lap finisher. The full size stock trucks, with half their number in Nevada.this day, started three, but two failed to do a lap. Doing his two laps at a comfortable speed, Michael Coleman, with Ken Leavitt riding in the Chevy, drove all the way and reported no big troubles. He wanted to thank BFGoodrich and Auto Works for their help in his race effort. The stock mini trucks had seven starters, all Toyotas plus a Jeep. Two failed on the first lap, Katsuhisa Yamanaka and Brady Helm, and Tom Degan/Perry Sauro made just one 6 hour and The first lap was a close battle in Class 11, only 28 seconds separated the leaders, but Larry Adams and wa;ren Rix Jr. kept up the pace and finished the course, winning in their Beetle. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES 5153 BOWDEN AVE. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92117. TEL. (619) 279-2509 HELMET COMPLETE SYSTEM $195 $320 27 minute lap, and that had to be quite a story. Bill Quitmeyer and Fred Espinosa led the first lap by less than two minutes over Glenn Cohen/Mike Hoskins in the Jeep while Al Ortlepp and Dave Funstbn were just another minute back, but they used up 4 hours, 38 minutes on the second round and placed fourth. Up front Quitmeyer and Espinosa led the second lap also and won the class by 52 minutes. Fred brought the Toyota 4x4 to Bill in the lead, and they stayed out front for the two laps required. They figured they would need new springs before the .next race. Running in their first race Erik Rice and Jeff Hayden were happy with second place in the Toyota, saying they lost some time with a broken throttle cable and lost a mirror, not much damage for such a rough course. Glenn Cohen and Mike Hoskins used 6 hours, 12 minutes to cover their two laps for third place, with an over four hour second lap. Only two Class 11 Beetles were on the line but after one lap it was close. Horacio and Art Munoz led by 28 ;econds over Larry Adams/Warren Rix Jr., but the Munoz car did not finish the second lap. Only seven minutes slower on the second round the win went to Adams and Rix. Running just one lap the six in Odyssey class saw Mary Sullivan only make about five miles before retiring, but the others all finished: Donald Kleinhenz won the class in a Selsted by a skinny 22 seconds over Tony Benda, Honda in a very close finish. William Foster was third, about six minutes later, followed in three minutes by Ralph Czarn-etzki. Often a winner in the southern deserts Andy Wehe got his Honda home fifth, about 28 minutes later. A FRESH AIR HELMET AND BLOWER ASSEMBLY DESIGNED FOR OFF ROAD USE AT A REASONABLE PRICE BUil.T AND BACKED BY BELL HELMETS lJGHT WEIGHT-REDUCES NECK STRAIN COOL, COMFORTABLE TERRY CLOTH LINER BLOWER MOTOR AND ASSEMBLY ARE GUARANTEED FOR ONE FULL YEAR ~.OOAPfR)VID Sunday morning the awards · were held at the Carriage Inn in Ridgecrest around 10:0 a.m., and the trophies arrived just as Ed '. Castro was starting the presenta-Page 44 July 19" Six of the seven Stock Mini Truck starters were Toyotas, and Bill Quitmeyer and Fred Espinosa had a two minute lead after one lap, but in the end they won the class by nearly an hour. The Full Size Stock Trucks started three,· but only one covered the first lap. Michael Coleman and Ken Leavitt then cruised all the way to the class victory in the Chevrolet. tions. He began by thanking all the sponsors and wor'kers, especially the checkpoint and road crossing folks. He remarked that the race ran smoothly with no complaints from the drivers, and no troubles between racers and officials, and no injuries at all. He thanked all the participants for their support despite another race happening at the same time in another state. A good half of the trophy winners were on hand to also pick up their checks, and the awards were basically short and sweet. Castro announced the next desert race at Lucerne Valley on June 19 and 20 plus the new concept for La Rana of the short course race on July 18-19 at Glen Helen OHV Park. It will have a 3 .3 mile lap, and each class will have their own lap race, plus there is overnight camping available. Brian Church is back at the helm at Glen Helen, so this event should bring some of the desert type off road short course racers out of the garage and on to the . track. The six m Odyssey Class ran only one lap of the 53 mile course, and it was a very close battle as Donald Kleinhenz won the class in his Selsted by a very slim 22 seconds. Dusty Times

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Chenowth Mini Mag By Homer Eid,anks I know you've all seen it. You know that sign that hangs in nearly every speed shop across America; "Speed costs. How fast can you afford to go?" And this has been a real truism in racing for years. If you wanted a competitive race car you would have to dig deep into your pocket. Because of the deep pocket syndrome and the current economic times being what they are, fewer and fewer racers are able to financially make the starting grid. So how does anyone get into a fast dependable race car today? You may want to check out Chenowth Racing's Mini Mag. The Mini Mag has been out now nearly three years and has proven to be an affordable, very competitive race car. So competi-tive in fact that it consistently runs as fast as larger cars costing twice as much. Affordable racing! ls there such a thing? If so, the Mini Mag is the definition of an affordable racer. A completely-assembled turnkey race car currently costing. $16,950. And this is a car designed and built by Photo: C & C Rael! Photos Chenowth Racing, a name synonymous with off road racing for many years. This car is built under the same strict quality standards as its big brothers, the Chenowth Magnum and the military type FA V (Fast Attack Vehicle) that made its debut during Desert Storm. In other words the Mini Mag is built to take a beating. And since the car manufacturer has guaranteed that all cars built will remain identical for a minimum of five years, a car buyer does not have to worry about being competitive next year. Maintenance is one of the biggest costs that racers contend with. One of the reasons speed costs so much is that racers (especially off roaders) are putting the vehicle through the worst possible conditions. Endurance racing wears parts, but here again Chenowth has designed the Mini Mag around standardized parts. In his first year of racing a Mini Mag Rudy Townsley won both the Baja 500 and the Firecracker 250. Townsley stated COAST 1-800-634-6755 ·1-800-331-5334 Dusty Times·· that he only spent $400 between the two races to maintain the car. And during 1989 he had won over $20,000. New racers will also find that things happen while racing. Things like the car jumping up on its top, or running into unmovable objects. What occurs then is broken parts. If you are part of a factory team you don't worry about it, just radio in to the semi trailer full of parts and have the crew come out and fix it. Those of us unfortunate enough to be born with good looks instead of money soon realize that one major expense to racing is stocking spare parts. Chenowth takes care of this for Mini Mag racers by attending all the major racing events with their semi truck full of parts. This means you don't have to have the big cost! y rig to tow your racer, or have your money tied up in all the spare parts. Again, Chenowth is attempting to make racing more affordable for the racer. And with the Chenowth technicians standing by for support at the race you will make fewer costly mistakes. While we're on the subject of affordability, let's look at this year's new Chenowth Mini Mag Race Schedule. A nine race series competes within six different sanctioning bodies. SCORE, HORA, VORRA, LA RANA, BAJA PROMOTIONS and RJD's series are all represented. A $1,000 purse goes to the first place winner at each of the selected events and the second place driver receives $500. That is for each event, and the best of a six race points championship will also receive additional cash at the end of the year. The schedule was a direct result of driver feed-back. Mike Thomas of Chenowth said the drivers wanted to race the shorter events to make it easier for them to service their team. Events with approximately 50 mile loops are more preferable rather than the long point-to-point races. This year's schedule was designed to save the Mini Mag racer about 50% on their entry fees and fuel consumption .over the 1991 series. Thomas added, "The schedule is intended to give the class exposure in "other series" (as opposed to previous years running in only SCORE/ HORA) yet still offer some of the legendary favorites such as the Baja 500 and the Gold Coast 300." The SCORE San Filipe 250 is the next scheduled series event. In June they race at the Baja 500 and then go to the Summer Sizzler (July 23-27) short course race put on by VORRA. The weekend of August 28-30 has them racing the LA RANA Johnson Valley 150. Short Course racing returns September 18-20 at the HORA Willow Springs event. The Gold Coast 300 is October 9-11 (HORA) and the last of the series is FUD's Dunaway Dash. on December 31. The Mini Mag is a single seat, open wheel car that meets all SCORE and HORA tech require-ments. This car is 137" in length, and 74" wide, with a height of 58". The engine is a Yamaha Exciter water-cooled 570cc two-cylinder two-stroke rated at 92 HP out of a snowmobile. To get the power to the ground Chen-owth designed their own trans-mission and coupled it to a constantly variable drive system. No shifting for fewer mistakes. The vehicle has forward, neutral and reverse. Suspension on the Mini Mag delivers 16" of travel both front and rear. It has a 4-wheel independent system utilizing double A-arms both front and rear. Sway-A-Way provides the rear axles and springs. And the outboard CVs are standard bus type joints. Bilstein provides the coil over shocks.Two are used on each side of the rear while one per side is all that is needed up front. Ground clearance is said to be 15 inches. The rack and pinion steering is made by Wright and uses off the shelf tie rod ends for easy parts availability. To aid sharp turns, cutting brakes are incorporated in the four wheel disc system. Braided steel lines are coupled with AN fittings for proven durability. And should your team have more than one driver the brake an.cl gas pedals are ad-justable. Mickey Thompson Baja belted tires wrap around the 15 x 3 ½ front and 15 x 5 rear wheels. Centerline VW type wheels are used all around for standard-ization. Added cush for tush comes with the tube frame racing seat which incorporates webbing to absorb shock. KC lights provide illumination for night events. and a 15 gallon Fuel Safe fuel cell gives the Mini Mag an average fuel range of 100 miles, making it comparable to other desert cars. A five point safety harness, tachometer and water temperature gauge come as standard equip-ment. Yes racing costs. But how much it costs is controllable. And the folks at Chenowth Racing in El Cajon, CA have come up with an affordable off-the-shelf racer designed to help young racers get over the sticker shock of racing. Las Vegas, Nevada July 1992 Page 45

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FRT SUPERSTITION SERIES ROUND i Paul Krause Wins Overall In The Buzz Bomb Bike Division ByFud Paul Krause saved the day for the veterans, taking the overall lead late in the race, and also won the Open Pro class riding his Kawasaki to a hard fought triumph over his competition. The Plaster City East federal Bureau of Land Management Open Recreation Area is about 90 miles east of San Diego, right off 1-80. The area is host to the Fudpucker Racing Team activi-ties, and five times a year FRT holds two races on the same course on the same day, one early riser for motorcycles and A TVs, and midday the bikes are finished and the usual classes of desert cars take off. The multiple class car division race was amply covered last month by Judy Smith. We now have some results and pictures of the bikers efforts last April 4 and these racers had some very close battles in their ranks. From the outset it didn't look like a good day for the veteran desert racing bikers. Either they were suffering mechanical problems or the young lions devoured them. Only Paul Krause saved the day for the veterans by taking first overall, first open bike and his, of course, was the first Kawasaki to finish. At the start, resting easy on his lean green machine Paul Krause dreamed of another easy victory. At Check 1 the dream became a scream. Dewey Belew had blown into the lead, then he refused to give it up. A heartbeat before home check Paul Krause careened into the lead hoping to bury the competition. Not to be! While Krause was adding fuel, Craig Smith, Belew's partner waved goodbye. No rest for the faint of heart. Two laps later Craig Smith edged close enough to allow Dewey Belew to lead during another pit stop. That's it, Mr. Krause decided! He set sail to nail down the lid to victory. Only one problem remained, Belew had the hammer, but experience won out in the end. Finally one of the International Off Road Champ-ions of our generation had won round 2 of the Superstition Championship. Paul Krause not only took first overall, first open Pro, but he was wide eyed with new respect for some very young and fast competition. Dewey Belew and Craig Smith were a close but no cigar second overall and second Open Pro. Behind the leaders other battles raged. Tim Funk and John Flores were riding the wheels off their 250 determined to win the class and finish third overall. Just as intent on passing them wen: the teams of Joey Lane/Troy Phelps, Dennis "Never in Control" Green/ Neal Goldsmith, and the first Vet team, the Means Machine Brothers Team, Jimmy and Phil. Round and round they ----------Photos: C & C Race Photos went, but no matter how hard Lane/Phelps pushed on the Funk/ Flores rope they just could never quite get around them, and they finished with Funk/ Flores first 250. It was a different story for Means and Green/Goldsmith. The Means pulled on the Green/Goldsmith rope, and gathered them in to finish first Vet at fifth overall, making Green and Goldsmith sixth overall. In the 125 class the old war horse Ed Foland and the new kid on the block, Jason Corfman locked horns with "Rippin" Robbie Pippin and Dan Worley. For the first three laps Pippin/Worley were only a few bike lengths in front. However, by lap 4 Foland/Corfman had warmed up and went on to victory. their margin was enhanced by a mechanical meltdown on W or-ley's bike. In the Sportsman Division Israel Estrada and Ron Wilson in the Open Class hooked up with James Henderson and Mark Grisch in the 250 Class! Grisch led the first lap with Wilson second. Then Estrada slipped around Henderson on lap 2. While the positions never changed, very seldom were there more than just a few bike lengths between them. On the last lap, only a few hundred feet from home check Henderson let it all hang out. Sailing off a spectacular jump he came up just inches short of eighth overall. Estrada/Wilson won the Open Sportsman Division with Gary Royer/ Eric Wright/Craig Britt second. Finishing ninth overall, first 250 Sportsman was Henderson/ Grisch with Camrom Wil-liams/Wes Enz a distant second. Why? Enz forgot to add gas while waiting for his partner to do his lap. Thus Enz wins the Claude Maynard Award. In the other classes Smokin' Joe Stidman and C. Ornfed won the Senior Sportsman. Bob "Old-man" Thompson was first Super Senior. Kelly Hori and Von Menearis mastered the 125 Sportsman. "Wild" Bill McNeer· and Craig Corda won the VET Sportsman with Dan Jarrell winning Class 3. Rounding out the field was the first Vintage and taking his first win ever it was Irwin Markwarodt. In the A TV Division it looked like another runaway for "Dyno" Ed Foland and Jason Corfman also had a fight on their hands in the 125 Pro bike class, but they gained the lead for good on lap 4 and went on to the class victory on a Honda. Dean Sundahl when, at the end of the first lap he was seventh overall with tenth overall belonging to Ben Schlimme on a 250. Next was Rodney Engen, barely in front of Doug Roll. However, to finish first, first you must finish. On lap 2 Greg Row, Sundahl's partner, broke. End of race. A smiling Steve Mamer, Schlimme's part-ner, pounced into the lead. Greg Bringle was now riding in place of Doug Roll and he moved around the Engen Team, Bruce and Rodney, for second. The places were set in concrete. While the Roll/Bringle team cut time off every lap on Schlimme/Mamer, they were just a tad too slow to change the results. Meanwhile, back in the Sports-man A TV Class Matt Brown and Dan Brown were putting the hurt on David "Whimp" Newland and Greg Gibbs. Then from out of the blue Nathan Goodsell, riding solo, whipped around New-land/Gibbs. From out of the ashes Anthony Baker and Paul "Killer" Keller arose. They were like surgeons as they carved through the pack. By the time the checkered flag flew they were in front, with Nathan Goodsell second and Newland/Gibbs third. David Dorworth won the 200 ATV Class while Paul "Endo" Gates and Jackie "Trouble" Law won the Open A TV Novice Class. The Desert Superlite Division produced a different winner this time around. Steve Fenton, driving the Triple EEE Green Apple, was out in front as usual i~ the early going. By the end oflap 2 he was in front of all the Sportsman ATVs. Then his ride soured and the transmission had died. Thus the door to victory was wide open. And then along came Andy Wehe, smooth driving Wehe in his Pilot. From now on it was up to the others to catch him if they could. John Shultz tried real hard. He tried so hard he broke his car into many little bitty pieces, and another one bit the dust. Next it was Bryan Saasta's turn. However, there were too many pretty ladies around the course and when you stop and flirt with them you lose track of time. Finally it came down to Eric Anderson to have his shot at glory. Eric finished second with the glory belonging to Andy Wehe, first overall Desert Superlite. Russ Turner won the 360 class. Based on completed laps Steve Fenton won the Open Class with John Schultz picking up the Class 77 victory. So Honda won top honors in both Desert Superlite action and ATV competition while Kawasaki won the two wheel division. ,_....,,_lffiW""'W'OOW!!ll! It was a tight race in the 250 Pro bike class also, but Tim Funk and John Flores led all the way, sometimes by inches, finishing third overall and the 250 winner on a KTM. Ben Schlimme and Steve Mamer outlasted the Open Class A TVs The mini race cars in the Desert Superlite Division kick their and ran hard to not only win the 250 Pro class on the Honda tails like the big cars, but it didn't bother Andy Wehe who drove Smokin' Joe Stidman and C. Ornfed won the Senior Sportsman class, here sailing nicely over some of Fud's favorite sandy whoopees. Fourtrax, but they won the A TV division overall. smoothly all the way in his Pilot to the division overall victory. Page46 July 1991 Dusty Times

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KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTERS 4x4 CLUB Joe Maberly Wins the Spring Enduro By Randy Chamberlin Joe Maberly came out of Surrey, B.C. and made his first attempt at desert racing a dandy. Joe drove his 1600cc buggy to the absolute overall win, and you can't do any better than that! It was a small but extremely dedicated contingent of off road racers that took the green flag at the start of the Kamloops Bronco Busters Spring Enduro race. The weather, which had been close to 100 degrees F for over a week previous to the race dawned with a driving rain, 30 mile per hour winds, and temperatures close to freezing. It was not the most ideal conditions for the comfort of the drivers, but the track was perfect. There was not enough rain to make mud, but plenty of rain to control the normally heavy dust. minute laps, which, on the twisty, tight and somewhat rocky course was very fast indeed. By the end of the three hour time limit, four of the Pro entries and two of the Sportsman cars were all on the lead lap. Then it all came down to time, with the shortest elapsed times winning. Taking first in Pro Class was Joe Maberly, of Surrey, British Columbia, driving a 1600cc buggy. This was Joe's first attempt at the longer distance, and he handled it with ease. Besides, how much better can you do than win overall. A familiar name in northwest race circles, local driver Bob Nyste took second in· the Pro Class driving his Ford 4x4 desert Veteran truck racer and local driver Bob Nyste took second in the Pro Class racing pickup. Bob ran smooth action driving his Ford 4x4 desert racer and finished only seconds behind the and consistently all day, and was winner. only seconds behind at the end of _W_a_s_h-in_g_t_o_n_1_· n_h_1_· s_v_e_r_y_t-id_y_C-la~s~s-tu-rn_e_d_i_n_t_h_e_fa_s-te_s_t_l_a_p_t-im_e_of the race. Third in the Pro class was 5-1600 Baja Bug. Audie was very the day, but mechanical problems Rick Hoekstra, from Abbotsford, consistent all day and showed plagued him; he was forced to driving his Class 1 Unlimited some of the Pro drivers what a retire after only three laps. buggy• Rick was very quick all day limited engine Baja Bug can do. All in all, after the rain stopped and a broken spindle on the last Second Sportsman was Rick and the temperature rose, it was a lap was all that took him out of Pierce from Everett, WA, in a great day of racing, and a good first place.. ., 1600cc two seater buggy. Rick time was had by all. The next race Fourth m the Pro class _was took it easy for the first couple of , in the Bronco Buster series is a ~noth~r local racer Guy Hamson laps , but in the end could not 400 km(250 miles)eventonJune in ~1~ brai:id new ~lass 5 catch the fast moving Bug. Third 28th. We hope to see you all there l}nhm1ted Baia Bug. This was the place went to Dan Crowie of for our famous enduro. See our first race for th<; completely Aldergrove, B.C. in a Pinto listing in the calendar section of redone Bug, but mmor problems powered two seat buggy. Dan this issue for more info'. took Guy out of the top three. There was only five minutes separating all four cars after three hours of racing! That's close competition! First in the Sportsman Class was:Audie Brook from Tacoma, Audie Brook came north from Tacoma, Washington to win the Sportsman Class honors in his tidy 5-1600 Bug, and here he zips through a sandy trail just below the tree line. THE WRIGHT As this was a Western Off Road Racing sanctioned event also, there was a small group of short course racers from the west coast of Canada on hand to try their hand at a longer distance race through desert lands and some tall trees. Many were a little intimidated by the eight mile course, which included a variety of terrain. These fears were quickly waylayed as, by the second lap, many of the relatively inexperienced over the trail drivers were turning in blistering fast lap times. All competitors ranged in time from 1 7 to 20 Rick Hoekstra drove his Class 1 Unlimited buggy very fast all day, but a last · lap broken spindle dropped him to third in Pro Class at the Flag. PLACE~. Desert Race Support By Craig Lane The dust has settled in Ridgecrest from the La Rana Desert Racing Spangler 200 held May 16, 1992. And, true to the races La Rana has held in this area in the past, it proved to be a true test of the determination of the drivers and their pit people to make it to the finish line. Ed Castro and his crew put on another great race and were able to put some more mileage in the laps that really tested everyone. DRS was able to field its usual number of racers with 13 guys leaving the starting line in several different classes. Mike Duncan in the 4 by 4 Doctor Jeep completed all four laps for first place in Class 3 and second in the combined 3 / 6 group, for purse, by just cruising instead of flying the course as he usually does. And, Mick Newton in the Snortin' Nortin Class 6 Chevy Nova completed three laps Dusty Times before some downtime in a bad area ca.used him to call it a day. DRS had two big Class 8 trucks running and both were able to finish. Alan Rapashy in his Ford ran hard all day and, even after laying the truck on its side trying to get around a slower car, was able to nab second. And Canyon Country Automotive's Tom Coon motored in for a fourth in Class 8 after having his share of problems throughout the day. In Class 10 both Paul LaPorte and Dan Fisk were hungry. Paul wanted to keep his string of finishes going and Dan wanted the overall, but mechanical problems put both of these racers into an early end for this event. In Class 1-2-1600 DRS had the trio of Ed Pauley, Bob Stockton and Don Chase, with Bob and Don being in separate cars to make things interesting. Unfor-tunately all three had problems with Ed dropping out after two laps in his Hot Licks Racing car, and the B.A.D. Racing boys, Don Chase and Bob Stockton finishing ninth and eleventh. In Class 9 a ray of sunshine clouded up as Danny Richardson, in his Hensley Engineering car, had the class win taken from him on the last lap when the car turned over causing a couple of flats. By the time he could get it righted and some new rubber on it, he lost some places, but still finished a well deserved seventh in dass. The Class 9 team of DJ Owens and Ryan Schank gave their all, replacing a clutch and fighting other problems that finally caused them to pack it up after three laps, as did Darnen Jefferies when his Class 9 car decided to add some . engine ventilation through the pistons bringing an end to his hard day of racing when he was in the running. All in all it was a very hard day for both the racers and pit people. Of the 97 cars that left the line in the morning, only 39 percent finished. Several times throughout the day you could hear over the radios someone asking 'who in hell put all these bumps out here!' See you for the Lucerne Valley 250 in June. It should be a good race as La Rana only seems to get better and better. July 1992 DROP SPINDLE 3" MORE GROUND CLEARANCE ~ . ~ ~ CV JOINTS RACK & PINION STEERING UNITS 1. REGULAR 2. SAND BUGGY 3. MINI 9420 FLINN SPRINGS LANE, EL CAJON, CA 92021 TEL: (619) 561-4810 FAX: (619) 561-7960 Page 47 .,

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C. CHEVY AND DODGE DOMINATE AT MOTORCRAFT FORD TRUCKS NEVADA 500 Lar~ Ragland Wins Overall By Jud:,; Smith Photos: Trackside Photos lnc. Larry Ragland had a few troubles, mostly flats, and a whole Jot of luck when the competition faded and won the Nevada 500 in the Class 8 Chevy overall by ten minutes in classic Ragland style. Larry Ragland had a little luck on his side as his Chevy truck held together for the full 516 miles of the HORA Motorcraft Ford Trucks Nevada 500 in mid-May. Walker Evans, who came from behind to win Class l / 2 in his Dodge truck, was second overall, just 10 minutes behind Ragland, and the first Ford truck to finish belonged to Rob MacCachren, who was sixth overall, limping in with an ailing transmission. The course, a long oval from Pahrump to Tonopah and back, with a "Scenic Loop" out towards· Dyer on the west, was a tough one, and pre-running had not been allowed. A "publicity run", for race entries and their friends and family, had taken place a week before the race, to give those folks a look at part of the trail, but essentially, the road was un-known. However, there wasn't a lot of traffic, and, with only 106 cars and trucks, and seven bikes and ATVs, the officials had the luxury of flagging off the first two classes with a full minute between cars. That helped to reduce dust for the early miles, and most drivers found it to be a problem only occasionally. Pre-race activities, as sign up, contingency and tech inspection, outward bound loop about 26 miles shorter than the homeward bound. The finish line was in Pahrump, next to the trailer park, in hack of the car wash. Thanks to the change in date, from August to May, the weather was a big improvement over that at last year's Nevada 500. It was warm, but nowhere near the 110 degrees of August, and the bree:e made it comfortable all day. Another thing that was different about this race was that Ford was paying the hefty $450 "entry" fee for every Ford truck racing. That left the racers with just land use fees, insurance, memberships and points fund to cover, and cut their entry costs just about in half. By our count there were 19 Ford trucks running at Pahrump. The first group to take the green flag were the unlimited cars, and before they'd gone 10 miles Robby Gordon and his Ford truck had passed the only car to start in front of him, and had clear sailing as the first vehicle on the road. The bikes and ATVs had long gone, and, in any case, were so few as to be small trouble. were centered in Pahrump, but Jason Baldwin, with Regie Dunlap riding in the Chenowth Porsche, stayed close, the start itself was down the road took the Class 1 /2 lead at about 375 miles, had the lead at Beatty, but a last leg flat apiece, at Johnnie, making the dropped him to second in class and third overall. Walker Evans Jed the Unlimited class on the road on and off most of the day, Jost time with a broken battery, but came back strong to win Class 1 /2 by three minutes and take second overall honors. While Gordon blit:krieged the desert, it was Evans, who'd started fifth, who got to mile 46, where the course nearly touches Highway 95, in first place. But he had only about 30 seconds on Gordon. In third it was Jerry Penhall, in Danny Letner's Chevy truck, another minute back, and followed by a couple of buggies tied for fifth place. It was Ed and Tim Herbst in their Porsche Chenowth, and Jason Baldwin, in another Porsche Chenowth, two minutes behind Penhall. There was a hig group of cars within a minute or two of them also, but it was still early. At that point the HORA had a spotter with a radar gun, and he reported that the fast car through there was Gordon, at 91 mph, followed hy Walker and the Simon and Simon Ford, at 82, then Penhall, and Tom Burns in his Toyota powered Mirage, at 80 mph, Brian Collins went through it at 76 mph in his Porsche Chenowth, and Steve McEachern, in the Jeep, clocked in at 65, followed hy Ed and Tim Herbst in another Porsche Chenowth, at 64 mph. When they got to Beatty, another 20 miles into the race, it was Gordon in the lead, with about a minute and 17 seconds on Evans who was now second, and running in Penhall 's dust. Penhall was third on elapsed time, a minute and a half hack, and Baldwin was fourth, while Dave and Paul Simon, who'd had a flat, now ran fifth. Gordon continued to be first on the road, but when he got near Silvcrpeak, 173 miles into the race, one of his hig coil-over shocks came apart, and the springs flew off. He had no spares in the area, and decided it was time to park. Penhall moved into the lead, with McEachern in second place now, five minutes behind him. There were three cars tied on the minute, for fifth place. Pat Dean and John Gaughan in their Porsche Chenowth, Troy Herbst in his Porsche Chenowth, and Boh Richey in a Porsche Raceco. The " Scenic Loop" was JOO miles long, and took somewhere in the neighborhood of two hours Rob MacCachren had the Ford out front and led Class 8 all the way through the scenic tour, but then the trans acted up, but he held the lead until the final legs, taking second in class, sixth overall. Brian Collins, a former winner of this race, stayed with the Unlimited top five all the way in his single seat Chenowth Porsche and he finished third in class, fourth overall. Ron Brant and Chuck Sudberry had the Class 1 /2 lead with just a few miles to go, then had two flats in a row and finished fourth in class, fifth 0/A. David Bryan stayed close to the Class 8 leaders the entire race, had no serious down time in the Ford and finished a fine third in the tough class. Page48 July 1991 Dusty Times

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Rick and Randy Wilson ran close in Class 10 in the Raceco, but the left front corner fell off en route to the finish line, but the three wheeler finished second in Class 10 anyhow. Gary and Dick Weyhrich had a good day in their Raceco staying with the Class 10 leaders all the way, and after a roll over, they finished third in class. ~ Scott Douglas had nagging, recurring problems with the Dodge Dakota but he carried on to finish second in Class 7, over two hours behind first. to complete. When they got to the end, hack to Silverpeak, and now 273 miles into the race, the leader was Richey, and Dean and Gaughan had moved up to second place, three minutes hehind him. In a tie for fourth place it was Baldwin and Brian Collins, in another of those Porsche Chen-owths. Evans, meanwhile, had a flat, and jumped out to help change it, turning off his motor as he did. That was a hig mistake, hecause his battery was complete-ly dead, and when they tried to jump-start it, the thing hlew up. So he lost about 31 minutes and many positions. The next place we had a spotter was at ahout mile 373, between the Cottontail Ranch and the road to Scotty's Junction, and .at that point Baldwin had the lead, with ahout a minute on Ron Brant, in a Porsche Raceco. Lerner, who was driving his truck now, was tied with McEachern for fourth, a minute later, followed hy Evans, ahout 10 minutes later. Burns had broken a tie-rod, the Simons had hroken a rear huh on their Ford, and Tom and Steve Martin, who'd heen in the hunt early, in their Pontiac powered Raceco, had lost a ring and pinion. Collins had lost some time when his hlack hox quit, and he caused a bit of a traffic jam, while Richey broke the output shaft on his transmis-sion, in the neighborhood of the Cottontail Ranch. Dean and Gaughan had slid into a ditch, when their front brakes locked up, and lost a bunch of time. The Class 10 leaders ran in the same minute in the early legs, but Jim and Mike Zupanovich emerged in front at Silverpeak and they stayed there and won Class 10 in the Toyota powered Moulton chassis. Some of the Class 7 entry came to grief early, but Chuck Johnson had no trouble at all in the Stroppe Ford, one breakdown quickly fixed, and he kept up the pace to take his first win in Class 7. When they got back to Beatty for the second time, on the home stretch, so to speak, the leader was Baldwin, and he had just two minutes on McEachern, who was five minutes in front of Evans. In fourth it was Brant, and Letner ran fifth. No one was having any serious trouble at this point. But then Evans had another flat, and this one took out a rear brake caliper, and Letner, who'd got just past Johnnie, tried to move out of a silt rut, got sideways and rolled over. He battered the truck pretty badly, and did himself no favors (it was reported that when the medics asked him who was President of the U .S. he responded, "Lyndon Johnson."). Penhall and the crew got the truck back on its feet, and Penhall got in to finish. Brant, seeing both Evans and Letner sidelined, began to have celeb-ratory thoughts, but then he lost his pumper motor, and flattened a front tire. He put on his only spare, a rear, and went on. Baldwin took a rock in his slave cylinder, and had a rear flat, which he changed. Brant's troubles weren't over, and he now slid into a big rock and took out a rear tire. So he put his one remaining front on the rear, and came in on three wheels, dragging his left front corner for the last six miles. Evans, even with no rear brake, passed them all, and :ipped in to the finish line first, to get the class Class 1-2-1600 produced the usual tight competition in the somewhat slim entry, the early leaders had troubles, while Danny Porter and Mark Ruddis ran second, took the lead before Beatty and won the class by 38 minutes. Dusty Times win. Baldwin, who ran the last 10 miles on a front flat, was second, a little over three minutes behind him, and Collins finished third, 20 minutes later. Brant was a disappointed fourth, with Jim Smith, in a Porsche Chenowth that hadn't run well all day, in fifth place. Penhall and Letner salvaged a ninth place. The Class 8 trucks took to the trail next, and at mile 46, the Ford of MacCachren and Ragland's Chevy were on the same minute, with Brian Stewart and his Dodge three minutes behind them, in third. Then it was Steve Kelley, in Dave Westhem's GMC, with a new motor, in fourth place, followed by Mike Schuringa, in a Ford, and Dave Bryan, another Ford, tied for sixth spot. At Beatty, MacCachren, who'd decided to try to change his luck hy wearing hlack shoes for this race, was in the lead. If the hlack shoes worked, he'd stay there. Ragland was second, just 11 seconds behind him, followed by Stewart, who was driving a brand new truck, in third. Kelley was fourth and Bryan fifth, while Schuringa fell victim to the same ailment that got him at the Nissan 400. His transmission bell housing broke. They reached Silverpeak in a cloud of dust, all at the same time, with MacCachren still leading by two minutes, and now Stewart in second, and Ragland third. 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Call Mocaby Racing, Southern California Turbo Blue Distributor at (310) 928-2278 for more info. Ask for Lyn, Gordon or Mike. . Delivery available. Contingency paid at SCORE,HDRA & La Rana races. or dial (800) 4STURBO for the distributor in your state. Turbo Blue is ,efined by Maralhon Refneries in Indianapolis. See your January '92 Orcle Trad< lo, some 91eat lechnical inlo11nation on racing gasolines July 19ft Page 49 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Brian Parkhouse and Wilfie Melancon had some serious engine trouble, but kept moving forward to finish the rattling Mirage second in Class 1-2-1600. Moving into cars from bikes this year George Anti/ and Kevin Colan have a good 1-1600 car and do very well, taking third here in the Bunderson. Rod Hall and Jim Fricker had problems early with the Dodge, and trouble dogged them all the way, but they pressed on to finish, second in Class 4. ar · · his motor blown, and tlryan was now fourth, hut off the pace a hit with a flooding carburetor, and a long fuel stop at Beatty. When they came around after the scenic tour, it was still MacCachren, and he must have been planning to keep those black shoes. He bad three minutes on Stewart and Ragland was another two minutes back, with Bryan still fourth. And it was looking good at mile 373, where MacCachrm had three minutes on Ragland, while Stewart watched his crew try to repair the damage done when a heim end broke, and a front A-arm came loose, wreaking havoc with a lot of other parts. Bryan was now third, while Alex Bourland, in Westhem's old GMC (it used to be the "Time-rider" truck) built in '81, ran fourth. But then MacCachren's old ugaboo appeared, and his trans was discovered to haw a hole in the pan, so the fluid was running out. Ragland went past while he loaded up on fluid, hut Roh had him on elapsed time, and still had about a two minute lead. Then, after they passed Beatty, Ragland had a flat. But MacCachrcn was making many stops to add trans fluid. When they got into the last section, after Johnnie, Ragland had another flat and his jack collapsed while he fixed it. Now he had no spares left, and his pit crew couldn't come in if he flattened a tire. He was also worried about his transmission, so he slowed his pace a hit, and hoped that MacCachren wouldn't get him. Behind him, with a case of transmission fluid on his seat, MacCachren limped along, his co-driver, Mike Schoffstall, holding on to a funnel, which was connected to a long hose, which led to the transmission. Every now and then he'd dump in another quart of fluid, and the Ford kept moving. But it moved slowly enough to let Ragland get the win, and the overall. Mac-Cach ren and Schoffstall were second, about 35 minutes later. Bryan finished third, and Bourland was fourth, an hour behind hirri, followed in by Stewart, three minutes later, in fifth, and last. Class 10 had a small entry, but a good race. At the Beatty pits Gary Johnson was first on the road in his Brut, but he stopped for a long pit, to try to fix the power steering which had quit, and to let J.D. Curt LeDuc ran a conservative race in Class 6, didn't take the lead until Tonopah, had experienced no time costing trouble en route to the finish, continuing his winning streak in the Jeep Cherokee. Ward take over the driving for a while. In first place on elapsed time it was Brent Bell, in a Chenowth, with about 10 secondsonJimZupanovich, in his Moulton chassis. In third it was Dick Weyhrich, in a Raceco, followed by Ward and Johnson. When they got to Silverpeak, it was Zupanovich in front, with ahout nine minutes on W eyhrich, while he had ahout a minutt: on Rick Wilson, who'd had a couple of flats, in the A-arm Raceco. Ward and Johnson were still fourth. Zupanovich, who'd had one flat as he pulled into a pit, handed the car over to his son, Mike, at Tonopah, and he continued to lead through Cottontail Ranch. Wcyhrich also put his son, Gary, into the driver's scat, and he ran second, with the Wilsons in third pince, two minutes latt:r, after Randy, who was now driving, had rolled over. Mike, who had no problems at all, sailed on in to the finish to get tht' win, while Randy Wilson watched his left front corner fall off. Ht· limped in three-legged, and W eyhrich looked like a cinch for second, but about seven miles from the finish, he rolled over. So the Wilsons took second place, ahout 54 minutes behind first place, with W1.:yhrich third, 16 minutes later. In fourth it was Ward and Johnson, who'd had to remow and patch their fuel cell after taking a hard hit hy a hig truck, and lost three hours in the doing. They were a liti:le over two hours hchind the Weyhrich car. And in fifth, and very late indeed, it was Mark Fry and Scott Stl'inherger, in a Raceco, ahout a half hour shy of the cut off time. In Class 7 Slick and Racin Ga rdncr had one of Roger Mears' old Nissan trucks, hut didn't get as far as Beatty before coming to grief. Russ Jones, lost an hour and a half with a broken rocker arm in his Ford, and Scott Douglas had a broken push rod and rocker arm at mile 25, which cost him about two and a half hours, partly hecause his crt·w took a long time Jerry McDonald put his Class 4 Chevrolet in the lead by Silverpeak, went on with no troubles other than a couple of flats, and Jerry not only won Class 4 by over four hours, he finished seventh overall. gl'tting to him. Meanwhile Chuck Johnson, in the Stroppe Ford, ran trouhle free, and wasn't feeling very pressed, already an hour and a half in the lead, and only 66 · miles into the race. Ho hum. Johnson continued to lead through Silverpeak, where he had over two hours on Douglas, who was running again. Johnson lost a lower control arm bolt, hut was near a pit and got a quick fix, and kcpt on moving smoothly after that. He also had one flat. Rut Douglas discovered that deep silt would get into his pulleys and flip his fan belts off, so he lost mon: time.Jones was no longer moving. Johnson took the win, and a nice 19th place overall, while Douglas strugg1ed for another two hours and 17 minutes, to come in second. No one else made it. In Class 4, which was next to start, the lead at Beatty belonged to Dave Ashley, in his Ford, but he had only ahout a minute on Jerry McDonald in his Chevy. Rod Hall ran third in his Dodge, hut sounded as if he had a serious exhaust leak already, and in fourth place it was Jun Kubota, a short course off road racer from Japan, teamed with Josh Hall, Rod's son, in another Dodge. At Silvcrpt_>ak McDonald had the lead, with eight minu.tes on Ashley, and then it was Kubota and Hall, 45 minutes later, followed hy Rod Hall, plagued . with "lots oflittle things", over an hour later. McDonald went on his way, trouhled hy nothing worse than a couple of flats, while Ashley lost his transmission, and his crew installed another. The two Dodges had problems and ran late, but kept moving along. McDonald picked up steam and continued to run trouble free, while Ashley's crew discovered that the ring and pinion were also broken, and they needed more spare parts. At Beatty, on the way back in, McDonald had nearly four hours on Hall, while Kubota and Josh Hall waited for a new transfer case. Ashley did get moving again, but very late. McDonald got the win, finish-ing seventh overall, and Hall finished second, four hours and 42 minutes later. He headed straight for the showers, not caring to discuss his day. Ashley was another two hours and 44 minutes on the road, but finished third, while Kubota and Hall never got hack. In Class 6, the early lead belonged to John Swift in his Explorer, while Evan Evans had Evan Evans has two good finishes in a row in the Class 6 Chevy Blazer, and despite a few troubles on the course Evan took a very good second in class. Dan Smith led almost all the way in Class 3 in his usually trusty Ford Bronco, but some late breaking flats dropped him to second at the flag. Lisa Dickerson and Scott Cameron stayed close in Class 5 from flag to flag and finished second, and were just 24 minutes out of the class victory. Page 50 July 1991 Dusty Times

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Teenagers Brendan Gaughan and J.C. Dean moved into second in Class 7S after Silverpeak, and the young drivers finished second in the Jeep Comanche. Steve and Joe Grier ran with the 5-1600 leaders all the way, and lost all but one light, but they drove to the finish line a strong second in class. Marty Seefried and Mike Frisby ran second early on, then rolled the car, later had brake troubles, but they kept moving to third place in Class 5-1600. his Bla:er in second place, followed hy Danny Ashcraft in another Explorer, and then Curt LeDuc, who had decided to run a "conservative" race, in his Jeep. At mile 17 3 Swift still had the kad, with Ashcraft just three minutes hehind him, followed by Evans and LeDuc, who was finding this conservative race very dusty. Ashcraft had the lead at the end of the scenic loop, with LeDuc and Evans following along, and Swift looking for push rods and rocker arms. Evans had expected to find Jack Johnson ready to drive at Silverpeak, but somehow Johnson didn't get the message, and while Evans took a break his regular passenger, Phil Fareio, drove the loop. But ·he was inexperienced, and rolled the Bla:er over, giving those who saw the acciclent cause for worry, not knowing whether Evans, who's a paraplegic, might be in serious trouble. But no major harm was done, just some lost time, and Evans took over again at mile 2 7 3, now without rear hrakes. Mike Lesle also played the waiting game in his Class 3 Jeep Cherokee, ran Mike Jakobson and Ron Jurkovac had the early Class 5 lead, fell back with a without front drive most of the distance, and with. Larry Noel driving in relief, · couple of flats, then took the lead for good, and despite a flat 12 miles out they Mike won Class 3 taking the lead on the last leg. won the Class 5 title. By the time they got to T onopah LeDuc was in front by default. not having any problems, and he stayed there to the end, to take another win. Evans finished second a little over a hour later, hut neither of the others made it back. In Class 3 Dan Smith put his Ford Bronco into the lead by Beatty, where he had six minutes on Mike Lesle in his Jeep. Dale White ran third in his Blazer, having carhuretor problems already. Smith continued to lead, having no problems, while Lesle, who'd lost his front drive right off the start, ran second behind him. He was only a minute behind at Silverpeak, but, after a driver change, which put L·ury Noel in for the loop, was nine minutes back at mile 273. He ran at .the same distance back down at Cottontail Ranch also. When they got back to Beatty, Smith had an eight minute lead on Les le, anJ White was a couple of hours down to them. Then, in the last 12 miles, Smith had a flat, which he changed. And then he had another flat, and he had no spare, and in any case, had been in such a hurry with the first flat that he'd left his jack and air bottle at the side of the course. So he carried on, with a rear flat. The tire shredded, and then it came off, and he ran on the wheel. which crumpled and broke urrtil nothing was left but the center. And, of course, Lesle went by and took the win. Smith finished second, six and a half minutes later, and White was third, a little over two hours beyond that. No one else made it. In Class 5, the leader at mile 66 was George Seeley, who had just 30 seconds on Tony Kujala and Brad Person, in second. Third belonged to Mike Jakobson, who was a minute and eight seconds The Class 7S trucks ran very tight to Beatty, then a couple dropped and Billy Bunch and Manny Esquerra got a seven minute lead, and kept leading all the way to the finish line driving the Ford Ranger. Dusty Times behind them, followed by Peter Alesi, in aJimco convertihle, who ran fourth. Mike and Neal Grabowski had already trailered their car, victim of a spun bearing. AtSilverpeakJakobson had tht.· lead with 10 minutes on Lisa Dickerson, who was now second, while Seeley was third, another minute back. Alesi was having trouble with breaking rims. When they got hack around the loop it was still Jakohson in tht.· lead, with Seeley second. hut Alesi and Dickerson were still running strong. Jakobson contin-ued to lead, having nothing more than a couple of flats to slow him, while Seeley had a rear flat, Alesi and his co-driver, Bruce Hoovl'r, needed to add oil, and Dickersnn, and her co-driver, Scott Cameron, were also having flats and addin•.,! oil. Jakobson and his co-driver, Ron Jurkovac, caught up with Seeley's co-driver, Ty Godde, while he was limping along on a rear flat, and they went by to be physically in front, as well as in elapsed time. Then they had a flat in the last 15 miles, and tried to run on it to save time, but decided that wasn't a good idea, so they hurriedly changed it. They were in such a hurry that they also left their jack by the side of the road (like Dan Smith), but they could have taken a more relaxed approach, because no one passed them, and they got their win, their firstatanHDRAevent. Unknown to them, Seeley and Goode had broken a stub axle, and werl' no longer moving. But Dickerson and Cameron kept coming, ai:id got second place, 24 minutes later. In third it was Alesi and Hoover, another hour hack, and the last Class 5 to finish. In.Class 7S thint-:s were close at Rcatty, where Willie Valde:, in his Ford, Darren York in another Ford, a 4x4. and Billy Bunch, in still another Ford, were on the July 1991 saml' minute, and in the lead. In fourth place, four minutes later, were J.C. Dean and Rrendan Gaughan, tt.'l'nageLI sons of Mike Gaughan of the Gold Coast, and Butch Dean, of Valley Perform-ance, in thl'ir Jeep. Things ha,! thinned out some hd.ore tht.·y got toSilverpeak, and Valde: was gone, after having a problem with a hrl'ather, and York disappearl'd also. Now it was Bunch's co-,lriver, Manny Esquerra at the wheel. and in the lead, but Dt.·an and Gaughan, who hoth stayed in the truck all day, switching seats, were in second place, only Sl'Ven minutes later. Jeff Lewis, in a ( '.hevrolet, ran .third. lewis rolkd his truck and later lost his motor, hut Esquerra handed the For,! hack safely to Bunch, who drove on in to finish, t.·ompletely trouble free, to take the win. Dean an,l Gaughan were second, 4() minutes later, pleased with their good finish in their first st.:ason in the class. None of the others got to tht.· finish line. It was a tough race for the 1600s, which us1,1ally run a very dose race, hut found tht.·msclves straggling in this time. At mile 66 it still looked prett1· typical, with Jon Kennedy II and Larry Rosevear in the lead in their Suspensions Unlimited car, a minute ahead of Willie Melancon, in Brian Parkhouse's Mirage. Then there were three of them on the same minute, tied for fifth, ,another four minutes bac k : nanny Porter in another Suspen-sions Unlimited car, Scott Wt.·hstl'r in his ORRS. and Terry Jdfrrs and John Verhagen. When they got to Silvcrpeak Jefkrs and Verhagen were gone, and Melancon had the lead, by seven minutes, and his crew had to tie r;r CUSTOM AUTOMOTIVE & ~:=G 1991 HORA SCORE CHAMPION i~';~~,~ . :3} ... ~~ . .. .. ,.. .µ ,,,.:J,,,,111 . . ... cuSTON'li.U .. £~l!ao , · AWARD WINNING QUAIJ1Y PRODUCTS FROM -V ~ (602)778-2433 ASI# 359251 625 N. 3rd. Street #2 • Prescott, Arizona 86301 Page 51

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Gene Griepentrog, Kent Lothringer and Steve Meierdiercks Jost an hour in repairs but came back late in the race to finish second in Class 9 in the Lothringer. Patrick and Helen Henesey Jed Class 9 all the way to Silverpeak in their Raceco, dropped to third further down the trail, and they finished third. Michael Martin and John Wilfiams finished their Stock Mini Truck Toyota about two hours behind the winner, but they did finish for class points. i;r down his air cleaner with hold--Jowns. Mark Ruddis, Porter's co-driver, was in second placl'. Wehstcr ran third, two minutes later, followed hy Kennedy and Rosevl'ar in fourth, another four minutes hack, and then George Antill, in a Bunder-son, in fifth, three minutes later. Antill handed his car owr to Kevin Colan, who was having a remarkahle day. He 'J started out early in the morning, riding a motorcycle, in the "Sportsman Over 30 Years Old" class._ He got to Silverpeak and got off, to wait for his car. In thL' meantiml' his co-rider Wl·nt on to finish, and the team was the SL'Cond overall hike finisher for the da_y. Now HORA MOTORCRAFT FORD TRUCKS NEVADA 500 Results - May 15-17, 1992 # Pos. Driver/CcH>rlver Vehicle Class 1/2-Unlimited Single & Two Seat -21 start -12 finish 105 1 Walker Evans Dodge D-150 117 2 Jason Baldwin/Regie Dunlap Porsche/Chenowth 111 3 Brian Collins Porsche/Chenowth 106 4 Ron Brant/Chuck Sudberry Porsche/Raceco 100 5 Jimmy Smith/Dan Veltkamp Porsche/Chenowth 1606 1 1607 2 1604 3 Class 1-2-1600 • 1600cc Restricted Engine• 10 start. 8 finish Danny Porter/Mark Ruddis Susp. Unlimited Brian Parkhouse/Willie Melancon Mirage George AntilVKevin Colan Bunderson 1605 4 Barry & Bryan Cavanagh M:CO 1610 5 Scott Webster/Randy Anderson ems 300 1 302 2 347 3 401 1 448 2 400 3 Class 3 • Short WB 4X4. 5 start • 3 finish Mike Lesle/Larry Noel Jeep Cherokee Dan Smith/David Ashley Ford Bronco Dale White/Don Adams Chevrolet-Blazer Class 4 • Long WB 4X4 - 4 start - 3 finish Jerry McDonald/Barry Beacham Chevrolet K1500 Rodney HalVJim Fricker Dodge W250 David Ashley/Dan Smith Ford F-150 Class 5 • Unlimited Baja Bug - 7 start • 3 finish 503 Mike Jakobson/Ron Jurkovac Baja Bug 506 2 Lisa Dickerson/Scott Cameron Baja Bug 549 3 Pete Alesi/Bruce Hoover Baja Bug 550 1 551 2 556 3 598 4 599 5 Class 5-1600 • 1600cc Baja Bug • 11 start - 7 finish Wayne, Alan & Darryl Cook Baja Bug Steve & Joe Grier Baja Bug Marty Seefried/Mike Frisby Baja Bug David Shively/Rich Fersch Baja Bug Vince Alcouloumre Baja Bug Class 6 • Production Sedan/Utility • 4 start - 2 finish 648 1 Curt LeDuc/Mike Lesle Jeep Cherokee 601 2 Evan Evans/Phil Fareio/Jack Johnson Chevrolet Blazer Class 7 • Unlimited Mini-Midi Pickup • 4 start • 2 finish 704 1 Chuck Johnson/Jack Murphy Ford Ranger 703 2 Scott Douglas Dodge Dakota Class 7S • Stock Mini-Midi Pickup• 7 start • 2 finish 748 1 Billy Bunch/Manny Esquerra Ford Ranger 721 2 Brendan Gaughan/J.C. Dean Jeep Comanche Class 8 • 2WD Standard Pickup - 8 start. 5 finish 801 1 Larry Ragland/Ivan Sooppettone Chevrolet 808 2 Rob MacCachren/Mike Schottstall Ford F-150 803 3 809 4 806 5 David Bryan Ford F-150 Alex Bourland/Geott Stovers G,C Brian Stewart Dodge D-150 Class 9 • Restricted Buggy • 1 0 start - 6 finish 905 1 Billy Kerm/Pat Smith/Rick Poole ems 902 2 Gene Griepentrog/Steve Meierdiercks /Kent Lothringer Lothringer 997 3 Patrick & Helen Henesey Raceco 999 4 Joel Lee Stankavich/Warren Messick Raceco 903 5 Charlie Bignell/Don Kirgel Jimco Class 10 • Unlimited 1650cc • 8 start • 5 finish 1008 Jim & Mike Zupanovich Molulton 1006 2 Rick & Randy Wilson Raceco 1003 3 Gary & Dick Weyhrich Penhall Raceoo 1002 4 J.D. Ward/Gary Johnson Bruton 1004 5 Mark Fry/Scott Steinberger Raceco Class II • Stock VW Sedan • I start • I finish 1100 Martin Garibay/Ulysses Acevedo VW Beetle Class Stock Mini Truck. 4 start • 2 finish 769 1 Scott Sells/Thomas Young 751 2 Michael Martin/John Williams 851 Class Full Siz.e Truck• 2 start • 1 finish Gordon DiCarlo/Jett Yocum Toyota Toyota Ford F-150 Time 9:02:29 9:05:44 9:25:47 9:33:23 9:35:38 10:52:26 11:30:53 12:46:48 13:16:49 11:26:33 9:45:48 9:52:13 12:01:36 9:34:04 14:16:54 17:04:11 10:35:43 10:59:57 11 :56:27 11:53:25 12:02:18 12:42:21 13:02:45 13:16:29 10:24:39 11:32:36 10:39:59 .12:56:09 10:41:35 11:21:37 8:52:52 9:33:35 10:23:47 11 :22:05 11:25:26 13:00:37 14:23:32 15:31:22 15:47:56 16:30:02 10:14:58 11:08:45 11:24:32 13:32:55 17:32:16 14:15:08 11:59:35 14:08:59 11:23:17 Starters -106 - Finishers - 62 - finish ratio - 58.5% - Time Allowance - 18 hours Motorcycles Starters - 30 Finishers -19 - 63.3% Race Distance - 516 mile loop (Class 11 & Stock Trucks- 446 mile loop in) Fast Time Overall - Larry Ragland - Class 8 Chevrolet - 8:52:52 Fast Time Motorcycles - Dan AshcralVJohnny CampbelVDave Donatoni -Class 22 Honda - 9:34:01 Page52 0/A 2 3 4 5 8 22 30 40 45 46 10 12 36 7 52 60 18 23 34 33 37 39 43 44 17 31 19 41 20 25 1 6 16 26 29 42 53 56 57 59 15 24 28 47 62 Colan was ready to get into his car. Kennedy and Rosevear dis-appeared in the next stretch, and Porter and Rudd is moved into the kad, with Parkhouse second, only a minute latt:r. Our spotters didn't hang around long enough to time the rest of them, hut down at Beatty, it was still Porter and Ru,l,lis in thL' lead, with Park-houst· losing his motor, but still holding on to second place, a half hour later. In the meantime, W L'hstcr had put Randy Anderson into his car, and he'd held on to third, while Colan was now fourth, even though he'd rolled over outside of Tonopah. He'd had to get the car hack on its wheels himself, by putting rocks under it and gradually setting it upright. In fifth it was Barry and Bryan Cavanagh, who'd had motor trouhle most of the day. Porter and Ruddis had no flats, stoppL'd only for gas, and didn't need to turn on their lights. They took the win, finishing 38 minutes ahead of second place. That was Parkhouse, who rattled The Cook brothers took the lead from the start by a slim margin in Class 5-1600, and managed to hold the lead despite a sticky throttle, and Wayne, Alan and Darryl won the class again by about nine minutes. in with a hole in his engine, having thl'ir first year of racing. In fourth used 14 quarts of oil since Cherry it was the Cavanaghs, who had Patch, which was 34 miles from hroken their shifter at Scotty's the finish . Then there was a wait road, and used a socket and ofan hour and 16 minutes, and extensionfortherestoftheirday. along came Antill and Colan, Fifth place went to Webster and gL'tting their first car finish, in Anderson, who'd broken a c.v. ahout 60 miles before the finish. They'd lost more time than they should have hecause while he could hear the crew on the radio, they couldn't hear Randy to find out where he ·was. Altogether, only two of the 101600sfailedto finish. Class 5-1600 took the green flag next, and the Cook hrothers, Darryl, Alan and Wayne, took the lead. They had only two minutes at Beatty, and second place belonged to Marty Seefried and Mike Frisby. In third it was Dave Shively, four minutes later, and followed by Steve Grier, another minute back. In fifth place it was Tim Lawrence, who'd lost a wheel just before Beatty. Class 9 was too tight to call in the first legs, but by Silverpeak Billy Kem, Pat Smith and Rick Poole were second by just a minute, moved out front later on and won Class 9 in the ORBS. The Cooks were having a pretty good day, but Alan had the throttle stick full on, and had to use the kill switch to control his Martin Garibay was the only Class 11 to start the race, and with his usual co-driver Ulysses Acevedo, they got the Beetle through troubles and to the finish line in just over 14 hours. July 1992 · speed for a while. They held their lead, with Seefried and Frisby still in second place, and Joe Grier, who'd taken over for his dad, now in third, two minutes later. Shively ran fourth now, even after flattening a front and rear on the same side, at the same time, and trying to run on it for 20 miles. In fifth it was Vince Alcouloumre and his surf board, worried about the motor pinging badly, so he was keeping it at about half throttle. Wayne took the last part of the ride, and he still had some sticky throttle problems, which made it hard to stop sometimes, but he stayed out of trouble, and they took another win. The Griers, with only one light, finished second behind them, just nine minutes later, followed in by Seefried and Frisby, who'.d wlled Dusty Times

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Defending Class 1 /2 points champion Jim Smith had troubles all the way but he got the Chenowth Porsche home fifth in the 21 vehicle class. Pete Alesi and Bruce Hoover started out in fourth place in Class 5, had some ups and downs, but survived to finish the race fourth in class. Dale White had carburetor trouble with the Class 3 Chevrolet Blazer right from the start, lost a lot of time, but still finished third in class. Dave Shively and Rich Fersch ran third in Class 5-1600 in the first half, had two flats at the same time and brake troubles and finished fourth. Racin Gardner and his dad Slick had trouble with their Nissan before they got to Beatty the first time, and the team failed to finish the race. Chris Klick and Gary Brennan came from Idaho to race their 5-1600, didn't do as well as last year, but they did finish, sixth in the tight class. the car, and also had brake problems later in the day. Shively and his co-driver, Rich Fersch, had some rear brake troubles, hut managed a fourth place finish, while Alcoulm,imre was fifth, 14 minutes later. The Class 9 cars came next, an,\ in this group it was close up to Beatty, where Patrick and Hel<·n Henesey had a one minute lea,\. Tied for third behind them were Tom Mattingly and Rohhy Wallace in their Brut, and Billy Kem and Pat Smith in their ORBS. Then a group of three, also tied, for sixth place, followed in six minutes: Warren Messick in a Raceco, Gene Griepentrog in a Lothringer, and Charles Ratliff and Jason Kleber in their Rehd. At Silverpeak the lead was still in the Henesey's hands, but now Kem, who'd driven very little, Scott Sells and Thomas Young brought their Toyota Stock Mini Truck racer to tackle the Nevada tough terrain, had overheat woes on the last miles but made the finish, first in class. Gordon DiCarlo and Jeff Yocum drive a well prepped Ford in Full Size Stock Truck class, and found the course very long for the class, had scant down time and won the class, and are the points leader. Dusty Times since he's recovering from carpal tunnel surgery, and Smith, and their third driver, Rick Poole, ran second, a minute back. In third it was Charlie Bignell and Don Kirgel in aJimco, and fourth place went to Griepentrog's co-driver, Steve Meierdiercks, who'd lost a shock mount and a rear hrake line, and lost an hour in repairs. Kem, Smith and Poole moved into the lead by the time they were back to Beatty, even though they'd had to make throttle cable repairs, and Griepentrog's other co-driver, Kent Lothringer, was now in second place, over an hour later, followed hy the Heneseys, who had reportedly rolled over onto their side at some point. In fourth it was Ratliff and Kkher, but then they disappeareL\. And Bignell and Kirgel held fifth place. Kem, Smith and Poole took the · win, finishing an hour and 23 minutes in front of Griepentrog, Meierdiercks and Lothringer, who were second. In third it was the Heneseys, another hour hack, and followed in by Joel Stankavich and Warren Messick, who had broken a spindle late in the day. Stankavich is racing in both the HORA series and the La Rana ' series this year, and leading the Class 9 points in hath. The: promoters had both managed to ; schedule races for this date, so Stankavich devised a plan. He 1 started the La Rana race at Ridgecrest, and drove the mileage required to earn points, then got out of his car and drove from: Ridgecrest, past Scotty's Castle in · Death Valley to Tonapah, where he picked up his race car. So Stankavich earned points in hath races, and finished fourth at the 1 HORA event. In fifth it was· Bignell and Kirge\. Class l l had only one entry, Martin Garibay, who came up from Ensenada for this race and he started at Bonnie Clair, ar l l a.m., with an 18 hour time limit. He made it all the way, although at one point there was a call out for a welder to meet him near Johnnie. Folks went charging off in all directions to help him, and July 1991 something must have worked, along with the Class I I, and at the because he got to the finish line in 14 hours and 15 minutes. In the Stock Mini class the Toyota of Scott Sells and Thomas Young overhl'ated for the last 29 miles and they didn't think they'd make it, hut since the road was pretty good, and ,lownhill, the truck rolled to the finish line for the win. In the Stock Full class, it was Gordon DiCarlo and kffYocum, finding this 408 mile ~vent a long one for the class. They had to weld up a halljoint, but had no other trouhk and took the win. Roth the Stock Mini and Stock Full classes started at Ronnie Clair same time. Many thanks to our volunteer hl'lpers who jottl'd down car numbers and times as they passed: The Las Vegas Hi-Tl·ch Off Road group; the Mirage pit; the FAIR pit at Reatty; and FAT Perform-i1. a nee, who, incidental! y, cdehrated four wins at this race, in Classes 3, 6, 10,andS,andasecondplacein Class 7S. The help provi,lnl hy th<'S<' folks was invaluahk-. since thl· HDRA officials do not supply the press with intl·rim times for the race. Thl' next event on the HDRA's schedule is the Fireworks 250, at Barstow, on the July 4th weekend. . . . ~ West Coast Distributor fOA 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 702/873-1962 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 53

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AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP -ROUND 2 Stuart Lord Wins the Griffith City 450 Text & Photos: Darryl Smith The 1600 two seaters run fast, and class winner Richard Bennett with Mich Cowie roars out of a hole in the spectator area on the way to winning the class in the Southern Cross race car and taking third overall. ·~·"' Stuart Lord with Steve Toth had the fastest time in the Prologue and Long Lap, and he kept his unlimited Southern Cross two seater storming all the way to first overall in the race. Round two of the Australian Off Road Championship saw 99 crews converge on the New South Wales town of Griffith for the Goodyear sponsored event. 1A!th1 oufgh the1track was changed a ~ .. '"' + itt e rom ast year with the addition of some very long "" Wtt ~. s tra igh ts, the narrow runs The 1200cc two seat cars are starting to go fast too, and Stewart Latter and through the hills over the rough David Worboys won the class at the Griffith City 450, and arrived a fine boulder trails, still existed. It was evident dust was going to be a real problem also. This meant the Saturday time trials to determine starting order would be very important. fourteenth overall as well. Mark Manns and Allen Cartledge really charged in the Holden Rodeo and they finished a great eighth overall as they won Class 5 for 2WO' sedans and pickups. Heading the field for Sunday's start would be Goodyear's own Stuart Lord, who has moved up to the open, Class 1 this year with a turbo Toyota motor. Close behind was Bridgestone's Mark Burrows, winner of round 1·. Then came the first 1600 Class 2 car, the reigning overall champion, Les Brown. The first single seater was Howard Ford's turbo Ma:da machine in fifth. The 1200s in Class 3 were very close; Mark Warren was quickest, but the tor fiw were all starting one after the other. Nev Taylor led a some-what depleted Baja field, while Mark Manns was way in front of the 2WD pickups and sedans in Page54 Off Road's Winningest Radios OVER 118090N THE RACE COURSE! Comlink V • The Ultimate Racing Intercom Helmets wired $125. (CF) ROADMASTER • NEWI 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 "A LEGEND" Only $539 July 199!2 his Chev VS, Holden Rodeo. The all-girl crew of Michele Martin and Sharyn Daniel led the Challenger buggy group. Les Siviour, on his home track, was quickest limited 4x4 in his Nissan Patrol, while Fabio Zarfati 's turbo Mitsubishi Pajero led the modified 4x4 Class 8. The traditional two-a-time start was dropped due to the dust problem and cars lined up single file. A clear run was certainly an advantage, and Stuart Lord opened with the only sub one hour long lap of the day. Burrows was staying with him, while Charlie Albins was the early mover, up to third with turbo Mitsubishi power. Sadly the first car out was Ron Milton, debuting a new single seater with a turbo V6 Nissan. A blown diff put him out. At the end of lap two, the crews had a compulsory pit stop, and it was still Lord leading although he had developed a misfire. Albins was quickest that lap and moved into second. Brown was third and leading 1600 car. Completing the top ten were Daren Wells, Mark Burrows, Hayden Bentley, Richard Bennett, Bruce Watman, Mark Manns ( first tin top), and Peter Prender-gast. Howard Ford was still leading single seater, but soon after the break lost brakes, handing the class to fellow Hunter Rivmasta driver, Mark Bush. Young Jason Graham held a slim ½ minute lead over Geoff Beckett for Class 3, while Keith Fordham was winning the Baja battle. Les . Siviour was astounding onlookers by not only getting up to 14th overall, but was leading all the unlimited 4x4's in his limited Class 7 Nissan. The first of the Dusty Times

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-•-=it.---~-~r'""~·~'#"""~ C,, -~~:f.,;__.,.-. . ~ . • ,.,~-t-~--J~,. Daren Wefls and Ian McPhee stayed close to the front in the Rivmasta, but they were second in Unlimited Two Seat and overall by just four minutes. ,_~ --~-,~-.....,.,__ ::r~-. , ' ., t Nev Taylor and Bob Oxley bounce the Baja Bug ~ov;r the f:ai( Graham: Ba"":ie'; ~nd Ross Mason tried hard in their Nissan but they kept it together to take another win in Class 4, in fact Patrol, but fell short by nine minutes and finished second in the they were the only Bug to finish. modified 4x4 ranks. It was ladies day in Class 6, Chaflenger Class. as Michele Martin and Sharyn Daniel moved steadily up the ranks in their Rivmasta and won the class in good time. -~ ~-Class 7 is for Unlimited Single Seaters, just catching on Down Under, and Mark Bush drove his Hunter Rivmasta to the class victory and he also finished a swift tenth overafl. Class 8s was Ken Smith's Rodeo, then came Peter Hadlow's Mitsubishi charging up the field, but slamming a gate post while doing so. Fabio Zarfati slipped back when he had to change an idler arm. There were many though that were out for good. In Class 1 alone: Keith Owers' rear suspension collapsed; Trevor Crisp bent a rear arm; Neill Morrison lost steering; Neville Boyes a clutch; and Doug McMillan a gearbox. Lord led the field back out still with the one cylinder refusing to --------------Les Siviour and Peter lseppi perform for the helicopter film crew, but continued on their quick trip in the Nissan Patrol Ti to the Class 7, for Production 4x4s, victory. Dusty Times -------------:-:::--:::-:::----=c------:,.....-,=-----=-----1200, Class 3, Stewart Latter was Ken and Laureen Smith slide through the trees following the arrows in the Holden Rodeo, and the wefl supported team won Class 8, modified 4x4. fire. Albins wanted the race and competitive. This race saw them soon took over the lead. Wells finish in the 3rd to 7th overall moved into third behind Lord, places, and the drivers were: while sadly, Burrows was out with Ben nett, Prendergast, Rose, lack of gears. The big crash of the Watman (just 1 second behind day went to Fordham with a huge due to a flat tire), and Brown. endo in the Baja. This meant Eighth outright came the Holden Taylor took over the class. The Rodeo pickup of Mark Manns Class 2, 1600 buggies were as winning Class 5. In ninth was usual reliable and fast, and after 4 Australia's fastest rice farmer, Les laps there were six of them in the Siviour, doing the impossible in top ten. These were: Brown, the Nissan Patrol wagon. The Bennett, Watman, Prendergast, Class 7 winner's only misfortune Rose, and Buchanan . Graham was a s mashe d windscree n . continued to lead Class 3 . Manns Rounding out the top ten was was streeting his Class 5 opposi-Mark Bush, being the first single tion. The Vesty FlO0 withdrew seater also. with a severely cracked fuel cell. Behind Lord and Wells in the Louie Binios had the Challenger Class 1 placings came Bently, class over Michele Martin. Maurie Fuller's Corvette and David Osbourne. ln th~ there all day and quickly jumped on the lead position when Graham had a flat tire, and Beckett steering problems. Graham hung onto second over Brian Jones, Michael Boaden and Russell Hartnett, who ran the whole race without use of his clutch pedal. Nev Taylor was the sole survivor of the Baja field and despite very loose steering, .completed the six laps. As mentioned, Mark Manns domin-ated Class 5, by over two hours in fact. Anthony Lia's Toyota Corolla was the only other finisher. Michele Martin's determination paid off with a win in the Challenger class over Peter Trotter, then Ian Whisker. Class 7 all day was Siviour's, but Royce Wells kept his Mitsubishi running despite a flat and broken shock, and got a second place for his efforts. The turbo Holden Rodeo of Ken Smith came in for his second straight Class 8 win. Despite electrical problems, Grahame Baxter's V8 Patrol finished second over Knott's Nissan pickup with collapsed rear springs. Zarfati was back to 2WD, but picked up fourth in the Pajero. Bush's win in Class 9 was his first. The only other single seaters to finish were those of Trevor Growden and Bob Strawbridge. In all, only 42 crews tasted the satisfaction of conquer-ing the course, but none were happier than Stuart Lord and Steve Toth, winners of Round 2 of the Australian Championship. Siviour, like Manns, wanted to get into the top ten and pushed the Patrol faster. Eric Whitbread's Mitsubishi pickup belw a head gasket, while Royce Wells' similar machine was still running strong. Hadlow's turbo Mitsubi-shi was soon out for only their second time ever with a broken rear spring, leaving the likes of Baxter's V8 Patrol and Knott's V6 Nissan pickup ( ex Spencer Low) to chase Smith in Class 8. -rolfllt plJ The unfortunate news from the front was, leader Charlie Albins was out with gear problems. Lord then got the lead back, but a pair of Yokohama cars were chasing him, namely Bennett ( 1600 Cosworth) and Wells (turbo Nissan). Also the Watmans were on a charge, posting the quickest short lap time as they moved into fourth. Brown dropped back with a flat tire. Wells then pitted to fix a steering shaft bearing. One lap to go and Lord was still on three cylinders, but driving to his limit, which soon appeared to be good enough as he flashed under the checker to be the winner of the Goodyear, Griffith City 450. Wells had slipped up to second, while Bennett took third, as well as the Class 2 win. As mentioned, the Class 2 cars are very July 199!2 TOYOTA RACE ENGINES computerized Engine Dyno testing facility. The finest & fastest Toyota race engines ava1Iable for class 1. 7-S. 74x4. 15 and SCCA Pro Rally Complete computerdyno tested Engines are available. as well as In kit form Send today for our new 38 page catalog which includes Complete Engines with Dyno Charts Ported Heads, Corrosion Proof Headers. Cams. Stainless Steel Valves. Blowers. Mikurn Garb Kits. Clutch Kits. Ignition Systems. Flywheels and more Call today or send S5 00 for complete catalog Sh1pp1ng world wide. Contingency program offered Call: (714) 596-5494 IIL---t'!l~6::-=:-~~~~=::,:==,:-~ Send to: LC. Engineering 2978 First Street, Unit G La Verne, CA 91750 Some products not legal on pollution controlled vehicles. Page 55

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OFF.flO,_D RAGING TENA ., The Straight Poop From the 'Big Wahzoo' SAN FELIPE 250 -SCORE put on a fine race which consisted of a loop within a loop that covered 263 miles. The Club entered four cars and the Cooks had another big 20 minute plus win in the 5-1600 class. Hey guys, I'm kinda running out of things to sa when you consistently-blow the rest of the class away. How about ma kin' them a little closer, huh? Congratulations. Cooks First Place in Class again! Our other finisher was 'The Mystery Checker', Steve Kelley. After being a hot shot buggy racer in the early days, Steve went over to Class 8 and kinda faded away. Recently Kelley has gotten active again and is running the Club colors on his new GMC ride. But because of the turnover in the Club and the fact that his own crew tries to handle all his pits, the only members that probably even know what Steve looks like are the Club's old farts. Our Mystery Checker had little chance to get re-acquainted during-this race as he kept it moving along fast enough to grab a second in class and a fourth Overall! Hey Steve, the Wah:oo congratulates you, although I'm one of those Checkers that have never met you. Stop by some Wednesday night soon, or I'll start a rumor that you look a lot like Saddam Hussein with a helmet on! Richard Young, with Thumper in the passenger seat, had a good run going before turning his unlimited car over to his partner. Sadly, the car was sidelined with axle/CV problems shortly thereafter. Our other non-finisher showed clearly that the Dusty Times Bates' are not the only father /son team capable of a good story. It seems Lonnie Peralta had a great run going in Dad's 10 car until he turned it over to the "Zorro of Pilots" at the halfway point. Lou then promptly barrel rolled it off into the bushes for a DNF. Apparently Lou drives the same no matter whose car he's in. Hey Lou, why don't ya bring that kid o f yours down to a meeting sometime and introduce him around? You would think that Walker Evans would have learned to steer clear of Checker Pits after his race truck was properly 'Checkered' when he left it in our care a few races back. But apparently not. This time his helicopter landed at our Borrego pit asking for some helo and received a similar tre;tment. Walker's Crew request was granted, but only after his helicopter was thorough-ly 'Checkered' before it took off. PROMOTERS SNAFU -On May 16th the Club was forced to support our Club Drivers during two races at once, The Nevada 500 and La Rana's 200 mile Ridgecrest race. To accomplish this, Hibbard worked out a deal with CORE to team up at the Nevada race, with each club supplying three pits. An example of one of the problems experienc-ed in the merger was that, because CORE and the Checkers use different radio bands, each club had to supply enough radios so every pit could monitor both club freqs at all times. Incidents like this show that the support teams are apparently much more capable of working together than some promoters. Sadly it seems that this may not be some fluke, since reportedly HORA and La Rana again both have races scheduled for January 9th of next year. If these two promoters continue to bang heads like this, it will eventually force the Club to choose. When that happens, more people will suffer than just the losing promoter. The Wahzoo would hope that Cau & Castro could set aside their differences and work together for the benefit of all ... much like that happy new trio of ours down at SCORE. -NEV ADA 500 -The Club had four Checker cars start this race, running a course basically the same as last year's race. The Checkers only had one finisher -in this race, but the Cooks held up the Checkers "at least one win a race" tradition in fine style. Reportedly our heros stopped in the last Checker pit on the way to the finish line with about a 9 minute lead. An Indy-like stop for a throttle spring problem, a window-wipe and a pat on the head had Wayne smiling-as he left for another big win in Class 5-1600. Congratulations Guys! Is this the start of another streak? Our non-finhher's troubles consisted of both Chase and Kelley losing motors and Seeley disappearing with a variety of problems. Melancon once again drove a non-Checker car, apart from the Club effort, to a second place in the 1-2-1600 class. Hey Willie, I thought you were a salesman? Ya oughta talk that partner of yours into running with the Club. The post-race meeting revealed no apparent problems in the joint effort with CORE, which surely should have brought a sigh of relief from the Prez, who was off racing at the Ridgecrest race that weekend. SPANGLER 200-Nine Check-er cars showed up to run this four lapper outside of Ridgecrest. Surprisingly, it was a prospective member who stepped up at this race to carry the Club Colors into the Winners Circle. Kevin Davis soloed his 1-2-1600 car to not only his class win, hut a second Overall! Congratulations Kevin, July 1992 Great Race! Our only other finisher was Koch and Keeling who had leaks spring up all race long in Rex's car. The pits continued to fix 'them as they occurred and Tom and Rex were still able to grab a third in Class 10. Good Show Guys! This 200 miler really took it's toll as seven of our entries bit the dust and did not finish. Brown started off the parade by rolling his open car over about three times just after the start, landing on his side and flattening all the tires. Steve; after some lengthy down time, got it up to speed again but he and Hibbard ran out of time and parked it after three laps. The Bates' suffered a similar fate when CV problems caused their 5 car to also run out of time and only run three. The Harmans lost the tranny in their Class 10 car on the second lap. Tom Jeremiah, a prospective member in his first race, severely rolled his Class 9 car. Hey Tom, welcome to the sport of Off Road Racing! Robert Harman, ANOTHER prospective, signed up to drive a 5-1600 car but it also disappeared about mid-race. Loggins showed up as a driver in a 7 4x4 mini truck and it was still motoring along last time I heard. Sorry Jim, but I never heard how you did. Speaking of trucks, Mansker and Crowley's day ended early when Dennis tangled with one of the slower variety and tore up a front corner on Dave's 1-2-1600 car ... And basically that's how it went on one busy Checker weekend. Recently Sal Fish got stuck in Baja and had to cancel as Guest Speaker, but did promise to show up at the meeting after the Fireworks Race. BLACK BALL/WHITE BALL -Although the Club had voted a number of weeks earlier to adopt the secret marble vote on a trial basis, the suddenness of the dreaded marble box had a definite Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 • Computerized Dyno • Flow Bench Facility • Tum Key Racing Engines impact on the Club at the recent Nevada 500/ La Rana post-race · meeting. Seems an old Checker showed up to ask forgiveness for failing to pay his dues, and asking to be reinstated to full member-ship. After the customary roast of the applicant, he left the room and the marble box was passed around. This hard-assed group had already overwhelmingly vo ted that three black balls would be the kiss of death on any full membership "marble vote". But when it was disclosed, after the box was passed around, that there were 'substantially' more than three black balls dropped, all hell broke loose! After a lively and lengthy discussion that eventually reaffirmed the secret marble vote, a second vote was taken ... but still three black balls. The impact of this new system -and its first result had a number of those in attendance mumbling to themselves. At least one pros-pective member was overheard as saying "Anybody that lets his membership lapse now is hist-ory!" This new system is supposedly on trial 'till the end of the year. Let's hope that there's enough of us left by then to form a quorum. Mike Harman recently ad-dressed the Club, stating that because of business demands he didn't have enough time to be Club Secretary, and resigned. A quickie election was then held and Uncle Max was pressed into service for the rest of the year. Not surprisingly, Mike was also recognized again at the end of the meeting when he was forced to pose for his ex-Secretary photo, which will now be added to the Club's posted "Gallery of Dickheads". You can also see Mike at our July 18th Summer Party, he'll most likely be the guy out at the highway, wearing 'The Hat' and wavin' ya in! Page 61

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Classified ••• FOR SALE: 1981 Trailmobile 45' air-ride electronics trailer. Air ride, aluminum wheels, cabinets & racks. Immaculate condition. Set up for off road racing. $25,000.00 obo. Call (714) 654-3683. FOR SALE: Pre-runner, 35lcid, 500hp, 4 wheel discs, Winters, B&M trans, 5500 original miles, 18 shocks, Beard seats, dual FOR SALE: Raceco Porsche, 1989 SCORE/HORA points champ. FAT 3.2 liter, Mendeola DG300. Only 4 races in last 2 years, overall winner last race. Meticulously maintained with only the hest parts. Recent ground up rebuild wlupdates. Huge inventory of quality spares. $321< Todd (702) 825-1863 mornings, or leave message. ignition, Centerlines, Halda Trip-FOR SALE: Raceco 2 seater, Master, Locker, full cage, 32 Class l/2. 3.0 Porsche, new by gallon cell. Never raced. Pop-up California Motorsports, Bevin lights, new Michelins. $60,000.00 Weston rebuilt Hewland, coil-invested. Sacrifice, $11,995.00 over front suspension, aluminum OBO. Truck in Los Angeles. Call body by Mel Swain, Summers, (212) 633-1660. Fuel Safe 30 gal cell, pumper, fire ·FOR·sAL'E:·l~7·fiodg~ Vi;~ system. Fast & dependable. C lt 4 d 5 ~d tr · 'N· • · , Spares. 25k obo. Call ( 602) 669-o w ~--anny. 01sy1 2681 fourdi gear but.runs. okay. ·Make: --·----------offer -you .haut. . Catt Johll' a~; FOR SALE: Very competitive 5-Dusty Times (818) 889-5600; · ] 1600. 11 ½" rear travel, 91/2" front travel. rack & pinion stet'ring, Fox shocks, combo's, Chro-mo front end, Wright arms. Reard seats, chro-mo cage. turbo styk axles, DJ 486 trans, Thing drums, SuperBoot, FM radio, lots of spares. $6,900.00 Ross Craft (619) 558-6935. FOR SALE: 1990 Raceco, Class 1-2 or 10. Toyota 2TC motor, Summers hubs and brakes front and rear. 24" travel. CNC pedals, SAW, Saginaw steering, Beard Seats, Fuel Safe cell, JG Trans, Palmer front arms and spindles. "Too much to list." $14,000.00 firm. Call Ron at (310) 559-4526 or Randy at (805) 274-2688. FOR SALE: Class 10 desert car -Valley Performance built, Type I motor, bus trans w /Hew land gears, 116" wb, coil-over suspension, 3" stub axles, magnesium hubs, Curnutt shocks, all the good stuff. This single seater is very light, like new. Medical reasons force sale. Ready to race!!! $11,500.00 Call (702) 876-5444 days, (702) 870-2119 eves. Mike Halverson. FOR SALE: 1985 Ford F-700, 24' box, belly boxes, SOCAR electric panels, awning, outside lighting, chrome wheels, loading ramp in back. Set up for racing, benches & lockers. 3 71 gas motor. $9,500.00 Pager ( 7 14) 422-7003 Mobil (7 I 4) 745-5226. FOR SALE: 16' custom built enclosed trailer for Class 9 car. Six overhead bins, workbench FOR SALE: Class -1 00. 4th place class champion 1991 la Rana series. Bumper to bumper roll cage, skid plates, fuel cell, air cleaner, front & rear adjustable suspension, wiring harness, dash & switches, rolling car. Does not include motor, trans, shocks, scats, belts & steering. $1,500.00 oho. Call Marc or Rick DeShane (714)831-8676. FOR SALE: 2 seat Class 10 ORE. Toyota 4AG motor, Fields tranny, Woods arms, Summers hubs, Fox, SAW, UMP, Center-lines. Competitive race winner is professionally prepped and ready to race. $18,000.00. Call (818) 706-2314 anytime or (818) 889-2822. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger, Class 7. 1990-91 FR T class champion. Full floater Summer5 Brothers rear end. Ready to race. $ 18,500.00. Will consider partial trade. Days (619)---344-4324, nites (619) 344-6703. FOR SALE: 20' tandem axle trailer wlsurge brakes. 2 tire racks and an 4x8' box to carry all pit boxes, spares and dump cans. Trailer also holds three fuel drums. $4,000.00 oho. Call (818) 706-2314 anytime. FOR SALE: Raceco 2 seater, Class 1-2 . 2.8 Type IV hy FAT, Raceco bus trans. Fox front coil-over, Summers, 24 gal Fuel Safe, full aluminum hody hy Nye Frank. Great race, pre-run or show car. Low time, all the trick equipment. I Sk oho. Call ( 602) 669-2681 . FOR SALE: Class Chenowt wl rollaway drawers, vise, sink FOR SALE: T ype IV killer, Magnum. New air-cooled VW, w/l 5 gallon tank, 110 volt 230hp 2600cc T ype I. Just FOR SALE: Brand new "FAT" new trans. Curnutt shocks, air inside/outside lighting.stereo, rebuilt, new pistons, valves & FOR SALE: Toyota MTEG Grand National Sport Truck. Former factory racer built for Ivan "lronman" Stewart by Precision Prep. (Cal Wells) The. absolute best of everything! Plus, many spares. Six time class champion. Turnkey winner. Asking $18,000.00. Serious inquiries contact Brian at (416) 478-8459. FOR SALE: 1992 Class 4 Ford F-150. Best of everything. Proven winner, tons of spare parts and chase boxes, radios, some sponsors. Preppe<;i, ready to win. Winner Nevada 500, Nissan 400 2nd in Class 4. $55,000.00. Pager (714) 422-7003, mobile (714) 745-5226. FOR SALE: 1988 International Model 160036'van. 7.3 literdies-el, 5 plus 2 trans. Professionally built, tons of storage, cabinets, benches, locker, tire rack, winch, Honda 6.Skw, compressor, full inti ext power and lights, 36 'x 15' canopy system, tow package, cus-tom cab, lmron, much more. Only 13k miles. 80k invested; 45k obo. Call Todd (702) 825-1863, leave message. ,tyle Class IO Toyota 4HF. This is suspension, freshly painted & Custom 3db antenna wl mast: springs and new case. This motor a complete motor ready to drop prepped & ready to go! raises in seconds. Red with yellow is ready to go stomp some Type in. $4,500.00 oho. Call Paul at $16,000.00 oho. Call Paul at stripe. $3,000.00. (8 I 8) 794-!V's. $5,000.00 oho. Call Paul at FOR SALE R p h (714)545-0II0days/ nites. (714)545-0l!Oday/ nite. 9714after5:30pm. (714)545-0l!Odays.lnites. : aceco orsc e, 1989 SCORE/HORA Class 2 .·r-----------------------------·------------------------ h 1 I' c ampion. FAT 3.2 iter, Men-I Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I deola DG300, only 4 races in last I DUSTY TIMES. I . two years. Overall winner, last I I race, recent ground-up rebuild 1 w/updates. Huge inventory of I Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00for use of I qua liry spares. Meticulously I black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. I maintained with only the best 1 NEW AND RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES -A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If I parts. $35,000.00. Call Todd I you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. I· (702) 825-1863 ·mornings or I -----------~--------------I I ~------------------------l I I I I I I I I I I I I Enclosed is$ ____ _ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. Name----------------------------------Address _______________________ Phone--------.I City __________________ _ State _____ Zip ______ _ Page 62 July 1992 Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0 Agoura, CA 91301 •-· leave message. FOR SALE: 20 acres of pine trees above Tehachapi. Near 6,000' level. 2 pads cut on property, both with magnificent view of entire Antelope valley. 4 season climate. Miles from paved road & civilization. Inside locked gates. Easy access on good graded road. Call Don (805) 268-1644. FOR SALE: Class 10 short course, two seat, chrome moly chassis, 5 link rear suspension, new Rabbit, fresh bus trans, Fox shocks, many parts including spare engine. Race ready, $4,000.00. Call Ken for details. (815) 946-2087. Dusty Times

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WANTED: 930 c.v. 's and all parts to convert 1-1600 car rear suspension. Need trans flanges, c.v. 's, axles, stub axles, and trailing arms. Also, need 10" Fox's w lreservoirs. ALSO CONSIDERING chassis change to Chenowth Magnum with or withour rear suspension and fuel cell. Got one??? Call t602) 893-9361. }~--........ FOR SALE OR TRADE: 115" wb Bunderson Class 10. Curnett shocks, new Bitcon motor, new J&G trans, new tires, new rims, race radio, Flame-out, pit boxes, dump cans, spare parts. Will consider trade for 4 seat pre-runner. Call for more info. (619) 364-4215. FOR SALE: Class 5 pre-runner. Tons of good stuff. Runs great! 5 point seat harness, Beard seats, Centerline racing rims, stainless steel oil lines, external reservoirs, highly modified front end, fuel cell and more. $4,400.00 Call Dave or Art (818) 888-7498. FOR SALE: 1988 Raceco, Class 10. Curnutt shocks front Fox coil-over rear.JG Trans, Leighton motor, Tilton master cylinders. Summers hubs and rotors. Wright spindles, Parker Pumper, PCI radio, all the best stuff. 20' diamond plate trailer w/parts box, tire rack, plus all spares and support equipment. $15,000.00 Call Steve (714) 980-3912 day, (714) 988-8130 nite. ==== FOR SALE: Class 9 single seat. 5th in points La Rana 1991 fresh motor, Jeff Fields trans, SACO rack, Summers torsion, Fox, Yokohama, Parker Pumper, Beard seat, radio. With trailer $6,000.00. Will sell w lwo radio or motor. Call Gene (805) 682-0359. FOR SALE: New 1-1600 Chen-owth. Wright rack, Neal pedals, Beard seat, new Deist belt, fresh tranny, fresh motor, Dura Blue stubs, Sway-A-Way axles, 930cv's, power steering, Fox, Bilstein, Centerlines, Yokohama. Raced only one time. Wife wants 2 seat car. Must sell! $8,000.00 obo Call Richard at (714) 949-4580. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Raceco. 115" wb, power steering, Parker Pumper, fire system, many spare wheels & tires and misc. other spares. Good car at a very good price. $5,000.00 Also has SAW, Wright, Fox, Fuel Safe, bus IRS trans w/ Hewland gears. Raced very little. (602) 893-9361. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 1990 Mirage Chal-lenger, 1650cc Rabbit, Fox shocks, Wright combos, SAW, 10" wider front beam, 4 wheel Wilwood discs, CNC pedals, 930 c.v.'s, Weld wheels. $5,900.00 obo Call (313) 686-2606. FOR SALE: Funco SS II, 102·" ; wb. Very reliable. Well built & maintained! Fields trans, IRS, wide beam, fuel cell, Wright rack & spindles, Bilsteins, Beards, Flame-Out, pumper, Neal, VOO, Henry's, Centerlines, K&N, Rapid Cool, Filler, KC's, plus spare parts. Registered trailer in-cluded! $4,500.00 WITHOUT MOTOR! Call (818) 341-5352 or (818) 997-1257. FOR SALE: Type I super case (full flow), Scat 82mm crank (Porsche journals), 92mm Arias pistons, Cima barrels, Porsche rods, Headflow ported 42x35.5 heads, FK89 cam, Magnum straight cut gears, Berg tall mani-folds, Glyco bearings, chromoly studs. All parts BRAND NEW, NEVER ASSEMBLED. Best offer takes it all. Gary (714) 593-7983. MAKE SAFETY A PRIORITY! Halon fire extinguishing systems a MUST (Rechargable). Sale & in-formation Nevada (702) 359-6225, California (510)429-7628. FOR SALE: 1991 GMCJimmy4 door. 108Hwb, 4.3 liter NASCAR V6, Hydramatic Motorsports trans, Summers Bros rear, Bil-steins wl reservoirs, Bosch lights, Ultra wheels, Fuel Safe, Master-craft, National springs, Simpson safety equipment, Wilwood brakes, Major components re-built or replaced after each race. Seen in 4WD Action, 4 Wheel & Off Road, Sport Truck. A ton of spare parts. No bench racers please. $20,000.00 or trade. Call Steve (714) 545-7333 or (714) 631--4301. FOR SALE: C ass 5 1990 SCORE/HORA champion. New trailing arms & spindles, link pins, fresh trans, fresh motor. Have all receipts. Best of every-thing. VERY COMPETITIVE. Great car to get into off road rac-ing. & 11,000.00 Call Rich at (619) 583--6529. FOR SALE: 091 trans with Henry's Super cliff. Hewland · gears, Summers flanges. $800.00 Wright combo spindles $200.00 1¼ arms $200.00 10" beam $200.00 Ask for Wes after 4pm (619) 360--6569. FOR SALE: Mastercraft bucket seat, brown fabric/naugahyde with adjustable lumbar support, 4 point Filler belt/ harness. Excel-lent condition. $150.00 Call (818) 886-2541. ATTENTION CLASS 10: Can you afford to pay 60q: on the dol-lar? My loss is your gain. New car mustgo(Parts) Best of everything. Mendeola, Major Performance, UMP,CNC, Fuel Safe, Wilwood, 3x3, Centerlines. If you can call after 5pm PDT (619) 562-4675. ATTENTION NEV ADA 500 RACERS: Drivers, chase crews; lost Simpson race bag with driv-ing suit, Bell helmet, driving gloves and kidney belt. Driving suit has my name on front "Steve Meierdiercks". Lost approxi-mately 15-20 miles outside of Goldfield heading south on high-way. REW ARD!!!!! Call Steve at (818) 335-3360. FOR SALE: 1990 Ford Class 8 pickup. Lost Ford Sponsorship. 1991 WORRA Heavy Metal Champion. 18" front wheel, 20" in rear. Summers floater rear end, custom C-6 transmission. 390 motor, 550 horsepower, all the best components. Some spares. $22,500.00 obo Call Scott (206) 536-0832. FOR SALE: 4 seat off road car. Suspension Unlimiteds 3x3's, Wilwood R / Disc, 6 Bilsteins, 4 new Beards, new 1847cc motor wl dual Weber 40's, SACO rims & rack & pinion. $5,500.00. Call after 6pm PDT (310) 860-3753. FOR SALE: 1978 22' Chevy 2 ton box van. New427 C.I. engine, AirCond., 5 speed w/ 2 speed rear end, Belly boxes, 2 45 gal gas tanks, lift gate, fold-away trailer hitch, awning, new tires w l chrome wheels. Great hauler or pit truck. Excellent condition. $16,500.00. Also two Stadium trucks with all spares. $12,000.00 Call (805) 831-8610. FOR SALE: 1990 1-1600, Neth arms, Wright arms & combos, Fox shocks with reservoirs, JG trans w/Hewland gears, Dura-Blue stubs, 930 c.v.'s with cages, power steering. Race ready w/ spares. Call Wayne$7,000.00 obo (714) 895--6020 days, (310) 430-7317 nites. July 1992 .. FOR SALE: Type IV Don Hatz motor, 2.7 liter. Dual 44 Weber, ' Carrillo rods, FAT cooling sys-tem. $5,000.00 or trade for pre-runner. Call Don Hatz (619) 425-1639. FOR SALE: The ultimate car hauler. GMC Brigadier and 20' enclosed Dico trailer. Registered as RV, dual AC, pis. tilt wheel, Pioneer stereo, adjustable air-ride. 28' box, 10' converted into living area, custom oak interior, self contained, 150 gallon water, color TV, VHS, microwave, re-fridgerator, freezer, restroom and shower. Sleeps 3 easy. 6.5 Kabota diesel generator. Over 65k invest-ed 2 years ago. Looks new inside and out. Sacrifice $42,500.00 Call (512) 679-7489. FOR SALE: Class 9 JIMCO 2 seater chroma! y chassis, ITS trans, new Fox/Fortune shocks, CNC controls, Wright rack, Parker Pumper helmets, r.adios, spare whee ls & parts. Professional! y built & maintained. Race or play ready. $7,500.00 obo Call Gary (714) 653-0098. FOR SALE: Marty Coyne's Chenowth Magnum. Everything new, Rev Power, Mendeola, FOX, UMP, CNC, Centerlines; just prepped, ready to race. $23,000.00 Also, truck & en-closed trailer $33,000.00 takes all. Call Jimmy May at (805) 482-0103. SALE: 1990 Ford Ranger, Class 7, V 6, 5 speed, Cone full floater rear end, Fox coil-overs on front, National leafs on rear, Beard seats, all the right stuff. Ready to race. Spares included. $25,000.00 obo Call (805) 967-2436 days. Clean Out Your Garage Sell Your Bits and Pieces RIGHT HERE Classified Ads are only $15 .00 each month for 45 words or less. Add $5.00 for each photo. Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 5331 Derry Ave., Suite 0 Agoura, CA 91301 FOR SALE: 2-1600 Transmission, fresh $1,500.00. 3 each 10 gal dump cans, $20.00 each Call Bob (818) 332-7656 .. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . 45 Bilstein Corp. of America . • . . . . . 18 Bonne\lille Off Road Racing Enthusiasts . . . . . . . . • 19 Brush Run 101 • . . • . . . . . . . • . . 29 Cactus Racing Products . . . . . • . . 44 Castex Inc., E-Z-Up • . . . • . . . . • . 37 Champion Bead lock Co. . . . . . . . 4 DeNunzio Racing Products . . • . . . 63 FAT Performance . . • . . . . . • • • . 21 FRT Superstition 250 . . . . . • . • . 17 German Auto • . . • • . . . • . . • . . • 23 Goodyear Tire & Rubber ...... 32-33 Rod Hall Driving School . • . . . . • . 13 HORA Fireworks 250 & Brian Head . . . . . . . . . . . • . 2 Hi Tech Off Road • • . . . • . • • . . . 31 Hot Line -Racer X . . . . . . . . . • . 39 KC HiLi~es . . . . . • • . . . • • . • . . . 43 KO Kanopy . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . • 38 La Rana Lucerne Valley Jam 250 7 La Rana Glen Helen Short Course 25 LC. Engineering . • . . • • • . . . • . • 55 Nevada Off Road Buggy . . • . . . . . 24 Parker Pumper . . . . . . . . . • . • . • 35 PCI Race Radios . • . • • . . • . • . . • 54 Pike's Family Restaurant • . . . . . . 36 Race Ready Products . • . • . . . . • . 27 Racers Tool & Supply • . . . . • . • . 41 RCR Plumbing . . . . • • . . . . . . . . 15 Road America Off Road Race . . . . 9 Marvin Shaw Engineering . . . • . . . 28 SNORE Midnight Special • • . . . . . 5 Toyota Motorsports • . . . . Back Cover Tri-Mil Industries . . . • • . • . . • • . . 11 Turbo Blue Racing Gasolines • . . . 49 Valley Performance -Hewland . • . 53 Whiskey Row Screen Printing . . . • 51 Wright Place • . • • . • . . . • . • . . • 4 7 DE UNZIO RACING PRODUCTS OFF-ROAD RACING EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES ; for free catalog phone (805) 683-1211 Page 63

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