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-Volume 10 - Number 12 Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Janay Smith Controller John Calvin Circulation 0 . Osborne Contributors Jim Baker Darla Crown C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Don Dayton Daryl D. Drake • Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Elaine Jones Matt Marcher Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Darryl Smith Judy Smith 3-D Photography Trackside Photo Inc. W i:er Photos Art Director Larry E. Worsham DustyTimcs December 1993 -•VILl.a OffllO.ID UCIIIII UIO■T Subscription Rates: 111ridSnscf(l1lblrfRacing~ $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. 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Happy Holidays December 1993 In This Issue ••• FEA1URES Page Rally Malaysia by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SNORE 250 by Don Dayton -Notes by Jean Calvin . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 VORRA Yerington 250 by Wizer Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MTEG Racing at Mile High Stadium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Australian Safari by Cam Warren . . ........... .... .......... 22 WRC Rally of 1000 Lakes by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 SODA UP 100 by Barb & Marilyn Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 FRT Plaster City Blast by Judy Smith ....... ..... ............ . 32 Kamloops 400 by Randy Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Bad Dogs Racing in Texas ............... ................... 37 BORE Bonneville Challenge by Jim Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 SCCA Gold Rush Pro Rally by John Elkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Hiawatha Trails Rally by Dave Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Blue Lake 400 in Australia by Darryl Smith . ............. .... . 42 SODA Great Northern Challenge by Barb & Marulyn Schultz .... 44 WRC Rally Australia by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 GMC Yukon Road Test by John Calvin ........ . .... ..... ..... 57 DEPARTMEN'IS Side Tracks by Judy Smith ............................. .. ... 4 Trail Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Olristmas Goodies Galore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Desert Race Support by Craig Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Checkers Column by The Big Wahzoo . . ..................... 49 FAIR Race Report by Dave Massingham ..................... . 49 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Classified Ads ............. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 ON THE COVER -Our December cover features two western desert racers who don't often get exposure in the big books.Taking the checkered flag from George Henley, the VORRA flagman, is the overall winner of their final Desert Series event, the Yerington VORRA 250. The team of Scott Schaupp and Dick Weichers drove their 1-2-1600 to not only the class victory but the Overall win which came with ease as they were seven minutes ahead of the next car. Color photography by Wizer Photo. Tom Koch drove his big Porsche powered Raceco at the SNORE 250 with co-drivers Troy Penny and Paula Gibeault. Despite wiping out the left rear suspension just a few miles from the finish, Tom and Paula dragged the remains home the overall winners with the $1 ,000.00 bonus in Tom's pocket. Color Photography by Carrera Photos. Both September races were held in the Nevada desert. Congratulations to both winning teams for surviving the desert heat and silt. 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Sidetracks By Judy Smith Dusty Times has been covering off road racing for many years now, and we've happily gone to as many of these events as we can fit into our schedule, always enjoying the competition, as well as the chance to be in the great outdoors. This year we took our vacation early in October, and planned to tour the wonderful Indian country of Arizona. However, a problem with our Chevy van made us decide to stay much closer to home, and we settled for a series of one day trips from our Phelan acres. This turned out to be a really nice idea, and we enjoyed the vacation in general, but had a particularly nice day one Sunday when we headed for El Mirage Dry Lake with some friends to see the Lakesters in action. Now, this is off road racing of a new sort. Well, new to us, since it's been going on at El Mirage since some time in the '40s from what we could learn. There were hundreds of spectator cars lined up along the course, which is a little over two miles long, including a long run-up stretch, a short "timing trap", and an eight/tenths of a mile braking area. Spectators wan-dered freely through the staging lines, peering at all types of motorcycles, old sprint cars, Bonneville type cars, Volkswagen sedans, pickups, vintage cars, and high dollar sports cars. Everyone was out to see how fast they could go through that trap. For the $75 entry fee, a competitor could run through three times, and the action starts at eight o'clock in the morning. The events run monthly at El Mirage, through the summer and fall, and the last event of the season is scheduled for mid November. It's a nice way to spend the day, and the family can camp at El Mirage, which is an Off Highway Vehicle area, play in their own off road toys, and watch the Lakesters zoom by at upwards of 100 mph, creating great rooster tails of dust. On the day we were there we ran into the · George Callaway family, old off roaders who now campaign a Lakester. They told us they'd seen several other off roaders roaming around enjoying the high horsepower fun, and that didn't surprise us a bit. This group has as many classes as off road racing, with engine size --being the main determinant. If you'd like to give it a try, or go to watch, you can get information about the sport from the Southern California Timing Association, at (619) 274-1993, from 8 a.m. until noon, Monday thru Thursday. Another day of our vacation took us up into Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains, and from there we headed east, down Lone Pine Canyon, and into Swarthout Canyon ( which seems to be the San Andreas Fault line). Swarthout is a nice graded road that heads gently downhill, to roads that need to be explored another day. We took an interesting road, unnamed, that went up and over·the Upper Lytle Creek Divide, following a beautiful wooded stream. Some bf the trees were turning golden, and birds and small mammals hustled to get out of our way. We used an Auto Club map to find these roads, but when we got to the Lytle Creek area we visited the Ranger Station and bought one of their maps of the San Bernardino National Forest, which is in a better scale for these old far-sighted eyes. After coming down out of the Lytle Creek area, which was all paved, we turned north on Devore Road, and took it to the end, paralleling the 15 Freeway, but having no traffic at all. At the end of that road we had to get on the Freeway for a while, but got off at the next exit, Highway 138, went across the street, and dropped down onto Baldy Mesa Road, a dirt trail that winds along the freeway, slips under the railroad tracks, then goes below the north bound freeway, and crosses the great no-man's land between north and southbound commuters. It's an eerie feeling to be out in the middle there, as if we'd side stepped civilization for a while. That road ultimately goes under the southbound freeway, then picks up a pole line road, switch backs up the hill, and coasts down the other side into the community of Baldy Mesa, which is just east of Phelan (and west of Highway 395 ). We always feel kind of smug when we can get home without having to run up 138 past the busy Wrightwood turnoff, and through the town of Phelan. Incidentally, these roads are all for street legal vehicles only, they're posted "No Green THE 20TH ANNUAL CHECKER YEAR BOOK IS COMING OUT SOON! WHERE ARE YOUR ADS? Pagc4 HURRY-HURRY-HURRY CALL MAX NORRIS 213-254-1531 -• -..... •-Sticker Vehicles." Another day took us into the San Bernardino Mountains, through the backside of Hesperia, and up Highway 173 to the Cedar Springs Dam which created the big Silverwood Lake. We'd never been there before, so we drove out onto the dam to look around, and then, as we headed back to the paved road, spotted a dirt road heading up into the hills, paralleling the shoreline of the lake. That was an inspired decision. The road, which we later discovered is National Forest Road 3N33, wanders through chapparal and oak trees all along the northern shore, completely around to within sight of 138 on the south shore, and then scoots up into the mountains to parts unknown. There are many select wide spots in the road where you could pull off and enjoy a picnic on a boulder, in the shade of an oak, or overlooking the lake. At several stops we were treated to a wide view of the Hesperia and I Lucerne area, fading off into haze, and over to the west we could see the San Gabriel Mountains, through the smog of Cajon Pass. The road is in good shape, and since we were traveling on a Wednesday, we met only one other vehicle, and he was parked, and down at the lake, fishing. Our plan had been to sightsee our way up and around the lake, and then to find a nice place for lunch, so when we caught sight of Highway 138 we figured lunch couldn't be far away. Not so! Old 3N33 took a turn for the east, paralleling 138, but showing no signs of dropping off the mountain. We travelled through tunnels of oak, splashed with intermittent sunshine, and peered over the edge at deep valleys, and tall peaks. Finally, at an intersection with 3N36, we stopped and whipped out that San Bernardino County National Forest map, and sure enough, it showed us that 36 was the route of choice. 3N33 wandered on and came back to pavement up in Crestline, which looked like a good trip for another day. We made the turn, and it was white-knuckle time for me. I'm not fond of heights, and I actively dislike roads with the drop offs on my side of the car. I distracted myself by looking out the other side at the beautiful shrubbery, most wearing fall shades of red, yellow, rust and gold, and avoided the straight down side. Ultimately, we were at the bottom, crossing through a beautiful stream a couple of times, and found ourselves at the tip of the most southern arm of Silverwood Lake. The rest of the trip was on pavement, the hoped for lunch didn't materialize ( unless you call chips and canned dip lunch), but we consoled ourselves· with a Haagen-Daz ice cream bar as we headed down the pavement toward Highway 15. Trail Notes ••• RACE RESULTS -October seemed to be the busy month for desert races and a few short course events too. We don't have results yet from the VORRA Prairie City finale or the SODA finale at Blackhawk Farms, both short course events. But we do from the desert events starting with the most popular of La Rana's races, the California 200 at Ridgecrest, CA. Mike Stickle won the tough run overall and in Class 2 in a Raceco, Ron Stobaugh took Class 1 honors in a pickup, and Ed Pauley and Jon landiorio won Class 1-2'-1600, third overall in a Mirage. Jeeper Mike Duncan took Class 3, and second generation racer from Ridgecrest Danny Reider won Class 5 . Bruce Landfield won 5-1600, Darren Skilton took Class 6 in a Jeep, and Dan Cannon won Class 7 in a Ford while Bill Waltman won 7 4x4 honors. Mike Thurlow was the top Mini Mag, and James Clements topped the big Class 9 list in a borrowed car. The hard fought Class 10 title went to Mike and Robert Harman in a Lothringer, and the lone Class 11 ofJereld Hendley finished as did Eric Heiden in a Class 14 Jeep. In the stockers Joseph Bourassa won Class 15 in a Toyota, and Larry Gross won Class 152 in Toyota also, while James Hall claimed Class 155 and David Edelstein took Class 157 in a Ford. The Halloween weekend was really popular with three events m the southwest. The FRT Squeaky Springs Gran National at Plaster City, CA saw Tim Allen again win Class 10 and overall in a Jimco. Vance Allen won Unlimited Class in a Baja Bug, while Ben Abatti took Class 8 in a Ford. Class 1-1600 went to Kevin Basore,Jimco in a dead heat on time with Doug Halvin, Raceco. Jim Abatti was tops in Class 2-1600 in his Raceco, Bill Gill/Chuck Mead took Class 100 in a Funco, and Bob Snaith/Chris Harrold won Class 5-1600. Hal Graves, Jimco, topped Class 9 and Troy Garcia and Richie Valencia won Class 7 in a Toyota. A few hundred miles away near Henderson, NV SNORE's Double Trouble took place also on October 30. Tommy Bradley was back on overall winning form in his Chenowth taking Unlimited Class too. J.C. and Pat Dean won Class 10, also in a Chenowth, Larry Job and Danny Anderson topped Class 1-2-1600 and Dave Petrillo got his Class 9 victory this round. Bill Dickton took another Class 6-4 win in his Dodge pickup, and Bruce Fraley repeated in winning Class 5-1600. Ed Dunn and Floyd Simmers won the Sportsman Buggy honors and Barry Slatter repeated as the Sportsman Truck winner in his Ford Ranger. · And folks, that wasn't all in the area as on October 31 Glen Helen OHV Park, near San Bernardino, CA, held their long awaited long course, 3½ mile run suited for desert cars too. The slim entry was divided into divisions as was the $5000.00 guaranteed purse put up by Glen Helen management. The big winners of $1500 each were Steve Bishop in the limited engine group, and Dennis Kordonowy whose older Class 10 outlasted the big stuff in Unlimited classes, and Dennis was glad he towed south all the way from Reno. We 'II have a full report with photos from all three events next month to start the new year right! SCORE INTERNATIONAL announced their 1994 dates, about the same as we have published as tentative dates with the addition of the Awards Banquet being moved down to December 16 to avoid the conflict we have had the last two seasons. Unfortunately for racers who also compete in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group local stadium events, the SCORE Parker 400 and the SCORE San Felipe 250 are on the very same date as MTEG's January 22 Anaheim Stadium event and the one at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. Apparently neither could move the conflicting events, and this is particularly critical for those intending to participate in the new, high dollar trophy truck class in SCORE races. We mean high dollar, with a $2500 entry fee for each race and both vehicle and tire manufacturers must put up bucks for the purse too, all awarded, as we understand it, at the end of the year. As we go to press SCORE is working out a plan to have the trophy trucks run their short race for the TV cameras on the Parker Thursday, permitted by BLM as a pre-run day anyway. This would free Ivan Stewart, Walker Evans, Roger Mears.Jr. & Sr., Jimmy Smith, Steve Kelley, Mike Lesleand soon to hustle back to the LA area to do MTEG qualifying on Friday and the race on Saturday. They could do the same at San Felipe as there is open pre-running allowed for two weeks before the event in Baja California. But it still works a hardship on checkpoint workers, in fact all workers, having to spend an extra day in the desert and the host city. All that costs out of pocket money for those folks. Only time will tell how it works out. TURKEY DAY RACING IN GEORGIA -GORRA, the Georgia Off Road Racing Association decided after all to present the 7th Annual Turkey Day 250 on November 27. Pre-entries were due by November 6th, but the drawing for starting position takes place on November 13. Neither matters too much on a short course race after the first few laps. The drivers meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday November 27 at the GORRA track near Vienna, GA. The race starts promptly at 10 a.m. and it is 250 miles or six hours. There is a $25 overall pot donation if you are interested, but you must be a GORRA member, merely $35 to race. The entry fee for the Class l / 10 is $140, for 1600, $125, Challenger, $90 and Bomber, $35. It couldn't be less expensive anywhere to have such a nice long race. There will be a $25 late fee if you sign up on Race Day. Call ahead with your entry to either Jack Thompson at work (404) 253-1033 or home (404) 927-6557 or Joy Porter at work (404) 758-0731 or home ( 404) 459-4720 or Steve Rule at work ( 404} 963-0252 or home ( 404} 623-1786. These folks have a lot of fun, and the long weekend makes the event attractive for far away racers. If you don't do camping there is a Holiday Inn nearby. GLEN HELEN OHV PARK NEWS·_ The San Bernardino area OHV facility hired a new General Manager last August, and Joel Smith was a fine choice and proved his mettle with the MTEG amateur events and more recently running the show at the recent $5000 purse long course short course race for cars, running everything along with manning the start/ finish flags. Even his famous dad Malcolm Smith, a legend on both motorcycles and in open wheeled cars, showed up to share driving a pre-runner in the event with his former racing partner Bud Feldkamp, who is the Licensed Concessionaire of the Park, part of the San Bernardino County Regional Park System. Joel Smith is a recent graduate of U .C.L.A. and a contributing editor to Dirt Rider Magazine. As an enthusiast of motorsport racing with an industry related background, Joel's addition to Glen Helen's staff will result in a greater array of venues including National Motocross and off road automobile racing events. In addition Joel will also head a plan to upgrade the off road vehicle park and provide a better environment for public use. Presently Glen Helen offers Motocross, Speedway, It wasn't Baja, but it was beautiful, and we can see that there are many miles of good mountain roads to explore up there. Take a close look at an Auto Club map yourself to get an idea, and then invest in one of those San Bernardino National Forest maps. The Auto Club probably has one for the mountain area also. But don't expect to find much in the way of lunch up there. I suggest packing a nice picnic basket. -Sand Drags, Grand Prix, testing and Magazine shoot outs. The track phone number is (909) 880-1733. · December 1993 Dusty Times

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PETRONAS RALLY MALAYSIA Petronas Rally Malaysia Colin McRae Wins Again For Subaru I Colin McRae/Oerek Ringer GB Subaru Legacy 2 Possum Bourne/Rodger Freeth NZ Subaru Legacy 3 Kenjlro Shinozuka/Fred Gocentas J Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 4 Pornsawan/Tull Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 A• 5 22:08 A 5 25 :50 A 5 29:19 s· 5 59:08 By Martin Holmes 5 Sakchal/Pornhep Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 6 Suraklt/Sltlchai Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution s 6 05:11 w 6:06:13 7 Palmer/Harwood Suzuki Swift GTI A 6:16:59 Colin McRae's second succes-sive victory this month in Asia Pacific championship rallies, following Possum Bourne's earlier win in Indonesia for the 555 Subaru Rally Team, has substantial! y strengthened Sub-aru's hopes of clinching this FISA series with two events still to run. Their man rival Kenjiro Shinoz-uka drove a difficult rally at n1s own pace and finished third in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Treacherous conditions meant that an unprecedented number of top drivers crashed during the event. New Zealand rally winner Colin McRae with Markku Alen at the 1000 Lakes, so the Scot could support Subaru Asia Pacific championship challenger Possum Bourne, looked very justified when Bourne suffered suspension failure and fell back on the second day of the Petronas Rally Malaysia. Having taken the lead on the first day, the Scot had pulled well ahead when Bourne was delayed after hitting cows in a special stage, but it was Bourne's second delay, which caused him to crash into a tree, which would have given Mitsubishi driver Kenjiro Shinozuka a good chance of victory had McRae gone a Singh/Teoh Proton Wira 4WD T • instead to Finland. 9 Okuno/Umatsu Subaru lmpresa · S 6:24:41 N 6:44:43 F • f d h. 10 Omar/Soraya Proton Saga 1.5 1 ty-one cars starte t 1s = s 7:03:26 event, which is subject to FISA 's 51 starters - 22 finishers - •Group Winner inspection as a rival to the Rally of Asia Pacific Championship Points - Bourne 41, McRae 40, Shinozuka 27, Delecour 15 leg McRae said the mud was just like ice. "The roads are just like those on the Swedish Rally." so Bourne could see where to go. The first leg scores showed McRae two minutes, 44 seconds in front of Carr and another 44 seconds in front of Shino:uka with Bourne nearly 4.5 minutes behind. Prodrive's decision to replace Indonesia for the new 11th event in the 1994 world series, even though most of the local cars running here were not homologat-ed. Prodrive ran the two Legacies uned in Indonesia and pre-event training warned them the event was going to be very hard on equipment. They prepared the cars in Acropolis Rally specifica-tion. Frequent heavy showers however, made the plantation stages very slippery. After the first Possum fell back on stage 8 after dark. "We were in sixth gear when we found a herd of cows crossing the track. The lamp pod deflected the animals away from the car, but only one lamp, pointing down, was still working. When he was crawling along, McRae came up and slowed down On the second day a lot of disasters struck. By mid event at the Port Dickson rest halt on Sunday, the only top driver who had not yet left the road at some point was Greg Carr. McRae hit a tree on stage 12 and lost ten minutes service time ( 10 seconds penalty). Onishi went into a culvert and retired. Shino:uka went off on stage 18 breaking the radiator, bodywork and inter-cooler. Michael Lieu from Hong Kong retired the Group N Lancer after hitting a rock on stage 16, and there was more. The roads were getting more suitable for an off road 4x4 than rally cars,. Page6 DON-A-VEE MOTORSPORTS OFF-ROAD AND AUXILLIARY LIGHTING *FIRST RACE - FIRST PLACE! 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New Zealander Vanessa Slee had been lying second best but she retired with front suspension trouble; and 20 year old Takayuki Koseki son of Subaru's manager, retired when he crashed his Vivio. As the rally returned to Kuala Lumpur at the end of the second leg, the top Vivio was that of Tomoji Kawano, in tenth despite delays with suspension trouble. Japanese driver Nobuhiro Tajima who beat Ari Vatanen's Pikes Peak record in July was lying fifth in his Suzuki, but Carr was missing, off the road. Bourne had spent the Sunday evening stages chasing Shino:uka for second Group A position, passed him by stage 27 and found himself second overall when Carr disappeared. Colin led Possum by five minutes odd with Shinozuka 99 seconds further back, but the leaders were themselves struggl-ing. On stage 2 7 McRae had another crash, like Bourne breaking all the lights except one plus the intercooler and lost three minutes on the stage. He arrived at Kuala Lumpur with only one minute of his maximum lateness still available. Bourne had made a series of fastest times with a new exhaust system. On the final day the Legacies settled themselves at the head of the field, Tajima retired his Suzuki on the last day, as did the top Vivia. In the end the top mini car finished 12th overall of the 22 that did finish. But Colin McRae and Derek Ringer won the rally by three minutes 42 seconds over Subaru Legacy teammates Pos-sum Bourne and Rodger Freeth. Kenjiro Shinozuka and Fred Gocentas were third, 3½ more minutes back followed by two local Mitsubishi S Spec Galants. Surakit from Thailand won Group N in a Lancer Evolution at sixth overall. The Asia Pacific Championship Points after this August event were Bourne 41, McRae 40, Shinozuka 27, Delecour 15 etc. Dusty Times

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1993-1994 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 December 4, 1993 17th Annual 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 AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B IHI (514) 434-5792 BAD DOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Callaway Fun Inc. 3825 No. Main Cleburne, TX 76031 Barry Don Callaway (817) 645-00031(817) 641-9985 Gene Peugh (817) 790-8268 nights Racing the 3rd Sunday of each month March thru OctobeT BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O . Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Desert Series (cars) December 10-12, 1993 Mint 400 Desert Challenge 400 Miles Las Vegas, NV BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R. 3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-1 HO (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 1993 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon, WI54520 (715) 478-2222 BUMP Bob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 42263 50th St. West #108 Quartz Hill, CA 93536 (805) 723-1549 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Lynnette Allison, CRS Director 2001 Oakland Hills Drive Corona, CA 91720 (909) 736-1442 Mike Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 December 4-5, 1993 East of Indio (3) Indio, CA CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 20515 Whitehaven Circle Bend, OR 97702 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CMC Continental Motosport Club Sand Drags P.O. Box830 Adelanto, CA 92301 (619) 246-7262 Pagel November 20, 1993 Sunrise Valley Raceway Night Event Adelanto, CA December 4, 1993 Sunrise Valley Raceway Night Event Adelanto, CA COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W 1(719)687-9827 H P.O . Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 COLORADO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS Bertram Productions Inc. 15073 Hwy 119 Route #4 Golden, CO 80403 ( 303) 936-5960 CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-36491(214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 January 9, 1994 Lakeland, FL February 13, 1994 Naples, FL March 26, 1994 Florida 400 Talahassee, FL FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES December 31, 1993 Dunaway D;ish Plaster City West, CA February 5, 1994 Awards Banquet (Location TBA) February 12, 1994 King of the Desert El Centro, CA April 23, 1994 Buzz Bomb 150 El Centro, CA May 14-15, 1994 24 Hours Le Fud El Centro, CA June 25, 1994 Plaster City Blast El Centro, CA August 2 7, 1994 Superstition 250 El Centro, CA October 29, 1994 Squeaky Springs Gran National El Centro, CA December 31, 1994 Dunaway Dash El Centro, CA ATV, BIKE& DESERT SUPERLITE SCHEDULE November 21, 1993 Notorious Dawg 3 Hour Team Race I-8 & Dunaway Road, CA December 5, 1993 Rudolph's Revenge plus Team Race Lake Superstition, CA January 16, 1994 Barking Spider El Centro, CA February 19, 1994 D-38 Awards Banquet (Location TBA) February 27, 1994 Coyote Wash Bath El Centro, CA March 13, 1994 Team Race El Centro, CA March 27, 1994 Attack Kamakize El Centro, CA May 8, 1994 Sweetheart's Kiss El Centro, CA July 3, 1994 T ankslappers Gran Prix El Centro, CA July 23, 1994 Mr. Patterson's Wild Ride El Centro, CA August 6, 1994 Night Team Race El Centro, CA September 18, 1994 Desert Sprint El Centro, CA October 9, 1994 Mudhen II El Centro, CA November 20, 1994 Notorious Dawg El Centro, CA December 4, 1994 Rudolph's Revenge El Centro, CA GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (714) 880-1733 GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association Box 11093 Station -A Atlanta, GA 30310 ( 404) 253-1033 November 27, 1993 Thanksgiving 250 Vienna, GA (All events at Vienna, GA) GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GPORRA Mike Johnson, President 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 ( 402) 333-0517 Eve. (all races at Westfair Fair Grounds, Council Bluffs, Iowa on a ¾ mile course similar to the MTEG tracks, and run under class regulations from SODA) ROD HALL INVITATIONAL 5445 Equity Ave. Reno, NV 89502 (702)856-3100 April 29-May 1, 1994 Reno/ Pyramid 300 Reno, NV HIGH PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Harvey Wald ( 605) 224-6678 days (605) 224-5534 evenings IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All events staged at the club grounds in Cleves, Ohio) INTER-SHOWS . MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O . Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C-5L2 Bob (604) 374-7175 days Randy (604) 579-9621 eves Keith (604) 828-1795 anytime ( All et1ents start 7 miles NW of Kamloops) LA RANA DESERT RACING P.O . Box 3699 Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 (800) 700-5737 November 18-20, 1993 High Desert 300 Lucerne Valley, CA December 4, 1993 Annual Awards Banquet Flamingo Hilton Hotel Laughlin, Nevada January 7-9, 1994 New Years 200 Barstow, CA March 4-6, 1994 Presidential 250 Barstow, CA December 1993 more Trail Notes ••• ENGINE BUILDING TIPS -The College of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Denver will be conducting an intensive, two day engine design course in mid-January that we think may be of interest to your readers. The course is entitled Optimizing Power Development in High Output Engines, and it will happen at the College of Engineering on January 13 and 14 in Denver, CO. The program will feature David Vizard, international automotive journalist and engine builder par excellence. Da~id has over 30 years of championship winning experience in building high performance engines for all types of racing including road racing, circle track and drag racing. He is also the author of over 3000 magazine articles and 25 books on the subject. As an automotive designer and performance consultant, David owns his own research and development facility in Riverside, CA. (Wonder if he can rebuild an engine standing knee deep in silt?) This program sounds interesting for those who know a lot about engines. For a detailed brochure, program costs and registration information, contact Arne Arnesen, CU-Denver Continuing Engineering Education, (303) 556-4907. CAMEL TROPHY ADVENTURE -The U.S. Team won the Camel Trophy Adventure in 1993, but our assigned story did not show ur . But, you can see it all on ESPN as they reprise the coverage of America's first win in the 14 year history of the Camel Trophy Adventure. It has been rescheduled for December 12 at 3:30 p.m. (EST). The hour long show highlights the U .S. team's participation in the "Olympics of Four Wheel Drive" that annually attracts more than one million candidates worldwide. Tim Hensley, a 33 year old plumber from Portland, OR and Mike Hussey, a 29 year old geologist from Middlebury, VT prevailed over teams from 15 other nations on a treacherous 1,000 mile trek in Land Rover Discovery four wheel drive vehicles. They drove through the jungles of Sabah, Malaysia on the northern tip of the island of Borneo. It should make a good show, and it will be carried by ESPN International as well. THE GORMAN RIDGE RALLY-Results are in from the Gorman Ridge Rally, a CRS/SCCA Divisional event on October 24, 1993. Mitch McCul-lough and Scott Webb won overall and the 4WD Open Class by 23 seconds in their Mazda 323. Jeff and Chris Griffin were second overall and first in 2WD Open Class in their venerable Volvo 142. It was a tight fight for third overall, but Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh won the spot in a VW Scirocco, second 2WD Open, by 12 seconds over Rui Brasil and Jose Dutra in an Audi Quattro, second in 4WD Open. Tony and Liz Shumaker won Stock Class, seventh overall in a Mitsubishi Eclipse, followed in 27 seconds by Jeff Hendricks and Noble Jones in their Jeep pickup, second Stock Class. Of the 27 starters 19 finished the route that used a few of the Rim roads, fast and rough. The final CRS Pro Rally of the 1993 season, Eai.t oflndio X, is also the first 1994 SCCA Southern Pacific Divisional event, co-efficient 3. It happens in Indio, CA on a desert course on December 3-5, 1993. The CRS/SCCA Annual Awards Presentation and Rallyist Recognition Banquet is tentatively scheduled for January 15, 1994, location to be announced. Stay tuned. IVAN STEWART ON NINTENDO-Want to get the kids something you can play with too? Try the new Nintendo game called Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road The Baja. Sitting behind the wheel of a V-6 powered Toyota truck, you can race the clock and other competitors down the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico. Tradewest, the Texas based company that published Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road The Baja as well as Stewart's first Nintendo game, Super Off Road (based on Mickey Thompson Stadium Off Road Racing), made every attempt to duplicate all aspects of Baja racing as best as possible. They simulate a course that travels through San Felipe, El Arco and other familiar Baja towns. The new game incorporates three different races starting in Ensenada, the Mexican 250, the Ensenada 500 and of course the infamous Baja 1000. Like any lengthy endurance race, the more you memorize the course, the better you'll do. The game is set up to pre-run the first 500 miles of the Baja 1000 and you 'II have to count on driving ability for the last 500 miles. Each of the eight legs are slightly different forcing you to deal with all types of terrain, silt, rock gardens, water holes, salt flats and more. Hitting rocks at speed and flying jumps too hard will wear out your truck and you'll break it, and you may not finish. If you make it to your next pit, minor changes can be make to it. The game went on sale in October, so it is just in time for Christmas. LA COUNTY SHERIFFS GOING RACING -The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and their Association has a new Off Road Racing Team that will compete in the 1994 SCORE Desert Championship Series in the "stock mini" class. The team consists of ten deputies who will compete in the truck, provided by Ford Motor Company through Mr. Woody Haines. The 1994 Ranger pickup will be painted black and white, bear the Association For Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff's logo on its doors and have a working light bar and siren. At the present time both L.A.P.D. and the CHP have pro-fuel drag cars, painted similar to a radio car and equipped with lights and sirens. These cars are a favorite of fans as they speed down the strip "Code-3 ". In 1985 our Department pioneered the first four wheel drive/ off road driving school. We are recognized nationwide as the leader in off road vehicle training. In 1994 we will enhance and expand our image by introducing the first all law enforcement off road racing team. The truck will be built with help from Spirit Racing, Bill Stroppe Motorsports and maintained by deputies at our Carson Sheriff's Station. Our entire effort has come together with donations and support from the following companies: Ford, Goodyear, Prime Wheel, Beard Seats, National Spring, Auto Meter, Antenna Specialists, Spirit Racing, Bill Stroppe Motor-sports, Earl's Performance Products, Tubesales Co., Castle Metals, Tokyo Printing Ink Co., Valvoline, Rancho Suspension, PIAA, Simpson, F&L Racing Fuel, Standard Communications, Whelen Lightbars, Focus on Cars, H.M.R. Auto Service, Borla Performance Industries, Energy Suspension, C.M.l. Trucking. Whew, they will barely have room on the body panels for all those sponsors. The Off Road Race Team Manager is Deputy Steve Williams at the Carson Station. If you care to donate something they missed, call him at (310 ) 830-1123. They plan to exhibit the truck at every place from car shows co chili cook offs. THE HUMMER (HUM VEE) will make its SCORE racing debut at the Baja 1000 with two in the stock truck class driven by Rod Hall and Chad Hall. AM General of South Bend, IN had a press conference and ride and drive in Calabasas, CA just days before the disastrous fires of the fall swept through this area as well as many others in southern California. We must say that the rig is no beauty with form following function, but it functions very well indeed. We crawled over high objects, side hilled to almost vertical, and it hummed right along feeling very, very stable. Presently they are all diesel engined, but a gas engine option is scheduled in late 1994. In case you've ever wondered what Hum Vee means it is High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle. We hope to get our hands on one soon for a driving test on the highway as well as off road, where it certainly shines. Dusty Times

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April 22-24, 1994 Spangler 200 Ridgecrest, CA June 17-19, 1994 Lucerne Valley Jam 250 Lucerne Valley, CA August 19-21, 1994 Johnson Valley 200 Lucerne Valley, CA October 14-16, 1994 California 200 Ridgecrest, CA November 18-20, 1994 High Desert 300 Lucerne Valley, CA MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, MI 48837 (517) 627-6200 MICKEY THOMPSON'S OFFROAD STADIUM SERIES Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 · (714)938-4100 November 20, 1993 Awards Banquet Red Lion Inn Costa Mesa, CA January 22, 1994 Anaheim Stadium Anaheim, CA February 26, 1994 Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, CA March 12, 1994 Kingdome Seattle, WA June 18, 1994 Rice Stadium Salt lake City, UT MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2199 All ewnts at Okaw Valley CampgTOund Shelbyville, lL (Additional track dat.es may be added) NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION 11842 Jason Court Madera, CA 93638 (209) 486-4590/(209) 266-5558 OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (913) 855-8899 ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Jeff Sargent 1480 lakeridge Rd. N Ajax, Ontario, Canada (416) 427-4782 PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. King P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-32081(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 December 3-5, 1993 Maine Forest Rally* Rumford, ME *Part of the North American Rally Championship SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818) 889-9216 November 19, 1993 Off Roadsman and Awards Banquet Gold Coast Hotel & Casino las Vegas, NV (Tentative 1994 dat.es) January 21-23, 1994 SCORE Parker 400 Parker, AZ February 25-27, 1994 SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felipe, B.C., MX April 1-3, 1994 SCORE Nevada 400 las Vegas, NV June 3-5, 19_94 SCORE Baja 500 Baja California, MX July 1-3, 1994 SCORE Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA September 9-11, 1994 SCORE Gold Coast 300 las Vegas, NV November 10-13, 1994 SCORE Baja 1000 Baja California, MX SCORE SHOW Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. Box 25148 Anaheim, CA 92825 (714)938-4155 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker 22048 Vivienda Ave. Grand Terrace, CA 92324 (714) 783-8293 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 las Vegas, NV 89106 ( 702) 452-4522 December 3-5, 1993 Eldorado Valley 250 las Vegas, NV December 1993 SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA/(414) 257-0422 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915)337-3437 All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa, TX TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Carney, Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 TOYS FOR TOTS Off Road Poker Run (619) 252-1197/(702) 897-7769 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowicz, President 589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 ( all ewnts at Owego Motor Sports Park, Rte. 434, Owebo, NY) VENTURA RACEWAY Business Office 2810 W. Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 656-1122 November 20, 1993 Motocross/Stadium Off Road cars VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 November 20, 1993 Annual Awards Banquet Peppermill Hotel & Casino Reno, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Ron (Rocky) Weinstein, President Box 246 - 106 - 1656 Martin Dr. White Rock, B.C. V4A 6E7 (604) 582-3338 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85032 (602) 971-3730 ( All ewnts at Thrasher/and, 117th Ave. & Glendale in Phoenix, AZ) WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oskosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP November 21-25, 1993 RAC Rally Nottingham, England ATTENTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! Send your 1994 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column. Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-44o8. Clean Out Your Garage Classified Ads are only $15.00 each month for 45 words or less. Add $5 .00 for each photo. Page9

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THE 14th ANNUAL SNORE 250 Tom Koch Wins Th• Gold Coast. Cash And Overall By Don Dayton -Notes by Jean Calvin Phows Don Dayton Tom Koch came from California to try for the $1000 bonus, used two co-drivers in the big Porsche powered Raceco, took the Unlimited Class lead on lap 3 and carried on and won the race overall for the big bucks. i'he 24th annual running of the SNORE 250, sponsored by Michael Gaughan 's Gold Coast Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV, marked one more year in the event, run every September since the inaugural race in 1970. It is the only desert race with such a record, the rest all took a year off during the first gasoline crisis. Over the years the race has enjoyed some hefty entry, but this year the Gold Coast 300, moved from October to August essen-tially on the same course, hurt the numbers. Many SCORE/HORA points seekers used to enter the SNORE race to get a legitimate pre-run for the Gold Coast event. Nonetheless the Gold Coast Hotel's famous hospitality toward off road racers was in place, the contingency row and tech inspection were in the back parking lot, and it's quite a sacrifice for the hotel to block parking on a Friday night. The tech line ran from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., and the mandatory drivers meeting was held at 9:30 Friday night in the banquet room used for registration accompanied by a cocktail hour hosted by the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino. The race started at 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning with sixty-three cars taking the green flag. And 50 percent of them were around for the checkers, some albeit walking wounded who couldn't have gone much farther. Eight Unlimited cars, mostly two seaters, started the hunt for the $1,000.00 bonus posted for first overall in the race. Tommy Bradley was first away on the one every 30 second start, but he had some very competitive cars behind him. In fact, Bradley was just inches ahead of Brian Collins after one lap, closely followed by · Las Vegan Pat Dean gave it a try in the Porsche powered Chenowth, led midway, and just yards from pay dirt a c.v. joint let go, but Pat salvaged second in Unlimited class. Pat Dean, then Tom Koch in a couple minutes and Troy Herbst. Collins scored fast lap of the day · at 1 :00:50, but that was his only lap, reported to have broken a U-joint in the steering column on lap 2, non-repairable in the field. Up front the battle narrowed down to Pat Dean and Tom Koch with Dean leading midway in the four lap race. You've all heard of rockadiles and their tamer cousins, the rockadillos, but several drivers swear they were attacked by at least one and maybe a whole herd of Bouldersaurus Rex. One of the victims was the Overall winner, first in Unlimited class and over $1,000.00 richer, Ridgecrest, California driver Tom Koch. Tom gave visiting Aussie Troy Penny a taste of American off roading for the first two laps, then tied SCCA rally organizer Paula Gibeault to the right seat for the final two. They moved up steadily from fifth place on lap I to grab the lead on lap 4, despite losing an injector linkage. They quickly made repairs only to find the battery was too flat to crank the engine. A friendly spectator came to the rescue towing them to start the Raceco. They charged on and were within a couple of miles of the checkered flag when a Bouldersaurus Rex made a grab at them, ripping the left rear suspension out by the roots. They escaped without further damage and were able to limp the car in for the tall trophy and the big check. Tom said it was a great race, and the only one you could earn so much· non-contingent money. Paula truly enjoyed the race, and being a rally driver she is used to making field fixes. When she got out of the big Porsche powered car she had a grin that was still there ten minutes later, saying it was really thrilling. The rest of the entries in the Unlimited class didn't have so much fun, as Collins was out early. Pat Dean actually had the lead on time on the first lap and with Mike Fitzgerald and Roger Stade riding, he led the rest of the race right up to four miles before the finish. That was when a CV joint disintegrated, naturally in the most inaccessible part of the course. It took. the crew nearly two hours to get to the car and get Pat back on the road. In spite of the down time, Pat Dean was second in Unlimited class with a 3: I I last lap. Tommy Bradley and Ted May were only eight seconds behind Pat on lap I and they held second place until they blew a head gasket on the third lap, but their two completed laps put them in fourth place.Troy Herbst had a great first lap, about a minute behind Bradley, but lost the engine on lap 2. Aaron Hawley, Tom Burns and Robert Isom had problems every lap in Aaron's two seater including two flats and some pit time when the battery fell apart. But they finished four laps for third place in Unlimiteds. John Gaughan and Peter Castleton in their Barbary Coast racer blew an engine on the first lap, and Brad Thomas and Damon Wildman also vanished before completing a lap. Despite finding a Bouldersaurus Rex a few miles out, Tom Koch and Paula Gibeault rode the wounded Raceco to victory, dragging the left rear tire to the checkered flag. Mike Flinn came from Salt Lake City to race Class 10, surprising the regular runners with his swift times in the car he built himself, and Mike not only won Class 10, he finished second overall. In contrast to all the above drama, Class IO seemed pretty tame. Sali: Lak~ City racer Mike Troy Herbst got a great start, a couple minutes out of the lead in his single seater, but that first lap was his only lap as the engine went on lap 2. Page 10 Jack Millerd charges the rough and rocky course with three good laps, a slow run on lap 4 that cost him the win, but he finished second in Class 10. December 1993 Darren Wilson and Keith Underwood had troubles on the first lap, but they recovered, did three swift laps to finish close, two minutes, third in Class 10. DusyTimcs

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The Flippens, Clay, Hal and Ken Jr., race the only Class 5 in SNORE, and run with the Class 10 cars. They didn't get in the last lap, but were sixth. Dan Jewett and Robert Fillmore proved that consistent lap times brings home the money as they ran steady all the way to third in Class 1-2-1600 action. Kenny Freeman rolled his 1-2-1600 big time on the second lap.-but he and co-driver Paul Pfister held the remains together to finish sixth, fast overall. Flinn reported no problems at all winning Class 10 with FAT Rabbit power and no flats on his Yokohama tires. He also finished second overall. Jack Millerd led from the second lap until the last lap when he encountered a roe kad ii lo. These re la ti ve I y benign critters just lay around quietly until they find themselves under a race car. Then they stand up and the unsuspecting race driver suddenly finds himself high centered, all four wheels in the air. Jack lost nearly a half hour getting loose from the critter but did manage to salvage second place. Darren Wilson and Keith Underwood got off to a good start, but only went five miles Regan, Tory and Jeremy Gubler share driving the single seat 1600, and they before their steering became all ran similar and fast lap times, surviving the rocks, and they won Class severe! y deranged. They were able ~ _1_-2_-_16_0_0_a_n_d_f1_·n_is_h_ed_a_s_m_a_rt_t_h1_·rd_o_ve_r_al_l. ___________ _ Larry Job and Rob MacCachren were strong in Class 1-2-1600, Larry doing a pair of identical laps to lead halfway, then Rob lost a c. v. and nearly 40 minutes, but MacCachren set fast-lap on the fast one to salvage second place. to make repairs but lost ahout 30 on lap 2, more problems on lap 3, 1: 11 flat. Then they had new car minutes in the process; they also and didn't want to talk about lap woes as the shifter got stuck, then had a nice assortment of flats and 4. They did finish, fifth under the on. lap 2 the center broke out of more power steering woes on lap checkered flag out of nine that the wheel and took out the rear 4 . They finished third. started in Class 10. Clay, Hal and brake caliper on the Lothringer, Rocky Magee and Jim Warren Ken Jr. Flippen and Todd Ashley so thev parked in seventh. J.C. had engine woes on the first lap at had some rear shocks freeze up on Dean, Michael Gaughan Jr. and mile 5, right beside Darren and lap 1, ran out of gas on lap 2, had Br:endan Gaughan had all their Keith. They got going again, hut more shock trouble on lap 3 and fun real early breaking a rocker Rocky said the air cooled engine decided it wasn't going to get any arm shaft on the first lap. Rick was down on power all day, hut better, so they parked for the day Causey and Tony Howerton also they did finish, fourth in Class I 0. in sixth place. Robert and Mike failed to cover a lap. Mike Larson and John Phegley Harman led Class 10 on lap 1 , There were a dozen off the line had problems on lap 1, troubles setting fast time for the class at in Class 1-2-1600, and three of the four that did not finish didn't cover a lap. Brad Maurer made half a lap before terminal rear suspension failure. Don Chase and Bob Stockton disappeared somewhere between Pit B and Check 1 on lap 1. Mark Davidge and Stan Schenk were also among the missing on lap 1. Joseph Hoak got in one lap and started out on lap 2 only to hit a ditch too fast and rolled his car and retired. Meanwhile Bekki and Ken Freeman Sr. and Robert Young were third on lap 1 , broke tht· exhaust and still got half of lap 2 done before a spindle nut fell off, closely followed by the left front wheel which tore up the suspen-sion, so their car became an organ donor for the 1600 of Ken Jr. Roh and Bob Guevara got in three laps before a rockadile chewed a small hole in their engine case. causing a terminal loss of essential fluids. Ken Freeman Jr. was especially fun to watch with Paul Pfister co-d riving. They ~ CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN Bruce Fraley had Richard Duncan Jr. riding in the sano 5-1600 this trip and Bruce did his usual number on the slim class, setting fast lap and he won going away this round. Bill Dickton also saw his competition fade early in the race, and he got the big Class 4 Dodge pickup home in fine shape to win the class and the SNORE rotating $500 bonus. Dusty Times BYPASS VALVE KITS! Thousands Of Race Winning Miles Went Into The Testing And Development Of These Kits. They Feature Large 9/16" Bores, Externally Adjustable, 4130 Steel Bodys, Internal Check Valves And Lightweight Aluminum Valve And Jam Nut. Available As A J{it With Full Instructions For Only $74.00 Each. We Can Also Custom Install Them To Your Ex-isting Kuster, Bilstein Or Bunderson Shocks. Also Available In Stock; Solid Brass Pistons For Kuster Shocks. Installing These Kits On Your Shocks Can Stop Harshness, Kicking, Hard Bottoming And Packing. Call To Order Or For More Information. California Pre-Fun 39067 ORCHARD STREET CHERRY VALLEY, CA 92223 909-845-8820 December 1993 Page 11

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Steve Ogle, Charles F. David and Eric Sanchez had a good first lap, slowed on the next two but got the mini truck home in good shape, a Class 7 winner. Dave Petrillo has chased Billy Holbrook all season, and he did again last September as Dave finished second in Class 9 with most consistent lap times. Frank Baird is another Challenger driver who is very consistent on times, dumped some oil on lap 3, got fixed and sailed on to third in Class 9. Mike Kline and Steve Burke had a good run in Class 9, even Jim O'Donnell had two good laps in Class 9, but the middle one stopped to help a fellow Challenger driver, and despite this was a real disaster, but he came back to finish the race in sixth photo from another race, they finished in daylight, fifth in Class p:.._la_c_e_a_t_th_e_fl_ag"-.------------------Gene Griepentrog did the solo bit this race, got high centered and lost time, but recovered from that to finish the Lothringer seventh in Class 9. ~ were in second for Last Official Finisher. 10) and he hit the finish in second Scott Bassett pushed hard all day, placeattheendoflapl,justafew Billy McCool and B.J. Bates place. Rob said, "The car's set fast time for the class and seconds behind the leader. Flying overcame losing a rocker arm clip unbelievable; just hold it wide walked off with the check despite along at a pretty good clip, on the first lap to take home fifth open and hit everything." Regan, running the entire race with no suddenly they were just flying. in Class 1-2-1600. Some guys Tory and Jeremy Gubler ran brakes on one rear wheel which Paul said he saw several alternate have names that just sound like fourth on lap 1, second on lap 2 made hard application of the views of the hori:on in the roll race drivers. With names like that and first when it counted. Regan anchor so mew hat adventure-over. But they landed upright, on those two could probably walk reported no problems on their some. Mick and Jesse Newton and three wheels, missing a front into any stock car race in the .way to the Class 1-2-1600 win Larry Tunnell tried to give wheel. They managed to scrounge South and get a ride! In fourth and third place overall. Dickton some competition, hut the only spare front drum were Billy Bryan and Les Carter Action in Class 5-1600 was the foam in their fuel cell came between Vegas and Baker, but lost with a fast start and then had decidedly sparse with just two apart and put them on the trailer a couple of hours in the process. vexing fuel system bothers on lap Bugs starting. Kevin Streety, early. Tony Leonard and Stl'W Kenny charged back into the race 2. After they got the gas flowing Keith Westerfield, Brian Logan Westlund also had a short day as his car shedding pieces and parts again they ran strong for a fine and Price Parker had a real short their truck called in dead before on every other bump. His sister finish. Dan Jewett, Robert day.Kevinfellvictimtooneofthe the end of lap 1. Bekki's car was getting lighter as it Filmore, Greg Ewan and Hugh roving "sneaky holes" that infest As usual Class 9 was the biggest was cannibalized to keep Kenny Helms proved that running steady the area. These holes wandn and most competitive division going. On the last lap he ran into a and consistent is sometimes the around the course and leap out in with 18 cars on the line, and ten dust cloud which turned out to he best policy. They brought their front of unsuspecting racers. The were still motoring when the Monte Smith's truck bringing racer in for a dandy third place at one that caught Kevin on the first checkers came out. This class him parts. The damage wasn't too the checkered flag. Larry Job and lap caused a terminal rearrange-required only three laps for a severe,exceptoneofMonte'srear Rob MacCachren led from the ment of several front end finish. Four cars were in the fenders was up beside the front start of the race until they components. However Bruce boneyard before the first lap was fender and the cab was a little shucked a CV on the third lap. Fraley and Richard Duncan Jr. over including the 1992 SNORE warped where Kenny drove over Rob really charged on lap 4, went the entire distance for the Point Champion Mike Dixon and it on his way to sixth, a finisher, settingfasttimefortheclass(only victory, but only after replacing a '88 and '89 Champ Bryan earning the Dusty Times award 35 seconds off fast time for Class destroyed rear stub axle on the Pennington. Dixon had a clutch PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! \'!!e~y;;} RESTAURANT Mobil SERVICE EVERY DAY OPEN 24 HOURS YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 12 first lap. Bruce didn't get enough explode, and the main shaft competition in the desert so he broke. When drivers like that went to the local kart races can't make a lap you know it is a Saturday night and took home tough race. Brian Feiger and the first place trophies in two team of Eddie Brink and Daryl different classes. That's what you Bishop also became part of the call a dedicated racer! desert decor on lap 1 . Jim The Heavy Metal division was Sumpter and Andrew McEvers running for a $500 class bonus, got in one lap before they found and there was no dispute about themselves with a trans that had who took it home. Bill Dickton, four neutrals forward, one neutral Chip Bruner, Dale Looney and in reverse, nothing in between and Billy Holbrook races on home desert ground and is nearly unstoppable in Class 9 action, always the biggest class. Holbrook set fast lap on the second round and won Class 9 by ten minutes and earned some good cash. December 1993 14th place.Jeff Carr got in one lap for 13th place, while Joel Davis, Bill Cobb and Harry Dunne took 12th with one lap, and also with one lap done for l I th spot was the team of Bruce Mangold, Tim Gavett and Mike Dolf. Everybody else in class went the distance. Jason and Bill Avery, Robert Uszynski and A.J. Delap finished tenth. Bill said they had to take it easy as their shocks went on strike the first lap, and the rest of the time it was like racing a pogo stick. Scott Pearce, Bill Cockrell and Scott Silagy came in ninth and Tom and Ann Sturgis and Boh Turner got eighth. Tom said a rock knocked off one of their valve covers, complete with ball' about six miles into the race. The\' had a spare cover, hut nothing to hold it on with, which cost some time; then they broke a shock on the second lap, hut were able to borrow one from Mike Looney. In seventh came Gene Griepen-trog and Kent Lothringer. Actually Kent didn't drive this time, feeling under the ~·eathcr. After Gene spent quite a bit of time trying to escape from the top of a rockadillo (he was rescued by Mike Kline) they figured they might just as well give everyone a chance to drive. Kevin Streety drove lap 2, then Keith Wester-field ran lap 3, and they had Brian Logan standing by to go rt bp in case the race went into overtime. Jim O'Donnell overcame soml' second lap troubles to take sixth place. Mike and Stan Kline, Steve Burke and Lizzard Griffith finished fifth after stopping to yank Griepentrog out of the clutches of the rockadillo. Mike lost the bolts out of his steering wheel on the last lap and didn't take time to find replacement nuts and stuff. He finished the race holding two bolts in and the steering wheel down. Clay Carr overcame some shock problems to take fourth in Class 9, and Frank Baird did his part to keep the dust down by spreading several quarts of oil around due to a dinged valve cover on his way to third. Turning very consistent times Dave Petrillo grabbed his Dusty Times

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Jim Sumpter and Andrew McEvers must have had quite a war story after this push exercise, but they only covered one lap, good for 14th in Class 9. Ed Dunn and a whole crew of drivers and riders turned three 1 :30 laps for the best consistency of the day and they were 53 seconds back in second in Sportsman Buggy Class. Kevin Street.•; and Keith Westerfield found a nasty hole on the first lap that rearranged the front end design of their 5-1600, but they were credited with second in class and got a trophy. Pat Tighe and Bill Keena set fast lap on the first one in Sportsman Buggy Class, carried on with two more good laps to take another win in this class that is growing race by race. traditional runner-up po~ition, saying the only real trouble he had was that darn Holbrook, and starting way back in the pack. Of course, the winner and still champion was Bill Holbrook, the overall points leader. He k-J the race wire to wire, set fast lap for Class 9 at 1 :23:26 and made it look easy. Don't you hate guys like that? He did say that his pumper helmet quit, but he drove on to win by ten minutes an)'way. Bill also won $800 extra cash over the payback, a private pot put up by the Class 9 drivers. You can do things like that legally in Nevada. Barry Slatter and Dennis Thorn took home another win in the Sportsman Truck Class in their Ford Ranger. The Sportsman also ran three laps, but Charles M. " David Sr. and Peggy David didn't cover a lap. Steve Ogle, Charles F. David and Eric Sanche: were the sole Class 7 entrants, did a swift 1 :50: 14 for the first lap, throttled back on the next two a bit and took the victory honors. Pat Tighe and Bill Keena did the fast lap at I :25:41 and led all three laps to take the win, hut with only a 53 second edge over the runner-up. Sunday morning the awards were at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino with the super sumptuous array of food, anything you might ever want for breakfast, all on the house thanks to SNORE's genial host Michael Gaughan. Unfortu-;*/· nately not one of his three sons finished the race. SNORE President Gary Walkr opened the awards with a hearty thank you to all the workers who give freely of their time to this non-profit race club. Then knowing that more than the usual amount of entrants came from out of town, from California to Utah, SNORE didn't waste any time handing out the generous checks and nice trophies. They had plent)' of copies oflap by lap times on result sheets and the current points standings available at ten a.m. at the awards for all to take home, something few organi:ations seem able to do, but then most are not all volunteer workers either. .SNORE stands for Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts and they are. They have two more races on the schedule before season's end, the HallowL-en weekend Double Trouble, near Henderson, and the Decemht·r 4 running of the Eldorado 250, the traditional season finale. Then comes the awards banquet and Christmas Party and SNORE racing starts again in early February. The Sportsman Buggy Class continues to grow and the competition gets tighter ever\' race. All of the eight cars were able to complete at least one lap -no other class can make that statement. Steven Martich, Dave .,., ~ ~ Todd and Terry Vandawalker, leading here, and Jay and Jim Shain had a very close race in Sportsman Buggy class, on the first lap. Then Shain retired and Vandawalkers went on to finish all three laps in fourth place. . Bilotta and Chuck Kruge finished eighth with one long lap of over four hours. Eric Shenberger and Jason Romans got in one good. lap for seventh, a few minutes behind Jay and Jim Shain, Darwin Parsons and James Whilfling. Jack and Ellen Clinkenbeard and Michael Snedeker did two laps with good times for fifth place. Todd and Terry Vandawalker went the three lap distance for fourth spot. John Gangloff and Robert Nielsen Jr. ran a steady race to grab off third place with only 37 seconds between their best lap and their slowest. That's consistent! Also remarkably ts, consistent were second placing Ed Dunn, Jamie Egan Sr., Fred Carystensen and Terry Simmers with only a fifty second spread. Barry Slatter and Dennis Thorn had a smooth.run to victory in Sports Truck Class as their competition faded early. They stopped once for gas on the three lap race and had a good time in the Ford Ranger. 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VORRA'S ANAL DESERT CIW.LENGE The Yerington VORRA 150 Text & Photos: Wizer Phot.o Reno Racers Scott Schaupp and Dick Weichers had an awesome day, being the first racers off the line in Class 1-2-1600, they didn't give an inch all day. The team picked up the win in class as well as the Overall #1 spot! VORRA's desert series for 1993 came full circle on Septem-ber 4, 5, & 6, back in Yerington, NV for the Yerington VORRA 250. Race headquarters for this race was the Casino West. This 256 mile race consisted of 50 mile laps, five for the Open Classes, four for the Sportsman Division, and one for the Pilots, with a time limit of nine hours. After the mediocre turn out for the new race in Fallon, NV, and with the cancelled Rod Hall event at Pyramid Lake, this final desert race drew quite a crowd. 77 Cars, Trucks, Mini Mags, and Pilots took the green flag. The big winner at this race was the team of Scott Schaupp and Dick Weichers in their Buck Stove and Fan Center sponsored single seater. They raced in Class 1-2-1600 but ran away with the class and overall win, driving on the fourth, from 11 am to 5 pm on what Scott called a Highway of a Main Street. The parade to the course. Clayton Scudder and start/ finish line was held at 7pm Curtis Clark filled the second that night. Sunday the fifth, race overall spot and took the win in day, started early with the 8am Class 2, in their Vinyl Visions drivers meeting and at 9 am the sponsored two seater. Sid Smith green flag dropped. and Kip Whitnack running in the The first class off the line was Humbug automotive sponsored Class 2 with nine starters, single seater, were on the edge all unfortunately only tw9 competi-day and it paid off, the team tors would make the finish. The placed second in Class 1-2-1600 number one team in class was as well as taking the #3 spot Clayton Scudder and Curtis overall. Clark in the Vinyl Visions The festivities started early. On sponsored two seat Scudco. The Friday the third at 9 pm the only problems experienced by the drawing for starting positions was team was a broken tierod end on heldattheCasinoWest.Thefirst the second lap, and a bad name out of the hat was Everett alternator belt which broke at the Paul, up from Garden Valley, CA. start/ finish line on the third lap, Everett has had an interesting shutting off the ignition. The team year, battling for the points win made repairs and were off. with leader, Sam Berri. Tech and According to Clayton the track Registration was held on Saturday - got rougher as the day went on. Clayton Scudder and Curtis Clark took the fast track at this year's Yerington 250, coming in first in Class 2, second Overall, and third in the Desert Point Series, for the year. Class 2 points leader Sam Berri ran strong tit the fourth lap when he would disappear. Sam had enough points coming into this event to hold onto his lead and take the Desert Series with ease. The team was able to run a strong his second place finish in desert race and came in with a 7:14:27 points with 222, only 10 points time. Clayton and Curtis were in back from the win. The fastest lap the winner's circle for two of the race was set by Larry reasons, the Class 2 win as well as Deaton in the Prism Built Class 2 the second spot overall. In the truck. Larry tore up the track points hunt Clayton captured recording a 1:16:47 first lap. The third place in the desert series Deaton race would be cut short, with 198 points. experiencing drive train problems Second place in Class 2 was on lap 4 . The team was still able to filled by David Brown driving the place fourth in class. Desert Versa Tech two seater; the team points leader Sam Berri, had a down from Portland, OR re- great first half, vying for the win. corded a 7 :28: 18 race time. David Sam had a special guest filling the was the final finisher in class. co-driver's seat for two laps, Third place went to Everett Paul. VORRA President Ed Robinson. Everett wasn't able to make the Unfortunately the luck wasn't finish of the race, having one of with the Berri team, having those days. Even with not getting problems on the final lap. Sam did finishing oints Everett held on to place fifth, having gone further than the next competitor. More importantly, in the points race, Sam kept his lead and finished up the desert season with 232 points, taking the win by the skin of his teeth. The next class off the line was Class 10. Six would start in class. Class 10 has had an extremely difficult season, and once again, none of the entrants would be able to make the finish. None-theless, there were winners. First place in class would go to the team of Ace and Steve Bradford, in their single seat r ace r . The Bradfords would start great, but The Bradford Team had a strong run all day but theirrace would be cut short Randy Laplante had a great race at first, setting fast lap with 1:23:17 time but problems would take them out. on the final lap. Ace and Steve had gone far enough to take the first place spot by the third lap something went wrong. The Laplante team would complete a The final lap completed by the for the day in Class 10. --=--'------'---------------------. Bradford team was the fourth. Br Whether you're on a chase crew, a racer or a 4WD enthusiast, the Rod Hall off-road driving school can help you be your best! trut be ready. .. the road isn't smooth! Page 14 Call For Courses and Dates Great Basil COnsuttlng 2738 Chavez Dr. Reno, NV 89502 (702) 825-8830 Larry Zimmerman didn't have the day he wanted to finish the season with but the team had accumulated enough points to keep the points lead in Class 1-2-1600, finishing the Desert Series with the most points in the Open Classes. December 1993 taking first in class at this final race, Ace moved up to take second place in the desert series with 204 points. Second place in Class 10 went to newcomer Bill Thompson running in the familiar Coyote chassis single seater. Bill was the last Class l O to complete 4 of the 5 laps. The number three spot was filled by Dale Smith. Dale's day would end early, only completing three laps, but more importantly, Dale would drop from second, finishing the desert year in third place with 202 points. Randy Laplante would take the fourth position at this race. Randy drove all day while brother Phil was side lined temporarily. Randy did a hell of DustyTimes

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David Brown turned up the heat in Class 2 battling to the win, unfortunately the team would have to settle for second in Class after having down time on the last lap. The Smith and Whitnack race team had a smooth race and were in the hunt for the win. They would have to settle for the second place spot in Class 1-2-1600, running a 7:22:32 race. The· German Team's day was a fast one, but not quite fast enough, Don and Chris were the final Heavy to take the checkered flag. The team picked up second place in Class at this race as well as in the points race. a job, setting tast lap with a 1:23:17 time. The Laplante team completed three laps but would disappear on the fourth. Randy was able to keep his lead in the desert series, barely beating out Bradford by two points, finishing with a total of 206 points. with both hands covered with would have to settle for third blisters. Dick said what many overall and second in class, would say is the philosophy of finishing with a time of 7:22:32. this team "put the pedal to the With this finish the team was able metal, more air m eans less to end the desert series with a bumps." They were able to take strong second place in points, Thornton in the #1648 Bow lap, but would end his day early Wow sponsored single seater not making a third. The 1-2-1600 recording a 1 :23:08 first lap. d e sert points winner Larry Michael was able to run a second Zimmerman in -~ · Class 1-2-1600 was the largest Open class at this race with 12 starters. Only five would see the checkered flag. First off the line in class was the team of Schaupp and Weichers out of Reno, NV in the Buck Stove and Fan Center sponsored racer. Scott and Dick didn't give an inch all day with their flawless performance. According to Scott the track was a HIGHWAY. Dick may have disagreed just a bit, coming in . the win in class and the overall coming home with 255 total win by seven minutes and 19 points. Ken Ruff battled for the seconds over second, finishing in second place spot all day and at 7:07:08. Ed R obinson's main the end he came close, finishing question for Dick and Scott in the one miriute behind Sid. Picking Winner's circle was " How many up third in class, Ken's finish time times did you guys pre-run?" was 7:23:32. Ken did retain his Their response, after an appro-third place in the desert series priate pause; "We didn't pre-run, with 225 points. we just followed your arrows." Larry Folsom had a great first The team of Sid Smith and Kip half but would roll on the second Whitnack in the Humbug lap. Did that stop Larry, no way, Automotive sponsored single he moved up from ninth at the seater were in strong contention start to finish fourth in class, with for the win all day, but the team a time of 8:24:05. Larry also picked up fourth in points for the desert series, with 207. Fast lap in 1600 class was set by Michael Raymond Fisher was one of only two Heavy Metals to make the checkered flag. Raymond landed in the #1 spot in Class 4 at the final Desert race, as well as in the Desert points race. Rod Hall's Hummer came out to the Yerington 250 shining with a new paint job. Rod ran strong placing until the fourth lap when problems would take the team out. Rod took the fourth position. The #1 spot in Class 9 went to the Valvoline Sponsored car of Steve Reyling and Michael Daws. Steve had a great race setting fast lap in class with a 1 :25:25 time, and an equally fast race being two hours ahead of second. Class'9 points leader Fores1 Creasy had a brutal final desert race, but Forest was determined to finish, he finished second in Class and first in the Desert points Series, with a total of 239. Dusty Times .. .. en a: w u <t CL en w _, X <t .. .. en a: w t; ::::, -, C <t .. .. en CJ z a: CL en LL <t w -I .. .. en C ::::, I-en -I w w :::c 3: .. .. ** TORSION BARS** AXLES** SPRING PLATES** COIL SPRINGS** SWAY·A·WAY MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY OFF ROAD SUSPENSION COMPONENTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS PRESENTS SWING AXLE AXLES - ALL 3 STOCK LENGTHS 0 ()0 0 2 PIECE STUB AXLES 6 & 7 LEAF FRO~T SPRINGS FOR SOFTER RATES SEE YOUR LOCAL DEALER TODAY! CALL OR WRITE FOR YOUR FREE CATALOG • • C z " "tJ z CJ) • • 2S z G) :!:! z CJ) • • CJ) :I: :s: CJ) • • r-e G) z C ci1 • • 20755 MARILLA ST. I CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA 91311 I 818·700·9712 December 1993 Page 15

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Jerry Canonic finished in the second place spot in his two seat race car, sharing driving duty with Troy Hickey. The team's race time was 6:27:30, coming in over an hour ahead of the third place finisher. Garth Akeney racing the Copening Baja had a hard day, but he was able to hold on to finish in the #3 spot in the Sportsman Veteran Class. Garth was the final finisher in the Veteran Class. Jerry Wald had a brutal day but the Mini Mag driver would be able to complete all four laps and take the third spot in the Novice Class with a time of 7:39:30. ~ the Larryz Auto-motive sponsored race car didn't have a very good final race, placing fifth and being the last racer to finish in class with a 8:46: 19 time. Luckily Larry's past performances put him in a great position, coming into this event. Larry finished with the most points of any Open Class competitor, with 262. Class 4 started the day with eight heavy metals, two of which would make it to the checkered flag. Raymond Fisher started in the fifth position at the green. It wasn't long though until he had flown into the # 1 spot in class. The CHE team took the win with ease finishing with a time of 7:41:45. Raymond also took the win in the desert points hunt with 253 points. The second place spot in class at this final desert race was filled by Don German, sharing driving duty with son Chris. The duo was able to place well and were the last Class 4 to finish, recording a 7:54:25 time. The German race team also finished • IS . ' ee n . ' ____ In ... CENTER LINE RACING WHEELS THE STRONGEST OFF-ROAD WHEEL MONEY CAN BUY! FAT Performance has in stock the largest inventory of 5-lug VW CENTER LINE wheels in the country. Whether you need wheels with polished or satin finish, FAT has them in all popular styles. Need them in a hurry? FAT can ship the same day as ordered ... and with the best price in the industry. FAT can also supply your CENTER LINES with Champion bead locks. Buying a· set of CENTER LINES can be exceedingly easy with FAT Performance. We do all the legwork. Call for current pricing. Quantity discounts are also available. FAT IS YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR VW, PORSCHE AND TOYOTA OFF-ROAD ENGINES AND PARTS. FAT Racing Parts Wright Place Bilstein Shocks Tri-Mil Exhaust Sway-A-Way Gem Gears Perma-Cool Beard Seats S&S Headers Simpson Safety Weber Carbs Super-Trapp IPF Lights Yokohama Tires JaMar Products Petro-Tech 2000 Fox Shocks Page 16 PERFORMANCE Fol your FAT Performance cotalog, send $5 to Dept. cw, 1558 No. Cose St., Oronge, CA 92667. Or coll (714) 637,2889. FAX (714) 637-7352 The Haas Brothers F&S Drywall Mini Mag made an impressive show this season taking the Sportsman Veteran Desert points win with the most points of any competitor, finishing with 362 points. Hooter Meyer had an excellent day, setting fast lap in the Novice Class with a 1 :35:23 time, then winning the class. With the win Hooter moved up in the Desert Points race picking up second with 228 points. The team of Doug Fredrickson and Mitch Miguel took the #2 Novice spot at the final D~sert Event, but they got the First for the Series, unseating Charlie Ketten. Doug and Mitch took the points win by only 2 points, finishing with 290 total. Michael Daws had a hard working race day, taking a fast win in the Pilot Class with a time of 1 :38:11 for his lap placing third in the Desert points Race for the year. December 1993 the desert series in second place in class with 231 points. Jim Cope, racing a modified Jeep, ran a strong race until the final lap. Unfortunately, he didn't make the finish but having gone further, faster than the next heavy metal, gave him the third position. Fast lap of the class went to Josh Hall setting a 1 :22:49 time. Josh had a strong run going until the fourth lap when problems would take the team out. A racer who didn't place well in this race, due to a handstand performed on the second lap, was John Herman; he broke the front leaf springs, taking him out. John was still able to pick up the third place in the desert points race in Class 4 with • 159 points. The Sportsman Di vision cunsisted of the usual classes Veteran, Novice, and Class 9, running four laps. Sportsman Veteran started with 12 entrants hut only three made the finish. The Haas brothers set fast lap in class with a 1 :29:22 time, then went on to the win with a 6:00:09. The desert series class win would also go to the brothers, finishing with the most points of any competitor in VORRA, 362. The scoop from this team is that they will he moving up to an Open class next season. Class 1 will he their new home. It is unknown if they will be running their F&S Drywall sponsored Mini Mag or not, hut no matter what they run they are sure to be competitive! The team ofJerry Canonic and Troy Hickey were able to take second in class with a 6:27:30 race time. Third place went to Garth Akeney in the Copening Baja. Garth's day wasn't without problems. On the second lap the team had mechanical difficulties, and were set back hy an hour. They were able to make repairs and finish the race with a 8:07:22 time. The big race of the day in Sportsman Vet wasn't on the track but a race for second in points, between the teams of O'Callaghan/Rohinson and Rich Bryden. The place would go to Troy Robinson and Ryan O'Cal-laghan. They won hy only two points over Rich, finishing with 259. As already stated, Rich Bryden in the #61 single seater got third in points, coming in with 257. Class 9 had four starters, and two finishers. Steve Reyling ran from the back of the pack, setting fast lap in Class 9 with a 1 :25:25 time. Stew shared driving duty with the winner in the Pilot Class, Michael Daws. Michael ran his !'ilot lap, won, then got into Steve's Challenger for a lap. The team picked up the first place finish with ease, coming in over two hours ahead of the second Class 9, finishing with a time of 6 :37:29. When asked ahout the Dusty Times

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race Steve was all smiles. According to Steve the track was a little of everything. No problems. Michael's view from two com-pletely different cockpits was this. "Some sections were rougher in the Challenger than in the Pilot. But with the greater wheel base there were times I felt more confident." Well, I am impressed! The second place was filled by Forest Creasy in his Creasy Racing single seater. Forest's determination would pay off with the win in the desert points race in Class 9 with 239 total points. The third place in Class 9 went to Paul Taylor. Paul had a tough race and Rob Slagle was the first Pilot off the line. Rob raced hard but would place in wasn't able to complete his last the second place spot this day coming in a little over a minute back, he would lap. Paul held on to his second gain enough points to unseat points leader Mike Vandeburgh. place in points with 174. Third in to finish, but with his strong lead 1993 season was a great one for the Class 9 des~rt points went to he only dropped one position in some and hard for many. We had the team of Milner and McLean the series finishing second with 77 racers at the start and only 22 with 100 poi~ts. Unfortunately 154 point~. at the finish, showing how tough the team wasn t able to make the . The final desert race for the the course actually was. The last final race. The Navy Seals out of Fallon, NV, made a showing at this year's Yerington 250, training as they ran. The Chenowth 2 seater was one of the Buggies used in Desert Storm. race in the total season is the Overall points determining race. VORRA All Pro Auto Parts 1993 Complete details on the point Championship race, to be held at races for the 1993 season will he the Prairie City SVRA Park in in the Awards banquet coverage, Sacramento, CA. This will be the coming soon. Sportsman Novice was the largest class with 20 starters, only four of which would finish. First place was taken by Hooter Meyer in his Baja. Hooter's day started fast setting the time to beat at 1 :35:23. Then Hooter went on to take the class. When asked about the race Hooter said, "I was lovin' every minute of it!" With the win Hooter moved up in the points standings, from third to second, with 288 points. The team of Doug Fredrickson and Mitch Miguel ran for the win but had to settle for second place in class, finishing with a 7:31 :46 time. When the team came into this race they held on to the second place in points. But after their finish in Yerington the team moved into the first place spot, unseating the leader Charlie Ketten. Mitch and Doug finished with 290 points. GERMAN AUTO Third place in class was filled by Jerry W ald in the #46 Mini Mag. Jerry's race started slow but would pick up as the day went on finishing with a 7:39:30 time. The fourth place finisher in class was a very special team. Shawn O'Daf-fer and crew came to this race with a purpose. Shawn's dad was diagnosed with a rare lung disease and his greatest wish was to race again. Unfortunately his father wasn't up to making the trip so Shawn and a friend made it for him. The team made a valiant effort, and they finished in the fourth place spot, with a time of 7:45:41 . Shawn, you're a definitl' winner in my hook . Corning into this race, Charlie Ketten had a firm grip on the Novice points lead. Charlie's final desert race was hrutal, completing only one lap. Charlie dropped to third place, finishing the series with 278 points. The final class off the line were the Pilots. Six would start the 50 mile lap, but only four would see the checkered flag. Michael Daws ran hard, capturing first place with a 1:38:11 lap. Michael finished his race then jumped in to help Steve Reyling take the Class 9 win. Michael's fl.lot win moved him up in the desert points standing from fifth to third, finishing with 136. Second place went to Rob Slagle, coming in at 1 :40:09. Rob took the win in the desert series with a total of 171 points. The third place in class · was filled by Andi Wald coming in with a 1 :48:03 time. Another points leader who was unseated was Mike Vandeburgh. 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Roger Mears survived more than one engine change in the Nissan to win the first truck heat, and come back later to take his fourth main event victory in Denver's Mile High Stadium in six tries. Jerry Whelchel keeps showing his heels to the Super 1600 class in his fast Ultra Wheels Special. Jerry was second in the first 1600 heat, then turned up the wick in the main event to smoke his way to victory. MTEG'S CONOCO RUMBLE IN THE ROCKIES Toyota Tics Down. The Manufacturers Cup The regulars on the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group tour had quite an autumn, going from three digit heat in Las Vegas on the 11th of September to the frigid Denver climate at Mile High Stadium on October 9. This was the eighth event in the nine event 1993 series, and some champion-ships would be decided in the cold at Denver. But the hardy off road racers learn early to carry clothing suitable to both the tropics and the arctic as one never knows what the weather gods will bestow on a given event, anywhere in any month of the year. Qualifying in the Sport Trucks put Rick Johnson on top at a min-ute and change ahead of Rod Millen, and Rob MacCachren was third. Qualifying times for the other classes were not supplied in the press notes. In early evening the racing started, as always with the first truck heat. This round the truck heats were scheduled for ten laps instead of the usual eight laps, and 11 of them made the grid to start the festivities. Jeff Ward, Dodge, was on the pole at the start, but Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, jumped out to a quick lead, and after just one lap he had ten car lengths lead. Ward was fighting off Roger Walker Evans runs side by side with Ivan Stewart here, and Walker's Dodge survived the close encounters to place second in the first truck heat race. Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Mears who made the pass, but Johnson had a good 15 car lengths lead when Ward rolled in turn 5 to bring out a full course yellow. After the restart Johnso~ was able to hold his lead and pulled away from Mears' Nissan, with Ivan Stewart, Toyota, in third and Walker Evans, Dodge in fourth. Then Danny Thompson rolled his Ford in turn 1, and was unable to continue. In the same lap as the . restart Jimmie Johnson was pressured by Mears and ended up rolling in turn 5. On the restart Roger Mears led, but got some heat from Stewart and Rob MacCachren, Ford, behind him. Rick Johnson retired his Chevro-let on lap 5 while Mears kept leading Stewart and Evans in a fairly mild heat for this class. Mears spun out in turn 5 opening ·the door for Ivan Stewart, making it a three truck battle with one lap to go, but Ivan Stewart flipped on the white flag lap, and Mac-Cachren rolled in the first turn. Roger Mears recovered for the victory in the Budweiser/Conoco Nissan. Walker Evans grabbed second place in the Barbary Coast Dodge and Roger Mears Jr. was third in his Nissan, followed by Rod Millen, Toyota, Jeff Ward and Ivan Stewart. Next came more trucks, with nine starters in the Sport Utility Larry Noel, teammate to Croft, flew his Jeep Cherokee to victory in the first Sport Utility race, but he ran afoul of officialdom in the main and was fourth. ranks.LarryNoelwasonthepole with pole sitter Keith Marx with Jeep teammate Tommy flipping over the front bars to Croft alongside off the line. Cory force a race restart. Mike Olmsted Witherill immediately rolled his took the lead then, but was soon Jeep in the first turn, and Robert passed by Greg Stuart, both riding Gayton left the race due to engine Hondas. Stuart opened a wide difficulty. The race started over lead over Olmsted and Niclas with the restart and the Jeeps Granlund was challenging in third again in the front row. This time on his JP. By lap4 Granlund made Noel grabbed the lead followed by the pass, while Stuart continued Croft and Chris Neil was to stretch his lead. Greg Stuart challenging in third in a Nissan, easily won the heat, followed in while Brian Collins was fourth in by Niclas Granlund, then Mark his Porsche. Noel and Croft Ehrhardt on another JP and Mike pulled away from the pack with Olmsted. apparent ease, and the competi-In the second ATV heat rookie tion was spread out with two laps Craig Newton flew out into the to go. Collins was able to pass Neil lead from the pole position, but when Chris bobbled some in turn Sean Stubbs soon took over the 4. Larry Noel cruised to an easy lead on his Su:uki and Charles victory, Tommy Croft wns Shepherd was second in this pack second, while Collins was a of 13 on a Honda. Shepherd distant third, Neil fourth and challenged the leader often, but Witherill fifth. was held off by Stubbs. With one There were more ATVs than lap to go Stubbs and Shepherd any other class and 14 appeared had opened a wide lead on the for the first heat which started field and finished one-two with Jimmie Johnson showed why he is the defending SuperLite points champion, placing second in his heat race, then out gunning his teammates to win the very tight running main event. Tommy Croft broke records in Denver winning the main event, after taking a second in the heat, by taking his sixth consecutive main event victory in Sport Utility class. Page 18 December 1993 Dusty Times

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Roger Mears Jr. plows over the lumps on course in the Nissan and Jr. placed third in the first truck heat race and came back later for second in heat 2. Joe Price flies toward the finish line in his Triple E SuperLite en route to third in the first heat, but he dropped to seventh in the feature event. Aaron Hawley gets so close to a good finish in his Chenowth and started the night in fourth in 1600 heat 1 but finished midpack in the wild main event. Sean Stubbs taking the win. Doug Eichner was third on his Honda, Ron Collins was fourth and Roger Helsley fifth. The small but quick SuperLites were next for their two heats with 11 on the grid for the first round. Mercedes Gonzales took the lead in her Briggsbuilt from the outside pole position, with teammate Greg George right behind in second. Points leader George quickly passed Gonzales and pulled away. Rennie Awana flipped his Briggsbuilt, but there was no yellow flag. Greg George's engine began smoking but he kept his lead over Gonzales. Pole sitter Joe Price was running a distant third in a Triple E, driving with hand controls. Despite obvious engine problems, Greg George pressed on to win the heat over Mercedes Gonzales and Joe Price. J.C. Dean was fourth followed by C.J. M.ears, both teenagers driving Mirage cars. Nearly unbeatable this year Greg George won the first SuperLite heat in the Briggsbuilt, but he flipped out of contention in the very busy main event. Shannon Millen, left, took her first SuperLite victory in heat 2 for the little cars, and here she flies over a jump with Sean Finley. Shannon was second in the main event, Finley was third. Frank Chavez was on the pole in the second SuperLite heat and took the early lead in his Triple E, but was passed in lap 3 by John Sarna, Mirage. Shannon Millen moved into second in her Nature's Recipe Briggsbuilt, and Sean Finley ran third in a Triple E. Sarna broke down in lap 3, and Shannon Millen took the lead. f"inle)' made a great charge to pass her, but didn't make it and eventually broke in lap 4. Shannon Millen cruised to her victory followed by teammate Jimmie Johnson, making it a clean 1 ~2 sweep in both heats for the Nature's Recipe Pet Food team. The entry was down a bit in the Super 1600 class with just eight starters in the first heat. Ed Herbst was on the pole and got the lead at the green flag in front of Jimmy Nichols, who was close behind and eventually passed Herbst. Nichols opened up a big lead. On the third lap Jerry Whelchel carved his way through the field . Jimmy Nichols takes a welcome checkered flag in the first heat for Super 1600 cars, and Jimmy went on to take a solid third in the main event as well. Kevin Smith waves as he takes the checkered flag, winning Super 1600 heat 2, and Kevin also took a close second place in the wild main event action in his Mirage race car. DustyTimcs to pass Herbst, and put himself in second. Whelchel went after leader Nichols, and got close with just two laps to go. Despite ti1e Bolink sponsored Chenowth. heavy pressure Jimmy Nichols Jerry Whelchel was second in his held on to take the victory in the Special, and ~ r■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ CHENOWTH ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ -■ ■ -------------■-· I . . "MAGNUM" A PROVEN WINNER EXCELLENT STADIUM SUPER 1600 REV POWER RABBIT BOSCH IGNITION ONE OWNER VERY CLEAN CNC - TOTAL SEAL RINGS MASTER CRAFT 7 GALLON FUEL CELL WRIGHT/UMP SUMMERS AXLES FOX COIL/OVERS SUPER BOOT -MENDEOLA FIRE SYSTEM CENTURY CENTERLINE SCHRODER POSSIBLE TRADE FOR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT OR SEA DOO'S VERY FAST AND READY TO RACE $18,000.00 CALL BRIAN AT 310-866-1746 December 1993 Page 19

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Gary Gall races into the last lap as the white flag waves over his Chenowth and Gary had a good run in heat 2, placing a strong second in close dicing. Jeff Ward heads his Dodge down the short straight, and the former bike champion drove on to third in heat 2 but had troubles in the truck main. Tim Lewis slides his Jeep Cherokee over a lump in Sports Utility competition and Lewis had a good run in the main event, scoring second place in the race. Cory Witherwill does a wheelie with his Jeep Cherokee, and took third in the main event in Sport Utility class which is becoming a bit of a Jeep benefit. Chris Neil flies high in his Sport Utility Nissan taking fourth in the heat race and dropping to fifth in the main when the results became finalized. Mercedes Gonzales flies along in her Briggsbuilt to a second place in heat 1 and she went on to a hard fought fourth in the _ heavy main event action. l!E Bill Goshen was third, an another Toyota powered Chenowth. Former class champion and local driver Mitch Mustard was on the pole for the second Super 1600 heat, and took off in the lead. Heading into turn 3 Eric Arras flipped forcing a race restart. Again Mustard was able to take the lead off the start, now with Gary Gall close and challenging. However, Marty Hart soon moved into second and was right on the back of Mustard, but could not make the pass. After passing Mustard on lap 5 Hart nosed into the hydro barrier and Mustard had bad luck, a right front flat tire. Gall had grabbed the lead with one lap to go but was passed on the last turn by Kevin Smith. 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Fax 310 426-5294 ,.. °\.".''1'""' DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME W Page 10 Although all the previous heat races had been eight laps except theirs, the trucks were still scheduled for ten laps. Gridded on the pole, Danny Thompson was unable to start, leaving the front row position to Roger Mears Jr. on the outside. Mears immediately opened a good lead on the pack with Ivan Stewart his closest competition. Jimmy Nichols rolled his Jeep in lap 2 bringing out a full course yellow. On the restart it was Mears in front, Stewart, and Walker Evans was able to pass Jimmie Johnson to put his Dodge in third. Jeff Ward then collided with Johnson causing the second yellow flag. Mears Jr. again was able to hold onto the lead off the line on the restart, but Ivan Stewart was relentless in challenging Mears for the lead. Rick Johnson moved his Chevy into third and Rob MacCachren was fourth. Mac-Cachren was able to pass Johnson and Stewart was successful in passing the leader Mears Jr., both in lap 4. Stewart then opened up a comfortable lead by lap 7, leaving the battling to the others. Ivan Stewart cruised to victory, Roger Mears Jr. held onto second, Rick Johnson was third followed by Jeff Ward and Rod Millen. On the updated results Rick Johnson lost a position to the Rough Driving Committee so his Chevy was fourth and Jeff Ward took over -third. It was time for the motorcycles, who usually run the track in reverse direction to the cars, and they had enough entry to warrant a pair of seven lap heats. In the first heat Tony Fuller, Suzuki, was on the pole but Shaun Kalas was able to pass Fuller on the first lap and began to pull away from the pack on a Yamaha. Tracy Monterone was running second and Jim Holley was third. Kalas easily cruised to victory with Monterone second and Holley third in an all Yamaha show. In the second Ultracross heat it was Robert Drew in first place after one lap on a Kawasaki. Larry Brooks, Yamaha, was second, but on lap 2 Brooks managed to fly past Drew on a jump. These guys think nothing of passing in the air. By lap 4 Larry Brooks had a wide lead, and he cruised on to victory with Robert Drew placing second and Kip Sandell, a local rider, moved up to third on a Yamaha. That was the last of the heat races and MTEG announced the attendance in Mile High Stadium at 32,317. It was a great turnout, great fan support considering the sub-freezing temperatures all day long. The first Main Event was for the American Racing Wheels Sport Utility Class, eight laps of the usual truck style banging and bumping. Chris Neil took the early lead but then got caught up in the hydro barriers. Tommy Ivan Stewart kept the Toyota's body panels intact as he charged around to win the first truck heat. Later it got closer in the main event action and Ivan finished second. December 1993 Croft then was able to take the lead with Brian Collins in second. One lap later Cory Witherill flipped but was able to continue. On the restart Croft held the lead, but Tim Lewis moved his Jeep into second and Witherill was running third despite giving Lewis a great scare, but Cory lost a position later to the Rough Driving Committee. Larry Noel was placed fourth in his Jeep after Chris Neil in his Nissan. On the road Tommy Croft won the race in his Jeep, and won the drivers title as well as the manufacturers title for Jeep. Larry Noel finished second on the road, and Cory Witherill firdshed third. But Tim Lewis ended up with second place, if we read the results correctly, after the penalty phase of this race. The main event for the ATVs held 18 quads in a very busy session. At the finish Greg Stuart had put together a wire to wire victory, the Californian appar-ently not bothered by the cold weather. Doug Eichner was second, Sean Stubbs took third and Niclas Granlund placed fourth. A pack of 18 SuperLites came out for their main event and it was a dandy race. Shannon Millen got the jump on Greg George off the start with Jimmie Johnson running third, all teammates. George made a rare mistake and nosed into the hvdro barrier, but he was able to hold onto third spot, allowing Jimmy Johnson to pass. At the half way point George flipped his Briggsbuilt, catching Millen as well and he retired. A full course yellow condition allowed Millen not to lose ground on leader Johnson. Jimmie Johnson led but had both his lady teammates, Shannon Millen and Mercedes Gomales in hot pursuit. But Johnson, the defending class champion, held the lead for the victory, with Shannon Millen taking second and Sean Finley stealing third from Mercedes Gonzales. Allen Yaros was fifth followed by Kevin Snoddy and Joe Price. Despite the DNF Greg George has a commanding lead in the driver's points for this class. The Super 1600 race cars were next on the docket and they had a decent field of 16. Right off the start four cars ended up in the first turn hydro barriers, with Jimmy Nichols teetering over the edge. Despite being involved in the pile up, Jerry Whelchel was able to stay in the race and restart alone on the front row in his nearly bullet proof race car. At the flag Whelchel jumped into the lead, but his car began to smoke on lap 2. Kevin Smith was following in second place, and Bill Goshen ran third, until he flipped in turn 2 on lap 4 of 12 to bring out the yellow flags. On the restart Jerry Whelchel held the lead followed by Smith in second still. and Marty Hart was now third. Whelchel continued to emit smoke from the back of the car, but after a second full course yellow he again was able to hold onto the lead with Smith still in hot pursuit. Jerry Whelchel won the main event, Kevin Smith was second, followed by Jimmy Nichols, Marty Hart and local heroes Mitch Mustard and Scott Galloway. · The Ultracross main event was ten laps of flying bikes. Local rider Kip Sandell led the pack off the start and pulled away by a good distance by the halfway point of the race. Larry Brooks was in hot pursuit to gain ground and challenge Sandell at the finish. Brooks was finally able to pass Sandell on the white flag lap to win the race, while Sandell held on easily in second. Jim Holley was third, all three riding Yamahas. Robert Drew, fourth, and Andrew Atkins, fifth, scored for Kawasaki. The final race of the evening, as always, was the Grand National Sport Truck main event, 12 long laps. Would there be anyone left running strong? The Mears Gang sat on the front row, and went out to the early lead with Roger in first followed by his son Roger Jr. Ivan Stewart was following closely in third and Rick Johnson passed Rod Millen to take over fourth spot. Mears continued to widen his lead, but Mears Jr. rolled in the first turn of the fifth Dusty Times

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~ Keith Ehlers drives a privateer Briggsbuilt in SuperLite competi-tion, and he scored fourth in heat 2, but dropped well back with troubles in the main. Marty Hart leads the way in his Chenowth over a straight-a-way jump and he placed third in his heat race and came back to take a good fourth in the main. Local driver and former 1600 point champion Mitch Mustard came out to race his Chenowth and he hadn't lost his touch and placed fifth in the main event. lap, and had been passed by Stewart, Millen and Johnson. Danny Thompson had problems with his Ford and retired. Mears still held the lead on the restart, but Ivan Stewart was challenging the whole way with Rod Millen right behind him. With five laps to go, Stewart had not been able to pass leader Mears. Millen was still third with Rick Johnson in fourth. Roger Mears was able to Mile High Stadium and the 12th fend off Ivan Stewart to win the main event in his career said, Main Event. With Stewart second "When you consider all the and Rod Millen third, Toyota has motor problems we had tonight, I a wrap on the Manufacturers Cup feel like John Elway making a for 1993. The Chevrolet team fourth quarter comeback. I lost came in nose to tail with Rick two motors in this event and my Johnson fourth and Jimmie crewputtogetheramakeshiftone Johnson fifth. for the main event that actually Rogers Mears, in winning for ran better than the first two we the fourth time in six events in used today. With a heat race win '"'"'.g .,J and the main event victory here, I with his third main event win of feel like the Broncos --tough to the season. Tommy Croft beat in Mile High." extended his record setting win Rod Millen needs only 14 streak to six consecutive main points at the season ending race at event wins, capturing his second Candlestick Park in San Francisco consecutive championship in the to defend his 1992 driver's title, process. his competition being teammate Next Month Dusty Times Ivan Stewart. Jerry Whelchel continues it's MTEG coverage nailed down his second consecu-with all the action at San tive Super 1600 championship Francisco's Candlestick Park. ..... ' Rod Millen flew his Toyota to third in the truck main event, all Showing some rumpled fenders Rick Johnson carried on in the Jimmie Johnson kept his Chevrolet tidy for a while in Denver but certain to repeat as the truck class points champion by just Chevrolet, fourth in heat 2, and the champion biker was fourth starting the last event. _al_s_o_in_th_e_t_ru_c_k_m_a_in_e_v_e_n_t. ____________ _ Drive Away A Winner At Fiesta Ford! Headquarters for the most profile trucks in off-road racing history. The.Banger and F-l 50 have proven time and time again that "Ford Tough" is much more than an advertising slogan. Pure and simple ... if you want to be a winner, get a tough Ford truck from the winners at Fiesta Ford. Dusty Times December 1993 and he worked his way through the pack in the sport truck main event to fifth place. Fiesta Ford Racing Darren York - Driver Doug York - Co-Driver Ed Frisk -Crew Chief 1993 Record to date: Parker 400 - First Nevada 400 - Second Baja 500 - First Fireworks 250 - First Gold Coast 300 - First Baja 1000 - November Indio, CA 9220 l (619) 347-1234 Page 21

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1993 Australian Safari By Cam Warren · Photos: Su Kemper/ Cam Warren Michael Goddard was first overall motorcycle on a Kawasaki KLX 65U, aesp,te railing off and injuring his shoulder on the last day. He won in 1988 also, and he had a nine hour lead at the finish! He led from day one too. Australia may well provide the best off-pavement travel oppor-tunities in the world, since a good portion o f the U.S . sized continent is "Outback" country. A truly top notch radio c0m-m unications system keeps the enthusiast in touch with civiliza-tion in case.of serious problems·, and emergency services are well established. Suitable vehicles can be obtained easily and there is a thriving industry in add-on equipment. So it isn't surprising to find the Australian Safari a serious contender for the attention of world class competi-tors. At.·3 ,750 miles it falls somewhere between the Baja 1000 and the infamous Paris-Dakar. Many feel it's more difficult than either. To Americans, Aussies seem just one sandwich short of a picnic, but the down-under troops can teach us a lot about event organization. Despite their renegade reputations, they tend to do things a bit less informally than we Yanks, with positive result$. The Safari is a grueling marathon that runs from urban Sydney clear up north to tropical Darwin. The hard way, which is to say over faint tracks through country rarely visited by outsiders. Much of it was through aboriginal lands, a lot over private ranch property, for which permits to rarely issued. Some tracks were so little traveled that chest high grass was common; a bit off-putting to American off roaders. The Safari, you see, is organized as an FIA marathon rally, which means you follow a route book only made available to drivers the night before the run. Recon-naissance is not possible nor permissable, resulting on much less wear and tear on the scenery and no destructive short cutting. No policing is necessary; if you deviate from the track your mileages wouldn't jibe with the instructions and you'd soon be hopelessly lost. (Drivers still got lost - navigators do goof occa-sionally -but that's all part of the fun). FIA Marathon rules classify three types of vehicles. "Tl" are stock machines, "T2" are "improved" (modified stock) and T3 are non-homologated prototypes. Each group is broken down into engine sizes, turbo and normally aspirated, and diesel or gasoline-powered sub-groups. In Australia there was also provision made for a "national" class, i.e., those vehicles meeting domestic but not FIA standards. Besides engine size and fuel types, these were also sub-divided into 4 wheel ( or more!) drive and two-wheel drive. There was just one of . the latter, a not nea,_rly enough modified Porsche 911, whlch crashed out the second day. It's unlikely that any 2W D could have gone the distance; with the possible exception of a dune buggy, and one of those probably couldn't have carried enough fuel to cover the distances required. So, we're talking serious 4WD folks, plus some semi-crazy motorcyclists. Fewer than half of the entrants saw the finish line, which gives you some idea of the toughness of the event. The average daily distance to be covered was around 420 miles, virtually all over "unimproved" surfaces. That meant old railroad right-of-way, rocky goat-tracks, treacherous sand dunes, desert "pavement" and "gibbers" , Aussie talk for round river stones, not exceeding baseball size. On the positive side, most of the scenery was spectacular, and there were kangaroos, emus, dingos and other native fauna for entertain-ment. Tech inspection, and the official start, was held in Parramatta, a west-of-Sydney suburb of considerable charm. There the competitors got their first look at one another, while everybody (and everything) was still clean. The heavy-hitters were the AAMI ( an insurance comp-any) team, faced off against the "K's Racing'~ Isuzus. The_former 14-22 AUGUST 1993 were running a pair of prototype wrenched shoulder). long wheel base Nissan Patrol After an overnight stop at GQs, one turbocharged, with Dubbo, the competitors rose at trick "Old Man Emu" suspen-dawn for the first full day of sions. There were two normally serious racing. Incidentally, aspirated V6 "Jackaroo" models commercial campgrounds en in the K's camp, and one turbo route were utilized for these rest diesel, all three giving away about breaks; the organizers provided one liter displacement to the all-night food service as well as Nissans. transportation for mechanics, The rest of the international spare parts and camping gear. The class were a mixed bag, including a personnel went on a pair of little 657cc Suzuki, Toyota Land charter busses; material was Cruisers, two Mitsubishi Pajeros,. hauled by a couple of those giant Daihatsu "Ferozas" and the Australian "road-trains". This Chevy S-10 "prototype" of caravan US\lally was able to short Canadian Walt Peterson and our cut over main roads; occasionally old friend Clive Smith , who they had to take to the outback knows an awful lot about race tracks too. The logistics handling trucks. Among the European was on a par with the famed entrants was Etienne Smulevici, a Paris/ Dakar event, with the Frenchman with ten Paris-Dakar definite advantage that everybody finishes to his credit, driving a spoke English (sort-of!) and L WB Pajero. And of considerable ' unlike the French, the organizers ; Japanese media attention, 66-year · provided potty facilities and · old Mrs. Emiko Mogi, at the drinking water. wheel of the Suzuki Jimny. She That second day saw a lot of would celebrate her birthday shuffling for position, much of it enroute, but would also fail to engendered by a 120 mile long finish. "killer" section that looked like But on to the action, which Baja at its worst. This was mostly 1 began with a surprisingly good 5 low speed rock crawling, but it , mile run at Amaroo Park, a sorted out the dilettantes in a commercial racing facility. This hurry. There were the occasional turned out to be a lot better than fast stretches, usually terminated many of us expected; lots of steep in a ball-breaking washout that up-hill/.down-hill stuff with woke everybody up. Then, on the water splashes and some quick last section, a run into the dusty bits, to set the stage for what was setting sun gave a taste of things to tocome.Oneoftheisuzus,driven come further up the road. by Bruce McClintock/Hiro Surprisingly, only two vehicles Sejimawasnotonlyquickest,but failed to finish; one being impressively smooth and quiet Smith/ Peterson, who had traded running. They looked a good bet engine reliability for maximum to win the whole event, if horsepower, a big mistake on this McClintock stuck to his elegant kind of event. A pity, 'cause the style of driving. The brightly truck could really fly over the painted Porsche was fastest in the rough stuff. National group; Mike Goddard Day three started out with a too k the bike honors on a couple of very fast sections, Kawasaki KLX650. He was good perfect for the Nissans. Then enough to stay out front for the came a two hundred mile section whole rally, and was the first that went around the corner of motorcycletocrossthefinishline Lake Torrens, AustraJia's second at Darwin (despite_ a _badly__ .. largest salt 13:ke. Once there, the All but stuck in the sand dunes near the Simpson Desert, No. Territory, Terry Denham and Ross Easton recovered quickly enough to finish third overall in the Isuzu 960 Jackaroo Turbo Diesel. Ron Jones and wa;ren Thomson ford one of the many streams encountered on the route, but their Nissan Patrol was up to the task and they finished the rally ninth overall. It is small but tough, and Hock and Ben Opalenko, shown here on the beach at Darwin on the last competitive section, finished in the Daihatsu 1600cc Feroza. Pagcll December 1993

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Fir/It in the National Class were Peter Barnes and Colin Sutherland in a Toyota pickup that also serves as the Birdsville Auto shop truck. Nearly stock the truck proved reliability wins a marathon. track got soft and boggy, unless . r Swap./Gow to roll their Nissan, drivers opted for the bone-jarring although they were able to keep cross grain running further up the . going after a loss of some 20 shoreline. We buried our media minutes. The third and final vehicle ( a four wheel drive, high- competitive section of the day saw rise Toyota) up to the axles here, the racers traveling up the an unpleasant experience at best. straight-but-rough right-of-way Happily, for the competitors, the for the old abandoned "Ghan" last sixty miles or so was pretty railroad. Stott was able to travel fast going through shrub brush . fast enough to still be in first place . once clear of the lake. The lead ' at day's end . . Nissan, feeling frisky, performed t Day five saw the pack heading , a double roll. Drivers Andy Stott ~northward across the Simpson and Terry Conner carried on, I Desert, noted for its red colored finishing second for the day, but ·1 sand dunes that lie parallel to one retired the next morning with another. The Nissans continued electrical troubles. · in command, pursued by the The Isuzu team had its prob-Mitsubishi truck of Max Roberts/ -lems, too, although McClini:ock . Tony Carroll and the three Isuzus. was now carrying on in third. His ' Unfortunately, McClintock took team mates, Bruce Garland/,· a wrong turning on the flat, Harry Suzuki had the unpleasant featureless plain after the dunes, experience of getting their and lost about an hour, dropping· transfer case stuck in low-range. him to sixth place. Five other' which meant long miles of teams, led by one of the : grinding along at under 40 mph · Frenchmen, did the same thing, : and dropped them six places to which rearranged the running 11th overall. At day's end, Ian ' order substantially. Happily, one Swan/Colin Gow were atop the of the highlights of the afternoon leader board in their Nissan with was a trip over "Carpenter's Gap" the aforementioned Stott/Con-(nicknamed after organizer Bob ner. next. Isuzu drivers Reg·' Carpenter) a natural notch Owen/ Andy Brown were fourth. through a picturesque escarp-Meanwhile, Japanese competitors ment, covered with brilliantly Yoshiaki Tezuka and Hiro huedwildflowers.Thelegwound Watanabe had a lucky escape up for the night at Ross River, a when their Nissan Pathfinder tourist resort about 50 miles to caught fire and burnt to a shell in the east of Alice Springs. spectacular fashion. The following morning the The fourth leg saw drivers I competitors swung eastward traveling through the southern I through the MacDonnell Ranges part of the huge "Anna Creek" , to the unpaved Plenty Highway station, which is the largest piece I and then northwest again over the of privately owned land in the Bundy River to the community of world. Most of the track in the ; Ammaroo. Enroute were spec-early running was sandy -but fast, , tacular sawtooth ridges as a which seemed to suit Garland and backdrop to a very rough track Suzuki, anxious to make up time that hadn't been used since 1956. lost with their previous troubles. This leg spelled disaster for lzusu They set fastest time on the first #130 (McClintock), who had two sections in their #131 Isuzu. forced his way up to third overall Trying to stave them off qi.used __ during the day. On the last The 1992 winners Reg Owen and Andy Brown looked good and finished the event in the Nissan Patrol GQ, but were excluded for being pushed 37 miles into the final control of the day. -~styflma Owen and Brown had gotten badly bogged and damaged the wheel bearings of their Nissan while struggling to get free. Denis and John Coaker were running second National entry when the Toyota HJ75 quit on the Last competitive section on the beach in Darwin. Fans pushed the rig toward the finish and Coaker used the starter to "hop" over the line. Leg Seven was another long :lay, featuring a 200 mile stage ~rom just north of Tennant Creek to the aboriginal center of Kalkaringi on the old Buchanan Stock Route. Steve Cornwall (#123) ran into difficulties when he was blinded by morning sun and thick. dust. He hit what he later described as a "four foot deep hole the width of the car" in the first section. He and co-driver Ken Dixon emerged unscathed, but the Land Cruiser suffered body damage. It was quickly winched out by fellow competi-tors Max Roberts and Tony Carroll in the Mitsubishi Ute, and they all continued to the overnight halt. section, he and Sejima suffered I dropped them well down the two flat tires, and then ran out of leader board and lowered their gas within sight of the final I spirits an equal amount. Of little control. The 90 minutes lost .) consolation was the news that Another more serious casualty .vas McClintock/ Sejima, whose ,:ally ended with • disc valving system continuoussuspen--the IQU9h yet l'Tli3inlains ride on the street. Truck and $IXll1 utility vehicle drivers more Shock perfoona,ce and Bilsterl provides ... • Highest gas pressure for fade-free long life • 98% efficiency <:tv« 100,00) miles • l.a,gest piston wori<ing area(1,81" diameter) • Limited lifetime warranty These are the san:,e high quality Bilstein shocks 1hat normally cost up to $119.00 eoc:h. 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The National entry of Masayuko Sato and Jota lshiwata, here on the beach at Darwin, got the Nissan Safari Diesel Wagon to the checkered flag that day. Frenchman Yves Morize, a many time Paris-Dakar veteran was a DNF with gearbox failure on the Toyota. Note the Satellite Communications truck that traveled with the rally with 6 phone booths so you could call anywhere in the world. The only American entry a Chevy Sonoma of Clive Smith and Walt Peterson was out with a blown engine after only one and a half days of competition. Australian Safari Results Ian Swan/Colin Gow Bruce Garland/Harry Suzuki Terry Denham/Ross Easton Max Roberts/Tony Carroll Stephen Cornwell/Ken Dixon J-Plerre Melocco/J-Paul Humlly Etienne Smulevlcl/Alaln Smulevlcl Geoff Pickering/Ken Besgrove Rod Jones/Warren Thomson Blaise Henrlon/Graham McCredle Michael Goddard (M1) AUS AUS/J AUS AUS AUS F F AUS AUS F/AUS AUS Nissan Patrol Isuzu 960 Jackaroo Isuzu 960 Jackaroo Mitsubishi Triton Ute Toyota HJB0 Nissan Terrano Mitsubishi Pajero Mitsubishi Pajero Nissan Patrol Range Rover Kawasaki KUC 650 T3" 43:42:09 Tl" 44:14:09 T1 44:20:57 T3 45:55 :53 T3 46:43:07 T 2 • 4 7:33:20 T3 49:44:39 T1 50:46:57 T3 52:56:09 T2 53:01 :02 MO"53:01 :02 Location Sydney-Darwin - Starters 52 - Finishers 24 - Finish ratio 46% 3750 mlles total - Stage mlles 2100 In 24 stages - route Gravel, Paved, Mixed. his nearest rival, French police-man Raymond Loizeaux (BMW). #106 (Rod Jones/Warren Thom-son) turned up the wick and gained two places on the 100 mile long run from Francis Creek to Mt. Bundy, across the Ringwood Range. The final 2 km special stage on Mindil Beach, primarily for the benefit of local spectators, saw a bit of drama when Car # 112 (Toyota diesel pickup) stalled just short of the finish line. Second place in the National Class was at stake, and the crew {Denis and John Coker) worked frantically to get the vehicle restarted. It looked hopeless, but then they enlisted the help of a crowd of spectators and other competitors for a push. Just short of the line, they waved •. a blown engine on· the day's last section. And Nissan lost the 101 car to a ruling by the stewards, who cited them for two separate rules infractions, one for being pushed illegally at one point on the route. (They had been running under protest pending an official decision.) Meanwhile, the top position was still held by Swan and Gow, with the Jackaroo of Garland/Suzuki as runner-up. In the motorcycle division, Kawasaki mounted Michael Goddard had stretched hi~ lead to nearly five hours over The final day, a run from Douglas Crossing on the Daly River to Darwin was relatively uneventful, save for Goddard falling off his bike in a moment of inattention. (He ran the brief final stage on the beach at Darwin with his shoulder heavily bandaged.) "I was riding slowly and was not concentrating and fell off" he explained, "because nobody was pushing me." Most of the positions were unchanged from the preyious _night, although car everyone back, and pulled the These no-nonsense trucks and just three trailers toted everything up course Toyota across the line on the for the rest stops, a logistical miracle. In front is "Majestic Lady". Note the 'starter motor, thus fulfilling the _se_r_io.,..u_s_"_ro_o_"_b_a_r_in_f-,-ro_n_t_. ---:-:-=:---,-----=--------,----,----Amirog DIRT BAGZ ~CENTERUNEWHEB.S -, SI-M-PS-0--,N I requirement of "crossing the line without a care in the world. They {population 80, on a good day) under power". had held a comfortable lead in the and Colin "Su tho" Sutherland, Meanwhile, alone and virtually 'National Class since Day 2, when sheep rancher from Beachland, unsung, a couple of "good ol' the Porsche had crashed out. South Australia, had their own boys" in another Toyota pickup Peter "Barnesy" Barnes, garage approach to success. "The truck's were grinding merrily along, proprietor from Birdsville just about dead-stock", Suther-land explained. It's got the optional 90 liter spare tank, which gave us 180 liters all together. Barnesy took out the fancy electronics, replaced them with points and condenser, and fitted a carburetor that's easy to fix." CHENOWTH STREET & OFFROAD ACCESSORIES elA6 ©JJElIE® ~ - T-RI--M-IL-E-XH-A-US-T-SY-S-TE_M_S __ P I RR LI 6 HTS 1 3/8 TYPE 1 RAW ............................. $59. 95 CNC HYDRAULIC SINGLE or DUAL "We ,had a mechanic on the bus", Sutho continued, "but he got a lot of sleep. 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Next year, the Australian Safari joins a dis-tinguished group of events to make up the international FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and we understand, will pick up a major sponsor. There is little doubt it will again be a memorable show. Let's look for some US teams to join the fun! DustyTimcs

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Juha Kankkunen Wins On Home Ground In Finland Text & Phot.os: Martin Holmes pairing in rallying is unusual. Giraudet knew this event, however. Last year he finished ninth alongside fellow Frenchman Philippe Bugalski. In the manufacturers' section Toyota had the chance to pull ahead of Ford, not present in an officia_l capacity. Victims of the rule that limits the events teams can enter in Europe, Ford were spending time concentrating on the final outside Europe event in Ari Vatanen with Bruno Berglund catches a Jot of air in the new Subaru lmpre.za 555 and they led off and on and finished a very close second overall. Australia. Despite the team. Juha Kankkunen and Denis Giraudet flew the Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD to the eventual overall victory, after a close fight with Ari Vatanen/Bruno Berglund and Kankkunen was 47 seconds ahead at the finish, closer to the championship. sponsors' major offensive in the Far East and following their win in New Zealand the Prodrive team now had the blessing of their masters to run their new lmpreza and everything about the car_ pointed towards an exciting debut. In a surprise move it was decided before New Zealand to drop Colin McRae from this event and replace him with Toyota edged themselves into a championship challenging posi-tion when Juha Kankkunen regained the lead of the 1000 Lakes Rally at the expense of Ari Vatanen. Toyota's fifth victory this season had put them in a tactical advantage over the absent Ford, though the speed of Subaru's new lmpreza meant that Toyota' could not relax until the last few stages. Vatanen had taken the lead toward the end of the second day, but fell back with visibility troubles associated with the controversial intercooler spray system, but the brand new car promised much for the future. This was one more remarkable event in an incredible season, the fastest rally in Finland, the fastest (despite recent perform a nee reducing, cost cutting and safety improving rule changes) for the veteran Markku Alen. The New past two years in the champion-Zealand rally winner had been ship, and the third fastest ever competing instead in_ Malaysia, held. Driving stages close to his which his victory there had home in central Finland almost by justified. memory, Kankkunenalsoincreas-For weeks before the 1000 ed his lead in the World Drivers' Lakes Rally, there had been series with teammate Didier speculation on local TV and in the Auriol now second. ress about the career future of First in Group N and 11th overall went to_ Jarmo Kytolehto and Arto _Kapanen Far from easing its pace after PH M · k k 1 · · cl t in the Mitsubishi Ga/ant VR-4 and the win moved Kytolehto into third in FIA annu 1 o a, 1nv1te o . . C . the two recent faraway qualifying compete -0n this event with the ~ :...P.:...ro:..:d:..:u:..:c:..:.t,..:o.:...n....:C:..:a::...r:..:.D....:r_,v_:e_rs __ u.:....p..:...p_o_in,...t_s. ______________ _ rounds of the series, the race for Toyota team. It was Hannu who country's top rally once more". Even though this year's the 1993 World Championships scored the first World Rally Stillpeoplewonderediftherewill performance reducing rules has maintained its intensity· Juha victory for TIE here in Finland in be a major announcement from ( heavier cars, smaller wheels and Kankkunen appeared in his home 1975, and members of the Toyota Mikkola, but this did not happen. control fuel) had generally eased country _with another challenge, team had long been some of his Just by entering this event, the the pace of the cars on previous his second change of co-driver closest friends. The 51 year old seven time 1000 Lakes Rally events it would be surprising if the this year. Nicky Grist was with Finn wouldn't say anything winner had already entered the 1993 1000 Lakes did not break him in Argentina and New except a formal "I very much record books: he was the first top speed records. Forgetting the Zealand. Grist reverted to his appreciate the gesture of (TIE works team World Champion-Tucuman disaster of 1992 where previous driver Armin Schwarz, Chief) Ove Andersson to offer ship rallyman to start an event at 20'}h of the route was canceled, at so with Kankkunen was Denis me this chance to enter m y over 50 years of age. 507 km of stages this was the Giraudet, well known to Toyota • shortest World Championship as co-driver to Francois Chatriot __ ;s· Rally in distance for four years in Corsica. A Finnish-French andintimeforsix.Mindfulofthe ~~s,,,,,. . ~ ·The Off-Roader's Choice· controversial fresh ground being broken by these speeds, Finnish Motorsport President Kari Sahlberg took FISA President Max Mosley down one of the fastest stages, M yhinpaa, in a rally car and his guest pronounced himself thrilled. Page 26 01161" .. \. c,~~ • E-Z UP"' INSTANT SHELTE 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 lnstBnt Pit Shelter La Rana Contingency Sponsor SCORE Contingency Sponsor E-l UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS, INC. 104°4~. C'ole Ave. Los An_geles, CA 90038 CALL: 213 • 462 • 1468 =:m. ~ Former World Champion and champion Rally Raid driver Ari Vatanen, left, is apparently describing how he went off course to Course 'ouvreur' Richard Burns. They were 18th overall, but Bruno Thiry and Stephane Prevot were the first Formula 2 (2WD) car home in the Opel Astra GSi, adding to GME's lead in the category for FIA Manufacturers Cup points. December 1993 The strain of the event was very lai;ge in the minds of the drivers. Kankkunen 's teammate Didier Auriol said, "This rally is unusual because you are driving fast hut you can seldom see the road wr)' far ahead. Always you are having to choose exactly the right line over blind crests. This is Formula 1 on gravel, but without the sand traps. If you make a mistake on this event you have a very hig accident. On the other hand it is very attractive to visiting drivers, because they forbid practice at high speed, and the sporting spirit of the organizers, particularly the police authorities, now makes a visitor feel welcome. Even without Ford and Lan-cia/Jolly Club on hand, there was much to see in Finland. Mitsubi-shi made a welcome return_ to the championship scene with more powerful and lighter Group A Lancer Evolutions, though because this remarkable car was only made in right hand drive form, there were no Lancers in the Group N class. With the first 25 Group N cars on the entry being local drivers, this category did not DustyTimes

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Tommi Makinen and Seppa Harjanne took fourth overall in the Astra Team Lancia and were the highest placed European car in the Rally in the HF_l_n_te_g'-r_a=le_. -~-========== Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander had a good run in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and the Swedes scored points taking a fine fifth overall. Skoda is close to GME in Formula 2 points and Pavel Sibera and Petr Gross finished 22nd overall, but second in F2 in the Skoda Favorit 136L. Mitsubishi team driver Armin Schwarz discusses the rally per-formance en route with Team Manager Andrew Cowan, right; Schwarz finished in ninth overall. During a service break our correspondent Martin Holmes, right, chatted with Didier Auriol, center and Shizuya Sakurai, General Manager, Toyota Motorsports Division. The Ford Escort RS Cosworth of Malcolm Wilson and Bryan Thomas flipped on the last stage of the first section and was too badly damaged to continue. attract much foreign interest. In Formula 2, however, Bruno Thiry returned in the hope of increasing GME's championship points advantage. Main rivals came from Lada (New Zealand F2 winner Aleksander Artemenko among them) and the official Skoda team. When GM refused to support Thiry's team with an official championship nomina-tion at FISA, we had a strange curiosity at this rally. For the first time ever there was no European manufacturer on a World Rally counting for Manufacturers' points. . Etape 1 started and the new Impreza was everything we had been led to believe it would be, even though Markku Alen crashed his car on stage 1. After a cautious start Ari Vatanen scored fastest time on stage 3 and started his battle with the Toyotas ofJuha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol. The pace continued all evening and on the last stage of the day, 15, the three leading drivers scored the same time! Behind the Subaru and Toyotas, Mitsubishi had a lack luster day. Armin Schwar z suffe r ed handling troubles, but in the best spot to move up should the leaders falter was local driver Tommi Makinen i n his A stra Team Lancia Integrale. Malcolm W ilson was driving a semi-official Ford, but he dropped back from a promis-. ing fifth place on the last stage when he overturned. The team brought the car back to Jyvaskyla to fix, and it restarted the next day. His teammate Sebastian Lindholm had been delayed with steering trouble as well. In Group N the anticipated walkover of the old type Mitsubi-shi Galant VR 4s was threatened by good performances by Audi and Toyota cars. Jarrno K ytolehto led after Jouko Puhakka lost timl' when he had oil leak onto his clutch in the morning. In Formula 2 Bruno Thiry was over six minutes ahead of the leading Skoda of Pavel Sibera. The heat of battle for the lead had its lighter moments. Vatanen nearly went off the road when he missed his braking point for a Dusty Times critical corner. During training he strained right arm, but said later haq noted a red mail box as his he hopes to be able to start point of reference. When he training for the Manx Rally, final arrived, it wasn't there. Kank-round in the British Open series, kunen was bemused. " I never which he can still win. A new car have trouble there, because that is will, however, have to be built where m y neighbors and m y meanwhile. Granholm, lying 9th, family always go out to spectate." lost five minutes in a ditch with Vatanen went away wondering if broken suspension and Auria! that red box had been removed on lost touch with the leaders when purpose! In the Toyota camp he chose the wrong tires. Vatanen interesting things were afoot. made second best time, despite a After denials about their inten-flat. tions, they were in fact using their The fight for the lead was new traction control system on intense all day. On stage 20 both Mikkola's Toyota. On the other Kankkunen and Vatanen admit-hand, the semi-automatic trans-ted they had been off the road. On · mission system on the lmprezas, stage 24 Auriol jumped so hard actuation b y switches on the the whole under-shield came steering column, had not been away. On stage 25, 36 km long, used, as both drivers decided to Vatanen closed within eight use the manual gear lever change seconds of Kankkunen, while. instead. Vantanen's codriver Juha had trouble. "I had two Bruno Berglund said "At the punctures and two seized shock speed we have been going on the absorbers." Auria! lost further stages we thought it was safer with time when the front suspension the syst e m that came most went soft. Later in the rain, oil naturally to us! lying in the engine compartment On Etape 2 Vatanen's lone found its way to his windscreen fight in the sole remaining Subaru and slowed him down. K ytolehto Impre:a with the Toyotas of still led Group N and Thiry was Kankkunen and Auriol gradually still ahead of Sibera's Skoda in paid off when he took the lead Formula 2. three stages from the end of the W as Subaru sandbagging , second leg, only to lose it again perhaps could up the rev limit, just before the cars returned to and that possibility was confirm-Jyvaskyla. There were two long ed, if Vatanen needed it. The stages which strained drivers and visibility problem had been acute. cars to the limit. It was on the 30 It was raining on the final night km stage I 7 that Wilson crashed stage and Vatanen lost vital time his Escort again and retired. He when the windscreen misted up . was taken to hospital with a badly Having briefly taken the lead Ari 43rd 1000 Lakes Rally Juha Kankkunen/Denis Giraudet SF/F Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A• 4:23:51 Ari Vatanen/Bruno Berglund SF/S Subaru lmpreza 555 A 4 :24:38 Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelli F Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A 4:26:01 Tommi Makinen/Seppa Harjanne SF Lancia HF lntegrale A 4:28:26 Kenneth Eriksson/Staffan Parmander S Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution A 4:29:32 Sebastian Lindholm/limo Hantunen SF Ford Escort RS Cosworth A 4:31 :34 Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz SF/S Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A 4:32:33 Lassa Lampi/Pentti Kuukkala SF Mitsubishi Galan! VR-4 A 4:33:18 Armin Schwarz/Nicky Grist D/GB Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution A 4:34:06 Marcus Gronholm/Voitto Silander SF Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A 4:40:20 Jarmo Kytolehto/Arto Kapanen SF Mitsubishi Galan! VR-4 N• 4:43:29 Bruno Thiry/Stephane Prevot B Opel Astra GSi A •• 4:57:47 Galina Grokhovskaja/R. Maklakova RUS Lada Samara A # 6:41 :01 113 starters -61 finishers - ·Group Winner •• F2 winner - #Ladies Cup Winner Winner's average speed over stages - 115.45 kph (record) World Championship Points - Toyota 131, Ford 111, Subaru 73, Lancia 67, Mitsubishi 57 WRC Drivers Points - Kankkunen 91, Auriol 71, Delecour 70, Biasion 66, McRae 44, Sainz 35, Eriksson and Makinen 26, Alen 25, Aghini and Trelles 22 etc. Group N Points - Fassina "5, Coutinho 24, Kytolehto 23, Hellmann 15, etc. FIA Manufacturers Cup (Formula 2) GME 46, Skoda 37, Citroen 24, Lada 23, Peugeot 22 FIA Ladles Cup Points - Oriana 15, Holderied 9. December 1993 was back to second place. day before, and was down to Subaru did not turn up the sixth. wick. They started Etape 3 With a Juha Kankkunen became the 17 second deficit with 8 5 firstdrivertoscoreathirdWorld-kilometerstogo.Afteracoupleof Rally victory this season and stages it became clear the gap was equaled Hannu Mikkola· as the just too much. Ari eased off and most successful championship promptly went off the road! "It driver ever, behind fellow Finn wasn't relevant" he kidded the Markku Alen, and gave Toyota journalists. "Write about things the championship break they that are!" Then privateer driver needed. Ari Vatanen was just 47 Makinen took a series of three seconds back in second. Next fastest times, rubbing into the comes Australia where all five top official Mitsubishi camp the teams will be present. After that misery of their position. Andrew are two all asphalt events, Cowan looked around wondering Sanremo and Catalunya, and after what was wrong. The Lancers Australia the teams decide their handled nicely, the drivers were program for the remaining events going well, .but they were off the of the 1993 Championship pace. 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The racing program started with Class 3 Saturday morning, a real dog fight too, but Jerry Bundy survived to finish third in his Jeep Scrambler. Gary Plummer started his 5-1600 race by rolling in the first lap, but he got back on all four wheels and carried on, and was running at the finish. Alan Fannin is nearly always the bridesmaid in Class 6 when Fay Statezny is around, and sure enough Fay won the class and Alan finished a close second. SODA Invades the U.P.! By Barb & Marilyn Schultz Photos: Jeanne Brown/Gregg Witte/Dan Mainzer/Trackside Photo Inc. Kevin Probst leads the four wheel drives every time he takes to the track, but is usually felled by mechanical ills. At Bark River his fancy GMC held together just fine and Kevin won the Heavy Metal Challenge. Drivers and fans of the World Series Of Off Road Racing took to the ,highways and byways the weekend ofJuly 24 & 25 for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the U . P. Off Road 100 for more of the best racing action around! Not only is the countryside itself Fuel Safe's Pro C are designed to highest perfor and safety standards se by all of the major racing associations. Top like Robbie Gordon, demand t e es and so should you. Fuel Safe Racing Cells -The Champions Choice! At your local dealer now! Aircraft Rubber Manufacturing, Inc. 18062 Redondo Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 842-2211 (800) 433-6524 (Outside CA) SAFETY ... It's what we're all abqut. Page 28 absolutely fantastic, as the years have gone by, the track has become absolute! y fantastic! Each year the Bark River Lions Club, sponsors of this race event, improve the track. This year's improvements included a wider track for good clean passing and a new camping area. Throw in the remarkable Dave Vandermissen Family, Brian Adams and whole host of other remarkable Y ooper folks and you've got a great setting, with great atmosphere for a great weekend of racing! Ya' know, Bark River may not be the reason God made Oklahoma, but the Oklahoma land rush style start at Bark River gives new meaning to the words "land rush". Wowsers, even with a much wider track coming down from the start, the sight is incredible! The trend this racing season seems to be to put tradition aside and start the day's racing with a class other than Class 11 ! The U.P. Off Road 100 was no exception, having Class 3 do the opening honors. Five entrants took the first green flag with plenty of action! A classic duel has developed between v.eteran Gerald Foster and 1992 's Rookie of the Year, Chad Schleuter and these two were out to let the fans know the contest is serious! It must be the air on the Upper Peninsula, as Johnny Greaves has had a tough time getting to the finish with his Class 7S truck, but here he won the Mini Metal Championship in a flag to flag leading performance. December 1993 Unfortunately Schleu-ter took the first corner after the flag line a little too hard, missed the corner -but did one heck of a job jumping the asphalt road, a ditch, maneuvering around a telephone pole, a couple of fence posts and doing at least a three foot high jump back on the track! This gave Mike Savage the door to second place with Foster hammering it down for first. Say, Mike Savage, it's good to see ya' back! Meanwhile Schleuter has not lost a position to Jerry Bundy so the fight is still on. By the half way mark Schleuter is back knocking on Foster's door. There was a super racing moment when Foster, Schleuter and Savage were headed down the funnel together -door to door! It's looking better and better for Schleuter, he's on Foster's back door and then the gods of racing pulled Schleuter off the track with mechanical blues. Foster took home the win, Savage pl~ced second and Bundy took third. As a side note, young Schleuter and crew packed up and moved on to run two more races that weekend -Schleuter won both of his other contests! It's nice, really nice to report the growth and return of Class 5-1600 in the SODA Series! Seven of these neat machines took the green flag with Gary Plummer rolling over before lap one was put in! Plummer got his machine back on all fours and went on racin' to the finish! Way to go Plummster! Greg Smith piloted Joe Eppers machine and went on a flag to flag run for the win but not without knowing that the amazing Mike Brue was right on his bumper, looking over his shoulder and waving as they went door to door! And right behind this action was the racing giant Bill Bowles going tooth and nail with Terry P. Wolfe for position. Say, does "P." stand for "perfect"???? -Smith and Brue went lap after lap with Brue ready for Smith to make any kind of mistake and make that first place pass. Smith made no mistakes, took first with Brue right on his bumper for second. Wolfe got the best of Bowles for third place. Welcome aboard Tim Christensen in the #575 machine! Speaking of growth and returns, it was also nice to see eight Class 6 machines take the infamous land rush start! The Bark River track is one of the longer tracks on the SODA circuit and usually treats Class 6 pretty well! The King of Class 6, Fay Statezny, and the I'm Gonna' Get You Some Day King, Al Fan-nin, put on another show of remarkable machinery and super driving. Hand it to Al Fannin, he NEVER gives up. Tim Kamm and Bill "The Survivor" Graboski gave the crowd a super show with their battle for third place until Kamm had to pull off, Graboski put in one more lap and then he had to pull off. Enter John Zni-dorka who has a knack for keep-ing his machine alive to finish. At the checkered flag Statezny had the win with Fannin breathing down his neck for second. Zni-dorka pulled out third. Finishing in fourth was David Gerbel who was also the only other car to finish. The Class 4 race was up next with enough super racing action to keep a body going for a good two years! Nine trucks took the start and roared down the funnel with Ken Kincaid out before a full lap could be put in. Now, the early leader in this race was Kevin Probst and he was keeping a close eye on Geoff Dorr who was right on his tail. In fact, by lap two these two giants of Class 4 had a 39 second lead on the rest of the field. Nuts! Lap three comes up and Probst breaks off the right front wheel giving Dorr what look-ed to be a blow out lead for the win. But no, this wasn't to be! Snaking through the pack were both Gerald Foster and Mike Sav-age in their Class 3 machines. 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@ John Znidorka keeps his equipment together despite these antics, and John snuck up on the Class 6 field late in the race and finished in third spot. Bill Graboski was challenging the leaders, up to third place in Class 6, but his sedan failed him late in the race and he had to retire to the pits. The Class 8 battle was for second place, nearly side by side, but at the finish line Dave Hackers, who spun on the last lap, finished in third. It was busy and crowded up front in Class 2-1600, but Jim Wiggins took the lead at the green flag, and managed to fend off all challengers and win the race with a wire to wire lead. He did the same in Class 1-1600 and also won the Limited Engine Challenge. green flag. Without a doubt Scott Taylor took control of this race and went from git-go to finish in first place. The nitty gritty battle was between Dan "The Flying Dutchman" Vanden Heuvel and Dave Hockers for second and third places. While this battle went on lap after lap attrition just ate up most of the field. Mechani-cal blues of one kind or another took out Jimmie" Alligator Man" Crowder, Jed Flannery, Dennis Ferdon and Brian Don levy. Back to second and third, Hockers was so close to Vanden Heuvel 's back end he could read the lettering on Dan's helmet lap after lap. On the checkered flag lap with two short corners to go Hockers made a do or die move for the pass. Rats, the daring move went awry sending Hockers into a full loop giving Vanden Heuvel a relatively safe second, Hocke rs settling for third. Now, there's still one more truck on the track, young Troy Konitzer. Konitzer was doing a great job when the racing demons decided to give him one wonder-ful 26th birthday present, a roll over at the finish line! Konitzer placed fifth with Donlevy in fourth. and broke the front drive shaft putting him out. Foster is still hanging in there, still gaining on Dorr and who's that??? Mark Seidler came snaking through fol-lowed by Scott "I got guts" Smith from Connecticut. Smith endur-ed a nasty roll with flames at Bark River in 1992 and it was nice to see him back! With three laps to go Dorr's machine snuffs right before the finish line. While Dorr was able to refire, he lost two positions; Foster went by in first and Seidler went by in second. Now we're down to the white flag lap and Foster pulls off1 Seidler held position for the win, Dorr placed second and o ur friend from Connecticut, Scott Smith took third. As World of the World and Famous Off Road Announcing Team (Terry Fri-day), tried to interview Seidler, it became obvious that the whole deal left Mark speechless. At any rate, Mark had a difficult time with the microphone saying abso-lutely nothing! We hear Oprah calling you, Mark!! There's just nobody and nothing quite like an off road racer! Maybe the cowboy types want to lay claim to needing a spe-cial kind of woman for a wife, but it's our opinion that it takes an even more special kind of woman to ·marry an off road racer! As Kevin Dahlberg took the line in the Class 2-1600 race he just had to be thinking of his wedding -the day before on the track with the big wedding night held at the campground at the track! Con-gratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Dahlberg, we think!! To the race!!! One more time it's the classic face off between Jim Wiggins, Todd Attig, John Greaves, Dan Bau-doux and Greg Smith. Whew, what a group!! Wiggins wenr"from green to checkered in first place but not without some serious threat from first Greaves and then Todd Attig. Greaves was dueling fiercely with Attig for second place when zappo, his motor just went away! Now the line-up is Wiggins with first, Attig, Smith Dusty Times and Baudoux dueling for third. Smith ran into electrical problems and had to pull off. Young Walt Carlson maneuvered into play while Mark Steinhardt had been bus'y.. making some dynamite moves through the pack. So, who, at the checkered flag has second?? Attig made the right moves for second, Baudoux placed third, Steinhardt had fourth and Carl-son placed fifth." Nice racin', fellows! It was time for some rolling thunder as eight Class 8s took the Class 11 Double Seat took the infamous Oklahoma land rush start next with 21 entries and red ·:::< Todd Attig spent his time in 1600 racing following his Dixon, IL neighbor as Todd was second in Class 2-1600, and second in the Limited Engine Challenge. Scott Taylor goes for th!J gold every time he turns a wheel and he got the job done in Class 8 in the mega horsepower Ford, leading flag to flag and he was second in the Heavy Metal Challenge in the 2WD truck. December 1993 hot action. Dan Baudoux held a When Class 13, SODA's Road one lap lead and then Cory Friday Warriors, lined up, R.J. Flanagan made his moves, kept the door must have said to himself, "Hey, closed and went home with first this one's mine!" as he drove from place! Friday has already carved the green to the checkered in first out a niche of excellence in his place. Nice work R.J.!! Now, ya' buggy and he's only 21 years old! don't need to think this was a bor-Rich Woulf chased Baudoux ingrace,noway!Somemightyhot around the track in a battle for action was going on with Lowell second place, however Baudoux DeGreef, Dan Vanden Heuvel, kept Woulf at bay (baying Tom Jensen, John Schultz and a wolves??) and took the second cast of thousands. Vanden Heuvel place position. Woulf placed and DeGreef tangled big time in third. Glen Mathews maintained a the back corn field area putting steady third place, John Wiggins DeGreef out of the race and ulti-~k_e~p_t_a_g~r~ip~o_n_~_o_u_r_th_. ______ m_a_t_ely_~---------~ lfyou~e got a license to fly ••• We~e got approved landing gear! 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Young Troy Konitzer did a great job in 'Farmer John's' Class 8, and despite rolling upside down across the finish line he placed fifth in the class. Somehow Lowell DeGreef doesn't /ook right in a truck bodied Class 13, but that is progress. He got bounced into the cornfield and out of the race at Bark River. The action was intense in Class 13 but John Schulz survived the best of his family running fourth and eventually was placed third in the class. Class 11 always has close contact racing, and the two seat group opened the It was nearly a two man race despite 15 starters in Class 9/1 O action, but Todd Sunday program. Cory Friday, foreground, took the lead on lap 2, and the Attig did it again, and ran flag to flag for the win, but had no good luck in young man never looked back on his way to victory. either Class 1 /2 or the Unlimited Challenge races. ~ - costing Vanden Heuvel . Flanagan in first, Jensen in fourthplacefinish.Attritiondida moving well for third place with two positions by penalty. Tom second, John Schultz with third, lot of damage to this class with other finishers being Joe Dunlap, Jensen stuck his foot on the floor Stelzer with fourth and Vanden Jack Haenlein and Jeff Probst Paul Corning and Brian Farrell. and powered his truck into a Heuvel in fifth. beingtheonlyotherfinishers.Lee Sunday morning found the super second place putting a com-Todd Attig pretty much had his Weusthoff was definitely in the track more than a little damp after fortable lead between his machine way with the next race, the Class · thick of things off the start but an early morning rain but the en-and Vanden Heuvel's. Terry Sev- 9/ 10 shoot out with an impres-wentintoanastyrollintoacollec-thusiasm of Class 11 Single Seat erson ran a heck of a race in fourth sive 15 entries. Attig went from tion of trees, brush and other wasn't dampened a bit! Imagine place until he had to pull off and flag to flag for the win with Art assorted timber. Fortunately Lee the Class 11 's lined up on top of a presto, enter the Schultz brothers. Schmitt III right behind him for a came out okay but the buggy hill about ten wide headed down John Schultz drove into a very flag to flag second place. Randy sufferedsomemajor"ouch". Bad that hill that narrows quickly nice fourth place with brother Ed Eller and Dave Vandermissen, Jr. news that these things have to down to a two to three car funnel! on his tail in fifth. Ed broke a rear were dicing for third place when happen, but great to report that Now on the sidelines of this fun-trailing arm eventually putting whappo, the racing gods put Eller Greg Smith flew from the side-nel, throw in some trees and a him off the track. John Schultz off the track giving Vander-lines/ pit area on foot to make couple of course marking tire went on in for fourth position missen, Jr. the position. Mark surethatLeewasallright! coveredpolesanya'gotyourselfa followed by Scott Stelzer in his Wilkins had made steady ground The day's racing ended with land rush racing situation that '55 Chevy. Official results were: . from the back of the pack to a nice -Class 7S and these dudes suffered requires some skill and some some heavy attrition! One more,-.. thinking! And by golly, almost all IVAN "IRQNMAN" STEWART timeJohnGreavesgotofftheland of the 23 entries made it through rush start and looked to have it all this for lap one with Rod Attig together in a hot contest with pulling out· a commanding lead ScottTaylor. ltjustisn'tGreaves' that went to a flag to flag romp. "T • SH/RTS" · year - he made two laps, in the DarrinParsonswasinthehuntas lead and then the old belts flew off was John Wiggins and Gerald again putting John out again. Christensen, Jr. Parsons placed From that point on, the race second, Wiggins third and Chris-belonged to Taylor although he, tensen took home fourth. had to deal with first "Alligator" Just as in the Class 1 lS race, the Crowder and Tom Hackers. Class 1-1600racewassuperasfar Crowder came flying down the as the action went but darned hill a third of the way through the hard to tell who was who with the race, his truck musta' been tired mud covering the machines. At and gave out on him. Hackers least everyone shared the same . moved into the second place spot paint scheme - basic brown. Jim _ Bradley kept his truck alive and race was all his with a nice run that _ , .. , .......... -" ~--and held it to the end. Jimmy Wiggins always does well and this ORDER TODA YI Page 30 Get ready for Christmas with top quality Ivan "IRON MAN" Stewart T shirts Baja "No Fear" edition available All sizes - Kids thru XXLarge - Specify English or Spanish $15.oo per shirt+ $2.50 S&H SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER PAYABLE TO: IV AN STEWART ENTERPRISES P. 0. BOX 1175 ALPINE, CA 92001 FAX 909-677-3323 Art Schmitt was second in his Class 9/10 Laser, didn't contest Class 1 /2 but, he was busy changing engines and he was ready for the Unlimited Challenge which he won in his super sano Laser race car. December 1993 went from start to finish in first place. Rob Kinner had a great run for second place. Cary Bowles, John Greaves and Ed Tessmer had a dandy battle for third going, but we lost Greaves about a third of the way through leaving Bowles and Tessmer to duke it out. Bowles kept Tessmer behind him and finished with third, Tessmer in fourth. The Class 1 /2 race turned out to be one good race despite the top ten points leaders, with the exception of Dan Baudoux, choos-ing not to participate. Oh well, that gave some new names a chance to show off their stuff and take home the money! As a matter of fact, the race belonged to Dan Baudoux with serious challenge from Dave Vandermissen, Sr. who had to pull off for a brief spell at the finish line and still came charging back! Owen Walth-er was just a tad behind Vander-missen. Anyway, Baudoux takes the white flag, comes around the entire track, down the infamous funnel, gets within a good spit of the finish line and the buggy quietly dies! It went no further giving Vandermissen, Sr. the win and Walther a nice second place. Despite this kind of foul luck, Baudoux placed third. Daniel Ward placed fourth. Other en-trants included Dale Beauchamp, Richie Ault Jr., Todd Wallace, Dave VandermissenJr. and Brian Bernloehr. Nice race guys! Fifteen trucks lined up for the · Heavy Metal Challenge and it was a sight to see! Wowie-kazowie, Kevin Probst had it all dialed in and went romping around the track for a hard earned win. Hard earned? You bet, the dude had Scott Taylor and Geoff Dorr right on his bumper. They were follow-ed most of the race by Bryan Frankenburg and Jimmie Crowd-er. Frankenburg was right there in position to the white flag lap when . his machine gave way to mechani-cal blues. On the lead lap, Taylor took home second place, Dorr had third and Crowder placed fourth. Pete Van De Hey piloted in for fifth followed by Ken Kincaid. We don't know whether Jim Wiggins just does better when he's in Lisa's home territory or what, but he did one heck of a job nailing down the win in the Limit-ed Championship. Greg Smith was right on his tail when, darn the luck, his machine failed him one more time putting him out of the race. Smith may have been disappointed but it suited Todd Attig, Mark Steinhardt and Mike Brue just fine as they were more than happy to fill in his place! Attig did his best to catch up to friend Wiggins but never made it and settled for second place. Brue worked his way through the pack in his Baja Bug to challenge Stein-hardt. Wowsers, Mike, nice driv-DustyTimes

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Jeff St. Peter wasn't among the leaders in class racing, but he flew his Laser in fine style to place a strong second in the Unlimited Challenge race. Tom Hackers flies high in his Class 7S Ford and he floated on to second in the class race and second in the Mini Metal Champ-ionship event too. Gerald Christensen Jr. runs a true single seater in that Class 11 class and at the UP 100 he worked up to fourth at the checkered flag. ing! Brue caught up ·with Stein-hardt on the white flag lap, made the pass and placed third! "Steiny"· settled for fourth with Team Alligator's Jason Crowder right behind him for fifth. Betcha' John Greaves was right pleased with the Mini-Metal Championship! This time Greav-es had that Class 7S all together and went on a romp from flag to flag for the win. For the first lap, however, Greaves had Scott Tay-lor right on his bumper; in fact, Greaves went into a bicycle, Tay-lor made the pass, then Taylor spun out giving Greaves the lead back. During these moves Taylor must have had some tire damage as by lap two he was off with a flat right front tire. "No problem!" says Jimmie Crowder who quickly moved into second follow-ed by Robert Chasteen and T.J. Hackers. Three laps of that then Crowder's truck got to coughing, spitting and gasping and Crowder was out. Chasteen now has second but Hackers put on some heavy moves, made the pass and went on in for second place. Chas-teen took third followed by Brian Farrell. were seventeen entries! However the race to make a super run at ya' cut it, the race was excellent! Parsons but had to settle for a very Jeff Probst came around lap one well driven second place. The with fast time of the weekend. Schultz ladies were in the hunt for Holy Hannah!!; Todd Attig, Lee third and fourth places with Aunt Wuesthoff, Art Schmitt III, Jeff Marilyn staying ahead of niece St. PeterandScottSchwalbewere Robin for third place. Robin so close behind Probst that the continued to close in on Auntie whole group looked like they narrowing the gap to five seconds were hooked together as close as at the finish line for a nice fourth cars on a smooth runnin' train! place. Track photographer However, along the way to the Downtown Jeanne Brown was checkered flag most of these men doing just fine until she hooked and machines went off the track the finish line guard rail with her with major clankety-bang woes front wheels! The field was round-with theexceptionofSchmittand ed out by Jodi Bamberg and Sue St. Peter. Schmitt went in for the Farrell. win, St. Peter placed second. And so it comes, last but not Well, well, well, and who snuck least by any means, the ladies up into a well driven third?? None buggy classes. Women's Class 11 other than Bark River's own put on a fantastic show! Kim Todd Wallace! Dave Vander-missen Sr., another home town favorite and Race Promoter, came in behind Wallace for fourth! it was a good race with plenty of action and definitely a crowd pleaser. In another break from tradi-tion, Women's Heavy Metal took the track next instead of being the last race of the weekend! Sherri Parsons and Val James put on a dynamite show with Parsons tak-Now it's Unlimited Challenge · ing the lead, James making a pass, time, the track is nice and dry and Parsons taking back the position everyone is back to race!! By our andhammeringitonhomeforthe count and the official count there win. James continued throughout Blasdell took the lead off the green flag followed closely by Paula "Never Say Die" Parsons. Parsons had her hands full with Karen Christensen and Cindy Wiggins. Everyone pretty much held position until the checkered · flag lap. It was the last turn on the last lap and Parsons was determin-ed that Blasdell not get that win. With tremendous skill and effort Parsons came down on the inside of Blasdell, made the pass about three feet from the flag and pulled off a neat win! Blasdell took home second with Christensen in third. Flagging just ahead of the Class 11 's were the Women's Limit-ed/Unlimited Class and they also ran a heck of a race! Paula St. Peter in her Class 9 buggy made an excellent run for a flag to flag win with Rhonda Smith in her 2-1600 machine right on her bumper for a tidy second place. Lisa Vander-missen (soon to be Mrs. Jim Wig-gins) made her debut race with a very nice third place! The rain came back, but what the heck, the racing was over! And great racing it was! We love to make the trip to Bark River, there's just a very nice "some-thing" about the land and it's people! Thanks, Bark River Lions Club and Dave & Joyce Vander-missen for another fantastic U.P. Off Road 100. The next stop on the SODA circuit is The Great Northern Challenge located at the 1-96 Speedway just outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Scott Taylor won a double header in his Fords, winning Class 7S here as well as Class 8, but he missed the Mini Metal glory as a flat tire put him in the pits and out of the running. Jamar Super Shifte Make missed shifts a thing of the past! Fortin CV Cages Polished & Strong! Available in both: . 930 and 934.5 Rod Attig, Todd's father, leaves the high horsepower racing to Todd, built himself a Class 11 from scratch and is a consistent winner, leading the single seat Class 11 race from flag to flag. Dustynrnes Thing Drums Straight from Germany. The real thing! 103 Press Lane #4 * Chula Vista, CA 9191 0 Phone: (619)691-9171 * FAX: (619)691-0803 December 1993 Page 31

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-,,.. FRT PLASTER CITY BLAST Th• Overall Win Gocs To Tim Allen Tim Allen sailed his Class 10 Jimco over the desert with no problems until the last lap with steering knuckle woes, but he had such a lead built up that he not only won Class .10, he won overall by six minutes. The desert was hot, but so was Tim Allen, as he sped to the overall victory at the FR T Plaster City Blast, fourth event in Fud's six race Superstition Series. Allen, his Class 10 Jimco car fairly floating over the tricky course, momentarily lost his steering late in the day, but no one was close enough to catch him. This event was laid out on the eastern side of the Plaster City Off Highway Vehicle area, in a 30 mile . loop, con~idered fast, with sudden and potentially diasast-rous surprises. The bikes and A TVs had raced in the morning, and the cars and trucks got their green flag right at noon. They were required to run six laps, and all the racing was scheduled to be finished by six p.m. The tempera-ture soared to about 115 degrees, and an early fall sky of bright blue, with no clouds, promised no relief. There was some breeze, but in an area where 30 mile an hour winds are commonplace, it was essentially a still day, and therefore very dusty on the course when catching another competitor. Class 10 was first to take the flag, and Allen, who'd been fifth to start, was the first to come around again. He was 35 seconds in front of Ryan Thomas, in his Chenowth. Victor Wild, in his Jimco, ran third, 52 seconds later, and Steve Wolcott, in a Jimco with a Pontiac motor, was fourth, two minutes and 25 seconds behind him. Ron Ryerson, whose big Raceco A-armed car is usually in the lead group, was having trouble getting his motor to run, and lost a half hour before discovering that a couple of spark plugs had melted. On the second lap Allen had increased his lead to 48 seconds, and Thomas was still in second place. They were already thread-ing their way through lapped cars. Wild held onto third, and Wolcott was still fourth.Ryerson had finally got his car to run right, and had given chase, looking very fast, until he broke a spindle, and was done for the day. Jorge Garcia, Robert Wood and Steve Melton were all also out for the day already, and chugging along in fifth place, in the old family pre-runner, because the hi-tech racer had recently been sold, was Kyle Whitted, wearing blisters on his hands, because this car has no power steering. After three laps the order was still the same, with Allen leading, but Thomas was now a minute and 43 seconds behind him. Wild was another two minutes back, and Wolcott still ran fourth, Vance Allen ran his Class 5 Baja Bug in Unlimited class, started out running third, kept moving ;orward, ran second for a time then took the lead and held it all the way to win the Unlimited Class eighth 0 /A, over six others. seven minutes later, followed by accident, continued their hurry to Whitted. the checkered flag. Allen had a On the fourth lap, as Allen lead of about 23 minutes at the continued to run well, and in end of that fourth lap, and front, Thomas lost a brake line, Thomas was still second, al-and as he made speedy repairs, though it was now the Whitted Wild 'scar went past, with his co-car, with Joel driving the second driver, Bill Hernquistatthe wheel half of the race, in third, another now. A bit further down the 17 minutes back. Wolcott was course a broken car was parked, broken. and the driver, Bud McLeroy Allenransrnoothlythroughthe stood at the back of it, trying to fifth lap, but Thomas broke a tie spot his problem, while his rod end, and lost 25 minutes with passenger, Ed McLean sat in the repairs. Whitted's shifter broke passenger seat, trying to make and he had a choice ot running in radio contact with his pit crew. first and second gears, or third Hernquist, momentarily blinded and fourth. He picked third and by the dust of another car, never fourth. saw the stopped vehicle, and Allen had trouble with his plowed into McLeroy, and the steering knuckle on the last lap, race car. Thomas, only seconds and his car wanted to turn right all behind him, stopped to offer the time. He had to continuously assistance, and to give radio spin the steering wheel in circles directions to emergency per-1 to keep it going straight. He sonnel. McLeroy, suffering a stopped for repairs, and then, broken leg and hip, was airlifted once fixed, the car didn't want to to a San Diego hospital, where he start again. He lost a total of about underwent 10 hours of surgery. six minutes, which was nowhere He was later reported to be near enough to lose his lead, and making good progress toward took the win easily. Meanwhile, recovery, and McLean, after being Thomas, trying to catch up, which checked out in an El Centro was obviously not possible in one hospital, was released the same lap, zipped off the fast lap for the day, bruised and sore, but not race, at 30:53, taking second place seriously hurt. over an hour down to the winner. The rest of the racers, blissfully The Whi tteds, with blistered unaware of the serioµsness of the hands, took third place. Some of us remember when every racer finished every race with blistered hands, they were the norm rather than the oddity. After one lap, the Class 8 lead belonged to Carlos Ibarra, Sr. and Carlos Jr. , and while they had electrical troubles they did get it some good shock testing and won the class handily in the flying Ford. Kevin Basore ruled the track in the 1-1600 class as he led from flag to flag in the well prepared Jimco, set a pair of fast class laps, early and late, had no trouble at all, winning by 1 ½ minutes and taking second overall. The Unlimited class cars started next, and in this group the first lap leader was Reuben Wood, in his MECO, with a Ford Escort motor. He had 38 seconds on Dave Brown in aJimco, and he was eight seconds in front of Vance Allen, who was racing his Baja Bug in this class, for lack of other Bugs in the entry. Actually, Josh Waddell was also running in the Unlimited Class in a Baja Bug, and the two would earn Bug class points, but would share in the purse for the Unlimited class if they finished in the money. The FRT officials are always pleased to fit every racer in somewhere, if Ryan Thomas drove alone in the Class 10 Chenowth ran close in second until he lost a brake line, but finished second in class and was 13th overall. Page 31 Joel an.d Kyle Whitted ran the old pre-runner without power steering and paid the price in blisters, but finished third in Class 10 and 15th overall. December 1993 Surprising even more was the Baja Bug of Josh Waddell and Neal Schaffer who ran third, moved up by attrition and finished second Unlimited, 19th 0 /A. Dustvnma

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Bob Lofton drove alone in his 1-1600 Jimco and he kept the leader in sight all the way despite a slippy clutch, and he was second in class, third 0 /A. Flying high here Rob Nolin and Todd Teuscher ran mostly with no brakes but they pressed on to finish third in Class 1-1600 and a fine fifth overall. Bill and Brian Pate had their major trouble rolling while pre-running on the Friday, but had no serious race day troubles and finished second in 2-1600. there aren't enough to make a class of their own. Wood picked up his pace for the second lap, and recorded the class fast lap at 31:14, and increased h is lead to three . minutes. It was still Brown in second place, and Allen was a little over a minute further back in third place. But Wood disappeared on the third lap, and Brown moved into the lead, now about 12 minutes ahead of Allen, who'd moved up to second place. Waddell ran third, another 35 minutes later. Then Brown lost three hours with a big problem of some sort, and Allen moved into the lead, 55 minutes in front of Waddell, who was only five minutes in front of Bob Reamer and Dale Shubert, in a Chenowth, who were now third. Allen was somewhat handi-capped by the fact that he'd lost third gear near the end of the fourth lap, but he soldiered on, staying in front. Reamer and Shubert moved up to second, an hour and five minutes behind the leader, but only two and a half minutes in front of Waddell who was third. Allen went on to take the win, finishing an hour and 12 minutes in front of second place Waddell, in the other Baja Bug. Shubert and Reamer lost an hour · on their last lap and dropped to third. The Class 8 trucks were next to start, but there had been only two of them, and very soon there was only one. Tony Alvarado's Ford had been given a new motor the day before, and the crew hadn't finished with all the little details until about three in the morning. Maybe something went undone, we didn't hear, but at any rate, Brady Stiles, who drives the truck, couldn't even get a lap in, and the truck was towed home on its trailer early in the afternoon. That left the field to Carlos Ibarra, Sr., in another Ford. He In Class 2-1600 Jim Abatti zipped into the lead in his Raceco at the green flag and ran smoothly all day, said he had no problems on his way to winning Class 2-1600 and also placed a smart fourth overall. COAST 1-800-634-6755 was havin g some electrical problems, and then he broke a shock mount, so he was forced to hold the speed down. He was doing some testing on a new line of shocks built by Willie Valdez, of Class 7S SCORE fame, a·nd wanted to get in as many miles as possible. On the last lap Ibarra's son, Carlos,Jr., took over, for his first_ try at driving a race truck, and they completed all six laps, for the win. The single seat 1600 cars, always a fast group, were next to start, and they were led by Kevin Basore, in his Jimco, by a margin of 30 seconds, after he recorded the class fast lap, at 33:19. It was Bob Lofton, in another Jimco, in second, and Rob Nolin, in his Nolin-~ The Mini Mag clan is apt to show up anywhere, and four did at Plaster City. Frank and Steve Bristing got a two minute lead on lap 1 with class fast lap, each did three laps and they won Mini Mag class and were sixth overall. 1-800-331-5334 Las Vegas, Nevada DustyTimes December 1993 Page 33

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-Chris and·Greg Garrett ran a close second in Mini Mags until lap ·"'Yoshi Ogasawara had a good first lap in his Mini Mag, then was 5 when a c.v. broke, they lost an hour, had more trouble and still plagued by engine troubles the rest of the day and ran out of took second. time to do six laps, but was third. Kevin Graves started out third in Class 9 in his Jimco, moved up to second, had only one flat late in the day and was second in class, 11th overall. Michael Licari drives what he calls a 'Bent Hi Jumper' in Class 100, and he There is always a Ledezma entry in Class 5-1600, and this time it was Mario outlasted the other five starters in class who dropped out lap by lap and took and Elias, who lost time with a first lap flat. but did class fasf'lap on lap 5, and the Class 100 victory in the single seater. ended up winning the class, 12th overall, the only finisher. ~ special, ran third, 21 seconds later. Basore continued to lead, with Lofton second, but now Doug Halvin moved into third place, as Nolin had a problem with his brakes and lost about 13 minutes. Through lap three it was still Basore, and he now had two minutes on Lofton, while Nolin moved back up to third, but still 13 minutes further back. Halvin had dirt in his distributor. At the end of the fourth lap it was still Basore, and he was also second overall by then, but only a · minute and 25 seconds in front of Lofton, who was having some trouble with a slippy clutch, and was third overall. Halvin was third again, as Nolin stopped midway through the lap to install Todd Teuscher in his car for the last two and a half laps. They were still running with no brakes, and. were just 58 seconds behind Halvin. On the fifth lap, feeling the pressure of Lofton behind him, Basore zipped off a twin time to his first lap, but Lofton was nearly as quick, and stayed within a minute and 33 seconds of him in second place. Halvin had a rear flat and drove a long way on it, while Teuscher held Nolin's car a minute and 37 seconds behind McMillin team for years, was him in fourth place. there, and volunteered his skills Basore was having a flawless to effect the repairs. day, as he sailed on to his win, and On the second lap Abatti 's lead second overall, but Lofton grew to 11 minutes, and the Pate pushed just a tad too hard trying car had been tipped over on its to catch up, and flipped over on side, and needed spectator help to the last lap. He bounced hard on get righted again, but was only his roof, and if he'd been much about two minutes behind Silva. taller would have had a serious Abatti continued to run smooth-headache, hut the car had enough ly, but Silva disappeared on the momentum to keep going and third lap, and the Pates, with Bill landed on its wheels, so he just now driving, in second. They ran charged on, ignoring the dent in in that order for the balance of the his aluminum top, to finish race, Abatti having no problems second only a minute and 39 at all, except that his throttle foot seconds behind Basore. Nolin and got tired of holding the pedal Teuscher moved back up to third, down. Abatti had the fast lap for and Halvin, after his tire change, the class on lap six, at 35:19. He was fourth, about three and a half took the win, followed in 20 minutes later. minutes later by the Pates. In the two seat 1600s, the first The Mini Mags were next to lap lead belonged to Jim Abatti, in take the green flag, and as Mike his Raceco chassis. He had about Thurlow rolled over and put five and a half minutes on Ernie himself out of the race, Steve Silva, in which he calls his Bristing went into the lead by "Obsolete" chassis. And he had about two minutes, with the class about five minutes on Brian Pate, fast lap of 35:36. Chris and Greg in another Raceco, who was lucky Garrett ran second, and Yoshi to be racing at all. It seems he and Ogasawara was third. But on the his brother, Bill, had used the race second lap Ogasawara had very car to pre-run on Friday, and had time consuming problems with rolled it over, doing considerable his motor, and fell about three damage. Major repairs were hours down, leaving the race to needed, but luckily their friend, the Bristings and the Garretts. BrianEwalt,who'sworkedforthe ~ Steve continued to lead through the third lap, and then his brother, Frank, took over, and stayed in front. They had just under two minutes on the Garretts at the end of the fourth lap. But the Garretts lost a c.v., and that took over an hour to repair. So the Bristings went on to take the win, nearly two hours ahead, because the Garretts had some problems on the last lap also. The Garretts were not only second, but last, since Ogasawara ran out of time to complete all six laps. Next in the lineup were the Class 100 cars, the short wheelbase older cars, limited to 2400ccs. The first lap leader was Mark Pinto, in his Chenowth, and he'd recorded the class fast lap of 38:37. He had 31 seconds on Dan Lewis and Richard Green, who were second. In third it was Mike Licari in what he calls his "Bent HiJumper". Bob Gall was fourth in his SandBland. Pinto never completed his second lap, and Lewis and Green took over the lead, now four minutes in front of Licari. Brian Ryba ran third, 18 minutes later. By the end of the third lap only the two cars were running, and it was still Lewis and Green in front, about five minutes up on Licari. Things looked the same at the end of the fourth lap, but at the end of ,CACTUS RACING . 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But the Ledezmas had a rear flat on the first lap, and lost about 10 minutes. Snaith and Harrold then led for four laps, staying just a bit over 10 minutes in front of the Ledezma team. But on lap five, while the Ledezmas ticked off the fast lap for the class, at 39:42, the Snaith and Harrold car lost a ring and pinion. So the Ledezmas came on to take the win, finishing first and last. The Class 9 folks were a'tmost the last group to start, and Larry Kern put his Rayco out in front, with just 27 seconds on Ray Miller and Dennis Daniels in their Chenowth. In third it was Kevin Graves in his Jimco, which he didn't feel was working quite right this race. Dave Dietrich ran fourth, in another Jimco, feeling miserable, victim of a bad case of intestinal flu. On the second lap Kern recorded the class fast lap at 38: 11, and he now had just over two minutes on Miller and Daniels. Graves was still third, with Dietrich in fourth. At the . end of lap three it was still Kern, and now he had four minutes on Graves, who'd moved up to second as Miller and Daniels dropped out. Dietrich was third, another 12 minutes back, and Rick Box, in an ORBS, ran fourth now. Kern put Mike Pfankuch into the car for the second half of the race, and he held onto the lead, and was a little over four minutes in front of Graves atthe end oflap four. Dietrich was third, and Box fourth. Pfankuch continued to have a smooth race, thinking it was a fast course, while Graves, in second, thought the course was, getting rough. Dietrich finally . decided he'd had enough, and he put Jack Hettinger in for the last two laps, and they were still in third place, with Dean Hovey in fourth now in aJimco, as Box had major problems . Pfankuch, with a clean race, brought the car in for the win, followed by Graves, who'd had a flat late in the day, still about four and a half minutes behind him. In third it was Dietrich and Hettinger, and Hovey finished fourth. The little trucks were last to start, and it was Clint Waters and , Craig Kintz in the lead in their Nissan at the end of the first lap. They had four minutes on John DeVito in his Blazer, which ordinarily runs in Class 6 in SCORE races. In third it was Troy Dusty Times

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Dave Dietrich ran fourth in his Class 9 Jimco off the line, stopped midway for Jack Hettinger to get in and finish, third in class and 14th overall. Clint Waters and Craig Kintz had their Nissan in the early Class 7 lead but tore off shock mounts later, and were second in class but did not finish. Bob Reamer and Dale Shubert ran third in Unlimited class in their Chenowth, moved to second then lost an hour on the last lap and finished third, 22nd and last overall, but a finisher. Lindstrom, in another Nissan, but he'd lost over an hour already, with some problem. DeVito and his co-driver, Barry Bates, took over the lead on the second lap, when Waters and Kintz had shock mount problems and fell to second. Lindstrom had another long lap, and was now almost two hours behind the lead car. DeVito and Bates had the race to themselves after that second lap, as Waters and Kintz had torn off their shock mounts, and Lindstrom disappeared. The Blazer, a '93, was overheating, so they had to keep adding water, but it kept running. Their fast lap was the fourth, at 44: 17, and they completed all six laps to get the win. Neither of the other two got any further down the road. The post-race tech went smoothly, with no protests, and there were no penalties to deal with so the officials had a smooth day of it too. On Sunday morning the long time pit association, the Mag 7, who were at the race to · make themselves known to new • p6tential race support customers, The FR T now has two races left . hosted a full breakfast before the in their series, the October 30th FRT PLASTER CITY BLAST RESULTS· SEPTEMBER 25, 1993 # · Po. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Tlme O/A a wards ceremonies. So in Squeaky Springs event, and then addition to the usual tasty theDecember31 Dunaway Dash. doughnuts and fresh fruit with The FR T Squeaky Springs 103 Bloody Marys, there were bacon Gran National will be covered in 107 and eggs to tempt the palate, and next month's issue of Dusty 108 Clau Open - Unlimited Single & Two seat - 7 atert - 3 ftnlah 1 Vanoe Allen Baja Bug 2 Josh WaddelVNeal Schaffer Baja Bug 3 Bob Reamer/Dale Shubert •• Chenowth get the racers off to a roarin' start. . Times. Qua 1-1600 • 1600cc Restricted Engine • 4 atert - 4 finlah John De Vito and Barry Bates ran the Class 6 Blazer in Class 7 and the other two in class faded before the halfway point, the Blazer overheated but De Vito and Bates added water and finished all the laps, the Class 7 winner. 1601 1 Kevin Basore Jirnco 1620 2 Bob Lofton Jirnco 1649 3 Rob Nolin/Todd Teuscher Nolin Special 1603 4 Doug Halvin Qua 2-1600 • 1600 Reatrlcted Engine - 3 •tart - 2 finlah 1650 1 James Abatti Ra08Cio · 1651 2 Bill & Brian Pate Raoeco 1202 1299 551 717 801 900 905 904 901 1004 1012 1000 5 Claaa Mini Mag - 4 atert - 2 finish 1 Frank & Steve Brlsting Mini Mag 2 Chris & Greg Garrett Mini Mag Qua 5-1600. 1600cc Baja Bug - 2 atert -1 flnlah 1 Mario & Ellas Ledezma Baja Bug aaaa 7 - Unlimited Mini Pickup - 3 atart - 1 finlah 1 John DeVlto/Barry Bates Chevy Blazer Qua 8 -2WD Standard Pickup - 2 start - 1 liniah · 1 Carlos Ibarra, Sr. & Jr. Ford Claaa 9 - 1600 cc Reatricted Buggy • 9 start - 4 linlah 1 Larry Kern/Mike P,fankkuch Rayco 2 Kevin Graves Jlrnco 3 Dave Dietrich/Jack Hettinger Jirnco 4 Dean Hovey Jirnco Claaa 10. Unlimited 1650cc - 9 start - 3 finish 1 Tim Allen Jirnco 2 Ryan Thomas Chenowth 3 Joel & Kyle Whitted Jimco Claaa 100 • 100 Inch WB Buggies • 6 start - 1 finish 1 Michael Licari Bent Hi Jurrper Total starters • 49 • total finishers • 22 Course 6 laps of a 30 mile route • Weather: hot, sunny and dry. 3:50:16 5:02:24 5:57:55 3:21:35 3:23:14 3:45:51 3:49:30 3:34:55 3:54:32 3:48:15 5:35:09 4:24:23 5:03:26 4:54:46 4:03:46 4:08:19 4:35:24 5:23:27 3:15:21 4:25:16 4:47:31 4:55:04 ORANGE CRATE RACI 6 CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF OFF ROAD RACING R uery speclal thanks to our wlues, families and friends who houe been so supportiue the whole way. Engine by Jerry Lawless Chassis by Mirage Sway-A-Way Suspension FoH Shocks -Peenrlte TransaHle Engineering Tri-MIi EHhaust Deist Sa_fety All The Affiliates o·MZA ARUA Checkers C. 0. R. E. Fudpucker HORA La Rana SCORE SNORE UORRA MRNY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS B & 6 Detection B & L Enterprises Maruln Shaw Engineering R & R Grinding Fairway Che.urolet (Las Uegas) Pennzoil Folkswagon Frazier Brothers Burner Co. Uolley Park Ford/UW Dune Toppers SFU GG&M Construction Centerline McKenzie's Rutomotiue Western Ruto Hillside Racing Trockside Photo RND HOW CRN WE EUER THANK SCOTT MclCEN.21E AND STEUE MUDRA 8 18 22 2 3 5 7 4 9 6 21 12 19 16 10 11 14 20 1 13 15 17 Dustynmes December 1993 Page 35

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The 11th Annual Kamloops 400 KM Don Endean won the Pro Class in his Class 8 Ford truck, so serious about a win that he took the rear body panels off to save weight, had no trouble all day, except encountering the welding truck, and won by a lap. It is always amazing the way areas, and we were ready to begin. things can happen even with The first casualty of the day was months of preparation and the Ron and Lindy Hart Quick-planning. The 12th running of the lube team. Ron came over the top Kamloops 400 Km distance race of a small rise quite quickly, not in British Columbia last Septem-realizing that there was a soft mud ber was no exception. The hole on the other side, the front weather for weeks previous had • wheels and bumper dug in and been warm and sunny, the course over they went. The car suffered and surrounding countryside was moderate damage, enough to take tinder dry, and the Forestry and them out for the day, but luckily Environmental people were Ron was just a little stiff and starting to whimper. Nothing new Lindy had a small cut on her knee there, we were all prepared. and some strained muscles in her Then the rain that was back leg. In speaking with Ron after the ordered from Friday arrived on race, he mentioned that this was . ,.5aturday night, nothing serious, the second time they had been just a small shower, but more than over and he was trying to make up enough to keep both the dust some time. down and the Forestry people I was the seventh car off the line happy. The Kamloops Bronco and everything was going fine Busters 4x4 Club was ready, the until about the 14 mile point, course had been marked by when we rounded a tight blind Banger in his usual thorough corner, and what do we see but a manner, over 200 arrows in only a one ton welding truck coming 20 mile lap. The four corner backwards down the track. I crews had loaded up everyone's immediately assumed it was one spare gas, tires and parts and of the racer's chase rigs looking headed out to their respective for them and I got out to have a BIGGER IS BETT-ER Upgrade the C.V.s and torsion axles on your pre-runner, IRS Baja Bug or limited horsepower off road race car by letting us convert your stub axles and transmissio·n output bells to accept the lar er C.V. ioints. .. 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But no, it was some hunters who had spent the night just off the track, so we had not noticed them in the pre-race sweep. They said they had noticed the six race cars that had passed them but didn't think anything of it. After getting them headed in the right direction we carried on. Not two miles down the road we rounded a corner, hit a small dip and shattered a king pin carrier. Not having a spare we assumed we were finished for the day, but no, Gary Nierop rides up on his bike and informs us that Ron Hart is broken just over the hill and we could borrow one of his carriers since he wasn't using it. Here we go stripping parts off Ron's disabled car and putting them on ours. I can imagine what Ron thought as the reports came into the pits that someone was stripping stuff off his car out in the bush. Anyway it wasn't a problem. Thank you very much Ron. Meanwhile back in the pits other people were experiencing gremlins. Keith Trainor came up to the track and registered, then had to go back into town to get his race car. By the time he got back he had missed his starting time by 20 minutes, and almost lost the · car off the trailer in his hurry to get back. With the help of many hands in the pits, the car was lifted back onto the trailer, then unloaded. Keith was stuffed into it and sent on his way. He went fa&t all day, not letting a flat tire or a small excursion off the track over a bank deter him, but a dog leg bolt took him out on the final lap. Debby Nield had her share of problems, as the normally very Axel Peschick shows how it is done in his newly redone Blitz buggy. The loc:1/ driver from Kam/oops stopped only for fuel, and won the Sportsman Class by the hefty margin of 15 minutes. · quick car had no end of·woes, all stemming from dust in the points. It finally quit on the last lap, dropping Debby to 5th place. The Sportsman Class winner for the day was Axel Peschick of Kam.loops, B.C. Not plagued by any problems he ran smooth and fast all day in his Blitz buggy. One stop for fuel and he was gone again, building up a commanding 15 minute lead over second place. Second in Sportsman Class we=1t to a pair of Rookie drivers, Rob Sharkoff and Terry Carroll from Edmonton, Alberta. They had never tried distance racing before, and only had minor problems, but hung on for their excellent second place finish. Third in Sportsman. Class was Brad Anderson of Chilliwack, B.C. This was Brad's best finish in a distance race this year. Some annoying mechanical problems took him out of second place by only a few minutes. The Pro Class was a real mix of vehicles; Don Endean with his Class 8 pickup, Guy Harrison, an Unlimited Class 5,"Joe Maberly with a Pro 1600 car and Greg Bird in a Class 4 Bronco headed up a mixture of super fast trucks and buggies. The terrain on our course allows us to mix all together as on any given day anyone could win; big horsepower is not necessarily an advantage. Third in Pro Class was Joe Mab-erly of Surrey B.C. in a·l600cc buggy. Veteran Joe ran smooth and fast all day and even managed to complete an entire race without any roof time. But repeated slops to clean out his cooling air intake slowed him just enough for third place. Guy Harrison in his Unlimited Class 5 Baja Bug has had endless problems with very expensive front end parts this year, but held it all together for a solid second place finish. The Bug ran smooth and fast all day, but a quick pit stop to change a hub dropped him to second at the finish . Don Endean in his very pretty Class 8 truck took the victory in Pro Class. Don pulled out all the stops this time and even removed some body panels to shave the weight of the big truck down a hair. Don had no mechanical trouble and his only altercation of the day was a small collision with the aforementioned welding truck in the first stages of the race. In the final lap of the event Don even ejected his co-driver and brother Greg to save weight as he thought he was on the same lap as Guy Harrison and had to catch him, not realizing Guy was a lap down because of pit time. It was pretty exciting to see Guy crest the final hill with Don hot on his tailpipe, having followed him for about 20 miles and was not able to make a pass. Then he saw Guy receive the white flag while just astern Don Endean got the checkered flag for the Pro Class win and the overall victory. Don had a near perfect race, was well prepared and it showed with the performance of his Ford. After the race many of the participants last September relaxed and enjoyed themselves in Calvin MacKenzie's portable hot tub. Good idea for sure. After the race there were many that enjoyed the cleansing waters of Calvin MacKenzie's portable hot tub. They were really roughing it in the desert terrain outside of Kamloops. Guy Harrison had a few stops, one to change a hub, but his Class 5 Baja Bug ran fast and he finished a solid second in Pro Class. with a big smile as he arrived. December 1993 Joe Mabberley came from Surrey, B.C. to race his 1600 buggy, had a few pit stops, but ran smoothly most of the way to third in the Pro Class ranks. DustyTimcs

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Race #7 At lad Dogs Was A Real lam Burner Alan Davis of Hillsboro and John Larison. David Modlin also Terry Gilley of Weatherford took took the wins in the Mud Bog first in the Intermediate and Class I and Class IL Masters division. The kids "Dash for Cash 11 The 4x4 Mud Drags pulled through the Mud Pit, sponsored everyone to their feet as the by McDonalds, saw Carl Tillery beautiful trucks entered into the taking the win over Cody staging lanes on their way down Callaway in the eight and under the muddy 160 foot drag strip division, both looking like "mud which they ran through in less monsters" at the end of the run. than five seconds. Red Oak's Michael Bayless and Marga Chris Boulet took the Class II win Westman took home the money in a time of 4:45 seconds. Red in the 9-12 age group, doing some Oak's Johnny Mask took second mud bogging of their own. It was this close at the end of each heat race between Benny Perry, leading here and Barry Don Callaway. Perry had engine failure in the main event but coasted across the line to take third place; Callaway won. They came out of the wood-work Sunday, September 19th to Bad Dog's Off Road Showdown, to what many would say were the best races of the year. The racing action was close in all classes with drivers winning by mere inches in almost every class. In the Sportsman car class Pearland's Benny Perry and Cleburne's Barry Don Callaway traded positions on every lap with Callaway taking the checkers for the victory. Norris Lischer of Temple edged out Perry at the finish line to take second place honors as Perry's motor faded away late in the race, finishing third. Flower Mound's Greg Durman powered his way into fourth over Cleburne's Don "The Yank II Westman rounding out the class for fifth after experiencing major motor failure. Pro ATV action was hot as.Mt. Pleasant's Bobby Parr blistered the track into first over Grand Prairie's Paul Audet in second. David Pickett of Gilmer chased the pack but.had to settle for third over Wichita Fall's Dean Coates pulling into fourth position at the finish line. The Amateur division of A TVs were up next putting on a spectacular show of their own. Ed DeTavenier of Mesquite clawed his way into the lead and stayed there taking the win over a 'Super Charged' Adam Sims from Burleson, putting on a fine ride for second. Arlington's Rick Townsend pulled his big quad into the third position over Valley View's Andrew Prose in fourth. Danny Veal of Princeton put on a great ride to round out the class for fifth. The Super Challenger class of ~~ne ~':1ggies saw the newcomer from Dallas, David Garland, out front at the checkers to take the win over Gainesville's Steve Dutton, doing some fine driving for second. After a late race battle with the two front runners, Arlington's Jerry Daigle had to settle for third. Cleburne's Gabe Gabel took the fourth position over "The Rookie" Calvin Perry . of Pearland, finishing fifth in his newly finished buggy. Alvarado's Gene "The Peughmeister" Peugh took home the first place honors (and a sore behind) in the Challenger division of dune buggies. Cleburne's "Cool Dog" Cody Don Callaway fought off the competition in the PW-50 Motorcycle class to take first place over a very determined Chance Berg, also of Cleburne, who was second in this Pee Wee class for kids. Piano's Scott Wennerstrom Jr. battled with Berg all day settling for third with Garland's Ben Sorenson,Jr. doing some spectacular riding, finishing fourth. Arlington's Ryan Miller pushed his Yamaha to the limits to take fifth place honors. Tim Silence, of Ft. Worth, again proved he was unstoppable in the Odyssey/Pilot class as he took yet another win· in his division. Dallas' Tim Lee cruised into second over Ft. Worth's John Myers who took home third place. In the Non Current division of motorcycles, Bruceville'sJay King put his big bore Honda in the front of the pack, to take first place honors over Eddie Poteet of Hillsboro in second. Garland's Ben Sorenson Sr. finished third over Waco's Terry Schmoeller. Steve Dutton, #911, came from Gainesville, TX, leading here, to race w, some of the wildest action of the day, but he placed second in the Super Challenger hectic class. Dustynmcs for fourth, with Gainesville's_ . Mike Dutton making his way to the fifth position. The Amateur Vintage races were next with the motorcycles of yesteryear doing some high flying acrobatics. Rick Denny and David Kirk, both of Waco, took the first and second positions over Grapevine's Skip Miller in third. Spring's David Jarvis pushed his antique equipment to the max for fourth position over Haltom City's Don Kraft in fifth. over Midlothian's Tony Bena-We once again would like to vedez. say "Thanks" to all the volunteers In Class I Mud Drags Dallas' helping out and to everyone who Frank Sturgeon took the win over attended the races. Our next event Alvarado's David Modlin. Jodi on October 17 is the last one Hoffman of Palmer powered her scheduled, but there could be way into third over Garland's more before the year is out. l _,,,~~~.--t. ._ The "Bad Dog" himself, Barry Don Callaway ran second in both heat races but pulled ahead in the main event, earning enough points for the overall honors in the Sportsman Division. The A TV pro Division kept everyone looking hard at the close action. On the far left #71 Bobby Parr took the overall victory over some stiff competition all day long. Dale Wilch S P.O. 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BORE OFF ROAD RACING REPORT The Bonneville Challenge By Jim Baker Photos: Jan Olsen man tent, lived on three canteens of water a day, and shot the heck out of targets with 50 caliber machine guns. Jed and I were only too happy to give him a real 'off road tour'. If he had arrived five minutes later we would have missed each other. How lucky we were! Perhaps that was an omen of a great weekend coming, so with an early start time on race day, we wanted to get everyone registered and a tech inspection done on · Friday evening. Thanks for your help and cooperation . Almost everyone took care of the details before going to town. And those who didn't could have made life easier for our hard working Mike Baker started first, enjoyed the dust free running in his 1-1600, led the registration crew. And, speaking race from green to checkered flag, and had no real troubles en route, scoring of them, a very special thanks for his third overall and class win of the season in the Bunderson. stepping in at the last minute to Everything was in place to differentthistimeexceptwehada help with a hectic job Cheryl, expect. an exciting race for the very fortunate interruption on Janette, and Kathy. Thanks. season finale last August. The Thursday morning as we were The field w·as narrowed points spread was only ten leaving to mark and flag. A car somewhatbythelossofacouple between first and second with came slowly up the road into the starters when Cam Peacock third and fourth not settled gravel pit where I was, and a d 1 ( ff) A twiste an ax e o . supreme either. BORE had been struggling gentleman got out with a question effort th rough the evening with the format for, the course, about the area. He wondered ifl couldn't repair it, and Chris Klick finally settling on changes for the knew just where a World War II finally discovered he could, in first five miles giving you speed Military base was located as he fact, roll a Baja, _ said he never merchants a mile of wide open had been there for training in realized how easy it is. See Chris, running. Actually we expected 1942. His name is Fred Freeman, all those guys rolling around faster lap times than last spring... he lives in Birmingham, Alabama, during a race knew something you Not. Also we hoped for another and was here on vacation and was didn't! It's never too late to learn. ·,- full entry to take the green flag a delight to visit with. He and eventually share the hundreds reinforced our "theories" on the By virtue of better finish times of bonus bucks put up by the area history, plus gave us more in previous races Class 1-1600 Stateline and Silversmith Casinos details to fill in the voids. He told was first to start. With two first in Wendover and Felt Auto-us the military took away their overall wins this season, we /TRW of Ogden. Sometimes I films as they left and so he has no should have started Mike Baker wonder if we've kept BORE pictures, but he painted some back of the Challengers, using the events one of the best kept secrets pretty good ones with words. inverted start. But for the first in off road racing! Even though he had been in the time in eons he drew first start. As most of you know, prepara-area other times this was the first Second to leave was Jon Almberg tions for a desert race start a long time he really got to see the exact _followed by Todd Bingham and time before race day. It was no spot where he lived in an eight ~ then Ken Heuring. Dust free running agreed with Mike as he posted the fast lap of the day with West Coast Distributor fOff HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS Barry Merriam was first away in Class 10, was slowed by two flats midway in the battle, but he came back strong, and his fast class lap on lap 1 helped him regain the lead and finish second overall as well as winning the class. Settling for second in Class 5-1600 was not on Jim Magill's mind with the whole class separated by seconds early on, and he said the victory felt great after battling Craig Holt all season. a 33:48, with Jon second, Ken third, and Todd out when he bent the hockey stick and couldn't get it into any gear. Jon and Ken were both running at 2:41 after four laps, dicing for second, but Jon retired on lap 5 leaving Ken to hope for a car failure, flat tire or other mishap up front. But Mike Baker was on a roll and not ready to quit until the checkers fell. Ken finished with a 5: 13 :45 for second. Mike's eight lap time was 4:40:12, good enough for the class win and another first overall, making it three overall wins in a row. We th ink this is an achievement to be very proud of, and we congratulate you Mike. In Class 10 Barry Merriam was first man away, followed by Andy Clawson, Mike Hickey and Mike Flinn, who lost a few minutes when his starter switch failed in staging. Andy ran into problems after lap 1. After two laps Barry led with a 1: 10: 10 to Mike Hickey at 1: 13:56 and Mike Flinn at 1 :25:27. After four laps it was still Barry with a 2:22:22 to Mike H's 2:28: 15 and Mike F's 2:39: 11. Hickey moved to first after five with a 3: 14:05 to Flinn's 3: 16:59 and Barry had two flats and a time of3:17:03. Barry slipped back in _ the lead by two minutes over Mike H and more over Mike F. Barry Merriam held on to the lead to finish 55 seconds · ahead of Mike Flinn in a tight dice. Mike Hickey fell out on lap 8. Barry had fast lap for Class 10 on the first lap at 34 :24 and finished in 5:04:56 good for second overall. Mike Flinn held a tight grip on second in class, third overall with a 5:05:51 . This was Barry's first win in his new car. Congratu-lations! OUR PRICE $695.00 John Peake had a calm moment on the hard and fas t road, led by seconds in the early going, but others had troubles, John did not and won Mini Metal class for the third time in 1993. C lass 5 -1600 was short an entry when Chris couldn't start, so three cars left with Craig Ho lt hoping to overcome a ten point edge held by John Peake for the points win. Craig led off followed by Jeff Robinson and Jim Magill. You want close?? Craig led Jim by only 17 seconds and Jeff hy only 2 1 seconds after two laps. After four laps it was Jim by six minutes over Craig and 18 over Jeff. Craig suffered a broken wrist in the fourth when the wheel jerked out of his grip catching his hand. He had to turn the ride over to Kyle to finish for him. Craig held fast lap with a 39:07, but the team had to settle for second with a time of 5:46:18 toa 5:32:57 winning time for Jim. Jeff settled for third in his first attempt this year. Welcome back, Jeff. ALL GEARS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY Per Set 2 Ratio's Available NEW RATIOS AV AI LAB LE Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 702/873-1002 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 38 -Taking the wheel of #1603 after surgery sidelined Gary Brennan was a hoot for Ken Heuring, and he worked up to second on lap 5 and finished second ,' 1600. December 1993 Then there was the season points leader! John Peake and the Mini Metal compadres took the green flag with Lynn Potter Dusty Times

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Craig Holt found a bad hole on lap 5, and found the broken wrist too much, so he turned the 5-1600 over to Kyle Jeffery who finished second in the class. Mike Flinn had trouble with his starter switch right at the start, got the 10 car moving fast, made up time, and was second in Class 10 by just 55 seconds. Racing hard and trying for a win in Challenger class, Glen Cain led the early part of the race, but then had big troubles and settled for second spot. The Over the Hill Gang race hard; here Jimmie Autry is up front, but Jim Baker didn ·t follow him long, made the pass for some clean air and won the race. leading off. Joe Kellog came all the way from Yakima to start third, and John left second, right in the middle where they could look after him, and these guys really compete! John held an eight second lead over Lynn, but Joe was slowed and fell to third. But in racing nothing is sure until the Checkers fall, and Lynn had some trouble in the second lap and eventually retired after the fifth. Joe held on ·to second, losing by about five minutes to John who had a seven lap time of 5:12:24. John Peake is our other three time winner in 1993 and he earned the overall points title by virtue of the wins and the number of entries in each race. John you did a great job, showed a great deal ·of racing maturity and you earned the crown. Congratulations from us all. Our Heavy Metal class re-appeared at Wendover with Jeff Neagle, Jeff Judge and Kerry Stephenson taking the green flag. Kerry turned a quick first lap as did Judge, but nearly two hours later we saw Jeff Neagle again. Seems they broke the spring shackle bolts on the rear axle. Their pit crew went to town and the NAPA dealer supplied them with replacements to get them going again. Score one for racing close to town. Then it looked good for Kerry. Jeff Judge had trouble on the second and third laps and was gone on the fourth. But, unfortunately Kerry fell by the wayside on lap 6, leaving the win to Jeff Neagle and the trusty #300 Jeep of Russ Fullmer. Two wins Jeff, should have been at Jackpot and we might have had another sweep in class. We were very high on our new Challenger Class when we started the '93 season, with several folks indicating they would come race the class with us. Three teams did, one bought car, one built car, and one altered car, and nobody had any more fun than these guys. They like lower entry fees, less expensive ·repairs and the competitiveness of restricted cars. All three started again with Glenn Cain leading off, followed by Vernon Smith and Dave Morse. Dave had a 45:31 first lap, 21 seconds back of Glenn, and the Smith car had ball joint woes. Glenn had some trouble on lap 2, while Dave did a quick one with a 44:01 and Vernon showed he could run too with a 45:56. Destiny for the Smith t.eam was to fall prey to failing ball joints. Glenn also tossed off the helmet after four laps, giving Dave his second win in '93. The three drivers cordially invite any of you "want to be racers" to get your team together, build one of these cars and come race with them. One of these current cars had a cash investment of about $500 plus some donated parts and lots of imagination. Always trustworthy, like a Boy Scout motto, but Russ Fullmer's Jeep is just that. At this race Jeff Neagle took the wheel and drove to the second win of the season in the Heavy Metal category. Dusty Times We offer the novice or beginner our Sportsman Class, and we had three of them here. The Nutsch brothers, Fred and Mike led off, having climbed off their combine on the farm in Shelley, Idaho at 10:00 p .m. Friday night, hooked up the farm Jeep, drove all night and were ready to register at 7:00 a.m. Also coming a long way was the Rick Taylor team from Nampa, Idaho with their 'new, almost a 10 car'. From Salt Lake City, almost local, came the Mark Rencher team. All three of the cars were going to finish with Rick getting a fast lap of 38:33 and a winning time of · 3:56: 13 for the four laps, to a close 4:00:57 for the bone stock farm Jeep of Nutsch. Both Rick and Fred each had a· slow lap. Unfortunately Mark had three laps with trouble, but still finished in 4:49:33. Rumor has it· Dave Morse takes his second checkered flag this year in Class 9, and he says he is looking for more than three Challenger cars to compete next year as a few are building one up locally. this car will be a Challenger next year, and Rick should have a true Class 10 car. Don't worry Fred, we'll find you more guys to race against! 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SCCA PRO GOLD RUSH RALLY Carl Merrill Wins One In Colorado By John Elkin One hundred years ago a teacher named Katharine Lee Bates stood high atop Pikes Peak with some fellow teachers and found the inspiration in those purple mountain majesties laying below in Colorado to write a wonderful poem, America the, Beautiful. Since that day people have traveled to this wonderful state to enjoy a variety of things besides those same mountains. People come·to Colorado to ski, hike, climb and explore. But once . a year a hardy breed comes to our 38th state to push the edge of the performance envelope on tricky gravel roads in their machines. They forsake sightseeing those majestic mountains to concen-trate on who is the fastest on some of America's fastest and smooth-est rally roads. They come to run the Gold Rush Rally out of Westcliffe, Colorado. This rally is not your usual round of The Subaru Champion-ship, while, yes it is billed as Round #6, this event only counts 60 percent of National points to finishers. Also, unlike a full points National, no starting points were awarded here. The Photos: Don Holbrook Carl Merrill and Jon Wickens kept the Ford Escort Cosworth RS running fast across the Colorado high country, and they led all the way from the first stage to score their first overall victory in this ex-works car. Chad Di Marco and Erick Hauge brought the Subaru Legacy in second overall and the winner in Group A, securing the class championship for 1993, the final year for Group A in SCCA Pro Rally. = rally started out as a divisional, enough workers to make the and some years back grew into a event run efficiently. So this year National, the Centennial, then fell there were 80 stage miles, 250 back to being a divisional. For the total miles and 11 stages, all up in pasttwoyearsithashadNational high altitude roads, a real status in everything but full points challenge for most. Defending for the· Subaru Championship champions Paul Choiniere/Jeff SCCA Pro Rally Series, and the Becker, Audi S-2, were not in the major reason it is not a full entry, gambling their points lead national, which requires extra will hold up through two more ' miles, is ·that it proved too National events, as were the three difficult for the organizer to get truck class leaders. However over 7-had Dykes and Pat Hanson whipped t~efr.Mitsubishi down the fast.roa~s in 14 N . I II d' h me style, not only winning the truck d1v1s1on but the southern Callforn,ans . an,ona ra Y teams ma e t e placed eighth overall in the cold country. tnp to Colorado looking to up !!o ---------------------------their points totals in the year end , challenge, competi tor,s ca II it first overall victory on the Subaru championship,orjustkeephopes something else, but we don't use Championship in the fancy Ford alive in chasing a class champ-that language for publication. Escort Cosworth prepared by ionship. More on the Boneyard later. Libra Racing in Vermont. Merrill The ·organizers of the smooth The battle for the overall win was particularly happy about the running event are to be com-was wide open looking at the win, seeing as how his last trip to mended on putting together ten of starting line up. Chad DiMar-race in this state netted him a pile the best stages in American Pro co/ Eric Hauge had their Subaru of totaled Ford off Pikes Peak. Rally competition. The rally was tuned up and ready. Jeff Theyledby23secondsatthefirst 11 stages long, however, and with Zwart/Tony Sircombe used up a halt, and just kept piling up the the good comes the bad and the lot of time since the last event to time margin. Along with the ugly, It was the baddest, ugliest repair some rollover damage from overall Merrill also claimed the stage any rally car can be run over, the Ojibwe Rally. Their Porsche Open Class with a minute and 42 and it was here lurking among 911 didn't show the least sign of second margin over the Zwart! those fast, winding lanes. the previous mishap. Carl Merrill Sircombe Porsche. Local hot Seasoned teams who have been and Jon Wickens made the tow shoes B.J. and Stuart Beal brought The team of Todd Bawden and Cal Coatsworth have really made a splash in here before call it the 'Boneyard'. from Maine with the Ford Escort their Mazda 323 home third in the Pro Rally circuit, and on this outing they won again in the GT class in their C h b O f II cl Mitsubishi Eclipse and were ninth overall. Rocks, deep holes, deeper oswort , rilliantly painted as pen a ter a ste ar rive. Henry ---------------------------• waterbars make this a real always. Joy and Jimmy Brandt nabbed Trackside Photo, Inc. Racing photography since 1970 We cover all La Rana, SCORE and MTEG events. For professional quality photos, call us! Call us for: Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph sheets Page 40 P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, California 90009 (310) 670-6896 December 1993 Under clear skies and 60 degree fourth in class behind the Beals temperatures 27 rally cars started with the ex-Merrill Mitsubishi from downtown Westcliffe, includ- Eclipse. Fifth in Open class was ing the divisional entry. There were netted by the Saab 900 Turbo of four stages and then back to Sam Bryan and Mark Simons, downtown Westcliffe before who were also the first two wheel heading out on the night stages. drive competitors. Mike Whit-At this service stop Merrill/ man and Kevin Linville claimed Wickens were leading, as expect- sixth in Open Class in, what else, a ed, DiMarco/Hauge followed 23 Datsun 510, seventh overall. seconds back, then came B.J. and Not to be neglected was the Stuart Beal who had already spun quick drive of the DiMarco/ hard and off course in stage 1. Hauge Subaru Legacy that Carl Merrill and Jon Wickens set finished second overall, just over fast time on stage 1 by 11 seconds, a minute out of the win, and this -lengthened it nearly every stage year will probably be the swan ~ except for two, and grabbed their song for Group A in SCCA. So For the second year in a row Larry Schmidt and Mary Engstrom won the top spot in the Divisional rally within the rally; this year they drove a Mazda 323 G TX to victory with an eight minute margin. Dusty Times

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Jeff Zwart and Tony Sircombe fly through the night in the Porsche Carrera 911 4WD, and they were second in Open Class and third overall, over a minute back. B.J. Beal had a short tow from Denver, and he and Stuart Beal drove their Mazda 323 G TX into fourth overall as well as taking third place in Open Class. Rally winners tend to look just like ordinary folks the next day, and here posing with their trophies are, from the left, B.J. Beal, Carl Merrill, Chad DiMarco, and Jeff Zwart at the awards at the school in Westcliffe. Chad DiMarco and Erick Hauge will go out Group A champions. · Three Mitsubishis comprised the GT class. Two of them encountered similar e n gi ne misfires early. Both Ivan and Olga Orisek, Mitsubishi Eclipse had engine woes, and Sakis Hajimin-as /To m Burgess broke two altern ator b elts, the G alant incurring 18 minutes in penalty points. So the only GT Class car running the entire distance was the Eclipse of Todd Bawden and Cal Coatsworth. Their win was somewhat tainted when on the · final stage Bawden backed the car into a ditch doing some cosmetic damage to the bodywork. They were ninth overall. ' Some sidelights included cattle on and around stage 3 , but nonetheless all 2 7 cars restarted into stage 5, where the dust was heavy, so the car$ started at two minute intervals. The route books we re marke d with specia l asterisks at caution corners where drivers have gone off the road in the past. One specific corner , nicknamed " Vermont Vortex" for the Vermont drivers who have crashed there previously, needed so many asterisks the organizers did not have room for them all on the page. The truck class sported a pair of entries. Rob Cherry/Mike Taylor road starts well for three miles, dragged the old Jeep Comanche then turns into a wash and the fun out of the garage to run again, sans is over. Mile after mile follows of Roger Hull. And Chad Dykes/Pat undulating waterbars, huge rocks Hanson figured they had a and rough road. The Production mathematical chance at the car of Tony Shumaker/Bill championship if they came to the Gutzmann got out of the rough rally. Dykes/Hanson set a torrid section and was making time on pace early pullin g clear of theslightlybetterroadbeforethe Cherry/Taylor . At one point it waterbars when the car tripped looked as though the Jeep started over a small tree, according to the clim bing up closer t o the navigator and overturned. The Mitsubishi truck, but misfortune roll did not affect the running of on stage 7 cost the pair 20 the car, but in the 27 degree minutes. Dykes/Hanson finished weather the broken and missing first in truck class and eighth windows made it hard to get overall. Rob Cherry and Mike warm. While charging hard in the Taylor were 12th 0 / A, both Jeep truck Rob Cherry/Mike teams doing CRS proud. Taylor bagged a flat front tire that A lone entry graced the flapped around in the wheel well Production class. Tony Shumaker and took out a brake line. and Bill Gutzmann brought the Stopping to fix the flat and pinch Mitsubishi Eclipse to solidify off the brake line, they also saw second place in the champion-ship. Peter Cunningham/Joe Andreini had already won the class title in M innesota last month. So Shumaker and Gutz-mann motored well, except for a small oops on stage 7 and did finish, 11th 0 / A. You have heard about it, the terrible stage 7, and while we admit that attrition was lower on this stage than in previous years, it still sported several storie f note. This 12 mile long piece of Hiawatha Trails Divisional Rally I3y Dave Thomas Henry and Cyndi Krolikowski several more than the organizers averaged 6 1.53 mph in their had anticipated. The days were domination of the field at the beautiful, clear blue skies, low Hiawatha Trails, Coefficient 2 seventies, and a stiff southerly SCCA Divisional Rally hosted by wind off Lake Michigan kept the the Lake Superior Region on dustandbugsblownaway.Alight September 11. Their Dodge mist began at about the time of the Shadow completed the 61.66 meal halt/ reseed, but by then the stage miles in 60.12 minutes, finishing order was all but winning every stage but the fifth. determined with four stages The rally began and ended in the having been completed, and three boonies about 30 miles northeast to go. of Escanaba, MI at a burned down The Audi Quattro teain ofMas-res tau rant ... Max's. Henry's kus/Carlson met up with a tree speech, upon acceptance of the on the outside of a decreasing first place honors: "My car likes radius left hander following a long smooth roads." Smooth they straight on the second stage of the were, twisty they were not. rally, damaging the sheet metal, In second place was the suspension, and fuel injection, Marquette, MI team of Sob-and causing their early demise. czak/ Kries in Craig's Mazda 323 The VanDamme/VanDamme GTX, nearly two minutes back at VW Rabbit rolled one time too 61.84. The 1993 Central Division many and out of the rally, and the champions, from Pendleton, IN, Gillespie/ Bentley Saab 99 retired· Mike Hurst and Todd Houst were early in the rally as well. third, just three and a half minutes Seventeen of the original 20 off the pace at 63 .51. Southwest finished and were sipping cool Division Champion Ken Stewart ones in the Pioneer Hotel bar by with co-driver Steve Scott put the one a.m. These have to be the Supercharged Blazer in fourth at fastest smoothest rally roads in 64.43, with the Larson/Van-Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Damme Dodge Charger in fifth at Give me Mandan road any day. 65 .41. Don't forget to come to Paris by The rally bagan at twilight with Night, Paris, TX on November a seven mile transit back towards 27, 1993. Headquarters is at the town, and then the stages began, Holiday Inn, and we'll show you with no delays. This was a well what smooth and fast really is! I the jack break. Taylor hiked back to a blockage control to borrow a jack and hike back to the disabled truck. That cost the duo 20 minutes. New rallyist, but experienced road racer Scott Gaylord came out with his co-driver Gary Cook. Cook found the rough stage unnerving and fell so ill he could not continue. To Gaylord's credit his Honda Civic Si was a Showroom Stock car, not very rally prepared with no lights, no skidplates, no rally tires, but had worked up to 11th 0 / A. The awards were held the next morning at the Custer County School in Westcliffe, the head-quarters town for the rally for several years. Trophies were handed out to overall winners and class winners, except one; Tony Shumaker the production class winner who spent just as much time and money running the rally, was somehow overlooked in the prize giving and was not acknowl-edged. , W e hope the organizers rectify that. All the winners had people to thank. Carl Merrll thanked Libra Racing for p repping his Car. Todd Ba wden thanked Rod Millen Motorsports for doing the sam e for him. C had Dykes thanked his expert service crew, Tony Shumaker thanked Dave Wolin Racing and Toyo tires; Chad DiMarco thanked Valvo-line and Subaru. But all of us in the rally thank the organizers and the workers that support them for taking the time to put on one of the truly great events on the calendar. .:;P;,,;.la;:n;,,;.n;.;.e::d::....e::v,:,.;e;,,;.n,;,;t;,_;_w,:,.;i.:.th:.:....2:.0,:_.:.en:.:.:,:tr.:.ie:;s:.:.,_;g;;_u_a_r_a_n_te_e_! _______________________________________________ ---::::-----::-:-_, Dusty Times December 1993

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ROUND 4 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Yokohama Blue Lake City 400 At Mount Gambier Text & Phot.os: Darryl Smith j ' Richard Bennett and Mick Cowie did a remarkable job in their Southern Cross buggy by winning Class 2 for 1600cc engined cars, and they had no trouble finishing fourth overall too!. Mark Burrows, with Ross Waller riding in the Trekka, stayed with the leaders all day, took over the lead on lap 5 and -his luck held and he not only won Class 1 Unlimited two seat class, but also won the race overall. Catching quite a bit of air in his Baja Bug, Warren Irons, with Vicki Woods co-driving, ran with the front pack, but shredded a tire on the last lap and finished on the flat, first in Class 4, but dropped to 25th overall. The Australia n Off Road Championship moved to the state of South Australia, with a new venue and event. The town of Mount Gambier were the hosts and Yokohama Tires were the sponsor and both made sure it would be a huge success. The only factor that tried to interfere was the weather and it rained throughout the Saturday's prologue. Coming out of that with the quickest time and therefore number one position for Sunday's race was Daren W ells with turbo Nissan power for Yokohama. Then followed Brett Osbourne, Les Brown, Mark Burrows, and Richard Bennett leading Class 2. Darren Payne from Tasmania was 7th and led Class 9 , while Mark Warren led Class 3. The others to head their ¥ .-~'i .,p/J:;":_ · classes were; Graeme Dowsett (4), Norman Vesty (5), Ken Houston (6), Les Sivior (7), Fred Parker (8), however there was more in store as a Masters Shootout took place. This involved the top two from each class running off together over two short laps. With Osbourne attending an engine misfire Brown took on Wells, but in a close finish Wells got up. In the other exciting races Bennett won over Rose; Warren over England; Irons over Dowsett (who lost his remainig gears); Vesty over Ireland; Houston beat Wilson; Siviour was quicker than Glen Hadlow; Knott won Class 8 with Parker blowing a diff; and Payne beat Strawbridge. It was a great concept and kept the crowd entertained all day. There were Alan Dobbs and Glen Waid were the sole survivors out of ten starters in Class 5 for 2WD pickups and sedans, taking the Class win in the Ford F-100 of course, and they also came in 24th overall. · some late nights for some. Manns was changing engines in the Jackaroo 4x4, while Zarfati changed gearboxes, and Baxter a front cliff housing. It was all worth it though as these and all the 96 cars took their place on the grid with the rain now eased to the odd light shower. The spectators were well catered for and a huge drop into a quarry cutting had most of them. With the rain came warnings of slippery areas so the open ing lap for most was a cautious look and see. There were some early retirements though. Bill Buchanan's Class 2 blew a head gasket, and the Class 3 leaders, the Warrens, broke a gearbox. Parker's late night was in vain when his auto let go in the Landrover. Whitbread's Mitsubi-shi truck lost oil pressure and they was out with a broken torsion bar too were early spectators. on his Class 2. Dean Williams' There was a lot of attention on trick Class 3 was gone with turbo Class 9 but before long Straw-troubles, while the Zacka 's 4x4 bridge was out as he ran off into Rodeo had clutch failure. The some trees becoming totally order after two laps saw Owen stuck, but he was unhurt. Up the still at the top over Wells and front where there were plenty of Turnbull ( with alloy V8). Bur-surprises it was Glen Owen who rows moved up to fourth, Bennett started 14th who now led the still led Class 2 in fifth, Robinson race. Osbourne was second then was next then the very impressive Wells, Turnbull, Bennett, and car over from West Australia, the Robinson. McMillan was leading Po rsche powered car of Steve Class 9 although back in 12th. Graydon. Leading the Class 3 1"he tightest battle was perhaps field was Trevor Oakley, then Class 8 with Peter Hadlow, Ken Class 4 was Warren Irons, and Smith, and Grahame Baxter all on Class 5 another car from the each others tail. West, the FlO0 of Alan Dobbs. Lap two again saw many strike Ken Houston led the Challengers, troubles. Osbourne dropped Siviour led Class 7 with Hadlow back with a flat tire. Prendergast and Manns close for second. Absolutely running away with the Class 8 race was the V8 Nissan of Reg Owen who was to set the fastest speed through the radar for the entire field. McMillan still led . Class 9 although Bush was closing. No _matter what race it is ~es Siviour, this time with co-driver Josh Golsby-Sm1th, always seems to wm Class 7 in the Nissan Patrol in Production 4x4 action, and Siviour finished 19th overall as well. More problems were to he heard of. In Class 2 Ian French who was in the team of Yokohama cars from the west dropped out with c.v. and axle problems. Robert Moore who took over Class 3 had an oil filter fitting split. In Class 9 it was all falling apart. Bush firstly broke an axle, then McMillan surprised with a gearbox failure leaving Myers to lead before he went out with a broken front arm. This left 14-~~•111 .)\,""' ~~ ··~· Flying along in style here, Daren Wells and Ian McPhee took second in Class 1 just over a minute behind the winner, and their Rivmasta was second overall. ... ,·-~Jj• ~ <';: ~-• Russell and Jamie Robinson were nine minutes off the Chris and Matthew Owen drive a California original, a Funco winning pace in their Rivmasta, finishing third in Class 1, but two seater, and they drove the 1600cc powered car to second in were also third overall. Class 2, ninth overall. December 1993 Dusty Times

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Mark Manns and Allen Cartledge kept the Isuzu Jacka-roo going strong in second in Class 7, finished second, Class 6 is for Challenger Buggies, but the Aligator of Ken Houston and _ just eight minutes behind the class winner. Ken and Laureen Smith gave their Hoid:n Rodeo a good ride in Class 8 action and they took second in class, just six minutes out of victory, 18th 0 /A. Stewart Moar flew as well as the big cars, and they kept up the pace to win the al though there were no other tight running class by just 49_seconds over four others. finishers, came in a good 24th Boyes was fighting a misfire all overall. Anthony Horkings as the sole survivor. In the leader pack it was Burrows who was going after Owen and closed up to within 1 ½ minutes. Wells followed then Turnbull, Robinson and Gray-don. Bennett still led Class 2 with Chris Owen moving up in second. The Class 1 of Les Brown had earlier had distributor problems but now was out for good with shock troubles. The track was now starting to pack down into what many said were perfect conditions. The sandy nature of the course ensured no dust also. At the completion of 4 laps with only two to go it was Glen Owen still heading the group. Burrows was in touch though only one minute behind, with Wells right behind him. The Robinson's came next, then Turnbull, Bennett, Al bins, Fitcher, Crisp and Bentley rounding out the top ten. Bennett was the only non-Class 1 . Graydon was slowing with what was to be terminal gearbox problems, which was a shame for this car had won the big Finke desert race months before. There was similar bad luck in the 4x4 field. Glen Hadlow in the V6 Triton battled steering problems until the truck hit a tree, while the Hilux built by the local Skill Share college ran out of time as battery troubles had earlier put them behind. The Class S group was not much better with Baxter's VS Nissan out with transfer case failure, and Knott losing time attending steering components. Pickering was doing all the driving in the Pajero but was now without a working front diff after earlier changing a tire. Lap 5 and big dramas·up front. The lead car of Owen was missing. The turbo Golf motor had cried enough and stopped what would have been a great win. Turnbull also dropped out of the leading bunch. This now left Burrows leading over Wells. These two were actually racing side by side on the great track. It was obvious the Robinsons wanted a part of it too and were rocketing around the course trying to catch the pair in front. Bennett was still impressing his Yokohama spon-sors on the hill by leading Class 2 and running fourth. Albins, Fitcher, and Crisp still followed. The big thundering Nissan of Reg Owen got out of shape on a straight and collected a tree requiring some rebuilding in the wheel stud area. Into the last lap and there were a couple who weren't stopping for anything. The Class 1 of Keith Owers broke a center adjuster but continued in a saggy fashion while the lead Baja of Irons shredded a tire but ran on regardless. The Class 1 of Neville Dusty Times day while the Osbourne's day The Class 6 fight was very finished with a broken c.v. close. Houston had some prob-It was the Bridgestone car of !ems but was hoping he had Mark Burrows that first appeared regained the lead as he crossed the in the arena to take the checkered line just ahead of Wilson. The flag and his second win of the times gave it to Houston's Jag-year. His turbo Mazda buggy ran Art, Sidchrome car by less than a perfect all day. Next in for minute, over Wilson. Rodgers Yokohama was Daren Wells and Whisker filled the other some 1 ¼ minutes behind. places. Less Siviour's Nissan Following them was the Kum-Patrol wagon took a commanding ho/Tyrepower car driven by victory in Class 7. In second was Russell Robinson making it three Mark Manns in the factory Isuzu Class 1 s on the victory platform. Jackaroo who was in fact running More joy for Yokohama as with a motor out of a stock Richard Bennett took out Class 2 Jackaroo. Doug Coleman's by coming in fourth. immaculate Patrol took third over It was however Class ls that Langham's Ford Courier truck. dominated the final top ten. In More celebration for Yokohama fifth was Albins then Crisp, in Class S with Hadlow beating Bentley, Owers, Chris Owen home the Holden Rodeo of (second in Class 2, now in Smith, the Mitsubishi Pajero of Firestone colours), and Boaden. Pickering, and the Patrol of In 11th place was first Class 3, Owen. Horkings pushed on in the that of Trevor Oakley. He just turbo Nissan single seater and was beat the first Tin Top, that of the only finisher, winning Class 9. Class S's Peter Hadlow in the In all only 40 cars completed the Yokohama truck. Going back to · event. class results; behind Bennett and Congratulations must go to the Owen in Class 2 came Basham, organizers led by the tireless Ziems and Rose. Behind Oakley Denise Strawbridge, the people at in Class 3 were Lee, England, Yokohama for the sponsorship Dow, and Tichner . The Baja and professional additions and result saw Irons win with his flat the entire town of Mount tire over McDougall, Taylor with Gambier who really did get fuel pump problems, and Row-behind the race IOO'}h and made it ston. The big, brutish FIO0 of a great event and one that will get Dobbs took Class 5, and, better and bigger. Yokohama Blue Lake City 400 September 11-121993 Mount Gambier, So. Australia # Poa Driver/Co-driver Vehicle Time OIA Claaa I• Unlimited Two Seat • 24 start -10 finish 101 1 Mark Burrows/Ross Waller Trekka 3:40:38 r 103 2 Daren Wells/Ian McPhee Ril(masta 3:41:55 2 128 3 Russell & Jamie Robinson Rivmasta 3:49:36 3 120 4 Charlie Abins/Craig Hoare Trekka 3:51:44 5 192 5 Trevor & Anthony Crisp Rivmasta 3:54:07 6 Claaa Two• 1600 cc Two Seat• 14 start. 5 finish 284 1 Richard BennetVM ick Cowie Southern Cross· 3:50:45 4 215 2 Chris & Manhew OWen Funco 4:00:44 9 233 3 Brian & William Basham Hunter Rivmasta 4:19:33 13 214 4 Andrew & Alex Ziems Rivmasta 4:19:51 14 201 5 Terry & Maureen Rose Hunter Rlvmasta 4:20:02 15 Claaa Tlvee • l200cc Two Seat 14 start. 7 finish 371 1 Trevor & Annene Oakley Buggy 4:14:05 11 358 2 Kevin Lee/Scon McNelll Hornet 4:20:35 16 323 3 Murray & Susan England Varco 4:22:12 17 356 4 Geoff Dow/Kevin Peart Hornet 4:28:43 20 383 5 Graham Tichner/Peter Burden Southern Cross 4:47:59 27 Claaa Four· Baja Bug• 5 start• 4 finish 417 1 Warren Irons/Vicki Woods Baja Bug 4:44:15 25 460 2 Stephen McDougalVMark Wilson Baja Bug 4:52:50 28 402 3 Nev Taylor/Bob Oxley Baja Bug 5:32:46 37 403 4 Ken Rowston/Troy Gard Baja Bug 5:38:12 38 Claaa Five· 2WD Sedan & Pickup -10 start. 1 finish 567 1 Alan Dobbs/Glen Ward Ford F-100 4:38:39 24 Claaa 6 • Challenger Buggy • 5 start • 4 finish 604 1 Ken Houston/Stewart Moar Aligator 4:55:33 30 653 2 Lyndon Wilson/Vincent Eustace Scorpion 4:56:22 31 614 3 Brian Rodgers/Ray Hutchins Southern Cross 5:17:24 35 603 4 Ian & Stephen Whisker Bond Roll Bars Buggy Claaa Seven• Production 4x4. 8 start. 4 finish • · 5:25:14 36 701 1 Les Siviour/Josh Golsby-Smith Nissan Patrol 4:24:36 19 704 2 Mark Manns/Allen Cartledge Isuzu Jackaroo 4:32:26 22 717 3 Doug Coleman/Ken Sadler Nissan Patrol -4:45:54 26 741 4 Chris Langham/Lindsay Heenshaw Ford Courier 5:01:47 33 Class Eight • Unlimited 4x4 . 9 start . 4 finish 802 1 Peter Hadlow/Scoll Foster Mitsubishi Triton 4:18:06 12 801 2 Ken & Laureen Smith Holden Rodeo 4:24:23 18 806 3 Geoff Pickering/Fabio Zarfali Mitsubishi Pajero 4:54:28 29 809 4 Reg Owen/Russell Cairns Nissan Patrol 5:05:43 34 Claaa 9 • Unlimited Single Seat. 7 start -1 finish 925 1 Anthony Horkings Buggy 4:34:04 23 Starters 96 - Finishers 40 - Finish ratio 41% Race Distance 450 kilometers (280 miles) Fastest Prologue - #l03 Daren Wells 3:22 • Winners Average Speed 63.02 mph Fastest race Ian -#101 Mark Rurrnw,s '.l'.l·.44 December 1993 Anthony Horkings runs in the Unlimited Single Seat class, and although there were seven starters, Horkings drove all the way in his buggy and was the only car in class to finish, thereby winning Class 9. 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Th• Great Northern Challenge By Barb & Marilyn Schultt Photos: Jeanne Brown/Gregg Witfe/Dan Mainzer/Trackside Photo Inc. Dan Baudoux started a most successful weekend in his native Michigan by winning the first race, Class 11 two seat, and the next day he also won Class 11 single seat and ran two other races also. Mark Oberg led the first lap in Class 11 two seat competition, but he got passed quickly by the winner, held second for a time but finished fourth. After a month off from the best racing around, SODA drivers and fans packed up and made the trip to Lake Odessa, Michigan, the 1-96 Speedway and The Great Northern Challenge for the weekend of August 21 and 22. Promoters Bob and Carolyn Moon had the area race ready, camping ready, a full house media day and all that one needs for super off road racing! As we took our places in the stands under beautiful skies and ready for red hot racing we saw a new one in our books. The track was being "watered" by beet juice! Yep, extract of beet juice was used to keep the track nice and tacky with no dust and it worked!!! The stuff looked a little Class 6 was not up to its usual strength at Lake Odessa, Ml, but the result was about the same. Passing a field of good looking corn, Fay Statezny won in his Chevy Chevelle looking like a road racer here. strange but it worked! Class 11 Bekavac was running two seconds Double Seat took the first racing faster than Statezny's first lap honors. With nineteen entries times, and came around the last and lined up four across, the green corner door to door but didn't flag waved and the action was on. have the extra he needed! It was a Mark Oberg came by on lap one super finish with Statezny in first, with the lead but surrendered it Bekavac in second and despite the quickly to Dan Baudoux. Baud-major break, Graboski in third. oux grabbed it and made it a The gentlemen in the Class 5-runa way for first place. Cory 1600 impressed the now filled Friday also got by Oberg and grandstands with both number of while giving it his all, still never entries and the high caliber of made up the ground on Baudoux racing they put out. Chuck andplacedsecond.JohnHuvenis Johnson in the Joe Eppers definitely making his mark in machine came around for the . Class 1 lD. Huven passed up early lead with Mike Brue and Bill Oberg and gave young Friday a Bowles hot on his tail pipe with a run for the money but came up dynamite battle for position! short to place third. Oberg placed Young Jeff Karlman and veteran fourth. Glen Mathews and Jim Terry P. Wolfe (there's that Wymer also finished on the lead "perfect" again), were also staging lap. some heavy action directly behind Don't know where the majority the top three. Johnson was steady of the Class 6 drivers were but Fay on the move when he took the Statezny, Greg Bekavac and Bill infield corner a bit too wide, put Graboski had the track to hismachineuponaberm,snuffed themselves. Despite a small class, it, and had to refire before getting these guys gave their race their all. back into the race. This misfort-Groboski came around lap one une did not put him a lap down with the lead and was lookin' but did cost him mega positions. good when his machine said, Brue moved into first place with "Nah, not today" and Graboski Bill Bowles and his beautiful wife had to pull off. From that point Maxine breathing down Brue's on Statezny held the lead with neck. Bill & Maxine tried Bekavac doing his best to catch everything short of gun fire to get him. In fact, by the white flag lap, " around but Brue kept them at bay __ ,.,w--.."'IW'._ _ _,, ____ ,i;_ and went across the finish line in first, Bowles' in second. Mean-while Wolfe and Karlman are going at it tooth and nail when whappo, Karlman's machine gives up the ghost. So what's Johnson doing? Well, he's not sitting around playing five card draw, he's on the move and he's doing it big time! Wolfe now has third place but Johnson is not going to let him have it the easy way. Chuck posted some very fast times in order to knock on Wolfe's door. Time ran out, however, giving Wolfe third and Johnson a very well driven fourth. Mike Brue sails into a real lump, but didn't do any damage. He took the lead in the race with Bill and Maxine Bowles right on his bumper, but Brue held on to win again in Class 5-16001• Finally a good picture of Gerald Foster's tidy Class 3 Chevrolet, and he keprit tidy to win the class at Lake Odessa, but he didn't fair well in other events. There was no question in the Class 3 race as to whether or not there were enough vehicles for a Class as eight Class 3s took the line. Mike Savage came roaring Bill and Maxine Bowles tried everything to get around Brue in Class 5-1600, but even getting alongside didn't let them make the pass and they were second. Pagc44 Chuck Johnson led Class 5-1600 for several laps in Joe Eppers car, but a berm got in his way, and when he got unstuck he finished fourth in the class. December 1993 The crowd enjoyed the wild driving style of Canadian Milan Mazanec, but it worked as he took the rig to second in Class 3 and placed fourth in Class 4. Dusty Times

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Dan Baudoux is another racer who runs two cars. In this Mirage, his own company in Michigan, Dan was second in 2-1600 and second in the Limited Challenge. Cary Bowles did well in his limited 1600 car, taking third in the tough 2-1600 class and next day he ran to fifth in the 1-1600 Geoff Dorr stayed right on the leaders bumper in his Class 4 Ford but he couldn't make the pass and had to settle for second place in the tough class. action as well. Cheryl Walton drove her Jeep CJ with the boys in Class 3 and she finished fourth, and she also challenged the ladies with the big trucks and ended up winning the Women 's Heavy Metal race. off the start with Gerald Foster, Jerry Bundy and Chad Schleuter in hot pursuit. Next lap Schleuter makes the pass on Bundy and Foster is counting the dents on Savage's bumper. Around they come again, this time minus Savage, Foster in the lead and Schleuter gaining ground on Foster. Around one more time, the contest is getting hot when young Schleuter rolls on the last corner putting him out of the action. Bundy moves into second with Foster in a romp to the win. While all of this was going on our Canadian pal Milan Mazanec drives through the pack and is knocking on Bundy's door. Bundy's hanging in there but his machine wasn't willing so off the track they go! Mazanec takes it on in for second. Al Drews hadn't been sitting back crocheting doll clothes either having worked his way through for third place. The real fun was watching Michigan's own Cheryl Walton drive her Class 3 into a very nice fourth place. Lady and gentlemen, nice race! Bet Mark Steinhardt won't forget The Great Northern Challenge! Class 2-1600 green flagged and Steinhardt immedi-ately goes into a full loop before a lap could be made. No problem, Mark, ya' weren't the first or the last to do this! What makes this note worthy is the hard charge Steinhardt put on throughout the rest of the race, we're here to tell ya' the guy was flying! Cary Bowles and his beautiful wife Janet came out of the chute in first place followed by Todd Attig and Dan Elwell. It's darned hard to fend off the incredible Attig and while Bowles did an admirable job, Attig took the lead and went on for the victory. Elwell had his hands full of fast moving Dan Baudoux. Baudoux hard charged his way around both Elwell and Bowles for second place. Bowles drove an excellent race finishing in third with Elwell also doing very well for fourth place. DustyTimcs We've gotta' back track a little here before the Class 4 race to let the reader know the course lay out. After the green flag racers came over two jumps, hit a nice long sweeper, zinged over a jump and headed into a straight stretch. After the straight you made a hard turn into the infield of the existing oval track, hit a fairly rough rhythm section, made another real tight corner, headed over a group of offset triple jumps, another tight corner and back to the start line. Now, surrounding the track on the backside are a lovely field of corn and a pig farm that smelled just like, well, a pig farm! This pig farm and the corn are important. They got more important as the imaginative spectator began to think of roast pork and corn on the cob. It was hungry out. Class 4 thundered off the start with the jam packed stands on their feet. Kevin Probst came off the start in first place but by lap three was off the track. Jumpin' Jack Flannery then came around in the lead with Geoff Dorr right on his tail. Flannery put the pedal down and went on for the win. Dorr sailed on into second place. Third place was the racing action Chad Schleuter had been looking for earlier in the Class 3 race. Schleuter put the hammer down and fended off rival Class 3 Gerald Foster in an outstanding run for third place. Foster roared across the finish line in a very close fourth place. Also finishing were Chad Hall, John Heidtman, Greg Gerlach, Bob Bemmels and Jerry Bundy. So, you ask, what was so important about the corn and the farm? Well, Dennis Chencharick came off the start in great form, drove his way to mid-pack by lap two and then on lap three the guy goes off the track, through the corn and was headed for the farm. We were hoping he'd come back with road kill roast pig and grilled corn! We're not picking on you, Dennis, your performance on the track is always good, we were just ready for lunch! Class 9 110 took the track next with some truly awesome racing! Long time SODA Class Champ-ion Art Schmitt III put in most of a lap, bent up the whole front end of his buggy and was out of the action. Todd Attig had it all together and despite major efforts by both Jeff St. Peter and Missouri's Don Ponder came out of the race with the number one spot! Ponder was running a spectacular second place but the racing gods were handing out disaster. Ponder's hood flew up completely obstructing his vision thus causing Ponder to slow down significantly. The hood fell off but not before St. Peter took advantage of the situation and moved into second place. Ponder fought the good fight but never gained position back and so they finished with St. Peter in second, Ponder in third. Trent Hanson and Ken Poole were in a great battle for fourth place, Poole having the edge, when they hit the triple jumps. Poole hit it hard and came off dangling the entire right front wheel assembly costing him three positions. Hanson took fourth. Put on your seat belts sports fans and get ready for Class 8 and some incredible action! First off there was a new truck on the block! John Greaves came out driving Pat Flanagan's big Class 8 and drive it he did! Before a full lap could be put in Jed Flannery traded sheet metal with Brian Donlevy in what became a nasty pile up, Dan "The Flying Dutchman" Vanden Heuvel pulled off a full loop and Jack Flannery knew we were hungry and headed out into the corn field! Dave Heckers took an early lead with both Scott Taylor and Walker Evans right on his bumper. The amazing Evans and his big Dodge passed both Taylor and Heckers by lap three and looked to be in control. Taylor made his way around Heckers and then Dave hit a real mess. Heckers came flying off the triple jumps, landed and had what appeared to be a rear trailing arm stuck a good foot into the track base. That baby was stuck so tight it took a tow truck with a strap to pull it out. His truck also lost the entire rear end! We've never seen anything like it! By now Greaves has it all dialed in and was flying around in third position followed by The Flying Dutchman. Evans lost his front suspension and had to pull off! Now Taylor has the lead with a forty eight second pull on second place Greaves! At the finish it was Taylor with first, Greaves on the same lap for second. Vanden Heuvel finished in third and Farmer John Konitzer took home fourth. That triple December 1993 Todd Attig raced in three classes, and he won Class 2-1600 and 1-1600 in this race car, then won Class 9/10, Class 1/2 and the Unlimited Challenge race in another car he built himself. What a weekend for him. Jack Flannery was back on track in the Chevrolet in Class 4 competition, winning that race in a tough dice, but he didn't do well and did not finish the Production Truck Challenge race. EXPORT & International Sales Fabrication, accessories Consulting and management WISHES TO THANK ALL OF Preparation THOSE CLIENTS THAT HELPED MAKE 1993 AN OUTSTANDING SUCCESS!! Offroad Brokerage Featuring: • Over 150 CARS • Ultd./Ltd. 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Chad Hall came from Reno to run the whole series, didn't have much luck but he did get a finish in the Class 4 race and was sixth in the Challenge too. Johnny Greaves, in his new Class 8 ride, came out fighting hard in Class 8, and he put Pat Flanagan's truck home second in the new to him truck. Dan Vanden Huevel spun early in Pete Van De Hey 's Class 8, but he recovered quickly to run fourth and moved in to third in class at the checkered flag. They ran hard for second place in Class 9/ 10 until Don Ponder lost his hood, up in his face, so Jeff St. Peter (912) foreground, was second, Ponder third. jump also played havoc with Jed Flannery, he lost the front suspension half way through the race. Brian Donlevy also had a nasty time of it and he rolled over ~ on the last corner. Class 13 polished off the day's racing with more intense action! For starters, The Flying Dutch-man, Dan Vanden Heuvel jumped from Pete Van De Hey's Class 8 into his own mighty Road Warrior machine and took the track like a flying demon! But this class is extremely competitive and he was followed around the track by R .J. Flanagan and the rest of the gang in hot pursuit. The pre-lap go around could have been a bit sticky with John Schultz, who was running in the top four, out to make the donuts and an entire Class wove around Schult: with no tangles , pile-ups or other nasties! Schult: lost mega time with the spin, hard charged around the track and lost the entire rear end effectively putting an end to his race. Bruce Shilts had come screaming off the start, looking good and ran into major clankety bang woes just managing to finish the race. Joe Zilisch, Scott Stelzer, Ron James and Thornton Schultz were all making a bid for the third place spot. Schult: lost his brakes, James went off with some yukky looking smoke and Zilisch pulled off for just enough time to let Stelzer by. So, at the last checkered flag of the day, Vanden Heuvel held on to first, Flanagan had a very close second and Zilisch re-passed Stelzer for third. Stelzer took fourth and No Brakes Schultz placed fifth. Tell ya' what, we thought we had plenty of time to get to the stands for Sunday's racing action only to find that before Class 11 Single Seat took the track, the RACESHOCK CoMPANY oug ountrY. RACING 50mm OR 65mm O.D. MONOTUBE BODY G s·THROUGH 13.s·TRAVEL 111.0.'t\~ \ \-IC URETHANE BUSHINGS OR s1 ~: oO · · HEIM MOUNTING ENDS -< $1,.6• REMOTE RESERVOIRS AVAILABLE ().1 7/8• SHAFT OPTION AVAILABLE Page 46 AV AILBLE FROM: ARIZONA Wooers Off Road Products Phoenix 602-242-00TT Sunland Custom Buggies Phoenix 602-971-5069 Brandwood Cars Phoenix 602--137-31 oi ... 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In fact, despite a number of roll overs, spins, etc., the attrition rate was remarkably low and spectators had a great opening race. Michigan's own Lonnie Andrews came off the start in the number one spot but after two laps fellow Wolverine Dan Baudoux passed him up and went on to take the win with an impressive run. During this two lap period Rod Attig rolled so hard he had a moment's confu-sion when he restarted as to which way the track went. Had the makings of being kind of funny until one realized just how hard Attig had to hit to ring his bell that hard - glad you're okay, Rod! Back at the ranch, John Huven had an excellent race going, driving his way around Andrews for second place. Andrews hung in for third. Back in the pack there was plenty of action with Larry Bayer going over on lap three, Gerald Christensen goin wheel to wheel over, numerous spin outs etc. causing traffic jams that put fourth place Darrin Parsons behind third place by twenty seconds. Now, don't think Darrin and the gang weren't giving it their all, 'twas just the way the traffic went! Was this a Todd Attig weekend or what??? Class 1-1600 green flagged and Attig went flag to flag one more time for the win. Jim W iggins began the race right on Attig's bumper, at one point took the lead and then lost it, dropped back for most of the race and then was right back on Attig's bumper at the checkered flag for second place. Attig, in his post race interview, told of losing most of his tranny and finished the race with one gear, third! Speaking of third, John Greaves and Rob Kinner had quite a battle going for that spot with Greaves taking the position, Kinner in fourth. Cary Bowles did a super job of coming through the ranks for a well driven fifth place. Also finishing on the lead lap were Dan Elwell, Todd Crump and Bill Scott. That Todd Attig definitely went to The Great Northern Challenge to WIN!! Class 1-2 took the track with their usual super fast times and it was Attig one more time in a flag to flag run for the win! Scott Schwalbe also made one heck of a run from flag Almost following himself on, Dan Vanden Huevel drove his own truck to the Class 13 victory, and later on Sunday he also won the Heavy Metal Challenge in this truck. He had quite a weekend! December 1993 to flag for a super second place. It just wasn't going to be easy for Jeff St. Peter, SODA 's 1992 Driver of the Year. St. Peter gave a great show of how he earned that title by taking third place with first a broken front shock and then posted a tremendous fast time with a flat tire! Nice work Jeff! Also finishing the race were Don Ponder, Doug Bils and Owen Walther. John Greaves has had absolute-ly no luck with his Class 7S truck this year and this race was no exception. Class 7S green flagged , Greaves flew off the start with Jim Wiggins and Jeff Kincaid right on his bumper and half way through the race, his motor left him one more time. Kincaid took the lead with a fantastic pass on Wiggins and went high flying into a super first place. Wiggins also had a super run for second place. Scott Taylor placed third. T o m Hackers did a neat job of moving from the back of the field to fourth place. Dave Woulf, Joe Dunlap and Paul Corning rounded out the field. Say hey, it was Challenge/ Championship racing time and the Limited Buggy Challenge led the way with some super driving! Jim Wiggins had this one from green to checkered and on the checkered flag lap had the crowd wondering if he'd get around to the final flag! Wiggins rounded the last corner, his engine gave a mighty sigh, belched out a lot of smoke and more or less coasted across the line for the win. In Jim's words, " I finished (a 10 lap race) with a nine and three quarters lap engine". Dan Baudoux fought his way to what looked to be third place behind "No Luck" John Greaves. Greaves was moving right along, looking good and his buggy motor/tranny said good-bye giving Baudoux the opportun-ity for the pass for second place. Rob Kinner had been pushing Baudoux around the track and he also got around the ailing Greaves for third place. G reaves still managed to pull out fourth. This was another low attrition rate race with only two machines off the track. Todd Crump and Gordon Zima had a fierce battle going on for position with Crump coming out on top. If ya' didn't get on your feet for the 2x4, 4x4 production Chal-lenge, you weren't going to see anything! There had to be, in Terry Friday's words, a bazillion amount of horsepower on the track . The super performance began before lap one could even be put in with Kevin Probst going into two full loops with every one of the other nineteen entries able to avoid hitting him or anyone else! 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Robert Flanagan is always cheered by the crowd with this whimsical Class 13 body and he was second in class and also second in the Heavy Metal Challenge, Jim Wiggins led a good portion of the Class 7 race, but lost the spot as the laps wound down and had to settle for second in his Class 7 truck. Greg Gerlach drove a fantastic race in the Class 4 Dodge in the Production Challenge, leading for some time, but dropped to third at the finish line. the dude and his truck are awesome and we look forward to seeing him face off with this kind of competition again. Greg Gerlach came around the unfor-tunate spin driving hell bent for leather in first place untilJumpin' Jack Flannery caught him. It looked like Flannery had the ball game nailed down until his machine adiosed and he had to pull off. Gerlach re-took the lead with John Heidtman in second, Chad Hall in third. But it ain't over 'til it's over and watching Scott Taylor and Walker Evans weave their way through this line-up of superior men ·and machines was nothing short of awesome! In three laps both Taylor and Evans had moved through and Taylor had made the crucial pass for first place,-Gerlach's still in second and Evans has third. It's the white flag lap; Taylor has first, now Evans has gotten by Gerlach for second and Gerlach has third. They're coming around on the last lap and Ho! y Bazookas, Evans puts his foot through the floor, makes the big move on Taylor and comes across the checkered flag line with first! Taylor was less than a stub axle away for second and Gerlach kept third place. 'Twas great to see the incompar-able Greg Gerlach screamin' around the track! It was an outstanding race with excellent performances by other finishers John Heidtman, Jamey Flannery, Chad Hall, Geoff Dorr, Jed Flannery, Bob Bemmels, Milan Mazanec and Gerald Foster. This race sorta' reads like a SODA Truck Division Hall of Fame, huh? Of course there are Heavy Metal drivers not listed who also qualify for Hall of Fame status, like all of them! Now, you gotta' understand that terms like "Hall of Fame" in SODA racing is certainly not limited to trucks! The Unlimited Buggy Challenge was superb! Scott Schwalbe wanted this one and wanted it bad, out running the field of water cooled machines with his air cooled engine and fending off some of the best for half of the race. Todd Attig was on a definite roll however and got around Schwalbe but not without Schwalbe right on his tail, going door to door with him, retaking the lead and finally having to surrender to Attig in what was darned near a photo finish race! Attig came out with yet another win but Schwalbe didn't give it to him without contest. Both drivers finished almost a full minute ahead of third place. Nice, very nice! Meanwhile Jeff St. Peter, who was helping Dan Baudoux chase the leaders around the track, took the last corner just a shade wrong and rolled. By the time his buggy was on all fours and fired up again, he was a lap DustyTimcs down. This didn't deter St. Peter one iota, he drove hell bent for election and though finishing a lap down, he did finish and did so in fourth place! So, who's got third?? Dan Baudoux looked to have third all sewn up but at the half way mark he pulled off with some type of mechanical ails. Mark Wilkins pulled into third place and a nice shoot out with Chris Haenlein until Haenlein's motor let loose. Wilkins took home a well driven third. Both Robert Walther and Greg Ward had to leave the track with breakdowns. The Heavy Metal Challenge featured three drivers, Dan Vanden Heuvel, R.J. Flanagan -both in Road Warrior Class 13 's -and Class 7~ driver Robert Chasteen. Vanden Heuvel and Flanagan had a dandy dice going until Flanagan pulled a full spin on lap three and did it again on lap four. It was definitely a shame as the two had been running about two truck lengths apart; the two spins put Vanden Heuvel in an undisputed lead. Flanagan finished second and Chasteen had third. Not breaking tradition, the Ladies Classes were up next led off by the Limited/Unlimited Class. Paula St. Peter in her Class 9 buggy had a nice race to first place with some serious challenge from Tracy Crump in her 2-1600 buggy. Janet Bowles gave both Crump and Barb Schaden hot contest for position and may have pulled off second place had she not rolled over! Despite the roll, Bowles came back to challenge Schaden but without success. Schaden took home third, Bowles took a close fourth, rounding out the field were Amy Haese and Peni Hubbard. Twelve Class 11 Ladies took the track in a delayed start and what a show they put on! Cindy Wiggins came flying off the start and maintained first place with Karen Christensen breathing down her neck for the first half of the race. Christensen put the pedal to the metal, made the pass, posted the exact same lap time as her husband did in his race and. took home the checkered flag! All right Karen! Just two positions back, Kim Blasdell and Shari Huven were duking it out for position. Wiggins took a bad turn and both Blasdell and Huven got around her. Now throw in Sarah Sawall who has been doing a fine job all season. All four ladies want that second place and the expertise used by these gals was tremendous. Blasdell secured the second place position, Huven took third, Wiggins got back in the contest and took fourth Jim Wiggins had good luck in his limited engine 1600 racer, as he hopped out of his truck to line up for the Limited Engine Challenge, blew the engine on the last turn and won the race. Walker Evans was determined to go home with a win from Michigan, and he made a daring last lap pass in-the 2x4, 4x4 Challenge race for Production trucks to win the.race. December 1993 It all came together for Jeff Kincaid at Lake Odessa running a tight second in Class 7, but moved his Ford up front late in the race and won the class with a fantastic pass. leaving Sawall with fifth. And again, Women's Heavy Metal finished the weekend's racing but it was a race worth waiting for! Sherri Parsons and Cheryl Wal ton put on a fantastic show! Walton in her Class 3 came off the green flag in first place with Parsons right on her bumper in her Class 8. Parsons made the pass on Walton but Walton never gave up and took her turn at eating Parsons' dirt! The "never say die" attitude paid off as on the last corner of the last lap, right in front of the still packed stands Parsons' machine went into death thralls. Walton made a terrific run and took first place with a photo finish, Parsons placing second. ValJames drove her usual good race for third followed by the Schultz ladies, Marilyn in fourth, Robin in fifth. Our own track photographer Downtown ~ Jeanne Brown rounded out the field. The Great Northern Challenge was over, but no one went home without knowing that they had participated in and/ or had viewed the best off road racing to be found! The ·world Series Of Off Road Racing's next step is the True Value World's Champion-ship held everty Labor Day weekend at Crandon, Wisconsin! See ya' trackside! NEW FOR·'93 SIX COLOR GRAPHIC DESIGN ! T-SHIRTS & TANK TOPS-$16 (WH, ASH) 14-~6, S, M, L, XL, XXL (ADD $1) Class 1 OFF Road Enterprises P.O. Box 1007 Homeland, CA 92548 , 909-926-8308 Page 47

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The cabmounted auto racing publications, RC9000 Control Panel's easy to SCORE/HORA, 20 radio. and read gauge tells the driver exactly television shows, MTEG, and the I the performance they've dialed in list goes on. It is 488 pages of from a plush, comfortable· solid, up to date information. highway ride to serious four Contact Y oungson Publishing wheeling or heavy duty towing. Co. at P.O. Box 8127, Dept. DT, Get all the details from Rancho La Jolla, CA 92037-8127 or if Suspension's Bob Willis, 6925 you can't wait, call (619) 459-i Atlantic Ave., Dept. DT, Long 2304 and tell them Dusty Times Beach, CA 90805 or call (800) sent you. 421-7555. ----'-----------with electrical problems. Deter-Desert Race mined not to sit there till after the 5 race Brad was able to check the Uppo,t electrical system out from one By Craig Lane end to the other and eventually _____________ found the problem and was able Ridgecrest in October turned to limp the car back to DRS Main out to be absolutely perfect but was out of the race. weatherwise for the 100 plus This made it between the 1602 racers who were there to race in McMullen car and Jon landiorio La Rana's second to last race of who took over frorri Ed with both the year. The Start-Finish area cars running on the edge going for was in its usual location at Teagle the checkered flag. It looked like Wash Road but for this race La the 1602 car had it, but after Ranaaddedsomenewareaforthe leaving C Pit he hit a rock racers. Unfortunately this area exploding a rear tire which was totally closed down for any allowed Jon to get by and take the stationary pits or any chase. In Class 1600 win by about a minute fact, if a driver were to break which moved them up to 1st in down as some did, they were to class for the year by a couple of remain there till after the race points. Lucerne will decide who is before their crews could go in on Number One for these guys and it course to retrieve them. I was told is for Class 9 also. it was because it was an environ-The year has been a battle mentally sensitive area, which if between Sandy Parker and his co-th is is the case with S 21. driver Tom Moessner, Jim legislation having cleared one of Clements, and the team ofDennis its hurdles to passage, why are we Petersen and Jim Mobley with racing in this area? You take this Sandy on top in Class 9 and the new section and combine it with others playing catch up. Ridge-the areas that are already used crest turned out different as make Ridgecrest a very restricted Sandy had• problems with a race making it very hard on the broken spring plate making the racers if they should break and race between the R.E. Goodspeed need parts. sponsored car of Dennis and Jim This did not, however, effect and Mr. Clements dueling with some great racing in Class 1600 each other. Dennis who took over and Class 9 where the year end for Jim on the 3rd lap was able to points winners still are not cross the finish line first but decided. DRS was well represent-Clements was able to take the win ed in both classes with 2 cars in on elapsed time, but again, as in each class. In the 1600 Class DRS Class 1600, it was about a minute had Brad Inch going for his first separating first and second place. win in his new car and the Hot So again as in Class 1600 Licks Team of Ed Pauley and Jon Lucerne will decide the Number landiorio trying to move up from One position for the year. Third their 2nd place in standings for in Class 9 was the DRS car of the 1600 class, and they were able Perry King in his 3rd race ever to do just that. The 1600 class who was just behind the leaders leader, Morley Davis was unable all day but was happy with his to make Ridgecrest, so the finish to say the least. Lucerne November race in Lucerne Valley Valley in November is shaping up will decide this class. Brad Inch to be another good race and not and Ed Pauley were both driving having such a restricted course for in hot pursuit of the 1602 of Steve chasing will benefit the racers so it McMullen. All three were will be a very exciting race. On running hard and fast but on the behalf of DRS I extend congratu-second lap Brad had to pull over lations to all the class winners, see to the side in the restricted area ya in Lucerne. Dusty Times

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····•·· !m:°'~;A ~ .. - --r.-v --~~ ■■ The Straight Poop From The Big Wahzoo I have no Checker races to re-port on this month, but next month the Wahzoo will have all the straight poop regarding our efforts up at the La Rana Ridge-crest Race and down at the SCORE Baja 1000. SAL FISH-On September 29th SCORE's CEO showed up as promised, to make his pitch on SCORE's class restructuring, the upcoming Baja 1000 Race, and also to answer questions from the membership. When he wrapped it up around 10 p.m., I'm sure most of the 40 or so members present, including this Wah;:oo, were experiencing a warm and comfy feeling that everything will indeed be OK! Despite Calif-ornia's two female Antichrists, despite those stinkin' turtles, despite the ever increasing prob-lems in dealing with the Mexicans, despite an economy that sucks, Sal confidently assured us all that "SCORE now IS Professional Off Road Racing!" And although taking on a little water now and then, they are in no danger of sinking, now or in the near future. But, even as impressed as this Wahzoo was in Sal's frank discus-sion of the state of our sport, let me try to explain to all those members who weren't there what he actually said, minus thi: SL·hmoozi:, and how these changes are gonna affect the Checkers: Starting in '94 SCORE will show-case a "Trophy Truck" class, which will probably start out with somewhere between 8 and 15 hi-dollar pick up entries. These mostly manufacturer ent-ries will have to pay a $2500 entry per race and also have to be rep-resented by a Manufacturer Team, i.e.; before any Chevys can race, Chevy must kick in $7500. Same for Ford, Dodge, or what-ever. This yearly buy-in to run the series also applies to the tire companies, so there's always that possibility that all these hot shots are gonna be runnin' on "Sams". And what do the manufactur-ers and their 8-15 corresponding entries get for all these major bucks? Well, they'll surely get some of the most obvious benefits that money provides, such as much bigger trophies, bigger tit-ted trophy girls, and all the God Damn TV coverage! But, the thing that is most scary is that they will tend to actually become THE RACE! This will be accomplished be separating the starting times hy a number of hours. First the Trophy Tru.ck Class will be flag-ged away, then a few hours later the 'Pro Classes' will be sent out on the course. And finally, the new SCORE Sportsman Classes will be sent off. The motorcycles may be the odd man out in this format as Sal hinted at the possi-bility of 'throwing a red flag' on the Trophy Truck Class at the halfway point, and then, after they've all bunched back up, have a restart. This would provide much more action for the TV cameras, but would also threaten to turn some of the slower motor-cycle entries into possible speed bumps on more than one occasion. To Sal's credit, it appears that he is trying to take professional Dustynmcs off road racing do.wn the same path as drag racing. In that sport, all classes but three got left behind when the sport finally stepped up to produce their major league events of today. It is doubtful that full realization of that goal will be reached in the near future, but that's definitely the way SCORE's headed! CONCLUSION: Although neither the Checkers, nor any of the other buggy oriented racing teams, may be able to stop this direction of J1rogrt'ss we can still screw with it a little. As long as thi: buggy classes are still included in the race, and as long as the winner of the race is still the guy with the shortest elapsed time, then there's always the threat that at any given race, some buggy racer is gonna step up and dust all those trucks! That is, unless the vast majority of the buggy racers decide not to play second fiddle to SCORE's manufacturer class and go race elsewhere? Speaking of SCORE, here's a call on what the results of SCORE's '93 awards this year oughta be: The Checkers as "Pit Team of the Year"; Either one of our Club's Points Champs as "Driver of the Year"; Kevin Davis as SCORE's "Rookie of the Year"; And of course, the Big Wahzoo as "Journalist of the Year". Fat chance, yet all well deserved! CHECKER YEARBOOK-Currently Max Norris, and his loyal assistant "Lou Mendendez", are in the final stages of gathering up appropriate Checker informa-tion, photos, stories, plus your personal or business card ads, This yearbook celebrates 20 years of Checkers Off-Road Racing Excellence, so don't be left out. Make sure Max has all the details about your last big win over at the 'Acme 250', or whatever. Anyone ignoring this request and then caught complaining that their par-ticular racing heroics were left out, will be properly labeled as the whiner that they are! Any non-Checker that would like to either place a business ad in this pres-tigious publication, or has a un, ique story about a particular Checker member is also encour-aged to contact Uncle Max at (213) 254-1531. Warning: Call after 10 a.m., or be prepared to deal with a groogy old dude. This Official Checker Racing Publica-tion is scheduled to be available around the end of the year with every active Checker getting a copy free. SO, get up off your ass and call NOW! BANQUET-The time and place of this year's Annual Checkers Awards Banquet has finally been set. Tickets are now · on sale at $15 for dinner, dancing, awards and lots of typical Check-er fun, at Thumper's Elk's Lodge in Azusa on January 29th. Be there or be square! AN A TI A BOY has to go out to Crowley again this year for another fine effort in managing our Checker Garage. Despite green oo;:e coming out of radios; racing jacks flying out of trucks on the freeway; opened and up-side down oil cans in returned pit boxes; plus the tons of dirt our members consistently smuggle back into town in every piece of equipment, Dennis and his able assistant 'Smiley' have once again done a fine job in maintaining. our stuff. OUR NEW BAND?-Recently Burack made good on his threat to have his kid's band come down to one of our regular Wednesday night meetings for an audition. As it got close to 8 o'clock, a full 5 member rock band appeared and started setting up their equipment in the area normally reserved for Butow's throne, along with those of our other Club Officers. In the other end of the room gathered about 40 some members, per-spectives, state-of-intents and guests. And then they began ... and they were pretty good! But, that's not the funny part of this story. As these 5 rockers, ages about . 15 through 18, played 3 sample tunes, a number of folks from the adjoining bar area of the Dugout just had to stick their heads through the connecting doorway to see what was going on. To say that there were a number of double-takes by these non-Checkers would be an understate-ment. First they'd look at the /Joys in the band, then they'd look out over a room full of grown men, and onl:,1 men, all politely listening to these tender young boys en-thusiastically sing and play for them. And then, with a new and stranger expression they'd look back over the whole scene again, finally walking away shaking their heads. I'm sure the bartender musta gotten a lot of questions that night like "Hey man, what the hell kind of group is THAT?" Now if the Wahzoo had a been in on the planning of this deal, I definitely would have had ol' man Dillon and Uncle Max up there doin' the two-step together, like a couple of nasty old queens, and really had some fun with these non-Checker evesdroppers. Hey Butow, you may have run out of guest spe~kers, but you obviously haven't given up on the Wednes-day night entertainment have ya? Hey Steve, which one of those musicans was yours? It was hard to tell, since all of those youngsters had hair. Fair News By Dave Massingham No races to report on from Sep-tember. Next month we will have results from the La Rana race in Ridgecrest. At our September 15. meeting our guest was Sal Fish from SCORE International. This had to be one of the best meetings with Sal. Nobody got carried away by criticizing Sal for what SCORE is doing or not doing. Sal reviewed the 1994 schedule and the new "Trophy Truck" class. It will be a very interesting year, especially we hope, if the econ-omy picks up. We had a great raffle with lots of nice prizes and Bob Steinberger won several. Think it was fixed? Not! Bob Bezzant reviewed his schedule of events, which are October 9 and 10, FAIR Fun in the Desert, and December 4, Christmas road rally and party. (The December 4 date is a direct conflict with the final SNORE race of the season, the El Dorado Valley 250, and also the La Rana season ending awards banquet? ed.) More details to come. Bob is also working on pit games and pit gadget of the year to generate more interest in the pits. Rich Fersch had an interesting idea. FAIR will either build or buy a Class 9 or a 5-1600 race car and raffle it off. After much discus-sion it was approved to get more details. At our October 6 meeting Bob and Scott Steinberger staged a mock pit in front of the Holiday Inn. Everything that can go wrong did go wrong on purpose. Bob and Scott brought their race van and Mini Mag. Bob assigned pit duties to six members to be KUSTER OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS • SHOCKS 3" DIAMETER. 8" TO 18" STROKE 2" DIAMETER, 6" TO 14" STROKE No cast or welded pieces. External damping adjustment. Completely rehuildable. 17-4 PH SS heat treated shaft. Completely threaded 4130 cylinder. Single and dual rate coil-01·er. • AIR JACKS or info on our external bypass tube shock. Dccember1993 KUSTER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2900 E. 29th Street Long Beach. CA. 90806. USA Telephone (310) 595-0661 performed on Scott's Mini Mag when it pulled in. Bob prearrang-ed the wrong tools, tire, jack and other things to create a poorly planned pit. He even had X-Prez Peter Dutton as the pit drinker to get in the way. I wonder if Bob knows something we don't? All this was done to demonstrate how important it is to be prepared at the pits. Bob and all the members reviewed what was wrong and how to prevent it from happening. We are still in limbo for new T shirts. Bob S. wants to go to a 7 color heat transfer shirt, rather than the traditional blue or white shirt with a FAIR logo. We need more input from the member-ship. Do you want a $10 7 color shirt or a traditional $8.00 shirt. Please bring your thoughts to the next meeting. The new members voted in are Kevin Reid of Reid Pro, and Vince Beckett, Team Manager for RCR. FAIR has been very busy with the new board of directors and Bob Steinberger at the helm as President. We are currently reviewing our pit book contents and layout for improvement. It's called continuous improvement, good enough isn't. Our pit proced-ures are being reviewed as well. Baja 1000 equipment hand out will be October 30 at Jeff Ran-dall's house at 9 a.m. We will combine our pits with the Cha-pala Dusters for 6 or 7 pits. The October La Rana race expects 7 FAIR cars. Frank Omboli will be Race Manager and drive the FAIR Van to Ridgecrest. FAIR meets the first and third Wednesday of every month at the Holiday Inn located on Harbor Blvd. at the 91 Freeway in Fuller-ton at8:00 p.m. Our meetings are open to anyone who is interested in becoming a member. Till next time ... • BALL JOINTS Page 49

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TELECOM RALLY AUSTIW.IA Juha Kankkuncn Wins Again Down Under Text & Plwtos: Martin Holmes Juha Kankkunen proved the master of the Rally Australia with Nicky Grist co-driving, scoring his fourth win at this venue in the Toyota Celica 4WD' Turbo, and gaining the Manufacturers Championship for Toyota. Four times out of five Juha Kankkunen used his unrivaled . the chances of clinching the title Kankkunen has won the Rally experience on the hazardous tree later on diffcult. For them it was Australia having won for Toyota lined, ball bearing covered, forest now, or maybe never, and Didier in 1989, for Lancia in 1990 and tracks and was unbeatable. Auriol was the ideal Toyota team 1991 and by a huge margin in Toyota's championship rivals backup, having won this event in 1993. This victory now sets him Ford, on the other hand suffered 1992 in a Lancia. well on his way to a fourth World badly from the inexperience of This was the third of the four Championship title and he has both team and drivers on this big events this year! After Greece already given his Toyota team the event, and Francois Delecour was and New Zealand, and as promis-Manufacturers title, the first time perhaps lucky to finish as high as ed for the Network QRAC Rally, an y non-European team has third. This was an event Toyota the Telecom Rally Australia recorded this achievement. In a not only should have won but also received championship nomina-rally saddened by a first day had to win, to protect their title tionsfromallfivetoprallyteams. accident which took the life of aspirations. Complicated champ-The route this year was familiar, Subaru co-driver Rodger Freeth, . ionship rules were goin to make ... the only important change Ed Ordynski and Mark Stacey drove their Australian Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution to a good seventh overall and they also won Group N honors and scored some points in that class. coming on the third day when the event traveled further away from Perth than ever before, well south of the farming center of Collie. However, the new stages created a nightmare for the teams' service planners, as they needed more service vehicles because of the shape of the Monday route. And in the rains which fell before the event the problems worsened. Several stretches became very soft after the pre-rally reconnaissance and two loops had to be cut out. This rally presented a challenge for all. For drivers it was the hazard of the trees which were millimeters away from the racing line and sometimes in the middle of the tracks as well! 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Here they had a full team earth lead); later he had to do two entry with New Zealand and stages with a brake problem. On Malaysia winner Colin McRae, stage 7 Auriol hit a large stone in Indonesia winner Possum Bourne, the track ( subsequently discover-and Ari Vatanen who was second ed to have been dislodged by in the 1000 Lakes Rally on the Vatanen's car!) and this smashed debut of the Impreza, although the sumpguard and broke the here they reverted to the Legacy engine. Delecour got ahead of model. Mitsubishi was represent-Vatanen when the Finn stopped ed by the locally prepared Lancer for a minute with a dislodged Evolution car of Ross Dunkerton. contact breaker. The focus of most attention In Group N local driver Ed however rested on the title battle Ordynski started slowly, cautious between Toyota and Ford. Before in the very slippery conditions in official training began it was stages 2 and 3. But by stage 7 he announced that Juha Kankkunen was able to take the lead ahead of would be partnered for the rest of the similar Lancer Evolution of the season by N icky Grist. Japanese driver Yoshio Fujimoto, Between them Juha Kankkunen who then crashed on the Super-and Didier Auriol had won all Special that evening in Perth and four World Championship had to retire. Mitsubishi cars were Australia Rallies held so far, while in the top six places in the Group, neither Miki Biasion nor Francois but Recalde was out; his Top Run Delecour had been there before, a Lancia went off the road and bad handicap for Ford on an event destroyed the front suspension where previous experience was against a tree stump. Unofficial more important than on any other leader in the Formula 2 section rally! It was disappointing that and holding a remarkable 11th there were not enough entries in place was· the Japanese driver the Formula 2 category for FISA Tajima whose only problem so far championship points to be withhisSuzukiwasonepuncture. scored. The entry in Group N was Unlike the day before there strong in a Pacific driver sense but were few dramas among the top weak internationally with Jorge runners on Etape 2. Kankkunen Recalde being the only top non-slid off the road on the second Pacific driver entered in a Top stage of the day but lost very little Run Team Lancia. time. Vatanen, lying third, was Etape 1 included the perils of delayed and fell to fourth when the forest in Australia, made the turbocharger wastegate horribly evident on stage 3 when actuator failed, but this was Possum Bourne crashed and his changed and he recovered his lost co-driver Rodger Freeth died of position. Dunkerton was delayed his injuries. On the same stage at service early in the day because Carlos Sainz cut a corner too fine it was necessary to change an and his Lancia spun into a series alternator, but he held sixth place, of trees alongside the track, the best Australian driver ahead causing his retirement, but of Toyota driver Neil Bates. happily without injury. Stage 3 All the time the Toyota and the was where the event really began Subaru teams were watching each with 32 km of forest driving other.Subaruputtapeontheside coming immediately after a 7 km of their tires so that Toyota spies stage and a no-service area. The could not spot which type of tires two Toyota Team cars pulled they were fitting, but the battle ahead of the Subarus of McRae was one sided, even if Toyota had and Vatanen and the Fords of to rely completely on their one Delecour and Biasion. Biasion remaining entry. It was only on suffered an electrical problem stage 11, when Kankkunen slid which caused the engine to sto as .. off the road, that another driver Wholesale/Retail. Dealer Inquiries Welcome Top Quality, Lowest Prices P.O. Box 15466 Long Beach, CA 90815 John Buffum came from Vermont to try Group A rallying in a Honda Civic V-TEC, but the engine expired on him and Stephen Greenhill on the first stage of Etape 3, ending hopes of a Formula 2 win. first bettered a stage time of Kankkunen's. On stage 13 Kankkunen was nervous about the rapidly drying conditions and eased his pace a bit. This meant the track was unpredictably slippery and McRae, running second, could watch his lines and was six seconds faster. The Finn was genuinely surprised when McRae took another eight off him on the next stage as well. "This stage used many kilometers which were the same as a stage we had used earlier", explained McRae's co-driver Derek Ringer. 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Nobuhiro 'Monster' Tajima and Ross Runnalls went well in the Suzuki Swift 1300 in that class, but engine failure eventually put them out of the rally. These water crossings did in several engines, but Leigh Hynes and Glenn Macneal/ survived to place 18th 0 /A and win their class in the Daihatsu Charade G Tti. Juha Kannkkunen is pensive, maybe thinking about how close he is to another driver's championship with the season winding down. Here he had a substantial win over his main competition, Francois Delecour. looking forward to completely new stages tomorrow, then we will see who is the best driver!" Kankkunen who had started the day 77 seconds ahead of McRae had on! y extended his lead by two seconds by the end of the day. In the Ford camp there was growing unhappiness at the-inability of either Delecour or Biasion to match the times of the Subaru or Toyota drivers, only once achieving a top three time after being quite competitive in Argentina and New Zealand. In Group N Mitsubishi now held the top eight places led comfortably by Ordynski. In Formula 2 the Suzuki of Russell Palmer took the lead after Tajima damaged his Suzuki's engine when he hit a water crossing too hard in front of hundreds of photographers for the second time in his career at the same place! In the smaller classes Daihatsu led one while both Honda and Suzuki led two classes each, the 1600cc Group A Honda being driver by American rally veteran John Buffum. There was continued sadness and bewilderment following the previous day's fatal accident to Rodger Freeth. After speaking to Freeth 's widow and Possum Bourne's wife and urged on by his many friends, the 555 Rally Team decided to carry on in Rodger's memory. Rally fatalities are extremely rare in World Champ-ionship sport, despite the huge total distances covered by competitors each session. The last competitor to lose his life was in Portugal in 1989, previously at Sanremo, 1988 and in Corsica in 1985, 1986 and 1987. Over stages on Etape 3 he remembered well from the previous times he had driven the event, Kankkunen pulled further away from first timer McRae. "We are driving behind him, and by looking at his tire marks you can see just how well he knows the stages", said McRae. Ringer endorsed this: "This event, in my opinion, is more difficult for a first timer than even the 1000 Lakes Rally, which is another one with many flat out corners where you cannot see which way to go." Grist, sitting beside Kankkunen said, "Actually the only time you really appreciate Juha's command of the stages is the way he DustyTimes commits himself to long fast corners, especially those where the road starts to tighten a little." Through the day the lone Toyota and the two Subarus pulled further ahead of the Fords. Biasion started off with the engine faltering after crossing water splashes and then he spun at a corner when there was confusion about the instruction from the co-driver. Delecour had been driving hard "even taking risks", but could not catch the Subarus and then he lost 12 minutes on the longest stage of the event, due to an electrical problem, fixed in service but the problem recurred. Eventually he was very late for driving to the next control; 65 kms away in just 32 minutes. The team arranged for a police escort and he arrived one minute late. "The national speed limit is 110 kph, and for half the way the police drove at about 130, then waved us on and it was 200 kph from there to the control!" A few stages later he climbed to fifth place behind teammate Biasion. Ordynski had pulled well ahead in Group N. "We detuned the engine this morning, because there was no pressure from behind." In Formula 2 Buffum retired on the first stage of the day with oil pressure failure. His Group N Honda Civic teammate David Y ein from Taiwan retired through an accident as well, while still leading was Palmer's Suzuki in front of Brett Middleton's Daihatsu Charade l .3i. Was Kankkunen going to do it at the end of the final day's four stages? Did he have a lucky car? The Celica he was driving was the same car in which he won the Rally Argentina, the first time he was partnered with Grist. If he won it would be his 19th World Rally win, only surpassed by Markku Alen whose 20 victories include the controversial result at Sanremo in 1986. Juha Kank-kunen and Nicky Grist duly won the rally by nearly six minutes, but those behind had their own adventures. McRae went off the road and lost a half hour, dropping well down the field to sixth. Biasion had the air inlet blocked by a broken spoiler causing high engine temperature. On the next stage he was delayed with electrical trouble similar to that of Delecour earlier in the event and he retired. Middleton inherited the lead in Formula 2 after Palmer retired while his fellow Daihatsu colleague Leigh Hynes won his class in a turbocharged Charade as well. Ed Ordynski and Mark Stacey won Group N and were seventh overall in the Mitsubishi. Australians . Jacquiline Dines and Barbara Clews won the Ladies Cup in a Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and were 14th overall. Didier Auriol's retirement ended his championship chances and means Francois Delecour is now the most serious challenger to J uha Kankkunen in the race for the 1993 title. So despite their gloom, Ford knew it was import-ant to ensure Delecour finished the event, which he did in third place. Ari Vatanen and Bruno Berglund were a strong second in the Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo. Telecom Rally Australia 1993 Juha Kankkunen/Nicky Grist SF/GB Toyota Calica Turbo 4WO A • Ari Vatanen/Bruno Berglund SF/S Subaru lmpreza 555 A Francois Delecour/Oanlel Grataloup F Ford Escort RS Cosworth A Ross Dunkerton/Fred Gocentas AUS Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution A Sopp Haider/Klaus Wendel A/0 Audi Coupe S2 A Colin McRae/Derek Ringer <l3 Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo A Ed Ordynski/Mark Stacey AUS Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N • Neal Bates/Coral Taylor AUS Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A Kiyoshi lnoue/Satoshi Hayashi J Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N David & Kathryn Officer AUS Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N Jacxiulline Oines/Barbara Clews(14th) AUS Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 N# 5:19:58 5:25:50 5 :43:42 5:46:18 5:49:08 5:56 :33 5 :58 :42 6:04:50 6:09 :04 6:11 :43 6:21 :13 84 starters -44 finishers - ·Group Winner •• F2 winner - #Ladies Cup Winner Winner's average speed over stages - 103.24kph (record) World Championship Points-Toyota 151, Ford 125, Subaru 90, Mitsubishi 69, Lancia 67 WAC Drivers Points - Kankkunen 111, Delecour 82, Auriol 71, Biasion 66, McRae 50, Sainz 35, Vatanen 30, Eriksson and Makinen 26, Alen 25, Aghini and Trelles 22 etc. Group N Points - Fassina 36, Coutinho 24, Kytolehto 23, Hellmann 15, etc. Asia Pacific Championship Points - McRae 46, Bourne 41, Kankkunen 28, Shinozuka and Delecour 27, Vatanen 15, etc. FIA Manufacturers Cup (Formula 2) GME 46, Skoda 37, Citroen 24, Lada 23, Peugeot 22 FIA Ladles Cup Points - Oriano 15, Holderied 9. 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Race Car Chassis Race Car Parts Aluminum bodies 1/2-1600 Motors And Trans Custom Machine Work & Fabrication Ro~d Buggy S1t.11pp1y 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, Az. &5365 (602) 783-6265 • 1(800)231-8156 Fax (602) 783-1253 OFF ROAD CHASSIS <f,,!/i-,'f'-' ,,;,,fl BUENA PARK. CALIFORNIA Complete Off Road Preparation FOR TRUCKS. VANS & MINI TRU C K S PRE•RUN TRUCKS • CUSTOM SUSPF.:N'>ION AXLE SERVICE • WEI.DING & FABRIC A I ION Bill Montague Est. 1974 (714) 781-1460 PARKER PUMPER· HELMET 2318 S VINEYARD SUITE B ONTARIO, CA 91761 714-923-7016 FAX 714-923-3118 COMPANY Or Telephone: (714) 535-4437 (714) 5~5-4438 David Kreisler 920 East Arlee Place Anaheim,CA 92805 For Race ~ For Play SCORE RACEPREP S.C.C.A. FABRICATION HDRA .suspension Work Race Car Pickup Service Available • custom Tube Bending •Race Repairs & Setup .custom Bumpers •Grill Guards GEORGE MALDINI 49626 N. 230th St West Lancaster, CA 93536 1-805-724-0887 •Roll Cages •Pre-Runners ..... • ■ Free Advice & Technical Assistance ■ R&D ■ All Size Jobs Welcome RACERS MACHINING SERVICES "If You Can Imagine It, I Can Make It" ' SCOTT DORDICK 909-394-1802 2041 E. Gladstone #H Glendora, CA 91740. Fax 714-394-1903 THE ONLY REASON FOR NOT ADVERTISING IN DUSTY TIMES IS BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE MORE BUSINESS THAN YOU CAN HANDLE Call for FREE Catalog! 'f<e«J -17',e()-~► ,S!!!M~~!! ll(;,o017 Computerized Vinyl Lettering f< ,4 C,. -''r-\)-/c,\L TIM CECIL f C12_ ~ s. 4010 N. Palm Street. #103. Fullerton. California 92635lu S (714) 447·3581 Fax (714) 870•9132 §V(jW ifg~Jii -======ffw~1~~J,..~== 12221 DITMORE DR . GARDEN GROVE, CA 92641 (714) 539-5162 · JOO SITE S~ • BANNERS· WIN)()W 1£TTERt«l • CAR LETlER~ • GRAIIDS .s.,amt P&Llr:Wnamace Products FABRICATIONS OFF ROAD COMPONENTS 1 eeo Babcodl Bldg. ,e Costa Meea. Ca 92627 Jerry Penhall (714) 650-3035 . Fax# (714) 650·472 l Chassis & Suspension • Desi,:n & Fabrication K~n Sypolt 916·638-9869 3666 Omec Park Drive Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 • CUSTOM ELECTRICAL FABRICATION ---,--. · FUEL INJECTION CONVERSIONS · COMPLETE TURN KEY CARS · MOBILE SERVICE AVAILABLE RACE & CUSTOM CAR wm.ING JOEDAVITIAN TEL: 213/550-1069 FAX: 213 /550·1091 3263 SAN FERNANDO RD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90065 Dealer Inquiries Invited 21430 WAALEW ROAD, APPLE VALLEY, CA 92307 TEL (619) 240·2266 • FAX (619) 240-1359 /jj dJ /iJJtl!!l!1flJ!iJJ /1/iJ!ll!JJ!ftJlrl/(IJIJ RACE VEHICLES & STREET RODS SPECIALIZING IN • CHASSIS•SUSPENSION • HAND FORMED ALUMINUM WORK • CUSTOM HEADERS · RACE PREP LAURA • I .. (805) 461-1949 (805) 461-1447 RICHARD S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT11 15855 Dell View Rd. El Cajon, California 92021 Steve Spirkoff/Owner 619/561•2913 ~ ~ ~ ENGINEERING OFF ROAD METAL FABRICATION VW RACE ENGINES SUSPENSION PREP TURN KEY VW CLASS RACE BUGGIES TUBE BENDING SHEET METAL MACHINING FLAME & PLASMA SHAPE CUTTING 818-994-7475 GREGG HAWKS VAN NUYS, CA CARROLL DITSON I =31:ta,I: J ! LEAD.ED/UNLEADED- , Lancaster. CA. ... :.~:::.~ ..................... (800) 462-9499'· t Las Veqas. NV ................................. (702) 643-9,2Q0 · Van Nuys, CA. ......................... , ....... (818) 786·8180 •, HCR66, BOX 11030 Riverside, CA. ........... , ..................... (714) 877-02?6 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV 89041 San Dieqo, CA ... , ......... _., ... ,_._ .. _ ..... _..:.:•:l~1~)_691 -9)71__ [702) 372•5335 -AU..OTHERINQUIRIES CONTACT SPORTS RACING . P.O. BOX 7835, LAGUIIIA NIGUEL, 92677 ,__ ________________ ..;.__._ ____________ -____ --1:l;...··~ -._ ..... · ..... ·---·------(714)363-1236, ______ ~·

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Yukon in California Text & Plwtos: John B. Calvin The 1993 Yukon is certainly good looking as evidenced by this photo. The Yukon is as rugged off road as its name implies. The Yukon territory takes in a whole bunch of Canada and a good part of Alaska and the territory is hard and rugged and that exactly fits its GMC namesake, the 1993 Yukon. It is handsome, rugged, capable of going most anywhere with its lnsta-Trac shift.,on-the-fl y four wheel drive and has all the comforts of home for your complete enjoyment and con-vemence. This particular GMC Yukon was painted in Dark Garnet Metallic, a beautiful deeper than Burgundy color which changes shades in sun and artificial light, quite a treat to the eyes. The Yukon was shod with Goodyear Wrangler TD LT265/75R16 M&S tires, mounted on the beautiful 5 spoke cast aluminum wheels, a pretty package and a very useful one too as with these tires we were able to cover the Gold Coast 300 off road race with ease, going anywhere we wanted to in the combination of rock and silt terrain. Shifting in or out or 4 low or 4 high is done with the flick of a finger and we went every-where with absolute ease. And, just in case you should do in a tire on a rock or something, there is a full size spare located in the rear, inside of course and covered with rich carpeting just in case you need it. Power was supplied by the smooth and quiet 5.7 liter VS which delivers 210 horsepower and 300 pounds of torque, plenty of pep for you to enjoy and, plenty of power for hauling a trailer, the specs of which we will cover later. The 4 speed auto-matic transmission with over-drive was the next part of the drive package and it also delivers smooth shifting due in part to the electronic package within it that senses load levels and adjusts itself for smoother shifting under each different condition. A 3 .73 rear axle with locking differential completes the drive package, husky, healthy and quiet. How do you stop this Yukon? With the very husky front wheel discs, rear wheel drums and anti-lock all around. I like the bigger vehicles and the Yukon is certainly one of them as sitting up high over the road increases your visibility tremendously and, with all the nuts driving around today you need to see as much as possible and certainly be alert to all around you. And, while you 're sitting up there in the Yukon you find that the front bucket seats are more than comfortable, in fact it is almost embarrassing to be so comfortable. The drivers bucket was electrically controlled in the fore and aft motions with manual settings for the rake of the seat back. Best of all there was an arm rest that folded down on the center side of each seat for added comfort. The seats, in fact the entire inside was covered in grey cloth with grey carpeting through-out. Between the front buckets is a rather large console with a couple of compartments within for storage and it does lock. There are the ever present cup holders which are built in to the front of the console and the entire section is removable for cleaning; a nice thoughtful touch. The rear seat is a bench which seats three comfortably and is easy on the butt on long trips. The bench folds flat into the floor with just a little wrist motion, givi_ng you lots and lots of cargo area tor whatever you may want to store back there. The instrument cluster is the usual General Motors, easy to see, easy to read and always in a spot where you expect each gauge to be. The analog display consists of oil pressure, temperature, battery condition and fuel gauges. the 0-80 speedometer pegs easily with just a little extra pressure from the . right foot and the zero to 5000 rpm tachometer is redlined at 4000 although I think you would scare yourself to death at that rpm on overdrive. The headlight switch is located just left of the instrument cluster and just beneath is the rear hatch open switch and the interior lights on/ off switch, a feature I love as you can have doors open while you are sitting around swapping yarns and you can turn off all the interior lights with the flick of a finger. A welcome accessory. Immediately to the right of the instrument cluster is the AM/ FM stereo with cassette and mounted in the center of the dash is the graphic equalizer to control the radio tone quality. Immediately below the AM /FM are the graphic heating and c~oling controls which have the capability of roasting or freezing you by your command. Further right is the glove box, fairly wide but not very deep. It does however have a door that opens 90 degrees giving you another two cup holders. Electric door locks and windows are a definite necessity on vehicles this wide and we were so equipped. The controls are mounted on the driver's door, easy to get at but not in harm's way. We were also equipped with The instruments are typical General Motors, easy to read and functional. Four wheel drive is on the tunnel and works smooth as silk. . , .;,w: The 5. 7 liter VB delivers all the power you could possibly want. Electronic fuel injection is efficient and smooth. electric mirrors and their controls were on the driver's door also. The tilt steering wheel adjusts to your liking and the left side stalk on the steering column, the "Smart Stick", controls the turn signals, the intermittant wipers and the cruise control. The right side stalk operates the automatic transmission with a readout on the instrument cluster. Overhead is yet another console, two map reading lights are located forward, and moving aft there is a compartment for your garage door opener, yet another compartment for your sun glasses and a third for general storage. Both front sun visors have lighted mirrors hidden away and extenders to help keep that pesky sun out of your eyes. The four wheel drive selector is mounted in front of the main console on the tunnel and operates with absolute ease. There is a graphic display to show you what is engaged. Completing the amenities is a grab handle over the passengers door and over each side window in the rear. Ash trays and cup holders are built in on each side in the rear. The rear glass hatch opens up with either a key or with the switch on the dash and then the tailgate can be extended. The rear hatch is equipped with an intermittant wiper controlled by a switch on the dash. With the rear bench seat folded down there is about 90 cubic feet of storage, all carpeted of course, and there are chrome cargo tie-downs built in. This Yukon had the heavy duty trailering package installed which gives you a gross combination weight rating of 12,000 pounds. The Yukon itself weighs in a bit under 5,000 pounds so you can haul a hell of a lot of trailer with lots of power to take it anywhere. A 30 gallon fuel tank is a welcome feature and although we were only able to nurse a little over sixteen miles per gallon out of this particular package it still gives you a close to a 500 mile cruising range, adequate to say the least. We only get these vehicles for test for a period of one week or so, so we have to devote quite a bit of time to them in order to adequately get the feel of the vehicle and come up with our list ofloves and hates. This Yukon is a love, it's big, powerful, comfort-able and is a pleasure to drive. If the Yukon sounds like something you would like to try, get on down to your dealer and test it for yourself. On or off the road you'll find the Yukon a real pleasure. ~ ~~~--~ The rear bench seat is very comfortable, folds forward and down with the flick of a lever and gives you all sorts of cargo space. With the rear seat down the cargo area nearly doubles. The full size spare takes up a bit of room but it is worth having in an emergency. Zoomie good looks are evident and there is no holding back on your comfort or pride when you are sitting behind the wheel. Dustynmcs Dcccmbcr1993 Page 57

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Classified ••.• FOR SALE: RCR Racing's Class 1 Raceco 2 seater. Numerous class wins, top 5 runner, very competitive car. Immaculate preparation for every race. Porsche 3.6 liter engine, 125" wheelbase, auto trans, big Wright, Filler harnesses & nets, Mastercraft seats, VDO instru-ments, Fodrill front arms, Flame-Out system, 2¼" front beam, Bilstein coil-over reservoir shocks, Centerline wheels, BFG tires, PCI race radio & intercom, CNC cylinders, JAMAR pedals, 934 Porsche c.v.'s, Summers full floating hubs, CNC front hubs & brakes, Saginaw steering with UMP ram assist, Paterson dry sump tank, PIAA. lights, 4 light bars, full compliment of race spares & parts. Ready to go racing and win Class 1. Call RCR Racing (909) 371-5000, ext. 141. $45,000.00. FOR-SALE: 1989 Raceco Class 1, owned by Hamilton Materials. Top of ·the line everything including Porsche 3.5 liter 3 lOhp engine with titanium rods and crank and Hewland transmission (won 2 races). Also, Class 1 pre-runner with Type IV engine and Hewland transmission. Class (714) 637-2770. Ask for Mark Hamilton. FOR SALE: RCR Racing's Class 1-2 Raceco 2 seater. La Rana '91 class champion. Best of every-thing; Type IV engine, Hewland DG300 transmission, Wright, Mastercraft, Bilstein coil over reservoirs, 20" wheel travel, Fuel Safe, Saginaw steering, PCI race radio & intercom, Flame-Out system. Filler harnesses & nets, 930 c.v. 's, Summers floating hubs, Centerline wheels, Yoko-hama tires. Fully prepped & race ready, fresh tranny, immaculate condition. Full supply of wheels, tires & parts, ready to go racing! $30,000.00 obo. Call RCR Racing (909) 371-5000, ext 141. FOR SALE: Porsche 3.5 liter engine. 300 genuine horsepower, 290 pounds of torque. Carillo rods, Weber carbs, Web-Cam camshafts, Tri-Mil headers, dual sparkplugs per cylinder heads, 90 amp alternator, optional Tilton carbon dual plate clutch assy wlflywheel. Engine is 100% fresh. Built by Bobby Hart at California Motorsports. Call RCR Racing(909)371-5000, ext 141. $15,000.00 less clutch. Option on Tilton clutch $2,500.00 obo. ---~ ~ .,/4 FOR SALE: Awesome two seat JIMCO. Fresh FAT Toyota V6 3 .2 liter. Doug Fortin trans, Summers hubs & brakes, coil-over Wright & Fox. 12" Wright beam, combo spindles, JIMCO arms, seco'ndary torsions, 22" travel. UMP. CNC. RLH, Flame-Out,. $21,000.00 Baja Concepts ref 111. C~ll (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Class ib -~~ 1991 VORRA class champion. 6 Fox shocks with reservoir, combo-link spindles, 3x3 trailing arms, power steering, Parker Pumper and Flame-Out system. (Without motor & trans) $2,000.00. Call (702) 359-9856 Mon-Fri 7am-5pm. Ask for Dale or Jim Smith. INTERESTED IN STOCK CLASS OFF ROAD RACING? This is the truck for you! 1984 Toyota 4wd extra cab. Needs cage fabrication & assembly. Many new parts available. Call for listing & details. Potentially a great pre-runner, chase truck or competitive Stock Class race ;,,I·.·•.·'·· truck. First $4,500.00 takes it! Call Bob (310) 531-0396 home or (310) 490-5811 pager. .~ " FOR SALE: ORE single seat Class FOR SALE: 2-1600 Hi-Jumper, turnkey car. 113" wb, Fox shocks, UMP power steering, 15 mounted Centerlines. $4,900.00. Class 9 front end, drum to drum $400.00. Freeway Flyer swing axle trans, Maly tubes, $700.00. 1600 ported dual port Baja motor, Alt, dog house $700.00. Call (805) 584-8134. ==------, FOR SALE: Class 2 RACECO, 122"wb, all Fox coil-over. 3.2 liter FAJ Porsche. Hewland DG300, UMP, PIS, dual BDR pumpers. 35" rear Yokohamas with new spares. 30 gal Fuel Safe cell. 4 gal built in simp tank, new front CNC large brakes, Summers floater rear. $30,000.00. Call Jerry Penhall (714) 650-3035. FOR SALE: '81 Ford Stepside pre-runner, 1990 fiberglass front clip; full cage, Bislteins, 351W, National Spring, B&M, 35" BFG Baja, Mastercraft, aluminum dash, Auto Meter, heat and air cond, carries two spares. Too much to list. $17,000.00. Call (619) 789-6064. 10, FAT VW 1650, Jeff Fields FOR SALE: Class 10,102" short trans, Hew land gears, UMP power course car. 5 link 3 / 4" ends, Fox FOR SALE: Retiring after 1993. steering. Fox shocks progressive ~ shocks, 4 wheel discs, power 1991 W iggins-Berrien 112-1600. system. 4 front and 8 rear. Actual FOR SALE: 1992 Class 8 Chevy steering, fire bottle, Centerlines, 3 SODA championships in 2 front travel 13½", rear 18". Wheel truck, Jon Nelson built. Small bead locks, CNC hydraulics, years! Fastest car in the country! base 117" Summers disc brakes block Chevy 409 cubic inch, Sway-A-Way axles, 930 c.v.'s, Best of everything. ALSO, 1993 front and rear. Always a top fin-Turbo 400 trans, Dana 60 rear 1650cc Rabbit, Revpower, FAT, built Ford Ranger 7S, very isher.Readytorace.Forrnorede-axle, knockoff hubs, two spares, Web-Carn, Manley, Webber, competitiver, winner of several tails call Rick or John $7,500.00. two-wa Y radio, two to one very competitive car. Only 12 SODA races and second in the 40K invested. Let's talk. (310) steering. This is the race truck you short course events since new. points series. Both come with 834-1133 Mon-Fri, 8am to have been waiting for! Mustsell.$10,000.00. Canadian spare parts. Jim Wiggins, Dixon, 4:30pm or (310) 831-5841 after $55,000.00. Call Steve ( 602) dollars. Can deliver on west coast. IL (815) 288-5655. 6pm or weekends. 995-0499. Brad Wheeler (604) 941-2090. ·r------------~----------------------------a~-, Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I I J DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. Enclosed is$ _____ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. Name---------------------------------Address ______________________ Phone-------City _________________ _ State ___ _ Zip __ _ Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-440b Page 58 December 1993 I I I I I I, I I, FOR SALE: Class 8 , '92 ¥c;;';I_ Best of everything. 351 Windsor, 550hp, Mogie trans, Art Carr shifter, Summers 40 spline, Kus-ter coil-overs, Wilwood brakes, ¼ elliptic, 23" travel, Haylon sys-tem. Fresh prep and rebuild. $79,000.00 obo. Call for full details. Baja Concepts ref 220. Call (619) 583-6529. WANTTOGET AWAY FROM IT ALL? 871 ,200 square feet of pine trees, approximately 6000 feet up; enjoy a four season climate located in the Tehachapi mountains, behind locked gates. 20 acres of pure isolation. 2 pads ready for your mountain hide-a-way. Overlooks entire Antelope Valley. Easy in and out on graded road. Call Don at (805) 268-1644. FOR SALE: RACECO SS Unlim-ited, best of everything. Toyota power, UMP, coil-overs, alumin-um radiator, Fodrill front arms, Summers front hubs, disc brakes, Curnutt rear hubs. All must go, trailer spares, car. $10,000.00. Call (805) 266-3662. FOR SALE: Class 9 Challenger, 2 seater. All new in 1993. Very close to minimum weight. Best of everything. New motor, trans (Super Diff and close ratio gears), Wright steering, Beard seats, Sway-A-Way, UMPairbox. Com-plete car with extras. Race ready, very competitive. $6,000.00. Call (602) 768-2633. FOR SALE: Class l/2-1600 RACECO. Wright arms and spindles, Fox shocks, new Beard seat, Parker Pumper, new fuel cell, new transmission, Hatz motor, Centerlines, BFGoodrich tires and spare parts. Asking $6,500.00 oho. Call Leo at (310) 423-8431 or (909) 596-2983. FOR SALE OR TRADE: 5-1600 .race car, has 3 races, bus tranny with close ratio gears, best of everything, pumper, shocks with reservoirs, car is made for a tall person, has custom fresh paint, beautiful car. $6,000.00 oho. Also 5-1600 project car for $1,000.00. (619) 766-4689. I·., ~ FOR SALE: Sand Rail, high per-formance Buick V6, bus IRS 002 trans, Neal pedals & steering brake, aluminum wheels, 21.50 paddles, custom cloth seats, bik-ini top & bar pads, KC lites, AM/FM cassette stereo, black powder coated Sand Toys frame, disc brakes. Everythin_g chromed, best of everything. $7,500.00 obo. Call Kevin ( 303) 667-534 7. FOR SALE OR TRADE: 1-1600 Chenowth, Wright rack, Neal, Beard, Fox, Bilsteins, 930 cv's, Sway-A-Way, Dura-Blue stubs, Parker Pumper, power steering, Centerlines. $6,000.00 or trade for 2 seat pre-runner or ????? Call Richard (909) 949-4580. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE/TRADE for off shore boat/plane/motorhome. 1989 Mirage Class 10, Type 1 motor with Hewland transmission. This car has the best of everything, too many to list. $20,000.00 cash or will consider trade of higher or lower value. Call (702) 897--8838 days or (702) 456-0304 nites. FOR SALE: Class 10 motor, Toyota 4AF 16 valve engine, Car-rillo rods, VW trans adapter, clutch & pressure plate, S&S header system fresh. Trade for Class 10 VW motor or $3,000.00 or????. Call Tom(619)448-5392. FOR SALE: '59 convertible VW body & pan. Pan has King Kong adjuster with chromoly main rails extended 5" in front. Pan has been sand blasted, primed w / IRS clips. 26mm 300m rear torsion bars 26 9 /16ths long SAW new. Call (619) 287-3963. FOR SALE: '89 Chenowth Class 9. All the good stuff. Bilsteins, Beard seats, Neal pedals, 20 gal cell, Armstron tires, Filler Har-ness, Bitco trans. W / 0 motor $2,000, w/motor $3,800. Call Mike after 5pm (206) 791-3161. FOR SALE: Nelson & Nelson's 1989 Class 8 truck. This "199Y Baja 500 winner is perfect for the · 1994 Score rules. It comes with all spare parts, a fresh 430ci 650hp factory Chevy Rocket Block Racing Engine. New Hydramatic Turbo 400 trans, all the best parts. $60,000.00 Race ready. Call (909) 925-4448. 'OFF ROAD GARAGE SALE: Wheels, tires, shocks, c.v.'s, trailing arms, filters, lights & much more. Everything you need for a Class 1-2 or Class 10 car, plus many more items.Too many ' ~ list here! We have a 4 page list of our spare parts inventory from 12 years of Class 1 racing. Gone Trophy Truck racing for 1994. Call RCR Racing{909) 371--8334 evenings only. Leave your address or -FAX # & we will send you complete list of parts for sale. FOR SALE: 11 7" Class 10 single seat Raceco coil-over Carr disc brakes, 1650 Rabbit Bus Hewland Neal-UMP-Woods rear arms Wright spindles & front arms. Marvin Shaw bump stops Bilstein shocks Beard seat turning brake dual batt Centerlines BFG Super Boot stubs & axles. 5 time VORRA champion. Solid light & dependable. $8,500.00. Steve Bradford ( 408) 394-4104 days, (408) 726-1206 nites. Dusty Times FOR SALE: RACECO Class 10. This is the one! Rabbit powered vehicle driven to Baja 1000 vic-tory by Mickey Thompson. Winner of 4 Class 10 points championships, 2 in SCORE/ HORA, & 2 Baja Promotions. This is a good solid race car with a winning history. $6,000.00 and you fix the trans or $9,000.00 turnkey. Call John at (805) 525-9386 (with spares). '-----FOR SALE: 1966/93 Class 5 car. '59 body, full alum interior, Wright Place front, Track rear, Giese air sup. 18" rear, 13½" front, 2074cc motor, Weddle trans, Super-Boot, Beard, Fresh Air sys w/ helmets, 35 gal cell, Super Trapp, 4130 & DOM cage, all 4130 susp comp. The car is very detailed and is street legal wlcurrent paperwork. Still off-road capable and has won 3 car shows & 2 best eng car in show. Over $25,000 in parts alone. $7,900.00 oho or part trade & cash. MUST SELL SOON! (714) 265-0329. FOR SALE: 1916 restored player piano. Plays digital cassette tapes. Includes tapes for Rock, Country, Ragtime, Christmas & more. Great for parties or just easy listening. Give your wife the perfect Christmas present & something to listen to while you 're out racing. $4,200.00 oho. Let's talk! (909) 923-0070 Wayne Lee. ----------~ iffu .•vx OR SALE: Factory built 5-1600, 1 year old. 100% chrom-oly, Kister bypass shocks, Fodrill arms & spindles, Centerlines, Goodyears, Sway-A-Way, Dura-Blue, Fuel Safe. Featured in November Dune Buggies & Hot VW's. This car is the best money can buy. Call Bruce (702) 367-4311 day, (702) 256-0964 nites. FOR SALE: New 1993 Jimco "Ultra Light" 5-1600. Zero miles on new Majors motor & Mende-ola trans. Be~t of everything. No expense spared. Over $28,000 to build. Race Ready, always professionally maintained. $15,000.00 oho. Will consider jet or fish & ski boat as part trade. Call Mike James at (619) 445-5797. FOR SALE: Best Chenowth Magnum available, complete setup to go racing MTEG. Rev-Power Rabbit, 5 point suspen-sion, coil-overs, Fox, Foddrill arms & spindles, best of every-thing, plus, 24' trailer, flawless, workbench vise, AC, Skw Honda generator, elec start, 3 E-Z Up caopies, carpets, chairs, tables, spare fresh transaxle. Call Steve (602) 994-4029. : ass or oyota powered. Curnutts, Wright, Neal pedals, Charlynn, Parker Pufl\per, Simpson belts, Beard seats, Berg shifter, Centerline wheels, Yokohama tires, Suspension Unlimited arms, Kennedy clutch assembly, Mikuni carbs, Fuel Safe, Holley pump, IPF, Engle cam, Toy Sport header, TRW, K&N. Call (310) 425-5904 or (310) 920-7189. FOR SALE: Short course or desert A-Arm coil-over car. 18" travel front and rear. 109½wb. 4 wheel disc brakes, turning brake. Power steering 1: 1 rack. Toyota 1600, 091 bus trans. Porsche cv's. Beards Ultra Super Seat. Race ready. Call Travis (602) 245-1035 leave message $7,500.00. FOR SALE: 5-1600, chromoly chassis, Fox, Beard,JGTrans, 930 centers & axles, new cages, Beard seats, Saginaw, Mirage arms, combos, new trailing arms & spring plates, Timken bearings, new stubs, K&N. Car is top of the line. Call after 4pm Scott (310) 864-0893. $6,500.00 oho. FOR SALE, MUST SELL NOW! 2 motors, Class 10 Toyota 2TC, 1650cc. These motors are fast & ready to win. New Kennedy clutch, Web-Cam camshaft, Saginaw power steering, dual 44 W ebers, all externals including radiator. Plenty or horsepower. $2,500.00 oho takes both. Call (310) 514-0713. FANATICS OR FANS: We have buyers waiting for 2-16's, pre-run trucks and Bajas, good 2 seat cars and trailers too. Sellers, help us keep up with our inquiries. Call or FAX for details. ATTN: BUYERS - we have over 160 cars and trucks listed. Call us for our new December "Master List". Take advantage at the end of the season to pick up great deals on pre-run trucks & cars, limited and unlimited race cars, race trucks and motivated short course sellers plus many more! Wanna sell or buy, call Baja Concepts at (619) 583-6529. December 1993 FOR SALE: 4x4 Full Race Nissan Pathfinder, 18" front, 21" rear travel, 9" full floater, Turbo 400 trans, fuel inj V6, Kuster shocks. BEST OF EVERYTHING! $ZOOK plus invested. Complete package priced to sell at $49,900.00 Baja Concepts ref #184 (619) 583-6529. ?'hx~r-:, · ALE~ ;9Cf Mirage 2-16 Foddrill. Beard, Oiest, RLH race radio, pumper fire bottle, Charlynn steering, Yokohama, 1600 Major, DJ trans, 930 cv's, 24.5 & 25.5mm torsion, Fox Shox, Jamar, Summers Bros, CNC, UMP.$15KBajaConcepts Ref #301 (619) 583-6529. "' ;w. •. ; FOR SALE: '91 Ford Class 8 , five firsts! Four seconds! Seven thirds! 600hp Patton/Parabocks eng. BFG's wl beadlocks. Shitloads of spares. ¼ elliptical C-6 Magi. Bunderson shocks, Chrisman/ Summers 9". $49,950.00 Baja Concepts ref #228 (619) 583-6529. BUYING RANCH, MUST SELL: '89 MECO 1-1600, SCORE legal, Raceco trans, l 17"wb, Wright front, SAW axles, 930 c. v .s, 24 gal cell, Centerlines, Yokohamas, Fox w / reservoirs #8, new SAW leafs. $7,500.00 less motor $6,500.00. Call (206) 284-2025. FOR SALE: "THE TRAILER H -1988 40' Toy House 5th wheel tri axle. You name it, it's installed. Currently used to haul Heavy Metal Class 8 truck with the fol-lowing amenities: Side entry door w/16' awning, 12vinterior lights, roof air conditioning, queen size bedroom over 5th wheel, gas stove & oven, electric or gas fridge w I freezer, closet, TV table, shower, toilet. Cargo area has floor tie-downs, overhead cabinets, diamond plated floor, aluminum semi type doors. All this for $12,000.00 Call Gail at (414)835-4800. FOR SALE: 2 seat open or 10 car. Summers Bros rear, 21" rear travel, 14" front, UMP steering, 121"wb, ORE, Beard seats, Fuel Safe, Fox shocks, Parker Pumpers & more, less driveline/tires. $8,000.00 oho. Call for more info (805) 266-9440. FOll SALE: 1981 Subaru Hatch-back "4x4, FOUR NATIONAL FINISHES, won Pride In Profes-sionalism Award. Two spare engines, one spare trans, other spares. '93 legal cage. $3,000.00 less some accessories. $1 ,900.00 with all rally accessories removed. Call (916) 442-2745. COLORADO RIVER HOUSE FOR SALE: 2200 square feet, 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 4 car garage. Located in a gated community. Excellent floor plan, large living room, two master suites. Located on the water in Parker. $250,000.00. Call Stuartat(818) 841-2316. FOR SALE: Class 9, fresh FEX engine and WR Racing transaxle. Bilsteins, Yokohama, Beard seat, CNC pedals & hydraulic clutch, Fuel Safe cell, SAW Wright. $2,500.00 firm. With trailer $3,000.00. (310) 316-3374. FOR SALE OR TRADE: 5-1600 race car. W right arms & combos, fresh bus box w/Hewland. Bilsteins w / reservoirs, pumper, Flame-Out. New motor, spare parts & tires. $7,000 oho or trade for Class 9 or? (619) 244-0888. FOR SALE: MTEG Briggs Built Super Lite. Fresh motor & trans, Fox shocks, Beadlocks w/Good-years. Lots of spare parts. $6,500.00 obo. Call Bruce at (702) 367-4311 or (702) 256-0964. ABOVE A VERA GE! Class 10 single seat, Fox shox, Summer discs, SAW, FAT engine, 28 gal tank, Centerlines w/ Yokohamas. A winning car with a list of extras too long to list.$10,500.00 Baja Concepts ref #296. Call (619) 583-6529. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADRA Sonoyta to Rocky Point • . . . . . . 7 American Racing Equipment . . • . . . . . 9 Autofab • • • . . . . • . • . . . • . . • . • . . . 13 Baja Concepts • . • . . • • . . • . . . . . . . 45 Baker Precision Products . • . . . . • . . . 20 Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bilstein Corp. of America . • . . . . . . . • 23 John Buffum Biography . . • . . . • . . . . 27 Cactus Racing Products . . • . . . . • . . • 34 California Pre Fun • . • . • . • . • . . . . . • 11 Castex Inc., E·Z·Up . . . . . • . • . . • . . • 26 Checkers Off Road . . • . • . . . . . . . • . . 4 Class 1 • . • . • • • . . • . • . . . . . . . • . • 47 ' Don-A-Vee Jeep-Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . fi FAT Performance • . • . • . . • . . . . . . . 15 Fiesta Ford . • . . . . . • . • . . • . • . . . . . 21 FRT Dunaway Dash . • . • . . . . . . • . . . 2 Fuel Safe . • • . • . • . • . • . . . . . . . . . . 28 German Auto . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Rod Hall Driving School • . • • . . . . . . . 14 Hi Tech Off Road •.•.•...•. . . . . • 48 Kuster Performance Products . . . . . . . 49 la Rana Desert Racing . • . • . . . . • . • . 25 Nevada Off Road Buggy . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Orange Crate Racing . . • . . . . . . . . . . 35 Parker Pumper • • • • . . • . • . . . . • . . . 41 Pike's Family Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . 12 Race Car Sale . • • . • . . • . . . . . . . . . . 19 Race Ready Products . . • . . . . . . • . . . 31 Raceshock Company • . • . • • . . . . . . . 46 Reid Pro . • . . • . • . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 39 Rough Riders . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . . . . 5 Marvin Shaw Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 36 SNORE Eldorado Valley 250 • . Back Cover Ivan Stewart Enterprises • . . • . . . . . . • 30 Sway-A-Way . . • • . • . • . • . . • . . . . • 15 T rackside Photo Inc. • . • . . • . . . . . • • 40 Tri-Mil Industries • . . • . . . . . . . . • . . . 51 Ultra 'Mieels • . • . . . . • . • . . . . . . . . 29 Valley Performance . . . • . • . • . . . . . . 38 Weddle Engineering . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 50 Wilch Sales . . • . • . . . • . • . • • . • . . . 37 Wright Place • . . • • . . • . . . . . . . . . . 43 Page 59 •

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