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Volume 11 - Number 10 Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Circulation 0. Osborne Contributors Jim Baker C&C Race Photos Barry Don Calloway Carrera Photography Carol Clark Don Dayton John Elkin Homer Eubanks Don Holbrook Martin Holmes Daniel Mainzer Matt Marcher Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh ' Darryl Smith Judy Smith' Tony Tellier Trackside Photo Inc. Wizer Photos Art Director Larry E. Worsham October 1994 -ILL■ OPPIOAD IIACIIIII UIOH Subscription Rates: lllrifSerlescf~Racing~ $15.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign Subscription rates on -request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes unsolicited contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES, (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by . Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright 1983 by Hillside Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Second Class ' Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address change to Dusty Times, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. SNAPSHOT OF THE MONTH ••• ,;, f¾ ,.., ~--. Mix an off road racing driver with a top rally navigator, and you still get flat tires. The year is 1982, the event is the International trial rally, run under SCCA. It was the Reno Rally, that never caught on with a sponsor big enough to bring the heavy hitters from Europe. Intrepid Mazda truck driver David "Doc" Saurers is working on the lug nuts while Bill Gutzmann is keeping busy. Since 1982 Saurers retired from competition in the desert but Gutzmann is still very active in rallying, a much sought after navigator. Photo by Trackside Photo Enterprises. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar interest on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Black & white prints, 5x7 or 8x10 preferred but clear color prints will be considered. , Dusty Times October 1994 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page SCCA Susquehannock Trail Pro Rally by Tom Grimshaw . . . . . . . . . 6 SCCA Divisional Rally Wandering Star by Dave Thomas ......... 9 SNORE Midnight Special by Jean Calvin ...................... 12 SODA at Luxemberg, WI by Barb & Marilyn Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . 16 VORRA Yerington 400 by Tammi Wise ..................... 20 WRC Rally Argentina by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Bridgestone International at Kempsey by Darryl Smith . . . . . . . . . . . 26 SCCA Maine Forest Summer Pro Rally by John Elkin . . . . . . . . . . . 29 VORRA Virginia City Classic by Tammi Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Petronas Rally in Malaysia by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 International Off Road Exhibition by Thomas Lieverscheidt . . . . . . 36 SCCA Divisional Twin Peaks Rally by Jim Culp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 La Rana Johnson Valley 200 by Judy Smith ................... 40 Pikes Peak Report by Lome Trezise .......................... 45 WRC Rally of New Zealand by Martin Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mountain Shadows 150 by Joe Vasquez ...................... 41 VORRA Fallon 250 at Night by Nicole Ruff/Jamie Butow 50 DEPARTMENIS Pony Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 FAIR News by Dave Massingham ........................... 38 Checkers Column by the Big Wahzoo ........................ 49 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 California Rally Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57-58-59 Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 ON THE COVER• Heading into the autumn season of racing, it is time to recognize two top players in their field of motorsport. On top is Paul Choiniere and faithful navigator Jeff Becker in the Audi S2 4WD he has been driving all year. Paul has won in both the SCCA and Canadian Rally Championships, and is trying to catch up to his stepdad John Buffum in SCCA Pro Rally Series championships. From Vermont Paul travels the country competing in all points counting events and he is well on his way to another title in 1994 with just three events left on the calendar. Color Photo by T rackside Photo Inc. Racing is a way of life for Las Vegan Tommy Bradley as he not only runs and wins in the SNORE series irt the Chenowth, he also rJns some SCORE events yearly, often with his dad Tom Bradley as second driver. Tommy is President of SNORE this year, but race morning he turns it over to the Race Director and Tommy goes racing, often winning in Unlimited class. Color Photo by Carrera Photography. to S~7tUWf DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year - $15.00 □ 2 years - $25.00 D 3 years - $35.00 Take advantage of your subscription bonus •• Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. (Form on inside back page) Name ______________________ _ Address _____________________ _ City ______________________ _ State-----------Zip __________ _ Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004 ( Canadian - I year $20.00 U.S.• Overseas sui,,;cription rates on request) Page 3

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Pony Express First off I'd like to thank Dusty Times for doing a super job of covering the world of off road racing and including us little folks out there without all the big names and factory sponsors. We all enjoy watching the famous drivers with all the fancy equipment out there making a living and we learn a lot from them no doubt. But there are a lot of good drivers and great people out there racing out of the trunk of the old car or pickup. Many fine folks that believe as I do -better to be a racer for one moment than to watch for a life time. It is the best seat in the house. Well, thanks to Mike Brunton and the Michigan Off Road Championships that has madl' it possible for many of us up herl' in the northern Midwest area. This man, family and staff don't hl'ar many kind words during the season, but they keep coming back every year with a place for back yard racers like myself to race and meet up with fellow Dust Busters. A lot of folks would just be watching if it wasn't for MORC, SODA and ACCORD. I'd like to thank these fine folks ·••from the bottom of m y heart and on behalf of the Odyssey Pilots Racing Team and Off Road Operators. THANKS! Thanks Dusty Times staff and MTB Enterprises for including Odyssey and Pilot type racing. With Super lites taking the spotlight, it's nice to know that we aren't forgotten. We enjoy SuperLite racing but the money is tied up in the Pilots along with our hearts. Good luck to all involved in off road racing from the promoters and sponsors, to the drivers and families. See ya at the tracks. I'd also like to thank the groups of folks that fight to keep off road areas open for use. like the Michigan Recreation Vehicle Riders Association and the Blue Ribbon Coalition. Keep up the good work. A bad day at the track is better than a bad day at work. Roger Olmstead The Odyssey Pilot Operators, Inc. Lansing, Ml. L.:m:rs likt: :,icmrs hrighrt:n tht: da,· nicd:,i Rogt:r. Tlumks for :,io1tr kind words ahcmr Dt1stv Tim.:s and all ch.: ochers. · I'm writing you this letter because I was unable to speak with you after the race. the SNORE Twilight 200, about my first driving experience in off road racing. My first lap was great, I passed a few cars in front of me and only got nerfed once. Then about a mile past checkpoint 3 I lost the entire light bar. I was down about 20 minutes repairing it. My pit crew welded it back on and I was off for another lap of fun. I had a minor problem with the alternator and with the radios; they didn't work. I got all the way to checkpoint 3 and the trans-mission was gone. Luckily for me I broke at a checkpoint that had a nice fire and nice people to B.S. with while I waited for the end of the race and my chase crew. I know I didn't win the race, but enjoyed the whole experience. It would be great if you could put a picture in your great maga:ine, so I could show off to friends and family. Who knows, I could maybe get a sponsor or two. Thanks. Ruben Rodrigue:, Sportsman #88 Santa Fe Springs, CA W.: haw s.:,m·h.:d rite fib of s.:wrnl JJhotogmJ,h.:rs. Inn can't find a /Jictur.: of :,imir #HH at th.: SNORE T«·ilight me.:. If :1011 urnir w haw :,io1tr /Jicturc tak.:n, don't hreak dell! n 011 th.: firsr laJJ! I won the La Rana Desert Racing Spangler 200 in the full si:e division of Desert Stock. I just wanted to say a few words about our weekend. Friday morning the truck was bard y running and I almost could not get the truck loaded. I knew if I could get the truck to the desert my crew would be able to fix whatever was wrong. It turned out to be an electrical problem and by the time we got it fixed contingency was almost over. We had a flawless race day and had taken over the lead by mile 15 and went on to thl' win. There are some people I would like to thank for making racing possible for me -Vintage Broncos, BFGoodrich, All 4-Wheel Drive, Lightle Racing Engines, Westminster Trans-mission and Conejo Carburetor, Conejo Off Road. David Edelstein Oxnard, CA Rclm.:d ccmgrarulations on :,imtr win and rlt.: otltL'T t•icwri.:s w111 ltm•c· /wd rlti, v.:ar in the· IH;ndrnmc· Bronco. After sitting on the sidelines watching and following off road racing for the last sevl'n years, a couple of friends of mine, Jamit· Johnson and Chip Davis, decided to go racing. After a year of working endless hours after work and weekends, they had produced a race ready Class 5-1600 to run in the 1994 La Rana Desert Racing Series. During our most recent race, the Lucerne Valley Jam 250 in June, our engine developed an oil leak 10 miles into the race. Our chase and pit help broke down on the way to the race, so we thought we were on our own for this race, but we were wrong. Having to stop and add oil about every 15 miles, and only having two quarts of oil with us, we thought we would not even finish the first lap. But, thanks to a number of very helpful racers and pit crews, we made it back to our main pits, where we fixed the oil leak and headed out on our second lap. Unfortunately, 40 miles later our engine expired. Without a radio in the car Chip and I thought we were going to bl' stranded until the clean up crew found us after the race. But once again, a fellow racer came to our rescue. The driver of the the BDR Racing Class 5 Baja Bug stopped to see if they could help. We informed him of our problem, he reported our problem and location over the radio. About ten minutes later one of BDR 's chase trucks was there to help, and towed us all the wav hack to the main pits, about 30 iniles. After a . disappointing day racing we headed home in good spirits. Thanks to all of the great people who helped us make it through the day. Your help was greatly appreciated. We would especially like to thank the members of BDR Racing for all of their help. (We might still be out there without you.) Doug Tyree of Unique Supply Inc., without his support we would have never made it to the starting line. And the La Rana Desert Racing Series for hringing the spirit of sportsmanship hack to off road racing. It's nice to know off road racing is alive and well in So. Cal. Keep up the good work and thanks from #561. Trey Kadow, Jamie Johnson & Chip Davis Temecula, CA It is gr.:at to h.:ar stori.:s Ii kt: :,io11rs and to knou• that raL·.:rs srill hd/J .:ach oth.:r «·h.:n tro1tlil.: srrikL•s. Still. :,imir n.:xt Ii(~ /mrdws.: ~lw11ld h.: a radio, it is gr.:at insurcmL·.:. We appreciate those who take the time to send us letters on racing stories, often heard only around the campfire. We have been lax lately in using letters and the Pony Express column, not because we don't want to, but because there is so much editorial in the summertime, there just isn't room for everything. Also we may have to edit your pearls of prose because of space require-ments. But keep those letters coming and we will use them more promptly in future issues. B2dlfliidll_m~lml!U_llJt~JI We would like to thank and congratulate all these FAT-powered, 1993 Class points champions: MTEG Super 1600 Champion ....................... .Jerry Whelchel SODA Class 2· 1600 Champion ...................... .Jim Wiggens SODA Class 1 · 1600 Champion ....................... Todd Attig SODA Class 5· 1600 Champion ....................... Mike Brue SODA Class 9· l 0 Champion ........................... Todd Attig SODA Class I Champion ................................ Todd Attig SCORE Class 5 Champion .............................. George-Seeley BAJA PROMOTIONS Class l ·2 Champion ....... Brent Miller FUD Class 2-1600 Champion ........................ .Jim & Mike Abatti RAONG ENQNES, TRANSMISSIONS AND OFFROAD PARTS Send or call for our new catalog S5.00 Page 4 We would also like to thank and congratulate all our customers for all their class wins in SCORE, SODA, MTEG, SNORE, FUD, LA RANA and BAJA PROMOTIONS. 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92667 (714) 637-2889•fax (714) 637-7352 October 1994 Trail Notes ••• THE FIRST ANNUAL SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHAL-LENGE happens on September 25, 1994. Presented by the Georgia Off Road Association you are invited to come and experience the south's toughest one mile off road track at Vienna, GA. Sunday, the 25th, will be packed with fun and racirig as the South's best drivers battle in two 20 minute heats and a one hour feature. The racing will begin at 11 a.m. after the drivers' meeting at 10:00 a.m. Classes are 1 and 10 combined, 1600, Challenger and Sedan with varying entry fees. The overall pot will go to the feature winner and there will be no trophies, just payback. Take the challenge! ContactGORRA, 420 Hosea Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30245 or call Steve Rule at ( 404) 963-0252. INTER-SHOWS and Hot Bike Magazine have combined to present the All American Motorcycle Show on Sunday September 25 at Lakeview Park in Irvine, CA. The list of booths includes everything you ever heard of for motorcycles, including a sales area for bikes as well. There will be food and entertainment all day as well. If you are into bikes, this might be a fun day in the park. This is a new location for the show, so for complete information contact Inter-Shows at (714) 364-9249 or (714) 364-0515. The park is at 5305 Santiago Canyon in Irvine, adjacent to Irvine Lake. CORY WITHERILL MOVING ON - After doing a couple years in off road short course racing Cory Witherill embarked on a career in open wheel asphalt racing last August. He will be campaigning a Dodge Shelby Can Am car at Watkins Glen, and although the series began last April, now the Witherill Team will follow the remainder of the series through to the final stop at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Cory has been through several schools and feels he is ready for some real racing. The series is on ESPN and it appears that off road has lost yet another Californian to the lure of open wheel racing and the money that comes with it as well as the glory. THE FINAL ·FLAG was raised for Bill Rigsby in August. He lost his battle with extensive burns on August 10. Bill started racing over 25 years ago competing many times in Baja, Parker and the Mint. He had many victories over the years before turning the driving chores over to grandson Sid Smith, and long time friend Kip Whitnack. Bill headed the family based team to the 1994 VORRA overall championship, his twin sons Ron and Don playing a major role in the team's victory. Bill was said to be the grandfather ofVORRA and will be sorely missed by all. His wife Dovie is extremely grateful for the support and outpouring of sympathy from all over. The burn fund set up in Bill's name is still set up to help the family with the enormous medical bills. Bill had no health insurance, so anyone who can help, please do. Mail to Great Western Bank, Bill Rigsby Burn Fund, 726 'E' Street, Marysville, CA 95901. August was a bad month for off road pioneers. A long time friend and fellow CORE member Bob Kephardt felt poorly midsummer, went to the doctor and was diagnosed with cancer and given a month or so more to live. While that was shocking enough, the bigger shock was that Bob died just about ten days later. The current CORE pit team club president, Bob was active to the end, and was seen at almost every race in the south west for many years, doing pit work primarily. Our sympathy goes out to his close friends and family, and to all who knew and worked with this very nice man. Godspeed Bob from all of us. MTEG STADIUM OFF ROAD POINTS - Heading into the final two races of the season, a week apart in October, the points championship in a few classes is still up for grabs. In Grand National Sport Trucks, Rod Millen leads his Toyota teammate Ivan Stewart 255 to 223. Ford's Rob MacCachren is third at 211 followed closely by Rick Johnson at 201. In ARW Sport Utility Tommy Croft is well ahead with 250 points in his Jeep. Robert Gayton, Mazda, has 170 points and T.J. Clark, Ford, is third with 149. Jerry Whelchel has a commanding lead in Super 1600 class with 234 points. Jimmy Nichols, 149 and Kevin Smith, 140 are fighting for second spot. Rennie Awana, 195, leads teammates Greg George, 177 and Casey Mears, 134 in the Superlite class. It is tight in 4 Wheel A TV action. Greg Stuart, Laeger leads with 184 points over Gary Denton 172 points also on a Laeger.and Charles Shepherd is third, at 158 over Doug Eichner, 153, both on Laegers. This is going to be close. It is not so close in Ultracross as Kyle Lewis has 336 points over Yamaha teammate Larry Brooks at 274 and Ray Crumb, also on a Yamaha, has 227 points. In vehicle manufacturer points Toyota leads the Sports trucks with 503 over Ford at 425, Chevroletat407 and Nissanat384. In Sport Utility Jeep has itin hand with 424 over Mazda at 170 and Ford at 149. Laeger dominates 4 Wheel ATV points with482 over JP 237 and Honda, 195. Yamaha is also dominating Ultracross with 659 points over Kawasaki, 321, and Honda 304. SODA RACE RESULTS -On Saturday heavy rain and a hail storm greeted participants in the Chevrolet Great Northern Challenge at the 1-96 Speedway near Grand Rapids, Ml. Todd Attig was the big winner, taking four titles, Classes 2-1600 and 9/ 10 on Saturday, and Class 1-1600 plus the Limited Challenge race on Sunday. Other winners were Dan Baudoux, Class l lD, Bill Graboski, Class 6, Michael Brue, Class 5-1600, Gerald Foster, Class 3, Jack Flannery, Class 4, Scott Taylor, Class 8, Robert Flanagan, Class 13, Lonnie Andrews, Class l lS, Jeff Probst, Class l / 2, John Greaves, Class 7, Tracy Crump, Women's Unlimited Class, Tracy Silloway, Women's Limited Class, and Robin Schultz, Women's Heavy Metal. Besides Todd Attig taking the Limited Challenge race, other Challenge event winners were Jack Flannery, Production, Jeff Probst, Unlimited, andJeffHoltger in Heavy Metal. Tentative ESPN air dates for this race are October 25 and November 2 and ESPN 2 on October 10 and 23 and November 19 and 21. MID AMERICA OFF ROAD NEWS~ We had anoth~·r fine race and a few new faces were welcomed at the Mt. Vernon fairgrounds race. Thanks to Devan (Dumpy) Harris and his bride and all the Board members and the volunteers for doing a great job. For a first race at this facility we had a blast and a great track. The arriving part was a little slow because of the highway construction. Ron and Janet Bickers were doing the hard stuff, as always, Barb and Bruce and family came to help as did Wes Knierim and his better half. Frank Brock and his son made sure the Woolbright machine was prepared for the ringer, Steve Butler, Randy Eller and his father showed up with helper. Mark "Oh where have you been?" Beabout even reared his ugly head for this event. I want to thank the new guys who showed up and ran with us. I think you did a hell of a job for a first race. I hope we made you feel at home and welcome. We don't have much time to chat at a race, so if you have any questions or suggestions call me, David Cronin (618) 765-2199 or MAORA VP Rich Pruitt at (314) 838-5899. Our next race is September 9 at South Central Motorplex, Greenville, Illinois, and it is produced by the Lincoln Trail Off Roaders. (mort' TRAIL NOTES on /XIJ:t' R) Dusty Times

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SUSQUEHANNOCK TRAIL PRO RALLY SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series Round 5 By Tom Grimshaw Defending national champion Paul Choiniere won his third con-secutive Susquehannock Trail PRO Rally and took over the overall lead in the SCCA/Mi-c he l in PRO Rally National Championship Series by literally pushing aside his step-father and mentor, John Buffum -the most celebrated and successful profes-sional rally driver in North Amer-ica. More detail to follow - stay tuned. Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is a wonderfully quaint little town. It sits in the middle of the state, close by the gentle mountains of the Tioga State Forest, about twenty miles below the New York border. Wellsboro is also the site of the STPR, the second longest continuing professional rally in the U.S. (Michigan's Press-On-Regardless has run in excess of twenty years -but has been removed from the 1994 PRO Rally calendar). Over the years the local resi-dents have become very knowl-edgeable about rallying. The same reporters who used to interview John Buffum and I back in the '80s when we were either setting records or destroying our Group B Audi Quattro interviewed us once again on the weekend of June 3-5. The same lovely lady still manages the local Chamber of Commerce. The same village green, s~rrounded by old-style electric gas lights, welcomes hundreds 9f spectators looking over the new crop of competitors before the starter's flag sends the cars parading down the main street and into the mountains. Tradition and continuity dwell in Wellsboro, PA. Sixty teams travelled to Wells-boro for the '94 STPR. Fifty-four entered the national event while six others competed only in the accompanying divisional contest. Notably absent was Jeff Zwart the points leader in the current championship series. Zwart, a commercial film director from Aspen, Colorado, was in Califor-nia with Rod Millen, ex-national PRO Rally champion and four time winner of the STPR. Millen Motors ports is installing a 500 hp killer engine in Zwart's Porsche Carrera 4 for this year's Pikes Peak Auto Hillclimb in July. But the other players were all on hand. Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker needed at least a second place finish to take over the points lead in their Audi Quattro S-2. Carl Merrill and Jon Wickens, driving a Ford Escort Cosworth (the most potent rally car in North America) were looking for their first overall win since being disqualified for excessive speed on the public roads, after finish-ing first in Washington. Gentleman rallyist, Bruno Kreibich, was sharing driving duties with John Buffum in his Audi Quattro and Henry Joy, the most improved new driver in the series, was teamed with veteran Canadian co-driver, Brian Max-well, in his Mitsubishi Eclipse. Michiganders, Doug Shepherd and Pete Gladysz, r.ounded out the top contenders in the Open Class with their Eagle Talon. Jamaican rally champion, Peter Moodie (Mazda 323GTX) and Vinnie Frontinan (Toyota Celica GT4) of Maine were the two to watch in Group A, in the absence of points leader Greg Lund (Mazda 323GTX). Surprisingly, sixteen cars were entered in the new Group 2 class. Group 2, introduced to the series just this year, includes small dis-placement engines, two-wheel drive, normally aspirated open class cars such as Mazda R-7s, Nissan 200-SXs, Saab 900 and 99s, VW GTis, Dodge Omnis, Datsun 510s, and Toyota Corol-las, among others. Goran Ost-1 und, current Group 2 points leader, travelled from San Salva-dor to Pennsylvania for his first start on the STPR. Production and Production GT featured two teams from Taiwan -Shu Lin Kuo (Dodge Omni) and Wen Jen Lin (Mitsubishi Ecli-pse). Lins' co-driver, Lance Smith of Burlington, Vermont, spent Friday evening and Saturday morning teaching the two Taiwa-nese drivers the difference between a "right" and a "reft". And so the stage was set (pun intended) for the eighteenth run-ning of the STPR. DUST!!!! That was the word on every driver's tongue on Satur-day. The roads were very dry. No rain was forecast for the entire weekend. The temperature was in the mid-seventies. Dust would be the deciding fac-tor. First car on the road would have a tremendous advantage despite the fact that the entire field would be re-started after the first four stages, based on their times from the first two stages only. Since Merrill's Ford Escort Cosworth, the fastest rally car in North America, would start first on the road, it seemed the rest of the field would vie for second on down. Ah, but the best planned lays of mice and men ... Stoney Fork River Crossing, the opening stage of the STPR, SUSQUEHANNOCK TRAIL PRO RALLY Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker Audi Quattro S-2 Open 2: 1 5 :4 9 2 Bruno Kreibich/John Buffum Audi Quattro Open 2 :19 :05 3 Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens Ford Escort Cosworth Open 2:22:37 4 Henry Joy/Brian Maxwell Mitsubishi Eclipse Open 2:25:03 5 Selcuk Karamanoglu/John McArthur Mitsubishi Eclipse Production GT 2:27:28 6 Rees Harris/Constantine Mantopoulis Mazda 323 GTX Productioh GT 2 :30 :35 7 Yvan Joyal/Raymond Cadieux Toyota Corolla Group 2 2 :33 :34 8 Tad Ohtake/8ob Martin Ford Escort Production 2:34:57 9 Mike Whitman/Jimmy Brandt Datsun 510 Group 2 2:36:30 10 Karl & Wayne Scheible Volkswagen GTI Group 2 2 :36:32 11 Bob ElllotVMark WIiiiams Volkswagen GTI Production 2:37:32 12 Greg Healey/John Macleod Dodge Ram 50 Truck 2:37:55 17 Rick Davis/Ben Grelsler BMW M-3 Group A 2:41 :53 Page 6 always draws a huge crowd at the finish line. The teams race along high twisty forest roads for about four miles, then roar down hill for two miles before splashing across the finish in the middle of the river. The crowds love it. Merrill's Ford, first car on the road, was also first car into the river -but, Choiniere, Buffum . and Joy were right on his r.ear bumper. The purple Ford had popped a water hose 200 yards into the stage and Merrill drove the rest of the way in seventh gear to ease the strain on his engine. This compressed the starting field as Choiniere caught Merrill and Buffum caught them both and Henry Joy also closed up. Hanging dust eliminated any passing but Merrill had clearly lost his advan-tage despite the fact he won Stages 3 and 4. Joy's Mitsubishi also slowed midway through the opening stage when a cracked power steer-Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker won the rally using a trick his stepfather, John Buffum taught him. The irony is the team he bested by three minutes in the battle of the Audis was John Buffum who drove some stages in Bruno Kreibich's Quattro. ing unit caused an engine fire. He · Semi retired from serious rallying John Buffum teamed with Bruno Kreibich's crossed the river with flames lick-Audi, won some stages but placed second overall at the finish line. It was keen ing out of the front hood vents, . to see the pair zipping through the Pennsylvania woods. jumped out with fire extinguisher . than three minutes. Choiniere and said, "Guess who taught me in hand at the finish control, blew held a minute on Merrill, fol-that trick?" the fire out through the vents, lowed closely by Moodie. Selcuk The only remaining excitement kicked the car, called it some cho-Karamanoglu, a very good driver occurred around midnight on ice bleeps, and motored on. from Turkey (who agreed with Stage Nine when an engine fire, When the cars returned to the me that Turkish cigarettes truly started by a ruptured hydraulic villagegreenafterstagefouritwas suck), had his Production GT line, reduced the Mitsubishi suddenly a different rally than Mitsubishi Eclipse only nine EclipseoflvanandOlgaOrisekto two hours earlier. seconds off Moodie's bumper, a smoking lump. The first radio At the early evening restart - followed by Henry Joy's Eclipse. reports said the flames were ten Buffum/ Kreibich/ Audi Quattro And then Choiniere made his feet high and the woods were had replaced Merrill as first car on move. AttheStage Nine start con-ablaze. The next report had the the road. Choiniere, Merrill and trol Buffum checked in and flames at twenty feet and Pennsyl-Joy were well down the list, but received the first starting minute vania ablaze. When the sirens were moved up front in the inter-for the stage. But before he could went off to call out the local est of safety. No one wanted to move his Audi, Choiniere pulled volunteers the flames had risen to face the consequences of having into the control and stopped in thirty feet and North America was the fastest Open Class drivers in front of Buffum, blocking the burning. The final press notes the most powerful cars, starting in road. Choiniere then received the place the flames at forty feet. mid-field and terrorizing eve-next starting minute -behind Whatever, the Oriseks escaped ryone as they passed in the dust Buffum. without injury, the fire was on the very twisty mountain roads Buffum, blocked from reaching doused with little damage to the - in the dark. the starting line first, stood in forest and the rally motored on. Bruce Newey, another of those front of Choiniere's Quattro, Stage Eleven, which used a par-mad New Zealand Kiwis, sur-attempting to keep him from tion of Stage Nine, was cancelled prised everyone by winning the moving to the start line, hoping as a closed road and the teams opening stage outright in his the control personnel would slowly transited to Stage Twelve. Group 2 Mazda RX-7. He had unscramble the mess. But ·Choi-Bruce Newey, who posted the started in twenty-ninth position. niere would have none of that. He startling win on.Stage One, exited The Jamaicans, Moodie and gently placed his front bumper when a tire came off the rim and Fennell, were also very close to against Mr. Buffum's knees and his Mazda rolled into an embank-the early leaders in their Mazda began to move forward, ignoring ment. Goran Oslund, who was 323GTX. When I told Mike Fen-JB's yelling and arm waving. fighting to hold his points lead in nell I had recently . rented the Finally, in desperation, as he was Group 2, "met a wall of dust on a movie about the Jamaican being bunted down the road, Buf- high-speed turn, flew off the road bobsled team at the Olympics, he furn ran back to fetch his car. Too and high-centered on a bed of reminded me that Jamaica had late. Choiniere's correct starting saplings" for a DNF. beaten the U.S. during the last minute came, he was counted The Jamaicans parked on one Winter Olympics. down and roared away into the of the final stages and were last Shepherd's Talon was gone -so night, leaving a dust cloud hang- seen carving a sled out of a dead was his right front wheel which ing in the air to greet Buffum tree. was bitten clean off by a rock-when he finally reached the start So another STPR goes into the monster lurking in a ditch on line and received a new starting record books. And another great Stage Two. time. story joins the lore of professional With John Buffum behind the The fight for first overall in the rallying -the night John Buffum wheel of an Audi Quattro restart-1994 STPR was over. tried to stop a moving Audi Qua,t-ing first on the road {Bruno Krei-Was Choiniere's maneuver tro with his bare hands (or bich did drive a few stages but legal? Yes. What gave him the idea knobby knees). Buffum drove the majority), and of jumping another car at the Just to think - all those years the suspected dust problems now start? At the early morning finish when I sat next to JB on the edge a fact after the opening stages, line back in Wellsboro, Paul of disaster as he won rally after once again everyone conceded the Choiniere, overall winner of his rally, championship after champ-overall win and prepared to run third consecutive STPR, and new ionship - I thought he was for second place and on. Eve- leader in the 1994 championship Superman. ryone that is except Paul points race, passed a bottle of Istillthinkso.Iftherehadbeen Choiniere. champagne to John Buffum, his a nearby telephone booth in the By the end of Stage 7 Buffum stepfather, his hero, his team Pennsylvania mountains, well ... · led step-son Choiniere bv more manager, his close friend, smiled October 1994 Dusty Times

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1994 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 997-1633 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 0I I-18-07-851-0444 November 27, 1994 Puckapunyal Victoria (Stadium Races TBA) AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B !Hl (514) 434-5792 BAD DOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Callaway Fun Inc. 3825 No. Main Cleburne, TX 76031 Barry Don Callaway (817) 645-0003/(817) 641-9985 Gene Peugh (817) 790-8268 nights Racing the 3rd Sunday of each month March thru October BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico (Mexicali (65) 68-34-72 October 7-9, 1994 Mexicali 400 Mexicali, BC, Mexico BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD.S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 September 23-25, 1994 Gran Carrera de Tecate II Los Sahuaros Raceway (Double Points) December 2-4, 1994 Gran Carrera de Campeones 400 miles Triple Points San Felipe BC, Mexico Year End Party! BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1533 Obden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 (613) 475-1102 /Fax (613) 475-3250 1994 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon, WI54520 (715) 478-2222 BUMP Bob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 43943 Sierra Hwy., Suite G ·· Lancaster, CA 93534 (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 September 24-25, 1994 T reeline Rally Palmdale, CA October 29-30, 1994 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA November 18-20, 1994 East of Indio Rally Indio, CA CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 205 I 5 Whitehaven Circle Bend, OR 97702 October 15, 1994 Whiskey Springs 400 , Bend, OR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 Pierre, SD 57501 Kevin Miller (Baja) (605) 224-6923 Don Engleman (Motocross) (605) 224-4967 GUMBO BUTTES BAJA & MOTOCROSS CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 617-46834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (6163717 0034) September 30-October 1-2, 1994 San Vicente (Media Noche) 200 December 2-4, 1994 Location TBA CMC Continental Motosport Club Sand Drags P.O. Box830 Adelanto, CA 92301 (619) 246-7262 November 19, 1994 Sand Drags December 1 7, 1994 Sand Drags (All events at SVR, 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 . ca:ncelled series 1994 fo1 CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/ (214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUD PUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES October 29, 1994 Squeaky Springs Gran National El Centro, CA December 31, 1994 Dunaway Dash El Centro, CA ATV, BIKE & DESERT SUPERLITE SCHEDULE 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 October 30, 1994 Car Enduro Halloween Haunt Off Road Enduro Race $5,000 guaranteed purse November 2 7, 1994 Car Enduro Short Course Races for Cars and Trucks September 16-1 7, 1994 SIX CLASSES BATTLING IT OUT - WHEEL TO WHEEL. .. • Grand National Sport Trucks • 4-Wheel ATV's • Superlite's • Super 1600's • American Racing Wheels-Sport Utilitys • Ultracross-250cc Motorcycles RACING COVERAGE BY - -· 1::::1.-11 SAM BOYD STADIUM OCTOBER 1 MILE HIGH STADIUM OCTOBERS For Ticket Information or Apparel Brochure Contact: Proudly Sponsored By: THlfn:rTAL SPl:JfffS~ ll~iis€1I Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group P.O. BOX 25168 Anaheim, CA 92825 Dusty Times CHEVROLET October 1994 FOR TICKETS CALL: BOSCH YAMAHA T.ICKsf ~~~ Page 7

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October 21-22, 1994 December 2-3, 1994 (Omract BBM Marketing Pronwtions, P.O. Box 582, Lakewood, CA 90714 (3ro) gBB-6250) GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 September 25, 1994 Vienna, GA October 23, 1994 Vienna, GA November 26, 1994 Thanksgiving 250 Vienna, GA December 3, 1994 Annual Banquet TBA GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GPORRA 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 496-0846 Eve. (all races at West/air 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 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 events start 7 miles NW of Kam loops) LA RANA DESERT RACING P.O. Box 1365 Apple Valley, CA 92307 (619) 240-1335·1(619) 240-1312 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) 254-3001 October 1, 1994 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Las Vegas, NV October 8, 1994 Mile High Stadium Denver, CO MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2199 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) September 9, 1994 Bond County Fairgrounds Greenville, IL Page 8 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL32177 (904) 325-5422 OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasque: 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (913) 855-8899 November 5-6, 1994 Cars& Bikes El Paso, TX OHIO OFF ROADERS ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 15 Stonecreek, Ohio 43840 (216) 339-4674 or (216) 897-5100 Hill Climb & Stadium Style Off Road Racing at Bear Creek Amphitheater Bolivar, Ohio September 24-25, 1994 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 September 23-24, 1994 Sunriser Forest Rally Chillicothe, Ohio October 22-23, 1994 Lake Superior Rally Houghton, Ml December 2-3, 1994 Maine Forest Rally Rumford, ME * Indicates Divisional Rall:, with 6o percent National Points SCORE Score International 12997 Las Vegas Blvd. So. Las Vegas, NV 89124 (702) 361-5404 September 9-11, 1994 SCORE Gold Coast 300 Las Vegas, NV November 10-13, 1994 SCORE Baja 1000 Baja California, MX December 16, 1994 Awards Night Location TBA S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association El ice 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 September 23-25, 1994 SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV October 28-30,-1994 Double Trouble 200 Nelson Hills, NV December 2-4, 1994 Eldorado 250 Henderson, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 ( 414) 453-SODAI( 414) 257-0422 September 17-18, 1994 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Oshkosh, WI October 1-2, 1994 Blackhawk Farms Off Road Challenge So. Beloit, IL 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 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowicz, President 589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 ( All events at Owego Motor Sports Park, Rte. 434, Owebo, NY) VENTURA RACEWAY Business Office 2810 W. Wooley Road Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 656-1122 VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 October 1-2, 1994 VORRA Fall Spectacular Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 29-30, 1994 1994 Championship Race Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson ( 604) 538-0692 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 WESTERN PENSYLV ANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire 1255 Waverly Drive Latrobe, PA 15650 (412) 532-0802 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85023 (602) 971-3730 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, Wl54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP September 1 7-20, 1994 Rally of Australia October 9-13, 1994 Sanremo Rally Italy November 19-23, 1994 RAC Rally Great Britain ATTENTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List :,our coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! It is the only wa:, some fans know about :,our event, if they don't happen to be on :,our club mailing list. Don't call, but mail :,our 1994 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring :,au some extra entries! Mail :,our race or rail:, schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 2075 r Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 913rr-44o8. October 1994 more Trail Notes ••• THE LATEST TRW HARD LUCK AW ARD -We were on our second lap running second in 5-1600s and had just left checkpoint 3 when my co-driver noticed that the alternator light was on. I pulled over and we discovered the alternator belt was shredded. I got the spare belt out, did~ 't have the right size wrench, but we improvised and got both the pow~r ste~nn~ and alternator belts in place. Back in the car, strapped in and plugged m, I fired 1tup, took off went about 100 yards and the alternator light came on again. I pull over and now find both belts gone, and I didn't have any more on board. We radio for help, and the crew was on the way with new bel_ts. Tw~ hours la_ter they show up with various size belts that fit my truck back m the_ pits. We tr~ed one that was close and noticed a piece of metal drop out. Takmg everythmg apart we saw the back half of the alternator pulley was shatt~red. So ~e hooked the car up on the tow strap and decided to take the power !me road Just below us back to the main pits. The road looked pretty good on the map. ~hen we came to the mountain range with switch backs and steep grades, which 1s where the truck quit. The fuel pump gone. The road was narrow and vehicles backed up behind us. I took one of the electric fuel pumps off my race car, and had enough spare fuel hose to make it work, and i_t did. It took_ us four hours to go the 15 miles back to the main pits but we fmally made 1t. Thanks for your consideration for the TRW Hard Luck Award. Ken Deck, West Covina, CA Car #501. THE CAMEL TROPHY ADVENTURE has come a long way as women are invited to share mud, sweat and cheers. After 15 years of"Men Only", the annual Camel Trophy Adventure has the welcome sign out for U.S. women who like their mud baths in the jungle, workouts with a winch cable and meals cooked on a manifold. They're invited to vie with males for a spot on the '95 U.S. team if they also find pleasure in rafting rivers and four wheel driving narrow mountain paths or rutted, overgrown trails, far from posh resorts and most conveniences. The duo selected will do all that for free for three weeks next spring, as well as swat mosquitos and drip sweat along with like minded amateur adventurers from other lands while driving a Land Rover Discovery through the interior of five Central American nations. The Camel Trop~y Adventure annually tackles 1,000 miles or more of some of the toughest trails on the globe. The French and Scandinavian entries each had a woman on their two person teams on this year's trek across South America. ~?w all _nat!ons participating in the •95 Adventure are being encouraged to solicit appltcanons from both sexes. The rewards for prevailing on the Adventure are primarily psychic - the satisfaction of having done it. Neither gold nor glory are bestowed on participants. To find the right pair to be representatives of the USA Tom Collins, U.S. Coordinator for the event will screen questionnaires completed by hundreds of applicants. Trials are held in Colorado in the winter and four national finalists are chosen.To be eligible applicants must be 21 years of age or older, a United States citizen, hold a valid driver's license, and never have hdd a professional race or rally license. Applications can be obtained by sendmg a stamped self-addressed envelope to: Tom Collins, Coordinator, U.S. Camel Trophy, P.O. Box 587, Snowmass, CO 81654. Do it quick, the deadline is October 1 for applications. ROAD RACE AUTOSPORT LTD. is the name of a new company formed by Scott Webb, a recent SCCA PRO Rally and road racing champion and Mike Welch, a championship winning crew chief and expert mechanic and fabricator. Road/Race Autosport is dedicated to professional sales and installation of high performance automotive accessories and occupies a fully equipped 4300 sq.ft. facility in Los Alamitos, CA to provide convenient freeway access for customers living or working in either L.A. or Orange County. "Our intent is to expand the existing market to those individuals unfamiliar with or apprehensive about performance upgrades for their vehicles," says Webb. Consequently, to instill consumer confidence and provide peace of mind, Road/Race guarantees their installation for as long as a customer owns his or her vehicle. Specializing in performance upgrades for late model sports cars, sport sedans, trucks or sport utility vehicles, Road/Race offers many performance automotive related services including professional street, race and rally car preparation. For more information please phone or fax Scott Webb or Mike Welch at Road/Race at (310) 795-6166 or (310) 795-6171 respectively. THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT SCORE HEARING on a case from the BAJA 500 last June involving overall winner on time Pat Dean and motorcycle competitor Scott Nolind, took place finally on August 8, 1994 minus two of the original Competition Review Board members who had other appointments that day. Basically the video tape taken from the helicopter that was following Dean was seen by all, and it showed that Dean had been following the bike for a time, unable to find ro0m to pass, showed the bike moving over, and then back onto the main course where Dean, thinking he could get past without a problem no doubt, hit the bike's rear tire, after locking up his brakes. While the majority of those present felt it was just a racing accident, and Nolind was lucky to have suffered only bruises and a broken ankle or leg, that wasn't made clear in the press release, those on the CRB voted to uphold Dean's disqualification. It is too bad this became such a messy incident, and some very nice people on both •sides of the fence felt insulted, but Dean's sponsor said the Gold Coast 300 will ·goon with all the trimmings early in September despite the major disappoint• ment of the hearing results. There are six pages of testimony, boring to anyone not involved with SCORE racing, so we will close the book on this most unfortunate racing accident. GOLD COAST 300 RESULTS-The SCORE Gold Coast 300 is just over and there was a lot of dust, the wind blew hard, and it was typical hot Jean, Nevada weather. Las Vegan Brian Collins in his super chassis Chenowth won the race overall by over 11 minutes driving solo to win Unlmited class as well. Brian Stewart was second overall and first in Class 8 in his Walker Evans Dodge. Larry Job and Rob MacCachren won Class 10 by a good~y margin for the second Las Vegas based team win. Mike Jakobson drove solo m Class 5 f~r the victory and Danny Porter/Mark Ruddis won Class 1-2-1600. Jeff Lewis triumphed in Class 7S and Jeff Holmes and Ramsay El Wardani took 5-1600 honors. Chuck Johnson and Jack Murphy won Class 3, Jeep Grand Cherokee; Darnen and Casey Jefferies Class 9, J imco. Rod Hall and Jim Fricker ~l?n Sto~k Full Size in a Hummer and Scott Sells, Toyota, again won Stock Mm1. Sergio Nolasco won Class 7, Dodge Dakota and Terry Kiely and Steve Wood~ar? took Class 11 honors. The Trophy Trucks started mid afternoon and makmg 1t two wins in one day Rob MacCachren brought the Venable Ford home first. Ivan Stewart was second in the Toyota. This was the tightest competition fo,r the Trophy Truck races so far. Full Gold Coast story coming next month. (more TRAIL NOTES on Jxige 57) Dusty Times

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Dave Thomas and Jim Hurley Win Back to Back SCCA Divisional Rallies in Tuas Ion and Mike Haney finished second overall and first in 4WD class, nearly two minutes off the pace at 51 :39 in the borrowed AMC Eagle. Robert and Billy Waits put the RX-7 into third overall and second in 02 class, afrer fixing the brakes overnight and donating parts to Thomas and Hurley so they could fix theirs! Brent Carey and Stephen Geiger have found a way to make a Toy-ota travel at light speed, as they managed to _pass several cars with out being seen and posted the· fastest time on the last stage of the rally, running nearly two minutes faster than the rally winners. They finished fourth overall, third in 02. (Beam me to the end of the stage, Scotty, it's hot and dusty out here.) won the second and third stages in the supercharged Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, but had dropped four minutes getting lost on the first test, and had to settle for fifth overall, second in 4WD. Bill Patridge and Rusty Megois won the U2 class in their "Two Bald Guys Racing" Ford pickup, best-ing Don Gage and Robert Hamp-ton in a Ford Escort by one min-ute, these two teams b~ing sixth and seventh overall. There was but one other starter, the Muen-ter /Hanke yellow and orange RX-2, and they were eighth overall, fourth in 02. By Dat1e Thomas Wand'rin Star I Driving the Rotary Perfor-mance Mazda RX-7, Dave Tho-mas of St. Charles, MO and Jim Hurley of Knoxville, TN won the Wand'rin Star I rally on Camp Maxey National Guard base north of Paris, TX. They posted top times on six of the nine scored stages in the 74 stage mile coeffi-cient three rally, their total time was 1: 12:40. Second place was taken by Scott Justus (Fayette-ville, AR) and Matt Chester (Atlanta, GA) driving the ex-Ken Stewart Chevrolet S-10 Blazer for the first time. They won the4WD class and the fourth stage {1:15:31). In third overall and first in U2 class ( under two liter, two wheel drive) was the "Two Bald Guys Racing" team of Bill Patridge and Rusty Megois of Birmingham, AL driving a Ford pickup. Karen Burrows and Ken Cassidy of Mesa, AZ driving a Ma:da RX-7 were fourth overall, second in 02 class ( over two liters, two wheel drive) nearly 12 min-utes off the pace despite winning the first stage of the rail y. Pre-registration and a beer party ( with rail y videos on an eight inch TV) were held Friday night in the Paris Holiday Inn; the weather forecast and the locals all said it wouldn't rain until Sep-tember. At six a.m. a thunder-storm went through the area blowing over tables around the pool and leaving about an inch of rain. By nine the oarkin~ lot was dry, but the sun and the humidity were out as well. The rally began at 1 :30 in the afternoon, with sev-eral stages shortened to keep us out of the mud. There was stand-ing water in some of the ditches and dust billowing from the roads, but a southerly bree:e kept the visibility bearable. Almost immediately, the heat began to take its toll, as the Robert and Billy Waits team of Lawrenceville, GA were slowed by overheating and a flat, losing 17 minutes when the car didn't want to restart. Tom Hanlon and Mike Haney had a slow first stage as well, losing 18 minutes on an off-course excursion; they hung in there, to finish seventh overall and second in 4WD class, in an AMC Eagle owned by organizer Floyd Shrader. The Saab Sonnet of Ewing/Cochran dropped out of the rail y with no starter, no first and no third gears. Everyone seemed to settle down after that until the Paddock/Eagleman Eagle Talon packed it in after only three stages, with the Waits RX-7 also falling out, both overheating and the RX-7 with no brakes. Stage 7 was dropped due to a route book and course marking error with all the competitors stopped out 'in the middle of the camp wondering where to go. The Gage/Hampton Ford Escort retired after breaking an engine mount which mashed the fuel line flat; they didn't find it in time to continue. Cary/Geiger brought their Toyota down from Indiana to place fifth overall, third in 02, with the Muenter/Hanke Mazda Dusty Times RX-2 in eighth overall, fourth in 02 in a car from Missouri. The only Texas team entered was the Jowi/Njenga Toyota Corolla, sixth overall, second in U2. The rally ended before dark, time for a quick dip in the pool before tro-phies and CASH pri:es were awarded, amid more beer. a.m . rally start wearing a sweaty, stinky firesuit, on a day that' promises to be hotter than the previous one. Oh well, only five stages to run. Wand'rin Star II Sunday morning, 3 July, 10 Dave Thomas and Jim Hurley posted their ~"'cond win in as many days on tht: Wand'rin Star II coefficient 2 rally with a time of 49:50 for the 48 stage miles. They won only two of the five stages, turning up the wrong road on the fourth stage and losing half a min-ute in the correction. Tom Han-Scott Justus and Matt Chester We were finished by lunch-time, and again there were tro-phies and CASH pri:es. All in all, it was a great weekend for rallying, and a great way to pick up points on two rallies for only one tow. DDN-A-YEE 1993 Double Baja 1000 Winners! We just bolt on the same lights you buy -no strengthening - no modification - no extra rivets. Just stock lights. 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THE THUMPERS/KC HILITES SNORE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL The Tom Bradleys Squeak Into The Overall Win By Jean Calvin It looked hopeless until the last lap, but Tom Bradley pressed on anyhow and he and his son Tommy won the race, not only in Unlimited class but they were first overall, which amazed them too at the finish line. Thumpers, a bar and restaurant in Las Vegas, supported the Midnight Special as they have for a few years and in 1994 the original sponsor returned to the fold, KC Hilites. It was nice to see support for club racing once more and Jim Conner was there with a trailer full of lights too. Thumpers hosted the Friday night tech and contingency inspection in their parking lot, and the crew for registration enjoyed air conditioned comfort inside for their toil. After tech closed at 9:00 p.m. the drawing for starting positions was held in t he restaurant, and 40 cars were in the hopper. It was a pleasant evening made more pleasant by the fact that one didn't have to rise at dawn for a race. This one didn't start until Saturday evening. As is tradition, the race course was south of town off Highway 95 in the Eldorado Valley at the Nelson Hills area, known for both its unfriendly rocks and many elevation changes. The weather in late July was hot, but not as hot as it would get the following month. A light breeze helped those setting up pits survive until the sun went down. There were three on course stop checkpoints plus the start/ finish and three pit areas also on the 35 mile route. The course itself had a few changes from previous years, and the scheduled starting time was moved back an hour to 9:00 p.m. by the BLM to be sure the desert turtles were all safely in their burrows, well marked as no nos alongside the course. There was no pre-run this year, which was a fun ride on Saturday morning when you could see the spec-tacular hills, the abandoned mining digs, and a great view of the whole area over to Boulder/ It was a battle for youngsters in Class 10, but after five laps Mark Weyhrich and Mike Zupanovich came in the class winner and also second overall, despite a few problems along the way. Clay and Becky Flippin and friends had Class 5 fast lap on the first round, the competition faded and they settled into a good pace and finished the five laps, the class winner. Hoover Dam if you got high enough. T he BLM said they would have to take a lap off the race if they did the controlled speed pre-run. I guess they prefer to see people tackle a race course on a pitch black night without any idea where it goes or what the ha:ards might be and where they are. Truly there was a lot of breakage on the first lap, possibly because of people going fast into the unknown. OK SNORE, next year put six laps on the permit and use one of them for the pre-run. The driver's meeting con-ducted by Race Steward Bill Shapley was short and to the point. There was a six hour time limit, Class 10, 5, Unlimited and 1-2-1600 had five laps to cover, Challengers, Sportsman and trucks had only four laps to do for a finish. For the purse Class 5 was combined with 1 to make a five car field. They were flagged away at 30 second intervals and the wind had died with the sunset and it was a dusty run for all but the first car on the first lap. Tommy Bradley led off the line in his VW powered Class 1 , followed by Mark Davidge/Oave Berry, Brendan Gaughan in an Un-limited single seater for the first time, Brad Thomas and company in a yellow Baja Bug, and Troy Herbst who ran a close second to Bradley after two laps and T roy set race fast lap on the second roundat45:04. The Bug was third at this point. Brendan Gaughan broke a fuel line, fixed it, then buried the car trying to get back on course and lost considerable time, but got around and kept going for another lap at 51 :25 , then parked. Davidge was having troubles also, his on the second lap. Troy Herbst had the overall honors in his pocket but somewhere on the final lap a broken spindle once again denied Troy his moment of glory in the Chenowth. Ke ith Underwood drove solo in Billy Bryan's 1-2-1600 and his lap times varied no more than two minutes all the way to victory in this tough class that he won by a slim 56 second margin at the flag. The trio of Class 10 cars were moving in on the Un limiteds after two laps on this rough and rocky J.C. Dean ran solo in the potent Class 10 Chenowth, set class fast lap, and had a few minutes lead going into the last lap, then the transmission failed but he got second, building points. Page 12 Teenager Jeremy Gubler has become quite a quick driver, and he had no car trouble at all, didn't like the dust, but was third 1600 and fifth overall. October 1994 Robby Guevara had a great night in the family 1600 racer, as he sped along to fourth in the tough class and sixth overall with Bob Guevara co-driving. Dusty Times

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course. You just had to be lucky on this track to not have a flat tire. As expected J.C. Dean had the lead from the flag and after two laps he had class fast lap at46:42. Keeping him honest were a pair of second generation drivers, Mark Weyhrich and Mike Zupanovich. Mike did the first two laps with a pair of 51 s to be solid in second, while Ken Flippin Jr. only got in one nearly four hour lap and prudently parked. Next to be unleashed were the nine 1-2-1600 entries, nearly all easily a potential winner. Danny Anderson led the first lap on time and on the road, the second starter in class. Anderson still led after two rounds but Kenny Freeman was close and set fast lap for the class on lap 2 at 49:33. Keith Underwood, driving Billy Bryan's car while he recovers from eye surgery, was in with a 52 on lap 1 and just one second behind him came B.J. and Jon Almberg. After two laps some were among the missing, includ-ing Bekki Freeman whose first lap was a 53:04, but she did not finish the second lap stopping near Check 3 and walking to her pit, downed by a broken trailing arm. After two rounds it looks like Jeremy Gubler was third just seconds ahead of Robby and Boh Guevara. Dan Jewett and Hugh Helms did a pair of 59 minute laps then vanished from the charts into the night. B.J. and Jon A Imberg came from Ely, NV to race their new Lothringer, and the rocks didn't scare them, had just one flat, lost third gear on lap 4, but were happy with second in 1-2-1600 and fourth overall. Scott Bassett listed four co-drivers for the Chevy in Heavy Metal Class, and his competition was weak and he finished four laps for the class victory. In Class 5 Clay and Becky Flippin romped to class fast lap at 51 :52 on the first lap, cooled it as the competition was parked and came in to win Class 5 and finish seventh overall. Derek Holt and his team did not complete the first lap. Meanwhile the Class 9 Chal-lengers were really mixing it up with three of the ten in the same leading minute after one lap. The leader was 1993 champion Bill Holbrook, with former champion Mike Dixon co-driving. Larry Joh was next on time in the Brian Pennington/Ralph Chadwick car, and eight seconds later it was Dave Petrillo. However, the damage report was heavy. Hank Peluaga did not finish a lap. Ed Looney and team did one lap in five hours and 21 minutes, having roll over troubles and just beating the time limit at that. Douglas Ingram gave it up after a one hour first lap, and so did Brian Fieger and Ken Thatcher at 59:08. The three in Heavy Metal Class were next away, Scott Bassett, and a host of co-drivers in a Chevy, Tony Leonard and Blake Monk, and Thomas Coon and Jamey Cannedy, both teams in Fords. Coon didn't make a lap, Leonard did 2:41 and 1 :31 and retired. Out front on lap 1 with class fast lap at 55:55 was Scott Bas-sett/Scott Smith and company and they had fuel pump and brake woes the next three laps finishing four, the winner at 4:03:37 in their first season racing the Blazer. Two started in Mini Metal, but the Toyota of John Phegley didn't cover a lap. Doing a good 1:21:47, class fast lap, on the first round Mike Larson, Courtney Kerr and Todd Oiler did two more laps in the 1 :20s and won the class at Mike Larson, Courtney Kerr and Todd Oiler had some good lap times in the Toyota, outlasted the competition for the Mini Metal title and bonus bucks handily. The tiger striped paint job on Dave Petri/Io's Challenger doesn't slow him a bit. He had a three way tussle for the lead in the early laps, then pulled ahead to win a hard fought Class 9 title in the dark. Dusty Times 4:15:38, driving an Oldsmobile · Cutlass. Trucks really never have caught on big in SNORE com-petition. The Sportsman were six strong ready to tackle the demons of the night. Since he was the only 5-1600 car on hand, Kevin Streety opted for Sportsman Buggy class and he and Jeff Lothringer held their own against the buggies all night. Jay and Jim Shain set class fast lap on the first one at 1 :00: 15, but Streety did a 1 :01 :02 and nobody else was close. Both teams repeated their lap times on the second round so midway in the four lap bash the lead belonged to Shain. Streety was a couple minutes back, and Charles David had his Chevy in at 1: 11 :06, but then had a 1 :59:21 second lap and was seen no more. Usually a contender Todd Vandawalker didn't make a lap. Ed Dunn lost about 20 minutes on the lap 1, but came back with a second round in 1:01 :5 2. Ken Gardner and Steve Elliott had first lap trouble, got cured for the second lap, and five of the six were still running. Meanwhile back at the front Tommy Bradley and Troy Herbst were in a real dog fight still about tied on time after three rounds with Troy having a tiny edge. But Bradley had gear troubles developing and put his dad Tom in the car for the final two laps. Missing after three laps were the teams of Brad Thomas, who had been doing well, and Mark Davidge. After turning a 45 :30 on lap 4, Troy Herbst failed to finish lap 5, his leading Chenowth down with a broken spindle. Troy was second in Unlimited class. Tom Bradley struggled in with first, second and fifth gear left, not good on this course, hut he did the fifth lap and with his son starting, and John Shippert riding won the race overall in 4:09:42, the only Unlimited Class finisher. In Class 10 J.C. Dean did a pair of 49 minute laps but Portland's Mark W eyhrich was getting close with a 48:53 fourth lap. 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• f,w,j! ff 4ft_ Larry Job, Brian Pennington and Ralph Chadwick split the driving chores in their Challenger car and they finished second in class, less than two minutes out of the win. Jim O'Donnell and John Gangloff were just minutes off the frantic leading pace in Class 9, did a good job and they finished third in a good run. Gene Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer suffered lighting problems and from bad brakes all night, but they carried on to place fourth in Challengers. Defending points champion Bill Holbrook with Mike Dixon driving some laps, had Class 9 fast lap too, but third lap down time dropped them to fifth in class. Ed Dunn and company, usually a contender, had first lap problems, but got fixed, ran three strong laps to finish second in the Sportsman Buggy bunch. Jay Shain set fast lap for Sportsman Buggies on lap 1, but third lap trouble took 20 minutes to fix and Jay and Jim Shain finished third in the class. ~ the fifth lap, four miles from glory as reverse gear came right through the gearbox case, end of his race, in second place. The lead passed to Mark Weyh-rich and Mike Zupanavich who kept up the pace with a 49:52 lap. These youngsters have a Raceco with a Fat Toyota engine, Penhall suspension, Rose gearbox and said Jim Moulton does all the race prep and upkeep on the car. This was Mark's first ever win and these excited young men were wide awake at one in the morning. They also finished second overall with a total time of 4: 15:23. Doing three 49 minute laps in a row, Kenny Freeman had the lead in Class 1-2-1600 heading into the final lap. Danny Anderson had a major disaster on the middle lap and dropped from contention, but got back up a·nd running after 40 minutes down time. The lead four maintained their pace through the final laps and Keith Underwood drove alone to win the class at 4:26:24 by less than a Jeremy was fifth overall followed minute margin. Keith said the home by Rob and Bob Guevara in steering wheel came loose and sixth overall, fourth in 1-2-1600. that had to be fixed but he had no They had no problems on course, other problems, but was ready for but said they need new suspen-a cool shower. He was third siontogofaster,theirsisoutdated overall, a great performance. Just they said. Even with a 2: 12:21 last 56 seconds later B.J. and Jon lap with serious problems, Kenny Almberg arrived in second place, Freeman and Paul Pfister finished the brqthers from Ely happy with after being mechanics in the dark, their new Lothringer car in its and they were fifth in the nine car third race. B.]. drove the entire class and a fine eighth overall. race and thanked Kent Lothringer Also getting a finish, sixth in the forallhishelpwiththecar.They class, was Danny Anderson had a flat in the middle of the finishing with a 51 minute lap, second lap, lost third gear on the , losing all his time on lap 3. Dan fourth lap, but that was it for Bradky and Sam Dunnam had a trouble. They were ama:ed to see long first lap, a couple of fast laps, they finished fourth overall in a then disaster on lap 4 . The 4:27:20 time. steering broke at Check 2 so they The 1600s were coming in usedvisegripsonthesteeringbox close together. Just four minutes to come down Nelson Road to the behind Alm berg came Jeremy main pit, got fixed and went back Gubler with all five laps in the low out to pick up the course, 50s, and this youngster is on! y I 6 finishing the fourth lap but out of years old. He said he had no time to do the fifth. They were problems at all, except not being seventh in Class 1-2-1600. able to see through the dust. The Challengers had a battle royal going after two ·laps. Then the trio of Larry Job, Brian PIKE'S Pennington and Ralph Chadwick led Dave Petrillo by a minute and Mike Dixon in Holbrook's car ·was two minutes ahead ot Job having set class fast lap on the SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! ·Mobil. RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND second round at 53: 16. But a very long third lap took the trio out of the running. Scott Pearce and Bill closely for third were the teams of Jim O'Donnell/John Gangloff and Gene Griepentrog/Kent Lothringer almost tied on time midway. Meanwhile the up front battle continued as Dave rolled his car four times on two different laps and on four different occasions, but still led heading into the fourth and final lap. Ralph Chadwick was now in the second place car and fell about 22 seconds short on the last lap. So, Dave Petrillo won Challenger Class with broken lights from the roll overs, but he had no flats and arrived before one in the morning, with a time of 3:43:51. He thanked Curt Hadley who built his entire car, and it must be tough to survive such treatment and win. Larry Job, who did lap 2, Brian Pennington, who started, and Ralph Chadwick were in at 3:45:27 to take a strong second place. They figured the multiple driver changes added to their time. Jim O'Donnell and John Gangloff stayed on their pace despite engine loading up troubles all night long and came in third at 4:00:44. Gene Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer had -light trouble most of the way and bad brakes with a master cylinder problem, but they took fourth in class. W c didn't catch Mike Dixon or Bill I THE BEST IN THE DESERT Kevin Streety switched his 5-1600 entry into the Sportsman buggy class, and he kept a good pace going while others had troubles, and Streety won the class by a husky 13 minutes after four laps. Page 14 October 1994 with a 55:46 to salvage fifth place and finishing points. In the Sportsman pack the race was close between Streety and Shain for two laps. Then Shain lost 25 minutes on lap 3 which moved the Dunn car into second. But Streety continued on a fast pace in the Baja Bug, apparently had no trouble and won Sports-man Buggy class at 4: 1 7 :36 for the four laps. Ed Dunn and Janie Egan Sr. nailed second place at4:30:56, while Jay and Jim Shain with Darwin Parsons came in third at 4:34:41. Pushing the time allowance of six hours with a 5:44: 11 time, Ken Gardner and Steve Elliott made it home for a four lap finish. We have no interviews from this class because the officials at the finish line waved them away to their pits as they do not require any post race inspection. Sorry folks. It was a short sleep night for racers and especially the officials. But next morning at 10 a.m. the clan gathered at Thumpers for the traditional awards breakfast served buffet style. Thumpers really goes all out to help SNORE racers, and many enjoyed their Sunday morning hospitality. Tommy Bradley started the awards presentation after all had eaten and he thanked all the sponsors, especially Thumpers and KC HiLites for their participation. The trophies and the checks were distributed with dispatch, and the droopy eyed group went home, most right there in Las Vegas, while a few had a day long ride home if they were towing to California or northern Nevada. Still all enjoyed the night race, and all were looking forward to the 25th anniversary running of the SNORE 250 supported by the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino, with big bucks up for the front runners, $2,500 for the overall winner, for example, and that happens on September 23-25. It is a fun race with an expected si:eable entry and it is definitely the place to be that weekend to race, to pit, to watch and just enjoy. Dusty Times

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Chevrolet Luxemburg Off Road Challenge By Barb and Marilyn Schultz Photos by Melinda Rothe Rick Rayford dominated Class 6 action taking the win in his new Sport Utility, a model that may soon invade the traditional Class 6 ranks of V-8 American sedans. Racers from all points of the United States and Canada con-verged on Luxemburg, Wiscon-sin, Kewaunee County Fair Grounds the weekend of July 9 and 10 for more of the best off road racing to be found. A streak of hot weather decided to break with numerous heavy downpours of rain eliminating the immediate need for a water truck on a vastly improved challenging track. Promoters Lee Ellis and Dick Shinnick had prepared, after only one year at this facility, an excel-lent weekend of racing. Sitting in the new covered grandstands with nifty backrests directly opposite the flagman the track was laid out as follows: Rac-ers green flagged outside tum four of the existing oval track headed over a crowd pleasing front jump. With little room to spare, racers made a hard left on the oval track's corner one. From corner one, drivers headed into the stock car infield to what we can only call "Dan Jansen Comer". Why Dan· Jansen? Unavoidable that sharp right comer turned out to be as hard to negotiate as an ice rink! Competitors then went on to the stock car oval, jumped off the oval onto what we will refer to as the "West Bank". The "West Bank" section was brand new this year and directly to the west of spectators. This section contained any number of aggressive "S" turns. This area being virgin soil and not "packed" changed terrain as each race was run. This makes for damnt>d challenging racing! Exiting the "West Bank" racers maneuvered past ESPN Hill and over a big jump, then jumped on to the oval track at tum three. Then the whole show repeated itself. Whew, packed oval clay_ tracks can get as hard and slick as asphalt given the right conditions. The conditions were there! On with the show! Under cloud John Greaves got his Toyota in for the victory in the muddy Class 7S ra.ce and on Sunday Greaves romped off with the win in the Mini Metal Challenge, after was_hing the mud off the truck . . filled skies, Class 2-1600 took the green flag for the first race of the weekend. One more time familiar names and in familiar places as Todd Attig took charge and went from green to checkered for his first win of the weekend. Dan Baudoux, Greg Smith and Mike Seefeldt,Jr. all gave Attig a run for the money but had to settle for second, third and fourth respec-tively. Cary Bowles was hard charging and had an awesome bat-tle with Jason Crowder for points and position. Ouch, Class 6's Gary Gott-schalk started off this class race the hard way. Before one lap could be completed, Gottschalk came sailing over the back stretch big jump and stood his machine straight up and down on its nose. Rick Rayford dominated the race with a decisive win. Randy Zim-onick and Bill Graboski duked it out for second place until Zimon-ick retired with mechanical woes. Graboski went on for the second position. Darrin Parsons, in his new machine, mastered the track for third place. Also finishing were Leonard Gehl and Larry Wood. Class 5,-1600 lined up for the next race with another Mike Brue vs. Greg Smith classic. At the half way point Brue had a mere six second lead on Smith. The two went tooth and nail to the very end, Brue taking the win, Smith in second. Smith lost mega ground . when he put his "Bug" up on two wheels at corner one. Nice racing fellas! Tim Christensen gave vete-ran Terry Wolfe no slack for third position until the racing demons put him out. Wolfe went on for the third place finish with Rookie It was a familiar story in Class 5-1600, and once again Mike Brue won the race ahead of contenders Greg Smith, very close, and Tim Christensen. John Mason in fourth. Gary Plummer lost all but second gear early on, Tom Brockman ran a good race despite obvious inter-nal problems. Twenty one Class 11 D's had to be happy at not being the first race of the day.This time around they had the advantage of watching how other vehicles raced the track. Dan Baudoux learned his lesson well from a previous run going flag to flag for a decisive win. The hot racing action was between Mark Oberg, Glen Mathews, John Buven and Cory Friday. Oh, and let's not leave out Wes Frehse. Lonnie Andrews had it all hooked up and running until losing five positions with a bad spin out at "Jansen Corner". Tuff break, Lonnie. Back at the ranch; the finishing positions were Oberg in second, Huven in third, and Friday in fourth. Wowsers, seventeen contestants finished the race. A large field of Class 9-10 Bug-gies lined up, took off, and left Todd Attig out of the running. Luck eluded poor Attig in a cloud of take off dust preceding a 180 spinout before the first jump! No matter, Attig fought back turning an incredible 1.08 lap time on the just over a mile track. Jeff St. Peter must have been waiting for this race. He put his foot down and waved goodbye to the field. Nice win Jeff! Californian Rick Welch and Jeff Probst went nose to tail, door handle to door handle in a dandy fight for second and third. Probst finally made a second posi-tion pass in the "West Bank" area leaving Welch to fend off a hard charging Scott Schwalbe. Despite a last ditch power blast from Schwalbe, Welch maintained third. Further back, Jim Struble and Dan Baudoux had an excel-lent battle going -ouch, we lost Baudoux on the white flag lap. Struble placed fift!l. Forget the bad start, Attig raced to sixth place. Lord have mercy! The sky opened and we're here to tell ya' it commencec;l to rain. Poor Class 7S had mud soup to race in. To their credit, it was not a demon-. stration of mud dragging but a good show of driver ability. John Greaves is definitely getting his revenge on last season's tough breaks. Greaves in spite of the heavy rain ran a 1.28 lap for a commanding win. Scott Taylor was in there pitching but half way through he came out of corner one slippin' and slidin'. In fact, he slipped clear off the course and had one helluva time getting back on. Nevertheless, Taylor finished second with Jeff Kincaid brea-thing hard down his tailpipe for third. New to Class 7S, Fay Sta-.tezny proved his driving skills by finishing in fourth. The rain stayed, the crowd stayed and most of the Class 7S trucks also man-aged to remain on the track to finish. Welcome Brendan Gaugh-an -to Midwest racing in the mud. The poor young man could have opened a bakery with the number of donuts he made. Oh yeah, Happy Birthday! Welcome to the Class 8 "Slick 55" race -can't call it the "Slick 50" 'cause that's a honest to goodness product. Nine brave trucks and their mega horsepower proved that skill in the mud over-rides power in the engine.We can just imagine the thoughts in these driver's minds: "Give me some Traction -Jackson!" "ls this what they mean by Locktight?" "I've used more reverse than forward." "Are we plowing the back forty?" All kidding aside, the track was far from easy to negotiate. Poor Scott Taylor, lost his transmis-sion on lap four. By the way, the going was so tough that this class put in the least amount oflaps and the highest lap times of the week-end. Scott Douglas' first three laps served as his learning curve. After spinning out at every avail-able corner, turning the wheel left and going straight, Douglas found that slow in the corners was the key. How nice it #as io see this fine gentleman garner his first SODA win with the excitement of a ''first time winner". Brian Greg Smith fought the good fight in Class 2-1600 but his racer was a little off song this weekend and he ended up third, further back in 1-1600 and the Challenge race. Mike Seefeldt Jr. is a coming star in 1600 racing, taking a strong second in 1-1600 action, fourth in 2-1600 and third place in the Limited Challenge. There was a lot of action in the· Class 9/1 0 event, but when the dust settled Jeff St. Peter ·came home the winner and Jeff Probst, here, took second. Pa9c 16 October 1994 Dusty Times

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Donkvy had the right idea from the start. It was great to see' Donkvy finish in a tidy fourth. Carrying a gazillion tons of mud Daw Hackers and Jed Flannery slippL'd and slid for position. HockL'rS effectively kept the door shut on a determined Flannery. Hockers took second, Flannery third. Like teammate Brendan, Walker Evans had his fun in the mud. Farmer John Konitzer -without his hay motor - finished in fifth. Rounding out the field were Chuck Brand and Jimmy Crowder. Thanks to Class 8, Class 4 had a drin track to race. Holy Hannah, what an impressive sight. Thir-teen four wheel driven vehicles roared off the start, drivers taking no prisoners. Kevin Probst came off the line lih· a shot in gangland Chicago. Jumpin' Jack Flannery playL'd a right on your heels ghetto cop to go door to door with Kevin Probst shot off the starting line in his Class 4 Chevrolet, had to fight to keep the lead in the early going, but the competition faded and Kevin got the victory after a slow start this season. Prohst. Now throw in Geoff Dorr also driving hell hent for leather. Rotten racing gods!! Flannery's tranny locked up tighter than a Dodge City jail before he could completely exit the track at turn one. Dorr also went out with mechanical gremlins. Now the Scott Douglas proved to be the best "mudder" in the Slick 55 Class 8 mudfest. Although he had his share of spins in the Herzog Dodge he carried on to take his first Class 8 victory in SODA racing. race was all Kevin Prohst. Nice work Kevin, you have waited a long time. Steve Kelley and Milan Ma:anec (driving Chad Schluet-er's Ford) wagged war for second place. Ma:anec trying an outside pass on corner one, locked up and slid rear end first into Flannery's disabled truck. Despite his unfor-tunate racing mishap Ma:anec held on to third. Thank Heavens Jumpin' Jack was watching from the sidelines. Niel.' dice'n took placL' hetWL'L'n Mark SL'idkr, Jeff St. Peter, GL'rald Foster, Greg Gerlach and Scott Smith. Jeff HoltgL'r, Km Kincaid and Grant Maholland rounded out the fin-ishing field. Art Schmitt was up to his old tricks in Class 1/2, which opened Sunday's racing, took the lead from the flag, shook off the competition and took home the class win. He also went wire to wire to win the Unlimited Challenge. Todd Attig continued his winning way in 1600 action, going flag to flag in Class 2-1600, did the same on Sunday in Class 1-1600 and placed second late in the day in the Limited Challenge race. Class 11 "Super Trucks" hit the coursL' twenty entries strong. Dennis Ferdon, R.J. Flannagan and Brucl' Shilts came out like gang hustas with JoL' Ziiisch fol-lowing a truck length hehind. Behind that group werL' hard chargers LowL'II DeGreef, John Schult: and Dan Vanden Heuvel. While Zilisch ~ TRI-MIL EXHAUST SYSTEMS 1 3/8 TYPE 1 RAW....................... $65. 95 1 3/8 TYPE 1 CHROME .................... $100.00 1 1/2 TYPE 1 RAW ............................ $65. 95 11/2 TYPE 1 CHROME .................... $100.00 1 5/8 TYPE 1 RAW ........................... $73. 95 . 1 5/8 TYPE J CHROME .................... $107. 95 KENNEDY CLUTCHES 200 mm DISC 4-PUCK ....................... $48.01.'I 200 mm 1700 PRESSURE PLATE ..... $85.00 200 mm 2500 PRESSURE PLATE... .. $103.95 * EARLY OR LATE STYLES* SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS ANTI SUB BELT 2' ............................. $23.95 LAP BELT 3' ...................................... $58.95 SHOULDER BELT 3' .......................... $46.80 SHOULDER BELT W/ STERNUM STRAP .... $72.95 'A MUST FOR COMPETITION USE' JJ}t}J l ')i U UN/FILTER BUGPACK ~~ ~ \NHEELs IC~ V. CHENOWTH ULTRA WHEELS 15x4 FRONTS $80.00 FIU'ERCHARGER°EOUfPPED 15x7 REAR STD OFFSETS $85.00 PARKER PUMPER 11 GALLON DUMP CANS WITH BUILT IN HANDLE TO POUR ... $62.95 SCRIBNER JUGS . 5 GALLON JUGS WHITE & BLUE.~ ............................. $18.95 NEON COLORS ............................... $22.95 FILLER HOSE FOR JUGS (SCREW IN LID STYLE).$3.95 CHENOWTH CLASS 11 CAGE ............................ $154.95 QUICK RELEASE STEER_ING HUB._..$32.95 UMP SUPER FILTER UMP SUPER FILTER ................... $159.95 UMP ADAPTER, FITS SOLEX $89. 95 THIS AD SUPERCEDES ALL OTHERS MENTION THIS AD To· RECEIVE THESE SALE PRICES YOKOHAMA REARS 33x10.50.15 $109.00 FRONTS HIGHWAY TREAD AND TRACTION $85.00 WORTH DRIVING SUITS 1 LAYER HDRA/SCORE LEGAL W/ RED or BLUE STRIPE .............. $87.95 RobMacCachren Signature Serles Shirts NOW AVAILABLE, plus, On The Edge Desert, Stadium, And Wanna Ride Shotgun Shirts (Call for Info) T-Shirt Designs & Vinyl lettering Available In The Store ~l'W'P.~~~~9!'f ........... Dusty Times October 1994 Page 17

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Milan Mazanec, driving Chad Schlueter's Ford as Chad's elbow heals slowly, had some problems on course, but recovered to take third in Class 4 action. :, The Production Heavy Metal Challenge for Classes 4 and 8 saw Geoff Dorr, pictured here, lead most of the distance, but his Ford got passed by Jack Flannery's Chevy in the waning laps and Dorr ended up second. Defending Class 7S champions Scott Taylor slid to second in the class race, but a flat tire put him down in the finishing ranks of the Mini Metal Challenge. The Mini Metal Challenge was mostly 7S trucks running in a virtual dust bowl but it was better than the mud. The win went to John Greaves, but Las Vegan Brendan Gaughan, at home in dust, took third place on his birthday. The 24 in Class 1 is faced a muddy track, then a pile up in the first turn, and Cory Friday went from ninth to first in that exercise and he led the survivors to the checkered flag for the win. W and DeGreef jock-gloomy the racing had been red eyed for position, Schultz effec-hot and action packed. Spectators tively held off Vanden Heuvel left looking forward to Sunday's until a dropped coil wire put him top of the line racing. Racers off the track. Going into the white headed campside to showers, flaglap,Shiltscutafull360,bust-bench racing and eventually a ing him down to sixth place. The right good dance provided by the honors fell as follows: Ferdon in promoters. first, Flannagan in second, Zilisch Sunday, July lOth's racing was third and Vanden Heuvel in held under Wisconsin's famous fourth.Itwasaripsnortin'getoff blue sky and heavy humidity. your seat race with action and rain Speaking of heavy the racing was showersalloverthetrack.Infact, heavy duty and intense. The it got so slick that Don Gregoire change to the course was a widen-slid on and off the front jump ingDanJansenCorner. Watching meeting the guard rail head on. pre-run it became obvious that This is a good place_ to wish Class dust was going to be a major fac-13 driver and Tech Assistant "Big tor of the day. Bring on the water Ed" Happy 45th Birthday. trucks! While the weather had been Class 1 / 2 posted the weekend's ROSE TRACTION;i; CONTROL ~\~' ---------!NTERNl'.TIONAL _____ _. CONGRATULATIONS fast times as they opened up the day's racing. Art Schmitt III screamed around the track in 1 minute 9 seconds with his Nissan powered buggy. Until the racing gremlins grabbed Jeff Probst he was .6 of a second behind Schmitt. What a show! Todd Attig was fairly close to Probst's bumper taking second to Schmitt's flag to flag win. Despite obvious steering problems Brian Bern-loehr took third. Whee Haw, that Scott Schwalbe always puts on a great perform~nce and powered · into fourth place. Robert Walther finished out the class. _They're baaack!! Who else but Todd Attig, Mike Seefeldt, Jr., Greg Smith, and Jason Crowder Art Schmitt/Class 1 Soda/Racer. Art has propelled his 2.5 liter Nissan/Propst Lazer Class 1 car to seven 1st place wins in the first 5 races in the soda series. Also ... Congratulations to Mark Weyhrich on his 1st place win at the Snore Mid-Nite run, in his Fat Toyota/Penhall chassis. Just 2 more racers who drive all-out and never worry about their TRANSAXLE breaking! Why? They have the Best! A ROSE TRANSAXLE ! ! ! Add it up: i;zJ The only TRANSAXLE guaranteed not to fail in any Class 1 O Score car !;z!The only TRANSAXLE paying $500.00 contingency in Class 10 Score car !;zl Simply the best SYCRO-MESH TRANSAXLE available Contract: Chris Rose Page 18 1700 East Main Street El Cajon, CA 92021 (619) 443-2480 October 1994 in Class l /1600. The moral ot this story is don't let Attig grab the lead. He's gonna take it, take off and go for the win. Nice work Todd. Superb racing action took place between Mark Steinhardt, Smith, Crowder, Baudoux and Seefeldt for points and position. At the final showdown and on the white flag lap, Seefeldt put the big move on Baudoux for a tidy second place. Crowder and Smith went over the finish jump door handle to door handle with Bau-doux; Baudoux grabbed third, Crowder eked out fourth, Smith · had to_ settle for fifth. Driving hard in the back of the pack, Mike Skalitzky, Bill Brown, Gary McGowan and Mark Krueger never said die, provided outstand-ing racing action and kept the crowd pleased to the last vehicle. The valve on the water truck must'a stuck ,open for the Class 11 S race, because these guys were facing a slip & slide battle. All twenty-four entries were doing just fine until they got to corner one. Whoopee, what a pile up! While there were no permanent gremlins involved, it did make for some interesting passing. Cory Friday, that Buggy Wizard, grabbed the opportunity and quickly went from about ninth to number one. Fending off serious charges by Wes Frehse and Dan Baudoux, Friday took home the win. Frehse tangled with Mark Oberg in the West Bank area los-ing second position going to a fifth place finish. Lonnie An-drews took advantage of an ailing John Wiggins, who lost his right front wheel, to challenge Baudoux for second. Baudoux won the contest giving Andrews third. Curt Gerald and Tom Dart dueled back and forth, Gerald getting the edge and placing fourth. We have said it before and we will say it again -there is never a dull moment anywhere on the track with this group of great drivers. Fans got on their feet when the Production Heavy Metal Chal-lenge rocked as the grandstands vibrated with the loud speakers ·execution of "We will, We will Rock you". After pulling an "all-nighter" the Flannery crew had the four wheel drive Chevy Thunder at the line, ready and wil-ling to eat the competition alive. This challenge was most certainly the line up of the best of the best in a serious frame of mind to be The Winner. The green flag waved, the grandstands vibrated • with the roar of heavy metal and the dust started to fly. Out of the dust cloud came a fantastic duel between Geoff Dorr, Kevin Probst and J um pin' Jack Flannery - all in 4x4's. While performing absolutely awesomely, Probst exited the track on lap four -more mechanical woes. Meanwhile, Flannery and Dorr went at it door to door, tooth and nail and tire to tire in the closest competition we have _seen in a coon's age. It was Dorr lap after lap after lap with Flannery in hot pursuit when presto, Flannery in the West Bank made the winning pass four laps from the checkered flag. This is not to say that Flannery and Dorr were the only guys in the race. Scott Taylor, Walker Evans, .Scott Douglas and Steve Kelley went at it like the Hatfields and McCoys! Shows to go ya' that four wheel drive has a distinct advantage over two wheel drive. By mid race the 4x4's and the 2x4's were running equal lap times, but catchup is a hard game to play. Douglas spun out effec-tively putting him out of the top five. A classic contest developed between Taylor, Kelley and Evans with Ken Kincaid also in conten-tion. Holly Cow, the dice fell this way: Taylor in third, Kelley in fourth, Evans in fifth and Kincaid rounding out the lead lap. More terrific racing action was provided by finishers Greg Gerlach, Dave Hockers, Jed Flannery, Jeff Holtger and Farmer John Konitzer. As the dust settled the Mini-Metal Challenge took the track and created their very own dust bowl. While this was basically a 7S field, credit where credit-is due, Class 6's Rick Rayford started the race with one heck of a challenge. Unfortunately, Rayford was out early. John Greaves dominated this race going from green to checkered unchallenged. Al Walentowski, Brendan Gaughan, and Fay Statezny ripped around the track for position. Tom Hackers was a heavy factor for half the race, leaving the track with internal troubles. Walen-towski and Gaughan put on a race right to the checkered flag, Walentowski placing second a wheel-length ahead of Gaughan. Statezny, his first year in a 7S, placed fourth. Mark Eberhart completed the top five. Where was Scott Taylor?? Well folks, he was taken out at the start with a cut down_ tire. Taylor pitted Dusty Times

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immediately, came roaring back on the track -in a case of best effort too late. RATS! The Unlimited Challenge was weak on entries -too bad because these buggies really fly. One more time Art Schmitt III went wire to wire for a decisive win. Jim Stru-ble and Rick W elch had to exit the track with breakdown prob-lems. This left Scott Schwalhe and Brian Bernloehr to fight for second and third. Schwalbe took second, Bernloehr third. This time around, Dan Bau-doux wound up as King of the Hill in the Limited Challenge. Mike Seefeldt, Jr., Todd Attig, Jason Crowder, and Greg Smith were all at it again. With some dynamite driving involved, Attig placed second, Seefeldt third, Crowder fourth and Smith fifth. Scrapping like golden gloves champs were Cary Bowles, Todd Crump, Mark Steinhardt and Mark Krueger. Stretched out over the track, this I challenge held great racing action I anywhere you looked. While listed on the program as , a Heavy Metal Challenge, the next race on deck consisted of the Class 13 Super Trucks. Dan "The Flying Dutchman" Vanden Heu-vel took top honors with R.J. Flanagan right on this bumper in second. Say hello to sixteen year old heavy metal man, George Schultz! In his second challenge race Schultz both out lasted and out drove a mighty "seasoned", field. Bruce Shilts lost his chance at the top five with a flat tire in lap I one. Shilts stormed back on the track, made some fast laps and went down with belt problems. Don Gregoire just didn't have it all together finishing fifth. With his share of blue smoke blues, Joe Zilisch took home fourth. Our man Schultz placed a highly respectable third. Way to go, George! Ladies Buggies took their parade lap and as per SODA rules took a staggered green flag . The Unlimited Division always flags first. Usual leader Rhonda Smith went mechanically down early. The stars of the show were Janet Bowles and Tina Crowder. These ladies went the entire race nose to tail with Bowles edging out Crowder for first. Ruth Schwart-burg placed third. Also finishing were Tracy Crump and Amy Haese. Both Barb Schaden and Jeanne Brown (in Rick Welch's Sundrop) went out with mechan-ical failures. To the Limited Class 11 race, Vivian Holtger looked to have the ballgame in her back pocket. Low and behold, Tracy Silloway maneuvered her way through and on the last lap made brief contact with Holtger, gained control and brought home the win. Sarah Sa wall drove to a super third, also finishing on the lead lap was Lisa Andrews. Hell's fire, bla:ing brimstone and more heavy metal! Class Women's Heavy Metal, as usual, was the last race of the day, but was not without superior racing action. Pole starter Robin Schultz took off like a shot, went straight and smoked the course marking tire in corner one and treated her co-driver to a donut. Gail Brand, Valerie James, Sherri Parsons, Marilyn Schult:, Joan Silloway and a cast of thousands went by Schultz. Brand.James and Parsons had a red hot battle going. James took advantage of numerous tight situations and hard charged to a well earned victory. Brand had Dusty Times The non-production Heavy Metal Challenge is really for Class 13 trucks and the man out front in this race was, surprise, Dan Vanden Huevel in his half Ford, half Chevy potent racer. second place in her grasp until her engine light said "Get off the track''. Parsons scooted across for second. It's Schultz time again! Young Robin recovered from her spin out and picked off the com-petition until she met up with Aunt Marilyn. It was close. Uh-Oh, Aunt Marilyn had a slowly fading tire. Niece Robin was able In his second Challenge race 16 year old George Schultz took a very good third place at the checkered flag, in the Class ,13 Heavy Metal Challenge. 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Yerington VORRA 400 1994 By Tammie Wise Photos: Wizer Photo Roger Caddell and Mike Olson came out of the northwest to go VORRA racing, and took the Olson Brothers 2 seat 1600 on the high line through the silt beds to win the class and place second overall. Todd Denton was back in a big way, flying through the desert in his beautiful new Jimco Class 10 single seater. Todd not only won Class 10 by half an hour, he also finished first overall in the race. This year's 400 mile race held over the Memorial Day weekend was sweltc:ring with unseasonably warm temperatures. Dini's Lucky Club once again welcomes us to town in grand fashion, as usual. Sixty-five racers would make the trip to the northern Nevada desert for this the first desert race in the four race series named "The 1994 Summer of Fun Desert Series", though some, if not many, would wonder how much fun it really was. Technical Inspection this year was held on main street but unlike past seasons, we took up the whole main drag, shutting down the traffic path through town. No one seemed to mind. There were booths and food stands lining the street and as the ca rs came through they were parked south of the tech line leaving room for spectators to check it all out. I personally had several people ask-ing what this was all about, and in absolute awe of many of the cars coming down the street. During the parade candy was flying, kids were scrambling, all in all the racers were shown signifi-cant appreciation for all the work they put into getting there. The night came and went with the drawing for positions already determined. The# 1 spot was held by the Mighty Mini Mag team of Mike and Floyd Haas in the# 123, making their desert debut in the open class ranks. Race day started early with the sun then the sound of race motors. B 8:30 a.m. all were up Tom Scahill ran a smooth and consistent race at the first desert event from VORRA in 1994. He had little down time, and he won Class 4 and was fifth overall. Taking a hefty bounce here Michael Thornton gave Class 1-2-1600 winner Roger Caddell a run for his money all the way, finishing second, sixth overall. Page iO and moving, after a quick and informative drivers' meeting including the announcement that the usual water hole would be moved just slightly because the depth was just a little much, butas Ed put it, if you want to go through it go for it. The classes started to group up and line up to start. Adrenaline could be sensed throughout the main pit area. 9:00 a.m. brought the green flag. Class 1 was off first and first for the class and the race was as already stated, the# 123 Mini Mag of Mike and Floyd Haas, the team took to tearing up the desert. On the second lap they would be slowed and be down to almost two hours; the team would be able to make up time and finished in the third position in a time of 12 hours and 34 minutes. Second place in class was picked up by the Stiles team in their two seat race car, running the ra·ce in 10 hours and 33 minutes, the team's only problem for the day was a broken torsion beam, which was fixed by the Pro Pit crew setting them back only seven m inutes. They thanked Pro Pit at the awards as well as Bill at Yerington Tire Ser-vice for all the help. Stiles' main sponsors are Castro) and Peter Brown Farms. The first and# 1 racer in Class 1 was a team we haven't seen much of in the past couple of seasons, Patrick Verling was back with a new member of his team, Tim Fitzpatrick. With Tim came a new sponsor, The Log Cabin Bar in Mike Jones and Dave Brown came from Oregon to sample the Yerington course, found some silt for the Chenowth to swallow, but came through it all to take second in Class 10 and a fine fourth overall. Yerington. The team made quite a show taking the fastest lap of the day. On the first, they set a blister-ing pace of two hours and four minutes. Though they may have started seventh, they jumped into the # 1 spot and stayed there. The #102 car finished the day in nine hours and 13 minutes, missing the overall win by a mere 13 minutes. Class 1 had eight racers at the start, half of which would see the checker. Fourth place was filled by Sam Berri in his newly acquired single seat race car, run-ning for the first time in the desert in his new ride. Class 10 had a much better race at this event than last season. The first racer off the line would start eight minutes hack; starting hack that far would scarcely slow this racer. Todd Denton ran flawless, that is if you don't count the three times they were on their nose. Todd took his Jimco sponsored car right to the front and that's where the team stayed. Sharing driving duties was former corider Kurt Holm. By the third lap the team had set the fast lap for Class 10 with a time of two hours and six minutes. They went on to take what some could call an easy win for the day and the class with a time of nine hours even. There were many people to thank at the ,.# £ t awards the following day, hut a name that kept coming up was Ron, one of the crew which they hath thanked for all the work he did on the car, some others thanked were Scudder's Perfor-mance and Alert Muffler. Second place went to a team who, in the last desert race in the area, ran in Class 1 ; that was at the Reno 300. Mike Jones and Dave Brown in their Versa Tech two seater ran smooth as silk coming in with a time of nine hours and 31 min-utes. Third place was taken hy a team who was running in 1600 earlier this season, they moved in to Class 10 with ease. Troy Robinson and Ryan O'Callaghan took their Cargo Web sponsored single seat car from 13 minutes out at the start to the top three quickly, finishing with the time of 10 hours and 10 minutes. The only problem came at the awards the following day when thanking everyone involved when Troy said he would like to thank VORRA. Ed broke in quietly say-ing you don't say VORRA, you should be thanking MOM & DAD. Out of the eight racers who started this event, five would fin-ish. After 1993 there were many who wondered if Class 10 would exist come 1994, obvious) y they are here to stay. Troy Robinson and Ryan O'Callaghan made a mad dash from Class 1-2-1600 this season into Class 10 and they were third in class and seventh overall, in their first desert race in this class. The 1600 racers were the third class out of the gates. Eleven of these limited cars would be ready and waiting by the green. First off the line was last year's overall points Champs, the team of Sid Smith and Kip Whitnack in their #1652 single seater. This team's day was not what we have come to expect to see with them dropping from the hunt in the dreaded VORRA Triangle, a section five miles out on the first lap; the team blew a trans within sight of the start/ finish taking them out for the day. A team which didn't have problem one this day with times consistent within two minutes each lap was Roger Caddell and Mike Olson. They took their October 1994 Dusty Times

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Olson Brothers, Good year spon-sored two seater flying to the front with a fast time for the class on the first lap with a time of two hours and 16 minutes; that's where they stayed all day. The # 1602 car also landed in #2 for the event edging out# 102 by only .three minutes, finishing with a time of nine hours and 10 min-utes. Michael Thornton landed in #2 in his 1600 car. The hig race of the day was hetween the top two cars, Michael in the 1648 car would have to settle in for the ride coming in to the checker with a time of 10 hours and three minutes. Later at the awards it was told to us how Michad's co-driver saw the # 1602 car on thl' last lap and thought hey, I can catch them now, hut a few miles down the road hl' reali:ed that they were on thl'ir way back into Y l'rington and were 50 miles ahead; that was that. Third placl' was picked up by Keith Rohh and crl'w. Keith hattbl it out with Shane Balch all afternoon staying within two minutl·s of each other, that is until prohkms took Shanl' out in the third l.1p, giving Keith a free run to thl' /:I~ spot finishing in a time of 10 hours and 11 minutes. This course took it's toll on the limited class with only five making it to the checkered flag. Keith Robb runs his single seater in Class 1-2-1600 and had a great race finishing third in class in the Prism df!Sign car and a fine eighth overall. Class 4 came in with six racers. hours and three minutl'S. Jim Jen-First off the line was Gordon nings gave Tom• a run for his Scott in the two se~tJeep. Gordon monl'y staying within 10 minutes hnd a fast lnp hut the VORRA of the #499 truck all day. Jim T rinngll' took him out throwing a would have to accept the second rock through the transfer case. position coming in to the finish in The fastest lnp in class would be 10 hours and 19 minutes. for his Jeff Stiles ran fast three of the four laps, had down time on lap 2 but came roaring back into battle to take second in Class 2, some time back. first season as a driver that's defi- fixed them ,up and off they went. nitely not bad. The only problem~ Oh, one other thing which wasn't this team had were minor, after a mentioned until the Awards the brown out in the infamous silt following dny, was at the road bed they lost power steering, but crossing going into the Weeks were able to handle it to Hootin part of the course, Jim had a stop-Wells where the Pro Pit crew ping prohlem. His ~ set hy the Germnn Team in the ,-------------------------------------------#401 single sent Jeep, they took the fast track and a two hour 15 minute first lap. The· team would . experience trouhle after a five hour second, then fell for the day. A racer whose day was smooth, Tom Scahill, was making quick work of the Yerington course, coming from the hack of Class 4, winning handily with a time of 10 c.;;;,,._.,.'2fJM§i\~ ~· . It is a fact. Bilsteln is recognized as the finest premium shock absorber on the marl<et. Now you can have the proven long life performance of Bilsteir, shocks for your truck or sport utility vehicle at a fantastic price. ' Bilstein's single tube high ·gas pressure design outperforms Mike and Floyd Haas move their Mini Mag from class to class, this year they are in Class 1 /2 where_ they were third despite a 4-'h ho!Jr second lap. coovennonaf shocks Steve Bruner and his team are newcomers to VORRA, but they kept their truck running most of the time and took third in the competitive Class 4 action. Dale Carr ran his Cobra two seat carc#in Sportsman Vet class, usually a real battle. 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Danika McLean flies over a dusty lump on her way to winning Class 9 points and with 9 and Vets combined this race she finished third overall to boot. ~ . co-driver had tc> remind him of the stop. On the way back through, heading back to Yerington his co-driver tried to stop him hut as Jim put it, I am not stoppin' this time, I don't have to. A s·ponsor Jim thanked for all the help was John Burrows of Bonan:a Produce, and as Jim put it, if you need good produce go see John, he may not be on the car, hut he has really helped us out. Another sponsor thanked was John Leverett for building a great tranny. Third went to newcomer Steve Bruner, putting trucks in all of the top spots. in class. Steve had a great run going. until they lost their power steering -and would have to run 300 miles witho'ut it, setting them back significantly. They were able to keep her going finishing in 11 hours and 48 min-utes. The team thanked their sponsor, North Cal Wood Pro-ducts andJ& W Diesel, along with their race crew and families. All of the open classes took on the tried and true race course put down in Yerington. With this being one more race on this track, the rocks and silt got worse as the ciay and the race progress('.d. The course this year was almost too much for many of the Luis Machado almost buried his car in this silt bed, but plowed thr9ugh it to · place second in Sportsman Novice class just three minutes ahead of the third place car. ·The Off-Roader's Choice· • E-Z UP"' INSTANT SHELTERS Imagine setting up a free-standing shelter in less than 60 seconds! NO missing parts NO center poles NO. ropes NO hassle • 5 sizes • 24 colors • Custom Graphics l.nstant Pit Shelter _ La Rana Contingency Sponsor SCORE Contingency Sponsor E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS, INC. 1044'N. Cfole Ave. Los.Angeles, CA 90038 CALL: 213 • ~2 • 1468 Page 22 =iii • .,, L'-~-( N Lee· Hopkins an·d Mike Bearden are also Mini Mag orphans at most events, but here they ran in Sportsman Novice in the Chenowth and they won the class by nearly three hours after three laps were done. Sportsman class drivers to han-dle. The Veterans started this day with 15, many of which went by the wayside by mid-day. The class ran ·three laps, only three wou1d be in the hunt at the checker flag. First off the line in class was #91 7 Forest Creasy. With only two Class 9 cars in the race they were entered in the Sportsman Veteran Class. Forest had a brutal day after a five hour second lap· he dropped from the race. The long-est lap for this race was set by Hooter Meyer. Hooter ca·me into this race with a new member of the team, Tom Hatch. The team set a IO hour 18 minute first lap. The #28 team came back for a second lap, but time would run out and they wouldn't be able to make a third round under the time limit. On the other end of this, fast lap in Sportsman Vete-ran went to one fast Mini Mag, Jerry Wald in the #46 took off from the green flag like a bullet, on lap # 1 Jerry set a pace of two hours and 33 minutes. Coming into the third lap Jerry held an hour lead but the VORRA T rian-gle would claim another this day . . Jerry's motor seized three times in the silt then the gearbox went, then the brakes; that was that. The # 1 spot was taken by Tom Schult:. With Jerry vanishing on the third, Tom took the win com-ing in over 45 minutes ahead of the next racer, finishing in a time of eight hours and 54 minutes. Second place went to the Cobra team of Fallon, NV. Dale Carr came out to the race with a hrand spankin new car which, as he pµt it, had a whole lap around the. house on it. Dale's co-driver for this event was Rich Bryden. Dale and Rich started the race way back. I mean, way back, behind the Vet and Novice classes, this didn't slow Dale. The team fin-ished with a time of nine hours and 45 minutes. Some of the peo-ple thanked by this team at the Awards were family and friends, but mostly the people at Fiber-craft for all their helpful sugges-tions. Third place would go to one very proud lady. Danika Mclean in the only other Class 9, #910, took a steady run with only slight down time on the second lap. The #910 team finished in 11 hours and 20 minutes. At the Awards when being announced Ed Robin-. son had Danika show her hands and exclaimed "See, she didn't even hreak a nail". The only prob-lems had by this young lady was fuel, they ran out of gas, pure and simple, but obviously that didn't · Ben Wald stepped in to help a friend, Mike Vandeburgh, at this event and Ben pu(on quite a show, and from his time appears to be the Pilot class winner. The Pilots showed up eight strong to tackle the long, lonely trails of this race and all of them finished their one lap, including Rob Slagle who played catch up all day. October 1994 set them back by too much. Dani-ka's main thanks at this event went to the BFGoodrich folks out there. Sportsman Novice came into the day with a nine car field. This class doesn't get much in the way of money so a little side bet was placed by C&H Graphics an extra $125 .00 was added to the pot for the class. The racer to take the# 1 spot and the money was a team who went out and ran in a bor-rowed race car. In the Wald Fam-ily Racing Mini Mag Lee Hopkins and Mike Bearden, were able to run a fast race for first with setting fast time in class with a two hour 24 minute first lap then came around to take the win after hav-ing three flats. They came out of it with a seven hour and 56 minute day. Second place went to new team Luis Machado in the #40 landed in second place with a time of 10 hours and 41 minutes. Luis 'had a race on his hands with Doug Seymour in the #72 race car. Throughout the day the two diced it out and at one point it looked as though Doug would take the upper hand, but at the Checker Luis took it by a mere three min-utes and 27 seconds margin, fin-ishing in 10 hours and 41 min-utes. Doug Seymour in the #72 race car picked up third place after an awesome day of racing, putting his two seat Chrisco in the hunt and keeping it there. At the awards there were a lot ot pn>pl, to thank, but one who got extra thanks was Mike Almeyer for jumping into the car for part of the last lap when Doug became ill and couldn't go any farther. Silver State Forklift is one of this teams' main sponsors, as well as Spire of the Moment Ent. The Class of the day was the Pilots, with eight starting and all eight making the checker flag. First went to Rob Slagle in the 330 Pilot. Slagle fought with Ben Wald for position all day. After a flat slowed Ben, Rob was able to take the lead and keep it to the t' 11<I, setting the ti me to heat at two hours and 20 minutes. Some of those thanked hy Roh were Trick Fuel (Elliot), KC Lights, and the fine folks of Yerington, Nevada. Second place was filled hy ~-1ik,· Vandeburgh in #2, Mike had somehow put this; well let's just say he was ill, so in his place was Ben Wald, and as Mike put it, if you are ever in need of a driver this is the one to get, he can drive the wheels off anything. By checkpoint 5 Ben was 45 minutes ahead of second place and had passed 35 cars, but hy check 7 would be down for 40 minutes with a flat tire, and the time was too much to try to make up. He would finish the day with a time of two hours and 46 minutes. Third place was taken hy Miles Berghold in the #16 racer. Miles was only slightly hack at the checker flag coming in in three hours even. This race as always, is. tough though usually not this tough. Many racers tried but only a fl'w were able to beat the desert this day. A total of 35 racers saw the finish line. The next time this course or part of this course will be used will be for the Yerington to Fallon race in September. That is sure to be a good race. Till then we say goodbye to Yerington and go on to the Comstock, with the next stop in the 1994 Summer of Fun Desert Series, The VC 200. Dusty Times

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~ Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya stayed close, led now and then in the Subaru lmpreza 555, but in the end they had to settle for second place points. Local favorite, popular in Argentina, Ari Vatanen, with Fabrizia Pons, once again subbed in a Ford Cosworth RS Escort and placed a good third overall. Rudi Stohl and Peter Diekmann climb a rocky road in the Audi S2 Coupe. They had handling problems early but seemed to have cured that with softer tires. 14TH RALLY YPF ARGENTINA Didier Auriol and Bernard Occelli Win By Six Seconds! Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Didier Auriol and Bernard Occelli won a real squeaker for Toyota in the Celica Turbo 4WD: They gained and lost the lead four times on the final stages, and at the finish they won the rally by six seconds. It was as if we had seen it all Carlos Sainz were fighting on the stages in Corsica two months ago. befor~ -1 on_ ~ore th_an one gravel stages of Argentina just as And Carlos, like three years ago occasion. D1d1er Aunol and they had done on the asphalt. here in Argentina, was involved in Page 24 • ' I --THE WRIGHT 9420 Flinn Springs ln. El Cajon, CA 92021 PLACE INC. October 1994 · another second by second battle to the finish. As in Corsica Auriol was the winner and as in the 1991 Argentina Rally it was a Toyota first over the ramp at the finish. Subaru may have narrowly I missed a second successive vie-I tory with the Impreza, but Sainz 1 has pulled ahead in the World Drivers points, while Toyota increased their lead in the Manu-facturers' Series. Only Ford came home with glum faces. Once again they suffered a series of problems and the Escort RS Cosworth was unable to match the speed of the Celka and the Impreza on a regu-lar basis. Teams started the second half of the 1994 World Rally Champ-ionship in Argentina with Toyota well ahead of their anticipated rivals Ford, and with Subaru unexpectedly their nearest rivals for the title. Ford, however, dom-inated the pre-rally headlines. After his privateer Escort beat the full works cars in Greece, the 42 year old Finn Ari Vatanen took over the seat made vacant by'the injury to Francois Delecour. Vatanen's nomination as Miki Biasion's teammate completed the three car Ford line up with Bruno Thiry in a RAS Sport pre-pared car. For Vatanen the return to South America was emotive. Nine years ago he suffered the most serious crash of his long career, in which he was lucky to escape with his life. The place where the accident happened once again was featured on this year's route. Carlos Sainz's win for Subaru at Acropolis following Didier Auri-ol 's victory in Corsica, focused the remarkable career rivalry between the Spaniard and the Frenchman. Both had won 14 W arid Championship rallies before Argentina, with Sainz hav-ing started 61 events against Auriol's 60. Both had won this event once before. Juha Kank-kunen, Auriol's teammate in the Toyota Castro! Team, and easily the most successful of the current top drivers with 21 victories, had • himself an anniversary to cele-brate. Last year the Argentine Rally was the first event in which, he was paired with his current codriver, Nicky Grist. This rally did not qualify for the parallel two litre Cup, although 73% of the entry {mostly locally built Renault 18 GTXs plus Fiat Regattas and VW Gols) were made up of these cars. The two official Peugeot drivers {President's son Carlos Menem Junior, and Jorge Bescham) drove Mike Little Preparations Group N Ford Escort RS Cosworths, but the regular MLP driver Moham-med bin Sulayem had abandoned his unlucky season to concentrate on events in the Middle East instead. Their main Group N challengers were the private Escort of championship leader Jesus Puras and the two Mitsubi-shi Deutschland drivers Jorge Recalde { of Argentina) and Isolde Holderied. Cars were scrutineered in the main shopping street of the lake-side resort town of Villa Carlos Paz near Cordoba. This is not only the very first time the Rally Argentina has been based entirely in one area, but also the first appearance here of the Prodrive Subaru team. Would this set them at a disadvantage? "This will not be so great as in Kenya, but we have a lot of fifth and sixth gear corners on this event", said Colin McRae. The rally was basically the same as before, except there were some new stages, often faster but in a similar style to the old ones. "The main feature about this year's event", said Sainz, "is the remark-ably positive attitude of the organ-izers. They have done everything in their power to improve the detail. In this respect they rank with Australia as the most pleas-ant people to work with". Vatan-en's return was extremely popu-lar. Everywhere he had been asked his feelings. "For me that accident gave me a special mean-ing in life", the Finn said when he visited the staff at the hospital in Cordoba who helped save his life. There was sadness in the Mike Little team after the death in a road accident of Menem's rally Sliding past some massive rocks on their way to fifth overall and first in Group N, Jorge Recalde and Martin Christie took the lead on the fourth stage when the competition fizzled and led all the way home in Group N. Dusty Times

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Stefan Reininger and Robert Csosz fly down a level road that looks well torn up in the Renault Clio Williams to 16th overall and first in class. Having some fun before the rally, Tina Thorner, left, and taxi This VW Gol 1.6 is a locally built model, and Santos and Adrian driver Isolde Holderied get an assist from the President's son Manzanares drove it right into first in displacement class and a Carlos Menem Jr. who competes in a Ford Escort RS Cosworth. fine 11th overall. - -----------------------secretary Sonia Alvarez-Puente, when driving one of the team's vehicles up from Buenos Aires. Menern's rally car displayed a black sign on the side saying 'In Memory of Sonia'. Jim Little said "That girl was incredible. She was always able to arrange everything that was needed. It will be a big blow." Au r i o l lost time when he had sus- the rear suspension collapse and broken shock absorber mount pension trouble and had to drive had to drive a whole stage before which cost road penalties, and three stages before the problem repairs could be carried out. then had to restart in the dust of could be fully rectified. McRae In Group N Recalde had few Recalde's slower car. When the won the first four stages but then troubles. He had a shock absorber car slipped off the side of the road went off the road on the fifth, fail which cost him some road in a river crossing, which broke knocked off a wheel and retired. penalties while Holderied had a the rear transmission beam, he "Wewerealittleofflineandhita broken brake disc on stage 15, hadtodriveslowlyfrornthereto small bridge parapet hidden in the which also led to road penalties. the end. grass. It was a hefty bang. I One of the two locally entered However, the joy of this occa-thought that was it, but we were Galants ( cars previously used by sion was marred by news that Jose able to struggle on for about 15 the Lancer drivers as recce cars), Camacho from Bolivia, who had km on three wheels. Eventually retired, but both Recalde and been fourth in Group N and 11th the surnpguard wore away and we Bescharn were in front of the overall in his Subaru Legacy werestoppedbyenginefailure." GroupAAudiCoupeS2ofRudi 4WD Turbo went into the Kankkunen suffered misfiring Stohl. The Austrian had corn-crowds on the tmal stage ana killed a spectator. Police esti-mated there were no less than 50,000 people on that stage alone. After the two leaders Ari Vatanen was third and Bruno Thiry fourth overall for Ford. Jorge Recalde won Group N by nearly seven minutes over Jorge Bescharn and Isolde Holderied finished eighth overall easily gain-ing her points for the Ladies Cup. Carlos Sainz leads the Drivers points ahead of Auriol and Kank-kunen has dropped to third. Subaru began with determina-tion to win their second WCR running! McRae took the initial lead but on stage 2 he damaged the front suspension after understeer-ing into a bank. This led to a one minute delay at the time control ( 10 seconds penalty) and then on stage 8 he had a puncture. Initially the Pirelli mouse maintained the shape of the tire, then collapsed which damaged the front suspen-sion and the early leader fell back to sixth, although his arrival at the Las Pampa control area was spec-tacular with the car skating along on its surnpguard! The lead passed to teammate Sainz whose only problem was a jammed shock which led to the loss of about one plained that the car was handling minute on stage 18 and, with a so badly it was like it was "swirn-recurrence later on, he could only ming"; but it improved after sof-sit back and watch how hard the ter tires were fitted. battle at the front was. " I can see The remarkable battle for the from his lines that Didier is going lead continued. Four times the sideways everywhere, both o n lead changed hands and finally ; Out Here ••• absorber on stage 2. Auriol had been Subaru's grea-test threat, but the Frenchman lost time having to drive three stages with steering toe out after hitting a stone. Kankkunen had driven steadily though not fully on the pace. "On the long stage 8 I lost 21 seconds to Carlos and 11 to Auriol, and I think some may be due to running first car on the road. But for sure the Subaru and the Pirellis are going better than us at the moment!" Ford had another dismal day. Vatanen reported the brake bal-ance forever biased to the rear, a problem which also affected Bia-sion and both reported they had been off the road in consequence. The Italian also lost time control penalties when his brakes failed on a road section and he radioed for help from his mechanics; he had earlier bent the suspension on a rock and reported m isfiring trouble. The Group N race had fizzled out as the two top drivers, Menern (transmission) and Puras (engine) were out of the event. Recalde was already well ahead though Menern's teammate Jorge Besch-am on his first event in a four wheel drive, turbocharged car, was fast learning how to drive his Ford. At the end of the day Sainz led by 20 seconds, and in the two and off the road!" Auriol beat Sainz, but only by six Once again Ford had difficul- seconds. The excitement in the , ties -but also a surprise. The final minutes of the last stage was problem which Vatanen swore intense. The local radio corn-was due to faulty brakes seemed rnentator was beside himself, to have been caused by central dif-counting down the seconds to the ferential trouble, which had been time at which Carlos had to pass changed at a routine service halt the flying finish line if he was to the night before. -Vatanen then win; he boldly proclaimed that had a series of excellent times, Carlos had done it and won by a after the transmission was second. Within seconds the offi-changed despite small troubles cial computers announced that in including losing brake fluid, a fact Didier was the winner by six completely flattened exhaust and seconds. a turbocharger failure. Biasion's There was retirement for ill luck continued; he lost oil from Kankkunen. Toyota let the Finn a small split in a pipe and had to restart without knowing why the stop twice on the road section to car had twice before had serious thefinalstageoftheday.Hewent misfiring trouble. The Finn in the stage without time for ser-stopped four times in stage 24 vice and the engine failed. Bruno before finally giving up. Thiry had Thiry in the RAS Sport Ford had more troubles. First of all he had a Enrique Leva/le and Patricio lzikson were 21st OJA but first in their displacement class, in the Suzuki Swift 1.3. What an off road race you could have between the rocks on this terrain! 14th Rally YPF Argentina liter c.ars Renault held the top 14 Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelli l h.1 ·M· b h h ld r Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya F Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A· 5:50:42 E Subaru lmpreza 555 A 5 :50:48 P aces w 1 e itsu is is e rour Ari Vatanen/Fabrizia Pons of the top five places in Group N. Bruno Thiry/Stephane Prevot In Etape 2 Toyota gained their Jorge Recalde/Martin Christie revenge over Subaru! In the first Jorge Bescham/Jose Garcia four stages Auriol pulled back his Rudi Stohl/Peter Diekmann 20 second deficit to Sainz and a ~~~drieelH;~~=i~:~h~~~nae VTo~:-ner tense battle ensued. Running first Gustavo Ramonda/Horacio Berra SF/I Ford Escort RS Cosworth A 5 :57:22 B Ford Escort RS Cosworth A 6:01 :49 RA Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N • 6:27:04 RA Ford Escort RS Cosworth N 6 :33 :59 AID AudlCoupeS2 A 6:47:38 D/S Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N# 6:51 :31 RA Renault 18 GTX A 7:02:51 RA Mitsubishi Galan! VR-4 N 7:11 :28 car on the road Sainz had a diffi-cult day, particularly because vibration from the Pirelli mousse inserts three times caused prob-lems with· the power steering pump. Just as on the first etape 90 starters - 25 finishers - ·Group Winner •• F2 winner - # Ladies winner Wlnnefs Average Speed over Stages 96.68 kph. Dusty Times World Championship Points - Toyota 111, Subaru 95, Ford 68. WAC Drivers Points - Sainz 72, Auriol 67, Kankkunen 57, Biasion 30, Thiry 22. Group N Points - Puras 36, Holderied 24, Recalde 17, Reininger 16. FIA Ladles Cup Points - Holderied 38. October 1994 You need somebody you con depend on! / TOM EE=• S 6300 Valley View Ave., Buena Park, CA 90620 Page 25

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Bridgestone International Text & Phot.os: Darryl Smith Mark Bush beat back a large single seat class, 11 starters, in his Hunter Rivmasta, climbed to seventh 0 /A after the long laps, turned up the wick and won Class 9 and was fourth overall too. Mark Burrows with Ross Waller flew high in the Trekka, moved from second to first in the short lap segment of the race and not only won Class 1 for Unlimited two seat cars, he won the Bridgestone race overall in his Bridgestone car. Hayden Bentley and Owen Lloyd-Wright ran with the leaders all day and they brought the R1vmasta home second in Class 1 and also a good second overall. Off road racing has always been came Daren Wells, Les Brown, a test of man and machine versus Terry Rose, Steve Willett, and the elements of nature. It is the Jamie Robinson, all of which were nature side getting the advantage Class 1 buggies. Last year's lately as more an_d more of the winner, Doug McMillan was next country dries up and turns into and leading Class 9, while dust. From all accounts, the championship leader Mark Bridgestone International at Burrows was next, just ahead of Kempsey was not on! y the Kiwi Dave Templeman in a roughest,butthedustiestofthem lightweight single seater with all. In fact only 14 of 124 starters awesome power. Leading Class 2 actually made the full distance, was Andy Ziems; Class 3 Mark that's half the number from last Warren; Class 4 Nev Taylor; year and a mere I I'¾, that can Class 5 Ross Watson; and Class6 claim to have conquered Aus-Chris Browning. The two 4x4 tralia 's toughest in New South classes namely 7 and 8 were led by Wales. Les Siviour and Peter Hadlow As was the case last year, it was respectively. Goodyear's Brett Osbourne that Continuing to provide Satur-set fastest time in the prologue day entertainment were the Guns qualifying session. 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Class 5 saw Smith withdraw with a smashed windscreen leaving Watson's Rodeo truck to lead in Pagan's smaller Mazda Ute. Browning won Class 6 while there was no Class 7 race, but in Class 8 it was close with Owen's VS Patrol just keeping Hadlow's turbo Triton <:>ut, with Garland Les Siviour seems unstoppable in Class 7, and he won again, here using two co-drivers, Josh Golsby-Smith and Geoff Miller, in the Nissan Patrol. Les was well in command by the short laps and was the only class finisher. third. The New Zealand car of but Taylor was hauling him in Templeman cleaned up in Class 9 only to stray off line and unable to by a full straight to Trees then in see the logs lining the track bent the thick dust it was Bush and his Baja badly. Hadlow won with McMillan both almost coming to Owen a long way back. In the top grief by falling off ,the big jump buggy Final, it was Trees that unable to see. It was then time to opened up an instant lead, but it run the top four Tin Tops in a race was an obvious jump start to but it was getting way too dark Osbourne and Wells who pulled andtoocoldfor.anyonetoreally over and Templeman who care. Watson was first into the slowed. Then when the race corner only to dig in and roll continued Templeman gave chase gently over. Hadlow had the lead but failed to close. After it was all · ··· ·· ·· over Trees was disqualified and Templeman was awarded King of Kempsey, but it certainly lacked the interest of past years. Passing on a turn can be tricky but Andy and Alex Ziems got it done here, and they kept the Class 2 two seat 1600 up with the leader and won Class 2 by nearly 20 minutes and were seventh overall. As usual, it was before the sunrise when cars started lining up on Sunday for the race proper. Leaving in groups of four was tough enough without a huge mudhole 100 yards off the start line. It was Osbourne that assumed the leading position on the road while Burrows led the second group and was closing all the time. However, there were the unfortunate early retirements which included Boaden's Class 1 with gearbox failure, Briggs' with gear problems also in his Class 5 Holden, Knott with water pump failure in the Class 8 Nissan, and the first of many cars to hit trees were the Class 2 's of Kennedy, Simpson, and Matt Owen. Manns in the Class 7 Jackaroo also went out early with rear suspension problems. McMillan's chances of repeating last year's win dis-appeared when he stopped to replace a CV, then just as he came through the half way point past the pits a tie rod let go forcing a pit stop, then just as he rejoined the motor developed a rattle so he parked it for good. However, he was lucky when compared to Neville Boyes who crashed badly forcing a trip to hospital but was later released OK. Warren Irons and Vicki Woods flew high before getting into the woods. 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Les Brown and Leigh Jones are always close in their dusty Hornet and they had quite a day in Class 1 finishing third and third overall by just two minutes. Class 9 was hard fought with New Zealander Dave Templeman turning good times in his handsome Stinger Cougar. He took second in class, six minutes back and sixth overall. Andrew Fitzgerald and Katie Barrett braved the dust with no trouble, kept a good pace in the 1600 and ended up second in Class 2 and 12th overall. Wells, Burrows, Robinson, Rose, Willett, Templeman, Bentley and Barry Johnson completing the top ten. In the pack was Fabio Zarfati debuting his new Falken tires Pajero in Class 8 . Complete with V6 quad cam, twin turbo, and huge arms front and rear the car was completed just in time and in fact, was seeded into 50th place and was already 19th in a run-in session! Into lap 2 and the retirements continued. Most notably was Osbourne who was stopped with a broken front stub axle.Joining him were Collins US Jimco Class 1 that joined the increasing list of cars hitting trees, Johnson with gearbox failure, Latter's Class 2 with no brakes, and Prendergast with a broken CV shaft. The usually unbeatable Class 3 of the Warrens pitted to weld up a front arm after earlier losing a fan belt, while the VB Rodeo of Marshall was out with a broken front torsion bar. The Class 9 of Adness broke its steering and was sent into the trees while the second New Zealand car, that of 16 year old Slim Templeman, was out after blowing a gearbox seal, but not before showing plenty of skill and a very smooth, fast style. Up the front it was now Wells taking the lead with Burrows moving into second over teammate Brown, then Lee making a charge. Willett followed with Svenson, Bentley, Bush, Rose, and Templeman in 10th. Rod Brand was running a new Class I but was finding the trees a problem, he had already hit three but it was the fourth one that stopped him! Buchanan went out with motor problems, while north Queensland's Wainwright's big Jeep bent a rear axle. Hilton's single seater came to a stop after a creek crossing where a rock smashed off the oil sender unit. The crews had to first complete four long laps before the shorter ones commenced. Willett didn't get that far as he'd lost his fuel with a split tank. Darrell Johnson tore the clutch center out of his Class 3, while Class 5 champion, Smith, had bushing failure in his front struts while two single seaters were out namely Trees and Tuisk. It is an achievement in itself to get through the long laps at Kempsey and the order after those four laps was: Wells, Burrows, Brown, Bentley, Lee, Svenson ( without power steering), Bush, Templeman, Myers, and Rose ( with a sticking throttle). Brad Cook was the leader of Class 2 while Barry Lee led Class 3. Warren Irons led the Bajas, Robert Pagan Class 5, and Chris Browning Class 6 . Les Siviour was well in command of Class 7 and was in 14th overall one place behind the leading Class 8 of Reg Owen. The short laps began and once again the lead car went missing. Wells had a front arm break putting a stop to a fine drive. Morrison was trying to make up ground after stopping to attend to a broken shock. The Robinsons had lost their spare tire then of all things, clipped a tree and blew a tire which under their new situation meant the end of the race. Zarfati had slipped back after welding up a steering sleeve, while his old car driven by Pickering had somehow com-pleted that lap with a broken rear spring mount. Hadlow too had to pit to work on his springs. Also 4x4 mounted, Baxter was making up for lost time due to a flat tire. Up the front though it was the two Bridgestone cars of Burrows and Brown that ran 1-2, but it is a well known fact it has been a very long time since a Bridgestone car won the Bridgestone event! The best chance for a local victory lay on Kevin Lee's shoulders, and he was keeping the big crowd excited as he moved into third place. Behind him came Bentley and Svenson who was running the only automatic transmission in the buggies. Then followed the battle for Class 9 with Bush just two minutes clear of Templeman, while Myers was another five minutes in arrears. Back in the field it looked like Ross and Maura Watson catch some good air here in the Holde_n Rodeo, and this Class 5 group suffered heavy attrition, none finished and the Watsons got in eight laps for the win, two more than anyone else. Dusty Times Class 5 was going to be a two car race until Pagan suffered gearbox failure in the Mazda, handing the class to Watson's Rodeo. Likewise Siviour extended his class lead when Whitbread stopped for the first of two flat tires. Unfortunately for the Kempsey crowd, the next car out was Lee's third placed machine with a broken rear stub axle. Also dropping out with rear drive problems was Myers' Class 9. The battle for Class 2 took a turn when Ziems caught and passed Cook then soon after Cook was out with a broken front link pin, leaving yet another class with a clear leader. The problems continued for the Warren's Class 3 as a gearstick broke leaving a two inch stick, then a tooth broke in the steering rack making their ~eid job even harder. Also having troubles in Class 3 was Scott Brown who was out with cliff failure. Things were not much better in Class 8 either, as Ken Smith's Rodeo lost time with a broken control arm bolt, Parker's Landrover broke a tailshaft, and Andy Stott was losing shock function in the Safari prepared Patrol. Up the front though, things were starting to happen as some crews made a change as the end drew nearer. Burrows still held the lead position, but Bentley had slipped into second, pushing Brown back to third. Templeman too was unwinding as the little car climbed into fourth pushing Bush into fifth ahead of Rose, Svenson, Ziems, Siviour, and in tenth was Bob Mowbray debuting his U.S. imported and very impressivl: Jimco unlimited Baja creation, which, in fact, was running in Class I. Leading Class 3 by some 15 minutes was Barry Lee driving brother Kevin's car still in Firestone colours. Siviour's Patrol lost a little time changing a tire, but still held the Class 7 lead, while Baxter had the Class 8 lead in the Hankook tires VB Patrol. Also in that class, Zarfati had the radical Pajero going fast and clocked fastest Class 8 short lap despite having limited revs available. Owen's Patrol was out with a blown gearbox seal, while Brosnan had lost his shocks. 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Bob and Jeanette Mabray ran the Jimco built Baja in Class 1. It was imported from the USA and was impressive, and the heavier car was fifth in Class 1, eighth overall. Grahame Baxter and 'Nigel Burley flew the Nissan Patrol to second in Class 8 and 13th overall, oddly enough exactly 13 minutes out of the victory. Driving Fabio Zarfati's old Mitsubishi Pf!jero, Geoff Pickering and David Brims did a fine job in the woods finishing third in Class 8 and a creditable 14th overall. ~ continued their see-saw battle as Bush took fourth back from the Kiwi. One lap is still a long way to go at Kempsey but the Bridgestone directo rs watched on with quiet confid-ence. Their reigning Australian Champion driver, Mark Burrows, didn't let them down and approached the finish line and took the chequered flag. Bentley had only managed to pull back a minute that last lap and filled second spot by 14 minutes. Brown too had closed up to be two minutes later in third, giving Bridgestone 1st and 3rd. Burrows' victory was even more impressive when it was revealed he had competed with a broken finger and twenty-odd stitches in one hand from a working accident a week before. Bentley too was Page 28 heralded a hero as he still had home the rear suspension broke. three broken ribs from a racing Bad luck too for Svenson's Class accident weeks before. Coming 1 which went out close to home home fourth was the first single too with diff problems. Winning seater and it was Mark Bush in the Class 3 and placing 11th overall Hunter Rivmasta. Then came the was Barry Lee who finished only Goodyear Raceco of Terry Rose seconds clear of Andrew Fit:-followed by Templeman who had gerald in the second placed Class slipped back with a broken rear 2. Next vehicle in was the limping torsion bar but nevertheless, yellow truck of Baxter taking impressed many people with his second in Class 8. Finishing 14th efforts in the Top Hat Foods car. overall was a tremendous drive In seventh overall, and winning for Geoff Pickering in the turbo Class 2 were Andy and Alex Pajero from North Queensland. Ziems in the Yokohama car, then In fact, Pickering was the last car the Mowbrays in their Class 1 to officially complete all nine laps. Baja, Siviour in the Class 7 Nissan There were, however, a lot of Patrol (firs t Tin Top), an d crews that wanted to continue rounding out the top ten was the only to find out the cut-off time Hadlow's Yokohama C lass 8 beat them . It was an unfortunate Mitsubishi truck. . situation as the winning time was Baxter had lost the Class 8 lead some 36 minutes slower than in when only five m inutes from '93,yetthecut-offtime remained October 1994 the same. Those affected by this included Morrison and Schaefer in Class 1, Love in Class 2, Hancey, Potter and Warren in Class 3, all the Bajas I, Irons, Schmidt, Taylor, and Currie, Warson in Class 5 , Browning in Class 6, Langham, Whitbread and McWilliam in Class 7, and Waters and Smith in Class 8 . So one can see there were a lot of unhappy competitors around especially those that wanted some points towards the Australian Championship. This year was the 14th yi;ar the race had been held ,at Kempsey, and it seems each year it just keeps getting tougher and rougher. So, to overcome all the elements one must congrat-ulate Mark Burrows and Ross Waller on probably the most admirable victory ever. Finally, my personal thanks go to Isu:u for the loan of a fine Jackaroo V6 which made the task of getting around to the best spots so much easier. Peter a_nd_ Glen Had/ow had a good day on the car breaking course in the M1tsub1sh1 Triton, and they had no serious down time and whipped into the Class 8 win and a great 10th overall. Bridgestone International July 23·24, 1994 • Kempsey # Poa Driver/Co-driver Vehicle Cl■aa I • Unlimited Two Seat • 30 start • 5 finish 1 1 Mark Burrows/Ross Waller Trekka 104 2 Hayden Bentley/Owen Lloyd-Wright Rivmasta 151 3 Les Brown/Leigh Jones Hornet 111 4 Terry & Maureen & Howard Rose Raceco 105 5 Bob & Jeanette Mowbray Jimco Baja Cius 2 • 1600 cc Two Seat • 24 atart. 2 finish 214 1 Andy & Alex Ziems Rivmasta 209 2 And,_ Fitzgerald/Katie Barrett Cobra 283 3 Jason & Matth-Love Southern Cross 219 4 Brad Cook.lBrett Wellings Rivmasta 2203 5 Simon Cook.lBrian Gosling Hornet Cius 3 • 1200cc Two Seat • 16 atart • 1 finish 358 1 Barry Lee/Scott McNeil Hornet 309 2 Glenn & Brett Hancey BAB Mk ii 332 3 Ted & David Potter Rivmasta 301 4 Mark & Daryt Wd1ren Southern Cross 320 5 Graham Julius/Vince Evans Hornet Claaa 4 • Baja Bug • 5 start • O finish 403 1 Warren Irons/Vicki Woods Baja Bug 411 2 Ron & Kaleb Schmidt Baja Bug 402 3 Nev Taylor/Bob Oxley Baja Bug 405 4 Rodney & Bren Currie Baja Bug Cius 5 • 2WD Sedan & Pickup • 12 start • O finiah 505 1 Ross & Maura Watson Holden Rodeo 586 2 Wayne Whackett/Scott Beard Datsun P5IO 511 3 Graham Lees/Mark Joris Porsche 911 678 1 Claaa 6 • Challenger Buggy • 3 start • o finish Chris Browning/Phillip Evans Hornet 666 2 Michael EggerVDennis Green Buggy 605 3 Stephen & Lester Cause Buggy Claaa 7 • Production 4x4 . 8 atart - 1 finish 70 1 1 Les Sivlour/Josh Golsby-Smith/G. Miller Nissan Patrol 703 2 Chris Langham'Scott Wells Ford Courier 707 3 Eric Whitbread/Norm Needham Toyota Landcruiser 720 4 Craig & Clinton McWilliam Nissan Patrol Claaa 8 • Unlimited 4x4 • 15 start - 3 finish 802 1 Peter & Glen Hadlow Mitsubishi Triton 803 2 Grahame Baxter/Nigel Burley Nissan Patrol 810 3 Geoff Pickering/David Brims Mitsubishi Pajero 809 4 Reg Owen/Russell Cairns Nissan Palrol 828 5 Dale Waters/Dale Ryan Toyota Landcru1ser Claaa 9 • Unlimited Single Seat. 11 start • 2 finish 902 1 Mark Bush Hunter A,vmasta 9198 2 Dave Templeman (NZ Stinger Cougar 992 3 Ian Boyd Hunter A,vmasta 909 4 Mick Myers Dirtrix Starters 124 • Finishers (9 laps) 14 Finish ratio , 1% Race Distance 500 kilometers (310 miles) Fastest Prologue - # 106 - Brett Osbourne & Fastest long lap at 59-47 Fastest short lap•#• Mark Burrows. 38:39 Time 0/A 7:39:36 7:53:43 2 7:55:47 3 8:02:02 5 8:23:36 8 8:22:50 7 8:41:45 12 8 laps 31 6 laps 40 6 laps 46 8:41 :26 11 8 laps 17 8 laps 27 8 laps 33 71aps 35 8 laps 18 8 laps 26 8 laps 30 8 laps 32 8 laps 22 6 laps 47 5 laps 55 8 laps 24 71aps 37 5 laps 54 8:24:12 9 8 laps 19 8 laps 20 8 laps 23 8:38:00 10 8:51 :00 13 8:54:03 14 8 laps 16 8 laps 21 8:00:28 4 8:06:13 6 71aps 39 5 laps 49 Dusty Times

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Maine Forest Summer Rally· By John Elkin On the western edge of the state of Maine is a small and inviting town called Rumford. The good people from here go about their business daily depending on some tourism as part of the town's con-sumer power base. Normally, once a year, these same people open the town to the SCCA/ Mich-elin PRO Rally Championship in Decemher. However, new for this year is a summer event, a div-isional rally which also counts towards 60% points of the national series, just as Washing-ton, South Carolina and Ari:ona have done earlier this year. Under the chairmanship of John Buffum and host of dedicated volunteers the event has a lot going for it. With teams normally running these roads in the ice and snow of December this event would be like a whole new rally, even though the stages used are the same. This part of Maine had not seen much rain lately and the roads were feared to be dusty but a rainstorm the night before the rally belayed some of those fears. The roads were still dry with no mud from the small rains. The roads would be the only dry thing out there as the temperature hovered in the 90's and the humidity was not far behind that number. With this dual formula of "60 percenters" on each coast it meant that teams from the west coast had aleady run their 60 per-center a few weeks previous in Prescott, Ari:ona. Thus teams like Jeff Zwart, Dave Turner, Mike Whitman and other class points contenders would not attend. Eight stages would run through the Maine wilderness, the first two stages would be a dead end turnaround stage where the teams run to the top of a road, wait for the remaining teams to arrive and the road cleared by fast sweep then teams would run the same ruad in reverse in the same order. This format is becoming more popular with the Prescott event using the same format for their first two stages. Twenty-three teams entered the national portion of the rally spread out over all six classes. Ral-lytruck was again the least repres-__ ented cla,-,s with just Greg Healey/ _ John Macleod running their Dodge 0-50. The pair were going well until the end of the second stage when Greg did not know he had a flat tire, he thought the car was just handling loose so he increased hjs speed to make the truck behave, and lost it in a turn hitting a stump and damaging the front end of his truck. · Three cars entered Group 2 this time, it's the smallest field of the year so far. The battle quickly came down to two when the Saab · of Scott Kriesler/Greg Usavage broke the suspension. Gerald Sweet/Stuart Spark led early in the Saab 99 over the Damon Mayers I Matt Chester Toyota which was having troubles on the rally roads. Their Toyota was about the narrowest car in the rally and the logging bridges located in the special stages were built for wider cars, they had to cross these bridges off the boards losing valuable time. The battle raged on for several stages until Mayers/Chester pulled out two minutes on the Saab and held that margin until the finish. The two entries finished eighth and ninth overall. Production class was a three way battle also with one putting it on the trailer early. Tad Ohta-ke/Bob Martin had their Ford Escort up among the top until stones put a hole in their oil sump ending their day. This left the bat-tle up to the Honda Prelude of Jim Anderson/Charles Bradley and the VW GTI of Bob Elliot/Mark Willi.;lms. Experience was the deciding factor in this battle as Anderson confessed that in this his rookie year in rallying, these roads were faster than any he had encountered before and he was too timid. Elliot/Williams who have done well here in the snows of December, motored through a problem with the car not revving above 3,500 RPM, fixed that at service and continued to the win and a fine fifth overall. Ander-son / Bradley used the rest of the rail y as a classroom getting used to rallying at higher speeds and pulled off a well deserved 11th overall. Production GT was the closest battle of the day. Six teams entered the rally but only three would finish. In third place and sixth overall came Lance Smith/ -John Pizzagalli in the ex-Menende: Every other hotel Dusty Times • zsan also ran. 1-800-634-6755 Las Vegas, Nevada October 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Smith is the owner of Vermont Sports Car and decided to dust off his driving skills and take young driver John Pizzagalli for the ride. Smith claimed he was rusty but had a lot of fun. The lead battle came down to the Mazda 323 of Rees Harris/ -Thierry Menegoz and Selcuk Karamanoglu/John McArthur's Mitsubishi Eclipse. The duo battled early in the rally until stages three and four when flat tires slowed Karamanoglu/Mc-Arthur, also tearing up some of the body work. They lost an esti-mated minute and a half, the mar-gin they were down to Harris/ -Menegoz. That is not the end of the story though. In stage six the Harris Mazda also was felled by a puncture narrowing his lead over the Mitsubishi to just40 seconds. In the final two stages Selcuk and John made up some ground, but not enough as the stages ran out with them just 10 seconds back. The Group A battle never materiali:ed as the Metro Rallye Sport team of Vinnie Fron ti nan / _ Frank Arruda could not prepare the new car in time from it's debut at Pikes Peak. This left the BMW of Rick Davis/ Ben Grcisler all alone only having to finish to col-lee the win. The pair motored well finishing the rally in a fine seve·nth overall. Open class was another yawner after Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens overcooked a turn in the Ford at the end of stage two and bent the suspension and some wheels. This left.Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker to motor merrily along in the Audi S-2 to a two and three quarter minute margin of victory over second overall Rees Harris/ -Thierry Menegoz, and a seven minute margin over the debut of the new Audi 4000 of Sakis Hajiminas/Tom Burgess who were fourth overall. Ken Beard/ _ Jim Miner proved that Dodge Omni's still have some life left in them as they took the third spot and tenth overall with Dean Fry/Don Kennedy getting fourth with their Subaru. It was good to see L. Mark Stone out again with the Nissan Violet and he had Tim O'Neil in the car with him. Can you imagine O'Neil in the seat of terror? They got stuck early and were many minutes down in fifth place. The series now turns back to full national points paying events through the season ender back here in Rumford in December. Next on the schedule will be the Ojihwc Rally in northern Minne-sota where drivers will take on the fast and twisty roads and east and west will meet up again. MAINE FOREST SUMMER PRO RALLY Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker Audi Quattro S-2 Open 1 :15:43 2 Rees Harris/Thierry Menegoz MazdaGTX Production GT 1 :18 :25 3 Selcuk Karamanoglu/John McArthur Mitsubishi Eclipse Production GT 1 :18:35 4 Sakls Hadjlmlnas/Tom Burgess Audi Quattro Open 1 :22:40 5 Bob Elliott/Mark Williams VWGTI Production 1 :22:55 6 Lance Smith/Jon Pizzagalll Mitsubishi Eclipse Production GT 1 :23:28 7 Rick Davis/Ben Grelsler BMWM3 Group A 1 :25:26 8 Damon Mayers/Matt Chester Toyota Corolla Group 2 1:27:17 9 Gerald Sweet/Stuart Spark Saab99 Group 2 1 :29:43 1 O Ken Beard/Jim Miner Dodge Omni Open 1 :31 :00 11 Jim Anderson/Charles Bradley Honda Prelude Production 1:31 :34 Page 29

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Jeff O'Callaghan ran steady in his Class 1 /2 Baja Bug, slowed some on the final laps, but finished third in the class and a keen Tyler Mort ran a very smooth pace all eight laps in his Class 1-2-1600 racer and here he zips past the sand pit and finished Sid Smith and Kip Whitnack, the 1993 points champions, have had mixed results this season, but at VC they got the 1600 home third 1-2-1600, and fifth 0 /A. n~fflonraU ' second in class, fourth ·o ;A. THE VIRGINIA CITY 200 Power In -The Comstock By Tammie Wise Todd Denton repeated his Yerington 400 triumph, leading at Virginia City froin flag to flag while winning Class 10 and overall again. Clients Racing is definitely back in a big way. The Virginia City Classic 200 for 1994 was held owr the week-end of June 17-19, 1994. The Comstock Lode town of Virginia City hrought in the VORRA event with a welcome party and drawing for starting positions Friday, June 17 at the Delta Saloon, race headquarters for thl' event. The time for the West Coast Distributor fOR HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL OUR PRICE $695.00 GEARS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY Per Set 2 Ratio's Available NEW RATIOS AVAILABLE Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 702/873-1002 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 32 Photos: Wizer Photo drawing would come q uickly, 9 p.rn. came and went, pole posi-tion for the race was set, Everett Paul in car t/243 would start first out of the gate. In past years three cars would drag race from the start to first, hut this year they would hegin l'Very 30 seconds. Othn changes this year, instead of running 10 laps they would do eight turns around the northern Nevada mountains. The time limit for the race was seven hours fur all classes. \....;< ,..,,. ... "' ,. -Sam Berri was back on track in his Class 1 /2 turning almost identical lap times except for laps 3 & 7, and Sam went on with another 35 minute round to win the class and place third overall. Corne Saturday the course was ready as were the 59 cars in the field. Though the field was smaller than in past years, there was stiff competition in all the classes. · First off thl' line were the Unlimited cars. Class 1 pole sitter Everett Paul in the #243 took lit-tle time moving out, and would give class corn peti tors a run. Down time on the fourth lap set the team hack a hit too far, Everett would have to settle for a fifth place finish in a time of six hours and 29 minutes. A racer who had little to no prohlerns was the Highlands Quick Luhe sponsored "new" single seater of Sam Berri. After an uneventful run in Yering-ton Sam came to the Comstock ready for a shoot out. By the mid way point Berri's pace picked up, setting fast time in class with a 34 minute and 35 second fifth lap. From there it was all down hill, coasting to first in class in a timely five hours and four minutes. Second and third places were filled h y two racers new to the VORRA Sl'ries. Mikl' Russel of Russel Construction Racing in his modified Porsche, went out and Mike Russel had a little slowdown midway in the race, running his Porsche in Class 1 /2, but he recovered to finish strong, second in class and eighth 0/A. F~ ......... Mike Olson and Roger Caddell also repeated their Yerington act, whipping over the mountain to win Class 1-2-1600 and place second overall just seven minutes off the overall winning time, in a 1600 at that. October 1994 tore up thl· mountain, putting on a great show in this one of a kind race car. . As the day went on Mike·•s time would slow only slightly; hy that time he had set himself up to take the #2 spot in class in a time of five hours and 4 3 minutl'S. Third was also picked up by a different typl' of Class 1, our first unlimited Baja to he seen in quite a while, Jl'ff ()'Callaghan burned up the track in his #251 Convertihk, to finish his eight laps in five hours and 58 minutes. Five out of the six entries iri Class ' 1 werl' still in at the checker flag. Fourth was filled h y the Haas Mi ni Mag, finishing their day in six hours and 21 minutes. Class 1 0 had four starters. First off in class was Todd Denton, who held the position from flag to flag. Todd's Jirnco sped up as the day went on with lap times increasing in thl' latkr part of the race. Thl' Clil'nt team set fast time for the day with a 33 minute 35 second lap #2. The team went on to pick up the class win and another OVl'rall for 1994. Todd's timl' was an unreal fou~ hours and 5 3 minutes, showing the Client Racing team has a definite win-ning edge. The second position went to Dale Smith in the #1044 JR Machinl' sponsored car. Dale's day was a tough one, he would get thl' position hut wouldn't be able to make th.: finish falling to the mountain on the last lap of the day. Third went to the team of Troy Robinson and Ryan O'Cal-laghan in the# 1051 racer; the two only made two of the required eight laps, but having gone farther than the next competitor claimed the position. Out of the four car field only the one made it to the checkl'rs. VORRA 's limited Class 1-2-1600 drew 10 cars to this event. Number 1699 took the green in first place but fell to the Nevada Terrain on the final lap. First place for the day belonged to M ikl' Olson and Roger Caddell in their Olson Brothers sponsored race car. Mike and Roger held off competitors throughout the day. Dusty Times ,,..

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Don and Chris German in their 20 year old Jeep/Chevy had stiff ; '· •;r .A « * competition at this VC 200. The team came pounding through The Cobra Race Team held the lead through the first half of this One of the Wald Racing Mini Mags came back again, one more time with drivers Lee Hopkins and Mike Bearden, and they placed a close second in Sportsman Novice class. placing second in Class 4, only six minutes back and were sev- year's VC 200. After down time on lap 3, Dale Carr picked up the enth overall. pace to take second in Sportsman Veteran class. " Steve Bruner's inauguration into desert racing came quick, his a new team to beat for 1994. He won Class 4 by nearly six minutes and placed his rig in a neat sixth overall. Good show for a newcomer. The O lson team were able to keep man racer G len McAdon, after it together to not o nly set fast lap Shad had spun and ended up in class with a time of 33 minutes hack wards on the course in Six and SO seconds on the dash to the Mile Canyon. Glen came down finish line, hut picked up the the hill and at the speed he was st·conJ place spot overall as wdl. going couidn't stop in time to T yler Mort in #1616 gave quite a avoid Shad. Everyone was O.K., fight hut it wouldn't be in the hut Shad's truck was totaled. cards this day finishing second in The Sportsman Classes ran six Class 1-2-1600, in his Yerington laps at this event. Sportsman Tirt· sponsored single seat limited Veteran race class came to VC 18 racer, in a time of five hours and strong; hy the end only six would 11 minutes. Sid Smith and Kip still he running. First off the line Whitnack came into this event in class was Reno racers Terry looking for a win, but unfortu-Shelton and Richard Harjo. The nately this game was lost placing team fell out of the hunt after a third for the day in their Hum Bug long first lap. Reno racers whose performance was much better were Allen Biggs and Ken McKim. The two ran smooth consistent times finishing the day in four hours and 34 minutes. Second in class was filled by the Cobra rac-ing team in #62. Dale Carr ran his Fallon Glass sponsored car strong, but down time on the third lap set them back a bit too far to catch first. The team fin-ished in four hours and 54 min-utes. Rob Chave: gave Dale a run for that #2 spot. Roh's progres-sion would stop at third and that's where he would finish, in a time of four hours and 56 minutes, just a little over a minute behind second ' place. Fast lap in class went to Jerry Wald. Jerry went out and had a fast first lap, setting a pace to follo w of 37 minutes. Jerry fell to the mountain o n the sixth lap. Glen McAdon the other car involved in that accident with Shad Balch did finish the second lap after the incident, hut would pull in and stop there after. Sportsman Novice started this day with a total of 12 racers at the green. First off the line was #4 7 Ryan and Richard Lesher. These two made one lap then slipped from the scene Another racer with less than a day to talk about was Lanny Townsend in #31 after a slow first lap they set long tlmL· of the day for the second with a Automdtive Class 1-2-1600 sin-gle seater, with a time of five hours, 18 minutes. By the finish 1600s were few and far between, the starting grid held 10, by the end that number fell to three. -------Class 4 came to VC with a field of nine heavy metal vehicles pounding the mountain of rock. Usually this race is a 4 wheeler's dream, not this day, only three mad..: the finish. First off the line was Steve Bruner, Steve held the position throughout the day. For heing this team's first season, they are giving the old timers quite a run for their money in 1994. The team finished this event in five hours and 20 minutes. Second in the heavy metal class went to past overall winners Don and Chris German in the #401 single seat race Jeep. Don and Chris had a hell of a day getting fast lap of 36 minutes 20 seconds, and it looked as though they would take the class hut the team had slight proh-lems and would settle into the second position for the day in a time of five hours six minutes. The third spot for Class 4 went to a racer who makes an appearance on occasion, and what a show he can put on. Mike Povey in his Ford Rronco came out to pla~·. racing in 20 minutes under the wirl' finishing in six hours and 40 minutL'S An accident dampened the rac-ing temporarily. Shad Balch in the t'751 mini pickup was im :lhed in a head on collision with Sports-Dusty Times Reno racer Allen Biggs slid into first place in Sportsman Veteran class after a tough race with 17 others in the class. His time for the six laps required was 4:34:17, ten seconds slower than the novice winner. Steve Ison moved up quickly after clearing this silt bed near Virginia City and it didn't really slow him that much. Steve went on to win Sportsman Novice class by more than nme minutes margin. ---------------October 1994 three hour and eight minute time. On the other end of the spectrum Lee Hopkins and Mike Bearden in the #15 Mini Mag of the Wald Family Racing team, picked up fast lap in class in a time of 37 minutes and 42 seconds. Lee then placed second with a race time of four hours and 43 minutes. First place for the Novice Class went to Steve Ison in The Steve Ison Tile Co., sponsored #52. He tore through the mountain over nine minutes ahead of second place, finishing in a time of four hours and 34 minutes. The #3 spot went This is the :.ystem run by most off road race winners to Doug Seymour. Doug came around time and again, picking up the position in his Silver State Forklift sponsored car in a time of five hours and 10 minute<: This year's VC Classic 20ll ,,·as not only hot on the track hut the day itself was a scorcher. Our next stop is Fallon, NV for VORRA's only night race. See you all there. NOTE TO RACERS: Anyone wanting to get information to me about their teams etc., can reach me at (702) 746-2901, please leave a message and I will get back to you ASAP. l'RI-MIJ., BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFT,ER 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (213) 234-9014 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 33 ,.

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I This is a Proton Wira 4WD Turbo that runs in Group S and is made locally. Greg Carr and Allen Oh brought the car home a fine fourth overall, just behind Eriksson, a good showing for the home team, who won Group S. It was the best ever international result for a Korean built car as Wayne Bell and David Boddy brought the Hyundai Lantra home in sixth overall and they were second in Group N as well. Cows on the course were a real danger, causing one stage 10 be canceled, but here Russell Palmer and Brian Harwood survived to finish seventh overall in the Group A Suzuki Swift G Tl. 1994 PETRONAS RALLY OF MALAYSIA Possum Bourne Wins By 16 Seconds Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Possum Bourne and Tony Sircombe had very little trouble on the three day rally through some exotic looking territory in Malaysia, but they did get the 555 Subaru dirty on the way to the overall victory winning by merely 16 seconds. Reigning Asia-Pacific champ-ion New Zealander Possum Bourne, won the third round of the series in Malaysia. He commented: "My plan is on track, things are happening as I had figured out. I knew I had to drive the first two rallies in the championship easily, because the Impreza is quite a different car from the old Legacy, and I learned a lot from those events. After winning here I am really looking forward to the second half of our season." At the halfway point in the 1994 series Swedish driver Kenneth Eriksson, despite a very troubled event here, still heads the series. Bourne led virtually all the way. On the first day he overshot a turn which allowed Eriksson to pull ahead for one stage, but when Eriksson was delayed by cows blocking the next stage Bourne regained a lead he held to the end. This event witnessed a mile-stone in motorsports, the first entry by an FIA Homologated Malaysian car (a Group N Wira turbocharged four wheel drive Lancer derivative) driven by Malaysian champion Karamjit Singh, and the best ever inter-national result for a Korean built car: sixth place overall and second in Group N for Wayne Bell's Hyundai Lantra. After their massive four car entry in New Zealand, the Pro-drive run 555 Subaru team fielded their two regular APC drivers Bourne and Richard Burns. New to the event Burns, plus all the other leading drivers, found the wandering cows a remarkable danger, once meeting the animals when driving flat out in top gear. Eventually one stage was canceled because of Dusty Times this hazard. Bourne's only trouble came on the second day when the turbo actuator broke twice, but neither Subaru driver had serious problems during the three day event, and as the crews slowed on the short final day, team orders dictated that Burns should not challenge Bourne. Mitsubishi, however, had a long line of problems. On the first forest stage Eriksson's UK-built Lancer slid off the road and damaged the intercooler and fans. He then had to drive to the next stage before the fans could be repaired. That evening he suffered a front transmission flange failure, as had happened in Greece and New Zealand, and was lucky to finish the first day within a minute of the leaders when the propshaft broke on the final stage of the day. On the second day Eriksson's problems continued. On stage 17 the gear linkage failed and he had to drive two stages stuck in third; this in turn caused clutch trouble later that day. Then the fan belt failed and the car overheated. So much time had been lost that when later a driveshaft failed he had to run five stages stuck in two wheel drive, for fear of repairs making him exceed his time allowance. This forced him to fall a long way behind the two leading Subarus and was even threatened for third place by his Australian teammate Ross Dunkerton when he had front differential trouble. Dunkerton's troubles had begun on the start line for the first stage! The clutch welded itself onto the flywheel and twice Dunkerton was stuck before the end of stage 3. Then the power steering failed as well. He was continuing through the second day in fourth place when the car stopped on the final stage with transmission trouble. Learning to live with the Impreza was Bourne's biggest challenge on this event. "The Impreza can catch you out very easily, as I discovered in New Zealand. And the nature of plantation stages, where most of the corners must be taken in either first or second gear, mean you study each corner carefully to see where you can cut across and so keep up your momentum. These are a very special type of stages. Also the rally was much rougher than last year because it was dry. It was as tough on the cars as the Acropolis!" Eriksson was bemused at the finish. "I cannot remember so many troubles all on one event. When the fan belt failed the engine got so hot for so long I never thought it would survive the event. Security was the worst problem. Our computer showed we ran for 35 seconds at 20 kph stuck behind animals; other drivers reported meeting tractors and I met a motorcycle as well." Bourne added, "What was di~ppointing was the organizers Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander fought the good fight through myriad problems, seemingly unrelated, to finish third overall in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, and retain the Asia-Pacific points championship lead. did not react to what we were drive Proton Wira retired on the warning them about before the second day with clutch tro111'le. event. T here are many places Australian privateer Tolley where you are on the rev limiter in Challis, a regular contender in• top, and if you hit an animal in Malaysia championship events, these circumstances people are went off the road on the first day going to get hurt." with his Galant VR-4 and finished For Proton, Malaysia's own car the day in last place. He fought constructor, it was an historic back to tenth at the finish. There moment when Singh took the were fewer Japanese entries than start in a Group N car, but he was in New Zealand, and mainly these plagued by fuel feed troubles the came from the eight car team of first day and fell behind his Group A or N Subaru Vivios run maximum lateness time. He was by the Koseki team. In one of not allowed to restart the next them Vanessa Slee finished day. Greg Carr in the official highest lady driver on the rally. Group S Proton Wira 4WD Nobuhiro Tajima with the semi-Turbo had a consistent run official Suzuki crashed on the first despite brake troubles early on, to forest stage and retired. Three finish fourth overall. But Henry more APC events remain. Next Yap with a works Group S front comes Australia, then Hong Kong-Beijing and finally the Rally of Thailand in December. Simplythe Best! Fuel Safe's Pro Cell Racing Bladders are designed to meet or exceed the highest performance Listed only as H Sakchai and L Krirkchai this team drove their Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution to the Group N title and they finished a keen fifth overall behind the team cars. and safety standards set by all of the . major racing associations. Top Racers, like Robbie Gordon, demand the best and so should you. Fuel Safe Racing Cells • The Champions Choice! Petronas Rally of Possum Bourne/Tony Slrcombe N?: Richard Burns/Robert Reid CJ3 Kenneth Eriksson/Staffen Parmander S Greg Carr/Allen Oh H. Sakchai/L Krlrkchal Wayne Bell/David Boddy AUS Russell Palmer/Brian Harwood Jimmy Low/Sjem Yuen Kheong Masatoshl Konlshi/Masahlro Ohfujl J Tolley Challis/Rodney vd Straaten AUS 45 starters -29 finishers - •Group Winner Malaysia 1994 Subaru lmpreza 555 Subaru lmpreza 555 Mitsubishi Lancer Ev.II Proton Wlra 4WD Turbo Mitsubishi Lancer EV.II Hyundai Lantra Suzuki Swift GTI Proton Wlta Subara lmpreza Mitsubishi Galamt VR-4 A• 4 :54:12 A 4:54:28 A 5:01 :53 s· 5:14:44 N• 5:45:30 N 5:58:25 A 6:06:26 S 6 :08:23 N 6 :15:09 A 6 :21 :09 Asia-Pacific Championship Points • Kenneth Eriksson 42, Possum Bourne 35, Colin McRae 20, Juha Kankkunen & Richard Bums 15, Armin Schwarz & Kenjlro Shlnozuka 12 October 1994 At your local dealer now! e 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 about. Page 35

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1994 International Off-Road Exhibition Text & Photos by Thomas Lieverscheidt The new RAV 4 Toyota was a real hit. It's about the size of a Suzuki Sidekick and has full time 4WO-but no transfer case, and it is powered by a 2 liter, 135 HP engine mated to a 5 speed transmission. Hope it comes to the USA soon. The Cologne Faircentre was regular unleaded sells for about again the place to meet for Euro-$3 .50. a gallon and Diesel for pean Off-Road enthusiasts. From $2.40 a gal., - Diesel engines are March 16th to 20th the 6th Inter-more common over here, than in national Off Road Exhibition, the U .S. Since its introduction in organi:ed hy the German "Off-1992 the Opel Frontera and Fron-Road" Maga:ine was held there. tera Sport (lsu:u Rodeo and In 1993, due to the worldwide Amigo, respectively) are the best recession, car sales went down in selling 4WD's in Germany. This . Germany and other European year Opel added the Frontera countries. The only exception Sport with softtop to their pro-were 4x4 cars and trucks. Even duct lirie. Until now this truck though the 30 percent increase in was only available with a hardtop 1992 couldn't he repeated, sales that couldn't be removed, still raised in a single digit percen- because the rear seatbelt anchor tage. So, in 1994, manufacturers points were attached to the top. are continuing their efforts to gain Since Opel started offering a 3 .1 L market shares and used the T urho Diesel for the Campo opportunity to show it. This Sportscab, this truck has become year's IOR saw several new pro-the hest selling Pickup Truck in ducts, improved ones, and one Germany. So another first place manufacturer to go the opposite goes to Opel. direction, hack in time. The most Nissan highlighted their line of outstanding news was Toyota's trucks with a convertible version RAV 4. Although this compact of the 2-door Terrano II. This S.· U had it's world premiere on eyecatcher was built by Scheren the Geneva Auto Saloon, the Off-Road, Nissan's exclusive Cologne IOR was the first Off-manufacturer for tubular accesso-Road exhibition where it was ries like front bumpers, nerfbars, shown. With a size comparable to rails, etc. a Su:uki Sidekick, the Toyota fea-The Nissan Terrano II is built in tures permanent 4-wheeldrive Barcelona, Spain in both 2-and and is powered by a 2 Liter, 135 4-door versions and powered by ,hp engine. Sales are expected to eithera2.4LGasengineora2.7L start this summer. Another TurboDiesel.IfthisTruck,which important product was the new 3 is sold in Japan as the Nissan Mis-Liter Turbo-Diesel. Introduced tral, will be exported to the U .S. about a half a year ago, this 125 isn't clear at the moment. Proba-hp, 200 lb-ft engine is available in bly for the last time, the Terrano the 4-Runner and the Landcruiser · (Pathfinder) was displayed. Next KJ70 and KJ73. With the high gas year a whole new version is sche-prices in Euro Germ~,DY duled to start. Nissan will rate this new Pathfinder at a higher price-and equipment level to avoid interfering with the Terrano II (Mistral). Their Pickup was shown this year only as a crew cab, powered by the same 2.5 Liter Diesel which is available in the King Cab. Maybe a Turbo Diesel will be offered next year since the Pickup and the Path-finder will share the same plat-form and parts of the body work, too. Ford presented their Maverick -a rebadged Nissan Terrano II - in 2-and 4-door version with dif-ferent trim levels and tubular equipment. The Explorer is sold in Germany only as a 4-door ver-sion with 4-speed auto and touch -drive4 WO. The major compet-itors for the Explorer in Germany are trucks like the Nissan Patrol GR and the Mitsuhishi Pajero (Montero) which hath have a Turbo:Diesel option.· The Explorer is sold only with the Cologne-made 4.0 L V6, so Ford offers it for a relatively low price, compared to the others, to get customers. This plan worked out fine. 1993 sales figures saw the Explorer on 8th place in Ger-man sales. Until now there are no plans to introduce the Ranger Pickup to Germany, which really is a pity. Mitsubishi presented the Pajero with both the 3.5 L V6 and a new 2.8 Liter Turbo Diesel. The 3.0 L V6 Gas and the 2.5 L Turbo-Diesel will remain availa-This Mercedes G500 prototype is a veteran Paris-Dakar contestant prepared by and for the Panama Jack team from Spain. They w_ere ninth in the 1994 event. ble for the complete Truck line, while the 3.5 L V6 and the 2.8 L Turbo-Diesel will he available only for selected models. Also on the Mitsu booth was the l 300 and the L 200 Pickup. The L 300 combines the body of the Mitsu-bishi Van with the chassis of the old short-wheelbase Pajero. The L 200 Pickup (Mighty Max in the U .S.) is sold in Germany only asa crew cab with 2.5 Liter Turbo Diesel and part-time 4 WO. Cus-tomers can choose between a base version and an upscale version called Magnum (Go ahead -make my day). The Magnum adds cloth seats, alloy wheels and the plastic fender extensions which are also sold on the Pajero. The Mighty Max really boosted the German Pickup sales. Especially since the Nissan Crew Cab is more expen-sive than~ the base Mitsubishi, while both have the same trim level and also because the Nissan's Diesel is only normally aspirated. Not that the Nissan's engine is bad. But with only 80 hp and 115 lb-ft the Nissan doesn't accelerate - it gains speed. Mercedes showed the complete line of the Gelaendewagen, both the 461 with part-time 4WD and the 463 ~ith permanent 4 wheeldrive. A G-500 prototype from the Spanish "Panama Jack" race team which finished on 9th place in the 1994 Paris-Dakar-Paris and a 463 chassis could also be seen. Eyecatcher on the Mer-cedes booth was a U90 Funmog from Unicat. The Company which is specialised in building. Expedition trucks based on the Unimog, prepared a U90, the smallest Unimog available. This Funmog with metallic paint, stain-less steel bumpers, Highpipes and Rollbar would be a pri:e-winner on every sport truck event around. Going the other way - back to the roots - is Mahindra. The Indian Licen:version of the Jeep CJ-3 used to be assembled in Greece. Since Summer '92 the European models are put together in Werdau/ Saxony, the former East Germany. From this moment on, quality has risen enormously. The Werdau people even reweld most of the weldpoints on the body. The Mahindra used to come in 4 versions. As a CJ340, with the original CJ-3 wheelbase or as a CJ540 with 11 inches more wheelbase. Both versions arc available as either "Classic" or "Deluxe". The Deluxe version has rectangular headlamps and a lower hood. Both have also a modern dashboard with a battery of warning lights. This year the C)HO hasic was aJdcJ. It comes i~ a choice of two colors -Nato oliv or Desert cammo -the old dash hoard style with gauges in the middle and standard military tires on steel wheels. All Mahindras haw a 4-speed manual and a 2 .1 L Peugeot Diesel engine. The second hall was filled with Travel agencies of all kinds. O .R .V ., the Organi:er offered again several unusual and interest-ing trips. For the third year they offl'red a roundtrip that covers thl' European part of the CIS. Starting in Koprivnice, C:ech Republic, the Tour will travel through the Ukraine, Russia and Ka:akstan and end four weeks later in St. Petersburg. This year O .R.V. offers an adventure most people can only dream ahout. The participating Off-Road vehicll.'S will he shipped from Germany to Shanghai Peo-ple's Republic of China. The crews will fly a few weeks later to Shanghai, take over their trucks and follow the old silk road through China, the CIS and end in Munich, Germany some 8 to 10 weeks later. Accompanying them will he several Tarra 6x6 trucks with one of them carrying a 1400 gal. Diesel tank to supply the par-ticipating vehicles. This event will cost about $25,000 and believe it or not, it's already hooked out!!! The Mercedes Funmog is based on the small U90 Unimog and built by Unicat. It is 0·,uipped with stamless steel bumpers, rol! bar and high pipes, and this me 16' sported metallic paint. The Tatra Race Truck is a big one, and the 4x4 of Karel Lopraiz was not only first in the big truck class on this year's Paris-Dakar-Paris it was sixth overall, and goes 100 mph across the desert. Another event offered by O.R.V. is the Warn Transsylva-nia Trophy. Organi:ed by the German Off-Road maga:ine and· sponsored by Warn Winches it was held for the first time last year in May in the Ukraine. For this year, preselection had to be held, because tons of letters from inter-ested 4 wheelers arrived. Only 40 trucks can take part and the organi:ers didn't want to have trucks with bad equipment taking places. Believe it or not, but among last year's contestants were two guys from Leipzig who just went to a Chrysler Dealer a few days before the Trophy, bought a Cherokee Turbo Diesel, added a winch and gave it a go! For Rubicon it may have been o.k., Page 36 October 1994 Dusty Times

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The Urban Rover by the British "Warwick 4x4" company com-bines the classic Series Ill body with Defender coil springs and axles for a good ride in town. This is a Russian Luaz. The truck has front wheel drive with part time rear wheel drive, Portal axles and a granny low first instead of a transfer case. The Mahindra is the Indian Licenzversion of the Jeep CJ 3, now assembled in Weidau/Saxony. It is available in two wheelbases and Classic or Deluxe models. but for the Transsylvania Trophy, er well, never mind. Next to the O.R.V. booth was the Tatra stand. They displayed one of the above mentioned 6x6 Trucks and the race Truck of Karel Lopraiz. This 4x4 finished not only 1st in the Truck segment, but also in 6th place overall in this year's Paris-Dakar-Paris. With its top speed of 100 mph and Central Tire Inflation System it just kept going where other cars and trucks got stuck. A truly great piece of engineering from the Czech Republic. Ventura Tours takes you to places like Iceland, Northern Africa, or Hungary, which is a heaven for all those who like mudholes of all sizes. Probably the most scenic of their tours is the trip over unpaved mountain roads in Italy and France. These roads were constructed by the French, Italian and Austrian armies at the beginning of this century. By that time, they served as supply routes to the mountain fortresses guarding the borders in W.W.I. Nowadays their purpose is more peaceful, recreation for tourists from all over Europe. Scout Tours of Mosbach, Germany appeared on the show with 2 MAN Trucks - a 6x6 and an 8x8. This company is one of the official supporters for the Paris-Dakar-Paris Rall yes for sev-eral years now. Except from carry-.ing fuel tanks for the helicopters, they collect stuck motorbikes and their drivers. The Scout Trucks are equipped with dual pedals and used as instructors for driving in difficult terrain, be it the deserts of Northern Africa, the snow and ice in Iceland or the Tropical Forests of Africa. Remember, we're not talking about a fullsize Pickup, but a genuine 35 ft. 8x8 military truck with a GVW of up to 70,000 lbs! Warwick 4x4 displayed one of their "Urban Rovers". That's an old Series Ill 88 or 109 Land rover rebuilt on a chassis with coil-~~ axles f!'o.m .. the Defender 90/110. Customers can bring in their Land Rover to do the swap, but you can also start from the beginning. Warwick will find a Series Ill and refurbish it, swap the axles and give it a new paint. The advantage of the Urban Rover is the combination of the classic Land Rover Look with the low maintenance cost of the Ser-ies Ill and the modern coilspring axles, resulting not only in smooth on road driving, but also in good off-road capabilities thanks to the massive axle. articulation. The third hall was for manufac-turers and dealers of aftermarket equipment. BFGoodrich Europe came from England with their show truck displaying the range of tires they offer. Pity only that until now they don't officially sell the Baja T / A in Europe leaving it to others to import this tire. The result of this decision is that pri-ces for Baja T / A's are higher than they have to be. Prices between $700 and $900 are asked by the importers. Another company, the main distributor for Off-Road equipment and Warn Winches in Germany goes the same direction. Their list price for a 2 ½ inch Ran-cho lift for the Ford Ranger is a shy $3,500. That's the same kit that sells for about $680 in the U.S. A lift kit for the Nissan King Cab should cost about $2,000 as opposed to the $460 in the U.S. When I complained not only about the high price for the Ranger's kit, but also about the difference in price to the Nissan's, they told me the Ranger kit has to be expensive because of its com-plexity, the complete front axle, etc. When I confronted them with an ad from an American ZWD magazine they couldn't even give me an answer. The only American distributor around was Mr. Gordon E. Hansen from the Hansen Agency of Hampton, CT. He started on Wednesday with a pickup bed loaded with Cargo bars, tow straps, tow hooks, etc. By Sunday evening he was almost sold out. .,,-,· The Toyota Landcruiser KJ 73 convertible is sold with a hard top, but an extra soft top is an option on the 3 liter Turbo Diesel with 125 HP for the autobahn. Dusty Times He told me that he tried to con-vince other American Companies to come to Germany to the IOR, but somehow they seemed not to be interested. Shame on them, because the European market is growing more and more and as Michael Gorbatshev used to say, "He, who comes too late, will be punished by life." Once the European Dealers have estab-lished their clientship it will be too late for American Companies to get their share of the market. The Pickup Market in Ger-many is growing more and more each year. Back in 1983 Nissan introduced their King Cab in Germany and became the first manufacturer to sell a Pickup are sold in Germany only as 2WD through the official Dealer Net-single cabs. The 4 wheel driven work. It took the others some versions are available everywhere years to realize that there was a in Europe. VW doesn't see a whole market segment waiting to market for Pickups in Germa be satisfied. For quite some time was the official statement some there were small Importers selling years ago. trucks in Germany, mainly Toy-When GM decided to rebadge ota Hilux and Chevrolet, but only the Isuzu Amigo, Rodeo and at the end of the 80's company Trooper and sell them as Opels in bosses woke up. Next to come Germany, the Campo Pickup was was Isuzu, selling the Campo also included. Since last year the Pickup with Single, Extended - 3.1 L Turbo Diesel of the Monte-and Crew Cabs through the Opel rey (Trooper) powers the Campo Dealer Network. Although the Sportscab. That's when the Toyota Hilux is built at the Han-market almost exploded. Last nover plant of Volkswagen, both year saw the Campo on 1st place the Hilux and the Taro, as VW in Pickup sales. The Nissan, now calls their version of this truck, available in ~ Jamar Super Shifte Make missed shifts a thing of the past! Fortin CV Cages Polished & Strong/ Available in both: 930 and 934.5 • Thing Drums Straight from Germany. 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....... ,,.,,,,. This Mahindra CJ 340 was prepared for the 1993 "El Chaff" Ra/lye in Tunisia. It looks to be the 11 inch longer wheelbase unit. They all have Peugeot 2.1 L engines. This Nissan Terrano II was an eyecatcher convertible, the con-version done by Scheren on this Pathfinder cousin which is built in Barcelona, Spain. A Land Rover 110 HCPU Defender pickup looks wide compared to other displays. But, it has the ·spare wheel and tire where it belongs -on the hood. (l:]f King Cab and Crew-Cab configuration suffers from a lack of muscle. The 2.5 L Diesel ~s not enough power and for some reason the 2. 7 LT urbo Oie-sd from the Pathfinder was never F.A.I.R. News FAIR lost it's last charter member on Sunday, August 14, 1994. George Morgan passed away, leaving his wife Bertha. George was always at the races to make sure we did everything the FAIR way. He is the reason we have the FAIR Driver's Fund for injured FAIR members at a race. We will rename it the "George Morgan Memorial Driver's Fund". Old George always made sure we had the required amount in the fund for emergencies. FAIR will have a work party at '-his house to clean up and fix up for Bertha. Pete and Mick Dutton will evaluate what's to be done. Pete will also look at what George has in the way of garage stuff to sell for Bertha. Anyone wanting to donate your time please call Pete Dutton, (714) 523-2830. All of us at FAIR will miss George an option. Mitsubishi ~dded the GM sells the S-10 Blazer and Ford Mighty Max Crew Cab to their the Explorer in Germany. No sign line and because of the Turbo of a Pickup around. Chevy PUs Diesel outsells both Nissan's and are imported by an importer from Opel's Crew Cabs. So, how about Southern Germany, and Ford the Big Three, you might wonder. PUs by a Ford Dealer near Audi-and his comments, "Hey Bah-e". God speed George. The FAIR van is almost complete, with a new paint job and new graphics. It's been very slow with very little help from the membership. Thanks to the few who have donated their time and efforts, it sure looks good. A special thanks to Boh Steinberger for all the hours he spent to insure it got done. Gary Bancroft is the second person to spend endless hours at Bob's shop working on the van. He is responsible for most of the fabricating and welding done. Gary is getting a . taste of being Race Director, it's a lone I y job. Bruce Streeper is number three for heing there all hours of the day and night. I understand he is the one who came up with the graphics along with Bob's input. There were several other memhers who went to help twice and some who went only once. Too bad we didn't have more help, it would have been done by now. Thanks to all who helped, without you, Bob would still be sanding. All this started at our Sept. 15, 1993 meeting with CEO of SCORE, Sal Fish as our guest speaker. Sal honored FAIR with a free race en try for l 99 5. Our new president Bob "The Weather-man" Steinberger got a great idea. Hold a raffle for three pri:es for a buck a ticket. First would be the free entry to the Barstow race, or $500.00. Second a weekend in San Felipe, or $150.00. Third, membership in FAIR. Selling a ticket for a buck became a major task, nobody wanted to sell them. It started very slow, Bob handed out tickets to all the FAIR members, to sell or buy them-selves. I wonder how many were actually sold. All the proceeds were to go to the restoration of the FAIR van. The raffle netted around $2,100.00, half of which were bought by Dick Weyhrich who did win first pri:e. Hopefully we will show off the van at the Gold Coast Race. HI-TECH • SUSPENSION SPECIALISTS • FREE EXPERT CONSUL TING • INSTALLATIONS I VISA I -[ii] OFF ROAD RACING HEADQUARTERS LARGEST INVENTORY IN LAS VEGAS l'IITIJIIII • IIICDlfl IPOIITIWIU • ID FF.1118111 • IEIIO GAS TUKI • IU'l'CIIES •AIIIOIL •AITCABB •AUTOFAB .... • BEITOP •BODYLlffl •IDW • INIESTCII TECH •IIRTll&ITI • t'ENIICB FLIIIES •n.ow■AITEB •FIJD.CD,l,S •IBIIILY Page 38 October 1994 City Ingolstadt. The new Dodge Ram is imported by another small company, and that's it. Wake up, guys. The Fullsize Pickups may be a bit too big for European cities and fuel con-Race results ... La Rana Johnson Valley 200 saw 12 FAIR entries. The La Rana Group is showing up the SCORE guys in the entry category. The finishers: Kathy Fay Second Class 1500 stock mini truck. Kathy drove and Stacy rode the whole race, leading the whole race. Then 10 miles hefore the finish the trans went out. They were able to tow it back to main where dear old dad and others changed the trans. Kathy found her way back to where she left the course and was able to finish. Sheer determination on this race team's part. Dave Edelstein Second Class 1575 4WD. Dave had his own set of problems, getting stuck in the silt bed for 40 minutes and rolling the old Bronco on its side in a canyon after Pit 0. Brady Wisdom went to the rescue and got stuck himself, never getting to Dave. Mike Rebolledo and Gary Bancroft went out in Mike's new Bronco to roll Dave over. Even being down for three hours he still got second place. Hey Dave, remember who comes to your rescue, "FAIR", we do require a work sheet and pit support fee hefore each race. How about getting with the program and doing your part. Kevin Reid and Cliff Carter Sixth Class 9. Kevin bought Daryl Gibson's Class 9 he never finished, and was out for the first time. Cliff started with Joel Mohr riding shotgun, for two clean laps. Kevin took laps 3 and 4 with fuel line problems. The old silicone job got to Kevin, clogging the line. Many stops and no luck dis-covering the problem until stopping at Pit D. The Jefferies from SCORE Class 9 were there helping out with a full pit. Darnen was able to find the problem and got him on his way . Danny Drake first in Class 5-1600. Danny drove the whole race by himself and loved it. He won by 20 minutes with no down time. Looks like Rich Fersch goofed when he decided to go on vacation rather than go rac-ing. Bob Plaskon fourth Class, 1-2-1600. Bob ran up with the leaders the first two laps, had dog house problems. Using a lot of oil and having a flat put him out of the hunt. Jerry Erstadt third Class 1-2-1600. Jerry ran trouble free and very consistent, trying to get some good quality seat time in. Scott and Chris Duncan second Class 2. These two brothers took their Class 10 Mirage and entered the combined 1-2 and 8 class to get some dust free running. Chris sumption a bit expensive regard-ing our prices, but the Ranger, the S-10 and also the Dakota would fit perfectly. Everything we ask for would be a powerful Turbo Diesel next to the gas engines. took the first two laps with Scc>tt riding. Trouble free except for being tapped by a Class 8. When Scott took over Chris rode with him. The oil light came on several times, slowing Scott down. On lap 4 at mile marker 30, the steering ram went out, slowing him down even more. Not bad for all the problems and running a Class 10. Tom Mangione sixth Class 10. Tom got to the races late, after working all night doing last minute details, like installing the engine. Tom went to tech at 4:30 and the race started at 5:00, he ended up starting with Class 9 cars. He had his share of race problems; front arm failure, shifter not wanting to shift, flat tire on lap 3 and a blown shock last lap. This is a first for Tom, no major welding this race! Dick Weyhrich finished Class 10, no details received. Mike Nix third Class 5. Mike had a clean first lap, from 5th to 2nd., had a flat at pit 0. Second lap, up to 3rd, and started losing power. Great pit at the main, changed plugs, fueled and on his way to nurse it around on 3½ cylinders. Dave Rogers DNF Class 9. Not a lot of details other than getting stuck in the silt bed. Once he got out he broke a spindle and a shock, running out of time. Rick Pew riding with a non FAIR member, Bob Delo:ier DNF in Class 8. According to Rick, this was a double "E" ticket ride. ft started out with a brand new beautiful Class 8 truck. I saw pictures of it and it looked like a million bucks. Seems Bob started first truck off the line and passed five cars right away. Rick told Bob to cool it, that the race wasn't won on the first lap. At mile marker 42, Rick told Bob to slow down due to the dust. Just before pit D, they hit a giant rock that sent them into orbit, the rest is history. Major damage, they will be back in November. Thanks to the Wisdoms for taking the FAIR equipment out in their trailer, since the FAIR van wasn't ready. Thanks to all the pit crews, I understand you were great. Don't forget ... Oct. 7 , 9 FAIR fun in the desert. Dec. 7 FAIR Xmas Dinner Meeting. FAIR meets the first and third Wed-nesday of every month at the Holiday Inn, Harbor Blvd., and the 91 Fwy. in Fullerton. The quote of the month comes from A.J. Martin: ''The older they get the faster they were" ... Dusty Times

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·-,,_ .~ -"I> ,. ,♦ ;;&.: '''*·'y ,..,~";,s.~:,,. :•,-. • ~A-~', .• k • Gary Caffroy and Tom Dolan tossed the Issaquah Tire spon-sored Mazda into a fo11rth overall finish, moving forward in the later stages of the event. Mike and Jan Halliday drove the Walt's Radiator's "Fat Ford" Mustang to fifth overall, taking the position by a scant eleven seconds at the finish. Rick Beson and Dave White led the 4WD'class until transmission problems late in the rally curtailed the rally debut of the 4WD. Mazda Protege G TX. Twin Peaks Northwest Pro Rally Text & Photos: Jim Culp Duane Bender and Mary Jo Czyzio captured first overall in the Twin Peaks SCCA Divisional Rally in the Motorworks Ltd.·Datsun, leading from the first stage to the finish line. It was just a tw·o-wheel-drive kind of day at the Twin Peaks Rally held near North Bend, Washington on June 11. Duane Bender and Mary Jo C:yzio drove the Motorworks Ltd. Datsun to a 53 second victory over Douglas Schrenk and Michael Leonard in · the Scania Saab, as two-wheel-dri ve cars filled the first five finishing spots. Twin Peaks, is an SCCA Northwest Divisional Rally held on the fast Weyerhauser Com-pany loging roads on the edge of the Cascade Mountains outside of North Bend, Wash-ington. There must b~ something in that name "Twin Peaks.". Just like in the TV show that was filmed in this area, this rally is always full of surprising plot twists. You just know Special Agent Dale Cooper will choke on his coffee when he gets a look at this year's Twin Peaks results. The surprises were all un-pleasant for the fast turbocharged 4 WO cars grouped at the head of the start line. It started when Grant Whiting and Ray Damitio retired the Rage Racing Toyota Celica early into the second stage with a dead alternator. Then the mechanical gremlins that have chased Tim and Penny Paterson's Falcon Racing Ma:da 323 all spring caught the pair once again, and the Peterson's were over-heating and out of the race. But even when the 4WD cars were running they couldn't keep up with Bender/Czyzio. The Motorworks Datsun team from• Bellevue, Washington (a few, miles down the hill from North Bend) jumped into the lead on the first stage and never looked back. In fact, that first short stage set the tone for th~ whole day. Seven cars ~roke the seven minute barrier: DustyTima Bender/Czyzio 6 :40, Brian Cooper/John Elkin (Datsun) 6:49, · the Patersons 6:54, Mark Simons/Robinson Walden (Toyota) 6:55, Whiting/Oamitio 6:58, Todd Hartmann/Kirk Knestis (VW)6:58, and Schrenk/ Leonard 6:59. Note that's five · 2WD cars in that top seven. The only thing slowing the Bender/ Czyzio Datsun was the dust left hanging in the air by the 4 WO cars starting in front of them. Even a two minute separation between cars isn't much help when you're cutting that.gap in half on almost every stage. The two cars throwing_ up tflat dust for most of day were Rick Beson and Dave White debuting a nifty 4WD Mazda _Protege GTX and Southern Douglas Schrenk and Michael Leonard drove the Scania Autosport Saab to a close second overall, only /?3 seconds behind the winning Datsun team. Mike and Paula Gibeault came from California to rally the Subaru turbo coupe and they inherited the 4WD' class win with a good sixth place finish. Octobcr1994 ·.; .... ,· "' Mark Simons and Robinson Walden brought the Scania Autosport Toyota Corolla home third overall to capture the "Under Two Liter" class title as well. The Toyota was running on three cylinders at the finish line. California's Mike and Paula Gibeault in a Subaru turbo coupe. . Beson was gently breaking in the Protege, until the gear selector just broke, leaving the new Ma:da with only second gear. While the Gibeaults' Subaru never seemed to run well, it did keep running, and the pair topped the 4WD class, finishing sixth overall. But in spite of the dust, Twin Peaks turned out to be a sunny day for the two wheel drive crews. Behind Bender and Schrenk, Mark Simons and Robinson Walden to-ssed the Scania Autosport Toyota Corolla into third place overall and first in the under two-liter class. The Toyota finished the rally way under two-liters, running on only three cylinders. Simons/Walden still posted fastest times on the final two stages to finish a little ~ore than two minutes behind the ,leader. Gary Caffroy and Tom Dolan captured fourth overall in the Issaquah Tire Ma:da RX3. Mike and Jan Halliday returned to competition in the Walt's Radiator "fat Ford" Mustang to capture fifth, beating the Gibeaults by just 11 seconds. At the end of :he long, dusty day, 12 cars made tt to the finish out of 22 starters. .BIGGER IS BETT-ER . 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1A RANA JOHNSON VALLEY 100 ·Fusco and Quinn Win Overall By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside P/wto Inc. ; , ~t· ~--"' #, -~-~½ 'fl. . .:4. ;;;;~,._--;__ Scott Fusco and Jeff Quinn ran up front all the way and Quinn took over the lead on lap 3, had no problems, no flats and he and Fusco not only won Class 2, they won the race overall at 3:40:57. high dollar trucks don't have a separate event, and are lumped in along with everyone else. At the end of the first lap it was Ron Stobaugh, in his Prism Ford, first on the road. Stobaugh, fairly new to desert racing, is an ex-hiker, and a graduate of the Rod Hall School of off road driving, and apparently paid close attention to his instructor. He had just 44 seconds on John DeVito in his Chevy truck. Both are new to that class. DeVito having raced as a Trophy-Truck only at the Fireworks race in July, and Stobaugh still in the throes of · gathering up the heavy sponsor-Chris and Scott Duncan ran .their SCORE legal Class 10 in Unlimited Class 2 ship needed for the class. due to rules differences, but finished second in class and ninth overall. On the second lap De Vito fell Scott Fusco and Jeff Quinn teamed in their open class two seat Raceco to win La Rana's nighttime Johnson Valley 200 overall. The La Rana folks decided hold contingency and tech inspection on Friday late after-noo·n and evening, a full day before the race, rather than on the morning of race day, so that their officials wouldn't have a long day in the desert heat. That made the race into a two day event, and it as hot and muggy for the racers camped around Anderson Dry Lake as they waited for the 5 p.m. green flag . Drivers groaned as they slipped out of their shorts and changed into Nomex driver suits and flame retardant underwear, hut a dousing with water kept them cool while .waiting for the prey to some mechanical grem-start. Situated in the Mojave Desert just south of Barstow and east of Lucerne, the course covered 50 miles, much of it well used "whoopies", and all of it dry and dusty. But a stiff bree:e blew, clearing the view for the drivers most of the way around, except when its direction paralleled the course. It was a 200mile, four lap event, with the cars starting one at a time, 15 seconds apart. The biggest difficulty some drivers had was on the second lap, facing into the sunset, in the dust. Visibility was miserable -but it affected everyone. The first class to take the green flag was the two car field of exotic trucks. At La Rana races these lins, and lost about an hour and a half, while Stobaugh went steadily on his way. He lost a few minutes with a leaky valve cover, but, in general, had a trouble free race, and took the class win with an hour and 42 minutes to spare. He was also third overall. DeVito never did quite get back up to speed, but at least he got all four laps done. The next group of starters were the unlimited cars, all two seaters in this case, and at the end of the first lap it was the team of Stuart Chase and Billy Robertson, in a Raceco, in front. They had recorded the fast lap of the day, at 52:00:15. In second it was Scott Fusco, in another Raceco and he'd already lost a few minutes as _ '= Bob Snaith and Chris Harrold, with Harrold leading off, led from flag to flag in Class 10. Snaith took over midway, had no problems at all with the Jimco and they not only won Class 10, they were second overall just 10 minutes out of the overall victory. Ron Stobaugh and David Rittenhouse call their truck a Prism F now, and they led Class 1 all the way, both entries exotic trucks, and their Ford based crea-tion won the class and was third overall. he ended the lap. He thought he obviously going through the area, had a flat front tire, so he radioed which was on the edge of a dry-to his crew tocheck itout when he lake, for the first time, was lost stopped. They told him every-and wandering in the heavy dust. thing was just fine, so he went on Quinn, who'd driven part of the through the start/ finish, hut as he dark third lap with no lights, was headed out onto lap two reali:ed right on his rear bumper, .and that the tire was indeed dead flat. soon took over the lead. The He made a hurried stop in a Duncans had a fuel pump friendly FAIR pit, dickered for problem and lost 11 minutes. the·use of someone's spare front Quinn, who had no problems tire, and went on, having lost a and no flats ( this was his first race minute-and-a-half with the tire with no flats), got back to the switch. In third it was Scott and finish line in time to get the Chris Duncan, in a Mirage meant overall win for himself and Fusco, to run SCORE events in Class 10. but Chase and Robertson lost an But La Rana doesn't allow the two hour out in the moonlight, and seat Class 10 cars to upgrade to the Duncans, with power steering l 700ccs the way SCORE does, so trouble for a while, moved up to the Duncans, driving in their first finish second, and ninth overall in race, had to run in the unlimited their first off road ca·r race. class. They are retired bike racers, Ro,pertson and Chase were third, and when one drove, the other eventually. Quinn reported that played passenger, so they were the first 25 miles of this course both in the car all the time. was flat out in fifth gear for his At the end of the second lap car. Chase and Robertson were still in The Class 8 trucks were next to the lead, and Fusco was a little start, and at the end of the first lap over three minutes down, but the lead belonged to Mike he;d already made his driver McKinney in a Ford, and he had change, and handed over to Jeff 13 minutes on David Sykes, in Quinn. The Duncans were still another Ford. In third it was Marc running well in third, and made a Stein, in still another Ford. Rick fuel and seat-switch stop at the · Holmes lost over an hour in his end of the lap. ' Chevy and never came around Chase and Robertson con-again, and Bob DeLo:ier, in tinued to lead through lap three, another Chevy, was reported but as they hit pit row, the driver, upside down, after apparently running afoul of a big boulder. His truck became a landmark for the event. Scott and Mike McKinney had their Ford in the Class 8 lead on the first lap then had mystery electrical problems, finally solved, and they regained the lead on the last lap to win the' class. Jim Tucker and Mike McGee had a good run in the Class 10 Raceco, despite an ongoing worry about a flickering oil light they finished second in class 4th overall. The McKinney Ford had a mystery electrical problem, one of those situations when a wire breaks inside the i;sulation so it can't be seen, and lost,an hour o'n the second lap, moving Sykes up into the lead. Sykes, driving what would be a Class Stock-Full SCORE truck, and considerably less modified than McKinney's, had decided to run in Class 8 because he wanted to drive at least 200 miles. Stein, in a truck of the same ilk, had the same plans, but they went awry when his truck broke its rear leaf springs on the second lap. Page 40 October 1994 Dusty Times

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Larry Lariviere, who had to stop to fix and finally remove a flop-ping headlight, went solo and drove the ORE to third in Class 10, eighth overall. Their sons won in the dark in July and in August it was dad's turn, and ,Jim Zupanovich and Dick Weyhrich drove the Raceco to fourth in Class 10 action. David Sykes does a grand wheelie out of a ditch in his Class 8 Ford, and he led the two middle laps of the race but had to settle for second at the flag. Danny Reider and Jamie Daven ran second most of the Class 5 race, but anchor man Reider took the lead on the last lap in the Baja Bug enjoying its third ever race and they won the class and were fifth overall as well. Sykes led through lap three, but On the third lap it was Bob the McKinney truck, with Scott Snaith, Harrold's co-driver, and McKinney at the wheel now, was he built his lead to just over seven back in good shape, and running minutes. It was Weyhrich in hard. On the fourth lap the second, as Beveridge's co-driver, McKinneys went back into the Morgan Maiocco, dropped out lead, with a very quick lap, and after a heim broke on the rear of took the win. Sykes and his co- his car, and all the shocks tore off. driver, Gregg Woodington, who Tucker's co-driver, Mike McGee, drove lap four, had some hadmoveduptothirdnow,with mysterious electrical problems of Lariviere, who was driving in his their own, which they healed first night race, in fourth place, themselves, and they took second followed by Tom Mangione, in a place. MECO, who'd started about six The Class 10 cars started next, minutes late, in fifth. and at the end of lap one the lead Snaith and Harrold, with no belonged to Chris Harrold, in a problems at all, went on at a Jimco, racing in his first La Rana steady pace, and took the win, event. Burl Beveridge was second finishing second overall to hoot. behind him, only 22 seconds Tucker and McGee, whose later, in a Raceco, and then came serenity was disturbed only by a Jim Tucker, in another Raceco, a flickering oil light, finished little under three minutes later. second about 13 minutes later, Larry Lariviere, in an ORE, was followed in by Lariviere, who'd fourth, nine seconds back, and had to stop to take off a flopping followed by Jim Zupanovich, in headlight. Zupanovich and Dick Weyhrich 's Raceco, another Weyhrich, who'd lost about 25 17 seconds later. minutes on the last lap, dropped Harrold, who'd graduated from to fourth, and Larry Bolin, in a a 5-1600 car, and was in a buggy Raceco, was fifth. He'd had a for the first time, continued to miserable first lap, starting when lead through the second lap, hut his fan belts popped off and he he still had only 22 seconds on jogged back down the course to Beveridge. Zupanovich had see if he could find 'em. He moved up to third, delighted to spotted one, and triumphantly have finished his assigned two returned to his car only to laps, and handed over to discover that it wasn't one of his; W eyhrich. Tucker was now it was far too small. Then he tried fourth, less than a minute back, to fabricate a belt out of super and Lariviere was fifth. ta e, and asked us to let our Jim Joyce and Jon Kennedy had the early lead in Class 1-2-1600, then lost time stopping to help a roll over, never got it back and were second in class and tenth overall in the Raceco. Dusty Times John Prosser went solb in his Class 1-2-1600 Mirage and ran with the leaders despite a first lap flat tire, and he moved into the lead on the third lap and won with a seven minute margin and placed a nifty sixth overall. readers know that they shouldn't waste their time trying: it does not work. He also had a couple of flats, and somewhere along the way his crew went out with his light bar to meet him, and missed him, and he drove part of a lap in the dark with no lights. But he had a good fourth lap, and took fifth place. Next to start were the Class 5 cars, and at the end of lap one it was Rick Henry, in a convertible, with just under two minutes on Jamie Davenport, in another convertible. Tom Costa ran third, and then came Mike Nix, who'd had a flat, and in fifth place, it was Brian Dague in the only sedan. Henry held onto his lead, and he had Davenport still tight on his rear bumper at the end oflap two, with Costa still in third, and Ken Deck up to fourth place. Dague had lost about 10 minutes, and so had Nix, whose motor was going sour, and he'd decided to hahy it the rest of the way. Henry put his co-driver, A.]. Martin into the car for the final two laps. Martin works for Bob Gordon, prepping his race car, and got some unusual help for the car for this event, in the form of a fuel sponsorship from Indy car driver Robby Gordon, Bob's son. Robby is a real off road fan, anJ understands the problems of a low bucks team. Martin con-tinued to lead through the third lap, but he couldn't shake Davenport's co-driver, Danny Reider, who was still only a little over two minutes back. Deck was now in third place, having no problems, and Nix was still nursing his sick motor around in fourth place. Reider caught Martin about halfway around the last lap, and went past, into the lead, and the win. He and Davenport reported that their car, a new one, now has three races under it's tires, and has two wins and a second place to its credit. Henry and Martin were second, only a scant two minutes back, and Nix, down to three cylinders, was third, 20 minutes later. Deck was five minutes behind him in fourth. The 1600cc buggies went next, with 13 starters, tied with Class 900 for the biggest class. The first · lap lead belonged to Jim Joyce in a Raceco, but hl· had only 26 seconds on nuh Plaskon and Craig -~ 5-1600 BAJA BUG COMPLETE BUMPER TO BUMPER All Skid Plate Tabs Dual Coil Mount $1,200.00 Headlight Mount Spare Tire Mount Oil Filter Tabs Tail Light Tabs MUST SUPPLY OWN BODY AND FLOOR PAN October 1994 DEZ FAB 10734 Kenney, Suite D Santee, CA 92071 619-562-6039 Page 41

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Rick Henry and A.J. Martin led Class 5 for three laps but lost the lead on the final round and finished second, a scant two minutes out of the win. Michael Nix and Steve Buckley ran with the leaders for a time, then lost a cylinder in the Baja Bug, but they· carried on to place third in Class 5. Jerry Erstad stands his Raceco on its nose, delighting the spec-tators; he later had problems with his lights but was third in 1-2-1600, 11th O/A. It was a close race among the Mini Mags in the early laps, but then they all had troubles. Having the least tro1,1ble or fixing it faster were Mike Thurlow and Rick Ellison who won and were 12th 0/A. Daniel Drake with Lisa and Steve Drake riding along in the 5-1600, drove the entire distance, and led the class the entire distance in the tidy Baja Bug to his first solo driving victory, by.about eight minutes. ~ - Marshall in their Mirage. Then it was Malcolm BrycL', in a Bunderson, a minute and 44 seconds later, and tied with Jerry Erstad in his Raceco, for fourth. And Mike Duenas ran fifth, in his Duenas chassis, liking this bugr:v a whole lot better than his old Class 11 car. Plaskon and Marshall moved up to lead on lap two, and now had 37 seconds on Joyce, who ran in second place, even with broken front stops. In third it was Bryce, 22 seconds later, followed by Erstad, another 50 seconds hack. And just 52 seconds behind him was John Prosser, in a Mirage, up to fifth after a rear flat on the first lap, and loose c.v. bolts at the end of this lap. Prosser had his best time on lap three and moved into the lead, but just 29 seconds in front of Joyce's co-driver.Jon Kennedy. In third it was Plaskon and Marshall, who'd lost about six minutes, and then came Bryce, followed by Erstad in fifth. He was only five minutes and 12 seconds hehind the lead car. It was still anyone's race. Prosser, who soloed, had no further troubles, and took the win, finishing almost seven minutes in front of Kennedy and Joyce, who were second. Kennedy had lost some time when he had to stop for a rolled over Class 9 car and got himself stuck. A mutual effort got them both going again, In Class 750 Dean Galloway and Eric Boka drove the 4WD" Toyota hard and led from start to finish, and wc,n by 48 minutes despite some down time on the last, dark lap. Page 41 ---,,-----------,,,=""""""=.....,,,..,=:--:;;,,, At 13 starters Class 9 tied with 1-2-1600 for the largest class title, and young Tony Cassetta drove his Sandwinder into the lead on lap 1 and led all the way despite a few stops to fix the throttle linkage. but Kennedy lost about four peek into the past. Their car, minutes. In third it was Erstad, called "Old Goat II", is a tribute who had problems with his lights. to their grandfather, Orris If he got the RPMs up really high Johnson, who is called "The Old one fog light would work, hut that Goat", and who sponsored their was all, and he struggled with that father, Jerry Johnson, in a two situation for the last 20 miles or seater, also called tht· "Goat", so. Steve McM ullin and Tom some 18 years ago. (This is a much Craig finished fourth in their neater looking car than the Mateo chassis, and Duenas, who original Class l 0, howl'ver.) Cliff soloed, drove with only one light Carter was in fifth place in a DGK. working, to finish fifth. Cassetta ran an almost identical The Mini-Mag class was the second lap, and built his lead to next group to start, and at the end nearly five minutes, with Thom-of the first lap the lead was in the asson still chasing hard. Callaway hands of Chris and Greg Garrett, was right there in third place, just but.they were just a minute and 14 a little over a minute hack, and seconds in front of Mike thencametheJohnsons,another Thurlow, who was only five minute and 40 seconds hehind seconds in front of the Bristing him. David Rogers, in a Bun-brothers, Steve and Frank. derson had moved into fifth The Bristing car moved into the place. lead on the second lap, but by just Cassetta 's throttle was sticking, one second, with Thurlow now and he had to stop to oil it, hut his behind them. The Garretts lost 35 car was in good shape otherwise, minutes with a medley of errors: and he continued to lead, with a first a loose wire, then a hroken nice cushion of 14 minutes now, exhaust pipe, and then a dead as Jim Clements, in a Clemco, alternator. moved up to second. The Thurlow bounced back into the Johnsons had climbed to third, lead after lap three, now about 14 with Perry and Jay King, in a minutes in front of the Bristings King's Custom, now in fourth, who'd taken time to fix a bolt that followed by Brian Maginnis, in a was working loose. The Garretts Jimco, in fifth. Callaway was out, had another long lap, but were and Rogers was down for the still running, over an hour down. count also, while Thomasson lost Rick Ellison took over from 16 minutes. Thurlow to drive the final lap, Cassetta had to give his throttle because they had built enough of a another shot of oil, but kept on lead to feel safe taking the time for moving right along, and went on a driver change, and he held on to to take the win. He was 21 that lead, to bring the team in for minutes in front of Clements, the win. The Bristings were who finished second. In third it second, about 17 minutes later, was the Johnson brothers, who followed in by the Garretts, who had dad.Jerry, riding. They'd had demonstrated great perseverance, a couple of scary moments when and finished about an hour and 25 the car quit for no recogni:able minutes later. reason, but managed to get going The Class 900 cars started next, again to earn their third place. The and at the end of the first 50 miles Kings were fpurth, followed in by it was Tony Cassetta, in his yellow Maginnis. mid-engined Sandwinder that Class 550, the limited Baja looks like a ghost from 23 years Bugs, was next to take the green ago, in front, about a minute and a flag and at the end of the first 50 half up on Steve Thomasson in a miles the lead car, with Danny Merideth. In third it was David Drake at the wheel, was only a Callaway in his T uhular Designs minute and 44 seconds in front of car, followed by Scott and Todd Mario Ledezma. Lee Patten ran Johnson, in another Merideth. third in a Neth, followed by (A~d they represented another Ruben Lede:ma, who'd made his October 1994 Bug look extra fierce with a set of pointy teeth on the front bumper. But this Lede:ma car broke the studs out of the head, and didn't get through the second lap. Dennis Slettin ran fifth. after repairing a broken coil wire. Meanwhile, Drake ran another lap like his first one, and built his lead to a bit over four minutes, and it was still Mario Lede:ma in second place. Slettin had come up to third now, not having any more troubles, and he was only 31 seconds in front of Patten, who was giving him a good hack anJ forth battle, as they changed positions several times. There was a beautiful full moon rising over the hills to light their way through the desert now. Drake's time slowed a hit in the later laps, as full darkness fell. but he held on to his lead, and hnd nine and a half minutes on Danny Lede:ma, who'd taken over for Mario, and had been stuck in the silt a couple of times. Slettin 's co-driver, Mike Molina, was now driving, and he was hanging on to third place, another 15 minutL's back, hut with Patten right on his bumper, four seconds later. They all held their positions through the last lap, with no one having any problems but Patten, who rolled over and lost about a half hour. Drake, who'd made just one stop to take on five gallons of gas and change passengers, took thl' win, followed in eight minutes later hy the Lede:ma team. Slettin and Molina had a good last lap and finished third, with Patten in fourth place, 32 minutes later. Class 600 was represented by Barry Bates and Mike Pannell, in a Chevy Bla:er, and they did four laps, obviously having some lengthy troubles on laps two and four, to get a Class 600 win, and finish 49th overall. In Class 750, the four wheel drive mini trucks, the first lap leader was the Toyota driven by Dean Galloway and Eric Baka, and they were 13 minutes up on Gary Hicks and Mark Waligle, in another Toyota. Bill Market and John Daly, still another Toyota, had problems that cost them a half hour or so, and ran third. Galloway and Boka ran a second lap that was identical to their first, and solidified their lead, as Hicks and Waligle lost over an hour, putting Markel and Daly into second, but over an hour down. Galloway and Boka had a lead of an hour and 11 minutes at the end of lap three, and it was still Markel and Daly in pursuit. Hicks and Waligle were having more down time, and then they ran out of_time. 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A many time class champion Jim Clements in his Clemco was close again in Class 9, moved into second on lap 3 and stayed there to the checkered flag. Third generation racers Scott and Todd Johnson drove a two seat Class 9 Merdith, with dad Jerry riding shotgun, and the kids finished third in class. Mario and Danny Ledezma were stuck in second place in Class 5-1600, and despite getting stuck in the silt a couple times they finished second Bug. the win, with Markel and Daly in second place, and last to finish. In Class 725, stock mini trucks, which is required to run only two laps, the first lap helonged to A.J . DeNun:io and Gordon A:evedo, in their Toyota, and they had six minutes on second place Dan Cannon and Michael Robertson, in a Ford. Ronnie Goodwin, in a Chevy Luv, ran third, five and a half minutes later. Reaffirming an old truth that says, "You can't win unless you finish". Goodwin completed his second lap to take the victory, while the other two teams came to a bad end. Class 1550, stock, full si:ed two wheel drive trucks, another two lap group, had a similar ending, except that Ken Parr and Ron Stakewell were the only team to get the two laps in. Thl'y had to replace their Chevy's alternator, but got through their two laps in three hours and 55 minutes to take the win, while Fred Nelson, in a Ford, was sidelined on lap one. Then it was time for Class 1575, the stock full si:ed four wheel drive trucks, and they were required to run only two laps also. In this batch the first lap went to Dave Edelstein in a Ford, and he was just 37 seconds ahead of Ray Currie and George Maher, in another Ford. Mike and Tom Barnett, in a Jeep, ran ahout 15 minutes further back, and Dennis •' ½" '_,:;.-... ,.,. ~ ,,,,,-.. , )' Class 725 for 2WD' Mif!i trucks ·had three starters, ran only two laps for an \ officiel finish, but only one s·urvived the two laps and it was the neat and tidy Chevy Luv that made it through the rough stuff. Class 1575 for full size 4WD' rigs went to Mike and Tom Barnett in their Jeep Cherokee, and they came from third to first running their best lap on the last one to win the class. Allen, in another Jeep, didn't get She had seven minutes on Les The ·last group to start, Class that first lap done at all. Willis and Mike Becker in their . 1525, stock, mini four whed Currie and Maher fell hy the Toyota, and they were 50 minutes drive trucks, also had to run only wayside on lap two, while uponGeorgePerret,inaToyota. two laps. In this group Larry Edelstein had major prohlems, Fay's luck went from had to Gross took the lea9 in his Toyota, and lost roughly four and a half worse, starting with a flat at mile with Mike Stock herger, in hours. The Barnetts, in contrast, 35, on lap two, and eventually another Toyota, in second, less ran their best lap, and took the causing her to lose over three than three minutes hack. In one of win. Their biggest problem had hours. Willis limped in with a the tightest races of the evening, been the loss of their hood, and broken idler arm for a quick fix Mike Yarman ran third in a they were worried lest thl' BLM and then took the win, while Fay Chevy, one second behind him. think they were littering the got home much later, after Roger Malcolm took over for desert. Edelstein did get a finish, changing the transmission, for Gross on the second lap, and he coming to the checkned flag secondplace.BarryBeacham,ina keptupthequickpace,totakethe somewhere around half past Toyota, put together two long win by 35 minutes. But Stock-midnight. laps for a third pl:tce, but Perret berger's seat fell apart on the out of his steering wheel, and dropped a half hour. Yarman, had troubles too, and lost about as much time, so the race stayed close. Stockberger got his second place by a margin of only three minutes over Yarman. La Rana moves to Ridgecrest for their next race, the California 200, on Octoher 14th through the 16th. This will be the 6th event in their '94 series, with only the High Desert 300, in Novem-ber, still to come. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS ON NEXT PAGE Next to get the green flag were didn't get his second lap done. . second lap, and he lost_a bearing the stock two wheel drive minis, •---------------------------11!11-------------.• Class 1500, and their first lap leader was Kathy Fay, in a Ford. MOBILE SERVICE TO YOUR HOME OR TO YOUR CHASSIS BUILDER SERVING ALL OF LOS ANGELES , ORANGE AND SAN DIEGO COUNTIES Les Willis inherited the lead on the last lap and despite a stop to fix a broken idler arm, he went on to finish the two laps and take the Class 1500 stock 2wo· CALL TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICING ON CUSTO~ RACE CAR WIRING ! 1 mini truck victory. Last off the line was Class 1525, stock mini 4WD'trucks, had a tight race going on lap 1, but the team of Roger Malcolm and Larry Gross led all the way in the Toyota to win by 35 minutes. Dusty Times CONGRATULATIONS TO MIKE MARTIN, CLASS STOCK MINI WINNER, AND MIKE McDONNELL, CLASS 10 WINNER AT THE NEVADA 400. 1525 West Burbank Blvd. Burbank, CA 91506 818-845-9473 October1994 Page 43

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Pikes Peak Report Text & Photos: Lome Trezise Rod Millen has been at Pikes Peak for a dozen years, and this year he reached his goal, the overall fast time. The new King of the Mountain used a well modified Toyota Celica powered by a Gurney style JMSA GTP turbo charged engine to get the record at 10:04:06. Congrats to Rod Millen who can add Pikes Peak to his many rally and off road championships. PIKES PEAK, Colo. - Pikes Peak officials threw away the record book following the 72nd running of the Chevrolet spon-sored hill climb, Monday July 4 as six class records and the overall record were shattered during the 12 .54 mile dirt road run to the 14,110 foot summit. · Rod Millen, Newport Beach, CA, set out not only to win in his class, but to break the overall record, which he did by 39.57 seconds. Driving an unlimited factory backed, all wheel drive Toyota Celica powered by the same 4 cylinder, turbo charged engine that the Dan Gurney team used to dominate the l.M.S.A. series, Millen completed the 154 turn climb in 10:04:06, also set-ting a new record for the Unlim-ited Division class, breaking the old record by-nearly 40 seconds. "It took 12 years to win this and it was worth it", said Millen, whose son Rhys also set a new record in his class, High Performance Showroom Stock in a Toyota Celica. Making the run before Millen was Robby Unser who finished in 10:05:58, which was fast enough to break the Open Wheel class record by more than 38 seconds, but not quick enough to hold off Millen who had spotters on the course to relay his times as he passed letting him know how he compared to Robby. Flawless, Millen bettered Unser by nearly two seconds to become "King of the Mountain". Unser, driving his Chevy powered Open Wheel entry was a tick faster than Millen during the preceding weeks' practice ses-sions. Unser was fast qualifier in the Open Wheel class which gave him the choice of starting position in the class. Unser chose to run last, unlike earlier in the day, when he, as fast qualifier in the Super Truck class, decided to run first. His decision to run first probably cost him the truck class victory. as he spun out a few times on a loose course, and had to settle for second in class. Antonin Charouz, Prague, Republic of Czechoslovakia, came a long way to set a new record for High Performance Showroom Stock class. Driving a Ford Escort Charouz finished in 12:28:06 followed by Rhys Millen in second in a Toyota Cel-ica. Charouz plans to retire with this win. Topping his own Super Truck division record set in 1993, Leo-nard Vahsholtz of Woodland Park, CO, powered his Ford Bronco to the top in 11 :36:63. Second was Robby Unser who might have won this class in his Chevy S-10 if he hadn't done a couple of uncharacteristic 360 degree spins. In the new Electric Car class Katy Endicott of San Pedro, CA, set the first ever record of 15:44:71 in her battery powered 1994 Honda. Jeff Zwart put a turbocharged engine in his Pro Rally Porsche Carrera 4 to claim first in the Pikes Peak Open Class, despite brake failure in the final stages. His time was 11 :53:48. Steve Beddor was second at 12:14:58, and sadly Vinnie Frontinan was eighth and last in his Toyota Cel-ica at 14:13:07. In the Open Wheel group David Donner was the first of four drivers who would break the old overall record in a car he pieced together after totaling his Another rallyman taking a turn on the mountain was Jeff Zwart whose dandy 4WD'Porsche had a turbo added and Jeff drove it quickly up the hill to win the Open class. Leonard Vasholtz won the Super Truck Class in his Ford and broke his own class record this year. He also placed second in Stock Class in a Ford Probe . A new electric car class appeared this year at the Peak with four entries and the title and the record went to a lady, Katy Endicott in an electric Honda, built in Califor-nia, of course. Dusty Times . Bobby Unser gives a little fatherly advice, speaking from lots of Pikes Peak records he has held, to his son Robby as he prepares to go up the hill to his second in trucks in the Chevy S-10. October 1994 Robby Unser was almost two seconds behind the overall champ, but broke the Open Wheel record and won that class in his Chevy powered winged device. Bobby Regester beat his long time rival Leonard Vasholtz this year in his Ford Probe in the Stock Car class, which was the largest at the race. Bobby didn't win by much, merely two seconds. race car the first day of practice. Hig time would eventually be good for third in class. Paul Dal-lenbach, who had set the record last year took another 15 seconds off Donner's time to finish second in class. Last to run was Unser who made no errors on this trip, winning the class with a time second only to Rod Millen's. Last to run was the Unlimited Class with two entrants. Nobu-hiro Tajima was first up driving a twin engined Suzuki, he finished j 25 seconds behind Unser. But Rod Millen was a man on a mis-sion and he accomplished it well, the new King of the Mountain. The biggest class as always was the Stock Cars, but a mechanical protest has held up the official results. Unofficially the win went to Bobby Regester in a Chevy Camara V-6 and if it stands his 11 :39: 17 will be a new record. Leonard Vahsholcz was a close second in his Ford Probe at 11 :41: 12. v• "• Following in dad's footsteps, maybe tire tracks, is Rhys Millen who has been rallying for a few years, and took a Toyota Celica to a new record in the High Performance Showroom Stock class, but he was second in the class. Suzuki team rally driver in the Asia Pacific Series, Nobuhiro Tajima ran his small Suzuki in the Unlimited Division and he finished 47 seconds behind Rod Millen, and was second in the class in the Escudo. Page 45

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14H RALLY OF NEW ZEALAND Colin McRae Wins Two In A Row! Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Colin McRae and Derek Ringer held up Subaru by winning the rally outright. They were the only one of the four car team to finish, and had no serious car trouble and won by over two minutes. He proved them wrong! Colin McRae's second successive vic-tory in New Zealand came as a telling riposte to those ( including his team managers) who had cri-tici:ed his recent lack of form, the impact being compounded by the retirements of all three of his teammates. His win didn't help his Championship chances much (he is not in the Subaru line-up for the 1000 Lakes and is being sent to Australia instead), but after teammate Carlos Sain:'s first day retirement, McRae was able to prevent their Toyota rivals J uha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol from gaining too many points. For all his misfortunes ear-lier this year, McRae was there when he was most needed. Four Subarus against three Toyotas, two Fords and two Mit-subishis in New Zealand, what a great entry! On the anniversary of Subaru's first World Champion-ship Rally win with the old Legacy car, the 555 team planned to take New Zealand by storm. They entered both World Champion-ship team drivers, Carlos Saim and Colin McRae, and both Asia Pacific drivers, Possum Bourne and Richard Burns for this joint championship event. Toyota, who gaineJ a hat trick of wins in New Zealand from 1990-1992 entered old model cars for Didier Auriol andJuha Kankkunen with a rebuilt test car for Japanese trai-nee driver Yoshio Fujimoto, aware that Mitsubishi, with Ken-neth Eriksson and Armin Schwar:, were coming in leading the Asia Pacific Championship following their victory on the first round, the Indonesia Rally. Ford, due to the continued absence of the injured Francois Delecour, again invited Ari Vatanen as their guest driver to support Miki Biasion. Subaru now launched their trai-nee scheme with Masao Kamioka and Mitsuo Maeshima driving Group N Subaru lmpre:as. After the heat of summer in Greece and the warmth of winter in Argentina, it was a shock for the teams to face the cold and wet conditions in New Zealand. Even two weeks before the event there was snow on some of the higher · stages! Traction is forever the challenge here for the engineers and the twisting, highly cam-bered, stone covered tracks the challenge for the drivers. All except 17 of the 81 drivers were entered in four wheel drive cars. Technical innovations were few. This was the international event debut for Daihatsu's new front drive 1.6 model. Subaru had fully active front and central dif-ferentials for both Sain: and McRae, active central differen-tials only for Bourne and Burns. As the event progressed Toyota admitted they were using traction control seriously (mostly on Kankkuncn 's car) fm the first time on a gravel rally. Pre-rally drama centered around the theft, three days before the start, of the service van, with all spare parts, required by lmpre:a WRXRA of 21 year old Greg Graham, leader of the coun-try's rally series. The empty van was found, so friends all around the country supplied parts to help him restock the van. A delightful surprise was the pre-event guest dinner to raise money for the Rodger Freeth memorial fund, following the death during Rally Australia of one of NZ's leading motosportsmen. Gifts were donated by hundreds of people and NZ $50,000 was raised. The fund to provide education and support for Freeth 's two children, closed at a total just under NZ $200,000. The tricky gravel covered roads caused difficulties for many driv-ers during the pre-event training days. The reigning NZ champion Joe McAndrew had a collision with a car in which three large Maori people were traveling. They rounded on the luckless McAndrew and the affair was settled when McAndrew was invited to buy their car, there and then. New radar meters are in operation, and Vatanen was recorded at 157 kph on a road limited to 100 ·kph, but was allowed to proceed with only a warning. "Very nice people in New Zealand" explained codriver Fabri:ia Pons! However, there were incidents between local drivers and rallymen; all three Toyota drivers came back with damaged training cars. Drivers felt the last day's stages north of Auckland, while very attractive for driving, were too close to civil-ization to be used for high speed competition with the residents there showing they did not need the rally excitement to enhance their lives. After the rains which lasted until the very start of the rally, Juha Kankkunen, bearing number 1, complained about the unfair-ness of driving first car on the roads of Etape 1 where the subse-quent passing of cars cleared away the mud on the surface. "In some places the later cars were appreci-ably quicker." Despite his com-m en ts Kankkunen had edged ahead, but by stage 4 Sain:, sixth on the road, had caught him. However, as Sain: was driving away from the rest halt at Manu Bay on an easy road section towards the start of stage 5 he had an engine problem, possibly a dropped valve, and the car came to a halt in the stage itself. There was scandal for the Subaru team as not only Sain: but his Asia· Pacific teammate Possum Bourne retired when the latter's Impre:a slipped off the road when a long left hand bend tightened. "I really needed a good result here to prove I was still up to speed." This hap-pened four kilometers before the end of stage 6, where the car snapped round unexpectedly. The car was undamaged, but there were no spectators to get him going again. The good news for Subaru was that Colin McRae was leading the rally hy 43 seconds when the cars arrived in Rotorua at the end of the first day. Despite a lot of pre-rally engineering and testing the Mitsubishis had not found the speed they hoped for. Armin Schwar: commented, "We have now got such better traction that the shortfall in the torque is apparent, especially on the fastest stages." Kenneth Eriksson had a broken front dif-ferential in the afternoon. Ford's Miki Biasion suffered loss of power through the morning and only gradually improved. Happily guest driver Ari Vatanen ran fourth, although he haJ water injection trouble, said to be due to his particular style of driving. "We found he used a lot higher revs than we would have ex-pected," the team explained. The injection pumps were later adjusted to suit. Spectators also noted Ari was a lot more sideways than the other Escort drivers. . In Group N both World Championship leader Jesus Puras and Group leader Jorge Rccalde retired through accidents, the lat-ter duc to hrakc trouble. After various rcsults recounts, the leader was Australian Ed Ord\'n-ski ahead of a series of other Lanccr cars. There was a close fight between the two Junior Sub-aru lmpre:a drivers Kamioka and Maeshima until Maeshima fell a littlc behind when the turbo pipe failed, hut he gradually recovered lost ground. In the smaller classes, the 1300 Su:uki of Nobuhiro Tajima was fastest hut ran out of fuel on stage 7 and lost five min-utes. Grcg Graham retired with gearbox failure. "After all my troubles, everyone lent me so many spare parts I ended up with more than before!" On Eta pc 2 the rally took to the famous roads through the Motu hills, where the slowest stage in the World Championship is held. The winning time on stage 13 was McRae's 37:21 heating nearest rival Auriol by 25 seconds. McRae's other rival Juha Kank-kunen was delayed when he spun and had difficulty turning around in the narrow road, while Ari Vatanen, the remaining Ford works driver, went off the road on the next stage and lost three min-utcs. "We slid off on a muddy patch; unfortunately we did not receive our course checkers' notes before we tackled the stage." Ear-lier he had to drive 20 km on very twisty roads with no power stet:ring. Subaru lost Richard Burns, their remaining Asia Pacific con-tent.ier after an accident on stage 15. Prodrive team manager David Richards, who now had one of the four car entry still running, said "I Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander stayed in the hunt with the leaders, but finished fourth in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution II, ten minutes out. Wayne Bell and David Boddy were doing well with the Hyundai Rallysport but fell back later in the rally and the Australians finished in 31st place. · David Strong and Bruce McKenzie pose with the new little Dai-hatsu Charade, which they drove to a good finish in its Woi'ld Championship Rally debut. Page46 October 1994 Dusty Times

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shall be happy to eat Humble Pie if Colin wins." Four different makes were in the top positions. Auriol spun his Toyota and stalled, then went off and hit a bank on stage 16, lost three min-utes and struggled through the fol-lowing stages with the central dif-ferential broken, apparently in two wheel drive. He fell from second to sixth, well out of touch with the kaders and finished the day 11 minutes in arrears. The Mitsubishi drivers were not con-fident of their cars, though when they returned to Rotorua they were lying third and fifth overall. Eriksson commented, "Even after the transmission was changed last night, we still have a traction problem.'' Juha Kankkunen and Nicky Grist started out strong but gradually lost a little time to the leading Subaru. They made no excuses and the Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD took a strong second, good points for .driver and manufacturer standings. The Mitsubishi drivers were feeling a bit down on power, but Armin Schwarz and Klaus Wicha got the Lancer Evolution II into third in the tough rally. In Group N Mitsubishi Lancers held the top five places with Ed Ordynski three minutes in front of Kiyoshi Inoue, as Michael Lieu lost four minutes with a puncture. The Lancers were followed by Maeshima and Kamioka. In var-ious classes, Tajima retired with electrical trouble leaving Malcolm Stewart ahead with his Group A Peugeot 106 Rall ye. In the 2-liter Group N class, Ross MacKenzie in an old Daihatsu GT ti was head-ing the new normally aspirated I .6 liter version. In third placl· was Wayne Bell's Hyundai Lantra. One unwelcome feature of an otherwise pleasant event was the aggressive action of the police, who had been pursuing competi-tors and followers alike, for mis-demeanors which seemed trivial to visitors. Four time World Champion Kankkunen com-mented, "This is worse than it ever was in Finland, and that was terrible enough. It has been far more troublesome than in pre-vious years." On successive days McRae was stopped twice. "It was awful. Once I overtook a police car, even though we were well under the speed limit. In the end Ed Ordynski and Mark Stacey swing their Group N Lancer around a gravel turn, and the Australians were ninth overall and the winners in Group N, winning the competitive class by just over three minutes. Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya had engine woes from the start with the Subaru, and the car stopped for good on stage 5, here, while Brian Hatkin tries to get by in another Subaru. Rothmans Colin McRae/Derek Ringer Rally of New Zealand Juha Kankkunen/Nicky Grist Armin Schwarz/Klaus Wicha Kenneth Eriksson/Steffan Parmander Didier Aurlol/Bernard Occelli Joe McAndrew/Bob Haldane Yoshlo Fujimoto/Arne Hertz Brian Stokes/Jeff Judd Ed Ordynski/Mark Stacey Kiyoshl lnoue/Yoshimasa Nakahara Mayuml Nagosgl/S.Yoshlzawa (34th) C:8 Subaru lmpreza 555 A• 5:39:56 SF/GB Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD A 5:42:10 D Mitsubishi Lancer E 11 A 5 :45:27 S Mitsubishi Lancer E 11 A 5 :49:38 F Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A 5:51 :52 NZ Subaru Legacy 4WD A 5 :59:40 J/S Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD A 6 :05:11 NZ Ford Escort RS Cosworth A 6 :06 :05 AUS Mitsubishi Lancer E N • 6 :08 :50 J Mitsubishi Laancer E N 6:11 :55 J Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo N# 7 :01 :18 78 starters • 46 finishers - ·Group Winner •· F2 winner - # Ladies winner Winner's average speed over stages 88.73 kph World Championship Points - Toyota 128, Subaru 115, Ford 68 WRC Drivers Points - Auriol 75, Sainz & Kankkunen 72, Schwarz 31, Biasion 30, etc. Group N Points - Puras 36, Holderied 24, Recalde 17, Njlru, Menem, Reininger & Ordynskl 13. FIA Ladies Cup Points - Holderled 38. Dusty Times the word got round because a police chief actually came up and apologi:ed for what was going on, but it was bad all the same." • as in previous years and records in the Asia Pacific series, while the were broken, either in Group A 555 Subaru team lost both their or N on 16 stages. Three times contenders. In Group N Austral-McRae had beaten the previous ian Ed Ordynski held the lead he record by over a half minute on a inherited on day I and Mitsubishi new type of Pirelli tires. "I got the Lancer Evolution cars took the feeling we could win after we top four places followed by Sub-pulled out a lead at Motu (stage aru cadet drivers Maeshima and 14) and went gently through the Kamioka. There was a big panic after the restart on Etape 3. Ford mechan-ics had noted at service the day before a faulty cam belt on Vatan-en 's car, and this was changed in 26 minutes and he arrived at the first stage on time. Vatanen then set off with a vengeance to catch third placed Schwar: who was 1 ying 34 seconds in front, but the Finn crashed and retired. It was long face time for Ford. The speed of the rally had been impressive. Of the 29 stages 22 were the same last day." Kankkunen slowed up With the Group A lmpre:a as well. "We lost too much to now clearly superior in perfor-Colin in Motu to keep ~p the m a nce to the current Celica fight." He switched his traction STl 85, a long awaited decision control mechanism off and left will he made by Team Toyota Schwar: and Auriol to win most Europe whether or not to intro-of the stages. duce the new Celica ST205 at the ::, en en ~ w w ::, _, < a: ::, Cl 1-(!l a: Kenneth Eriksson's fourth next event, the 1000 Lakes. place helped him increase his lead cKENZ E'S Al IL E S K& I· ILTERS YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS/ m PHONE: (714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 ill TS 2366 E. 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Mountain· Shadow 150 Joe Vasquez was looking good for the first three laps, but had too much trouble, power steering, clutch and rocker adjuster, on the fourth lap and he dropped out. day and night. It was a good win for Tim who has also won his past four races with his Class 10 car. Is there no stopping him and his pit crew? Tracey, Michael, Mathew, and Bruce. Never say die race team of Odessa, Texas. Alan Robertson and his crew claimed second place and James Martin third. Congratulations guys, see you all next race. Sportsman's Class started out with Steve Guillete in the lead, Kevin O'Hara in second place followed up with Victor Lujan in third place. Second lap produced some broken cars with Victor Lujan dropping out with a bad motor. Everybody held their positions for the third and fourth laps, then things really started to happen. First place Steve·Guillete had clutch problems, the Gutiere: Bros. lost a front spindle ( this changed everything in an exciting 4th lap at night). The end of the Sportsman race ended with Larry Salcido moving into first place. Kevin O'Hara in the Alamo Auto car in second place and a surprising finish in his Class 7 pickup truck from Juare:, Mexico, Hector Nune:. The Baja Bug Class started next ina bla:ingdisplayofhorsepower and some kind of ingenuity. These cars were great and real crowd pleasers. First lap saw Milt _,.,. Moore and his co-driver Amy Mark Oliveri in his Class 11 made two laps. He could have finished, but the I Brand in the lead followed by deep sana at night was kind of rough, too rough for a Class 11. Carlos Gome: in second and Scott Welcome to the Mountain temperature James Martin was in Ba_xter in third. The second and Shadow 150 DEGREE Desert the lead followed by Tim McClain th1rd laps were pretty uneventful. Raceandwewerenottoofaroff. and up two places was Joe Fourth lap saw the lead change At the drivers' meeting, 5:00, it Vasque: in third. The second saw with Carl?s Gome: of El Pas?, was112degrees.Thiswasverified Alex Garcia in his Porsche Texas takmg the lead over Milt by the T.V. film crew that quickly powered Chenowth fall out with an? Amy. The ~olorado team ~f took some film and left very transmission problems. Alan Milt and Am_y !ugh ~e':1tered their quickly thinking we were all Robertson had fuel problems but car after avmdmg hit_tmg anot~er NUTS you think? The races were seemed to have solved them and carthatwasstuck. BemgtrueN1ce postponed till 7:00 hoping it continued on. On the third lap people and true off ~oad racers, would cool off a little. Post time every one looked good running they helped to unst1ck the guy 111 degrees. into the night and a little cooler. that got them. stuck and they _all We've been racing for almost James Martin was still in the lead, resumed racmg; what a nice 18 years, and the sight of the cars Tim McClain trying to catch him, bunch of people. After Ca_rlos staged is always the neatest part of Joe Vasque: trying to catch them took the l~ad he also ~an mto the race. They are all clean and and Alan Robertson reeling in trouble losmg a rront tire. Milt have all their wheels on. third place steadily catching up. took _the lead agam. Scott Baxter TheProcarsstartedwithJames Onthefourthlapofasevenlap ran_ mto som~ problems and MartinfromOdessafirstoffinhis race Joe Vasquez dropped out d~cidedtocallitaday.Scottand Rabbit powered Chenowth. with a variety of problems. Lost his crew came all the way_ from SecondoffwasTimMcClainofEI hispowersteeringonthefirstlap, Albu_querque, N_ew Mexico to Paso in his Class IO Funco his clutch on the second and race JUSt to fall mto some bad followed by Alex Garcia and finally a rocker adjuster on the luck._So~ryScottandalsosorryto M artin Duarte from Juare:, fourth. The fourth, fifth, and his girlfnend for no reStro0ms. Mexico in their Porsche powered sixth laps were pretty uneventful The end of the Baja Class ended Chenowth. Alan D. Robertson, but the last lap was your typical in some controversy. It seems that also from Odessa, Texas was off road disaster for the leader. Milt was in the lead at the end of fourth off the line in his home James Martin led the whole race in the sixth lap and still having one made Class 10. Bringing up the the heat and dark only to lose his more lap to go was accidently rearwasJoeVasque:ofEIPasoin motor on the last lap. Sorry stoppedandwastoldhewasdone his Vasque: Bros. Raceco. James. This gave Tim McClain the with his race. Carlos on the other After the first lap in 100 plus win who was on James' heels all hand finished all seven laps and The Beginner Class used to be more popular, but this race it was small, taking nothing away from the winner Abel Gomez in his Invader Chassis car. =====;:.. Tim McClain drove his Class 10 Funco hard on the leader's heels, and midway m the second lap he inherited the lead and went on to take the overall win and IJragging rights. finished a seven lap race. Off Road Productions apologi:ed for this mistake and to correct their error will award cash and first place trophies to both teams. Sorry fellas. The Beginner Class seems to have dwindled somewhat. It used to be one of our biggest classes. Whatever the reason, the guys that do show up still have a good time. Our first place winner was Abel Gomez in his invader chassis car, second place was Poncho Bonilla and third place Mark Oliveri. Thank you all for a safe and very hot race. See you November 5th and 6th. Coming Next Month ••• 25th Annual Brush Run 101 FRT Superstition 250 WRC Rally of 1000 Lakes -SCORE Gold Coast 300 SODA UP 100 at Bark River Giel_! Helen Short Course Racing SCCA Pro Ojibwe Forest Rally ... Plus all the regular features Although they started out strong the second lap did in many Sportsman class cars including the Gutierez Brothers who dropped out on the last lap with broken spindles. The second place finisher in the Pro Class was Alan Robertson, who lost a bit of time with fuel problems driving his home made Class 1 car. The Ramierez Brothers take the green flag at the start line, but wheel stud and transmission failure put them out of the race in the early laps. Page 48 Octobcr1994 Dusty Times

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-~ .... ~ - -!IIE°'ER; .. - - -ii--•~ --.. 'The Straight Poop' From the Big Wahzoo SUMMER PARTY -On July 16th about 200 of the Checker faithful gathered in 'Checker Cove' just outside of Lucerne to party down! Tom Martin and the Kreps: Brothers teamed up to establish the finest Checker pool yet. Glen Galbrath flew in a Bell Jet Ranger to provide air cover for the party, plus thrills galore for all those that wanted helicopter rides. And, while the Checker Poker Run was in progress a freak wind storm came thru party headquarters and sent two big sun shades airborne thru the crowd. Thank goodness no one was injured, and that neither the operation of Ferd's snow cone machine, nor Dr. Checker's endless margarita fountain was interrupted. As the sun started to set on our beautiful California desert, the line started forming up to feast on barbecued tri-tips, fresh corn on the cob, Butow beans, multiple salads, rolls and butter, and of cour;se, that continuing river of ice cold tap beer. As expected, smiles, sunburns and good fellowship were evident every-where. The .on! y disagreement seemed to be whether the Checkers were better at party in' or racin'? And then the band fired up! As is traditional, during the band breaks the Annual Checker Games broke out. And not surprisingly, other than the Boobs 'n Beer Race, Checker members won every contest. There was a big field in the Jack-off Race, including La Rana's promoter, Eddie Castro. But just like everyone else, he too got dusted by the winning team of B.J. Bates and Koch's daughter. In the interest of safety, the Balloon Joust was once again a two part event this year. I mean, the first year we tried running over 30 motorcycle and quad entries in an area about the si:e of a 3 car garage, and that was scary even for the Checkers. In the lights from the bandstand, one round of this motorized cock-fighting saw about 15 quads blast off at the whistle, all of them inside a tight circle lined with spectators. Some of the spectators rightfully compared it to a cross between professional wrestling and night motocross. When the dust finally settled, the Checker team of Robert Harman and prospective member Bruce Tiffany were victorious. The motorcycle half of this craziness was just as exciting, but even more interesting. A couple of old teammates got together again at this event with a little different kind of 2-seater. Onto the back of Kenny Miller's big rooster-tailer climbed Butow. He was equipped with everything he needed: a helmet on his head; some sandals on his feet; a newspaper club in one hand; and a big balloon duct taped to the top of his head. The one thing he didn't have, were any foot pegs to stand on. And away they went! "Go for the driver's goggles, then the balloon". This was serious 500cc motorcycle billiards, with a tail gunner. The dust flew, Dusty Times balloons popped and the field gradually got smaller, 'ti! it came down to only two bikes. Hey Russ, you missed your calling man, ya shoulda been a bull rider rather than a DWP dude. After the final thrilling face off, Miller & Butow were the only team left with a full balloon. A hearty Wahwo congratulations goes out to all the winners of the '94 Checker Games. Throughout all the festivities, the Club carried on a seemingly endless raffle of good shit. Score's free entry for the upcoming Baja 1000 was won by the Krepsz', who bought over $300 worth of tickets. Danny Reider won the free race entry donated by La Rana, and Butow won a free entry from Baja Promotions. Speaking for the Club, the Wahzoo wants to thank all of these promoters for their support. With the possible exception of Master Bates, who broke his foot while laying out the poker run on Friday, this year's Checker Summer Party once again had no serious injuries, no fights, no cops, and caused no problems for anyone of consequence. There-fore, the big Wahzoo would like to give a "Big Atta Boy" to all those Checkers, their Checker-ettes, and all their friends who helped make this year's Checker Spectacular possible. Can we party, or what! NEW MEMBERS -'Big & Bigger' are now full members. FRANK and SEAN KREPSZ sailed thru the black ball vote as a duo to the surprise of no one. Hey Guys, you're Checkers now! Welcome to the Brotherhood. JOSH 'crash' ROSENSTEIN once again proved that nepotism is rightfully alive and well in our organization. The Prince of Penis' Iii' brother is now a full fledged Checker. Atta way Josh! ALAN SM ITH is the latest l / 2 1600 driver and proven pitter to become one of the Checkers 'Few Good Men'. A Wahzoo welcome to ya Brother Smith! And last but not least, Robert Harman recently whined that the Wah:oo's sharp tongue has gone dull of late. Hmm? Our final new member this month was none other than STEVE HARMAN. Now ya gotta understand that 01' Man Har-man's biggest hurdle in becoming a Checker was the question as to whether or not he was not only a promiscuous in-breeder, but that he might actually be the guy responsible for Pick. As the undisputed patriarch of a large family of 'Erectors', these alleged hormonal indiscretions would not be too surprising. Now as far as the Club is concerned, th<! Harman Clan now represents a powerful 3 (maybe 4) marble voting block that any new prospective member must be aware of. But ... fear not new dudes. This Wahzoo predicts that Po/JS, The Grinner, and Bullhorn will probably be too damn busy blaming each other for their latest DNF to be screwin' with some non-relative. But just in case, maybe we oughta pass a rule that they can't all sit at the same table on Wednesday nights? Well whatever, welcome aboard Steve! Hey Bullhorn, how was that? JOHNSON VALLEY 200 -With the Checkers once again accounting for well over 10% of the entries, maybe we oughta start insisting on a group club discount from La Rana? This four lap night race experienced some excellent racing weather as the pits shepherded seven of our eleven Checker cars around to the finish line. It must have felt like cl.:ja rn all over again for Danny Reider as he battled a big Type 4 powered Baja Bug over the last section on the last lap. Although he knew he was close to the lead on time, he was running second on the road. But being a quick study, our hero clearly remembered how vul-nerable this position was and went to the whip. Now naturally, Danny blew by this infidel for the win when he held his breath and pushed his little Type 1 motor and high dollar suspension to their limits. Congratulations to Danny Reider, 1st Place in Class 5! Jim Tucker had a great run going in his Class 10 car, but came up just a little short and had to settle for 2nd Place. Good run Jim! Chase and navigator Robert-son were rolling right along on the last half of their final lap as the overall leader of the race, when they took a wrong turn. This mistake somehow got them back on an out-going leg of the course. Big John Files was reportedly the first to spot their problem when Stuart and Billy came flying past his pit for a 5th time! After our boys finally got it straightened ale Wil . P.O. ansas Phone (913) 788-3219 FAX (913) 788 9682 around and found the finish line they were 3rd in the open class. Drat! The only winner here would appear to be Hibbard, who probably will cease to be the main target of the Wednesday night 'compass jokes'. Mike Duenas' relatively clean run in his l / 2 1600 buggy produced only a 5th place. Hey Mikey, maybe ya oughta consider a new engine builder? Larry Bolin had a number of flats and engine belt problems which kept his Class 10 car out of the money in about 5th. Alan Smith rolled his 112 1600 car during the first half, then Mike Harman high centered it shortly after taking over. These screw ups pushed our boys back into about 7th. Prospective member Bruce Tiffany had some problems in the Challenger Class and came up 9th. Our DNFs were as follows: The Kreps: Brothers rolled their l / 2 1600 car and then blew a big hole in their motor during the secon half of the race. The Paie-ment/B.J. Bates Class 9 entry went out early with tranny problems. Fred Nelson tore up the suspension on his stock truck • in the rocks. Morgan Maiocco was fighting for the lead in a non-Checker's Class 10 car during the 'final laps when he suffered a , major rear suspension failure. Damn! Butow was also a non-finisher at this race, as he lost a technical battle with a folding chair at the main pit. AND FINALLY -The Big Wahzoo has an upcoming appointment with Dr. Rosenstein to sort of /mt d1t! icing on th<! cakt!, if ya know what I mean . Naturally, this lt!ngtht!ning will require a certain amount of post--op recovery and then extensive--·! testing. So ... next month another one of our Brother Checkers will be takin' a turn at writing this Checkers Column. AffENTION PIT TEAMS Send us your tales of triumph and troubles and they will be featured on these pages. Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 * CNC machined aluminum and steel construction that looks as good as it works * Easily adjusts in single degree increments to 45 degree angle notches * Notch any round tubing up to 2" OD in less than 30 seconds * Automatic round tube centering and alignment * Uses inexpensive · "BIMETAL" hole saws (under $10) * Power vertical with a drill press or horizontal with any 1 /2" hand drill Complete RTN 1000 fixture includin a wrench to adjust quadrant angle, and easy cutter removal We also offer a steel model RTN 100 with most of the same features All credit cards or COO/UPS orders OK -Freight and all handling charges are included in the lower 48 states WAIINGtl Inferior imitations are in the marketplace 11 Buy the fixture with the moneyback guarantee • October 1994 Page 49

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VORRA Fallon 150 Night Race By Jamie Butow & Nicole Ruff Photos: Air & Auto Sports Photography The overall winners of this rough, tough race were veteran Perry Dennington and his son Arden in their self spon-sored 1-2-1600 car. They had no major probl-em along the way as Perry. started and Arden finished the race. On July 30 Nevada welcomed racers and spectators from California to Colorado for the second annual VORRA Fallon 250 Night Race. A total of 59 racers were set loose on the 62 mile course at 5 p.m. with only 28 completing their appropriate number of laps. _ The race began shortly after the drivers' meeting which was at four in the afternoon, giving drivers and co-drivers just enough time to get their race suits on and hop in their cars. Promptly at five o'clock, the first car was given the green flag and sent off on to the 62 mile course, to complete four grueling laps in less than seven hours. That was was #243, Everett Paul. Veteran racer Perry Denning-ton and son Arden were the overall winn.ers of this grueling race finishing in 6:27:46. The Glen McAdon is a long time competitor in Sportsman Veteran class and at Fallon he won the class, which was the largest of the event at 13 starters. father/son team in their self-Perry said. sponsored 1-2-1600 car finished In other Class 1-2-1600 the race with no major problems. action ... 1993 overall champion, "I did my part by getting the car Humbug Racing, withdrew their back to Arden in good shape," entry following an unfortunate 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: ·c Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph sheets Page 50 P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, California 90009 (310) 670-6896 October 1994 A dusty Everett Paul is congratulated by VORRA President Ed Robinson at the finish line as Everett won the Open Class taking the class lead midway in the fray. Always there at the checkered flag it was Don German and his son Chris winning Class 4 in the venerable but trusty Jeep CJ that has taken many race wins. accident involving team leader Bill Rigsby. Keith Robb and Rick Philastre were first off the line in car 1628 followed by Larry Folsom and last year's Desert Series Champion, Larry Zim-merman, respectively. Zimmer-man had his first problems about two hundred yards off the line and was out of the race by checkpoint one. By the end oflap one the Olson Racing team in car 1602 driven by Roger Caddell was leading. Keith Robb was hold-ing on to second with Perry Den-nington right on his bumper. Dur-ing lap two, Olson Racing managed to keep first place just out of Arden Dennington's reach while Abreu Racing kept a close third over Larry Folsom after both having lost precious time with flat tires. On lap three Arden Dennington made his move and overtook the Olson Racing team, leaving them to take second place. Abreu racing was able to keep Tyler. Mort . from pushing them Forest Creasy is one of a small bunch in Class 9, and at Fallon he led the class from flag to flag for the victory, and was the only finisher. It was a close battle early in the Sportsman Novice class among the nine starters with the lead changing constantly, but Richard and Ryan Lesher won the class. Dusty Times • II ... • I lO t s E ·n re lC

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I bi s· n e r ~I , p ] .... Cj out of their third place spot cross-ing the finish line seconds before Tyler. Class two started off with a total number of five cars entered, with only two finishing. Heading onto lap two, Jeff Stiles was lead-ing Sam Berri by less than a min-ute with Larry Deaton not far behind. Stiles never made it to see lap three after having suffered a broken flywheel. During lap two Sam Berri held on to first while the Mini Mag of Mike and Floyd Haas struggled to keep their second spot over Everett Paul in car #243. Larry Deaton lost all forward gears with five miles to go in lap two but managed to finish-in reverse. By the end of lap three the race was between Everett Paul and Sam Berri with Everett taking first with a time of 6:45:54. Four cars started Class 10 with Dale Smith first off the line. Car # 1051 of Troy Robinson and Ryan O'Callaghan was stuck at the start/ finish line but got going again behind some of the 1-2-1600 cars. At the end of the first lap Steve Windle and Fred Hap-pich were in the lead with Troy and Ryan not far behind. Dale Smith was unable to complete his first lap, therefore, since Troy and Ryan were the only ones to finish lap two, they were declared to be the winners with a two lap time of 4:00:24. Starting first out of ten in Class 4 was Reno native Mike Povey, but he, along with three other cars, would only make one lap. At the end of lap two Don and Chris German were in the lead with newcomer Jim Cope not far behind. The #801 car of Jim Jen-nings never completed his third lap while Steve Bruner, #407 and Tony Allen, #318 had problems of their own which prevented them from finishing the race. Don German would finish first with a time of 7: 15:35 with second place Jim Cope about 30 minutes Dale Carr -Second place Sam Berri -Second place Dusty Times The Pilots only did one lap but it was tough going, as they started last, and Rob Slagle won the eight car tussle by just two minutes time. Lee Hopkins -Second place behind. The largest class of the day, Sportsman/ Veteran, had a total number of 13 entries, eight of which completed their required three laps. The #76 car of Glen McAdon was the first to complete lap one with Greg Steele a little more than a minute behind and Dale Carr in third. After two laps Glen McAdon clearly had the lead followed by Dale Carr and Jerry Wald battling for second place. In the end it was Dale Carr taking Sportsman Veteran class Open class Novice class second and Glen McAdon win-ning in 5:02:06. Class nine was the smallest class of the day with only three entries and three laps to complete. Forest Creasy in #917 led from the very beginning and never looked back. Danika McLean and Mae Long had troubles of their own and were unable to finish the first lap. Steve Ison was the first to leave the line in the Sportsman/ Novice class where nine cars were entered. By the end of lap one Roger Cade/I -Second place October 1994 Bud Andrews -Second place Danika McLean -Second place Doug Seymour was in the lead closely followed by Scott Noall. Richard and Ryan Lesher were holding on to their third place position fending off the team of Lee Hopkins and Mike Bearden. During lap two cars were changing positions continuously. At the end of the third and final lap it was Richard and Ryan Lesher in first; Lee Hopkins and Mike Bearden in second and Doug Seymour in the third spot. Scott Noall settled for fourth after a long third lap, but Pilot class Class 9 not nearly as long as Kevin Mills who's first lap was just over seven hours. Better luck next time Kevin! The last class to take the green flag were the Pilots who were only required to complete one lap. After Mike Vandeburgh, Andy Wald and Steve Bray failed to complete their first lap, the five remaining cars had a close race finishing within minutes of each other. Rob Slagle in car #330 would be first with a time of 1 :48: 15. Taking second barely two minutes behind was Bud Andrews followed by Clint W ol-sey in third. Keith Haas took fourth while Mike Berghold received fifth. Desert Racers, get ready for the first ever Yerington to Fallon and Back. Drivers and co-drivers alike, you better dig up your kid-ney belts and resurrect your gloves because this just might be the roughest 250 miles you '11 ever Page 51

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California Rally Series By John Elkin For those of you who did not make the annual CRS picnic on August 20th, you missed possibly the best yet. Organizers Kerry and John Kerby held the event at Puddingstone Lake in Pomona. Dennis and Donna Chizma brought their boat and provided water skiing for all who cared to try their luck. Michelle and Paula Gibeault brought out sailboards for lessons but there were no takers on the extra windy day. Also on tap was volleyball, a water pistol fight and the door prize drawings where T-shirts, race bags, gift certificates and goodies for the kids were given away. The following day a Board of Governors meeting was held in Corona, where some news comes forth concerning all CRS memb-ers. Starting with the TreeLine Rally this 24th you can now nom-inate a person, or yourself for the positions of CRS Director and Competitor Liaison. A box and paper will be available at registra-tion for you to drop the name into, the nomination process will be open through registration at Gorman Ridge, October 29. At that time all nominees will be looked over by the BoG and three candidates will be put on a ballot plus the incumbent Director and Competitor Liaison. Ballots and statemerits by the candidates will be mailed with the Gorman Ridge results to be mailed back to the BoG. Ballots will also be available at Indio, then in the Indio results the name of the two new board members will be made public, their terms starting the first of the year. This is your chance to have a hand in the direction of the CRS by putting the best people for-ward. Choose wisely. The annual Stock Class Meet-ing will take place on October 1, 1994, at Condor Enterprises in Santa Fe Springs. The object of the meeting will be to put forth rule changes for the ballot to be handed out at Gorman Ridge. No rule changes can be made at the meeting, but it is at the meeting that the ballot will be set. For directions to Tony Chavez's place of business take the 605 freeway and exit at Slauson Ave. Go east on Slauson past Santa Fe Springs Road to the signal at Greenleaf, turn right, it is on your right about 100 yards down from the signal. Look for CRS markings. Other questions call Tony during busi-ness hours at (310) 906-2637. The Gorman organizers report a new stage is being planned on for the October event as well as plans for 60% national points status in 1995, which is contingent on an OK from Denver. It would make a great rally for the national run-offs being as they are scheduled for the west coast in 1995. Speaking of the run-offs, they take place the week before Gor-man in Michigan's upper penin-sula. Confirmed to be represent-ANYONE WHO'S ANYONE READS DUSTY TIMES THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP UP ON OFF ROAD! !IUB9CRIPTIOKS ARE ,1s.oo FOR on Y~. ,::ir..oo l'OR TWO RARS ~'7od/Mf s t& DUSTY TIMES (Subscription form on Page 3) Dusty Times ing the CRS will be Mitch McCullough/Scott Webb and Jeff Hendricks/Noble Jones. No word yet as to who will represent us in over two liter class. The CRS may not be NASCAR as reported last month, but an oval track is in our future. My rallysprints will be moving to the Sunrise Motorsports Park in Ade-lanto where they have a quarter mile oval track that will be incor-porated into a stage measuring between two and two and a half miles long. A February date is being discussed for the now unnamed pair of sprints. There are some other new events on the drawing board that may take place in Las Vegas, Northern California and Victorville. Also be warned that this year's Indio rally may have a different look to it, organ-izers are currently negotiating for new roads. A new social gathering of rally-ists is taking place on Tuesdays in Santa Monica at a restaurant called Yankee Doodles in the Third Street Promenade. The group is centered around Nor-berto Gomez, Topi Hynenen and Tony DelaCuesta. To check for the next meeting date tall (805) 581-4923 evenings, or (818) 706-5632 days. It is worth the trip just for the barbecued chicken pizza. · Early word from Minnesota at the Ojibwe National Rally is Jeff Hendricks and Noble Jones won both Truck Class in the national and under two liter ~lass in the divisional. Chris Weleff and Brian Paul got to stage five in their Toyota and wiped out the front suspension on an unmarked washout. Dave Turner and Bill Gutzmann had the heartbreak er, proving once and for all that nice guys do finish last. In the 17th of 18 stages they had a small suspen-sion problem but were still mobile when they were caught by another car. A small grassy area appeared on the side of the road and they pulled off to let the faster car by, unfortunately the grass was actually four feet tall and the Eclipse skidded down in a ditch on Bill's door. The car and occu-pants were OK, only their egos are bruised as they were timebarred from the rally. Good luck at TreeLine every-body. Classified .•• FOR SALE: 96" Class 2-1600 Probst Laser Chromoly. New paint, 1600cc by Dan's Off Road, FTC gears, Bilstein Shocks, Wright rack, Ump power steer-ing, Marsh Carbon Fiber, Alumi-num Wheels with Beadlock, Sway-A-Way bars, Beard Seats, Summers HD Stubs & 930 CV's. $7,500.00. (517) 546--4108. FOR SALE: Class 1 or 10 OrC. 1993 Unlimited points cham-pion. Fields trans, Wilwood, Curnutt, Summers, 30 gallon cell, Charlynn, Wright, Mastercraft, All Chomoly, 119" wheelbase. 1890 lbs-all the best, proven winner-$8,500.00 obo. ALSO West Class 10 motor - 0 miles, $2,500.00 obo. Call Jim Pierce (310) 320--8341/932-9886. ATTENTION: Anyone inter-ested in racing in a class of older Class 8, 4x4's or pre-runners with stock type suspension & limited restrictions, please call Tom at (714) 554-3300 or (714) 530-8807. FOR SALE: Class 9 Chenowth 2 seat -Chrome Moly frame and spring plates. Beard, Wright, Sway-A-Way, 2 sets Fox shocks with cooling sleeves, Y okos, PCI radio & intercom, Fresh Jeff Fields tranny, PIAA lights. Not raced since professional prep. Best of everything. Many spares. $6,500.00 or best offer. Partner split. Greg (310) 608-1243 days or (310) 519--0774 evenings. FOR SALE: Lothringer 5-1600 _ FAT Motor, Fox shocks, Sway-A-Way, Ralker pumper, P.C.I. intercom, some spares, built for a tall driver, seat adjusts, Race ready. Call for details. (909)676-8620. $8,000.00 or best offer. FOR SALE: Toyota 4AG 1650cc. Motor and spare parts ( Call for more details and Cost) ALSO-Race ready Fortin 5 speed trans-mission (Prep by Doug Fortin) $7,500.00 Call Mike for more information ( 310) 634-7933 ext 216. more Trail Notes ••• THE FORD F-150s on the Mesa Marin Raceway's banking late in July weren't equipped with tow booms, light bars of debris vacuums. They were, however, equipped with rollbars, window nets, five point seat belts, NASCAR Winston Cup motors and lightweight skins. the speedway, in Bakersfield, CA, hosted the inaugural NASCAR Super Truck exhibition event. Road racing ace P.J. Jones parlayed his Ford's second place qualifying spot into a win, leading the pole winning F-150 of Venable Racing's Gary Collins across the line. Venable teammate and Rough Rider Rob MacCachren finished in third place while the F-150 of fellow Rough Rider David Ashley rounded out the five truck field. A few weeks later the NASTRUCKS, as they have been named, were found on the Portland, Oregon, Speedway oval, the home of round two of the NASCAR Super Truck exhibition series. There on a Friday night Venable Racing's Rob MacCachren and Gary Collins led P.J . Jones across the line for a Ford F-150 sweep. A sellout crowd of some 6,000 people were on hand for the six truck race. Currently a 22 event full race series in 1995 is planned for the NASTRUCKS, in conjunction with both Busch Grand National events and a few Winston Cup races. It sounds like the initial reaction to trucks racing on the oval tracks of America is a hit already. The plan is to start early next year at western venues and move east with the weather, ending with the majority of the races held in the southeast. Off Road Racing may lose some of its stars to this series, people like Rob MacCachren and Dave Ashley, who have won just about everything there is to win off road. ~ The California Rally Series Wishes To Thank: Kerry and John Kerby (Organizers) W.A. ·Thompson Co. (Beverage Donation) And Our Door Prize Contributors: Sube Sports Rod Millen Motorsports Porterfield Enterprises Trick Racing Gas Filler Safety Equipment Racer Magazine CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES For Making The 1994 Picnic A Success October 1994 Page 57

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- more Classified FOR SALE: (2) Trailing arms, coilover, Long Travel VW hubs, Delron Bushings hangers & bolts $500.00. Dave 9-6 Mon-Sat. (714) 642-5158. FOR SALE: Class 9 . Freshly rebuilt motor. New Saco Rack, Close ratio trans. New CNC clutch assembly wired for radio. 2 spare sets Sway-A-Way Bars. Lots of spare tires & wheels, spindles, drums arms, engine parts. Fox shocks $4,500.00 (714) 650-0684. ==-====== FOR SALE: 69 Baja Pre runner, 2010 v engine, bus transaxle 5x3 rear arm. Bilstein shocks. Full cage front to rear, super seats. 8" wide front beam 2¼' front arms Porsche 356 steering, fresh paint. Asking $6,800.00. Jack Woods (602) 242-0077. FOR SALE: 44" Wide front beam-4" longer' arms-combo spindles all used $950.00. Giese air race shocks-also spare barrels-shafts pistons-seals $3,800.00. Call (310) 868-9827. FOR SALE: Class 9 two seater. 1993 SCORE points champ. Best of EVERYTHING. 8 Races. Four 1st Four 2nds, Turn key, race ready, tons of spares, $7,500.00. Call Rick Johnson (619) 253-7906 or (619) 253-7837. FOR SALE: CLASS 10 S IS, 115 w.b., Fox, Ump, Saw, Wright, Woods Simpson, Beard, Ultra Wheels, Air Bumps, New 1641 Type 1 0 miles, Hewland 091 trans, car is very light $11,500 obo or trade for Pleasure boat or? Call Rick Days (702) 355-8883 nites (702) 856-3808. FOR SALE: 2 seat Class 10 Raceco, 115"wb, best of every-thing. Power steering, 22 gal fuel cell, 50 miles on completely recon. Wired for radios w/ inter-com, Flame-out, 930's, Wright combos, coil-over front beam. W / trailer & spares $8,500.00 obo. Will separate. Call (714) 375-5650 days, (714) 892-5267 nites. 1983 PPI/Ivan Stewart Toy. Excellent Condition. 2200cc motor, Centerline, BFG, Loaded with Extras, Best Parts Available, T-mag Shocks, Disc brakes all around, Spare Parts Galore!! Can be yours for $12,500. Baja Con-cepts Ref #387. (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Arciero '92 Magnum Super 16, Best MTEG car ever!! Bilstein bypass shocks and more extras than imaginable. Want 30K or best. For complete package include 2 motors and 3 transmissions. Call Baja Concepts Ref #365 {619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: AWESOME 2-1600, Front runner always, excel-lent condition, fresh prep, win-ning history, centerlines, 1989 Race Co., FAT Motor, killer tranny, Best of Everything! Includes Trailer, spare, etc. Seller is motivated, make an offer. Baja Concepts Ref #363. (619) 583-6529. 1984 Toy 4x4 Trail or Pre-Run Truck. TOO TRICK TO LIST EVERYTHING! 231 Buick V6 Turbo 350, Auto Trans, 35" BFG Muds, 26 gallon tank, 488 Gears. Super Serious Rock Climbing 4x4 Specialty vehicle. LOADED with too much! Please call for details! $8,500.00 obo. Baja Con-cepts Ref #392. (619) 583-6529. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: 4-Wheel drive center for sale. Established 11 years. Prime loca-tion in western Colorado, 35 miles from Aspen. Includes land, building, with three bedroom-two bath house attached, business grosses over 250k per year. Ask-ing price $475k, call (303) 945-5227 or (303) 945-4443. FOR SALE: Bitchin' 5-1600, J&G tranny, Fuel Safe cell, Race Co rear arms & front beam, killer Saginaw steering box, J-Mar shif-ter, Centerline wheels, all spares, etc. ONLY 500 MILES ON GROUND UP RE-BUILT! Best of the best! Super Deal! $5,500.00. Must sell fast! Baja Concepts ref #364. Call (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: 1986 Ford LN 8000, 3208 Cat engine, Auto, Air Con-ditioning, 12' box, stove, sink, shower, cabinets, seating, $18,000.00. Call (517) 546-4108. FOR SALE: Porsche3.S Litre rac-ing engine. Carrillo rods. TriMill headers, 90 amp alternator, 46 IDA Weber carbs, twin plug heads, all new Porsche racing components. Fresh rebuild by Bobby Hart. Complete with Til-ton clutch assembly. $15,000.00 obo. Will separate. Will ship anywhere. Call RCR Racing USA (909) 371-8334. FOR SALE: Class 5-1600 Loth-ringer Car, Fox shocks staged by Lothringer, Saginaw Steering Box, 300 M Torsion Bars, Dave Folts Transmission, Wiks Racing Motor, 92193 La Rana Cham-pionship Car. $7,500.00 obo. Tum key/Prep & Ready for Fireworks 250. Call Brian (714) 821-8514. FOR SALE: 112-1600 SODA legal X John Greaves' car. Best of Everything. Fresh Motor, trans, FOR SALE: Class 9 Single seat, Class 9 points champ 1992 & 93 at FRT. Wright, Beard, Bilstein shocks, Fresh trans, 15 gal fuel cell, pumper, Sway-A-Way $5,000.00 obo. (619) 729-7315-Larry. FOR SALE: 5-1600, 3 Races New, Suspension unlim. Front & rear suspensions, Wright com-bos, woods arms, Fox w i res. UMP, Jamar, Beard, Dumper, Fuel Safe, Saw torsions, leajes, Type4 CV's w/ HOcages. 0 miles on Motor and Tranny. Race ready. Best of Everything w/ lots of spares and trailer $6,500.00 obo. Call Chris (714) 557-2373 or (714) 871-4153. TRICK 1991 MTEG Magnum. As Fresh as you can get with not a penny spared! FAT Rabbit Race Motor with a complete spare included. Two "top-of-the-line" Bus Box trannies, both fresh! Coil over Fox Shocks, UMP Power Steering, 5 Link Rear, with Disc Brakes. Centerlines w/ Beadlocks and BFG's. Super Deal! Complete Package for $28,000. Baja Con-cepts Ref #384. (619) 583-6529. , brakes. Ready for Racing. Will OR SALE: Rally Raid or Off pay for itself in one year. Road 4x4. Extremely trick. Can $6,000.00. John (414) 788-L : seat re runner. All coil suspension, 116 wheel base. Nisson V6 engine. Bus transaxle special gears, 2¼' front arms, super spindles, disk brakes front and rear. Best of everything. Ask-ing $15,500.00. Will trade, make offer. Jack Woods (602) 242-0077. fitanybodypanelorengine. Very 3_3_6_0_. _________ _ versatile. Great for int'! racing. Unbelievable spares! Nissan V6, fuel inj., Turbo400 trans., 18" frt & 21,, rr trvl. The best equip. throughout. Technology adv. A steal at $49,000.00. Baja Con-cepts Ref #184. (619) 583-6529. Make an Offer today. "'r-------------..--------------------------------------------..----,., I Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I ; DUSTY TIMES. : I Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00for use of I I black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. · I I NEW _AND RENEW AL_ SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If I 'I you wish to use a photo m your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. 1. I ___________________________ I I --------------------------------I; I t I --------------------------f I __________________________ I I I I -----------'---------- - -------I I __________________________ _ I : Enclosed is$ _____ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. : I Name ---------------------------------Mail to: I I DUSTY TIMES I I Address ------'--------------------Phone-------20751 Marilla Street I I Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 I • City ----------------- - - State ____ Zip___ . • Page 58 October 1994 FOR SALE: 48' Great Dane 20' sleeping area wl bath & shower, 150 gal fresh water tank, 100 gal waste water. Hot water. Self con-tained. Back 28' shop area with benches & storage area. 82 IH Tractor w/350 Cummins 9 spd. Will separate. $21,900.00. Bill (414) 734-3700. FOR SALE: FUN CO Pre-Runner: Play or race, 2 seat, 100 in. 8 Bil-steins, rack & pinion, Porsche c.v.s, 25 gal fuel cell, 1776 Gene Berg, balanced, semi-hemi, full flow oil, remote cooler, Zenith carb, bus trans. Y okohamas on Centerlines. Open trailer has room for 3 bikes! $4,200.00 obo. Don (714) 997-1173. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE or TRADE: Single seat Chenowth Class 9 car. 22 gal fuel cell, Fos, Yokohamas, Ump, Mastercraft Wright Rack, Flame-Out, Sway-A-Way adjusters. A lot of spares. Fresh motor & trans. $5,500.00 oho. Call Rodger (909) 598-1926/ (619)261-1112. FOR SALE: SODA Class 1 or 9 single seat 1800cc Rabbit, FAT manifold, FAT exhaust, 44 dd Weber Fresh Bus tranny w/324 changed. Car is a 5 link w/ air shocks, Fuel Safe, FlameAway, CNC, Cutting Brake, 930 c.v.s, Dura Bulr, Combo's, Saco Rack, Simpson Belts & Centerlines. Complete car except/back tire & rims & disc brakes. $4,000.00 (715) 345-1083 or (715) 344-5445 work. Ask for Mark. FOR SALE: Lothringer 2 seat Class 9. Car is only 7 races old. Best of everything. Excellent con-dition, staged Boxes, radio, fresh Wiks motor & WR trans, Fuel Safe, Ump, Sway-A-Way, Wright, Yokohama, car works excellent. 100% finish ratio. $7,000.00 firm. (818)339-9892. FOR SALE: 1969 VW Baja Bug, full roll cage, fuel cell, race seats, rack and pinion steering, fiber-glass front end, Sway-A-Way, good engine and tranny, includes spares and good trailer. $3,200.00 (714) 494-2469. FOR SALE: Chevy pre-runner Blazer. Late model fiberglass front clip, lS"wheel travel Nelson & Nelson Rancho Shocks ( 12 ), Bowtie Block Aluminum Head 388ci Small Block Fuel-Injected, 51 gal fuel tank, Turbo 400, Chro-moly Roll cage Three seats, Front and Rear AC, FM Stereo/ -cassette, Two-way FM radio, 37" Goodyear tires, new custom headers, Summers Bros. 40 spline full floater Dana 60 Rear Axle, 4 Wheel Disc Brakes. Recent com-plete rebuild of all major compo-nents. Motor is standard 350 bore all internal parts, best money can buy. This is a must tool for serious Baja Racers. Street legal 73 registration. $25,000 oho. Steve (602) 995-0499. RACING I QUIT: Spare parts must go, 5-1600 motor $1,000.00, long axle trans $1,000.00. Complete front end $200.00, Air filter log $75.00, 28mm torsions $50.00, rims, tires, fuel cell, Bilstein, FOX, Mastercraft seats, Belts and much more $3,000.00 takes everything. Serious inquiries only, Rob after 5 p.m. (619) 562-4675. Dusty Times FOR SALE: Excellent La Rana truck Class 7S '86 Jeep Coman-chee, new 2.5 motor, new Dana 60 Kuster shocks in rear, Art Carr trans, new radiator, Lots of extras TOO! $18,000.00 oho (619) 253-7946 or (619) 253-2351. FOR SALE: Blazer project Sandy Cone Dana 60 40 spline spool 456 gems Full floater Art Carr turbo 400 trans wl cable shift. 2" cromolly cage started. 6 Ameri-can Racing Wheels 15 x8. Several other parts go with. Will sell $3,000.00 firm or trade for 5-1600 pre-runner or something street legal. (909) 654-5206. FOR SALE: Class 2 car. 1992 Raceco based 2 seater. Features the latest in FOX Shox technol-ogy ... Suspension built by John Marking & Craig Watkins. The car is built with the finest parts & pieces available. Sold as is with Fat 3.0 liter Type IV & Fortin 5-speed for $28K or less engine & trans for $ 14 K. Raced just 5 times. Aluminum body is beauti-fully made by Dan Baumic. Comes with tons of spare parts & wheels & tires. (707) 829-0700. FOR SALE: 30' Trailer. Top of the line 30' Competitive 5th Wheel trailer. Has doors on both sides, twin axles & new tires, fully lined & insulated, generator box w/30 gallon fuel tank, smooth siding for graphics, perfect condi-tion. Painted FORD white (1992). Asking $12,000.00. Craig Watkins (707) 829-0700. FOR SALE: Professionally built Pre-Runner by Darrel Jakes of Venable Racin. New motor ready to work. $25,000.00 (909) 654-4938/(714) 654-4544. FOR SALE: 2 (Two) Class 1 cars Both Chenowth 2 seaters. 1 Cornutt suspension, 1 Kuster suspension. Both Porsche power 6 cyl. Andial motors, auto trans. Current Class 1 points leader. Pro built & maintained. Will be sold AFTER Baja 1000 ONLY! Phone (619) 244-5997 - Ask for Tony. FOR SALE: 20' Race trailer-Diamond plate bed-Extra long ramps-Tire rack-8'parts box-Price $1,800.00. (909) 988-8130. FORSALEOR TRADE:Class2, FOR SALE: 2-1600 Pre-runner, 125'wb, 3000cc ARPM motor, Sway-A-WayBars,FuelSafeCell, dry sump, fuel inj., Hewland Beards Seats 930 c.v.s Sumners DG300 prepped by Fortin, 935 Stubs, Mirage Rear Arms, Bilstein c. v .s, Fox progressive air shocks, Shocks, Type 3 Rear Brakes Fresh 22"rr& 17"frttrvl.SaginawPIS, motor & trans. $4,000.00 ¾" Heim ends. Updated, ready to wl trailer $3,500.00 w l o (619) win! asking$24,000.00 oho. Will 244-7717. sell wino motor $19,900.00. --r-.:.,,-.:;~;;_::;;-------Baja Concepts Ref #108 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Chenowth Magnum, MTEG Stadium car. Best of ever-ything. Long travel extra wide E: Raceco Unlimited coil-over shocks w / adj bypass car. Top 3 runner, awesome 3.5 tube shocks. Call Bob Gordon at Porche Motec EMS inj ignsystem (714) 771-1537. 2/laptop. Raceco auto trans. Unbelieveable package. Enclosed trailer & everything needed to win. Package at a great deal. Baja Concepts Ref #333 Call (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: '79 Ford 2wd pre-runner, Bitchen dash full of gauges, full roll cage, race seats & belts, 351 built motor, 3" exhaust, all disc brakes, Winters shifter, dual batteries, 55 gal tanks, Rough Country shocks, lights Jack. Too much· to list! $10,900 oho. Baja Concepts Ref #388 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Nelson & Nelson's 1991 Class8/TrophyTruck. Yes, this is the same truck that Larry Ragland drove over 2 dozen wins. It is 1995 Class 8 or Trophy Truck legal. It's fresh & ready to race! Call for details. $80,000.00 Call (909) 925-4448. FOR SALE: Sway-A-Way adjust- • able I.R.S. Spring plates with FOR SALE: ChallengerCla~s?, 2 28mm racing bars -New$ 150.00 seater. Fresh eng & transm1ss10n (909) 795-9450. with close gear ratio. Fuel cell FOR SALE: Lothringer Class 9, 2 seater. Fresh motor & trans; Saginaw steering box, Fox Shox staged by Lothringer, New tor-sions & spring plates; This car is fast & fun & race ready. Includes spare tires and parts. $6,500.00 Call (909) 394-1225 days (909) 596-8287 nites. Ask for Dan. FOR SALE: 2 (Two) Class 1-2-1600 cars. Both Fox suspension, 1 1985 Chenowth, 1 1994 Sus-pension Unlimited. 2 seaters Pro built & maintained. Fat motors, transaxle engineering. $10,000.00 for Chenowth $23,500.00 for Sus-pension Unlimited. Phone (619) 244-5997. October1994 Helmet intercom system. Halogen Flame system, rebuilt Bilstein shocks Chromally spring plates Circut breaker system. Yoko-hama tires (spares-SCORE legal. $6,000.00 oho. Call Leo-nard (619) 424-9451 or Gilbert (619) 429-0646. FOR SALE: Mirage 2 seat Class 2 or 10 - your choice. 2350 Wasser Boxer or 1650 Rabbit-Both Pro built & Fresh. New coil over Beam, New Bump stops, all Fox Wright rack and 2 spindels, Woods Arms, Dura Blue, Jamar Beard, New Body. Excellent shape. Jeff (408) 926-0522 $12,000.00 oho. FOR SALE: Possible 5-1600 or pre-runner street legal Y okoha-mas Centerline, Beard, SAW, KYB rear, Fox with reservoir's in front, Full frame Dj trans New Chromed out 1835 motor $4,000.00 or trade for extra cab Mini truck, No Chevy's (619) 248-2268. WANTED: Class 10 racer look-ing to complete his ride to La Rana, needs used parts. UMP power steering, Wright spindle link combos, chase equipment, or whatever you have. Call and ask for Tim at (805) 482-1280 8:00-5:00 M-F. FOR SALE: Chenowth 1000. Chromoly 1-1600 Ran last two seasons at Ventura Raceway short course. Simpson, Halon, Beard, BFG. $4,600.00 (805) 658-1952 days. FOR SALE: 1988 Chenowth Magnum Class 10 Lee ·Leighton type I motor. Bus box Rhino case, Hewland gears, Summers Bros. Spindles, Ump power steering system, right rack Fox Shox, 930 c.v.s, spares and much more. Divorce forces sale. $6,500.00. Call Don @ (909) 279-9470 or (909) 688-4617. FOR SALE: 5-1600 race car. Completely loaded with all the best parts, nothing Mickey Moused. Clark West engine, Raceco transmission, Fox shox, Wright steering, etc. Fast & really fun. Fully prepped & ready to race the Baja 1000. $6,900.00 Call (619) 481-0923. FOR SALE: Tmag 1-2-1600. Trophy winner and #2 in points Ventura Raceway. $4,000.00 firm. Car and trailer go racing or great Pre-runer - Less seat belts. (310) 838-7575. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Barbary Coast · Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . . • . 29 Bilstein Corp. of America . . . . . . . . . . 21 Blackhawk Farms Off Road Race . . • . . 5 California Rally Series . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7 Cactus Racing Products . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Castex Inc., E-Z-Up . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 22 Central Oregon .. Off Road Race . . . . . . . . . Back Cover ,. Dez Fab ........•..........•.. 41 Don-A-Vee Jeep Eagle . • • . . . . . . • . . 9 FAT Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 4 Fuel Safe . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • . • . . . 35 German Auto . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Glen Helen OHV Park . . . . . . . . . • • • 15 Glen Helen Halloween Haunt . . . . . . • . . • . 10-11 Rod Hall Driving School . . . . • . • . . . . 51 Hi Tech Off Road . . . . . . . . • . • . . . • 38 La Rana Desert Racing . • . . . . . • . . . . 23 McKenzie's Performance Products ..•. 47 Nevada Off Road Buggy . • . . . . . . . . . 17 Parker Pumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 28 Pike's Family Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . 14 Pro Wire ..•.................. 43 Race Ready Products . . . . . . . . . . • . . 37 Rancho Suspension • . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Reid Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rose Traction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 18 SNORE 25th Annual SNORE 250 ... 30-31 Sway-A-Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group . . . . . . . . . . . 7 T rackside Photos Inc. . . . . . . . . • . • . . 50 Tri-Mil Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Ultra Wheel . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . 25 Valley Performance • . . • • . . . . . . . . . 32 Wilch Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 49 Wright Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Yarnell Specialties Inc. . . • . . • • . • . . . 39 Page 59

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