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Volume 11 - Number 1 January 1994 Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Janay Smith Controller John Calvin Circulation 0. Osborne Contributors Jim Baker Darla Crown C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Don Dayton Daryl D. Drake Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Elaine Jones -Matt Marcher Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Darryl Smith Judy Smith 3-D Photography Trackside Photo Inc. Wi:er Photos Art Director Larry E. Worsham ~ -ILLS OffllOAD UCIIIQ IIDOaT Subscription Rates: llridS!ries,f~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, 2075i Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. ·· Wishes V er"j Best ul a successfu an . 1994 season t1l to Dusty Timcs January 1994 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page SCORE Baja 1000 by Judy Smith ...... .... . . . . ............ 12 Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb by Mearl Holbrook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 MTEG Stadium Racing at Candlestick Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Glen Helen Enduro Racing by Jean Calvin ...... . ............ 28 ADRA Gila Bend Racing by Tony Tellier ................... 30 FRT Squeaky Springs Gran National by Judy Smith ........... 32 CRS Gorman Ridge Rally by John Elkin . .................•. 38 La Rana California 200 by Jean Calvin . ................ . .... 40 WRC Sanremo Rally of Italy by Martin Holmes . . . . . ......... 46 VORRA All Pro Parts Championships by Wizer Photo . . . . . . . . 48 SCCA Press On Regardless Pro Rally by John Elkin ...... . . . . 54 Jeep Grand Cherokee Road Test by John Calvin .... ........ , . 55 Wisconsin Off Road Festival by Barb & Marilyn Schultz ...... 56 SNORE Double Trouble Race ............................. 60 Bad Dogs Season Finale by Barry Don Callaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 DEPARTMENTS Soap Box by Don Dayton, Dayton Place ..................... 4 Trail Notes . .................................. . .......... 4 Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Checkers Column by The Big Wahzoo ...................... 51 California Rally Series by Lynnette Allison ...... . . . ......... 54 Chapala Dusters by Mike Shatynski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Spirit Racing by Sam Wilshire ........... . . ............... . 59 F.A.l.R. Racing by Dave Massingham . . . ............. : ...... 59 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Cla1,~ified Ads ......................................... . 69 Pit T earn Register . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 , Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ON THE COVER -To start the New Year right our cover photos are of two outstanding performers at the SCORE Tecate Baja 1000 last November. The 5-1600 Baja Bug of Brian Goodrich and Charlie Watters did the near impossible. They won the class at the 1992 Baja 1000 and they came back this year, trailing most of the distanci::, but made a strong finish dash to win Class 5-1600 again. The Chula Vista team cut it close, winning by just 52 minutes. Congratulations guys. Ivan Stewart's record run is one for the history books. Not only did he have a trouble free race, he took the lead on the road early after starting · 25th, and kept stretching the time margin in the Toyota SRS to not only win car honors overall by more than an hour, but he beat the fastest motorcycle by 28 minutes, and that is something to shout about. Our congratulations to Ivan "lronman" Stewart who stopped only for gas and checkups. Color Photography by Trackside Photo Inc. to S~7odeuf DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! D 1 year - $15.00 □ i years - $15.00 □ 3 years - $35.00 Takeadvantage 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 - 1 year $20.00 U.S.• Overseas subscription rates on request) Page 3

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SOAP BOX. •• Dayton Place• Odd Notes By Don Dayton I see in the paper the other day, where our beloved U .S. Fish & Wildlife Service has come out with a recovery plan for the grizzly bears in Washington State. As usual, the Enviroz ( environmental Zealots) whine that the plan doesn't go far enough. The pro-posed southern boundary of the recovery area ("protected habi-tat") is Interstate 90. Some envir-orunental groups say it should be pushed south to the Cascade River. Others want all the area down to the Mexican border included. There is another small dis-agreement amongst the enviroz. They all agree that everything west of Chicago should be·"pro-tected habitat" and that all min-ing, grazing, timber cutting and anything involving motors or wheels should be a federal offense, punishable by death and dismemberment. They all agree that the only activities that should be allowed in "protected habitat" are hiking and backpacking, Sierra Club membership drives and Earth First conventions. The disagreement comes over whether to actually try to get the grizzly bears to increase in population ("recover"). The big-city enviroz, who have never been there, think it would be a fine idea to have bears all over the place. The enviroz who actually infest the area, would be just as happy if there never was another bear. The reason is, word has got around in the grizzly community, that hikers and backpackers make a dandy snack. Low fat, low cholesterol and low brains. The grizzlies have learned that most enviroz are anti-gun, so they're unarmed. Most of the enviroz have watched too many Audubon Society TV pro-grams, so they expect the bears to be grateful for all the wonderful things the greenies have done for them. Instead of trying to escape, they whip out their Sierra Club or Wilderness Society membership cards to pr~ve to the bears they're on their side. 01' Grizzle is usually impressed and grateful - grateful he doesn't have to chase down his lunch. Wildlife biologists who special-ize in ursus horribilus ( the real name for grizzle bears) say the bears are not to blame for this behavior. The hikers bring it on themselves by walking around looking delicious. Has anyone noticed that most of the west used to be made up of "public land." You can't hardly find that kind no more. All there is now, is "federal land". There was an article in the Las Vegas SUN the other day (in the Sports section, no less) about the wonderfulness of the "grazing reforms" proposed in the U.S. Senate by Nevada's senior Senat-or, Harry (Sierra Harry) Reid. 01' Harry's " reforms" would nearly double the grazing fees ( over a three year period, then increase 15% per year if any ranchers still survive), turn the water rights over to the federal government, give the feds title to all the ranch-ers improvements (fences, wind-mills, water tanks, etc.) and kick half the ranchers off the grazing boards and replace them with enviroz. Nineteen pages of " re-forms" designed to run the ranch-ers out of business. During the Senate hearings, Harry kept whining, "I don't see how anyone can object to my grazing bill. It's been approved by every single en-virorunental group in the count-ry." Like most compromises sup-ported by green groups, Harry's is a little one sided. It's kinda like telling the ranchers, " We're still going to hang you, but we're going to show our generosity by comp-romising and using a longer rope, so you can fall a little farther before you strangle." The "lady" who wrote the art-icle in the SUN, I think her name was Barbara DelGreeny or some-thing like that, really hates cows. She must have stepped in a fresh cow deposit a,nd messed up her PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! 'i!f!~YS/ RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS Mobif SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 4 . Gucci hiking boots. She is appar-ently quite gullible, as she seems to have read and believed all the overheated properganda the pres-ervationist press published about livestock. She parroted all the buzzwords. She always says "over-grazing" instead of "grazing," (according to the environz credo, any grazing is overgrazing). She re-fers to any use of public ( excuse me, Federal) land as "overuse" or "abuse." She says Harry's "slight increase" in fees is still far less than fair market value. "Fair mar-ket value" is another enviroz bug-· aboo that pretends ranchers should pay the same price for graz-ing in the desert as feedlot operat-ors charge for maintaining cows on private land. That's like saying you should be able to drive just as fast on rough dirt road as you can on a freeway. DelGreeny also implies that if we get rid of all the ranchers ( she sneeringly refers to them as "cow-boys" and says they're a myth) there will be a vast explosion in the deer, elk, antelope and big-horn populations, giving a lot more hunters something to shoot at. She seems unaware that these species were historically quite rare in Nevada before the coming of the ranchers with their cattle and range improvements. Early ex-plorers in· the area fount the Indians' main sources of meat were rabbits and tortoise. Speaking of endangered species, did you see the program on 20/20 the other day about the fires in California? According to the story, some of the more narrow minded residents are unhappy be-· cause their homes burned. A lot of homes burned this time that had survived past fires. It seems the home owners were no longer allowed to maintain the fire breaks they used to have around the residential areas. Our beloved U .S. Fish and W ildlife Service said that the endangered Stephans Kangaroo Rat might be found in the area and if there were any there, firebreaks could possibly disturb the cute little fellers. Therefore, no more fire breaks. There were a couple of "W ild-life Biologists" on the program. They looked and talked as if they had come directly from a Satur-day morning cartoon show, certif-iable graduates of Luny U. They seemed to think the home owners were to blame for the whole thing because they wanted to live in houses. Their idea seemed to be the only place anyone should be allowed to build a house is on top of another house. These bozos thought people were being totally unreasonable for wanting to build houses on private property that should better be kept vacant for the rats to live. You might try dividing the cost of all the homes that burned by the number of rats that may ( or may not) have been "disturbed" by the fire breaks. Ever seen a Mil-lion Dollar Mouse? Of course, most of the mice that were saved by the beneficence of Fish & Feathers, ended up being barbe-cued anyhow, but what the heck, ·it 's the thought that counts. Right? A representative of the Sierra Club explained the whole thing quite well when he said, "The Endangered Species Act and the Rats are like the parts of a recipe. You don't blame the recipe if the beans burn." Hey, I just report 'em, I don't try to explain 'em. January 1994 Trail Notes ••• HAPPY NEW YEAR-We wish everybody a happy and prosperous New Year in 1994 and we wish race organizers in particular bigger and better entry in their events. As we write this in December of 1993 Dusty Times is celebrating a special anniversary this month, having completed ten years of publication with the December 1993 issue. When we started there were several publications around that covered off road racing, many of them including only western area events, and now we seem to be the only one that gives off road racing and rallying full coverage across the country. We also cover the worlc~ rally series, Australian, Canadian and Mexfcan events, and occasionally get something about off road from Europe and Africa, such as the Paris-Dakar. Maybe we struck the right format as we continued to expand coverage in our formative years. We hope our readers like the contents of Dusty Times and we will continue to strive to please you all with our coverage. So we say Happy Tenth Anniversary Dusty Times, and may there be many more such milestones for the publication and off road racing. BAJA 1000 ON TV -Arrow Productions filmed the recent SCORE Baja 1000 for release on Prime Ticket. The air dates start on December 16, at 9:00 p.m. PST, and hopefully you have this issue by then. If not, don't despair and crank up your tape machine. The coverage will be broadcast three times on January 4, 1994, still on Prime Ticket of course, at 10:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. and 12:00 p.m. All times are Pacific Standard Time. There are two more repeats scheduled for the week of January 4, probably on the weekend of the 8th, so you should be able to catch it on one of the many times it is on Prime Ticket. SHORT COURSE RACING IN LAKE HAVASU CITY - As if off roaders in the west did not already have a full calendar to choose from for rac-ing, a new one has popped up this month, The Parker Pre Run Bash "94". It is organized by the Havasu Racing Association, who run a ten race short course schedule per year in Sara Park Raceway in Lake Havasu City, AZ. The events feature a stadium style course with a section that takes off into the desert, yet is visible from the grandstands._ All pre-run vehicles are invited to the Parker Pre Run Bash. They should be street legal and conform to the pre-run stipula-tion of the Parker 400. The organizers have a complete insurance package and require the vehicle has a roll cage and seat belts and the driver wears a driving suit and helmet. The payback is 100 percent of the $100 entry fee, and classes will be adjusted depending on the entry. For details contact Jim Conner at (602) 855-0912, Fax (602) 453-9641. THINKING AHEAD TO MARCH! The Michigan Buggy Builders will present its 13th Annual Swap Meet and Dune Buggy Show on Sunday March 20, 1994. It will be at the Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan and it is the larg-est show of its kind in the Midwest with 45,000 square feet of Parts and Acces-sories in over 180 booths. If it is made for a Dune Buggy, you can find it here. Plus there will be clowns, three show classes, off road buggies, sand buggies and street buggies. For full information contact Michigan Buggy Builders at (517) 543-7214. MORE SHOWS COMING UP! We got a special notice from R.G. Canning billed as the World's Greatest Shows and Events. First it is the San Diego Car Show on February 20, 1994atthe Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA. Then on May 15, 1994 from the same organizers comes the Ventura Car Show at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, by the sea in Ventura, CA. If you are interested call (213) 587-5100 Event Ext. #311 for details. LA TE FLASH FROM LA RANA-If you had difficulty reaching the La Rana Desert Racing office last month, you were not alone. La Rana moved out of Mammoth Lakes, CA rather suddenly and set up shop in Apple Valley, CA, which makes sense because all but two of their race events are within a stone's throw of Apple Valley. Trying to store their heavy equipment in snow country didn't work out well either. So you can now find La Rana at (619) 240-1335 or (619) 240-1312. Contact them by mail at P.O. Box 1365, Apple Valley, CA 92307. SCORE AW ARDS BANQUET PREVIEW ....:.... Ivan Stewart walked off with a table full of trophies, winning not only the Class 1 points title, but the overall points championship. He was also reconfirmed officially as the "Ironman" collecting two Valvoline Ironman trophies this year for winning both major Baja races with no relief driver. Michael Gaughan, in whose hotel, the Gold coast in Las Vegas, NV, the awards banquet is held annually, was named Person of the Year for 1993. Gaughan was honored for his long time support of desert racing as well as his own participation. In fact all three of his sons race the desert as well. The other major awards went to Ricky Johnson as Rookie of the Year, quite a title for a seven time motocross champion, and the Mechanic of the Year vote went to Russ Wernimont, well deserved too. Watch for the full report with pictures next month. THE FINAL FLAG - A member of another pioneer family in off road rac-ing passed on last November, basically succumbing to complications of old age. The O ld Goat, Orris Johnson, hadn't brought his wife Camele to the races in recent years, but many of us old timers remember Camele Elinor Johnson and her support of Orris and son Jerry racing in Class 10. Our sincere condolences to the family and close friends, and may she rest now in peace. Another long time off road an Checker member, first in the Checkers MC and lately in Checkers Off Road club, Chuck Sugar died rather unexpect-edly early in December. Details are sketchy on what caused his demise, but he was a typical fun loving Checker and a good pit worker when he retired from racing. Services were held early in December; no doubt by now Chuck has found a motorcycle bunch somewhere in the great beyond to enjoy racing with or just trail riding. Again, our sincere sympathy goes to his family and close friends. MTEG has announced a schedule of eight Stadium Off Road Racing events for 1994, all of them to be televised by ESPN, and guaranteed this season to be on the air in prime time. The 1994 season marks the 15th anniversary of the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group, founded back in 1979 by the late Mickey Thompson. Thompson first brought the concept of stadium racing with cars to the Los Angeles Coliseum the same year, and created the national stadium off road series in 1983. MTEG also promotes four of the 15 Coors Light Challenge events making up the 1994 AMA Supercross Series for motorcycles. Also this year they are going to run a series of Pro-Am races at Glen Helen OHV Park in San Bernardino to encourage new blood into the sport and to provide a training grouna for those new to stadium racing. Dusty Time~

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1994 Happenings ••• A.D.R.A. American Desert Racing Association P.O. Box 34087 Phoenix, AZ 85067 (602) 252-1900 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 0l l -18-07-851-0444 AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B lHl (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 PROMOTIONS, LTD. S.A. Lou Peralta P.O . Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 BONNEVILLE OFFROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. May 20-21, 1994 Wendover Express Wendover USA July 1-2, 1994 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV August 26-2 7, 1994 Bonneville Challenge Wendover USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 1993 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon, WI54520 (715) 478-2222 June 24-26, 1994 Spring Run 101 Crandon, WI September 2-4, 1994 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI BUMe Bob Utgard Motorsports Promotions 43943 Sierra Hwy., Suite G Lancaster, CA 93534 (805) 723-1549 May 14, 1994 Tulare County Fairgrounds Tulare, CA July 30, 1994 Temecula Showgrounds Temecula, CA August 2 7, 1994 Location TBA October 8, 1994 Santa Clara Fairgrounds San Jose, CA 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 DON-A-VEE MOTORSPORTS OFF-ROAD AND AUXILLIARV LIGHTlNG *FIRST RACE - FIRST PLACE! 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January 1994 January 15, 1994 Annual Awards Banquet Location TBA February 19, 1994 Fenceline I, II Rallysprints Glen Helen OHV Park San Bernardino, CA May 13-15, 1994 Rim of the World National Pro Rally Palmdale, CA July 15-17, 1994 Prescott Forest National Pro Rally Prescott, AZ September 17-18, 1994 Treeline Rally Palmdale, CA October 22-23, 1994 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA December 4-5, 1994 East of Indio Rally Indio, CA CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 20515 Whitehaven Circle Bend, OR 97702 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CMC Continental Motosport Club Sand Drags P.O. Box 830 Adelanto, CA 92301 (619) 246-7262 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholt:, President (719) 531-3642W1(719) 687-9827 H P.O. Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 COLORADO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS Bertram Productions Inc. 15073 Hwy 119 Route #4 Golden, CO 80403 ( 303) 936-5960 CORVA 1601 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (800) 237-5436 DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-36491(214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 ( 407) 254-5167 January 9, 1994 Lakeland, FL February 13, 1994 Naples, FL March 26, 1994 Florida 400 Talahassee, FL FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 SUPERSTITION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES December 31, 1993 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West, CA ATTENTION RACE&RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! Dusty Times

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February 5, 1 994 August 6, 1994 April 29-May 1, 1994 Awards Banquet Night Team Race Reno/ Pyramid 300 (Location TBA) El Centro, CA Reno, NV February 12, 1994 September 18, 1994 King of the Desert Desert Sprint HIGH PLAINS OFF El Centro, CA ROAD RACING El Centro, CA ASSOCIATION April 23, 1994 October 9, 1994 Harvey Wald Buzz Bomb 150 Mudhen II (605) 224-6678 days El Centro, CA El Centro, CA (605) 224-5534 evenings November 20, 1994 May 14-15, 1994 24 Hours Le Fud Notorious Dawg IOK FOUR WHEELERS El Centro, CA El Centro, CA P.O. Box 36 December 4, 1994 Cleves, Ohio 45002 June 25, 1994 Plaster City Blast Rudolph's Revenge ( All euents staged at the club grounds El Centro, CA El Centro, CA in Cleves, Ohio) August 2 7, 1994 INTER-SHOWS . Superstition 250 GLEN HELEN OHV PARK MOTORSPORTS El Centro, CA P.O. Box 6950 PROMOTIONS, INC. October 29, 1994 San Bernardino, CA 92412 P.O. Box 2910 Squeaky Springs Gran National (714)880-1733 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 El Centro, CA September 4, 1994 (714) 364-0515 December 31, 1994 Car Enduro KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER Dunaway Dash October 30, 1994 El Centro, CA Car Enduro 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 November 27, 1994 Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C-5L2 ATV, BIKE& DESERT Car Enduro Bob (604) 374-7175 days SUPERLITE SCHEDULE Randy ( 604) 5 79-9621 eves January 16, 1994 GORRA Keith (604) 828-1795 anytime Barking Spider Georgia Off Road ( All euents start 7 miles NW of Kamloo1:.s) El Centro, CA Racing Association February 19, 1994 Box 11093 Station -A LA RANA DESERT RACING Atlanta, GA 30310 P.O. Box 1365 0-38 Awards Banquet Apple Valley, CA 92307 (Location TBA) ( 404) 253-1033 (619) 240-1335✓(619) 240-1312 (All euents at Vienna, GA) February 2 7, 1994 January 7-9, 1994 Coyote Wash Bath New Years 200 El Centro, CA GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD Barstow, CA March 13, 1994 RACING ASSOCIATION March 4-6, 1994 Team Race GPORRA Presidential 250 El Centro, CA Mike Johnson, President Barstow, CA March 27, 1994 13621 Pierce St. April 22-24, 1994 Attack Kamaki:e Omaha, NE 68144-1122 Spangler 200 El Centro, CA ( 402) 333-0517 Eve. Ridgecrest, CA May 8, 1994 (all races at Weslfair Fair Grounds, June 17-19, 1994 Sweetheart's Kiss Council Bluffs, Iowa on a ¾ mile course Lucerne Valley Jam 250 El Centro, CA similar to the MTEG tracks, and run under class regulations from SODA) Lucerne Valley, CA July 3, 1994 August 19-21, 1994 Tankslappers Gran Prix Johnson Valley 200 El Centro, CA ROD HALL INVITATIONAL Lucerne Valley, CA July 23, 1994 5445 Equity Ave. October 14-16, 1994 Mr. Patterson's Wild Ride Reno, NV 89502 California 200 El Centro, CA (702) 856-3100 Ridgecrest, CA Every other hotel Page 8 • zsan also ran. 1-800-634-6755 Las Vegas, Nevada January 1994 November 18-20, 1994 MID-AMERICA High Desert 300 OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION Lucerne Valley, CA David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy MICHIGAN OFF ROAD Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2199 CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. All euents at Okaw Valley Campground 15529 Jones Road Shelbyville, IL Grand Ledge, MI 48837 (Additional tmck dates may be added) (517) 627-6200 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION MICKEY THOMPSON'S 11842 Jason Court OFFROAD Madera, CA 93638 STADIUM SERIES (209) 486-4590/( 209) 266-5558 Mickey Thompson Ent~rtainmerit Group OFF ROAD ADVENTURES P.O. Box 25168 Four Wheel Drive Excursions Anaheim, CA 92825 P.O. Box 1154 (714) 938-4100 Arcata, CA 95521 January 22, 1994 (707) 822-8508 Anaheim Stadium Anaheim, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS February 26, 1994 OF EL PASO Joey Vasque: Jack Murphy Stadium I 3 180 Round Dance San Diego, CA March 12, 1994 El Paso, TX 79936 Kingdome (913)855-8899 Seattle, WA April 9-10, 1994 June 18, 1994 Cars & Bikes Rice Stadium El Paso, TX Salt Lake Cir;,, UT June 25-26, 1994 June 25, 1994 Cars & Bikes El Paso, TX Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, MO November 5-6, 1994 Cars & Bikes August 1994 (TBA) El Paso, TX Pontiac Silverdome Detroit Ml ONT ARIO OFF ROAD October 1994 (TBA) RACERS ASSOCIATION Sam Boyd Silver Bowl Jeff Sargent Las Vegas, NV 1480 Lakeridge Rd. N October 1994 (TBA) Ajax, Ontario, Canada Mile High Stadium (416)427-4782 Denver. CO MTEG SPORTSMAN SERIES PIKES PEAK AT GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O . Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 March 19-20, 1994 (719) 685-4400 April 23-24, 1994 May 14-15, 1994 S.C.A.T. INC. July 16-17, 1,994 Michael R. King P.O. Box 277 September 17-18, 1994 Morrisonville, NY 12962 October 22-23, 1994 (518) 561 -3208i(518) 236-7897~ Dusty Times

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SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 ( 303) 779-6622 *Part of the North American Rall:, Championship SCORE Score International 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 908 Westlake Village, CA 91362 (818) 889-9216 January 21-23, 1994 SCORE Parker 400 Parker, AZ February 25-27, 1994 SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felipe, B.C., MX April 1-3, 1994 SCORE Nevada 400 Las Vegas, NV June 3-5, 1994 SCORE Baja 500 Baja California, MX July 1-3, 1994 SCORE Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA September 9-11, 1994 SCORE Gold Coast 300 Las Vegas, NV November 10-13, 1994 SCORE Baja 1000 Baja California, MX December 16, 1994 Awards Night Location TBA S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker 22048 Vivienda Ave. Grand Terrace, CA 92324 ( 714) 783-8293 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 January 7, 1994 1993 Awards Banquet Gold Coast Hotel Las Vegas, NV February 4-6, 1994 Bottom Dollar 8 Hour Enduro Nellis Dunes, NV March 25-27, 1994 Twilight 200 Eldorado Valley Boulder City, NV May 20-22, 1994 Caliente 250 Caliente, NV July 22-24, 1994 Midnight Special Nelson Hills, NV 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-SODA/( 414) 257-0422 May 28-29, 1994 Memorial Day 100 Lake Geneva, WI June 11-12, 1994 Antigo Kiwanis Off Road Race._ Antigo, WI June 25-26, 1994 Spring Run 101 · Crandon, WI July 9-10, 1994 Fox Riverfest Challenge Luxemburg, WI July 23-24, 1994 UP Off Road 100 Bark River, MI August 6-7, 1994 Road America Elkhart Lake, WI 1994 Race Schedule 1994 SEASON OPENER MARCH 19 & 20 1 MI LE SHORT COURSE'. RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK SACRAMENTO, CA SPRING.SPECIAL APRIL 16 & 17 2 MI LE LONG COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK SACRAMENTO, CA MAY 28, 2 9 & 30 YER I NGTON/VORRA 400 400 MILE DESERT RACE 4--100 MlLE LAPS RACE~ HEADQUARTERS: DIN!'S LUCKY CLUB YERINGTON. NV VIRGINIA CITY 200 JUNE 17 , 18 & 19 200 MILE DESERT RACE 10-20 MILE LAPS RACE HEADQUARTERS: DELTA SALOON VIRGINIA CITY. NV FALLON 250 AT NIGHT JULY 29, 30 & 31 250 M 1 LE DESERT RACE 4 LAPS RACE HEADQUARTERS: BONANZA INN & CASINO FALLON, NV YERINGTON TO FALLON AND BACK SEPT. 3; 4, & 5 125 MILE POINT TO POINT AND RETURN RACE HEADQUARTERS: CASINO WEST YERINGTON, NV VORRA'S FALL SPECTACULAR OCT. 1 & 2 1 M 1 LE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK SACRAMENTO, CA OCT. 29 & 30 1994 SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 1 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK SACRAMENTO. CA VALLEY OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Page 10 FOR INFORMATION AND PRE -REGISTRATION CONTACT VORRA 1833 LOS ROBLES BLVD. SACRAMENTO. CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 • FAX (916)_925-8217 January 1994 August 20-21, 1994 Great Northern Challenge Lake Odessa, MI September 2-4, 1994 Brush Run 101 Crandon, WI 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 Prutcll Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowic:, Prcsidl'nt 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 March 19-20, 1994 Prairie City Season Opener Sacramento, CA April 16-17, 1994 Prairie City Spring Special Sacramento, CA May 28-30, 1994 Yerington VORRA 400 Yerington, NV June 17-19, 1994 Virginia City 200 Virginia City, NV July 29-31, 1994 Fallon 250 at Night Fallon, NV September 3-5, 1994 Yerington to Fallon and Back Yerington, NV October 1-2, 1994 VORRA Fall Spectacular Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 29-30, 1994 1994 Championship Race Prairie Cit\' SVRA Park Sacraml'nto, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Ron (Rocky) Weinstein, President Box 246 - 106 - 1656 Martin Dr. White Rock, B.C. V4A 6E7 (604) 582-3338 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ-85032 (602) 971-3730 (All events at Thrasherland, 117th Aue. & Glendale in Phoenix, AZ) WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev FriJa y 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oskosh, WI 5490 I ( 414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP ATTENTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! Send your 1994 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column. Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 913u-44o8. Dusy Times

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SCORE BAJA 1000 Ivan Stewart Wins The Whole Thins! By Judy Smith Ph.or.as: Track.side Ph.or.a Inc. Ivan Stewart had a near perfect race in Baja, not only winning Class 1 and overall, but he also beat the winning motorcycle time by a good margin, something that hasn't been done for ten years, on the Baja 1000. the posted closing time there were still at least 20 vehicles waiting to be inspected. It made for a long day, but the inspectors stayed around ti! it was all done. This race had perhaps caught them unaware, with a Pre entry of over 200, an unexpectedly large number. Before the race the big question was "How will Mexican customs treat the folks bringing displays or items for sale over the border for Contingency day?" Letters froin SCORE and various Mexican of-ficials seemed to indicate that there would be duty charged, whether or not the items were for Bob Gordon and Frank Arciero combined to give the high powered machines competition with their Type 4 powered Chenowth. They finished second overall well ahead of all the factory backed entries. Mark McMillin made a rare appearance in the Class 1 Porsche powered Chenowth at the 1000, had shock problems but he and Brian Ewalt were third in Class 1. • sale. The threat of long waits at the border seemed real, not to mention the potential cost. But when the race supporters and contingency folks got to the border they were pleasantly sur-prised to be allowed to cross into Mexico with no hassle. Unless they were carrying barrels of race gas. That was another game en-Ivan Stewart had a near perfect ada contingency days. In fact, if it race in Baja, when he won the hadn't been for a mind numbing Mexicali-to-Mexicali Baja 1000 sound system used by Tecate ( one overall, beating even the winning of the sponsors of the event) to motorcycles, a feat that hadn't broadcast music the length and been accomplished since Bobby = breadth of the peninsula, and Ferro and John Johnson did it in 1973. Stewart's Toyota brought him back to Mexicali in a time of 13 hours 29 minutes, giving him an average speed of 56.53 miles per hour for the 762 mile trip. situated right smack in the middle ofcontingency row, it would have been a splendid day. Conversa-tion was impossible in the neigh-borhood of the giant speakers, and it was tough for people shuffi-Mexicali, less oriented to tour-ists than Ensenada, greeted the event with open arms and careful planning. The race headquarters, at the Hotel Colonial, were only a block from the broad street used for contingency, and later, for the ceremonial finish. Pre and post race tech were held on one side of the intervening block, putting everything within easy walking distance. While there were plenty of folks, curious Mexicans as well as race people, there were none of the pesky hordes of sticker hunt-ing boys that have plagued Ensen-Rob MacCachren moved his Ford into the Class 8 lead early in the race, set on winning the class points title, moved to within two minutes of Ivan at one point, won Class 8, the title and was third overall. Page 12 January 1994 ing their vehicles through the very slow moving line when they had to stand in front of them for an hour or more. There was some kind of glitch with the tech inspection, and by Dave Westhem and Alex Bourland ran third for most of the race in the GMC, moved up to second late in the game and finished second in the new Class 8 rig. Dusty Timcs

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" David Bryan with Bill Loper riding shotgun, plows over the rocks in good form but later had electrical trouble, but took third in Class 8 action. Mike Leste and Curt LeDuc combined in Class 3 Jeep Grand Cherokee for their last factory backed ride, had major problems after the early lead, but finished second. Roger Mears had a good dice in Class 7 with Scott Douglas in the early going, but Roger had terminal trouble somewher~ in the first 300 miles, but still placed second. Dan Smith did his usual act at the series last race, winning Class 3 by a couple of hours. taking the lead on the lower end of the course and keeping it all the way home to the points title. tirely. Race gas vendors stayed on the American side of the border, and racers had to pick up their fuel before crossing out of the U.S. Retailers, and those who had goods for display purposes only, had no problems setting up their booths, and no officials appeared to take inventory. But, as the end of the day drew near a small cadre of officials appeared with a list of establishments that they'd ob-served exchanging goods tor cash. Those folks, roughly a half dozen of them, were required to buy a "work permit", for $135. In gen-eral, there were no objections, ex-cept that it seemed that not every-one who sold goods was asked to buy a work permit. In any case, this action wasn't a Mexicali thing. It's felt that the "Work Permits" may become a perman-' ent part of doing business in Mexico. Race day was Friday, and the start was in town, but not near the Race Headquarters. Instead, the cars paraded out a couple of miles to a staging area which would allow them to start on the High-way that leads out of town toward San Felipe. It's a divided road, and one side was given over to the race, while the other was pressed into service for Friday morning go to work traffic. The traffic circles getting to the start area were nightmarish, as Mexicali's com-muters found main roads blocked for the race, and pit trucks, loaded with race equipment, tried to thread their way through the jams, frantic to get onto the out-bound highway. But the race started neatly, and the spectators were well behaved for the most ·part, and only an occasional fool-'hardy Mexican decided he could. dodge the race cars to get to his ·destination. After about 12 miles of flat out pavement, the racers made a sharp right turn into the dirt, and the off road racing began. The unlimited cars were first to start of course, and some of them were out of action before they got to the dirt. Jimmie Smith's big Ford truck sent out a call for an "oil pump and more", less than a mile from the start, and Corky McMillin's Porsche powered Chenowth lost a ring and pinion, while Dave and Paul Simon, last year's winners, lost a piston within five miles of the start. They tried to run without it, but at about mile 65 put a rod into the head. Both Walker Evans and Steve Kelley had troubles off the . Darren Skilton and Larry Noel joined forces in the Jeep Cherokee to contest Class 6, ran second for a while, took the lead in Motomi Wash, and had some brake woes on their way to winning Class 6. Dusty Tiana Scott Douglas, another driver switching teams and brands in 1994 found a silt pocket for this picture in the Herzog Ford Ranger that took him to victory in Baja and to the Class 7 points championship. start too, but they were able to continue. Of those who made it down the road a distance the three lead cars were all on the same minute, all Porsche powered Chenowths, driven by Bill Church, Carl Ren-zeder and Troy Herbst. Just one minute behind them was another trio, two more Porsche Chen-owths, belonging to Ed and Tim Herbst, and Mark McMillin, and the Dodge truck, with a VlO motor, of Brian Stewart. The course skirted the east edge· of the Laguna Salada, threading between tall brush, and bracketed by soft sand on one side and per-petual sludge on the other. A brief skirmish with some rocks, and they turned around the base of the hills, and up onto the San Felipe highway for a while, where they faced one of the worst hazards of the day, Mexican traffic inter-mingled with their own pit veh-icles on a two lane road. Once through that the course went back into the dirt, skirting the lower end of Laguna Salada, into washes and rocky river beds to Borrego, where they crossed the highway to Ensenada, paralleled it for a while then picked up the Matias Wash and headed to Diablo Dry Lake. From there they continued south to the dreaded Matomi Wash, which features very narrow slots between huge boulders, intermix-ed with a lot of soft sand. Most of this class had no problems there, ·but they thought that when they ran through it the second time, at night, they might come upon some of the limited class cars stuck, and blocking traffic. After Matomi the course turn-ed northward, and finally drop-ped down on the old dirt San Felipe road, and when they passed the Sulphur Mine, at mile 256 or so, it was Stewart in. the lead. He had six minutes on Jason Baldwin, in still another Porsche Chen-owth. In third it was Bob Gordon in his Type IV powered Chen-owth, almost 20 minutes later. Then Troy Herbst was fourth, fof-lowed by Keith Jackson in his ex-otic Raceco/Chevy truck. Our unofficial scorers caught them another SO miles or so up the road, at Campo Don Abel, northof ~ CALIFORNIA PRE-FUN BYPASS VALVE KITS! Thousands Of Race Winning Miles Went Into The Testing And Development Of These Kits. They Feature Large 9/16" Bores, Externally Adjustable, 4130 Steel Bodys, Internal Check Valves And Lightweight Aluminum Valve And Jam Nut. 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John Swift started out strong, but found a big boulder in Motomi Wash that did in the front end, cost hours to fix, but he finished second in the Class 6 Ford. Jerry McDonald led Class 4 off and on during the trek in his Class 4 Chevy, survived trans trouble and finished second in Class 4. Tom Schilling and Jimmie Johnson kept the Jimco in good shape all the way, both drivers got lost on the not so dry lake, but they took second in Class 10, well ahead of the herd. ----:-:;---;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;...,...:;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;:;;;;---:ful~11 ~d:ar:ik~,-:a;:ib:o:u~t-;-::;2no~m;:;;in:u~t;::;;e:;::s--;a:-;t-;::te:r:--1:F:=:o=rd::i""""", a:n~d then came Dave West-the right, and the special brand of Dave Ashley led Class 4 off the line, soon dropped to second but had a near visual duel for first, slowed with power steering woes, but got fixed, retook the lead and won the Class and the points title. ~ San Felipe, and the order was the same, except that Jackson had taken advantage of his greater top speed, and was tied with Herbst. Things got rough now for two reasons. The weather turned nasty, and it began to rain about the time they got to Borrego the second time, and it was also get-ting dark. But Stewart was having no trouble. He'd gone into this race with the aim of finishing ninth or better to insure his class points championship. The game plan was to run "smooth and steady", which is not a real prob-lem for Ivan usually. For this race he had something new, besides an in car camera that pointed out-ward, towards the course, there was a camera aimed at him. He said the reason he'd started desert racing years ago was because he liked the fact that there was no audience watching him. Now he found himself the sole target of a camera the full length of this event, and felt that was a bit ironic. But it didn't slow him down, and when they got back to Don Abel the second time, now in West Coast Distributor f014 HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL OUR PRICE $695.00 GEARS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY Per Set 2 Ratio's Available NEW RATIOS AV AI LAB LE Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 702/873-1002 McKenzie Performance Products 2366 East Orangethorpe Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 14. 7, he had 50 minutes on Gordon's hem, driving his tall GMC in its mud that hides under Laguna Sal-car, which Frank Arciero was now second race. Larry Minor, Jr. ran ada 's crust sucked the big truck in driving. Brian Ewalt, who'd taken fifth in a Chevy. to the frame. His crew had to over for McMillin, was now third, Before they got to mile 87, come in, hook four tow straps to-recovered from a broken shock Gordon had the first of a long gether, and yank him out. Mac-problem, and Baldwin had drop-series of problems, starting with a Cachren's win was saved by that pedtofourth,afterbreakingac.v. leakyrearsealthatcausedtherear quick pit crew, and he also took in the rain, and losing over two end to burn up. He lost two the season points for the second hours. Herbst had dropped out, hours. The rest charged on, and year in a row. Wes them got a nice and Stuart Chase, in a Porsche when they came to the Sulpher second, a good finish for a still Raceco, moved into fifth, roughly Mine the first time, MacCachren new truck, while Bryan, who'd four hours down to Stewart. had moved into the lead, with 11 had alternator/battery trouble, Now the course traversed the minutes on Ragl,nd. He was also and had lost a rear spring, finished infamous "beach road" the sec-only two minutes behind Ivan third. None of the others made it ond time, then went up to Oasis Stewart's time. to the finish line. again, and this time headed north, Westhem was third here, an-The Class 3 vehicles were next along the eastern edge of Laguna other 12 minutes back, and Dave to go, and in this small group, Salada, to Check 14, where they Bryan had put his Ford into theJeepofCurtLeDucandMike turned right along the top of it, fourth. Minor was gone, and Dale Lesle had the lead at Mile 65, with and headed out to the pavement, White, who'd switched to this five minutes on Dan Smith and to retrace their outgoing stretch to class in his Chevy, had lost his his Bronco. In third it was a Nis-the finish. Stewart, who'd had no motor, while Pete Alesi, in the ex san, driven by Spencer and Carty problems, and no flats, was driv-Scott McMillin Ford, had already Beal, from Texas, and fourth be-ing with a steering wheel that had lost a transmission. Gordon was longed to Dick Sasser and Genaro lost a couple of its spokes, but he fourth, but had lost another seal, Curiel, in a '77 International stayed out front and got to Check and a torque convertor. He was Harvester Scout, an optimistic 14aboutaquarterto 10.Hehada down so far there was doubt he team indeed. little over an hour on Gordon's could make it in if nothing else LeDuc and Lesle held the lead car, which was now struggling a went wrong. But it did, and he lost past mile 87, but somewhere in bit with stressed out suspension. his front I-beam at San Felipe, and the vast expanse below they lost McMillin was back in his car, and the team had no spare. two hours and dropped to sec-ran third, with Baldwin fourth MacCachren, Ragland, West-ond. The Nissan was still running and Chase fifth. They all made it hem and Bryan charged on, back third, albeit quite late, and the in to the checkered flag in the around to Diablo Dry Lake, Scout came along also, still later. same order, amazed at the sight of which was now very wet, and slick Smith now had a comfortable the finish, and then the ceremon-as ice. They slipped and slid lead, and later said he drove at ial finish area, absolutely packed across it, back to Don Abel the "65% ". But he had to concentrate with enthusiastic Mexicali fans. second time, and now MacCach-plenty to get across Diablo the Stewart got his points champion-ren had over two hours on West-second time, because it was "rain-ship, as well as the overall season hem, who was second, with Bryan ing buckets" to quote him, and points, and also beat the winning in third, and Ragland's crew was there was about an inch of stand-biker team of Larry Roeseler, repairing a transmission. ing water on the dry lake, which Danny Hamel and Ty Davis by 28 MacCachren was having a good made it hard to brake in a straight minutes. day, nothing was going wrong, so line. Next to take the green flag was he began to entertain the notion Still, when he got to Don Abel Class 8, the trucks, and Larry Rag-of an overall win, and he was close the second time, he was still two land and his Chevy led the parade enough to Stewart to do it, theor-hours in front of LeDuc and. into the first check, with just a etically. But then, his power assist Lesle, and he went on to the minute on Robby Gordon, in steering ram shaft broke, and he finish, with no problems at all, to Frank Vessel's Ford. Gordon and knew he'd better just concentrate take the win, and the season Vessels have put together a team on Class 8. As he went through points. LeDuc and Lesle, running for next year which gives Gordon Check 14 he had over three hours harder, but too far down to catch the chance to drive off road on Westhem, and he headed for up, got their second place. The whenever he's free, and Vessels home. Later he said, "I pre ran so Beals, in the Nissan, also got to the will race the truck when Gordon much, I was so sure of myself, I finish line, but were overtime, and can't. In third, only two minutes was gain' where I knew I was gain' missed getting an official finish by , later, was Rob MacCachren in his -but I wasn't." He got too far to two hours. The Scout didn 'rmake ,,, ' -~'" .. ~ ' Ryan Thomas and Mike Lund got the job done in the Class 10 Chenowth and they ran in the lead pack all day, took the lead after the two bottom loops and they won the big class by over an hour. January 1994 it. Class 7 came next, and Scott Douglas had decided that his Ford Ranger was good enough to take him to an overall win. So he head-ed out into the dirt with that in mind, and by the time he got to Check 1, mile 65, he had just two minutes on Roger Mears, Jr., in a Nissan. And when they got to Mile 87, where we were keeping very unofficial times, he had four minutes. At Mile 200, which is before Matomi Wash, Douglas broke a very specialized oil pump fitting, and his chase crew had to come in to help him. He lost an hour. But it was a moot point, because Mears also disappeared some-where in that stretch, and Douglas had no more competition. He Dusty Times

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, ..... Late in the race on the home stretch Jerry Higman and John Hagle moved into third in Class 10 and they stayed there to take third in the Neth. George Erl did the "lronman" number in his Raceco, driving every inch of the course in good time too, and moved to fourth on the very last leg. Billy Bunch and John Kearney ran in the lead pack in Class 7S in their Ford, had troubles on the bottom loop but did salvage second in Class 7S. went on at a more sedate pace, to finish eighth overall, taking the class win, and the season points championship again. Class 6 came next, and in this group John Swift was i~ front early on by 19 minutes, with Dar-ren Skilton and Larry Noel run-ning second in their Jeep. Evan Evans, in a Chevy, ran third. But Evans broke a balljoint before Mile 87, limped into his pit, where his crew worked for a long time, before apparently deciding that it was a no-go situation. Swift more time with broken leaf and the Noel/Skilton team were springs, and also had to repair the all that was left of Class 6. I-beam again. Noel and Skilton But it wasn't Swift's day. He took the win, with Swift in second "clobbered a rock" in Matomi place, over two hours later. Swift and broke his I-beam. His crew had ensured his class points had to bring in parts and a welder, championship before he even and he lost five or six hours. Skil-started the 1000. ton and Noel went on. They had In Class 4, which was next off the line, the early lead belonged to Dave Ashley in his Ford, but 20 miles later it was in the hands of Jerry McDonald, in a Chevy. Ash-ley ran just two minutes behind him, and Alan Shapiro and Randy Salmont were another 10 minutes back in their Ford. Ashley and McDonald dueled the long dist-ance down through Matomi, and as they passed the Sulphur Mine, it was McDonald in front, but only by eight minutes. Shapiro and Salmont were third still, and in fourth it was Michael Coleman, in a Ford, followed by Jon Snyder, a paraplegic racer, in a Dodge. Coleman fell ~ some rear brake problems, and .----------------------------------------------did some "pirouettes" on the slick surface of Diablo Dry Lake, but in general had an easy day of it. Swift, on the other hand, lost Class 5 had some heavyweights in the ranks but many had serious problems. It was no surprise to see Hartmut and Wolfram Klawitter win the class as they even came with a windshield, anticipating rain. George Seeley, going it alone in Class 5, moved up through the ranks to third, then had serious delays, about three hours, but he finished with 18 minutes left on time, and was second in the race and the points champ. Class 7S was almost a walk-a-way for Jeff Lewis in the 4x4 Chevy S-10 after the initial dicing with Darren York was over, Jeff had only one flat tire all day and won the class and the class championship. Dusty Times Ttuck ardsport utilltyvehiole more~~ and • Highe$t gas p,essuefor • 98% efficiency Oller 100,000• • L.argest_pistol, won<ingaiea 'dial~31) • Limited lifetime warralt}I These ae the same high quality · that normalycostupto$119.00each.Actnowandsave! *Limited time offer on selected applications 119 -""°"" ......... Contact the Distributors listed below or your nearest Bilstein dealer: CANADA Performance Products NDRTH CARDLINA Performance Assist Accessories ltd. Toyota Specialist Rowells, Inc. CALGARY, AB -403/279-2807 VAN NUYS -800/553-2840 CHARLOTTE-704/333-5213 CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT Autosport Gallery APS -800/423-3623 William Sander RALEIGH -919/872-2002 BEACON FALLS -800/227-9763 ANAHEIM-714/630-1144 GEORGIA NEW JERSEY McKenzies Performance Products Specialty Parts Warehouse Euro Tire ANAHEIM-714/441-1212 LIBURN -404/978-2801 FAIRFIELD-800/631-0080 Auto Service & Performance HAWAII Woodlawn Auto and RV Service MOUNTAIN VIEW -415/969-1050 Zubehor Hawaii, Inc. LINDEN-800/959-3658 HONOLULU -808/836-1980 OREGON Fairway Sport and Performance ILLINOIS ipd PLACENTIA -714/528-4670 Precision Frame PORTLAND -800/444-6486 ASI -800/683-2890 HIGHLAND PARK -708/432-0082 TEXAS SAN DIEGO -619/584-2890 INDIANA Pro Am Parts and Accessories Off-Road Wharehouse Power Brake and Spring HOUSTON -800/847-5712 SOUTH BEND -800/282-1044 SAN DIEGO -619/565-7792 LOUISIANA VERMONT Downey Off-Road MFG. Brinson Rovers North -Rover Specialist SANTA FE SPRINGS -310/949-9494 HARAHAN -504/733-7326 WESTFORD -802/879-0032 January 1994 Page 15

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Malcolm Vinje and Mark Hansen were doing fine in the Toyota until a broken axle, brake line, and tie rod dropped time, and they finished 3rd overtime. Bikers Alex Avila and Matias Arjona switched to a 1600 Chen-owth for the long race, and the Ensenada team did very well, second in Class 1-2-1600. Jim Harris and Jim Fishback Jr. joined up in a Chenowth in Class 1-2-1600 and they had a trouble free race, save a flat tire, and were third. ~ out in the next sec-tion, but Snyder got a bit further down the road before succumbing to major suspension problems. The other three went on. Ashley and McDonald went on, fighting back and forth, taking turns at the lead. They slid across Diablo, made it through Matomi again, and then Ashley ·had a power steering problem. He got that fixed quickly, and then pass-ed McDonald on the Puertecitos road, fixing a flat. When they got to Mile 565, their second time through Don Abel, Ashley had a 15 minute lead over McDonald. Shapiro and Salmont were still third, but were two hours later. Ashley continued to lead, as McDonald hit a rock or some-thing and began to lose transmis-sion fluid. Ashley took the win, and the season points, and behind the lead batch. McDonald finished second, still By Mile 87 they'd thinned out excited about how much fun it some, and it was the Tanklage car had been to be racing hard, and in front, ~o minutes ahead of close, for such a long event. Lund, and then Welch, tied with Salmont and Shapiro were third. Kirk and Pierce, a minute later. The Class 10 buggies were next Croll was still fifth, and two to go, and, as usual, there was a minutes in back of him was an-good sized group capable of taking other tied group, consisting of the win. At Check One they were Jimmie Johnson in Tom Schill-very close, with the lead four tied. ing'sJimco, Dwight Lundell in his It was Mike and Morley Williams Fodfab, and Brian Parkhouse and in a MECO, Brian and Jon Tank-Willie Melancon in their Mirage. lage in their Suspensions Unlim-Some started to have troubles, ited chassis, Mike Lund in a and Hernquist broke his steering Chenowth and Jim Pierce and Jim box and rolled in a cloud of dust Kirk in their Raceco. Behind the before Matomi, while Lundell got leaders by just one minute it was through Matomi and then broke Ray Croll in his Jimco, and then the "hockey stick", on his shift came a pair, including Bill Hern-assembly, in half. Martin Garibay quist in his Jimco, and Russ ran out of gas, and later lost his Welch in Dan Blain's Mirage. motor, and Welch broke a front They were only two minutes shock. Back at Don Abel, Mile 300 {approximately), it was Croll in the lead, and the T anklage car second, eight minutes· later. In third it was Lund, three minutes further back, followed by John-son, and then Steve Sourapas in his Chenowth. When they got back to Borrego the second time, several driver changes were made, and the second drivers hopped in-to the cars in the midst of a rain-storm. When they got to Diablo it did not look like the dry lake they'd pre-run. There was stand-ing water, the trail was impossible to find, and cars were running around in big circles all over it, frying to find their way to the road at the end. Croll'sco-driver, Tom Rhodes, had serious electrical problems in the midst of the wetness, and Sourapas's co-driver, Dave Rich-ardson, got stuck, and overstress-ed his motor getting out of the mud. Lund's co'driver, Ryan Thomas, was lost, and followed a tail light he recognized, which fin-ally led to the road. Tom Schill-ing, who'd taken over for John-son, was also lost for an hour or so, and finally "fell over" the right road. Then he went around a Back through Matomi, and up the road to Don Abel again, and this time it was Thomas in the lead. He was now taking it easy because his crew had told him Croll and Rhodes were in trouble. At Check 14 Thomas, who was so tired he tried singing to himself to stay awake, led by an hour, and it was Schilling in second place. Up into third now was the team of Jerry Higman and John Hagle, in a Neth, who'd had a lot of flats, and were now worried about their motor lasting. Nick Baldwin and Jack Millerd were fourth, in a Chenowth. They'd been stuck for two hours after having a flat, sinking into the silt, and then finding that their battery and starter had gone bellyup. George Erl, who was soloing in his Raceco, was fifth at that point, and feeling that he must be the oldest qriver in the class. He wasn't. corner, "and there was Sourapas 's ,-car.", broken. Lund and Thomas took the win, finishing an hour and eight minutes in front of Schilling and Johnson, who were the season points champions. Hagle and Higman finished third. Erl put on a burst of speed and moved up to fourth place, finishing just six minutes in front of Baldwin and Millerd. As to ~ NEW PRODUCT: ROD END ADAPTORS AXLES• SPRING PLATES• PREDRILLED CV BOLTS LINK PINS• LINK PIN BUSHINGS & SHIMS TIE RODS• WHEEL STUDS• BUSHING INSTALLATION TOOLS • NEW PRODUCTS IN DEVELOPMENT• SCORE&LARANACONTINGENCYSPONSOR D.G. RACING FEX PERFORMANCE 708 W. Mill, Unit M 1098 Stockton Avenue San Bernardino, CA 92410 San Jose, CA 95110 (909) 885-5226 (408) 295-0707 JIMCO LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING SUSPENSIONS UNUtJITED 1345 Dynamics, Unn D Anaheim, CA 92806 (714) 996-6260 DJ TRANSAXLES 10623 Black loot Road Apple Valley, CA 92308 (619) 240-3930 HOTLINE AUTOMOTIVE 6951 ldlewylde Circle Mebourne, FL 32904 (407) 724-1270 T.U.F. OFFROAD 3255 E. Coumbia Tucson, Al. 85714 (602) 294-3511 RACING PRODUCTS 10965 Hartley Road. Suite R Santee, CA 92071 (619) 562-1743 825 N. Glendora Avenue Covina, CA 91723 (818) 915-2212 OFFROAD BUGGY SUPPLY 2525 E. 16th Street Yuma, AZ 85365 (602) 783-6265 DENUNZIO RACING PRODUCTS P.O. Box 6057 Santa Barbara. CA 9311 t (805) 683-1211 J. PENHALL FABRICATIONS 1660 Babcock, Bldg. B Costa Mesa. CA 92627 (714) 650-3035 January 1994 It was Brawley time in Class 1-2-1600 as Scott Webster, with co-drivers Todd Teuscher and Rodney Woolf kept the single seat ORBS out front by scant minutes and won the class by 50 minutes at the flag. Class 5-1600 was a big class and early leaders looked a shoe in, but at Mile 256, last year's winners Brian Goodrich and Charlie Watters were up to third and kept moving forward, took the lead on the second loop and won again. Dusty nmes

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Steve Taylor, Juan DeGracia and Wayne Lacher made a good team in the new 5-1600, were third at the last check, but second at the checkered flag. Jorge Galvadon and Samuel Cisneros ran fourth in Class 5-1600 for a time, but they moved up to third on the last legs and finished in third place. Ross Craft, Jim Dizney and Mike Kalicki ran second for a long time; but broke a trailing arm on the very last leg and finished fourth 5-1600. ~ Erl being the oldest in the class at age 4 7 -there were at least six drivers older than he was, but he was the only one in the class going solo. The Unlimited Baja Bugs took the flag next, and it started out as a close battle, with Hartmut and Wolfram Klawitter in the lead at Check 1 in their Jimco, but only a minute in front of Mike Johnson in his Suspensions Unlimited car, and he was tied with Greg Diehl and Tony Kujala in their '64 Con-vertible. In fourth it was George Seeley in his '86 sedan. When they got to Mile 87 the Diehl and Kujala car had the !~ad by two minutes, even though the Klawitter car was first on the road. They were second, two minutes behind on elapsed time. Jakobson was another minute back in third, and Seeley held on to fourth. Mike and Neal Gra-bowski were already out, radioing for a trailer. Diehl and Kujala had motor problems on the highway after Mile 87, and had melted a piston by Mile 110. That left the Klawit-ters in front, and they came around to Mile 256, the Sulphur Mine, with 10 minutes on Jakob-son, who had Dave Snoddy as a co-driver. Seeley was third now, over an hour later, after replacing a steering coupler, and removing some cactus from his person. It was reported that the Klawitters, Lewis had seven minutes by correctly predicting rain, had sent Mile 87, and York was concerned a chase crew person up to Mexi- because his oil temperature was cali to get their windshield, and high, and the pressure low. Bunch then had it installed in time to and Kearney ran third now, and protect them from the elements. Chris Taylor had moved up to Up at Campo Don Abel it was fourth. Gary Mecham, who'd still the Klawitters, by a half hour blown his transmission on his now, and having no troubles, dyno while getting ready for the once they'd blown all the old dust race, had blown the Ford's motor out of their pumper helmets. Jak- this time, at Mile 26. obson and Seeley still ran second At Campo Don Abel, where and third. But the next time Lewis led by 18 minutes, York around Jakobson was in the lead, decided to change a rear main seal. about four minutes in front of the Bunch and Kearney were still Klawitters, and Seeley was about third, Sacio fourth, and Taylor three hours down. had dropped to fifth. But Jakobson broke a front The next time they came trailing arm, and while his crew around it was still Lewis in front, made repairs, the Klawitters ran but now Kearney and Bunch held _ uneventfully to the finish line and second place, two hours and 40 the win. They were 13th overall. minutes back.York was still baby-Seeley, who drove all the way, fin- ing his motor, and ran third, with ished second, just 18 minutes Malcolm Vinje and Mark Hansen, short of the 24 hour deadline, in a Toyota, in fourth, and run-winning the season class points ning very late after dealing with a championship. Jakobson and broken axle, a broken brake line Snoddy did get to the finish line, and a broken tie rod. but were overtime by an hour and Lewis had only one flat to trou-four minutes. ble him all day and took the win, Next in the lineup were the 7S finishing a neat 17th overall, and trucks, both two wheel drive and winning the season points also. four wheel drive, and Jeff Lewis Bunch and Kearney came in put his Chevy out in front from second four hours later. Vinje and early on, with four minutes on Hansen made it to the finish line, Darren York, in a Ford, by Mile but were overtime, and York, 65. Javier Sacio was third in a Nis- after a long day, lost his motor up san, and Billy Bunch and John by Check 14,anddidn'tgettothe Kearney ran fourth in their Ford. finish. Class 1-2-1600 was next to ·The Off-Roader's Choice· start, and a big group of the tough, little cars had decided to challenge the Baja. They stayed close together for a while, with Scott Webster, in his ORBS, leading the way. He had just a minute at • 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 Instant Pit Shelter La Rana Contingency Sponsor SCORE Contingency Sponsor E-Z UP Authorized Dealer CASTEX RENTALS, INC. 1044~. C-ole Ave. . Mile 65, and was being pushed by Brent Grizzle in a Chenowth, Rod Muller and Mike Halliday in another Chenowth, and Jim Fish-back, Sr. and Sam Castro in a Neth. A minute further back it was Jeff and John Holmes, in a Raceco, tied with Gary Anderson and Dale Johnson in a Homemade chassis. Rounding the corner up onto the pavement at Mile 87 it was still Webster, and he still had on! y a minute on Muller and Halliday. Then came the Fishback/Castro team, and Grizzle, still only another minute behind. The Holmes brothers ran fifth at this point. Webster, who had a rear start number, had only Grizzle left to pass by the time he got to the Sul-phur Mine, and he had him in his sights. Now his lead was up to seven minutes, and Grizzle was second. In third it was Kevin Davis and Jeff Hibbard, in a Lothringer, making up time after being lost. The Holmes brothers came next, tied with Alex Avila and Matias Arjona, an Ensenada team, in a Chenowth, who'd switched from racing motorcy-cles. Webster got out and put Todd Teuscher in for the middle loop and he stayed in front, now actually first on the road, having no problems at all. Avila and Arjona, finding this much easier than bikes, moved up to second, 52 minutes behind the lead car, and they were also having no problems. In third it was Fishback and Castro, and they'd had shift linkage trouble. Davis and Hib-bard were fourth now, and Griz-zle's co-driver, Dale Ebberts, was running fifth after losing an hour and a half on Diablo with a bad electrical connection. He was also feeling ill, and decided his pumper was not giving him fresh air, so he'd turned it off and opened his shield. Teuscher handed Webster's car off to Rodney Woolf, who lives in Brawley and hadn't even got off work until about 3:30 race day afternoon. He was fresh, and con-tinued to lead, his only trouble being one flat. At Check 14 he had 48 minutes on Avila and Arjona, who were 47 minutes in front of Jim Harris and Jim Fish-back, Jr., in a Chenowth, who'd had nothing but a flat to trouble them so far. Ebberts was another 50 minutes back, behind them, and Mike Julson and Bob Lofton, in a Jimco, were now fifth, one L:os·An_geles, CA 90038 CALL: 213 • 462 • 1468 It was a tough grind for Class 9 cars, but the team of Rich and Jim Richardson and anchor man Doug Perrault had the early lead in the Jimco, then dropped to a close second, but on the last sections Doug passed the leader and they won Class 9. Page 18 January 1994 minute behind him. They'd had a tough day, changing a clutch at Borrego, and later replacing a throwout bearing. The Webster, Woolf and Teuscher team took the win, fin-ishing at about 20 to six on Satur-day morning, delighted to get their first SCORE victory. In second it was Avila and Arjona, happy with their first finish in a car, and Harris and Fishback, Jr. were third. Julson sneaked past Ebberts, to move up to fourth and give himself and Lofton fourth place, and the all important sea-son points championship. Grizzle and Ebberts were fifth, a shade over a minute later. -The 5-1600s, the second big-gest class running, went next, and the Cook brothers, Wayne, Allen and Darryl, led into the first check, by just one minute. In second it was the Ledezma family, Danny, Hector, Elias and Jose, only a minute back. Mario Pana-giotopulos ran third, another minute back, and then came a tie, between the team of Ross Craft, Jim Dizney and Mike Kalicki, and Manuel and Alberto Covarrubias. The Cook~ and the Ledezmas were still one and two at Mile 87, and the rest of the class followed in close order. Then, when they came around to the Sulphur Mine, at Mile 256, things had strung out some. The Cooks still led, and the Ledezmas were still second, now eight minutes back. Charlie Watters and Brian Good-rich, last year's winners, were now third, another 15 minutes back, and behind them came Carlos and Humberto lribe, in fourth, another four minutes back. And in fifth, eight minutes later, it was Mario P. It was already dark and raining for these folks, and they still had to do their second swing across Diablo, which was now not dry, and then down through the tough terain of Matomi Wash. The Cooks led into Campo Don Abel, and Watters and Goodrich had come up to second, followed by the hibes, and then the team of Steve Taylor, Juan DeGracia and Wayne Lacher, in fourth, Craft/Dizney and Kalicki were now fifth, after running out of gas below the Sulphur Mine. The Cooks lost their transmis-sion in the next loop, and Watters and Goodrich took over the lead. They were now nine minutes in front of Craft/Dizney and Kalicki, some 565 miles into the race. They had stalled once, and had discovered that their battery wasn't holding a charge, and they had a loose head, but no other problems were troubling them. In third it was Taylor/ DeGracia and Lacher now, a half hour later, fol-lowed by Michael and Mike James, and then Jorge Galvadon and Samuel Cisneros. Mario P. was gone, ~ Dusty nmcs

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4.@ a~ Rick Johnson and Mike Currier raced their Barstow built Class 9 and led in the middle section, but ignition problems dropped them back to second. David Callaway, John Holmes, Steve Downey ran their Class 9 hard and fast until a variety of serious problems dropped them to a close third in class. Larry Carpenter had no less than five flats in his stone stock Toyota, and was stuck in Matomi Wash twice but did manage to finish second in class. ·arw as were the Iribes, who'd had suspension problems. Up at Check 14 Goodrich and Watters led by 12 minutes, with Craft/Kalicki and Dizney still second and Taylor/DeGracia and Lacher still third. But Galvadon and Cisneros had moved into fourth, and the James family dropped to fifth. Goodrich and Watters motor-ed on serenely to the finish, to get their second Baja 1000 win a row. But Kalicki/Dizney and Craft broke a rear trailing arm. They frantically cobbled it together with a hydraulic jack as an arma-ture, and zip ties and duct tape to hold it on, and then went for the finish. They stood a chance at the points if they could finish well, and if the Cooks broke. Mean-while, Taylor, Lacher and DeGra-cia had gone by, and they got to the finish line for second place. Kalicki, Craft and Dizney finished next, and things looked good for a few minutes, but in came Gal-vadon and Cisneros, to take third place by one second, bumping the Dizney, Craft and Kalicki team to fourth. When the points were fig-ured, a tie was the result, and for some reason, SCORE declared SCORE TECATE BAJA 1000 RESULTS-November 11-13 1993 # Pos Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Time O/A Clase 1/2-Unlimited single & two seat - 28 start. 10 finish 125 1 Ivan Stewart Toyota 120 2 Bob Gordon/Frank Arciero Chenowth VW 111 3 Mark McMillinlBrian Ewalt Chenowth Porsche 100 4 Jason Baldwin/Regie Dunlap Chenowth Porsche 129 5 Stuart Chase Raceco Porsche Class 1/2-1600 - 1600cc Restricted Engine. 20 start -8 finish 1696 1 Scott Webster/Todd Teuscher/ Rodney Woof! ems 1612 2 Alex Avila/Matias Arjona Chenowth 1618 3 James Harris/Jim Fishback Jr. Chenowth 1698 4 Mike Julson/Bob Lofton Jimco 1610 5 Brent Grizzle/Dale Ebberts Chenowth Class 3-Short WB 4x4 - 4 •tart - 2 finiah 302 1 Dan Smith Ford Bronco 300 2 Mike Lesle/Curt LeDuc Jeep Grand Cherokee Clase 4-Long WB 4x4 - 6 start - 3 finish 402 Dave Ashley Ford F-150 400 Jerry McDonald Chevy K-1500 401 3 Alan Shapiro/Randy Salmon! Ford F-150 Class 5 - Unlimited Baja Bug - 9 start. 2 finish 500 1 Hartmut & Wotfram Klawitter Baja Bug 508 2 George Seeley, Jr/Robert Judy Baja Bug Oass 5-1600 -1600cc Baja Bug - 25 start. 6 finish . 550 1 Brian Goodrich/Charlie Watters Baja Bug 559 2 Steve Taylor/Juan DeGracial Wayne Lacher Baja Bug 558 3 Jorge Galvadon/Samuel Cisneros Baja Bug 552 4 Ross Craf1/Jim Dizney/Mike Kalicki Baja Bug 561 5 Guillermo Quintero/Francisco Ortiz Baja Bug aass 6 - Production Sedan • 4 start • 2 finish 619 1 Darren Skilton/Larry Noel Jeep Cherokee 600 2 John SwifVDlno Pugeda Ford Explorer Oass 7 - Unlimited Mini Pickup. 3 start . 1 finish 700 1 Scott Douglas/Jeff Howe Ford Ranger aass 7S - Stock Mini Pickup • 9 start. 2 finish 722 1 Jeff Lewis'John Chapman Chevy S-10 720 2 Billy Bunch/John Kearney Ford Ranger Oass 8 - 2WD Standard Pickup. 9 start • 3 finish 833 1 Rob MacCachrenMike Schoffstall Ford F-150 802 2 Dave Westhem/Alex Bourland G\4C 803 3 David Bryan/Bill Loper Ford F-150 Oass 9 - Restricted Buggy -13 start. 3 finish 996 1 Rich & Jim Richardson/Doug Perrault Jimco 995 2 Rick Johnson/Mike Currier Johnson/Fortune 997 3 - David Callaway/John Holmes' Steve Downey Tubular Designs aase 10 -Unlimited 1650cc. 22 start. 9 finish 1010 1 Ryan Thomas/Mike Lund Chenowth 1016 2 Tom Schilling/Jimmie Johnson Jimco 1001 3 Jerry Higman/John Hagle Neth 1003 4 George Erl (solo) Raceco 1006 5 Nick Baldwin/Jack Millerd Chenowth Oaas 11 - Stock VW sedan - 9 start • 3 finish (this class was only required to complete 507 miles) 1101 1 Eric Solorzano/Hector Rodriguez VWBeetle 1106 2 Rogerio Rivera (solo) VWBeetle 1105 3 Tony Gomez/Bill Hansen VWBeetle Oaas Mini Stock - Stock Mini Trucks • 4 start. 3 finish (this class was only required to complete 507 miles) 764 1 Chuck Johnson/Jack Murphy Jeep Cherokee 763 2 Larry Carpenter Toyota 760 3 Scott Sells'Steve Buckelew Toyota Oase Stock Full -Stock Pickup Trucks. 18 start. 13 finish (this class was only required to complete 507 miles) 861 1 Rod Hall/Jim Fricker '93 Hummer 899 2 Chad Hall/Bill Thompson '93 Hummer 194 3 John Saxton/Graham Roberts Land Rover 199 4 Mike Wooley/James Tenant Range Rover 860 5 Gordon DiCarlo'Don Krause Ford F-150 Starters, cars 185 - Bikes 78 - finishers, cars 70 . 37.8% - Race Distance 768 miles Fast Time - Cars/Trucks - Ivan Stewart - Class 1 Toyota 13:29:11 13:29:11 14:35:37 16:04:37 16:57:23 17:43:47 18:57:14 19:44:50 20:30:59 21:17:27 21:18:53 15:28:53 17:31 :33 14:41:14 15:20:16 17:48:26 17:35:29 23:42:19 21 :01 :07 21:53:15 23:22:02 23:22:03 23:33:39 19:16:04 21 :25:26 16:24:26 17:56:23 21:55:54 14:40:00 17:29:12 20:18:00 23:04:02 23:32:56 23:58:41 16:39:18 17:47:50 18:39:54 20:13:43 20:19:17 18:18:31 21:52:15 22:05:23 13:33:35 13:59:13 14:25:39 13:33:40 14:16:56 16:30:28 17:01 :14 14:25:39 Fast Time - Motorcycles - Danny Hamel/Larry Ro858ler/Ty Davis - Class 22 Kawasaki 13:57:23 - Weather: Breezy, some hard rain, moderate to cold temperatures. Page 10 1 2 7 10 14 19 21 27 31 32 6 12 4 5 "· 16 13 51 28 36 46 47 49 20 33 8 17 37 3 11 23 44 47 51 9 15 18 22 24 the Cooks the winners of the sea-son points, even though they hadn't finished this event. Kalicki, Craft and Dizney were awarded second place. The Class 9 cars went next, and this group had serious reserva-tions going into the race about whether or not they could finish in the 24 hour time limit. They figured it would have to be a per-fect day to get it done, and no one ever really anticipates a perfect day in Baja. But at Mile 65 every one of them made it through, all within 15 minutes, and in front of the pack it was the team of]im and Rich Richardson and Doug Per-rault, in their Jimco. They con-tinued to lead at Mile 87, and once again, all the entries made it through there. Now, tied three minutes back, it was Rick John-son and Mike Currier, in their Johnson/Fortune, and Alfonso LaCarra and Lalo Mayoral in their Jimco. Pancho Bio and Sergio Gutierrez were fourth in their Tubular Designs chassis, and Dave Callaway, Steve Downey and John Holmes were fifth, only 10 minutes behind the leader, in their Tubular Designs chassis. Rain and darkness caught most of these folks at Diablo and Matorni, and it must have seemed to them that Baja was working hard to slow them down. But more than half made it back to the Sulphur Mine, and the Richard-sons and Perrault still held the lead, but were only five minutes in front of the teams of Johnson/ Currier and Callaway/Holmes/ Downey. LaCarra and Mayoral had lost about six hours, and Bio and Gutierrez had also had lengthy problems. Paul Gedman and Mike Stroh were now fourth in their Suspensions Unlimited car, an hour down, and followed by Reuben Denson and Gustavo Pinuelas, in a Jimco, another two hours back. It took about 12 hours for these folks to get back around to the Sulphur Mine, and up to the Don Abel area again, and at that time it was Johnson and Currier in the lead, as Jim Richardson had had some problems when he went through Matomi the second time. The Richardson/Perrault team was second, and only 19 minutes back, however, with Gedman and Stroh another 20 minures back in third. Callaway/Downey and Holmes were fourth, three min-utes later. The only other car still running seems to have been Bio and Gutierrez, and they were about five hours down, and Chuck Johnson and Jack Murphy ran in this luxury Jeep Grand Cherokee complete with radio and electric windows in the Stock Mini Truck class, had a good time and a comfortable ride as well as winning by some 26 minutes. The Hummer, nee Hum Vee made its racing debut in full size stock class. and Rodney Hall and Jim Fricker drove a sedate pace in the wide rig. watched the others fall out in front of them and won the class by 43 minutes. January 1994 obviously incapable of making it to the finish before shut down time. Perrault was in the car for the finish stretch, and he passed the Johnson/Currier car out of El Chinero, to retake the lead. At Check 14 he had 21 minutes on Currier and Johnson, who'd had ignition problems all day, and had changed their points four times. Gedman and Stroh were third here, another 25 minutes down, but they'd had to replace a ball-joint on their two seater earlier in the day. Callaway, Downey and Holmes were still fourth, another three minutes back, running with no front skid pan, no brakes, a shifter that didn't work, and a flat front tire. The Richardsons and Perrault, who didn't find the course too rough, took the win, their third Baja 1000 in a row. Johnson and Currier were second, 28 minutes later, and took the season points championship also. Callaway, Downey and Holmes finished third, another 20 minutes back, less than two minutes before the cutoff time. Stroh and Gedman are shown as DQ'd on the official finishing list, but no explanation is given. They might have been overtime at an earlier check. AU three of the finishers had less than an hour left of their allotted 24 hours, so they'd been correct in predicting that it would be close. The Stock Full Class, SCORE's entry level truck class, had an inflated entry for this event, thanks to a cadre of British and European racers that came over to challenge the Baja, and found their vehicles (rally cars, all) undersuspended for Baja. SCORE, accordingly, moved them into Stock Full, giving the every day Chevys and Fords a whole batch of four wheel drive Land Rovers and Range Rovers to compete with. In addition, there were two Hummers ( civilian des-cendants of the Hummvees that the armed forces used in Desert Storm), factory entries, prepared and raced by Rod Hall and his son Chad. They, too, were four wheel drive, and by no stretch of the imagination could they be consi-dered entry level, but they didn't seem to fit anywhere else. This class did not run the bot-tom loop two times, and that brought their mileage down to about 507, with the same 24 hour time limit as everyone else. They got to Mile 65 with one of the two wheel drive really stock trucks in the lead. It was Gordon DiCarlo and Don Krause, in their '89 Ford. And Steve Olliges and Tim Casey, in a '93 Ford Lightning, were second, followed by Randy Weisser and Nate Muller, in still another Ford, in third. Eric Heiden, in a Jeep Grand Cherokee was fourth, and Rod Hall had his Dusty Times

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Chad Hall, with Bill Thompson along for the ride, followed his dad Rod to the finish line in good shape, taking second in his Hummer ride. John Saxton and Graham Roberts were the most successful of Rogelio Rivera ran fourth most of the distance in Class 11 the covey of British Land Rovers taking third in full size stock driving all the way, and got stuck five times, had no other trouble class, surprising even themselves. and was second in class. Hummer in fifth. By the time they got to Mile 87, Heiden had taken over the lead, and Weisser and Muller ran second, with DiCarlo and Krause in third, Hall in fourth, and John Saxton and Graham Roberts, from Great Britain, in a Land Rover, in fifth. From that view-point it was easy to see that the Rover was at a handicap in the rough stretches, but it was also readily apparent that the driver had no hesitation about charging hard in the smooth, and particu-larly, no timidity about moving through Mexican and pit traffic on the highway. Some of the more stock trucks in this class had a little problem making their way, because spectators and pit crews on the road didn't always recog-nize them as racers. By the time this pack had gone across Diablo, already wet, and down through Matomi, in the dark, back to the Sulphur Mine, it was nearly 7 p.m. And Heiden was in the lead, but only six min-utes in front of Rod Hall, who had about 45 minutes on Chad Hall in the other Hummer. In fourth it was DiCarlo and Krause, and Mike Wooley and James Ten-nant, from Wales and Great Bri-tain, in a Range Rover, were fifth. By the time they got to Don Abel, another 50 miles or so up the road, Hall had the lead, with Chad Hall in second place. Word came back that Weisser and Muller were spending the night in their truck, and that Marc Stein and David Sykes had blown their Ford's motor on the sandy beach road. Wooley and Tennant were still third, and DiCarlo and Krause held onto fourth, with another U.K. team, John Congen and Richard Hannam, in another Land Rover, now in fifth place. Hall had to replace an idler arm, but had no other trouble, not even any flats, and was 50 minutes in front at Check 14. His son, Chad, who had had a couple of flats, was second. Saxton and Roberts, who'd had to change a belt, and had been stuck in the silt, were third. In fourth it was some brush behind their seats was era second, over two hours later. Negros and the Summit, an area Wooley and Tennant, who were overheated by a broken exhaust. Solorzano and Rodriguez had not used in this race. Larry Roe-having no mechanical problems, Still, he pushed hard, keeping aneasyday,withonlyoneflatand seler, the winning biker, said of bui: found the course "exhaust-Johnson honest. Sells, and his co-an exhaust leak to report, and the mix of cars and bikes at the ing". Di Carlo and Krause ran driver, Steve Buckelew, had an they ran out of gas. Also, said lower end of the course, "It was fifth, three hours and 45 minutes alternator problem. Solorzano, "We didn't abuse the v~ry bad. We were in with fast behind Hall, after being stuck, They charged through car."Theytookthewin,finishing cars who were running late, and changing a rear end, breaking a Check 14 in the same order, and over three hours before the it'shardforabiketogetpastacar coil spring, and an I-beam, and then to the finish, with Johnson second place car came in. That or truck in the dust. We should having one flat. taking the win. Carpenter second, was Rivera, who drove all the do everything in our power so this Halldroveserenelytothefinish 26 minutes later, and Sells and way, and had been stuck five doesn't happen again." to take the win, where his pas- Buckelew in third, another 26 times, but had no mechanical The Competition Review senger, Jim Fricker, reported that minutes back.Johnson beat all the problems, and no flats. In third it Board had only one complaint to it wasn't as fast, but it was a lot Stock Full trucks, while the other was Tony Gomez and Bill Han-handle after the race, and no more fun than their old Class 4 two beat all the Rovers. son, who said "Matomi is ugly." action was taken, so all finishes truck. Son Chad finished second, The little Class 11 cars took the They'd been lost and stuck on stood as recorded. SCORE did a only 43 minutes later, with Sax- green flag last, and they were to their way to the finish. None of quick turnaround to Las Vegas, ton and Roberts in third. Wooley run the same 507 mile course as the others made it in. where, with washed faces and dust and Tennant were fourth, fol-the stock trucks, with the same On the whole the racers free clothes, they presented the lowed in by DiCarlo and Krause, time limit. Dave Hendrickson enjoyed the enthusiasm and hos-points winners with their awards, the first two wheel drive, and the took the early lead in his new car, pitality of the Mexicali people, closing out the racing season in a first of the original "Stock-Full" and he had five minutes on Eric and several racers declared that busy rush. concept vehicles. Olliges and Solorzano and Hector Rodriguez the most exciting part of the race Next year's schedule is already Casey finished also, about a half by Mile 65. And at Mile 87 he was was -being escorted from the well on the way, and the year will hour later. All in all, five of the seven minutes in front of them, actual finish to the ceremonial fin-start at Parker, on the weekend of seven Rovers finished, a good and they were 27 minutes ahead ish by the Mexicali motorcycle January 21-23. record, considering how unpre-of Peter Rosenstein and Duane police, with lights and sirens. Many thanks to the FAIR pit pared they really were. They all Morimoto, who were third. Rage-Some racers felt that the course people who recorded times as all expressed amazement at the lio Rivera ran fourth, a minute "went away" seriously, and think the cars went by and then shared roughness of the course, and they later. that some of the routes are over-their records with me, for the sake all said they'd like to come back, By the time they'd gone used, what with both SCORE and of this story. And I'd also like to better prepared, to try it again. through Matomi Wash and come Baja Promotions holding races on thank BFGoodrich, and Bob The Stock Mini trucks got the up to the Sulphur Mine, the Hen-those trails. Others liked the Hynes, who kept a log of their green flag next, and in this ·group drickson car and the Rosenstein absence of hostility and "booby race cars, which gave me more there was a good duel between car were gone. Solorzano and traps",whichareoftenaproblem otherwise unattainable informa-Chuck Johnson, in a street legal Rodriguez held the lead, with Riv-up in the hills between Ojos tion. Jeep Grand Cherokee, complete P-•------•---------------•---------------with its electric windows, and Larry Carpenter, in a Toyota. At Check 1 it was Johnson in front and Carpenter second. David and Robin Parker were third in their Toyota. At Mile 87 it was Carpenter in front, and Johnson second, while Scott Sells, in another Toyota, had moved to third. They got to a muddy Diablo in time to be passed by the lead cars, like Ivan Stewart, and gingerly stayed out of the way. Johnson was leading again at the Sulphur Mine, with Carpenter second, only nine min-utes back, and Sells in third, a half hour later. By now the Parkers were out. Johnson had no trouble with his truck, but Carpenter had five flats, was stuck in Matomi Wash twice, and had a fire when • Class Three Champion 1993-1990-1989 ENDURO RACING Dan Smith Bronco Heavy Metal Champion 1993-1990-1989 Baja 1000 Winner 1993-1992-1990-1989 Plus wins at Baja 500, Goldcoast, Fireworks 250, Parker 400, Nevada 400 (M!nt), San Felipe 250, Nevada 500, and the Mojave 250. SOLD RACE READY WITH "TONS" OF SPARES. FOR DETAILS CALL (909) 381-4088 Last away· but not last to the finish line were the Class 11s. The team of Eric Solorzano and Hector Rodriguez led after the bottom loop, only had one flat and ran out of gas, but they won Class 11 and the points title too. $68,900 Dusty nmes January 1994 Page i1

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......... --........... -;,-~ Leonard Vahsholtz has long been King of the Mountains in Stock Cars, and he won at Buffalo Peaks and also won his 14th Colorado Hill Climb Association Championship in the class. By finishing second at Buffalo Peaks Terry Wark nailed down the 1993 Sportsman Class Colorado Hill Climb Association class championship with a hefty 28 point championship margin. The Sportsman favor stock cars in the series and Kenny Back-strand won at Buffalo Peaks which ensured him of runner up spot in the 1993 series. Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb By Mearl Holbrook Phot.os: Don Holbrook .. --~ ~ ;:,: .. ,;--)). David Donner drove his Donner/Dykstra Chevy powered Open Wheel car to the first place finish at Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb, earning runner up position in the Colorado Hill Climb Association Series. The Colorado Hill Climb Association ended their season late in September with the Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb near Buena Vista, CO. The series concluded with the crowning of three new Champions, and four division winners reclaimed their Champ-ionships. Paul Dallenbach, youngest of the famed Wally Dallenbach Clan of Basalt, CO, driving the Dan League, Davis Built, Chevrolet . Open Wheel car, had already been crowned King of the Mountain when he set an overall new record for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. He is now ''King of the Mountains." Dallenbach had accumulated enough points, and was able to capture t'he Colorado Hill Climb Association's Open Wheel Championship with a second place finish at Buffalo Peaks. David Donner, in his Donner Dykstra Chevrolet had been running to "Murphy's Laws", (anything that can happen will). He finally broke the rule and won the Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb Open Wheel Division. David Hoffpaur was third. Doug Adams, the 20 year old son of desert champion and hill climb racer, and buffalo rancher Don Adams ofNathrop, CO, not only won the battle but he also won the war. Adams took over his dad's BFGoodrich, Pennzoil, Don-A-Vee Jeep, Hill Climb Jeep J-10 truck and won at Buffalo Peaks and won the championship in the Super Truck Division. Adams was also named Rookie of the Year in his class. Dean Burling and Craig Hager were runner ups, second and third in the Buffalo Peaks Super Truck competition. Woodland Park, CO racer Leonard Vahsholtz doubled in brass this year by running in both Dusty nmes the Competition Truck -and the Stock Car classes, and won both classes at Buffalo Peaks and the Championships in both divisions. This is Vahsholtz's first CHCA Competition Truck Champion-ship, -after winning the Pikes-Peak Hill Climb in his 2WD Ford Pickup. Ray Robinson and Tony Uptergrove rounded out the top three Buffalo Peaks Competition Trucks. Contesting two classes in the series, Leonard Vohsholtz drove this pickup to victory at Buffalo Peaks and also the 1993 series championship in the Competition Truck Class in the 2WD Ford pickup. Doug Adams drove his Jeep pickup to victory at Buffalo Peaks in the Super Truck Division, and won that Championship too as well as being named the Rookie of the Year, in his class. January 1994 Paul Dallenback drove his Dan League owned, Chevy powered Open Wheel car to second place in class at the Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb and he won the class championship for 1993 by just 16 points. Butch Hardman runs in the Championship Division and was the winner at Buffalo Peaks, and he also won the 1993 Colorado Hill Climb Association title in this historic class. Leonard Vahsholtz reclaimed the CHCA Stock Car division for the fourteenth time, having scored his seventh Pikes Peak victory driving his Ford Probe in 1993. Gay Smith and Brad Craig were the runner ups in Buffalo Peaks Stock Car class. Butch Hardman of Golden, CO, driving his Golden Auto Parts Sprint Car garnered his eighth CHCA Championship in the Championship Car division with a second place finish at _Buffalo Peaks. Jerry Brady was first and Jack Guynn was third at Buffalo Peaks in Championship cars. In the Sportsman's division it was again a case of Kenny Backstrand winning the Battle of Buffalo Peaks. But, Terry Wark won the Championship. Mike Magee was third on points, Backstrand was second. Mark McCallon raced to third at Buffalo Peaks . Brant Ford won both the battle and the Championship in the Sprint Buggy division. Steven Stewart and Kevin Kobach were the runner ups at the race. The United States Forest Service was out in numbers monitoring the race with Video recorders and cameras, checking to see if these public lands could have multiple use. 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MICKEY THOMPSON STADIUM OFF ROAD SERIES It Was The Last Chance For Points At Candlestick Park Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Roger Mears capped a good year in the Budweiser/Conoco Nissan by winning the first truck heat, leading all the way, was third in the second heat and led the Main Event from flag to flag in a tough fight. The Mickey Thompson Stad-ium Off Road Racing Series wound down last November with the ninth and final event of the 1993 season at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It was the fourth time the series had visited the Bay area, three times at Candlestick Park and once in the Oakland Coliseum. All the regul-ars and a few new faces were in the entry ranks, and for some it was a must win situation to keep the lead in their class points. In qualifying Rod Millen, Toy-ota, inched four points closer to grabbing the _Grand National Sport Truck championship with the fastlap for the class of31 :329. Both Jimmie Johnson and Rob MacCachren were close to him on time but Rod won the points available, and if the championship goes to him it gives Toyota eight such titles in the eleven year hist-ory of the series. The close battle for second in class po1nts was between Ivan Stewart and Rick Johnson, each having 551 points. Millen planned to run consistent and clean and not necessarily go for a victory. Ivan Stewart said it was a fast course, and the pressure was on him to deliver points and earn second place for the year. Roger Mears Sr. missed the sec-ond practice session in the after-noon due to crash damage sus-tained in the first session when Tommy Croft and teammate Larry Noel battled all night for Sport Utility honors and Croft came from behind to win the heat and bested Noel by inches to win the Main Event, having already secured the points title. Mears' truck rolled violently after lins sat on the pole, the last time coming off the second jump at the the car would be eligible to race in starting line. this series. Collins was able to After the afternoon respite and open a sizable lead before a full the autograph session, the racing course yellow ·condition forced a began in the evening with, as rolling restart. After the restart usual, the first Grand National Collins immediately received Sport Truck heat race of eight pressure from the Jeep Cherokees laps. Roger Mears Sr., Nissan, was of Tommy Croft and Larry Noel. on the pole with Walker Evans' Croft got by on the third turn of Dodge alongside. Evans got a the restart and that was the race. poor start and faded from the Tommy never looked back as he scene and Mears jumped out to cruised to the victory. Brian Col-the early lead. Roger was able to lins held on in second place fol-open a good lead by the end of the lowed in by the Ford Bronco of first lap. Meanwhile a battle for R.J. Clark, third, who was follow-second place developed between ed by Jeff Elrod, VW, Larry Noel, Roger Mears Jr. and Rick John-Jeep, Joe Anchondo, Nissan and son, Chevrolet. They were closely Robert Gayton, Ford. followed by the T oyotas of Rod The 4 Wheel A TVs were up Millen and Ivan Stewart. Roger next on the program with a pair of Sr. had a comfortable lead as he seven lap heat races with different took the halfway flag, but Roger riders in each heat. The Honda of Jr. was dropping back, surrender-Joe Byrd shot out to the early lead ing the second place to the battle from his pole position, but anoth-between Johnson and Millen. er Honda Rider, Greg Stuart, was Roger Mears Sr. went on to vict-right on his tail. Stuart made the ory followed in by Rick Johnson, pass and then opened a five sec-then Rod Millen, and Roger Jr., ond lead by the midway point. just ahead oflvan Stewart, fifth in Greg Stuart took a relatively easy his Toyota. victory, followed in by the Hon-Next came the single heat race das of Charles Shepherd and Joe for the Sport Utility Class who Byrd, the Suzuki of Sean Stubbs ran only six laps. The pristine and the Honda of Mike Olmstead. white Porsche 911 of Brian Col-The second ATV heat race was just as busy and Gary Denton pulled out to the early lead but he was trailed closely by defending champion Mark Ehrhardt. The two riders battled handle bar to handle bar throughout the heat race, but Denton, on a Laeger, was unable to hold off the charge of Ehrhardt as the race wore on. Ehrhardt charged past with one lap to go on his JP, and Mark Ehrhardt won the second heat followed by Gary Denton, Doug Eichner, Roger Helsley, and Fred Sheppard, all on Laegers. Tim Baker had his Mirage tuned for Candlestick, as he placed third in the second SuperLite Heat race, in his Mirage, and finished the evening with a great victory in the SuperLite Main Event. Rick Geiser flies his Triple E SuperLite flat and level en route to the win in the first heat and Rick carried on to place fourth in the Main Event. The small but swift SuperLites were next on the card for a pair of seven lap heat races. In the first heat Jeff Ward, who replaced Mercedes Gonzales in the # 14 Nature's Recipe SuperLite Briggsbuilt, was on the pole. Rick Rick Johnson flies his Chevrolet flat and level in the truck action on his way to a second in the first heat, and later he was third in the Main Event. Page 14 Roger Mears Jr. was fighting for second in the first truck heat, but had troubles later in the race and fell to fifth place at the checkered flag. 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T.J. Clark started the season in a Volkswagen, lately moved to this Ford Bronco, has done well in both and placed a fine third in the heat race. Keith Ehlers takes off on a good flight in his Briggsbuilt SuperLite and Keith landed well, carrying on to place third in the first SuperLite heat. Joe Price drove a good set of races placing a close second in the first heat in his Triple E SuperLite and he also took second place in the Main Event. Rennie Awana sailed his Briggsbuilt into the Heat 2 SuperLite victory, and the Nature's Recipe team manager also finished fifth in the main event, just ahead of the defending champion. Geiser immediately took the lead from the outside pole position when Ward was unable to get off the line immediately. This heat race was plagued with stalled cars pulling off to the side of the track, which made some turns a little tricky. But Rick Geiser threaded his way through it all to win the race in his Triple E. He took the checkered flag ahead of Joe Price, Triple E, Keith Ehlers, Shannon Millen, Briggsbuilts, and Don Archibald, H&R. For the second heat Tim Baker has his Power-Up backed Mirage on the pole, but Nature's Recipe team manager ,driver Rennie Awana was quick to take the lead. Once out front clear of traffic Awana was able to open up a siz-able lead, leaving the battle for second between C J Mears, Mir-age, and Baker. Young CJ Mears, a third generation driver, took second place at the flag, but it was all Awana for the victory. Tim Baker was third ahead of the Triple E of Andrew Buck, and the Briggsbuilt of Alex Briones, and 'Clint Mears in a Mirage. Now it was time for the two eight lap heat races for the Super 1600 open wheel cars, each heat with a different cast. In the first heat Gary Gall had his Chenowth out to the early lead, having started on the pole position, but he was immediately pressured by the recently crowned class champ-ion Jerry Whelchel. The two driv-ers had put some distance be-WI /1,,.Vf W.f Rod Millen was third, then fourth in the truck heat races in the Toyota, placed fifth in the main event in a cautious drive to insure winning the driver's points championship, which he did by a scant few points. Dusty nmcs Walker Evans got a win in the last ride for Dodge in truck class, as he sped his mount to first place in the second heat, ran second for a time in the main before troubles struck. tween their cars and the pack and they engaged in a wheel banging battle before Whelchel rolled on turn two on the fifth lap. The lead-ing pair were so far ahead that with Whelchel out Gary Gall was able to coast to victory. He was followed to the flag by Wes Banks and Marty Hart, then Rob Mart-ensen, all in Chenowths. Eric Arras had his Chenowth on the pole for the second Super 1600 heat race scheduled for 8 laps. He led through the first turn, but spun in the second turn giving the lead to Jimmy Nichols. For-tunately for Nichols, the rest of the field was held up behind Arras at least momentarily, and this gave Jimmy Nichols a sizeable advantage, one he would never relinquish. He went on to win the heat in his Chenowth. Kevin Smith got his Mirage home sec-KUSTER OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS • SHOCKS 3" DIAMETER. 8" TO 18" STROKE 2" DIAMETER, 6" TO 14" STROKE No cast or welded pieces. External damping adjustment. Completely rehuildable. 17-4 PH SS heat treated shaft. Completely threaded 4130 cylinder. Single and dual rate coil-orer. • AIR JACKS or info on our external bypass tube shock. January 1994 KUSTER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2900 E. 29th Street Long Beach. CA. 90806. USA Telephone \310) 595-0661 ond, followed by the Chenowths of Ed Martensen, Steve Kukla and Aaron Hawley. At this point the truckers were being interviewed. Rick Johnson gained valuable points in the first heat race giving him a ten point advantage. The Chevy driver said "Of course the tight points battle with Ivan is on my mind, but I don't want to get too tied up with that. I'm moving forward and con-centrating on clean racing." The other Chevy driver, Jimmie John-son was forced to pull off the course late in the race when his right rear tire was sliced. Roger Mears said, "This track is very, very fast. I lost the brakes but other than that the Budweiser-Conoco truck ran as hard and as fast as the 49ers." It was the fifth heat race victory of '93 for Roger Mears. After qualifying the fastest in his Toyota, Rod Millen added 18 points to his total by finishing third in the first heat, officially clinching his second consecutive driver's title. This is the first con-secutive title in the truck class since Ivan Stewart accomplished the feat in 1983 and 1984. Rod remarked "It has been a great but tough I@' • BALL JOINTS Page 25·

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C.J. Mears is a third generation racer and the teen took a strong second in his Mirage in Heat 2 and third in close combat in the SuperLite Main. Wes Banks does a little wheelie in his Chenowth on the way to a good night of competition, finishing second in heat 1 and Wes took fifth in the Main. Rob Martensen is a second generation racer from Phoenix, and he did well in his Super 1600 Chenowth finishing a fine fourth in the first heat race. Ed Martensen luckily was not in the same Super 1600 heat as his son Rob, as Ed whipped his Chenowth hard enough to finish third in Super 1600 heat 2. Steve Kukla hauled up from San Diego to race his Chenowth in Super 1600 action, and his neatly painted racer finished fourth in the first heat race. Jeff Elrod, the San Jose stormer, ran his two seater as a VW sedan for the last MTEG race and Jeff earned fourth in the heat and third in the Sport Utility main event. ~ season. The driver's championship really put the fin-ishing touches on all the hard work and efforts of Team Toyota and Precision Pr~patat!on, Inc. dedicate to the sport of off road racing." I van S~wart reported, "My tire went flat on the second corner of the first lap. We're not even sure how. There is not much you can do to control that. We just have to go out and do the best we can." With one more heat race of eight laps, the Sport Trucks were on the grid again. The Dodge of Walker Evans took the early lead from his pole position, but a four truck pile-up in turn 2 caused a complete restart. Chevrolet driver Jimmie Johnson was unable to make the restart. Evans again drivers. Again it was Mears to the jumped to the early lead. The lead on the restart with MacCach-Ford of Danny Thompson hook-ren giving dose chase. With two ed up with Ivan Stewart's Toyota laps to go Mears Jr., who was in turn 3 placing both drivers in running fifth at the time, rolled on the back of the pack before they turn 4 and remained stalled. could get untangled. As Evans Walker Evans held off a late began to pull away from the field, charge from MacCachren on the the battle turned to second be-final lap to take the win, fitting, as tween Dodge teavimate Jeff thiswastobethefinalappearance Ward, Nissan drivers Roger ofthetwotruckDodgeteam.Rob Mears and Mears Jr., and Ford's MacCachren was second followed Rob MacCachren. The Mears got by Roger Mears, Rod Millen, their Budweiser Nissans entangl-Rick Johnson and Jeff Ward, ed in the busy turn 4 on the fourth Dodge. lap, causing yet another restart. The race course is reversed in Stewart received a black flag direction for the two UltraCross before the restart due to the hood heat races, making the jumps of his truck obstructing his view sharper and the motorcycles as it had popped up. That is a rules really soar to great heights. In the violation that appli~~ to some first heat Yamaha r_ider Kyle Above: Shannon Millen drove her Briggsbuilt to a good fourth in the first heat for SuperLites but failed to place well in the wild and crowded main event. Center: Andrew Buck got through this pack in SuperLite traffic driving his Triple E racer, and Buck Page 16 January 1994 Lewis stole the show from team-ery and was able to rebound for a mate Shaun Kalos, pulling out to second place finish. Lechien was an early lead and eventually cruis-· the winner, Myers took third. The ing to the easy win. Kalos is in a points remain the same heading tight battle with teammate Larry into the UltraCross main event. Brooks for the Ultra Cross Only one point separates Noleen championship; only one point Yamaha teammates Shaun Kalaos separates the two riders. Kalos and Larry Brooks. The title could was able to move up from the come down the the final lap of this back of the pack to claim second final event of 1993. and Ryan Carlisle was third on a The first of the Main events was Kawasaki. In the second Ultra-an eight lap race for the American Cross heat race the event turned Racing Wheels Sport Utility into a sprint between Yamaha class. San Jose resident Jeff Elrod riders Scott Myers and champ-sat on the pole in his VW, but it ionship contender Larry Brooks, was the Ford Bronco ofT.J. Clark plus Ron Lechein aboard a Kawa-that jumped off the line into the saki. The three riders were early lead. The Jeep Cherokees of bunched together until Brooks Tommy Croft and Larry Noel spun out in the final turn of lap 5. loomed largely behind the leader Brooks made a remarkable recov-until Clark turned wide on turn 4 placed fourth in the second SuperLite heat race. Above: Marty Hart started the night by putting the Chenowth third in Super 1600 heat 1, and he really got under way to place second in the hectic main event. Dusty Timcs

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¼<> . ..,.__..__..."'"' Jerry Whelchel had already nailed down his season championship in Super 1600 class, a good thing too as his night's best was fourth in the main. Rob MacCachren had a fine run in his Ford, driving hard to second in heat 2 and placed an extremely close second in the finale, the truck main event. Ivan Stewart soared in his Toyota at Candlestick, but it wasn't a lucky night for him as Ivan finished fourth in the truck main event action. Kevin Smith had a great night of racing in his Super 1600 Mirage, and he sailed into second place in his heat race, and fought his way to victory in the main event that is busy in this class. giving the lead to Noel. A roll over by Brian Collins caused a full course yellow. Tommy Croft sneaked by on the restart and went on to victory. Croft had al-ready cemented his points champ-ionship for 1993. This was his seventh consecutive main event win in this class! His Jeep team-mate Larry Noel was second and Jeff Elrod was third. You prob-ably won't see the Jeeps in stad-ium racing next year as Chrysler has withdrawn from this series both its Jeep and Dodge vehicles. It was 8 laps for the A TV main event also. Doug Eichner worked his way up into the early lead, but he was receiving pressure from Gary Denton and Charles Shep-herd. Eichner was able to hold off the late charge of Shepherd to take the main event victory. With the win Eichner clinched the 4 Wheel A TV championship, his first ever! Shepherd was second in the race and Denton was third. The SuperLite main event put Gary Gall started on the pole and took the early lead in the first Super 1600 heat fighting '93 champion Jerry Whelchel to keep the lead, and Gall went on to win the heat easily. Jimmy Nichols dices his way past a crowd in Super 1600 action and his Bo/ink Chenowth zipped right into the victory in the second heat, and. Nichols returned to a good third in the Main Event. Dusty nma quite a herd of cars on the grid for 8 laps. Tim Baker sat on the pole and Baker, who has never won a main event on this circuit, pushed to the early lead, but was being chased by Greg George. The driv-ers battled closely for the first half of the race, with Baker holding a slim lead. Inexperience may have cost Baker the lead as George slipped by on lap 6. Once in the lead George was never passed, taking his fifth main event win of the season. Baker was second and Joe Price third. In post race in-spection Greg George suffered a technical disqualification, which gave Tim Baker his first main event victory through the side door. Joe Price was now second, followed by C J Mears, Rick Geiser, Rennie Awana and Jimmie Johnson. The Super 1600 cars had twelve hectic laps to cover and Kevin Smith jumped out into the lead with Jimmy Nichols in sec-ond. Smith slowly pulled away from the pack. Running third Marty Hart was consistently applying pressure on Nichols in second. Smith continued to sep-arate himself from the rest of the drivers, and by the halfway point Smith had lapped part of the field. Kevin Smith easily cruised the Mirage to the victory, many broke down, but Jimmy.Nichols held on to place second and Marty Hart was third, b oth driving Chenowths. The evening was winding down as the UltraCross motorcycles lined up for their ten lap main event. Points leader Shaun Kalos was in 13th position with two point trailer Larry Brooks sitting next to him in 14th. Tyson Yoh-land jumped out in the lead at the green, Brooks ran fifth and Kalas was in sixth after two laps. Brooks stepped up into fourth and Kalos was now fifth. With five laps to go Brooks passed another rider to take third. Vohland was maintain-ing first with three laps to go. Brooks has taken over second with two laps left and Kalos is running in fifth. Vohland took the checker flag and Brooks took second well ahead of Kalos. By finishing ahead, Brooks clinched his first ever UltraCross Championship. The grand finale for the 2 7 ,000 plus spectators was the Sport Truck main event, a 12 lapper, and you wondered if the trucks would last that long. Winner of heat 2 Walker Evans was on the pole, but at the start Roger Mears pushed ahead of Walker Evans for the lead. Walker sat in second in the Dodge followed by the Toyota of Ivan Stewart and the Ford of Rob MacCachren; Chev-rolet's Rick Johnson and Toyota's Rod Millen fought for fifth. Mid-way in the race for some unex-plained reason, the entire field January 1994 slowed and bunched together, as if there was a full course yellow, and it was Rob MacCachren who was looking at first place. Mears caught on before MacCachren could pass, and held the lead. MacCachren was able to move into second followed by Stewart, Johnson and Millen. Roger Mears was the winner, followed by Rob MacCachren, Ivan Stewart, Rod Millen and Rick Johnson. After winning his third main event of the season and his 13th in his career, plus Roger Jr. won the main in Phoenix this year, Mears said, "We overcame tremendous adversity this year without any factory sponsorship. This win goes to my sponsors, Budweiser, Yokohama, Conoco and Bosch and to my crew, they're awe-some!" Rod Millen won the championship, as did Tommy Croft in Sport Utility and Jerry Whelchel scored back to back titles in Super 1600 class. Greg George won Super Lite honors,, Doug Eichner won the title in 4 Wheel ATVs and Larry Brooks took the Ultracross honors by 11 points. .......... _.,_. ___ BUS BOX CONVERSION!!! Converts your Type II Transaxle into a Heavy Duty racing Transaxle for use up to 2. 8 liter motors or rotarys. 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two divisions, limited and un-limited engines. A good date in April was selected, then along -came the Mickey Thompson Ent-* ertainment Group with their Sportsman series of three races, taking all the open spots on the track calendar until fall. So the enduro turned into the Halloween Haunt on last October 31, and unfortunately there were two desert races on that weekend in the southern deserts of California and Nevada. The track had been lengthened and suited desert cars as well as short course cars so that date conflict probably cost a few entries. The course was three miles long, going out of the standard route into the hills beyond for Looking sedate here, Steve Bishop had scant problems, basically stopped Dennis Kordonowy towed his Class 10 from Carson City, NV and flew the some new excitement. On the new only for gas, three times, and put his 1-2-1600 short course racer into the jumps like the veteran he is. He led the race off and on and finished the run in · 'part was a killer hill, which hurt a overall win at the checkered flag, and won $1500. second overall, winning his $1500, making the trip worthwhile. few clutches, but atleastthe over-ENDURO RACING AT GLEM HELEM OHV PARK St8N Bishop and Dennis Kordonowy Win the Big Bucks Soaring past the finish line Jimmy May kept his 1-1600 racer all together and he was another that had no real problems on his way to second in the limited division, and a keen third overall. Jeff Hoskins came from Brawley to race his Class 7 Ford, having run the MTEG series he knew the track, had absolutely no problems and slid right into the third place money in the limited division. For several years there was a dino, CA. But motorcycles used regular series for cars at Glen the park more heavily and the cars . Helen OHV Park in San Bemar-faded away, many to Ventura Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. ,~··~ -~ ~ ~ .~ . ~ lli,,l~i~t. ,1t•i• Bud Feldkamp and Malcolm Smith were together again in the four seat pre-runner, but carried only one passenger, and other than stopping to change drivers they had no problems taking second in unlimited division. No entry had more trouble than this rail of Tom Hulshoff, rolling, wrecking the front end twice, but they kept moving, losing the steering on the final lap so the co-driver, starting with vise grips, steered it this way to the checkered flag. Raceway's series. Racer and OHV hold a real endurance race, all car · Park leaseholder Bud Feldkamp classes welcome and put up a had a good idea last spring_, to $5000 purse to be split between active water trucks couldn't get there at all. At the drivers meeting it was announced that the race would be 2½ hours long plus one lap. The entry was divided into two divisions for purse with $2500 in each division for first, second and third places. The cars would be started in waves of about six at a time, and the car's starting position was determined by the postmark on the entry, so it paid to be earlier into the mail-box. Race day entrants followed on a first to register first away basis. The big discussion at the driv-er's meeting concerned the NASCAR style yellow flag that would be thrown at the halfway point. Well you can hardly call a -yellow for debris on an off road course, so this one was for the water trucks to make a circuit. This track is very concerned with dust, and water enough to keep any dust from traveling out of the area. Under the full course yellow the speed limit was 25 mph, and no passing was allowed under pain of disqualification. Watering time was stated at approximately ten minutes, a good time for a gas stop and to check things out. The item drivers didn't like was that once the green flag came back out at the start/ finish line everyone was considered on the same lap. They said to think of it as a restart except the catch was that you had to finish 90 percent of the laps made by the winning car to be elig-ible for the purse. The racing pits were located just past the scoring tower, an area designated basically for gas stops and tire change, but there was some heavy work done there too. A driver change could be made anytime during the race, but it had tc be done in the start/ finish pit lane area, and you could sign on several co-drivers. The concept is sound, but the pits just held the 22 car starting entry, so that area needs to be expanded next time . Despite doing a slow roll before the first hour was done, James Harris recovered quickly and kept moving with mainly cosmetic damage, and he took third place money in the unlimited Class 5. Rick Holmes had a tidy Class 8 at the start, but while depleting the hay bale population on course, he got a few rumples in the bodywork, made lots of stops, but was running at the finish. Jim Fay ran his daughter's 5-1600 past a bunch of buggies for about half an hour, then sent out a huge white smoke signal, blowing a piston and that was it, but he stayed and helped others in the pits. Page 28 January 1994 Dusty Times

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The excitement grew as the cars staged ready for the 10 a.m. start which was slightly delayed as the course was cleared for the comp-etition. The first wave held Den-nis Kordonowy, Class 10,· Jeff Hoskins, Class 7 Ford, Jim Fay, 5-1600 with the 1-2-1600s ofBill Britt, Steve Bishop and Robert Mathews just astern. Next it was Jimmy May, Steve Rhoads, 1-2-1600s and John Holmes, 5-1600 with the Class 1 ofJim Fishback, the Class 9 of Jay Huss and the Tom Hulshoff sand rail car in the next row. Tom Maynor, Class 2, Mike Mitchell, Class 6 and Rick Holmes, Class 8 were next fol-lowed by Paul Borio, Troy John-son in 1600s and the Class 2 of Roger Starkey. Bringing up the last row was the 1600 of Kevin Doyle, Bud Feldkamp in a four seat unlimited pre-runner, War-ren Messick in a 2-1600 and James Harris, Class 5. Dennis Kordonowy led the herd on the first lap, then had a spark plug wire come off but it was a quick stop, coming out behind new leader Steve Bishop. The turn off the beaten path into the new sec-tion was right in front of the pits, but it was a sharp 90 degree to a down hill bunch of lumps and many were taking it on two wheels. After four laps Rick Holmes was in the pits, his big truck just not set up to handle the tight turns but he was back out on course in a few laps and bagged · some more hay bales on the turn before the start/ finish straight. After 20 minutes Bishop had a good lead overall, now Mathews was running second followed by Jimmy May and Kordonowy was working through the pack after his pit stop. Kevin Doyle was in the pits with electrical trouble and running fourth and fifth were Jim Fishback's Unlimited car and John Holmes in a Baja Bug. Jeff Hoskins was running well in his Ford Ranger, steady and aiming for the finish line gold. With a half hour gone in the race things started to happen. Jim Fay's engine exploded coming around the last turn in a giant cloud of white smoke putting the 5-1600 out for good. At least we didn't worry about mosquitoes for the rest of the day! Fay said later the top came off a piston in his daughter Kathy's car, and she wasn't going to be happy until he fixed it all, which he always does. In another lap James Harris rolled his Class 5 Bug but got it going again. Then Bishop stopped for gas and Roger Starkey took over the lead in the Class 2 he brought out so everyone in the family could have a ride. Mathews got in-to the lead in the next round. Steve Bishop also had to get a de-ranged gas filler neck repaired and he definitely wanted to get a measure on the mpg on fuel. Short course cars don't have very big gas tanks. About 10:40 a.m. John Holmes broke a spring plate and got to the pits somehow where the crew worked feverishly, having bor-rowed a spring plate from Jim Fay. At 11: 15 a.m. Mario Panagiotop-oulos took the car, his by the way, back into the 5-1600 battle, just five minutes ahead of the yellow flag break for the water trucks, so he restarted after that on the lead lap. They got it fixed just in time! Meanwhile Malcolm Smith was now driving Feldkamp's four seater and Troy Johnson pitted with. shifter linkage trouble, say-Dusty nmes ing he couldn't catch first gear which he needed to get up the hill in his 1600 car. And the sand rail flipped in the outback, and exten-sive front end work, welding, the lot was going on on that entry of Tom Hulshoff. The yellow flag break came after 2 7 laps and the line up, as best we could figure after pit stops was Bob Mathews, Jeff Hoskins, Roger Starkey, Troy Johnson, Steve Bishon, Steve Rhoads, Dennis Kordonowy, Warren Messick, James Harris, Paul Borio, Bill Britt, Kevin Doyle, Malcolm Smith,John Holmes and Jim Fishback. They had all made a few pit stops so very few of the above had been on the lead lap. 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We frankly lost track of most of the cars' position after the restart, but we do know that Bob Mathews led the first three laps under yellow, then when the green waved he was caught in the pits and Steve Bishop grabbed ~he lead with Kordonowy runnmg second on laps completed and Jimmy May was third, all 1-1600s. The others could have been anywhere, but quite a few were in motion. Malcolm Smith had handed the four seater back to Bud Feldkamp. Near the finish time Kevin Doyle smoked the clutch on his 1600 on the big hill. With just 15 minutes to go Roger Starkey, who had given many of his family a ride in the Class 2 racer, lost a bearing in the left rear wheel, a shame that close to the checkered flag. Bob Mathews broke a stub axle after a fine run. and it seemed many of the entry were two hour cars rather than 2 · & ½ hour cars as only nine took the checkered flag, as far as we could tell. Sadly Billy Britt lost the engine on his 1-2-1600 on the very last lap and failed to see the checkers, and also one lap shy of a finish were Troy Johnson/ Mathew Hylton with recurring trouble with the gearbox. Steve Bishop made his in-surance gas stop eight laps from the end, his third such stop, putting Dennis Kordonowy in the overall lead. But Bishop returned in third place and climbed up to second quickly, and with two laps to go zoomed into the lead past Dennis to win the race overall. Dennis was second overall, and each won their Division, Bish.op the limited winner's $1500 .00 purse and Kordonowy the. unlimited division $1500.00 in his Class 10 car. Behind Kord-onowy Bud Feldkamp was sec-ond, good for $750, and James Harris survived a few problems with his Class 5 to take the show money of $250.00. Behind Steve Bishop in the limited division came Jimmy May in second for $750, followed by Jeff Hoskins in his Ford Ranger, collecting $250 in show money. 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ADRA GILA BEND BLAST New Muico Mazda Mauls Gila Bend Field Text & Phot:os: Anthony Tellier It has been a long pull, but Ed Beard finally finished a race in his A-armed Class 10 racer. This time he not only finished, he won Class 10 and also placed a keen second overall. He won over $2,000.00 as well. Albuquerque's Robert Gayton Robert was the first car off the Fortin "10" car as three punct-overcame Tech Inspection prob-line and took advantage of the ures left him flat. "I grabbed a tire lems and an early roll over to take clear sailing to build a huge lead off of the ADRA sweep buggy out his third ADRA win of the season over the cash-hungry crowd and on the course. It was a Y ok and I and escape back to New Mexico pick up over $4000 after the four flattened that too." Steve also had with a $4,000 purse ... safely 45 mile lap race. other woes when a snap ring pop-stowed in his wife's purse, I would Rocks up in Squirrel Canyon ped out of his shifter. "We tack-imagine. Buckeye's Ed Beard fin-took their toll, on some of the welded it on the fly ... " ally finished a race in his now not hard chargers at least. Cinder Buckeye's genial Jim Pierce so new A-armed buggy and won Mountain "Ten" winner Daniel tried to repeat his Overall at Flag-the Class Ten battle over a large Hyde suffered two flats, and staff but was stymied by the eager field. . hampered by not carrying a spare, course and the never-lift competi-Robert Gayton, the Duke of had to wallow into his pits on tors. "Sometimes I had trouble the Albuquerque Rotary Club (an shredded tires and chewed up getting by Ed (Beard). I could reel RX7 jibe), left no stone (nor rims. Arlington's Steve Melton, him in easy, several times." rock)untumedinhisquestforhis the winner at Snowflake, had a Which is sort of like Mark third ADRA victory of the year. troubled day in the old Doug Twain's comment regarding quit-BIGGER IS BETT.ER Upgrade the C.V.s and torsion axles on your pre-runner, IRS Baja Bug or limited horsepower off road race car by letting us convert your stub axles and transmission output bells to accept the l<!!:9er C.V. ioints. Convert Type I stub axles and output bell to accept Type II or Type IV or 930 C.V. !Convert Type II stub axles and output bell to accept 930 C.V. joints. , All axles and bells for Type 11 or Type IV jC.V.s can be threaded 3/s-24 or stoc·k 8mm. ,All axles and Bells for 930 C.V.s can be I threaded · -24 or stock 10mm threads. FIT YOUR OFF ROADER WITH UPGRADED AXLES AND BELLS Only $49.95-per flan.11e on yo_ur supplie~ parts. __ Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. ER The5t: Bump Stops come complete with a mounting system, poly-eurethane nd piece, and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT $319.90 per pair. lncludinQ the mounting hardware and the GRS bolts SEE YOUR OFF ~AD RACING PARTS SUPPLIER OR CALL US DIRECT. ting smoking: "It's easy, I've done it hundreds of times." Every time Pierce got by Ed the Buckeye crop duster would have an off-course excursion or have to change a tire. "Larry's getting pretty good at that. He worked the turning brake, too, once when we weren't supposed to tum. I think I could have won if (Bill) Herrick had been here to help ... rather than that Danny (Foddrill)." Jim was following Torn Higgins' junkyard dog two-seater "real close" and the course turned and he went straight into a tree. "Rueben (Wood) followed me in. When I backed up... I ran into him." Wood got out first, of course, and went on ahead. .,"'®--=-... . Kevin Patrick threw caution to the wind and drove his daily driver pickup in Class 8, and surprised himself by winning the class and $400.00. = Higgins was having trouble stuck over-shooting a comer. The with his Holley four-barrel over fast course had many racers miss-the whoops. It would flood, load-ing turns and ending up in the up and stutter, blowing out toolies. "I got out and used the clouds of black smoke. Pierce jack, just to see if it worked for the almost hit him hard in one such a '1000', you understand." Fodd-situation. "I was following him in rill was able to demonstrate his the dust - real fast, ready to pass, hawk-like eyesight by quantifying when he slowed right down. I had Kirk's tire pressure from a dist-to veer out into the desert to miss ance of forty yards: "Nah; it's got him." plenty of air." James did get the Rueben Wood was gaining $1000 first-time racer's Best Fin-time at every mile and may have ish bonus. Pierce's good friend held the ET lead ... for a time. John Anderson even made the Wood had the Fast Lap by a min-trip from the Coast just to lend ute, which is an apparently, minor some moral support for the little 2% quicker than Gayton, but Toyota.John will be campaigning such are the margins of victory the '94 SCORE season with John often made. But as is Wood's DeVitounderthebannerofBarry wont, he pushed the Pinto/Meco Bates' "Explorer" parts firm. a little too much and was sidelined ''We're getting into Class 1, and with a gearbox failure while run-now have a 54 foot semi. It looks ning totally hard. He was looking real good." like the class of the field .. maybe a SuperEd Beard finally finished little less WFO would have made a race in his A-armed car and won the difference. but that's certainly Class 10 at that. It wasn't without not his style! problems as his shifter acted up Shannon Schulz' seat time in andkepthimoutoffourth. "ljust the ex-Finney-Foddrill Porsche/ wound 'er up in third." He blew a Chaparral has been somewhat turn as he glanced at a spectator limited. Purchased for the sole and slid right up to a tree. "I tried purpose of recouping the Farmco backing up twice and as I cleared it ADRA bonus sponsorship mon-on the last try I heard a 'Pop'." ies, the big car has been, let's say, Reverse was gone. The Super-"troubled." This Gila Bend ad-SeatMan didn't play it cool, how-venture was more of the same. In ever, as he continued to demon-response to the radio crackling strate the fine suspension of the with report of thrown belts, Toyotapoweredsingleseater.Ed, Danny Foddrill sent out a re-outfitted in an anachronistic placement belt via the Press. It open-face helmet and motorcycle was way too long: "What's this? goggles, was ct;rtainly a sentimen-For the F250?," Shannon shrug-tal favorite at the finish. "Finally ged. The 20mm fan wrench was finished one. I was even afraid to mysteriously absent and the old get out on the jetting loop!" He belt was twisted so badly that it was referring to a recent race was now too short. He could only when he broke the clutch out on idle the car to the next access road the test section prior to the start. and the trailer. James Martin's Chenowth Pierce and long suffering co-made his mark, if by nothing driver Larry Foddrill (Danny for a more than losing his top to the Dad and JP for a driver!) had to trees. Martin's FAT motor was change a tire in a wash and Pierce's wisping a little smoke but he fin-Baja partner James Kirk was able ished just behind Melton. James to get by in the Raceco/Toyota. had an up and down day, mixing James was test driving their his very fast laps with very slow SCORE race car and then got it laps. The long distance laps com-bined with the extremely limited access virtually guaranteed prob-lems for anyone getting multiple flats. Chasing was almost impos-sible and not recommended nor suggested. Robert Wood, brother of the Hay Harvesting Rueben, had a classy Chenowth Ten car rebuilt with add on A-arms. His story was one of disappearing into the Gila Bend out-back, never to complete a lap. MARVIN SHAW ENGINEERiNG 101 Broadway P.O. Box845 1-602--427-3551 Yarnell,AZ85362 The overall winner obert Gayton does a dusty leap at the camera, but his race car never missed a beat on the way to his third overall ADRA victory this season, and there is still a race to go for the Unlimited driver. Tony Pierce didn't "have a nice day" although the flamed 1600 Raceco was runniri:g smooth and sounding really strong for a re-strictor-plate motor. The day be-gan awry as the planned driver Kelly Reedy was told that there would be no points assigned if DOR Tony didn't run at least Page 30 January 1994 Dusty Times

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James· Ki;k was out doing some "real world" testing prior to the Baja 1000 and the Badenochs built, Toyota powered race car was second in Class 10. Third place in Class 10 went to Daniel Hyde just ten minutes behind Kirk, and the author says this is a rare pose, as the car has no flat tires. The Kirk kids were out in dad James' old Datsun powered Chenowth, but they didn't finish as the engine went south on Mike Kirk at Gila Bend. Stan and Zeb Steele didn't have the kind of day they wanted in their tidy Open Class racer, but they did finish fourth Unlimited and seventh overall. Shannon Schulz has a new race car, but it only went one lap and he used all the suspension and a fan belt on his way to a DNF in Unlimited class. Tony Pierce had the Limited Division bucks all to himself after Wayne Greene broke, but Tony was DQ'd for a course infraction, so nobody really won 1600 class. 50% of the race. So Pierce had to quickly suit up and go out for the start. The planned driver swap didn't go quite as outlined as the outboard right-hand c.v. shatter-ed its cage somewhere way out in the weeds. TP was sidelined for a long time as a spare c.v. assembly was A TV -ed out to the course. But the delivered parts came adrift on the outbound trip and ADRA objected to Tony's on-course search for the wayward axle assembly. The race control radio crackled with "Heads up! Someone's on the course," warn-ings. "We'll deal with him when he comes around." replied Phil. And that they did. The car was stopped at the Start-Finish on fol-lowing lap to be told that "You can go on (and finish) but you'll probably be DQ'd at the Compe-tition Board meeting." A totally deflated Pierce just parked the car and saw his Bonus Bucks go to a first time Challenger racer from Blythe, Rick Poole. And that was in spite of having Blythe's Kirk Kontilus "helping" in Poole's pit. Kirk's chase radio was on the fritz so he used the Pierce Racing radio -but wouldn't change the frequency back to JP's number when he was done. So he was "86'd" from its use by Rob-ert Kirk. ''James couldn't reach us on the radio when it's on the wrong channel. He tried my patience." The thorn in Tony's ADRA racing side, Tucson's Wayne and Leonard Greene, was thwarted in his attempt to win four straight Limited Class purses when their transaxle exploded. The destruction was such that the axles had to be pulled so the two seater could be towed out to their unwieldy twenty-five foot trailer. Overall winner Gayton was turned away from the start by vir-tue of the spacers in his Super-Trapp spark arrestors ( which sort of defeated the glowing-ember-capture feature.) The Pierce rac-ing crew jumped right into it and made the swap as Phil held the start for a few minutes. And it was a good thing for Gayton as he took full advantage of his front start and smoked the field . "With those washers out, I didn't have enough plates in and the revs were down." Uh huh. Sure. He also DustyTimcs turned the RX7 -powered car over at speed , landed on his wheels and continued on unabated. (Beverly Pierce was to comment later that "He must be quite a driver to do that (on purpose)." ) After the Point-to-Point, the three time ADRA overall winner will devote his racing energies to the MTEG stadium circuit: he bought Jimmy Smith's Ultra Wheel setup. The V8s battled each other all day but at the end it was the street-legal (AZ-licensed) daily driver of Kevin "St." Patrick taking the win over "Subway" Mike Doherty who was reported to have been "bouncing his cold cuts." Kevin's expectant wife Laurie had to pass on the rides for a few months. "I guess we had too much 'quality down-time' during that last race," Kevin laughed. The over-hanging summer growth took its toll on the tall trucks. Kevin took a large limb through the windshield - tak-ing that out totally -and spearing the rear window. (Jim Pierce was on the receiving end of a. limb, too: "It hit my helmet and rang my bell pretty good.") Doherty, with wife Ellen hanging on for dear life, also stove in his "A" pillar on a tree and then started to shed 'glass fenders. "These are expensive. I pulled both front fenders and the right rear in the pits." A new $40 ClO tail light was seen gleaming in a wash. It quickly became a target for the buggies. "Yeah, I got it too," was the word of the day. Mike picked up a stone in his drive belts, flipping them off. " I had to get out and use a screwdriver to get them back on." Doherty's 12.5:1 CR motor has been causing heating problems for some time and the cool Gila Bend day was no differ-ent. "I've got coolers on the cool-ers; radiating radiators; a catch tank; cooling-enhancing fluids and a huge capacity; an Edelbrock water pump with dual belts; two electric fans and a pump-driven fan and it still steams." The Sportsmen classes were busy too. Sahuarita 's Steve and Al Vesterdal totally obliterated the Sportsman race in their "some-times a 'l ', today a 'l0"'two seat-er. They had a twenty-four min-ute cushion over Sportsman Class Ten victor. and Second overall Paul and Dave Kellogg and had no problems whatsc;x:ver. Steve, the Mining Engineer back from an oil sand stint in Alberta, Canada, felt that he just had to race this car. even though he was selling it to a Mexican doctor the following week for the Baja 1000. "We gotta get back to Tucson and get it deaned up. Quick. I'm glad we didn't break it." (I have not been to an off road race in the last year or so where there was not a Vest-erdal entered or pitting.) 1600 racer Dan Loeffler was found stalled in the first of many sand washes with a cruddy needle-and-seat. "Look at this stuff! You got a toothpick or tweezers or clip or something?" Dan go~ _it button-ed back up and took off, never to be seen again. The 1914ccClass 5 BugofTom Surdez and Sid Rumsey, Jr. took the measure of Clay and John Poulson. The Poulson Bug, giving away 200cc to Tom, ground to a halt a few meager miles off the start. The acrid clutch smell could be recognized for miles. "I think my cluch is gone." Further invest-igation by the Rolling Check res-cue crew, dispatched because Clay was blocking a narrow wall-ed section of the course, indicated that the transaxle was seriously tied up and the clutch had been working against it for miles. Tom and Sid were reported high-cent-ered out in the Canyon but got free and still kept up a consistent pace to finish Sixth. Art " Homo" Sapien and Biett "Comet" Halley tossed the Valley Forge J 10 around the course at a pretty good clip. They were only a couple miles an hour off Pro Truck winner Patrick's pace. Of course the Sportsmen only had to do two laps. But the big 401 Honcho did throw down the dirt real good. Two Sportsman cars made the trip from Colorado: Jim Thompson took Second in the Unlimited class and John "I'm Not" Dunn won the 5-1600 slot. The AIRA circus heads f~~ the Sonoyta to Rocky Point run to the beach on Dec. 4, with an obligatory post-race review at JJ's Cantina. 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FRT SQUEAKY SPRINGS NATIONAL Tim Allen Docs It Again By Judy Smith Phot.os: C&C Race Photos Tim Allen won a FRT race overall for the second time, in two consecutive events, in the Class 10 Jimco, leE.ding virtually all the way on the road too, had no problems except traffic and won by about ten minutes. Ron Ryerson fought the good fight in his Class 10 Raceco, stayed within seconds of the leader when he lost fourth gear, so he was second, third O/A. Tim Allen was first to the finish line, his Class 10 Jimco perform-ing flawlessly, at the new FR T event, the Squeaky Springs National, on Halloween weekend. The desert was at its best, but with a hint ·of smoke from the devas-tating wildfires of a few days earlier tainting the gentle breezes. Temperatures were in the mid-seventies, and a full moon graced the nighttime sky. However, ~t ·------RACESHOCK CoMPANY oug ountrY. RACING 50mm OR 65mm O.D. 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The Class 10 cars took off first, and when they came around again, it was Allen in front, but Ron Ryerson, in the A-armed Raceco, was just 41 seconds behind him in second. Kyle Whitted was third in his older Chenowth, a pre-runner that has been pressed back into service as a racer. Chad Helms and Chuck Hovey, in another Chen-owth, had some very time consuming problem that cost them about 40 minutes, and then they never finished another lap. Allen got in another dust free lap and continued to lead, but behind him, Ryerson was closing a bit, and recorded the fast lap of the day, at 21:27. He was only seven seconds behind Allen. Whitted ran third, about four minutes later. Allen's crew took note of Ryerson, and told Allen to The Unlimited cars had a good field, but they all followed the Class 5 Baja Bug of Vance Allen, which is highly modified. He took the lead on lap 2 and held it to the checkered flag and seventh overall. Mike Hart races his Hi Jumper in Unlimited· action, ran third for a time, but moved up and finished second, just 3½ minutes ahead of third place. Bill Hammack also races a Hi Jumper in the Unlimited class, moved into third place by the midway point and despite a delay, he finished in third. pick up the pace a bit, which he him to hear gremlins on the last did, and by the end of the third lap couple oflaps, but having no real he had 30 seconds on Ryerson. problems, beyond getting around Allen moved on smoothly, but the lapped cars in the heavy dust. Ryerson, who'd started with a At the finish it was Allen in front leakycrankseal, had !:o stop to put and Ryerson second, just 10 in oil, and then, on the fourth lap minutes behind him. Whitted, he lost his fourth gear. He kept up whose brother, Joel, drove the last the chase, but in third gear with two laps, finished third, another the motor screaming, and not 12 minutes back. They said tht!ir pushing the car as fast as he'd like, car will undergo some updating he found that his car didn't handle before the next event. as well as he'd like either. Allen The Unlimited cars were next went on, his imagination causing off the line, and it was Rodney Goodsell, in an ORBS, in the lead at the end of the lap. He had recorded the Class fast lap, at 22:13, and was two minutes in front of Vance Allen, who drives his Class 5 Baja Bug in this group. In third it was Mike Hart, in a Hi Jumper, and he took the time to stop at the start/finish to report an overturned vehicle out on the track. Goodsell had some prob-lems on the second lap and Allen moved into the lead, with Good-sell second, and Hart still firmly in third place. In fourth it was Bill Hammack in his Hi Jumper. Tucson 602-294-3511 Off Road Buggy Supply Yuma 602-783~5 Las Vegas 702-671..W11 Hi-Tech Off Road Las Vegas 702-362-2069 Kyle and Joel Whitted raced their refurbished Chenowth pre-runner, also kept up the pace in Class 10, finishing third, about 12 minutes behind second. Allen continued to push hard and stayed in front, but Goodsell dropped out, and Hart moved up to second place. Hammack was now third, and Bob Reamer and Page 32 January 1994 DustyTimcs

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~ Doug Halvin had the 1-1600 lead off and on during the race in his Raceco, rolled on lap five and finished second in class and fifth overall too. John Currier put his ORBS into the 1-1600 battle but had shifter trouble on the line, got moving in good shape then and took third in class, 8th 0 /A. Ernie Silva calls his car 'Obselete', but it runs strong in Class 2-1600. Despite this nose dive Silva finished third in Class 2-1600, an hour back. Dale Shubert, in a Chenowth, :were fourth. They held that order through the fourth lap, and Allen continued to lead through lap five, even though he'd had a flat and had been momentarily stuck . in a ditch. But Hart lost a comp-lete lap in that ditch, and created one of the most talked about events in the race. He'd somehow ended up resting on his hrnd-quarters, with just his front end · projecting up out of the hole. Passers by who saw him were amazed that he lost just one lap in getting out again. That moved Hammack up to second spot, and put Hart into third. Allen, whose case was broken, continued to push hard, and his car held together long enough to get him to the finish line first. Hart was second, 40 minutes later, and Hammack, who'd lost about 10 minutes on the sixth lap, was third, just three minutes after him. Shubert and Reamer, after some time spent trying to figure out why the car quit on the fourth lap, were fourth at the finish line. The Class 8 trucks, all Fords, were next to start, in a cloud of dust. Carlos Ibarra had his truck out in front, with Brady Stiles, in Flying like a bird instead of a big truck, the Ford of Ben Abatti gave him no trouble at all, and Ben led by around ten minutes all day, and turned out to be the only Class 8 finisher too. Kevin Basore had his Jimco in fine form for the 1-1600 battle and a ten second blanket often covered these leaders. Still Basore broke the exhaust systf!m but held on to finish in a dead heat on time, but the winner. Jim Abatti led most of the way in Class 2-1600 in his Raceco, had a nasty encounter with a pit vehicle on lap 5, but despite the flat tire delay he won the class by four minutes and was 11th overall. Dusty Times Tony Alvarado's truck pushing hard behind him. Stiles reported-ly nosed into a ditch, and did considerable damage to his bodywork, while the other two charged on, Ben Abatti slowly closing up on Ibarra. Then Ibarra, who had apparently not had time to pre-run, got off on a wrong road somehow. Before he could get himself back on the right· track, he fell into a ditch, flipped the truck, and it caught fire. Ibarra and his passenger got out all right, and he used his on-board flame system, which did not fully exting-uish the flames. His engine com-partment suffered extensive dam-ag<: before someone got there with a fire extinguisher that finished off the fire. They were out of the race, but glad to be unhurt. Meanwhile, Abatti completed his first lap in the lead, nearly 12 minutes in front of Stiles, who'd obviously had to make some repairs to his truck before he could continue. Abatti, who'd softened up his suspension for this race, was having a good time, and came around right on schedule at the end of his second lap, and his third. Meantime, Stiles was running good lap times also, but he had about eleven and a half minutes to make up, in the remaining five laps. It seemed an impossible task, unless Abatti had a major problem. But Abatti wasn't even having any little problems, and made only one stop, for fuel. He set a consistent pace, while Stiles chipped away at the difference between them about a minute and a half a lap. At the end of lap four Abatti was eight minutes and nine seconds in front of Stiles. On the fifth lap Stiles really put his foot in it and recorded the fast lap for the trucks, at21:57, but he finish- · ed the lap sounding as if the truck was in its death throes. And he retired to his pit. Abatti went on to finish his sixth lap, and took the win, finishing second overall. The single ~ 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. The real thing! 103 Press Lane #4 * Chula Vista, CA 91910 Phone: (619)691-9171 * FAX: (619)691-0803 _ _J January 1994 Page 33

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""' Don Meyers and Anthony Baker had a good run in the 2-1600 Chenowth, almost pulled off the win, but were four minutes back at the flag, second in class. Ken and Bob Hargrove have a tidy Funco SS2 for their Class 100 Richard Green and Dan Lewis led Class 100 in the Sandhawk until lap 3 when a spark plug wire came adrift, but they recovered to finjsh third in class. racer, led for a time midway in the race but settled for a very close second in class. A former champion, Howard Hughes bowed out in '81, but here was back in a 5-1600 with John Brindel/ and they took second by just a few minutes. Dennis Daniels and Ray Miller ran third in Class 9 by seconds for a time, had a flip midway, but recovered from that to finish second in Class 9. Larry Kern and Mike Pfankuch had their Rayco roaring in Class 9, had some late shifter problems but kept the leaders in sight to finish third Challenger. Bill Gill and Chuck Mead pulled off the victory in Class 100 in their Funco, and it does took like a 100 inch wheelbase. They chased the leader by just seconds all day, and won by just 46 seconds. ~ seat 1600s headed out into the desert next, and this group was led by Kevin Basore, in his Jimco, when they got back around, but he had only· eight seconds on Doug Halvin, in a Raceco. John Currier, in an OR~S, who had stru_ggled with a stubborn shifter on the start line, and was about 45 seconds down before he ever got moving, · was third at the end of the lap. # 104 105 106 101 108 1602 1601 1603 1650 1652 1653 551 552 700 800 904 902 900 903 905 1001 1098 1000 99 2 97 Basore still led at the end oflap two, but Halvin had recorded the class fast lap, at 24:45, and was only six seconds behind him, with FRT SQUEAKY SPRINGS GRAN NATIONAL RESULTS -October 30, 1993 Poe Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Time 0/A Claaa Open - Unlimited Single & Two aeat . 7 atart . s finish 1 Vance Allen Baja Bug 2:38:15 7 2 Mike Hart Hi Jumper 3:15:32 21 3 Bill Hammack HI Jumper 3:18:59 22 4 Bob Reamer/Dale Shuben Chenowth 3:46:23 24 5 Josh Wadden Baja Bug Claaa 1-1600 -1600cc Restricted Engine - 3 stan. 3 finish 4:19:13 26 1 Kevin Basore Jimco 2:32:00 4 2 Doug Halvin Raceco 2:32:00 5 3 John Currier ems 2:41:44 8 Claaa 2-1600 -1600 Restricted Engine - 3 start. 3 finish 1 James Abatti Raceco 2:46:39 11 ·2 Don Meyers/Anthony Baker Chenowth 2:50:32 16 3 Ernie Siva Obsolete 3:26:21 23 Oaaa 5-1600 -1600cc Baja Bug. 3 start. 2 finish 1 Bob Snatth/Chris Harrold Baja Bug 2:44:17 9 2 Howard Hughes/John Brindell Baja Bug 2:48:31 14 Claaa 7 - Unlimited Mini Pickup. 2 start. 1 finish 1 Troy Garcia/Richie Valencia Toyota 3:03:09 20 Oaaa 8 -2WD Standard Pickup. 3 start. 1 finish 1 Ben Abatti Ford 2:22:08 2 Claaa 9 • 1600 cc Reatricted Buggy - 6 start • 5 finish 1 Hal Graves Jimco 2:46:42 12 2 Ray Miller/Dennis Daniels Chenowth 2:48:58 15 3 Larry Kern/Mike Pfankkuch Rayco 2:50:48 17 4 Dave Dietrich Jimco 2:54:32 18 5 Dean Hovey Jimco 3:59:14 25 Oaaa 10 -Unlimited 1650cc - 5 atart. 3 finish 1 Tim Allen Jilnco 2:13:14" 1 2 Ron Ryerson Raceco 2:23:05 3 3 Kyle & Joel Whitted Chenowth 2:35:09 6 Oaaa 100 -100 inch WB Buggies. 6 atart • 3 finish 1 Bill GilVChuck Mead Funco 2:46:20 10 2 Ken & Bob Hargrove Funco 2:47:06 13 3 Dan Lewis/Richard Green Sandhawk 2:57:16 19 Total starters - 37 - total finishers - 26 - • First overall Course: 6 laps ol a 24.9 mile route -Weather: mild, sunny and some breeze. Page 34 ,..,. Bob Snaith set Class 5-1600 fast lap on tap 1 at 27:11 and with Chris Harrold co-driving they Jed mainly by just seconds all day, and Chris did an identical fast lap on the last one to win the class by four minutes. < Currier still third. Halvin, who'd On the fifth lap Halvin rolled started in front of Basore by 15 over, landing on his top, and seconds, continued to run in front needing help from a crowd of of him, but depending on the friendly spectators, who upright-dust, Basore stayed close up ed him very quickly. But Basore behind him, or was forced to drop had passed him in the meantime. back a bit. So at any given point Basore then stayed in front to the on the course it could be either of finish, in spite of a slight power them in the lead, and they took loss from a broken exhaust, and turns being number one. took the win, his fifth in a row, At the end of the third lap finishing fourth overall also. Halvin happened to have the lead Halvin was second, a minute and in the start/ finish area, with 11 eight seconds later, and Currier, seconds on Basore, who was at whose shifter had worked fine thattime struggling with the thick once he got moving, finished dust from a lapped car. But at the third. end of lap four it was Basore In the two seat 1600s, the first again, in front by only three lap leader was Jim Abatti, in a seconds, though still second on Raceco, and he had a minute and the road and eating Halvin 's dust. 12 seconds on Don Meyers in his -----Hal Graves brought his Jimco into the Class 9 battle with Kevin Graves driving off the line, in the Jimco. The fight was tight, mere seconds on the early laps, but Graves took-the win by over two minutes at 12th 0/A. January 1994 Chenowth. In third, another 12 seconds later, was Ernie Silva, in his "Obsolete" chassis. Abatti held his lead through lap two, and had almost two minutes, while Silva lost about 15 minutes with a problem, and dropped back. By the end of the third lap Abatti had nine minutes on Meyers, and Silva was another 23 minutes back. Abatti stayed at the wheel for all six laps, but Meyers got out and let Anthony Baker take over for the second half of the race, and he held second place at the end of lap four in spite of an unsettling touch-and-go with a big truck that left tire marks on his passenger's side, and a side net that had been completely chewed away by the tread of a big tire. On the fifth lap Abatti had a run-in with a pit vehicle on the course, and while he didn't lose much time, the upshot of the incident was a flat tire on the sixth lap. He lost about three or four minutes then, while Baker recorded the fast lap for the class, at 25:22, and closed up a lot. But Abatti had a big enough lead to preserve his win, and Meyers and Baker took second place, just under four minutes later. Silva finished third. The Class 100 cars took the green· flag next and when they came back around it was Richard Green in front in his Sandhawk, but had only five seconds on Bill Gill in his 13 year old Funco. In third it was Ken Hargrove, in another Funco, only 15 seconds further back. Green held the lead through lap two, and had just 18 seconds on Hargrove, while Gill dropped to third, only 23 seconds later. But on the third lap a spark plug wire fell off, and Green had to stop to fix it. When he was all repaired he discovered he .was stuck, and Hargrove had moved into the lead. Gill was now second, by 21 seconds, and Green was down about seven minutes. During all this time the five-man team of Bryan Ryba, David Clement, Ed Holman, C.E. Leatherbury and Brian Ziemtek, whose car had started with no second gear, then Dustvnmes

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The well turned out Class 8 truck of Carlos Ibarra looks great here, but Ibarra got lost, flipped on the wrong road and the truck burned as the on board extinguisher wasn't enough. Both men got out safely, willing hands of spectators and pit crews got the fire out, the truck back on its wheels and other than the considerable financial loss for repairs, all came out of the incident in good shape. Nice to have so much help handy. Photos: Joe Stokes. became stuck in third gear on the jet. Lewis and Green came in duplicating Snaith's first lap fast Miller hopping in for Daniels. finished a distant fifth after first lap, were busily installing a third. time on the last lap. Graves stayed in his car, and, not struggling through some long new transmission, so they'd all get In Class 5-1600 the first lap The Class 9 cars came next, and only that, he clicked off the fast laps. a chance to drive. Altogether they leader was Bob Snaith, with the Mike Pfankuch put his Rayco into lap for the class, at 26:54, and There were two of the small were able to get in only two laps, class fast lap, at 27:11, and 22 the lead on the first lap, 31 took over the lead. While he was trucks running this race, with and time ran out. seconds ahead of Howard seconds in front of Kevin Graves doing that, Miller tried to go Trey Garcia and Richie Valencia Thetwoleadcarswererunning Hughes, who was back in a race inhisJimco.lnthirditwasDennis around Kern, hit a ditch, and in their Toyota·, and Ryan neck and neck, and by the end of car for the first time since 1981. Daniels in a Chenowth, another endoed his car, landing on his lid. Wheeler in his S 10 Chevy. the fourth lap Gill's co-driver, Jose and Albert Garcia ran third. 13 seconds later, and followed by Spectators helped him get going Wheeler had major problems and Chuck Mead, had squeaked out in Snaith and Hughes battled it out Todd Johnson and Travis Suther-again, but Kern was second, two ran a first lap of over two hours, front of Bob Hargrove by 28 for the first three laps, and land in a MECO. Just another 11 minutes behind Graves, and six and then retired. Garcia and seconds. Green was only six midway through the race Snaith secondslateritwasDaveDietrich seconds in front of Miller. Valencia charged around for six minutes back, and now he hopped had only a minute and 43 seconds in his Jimco. At the end of the Dietrich was still fourth. laps, running well, and recording out and gave the wheel to his on Hughes, who later said he'd second lap Daniels had the lead, Graves ran a steady pace, afastlapof26:42,totakethewin. co-driver, Dan Lewis. Running lost his old "killer instinct". The with four seconds on Pfankuch, having no problems, except that The racing was all over just right behind Hargrove, and Garcia team had some problems, who was now just 26 seconds in he lost his crankcase breather and before sunset, and those who keeping the pressure on, Mead and their car expired in sight of front of Graves, who'd had a flat. got oil on his usually spotless stayed the night got to enjoy the was in front of him on elapsed the start/ finish as they almost Dietrich was fourth, three min-skidpan. At the end of the fifth lap beautiful weather and a golden time by 23 seconds. Lewis hung in finished their third lap. utes later, with Sutherland and he had a lead of just under two full moon, casting shadows over there in third, but too far back to Snaith put Chris Harrold into Johnson two seconds behind him. minutes, while Miller moved up the desert. Fud 's early morning catch up in the amount of time the car for the last half, and Things changed again on the to second, 29 seconds in front of buffet breakfast started Sunday left. Mead and Hargrove really Hughes had John Brindell to third lap, and Pfankuch was back Kern, who was having shifter off with a bang, and sent the racers pushed hard that last lap, and finish up. Snaith and Harrold in front, 16 seconds up on Dan-problems,andsometimescouldn't and their families home happy. Mead recorded the fast lap for the were enjoying a new motor, while iels. Now Graves ran 11 seconds find a gear. The last event in the FR T series, class, at 25: 18, to hang onto the Hughes and Brindell were driving later in third, and Dietrich was They stayed in that order to the the Dunaway Dash, will finish off lead, and take the win. The Har-a new car. Neither had any prob-fourth, still. The two leaders finish line, Graves taking the win 1993 on December 31st, also in groves were second, only 46 sec-lems, and the Snaith/Harrold made driver changes at the end of with two minutes and 42 seconds the Plaster City Off Highway onds later, finishing their last lap team stayed just in front all the the third lap, with Larry Kern to spare. Miller and Daniels were Vehicle area. on three cylinders, with a clogged way to take_the win, with Harrold taking over for Pfankuch, and Ray second, and Kern and Pfankuch -------SNORE 5 RACES - 5 WINS CLASS CHAMPION 1993 THANKS TO OUR GREAT SPONSORS AND RACE TEAM FOR OUR BEST SEASON YET!!! SCORE NEVADA 400 - 5TH PLACE FIREWORKS 250 - 2ND PLACE GOLD COAST 300 - 3RD PLACE MICKEY THOMPSON PERFORMANCE TIRES AND WHEELS HOPPY'S TRANSMISSIONS LAS VEGAS, NV HURST SHIFTERS PAINTED DESERT GOLF COURSE LAS VEGAS, NV LOCO LOGO GRAPHICS LAS VEGAS, NV RACE TEAM AND PIT SUPPORT H.E.R. 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CRS/SCCA Gor111an Ridge Rally By John Elkin, John Moore & Marcus Clark MICHELIN . .. / . . . . . ' . ',. m0 · 78 , ... -~ .... , Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. ••t'°I; "·--.dv ,s l"' Mitch McCullough, almost a rookie rally driver, scored his first overall victory at Gorman Ridge, with navigator Scott Webb directing the Mazda 323 to a 23 second margin of victory as they also won the 4WD Open Class. As opposed to last year when the Gorman Ridge rally was be-fallen by rain and the organizers - ' were forced to hastily change plans to run the rally, this year the weather gods smiled upon the tiny hamlet of Gorman; and other problems than weather forced the organizers into hasty last minute route changes. In the words of the late Gilda Radner, "It just goes to show ya' if it's not one thing it's another, sometimes it's rain other times it's a lack of paramedics." Last minute emergencies else-where forced organizers Mike Blore and Harris Done to make do with fewer medical personnel than originally planned. Luckily the changes were just in the first leg of the rally and it cost them only one stage and forced the running of another stage another time that they had not planned on. Truly, this rally is blessed, each time there is some kind of small emergency to deal with and each time Mike and Harris come out smelling like a rose and still providing a class event for all entries. Rallyists have been making the annual trip to Gorman for many years, many things make this event enjoyable. The roads are first class, very smooth generally and no rocks to take large chunks out of expensive tires. The pace of the event is equally as smooth with easy transits. Service crews actually get to see some of the racing in stages from well placed and thought out service areas. The Caravan Inn, which serves as headquarters is as fine a head-quarters facility as any we use in the California Rally Series but mostly the organizers, previously the now seldom seen Gary English and now the team of Blore and Done care enough to put on the rally well. Twenty-seven teams traveled Interstate 5, 50 miles north of Los Angeles where Gorman lies situat-ed between the Angeles and Los Padres National Forests, proven rally territory. Scrutineering and registration on Friday night was included with a small welcome party and the rallying started about noon on Saturday and would continue until nearly mid-night before teams would see the end. With the cancelled stage, that left the total at 11 stages totalling nearly 80 miles of flat out competition in the three classes running Stock, Two Wheel and Four Wheel drive open classes. The rally is broken into two legs, the first or afternoon section takes place around and in the Gorman Off Highway Vehicle Park utilizing two roads run multiple times. These stages, North Boundry and Powerline are old friends to CRS teams. North Boundry is a fast piece of road sending cars around the rolling hills and straight valleys. Powerline is a completely different animal; twisty and large scale elevation changes and steep cliffs line the road. Still they are fun and we call them home once a year. After a service break and dinner back at the hotel teams that survived the first leg head southeast toward Liebre Mount-ain and run three roads. The first is Liebre Gulch which is a typical Rim of the World type road, very twisty and dusty with cliffs. Liebre Mountain is a slightly faster affair but drivers still have to twist that steering wheel quite a bit to keep the car on the road. Then comes the Old Ridge Route, :J 12 mile paved stage run as a dead end turnaround. Teams race to the top and wait for the road to clear before starting back down the road. Rallyists have seen quite a few dead end stages this year and in order to provide new roads this may become a large scale trend in the sport. As noon rolled around on Saturday teams were scattered around fine tuning their machines for the battles ahead. Navigators were scrambling with last minute route book changes and service crews were being dispatched to Jeff and Chris Griffin had a great run in the Volvo 142 not only staying up front all the way and winning the 2 WO Open Class, they also finished a quick second overall, just seconds behind. Tony and Liz Shumaker had an excellent run on the Gorman roads in the Stock Class Mitsubishi Eclipse, but they had to fight hard to earn the class win, but did win by a mere 27 seconds and were seventh overall. designated service areas. The were seeing Mitch and Scott edge fields in all three classes were as out ahead but on stage eight the always very competitive and the Audi lost a minute to a reported battle for the overall would be flat, then another minute on the classic before it was over. ninth stage. The finaltwo saw Rui In the four wheel drive open Brasil and Jose Dutra fight back class Rui Brasil/ Jose Dutra came gallantly but the stages ran out; out swinging early setting fast the Mazda proved fast on this day time on stage one putting six and Mitch McCullough and Scott seconds on the rookie team of Webb enjoyed their second class Mitch McCullough/Scott Webb victory in a,-Tow. There would be in a Mazda 323 . Brasil/Dutra kept more befofe the night was over. the pace up in the Audi 4000 Two wheel drive Open Class is holding the lead until stage five a very competitive class and this when the McCullough/Webb day saw the return of the classic Mazda started turning very good Jeff Griffin-Lon Peterson battle. stage times including some overall Peterson and Bill Gutzmann were fast times. Paula Gibeault/Jay back out to stretch out the legs of Mathes had the Subaru in the the Plymouth Arrow but the hunt slipping around second and battle everyone expected never third place dicing with the Mazda materialized. In the first stage Lon and Audi until the fourth stage and Bill were cruising along at when a steering knuckle came about Warp 9 when the throttle undone in the car. No steering cable broke silencing the Arrow makes even a four wheel drive car for nearly twenty minutes on unruly to handle and the Ridge- stage while repairs were effected crest duo called it a rally and to by Superwrench Bill. The duo their credit spent the remaining spent the rest of the day having day working the event. fun on the Gorman roads going Meanwhile McCullough/Webb for the finish, which they did, in and Brasil/Dutra kept hammer-seventh place. ing out fast stage times through The news did not faze the the first 5 stages where the Mazda brothers Griffin, Jeff and Chris, held sway over the Audi by a very whose Volvo always excels on the scant two seconds. Going into the Gorman roads. The pair struck night section, stages six and seven out to a small lead over the VW ·• Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh kick up a bit of dust on the soft stuff in the VW Scirocco they drove to third overall and took second in 2WD Open Class. Rui Brasil and Jose Dutra set fast time on the first stage in the Audi Quattro, led thru stage 5, but settled for second in 4WD Open and fourth 0 /A. Keeping the competition honest Jeff Hendricks and Noble Jones made a strong run at Stock Class honors in the Jeep Comanche, but were a very close second. Page 38 January 1994 DustyTimes

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Dennis Chizma and Robert Kalb run hard in the older VW Rabbit, and the former off road racer drove carefully into third in Stock Class ninth 0 /A. Paul Furusho and Paul Skjerven sailed through the countryside in the Mazda RX 3 in the Indian Summer weather to third 2WD Open and a fine fifth 0 /A. Bill Malik and Raine Andersson plow a little silt with the Volvo 242 on the way to a good finish, fourth 2WD Open Class and sixth overall in the rally. Dan Hook and John Moore have a good time in the Toyota Celica, and at the Gorman Ridge Rally they finished fifth in 2WD Open Class and tenth overall. Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann revived the Plymouth Arrow for Gorman and Lon set some good times, also had some troubles and was seventh 2 WO Open car. Bob and Steve Scott look sedate on this relatively smooth road for this event, and they drove the Toyota Celica into a fine fourth in Stock Class. Scirocco of Ron Wood/Kelly Walsh. The Paul's, Furusho and Skjerven placed the Mazda RX-3 into third position tied with Bill Malik/Raine Andersson in a Volvo. Obviously the Griffin's take about a stage to get warmed up because from stage two through the fifth stage Jeff and Chris opened up a 3.3 second lead over the Wood/Walsh VW, who were still half a minute ahead of the Paul's RX-3. Malik/ Andersson were very close behind the Mazda and then a gap of a minute back to the Toyota Celica of Dan Hook/John Moore. Tony Chav-ez/Robert T allini were enjoying the run in their refurbished Datsun 510 ( what rally could run without a Datsun 510??) and moving up fast until later in the dark night the night got darker for Tony and Robert as their alter-nator failed, however the team had great seats as spectators. As the night thundered on from the Gorman area to the Liebre area so did the Griffin's Volvo, lengthening the lead over Wood/ Walsh to nearly three minutes at the end. Rumors persist about this being the Griffin's final rally before Jeff moves his family out of state, if so this would be a wonderful swan song to his CRS career, but most hope that he continues here. The Paul's kept up a great pace throughout the night and netted the third place trophy just a minute and skosh over the Volvo of Malik/ Anders-son. Dan Hook and John Moore pressed on in the Toyota over-coming a minor stuck to take fifth place. Ed Villegas and David Lanza brought another Toyota home in the sixth spot, edging the charging Peterson/Gutzmann Arrow. Stock class battles have been legendary this year resulting in exciting rallying and even an overall win this year in Palmdale last month. With Harris Done organizing this event the battle would fall to.two for the win. In the first stage the three primary players in the class battle would fall to two for the win. In the first stage the three primary players in DustyTimcs the class battle all tied for the best and Chris battled their way back time in class. Dennis Chizma/ to within two seconds of the Robert Kalb in a VW Rabbit, Jeff r·ookie team but a scorching stage Hendricks/Noble Jones in a Jeep by McCullough/Webb in the truck and the Shumaker's Tony final run of the night set the team and Liz in a Mitsubishi Eclipse all firmly in the lead. would battle throughout the long day and night. It should be pointed out that these are the principals, fast time in class for stage one was taken by Norberto Gomez/Jorge Facio in a Toyota Corolla GTS, however a controversial instruction caught out Gomez, and several other rally teams ending his day in stage three. After stage three the Shumaker Eclipse led Hendricks/Jones by just over one second. Chizma/ Kalb were just another second back as early lead contender George Tavares/John Dires was befallen by engine woes in the Toyota MR-2. Back at the hotel after stage five the Eclipse edged out by 20 seconds over the Jeep. Chizma/ Kalb slowed here, but would scramble back toward the top as Bob and Steve Scott piloted the Toyota Celica into third at the break. Going into the Liebre area for the final six stages the Shumaker's built and then maintained a lead over Hendricks/Jones and when the final paved stages came up the low slung Mitsubishi outdistanc-ed the high Jeep and solidified the win and a healthy lead in season -points. Dennis Chizma /Robert Kalb came back to overhaul the Toyota for third and the Scott Toyota fell to fourth. Cres Andongo/ Luis Perez came back from a rollover early to nab fifth spot in class in a never say die effort worthy of mention. In the overall battle we men-tioned earlier it was the Griffin's Volvo holding sway after stage two, lengthening the lead to seven seconds at the break after a close battle with the Rui Brasil/Jose Dutra Audi, but lurking close was McCullough/Webb. Stages six and seven saw little change as the Mazda and the Volvo swapped times, it was a flat tire in stage seven that started the tide to turn. McCullough capital-ized on a Griffin misfortune. Jeff January 1994 It was the first overall win for McCullough who as recently as last year was still active in Solo II competition, but as a Mazda exec-utive came to know about rallying through Rod Millen and found the car, found the navigator in Scott Webb from HKS, Inc. and the rest they say is history. The fact remains; how much more history is this talented and still up and coming team going to write? Page 39

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LA RANA CALIFORNIA 200 Mike Stickle Wins Overall At Ridgecrest By Jean Calvin Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Ron Stobaugh and Ken Sypolt shared the driving, giving rides to the crew and setting a slower pace; as the only entry in Class 1, the truck won the class honors at 23rd overall. Chris Minor and Jason Taylor revived the Larry Minor Oldsmobile, ran in Mike Stickle signed on co-drivers Larry Hendrix and Steve Warren, but Mike drove all the way with fast and consistent Class 2, never quite matched the winning pace but came in second in class. _1a...,p,,...t_im--,-es_to_n_o_t _o_n_ly_w_,_·n_C_la_s_s_2_b_u_t_h_e_w_o_n_o_v_e_ra_ll_b_y_a_b_ig_n_in_e_m_in_u_t_e_s. ________________ T with the race itself starting at 9:00 Stickle turned class fast lap of , PerhapsthemostpopularofLa 100 entries each fall. trailer rig, unload, register, shop a.m. in bright sunlight. The final 1:05:05 on lap 2, having fixed a Rana's events is the California Among the major attractions of contingency row, go through tech count off the line was 93 vehicles throttle linkage problem. At one 400 run in October in the high the race is the registration, tech and then reload to go to the start of all shapes and sizes taking the point he thought he was lost, but country outside of Ridgecrest, and contingency row all in the line, about 25 miles away, if you green flag. Class 1 was first away, his lap times were all close to the CA, a town better known for its parking lot of the Kerr McGee are camping out. What a pleasure t'1e lone entry being the trophy same minute so he wasn't, had no huge Naval Air and Ground base Community Center just off the to not have pre-race functions truck style Ford 460 powered rig flats and carried on to win the at China Lake. The race is usually highway in the middle of Ridge-strung out all over the country-of Ron Stobaugh who zipped class and win the race overall, blessed with beautifullndiansum-crest's fast food row of stores. It is side. · around with a 1: 10:01 first lap driving all the .way. He wanted to mer weather, and it was again in a one stop affair, unusual for our Long a favorite of desert bike then slowed as he stopped each get a plug in for Mike's VW & 1993, which helps attract about desert races, where you park the racers, the course was lengthened lap for a new co-driver taking a Porsche and Hendrix Enterprises to 50 miles this year, but the Dick Cepek contest winner, Bill in Anaheim, so here it is for the familiar and huge boulders, rocky Sutton of Las Vegas out for a lap, overall winner, who also had outcroppings, and treacherous and other helpers also got a ride. Steve W arren riding a lap. The washes were still on the course, The truck builder Ken Sypolt overall winning time was 4:26:40. hut then what would you expect drove the last lap. Stobaugh Meanwhile the rest of the class of an OHV area that is off Trana thanked a ton of Cepek guys who was busy with Steve Houston Road with the start/finish in donate after hours time to keep climbing up to second midway, Teagle Wash. This is real high the truck in good shape. Even but he went no farther. So after desert country with some stout with all the stops Ron was 23rd three laps Minor's Olds was run-scrub pines to catch the unwary overall. ning second nearly a half hour drivers, lining the route in some There were six starters in Class back, and it finished there. Scott areas. Four laps were required for 2 including a sedan, supposedly of Fusco/Jeff Quinn were next, an-most classes, excepting the stone Oldsmobile origin driven by other 20 minutes behind having stockers, of which La Rana gets Chris Minor and Jason Taylor. dealt with a first lap flat, then a plenty, and Class 11. The time But it was the Type 1 VW broken shifter, and the front allowance was a generous eight powered Raceco of Mike Stickle beam broke. All this in two laps. hours and it would all be over in and Larry Hendrix that turned Quinn handed over to Fusco and the daylight the weekend before fast first lap at 1 :09:33 and they he had some flats, found the trans we were forced into the darkness had Jim Pierce, ORC, just a min-getting shaky but with Brian Ed Pauley and Jon landiorio were virtually tied for the 1-2-1600 lead on lap 1, of standard time. ute back, followed in another Dague riding in the Raceco they wore down the opposition as the laps went on and brought the Mirage in first The drivers meeting started the minute by Steve Houston, Race-did a 1 :08 and a 1 :09 to finish the _in_c_l_a_ss_a_n_d_a_k_e_e_n_t_h_ir_d_o_v_e_ra_l_l. _________________ .eventat7:00a.m.atthestartline, co. A real race was shaping up. Raceco third in class, 16th ove1-Mike and Robert Harman got it all together in the Lothringer at Ridgecrest as Mike led the first lap in the new car, Robert kept up the pace on the final lap and they won Class 10 by 14 minutes and were second overall. Page 40 ~? There were four in Class 5 but midway Danny Reider and Jamie Davenport took the class lead overcoming four flat tires and a sticky throttle to win a tight battle for class honors and they were 12th overall. January 1994 all. Minor and Taylor finished second, but stories were plentiful about them ramming folks, so they didn't stop at impound long enough to be interviewed. In fourth it was Jim McKenzie who lost the power steering on lap 1, hit an embankment hard and wrecked the front end and was down for two hours fixing it. He also flattened two tires, but then got back on the road and had no more troubles, but was pushipg the time allowance using 7:26:58 for the four laps. Jim Pierce was fifth with three laps done and Houston claimed sixth with his two laps. Class 10, with ten starters; bid fair to be quite a fight, but two combatants didn't make a lap, Jim Tucker blowing an engine on the DustyTimcs

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Scott Fusco and Jeff Quinn dealt with numerous problems with the Raceco, including a broken front beam, but they carried on to take third in Class 2. Steve McMullin and Warren Messick led Class 1-2-1600 for a couple laps, but an encounter with a boulder on the last round dropped the Meco to second place. Tony Vacarella has his new Mirage sorted out now, and he flew around the course with consistent laps to finish a fine third in Class 1-2-1600, 7th OJA. first lap, and last race O / A winner Dale Dondel was gone into the dez, and a third, Burl Beveridge, only covered one round. Mike Harman started in the new Lothringer and whipped off a 1:05:27 to take the first lap lead by four minutes over Robert Anderson and Ty Goode who had Craig Dillon, Lothring-er, just seven seconds behind him. Dale Smith and Dennis Kordon-owy from Carson City, NV were less than another minute back in a real horse race for second. Home town favorites Tom Koch and Rex Keeling, Raceco, were an-other six minutes back followed in 40 minutes by Larry Lariviere and Don Wells, ORE. Points leaders Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel had a three hour plus lap with a broken rocker shaft at mile 6 off the line, managed to borrow one eventually and got moving again as Angel turned class fast lap on lap 2 of 1:02:52, fast lap for the race at that. Midway Craig Dillon led by seven minutes over Ander-son/Goode and Harman dropped to third another three minutes back. Smith/Kordonowy were third as Koch hit a big rock at Charlie's place, where most rocks were boulders, and tore up the front end, had a flat, steering woes, and broke off the clutch pedal, but got to the Checker pit for extensive repairs. Dale Dondel had some welding done, but it apparently didn't hold. Attrition was high in Class 10. After three laps Harman stop-ped to put brother Robert in the car but still had a good lap and took the lead back. Dillon broke a front shock and had some welding done but held second over Smith/Kordonowy, who didn't finish the fourth lap and were credited with seventh place. Rex Keeling was now in the Koch Raceco and was close in fourth. That was pretty much the ball game. The Harmans, with the fast 1 :03 last lap on two fresh tires won the first time out in their new Lothringer, and took second Bruce Landfield with Brett Turley riding took the lead on the first lap by inches in Class 5-1600, but they never looked back, leading all the way despite a flat or two and they won the class by 15 minutes, 13th OJA. overall too, even though Robert about three minutes behind him. got stuck, pulled out by the Cook Jeff Renick had 30 minutes worth brothers, but he had some good of trouble but came back with a sized stickers in his hand, and fast second lap, then was seen no stopped on lap 3 to get the fuel more. Midway Reider had a good neck fixed. Craig Dillon and Mike lead of eight minutes over Pete Cohen were second 13 minutes Swift. Scott Weir had a 1:57 lap back, fifth overall. Mike Cohen and dropped from contention drove the last two laps, and car-although he finished all four laps ried his dad's gloves and kidney for third place. Heading into the belt in the car, dedicating the last lap it was a tie on wrist watch finish, despite a flickering oil time between the top two Bugs. light, to his dad Ellis who passed But Ridgecrest native Danny away recently. Robert Anderson and Ty Goode were just 2 ½ minutes back in third, sixth overall, having no power steering from the start. They had no flats but plenty of blisters on their hands in their second race in Bob Scott's old single seater. Rex Keeling did a 1 :05 last lap and finished with a broken top cage but he and Tom Koch were fourth in Class 10, 11th overall. Larry Lariviere and Don Wells were well over another hour down, but fifth in class in the ORE, followed in sixth by Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel in the Chenowth. Mike Thurlow had a tight race going for Mini Mag honors midway, lost a drive belt but made repairs and motored on with a quick pace to win the Mini Mag class by nearly six minutes. Reider and Jamie Davenport pulled out a 1: 11 lap to win Class 5, 12th overall. Second genera-tion driver Danny said he and Jamie split the driving evenly, had four flat tires, had the throttle stick open on the last lap, but grinned saying "we won!" Pete Swift and Brady Helm lost ten minutes on the last lap with a throttle cable problem but got the 1835 powered Bug into second spot. 1993 5( .. 01('£ Eleven appeared to contest Class 1-2-1600, half of them potential winners. However both Michael Duenas and B.J. Bates failed on the first lap, Bates losing the engine about five miles from the green flag. Up front on lap 1 was the team of Steve McMullin and Warren Messick at 1:09:31 with Ed Pauley/Jon Iandiorio on their bumper at 1:09:48. Brad Inch was pushing hard in third in hisnew ~ -There were four in Class 5 and Pete Swift and Brady Helm led the first lap by nine minutes over Scott Weir who 'had Danny Cliassis Manufacturer Of Tlie Year Reider and Jamie Davenport We Would Like To Thank .Jl[[ D_f Our Ya{uecf Customers .Jlnd--:Jriends •wfio Made Tliis Possib{e "'Tfiank you" Darren Skilton had first lap troubles including a flat, but he came back strong in the Class 6 Jeep Grand Che_rokee with three very quick times to take the class victory by nearly an hour. DustyTimes January 1994 Page ·41

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Craig Dillon and Mike Cohen fought hard in their Class 10 Lothringer, had class fast lap, but trouble on lap 3 put them second at the flag, 5th 0 /A. Pete Swift and Brady Helm had a good lead on lap 1 in Class 5, fell to second place later and kept the Bug together to finish second, 15th 0 /A. Brian Logan and Keith Westerfield had no problems or down time in their 5-1600 en route to second in class, making it 1-2 for Lothringer chassis. ~ Lothringer atl: 10: 11 and nobody else was within minutes. There was no wind to clear the o n course dust on an otherwise perf-ect day for racing. Midway McMullin and Inch were in a virtual tie on time with Steve six seconds up on Brad who set class fast lap at 1:07:43. Tony Vaccarello held third a minute ahead of Bob Plaskon, who was another minute ahead of Russ Butow/ Billy McCool. W es and Brady Wisdom were next follow-ed by Rigoberto Arzate and both were running strong. On lap 3 Brad Inch succumbed to new car woes, McM ullin still led, now by a couple of minutes and Vaccarello was running quick and steady in third, inches up on Bob Plaskon, and McCool picked up the pace in the Butow Mirage, and the_ Wisdoms and Arzates were run-ning steady also. Into the final lap and a leader switch. Taking over and winning the class at third overall were Ed Pauley and Jon landiorio in their Mirage. Ed started and Jon finished the race but Brian Cox rode the whole distance. Jon turned up the wick to a 1 :09 on the last lap to cement the victory with a margin of a minute, four seconds. They had no troubles at all, not even a flat and have the points lead going into the series final event in late Novembe r . They wanted to thank Elite Mach-ine for their help. It had been quite a race as Steve McMullin almost had it in the bag until he hit one of those big boulders near the finish line so hard it knocked his co-driving wife out. He got her to the medics quickly and also sal-vaged second in class, fourth over-all in the Mateo. Both top teams were using experimental Sway-A-W ay axles. Tony Vaccarello drove the entire distance in his Mirage to third in class, seventh overall. He had two 1:13 laps and a 1:14, and a last lap 1:12., show-ing that consistency pays off, and he finished 11 minutes behind the top two 1600s. Dan Cannon set himself a pace in the Class 725 Ford and his four laps varied by only a couple of minutes. It proved to be the winning strategy as he won a close one by just seven seconds! Only 19 seconds out of third Bob Plaskon was fourth in his Mirage which he said ran just fine to eighth overall. It was his first race in the super competitive ex Jim Sumners racer and said he had a lot of help from his friends be-fore and during the race. Another minute and a half back came the Russ Butow and Billy McCool Mirage, who had a spark plug wire come off after they said they got hit by the Minor Olds. They were not the only team displaying rear cage damage with tell tale paint complaining about the Minor en-try hitting them harder than neces-sary, especially in places where there was room to pass. McCool who finished ninth 0 / A, thanked .the Checkers for their help. Coming home about 18 min-utes after McCool, Wes and Brady Wisdom had their trouble on the first lap then ran competi-tive times for the last three ending up sixth in 1600 class, 14th over-all. They were followed in an hour later by Rigoberto Arzate and Mike Meehan, who were seventh, the last finisher among 1600s. Four Mini Mags showed up at Ridgecrest and they like the nar-row course, well suited to their cars. Frank and Steve Bristing led the first lap with class fast lap of 1:13:04, but that was their only lap and they had serious electrical woes and were stuck for the whole race in an area that had no access by decree of the BLM. The other three did all four laps and midway it was a tight race between Mike Thurlow, who was leading, and Chris and Greg Garrett, just two minutes behind. Each team had apparently lost a drive belt on course, but they now carry them in the car and change on the spot. Garrett said they threw more than one belt and had clutch trouble. Meanwhile, Yoshi Ogasawara was bringing up the rear with troubles of his own, mainly with the steer-ing, but running. Thurlow got in a good third lap while G arrett was busy changing a clutch to one he borrowed from Bristing's pit. Mike Thurlow's final two laps were in the same · minute on ET, had no more tro-uble and he won Mini Mag class by over five minutes. Chris or Greg Garrett got a good fourth lap, 1: 14 :03 to place second. Yoshi Ogasawara finally got his car running right and whipped off a 1:13:19 final lap to take a hard earned third place in this class that is almost a fraternity. Nine brightly painted 5-1600 Baja Bugs were on the line and this WINNING IS EVERYTHING !!! Pagt 42 MIKE & ROBERT HARMAN 1STPLACE- CLASS 10 CALIFORNIA 200 FA.ST LAP - SNORE 250 LA RANA CALIFORNIA 200 1ST AND 2ND CLASS 10 & 5-1600 We Build Winning Race Cars LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING 825 N GLENDORA AVE. COVINA CA 91223 818-915-2212 CRAIG DILLON I. N IKE HARMON 1ST PLACE. CLASS 10 LA RANA LUCERNE VALLEY 250 FAST LAP · CALIFORNIA 200 January 1994 Mike Duncan continues to be the lone entry in Class 3 in La Rana Racing, but he likes his Jeep and likes to race it, and he covered his four laps at Ridgecrest to earn his prizes. class is another that runs close to-gether on time. On lap 1 the race was between Bruce Landfield, 1:16:28, Jason ·Kleber, 1:16:39, and Brian Logan 1: 17: 1 7, with Brad Clausen in the wings at 1:19:34, and his second lap was the identical time. Mid-way Landfield had picked up his pace doing class fast lap at 1: 12: 19 to take a solid lead, while the Kleber/Pew Bug didn't finish lap 2 and two others were also down and out. Logan held second about seven minutes back, both leading Bugs were Lothringer built cars. Clausen held a comfortable third and now Jim Barta was out after two lap s; the other five all finished. Bruce Landfield and Brett Turley stayed ahead of the pack, picking up time on their way to victory in Class 5-1600, 13th overall. Bruce said he had no real troubles, a flat or two and was happy, because this was the first time his family had attended a race that he won. Brian Logan and Keith Westerfield had no prob-lems at all, except for soft brakes, no down time and turned consist-ent lap times finishing about 15 minutes back in second. Brad Clausen and Steve Reyling had a pair of 1: 19s and a pair of 1 :22s to take third, another four minutes back. Another 45 minutes behind Reggie Smith and Peter Hove were fourth complaining about rust in the water bottle, almost started on a flat if one of the Cook brothers had not noticed it in stag-ing, and they had fun dicing with Kleber on the first lap. In fifth Jim Petersen and crew had first lap trouble, had more down time on lap 3 but finished in 7:24:08, close to the time allowance. Class 9 fielded 15 cars and they all finished the first lap, more than many classes records. Out front it was another tight dice off the line with Brian Sallee leading the first lap at 1 :21: 11, followed by Den-nis Petersen, 1 :21 :28 and James Clements, 1 :21 :34, these tailed by Perry King then Sandy Parker in the 1 :23 range. Quite a race was shaping up. O ut after one lap were Dave Rogers, Jearold Merideth and Jack Bonesteel, and retiring after two rounds were Dave Gird-ner, Derrick Patement and Bill Hibler. It was a rough course! Midway Dennis Petersen and James Mobley were leading by a scant minute over James Clem-ents, Sandy Parker was five min-utes back with Perry King a min-ute behind him followed in a minute by Sallee and Brian Mag-innis was another three minutes back. Nobody else was close. On James Clements had to borrow Tom Mattingly's car to race Ridgecrest, and it was well prepped for sure. Jim bested the 15 car field taking the lead on the last lap and won Class 9 by about two minutes. DustyTimes

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Brad Clausen and Steve Reyling had a good run, each doing two nearly identical lap times, and they motored smartly into third in Class 5-1600. Chris and Greg Garrett kick up some dust in their Mini Mag, threw drive belts and had clutch trouble and still finished a close second in ciass. Kreg Donahoe and David Winner led Class 725 by a bunch in their Toyota, until two last lap broken leaf springs cost time and they were second. lap 3 the Sandy Parker/Tom Moessner Chenowth broke a spring plate and cost them two hours down time. They did finish, eighth for some points. After three rounds James Clements ap-peared to have the lead by a few seconds over Dennis Petersen and James Mobley and Perry King/ Jim Hook were about five minutes back in third. James Clements turned his fast-estlap on the fourth, a 1: 18:51 to insure his victory in Class 9 with Mike Brown co-driving. He said he chased Petersen all day and had a good and fun race. He borrowed the car from Tom Mattingly, also one of the Barstow Bunch, and said his own car hadn't been ready. He had no trouble at all, gave Eddie Castro credit for a well marked course, and he won by less than two minutes at 5:21:25. Almost neighbors, Apple Valley's Dennis Petersen and James Mob-ley led all day on the road. Jim started, had no trouble Dennis did the last two laps counting a flawless day, then blew a right rear shock on the last lap, but was the first 9 car across the finish line. They had a lot of people to thank including R.E. Goodspeed and Desert Race Support, Bob's Tire Service, Apple Valley Communi-cations, Reid Pro and Tom Matt-ingly who helped with the car prep. Perry King drove all the way with James Hook riding, ran three of the four laps in the same min-ute and put the J imco home third, eight minutes behind Petersen. It was King's fourth race ever and -his first finish, third in class only eight minutes back. He thanked Transaxle Engineering and Billy McCool for help in the race prep. Fourth in Class 9 in his Jimco, Brian Maginnis broke the exhaust pipe off the start, got fixed then lost the brakes. He lost all the brake fluid on lap 3, got fixed, then lost a tire on lap 4, in fact he finished on a flat inS:55:24. Brian Sallee, who was a minute behind in fifth had a great first lap, then clutch trouble on lap 2 had a flat and a rock through the oil cooler . on lap 3, and on lap 4 in the silt he ran into the Fab Tech truck blow-ing a shock and a ball joint. He got the Chenowth under the checker-ed flag anyhow. Other class fin-ishers in order were Michael Rix/Larry Adam, Gene Banti-lan/David Owens, Sandy Park-er IT om Moessner; Dave Berry only did 3 laps. There were no Class 4 rigs and but one Class 3, Mike Duncan's Jeep W rangier nee CJ. Mike had a good first and third lap, slow on the other two and pushed the eight hour time limit, finishing in 7:52:36. --------Eric Heiden and Chuck Johnson came to test the Jeep Cherokee for the Baja 1000, so La Rana created a class for the 4x4, 14. The only entry the Jeep easily covered the two laps, without getting the dash dirty. The half dozen in Class 15 had a good run, tightly bunched for the lap 1 lead, but Joseph and Dennis Bourassa turned two nearly identical laps in their Toyota to win by nearly two hours. Dusty Times A trio came out in Class 6, a pair of Don-A-Vee Jeep Grand Cherokees a_nd Paul Strong's refurbished AMC Pacer which unfortunately didn't make a lap. The Don-A-Vee team played musical chairs between their stone stock they were testing for the Baja 1000 and the real Class 6 rig. Darren Skilton led off in the Class 6, had first lap troubles and a flat tire, then nothing more, turning fast class lap on the second at 1: 14: 13 and won this class, entertaining guests from France, off road racer Georges Lansac and off road racing journ-alist Yvonnick Jabon. Scott and Mike McKinney led the first two laps, then slowed a tad on. lap 3. But they ~ - . Even though he rolled the truck while testing before the race, Bill Waltman was ready to contest Class 750 (4x4) running an easy pace early on, but others fell out and he finished first in class. 01' Joint Ji •••••••••••••••••••• RTN*1000 ptt'f-1')6~ J'11it1S 110 Dale Wilch S P.O. 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%> .. L~ «' ~ .~, Dennis Petersen and James Mobly led by seconds midway in the Class 9 fray, blew a shock on the last lap and finished a very close second in class. Dallas and Don Sterling ran second on the first lap in the Class 750 Toyota, but trouble on lap 3 put them down and out, but still second. Craig Van Sant and Robert Evans had two steady, close on time laps in their Toyota, got a good finish, second in Class 15, a stone stock group. The stone stock 4x4s of Class 152 were a trio and all three finished, led from start to finish of their two laps by the Toyota of Larry Gross and Roger Malcolm who had a smooth, trouble free race day. ~ still had a good lead in two minutes back. Bob Bauman class. Mike McKinney did the last retired his Nissan after a three lap and flipped the Jeep some-hour lap. David Eldridge and where, but it was mainly cosmetic Gordon Azuevedo were fourth in damage. They were only an hour a Toyota, and they didn't finish behind their mates. the fourth lap but stayed in fourth Class 725 had seven starters place. but A.J. Farris didn't do a lap, and On lap 3 Kreg Donahoe still Walt Shrader did one lap of 3½ had a good lead ofa half hour over hours. Up front Kreg Donahoe Cannon whose lap times were and David Winner led in a Toyota steady in the 1 :36 range. Becker with a 1:23:09 first lap. Dan lostoverhalfanhourtounknown Cannon was ten minutes back in troubles, but came back to turn his Ford, Mike Becker was an-his fastest lap on the last lap. other two minutes down in a Meanwhile Dan Cannon contin-T oyota, and that was the race. ued his steady pace of a pair of Midway second generation racer 1 :36 laps, a 1 :35 and a 1 :33 to fin-Donahoe led by 25 minutes over ish in 6:22:38 in the Lothringer Cannon, and Becker was :mother built Ford Ranger. He had no - ' THE WRIGHT PLACE~. DROPPED Larger Diameter Links J MBO ·--Larger Diameter Spindles --------"EXTREME" TRAIUNG ARMS Directly replaces other STRONGEST ARMS AVAILABLE manufacturers trailing arms Lager Diametel' 9420 FLINN SPRINGS LANE, EL CAJON, CA 92021 TEL: (619) 561-4810 FAX: (619) 561-7960 Page 44 Bob and John Beyer led the first lap at 1 :40:29, but it was their only lap. Kathy Fay also got in one lap, a long one in her Ford,so it would be an all Toyota show on the sec-ond and last lap. Joseph and Den-nis Bourassa ran second by about five minutes on lap 1, well ahead of Les Willis/ Art Becker and Craig Van Sant/Robert Evans, while George Perrett and Raul Flores were out of contention with a 3½ hour lap, but they did finish both laps. The only change on lap 2 was second place. Joseph Bourassa turned a 1:42 to win the class by well over an hour and a half. We didn't get any war story from this James Hall bested one.other entrant in Class 155 by a lap, and his stone stock early finishing team but they ob-2 WO truck would run m the full size class m SCORE compet1t1on. . viously didn't have any troubles flats,hisonlyproblemcamewhen 2:18 third lap, and the trouble finishing in 3:27:47. Craig Van the Super Trapp muffler/spark-must have been terminal, but Sant and Robert Evans did two arrester blew off and he was afraid their three laps were good for nearly identical laps in the 2:34 he might be tossed out because of second place. The winner was the range to move into second at no spark arrestor, but he did win steady running Toyota of Bill 5:08:04. Les Willis and Art but only by seven seconds. On the Waltman whose troubles started Becker lost over an hour on the last lap Donahoe/Winner had a Friday night when they rolled the second lap and took third at disaster when two leaf springs just truck in testing, but did only cos-5:25: 12. broke on their Toyota and it cost metic damage. They ran on used Class 152 was a trio ofToyotas them over 45 minutes to get back Good years because their tire with not much excitement. Larry on the road. Mike Becker and shipment went to the wrong state, Gross led lap 1 at 1 :36:42, backed Karlo Munzo were third in their but had no tire trouble. They that with a 1 :43: 14 and won the Toyota, the last 7S finisher. broke a drive shaft and got stuck class by over 20 minutes. He said Five were on the line in Class 7 in the silt, the usual stuff, but were the steering got loose with the 4x4 or 750. Often favorites Jay the only finisher at 7:05:47, the idler arm going away, but said and Donnie King retired after a all Toyota class winner. everything went smoothly other-3½ hour first lap, having lost the There was only one Class 11 in wise. Bill Quitmeyer/ Fred Espin-oil pump and then the engine at the entry, but Jereld Hendley, oza were second and lost a little the railroad crossing in a restrict-Kenneth Thompson and Jefery time on lap 2 fixing the rear end ed access area. They thank Bob Peterson dutifully did their two housing and getting gas. Their big Kerr for his help. Up front the laps in good time, 27:89 mph on troubles were with the tow vehic-race wasn't real close. Ralph the very rough course, finished on les. Michael Yarman and Randy Blundell/Randy Pettit led lap 1 a bent wheel but earned the win-Korop also covered two laps for with a 1:33:05, Dallas Sterling ner's honors. third place. was next at 1:39:Q4, followed by Eric Heiden led the team with Class 1550 had two starters and Dean Galloway with a 1:44:14 Chuck Johnson in the Class 14 no finishers. James Hall went the and Bill Waltman at 1:49:57. (full size, stone stock 4x4) Jeep fastestonthefirstlap, l:40:06for Midway Blundell had a husky lead Grand Cherokee. This was a def-the win while Fred Nelson did a of21 minutes on Galloway, who inite tune up for the Baja 1000. 2:23:32 for second. went no farther than two laps Each drove one of the two laps to The pair in Class 1575 were anyway. Dallas Sterling was next make suggestions on things that more colorful. David Edelstein here with Waltman trailing by might be needed for the 1000. was just 12 seconds behind John about nine minutes. Blundell and They did a 1 :38 and a 3: 16 and Barajas on lap 1. But on lap 2 Pettit had an over three hourthird maqe a lot of notes. Being the only Edelstein and Dennis Lightle got lap and were basically out of time entry in class, the Jeep was anoth-the tidy Ford Bronco sailing, did a to do anotherlap, it would have to er Don-A-Vee winner. 1 :30 lap and won the race at be a perfect lap and they didn't Class 15 is for stone stock mini 3:07:43. They thank all who con-finish but were third. trucks, and four T oyotas and two tributed to their race effort. John Dallas and Don Sterling had a Fords showed up to do battle. Barajas stopped for gas and a fresh David Edelstein drives this too-pretty-to-race Ford Bronco in full size stone stock Class 157 for 4x4s and he won by about 14 minutes in the two lap affair with Dennis Lightle co-driving. January 1994 rider in the Chevy and finished in 3:22:16. They had no problems at all, thought the course great and real fast. The lone Suzuki Quad of Cole Warren and Steven Dignman got in two good laps and collected their prizes in Class 25. Most of it was over in the day-light, and with various classes doing different amounts of laps it is difficult to tell how many fin-ished, but in ball park figures about SO percent. They all got their rewards at the awards Sun-day morning back at the Kerr McGee Center in Ridgecrest. It was a most enjoyable race week-end with nearly ideal weather to make everyone happy. Dusty Times

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..,. ... WRC RALLYE D'ITALIA Franco Cunico Wins For Ford At Sanrcmo Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Gianfranco Cunico and Stefano Evangelisti head for the finish as their countrymen applaud their first World Rally victory driving a flawless event in their Ford RS Cosworth. They won by over a minute and a half! Franco Cunico's win on home This was the first all asphalt ground at Sanremo was the stuff Sanremorallysince 1978andsaw that dreams are made of. Not only a mistake by Francois Delecour, did he uphold the honor of Ford, who had been well in the lead the company who had sacked him when he crashed, and a nightmar~ two years ago, after both the pieceofillluckwhenasplitwater works Fords retired on the first hose ended Miki Biasion 's day, but it also was the first time a Championship chances. Because non-works car had won a World .Ford managers did not include Rally since 1990. It was also a their importer's team in official memory for Pirelli to treasure, the pre-event nomination, they company who unexpectedly scored no points for the Manu-found themselves thrown out of facturers' series. Christine the championship when World Driano, simply by virtue of Champion Carlos Sainz chose at a finishing this event, after scoring late moment their rival suppliers; successes earlier in the season, they watched as the Spaniard becameLadies'WorldChampion. struggled in vain in the treacher-In the absence of Toyota, who ously wet conditions. The expect- won the Manufacturers' title in ed three way fight between Ford, A us tra lia, Ford wanted to Lancia and Subaru did not strengthen the chances of their happen, however. Both works team members Francois Delecour Fords retired on the same stage, and Miki Biasion to win the only Lancia and Subaru scored World Championship for Driv-Championship points, the latter ers. The rule this year limiting after Piero Liatti was delayed drivers to only ten of the 13 going off the road twice. rounds in the series had strange JOHN BUFFUM In Like A Lamb, Out Like A Lion A Biography By Tom Grimshaw A LIMITED EDITION BOOK PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED BY JOHN BUFFUM AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL RALLY DRIVER· Published by Tabby House Books, Florida In the U.S. $19.95 plus $4.00 shipping & handling In Canada: $24.95 plus $4.00 shipping & handling Mail to: LIBRA-LION P.O. Box2113 S. Burlington, VT 05407 Make checks payable to Ubra International Racing. Page 46 effects, not the least is that of the ten rounds held so far, Kankkun-e n and Delecour have only actually faced each other in rallies four times! The Frenchman has beaten the Finn twice (finishing second as opposed to fifth both in Monte Carlo on asphalt which Delecour favors and New Zealand when Kankkunen had transmis-sion problems). Kankkunen beat Delecour once, in Australia when Delecour had electronic troubles and where previous experience counts a lot, while both of them retired in Greece. Delecour's pre-event chances of the title were surprisingly good as Kankkunen could only score one more time before he dropped a score. For Biasion to have any chance to be Champion he had to finish at least sixth in Italy whatever happens on the last two rallies. Take nothing for granted. For the past two years, the driver leading the series after Australia did not become Champion! Would this be a chance for a first World Series win this year for Lancia? Sanremo 1992 may have been the last time the world's most successful rally team, Lancia, won at World level, but many felt that the 1992 winner Andrea Aghini could win again on home ground. Subaru were officially repre-sented by the Italian Alessandrini Rally team. On his fourth appearance for them Piero Liatti, the former European Champion drove a Legacy, privately run with technical help from Prodrive. It was curious to see their Japanese car complete with registration plates fom Modena, the city where the greatest Italian comp-etition cars come from. In Formula 2 GME had Bruno Thiry Picking up valuable points for GME in the Opel Astra GSi, Bruno Thiry and Stephane Prevot won Formula 2 honors handily at Sanremo and they also put the car home sixth overall besting many 4WDs. in the Opel Astra GSis, and was starting order of A and B drivers backed by the young Belgian could be jumbled at the discretion Freddy Loix. Skoda were present of the organizers. with cars which have little more On Etape 1 by the time the cars than half the power of the Astras, reached the Savona rest halt after while two Italian Peugeot 106 · the first five stages, Francois XSis were also expected to be Delecour was leading and pulling competitive. Christine Driano away. Both he and_ Miki Biasion had her Citroen, this time an AX reported their brakes had long GTiintendingtofinish, which she pedal travel. Alex Fiorio and did as World Champion. Carlos Sainz both found their In Group N series leader Alex suspension settings had initially Fasina, Mazda323 GTX faced the been too hard for the wet condi-current second running driver tions; Liatti had ventilation Antonio Coutinho, Ford, as well trouble in his Legacy which was as the Argentine Rally group misting up badly. winner Mohammed bin Sulayem, The rain and clouds were so Ford. The race for this title is low that drivers were often faced thinning out as many drivers no with thick fog. These conditions longer qualified for the series were instrumental in the retire-having failed to enter a rally mentofDelecouronstage7when outside Europe. he overturned down a hillside and There were special occasions at eventually joined another road, Sanremo.ltwasthe250thrallyin but too late to continue. His the 21 year history of the World co-driver Daniel Grataloup said Championship. Of the 20 differ- later, "We were trying too hard in ent countries which have hosted the fog ... " Until then he had been World Series events, Italy is one fastest driver on every stage. At of only six which have been the same time Biasion reached the included in the series every year. end of the same stage with a burst Also the rally represented the water hose and a terminally premature end of the famous old damaged engine. Also missing on FISA seeding system for drivers. that stage was Aghini, his Lancia Previously drivers were ordered having slid into a wall. Liatti was to start within specific groups: A delayed by a puncture and seeded driver earned the position suspension trouble. The ART through acquired results or team were upset. "Aghini watch-nomination by their local edLiattigoofftheroadandwreck federation, and then the others. his suspension at the same place as Starting from Sanremo the hehadcrashedanddidnothing. As '· 1992 World Champions Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya slid Angelo Medeghini and Paolo Cecchini drove the Peugeot through the wet roads to second place in the Lancia HF 106 XSi in Formula 2 competition and took second; they lntegrale, the final Delta built by Lancia's Abarth division. also finished a fine ninth overall. ,.._ . "" Emil Triner and Jiri Klima drove the Skoda Favorit into fourth in Formula 2, 12th overall, the points boosting Skoda into second in the division points chase. January 1994 '" Mohammed Bin Sulayem and Ronan Morgan run the keen looking Ford Escort RS Cosworth in Groun N anrf the United Arab Emirates driver was 18th overall. ---------- -- - - -- --.. -~ --DustyTimcs

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Sliding through the rain in the Citroen AX GT/, Christine Driano and Marie-Christine Lallement finished the rally, 27th, and are now the FIA Ladies Cup Piero Liatti and Alessandro Alles-sandrini earned some points for Sub-aru as they sailed through the narrow streets to fifth overall in the Legacy. They were 11th overall, third in Group N, but Alex Fassina and Luigi Pirollo Champions for 1993. drove through troubles in the Mazda 323 GTX to earn enough points to nail -Cunico's only problem today down the Group N FIA Cup Championship. was that the water temperature soon as Sainz came he furiously finished the day 11th. Two stages rose to some 130 degrees for waved his teammate down." out Renato Travaglia became the several stages (he had driven one After this stage only two drivers, new Group N leader with a Ford stage without a fan). The oil SainzandLiatti,whowereorigin-Escort. pressure fluctuated but the ally nominated for Makes' Patchy damp conditions damage did not seem to be Championship points were still characterized Etape 2 of the worsening. With Cunico seem-running. Cerrato was also out, his Sanremo Rally, bringing in turn ingl y unbeatable, the question car which earlier had power more challenging conditions for was when did a private team last steering failure, then had electric- the tire choices. Notwithstanding win a World Championship al trouble and came to a complete the absence of their two works Rally? and final stop. drivers, Ford continued to lead Group N continued to be led by Tires were a major factor. On the event in both Groups A and Travaglia ahead of Dallavilla. the final stage of the evening in N. Cunico still led overall holding Third was Fassina after a fou:-conditions that were drying out, off the efforts of second placed minute flat tire on the day's first Cunico ( on Pirellis) gained a Sainz. There was fog on most stage. In Formula 2 Thiry led major advantage by choosing dry stages, especially so on stage 17, Medeghini by over ten minutes. weather tires whereas Sainz but the only major retirement MostintheMikeLittlegroup,bin (Michelin) chose intermediates. came when Fiorio abandoned Sulayem included were ill with This is the first time Pirelli had after this stage with a suspected food poisoning. 1992 group N headed a World Championship main engine bearing failure. winner Giovanni Manfrinato Rally this year. It had been a Patrick Snyers lost any hope of overturned and retired. remarkable day in which half the keeping the leaders in sight when a On Etape 3 Cunico cruised to top ten cars retired and there were brake pipe broke and he had to victory as Sainz concentrated on three different leaders. The route drive 20km downhill with only finishing second. The greatest was taking a remarkable toll on his handbrake to slow his Escort excitement was the effort of Liatti the 120 starters. Cunico led his down although he had moved to regain lost ground, the Subaru country's round of the World ahead of Fiorio. The most driver eventually finishing fifth Rally Championship at the end of determined driver was Liatti who overall. He took more than two the first day, despite going off the started in seventh place, lost nine minutes off Thiry to pass him on road on stage 1 and damaging his minutes off the road, then the final stage, which was the front suspension. Christine another three minutes' penalty at longest of the event. Coutinho Driano was going well too. a control, but ended the day in fought for fourth place in Group Bruno Thiry led Formula 2 all sixth place! Czech Champion N after losing eight minutes the day. From the start he was ahead Ladislav Krecek retired his Group previous day driving on a flat tire of the two Peugeot 106 cars of A Lancia after endless electrical he could not change, and this Carlo Andreucci and Angelo trouble, and the disgrace of being made his second place in the series Medeghini. The former went off headed by the two Formula 2 more secure. Gilberto Pianezzola the road on stage 3, but the latter Skodas of his former teammates. tried hard to catch Snyers and held second place in front of Loix. Sainz just could not do any better. take third overall, but had to Thiry had one lucky moment "lcannottellifitisatireproblem ·settle for fourth, which meant when his electrics failed at a or if the Lancia is now just too that Piero Longhi, who had gone service point, so no time was lost. old.'.' off the road on the first day and A surprise early Group N leader _________ 3_5_t_h_R_a_l_ly--S-a-n-re_m_o;__.....;._;_.....;._.....;......;.-'---was 23 year old Andrea Dallavilla Gianfranco Cunico/Stefano Evangelisti I Ford Escort RS Cosworth A· 6 :19:40 from Brescia whose Escort is Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya E . Lancia HF lntegrale A s :21 :18 prepared by people from the Patrick Snyers/Dany Colebunders B Ford Escort RS Cosworth A 6 :30:08 Scuderia Italia Formula 1 team. Gilberto Pianezzola/Loris Roggia I Lancia HF lntegrale A 6 :38:03 But he fell back when penalized Piero Liattl/Alessandro Alessandrini I Subaru Legacy 4WD Turbo A 6 :44 :4 7 f 7 l d Bruno Thiry/Stephane Prevot B Opel Astra GSi A • • 6 :46 :2 7 a ter stage was neutra ize Renato Travaglia/Alessandro Mari I Ford Escort RS Cosworth N • 6 :58:21 because he was stopped from Andrea Dallavilla/Danllo Fappani I Ford Escort RS Cosworth N 6:58:31 doing the stage, (the organizers Angelo Medeghini/Paolo Cecchini I Peugeot 106 XSi A 6:58:38 stopped the action because they Freddy Loix/Johnny Vranken B Opel Astra GSi A 7:04 :55 did not know where Delecour had Enrica Munaretto/A. Tarantino (22nd) I Ford Escort RS Cosworth N# 7:42 :oo crashed);hehadtoacceptamuch Christine Driano/ Marie c. Lallement F Citroen AX GTI (26th) A 7:51:59 slower time equal to Bin Suylay-em's. His rival Fassina running earlier gained a lucky advantage having been given his real stage time. Dallavilla, on his first World Championship Rally, ~-❖-:,).\. --~ _ . • ,nnl 120 starters - 57 finishers - ·Group Winner •· F2 winner - # Ladies winner World Championship Points - Toyota 151, Ford 125, "Subaru 100, Lancia 84 WAC Drivers Points • Kankkunen 111, Delecour 82, Auriol 71, Biasion 66, McRae & Sainz 50, Vantanen 30, Eriksson & Makinen 26, Alen 25 etc. Group N Points-Fassina 43, Coutinho 28, Bin Sulayem 15, Fujimoto, Shamji, Ordynski 13 FIA Manufacturers Cup (Formula 2) GME 56, Skoda 42, Peugeot 30, Citroen 26, Lada 23. FIA Ladies Cup Points - Christine Driano 15, now Ladies Champion Driving a French car, Citroen, French lady Christine Driano went all over the world in search of her champ-ionship, which she did win at Sanremo. These Italian ladies won the Ladies Cup in the rally and Enrica Munaretto, right, and Annalisa Tarantino drove a Ford Escort RS Cosworth to the win. . Dustynma January 1994 then got stuck trying to regain the road, became national Italian Champion. First time World Rally winner Cunico said, "All my mistakes of the past 15 years in rally sport have helped me win today. Let's hope this will be the start of a new chapter in my career! To win you need three things, a good car, the right tires and good luck. I had them all." Everyone could see he was right about luck. His car looked sick at the finish. When it was driven to the arrival podium there were tell-tale clouds of blue smoke from the exhaust. But he and Stefano Evangelisti were 1 :38 minutes ahead of World Champ-ion Carlos Sainz. This event should have been a heaven-sent opportunity for Ford's team drivers to close the points gap in the absence of Drivers' points leader Juha Kankkunen, but they both retired. Now the Catalunya Rally in Spain will be vital to championship contenders. a lfyou~e got license to fly ••• We~e got approved landing gear! TOM EE• S I 2350 Edison Way • Garden Grove, CA 92641 8 00/'321-4456 . Page 47·

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r I The VORRA All Pro Auto Parts Championship The number 1 racer in Class 9 for 1993 was Forest Creasy, leading here. At the final event Forest wobbled his way to the middle of the Sportsman pack, finishing sixth for the day. waiting for the Green Flag. The final Racing Event on the VORRA Calendar for 1993 was the VORRA All Pro Auto Parts Championship race, held over the weekend of October 16 and 17 at the Prairie City SVRA Park in Sacramento CA. The races con-sisted of 2-10 lap Matos for each of the 8 classes, plus the famed Mechanics and Ladies races. This event was the Overall Points de-terminer. On the Saturday the teams were able to practice, tech their cars early and enjoy the Bar-B-Que hosted by the All Pro Auto Parts folks. Racing didn't get under way until Sunday. Sportsman Novice was the first class to take the green flag. 16 racers made the dash down the hill. Pole sitter for the first Mato was Hooter Meyer out of Car-michael, CA in the Hatch Heating and Air Conditioning sponsored Baja Bug. Hooter fought his way down the hill beside Mike Ander-son, but Mike fell back in the standings finishing ninth on Mato #1 and fifteenth for the second. Hooter on the other hand had a great run, holding on to first from green to checker for the first Mato. With the inverted start on the second Mota Hooter had to fish his way through the pack the #5 spot was as far as he got by the checker flag, passing 11 cars. Hooter finished the day in the second place spot. he then landed in the third place position in the second Mota. Gary took the win for the day away from Hooter Meyer by just one point. The team of Teri and Erik Schroth running out of Wood Acre, CA started eighth in the first Mato and finished fifth. On the second Moto the team moved into the second spot and stayed there. They then picked up third place for the event. Michael Daws took the win in the Pro.Pilot Class at the championship event as well as snagging the win in Season Points, putting on a fabulous show in his #10 Pilot. Race Day started Bright and Early. At 8 a.m. Tech and Regis-tration opened as did the 1 ½ mile course. Many racers took advant-age of the practice time. At 10 a.m. tech closed, so did the track. By 10:30 the 75 competitors were ready, the drivers meeting came and went. Off to the races, 11 a.m. the first class was lined up and The big winner in the Novice class was Garry Pinherio. Garry placed second in the first Mato, -.raying right on Hooters bumper; Second Moto action Garry Pinherio and Hooter Meyer Battle for the #1 position, Garry with the Jack-O-Lantern topped two seater ran great all day, and took the win in The Sportsman Novice Class. In the Novice points race for 1993 the #1 spot was really no surprise. Hooter Meyer took the win handily with 4 77 total points. Second place was filled by the #46 Chenowth Mini Mag of Jerry Wald from Concord, CA with 441 points. Jerry's day in Sacra-mento wasn't the best, placing sixth, but the points were all he needed to hold his position. The third spot was filled by Matt Oliphant and company out of Sacramento, CA with 404 total points. Matt placed a respectable . fourth at this final event even with losing a few parts along the way. In the Desert the Pro and Novice Pilots run together but in Sacramento they were separated. So they could strut their stuff. Ten Pro Pilots started and what a show they put on. These racers may have small vehicles but they definitely don't lack in competi-tiveness or speed. Pole Sitter for the first Mota Mike Vandeburgh landed in fourth for the day after taking third in the first Mota; having a little trouble keeping all four wheels on the ground, Mike took fifth in the second Moto. The Haas Brothers took the 1993 Points win in the Sportsman Vet. Class; the Mini Mag foregound made it's final run in the Sportsman Class at the Championship event. Floyd placed second for the day. The # 1 racer in class was Michael Daws. Michael started second being on the first row next to Vandeburgh but jumped into the first spot and stayed there. On the second Moto Michael started _dead last; it didn't take long for him to move up. By the checkered flag, Michael had slipped into second. Gilbert Toste jockeyed with Scott Stewart for the second position all day. Gilbert picked up second in the first Moto, and third in the second. Scott Stewart ran a great race and took his Pilot into the fifth place spot in the first Mota and first in the second. Second place for the day in the Pro Pilots class went to Gilbert. Scott came close but not quite close enough, missing second by one point, filling the third spot. The points race in the Pro Pilot class was a heated battle, Michael Daws and Mike Vandeburgh have fought all season for the #1 spot. The racer who took it was Michael Daws with a total of 373 points. Mike Vandeburgh settled into second place with -325 points. In third place was Rob Slagle with 301 points. Rob finished eighth at this Event. In the Pilot Novice Class 7 racers took the green flag. In the first Moto, the Pole starter was Andi Wald, with Dion Reif holding the #2 spot at the green Jerry Wald may not have had a high placed finish in Sacramento but the points were all he needed to hold on, finishing in the second position for 1993 in the Sportsman Novice Class. Brian Holloway came into the final race for '93 in the third place position in Sportsman Vet. Points. Brian moved up quickly picking up first in Sacramento, he would also move up in the points finishing the season in second. Paul Taylor took the pole in the first Moto, but for the day, Paul's place was tenth. In the race for Points in Class 9 Paul did much better ending the season with second in Class. Page 48 January 1994 DustyTimes

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Tim Riordan may have started at the back of the pack on the first Moto, but he quickly moved up, tip toeing into the second place position.for the day in Class 1-2-1600. Ken Ruff's pole position start sent him into the lead quickly on the first Moto. On the second Ken ran tough until the final lap when problems set him back to the sixth spot for the day. Jim Cope's pole start on the first Moto would be lost, dropping into the second place spot in Class 4, as German is about to pass. Jim did manage to finish the day in the second spot as well. flag, Dion would end the day in the fourth position. Andi had a handle on the race but a visit to a ditch set him back, falling to third. On the Second Mato Andi placed fifth. That was also the position he held for the day. First place for the Event went to Steve Bray. Steve placed second in the first Mato. In the second Mato Steve moved through the pack and took the # 1 position. The second place spot for the day in Pilot Novice was filled by John Haas in #99. John was another racer who thought 2 wheels were better than 4. John took first place in Mota #1 and second in Mato #2. The third position was filled by another Haas, Keith Haas ran hard, maybe too hard, rolling his Pilot on the back side. Keith did hold on to finish fifth in the first Mota. In the second Keith did much better landing his Pilot in third at the checker flag. In the season points race for 1993 in Pilot Novice, Keith Haas in the F&S Drywall racer took the win by only a 4 point margin, finishing the season with 239 points. Andi Wald came in second with 234 points. The #3 spot in points was filled by Eric Bamberg, who only ran one event ending with 56 points. The Smith and Whitnack team has had a great 1993, picking up the Overall Season Points win in Cl;Jss 1-2-1600. Sid shown here, to the rear, dicing it out with third place finisher Arden Dennington in the #1661 race car. The team placed first at this final event. Raymond Fisher has had a high flyin year taking the Overall Season Points in In the Sportsman Veteran Class Class 4. At the final event Raymond coasted into the #3 spot in the Cylinder we had 10 cars start two of which Head Exchange sponsored Honcho. were _Class 9 competitor~: The _H_a_a_s_1_· n- t--=he'-F-&...:.._S_D_r_y_w_a_l_l_M_ i_n_i - H- o--ll_o_w_a_y_ f_i n- is_h_e_d_ t_h_e--se_a_s_o_n pole sitter was Paul Taylor m the~ Mag placed first in .Mato #1 but with 465 points. Troy and Ryan All Pro Auto Parts Class 9, Paul would drop to third in the second. finished only six points back for started 1:1-ext to the #81 race car of Floyd ended the day in second second with 459. The team took Allen Biggs. Allen placed seventh place. Randy Miller out of Davis, fifth at the final event, Troy and for the day after picking up fifth in CA ran into third in the first Ryan also ran their Cargo Net the first Mato and ninth in the Mato and fourth in the second. sponsored single seater in the second. Paul finished tenth in Randy finished the day in the #3 Class 2 races, they finished both Moto's, and for the day. position. The points race in seventh in those races. First p I ace went to Brian Sportsman Vet. was won before Class 9 points were determined Holloway out of Sacramento, this Event, the Haas Brothers at this race with only 2 competi-CA. Brian started ninth off the from Lodi, CA took the win with tors making the trip to Sacra-line but moved up into second ease finishing out 1993 and their mento. Points leader Forest place quick! y. On the second Sportsman Career with 559 total Creasy out of Pollock Pines had a Mato Brian_ started back of the points. Brian Holloway's win at wobbly day finishing in the sixth pack again. Running a repeat this event moved him up in the position,hewasabletoholdonto performance, this time moving points to second. Brian bumped his points lead ending the 1993 one place higher, finishing first the team of Troy Robinson and season with 364 points. Second in for the Mato and the Day. Floyd Ryan O'Callaghan down to third. Class 9 went to Paul Taylor in Don and Chris German ran away with the race in Class 4, running in their single seat Heavy Metal Jeep. The German team picked up second in the Season Points race in class. Turek Zdenek is no stranger to the winners circle, and this day Turek would take the win in both Moto's. He was only one of 4 Class 10's that would make the field at this final race. from Folsom, CA. Paul finished to tenth place by the finish, his the season with 307 points. Third place for the day was sixth. Sid place was filled by the Milner & Smith out of Yuba City, CA ran Mclean team with 203 points. away with this event starting tenth Class 1-2-1600 drew the big- in the first Mato and finishing gest entry atthis years Champion-second. Sid would then fight his ship race with 14 racers taking the •way to the~ green flag. Ken Ruff out of Oro-ville, CA started on the pole for Mato # 1. Second on the grid was held by Shant Balch, Shane finished seventh for the Event, after placing seventh in the first and fifth at the checker flag in the second Mato. Ken would hold the #1 position from Flag to Flag. In the second Mato he started at the back of the pack. Ken had his work cut out for him, maying up . Simplythe Best! Fuel Safe's Pro Cell Racing Bladders are designed to meet or exceed the highest performance 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! At your local dealer now! Aircraft Rubber Manufacturing. Inc. Ace Bradford came into the final race of '93 with a substantial lead in the One of the Elrod cars made the show in Sacramento. The #111 of Jeff Elrod points for Class 10. With the second and third place teams not making the made it look easy, performing a 1-2 punch in the Motos for Class 2. Jeff placed 18062 Redondo Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 842-2211 (800) 433-6524 (Outside CA) SAFETY ... It's what we're all about. field at this final event, Ace won the points race handily. in the #1 spot for the day. ----------------------------DustyTirncs January 1994 Page 49

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Mike Gust held the final slot in the 4 car race in Class 10. Mike moved into second with ease and that is where he stayed picking up the position through both Matos as well as for the day. Taking the high line, must have helped Jason Paul. Jason gave Jeff Elrod a run for his money in the Class 2 races, after finishing fourth in the first Moto, then came back to place first in the second. In the Pilot Mechanics race the winner was the wild painted Pilot of Lee Hopkins driven by Jeff Wilson. Jeff kept it on the ground and in the first place spot. ~ · front of the pack again to take the# 1 spot on Mato #2, as well as for the day. Tim Riordan was another racer who ran most of the way on 2 wheels, he had a great race just the same. Tim came from dead last in Mato # 1, to place third. On the second try Tim finished second, clinching the #2 position for the day. Arden Dennington hooked it up to place third for the day after placing sixth in the first Mota, and third on the second. The points race in 1600 has been close all year, points leader's Sid Smith and Kip Whitnach came into this event only 19 points ahead of second place. Sid and Kip held on to their position finishing the season with 499 points. Second went to Ken Ruff. Ken finished the 1993 year with 449 points. In the #3 posi-tion it was the battle of the Larry's, Larry Zimmerman and Larry Folsom. Coming into Prairie City Zimmerman held • third place · by only 16 points. After the day was through Larry Folsom would take third, bump-ing Zimmerman. Folsom finished the year with 416 points. Folsom placed fourth at this Event. Larry Zimmerman had one hard day in Sacramento placing thirteenth, 'Larry dropped into the fifth position for 1993 with 391 points. Class 4 came in with 5 Heavy Metals. Usually an excitin~ class, this year's championship run for tl:ie Heavy Metals was rather boring. The pole position on the first Mato was held by Jim Cope, with John Herman out of Reno, NV set on the outside of the front row. Big John didn't have quite as good a day as he would have like'd, John finished fifth in both Matos. Cope placed second in the first and second Matos, clinching the #2 spot for the day. The win in the Heavy Metal class went to Don & Chris German. Don and Chris made quick work of taking the # 1 spot in both the first and second Matos. Third place was filled by Raymond Fisher in his C H E Honcho. Raymond started at the back of the pack on the first, but Everett Paul took quite a turn ending up on his lid after being pushed just a bit by Sam Berri and Rick Hoeksty. #111 Jeff Elrod avoided the trouble. One question I have is "Everett, why do you have your car# on the bottom of the car?" Sam Berri was primed all day, starting on the pole for the first Moto in Class 2. Sam landed in the #3 spot at this event. For the year the Hyland's team snagged the win with ease. nad no trouple moving up, plac-ing third on both Matos. The points race in class was a great one. Raymond Fisher took the season win in Class 4 with 412 points. Don and Chris German finished in the second place spot with 390 points. John Herman grabbed the #3 position with 277 points. Class 10 drew only four comp-etitors to this final event. Dana Van Noort took the pole for the first Mato with Class 10 points leader Ace Bradford out of Sea-side, CA starting in the second spot on the front row. Ace's day was hard, finishing fourth. Ace ran the first Mato and finished third. Steve wasn't able to make it to this event, so Ace asked friend Chris Oberg to fill the seat for the second Mota; Chris placed fourth. Dana Van Noort dropped back from first to fourth in the first, after rolling his buggy right in front of the spectator area. In the Second Mato Dana played catch up finishing in third for the Mota and the day. First place was filled by the single seat race car of Turek Zdenek. Turek placed first in both Matos, taking the fast line to the #1 spot. Second went to Mike Gust out of Diamond Springs, CA. Mike started last but it wasn't long till he was in the second place spot. Mike finished second in the next Mato, as well as for the day. In the points race only one of the top three runners made it to this event. Ace Brad-ford took the #1 spot handily ending 1993 with 332 points. Second place went to Randy Leplante finishing with 206 total points. Third was filled by Dale Smith.ending the season with 202 points, only 4 points back from second. -Class 2 was the final class off the line. These unlimited compet-itors have had a really slow year. This event drew one of the largest fields of the season with 9 cars taking the green flag. For Mato# 1 'the pole sitter was points leader Sam Berri running out of Arnold, CA. Sam placed second in the first Mato. In the second, Sam Lisa Smith had a fight on her hands coming into the ladies race but that didn't stop her. Lisa came around the back side of the track on the last laps, passing Becky Hall for the win. was caught up in a collision with.· ing with 400 points. Second place Everett Paul from Grass Valley, was filled by Everett Paul ending CA and Rick Hoekstry who trav-the season with 358 points. eled all the way from Canada to Everett had a rather painful day, run at Sacramento. Sam was able finishing ninth at this final event. to get untangled and back into the Third place went to Clayton race, finishing fourth. Sam's Scudder, with 322 total points. finish for the day was third. First The Scudder's Performance team place went to Jeff Elrod. Jeff had steering problems at Sac-~rformed great as usual, picking ramento. up the win without incident plac-The 1993 Racing series came to ing first in the first Mato and a close with some .of the most second in the second. Jason Paul unusual races of the day. The dash another racer out of Grass Valley, for cash, three mechanics races, CA finished fourth in the first and the Ladies race. Mato and first in the second, In the Dash for Cash Sam Berri taking the high line into the #2 took the over $600.00 pot with spot for the event. In the points ease. The first Mechanics race was race for 1993 Sam Berri had the taken by Don Rigsby. Second Championship in the bag, finish-went to Frank Marcial. Third was ~-. "1-l"" Pat Verling ran into just a little bit of trouble in the second MechanLcs race. Pat did keep it together, and was able to run most of the race on all four wheels, to take the win. Don Rigsby ran away with the first Mechanics race. Don ran in the 1600 buggy of Sid Smith and Kip Whitnack. Don had a great run moving into the first position and staying there. filled by Chuck Allen. The Mechanics race for the Pilots was next. Jeff Wilson took the #1 spot. Second place was filled by Joel Macias. Dave Caseis landed in third place. The Second Mech-anics race for the cars would run next. Pat Verling took the first spot after a near roll. Second place went to Peter Marks. Jeff Euchus placed third. The Final race for 1993 was the Ladies race. As always VORRA saved the best for last. The winner this day was Lisa Smith racing in the #14 race car and boy did she have to fight for this win, Becky Hall had the lead for most of the race but couldn't hold back Lisa. Becky tried hard running in #1652, but #2 would have to do. Third prace went to Patti Zimmerman running in Larry's 1600 single seat buggy. Larry stood with the other men watching as their race vehicles went around the course with out them, some of them stood quietly while others took to yelling cheering and hiding their eyes, all of the lady and gentlemen racers at this years championship race put on a great show and deserve to be congratulated for making it through another race season. The final time these racers will get together will be at the Awards Banquet in Reno Nevada in November. I will be there with camera and recorder ready to catch all the fun. Page 50 January 1994 DustyTimes

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•••••• ~mm;i:-.-.-.-.-.--. ■ The Straight Poop From The BigWahzoo CALIFORNIA 200 -This Ridgecrest La Rana race drew 9 Checker entries, with 5 crossing the finish line. Our biggest winners were the Harman Broth-ers, who put their new Class 10 car into the winner's circle on only it's second outing. Despite a few minor problems, our heroes not only took the class win, but also earned a fine 2nd overall. Congratulations go out to both Mike and Robert Harman, First Place Class 10! Our other winner was Danny Reider, ex-Checker, now pros-pective, in Master Bates old 5 car. Earlier in the year Reider swap-ped race cars with Bates, with Gary getting Danny's tandem 1-2-1600 car in return. In the two races since, Reider has quickly picked up a first place, while Bates & Son have not been able to complete a lap?? Congratulations to Danny Reider, 1st Place in Class 5! The main thing that keeps the Dillons from winning these La Rana races on a regular basis is usually their own fellow Check-ers. If Koch or Keeling are not swapping the lead with them every lap, then the Harmans seem to be. This has made for some great Club racing, with the Dil-lons winning their share. Caught on the short end of this particular battle, Greg did bring the Dillon's Class 10 car home for a second place finish and fast lap for the class. Besides the Harmans, Koch kept Dillon honest with a 4th place finish, despite hitting a 'boulder' the size of a Volkswagon in route. Butow and McCool earned a 5th in 1-2-1600 despite playing bumper cars with Minor's Olds Cutlass throughout the race. More on this incident in a sec. Our Club losers had some sad stories: Jim Tucker, another Checker retread, blew the motor in his 10 car on the first lap; BJ Bates blew the motor in dad's new tandem 1-2-1600 car on the first lap; Duenas went out on the first lap after being smacked from the rear; And then there was Fred Nelson, a state-of-intent sponsor-ed by Bates. 01' Fred finally drove his stock truck completely to ground, eventually catching it afire ... which then spread to the surrounding area! Hey Gary, this guy may have some real Checker potential. The action at the finish line was way up at this race as prospective member McCool sent out a radio 'mayday' on the last lap for some Checker support to gather at the finish line. Seems he had exper-ienced some severe and apparent-ly intended ramming from Min-or's big VS Olds and wanted to have a little talk with its driver. As this confrontation progressed, Butow was right in the middle of it showcasing his negotiating skills, not only as our leader, but as the car owner and also a fellow ram-ee. Harsh words were ex-changed. The Prez was yelling. Bates was standing by. Things were tense! Finally, cooler heads prevailed, the promoter arrived, and the Club's gripe about the incident was properly addressed. FLORES UPDATE - I've al-Dustynmes ways felt my primary responsibil-ity is to inform my Checker buds about anything that might affect them, such as, say an unprovoked attack on one of our members by an entire Racing Team. Some-1 thing like that would seem to at least call for some kind of a basic warning here. But, after negotiat-ing a truce with Karlinda Flores over the phone, our Prez issued an official order to all Checkers that "It's over! Nobody's to talk about it, do anything about it, or write anything about it!" Now I under-stand that Butow's motive in this decree was to try to prevent any injuries should this hassle con-tinue. But hey Russ, that's CENSORSHIP! FACT: The 'Straight Poop' will not be censored by anything other than a vote of the membership! Not the Dusty Times, not the Prez, and definitely not Karlinda! Whenever anything like that starts happening ... I'm outta here! So, for all my Checker Buds that haven't heard, here's the straight poop about the "Ambush on 395". If ya remember, the Flores' mooched a bunch of repairs from one of our Checker pits down at the last Baja 500 Race, and then, surprisingly, Karlinda wrote the Club a very nasty letter about Files/Bates/Bennet leaving them to "Die out in the desert". Of course this Wahzoo detailed that incident and rightfully exposed the Flores' as the whiners they are. Kassanyi then shed more light on Karlinda's character as he told a detailed story of her trying to sue the pants off Mickey Thompson back at one of his first Coliseum races, after she foolishly rolled her race truck over on press day. Hence, this following story about the ambush of Bates and his spouse while towing their race car home from Ridgecrest, should stand as just one additional warn-ing to all Checkers to keep a wary eye out for these Bozos. They def-initely appear to be irrational, as evidenced by the following: In truly one of the stupidest moves since Saddem Hussein took on Uncle Sam, Karlinda ac-tually attacked Bates! She had her husband Raul pull their truck out into the oncoming traffic on Hwy 395, and right up next to Gary's drivers window, just so she could screech out as many obscenities as possible at Bates and the Checkers in general, before having Raul cut him off... OOPS! Now at this point I'm sure most members would have to agree that these two characters are either extremely fearless, or completely nuts, right? What happened next was a scene right out of one of those 'Road Warrior' movies. But, as our hero was reacting to this sneak attack, he failed to notice the two other Flores chase vehicles hanging back a little from the action. Hmm? Well, when Bates finally chased the Flores' down, a couple of the larger members of their chase crew suddenly appeared from the rear to obviously help Karlinda straigthen out this fool-ish Checker ... NOT! I mean come on, how stupid could somebody possibly be to choose off the Club Growler, knowing full well that none of his fellow Checkers are around to 'pull HIM off of ya? Sporting his best "I'm gonna rip your face off" scowl, along with an axe handle, Bates quickly con-vinced everybody prancing around that their safest spot was back in their own vehicles! After a bunch of turmoil at the post-race meeting, our Prez took this incident seriously enough to call Karlinda and negotiate a truce to what he perceived as a danger-ously escalating battle. The only problem was that Butow appar-ently was deceived by her lies about Bates actually being the one who started it, And therefore, he now judged the battles as about even and declared the whole thing as OVER! And, in the interest of truly putting it to bed, Russ also declared that the Wahzoo was prohibited from reporting any-thing more on this incident. And that brings us right back again to that very on-Checker-like word.,, CENSORSHIP. Well, No Way! That might work on some union wahzoo? But not on this Checker Wahzoo! When something hap-pens that may affect my Brother Checkers I'm gonna write about it here! And, if that ruffles your feathers Prez, then I suggest you call for a vote on the W ahzoo! I should be using our limited space here to retell the funny stories and highlight the racing heroics of the Checkers, instead of defendir.g our member's right to read the truth. Shame, Shame on you! BAJA 1000 -This year's race was, as usual, unique, As a 780 mile semi loop race, the loop sec-tion of the course became really chewed up, yet other sections remained very fast. So fast in fact, the cars were able to beat out the bikes for the overall spot for the first time in many years, Condi-tions were further clouded by the arrival of an unusual rain storm, which dumped a lot of water on some areas of the course during the night. Six Checker Pits, cap-tained by Anderson, The Harm-ans, Reverend Roy, Big John, Crowley and Lane, had all the key positions covered to support our 9 Checker entries throughout this long event. Seeley led the Club this race with a fine 2nd Place in Class 5. But more importantly, George slipped up in this last race to grab the CLASS 5 POINTS CHAMP-IONSHIP in the year long -SCORE series, Good show George, 'bout time! Stuart Chase had a good run in his Porsche buggy, running up with the lead-ers all race long to a very respect-ab le 5th Place at the finish. Frenchie & Russ Welch, in-our lone Class 10 entry, suffered some shock problems, but pres-sed on for a 6th in this competi-tive class. Koch had power steer-ing problems, a lost co-driver, and lost a torsion bar but still brought his open car home in the 7th pos-ition. Congratulatons to all our finishers, of this long tough race! Five of our cars disappeared during the long day and even longer night. First out was Rich-ard Young's open car, with his non-Checker co-driver at the wheel. Seems he only got about 28 miles before losing the clutch. Holladay had trouble even earlier, but got his engine repaired and eventually turned his Class 2 car over to Robertson, only to see Billy lose the engine for good on the second loop. Kevin Davis' new two seat 1600 buggy was running smoothly ~long about 3rd on the second loop when Hibbard got lost out on El Diablo dry lake. Reportedly our ol' path-finder drove around in the dark and the mud for over a half an hour with a dozen other fools be-January 1994 fore finally finding the road off. Hey Jeff, I understand now why ya don't like a passenger, especially female ... they tell on ya, don't they! Things went down hill from there, when Kevin broke a torsion bar shortly after he got back in the car, and then parked it a few hours later. Rosenstein and the Cooks ran entirely different kinds of races, yet both teams had the same iden-tical results. Peter lost an engine early in the day for a DNF. While the Cooks got deep into the night before blowin' a tranny. They_ were finally able to change it with flashlights and continue on, chas-ing check point closing times. But then, after breaking a stub axle, they ran out of time for a DNF. The other thing they had in common was that both teams wrapped up their respective points championships at this race. The Cooks 5-1600 points race ended up so close that SCORE had to go to the first tie breaker for a decision; 'Winner of the most races.' Congratulations to Alan, Daryl and Wayne Cook, '93 SCORE POINTS CHAMP-IONS in Class 5-1600. And also to Peter Rosenstein, POINTS CHAMPION in Class 11. And also once again to Seeley, POINTS CHAMP CLASS 5. The Checkers ended up with 3 win-ners at this race afterall. Way to go guys! AND FINALLY, Here's wishin' a Merry W ahzoo Christmas to all, including you Rosenstein, and I expect ta see a:ll my Checker Buds, along with their goofy friends, at our annual Awards Banquet on January 29th in Azusa! 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PRESS ON REGARDLESS NATIONAL PRO RALLY Carl Merrill Wins Again By John Elkin . Photos: Rick On-wine/Tom Buckhoe Doug Shepherd and Pete Gladysz were home in Michigan for the POR, got close to the winning time, but the Eagle Talon Rally was second at the final M TG. Carl Merrill and Jpn Wickens continued on their winning ways in the Ford Cosworth Escort RS, taking their second consecutive overall victory by a whopping three minutes, three seconds at the POR. Press On Regardless! It is more first is "The Dee", whfch is short time we would consider it a break. than a mere rally, it is a state of forDeeStadium,thelocalhockey Thursday night would see mind, a concept, a way of life ( for stadium and ice skating place. It is teams filter onto the ice skating a weekend anyway). It is; the here that registration and scrutfo.-rink ( which was dry) for registra-longest continual running rally in eering take place, along with tion and scrutineering and a North America. This is the 46th scoring and press facilities. The welcome party. Friday cars would running of the POR as it is known . next place is "The Library", this return to the Dee for pare expose throughout rallydom. And for maybe more important than the and await the start of this ordeal. this running the organizers moved Dee. The Library Bar is the local Leg one would be run both west the event back to it's rightful gathering place for rally teams to and south of Houghton starting at home of Hough ton, Michigan, socialize before and after the rally. 4:30 p.m. 16 stages and 13 hours where the legend really shaped The place is decorated with much later teams would get a six hour this event. rally memorabilia from PORs rest before the final eight stages Paul Choiniere and John Buffum had an incident on stage 2 but carried on in the Audi S 2 to take third, just six seconds out of second place, but Paul had already nailed down the 1993 series championship. Houghton is a sprawling college past. There are even old pictures would be tackled north of town, home to Michigan Tech, of John Buffum· with hair. In HoughtoninthedreadedMandan and sits on the mouth of Portage between visits to the Library area, these would be the roughest Lake, high in the Upper Peninsula teams would have to go out and stages of the event. Nice to save sandwiched by Lake Superior. tackle 25 stages (26 were schedul-the best for last. Fishing takes a big part in the local ed, one was scratched) over a 28 Pre-rall Y business filled the economy it seems, as anglers flock hour period. conversations. Group A champ-to what the locals refer to as "the 34 rally teams came out in five ions Chad DiMarco and Erick Keweenaw" or Copper Country, classes to press on regardless and Hauge were no-shows leaving the for the mining that takes place. see if they could say they were Audi of Paul Choiniere needing That is all well and good but what finishers, many would not. Even only a seventh place overall or Houghton means to your average fewer would be winners and those better finish to clinch the overall rallyist is the POR, the roughest*, that won would have quite an championship. With Choiniere's meanest and longest PRO Rally in accomplishment for their rally navigator Jeff Becker already North America (*this reporter resume. Weather for the POR clinching his championship car believes Rim of the World to be would start cold, about freezing builder John Buffum agreed to rougher) and in most every case it temperatures but as the rally -take the right seat and help guide lives up to that reputation. progressed temperatures would Paul to his second straight title To run, and understand those actually see the S0's, not very and hopefully the win. Paul was who have been to the POR you POR like weather according to heard to say that he still intended must understand the lingo to get the veterans among us, but for to go for the win. around the town. Really only two those of us who were being. The press stage provided some places need be remembered. The exposed to this event for the first newsworthy items. Hours before what would become a long week-end for Mr. Pepp. He never saw the finish. Back in town teams readied for the start. The competition in Michigan was fierce in all classes from the production cars to the battle for the overall win. Drivers and navigators set out from the Dee at 4:30 in the afternoon and set out to do battle through the long cold Michigan night on roads that were very fast in parts, but could just as quickly turn into a muddy quag-mire several yards before a corner or in the middle. The weather was very brisk but no snow or rain was reported in stage. In the production class the points battle has already been decided in favor of Peter Cun-ningham/Joe Andreini and their Acura, so with the title firmly in hand they chose to miss POR and are reported to be working on a brand new '94 Acura for next year. As a result three teams came out for the rally. Early on it looked well for the Ford Escort of the Latreille's Barry and Sandra, the husband and wife team struck out a quick lead against the VW GTI of Dick Casey/Martin Dapot. In stage 8 the Escort coughed up a transmission and caused the Latreille's first mechanical DNF in 46 starts. the start ten teams ventured out to the neighboring town of Han-cock, Michigan, to take members of the press for rides around the grounds of Superior Sand and Gravel Company. The event drew Casey/Dapot were now in the a lot of attention as even the lead over another VW GTI of mayor of Hancock herself came -Wayne and Annette Prochaska. out to ride in the cars and hand But the lead would change hands out handsome pins to those par-many times in the tw~ day event. ticipating. It was on the eight Sta~e_12 would be, ultimately, the tenths mile long course that Carl dec1dmg fa~tor as_ the Prochaska Merrill felt his Ford Escort go GTI lost ttve mmutes to Cas-from a four wheel drive to a two ey/Dapot. At the end a three wheel drive car, scaring the Maine m~nute deficit bef~ll them givi~g driver but later was relieved to Dick Casey/Martm Dapot their find that a simple connecting clip f~r~t ~ational class win. The two came undone and it was quickly fm1sh1~g 20th and 21st overall fixed for the start. An up and respectively. Todd Bawden and Martin Headland ran tight with the leaders in the Mitsubishi Eclipse, then took the lead by stage 8, and stretched it out stage by stage to win Production GT Class by seven minutes and finish fifth overall. Page 52 coming Brian Pepp lost a spark The trucks were four strong plug in his Mazda RX-7 and that with a notable absence. The would be just the beginning of Gooch Mitsubishi failed to make January 1994 the tow east as Gary and Judi found their moving plans in direct conflict with the POR and had to pull their entry. This left Guy Light/Dave White in the GMC in a very good position to clinch the truck title here and avoid the tow to Maine. But also here to quell those plans were two Mitsubishis and a Dodge D-50. Chad Dykes/ Pat Hanson made half of the Mitsubishi contingent with Roger Hull/John Elkin. Greg Healy/ John MacLeod had the lone Dodge. In the first five stages Dykes/ Hanson came to the L'Anse serv-ice with a six second lead over the GMC of Light/White. Hull/Elkin fell three minutes back noting a loss of power, but tinkering in the engine area to find the woe. He-aly /Macleod started badly by overcooking a corner on stage one and bagging two flat tires early, they had to change both tires and lost nearly 20 minutes but were still in the rally. Slowly after the eighth stage Dykes/Hanson edged out a little further to 30 seconds lead over the GMC with Hull/ Elkin losing more time to engine gremlins. At the main service after stage 10 Dykes/Hanson had opened up a minute and a half lead despite a bent driveshaft. It was at this service that Chad Dykes had wandered over to the Roger Hull Mitsubishi and thought Hull's woe sounded familiar and Dykes found a broken wire on the throt-tle position sensor. Hull/ Elkin had full power restored but found themselves many minutes back of the leaders and Healey /Macleod creeping up making time from the flat tires. In stage 11 the rally was essent-ially over for the Dykes/Hanson Mitsubishi had the driveshaft break doing damage under the truck and disabling the team in the forest. Light/White went on . to a decisive 20 minute victory DustyTimcs

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Cal Landau and Eric Marcus don't run the full series these days, but they did fine on the POR in the Mitsubishi Eclipse, and came in second in Production GT and seventh overall. Westerners also, Roger Hull and John Elkin got their Mitsubishi truck in the money as they had troubles, got fixed and finished second in the class. Rick Davis and Ben Greis/er are still sorting out their Pennsyl-vania based BMW M3, but they moved up in Group A in the night and took home second place. so they could enter the divisional the next day and the move paid off as they claimed third in the divisional. Guy Light and David White often finish in the top 10 in the GMC truck, and they drove to tenth overall, first in truck class in Michigan, but took the lead later in the rally than usual at the POR. Quickly the battle formed between three teams, the champ-ionship contenders and the Mit-subishi Eclipse of Cal Land-au/ Eric Marcus. All three swapp-ed fast time over the first five stages into the L'Anse service with Frontinan/ Arruda holding six seconds over Bawden/Head-land. Landau/Marcus lurked another eight.seconds back. Ti1e next three stages leading back to service saw Bawden /Headland clamber up into the lead by 40 seconds while the Toyota and M itsubishi were separated b y mere seconds for the second place battle. and had buzzsawed their way to tenth overall. Back further the Hull/Elkin entry held a slim lead over Healey /MacLeod even after the Arizona team had struck a deer in stage 16 losing little time but encuring front end damage and driving light damage. The second leg, and the final eight stages saw Hull/Elkin keep their slim lead over the rough Mandan stages and take second place by 45 seconds over the Dodge. Group A drew three homolo-gated cars to the Copper Country, two of those entries were from the Japanese contingent that has left their cars over here for the year to contest various rallies, and the Pennsylvania based BMW M3 of · Rick Davis/Ben Greisler. The BMW is still in the process of being sorted out, in the suspen-sion area mostly and so Rick and Ben were going for the finish and the lead battle quickly fell to the two Japanese entries. Makio Yamanaka/John McAr-thur took the Mazda 323 out to the early lead by the first service in L'Anse by just over a minute over the Nissan March SIT ofKazushi Kita/ Y oshifumi Maruyama. Over the next six stages the Nissan gave no ground to the Yamanaka/ McArthur Mazda until the final stage of the night when on 16 the Mazda went off the road and got stuck losing 30 minutes in un-s ticking procedures. The time used to get unstuck was enough to time bar the team giving the win to Kita/Maruyama who outdist-anced the BMW team by five minutes. This was the second Group A victory by the Japanese team this year. Production GT hosts the closest points battle in the series now as a young rookie goes up against an established veteran. Vinnie Frontinan/Frank Arruda in their Toyota Celica GT 4 set out to battle Todd Bawden/Martin Headland in a Mitsubishi Eclipse for the points and the win. Stand-ing in their way was a great field of cars all capable to play the spoiler DustyTimcs for the principal players in the championship. In the opening stage the Mazda 323 of Steve Gingas/ Bill West-rick came out with the fast time in stage, just like at Ojibwe earlier this year. And just like at Ojibwe earlier this year the turbo gave up the chase in the second stage of the day ending another promising run for the talented Duluth, Minnesota team. To their credit they drove six hours back to Minnesota to get the spare turbo By the end of 11 stage s . Bawden/Headland were stretch-ing the lead to almost two minutes as Frontinan/ Arruda put over a minute on the Landau/Marcus effort. At the break after the first leg Bawden/Headland were comfortable with their two minutes still intact. The others stayed about the same distance heading into the final day, but it would be a short day for Front-inan/ Arruda as the Toyota was seen off the road, precariously · Kita Kazushi and Yoshifumi Maruyama won Group A in the Nissan March SIT, but had a big fight with their countryman to gain the position. Wonder how they liked the cold and the stout trees on the UP? Dick Casey and Martin Dapot came from Virginia to run the VW GTi 16V in Production Class, and they ran very well, taking the lead in class in stage 8, and they won by just three minutes, 13 seconds. January 1994 perched over a stump with the Audi, which was missed. With right front suspension torn out of the class and overall champion-the car. Bawden slowed and used ship on the line many expected his time over Landau/Marcus to Paul Choiniere/John Buffum to cruise to the win and fifth overall take it slower in the Audi S-2 but in the event. Cal Landau/ Eric Choinere claims that not to be the Marcus came in seventh overall case in the first stage, still it was and second in class. Third in class the Ford Escort Cosworth of Carl and 19th overall was Selcuk Merrill/Jon Wickens that took Karamanoglu/ Brian Maxwell in a fast time by nearly 13 seconds Mitsubishi Eclipse and they were over Doug Shepard/ Pete Gladysz also the final finisher in class. Mitsubishi Eclipse. The Audi The Open Class is certainly the came next another 12 seconds place to be as all the exotic back followed by the Porsche of machinery in the US showed for Jeff Zwart/David Stone (Tony this one sans Bruno Kriebich's Sircombe l@f' This is the i;ystem run by most off road race winners TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME JEEP STRAIGHT 6 "NEW SUMMER SPECIAL CHROME" GO FOR 2740 COMPTON AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90011 (2131 234-9014 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 53

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Wayne and Annette Prochaska were on home ground in Michi-gan in their VW G Tl Jost a little time late in the rally, but finished a close second in Production Class. Henry Joy and Jimmy Brandt were in a close points battle in Open Class for second with Zwart and finished fourth in Open Class, ahead of Zwart also. Jeff Zwart and David Stone were sixth overall and fifth in Open Class in the Porsche C~rrera 4, and are in a tight points battle with Chad DiMarco for second overall in 1993. ~ was off navigating the Bejieng-Hong Kong Rally in Asia). In stage two Choiniere/ Buffum flew over a bump in the road and stood the Audi on its nose, breaking some driving lights and scaring the occupants just a bit. Merrill/Wickens continued on their tear through the field with the Shepard/ Gladysz Eclipse very close, but not able to gain a time advantage just yet. At L'anse the Ford sat out front of the Audi by 32 seconds with the Shepard Mitsubishi just six seconds back from there. Zwart/Stone came through fourth almost a minute and a half back but with a 45 second cushion on Henry Joy/ Jimmy Brandt in the Eclipse. Back in service three stages later the positions did not change how-ever Choiniere/ Buffum started to close on the Ford to within 14 seconds. Shepard/ Gladysz slipped back just a few seconds. After stage 11 Merrill/Wickens had again turned up the burner in the Ford and stretched the lead back out to 30 seconds over the Audi. Shepard /Gladysz came back to within 30 seconds of second place service tor a very quick tire but the Porsche of Zwart/Stone change but to little avail as the had slipped back three minutes, conservative pace that Shepard still a minute and a half over the had to keep on the long t,ransit to Joy/Brandt effort. save his transmission cost him In the final six stages of Friday four minutes in road penalties. night Choiniere/Buffum faded The remaining stages saw the back to third as the Shepard/ Eclipse turn very good times but Gladysz Eclipse turned it up and the four minute deficit could not ate into the Merrill/Wickens lead be overcome and at the finish the a bit. Going into day two the Ford Merrill/Wickens team had team would have to turn in some notched their second straight good times to keep the charging overall win on the SCCA circuit Shepard off his tail. by three minutes and three Nobody knows what happened seconds. Paul Choiniere/John to Shepard/Gladysz over the Buffum came home a fine third short break before heading north place, and while it is an unfamiliar up .the Keweenaw but the team spot for the two it was good started ripping stage times that enough to clinch the titles both in were truly inspired. Doug and open class and overall for the Merrill traded some times but 1993 Subaru Championship. when Shepard turned a hot time Henry Joy/Jimmy Brandt drove in stage 19 he was a legitimate well in the rough final stages to threat to the overall win. But at overhaul the Porsche of Jeff the end of what is believed to be Zwart/David Stone after a wrong stage 20 Shepard/ Gladysz suffer-turn after service cost the ed two punctures at the end of the Zwart/Stone car a three minute stage, this cost them little time but penalty. Joy /Brandt took the they only carry one spare and position by five minutes and service was nearly 10 miles away, nabbed fourth overall. Sixth in so the Eclipse limped to the class came northern California rallyistWindyimperial/Jun year there are lots of reasons to Espino in an Eagle Talon that is attend the only known snow rally one of the cleanest prepared cars on the schedule. seen on the circuit. Imper-The organizers are to be com-ial/Espino also won the accomp-mended on a 25 stage rally that anyingdivisional rally. Seventh in started and finished precisely on open and a fine ninth overall was time and brought major sponsors the only car now prepared to the in the form of Citgo Quik Food new Group 2 specs that go into Marts, who generously supplied effect next year, Bruce New-free coffee, hot chocolate and ey /Kennon Rymer took the sandwiches to teams at the L'Anse Mazda RX-7 to the position with a service area. The towns of both nearly clean run sans one small Houghton and Hancock are also to getting stuck which was not much be commended on welcoming the of a time loss thanks to a bunch of POR back to familiar ground and students from Michigan Tech making all the teams feel most who pushed the Mazda out of the welcome throughout the long mud. weekend. With one rally left this year, the So for now it is off to Maine Maine Forest Rally in December where we will bid farewell to all the championships are decided Subaru as our series sponsor and except for Production GT where to Mitsubishi for their generous, Frontinan leads Bawden by only however too short lived conting-one point. What this will mean to ency program. Also we bid an the entry list in Maine remains to early fairwell to a friend at the be seen however with the end of SCCA head office, Jean Long has the year awards taking place left SCCA to pursue other afterwards and this being the last interests. and her presence at the event that Mitsubishi will pay the events, and help at the national contingency money that had office will be missed more than drawn out so _many teams this words can say. Vinnie Frontinan and Frank Arruda demonstrate the result of missing a turn, but they did miss some of the trees in the Toyota. Helpful spectators towed them back on the road, but the car was definitely out of the rally. Ken Stewart came from Oklahoma to grab some divisional points and with Steve Scott navigating he did that job, taking fourth overall in the Divisional Rally in the Chevy S-10 Blazer, popular with spectators. California Rally Series Report fl:, L,n= Allison December 18 was the date for the annual Holiday party, gift exchange and table-top rally competition hosted by Roger and Lynnette Allison, a tradition for more than ten years. Unfortun-ately we received this notice quite late, so the party will be history by the time you receive this issue. The 1994 CRS/SCCA Awards Presentation and Recognition Banquet has had several sugges-tions for a program this season. They include a mystery bus tour, racing challenge, or having the SCCA Annual Tech during the morning and awards at night. Call in your ideas. The annual CRS Stock Class meeting was held on October 1 7 with Tony Chavez unanimously elected Stock Class Chairman for 1994. Welcome Tony! And let us extend our thanks to Tony Shumaker for his diligent efforts during 1993. (Wait a minute. Do Page 54 you have to be named Tony to be chairman?) Many competitors presented their ideas, their complaints, and suggestions for solutions. but it is with great appreciation we recognize those who voluntarily put their time and effort into the positive promotion of rallying in a win-ning and sportsman-like way. Our warm thanks to you. Heading into the East of Indio December event, the 1993 CRS point standings were close in most cases. In 2WD Open, Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh appear at the top closely followed by Bill Malik and Roine Anderson. Third and fourth places are run-ning close with drivers Dan Hook and Jeff Griffin fighting it out with less than twenty points separating them. Co-Drivers Chris Griffin and Devin Linville show an eighty point separation, but failure to finish will affect the overall finish. Stock Class has Tony Shumaker fairly well ahead but a fail to finish Indio by Tony could have Harris Done catching up. Quietly stalk-ing their prey are Norberto Gomez and Jeff Hendricks, both within thirty points of second place. Liz Shumaker and Jorge Facio are tied for first Co-Driver, and Larry Scott and Noble Jones are within fifteen points of tying for third. Should either fail to fin-ish Robert Kalb could grab a few places and wind up a good second after Indio. 4WD Open is close between drivers Todd Bawden and Mitch McCullough. Mitch is ready and a fourth place or better at Indio could make the differ-ence. Both Rui Brazil and Mike Gibeault will put in some fast driving to take third. Co-Drivers Scott Webb and Cal Coatsworth continue to push forward, way ahead of anyone else but almost tied for first. Congratulations to Carl Jarde-vall and Todd Bawden, our SCCA Southern Pacific Division Champ-ions. lots of blood, sweat and tears contributed to their success, not to mention their great driving records and well prepared veh-icles. Bravo! Bravo! January 1994 Great thanks also to all rally members and silent heroes who so gracious! y contribute toward sending our Divisional Champs to the run-offs each year. Becoming one of our cherished traditions, your gifts of time, tires, money parts-and good wishes are wond-erfully appreciated. SCCA Divisional Class Chang-es for 1994 pose little conflict with CRS rules. The 1994 SCCA Divisional Calendar of Events began with September's Tree Line Rally and October's Gorman Ridge and continued at East of Indio. These events introduced the new SCCA Divisional vehicle designations of 4WD, 2WD over 2 liter and 2WD under 2 liter. After Gorman Ridge Mitch McCullough led in 4WD, Harris Done in 2WD and Ron Wood in 2WDunder2 liter. Watch out for the four way tie for second with Jeff Griffin, Tony Shumaker, Jeff Hendricks and Norberto Gomez. It looks like under 2 liter is where competition is fierce and frantic! The CRS Board of Governors meeting produced a new points system. The championship points for 1994 will be restructured so that the championships will be more competitive. Instead of awarding 100, 80, 60, 50, etc, we will be awarding 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50. In other words a fourth in class will be worth 70 CRS points instead of 50. This will make con-sistent finishes more important, and tighten up the 1994 competi-tion season. In addition if you move up a seed you will receive an additional two points. In other BOG news, during 1993 CRS has · lost money, virtually depleting any reserve that we had available. So for 1994 the membership fee will be $35 ( up from $30 in pre-vious years). In addition we will no longer implement the "fee free first" system, thus hoping to improve our cash flow. Our HOLIDAY WISHES are that the holidays bring you pleas-ant memories and dreams, and may we see you all safely home both during and after the holiday season. DustyTirnes

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BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee IWD Text & Photos: John Calvin The 190 horsepower straight six has plenty of pep but we would prefer the big VB with the extra forty horsepower for all around use. and pull out ashtray. Far right on loading or unloading on the the dash the glove box lives up to carpeted floor. its name, about all you could store The overhead console is both in there ·would be a pair of gloves. practical and functional. There The Jeep Grand Cherokee is about as good looking a vehicle as you can find on or off the road these days. This black beauty was a definite looker. The automatic transmission are two map/reading lights, a gear selector is located on the compartment for the garage door transmission tunnel in the center opener and another compartment of the Cherokee, just forward of for your sunglasses. This all is Black IS beautiful, especially when it is a 1993 Grand Cherokee which looks beautiful, husky and elegant all at the same time. It has been many moons since we last tested a Cherokee so with relish we trekked down to Rancho Dominguez to pick up this ebony beauty. This particular Grand Cherokee Limited was loaded with all the goodies you can imagine and we attempted to use them all at least once so we could be properly impressed with it all. The powerplant is the good old 190 horsepower in line six. Offic-ially called the "Power Tech Six" and it does a decent job but I would trade it in a minute for the 5.2 liter VB with its 230 horse-power. The transmission is auto-matic, 4 speed with overdrive and is fairly smooth shifting up and down and coupled with the Quadra-Trac "All The Time 4WD" it makes a definite go anywhere anytime package. The tires are Good year W rang-ler AT P235/75R15 which are nice and quiet on the road but Absolutely good.looking from any angle, the Grand Cherokee sports smooth flowing lines, zero wind noise and rugged dependability; after all it's still a Jeep. have the proper grip for the off There is also a slider switch to the main console. It shifts easily at very practical and functional too. the road excursions which we so vary the instrument light intensity _ the touch of a finger or two. The But, there is more; completely dearly love. Power front disc to your pleasure. To the right is Quadra-Trac shifter is also floor impractical but more fun than brakes and rear drums with four the rear wiper switch, the rear mounted just left of the gear winning the lottery is the wheel anti-lock braking system window defrost and the overdrive selector. It also moves easily in Mini-Trip computer and comp-give you lots of confidence when on/ off switch which you may and out of gear and is used to help ass. In its normal mode the com-you decide to get heroic. The use at your own discretion. you traverse difficult terrain on puter displays the outside temp-Quadra-T rac drive is a full time The steering wheel is encased in and off the road. Electric window era tu re and the compass denotes four wheel drive system with its leather, the speed control controlsarelocatedonthedrivers the direction of travel. The only options being neutral and switches are handily placed on the door as well as the electric door computer also displays accumul-four wheel drive low range and I wheel and the life saving air bag is locks. You must have these door ated trip miles, average miles per am sure, like most people, you encased in the center of the wheel. and window controls, they are the gallon, current miles per gallon, will find it more than adequate. The wheel tilt adjustment lever is one option worth having, as these how many miles to empty and Shifting in or out oflow to high or located on the console on the left vehicles are far too wide to reach records ingition on time for up to vice versa is just a flick of the wrist side of the steering wheel column across to open a door or a 100 hours. If you 're into toys or although you must slow your and the left stalk mounted on the window. gimmicks you've got to have this Cherokee down to under five steering column controls the turn Keyless entry is provided, a computer. It will remove any miles per hour to guarantee safe signals, the front windshield small transmitter on your key ring traces of boredom on a long trip. shifting. wipers and also allows you to flick to lock and unlock the doors Both sun visors have vanity The instrument cluster consists the high beams on and off at will. along with a theft security system. mirrors with adjustable lighting of all the proper analog gauges To the right of the instrument When you remotely lock or on each. There are semi-recessed which are easy to see and easy to cluster is the AM/FM audio unlock the doors the inside lights grab handles over the passenger read. The zero to seven thousand system complete with cassette, come on for half a minute or so, door and over both rear doors. rpm tachometer is redlined at five graphic equalizer complete with and they also go off when the The inside mirror is adjustable to thousand and the one hundred six, count 'em folks, six speakers engine is started. The security cut down on glare from following mile per hour speedometer has an with controls for your listening system activates when you use the vehicles, another very handy feat-odometer and a resettable trip enjoyment. power door locks or the keyless ure for those evening commutes. meter too. Fuel Gauge, Battery Beneath the AM/FM is the entry transmitter. A class IV trailer hitch (heavy Condition as well as oil pressure Automatic Temperature Control The interior of the Grand duty) allows you to pull a trailer and temperature gauges are system which has all the usual Cherokee is both functional and up to 6500 pounds with a few spaced around the outside of the settings and allows you to dial in beautiful. Carpeted throughout auxilliary items. The 23 gallon speedoandtach. Immediately the temperature you desire and withalltheseatsingreyleatherit fuel tank coupled to the 17.5 beneath the various indicator and• includes a graphic display is most comfortable and it smells miles per gallon we averaged gives warning lights stretch across the showing where air is being vented good too! The front bucket seats you a cruising range of over 400 instrument cluster. to. Beneath the ATC controls is a are all electric moving forty ways miles. Just below the heat/air vent on fairly large graphic display which to breakfast enabling you to find We found the Jeep Grand the extreme left of the dash is the indicates doors open, etc., which your own comfort setting. The Cherokee great to drive, comfort-electric outside mirrors' control, wheels are in the drive mode and rear bench seat certainly doesn't able in every way, full of marvel-a must for every vehicle. These this display also displays the feel like a bench. It is very com-ous accessories and hard to give mirrors are heated when you current time and date; it monitors fortable, lots of cushion and long back to the owners. I would cert-activate the rear window defrost specific operating systems and trips back there won't bother you ainly select the VS engine over the switch, not too practical in good alerts the driver of malfunctions, at all. The rear seat is split one 6 as it would be much more effic-ole sunny southern Cal but displays a reminder when your third across and both sections ientoverthelongrun. The Grand wherever there is a four season next service is due. It monitors fold forward and down to en-Cherokee we tested was priced at climate diey ~ould be worth their eleven operating systems from hance the cargo carrying capacity. almost $30,000.00. just about weight in gold. To the right of the lamps being burned out, a turn With the rear seat in its normal standard for a loaded sportlutili-mirror controls are the headlight signal left on for an unusually long position there is about forty cubic ty vehicle, and the Jeep Grand controls which also sports an time, check battery, oil level feet of cargo space and lowering Cherokee delivers more standard automatic mode which turns the sensor bad, all sorts of warnings the seat just about doubles the features than most of the others. · headlights off and on depending of impending trouble. Beneath cargo area. Cargo tiedowns are Try ·this one on, drive it for a on the light level it is exposed to. the display is the cigarette lighter built in and metal skids ease your while and you'll agree with me. #,a There is plenty of room behind the seats as shown here. The metal runners save wear and tear on the carpeting. Chromed tiedowns help hold everything in place while you're on the road. All the controls are easy to see and read and everything is within easy reach of the driver. Popping in or out of low range takes only the flick of a finger. The rear seats fold forward and down to give you all sorts of room for cargo. A camping expedition is a breeze with the Grand Cherokee. DustyTimcs January 1994 Page 55

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Wisconsin Off Road Festival It was a very close battle in Class 1 /2 all the way between the top three cars, but at the checkered flag it was Art Schmitt taking the win as the other two had late breaking problems. There was heavy action in Class 2-1600 between neighbors Jim Wiggins, in the lead here, and Todd Attig trailing. Wiggins won the race as Attig faded to third with mechanical trouble. The Short Course Off Road on hand. Before the racing began, Drivers Association (SODA) Americanflagsflewproudlyfrom moved on to Oshkosh, Wiscon-ten SODA race vehicles, each veh-sin, to the Winnebago County icle sporting children, many of Fairgrounds for the weekend of whom are patients at Milwaukee's September 18 and 19 and its usual Children's Hospital. Those par-and customary top of the line rac- ticipating for Saturday's ceremon-ing action. The Badgerland VW ies were John Schultz, Pete Van Club presents this Race Event De Hey, Rob Kinner, Bill Bowles, every y,ear with the motto "Racin_g Dan Baudoux, Jim Conway in the For Children's Hospital". This O.R.E./SODA Pace Truck, Bob Race Event has, for lack of better Silloway, Dave Woulf and John words, an aura all it's own! The Greaves. Denise Eberhardt sang facility itself is very nice, the park-the National Anthem and if the ing/camping section well organiz-entire sight didn't move your ed, the track for 1993 very much heart, you don't have one. improved and the Club members Class 3 took the opening hon-~ always pleasant, both spectator ors on the newly designed course and race minded and ready to help with instant action between top the racer put on a dynamite show. contenders Chad Schlueter and Everywhere you look, from con-Gerald Foster. Foster came roar-cession stands to registration ing off the line in a big hurry cut-there is that reminder that while ting down Schlueter's left rear you, the racer are there to win, tire. Schlueter immediately pitted you are also there to help hund-for a quick change; Foster was hit reds of children win life threaten-with a black flag, stop and go pen-ing battles. Ya' can't go wrong! alty. The time lapse didn't hurt Saturday morning's racing Foster as he went ahead with a opened with clear skies, a good tMrty second lead and the win de-dry track and plenty of spectators spite a hard char ing Schlueter. He may be mud covered here, but Dan Baudoux carried on with the extra weight to victory in Class 11 S. Dan runs in so many classes it is hard to keep up with his records. Some of the S-1600s had trouble staying upright during the race, but Mike Brue had no such problems, taking the lead early in the event, and despite challenges Brue held on to win Class 5-1600. t., Page 56 Just wasn't gonna' be Schlueter's -race as he pitted later in the race with a flat right rear tire. Despite the tire woes, Schlueter placed. second. Ken Beilke ran a dandy race to third place with Grant Mohalland and Greg Swiston , rounding out the field. A hefty field of Class 11 Single Seaters lined up next, green flag- Class 13 had a good field but high attrition too, and the Flying Dutchman Dan ged and everyone made it across Vanden Heuvel_ worked his way through the field lap by lap to take another h · d Road Warrior victory. t e notonous, center stage, crow -----------------------------pleasing table top jump! It looked Survivor" and for good reason! being determined in the corners. to be Dan Baudoux's race for the Bill always hangs in there, is al-The lead changed hands several first couple of laps and then ways ready to race and usually has times on the back stretch but as whoops, Baudoux has a crippled the worst luck! This race was no the two came around the timing leftfrontwheel,spinsoutbigtime exception -Graboski came standitwasProbstinthelead.At on the infield section of the track screaming off the line dead even this point the track announcers let and is done for the day. In comes with Statezny and broke down be-us all know that these two were the talented Cory Friday who's fore a lap could be made. Gary putting in an average lap speed of fending off John Huven, John Gottschalk also ran into some real sixty five mph! You can bet the Wiggins, Glen Mathews and Rich mechanical woes. farm on it, that's movin'! We're W oulf. Friday hangs in there until While, due to mechanical prob-down to the white flag and bingo, he disappears with mechanical lems, this hasn't been the best sea-Probst pulls off the track on the blues. Now Huven has -the lead, son Jeff Probst has ever had, his infield, done for the day. Attig Mathews is on his tail, W oulf is preformance has been consistent-went in for the win and St. Peter trying to keep the door shut on ly excellent! Class 9 /10 flagged placed second. Tom Schwartz-Mark Oberg and Wiggins is lost next with some fantastic race ac-burg drove a very nice third place. somewhere on the track! At the tion between Probst and Todd Jack Haenlein placed fourth. checkered it was indeed Huven Attig as well as plenty of racing to Ain't no doubt that Class 2-with the win, Mathews in second, watch over the entire track! Art 1600 always has good action and W oulf in third and Wiggins is still Schmitt and Dan Baudoux came the new Oshkosh track made it all lost! The attrition rate was re-off the line interested in this foray hot and heavy. This round Jim markably low with Mark Oberg, but Schmitt was out before a full Wiggins and home town buddy Mike Allen, Gordon Cudahy ,Jim lap could be put in, Baudoux put Todd Attig put on a stand up Schuster, Tom Deschaine, Jim in one lap and then he was gon,· show, swapping the lead, fighting WaltersandRodAttigalsofinish-Meanwhile, Probst, Attig and Jeff it out in the corners and holding ing the race. Nice work, fellas! St. Peter were racing togetht"r as off Dan Baudoux! The racing gob-One more time the incredible close as feathers on a duck. ~t. !ins put the big bite on Attig with Fay Statezny came off the line in Peter comes around in front 01 the mechanical woes on the Lst two the Class 6 race to go flag to flag crowd, pulls out a full 360 spin laps giving Wiggins the win, Baa-with a truly impressive run! How-and lost ground on the leaders. doux second place and Attig in ever, it can't be let go without say-While St. Peter was doing donuts, third. Back in the dog eatdoi:1 paci< ing that Rick Rayford gave Stat-Trent Hanson came around the the action was r-..11ly hot anj ezny a real run for the money and mid-field turn a shade too tight, heavy as Curt Greaves, ca r~s-placed a well run second. Jay Mar-rolled it over with a twist and lost smer, Cary Bowles, Mark Stein-tens and Leonard Gehl had a nice the right front wheel. Back to hardt, Mike Seefeldt Jr., Walt battle for third with Martens com-Attig and Probst, these two are Carlson, Mark Krueger and Cliff ing out with the position. We've nudging each other and playing Holiday grouped up tighter than a long called Bill Graboski "The general buggy tag with the battles bunch of grapes. Speed on the back straight and the ability to corner wthout going over was the ' name of the game and everyone ~ played a damn good game! John Greaves had a long wait this season to arrive in the victory circle in Class 7S and while he fin-ally got his win, Scott Taylor and Jeff Kincaid didn't make it easy for him! Off the start Taylor and Greaves were at it door to door with Kincaid nosing their bump-ers. By mid-race Greaves pulled a comfortable lead taking it all in for the win. Taylor and Kincaid went at it tooth and nail with Kincaid making the second place pass on the white flag lap. Taylor took home third. Meanwhile, Tom Hackers, Jim Wiggins and Geoff Dorr always seems to be in the right place at the right time in his Class 4 Ford, and as the early leaders fell by the wayside one by one, Dorr took over the lead and held it to the checkers. January 1994 Dustynmes

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John Schultz just barely bested his brother Ed for third place in the Class 13 fracas as the wild bunch raced hard. And John·s wife Marilyn just beat Ed·s daughter Robin in the Ladies Heavy Metal. John Wiggins came on strong in the second half of the season in his Class 11S. taking second at Oshkosh and a good candidate for rookie of the year. Class 11 double seat racers had a fierce fight in a tight running field. Glenn Mathews nipped at the leader all the way and finished second in class. Dave W ouif were vying for posi-tion in rare form. Also finishing were Jim Bradley and Joe Dunlap. Say, in the finishing end of things we also found the newly purhased Class 7S truck of Cousins Racing driven very well by Bill Bowles -word is to look out for them next year! 'IJl It's Road Warrior time!! Yep motorsports fans, sixteen Class 13 trucks took the green flag and by golly all of them rounded turn one and over the table top intact! Well, almost all of them did, Pat Brown came flying around and lost a wheel right away. R.J. Flan-'w .. . . ~ ~ ' ., t . .l..1 . . . ,.,J • . .ml·i 118'"9' . _..,, agan, on the recover from one of Fay Statezny had a fight on his hands in Class 6 competition. but despite the the worst roll overs we've seen in challenges. Fay came off the line first in the Chevy Chevelle and led the class a while circa Crandon, broke a _fr_om_f_la_g_to_fla_g_f_o_r_th_e_w_in_. _______________ _ In Class 1-1600 Todd Attig and Jim Wiggins were at it hammer and tong once again. and this round it was Todd who took the lead over Wiggins on lap 4 and this time he took the victory. Terry Friday accepted a plaque of "Thanks" from Children's Hos-pital for the Club's $3000 dona-tion of 1992. Indeed, "This one was for you, Joe." Our special thanks to a very special group of people. Class 11 Single Seat is never short on racing action as Rod Attig, Dan Baudoux, John Wig-gins, John Huven, Darrin Parsons, Larry Bayer and a cast of thous-ands set out to prove! Attig came out of the start with the lead but quickly surrendered it to Wiggins followed by Baudoux. Holy Han-nah, now Attig's out, Baudoux hastaken -~ right front ball joint on lap one ranee ofJoe Plummer" at the bot-were Pete Van De Hey, Marilyn and parked it. While R.J. was tom of the central design. and George Schultz, Sherri Par-parking, Joe Zillish came off the Class 11 Single Seat was Joe's sons, Thornton "Ed" Schultz and back straight to the rhythm sec- Class and Sunday's racing began Bill Welch, Dave Woulf, Jim tion and put on a mighty nasty with a lovely tribute to Joe. Conway in the O.R.E./SODA truck ballet. Zillish's GMC went Drivers participating in the pace truck, Gary Plummer, Glen into a wheel to wheel flip with a parade of American flags, and Mathews, Mark Steinhardt, Jim twist in mid-air for variation! In-taking passenger/patients with Wiggins and Todd Attig. On Be-credibly not only were the occu-...._ them from Children's Hospital half of the Badgerland VW Club, pants okay, the truck was vir-____ d_, ___ j_i_i_~-=-~-!-!-~-~---------..:........:: ______________________________ _ tually undamaged and went on racing after a couple of laps to determine who was what and where. Don Gregoire took an b early lead but was taken over by the Flying Dutchman Dan Van-den Heuvel and then by Lowell DeGreef running second. Greg-oire had his hands full of the Schultz brothers, first Thornton Q (i G "Ed" and John right on his bump-er. Brother John made a pass put-~ ting Thornton "Ed" in fifth. Ron . =u DIRT BAGZ James, who was rapidly loosing oil pressure, was contending with ' CEIITERUNEWHEELS STREET & OFFROAD ACCESSORIES CHENOWTH David Reetz, Scott Stelzer, Tom-,....,s_l_M_P_S_O_N--,1 my Drews and the ballet perform-• · ing Zillish. Whoa Nellie, the white flag is out, Gregoire goes down with mechanical blues and the order now is Vanden Heuvel, DeGreef, John Schultz and Ed Schultz on the lead lap. The checkered flag found the. War-riors in the same positions with David Reetz holding down fifth. Stay tuned to this column for a Schultz re-match when the ladies elAA -~~ ~ take the track! The day's racing was over and for the first time the Badgerland water truck was used!! We want to note here the generous dona-tions of Cookie Konitzer and "Mom" Steinhardt. Each of these lovely ladies donated hand crafted dolls with a dollar value of well over $200 for the Badgerland VW Club's raffle for the Child-ren's Hospital. As most of our readers know, our nephew Joe Plummer fought his battle with cancer at Children's Hospital. It was and is especially comforting for Joe's entire family to have the support of the entire SODA org-anization and the extra special care of the Badgerland VW Club. 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Kevin Probst always takes the early lead in Class 4 in his GMC Lowell DeGreef used to win Class 13 a lot in his old green based rig and here he set fast lap of the day but a flat tire ended machine, but the rules change put him in this tidy body and he Jeff Kincaid often is the bridesmaid in Class 7S and he was second again at Oshkosh; after a tough battle with Scott Taylor, his Ford was in second. his day early. was second at Oshkosh. -----------------------"' over the lead from Wig-battles they put on in their Class 1 flag comes out St. Peter is trying gins, Darrin Parsons has driven & 2-1600 machines would look everything short of nitrous to get into third place with John Huven like grudge matches! "Grudging" around Attig and at every move knocking on his back door. Larry is not the case and when Class 1-Attig shuts the door! White flag: .-Bayer is back there letting the 1600racedtheentireClassputon St. Peter sees that time has run leaders know he's not to be for-one heck of a show! Wiggins held out, makes a super daring but gotten. The race is going on fast the lead for three laps, lost it to clean pass right after the flagging and furious when, presto, we lose Attig and Attig went·unchalleng-platform and goes into one of the Parsons somewhere on the back ed to the winning flag. Wiggins nastieast roll/ twist/ endoes we've stretch! This moves Huven and all kept first Dan Baudoux, then ever seen. These guys have been following him up a notch. The John Greaves at bay for second flying around the track at an aver-Checkered Flag is out -Baudoux place. Baudoux pulled off the age speed of 67 mph! St. Peter has the win, Wiggins hangs on to ·· track leaving Greaves with Rob went over and around a good six second, Huven inherits third, Kinner, Mark Krueger, Ed Tes-to seven times and came out of it Bayer has a nice fourth and Mark srner, Cary Bowles and a whole shaken up but okay! Whew dude, Oberg has driven into a tidy fifth bunch of other good drivers don't do that again! At the check-place. behind him! Greaves went sailing ered, it was Schmitt with the win, AgrowingfieldofClassS-1600 on into third place. Whoops, Attig in second and Schwalbe · Bugs took the green flag and pro-Kinner rolled corning off the with third. Despite that nasty ac-vided plenty of the "Ohh and rhythm section putting Bowles in cident, gentlemen, dyn-o-rnite! Ahh" action a crowd likes! Gary fourth. Nope, that didn't stick Just when the crowd thought it Plummer hit the rhythm section either, Tessmer put the hammer had seen it all the Class 8 trucks of the track before lap one and down and got by Bowles for the took the track with more red hot went into a neat barrel roll - way finishing fourth spot. Some great racing action! The Flying Dutch-to go Plumrnster; he went on to driving for position and points man Dan Vanden Heuvel made a finish the race! Not to be out took place between Jon Huss, fantastic run from green to check-done, bothJeffKarlrnan and Tim Mike Seefeldt Jr., Bill Brown and ered flag but not without a whole ~ -Christensen rolled over on lap Walt Carlson. lotta' shakin' going on! Jed Flan-one ! With all of this rolling Wowsers, those Class 1/ 2 nery, Scott Taylor and Dave around going on, the real question buggy fellas have got to be just a Hockers were right on Vanden is "who's in first?" The ground tad on the whacky side to race as Heuvel's back door when some pounding, hard charging Mike fast and as furious as they do! One right incredible things happened. Brue is holding down first place more time it was that Jeff Probst Hockers' truck had a tire explode with Greg Smith, Terry Wolfe with his personal cloud of doom liketheFourthof]ulycostinghim and Bill Bowles right on his hanging over him, Art Schmitt Ill, a pit stop. Taylor rolled her over bumper. Lap after lap Brue in-Scott Schwalbe, Todd Attig, Jeff big time on the back straight and creased his lead, never out of sight St. Peter and Dan Baudoux on left Flannery to pull the reins in completely of Smith, Wolfe and center stage and thrilling the on Vanden Heuvel. Meantime Bowles, but headed in for the packed grandstands! Schmitt Chuck Brand has his machine victory. Bowles put on an incred- came out of the chute with the running big and mean and ready ible show passing first Wolfe for lead and by the middle of lap one to do the honors where ever they third spot, reeling in Smith and it was darn near impossible to tell were needed. Brian Donlevy is in making the do or die pass on the who was in what position these the hunt until he comes over the white flag lap for a hard earned dudes were running so close. Lap table top and loses a wheel. second place. Smith placed a close two and it's Probst in the lead fol-Whoa, back at the start Farmer third.Wolfe had his hands tied up lowed by Schmitt, Attig and St. John Konitzer has rolled over in with Scott Miller, Jim Rolefson Peter; Baudoux and Schwalbe the last corner, takes a couple of and Tom Brockman, Wolfe edg-both a shade off the pace. Lap laps to get things sorted and then ing the others out for fourth four; Probst is running a one min-roars right back into the contest. · place. ute flat lap time and the doom Now, Hockers is definitely back Most often it's one of the un-cloud breaks open with more on the track and Flannery pops a restricted buggies that takes fast mechanical disaster and he's off. distinct mechanical problem fal-time on a track, not so this week-Now Schmitt has the lead with ling way off the pace. Brand pulls end as Class 4 came off the start in both Attig and St. Peter going into second place with Hockers in rare form! Kevin Probst in his door to door, wheel to wheel, a "chase 'em down" third place. truck blasted away any previous fender to fender with him. Vanden Heuvel gets the checker-lap times and came around the Baudoux has to pull off the track ed, here come Brand and Hock-track in a fraction of a second and Schwalbe is holding down his ers, they're side by side, in the air under one minute! Probst had corner of the Fort. As the half way over the table top and the flagging Geoff Dorr, Bob Bemmels, John Heidtman and Gerald Foster hot on his heels. Bernrnels went out early with mechanical woes leav-ing Dorr and Heidtman to try and chase him down. Foster, evidently not running with full force, was put down a lap just as Probst was coming off the back stretch and into the rhythm section. Disaster strikes as Foster gets into Probst cutting down a tire and putting an effective end to the Probst day. Dorr moved into the lead and held it to the checkered flag. Heidtman came across on the same lap for second and Foster tfuk home third place. It's a darned good thing that Jim Wiggins and Todd Attig are friends, otherwise the consistent Page 58 Todd Attig continued on his winning ways in Class 9/10 but it was a real dog fight with Jeff Probst and Jeff St. Peter. Changing the lead often with Probst, Attig eventually won the class. January 1994 platform!! Wow, damned near too close to call but Brand held second spot, Hockers took third by an eyelash. Flannery limped home in fourth. Once again; gent-lemen, it was outstanding! It may be the end of the day, but the racing certainly isn't over until SODA's ladies take the track! What a great group of racin' gals they are too, no matter whether the ladies are driving a buggy or a Heavy Metal machine you can bet that the machine has been raced hard, hot and heavy earlier in the weekend. Many of the ladies are fortunate enough to have pit crews willing and able to get those machines as race ready as possi-ble, but there is no doubt the eq-uipment usually is not top prep ready. And still the competitive SODA ladies are going to race! Women's Limited buggy took the first green flag with Janet Bowles and Brenda T essrner fighting from flag to flag for first place. Despite a hard charge by Tessmer, Bowles took the win, Tessmer in second. Amy Haese drove to a nice third place finish. Lisa Vandermissen driving fianceJim Wiggin's buggy had some bad luck with roll overs and had to park it but is certainly learning the ropes! Women's Class 11 always sports a big field of drivers and this race was no exception. These gals have developed quite a fan club and put ·on an excellent show. Karen Christensen belted into her buggy with winning on her mind and went flag to flag to prove it! Checking back through our stats, we find that Karen and her husband ran identical lap times! Tracy Silloway held true to her racing form and went flag to flag in second place; as did Sarah Sawall for third and Vivian Holtger for fourth! Dawn Bayer had been in :he thick of the top three when her buggy decided to let a ball joint go, Bayer finished but did so with mega position loss. Pam Wallace, Annette Van Wychen and Shari Huven also ran a good race. Cindy Wiggins' machine just wouldn't take the green flag! Holding down the last race of the weekend were the ladies of Heavy Metal and they were worth waiting for! SODA fans will remember that Sherri Parsons holds the honor of being the first driver (man or women) to com-pletely clear the Oshkosh table top jump! This time around Sherri had to take the track in a decidedly crippled truck - like, first gear only. Joan Silloway, yep, the same dedicated lady at im-pound, was able to get a couple of good laps out of her truck. Valerie James came out of the green flag with the lead and held it nicely to the win. Gail Brand was willing and able to give James a run for the money but has been plagued with her own racing gremlins all season. Pulling within definite passing vantage ofJames over the infamous table top, Brand came down, lost the right front wheel and was done for the day. Now, we promised a Schultz re-match and here it was. With Brand out, Robin Schultz pulled into second place with Shari DeGreef and Marilyn Schultz on her back bumper. Marilyn makes the pass on DeGreef in the infield section of the track, sees both the white flag and Robin Schultz in front of her and makes a serious decision! Yep, she makes the positon pass as both Schultz' go over the table top! At the final flag, James had the win, Marilyn had second and Robin had third by less than a tie rod length. The new ( congratula-tions Shari and Lowell) Mrs. DeGreef took home fourth. Our own "Downtown" Jeanne Brown had fifth. What a weekend! The racing was deserving of the title "W odd Series Of Off Road Racing", the Badgerland VW Club with their concentrated efforts on behalf of Children's Hospital put on an-other outstanding event and it just doesn't get any better! The next and last stop on the SODA racin' tour is the Blackhawk Farms Off Road Challenge. As for us, we'll see ya' trackside! It was the Flying Dutchman again in Class 8 as Dan Vanden Heuvel flat flew around the track, led a formidable field from green to checkered flag and is definitely a force now in Class 8 competition. DustyTimcs

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CHAPALA DUSTERS By Mike Shatynski began to appreciate little things like the lack of dust. The holiday season kicked off early this year as the Dusters and FAIR worked together to provide support for this grueling race. The It was a dark and stormy pits were marked by strings of night ... at least at the pit where I Christmas lights which not only spent the race just north of San made each pit stand out for racers Felipe on the road to Campo Don but added to the spirit of the Abel. It was the kind of weather event. The Dusters at the Don that makes the Baja 1000 the leg- Abel pit woke up on race morning end that it is ... a race against the after camping overnight in the Baja as much as a race against the desert to discover that someone other racers. The Chapala Dusters had drank all the presents that had and FAIR combined resources for been carefully laid under a fest-this race while fielding ten veh- ively decorated Palo Verde bush. ides. Of the six Duster and four Our disappointment that morn-FAIR entries in the 1993 Baja ing was short-lived when we were 1000, only ONE made it back to treated to "Holliday" surprise the finish line in Mexicali. George courtesy of our FAIR pit co-Erl in 1003 put forth an effort workers. The evening before, we worthy of the Baja 1000 and qual- were horified to discover that a ified as a junior "Ironman". certain negligent wife had neglect-Competing in his fourth race in a ed to pack my Frosted Brown lOcarsincemovingupfromClass Sugar-Cinnamon Pop-Tarts, 9, George singlehandedly piloted breakfast of champions for off his car to a fourth place finish. He road racing. When our plight ~as drove his own race and perserver- realized by all those pitting in the ed through the rain, wet "dry" area, a FAIR member, Michelle lakes, and other Baja 1000 chal-Holliday,spentthenightscouring lenges. Other than getting stuck in the desert and returned at day-soft sand while assisting another break with a box of the pastries. racer on the east side of Laguna Thank you, Michelle and FAIR. Salada, George kept his pace for a All things considered, it was a relatively trouble free race. pleasure to be back_ racing in the The only other racers that made Baja. Post race festivities included it the 310 miles to the pit at simple pleasures like "diez limons Campo Don Abel were members y un sal grande" for only three of the Anderson "stealth" racing new pesos as an accompaniment team who arrived at dawn in veh-to case of Pacificos, a bargain icle 1615. The actual position of equal to the one dollar hot shower the Anderson race vehicle and at Pete's Camp. support crew was the matter of As Christmas Day draws near, much speculation· during the plans for the annual Duster night. Apparently, after replacing Christmas party have been a broken stub axle in the vicinity finalized. Same as last year, the of Borrego, the team make it just Duster Christmas party will be past us to the "whoops" along the held at the 35 acre Hight estate beach where they broke the axle a near Lake Mathews. Food and second time. All the other Duster drinks will be provided but at-racers, Steve Poole in 1002, tendees should bring snacks and Morley Williams in 1021, and other light refreshments. Again, Danny Porter in 1605 were out there will be a giant bonfire, pin-early for a variety of reasons in-atas, and motorcycle riding ... eluding blown motors and igni-plentyoffunfortheentirefamily. tion problems. Other than gasing More detailed directions are in and checking George Erl, the only the mail. Be there on December repair effort by a Duster south of 18. The next Duster meeting will Oasis was by new Duster, Curt be at ME-N-ED's in Garden Wegener, who removed some Grove on Wednesday, January damaged and wildly flapping fib- 12, 1994. Happy Holidays ... I'll erglass from a Class 8 truck that see you next year. went on to finish second. In the pits, the lack of activity by Duster and FAIR racers was made up for by the weather. A major thunderstorm swept up from the Gulf covering a 30 mile wide swath starting from just north of San Felipe and sweeping up into San Matias pass. Gary Porter and company at Borrego. watched from the Suspensions Unlimited trailer as their camp-site was blown into the desert night. At Campo Don Abel, the pit crew and I put forth a heroic effort to keep the tarps up, the bar-beque grill lit, and the burgers and doggers cooking until late at night when everyone was finally fed. In-frequent radio communications with Evan Harbottle and his crew soµth of San Felipe on the Puerte-citos Road reminded the rest of us about the perfect viewing condi-tions from his pit for the lightning show to the north. And as cold and wet as it was on the desert floor, we were warmed consider-abley by listening to the W eath-erman high above at the observa-tory in San Pedro de Martir Na-tional Park. While the Weather-man moved from his tent to his truck to avoid the icicles falling onto himself and his gear, we DustyTimcs Spirit Race Support -~••IIIIJa1000 By Sam W illhire Mexicali, BC -The Spirit Off Road Race Support Team's Baja 1000 really began on the 7th of November with the BFG pit ex-change effort in Ontario. Mr. Dan Newsome, off road race czar for BFG, had quite a crowd on hand for his half day exchange. Tract-or/ trailer rigs and trucks of all shapes, sizes and colors were orderly as literally hundreds of various team's tires were loaded as well as dump cans, parts boxes, light bars and other racing com-ponents. By the time Spirit de-parted for San Diego, we had 7 3 tires (representing about 30 teams), several cases of oil, 2 7 dump cans and a variety of other ·support items. Probably the most interesting, and unusual, aspect of the ex-change (and for the Baja 1000) was the presence of seven BFG-backed Range Rover and Land Rover race teams who'd just ar-rived from England. And with the 7 teams on BFGs Spirit was set to support all of 'em at our Pit #5 location at Morelia Road. It was also discovered during the pit exchange that the Brits had no real race or pre-run support. Hey, these vehicles were road-worthy (read license plates) and street legal, and they were about to tackle 500 or so miles of the best, and most brutal terrain, Baja had to offer. The Spirit T earn said we'd help the Brits, and we did. A "rumor" that proved accur-ate was the fact that F&L Racing Fuels, for one reason or another, could not get into Mexico so the fuel exchange was set for Tuesday, the 9th, on the US side of the border in Calexico at the aband-oned Fed-Mart parking lot. And this was the first time since March, during the Nissan 400, that the Spirit team had a vehicle to root for. The Steve Olligies/ Friendly Ford/Team Lightning stock Class 8 race truck, designed and fabricated by Spirit, had its maiden outing during this event. The Team Lightning effort was separate from the Spirit pit pack-age and they had their own chase crews and vehicle support. Spirit had approximately 25 pit crew members at Morelia Ro:u\ the majority arriving Thursday in the early afternoon. Ford, in pre-senting the 1000, had opted for a contingency program so Spirit Team members Ken Nothomb, Larry Rae, Dave Petlichkoff, Mike Flohr and yours truly spent the better part of Thursday in Mexicali representing Ford. In the end, we were successful in hand-ing out about 400 pounds of posters to the local race fans. The contingency team folded the Ford tent at about 5 :30 Thursday afternoon with the T earn Lightning bunch heading one way and Mike Flohr, "Little" Mike and yours truly heading for Morelia Road-and the Spirit pit. And as we said earlier, we helped the Brits out in having two mech-anics, Allan and Richard, travel down to the Spirit pit with us and become part of the team. Lets face it, they had the knowledge to work on Land and Range Rovers and we needed that knowledge if roaring in at 3:48:41 for fuel and connection of their light bar. Steve Olligies moved to the co-driver slot as Steve Spirkoff took the wheel. The pit stop cost 'em 3 minutes and 42 seconds but was oflittle concern as they roared off into the silt beds, headed for checkpoint 5 and the infamous Matomi Wash. Dark and threatening rain clouds gathered to the north, east and over the mountains to the west throughout the day. SCORE radio said torrential rain had hit Mexicali and was headed south ... towards us. Jez, we didn't need rain, not where we were pitted so close to the silt beds. As the sun disappeared, the sky was clear and one could count the stars... no rain yet. As the night deepened, pit crew members took turns first sampling Ken's neat chow, cuisine that Ken had available for us all day long, and then grabbing some shut-eye. In the early morning hours racers began coming in looking like mud clods with wheels. Reports from the teams said Diablo Dry Lake wasn't dry anymore. At 5:30 am. Saturday the 13th we bid farewell to Radio Bob and his BFG relay operation. We'd had a full day and night of work and everyone was "out on their feet" but the pit had to come down. After a great breakfast all pitched in and within a couple of hours we were packed and ready to head home to San Diego. The final tally saw the Spirit crew dump 755 gallons of fuel and provide service to 5 7 separate race vehicles. And there was good news. The Team Lightning Ford finished the event, suffering a couple of minor problems along the way and of the seven British Rover based teams, six finished the grueling run. All the Baja 1000 entries are to be congratu-lated for their efforts. The finishers ... what can you say. Reportedly, Team Lightning is pl2.1.ning on "being" back for the next race, and we at Spirit ... is there any doubt. Now for some sleep. and when any of the seven teams -------------stopped in for pit work. F.A.I.R. News By Dave Massingham Race morning broke bright and clear, ideal weather to finalize the pit setup. Awnings had to be un-furled and mounted; tools, weld-At the La Rana California 250 ers and fire bottles had to be set at Ridgecrest late in October, out and tires and dump cans had F.A.I.R. had seven entries, but to be made ready. Then there was only two finished. Kathy Fay in the ever present "I bet the first her Class 7S Ford Ranger was car's through here about????" The among the dnf group. She got times varied but most felt 11 :30 stuck in the sand several times and am to 12:00 noon was a safe bet. it was broken motor mounts that No one looked forward to the putheroutofthe race.JeffRenick next 24 or so hours; we looked also did not finish in his Class 5 forward to helping any team that Baja Bug. Jeff had many flat tires needed us but staying up all night and his trans let go on lap 3, which ain't fun and we all knew i Then put Jeff on the trailer. Another Tom and I couldn't make the dnfwasDaveRogerswhobrokea radio work. We could hear steering U joint coupling on his everyone but couldn't talk to 'em. Class 9, then a lost fan belt After several changes, in every-roasted the motor. Rick Pew thing, we settled on a trailer-top couldn't finish in his 5-1600 Baja mag mount system that worked Bug either. Jason Clever rolled on like a charm. the second lap, destroying the car. The first four wheeled entry, Ooops! Another 5-1600, Mitch the Dodge of Brian Stewart, came Griffin, got only seven miles out flying by at 11:40.56 and our race from the start when the ring and support day was underway. For pinion let go. It was a very short the next 18 plus hours we'd be on race for him. our feet servicing a variety of However, the good news is that racers. Of course our mandate Dave Edelstein won first in Class was service to any BFG-shod team 1575, having spent all night tun-and every independent Ford team ing the motor in his Ford. It looks but in actuality we were ready to . like it paid off And Wes Wisdom help anyone. That's the Spirit way brought his 1-2-1600 home fifth of doing things. in class. Both Wes and Scott hit The Team Lightning Ford came the same rock and had flats. Like . January 1994 father like son. All had fun at Ridgecrest and many thanks to Frank Omboli for being race Manager and driving the old F.A.I.R. van to the race. Frank said he had lots of help from Joe Jensen, his main man, and Mike Rebolido. Frank also helped the Checkers find their lost cars. Hey W ahzoo! How about a lit-tle help from the Checkers in the future? At the Baja 1000 race we teamed up with the Chapala Dus-ters. Racing with F.A.I.R. were: Danny Lerner, dnf with a blown motor at the 18 mile marker; Bob Richey who blew his engine for a dnf at the 17 mile marker; Brian Parkhouse, another dnf with another blown motor at the 100 , mile marker. Looks like a trend! Only one Duster finished the Baja 1000. "George The Man Erl". Driving all by himself, he spent about 21 to 22 hours in his car and finished fourth in Class 10. That was quite a feat. A big F.A.I.R. "Atta Boy" to George. Next month we'll have results for the final La Rana race of the year in Johnson Valley. It looks like seven or eight F.A.I.R. cars are entered. F.A.I.R. is selling raffle tickets to raise funds to rework the F.A.I.R. van inside and out. The price is $1.00 per ticket. First prize is an entry to the 1994 SCORE Fireworks 250 or $500.00. Second prize is a week-end in San Felipe. Third prize is membership to F.A.LR. and pit support. Let us all try to sell a few books. The F.A.I.R. Christmas road Raliy scheduled for December 4th was put together by Bob Bez-zant. The end of the year van cleaning, inventory and repair work party was on December 11 at Q uality Auto Parts, and we hope a good sized group showed up to help. F.A.LR. meets at 8:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the Holiday Inn located on Harbor Blvd. at the 91 Freeway in Fullerton. Guests are always welcome. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All. Page 59

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SNORE Double Trouble Text & Photos: Don Dayton Tommy Bradley just keeps on rolling over the field in SNORE races and he did his act again in the Type 4 powered Chenowth, slowing only a tad off his quick pace with exhaust woes on the last lap to win the race overall. John Gaughan had early gearbox trouble, but he and Peter Ca~tleton ran well anyhow with consistent lap times en route to second overall and in Unlimited Class. Eleven cases of ATF??? I always knew SNORE racers were some of the most determined in the world, but eleven cases of auto·-matic trtansmission fluid? In one race? In one truck? It's the truth! That's what it took Bill Dickton, Chip Bruner, Dale Looney & Scott Bassett to get their big Dodge to go the distance in the first annual SNORE DOUBLE TROUBLE 200. It seems the automatic trans didn't leak hardly a drop sitting still, but developed the ability to pump out impres-sive quantities of ATF when under power. They ended up putting a hose through the fire-wall into the filler, sticking a funnel into the hose and giving the co-driver the job of dumping in oil. If you've ever tried to drink a soda while just cruising through the desert, you have some idea of how much fun it was to try to pour A TF into a funnel at race speed. Needless to say, the driver, the co-driver and the inside of the cab ended up well lubed and the truck will probably never be able to squeak again. They bought every quart of A TF in Boulder City and if the race had gone an-other lap, they had crew ready to raid Hooterville. They won. Their main competition in Heavy Metal came from Tony &Jimmy Leon-ard. They ot their Ford around ~ for a couple of good laps, but crossed the finish line on their last lap driving in reverse. They didn't stop long enough to explain, just went straight back to their pits. I don't know if they were bashful or just a little backward, but they will probably be known as "Wrongway" for a while. I guess you could say they backed into second place. Runner-up spot in Sportsman Truck was taken by Charles M. David Sr., Peggy David & Ralph David. They ran well for most of the race, holding the lead until overheating problems put them out at the ¾ mark. It looks like they are finally getting some of the bugs worked out of the big truck. The winner in Sportsman Truck (again) was Barry Slatter & Den-nis Thorn. They had fuel pump problems on the first lap, but set fast time for the class on the sec-ond. Somewhere along the way, one of the locating arms for the rear end tore loose, leaving a four inch hole in the top of the differ-ential housing. They made quick repairs (ain't duct tape wonder-ful!) and motored on to take the• checker and the DUSTY TIMES Award for last official finisher. Sportsman Buggy had the fifth different winner in six races. Ed Dunn & Floyd Simmers took the win in only their third race, setting fast lap on the way. They had some electrical problems on their first lap and then had a th rot-J.C. Dean ran four fast laps then popped a pair of c. v.s on the last lap, but his crew was not far away, got him fixed, and he had had such a good lead that Dean won Class 10 by over ten minutes. Scott Chamber and Todd Anderson got in all five laps in Class 5 action and most were quick rounds too as they motored on to the class victory with no apparent problems. de cable sticking ( it must have stuck on fast, because their times didn't show much in the way of "slow"), setting class fast lap on the second. They grabbed the runner-up spot in both the MIDNIGHT and the SNORE 250 and are in second place in Sportsman Points for the year. John Gangloff & Jeff Lewis are another fast rising team, taking third in the "250" and grabbing the number two spot at the DOUBLE TROUBLE. They led the class from the green until they were slowed by a right rear flat just a couple of miles from the finish. The third place honors went to Robert Eldridge & Jeff Hall. They had a good first lap, coming around in second, but they had problems on their second lap. The third time around, everything just went all to _ heck and a fourth lap was out of the question. The other three entries in the class all tied for last place. Pat Tighe, Noel Nytro ( yeah, I know that's not his name, but you should see the way some guys fill out entry forms)( makes a neat nickname though) & Bill Keena went out in the most spec-tacular fashion. Pat was trying to pass another car and planted his racer nose first in a ditch. The car was considerably bent and unfor-tunately, so was Pat. He had to spend quite a bit of "sheet time" and it may be awhile before he gets back behind the wheel. Jack & Will Bassett, Kevin Ruesch & Steve Ogle ran into terminal troubles on their first lap, as did Steve Carbone & Dan Zischke. And then there is the 5-1600 class. It was just the same as every other race in 5-1600 this year. Same winner, no trauma, just an-other pe.rfect day in paradise. Bruce Fraley & Robert Hamblin set fast time on the first lap and just cruised to another win. It's a good thing everybody likes Bruce (you can call him "Famous Fraley" now since that dandy art-icle in HOT VW s Magazine about him and his car). If everybody didn't like him, somebody would probably fling a bomb in front of him, just to slow him down. Pat Carter, Steven Waller & Johnny Foust had some of their shocks turn puny, but ran strong enough to take the number two spot. Pat said they had every kid in the neighborhood sanding on the car to get it ready for the race and all they had was 180 grit paper. When the paper ran out they said, That's it-Paint it. The paint wasn't quite dry when they hit the tech line at THUMPERS Friday night. Kevin Brian Collins has poor luck on his home turf, but set fast lap of the day on lap 1, but on lap 3 of five the new stronger steering parts failed again. Darren Wilson and Keith Underwood seem to attract things that flatten tires, but they survived the troubles to take second in Class 10 by two minutes . Mike Larson and John Phegley were troubled by mystery stuff clogging the fuel lines, but they carried on to finish all five laps, third in Class 10. ..,.60 January 1994 Dunynma

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Clay Flippin and most of his family race hard in their Class 5, but a long first lap, a real long one, put them out of the running at this tough race. Kenny Freeman whipped off five laps all in the 49 minute range, and his consistency brought him in second in Class 1-2-1600, just 40 seconds back. Billy Bryan and Les Carter had a sour motor in the first lap, but in cleaned out and ran fine, taking them to third in the tight Class 1-2-1600 contest. .,,, w~ ,., Regan, Jeremy and Tory Gubler er.ded up in an unusual tie for Pat Carter, Steven Waller, and Johnny Foust haa shock troubles Class 5-1600 had a 100% finishing ratio, hard to do on SNORE fourth, right down to the second, in Class 1-2-1600 despite but a good day in the second edition of the "found in the desert courses, and Kevin Streety, Paul and Dorothy Klick got their putting the car on ·its side. VW". They were second 5-1600. Baja Bug home third in class. -----------------------Street y, Paul & Dorothy Klick fourth this time, despite losing a ontheracecourseandleapsoutto racewithaminimumofproblems SNORE races rarely come down took third place, barely a minute front tire and breaking a throttle do unspeakable things to his race and grabbed the number six spot. to a tie, but these guys accomp-behind Carter. Kevin said he cable. They finished the race with car. He got in a good first lap, but Kevin Colan left the line like he lished it, right down to the didn't have mush trouble, other the co-driver yanking the cable by on the second, something gnawed had a pack of wolves on his tail second. Regan had lost some time than losing a throttle cable on lap hand. Third place was taken by the right rear suspension clean ( which may be appropriate, how on lap one when he laid the car on one, rolling the car "a little" and Mike Kline & Steve Burke. Act- off. Bekki & Ken Freeman &Jack would you like to look in the rear its side, just past checkpoint two. running short on co-drivers. To ually, Mike didn't get to drive Clinkenbeard got the number view mirror and see Kenny Free- Billy Bryan & Les Carter fin-finish the race he even had to much. An Unlimited car drove in eight spot, with two laps complet-man and Danny Anderson snarl- ished third. Billy said the car ran shanghai Mike Dixon and tie him the back door without knocking, ed. Ken started the race and hit ing at your back bumper?). Kevin sour for much of the first lap, then • to the suicide side. The 5-1600 but it did ring Mike's bell. He thelineinfourthplaceonthefirst hung on to the lead until his cleanedoutandranfinetherestof class did have the distinction of a turned the wheel over to Steve lap, barely a minute behind the throttle cable started to stretch on the day. Maybe the motor just 100% finish, every car that because he was having trouble leader. It's quite unusual when a lap three. On the fourth lap the doesn't like getting up that early, started went the full distance. deciding which race course to driver doesn't have at least one cable stopped stretching and possibly a little more sleep would Class 9 didn't fare so well.This drive on. He must have been and generally several excuses broke completely, resulting in help, or some strong coffee in the was the smallest field of the year, shook up pretty good, cause he about why he f---ed (fouled) up, about twenty minutes of down gas tank? Ken Freeman Jr. & with only ten cars taking the was still walking about 7 degrees but Ken said, "I blew it. I just time for repairs. Kevin got going Lenny James took the number green, but all of them got in at off vertical three hours later. missed a turn and rolled 'er out again and finished the race in two spot, and fourth overall, just least one lap. Frank Baird got in Gene Griepentrog & Kent Loth-into the desert." Extremely. He fourth place, in a dead heat with forty seconds out of first. Kerry one good lap before his car heard ringer did their usual fine job and got the remains back to the pits, Regan, Jeremy & Tory Gubler, Freeman & Jack Clinkenbeard the trailer calling, leaving him in charged to the checker in second where they hammered as much -also credit i e d with fourth. were signed ~ tenth place. Mike Dixon led the place and reported little that was back straight as they could. Bekki class quite handily for the first noteworthy in the way of drama then took over and tried to finish lap, but then his transmission or trauma. The perennial brides-the race, but there were too many developed a bunch of lumps and maid finally got a chance to fling pieces pointing in too many dif-chunks in place of gears and he the flowers. Dave Petrillo, who ferent directions and she couldn't ended up in ninth. Brian Fieger has finished right next to first in force even one more lap out of the managed two laps before parking every race but one this season, at car. Dan Bradley, Sam & Jeff it in eighth. Jim O'Donnell was in long last got to see what the Dunnam & Steve Wilkinson did second place at the end of two checkered flag looks like before well in the early going, running laps, but the car went junk on his somebody else got it all dusty. fourth for the first couple of laps. third. I heard someone at start/ Dave set fast time for the class on They lost quite a bit of time on lap finish say, "I think I saw O'Don-lap two and led the rest of the way three and disappeared into the nell out at about mile seventeen" to the checkers. desert on lap five, credited with "Are you sure it was him?" As usual 1-2-1600 was the ac- seventh place. Rumor has it that "Well, he was sitting on a rock, tion class. Nine cars took the when Sam was driving, he got a smiling." "Yeah, that was Jim all green and six of them were still little over exuberant and put the right." flying at the checker. Rob & Bob top of the car into the rocks, but Bill Holbrook did not have a Guevara had the "honor" of be-you know how rumors are. Dan real shiny day. He lost second gear ing the first out. Rob seems to Jewett, Hugh .Helms, Greg Ewan on the first lap, but pressed on - have a personal demon that hides & Bob Filmoor ran a good steady and was in second place by the start of lap four. Things went all to horse apples shortly thereafter. Bill got a little exuberant and laid the car on its side at about mile five. Nice, soft berm though, didn't even scratch the paint. He got back underway quickly, only to break a ball-joint. He lost some serious time before he was able to borrow a spare trailing arm from Bill Avery and motor in for a sixth place finish. The fifth spot was filled by Jeff Carr. He lost some time on the first lap when a con-denser stopped condensing and he had to send out for a spare. Jeff said, except for that and a brake line problem, things went pretty well. Jason Avery, Robert Usz-yndski & A.J. Delap seem to get better every race: They grabbed Dusty Tilrics Bruce Fraley had another great day in his sano 5-1600 racer, and he had no troubles, not even a flat tire, and sped into victory, about 21 minutes ahead of second place: · - · -January 1994 Larry Job and Danny Anderson are dominating in Class 1-2-1600 this season and they set class fast lap on the third round, all five within one minute and they took another victory in this class and third overall. --~---;-_ . . . ---78.,J --= -~ = ---- . i:. ---Whether you 're on a chase crew, a racer or a 4WD enthusiast, the Rod Hall off-road driving school can help you be your best' But be ready .. the road isn't smooth! 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-Dave Petrillo, who has been second in Class 9 every race, this season, broke his jinx in the Nelson Hills, set class fast lap as well, had consistent times and sailed right into the Class 9 victory. The Sportsman Buggy Class had another new winner at this race; Ed Dunn and Floyd Simmers took top spot, and this was only their third race, plus they set fast class lap on the second round. -~ in as co-drivers, but Kenny didn't slow down long enough to pick up a bug on the windshield, let alone change victims, or co-drivers. Kenny ran an incredibly consistent race, with only a twenty two second spread from his best lap to his worst. Larry Job & Danny Anderson took home the win and third place overall. They ran· third for the first couple of laps; then cranked off fast lap on the third go-round to grab the lead, which they hung on to ti! the end. Danny ran the early laps, with Larry taking over for the checker. They must have been p racticin g driver changes, because they sure didn't lose any time in the process. Clay, Hal & Ken Flippin & Todd Ashley had enough trouble on lap one to last most people for several races and a tortoise barbe-cue. They managed to keep it go-ing long enough to take runner-up honors in Class 5 Unlimited. Scott Chambers & Todd Ander-son ran the full distance to take first place trophy for the class. continuing problem with little lumps of mystery silicon that kept materializing in their fuel lines and plugging the carb. They were in second place on the last lap when they dropped it into "cruise" after passing Keith Underwood, who was parked with (another) flat about six miles past the far end of nowhere. They didn't real-ize how good Keith's crew was at getting tires to him (lots of practice) and were surprised when he charged past, pushing ·, -~-system that fell apart toward th< end of the last lap and several 01 the slower cars that thought the, could race him and used up a 101 of race track in the process. Sign-up and tech for tht DOUBLE TROUBLE were held at THUMPERS on Flamingo at. Sandhill. It proved to be a fin~ place to hold the S & T and the· people at THUMPERS went out of their way to welcome all the SNORE racers and make sure everyone had a good time. The sign making shop next door even stayed open in case anyone need-ed some last minute lettering or numbers. (They even made up some nifty stickers of our famous SNORE Bug logo.) The awards breakfast was held Barry Slatter has been King of the Road in the Sportsman Truck class, did a real quick second tap, and then cruised the Ford Ranger for the next two rounds to win the class trophy again. at THUMPERS and the food was and second, overall. Not bad con-great and plenty of it. THUMP-sidering they lost second gear on ERS also donated a color TV to the first lap, which makes things a raffle off, which was won by Billie little tricky with an automatic Looney, which made a really neat trans and a peaky engine. First start for Billie's birthday party. place in Unlimited and first over-Many thanks to THUM PERS. all was taken by Tommy Bradley We are proud to add them to our & Ted May. Tommy said the only distinguished list of SNORE race them back to third at the finish. Darren Wilson & Keith Under-wood grabbed second, barely two minutes ahead of Larson. Keith used up the whole front bumper on the car, when he charged into a dust cloud which turned out to be plumb full of Danny Anderson, who had the anchor full on be-cause he was late for a turn. Other than that, the only prob-: lems he reported were a veritable ' plethora of expired tires. J.C. Dean led from wire to wire, set fast lap and had a great race going until the last lap, when the car decided to start shucking c. v .s, two in one lap. The ever efficient Barbary Coast crew made the nec-essary repairs and J.C. finished with a ten minute edge on second. The Unlimited division had their share of tro~bles. Todd Vanderwalker & Steve Hansen got in only one long lap before the race demons devoured their racer. Brian Collins set fast time for the day and led the first two laps before some essential steering parts went out on strike. After a· U-joint failed at the SNORE 250, they replaced it with a stronger one. The stronger one failed too. Now for "Plan C". John Gaughan & Peter Castleton ran strong all day and finished second in class problems he had were an exhaust s Tommy Bradley is breaking in his soon to be pit crew as his toddlers inspect dad's overall winning car at the finish line impound area. Racing is a total family sport for most SNORE drivers. Class 10 had a 100% finish with three cars starting and three cars finishing, but it was a case of the lame leading the halt. Mike Larson & John Phegley lost a front shock early on, then had a J.C. Dean gets some fast service for broken c. v.s from Eddie Webb, under the car, and Mike Smig, alongside the rear tire, as J.C. climbs into the Class 10 en route to victory. One of the hardest working SNORE volunteers got some reward at the awards breakfast at Thumpers. Billie Looney held th.e winning raffle ticket and took home this keen TV, and the day was her birthday, how neat. Gene Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer drove their tidy Loth-ringer right into second place in Class 9 and had no real troubles along the course. Page 61 Mike Kline, hit on tap 1, and Steve Burke who drove most of the distance had a good race after all with two good laps that put them third in Class 9. January 1994 John Gangloff and Jeff Lewis had three good, fast taps in their Sportsman Buggy, slowed a tad with a flat tire, but still were second not two minutes back. Dusty Times

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The Texas Vintage Racing Club Takes Bad Dogs By Storm By Barry Don Calloway The Sportsman Class heads towards the infield double jump just after leaving the starting line, the infighting in this class is so intense that they have earned the nickname of the Wild Bunch. Barry Don Callaway scrambled his way into the lead in the Sportsman Buggy race, and he held the lead to the checkered flag, which also gave him the j championship for the 1993 season. The final race of the 1993 sea-Smith taking home the fifth place son at Bad Dog's Off Road Show-ribbon. down drew some 99 entries Next up was the Amateur "A" divided among 16 different Vintage riders seeing Arlington's classes for a spectacular day of Joe Clifton shooting out front for racing last October. Every racer the overall. Burleson's Steve knew their performance on this Roland captured second position day could mean the series champ-over Charles Wallace in third. ionship or having to settle for the David Jarvis ventured up from runner up position in the overall Houston to take fourth place over points series for the year. All eyes David Kirk of Waco who was were on the flagman's wave of the fifth for the day. had to settle for runner up over Euless's Roger Dilley in third and Waco's Rick Denney in fourth. ► Chad Smith held off hard charging Ed De Travenier all day, taking the overall victory in the Amateur ranks of the A TV Division. overall victory. The "Cool Dog" Arlington's Rick Townsend put Cody Don Callaway fell in moto 1 his Suzuki into third over Plano's but came back to finish second in Bill Zemack in fourth. Andrew the final moto to take a narrow Prcse from Valley View rounded margin of victory over Cleburne's out the class in fifth. checkered flag to see who would The Amateur "AA" Vintage be crowned series champion in saw Abilene's Scott Wegner take each division. home top honors over Plano's The Texas Vintage Racing Club Jerry Nelson in second. Third brought in over 48 beautiful Vin-place went to Burleson's Thomas tage Motorcycles for this event Adkins with fourth and fifth with a full starting grid in each of going to John Manson of Hurst the vintage classes. Alvarado's and Don Kraft from Haltom City. "Bad" Billy Smith put his Elsi- Colleyville's John Fricke out-nore out front in the Vintage Mas-ran the competition all the way to ters division to take the overall the checkered flag for the top spot win over Euless's Randall Tarter in the "Small Bore" division of pounding his way into second in Vintage bikes. "Jammin" Joe front of Ft. Worth's "Jamin" Joe Busbytookawaythesecondposi-Busby chasing the front two for tion over a hard riding David Kirk third place honors. Colleyville's in third. Bedford's Rick Heidman John Fricke powered his vintage punched his way into fourth over equipment into fourth over "The Don Kraft rounding out the class Sarge" Bobby Lucas rounding out in fifth. the masters division in fifth place. The "Thumper" Class ( 4-ln the Vintage Intermediate Stroke Vintage division) roared division,JohnPoormadethelong onto the 3 / 4 mile track next. trip from Abilene to take the Pounding his way into the lead on overall victory in front of Rick his beautifully restored Rickman Oestricher of Ft. Worth in was Ft. Worth's "Jammin" Joe second. Hillsboro's Alan Davis Busby who showed once again he put on a strong ride into third was the force to be dealt with as he over Grand Prairie's Randy took the top position. Charles Brown, fourth and Flint's Stacy Wallace chased Busby all day but Cleburne's own Gabe Gabel surprised everyone in the Super Challenger class of dune buggies as he took home the cash for first place over a very determined Steve Dutton of Gainesville in second. Ft. Worth's John Myers and Arlington's Jerry Daigle took the third and fourth positions, putting on a great show for the crowd. Gabe's son Wes Gabel kept the family name in the winner's circle as he took first place in the Challenger class over Pearland's Calvin "The Rookie" Perry in second. The Wild Bunch in the Sportsman Class pulled the crowd to their feet as they entered the track. The "Bad Dog" Barry Don Callaway punched his way into the lead as Cleburne's Don "The Yank" Westman and Pear-land's "Bad"Benny Perry swap-ped paint and positions all race long with "The Yank" coming out on top. Dallas' Hank "Fig" New-ton pulled into fourth place over Dallas' Greg "Hammer Head" Brown for the fifth spot in the very demanding class. As the PW-50 motorcycle class entered the course the nervous parents lined the track in anticipa-tion of victory for their offspring. Plano's Scott Wennerstrom Jr. made his dad a "happy camper" as he swept both motos for the Chance Berg chasing Callaway Fort Worth's Tim Silence right down to the checkers for blasted his way into the lead and third. Garland's Ben Sorenson Jr. never looked back in the Odys-rode flawlessly taking fourth sey/Pilot class taking the overall place over Mesquite's Jennifer victory over Dallas' Tim Lee, DeTavenierputtingherminicycle second, and Ft. Worth's John into fifth over Arlington's Ryan Myers, in third. Miller powering his way into the The Mud Drags came next with sixth position. Pete Lauritsen taking the win over Non-current motorcycles were John Larison, second, both from up next with Allen's Chris Garland, and Chris Mitchell was Cadieux showing up first at the third. Mitchell took the win over finish line to take the victory over Larison in the Mud Bog event. Bruceville's Jay King for second. The "Slam Car" competition Garland's Ben Sorenson flew into ended the day's activities with third over John Newman and some of the earliest winning driv-Robby Sindle, fourth and fifth, ers getting to take their frustra-both of Waco. tions out by crashing the demoli-Bobby "Pikes Peak" Parr once tion cars together. All had fun but again tore a hole in the wind in the the vehicles looked awful after the Pro ATV class sweeping both mayhem. motos for the overall class win. The October race ended the Wichita Fall's Eric Wood eight race series at Bad Dogs couldn't quite catch Parr and which began in March. We would settled for the runner up position like to say thanks to all the volun-in front of David Pickett of teers who helped to make it Gilmer in third spot. Grand Prair-happen. Our next scheduled ser-ie's Paul Audet, fourth edged out ies of events will begin in March Denison's Don Gordon in fifth. of 1994 with racing continuing In the Amateur ranks of the every third Sunday until October. ATVs Chad Smith narrowly For information call (817) 645-edged out Ed De T avenier in one 0003 or ( 81 7) 641-9985. of the closest races of the day. Leading here Eric Wood took the early lead in the Pro A TV race, but he had to settle for second after Bobby Parr, inside left here, passed him late in the race. The "Slam Car'" Competition was awesome, and they must have gotten the idea from the Brush Run. Here most of the cars only made two or even one lap. Cody Don Callaway gets some advice as he looks for the smooth line through the whoops on his way to a second place finish in the PW-50 class for little folks. DustyTimcs January 1994 Page 63

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Ro£id Bussy S~11ppRy Race Car Chassis Race Car Parts Aluminum bodies 1/2-1600 Motors And Trans Custom Machine Work & Fabrication 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, Az. 853_65 (602) 783-6265 • 1 (800)231-8156 Fax (602) 783-1253 a,, ROAO CHASSIS lfn,</h'"'" ,,,-,,? BUF.NA PARK, CALIFORNIA Complete Off Road Preparation FOR TRUCKS. VANS & MINI TRUC K S PRE"·RUN TRUCKS• CUSTOM SUSPEfJr,10N AXL.E SERVIC E • WELDING & t AArll( /\ I ION Bill Montague Est. 1.974 (714) 781-9460 PARI<ER PUMPER HELMET 2318 S VINEYARD SUITE B ,'.::>NTARIO, CA 91761 COMPANY 909-923-7016 • CUSTOM ELECTRICAL FABRICATION ---,---. · FUEL INJECTION CONVERSIONS · COMPLETE TURN KEY CARS · MOBILE SERVICE AVAILABLE RACE & CUSTOM CAR WIRING JOE DAVITIAN TEL: 213/550-1069 FAX: 213/550-1091 SoF1'°' Or 3263 SAN FERNANDO RD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90065 Telephone: (714) 5354437 (714) 5~54438 David Kreisler 920 East Arlee Place Anaheim, CA 92805 For Race ~ For Play SCORE S.C.C.A. HORA RACEPREP Race Car Pickup Service Available FABRICATION GEORGE MALDINI 49626 N. 230th St West Lancaster, CA 93536 1-805-724-0887 .suspension Work • custom Tube Bending •Race Repairs & Setup •Custom Bumpers •Grill Guards •Roll Cages •Pre-Runners DUSTY TIMES INVITES YOU TO BECOME A DEALER Each month ten or more copies of the current issue can be in your shop, to sell or to present to preferred customers. It is :i grc:it traffic builder, and the cost is minimal. ·coNTACT DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St. Chatsworth, CA 91311 818-882-0004 LAURA RICHARD S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT11 HCR66, BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV 89041 (702) 372-5335 S~!!M~E,!! r oti'7 . Computerized Vinyl Lettering I< 4 C - . " \L A ·) CQs,. \ \..J--'.c,,, TIM CECIL 7 C f2 c::-_ - ~ c 4010 N. Palm Street, #103, Fullerton, California 92635 -(714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 870-9132 §V(jW if~(;IM --==~t+~!~ ~ J ,-.Ji!j== 12221 DITMORE DR . GARDEN GROVE, CA 92641 (714) 539-5162 JOB Silt SIGNS· BANNERS· Wlt«M' LEmRHl · CAA LETIERING · GRAPIIXS Pe,LbrdWIICe Products J . PENHALL ..... • ■ Free Advice & Technical Assistance ■ R&D ■ All Size Jobs Welcome FABRICATIONS RACERS MACHINING SERVICES 1680 Babcock Bldg. #8 Coata M•a. Ca 92627 Jerry Penhall (714) 650-3035 . Fax# (714) 650-4721 ~arrmlrin • 'Body Panels • Boat Repairs • Manufacturing of Moulds Pete Van De Hey 414-532-4186 Route 3 3786 DePere, WI 54115 Chassis & Suspension • Desi,:n & Fabrication Ken Sypolt 916-638-9869 3666 Omec Park Drive Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 "If You Can Imagine It, I Can Make It" , SCOTT DORDICK 909-394-1802 2041 E. Gladstone #H Glendora, CA 9F40' Fax 714-394-1903 Call for FREE Catalog! ~evJ -17,e()-~► OFF ROAD COMPONENTS Dealer Inquiries Invited 21430 WAALEW ROAD, APPLE VALLEY, CA 92307 15855 Dell View Rd. El Cajon, California 92021 TEL(619)240-2266 • FAX(619)240-1359 SteveSpirkoff/Owner 619/561-2913 If/ !1 /jJ}(t(I/Jjllf!JliIJ lflil!l/!11!ft!Jll!/(i)IJ . RACE VEHICLES & STREET RODS SPECIALIZING IN • CHASSIS-SUSPENSION · HANO FORMED ALUMINUM WORK • CUSTOM HEADERS -RACE PREP (805) 461-1949 (805) 461-1447 SPORT ~ ~ ~ ENGINEERING OFF ROAD METAL FABRICATION VW RACE ENGINES SUSPENSION PREP TURN KEY VW CLASS RACE BUGGIES TUBE BENDING SHEET METAL MACHINING FLAME & PLASMA SHAPE CUTTING 818-994-7475 GREGG HAWKS VAN NUYS, CA CARROLL DITSON. ..

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[f!JJ[!JJD (213)583-2404 SANQER_S SERVICE, INC. METAL PROCESSING 5921 WIimington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 SANDBLAST GLASS BEAD MAGNETIC PARTICAL FLOURESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith Larry Smith Straight IE 1-\nc nl ALUMINUM _WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31420 96TH STREET EAST LITTLEROCK, CA 93543 805'944-2719 FORD RANGER FIBERGLASS BODY PANELS & HOODS BILL STROPPE MOTORSPORTS, INC. 2330 Cherry Industrial Circle Long Beach, California 90805 (213) 634-2730 Jaime Martinez SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED * Welding * Fabrication * Flame Cutting * Front Ends * Custom Chassis * Race Prep* Custom Lt-Weight Trailers Mtg 'r of Blue Flame Products (714) 996-6260 1345 Dynamics, Unit D • Anaheim, CA 92806 Suspension Components SAW Performance, Inc. 20755 MARILLA ST. • CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-700·9712 FAX 818-700-0947 Trackside Photo, Inc. Jim Ober Commercial Photog,;aphy 310-670-6897 P.O. Box 91767, Los Angeles, CA 90009 l(IICE Tl(IINS BY JEFF REIJ)'S TRfiNSfiXLE ENCilNEE~NCi We Race What We Sell TRANSMISSIONS WEST ..---......, . /_. ~ ;o,, Kevin Pirtle 800/435-0418 310/782·2413 22545 S Normandle Ave., Torrance, CA90501 MOVING? Don't miss an issue of DUSTY TIMES Send Y<;>Ur Old and New _Address to 20751 Marilla St. Chatsworth, CA 91311,4408 Allow six weeks for processing. TURBO BLUE Racing OasaDnllS Afocaoy Racing 8446 Garfield Ave. • Bell Gardens, Ca. 90201 • (310) 928-2278 Lyn Mocaby Mike Mocaby Gordon Culp [UMP] 619/449-9690 UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10223 PROSPECT AVENUE SANTEE CA 92071 CUSTOM SHEET METAL SHOP AIR CLEANER SYSTEMS . FULL LINE OF POWER STEERING FOR ALL TYPES OF RACING & RECREATIONAL VEHICLES PRODUCTION SHOP (TABS, BRACKETS, BODIES, ETC.) Wt' PAI/Yr /WP Ctl477NGS..:GR.AM.n;...-kJllOf} * •RJ!a TO~ IMJNfelVAN{,'F• f!Jml/YAfJ'lrJfliUIHC.* (1W"-#.ffl MY067B''1arRck.11p~ •619• o HISH-PERFORMANCE SHOT-PEEN/NS Tired of premature breakage of drive axles, torsion bars, spindles and other critical suspension, transaxle and engine parts? Shot-peening could be the solutwn. But we don't perform your ordinary, garden-var,ety sh_ot-peenmg-we provide . aerospace-certified shot p~ening in accordance with MIL-SPEC #131658 ensuring the highest in quality. That means added assurance when you need 11 most. While each situation is different. we've seen torsion bars last 5 seasons or more. Duty cycles are commonly increased 7-10 times. · Gall fax or write today for more information regarding our advanced shot-. • peening services. We UPS daily for quick turnaround. _tf;l ..II fl/ ATJ/11/(1 780 Second Ave. • Redwood City, CA 94063 W' ;,.· fflf f ,U/11) Ph. (415) 367-8098 • Fax (415) 367-8105 /IOIITI/EI Automotive • A TV • Motorcycle 1815 Massachusetts Ave Riverside, CA 92507 909/369-5144 Fax 909/369-7266 (31 OJ 598-2731 WEddlE ENGiNEERiNG Exclusive distributor of Lock-Right'mvw Locking Differentials PERFORMANCE TRANSAXLE PRODUCTS Billet Super-Diffs, Gearsets, Hard to Find New and Used Parts Wholei,ale/Retall. Dealer ln'lulrle5 Welcome P.O. Box 15466 Long Beach. CA 90815 ~ ' " •~,..~-..,,.__--~ ~-R_,. __ ~ --•..--- • * - • • ..-•--• WIND RIVER GROUP P U BLIC RELATION S AND MARKETING CONSULTANT S EDWIN C . JACOBS PRESIDENT 900 STATE MILL ROAD AKRON. OHIO 44319 (216) 644-7774 Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix. N. 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077

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Classified ••. FOR SALE: 1989RacecoClass 1, owned by Hamilton Materials. Top of the line everything including Porsche 3 .5 liter 3 lOhp engine with titanium rods and crank and Hewland transmission ( won 2 races). Also, Class 1 pre-runner with Type IV engine and Hewland transmission. Class (714) 637-2770. Ask for Mark Hamilton. FOR SALE: Porsche 3 .5 liter engine. 300 genuine horsepower, 290 pounds of torque. Carillo rods, Weber carbs, Web-Cam camshafts, Tri-Mil headers, dual sparkplugs per cylinder heads, 90 amp alternator, optional Tilton carbon dual plate clutc.h assy w/flywheel. Engine is 100% fresh. Built by Bobby Hart at California Motorsports. Call RCR Racing (909) 371-5000, ext 141. $15,000.00 less clutch. Option on Tilton clutch $2,500.00 oho. FOR SALE: Class 10, 102" short course car. 5 link 3/4"' ends, Fox shocks, 4 wheel discs, power steering, fire bottle, Centerlines, headlocks, CNC hydraulics, Sway-A-Way axles, 930 c.v.'s, 1650cc Rabbit, Revpower, FAT, Web-Cam, Manley, Webber, very competitive car. Only 12 short course events since new. Must sell. $10,000.00. tanadian dollars. Can deliver on west coast. Brad Wheeler (604) 941-2090. WANTTOGETAWAYFROM IT ALL? 871,200 square feet of pine trees, approximately 6000 feet up; enjoy a four season climate located in the Tehachapi mountains, behind locked gates. 20 acres of pure isolation. 2 pads ready for your mountain hide-a-way. Overlooks entire Antelope Valley. Easy in and out on graded road. Call Don at (805) 268-1644. FORSALEOR TRADE:5-1600 race car, has 3 races, bus tranny with close ratio gears, best of everything, pumper, shocks with reservoirs, car is made for a tall person, has custom fresh paint, beautiful car. $6,000.00 oho. Also 5-1600 project car for $1,000.00. (619) 766-4689. FOR SALE/TRADE for off shore boat/plane/motorhome. 1989 Mirage Class 10, Type 1 motor with Hewland transmission. This car has the best of everything, too many to list. $20,000.00 cash or will consider trade of higher or lower value. Call (702) 897-8838 days or (702) 456..0304 nites. i FOR SALE: RACECO Class 10. FOR SALE: Nelson & Nelson's This is the one! Rabbit powered 1989 Class 8 truck. This "1993" vehicle driven to Baja 1000 vie- Baja 500 winner is perfect for the tory by Mickey Thompson. 1994 Score rules. It comes with Winner of 4 Class 10 points all spare parts, a fresh 430ci championships, '2 in SCORE/ 650hp factory Chevy Rocket HORA, & 2 Baja Promotions. Block Racing Engine. New This is a good solid race car with a Hy dramatic Turbo 400 trans, all winning history. $6,000.00 and the best• parts. $60,000.00 Race you fix the trans or $9,000.00 ready. Call (909) 925-4448. turnkey. Call John at (805) 525-. ------9386 ( with spares). R SALE: Factory b0u,ilt 5-1600, 1 year old. 100% chrom-oly, Kister bypass shocks, Fodrill arms & spindles, Centerline.;, Goodyears, Sway-A-Way, Dura-Blue, Fuel Safe. Featured in November Dune Buggies & Hot VW's. This car is the best money can buy. Call Bruce (702) 367-4311 day, (702) 256..0964 nites. FOR SALE: New 1993 Jimco FOR SALE: 117" Class 10 single seat Raceco coil-over Carr disc brakes, 1650 Rabbit Bus Hewland · Neal-UMP-Woods rear arms Wright spindles & front arms. Marvin Shaw bump stops Bilstein shocks Beard seat turning brake dual batt Centerlines BFG Super Boot stubs & axles. 5 time VORRA champion. Solid light & dependable. $8,500.00. Steve Bradford (408) 394-4104 days, (408) 726-1206 nites. --------"Ultra Light" 5-1600. Zero miles FO ALE: Cass 1 or oyota on new Majors motor & Mende- powered. Curnutts, Wright, Neal FOR SALE: 1966/93 Class 5 car. ola trans. Best of everything. No pedals, Charlynn, Parker Pumper, '56 body, full alum interior, expensespared.Over$28,000to Simpson belts, Beard seats, Berg Wright Place front, Track rear, build. Race Ready, always shifter, Centerline wheels, Giese air sup. 18" rear, 13½" professionally maintained. Yokohama tires, Suspension front, 2074cc motor, Weddle $15,000.00 oho. Will consider Unlimited arms, Kennedy clutch trans, Super-Boot, Beard, Fresh jet or fish & ski boat as parttrade. assembly, Mikuni carbs, Fuel Air sys w/ helmets, 35 gal cell, Call Mike James at (619) 445- Safe, Holley pump, IPF, Engle SuperTrapp,4130&DOMcage, 5797. · cam, Toy Sport header, TRW, FOR SALE: Short course or all 4130 susp comp. The car is COLORADO RIVER HOUSE K&N. Call (310) 425-5904 or desert A-Arm coil-over car. 18" very detailed and is street legal FOR SALE: 2200 square feet, 4 (_3_l_0 ___ )_9_Z_0_-7_l_8_9_. _____ _ FOR SALE: 4x4 Full Race Nissan Pathfinder, 18" front, 21"' rear travel, 9"' full floater, Turbo 400 trans, fuel inj V6, Kuster shocks. BEST OF EVERYTHING! $ZOOK plus invested. Complete package priced to sell at $49,900.00 Baja Concepts ref #184 (619) 583-6529. ====------=-,,\,ih~/'·•· FOR SALE: '91 For Cass 8, ive firsts! Four seconds! Seven thirds! 600hp Patton/Parabocks eng. BFG's w/ beadlocks. Shitloads of spares, ¼ elliptical C-6 Magi. Bunderson shocks, Chrisman/ Summers 9". $49,950.00 Baja Concepts ref #228 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: "THE TRAILER"' -1988 40' Toy House 5th wheel tri axle. You name it, it's installed. Currently used to haul Heavy Metal Class 8 truck with the fol-lowing amenities: Side entry door w/16' awning, 12vinterior lights, roof air conditioning, queen size bedroom over 5th wheel, gas stove & oven, electric or gas fridgew/ freezer, closet, TV table, shower, toilet. Cargo area has floor tie-downs, overhead cabinets, diamond plated floor, aluminum semi type doors. All this for $12,000.00 Call Gail at ( 414) 835-4800. FOR SALE: MTEG Briggs Built Super Lite. Fresh motor & trans, Fox shocks, Beadlocks w/Good-yea rs. Lots of spare parts. $6,500.00 oho. Call Bruce at (702) 367-4311 or (702) 256-0964. travel front and rear. 109½wb. 4 w/ current paperwork. Still off-bedroom, 4 bath, 4 car garage. FOR SALE: '89 Chenowth Class wheel disc brakes, turning brake. road capable and has won 3 car Located in a gated community. 9. All the good stuff. Bilsteins, Power steering 1: 1 rack. Toyota shows & 2 best eng car in show. Excellent floor plan, large living Beard seats, Neal pedals, 20 gal 1600, 091 bus trans. Porsche cv's. Over $25,000 in parts alone. room, two master suites. Located cell, Armstron tires, Filler Har-Beards Ultra Super Seat. Race $7,900.00 oho or part trade & on the water in Parker. ness, Bitco trans. W / O motor ready. Call Travis (602) 245-cash. MUST SELL SOON! (714) $250,000.00. CallStuartat(818) $2,000, w/motor $3,800. Call 1035 leave message $7,500.00. 265..0329. 841-2316. Mike after 5pm (206) 794-3161. - .,. --- - - - - - - -... -.................... - - - ------_.___ - - - -...... ---- -iiiia iiiiiaWliii - - - ---a.-;i - -, ::¼fd&§WktN,WH&iJ.fl:AltiwM I S ll P · t p t d p · · . FOR SALE: Class 9 Challenger e or swa your ex ra ar s an ieces in I, fresh engine and DJ trans. Fox: I DUSTY TIMES. I Wright, UMP, Sway-A-Way, I I Parker Pumper, K&N, Flame-I Classified Ad~ertisingrate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00for use of I Out, dump cans, spare parts & I black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. trailer included. Ready to race. I $5,000.00. Call Tim (805) 499-1 NEW_AND RENEWAL_SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES-A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and s_ubscribe. If I 3686days,(805)373-6548 nites. I you wish to use a photo m your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. · I I --------------------------I I --------------------------I I I I -------------~-- ----------I I -------------------------- I I f I ------ --------------------I I -------------------------- I I Enclosed is$ _____ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. I I I I Name --------------- - - ----------------Mail to: I I DUSTY TIMES I I Address ----------------------Phone-------20751 Marilla Street I I Chatsworth, CA 91311-4401:S I City ___________________ State ____ Zip _______ _ .L_ ' .. Dusty Timcs January 1994 FOR SALE: Jeep Wrangler, 401 motor, 400 tranny, Summers Dana 60 rear, 44 w / locker front, Rancho rebuildable shocks, National springs, new seats/ belts, Flameout, pumpers, spare tires, trailer. Grear '94 Sportsman class fun; fast, dependable. Currently racing FRT series. $10,000.00 oho. Call Don (619) 748-5785. IJE Page 69

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FOR SALE: Class 10 Bunderson, Curnutt, new motor & trans. This car has never been raced since ground-up rebuild! Disc brakes, Flame-Out, UMP, Mast-ercra ft, spare parts, too many things to list. $15,000.00 or trade. Call (505) 271-9015. ,:i, ... ~-J FOR SALE: Raceco SS, Class·10. 1990 Class 10 points champion. FAT air-cooled 126hp, 091 bus, FTC gears, Summers floater rear end, secondary, coil over front end, new: spindles, arms, UMP, Bilstein, SAW, PCI radio equipment, extra parts, tandem trailer. $13,500.00 Call (310) 640-6119 or (310) 322-1637. R SALE: 2-1600 SAW leaves & 300M, Mirage beam & rear arms, Fox, 930's, Wright, Char-Lyn, combos, Woods, Beard, 20 gal Fuel Safe, Y okohamas, Centerline, Fresh motor & trans, race ready $8,000.00 oho. Call (407)459-1373 days. Fl Deliver? F R ALE: ciass ID singe seat Chenowth 1000. lOYwb, wide beam, combo, Wright arms, 12 Bilstein, air cooled Type 1 and more good parts. Good starter car or short course. $5,600.00 oho. Call Mike (801) 485-5770 or (801) 328-4909. DO YOU WANT TO BE 10-15% quicker than the opposition with less breakage and wear? Pro-fessional FIA World Champion-ship co-driver, experienced in writing & reading of pace notes, team management, logistics and event organization seeks a posi-tion with a desert racing, rally or rally raid team anywhere in the world. Stuart Roberts, P.O. Box 34-335, Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand. Call 64-9-483-5581. FOR SALE: Large pro essiona canopy for off road racing. Great companion to 32-36' trailer or motorhome. The tent is 31' long, 13' deep, 11' high at the crown, 9' at the rear and 7' high at the front. This is a heavy duty setup, not something that will blow over in a strong breeze. It is a perfect PIT canopy, large enough to pull race car under (at speed). It makes long days in the desert 20 degrees cooler & protection from mois-ture at nite. $1,250.00. Steve (714) 545-7333 day or (714) 631-4301 nite. ;:,:,j,:,~: FOR SALE: 1951 CJ3A, SB Chevy, Edelbrock, Lunati head-ers, Muncie 4 spd, overdrive, Rancho springs & shocks, Land-cruiser axles with 4: 11. PS, PB, extended wb6"', boxed frame, full roll cage, aluminum dash, tilt wheel, stereo, CB, 8000# winch, 2 tops. $7,000.00. Call (503) 879-2402. FOR SALE: ORC 1-1600, Cur-nutt shocks, Wright rack & com-bos, UMP power steering, UMP air cleaner, Parker Pumper, Flame-Out, Beard, Woods arms, very competitive car. $7,500.00. Call Mike (619) 365-1031. FOR SALE: 1989 Honda Pilot ( purchased new in 1992 ). Fea-tures include: Fox Racing Shox, 1987 Bundersonsingleseat 1600. La Rana class champion · 1990. Very competitive car. Includes nice trailer. Sell or trade for com-petitive 2 seater. $6,800.00 oho. Call Mike (619) 949-5333. FOR SALE: 24' trailer - FRP, ramp door, 48"' side door, electric brakes & tongue jack, 20' awning, work bench, lights & storage. $7,500.00 oho. Call Art (412) 687-5093. . CW Racing stage 2 porting, head & tuned 38mm Keihen carb., Graydon pipe, Graydon alum silencer ( w / spark arrester), Doug-las alum wheels, Dunlop tires, Simpson harness, plus lots of spares, wheels; tires, shocks & lots more! Winner of the "1993 VORRA Series Championship". $5,500.00. Call Fox Racing Shox ( 408) 269-9200, ask for Michael. FOR SALE: 1989 1/2-1600 SODA legal, best of everything. FAST! ex John Greaves car. Will p~y for itself in one year. Spares. $6,000.00. Call Jon (414) 830-2365. Page 70 FOR SALE: MTEG Super 1600 Chenowth Magnum roller. Summers, Wright, Wilwood, Neal Mastercraft, Flame-Out, SACO power steering, 930 cv's, Super Boot, Summer axles, Cen-terlines. Just add your engine and trans. Must sell fast $2,000.00 oho. Call Pat (909) 685-9369. FOR SALE: Class l/2-1600VW engine, built by Don Hatz. Engine is complete, fresh and ready to race. $2,500.00 or trade. Call (909) 599-9678. FOR SALE: Class 5 1991 La Rana Champion. FAT motor & trans, Summers Bros disc brakes, 300M torsion bars & axles, Bil-stein shocks, Beard seats, Wright Place progressive coil-over front end, combo springs, Centerlines, Yoko tires, spare parts. $9,000.00 oho. Call Joseph (310) 634-6189 days, or (714) 692-2011 nites. WANTED: 10"' widened beam with arms & 5 lug drum brakes. 3x3 rear trailing arms with 5 lug drum brakes. Also, axles, spin-dles, tie-rods, Centerlines, shocks, race radios. Also bus tranny & VW motor 1835. Call James (714) 494-2469. CASH WAITING! Need to pre-run Parker soon. Call James (714) 494-2469. , ... ,.-..,;,: ,..,.~ WANTED: Odyssey & Pilot owners interested in group rides across the state of Michigan. Looking for people interested in racing in Off Road Series. Con-tact Odyssey Pilots, 217 Rita Street, Lansing, Ml 48910. FOR SALE: 1986 Toyota 4x4 Extracab pickup. Great chase truck. White, 5 speed, PS, PB, AC, tilt, buckets, CB w/PA, wired for Roadmaster, phone, 6000# Warn winch, Rancho sus-pension, new 31" tires, tube bumper, receiver hitch, Brush-guard, aux fuel tank, camper shell, carpet kit, low miles, $7,000.00. Call Bob (310) 325-5141 days, (310) 541-3799 nites. FOR SALE: Class "10" Type 1 1650cc Leighton race motor, includes clutch & pressure plate, UMP power steering, S&S exhaust. Motor is fresh & com-plete. Call Tom at (619) 448-5392 or (619) 441-8936. $3,0,00.00. FOR SALE: Type "1" 2177 cc VW Major Performance motor, Kennedy clutch/pressure plate, S&S exhaust. Motor is brand new, "0" miles. $3,950.00. Call Tom at (619) 448-5392 or (619) 441-8936. FOR SALE: Challenger Class 9 2 seater. Fresh rebuilt engine & trans w / close ratio gears, fuel cell, helmet intercom system, Halogen flame system, rebuilt Bilstein shocks, chromoly spring plates, circuit breaker system, Yoko-hama tires, SCORE legal. $6,000.00 oho. Call Leonard (619)424-9451 orGilbert(619) 429-0646. WANTED: Ford 9" or Dana rear end, trussed if possible. Detroit Locker??? Also need C-4 trans-mission built for off road w/ lin-kage. Call Tom at (619) 441-8936 or (619) 448-5392. January 1994 SER VICES OFFERED: DG Video Productions offers service for all of your needs. Business & product promotion, product demonstration, special events/ races and everything in between. full editing & graphic capabilities. SVHS*VHS*Hi 8mm Call (619) ~86-46 ~ 1 for appointment or FOR SALE· ,93 p b La Ill mformation. · ro st ser :.:.::..:.:.:.:..:;:.:.:.:.;:.;_ ______ --. - unlimited single seat SODA Class FOR SALE: Parts, Fodnll sprm-. 1 & 9. Coil-over double A-Arm dles,_ Wright link combos with front, coil-over torsion trailing bea~mgs, :3x4 Woods rear arms,; arm rear. Light weight, under 2½ Wn~ht f~ont arms, 10 1400poundswithRabbit.Allthe travel for imulsion shocks, Neal good stuff. American Racing, Bil-pedals, 18 ~allon f~el cell, U~P stein, CNC, Summers, etc. power steer~ng, Wright rack with $16,500.00 complete/ offer. Will chromoly tie rods & mono ball sell less engine & trans. Also: ends. Call Everett (916) 273-many 90 degree Chevy V-6 parts 9113. including: heads, intake, alum Magnum, Open Class, Don Hatz motor, Fox, Wright, Summers Bros, 930's, Hewland gears, Parker, Master-craft, Fuel Safe, UMP, Neal, Cen-terline, Sway-A-Way. Raced 10 times. $8,500.00. Will separate, trades welcome. Florida car. Call Ed at (407) 292-2808 or (407) 291-1215. FOR SALE: Super 1600 MTEG points champion Chenowth Magnum with Rev-Power Rabbit motor. All ne Bi-Pass rear shocks. Spare Rev-Power Rabbit with 2 extra transmissions. Price $40,000.00 or best offer. Call Frank Arciero Jr. (714) 632-0134. FOR SALE: Interested in Stock Class off road racing? This is the truck for you! 1984 Toyota 4wd Extra Cab. Needs cage fabrication & assembly. Many new parts available. Call for listing & details. Potentially a great pre-runner, chase truck or competi-tive Stock Class race truck. First $4,500 tkes it. Call Bob (310) 531-0396 home or (310) 490-5811 pager. FOR SALE: Class 1-10 100". Wright coil front, two Type 1 motors, 1 is 1650cc, 1 is 2400cc, Type II transmission, Hewland, SACO, low hours since fresh, fire system, Fuel Safe, UMP, Simp-son, Mastercraft, 930's, Wil-wood, Fox, Bilstein, Centerlines. Complete w/aluminum decked trailer. Many spare parts, every-thing must go! $7,500.00 oho. Call (305) 634-2111 or (305) 553-4572. FOR SALE: Bilstein shocks #B46-1085, fits balljoint front end. 2 for $200.00, brand new. (818) 704-1760. Call Bruce after 5pm. block, Kinsler Inv. rockers, much more. Call Probst Racing (815) 485-7223 days, (815) 485-4691 FOR SALE: 1992 SCORE 1/2-1600 class champion & Parker 400 race winner. Suspensions Unl'td chassis, Fox Shox, FAT Perf engine newly rebuilt, new heads, new valve job. Trans just rebuilt, new ring & pinion, (2) ratios of 4th. Centerlines w / Yok-ohamas & spares, Beard seat, (2) Wright racks, (1) set Woods & (1) setWright front arms, Simp-son 8 /92 belts, unused 300M torsion bars, SAW 7 blade leafs, CNC pedals, Parker Pumper, 39 gal Fuel Safe cell ( imagine Parker 400 wlo stopping), low mounted spare, UMP pi s, ram & servo. Weight 1550#. Everything newly prepared w/lots of spares. :t,9,500.00. Call Dale or Darren (909) 244-3942. FOR SALE: 1991 MECO 1-1600. Best of everything. FAT, Fox, Charlyn, Leighton, Dura-Blue, Sway-A-Way. Winning car, low mileage, fully prepared, ready to race. $8,995.00. Call Chris Cash (208) 345-6451 days, (208) 362-411 7 nites. FOR SALE: 1990 Ford Ranger Lariet 2wd pre-runner. 4 liter fully loaded tubular core support glass fenders & bev sides, tire car-rier, Bilsteins, Rancho, Y okoha-mas, K&N, have 22 gal bladder Fuel Safe. Only 53,000 miles. Call Jason (714) 588-8715. $13,000.00 oho. FOR SALE: 1984 Searay 18' open bow 3.8 V6, 400 hours total. On a 1990 Pacific GAW tandem axle trailer. Mint -$7 ,300.00 or trade for 2 seat race ready 5-1600 or Class 9 car. Call Bob (619) 444-2186 days or (619) 565-0029 nites. Dusy nmcs

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-~ i . '¼: . FOR SALE: Class 1 or 10 Chen, owth, ll 7"wb, fresh FAT Rabbit, Tube Port head, fresh trans, Fox shocks, Summers Bros rear disc, new 3x3 rear arms, 30 gal fuel cell, pwr string, Jamar hydraulics, PCI radio. Race ready! Short course or desert. $7,500.00 oho. Call Dave (916) 272,2068. FOR SALE: 1980 Toyota 2WD, full cage, custom fabrication front to back. New Beard seats, 5 point belts, aluminum door panels, car, buretor exhaust and battery. 8 shocks, spare tire & mount, skid plate, lights. Runs excellent. Reg, istered for 1994. Must sell now! $3,300.00 or offer. Call (310) 451,2549. WANTED: Class 8 co,rider. Seat available for '94 SCORE season. Money, brains & balls is all you need when you call (619) 329, 7668. FOR SALE: Class 8 '92 Chevy sterside, 10 miles. SCORE/ HDRA, big hp 406cid, Mogi trans w/ Art Carr shifter, 26" travel front, 28" travel rear. Kuster coils, Cone hubs & rear. Cage, Halon, radios, air jacks, etc. Built to WIN!! $75K Baja Concepts ref #295. Call (619) 583-0529. FOR SALE: Tire & Auto center available in Oregon. BFGoodrich and other name brands with four all service bays. Profitable & well established. Retiring owner will train & finance. $135,000 after $65,000.00 down. Also, Car Wash Quick Lube center on Oregon coast. Acquisitions Resource, Jack Peters (503) 683, 7042. FOR SALE: '94 Chevy Trophy Truck, CU big travel! Big motor! Big price! No$ spared any place. Nelson built, identical to Raglands, w/ aluminum or steel motor. 650hp, full floater. A complete expert race truck with all the goodies. Spares Too! Serious inquiries only. $125k ref #212. Also avail. Kodiak hauler. $33k. Call Baja Concepts (619) 583-0529. PIT TEAM .REGISIER BAJA EXPRESS RACING TEAM Hayward Mendenhall 15518 Le Floss St Norwalk, CA 90650 213-864-0893 BAJA PITS RACING/SUPPORT Carlos Orozco-President 619-449-nn Leo Calderon-Race Director 619-267-9928 10362 Carreta Court Santee, CA 92071 CHAPALA DUSTERS Evan Harbottle-President 909-676-8625 Matt Hansen-Race Director 714-951-n55 CHECKERS Russ Bulow-President 28447 Aldee Park Canyon Country,CA91351 805-251-5970 John Files-Pit Coordinator 22311 Kentfleld Grand Terrace, CA 92324 C.O.R.E. Kevin McGllllvray-Race Director 33722 Agua Dulce Canyon Road Agua Dulce, CA 91350 805-268-8405 DESERT RACE SUPPORT Craig Lane-Race Director PO Box 1822 Apple Valley, CA 92307 - 619-247-0120 or 619-247-6258 F.A.I.R. Dave Masslngham-Race Dir 16269 Placid Drive Whittier, CA 90604 310-943-1916 I.D.R.A. George Thompson-Director 343-D Montezuma St #19 Prescott, AZ 86303 so2-n6-8528 LOS CAMPEONES Andy Felix-President 1069 S Santa Fe Vista, CA 92083 619-n6-0130 MAG7 Bruce Cranmore-Race Dir 11244 Horizon Hills Drive El Cajon, CA 92020619-440-3737 TIGHT TEN· John Lippett-Race Director 153 Lindell Avenue El Cajon, CA 92020 619-448-5500 FOR SALE: MTEG Ranger, Ess, linger 3.0 liter, Art Carr, C,4, complete racing package. $35K, ref #236. Ranger 7S '91, competi, tive! 3.0 liter Esslinger, T,5, 12" travel front, 15" travel rear, Cur, nutt, Summers, Cone, full floater, cage plus spares!! Complete pack, age 35k. Baja Concepts ref# 13 7. Call (619) 583-0529. BUSINESS IS BOOMING! We sold 3 of our best 2,16's last month & we still have buyers with cash waiting. Weneed2,16's & other racing & pre,run car & truck listings. Motivated sellers ,are dealing like we've never seen! Call us for our new January "Mas, ter List." Baja Concepts (619) 583-0529. RACE PREP: 15 years experience in San Diego area specializing in VW based cars. Pickup & del:v, ery service offered. Pre,runners, welding, complete fab and prep shop. Call for a quote today. (619) 445,5764. FOR SALE: SODA legal Class 1,1600. Best of everything, including: Fox, Sway,A,Way, Saco rack, Jaz cell, CNC pedals, Wright Place combos, BFGood, rich, Centerline, bus trans w/FTC gears, fresh 1600 motor w I all the tricks. Car is brand new, race ready. $5,500.00 oho. Call Joe (909) 359,2191 after 6pm. FOR SALE: Type IV 200Qcc engine. Holley carb, runs great. $1,000.00 Type 3 rear brakes complete woven brake shoes Sway,A,Way studs 5 or l / 2 1600 legal. $150 .00 German will ship brakes. (702) 438,7683. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Baker Precision Products . . . • . . . . . . 59 Barbary Coast -. FOR SALE: Chevy pre,runner, 3 piece front end, triple shock/ double shock, race seats, like new tires, recent rebuild on motor. Good overall condition. $4,900.00 oho. Call Rod (909) 687-0515. Gold Coast Hotels . • . . . • • . . . • . . 8 FOR SALE: 1992 Class 8 Dodge, Bilstein Corp.' of America . . . • . . . . . • 15 big block 450 cµbic inch, 550 hp, John Buffum Biography . • . . • • . . . . . 46 Kuster shocks, Summers 40 Cactus Racing Products . . • . • . . • . . . 23 spline, ¼ elliptic, Art Carr con, • Pr F 13 1 f California e un ..•. .••.•..•... verters, steel planateries, ots o 18 S d SODA . Castex Inc .• E-Z-Up •••.••.•.•.•.• spare parts. econ in m 1991, third in 1993. Call for Centerspread Calendar .. .. .. . .. . 36-37 more information ( 414) 532, Don-A-Vee Jeep-Eagle • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 4186. $24,500.00. Enduro Racing .•.•.•....•...... 21 FAT Performance .. .. .. . .. . .. . .. 51 FOR SALE: 5, 1600, 4 races new, FRT Dunaway Dash . /.... . • • . . . • . 2 zero miles on motor, fresh bus F I Sat 49 box, best of everything. Wright ue e • .... • .......... · .... 29 combo's, Woods arms, Fox German Auto ................. . shocks, Fuel Safe, pumper, UMP, Rod Hall Driving School •...•..•... 61 • Wright rack, new front & rear Hi Tech Dff Road .•.•• • • • • • • • • • • 31 SAW torsions, race ready with KC HiLites • •..•........•.. • • • • 17 two axle trailer & spares. Kuster Performance Products •...... 25 $7,500.00 oho. Call Chris (714) La Rana Desert Racing . . • . . • • . • . • . 11 669, 1798. Lothringer Engineering ..••....• . . . 42 WANTED: Beard seats, street or Mirage Racing Products ..•. . • . •..• 41 Super, any condition. Call Bruce Nevada Off Road Buggy .......•... 57 after 5pm (818) 704,1760. Pariter Pumper .•.....•.....•..• 39 FANATICS OR FANS: We have Pike's Family Restaurant • . . • . . • . . . 4 buyers waiting for 2, 16's, pre,run Pro Wire • . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . • . 71 trucks and Bajas, good 2 seat cars Race Ready Products • . . . • . . . • . • • . 33 and trailers too. Sellers, help us Raceshock Company . . . . . . . . . . . • . 32 keep up with our inquiries. Call Reid Pro . •...•.•..•...•....•. 16 or FAX for details. ATTN: Rose Traction . . •.•.•.......•.•. 27 BUYERS, we have over 160 cars 19 and trucks listed. Call us for our Schilling Racing • · · · · · · · · • · • · · · · new December "Master List". SCORE Parker 400 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 5 Take advantage at the end of the Marvin Shaw Engineering .•..•.•..• 30 season to pick up great deals on Slatter Racing • • • • • • • • • • · • · · • · · • 35 pre,run trucks & cars, limited SNORE Ltd. . ..•.. • • • • • • • • · • · • • 9 and unlimited race cars, race Mickey Thompson trucks and motivated short Entertainment Group .. .. .. .. .. . 7 .. course sellers plus many more! Toyota Motorsports . . • . . . . • Back Cover Wanna sell or buy, call Baja Tri-Mil Industries •.......•...•..• 53 Concepts at (619) 583-0529. Ultra 'Mleels ..•.......•••.•..• 47 FOR SALE: Class 10 motor, Valley Performance . . ..... •....•• 14 Toyota 4AF 16 valve engine, Cor, VORRA Off Road Racing ...•.•.•... 10 rillo rods, VW trans adapter, Wilch Sales ........... _ .•..•.. 43 clutch & pressure plate, S&S 44 header system fresh. Trade for Wright Place · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Class 10 VW motor or $3,000.00 or????. Call Tom(619)448,5392. CUSTOM RACE CAR WIRING MOBIL SERVICE TO YOUR HOME ORTO.YOUR CHASSIS BUIJ--'DER SERVING ALL OF LOS ANGELES AND ORANGE COUNTIES CALL TODAY FOR INFORMATION & PRICING! Pro WIRE Joe Davitian 3263 San Fernando Road We welcome all Support Team news articles. Typed and double spaced copy is acceptable. 213-550-1069 Tel Copy deadlines vary slightly, usually by the tenth of the month to make the next issue. To Los Angeles, CA 90065 213-550-1091 Fax 1l~is~ty~o;ur~p1~·t~cl;u~b;he;r;e,~senEd~th~e~i;nf;or;ma;tion;to~Du;s~ty~Ti;m;e~s.dlhe;s;erv~ice~is~f~re;e.iP~le;a~se~se=nd:_l~~~~~~~;;;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _ us a list of your current pit club contacts, especially those who are not listed here a_t all. , January 1994 Page 71 DustyTirnes

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