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Volume 12 - Number 11 Editor-Publisher Jean Calvin Associate Editor Richard K. Schwalm Editorial Assistant Michael Ward Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Circulation 0. Osborne Contributors Jim Baker C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Carol Clark Don Dayton John Elkin Homer Eubanks Don Holbrook Martin Holmes Daniel Mainzer Troy Robinson Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schultz Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Judy Smith Tony Tellier . .Irackside Photo Inc._ Art Director Limy E. Worsham SNAPSHOT November 1995 Subscription Rates: .lbidSeriescf~Racing~ $20.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. F~reign 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 cha ge of address. Please furnish both old and ri_ew address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. OF THE MONTH ••• Porter Racing and Wally World combined their contingency space at the 1995 SCORE Fireworks 250. This inspired mixer was designed and built by the far out mind of Rick Wallace to serve the sweltering horde some libation, and many wanted to buy th<i unusual mixer. The comely Mixtress looks a bit underage for the job she\s performing for the Snowball Express. J?hoto by 'Joel Miller of Trackside Photo Inc. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar interest on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Black & white prints, 5x7 or 8xl0 preferred but clear color prints will be considered. .. Dusty Times November 1995 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge by Judy Smith ............ 10 SCORE Laughlin Trophy-Trucks by Judy Smith ............. 17 Bonneville Off Road Racing - Jackpot 200 by Jim Baker ....... 18 Reno 300 by Jean Calvin ........... ....................... 20 Whiplash Motorsports - Memorial Coliseum by Tony Tellier .. 22 WRC Rally of 1000 Lakes by Martin Holmes ................ 24 VORRA Fallon at Night by Troy Robinson ................. 26 La Rana Summer Heat Trophy Dash .................... ... 28 SODA Great Northern Challenge by Barb & Marilyn Schultz .. 32 SCCA Ojibwe Pro Rally by John Elkin ................. ... . 38 Northwest Rally Sprints by Jim Culp .. · ..................... 40 Brush Run World Championships by Judy Smith ............ 42 Rally Malaysia by Martin Holmes ..... . .................... 49 Rally Round Australia ............ : ...................... 50 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ........ .. .................................... 6 Trail Notes ............................................... 6 Checkers Column by The Big W ahzoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fair News by Dave Massingham ................ ......... · . . 37 Baja Pits by Julio Garcia .................................. 41 California Rally Series Report by John Elkin ................. 41 Good Stuff Directory .................................... 52 Classified Ads ......... · ................................. 58 ON THE COVER - These are the two highest paid off road racers we know of, at least they were in September. Steve Kelley drove the Mike Lesle Dodge 4x4 ip the winner take all Borg Warner Challenge Cup race in Crandon during the Labor Day program. Kelley never put a foot wrong in the furious pace of this race and the pri:e was not only $25,000 hut also a replica trophy in silver and gold to take home and put on the mantle. One for the record books, Steve. Ivan Stewart runs, his Toyota in the Trophy-Truck Series and he races the 6 cylinder agai11st all the V-8s. Stewart won his share of races during the season and won the Laughlin Desert Challenge in the rough and twisty terrain as horsepower was less important than handling. Stewart not only won the race he also won the season SCORE Tecate Trophy-Truck championship for 1995, worth quite a bit of five digit money. Cong,ratulations Ivan. 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1995 Happenings ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector AfYfO42 San Jose de! Caho. Baja Calif. de! Sur, Mexico November 20, 1995 Short Course Race Cuidad Constitucion Baja Calif. del Sur AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia 0l l-18-07-298-5522 November 12, 1995 Puckapunyal Victoria AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars o~ly Serge Lambert 65 Rue de Valcourt Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B IHI (514) 434-5792 BAD DOG'S OFF ROAD SHOWDOWN Callaway Fun Inc. 3825 No. Main Cleburne, TX 7603 I Barry Don Callaway (817) 645-00031(817) 641-9985 Gene Peugh ( 81 7 ) 790-8268 nigh ts 1995 Season Canceled BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 311163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico (Mexicali (65) 55-62-83 Off Road Races BAJA PROMOTIONS, LTD. S.A. Lou Peralta P.O. Box 8938 Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 340-5750 Golden Crown of Baja Series December 15-17, 1995 Gran Carrera de Campeones 250 miles, multi-lap BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-4775/Fax (702) 641-2431 March 1996 Vegas to Reno Off Road Race Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, ATVs BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1533 bgden, Utah 84402 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 (613) 475-1102 /Fax (613) 475-3250 1995 BRUSH RUN POINTS SERIES P.O. Box 101 Crandon, Wl54520 (715) 478-2222 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Debbie Turner, CRS Director 25885 Stanford Hemet, CA 92544 · (909) 925-0870 Mike Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 November 18, 1995 East of Indio Indio, CA *Final 1995 So. Pacific Divisional champion.ship events C.O.D.R.A. CENTRAL OREGON DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh 20515 Whitehaven Circle Page 6 Bend, OR 97702 (503) 389-2044 CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Kevin Miller (Baja) (605) 224-6923 Don Engleman (Motocross) (605) 224-4967 GUMBO BUTTES BAJA & MOTOCROSS Communications & Information Scott Olson (605) 224-5822 FAX (605) 224-5822 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 617-46834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (6163717 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3178 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 (714)367-1141 Fax: (714)367-1608 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642W1(719)687-9827 H P.O . Box 9735 Colorado Springs, CO 80932 COLORADO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS Bertram Productions lnc. 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) 662-3649/ (214) 641-2090 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Association 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 October 21, 1995 Superstition 250 XI 4 times around a 60 mile loop ATVs, Bikes, Desertlites, Buggies, Cars & Trucks Lake Superstition El Centro, CA December 31, 1995 Dunaway Dash A TVs, Bikes & Desertlites Double Points 5 times around a 25 mile loop Buggies, Cars & Trucks Plaster City West El Centro, CA District 38 Schedule All ewnts neaT El Centro, CA November 19, 1995 Notorious Dawg 3 hour Team Race December 3, 1995, Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (714) 880-1733 McKenzie Series Races October 22, 1995. December 3, 1995 Glen Helen Special Events (Contact BBM M<,iTkaing PTOmotian.s, P.O. &x 582, Lakewood, CA 90714 (310) g88'250 Soda Wiriter Series November 30, 1995 December 1, 1995 December 2, 1995 December 3, 1995 USA Sand Drags (909) 877-5045 November 11, 1995 GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 ( 404) %3-0252 GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GPORRA 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 ( 402) 333-051 7 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402)496-0846 Eve. (all Taces at WeslfaiT FaiT GTOunds, Council Bluffs, Iowa on a ¾ mile course similar to the MTEG tracks, and Classes· r, 1-16oo, 7S andQuadundeTSODA rules) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O . Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All ewnts staged at the club gTOunds in Cleves, Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O . Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS . MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WD'CLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C-5L2 Bob (604) 374-7175 days Randy{604)579-9621 eves Keith ( 604) 828-1795 anytime ( All events staTt 7 miles NW of Kamioops) LA RANA DESERT RACING P.O. Box 1365 Apple Valley, CA 92307 (619) 240-1335/(619) 240-1312 November 4-5, 1995 La Rana Trophy Dash Barstow, CA November 17-19, 1995 High Desert 300 Lucerne Valley, CA MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmbre Hwy Charlotte, MI 48813 (517) 543-7214 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 Other Dates Pending November 4, 1995 Banquet at 7:00 p.m. Diamondale, MI MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 6'3031 (618) 765-21.-)9 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned Taces. Series pTOduced b:y Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barrett 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, MI 48506 (810) 736-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TRUCK WEEK 1360 Kleppe Lane Sparks, NV (702) 331-4800/ (702) 331-5107 Fax November 1995 Trail Notes ••• CORY WITHERILL Won the Gold in Montreal on September 23. Cory, from Santa Monica, CA destroyed the international field of competitors during the Autocross de Montreal held traditionally in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. Fresh off an eighth place road course finish at Road Atlanta driving · his WSA/Shelby Can Am asphalt entry, Cory switched gears back to his ChenowthlWSA/Goodyear Off Road stadium racer for this event. A field of 23 entries attacked the nine tum, dirt filled, treacherous course in front of an announced crowd of 55,148 screaming Canadians. The Class 10 cars were included in a program of motorcycles and A TVs with the cars being the main attraction of_ the evening. Witherill won his heat race and the lucrative main event. It was the feature race that brought the crowd to their feet as Cory came out of the first tum in sixth place and then proceeded to systematically reel in the front runners. On lap six of the fifteen lap event he passed Jeff St. Peter of Belgium, WI to take the lead and he extended his lead by half the distance of the course over the rest of the competition. Next season Witherill will be competing in the US Formula Ford 2000 National Series. · VORRA RACE Results from the finale of the Desert Series are here, in fact the story is too and we just didn't have room for it this issue. At any rate Mike and Floyd Haas won Class 1 in their Mini Mag on the Yerington to Fallon and back race Labor Day weekend. Floyd drove from Yerington to Fallon and Mike Haas drove the small racer back to Yerington and they think it is the first time a Mini Mag has won in Class 1. The event was the last ofVORRA's Desert Series events for the year and a double points race. The win gave the Haas bothers the overall win in the Desert Series. Other Yerington to Fallon winners include Dale Carr in Class 1 Vet, nis first ever class win, and Tim Bowman and George Reese in Class 10. Bill Webb won Class 10 Vet, Larry Folsom took 1-2-1600 honors, Steve Bruner won Class 4 and Jarad Wilson won Class 4 Vet. Class 9 went to Lance Rhinehart in his second race, and it was his second win too. Doug Seymour won Sportsman Novice and Ben Wald was tops in Pilots. Full story and pictures next month. The overall points leader Sam Berri suffered a ruptured appendix on Friday September 1, with major complications. He was flown to Sacramento for surgery and we wish him a speedy recovery. He is not supposed to race for three months, and will have a substitute driver at the remainder of the races. SNORE OF LAS VEGAS are the first racing group to send in a 1996 schedule, too late to make the Happenings column. Along with the schedule came the news that the Vegas 300 has been moved from December 2, 1995 to December 9 to avoid conflict with the SODA Winter Series at Glen Helen in California. For those that plan ahead the SNORE Bottom Dollar will kick off the 1996 season on February 10 followed on March 26 by the Twilight 200. On May 11 the action moves north to Caliente and then on July 27 to the Midnight Special near Vegas. September 21 is the big buck Gold Coast SNORE 250 followed by the Double Trouble on October 26 and the Vegas 300 on December 7. Our thanks to SNORE for being so prompt with their dates for next year, and we wish more of the organizers would think ahead so we can plan our centerspread traditional calendar comning up quite soon. SPEAKING OF SNORE -The recent Gold Coast SNORE 250 had its biggest entry in many years with 84 on the list. It might of been the lure of all those extra bonus prizes, like $1500 to the Class 1 and to the 1-2-1600 winner each, and bonus bucks from $2000 on down in most classes. It was delightful to see Gold Coast jefe Michael Gaughan behind the wheel of his unlimited car that Pat Dean started and Michael finished second in Unlimited class with the Chenowth Porsche. Brian Collins won the race overall in his Chenowth Porsche, Kenny Freeman Jr. won the $1500 in winning the 19 car 1-2-1600 classs in his romp around the trails near Jean and Sloan, NV, familiar trails at that. Class 5-1600 fell to David Hendrickson and Jason Batulis. Tom Dunn and Mark Snow picked up $2000 for the win in truck class driving a Class 7 Ford, while Mike Snograss and Barry Slatter got a Plaque in sportsman truck although neither completed a lap. Class 9 was another biggie at 17 starters and Jeff Carr took home $1000 with an even dozen in Class 10 the win was worth $1500 to Steve Thompson. In Sportsman Buggy the winner was Davin Villapina and Frank Remo and Frank Tomczak and Ed McCormich won Class 11. Watch for the foll story and pictures on the race next month. LA RANA'S CALIFORNIA 200, known usually simply as Ridgecrest the host central California town. The entry was down this fall for a variety of reasons, mainly that there were just too many desert races in August and September, then people get serious_ about race prep for the big, bad Baja 1000. At any rate Rick and Randy Wilson took first overall in their Class 2 Jimco with a flawless run. Mike and Jeff Ismail won Class 4 in their IH Scout. Danny Reider and Jamie Davenport won Class 5 , while Dale Smith and Allen Gibuey , took Class 5-1600 and Barry Bates won Class 6 in a Chevy. Barry Slatter won Class 7 in his Ford and Dan Cannon took Class 7S in his Ford, while Bill Markel and John Daly won 7 4x4 in their Toyota. Steve Christiano topped Class 850 while Nathan Ellis and Warren Messick won the ten car Class 9 . Larry Bolin ran to the win in Class 10 in his Raceco. In Class 1400 Jim Norgard won in a Hi Jumper. Kathy and Stacy Fay won again in the Class 1500 Ford while Larry Gross did the same in his Toyota in Class 1525. Brian Valdez took Class 1550 in a Ford. In the ten car 1600 field Frank and Sean Krepsz took their long sought win in the Chenowth, and they are probably still celebrating. Again we'll have a full report with pictures next month. THE CONTINENTAL MOTOSPORT CLUB, form-:rly t1f A 1elaJ1to, CA, will no longer be holding Stock Car/ Flat Track Motorcycle/Motocross events at Sunrise Valley Raceway in Adelanto, CA as of Monday, September 18th. CMC will still be hosting motocross events throughout the Western United States and Canada. CMC has moved its offices to the south end of Orange County. Starting on Monday September 25th you can reach them at (714) 367-1141 and Fax (714) 367-1608 or write P.O. Box 3178, Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178. Perhaps the closing of George Air Force Base, very close by in Adelanto, took away the base audience for Sunrise Raceway, which we are told is completely closed at this time. THE SCORE BAJA 1000 is the last SCORE race of the Eveready Desert Championship Series and a long one for sure. The drawing for starting numbers was held on October 4, but it is never too late to enter this historic event, right up to registration day. If you are going to Tijuana to watch the festivities remember the Contingency row will be operating on Thursday November 8, the race starts on Friday November 9 and ends late on Saturday as the course is nearly 1200 miles long. It has been open for pre-running since late September. The start is planned right in front of the Lucerna Hotel, SCORE's headquarters in Tijuana and the finish line in La Paz is on Highway 1 in front of the tourism office in La Paz. See you there with any luck going for all. Dusty Times

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OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-8508 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Pa·so, TX 79936 '(915) 855-8899 November 4-5, 1995 ( All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake Take l-10 Horiton Blvd exit east 12 miles) OHIO OFF ROADERS ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 15 Stonecreek, Ohio 43840 (216) 339-4674 or (216) 897-5100 Hill Climb & Stadium Style Off Road Racing at Bear Creek Amphitheater &li11a1, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Bob Joseph, President 80 Hempstead Dr. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada LBW 2E7 - (905) 574-7068 PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. King P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 ( 303) 779-6622 October 20-21, 1995 Lake Superior Pro Rally Houghton, MI December 1-2, 1995 Maine Forest Rally Rumford, ME SCORE Score International 12997 Las.Vegas Blvd. So. Las Vegas, NV 89124 (702) 361-5404 NovemberS-11, 1995 T ecate Baja 1000 The Peninsula Run Baja California December 2, 1995 Awards Banquet S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker .22048 Vivienc!a 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 October 27-29, 1995 Double Trouble Las Vegas, NV December 1-3, 1995 Eldorado 250 Las Vegas, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA/(414) 257-0422 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437 ( All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa, TX TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Camey, Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowicz, President 589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 (All events at Owego Motor Sports Park, Rte. 434, Owego, NY) VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 October 28-29, 1995 Championship Off Road Race Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA November 18, 1995 Awards Banquet Reno, NV WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 WESTERN PENSYLV ANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire 1255 Waverly Drive Latrobe, PA 15650 (412) 532-0802 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85023 (602) 971-3730 December 2, 1995 Point to Point 150 Rocky Point, Sonora, MX WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI54901 ( 414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP October 22-25, 1995 Spain/Catulunya -WC November 19-22, 1995 RAC Rally -WC England 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, W154901 ( 414) 426-0470/( 414) 982-7306 AfflNTION RACE & RALLY ORGANIZERS List .your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 1996 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. !iTERMOU UNIVERSAL FITTIN:G FOR 1 1/2" & 2" HITCHES .. ~ . ··. '•:· . EXCELLENT FOR WORK OR PLAY HAVE A WORK BENCH, BIKE RACK AND TABLE, ALL JN ONE! SPECIAL 4 BIKE RACK AVAILABLE LJGHTWEJGHT ALUMINUM FOR RECREATIONAL USE HEAVY G~UGE STEEL FOR WORK RELATED USE POWDER COATED FOR DURABILITY & LONG LASTING BEAUTY .. ,1J(\ -~(,~ ~itt ,-.. s Fe C c.·a et'c.~c d FAX 714-637-5045 PAT PENDING/MADE IN USA Page 8 November 1995 more Trail Notes ••• FOUR OF DESERT OFF ROAD RACING'S PREMIER PIT CLUBS are pooling their resources for the 1000 mile plus SCORE Baja 1000 course coverage. It is a long distance run from Tijuana to La Paz so the combined efforts of the Chapala Dusters, F.A.l.R., Los Campeones·and Mag 7 have resulted in nineteen pits. This will provide all racers and we include motorcycles and quads, an opportunity to enjoy the ultimate in pit support. Of course the racer should supply pit people as well as the $300 per entry cost of joining up for this unique event. A list of pit locations and mileages are shown. For more information call Bob "Weatherman" Steinberger at P.C.l. Race Radios at(310)427-8177. Don't forget a working radio in your race car for the 1000. PLACE COURSE MILEAGE Neji ........................................ 62.1 Guadalupe Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 E.J. Saldana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 19 .3 San Felipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Puertacitos ................................. 352 Gonzaga Bay ................................ 399.4 El Crucero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451.2 Bay of LA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 La Cuesta .................................. 570 El Arco ........... ......................... 606.7 San Ignacio ................................. 678.9 Fish Camp ................................. 719 San Juanico ................................ 782.7 La Purisima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817 .4 San Javier ......................... ......... 869.7 Colonia Purisima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 .3 Ciudad Constitucion ........................ 975.8 Santa Rita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031 Punta Conejo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081 La Paz ............ ........................ 1146 If you don't wander off course, these pits will aid your efforts to get to La Paz in good time. MORE VORRA RACE RESULTS-It was a great day of racing at Prairie City OHV Park outside of Sacramento, CA on October 1, 1995. And fro~ting on the cake was no formal protests and all the limited cars were legal after post race tech inspection. In Sportsman Novice class Tina Robinson was the winner. Shane Balch took home the 1600 prizes, and Don and Chris German shared the Heavy Metal Honors. Class 9 saw Lance Rhinehart win again, three races, three wins, a great debut on four wheels. Ace and Steve Bradford topped the Class 10 racers, as did Troy Robinson in Class 1. In Pro Pilot action Clint Wolsey defeated Ben Wald, and in Novice Pilot racing Bill Dorsey took the honors. The Dash for Cash went to Troy Robinson, Ed Robinson, the promoter's son. This. · brought out a good bit of fun after the event. A RARE LETTER INDEED-We've had this letter for some time, but it bears publishing. It is so rare that we hear from someone who doesn't want something that this deserves some space. "This is just a letter for your support of our rally group and especially to thank you for publishing John Elkin's article about the Prescott Forest Rally in your recent issue. I enjoy reading the articles about the National and WRC Rally events, and we also appreciate the space for our California Rally Series column. Everything you do is appreciated even if we don't tell you often enough. Thanks again! Jeff Hendricks, Chairman: Prescott Forest Rally." Isn't that a nice letter to receive and this from a group we don't really do that much for, as the rallies always seem to conflict with major races or those we have to cover ourselves. GLEN HELEN RACEWAY NEWS ·-The upcoming SODA Winter Series will have some new faces for the regulars at Glen Helen to welcome to this exciting event: Gene Romero has been appointed Executive Producer of the four day event-and Brian Church returns to Glen Helen for this event as Assistant Executive Producer. Brian spent a few years at Glen Helen before going on to.other motorsport activities and reports that a new, one mile track will be a feature of this series. Big news also is that The Chevrolet SODA Winter Series on December 1-3, 1995 will have television coverage for ESPN 2 and it will be the first Glen Helen event seen on that TV station. Chevrolet is the official series title spo_nsor, and BFGoodrich is an associate spo.nsor while ': Goodyear Tire is an official product sponsor,• --: . , ·:.. · , .• The Chevrolet Winter Series is the first ever SODA sanctioned set of events on the West Coast and it is all happening November 30 through December 3, 1995. "The Chevrolet Winter Series is a natural extension for us," said Terry Wolfe, President of SODA. "It represents the growth not just of our Midwest series but short course off road racing in general. For years now, top notch West Coast drivers have competed in our Midwest series. This new event gives us Midwesterners a chance to extend the racing season by adding a Sun Belt event and gives the West Coast racers a chance to compete on their own turf. We're really excited about this opportunity, and anticipate a long and successful relationship with Bud Feldkamp and his staff." "We're very proud to have been selected to host this landmark off road event," said Feldkamp, president of Glen Helen Racing, Inc. and a champion-· ship racer in his own right. "SODA was born and raised in the Midwest. As America's premier short course off road racing sanctioning body, it's only fitting SODA expand to California, the birthplace of off road racing in America. We're hoping to revive the off road excitement Mickey Thompson created in the '70s at Riverside Raceway and recreate it here in San Bernardino for the many off road racers and fans who long for a world class short course off road event to return to the Inland Empire. California racing fans have been starved for this kind of race and they can gorge themselves this winter at the Chevrolet Series." "We've already received an intense response from racers eager to compete," added the five-time Baja Internacional overall winner. "I for one can't wait ... off road is in by blood." The Chevrolet Winter Series will be televised on ESPN 2. Marty Reid Enterprises (MRE) will produce the program scheduled to air in early 1996 with the first airing: Primetime (EST); events will air four times for a total of 12 half hour shows and then be rebroadcast two times. Racers, don't forget that there will be special preview racing and time trials for selected classes on Thursday, November 30. A manufacturers contingency row will be held December 1-3. For more information call Brian Church at (909) 984-9342 during normal west coast business hours. Fans call (909) 880-3090 anytime. Dusty Times .

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SCORE LAUGHLIN DESERT CHALLENGE By Judy Smith SCORE Tries New Format, Everyone Wins Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Gorky McMillin's long time co-driver subbed for the ailing Gorky and Brian Ewalt drove the Porsche powered Chenowth to second in Class 1 and second overall. seemed to know of the event. !#'' ' , Laughlin, which had only three hotels when off road racing first visited the area back in the mid 1970s, now boasts 10 big; shiny hotel/casinos. It's grown at a phenomenal rate, but is still a small town with everything virtually in walking distance . Eve n the race course. The s t art/finis h compound was erected just beyond the parking lot of the tall Ramada Express, which served as race headquarters, and hosted. the sign-up, drivers meeting, CRB meetings, and awards presentations. The main building of the hotel is 22 stories tall, and from the upper windows which faced the open desert, and thus, the racetrack, it was actually possible to get a fair look at a race in· progress. Iµ fact, one of the radio relay teams, the BFG Relay, did its work from a room on an upper story, in air conditioned comfort. Saturday's first event was for"CJlasses 1, 10, 5, and the Herbst machine driven by Ed, Tim and Troy was the winner with fast time of 5:13:30. The three brothers each reported no trouble on the course and led to the flag. SCORE International, always looking for new venues, seems to have found a keeper in the Laughlin Challenge. The small. gaming center on the banks of the Colorado River in southeastern Nevada· needed something to spice up their slowest weekend, the one following Labor Day, and SCORE heeded a place to go racing: It was a match made in the accountants' offices. With space to race limited by the borders of the nearby Lake Mead National Recreation Area and a highway or two, SCORE was able to carve out only a 42 mile long trail, which was deemed too short to crowd a full complement of racers into. But by the 1>imple expedient of turning the race into a two-day affair, it was handled. With contingency and tech inspection on Friday, SCORE scheduled one race for - early Saturday morning, another for Saturday afternoon, and two for Sunday, breaking the Pro and Sportsman classes into three groups and leaving the Trophy With a slick new paint job Mike Jakobson, with Rudy wa;d riding in the Class 5 Bug had no serious time costing trouble and zipped into first in Class 5 and 14th overall on the rough course. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES • Built & Backed 1:1' Bell Helmets • Light Weight • Lexan Sheild • Snell 90 • Helmet Conversions • Complete Blower Systems for Single or Double Seat Cars • Complete Line of Worth & Pyrotect Safety Products • Cool Boxes • Blowers • 4' - any Length Hose • Free Service & Parts • We Ship UPS $235.oo HELMET ONLY 5153 Bowden Avf#. • S~n Diego• CA• 92117 • (619) 279-2509 Page 10 Trucks for late on Sunday. That not only served to thin the traffic, · but to keep lots of people in Laughlin for an extra day. The local hotels and casinos were wholeheartedly supporting the event, and came up with "special" prices and "SCORE parties", as well as a platoon of . "Welcome SCORE Racers" signs. The racers and their crews enjoyed the feeling of welcome. Several hotels sponsored indivi-dual racers, some had race cars on display in front of their main ~ entrances, and everyone in town Air conditioning was a key phrase that weekend. Starting a few days before the weekend, temperatures and humidity had soared to uncomfortable levels. The biggest group Saturday morning was Class 10, and Rob MacCachren started and did the first half, handed over to Larry Job in second place after a well to the rear starting position, and Larry moved into the lead a-nd stayed there to the checkered flag, and they had no problems on course, third overall. Dale Dondell decided Class 10 was too tight to stop to put brotoor Mike in the Bunderson, a wise move as he finished second in Class 10, three minutes back, t-4ovcmber 1995 With tern s as high as 120, and humidity in the 70% range, it was sticky. But with the town so close by it was possible to slip into air-conditioned comfort for relief at a moment's notice. At the end of each 42 mile loop the racers were threaded through a short course which featured right and left turns, a hole, a couple of unimpressive jumps, and then a choice. A driver could choose a stretch of moguls, or could take the "Laughlin Leap", a big flying jump which could earn the driver some extra dollars ifhe managed the longest leap in his division. The Leap was str.1teg-ically placed right in front of the temporary grandstands, which abutted a sort of midway of snack stands and souvenir sellers. There • was a good sound system, and SCORE's Charlie Engelhart helped with the anr.ouncing, which was primarily done by a local disk jockey. There was no shade, but for most of the weekend the stands were filled by enthusiastic spectators. Saturday's first event included Classes 1 , 10 and 5, and there were only 51 cars on the track. They were programmed to do five laps, in a time limit of six hours. There had been no pre-running, except for a one lap guided tour on Friday. The start/ finish area and its infield had been watered by corps of water trucks on a 24 hour basis since late on Thursday evening, and they kept it up through Sunday. There was no dust for the start, but out on the track it was another matter. Even as early as 5:30 a.m. as the cars began to stage, it was apparent that it would be another steamy, hot day. Laughlin's infamous gnats appeared for a short time just after sunrise and hung around until it got hot, which was about an hour later. There was a gentle breeze, which grew zesty enough to be helpful a bit later in the day. Ryan Thomas' Chenowth was the first car off the line and he surprised everyone by taking the jump. The audience loved it. From then on less passionate moods prevailed, and most waited until later in the day to try their luck. At the end of the first lap the lead belonged to Thomas, with about a half minute on Bob Lofton in MikeJulson'sJimco. He had just aboot 15 seconds on Brian Collins in another Chen-owth, and then came Tim Herbst, in the two-seat Mike Smith/ Chenowth, about 15 seconds further back. Doug Fortin, in the Steve Sourapas A-armed Race Car Dynamics chassis was fifth, 25 seconds later. At the end of the second lao it · -Dusty Times

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" Mike Julson and Bob Lofton led most of the race overall in the Mike James and Mike Kalaki, defending points champs in Class 5, moved into second late in the race and they had to fight for it but were second in class. Greg Diehl and Brad Person broke the steering on lap 1, but got it fixed and flew the jump in good style and finished a strong third in Class 5 too. Porsche Jimco, but lost the battery on the last lap and dropped to third in class, 8th DIA. The early leader in Class 10 was Ray Croll in the Jimco, despite an off course glitch that left him full of cactus, but he came back to finish fourth. · Brent Grizzle drove all the way at Laughlin, and said it was tough, but he put his Chenowth home third in Class 1-2-1600, one ·minute out of second spot. Vince Alcoulomre and Patrick Freil had a good run in the Surf Bug and Vince, who drove all the way, had to ch.ange jets on course but finished 3rd 5-1600. was Lofton in front, but he had only a little over two minutes on the Herbst car. Now it was Bob Gordon in third in his Chenowth, as Thomas, who'd rolled over near Check two had dropped way back, and Collins was out when his motor quit, victim of a short in his battery. The Nissan powered Chenowth of John Hagle ran fourth, with Mark McMillin in fifth in his Chenowth. Fortin had lost an a-arm. and now Brian Ewalt, in Corky in a Porsche powered Chenowth, McMillin's Chenowth, in fifth. who'd had to repair a fan and lost Corky had been scheduled to 15 minutes. needed to do was stay in front, or went past, and Julson, who close on the tail of the Herbsts to thought it was a collapsed battery, get the win. But at about Check 6 switched to his spare only to his car, which had already lost its discover it was dead. Ewalt went radio, quit running. The Herbsts by also. ,ir drive, but had developed a·case of Julson led most of the way flu, and sent Ewalt, who often co-around the last lap, and all_ he drives with him, to play by Lofton continued to lead through the third lap, with the Herbst car, now driven by brother Troy, in second. McMillin moved up to third, with Hagle in fourth himself. Gordon was sidelined now with a broken crank. Lofton put Julson into the car to do the final two laps, and he held the lead, with the Herbst car a minute and 40 seconds back at the end of lap four. Hagle had giv~n the seat to Chet Huffman, and he was now third, with Ewalt up to fourth, feeling this course was like Parker, Baja and the Mint all at once. In fifth it was Pat Dean, Larry Bolin did a solo act as usual in his Raceco, had a lot of heavy dust but finished a strong third in Class 10, just over three minutes out of second. The second Saturday race held all the limited engine cars as the 1-2-1600s Jed off th~ line. Danny Porter and Mar~ Ruddis led from flag to flag even with a mid-race stop for a driver change. They had no troubles on course and won by about three minutes. DustyTirncs 6Retd ~~~ OFF ROAD COMPONENTS -,-, ,-._ v----------~ * MADE BETTER IN THE U.S.A. * YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING .. ~ WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TORSION. BARS ARE HERE! 300 M & Intermediate Grade Material. All Lengths & Diameters. SPRING PLATES, LINK PINS, LINK PIN BUSHINGS & SHIMS ROD END ADAPTORS, SHOCK SPACERS, TIE RODS PREDRILLED CV BOLTS, AXLES 'A,i:~,•>;j•·:•,::~~~\~~•5·:· ··0··~·;;:,:<•::z CALL US TODAY FOR YOUR FREE PRODUCT CATALOG OR CONTACT ONE OF THESE REID PRO DEALERS KENDALL RACING ENTERPRISES HOTLINE AUTOMOTIVE JIMCO RACING PRODUCTS DENUNZIO RACING PRODUCTS 3434 East Kleindale 6951 ldlewylde Circle -10965 Hartley Road, Ste. R P.O. Box 6075 Tucson, AZ 85716 Melbourne, FL 32904 Santee, CA 92071 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (602) 8/i 1-5224 (407) 724-1270 (619) 562-1743 (805) 683-1211 FEX PERFORMANCE M&C OFFROAD PERFORMANCE LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING J. PENHALL FABRICATIONS 1098 Stockton Avenue 1613 State St. #5 416 Fleetwood 1660 Babcock, Bldg. 13 San Jose, CA 95110 Barstow,· CA 92311 Glendora, CA 91740 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 (408) 295-0707 (619) 255-2990 (818) 857-7223 (714) 650-3035 SUSPENSIONS UNLIMITED T.U.F. OFFROAO OFF ROAD BUGGY SUPPLY McKENZIE's PERFORMANCE 1345 Dynamics, Unit D 3255 E. Columbia 2525 E. 16th Street 2366 E Orangethorpe Ave. Anaheim, CA 92806 Tucson, AZ 85714 Yuma, AZ 85365 Anaheim, CA 92806 (714) 996-6260 (602) 294-3511 (602) 783-6265 (714)441-1212 SCHROEDER RACING PRODUCTS BRANOWOOO CARS 800 S. Rower Street 4319 E University Burbank, CA 91502 Phoenix, AZ 85040 (818) 845-8283 (602) 437-3107 AEROSPACE QUALITY • RACE PROVEN PRODUCTS Dealer Inquiries Are Not Only Invited, But Encouraged! (619) 240-2266

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Matt and Rick Sherard, a father and son team, had their Raceco ready for the tough course, had carburetion trouble but finished a good second in Class 9. Victor Barajas and Ernie Negrete had an unfortunate rollover while leading Class 11, but after repairs got going again to take second, 11 minutes back. · Robert Guthrie, Ron Norton and Tim Lawrence shared the driving in the Ford and had a good run to finish second (and last) in Class 7 action well back. >.:!-'" ·;:;-.= ·\st ' ':\:· Dean and Mark Bayerle are rising stars in 1600 racing, ran most of the race without power steering, changed drivers midway and finished second in the 1-2-1600 class by just three minutes. The 5-1600s had a real battle and the J. T. Holmes boys ran third off the line, kept the Baja Bug almost together, had trouble with the spare tire mount but came in first in class by 2½ minutes. ,,,,.. Julson finally got a live battery, jammed it in next to his seat and used a set of battery cables to connect it. It worked fine except that it tried to set his seat on fire, and he had to bat out the flames. So the Herbsts, all of whom, Tim, Troy and Ed, had driven, got the win. Ewalt finished second, and Julson and Lofton fell back to third. They later discovered that it had been a broken wire on the regulator that jinxed them. Dean was fourth, and Mark McMillin finished fifth. The Class 5 folks, meanwhile, had been led by Mike Jakobson, who had 54 seconds at the end o{ control of things out there, told the first lap, with Dave Parsons in SCORE that if any car flagged for second place. In third it was speeding showed up on another George Seeley, about nine lap the entire race would be shut seconds later, followed by down. So the two were disqual-Enrique Ruiz in fourth. Morgan ified as they finished their lap. Malacca's new car was already on Their horrible examples were ' a trailer. As this group finished apparently enough, and no one their first lap the Class 5 car of else suffered the same fate. Felipe Fonseca and the Sportsman Jakobson had a loose coil wire, Class 1 Mirage of Richard Bliss butitdidn'thavemucheffect,and and Dan Hicks were both black-he continued to lead, with Mike flagged. It seemed they'd both James and Mike Kalicki running failed to observe the 55 mph second now, followed by Parsons, speed limit on the two-and-a-half "~ mile stretch of highway that was ' '.% " part of the course. T he Nevada High~ay Patrol, keeping tight IE'BE ON THE MOVE who'd tossed an alternator belt. In fourth it was Seeley. On the next lap they ran in the same order, but on lap four, as Jakobson con-tinued to stay in front, followed by Kalicki and James, Greg Diehl and Brad Person moved up to third, now repaired after breaking their steering ram on the first lap. Diehl, one of the older drivers out there at age 56, was putting,.his 5 car to the test, and flying the jump. Parsons and his co-driver, Bob Gustafson had dropped to fourth. Jakobson got his finish and his win, declaring that the course was rough and choppy. None of the others'finished within the six hour limit. But a class action protest, undertaken by · all the others who'd actually completed all five laps, persuaded SCORE to reinstate them as official finishers. They were induced to do so at least partly because they'd already decided that five laps were one lap too many, and none of the other events would be required to run that long. So James and Kalicki got their second place. Person and Diehl were third and Parsons and Gustafson finished fourth. Class 10 fielded the biggest group of the morning's event, and a highly competitive bunch it was. Ray Croll had hisJimco in front in spite of an off course excursion that had left him with a lapful of cactus. In second it was Kevin Davis and Adam Wik in their Jimco, followed by Robert Wood and Ricky Geiser, in a Chenowth. In fourth it was Rob MacCachren in his Mirage, followed by Kirk VanMatre and Ryan Arciero in their Raceco. They were only a second under two minutes behind Croll. Croll led through lap two, with In an effort to provide our customers with the absolute best possible service, we have relocated our aluminum wheel straightening shop to a new home. MacCachren, who was getting in some extra pre-running for his Trophy Truck race on Sunday, now up to second, a minute back. In third it was Davis and Wik, with Wood and Geiser now in fourth and Dale Dondel, in a Bunderson, in fifth place, only two minutes and 10 seconds q behind the lead. ♦ Twice The Space ♦ Twice The Equipment ♦ Quicker Turn Around and ♦ Daily UPS Always Die and Press Straightened and "Never" Heated or Beaten Page 12 Straight nterprises 31510 223rd Street East • Llano, CA 93544 805/261-3202 MacCachren got out and put Larry Job in for the second half of the race, and he moved to the front, with Croll nine seconds behind h im . Dondel, who'd planned to let his brother, Mike, drive decided it was too close to allow time for a driver change, and settled in for the duration, Gustavo Vi/do/solo and Charlie Watters took over the 5-1600 lead on the third · now third. Davis and Wik were lap, but as Watters got to the pavement before the finish line he lost a CV but fourth and Andy Wehe had his struggled on to the checkers, holding second place. . Jim co up to fifth now as ~~ Brian and Jim Jeffrey had their Raceco ready for Laughlin's rough going, and Jim started and put Brian in to finish as they Jed all the way in Class 9 and won by 34 minutes in the slim field. November 1995 VanMatre and Arciero dropped back and out. Job held the lead, with Dondel now close in second and Croll back to third, and Larry Bolin, in . a Raceco, up to fourth. He'd been in a lot of d ust, and was using his turning brake a lot. In fifth it was Davis and Wik. Job and Mac-Cachren got their win, reporting no mechanical problems at all. Dondel was a close second, describing the course as a "snotty mess", and Bolin was third, followed in by Croll and then Davis and Wik. The winner in the Laughlin Leap contest was R yan Thomas, with a best jump of 77 feet. All these prize monies came from the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce Special Events thru the Las Vegas · Dusty Times

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Convention Authority. He also had jumps of 65 and 60 feet and picked up a total of$ l ,750, of the $2,500 purse. Greg Diehl earned the other $750, with jumps of 65 and 56 feet. -So the two had cornered first, second, third, fourth and fifth places. The cars racing in the second event were already staged as the first bunch was finishing, and SCORE put off their scheduled 1 p.rn. start by 15 minutes just to be · sure the course was clear. This group included 1 12-1600, 5 11600, 9, 11 and 112-1600 Sportsman. T he Class 11 folks were to run only three laps, and everyone else had been dropped to a four lap requirement, though some had protested loud and long. Their time limit was six-and-. a-half hours and there were only 40 of them. The l/2-1600s went off first, and Jim Dizney livened things upa bit by rolling over before he left the infield. At the end of the lap Danny Porter had the lead in his Suspensions Unlimited car, with R o n W ilson and Lee Patten second in another Suspensions Unlimited. In third it was Craig Forrest in a Mirage, followed by Mark Bayerle in a Raceco and then Scott Webster and Todd Teuscher in an ORBS. On the second lap Porter held his lead, with Bayerle now up to sec o nd , but witho u t power steering, and Don Larnpus, Sr. and Jr., in aJirnco, tied for fourth with Brent Grizzle in his Chen-owth. ln fifth it was Steve Johnson and Torn Cutting in a Jirnco. Forrest had lost his transmission and was out. ' Terry Kiely and Angel Montiel won Class 11, again a slim field, in Terry's trusty '67 VW. Kiely moved into the lead on lap 2 of the three lap race and held on to win the Class 11 honors and points. · All the trucks were in the third group, starting early Sunday morning, and in Class 3 led off with Jim Gatrell leading in the Chevy Blazer and he put· son Todd in for the last lap and won the class by 37 minutes. Porter, who'd been one of the,heat, and put his co-driver, those wanting to drive five laps, Mark Ruddis, in for the final two. decided that two 'was enough in He held on to the lead, having no The only finisher in the Sportsman classes was the 1-2-1600 Raceco of young Travis Coyne and James Ornelas c.nd they had Brandon Aymar in to finish, at 16 a year older than starting driver Travis. · Jeff Lewis used his 4WD on the Chevy S-10 to advantage on the rough course getting rougher every hour, and despite having a stop to fix the front axle and dropping to second, he moved ahead to win Class 7. problems. Grizzle was n o w his hands gave out, in third. second, with Dean Bayerle, who'd Johnson and Cutting were fourth, taken over for his brother when and Garv pr SECOND FLAMINGO RD. & THE STRIP LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 1-800-634-6755 WEST FLAMINGO &VALLEYVIEW 1-800-331 e5334 Dusty Times LAS VEGAS, NEVADA November 1995 TO NONE Page 13

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.. -, ~-·· ,. ,4x,s· .,{'' John and Mike Becker had their long Ford Ranger and held fast in second spot in Class 7S, and they stayed there taking second at the checkered flag. Billy Bunch had his Ford Ranger in third place in Class 7S midway in the race and he soldiered on with John Kearney riding shotgun, and they finished third. Dan Smith and Dave Ashley ran smoothly after finally locating an early miss, an ignition problem, and got their Rough.Rider in second in Class 8 action. · pr . Cogbill was fifth in his work. "So many turns!" He said. followed by Barry Nelson and Jimco, driving all the wa')I. Cogbill was fourth, and ex-MichaelMulder1 ina Mirage, fora Porter and Ruddis continued hausted. while. In third it was Travis with a clean race, and took the win In the 1600 Sportsman class Coyne, son of Marty Coyne, who by just under three minutes. The which ran at the same time, and races a Trophy Truck, in a Bayerles were second, their hands also did four laps, there was only Raceco. Coyne is only 15 and and arms worn out, and followed one finisher. Rigoberto Arzate does not yet have his driver's in by Grizzle who'd gone all the and Steve Hampton had their license. This was his first race. way and_ tho_ught it was a lot of Mirage in the lead for three laps! Arzate had a lead of nine -----------------------------minutes at the end of the second SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge RESULTS - September 8-10, 1995 # Poe Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle Clau 112-Unlimited single & two seat 5 laps -15 start -5 finish 103 1 Ed, Tim & Troy Herbst Mike Smith Chenowth Porsche 107 2 Brian EwalVCorky McMillin Chenowth Porsche 106 3 Mike Julson/Bob Lofton Jimco Porsche 109 4 Pat Dean/Keith Underwood Chenowth Porsche 114 5 Mark McMillin Chenowth Porsche 1615 1 1617 2 1602 ' 3 1607 4 1625 5 349 1 348 2 503 1 500 2 506 3 505 4 504 5 553 1 551 2 555 3 579 4 552 5 703 1 705 2 739 1 724 2 738 3 723 4 728 5 812 1 810 2 813 3 811 4 804 5 949 1 902 2 10221 10052 10263 10044 10035 1100 1 1101 2 778 1 779 2 776 3 777 4 761 5 860 1 864 2 862 3 866 4 Class 112-1600 - 1600cc Restricted Engine -24 start - 18 finish Danny Porter/Mark Ruddis Suspensions Unltd. Dean & Mark Bayerle Raceco Brent Grizzle/Dale Ebberts Chenowth Gary Cogbill/Ooug West Jimco Stephen Johnson/Thomas Cutting Jimco Class 3-Short WB 4x4 - 4 start - 2 finish (3 laps) Todd & Jim Gatrell Chevrolet Robert HayleyNic Bruckmann Ford Bronco Class 4-Long WB 4x4 - o atart - o finish Cius 5 - Unlimited Baja Bug - 8 start - 5 finish Mike Jacobson/Rory Ward Baja Bug Michael James/Mike Kalicki Baja Bug Greg DiehVBrad Person Baja Bug Dave Parsons/Bob Gustafson Baja Bug George Seeley/Cain Smead Baja Bug Class 5-1600 - 1600cc Baja Bug -6 start -5 finish (4 lape) John & Jeff Holmes Baja Bug Gus Vildosola/Chartle Watters Baja Bug Vince Alcouloumre/Patrick Friel Baja Sur1 Bug Tom Dittfield/Bryan Moynahan Baja Bug Carlos, Humberto & Gerardo lribe Baja Bug Class 6 - Production Sedan - o start - o finish Class 7 • Unlimited Mini Pickup - 5 start - 2 finish (4 laps) Jeff Lewis/John Chapman Chevy S-10 4x4 Robert Guthrie/Ron Norton/Tim Lawrence Ford Ranger Class 7S - Stock Mini Pickup -14 start -6 finish (4 lape) Rick D. and Rick L Johnson Ford Ranger John & Mike Becker Ford Ranger Billy Bunch/John Kearney Ford Ranger Scott Sells/Alan Ross Toyota Javier Sacio/Howard Lewis Nissan Class 8 - 2WD Standard Pickup -15 start - 7 finish Dave Westhem/Tony McCormack Chevrolet Dan Smith/Dave Ashley Ford F-150 KyleTaylor/Gordon McKiel Chevrolet Darren Skilton/Ron Feil Jeep Grand Cherokee Dan Beaver/Randy Hoeft Ford F-150 Class 9 - Restricted Buggy - 3 start - 2 finish 4 ups) Brian & Jim Jeffrey Raceco Rick & Man Sherard Raceco Class 10 - Unlimited 1650cc -27 start -10 finial\ Larry Job/Rob MacCachren Mirage Dale & Mike Dondel Bunderson Larry Bolin (solo) Raceco Ray Croll (solo) Jimco Kevin Davis/Adam Wik Jimco Class 11 - Stock VW sedan - 2 start - 2 finish (this class was required to complete three laps) Terry Kiely/Angel Montiel VW Beetle Victor and Angel Barajas VW Beetle Class Mini Stock - Stock Mini Trucks - 8 start - 6 finish (this class was only required to co""'lete three laps) Steve Williams/Charles Braden Ford Dennis Milner/Martin Choquette Toyota Felix Hurtado/Darryl Freeman Toyota Mike Martin/Shem Fanniry Ford Leo Brown/Mike Horner Ford Class Stock Full - Stock Pickup Trucks - 8 start - 4 finish (this class was only required to co""'lete three laps) Steve Oliges/Tim Casey Ford F-150 Austin Robison Hummer David Sykes/Greg Woodington Ford F-150 Marc Stein/Chris Tartar Ford F-150 Class Sportsman - 1-2-1600 - 3 start - 1 finish 16511 (this class required to do 4 laps) Travis Coyne/Brandon Aymar Raceco 11 16 2 80 43 1 2 3 4 5 Class Trophy Truck -17 start - 9 finish Ivan Stewart Dave & Paul Simon Jimmie Smith Larry Ragland Curt LeDuc Toyota Ford Ford Chevrolet Jeep Starters, cars 163 - finishers, cars 84 - Weather hot, hot, very h~t. Fast Time - Cars/Trucks - Ivan Stewart 4:07:55 - Toyota Trophy Truck Race Distance -course 42 miles the lap - Time Allowance - 6 or 6 1/2 hours Long Ju"" Overall winner - Jimmie Johnson -86 feet for $7500.00. Page 14 Time 5:13:30 5:20:44 5:37:25 5:52:11 5:57:36 4:42:13 4:45:11 4:46:15 4:48:06 4:49:25 5:16:44 5:54:17 5:56:33 6:05:34 6:10:37 6:18:55 6:20:42 5:32:08 5:34:37 5:38:tp 5:47:01. 6:09:24 5:31:27 5:50:22 4:53:15 4:56:40 .5:17:20 5:23:20 5:39:47 4:37:41 4:43:57 4:45:14 4:45:59 5:01 :41 5:49:09 6:23:07 5:21:37 5:24:32 5:28:00 5:29:22 5:34:45 5:19:16 5:30:22 4:24:27 4:57:05 5:03:26 5:05:15 5:09:49 4:05:54 4:25:03 4:50:09 5:49:08 6:15:38 4:07:55 4:12:12 4:15:50 4:17:48 4:18:36 lap, and it was Coyne in second and Nelson and Mulder in third. But then Nelson and Mulder dropped out. On the third lap Arzate and Hampton held their nine minute lead, and now it was Brandon Aymar, who'd taken over for Coyne, in second. Aymar is 16 and has a very new driver's license, but had also never raced Rick D. Johnson_ and Rick Johnson are h_aving a great year in Class 7S, taking be~ the lead on the first lap, and midway decided the race was too close to make a Aore. d' d h l driver change so Rick D. charged on to victory in Class 7S in the Ford. rzate 1sappeare on t e ast • -----=---------=-------''-------------lap, but Aymar kept going. He did • to the pavement stretch, about six laps, was led by Angel Barajas at the last 10 miles or so in the dark, . miles from the finish, and lost a the end of lap one, and he had with no lights, navigating by the C.V. Holmes, whose spare tire Terry Kiely just three minutes help of the full moon. He and mount had broken, sending the behind him. In third it was Jeff Coyne got a win their very first spare down inside the back of the Hanson and Scott Wardell, but time out. car, through the floor and up they never came around again. In the 511600s the firstlap lead against the clutch cable, neverthe-Kiely moved into the lead on belonged to Gustavo Vildosola, less was still moving well enough lap two, as Barajas tipped his car with about 18 seconds on Danny to finish, and take the win. up on its side, which jarred the Ledezma. Jeff Holmes ran third, Watters and Vildosola were battery cable loose, and gave them less than a minute back. He'd second on! y a Ii ttle over two problems for the rest of their ride. already had to repair his brakes. minutes later, followed in by Kiely- also had problems, what Ledezma moved to the front on. Alcouloumre. Ledezma dnf'd. with three flat tires, and a broken. lap two, now with a minute and The Class 9 folks were led by tie rod, but he managed to get the three seconds on Vildosola, who JimJeffreyinaRaceco,withafull win. Angel let Victor Barajas had 10 minutes on Holmes, who'd 16 minutes on Ed McLean and drive the last lap, and he got stuck had to repair those brak~s again. Bud Mcleroy in their Chenowth once, but managed to keep The lribe family, Carlos, Hum-at the end of the first lap. He running well enough to finish berto and Gerardo were running continued to lead through lap two second only 11 minutes back. third, but having steering asMcLeanandMcLeroyfellback The Laughlin Leap winner for problems. and Matt and Rick Sherard, a this group was Brent Grizzle who On the third lap Ledezma held father and son team who were flew 50 feet in his 1600 car to win his lead, but as he went through sharing the driving and ri~ing $1,000. Tied forsecondat47 feet theshortcourseCharlieWatters equally,movedtheirRacecomto were Jim Dizney and Scott who'd taken over for Vildosola'. second, even wfrh a carburetion Webster, whowon$625.00each, was able to pass him, as he problem. and tied for fourth were Danny struggled with an obviously Jeffrey put his brother Brian in Porter and Jason Hatz, who each failing transmission. Holmes had to finish, and he held on to the won $125.00, for their 45 foot puthisbrother,John,intothecar, lead,afull49minutesuponthe jumps. All were in Class and they were still third, with Sherards by now. Even with a 112-1600. Vince Alcouloumre, who was fourth lap flat Jeffrey held on to It was dark, but still hot, by the driving all the way, in fourth. his lead and the team got the win. time the last finisher straggled in, He'd had to make a jetting change The Sherards, who thought the and everyone headed for air on the first lap when he couldn't course was fun, managed to finish conditioning and showers and make the big hill. in time for a nice second place. dinner. The schedule called for an Watters got all the way around Class 11, which ran only three early start on Sunday, but many Dave Westhem and Tony McCormack are really enjoying the new Chevrolet in Class 8 action, as here they pass by hopping out of a ditch first and ran second, moved to first on the last lap and won Class a·by six minutes. November 1995 of the buggy folks were headed for home on Saturday night. · By Sunday's 7 a.m. start time it was already warming up fast, indicating there'd be no break in the heat for the truck classes. There were 55 entries for this group, all with a six hour time-limit, though the Stock Minis, the Stock Fulls and Class 3 would do only three laps to everyone else's four. In Class 3, which had only four entries, the lead belonged to Jim Gatrell in-his propane powered Blazer, and he had near! y 20 minutes on Dick Sasser, in the Scout which sported a sign that read, "Fat Guys Don't Jump", which he demonstrated by carefully driving down the far side of the Laughlin Leap. In third it Dusty Times

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Kyle Taylor and Gordon McKiel have a great paint job on their Class 8 Chevy. Kyle ran second early in the race, but dropped to third at the finish line. Darren Skilton with rider Ron Feil herded the Jeep Grand Cherokee around the course in good time losing 3rd in Class 8 by merely 45 seconds, and took fourth. Dennis Milner and Martin Choquette run their Toyota in the Stock Mini Truck class, and they placed a fine second in the gailey painted mini truck. was Robert Hayley, in a Bronco, who'd had a flat. Gatrell continued to lead, and had the same lead at the end of the second lap, but now it was Kirk Kovel, in a Bronco, in second place. as Sasser dropped out. Hayley had broken a tracking arm. Gatrell put his son Todd, in for the last lap and he stuffed the truck into a hole about a mile before the finish, hurting something in the transmission. But he managed to keep it moving forward to take the win. Hayley was second, finishing about six minutes before his cut-off time. No one else made it. In the Class 7 trucks the first lap leader was Jeff Lewis in a Chevy, who finished the lap with a front axle problem. Chris and Rick Taylor, in a Ford, ran second about three minutes later followed by Tim Lawrence in a Ford, just 15 seconds behind them. Lewis spent a lot of time in his pit repairing the axle and differential damage,"and Law-rence moved to the front. Lewis was now second, a half hour down, and the Taylors were out. Bob Land had fallen out on the first lap when an oil line ruptured and his truck caught fire. Lawrence put Ron Norton in for the third lap, and he held the lead, but now Lewis was only about three minutes back, running in two wheel drive. He caught up on the last lap, as Robert Guthrie took over the driving in the Ford. So Lewis, with no further troubles, took the win, followed in by Lawrence, Norton and Guthrie. A.J. DeNunzio, whose throttle cable hit the header, melted and then stuck wide open, spent three laps driving with his ignition switch, was too late for a finish, and still said he really liked the race. Rick D.Johnson, ina Ford, had the first lap lead in Class 7S, with a minute and a half on Scott Sells in a Toyota. In third it was Javier Sacio in a Nissan, a little over a minute up on John Becker, Ford, who'd already had a flat. Kreg Donahoe and Tim Holland ran fifth in their Toyota. Johnson held his lead, with the Beckers, who found their truck so long it was hard to &at around the tight turns, now in second. Sells was third, and Billy Bunch had moved his Ford up to fourth. In fifth it was Scott Steinberger, in a Ford. Johnson had his co-driver, Rick L. Johnson, riding with him, and they decided the race was so dos~ there was no time to change drivers. He continued to lead, and now Mike Becker was second, less than four minutes back. Bunch was up to third now, followed by Sells, with Donahoe in fifth. Steinberger's truck had gone over Dusty Times the side, and down into a canyon. The Johnsons took the win, with the Beckers in second place and Bunch, who coasted over the finish line out of gas, in third. In the Stock Mini class, which ran only three laps, the first lap leader was Steve Williams in his Ford, already four minutes up on Dennis Milner in a Toyota. Leo Brown and Mike Horner had their Ford in third. On the second lap, as Williams continued to lead, Mike Martin moved his Ford into second place, with Milner's co-driver, Fred Espinoza, now in third place. Williams had no troubles, no flats, and went on to take the win, his fourth this year. He was followed in by Milner, back at the wheel, and Espinoza, who'd broken a driveshaft on the last lap. In third it was Felix Hurtado, who'd flipped his Toyota and landed on the wheels just about a mile before the finish. He was undamaged, though surprised, and came in sedately for third place. The Stock Full trucks also ran only three laps, and started the day with Austin Robison in the lead in his Hummer. He had just under two minutes on Steve Olliges, whose pumper helmet motor had broken, a real crisis in this hot event. In third it was Marc Stein in a Ford, and Tom Warnberg ran fourth in his Hummer. Olliges' co-driver, Tim Casey, moved up to the lead on lap two, with Stein second and James Hall third in his Ford, as Robison dropped to fourth after losing a hose clamp on the radiator and losing all his water. His drinking water wasn't enough to fill the radiator, so he had to wait for a new supply. Casey stayed in front and though the bolts on the springs came loose, he went on to take the win for himself and Olliges. Robison, back up to form, finished second, with David Sykes, Ford, in third. He'd been high-centered, but another truck had driven into him and set him back on his wheels. In Class 8 the first lap leader was Dan Beaver in his Ford, with Dale White second in his Chevy. Then came Dave W esthem in his new Chevy, followed by Kyle Taylor, another Chevy, and Darren Skilton in his Jeep. Ricky Johnson had blown his Chevy's oil pump five miles into the race, and Dan Smith had an ignition problem he couldn't locate in the big Ford. Beaver held the lead, and was now seven minutes up on Westhem as White dropped to third. Skilton had come up to fourth, with Mark Newhan now fifth in his Chevy. Both Johnson Steve Olliges and Tim Casey continue on their merry way in the Stock Full and Smith were running again, S1 ize truck clabss1,twinning again in the Rough Rider Ford F-150, despite some I . h oose sprmg o s. p aymg catc up. ____ .;;....._ ______________________ _ Beaver was still in front at the _ 63 feet, for a total of $1 ,250, end of the third lap, but as he while Westhem did a 61 footer thumped through the moguls, for $125.00. In fifth place, in the taking the conservative route, a only vehicle that wasn't a Class 8 rear spring broke, so he had to truck, Billy Bunch flew 59 feet in head for his pit. Westhem was .his 7S for $125.00. holding fast in second, with While all the racers described Skilton now third, Taylor fourth, the course variously as rc ugh, and Dave Ashley, who'd taken tough, technical. difficult or hard over for Smith, up to fifth place work, they seemed to lil<e the after running a lap in an hour and concept. The limited classes four minutes, quick time for this especially enjoyed a day with no class so far. big trucks looming over their rear While Beaver's crew repaired bumpers, and all enjoyed the his spring, Westhem, whose only relatively non-trafficky racing problem had been a couple of that the four-race format created. blown corners, charged into the Spectators also seemed to enjoy lead, and on to the checkered flag the show, sticking with it in spite for the win. Ashley, flying low, of the miserable heat. And recorded the best time for the class at 1 :02, brought the truck up to second place, and got out of it saying, "It feels like a Riverside race for 80 miles!" Taylor, who'd broken the balance bar in his brakes early on, and had poor brakes since, was third, followed in by Skilton who'd had a flat, and also some trouble with the big hill. Beaver, disappointed, was fifth. In this bunch Ricky Johnson won the Laughlin Leap with a 71 • foot jump and took home $1,000. Scott McKinney had the second ! andthirdlongestjun:ips,_at64and, ~ . Laughlin liked it a lot, especially since they had full hotels on a weekend that is usually a dud. There seems to he no question that it'll happen again in '96. For now, SCORE is hustling to get prepared for the long and arduous Baja 1000, this year doing the full peninsula run from Tijuana to La Paz as it did in the original version in 1967. The course is to be approximately 1,200 miles and the race will be held from November 8 thru November 11, 1995 just a bare month after the publication of this issue. Look for full coverage of this historic event in the January issue of DUSTY TIMES. • McKENZIE'S NR Fl.TERS • K&N • Uht-FILTERS • I DEALER INOUIRIES WELCOME t ; ill • . I • I 4-SPYDER SUPER DIFFS I Tl IRS g, The Cast Oiff is back! I 0 • Made from ductile iron. ffi ~ • Utilizes 4-Spiders for ad_ded strength. ~ This 4-Spyder Super Diff comes suppplied '!!0tiz with precision-ground pins and block. _ MCK-0265 w Creaf/y Reduced Price! T21RS All New to the Industry! Economically Priced! I • Ultimate strength/ • Made from ductile iron. • Available In 3 different configurations. I 002 CAST 4-SPYDER DIFF MCK--0114•002•15 f'a10-Tcdl~ MCK-0014•002·17 f'a1Hcdlf4,)(BS Iii !ii • ~ ~ 5 • 091 BILLET RA'CE DIFF 091 CAST 4-SPYDER DIFF ~ ~ Made from 4140 Chromoly. _ MCK-0114•091 Supplied with pins and block. ,. Steve Williams and Charle:; Braden drove the Los Angeles Sheriff's entry Ford Ranger STX once again to a convincing victory in the Stock Mini Truck Class, here they pass the Hummer of Rod Hall painted for the Paris-Dakar. • Supplied with Billet Cover, pins and block. 091 BILLET COVER ~ ~ MCK-0101-1 : u MCK-0102 Made from 4140 Chromoly. ~ 1._ _______________________ _.. • SIMPSON • BEARD SEATS • IPF • KC • CHME LIGHTS • BUGPACK • REOUNE otl • FUEL SAFE • OEM • SWAY.J,,.WAY e S&S November 1995 Page 15

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TECATE/SCORE TROPHY-TRUCK SERIES Stewart Win·s at Laughlin By Judy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Paul and Dave Simon soared high over the Laughlin Leap and ran hard to second in the race in the Rough Rider. Ford, and they tied with Robby Gordon for second place in the Leap. Ivan Stewart used the agile Toyota to his advantage, even though he .was out powered by the V8s: the dust was heavy and the V-6 out ran the 16 others in Trophy-Truck class and Stewart not only won the rqce at Laughlin, he earned enough points to cinch the year end points championship. I van Stewart took advantage of SCORE started them a minute the maneuverability of his Toyota apart, to try to minimize the dust on the tight and twisty Laughlin problem. But the breezes had died course to get his second win for down, and weren't helping much the year, and solidify his points to move the dust away from the lead going into the last event of track. Once they left the well the season. watered start/ finish area it _got For once the Trophy-Trucks hard to see. did not start off the weekend, but Surprisingly, most of them were scheduled instead for Sun-took the flying jump right off the day afternoon, the last event in a start, thrilling the spectators. The four race program. Originally set differences in the way the trucks to start at 2:30 p.m., the race was flew were astounding, some look-re-scheduled to start at 4 p.m. to ing as if they were built to fly, and allow Robby Gordon, who was some were obviously not. Jimmie racing his Indy car at Monterey, Johnson, Simon and Simon and California earlier in the day, to Walker Evans made particularly catch a flight to Laughlin, and get nice jumps, while Javier Espinoza, into his truck midway through the John Swift and Ivan Stewart made race. He had his father, Bob Gor-no jumps at all. But Stewart had don, who'd already run in the first one of the quickest times through event on Saturday, signed on to the short course. start. At the end of the first lap it was This time the Trophy-Trucks Dave and Paul Simon in front, ran on exactly the same course as theit Ford just five seconds in everyone else, except that it was front of Jimmie Smith in-another considerably chewed up after 146 Ford. In third it was Stewart, vehicleshadrunarounditfouror another 10 seconds back, five times. SCORE gave those followed by Jason Baidwin in his that wanted totheoptiontota~e Ford, and then Walker Evans in a quick lap after the Pro truck the Dodge. They were separated race, so they could have a look at from first to fifth by less than a the damage. minute. Meanwhile, voices on the The Trophy-Trucks had the radio were reporting that Marty same four lap, six hour time limit Coyne had rolled his Ford down as most of the others, and they into a canyon and would need also went through the start/ finish some trucks and winches-to get · short course, with the option of him out. Coyne was reported to taking the flying "Laughlin be o .k . Robby Gordon's dad, Leap", or zipping over the mog-Bob, was parked in Pit A while the uls. The prize for the longest leap crew worked on the Ford's was a nice $7 ,500 ... and it· was a steering, and the truck was still winner-take-all proposition for there, still on its first lap when these fellows. Robby landed nearby in a There would be only 17 trucks helicopter. He took off racing on the 42 mile course, which gave about 52 minutes off the pace. them lots of room to run, and John Swift, racing fbr the first /:~1 i ~ .... time since his terrible accident in Baja, had radiator problems, and never completed a lap in his Ford. At the end of the second lap it was Larry Ragland in front in his Chevy, with less than a minute on Simon and Simon, who were now about 27 seconds up ori Stewart, This what a $7,500 Laughlin Leap winning jump looks like. The Chevy of whose motor was running on five Jimmie Johnson, a refurbished Class 8, won the winner take all prize money cylinders much of the time. Ivan's .. jumping a keen 86 feet, but he didn't finish the race. crew surmised that the heat had replaced, while Tom Baker had Ivan took the win, finishing caused a break in the spark plug flats every lap in his Ford, and about four and a half minutes in in_su_lator, which caused it to E,oger Mears was readfusting the frontofSimonandSimon. Smith misfire. Evans was now fourth, shocks on his Chevy. Gordon, was third and, very upset, and Rob MacCachren had put his running all by himself at the back reported that he'd been the one Ford into fifth, after repairing a of the .pack, ran up an area he who hit the spectator. He said brake rotor on lap one. Baldwin thought was the course then he'd been told by officials to go felloutwithabrokenspindlethat spotted a burich of "Wrong on, and then had been informed caused him to crash. Way" signs. So he made an of the man's condition on the During the second lap word attempt to turn around and find radio. Smith said that he'd topped had_come_viatheradiosthat~r~ce hiswaybacktothecourse.Hegot a rise, his wheels in the air, and ~eh1cle. hit a spectator. Off1c1als stuck. While he was digging out, then had seen the man on the edge immediately rushed to the scene along came Stewart, first on the of the course. His truck had and ascertained that the indivi-road, and saw what the problem apparently sideswiped him as he dual, who'd stepped on to the was. He drove up the trail and ran fought for control. Ragland· edge of the road to take a photo, overthe signs to show Robby that finished fourth, feeling queasy had suffered nothing worse than a they'd been turned around, and after driving so many miles in the broken leg. Local paramedics and he was the victim of a mean joke. dust, not being able to see where an _ambulance were at the scene He'd been on the right road all he was going. Gordon ran out of quickly, and he was taken to the along, and had lost 15 minutes time to finish, and so did Jimmie hospital. But in the meantime an because of someone's twisted Johnson. overzealous Nevada Highwa'y sense of humor. But both of them gave the Patrolman tried to stop the race It was fully dark before the cars Laughlin Leap a good try, as did entirely, so there were a few tense were far into their last lap. Stewart the Simon and Simon team. Their moments until things were sorted still held a slim lead, with Simon jumps were astounding, and the out. and Simon second, but third on trucks handled the landing with By the end of the third lap the road. Their pit crew was trying grace. And in the end, it was Stewart had moved into the lead, to get Smith's pit crew to ask Johnson, with an 86 foot jump, but he had only two minutes on Jimmietomoveoverandletthem who won the $7,500. Simon and Simon and Simon, who were by so they could have a clear run Simon and Gordon had tied with sharing the driving as usual. Smith at I van. But it was a moot point. 84 feet. was back up to third, with Smith flattened a tire, and they Now the Trophy-Trucks move Ragland now in fourth place, and went by. But the dust was so bad, on to the Baja 1000, where it Curt LeDuc in fifth in his Jeep. just hanging over the course since won't be flying leaps and 42 mile Jimmie Johnson, in Ragland's old the wind had completely died laps. It'll be endurance and luck Chevy, had lost a transmission on down, that they couldn't go fast and a good chase crew that make ~he second lap, and was having it enough to catch him. the difference down there. Jimmie Smith enjoyed attacking the Laughlin Leap in his fancy Ford and he also ran well in the desert and finished third in the Trophy Truck battle. Where it was soft it was really soft as here fourth place Larry Ragland digs in with his rear wheels spinning to get on more solid ground to race upon. Always spectacular Curt LeDuc spits out a load of dust from the rear wheels of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, and Curt finished fifth in this tough class. Dusty Times November 1995 Page 17

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BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING Jackpot 100 By Jim Baker Mike Baker was a man on a mission, taking the overall lead on lap one in his 1-1600 racer, and he held the lead to the finish, not only the class winner but he was first overall ahead of the 10 cars. Sometimes when setting up a race course you just get the feeling that it's good enough for even the big guns to run. Such was the feeling at the Jackpot 200 which was run on July 1st at Jackpot, Nevada. When it was over the feelings were mixed;· with some who said it was great and a few who said differently. The difference of opinion depended upo n who broke and who didn't ... which isn't unusual. An exception to who got cranky and who didn't, was Jim Price, who came all the way from Denver to set some kind of a record with eight flat tires, still placed third, and got out of the car with a major sized grin, which was only exceeded in size by the numerous toothless "grins" in eight tires. The Jackpot race is one of those races reminding you of the "Good Old Days" when a town turns.out to welcome racers, the racers get it on real good, and when its over the party begins ... or resumes ... whichever the case may be. This year was even another first, when our Executive Secretary, Linda Baker, made an executive decision to marry Lloyd Haynes in a poolside ceremony immediately after the awards were presented. Registration and tech, plus the parade of champions on Friday evening, started the weekend off right. Even the most "jaded" racers get a smile when parading the length.of town and back with curious spectators lining the route. Something about the smell of race fuel, sounds of crisp engines, and the variety of racers rolling by that breeds·excitement. It even carries over to the Saturday morning events leading up to the green flag. When I shake the hand of each driver as he stages, I detect a twisted smile, combined with a tight lip ... holding the adrenaline down. Kind of like shaking up a bottle of champ-agne ... you just know it's going to explode in a few seconds. That's Jackpot. New for Jackpot this year were . the two highway crossings which allowed us to run off the west side of the highway. The course then ran along the bluff some thousand · or more feet directly above Jackpot and from there all the way down into the canyon along the river some thousand feet lower. While we didn't find the altitude affected the cars it sure did give a view seldom matched ... for any driver wanting to sightsee. It is well known in the area that Highway 93 north· of Jackpot is one busy road on any weekend. That fact caused some worry for B.O.,R.E. officials but the worry proved unne.cessary as the crossing personnel were flawless and the racers were great. Ultra takes the desert by storrril ~ Page 18 November 1995 The old Mint had its rock garden, and we've seen the BLM's revenge, the Boulder Highway and numerous other'' great spots". Added to those notable sites should be a stretch of course aptly named "Easy Street". A "First Run" on this delightful piece of desert showed you rocks from hell, rocks you couldn't see, rocks you couldn't miss, rocks, rocks and more rocks ... all with squared corners ... and most marked with bits of aluminum and blackened with the rubber of hundreds of tires. Kind of makes you want to jump in your car j-..ist to go see such an area doesn't it? Well, you have some of the preliminaries, so now on with the race. At nine sharp Class 10 was ready and Jim Price drew the number one slot, followed by Todd Wickstrom, Mike- Flinn, Andy Clawson, and Mike Hickey, The gremlins were hard at work causing Andy to have a 2: 10:32 lap with two flats at the same time, Jim Price also fixing flats, Mike Flinn fixing brakes, leaving the leading time to Mike Hickey with a 1:06:25, and Todd Wickstrom who got mixed up and missed a turn. Lap 2 looked better with Mike still leading and other times better. .. like Andy with a 1 :02:32, Jim with a 1:04:59, Mike Flinn at 1:13:27, and Todd with a I: 11 :24. Then it started getting real interesting with Mike F. posting a 1 :00:56, Andy a 1 :04:30, Mike H. still leading with a 1:09:26, Jim had a "three flat" 1 :30:50, and Todd a troubled 2:58:57 and could not return. The fourth lap put Mike Flinn into the lead just ahead of Mike H . who was just ahead of Jim. Andy was running some very competitive times with another 1 :02: 19 but the disaster in lap one was painful. The final lap would see Mike Flinn in with a 1 :07:20 for a winning 5:42:38. Jim Price turned the fast lap at 59:51 and a total time of 6:01: 12 a minute and 15 seconds ahead of Mike Hickey " who posted a 1 :06: 15 and 6:02:27. Andy got upside down on the last lap but still held fourth with Todd fifth. A course infraction cost Price and Wick-strom each one position which made the finish order; Flinn, Hickey, Price, Clawson, and Wickstrom. With three 1 /1600 cars ready we were expecting some fireworks because of their closeness. Todd Bingham led off with Mike Baker second and Mark Howe third. Unfortunately, we were about to witness a similar race to the Wendover Express when it became a one car event. Mark Howe lost the teeth in the rack , and pinion causing great conster-nation. One consolation was that he didn't go far enough to get the, car dirty ... fix the steering, wax . the car and we're ready to go racing! Mike was on a mission ... to avenge a broken valve spring at the Wendover Express, and Todd was out to repeat his win. Unfortunately, the gremlins were after his car this time and a plugged air intake caused overheating and a burned head and out after o ne lap. With nothing left to do but chase Class 10 cars Mike hit the afterburners to lead overall for the balance of the day. He posted a 1 :02 :45 first, a 1 :04:31 for lap two, a 1 :01 :45 for fast lap in class on the third, and then turned the car over to Kai Gerkey for the final two laps. Kai turned a 1: 19:51 for his first ever .ride in an offroad car, and bumped it up to a 1 :06:41 for the final lap to hold off Mike Flinn for the overall winners spot with a total time of 5:35:33. Finishing order was Baker, Howe & then Bingham, who was-assessed one position for an on course infraction. Third class leaving the line and making much noise were the heavy metal Jeeps of Russ Fullmer, Fred Nutsch, the Bronco of Kerry Stephenson, the Outlaw of Jim Wright, and the Dodge of Kennv Wartluff. Russ led off. ~-... -~-}~'.'''''· ·,·•' Despite a pallse to fix his brake~ Mike Flinn made up '•rne lap bf lap ,, ne .van C~a~s 1_0 _iind also arrived second overall on time. with a quick drive Rick Taylor found a home for his 5-1600 running in Class 9, survived rough sec_tions like this and proceeded to take the win over Glenn Cain. Dusty Times

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'~ Glenn Cain brought it home for a strong second place finish, first Class 9, losing the cash only to the smooth running 5-1600 they invited to run in their class. In Class 10 action Andy Clawson had a long wait for two tires, but then did some quick laps and ~ored a fourth place finish in the tight running class. Scott Butcher might have been the last car to finish the distance in his Class 9 car, but it was still good enough for third in tht• class. then Jim, Kenny, Fred and Kerry last. Kerry would post the quicker of 1: 15: 11 to the. I :22:29 of Russ and the disastrous time of Jim at 4:37:44. Fred and Kenny became terminal on the first and retired to their trailers. On the second lap the Fullmer Jeep with Jeff Neagle at the wheel turned a 1:07:41 to take the lead over Kerry at 1: 18: 17. Gremlin fever got to Kerry putting him on the trailer and giving the race to Jeff and Russ when they finished the third with a 1 :09:21, and with everyone else out they stopped to drink some soda water and watch the rest of the race-from the bleachers. Heavy Metal finish order was Fullmer, Stephenson, Wright, Nutsch and Wartluff who was assessed a position for an on course infraction. The only 5-1600 to show up was Rick Taylor and to make a place for him to compete the Class 9 drivers voted to let him run with them... if he spotted them a minute per lap and start last. Done deal so off they went with Dave Morse leading off, then Vernon Smith-, Mark Rencher, Scott Butcher, Glenn Cain, and then Rick. As if to make a statement he turned the fast lap for the class at 1: 11 :31, followed by Glenn at 1: 1 7 :54, Dave at 1:25:57, Vernon at 1:26:47, Mark at 1:50:52, and Scott at 1:53:40. Dave and Vernon would disappear on the next lap and Mark would come back with a badly leaking push rod tube and a 1 :39: 11 to retire. Scott hurried up with a 1: 19:56 for third, Glenn another 1: 17 :26 and Rick kept the lead at 1: 14:05. He would finish the final two laps with a 1:21:34 and a 1:12:15 to Glenn's consistent 1:18:44 and 1:18:20, and Scott ran a 1 :29:35 and suffered badly from the gremlins to be the last car in with a final 2: 16:58 ... but ~e did finish. Final four lap times were 4:59:25 for Rick, 5:12:24 for Glenn, and 7:00:09 for Scott, then Mark, Dave and Vernon. Our Mini Metal Class consisted of Cam Peacock and Joe Kellogg and would prove out to be the closest race of the day. Joe brought a brand new, just out of the box, beautiful Ranger, and so with fingers and toes crossed he wanted to finish ... and hopefully win. And then here comes Cam Peacock with the Nissan just snortin, and also wanting to finish and maybe win. Well Cam led off, trailed by less than a minute and a half after one lap. A 1 :20:06 to 1:21:39. Joe picked up another fifty seconds on lap two but hold the phone here comes Cam with a 1:15 flat to Joe's 1:16:12 on lap three. Now we have a race and --.!!l~ ... .,;e,/;¼ The Heavy Metal was third off the line and the Jeep CJ of Russ Fullmer and Jeff Neagle found the rugged course to their liking and ended up victorious over four others in the big iron entry. The Mini Metal battle was close all the way, Cam Peacock and Joe Kellogg exchanging the lead often: Kellogg won and Peacock shown here, was a tight second, just 48 seconds back at the finish line .. Dusty Times Cam isn't about to give it up nor is Joe. Cam turned the fast lap in class with a 1: 10:04 to the 1: 10:25 that Joe turned on lap four. .. but it wasn't quite enough and Joe took the win with a 5:03: 16 to the 5:04:06 for Cam. Exciting enough? The Sportsman Class produced seven entries to run the three laps. They were led off by Scott Noall, Dave Short, Johnnie Patterson, John Holloway, Lloyd Leavitt, Greg Fraser and Scott Smith. Four drivers rounded the first lap within a couple minutes, with Scott Noall posting fast lap of the class at 1:19:18, followed by Lloyd at 1 :20:09, then Johnnie at 1:21:20, and seven seconds later Scott S. Dave was "fixing" for an hour or so and posted a 2:28:05, likewise John with a 2:49:40 and Greg suffered terminal woes on the first lap. We lost John and Dave.on lap two but Scott Smith jumped to second with his 1:22:34, Johnnie fell to fourth at 2:07 :51, and Scott Noall slipped to third with his 1 :49:37. Lloyd just kept motoring along posting another 1 :20:51 tc;, keep the lead. He then turned a 1 :32:43 third lap for a total time of 4: 13:43 to take the win. Scott Noall turned another 1:21:31 and total time of 4:30:26 to hold second. Johnnie did 1 :49:08 on his final leg to amass a 5: 18: 19 for third. Scott Smith faltered on the third but held fourth place, followed by Dave, John and then Greg. Jackpot is a fun place to race, fun t0 party, and always fun at the awards Saturday evening. Pool-side at rhe Horseshu is not a bad place to end a good day of racing. With lots of prizes to give, there is always something for everyone. The custom has been for our "money man" to stand by with his fist full of green stuff, and every time we give the winner .his purse check and trophy, Mr. Money Man step~ up and hands him his cash bonus. It just seems to put a smile on the winner's face. If you haven't tried it ... you should. By the time this goes to press we will have done it once again at Wendover at the Bonneville· Challenge. 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THE RANCHO SUSPENSION RENO 400 . Todd Denton Wins By Mere Seconds By Jean Calvin Phot.os: John Lewis .. iJ».J=f,': ., . -~,(., ,;-;. Dave Westhem had co-driver Tony McCormack drive the fourth lap and they finished ftrst on the road, missing the big win by seconds but second overall and they did have some down time. ; ,.,,, .;,,* ;,, ~"'!.:,.,;?~# .~-~. -• .,.. Overall winner Todd Denton and rider Kurt Helm had no big delays, did the four laps at 7:42:30 and his Type I VW Class 10 engine and bus trans won the class and won overall by a slim 13 seconds. There was a lot that was new about the second edition of the enduro race out of Fernley, NV, some of it good and some not so good for the future of the sport. Early reports were that a good 50 entries had been received, but that proved to be mainly phone calls and the entry did not follow. Had all gone well throughout the summer, the race would have had a big entry, but regular readers will recall that the VORRA race on the same track was ·abruptly canceled by a court injunction the day before the race last June. The tiny 'town of Fernley off the free-way was devastated by the cancel-lation as the cafes had ordered and stocked extra food and beer, the existing motels had been booked to capacity but the racers went home when told there was to be . no race. But with excellent spon-sorship, the Reno 400 organizers did not feel there would be a prob-lem. There was! More on that later. The Dusty Times crew arrived at race headquarters, The Reno Hilton, on Thursday evening after a nice drive through the desert to · the redwoods, always a great sight for the eyes hungry for anything green in August. Registration had just closed with around 50 entries on the list, so we wended our way to our room in this mammoth hotel, built as the MGM Grand some years ago. The people were friendly and welcomed the pres-·ence of the race crowd, as the town of Reno did not seem as crowded as it had been at the ·inaugural event. This year the organizers took on NORRA, National Off Road Racing Asso-ciation, asa sanctioning body, and the master of the group Ed Pearl-man was on hand and Rancho Sid Smith approaches the finish line, his four laps good for fourth overall and first in 1-2-1600 class, had a little shock absorber trouble, and Sid was the only 1600 that finished four laps. #'} Suspension was sponsoring the race. BFGoodrich seemed to be sponsoring everything else, there Bill Webb and his crew pose for the TV camera after taking third overall an_d in force supporting a pair of truck second in Class 10, and he also drove a VW Type 1 engine, and said the rou.e shows, one in the Hilton parking . Ic..·u_s_t _ha_d_to_o_m_a__:ny:...__ro_c_k_s_a_n_d_s_il_t_b_e_ds_. _____________ _ lot and the other in the Conven-~ Fernley all was not going well. The none would finish before dark on tion Center. They ended up supp-far end of the hard packed the original schedule and few had lying the scoring team also~ Truckln parking lot, used for the brought driving lights. Contingency and Tech inspec-start finish and some pits last year, Unfortunately, one of the first tion was scheduled for 10:00 a.m. was history· for this race. The to retire on lap 1 was Chad Hall in to 4:00 p:m. in the hotel's lower story, unconfirmedofcourse, was the Hummer with a blown turbo parking lot. A goodly band of that the owner, still stung finan- pipe. Also failing on the first lap contingency companies were on dally by the canceled race in June, was Russ Jones, his Class 7 parked hand with full displays and the had ordered the off road racers, at pit 2 with engine woes and drive mood was festive. Trouble was no anyone connected with the race, shaft failure. Another sidelined race cars came by for some time. off his property. This after many Class 7 was Brett Frazier, seen on then a Class 10 went through fol-had set up camp, balanced their the highway at 9:00 a.m. heading lowed shortly by the Class 2 of motorhomes and settled in for the for the main pits. In a Stock Full Everett Paul. At 11 :30 Dave Wes-weekend. Ever resourceful Rod Size 8 truck Don Floyd lost the them appeared with his Class 8 • Hall rounded up a grader and radiator on lap 1. Chevrolet followed in a few min-moved about half mile down Coming around in good time utes by the Don German Jeep, course into the silt for the start I - was the 1652 HumBug of Sid Tony Allen running his Class 3 finish area, and graded a side road Smith and then #702 Patrick Tay-with the Class 8s and a highly for pits on Friday afternoon. This !or and #489 John Herman. Ever-modified truckish creation of was turning into a Balkan style ett Paul was first on the road of the Frank Gillespie Jr., who, after see- war! But most of it was straight- Class ls, closely followed by Dave inghowrough the track was with-ened out, and everyone got Westhem's Chevy and Joe Kel-drew his entry. Charlie and Linda moved before it got too dark. logg's Class 7 being pushed by Englehart of SCORE fame had The race format was certainly Todd Denton and then Austin volunteered to do the contin-different with the Sportsman, Full Robison in a Hummer and the gency checks; and they got one Stock, 9 and 11 classes starting Class 10 of Bill Webb. Clayton more through, the Class 7 Ford of first at 6 a.m. - we were not there Scudder's Class 2 was next to fin-Joe Kellogg before 1 :30.To be fair but having breakfast; it was going ish the long lap folfowed shortly the drivers meeting had been to be a long day. An hour later by Raymond Fisher, Neil Laeger, scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. for Classes 1-2-1600, 5-1600, 5, 7, thenJimJenningsandBobNyste, the first session and the second and 8 Limited started, followed in all in Class 8. Sid Smith com-session was at 4:30, both inside another hour by Classes 1, 10, 8 pleted his second lap at 11:45, the Reno Hilton in air conditi-Unlimited and Unlimited trucks. probably leading the 1600 class. oned comfort in the August heat. They faced a 90 mile first lap, then Information, even starting times More cars drifted through in the four laps over a 60 mile course for was hard to come by from the afternoon, there were a couple an official finish. That was later volunteer scoring team. Tony more withdrawals, and we packed cut to three laps of the 60 mile Allen drifted by about noon and it in around 4 p.m. in order to course, as even the fast cars were Todd Denton passed in the same attend the drivers meeting. running a much slower pace on minute as Dave Westhem, and Meanwhiledownthefreewayat the rough and rocky terrain, and Toddwasnodoubtleadingoverall ,.~1!/4 ............ "••-A dust covered Everett Paul takes the checkered flag in fifth overall and first in Class 1, with an elapsed time of 8:59:52 for the four lap contest. Class 8 was the biggest class at Reno and combined with Class 4. Raymond Fisher finished sixth overall in his truck just 11 minutes ahead of Herman. John Herman finished seventh overall and sixth in the fast group, his Class 8 entry survived the rocks and he said they just plugged along to a finish. Page 10 November 1995 Dusty Times

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Bob Land had a good day in his Jeep truck and he finished eighth overall and seventh in the fast group, having the odd pit stop along the tough course. The crowd in the Hummer tent were happy to see Austin Robison get in all four laps pushing the time allowance close at 11 :31 :46 and he had a long day. Clayton Scudder heads out for another lap on the dry, dus_ty trail and he got in three laps in Class 2, but later came in on a tow rope, but second in Class 2. at that point, by virtue of his start-ing time, and both John Herman and Everett Paul were only a min-ute or so behind them. This was shaping into a tight race, and class didn't matter at this point. Paul looked to be third, followed in a minute by Raymond Fisher. Both Jim Jennings and Austin Robison were back on time a bit but fifth and sixth on the leader board , fol-lowed by Bill W ebb, Tony Allen, John Herman, Bob Land and Sid Smith. There wasn't much traffic on the third and fourth lap as all but the overall leaders seem to be running in the clear or not run-ning at all. By the fourth lap many retired about this time either broken or weary from fighting the tough terrain, although with a 12 hour time allowance they did have time to do another 60 miles.W est-hem, ahead on the road after three laps, and Denton were still close in elapsed time; and the Class 10 looked none the worse for wear. It was going to be a photo finish with the race ending after four laps for all. It was getting on toward dinner time, and the start/ -finish was dirty and very silty with an occasional dust devil. You could see the race cars coming down the last hill toward the right hand turn into the finish line, and ·they were visible for about two miles. As the time grew short all eyes were on that hill and Dave W esthem, driving the race of his life, was first in view, but Denton was close behind. Both racers pitted for gas thinking they had another lap to do, a major miscommunication. In the BFG pit, Westhem got the message first and streaked across the finish line. Todd Denton came around the corner quickly to take the flag just a couple minutes later, and Wes them got stuck pulling off the course, and Denton sank the Jim-. co's rear wheels in the silt too. While everyone poured out of the BFG pits to congratulate Dave Westhe~ on his overall victbry, we did some quick math and fig-ured that Denton could have beaten him by up to a minute. This because of the different start-group. So far only Sid Smith had ing times as the trucks were in the broken into those ranks with his first group and the Class 10s 1-2-1600.EverettPaulwasfourth started a bit later. When the offi- in group, fifth overall in his Class cial results' were posted it was 2 in 8:59:52 and he came in about indeed Todd Denton who had 5:00 p.m. and headed for his pit. won overall by a skinny 13 John Herman was 7th overall and seconds at 7:42:30. Second over-sixth in group running in Class 8. all and in his group was Dave H is E:T. of9:36:50 included occa-W esthem at 7:42:43. It can't get sional pit stops. He said there much closer than · that, and the were lots of rocks and he just pair were a full hour ahead of the plugged along. The last lap was next finisher·, the Class lJ of Bill driven by Fritz W iechers, his first W ebb. race in five years and he made · Denton and h is rider Kurt good time. Helm had a fairly.uneventful day, Filling out the top ten, Bob but said it was rough and warm on Land got his Class 8 home ,in course. His Ken Major Type 1 10:53: 13 and headed for the engine never missed a beat driving shower. It was around 6:00 p.m. through a bus trans. Denton won when Tony Allen got the check-the group casb as well as overall. · ered flag, his ET of 11: 12: 11 in his Westhem was disappointed to Class 8 , good for ninth overall. learn he hadn't 'won it all, but Tenth overall and first in the first enthusiastic as always. T ony ·(slow) starting group was Austin McCormack drove the last 60 Robison in a Hummer pushing miles in the Chevrolet, and he is the time with an E.T. of 11 :31 :46. the one that stuck it in the finish The huge crew in the Hummer area silt not Dave. Dave has a new tent were overjoyed, that he fin-sponsor for his Class 8, Sherwin ished at all; with troubles too Williams Paint Co. Taking third numerous to chronicle. overall and in Group was the Joe Kellogg was the first Class 7 Class 10 of Bill Webb at 8:43:35 to arrive, he thought out of time. and we did catch up with him to He couldn't get up the big hill hear his war stories. His Bunder-before the finish line on the last son has a Type 1 VW engine lap as his Ford was overheating. prepped by Jack Mame of nearby He said he was stuck about an Sparks, NV. He said he did not hour in various stops, one to fix have major trouble but there were the fuel pump and overheating too many rocks and silt beds. was a problem all day. Others we Meanwhile Sid Sm ith and sa..y take the checkered flag were company came in first in the mid-George Reese, Neil Laeger #721 dle group at 8:44: 11, less than a and we saw Don German neading minute behind Webb, and he won out on another lap. Our results the group by a considerable onlylistthefirsttenplace :.hutno amount of time. He had no trou-doubt more finished, depending ble except soft front shocks on what the official lap require-forced him to slow down in some ment was. areas. He thanked BFGoodrich For all the difficulties most of for their pit use and other assist-the racers liked the race, saying it ance and said that all his crew was a challenge, silt laden and full enjoyed the event even in the heat. of rocks, but they had fun. They About the same time of day Ray-remarked that the organization mond Fisher arrived with an ET needed experienced people put-of 9:24:59. He had on course ting on the actual race, but the troubles, three flat tires on the retreads from 20 years ago, Jack truck, and the Saginaw steering · Brady as Race Director, Ed box broke, and he went into a Pearlman representing NORRA ravine on that one, taking 15 and Brian Chuchua flying around minutes to regain the course. He in a helicopte~ all day seemed was sixth overall, fifth in the fast busy; but still 110 results from the hastily assembled ·scoring team, but thanks to BFG for supplying· the people or scoring would have been a real mess. Joe Kellogg won Class 7 honors, in fact the only small truck to cover three laps and his 2WD Ford Ranger had trouble getting up the steep and silty hills, but he got a finish, as they cut a lap off for this class too. To editorialize in closing, we agree with the racers, The check-points should be manned by experienced people for sure, but the local volunteers did a good job without benefit of an·y training sessions featuring a Class 8 truck coming toward them at full speed. An experienced promoter would have quit lying to himself about having a good entry for the race after he was involved in having the Sacramento based VORRA group tossed off the land last June. An experienced race prom-oter would have spent more time Dusty Times November 1995 getting the course in shape, the start/ finish line ready before the racers arri:ved and set up, just flat spent more time on race details like a scoring team, an announcer, checkpoint captains, and the list goes on. Instead they spend their time last August organizing par-ties, and by the way we did enjoy the Hooters chicken wings on Friday evening. But the truck shows bombed , no one we talked to on the street or even in contin-gency row knew they were hap-pening, so participation and spec:. tato r interest were almost nil. This 1/'the iystem · run by most off road race · winners Needless to say there has been no press release on who might have taken what pri:e in either truck show to date, nor did we expect one. Sorry fellows and girls. At any rate this could turn into a very major desert race given proper management. The course is a dandy, the racers would prefer a cooler month for the race, but other than that they thought it was great. We did too and the generosity of the Reno Hilton and other Hotels was great. Maybe next year it will be all together organized. TRI-MIL BOBCAT CllROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. 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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS OFF ROAD WARS -PHOENIX VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM Weber Wonderful; Neese Neat; Chafey Chafes: and Foddrill Flies at Coliseum Mark Wise puts the tag on Pro Baja winner Chris Petersen dicing in close quarters at the Phoenix Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Bob Weber overcame adversity and a few early equipment glitches to pound past Ryan May and then withstand the concerted ons-laught of Albuquerquean expat-riate Tom Velasquez to take the Sportsman Buggy melee Saturday evening at Phoenix Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Whiplash Motorsports assembled a full program of evening -•racing as ATVs, Minis, Peewees, Baja Bugs, motorcycles, play buggies, desert buggies and stadium-style racing cars went at it tooth-and-wheel in the Maricopa County _Fairgrounds arena track. STADIUM BUGGIES The Torrance (CA) Neese Brothers showed off their well-detailed "1600" short course car while doing battle with their _big: . engined bro_thers in the moneyed Stadium 1650 buggy ranks. Driver Glen trailed Larry Foddrill who pounced on usually-smooth Dan O Ison for the money victory. The Dan Matthews/Tubular Concepts Neese car, powered by a VW Type I engine throttled by single-port Dan Paramore heads and a stone-age 30 PICTl, could not quite stay with the heir to the Foddrill fortune's dual-port aspi-rated car along the back straight but kept in touch by virtua of the ''right" lines -"I'm a quick ( course) learner" -, excellent car prep and smooth driving. Joe The Wrench offered up the stats that the mini-motor survives a 13.2:1 compression ratio: "We have to run VP 116-rated (octane) oth-erwise it detonates." Roger that. This is not to denigrate the foll-throttle effort of Foddrill and Olson who both race out of the Phoenix-sited Fod Fab shop. In fact, Union Hills High School student Larry preps both of these cars in addition to a vast array of successful desert cars and also finds time to road race an asphalt-track go-kart. . Olson fell afoul of some back-markers and the subsequent, but inadvertent, blocking by Richard Thomas allowed Foddrill to put the move on, and snatching the win from, Dan's Craig Parks-engined and Ricky "Old Faithful" Geiser-tuned car. Race Coordina-tor Matt Harper and enthusiastic assistant Terry "World Wide" Webb assembled a mixed bag of cars for the Pro session: Four-link vehicles were matched with standard VW trailing-armed rac-ers; link pin front ends did battle with super-compliant, spindly A-armed closed-course-only bug-gies. The thinking was t9 provide a full field for the Fairground fans and it worked well. Novice Stadium driver Terry McBroom, at the wheel of his ex-Rob Martensen Chenowth, was swept away with limited success. The learning curve appears to be rather steep, certain! y racing against Olson, Neese ("I hate you Neeses to Pieces!") and Foddrill. ("Rob" is the current name of choice for truck and buggy racing.) PRO BUGGIES Mike Williams, the sole Tuc-son racer to enter, challenged ) Winner Bob Weber overtakes Brian Burton on the grandstand jump. these high-bucks specialty cars with his twenty-year-old, two-seat Sandhawk and, honestly struggled. Mike saddled. himself with an added burden by being the only Pro Buggy driver to have a passenger. David Kyle filled the right seat as Williams tried to coerce the admittedly-heavy, dfsert-bed car to supernatural performance against the 1350-pound race-only single-seaters. "This car has a lot of bad things about it, but I seem to be able to . make it work," Mike promised. Propelled by a smallish 1650cc air-cooled German power · plant (Larry and Dan's cars run water-cooled straight "fours"), Mike and David's mount was relegated to a back row start by virtue of their limited· showing in the two qualifying heats. The Tucson two could not keep the other cars in touch -or even in sight. Struggling to keep up, the transmission gave up and the two troopers were sub-jected to a:n ignominious DNF. Unafraid of fighting the rising tide of technology, Mike told of untold miles of prerunning on the out-of-date car. ''This car has a hundred-thousand desert miles on it. My dad 'ran' the Mint in this," he nodded. In an aside, he also admitted to riding' in father Roy's old tandem car. "Side-by-side is no big deal but that tandem stuff, it was no fun. That was the only time I've ever been (motion) sick. Driving it's OK, but that back seat? It was all I could handle." John Chafey drove the ex-Doc Ingram Duaine Soards-owned Chaparral to. the class purse in spite of pumping copious quanti-ties of power steering fluid onto the car's hot headers, driving away whatever mosquitoes there might have been. The three-and-a-half nattily-clad Neese boys ( three brothers· and a father-in-law) pitched in to help Chafey make the Main, supplying them their nitrogen bottle for tire pres-sure adjustments, helping them straighten a bent aluminum tie rod and approving the repair of a cracked exhaust runner. "They cut up a Pepsi can and tie-wired it around the break,'' crew chief Joe Neese admitted. Whatever works, works. Interestingly enough, before the event Duaine and John were pouring over the car with wrench and socket: "The Three Stooges worked on this last night. I think Moe left some nuts loose," John suggested. Cha fey got a welcome reprieve when Scottsdale sport bar owner Richard Ronco pulled over in his heat with" expensive noises". Pre-liminary audio analysis indicated that the desert Chenowth "10" had begun to shed teeth off the ring -or off the pinion - indicating that it was mechanical orthodon-tist time. The Spec Roofing/Hon*a Motive Funco of Richard Thomas finished second. Richard wisely installed loading dock bumpers on his 2386cc Dino engine cage prior to the festivities. McBroom · should have done so also as he approached Chafey with the admonition that "You got me!" Secretly, Chafey had to be smiling to have tagged a real Stadium 1650 from behind. Richard flipped in · his heat then lost a spark plug lead in the Main. Brian Harden slowed appreciably as the race (literally) wore on but he kept the ·car running to the bitter end into third place. Similarly, Glendale racer Brad Person and the venerable (NOT "Venable"!) Greg Diehl entered their V6-N issan-powered MTEG-bred Sport Ute under the able hands of Eternal Crew Chief Jeff Knupp -and broke a gearbox in their first heat. Hey, Greg. That's a big ol' trailer to drag home that early. PRO BAJA The money Bug ranks saw con-troversy rear its ugly head when a penalty had to be assessed on Paul · Armstrong during the Main Event. It happened this way. Marc Zahniser's "Your Worst Night-mare" became his very own bad dream when the flambeaux graphic-ed convertible failed to complete one lap and was stranded mid-track. Rather than red flag the race and get behind on the tight Fairgrounds schedule, the officials elected only to yellow flag the metal chicane. Armstrong was recorded as hitting Marc not once, not twice, but three times during the eight lap Final. Jay McKinley explained: Todd Hoffman made a single seater out of his Sport Buggy, and did OK in___-Chris Petersen was the Pro Baja Win·ner as some of the others ha_d mechanical class. · woes, like Mark Wise who broke a torsio,n dog ear and had a coil fall off. "OK". Three other cars hit him once -only once -but you did it again and again. You knew (Marc) was there. We have to do some-thing." Poor Paul was penalized one spot which moved the win and the cash moneys down to Chris Peterson. Diminutive Bill Fielder was third as smar_t Mark Page II Moyembcr 1995 Dusty Timcs

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Todd Huffman here leads the four seat buggy of David Swan. The Cal Trans Spencer A-Armed buggy, rolled later in the program. Flying high, we caught a picture of Ryan May's Unlimited Sport Buggy before its new paint job got real dirty. Richard Ronco, with Honda power, passes Mike Williams but both cars broke and leading here is the #5 car of Terry McBroom. Wise and Fast Eddie Collins broke their ragtop in the first heat and never made the show. OPEN SPORTS BUGGIES By far the best race of the even-ing was the extended battle between Bob Weber, Ryan May and Tom Velasquez, a recent movee to the Valley. Weber, by virtue of mechanical troubles in his heat -he had a loose fuel cell line that drew air -did not receive a plum starting position. He paid it no never mind and blitzed through the pack, pretty much at will, in the Dan Spencer -supported single-seat desert "Ten" car. Putting his sights on the newly-painted and new stickered Scott Stinson-Ryan May Appliance Parts Company/Competitio n Engineering/ l 360GME Sports Radio o ne-seated two-seater . W eber asked for and took no quarter, working the lapped cars to perfection, passing May in the second hairpin for the lead. That was not the race, by any means as Velasquez put on a patently-hard charge for the front.Weber heard Tom's footsteps. Tom's Berrien Buggy - a rare breed out West -was another long wheel base car and sandwiching two of them through a corner proved to be a tight program. Tom went left; Tom went right; but Bob would not let Tom go up the middle, holding off the chal-lenger for two laps and the well-deserved win. Velasquez, a com-patriot of New Mexico rotary exponent Robert Gayton, even came over to congratulate Weber on his driving and the win. Brother Scott Weber was virtu-ally uncontainable in his extolla-tion of the virtues of his brother's victory: "It was ordained! It's the future. Blah, blah, blah." In his heat Weber found that "rubbin' is racin" and had sus-tained a broken front shock. As the race was "just at the Fair-grounds", no spar.es were brought. "We had to pull the other side's #2 shock," Bob expounded. "It was bottoming all night long. I want a four-bar, A-arm car!" " Unfortunately, a heat race roll-over prevented Davfd_ Swan from racing the Main in his 2400cc Dean Lowry /Ca patch /Horizon Printing/Spencer four-seater. "The steering coupler broke," the label printer shrugged. Swan's Cruise Ship had only been com-pleted for a short time and was missing several important com-ponents and systems: Crotch straps; switches; gauges; kick-out bars ( which were temporarily tack-welded in place before prac-tice) and, worst of all, the cooler rack. It did sport, however, a windshield. With three game co-drivers cinched in, Swan was on a roll, literally, when the huge car went Dusty Times over and all the way over back onto its wheels. 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Swan's buddies Bert Marshman and Brian Burton flogged their play cars and each other until Bert out-powe~ed s~~ll-motored Bur-ton, a confirmed banner and stake tow-er who won the Limited Sports Buggy class. (•Without appearing overly critical, allow me to state that it has been quite sometime since I have seen VW-based cars with Type I transaxles and CV s. I had not remembered that those components were so tiny.) Marshmam was jiving Brian before the race: "Be cool. Run smooth. Run for the points." Then, of course, they both wei1t· out and t~rew any such (silly) strategies out the nets. 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WRC RALLY OF 1000 LAKES Tommi Makinen Wins Again ·In A Mitsubishi Text & Photos: Martin Holm£S Tommi Makinen and Seppa Harjanne had a near perfect rally in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Ill and the team led literally from flag to flag and Tommi won convincingly in front of his home town crowd. ' · For the second year running been able to beat Group N cars on privateer Carlos Sole, all were Tommi Makinen won the 1000 this high speed event. Opel's new to the 1000 Lakes Rally. Lakes Rally held in his home impressive 1 -2 result is this penul-Weber who has longed for years town, Jyvaskyla, but this time timate round of the World 2-for the chance to compete in Fin-there was no big fight, no great Liter Championship in Finland land commented, "It is.easy to go excitement. For him victory was a had pulled them technically in fast here. It is difficult to go very solo demonstration run in an front of rivals Peugeot and fast, but it is easy to go too fast!" event where, due to the FIA's Renault.AstradriverJarmoKyto-The presence of Kankkunen eventrotationsystem,theWorld lehto overcame early shock and Makinen meant that Toyota 2-liter cars were the center of absorber problems and gained his and Mitsubishi would keep in attention. His only moment of fifth major success on this event, touch with major new route emotion had been hearing Juha finishing third overall behind two developments. Six stages were Kankkunen, who should have 4WD, turbocharged cars.Although new, others were in the opposite given him a fight for victory, had strong entries came from the direction to usual, all good expe-retired on the first stage-; Tommi smaller engined SEAT and Skoda ri-ence for next year's event. won· in front of national cham-teams, the power-sapping gravel Another WCR driver present was pion Marcus Granholm on an tracks favored cars with full 2-Bruno Thiry who drove an Escort event that will be remembered for liter engines. The Skodas had no Cosworth as zero-car, taking the the excitement in W2L, when technical trouble during the·three valuable opportunity to improve four different drivers held the day event but the SEA TS on their his knowledge of this event. lead on opening day; when Opel first appearance in Finland had Notwithstanding the bright yel-took the lead in a championship several problems including lowMitsubishiofMakinenwhich that the rules say they cannot win, transmission and suspension was running in normal World whereNissancrashed two of their trouble. Championship specification, three cars on the opening morn-The big question was whether Kankkunen's Toyota created the ing, and the third Nissan finished Nissan could become the eighth greatest interest. Special experi-third despite two engine failures. make to win a qualifying round, mental Bilstein shock absorbers The rally was a success for Mit-with the biggest entry by Nissan were being tested, while the pres-subishi. Lancer Evolution cars led on a W2L event so far this year. ence of engine specialist Michael all the way in Group A and also British championship leader Alis-Rossmann suggested that some-Group N . In both these groups ter McRae, who was second in the thing else very unusual was hap-the only threat to Mitsubishi category in Finland last year, was pening under the bonnet. And the came from Toyota drivers. Gron-teamed with Gregoire de Mevius, car itself looked quite different. holm scored two best stage times the man who had beaten him last Sponsored principally by Valmet with his old Turbo 4 WO overall year, and with Ari Mokkonen, tractors who invited Miss Finland and Jouni Ahvenlammi in a GT-while opposing them were the 1.5 to the event to pose withJuha, his Four scored one fastest time in liter Skoda Felicia Kit Cars of wife Pirjo and their young son Group N . After Jouko Puhakka Pavel Sibera and Emil Triner. A Tino, there was support from a crashed out of the lead on the first strong challenge came from the wide variety of commercial con-day, the fastest Group N driver normally uncompetitive on W2L cerns including a beer and a meat was Mika Korhonen, who was events VW, led by Tapio Lauk-factory. twice delayed when oil escaped kanen, who was about to finish Within 30 minutes of the 0630 from his Mitsubishi's dipstick fourth best when the transmission start of Etape 1 the cars were in and obscured the windscreen. failed on the final stage. SEAT the first special stage, and Juha This was the first time this had two official entries for Erwin Kankkunen was out before the decade that "Formula_2 '.' cars had. Weber and Antonio Rius and stage :;vas over. "It was exactly the . ! ;-,.,, A real star of the whole show was Jarmo Kytolehto, with Arto Kapanen in the Opel Astra GSi 16v. They were third overall and won Formula 2 in a great performance, only 11 minutes out of second overall. same as our trouble at Ypres, we Kytolehto was gradually recover-had some special things on the ing from a poor start,, shock front suspension and once again absorber trouble, while Raven-the bottom arm bolt broke, allow-pera went better when his suspen-ing the front wheel to fold under sion hardened up. They both had the car. All we now hope is that re;i.r wheel flats but almost no the organizers will let us repair the time loss. car and run as zero-car to get more Laukkanen rolled his VW on experience," which they duly did. stage 6 but lost only 20 seconds With Thiry enjoying his learning and continued apace. By evening experience there was almost as the first five W2L cars were full 2 much driver talent in the zero cars liter cars, three Opels, a VW and a as in the actual event. Nissan. The best behind them Suddenly Makinen was on his were the 1.5 liter Skodas and the own with Marcus Groriholm two 1.8 liter SEATS. Rius lost a close behind, for a while. "I am minute with drive shaft failure much happier.than in New Zea-and Weber was delayed by sus-land and the engine is very much pension trouble. "For this event better. I am going softly over the we fitted some experin;iental Kit jumps because our shock absorbers Car uprights with different steer-a re weak, but I wonder why ing attachments, but these were Kankkunen's car broke. I hit the too weak and I had to slow same rock that he did." Gron-down." Of the two Renaults in holm's dream of inheriting the the field the Swede Jonas Kruse lead if something happened to suffered badly from rutted roads Makinen, lost a minute with a while the Finn Kari Isolehto puncture, putting him out of stopped for 15 minutes on a stage range. Lady driver Eija Jurvanen with a loose oil pipe. The race for was going well at seventh overall the W2L lead was remarkable: the in her Escort, but retired when a three Astra drivers took .turns to rock in the road broke her rear lead, and in the last six stages of differential casing. the day the lead was never greater In W2L the immediate leader than five seconds. Mokkonen pulled ahead until he In Group N Puhakka led com-went off the road on stage 5 and fortably for the first five stages lost a wheel. Three stages earlier then he crashed on stage 6. Mika the NME team lost Gregoire de Korhonen went ahead, but lost Mevius. "I was cutting a corner, time on the penultimate stage but the ditch was deeper than I with oil dipstick trouble. Olli expected, and I spun the car Harkki had been lying third but backwards into a telegraph pole." crashed when his brakes failed. So Nissan's hopes rested on The Toyota ST 205 driver Pasi McRae, but not everything there Hagstrom retired with engine was good. "I started off too care-trouble after stage 3. Korhonen fully and then on stage 4 the then spun off the road on the final engine sounded awful. We got to stage of the day, the city stage in the end of the stage, lost about a Jyvaskyla itself, when he also had minute and found a rocker had brake failure, but he kept his lead . . broken. Luckily there was a Etape 2 was the big day, the standard Primera nearby and we longest leg· when the route went _ were able to strip this. The two down to Tampera and back, but parts wete virtually identical. after all the excitement on the first Now I have to continue carefully, day, not much was expected. The because Gregoire will need our rain came down all day and with it spare car on the Manx Rally." sadness before the second stage When.Mokkonen disappeared was held. The course opening the W2L event turned into a great Escort of Thiry hit a spectator battle between the Finnish Astras crossing the road the other side of led by Rovanpera and K ytolehto a blind crest and she died from her and the Swedish car of Swan. injuries. Bruno was driving fast Finnish National Champion Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen gave it.a good try for the overall in the Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD, but were second overall, over nine minutes back at the finish. Alister McRae and David Senior nailed down fifth overall and third in Formula 2, and were merely four minutes behind the Formula 2 winner in the Nissan. Fourth in Formula 2 and tenth overall came Pavel Sibera and Petr Gross, a fine finish for the 1.5 liter Skoda Felicia Kit Car 1500 against the two liter machines in Formula 2. Page U November 1995 Dusty Timcs

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The 1.8 liter SEAT Ibiza GTi 16v cars suffered from mechanical trouble and lack of power but Antonio Rius and Manuel Casanova were 15th and 8th in F2. Tapio Laukkanen and Risto Mannisenmaki stayed with the F2 Jonas Kruse and Anders Dawidson took 14th overall and leaders for quite some distance but the VW Golf G Tl stopped on seventh in W2L in the Renault Clio Williams and managed to the final stage and that was the end of the VW challenge. finish running with a hole in the sump. after two other slower course cars Nissan was up to tourth in W L.L once again when oil trom his mp on the tinal stage and hopes ot beaten a Group N car on the 1000 had passed through the spot, and even with occasional electrical stick smeared the windscreen and fourth place vanished with his Lakes Rally, but was this the car's according to the organizers the troubles. While the 2-liter cars this time it cost him the Group retirement. He had eased his pace performance or the driver Jarmo spectator dithered with an were dominating the 1.5 liter lead in favor of Marko lpatti in earlierwhenhehadmoredemist-Kytolehto?Jarmowasthestarof umbrella as she tried to run off the Skodas continued without prob-another Mitsubishi. The Mitsubi-ing trouble; "the heated winds-the show and in line to gain his road. The stage was abandoned lem. Sibera said, "I like the rain, I shi of third placed Mika Utria sys-creen was damaged when we over-fifth successive honor on this and Thiry was badly shocked by go better when itisslippery."The tematically lost time to the Toy-turned." McRae once again had event. In 1991 he was the best the incident. At the head of the SEATSwerelesshappy.Riushita ota Celica GT-Four of Jouni an engine rocker failure, which Formula 2 driver, from 1992 to event there was no fight. Makinen bridge on stage 18, Weber Ahvenlammi; his Toyota rose to had to be repaired. Sibera said the 1994 he won Group N. won all the stages of the day, stopped to see if help was needed, third place. Korhonen regained Skodas were without trouble, but How strange the efforts of Opel Granholm again coming second but the Spaniard was able to carry the lead by 9 seconds on the Kruse explained how his Clio have been in the FIA 2-Liter ser-on each occasion except one, on with a puncture. This allowed penultimate stage of the day. only just survived the holed sump ies. Two years ago they won the when he went off the road on the Clio of Kruse to l'!)lit the The weather was kinder on the the day before, having to have the prize but did not attend the FIA stage 26 for three minutes. Jari SEATS, but then the Renault final day on Etape 3 but the car pushed uphill rather than risk prize giving. Last year they would Viita one offew remaining drivers broke the sump on stage 24, and energy had gone out of the rally. running the engine with no oil. In have won but for the fuel exclu-in a Group A 4 WO turbocharged lost most of the engine oil. He Makinen was cruising all the time Group N there was no change dur-sion in Australia. This year they carretiredtheFordwithanover-drove slowly through stage 25, butwasstillfastestoneverystage. ing the day. lpatti was the latest might gain the most points but heating engine. the superspecial Himos stage, got Granholm had a damaged steer-driver in this category to have they can't win! Whose would be The interest continued in the to the service area with the engine ing rack making left hand corners brake troubles. He kept up the the greatest embarrassment: Opel W2L cars. While K ytolehto led still working, which was fortunate difficult. This was repaired, but pressure on Korhonen and even-or the FIA who organize a World all the way, the two chasing Opels because the outcome of the then his brakes caught fire on the tually finished 24 seconds behind. title the leading team publicly had difficulties, Svan had demis-World 2-Liter Championship final stage. In W2L there was This was the first year since spurns. ter woes and visibility problems might ultimately depend on this. drama when Laukkanen stopped 1989 that a Formula 2 car had in the rain, while Rovanpera had Rius had more trouble as he went wiper trouble and brake prob-off at Himos and damaged the !ems. Svan found on the faster front of his car. stages that his lack of experience In the World 2 Liter Cham-on the rally was counting against pionship a strange situation was him. Still the battle for second emerging as a result of the Opel place in W2L swung·between domination of this event. Opel • Rovanpera and Svan all day until were in line to gain a theoretical the final stage when Rovanpera 64 points from a 1-2 result, which retired when the engine seized. would put them in front of the Laukkanen fell back in his VW W2L points table, even though with problems that slowed him, since New Zealand they are inelig-and his fire extinguisher went off ible to win the World title. How inside the car without warning. would the FIA explain that the The only problem for Kyto-manufacturer with the most lehto was excessively high oil points could NOT be the pressure. All the time McRae was champion? ,'ltching up and on stage 20 the In Group N Korhonen lost time • ..._. - ------·----I . I I NJiil Covering international rallies has its high times as our man in Europe, Martin Holmes, center, spends a quiet time with Miss Finland, left and Kenyan champion Patrick Njiru . . 45th Neste 1000 Lakes Rally 1995 Tommi Makinen/Seppo Harjane SF Marcus Gronholm/Timo Rautialnen SF Jarmo Kytolehto/Arto Kapanen SF Per Svan/Johan Olsson S Alister McRae/David Senior CB Mika Korhonen/launo Heinonen SF Marko lpaatti/Harri Kiesi SF Jounl Ahvenlammi/Teppo Leino SF" Mika Utria/Marko Lehtinen SF Pavel Slbera/Petr Gross C2 Emil Trlner/Pavel Stanc C2 Laura Ramanen/Niina Hirvonen (36th) SF Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Toyota Calica Turbo 4WD Opel Astra GSi Opel Astra GSi Nissan Sunny GTI Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution A• 4:38:25 A 4 :47:56 A• •4:59:06 A 5 :00:08 A 5 :03:13 N• 5:05:53 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N 5 :06:17 Toyota Celica GT-Four N 5 :08:33 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution N 5 :13:08 Skoda Felicia Kit Car 1500 A. 5 : 15:57 Skoda Felicia Kit Car 1500 A 6 :16:38 VWGolfGTI N# 6 :29:09 83 starters - 43 finishers - ·Group Winner •• F2 winner - #Ladies Cup Winner Winner's average speed over stages - 114.12 kph (106.23 W2L) FIA Manufacturers Cup (Formula 2) Opel 229 points, Peugeot 221, Renault 188, Skoda 153, SEAT 115, Nissan 87, Suzuki 75, Toyota 63; Renault RA 45, Citroen 44. 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Fallon 150 At Night Fallon, NV.July 19, 1995 By Troy Robinson Class 10 had a tough time at this race, none finished, but the Vet-10 entry of Jack Ham and Bill Webb went the farthest and the fastest for three laps and they won all the Class 10 honors. Sam Berri set a consistent pace to win the Fallon 250 at night with a last lap charge to close in on Jeff Stiles, who was never passed, but was defeated on corrected time. Sam Berri would cover the 4--62 mile laps in just 6: 17:20 just 2:58 ahead of Jeff Stiles. · The race format is like the Fireworks 250 used to be with tech and registration on Saturday morning with racing the same evening. The format is to accommodate the working person and is well designed to fit in a two day weekend. The late afternoon race start of 5 p.m. gave the front runners two full laps of night time racing action. The Fallon track contains a lot of high speed rocky sections for 30 miles followed by a fun, smooth section of hill climbs and down hilts with a beautiful downhill canyon and, oh yeah, watch out for· the cow crossing. The temperatures race day were hot and dry with 40-plus mph wind gusts blowing down sani--huts and canopies. With condi-tions like that, everyone was glad to get in their race cars. Soon after darkness fell, the temperatures dropped into the chilly, low 60's and made spectators and crew members scramble for jackets or sweatshirts. Jim Stiles ( 117) would be the first off the line driving with his brother Jeff in their 2-seater. Jim would be out front without dust for two laps and only have one flat that Sam Berri's crew at visual B would change. On the start oflap 3, Jeff Stiles would take over the driving to finish it up. Sam Berri (149) would Stay in constant radio communication with his crew giving distance up to the leader Stiles who would never pull more than 15 minutes ahead. At the start of the final lap, Berri was nine minutes behind. After check point 1, Stiles would get caught up in traffic and the 40 mph winds would stop and leave the dust just hanging on the track. The dust would never lift for any length of time for Stiles and would drop 17½ minutes off his pace on the last lap. Meanwhile, Berri was driving hard and even rolled just before check 1 on the last lap. The aarenaline was flowing as he just jumped out of the car and rolled it back on its wheels from its side. He drove to check 1 with a rear flat where, with the help of Stiles crew's jack, changed the tire and proceeded to hunt down the leading Stiles. At check 3 Berri was only 3-5 minutes behind and by check 4, which is on! y six miles from· the finish, his deficit was only about 1 ½ minutes. He was given the go ahead and put on one hell of a charge. Berri crossed the finish line :7 seconds behind Stiles but Berri's later start time put him ahead by 2:50. Meanwhile, the Haas Brother's Mini Mag (123) was running strong but dropped off the pace in the dark laps to finish 3rd. Mike Webb (515) in the beautiful Class 5 Baja from Sandy, Oregon was running slower, but steady laps to finish 4th. In vet-I action, 10 cars entered . the field with Brian Holloway and Tom Schultz taking advantage of the deadline to declare a class in the new format and transfer their points. They both jumped from vet-10 to vet-1. Getting the luck of the draw was Rob Chavez (33) at just 30 seconds behind Stiles. Stiles would pull away giving Chavez a virtually dust free track. Chavez would be unchallenged and lead his class all evening. On the final lap the slave cylinder came apart and he ran the lap stuck in 3rd gear. 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Just 6:15 behind Carr was the camouflage car of Randy Miller (96 ). Jay Lommel rounded out the finishers in the vet-I class with a time just 30 seconds under the allotted 9 hour time limit. Brian Holloway (14) took a 20 minute pit stop to start the final l-ap and was the last vehicle to cross the line; 10 seconds over the time limit which negated the final lap for a 5th place, non-finish. In the incredible shrinking field of Class 10, three pros and one vet-10 took the green behind the classl s. Just past visual B, Fred Happich ( 1031) was out with, what was that, front end troubles? Denny Spohr ( 1017) was leading after lap 1 but blew a trans and would never ,come around again handing the lead to Ace Bradford ( 1008). Bradford, with all the competition out, including his own 2nd gear, called it quits at the end of lap 2. Vet-10 Bill Webb and Jack Ham (22) went a total of three laps to win vet-10 and place the highest Class 10 car. · In the 5 car 1600 field, Sid Smith ( 1651 ) and Keith Robb and Rick Philastre ( 1628 ), who were just coming off their big win in Yerington, were within 37 seconds by the end of lap 1. Arden & Perry Dennington ( 166.1) were just five minutes back in third place. Both RobblPhilastre and the Denning-ton teams would suffer down time on lap 2 and be within 30 seconds at the close of the lap as Smith's lead was now extended to just over 2 7 minutes. At the end oflap 3, Robb/Philastre were 3:23 ahead of Dennington and now Smith was over 34 minutes in the lead. Robb/ Philastre would drop out on the final lap and settle for 3rd and last year's race winners Dennington would finish just 28:38 behind Smith. Sid Smith and crew were extremely excited about winning this race as it was one year ago this race that his grandfather.Bill Rigsby was badly burned whi!e course inspecting and later passed away. Ten heavy metal took the green next and early on points leader Jim Cope ( 414) and 4th in points Jim Jennings (801) were both out on lap 1. Don German ( 401) would lead at the end oflap 1 with Tony Allen (318), Jim Bosman (822), Eric Lillund & Eric Williams ( 445 ), Brett Frazier (728) and Bob O'Conner (409) in a close battle for 2nd. The pace was too hot for Tony Allen as he wouldn't come around for the second lap. Bob O.'Connor finished another lap but the short-wheel-based Ford Bronco would-n't see the end of lap 3. Brett Frazier· and Jim Bosman also wouldn't complete three laps but they did place 4th and 5th respectively in class. Lillund/ Williams would have a long 4 hour 26 minute lap 3 and place 3rd while Steve Brunner ( 407) . would have a long 3 hour 52 minute first lap and come back with decent 2nd and 3rd lap times to place 2nd. Both Lillund/Wil-liams and Brunner would only complete three laps but still come home with a paycheck. Mean-while, Don German was burning up the track with lap times as quick as the Class ls in the old Willy's. Don's son Chris would tak~ over the driving on lap 3 and slow the pace up a tad in the dark hours. At the finish, Chris was still burning up the track as the father-son team were the only finishers in heavy metal and an incredible 4th overall by only 2 minutes 30 seconds behind vet-I Chavez. Class 9 had Forest Creasy (917) off to an early lead but broke on the fast and fun hill climb out of check 2. Tom Hatch (911) was 2nd after one lap but broke the torsion adjusters and had to weld the rear suspension solid to complete lap 2 and call it quits. Ken Pfeifer (910) was third after lap 1 and despite exhaust problems and repairs on lap 3 managed to finish and come in 2nd place. Lance Rhinehart (916) driving his first ever car race improved lap times as the night went on to come in first by 55 minutes. Lance-just purchased this beautiful nine car and is a top desert bike racer who wanted to go to four wheels. . In the Novice class, 2nd in points going in to the event Jonathan Gurney (79), driving out of five remaining, 20 year old twister cars made it about 20 feet before breaking a shock off and then proceed on and nearly breaking the rear end off at mile 5. Last race winner Pam Smith (58) was also broke before check 3 on lap 1 with clutch problems. Doug Seymour (72) and Richard & Ryan Lesher ( 4 7) would run close and swap the lead several times through the day. Going into the final lap past check 1, Ryan Lesher would lose all the lights on the car. I was working on my car at check 1 when Ryan ran down the pit line shouting "Who's pitting for car 47?". I answered since five of us pit together, "we are". "I just lost all my lights, I don't know what's going on". So one of the chase crews went out with him and direct wired a headlight to let Lance Rhinehart drove his new Class 9 to first place in Class 9. It was his first victory, off road, and it was his first race in the dirt on four wheels. He is a top desert bike racer. Dusty Times

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Sid Smith drove the Bill Rigsby HumBug Racing team's 1600 to Jeff and Jim Stiles led Class 1 most of the distance and overall the class victory and here is taking a load of fuel on board at a as well, but were caught and passed on time on the last lap, Pro Pit. He and his crew were doubly happy to take the win. second in class and 0/A. Streaking across the vast Nevada desert Sam Berri played catch up day into night, got ahead on the last lap and won Class 1 and overall by two minutes 50 seconds. ---------------------him get back into the fight. The Jo wrap it up, I would like to having it done in just two weeks, down time would cost him the thank Jeff O'Callaghan at in time for the canceled Fernley leadashehadaneightminutelead Autosport in Salinas, CA for Race. I would also like to thank going into the lap and finished 28 building me a killer motor and Skip and Lou at Fallon Glass for minutes behind the winner baby-sitting my race car while I only see the race through my course inspected, and Jeff Stiles goggles, if you don't call me or and Larry Watkins for calling me talk to me, l don't know what with their stories. Like I said, I happened to you. Seymour. (Novice Class 9 only do three laps.) Third place in class was the only other finisher in class Kenny Ott (18). This was Kenny's first race driving a once retired convertible Baja. Steve Millward (61) had a substitute driver as he caused bodily injury to himself course inspecting the Fernley Race course_. The driver, JeffVanderzweep, would have spark plug troubles and only complete one lap but still place 4th. After the cars started, five Pilots took the green for their one lap race. The 100% finish ratio at Yerington wasn't to be repeated here as Keith Haas ( 4) and Clint Wolsey ( 7) both failed to complete the lap and finish 4th and 5th respectively. Ben Wald (99) broke the left rear suspen-sion in his Pilot and drove over 30 miles on the outside to counter w;ight the limping rear l /4. Ben also· signed up as a pro class 1 with the Pilot, the first lap time going both to Pilot and Class 1 and then continue on the final three laps for Class 1 but the rear suspen-sion damage was too extensive for repairs. Ben's younger brother Andy Wald (34) had trouble but did cross the line just 2 minutes ·10 seconds ahead of Ben and finish 2nd. Driving a flawless race to capture the# 1 spot in class was Rob Slage (330) whose 1:42:54 lap was quite impressive for a Pilot car. The hot story of the race was the overall winners. The Fallon · Convention and Tourism Author-ity posted $1,000 for the overall winners purse. With Sam Berri's 1st overall, his bonus was $500, while Jeff Stiles picked up $250 for 2nd overall. Rob Chavez's dust free front start and hard consistent charge put him in third overall and a bonus of $150.00. Don & Chris German were the only heavy metal to finish their class and drove hard enough to place 4th overall and a $100 bonus. Sunday morning after the race was the award and $3 .50 breakfast at the Fallon Elks Lodge. The overall purse payoff would be $6,980.00 not includ-ing contingencies. Big winner of the day was Sam Berri whose combined winnings came to $1,435.00. Even Jeff Stiles combined winnings was $811 .00 for 2nd place in. class and 2nd overall. Don & Chris German's winnings for first in class 'and 4th overall was a whopping $960.00. All monies were paid out in check at the awards within 12 hours of the checkered flag dropping, and even more noteworthy, without a computer, good job mom'. Dusty Times WHITEHEAD AUTO RACING PRODUCTS ENGINE BUILDER OF CHAMPIONS IN THE PAST 5 YEARS, DAVE WHITEHEAD HAS BUILT CHAMPIONSHIP AND RACE-WINNING ENGINES FOR I WINNER 1993 and 1994 JEEP NOTORSPORTS DON-A-YEE NOTORSPORTS LARltY NADDOX RACING WINNER 1995 Baja I 000 -Class 6 and Showroom Stock THESE DRIVERS HAVE BEEN PROVEN WINNERS WITH DAYE WHITEHEAD PREPARED ENGINES Baja 500 Trophy Truck CURT LEDUC * STEVE KELLY* MIKE LESLIE * DARREN SKILTON CHUCK JOHNSON * LARRY NOEL * TOMMY CROFT WARP SPEED CAN NOW BUILD YOUR RACE-WINNING ENGINE ANY APPLICATION - 4 CYLINDER, 6 CYLINDER, 8 CYLINDER -ANY MAKE CALL DAYE WHITEHEAD· TEL. (909)845-3377 FAX (909)845-5292 WARP SPEED 39067 ORCHARD STREET, CHERRY VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 92223 WINNERS OF 10 BAJA 1000 TITLES WINNERS OF 4 TOYOTA MILESTONE AWARDS WARP SPEED/ A DIVISION OF DON-A-YEE NOTORSPORTS , . November 1995 Page 17

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LA RAMA SUMMER HEAT Larry Bolin Wins Round 1 at Barstow I :Wr Photos: Jimmy Messick " ,v Larry Bolin won his heat race and the overall in the main event driving his Class 10 Raceco with fast time of the day at 36:02:28. · Dan Martin won his heat race in his 1600 Chenowth and also took second overall in the main event finale. • The Summer Heat Trophy Dash by La Rana Desert Racing was held on August 12 and 13 at Barstow, CA. The overall victory went to Larry Bolin driving his Class 10 Raceco. It was an excit-ing and great time for all, drivers and spectators alike. The five mile course was designed .to be viewer friend! y for all in the pits as well as spectators trying to view the rac-ers jumping over the next rise. The mile of course coming into the tech section near the Slash.X Cafe was a winding hillside of jumps and turns to enjoy viewing the race cars as they screamed into the start/ finish. All this was laid out on existing trails in the desert and there were no man made trails or jumps. All day Sunday the teams regis-tered, teched and had timed prac-tice runs to get the best time for their vel{icles. The drivers had a great time shaking out the wrin-kles to make sure they ran strong on Sunday for the main events. Bill Markel in Class 750 had clutch problems. His team replaced the clutch before the next day's main event, Dan Fisk in ,·---~,;.;; .,,..,~ ~-~. Brian Lopez and J.D. Ward were second in their heat race, winning Class 9, and they placed fourth in the main event in the limited car. Tom and Mike Barnett took the victory in the third heat race in the Class 850 Jeep Honcho, and were fourth overall in the main event. Steve Cirillo drove his Class 750 Toyota to second place in the truck heat race and Steve finished seventh in the main event too. ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.~~~~~~~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:~=--,, Chip Davis and co-driver Jamie Johns'on got the good looking 5-1600 home for third place in the heat race, but didn't start the main event. Doug Goodenough had the family 5-1600 out for a day in the Nathan and Andy Ellis were third in their heat race in the Class desert, and he finished fifth in his heat race. 200 Raceco and they survived to finish the main event in eighth place. SCORE 1993 ENGINE BUILDER OF lHE YEAR! J We would like to thank and congratulate all FAT has dominated SCORE Class 10 _these FAT po1vered 1994 Class points champions: MTEG Super 1600 Champion SODA Class 2-1600 Champion SODA Class 1-1600 Champion SODA Class 5-1600 Champion SODA Class 9-10 Champion SODA Class 7S Champion BORE Class 10 & Overall Champion Jerry Whelchel Todd Attig Todd Attig Mike Brue Todd Attig John Greaves Mike Flinn RAONG ENGINES, TRANSMISSIONS AND OFFROAD PARTS Send or call for our new catalog SS.00 . · .·····················ll.l ··,•····················································································································································•'-·•···································································· Page 28 racing, with 4 different winners. Ne-Yada 400 McDonnell & Kroger Baja 500· Penhall & Erl Jilreworlu 250 Ray Croll Gold ~out 300 .Job & MacCachren 11.MQ11Mic;E· 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92667 (714) 637-2889 •fax (714) 6.17-7352 November 1995 John De Vito and co-driver Jim Merritt were second in their heat race and third in the main event driving the big Chevy truck. Dusty Times

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Brian Dague and Andy Moore had a good day in the Class 5 Dan Cannon had mixed results for the day taking a good fifth Bill Markell and John Daly flew the Toyota into fourth place in Baja Bug, winning the class in the heat race and finishing ninth place in his heat race, but had troubles before in practice. their heat race and were second in Class 750. in the main event. Class 200 had overheating in his . Mike and Tom Barnett got the official entry registration. new car. This was the farthest dis-Jeep in fourth at 44:03:22 fol-Rounding out the main event tance yet put on the new Raceco. lowed by Brian Lopez and J.D. racers, the Class 750 Toyota of Dan Cannon in Class 725 blew a Ward in a Class 9 car at45:33: 10. Steve Cirillo did three laps in tire while testing. This is a good Number 860 snuck into the ranks 30: 19:54 followed by o;e lap fin-time for the teams to fix their and was sixth on time for five laps ishers Nathan and Andy Ellis who problems and test the car again at46:09:31 but apparently had no took 7:38:27 to get around if we read the results right and the Class 5 of Brian Dague at 11:02:66. had a good time and they all look forward to the Trophy Dash Round 2 on October 14-15, upon us right now as we mail this issue. The Trophy Dash was brought to you by Sign Tech Race Lettering and La Rana Desert Racing. The overall winner and first in each class were rewarded with trophies and Champagne and an interview for being winners of the 'first such Trophy Dash here! Afl and again under race conditions. -------------------------------------------------Whether you are racing for points, money, or fun, this short course race is affordable, close to home, and a place for sponsors and family to go see a professional race in the desert. On Sunday the Main Events started with a combined class of Classes 550, 900, 1600, and 4400. Dan Martin driving a 1600 Chenowth won the five lap heat in 39:27:57. Second came John and Debbie Hulsebosch in another 1600 Raceco in 41 :53:45 fol-lowed by the Class 900 Dirtrix driven by Brian Lopez and J.D. Ward at45:13:83. They were just ahead of the Class 550 of Chip Davis and Jamie Johnson at 46:12:53 and the 550 of Doug Goodenough at 47:45:90. Dan Mustoe,andJack Long were sixth in their Class 9 Lothringer at 52:24:60 and Robert Wilkes and Michael Haddock rounded out the five lap finishers in their Class 900 Chenowth at 58:44:85. Neither the Class 900 of William Gust or the Class 4400 of Donald Klenhenz covered more than one lap in this heat. The second heat held Classes 50011501200 and 1000. Larry Bolin won the heat by almost two minutes at 35:55:48. John Devito, Class 150 was second at 37:44:60 in his Class 150 Chevy, followed by Nathan and Andy Ellis, Class 200 Raceco at 38:20:72, and another Raceco of Hal Hibbard in Class 2 was next at 39:59:70. Brian Dague/ Andy Moore were fifth and last doing their five laps in 42: 15: 10. The third heat held Classes 725, 750, and 850 led by the Jeep of Mike and Tom Barnett at 44:46:26. Second was the Class 750 Toyota o°f Steve Cirillo at 51 :08:60. Close behind came the Class 850 Chevy of Mike McCo-. mas and Darren Ficker at 52:03:22. Having trouble but covering all five laps in fourth were Bill Markel and John Daly in their Class 750 Toyota at 1 :00:43:30. Getting in four laps for fifth was the Class 725 Ford of Dan Cannon, and covering three laps for sixth it was the Class 850 of Steve Christiano and Rob Primer. The Class winner in the heat races in each class competed in the Main Event. Larry Bolin ran away and hid from the herd in his Raceco taking the overall victory by over four minutes on the 25 mile dash at 36:02:28. Dan Mar-tin was second at 40: 17:49 fol-lowed ·by John DeVito and Jim Merritt in the Chevy at 40:54:01. Dusty Times SALE *** COSWORTH 2.1 YBV 16 valve midget Forged crank and rods, special design head dual overhead cams, Avaid dry sump system, KSE power steering, Motec crank fire ignition, Lucas fuel injection, KEP en-gine adaptor to VW trans, Tilton clutch pack and flywheel, custom built thermal coated headers. Engine develops 300 bhp at 8000 rpm with · 206 lb/ft of torque. Fresh and ready to race. $12,000 GOSHEN RA CJNG MTEG Magnum -95 Point Championship Car Best ofEverything: Long Travel arms front and rear with coil over Fox shocks. Unbreakable Rose gear box, Beadlocks with BFG's., CNC/ Wilwood brakes, Charlyn P.S., 5 gallon cell, Beard seat, Neal products, freshly built 4AG , Toyota, many spare parts. Car recently refur-bished, ready to race. $25,000. *** SALE TOYOTA4AG 1600cc( freshly rebuilt) Powder coated block and all parts plated. Modified stock rods, Wiseco pistons, Total Seal rings, highly modi-fied cylinder head' com-plete, special grind Web cams, hand made intake, Weber carburetor, cus-tom built oil pan, crank fire ignition, hand built thermal coated headers. Approximately 175 bhp. $8,000. RABBIT -1640cc (New) Powder coated block and all parts plated, Modified Audi rods, J&E pistc-ns, Total Seal rings, de-stroked crank, New early style highly modified 40x3 5. 5 cylinder head with oversize buckets, Web cam, hand made in-take with Weber carb, custom built oil pan, thermal coated headers, crank fire ignition. Dyno time only. Approx 165 bhp. RABBIT,.. 1640cc (Fresh) Powder coated block and all parts plated, Carrillo rods, J&E pistons, Total Seal rings, new crank, highly modified 40x35.5 cylinder head, Web cam, hand made intake with Weber carb, custom built oil pan, thermal coated headers, Std. Igni-tiqn system. Approx 145 bhp. $6,500. $5,000. w For Information Contact: Bill ·Goshen@ (714) 990-2091 office or (714) 255-6678 pager or Bob Goshen @(310) 534-1390 November 1995 Page i9

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The Great Northern Challenge By Barb & Marilyn Schultz Photos: Denise A. Bronikowski Joe Eppers usually has Greg Smith in his 5-1600, but here he decided to do the driving and he hopped over the soft dirt in style and was 4th in class. The fifth stop on SODA's World Series of Off Road Racing was The Great Northern Chal-lenge held this year at Milan, Michigan. Racing action took place on July 22. and 23. The off road track was designed beside the existing 'strip track and was composed of super tight turns, challenging jumps and stretches designed · for high speeds. The track base was a silty soil with calcium chloride added to help keep the' dust down. Each race held on Saturday consisted of twelve laps. Sunday's racing was switched to ten lap races. The weather was hot -damn hot -but didn't keep the off road spectators at home! Whee doggies, ya' just can't keep those crazy Class 11 Double Seat drivers down! Twenty-two of those brave souls took the first green flag of the weekend and went on their way to another action packed race. Dan Baudoux may have done a lot of disappear-ing at the Luxemburg race, but this one was a visible race for the gun from Michigan. Baudoux started the race with the lead and held it to the end. Tim Christen-sen and Glen Mathews gave the crowded grand stands a real show with a non-stop battle for second . :l:Vf❖ Phillip Doyle won the Soda Lites feature on Saturday, and this class is building slowly in numbers, and should be much bigger in 1996. and third places. Mathews kept Christensen at bay for the greater part of the race with the two running nose to tail and door handle to door handle. Christen-sen made the key pass while the two were fighting lapped traffic and held it to the checkered flag for second. Mathews· was right there for a very close third place. Todd Frehse, Greg Stingle and John Huven made war on each other for fourth, fifth and sixth places with Frehse coming out the victor. Stingle took home fifth, Huven sixth, Mike.Oberg, Billy Scott, Mike Allen and Steve Schleicher capped off the top ten. The SODA Lites provided some thrills and spills action early on with Cory Friday going tail pipe over tea kettle before the first official lap could be put in. Happy to report that Friday is okay! Phil Doyle went on a flag to flag run for first. Tim Juskicuicz placed second. Unfortunately, Holtgeir Oxnevad and Mike Cherry also did not get in an official lap. Mike Brue, Terry Wolfe and Tim Christensen of Class 5-1600 duked it out for the early part of the race, then Brue put his machine into over drive and went on to take the win. Christensen stayed just a split hair in front of Wolfe until lap 8 when, uh-oh, off the track he goes. Wolfe went on for a well driven second place. Shayne Pagels came across in Dan Baudoux won both Class 11 Sand Class 11 D and here he joins announcer Ronn Krueger for a post race interview. He also won Class 2-1600 on Saturday. third while)oe Eppers, driving his own machine, pulled out a decent fourth place. Now, sports fans, the next race on the schedule was interesting indeed! Classes 3, 6 and BS took a staggered green flag with Class 3 flagging first. Four Class 6 cars and one BS truck ran together and we got right confused as to how to score this race. However, the powers that be got us straight and we're ready now to give you our best! In the Class3 action, R .Jerry Bundy, a living legrnd among Class 3 enthusiasts, came off the line in a big hurry to get to the checkers. Bundy zipped on in for the win, but was DQ'd as he took the track with his fabled Jeep that had not passed Tech. In the meantime, Rich Hiebling had the crowd on their feet each and every jump he made. The dude was after mega air, got it and within two laps had destroyed his suspen-sion. That left Greg Swiston and Dennis Chencharick on the track. Chencharick made it to the checkered flag for second. Swiston took third with definite mechanical problems. Now to the Class 6 /BS action! Randy Krall of the new BS Class put together one tough truck and took it on quite a romp for first place. Class 6's Rick Rayford took the early lead with Bill Groboski chasing him down. Rayford was looking just real good until the mechanical gremlins got him and he went down. Poor Leonard Gehl! The dude is just plain being followed by the clouds of doom. He breaks a ball joint at the previous race, gets it replaced and breaks the bolt that held the new ball joint at this race! Leonard, there just ain't no justice! Stan Wood took his machine to the finish line for third place. John Greaves tightened up the points race in Class 7S with a hard fought start to finish run at the checkered flag. Both Art Schmitt and Jeff Kincaid were bound and determined to get around Greaves each trying every trick in the off road manual. However, Greaves had obviously read the same manual and kept the door closed. Schmitt and Kincaid swapped positions for second and third all the way to the white flag lap when -wham-o -Kincaid loses the motor completely with fire and a melt down. Schmitt sailed on in for second place. While these three hot shoes w.ere going at it Bill Bowles, Jimmie Crowder, Tom Hockers and Mark Eber-hardt were hard at it too. Ouch, talk about dropping like flies with bad motor blues. We'd already lost Robert Chasteen and Al Walentowski after five laps had been put in. Then down went Crowder. But the amazing Alligator Man got the truck back on the track and kept on haulin' the freight. Next down was Bowles with a mighty hi-ho and off with big time smoke and steam. Then it was Hockers' turn with a truck full of mechanical vapors. Now throughout all of this down and out stuff Eberhardt keeps his truc_k together and comes through with a super third place finish! Kevin Norris finished a lap down but with fourth place followed by Joe Dunlap in fifth. The relentless Crowder took sixth. Hey, good to see ya' on the track Jeff Bechinski! Jason Crowder and Dan Baudoux in the Class 2-1600 race treated the crowd to some red hot racing! The two ran as tight as an old fashioned girdle, trading the lead back and forth until damn the Yankees -Crowder developed a distinct right rear flat tire putting him out of the running. The entire field of twelve entries remained tightly bunched through most of the race with Baudoux going in for the win. Mike "The Kid" Seefeldt and Mark Stein-hardt also had an excellent dice going for position with "The Kid" effectively holding Steiny at bay. This gave Seefeldt third and Steiny took fourth. Mike Notary was in the fracas doing just right well. W e searched for him on lap six, couldn't find him and assume that he broke down behind one of the jumps or got swallowed! Todd Crump went the distance for fourth place and Eric Brannstrom topped off the front five. Dennis Chencharick was the Class 3 winner in a brightly hued Chevrolet Blazer. It seems that Class 3 is making a comeback, with a host of them at I From Pittsburgh, PA Art Schmitt was second in Class 7 on Saturday, but on Crandon. , Sunday he won the Class 6 and 7S Challenge and actually cruised to victory. Let's do a little " stage setting" for the Class 4 race. Regular driver for Mike Lesle Racing, Steve Kelley, could not make this race, most unfortunate for him. So, Scott Douglas took the wheel of the Lesle machine. Now, we've Page November 1995 Dusty Times

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Joe Dunlap runs well in Class 7S, but could use more ponies. He This is the good side of Rob MacCachren's Class 4 Ford after Jeff Holtger drove one of the few Class 4 trucks that didn't show was fifth in the class race and next day took third in the 6 & 7S the first lap wreck. Rob restarted but didn't finish leaving the damage. He finished fifth in the class race and in the Sunday Challenge race. _tr_a_c_k_in_ a_c_lo_u_d_o_f _sm_o_k_e.______________ Production Challenge he was 11th. got a land rush start on this track Douglas is right with him, also ina the stands for the Class9/10 race! worth staying for! Jeff Probst and either. Probst and St. Peter flew with the trucks lined up five wide badly wounded truck. Probst is One of the great things about Jeff St. Peter treated the fans to around the track within one in two or more rows. Class 4 -hot on their bumpers followed by Michigan is that you're on the some serious wheel to wheel second of each other lap after lap you've got quatrillion horse· Greg Gerlach, Geoff Dorr, Jeff right end of Eastern Daylight racingasdidJoeWutkeandScott with first Probst in the lead. St. power, state of the art suspension Holtger and twelve more brave Time giving you added hours of Schwalbe, and don't throw out Peter waited for just the right and four wheel drive. Here's how souls. MacCachren holds the lead daylight! And by golly, it was Todd Attig and Dan Baudoux moment, .,. itgoes: ChadSchlueter'sRampage for three laps then exits the track ,------------------------------------------Racing's Rob MacCachren, Mike after lap four in a cloud of smoke. Les le 's Scott Douglas, Chevy Douglas takes over the lead, Thunder's Jack Flannery, Probst chalks up a fifty-six second lap Racing's Kevin Probst, and a cast and goes home with the win. of thousands are at the start line. Probst was definitely in there just The green flag flies. MacCachren, a crankin' with a one minute flat Flannery and Douglas are all. lap time followed by an unswerv-determined to get to the first ing Gerlach. Probst gets &econd. corner in first. After a hard tap Gerlach and Dorr put on a super from the rear, Douglas bites the show for third and fourth place. silty berm and sticks there. Guess they don't call Gerlach Flannery goes over the top of "Mr. Consistency" for nothing! MacCachren, launches straight up Dorr gave the pass every conceiv-into the air, pirouettes in mid-air able try but with no success as and comes down HARD. ·Mac-Gerlach held his position t'o the Cachren. slides through but the end. Gerlach took third, Dorr machine is obviously damaged. finished in fourth. Also finishing The entire rest of the field either the race were Jeff Holtger, Linda stops immediately or gets around Lou Sch lamb and R. Jerry Bundy. the Douglas-Flannery disaster. It's most difficult to say it was a Thank God neither driver is great race when you have a most seriously injured. The red flag is unfortunate accident, but given out, all trucks exit the track and the circumstances, it was a great the situation at hand is taken care race. of. It was determined that the start Let's hear it for off road fans! line be moved forward to give Fans may have used the clean-up racers a better line at the first time during the Class 4 race to corner. On the re-start, MacCach- grab a bite to eat, quench their ren comes off the line with a thirst or take care of the necessary vengeance and a wounded truck . . ·stuff, but they were right back in Jeff St. Peter enjoys his interview with Ronn Krueger after winning Class 9/ 10 a hard fought battle. Jeff also was third in the Unlimited Challenge. Dusty Times November 1995 P~gc 33,

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Scott Douglas subbed for Steve Kelley in the Mike Lesle Class 4 Dodge and was part of the first lap crash. But he made the restart in a battered Dodge and ended up winning Class 4, here being interviewed by Ivan Stewart. Scott. Schwalbe did well in his Unlimited race car taking fourth in Class 1 /2 and out lasting the group to be second in the . Unlimited Challenge race. Joe Wuetke Ill placed eighth in Class 1-2 while flying the colors and the day before he placed third in Class 9/ 10, using the same drive train . fllr moved and made the pass. Probst stayed right on his tail pipe to the checkered flag but St. Peter pulled out the win·. Probst placed second.Todd Attig had his hands full of Baudoux until Baudoux broke down about half way through the race. Attig placed third. Wutke and Schwa-lbe had to get around hard charging Carry Heynen first, but when they did they gave fans an awesome show. The two traded positions throughout the race with Wutke coming out the winner with fourth place. That puts S chwalbe in fifth and Heynen in _sixth. Rounding out the top ten were Reynald FlanneryandWalkerEvans.Also Vaillancourt, Fred Babinchak Jr., taking the track were Tom Jensen, Trent Hanson and Dan Baudoux. Dave Hackers, Jimmie Crowder Despite the fact that everyone and Scott Douglas. This time, was ready for dinner/ supper though, the focus was definitely ( whatever you call it in your neck Taylor and Evans. By lap two of the woods), the Class 8 race Evans was around Flannery and was up next and no one moved. closing in on the fast paced And darned glad they are that Taylor. Walker went to the they stayed put 'cause this had to inside, Taylor kept the door be one of the best races ever!! closed. Walker went to the Holy cats, Scott Taylor and outside, Taylor· kept the door Walker Evans put true meaning closed. Both drivers had to to th_e honored phrases "wheel to maneuver around lapped traffic. wheel", "door handle to door Both made their passes cleanly handle" and the like. Off the start with the crowd on their feet to see it was Taylor in the lead followed who would come out of each first by a very hard charging Jed corner with the lead. Time and returned at this track with his and Pat Flanagan rounded out the talent obviously intact. top five finishers. Also finishing Now Class 13 was scheduled to the race was Class 13 rookie be the last race of the day, were George Schultz. lined up and ready to rock and Dan Baudoux had to be happy roll when it was determined that it with his weekend of racing, at was just plain getting too dark. least in the Class 11 Single Seat Personally, we thought it was time race. Baudoux made another flag to eat anyway. If anyone left the to flag run for the win but not track that evening feeling that without keeping track of Mike · they hadn't seen much, well, all Oberg each tire turn of the way! we can say is that they must have Oberg stayed within three had their eyes closed. The racing, seconds of Baudoux the entire it was damned near indescribably distance for second place. Then good! for some strange reason, there was Scott Taylor charged hard in the Class 8 bash and he got the lead off the start, and fought off the field to take the victory in his Rough Rider Ford. time again it was Taylor with W alker just half a truck length away from the front end of Taylor's machine. The classic battle continued right to the checkered flag where it was Taylor with the win, Walker second by less than one second! Scott and Walker, gentlemen you were nothing short of superb! Meantime young Jed Flannery is holding Scott Douglas off with great style until the mechanical gremlins got a hold of him. Douglas finished on the lead lap in third. Also finishing the race were Dave Hackers and Tom Jensen. Note wortny: This was T o m Jensen .,s first time in the #811 truck owned by Pete Stark.Jensen is a past Class 13 hot shoe, took some time off from racing and As we stated early on, Sunday's a twenty-two second gap between racing was taken down to ten lap second place and hard charging races. Class 13 got first rights to third place finisher John Huven. the track and came out nine Huven had a buggy full of Glen entries strong. Off the start it M athews, Mathews having looked to be " Gaughan" With worked his way through the field The Wind as Brendan Gaughan of 22 entries for fourth place. and monster machine came off Lonnie Andrews scrapped his the line and quickly put a stretch way to fifth place. Completing the on the field. However, there are top ten were Tim Christensen, no quitters in SODA racing! R.J. Billy Scott, Mike Allen, Gary Flanagan kept his truck within Behrens and Larry Bayer. Gaughan's sight and was right There was no lack of door to there when Gaughan went into a door racing in the Class 1-1600 spin. Flanagan took the lead for race with Todd Crump, Jason four laps. Gaughan regained his Crowder, Mike ''The Kid'' ground, made the pass and went Seefeldt and Mike Notary all on in for the win. Flanagan never wanting the big piece of the pie. let off the gas and went on for a Crump fought off all comers for very nice second place. Dan six laps but that tricky Crowder Vanden Heuvell usually stays dude came through the ranks to right on Flanagan's bumper but pull out the win. To get there seemed to have some difficulty Crowder had to work his way this race. Vanden Heuvell placed around D an Baudoux, Stein-third. Thornton "Big Ed" Schultz. hardt, Notary and Seefeldt. No Walker Evans, left, sweeps past Jimmie Crowder on his way to second in the wild Class 8 battle in the Dodge. Crowder came in seventh in the race. Page 34 , .. %.--~-~'<$c;$ 7-t ,,. small task. Crump went down to second place where he had to do battle with Seefeldt for points and position. Aha, Seefeldt saw the opening he'd been looking for, took it and went around Crump on the white flag lap for second place. C r ump, after a dazzling show finished in thir~. Notary had held third place for a quarter of the race but in the end had to settle for fourth. Steinhardt put on a mighty fine struggle with Baudoux for fifth place and the action was intense until Baudoux broke down. Steiny rounded out the top five finishers. Hello, it's time for the Todd · Attig -Jeff Probst Show! Class l / 2 had a healthy nine entries but Todd Attig had a busy weekend, but without his usual success in the many one more time the top speeds and classes he runs. He was second in Class 1 /2 in his own designed race car. . action went to Attig and Probst. November 1995 Dusty Times

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Probst came out of the chute in first, crankin' out fifty eight second lap times and took home the win. However, Attig never let Probst more than two seconds out of sight and finished right with Probst in second. Jeff St. Peter had a tidy run -for third place. Scott Schwalbe, in fourth, completed the finishers on the lead lap. Also finishing were Dave Hanson, a poppin' and smokin' Jim Struble and Brian Bernloehr. Contenders Joe Wutke and Dan Baudoux were out by the end of the second lap. Ouch, only four vehicles took the track for the 7S/6 Challenge Race, and not one of them was a Class 6. BS runner Randy Krall and Class 7S drivers Joe Dunlap, Jeff Bechinski and Art Schmitt took the green flag. Krall put forth a mighty effort but only made it through three laps. Dunlap went down right away, got it re-fired but only, got in six laps. Schmitt cruised home with the win. Bechinski went out on the track "just to get a little seat time in" and went home with second place! Brendan Gaughan is really on a,ro/1 in Class 13 in the Dodge, and he won the I R.J. Flanagan stayed close to the leader the entire Class 13 event, but he class handily but there were not enough cars running for a Challenge. , couldn't get close enough for a pass and placed a strong second in class. The Rear Engine Limited Challenge was better attended and saw some familiar faces on the top of the heap. Once again Mike Seefeldt, Todd Crump, Jason Crowder and MMk Steinhardt went to war. The added player this time around was Tom Surace. Seefeldt started the game in first place with Surace in second, Crowder in third and Crump in fourth. Steiny started his game play way back in the pack. Exactly half way through the race some major changes took place. Surace had first, Crowder had second and Seefeldt had third! By this time Steinhardt had worked his way up to fifth place and Crump maintained fourth. The race is on to the checkered flag; Crowder makes a stunning pass and comes in with the win. Surace places second, Seefeldt holds onto third. Crump kept his grip on fourth place and Steiny kept fifth. Also finishing were Matt Lyon, Gary McGowan, Bill Scott and Roy Holmes. The 2x4 -4x4 Manufacturer's Challenge was an amazing story! You recall that Jack Flannery was involved in the nasty crash in Class 4 the day before. His crew burned the midnight oil to get the truck ready and Flannery over-came a mild concussion to get into this race. Geoff Dorr came around lap one with the lead, Flannery made the pass by lap two .and then it was color him gone! After a dismal day on Saturday Flannery came back for a dynamite win and fast time for the weekend with a fifty five second Jeff Probst had a good weekend in his big engined car, winning Class 1 /2 and he came back on Sunday to fight off the slim field and win the Cha/Ieng&. lap! Scott Taylor came off the line Challenge Race, went on a flag to in good form, broke an axle and flag run for first place. Scott was out before lap two could be Schwalbe, Jeff St. Peter and Bill counted. Walker Evans went LeFeuvre had a great dice for down before lap three could be position going, oops, LeFeuvre made. Now Dorr had a heck of a went down on the sixth lap race keeping Scott Douglas at bay leaving Schwalbe and St. Peter in a for second place. Douglas had a close race. Schwalbe held off the great run for third place. Now hard driving St. Peter for second, Jimmie Crowder may have had to St. Peter then, taking third. Carry wait a bit longer than he Heynen, a lap down, finished in anticipated for his new truck, but fourth. Both Brian Bemloehr and the truck performed well and the Reynald Villiancourt bad troubles_ two went home with fourth place. early in the race. Kevin Probst closed out the · The Women's Buggy Classes finishers on the lead lap. Also flagged next as Gwen Holmes, in finishing were Linda Lou the Women's Buggy division, Schlamb, Scott Smith and Pete went on a dandy flag to flag run Kowatsch. for first place. Barb Schaden did Three Class 3 'sand one Class 4 one heck of a job holding off Ruth truck made up the Class 3 Schwartzburg for second place Challenge Race. To give the until Schwartzburg put the pass drivers the credit they deserve, on her with one lap to go. Schaden · each participant gave the race his must have had mechanical failure best, but then, ya' don't expect as she didn't come around for the anything less from a SODA racer. checkered flag giving Schwartz-Jerry Bundy took the win, Al burg second place. Drews placed second and Dennis Wow, that Sarah Sawall is one Chencharick drove to third. Greg heck of a cqmpetitor! The young Swiston was most certainly in the lady in Women's Class 11 went ~o contest but went down on lap six her fifth consecutive trip to the with definite mechanical troubles. winner's circle! Shari Huven And one more time Jeff Probst, didn't just hand over the win in the Rear En ine Unlimited thoughasshewentneckandneck :;l with Sawall but had to settle for a · hard fought second place. New to the field this 1ear, Lori Kozloski did a great job with her machine and took home third place. Tracey Silloway and Karen Christensen diced it out for position with Silloway taking fourth, Christensen had fifth. Also finishing were Lisa Andrews, Annette Van W ychen and Lori Pozorski. Yep, here we are once again -the last race of the weekend. And who gets the dubious honor! Class Women's Heavy Metal. Ladies, look at it this way, fans stay put to see the very last truck show! Sherri Parsons came off the · start with gusto and took her Bad After winning Class 8 in a tight battle, Scott Taylor paused for an interview Bow Tie to the checkers with no with Ron Krueger, about how he closed the door on the competition. problem. The hot contest was Dusty Times November 1995 Jason Crowder won Class 1-1600 in a tight race, and /1e also won the Limited rear engine Challenge, here being interviewed by announcer Ron Krueger. between Ford drivers Brenda Hockers, Robin Schultz and Valerie Rehn. The three trucks ran close enough to look hooked together with Hockers holding off both Schultz and Rehn to lap five. Ouch, Hackers went down with mechanical failure. Rehn stepped into second place and held it to the finish. Schultz finished in third. Gail Brand, at long last, got to try out her new truck! The "real" motor still wasn't done, but hey Gail, that's some paint job! Brand h~d to puU ov~r early __ on but fans can look for her to come back with a vengeance. So, the racing was over and fans got the usual best of the best from SODA 's top notch drivers. Drivers, all of ydu, ya' did a fantasti job! The next stop is the Road America Off Road Chal-lenge, Elkhart Lake·, Wisconsin. And, we'll see ya' trackside! Additional SODA action in this issue. See the Chevorlet Off Road World Champion-ship starting on page 42. 1West Coast Distributor fOff HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL GEARS AVAILABLE SEPARATELY NEW RATIOS AVAILABLE · Valley Performance 3700 Mead Ave. McKenzie Performance Proffucts · 2366 East Orangethorpe Las Vegas, NV 89102 70'l/873-1{m Anaheim, CA 92800 714/441-1212 DEALER INQUIRIES 'INVITED Page 3$

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■■■■■■ ~ui~"~;❖ .-.-.-.-.-. ■ 'The Straight Poop' From the Big Wahzoo LONNIE HAWKINS, the long time President of our San Felipe Chapter, was recently diagnosed as having 'Lou G_ehrig's disease. This is not goQd, as it is consi-dered a terminal and rapidly debilitating ailment. Now most groups would treat this sad situa-tion in the conventional manner, with each individual dealing with it in their own way. Then, gather-ing at the funeral to officially pay their last respects. But not the Checkers. At the August 30th weekly Wednesday night meeting the membership held a special com-bination Club Roast & Wake for our ailing Brother Checker. Thus giving 'The Hawk' a unique opportunity to experience what we have all secretly wondered about at one time or another. Namely, when we finally meet our maker, who'll show up at our fun-eral and what'll be said about us. Some non-Checkers might con-sider this type of affair in bad taste, but the Checkers saw it as an opportunity to express their affection for one of our own while he's still around to appreciate it'. Besides, good taste is kinda rela-tive, especially for Checkers. Lonnie was flown up from Mexico by Koch's Crew Chief, then escorted over to the Dugout as the evening's Guest of Honor. After an abbreviated meeting, the Roast began. But before the sto-ries started to flow, . .Lonnie was personally introduced to a very sexy inflatable mate-able, that was of course, promptly nicknamed Dixie. Then, speaker after speaker took the microphone to retell one hilarious story after another about their personal experiences with this legendary Club jester. The following are just a sample: Gil George told of driving home with Lonnie from a Checker meeting one night years ago when they were stopped by the cops for driving erratically. When the Hawk admitted that he'd been drinking, off to the police station he went, with Gil following ~long behind hoping to bail his Brother Checker out. When they got to the station house Lonnie yelled to his friend that he'd be out in a few minutes. "Sure you will" laughed the cops. But, sure enough, in no time Lon-· nie came walking back out, explaining that their tests never seemea to compute right on a guy with only one lung. The Hawk had lost the other one when he crash landed his twin engine plane in a lemon grove years earlier, never realizing then that there might be an up side to that accident. Hibbard rose to remind all the members what incident actually caused Hawkins to move down to Margaritaville permanently. Seems at the end of an angry divorce hearing a judge decided to tum over virtually everything but his huevos to his beloved wife Dixie. That was when Lonnie rose up to vigorously object, and of course, the judge told him to sit do«;n and shut up or I'll find you in contempt. "F,,k you" angrily responded our hero, and off to jail he went for 45 days, or until he got his head straight. When he finally got out, instead of turning everything over to his ex, he grabbed everything he could get his hands on and split for Baja. That Judge reportedly still has an active warrant out for our boy. Dr. Checker was once severely 'Hawkinized' during that dark time in Steve's Checker career when he served as Score's Race Director. It seems that one night during this period he was foolish enough to park his Score truck unattended in front of Lonnie's house while he went into San Felipe to party. Predictably, when Kassassanyi returned, he was stunned to find his fancy official vehicle all wrapped up like a cocoon with every inch of the brightly colored course marking ribbon that he had on board. Al Long recalled one of Lon-nie's direct contributions to international diplomacy. Back when Sal brought the first batch of]aps and their motorcycles over to run the 1000, they quickly ran into the unique humor of "El Halcon". Seems about 250 miles into the event they came upon honnie's pit, which of course, was all decorated up with checkered flags a!'ld banners. And, they mis-takenly thought they had reached the finish line. As this group of rising sun riders got off their brand new bikes and started celebrating their accomplishment, shaking hands and back slapping, Lonnie decided to take one of their trick bikes for a little test ride. Eventu-ally, all these novices were con-·vinced that they still had another 7 50 miles to go and continued on. All except one, that is, as he was busy chasing Hawkins around the pit trying to get his bike back. Speaking of pits, Lonnie's San Felipe area Checker pits have always been a highlight at any Baja race. As an example, one time our boy hauled a bunch oflumber out to Zoo Road and built a big impressively covered pit area complete with a 35 foot long fully stocked plywood bar. All those that stopped by that race will remember it well. With Hawkins as the long time recognized Honorary Mayor, San Felipe has long been a favorite watering hole for the Club. Once while out pre-running for a Baja race, Lonnie and some other Checkers came across a couple of environmentalist types who were riding bicycles down the peninsula's dirt roads to La Paz. After chattin' awhile, they asked if our boys had some extra water. Naturally, being an ever helpful individual, Lonnie obliged. After they bicycled away, continuing on their foolish jour-ney, our hero started laughing devilishly. When asked what was so funny, Lonnie said "I hope those idiots got lotsa toilet paper · in their backpacks, 'cause I just filled their canteens up with Mex-ican tap water. I'll bet those two will always remember Lonnie. As the reported creator of our Club's long standing Checkers eat their dead policy, a saw was pro-duced, and the suggestion made: "let's cut a hunk off of him tonight. You know, to make sure we get a fresh piece and all." A short discussion followed on whether or not San Felipe's only funeral home had any refrigeration. PIKE'S Jim Taber, a classic shit-stirrin' Checker in his own right, was foolish enough to screw around with Lonnie and then try to build a house just a couple of doors down from his in San Felipe. Right from the beginning Jim should have known he was out of his league. The Hawk saw an early opportunity to get even with Taber when he was down to arrange for a local Mexican con-crete crew to pour his slab.Taber prepared his site, driving stakes and running string for the Mexi-cans to follow the next day. He then headed back up north to L.A. Well, that night Lonnie went over and moved a couple of the stakes ... just a little. But enough that Taber's new house was now gonna be shaped more like a trapezoid than a rectangle. SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ...... . - THANKS! Denny''! RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS Mobir· SERVICE EVERY DAV VEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 36 Some non-Checkers who read this might get the impression that Lonnie is some kind of an asshole. ~ But that's not the case. The con-tinued unselfish open house atti-tude that he's extended over the years to all his Checker Buds has more than made up for his occa-sional little pranks. Plus, he's def-initely a fun dude to be around! The sudden appearance of about 85 Checkers at this special meet-ing gave ample testament to those feelings. The following are some November 1995 of the inactive and seldom seens who showed up: Tony & Mario Vanilo, Phil Bowers, Bob Vane-gas, Jim Weber, Tony Encabo, Gil, Grant, & Gi:_eg George, Steve Kelley ( past Prez), Jeff Bains, Dick Miller (past Prez), plus a number of other unrecognizables. In closing, there is just one little thing that keeps naggin' at me. Despite all that out-pouring of good will from his Brother Checkers. Despite the $ 1000 we rose to start a fund for his kid. And, despite all !:hose chilling sto-ries of his about undergoing those dreaded experimental cat urine treatments that Walter turned him on to. Could all this just be another one of Hawkin's little pranks? ... let's all hope so. LA RAN A's first Trophy Dash, held outside of Barstow, was naturally dominated by a couple of Checkers. This new format consisted of a series of heats and a main. All run on a five mile loop that the racers were allowed to practice on. Well, Larry Bolin definitely knows short course racin', and this race was close enough. In his Class 10 car, our hero not only won his heat, but overalled the main, and had the fastest lap of the event. Dan Martin (no nickname yet) also kicked some ass in his 112-1600 car, winning his heat race and then coming in second overall to Mr. Excitement in the main. Congratulations Guys! LAUGHLIN 200 - All right, here's how Score's exciting new format worked on their 40 mile loop outside of town. On Satur-day morning the open buggy classes, plus the Ss and 10s, ran five laps to finish. At 2 PM the 1 12-1600, 5 11600; 9 & 11 classes ran ·for four laps. On Sun-day morning the truck and 4x4 classes ran their four, with the Trophy Trucks closing out this two days of racing in the sizzling Nevada desert. Although there were a few bright spots, none of our nine Checker cars came home with the gold. Our best performance was by Larry Bolin, who took home the 3rd Place money in Class 10 and. was 5th overall in his group. Bryan 'The Carbman' Moynahan moved. right along in his 5 11600 Bug while on his seemingly end-less search for different sized jets, ending up with a 4th in class. Kevin Davis came within a fourth gear of headlining this month's racing reports, as he really tore 'em up in Class 10 for three full laps. Then ... yep, he lost 4th gear and ended up with a 5th in class. Bummer Kev, ya didn't get that tranny from the Checker with the ugly legs did ya? Mowin' lawns must be a lot more profitable than any of us ever imagined, as Sprin-kler man has supposedly just bought an unlimited buggy to replace his ten car. Seeley also got a 5th, but in Class 5 and not in nearly as spectacular a fashion . The Harmans ended up with an 8th in Class 10, and I'm sure at least one of them is glad I never found out why. Brian and Scott Steele were quick for their first half, but then one of the brothers had to get out of their single seat 112-1600 to help untangle a jammed up bottleneck on the course. Then, after some related problems, they had to settle for a 10th in this competitive class. Richard Young's non-Checker partner was 'radared' on the res-tricted highway section iq Mum-bles Open car going over 90 and promptly DQed. Oops! Tucker & McGee had enough problems that they could only get in four of their required five laps for a DNF in their 10 car. Stuart Chase and his Open car also DNFed, but with front end problems on his 2nd lap. Billy Robertson never got into his non-Checker Class 10 ride, as the owner parked it only about four miles out with broken steering. Malocco's new Class 5 ride also went out on their 1st lap with stub axle problems. The W ahzoo rarely gives Steve Kelley a call on his Trophy Truck except when he wins, despite the fact that he's a past Prez and still rightfully considers himself a Checker. The reason for this is that our boy long ago went 'fac-tory' on us and no longer runs for the black & white. But, this race was a little different. Seems our hero was leading on time during the Trophy Truck's second lap, on a now thoroughly chewed up Nevada course, when he was first into a full stop blockage. As the jam up grew behind him, engines roared and tensions multiplied. Finally, a Score flag guy directed Steve off the course and hopefully around the problem. But instead, he got sent off into some soft stuff where he promptly buried it. Quickly recogni:ing his error, the flag man then started sending the rest of the waiting trucks around in the other direction ... where all were able to get clear and back up to mach 1 in no time. All except Kelley, that is, who was now s_o mad that he was Startin' to sound like a real Checker again to eve-rybody within shoutin' distance. Hey Steve, ya might get a little more respect our of those Score guys with a Checker sticker or two on that growler of yours. Despite going win less out in the desert, the Club was, of course, first in fun out on the water. All during this event, the Checker Navy was out in full force, patrolling the Colorado River on everything from inner tubes to Day Cruisers. Master Bates, who is still kinda in the Club dog house over that incident with Ta Ta at our Summer Party, was rumored to have knocked his wife out of the boat on their way into shore. But that's absolutely not true. Apparently, after a few too much of something, she sud-denly fell overboard all by herself. As usual, a good time was had by all, as Laughlin, Nevada is defin-ately a Checker-kinda town. THE DUSTY TIMES is once again to be congratulated for pro-viding our Club the space it does every month for this column. And on the occasions when we blabber on and on, like this month and last, cuttin' into her advertising.space, Calvin report-edly just adjusts our Special Checker Subscription Price to make up the difference. Hmm? This seems amazingly fair consid-ering that we're dealing with a woman. Thanks Jean. AND FINALLY - If ya think ya see the Beaver's older brother Wally wandering around in some designated Checker area like he belongs there, don't freak, it's just Hastings! After unexpectently cutting off his long ponytail and beard ( on top of the recent loss of 80 lbs.), Big John now kinda looks a lot like a combination of one of the Beach Boys and a queer waiter. Cowabonga dude, you big cutie you! Dusty Times

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FAIR News By Dave Massingham For anyone who hasn't been to a FAIR meeting lately, you would be surprised at the attendance. It appears we have doubled our membership. I think La Rana rac-ers are the majority. I was on vacation at Bass Lake water skiing when the Laughlin race happened, I heard it was a success. FAIR had six cars. Brian Parkhouse Class 10 DNF. Brian started and did a slow roll over the tight switch backs. No one was around to help until Danny Cau landed his helicopter and rolled the car on its wheels. Brian lost 40 to 50 minutes and some oil. He was able to continue losing an alternator belt on the third lap. At the half way point, Willie took over completing only one lap, running out of time. I was told Willie was styling over the jump. Mitch Griffin Class 1-2-1600 DNF. After running four laps, Mitch dropped out with power steering problems and lost a clutch slave cylinder. Lorenzo Rodriguez Class 1-2-1600 DNF, on the second lap, losing an oil cooler. Scott Steinberger, Class 7S fin-ished 6th. Larry Plank started, lost u joints on the first lap and 18 minutes. Making up 10 minutes on the second lap, lost the brakes on the third lap. Larry made a command decision when he dis-covered he had no brakes and was in the tight switch backs. He was entering a tight turn and decided it was best to drive off the course rather than rolling over. After spending40 minutes a HUMMER came along, let the air out of the tires, drove down to Larry and pulled him back. Scott was able to finish the race in time. Jason Hatz Class 1-211600 fin-ished 9th or 10th. All I heard was he had battery problems. Steve Poole Class 10 finished 14th. Steve said he had no pre-running so he took it easy the first lap. The second lap he said he tapped Brian Parkhouse and then went off course losing 10 minutes. Down for 30 minutes on the third lap with starter problems, Steve still finished. Thanks to Bill Markel for driv-ing the FAIR van to the race and being Race Manager. Bill spent a Jot of time preparing the equip-ment and van, with very little help. Bill arrived at Laughlin on Thursday and found no access to the main pits. He paid to have the pit area graded. I understand lots of pit vehicles got stuck in the main pit. Bill, I know everyone appreciates your efforts, thanks again from all of us. Thanks to everyone who did the pitting, it looks like we will be back next year. The La Rana California 250 at Ridgecrest saw 14 FAIR entries: Bill Markel and John Daly Class 7 50 finished 1st in class and last to complete all six laps.Total time was eight hours, 59 .56 min. with four seconds left of the nine hour limit. That's cutting it very close! Bill said the first lap he took it easy and the second lap he stopped to help TJ's Jeep, that was hi-centered. After bending his bumper and tearing offTJ's, they decided that wasn't a good idea and went on. John got in to run the last half and Dean Galloway rode shotgun. Other than the problems at the start li_Ile, La Rana DustyTimcs was g1vmg them the checkered flag two laps too soon, they ran trouble free. Rich Fersch and Brian Park-house Class 10, 4th in class, six hours and 42 mins. Brian drove the first three laps, having electri-cal problems on the first lap and Rich having a flat his first lap. Rich is now in a three way run for the gold at the last race of the year. Jeff Madrid and Gary Bancroft Class 550 DNF. Jeff started ran trouble free and gave the car to Gary in 5th place. At the end of the 5th lap, Gary was running in 3rd. Last lap he lost a rear torsion bar, so he thought. As it turned out the bar came out of the spring plate.Just as well, they were miss-ing four bolts in one CV. Gary , wanted to thank L&L chase for their help out there. Bob Wright DNF. Frank Omboli, 2nd Class 550 after rol-ling over while in the lead. Mitch Griffin 2nd Class 1-2-1600 and 5th 0 1 A. Jim Norgard finished the Challenger bracket- class. J. Fogg 7th. Class 900 in the old Darnen Jefferies car. Kathy and Stacy Fay 1st as usual. Max Villa-lobos and Harry Dunne DNF Class 900, lost trans lap 4. Mike Rebollido Class 550 DNF, three laps. Hal Hibbard and Brian Atwood Class 1000 DNF after two laps. John Lucas Class 200, 3rd, 7 hr. 31 min, six laps. Tom Mangione Class 1000 DNF. Had a 55 min lap, then crashed. Thanks to Bill Markel for driv-ing the FAIR van to the race and to the Wisdom's for being Race Managers. Thanks to Bill Mar-kel 's mom for donating a 55 gal BBQ with a propane burner. I heard it worked great. Thanks to Joy Bancroft and Sally Madrid for doing the BBQ, sure nice to have the female touch around. We at FAIR want to thank La Rana for the slide show of the race course, without ·pre-running, it sure helped. I wonder if the racers would be willing to help La Rana with the expense of the show? By the time you read this, the . Baja 1000 will be in progress or done. I don't think anyone realizes the time involved in coor-dinating the pits and fuel for FAIR. Bob Steinberger and I put in countless hours on the phone and in meetings for this race. I . hope everyone will appreciate it Round3 Desert Racing Phone 619-240-1335 lnfoline 619-961-7407 PROMOTIONS INC. and pitch in next time to help. I want to say hello to our friends from down under in New Zealand. Malcolm and Diane Udy and their fine family, Helen, Jona-than and Denny. Wayne and I spent a week with them, when Malcolm was here to buy Frank Arcerio's car.My wife'Linda and I both agree, we made some very special friends during that week and look forward to visiting them early 1996. Good luck in your many ~ypes of on and off road racing Malcolm. Anyone iI~terested in FAIR, we meet the first and third W ednes-day of each month. Locatiop is the Holiday Inn, 91 freeway and Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton, 8 PM. See you in Mexico. FREEWAY CLOSE AT THE SIDEWINDER EXIT OFF 1-15 IN THE STODDARD VALLEY FREE ADMISSIO~ 1 FREE pARKINJpiNG !! LOTS OF pp.EE CA OPEN AREA IN BARSTOW!! November 1995 Page 37

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Ojibwe Forests PRO Rally By John Elkin Photos: RC.Imagery iil\ Carl Merrill and John Bellefleur are having a good second half and won the rally outright in the tidy Ford Escort Cosworth, and they won by about a minute and a half, a big margin in this league. Weather is a funny thing. It As a result of the weather it was never consults with anybody the Norseman Resorts (Carl before it changes, therefore plans Merril) team that was seen have to change when Mother regrooving their Michelin tires for Nature has a bout with PMS and the expected muddy conditions. takes it out on your area. The Many scoffed at the tactic, but a organizers of the Ojibwe Forests short time later many of the other PRO Rally had to cope with just top teams were spotted behind such a phenomenon when their service trucks doing the tornadoes attacked their rally same thing. stages. The damage inflicted was It would be a typical Ojibwe as so complete that what many far as the stats go, 17 stages, two consider some of the best stages in days of competition. The first the United States had to be night would see six stages and scrapped for this year's running. then the remaning 11 stages the Luckily the forestry people in the following day. Even with the rain Bemidji area are behind this rally 31 teams showed up to run the and worked to clear or reroute the roads that Paul Bunyun himself stages, but whichever roads were helped clear the way for years ago. still unusable they made an effort N o rallytrucks entered leaving to find new, and just as fun stages the battle for the championship in time for the nation's best rally between Dave Turner and Greg teams to arrive in town. However Healey still unsettled with two ol' Mom Nature was not done yet, more events to go this year. Next she decided the area needed some season rallytruck will be comb-rain for the rally weekend. ined with the Production class. Luckily on these roads it keeps Group A class had a total of the dust down and does not make one. Bruce Newey /Charles. the road too sloppy that you Bradley had the Toyota Celka All cannot drive them at a 'decent . Trac in line for an easy cruise in speed . It would be an interesting the class but still hoped for a good round of the Michelin PRO Rally overall finish. But the best laid Series. plans could not foresee a stuck $) ;;;· ...., Page 38 0 ~ '-thermostat and the team over-heated on the initial transit. Production class had three cars ready for action at the start and all three would be around at the finish. In the early stages it was the recently reshelled Ford Escort of Tad Ohtake/Bob Martin swapp-. ing the lead with the Honda Prelude VTech of Jim Ander-son/ Ben Greisler as they gave and took precious seconds from one another. The rookie team of Greg and Sonia T repetin in another Honda Prelude VTech lurked close behind in third and would eventually finish in that position. Back at the front Anderson/ Greis-ler held off the Ford of O h-takelMartin for mo!;t of the rally, but not by much, until a flat tire lost the team a reported six minutes that they could not make up w ith a couple o f stages remaining and settled for the Ken Stewart and Doc Schrader drove their Chevy S-10 pickup in the divisional rallies and they finished first 4WD in both rallies in the new rally truck. ·bridsmaid spot. Ohtake· now Rene Villemure and Mike Villemure finished a strong second overall in the leads the points standings by 10 Saturday Divisional in their VW Beetle taking the 02 honors as well in the tidy over Anderson. S_up_e_r_B_e_e_tl_e_. ______________________ _ Production GT was an interest- Bill Balik were spectating there ing run from the start. Again, like and changed the tire in good time Producti_on, it was a three ~ar for the point leaders and got them affair, with most of_ the attent~on underway. But the resulting lost goi~g to the -~.ashmg~on ladies,--time running with the tire flat and Jamee Dam1t10 / Amity_ Tro w- changing it lost the team time that bridge, wh? are b att!mg Cal there was no way of making up, La?dau_1Enc ~ arcus ~o; the thus relegating them to second pomts title. David Ralakis Tom place. It was an admirable job by Gillespe would have woes Cal Landau and Eric Marcus of through the event and finish in conveting the Eclipse to a front third. Th~ story of the rally g<;>es wheel drive car at the pare expose to the start of the event as durmg so they could continue, and then Pare Expos~ befo~e t~e rally there to drive the sloppy roads is the was a clankmg 1:01se ~n t_he re~r _of sign of a team serious to close the the Landau M1tsub1sh1 Eclipse, gap on the ladies from the eventually it was apparent that northwest. · this rall':' woµld be ru~ in t~o Group 2 was a Saab day as Sam wheel d~1ve for the D~mmos Pizza Bryan/Rob Walden took their car. Jamee, new to this rally, had 900 to a most impressive fourth her Crazee Espresso Toyota overall behind the three most Celica All Trac .re~dy for the powerful cars in the United muddy roads. Expenence played States. Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn into the hands of Landau /Marcus were second in class and a most as they kept the ladies in sight, respectable fifth overall trailing trailing by 11 seconds after the the Swedish crew by three first night. The next day the gap minutes.at the end in their Nissan stayed close until in the final set of 200 SX. No troubles plagued the stages Janice found a punctured top two, or at least they are not tire at the start of a stage. talking.PeteLahm/JimmyBrandt Changing the tire in the control had their first finish in two years, zone is a 10 minute penalty so she and what a finish it was, third in and Amity continued through the class and eighth overall for the stage until it became apparent that Phoenix, Arizona, based Datsun continuing would do damage to 510, proof again you cannot keep the Toyota, so near a spectator a good 510 down for long. Gerald area they pulled overe to change Sweet/Stuart Spark helped the rubber. As luck would have it perpetuate the Swedish Saab California Rally Series drivers myth in rally with a fourth place Roger Hull, Jeff Handricks and and ninth overall finish with a tied November 1995 time with fifth .place in class and tenth overall John Golden / Al Kintighi. Due to the number of stages won between the two the tiebreaker went to Sweet/ Spark. Note that the fi rst five class finishers in Grou p 2 a lso occupied the top ten overall. Couple that with the Harris Done/Larry Scott overall win at the Prescott rally and those Group 2 guys are really starting to make a dent in the upper echelons of rallydom. Bill Malik /Carlos Tavares made the tow east to see if they could climb the points ladder in Group 2 class, and while the California driver got no further than stage four when his transmis-sion packed it in Janice Damitio was happy he was there. Now, to the meat and potatoes of the rally, the overall battle. Open class saw all the biggies enter, plus one. Jeffrey Pan-ton/Rudy Meikle came back for another shot at US Rallying with their fast Toyota Celka All Trac from Jamaica. At the start it looked as if Paul Choiniere/Jef(Becker just might · clinch the championship for Hyundai as they quickly built a 55 second lead with their Elantra in three stages over Carl Mer-rill/John Bellefleur's Ford Escort Cosworth. Panton/ Meikle were just seconds behind as was Henry Joy/Chris Griffin who were Dusty Times

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Jeffrey Panton and Rudy Meikle came from Jamaica with their Toyota Ce/ica All Trac, and this time they finished a close second overall and in Open class. · Always a bridesmaid it seems, Henry Joy and Chris Griffin zipped into third Open and overall in good.time in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution II. Carl Landau and Eric Marcus continued their attack on the GT Championship title for '95 winning the class at 6th overall, closing on the points leader in their Mitsubishi Eclipse. Janice Damitio an·d Amity Trowbridge led Production GT until an untimely flat late in the rally on a stage dropped the Toyota G TS to second in class. Jim Anderson and Ben Greis/er led Production class in the Honda Prelude until a flat tire dropped them to second in class, _and the six minute stop with the tire well down the overall ranks too. Paul Choiniere and Jeff Becker had a minute lead going into stage 4, when the Hyundai Elantra would not start and they Jost 40 minutes to repairs and the chance to wrap up the 1995 title at the Minnesota rally. having a much better rally here in their Mitsubishi Lancer than at the debut in Maine. However as can happen in rallying things got weird. Going into stage four the Choiniere /Becker Huundai would not start, an apparent ignition problem. As the whole field passed them by their crew arrived and found the problem. Better late then never the Libra Racing crew put the champion-ship in the hands of Choiniere to climb into sixth place overall before the rally ended the next day, that finish would clinch the drivers and manufacturers titles. 40 minutes were lost in the repairs, a steep margin. Choiniere would not, despite some inspired driving, be able to notch the finish he needed and settled for 13th overall and fourth in class. Despite the woes to his chief rival Carl Merrill/John Bellefleur were "on" as we say. They dr~ve well, clean and smart to stay ahead of the Toyota of Jeffrey Pan-ton/Rudy Meikle by a minute and a half. Henry Joy/Chris Griffin were still grappling with the concept of right hand drive, ·but had a great run in the new car to third overall and in class. No woes were reported among the top runners except a scare for Merrill who's car would not start in a service area; heads up work by his crew caught the problem and he made the following start time all right. With the Minnesota leg of the Michelin PRO. Rally Champion-ship complete teams will buckle down for the home stretch as two events remain. The grueling· and difficult Lake Superior Rally in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the Maine Winter Rally, our only snow event of the year ( usual! y ). Join us next month as we see if Paul and Hyundai can tie up another one, or will Carl Merrill play the spoiler? ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ~f V~D~ Off lO~D BOGGf NEVADA'S LARGEST OFFROAD, SAND, STREET VW PARTS STORE TRI-MIL EXHAUSTS 1 3/8 TYPE 1 RAW ............. $75.50 1 3/8 TYPE 1 CHROME ...... $119.95 1 1/2 TYPE 1 RAW ............. $79.95 1 1/2 TYPE 1 CHROME ...... $115.95 1 5/8 TYPE 1 RAW ............. $95.95 1 5/8 TYPE 1 CHROME ...... $127.95 KENNEDY CLUTCHES 200MM DISC 4-PUCK ... $48.00 200MM 1700 P-PLATE .. $99.00 200MM 2500 P-PLATE.$125.00 *EARLY OR LATE STYLES* SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS ANTI SUB BELTS 2 " ...... $23.95 LAP BEL TS 3 • .............. $58.95 SHOULDER BEL TS ........ $46.80 SHOULDER BELT W/ STERNUM ................................. $72.95 5 PT. SIMPSON SET BLK,BLUE AND RED .........•................ $94.95 WE CARRY AURORA VDO BAKER BATTERIES SWAY AWAY WRIGHT PLACE EARLS SUPER TRAP SWEP CO. BUG PACK EMPI CHENOWTH FODDRIL UNl•FILTER K&N TRl·MIL PERMACOOL BEARDS PIAA FOX SHOXS COMP-U-FIRE WEBER CARBS SAND TIRES & RIMS GERMAN AUTO CENTERLINE ULTRA SIMPSON SCAT ·RACE READY 11 GALLONS DUMP CANS ... $69.95 CHENOWTH CLASS 11 CAGE ............... $154.95 QUICK RELEASE STEERING HUB ···································$32.95 UMP SUPER FILTER UMP SUPER FILTER .............. $169.95 UMP ADAPTER, flTS SOLEX .... ···································$89.95 ULTRA W HEELS 1 SX4 FRONTS ................. $80.00 1 SX7 REAR STD. OFFSETS.$85.00 YOKOHAMAS REARS 33X10.50.15 .............. $124.00 HIGHWAY TREAD & TRACTION ......... ~ .......................... $85.00 WORTH 1 LAYER DRIVING SUITS ....... $99.95 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW PHONE (702)871-4911 OPEN 6 DAYS, MON-SAT LAS VEGAS,NV 89102 FAX(702)871-5221 8-5 MON-FRI 9-5 SAT ♦ ■ ■■■ 11 ■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■'A■■ 11■■ ◄r1~, DustyTimcs November 1995 Page 39

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Northwest Rally Sprints Text & Phot.os: Jim Culp Rick Beson!Ben Bradley were a DNF in the neat 4WD.Protege after running the fastest lap of the weekend. Steve Walker/Casey Salisbury were first overall in both rally sprints, a dominant performance by the 4WD Mazda 323 Steve Walker and Casey Salis-bury powered through both dust and mud to claim first overall in both rounds of the Northwest Rally Sprints held near Olympia, Washington onAugust5 and 6. A rally sprint is a lot like an auto-cross in the dirt. The Northwest Sprints put SCCA Pro-Rally cars , on a tight, twisty course at the Thurston County Off Road Veh-icle Park. One at a time, cars are launched into the arena in front of the Park's grandstand to race against the clock. Saturday's first round was held on an .87 mile course that fea-tured tight S-curves surrounded by loose ·dirt banks. Cl.ear favor-ites were the two fast 4WD Maz-das; the Walker/Salisbury Tech Works 323 GTX, and Rick Beson and Ben Bradley in the Wes tern Turbo Protege. Beson and Bradley powered through the dust to grab the early lead, but metallic filings in the oil at the end of the ~econd run sig-naled the end for the Portland, Oregon duo. As some consola-tion, the Protege 1:35:66 second lap run held u as the day's fastest run around the barrels. Walker and Salisbury com-pleted five runs through the course in 8: 14:65 to post an emphatic 48 second win over Ralph Kosmides and Sam Sawan in the Ruby's Restaurant Ford Escort. Kosmides' second overall translated into a win in the northwest divisional over-two liter class. Mark Simons and John Elkin sµrv,ived a barrel hopping near rollover on their second run to finish third overall less than two seconds behind Kosmides/Sa-wan. The Simons/ Elkin Toyota Corolla topped the under-two liter class, and their fourth pass through the course was the fastest lap by any 2WD car at 1:45:84. Gary Caffroy and Erik Thompson were fourth in the Issaquah Tire Mazda RX3, followed by Kirk Simons and Pete Shelton in the Lame Duck Racing Dodge GLH Turbo. A little over one second covered sixth through eighth, with Simon Levar and Mike Fen-ter in the Mudflap Racing Datsun 510 sixth, Terry Simons and Amy ' ~ Ralph Kosmides/Sam Sawan are drifting the English Ford Escort turbo to second overall in Rally Sprint 1. Wolf seventh in the second Lame Duck Racing Dodge GLH Turbo, and Monty Horn and Scott Sim-ons in another Datsun 510 eighth. Levar /Fenter also claimed second in the under two liter class. Jake Dekovic and Mike Blore topped the regional rally-lite class, ninth overall in the TRS Toyota Starlet. Rounding out the top ten were Jack and Monty Horn in the second lites car, the Wagonwheel Nursery Mazda GLC. Other regional class winners included Walker/Salisbury in group 1, Kosmides/Sawan in group 2, and Levar/Fenter in group 3. With a· slightly shorter, and less twisty, .83 mile course scheduled for Sunday, faster times were expected. But that was before an unseasonable autumn-i n-A u gust rainstorm turned Saturday's dust bowl into Sun-day's bog. Walker and Salisbury took advantage of their Mazda's 4WD traction to slosh home winners. The Issaquah, Washington team logged the four fastest laps of the day, topped by a 1:42:45 pass on m:z~ Mark Simons/John Elkin survived this two-wheeled balancing act to finish third overall and first in the under two liter class in the Rally Sprint 1. their second run through the two-liter class, and third overall, revised course. Only a brief off- were Mark Simons/John Elkin in course excursion Qn the day's the black Toyota Corolla. In the fourth run prevented the Tech-day's closest battle the Caffroyl -Works team from collecting the Thompson Mazda RX3 came fastest time on all five rounds en from behind to edge Terry Sim-route to their 8:50:81 clocking. ons and Pete Shelton's GLH by Behind Walker and Salisbury, four hundreths of a second to take the slippery conditions helped fourth. scramble Saturday's finishing Rally newcomers Bobby Taylor order. Kirk Simons and Gary Cox and Wyatt Groshong found the found the Lame Duck Racing wet conditions to their liking as Dodge GLH Turbo's front wheel they slid their Dodge Conquest drive a great advantage in their into sixth overall. Not a bad result run to second place overall and for their first weekend in compe-first in the over-two-liter class. tition, and a solid improvement Repeating as first in the under- over their sixteenth place finish "'-flt #< o n Saturday. Fo llowing the Sprint , Taylor proclaimed his readiness for a " real rail y." Pete Shelton jumped into the driver's seat and teamed with Carl Hillman in the Hillman Boys Rac-ing Ma:da RX3 to take seventh, while rally lite class winners Jim and Cristy Brea:eale were a smooth eighth overall in the Red Hook Brewery VW. Ninth were Jack and Monty l:forn in the Wagonwheel Mazda, while Jim Brodhead and Jason McCarter slid the Jump n'Jack _ Espresso Datsun 510 home tenth. K;rk Simons/Pete Shelton in the Lame Duck Racing Dodge emerged from Saturday's dust cloud to capture second overall in Rally Sprint 2 on Sunday. Regional class winners were Walker/Salisbury class one, K. Simons/Cox class two, T . Simons/Shelton class three, and . the Breazeale family in class four. Monty Hom/Scott Simons usually have the cleanest Datsun 510 in the Northwest but not after a lap around the barrels in Rally "· Bobby Taylor/ Wyatt Groshong on their second day in a rally Jake Dekovic/Mike Blore in the TRS Toyota claimed the car, too much power and the disadvantage of rear wheel drive regional rally-lites class title in Rally Sprint 1, but slipped down on a slippery, sloppy track. All they did was come home sixth Sprint 2. · the order in Sunday's mud. overall in Rally Sprint 2! -----------------------Page 40 November 1995 Dusty Times

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BAJA PITS NEWS PIT LOCATIONS: GORDON -TRETHEWEY, RO-separate entity. Third would be to find a new sanctioning body such as a USAC, FISA, IMSA or NASCAR, or some such sanc-tioning body. Also bear in mind that at the time of this writing things are changing rapidly and by the time this hits your mailbox something could outdate this column, so check with Mike ar.d Paula Gibeault or your regional rally director. PIT II LOC. MILE MEO, MICH, RON BAL-I Reho Neji 62 LARD, MICH, ED TRETHE-2 CnGuadalupe 148 WEY,HOUSTON,TEXAS, By Julio Garcia · 3 EJ Saldana 219 MIKE GARDNER, MYRTLE By John Elkin 4 Borrego 269 CREEK , 0 REGO N , BILLY 5 Hwy Cpo Cris 340 BURCH, RAMONA, CA AND Y AAHOO!! The world Famous 6 Pea Bufeo 391 THE BIG CHEESE IDELFONSO BAJA 1000, Grand dad of off 7 El Crucero 451 (PONCHO) MORALEZ will be road' racing is upon us. As you 8 BayofLA 500 running their respective PITS, By now we have all read "the letter" from the powers that be at SCCA, jammed packed with changes to our sport, some reaso-nable, good ideas and some are just plain ignorant of what PRO Rally is all about. Luckily, in some conversations with Marge Binks, the SCCA office and our local representatives we have found out the followi_og: These proposed rule changes are just that, proposed, and open to dis-cussion. Marge Binks wants eve-ryone to know, the chairman of the SCCA Board of Directors, she is not a loose cannon, and is wil-ling to also discuss these proposed changes. read this, many teams are literally 9 San Francisqto 570 over 200 PIT PEOPLE are in the dirt pre-running what looks IO San Ignacio 678 involved. MARCO ANTONIO to be a fast course. Its still not too 11 Cuarenta Reh 739 GALINDO AT THE RADIO I was upset and dismayed to learn that Adelanto's Sunrise Val-ley Raceway has closed down due to disputes with landowners and .management. As far as what I will be doing with the rallysprints scheduled for late January or early February is undecided at this time. There is a small hope that Adelanto will find new manage-ment, but the stronger rumor is that the place will be bulldo:ed into desert tundra. latetosignupwithBAJAPITSfor 12 LaPurisima 810 CONTROLS. this most challenging event. Rae- 13 Leos Corner 914 SPECIAL GUESTS FOR THE ingpitfeeis$500.00.$375.00for 14 PuertoCaneun 1011 OCT 4 MEETING: ED PEA-motorcycles and quads. Thats 15 Punta Conejo 1081 RLMAN WILL BE SHOWING only $33.00 per pit, for 15 pits. PRE RACE party will take THE FIRST BAJA 1000 1967 For sign up info call: Carlos place at the GUADALAJARA VIDEO. SEE YA AT LA PAZ. Orozco (619) 449-7777 or Leo GRILL in TIJUANA, on Nov. 2 · Calderon (619) 267-9928. at 7:00 p.m. the Thursday'before FIRST PRE-RUN: the race. The BIKINI CONTEST On Sept. 22 the BOSS Carlos, will turn you on to Miss BAJA Issac, Leo, pre-ran the course to MIL. THIS IS YOUR BEST mark the pits. Behind them on OPPORTUNITY TO MEET the 1=ourse was PERRY McNEIL ALL THE LOCAL RACERS inaClass8,ridingalongwithhim AND THE BAJA PITS OFfl-was J. GAV ALDON (TV sports C I A LS . ALL R A C ER S program producer), ABAZ in a WELCOME. 5-1600 MOLINA in a 10, and MY 2 CENTS LUCERO in a 5, among others. The TIJUANA-LA PAZ BAJA LA RUMOROSA 1000 will be the best and biggest This section has NEVER been SCORE EVENT EVER. The run before, and looks to be the BAJA 1000 was invented in 1967 wildest part of this new course. and started from Tijuana. This The 30KM downhill suicide will be the first time in 27 years LIZARD trail was built in 1917 that we will have a shot at this by Lieutenant JORGE ZEHFUS. Historic challenge. A TRUE (His grandson who finished first PENINSULA RUN that may not in Class 5 BAJA 1000 1994, will ever take place again. DON'T participate again). This section MISS OUT. SATISFACTION located on race mile 122 has been GUARANTEED. out of service and UN-PASSABLE LAST MINUTE NOTES for 50 years, UNTIL NOW! Two LEO CALDERON (CACTUS D9 Mega Tractors have re-opened MOUTH) with 12 of his crew will this HISTORIC TRAIL, and we be at a PIT. ALONG with BAJA will be able to race down, if we CACTUS and COYOTE PITS dare.(BLMEATYOURHEART from BAJA SUR. OUT) MARIO OROZCO, DAVID LA PAZ FRIENDS VISCARRA,JESUS AMEZ-It looks like the clubs from CUA, PEPE LOCURA, LEO-CABO, LA PAZ and CONST!-NARDO (CANTI) BENITEZ, TUCION -.viii be racing their 10-PANCHO GONZALEZ, MARIO 15 race cars with BAJA PITS CASTRO (RENO NV), LALO (Congratulations LEO C.), MAYOREAL (MEXICALI OFF YAAHOO!! Welcome aboard. ROAD), JESUS MORENO, Note: 1012195 Leo Calderon' ALSO from VORRA's RAY att: nded their meeting at Los ESPOSTO A-1 RADIATOR Conchas, La Paz. A IC Racing Team and his crew, ~~ KREPSZ 6R~ 1st 1-1600 Ridgecrest 200 Thanks to our dad Frank Krepsz Sr. for making this possible. Along with o:.1r family friends and pit crew. Jimco • 'il:!aeu«; p~ California Motor Sports FAT Performance Suspension by Kevin Basore Dusty Times . AffENTION PIT TEAMS All the CRS classes points bat-tles are ama:ingly close, it is anyone's season still with several rallies left to go in all four classes. It is still not too early to .. start thinking about this year's CRS Banquet. No decision has been made as to where the event will be held so if you have any sugges-tions please call Debbie Turner at (909) 925-0870 in the evenings. Would you like it at a certain res-taurant? A certain type of food? In conjunction with a rally? We would like yom input. Send us your tales of triumph and troubles a_nd they will be featured on these pages. Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla St., Cahttsworth, CA 91311-4408 While all this goes on, and dis-cussions take plac·e with SCCA; the rally powers that be are look-ing into a three ways to cope with this situation. First would be to work out a compromise with SCCA, rescind some of the rules that do not, or cannot work in PRO Rally and lo\,1/er the sanction fees that would double or triple entry fees. Second is branching off on our own and finding our own insurance and beco~ing a ·· Until next month ... ** TORSION BARS **AXLES** SPRING PLATES** COIL SPRINGS** .. .. en a: w o . < C. en w ...J X < .. .. SWAY·A·WAY MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY OFF ROAD SUSPENSION COMPONENTS FOR OVER 20 -YEARS THE NEW PRODUCT TNTERNAJrBYPASS SBQC-K THE ONLY INTERNAL-BYPASS SHOCK IS NOW ON THE MARKET + 10", 12", 14", 16", 18" TRAVEL .. .. C z " en a: w I-en ·::::, ci + 6 REMOVABLE BYPASS TUBES J:! + EXTERNALLY INDIVIDUALLY & INDEPENDENTLY ADJUSTABLE ~ < .. .. en CJ z a: C. en + ANY COMBINATION 0}' COMPRESSION & REBOUND TUBES + 3 1/2" PISTON + COIL OVER/BYPASS/BUMP STOP IN ONE SHOCK + GREAT FOR" A-ARM" FRONT ENDS *INTERNAL-BYPASS SHOCK RESULTS* .. .. " z G') -a z en .. .. en ::i::: u. < w . ...J ... .. LA RANA CLASS 10 POINTS LEADER - LARRY BOLIN s: ,2.Ml IN CLASS, 2ND OVERALL -LA, RANA JOHNSON VALLEY 200 ~ m ~ g . 2ND IN CLASS, 4TH OVERALL -SCORE FIREWORKS 250 !-~ BOLIN DOES IT AGAIN! ~ 1ST IN CLASS, 2ND OVERALL - LA RANA CALIFORNIA 200 :c 3: .. .. DON'T BE LEFT IN IllE DUST SEE YOUR LOCAL _DEALER TODAY! CALL OR WRITE FOR YOUR FREE CATALOG ' C G') z C cri .. .. 20755 MARILLA ST. I CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA 91311 I 818-700-9712 November 1995 Page 4:1

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CHEVROLET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OFF ROAD RACE Steve Kelley is Bis Buck Winner at Crandon By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. Scott Taylor worked his Rough Rider Class 8 Ford from the rear to second place in the Borg Warner ChallengP., but couldn't catch the flying Kelley. p.m. on Sunday afternoon, and Ford across the finish line, after safely made it through the blind breaking a spindle on the last lap. first turn with Kelley out in front Walker was on the radio to his but hotly chased by Evans and crew, worried about the odd Rob MacCachren in his Ford. noise, which they declared to be Kevin Probst had his Chevy broken headers. fourth, and Geoff Dorr ran fifth During the pit stop as the Evans in another Ford. All but Evans ran crew welded the header and Tay-four wheel drive. !or's crew replaced the spindle, Californian Steve Kelley won the silver and gold Borg Warner trophy and the winner-take-al/ prize of $25,000 in the Mike Leste Dodge as he survived both heats in fine style after a flat tire ruined his Class 4 lead on Saturday. It was a popular victory for the semi private team. As Jack Flannery, the local some of the others changed tires favorite, pulled out, victim of or adjusted their shock valving, steering failure in his Chevy. but some just took a quick look at Evans moved up through the pack things and waited for the re-start. to the front, with MacCachren Only 13 trucks made it to the hot on his bumper. Kelley fell to second heat. The race started in a thi-rd, with Dorr and Probst, who huge cloud of dust as they made was having steering trouble, not their way through Turn One with far behind. They ran in that order MacCachren in the lead. Kelley for three more laps, all of them was second, with Probst third, thinking of the second heat still to Evans fourth and Roy Stack fifth come. MacCachren, who'd been in his Ford. Before that first lap final heat of 15 minutes, or nine . plagued by overheating problems was done Evans' truck was sound-laps. The starting order for the all season; was especially wary. ing really awful, and he never first heat was determined by qual-. But when Evans' truck began to made another loop. Probst tore a ifying laps run on Friday after-sound odd and he slowed a bit, front c.v. boot, then lost the c.v., noon. Fastest time got first cho-MacCachren slipped past him in which put all the load on the rear ice, and Walker Evans won that turn one. Evans put up a struggle, c.v., and it gave way on the second with his Dodge by running a time but couldn't regain the lead and lap, putting him out. ofl:30:46forthel.7milecourse. finished the six lap event in Now the order was Mac-The restart for the second heat second. Kelley was third, with Cachren, Kelley, Stack, Taylor would be determined by finish Dorr fourth and Probst in fifth. and Dave Heckers, in a Ford. Tay-position in the first heat. Another four positions back, !or thought he could just possibly The first annual Borg-Warner Borg-Warner trophy, was the Manufacturer's Off Road Chal-• main event in a weekend calendar lenge at Crandon, Wisconsin on full of good racing. Labor Day weekend, a special Limited to trucks, both two winner-take-all event with a wheel drive and four wheel drive, $25,000 purse was ~on by Steve no older than 15 years and run-Kelley in his Dodge truck. ning body, motor and transmis-This race, conceived a year ago sion all of the same manufacture, by the Borg-Warner folks, who the race attracted a field of 17. promptly commissioned a trophy The format called for a "Qualify-as spectacular and good looking as ing" heat of about 10 minutes, the well known Indianapolis 500 then a 15 minute pit stop, and a Jason Crowder, left, and Todd Attig duked it out all the way in 2-1600 class, the first Saturday race. At the flag Attig won in his Terminator with Crowder second in his Taylor. The trucks were flagged off at 5 Scott Taylor three-wheeled his get to the front, so he really · poured it on, and moved past Glen Mathews had to fight for his Class 11 D victory, almost every inch of the track, and he took the lead midway in his Phazer and carried on and nursed his slipping clutch on to the win. Stack to take third. But t-.1ac-Cachren and Kelley were a long way ahead of him. Jimmie Crowder now had his Ford in fifth. On the fourth lap Bryan Frankenberg's Chevy developed a fire on a rear wheel. On the fifth lap MacCachren's truck gave up the ghost and he glided to a halt at the base of the Sky Box hill, watching Kelley roar . past into the lead. Taylor was now second, but had a lot of ground to cover. Crowder had moved to third, with Stack fourth and Frankenberg, flaming brake and all, in fifth place. From this point on they stayed in the same order, Kelley running just as hard as he needed to stay in front, and Taylor giving it his all to close the a;e. On the Popular Jimmie Crowder kept his Class 8 Ford together in the Borg Warner Challenge and finished third behind the man who built the truck, S-cott Taylor. Lonnie Andrews flies over the front straight jump in his Class 11 D Phazer, stayed in the lead pack in the 28 car class and finished in second place. Curt Gerald found some mud on the track, got hit in the helmet by a big rock, but he kept his Mirage moving to place third at the checkered flag. Page 42 November 1995 Dusty Times

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Jerry Bundy was the early Class 3 leader in his Jeep Comman-do. but had an overheat condition working and slowed to finish second in this class, Dennis Chencharik races his full bodied Chevy Blazer in Class 3, moved up to third late in the seven rig race, and finished third in the Blazer. Rick Rayford has won some Class 6 races this year in his Chevrolet but he couldn't quite catch Fannin on his home track at Crandon and was second. It was nip and tuck in Class 6 competition but as the laps ran out Bill Graboski moved his Chevy Lumina into third place and finished there as well. Tom Jones placed second in the new Class BS in his Ford, moving up on the leader, and finished just a mere two seconds behind at the finish line. Jeff St. Peter really gave his Laser a work out in Class 9/ 10 taking second place and Jeff also drove to a fine third place in the Class 1 /2 event. seventh lap the fire crew black flagged Frankenberg, took a quick look at the fire, decided he'd run out of brake fluid after a while, and sent him on his way. He didn't even lose a position. Kelley ran serenely on, having no problems. But on the white flag lap, one of Taylor's rear tires tossed some tread, and it looked as ifhe might have a flat before he got to the finish, but he didn't. Kelley never faltered, and took his first SODA win, as well as the inaugural Borg-Warner Challenge victory. Taylor was second, with Crowder, Stack and Frankenberg, all still on the lead lap, finishing behind him. The fireman had to sprit: Frankenberg's brake to douse the fire. The weekend had started with a sort of block party in downtown Crandon, featuring an entertain-ing tire changing contest, won by the Evans crew, and a team driv-mg ,-1;-iJom event in a golf catt, with him lfolded Jnvers bt'tng nlk J 1rou J •~c '-iur t. b their Steve McCrossan brought his Class 3 Ford from Ontario, Canada to surprise the regulars and move into second early in the game, then took over first, built a good lead to win Class 3. non-SODA sanctioned this round. , numbers, filling the spectator area fe 11 wa y back. The track was almost to capacity. muddy in spots, and all hut the The fir'-t event of the weekend !t·1dt:r were being bh1s•ed by the \h1s for the two-·eat 1600 cars, sncky tuff. md 2(' of therp took the t>Tet.n flag Th, le;,d c 1rs pulled away from tostrt•~ (knJrncmg.hcm rac.Ku!-i1•, (n\dt>r r whose let >Olll fl r, r w t fc:lu anJ M,irk Ste,nh 1r t n f1ft1' m a Laser. Ba,k m the pac.k Mike Notary was moving his Hesco up through the ranks after a bad start. On the seventh lap Attig had built a long lead, with Crowder in second, and Seefeldt in third as Smith lost ground thanks to the flat. He was fourth and Notary had come up to fifth. Attig went on. to take the win, reporting no problems at all. Crowder was . second, with Seefeldt third and Notary fourth, and Smith had dropped to fifth with that flat. Class 6 had a good field of eight sedans, but Al Fannin took off from the green flag in his Chevy Chevel/e and literally never looked back. It was his first race of the season and a flag to flag romp to the win. Scott was close behind him, fol-lowed hy Glen Mathe\,s in a Pha··er, Curt Gerald in a Mirage and Lonnie Andre\..,., ma Pha-r HOURS MF 9.00 C4 6·00 3 ---Raudoux and Scott had a clu e battle going, hut on rhe fourth hp they J1c;appeareJ, aft t.mglt'lg 1 corl"' r ,,,-V \.1.re are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number.· (800) 656~3376 Use it to call and inquire about our "Quick Fix" IRS repair boots or ou_r l l gallon "Fast-Fill" dump'cons. Both new products can save you race time. Race Smart-Be Sale Jeff Probst flies neatly in his Class 9/10 Lazer in front of the crowd and with 29 starters in the class it was a busy race, but Jeff got up front and took the victory. again by a single second. The next event on the schedule was the Class 11 two-seat race, with a starting field of 28 cars. Dan Baudoux, who'd blown his ring gear at the start of the 2-1600 race, had better luck here and got 103 Press Ln. #4 • Chula Vista, CA 91910 • (619) 691-9171 • FAX {619) 691-0803, the hole shot in his Mirage. Billy 'L----------------------------~ DustyTimes November 1995 Page 43

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Geoff Dorr hasn't had the best of tuck this season but he took a solid second in Class 4 action, fourth in the first Borg Warner heat in the Ford. Defending Class 4 champion Greg Gerlach, a privateer in his Dodge placed a close third in the Class 4 race, defending his title very well so far. Billy Beck held his Ford Ranger together all weekend, placing second in the Class 7S race and second too in the Class 6, 7S and BS Challenge race Billy Bowles. didn't have much luck in the 7S race, but his Ford came back to life in th_e 6, 7S, BS Challenge and Billy finished third in that race. Jeff Elrod came from San Jose, CA, ready this year, and he drove his short Mirage to second in Class 1 /2 and fourth in the Unlimited Buggy Challenge. Dan Vanden Heuvel flew his Ford into second place in Class 13, then had overheating troubles, but he stayed on course to get second place points. lfr Mathews took over the lead with Gerald second and Andrews third, followed by Keith Berard in a Friday. Mathews was fighting a slipping clutch. From then on things didn't change, except that on the last lap Gerald blew a corner and Andrews got by him and into second place. Gerald also reported that a melon sized rock had smacked his helmet right at the end of the race, but luckily it did no serious harm. Mathews got the win followed by Andrews, Gerald and Mark Oberg, who'd moved up to fourth on about lap six. Class 3, which is trying to work. with SODA to develop some rules they can all live by, ran next in a non-SODA sanctioned race, .:llffUHrrff1ST.1,n su.i-.o,~~...,j~ e:if~4LWMQ.. • -=o:----=--·-=-., ... ,,_. Ll,1<£(,1 11 ~•►•·" ~-'.··· :'-.,· ·: ... :'::""'--■---------------..... --. L ·-_ --------------.... , .... _ .... -.... ~ 9000 \ '-===-•--··----- -·------·-·-----.. _.,_,..,.,,. __________ . --·--------:-=·.:::-----:.....-.. -· .. ·- _, ____ ... ~ --·-·---·-... ----------.. -'-· ·------·-·----·---=-~:=--·---· .... ---·------·----Page 44 using the '94 rules. There were . slowed a bit on the last couple of only seven · of them. And Jerry laps because he was ru·nning out Bundy got the early lead in his of fuel. But he made it to the finish Jeep, with Steve McCrossan line for the win, with Bundy second in a Bronco, and Al Drews second in a cloud of smoke. third in his Ford. Chencharick was third, and McCrossan moved to the front Drews finished on a rear flat, and began to build a good lead as acquired in a last lap rollover by Bundy slowed when his gauges the start line. said things were heating up. They The next group was two separ-held their positions for five laps, ate races run at the same time. The and then Dennis Chencharick put Class 6 sedans took the green flag his Blazer into third place, as first and Al Fannin, in his Chevy, Drews fell to fourth. McCrossan was first around the first turn, enjoying his first chance to race this season. Behind him it was Larry Wood in a Chevelle, brea-thing flame from the exhaust, and then Rick Rayford in his Malibu. Rayford had lost his power steer-ing and alternator belts. Fannin never slowed and had no problems, while the others fought for position behind him. Rayford got up to second on the fourth lap when Wood started to smoke, then slowed and disap-peared. That put Bill Graboski, in a Lumina, into third, also blowing smoke, but it was apparently not fatal. Fannin took the win, and never one for long speeches, said it "ran real good." Rayford was second, with Graboski third. -On the track at the same time as the sedans were the BS trucks. .. These are two wheel drive pick-ups which are more stock than the two wheel drive pickups in Class 8 and Class 13. lt's a new class and there were just-five of them. Kelly Worrall had his Dodge in front from the start, with Randy Krall second in his Ford, and Mike Mischler third in a Chevy. But Krall blew a fan belt, pitted for a new one, then blew that also. And Mischler moved up to second, with Tom Jones third in a Ford. But Mischler was having ignition troubles, and Jones mc;)Ved to Tommy Bradley came from Las Vegas to check out the Crandon action and folks wondered where he had come from. Tommy took third in both Class 9/ 1 O and the Unlimited Challenge race. His sister Kitty drove the car to second in Women's Unlimited Buggy class. second place, his only trouble being overheating. Worrall ran steadily on, but by ab6ut the seventh lap his shocks were gone. By then however, his lead was a good one, and though Jones was creeping up, he didn't have time enough left to get him. Worrall took the win, with Jones second, and no one· else was on the lead lap. Mischler was third, just a lap down. The next event was for Class 9110, the 1650cc buggies, with an entry of 29 cars. In the dangerous first turn one car rolled on top of another, and as some went wide to miss the accident, a domino type incident resulted in a broken spindle for Todd Attig, a broken stub axle for Rick Welch, and oil lines torn off Dan Baudoux's car. Jeff Probst had his Laser in front, with Tommy Bradley, in a Brad-ley, running second. Bradley, who hails from Las Vegas, was enjoy-ing his first trip to Crandon. Run-ning third it was Jeff St. Peter in a Laser, followed by Aaron Hawley in a Bunderson, also here from Vegas for the first time. For seven laps Probst led while Bradley tried to get him and St. Peter tried to get Bradley. Hawley was out on the third lap when his power steering froze up, and Paul Robertson, from Ontario, Can-19 trucks took the Class 4 green flag and Steve Kelley grabbed the lead off the line, had a great race until.he had a flat tire, then Rob MacCachren who was biding his time, took the lead in his Ford and won the Class 4 race. With a 17 truck entry it paid to get up front which Jeff Kincaid did at first, but he faded and Art Schmitt and his sano Nissan took over once more in Class 7S and won by almost a full minute, and won the 6, 7S, BS Challenge too. November 1995 Dusty Times

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Todd Attig drove his Unlimited Class 1 /2 Terminator to victory in the class 1 /2 bash on Sunday and came back later to claim the title to second place honors in the Unlimited Challenge race. ada moved into fourth in his Mir-age. Then Wes Elrod from Cali-fornia moved his Chenowth to fourth, as Robertson fell to fifth. Cachren followed and Dorr chased him. Kincaid was out after three laps, and Greg Gerlach moved his Dodge up to fourth place. On the final lap, as Bradley concentrated on moving up on Probst, he left a hole and St. Peter got by. At the finish it was Probst. St. Peter and Bradley, with Elrod in fourth and Bill LeFeuvre, another Canadian, in fifth in his Berrien. Bradley, very happy and excited, said to Probst, "I couldn't believe I was running as fast as you were -I've been watch-ing you on TV for years!" Kelley continued to charge, but disaster struck on the sixth lap when he landed on a rock and his left tire went flat. He ignored it. But MacCachren, whose strategy had been to cool it early in the Joe Zilisch herded his Class 13 GMC into the class lead on lap 5 and he stayed in front for the duration of the 24 truck class and took his first victory in the class for many moons at Crandon. The Class 4 trucks were next, with 19 entries booming through that first turn. Steve Kelley had the lead, with Rob MacCachren second and Geoff Dorr in third and Ken Kincaid fourth in a Ford. Kevin Probst was out before the lap was over with a broken hub, and Jack Flannery was gone too, his brake rotor broken by a rock, which then locked up the wheel. Kelley was having a great race, and built a long lead as Mac-race and put the pressure on in the later laps, saw his chance. He had back around to take the win, with Schmitt and Beck following. In to get by Kelley, but not push his Dorr second on his flat, and Gerl-fourth now it was Tom Hockers truck so hard it would overheat. • ach in third. Kelley, disappointed in another Ford. Many of the 0th-The flat made it easier for him. to have come so close, was fourth. ers were in trouble, and Jimmie Kelley didn't give an inch, and Next to go were the 7S trucks, Crowder fell out, as did Donnie they ran side by side for a while anditwasJeffKincaidoutfrontin Robertswhotossedhisdriveshaft. until MacCachren, with four his Ford with John Greaves, BillBowleswaslookingcrumpled good tires, finally pulled in front. already smoking in his Toyota, in after rolling his Ford on the Dorr was able to get by him on the second place. In third it was Art fourth lap. next lap, and then he went after SchmittinhisNissan,followedby Greaves' motor gave a big MacCachren. Billy Beck in another Ford. "poof" out on the back of the It was another tough fight, with Kincaid led for three laps and cQurse on the last lap, and Schmitt some very close battling, and then lost oil pressure and pulled went into the lead and on to vie-Dorr finally got the lead but then out, leaving Greaves in front with tory, with Beck second and he had a right rear flat, sliced in contact with MacCachren 'struck. MacCachren, undamaged, went Hockers in third. Class 13 was the next group to run, and this was a big crowd in that first turn, with 24 trucks slid-ing through the dust. Brenden Gaughan had the lead in his Dodge, with Robert Flanagan behind him in his Chevy and Joe Zilisch third in his GMC. In fourth it was Bruce Shilts in a Ford. Early on the second lap Gaughan, who'd already built a lead of fir' BERGLAS RANGER FROMMILDTOWILD EXPLORER BRONCO II FULL SIZE PRE RUN TO RACE EXCEPTIONAL LOOKS COMPLETE KITS 100% F1JNCTIONAL PROVEN IN THE BAD LANDS OF BAJA Terry Wolfe drove hard in his 5-1600, made no mistakes, while others did, and SODA 's President took his first victory in years of campaigning in this close running class at most SODA tracks. Walker Evans put on a great performance in the Class 8 Dodge with a classic duel with Scott Douglas in another Dqdge. Walker won the race by over a minute, Douglas finshed third. DustyTimes November 1995 Page 45

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Young Jamey Flannery had his Class 8 flying and he went on to put the Chevy home second in Class 8, sandwiched between high powered Dodge trucks. Wafker Evans and Scott Douglas ran like this for several laps in the Class 8 battle of the Dodges, with Wafker eventually winning the race. Dan Baudoux didn't have his typical good weekend on Labor day but he did fly his Class 11 Mirage into second place in the Sunday 11 S contest. ...... Harvey Wald and his brother came out from Pierre, South Dakota to race and Harvey had a good time taking third in the Class 5-1600 Championship. Michale Notary brought his 1-1600 Hesco to second in class, a mere two seconds behind fellow Floridian and winner of 1-1600 class Jason Crowder. Linda Lou Schlamb drives her Class 4 in the class event and fellow Canadian Bill Lefeueve drives the truck in the Heavy Metal Challenge, where he was third in that event. The start at Crandon is always exciting, especially the trucks. Here young Brendan Gaughan leads R.J. Flanagan, who finished third, white Gaughan was second in the Heavy Metal Challenge. r,r about 13 seconds, hit a Shilts third. ditch, never lifted, almost saved Dan VandenHeuvel got past it, but landed on his lid in the Shilts to move his truck up to grass. He later admitted he wasn't third, and then, on the fifth lap "real good with steering." It took when Flanagan "screwed up" in a a while for the course workers to couple of corners, and Zilisch get the truck back on its wheels went into the lead, VandenHeuvel and in the meantime Flanagan was went right along in to second. in front with Zilisch second and Flanagan was now third. In the meantime, Troy Rehn's truck had a fire, and the fireman stopped him in the infield to put it out. Zilisch stayed out front with • VandenHeuvel, his motor run, ning really hot, trying to catch him. Flanagan didn't have any more problems, and held on to third. Zilisch took the win, glad to get his chance to ride up in the air on the hydraulic lift that's been transformed into an elevated vie, tory circle. Second place Van, denHeuvel reported that his ice, cooled pumper helmet worked great for a while, but then the hose fell off and he felt suffocated. The Class 8 trucks roared out onto the track next, with Walker Evans in front and Scott Douglas in another Dodge, in second place. ScottTaylorran third in his Ford. A pileup just off the start line had taken out Jed Flannery, Jimmie Crowder and Gail Brand reducing the field to seven vehicles. Evans and Douglas stayed in front, but Evans was gradually pulling away. Taylor ran third for six laps, and then his truck started to smoke. Big flames appeared under the truck and the flagman prepared to stop him at the finsh line, but some alert corner workers down in the quarry got him stopped sooner and when he pulled over the flames shot up to theroofofhiscab. Taylor jumped out unhurt, and the corner workers extinguished the flames, but that was it for the race. A Michael Oberg and twin brother Mark take turns winning Class 11 Sand it was Mike's turn at Crandon, although each has his own car. His Phazer was ten minutes ahead of his nearest rival at the checkers. Page 46 November 1995 holed transmission fluid line had sprayed fluid on a wire loom, their insulation melted and they arced, and torched the underside of the truck. Meanwhile, Evans had built a long lead, and now Douglas' truck was smoking.Jamey Flannery had moved his Chevy up to third, and there wasn't much traffic left on the course. Evans took the win and Douglas went out on the last lap, moving Flannery up to second, the only other vehicle on the lead lap. The Soda Lites finished Satur, day's racing, with an eight lap run on a short section of the course. Cory Friday had the early lead in a Genesis with Holgier Oksnevad second in his Briggsbuilt, and Phil Doyle third in another Briggs, built. They ran that way for six laps, and then Oksnevad took the lead, and a lap later Friday lost a front wheel. That left Oksnevad a long way out front, and he easily took the win. Doyle was second, and Mike Cherry was third in another Briggsbuilt. Saturday night was party night, and in addition, what was reported to he a grand display of fireworks was lit off on the race track to entertain the spectators, who crowded the hillside to watch. Sunday dawned slightly cooler, with some fog, but a promise of sunshine and no serious threat of rain. The first class to race was the unlimited buggies, and 24 of them took to the track for a rip,snortin' event. Pat Dean put his Chevy powered Mirage in front, with Todd Attig running second and Jeff Probst third. Baudoux ran fourth, with Brian Collins fifth in his Porsche powered Chenowth. This was a very quick group, and the lead pack stayed close on one another. Baudoux was gone after two laps, and Fred Hanson deve, loped a front flat, while Aaron Hawley pulled out with his motor gone. Dean turned up missing, having rolled over and landed in a ditch, virtually invisible and upside down. He was O.K., but out of the race. Attig took over the lead with Probst, who sud, denly had no left front tire and wheel, in second place. Collins was running hard behind him thinking he didn't have enough side bite built into his tires, and Jeff Elrod came next in a Chenowth. Attig began to pull out a bit as Probst found steering a bit tricky, his left corner dipping down into the dirt when he used what was left of his brakes; just rears. Elrod Jason Crowder did not go back to Florida without a winning trophy, and he took his 1600 Taylor to first in 1-160Q and second in 2-1600 in the Saturday events. Dusty Times

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Nicole Schlueter made her debut in her own buggy in the Women's Unlimited race and she finished a great third in what is usually a tough class. Christine Burnis had her Ford going very well in the Women's Heavy Metal contest, and she finished a fine second, about nine seconds behind the win. Valerie James-Rehn has a fancy new paint scheme for racing ·and she got the truck home in almost total darkness for third in Women 's Heavy Metal. passed Collins, but couldn't get around Probst until the ninth lap. The audience loved it. Attig, hav-ing no problems, took the win with Elrod second. Jeff St. Peter moved up to third, with Collins in fourth, both passing Probst on the last lap as his rear brakes finally went away also. He ended up fifth. This race started the day on a high note. The 5-1600s were next with 11 • entries, and Tim Christensen in front, chased by Greg Smith and Michael Brue. Terry Wolfe ran fourth. By the third lap Smith was close up on Christensen, and he'd lost his air cleaner going over the flying jump before the scoring turn. David Allen rolled over on the second lap, but was running again. It took Smith another two laps to get past Christensen and take the lead, and by then Christensen was smoking and making odd noises. He was gone almost immediately. Meanwhile Brue's clutch pedal was sticking and he also felt he lacked side bite, and had dropped way back. Smith's lead lasted almost no time, as he was caught by a moment of "driver stupidity", and rolled the car over, dropping back to sixth place. That put Wolfe in the lead with Tom Brockman· second and Harvey Wald, from South Dakota, in third. Those three avoided any pit-falls and stayed healthy to the checkered flag. Wolfe said it was his first win at Crandon since '88, and Ron Karlman, who hadn't raced for two years, managed a fourth, claiming to be "rusty." The single seat Class 11 cars were next to go, and this was the biggest group of the weekend, with 35 entries. All of them made it through the first turn. Sarah Sawall was out before getting to the scoring tower, with a broken c.v. on her Gilson. Baudoux was in the lead, with Michael Oberg · second in his Phazer and Curt Gerald third in his Mirage. Mark Oberg, Mike's twin, ran fourth in another Phazer. Baudoux lost third gear and stalled the car, but the next guy along bumped him and got him moving again, so he stuck it in fourth and kept goi~. But he'd dropped to second place. Mike Oberg was now in the lead and his brother was third. Lonnie Andrews was fourth. Nothing changed through the fifth lap, but · then Mark Oberg was stopped by a broken c.v. That put Andrews into third place, and Glen Mathews up tb fourth. The lead-ers ran the rest of the way with no problems, and Oberg got his win, reporting no problems at all. The Class 1-1600 cars came next, with a field of 26 slipping Dusty Times sliding and bumping through that first turn.Todd Attig was the first casualty, out with broken steer-ing. Jason Crowder held the lead, followed by Michael Notary. Michael Seefeldt and Mark Stein-hardt. All the action in this race was back in the struggle for fourth place. Dan Baudoux, having a carburetion problem, _got _past Steinhardt but only-for a lap, and as he fell back Tom Surace moved his Laser up into fourth, with Greg Smith in fifth, handicapped by a broken clutch slave cylinder. Crowder had built a big lead in the meantime, but now Notary was closing up some and Stein-hardt was following right along. Smith got.by Surace to take fourth place, and they stayed in that order the rest of the way. Crowder took the win, fol-lowed in by Notary, Seefeldt and Smith. But their fine finish was marred when a rear tire and wheel came off a back marker's car, rolled across the track after the second jump, hit a camera, then climbed the fence and flew into the audience on the other side. Horrified spectators tried to dodge it, but it mowed several people down. All of the track's ambulances and EMT crews rushed to the scene, and after an anxious few moments four injured spectators \Vere taken to the hospital. Word came back within a half hour that none of the injuries were life-threatening. But it was a an hour and a half before the ambulances were back and the racing could start again. By the end of the a ft er noon th e h o s pi ta Is h a cl released all the injured. One of them, a young boy, was report-· edly disappointed that his mother wouldn't take him back to the races. In the meantime the spectators filled up on snacks, and the track maintenance crew watered and -smoothed the course to get it ready for the next event. Finally, the long-delayed race, the first of the Challenges, for Classes 6, 7, and 8S was given the green flag. In the Challenger events there's no separation of cl;isses -it's eve-ryone for himself. Art Schmitt put his Nissan into the lead right away with Billy Beck running second and Mark Eber-hart third, all in 7S trucks. Kelly Todd Attig won ahfiost everything possible at Crandon during these champ-ionships, including a first place in the Limited Engine Championship in the limited engine Terminator. November 1995 Jeff Probst in a classic Probst fly-by sailed onward to win first place in the Unlimited Buggy Challenge in his Laser: they had a good field of 19 1/2 and 9/10 cars at the start but only eight finished. Worrall ran fourth in his 8S, fol-lowed by Randy Krall in another 8S. Schmitt, who'd changed his gearing since the day before, began to pull out a really long lead, as Eberhart lost a wheel and dropped out. Krall had moved up to third and held the position for four laps while Tom Hackers in a Ford, and Bill Bowles, also Ford, tried to get around him. They _finally accomlished it by default when Krall dropped out on lap seven. Jimmie Crowder, whose truck had stalled just off the start, was slowly working his way up through traffic. Al Walentowski flew off the berm and hit the fence bordering the highway about 10 feet in the air, spearing his front end on a fenc.e post. He was all right, but out of the race. At the front of the pack things ran smoothly and Schmitt, who'd also worked on revalving his shocks overnight, took the win. Beck, who has an automatic trans, but plans to get a five speed as Schmitt r,r _BIGGER IS BETTER 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 1?£ger_C.V. ioints. 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IJltr has,· finished second. Bowles took third, Hockers fourth, and Crowder managed to work his way up to fifth. T he first non-7S vehicle at the finish was Al Fannin in his Class 6 Chevy, and W orrall was seventh, and first of the 8S trucks. Next on ·the agenda were the Unlimited buggies, for their Chal-lenge, \\(hich is always a hard run go-for-broke event. There were 19 cars, and Pat Dean was first through the first turn, followed by Jeff Probst. ·Todd Attig, Tommy Bradley and Dan Bau-doux. Probst, who was running a 3 liter V6 Toyota motor was quickly around Dean, and then !'\A# ,.,,. &,;./.$"( just stayed in front. Dean held on Gwen Holmes won the Women's Unlimited Buggy event in a 1600 car, with to second for three laps, when his Kitty Bradley trying brother Tommy's Class 10 car for the first time and came motor started to smoke and he in second. dropped out. Attig the~ moved ~B __ u_t_A~-t-t-ig-h-ad_ a_h_a_r_d_ti_m_e- ge_t_t-in_g __ i_t_w_a_s_B-il_l_L_e_F_e_u_v_r_e_, -in_ a_C_ h_e-vy Sherri Parsons raced the shortened Ladies Heavy Metal Race in the gathering darkness but she steered the big Chevy by instinct and won the event. up to second pla~e, his car around a lapped car on the last and Jed Flannery was fourth, but powered by a 2 .5 lt~er T ?YOt~. lap, and lost his left side spindle in developed a front flat. Greg Gerl-Bradley held on to third with his the crunch. He finished on three ach had broken something in the 1650cc Rabbit, and Collins was wheels as Probst had done in the second turn and was already out, fourth for three laps, but then morning. and Jamey Flannery was gone too. glas couldn't find a way-around Gaughan, and could do nothi,ng but hang in close and hope for the best. Meanwhile, LeFeuvre, who reported they'd improved on the truck some over the winter, held steady in third, chased by Jarrod Zilisch in the Class 13 GMC. dropped out, moving Jeff Elrod, Now it was time for the 3, 4, 8, Gaughan led and Douglas fol-who ran a V4. 205 cubic inch andl3Challenge,thelasteventof lowed for about four laps, and motor, up to that position. There the weekend for those not eligible then Scott decided it was time to wasn't much passing, people or not wishi_ng to run the Borg-try to get by. He began his charge, changed positions because of Warner race. A sadder-but-wiser but Gaughan was not intimidated, attrition. Brendan Gaughan charged to the and there was some great door-Probst's car ran an untroubled front, with Scott Douglas and his handle to door-handle racing for race, and he took the win easily. Dodge right behind him. In third the spectators on that lap. 0ou-On the last lap Gaughan lost his brakes, and then he came up on some lapped traffic. One way or another he left a space, and Dou-glas saw his chance to squirt by. So he took the win, with Gaughan World's Championship Off Road Races RESULTS-September 1-3, 1995 # Poe Driver/Co-Driver, Hometown Vehicle Claaa 2-1600 • 2-Mat 1600cc care. 20 atart. 13 finlah 700 738 797 709 726 1102 1 Todd Attig, Dixon IL Terminator 1 Jason Crowder, Tallahasssee, Fl. Taylor 3 Michael Seefeldt, Sussex, WI Berrien Laser 4 Nichael Notary, Melbourne, FL Hesco 5 Greg Smith, Hopklna, MN Taylor Claaa 110-2 Seat Reatrfcted Bugglea -28 atart-12 flniah Glen Mathews, Rhinelander, WI Phazer 1191 2 Lonnie Andrews, North Star, Ml Phazer 1188 3 Curt Gerald, Appleton, WI Mirage 1141 4 Mark 0:>erg, Eagle River, WI Phazer 1177 5 Keith Berard, Orono, MN Friday Class 3 - Short WB 4x4. non-SODA • 7 atart • 6 finish 333 1 Steve McCrfossan, Ontario, Canada Ford Bronco 316 2 Jerry Bundy, RockviMe, CT Jeep Commando 429 432 306 3 Dennis Chencharick, Julian, PA Chevy Blazer 4 Al Drews, Ypsilanti, MI Ford 5 Rick Rogers, Nekoosa, WI unk. 1872 1 1860 2 1803 3 Class 8S • Stock 2WD Pickupa • 6 start • 2 finish Kelly Worrall, Laingsburg, MI Dodge Tom Jones, Pound, WI Ford Mike Mischler, Jr. Stratford, WI Chevrolet Class 6 • Passenger Sedan• • 8 start . 4 finish Al Fannin, Argonne, WI Chevy Chevelle 604 652 606 2 Rick Rayford, Schofield, WI Chevy 3 Bill Graboski, Oshkosh, WI Chevy Nova 699 4 Darrin Parsons, Fon Du Lac, WI Ford Explorer Class9/10 -1650 cc Buggie•• 29 start. 13 finish 999 t Jeff Probst, New Lenox, IL Probst Laser 912 2 Jeff St. Peter, Port Washington, WI Laser 910 3 Tommy Bradley, Las Vegas, NV Bradley 1036 4 Wes _Elrod, Gilroy, CA Chenowth 923 5 Bill LeFeuvre, Limehouse, Ont. Canada Berrien Class 4 - 4x4 Trucks-19 start -8 finish 490 1 Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas, NV Ford 400 2 Geoff Dorr, Rockford, IL · Ford 402 3 · Greg Gerlach, Dakota. MN Dodge 413 4 Steve Kelley, Irvine, CA Dodge 406 5 Roy Stack, Scandia, MI Ford Class 7S -Production Mini Truck• • 17 atart • 5 finish 727 1 Art Schmitt, Pittsburgh, PA Nissan 761 2 Billy Beck, San Antonio, TX Ford 705 3 Tom Hoc'kers, Greenleaf, WI Ford 759 4 Mark Eberhart, Ripon, WI Ford 744 5 Jim Moskalik. Minneapolis, MN Ford 1334 1 1377 2 1369 3 1348 4 1321 5 Class 13 • Unlimited 2WD Pickupa. 24 atart -10 finish Joe Zllisch, Wausau, WI GMC Dan Vanden Heuvel, Appleton, WI Ford Robert Flanagan, Hartland, WI Chevrolet Bruce Shilts, Kenossha, WI Ford Tommy Drews, Ringle, WI Ford Class 8 • 2WD Standard Pickup. 10 start. 2 finish 820 1 Walker Evans, Riverside, CA Dodge 815 2 Jamey Rlfnnery, Wisconsin Dells, WI Chevrolet 807 3 ' Scott Douglas, El Cajon, CA Dodge 811 4 Brian Donlevy, Oconto, WI GMC 77 78 70 SODA Lites,· A TVs max. of 440 ccs • 5 start . 3 finish 1 Holgeir Oksnevad, Davis, IL · Briggsbuilt 2 Phil Doyle, Davis IL Brlggsbuilt 3 Mike Cherry, Gfand Rapids, Ml Briggsbuilt Class 1/2 • Unlimited 1&2 seat cars -24 start. 7 finish 122 1 Todd Attig, Dixon, IL Terminator 111 2 Jeff Elrod, San Jose, CA Chenowth 102 3 Jeff St. Peter, Port Washington, WI Berrien Laser 107 4 Brian Collins, Las Vegas, NV Chenowth 199· 5 Jeff Probst, New Lenox, IL Laser -Clase 5-1600 - Baja Bugs -11 start. 8 finish 579 1 Terry Wolfe. Wauwatosa, WI Baja Bug 559 2 Tom Brockman, Kaukauna, WI Baja Bug 512 3 Harvey Wald, Pierre, SD Baja Bug 556 4 Ronald Karlman, Ixonia, WI Baja Bug 562 5 John Mason, Plyroouth, WI Baja Bug Page 48 Lapa Time 9 17:37 9 17:49 9 18:08 9 18:08 9 18:18 8 13:44 8 13:45 8 13:46 . 8 13:53 8 14:09 10 18:23 10 18:54 10 18:58 10 19:23 10 19:55 9 19:05 9 10:07 8 unk. 9 18:39 9 18:58 9 19:04 9 19:15 8 13:10 8 13:11 8 13:13 8 13:43 8 13:55 9 14:38 9 14:42 9 14:58 9 15:18 9 15:19 8 14:45 8 15:40 8 15:54 8 15:54 8 16:34 10 17:44 10 17:57 10 18:0S 10 18:24 10 18:36 9 13:17 9 14:34 8 unk. 8 unk. 8 8:59 8 9:23 8 9:48 10 17:12 10 17:35 10 17:54 10 17:57 10 17:58 8 16:33 8 16:40 8 16:43 8 16:44 8 17:39 1158 1127 1191 1102 1124 638 609 697 626 606 807 1301 403 1369 1334 199 122 910 111 139 727 76 1 702 705 747 600 726 605 738 609 490 820 413 400 499 413 800 837 406 414 1112 1146 1139 1184 1191 720 910 1090 687 903 812 406 1375 403 1331 Class 11S -1 Seat Restricted Buggies-35 atart-16 finish Michael O:>erg, Eagle River, WI Phazer 2 Dan Baudoux, Saginaw, Ml Mirage 3 Lonnie Andrews, North Star, Ml Phazer. 4 Glen Mathews, Rhinelander, WI Phazer 5 Billy Scott, lnterlochen. WI Scott Clase H 600 • 1600cc Single Seat , 26 a tart • 15 finish 1 Jason Crowder, Tallahassee, FL Taylor 2 Michael Notary, Melbourne, FL Hesco 3 Michael Seefeldt, Sussex, WI Laser 4 Greg Sm~h. Hopkins, MN Taylor 5 Tom Surace, Mayslanding, NJ Laser 1 2x4 & 4x4 Challenge Classes 3,4,8,13-21 start. 6 finish Scott Douglas, El Cajon, CA Dodge 2x4 2 Brendan Gaughan, Las Vegas, NV Dodge 2x4 3 Bill LeFeuvre, Limehouse, Ont .. Canada Chevrolet 4 Robert Flanagan, Hartland, WI Chevrolet 5 Jarrod Zilisch, Wausau, WI GMC Rear Engine Unlimiie°d Challenge • 19 atart • 7 finish Jeff Probst, New Lenox, IL Probst Laser 2 Todd Attig, Dixon, IL Terminator 3 Tommy Bradley, Las Vegas, NV Bradley 4 Jeff Elrod, Gilroy, CA Chenowth 5 Keith Koesters, Omaha. NB Chenowth Class 6, 7, & 8S Challenge • 11 atart - 8 finish 1 Art Schmitt, Pittsburgh, PA Nissen 2 Billy Beck, San Antonio, TX Ford Ranger 3 Billy Bowles, Belguim, WI Ford Ranger 4 Tom Heckers, Greenleaf, WI Ford Ranger 5 Jimmie Crowder, Tallahassee Ford Ranger Rear Engine Limited Challenge -16 start . 13 finish 1 Todd Attig, Dixon, IL Terminator 2 Greg Smith, Hopkins, MN Taylor 3 Dan Baudoux. Hemlock Ml Mirage 4 Jason Crowder, Tallahassee, FL Tayior 5 Michael Notary, Melbourne, FL Hesco Borg Warner Challenge 2WD & 4WD • 17 start (no times given) qualnying race) 1 Rob MacCachren, Las Vegas, NV Ford 2 Walker Evans, Riverside, CA Dodge 3 Steve Kelley, Glen Avon, CA Dodge 4 Geoff Dorr, Rockford, IL Ford 5 Kevin Probst, New Lenox, IL Chevrolet Borg Warner Challenge Anal • 13 atart • 5 finish 1 Steve Kelley, Glen Avon CA Dodge 2 Scott Taylor, Belvidere;IL Ford 3 Jimmie Crowder, Tallahassee, FL Ford 4 Roy Stack, Skandia. Ml Ford 5 Bryan Frankenberg, Bonduel, WI Chevrolet Women's Class 11 -11 atart • 4 finish 1 Sarah Sawell, New London, WI Gilson 2 Karen Christensen, Suring, WI Terminator 3 Sharl Huven, Hortonville, WI unk 4 Tracy SIiioway, Berlin, WI Friday 5 Lisa Andrews, North Star, Ml unk. Women'• Rear Engine Unlimited • 11 start • 8 flniah 1 Gwen Holmes, Fort Gratiot, Ml unk. 2 Kitty Bradley, Las Vegas, NV Bradley 3 Nicole Schlueter, Howell, Ml unk. 4 Terry Gajewski, Mosinee.WI Laser 3 RDth Schwartzburg, West Bend, WI Berrien Laser Women'a Front Engine Unlimited -11 allirt. 8 finish 1 Sherri Parsons, Antigo, WI Chevrolel 2 Christine Burnis, Marquette, WI Ford 3 Valerie Rehn, Appleton, WI Ford 4 Linda Lou Schlamb, Elmvale, Ont. Can. Chevrolet 3 Robin Schultz, Kenosha. WI Ford Course: 1.7 mile track, left and right turns and jumps. Weather: Warm, sunny. dry Total Starts: 411 - total finishers190 • 8 16:39 8 16:50 8 16:59 8 17:02 8 17:? 9 17:16 9 17:18 9 17:42 9 17:50 9 17:52 9 15:27 9 15:38 9 15:50 9 16:44 9 16:49 10 16:54 10 17:18 10 17:30 10 17:45 10 18:07 10 18:40 10 18:52 10 19:16 10 19:19 10 19:28 5 9:13 5 9:20 5 9:23 5 9:24 5 9:27 4WD mo 4WD 4WD 4WD 4WD 14:58 2WD 15:10 2WD 15:25 4WD 16:27 4WD 16:43 4 8:20 4 9:21 4 9:25 4 9:36 4 9:44 4 8:20 4 8:33 4 9:00 4 9:02 4 9:06 3 5:48: 3 5:57 3 6:01 3 6:02 3 6:16 (Total includes those who doubled up)(Finished ref11rs to vehides on the same lap a£ the winner. There were many more vehides still rooving, but laps down) November 1995 second and LeFeuvre in third. It was Class 8, Class 13 and Class 4 at the finish line. The Borg-Warner event ran next, and it consumed an hour and a half of the afternoon, after which it was time for the Limited Rear-Engine Challenge. Officials were worried about the late hour and trying to complete the sche-dule before darkness fell, so they shortened this event to five laps. Todd Attig, who'd already sold the car he was driving and was at the wheel for the last time, was in front, with Michael Notary second and Jason Crowder third. As the moon rose over the Sky Boxes, and shadows lengthened, they ran in single file for three laps. Then Notary fell back after a run-in with Greg Smith who was trying to pass him, and Crowder moved up to second, with Smith third. Attig sailed on smoothly to win the shortened race, with Smith moving up to second, followed by Baudoux. These folks were hustled off the track to make room for the Women's Unlim-ited event. The ladies took the green flag a little after 7 p .m ., and Gwen Holmes took the lead and was unchallenged as she drove to the win. Behind her Kitty Bradley, Tommy's sister, enjoyed her first race and looked strong all the way in secon d p lace, as Nicole Schlueter, sister of the late Chad Schlueter, mad e her Crandon debut at the wheel. She got off to a shaky start, but moved up nicely to finish third. Concurrently with the 1600s and 10s, the Class 11 ladies were running, and Sarah Sawall, her c. v. repaired, was the leader all the way. Karen Christensen and Shari Huven r an second and third -behind her, and finished that way in their very short event. Not only did the women pay the penalty for all the earlier delays in terms of shortened races, but they were also not given their moment to shine. There were no post-race interviews for them. The final event of the evening, and it was truly working toward night now, was the Ladies Heavy Metal group, with 11 entries. Sherri Parsons had her Chevy out in front all the way, with Christine Brunis a solid second. Brunis held off a fierce challenge by Valerie Rehn, to hold her position until the checkered flag. Linda Lou Schlamb finished fourth. And so, as darkness fell over the Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, another great weekend of racing went into the record books. Dusty Times

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Second in Group A and overall in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Tomi Makinen found time to pose with this lovely lady done up in local fashion. THE PETRONAS RALLY MALAYSIA Possum Bourne and Tonv Sircombe swing wide on a 180 turn in the Subaru lmpreza 555, which later retired because of an accident, as did its mate. -------------==== The traditional· Mal<iysian rally hazarcl is cows on the stages, anc' these seem oblivious to the fast approaching Hyundai as they munch on roadside greenery. Kenneth -5k$_son Wins In Kuala Lumpur For Mitsubishi Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Kenneth Eriksson and Stamm Parmander took the lead from the start in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and never looked back, except for one flat tire. They won by.a solid two minutes. Mitsubishi has taken the lead in both the Drivers Championship and the Makes' Cup at the half way point of the 1995 Asia-Pacific series. Kenneth Eriksson led the Rally of Malaysia nearly all the way, being able to ease his pace when the 555 Subaru team cars of both Colin McRae and Possum Bourne retired through accidents. This led to an agree-ment at half way between Ken-neth and second placed Mitsubi-shi teammate Tommi Makinen, delayed earlier through prop shaft problems, to hold their positions for the rest of the rail y. The first two places in the For-mula 2 category were takeri by the 1.3 liter Su:uki Swifts, driven by 'Monster' Tajima and Russell Palmer ( who lost time during the event because of mud in the fuel tank), while the Hyundai Lantra of Wayne Bell was never in con-tention following various electri-cal troubles which eventually led to retirement. Third in "FZ" was the privately driven Group N Proton Wira 1.6 of Nordin Yasin followed by David Yein's Honda Civic from Taiwan, despite driv-ing in pain following an accident in New Zealand before that event. T he rally was a major success for Mitsubishi! Ten of the top 12 cars were either Japanese Mitsubi-shi Lancers or locally-built Proton versions of the same car. Malaysian driver Karamjit Singh finished third in his Group N Proton Wira 4WD, a half hour ahead of his nearest rival in a Jap-anese version. The event was also a success for a new manufacturer in the sport, Perodua. This Malaysian car making company builds Daihatsu cars under licence, and the 660cc Kancil was homologated in time for this event as a Daihatsu Mira. T his turbo four wheel drive car driven by W illiam Mei finished third in its class on its international debut, behind the Su:ukis. . Eriksson went into the lead as soon as the rally reached the plan-tation stages, only fallin behind Third overall and first in Group N went to the team of Karamjit Singh and Ron Teoh driving a Proton Wira 4WD, similar to the Mitsubishi Lancer. DustyTimes McRae on one stage because of his puncture. McRae immediately had troubles, however, " It took -me some time to settle into the event, and then we misjudged a kink in the road and hit a bank. This broke the radiator. W e con-tinued into the next stage, but the · engine lost all its water and stopped." Makinen was only just in front ofSuba 's second driver Bourne at the start of the second · day. But on stage 11 Bourne also crashed, "We were blinded by sunlight, and we broke the sus-pension when we went off the road." Troubles came to the event when heavy rain fell in the second half of the rally, culminating with the cancellation of the final stage when the zero-car was completely stuck in the stage. Kenneth Eriks-son said, " In fact the worst trou-bles of the rally for us were the THE Nobuhiro Tajima.and Mark Stacey led the Formula 2 category most of the way in the Suzuki Swift G Tl. had no reported problems en route and were fifth overaiT and first F2 car. and Tajima leads the F2 drivers points. cows on the stai~es. These wild animals were straying on many_ stages and often we had to slow down for them. Otherwise we had no troubles; Tommi and I had one puncture each, because we did not have ATS fitted into the soft compound tires we were forced to use in the wet conditions. This result has been a great encour-agement for our team." Lancers were 1-2 and the Class N winning Proton Wira 4WD was third overall. N obuhiro Tajima and Mark Stacey won Formula 2 flll -honors in the Suzuki Swift GTI and also finished fifth overall out of the 26 who did finish. With 48 starters that is a good finishing ratio. After Round 3 Kenneth Eriks-son leads the Asia Pacific Drivers points with 43, followed by McRae 40 and Makinen 27. Mit-subishi leads the Manufacturers Cup with 82 points followed by Subaru, 77 and Tajima has a big lead in Formula 2 Drivers points with 18. WRIGHT 9420 Flinn Springs Ln. PLACE El Cajon, CA 920~1 INC. November 1995

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Stephen Ashton and Ro Nixon also drove a Mitsubishi, taking third overall in the Lancer RSE, which is probably an Australian built car. They were back 32 minutes. Peter Glennie and Peter Clark got through the long journey in fifth place overall in their Toyota with a roof on it and a husky roo bar in front. Terry Denham and Raymond Stubbs drove the first small rig, a Mitsubishi Pajero into a great seventh place nearly two hours behind the overall winning time, but surely a class winner. Ian and Val Swan combined to place eighth overall in a pickup that is a Ford Longreach in Australia and looks very much like a Ford Ranchero. They were just ten mintues behind the Pajero. Ed Ordynski gives the thumbs up sign as he and Ross Runnalls move out for a day on the trails en route to their overall victory. DustyTimes INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Barbary Coast/ Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . • . . 1 3 Bilstein Corp. of.America . . . . . . • . . 33 Cactus Racing . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 10 Casey Folks Las Vegas to Reno . . . . 5 Delozier Class 8 . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . 26 Don-A-Vee Jeep/Eagle ...•.....• 27 FAT Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 28 German Auto . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . • 23 Glen Helen Winter Series . . . . • . 30-31 Goshen Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Rod Hall Driving School . . . . . . . . . . 46 Honda of North Hollywood . . . . . . . . 25 • ·v Krepz Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 41 .. ,.,A~ La Rana Trophy Dash ........... . 37 '3ruce Garland and Hiroaki Suzuki finished fourth overall, another 15 minutes La Rana Desert Racing · · · · · · · · · · · 9 .'n arrears driving a Holden Jackaroo L WB, an lzusu in this country. Master Mount · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 8 ======:'==------ -....:...-- - - - - ---== ==== 1 McKenzies It was no surprise to see Les Siviour and David Brown up to sixth overall in_ the Nissan Patrol EFI. Wonder if it's the same rig that he races off road. · Performance Products . . . . . 15 & 1 7 Nevada Off Road Buggy . . . . . . . . . . 39 Off Road Fiberglass ..... : . . . . . . . 45 Parker Pumper ................ ,. 51 Pike's Family Restaurants ........ 36 Race Ready Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Reid Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Straight Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Sway-A-Way Company . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Trackside Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Tri-Mil Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 P.C.I. Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 SCORE Baja 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 SNORE Double Trouble.. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Toyota Motorsports . . . . . . . Back Cover Trackside Photo Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Ultra Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Valley Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Wilch Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Wright Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Yarnell Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7

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KREG DONAHOE 310-l$63-D935 Pager 31tM09-9694 DONAHOE RACING ENTERPRISES Race Truck• • Prerunners • Development Full Fabrication Service 3308 BANDIN# BL VD. VERNON, CA 90023 LESLIE'S DRIVELINE SERVICE SPICEW . INCORPORATED <e> (909) 877-6491 PARTS "Nu SERVICE ON . SP/CEW <6:-AUTO, TRUCK, INDUSTRIAL, CN AND FRONT WHEEL DRIVE UNITS MANUFACTURING BALANCING CUSTOMIZING FAX (714) 877-6203 California Watts 1-800-427-4238 1750 S. Lilac Ave. Continental U.S. Watts HI00-525-0395 Bloomington, CA 92316 _24 Hr. Emergency Call Out Svc. (714) 876-3107 P.O. fl()!( ·,090, Colton, CA 92324 . ,.; . (714) 774-5454 Pager (714) 576-9003 ' .. -.;., ~),~ EAGLE BENDERS "r alt ~ ~ l,.,.ik,, & Ju, ~dt." 652 S. Brookhurst St. #109, Anaheim, CA 92804 Wholesale/Retail Pickup & Delivery U.P.S. Aluminum Wheel Repairs & Polishing EDDCO Wheel Co. Street, Offroad, Production Aluminum Welding 9437 Wheatlands Ct. Suite K& L Santee, CA 92701 619-258-2575 E~Z UP-~ , . INSTANf \it• ~ ~HELTER$ 'Ii . ~~ ~t1Gll0,\ 'i · FREE-ST ANDING, RUGGED STEEL & NYLON SHcl TERS THAT SET-UP IN SECONDS! -·--VAFilOUS'·SIZES & OOt::ORS . AUTHORIZED DEALER CASTEX RENTALS 213-462-1468 . ~Motorsport · PRE-RUNNER SPECIIILIST • BUMPER~ • CAGES • SHOCK MOUNTS SEAT MOUMTS • LIFT KITS • LCINERING KITS • DUALLYS AIR BAG SUSPENSION • SHOW CARS & DISMAYS • ATV FA8 WORK EXPERT INSTALLATION & FABRICATION AVAILABLE FIBERGLASS FENDERS & BEDSKINS TOYOTA-CHEVY-NISSAN-FORD-ETC. 4010 N. PALM STREET. UNIT 103 (714) 870-9422 FULLERTON, CA. 92635 FN. (714) 870-9132' tt:. -·:RACING -.~. Fl/El.:• FUELS & LUBRICANTS co. ' ' . BRUCE GONRAD 1537 E. Del Amo Blvd carton;CA 907~ Phone: (310)60~2200 FAX: {310) 603-225~'· Send For A Free Brochure For Fast Service Call 715-866-8111 Hwy 36 & Count.y Road D EXPLORER ACCESSORIES •I•J:l~BAKER• Box 329 Webster, WI 54893-0329 ,. PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS INCORPORATED 3006 Colina Verde Lane Jamul, California 91935 (619) 669-4727 Doug Fortin ~.A...~lr--.JC3 SHOX JERRY WOHI..GEMUTH SALES l;lEPPcSENTATIVE Pre~~h ~ · .,.-: T ... U:t,1.1. Systems sv Raffo Racing, LTD. J Eliminate helmet shield fo99ln9, h11t buildup, &_ breathing/eating dust. For the largest selection of hi9h ~•rform■nce helmet ventilation systems give u a call. Call 708-259-!810 425 S. Dunton Ave. or Fu 708-259-9705 Arlington Heights, IL 60005-1907 .... NOW YOU CAN GET THE RACING GEARS THE WINNERS ARE USING ;>hi/ Differentials . Spools - Ball Joints Axles - VW Components - Etc. 4720 Felspar Street Glen Avon, CA 92509 Phone: (909) 681-6889 Fu: (909) 360-9817 H M ENGINEERING 11661 Martens River Clrele Fountain Va.Hey, CA 92708 (71 ,, 979-6631 • Fax (714) 979-5953 • I ' • . , \ ·• · · . .. MANI/FA<;TUHEHS <>F·: ~ · - =t1:'IS MASTEH CYl,I NOERS SI.AVE (YI.INOEHS · \ lllli\KE ANfl CLUTCH ASSY TIIRNING ,\ STAGING llltAKES S II l i-"f.E HS AVAil,AIJLE AT ['INEH SPEC!Al_,TY SHOPS flEALER INQJJR!f-:S WEl,(;<\ME 1158FLINTSTREET ~-ELSINORE, CA 92350 . ~ ... , · PfRrnRMMJf.E PRODUCTS 909-245-6050 FAX 909-'245-6052 . ·JAMES GANG RACING PRODUCTS ARLINGTON SHEET MET AL CORP. 1}424 Imperial Hwy. • Santa Fe Sprinp • CA 90670 Complete Race Car Fabrication, Pre Runners, Chase Trucks, Roll Cages, Bumpers, Suspensions, Tube Bending, Aluminum Fabrication, Engine Tuning Crew Chief Don Connors Phone (310) 921-2693 Fax (310) 926-0699 -JG TRANSWERKS 'Go with a Proven Winner· Desert, Shor! Course & Street VW Racing Transmissions Owner James Hall :FTC Racing Equipment, Inc. 31790 Grpesbeck-Hwy: .. J_o.e GlffirJ .·•. ' Fraser, Ml 48026 (313) 294-5858 Fax: (313) 293-0736 THE RACERS CHOICE. Fuel Safe's Custom & Standard Fuel Cells are designed.and manufactured to meet or exceed the safety standards set by all racing associations. For your local dealer ~ can (800) 433-6524 ~ Call or write for our FREE Catalog Aircraft Rubber Manufacturing, Inc. 18062 Redondo Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 9264B U.S.A. Ph (714) 842-2211 Fx (714) 842-6622 G-FAB?lt~ Pre R·unners • Bumpers • Cages • Shock Mounts Custom Fabrication • Race.Preparation Maxon lta-ce Radios Gary Bancroft 1300 Pj.oneer )31vd:, Unit•K Brea, CA.92621 (310) 690-5513 (310) 697-2752 1509 N. Kraemer, Unit O Anaheim, California 92806 JIMCO (714) 632-1240 OFF ROAD RACE CARS ALUMINUM BODIES FOX SHOCK SERVICE PARTS & ACCESSORIES RACE PREPARATION (619) 562-1743 "OFF ROAD SPECIALISTS" . 10965 HARTLEY RD. SUITE R SANTEE, CA 92071 RACE CAR/PRE-RUNNER PREP & FABRICATION MIKE JULSON JOHN COOLEY CUSTOM TRAILERS Russ Jons• Molon,pons CUSTOM FABRICATION 138 SANTA FELICIA DRIVE SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117 Shop: (805) 968-1067 Fax: (805) 968-3438

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---r.-----------------------------,----·------------------. Jon Kinne Eledrical Wiring _ J)ese'1 and Stadium Transmissions --~~U..9! ~S!!"bli!! ~utomatic Tra_11s. Specialist , 1Kl9-F N, LA!<EVI~ AVE -PLACENTIA, CA 92670 TEL/FAX 714-779-2316 KARIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 3463 '.1assillon Road, Suite B Uniontown, O hio 44685 216·699-1777 Fax : 216-699-1771 Athene Karis + KUSTER OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS • 3" DIAMETER, 8" TO 18" STROKE • 2" DIAMETER, 6" TO 14" STROKE • AIR JACKS • BALL JOINTS ~~o~· ~ C,~ se <?'e'<>' . e,0\0 \(..ee ~,o(,. e,V-KUSTER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2900 E. 29th STREET, P.O. BOX 7038 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA USA 90805 T~LEPHONE (310) 595-0661 HONDA Power Equipment OUT BOARD ENGINE • GENERATOR SPECIALIST Kawaguchi Honda Corp. 3532 EAST 3RD ST. LOS ANGELES, CA 90063 POWER E STEERING THOMAS E. LEE ART KAWAGUCHI FAX (213) 264-2136 (213) 264-5858 LEE MFG. CO. 11661 PENDLETON STREET SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 (818) 768-0371 A full line ol Powe• Steering gear~. pumps ano acc,issoriet for a~y type of racing. _LINC 0 TEMPERATURE STRIPS REVERSIBLE STfllPS allow constanl te,mperalure monilor-1ng. Ranges from 32 to 194 F. METAL SPIN.MING . fa.Ft ALL JNDUSTRIES C;II (310) 928-9838 SUNDRY METAL CRAFTS Easy to use, inexpensive & accurate! All strips are self adhesive and labeled in Fahrenheit and Celsius. S!rips are $2.00 each or $1.75 each over ten . For a FREE brochure or to order, contact: LINCO IRREVERSIBLE STRIPS record the · ,1,~~_..,7 .. maximum temperature reached of the item they are applied to. Ranges )(l:. '; p _.1 " u 13337 E. South St., #344 Cerritos, CA 90701 Phone/Fax: (714) 821-6542 from 120° to 555°F. Engineering FABRICATION/RACE PREPARATION 416 FLEETWOOD GLENDORA, CA 91740 (818) 857-RACE (818) 858-8852 FAX KENT LOTHRINGER Assembly - Machine Work~-Parts Engjne Dyno Facility 10722 Kenney Street, Suite C Santee, ~A 92071 (619) 596-0886 Ken Major PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS • "OFFROAD IS OUR BUSINESS" 2366 E. 0rangethorpe Ave. Anaheim, CA 9?..>m6 • Tel. (714) 441-1212 Fax (714)444-1622 MENDEOLA RACING Volkswagen -Porsche -Hewland Off-Road & Stadium Racing Transmissions Parts & Service 290 TROUSDALE #l&J CHULA VISTA CA 91910 =cARED TUBE ~ =LANGED DI SC 6729 Suva St. Bel! Gardens, CA 90201 805-940-5515 4,-;,1 1••4,•41 • 1490 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 79936 [941 SJ '857-5200 PUC IC OB ..,.._ You GeC It Oel . KEEPS MUD, DIRT AND DEBRIS FROM STICKING • WILL NOT HARM PAINT, STICKERS, PLASTICS OR MET AT .'i . ENVIRONMENTALLY SAli'E COMPLIES WITH ALL TRACK REGULATIONS -. MPJ}, DIRT AND DEBRIS COME RIGHT OFF! FOR DEALER INQUIRIES OR TO FIND A DISTRIBUTOR NEAR YOU, CALL (800) 742-2122 OTHER RACERS DON'T WANT YOU TO READ IT ;,SPONSORS: How to Get One; How to ·Keep One" Evwything you need to know; wh•• to look, what your proposal mutt aay. Find out what sponsors want from you and how to give them more than they ask for. The book is $19.95 plus $1.05 postagelhandling. Send check or money order to: Nina Murphy, Murf Ink, Magm,flux and Zyglo lacilitii:s .. 11vail~ple. . 619-691-1000 FA..X 619-691-1324 1722 Wollacott St., Redondo Beach, CA 90278 Read the b·ooic, send me your proposal and I'll critique it for free . OFF ROAD SHOCK SERVICE JERRY LEIGHTON EIBHTOit RACING d BILSTEIN • FOX • MOTORCYCLE . 14519 MAIR STREET URIT B1 619-244-9075 HESPERIA, CA. 92345 619-949-2453 ■ DESIGN ■ DEVELOPMENT ■ PRODUCTION■ ....I w G,,,,,.~/.'A.~./ , £> A ► I=! -'~..1'"7' .,,._ /\~ ~ c ~ Pre Runners • Aluminum Bodies ,f Oashes ~ R~~ ~ (909) 877-2923 ! 1245 N. Fitzgerald Ave. Suite 107 ~ Rialto, California 92376 o G WELDING ■ HELIARC WELDING ■ ~ Race Car Chassis Race -Car Parts Aluminum bQdies 1 /2-1600 Motors And Trans Custom Machine Work & Fabrication 2?25 E. 16th St. • Yuma, Az. 85365 . . . (.(:,()2) 783-6265 • 1 (800)231-8156

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L-,-----..... ------...---. NSC WINS BIG AT THE BAJA 1000 "GO WHERE THE PRO'S GO" NSC Motorsports Suspension gives smooth.First Clas~ Finishes To 7 of 7 Classes, As Well As The First 5 To Finish Overall. · . CONGRATULATIONS.TO EACH OF YOU! STEVE BARTON • OWNERS LEE FINKE RACE SHOCK • • COMPANY Clas,11 & 1st Overall .... : ... •simon & Simon Ford F150 2X • 11!11&:\ Light Truck, Rough Country Class 8 & 2nd Overall ........ •Rob MacCachren Ford F1 so 2x lllll'l:5/ Sport Utility, Class 6 & 4th Overall ........ •John Swift Explorer 2x RV & Racing Shocks Off-Road Racing Shocks Class 4 & 5th Overall ........ •David Ashley Ford F150 4X 1711 West Culver #1 TEL: (602) 254-0744 Class 3 & 7th Overall ........ •Dan Smith Bronco 4X . Phoenix, Arizona 85007 · FAX: (602) 493-0975 LAURA . RICHARD S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT" HCR66, BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV 89041 (702) 372-5335 Class7S ................ Brown, O'Brian & JohnSQn • Ranger 2Xl!t""__,.__,. ______ --,-----------+----------..;.;..;. ______ .;__~ Class 7 .......................... Scott Douglass Dakota 2X ·Member BFG/Ford "Rough Aider· Off Road Race Team NSC Would Like To Thank Ail Seven Class Winners, Fotonce-Again Counting On NSC Suspension Systems. You Too Can Have A Winnin Ride Wilh NSC Custom Computer Designed Leaf Springs. • . For More Info. Please Call · PARKER PUMPER VINEYARD ONTARIO, CA 91761 909-923-7016 FAX 909-923-3,18 NICKS=.•. HELMET = COMPANY .I.LI ._....I...LLI...L.__. I I .LO PATTON •CAl_ f.~I 1'lt i I:1"ti-llJ"I:§ ENGINE BUILDING, TESTING .. & DEVELOPMENT Leon Patton PhJFAX (909) 927-5304 Hemet, CA 92544 42646 Chambers Ave. ROADMASTER, MOTOROLA, Y AESU RADIOS SIMPSON, ARAI, BELL, SHOEI HELMETS 2888 GUI JORY AVE .• SIGNAL HILL, CA. 90806 (:llO) 427-8177 TOLL FREE (800) 869-5636 J. PENHALL G 1860 Babcock Bldg. tB Coata M•a. Ca 92627 FABRICATIONS Jerry Penhall (714) 650-3035 Fax#-(714) 650-4721 ~\l\> stuiJ "}. . ~ ~ ~ Todd Francis ~ Pr1ci1io11 I/Joy, 1,/d, ~. 700 N.E.117th Strfft ~ ~ Vancouver, W,\ 98885■6 ;Q » Phone· ~'1.r/ ~9,lw Fax 360-574-5474 on & 36o:.s76-1109 ~RACING VII/ GASOLINE g<:/U!amell, t~ 400 N. Colfax St. La Habra, CA 90631 Phone (310) 691-1683 Fax (310) 691-5110 av gas • alcoh'ot-nitromethane Steve Poole • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Fuel handling & storage Equipment • Distributorships Available ····~cD •••• •••• ··• . • • • • RACE CAR DYNAMICS OFF ROAD RACE CARS 3552 FOWLER CYN RO. JAMUL, CA B 1935 PH. CS1SJ 44O•2B14 FAX CB1BJ 5BB-4237 JIM ASBURY RACING TRANSAXLES . S!!!M~E,2! , _oJt7 Computerized Vinyl Lettering f< ,4 C..E.Q_ \? v,.,/.,, \L TIM CECIL ? (!_I?..~ S \-4010 N. Palm Street. #103. Fullerton, California 926351..u 5 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 870-9132 §f(jf'f D§(;M --==~w=====-==!~~]~===' 5101 GALWAY CR., HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92649 {714) 897-0075 FAX (714) 894-9567 )] SITE SK:iNS · BAANERS · Wltm/ lffiERNi · CM lffiERWG · ®AIXS 15855 Dell View Rd. 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 CHRIS ROSE . (619) 443·2480 Steve Sprrkoff/Owner El Cajon, California 92021 iIERCOM SYSTEMS -HELMETS WIRED - HAND HELD RADIOS . • k"ITENNAS - LEASING DALE JOHNSON 10319 LOS ALA."\IITOS BLVD. (310)-594-9418 HJS A,J,A,MITQS. CA 90720 (310)-594-4397 FU \VILLSrrRUSTS, OTHER 1\,11\.TTERS , TERESA M. SANDERS TELEPHONE (818) 892·2688 ATTORNEY AT LAW MOSER & SANDERS 16921 PARTHENIA STREET, SUITE 301 SEPULVEDA, CALIFORNIA 91343 619/561-2913 [!fgf!!J30 (213)583-2404 SANQER_S SERVICE, INC . . . . . METAL PROCESSING 5921 Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 SANDBLAST GLASS BEAD MAGNETIC PARTICAL FLOUFlESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith Straight Line ----------Ent Larry Smith ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING. 31510 223rd Street East Llano, CA 93544 805-291-3202

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El Centro, CA ...................... 800-989-4645 El Cajon, CA ....................... 800-458-2711 In~io, CA ............................. 800-989-3278 L~h_caster, qA. ~-.... •H• ••••••••••• 860-462-9499 . Las'V-egag, NV ........ n .......... 702--()43-9200 Long Beach, CA ................... 3 to-432-3946 Oxnard, CA ............... : .......... 805-485-6900 Perris, CA ............................. 800-969-3835 Van Nuys, CA ....................... 818-786-8180 Riverside, CA ....................... 714-877-0226 All other inquiries, contact Sports Racing at P.O. Box 610, Long Beach, CA 90801 310-518-7318 OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS VVEWING • FABRICATON • FLAME Cl.ITT/NG • FRaVTENOS • REAR TRAIUNGARMS RACEOfASSIS • PRERUNI\ERS • FDXRAONGSHOX LARRY ROSEVEAR 13450YNAMICS. UN/TO PHONE/714/996-6260 ANAHEIM, CA 92806 FAX (714/ 996-6405 Ill/CE TT(//NS BY JEFF flEfJ)'S TRfiNSfiXLE ENGIN_EERING JEFF FIELD 818-998-2739 9833 Deering UnltH Chatsworth, CA 91311 TRANSMISSIONS WEST • vw • PORSCHE •·OFF ROAD WE RACE WHAT WE SEU. (800) 435-0416 • (310) 782-2413 22545 S. Nonnandie • Torrance, CA 90501 CUSTOM RACE CAR FAS. MIG & TIG WELDING DAN MATHEWS 6925 Aragon Circle Unit 25 (714) 521-2019 Bueno-Pork. CA 90620 (7-14) 523-0558 TURBO BLUE Racing Onallnn 8446 Garfield Ave. • Bell Gardens, Ca. 90201 • (310) 928-22711 Lyn Mocaby Mike Mo~by Gordon Culp ·[u,.P] 619/449-9690 UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10223 PROSPECT AVENUE SANTEE CA 92071 CUSTOM SHEET METAL SHOP AIR CLEAMER SYSTEMS FULL LINE OF POWER STEERING FOR ALL TYPES vF RACING-& RECREATIONAL VEHICLES PRODUCTION SHOi> (TABS, BRACKETS, BODIES, ETC.) Louie Unser Engines RATTLESNAKE MOTORSPORTS, INC. LOUIE UNSER I 100 E. Ash Avenue, Suite C Full~rton, California 92631 Phone and Fax (714) 879-8440 VIDEO VENDOR. OFF-ROAD RACE VIDEOS VIDEO PORTFOLIOS IN CAR CAMERAS FROM $125.00 OFF ROAD RACE VIDEOS FROM $15.00 BUSINESS COMMERICALS FROM $85.00 VEHICLE ADVERTISING FROM $30.00 1•800·S87·383S l'AX(H9)4'S·atd BRUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Coast P.O. Box 1319 34283 Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 Phone: (909) 67 4-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (909) 694-7392 . •~ rtlbla MAINUNMf}J'•f!ia/lY.IWJ'lf;JH'fQIHG-'-~~--M}'~.,jg,Bek~~ o ','.. " mlfjµ;i~~ ;I-II:{ L·.. " '\,; 4¥· • ,,. , c,; . •.·•· !' :ii · Performance Camsha'fts I Automotive • A TV • Motorcycle 1815 Massachusetts Ave Riverside, CA 92507 909/369-5144 Fax 909/369-7266 (310) 598-2731 WEddlE ENGiNEERiNG Exclusive distributor of Lock-Right'm VW Locking Differentials PERFORMANCE TRANSAXLE PllODIJCTS Billet Super-Diffs, Gearsets, Hard to Find New and Used Parts Whole5ale/Retall. Dealer lnqulrle5 W~loome P.O. Box 15466 Long Beach, CA 90815 · a" Raad Race Truclfs • Pre Runners Cllassl$ Design • Engineering • Fabrication Dale White Racing 3940 Maranatlla Circle Las Vegas, NV 89103 10Z-B11-1661 Adam Wik. · 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts-to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service · 535 East Central Park Anaheim, CA 92802 714-956-9457 ~ HEUVINK CONSULTING PtJQI IC RFI ATIONS & MARKETINC; Eo HEUVINK CAlTENHAGEHRAAT 5511. 1411 CS NAARDEN TIIE NF.THERI.ANIJS . TH 011.31.2159 5'3464. FAX 01 i.31.2i59 53452. HOME 011.31.30 210095 PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING CONSULTANTS EDWIN C . JACOBS PRESIDENT . soo·sTATE MILL ROAD AKRON, OHIO 44319 (216) 644-7774 Off Road Products Front and Rear Tramng Nms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels . 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix. N. 850 f7 Jack Woods 16021 2~2-0077

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Classified ••• FOR SALE: 1994 Chenowth sin-gle seater. Foddril front end large beam 2½" Foddril combo link spindles, bumpers, skid plates, floor pans, firewalls, dash gauges switches wiring German Auto Ma,gnum Rack Ump Ram CNC Front hubs, 11" rotors, tire rods wlrod ends, Foddril front arms, brake lines SS steering sadfy bat-tery box. Full Chenowth body w lroof & visor, black front & rear shock mount for Kuster shocks. Foddril rear arms w/full floater plates & caliper mounts alum. radiator w/ fan & mounts alum. scoop for radiator. 38 gal fuel cell. Master craft ribbon nets black. 3-300m Summer Bros. axels and more, Call for more info. (714) 472-2024 (Jerry). Auto trans 2 Audi trans sections, box of quick change gears 9" ring & pinion 2 torque converters. Lots of spares. JIMCO2 SEATER Class2-1600. Excellent starter car. Don Hatz built Type I motor, type II tranny, on board fire system. Uniden radio, Taylor seats, Deist belts. All shocks are Bilsteins wlreser-voirs, UMP steering, Wright rack, 26mm bars, Centerline · wheels w/Yoko's. $8,000.00 Baja Concepts Ref #445. (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: 1-1600 1993 FOR SALE: C_lass 10 High Suspension unlimited fresh eng Jumper, 2 seater, excellent .. "0" miles all FAT products. DJ bracket car or pre-runner. Fox · Trans, FTC GEARS, stainless Shox, front and rear, Wright cliff, "0" miles, new rear arms, front end, new fuel cell, Flame FOX, Ump, Beard, Jamar, Out, Bus transmission, Sway-A-Wright, all quality proven parts, Way. $5,500.00 Will consider this car has very few miles. offer for car and 20' Dico $15,000.00 (208) 345-6451, enclosedtrailer.(909)678-2073. (208) 322-4409. FOR SALE: 91 Ford Ranger pre-runnerlChase truck-Built to last and made to haul ass! 302, V-8, C-6, 9", caged bumper to bumper, 2 tire rack glass bubble fenders, 10 Rancho Take-A-Parts, Beards, Full harness B& M, Le Carrea, Alpine, Fuel Cell, WINNING 7S, '89 Ford Ranger. paint (white/ gray, red strip and TOP RUNNER: Class 9 Chen-Excellent condition: Race ready! cage). Test flights available. owth 2 seater buil~ by_Baja Con-Ted Kendall built, Ex-Douglas Paddles included. $10,000.00 cepts. ~e:"'pr~p, B1lstems wlVW Bros truck, 12-14" travel in both obo. Daniel (619) 352-6030 wk. suspens1~m m fro~t, Sway-A-1 front and back. Art Carr Trans, w_, Waytors1onandspnngplates,JG I Summers rear, Clark Steppier Transwerks, Engine Machine motor, best of best, tons of Service. Spares include: spindles, SPARES INCLUDED! Cherry arms, torsion bars, spring plates, $18,000.00 Baja Concepts Ref shocks, radios, helmets, driving #436. (619) 583-6529. suits, ETC!! Driver changing -classes, ever yth i'ng goes for $7,000.00 CALL FAST!! Baja Concepts Ref #398 (619) 583-FOR SALE: Mirage all chromoly 6529. 2 seater 2340 Wasser boxer PERFECT SODA type truck (ex-( water cooled Vanagan ). New coil Score). 2 motors: 1 equals 7 50 p. over beam with Fox all the way and 1 equals 550 hp., loads of around. Fox bumps, Wright, spares and equipment. FoxShox,. SAW, Jamar, Beard, Dura Blue, . probuilt, l / 4 eliptic, 4x4 Class 4 2¼ Woods, Big Links power Jeep, gorgeously fobbed! FAST, steering. Car is fresh with new excellent history. Steal this beauty body.$9,000.00OBO.JeffElrod for $22,000.00. Baja Concepts (408) 926--0522. Ref #244. (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: Chenowth 1-1600 Tall man's version, Lee Leighton motor, JG trans, Heim shifter, 22 gal Fuel Safe, Wright, UMP, Fox Shox, Parker Pumper, Jamar, Simpson, Mastercraft $7,500.00 obo Call Sean Krepsz (909) 352-4421. Racing tires for Sale: Custom made for trophy truck racing or • ultimate Pre Runners that do not 'want flats! 37xll.50xl7. Tires -,$75 .00ea. plw, shipping. Will sell all for: _spicial discount. 100 available: 80 Bridgestones, 20 Genera I. Specially made for Roger Mears racing availab\e exclu!o\ively thru Baja Concepts. (Don't bother Roger!) Visa /MC/ Amex accepted. ( 619) 583-6529 or Fax (619) 583-1851. FOR SALE: Jeep Wrangler-Full race. Former Class 3 champ. 401, 400 tranny, Summers Dana 60 rear. 44 front-Mastercraft, Parker Pumper-Flameout-Rancho, Na-tional Springs-Current green sticker.Too much fun but no free time. $8,000.00 obo. Leave message. Don (619) 748-5785. FOR SALE: '92 Jimco Class 10 car, Mendeola trans, Major motor, FOX, CNC, Mastercraft, Sway-Away, new paint and aluminum work. Race prepped to go by JIMCO. $23,000.00. Mike (619) 562-1743 or Wayne (909) 947-8192. FOR SALE: Superlite with Triple SPEED, SAFETY, RELIABil.:-, E transmission, Fresh Klemm ITY, Proven International motor, Fox Shox (rear), Bilsteins rallysport technology can give FULL BLOWN FORD CLASS 8 (front), power bloc clutch, lots of you the edge over the opposition. Weinermont tuned & rebuilt, FOR SALE: Class4¼ elliptic rear extras; radiator, tires clutch, A-Drive faster, safer with less Kuster. Big Travel, Position w/ K usters, coil over Kuster · Arms, and much more$6,800,00. breakage and wear. Take the guess Sensitive, Sway Bar, 650 HP, lots front, 351 builtto430 by Richard FOR SALE: Kevin Smith's win- Call Norm days (714) 996--0301, . work out of desert racing. of new parts, and Ever.ything Parabok, FOX Air bumps, power ning Mirage Super 1600 stadium evenings (909) 678-1424. Interested? Contact Stuart Fresh, complete package. Super steering wlump Ram, Cone full car.Completecoilcar,SmartPer-Roberts at Concepts International Trick: Must see!! $68,000.00. For floater 40 spline, rear end, Mogi formance Toyota, Fortin 2 speed, (NZ) LTD, P.O. Box 46-147, details and photos contact Baja C-6, Fresh prep, put on your toomuchtolist,wlmanyspares. Herne Bay, Auckland, New Concepts Ref #430. (619) 583-paint and race. $35,000.00 with C~ll for package details. (818) Zealand. Fax: 64-9-483-5581. 6529. all spares. (619) 258-5876. 579-2135, $28,000.00. -r--...--- ·------~----.. tllli ____ _._ ---- ----~~---w-wwww __ .......... ___ ---_......, ____ , ·1 Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I -I I •. DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $20 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white pho~o, or a very sharp color print. NEW AND RENEW AL $UBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act n~w ~nd subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. Enclosed is $ (Send check or money order, no cash). Please run ad _______ times. Name Mail to: Address _______________________ Phone _______ _ DUSTYTIMES 20751 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA-91311--44.08 City ---------~---,-,---,-----Page 58 · I-I, I I I, .I 1· I I ..• , FOR _SALE: Must sell 5-_1600, FAT motor and trans, Fodrill arm spindles, Kuster bypass shocks, Sway-A-Way, PIAA lights, all chrome moly, only 8 races on car and its race ready. $12,500.00 obo. Possible trade (702) 256-0964. RACE READY '89 Super ite, Bitchen short course car. Honda FL 350 water cooled motor. New Fab transaxle, Beard seats, Simpson bt!lts, Werks axles, 13"' Kieser wheels, BFG tires, many spares. $7,500.00 Baja Concepts Ref# 446. (619) 583-6529. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: '94 Jimco Class 10 A-Arms. Best of everything, Majors motor, Hew land trans and rack and pinion by Fortin, Fox Shox, Ultras, BFG, Ready to Race. $29,000.00 oho. Ask for Victor (619) 422-5674 days, (619) 427-1831 nights. FOR SALE: 1988 36' Interna-tional Transporter: Professionally built, 7 .3 ltr. turbo diesel, 5 plus 2 trans, only 16K miles. Living qtrs-11 ', shower, bed, complete kitchen, A I C, heat, 140 gal. fresh, CD stereo. Car area-17', hardwood floor winch, alum. ramps, cabinets, locker, tire rack. Honda 6.5 kw gen. on sliders. 36' x 15' alum. fully encl. canopy, elec. outlets & lights inside/out, alarm, tow package. Imron paint, belly boxes wltons of storage. Excellent cond. garage, very trick, reg. as R.V. Sacrifice $49K, call Todd at (702) 825-1-863. EXTREMELY versatile 4-seat Pre Runner. Can be used for hunting, desert play, mountain exploring, etc. Whole Family Fun vehicle. Built by Unique Metal Products, Wright Arms, Bilstein shocks, Neal brakes & hubs, etc., etc. Very low mileage, mostly stored! Sacrafice $7 ,800.00! Baja Con-cepts Ref #435 (619) 583-6529. FOR SALE: 1993 Jimco Class 10 single seat. Proven winner, Professionally prepped. Major motor, Mendeola trans, Fodril, Wright, Mastercraft, UMP, CNC, FoxShox, Fox bump stops, Summers full floaters, Yoko-hamas. Lots of spares. Car is fast and like new. $22,000.00 oho. Steve (909) 625-3381 days. (818) 339-3268 eve. FOR SALE: 2 time Class 1 SODA points champion. 1991 Ford 2wd, Kuster duel stage coil over front suspension, National 1/4 Liptic rear, Summers axles, Dana 60, small block Chev, alum heads 650 hp. Turbo 400, Race Ready, spare parts $28,000, $18,000 wlout motor & trannys. (414) 739-7834. FOR SALE: VW Bus transaxle, Pyramid case. 5.38 r'np, 1.56 3rd, 1.30 4th, freshfrom DJ T ransaxle 0 miles, ready to race. Has mounting plate $850.00 Sac. Dave (805) 722-9574 or page (805) 538-5474 and I'll call you. Dusty Times f+ ·"' AWESOME '72 Bronco. Cu~-rently being raced in SCORE. Built 351 Windsor, Unilite Ignition. C-4 by Valley Trans, 4 link on Hymes w/18N in front, Quarter Eliptic w/ Kusters and a 9"' Ford in the rear. 15N Eagle Alloywheelon35x12.50x15 Baja TZ, Beard Seats, Diest belts, YOO Gauges, Nice truck. $13,900.00 Baja Concepts Ref #448. (619) 583-6529. PRICED TO SELL: SODA Class 13, fresh and ready to win, all the best parts, National Spring, Art Carr, FOX, American Racing wl locks, Summers Bros., always a , front runner. Over $25,000 invested in parts, yours for $15,000.00 with all spare parts, will separate or trade for?? (715) 635-7115 or (715) 635-2436 CST. FOR SALE: 60% built Class 7 or 7S. You finish 1989 Ford.Ranger with 93-94 glass front end, V6 parts, auto trans. New Fox Shox, Summers rear end, National Springs, Baja TA's, Tilton, Mastercraft, Fuel safe, lot of spare parts, super starter truck, $7,500.00 OBO. Call Joe (702) 655-0744. FOR SALE: Raceco Class 9 . FOX, Fuel cell,J-Mar, two spares, Sway-A-Way, low hours on engine. Must sell! First$1,800.00 steals it. (909)425-2344 or(520) 565-3150. FOR SALE: Auto Fab radius Arms and Brackets for '80 and newer 2 WO F150. New never used, $700.00 OBO. (310) 494-6126. FOR SALE: 92 JIM CO Class 10, Hatz engine 200 miles, fresh Mendeola trans, all quality parts, some spares available. Overall winner all FR T races this year. Ready for Baja 1000 with little prep. $20,000.00. Jerry (619) 420-1854 days. FOR SALE: Chenowth Class 10. FOR SALE: State of the art wheel straightening machine w lall accessories. Will straighten all wheels, over 65 Centerline wheels 1 included. $5,200.00 OBO. Also VW front end hydraulic press with fixtures. Will straighten ball joint and link pin front ends up to 12" wider than stock. Over 45 beams and over 10 boxes of parts included. $4,300.00 OBO. (714) 554-0287. FOR SALE: 86 2 WO Blazer, 3 shocks per wheel, new BFG Baja TA 's, new turbo 400, new 4:86 R & P 383 small block Edelbrock, Holly, Accell too much to list. $6,000.00. ALSO 2 WO Blazer frame with 20" travel front A-Arms with Henrys ball joints, 86 door & roof skin glass sides, more. (619) 324-1861. FOR SALE: Chenowth 1000 SS Class 1-2-1600 single seater, race ready, 103 w l b Centerlines, Fischer racer transmission, fiberglass and aluminum body panels, Wright rack, Sway-A-Way, Pumper, Durablue, spare parts and two spare motors. Must' sell $5,950.00 OBO. Call Peter (415) 391-2255 M-F, 8-5. FOR SALE: 1-1600, 1991 Proformance chassis, new engine, new super seat, Doetech shocks, Neal pedals, Autometer gauges, Wright front end, 930's, Accu-sump, Oberg filter. Best of everything, includes trailer/ spares. Colorado points champ-ion 91, 92, 94, 95. Awesome SODA or Glen Helen car $6,500.00 (1-970-667-3397). FOR SALE: 1986 RANGER King Cab, updated to 90 sheet-metal, Ford 9" floater, double shocked (Bilsteins) all around, 32 gal. fuel cell, fiberglass fenders & ¼ panels, 4 wheel disc brakes, real Centerlines ( 16") Xlent pre-runner. $9,400.00. Russ (818) 357-7241. FOR SALE: 1993 Mirage Class 10 single seat, Hatz motor, Hewland trans, Fox coil over shocks, Summer Hubs, Fodrill ft. arms, CNC pedals, PCI radio, Car is complete and prepped to win. $23,000 or $19,000 less motor (310) 982-0421 days (310) 493-1153 eves, Brian. FOR SALE: 1979 Bronco pre-runner, fiberglass hood, new paint, ( 4) Beard Ultras, complete interior, Simpson, Rancho 9 inch, 400, BFG Muds, American Racing, Cold A IC, Y fro~t springs, 2" rear, also addn 400 builder, addn 9 inch w/Motor-sport posi. Call for detailed list and pictures. $7,500.00. Mike (602) 947-8406. RIDE IN BAJA 1000. November 8th through November 13th. 1,200 course miles. $10,000.00. One to three persons. Call 1-800-700-8942. Ford Class 7S Ranger 4x4 Built by Curt LeDuc. Includes two pre-runs and lodging. FOR SALE: Steve Sourpas' Chenowth Class Ten car. Fresh Major motor and Mendeola trans Bilsteins, UMP, CNC, Master-craft, Sway-A-Wa'y, 930 cv's, 4 wheel disc brakes, car is always a front runner and finisher, top 2 in points 92 to 94. Car ready to race. Call Steve (619) 566-1800 ext. #4920. $19,ooo:oo. FOR SALE: 1993JimcoClass 10, 1995 Parker 400 winner, no expense spared, car is fresh and ready for the Baja 1000. $18,000.00. All extra parts, Arms, axles, etc. Including 2 sets of wheels $20,000.00. Call Kevin days (909) 628-3005 nights, (909) 628-6263. FOR SALE: One white Shoe! "" ' ,. RF200 Snell M90 helmet, size large 7-3 18 - 7½ with unmarked "' visor. One European rally only 2 yrs. ago. As new condition. Call Pete (213) 667-2039 and leave message. FOR SALE: Class 9, 93 single seat "" ORBS. This car has the very best FOR SALE: '87 VW Class 5-of everything meticulous! y 1600 Baja Bug. Score and LaRana prepped, no expense spared. Car raced, has not been raced since is prepped and ready to race. '92, Neal built 1600cc motor.JG Complete with spares. $7,000.00 Trans. 10" of travel front and 080. Ask for Rick (702) 829-rear, Fox wi res all around 930 2734. cv's. Type IV CV's special stub FOR SALE: SODA 1-2-1600 frontrunner, race ready, 2 motors by FAT, 2 trannys, BFG's American Racing Wheels w / head-locks, Fuel safe, Beard seats, Fo·: Shox, and lots more includini: spares, tons of spares!! All for only $8,500.00 OBO. Call (715) 369-5000 or (715) 369-2088. FOR SALE: Briggsbuilt MTEG Superlite, spare part galore including fresh spare motor, 8 Bead locks with tires, etc. $14,999.00 OBO. Will consider trade for ATV and/or motor-cycle. Buy now and get ready for tentative new stadium series in 96. (206) 481-7997 days, (206) 481-2206 evenings. Will deliver. axles, JAMAR shifter, Beard seats, $6,500.00. Baja Concepts Ref #3M. (M9) 583-f,529. FOR SALE: Stadium Super Lite-or-can be used as SODA Lite, Briggsbuilt chassis FL350 water cooled motor, BFG's, Champion Wheel with Beadlocks, Top of the Line, and Race Ready, $6,800.00 Phone Michigan (906 )466-26R0. DRIVER LOOKING FOR RIDE: No money left to run my Class 4, so let me team up with you for the win next year - Prefer Class 1, 4 or 8. Call Kevin (805) 646-7210. FOR SALE: Various 5-1600 and 2-1600 parts. Rims, tires, lights, axles, manifolds, turning brakes, tie rods wl ends, brake drums, seat belt pads, etc., etc. Call ( 619) 481-092-3. Fat Rabbit motor, Wright big spindels & arms, Flame Out, Parker Pumper, UMP, Fox Shox wl reservoirs, Beard seat. Spare tranny CNC, Summers front hubs, Bead locks, many other features."Must sell Best offer takes it all. Home (602) 979-9762, Work (602) 245-2540. SECOND HAND RACECOS, JIMCO, CHENOWTHS, WANTED. Maximum width 82 inches. Length 128 inches. Contact Bruce Carolin 011 2711 4931869 (fax) South Africa. Send photos and detailed specs. to P .0. Box 61082, Marshalltown 2107,Johannesburg,South Africa. No dealers. FOR SALE: BAJA BUG-Class 5-1600. Proven winner of Baja 1000 and many other S.C.O.R.E. events. Clean and ready to race. Top components. Call lohn(619) 481-0923 or Jeff ( 408) 354-FOR SALE: '90 Ford F150 XLT Lariat. PreRunner. 95 ft. , 6 Fox ft. 6 Rancho Rear Full cage, Master-craft seats, BFG 35's, 456 rear, Mogi AQd auto, 302 EFI headers, chip etc. 40 cell, 2 spares, Sony CD, AC loaded. Sac$16,750.00. (818) 447-6661. WANTED: 4-Seat Unlimited Pre-Run/ Play car. The tricker the better. The cleaner even better. Call Mike (702) 646~3304. 1090. .. . November 1995 Page 59

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