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Volume 13 - Number 3 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 Maimer Troy Robinson · Bob Rule Barb & Marilyn Schuln Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Judy Smith. Tony Tellier . .Trackside Photo Inc .. Art Director .Larry E. Worsham SNAPSHOT --.VILI.II OffllQUI IIACIINI UIOaT March 1996 . CALJFORNIA RALLY SERIES Subscription Rates: lltlrfd&rles,fgflrmRacing19 $20.00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign Subscription rates on request. Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes unsolicited contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited material will be returned only by request and with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DOSTY 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 91~ 11 and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address change to Dusty Times, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new address, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. OF THE MONTH ••• Would you believe it? A God-knows -how-old newspaper stand, found out in the desert by the Checkers own Tom Koch with a SCORE pit pass on it, a Checker decal and a current issue of Dusty Times. Except for the bullet holes it looks in pretty good shape. Photo by R.D. Moore. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies"or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, 5x7 or 8x10 will be considered. 1 Dusty Times March 1996 In This Issue ••• FEATURES Page FRT Dunaway Dash . . . . . . ........ .......... ............. 12 Florida Off Road Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Whiplash Point to Point ........ · . .................. ....... 18 Hong Kong Beijing Rally . . . ..... ....... ... ........ ........ 22 SODA Winter Series ....... . .............. ............ . . 26 VORRA Championships .............. ...... ............. 32 California Rally Series Banquet .................. ....... . . . 35 WRC Sanremo Rally .... . ................. . . . . . ......... 36 SNORE Vegas 300 .. .. .. .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. .. . . . .. .. .. . 38 DEPARTMENTS Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trail Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Straight Poop by the Big Wahzoo .................. . ....... 10 Baja Pits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 FAIR News by Dave Massingham ..... .................. ... 24 Vegas to Reno Update .... . . ................... . ......... 43 Good Stuff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 . ON THE COVER-Bill Hernquist is a devoted Class 10 racer, has . a new Jimco this season, broke it in at the Dunaway Dash on December 31 and he, with an assist from Kevin Basore, not only won Class 10, but won the race overall in the Imperial Valley. It was Bill's first ever overall victory, so they really had something to celebrate New Year's Eve. Color Phou,graphy by C&C Race Photos. Sailing over the desert in the good looking Ford Ranger are Kathy and Stacy Fay. Kathy drives and Stacy rides the shorter races but the sisters may change seats midway in a long event. Stacy is an accomplished SuperLite racer and both girls started racing in Baja Bugs their dad Jim built for them. Well Jim Fay still wields the wrenches on the truck, and Kathy won back to back championships in stock mini trucks in La Rana Desert Racing series in 1994 and 1995. She thinks she is the only women to win back to back titles in the desert racing scene, and we think so too. 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1996 Happenings ••• Mike Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 93555 (619) 375-8704 ASOCIACION EST AT AL 3475 C Boulder Highway May 3-5, 1996 de AUTOMOVILISMO Rim of the World Las Vegas, NV 89121 Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector (702) 457-4 775 IFax (702) 641 -2431 Palmdale, CA APTO42 Info' Mike / Paula Gibeault San Jose de! Cabo March 28-30, 1996 (619) 375-8704 Baja Calif. de! Sur, Mexico Vegas to Reno Off Road Race Cars, Trucks Motorcycles, ATVs July 6-7, 1996 AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD Reno Rally CHAMPONSHIP BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD Reno, Nevada Darryl Smith RACING ENTHUSIASTS John Forespring 19 Somers St. Jim Baker (360) 943-2191 Cashmere, Queensland, P.O. Box 1583 August 10-11, 1996 4500, Australia Ogden, Utah 84402 Gorman Ridge 01 l-18-07-3298-5522 (801) 627-B.O.R.E. Frazier Park, CA AUTOCROSS QUEBEC May 4, 1996 Harris Done (310) 458-0199 OFFROAD Wendover Express Class 10 cars only Wendover USA September 7-8, 1996 Serge Lambert July 6, 1996 T reeline Rally 65 Rue de Valcourt Jackpot 200 Lake Hughes, CA Blainville, Quebec, Canada K7B 1 Hl Jackpot, NV Bob/ Adrienne Scott (514) 434-5792 (818) 901-8667 ( tentative closed course) October 5-6, 1996 BAJA INTERNATIONAL August 10-11, 1996 P.O. Box 392 Salt Lake City, UT Prescott Forest Rally Calexico, CA 92232 September 14, 1996 Prescott, AZ Apartado Postal 31 / 163 Bonneville Challenge Jeff Hendricks Mexicali, BC, Mexico Wendover, USA (602) 778-7312 (Mexicali (65) 55-62-83 C.O.D.R.A. Off Road Races BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY CENTRAL OREGON R.R.3 BAJA PROMOTIONS, Brighton, Ontario, Canada K0K-lH0 DESERT RACING Terry Silbaugh LTD.S.A. (613) 475-1102 /Fax (613) 475-3250 20515 Whitehaven Circle Lou Peralta 1996 BRUSH RUN Bend, OR 97702 P.O . Box 8938 (503) 389-2044 Calabasas, CA 91302 POINTS SERIES (818) 340-5750 P.O. Box 101 April 27, 1996 Crandon, WI54520 Bear Butte 300 March 22-24, 1996 (715) 478-2222 Millican, OR Cal City Spring Board 200 California City, CA June 28-30, 1996 June 15, 1996 Spring Brush Run 101 Brother 300 July 19-21, 1996 Crandon, WI Millican, OR Midnight Romp II 150 August JO-September l, 1996 October 12, 1996 California City, CA October 4-6, 1996 Chevrolet World Championship Whisky Springs 400 Crandon, WI Millican, OR Cal City Fall Final 250 California City, CA CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA Debbie Turner, CRS Director RACING ASSOCIATION BEST IN THE DESERT 25885 Stanford RACING ASSOCIATION Hemet, CA 92544 Casey Folks, Director (909) 925-0870 Page 4 FLAMINGO RD. & THE STRIP • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 1-800-634-6755 WEST FLAMINGO & VALLEY VIEW • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 1-800-331-5334 P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Kevin Miller (Baja) March 1996 (605) 224-6923 June 1-2, 1996 Don Engleman (Motocross) (605) 224-4967 Continental Divide Salida, CO GUMBO BUTIES BAJA & MOTOCROSS July 27-28, 1996 Communications & Information Victor/ Cripple Creek Victor, CO Scott Olson ( 605) 224-5822 FAX (605) 224-5822 August 23, 1996 Parade/ B-Que CHAMPLAIN VALLEY Buena Vista, CO RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards August 24-25, 1996 P.O. Box332 Buffalo Peaks Fair Haven, VT 05743 Buena Vista, CO (802) 265-8618 September 14-15, 1996 (Tentative) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO Four Mile Road -Teller County SAN VICENTE CORVA San Vicente Off Road 1601 10th St. Ensenada, BC, Mexico Sacramento, CA 95814 USA Jan Wright (011 52 617-46834) (800) 237-5436 Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (6163717 0034) D&T PROMOTIONS CMC Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave Continental Motosport Club Everett, WA 98201 P.O . Box 3187 (206) 339-9079 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 (714) 367-1141 (All shmt course events at Fax: (714) 367-1608 Thurston County ORV Park) June 15, 1996 COLORADO HILL Short Course CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President July 6, 1996 Short Course P.O. Box 8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 July 7, 1996 (719) 653-8449 Two Hour Enduro March 6, 1996 August 24, 1996 General Membership Meeting Short Course VFW Hall Buena Vista, CO September 15, 1996 Short Course March 10, 1996 DECATUR Safety Meeting 1995 Review/ 1996 Prepare FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 May 4-5, 1996 Tom Allen Apple Blossom Festival (800) 662-36491(214) 641-2090 Technical Inspection Canon City, CO FORDA May 11-12, 1996 Florida Off Roaders Temple Canyon Drivers' Association Canon City, CO 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 May 31, 1996 Melbourne, FL 32935 Parade/ B-Que (407) 254-5167 Salida, CO {S:r SECOND TO NONE Dusty Times

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FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 February-3, 1996 Awards Banquet El Centro, CA February 18, 1996 King of the Desert El Centro, CA April 12-13, 1996 Quechan Indian Run by the River Winterhaven, CA May 5-6, 1996 24 Hours le Fud Plaster City, CA July 19-20, 1996 Conquista 200 Tecate, BC, Mexico October 18-20, 1996 Superstition 250 XII Lake Superstition, CA December 30-31, 1996 Dunaway Dash · Plaster City West, CA GLEN HELEN OHV PARK P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (714) 880-1733 (Contact BBM Marketing Promotions, P.O. Box 582, Lakewood, CA 90714 (3ro) 988-6250 1996 Off Road Series Points Races February 11, 1996 March 24, 1996 April 21, 1996 June 30, 1996 July 28, 1996 August 25, 1996 September 29, 1996 October 29, 1996 SPECIAL EVENT December 6, 7, 8, 1996 Chevrolet Off Road Winter Series GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 ( 404) 963-0252 GREAT PLAINS OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION GPORRA 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 496-0846 Eve. (all races at We.slfair Fair Grounds, Council Bluffs, Iowa on a ¼ mile course similar to the MTEG tracks, and Classes 1, 1-16oo, 7S and Quad under SODA rules) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 ( All events staged at the club grounds in Clews, 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 4WDCLUB 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 start 7 miles NW of Kam loops) LA RANA DESERT RACING P.O . Box 1365 Apple Valley, CA 92307 (619) 240-1335/(619) 240-1312 March 15-17, 1996 California 200 Ridgecrest, CA May 17-19, 1996 Lucerne Valley Jam 300 Johnson Valley, CA July 19-21, 1996 Barstow 250 Barstow, CA September 20-21, 1996 Sidewinder 300 Barstow, CA October 18-20, 1996 High Desert 200 Johnson Valley, CA November 15-17, 1996 Spangler 300 Ridgecrest, CA SUMMER HEAT TROPHY Dl\.SH SERIES April 13-14, 1996 Round #1 Barstow, CA June 22-23, 1996 Round #2 Barstow, CA August 10-11, 1996 Round #3 Barstow, CA MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmore Hwy Charlotte, MI 48813 (517)543-7214 March 3, 1996 15th Annual Dune Bug & VW Trade Show Lansing, MI PIKE'S· SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIEN'DS.1.~ .. THANKS! ~e~ni5/ RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS M>lf SER.VICE ' EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 6 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, MI 48837 (517) 627-6200 June 22-23, 1996 Chevrolet Off Road Nationals Lake Odessa, Ml July 20, 1996 Fowlerville, Ml July 28, 1996 Mason, MI August 1, 1996 Sandusky, MI August 7, 1996 Bad Axe, Ml August 10 Corunna, Ml August 1 7, 1996 Mt. Morris, MI August 31, 1996 Kalamazoo, Ml MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION David Cronin, President. MAORA 2590 Mullanphy Florissant, MO 63031 (618) 765-2199 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barrett 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 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) 331-48001(702) 331-5107 Fax OFF ROAD ADVENTURES Four Wheel Drive Excursions P.O. Box 1154 Arcata, CA 95518 (707) 822-8508 May 10-11, 1996 Redwood Coast Jamboree Fort Bragg to Eureka, CA June 14-15, 1996 Ghost Town Adventure '96 South Lake Tahoe, CA August 16-17, 1996 Gold Rush Adventure Nevada City, CA September 20-21, 1996 Kern River Jamboree Kernville/ Lake Isabella, CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 (All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake Take l-10 Horizon Blvd exit east 12 miles) OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison Count, Fairgrounds, Cadiz, Ohio April 27, 1996 May 11, 1996 June 1, 1996 August 3, 1996 August 24, 1996 September 7, 1996 September 28, 1996 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 ~ March 1996 Trail Notes ••• THE FINAL FLAG -The off road fraternity has lost another long time member of the Checkers Off Road Club. On January 26, 1996 Ray Bennett passed away in his sleep. Ray pitted for the Checkers at every race since 1980 and was usually with "BugJohn" Files at his pits as some of the most out of the way pit locations. He always had his trusty motor home and always made it available to anyone who needed to use the bathroom and would offer food or drink to anyone who was there. Ray's main job at the pit was to sit in his chair and tell stories until a car would stop, then stand in front of the car with a stop sign until the rest of the crew was done working on the car. He had recieved the Checker Pit Person of the Year award four times and has always been one of the most active members of the Checkers. He will be sorely missed by his three children, Stan, Kathy and Russ, his six grandchildren and the entire Checker Off Road Team. Around 100 people, mostly off roaders or family attended the services for Ray. Godspeed Ray from all of us. VORRA NEWS;_ VORRA is about to start their 1996 season with a pair of short course races at Prairie City OHV Park. The big news is that VORRA just announced happily that the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) has awarded VORRA its desert permits for the next five years!! This permit is for all desert races that VORRA promotes in the Yerington and Fallon desert areas in Northern Nevada. The permit does not need to be renewed until the year 2001. Of the four desert races that VORRA is promoting in these areas, one is a new race site to be known as the Top Gun 250, scheduled for June 21 & 22. The Top Gun Dragstrip is ten miles south of Fallon, Nevada on HWY 95. This will be the new location for a start/ finish area, with grandstand seating, asphalt start area and permanent restroom facilities. The course will be approximately 50 to 60 miles in length and we will run in areas that have not been raced on for the last ten years. For a few ofVORRA 's long time racers it will encompass parts of the old Weeks course. Other VORRA news is exciting too. For 1996 VORRA is not raising its entry fees. Pro class will remain at $400 with a 50 percent payback, Sportsman Veteran $200 with a 35 percent payback, Sportsman Novice $150 and trophies only, and Pilot's entries at $100 with a 50 percent payback. With the support of the BLM, the cities and communities of Northern Nevada, VORRA can insure that off road racing will be around for several years to come in these areas. Congratulations Ed Robinson for getting a five year permit for your desert races. What a time saver that will be for sure. HI DESERT CHARITIES is promoting a rwo day off road Poker Run co-sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management. The dates are April 27 and 28, 1996 and all proceeds go to help Barstow charities. You can enter one day or both days and any type of off road vehicle can enter. However all California based off road vehicles must have a state issued "green sticker" ( out of state vehicles exempt). All off road vehicles must have an approved spark arrester (Exempt if equipped witn a muffler). THIS LAW WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED!!! Helmets are required for ATV and motorcycle riders. No riding double on ATVs. The entry fee is $20.00. Each rider/ driver goes twice for a single entry fee. New motorcycles must present registration at Tech Inspection if Green Sticker is not available. FREE hats to the first 250 entries each day. T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts are available for purchase at the start/ finish area which is at, where else, the Slaxh X Cafe, 12 miles south of Barstow on Hwy 24 7. There is plenty of open desert-for camping with Portable Johns and Trash Dumpster. Bring your own water, this is a desert! Remember you can enter each day as many times as you wish. Sign up goes on from 8:00 a.m. until noon each day. There will be a raffle each day with lots of prizes to be given away each day, also starting at 2:00 p.m. just after the best Poker h;mds are awarded their prizes. If you are camping there is a BBQ dinner of chicken and ribs and all the trimmings at 5:00 p.m. Saturday at the Slash X Cafe, rolls and Coffee at 7:00 a.m. Saturday and full breakfast Sunday morning at the Slash X. If you need more information call the Slash X Cafe at(619) 252-1197 or Mal & Connie Wessel at (619) 252-3093. PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY -"We're rolling now," Competition Director Bubby Jones says with a smile. We've got out inaugural event scheduled for March 30 with the sprint cars of the Sprint Car Racing Association, and this facility is going to be ready to race." He was talking about the all new Perris Auto Speedway located at the fairgrounds in Perris, CA. This is the country's newest and most family oriented ½ mile dirt track racing facility. It is taking shape on Hwy 215 five miles south of Riverside, CA "We've located in the southern part of the Inland Empire almost exactly half-way between Los Angeles and San Diego" , said Johns." An hour and a half drive from either of those metro areas and about 45 minutes from most of Orange County. We've designed the facility and racing program to be something the whole family can enjoy together. We'll have close-in parking clean attended rest rooms, "good food" concessions, great seats, terrific lighting, super racing and we'll be aiming to get everyone on their way home by 10 to 10:30 at the latest on race nights." In addition to 20 nights of classic S.C.R.A. sprint car action, Perris Auto Speedway will also be featuring racing shows for Dwarf Cars and Mini-Sprints, USAC West Midgets, Arizona Winged Sprints, AMA Motorcycles, !MCA Stock cars, Off Road races and more. It does sound interesting, especi;\lly the part about off road racing. STARTING ORDER-The following letter was addressed to Danny Cau, President of SCORE with a copy sent to us. It is of interest to desert racers in particular. "This letter is written out of concern for SCORE 's decision to place the Protruck class in front of the Class 10 buggies. The structure that was in place up.to the 1995 Baja 1000 was put in placeoutofnotonly safety, but in an attempt to achieve a more pure form of competition. The theory, if I am not mistaken, was that the faster classes started in front of the slower classes in order to let drivers battle it out with classmates. It is also my understanding that any new classes must first "prove" their right to start at the beginning of the field. This is not something that can necessarily be judged by a politically powerful few, sitting in a race shop looking at a specification sheet. Starting order has never been based on potential, it has been based on results!! " I did not start the race for my team in either the Baja 1000 or the Parker 400, so I have not personally had the displeasure of losing the advantage of a good starting position due to political placement, but I can assure you it will happen if things do not change. The request is simple and logical; put the Protruck class where it belongs, until it is proven as a class. Where this falls I do not know; it may be behind the 1-2-1600s .. I can, however, tell you the same thing that every spectator at mile 8.5 at Parker and every Class 10 driver can and would tell you ... they do not belong in front of the Class 10s." -Mark D. W eyhrich, TSCO Motorsports. Dusty Times

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Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-32081(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 SCORE Score International 12997 Las Vegas Blvd. So. Las Vegas, NV 89124 (702) 361-5404 March 8-10, 1996 Tecate San Felipe 250 San Felipe, B.C., MX April 19-21, 1996 Nevada 250 Las Vegas, NV May 31-June 2, 1996 T ecate Baja 500 Ensenada, B.C., MX July 5-7, 1996 . Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA September 6-8 (13-15), 1996 Laughlin Desert Challenge Laughlin, NV November 8-10, 1996 Tecate Baja 1000 Baja Norte, B.C., MX S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Elice Simonis Tucker 22048 Vivienda Ave. Grand Terrace, CA 92324 (714) 783-8293 SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 March 16, 1996 Southern Nevada 200 Las Vegas, NV May 17, 1996 Caliente 200 Caliente, NV August 3, 1996 Midnight Special Las Vegas, NV September 21, 1996 Gold Coast SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV October 26, 1996 Twilight 200 Las Vegas, NV December 7, 1996 Vegas 300 Las Vegas, NV SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD DRIVERS ASSOCIATION Terry Wolfe 7839 W . North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 ( 414) 453-SODA May 25-26, 1996 Memorial Day 100 Lake Beneva, WI June 8-9, 1996 Antigo Kiwanis Off Road Race Antigo, WI June 22-23, 1996 Chevrolet Off Road Nationals Lake Odessa, MI July6-7, 1996 Road America Off Road Race Elkhart Lake, WI July 20-21, 1996 Luxemburg Off Road Race Luxemburg, WI August 3-4, 1996 UP Off Road 100 Bark River, MI August 31-September 1, 1996 World's Championship Crandon, WI September 14-15, 1996 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Oshkosh, WI SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437 ( All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa, TX TORA Truck Racing Association Ray Carney, Director 7 Prutell Drive Apalchin, NY 13732 (607) 625-5676 UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbanowicz, President .589 Amwell Road Neshanic, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 (All aients 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 March 9-10 (alt 16-17), 1996 1996 Season Opener Prairie City SVRA Park AJAX AUTO WRECKING With over 15 years of racing experience, we can help you with that special part. Be it a race truck, prerunner or chase truck, just call AJAX with your needs. We ship anywhere in the USA. Complete cars and trucks available. We also buy your takeoff parts. Ask for John Kearney. . 1-800-606-6043 FAX 619-398-0596 Page 8 Sacramento, CA April 20-21, 1996 Spring Special Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA May 25-2 7, 1996 Yerington Desert Race Yerington, NV July 27-28, 1996 Fallon 250 at Night Fallon, NV August JO-September 2, 1996 Yerington to Fallon and Back Yerington, NV September 28-29, 1996 Fall Special Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 26-27, 1996 VORRA's Championship Race Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA, P.O. Box 3241 Sumas, WA 98295 WESTERN PENSYLV ANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire 1255 Waverly Drive Latrobe, PA 15650 (412)532-0802 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 2939 E. Grovers Phoenix, AZ 85023 (602) 971-3730 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 So. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh,WI54901 ( 414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh,WI54901 ( 414) 426 01(414) 982-7306 r. fflON RACE&. RALLY ORGANIZERS List )'OUT coming e11ents in DUSTY TIMES free! It is the only way some fans know about )'OUT e11ent, if they don't happen to be on )'OUT 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, 2075 1 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. more Trail Notes ••• HA VE YOU BEEN WATCHING the Granada-Dakar Rally Raid on ESPN 2 all during early February. A half hour every evening, great coverage, but only one shot of the Hall Hummers at the beginning. They probably were not fast enough to catch up to the cameras, of necessity covering the rally leaders on bikes and in cars. But it was quite a surprise to see nightly coverage of this little known event that used to be called Paris-Dakar. I understand they. both finished, 67th and 68th apparently finishing up with team tactics to support · each other going into Senegal. Pierre Latigue won the event overall in cars in a Citroen followed by Pierre W ambergue and Fred Gallegher in second place, but these are not ordinary looking Citroens. Jean-Paul Fontenay got his Mitsubishi into third followed by Ari Vatanen and S. Servia in Citroens . .V atanen led overall for several days, but flats broken axles and crashes dropped him down to fourth at the finish. Results are quite sketchy this year, but we should have more, especially on the Hall team effort with the Hummers, nexfmonth, after they are through with the Paris Auto Show. SODA CHAMPIONS -We never did congratulate the 1995 SODA Champions, class by class, and they worked for their titles. The awards banquet was late in January so we don't have our story from that yet. But we can tell you · who the class champs are. Todd Attig is the Class l/2 title holder, but we understand that he has his stable of race cars up for sale. Jason Crowder swept into the 1-1600 title all the way from Florida. Class 2-1600 went to Dan Baudoux, the Michigan Mirage man, and Rob MacCachren won the Class 4 honor. President Terry P. Wolfe is the 5-1600 title holder and Bill Groboski was tops in Class 6 in a Chevy. Art Schmit cleaned up in Class 7S and Walker Evans commuted to the races and won Class 8 . Mike Mischler Jr. was the champion of the new Class BS, while Jeff Probst grabbed top billing in Class 9 110 action. In Class 1 lD honors wenttoGlen Mathews in his Phazerchassis. Brendan Gaughan captured the Class 13 title at the very last race. Phil Doyle claimed the title in SODA Lites and Sarah Sawall-Tate won every Ladies Class 11 race for her title. Ruth Schwartzburg was Women's Unlimited Buggy class champion and Valerie Rehn took the Women's Heavy Metal Class title in a Class 13 Ford. Did you know that in 1995 there were: 330 SODA racers fwrn Wisconsin, 96 from California, 73 from Michigan, and 55 from Ilino Imagin~ that! THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP UP ON WHATS HAPPENING IS TO READ DUSTY TIMES EVERY MONTH. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ????????? Trackside Photo, Inc. Racing photography since 1970 We cover all La Rana, SCORE and MTEG events. For professional quality photos, c~II us! Call us for photos for: Calendars• Press Kits• Photo Business Cards• Autograph she~ts March 1996 P.O. Box 91767 Los Angeles, California 90009 (310) 670-6896 Dusty Times

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'The Straight Poop' From the Big Wahzoo AWARDS BANQUET-On January 13th the Checkers once again gathered at Thumper's Elks Lod_ge to honor our own. The steak dinners were great as usual, and with a smaller turnout than expected there were seconds of anything anyone wanted. Peralta handled the MC duties this year with his usual aplomb. And, of course, a good time was had by all. Appreciation Awards for 1995 were presented to our outgoing Officers as is customary; plus to Vance and Shirley Scott for their standard extra efforts; Ken McKen:ie for his record high points total as a prospective member (34 ); and Jeff Lothringer for his impressive pit participa-tion throughout the year. And, this year, a special Life Time Achievement Award was given to Max Norris for 18 years of exemplary service to the black & white. Certainly nobody has ever been more deserving of this type of recognition than Uncle Max. In our Annual Achievement Awards, the Reverend Roy Moore earned the title of . 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The Krep: Brothers took home this year's 'Rookie of the Year' honors with a fine year long performance in their 1-2-1600 single seater. This Checker tag team ended '95 with a big win in La Rana's season finale and a second place finish in the points chase. Quite an accomplishment in that restricted engine class, considering the extra poundage carried by both of these rather large and impressive Checkers. Hey, didn't you two arm twisters get that award last year too? The Harman Brothers were awarded the Club's 'Driver of the Year' honors. A truly outstanding come back effort indeed, consid-ering that they started the year with a DNF when one of them . couldn't figure out how to get the jack out of their new car. But, hey, the Brothers came back strong with some impressive runs during the year and a big Class 10 win to close out the year. BJ Bates and Bolin probably deserve an honorable mention here, as both of them have been heard to express: "Hey, this thing was rigged". Sorry, but all decisions are final. Congratulations guys. BigJohn Hastings pulled off the classic Checker double this year. First, an overweight pony tailed President Hastings was named 'Checker of the Year' for his service in 1994. And now, in '95, a thin, short haired version of Big John Hastings was honored once again as 'Checker of the Year'. But, before John had much time to appreciate that achievement, he found himself also holding a special oak toilet seat with his picture under the lid as Lou's annual 'Butthead of the Year' recipient. Big John Hastings, The Ace Hardware King of Sun-land/ Tujunga, is close to becom-ing a Checker legend in his own time. Congratulations Dude! In the surprise of the evening, the perpetual and prestigious 'Vic Van Ella Award', presented annually by the Checkers to an individual deemed to have made a significant contribution to the Sport of Off Road Racing, was given to me! As everyone in ♦ HIGH-TECHNOLOGY POLYMER FORMULA ♦ SEALS YOUR TRUCK BED ♦ SKID-RESISTANTPERMANENTSURFACE ♦ SAME-DAY SERVICE ... DRIES IN SECONDS AND CURES DIAMOND-TOUGH INJUST24 HOURS! For Samples, Brochure & Dealer Information Call: DIAMOND LINERS INC. 5430 Tweedy Blvd., Dept OT South Gate, CA 90280 (213) 567-1032 INCA 800-543-1032 Page.10 March 1996 attendance looked around to see who would stand up, a short dude in white-face and dressed head to toe in checkers emerged from the kitcheh and went up to the podium. Then, after a short pause for pictures, he carted that monster trophy off and left the building. Thanks guys, that's enough to make a W ahzoo all warm and wiggley. I'm honored. NEW OFFICERS-After a raucous annual election meeting, the following Checkers were elected to run the Club in 1996: President Big John Hastings; Vice President Morgan Malocco; Secretary Joe 'legs' Giffin; Treasurer Uncle Max Norris; and Sergeant at Arms Tom 'shake 'em uJJ' Koch. A worthy group indeed. PARKER 400-In a shadow of it's former self, but with typically great weather, seven Checker cars joined the other 150 some entries starting SCORE's traditional season beginning Arizona event. -Larry Bolin kept the pits alert with a typical 'take no JJrisoners' solo run. Mr. Excitement dusted every other Class 10 car but one in his antique Raceco. He surely would have caught that other dude if he hadn't lost fourth gear and got stuck for awhile on his last lap. Larry Bolin second in Class 10. Maiocco finally got into the money with his new Class 5 car. Finishing strong, Morgan got by Tellier who was riding in a non-Checkers' Bug, for a fine second place in Class 5 . Definitely a great way for our new VP to start the year. Good run guys! Steve Luport and Mikey 'The Bomber' Duenas pressed on despite breaking a drive shaft for a respectable fourth place finish in Steve's 7S truck. In the process Mikey found a new way to get those pesky Class 10 buggies off your ass, simply drop a couple of big rear tires on their hood! With his double spare tire rack now broken off, Duenas pulled into a Checker pit for some more ammunition. The crew promptly ratchet strapped on another 50 pounder, but soon after he got back on the course this tire exited prematurely and didn't hit anything important. Seeley finally got his new Class 5 car out for it's maiden voyage and was lookin' good between stops. Standard new car problems kept him back in fifth place, but look for George to climb out of his third place rut with this fine new piece of equipment. Kevin Davis tore a shock off his new non-Checker Class 10 ride during his first pass over the goat trail. This was the start of a long day for the team, ending up with a 12th place finish that took over 12 hours. The club had two of our seven cars DNF, both in spectacular fashion. First off, Robert Harman rolled their ten car on the first lap, tearing off some shocks and leaving it on the edge of a big drop off. After it was rescued, Mike took his turn at some spectacular Class 10 aerobatics before the Harman Gang finally trailered it. Stuart Chase and Billy Robertson completed the first two laps at speed in Stuart's unlimited buggy, then 'Boner Billy' got out so Stuart could go the last lap alone. Smart move Boner! Shortly after that, Stuart missed a high speed turn out by Bouse, hitting a tree stump and flipping it. Our hero landed minus a functioning right front corner and wisely parked it. SIDE NOTE: A team of three SCORE . Officials reportedly made-an unexpected mid-race visit to Checker Main at this race. Then after observing the NASCAR-like pit action for awhile, they finally left sayin' they'd be back later for the party. I guess we passed! HALF-STAFF-Checker flags are sadly flying lower in Checker-ville with the recent death of Ray Bennet. During his 14 years as a Checker, Ray was one of those members who rarely ever had to pay his Club dues, since he regularly earned well over 20 points a year pitting for his Checker buds. Be it in the deserts of Baja, California, Nevada, or Arizona, you could usually find Ray in a John Files' pit with a grin on his face and somethin' goofy to say. A 67 year old retired carpenter, he had not had it easy of late as his son had died only a few days earlier. Obviously, life's not always fair. Ray will be remembered as a kind and gentle individual and a truly nice guy, kind of an oddity in our volatile group. Our Checker Brotherhood has lost another one of it's few good men ... and Ray Bennet will be sorely missed! LA RANA-A very strange thing happened at the Wednesday night Checker meeting before La Rana's first '96 race. On the Club's official sign up sheet, all ' the pits were filled with Pit Captains and pitters, but nary a driver. Back in 1990 both Eddie and his wife appeared before the membership to ask for the Checkers support in their new off road racing series. "Low budget"; "Family oriented"; "No big high dollar rear end smashin' trucks" they promised. A large number of the Club's racers agreed and the Checkers have steadfastly sup-ported La Rana's promotions ever since. Up until now, that is. Most of our drivers apparently think that Eddie's gone back on his word, and now feel he can stick it in his ear! An amazing show of unorganized unity. CHECKERS ON THE NET-George Thompson, The IDRA, and those Rastafarians with the surfboard on the roof of their Baja Bug are now in the process of setting up an Off Road Racing Page on the World Wide Web. When up and running, any member, anywhere in the world, can log on to this new page, click the Checkers icon, and follow along as the Big W ahzoo chron-icles the exciting adventures of the Checkers, the winningest team in the history of desert racin'. And, for all those back slappers and ass chewers who would like to contact the Big Wahzoo, a Wahzoo mail box will be included so both my fellow Checkers and angry eavesdroppers can E-mail me directly. Hey guys, I'm gonna drag your reluctant asses into the 21st Century whether you like it or not! AND FINALLY, a word to my detractors. The Big Wahzoo - serves solely at the discretion of the Checkers, but speaks as only one. I know this may sound like a recipe for a potentially uncon-trollable situation, but it's not. This Wahzoo promised early on that if, at any regular \X1 ednesday night Checker meeting, a majority of the members in attendance vote to shut me up ... I'm gone! Now if that ain't adult supervision, I don't know what is. Dusty Times

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FRT DUNAWAY DASH Hernquist and Basore Take the Overall By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photos Bill Hernquist and Kevin Basore combined in Bill's new A-arm Jimco and flew around the course to win the Dunnaway Dash overall, great way to start the New Year, winning in a new car. After a very tight three way battle, Bill Hernquist and Kevin Basore emerged the winners in the FRT season finale on New Year's Eve. Their Class 10 A-armed Jimco with VW power, enjoyed a nearly flawless run in the perfect winter desert weather. This event was a double-header, as are most FRT races, with the motorcycles and ATVs getting the green flag just after dawn, and then the cars and trucks following with their own event at noon. The course was a rough figure eight, and rough is the operative word. There were lots of sudden drop offs, cross grain, and general misery, only very occasionally interrupted by a smooth stretch of road. About the time a driver got comfortable he'd be directed off into the nasties again. There was a lot of dust, and the wind didn't really cooperate to clear it off the track. The track was about 30 miles long, just west of Plaster City, and included terrain both north and south of the Evan Hewes Highway ( old Highway 8). Five laps were required. Steve Scaronr and his Ford Explorer did a num er on the Unlimited Class once again, and he won the class by a huge 38 minute margin in the seven car class. The Class 10 drivers took the gn:'en flag first, and after a hard fought lap, it was Kevin Basore in front in the VW powered Jimco, hut Andrew Wehe had his new Toyota powered mid-engined A-armed Jimco just .nine seconds hehind him. Both cars are single seaters. In third it was Dennis Dan ids, out for the first time in an A-armed Toyota powered Bund-erson. He's switched from Class 9 and this was virtually his first chance to drive the bip,ger and faster car. His co-driver, Ray Miller said before the race, "\Xi'e're a little scared." Chris Harrold ran fourth in his VW powered Jimco, the first VW suspension car to come around. Harrold would be driving all the wa y, hecause his regular partner, Boh Snaith, has probably retired from driving due to repeated back injuries. Things continued to be very close, and at the end of the second lap Basore's lead had shrunk to just one second, and it was still Wl'he in second place. In third now it was Harrold, as. Daniels disappeared. Gary Hamlin moved into fourth in his VW Raceco. Basore, who'd lost his rear hrakes on the first lap, stopped at the end of the second lap to let SCORE 1995 ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR! 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Hernquist climb into the brightly flamed (red over yellow) car. Wehe moved into the lead, doing all the driving himself, and was three minutes up on Harrold who was now second, even after losing his fan belts. Hernquist had noticed a blinking oil light just a ftL'r getting in the car, and had stopped for a quick check. Hamlin was still fourth, and running hard, trying to catch up, was Ken Stroud, who'd lost a plug wire three times on the first lap, in his VW Raceco. Wt·he, who was having no prohlems with the new car, and planned no gas stop, since he carrit·d about 30 gallons of fuel, had huilt his lead to about seven minutes by the end of the fourth lap, and Hernquist was back in second after changing a flat tire. Harrold, his suspension severely tested by trying to maintain the pace, was less than a minute hehind him, and now it was Jim Mamer, Hamlin's co-driver in fourth. \X,'L'he's crew gathered near the fini:-h line to watch him take the c~t'_Ckl'red flag. The time for his arrival came and went, and people started checkin their watches, and listening to the radios. In the m eantime Hernquist really poured it on, trying to make up for lost time. And then out on the back side of the course he spotted Wehe -parked with terminal steering trouble. Hernquist recorded the fast lap for the day, a swift 31 :32, and brought the car in for the win. Wehe never got going again. Harrold came in for second place, with Mamer and Hamlin in third and Stroud and his co-driver, Scott Prill, in fourth. In the second group to start, the unlimited class, it was Chuck Hovey, breaking in his new 2800cc Raceco, in the lead by seven seconds and recording the class fast lap, at 35: 15, with Steve Scaroni, in his Ford Explorer, . running second. T hird belonged to Mike Hart in his Funco, and Ross and Russ Whitmoyer were fourth in their Mazda powered Chaparral. Mark Post put an early end to his first FR T race when he caught up with someone just as they reached the second trestle. There are three lanes under the trestle, but only one of them has been dug out for head clearance. Post, in his bi Riviera Ea le, Bill Gill was second in Unlimited class in the Suspensions Unlimited built racer; sure must be tall·guys to see over those very tall front shocks. Josh Waddell brought his Class 5 out for a fun day, but he was the only one, so he did just four laps and retired to celebrate his victory and New Years. Dusty Times

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Gary Hamlin and Jim Mamer had a fine run in their Raceco at 2:58:40. They were close and some fell out in front of them so they moved into third in Class 10. Kirk McDaniel and Bob Landry took the Mini Mag out to play with the big boys in Unlimited class, and they surprised a few folks by placing third in class. Jeff Franklin and Charlie Bignell had their 1600 Jimco going very well and they finished third, albeit about ten minutes behind the chargers in front. powered by a 5.2 liter Chevy, apparently lost track of that fact .. He decided he would pass the other car by taking the other lane. He didn't fit. The next thing heard on the radio was a plaintive plea for the pit crew to come get him, as he told them he'd just" cleaned the motor off the hack of the car." He hadn't, hut he hadn't done it any good either. The cage was crumpled, and things were jarred around in hack enough so fuel was spilled and a couple of fires tried to get going. He was definitely out of the race. On the second lap Hovey disappeared for unknown reas-cms, and Hart lost his transmis-sion. Scaroni moved into the lead, and now he had about nine minutes on the Whitmoyers who were second. Bill Gill was in third place in his brand new Suspen-sions Unlimited chassis, powered by 1835ccs. Scaroni's lead grew to 15 minutes by the end of the third lap, and it was still the Whit-moyers in second and Gill in third. On the fourth lap the Whitmoyers broke something in their rear suspension, and were out for the day, while Scaroni, who had absolutely no problems, built his lead to 30 mmutes. Gill, who was driving all the way, was second, and in third it was Kirk McDaniel and Bob Landry, over an hour down and slowed by a broken shock on this lap, in their Mini-Mag. None of the others were running. Scaroni's luck held, and he ran a final good lap, to take the class win and third overall, Gill was second, the only other driver to complete all five laps. Josh Waddell was the only Class 5 driver to show for this event, and he ran a troubled three laps and then was out of time to get around again before dark. In Class 8 only one entry showed. It was the 289 c.i. Ford of Reid Myers and Terry Closson. They did four evenly paced laps in their stock looking racer, and then had a longish fifth lap, completing the race still looking neat and clean. The 1-2-1600 cars had a good group for the year·end battle, and it was Tom Watson, in a single seat Jimco, in front at the end of the first lap. He had just seven seconds on Bryan Pate, in the family two seat Raceco. In third it was Vic Bruckmann, in his new single seat ORE. Bruckmann, driving in this class for the first time, had the flu, and wasn't feeling too sharp. His previous car experience had been in a Class 3 Bronco, so he had some learning to do. In fourth it was Jeff Franklin in his Jimco two seater. On the second lap Pate took over the lead, with just eight seconds on Watson. Bruckmann was still third, but his rear Dusty Times suspension was failing and it was hard to handle the car. Franklin was still fourth, after a flat, and in fifth it was Scott Plunkett and Todd.McAllester in their "Obso-lete" chassis. Watson, who got faster every lap, moved to the front at the end of the third lap, but he had only seven seconds on Bruckmann 's co-driver, Tim Lawrence. Pate was third, a minute and 14 New-BILSTEINS ... seconds later, followed by Plunkett and McAllester, and then Ramsey El Wardani in fifth, in the Bayerle brothers' two seat Raceco. For the first two laps Denise Bay~rle had enjoyed her debut as a driver, but she'd been given the car as it came from its Baja 1000 finish, not exactly in prime race shape. Watson continued to improve, and he r,r Winner's Circle A New JI MCO Chassis ... And, a New WINNER ... Andrew Wehe! Young Andrew Wehe from Fallbrook, CA opened the 1996 SCORE desert off-road racing championship season with a dominating Class 10 victory and a fourth place finish Overall at the Parker 400. Driving a Bilstein shock absorber-equipped, A-arm suspension JIMCO single seat buggy, Wehe averaged 53.897mph over the rugged 400 miles to win Class 1 O Now Available ... For All Classes New Bilstein 60mm, remote reservoir, coil-over shocks with special off-road valvings. by 15 minutes. His impressive drive in the limited 1650cc Toyota-powered entry was faster than the unlimited Trophy Truck winner at Parker. "I know that shocks are vitally important to winning in off-road," noted Wehe, a 19-year-old college student. "The Bilsteins allowed my JIMCO to outhaDdle the competition in all terrain throughout the race." Ask For Bilsteins! Now you can specify Bilstein shock absorbers when ordering your JIMCO Chassis. Go with a winning combination! I, Go with Bi/stein -- A Winning Tradition in Off-Road Racing! For all the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 BILSTEIN CORPORATION OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road, San Diego, CA 92121 -- Phone 619/453-7723 March 1996 Page 13

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Denise and Dean Bayerle and Ramsay El wa;dani got the two seat Raceco home in fourth in 1-2-1600, and Denise did the first two laps in her first ever race. Keith and Scott Hewitt also have a good looking Funco SS2; where did these two cars come from? The Hewitts had a good run to third place in Class 100 action. John Brindel/ right after he rolled the tidy 5-1600. He went on to finish the race a mere four minutes out of the win. He has some Reed Meyers and erry Closson had un though they were the one Class 8 on hand, and they covered all five laps and won top honors, the only big truck. Vic Bruckmann and Tim Lawrence in the ORE 1600 had a good race missing the win by three seconds, but they had a good run and lost by just a hie cup. FRT DUNAWAY DASH RESULTS - December 31, 1995 Plaater City Weal, CA • p.,. Driver/Co-Driver Vehicle ClaH Open - Unlimiled Single & Two seat - 7 atart - 2 finish 100 1 Steve Scaronin Ford Explorer 106 2 Bill Gill Suspensions Unlimited aa .. 1-2-1600 -1600 Reatrlcted Engine - 10 a111rt-8 finish 1656 1 Tom Watson Single Seat Jimco 1654 2 Vic Bruckmann/Tim Lawrence Single Seat ORE 1553 3 Jeff Franklin/Charlie Bigoell Two Seat Jimco 1697 4 Denise & Dean Bayerie/Ramsey El Wardani Two Seat Raceco 1650 5 Bryan & Doug Pate Two Seat Raceco ClaN Mini Mag - O alllrt - o flnlah ClaN 5 - Unlimited Baja Bug - 1 atart - 0 finish 501 1 Josh Wadden Baja Bug (4 laps only) Clau 5-1600 -1600cc Baja Bug -10 atart -4 finlah 555 1 Paul and Greg Harrold Baja Bug 553 2 John Brindel! Baja Bug 554 3 Jim Gilt Baja Bug 557 4 Tony Steingraber/Tim Beaty Baja Bug aa .. 7 - Unlimited Mini Pickup - 3 atart - o finish 701 1 Davin Brig man/Donald Lee Toyota ( 4 laps only) 708 2 Lloyd Riggins Chevy (4 laps only) Clau 8 -2WD Standard Pickup - 1 atart - 1 finish 801 1 Reed Myers/Terry Closson Ford Clau 9 - 1600 cc Reatrlcted Buggy - 8 atart - 3 finlah 999 1 Larry Kern JrJJenntter Plankuch Kemco 902 2 Dave Dietrich/Robert Gltlingham Jimco 901 3 Jorge & Mango Vargas/Adrian Lozano J.E.F.E. Clau 10 - Unlimited 1650cc - 8 atart - 4 flnlah 1002 1 Kevin Basore/BIii Hernquist A-Armed Jimco 1005 2 Chris Harrold Jimco 1004 3 Gary Hamlin/Jim Mamer Raceco 1000 4 Ken Stroud/Scott Prill Raceco a ... 100 -100 Inch we Buggies -8 atart. 6 finish 2 1 Robert Gall Sr. & Jr. Chenowth 5 2 Ken & Bob Hargrove Funco 6 3 Kefth & Scott Hewitt Funco SS 2 10 4 Bill & Jarod Hammack Hi Jurrper 9 5 Richard Burnworth Chenowth • Deno1es overall winner Total 61arters -56. total finishers - 28 Course 5 laps of a 30 mile route • Rough and COl11)1ex Weather: clear, sunny, slight brreeze, warm. beautHul Page 14 3:03:43 3:41:40 3:21:17 3:21 :20 3:31 :20 3:32:04 3:36:41 4:25:34 3:56:12 4:00:06 4:24:06 4:33:17 4:46:40 4:52:51 4:48:02 3:56:04 4:35:03 5:24:24 2:48:20·1 2:50:52 2:58:40 3:16:24 3:45:58 4:08:58 4:36:01 4:36:56 4:49:25 body work to do. is Jimco to a very clo , , tis tight racing! Bob Gall Jr. and Sr. drove the Chenowth to first place in Class 100 in a tight race off the start, but in the end the father and son team won by 23 minutes. Ken and Bob Hargrove drive this handsome Funco SS2 in Class 100 and they ended up second in class with Porsche Type 4 power out of 8 starters. p-held his lead, with= hadbeenonlyonesecondslower. Lawrence now 12 seconds behind In third it was Franklin and him. In third it was Franklin's Bignell, finishing 10 minutes co~driver, Charlie Bignell, and back, and then came the Pates, in now El Wardani was in fourth, fifth, and finishing on a flat followed by 16 year old Doug front tire. Pate, driving for the first time. The Class l00carswerenextto Watson and Lawrence were start and at the end of their first working hard, neither with a lap the lead was in the hands of radio, so unsure of where they Bob Gall, Sr. in a Chenowth stood. But Watson managed to pushed by 2340ccs. He had a ekeoutthewin,finishingjustll minute and 22 seconds on seconds in front of Bruckmann Richard Burnworth, driving his and Lawrence, who had recorded first desert race, in an 1835cc the class fast lap, at 38:24 on the Chenowth. In third it was Bill last go-round. Watson, still Hammack in a two liter Hi bettering his lap times each lap, Jumper, followed by Ken Har~ March 1996 grove whose I M.J"tcc t-uncll haa lost two plug wires, at separate times. His clutch adjustment had also gone out. Gall stayed in front through lap two, with Hammack moving up to second as Burnworth lost a brake caliper and it got wedged into his wheel. He had to make lengthy on-course repairs. Hargrove was now third and Burnworth dropped to fourth. By the end of lap three Gall. who had just recorded the fast lap for the class at 42 :42, had a lead of 20 minutes. Hargrove had moved up to second, with Hammack in third and Keith and Scott Hewitt, in an IH34cc FuncoSS2 in fourth. Burnworth had pitted to have his brake line pinched off so he'd have some brakes. Gall put his son, Bob Jr .. in for the last two laps, and he held onto the lead, now 21 minutes in front of the Hargrove car. It was Ken's brother, Bob, driving now. Jarrod Hammack had taken over for Bill and was now running third, while the Hewitts were making up for lost time in fourth. They'd discovered a broken front trailing arm while sitting in the start line. and after taking the flag had hustled over to the Lloyd Riggins pit for some much need1::-d welding, which got them off to a late start. · The Galls kept it all toi:ether, with no trouble whatsoever, and took the win by 23 minutes. The Hargroves were second, followed in by the Hewitts and then the Hammacks. Seems to be a family oriented group in this class. The Class 9 drivers had a rough day of it. At the end of the first lap one of them was missing, and Larry Kern, Jr. was in the lead in his Kernco, with just under a minute on Kevin Graves who was hot on his rear bumper in his Jimco. In third it was the team of Jorge and Mango Vargas and Adrian Lo:ano, in aJ.E.F.E., with Alfonso LaCarra and Lalo Mayoral running fourth in their Jimco. Kern's time of 42:52 was the fast time for,the class. At the end of the second lap Kern was in front all by himself and Graves was out, victim of a broken spindle. Now the Vargas and Lo:ano team ran second, with LaCarra and Mayoral in third, and Dave Dietrich in fourth in his Jimco. Kern continued to push and he had a 20 minute lead by the end of the third lap. Dietrich's co-driver, Bob Gillingham, was now in second place, as the Vargas and Lozano team were temporarily stopped with a broken spindle. They borrowed one from the Kern team and set about making the replacement, dropping to third. 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Tony Steingraber got his 5-1600 going to finish fourth in the class that had four Bugs start. His still looked nice and tidy at this point in the race. Dave Dietrich and Robert Gillingham had some troubles along the way but they kept the Jimco going forward and finished the race second in Challengers. Jorge and Mango Vargas and Adrian Lozano drive a J.E.F.E. in Class 9 racing, overcame a broken spindle to finish the race in third place in class. Mayoral were out. .. They all made it thi:ough the fourth lap, but now it was Kern's co-driver, Jennifer Pfankuch, who'd been riding with him for the first three laps, at the wheel, and still in front. She had 28 minutes on Gillingham, who had broken a balljoint on this lap. He was nearly an hour up on the Vargas and Lo:ano team. Zabrow-ski and McAdams were another half hour back, but they were unable to get through their fifth lap. Pfankuch and Kern, with Kern's dad telling them to slow down, rattled off another clean lap, and took the win, finishing almost 40 minutes in front of Dietrich and Gillingham. The Vargas and Lo:ano ream were third, another 45 minutes back, and they were the last in the class to get all five laps in. Things were tough in the 5-1600 ranks also, though all but one completed the first lap. It was John Brindell in the lead, with nearly two minutes on Rick St. John and David Wilson. Brind-ell's time of 42:41 ·was the fastlap for the class. In third it was Mike Stroh and Tommy Croft about 24 seconds back. Paul Harrold ran fourth, his brother, Greg, having done only the first mile or so to stay legal for points. He was unable to drive this event because his wife had given birth to a new baby girl on Friday morning. Paul had barrel rolled the car, landing on the wheels, but crumpling the roofline. In fifth it was Gustavo Casanova, less than four minutes separating him and first place. At the end of the second lap Casanova was gone and so was the • Stroh and Croft team, who lost their transmission. Brindell still led, and St.John and Wilson held on to second, now a little over three minutes back. Harrold ran third, with Tony Steingraber and Tim Beaty in fourth now and Albert Castro in fifth place. Brindell continued to lead through the third lap, and he had five minutes at the end of the lap on St. John and Wilson. Harrold followed in third, with Steingrab-er and Beaty fourth and Castro fifth. But at the end of lap four Brindell, who was having a good day mechanically, was 14 minutes up, and St. John and Wilson were gone, their motor having given up. That put Harrold into second place, followed by Steingraber 1 and Beaty and then Jim Gill, who was driving a steady pace, intent on getting to the finish line, in fourth. Castro, who'd never raced before, had also fallen out. Brindell stayed in front, and at about a third of the way around his last lap, at a point where the course makes a sharp turn to the west, he came upon a Class 1-2-1600 car. Thinking he wanted to Dusty Times be in front of this fellow, instead want to go in a straight- line. of following in his dust into the Brindell headed for the finish. His setting sun, Brindel! went a little buddies at the finish ·line waiting harder than he should have into for him to get around were the tricky area. His helmet radio conjecturing that the car couldn't had come unplugged, and he had last, that something in that no idea how close second place twisted rear end would let go. was.Hehitoneofthegotchasand Harrold caught him not far pitched his car over, hard. When from the finish, and went past and back on his wheels again he had a on to the finish line for the win, collection of roof dents, and a glad to get out and rest his badly bent right rear trailing arm blistered hands. Brindell took that gave him about eight inches second place, just three minutes of toe out. The car ran, hut didn't and 54 seconds later. In third it, ~, Class 9 had 8 starters, but no close competition at the finish. Larry Kern Jr. and Jenny Pfankuch in their Kernco won the class by 39 minutes, handily. March 1996 was Gill, followed in hy Stein-graber and )3eaty, who'd had all their trouhle on the fifth lap, with · a rear flat and a throttle cahk that broke twice. Class 7 attracted three entril's, but one of them, Scott Young and Mike Smith, never got their Ford to do a lap. Lloyd Rig1:ins had his Chevy in front from the start, staying ahead of Davin Rrii:man and Donald Lee in their Tovota. For two laps Riggins held a ~ioocl lead, hut on lap three ht· had some prohlems, and his lead dropped to 13 minutes. On lap four he had This is the :,ystem run by most off road race winners problems again, and Hrigman and Lee moved on ahead to take the win, completing only four laps. Riggins got his fourth lap Jone also, hut was six minutes hehind, for second place. The season ended on a high note, with exciting racing and perfect weather. The racers and their pit crews and fans settled in to celehrate the New Year under a hright moon in the clear ski•. The first race for the FRT 1996 season will he the King of The Desert on Fehruary 10th, at Lnke Superstition. TRI-MIL BOBCAT QIROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 15

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Off Road Racing Florida Style Text & Photos: Wayne Simmons Ed Russell won the hard fought Challenger honors as they had a different leader nearly every lap. Ed won the first and second heats and the feature race, fighting hard for every inch of race track. Yes it was that time of year when you can clean out your garage and back room of all the spare parts, shine up the car and join the fun at the second annual F.O.R.D.A. Top Forty Car Show, Swap Meet and Off Road Race at East Bay Raceway in Tampa, Florida. The yearly event is put on by the Florida Off Road Drivers Association; a non-profit organization along with sponsors like Fisher Buggies, Bob Olsen Engine Exch., 'fotal Performance, Big Boys Toys, A&J Automotive, Residential Roofing, Pop-N-Sons Restaurant, Kendall Oif, and many more in support of promoting the sport of off road racing. The action was as hot as the Florida weather. With tempe~a-tures expected to reach into the SECOND HEAT: Jefferys was high ninetys, the smell of sun tan out for the day with a broken lotion filled the air as fans truck.OnceagainitwasTerryand prepared for the first set of races. Rooster in a side by side battle off TUFF TRUCK CLASS: This the line.Terry got the inside of the class is open to any truck or Jeep first turn taking the lead as they to run wheel to wheel for fun, in rounded the track. Rooster never three short heat style races. Only let up on the pressure but was not four drivers had signed up by race able to get around, and had to time, and the flag man put them settle for second place with the all side by side on the starting line. win-going to Terry this round. It was Terry getting the hole shot FEATURE: Pinder was not set as the driver who calls -himself up for the track and could only the Red Rooster ·followed close watch the battle for the win as he behind. Terry and Rooster were drove his truck around the track. bumper to bumper for the lead as This time neither Terry or the Chuck Pinder and Sid Jefferys Rooster could pull away from the brought up the rear. In a few short other as both went the whole race laps it looked like a sure win for side by side and dashed for the Terry until he missed a turn, and finish line at the same time. The Rooster took the checkered flag. . flag told the story as Rooster • --crossed the line and rubbed paint with Terry to take the win and overall for the day, as Terry rolled across a very close second. FIRST HEAT STREET RAIL: This is also a class for fun, as it is open to any street or play buggy not designed as a race car. In the dash for the first turn it was Jeff · Nassey in the lead with Larry Mat Lupher (#969) and 943 Ed Shaw foreground diced every heat and during the feature, but attrition took its toll on Shaw; Lupher led the feature for a time but a bad fuel pump put him down and out. Feiegel and Jay Outram in close persuit. J.R. Baitman and Ron Streiff had fallen to the rear as the first lap was completed. Nassey had increased his lead as Feiegel and Outram now had to contend with Tony Howarth for position. Outram broke a c.v. joint putting him out of the running. With , lapped cars corning up Nassey lost Page 16 · "Your One Stop Trailer Shop" R &. s~l\'J\C~ El\ l\~l)f).l "{l\f).\~ •FINANCING AVAILABLE •COMMERCIAL• RECREATIONAL •UTILITY• CAR •LANDSCAPE• CUSTOM CAR HAULERS • CONCESSION UNITS• ENCLOSED & FLATBED TRAILERS • TRANSPORT & MOTORCOACH CONVERSIONS• PARTS • REDESIGN EXISTING UNITS • LIVING QUARTERS UNITS Quality Metal & Aluminum Construction Large Stock Of Trailers, Parts & Accessories March 1996 Bob Halleen was a big factor in the Challenger mix of buggies and here he makes a midair pass to gain position. After three races he was third in class. a lot of ground as Feiegel closed in. It was close but Nassey held on to take a flag to flag win with Feiegel second and Howarth third. ' SECOND HEAT: Once again Nassey grabbed the hole shot and the lead as the action got under way. Outram was still out for repairs, leaving it up to Feiegel and Howarth to reel in Nassey. That was not an easy matter as Nassey increased his lead with each lap, leaving the other two to battle among themselves. In the end Howarth was not fast enough to overta~e Feiegel and settled for third, Feiegel took secm;i.d and Nassey another win. FEATURE: Outram had made it back for this race but it was no use as Nassey again took the early lead and never lookedl,ack. The big battle was for second position as Outram, Feiegel, and Howarth tried to out maneuver each other. Outram rolled coming off a jump with only a few laps to go. Although Howarth pushed hard he was not able to get around Feiegel as the final lap started. For the third time in a row it was Nassey taking first, Feiegel second and Howarth third. LIMITED BAJA: It was an unusually light turnout for this class, with only two cars. In casses like this they are combined with a different class, but still scored as their own class. It was Shelby McLend011 and David Morton in · a wheel to wheel battle into the first turn. Norton began to pull away, but was unable to maintain the lead as Mclendon cut inside a turn, advancing him to the front. In the excitement Morton rolled and was unable to restart his car. It looked like an easy win as Mclendon rounded the track for the last lap. Crossing the last set of jumps a tie rod broke leaving him unable to finish with just a halflap to go. HEAT TWO: Morton was back out after tighel).ing a battery cable that had came loose in the first race. Unfortunately Melen-.... , ;:;~ .... don was still repairing his front end and missed this heat, giving Morton a by run. FEATURE: Both drivers were back and on each others bumper as the race got under way. Morton had established himself as the leader in the first lap. Mclendon was right behind him and was just not able to out maneuver him, having to settle for second at the finish, with Morton taking the win. CHALLENGER: Ten drivers dashed into the madness and mayhem of the first turn with Richard Partridge emerging the leader, as Bob Halleen and Matt Lupfer followed hot on his tail. There was a four way battle for fourth position as the pack began to spread out. John Soock had run off the track and was stuck in deep mud to end his time on the track. Then in what could only be called spectacular, Tony Glenn did an end over end flip off a jump, which brought out the ambulance and red flag. Glenn was shaken up somewhat but walked away as the fans cheered. With the restart of the race Partridge again took the lead but was soon overtaken by Halleen. Ed Russell had moved up into striking range as Partridge lost another position to Lupfer. The flagman had given the half way sign when the front wheel came off of the Partridge car sending him to the wayside. Ed Shaw was now out of the race after breaking a cable while battling with Lance Smith. Ray Atkins had slowly been picking off the other drivers · and was now in fourth position. As the laps began to run out Russell made his move, taking the lead from Halleen. Halleen had started to have trouble and was slowing down at a jump, Lupfer nearly landed on top of him trying to pass. With just two laps left Atkins rassed Halleen to take third at the flag, Lupfer was not close enough to challenge for the lead but came in second and Russell took the checkered flag Mike Notary went fro 'third to second to a flag to ;lag victory in the 1600 competition flying over tfle East Bay Raceway's off roaq course in style he honed in SODA racing last summer. Du1tvnma

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Richard Partridge led the Challenger herd of ten buggies from time to time, but when the heats and feature were over he was fourth in class that day. This is the end of a spectacular rollover by Tony Glenn in Challenger racing. Happily, nobody hit him and he climbed out and walked away, dazed but unhurt. Mike Hester came to grief by rolling over in the 1600 feature race, but he got running again for third in the race and second on points for the day. Mark Bicker sails off a jump in his car with strange spoilers on it. Guess they work. He ran with the leaders all day and finished third for the day. David Morton flies on a jump past the grandstands, almost deserted this day, and he flew forward to win the two car contest among Limited Baja Bugs. Shelby Mclendon finished second in the Limited Baja Bugs, and it was a very good dice with just two cars as Shelby gets some good air on this jump to second place. for the win. SECOND HEAT: Russell led the dash into the first turn, easily putting himself in th'e lead. Halleen and Lupfer battled for second, until Soock moved in. As the three entered a turn Soock hit Lupfer in the right side causing a flat, Lupfer could do nothing but limp around the track just making laps. Soock broke the next lap · putting him out of the race. Russell was out for a Sunday drive as ·he increased his lead each lap. Partridge and Atkins had moved up and were challenging Halleen. As the three came up on lapped traffic Bob Halleen hit and tangled · with the car his daughter, Aimee Halleen was driving. This was A. Halleen's first time to drive an off road car, nice way to break her in, dad. The incident had slowed B. Halleen down as Partridge and Atkins quickly took advantage to move up in position. They were too far back to be a threat to Russell, he easily took first, Partridge second, and Atkins third. FEATURE: Lupfer jumped into the lead as several cars tangled in the turn. Shaw was first to fall to the wayside with carburetor trouble. Atkins and Partridge had been pushing hard to catch Lupfer, but were quickly passed by as Russell moved up into second. Russell took over the lead as Lupfer began to loose power and drop back with a bad fuel pump, which put him out the next lap. Smith lost.a rear wheel to end his day) just as Partridge lost his front wheel. Partridge rolled fought for position. Hester was. which caused enough of a hazard not able to go into a turn as fast as to bring out the red flag again. The Bicker, giving him a clear shot at restart gave Russell the lead again Notary. Positions changed fast as with Halleen and Atkins not far Bicker closed on and passed behind. Time ran out before Notary as both drivers closed on anyone could challenge the leader Neri. Neri could not keep up the as Russell took his third win of fierce pace as Bicker cut to the the day, Halleen second and inside of a turn for the lead. As the Atkins third. · drivers approached a set of jumps 1600s FIRST HEAT: Mike Neri'scargotalittleloose.Notary Hester got the hole shot and left took the opportunity and passed the others in the dust. Mark him by to close on the leader. Bicker and Mike Notary battled Hester was now on Neri's bumper for second positio11 as Marty Neri as the two went into a turn side by was not far behind as Mark side. Neri clipped a tire, gi.ving Gorden brought up the rear. This ground to Hester. The top three was Gorden's first time to drive a were bumper to bumper in the car of this caliber, as he usually last lap. It was an all out dash for drives a Limited Baja. Bicker was not able to shake Notary as they tried to close the gap on Hester. Neri almost rolled his car, coming off a jump sideways, he quickly got it back under control and was on his way. Gorden was still working the bugs out of the car as the leader passed him by. He was put even farther back as Bicker and Notary passed him in the last lap. Hester easily took the win, with Bicker second and Notary third. SECOND HEAT: It was a race from the drop of the flag as Neri dashed into the lead. Bicker and Notary were close on the leader's. bumper as they came out of turn one. Hester pulled up to join the battle as Gorden nearly rolled putting his car up on two wheels. Notary fell back for a few seconds-but came right back a11d passed Bicker. Now Bicker and Hester, • ' I THE the finish, when Bicker's car passed Hester, to give chase for bogged in a tight turn, which let •the lead. Gorden who was still Hester maneuver around and into learning the ropes, rolled right in the lead. It was too late to make .front of Bicker who was lapping lost ground, Bicker had to settle him at the time. Bicker was too for third, Notary a close second close to dodge Gorden, hitting and Hester a hard fought first. him on the rear cage. The impact FEATURE: This time Notary sent Gorden's car back onto its controled the lead with Neri and wheels. All was o.k. as Bicker Hester in pursuit. Neri quickly continued on his way. Hester had fell off the pace as Hester and closed the gap but was not able to Bicker passed him by. In an effort overtake Bicker as time ran out. to gain on the leader Hester went Notary took a flag to flag win with into a turn too fast, rolling his car. Bicker second and Hester a close The race was flagged for a restart third, to end another day of not because of Hester rolling, but racing. another car had also rolled and Hope to see you at the next was blocking the track. Notary round of racing at East Bay pulled to the lead again as Bicker Raceway. One of the street rails twists around a sloppy corner and the rear tires look more suitable to running on the dunes than racing on wet sand, but they had a good time track racing anyhow. WRIGHT tM20 Fllnn Spr ..... LIi. PLACE El Cajon, CA ~1 IN~. 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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS "POINT TO POINT" ON DECEMBER I . hydraulic lifters on a fabricated stick: The lobes and journals are indexed over the serrated hollow shaft and a ball is then passed Marlin Mauls Mexico Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico , through to swage out the tubing into each component's serrations. "It doesn't sound very strong to me," under stated Don.) by Tony Tellier Mike Struttmann reported hitting two cars: "Some car with a a parallel sand two-tracker. From radiator in the back and someone the well field to the highway else in the dust." The suspension crossing it is a pin-able deal after a worked great: "We could keep it few more (and more and more) pinned at a hundred through the dunes. The closer you get to the whoops." Early in the week they Sea of Cortez the sandier it is. had begged Lee-Bob Finke for Figures. replacement shocks and Lee To add insult to injury, convinced them to go softer on Whiplash suddenly routed the their rear spring. That was the course north just at the point correct choice. Don reported that where racers could tantalizingly Doc Cook -the previous car's see the finish line area. Following owner-was at the finish and was the ferrocarril? for some miles "ecstatic" about the car's long tiring teams then crossed over the overdue win. life of the clutch pack sleeves or what ever dumps fluid out everywhere. So picture this. Shawn gets out and lays on the hood so he can see backwards while Shannon works the gas. They go three miles, getting close to the finish, when James and Struttmann come by. Shawn, in trying to avoid being a moving roadblock, cranks the wheel and goes off the track. Stuck. With no other gears they , could not rock their way out. DNF. Gloom. Ross Whitmoyer had the race inherited in the RX7 two seater. Until the exhaust dirtied up and shut the big car down. They had to bring in a chimney sweep to clean the SuperTrapp plates. (RX7 Padrone Mike Perez plans on debuting his mid-motored car at Fud's "Dunaway Dash" on New Year's Eve. And where IS Morely Williams' rotary exercise with the T-10 four speed out of a tracks by the fish camps and were Steve V esterdal cased the big sent back to an add-on detour of Jimco in a ditch by the "Y", bent fresh soft sands around a rhyolite the motor mount and the throttle mine and the checkered flag. cable began to stick and run at It was a race to~ James Martin, the West Texas Tornado_ as he swept to first The winning "1024" team was 5000. "The same thing as in. overall ~nd first m Class_ 10: the Son_oyta to.R<:cky Pomt, Is the premier race m pumped and primed ... as much as April? We had a couple of '61 GTO?) Tony Pedotto may have been the Wh1plashdesertsenes, happenmgearlymDecember. = a taciturn West Texan can be. minutes on Shannon Schulz." Texas Class 10 racer James reached the Curio Shop. Those_ Martin said "I don't do oil wells! They hit this rock (reported by Martin took his second overall in least able to contend with it were I'm a machinist ... with levers and Shannon to be as big as a steering a row at the Whiplash Motor-put in harm's way from the get-go. wheels and knobs. No CNC; no· wheel), bent a tie-rod and the toe-sports Sonoyta To Rocky Point Poor logic ... at best. Dangerous... computer run setups." A crank out was extreme. Big Al contin-desert race by defeating a dozen at worst. In addition the mileage turner, A Mid land-Odessa ued: "Along the railroad grade we Class 10s and ten Unlimited cars. markers were for the motorcycles craftsman. "I had to tap Stan got into the Sportsmen's dust-we The Vesterdals - Steve and Al -and Sportsmen so that the (Steele) but can't think of could only see timber for five had the lead, faltered, handing it numbers were shy by thirty miles. anything else that happened," seconds then droppe.d a wheel off in the following order to Shannon Fuel consumption calculations James shrugged. "In the dust I had the side. It was way down but got Schulz (Porsche/Chenowth) and were suspect for many. to look for gaps in the cactus and 'er out." · Ross Whitmoyer (Mazda/Fodd--Once heading south the racers hope there wasn't anything there. After getting the car out the rill) with Randy Maddux found the course to be increas-That was it." temperature then went way up. (VW /Dir Trix), Martin (VW / - ingly sandy and potentially fast Class 1 winner and second "The fan went off -the hot lead Chenowth), Stan Steele (VW / _ depending of course upon how overall Tom Struttmann ran a was toasted. The radio was gone. Raceco), Rueben Wood (Toy/ - well the car could traverse the junk yard Baretta engine. Dad OurbrandnewHi-Torquestarter Meco-Fod) and Tom Struttmann unending, whooped out Gopher Don said that they blew a rod in went out before the Big Tree. We (Buick/Jimco) waiting in line for Hole Alley. The later portions of the hotrod V6 motor and went to got some water from Tom Rex the lead. Equipment failures and· the route was over seemingly the wrecking yard. "Then I played then napped for 2½ hours until Steele's lack of pre-reading the interminable semi stabilized sand with the fuel injection and burned Julio Perez magically appeared course map sent Martin and the dunessplitbytheBigTreeremote a piston while testing. The with the original starter we had Struttmenn to the finish line, gas pit. (Note: The "Big Tree" is replacement that they sent me had replaced." Other than that it was one-two. not really "big". It is just the the (piston) pin forty thous-an uneventful run to a distant The 150 mile race began at the ONLY tree ... ? andths off. We used it anyway, fourth place trophy, but no Mexican border town's rodeo Found further down course, now we have five cylinders at dinero. The 227Kg Brothers (i.e., grounds and circled gnarly the Well Road is reminiscent of 9.8:1 and the number one hole at Quarter-Ton) snorted about Granite Mountain paralleling the the El Arco access: A vastly 9:1. (Tech Section. The engine Struttmanns (alleged) junk yard Caborca highway before passing deteriorated asphalt section with runs a stock roller cam on , engine: "Yeah? A Busch Grand again through the start area. For National junk yard? A very some inexplicable reason, Whip-exclusive junk yard!" lash had the Sportsmen do only a Shannon inherited the lead and portion of the mountain loop also had to contend with the before heading south for Rocky Sportsmen "Steve got around five Point. The result was that all of them before the fast silty roads Sportsmen were suddenly ahead out of Check 3 and put time on of the Pro field. The first big car us. I caught one of them before off the line, Vesterdal's V6 Jimco, the Curio Shop. I followed one was all over the slowest Sports-guy past the gold mine for ten menlikeuglyonanapeinacheap miles and he wouldn't move suit in the rain before they over." Then in Gopher Hole Page 18 Alley at "six grand in high gear (finally) I drilled this guy. Hey, when you get up on top of the rollers you don't want to lose momentum. Jay told at the Driver's Meeting to watch out for the Sportsmen but he must have forgot to tell them to .watch out for us!" His brake over-temp woes are apparently a thing of the past with the addition of a NASCAR style DPI brake recirculating valve and some Motul™ IndyCar fluid. "It's good to six hundred F. This relief check valve thing uses two lines per caliper and I didn't have a turning brake so I had to do a couple reverse back-ups." ·With ten miles out and a good lead, Shannon lifted off the gas to back the car into a sweeper and "there was nobody home when I got back on it. I tried second. Nothing. I tried first. Nothing. Reverse was OK." With the.same Steve Long was on his way to victory at the second road crossing; he drove cliff all year and three races on the his 1600 to victory past this grouping of road signs for the race. Audi auto he wonders about the March 1996 suspension challenged and on the lower end of the Hi-Tech scale but he kept the throttle down on his Dan Lawson/Competition Eng-ineering Type I and his wits about him to take third place. The bucks-down service station builder was pleased no end with an_other 11:ood oav dav although lugubrious crew chief Ryan May wanted the funds to be directed toward Mexican cavorting than such mundane things like new rear shocks. "I was pogo-ing on the' Alley'," Tony complained. "l was on the ragged edge of having the rear end come around on me." Better call Lee-Bob. Second place Ron and Brian Brown had two flats, both at once, on his brand new 16 inch front tires. Paul Nolte lost his Power-glide in the mid-engined two seater and Gary Anderson was on the trailer with a bad clutch. Bob Weber and John "Klattu" Gort broke a spindle on the Budweiser two seater comin' 'round the mountain and had to tricycle out to brother Scott and Chip' n' Dale ("Tim" actually). Bobby Weber was extremely unhappy about this spindle failure: "Am I going to have to go to Danny's?" The ever popular Dan Spencer and the garrulous John Emerson had two flats on their Holly-carbed V6. Emerson push started the car by himself. "The fuel pump gave us trouble. Then the starter. Ed Beeler's CJ gave us a great push ... a valiant effort. He pushed us for 150 feet. We drove to the Well Road in the dark." Loquacious John rambled on: "That #@!@#@ $5000 EFI was replaced by a $159 .96 Holley and an aluminum manifold that Dan fobbed in four hours. This was the last time we ran longer than sixteen minutes in a year and a half1" The Class 10s folded like a cheap tent in the rain under the Martin attack and their over enthusiastic driving. Top Tipper Steve Melton locked up his transmission on the jetting loop and was the first on the trailer. Ever the diplomat, the Buckeye Bomber refused to divulge the name of the tranny builder until the true cause was ascertained. Poor Doc Dwight Lundell "learned not to let an amateur prep his car." A tire came off ruining the rotor and the hub. "I changed the tire, myself, and the Dusty Times

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lug nuts came off. That Honda was running good, though." Rueben was heard grinding a few gears by Curio Shop. The slatless beam's through retaining rod then backed out ... just like James Kirk experienced at the "1000." Will design "Revision 2" be on the drawings before Parker? Stan Steele hit a fence post at the highway crossing ... and . left it leaning. Billy Tsakiris lost a c. v. and an axle while Ed Beard never. made the Curio Shop. The ebullient Scott Rhone effort was sidetracked when he went on his lid two miles before Curio Shop. "I had a sun roof installed!", Rhone confirmed, after being spied with an open air top. Scotty then broke a tie rod by the second road crossing and found that he had lost his spare when he flipped. " I finished!" Finally got one, huh. "Cholla Boy" Ron Dalke hit Pete Gannon's" 1600" then "as I was pounding on Tony Pedotto I couldn't see over or around him. I suddenly landed in the sticker patch. Pow? I'm getting out of the cactus business." (Ron is a Tucson landscaper specializing in native plants) " I took down a huge jumping cactus and had it wrapped all around my helmet skirt and all over the front. My hands were stuck to the steering wheel. I had to toss the pieces out with my (bare) hands. No pliers." "Donkey" continued' "I stuck a vein and blood was spurting everywhere. I passed fifteen cars past the road crossing." Ron garnered fifth place. Stan Steele got lost. Stan was on his way to his win when, at the last railroad crossing, he saw dust on the road and turned left. Unfortunately the dust was a local fishing truck. Stan ended up at the "Rodeo Drive" tourist shops miles from the finish. Randy Maddux said that he "was really gettin good!" Flipper was reported getting into barbed wire and a cement post at the start line road jump. He had to get out and cut his way out and Martin, Ron and Stan all got by. He then banged and clanged his way into the lead. Randy got two flats going into between the mountains when he caught a Sportsman who moved back over on him at a pass. "Randy thought that it was a Pro so he really jammed it. He went over the car in the dust, Danny Foddrill giggled. Randy's frantic solo tire change was a fall-off-the-jack deal -and only one mile coming into his Well Road pit. Gino Verdone broke a stub axle right at the nut between Checks 2 and 3: "Sounds like an over torque condition. I should have called Walt (Baranick, who sold Verdone the car)" Gino is back in the desert after several decades of building an up-scale automobile dealership in Sc'\ttsdale. " W e had electrical woe~. I put in a new0 2 sensor, got going, then broke that nut. The black ox has to be the problem. W hen he engine cools down then it resta ts right away." Tech Tip: Hit the lectrics with a heat gun and see hat makes it shut down. Then coo it. Gino also admitted that the c cut out whenever he keyed the ike. His chase crew was lost f four hours. The W eber crew ulled him out and Verdone com lained that Scott wouldn't get ou and help. Danny Foddrill explain that Scott was blind. "No way? :\o way!," Gino Dusty Times \ < argued. "I talked to him. He ( brother Bob is a Bud distributor) gave me a Coors{!)." . .. A great field lined up for the Heavy Metal melee but only a few appeared at Challa Bay. And they were not the odds-on favorites. Don Kolt was the first "8" through the Curio Shop with a decent lead over Red Dog sponsored Kevin Patrick. Col-oradians Tom and Amber Dunn were followed by Buck into Curio Shop. Kev had a most embarrassing failure. The small, seeming insignificant sheet metal tab that locates and retains the transmis-sion's dip stick tube fatigued. "We smelled some oil - we had no tranny gauge -and later, got some slippage," he related. "When Jon (Snyder) and I got out we found that the tube had moved up and the O-ring was out of its groove. The tranny was smoked." It was an unrecoverable situation. He was towed into )J's by Mike Doherty. (Note: Kev reported late to the start as he had to rewire a tranny cooler.) Nick Vanderwey's new motor sounded good, real strong. Frank Turben tagged Nick, knocking off his :ammo can tool box in the pits. Nick's driver, Brian Christenson, broke a tie rod getting around the mountain. But when the tie rod broke it was at the spot where the box which had the spare tie rod end in it had left the truck. So no scrambling was necessary. The crew just picked up the pieces off passed us. We had to tap some the ground and effected the bug. Then the rear view mirror repairs. Rumor has it that a new fell off." Nick truck coming out of 4 TheplanwasforTomBuckand Wheeler Supply is in the offing. Ron Arriola to get 'er around the Tom and Amber held a five mountain in one piece and minute lead at the lower highway Richard would finish. Buck has crossing only to be sidelined by been spouting the same old tale, the railroad with a lost A-arm race after race. "This is our last bolt. It ain't over 'til it's over race. We're retiring. We quit. certainly applies. · Blah, blah, blah ... " Students of Winner Severson in the big red , SCORE event may compare those Buck truck: "I've never been attitudes to Maryland "9" racer 'beaten in the 'Point to Point' but Ed McClean 's never ending then I've never finished with quotes of a similar nature ... but Pewe, either." "Petersen's 4 who always reappears. An Wheel and Off Road Magazine" interesting sidelight is the fact that featureeditorRickPewegotinat the Buck Kids, Tommy Jr., the Curio Shop crew change: "My Johathan and Ryan, go driving the (borrowed) helmet was too big truck out in the desert on and the belts too loose. Nobody off-weekends. ■a,a 1000 ICIA SPORTAGE SUPPORT YEHICI.ES■ ONLY SIX TO BE SOLDZZZ In full o«lclal Baja Trim. Completely street legal! Loaded with o« road accessories. Have the hottest sport vehicle in town! Available with or without factory decal package. 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Long time competitor Ross Whitmoyer appears to be checking I Tom and Amber Dunn glide past a typical border area building out the dump: he missed making a tight turn apparently. He was on the graded road, kiiping their Ford pickup together to finish fourth in Class 1, 15th overall. 14th Overall and second in Class 8 in the Ranger. A pit stop in the desert often includes work on the sun shield, and Scott Rhone was getting that treatment here and he went on to sixth in Pro 10. At one point Torn just left it in three wheels when he passed us,'' was the fifth Pro Quad at the 1994 first gear and rumbled along at 25 Rich laughed. " (Gort) was Snowflake race and here was 10th mph. Torn Dunn did tag him hanging out like a sidecar overall. pretty good, though, and left lots passenger. Then we ran off the Milt Moore found that the of blue paint on the Honcho's road on the railroad grade past the lowest bidder is not necessarily spare. They were sixth in class, big mine." Rich had to climb out better when his cut-rate gearbox twenty minutes down at the thetopdoorandcounterbalance shucked a few gears. The driver swap then saw idled truck their way out. This was where Colorado handyman did not even after idled truck. At the lower Vesterdal had also fought gravity. complete the Mountain loop. highway crossing into the dump Winner Steve Long said that In Class 9 Volkspower's Jeff they were running second, five his car was too soft in the back but Knupp was heard grinding some minutes back of Dunn, but still not too soft to take his first gears at the Curio Shop and later took thetirnetoperforrna brodie '' 1600" win. Pete Gannon said that he was struggling with a for Ta-Ta as he gave the two a stopped with a rear flat and a broken seat. "When we got into Checker Salute. The "Y" in the spare tire change and got out the Gopher Hole section the dump was a lightly marked himself. Pete, here's a hint: Go suspension felt funny." Even confuser for the bikes, at least, as over the car with the crew before worse than you'd expect out many took the wrong left leg then the race. Buy beer and pizzas and there. "I stopped and my Dad had to run through the trash and present a tech tip seminar. found that the shock bolt had la basura to get back on track. Colorado's Scott Noall was a backed out, jammed a hole into Stretch could not see any of DNS after selling his 1600 to Bill the tire and was gone." After Tom and Amber's dust on the Thomas: "I brought it to race, changing the tire Daryl rode side-way to the beach so he pushed the then sold it!" He stayed around to saddle on the opposite nerf bar red beast up to one-twenty. When support the Dunn's truck effort. until the dual steering dampers they popped over the railroad The Hansens " ... had gotten by jammed full of sand and froze. "I grade crossing by Check 6 and all the '8s' by RM30. Then stuck it bad," Jeff explained. "No saw the Ranger along the road, Spencer -that pr**k-got back on sooner had I called the crew to there was a "big celebration in the the cO\irse right after us. and explain that I had just got un-vehicle. I had driven the last ten smacked us. It pitched our belt off stuck then 'Bang!, I broke the miles in my 2WD each weekend I the pulley." Torn complained transmission." A dejected I'm in Challa Bay so I felt very bitterly. "Then he waved when Knupp, the Perennial Passenger ... confident we would make it from he went by!" Reported to have an this time behind the wheel, noted there on in." "We own the otherwise flawless ride, Tommy thatthiswashisfirstDNFinthree desert!'' Rich roared who caught Vanderwey and hit the years and the first time he ever completed the final 100 miles in horn. Nick gunned it, throwing had to be pulled out. He then had two hours. "There were no flats up rocks. Hansen then hit Nick's to explain to a confused sweep or mechanical problems along the Chevrolet hard enough to pick it driver the logistics of getting three way but I forgot how to start the up. "Then he moved over." cars out. "No? you can NOT tow truck when I got in," Rich Tim's left inner c.v. boot was a all three out in this sand" ... with admitted. A late evening pre-race "George Seeley" model: Ragged one of them another '9' that's tranny problem by the buckeroo and really ruined. With Chris missing a front wheel. John Lee · forced a visit to a Mesa junk yard behind the wheel they hit the grenaded his tranny ,, ... after and they crossed their fingers all same fence that Stan Steele putting a wheel on me when I day. After the finish the truck tagged.BillKruglosthisfrontend caught and passed him," Cub would not shift out of park. And when a trailing arm broke. 01' Bill Reporter Jeff also reported. then notoutoffirst. "I'd rather be walked out a mile for a tow. suarte than bueno," Stretch lnClass5-1600TirnSrnithand Class winners and ex-Sport~-explained. "although my crew Mike Shaible had a flawless race, rn~n Ku~; Brewer and Bob Eh~ gets a lot of the credit including stopping only for gas. "I put a said to ~atch .~s next year. local Puerto Penasco icon 'T-Shirt light weight passenger in for this," 1 Problems? Vf'I ell, ~urt searched Bob' Lorenc." Sounds like Rich Tim nodding toward the slight for a st0ry .. W~ did have some stole' all of Kevin Patrick's Mike who provided an eighty spark kno~kmg m the soft st';1ff. legendary good luck. pound weight advantage. It was That was 1~· w_ e we~t from first Frank Turben and Dave Gray Mike's first race ever and Tim's starter to fifth JUSt hke_ that then smoked a tranny early and that first race with radios. "It was saw them all on the ~11e of the was the end of that. Mike Doherty funny listening to Mike through track. 901 loSt a b~ll JOl_nt. Now started first in class, broke a ball the intercom: 'Gasp! Gasp!... we can get a realengm~w:;hac~rn joint and a fast field fix cost Gasp! Gasp!'," Mike described. and maybe even a radio. "only" fifteen minutes. Only Kalt "We hit a "9" but I don't know Rod Hayes caught John Lee, and Turben passed him then both who it was. It was difficult but we caught#996, then shelled the gear were side lined all for going too passed lots of cars." The brilliant box. "I must have a warped case fast. Kolt had gotten by before blue BFG/Doug's Shell/Mile or something. This has happened the lower road crossing. "I had High Cellular/Form Smith/The before," Hot Rod tried to explain. threebuggiesbetweenusandDon Machine Shop/AZ Sign and Rick Poole and Mike Faulkner, and he got around them two. I Design VW finished unscathed the Bad Boys Of Blythe, broke a must have passed fifteen cars that with no flora nor fauna deposits brake drum, thrashed for 35 were running." Mike was the first and only very little dirt. "We minutes and perservered to third two-wheel drive to finish. were hammering it but it could place for $200. Two real racing Dean Whittaker broke the axle not have been a better run. I brake drums arrived two days splines out of his 12-bolt and a heard that #531 (Mitch Arm-after the race: "Herman tried to local yonke wanted $800 for a strong) was upside down. After make it look like he sent them on used part. "Never mind!" His breaking an axle at the Canyon GP time by putting an early shipping crew took over Doherty's chase they went to 300mm Sway-A-date on the UPS invoice. But I chores.Deanistakingthetruckto Way axles. "We had had know better," Poole laughed. the Louisiana bayous for winter problems with the car kicking so "Shannon Schulz gave me some repairs. we also changed the torsions and fuel... but he doesn't know he did. Mark Wright and Rich Ander-it seemed to do the trick," Tim My eleven gallon dump can son lost their quarter-panels in noted. "Gopher Hole Alley was, sprung a leak, so Danny gave me the "7" Ford Ranger then broke by no means, a piece of cake but some of Shannon's." Rick and the frame at the rear shock hoop the car did work killer once you Mike also won the $500 drawing by check 3. "We saw Weber on got up on top and moving." Tim for early entries. Page 20 March 1996 Chris and Tom Hansen swing past this road crossing with verve, as traffic flows well on the highway. The Hansens finished second in the 1600 class. Melissa Hall and John Harris are on their way here to win third Sportsman or Sportsperson honors and they also earned the points to be season champs. In Class S Damon Franks was Gold Plan for road hazards. thirteenth overall in his win over Tom's motor ran like s**t," Eric the clean car of tip-over Mitch laughed. "Steve hit us and ran us Armstrong. Jeff Hustin lost his into the weeds." Torn and Eric are rightreartorsionandwentonthe buying Jim Nelson's partially trailer. completed sweet "1600." In Vintage the Taggert and "Danny Porter better watch out!" Strick lings sprang Phoenix-like They laughed. They are having from the ashes of their Snowflake F odd ri II corn p 1 et e the four debacle -where they wadded up corners and basic equipment the front end big time -to mount points. K.C. Cook was reappear with a new ( to them) running first into Curio Shop -ORB chassis. "W e1 could use but stopped to replace a loose most of the parts from the plug wire and was passed by three wreck," explained Jay Strickling. cars then DNFd. "the old frame went out back." Limited winner Torn Rex They took an excellent seventh dismissed his jetting loop rollover overall. ( where he damaged his cardboard Jaime Des Roche got lost. body panels) to be the only While getting un-lost Jaime got finisher in his division. It was tapped pretty good by Mike reported by Ron Dalke that there Long's "9" car and was seriously were "no spare refrigerator boxes unhappy. "lwassornadlstopped to be had" in Sonoyta. The to cairn down,'' the America Schaible Brothers - Bill and Allen West 757 pilot stressed. He was -"were leading the Limited not that calm, either, at the Sportsrnenuntiltheirenginewent awards. "I went over to talk to south before they could.'' (Mike) about it and this brother according to Tim Smith. Jack and his wife all yelled at me!" Farmer pulled off the road by U nlirnited Sportsmen winner Curio Shop for a tire change while Erik Jones in the "Silver Bullet": Melissa Hall and John Harris went "We took one of Vesterdal's tires the Rhone sun roof route: She and had to argue with his pit guy. lost her top, too, in what has to be He was a work friend of Al's who her best performance this year: was new to the desert and at first Her win was worth the Sportsmen he refused. I was unbuckling and championship as she whipped getting out when some other guys Farmer. convinced him that it was OK. The last Pro finisher was Mark After all, Steve had already gone Wright in 6:38:30, losing to the by. I had no spare, no option. I Veste.rdals' 6:26:58. The final should have been on Yokohama's Sportsman was Farmer's 5:49:46 . Dusty Times

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Baja Pits News B:y Julio Garcia The 1996 Season is off and running and we here at Baja Pits are looking forward to a great year, and invite ANYONE interested in parti--cipating to get in touch with any BP member or call (619) 449-7777. In Baja we are the locals. If we can't get you going, you ain't going nowhere. Our Master Calendar of races and events is now being printed, so be sure to look for it. A big congratulations to the Carlos lribe & Son's Team from TJ. The SCORE '96 5-1600 Champ-ionship now has its leader. With a first place at Parker, it looks like a Championship season for Carlos. Felicidades y mucha suerte. On January 6 , 1996 we had our fanzy end of the year ('95) dinner, at the " Guadalajara Grill" and I'm happy to say that over 100 people and wives showed up. Best turn out ever . Lets keep the momentum going. I want to thank Mr. Mark Johnson for including me on the mailing list of Team Green's top notch Magazine. I know many of my friends look forward to Absorbing the pages, while visiting my space in TJ. How about some more photos of Beto Verber ( Class 21 Baja 1000 second place) Top Mexican from Tijuana. FLASH -you are in Baja racing and you are running really good, you just passed another car and you think you might be in first or second place, now, you are going good, but in the middle of nowhere you break. Something you can't fix there or have, and there are locals in the area. Your pit/ chase team is hours and hours away. What do you do? If you have Baja Pits with you, your ass is covered. Our new emergency rescue and Pit Service Access gets you action. Baja Pits pre-runs all courses and enlists locals aid. If your team can't or wants to run with extra pits, Now You Can With Us. For more info on Baja Pits Special and Custom Services, Contact me or Carlos 0. or Fax us your requests to (619) 428-8641. TIJUANA RACE Yes the rumors are True (and in off road there are many) that TJ will have its own "Mega Off Road" event in 1996. Baja Pits is one of many involved in this endeavour. Everything is still hush-hush, but I'll have all the details soon. How many of you racers would enter a Big TJ race? I've been told by those in the know that the '95 Tijuana to La Paz Baja 1000 Contingency Event and Race Day Start was the Largest Attendance Crowd Ever at any Off Road Event. Tijuana proved that it can host a World Class event, did, and will again in_ · 1996. plan to attend. It will be unique. Speaking of Unique events (as opposed to a series) the Vegas to Reno race promises also: to be a great event in which to participate. Everybody who's anybody in Off Road that I have spoken with, plans 'to enter this race. As you read this the event will be close at hand, and I hope I was able to race to Reno.My wife and friends are looking forward to a trip to the real first world - Vegas. BAJA 1000 DQ Once again a Mexican gets the Shaft. CRB members improperly and exces-s ively punished Mr. Gerardo· Novelo (top gun from Ensenada) racing effort for a chase crew infraction (in the name of safety) during the Tijuana to La Paz Baja 1000. As a result of a Minor Chase crew infraction, and for not appearing at the CRB inquiry after the race, Mr. Novelo was disquali-Dusty Times fied, even though he finished First and was the only vehicle in his class to finish. A DQfor failure to appear is also excessive, considering the significance, logistics, expense, ets. in going to La Paz and finishing. Under any other circumstance, a team would have been penalized with extra time, but in this case, since no one else finished and could benefit over Mr. Novelo, he was DQ. I am respectfully sorry for disagreeing with the CRB but the punishment was excessive if not "worse". -The only solution -Revoke the DQ and recognize the man's acomplishment. (G. 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Ensenada. The purpose? To invite RETRACTION: I stand cor-andbringtogetherAllPitClubsfor rected. The info supplied to me was a week-end camp out/ possible con-incomplete, which led to a misin- test, by the shore. The area chosen terpretation and acceptance of sin- is so close and unique, yet remote, ister forces ( to turn a phrase) that very few have actually visited always at play. Our Man Of The· it. Don't forget your golf clubs and Year and X President of Baja Pits fishing gear. Low riders and sports Don Issac Orozco, set me straight cars, etc., will not be able to access and said Baja Pits was not discrimi-the area. This event is in the infant nated against in the best pit club stage of planning, and without a ballot. WHY? We simply don't date as of yet ... For 1996 Baja Pits qualify because we don't attend all . will initiate and sponsor said event, SCORE events, and he is right. We in the hope that others in coming do attend but don't pit at all years will do the same. Our reacha-SCORE races. ble goal is one team per club. More NEWBORN - A big congrats to next month. Jorge Zehfuss (1994 Class 5 Baja HUMBLEPIE-Bajapitssurvives 1000 -the wet one -winner ·and on the few pesos its loyal members only finisher) and wife Yolanda, for bestow it in dues, as such, we are their new baby. Muchas Felicidades. always on the look our for Fat Cats, JAMABOREE -The new presi-Philanthropists and X Big Shots, dent of Baja Pits wants to put on a. who might consider donating old mild jamboree leading to a near by and new equipment that can help us Exotic location, camp c,mt, Mega give the best service possible. If you fit one of these descriptions and would like to be a Don, get involved - we need you. A Friend of Baja Pits, Fears Nothing in Baja. ANOTHER NEW THING. Baja Pits under its new leadership will venture where no club has gone before. It will challenge old myths, and defeat injustice when the pow-ers that be, are improperly abused ( or so the new guy says). 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HONG KONG TO BEUING RALLY 1995 Kenneth Eriksson Wins the Rally and the Asia-Pacific Drivers Title Text & Photos: Martin Holmes Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander dominated the rally in the Mitsu-bishi Lancer Evolution 3, and they won over teammate Ari Vatanen by about½ a minute. Eriksson is now the Asia-Pacific 1995 points champion for drivers. Kenneth Eriksson conquered seven day marathon event, in the rally world of China and conditions made tricky by rain. gained the Asia-Pacific drivers' After coming first and second title at the penultimate round in here, Mitsubishi have come the series. He led the rally from within an ace of taking the the second stage to the end of the manufacturers' cup, with one round left in Thailand in 1995. Nobuhiro 'Monster' Tajima has clinched the APC 'Formula 2' series in his 1300cc old-model Suzuki. The event saw a sporting challenge by Ari Vatanen back on the Mitsubishi team as a guest driver after five years' absence, and he supported Eriksson's efforts with second place, while third, after an early off road excursion which wrecked his hopes of victory, was Richard Burns with the highest placed Subaru. Mitsubishi decided to use active center differentials during the event while Subaru did not. In the tricky conditions this decision played a large part in the final outcome of the rally and the series. The event started in Hong Kong with 44 cars taking part, but with the big focus on the champion-1 ship fight between Mitsubishi and Subaru in round five of six in the Series. The close proximity of calendar dates with the Catalunya Rally starting in Spain three days after the end of this rally, both teams looked strong. Mitsubishi sent their strongest team possible to China; while Makinen and Aghini went to Spain, the A-team of Eriksson and Ari Vatanen competed in China. But Subaru fielded their B-team of Possum Bourne and Richard Burns, backed by Chinese drivers Ning Jung Lu and Tong Chun Xian. Both Manufacturers' and Drivers' championships of the APC have been remarkably close this year. Subaru and Mitsubishi have each won two of the first four rallies and finished third in another. This is the fifth of six rounds and only the best four scores count. The other major title being contested was the 2-liter series, for drivers only. This was comfortably led by Suzuki driver Nobuhiro Tajima, after two wins and a second place, ahead of Wayne Bell, Hyundai Lantra J2. Also officially sup-ported entries came from Honda-Taiwan in the category. With his nearest challenger Colin McRae away preparing for Catalunya, Kenneth Eriksson began cruising towards the APC drivers' championship by leading the rally after two days. Subaru got a bad start as on the second stage both Bourne and Burns had tires which were too hard with insufficient cuts. On stage 2 the reigning APC champion Bourne had trouble with his center differential, which was only corrected before the final two stages on the second day. Then Michael_Lieu_an~ Al~en Oh won Gr~up Nin a Mitsubishi Lancer EV Ill making more M1tsub1sh1 smiles, and they fmished well up the ranks, seventh 0/A and they were just ahead of the Formula 2 winner. It really looked like China in the Pare Ferme at the Danxia night halt. It doesn't seem to matter where you park as long as you check with the officials. Burns went off the -roaaon stage Mitsubishi pulled furtheraliead 4. "There was an S-bend where of the Subaru opposition. The the surface changed from sand to. day started with wet weather, but concrete. I hooked the front this gradually developed into wheel inside the concrete but it drizzle and then mist in the spun me round on the grass at the evening. The Lancers looked far side of the road and my co-driver more precise and controllable on Robert Reid had to construct a pile the corners but on the first three of rocks for me to return. The stages (new stages with no service Lancer Evolution cars were between them) Burns set fastest continuing -their Australia form time. Then he made a tire mistake and were evidently very competi-for stage 10 ( the legendary Ping Le tive. The Nikon Mitsubishi team Mountain downhill section) and also came with a surprise: they slid momentarily off the road, still were sponsored by Marlbm:o, making second best time. rivals to the sponsors of the Vatanen said he also made a Suba·ru team and the organizers wrong choice on tires ("that themselves. The first two days knocked my confidence a lot") neither Vatanen or Eriksson had but made best time on the last troubles but third team driver stage of the day. Subaru had avgas Shinozuka suffered a fuel leakage, fuel while the Mitsubishis were with bad smells in the car. using specification fuel, which The rally started on Saturday seemed to give the Lancers a little morning in Hong Kong, with one extra power. publicity stage on army asphalt There was rivalry between roads at Stonecutters Island. This Fujimoto (Toyota) and Shino-section saw the Subarus of Burns zuka and the Safari Rally winner and Bourne tie, one second ahead Fujimoto was happy to be ahead. of Eriksson. From the second There was an extraordinary section onwards in China it was moment of distress for Shino-all Eriksson. Michael Lieu had zuka; happily sitting on a tire been leading Group N ahead of behind his Mitsubishi eating an . the Mitsubishi Proton ofKaramjit apple at a service point when a Singh. Tajima led Formula 2 mechanic started the car and throughout, but his teammate completely covered the driver in Russell Palmer retired on the road thick black soot. "We washed after the first stage with head him down and gave him a new gasket failure. Tajima's main rival apple and he seemed to be good as was Wayne Bell, but his Hyundai new," said manager Phil Short. was Badly lacking power, and he In Group N Lieu was complete-changed camshafts at the Danxia ly on his own! His nearest rival rest halt hoping to gain some Singh slid off a tightening left power. Heng Chien Du, the corner and lost 18 minutes and official Honda Taiwan driver, crinkled the right side of the car. went off the road and damaged "We were very lucky, the car the suspension, so only two "F2" ended up on top of a stone block manufacturers were left in the on the edge of a long drop." Such running. was the competition that Singh On Monday Etape 3 held five was still second in Group! In stages, the first of the new stages, Formula 2 Tajima was seven potentially a critical leveling minutes in front of Wayne Bell. factor on a rally where drivers The Japanese had no problems only have one chance to check ("the car was fantastic down-each stage bef~rehand each year. hill"). The Australian said the car This Subaru lmpreza 555 picture came without ID, but it is probably either Richard Burns or Possum Bourne: they finished third and fourth overall with troubles. Tong Chun Xian and Xiang Li Shan had a good run in their Subaru lmpreze 555, and he looks young enough to move up to challenge the Finns one of these days. They finished tenth of the 27 out of 44 starters who finished. March 1996 Dusty Times

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Our sterling correspondent on world rallies Martin Holmes Karamjit Sing and Ron Teoh drove this Mitsubishi Proton Wira I This village street looks the same as those in Mexico and they too proved to be avid race fans as Nobuhiro Tajima and Mark Stacey zoom past in the Suzuki Swift G Tl in which he won Formula 2 honors. seems to have found the welcome wagon lady somewhere in 4WD' the distance as here they clear a checkpoint. They also China, but /'II bet it is tough reading the inscription. came in ninth out of 27 finishers. was going a bit better(''it is much. top drivers scored fastest times keep it together. On the final stage better when there is better grip"). during the course of the five stages the start ring collapsed and the car On Etape 4 one of the five of the day. Monster Tajima still needed push starting as well. For stages was cancelled and the led Formula 2 despite having a third man Burns it was a Mitsubishis pulled ahead. Vatan-one minute penalty for a jump disappointing result. "Our rally en had the advantage of a startand2 min.20sec., lateness at hopes ended on stage 4. We have gratuitous three minute gap acontrol. beenthefastestontheeventsince between him and Eriksson ahead, Twenty-eight cars started Etape then, but nothing could make up for my mistake." For Vatanen it was the end of a happy return to Mitsubishi. "There were no team orders. Kenneth was the faster driver whatever happened.'' Eriksson said "We had no trouble at all, our only difficulty was the weather. It was a very long rally but very well controlled. When they cancelled the stage on Tuesday, the control of spectators in the villages was nothing like as bad as it would be in, say, Monte Carlo or Portugal. Now Staffon and I wait to see what happens to us next year." imp~rtan~ in conditions which for 6; there were three stages but one the first tune had become dusty. was cancelled Richard Burns "I am .really enjoying th~ ~hance passed Possum Bourne into third to 1:'e .~n a re~lly ~ompetltive car place, erasing the direct effect of ag~m. Runnm~ f~rst o~ the road, the excursion on day two, though Enk~son was dn.vmg a little more still realizing that he had lost his cautiously, wh~le Bo~rne. went valuable opportunity of keeping carefully ~fter fnghtemng himself up the pressure during the rally on on one tight bend. The longest the Mitsubishis. He ended the day stage of the rally 13 at 43 km was almost four mintues behind the cancelled beca~se of spectator leaders. Bourne began to struggle. control worries. Burns was "The engine is a little sick and I hampered by dust from teammate am having to nurse this along''. Bo~rne and was 54 seco~ds Stage 24 was cancelled because -a: behmd. Vatanen m~de best time bridge on a main road had on every sta~e, but m spect~cular collapsed and the officials due to style broke his exhaust on a Jump. man this stage had been forced to . Etape 5 on W e?nesday held spend the night at the side of the five full stages, and .it was back t? road. On the first stage of the day the muddy and slippery condi-the Mitsubishi Lancer of Pak Hon tions as the cars ~eaded north Lu which had been leading the from t he. o vernight halt at Group S category retired; the Wuhan. Eriksson was 40 seconds Galant of Yiu Wing Cheung took ahead of Vatanen and found over. driving first car on the road that it was hard to judge the right pace. Etape 7 held the final two stages Twice Eriksson went very on the Friday and there were no carefully, allowing Va tanen to problems for the leaders this day. close up a lot during the day. In It was warm and dry but a little mid-rally last year both works damp underfoot, and the two Mitsubishis crashed out of the final stages were tackled before event. The gap between Eriksson the cars made their way to the and Vatanen ended up at 40 ceremonial finish at Tiananmen seconds, but Burns caught up Square. Bourne's mechanics with Bourne and was now only 12 virtually cutoff all the boost to his seconds behind. All four of the engine, in a successful attempt to Hong Kong-Beijing Rally October 1995 Kenneth Erlksson/Stalfan Parmander Mitsubishi Lancer Evclution Ill Ari Valanen/Fabrlzla Pons Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Ill Richard Bums/Robert Reid Subaru lmpreza 555 Possum Bourne/Tony Slrcombe Subaru lmpreza 555 Yoshlo Fujimoto/Arne Hertz Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD Kenjlro Shlnozuka/Pentli Kuukkala Milsublshl Lancer Evolution Ill Michael Lieu/Allen Oh Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Ill Nobuhlro Tajima/Mark Stacey F2 Suzuki Swift GTI •• Karamjit Singh/Ron Tech Mitsubishi Proton Wira 4WD Tong Chun Xian/Shan Xiang LI Subaru lmpreza 555 Chan Yau Tony/Cheng Chung Kiu(l3th) Mitsubishi Galant VR4 44 starters -27 finishers - "Group Winner •• F2 winner Rally leaders: Bourne and Bums equal stage I, Eriksson 2-26, F2 Tajima 1-26 Sprinters : Vatanen won 10 stages, Bums 8, Eriksson 7, Bourne 3. A 4:39:28" A 4:40:04 A 4:42:42 A 4:45:08 A 4:56:13 A 4:59:43 N 5:03:16" A 5:18:28 N 5:20:27 A 5:23:07 s 5:58:47 APC Drivers (best 4 scores only) Eriksson 75 (83) Now CHAMPION; Colin McRae 55, Tommi Maklnen 37, Juha Kankkunen and Bourne 24, Armin Schwarz 18, Didier Auriol and Ari Vatanen 15, Shlnozuka and Singh 14. APC Makes (best four scores only) Mitsubishi 134 (152), Subaru 124 (131) Toyota 72, Ford 41, Suzuki 31, Hyundai 11, Nissan and Dalhatsu 6. Formula 2: TaJlma Now Champion, Bell 22, David Black (Toyota)10 etc. Dusty Times U ·FILTERS YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS/ ·PE.RFQRMANCE PRODUCTS PHONE: {714) 441-1212 FAX: {714) 441-1622 en 23.66 E. ORANGETHORPE AVE., ANAHEIM, CA 92806 ii: ..J ~ iii 5 w ..J 1-u en a: w ti a: m en i:r: w . en en ~ z ::i: w ..J m C w u ·-:5 a. 1-::i: (!) ii: DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME T2 BOOT HOLDER .......................................... MRB-86-9305 930 930 934 BOOT HOLDER-CHROMOLY .................... 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FAIR News By Dat1e Massingham Parker 400 saw nine FAIR entries and some fantastic weather. Pre-run weekend was just as good.John Lucas, a La Rana racer, took the job of Race Manager and drove the FAIR van to Parker. Unfortunately he had problems on his way home. It looks like we lost one cylinder in the old van, we will pull the head to determine how much damage was done. It wasn't John's fault. Charlie Lamar volunteered to do the wrenching, with some help and Wayne Morgan of Quality Auto Parts said he would have his guys do the rebuild if required. Thanks to Brian Parkhouse for letting us park the van at their yard while work is being done. Thanks to Dan Fisk and Wayne Morgan for their getting the van home and thanks to John Lucas for hanging in there and driving it home slowly. Results of Parker: . • Wayne Morgan, Class 1, did not start due to a faulty yellow light and a bad alternator. Wayne and I were ready for this race, we pre-ran several times, had all the turns memorized and had drawn #101. What a way to lose, first car off the line. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. • Brian Parkhouse and Willie Checker Melancon, Class 1, DNF. Brian and Willie are step-ping up to unlimited class, Bill Varnes of Mirage is building Bri-an's new car. Bill offered his per-sonal two seat, Porsche p9wered HONDA Power car until the new car is done. Brian started, just after dropping into the wash just passed Swansea, he lost a c.v. joint. Willie to the rescue in his trusty 4 WO Ford pickup truck. After receiving the proper clearance to drive on course into Swansea and to the down car, they replaced the c.v. It took two hours with lots of repair to the axle splines. Brian drove the rest of lap 1 and put it on the trailer. Hopefully the new car will be ready for San Felipe. • Dan Fisk and Jeff Quinn, Class 1, DNF. Trying out their new V6 with an auto trans they still had a few bugs to work out. Dan started and Jeff took second lap. Eventu-ally putting it on the trailer after the second lap with exhaust sys-tem problems. This is going to be a winner when they get all the bugs out. • Steven Poole, Class 10, DNF. Steve blew a right turn around mile 110. As he was re-coursing, he got rear ended by several other cars, missing the same turn. He suffered some major damage. • Dick and Mark Weyhrich, Class 10, DNF. Came out in their new car, but had some rear tor-sion housing problems, welded twice. • Rick Poole, Class 9, DNF. While enjoying a 38 minute lead on the second lap, they broke a drive axle. Tough way to lose a lead like that. • Bob Wright, Class 5-1600, DNF. Lost an engine on the second lap. • Dave Shively, Class 1-2-1600, DNF. Rolled on second lap, had to wait for help, lost too much time and loaded it on the trailer. • Lorenzo Rodrigues, Class 1-2-1600, fourth place. Lost Midway after check 7, went right instead of left. Lorenzo drove and Adam Quick rode the entire race. Lorenzo admitted he didn't pre-run and got mixed up. Thanks to Rich Fersch and Group at Mid-way who got him straightened out. • Scott Steinberger, Class 7 S, first place. Used 80 quarts of oil, co-driver hanging out front, pour-ing oil on the fly ... stopping at every pit and still won by 26 minutes. PIT REPORT: Shea Road was Wright, Shiv-ely, and Loren:o pit crew, did an awesome job. They set up a great pit in a small area. We will mark a larger pit next year. I couldn't count the amount of people they tiad. Thanks to all of you! Mineral Wash was covered by Parkhouse and Morgan crew, who took a pit for the first time. Frank, Steve, Alex, Brent and Eddie all did a fine job. Didn't look like they were very busy. Midway with the FAIR van was covered by Parker Race Manager John Lucas, Ron Osburn, Matt McMillin, and Rich Fersch. Bruce Streeper and Rick Marldey were there for Fisk/ -Quinn. Charlie Jr. and Sr. Lamar were there for W eyhrichs. We got the van out there Friday night to find our marked pit was occupied by another team for two cars. No problem, we joined them and worked together. Graham Well was taken over by Poole brothers and the Steinberger Crew. Kelly Steinberger plus driver Lai:!)'_ Plank and Pooles had four helpers. La Rana race, January 27th. Brought La Rana 66 cars that started and 113 of the entries were FAIR cars. • Garth Hutchison/Mike Rebel-ledo, Class 5-1600, third place. Garth in his brand new car had a fairly no problem day until throt-tle cable problem and almost no fuel to finish. Good place for first race and he got fast lap of the day in class. • Jay Fogg/Jim Malinowski, Class 9, second place. Jay's son, Kevin and Harry Dunne were co-drivers. A pretty problem free day. . • Jeff Madrid/Gary Bancroft, Class 1-2-1600, fourth place. Things were running smoothly until the third lap when Gary took over and rolled a soft barrel roll and lost some time. Had to take on some oil on last lap and sacri-ficed possibly third place. It was more important to not waste a motor. • Wisdoms, Class 1-2-1600, third place. Rolled on the second lap but made up some time to pass Gary Bancroft getting oil to take a third. • Mitch Griffin/ Paul Lane, Class 1-2-1600, DNF. Paul hit a BIG rock the si:e of the car, and tore off the right rear arm, rolled in the sand wash, looks like the car sus-tained some major damage. But we're glad Paul and Tim are OK:! • Bob Wright, Class 5-1600, first place. Had a great day even after he had to replace the motor after Parker the weekend before. • Norgard, 1400 bracket class, first place. • Mangione, 1400 bracket class, second place. • Fay, Class 1500, first place. Was looking like a tough day against Larry Gross, but the girls • pulled it off again. • Danny Drake/Rich rersch, Class 5-1600, DNF. Lost the trans on the third lap. • Frank Omboli/Jim Cochran, Class 5-1600, sixth place. Had problems off the bat, and con-tinued throughout the day, but continued on to finish. • John Lucas/Osburn, Class 2, third place. • Randy Mottram, Class 1-2-1600, DNF. Had some problems starting off the start, but got the car going to later end up hitting something hard resulting in park-ing the car. • Hal Hibbard, Class 2, DNF. Rolled the car on the first lap, sustained too much damage and had to put it on the trailer. · • McKee, Class 10, DNF. New member for the race, had some shock problems all day and had to put it on the trailer. Some other FAIR members who had a good day with their own crews, Hat:, Class 1-2-1600 got a second place. Danny Lerner, truck class, got a third. Jerry Pen-hall, Class 10, got a second place. Radio communications were great, the girls at the pits handled most of the communications and tracking and knew where our cars were at all times. 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SODA Winter Series At Glen Helen By Jean Calvin and Carol Clark Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. r. ··~ = '"""" this made for TV one mile or so course. Still everyone, no matter where they stood in class, seemed to be having a good time and those that made the trek from the wilds of Wisconsin enjoyed the summer like sunshine, warm temperatures and light breezes that is the weather we are blessed with normally in December. This year it was exceptionally nice. On Thursday November 30 they had qualifying sessions for the trucks. There were fifteen in Heavy Metal, several of them trophy trucks, and four of them did not appear to qualify. Out Wafker Evans had luck riding with him in the big Dodge, as he won the first front, to no ones surprise, was two Class B heats ran second in the last one until half a lap from the checkers Walker Evans in his Dodge at when Jack Flannery suddenly stopped and Walker went on to win that heat 1:01:10.Justasterncame his Soda _a_n_d_th_e_cl_a_ss_se_r_ie_s_c_h_am---'-p_io_n_s_h...:.ip_. _________________ Nemesis Jack Flannery at 1 :01 :75 Top Ora wer short course classes so that each group would~ in his Class 4 Chevy, followed by racing arrived back in southern have a chance of winning that Robby Gordon, Ford Trophy-California last December with the group's top honors. They fit the Truck at 1:03:31, Kyle Taylor, SODA Winter Series at Glen desert cars in quite well consider-Chevy at 1 :07 :81 then Dale Helen OHV Park in San Bern- ing the buggies were much longer White, who had just won the Baja ' ardino. lt took a bit of sorting out than their short course equivalent 1000 in his Las Vegas built Chevy to make the classes compatible, in class and most had a tough time. at 1 :08:29 and Curt LeDuc, Jeep one to the next, and combine with the few very tight turns on, T-T at 1:08:69. Bringing up the Jack Flannery was one of two truckers from Wisconsin, lead every heat, had a flat and front end woes in two others and broke then spun on the last lap after leading all the way. He was fifth on points. rear were Bud Feldkamp at 1: 11:47 in the Spec truck in which he won the class at the Baja 1000, Evan Evans in his yellow Chevy at 1: 11 :69 and Darren Skilto·n , Jeep at 1:21:31. Carl Renezeder,,Ford, was disqualified for lack of body panels, and Dwight Greene, Ford did not qualify nor didJeffHoltger, prob-ably still on the road from Wisconsin. Also qualifying on Thursday were the Mini Metal stormers, 12 strong. Again it was no surprise when John Greaves, DePere, WI turned in the fast time in his Toy-ota at 1:10:71. Jerrod Wedell, Toyota, was second at 1: 1 7 :09 !closely followed by Russ Jones, Ford at 1: 18:62, and Dan Cannon Dodge in the winners circle as at 1:19:37. Next was Scott Stein-Flannery had some troubles. berger, Ford 1:22:32, Troy Lind-LeDuc nailed down second, Jim Strom, Nissan 1:27:03, and Steve Smith was third, but Jack Ghamari, Toyota 1:40:88. Not Flannery got his Chevy in fourth qualifying were Stacey Pike, still ahead of Renezeder. on the road from Arizona, Ford, ltwasmostlywestcoastdrivers Robert Guthrie, James Hall Ford, in Classes 1 / 2 and 9 / 10. The first -Kenneth Parr Chevrolet, Tim round in 9 /10 saw Wes Elrod Carrol, Ford and Billy Beck from from Gilroy, CA get his Mirage San Antonio, TX. home first followed by Jimmy The Heavy Metal and the Mini Nichols from Alpine, CA. Bill Metal started straight up as they Webb from Reno, NV was third qualified on Saturday. While the followed by Richard Ronco from top qualifiers also won the series Phoenix, AZ. Jerry Whelchel was on points, there was a lot of truck fifth. There were a couple more action in all four rounds. The from northern CA and two more minis seemed to be having fun from Las Vegas, one from even if they followed Johnny Washington state and one from Greaves from flag to flag on Arizona, and one from San Diego. Round 1. Jerrod Wedell just All this in only a dozen entries in couldn't keep Greaves in sight as the class. Wes Elrod, Jimmy he streaked ahead of the herd. Nichols and Bill Webb fought this W edell finished a strong second. battle, but the others didn't have Tim Carroll ended up third after Elrod 's vast short course expe-the laps ran out and Robert Guth-rience, and he won the heat fol-rie was fourth. Paul Strong lowed by Nichols, Webb, Ronco rounded out the top five and most and Whelchel who had problems were running at the flag. This is with his car, but came back to natural terrain more akin to finish. desert than clay, and there are After that warmup Jerry Whel-rocks, so flat tires began to appear chel came back in Class 1 / 2 and and pit stops began in this very drove the same car right into vie-first heat. John Greaves won the tory lane with Jeff Elrod giving heat with Jerrod Wedell of him a fight for it. Brother Wes Orange, CA a few minutes back in Elrod was third also and Ryan second and Tim Carroll, Robert Thomas, a fine desert racer, fin-Guthrie, Paul Strong and Jim ished a very creditable fourth in Crawford all following and gain-his late model desert Chenowth, a ing finishing points. bit bigger and longer than the The minis just whetted eve-short course purpose built cars. ryone's appetite for the Heavy Roger Caddell from Washington Metal which took their first heat kept the money on the west coast next. In the heat were Trophy-this round, finishing his MTEG TruckersCurtLeDuc,JimSmith, Style Chenowth fifth in a 15 car Carl Renezeder and more. How-field, none of whom came from ever the race was between Jack east of the Rockies. Flannery and Walker Evans with Class 1-2-1600 was split LeDuc and Smith having their between desert cars and short own war a few truck lengths to the course cars, with three different rear.CarlRenezederkepthisFord numbers to choose from. in the hunt, but Flannery drove VORRA racers Larry Folsom, the only Chevy in the front five Sparks NV, and Arden Denning-and the only one that could keep ton, Tracey, CA shared the front up with the leaders, but it was still row in shape for this with their a good show. There was a lot of final short course race at Prairie passing and plenty of excitement. City now a memory. Josh Baldwin Naturally Walker Evans put his .. came off the line third in a short ' course Suspensions Unlimited Curt LeDuc sails flat and level in the Jeep Grand Cherokee with a couple of Johnny Greaves was the most successful of Wisconsin competitors with a seconds, always in the front five, Curt finished all four races and was second perfect score in Class 5-1600, and he won three races in Mini Metal action and buggy and Shane Balch in his all purpose racer was fourth away. Several Glen Helen regulars moved up to do battle as did Sid Smith in his desert Mirage from Yuba City, CA. By this time they had shortened the number oflaps for each class in order to save time, as the minute the sun dips behind the foothills that surround Glen Helen, on standard time that is early, it gets dark. Midway the short course 1600s had caught up, but we'll come back to them. The Desert 1600 finishing order as Larry Folson won the race and was followed by Arden Denning-ton, Josh Baldwin and Shane on points. also won the series points in Minf Metal. ... Jerrod Wedell, foreground, puts a pass on Robert Guthrie in Mini Metal action on his way to top finishes in all four races and he finished a strong second irr this very popular class. Page 16 There were four in Class 5 and they all ran and finished every heat. On top after four rounds was Dave Parsons who won a couple races, was never worse than second and won the points championship. March 1996 t Balch. The short course 1600s were led most of the way and at the checkers by Steve Bishop, a regu-lar winner at Glen Helen. The only outlander in this group was Roger Caddell from Graham, WA but he had some problems and took sixth place. Another Glen Helen regular Rick Boyer got his Funco into second, fol-lowed b y Dan Mathews and Jerry Whelchel and Lee.Patten, all southern Californians. Class 5 appeared with five star-ters and they strung out fast. Dave Parsons won the race followed in by Jerry Miller, Lyn Mocaby, Kevin McCann and an . unusual car, an AMC Pacer who didn't get far, in fact didn't start after Dusty Times

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Dan Cannon races his Ford constantly and he did well in the SODA Winter Series, here climbing the hill en route to a third in points for the series. There were only a couple of the new BS class trucks running: they ran with the Mini Metal and James Hall got his Ford in fourth in the race and he was the winner of Class BS on points. Jerry Miller won the second round in Class 5, was always close to the front and finished second on points in a class where all finished all races. practice. The Mini Mags remain-ed at three strong but only one of them got in the required laps, Frank Bristing and he won the trophy. Larry Plank was second and Mike Thurlow was third. In ClassS-1600 Mike Brue had a fel-low Wisconsin racer driving his championship winning Baja Bug. Brue didn't wish to increase his back problems so Johnny Greaves drove #589. He took off fast and never looked back. Even the local champs couldn't get close enough to challenge him. Greg Sullivan ran second and David Anckner was third. Robert Wright was fourth and Mario Bustamente was a non-starter. The Soda Lites had a field of 16 -for the first heat and the contest was so tight the crowd was on its feet for the entire race. Bob Briggs came out to play in his latest Briggsbuilt, and Greg George, Casey Mears and Rennie Awana had their Nature's Recipe cars out for a go at the Easterners. But there was only one, Jay Schaefer, who is one of the announcers at the Brush Run events, brought his Genesis from Crandon, WI to try west coast racing in this class. He soon found that the rules his group run by have heavier cars and other major differences that inhibit performance at Glen Helen. But he said he had fun anyhow. The race had several short term leaders, but in the end · • was Greg Geor e who won the race in a tlriggsbuilt, and he had rolet and Walker Evans came Bob Briggs behind him, then from fifth to second on the first Rennie Awana, and Ben Wald, lap, then Flannery had to pit with Honda, a VORRA champ and a front end problem and Carl Jarit Johnson in a Briggsbuilt. Renezeder moved into second. Usual strong runners here were Curt LeDuc was moving up in his well back or not really running. Jeep with Kyle Taylor, Chevy,Jim The weather was still terrific on Smith, Ford, and Dale White, Saturday, as the trucks lined up Chevy close. They finished in that with the Mini Metal ranks. order. Meanwhile Evans had Johnny Greaves did make the grid begun to lap others and Flannery but his Toyota developed serious was driving very fast trying to troubles and he suffered a rare make back the time lost in the DNF. He said before the start that pits. Walker Evans won again in it was not 100 percent for the the Dodge, in fact lapped most of race. The 8S trucks were com-the field in the short race. bined with mini trucks in this heat Flannery was unable to get the lap and James Hall won overall in his back. Walker said he enjoys run-Ford. Keeping up the good fight ning with Jack Flannery who was was Dan Cannon, Ford, who had listed in 10th DNF. hurt his back in Thursday's press The quartet in Class 5 were exhibition, but carried on. He had back in force in Class 5. With an a front starting spot, passed a few inverted start Jerry Miller started trucks, and came in second over-in the back but had a great day in all, first mini truck despite his , back pain. James Hall said he got hooked up real good and passed Greaves before he retired. He really likes the Goodyear tires, and said he thanked his crew for sure as they made many spring changes.Jerrod Wedell was second mini in his Toyota, third 0 1 A followed by Chris Taylor and Tim Carroll, both in Fords and Paul Strong in the nostalgic Pacer. The Heavy Metal bash fielded 11 trucks; there were three no shows. Jack Flannery took off like a road runner in his potent Chev-Johnny Greaves drove Mike Brue's SODA championship winning 5-1600 Baja Bug to a perfect score winning all four heats. This provided Wisconsin with its only perfect score title in the series, but John won Mini Metal honors too. his brand new Baja Bug, a Dave Parsons built racer. From the start he ran to the front and stayed in front to the checkered flag. Dave Parsons, ironically, was second, and Lyn Mocaby followed and Kevin McCann was third. They strung out lflT' KUSTER OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS BUMP STOPS • Available in 4" and 6" strokes. • Inertia/spin welded cylinder top cap. 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Bob Briggs brought his Briggsbuilt SODA Lite to Glen Helen and he dominated the winner's circle in this class after the first round, and he won the series points and the championship trophy, Dusty Times • • Large 1 3/8" diameter shaft for a more progressive force curve than with bump stops that have smaller shafts. • Nylon end piece so that it doesn't sound like the suspension bot-tomed out, when in fact the suspension only hit the bump stop. • Externally air pressure adjustable. • Hydraulic adjustable by changing the valving on the piston. • Extremely easy to take apart and service 3" diameter shocks 2" diameter shocks External bypass tube ~h1996 KUSTER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2900 E. 29th Street• Long Beach, CA 90806 U.S.A. Telephone: (310) 595-0661 • Fax: (310) 426-7897 300M Ball Joints Air lacks Page 17

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David Anckner seemed stuck in second or third place in Class 5-1600 all the way, but he came out second on points, good for some money and a trophy. Larry Plank did well most of the time in the Mini Mag action, but he had mechanical problems too and ended up in second place on series points. Mike Thurlow and Rick Ellison often share this Mini Mag ride, but Thurlow was the driver at Glen Helen and his score wasn't tops, third in the series. Greg George of the Nature's Recipe team won the first SODA Lite race, until Briggs learned the course maybe, but Greg hung on for second in series points. Team manager for Nature's Recipe Rennie Awana is also quite competitive in his Briggsbuilt, and Rennie finished just a few points behind in third spot. Wes Elrod drove his short car to second in the Class 1 /2 points with good up front finishes in all four races. This is also an ex-stadium race car. ;,-so there wasn't much top honors. Mike Thurlow was in his 1600 to second in the desert behind him. Jerry got clear on the action on the track in this heat. second and Larry Plank was third. cars. He started sixth and got to last lap and won the race, but he Class 5-1600 was five strong They ran with the 5-1600 Bugs. the front on the second jump. He was so tired after six races he was but there was no doubt about who Bristing was second overall in the weighed wrong the first time ready for a shower and food was king of the Glen Helen hills. race and had lots of fun trying to around, turned out the scales instead of a podium speech. John Greaves, who had to get a pass John Greaves. were off by 200 pounds. Shane Mathews was a close second, push start out of the pits because Class 1-2-1600 had the stag-enjoyed the race and the course Steve Bishop third, Jesse Rodri-of a clutch cable problem and had gered start for the Desert cars and very much. Danny Anderson quez, Lee Patten and Bob Dziura-to rim most of the race in third short course racers, actually com-from Las Vegas was third in his wiec filled out the finishers. gear, still managed to take Mike peting for separate purses. Class Bunderson and Larry Folsom was Jerry Whelchel ran his Super Brue!sBajaBugtothe5-1600vic-1-2-1600hadthreewavesofstar-fourth in his Mirage. He and 1600intheClass9110warsandit tory. John, from Green Bay, WI, ters which confused most folks. Shane Balch had a race long dice was no surprise that he won on who came with three others of the Roger Caddell for some reason, for position. Bob Suchy was fifth. Saturday in Round 2. His car was area, is hard to beat no matter started with the short course cars In the short course 1600 action built for the sharp t~rns of sta-what he drives. He has been racing in his desert car his first time out nine appeared to do battle, and it dium racing and it worked well at sincehe wasachild(onbikes)and in this car. After he got to the didn't last long. Jerry Whelchel GlenHelen,ashewentfromfifth started his off road career in a front of the desert cars he stayed started third and by the end oflap to up front and took the lead on 1600 buggy that he built himself. there building a bigger and bigger one he got the lead for a time. But I the last lap.Jimmy Nichols hauled The trio of Mini Mags came back, lead. He got the win in the Desert then Dan Mathews took over and his Chenowth into second and had fun and Frank Bristing took cars. Shane Balch had a good race kept him 10-20 car len ths Wes Elrod hung in forthird place __________ ..;... ___________ .,.;;... ____ .,;,. __________ "T points in his Mirage. Richa-rd SODA 1995 JOE PLUMMER ROOKIE OF THE YEAR WINNER-GEORGE SCHULTZ WOULD LIKE TO THANK *JJM ALEXANDER & LIL' .JOE AGUIRRE - GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. '=MY FAi\llLY - JOHN, MARILYN & TESA SCHULTZ *MY UNCLE -moRNTON "ED" SCHULTZ. FOR LOANING ME HIS SP ARE ENGINE *MY LOCAL SPONSORS - BRAD'S PRINTING (WAUKEGAN, IL) FRANK'S AUTO CENTER (ZION, IL) GURNEE TRANSMISSION (GURNEE, IL) LOU TYCHE AUTO BODY (PARK CITY, IL) * ALL SODA CLASS 13 DRIVERS FOR THEIR PATIENCE TOW ARD A ROOKIE COMPETITOR * AND ALL THE FRIENDS THAT HELPED ME DURING THE YEAR Page 28 March 1996 Ronco from Phoenix, got his Chenowth into fourth ahead of Bill Webb from Reno. Dana Van Noort from Clovis, CA was sixth and last as four of the ten starters did not finish. It was Jerry Whelchel again out front in Class 1 / 2 in the same car and he covered the 8 laps in excel-lent time. David Bonner was second and W es Elrod third. Pat Dean brought his Chenowth from Las Vegas, NV and moved up to fourth in class today ahead of Chris Neal from Palm Springs, CA. Jerry Miller dropped to sixth in this heat followed in by Roger Lord and Jeff Elrod as three did not start and four were DNFs. The swift pace of the race was tak-ing its toll. Bob Briggs dominated the Soda Lites again in a machine that bears his name and he won the race by a good margin over 14 others. Denise Whitman had her turn at the wheel and came in second in Race 2 ahead of Joe Price, a real master of short course racing. In fifth was Rennie Awana in a Nature's Recipe car followed by Ben Wald, Greg George and Doug Goodenough. Ben Wald stopped to talk and said he started last and took four laps to work his way to the front of the Pilots. He races with VORRA in northern Nev-ada in the desert. The third round of the SODA Winter series fairly well estab-lished who was going to collect some cash in the various classes. Class 7S literally was Johnny Greaves' to take home. He won Round 3 in the Toyota with no problems and even if he didn't run again, nobody could beat his point total now of 44 points. Billy Beck whipped into a solid second place followed by Stacey Pike, James Hall and Dan Cannon and second on points after this race Jerrod Wedell. Twelve of the 13 starters finished the race a good sign of the midnight work that had been going on non-stop all weekend. The Heavy Metal thundered off the grid with only 11 left to start and two of them did not finish. It was the usual Walker and Jack show for several laps but Curt LeDuc had the nose of his Jeep in third place. Flannery had some troubles, we heard front end, but kept running after a brief stop, and the race ended with Walker Evans taking his third win of the week-end, with LeDuc second. Kyle Taylor was third, Carl Renezeder fourth and Jim Smith fifth. The stop was costly for Flannery as his Chevy dropped to sixth at the checkers. The third Class 5 race saw Dave Parsons back in the winning mode, followed by Lyn Mocaby and Kevin McCann.Jerry Miller's new car failed this round and he was a DNF. Johnny Greaves continued on his winning ways in Mike Brue's 5-1600, a SODA champion. Mario Bustamente kept him in sight from second place, and he was followed by David Anckner. Robert Wright was fourth and Greg Sullivan fifth. These Bugs were popular with the crowd as were the Mini Mags that had a delayed start behind them. Frank Bristing again took the Mini Mag honors followed in b y Larry Plank. M ike Thurlow did not finish. Class 1-2-1600 again filled the track with buggies for Round 3 . The desert group had different names up front as John Hulse-bosch won the race followed by Josh Baldwin in a Chenowth and Shane Balch in his own design. Hulsebosch said he had troubles in both the first two heats, but not in this race. Gary Bussjaeger was fourth, Arden Dennington fifth and Roger Caddell sixth while Dusty Times

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rounded out the finishers which also included Roger Lord and Richard Burnworth. The SODA Lites completed round 3 with 16 on the line and ten finishers. The little cars were getting tired too. Bob Briggs took first place again and a husky points lead,Joe Price moved up to second and Rennie Awana and Greg George were third and fourth with Todd Whitman fifth and Jarit Johnson sixth. Sunday's fourth and final round would decide many of this series class winners. , Jerry Whelchel wore himself out, entered in three classes, two with the same car, this one. Built for stadium racing Jerry drove this car to first place in Class 1/2, second in'9/10. But his borrowed 1600 SC was fourth. Larry Folsom came from Sparks, Nevada to race his desert 1-1600 Mirage and he won the first round, carried on finishing up front in the races and he won ' the points championship over some of the favorites. Sunday and Round 4, the Mini Metal Championship race brought out 13 trucks ready to do battle for second place on points. It was no contest up front as John Greaves had it all his way, leading early in the bash and leading by a good margin. Billy Beck and Chris Taylor were having a great dice for second and lflr Larry Folsom sank to seventh of the ten who started and finished the race. In the short course sec-tion Steve Bishop was back on form and won the heat. He said he had a flat the first lap Saturday morning, ran the 8 laps starting in the back to third place. But nothing went wrong in round 3. Lee Patten was second, Jesse Rodriguez third, Big Bob Dziura-wiec fourth and Jerry Whelchel fifth, Bill Britt sixth. A couple of potential winners had their cars fail, the equipment was getting tired of this marathon four days of on and off the track constantly. Class 9 /10 brought out just nine starters and two did not fin-ish Round 3 including favorite Jerry· Whelchel. Jimmy Nichols got his first win of the meet fol-lowed home by Bill Webb in his Bunderson, Richard Ronco was third and Dennie Lee in a Brand-wood, fourth.Wes Elrod finished Dusty Times fifth and Gary Gall was sixth, the last finisher. Dana Van Noort also did not finish. The pace was kill-ing a lot of cars. Cory Witherill finished. Many a second place. Jeff Elrod was had troubles including Jerry fourthandbrotherWeswasfifth, Whelchel who came in third. The followed by Tim Lewis in a winner was Aaron Hawley in a MTEG style racing Jeep. Pat Dean Bunderson from Las Vegas. was next in his Chenowth and David Bonner rose in oints with Chris Neal and Troy Robinsbn Class 1 / 2 started with 13 cars but neither Roger Caddell or t '!'.'i,, Perhaps the all time winning driver at Glen Helen is Steve Bishop and with help from DPR he slid his sleek car into a couple of wins and he won the 1600 short course series points by just ten points. 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Jeff Elrod had to be content with third in Class 1 /2 points in the Mirage and these northern CA brothers have been racing for some time and make the weekend a good time for all on board. John Hulsebosch sails over an infamous jump in the back side of the course. He is a regular at Glen Helen and finished third in Class 1-2-1600 Desert. Dan Mathews flies his Tubular Concepts short course 1600 down the front straight in a vain attempt to catch Bishop, but he finished a close second, just ten points back on final points. '""' Bill Webb made the trip from Reno, NV to try the Glen Helen Lee Patten ended up in a tie on points at 52 for third in short Hills, here leading fellow VORRA racer Dana Van Noort. Bill had Richard Ronco brought his very tidy Chenowth from Phoenix to course 1600 action. Lee is listed on the results as third, Whelchel a win in Class 9/10 and he stayed up front in the ranks most of race in Class 9/10, and this looks like a desert car, but he stayed in fourth? the time, finished fourth on class points in his Bunderson. with the leaders and was fifth on class points. pr Paul Strong in the second in 8S followed in the race tipped it on its side, but was soon with Wes Elrod who was _third in fourth on points. Josh Baldwin Pacer was holding off Jerrod by Dan Cannon who was third in up and running again. Midway the race but Bill Webb had 52 managed eighth in the race but Wedell and the 8S Chevy of Ken- series championship points. Evan Evans retired to the pits, points with his fifth place for 'fifth on points at 46, tied with neth Parr for sixth. Dan Cannon TheHeavyMetalracewasareal withoverheating,Taylordropped fourth on points. Dennie Lee got Caddell.Someofthesefolkswent was holding off Raul Flores and barn burner with ten V-8s rum-out too. Carl Renezeder was now sixth in the race and sixth on home early. Stacey Pike who was soon to be bling on the grid. Jeff Holtger was fifth with Darren Skilton and Jeff points at 38 behind Richard On the short course side Steve lapped. Tim Carroll, James Hall on the pole in the inverted start Holtger just to the rear, all that Ronco at seventh in the race and Bishop won the race, but already and Steve Ghamari all were withJackFlannerynexttohimin was left. Walker was closing on fifthonpointsat47. hadenoughpointsforthechamp-DNFs. As the laps ran out Johnny an all Wisconsin front row, fol-Jack on the last lap, but even the All four Class 5 Bugs were ionship, but DPR's Dan Mathews Greaves won his third race of the lowed by three Trophy-Trucks. mighty Dodge couldn't match the healthy for round 4, and Dave could take that away with a win. series and the 7S championship Walker Evans was in the rear. Chevy's horsepower. Then Parsons won the race and the But Mathews was second in the with 64 points. And, this was a Carl Renezeder got his Ford Flannery suddenly stopped mid-championship with 76 points a race and second in points at 54 to brand new truck for the 1996 crossed up off the start line, hit way in the lap, and Walker zipped great performance. They finished Bishop's 74. Lee Patten was third SODA Series. Billy Beck took the jump wrong and rolled, got on by to take the checkered flag first, a on the points as they finished the in the race and tied for third on second in the race and eighth in his wheels and carried on in last perfect score of80 points winning last race with Jerry Miller second points at 52 with Jerry Whelchel points, Chris Taylor was third in place. Jack Flannery had his -all four events. Flannery was only at 65, Lyn Mocaby third at 58 and who was listed as seventh in the the race and 11th in points having Chevy in the lead and Evans a carlength or so behind rounding Kevin McCann a race DNF but race. Bob Dziurawiec was fourth missed the first race. Paul Strong carved his way through the field in the last turn when he spun, but fourth with 50 points. T~ese guys in the race, sixth on points just put the AMC Pacer home fourth no time to run second, but a long easily salvaged second place. put on a good show. one point behind Rick Boyer who in the race and in a three way tie way back. Jim Smith was third fol-It was a bizarre finish for the The limited Baja Bugs of Class was sixth in the race. In fact they forfourthinpointswithTimCar-lowed by Curt LeDuc and Heavy Metal which had a few 5-1600 were down to five Baja were all close on points except rol and James Hall.Jerrod Wedell Walker's son Evan Evans in his incidents of pushing and shoving Bugs but they put on a nice show Steve Bishop. was fifth in the race and second own Chevrolet. Bud Feldkamp's one another off course and into with the three Mini Mags: John The last class was the Soda Lites with 51 points in the series. Ken- Baja 1000 co-driver was driving the soft dirt. Flannery was second Greaves took off and left the field 13 strong and as usual they put on neth Parr was next in the race their 1000 winning spec truck and in the race and fifth on points.Jim behind and won the race, and the a good show. For the first time in Smith was third in the race in his championship with a perfect the series there was a different Ford in a tie with Carl Renezeder score of 80 to rival Walker's winner. Todd Whitman won the fifth in the race for third on accomplishment, albeitJohnny race and finished with 42 points points. Kyle Taylor was sixth on didn't have to work as hard to which put him fourth on the list. points and finishing seventh in the win. Mario Bustamente and Greg Out front was Bob Briggs at sev-race Darren Skilton was seventh Sullivan fought the good fight for enth in the final race in his Briggs-on points as well in his Jeep. second or third, depending where built; he garnered 65 points for • McKENZIE'S AIR FILTERS • K&N e UNI-FILTERS e DEALER NlUIRIES WELCOME ~ I ill 4-SPYDER SUPER DIFFS Tl .IRS .. i • Made from .ductiie iron. Thtl Cast Oiff is back! ~ a . • Utilizes 4-Spiders for added strength. This 4-Spyder Super Diff comes suppplied «ffi~ with precision-ground pins and block. ~ MCK-0265 . Creaf/y Reduced Price/ T21RS All New to the industry! 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Jerry Whel-points for third in points, while second on points at 57 followed chel had 70 points going in, but Anckner was third in the race but by teammate Rennie Awana at 53 they were duking it out as if it was second on points with 56. Robert points third in the race and on the first race of the series. We saw Wright was fourth in the race and points. Beyond that we have a Aaron Hawley get off line into the on points and Greg Sullivan was jumble for points that don't fol-dirt in the early going, a small fifth in the race and on points. It low numerical value so we hold shoving match going into the first was a well matched bunch. Frank off on the other tops in points turn and rougher driving than Bristing also had a perfect score of drivers. In the race Ben Waid was expected. But it all sorted out 80 points for the Mini Mag champ-fourth and Denise Whitman was although many contenders were ionship, winning the final heat. fifth while Andy Wald was sixth. in the pits early. Jeff Elrod got a Larry Plank, second in the race Bob Briggs was seventh, the final boost in points by winning the and on points at 62 and Mike finisher. race, and that gave him third in Thurlow was a DNF in the race The race was a success as both points behind brother Wes, third and ended with 58 points. SODA folks and Glen Helen regu-in the race and second on points Ten showed up for the series Jars like the format, the promo-and Jerry Whelchel who was the final race in Class 1-2-1600 ters were smiling, even the joint Champion and second in this desert, with a fresh cast of charac-tech inspection crew could not race. Troy Robinson was fourth ters up front. Driving right into complain. This Winter Series in the race in a Meco and Chris the championship Larry Folsom could be the start of something Neal was third in a Ford. Neal was won the race and his total of 61 big, like Riverside was, and this fifth on points and Robinson sev-points was well ahead of anybody. certainly was a fine beginning, enth. David Bonner took fourth Shane Balch was third in the race even if they did throw me out of in points despite his DNF. but took second on points at 58 the press room on Sunday Class9/10wasslimwithseven whichhadtobedecentmoneyin "reserved for daily media on starters a mixed bag of potential the big class. In between Gary deadline"! Plan on it next year winners. This round Jerry Whel-Bussjaeger was second in the race, around the same dates. chel won again butJimmy Nichols sixth on points. John Hulsebosch In the meantime SODA starts in was second, got good points and was fifth in the race, but third on the midwest with the Memorial won the Championship by eight points at 47. Roger Caddell fin-Day 100 in Lake Geneva, , points. Jerry Whelchel was tied_ . ished fourth in the race and at 46 Wisconsin. 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VORRA'S CHAMPIONSHIP RACE, PRAIRIE CITY SVRA Mechanics and Ladies Close V(;>RRA's 10th Year of Racing Making the long distance drive from Washington state the Quick-N-Brite team brought a couple of cars. Tony Comstock took both moto first places to win Class 10 on the day. VORRA ended its 20th year of and a freshly watered track, the off road racing with a great first event of the day was to be a weekend of racing, bench racing wry scary first turn for the rookie and partying. The racing action drivers. Moto 1 had first time was hot with the Quick n Brite racer JeffVander:weep(00) work team visiting VORRA once again his way up to the front with Steve from Washington State. With 68 Millward (61) and Rich Fletcher cars entered in the event, (27) close,behind. Vanderzweep VORRA was to close its 20th would retire with engine failure year with another record entry and Millward would win the moto total last October. followed by Fletcher and desert With all the vehicles entered, ace Doug Seymour (72) third. thoughts of a long day ahead Second moto had Fletcher take prompted officials to drop the his car to the front by lap 2 and number of laps per moto to eight take the overalt win for the day. as there were 23 races to run John Chapman (68) was running before daylight savings ended the second in his Ford Bronco until day an hour early. With 70 cars the rear axle broke and he would entered and mechanics and ladies retire. Moving up from mid pack racing at the end of the day, action was Steve Wimmer (33) from was to be fast and the program to Lynnwood, WA who would gq without a hitch. finish the moto second. From the With 12 cars in novice class . fourth row it was Tina Robinson Page 31 ( 101) who challenged all the guys . to move up to third place. Dan Gurney (79) motored along to finish the moto in fourth place. Overall resulte were Fletcher first, Seymour second, Millward third, _ Shane Balch took the lead off the line in the f(rst 1600 moto and did not look back, but with the inverted start on moto 2 he could only manage third, but he won the class on points. and Gurney fourth. , Gorley (927). Dana Van Noort Second moto had Chris Seven 1600s lined up with (1057) started up front but the German take the lead on the first Shane Balch ( 1602) taking the big desert car was no match for lap and hold off the challenge lead on lap 1 and not giving it up. the sleek stadium cars and Van from Cope to take the second Roger Caddell ( 1604) started Noort finished iri third. Fourth moto win, Cope was second. Jim dead last and was up to second by place in the moto was Denny Jennings (801) finished the moto the time the checkers dropped Spohr ( 1017 ). in third with Wengeler fourth. followed closely by Ken Ruff Second moto had Larry Gorley Overall results were German first, (1641 ). Larry Folsom (1691) (132) take the lead but revoke it Cope second, Wengeler third. dropped back and finished fifth on lap4 to Comstock who would In Class 9 action, Lance just· ahead of Dennis Dugan go on for the moto and overall Rhinehart (916) took the lead on (1688). win. Steve Windle (1031) was in lap 1 and held off a good challenge Second moto had Keith Robb second until the final lap when from Forest Creasy (917) .with (1628) take the lead after not Phil Gorley made a pass to take Ken Pfeiffer (910) taking third. finishing moto 1. Robb fought off the second place in the moto and Moto 2 had Rhinehart back in the challenge from Arden second overall. Windle would front with Dave Tarrant (904) Dennington ( 1661) until the last finish the moto in third and be second and Steve Souza (921) in lap when Dennington made the fourth for the day followed by third. Overall results were pass and took the moto win Van Noort who had fourth in the Rhinehart first, Tarrant second, followed by Robb. Balch was only moto and third overall. Pfeiffer third and Creasy fourth. able to race up to third followed Heavy Metal started with six Class 1 & Vet-1 were split into by Ruff. Overall race results had cars with Jim Cope (414) taking two divisions as there were 19 Balch first, Ruff second, Folsom the lead off the start and go on to cars entered. In division 1, Bob third, an Dugan's consistent themotowin.DonGerman(401) ,Martin (149) driving for the finishes fourth. - was playing the same strategy he healing Sam Berri started and led Class 10 had seven cars start played in the early October race flag-to-flag. Larry Gorley ( 132) with Tony Comstock (925) and finished second. Curt finished the moto second with taking the lead on lap 2 and not Wengeler (478) fought to finish Geoff Van Noort (209) third. giving it up to the challenging Phil third. . Mota 2 had Martin first again " Don and Chris German (father and son) had trouble free races, except for the challenge from Jim G_ope in the six rig Heavy Metal class. They were second in moto 1 and won the final moto and the Heavy Metal class for the day. March 1996 followed by Phil Gorley (927) and Larry Gorley. Division 2 had Troy Robinson ( 101) finish with the moto win followed by Steve Bradford ( 108 ). Second moto was a carbon copy of the first; Robinson first, Bradford second. The vets were combined with the pros and division 1 had Jerry Wald ( 46) making a mid race pass to take first followed by Brian Holloway (14) who was the victim of Wald's pass second. Vim Nickell (26) who was having ah up and down season was third. 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Ken Ruff had a third and a fourth in the two 1600 motos which earned him second place for the day on the 1600 scale. He always has a very tidy car. Jim Cope put his 4x4 home the winner in the first moto, but the Germans beat him back in the second round, so he had to settle for second in Heavy Metal on the day. Competing in Class 10 and Class 1 Larry Gorley did br.,tter in Class 1 placing second in the main while placing 6th in Class 1 0, and it looks like a short car at that. .,. ,.d!ff ~ Having a disadvantage with the big desert two seat car, Dana Van Noort drove it to third in Class 10, with a pair of fourths in the motos. Larry Folsom did battle and came up with a fourth and a fifth place finish for the two motos in 1600 class which put him third in 1600s at day's end. Curt Wengeler had a good run going in the Heavy Metal class in this tidy Jeep CJ, but in the end he had to settle for third on points. Steele in first followed by Chave: and Eric Lund (99). laps with shifter malfunction and Nickell third. giving second place to Steve Ten Pilots finished out the Bradford who, on the same lap, program with Clint Wolsey (7) taking the lead on lap 1 and never looking back taking the moto win. Ben Wald (99) worked his way up to take second followed by Lee Faraola ( 11) third. Second moto hadWolsey IP"" The main event lined the top six up from both divisions in their finishing order and the big surprise was Sam Berri getting in the drivers seat. After one lap Berri was in the lead but on lap 2 Robinson, who was driving without power steering, was on top with Berri in second. By lap 5 Berri was back around Robinson and went on for the moto win. Robinson dropped ou_t after six was passed by Larry Gorley. In the end, Berri was first, Gorley second and Bradford third. For the Vets, Holloway was out front and was battling with the pros for bragging rights. Back in the pack was Nickell in second, Wald in third and Chave: in fourth. By lap 3 Chave: was up to second. At the Checkers, Hol-loway was first, Chavez second, Class 1 and Class Vet 1 were split in two divisions for the 19 car entry. In Division 1 Bob Martin, driving for the healing Sam Berri, won both heat races. Berri stepped in to take the main event Pro 1 victory. -----------------After making the jump from Vet 10 to Vet 1 this year Brian Holloway never seemed to lift. He had a second and.a first in the heats and he also came up the winner in the main event, Vet Division. Dusty Times • UXU watts or 1>uw,:r • OilAkrr" • SinmlLaJat.•uu::,A("/IJL u~· • !:>UJ>t:f QUh,: I Welder/Generator EW171 • 4000 Watt Welder/Generator • Honda 11 llP OIIV Cununtrcial Engine • 170 AMP DC ior Welding • Oil Alert'" -• Automatic IJle ' RACER DISCOUNTS PARTS SH-IPPED BY UPS DAILY HONDA MOTORCYCLES -SCOOTERS .-ATV'S & GENERATORS ~ ~ ~ . ····-,·,e;r~ BMW MOTORCYCLES SEA DOO WATERCRAFT BILL ROBERTSON + SONS, INC. IN BUSINESS FOR OVER 30 YEARS 5626 -Tujunga Blvd.~ ·North Hollywood #HONDA 1 ·;(800) .800-6134 Cmneridewithus. 1 '(818) 766-6134 March 1996 'fl'(." • H .Page 33

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Class 9 has no special short course cars so they suffer on this horsepower demanding course. Ken Pfeiffer did his best, but finished third 9 on the day. Keeping his points count alive Doug Seymour once again made the switch to short course racing, won the first Novice moto and took a second for the day. Steve Millward opened the day's racing with a moto win in Novice Sportsman class: he fell to eighth in moto 2 which put him third Novice Sportsman. Vern Nickell fought all the way to the main event in Vet Class 1, and he did well, placing third in the popular Vet class at the end of the day. Rob Chavez was having a rough year in off road racing. Here he made something happen going all the way to the main and placing second in Vet Class 1. Lee Faraola races his Pilot over the rather bleak October landscape at the Prairie City Park, on his way to third in his desert racing Pilot. He was third in moto 2 and finished third out of ten for the day. ~ take the lead on lap 1 but would give it up on the next lap to Wald. Wolsey wasn't done and regained the lead on lap 5 and took the moto and overall win. Wald was second and second and ladies turn to take over the overall followed by Faroala third controls of the cars they took all overall. year to work on and support. This At the end of the day at the end has been a fun race over the years of the season it's the mechanics for everyone involved. ---------------1111111 .. ------.. ---1111111 ---11111 ---.. Page 34 NEVADA'/ LARGEIT OFFROAD, /AND, /TREET VW PART/ /TORE WE CARRY AURORA, PVROTECT, PARKER PUMPER TURBO BLUE, VDO, CACTUJ RACING BAKER BATTERIEJ, /WAY A WAY WRIGHT Pl.ACE, EARLJ, YOKOHAMA JUPER TRAP, JWEPCO, TANAKA BUG PACK, J&f, CHENOWTH UMP, BELL HELMETJ, KEP, JACO FODDRIL, UNI-FILTER K&N, TRI-MIL, PERMA COOL BEARDJ, PIM, DIRT BAGZ FOX JHOXJ, COMP-U-FIRE WEBER CARBJ , JAND TIRE/ & RIMJ RIP ROD, CNC, CENTERLINE, ULTRA, CUJTOM & COMMERCIAL WHEEL JIMPJON, JCAT & MORE 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89102 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM TO 6PM SAT 9 AM TO 5PM (702) 871-4911 (702) 871-5221. FAX March 1996 -------.. .. ---1111111 ---... Ill ---------.. .. -------Mechanics race 1 had Chris Fallon ( Sam Berri-149) take the win with Eric Sisson (Larry Folsom-1691) second and Brandon Dennington ( Arden Dennington-1661) third. Mech-anics race 2 winner was Ted Mundy (Phil Gorley-92 7) follow-ed by Waren Budenbender (Lance Rhinehart-916) and Tim Mack (Vern Nickell-26 ). Pilot Mechanics race had VORRA announcer Garland Dyke drive Ben Wald's Pilot to an uncon-tested victory. In the Ladies race, Melanie• Querin ( Ken Pfeiffer-910) was first with Heidi Burchhart (Sam Berri-149) second and Lisa Smith ( Brian Holloway-14) third. Lady Pilot winner was Tammy Brown driving Ron Foster's (37) Pilot. At the end of the day the VORRA crew was happy the day and year was over as it was a packed season with lots of action and new drivers. Racers and Crew look forward to VORRA 's 21st year of off road racing in 1996. Lance Rhinehart made it four wins in only four races becoming the new kid in Class 9, fighting off the challenge of Forest Creasy in moto 1 and doing the same in moto 2 with first in class for the day. Clint Wolsey took the top honors in the Pilot group. Clint won both motos, but he had to fight for the lead in the second round, but he made it. Dusty Times

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The winners in Performance Stock class driving a VW Rabbit hard all season were Dennis Chizma, left, and John Moore, navigator. The Rabbit has been retired we understand. The top spots in 4 Wheel Drive Open went to Chris Wefeff and navigator Brian Paul, center, flanked here by Ray Hocker, left, and Lynnette Allison who were second in the class. Almost the same group as CRS winners some of the Southern Pacific Divison of the Sports Car Club of America Series display those trophies for the camera. 1995 California Rally Series Awards Banquet By Hams Done The 1995 year end awards dinner held on Saturday, January 13th at the Pomona Valley Min-ing company was a tremendous success. Hats off to outgoing CRS Director Debbie Turner and incoming director Donna Chizma for putting on the best banquet in years. With some teams donning tuxedos the evening had a down-right elegant feel. Following a cocktail hour and a terrific dinner, the program started with the worker apprecia-tion award, which honors a volunteer worker for their service to the series and the sport of rally-ing. It was given to Bob Ward. Bob was quite busy this year play-ing key roles at Adelanto, Rim and Treeline. Instead of a speaker this year the teams were treated to a video presentation put together by Har-ris Done, entitled, "CRS Year in Review". Drawing from video clips captured over the years, Harris, a competitor who shoots and directs movies, created a satir-ical news show which poked fun at the CRS's best teams. Not to mention the SCCA Board of Directors, who quite deservingly were dragged across the coals sev-eral times. The video was quite a hit, leaving the teams in stitches. The Gala! Souki Award is given to a Stock Class competitor who typifies the spirit of helpfulness and competitiveness associated with the class. This year the award was given to Dave Turner who has shown excellence in the CRS and even more so in the National Ser-ies. Dave took the National Rally-truck Class this year and the National Production Class title last year, giving him the rare honor of consecutive winner in two different classes. The Kenneth Zimmerman Award, which honors an individ-ual who has made an outstanding contribution to the sport of rally-ing and the CRS in particular went to Ron Wood. Ron has served as a dedicated Tech. Inspector for the CRS, quietly giving a great deal of his time over the years. Despite building and running his own rally _...cars, he's found the time to work at nearly every event. We all share in our thanks for his efforts. The Bill Moore Memorial Award which honors a navigator for hard work and dedication to the sport went to Terry Stone-cipher. The popular navigator and co-organizer of the Rim of the World Rally was for once in his life speechless upon humbly accepting the award. It was per-haps Terry's final year of eligibil-ity for the award since he will be moving to the drivers seat in a stock class Celica in 96. The CRS Rookie of the Year Photos: Bill Nation award was given to Driver Bob Pendergrass and Navigator John W eigley. We hope to see more of them both in the upcoming year. The annual Captain Crunch Award awards a team for the big-gest, most destructive crash, or at least the best crash stories. Both Driver and Navigator give their accounts so that the guilty party can be duely recognized. John Elkin's long but colorful descrip-tion of he and Rui Brasil's 'off' this year in Washington and the argument that followed was the · hands down favorite. The capper bl:'ing Rui grabbing the route book from John and saying, "How do you read this thing anyway!" Finally it was time to award the Class Champions. Starting in Stock Class, it was.Mike Marcy and Steve Scott who edged out Dan Hook in a battle that went down to the final stage of the sea-son. Bob Scott placed second in the Navigator's Points. Bob's wife and driver Adrienne Scott took third in the class, as did navigator Larry Hook. Finishing fourth was driver Bobby Webb and naviga-tor Tim Sardelich. In Performance Stock it was an upset with Dennis Chizma and John Moore taking the champion-ship over Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann who couldn't over-, \ Robert Tallini and Tony Stonecipher placed third in John Elkin, left, the navigator, and driver Rui Brasil ' I Performance Stock, a CRS class, a very competitive display their Cap'n Crunch awards for the best crash class with some factory interest at that. story, theirs happening in a Washington rally. Dusty Times March 1996 i Two Wheel Drive Open was the hot class in 1995. Bill Malik, right won the title with Roine Anderson, and somehow Lon Peterson and Bill Gutzmann got in the picture. Second place Harris Done is on the far left. ,; The Stock Class winners from the left are Mike Marcy, first, then second it was Andriane Scott, center, the driver and navigator, her husband Bob Scott. Usually the positions are reversed in rally teams. come their DNF on the final stage . at Gorman. Robert Tallini and Terry Stonecipher took third with Garnet Baril and Noble Jones finishing the season fourth. In Four Wheel Drive Open Class perserverance paid off for driver Chris W eleff and navigator Brian Paul who finished ahead of the team of Ray Hocker and Lynette Allison. Always fast Car-los Tavares took third among drivers with Ara Manoukian plac-ing third among the navigators. CRS speedsters Rui Brasil and Carlos Tavares who won two events in 95 but suffered mechan-ical woes the rest of the season finished fourth. Taking fifth was driver Vartan Samuelian and nav-igator Alfred Nunes. Two Wheel Drive Open Class was the fast class in 95 with its . drivers winning four of the five co-efficient three rallies this sea-son. T reeline winners Bill Malik and Raine Anderson prevailed over early season leaders Harris Done and Larry Scott to take the championship. Finishing third among drivers was Tony Chavez, for navigators Mark Rathsam. Mark's driver George Pisek, finished fourth alongside Lucinda Strub. Lulu's driver Matt Sweeney, finished fifth as did navigator Mike Taylor. After the awards, many teams moved to the nightclub down-stairs where drinking, dancing and of course bench racing continued late into the night. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES • Built & Backed by 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 • WeShipUPS $235 ... 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37TH SAN REMO RALLYE Rally• D'ltalia f ext & Photos: Martin Holmes Piero Liatti with Alex Alessandrini took the Subaru lmpreza 555 to yet another late season overall victory. They won the rally outright by a minute·20 seconds and here fly over a gravel tract. The inaugural World 2-liter ch::impionship has been won by Peugeot. The Sanremo Rally witnessed a strong challenge by Renault but their third place in c::itegory was not enough. The title ch::ise retained its controversy to the end: the category on this event w::is won by Freddy Loix in an Astra GSI; the highest points scorer in the series was Opel, but they failed to qualify for the title. Neither Renault or Peugeot officially entered cars for this. event, because both factories are engaged on the Antibes Rally, counting for the French champ-ionship, the following weekend. The companies encouraged the lt::ilian teams to maintain their interests, but in any cast Kit Cars foiled to impress once again: the two Peugeot Maxis and the single Renault Maxi all retired, and only one Skoda Kit Car finished. The Sanremo Rally is the last remaining major rally in the world series framework to combine stages on gravel with those on asphalt. With most top Italian and French events being run on asphalt, the early sections of Sanremo Rally, run on the gravel tracks of Tuscany and Umbria, were very difficult. The overll event was won by Piero Liatti with an lmpreza, after the Ford driver Franco Cunico was delayed off the road. Both men retained their hopes of gaining the national Italian award, now to be decided on the final round. Peugeot are worthy champions. Right from the moment they entered top line championship rallies with their 205 turbo-charged four wheel drive Group B cars in 1984, they have been engaged on international incen-tive to popularize the sport for privateer drivers. They have systematically produced competi-tion versions of their popular two wheel drive models such as the 205,309, 106 and 306, and have enabled countless young drivers to progress. Among drivers whose rallying fame started with Peugeot are Francois Delecour and Andrea Aghini. Like Peugeot, Renault France were represented by their Italian Then the team asked to swap the team who had Renato Travaglia in cars lmpreza to Legacy and vice a Kit Car, while in orthodox Clio versa; in both cases it was done. Williams cars were Diego Oldrati Biasion stayed in his original start and a surprise appearance by position, fourth. The whole Deila who started the season as a operation had only been aimed at Peugeot driver! The Skoda team getting Biasion access to more had two 1.5 liter Felicia Kit Cars service vans. for Pavel Sibera and Emil Triner. There had been a real stirig SEAT stayed home in Spain to operation involving Belgian concentrate on development of driver Freddy Loix, after his car thenewkitcar,duetobeunveiled was hit by a local driver during later this month, while Nissan, training. He had witnesses ready 1 ying sixth in the series, was to testify for him, but by the time represented by only one car, the the police arrived, they had left to Sunny GTI of Nicolai Burkart. continue training. The police The Austrian Stefan Reininger ignored their testimony and took the start despite his original declared Loix to be guilty. He was co-driver having broken his arm then reported to the organizers the day before; he took one of his who issued another fine on the mechanics with him instead! Belgian, equal to that already The afternoon before the start inflicted by the police. There were many crews did not understand other usual Italian curiosities on the W2L servicing rules in effect the event, none more odd than for this event. Matters came to a that amateur drivers in Italy are head when a long stewards grouped, not as Privateers but meeting delayed the publication under the heading Gentleman of the official start list. drivers. These included a woman, It happened as follows, with · Patri:ia Sciascia. very European-style involved The rally started on Sunday reasons.TwoofthefiveARTcars afternoon, with a run across to from Subaru were entered in the Arezzo without stages, ready to alternative name of a sponsor, a tackle the gravel tracks of vodka. International rules say cars Tuscany and Umbria, before can only be supplied with spare returning to Sanremo on Monday parts from vans registered by your evening. The event continued on entrant. Also there was a mixture Tuesday and Wednesday 01~ the of types of car entered by each asphalt roads in the Liguria team. It was going to be much mountains behind Sanremo itself. simpler if the ART cars were all Over 45% of the competitive Imprezas and the Vodka cars all route was held on gravel roads, Legacys, and the simplest which put Pugeot at a disadvan-procedure was to change the name tage because the 306 Mixi had of the entrant. The rules, neverbeenralliedongravelroads however, forbade a change of before. name of the entrant. This On Etape 1 there were only particularly affected the vodka eight stages on gravel, three on team's Miki Biasion, who wanted them tackled twice, comprising access to the many specialist 215 kilometers. For the first three lmpreza parts in the vans servicing stages Cunico and Piero Longhi the ART cars. So some curious outpaced the field, but then manipulation began. Firstly it Longhi fell back with his gearbox was necessary to change the jumping out of fourth gear and names of crew (Biasion/Siviero then tipped the car on its side on swapped with Trelles/ de! Buono) stage 5 . Toyota lost Gilberto which needed FIA approval, Pianezzola on th~ first stage when which they agreed to do, having the front suspension broke, then been iven a satisfactory excuse. the second stage their guest Braking hard for a turn Renato Trevaglia and Flavia Zanella were in with the leaders but suffered transmission troubles with the Renault Clio Maxi and retired. Freddy Loix would have had the title wrapped up had Opel decided to compete outside Europe as the rules demanded, but he and Sven Smeets ran the Astra GSi right into the category victory in W2L and eighth overall. Dusty Times

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driver Angelo Mendeghini went off the road and regained the track just in front of the man he was supposed to be helping. In the Subaru camp Liati had a broken brake pipe while Patrick Snyers, in the private Ford, had a failing gearbox. He spun at the end of stage 8 and drove away in reverse gear. In group N Giovanni Manfrin-ato went off the road on his first stage and Bruno Bentivogli was excluded because his gearbox did not carry the seal markings from scrutineering. He retired. In W2L Skoda lost Pavel Sibera on the first stage when a flywheel bolt broke and in turn damaged the engine management system, forcing him to stop in the middle of the first stage. Peugeot's trouble started even earlier when Aghini could not start his engine in the overnight pare ferme, and continued when he lost 12 minutes on the first stage with electrical troubles. After two stages he gave up th@ struggle. Burkart retired his Nissan with a broken alternator. Opel lost their strong number two driver Sandro Sottile on stage 5 when the engine failed. Loix was fastest on every stage except one, finishing the day with a lead of 88 seconds in front of T ravaglia. On Etape 2, the first day on asphalt, the rally took on a new aspect. Freddy Loix found his grip of the W2L category dramatically eased as Travaglia speeded up. After four stages he had cut Loix' lead from 88 to 43 seconds. Loix had overheating trouble and lost 4 min. 30 sec. road penalty at service which dropped him to third place in the category. He was in the curious position of Opel being ineligible for the series, but affecting the championship positions of both Renault and Peugeot, locked in an increasingly close fight. After Loix dropped down, Renault took over first and seqmd, Peugeot was fourth and Renault fifth. Bernard Beguin retired when his 306 went off the road and lost a wheel, but the big news of the day was the retire-ment ofTravaglia, with transmis-sion failure on the final stage of the day. Renault still led with Oeila in the orthodox Clio Williams, but the second Renault was now fourth. Liox started to pull back from his delay; he began to threaten again for the \J<:2L lead, ending the day only 49 seconds behind Deila. What· a battle for the championship which Opel could not win. In the overall event there was another dra.matic change of leader. To ota_lost any chance to Placing third were Gianfranco Cunico and Stefan Evange/isti in their Ford RS Cosworth, up front most of the way and really in contention for the victory. Team Manager Jean Pierre Nicolas for Peugeot had a great year, winning the W2L Champion-ship for 1995 by 30 points over rival Renault: both French auto makers were very serious about this series. Gianfranco Cunico takes a moment to check out his alternative transport. It is the universal method of getting around in a crowded pit area in racing. be national champion when Piane::ola retired on the first stage the day before. Cunico was driving to keep his lead; he would be national champion if he finished even second. To have any championship chance Liatti had to win. Devoid of any team responsibilities Dallavilla had a go and vied with Liatti for fast times on stages. He overtook Biasion into third place, but still three minutes behind the leaders. Snyers struggled on, delayed by fuel· pressure problems while Yaneo Pasquali pulled up into the top ten after misfiring trouble on the first day. On stage 17 Cunico went off the road on! y 100 meters before the end of the stage and lost almost four minutes. He was now down to third overall and the national series looked like heading for the final round after all. In Group N the Austrian Johann Schachinger (Mazda) was over seven minutes ahead after , the overnight withdrawal of Edo: Ottaviani (Escort), who had entered just for the fun of rallying on gravel and who had never practiced the asphalt. On Etape 3 Peugeot's hopes continued to get stronger all day. Loix vowed he would be able to retrieve the lead during the day and he achieved this on stage 22. True to form, this was the stage on which he overtook Deila, and the Belgian settled down to gain Opel's third win of the season. Deila however began to have problems with a broken differ-ential. Mechanics locked up the differential so the car could continue in one wheel drive, but then he had a puncture which was necessary to change in mid-stage. This cost about six minutes so by stage 23 he had dropped to third, with Andreucci ahead and Loix now enjoying a ten minute lead. Renault had another blow when Oldrati retired his Clio Williams with driveshaft failure. In the overall· event, Liatti got comfortably ahead of Dallavilla while Cunico went nervously when he suffered a sticking accelerator, caused by damage to his car from his accident the day before. Snyers retired with more gearbox troubles which let Loix up to eighth place overall. In Group N Schachinger won as he pleased from Michele Tagliani's Astra F2 car and Giovanni Bandierini 's Escort Cos worth. So, it was over for the Formula 2 brigade, the Italian championship challengers live to fight one last time, and for a while, there was peace in Italy. If an event of limited appeal can be so conse-. quential, what is going to happen when the top championship cars meet in Catalunya and then the RAC. 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Mike Tieman, with Joe Ferrara and Brad Collie run the truck in Unlimited class, and they covered three laps in 3:44 before parking for the day. Defending points champions in Class 10 Robbie and Billy Goerke only had one problem, on lap 4, but it was a big one and they were well back in second in class. Steve Thompson and Wayne Lugo had their 4:44 lap on the fifth round, but they managed to hang on to third in Class 10 helping their points count for 1995. SNORE VEGAS 300 Robby Gordon Wins In His Ford Trophy-Truck By Jean Calvin Photos: Jimmy Messick Photography Robby Gordon took off like a rocket from the green flag, flying over ground near Jean, NV that he grew up on watching his dad Bob race. His Ford was nearly flawless, he stopped only for fuel, and won by nearly an hour overall. Every year SNORE holds their final series race with an effort to try something new to attract out of the area entries for their year end race traditionally held on the first weekend of December, usually in the El Dorado Valley near Boulder City. It worked well when SCORE had their awards banquet the same Saturday and a surprising number of racers dragged the car with them and ran the SNORE race before putting on their fancy clothes and going to the banquet. The whole day into night activity around the race was headquartered at the Gold Coast Hotel, as was the SCORE banquet. But things change, HORA is no more, 'and, while all the awards winners liked coming to Vegas, it was a good bit of mileage for many of them. So Page 38 SCORE moved their banquet to Waiting patiently tor his tractor San Diego; SNORE went looking trailer to arrive Robby Gordon for a home for their December was strolling around saying this event. could be anywhere USA. Yes For years the Class 8, and later there is a real town behind the Trophy-Trucks would show up glitter of the strip and nearly a one or more at this race to tune up million people live there. for Parker, and this year it was The entry included several Robby Gordon, determined his Californians, a few from Utah Ford Trophy-Truck would not who make this race an occasion fail him again. This was a longer for BORE members whose race than usual, 300 miles; no courses were already covered with need to hurry to a banquet snow, Barstow folk who normally anymore, and this year had tech run other series, and past inspection at Thumpers on champions from other series. It Flamingo near Boulder Highway was a curious mix and SNORE in the heart of Las Vegas on leaders were happy that other Friday afternoon into evening. people were _trying SNORE ---Tommy Bradley, his dad Tom and wife Kelly had a good time in the Class 2 racer and they whipped into second overall and in Unlimited class with no strain, the second in class too. March 1996 Racing. In all 59 cars had been registered to race. The start/fin-ish was at the familiar gravel pit, north of Jean off the old highway that parallels 1-15 heading north to Las Vegas. To use as much daylight as possible they started the race early, and all were on hand to race the familiar course that was the Gold Coast 300, now run in reverse. It is a nasty, silt laden, rock strewn run in either direction. The race started in bright sunshine with the six 1-2 Unlim-ited going off the line one every 30 seconds. They had five laps to cover. It wasn't long before Robby Gordon had passed the opposition and was first on the road and on time, followed in 13 minutes by the Tom Bradleys and Kelly Bradley in a Class 2 car. They had Mike Tieman and Joe Ferrara and Brad Collie just three more minutes back. Ne~t came Morgan Maiocco in his new Class 5 car, already had down time of close to 20 minutes, but carried on ahead of Jeff Quinn whose team only did the first lap. Maiocco managed a good 1 :29:40 lap in the Class 5 on lap 2 but was not seen again, out after two laps. Robby Gordon with Walt Virack and Larry Novak signed on as riders, was long gone. In fact he used the same time on the first two laps that some others used to cover the first lap. Bradley and Tieman were nearly tied on elapsed time after two laps. On lap 3 Tieman whipped off a 1:13:22 to take over second in class, but he did not come around again. Meanwhile the Bradley clan motored on with a 1:21:55 time for lap 3, while Robby did 1:07:46; he had set fastlap for the class on the first round of 1:04:33. On lap 4 Gordon stopped for fuel for the thirsty Ford then whipped off a 1 :06:50 to be sure the Ford was still healthy. It sure sounded healthy! His total time was 5:41 :46 for five laps of this rough and rugged sixty odd mile route, known as a car breaker. Robby said he had no trouble to speak of, enjoyed bouncing off the rocks and plowing silt ( if you haven't done it you can't under-stand the feeling) and stood around to have a sandwich with his crew. He didn't do his usual disappearing act he does at the big time races. He said he found out some things, which must have worked because about two months later he won the Trophy-Truck race at the Parker 400. Tommy Bradley drove the family Raceco VW home with a longer last lap, also took on fuel for that round, and he was second in Class 1-2 at 6:40:44, the only other finisher. He also had no trouble but he and his dad knew they couldn't match Gordon's speed so they just ran their own race and didn't beat up the car badly. Second was all it took for Tommy Bradley to win the Unlimited class championship. Class 10 was next away with 11 starters and several potential winners on the line. Robert and Mike Harmon, from LA, led the first lap with a 1 :20: 14 with James Price and Mike Baker, from Utah, only 30 seconds behind. Already out were Clay Flippen/Ronnie Thacker. But Steve Thompson and Wayne Lugo were just 40 odd seconds away from the lead and nobody else was close. The third lap was tight but the Harmons held a slim lead, just by 20 odd seconds over Thompson/Lugo and about a minute ahead of Price and Baker. This really brought the stop watches out of the tool boxes. At the end of two laps, Mark Davidge/Kevin Colan were missing, and John Gaughan/Pat Dean did not finish lap 3, nor did James Price and Mike Baker. So the competitive cars were suffer-ing end of the year blues. The · middle laps set the order as the ___ ...,.,__ Robert and Mike Harmon made the Checkers smile as they won Class 10, got fast lap for the class on the last round, and won the class by flbout 36 minutes and were third overall in the race. Dusty Times

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Ron and Travis Brookshire ran well in Class 10 until lap 4, over four hours, but they got fixed a few times, and finished fourth with a two hour lap. Morgan Maiocco, Richard Boyle and Jeff Smith tried out the new Class 5 Bug in Unlimited class, got in two laps before retiring from the competition. Todd Burt and Jeff Dunnam ran very consistent lap times until lap 5, but they may have had a flat. They finished fourth out of eight finishers in Class 1-2-1600. Goerke recovered from some · long laps and were looking at fourth, behind Ron and Travis Brookshire. Back running after a nearly five hour second lap were Ken Flippen and Tom Franczak, and they got through four laps before they ran out of time, credited with fifth place. Casey Jones, Cody Bliss and S. Michael Sena managed three laps, two long and one competitive, retiring in 5:22:24 for sixth in Class 10. Gene Griepentrog and Kent Lothringer showed off their new Class 10, moving up from Class 9, but new car bugs slowed them on the first two laps so they parked after lap 3 in seventh place. Only John Phegley's Oldsmobile makes wonderful noises. He runs in Heavy Metal four of the 11 starting cars class with Jerry Stewart, Steve Dixon and Richard Jarvis, and they won the completed five laps. class with three laps done in decent time at that. There were 14 on the line in Class 1-2-1600, but 13 of them followed La Rana champions John Prosser and Craig Forest all day, with three 1 :24s, a 1 :25 and a 1:26, they won by merely 4 and a half minutes, having no troubles. Up front Thompson and howlostournotesfromthisrace secondlap,butcamebacktodoa Harmon were nearly tied again on over the holidays so we can't tell 3:04 third lap. Then they retired three starters and the team of Scoring a 2 : 10:09 came Scott Kevin Streety and Jeff Lothringer Smith and Fred Nutsch in second. were way out front with class fast Esteban Geraldo and Samuel lap on the first one at 1:46:07. Flores Loya ~ lap 4 as Harmon turned fast lap you who broke what this round. the class winner. ~ for the class on the last lap at ThereweretwoinHeavyMetal-Class 5-1600 produced just 1: 1 7: 12, a class winning perform-class: John Phegley, Jerry -ance. The Harmons reported no Stewart, Steve Dixon and Richard -troubles at all on their swift Jarvis in the fanciful Oldsmobile journey. They were third overall I and Kevin and Julie Ruesch, Jack -at 6:42:48. Meanwhile Robbie · and W ill Bassett and Sammy Goerke was turning consistent Ehrenberg in a pickup truck. -times. and moving up while Phegley actually had the fast first -Thompson and Lugo had a lap at 2:05:08 while Ruesch and 4:44:05 lap to drop them to third company turned their fast lap of -place at a ten hour time. Goerke 1:38: 16 on the second round, but -did his fifth lap with no woes and that was also their last round. So took second in class at 8:18:06 they ended up second. The -and the were ha y. l ,~ sqme-Phegley group had a 5 :05:09 --Robbie Guevara kept the leaders in Class 1-2-1600 in sight all the way but just couldn't pass. He finished close in his spiffy new car and he also had no serious trouble. Bekki Freeman had three good laps, then troubles began, but she kept the car going forward to finish a fine third in the very competitive 1600 class, ahead of her father and her brother. Dusty Times -----.. -------------------111111 NEVADA'/ LARGEJT OFFROAD, /AND, JTREET VW PART.I JTORE WE CARRY AURORA, PYROTECT, PARKER PUMPER TURBO BLUE, VDO, CACTUJ RACING BAKER BATTERIEf, JWAY A WAY WRIGHT Pl.ACE,· EARi/, YOKOHAMA ./UPER TRAP, JWEPCO, TANAKA BUG PACK, I&J, CHENOWTH UMP, BELL HELMET/, KEP, JACO FODDRIL, UNI-FILTER March 1996 K&N, TRI-MIL, PERMA COOL BEARDI, PIM, DIRT BAGZ FOX IHOXf, COMP-U-FIRE WEBER CARBJ , /AND TIRE/ & RIM/ RIP ROD, CNC, CENTERLINE, ULTRA, CU/TOM & COMMERCIAL WHEEL JIMPJON, /CAT & MORE 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89102 HOURS: . MON-FRI 9AM TO 6PM SAT 9 AM TO 5PM (702) 871-4911 (702) 871.-5221 FAX --------.. -------.. ---.. ---------------Page 39

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-Kevin Streety and Jeff Lothringer could have coasted home to the win in 5-1600s after three laps, but after four laps they were second by 28 seconds. Defending champion in Class 9, DOUfl Ingram had a two hour second lap, the other three were good ones and he finished second in class at 9:20:36. Glenn Cain and Todd Bingham seemed to have troubles most of the day, but they plugged along and finished third in Class 9 over an hour back of second. Scott Smith and Fred Nutsch really had to work for their win in Class 5-1600 running second all day, but they kept going well and finished to win the class by merely 28 seconds after four tough laps. P'" were third. Streety and Robbie Guevara with Prosser and Lothringer slowed their pace with over a minute lead and the to 2: 16:02 on lap 2. Smith was up other three in the same minute. to 2:03:59 and Geraldo/ Loya had Next lap Robbie Guevara gained vanished after one lap. Up front on and passed Bekki Freeman on Streety /Lothringer continued to time by over a minute into second lead and now Smith/Nutsch were place, Prosser /Forest did another just a few seconds behind and 1:24 to maintain their lead and were in sight. The leaders turned Brad Inch was gone. Kenny up the wick to 2: 17:51 for lap 3 Freeman had moved into fourth and they had only lap 4 to cover just less than a minute ahead of his for a finish. The Streety /Loth-dad Ken Freeman Sr. and Jim ringer Bug used an extra 20 Baker/Mike Flinn were working minutes on the last lap which their way back from a 2:45 first dropped them to second at the lap. The third lap brought disaster flag. Smith/Nutsch turned a to Kenny Freeman Jr. and he was 2:06:55 to win by just 28 seconds. out of the race with two laps done It was a real cliff hanger and a in 11th place. Prosser/Craig did a good two Bug race. 1:25 lap to hold the lead, but Class 1-2-1600 fielded 14 cars Guevara also did a 1:25 and was a couple regular La Rana Racers at gaining on the leaders.Todd Burt that. Two didn't finish a lap and and Jeff Dunnam moved into the first round. contest was fourth where they finished, Bekki between John Prosser/ Craig Freeman held third with a 1:47:27 Forest, Bekki Breeman, Brad Inch and her father had a 2: 10:29 lap HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We 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 our 11 gallon "Fast-Fill" dump cans. Both new products can save you race time. Race Smarl -Be Sate 103 Press Ln. #4 • Chula Vista, CA 91910 • (619) 691-9171 • FAX (619) 691-0803 Page 40 Coming out of the herd of 13 in Class 9 to surprise the regulars was the man from Barstow, James Clements. He turned consistent and quick lap times and won Class 9 by about 12 minutes. Regan Gubler gave the family rides in the Sportsman two seater, and he also had class fast lap on the first round, covered all four laps in good time of 8:25:40 and won Sportsman Buggy class. dropping a couple of places. next with a 1 :44:39, followed by John Prosser and Craig Forest Matt Cunningham, 1:45:03, but charged on with a 1:26:42, but the ranks soon thinned out. Mark Robbie Guevara turned a 1:24:48, Bunderson did only one lap and and the race was between these not making a single lap were M. two on the last lap. Prosser and Dayne Bracken/Tim Logsdon Forest produced a 1:24:09, fast and Bill Avery, A .J . Delap, lap for the class to win Class Robert Uszynski and Tom 1-2-1600 b)' 4½ minutes. Robbie Brown. Six were out after one lap, Guevara had a flat that cost those the rough course taking a big toll. four minutes but came in a solid All but one had trouble on lap 2 secondinclassat7:09:46. With a and that was Barstow's James longfourthlapanda l:39:30final Clements and Bobby Wallace, lap Bekki Freeman was third in who had a 1:48:03 and a 1:46:32 class at 7:43:25. Todd Burt and for two of the required four laps. Jeff Dunnam held on in fourth at Both Ingram and Glenn Cain had 8:03:15. George Kautz, who two hour laps, and both Brett moved up the ladder in the closing lap was fifth at 8:29:50 followed by Ken Freeman Sr., his grand-daughter Day Gang who drove two laps and Robert Young who rode the distance in sixth. One of the favorites Jeremy Gubler had problems all day and finished seventh, Lorenzo Rodriguez and Mike Rebolledo were eighth, the last five lap finisher. Neither the Jim Baker car or Eric and Andre Gremm went the distance. So eight of the original 14 finished five laps. North and Matt Cunningham were in the 3.5 hour range and Earl West came in at 2:53:36. Doing well, now in second place, was Eric Shenberger and Lori Vitek, and Ingram was third. Shenberger held second through three laps, but didn't finish the fourth round, credited with seventh place. Finishing four laps in sixth place were Earl West, Genevieve Aiken and Chris Morris, and Matt Cunningham was fifth also with four laps completed, two of them under two hours, but he couldn't overcome the 3 .5 hour second lap. Leading the pack home was many time HORA champion James Clements with Bobby Wallace, with laps 3 and 4 at 1:50:14 and 1:44:04. They got faster as they learned the course and won Class 9 at 7:08:53. They had no trouble, not even a flat. Getting close was Doug Ingram who finished a strong second at 7:20:36. Nobody else was close. Glen Cain and Todd Bingham were third at 8:46:53 and the Brett North, David Jones, Kurt Carson team was fourth at 9:P3:23. Matt Cunningham sal-vaged fifth at 9:24:04 while Earl West, Genevieve Aiken, Chris Morris were close in sixth. The four mentioned above only did one lap and both Jason Romans and Brian Fieger were listed as DQ. It was family day for the winning car in Sportsman Buggy as Regan Gubler took most of his youngsters, Tammie, Jason, and Jenni for a ride. He turned fast class lap on the first one at 1:36:43 and settled in to change riders every lap. Jay Shain was in with a 1 :39:42 and nobody else was close. Jamey Cannedy, Doug Barnett, Jim Nolan, Micah Perida were running third. Gary T achell, was fourth, Dennis Wessel-dine lJ a y Pie·rce, fifth, David Villafana, Mark Rockwell and Brian Balch, sixth, but they all only did one lap. Shain took over the lead on lap 2, Cannedy was tfF" rnltifiiP'! Class 9 contained its usual herd of 13 cars and a couple of out-landers were in this field also. Jeff Carr took off fast, turned fast class lap at 1 :41 :05 but that was his only lap. Doug Ingram was Charles F. David, Charles M. David, Al Rux and Rick Wilson have a good time with this fancy Toyota Sportsman truck, and they won the class covering three laps. March 1996 Dusty Times

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The trio of Brett North, David Jones, Kurt Carson hadproblems, one three hour lap, but they pressed on to finish the race fourth in Class 9. Jamey Cannedy, Doug Barnett, Jim Nolan, and Mich Perida covered three laps in Sportsman Buggy class scoring second place out of seven who started. Tanya, Christopher, Roger and Robert Gray and Lisa Fugua also have a good time taking second with two laps done in Sportsman Trucks in the Chevy that they drive to the track and hopefully drive it home. second, Gubler third, and the others vanished into the desert. Gubler got moving on the second half with a 1 :37:03 and then a 2:41:52 lastlap to win in8:25:40. Jamey Cannedy and company got in three laps for second place and Jay Shain did two rounds for third. John McCormick /Mike Frazier were a DQ. There were three in Sportsman Truck and Mike Snodgrass and his group got class fast lap but that was his only lap. Tanya, Roger, California Rally Series By John Elkin Things seem to be temporarily patched up between the rally community and the SCCA, and for the next year at least we will continue to be under the same rules as last season. There is the possibility that new rules could be introduced during the year, how-ever it would seem unlikely that the committee that was chosen to represent us would let something major interrupt our season. Henry Joy, Jim Kloosterman and Bob Grass are our representatives concerning ironing out troubles with the proposed new rules package. With the new season in front of us and the awards now behind us we can start looking forward to the revised schedule of events. While some are still even now tentative and one still unsure we do know that Rim of the World retains its May date. Prescott will be moving to early October. Gorman is now August 10th, while T reeline will be September 7th. Indio has announced a Robert, Christopher Gray and Lisa Fugua were running second but they did just one more lap of 5 ½ hours and retired in second place. Up front the Charles David and Charles M. David, Al Rux and Rick Wilson combine turned a 1 :55 first lap, covered three laps and parked with no competition running. Their three lap time was 7:26:41 and they were a happy group, even though the night was getting chilly. The checks and trophies were change in format from its usual East of Indio to a point to point rally from Palm Springs to Las Vegas, a date is not set as yet. The Reno event will be July 6th under the direction of the Northwests's John Forespring; this should be a fun event in a new area for most of you. The rallysprint events are in question now as finding a home for the event has proved harder than usual. It would be a shame to have a sprintless year however we are hoping for something to come together soon. Some of these dates are of course, tentative, they do clash with several long stand-ing dates for Northwest divisional events, and hopefuly our organiz-ers and theirs can work something out quickly to avoid conflicts. There are some rally events happening in Ensenada under the direction of some locals who have been producing good events on the Baja peninsula for some time now, including former off road racer Willie Valdez. Tony Chavez is doing some promotion for the event, contact him for informa-tion if you have not received any-thing in the mail yet. The first event is happening on February 10th, then a full Mexican National event on June 29th. ANYONE WHO'S ANYONE READS DUSTY TIMES THE ORLY WAY TO KEEP tJP OR OFF ROAD! Dusty Times scheduled to be distributed at the race course, but it was dark and getting colder, so we did not stay for the festivities. We did get the point standings in the mail, and Class 9 driver Doug Ingram topped them all for the big money. Jeremy Gubler was second, 150 points back running a 1-1600 car as was Kenny Free-man Jr. in third place. Then it was more Class 9 drivers, Eric Shenberger in fourth and Jeff Carr in fifth on overall points stand-National events are two days long. I have been down to see the roads and they are some of the finest rally roads I have ever seen. There has been some vehicle exchanging going on in the CRS. The former Dela Cuesta Plymouth Arrow has been sold to Jose Pau-letti while the Della Cuesta Toyota Corolla is now in the hands of a newcomer to competing in rally. There are also some new people entering the sport in a Subaru that was purchased from the Reno area and once owned by Gerry Valentini. Dave Turner's Ply-mouth Arrow was sold to people in Ensenada organizing the new events down there. There are some good cars for sale still, check the CRS mailing for listings as well as here in Dusty Times. Seems as though our new stock class chairman is taking the job very seriously to make sure that every car competing in stock or performance stock class con-forms to the rules as written.John Moore has made several trips to wrecking yards and dealers getting specifications on control arm lengths, tie rod and center link specs, available options and such. John has been taking photos of steering and suspension set ups for a visual reference to see if mounting points and geometry has been changed. Also engines will be checked for illegal dome top or pop-up pistons, and engine location. Looks like the first stock class inspection of the year will be a longer than usual affair. The CRS is trying to get it's own site started in the Internet on , the World Wide W eh, look for it soon. This will be my final column for the California Rally Series, and in Dusty Times for some time. Personal reasons demand I 1 take a break from duties as CRS Press Liaison, and while I will · miss writing these articles for us · and the National series I will still be an active member of the CRS and the Board of Governors. I thank you all for all your support over the years. Harris Done and a cast of helpers will be taking over the job of getting this column and rally articles out on a monthly basis. It's been fun ... March 1996 ings. We'll have a full report on where they finished and how much they won soon and you will be amazed at how much they win in the SNORE points at year's end. In classes, Tommy Bradley won Class 1-2, Robbie Goerke won Class 10 and Jeremy Gubler won Class 1-2-1600. Class 9 went to Doug Ingram, of course. Class 5 went to Derek Holt, Class 5-1600 belonged to Kevin Streety and Heavy Metal was John Phegley and his Oldsmobile. This series has some good financial backing, super bonus money each race, so more and more people this year are expected to make the trek from California and Arizona to Las Vegas and test the rocks, silt, fast pole line roads, all the good things about off road racing with friendly people, convenient tech hours on Friday, and usually a complimentary breakfast on Sunday at the awards presen-tation. See you there. Coming Next Month ••. SCORE Parker 400 La Rana New Years 250 SNORE Roadhouse 200 McKenzies Glen Helen Series -Round 1 FRT King of the Desert Granada-Dakar Rally Raid •.• Plus all the regular features BIGGER IS BETTER l..fpgrade the C.V.s and torsion axles on your pre-runner, l"RS Baja Bug or limited horsepower off road race car by letting us convert your stub axles and_ transmission output bells to accept the larger C.V. ioints .. Convert Type I stub axles and output bell to accept Type 11 or Type IV or 930 C.V. Convert Type II stub axles and output bell to accept 930 C. 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VEGAS TO RENO 1996 Last Call For Co111pctitors To Join The Action First stop for pits will probably be Goodsprings, and this place plans to open especially for the race. It is fascinating inside, real old west memorabilia, complete with old photos of famous visitors. Most people think of gambling . race in the United States and it when they think of Nevada, which covers some wildly beautiful areas has its own breed of 24 hour a day of desert and mountains. In the excitement. Now off roaders have mountains, in particular, you will a chance to put new off road sail over trails never used for excitement in their lives by racing before, through pinion participating in this incredible off pine forests and yes a few nasty road race that will not only run rocks. The route is kept secret the distance, 500 some miles, except for a full escorted pre-run from Las Vegas to Reno, off the the weekend before the race, but pavement, but be well supported, in general it will leave the Las and in February had over 300 Vegas area somewhere around the entries, about 70 of them cars and former Sloan area, cross under trucks. Granted the organizers the freeway, and wind its way up come from the Best in the Desert to around Goodsprings. Good-Motorcycle Race Organization springs will probably be a group, but frankly they do a fine designated pit area, and then you job, as good if not better than car wind your way west to Johnnie, racers are used to seeing. and past Crystal before heading This is to be the longest off road north on roads familiar to those . We took a side trip to Goldfield to see how the restoration of this old and huge ~ hot-el was doing. It had stopped, out of money, but in the town's heyday Teddy Roosevelt stayed here as did Captains of Industry. The school house, now closed in Goldfield is a classic also, and peering in the windows it looks to only need a good scrubbing to be used again. Dusty Times who ran the Frontier 500 some years ago, and they are still silty. You pass Beatty just outside town, trudge on north up in the foothills green with trees and on to Tonapah, which will probably have a major pit area near the airport. There the route heads west again, comes close to Hawthorne before heading north again, and if you are in a slower class you may need a jacket when day turns to night here. You keep heading northwest toward Reno, use a bit here and there of VORRA courses out of Yering-ton, cross Hwy 95 for the last time, go up in the foothills again, drop down to the Carson River and find a major checkpoint in Dayton. You have to be an entrant to get the full directions for you and your pit crew. Spectators are not especially welcome at off the beaten path checkpoints. That is all we have been able to find out about the course by press date in mid-February. The Rio _ Hotel in Las Vegas ( on Flamingo West) is hosting the start activities and tech inspection, and right now it is twice as big as they ever dreamed it would be. The motorcycles have plenty of contingency donors and spon-sors, but only a few have signed on from the car ranks. We expect to see more after San Felipe. The official pre-run has already happened on February 16, 17, 18 but only those who paid a deposit to enter the race were eligib)e for the pre-run. NO, You c_an't pre-run if you missed it. If you are caught on the Vegas to Reno course anytime else the entry will be disqualified. The Pit Support' book should be done then. But if you are planning to enter do it quick as the drawing for start· positions in the Vegas to Reno Race has been set for March 1 in Las Vegas. Information bulletin on lights, states: "On Friday March 29 (Race Day) Sunrise is at 5:32 a.m. in Las Vegas and Sunset in Dayton, Nevada is at 6:16 p.m." For cars it would be prudent to at least hav~ lights available to install at northern pits. The race headquarters in Reno March 1996 '\, .,,_ . :;, ___ ., . ;k, ""' . -':-:-·½-.: , ,, Of course on our press pre-run in the lsuzus we had many unscheduled stops to read our map and some comfort stops too. Isuzu is the official vehicle of the Vegas to Reno event . • is the Peppermi!l Hotel and Casino and it has doubled and redoubled in size since we went there the first time. It is complete with towers, a bewildering array of ways to get from here to there, and in the back parking lot is the original building, all that was there when we finished the Frontier 500 which they also hosted. After they drawing, by the way, your race number will be mailed to you. Souviners abound for this race, Fanny Packs and Vegas to Reno gear bags go to the early entries, before the drawing we think. All will receive at registration lots of items including decal, jackets, T-shirts, hat and pin or at the final Driver/Rider registration at the Rio Hotel on Thursday March 28. ONLY in Nevada and only in the Vegas to Reno race. There will be a gas stop so unique that it will get a lot of attention from all. GAS STOP #7 will be in the Parking Lot of the world famous COTTO NT AIL RANCH and who knows who might even see a "COTTONTAIL" or two! The Best in the Desert group will have the best race communications and monitoring systems known to off road racing. This will assure the safety of all entries. And Yes, you can drink the water in Nevada and speak the Language! ESPN II is doing a television special on the race; the deal is it will include the whole race and the TV time is for everyone, not one group. We do have on board cameras for cars and trucks and helmet cameras for bikes and quads if you or your sponsor are interested in buying time check with the organizers. By the way this is a totally marked course, Arrows, ribbon, danger, wrong way signs and mile markers every mile, and you must stay on it. If you don't it is instant DQ. They plan on doing this race every year, on the marked trails so don't get off course. It will be heavily monitored. A SPECIAL APOLOGY from Best.m the Desert to all Trophy-T ruck owners for using the name Trophy Truck on the Vegas to Reno entry. Our intent was to offer the Trophy-Trucks a class to race the Vegas to Reno not realizing we shouldn't use the name. So \Ve apologize and offer you a class called Trick Truck for the Vegas to Reno event; it will be professional only status. Come race the excitement West·coast Distributor· fOR HEWLAND OFF ROAD GEARS ALL GEARS __ . 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~------- - - - ---- -GOOD STUFF DIRECTORY Chassis And Suspension For Racing And Recreation MIKE MONOHAN 1320 N. Miller St. #B Anaheim, CA 92805 (714) 524-1050 ENGINEERED FUEL CELLS • Lightweight and Rugged •Complete Fuel Scavenging • Standard Sizes, 8 to 44 gallons •SODA and SCORE approved Leaders in Custom Fuel Cell Design and Fabrication. -"!■•• a RACING FUEL CELLS 800-526-5330 RAMSEY, NJ USA UTOC ENGINES PARTS - SERVICE 1100 CUSTER ROAD TOLEDO, OHIO 43612 1-800-356-6586 419-476-3711 ' Off-Road Fiberglass • Off-Road Truck Fabrication Urethane Bushings & Hood Pins • Suspension & Roll Cages John Ehmke ·10996 N. Woodside Ave. Santee, CA 92071 (619) 562-1740 FAX (619) 562-6151 . RACE CAR SALES & EXPORT Off-Road Fabrication & Accessories Export & Int'l Sales Race Car Preparation Consulting & Management 6630 MacArthur Dr.•Lemon Grove•CA-91945 619) 583-6529•FAX (619) 583-1851 . HELMET~/Fl,LTERED Al~ SYSTEMS ' Featuring Arai & Bell Helmets BDR: • McKenzJes {714) _65_0~566_ (714) 441-:ti1~ SUSPENSION SEATS IN FIVE STYLES NETS • TOOLBAGS• HARNESSPADS N...L SEATS CAN BE SHIPPED UPS BEARD'S ''SUPER·SEATS'' ED & BARBARA BEARD BRANDWOOD CARS 208 4th Avenue E. Buckeye, AZ ·s532_6 (602) 386-2592 Custom Vehicle Shifter for mid-engines and other applications . 602-437-3:107 .. ~ el' I 0-'',H?I en PRE-FUN Curt LeDuc 39067 Orchard St Cherry Valley, CA 92223 (909)-845-8820 -Our Specialty Race Trucks Pr~Runners 84-89 Ranoer Fiberglass Dimple Dies Get the word out about your biliineas, big or small. • Put your busineu card in the "GOOD STUFF DIRECTORY" and reach new customen. . . G~ St_uff Directory Ads . . are merelv$_25 .. 00 per month. Sheryl Cannon, C.P.A. MILLER & CANNON CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 260 S. GLENDORA AVE., SUITE 201 WEST COVINA, CA 91790 (818) 919-1011 FAX (818) 919-0211 BILL & DIANNE THOMPSON ===CARRERA PHOTOGRAPHY (714) 969-6820 P.O. BOX 522:1 • BUENA PARK, CA 90622 - -HRMPIDN w1H1e•e1L*c 1o ~ 8 " · 9 " • 1 O" • 13" · 15 " · 16" · 17" RACING WHEEL BEAD LOCKS § /p(Q) ~ 71' .. [L (Q) cc 1K SIMULATED BEAOLOCK COVER 1671 NORTH BRAWLEY AVE. FRESNO. CA 93722 (209) 275-5183 FAX (209) 276-2365 LI., CNC:J Manufacturers of , · • 1 Broke and Clutch Pedal Assy _ _ Master Cylinders Slave Cylinders CNC, Inc. ·1221 West Morenatlvd. San Diego, CA.'921"10 (619) 275-1663 Cuttihg and Staging Brakes Hydraulic Throttles Throttle Pedals · arid all of our accessories. FLOATER REAR END.S • fRONT HUBS• AXLES BALL JOINTS• TORSION BARS• KNOCK OFF HUBS Sandy Cone 2055 Hangirg Tr~e Lane • (805) 239-2663 Templeton, CA 93465 MIKE • GAYLE • JON • DAVE • VIC • ANDY ~ da,, @I;~~ Parts, Equipment, Accessories & Service 4-Wheel Drive - Mini Trucks Pre-Runners - Race Prep -2-Wheel Driv~ 3209-A Thousand Oaks Blvd. • Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 (805) 494-RACE • (805) 495-6119 • (805) 495~3344 FAX(805)495-2339 G,RACINGI ,..-~A~!!!~~E I "Official Gas of NASCAR,, CALL FOR YOUR NEAREST DISTRIBUTOR 1-800-669-4504 0ISTRIBUTORSHIPS AVAILABLE COSBY OIL COMPANY. SANTA FE SPRIN_GS, CA DE HERMAN DeNUNZIO (805) 683-1211 P.O. B.ox 6057 $enta·E3arbara, CA 93111

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(" ,"':\fi£'.Cf MANIJFACTUIIEllS <JI': ~ ' bRAKE ANO CLUTCH. ASSY PEIIFORAIANCEPnOWCTS MAST Ell CYl,J NOERS SI.AVE CYLJNOEHS TIJll!"ING & STAGING llHAKES SHI FT£RS AV,\JLAJlLE AT FINEH Sl'EClAI.TY SHOPS DEALER JNQURIES WELCOME :570 CENTRAL AVENUE ~-BLDG C .,....._.;__,;_·I lAKE ELSINORE, CA 92530 909-245-6050 FAX 909!745-6052 ,PEnFORMMJCEPRooucrs -JAMES GANG RACING PRODUCTS ARLINGTON SHEET METAL CORP. U4U Imperial Hwy. • Santa Fe Spnrtll • 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 (31 0) 921-2693 Fax (310) 926-0699 Owner James Hall JG TRANSWERKS 'Go with a Proven Winner· Desert, Short Course & Street VW Racing Transmissions J·oe Giffin 1509 N: Kraemer, Unit 0 Anaheim. California 92806 JtMCO (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 Jonss Mo,orspons CUSTOM FABRICATION 138 SANTA FELICIA DRIVE SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117 Jon K1nne Shop: (805) 968-1067 Fax: (805) 968-3438 Electrical Wiring Desert and Stadium Transmissions Gauge Assemblies Automatic Trans. Specialist 809-F N. LAKEVIEW AVE-PLACENTIA, CA 92670 TEL/FAX 714-779-2316 KARIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 3463 Massillon Road, Sui1e B Uniontown, Ohio 44685 216-699-1777 Fax: 216·699-1771 Athene Karis -HONDA OUT BOARD ENGINE• GENERATOR SPECIALIST Kawaguchi Honda Corp. 3532 EAST 3RD ST. LOS ANGELES, CA 90063 ART KAWAGUCHI FAX (213) 264-2136 (213) 264-~8~ KUSTER OFF-ROAD RACING SHOCKS • 3" DIAMETER, 8" TO 18" STROKE · • 2" DIAMETER, 6" TO 14" STROKE • AIR JACKS • BALL JOINTS KUSTER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 2900 E. 29th STREET, P.O. BOX 7038 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA USA 90805 . T~LEPHONE (31 O} 595-0661 POWER E STEERING THOMAS E. LEE LEE MFG. CO. 11661 PENDLETON STREET SUN VALLEY. CA 91352 (818) 768-0371 A lull line o! Powe• !:itee,ing gear~. pumps ano acc,1ssoriet for a:-:)' type ol raci!)g. Magnt,,llux and Zyglo facllitii:3 . 11vail;,ble. OFF ROAD SHOCK SERVICE iiG'HTo ii RACING ·e1LST~IN * FQX * MOTQRCYCLE . 15454 .KL CENTRO HUAD 619-244-9075 HESPERIA, CA 92l45 LIN CO TEMPERATURE STRIPS Easy to usa, Inexpensive & accurate! All strips are salf adhesive and labeled in Fahrenheij and Celsius. Strips are $2.00 each or $1.75 each over ten. For a FREE brochure or to order, contact: LINCO 13337 E. South St .• #344 Cerritos, CA 9070 I Phone/Fax: (714) 821-6542 Engineering REVERSIBLE ST~IPS allow constant te,mperature monitor-ing Ranges from 32 to 194 F. IRREVERSIBLE STRIPS record the maximum temperature reached of the item they are applied lo. Ranges from 120• to 555°F. • CUSTOM CHASSIS • RACEPREP • ALUMINUM WORK • WELDING • ROLL CAGES FABRICATION/RACE PREPARATION 416 FLEETWOOD GLENDORA, CA 91740 818-857-RACE 818-852-8852F AX KENT LOTHRINGER Assembly- Machine Work ,Parts Engine Dyno Fadltty 10722 Kenney Street, Suite C Santee, CA 91071 619-!596-0886 619-596-0625F AX KenM~ PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS "OFFROAD IS OUR BUSINESS" 2366 E. Orangethorpe Ave. Anaheim, CA 92806 Tel (714) 441-1212 Fax(7l4) 441-1622 ,. ETAL SPIN.MING ~~R ALL _INDUSTRIES C~II (310) 928-9838 SUNDRY METAL CRAFTS ~ =LANGED DISC • \ \ I 6729 Suva St. Bel! Gardens, CA 90201 MENDEOLA RACING 'Volkswagen -Porsche -Hewland OH-Road & Stadium Racing Transmissions Parts & Service 290 TROUSDALE #1&.J CHULA VISTA CA 91910 619-691-1000 FAX 619-691-1324 . Mi T II & IVOA K~ ~ DrE_S;_.;.1-=G...c..N~-•-=D=--=E:...:V=--=E=-=Lc.:=O::..:P....=.M=EN'...=T-=--•__!_P~R~O~D~U~C~Tl~O~N • w _s;.,.,,.,,L/.'~.'~-/ , D A ► ~ ,,_,_,,.,-~ ~ ~Aa ~ E ■ Pre Runner.s • Aluminum Bodies ,t Dashes ~ R~~ ~ (909) 877-2923 ! 1245 N. Fitzgerald Ave. Suite 107 ~ Rialto, California 92376 c G WELDING ■ HELIARC WELDING • ~

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805-940-5515. • •4,-;,4 ·••4,•44 • 1490 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 79936 [9415] 1357-5200 MuclclOFE· PUC IC -..,_.. You .. e II OIII . KEEPS MUD, DIRT AND DEBRIS FROM STICKING . WILL NOT HARM PAINT, STICKERS, PLASTICS OR METALS . ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE COMPLIES WITH ALL TRACK REGULATIONS -. MUD, DIRT AND DEBRIS COME RIGHT OFF! FOR DEALER INQUIRIES OR TO FIND A DISTRIBUTOR NEAR YOU, CALL (800) 7◄2-2122 Ro£lcl Bussy· Race Car Chassis Race ·car Parts Aluminum bodies 1/2-1600 Motors And Trans Custom Machine . Work & Fabrication S11-11pply 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, Az, 853_65 ({,02) 783-6265 • 1(800)231-8156 · PARKER PUMPER· VINEYARD ONTARIO, CA 9176i 909-923-7016 FAX 909-923-3118 HELMET COMPANY PATTON K~CI1'JG I:1'1GI1~I:~ ENGINE BUILDING, TESTING & DEVELOPMENT Leon Patton 42646 Chambers Ave. PhJFAX (909) 927-5304 Hemet, CA 92544 Jerry Penhall 714 • 650 • 3035 Fax 714 • 650 • 4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. #B Costa Mesa, CA 92627 * AD Types ol Steel fl Aluminum Fabrication *TUNBeadinc Pedorman • .Almainum ti lteel W.ldinc E . . * Custom Machine Work * AU Type• ol Race Cars ~S W. Flaminso lld. Lu Vegas, NV 89H3 Bruce Fraley (702) 31+9eH ~\lt> stu1, ~ ~ ~ Todd Francis ~ Pr1ci1io11 I/Joy, /,/d, rll. 700 N.E. 117th StrHt II i Vancouver, WA 98&SS.$ ;o~ ~ Phone ~~. 4(0-~ Fax 360-574-5474 lon & 360~516-1109 STEVE BARTON • OWNERS LEE FINKE .RACESHOCK HOENIX, ARIZONA COMPANY light Truck, Sport Utility, RV & Racing Shocks 1711 West Culver #1 Phoenix, Arizona 85007 t!"ARACING VIII GASOLINE Rough Country Off-Road Racing Shocks TEL: (602) 254-0744 FAX:.(602) 493-0975 av gas • alcohol nitromethane Steve Poole .. - • -•••••• -•••• •J'I awL•••••••~••••• 13415 Carmenlta Road Santa Fe Spring,, CA 90670 (310 )802-8913 Tel (310) 80.2-0274 Fax • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Fuel handling & storage Equipment • Distributorships Available •••• ····~cD • • • • ··•. •••• RACE CAR DYNAMICS OFF ROAD RACE CARS 35152 FOWL.ER CYN RO. JAMUL., CA 91935 PH. CS1SJ 440-2814 FAX CS 1 SJ 1588-4237 JIM ASBURY RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 CHRIS ROSE (619) 443-2480 ----------------------1 · iTERCOM SYSTEMS - HELI\-IETS WIRED - HAND HELD RADIOS , ·· A.c"ITENNAS - LEASING DALE JOHNSON 10319 LOS AIA~rrros BLVD. (310)-59 .... 9418 -4.JS.~A.jq_720 (310)-594-4397 FAX WILLSrrRUSTS, OTIIER 1\-11\. TTERS TERESA M. SANDERS ATTORNEY AT LAW TELEPHONE (8181 892-2688 MOSER & SANDERS 16921 PARTHENIA STREET, SUITE 301 SEPULVEDA, CALIFORNIA 9 l343 SANDRAIL CITY ABEX lined VW otr-road drum brake shoes T-1 or T-.J + Lock up -Ike dfsc brakes +Won't destroy drums T-1 & T-3 drum brake kits available for serious performance 541-82'-2117 LAURA 5681 Crater Lake Hwy Central Point. OR 97502 RICHARD S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT" HCR66, BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV 89041 (702) 372-5335 S E C R E T S (NOI .. OGY) Ignition Products OF SPEED Ike Bruckmann <manager) 3089-C Clairemont Dr. #249 San Diego, CA 92117 (619) 581-6214 S!!!M~~~! ('_,(Pi7 Computerized Vinyl Lettering /< lf.c_~ ,\:J c,\L... TIM CECIL f ~ \-V'-" . . ~Lu · 4010 N. Palm Street, #103, Fullerton, California 92635 (714) 447-3581 Fax (714) 870-9132

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Adam Wik 1994SCORE 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 PlJlll IC RFI IITIONS & MARKETING Eo HEUVINK WIND R I V E R G R O U P PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING CONSULTANTS EDWIN C . .:JACOBS PRESIDENT . soo·sTATE MILL ROAD AKRON, OHIO 44319 (216) 644-7774 Off Road Race Truclfs • Pre Runners Off Road Products Front and Rear Tra~ing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 4.::rtl!>sis Design • Engineering • Fab,-ication CAlTl'NHAGEHRMT 5511, 1411 CS NAARDEN TIIE NETHF.Rl.ANl>S Dale White Racing 3940 Maranatha Circle Las Vegas, NV 89103 TE1. 011.J 1.2159 ~?464. FAx 01 i.31.2j59 53452. 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix. AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 10Z-B11-1661 HOME 011.31.30 210095 Classified ••• FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Super-cab, Stockmini Racetruck/Pre-runner, street legal, mild 2.91 w/headers flow meter, c4 8.8 .. w/ 4 .56 1/s, Foxes, Nationals, Autometer ArtCarr, Simpson, Earls, Mallory, BFG, Ultra, Custom driveshaft w/spare etc. etc.Truck was 3rd@ Parker and is obviously fresh. $14,000.00 (520) 753-FORD Macrae. FO : 1-1 suspension unlimited FAT motor, DJ Trans w/FTC, FOX, Beard, Jamar, CNC, Nw Saco Magnum rack, Wright, Reid Pro, Parker Pumper, Ump. Spares include Wright Rack, Combos, Etc! Comes with helmet/suit Too! Fast reliable and competitive! $8,500.00 oho (619) 248-7705. FOR SALE: Prerunner two seat buggy. Fat performance tuned motor, fresh trans, Fox Shox w/reservoirs. Double bead lock Centerlines Spare tires and parts. Very reliable $3,300.00 Call Mark @ day (714) 237-1055 evening (714) 280-8086. FOR SALE: 94 Raceco Ss, Fortin, Kusters, CNC, Wilwood, all the best stuff Class 10 or 1 no motor. $20,000.00 oho, must sell. ALSO 26' ProAm box trailer has cabinets, awnings and lights. $2,750.00 oho (805) 963-2411 days, nights and weekends (805) 963-0961 may consider cash and trade. FOR SALE: Raceco 2 seat 3 .5 Porsche, Electromotive fuel injection, Fox Shox, Summers Hubs, Fortin Trans, Fodrill front arms & spindles, $35,000.00 ALSO: Raceco2 seat Prerunner. Fox Shox, long travel front and rear, 2 .6 fresh type 4 Bus trans, Hewland gears, $13,000.00 Stuart Chase (818) 841-2316 pager (818) 559-9193. Dusty Times FOR SALE: Bunderson rolling chassis. Snore Class 10 2nd overall 94 & 95. Wright 4 ... arms set up for progressive front end, SAW, CNC, Beard, Parker, fuel cell, Charlynn, Fox, 2 sets of body panels. Call quick, divorce lawyer wants money! (702) 496-1216. FOR SALE OR TRADE: Class 1 or 10 car. Moly frame. Fox, Wright, Palmer, Raceco arms, Secondary, Fuel Safe, Summers floaters, UMP, Neal, Centerlines, Yoko's, Beard, trades considered. What you Got!! $14,500.00 oho.· Call Large Trucking (520) 763-7880. Califomia Rally Series Report By Hams Done FOR SALE: '89 Chenowth Mini Good news for rallyists in the Mag, 93 La Rana Class Champ! CRS and all across the country. Yamaha built 570cc water cooled The SCCA Board has backed off motor. 16 .. of travel front and its demands for major change~ to rear, Bilstein coil overs, rear has the PRO Ral_ly rules w.h1ch bump stops, disc brakes all threatened to kill stag~ rallying as around. Good spares package!· we k?~"'. 1t by makm.g 1t cost $9,500.00 contact Baja Concepts proh1b!ttve f<;>r organizers and Ref #471 (619) 583-6529. competitors alike. . ===::,:1 The only major changes we will see are mandatory wristbands for competitors, crews, organizers and workers to ensure waiver restrictions have been met; and proof of insurance will be necessary for all service vehicles. We will also see an end to open servicing. Service routes will be required in an attempt to control service vehicle traffic. This will like! y mean fewer service locations, opting instead for large centrally located service areas. Competitors will likely find themselves with longer transits as FOR SALE: 4 seater: Exceptional a result. All in all we should feel PreRunner, fresh 2348cc, Hew-fortunate that the SCCA board land Bus Trans, Power steering, acted with such reason. Congratu-Beards, Centerline, Coilover, Fox lations to the rally community for Shox w/ reservoirs, Sway-A-Way showing solidarity in this time of Fuel Safe, Summers Bros., 930 potential crisis. . c.v.s, Jamar, Chromoly chassis, The 1996 California Rally Combo spindles, 11 .. front and · Series season officially kicks off 17" rear travel, excellent condi-May 3-4 at the RIM OF THE tion, will consider partial or full WORLD RALL y, but many trade for street legal 2wd or 4wd local teams will b~ tuning up in truck, Bronco, 4 stroke dirt bike, Ensenada, Mexico for the Tecate personal watercraft, jr. dragster International Rally hosted by the etc. $12,500.00 Lets talk Ed C.A.S. de Ensenada on February (303) 423-8922. 10, 1996. Good LucK! March 1996 CLAUDE 11C/M" MAYNARD MOTORCYCLE RACER/RIDER/ENTHUSIAST EXTRAORDINAIRII 1947to 1"5 A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF A KIND! Was C IM born on a dirt bike? Probably not, but it would have been easy to imagine because he sure did love them. He would, could and did sit down and talk motorsickle-not motorcycle-talk for hours on end. He had raced everywhere and to hear him describe it, had the scars to prove it. Several times he had the number one Open plate in 038 all but wrapped up and broke something ( usually a body part) that prevented him from winning his coveted #1. Then in 1987 his dream came true. He won the D38 Senior class championship. The last time I saw him he was still telling stories about it. His next goal was to beat Bob Thompson for the Super Senior championship title. However, always the sportsman, he wanted Bob's class(over60) to be changed to the Master's class. His friends kidded him that the on! y reason for a new class was to prevent him losing the champion-ship to someone 15 years his senior. MEMORIES Way back in 1979 I started racing ( an extreme liberal use of the term racing) in D38. That year the president quit and somehow I was elected. This meant I was the ultimate outsider. Not only had I not even raced a full season, I hardly knew anyone. CIM stepped up to offer advice and advice and advice. About this time I was trying to make people park only on one side of pit row for safety reasons. This was a brand new idea. I was having no success until I came up with an idea of charging $25 to park on one side of the track while it was free on the other. C I M was outraged! No way was he going to pay to park at a race he was in. He was the only one that asked and because he made a big deal out of it and made sure everyone knew how he felt about it, he solved our problem. He was always ready, willing and able to heh,. One time when we still had a few stop-checks, just to make the old riders happy, he asked what he could do to help. I handed him a coat-hanger wire with these unreadable cards stuck through them and told him to make sure they had made all the checks. After I had mailed out the results and checked the score cards from the non-stop-checks, I was at his shop and asked if everyone had made the checks. CIM stammered and stalled until finally I asked him if he still had the coat hanger with the helmet cards. Blushingly he said yes and showed me where to find them. It was then, much to his relief, that I showed him how to score them. I took the hanger over to the dipsy dumpster and threw them away. You should have seen the smile. I was accepted. The next thfog I knew he wanted to be vice president. Who was going to oppose a legend. C IM won by a landside and was re-elected every year since. Thus he had a voice on the Sport Committee and what a voice it was. Some of the strangest ideas ever proposed were brought up. However, these proposals kept 038 a leader in C/M's favorite sport. Soon C/M became the ramrod, host and sponsor of our annual desert clean-up. If there was one race event that seemed to be CIM's crowning glory, it was the Night-Team race. After it's inaugural run C/M was fully behind it. He ran the checks, swept the courses and became the club host. Therefore, I am going to propose to the Sport Commit-tee that we change the name to the C IM Cycle or just C / M Memor-ial Night-Team Race. C IM we miss you! On behalf of all your friends. Fu.d Pag~ 49

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Classified ••• FOR SALE: Class 9 single seater. Fox Shox, Beard seat, Sway-A-Way, KC lights, Close ratio trans, BFGoodrich tires. New rear drums. Front beam and ball joint. Very little work to be race ready:. $2,500.00. Call Mike after 6:00' p.m. (209) 685-8979. FOR SALE: 1978 Ford. Pre-runner or Class 8, Fox Shox and air bumps, 400M motor built by R.C. Perf., Culane C-6 trans, Summers Bros rear end, new fuel cell, heater and air conditioner. Must see to appreciate. (714) 842-5370. ===== FOR SALE: 1995 CRS Stock Class Champion. Plymouth Sapporo, Pro rally car, 2600cc engine, limited slip rear end, 17 wheels and tires, lots of spares. A ~reat, reliable car. Race Ready! $2,000.00 (714) 969-4566. ' _....;j l ,; ~ ·,1,f-.y·~ .ood( FOR SALE: The 1995 Glen Helen Class 1 Unlimited Champ-ion truck replica of GHIA Racing. Race ready for 1996 series. Best of everything. 15H front wheel and 20n rear travel. Summers Brothers, floating Hubs, Wright 4n over front arms, Fox Shox, two JG Transwerls transmissions, Bump Stops, extra tires. All will go. $10,000.00 oho. Call Chris (619) 327-2610. FOR SALE: New Class 9, raced once. Suspensions Unlimited chassis, Lothringer front beam, FEX motor, JG Transwerks, Fox Shox, Ump air cleaner, 20 gal cell, fresh Yoko's, Sway A-Way spring plates, and 300mm bars, Beard, CNC, Custom paint. Must see $6,000.00 oho. Eves after 6 p.m. · (805) 266-8580. FOR SALE: Class 5-1600. Ready FOR SALE: '91 Meco 1-1600, to Race, or the perfect street legal 116" wb, Bus box, Fat motor, Fox pre-runner. Fox, Wright, Sway- wl reservoirs, 22 gal cell, Beard, A-Way, spare trans, $6,500.00 / Sway-A-Way, Wright, Fodrill, (714)996-2901. Ump, best parts$$ can buy. BITCHEN SCORE, SODA, LA Excellent car, extra parts, RANA Class 8 4x4. TWO $7,500.00,$6,500.00lessmotor. . 1-750 h d 1-550 h Part trade Stock Quad Manx motors. -pan -. p. (206) 284-2025. Loads of spares and equipment. Fox Shox, Probuilt ¼ eleptic, 4x4 Class 4 Jeep gorgeously fabbed! FAST, excellent history. Steal this beauty for $22,000.00!! Baja Concepts Ref #244 ( 619) 583-6529. AWESOME '92 Class 8, legal in any race series with minor adjustments. 22" front and rear travel!¼ eleptics rear, Kuster shocks W / bypass tubes. Cone Dana 60 w/40 spline, custom spindles, 350ci motor, all 4130 chromoly, first class parts throughout!! $43,000.00. Baja Concepts Ref #428 (619) 583-6529. 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 oho. Possible trade (702) 256-0964. AWESOME Race Ready 5-1600: Very fresh! Type II JG Trans. Best of everything. Air cooled Pro built motor. Custom shock tech 2 /bypass-6total. Wrightcombo spindels & large King Pins. Neth style rear arms. Summers 28mm torsion bars. Type IV c.v.s. Excellent package: car will be sold race ready. Comes with trailer. $10,000.00 Baja Concepts Ref #454 (619) 583-6529. REALLY NICE 45' Semi. 1977 Great Dane Air Ride. 13'2" overall height 8' overall width. 65,000 lbs. full laden, 44' inside load length, 9'6" inside load height, 7'8" inside load width. FOR SALE: Class 9 Challenger 18kv generator -5hp, 40 gal. E: Class 5 Unlimited, single seater. Fresh engine and Compressor, two air reels, work best of everything. Fox coil-overs, close ratio gears trans. Pumper bench, internal storage rack, shocks and bump stops, Summers system, fuel cell Fox Shox, under floor storage, 90 gal. diesel Brothers, California Motorsports '"Mickey Thompson tires, Master tank, 80 gal. water tank, 45'x15' auto trans, Lee Leighton 2340cc · Craft Seat. Ready to Race awning. All for $22K. Baja Type I, Ump, JAMAR1. Wprigkht, $2534,~7o0o4.o1_o. Call Dennis (702) ,eJ; 6c5o2n9cepts ref #332 (619) 583-new BFG Baja TI A, U tra, ar er ____________ FOR SALE: 5-1600. All trick --·----------Pumper, Fuel Safe, Simpson, FOR SALE: Chenowth 2 seat, parts, Fox Shox with res, Wright FOR SALE: VW Race engine, Beard. $12,500 oho. Call (909) open class, fresh 3000cc V6 rack, Bus tranny, Hewland gears 2332ccHeavyWebGermancase, 653-0697· Nissan 24 valve OTP motor, KingKong,adj. longer lHtrailing BugpacCrank,Porscherods,041 FOR SALE: Class 9, single seat Raceco automatic transmission, arms, Parker Pumper,. Motor has heads, Stainless valves, dual LaPlant chassis and body panels, Kuster shocks. Complete with 100 mi. Car is built for BIG springs, straight cut gears 1-44 brand new with rear adjuster. spares. $55,000.00 Call Greg PERSON. $6,000.00 -MUST Weber,2-48Delordo.$2,350.00 $1,000.00 (818) 994-7495. Lewin (818) 998-9811 days. SELL. (619) 766-4689. 1 (_3_03_)_7_44_ -_2_4 _10_. ____ _ ,.-... ... --.......-------...-....-.:..--'llllilllillla·iiill--------wwwrmw_w ___ mii' ____ ... _______ ..... ~-r. I Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in I ; DUSTY TIMES. : I Classified Advertising rate is only $20. for 45 words each mo.nth, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use ot· I I black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5x7 I I NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If I I you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. I I, I I I I 11 1. I Enclosed is $ (Send check or money order, no cash). Pleas.e run ad _______ times. I I I I' Name Address ______________________ Phone-------Citv State _____ Zip _____ _ Page 50 March 1996 Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CAi91311-4408: I ,. FOR SALE: Class 4¼ elliptic rear w/Kusters, coil over Kuster front, 351 built to430 by Richard Parabok, FOX Air bumps, power steering wlump Ram, Cone full floater 40 spline rear end, Magi C-6, Fresh prep, put on your paint and race. $35,000.00 with all spares ( 619) 454-8979. FOR SALE: '94 1-1600 short course car. Best of everything, no expense spared. 1st in class and 1st overall, Gold Cost 100 Enduro at Glen Helen in '95. 3rd in points McKenzies Glen Helen short course series. Perfect Glen Helen, SODA or Whiplash short course car. 106n wb, all chrome moly, Tubular Concepts chassis. FAT, 091 TransWest, 930 c.v.s, SAW, Woven race brakes, bead locks ( 4 ), Fuel Safe, Halon, Gel battery, Lee p i s pump and reservoir, Charlyn, Wrights, chrome moly tie rods wlheims, Fox (8), CNC, Jamar, Simpson, Beard, 300mm bars, Earls thruout, Hi-torque starter. Spare motor/trans and many misc. Here's your chance to get a turn key, top notch racer. 14K Wkends/ Oays til 2pm PST Gary (310) 532-1901 or Eves Glen (310) 320-6862. Neese Bros. Racing are changing classes. Will consider trade for 7S truck. FOR SALE: SODA 1-2-1600 front runner, race ready, 2 motors by FAT, 2 trannys, BFG's, American Racing Wheels w / head-locks, Fuel safe, Beard seats, Fox Shox, and lots more including spares, tons of spares!! All for only $8,500.00 OBO. Call (715) 369-5000 or (715) 369-2088. Class 9 Lothringer, 2 seater, Fox, Sway-A-Way, Pumper, Wikes Motor, DJ Trans, Filler Safety, 2 extra trans, tons of spares, car is full prepped and ready to race. Turn°key condition $7,500.00 (818) 994-7475. FOR SALE: Antique Pikes Peak car/ Ascot or "?" Single seat Grissley chassis. Adjustable suspension, front and rear A-arm in front, swing axle w/dose ratio gears rear, 914 disc front & Porsche drums in rear. Complete and ready for Fun!! $1,900.00 oho or? (619) 243-1868. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 5-1600, fresh, clean, fast. Proven winner. Woods arms, Wright combos, Reid Pro, Heim ends. New rack, Fox Shox, · intercom.· Fresh motor, fresh DJ Trans. Very best of everything. Complete rebuild and prep, spare parts. $10,000.00 oho. CallJason (619) 240-0939. --FOR SALE: Chenowth 1000 S-Seat, combo's w/2' offset, 10 over front end wl new chromoly F-trailing arms. Bus trans w 1930 c.v.s and chromoly R-trailing arms. Doestech shocks, & Fox's. Almost new 1600cc motor and some spare parts. $7,500.00 obo. Greg (817) 261-9410 or write to P.O . Box 2023, Coppell, TX 75019. RACE REA•DY '89 Superlite, Bitchen short course car. Honda FL 350 water cooled motor. New Fab transaxle, Beard seats, ' Simpson belts, W erks axles, 13" Kieser wheels, BFG tires, many , spares. $7,500.00 Baja Concepts . Ref# 446. (619) 583-0529. FOR SALE: AWESOME DEAL!! Class 10, 2 seater 1988 Race-co/ Mirage. Fox shocks, Wright front arms, Woods rear trailing arm. Combos 4 wheel disc Sumniets Hubs, Willwood disc brakes. 1641 Toyota 2T6, 4 cyl motor. Some spares: Helmets, suits etc. Make an offer now -must sell fast! Only 3 races on the car! $18,000.00 Baja Concepts Ref #490 (619) 583-0529. FOR SALE: Updated Raceco, fresh Fat type IV 2666, fresh Hewland transmission 00300, coil-over front, Fox Shox all around, rear Summers, outboard c.v.s, mostly of bolts, wirehoses, bearing and fuel cell, Parker Pumper are new. We prep this Raceco for Baja 1000, 1995 and we don't raced. $20,000.00. Bob at Race Ready (619) 691-9171. We can sell with or without motor and tranny. FOR SALE: Stadium Superlite, can be used as Soda Lite. Briggsbuilt Chassis, FL350 W atercooled Klemm built motor, BFGs, Champion Beadlock wheels, Spare Parts, Race Ready, $6,800.00. Phone Michigan (906) 466-2680. Dusty Times FOR SALE: '94 Class 7 Ford FOR SALE: Fastest 2-1600 car Splash Ranger-National Spring on West Coast, if you can drive suspension, 19N front travel, you can win. Illness forces sale. 19¼N rear travel, Ted Kandal Best proven components money Race 3N shocks w/ multi external can buy. Just prepped. 15 valving Alcoas, Borla XR-1, Centerline 30 tires. 1994 Valley Transmission C-0 3.8 V6; Featherlite trailer, easy-up, radios BFG Baja tires, PIAA lights ets. $20,000.00 for everything, Winner Score Las Vegas 250. Call Mike Olson. (707) 447-Always Top 3 finisher Score. 2nd 2453. · place Short course Soda West Class 7 . $28,000.00/Bo~ or Ron/ National Spring (619) 441-1901. FOR SALE: Class 9-2 seater, Fresh rebuilt engine and trans with close gear ratio, SCORE legal, Helmet Intercom system, OR SALE: Class 9 Single seat, Halogene flame systei:n, rebuilt Fox Shox, Wright rack, Simp-/ sh_ock~, Chromoly sprmg plates, son belts, Beard seat. 16 gal fuel Circuit ?reaker sys~em, Yoko-safe, new rims and Yokohama hama tires, repamted Call tires. Fresh VW werks. Motor Leonard (619) 429-9451 or and trans, best of everything. Vince (619) 423-9561 or Gilbert Many spare parts. Race ready. (619) 429-0646. Must see $6,500.00 oho Call ;, t Rick (702) 645-8983. . FOR SALE: Brandwood 2-seat, winning car, race sportsman or . prerun, 2275, bus trans w/ close • 3rd & 4th, Fox coil-over front, combos, arms, etsc SAW rear torsion w/foxes, bumps, ad-j~ster. Pumper, Beards, Center-FOR SALE: TROPHY TRUCK Imes. Tall roof. $6,000.00 obo/ u 1· · d Cl F d Th· k trade for 1-1600 Call Al (520) n imite ass , or · . is true 625-8080 A · FINISHED the 95 BaJa 1000. nzona. Just updated by Prism to 24N ft., 32N rr., coil overs and tricked out Lightning Rods. 460ci c/ Mogi C6, Cone 9N. Race against the best in SCORE, or race for Overall Wins in La Rana, VORRA, Fud, SNORE, etc. This truck was La Rana Unlimited Truck Cham-pion in '93 and '94. Fast and FOR SALE: 1993 Class 9 Raceco, reliable, proien winne~, and even 2 0 l d . 11 better now. Spares included. . seater. _n Y race twice .. Moving out of state. Make me a Kennedy built 1600 Jg Trans- REASONABLE OFFER!! (714) werks tranny. Fox Shocks, 855-8761 Wright rack,Jamar pedals, SAW ----·---------torsion bars, Nice clean car for the SPEED, SAFETY, RELIABIL-money. $9,500.00 Baja Concepts ITY: Proven International Ref #476. (619) 583-0529. 1Rallysport Technology can give FOR SALE: 1986 compet1t1ve you the edge over the opposition. Drive faster, safer with less breakage and wear. Take the guess work out of desert racing. Interested? Contact Stuart Roberts, Concepts International (NZ) Ltd., PO Box 46-14 7 Herne · Bay, Auckland 1030 New Zealand. Fax: 64-9-483-5581 for details. trailer 5th wheel, 42'xl02N wide FOR SALE: 1993 Bunderson A-6.5 kw gen compressor. Forward arm Class 10. Engine -Fat living quarters, diamond plate Performance, 1647cc twin cam floors, custom paint. ALSO FOR 16 valve, 170hp, Transaxle-Chris SALE: 1987 W6 GMC cab Rose, Ring & Pinion, Front & forward truck turbo 6 cyl, 170 Rear Suspension-Coil over hp, 55p. 22,000 gvw, 46,000 by/ pass Kuster shocks:22N wheel miles exc. condition rarely used. travel, Custom Paint-Price Both or separate, make an offer $24,500.00, Call Dennis: Days Ask for Steve Agricola (818) (619) 469-0104 ext 52 Eves 998-9811. (619) 443-4746. March 1996 FOR SALE: Jimco Single seat Class 10, Mendeola trans, Chenowth Rear hubs, 4N longer arms, Coil overs, Fox Shox, without motor $14,000.00. Call Mike (619) 434-7986. ,,,...,..--,,,,,,, FOR SALE: Chenowth Magnu~ 1650 stadium car-Chromoly chassis complete coilcar 5 link susp, w/6 Fox Shox, new built Rabbit motor, 091 trans super dif/FTC gears. 300mm axles. 930 c.v.s, New radiator,. braided lines, FodFab arms, Wright combos, Ump PS, 103"wb. Bead locks, more, $14,500.00 obp inq about s ares (602) 992-4114: FOR SALE: Class 7S Ford Ranger, buy a proven winner! You know this truck and have seen it win consistently. Now's your chance to race with the best truckinclass. Winner of the 1995 Baja 1000, Parker 400, San Felipe 250, Gold Coast 300, etc. Be a winner in '96. Call for details, (619) 347-8660 Darren York $50,000.00. FOR SALE: Mirage single seat, Class9.JeffFields trans, Sway-A-Way, Reid Pro, Fox, CNC, Mastercraft, Parker Pumper, Filler, Prepped to race, proven winner, $4,500.00 obo ALSO-Baj a pre-runner. Tube chassis, widened & lengthened-must see $6,100;00 obo. (818)954-0103. WANTED: Two seat A-arm or coil over chassis with body and the following equal or better components-1835 or larger engine-remote reservoir shocks-Type II trans-Sway-A-Way suspension-extended trailing arms-Aluminum wheels, desert tires. Send pictures complete components list and asking price to: Ray Thomas 617 N 17th St. Colorado Springs CO 80904 · (719) 632-9325. PARTS FOR SALE: 4-l0N Bilstein $40.00 ea., 2-BN Bilstein $40.00., 2-FOX Challenger fronts (early style) $60.00 ea., Fodrill Combos $370.00. Type 4 motor w/ dual Webers by Fat complete, ready to bolt in & run $5,970.00 includes clutch & dual air cooled oil coolers. Call Lee at RaceShock Company in Phx, AZ ( 602) 254-07 44. HELP WANTED: Editorial assistant-part time editorial assistant wanted. Chatsworth location, Flexible hours. Requires an excellent command of the English language, grammar and spelling. Assist publisher in galley selection and in magazine layout. Some experienced preferred. Some knowledge of Off Road Racing and rallying a plus. Call Bekki (818) 882-0004 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST. FOR SALE: New aluminum T ripple EEE transmission. Heavy duty spooler, 7 .26: 1 gearing, custom rotor, new Wildwood caliper. New, never used. $1,700.00 invested will sell for $950.00 (715) 627-2611 after 6:00 CST Wisconsin. FOR SALE: Class 1 Rabbit engine, fast & fresh! Complete from carb to exhaust, adapter and clutch $2,500.00 Tim ( 810) 724-6571 after 6 p.m. FOR SALE: 68' Chevy Pre-Runner/Chase truck, newer paint, new 33N muds, new wheels, front disc, 1 ton spindles, boxed frame, full skid plates, caged fr. to Rr. New Beards, A-arm front, Long leafs in Rr. Some history to it. Call Rick ( 415) 595-3663 weekdays $3,500.00. WW'•·· . '---·~,;; FOR SALE: 4 ·· seat prerunner, Bilsteins, Sway-A-Way, Diest, CND, Bus Box, Wiks 2440, disc brakes, Quick release wheel, Scat, Gauges, Stereo, desert & sand rims& tires, clean car. ALSO: 22' double deck trailer & 1989 Yamaha Banshee. Complete $20,000.00 oho will separate-Kirk (310) 947-3783 (E). INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Ajax Auto Wrecking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Baker Performance Products . . . . . . . . . . 29 Barbary Coast -Gold Coast Hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bilstein Corp. of America . . . . . . • • . . . . 13 Cactus Racing Products . . . . . . . • . . . . . 35 Dianmond Liners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Don-A-Vee Jeep Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 FAT Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 German Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Glen Helen Short Course Series . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . 25 Rod Hall Driving School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Honda. BMW See Dao of North Hollywood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Kawaguchi Honda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Kuster Off Road Racing Shocks . . . . . . . . 2 7 La Rana Desert Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 McKenzies Performance Products . . . ..... 23 & 30 Nevada Off Road Buggy .... ..... 34 & 39 Parker Pumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 P.C.I. Race Radios & Equipment . . . . . . . 11 Pike"s Family Restaurants . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Race Ready Products . . . . ....•....... 40 George Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 SCORE San Felipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 SNORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Simpson Race Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sway-A-Way Company ....•. ....... . 37 Top Line Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Toyota Motorsports . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover Tri-Mil Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Ultra Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Valley Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Vegas to Reno Off Road Race . . . . . . . . . 5 Wilch Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 32 Wright Place ..................... 27 Yarnell Specialties. Inc. . .•.....•.... 41 Page 51 J;,-

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