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Volume 15 -Number 10 October 1998 Dll&JlillllB Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Daryl "No Brakes" Drake Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Ralph Mason Daniel Mainzer Jimmy Messick '.Ron Miller Troy Robinson Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith: Trackside Photo Les Wolfe Art Director Larry Worsham ~ .....u,y ...... aez:a _, Subscription Rates: $20.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTI TIIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTI 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 by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTI TIMES, 20751Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. . CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTI TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot· Of the Month •. ~ It was Parker, it was many years ago but even back then they still had flat tires. Just ask Dave Shoppe, shown here doing his bit to get his Class 8 back in the running again DUSTI 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. DUSTI TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8x10 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES SNORE NAPA Autoparts 250 by John Calvin ............................................. 8 WRC Rally New Zealand by Martin Holmes ............................................... 14 Glen Helen Fabtech Series by Ron Miller ................................................... 16 Dusty People - Charlie Engelhart ................................................................ 22 Rallyworkers Rally Sprints by Jim Culp ....................................................... 23 CORP Carrera Tecate by Tony Tellier ........................................................ 24 MDR California 200 by Ron Miller. ............................................................. 30 FRT Tecate Conquista by Judy Smith ......................................................... 36 VORRA Top Gun Twilight 250 by Troy Robinson .................................... 38 Survivors Guide to Baja by Judy Smith ........................................................ 40 -Baja Pleasure Jaunt by Judy Smith ··································:·······"··················· 44 DEPARTMENTS . Happenings ··························································································:·········· 5 Trail Notes ....................................................................................................... 6 Off Road Scramble by PC ............................................................................. 20 Checkers by the Big Wahzoo .......................................................................... 41 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ................................................................... 41 CORE Notes by Sandy Parker ....................................................................... 42 MAG-7 Report by Stephen T. Stenberg ........................................................ 42 Baja Pits Report by Mr. Baja ........................................................................ 43 CRS Directors' Report .................................................................................. 43 Good Stuff Directory···--··:································································--··········· 48 Classified Ads ................................................................................................ 53 Index To Advertisers .......................................................... : ......................... 55 On The Cover Arturo Honold fords a stream on his way to a great win at the CORP Carrera Tecate, beating all the competition in his neat looking car. David Massingham rushes across the desert in his Mirage on his way to the overall victory at the MDR California 200 in Barstow. 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1998 Happenings ... Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P:O Box8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 December 5-6, 1998 EXXON Superflo Winter Series San Bernardino, CA Bob Beyer (909) 384-9342 FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AU'J:OMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose del Caho Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSlllP . Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia 01 l-18-07-3298-5522 September 20, 1998 Mt. Gambier, SA November 1, 1998 Goondiwindi, QLD AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P l T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races · BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 October 1-4, 1998 Vegas to Reno December 4-6, 1998 Terribles Town Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727 N. Main Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 776-4654 Septembec 19 1998 Bone.ville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Donna Mitchell, CRS Director 530 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 280 Moorpark, CA 93021 (805) 523-1387 Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 August 22, 1998 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA October 3, 1998 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ November 14, 1998 T reeline Rally Monrovia, CA December 4, 1998 Laughlin International Rally Laughlin, NV March 6-7, 1999 CRS Pro Rally School and Rallycross Location TBA CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (213) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON ID-JACKERS LC.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Dusty Times Hamson Count,Y Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN . Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin; BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (01152616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (0ll 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO lllLL CLIMB ASSOCIATION CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.O Box392 · Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax October 9-10, 1998 Carrera de La Raza Laguna Salada December 4-6, 1998 Carrera de Campeones · Mexicali -San Felipe BC, Mex CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing September 26, 1998 EXON Superflo Series At The 17th Annual 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals Indianapolis, IN Mike Moore (317) 236-6515 CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 October 9-11, 1998 Southern Calif. Jamboree Hungry Valley SVRA 1-800-42 CORVA ext 509 October JO-November 1, 1998 Northern Calif. Jamboree Frank Raines OHV Park 1-800-42 CORVA ext 502 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (AU events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thursr.on County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSlllPS (760) 256-8059 December 5, 1998 Stoddard Valley ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 0l l-526-176-6225 October 16-18, 1998 Baja 1.5 Short Course Race c:JfF llllinner's Circle Jimmy Nuckles' Protruck .Is Hot In Winning. SCORE Fireworks 250 Jimmy Nuckles of Brawley, CA scored his first PRO Desert Series Protruck victory of the year at the SCORE Fireworks 250 outside Barstow in 120 degree heat. Driving his Ford F-150 Protruck running on Bilstein shock absorbers, Nuckles out ran a field of nine class entries in 5:16.06 hours of racing. Nuckles overtook Andrew Wehe early in the third and final 62-mile loop to nail down the win. Nuckles finished in the top-10 with Class 1 and Trophy Truck racers and beat all Class 8 times. Rick D. Johnson finished second to maintain his PRO-Desert Point Series lead in another Ford full size truck on Bilsteins. - Bilstein shocks are the exclusive choice of all competitors in this popular spec-truck series. Other SCORE Fireworks 250 Class Winners on Bilstein Shocks ... Class 7 - Larry Roeseler -Team MacPherson Chevy S-10 Class 10 - Darnen Jefferies -Jimco Toyota Single Seater 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 §) KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Aehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 619/453-7723 • www.bilstein.com October 1998 Pages ..

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Ol l-526-176-6225 FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Championship Series September 13, 1998 Round 6 October 25, 1998 Round 7 November 22, 1998 Round 8 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Associaton 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 October 31, 1998 Superstition 250 Lake Superstition, CA December 31, 1998 Dunaway Dash Plaster City West, CA GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (AU races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O . Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING 'ASSOCIATION . P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Bedder (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Missior Viejo, CA 92690 (714) 364-0515 KAMLOOPS BRONCQ BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada YZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 LI.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmore Hwy Charlotte, Ml 48813 (517) 543-7214 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 Ueeps, Trucks, Pilots, Dune Buggies, Road Warriors and Qund ATV Trophy and Money Classes.) MICHELIN PRO RALLY CHA¥PIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 October 2-3, 1998 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ Jeff Hendricks (520) 445-3218 October 23-24, 1998 D&N Bank Lake Su erior Pro Rall Page& Houghton, MI Kevin DeLoughery (906) 226-8847 MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Press: Dirty Dave Cronin (314) 838-4215 VP: Walter Flack (217) 987-6568 LTOR-Lincoln Trail Off Readers Pres: Dean Conkling (217) 830-4215 V.P.: Brad Key (217) 446-4556 Steve Sabo (618) 327-9312 October 3-4, 1998 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL Larry Tipsword (217) 232-9859 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING P.O. Box 1863 Glendora, CA 91741 (626) 914-7029 Phone (626) 914-9169 Fax Only October 30-31, 1998 Barstow 200 Barstow,CA M.OR.E. Mojave Off Road Racing Enthusiasts 25277 W. Main St., Suite 283 Barstow, CA 92311 (760) 253-4453 September 2S-26, 1998 Location TBA November 20-21, 1998 Lucerne Valley, CA MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt.#! - Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 AU races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take 1-IO 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 AU races he/a at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONT ARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichboume, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 630-963-4810 900-PRO RACE PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Spring , e:;o 80934 (719) 685-4400 PROTRUCK RACING . ORGA."UZATION (619) 449-6252 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. lcmg P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236- 7897 SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 September 11-13, 1998 3rd SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm, NV November 11-14, 1998 31st Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Baja Norte ro La Paz, B.C., Mexico SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Veaas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 September 2S-27, 1998 29th Annual SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Office Manager: Mary Carson 2285 Tracy Avenus Simi Valley, CA 93063 (805) 526-a805/Fax:{805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule · (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President • Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (AU Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (Oll ) 880-2170 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA September 19-20,1998 Wisconsin Off Road Festival Finals Oshkosh, WI 920-924-6805 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # ! Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 January 1-17, 1999 21st Annual Dakar Rally UORRA United Off Road Racing Association Dave Urbnnow1cz, President 589 Amwell Road Neshamc, NJ 08853 (908) 369-6550 (All events at O,icgo Motor .Sports Park, Rte. 434, Owego, NY) VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702 October 10-11, 1998 Fall Short Course Race Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 31-November 1, 1998 l 998'Championship Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 011-52-616-6-2!-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION October 1998 Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.0.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 '(602) 971-3730 October 10, 1998 Vulture Mine Wickenburg, AZ November TBA Date and Location to be Announced December 5, 1998 Point to Point Rocky Point, MX January 9, 1999 Parker400 Parker, AZ WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 Attention Race& Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free! It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your 1998/ 1999 schedule a, soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. Trail Notes ... CORR AT BARK RIVER -CORR ran their Bark River edition on August 8 and 9 with the following results. On Saturday the Pro Lite Division was won by Art Schmitt, Jason Crowder in the second spot, in Pro 2 Division Ricky Johnson was the guy to beat and Dan Yan Den Heuvel took the silver medal, Jamey Flannery beat Jack Flannery in the Pro 4 Division. Michael Oberg won Sportsman Stock, George Schultz took Sportsman 2 honors, Jeff St. Peter scored in Sportsman Super Buggy, Bill Grotoski won Sportsman 66, Mike Seefeldt took Sportsman Double Buggy, Tim Christensen won Sportsman Double Lite Buggy, Chuck Johnson won Sportsman Bug again, while Paula St. Peter and Molly Morter won Womens' Unlimited and Limited Buggy classes. On Sunday Brendan Gaughan took the checkered flag in Pro 2 in his Chevy and Ford powered Curt LeDuc ran out of bad luck and won the Pro 4 race. Mark Steinhardt took Sportsman Single Buggy, Valerie Rehn excelled in Womens Heavy Metal in her Ford, Phil Doyle won Featherlite, Jeff St. Peter took Sportsman Buggy,Tim Christensen won Light Buggy, Pete Van De Hey won the Sportsman 2 and Stock shoot-out while Jeff St. Peter took the Buggy Shoot-out. In season points, Ricky Johnson moved into the lead in Pro 2 with 153, Scotty Taylor slipped to second at 149 and Brendan Gaughan is still hanging on in third place with 115 points. In Pro 4 Curt LeDuc has leaped into the season points lead at 132 but he is closely pursued by Jamey Flannery, Scott Douglas and Jack Flannery, each with 130 points. In Pro Lite Johnny Greaves remains in the top spot with ·164 points, Art Schmitt remains in the second spot with 142 points and Billy Bowles stays in third with I 19 points. MOVING DAY -Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe is picking up their toys and moving from beautiful downtown Huntington Beach to a brand new facility in Bend, Oregon on September I, 1998. Their new phone and fax numbers are 541-388-0203 and fax 541 -388-0307. See their ads in Dusty Times. RENO/FERNLEY RALLY - The Reno/Fernley Rally ended with the I following scoring high in C RS points. David and Kyle White were 1st 2WD in their VW Golf, th e Malik/Edstrom Volvo was the 2nd 2WD. John · and Bill Brasil were the first 4WD in their Audi Quattro and Doug Robinson and Bill Hidde took the Performance Stock Class. VEGAS TO RENO -The Best In The Desert Vegas To Reno race is fast approaching, October 1-4, I 998. Its 512 miles of good hard racing with some bt!autiful scenery thrown 111 and reaching elevations of8500 feet. After long and arduous negotiations, Casey folks has established the fmish !me withm the city limits of Reno, just 5 miles from the Reno Hilton. Contmgency and tech are at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, motorcycles leave the st:irttng line at 6am, cars and trucks start at 9am. The first motorcycle ts expected to finish in Reno around !pm and finishers will continue across the finish Im, throughout the night I e's not tuo lace to get your entry m. 702-457-5775. CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP -TRICK Racing Fuel, long known in the oft road racing v.orld has been acquired by Sun Refinmg (SU, OCO) and will be marketed world wide under the name "TRICK" by Paul Oil Co, P.O. Box 248, Oakdale, CA 953610248. Write rhem for further info or call 800-444-1449. 1 WORTH NOTING - Brendan Gaughan. our erstwhile up and coming driver runs all the CORR races and also has a hand in the Winston West Series, taking the pole position at Pikes Peak and finishing a fine fifth in the race. Brendy, don't forget to keep us informed an what's going on. FINAL FLAG - Ir was with shock that we read of the untimely death of John Myers, 40 years of age and three time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion. I met John a few times when I worked at Turbonetics, a Turbo manufacturer who supplied John with their product for his bike and he was a pleasure to sit and talk to and also was quite a talented individual. John had 33 NHRA National wins, he met his maker in a non racing related accident. We shall miss him. more TRAIL NOTES on page 54 Dusty Times

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SNORE J&P AUTO PARTS NAPA 250 Precision And Power av Price By John B. Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography Robbie MacCachren was fourth after lap 1 but he slowly overtook the 1600 field and took the checkers 15 minutes ahead of his competition. Jim Price took the Class 10 lead on the second lap and there he remained to take the gold medal and first overall and a husky $4000 purse. It is a long haul from Las Ve-gas to Ely, Nevada, about 280 miles and you can double that if you hang your hat in Chatsworth, California, so the trek up there takes quite a while, but, IT IS WORTH IT! Ely is the county seat of White Pine County and is surrounded ·by the Humboldt National Forest and this busy little town is a pleasure to visit, if only once a year. SNORE puts on a race there each year, the J&P Auto Parts NAPA 250, sponsored by Jerry Jones the lo-cal NAPA dealer and as a host, Jerry and his wife Paula are let-ter perfect. The town of Ely wel-comes the racers with open arms; there are lots of hotels and mo-tels, lots of places to eat and the climate was perfect for August, warm to hot during the day, very the like so even for the non-little humidity, cool evenings and racer, it makes a wonderful-week- Jon Almberg soloed the race, ran throogh all the silt, had a few flats but took a great if you're a star watcher, the night end trip with lots of things to rest second place in 1600- ' ·. · sky is unbelievable. the eyes on. very dirty, dust and silt every-First off the line was. Mark The awards were held at the There were 57 cars waiting for where and although the breete, Weyhrich and he blasted into the Bristlecone Convention Center the ten o'clock start, just a few helped a lot, in some cases there lead in his Chenowth, turning a after a sponsored Bar-B-Q and miles east of .town .and the was no help to be had and it was very fast 5,3.22 for his first lap. everyone in attendance, and· weather wa~ .perf~ct, :abo.ut 85 quite costly tor some of the com-Granted, there was no traffic or there had to be at least 300 degrees, a nice, breeze blowing petitors. There was quite a bit of dust ir,/ront of him and he had a people received a gift such as a and thunderheads boiling up all money on the line for the class four minute lead on John Phegley ' tee-shirt, a six pack of Pepsi or around but there was no rain in winners, $4,000 each for the in his wonderful looking yellow beerandvariousotherprizesand theforecast.Alapwas_about40 Class 10 and 1600 winners, Class8 (running with Class 1). everyone in attendance got miles in length and Sportsman $2,500 for the Class 9 winner and Weyhrich ran the next two laps something! Quite a feat and our Trucks were scheduled for two $1,500 each to the winners of in the low 54 minute range, lost thanks to Jerry and his crew for laps, Sportsman Buggies were do-Classes 1 · and 5-1600. So,. for 20 minutes on the. fourth lap and all the wop.derful things they did ing three laps, Class 5-1600 and some of you guys who constantly failed to finish the final lap, cause for us. The trip up there is worth Class 9 had to do four laps and bitch about the low payoffs in off of problem unknown to us. · the i;ide, if just for the scenery. everyone else had to put in five road racing, look to SNORE in Phegley only got in two laps arid You travel through several laps. Unfortunately, there had Las Vegas and join them at some although they were quick, he mountain ranges and we desert been almost no rain in Ely dur-of their races for some rather failed to complete the final three dwellers are not used to seeing ing July or August, not their large cash bonuses for class win- laps. Just for the record, free flowing water, pine trees and usual pattern so the course was ners. Continued on page 10 ,--------------~-----= Tom Sturgis and wife Anne gave it their all in a run for the Class 1 0 The Brothers Goerke had all sorts of troubles throughout the day. The Danny Anderson Kevin Davis duo didn't have a good day. burying gold but it was not to be; second spot was theirs in Ely. shown here outrunning the silt for a third in Class 10. the car for almost a lap but they still took fourth in Class 10. Mark Weyrich had it nailed, literally flying around the course but troubles Scott Smith ran all alone at Ely. had no major problems but complained Clay Carr literally flies above the silt at Ely. Clay hit a tree but still overtook him late in the race and he dnf'd. about the abundance of silt on the course. ·---came on for a fine fourth place finish. Pages October 1998 Dusty Times

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Who has the clean car? Jeff Carr of course, he slid into a ditch right off the start and it cost him lots of time. Dan Bradley teamed up with Aaron Hawley at Ely and Aaron had his share of problems; they finished sixth in 1600. Mark Bunderson started way back in the Class 9 pack and try as he could, second was the best finish he could get. Weyhrich received $1,500 for his troubles. Class 10 was next off the line and there were ten of them ready to compete for the $4,000 first place money. 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Danny drove the last three laps and made up all sorts of time, turning laps 3 and 4 in 53 minutes each and then doing lap 5 in a shattering 51:19, fas t-est lap of the race and with all that super driving worked the car up to a nice fourth place finish. Fifth place in Class 10 went to KenF[ippin who also got himself stuck on a tree in the outback, had a couple of flats to round out the day and he was the lasl of the official finishers. Third class off the line was 1600 and they were a formidable lot. Jon Almberg took the lead with a 57:27 on lap 1, followed by Ciay Carr, Robbie Guevara and Rob MacCachren was hold-. ing the fourth spot. MacCachren moved in to the lead on the sec-ond lap and there he remained, taking the win and the $4,000 purse in four hours, 45 minutes, reporting no problems at all ex-cept for the limited visihility. Jon Almberg took the second place finish, driving solo and having to put up with'two rear flats during the dusty race and a motor that was spitting at him every now and then. Scott Smith took the bronze medal in 1600, he too driving solo, only had one flat and he too complained a bit of the silt. Clay Carr had a fairly decent day, only hitting one tree, had a couple of flats but motored on in for the fourth spot in class. Jeff Carr slid into a ditch just after the start and it cost him a goof half hour but he drove on . through the dust and took the fifth spot. Dan Bradley ran the first three laps in his car then handed over to Aaron Hawley who said he got really lucky and lost the power steering on his first lap but carried on to the finish with only one blister to show for the sixth place finish. The effer-vescent Day Gang was the sev-enth place finisher, fighting with a broken throttle return spring for a while, breaking a left rear axle and replacing it and com-plaining about the dust, go Day! Rob Guevara was having a good day 'ti! the third lap when he lost 11324 Norwalk Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 . the pressure plate, spent about half an hour making repairs and Continued on page 12 Page 10 October 1998 Dusty Times

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Marl< Rencher overcame the silt but couldn't overcome the loss of. Thomas Taliaferro had some problems on the third lap but soldiered Bill Averys car looks nice and clean here, it was much dirtier later on en ine power as he finished third in Class 9. on to take the fourth place finish in Class 9. when he finished fifth in th_e_C_l_as~s_,9-,--ra_n_k_s.--.---.---,..----.--,.--~ an ive too t e ag an our o them made it to the finish. Rick Harrah rushed into the class lead with a 1: 10: 1 7 first lap, followed by Scott No all at 1: 11 :07 and Scott ~ook the lead on lap 2 when Harrah failed on the sec-ond lap and Noall went on to win the class with 35 minute margin, reporting no troubles during the race, just lots of dust. Rudy Suriano was the sec-ond truck across the line, hav-ing broken a power steering hose but he plowed his way through the dust for the finish. Rudy was followed-in by two more finishers, Mark Pettit fin-ishing third and Robby Woolworth taking the fourth position. Ryan Schank and Roland Barry had a nice race, no problems out on the course, a wee bit dusty but they won Class 9 and $2500 as well. then came on in after a flat tire for an eighth place finish. only got in one veeerrryyy long lap. Better luck next race. Class 5-1600 was next to go and this is really a saga. The Mike Powada/Greg Erice duo took the lead on lap 1, had a seven minute lead at the end of lap 2 and then had valve cover gasket problems along with the oil loss that goes with it, lost about an hour and were very happy to take the sec-ond spot in class at the finish line. My old buddy Dee Val Towles got himself stuck on-a tree on the first lap and he was really stuck. Along comes his competition, Dennis W esseldine who had son Tyler riding along for his first race and good ol' dad, he sees Read about Dee Towles problems in the text of the story; suffice it to say he won the 5-1600 class and $1500 to boot. Towles all hung up, spins around and says to Towles, "Get in, I'll push you off." Towles, not believ-ing his good fortune gets in, Den-nis comes.up to move him off and from out of the silt comes an-other car, slams into Dennis, and, you know the rest. Wesseldine's car is literally destroyed and Towles goes on to win the Class and the $1,500 that goes with it. (I really think some of that money should help Dennis get his car repaired.) Sportsman Buggies were next up and tliey only had three laps for their race although only two buggies finished the required laps it was a battle all ili.e way. David Villafana had a three minute lead at the end of lap 1 but, alas, David was never heard from again. Eric Gremm was second across the line on lap 1, took the lead on lap 2 and stayed in the lead for lap 3 and took the gold medal .for the class, even though he was run-ning on three cylinders on the last lap. Second in the class was the Jason/Tammie Gubler car, Jason running the first two laps, mom finishing and in spite of a rollover on lap 3 they were only four minutes out of the win. Good job! Sportsman True ks only had to · complete two laps for their race And so it ended, a dirty race, but, it is off road racing and it's going to be dirty now and then. Everybody we talked to had a great time, nobody was injured which is always a blessing and I must commend all the SNORE people who work so hard to put on their races. Spe-cial thanks to Kenny Freeman Jr. and his wife, Kerry who put in more time than should be le-gal, but their efforts are superb and the result is magnificent. Don't forget the 29th Annual SNORE 250, September 25-2.7, sponsored by the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino and the ever giving Michael Gaughan. ■ Class 9 had 18 starters but only six of them make it to the finish line after a long hard day. Mark Rencher took the first lap lead with a nice 1 :06:36, kept the lead on lap 2 but then started losing engine power and slowly dropped to the third position and that's where he finished. Roland Barry ran in the third spot for the first two laps then turned the car over to Ryan Schank who turned in some great laps on 3 and 4 for the Class 9 win, taking the flag with six minutes to spare and collect-ing $2,500 for their efforts. They had no mechanical problems and added their voices to the too much dust complaint. Charging· Mark Bunderson started near the back of the pack and slowly worked his way towards the front, had no mechanical ills dur-ing the n~ce and ended up in sec-ond spot with a very dirty car. Thomas Toliaferro took the fourth finishing position in Class 9 but somehow we missed him .after the race so we didn't get to heac his war story and Bill Avery was the fifth place finisher. Tim Hart and Rick Culver shared the driving, broke a ball joint to en-lighten their day and took the sixth place finish. We did run into a very pretty but very de-jected Teri Larson who suffered from major ignition problems and Eric Gremm took the Sportsman Buggy honors, lost a cylinder on the last lap but held on for the win. Scott Noa/I won the Sportsman Truck Class, turning some quickie laps and complaining only about the amount of silt on the course. Mike Powada and Greg Price had all sorts of troubles during the race, Tammie Gubler had some help from Jason, she rolled on the last lap Rudy Suriano broke a power steering hose to embellish his tun, never shown here on the way to a fine second spot in 5-1600. but they still finished a fine second in Sportsman Buggy. ran out of silt and took the Silver in sports Truck. Page 12 ,. · October 1998 Dusty Times

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• WRC RALLY NEW ZEALAND Carias conquers New Zealand By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Garlos Sainz and Luis Moya corner hard in the mud and dirt on their way to the New Zealand Rally win in the Toyota Corolla. Carlos Sainz won the 28th Rally New Zealand. He played the game wisely and slowly hauled in his teammate, Didier Auriol as one Toyota Corolla overhauled the other in the later stages as the conditions seemed to favor Sainz over ev-eryone else. This was Toyota's second 1-2 finish and they now lead the drivers and manufac-turers points for the series. The rally was held mostly in the rain and it provided Mich-elin with their 150th victory in the WRC Series. It was the 22nd WRC win for Sainz and · after a six week hiatus, all the drivers and the manufacturers were rarin' to go! Mitsubishi arrived with proven cars and high hopes of scoring their tenth successive victory in Group N. The last time their cars failed to win this category was last November in Australia. Ford again arrived with cars lacking any special developmental work. Subaru was there not only as champi-1;f;·,;;Simpiv 'pi . instant refreshm _ locations in . yo~r Aire _; ff - p off-road champi !)I iJ ilJ· Y!J!JI~-}' .. iiJ'Jil{JJ Page 14 onship leader, but they had en-tered a third driver and their hopes were centered on· new differential development for cars driven by Colin McRae. They were running with all three differentials actively en-gaged, only done once before by a privateer in 1996. . Toyotas were strongly repre-sented in the Teams Cup with Corolla World Rally Cars. In Formula 2, SEAT was trying to_ pull further ahead of Peugeot. Peugeot only had one competi-October 1998 Juha Kankkunen and Juha Repo set up for a corner in New Zealand on their way to a fourth place finish. tive entry, a locally prepared 306 Maxi and this Rally was also the debut of the new Hyundai Coupe Kit Car "Evo II". It had not yet been homolo-gated but was allowed to run for WRC points. There were a couple of new factory drivers on board for their big drive, Juha Kangas, a Finnish test driver for Subaru in an lmpreza and Toni Gardmeister, driving a SEAT Ibiza Kit Car. The New Zealand Rally was the first to run under various rule changes that have been in-troduced since the Acropolis Rally. They have altered the tire wear rule, no longer is a bald tire grounds for automatic exclusion, the penalty will now be assessed by the stewards. Also, the starting order for the next day's rallying will revert to positions at a night halt, not at the end of the previous day's stage. This allows drivers to incur tactical time control pen-alties in order to run in better conditions the next day. The Rally New Zealand en-try list showed 83 entries; the same as last year's entry, but by starting time it had reduced to 79. Reconnaissance was held in drying conditions after long wet periods. The organizers re-quired the crews to use road tires on the pre-run and the drivers reported large numbers of police watching the sessions and there was no way to know if they were friendly or hostile. Leg 1 -Eight stages, 48.lkms, gravel. The rally started with a special stage on Friday at the permanent figure eight course at Manukau. There was very heavy rain but a crowd estimated at 10,000 paid to watch the rally cars. (The rally was being run without benefit of a Title Sponsor, a ma-jar handicap for the organizers and the entrants and this might be the last time the locals might get to see the WRC in action.) The condi-tions were getting slippery and although the cars were running in inverse order it was the last cars that were making the best times. Carlos Sainz led Colin McRae by 0.9 seconds. On Saturday there were seven stages, six of which were held in the Maramarua forest and the final stage back at the permanent installation. Throughout the forest stages, Carlos and Colin were never more than 2.4 seconds apart. Sainz slipped back to third on the seventh stage with a slight problem and Richard Burns was in fourth place. On the sixth stage Tommi Makinen spun and stalled and fell back from sixth to seventh elace. On the final stage McRae had the wide tires on and made fastest time but he was slower on the last two stages and slipped back to third. The big drama was the crash of Bruno Thiry on Stage 7, go-ing off the road on a left hander and ending up upside down be-tween some tires, totally wreck-ing the car. McRae was running first on the road in spite of hit-ting a spectator who was where he shouldn't have been. Local drivers were headed by Possum Bourne's Subaru while the APC challenger Fujimoto was three seconds ahead of Katacka. Australian Ed Ordynski drove a right hand drive Evo Ill, coming back af-ter an eight month break from rallying. In the Teams Cup the Grifone cars were lying first and second. WRCar newcomer Kangas was learning the ropes and was in 14th place. In FZ, Kenneth Eriksson led most of the way but fell back with throttle trouble. On a.wa-Colin McRae and Nicky Grist are slightly sideways in their Subaru lmpreza but they finished fifth overall in New Zealand . Dusty Times

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Tommi Makinen applies opposite lock to his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution on his way to a nice third lace in New Zealand. The Eriksson/Parmander Hyundai Coupe Kit Car was the third place There was lots of carnage, as shown by these two unlucky teams finisher in W2 in front of a cold and wet crowd. who escaped without serious injury. ter crossing ts engine sta e """"'?f===-and he incurred a half minute time control penalty and his teammate Wayne Bell was also having throttle trouble. Harri Rovanpera took the lead, Kris· Rosenberger was in second. Gustavo Trelles finally over-took local Group N drivers and finished 11 seconds in front of Stumpy Holmes' Subaru. Leg 2 -Eight stages, 130.1 kms, gravel. Better weather was expected but it was not to be. An hour before the start the police reported that the main rally route to the north was closed so an alternative road would be pressed into service. Every flat part of the road to the north was flooded and the rivers were rising. Stages 10 and 11 had to be cancelled, shortening the day's activities. At lunch time all roads from the north were severed and the crews were wondering if they would get back to their beds that night, but by the time the rally headed southward the roads were open. Rain fell con-stantly throughout the leg. McRae admitted that his slow time on the Superspecial the night before had been tactical but now with the wet roads and the better conditions at the front of the field he was regret-ting his move. At the end of Stage 1 Didier Auriol had the lead by one sec-ond and by the return to Auckland he was 38.4 in hand. The public road stages were, in fact, faster in the wet than in the dry. McRae fell back from third to fourth after spinning on Stage 12 and hitting a post. Kankkunen was going as fast as he could in his Ford and, like most of the top runners was wondering about the apparent increase in horsepower of the Toyotas. Sainz and Makinen had an impromptu drag race on the way back from the pre-rally shakedown run and tactlessly, Sainz just pulled away from Makinen. Burns was now in third place and had had some trouble and Makinen was still trying to es-tablish a rhythm and was lying sixth. He had spun twice and finally was getting his act to-gether towards the evening. Subaru lost their third driver, Kangas, when he went off the road and down an embankment soon followed by two other cars. In F2 the SEA T's were going well but were hard pressed by Eriksson before his Hyundai in-gested more water and fell back to two cylinders for a few kilo-meters on Stage 16. In Group N Trelles fell back with a broken brake line, drop-Dusty Times Juha Kangas really destroyed his Subaru lmpreza, fortunately there were no injuries in this very hard crash. ping him from 1st to 11th in the category. Manfred Stohl was in fifth place and Hamed Al W ahaibi was having problems with the mud, "I don't have any grip at all!" Leg 3 -Six stages, 182.4 kms, gravel. Finally the good weather came but for Stage 19 the weather was still damp and sooooo much happened on that stage. Auriol stalled his engine in a corner and it took some time to restart, his lead of over half a minute over his team-mate turned into a deficit of ten seconds. Burns, in third came into a corner, clipped the inside of the bank and slowly rolled his car over in the mud. Some spectators, watching from their helicopter landed and helped to upright the car, although 15 minutes had passed. Ordynski went off the road, stayed upright but was stuck against a tree and he too lost a quarter of an hour. Joe McAndrew also got stuck in the mud and in F2 Bell went off and was unable to continue. Auriol reduced Sainz' lead to 1 .4 seconds on the following stage, the repeat of the first long stage and on Stage 21 he was 4.5 seconds in front. On Stage 20 McRae had a flat. He drove 30 kms on three wheels and a rim. "It was very disheart-ening, we still had a chance 'til then." The stages were drying and with that came the ebbing of Didier's advantage and slowly but surely Carlos was hauling him in. Team Orders? Not from where we sat! Three stages from the end Carlos took the lead and even-tually won by 4. 1 seconds. Makinen had moved up to third spot and said, "those guys were short coursing so much and throwing so much stuff on the road, the course was getting worse and not better." Kankkunen came in fourth after breaking a piston and he Thomas Radstrom and Gunnar Barth drove hard and took the 10 points for the Teams Cup win and were seventh overall as well. was glad as well as surprised to finish as well as they did. Best New Zealand driver was Geoff Argyle, 11th place and he was using Falken tires. In F2 Eriksson was stuck in fourth gear and in third place, Gardmeister moved into the second spot and Harri Rovan-pera got the ten points for the Group win. In Group N Trelles also had a piston break but he drove slowly from stage 20 to the fin-ish, his hopes of catching Michael Guest gone. Guest ran on Bridgestone tires and suf-fered no flats during the rally. So it ended, Toyota finished 1-2 and leads the Manufactur-ers Points by 11 over Subaru and they are three points ahead of Mitsubishi and Ford brings up the rear, 27 points out of the lead. In the Drivers standings, Sainz has 41, McRae 38, Maki-nen 28 while Kankkunen and Auriol are tied with 2 7 points each. ■ 0000000000000 28th Rally Nev Zealand Auckland 24/27 .07. 98 we round 9 1 (S) Carlol SAINZ/Lui■ Hoya 2 (6) Didier AURJOL/Denil Giraurdet l (1) TOIMi HAKININ/Rilto Hanniaonmaki 4 (7 I Juha KANKKUNIN / Juha Repo 5 (]) Colin HcRAI/Nicky Grilt 6 (4) Piero LIATTl/1abrizia Pon• 7 (14) Tho••• 1tad1tro11/Gunnar Barth 8 ( 16) Yoahihiro P:atao)r;a/Sato■hi Hayashi 9 (2) Richard BURNS/Robert Reid 10 (18) To■hio ruji1110to/Tony Sirco•b• 12 (36) Hichael Guest/David Green lJ (19) Harri Rovanpera/Risto Pi•tilain•n 14 (22) Gustavo Trelles/Hartin Christie 16 {29) Toni Garde111eiater/Paavo Lukkander 17 {21) Alexandre Potapov/eu9eny Zhivo9lazov 21 (24) Kenneth lrik11on/Staffan Par■ander 22 { 35) Ka ■ed Al Wahaibi/Terry Hacrr••n 2S {25) Itri• Ro1enber9er/Per C1rla1on 29 (JO) lfobu.hiro Taj h1a/Glenn Hacneall JO {20) Frederic Dor/ltevin Gor•ley 36 (28) Nejat Avci/lrkan Bodur F Flff PIN GB I s J GB J AUS FIN ROU/RA Flff RUS s OH/GB A/S J/AUS 1/GB TR Toyota Corolla WRCar QA Toyota Corolla WRCar A Hitaubiahi Lancer lvolution A rord Escort WRCar A Subaru I 111preza WRCar A Subaru I■preza WRCar A Toyota Corolla WRCar A Hitaubiahi Lancer lvolution A Hitaubiahi Lancer Evolution A Toyota Corolla WRCar A Subaru I■preza WRX-RA N SIAT Ibiza Kit Car ( 1st 12) A Mitsubishi Lancer lvolution K SEAT Ibiza U t Car ( 2nd 12) A rord Escort WRCar A Hyundai Coupe ltit Car (3rd F2) A Hitaubiahi Lancer lvolution K VW Golf Kit Car ( 4th 12 I A Suzuki Baleno JU t C11r { 5th F2) A Subaru h1preza 555 A Renault Haxi He9ane ( 6th r2) A 99 c; l=lANAl)A -l)AICAl=l October 1998 Page 15

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GLEN HELEN SH~RT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Round 4 Pleases ·Fans After Two Month Lull By Ron Miller Photos: Ralph Mason Roland Smith added up a second place and a win to be the day's winner in the Superlite class in his Briggsbuilt. Following a better than two month lull between this track's third and fourth rounds of off road racing action, the excitement came roaring back to Glen Helen Raceway on August 16, 1998. Without even saying a word, the sea of smiling faces really said it all. Fans seemingly endless wait for their favorite off road stars to return to local action, was finally over. Race day had at last arrived, and the San Bernardino stage was set for "Act IV" of the Fabtech Motorsports-sponsored Off Road Championship Series. As every-one 'knows, the perpetual "love affair" between local race fans and their favorite off road stars is any-thing' but a secret. As for that other "secret love affair", here's a thought for you to ponder. If Monica's dress causes "Slick Willie" to finish with a DNF in his second heat, would his over-all shot (in scoring) be pre-served ... ? On second though, for-get I asked and let's hurry into the Round 4 Race Recap. • Among the literature handed out to those entering the park, was a flyer announcing that A TV "State Championships" would be held at Glen Helen Raceway, be-ginning on September 20, 1998. That fact seemed especially ap-propriate, since the all time record for most A TV entrants at this track, was just recently estab-lished during Round 3 action which took place on June 14, 1998. To lead things off, ATV Novice and Beginner Class. en-trants took up their usual posi-tion, as the opening race contes-tants. There were seven Novice entrants and another 16 from the Beginner Class. In the Novice Class, first heat winner Dereke Gerecke left no doubt about who was best. Gerecke jumped out to a strong early lead and never looked back, while racing to a romping win. Jeff Anderson did well to take second, while Bret Greenhole earned the third spot. There was a good battle in the Beginner Class. Several riders in-cluding Jim Hanson, Heath Clegg, and Jason Nielsen, were dueling for the lead. But it was Manuel Romero who came through to take the checkered flag. Nielsen beat out Clegg for the runner up spot, with Pete Garcia taking fourth place. Race 2 was for the A TV Pro and Intermediate Classes. There were 15 entrants in the Pro Class, and another 19 riders in the In-termediate Class. In the Pro Class, the heat eventually boiled down to an excellent duel between early race leader Kory Ellis and Doug Eichner. Ellis was somehow able to hold off the hard-charging Eichner, and secure the victory. In addition to Ellis and Eichner, several other riders also turned in strong performances in Heat 1. Among them were Scott Butler, who finished a game third, Adam Campbell, who raced to a smart fourth place finish, and Dave Anderson, who posted a solid fifth. In the Intermediate Class, it was Jason Laymon who proved best of an outstanding field of 19 competitors. Buzz Clucas beat out everyone but the winner, to earn the runner up spot. Ron Holth-aus outfinished Matt Dodd to claim third place. Completing the top ten spots, in their order of fin-ish were Steve Marshall, Eric Hays, Raul Perez, Scott Melville, Chris Parro, and Doug Peters. Race 3 was for the Superlites, Pilot and Odyssey Classes. The heat featured six Superlites en-tries, three Pilots and a pair of racers from the Open Odyssey Class. Rennie Awana, the ultra talented Superlites racer from the potent Nature's Recipe team, was in total command of the race from the outset. Awana began opening up on the field immediately, and SCORE 1997 ENGINE BUILDER OF TI-IE YEAR! FAT MOTORS WIN! AND WIN! 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Ota PERFORMAICE 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 October 1998 .f Tim Lewis flies to victory in the Class 1/5/10 event by getting a pair of second places. had widened his lead into a clear advantage when he was given the white flag. But as fate would have it, Awana never did complete that final lap. Instead he seemed to disappear from view while scaling "animal leap". Whatever prob-lems brought Awana's race to a sudden end, apparently also kept him from returning for the Super-lites "main". While the timing couldn't have been any worse for Awana, things sure worke~ out well for Matt Scaroni. Scaroni simply flew his flag emboldened vehicle past Awana and on to vic-tory. Roland Smith, another member of the Nature's Recipe team, placed runner up. Denise Wittman, racing in a Superlites vehicle for (presumably) the first time at Glen Helen, finished the heat in third place. After watch-ing "Lady Wittman" score previ-ous victories in a Pilot and a full-size Class 8s truck, I get the im-pression that the Scottsdale, AZ resident could probably race com-petitively in any vehicle. In the Pilot Class, there was a trio of competitors including Wittman's mother-in-law Dee Mcjunkin. Mcjunkin set off into the lead in the very same vehicle which her son Todd and daughter-in-law Denise had both campaigned so successfully here in previous years. Unfortunately, McJ unkin's lead was short lived, and she was forced to pull off the course after completing lap ,l. Pilot Class mat-ters then fell into the hands of entrants Bill Dorsey and Alex Saez. Dorsey, like Mcjunkin, suf-fered some Heat 1 difficulties, but his were terminal. Thus Saez was virtually handed the heat victory, although Mcjunkin did return to complete the course and place runner up. In the Open Odyssey Class, it was a match race between Jeff Pearl and Rick Hoogeveen. This pair put on a great show, as· they battled through numerous lead changes. Eventually though, it was Hoogeveen who proved best, with Pearl settling for the second spot. Race 4 was contested by en-trants from Classes 1/2-1600, 1/ 2-1600ShortCourse, 5-1600, and Class 9. In the 1/2-1600 Short Course Class, there were four en-trants doing battle. Rafael Na-varro jumped out to the early lead, followed closely by Rick Boyer. Also in contention were a pair of newcomers to Glen Helen, Shane Balsch and John Barnard. In a hotly contested heat, Balsch took over command late and con-tinued on to score the win. Boyer finished as the r·unner up, with Navarro placing third ahead of Barnard. There were only two entrants in the 1/2-1600 Class. They were Glen Helen regulars Steve Fulton and Jim Fay. Each enjoyed the lead during some por-tion of the heat, but Fulton even-tually opened a clear advantage and raced to victory. The ultra-game Fay lost little in defeat, fighting tooth and nail with the winner before accepting the run-ner up spot. A trio of Class 9 rac-ers also took part in Race 4. Scott Weers grabbed the holes hot and set off to the early lead, while Rus Ouellette and Craig Stone were in hot pursuit. A short time later Ouellette was slowed by front end problems, which allowed Stone to move up into the second spot. From there Stone soon inherited the lead, when Weers suffered the loss of a rear tire. With "lady luck" clearly on his side, Stone simply cruised in for an easy win. Despite their wheel woes, Ouellette and Weers both managed to finish their opening heat. Ouellette grabbed the runner up spot, with Weers placing third. In the 5-1600 Class, another threesome was staged for battle. It was the familiar yellow and blue colors of "Team Borio" racing out to the early lead. "Defending Class Continued on page 18 Steve Fulton held off an aggressive charge by Jim Fay as he defended his lead in the 1/2-1600 race, to take both heats and earn the class win. Dusty Times

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With a first and a third place, thanks to a flat tire, Tom Hulshoff scored Jim Fay battled for position, but couldn't get it done, and took second Rick Boyer, in a Chenowth, was runner up in both heats and runner a second place for the day in the Class 115/1 0 event. in both 1/2-1600 heats, for a second in the day's standings. up for the day in the Short Course 1600s. Champion" David Anckner was Class, and the remaining pair tinued on his merry way to a The sixth and final Heat 1 Cannon was relegated to the run-holding down the second spot, courtesy of the Super 1600 Class. trouble free victory in the com-event was for all the truck classes, ner up spot. There were three ahead of Richard Kent who was Tom Hulshof immediately blasted bined 1/5/10 Class. Despite being and it also contained the day's entrants in Class 7S, but Jarrod running third. Borio (I believe it his way out off the line and into unable to keep pace with the run- only Rally Class entrant. Unfor- Wedell was really the whole story. was Steve) was doing a great job the lead. Ron Satter and Tim away winner, Lewis (who finished tunately for racing fans in atten-Wedell seemed to be in a class of of holding his main rival, Anck-Lewis were Hulshof s closest pur- as the runner up) also turned in a dance, this track's former Class 8 his own, as the Fabtech Motor-ner, at bay. But, in what has be- suers in the early going. Mean-very strong performance. Satter's champion Jason Taylor was forced .sports sponsored veteran led ev-come almost. a ritual in Class 5-while, Steve Errea and Cory Heat 1 effort was good enough for to sit out the day's races, due to ery inch of the way, while record-1600, Anckner gradually wore Witherill were dueling for the third place, and completed the problems which he encountered ing an almost effortless victory. down his competition late in the lead in the Super 1600 Class. ·Er- scoring in class. In the Super 1600 during the morning practice ses- Jeff Richardson was the only Class heat. After gaining the lead, rea found himself with a clear match-up, Witherill's early mis- sion. That basically left Class 8 7 entrant on the track, and his Anckner's Heat 1 victory was not advantage in their personal battle, take forced him to work extra racer Todd Wittman without any solo win was never in doubt, ei-seriously threatened. Borio had to when Witherill spun out near the hard to make up the lost ground, real competition. Wittman wasn't ther. Likewise for Marc Murata, settle for second best on this oc- completion of lap 1. It appeared but C,W. was clearly up to the about to let the fans go home dis- who scored a "walkover" victory, casion, with Kent following him that every racer on the course for task. Witherill caught Errea just · appointed though, so (much to as the only entrant in the Stock across the line and completing the this fifth race, with the exception past the race's halfway mark, and their delight) he went out and Mini 4WD Class. There was a order of finish. of Hulshof, had problems of one then drew clear for the Heat 1 flew his "black beauty" over and match race on tap in the Stock Race 5 was contested by seven sort or another. While-most of win. Although unable to contain around the Glen Helen trac~ at Mini 2WD Class, featuring John entrants, with five of them hail-them were busy pulling off and Witherill, Errea did finish steadily full speed anyway. With Byer vs. Stacy Fay. Byer grabbed ing from . the combined 1/5/10 then back on again, Hulshof con-to earn the runner up spot. Wittman's wife Denise's Class BS the holeshot and played "come f-(J) jjj 0 (.) g 6 < w ID z 0 a: ::; < I (.) a: 0 CD (J) --' w w I ~ w z :J a: w f-z w (.) 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E: :D 0 :D )> Page 18 October 1998 truck still being worked on back catch me" with Fay. And once home, the BS match-up found again that strategy proved sue-Sean McKenzie pitted against cessful fdr Byer, as "Racy Stacy" Dan Cannon. McKenzie contin-came up a bit short in her attempt ued his winning ways, by power- to upset the class points leader. ing to what seemed like his mil-To her credit though, Fay did lionth heat win. Cannon, despite continue on gamely to finish the losing his steering pump during heat as runner up. Jose Paramo practice, was still in the hunt un- was in a class of his own (Rally), til striking one of the scraper tires and scored an uncontested win. th.at borders the grandstand There was about a 30 minute straightaway. After being break between the final race of knocked sideways by the impact, Heat 1 and the first "main", Cannon quickly recovered and which allowed everyone a chance got back into the race. By that to seek some shade from the siz-time however, McKenzie had zling summer sun. Before we ven-built an insurmountable lead, and Continued on page 20 ---,,..,,..,., David Anckner surprised no one by taking first place in both heats, and ensuring the 5-1600 victory. Jarrod Wedell and his Toyota led the Class 7S heats from wire to wire both times to take home the honors. Dusty Times

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Todd Whittman's competition broke in practice, but he put on a good show in his Class B Chevy as he went 'round and 'round with the BS Jeff Richardson, the only Class 7 entrant in his Toyota; finished both Scott Butler, #1 (at the back of the pack) worked his way through traffic to get a third and a second, and second for the day in the Pro ATV class . . trucks. heats to add winner's points to his record. rom t e egmner · ass. or t e majority of the heat, it appeared as though Dereke Gerecke would complete a Sunday sweep of the Novice Class. But Steve Cobb and Jeff Anderson had other plans. Gerecke held the lead until the late going, when a trio of racers slipped past him. It was Cobb who reached the finish first and took the checkered flag. Anderson fol-lowed in second, matching his Heat 1 finish. Finishing third was Jason Schaefer, with Gerecke next in fourth. By virtue of his pair of second place finish.es, Anderson was declared the day's overall winner. Gerecke placed second, followed by Cobb in third With a second aFld a first for his efforts, Dan Gannon put his Ford into first place for and Schaefer in fourth. In the the day in Class BS. ATV Beginner Class, a conten-ture into those He~t 2 results, I'd which begin on September 20, tious battle ~eveloped with sev-like · to pass along the revised 1998. Rounds 2 and 3 of those eral racers vying for command. schedule for some of Glen Helen's same "ATV Championships" are Heath Clegg, Jim Hanson, and upcoming events. Round 5 of this scheduled for October 25, 1998 Pete Garcia, were foremost among series has now been moved to and November 8, 1998. And of • that group. When the Heat 2 dust October 11, 1998.' Round 6, course, you certainly don't want had finally settled, it was Clegg which will now be the final round to miss the return of the "Winter who emerged victorious. Clegg's of this year's short course series, Series Championships", which are timely win over his 14 class rivals, will be contested on November slated for December 4-6. also earned him the overall Round 22, 1998. Make your plans now to With one defection from each 4 victory as well. Pete Garcia was be with us for all of the action on of the two classes contesting the next past the checkered flag, and those two dates, as well as for the first "main", there were six A TV his second place finish also se-A TV "State Championship" Novice entries and 15 entries cured the runner up spot in over-OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE bypc Unscramble the five words below and the resulting scrambled letters in the ~oxes and you will have the answer to the question or statement. What the police thought of the man that had confessed to six crimes in the news that week? LEDNIPS WORBRAC SAKTEG RECMAB GINKLEA " □-□--□□ • " □ □ □□ • □ Page 20 October 1998 It a scoring. Hanson was able to out finish Jason Nielsen for third in the "main", but the reverse was true in the day's overall results. Lance Austin finished fifth and Cindy Gibson finished sixth, in both scoring categories. While Kyle Adams placed seventh in Heat 2, and Robert Bonen earned that same placing in the day's overall results. The second "main" event, fea-tured 12 ATV Pro riders and an-other 18 entrants from the A TV Intermediate Class. After battling for command in the early going, Kory Ellis' hopes for a sweep of both Pro heats were mddenly dashed on Lap 3 when he was spotted pulling off the course. Despite jumping back into the race a short time later, Ellis still saw his day come to an unfortu-nate ending when he lost a wheel on the final lap. All the while, Heat 1 runner up Doug Eichner was putting more and more ground between himself and the remainder of his Pro Class rivals. Eichner continued to draw away from the field, and posted a thor-oughly convincing win. D.E.'s romping score in the "main" earg.ed him the overall A TV Pro Class victory· as well. Scott But-ler, Dave Anderson, and Jimmy Stephensen, took second through fourth place respectively, in both heat and overall scoring. Josh Frederick, Ronald Warne, and Nick Nelson placed fifth through seventh in Heat 2, while Warne, Adam Campbell, and Nelson, earned those same positions over-all. II\ A TV Intermediate action, Steve Marshall saw his six heat winning streak come to an end, when he placed fifth in Heat 1. So he simply did what any great competitor would do, he came right back and started a new streak in Heat 2. Marshall left his 1 7 classmates in his wake, as he muscled up and got there first in the "main". Buzz Clucas had him-self quite a day as well. Clucas matched his Heat 1 second place finish, with another runner up effort in Heat 2. Clucas' consis-tency was rewarded quite nicely, as he earned himself the overall Intermediate Class victory. Rac-ing to an excellent third place fin-ish in the "main", and an overall fourth was Eric Hays. Hays if you'll recall, was last seen during Round 3 of this series, making a shambles of the A TV Beginner Class. Keep a watchful eye on this talented young racer, who double jumped into the Intermediate Class and immediately made his presence felt. Jason Laymon was yet another rider who had him-s'elf a big day. Laymon followed his opening heat victory with a solid fourth place finish in Heat 2. That landed Laymon in the second spot overall, just ahead of.Marshall who placed third. Mike Nish-imoto, Matt Dodd, and Scott Melville, placed fifth through se~-enth respectively, in heat 2. While Dodd, Ron Holthaus, and Melville, did likewise in the day's overall scoring. The field for the third "main" was made up of eight vehicles. Unfortunately, of the three Pilot Class entrants who had taken part in Heat 1, only the winner, Alex Saez, was able to answer the bell for Heat 2. That development paved the way for Saez to enjoy a leisurely Sunday drive to the Pi-lot Class victory. In the Open Odyssey Class, there was slightly more suspense. Jeff Pearl held an early lead over Rick Hoogeveen, who was the only other Odyssey Class entrant. Pearl still held the advantage, as the two raced past the heat's halfway point. But like so many other race vehicles on this scorching summer day, Pearl's expired prior to the finish line. That left Hoogeveen with· an un-obstructed path to the Open Od-yssey Class sweep, and the Round 4 victory. Rennie Awana's defec-tion from the Superlites "main", left things wide open for the re-maining five entrants. Denise Wittman won the holeshot, but was immediately challenged by Roland Smith. Soon Smith had Cory Witheri/1 had a great day, winning both heats in flawless fashion and taking the Super 1600 title. Dusty Times

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Dave Anderson uses a little body English to get around the corner, on Heath Clegg finished third in the first heat and first in the second Matt Scaroni had a good battle with Roland Smith, took a first and a his way to third in the Pro ATV class. orge is way past ittman an into the lead. Peter Kay, Matt Scaroni, and Mike Hulsey, were still giving chase halfway through the heat. Wittman regained the lead on Lap 5, and appeared des-tined for victory as she took the white flag. While the course workers were busy righting Hulsey's vehicle, which he had rolled near the rocker section, Wittman lost a wheel and all chance for vict9ry. Wittman's untimely break proved a huge break for the rest of the field. The primary beneficiary turned out to be Roland Smith, who inherited the lead, the Heat 2 win, and the overall victory. Peter Kay did manage to edge Matt Scaroni for the runner up spot in the "main", but the overall results for that same pair read just the opposite. The fourth "main" event was contested by a field of 11 vehicles. In Class 1/2-1600 Short Course, Rafael Navarro needed a win and a little bit ofluck to steal the over-all win. He got both. Navarro powered his way into the early race lead, and was never seriously menaced thereafter. Navarro had done his part, but the overall vic-tory would still go to Heat 1 win-ner Shane Baisch, if that rival was able to finish the "main" in sec-ond place. Navarro caught the break he needed when Baisch suf-fered a flat and pulled into the hot pits for a tire change. Even though Baisch returned to action and fin-ished strongly, Rick Boyer's run-ner up effort was the difference. That same Navarro, Boyer, and Balsch finish from Heat 2, also held up in overall scoring. Steve ulton and im ay staged one more match race in Class 1/2-1600. The result was the same as in that pair's earlier contest. ulton once again came out on top, with ay this time finishing a non-threatening second. The same Class 9 trio returned to have at each other one more time. Scott Weers looked bound and determined to score a win in Heat 2, and he did just that. Weers heat, which ave him the Beginner ATV win for the day. third, which made him second Superlite for the da . Jeff Anderson (#101) takes the inside line to pass ·a Beginner Class entry as he motors on to win the Novice ATV class. Rick Hoogeveen won both heats in the Open Odyssey class, to be the day's big winner. immediately took control and simply refused to relinquish the lead. With Weers steadily increas-ing his advantage each lap, Craig Stone and Rus Ouellette were left to duel for runner up. When Ouellette was slowed by another flat tire (just as in Heat 1), Stone was assured of a second place fin-ish. Weers' impressive victory in the "main" was not quite enough to give him the overall victory. That title went to Stone, whose points from his Heat 1 win over runner up Ouellette, made all the difference. In Class 5-1600, it was also a rematch for that same threesome. Again it was the "Team Borio" vehicle that won the holeshot (although this time it was Paul Borio behind the wheel). And again avid Anck-ner chose to stalk that pacesetter from the second position, while Richard Kent followed in third. Before the heat had progressed very far, first Borio and then Kent, looped out on the "wall of fear". That was all the help Anckner needed, as he took over the lead and never looked back. Anckner easily completed his Class 5-1600 sweep, while also padding his points lead in seasonal totals. The semi-final "main event" was contested by a compact cast of six vehicles. With the absence of Chris Neil, who took part in Heat 1, the combined 1/5/10 Class was re-duced to four entrants. Tom Hulshof was hoping to complete a Sunday sweep, by providing fans with an encore performance. But Hulshof's class rivals had other ideas. Ron Satter made a brief ap-pearance before he was forced to call it a day. Hulshof had only a taste of the lead in Heat 2, and that proved very short-lived. Gary Wil-liams quickly took over command and Tim Lewis powered his way into the second spot and was chal-lenging. A short time later Hulshof's problems became obvi-ous, he was racing with a rear right side flat. As the two leaders passed the "halfway" sign, Williams and Lewis continued their battle for command. Meanwhile Hulshof's problems had finally forced him to pull off the course. When Lewis' vehicle suddenly began blowing steam, Williams started to pull away from him. By the time the white flag came out, Williams had built a comfortable lead. He con-tinued on strongly to the finish, and took the checkered flag. An-other game effort by Lewis resulted in another second place finish. Hulshof completed the scoring in third place, when he slowly made his way across the finish line. In an ironic twist, Lewis, the only "main" finisher without a heat victory, was declared the overall winner. Hulshof, with the side of his fin-isher points from the "main", landed in the overal runner up spot. With Williams next in third and Satter placing fourth. The Su-per 1600 match up between Cory Witherill and Steve Errea quickly became a mismatch, when Errea suffered steering problems midway through the heat. Witherill may have romped regardless, as he looked super throughout and won by a distance. Errea placed runner up, in heat and overall. The final race of the day was the "main" for all truck classe·s and the lone Rally car. As men-tioned earlier, Jose Paramo had the easiest of times scoring an uncontested Rally Class victory. Ditto for classy Class 8 superstar Todd ·Wittman, whose "walk-over" was really more like a "fly-over". Likewise also for Marc Murata, whose Stock Mini 4WD competitors were only imaginary. At least Jeff Richardson who so-loed in Class 7 "almost" had some real competition. Raul Flores, Glen Helen's "Defending Class 7 Champion", reported that he and his crew had given it their best shot, including working "72 SODA MEMBERS straight hours" up to race day morning, before finally conceding that they'd have to wait for the next round. The Stock Mini ZWD contest was a virtual replay of Heat 1, with John Beyer scoring another flag to flag victory over r:unner up Stacy Fay. The Class 7S contest was simply another edition of the "Jarrod Wedell Show". Wedell lapped both his 7S rivals, while easily recording his second heat victory of the day. The efforts of second and third place finishers Brian Cavitt and Robert Kroeker do deserve men-tion though. Each was a marked improvement from their respec-tive Heat 1 exploits, and Kroeker raced part of the heat with a flat tire. In Class BS, Sean McKenzie's "overall victory" win streak finally came to an end. "Dynamite Dan" Cannon's win in the BS finale, gave him the overall victory for the day, while snapping his rival's six round winning streak. McKenzie's awesome string of overall victories had stretched all the way back to Round 6 of this track's 1997 series. I'm sure "Big Mac" would be the first to admit that you can't win 'em all, but for the longest time, it appeared that he might. That's all, 'til the fall, so I'll just CU in September. ■ We would like to inform all SODA members that inasmuch as our Dusty Times subscriptions are no longer being handled by he club, you will have to renew directly with Dusty Times. You may have already received a renewal notice in your last opy of Dusty Times and you may use that for your renewal or you ay use the Subscription Form on page 3 of the paper. Please remit ayment with your renewal request. Alex Saez took wins in both heats, partly by outlasting his competition, to be the Pilot class victor. 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DUSTY PEOPLE Charlie Engelbart Most SCORE racers feel they've finally got themselves and their team to the race when they line up for contingency. This car-. nival-like assemblage of manufac-turers and retailers who support off road racing with cash and mer-chandise for winning racers is the product of time and energy spent by Charlie Engelhart. The racers all know him, a wraith who slips through the crowd, patting this one on the back, hugging that one and dis-pensing friendly kisses to one and all. Charlie has spent 23 years developing the contingency pro-gram for SCORE, and for this year he's got 72 companies posting about $150,000 in prizes for each race. Although born in the Chicago area, Charlie was only a year old when his father decided to move out west for health reasons. He lived in the Maywood and Pico Rivera area and graduated from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera in 1957. After graduation he went right into the Navy, where he stayed until 1961, and from there he joined the-Sheriff's Department. Initially h~ was a patrol officer, but in '66 he was tossed off a sec-ond story balcony when he tried to quell a gang celebration. The resultant injuries, which read like a catalog of everything that could possibly break, put him in the hospital for 17 months. From that time on he no longer worked pa-trol, but was switched over to ad-ministration. Charlie took to it PIKE'S SERV:ICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS Mobil SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 22 like an off roader takes to dirt. In the next 34 years he moved through a succession of depart-ments, soaking up the training as he went. He did I.A. investiga-tions; background investigations for new hires; he worked in re-cruitment; and was even on the staff at the Sheriff's Academy in East Los Angeles. For a time Charlie was an offi-cial photographer; documenting social functions, meetings, res-cues, brush fires and riots. Then he went on to regional budgets and planning in the city of Lake-wood, and from there was sent to the Palos Verdes Peninsula. At that time he was the liaison for the Sheriff's Department to the cities of Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills. He liked that job, and was there for six years. He was a fund of stories irwolving one of the more notorious residents of the area: Parnelli Jones. In the course of his wanderings through the hills of P.V., Charlie would occasionally meet up with P.J., whom he'd originally met at the SCORE races. P.J. didn't always find it easy to obey the speed laws in his neighborhood, and Charlie always enjoyed a chance to have a chat with him. Among other things, what Charlie learned with all these as-signments was administration and the importance of being "tactful and diplomatic", a skill which he puts to great use in his dealings with contingency donors. After he left Palos Verdes he moved to the Sheriff's Radio cen-ter where he was responsible for a multi-million dollar inventory of radios, cell phones, pagers and as-sorted communications equip-ment. He was in charge of orga-nizing and setting up lines of com-munication for such massive un-dertakings as riots, forest fires, and special events like the Rose Parade, the '84 Olympics and the World Cup Soccer matches in '94. October 1998 He worked in the communica-tions office for the last 13 years of his stint as a Sheriff. And in February of '95 he retired. Along the way he had made friends with Dean O'Neal, a Deputy Sheriff, who was also an off road racer. O'Neal, who was teamed with Stan Parnell (owner of Parker Pumper and the Off Road Action News) in a Class 9 car (l 200ccs in those days) took him to a SNORE race in 1974. While there Parnell introduced him to Mickey Thompson, who had just started SCORE, and had just produced his first Riverside Raceway off road event. Mickey had decided that the off road industry needed some new rules. He learned that Char-lie was a cop, and thought maybe he was just the right person to help put together some rules and be a tech inspector. Charlie said . O.K. So he went to work for Johnny Diaz and Carl Scholl, and at the same time teamed with John House (one of Mickey's em-ployees and the builder of all his race cars), to write a new SCORE rule book. This was in '75. Charlie worked as a tech in-spector until the Baja 500 in '76, when Bob and Cathy Martin needed help with the Contin-gency Program. He worked with them for a while, and then they moved away and Charlie took it over. The contingency donors were pledging approximately $35,000 per race at that time. He had Bernice Sanders, Sal Fish's Administrative Assistant, helping him. Charlie said he did the hus-tling and Bernice did the paper-work. But Bernice already had too much to do, so soon Charlie was doing the whole thing._ It wasn't just Charlie, however, because his wife, Linda, then his fiancee, worked alongside him right from the _beginning. And he began gradually building a corps of loyal helpers, many of 'them Sheriffs and retired Sheriffs, who help run the contingency program on·race weekends to this day. In addition to the SCORE Contingency, Charlie took on some announcing beginning with the Mint Contingency circus on Fremont St. That was a matter of being in the right place at the •right time. Walt Lott, Mint pro-moter, had a momentary panic one year when the professional radio announcer scheduled to do the announcing from up on top of the Mint marquee was unable to get there. He needed someone in a hurry, and it had to be some-one who knew the races by sight. He asked Charlie to do it. Char-lie, who'd never done any an-nouncing at all, demurred. Said he wouldn't know how. Walt said, "All you have to do is be natu-ral." Charlie figured he could do that, and so he did, and did it for another eight or nine years until the Mint Race faded away. But in the meantime he began announc-ing at the moto-cross park on the far side of the Mint course, where spectators had grandstand seating for the action, and he did the an-nouncing for the pit crew chal-lenges before the race. To this day Charlie is still an-nouncing at SCORE races. He does continuous commentary for events like the Laughlin Chal-lenge and the Primm 300 where cars do laps past a spectator area. And at the long Baja loop races Charlie will be found at the fin-ish line, microphone in hand, in-terviewing the top finishers on the podium. In about 1980 he got involved in another kind of off road rac-ing. The old Saddleback Park fa-cility in Orange County was tai-lor made for short course off road racing. Rich Kimball produced the Bug In and a VW drag race program at the facility, and wanted to have a short course race program, which he named "Baja Cross". He got Charlie to help. Kimball produced it and Charlie did the contingency pro-gram and the announcing. It was a nice little series, run like moto-cross, with heats for the classes, and winners determined by points. They raced in a bowl, and there was great spectator viewing for the action. The Kimball and the facility lease-holder had a parting of the ways, and Kimball left. Charlie took over the whole program for a while. But it was doomed to last only until September of '84. At that time a drag boat accident at Lake Irvine caused the death of a spectator, and the Irvine Com-pany, a giant landholder in Or-ange County, and the owner of Saddleback Park, decided there would be no more motorized sporting events on their property. End of Baja Cross. For the last ten years or so he and Linda have worked at the Long Beach Gran Prix, in the cre-dential office. This way Charlie gets the best of both worlds in that he gets to tell people they can or can't come in, and he also gets to meet some interesting race· peoIJle and see a lot of good racing. He's a Robby Gordon fan. Charlie and Linda, who were married in '79, have seven chil-dren between them, and a total of 15 grandchildren. Only four of them live nearby, but spending time with the grandkids is one of the joys of their retired lifestyle. They also get a lot of fun out of traveling around the country in their motor home, and Charlie says he has lots of projects around the house. He calls it a "honey do" list. Linda has a slightly different viewpoint on that subject. In gen-eral Charlie says, "We lead basi-cally a very dull, boring exist-ence." Over the years, by dint of a lot of letter writing and many phone calls, Charlie has gradually built SCORE's contingency program to · its current size. He pores through things like the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Manufacturer's Asso-ciation) Membership directory for potential new contingency do-nors, and then starts writing let-ters. His letters are followed up by phone calls, and new companies keep joining the group. Incidentally, for those who keep track of such things, Charlie's job as Contingency Di-rector for SCORE is done on a volunteer basis. Except for being reimbursed for his expenses, Charlie receives no pay for his ef-forts. About a year after Charlie re-tired, Linda had a heart attack and needed angioplasty. She's re-covered well and now Charlie and Linda are looking forward to many more years of running the contin-gency program for SCORE and traveling around the country in their motor home when they're not at the races. ■ 0000000000000 Dusty Times

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RALLY WORKER'S RALLY SPRINTS Thurston c~unty Off Road Vehicle ~ark, McLearv, WA Text & Photos: Jim Culp Seems like every sum-ORV Park favorite for mer when the sun sneaks several years. While into the northwest sky, Clark has always posted and warnings .along the fast stage times, over the forest roads announce last three years he's the fire danger, a little managed to combine Dcxlge Shelby rolls out of that speed with reliabil-master rally car builder ity. Nobody even comes Dave Clark's garage and close to dominating an heads off to collect a box event the way Clark and of trophies. the Dodge have. In the It's not uncommon to overall standings, Clark hear of "horses for nabbed two second courses" in motorsports, place finishes in 1996, a and Clark's Shelby GLH second and a first in is the horse to ride when =-""--"=---=---------"'--------' 1997, and two first in the Northwest Region of #15A Clark's Shelby flew with John Lane at the wheel. Lane_ and Scott 1998. Clark and Huhn the Sports Car Club of Huhn finished third in Rally Sprint 1. · also grabbed this year's America comes to the Thurston teamed with co-driver Scott Huhn trophies for regional Class 1 and the County Off Road Vehicle Park to take first overall in both rounds divisional over two liter (02) class. course for the Rally Sprints. In this of the Sprints. The sprints are run as coefficient · year's run round the park, Clark Clark's Dodge turbo has been a one divisional rallies, but they look a bit like a Solo on dirt. SCCA Pro Rally cars tackle a course graded through the dirt in front of a stadium grandstand. One at a time the cars run around the course, timed to one hundredth of a second, with penalty time for bashing the barrels that mark the apexes of the corners. The cars soar, the dust flies, spec-tators cheer and everyone enjoys the sun. All thanks to the Thurston County Parks Department. While most parks organizations can barely manage to fill the life guard's seat at the swimming hole, Thurston County keeps the gate open to ev-erybody with a taste for dirt and speed. Motorcycles, Jeeps, trucks, go carts, and rall~ars, the ORV Park has to be on a very short list of most · unique public recreation facilities in the county. Nate Tennis and Nat Stow fin-ished a surprising second in Sprint 1. The novice Scandia Saab team showed off their Swedespeed and claimed the divisional under two li-ter (U2) class and regional Class 3. Third overall were John Lane and Scott Huhn. Lane swapped his usual Volvo rally ride for a turn in Clark's Dodge, and a chance to add some over 02 class points. 4WD winners Janice Damitio and Amity Trow-bridge in the Crazee Espresso Toyota finished fourth overall after a hard landing fractured a tire. Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub claimed fifth in the Matt Sweeney Special Effects pick-up, with regional Class 2 winners Todd Lengacher and Tina Warner close behind in the TNT Datsun 210. Sweeney's special effects are usu-ally seen at the movies, and his wild (once a Toyota) pick-up would be right at home as a Road Warrior. Kirk Simons and Geoff Case fin-ished second in Class 2, but suffered a split exhaust that cut into the Sat-. urday night barbecue time. A little welding support from day time com-petitor Sweeney got the Simon's Dodge running overnight. Eighth overall were another Class 2 team, rally organizer John Forespring and Jiselle Waterhouse in Walt's Fat Ford Mustang. Bob Reaves and Tammy Reaves floated to ninth overall and second in Class 3 in the Somerset Auto Glass Mazda RX3, just ahead of newcomer Tony Lemon who teamed with Ray Forespring to claim tenth in Walt's pace setting Datsun 510. Saturday's Sprint got off to a bang when the fifth starter, Mike Mailman and Shelly Kruse raced the Titanium Racing VW Golf into an off camber left hander, clipped the apex and rolled. Mailman described it as a gentle parking job, and after the VW was righted the Titanium team con-tinued, even posting some very quick stage times later in the event. Class 4 winners Mark Wilkie and Brian Fradenburg also rolled and survived to finish. There were only two DNFs among the 21 starters. For the record, this year's events were the "Rally Workers Rally Sprints" as an honor for the dedi-cated folks who devote countless hours making the northwest the rally capital of the country. Fun runs af-ter the events gave everyone a chance to try the co-driver's seat, and a Saturday evening barbecue topped the day. Sunday's course reversed the Sat-urday route and hitting the long front straight at speed resulted in faster stage times. Rally Sprint 2 also of-fered some closer racing for the lead, as Damitio and Trowbridge chal-lenged Clark and Huhn in the early runs. The rough course took a toll on wheels and the Toyota dropped ever so slightly off the pace to finish second. Sweeney and Strub moved up to third, and first in U2, with Tennis and Stow fourth in the Saab, again gocxl for the Class 3 crown. Simons and Case moved up to fifth and claimed the Class 2 title, while over-night repairs put Rick Hintz and Mark Swalley into sixth overall in a Datsun 240Z. Lengacher and Warner finished seventh, Lane and Huhn were eighth, Wilke and Fradenburg nabbed ninth, and Forespring and Waterhouse claimed tenth in Rally Sprint 2. Several northwest rally regulars missed the Sprints to participate in the Maine Forest national event, while Vance Walker and Karen Laylor passed up the Rally Sprints to attend a wedding ... their own. ■ #17 Janice Damitio and Amity Trowbridge tried flying the Crazee #33 What goes up, sometimes comes down hard Kirk Simons and #38 Class two winners in Rally Sprint 1 were Todd Lengacher and Espresso Toyota and finished second in Rally Sprint 2. Geoff Case claimed the regional class two title in Rally Sprint 2 Tina Warner in the TNT Datsun 210 #44 Nate Tennis and Nat Stow leaped to a novice class win with a #57 Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub were third overall in Rally Sprint #74 Mark Wilkie and Brian Fradenburg rolled, taped the windshield surprising second overall in Rally Sprint 1 2 in the Sweeney Special Effects pickup bac~ !!1 place, and won the class four title in both Rally Sprints. Dusty Times October 1998 Page 23

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I CORP OFF ROAD RACING IN BAJA Honold Takes Win Number Two in Tecate By A. Tellier Photos: Mario Vazquez Arturo Honold worked hard on the tigHt CORP Tecate La Carrera course to squeeze OUT a three minute lead and get the overall win in his Class 10 car. Mexicali abogado Arturo Honold blistered his Class 10 single seater over a tight, tech-nical Tecate race course to his second overall in that many CORP events. CORP is Canchanillas Off Road Promo-tions. Honold had to withstand the two amazing performances of 1600 winner Miguel Angel Tornel and by the Restrictor Plate class runner up Manlio Paul Moreno Baca. The sunny day pounded the racers whil~ the drive through the rocks and gullies pounded their shoul-ders. The imaginative course favored the driver, not the dyno, and those, that could handle a full two-and-a-half laps -185.8 miles -of wrench-ing on their steer~ng wheel and staying on the course were re-warded with a finish and, to the best, a hard fought victory. Mario and Elias Ledezma dominated the 5-1600 ranks -even against such strong hearts as Rick St. John/Steve Miszkcwicz and El Hombre de Hierro, Rick Fouquette. Eliot Yee (another Yee, Lobsam, was second in the Baja 500) and 1997 Challenger champion Leonardo Navarette struck pay dirt again with 13th and 14th overall, respectively." 11" win-ner Marcos Nunez ran the full 185.8 mile course to an as-tounding 24th overall over a . field of, what else, eleven VWs. Once Onces! THE RACE COURSE Joaquin Rodriguez and the CORPsters used a little of this and a little of that in develop-ing their technical race course: parts of old Lou Peralta races (the course, not Lou), some 1995 Fud sections and even the Neji stretch that Sal used in that year's "1000" from Tijuana. The course, which be-gan with a one time only stretch down the higfiway from Hotel Rancho Tecate on the Ensenada Highway 3, ran through the Rancho Viejo ol-ive orchards; around Pena Blanca, crossed the El Compadre Trail twice and blazed a trail through a recent burn before finishing south of .Rancho Santa Veronica. Other than the short sand wash area into Neji ("Est. 1846") top gear was not necessary; a real good power steering system was. Pity the poor Challenger drivers -unable by law to have power assist. Constant sawing away on the wheel was a given. CORP put up a well marked course. The "danger" and "turn arrows" were placed well before the. items of "in,terest. To the west there were se.veral water crossings, some de.ep, some .. muddy, all wet. The exposed granites of the exfoliation · domes -Piedras Gordas -kept the course tight while in other areas new plant growth re-stricted the driver's vision and curtailed any dust cleaning breezes. El Nino had done its work well as there were lots of cottontails, coveys of cordoniz ... quail... and even a large Klapperschlager. .. rattle-snake ... or two. And thos·e that did not pre~ run were prone to rmbarrass-ment. 'Carnage" was a word of-ten used to describe the litter on the course. "I saw a car with only the stinger sticking up out of a ditch", was a common com-ment; and a common problem. For· example, John Brindell brought qut his new feather-weight "1600" ("I don't think they have scales in CORP.") and made a dynamic pass on Ramiro Escobedo, in the perva-sive dust, and ended up in an El Nino ditch for some depress-ing thirty minutes. Escobedo, too, had had his share of troubles, having been on their top. With the loss of the sheet The Tijuana based team of Miguel Tomei and Mario Reynoso charged hard in their 1600 car to get the class win and take second overall. metal; if it was-n't hot enough -now they had no shade. Escobedo rolled twice on Compadre loop, having missed a crucial turn. One "well known" save-your-bacon spot used to have a safe run off area. Now it had a welded steel gate. Informed sources, i.e. Joe Hagar, Jimmy Nuckles' hard-to-phase passenger, body man, lubrication tech and wheel man reported that "1608' (Brindell). was out there in a big ditch. He's OK. The car's OK. Some guys are helping him get out. He'll be along soon." Joe then continued tearing various body panels off the Brawley-based ProTruck of Nuckles. (Con-sider this a "te·aser". More later ... ) JB _reported that he saw Nuckles tag a big rock and then explained that "I followed Escobar into a left hand turn. I screwed up and ended up a big ditch. I am just happy to fin-ish." . THE RACE DAY 112 entries graced the start line. Pro 10: Four Pro .1600: Ten· Pro 8: Four Pro 5 :· S--even Pro 5-1600: Sixteen Pro 9: Eleven Pro 7: Five Pro 7S: Three . Pro 1-1: Eleven Pros: Seventy-one entered. Forty-eight finishecl. SP 10: Four SP 1600: Three SP 8: Two SP 5: Five SP 5-1600: Fifteen SP.9: Three SP 7: One SP 11: Two Sportsman: Thirty-five entered. Twenty-nine fin-ished. Safari: Six entered. Five finished. At Neji, Miguel "Tornel had a big lead over Honold", ac-cording to the old tattered race notebook. Luis Barragan, Class 10, and Moreno made up the quickly disappearing lead pack. Since the 10s and 1600s started One-Two ... wisely ahead of"8" trucks due to the technical as-pect of the course. Tornel's lead over a high horsepower buggy was, indeed, a poser. Barragan would lose a -position to Moreno~ · Subsequent investigations indicated that Arturo -who HAD pre run -took a wrong turn ·and spent a few minutes wand~ring in the wasteland. Tomei did not make that turn and capitalized big time on the rare air that comes from run-ning out front. The narrow cow trail course did not promote passing nor did the heavy hang-ing, blinding dust. What breeze there was, was effectively masked by the luxurious spring growth: No Rebase! The first section was ex-tremely technical: "There was no passing unless you got wings" was the way I heard it. 'Tth.e 1600s ran. almost in • sta.rting' order,'with onLy Ra-mon Chavez missing ... Watson/ Hardesty ... Cons/Ruiz ... Randy Anderson ... · and the new wheels of Brindell being piloted by hfred gun Steve Downing. Steve, ·who -also pilots for "BoNoz" Anderson, eventually sailed through Neji sprouting various sprigs of foliage from the numero"-1S bash bars and bumpers. Downing was to later report that his tardy appear-ance had less to do with his going agricultural ~han with T-boning Oscar Arreola in a dust cloud. Brindell, the ORW store manager in Kearney Mesa, has added plastic "wind wings" and a· plastic, fairing above the beam. JB says that the added aerodynamics is good for "a few rpms" at top end. That could be construed as up 'to 10%; big improvement across the dry -lake. John brought the 70% completed Jimco from an idled source in Imperial Valley. Jimmy Nuckles and his Ford had a rough day, including a rollover that flattened a Arturo Lizarrage and Victor Herrera had steering problems with their Class 5 car, Arreola· tore the top off his "10" car. "We rolled three times on this curve. And lost the dipstick. And had a bad front tire." Carlos Escobedo and Mike Novoa got to ride it over. "We hit a tree at this jump," they offered by way of an explanation. San Felipe win-tire, but still took the win in Class 8. _bu_t_s_til_l _m_a_na~g~ed_to_ta_k_e_th_e_~_,_·n_. _______________ _ Continued on page 26 Page 24 October 1998 Dusty Times

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Manlio Moreno kept the pressure on the leaders and took second Gustavo and Ricardo Coronado pushed their Ford hard to take second Mexicali racer Luis Ba"agan, who finished second in Class 1 0, two place in the 1600 class by just 50 seconds. He was third overall. in Class B on a course that was better suited to smaller vehicles. wheels the car past our photographer. ners Simon Ruiz y Cesar Cons wheels were torn off. Only a Tornel and Moreno showed car. I was stuck in the weeds." "Stay behind Fouquette. never even made it to the sec-Mexicali Vildasola Ken worth how it should be done. He coulda helped check that He'll come back to you_." That, ond El Compadre Road cross-could account for that many A good inter-class race was re-set toe-in, huh? anyway, WAS a correct assess-ing. They know why, but they liantas! Trailer time= Thomas between Bo and Nuckles -Im-Downing said that there ment. ain't talking. time. The car was summarily perial Valley boys goin' at it. were "so many places that you St. John continued his re-In his inaugural event in his returned to El Cajon for a post Anderson could be seen sport-can roll it." Nuckles passed me port: "There was this traffic new car, Ricky Ellison came event review and debriefing. ing some bright yellow "Police in the switchbacks of Canon jam. A bunch of us were way down from Fresno with his Jimmy Nuckles' radio trans-Line" tape off the shock tow-Manteca -he slammed me -it stopped. Marlo Ledezma was Mike Thomas masterpiece missions suggested some confu-ers. bent the top tube. The car runs no dummy. He just went right for shake down cruise. sion as to his pitting: where, While Brindell changed OK. Works like shit. The new around us. So I followed him. The mid-engined, Fortin-when, who, which, how but places at Neji with Downing, shock velving sucks." Steve, Fouquette has to be tired. transmissioned, VTEC Honda-now why. Nuckles -after his-Escobedo got by. Downing had Steve ... don't hold back! Tell 'Cause I am! I wanted to quit ed, A-armed "IndyCar" Chen-sterling 10th overall at the a dinged rear bar and wrinkled us how you REALLY feel. at Mile 65. It was the worst. I owth was a thing of beauty... Fireworks - was driving like a number plate. Brindell Tech By the early afternoon Tor-couldn't handle the heat. and maybe, perhaps, someday, man with the overall "Overall" · Notes: the new car uses a Jeff nel and Moreno were only ,22 There was a lotta traffic. I got a joy forever (paraphrasing poet on his mind, dogging Ellison Howe power steering system seconds -and a cloud of dust -behind the 'Coronado Express' J. Keats), Rich and Mike -had whose F 1 Honda was sounding using a Volvo pump. The Larry apart. The difference at the end {sic)". been testing the state of the art a tad ratty. Rosevear pump bracket was a was 50 seconds. Cosme, Cardenas Baro drove racing system at the {in)famous Interspersed with, and prob-piece of art. Hatz is still using The Tom Watson team most of the race missing the Barstow "Mile of Danger" and ably interfering with, the 5-boost bottles on his small mo-changed drivers at Neji; owner front clip to a 7:33 elapsed time now needed to try a real life 1600 racers was the Empresa tors. Watson in for Darren Hardesty. -just in time for Miller Time. experience. Coronado truck of Gustavo After Steve got out he told Any downtime made it virtually "Tiempo de una Tecate." The bloom came off the cac-Coronado. The black Edgar The Tale: "On the start section impossible to catch Moreno or PRO CLASS 7 tus flower when Rich, with no Casanova VW, driven by Rick I hit a car who had flipped. Os-T ornel. As difficult as it may be to time for pre running, ran into Fouquette, was under heavy at-car Arreola was dead stopped. CLASS 5 believe -but believe it -Perry a deep V-notch gotcha after tack by the yellow Ledezma car I was in third gear. I think I Gerardo Gonzalez started to McNeil did NOT win the Mini . the finish line snow fence chi-from Chula Vista. Mario wasted his whole rear end." really oil the engine early in the Truck class. Jesus Gamino got . cane. "Ouchman Al" said that started ninth and was up to sec-(Subsequent technical review race. The Puro Valle "5" car... a free ride as Perry was delayed (Rich) "was going way too fast. ond place by the burn area; St. indicated that this was not ex-involved in the Nuckles Ca- a long time for an off course The car ended up sideways in John was third up from sixth. actly the case. At all.) "Both of per. .. lost a lot of engine oil. excursion: 8-12 to Gamino's the hold. No one could hardly PRO CLASS 1600 (our) front rims were dented." Make that LOTS of oil. The 6:49. get by him." Indeed. The vari-The single port guys put on Steve continued: "I passed Bo back of the car was coated from Alberto Gonzalez had a lei-ous reports indicated that a good show, forcing Honold to right after the start. He re-· the seats of the silencer. And surely crew change, then an wheels went every which way. "up" his performance to Over-passed me while I got out after still finished well -second be-even more leisurely day with a By my tally at least five or seven all the race. As noted above, I hit alignment shop owner Os-hind winner Arturo Lizarraga. DNF. Steve Lawrence, a gringo Michelle Gastelum stopped "lribe" talker ifl heard one, was at the Neji gate then slowly a DNF. TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING INC drove back along EI Compadre PRO CLASS 8 • • toward Rancho Santa and to Jimmy Nuckles rattled into home. RSV /Compadre with a flat right EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE RACEAUTO PRO CLASS 5-1600 front tire. They started to tear St. John came after a lap and the flapping body panels off." AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY a half, changed the crew, Change the flat using some of OVER 250 FINAL DRIVE RATIOS WITJ-1 ADAPTERS & CONVERTERS COMBINATIONS FOR ANY ENGINE $250 RING & PINION, FULL MANUAL 3SP AUTO 1997 SCORE MILESTONE WINNER TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD 9763 VARIEL AVENUE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 818-998-2 739 Page 26 October 1998 ripped out shattered the hundreds of spectators to windscreen and sent Steve out get the ProTruck high enough to run down Rick Foquette. St. to get the new wheel on. Add John was beat, big time, but in-four (4) quarts of engine oil af-'struc ted Steve to run down ter checking the dip stick with Rick: "The car's runnin' good. a wipe of the old driving glove. Rick'll get tired. And, oh, the "We're gonna finish!" throttle seems to be sticking. It Nuckle's dilemma was ex-could be crud. Give it a smack. plained "A guy was coming the It comes back." Steve would other way ... we had to get out later comment on this: "Seems' of the way. And turned it over." to be sticking? Yeah! There's It now appears that the "other never any reason to le t off - guy" was a chaser coming in to since the throttle stayed stuck extract a "white '5' car" , who down, anyway!" may remain unidentified Gerar-Class 5-1600 had the biggest entry by far, and Mario and Elias Ledezma emerged the winners by a little over four minutes. ____________ _ Dusty Times

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do Gonzalez. It took eight men to put the Ford truck back onto four, well onto three wheels. Nuckles' quote of the race was: "These Mexican races are hell on me!" Jimmy's got a hell of a good attitude. All things consid-ered. Chris Wilson's first ever rough ride in the big Fqrd was prematurely terminated with a water pump problem. The truck used to belong to: Dave Shoppe, Scott McMillin and Rocky Anderson who had, in the past years, enlisted the skills of a variety of pilots including Perry McNeil and Broe Glover. Novice -rank amateur - Chris Wilson quickly learned the ropes of big motor desert racing in the Ford. "You can not mash · the (gas) pedal. The truck is easy to drive - if you keep off the gas. 11 They reported that there was no way you could even THINK about getting out of second gear. Six hundred and fifty horsepower. Two thousand foot pound of torque -at the driver's seat. Tecate was not well suited for a big bore blow out. Jimmy Nuckles excluded, however. Jimmy pinned it in the most unlikely and unsuitable -and max fun - places! Chris and partner Ramsey El-Wardani said that "they learned a lot" and probably needed to do more testing· in somewhat rougher terrain. (Nostalgia: Re-member when Ramsey drove off that cliff at the right hander coming out of Mike's and then blithely drove up and out of the other side of the ravine on to Dusty Times In Class 7 Jesus Gamino took the win in his high flying Ford, over an hour in front of second place. The father and son team of Pedro Mercado and Pedro Jr., took first place in Class 7S in their very clean looking Ford. the win? He does!} Both were pleased with the initial outing of the big rig. Eli Yee never reached the 35 mile point at Neji. This was de-cidedly not a truck course. Many of the turns were best handled by powering into the turn and if the truck "pushed" at all it was in the giggle weeds in a Nuevo York minute. PRO CLASS 9 The Challenger ranks were full of survivors and some win-ners. Series points challengers fought equipment problems and long days just to stay even with each other. While the race was won by Eliot and Lobsam Yee, the points battle drew to a dead heat as both the Adam and Mike Pfankuch team and arch-enemies Alfonso Lacarra/Lalo Mayoral struggled. Alfonso and Lalo were actually able to beat the father and son duo by a teeny weeny fifteen seconds for sixth place. The black Mexicali car broke the left rear torsion and the savvy team (from the Spanish word "Sabe" = "you know"} elected to tough it out and race to the finish with the lower rider butt end sagging. Lalo pointed out that the sacked rear caused the opposite front wheel to dangle in the air. Left turns would have the car heel over and lift the inside driving wheel off the ground ... so that was NOT driving any-more. God bless momentum and inertia. The team's decision was based on the relative smooth-ness and the relative slowness of the course. Lalo still looked whipped at La Meta. Anyway, Lalo ran a lap and a half draggin' butt just to stay even with Adam's point stand-was hampered by extra nuts and ings. Good thing that the course frayed stuff (pretty technical was just tight, not rough, so the description, huh). The Carlsbad exercise was do-able. pizza king had frayed more of Adam and Mike Pfankuch the wound steel cable and had were dogged by the small shit. to take a not-so-lengthy stop at Mike radioed that he would his sumptuous Neji pits. Which need a throttle cable so the was almost unrecognizable after crew got the stranded cable, the Arturo Honold ran over the barrel nut wrenches, pliers and "K.I.T." sign while passing Rene other implements of destruction C astro's "1600 Sportsman" ready. buggy on the second lap. The Neji pits used the tall It was a fairly fast part change mast of Chuck and Dean Hovey and Mike was pretty patient. -the Dean of Fud Class 1 - to Too patient, it would turn out. collect and receive any and all Fifteen seconds too patient. radio traffic within the El Mike and Adam had to sweat Hongo area. They sucked in quarts without a properly oper-ALL the radio signals, even the ating drinking water system. ones they didn't want. Mike's water delivery system The cable had first broken was on the fritz so that, later, out on the course, between the after the race, he had to un-driver' s seat and the fan dergo a serious fluid replace-shroud ... not at the usual carb ment regimen. "Salud!" 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Class 5 had a good entry, but not a lot of them made it to the checkered Rick St. John and Steve Miszckiewicz reported a sticky throttle which Leonardo and Alexandro Navarette ran close behind the leader in Class 9 to finish second only a minute back. flag. Gerardo Gonzales and Salvador Ruvalcaba finished second. might have helped. They finished second in Class 5-1600. "Gam-bie ! " "N otzdrovia ! " Tim and Julie and Larry heard sputtering but still looked "Cheers!" "Bottom's up!" struggled to a distant eighth. In fast. Uh, fast for a "Herbie", you Thanks to my Mexicali spy fact, the previous domination of know. But that sputtering who reported this following tid-the K.I.T. Klan was sorely turried into a more disabling bit of finish line news: "When missed. With the Pfankuchs noise and he was a DNF. Out the 948 Pfankuch car came in getting a seventh and the of the 11 "l ls" eight finished. the finish line, the guy (Adam) Deitrichs' last place in Sports-SPORTSMAN was angry, and his father (Mike) man '9" it was a sorry day, in-SP CLASS 5 ·was more angry because they deed. Jose Solorio entered a Sports-could not catch the black Lac-Kevin Graves radioed in and man "5" Karman Ghia built on arra car. .. the same guy said: reported a broken ball joint: a stock "11" level platform. The "How can you go so fast with a "It's not driveable". Ken then boys had had it by the time they torsion broken?" That pesky pulled the left front tire and around to OCompadre the first throttle cable, huh, Mike?! limped back to the safety of his time. "A guy got stuck and we But ,this battle takes nothing trailer at RSV: "The ball joint got hit going around him. The away from the Eliot Yee victory just snapped. It had no race on battery is dead and we don't over Leonardo Navarrete: 70 it since Laughlin." Musta been know how to get another." The seconds was the spread between a "shelf life" problem. Those four piled on, in and around the first and second. Luis Rivera fragile suckers just go bad sitting little coupe, swilling a beer or (third) and Erick Fisher were in the garage. two, and somehow slowly only 100 seconds apart. Fran-This year's winner and last beetled back to their trailer. cisco Ferdandez was three min-year's "9" champ Leonardo Ernie Negrete was the only fin-utes back and four ahead of Navarrete almost rolled in the isher in the class. Mayoral making this a close race silt corner at RSV/ El Compadre SP CLASS 5-1600 for all of the first seven: a spread spectator enclave. He bicycled Rene Prieto Retamoza of 4:55:45 to 5:21:58. it real good. Ivan Gomez had to stopped at Neji where everyone Tim Biebieff called in with a head for the barn, back-track-got involved in a lengthy session brake problem. Biebieff is the ing off the Burn Hill that runs of looking, describing and pok-DOR for Larry Kern and daugh-adjacent to El Compadre. ing at the engine. After things ter Julie. "Because no one can PRO CLASS 11 were apparently squared away pronounce his last name and it Once a Once, always a Once? they had trouble getting the looks like the outhouse rental Carlos Fragoso and Sergio Guti-passenger door closed, then the place in Carlsbad, i.e., 'Biefe', errez were racing the wheels off driver killed it then had a hard he is known as 'Tim Outhouse' their Herbies through the Fin- time firing it up again. But the or in Baja 'El Bano"' (A tip of ish fencing onto their last lap. team was able to finish in sixth. the old sombrero to Senor Fud 1143 drove the fenders off his The Sportsman VW Adolfo for this charming bit of scato-car. The left rear one, anyway. Ayala B. and the Pro 5-1600 car logical trivis.) Gutierrez' engine was over-Jose Luis Herrejon came in Neji nose to tail where upon Herrejori stopped to change the BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump· stop system. right hand seat position. This included swapping the driver suit. It was a LONG pit which would account for the tenth place finish. Ayala was eighth in SportsmaI). Bug. Alfonso Iniguez came through blasting away, honking on the horn to a tree full of ra-bid supporters. SP CLASS 8 Armando Bravo braved the tight course to a win over Toyota/Chevrolet brawler John Murillo. Bravo's bulky Honcho would find the going and the quarters close, indeed. SP CHALLENGER Jorge Castro had a flat left rear tough Baja 500. on his Challenger and was still Miguel Tornel was all set to able to be the overall Sportsman, race his new "1 O" car, the finishing the 120.8 miles, 1-1./2 · Toyota twin cam single seater laps, in 3:27:47. Jaime Boquiren that used to belong to Kory had his skid plate a-flapping to Scheeler (who has moved to second. The Ben Dietrich car Class 1). "My '1600' driver (third place) passed through Neji, hurt his back pre running and eliciting the comment "What's I had to race it all the way for that on his bumper??" "He's got a the (class) points. I had a flat little lizard." "OK, but what's on on lap 2 and had to change it the bumper?" When dad Dave on the track. I lost at least was behind the steering wheel, he four minutes and Arturo got trailed a slower car for many a by." Miguel finished without a mile until he got the "pass" sig-jack on the car. Odd. nal. When Dietrich moved out to Manlio got involved in the pass, an unseen fast closing Class Honold mis-cue off the start. 10 smacked the little "9" car sail-"Arturo was coming back out ing it right into the car who was while I was going in. I had no m.oving over. Informed sources trouble but for at least five (i.e. Fud) said that a bird was miles it was 'follow the leader' flipped and feelings were ruffled. and I needed.to pass. My new SAFARI car works 'OK' -thanks to Hector Maymes made the re-ORW. They put it together. quired 1-1/2 lap's in three-and-The night before the race, . three-quarter hours. The VW of Encinitas "Racer-for-Hire" Masao Shiba Okada ,sported a Ross Craft -"No Race Too pale lime green engine. Appar-Small" -pointed out a cracked ently the Fashion Police were not plastic oil filler cap: ''You can on duty. Okada's team did pretty see the oil mist on tqp. See, well, too. Third place behind En-there's a split from over tight-rique Gonzalez who got to see the ening." · racing up close and personal when Moreno continued: "The they were rudely passed in the competition was tougher than Neji pits by the "Gobbi" car of I thought it would be I only Antonio Ramirez. saw Miguel once! My neck is Armando Cota stopped for a a little sore. Those deep holes, long while at Neji, but must have you know." fixed whatever ailed t}:ie car, fin- Luis Barragan, fourth over-ishing fourth ahead of Lorenzo all and the second "10" car, Dojaque. All of them were out had the left rear engine cage having a ball in the dust. down tube collapsed into a FINISH LINE CHATTER header runner ... any more of Arturo Honold: "My motor a crush and that cylinder would not like to run over four would have been choked to thousand. It would go "Brrrrr" (he the point of constipation. makes a raspy, stuttering sound). Moreno was the alleged per-On the first lap I made a mistake. petrator. "He can take it," I got lost and when I got back I Manlio laughed. "I followed was behind Miguel." He paused to him for 40 miles. I sponsor him toss back a cold beer: "Tecate in so I can hit him." Moreno had Tecate," he winked and smiled. a new single seater outfitted "And", he continued "1602 with angle-ironed bumpers (Moreno) was coming in at me! front and rear, ready to slice It was a very fun race." 'n' dice. 1998 has been good for Arturo In spite of Honold's two so far; two back-to-back CORP wins, Barragan still holds the wins and a soloing third in the lead in the Class 10 points FTT771li1'7J,,_,.,,,,,,,,,,.,,,.,,...,,,,.,.,.,.,.,,,_...,,,--.r-~~~=======~ over Artu,ro: 57 to 44. These bump stops come complete with a mounting system. polyurethane end piece and enough valving to get the job done. EXX>NOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAJR. (Includes mounting hardware & grade 8 bolts) See your off road racing parts supplier or call us dJrect Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 1-520-427-3551 Page 28 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 Always competitive, Marcos Nunez and Roberto Rivera got the win in Class 11 this time, defeating 1 O other competitors. October 1998 Tom Watson finished third, a few minutes ahead of Randy Anderson who started three minutes back and was intent upon checking the finishing time differential. Randy was timed as back in fourth by un-der four minutes elapsed time. CORP sponsor Tecate gave each finisher a cold can of Tecate. Bo got a big ol' caguama! Watson said that they had no flats. "The dust was so bad. But we never get flats", he ex-claimed then corrected him-self when he was reminded of the four flats at the previous San Felipe race. The left side bash bar was stove in. Darren Dusty Times

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Roberto Anda zips along in his Class 7S Ford as he makes his way to Ensenada racer Horacio Pereyra lost a rear fender, but kept his car Perry McNeil's Cla.<;s 7 Ford spent some time off course and lost well over an hour on the way to second place. second place. moving to finish second in Class 11. Hardesty went into an off at the finish line impound. "I and, phwew, it was really tough course excursion about ten couldn't run the whole race at to pass." miles in and got hung up on that initial pace. I was not wear- Ed's sidekick "Gnarly Dave" some rocks. "I'd rev 'er up and ing a Pumper and had no water Collins -who started and did try and jump over and off. I system. That's why we mellowed the first 1-1/2 laps -spoke of ended up just bangin' my way out. I thought that I was going wrinkling the front bumper on out of there." Watson got in-off the course a couple of "some team that we chased volved with a Jeep with a trailer times." At the finish line im-these guys for '50 miles"', he hitch. "I hit him and he got un-pound they discovered that the exaggerated. "It's all in the rac-der my front bumper and I left front spindle nut was loose. ing." couldn't get away." "I could feel something odd on Gerardo Iribe made a cameo The Bo Report: "There was that side for the last twenty appearance in the Oscar carnag~ everywhere. I had to get miles. I just thought 'Show me Venegas and Mario Torres car. out one time. The distributor the finish!" This was Oscar's third race and wire came off and I lost five Car owner and passenger he started dead last. "He got up minutes." And maybe third Edgar Casanova said that he to fifth, had a flat, got stuck, place. "There was Nuckles would tell Rick to "step on it" went back to tenth and then turnin' it over. A 'Baja' was in and Rick would so he could hear pitted" Iribe reported. Not a front. A Ranger was 'helping'. me. Part of my plan was to an-good start in a most difficult It was a mess. noy him to make him go faster," class. Venegas worked his way Steve Miszkcwicz (the spell Edgar laughed. back up to seventh then put checker function doesn't help "I saw Nuckles rolled side-Iribe in behind the driver's on THIS name) admitted that ways out by El Compadre. A wheel. "I ran like a bat outa "The Mexicans wopped ass to-white '5' and a chase truck were hell. I passed marry, many cars. day." Manlio jumped in with all together. Nuckles came on It was very difficult -there were "And it's about time!" the chase truck "at speed" (as too many ruts. A demanding Mario Ledezma roared into they say} and his evasive action course. Very technical -and the end closely followed by turned the ProTruck over onto that is what makes it fun. Lots Arturo Lizarraga.'s "5". Arturo's its left side and flattened the of steering, you never rest. As Ledezma VW-sponsored car lost right front wheel. Fiberglass a-soon as you pick up speed you the bolt out of the power steer-flapping, he charged into El have to brake. Or break. This ing ram. "It (the steering) got Compadre where they added was a 'driver's race'. You need hard. We are happy to finish, four litres of oil, tore off the left the good driver and you need happy to be here. It was.a good side glass, tie-wrapped the cab lots of good luck." course and our Victor Romo to the roll cage, changed the He spoke highly of CORP: motor worked good. We just tire and left for the class win. "They are growing - fast. They kept going and going." Jimmy was driving very hard, in-provide racing for the lower Rick St. John showed up in deed. Make no mistake about it, budget guys. It's good for learn-impound to greet Steve who had he was on an Overall mission. ing but is also demanding - for a bone to pick with him: Ed "French" Fries -Rhino us, too. We had a wonderful "Throttle sticking a little? I LinerKingoftheNorthCounty time." didn't even bother to lift, cause -had a trouble free day: "We Hector did not fall too far there is no possibility of the didn't get lost!" Or get in a from the Papa Carlos' tree: no pedal following. I caught ditch, either. "There was this 90 race is a race without the lribes! Fouquette -we're good friends degree left hander and only the Or without a lengthy {but al-so there was no big problem engine of some stuck car was ways interesting and animated) passing him -but there was no visible. It was a really good interview. possibility of catching the Le-race." Ed admitted going "agri-Antonio Rameriz drove the dezmas. I am tie-er-d." cultural" and well he must, car- first car that the lribes built: Miszkcwicz thought that this rying weeds and seeds and #578. "We drove solo, had ig-year's race was more fun than branches and a few twigs into nition problems but got .sev-last year's: "I had brakes today.-th_e finish. His main complaint enth." Rameriz is sponsored by Last year I didn't." was after getting smacked - Rene's at Rosarito Beach. "Free · The Ledezmas would only fess while pre running(!) -by some margaritas to all racers!", he up to having trouble passing the unmentioned racer who he then didn't say {but we all wish). Cassanova (Fouquette) car. saw on race day -stuck deep Larry Kern echoed the same Other than that, "No com-into the trees. Touche! "This tale as others: "I saw the roofs ment." Informed' sources {i.e. -event was 'Classic Mexico'... of 5-1600s - cars buried up to St. John) noted that the Le-dezma family NEVER tells the tale of the track. "No matter where they finish and how, they never say how it went or what might have gone wrong. Now how about Carlos Iribe? He'll tell EVERYTHING that hap-pened. The Ledezmas don't give away ANY information." Elias did not even pre run: "That kept me on my toes. Mario gave me the car with the lead and I had to keep it. Thanks to the whole Ledezma gang." St. John got out at Neji and was admittedly whupped. He threw up then laid down in a chase truck for a spell. Fouquette was also "hurtin"' Dusty Times Lobsam and Eli Yee, out of Tijuana, took their Tubular Designs Class 9 car to the finish line in first place. October 1998 their tops -in the first seven the pressure became too great, miles." at "Los Banos" before Neji. Or FRIDAY NIGHT PRE RUN found Tim Biebieff ... The pre run was in one of the "My partner Steve Do.wning many Larry Kern four seaters went out and got another ride. that abound in the San Diego I didn't even want to get in the desert. You've teen them. The car. After this tight shit* I am long "K.I.T." cars. Very sweet. ready to get back to the dez," We - Ross, Brindell, Laurie and Bo stressed. "I had to come here I -went out to recon in Ross for the points battle, you know." Craft's Rastaman colored car. WHAT'S THE POINT? The ex-racer tranny sounded Rick St. John ("5-1600") is like a Stuka ... one of those old the top points man with 104, Nazi dive bombers fitted with a well ahead of Tom Watson's 83 siren to frighten the Poles ... and (" 1600"). Gustavo Cornado is the gearbox itself worked as a the Class 8 man and Arturo tachometer. When the shriek Lizzaga is the man to beat in goes high enough to be just "5". Perry McNeil leads Oscar barely audible, the dogs start to Rebeles in "7", 72 to 34. bark, and the coyotes howl ~lass 1 has not had an entry that's "90". since the first race. They won't FACES IN THE CROWD get any mention until they come Marty Moates -Class 30 back and race! champ at this year's "500" and I WANT ONE, TOO the surprising '78 USGP (MX) Gerry Scott and Chris winner at Carlsbad - was seen Harrold will debut a Kenny ambling back from a cleansing Major VTEC'd car "soon". (?) dip in the Santa Veronica Finishers got an ice cold can pool. ofTecate and a piping hot pizza Danny Ledezma was taking a fresh out of the {portable) so-called busman's holiday from Mangiamos oven trailer truck, his brace of Chula Vista muffler thanks to Manlio Moreno. shops. It was not racing .. '. so... I DON'T WANT ONE, he went to the races. EITHER THE "MORE THAN YOU A spectator's Trooper, leav-NEEDED TO KNOW" ing the El Compadre junction, REPORT snagged his trailer hitch on a Bo brought Montezuma's Re-barbed wire fence and almost venge down from Brawley. "This pulled down ten miles of fence is really the shits", he quipped. line which could have "The only cure I could figure "twanged" scores of people. was no eats, no drinks, 'cept The last Pro car to finish the water and only a little toast full 2-1/2 laps -in 48th place -(race day) morning. This is a was Adam Ramirez whose "905" severe weight loss program." took 9:18:25. 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-MOJAVE DESERT RACING INC. California 200 By Ron Miller Photos: Trackside Photo Bob Wright drove his great looking 5-1600 to the class win, taking the lead early on and staying in front all the way. David Massingham led the first lap in his Mirage, dropped to second on the second lap but then took the lead for a win in Class 1 and overall as well. In the substantially cooler evening hours of August 15, 1998, the only "night race" on the MDR calendar was con-tested in Barstow, CA. With this high desert area· in the midst of a multi-week period of triple digit heat, it was a smart move by Paul Duffy et al, to set a 7:00 p.m. starting time. A strong t'feid-o(sixty entrants ac-cepted the 200 mile challenge, · each well aware that the major-ity of their laps would be com-pleted under the cover of dark-ness. Despite facing a virtual mine field of hazards, these "nocturnal navigators" bravely set sail into the slowly fading desert sunset. Russell Stewart of Class 100, was afforded the honor of being the first contestant to leave the start/finish line. The last vehicle to start was piloted by the ever popular Robert Henderson, who along with his brother Dennis Sletten, make up the dynamic duo known as "The 11 Broth-ers". About ten minutes after Henderson had departed in the team's "stocker than stock" Baja bug, David Massingham of Class LOO came roaring to the comple-tion of his first lap. After Mass-ingham had recorded his mind-boggling 0:39:09 opening lap, they probably should have just stopped the race and declared him the winner. Fellow Class 100 racer Ron Osburn must have g·ot caught up in Massingham's draft, because his Lap 1 clocking was nearly as· un-, };\ -,,._._ ' ... _·, ... ..... ~» .. .,.,... ... ,....,,.,,.--~ . believable (0:40:24). As you might have guessed, nobody · came dose to matching these two sensational lap times dur-ing the remainder of the Scott Sells was haulin' in his Toyota all race long, turning his five required laps at evening. Massingham and Os-more than a 48 mile per hour average for the class win. burn were on virtually dead the evening hours seemed to won the overall race by 7:36 and even terms, when that pair had bring out the best in Massing- Class 100 by 23:19. completed their second laps. A ham. D.M. did a pretty good im- For the second straight race, trio of competitors, led by pressionofthe"knightrider"as Phil McCluskey came within Michael Duenas of Class 1600, he seemed to take flight on that about seven minutes of earning were running just a few minutes midsummer's night. Massing-the overall win. It seems just a back of the Class 100 pace set-ham put away Osburn and matter of time before the ultra-ters. Scott Wisdom (also from Duenas on Lap 3, then McClus-talented McCluskey, who Class 1600) and Class 500 star key on Lap 4, and finally Wis-scored the Class 500 win and Phil McCluskey (who lists Ana-dom on Lap 5. Massingham had fast lap time· ( 44:04), breaks heim Hills Auto Body among his no intention of letting this win through for an overall victory. sponsors) also refused to let the get away. His final time of Michael Duenas was the winner front running duo open too 3:38:52 and blistering average in Class 1600, and also posted largeofalead. speedof68.5mph,gaveMass--the fast lap time (43:13). Much to the dismay of the ingham the title of "California Duenas placed third overall, other "California 200" entrants, 200 Champion". Massingham while securing his class win by ~-------------------=--------=--~ a 4:59 margin over Roger Star-Eric Heiden races into the setting sun on his way to a great Class 8 victory, third Surprise! Scott Johnson and clan did it again, taking the 8,000th Class 9 win and key. Eric Heiden powered his way to the Class 800 victory. Heiden who placed fourth over-all, averaged 63.3 mph and pol-ished off Lap 3 in 45:54, to help put 1 :07 :4 7 between himself and his nearest class rival. Roger Starkey, sponsored by Star Builders, turned in his usual excellent performance. Starkey, the Class 1600 runner up, fin-ished fifth overall, with a superb clocking of 3:58:03. Only Star-key and the four overall finish-ers placing ahead of him were able to complete their five lap assignment in under four hours. Frank Wagner finished about three and a half minutes behind overall, averaging 63 miles per hour. _b_ea_t_in-"g_th_e_i_r c_o_m_,p_e_t,_'ti_on_by,__4_5_m_in_u_t_es_. _____________ _ Ron Osburn gave it the old college try but he was smitten with troubles Phil McCluskey .literally flew around the night course lapping in the Guy Petersen chased first place in 5-1600 all night but never got on lap 3 and he finished second in Class 1. low forties and finishing second overall as well as taking Class 5. there, finishing in the second spot, just seven minutes out of the win. Page 30 October 1998 Dusty Times

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John Strode had a couple of bad laps in his 5-1600 and it cost him _Joel Mohr had a few problems on the first lap, then got it together and Chad Cummings hustled through the night in chase of first place but dearly, he took third spot in class at the MOR night race. took a nice second place in class 9. · had to settle for the silver medal in a well contested Class 10 race. It isn't dark yet and Frank Hines is in pursuit of the Class 1 O win, Mark McKinley's Class 11 throws plenty of light but the troubles on Matt Vaughan led the first lap then slowed quite a bit on the next two however, Frank took the third spot in the dark of the night. the third lap couldn't be overcomft,·he was second in class. and endecfup with the silver medal in class. Starkey, to place third in Class sponsors includes So. Counties · and ave_raged 60.8 mph. Rob. :.;Wright e·merged victorious in with a fine third place finish. 1600 and sixth overall. Next . Oil Co. and Bonnerhawk Perf, Herman~raced to a solid fouri:h Glass -~50. Wright posted the His final time of 4:36:50 landed came Ron Osburn, who finished won Class 1000 by nearly place finish in Class 1600:"'Her- 'fa'st l#rtime in his class (50:33-), Bunn in the 14th spot overall. second in Class 100 and seventh twenty minutes. Greinke, who man averaged just a shade un-and the tenth fastest overall John Strode finished a mere overall. placed eighth overall, recorded der 60 mph, to earn the ninth time (4:21:29). Chad seven seconds behind Bunn to Steven Greinke, whose list of his cl~ss.'Jast lap time (43:44) position in overall scoring. Bob Cummings raced to a good run-place 15th overall. Strode's 54.2 · .,. • ner up finish in Class 1000. mph average speed was quite Cumm(n.gs' strong effort afso""- admirable, as was his third place earned him the eleventh spot finish in Class 550. WE CARRY · AURORA, BFGOOtJRICH, PARKER PUMPER P.C.I., HELLA LIGHTS, VDO, SIMPSON ---~ .. J~ r.--lNDUSTRIES,.--SWAY--* A *WAY WRIGHT PLACE, RIPROD, EARLS YOKOHAMA, SUPER TRAPP, AUTO FAB SWEEPCO, BEL-RAY, OGAWA, S&S BUG PACK, CHENOWTH, UMP SB ENGINEERING, KEP, FODDRIL UNI-RLTER, K&N, TRI-MIL, PIAA PERMA COOL, BEARDS SEATS, SCAT COMP-U-FIRE, WEBER CARBS, FOX SHOXS SAND TIRES & RIMS, BOGART WHEELS, CNC VP FUELS, CUSTOM 4 COMMERCIAL WHEELS MECHANIX WEAR, WCM, FUEL SAFE VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE WWW.MACCACHREN.COM VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT 207.138.253.246 CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-755-5900 Page 32 WE CAN SHIP UPS TOYOUR DOOR ... ■ •• ~ .W1-tHIJ~.~ 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 891.02 HOURS: MON-FRI flN',MIPM * SAT flAM-5PM (702}871.·li221. FAX October 1998 overall. Guy .Petersen, the run-The remainder of the top ner up in Class 550, finished in twenty spots in overaU scoring the number twelve position from the "California 200" found overall and averaged an even 56 Frank Hinds, the third place fin-mph. Cindy Greinke was lucky isher, in Class 1000, earning number 13 in overall scoring . . 16th. Scott Wisdom, the sixth Her 55 .5 mph average speed place finisher in Class 1600, earned Greinke fifth place in taking 17th. Mike Danley, the Class 1600. Ken Bunn com-seventh place finisher in that pleted tne Class 100 scoring ' Continued on page 34 Steve Greinke set fast lap for Class 10 on lap 1, continued on with more quickie laps and outdistanced his competitors by 20 minutes. . Robert Henderson was the Class 11 winner, running through the night at an average speed of 39 miles per hour. · Dusty Times

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Steve Ruddick has five of his seven lights on the trail as he heads Roger Starkey soars through the night on his way to a great second Frank Wagner roars towards the night and a nice third place in class, turning great laps and only eight minutes out of the 1600 win. down the tunnel of light to a nice second spot in class. place in 1600, less than 5 minutes out of the win. same c ass, an ing 18t . am-_sponsore racer -eit Sato, who the timer on Lap 2 in 52:42. ing the 19th position overall, finished fourth in Class 550. AU Tim Serviss reported "no flats and continuing his team's of the overall ninth through and no problems" on his way to march towards the MOR points 20th place finishers averaged scoring the Class 725 victory. championship, was Scott over 50 mph, and each com-Serviss, who also earned fast lap Johnson. With another Class pleted his/her five lap assign- time of 54:28, credited D.O.A. 900 win in· this event, the ment in under five hours. Racing Engines, Anaheim Gear, Johnson team (which lists Pro Scott Sells, sponsored by Ad-Drive Train Direct, and Hells Circuit Electric and Quality Car vanced Toyota Suspensions, Lights, for his winning perfor-Co. among its sponsors), re-Deaver Springs, and O.R.W., mance. Bill Burrows finished as mained undefeated for the 1998 was the winner in Class 700. the runner up in Class 725. season. Completing the top Sells also registered his class' Mike Barnett was the runner up twenty overall was Kendall fast lap time, when he stopped in Class 800, and Joel Mohr *Custom;cdntrol Arms (Upper afid Lower) *Custom Delrin Strut Frames *Dual Shock Kits • • • CUSTOM FABRICATION MIG AND TIG WELDING CNC PLASMA CUTTING TUBE BENDING SPHERICAL BEARINGS *ROD ENDS CRO-MO/STAINLES *MISAUGNMENT SPACERS ¾-1½ *UNIBAL CUPS 1"-1 ½" *THREDED SLEEVES ¾ - 1 ¼ 'HOCKS Page 34 placed runner up in Class 900. The remaining finishers, who completed five lap assignments · were Bre.nt Loughran, who placed fourth in Class 1000, Mike Norris, who earned a fifth in Class 550, Kevin McGillivray, who raced to a fifth in Class 1000, and Charlie Smith, who took sixth in Class 550. Also worthy of mentioning, is the fact that Class 850 racer Fred Nelson, who is sponsored by Lucerne Valley Auto Parts, scored the fast lap time in his ciass (59:35). "California 200" entrants from Classes 1100, 1200, and 1400, were required to complete three laps. Of that group, it was Martyn Akins who posted the fastest overall time. Akins, the Class 1400 winner, posted the fast lap time in his class (1:00:34), averaged an even 43 mph, and completed his re-quired laps in 3:35:46. Steve Ruddick, who is sponsored by K&N, DPR, ASR, Hose-Mart, Valley Tire, and Sign-Pros, fin-ished as the runner up in Class 1400. Proving the old adage "the last shall be first" true, was Robert Henderson. Henderson, the 60th and final starter of the "California 200", emerged as the winner in Class 1100 with a final time of 3:46:41.. R.H. also owned the fast lap time in Class 1100, which he earned with a 1: 13 :49 clocking. Henderson insisted on giving all the credit for his 2:22:31 victory to his brother Dennis, who did an out-standing job of preparing their vehicle. Mark McKinley, who trailed by only seven minutes after two legs had been com-pleted, overcame a 3:34:38 fi-nal lap to place runner up in Class 1100. A half dozen en-trants left the start/finish line in Class 1200. Joel Hutak was leading the field after each of the first two laps, but couldn't complete his third. Dennis Beckwith, who finished fourth, registered the fast lap time in class (1:03:46) .. Larry Gross fin-ished as the Class 1200 winner. Gross had about a nine and a half minute cushion at the fin-ish, over the race runner up Matt Vaughan. Vaughan, who lengthy list of sponsors includes Total Chaos Fabrication, Shaw October 1998 Larry Gross took the class lead on lap 2, shown here running through the night in his good looking Toyota. Chiropractic, Temecula Off Road, McKenzies, BFGoodrich, Anaheim Gear, and Civten Spe-cial Tires, put about forty min-utes between himself and third place finisher Tim Casey. As mentioned previously, Dennis Beckwith finished in the fourth position. Wrapping up the Class 1200 scoring was Dennis Pruett, who finished fifth. That folks, will just about do it for this fifth stop on the '98 MOR "tour". Congratulations to David Massingham, on his super-impressive "California 200" victory. And kudos to ev-eryone who participated in this fine event (both racers and staffers alike). This truly unique "night of shining armor" turned out to be a huge success. I be-lieve all that remains of this year's Moj,:ive Desert F,acing Inc. series is the "Barstow 200" on October 30-31, 1998. Be sure to come out and join in the fun, when the final MOR event of it's sensational sophomore season takes place on Hallow-een in Barstow, CA. Speed care-fully,_ and CU at the races. ■ Martyn Atkins has a great looking Chevy Blazer and he drove it to a nice victory in the dark at the MOR spectacular. Mike Duenas was literally flying in his 1600 as he took the class win and Mike was third overall as well in the MOR darkness. Dusty Times

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FRT TECATE CONOUISTA GRAN PRIX Hovey overalls The Day By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photos Chuck Hovey fired up the qld Raceco and ran like the wind, to take the victory in both heats, and the overall win for the day. The FRT went to Tecate in a cooling cloud cover, with weather was still pleasant, and Baja California to celebrate the heats for ATVs and motor-nowhere near as hot as the Fourth of July with t_heir cycles. By the time the cars and desert. Conquista Gran Prix. 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I .;iff-, i~~hl;tt16h§::i@k.·J1111 ........ Custom wound springs for 3" shocks in stock. Eibach springs ayailable. We do custom shock work and vehicle set up. Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts available ( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. Page 36 King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 October 1998 • In a battle that hung as much on the skill of the pit crews as the driver, Guillermo Soltero came up winners in Class 5. two hours between them. That way the cars cou'ld be repaired after the first heat if needed, or else the crew could simply re-lax and watch the racing, or enjoy the pools and water slides of the host facility. It's not very often that a race team can take a swim break in between heats, but it's one of the nice things about racing at the Lo.s Sahuaros Park. · The first group of cars and trucks to get their chance at the race course was the combi-nation of Classes 7, 9 and 5-1600, who got the green flag about 11 o'clock. The heats consisted of eight laps on a five mile course, most of whjch was visible to the spectators sitting on the hill. Rod Fantelli and Charlie Bignell took turns driving their old Datsuf). truck, and took the win in each heat, to end up in first place at the end of the day. Behind them Bobby Ruiz had a· bad day, and was apparently unable to locate Check 1, which caused him to be re-corded as a DNF. In Class 9 the Kernco of Adam Pfankuch and Julie Kern got the wins, with the drivers each doing one heat. Frank Bongiovanni was the Class 5-1600 winner in both heats. Some of the entries in this class also had trouble with Check 1, but not every time. Their errors made the inci-dence of DNFs higher than normal. C lasses 1-2/1600, 5 and 100 were combined for the second set of heats, which ran at 12:30 and 3:30. John Barnard took the early lead, followed by John Narnaco. Tom Watson, long time FRT racer in his Jimco, ran third. Barnard built a good lead, and it looked as if he'd have the win. W·atson had moved into second place and couldn't quite catch him. But 'then Barnard had to stop for a splash of gas, and Watson got by to take the first heat victory. In the second heat Watson got the hole shot and led all the way. Barnard, this time the one doing the catch-up, decided to forego the fuel stop in an effort to save time. Bad move. He ran out of gas. Watson went on to a virtually uncontested win and the two heat victory for the day. ·In Class 5 it was a battle of the pit crews as everyone had some kind of mechanical prob-. lems during the racing. Guill-ermo Soltero managed to get the most laps under his tires, and took the win, with Ernie Negrete in second place. Ricky Kern ran in Class 100 in his very quick Kernco, but managed to break it, leaving Joey Kern, scheduled to <;lrive in the second heat, without a ride this time. The final heats were for the combination of Class 1 and Class 10. Chuck Hovey, re-membering that he'd lost to Chris Harro'td once or twice, really poured on the steam in his old Raceco and had times that even beat the bikes for his first two laps. Once he'd calmed down a bit he settled into a steady pace to take the first heat. Things were different in the second heat. Or, let's say the action didn't go quite as smoothly. Hovey was still wor-ried about Harrold (with justi-fication) and really poured it on. But he'd broken a gear while sitting on the start line and Harrold had got the hole shot. He got to the hill in blind-ing dust, tr'ied to go up the hard way and missed a turn. He did a couple of barrel rolls in mid-air, then landed on his lid, still sliding. The car hit something,· Tom Watson had a little luck winning the first heat, but then put his Jimco out in front and ran away with the second heat, to be the 1/2-1600 winner for the day. Dusty Times

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Chris Harrold did some high flying as he chased Chuck Hovey. but John Barnard learned that he really needed a bigger gas tank for this then his Jimco lost a wheel in the second heat and he settled for third Frank Bongiovanni tools along in his good looking car on the way to event. A stop for fuel put him second in Class 1/2-1600. place. . the winner's circle in Class 5-1600. and the impact flipped it over chase. The car was not looking Dickerson, who get a little bet-ond time out. He got the hole The next event for the FRT one more time, this time land-very good by now, but ran well ter with each race,· had their shot, as we said, and was think-will be the short course event ing on its wheels. Battered and enough to go on, and take the Raceco pushing Harrold and ing about his victory speech on September 19th in Imperial bruised, Hovey tried to start it, win in the second heat. his Jimco. when a front wheel fell off. at the Midwinter Fairgrounds. and it ran. So he resumed the Harrold, in the meantime, But Harrold took the win in Belew and Dickerson went on After that it'll be the O ctober had his own troubles. In the the first heat and then looked all the way to take the win, 31st Superstition 250, back out Off Road first heat Dewey Belew and Jeff good for another first the sec-their first win in a car. in the desert. • Scramble ·Answers: Spindle, Crowbar, Gasket, Camber, Linkage ''Crank" Case Dewey Belew and Jeff Dickerson, Raceco, got their first Class 10 win in the second Rodd Fantelli and Charlie Bignell took turns driving their Datsun· to victory in both heat, ended up second for the weekend. . _he_a_ts_. _____ · ________________ _ HONDA Power ,. Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER ro_¾-D Racer· and Spectator D'iscoµnts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES • WATER PUMPS . •OUTBOARD ENGINES •LAWNMOWERS •LAWN TRACTORS •RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY . . -IF WE DoN'T HA VE IT, No ONE Does! DELIVERY TO TI-IE RACES AVAILABLE • PLEAsE CALL AHEAD KAWAGUCHI HONE>A EX1000 3532 E. 3RDSJ: I..as~ CA 9CXJ63 • 213.264.3936,. 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 .·HONDA Power Equipment Page 37 : VISA ! s A L E s ' s E R V I C. E ' p A R T s . : ■Ii H o N D A p ow E R E Q u I p MEN T s p E c I AL I s T N)things easier. liGi f..:,r oµomum pcr!or.n.u,ce :;\nd ~a.ft"ly. pl..-.1~ l'eJ.d lht" O\~1lt"r"s m.i.nu.a\ bdore opt"r:l~ing your Honcfa Po~·er Equipment Spe-nlk;itlons subJeC't to d:.1.n~e ...,ithout nolic~. •E:;.1\m,lle only. b:&~('d on r.tt('d load. •Balt('ry not tn<..·ludt"d \l.ith E~t3500$XK I. E'.\-15000SX.K I ;md ES0500SX. • •\\·:th b.taery tray kit. whnds !t h.\.~!!!l"r. Conn('cUon to hou~ powt"r r~ulr"s tr,Ulsft"r dt",itt" to ,wm,! po~sib\(' Injury to p<) .... ·er company personnel. Consult .3 qu.1.lifl('d elecU1i:i:m. · October 1998 Dusty Times

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Floyd and Mike Haas rolled their Class 10 car on lap one, but went on with crumpled roof and missing antenna to take the win. Tom Scahill overpowered all cars again to win the overall in the third race of VORRA's sum-mer desert series. Scahill's con-sistent lap times and lack of down time pushed him into the lead about mid race and as the night fell, his times stayed fast glVing him a 10: 26 overall mar-gin. This year's twilight race-course was just the same as last years and doesn't get any better for off road desert racing. A 60 mile course to be covered four times starting_at 4 p.m. with an eight hour time limit. With thunderstorms all week long in the area in the afternoon, race day was a surprise to have no PRP Premier Racing Products From $149.95 each plus shipping & handling Proudly introduces the "Premo" full suspension seat, at an affordable price with quick delivery and many stylish colors. This is the premier seat for your jeep, truck, race car or buggy. • 3/4" x .065 steel frame for strength • Ballistic nylon inner liner for strength and true suspension feel. • Stylish outer cover with extra foam for comfort and support • High quality vinyl and 100% polyolefin tweed with high resistant to fraying and fading used on cover • Slotted for harness style belts • Four standard colors in stock at all times for quick delivery, many other color combinations available. • Low backs and bench seats available Page 38 PRP Premier Racing Products 1-800-317-6253 / Fax 909-676-6311 VDRRA TOP.GUN TWILIGHT 250 Scahill First overall Text & Photos: Troy Robinson Tom Scahill stomps on the gas and lightens the front end of his truck as he heads for the overall win at VORRA 's Top Gun night race. · Mike Koenig's Class 7 Ford had all kinds of trouble, including an electrical fire, but was quick when it was running and took the win. October 1998 AT LEFT: Kevin Ohnstad takes the checkered flag, getting his first win in his new Class 1 Jimco. LEFT CENTER: Kenny Ott and Luis Lazenby brought their Baja Bug to the Top Gup drag strip to do battle in the Vet class, and took the win. wind and no rain to speak of. This was good and bad in ways: the lack of 'wind meant for tough visibility but the absence of thunderstorms meant the silt beds wouldn't turn into mud pits as they usually do. Once again the race host for the Top Gun Twilight was the Top Gun Dragstrip located 13 miles south of the town of Fal-lon, NV. Their hospitality and facility is just grand for the VORRA racers. The turnout in Class 1 once again was tremendous with nine cars in class headed off first by Jerry and Linda Wald (246) and Gary Steele (144) . The Walds enjoyed the dust free lead and was first on the track but on corrected time the lead was in the hands of VORRA new-. comer Richard Boyle (110) with Sam Berri (149) 0:22 back in second. Running third was Wald, just 0:49 back, followed by Kevin Ohnstad (109), Dale Carr (262), Gary Steele and then Patrick Timmons (239), 10:42 back running seventh place. On lap 2, Boyle would have down time dropping 1:09:42 on the leader Berri who pulled an 8: 50 lead over Ohnstad. Dale Carr was now up to third with Timmons in fourth. On lap 3, Berri had some down time losing the CV drive flange off the transmission. He spent over an hour and a half making repairs. On the same lap, Timmons had to make mo-tor and front suspension repairs having an hour and fifteen min-utes of down time. This turned the lead over to Ohnstad who would not give it up again tak-ing his first win in his new car. Crossing the line in second Dusty Times

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Dale Carr moved gradually up through traffic in his two seat Class 1 car to finish in second place. Andy Wald bounced to victory in the Pilot class, winning by a big margin. Pitted against the Class B trucks in the combined Class 3 & B race, Jim Cope had a tough row to hoe, but managed a fine second place in his Jeep. place just 25: 13 back was Dale Carr. Sam Berri made his repairs and managed to hold off Rich-ard Boyle for third, 59:02 out of the lead. Boyle was fourth, 1:06:15 off the winner's pace. Patrick Timmons rounded out the finishers for fifth place, 2:04:41 back. In Class 10, seven cars en-tered and Mike and Floyd Haas (1023) had troubles early, roll-ing on the first lap. They uprighted the car and still came around"in first place with a 2:52 lead over Richard and Ryan Lesher (1047). Ron Foster (1037) was in third place, 9:48 out of the top spot followed by Mike Turner (1012), Jim, Lance & Larry Abreu (1058) and Rob Parsons and Jim Cast (1018) were back in sixth place, 21 :45 out of the lead. After two laps, Haas' were still out front with a 25:31 lead over Abreus who had moved up to second with Par-sons/Cast moving up to third. Turner and Lesher had some down time dropping to third and fourth, 40:53 and 1:25:33 respectively to the leader. Ron Foster had alternator troubles on lap 2, taking a 4:18:50 lap time and calling it a day from there, placing sixth. After three laps, Haas' w~re still in the lead but Parsons/Cast had moved . into second and were 26:53 out of the lead. Abreus were 28:50 back in third followed by Turner and Lesher. At the finish line the Haas' were the winner with a 24:4 7 margin over Parsons/ Cast. Third place went to Abreu racing and the fourth and final finisher was Lesher, 2:24:32 off the leader's pace. Class 3 and 8 were combined to make a class for this race and it was Tom Scahill winning the class after leading from the first lap. Second place went to Jim Cope (314) who had a good day with no down but the underclass Class 3 jeep was no match for Scahill's Class 8 truck. Cope was 1:14:32 back at the finish line. close behind. Miller, English, Paul and Meyer/Naso were running back in fourth through seventh. At the finish line, Ott/Lazenby were the winners with a 16:52 margin over Smith. Graham fin-ished third, 18: 19 out of the lead and just 1 :27 out of second. Randy Miller rounded out the fin-ishers, 1:09:06 off the winner's pace. In the Class 9 race the domi-neer of the class, Forest Creasy (996), was out early with a blown motor. This handed the battle over to John and Jon Creasy (917) and Raul Lozano (918). Lozano had troubles early losing a dis-tributor cap and then started the night with only one headlight. Creasy's just motored on the near easy victory in class. Class 7 battle had three trucks with Doug Seymour (772) taking the lap 1 fast time with Mike Koenig (701) run-ning second, 4:32 back. Both drivers would have their troubles but it was Koenig with· less and despite having an elec-r---~-..,,..,.,-----,,::--------:==:::---==== In Class 9 the team of Jon and John Creasy motored to a smooth victory while their competitors ran into mechanical problems. Marcia Watkins, Novice class winner, skims through some silt in her two seater as she heads toward the checkered flag. CACTUS RACING In the Sportsman Vet Class, nine cars entered and coming around for the fastest first lap time was Cliff Smith (15) with a 4:03 lead over Everett Paul (43). RACEA/R HELMETS & ACCESSORIES Kenny Ott and Louis Lazenby (63) were 5:59 back in third fol-lowed by Ed Graham (10), Randy Miller (96), Jon English (21), Michael Ahlmeyer (23) and BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA95 for SODA Hooter Meyer and Larry Naso complete blower systems (28). After two laps, Smith was for Single or double seat still out front but his lead had cars. shrunk to just 1:00 over Ott/ Helmet conversions, Cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety Products & BELL MOTORSPORTS We ship UPS Daily From $299.00 Helmet & Skirt Visa-Mastercard Lazenby and just 3:33 over Gra-ham. Miller was back in fourth, 34:54 back followed by English, Ahlmeyer, Paul and Meyer/Naso. After three laps, Ott/Lazenby had taken the lead and pulled a 12:09 lead over Smith with Graham . ~1.S;J i:IP\Vc;len ~~-• S_!i_n Di~_gp ~ C...A ~-~211] • (619} _27~-~09 Page 39 October 1998 trical wire fire under the hood, losing the exhaust manifold and numerous other breakdowns, won the class after three laps of racing by 34: 11 over Doug Sey-mour whose down time in-cluded rolling early in the sec-ond lap. Joe Kellogg (702) had troubles starting back on Friday with a broken spindle during pre-running and didn't make a lap on race day. Marcia Watkins (40) was the winner in the Novice class be-ing the only finisher in class. Second place went to Scott Harjo (3). Andy Wald (34) won the Pilot class over Clint Wol-sey (7). Wald's margin of victory was 2:18:54. It was another good race in Class 1, 10 and Veterans again with high entries but once again the overall count was low. Maybe the schedule will change for next year but until then, the memories of a good night race will be remembered. ■ [~~] • Largest Selection Of Rodends& Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTILES • BATTERIES • SPALFANS • SETRAB COOLERS • FLUIDYNE COOLERS • AEROQUIP PLUMBING • SILICONE HOSE NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • AUTOMOTIVE & • RACING COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE CALL US FOR A FREE CATALOG! WE WILL SHIP AS FAST AS YOU NEED IT ·iif· TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL \ (562) 427-2375 FAX (562) 426-5294 \ \ BAKER PRECISION BEARINGS . . 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HOW TO TOUR BAJA IN COMFORT A Brief survivors Guide To Pre-running coming Next Month ... □ SCORE Primm 300 □ WRC Rally of Finland By Judy Smith When we started off on our tour of the lower portion of the Baja 1000 course we were actu-ally just about half packed be-fore we even decided to go. Our old Class 11 car has been made into a fairly comfortable pre-runner, and a supply of spare parts, tools and necessities (t.p.) is permanently stashed here and there in the Bug. But we still learned a few new things on this trip, and were reminded of some old ones. We started the trip in the middle of one of the long-est and hottest summers on record in the southwestern U.S., and the heat extended down into Baja. One thing we learned the first day is that when it's miserably hot every-where else in Baja, everyone goes to Ensenada where it's blissfully cool. There were NO rooms to be had anywhere in the city. Memo Rodriguez, an old hand . in Baja (he lives in Tijuana) brought along an electric fan. He said it was for tJie stop at the Bay of L.A., where there is gen-erally no air conditioning. Memo seems to have forgotten that they usually turn off the electricity at night anyway. But the fan made a handy addition to the air conditioning in the motor home that went along as our supply wagon. (This was no ordinary pre-run, see the story elsewhere in this issue.) Always a bit short of space in the VW, I packed just two pair of shoes. One set of inexpensive tennis shoes (you never know what you might walk in -don't want to take your $90 Reeboks) and a pair of slip-on lightweight "beach" shoes. I figured that with the lightweight shoes for evenings in camp or motel rooms, the tennies would air out enough to be o.k. But on the second night out my feet were rotting. Permanently burning and bright red, they didn't cool down until I got to the beach on the third day and dosed them with cool salt water for about 15 minutes. I had switched to the beach shoes, with cotton socks, and they rapidly improved. I never wore the tennies again after taking a better look at them and discovering that· the .part that looked like a perme-able nylon mesh was actually backed up with plastic. I'd been wearing solid plastic shoes for two days of high humidity and over 100 degrees. Dumb! We had a novice with us on this trip. Ron Pereira, a com-puter game designer, research-ing Trophy Truck racing for a new game, was riding with Sal Fish. He spent the better part of the first day throwing up. For the next couple of days a pair of motion-sickness pills from my handy off road first aid kit settled his stomach and he was fine. I also carry a supply of Imodium AD in case of diar-rhea, some Ibuprofen, some al-lergy tablets, scissors, bandaids, gauze and so on. Happily ·we didn't need any of the other stuff on this pre-run. This was an extra hot trip, but in general when traveling in Baja it'll be hot somewhere no matter what time of the year. Unless you forget your jackets, then it'll be cold everywhere. This time the heat was unusual. Even the local residents were uncomfortable. We took lots of bottled water and tried to keep drinking it, but on the hottest day, when we were messing with the broken Blazer, we foun~ that Gatorade seemed to bring us back to life faster than any-super-tough, triple coated construction Fuel Sate·s "Pro Cell" is our top-at-the-line racing cell that comes ready to install and it~ backed by a lull 10 year warranty. Page 40 • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA·FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience tor more info call or write to: e Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 fax http1/www.fu'!lsafe.com thing else. It supposedly replen-ishes the salts lost from the body in extreme heat. I don't know what it does, but it sure worked better than water sometimes. Beer is a no-no, soda pop seemed to work if your blood sugar was low because meals were late. And there's blessed caffeine in some of the soda, to keep you awake on ·the long dull stretches of pavement c_oming home. If you're planning a trip to pre-run the 1000, you may won-der what to wear. Take all your oldest jeans, nice roomy ones that you don't care about. Take also your oldest cotton t-shirts. Make sure you have a full set of changes of underwear and plenty of clean socks. In the warm times of the year you might pack shorts and sandals, but it's hard to push a car in the desert if you're wearing sandals. Of course, if you pre-run in a big truck, you're never going to push it anyway. VW people know they'll have to push sooner or later, and tend to like high-top tennies or boots. Carry one or two sets of nice jeans and better than ordinary t-shirts, carefully folded and then pack-aged in a sealed plastic bag. Then, when you do stop at La Pinta for dinner, or get an invi-tation to eat at someone's house, you '11 be comfortable about your appearance, and-you won't smell bad. And after read-ing the next note you'll under-stand why you seal them in plas-tic bags. If you load your ice chest into the back seat or cargo area of your SUV, or into the back of your Baja Bug, you should check each morning and periodically throughout the day to be sure the drain plug is firmly fastened. On our recent trip . Jeff Cummings had to hang all his □ Australian Off Road Championship - Round 2 □ 29th Annual SNORE 250 ... 1-'lus AD The Regular Features clean clothes out to dry one evening, and Sal Fish showed up for one dinner time with a strangely spotted and wrinkled shirt (highly unusual for the fas-tidious Fish) -both because of drain plugs that came undone during the day's travels. For the men amongst us, it's recommended that you take your wallet out of your hip pocket before the day begins. Especially if you're traveling in a Baja Bug or some other-buggy type vehicle. This can prevent serious discomfort! Stash the wallet somewhere safe (glove box, door pocket), but never walk away from the car and leave it there. Remember that all kinds of things can be stuffed into odd corners and travel well. We kept a portable radio jammed into one corner, and it survived very nicely. Also, a full loaf of whole wheat bread made the trip under the passenger seat and was still usable, though oddly sha'ped, when we got back home. Remember, don't store bread in the ice chest. Soggy bread makes terrible sand-wiches. Don't forget to take some ex-tra plastic bags with you. The zip-loc type-work best, though for dirty clothes it's probably wiser to take the kind with. built-in drawstrings. You ca'.n keep everything from found treasures (shells, seed pods, pretty rocks) to your Mexican change, in a zip-loc bag. When the doldrums hit, if you're waiting for someone to catch up, or heading home north of Punta Prieta say, where there's virtually nothing to look at, you may feel sleepy. A cup of coffee would hit the spot, but there's no Starbucks in Baja. We carry a pair of big plastic mugs in our Bug, and they just float around wher-ever they settle, unbreakable and unsterile as heck. When a big thirst hits we just dust 'em off and use 'em. Been do-ing this for thirty years and haven't suffered yet. Coffee, well, iced coffee is a real pos-sibility. We carry our instant coffee in a plastic container with a flip-top so it's easy to dispense. I just dump in about double the normal amount of instant granules, add a half cup or so of water and stir un-til it's all blended. This takes longer than if the water is hot, but it works. Then you throw in a handful of ice cubes and . you've got iced coffee that'll really wake you up. If you need yours sweet - add sugar. ·✓ ULTRASONIC CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & Another thing we have, which is always packed and ready to go, is a pre-run box. We use one of those plastic boxes, about two feet by three feet and maybe 18 inches deep, with a flip up lid that's permanently attached. When full the lid closes down and you can stack things on top of it. We keep a supply of canned food in small individual cans with pull tops. Things like baked beans, fruit cocktail, Vienna sausage (yuk) and tuna. Also some regular cans, granola bars, dried fruit, a can opener, paper bowls, a couple of pots, a propane fire lighter, matches, soap, dish rags, a spatula, aluminum foil, and first aid stuff. We don't always plan to use it, but it's nice knowing it's back there and in the case of a long wait for re-pairs or a tow there's always food for several days (actually we figure about a week) . Gives one a nice sense of security. Then it doesn't matter if you're late getting to your camp site and the taco stand is closed. There's always something for supper. 011 Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks / Lines / Fittings Assembled Components ✓ PRODUCTION & ✓ TESTING SERVICES Magnetic Particle (Magnaflux, Myglo) Liquid Penetrant (Dye Penetrnnt Zyglo) Ultrasonic X-Ray CRITICAl PERATIONS October 1998 PROTOTYPE ✓ CAD/CAM PROGRAMMING ✓ REVERSE ENGINEERING ✓ EDM MACHINING 3043 Oak St, Santa Ana, CA 92707 · Ph 714-957-1215 Fx 714-957-1567 e-mail: WBLINN@CRmCAL-OP.COM FAA Repair Station# WB7R288J I hope you will plan to pre-run for the Baja 1000, even if you don't plan to race. Take a long weekend, or a couple of weeks, pick out a section that looks interesting, take some friends along, and have a great time. I highly recommend that you carry radios, and keep them going at all times. It keeps people from wandering off down the wrong track, or getting se-riously separated if the car in back has a breakdown. And you will have breakdowns'. Have fun! ■ Dusty Times

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"The Straight Poop" from the Big Wahzoo CALIFORNIA 200 -The Checkers ran four cars in this evening affair and came home with three firsts and a second, sort of. The Club provided four Checker pits for our drivers around MDR's 40 mile loop, and the afternoon's hundred plug degree temperatures turned into a beautiful night to go_ racin' in Barstow. The cars left the starting line at 7 p.m. with some standing water out on the course from recent thunderstorms adding to the night driving problems. Hey Duffy, how come we don't have more of these "night races" during the severe desert heat of our Southern California sum-mers? Bob Wright, a refugee from FAIR, has definitely found a successful home in Checkerville. Fresh from his impressive SCORE victory in last month's Fireworks race, our boy won his fifth straight desert race in typical fashion. This Checker has a unique abil-ity to run right on the ragged edge, usually tearing his car up in the process, but still able to win going away. Repeated en-gine cracks, major front end damage, rollovers, and this time a failing rear torsion hous-ing have all failed to deter our hero from achieving racing ex-cellence in Class 5-1600. Solo-ing as usual, Big Air Bob took Mike (Roy's kid) for a wild ride for the first three laps. Then Bob's young son, Jason, got into the passenger seat for the final two. Since this was Jason's first ride in a race, "Big Air Pop" gave his kid a real E ticket ride starting right at the end of pit row with a spectacular bumper rubbing nose ride. Then, about 25 miles from the finish, Wright's rear torsion housing started coming apart. Only a sturdy and tight fitting rear skid plate kept the rear suspension from collapsing completely. But, since he'd built up a lead, our hero was once again able to continue on to victory. Con-gratulations to Bob Wright, 1st Place in Class 5-1600 ... and his fifth win in a row! Mike Duenas finally got an engine to last in his new 1-2/ 1600 car and promptly put it in the money. Billy McCool drove the first half, turning the car over to Mike in about second or third. Then, after some time splits and chiding from his crew, Duenas really put the hammer down on his new Mi-rage. At the end of five laps Mikey had impressively worked his buggy up to third overall! Congratulations to Mike Duenas and Billy McCool, 1st Place in Class 1-2/1600! Great job, guys. Tony Tellier picked up a quality ride in a Nissan stock mini-truck for this race and wisely the team signed up for Checker pit support. (Note: Any non-Checker car is eligible for full Checker pit support anytime an active Checker member is signed up as either a Page 41 co-driver or passenger) Luckily they did, as they broke a tie rod anclhad repeated battery prob-lems in route. This was a nega-tive for Tellier and gang, but great for a number of outlying pits who got a chance to bone up on their mini truck repair skills. When the dust settled, Tony was able to pick up a fine .. second place finish in the stock mini truck class. Way to go, "elchismoso". Normally the Wahzoo doesn't get into the resulting positions of cars that DNF, but I'm gonna make an exception at this race. Fred Nelson and his ever growing "Nelson Rac-ing Team" won the last MDR race with that big Ford truck of his, and is currently in a tight battle for the points title. At this nighttime event, the truck had spring and alternator prob-lems late in the race and finally parked it. But, everybody else in the class had problems and also DNFed. When the check point times were checked it was discovered that our hero was the best DNFer, i.e. closest to the finish when he broke ... and therefore: the WINNER! Atta way, Fred. Beat 'em anyway you can. TONY'S HOTLINE - If you want to get a good opinion sam-pling of the off road rank'n'file, sign up at elchismoso@off-road.com and be sure to check your e-mail regularly. Checker input to this 'e-mail repeater' type forum has been notice-. able: Stuart Chase disclosed his new plan for an unlimited buggy designed especially for helicopter support. Reportedly it would have a pick up hook on the roof and four big balloon tires to absorb short drops. The power plant would be Briggs & Stratton for those short runs through the check points: Peralta occasionally gets ex-cited with all the off road chat-ter and starts really talking like an off road promoter again; And Hibbard quickly stirred up enough shit that some nut and his lawyer in Arizona started threatening to sue Jeff for be-ing the Big Wahzoo. Yeah, sure! Meanwhile, Brother Tellier, a.k.a. 'The Great Ma-nipulator', is busy behind the scenes pullin' all the levers to keep everything rollin' right along. Check it out. CIRCLE CHECKERS -Two of our budding bullring racers recently had damaging crashes at Bakersfield Speedway on separate weekends. Hibbard had an endoing Dwarf car land on his hood during the last lap of his heat race. Then, after a tearing away of loose sheet metal and quick flashlight in-spection, Jeff went back out for the main event and picked up a fourth. A later daylight in-spection showed some major damage to the Hibbard & Brown Dwarf Car and it is cur-rently still up on jacks. "Jumbo" Bates, who has been on a steadily improving learning curve with his T-Q Midget, got T-boned hard by another car after he'd gotten sideways be-tween turns. So, BJ's midget round'd'rounder is now also up on jack stands for a while. "A FEW GOOD MEN" -The Checkers are the only openly competitive male only organization left today that can still make that claim! I mean, the Marines are now accepting chicks and the Raiders have been playin' like they do for years now. But, the Checkers have successfully resisted-that kinda change in order to main-tain our excellence in the desert. Ours is a fraternal brotherhood of sorts that is not all that easy to get into. There is a six month prospective pe-riod where a prospective new member is expected to prove himself worthy. After that half year of testing the new guy is brought up for a vote at a Wednesday night meeting. All the guests and other prospec-· tive members are chased out of the room and the interrogation begins. Thi·s is not always a pretty picture, as the questions sometimes even make some of the old timers wince. But, we have to be really careful, since "once a Checker, always a Checker" is just not some meaningless phrase. A marble box is then passed around, and if the prospective member gets three or more black balls he's politely pointed towards the door. As cold as this process may sound, full membership is rarely a problem for the regular com-petitive off roader who's will-ing to do his share, be an ac-tive part of a workin' team, and get along with a wide range of unusual characters. Fame or fortune won't get you in any faster than normal, and a penis is still a strict requirement for Checker membership. The Checkers are not just a support group out there changin' tires for a buck. We are a dedicated off road racing team made up of just 'a few good men'. In fact, we are the winningest team in the history of desert racing! The Checkers go out to every race expecting to win. So ... if you're interested in improving your station in life, along with your race record, contact Presi-dent John Hastings at (818) 790-1161 between 9 and 5 for more details. Please don't hang up if someone answers with "La Canada Hardware". That's just a tax dodge for the real action goin' on out back. Challenger corner By Joel Mohr To start off this month's in-stallment, I'd like to thank ev-eryone who helped me (over the last year and a half) in my struggle to put together my new car. Listing things can suck be-cause it tends to give the im-pression that the beginning of the list holds more importance than the things that follow. I can assure you that everyone that I want to mention holds an equal value to me. Except one. Without the loving support of my wife Diane, this venture would never have gotten off the ground. With all the love in my soul, Thank You! Harold Curry, what can I possibly do to repay you? Our first win (when it comes) will undoubtedly be dedicated to you. Jerry, Rose-mary, Randy, and all of the crew October 1998 at Sandrails Unlimited, for the awesome panel work and all of the other expertise you so hap-pily lent to me. Speaking of ex-pertise, Larry Rosavear of Sus-pens ions Unlimited, master chassis builder and extremely helpful all around nice guy, this thing handles awesome! Roy Smith, mentor and great friend, your advice and opinions have been invaluable. Chris' Volks-wagen, PRP, FOX, SCHROEDER torsion bars, McKenzies (thanks for all the deals Jeff), Cliff Carter, Jimmy Messick, and also Paul Moen, for lending his car to me so I could stay in the points chase until the new one was race ready. Thanks again, everyone, and I hope I can do your good deeds justice. RACE RESULTS: At the re-cent MDR 200 night race, six Challengers took the green flag on what was to be a real night-mare for everyone involved. The course was poorly marked, and on several corners, what was there got mowed down by the faster classes. Needless to say, at one point on the first lap, half of the class was wandering around trying to find the course. This is the liystem run by most off road_ race winners Poor course marking is NOT normally an MDR trait but I know they got more than an earful about the conditions. 'Nuff said. On the first lap, the guys that made it around cleanly were Don Johnson in Max Hanberg's car, the Johnsons with Scott at the wheel, and Jimmy Messick. Interestingly enough, all three had prerun. Those of us that had not prerun and were left wandering were Chris Cocks, Harry Dunne, and yours truly. I blew a shock about 12 miles off of the start, Chris was becoming familiar with his new purchase, and Harry was just being Harry. On lap 2, Don Johnson was still out front, Mes-sick pulled off fast lap and caught the Johnsons. At FAIR pit C, I borrowed Paul Moen's shocks (from his car that he had brought out just to get some break-in miles on a new motor), and continued on knowing all we could hope for would be to just finish. On lap 3, Don Johnson was leading Scott Johnson by about five minutes. Messick was having alternator problems, I moved into fourth, Harry Dunne was also having Continued on page42 TRI-MIL BOBCAT ctfROME 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 Dusty Times

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·mechanical problems, and Chris Cocks blew out a torsion adjust-ing screw. On the fourth go-around, Max Hanberg climbed into his car in first place, and Todd Johnson replaced his brother running second. I (un-knowingly) had moved up to . third, and Tom Mangione had-~ climbed into Harry's car in fourth. Messick and Cocks had called it a night. When Max got to the 15 mile marker, he ap-parently missed a turn and had caught a trail that headed to Check 3. Todd was not far be-hind and made the same mis-take. Max continued on missing Check 2 completely. Todd upon arriving at Check 3 realized the mistake and doubled back (off the course) to Check 2, went through Check 2 and continued on. On lap 5, Max made a com-plete lap, finished first, the Johnsons second, and after I limped 15 miles on a broken ball joint, got to FAIR pit C, got it fixed, and finished third. Thanks again, Paul, Mike, Chris, and everyone at FAIR C. At the awards breakfast Sunday morning, the error had not been noticed by timing and scoring, Max was awarded the win with the Johnsons second. Monday, Max must have had a stroke of conscience and confessed to missing Check 2. Alls well that ends well, and the Johnsons were awarded the win. Again, I think that makes 13 in a row (I think their real name is. McGrath). SNORE ELY RACE: Eigh-teen 9's made the trek north of Las Vegas to try and cash in on the $2,500 prize they were hold-ing, but the California team of Ryan Shanck and Roland Barry waxed 'em. On what I am told was a very silty 44 mile course, only Mark Bunderson and Mark Rencher could come even close to the pace Barry and Shanck set right from the start. Kenny Thatcher and Earl West were the earliest retirees, not even getting all the way around. Earl usually does very well, but a mechanical gremlin must have climbed into his car. Teri Larson took five hours to make one lap, with Terry Vandawalker, Forrest Creasy, Mandy Dixon, Brett North and Ivan Ishihara all retiring some-where on lap 2. Matt Cunning-ham and Tim Dixon got into their third lap before having problems. Todd Dukes was run-ning with the leaders until he had problems on lap 4. Eric Shenburger also made it around three times, and judging from his lap times, had trouble most of the day. That leaves six cars that finished, all within an hour of each other. Ryan Shanck and Roland Barry took the win, and the $2,500 check, with Mark Bunderson second, newcomer Mark Rencher third, Thomas Toliaferro (from Barstow), fourth, Bill Avery fifth, and Tim Hart rounding out the finishers. Come on people! That's still only 30% finishing. When I ran SNORE in '96 we had usually 50% or better making the dis-tance. I know the courses haven't gotten that bad. Maybe you guys are just pushing harder these days. Shanck and Bund-erson are pretty fast and it will take perseverance to catch them. Keep trying, it can be done! If anyone would like to call me with race info, comments or suggestions, my number is (760) 94 7-664 7. See you at the races!!! C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MDR California 261, Bar-stow MDR held it's fifth race of the '98 season. This night race had increased mileage due to the racers racking up additional mileage attempting to find the course in the dark. I spoke to several racers who got lost and said that the course was poorly marked from the initial lap. As stated in previous pit reports, proper course marking is the single most important factor in of road racing and even more critical in a night race. Profi-cient course marking is also the easiest thing for a promoter to achieve. I know it's tough and thankless work, I have marked many courses with Walt Lott. If X f:"1Wl##BX WHEELS BUILT TO ORDER * FACTORY DIRECT CUSTOM STEEL WHEELS * ALL BOLT PATTERNS * ALL BACKSPACES * WHEELS MADE TO EXACT RACING SPECIFICATIONS --~~.., : :: ~ ~-5 "·;;_:_~t:\ ::,::,:;:;if\ : :: ;; .. · l\ * 15X 5 • e _!/ * 15 X6 · ~ ,; * 15X 7 • · /;I * 15 X 8 .... - . / -~ * 15X10 / ANY 4 STEEL WHEELS Ll~TED ABOVE FOR $17 4 OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE CALL FOR DETAILS CALL (918) 599-9022 MASTER CARD • l//SA • DISCOVER • AMEX 1924 EAST 6th ST.• TULSA, OKLAHOMA 71,101, Page 42 the racers have any suggestions on the proper way to mark an off road race course, please pass it on to MDR, I'm sure all would appreciate it (if implemented). I also understand that at least two class winners were given first place trophies and win-nings at the awards on Sunday only to have them ripped away after further investigation. In each case the second place cars confronted MDR directly after the race with the discrepancy asking them to investigate the check point logs, with no re-sults. Both cases were solved later in the week, both second place cars given the win. Let's avoid all the bad feelings and upset racers, MARK THE COURSE BETTER!!! Kevin McGillivray and Greg Shapiro teamed up in Kevin's new Class 10 two seater. Greg and Jeff King started and piloted the first half of the race. A front flat on lap slowed them a little but all the shocks falling off on the right rear slowed them a lot. Apparently the frame with shock mounts intact broke com-pletely off the right side of the car. After a few hours of weld-ing, they were back in the race. Greg and Jeff were closely fol-lowing the dust of the E-H 5-1600 when they saw the very large third tail light up above the Baja Bug. Actually it wasn't a third tail light, it was the red stop light of a checkpoint. They locked up the binders and tapped the 5-1600 sideways as Greg was yelling OH S---! It squished the clean new body and bent a few pipes but they and the WA-HOO car were able to continue and finish the race. Kevin and Scott Maholotz drove the second half almost flawlessly until the shock mounts broke off the other side of the car. They hobbled the car to the finish line, ending up fourth or fifth out of seven Class 10 cars. The best run of the day was a first in class finish posted by Guy Petersen in his 5-1600. Guy and team are hopeful new CORE members, if we are lucky. After this race, they proved to CORE that they are tough and success-ful racers, and would make a great addition to CORE. Guy and rider Mike MacEntire solo'd the entire race. They were scheduled to slip in another rider but due to the extremely tight racing, they decided not to lose any time in the pits chang-ing riders, rather just a splash of fuel and go. Guy said they had a fun and flawless run with no flats or problems to slow their pace. The only thing to report is that the exhaust gasket blew out on the last lap which made the motor sound a bit raspy, which I'm sure concerned his crew. The only other thing that concerned the team was after leading the last few laps by min-utes, they pulled into the finish line and saw another car in his class who were given the check-ered flag. After many calls to MDR they agreed that Guy Pe-tersen and team were the well deserved winners of their class! The team of Brad Inch and Dennis Dean had a short race and a difficult few weeks. Brad smoked the motor during test-ing a week prior to the race and spent the rest of the week get-ting the motor back together. October 1998 The race didn't go much better only finishing two laps. Brad started the race and blew a tire and drove on the rim for several miles. Getting the aluminum deposit removed from the drum in a CORE pit, he continued and experienced another flat soon after. Brad said he got lost several times due to the poor course marking. He passed three Class 10 cars going the wrong way on the course and later drove off a cliff attempting to find his way in the dark. Even-tually he made it back to Main and Dennis drove the second lap. Dennis also smoked a front tire and had to get out to change a flung power steering belt. Later that lap a plug wire broke and fell off and the alter-nator pulley exploded. Dennis also got lost several times and wasn't too happy about it. Af-ter those two laps, they decided to throw in the towel. I sure wish I could end Brad's agony here but it's not the end of the story yet. Driving Brad's motorhome to get the stranded car, the motor mount broke, sending the fan through the ra-diator. Brad had to have the motorhome/trailer/race car towed in where it still sits in my brother's tow yard in Barstow. The other racer signed up for this race was the Honeymoon Class 5 Unlimited of Phil Mc-Cluskey and his new bride. They couldn't find any pit people to offer the club so it was decided that they wouldn't pit with CORE this race. Hope to see you at the next one! CORE PITS CORE Main was run by the McGillivray crew. CORE Pit A was the Inch main pit with Brad, Dennis, Neal Onote, James and Theresa Sorem. CORE Pit B had Dave and Davy Girdner, Tom Malloy, and Perry King behind the wrenches. CORE Pit C was run by Greg and Bryan Johnson and the SPEC crew. Due to some fam-ily business, I was not able to get any information regarding the pit stories and I do apologize. Looking for a professional family oriented off road racing pit support organization? CORE Pit Club is always interested in finding new members and offer-ing them quality pit support. CORE has regular monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restau-rant in Santa Clarita. For more information please cail (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at Race975@aol.com. MAG7 Race Team By Stephen T. Stenberg, President ATTENTION: MAG 7 RACE TEAM and RON BISHOP BAJA PITS have joined forces to provide pits ev-ery 50 miles from start to fin-ish at the upcoming Baja 1000. Since Mag 7 doesn't have any racers signed up for either the Prim or the BITD Vegas to Reno races, the Baja 1000 will be our next race. Mag 7 Race T earn is proud to announce that they have joined forces with the veteran baja race team, "Ron Bishop Baja Pits" for the upcoming Baja 1000. The race is scheduled to run from Santo Tomas to La Paz this year. With our two teams joining together, Mag 7 will be able to provide the ad-ditional pits to our motorcycle and quad racers, most of whom can't go more than 50-55 miles between pits. With Ron Bishop's team helping us out we will be able to provide 20 pits to La Paz. Here is how it will work. For bikes and quads, Mag 7 will have gas pits every 50-54 miles apart. No more than 54 miles apart. For vehicles our pits are still 100 miles apart. Vehicles can stop in to these motorcycle pits for very basic emergency service or to meet their chase teams and do driver changes. But full service for vehicles is offered only every 100 miles apart. All motorcycle/quad pits have FM radios, tools, lubri-cants, motorcycle dump cans, lights where needed and friendly people to help you fin-ish the race. · At the 100 mile pit locations ( vehicles, motorcycle/quad), Mag 7 will have in addition to the above named equipmen_t, welders, generators, vehicle dump cans (m/c too) and racer supplied parts as is usual for our pits. Applications have already been sent out to everyone on the Mag 7 Race list. If you need one still, contact Wayne or Debbie Newell at 1-760-745-5740 and request one. October 13th is our first cutoff to re-ceive back your completed ap-plications. After that and up until October 31st there will be an additional $50.00 late charge added to your entry. There won't be any applica-tions accepted after October 31, 1998. Don't wait until the last minute to contact us concern-ing your race needs. We are al-ready in the planning stages along with Ron Bishop's Team for pit locations and supplies needed at each pit. We are presently planning on staffing 20 pits down the course. Mag 7 and Ron Bishop Racing will be pre running and marking pit lo-cations in late October. For our motorcycle and quad teams a special note. This is "RON BISHOP'S 30TH BAJA 1000" that he has competed in (he's placed in 28 of them) and so he has a very good pit crew to be able to accomplish this. This is "Mag 7's 29th Baja 1000" and we have pitted a very large number of trucks, buggies, bikes and quads over that time. A lot of big time racers got their start with desert racing with Mag 7 before getting picked up with local and fac-tory teams. As a matter of fact, Mag 7 pitted Ron in the early 70's while he was sponsored by Rokon in Baja and the then "Six Day Trials", so both Ron Bishop and Mag 7 go way back in Baja racing. Our two teams have proved that they are in Baja for the long haul and will help you fin-ish, and if you're fast enough, and lucky enough, place in your classes as well. 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mag7 / or by calling 1-619-582-3728 for team information. Un-til next month, Adios from my-self, Team Baja Mag7/ race@ao I. com. CRS Directors' Article Well, another great event happened this past weekend. The Gorman Ridge Rally al-ways proves to be one of the best divisional rallies of the year. This year we had 33 en-tries and 23 finishers. Harris Done is the organizer, and Ray and I are the co-organizers with Harris. We all had a great time. Harris was able to award prize money back to each class win-ner of $100.00 and $200.00 for the first place overall winner. And on top of that the Ramada Express International Rally also awarded $50.00 for each class winner. Combine that for overall winner Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh they took home $350.00 not bad for a divisional rally. Despite a couple of de-lays, the rally was a big success. Congratulations to all the com-petitors. We have a couple of dates for you that you might want to mark on your calendar. The Prescott Rally is October 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Lon Peterson an-nounced that the Treeline Rally will be held on Novem-ber 11th, and of course, the Ramada Express Hotel & Ca-sino International Rally on De-cember 4th-6th. And finally our year end awards banquet will be held on January 23, 1999 at the Holiday Inn in Burbank. Once again our year !nd awards should prove to be ~reat fun. We have our own Ray Hocker and Harris Done working on another year: end video. Any clips you might have let us know. Our next BoG meeting will be held on September 20th at Donna and Ray's house. Please call your Competitor Liaison, Rob T allini if you have any par-ticular subjects you would like the BoG to discuss. See you all in Prescott. Donna Mitchell CRS Director Baja Pits News A few notes from the Baja 500. We pitted for 17 cars and trucks plus two bikes. By the way, we still have tires and dump cans that a few racei;s have not picked up yet. We do not sell or auction the racers" equipment, but it is tempting. We had seven strong pits at this race. FRT Motorsports Promo-tions -Navajo Grande Race-Page 43 way. Sixty-five Baja Pitters showed up to pit for five cars at this July 4th event. It was quite a show with Carne Asada, Pollo Asado, Menudo, Goat and Lamb Stew ... what a feast! We are going to have our meet-ings there once a week. I can't get 65 people to come to a weekly meeting ... Fud must have more pull than I have. CORP Santa Veronica 200 -One of our great leaders, Leo "The Lion of the Desert" Cal-deron, who marks all the pits at the SCORE events for us, has again been commended for his pit selections on Mile Marker 20 and 60 (double pit). The CORP promoters were even stunned! Just to mention a few of the class winners: Art Honold, First Overall; Mike Tronell, First Class 1/2-1600; Yobsam Yee, First Class 9; Jesse Gamino (Home Depot), First Class 7; Negrete boys (Fuller Ford), First Class 5 (Sports-man); Atty Hector Teran, Sec-ond Class 5; Jaime Medina, Third Class 5; Elizandro Yee, Second Class 7; Robert D~anda, Third Class 7; Luis Rivera, Second Class 9. Perry McNeil in a Class 5 un-fortunately did not finish but Perry's Fabrication Shop had three trucks at this event which earned first, second and third finishes. Great Job Perry!!! Good job to Jose "Munchies" Ramirez from Hi-Tech Hydrau-lics. He welded seven vehicles throughout the race. A total of 26 Baja Pit cars were in atten-dance and at times there were up to five vehicles in the pits, either gassing, welding, tire changing and/or supplying wa-ter to the thirsty and sweaty racers. THE LIONS CLUB fund-raising event for the handi-capped kids held August 9th at Romero Manzo Soccer Stadium featured a Destruction Derby and Off Road Exhibition events. Baja Pits sent nine trucks and buggies to show a unique style of racing. This was Baja Pits second annual partici-pation at this event and Perry McNeil stole the show again. He jumped his truck over a ramp with five people lying down at the end of the ramp and from the stands it looked very dangerous and scary. The 7;000 plus fanatics were screaming and yelling for more after every lap. Three ladies in the stands fainted, thinking the five people were in danger. The · off road event was stopped early because of this as fights broke out in the stands and the fire department had to control the crow with their water hoses. Baja Pits Tecate 125 -On September 25th through 27th, 1998, Baja Pits first off m ad event will be held a t Los Sahuaros Raceway, sponsored by Tecate Beer. Again Leo has marked this unique, three m'ile course which is hard with lots of dips, steepy hills and ruts ... very challenging! O pen to a11 classes (trucks and buggies) with an entry fee of $100 plus $25 for ins. and a 7Q% payback. Trophies for first, second and third. Overnight camping, wa-ter slides and swimming pools; $3 for adults and $2 for chil-dren. For more info. call: Carl numbers listed above. Augustyn (619) 448-1219, Leo Calderon (619) 267-9928 or Carlos Orozco (619) 449-7777. Unical 76 gas available, 97-110 octane. Purisima, San Javier, Ciudad Constitucion, Santa Rita and Punta Conejo are all marked. For registration information on the Baja 1000 call Carl, Leo or Carlos at the telephone NOTE: Do not pre-run by yourself. Two or more vehicles please, Baja Pits Stadium Racing/ Tecate Beer Unocal 76 Octo-ber 18th, 1998. For more infor-mation caliPerry McNeil (619) 463-7263 Baja 1000, November 1998, Ensenada to La Paz. We will have 16 pits assigned if the race has the same start location as the Baja 500. If the race starts • from Santo Tomas we will have 12 pits. Unocal 76 will have 97-110 octane gas available for pre-running-at the following loca-· tions: Ensenada, San Quintin, Santa Inez, Bay of LA, San Ignacio, La Purisima, Ciudad Constitucion, La Pas. Pre-order your gas by calling Unocal 76 at 011-52-66-862076 and ask for Alfredo Munoz. Baja Pits and Unocal 76 again will be working to-gether for this event (remember you must have special permits to import and haul fuel in Mexico). You do not have to sign up for Baja Pits for an emergency pit. If you need help we will help you. No different than BFG, Checkers and FAIR. We are all here to get you to the finish line safely. All our pit crews are highly experienced. There was a complaint to Baja Pits from the Negrete boys car #575. They had won a pres-tigious award from Mag-7 that entitled them to a free pit at the Baja 400. Their car pull_ed into one of their pits and they were told to "Get the Hell out of there!" I guess the Bald wins had .the same problem. They ask "Why?" Baja Sur -All of our pits at San l3nacio, El Hatil, La j Helm/Graham Racing .r'.: · \ 1997 Class \ 7S Champions Prepped at . Donahoe Racing .. ,...,,....----...... :· -• ... \ ® ... d . terprises' ,jryt~ in anaheim \, ___ ,/ ; Thank you! DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP IUl5J1i11111 REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! -. http-://www .dona.1-ioe~ac ~ Complete Race Truck Fabrication ~ Prerunners ~Consulting ~Shock Service & Mr. Baja -... ~ 714 632 303~ 714 632 3~1Ji -Donah a~;ng EnTerpr'5 □ ~ ..... Whi~ October 1998 Dusty Times c-

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A Pleasure Jaunt In Baja By Judy Smith Dan Newsome looks for the source of a worrying "clunk" in the front end of his treasured Bronco. The trip had an auspicious It started about a week be-one more trip, and said yes. It beginning. We found a nice fore when, at the Fireworks turns out that this was to be a pizza place in San. Quintin, 250, Sal Fish had asked us if combined effort, with Sal in and then went out to the La we'd like to go along on a the official SCORE Blazer, Pinta Hotel, where we would quick trip to check out some teamed with Oscar Ramos, meet our fellow travelers. The of the Baja 1000 course. Al-SCORE's legal eagle, and Bill hotel has a glorious setting, ways eager to go to Baja, and Rodriguez, Class 9 racer and right on the Pacific, with miles especially with someone who assistant course-lay-out per-of beautiful, undeveloped, knows the roads, we decided son for many years. They had · nearly empty beach. our old Class 11 car could take as passeng·er, Ron Pereira, Page 44 :, ,/. @®£~1f Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 Tropicana Ave. & Arville 800-675-3267 who's working to develop a computer game based o n SCORE Baja racing, and was getting his fi rs t cha n c e to travel the course as Sal looked over old roads, unused fo r many years. T he other part of the con-tingent was the BFG mapping team. This consisted of Dan Newsome and his pet Bronco, with Frank DeAngelo as pas-senger, and in a big, black Suburban was Jeff Cummings and Dave Churchill, with sat-ellite telephone equipment to check out as well as serious OPS mapping equipment. T hen t here was Gary Mastrolia in his well-equipped Toyota, with more sat-phone stuff, as well as his OPS equip-ment. The plan was that Sal would chose the roads and the BFG folks, who've been doing this for some years now, would create "way-points" for each landmark and/or road crossing and fork. With one of them creating the "tulips" that SCORE uses for their competitor's map, Sal would be well on his way to having his course established and his map laid out by the end of the week. In addition to the fleet of off road vehicles, BFGoodrich had brought along a crew of two in a motor home well stocked with food and drinks and a trailer carrying spare gas and tires. Brad Molinari was the driver and cook, and Dave VanNess rode shotgun, with his tool box ever ready, pre-pared to make repairs when, not if, disaster struck. And the final vehicle in this parade of equipment was our old Class 11 car, a 1970 Volks-wagen, with only a ten gallon gas tank, and an 1835cc mo-tbr. Everybody had air condi-tioning (the Su burban h ad two) but us. Sal had a brief meetin g with, among others, Tomas Guerrero, from the office of Tourism, and Enrique Alfaro, an off road racer who's also a grower in the San Quintin area. They _determined that the roads along the beach, from just west of San Telmo all the way to San Quintin would probably be used as the course. With this settled, the next item of business was din-ner, and we all headed to a favorite spot of Sal's, the res-taurant at the Cielito Lindo resort. This was the next place on the beach, a comfortable looking motel and camp-ground, with a congenial staff and really pleasant outdoor dining area. A tethered goat and a frenetic dog who liked to chase the lawn sprinkler were part of the entertain-ment. The main entertain-ment was a party of Gringos, mostly from places east and north, who had shed their in-hibitions on arrival. Dianer for most of us was the specialty of the house, a marvelous concoction made Continued on page 46 ~ ~1:r I West Flamingo & Valley View~ 888-402-6278 -------Dusty Times I I I

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with pieces of crab (still in the shell) and a wonderful, drippy sauce of melted butter and paprika. This sublime dish was served in a big bowl, with nut-cracker-like tools and a stack of napkins. Preceded by black bean soup with fresh garnishes or a crisp salad, it was a din-ner to remember. A rough out-line of the schedule was firmed up, alternate routes were dis-cussed, and who was to do what the next day was de-cided. Sal, talking about dis-tances from point to point, says, "remember, these are Fish miles!" Meaning, the dis-tances were determined by him and could be off -but the OPS folks know they'll straighten it all out. We were to be ready for coffee (at the motor home) at 5 :30 and ready to leave by 6:30. Sal Fish struggles to move some branches obscuring the course on a seldom used part of the trail. Lt's a good plan, and we're close, but actually running about a half-hour late. Sal is hopping around, his itinerary-clock ticking, and perhaps his knowledge of the day's route imbuing him with a sense of foreboding. We start our mile-age at the abandoned Pemex station on the abandoned west fork of the highway. Then, just after the two forks rejoin, we turn in onto the dirt road. It looks as if there might be a lot of rain damage, but it's only at the very beginning, and the road has a familiar look before we've gone a quarter mile. As we follow-the-leader along the gently climbing road, we drive out of the Pacific shoreline haze and it begins to warm up, seriously. Not too many miles into the morning Newsome hears a clunk in the front end of his Bronco. We pull up behind Sal who's tying BFGoodrich rib-bons on a bush to mark the correct fork, and everyone gathers·'round the Bronco to find the source of the clunk. It defies their efforts. They conjecture that it could be the heim ends on the shocks ... or it could be something else. He's also concerned about over heating and is not using his. air conditioning. The course climbs and climbs, and then wanders over the pla-teau, a rocky, spiny landscape with little to recommend it except for the fine view of great distances with no civili-zation. Then we descend into a valley and after .a while there is a long uphill, one of those you_ remember forever, which gets steeper up near the top. John and I can keep up a steady narrative about who drove what and did what on this part of the course. He re-minds me that I ran into a Class 10 car on this hill once. After an edgy trip down the eroded trail, we move ·along a stream bed, and finally onto the rolling hills where the boojums begin. The Suburban shows up, headed towards us, just as we hit one of the water crossings, having checked out . Valley Performance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Page 46 Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater -$45,000 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702 - 873-1962 one of the "access" roads. We continue for another mile or so and then Sal stops, his old course map from '87 having told him there's a left turn here. Right up until we make the turn we couldn't see it, the shrubs having grown so thick and tall in the nine years since the road's been used. Now Sal leads in the Blazer, we follow him and the Suburban follows us. The Bronco and the Toyota are going to check out a possible alternate we'd seen about a half mile back, and then go out to the highway (a few easy miles on the access road) and meet up with the motor home and lunch. Before we dive off into the brush we wait a few minutes for Ron, who'd been miserably car sick, to toss his cookies in the shrubs. He's been doing this for a while Sal says, and Sal's a bit worried, wanting him to eat and drink. Ron doesn't see the point of this. We get about a quarter mile in and there's an impenetrable wall of shrubs. No road shows up behind them. Bill gets out to poke around, and deter-mines that we need to drive right through the curtain of greenery. We hang a ribbon and go on, making a sharp left then turning right and follow-ing a dry creek bed. Another wall of shrubbery stops us, and this tim~ Sal and Bill get out and push their way through. Sure enough, the road is straight through, but this is a good sized tree with branches at least two inches in diameter spanning the trail. Sal starts pushing them back, tearing off some of the smaller branches. Then the Suburban catches up and Dave Churchill meanders through the sticker bushes to check things out. We have a small thermometer on our glove box door and it's pegged at 120 d egrees. We're in a canyon and there's no breeze. I'm fading fast, so I squirrel my towel out of the duffel bag, dip it into the ice chest and wrap it around my neck. Much bet-ter. Meanwhile, Dave has re-membered a handy-dandy tool kit he's brought which con-tains a small saw. No bull - a saw! In very short order he ampu t a te s the intrusive branches and makes room for the vehicles to pass. Rodriguez is driving t h e Blazer, an d being first in line he takes off, carefully, because there's a dip, a slight left turn, a couple of boulders and a washout, all in the next six October 1998 The Blazer, with no four wheel drive, found this section of the road next to impossible. The Suburban gets in place to help. feet of road. In no time at all of us and there's a clear spot they're stuck. And then they to park, we we'll join them. I tell us they haven't got four hang on and he gives it the wheel drive. Now we move the gas, goes about six feet and we VW as far left as possible so feel it slip back three, off the the Suburban-can slide by and edge and into the ruts. Now up to the Blazer. I lose a bet we discover that the damned on this one, thinking it can't road is exactly as wide as the possibly fit in the small space. wheelbase of a VW and we've Jeff gets it right up on Sal's slipped sideways so we're bumper, ties on and pulls them parked with our rear wheels in back to where the rear wheels the rut and the exhaust and have some purchase. A couple bumper on the berm, and the of guys hop on the bumper and front bumper over the berm on slowly, slowly, they creep out the other side. I stand off to of the hole. The Suburban one side to watch. John rocks chugs through, and then we it back and forth while I think get our turn. Once everyone about the small size of low gear is well out of the way, so we and the diameter of the drive can get a run at it, John gives axles, but he gets it slewed it the gas and drives through around so it's more or less and up to the other cars. No pointed forward, then we put problems. a bunch of rocks in front of There's a long hill now, and the rear tires, and he drives up the trail moves through a for-the road to park behind rhe est of threatening vegetation. Blazer. Then we notice that Everything is tipped with it's right front wheel is askew, sharp spines, and there's no and it's obvious that its final space between growths, ex-effort was too much for it. cept where there are boulders. There's now a lot of Lovely terrain. It's cooler conferencing on the radios. here: the thermometer reads The Suburban has moved on 110. The two rut trail has ahead to see how far we are been washed out all along its from good road -they discover length -not terribly deep, but it's a long way and the road is just enough to high center the· no better up ahead. We'll unlucky driver who slips off. have to go back out the way Bill slips off and sticks the we came in. Specs are called Blazer. Now the Suburban out and Gary is given a shop-churns up the berm, through ping list of parts, as he leads the spines and back on the north to San Quintin to find road in fron t of the Blazer. In a replacemen t balljoint for a the next 20 minutes they g0 '9 7 Blazer. Dan and Fr an k about three car lengths. confer with Dave VanNess There's a lot of time out to about the best way to move confer, study the ruts, move a the Blazer, and they decide it few rocks, jump on the bumper needs to have its broken ball-of the Blazer and so forth. joint excised and a temporary John and I, after deciding we fix made so it can drive out. were superfluous to this activ-No one wants the Suburban to ity, sit in the minimal shade have to try .to tow it all the provided by t he V W , doors way back out. open to catch the faint breeze. Meanwhile, as we're immo-W e have to keep the VW run-bilized, I'm feeling wobbly and ning, because if we shut it off John has plunked the towel on when it's hot it may not start my head, on top of my straw again. John plays with the hat and poured water on it throttle, speeding up the fa n Instant relief. I tack it back so to cool things down in back. I look like A rafat, but fashion It smells hot anyway. is not the issue . We find a I'm worrying about Ron who SCORE Laughlin banner and has a real green tinge to his create a little shade where face. He is mostly just stand-Ron sits crumpled up and mis-ing dispiritedly at the side-erable. He still won't eat the lines. I try to get him to eat crackers, though he's taking in some salty crackers, but he fluids. refuses. He's been throwing up The Suburban comes back, all day, and by n ow I figure and work starts in earnest to h e must be d e hydra t e d . remove the diseased part. W hat's gone in has come righ t Problem is the rocks are too back out. Including water. We hot to sit on, and the balljoint all walk around with water is on the sunny side of the car. bottles in our hands all the Rodriguez bangs for a while time. then crawls into the shade Finally, John has decided with Ron. Jeff hammers and they're far enough up in front sweats mightily, and Sal takes Dusty Times

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Bill Rodriguez, Dave VanNess, Dave Churchill, Ron Pereira, Frank DeAngelo and Sal Fish (from left) ponder the plight of the broken Blazer. off his shirt and gets into the for the cell phones, so we're fray also. I'm now thinking incommunicado, except for that it's been less than two our own radios. It's decided years since he had open heart someone needs to go up the surgery. I wonder how we can road to find the spot where the get a helicopter in here to air-course "pops out". Sal wants lift the ones who overdo it in to avoid using the road we the heat. came out on because it's not It's now about 2:30, and an ideal place for race vehicles when we finally think to have to enter the highway. We also a little .lunch out of our ice need to locate a road that will chest, we get to remembering take us back in to the course, that breakfast was at about and mark and map it. We need 5:00 a.m. No wonder we're a to keep highway running to a little unstable, we've been so minimum, ideally. We send busy and so involved with the· the motor home down the car problem that no one has highway to Catavina, our thought to eat, and breakfast planned overnight stop, and wasn't exactly a banquet. But the Blazer with Oscar driving help is on the way. The Bronco and Ron in the passenger seat is back-tracking in with Van go in front of them. The last Ness and his tool box and a we hear of them VanNess is new supply of water along with hollering "slow down!" as he box lunches from the envisions the bolt and wash-Chuckwagon. I must say: if ers that are all that's holding you're going to breakdown in that corner of the Blazer to-· the Baja wilds, you want to be gether. sure you have a BFGoodrich Sal runs up the road to try mapping team along with you. to find a place where he can Dan and Frank show up make a phone call but it's no about 3 :00 p.m. looking like use. Then Frank and Dan take angels of mercy, and start the Bronco down a road not handing out icy water and far from where we are to see if sandwiches and oranges. Ev-it's where the course comes eryone, including Ron, out. They try a couple of forks gobbles the food down while and one dead ends in a fence VanNess starts bolting the and the other just fades away. front end back to some sem-A new excursion is planned. blance of functionality. In just Dan and Frank and Bill will a few moments everyone looks take the Bronco back to the and feels better, Ron is no course where we were stopped longer green and the Blazer is and will continue on, to find pronounced well enough to out where it comes out. Sal limp out. really wants to use this part of First we have to turn all the the course which hasn't been vehicles around, avoiding the raced on for nine years. We worst of the spiney stuff. It can communicate with them looks fearsome, but somehow on our radios. They say that everyone gets aimed back fo now that it's been driven on the direction we came in, and so many times the edges are we head out. The Blazer gets broken down and the ruts are stuck a couple of times, but not so difficult. They carry on •. with enough bodies to stahd and the road gets better and on the bumper it's usually easy they are hopeful that we'll get to get it moving again. We to use it. But then they come throw some more rocks into up against a fence. A long the ruts, to get the driving sur-fence with no gates. face built up a bit (remind us Meanwhile, Jeff, Sal and to tell you about the time John Dave Churchill are in the Sub-nd some friends rebuilt part of urban and we are in the VW. the infamous Three Sisters waiting together on the top of hills that way), and then our a hill which we think is where VW has no problem getting they'll show up. When they back past the wash outs. radio us about the fence we rancher that we should be per-mitted to build a gate and use his road for the race course. He takes off, in sandals and shorts, walking jauntily. Sal groans when he hears this and tells Frank and Dan to get him back, he doesn't want Bill lost in the desert as the sun is go-ing down. They honk at him, but he turns around and waves cheerfully, and keeps on walk-ing, sure he'll find a ranch house. It's still 100 degrees plus. Dan and Frank say they can see cars on the highway, but we can't figure out where they are from where we are. So we run up and down the pave-ment in ou-r orange VW until they see us. They say we're at their "two o'clock" and that gives us an idea of where to look for them. John and I drop back onto the dirt road, and I get out the binoculars to search the hills beyond the fenced area. We're at still an-other gate on another branch of the road. Suddenly I spot a glimmer and I ask them to blink their lights. We've got them in our sights and they're directly across from us, on a ridge, about three miles away. They have lost sight of Bill and we can't spot him either. After another half hour or so Bill shows up, walking back toward Dan and Frank. He never found a ranch house, or any sign of people. They de-cide to stop exploring in that area, and to come back out the way they went in, again. We are to wait for them by the highway, and now Sal and Jeff and Dave, in the Suburban, have decided to go back to where we were waiting for the trio originally. For one thing, Bill has told us that he's sure it's part of the old course, and they have also talked to a lo-cal who drove by in his pickup, and he seemed to indicate the same thing. They're going to explore as far as they go. It's just sunset as they take off. We wait by the side of the road for the Bronco, and when it shows up we head south, now delegated as radio relay and official greeters at Guayaquil, which is where we expect the Suburban to show up if all goes well. The Bronco backtracks in to record the pavement to dirt sections, and the road in from the pave-ment, on their OPS. . We find the road down to Guayaquil with no problem and wait at the side of the broad empty space. Dan, Frank and Bill, when they get t~ere, decide to explore the road in to Guayaquil, which will be another access road, and needs to be mapped. They tell us they now have Bill duct-taped into his seat so he can't go walking again. We're looking down from the edge of a broad shallow saucer and can follow their lights easily. Across the wide valley and up into the hills on the other side we see no lights from the Sub-urban for an hour or so, but then we start to see a glow, and for a few moments have them in full view. We blink our headlights and they blink theirs. It's a relief to know where they are, and that there may finally be an end to this day. Now we have clear com-munications for the rest of their jaunt, but it's another half hour or so before they ac-tually arrive at Guayaquil. They're making slow progress, mapping as they go. Once the Suburban gets down to Guayaquil, the Bronco leads them out and af-ter a brief discussion we call it a day as far as course explo-ration does, though we know we're way short of our goal. It's about 28 miles on the pavement to Catavina. We head south, and arrive at the La Pinta hotel at about 9:30, just as the restaurant is trying to close. We order whatever they have for dinner, some ice cold beer, and are grateful for small blessings. It's still miser-ably hot, well over 100 degrees even this late at night, and muggy. Sal calls for a 7 :00 a.m. start time the next morning, and everyone heads for showers and beds. We trundle off to the rancho at Santa Ines, where they've also gone to bed, so instead of a room, we roll out our sleeping bags and sleep on the ground under the stars. It's the end of day one. 000000000000 SNORE CORNER The SNORE season is slowly coming to an end and the big prize at the end of the rainbow is that brand new 1600. Buggy, with all the trick stuff on it, just waiting for the points winner to claim it. The competition is hot and heavy and the top contenders are shown here. 1. Rick !Juncan 2402 2 . Mark Bunderson 2384 3. Tom Sturgis 2364 4 . Mike Powada 2338 5. Ryan Schank 2315 6. Jeff Carr 2148 7 . Matt Cunningham 2110 8 . Todd Dukes 2107 9. Thomas Tallaferro 2045 10. Billy Goerke 2044 11. Robby Guevara 1994 12. Day Gang 1960 13. Clay Carr 1870 14. Dan Bradley 1832 15. Bryan Freeman 1830 There are two races left in the SNORE Series and a11· of the people shown above are still in the running for the grand prize. In a half hour we're all out pile into our vehicles and head at the lunch stop, and jammed back to the road that ends in into the motor home, which the fence on our side, sure it has air conditioning. It's now must be part of the same fence nearing 4:00 p.m. and we've and thinking we'll try to get in done only a fraction of our and talk to the ranch owner. planned reconnoiter. The sat-Rodriguez, who obviously is ellite phone isn't working theonlyoneofthebunchwho properly and we can't call speaks Spanish, decides he'll Gary to see if he's had any luck jump the fence and walk in with Blazer parts. This part of from his direction to the ranch the country is also a dead spot house and will convinct! the,.____ ________________________________________ ~ Page 47 October 1998 Dusty Times

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Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1 8 1 5 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM I NC.COM From Parts to Complete En~ines Engine Dyno Service Off Road Products F.ront and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 8501 7 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 535 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 Classified ... FOR SALE: 1997 FORD F-150 TROPHY TRUCK; Super Trick and Radical design went into this race vehicle. Call for all the de-tails. Freshly rebuilt, painted and ready to race. Air Suspension, 3 7" BFGs etc ... Serious inquiries only. $130,000.00 Baja Brokers (760) AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Class 11: Sway-A-Way, BFGs, Beard.seats, Bilstein $3,500.00. Call John for Details, Afternoon and evenings (760) 868-5694. 723-2117. FOR SALE: 18' BOX VAN SUP-PORT VEHICLE: Great support ve- FOR SALE: 1994 Ranger, 4.0 liter ~' hide, this van is registered as an RV, V6, 5 ·speed manual,-DokTech, Generator, AC, Belly boxes for lots of Custom I-Beams, front and rear storage, Custom built lookout plat- Bumpers, shock towers and coil form on the roof. This GMC would buckets, 8 Bilstein shocks, 5 BFG FOR SALE: 1998 Chenowth 2 seat be perfect for a professional motor- 32 x 11.50 Muds, front Fiber glass desert car, brand new Chromoly cycle team. Has hi-torque Chevy fenders, MUST SELL $13,500.00 frame,neverused,4"longerwoods, powerplantmatedtoaSpicerSspeed, . obo Call Mark (520) 453-4894. , ft arm, Combos, Saco Magnum rack, very custom vehicle throughout, from Pa er 5 20 214-1441. UMP PtS, 6x6 rear arms, Chenowth the paint to the interior. Asking FOR SALE: Hewland 003 'Class shifter,FuelSafecell,PIAA,Master-FOR SALE: Ford Protruck, $l2,S00.00 Baja Brokers Ref lOtrans,newringandpinion,input craft seats, CNC pedals, Yokohama, SVO high Prof. Crate motor, #488(760) 7Z3-2l l 7. shaft, shift forks, 13t through 5th 930 flange stubs, Mendeola trans, spare.s: transmissions, steering FOR SALE: FAT Toyota 4AG gears and dog rings. Gears for air Turning Brakes, Fox bump stops, boxes, tires, third member, · 1 d t I d t T 1650cc engine complete. Race coo e orwa er coo e mo ors. rans Parker Pumper, Sway-A-Way, (3) Drive line, Fresh prep by Fod ready, fresh $6,S00.00 4spd, Rose disassembled to be seen, will be built PCiraceradios,needsengm· e,s:1ocks Fab, ready to race and win. ct h $.650000 boH trans axle, 3 extra R&P, gear for ai; er pure ase. , · o ew-& drive axles to finish. $19,000.00 $85,000.00 possible partial 1 d DG 300 Cl 1 t · type 4 VW, extra gear for Toyota an ass rans, JUSt re-invested yours for $15,000.00. Deliv-trade for A-arm Class 1 car. Call b ilt $6 000 00 bo C II K · t engine. Race ready, fresh u , , · 0 · a evm a ery avail. (253) 584-5857. Glen (520) 544-8933. . $S,000.00 (S03) 618_8823 wkdays. (602) 402-6215 or (602) 334-0096. FOR SALE: 97 Chenowth 2 seat • ■ • • • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ • • • • • • • • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ • ■ • ■ ■ • ■ • ■ ■ ■ • • • • • • • • • • • • d . Class 1, Toyota Tacoma, Fortin • Sell or swan vour extra pruts an pieces in • DGN 5 speed, Kusters front & rear, • ':r / · FodFab front end, 934 c.v.s, Sum- • D T TC'TY TT"A fDC'• mers rear hubs, CNC front hubs, V..::, ..I. .l.lJ'.I..Lt.::,, prepped w/spares, over $70K in-vested, best of everything, $45,500.00 complete obo, or $25,500.00 less motor & trans obo. Jeff (602) 978-3073. FOR SALE: Class 12 - 2 seater, Mi-rage chassis, Fox, Wright, Jamar, UMP, Summers hubs; Fields trans, Centerlines, Y okohamas with spares, $15,000.00 ask for Darrell or Todd (949) 489-8984. Classified Advertising rate is only $20 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7". NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. Enclosed is $ ___ _ (Send check or money order, no cash) Name _______________________________ -'--_ Address Phone ------------------------------City State Zip ________ _ Please run ad times ---Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • Dusty Times October 1998 Page 53

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more Trail Notes ... CORR AT LUXEMBURG - August 22nd and 23 saw the short course folks competing at Luxemburg and the results are as follows: Johnny ·Greaves won Pro Lite both days, Ricky Johnson won the Pro 2 Division on both days, Jack Flannery won Pro 4 on Saturday, Kevin Probst won it on Sunday with Jack right there in second spot, Sportsman Stock was won by Randy Zimonick, Sportsman Super Buggy had Phil Gourlie take the win, Sportsman Women's Limited and Unlimited were won by Molly Morter and Kim Wallace and Rhonda Konitzer took the Heavy Metal. Sportsman 66 went to Bill Groboski, Mike Seefeldt won Sportsman Double Buggy and Mike Hintz took the gold in the Sportsman Double Light Buggy. On Sunday Mike Seefeldt .took Single Buggy, Sam Konitzer won Sportsman 2, Mike Hintz won Light Buggy, Chuck Johnson won the Bug Class, Jeff St. Peter took the Buggy Class and Phil Doyle took the Featherlite Class. In the Pro 2 Points Chase, Ricky Johnson has a 16 point lead on Scotty Taylor, in Pro 4 Jack F'lannery has a 9 point lead over Jamey who is just 1 point ahead of Scott Douglas and in Pro Lite Johnny Greaves has 204 points, followed by Art Schmitt with 172. September 4 will have them all competing at Crandon, a most wonderful and mystic course as their season s!owly comes t_o an end. CHARITY POKER RUN - The August High Desert Charities Special Poker Run was held at the Slash X Cafe near Barsto"w and according to our spies it was a howling success, in spite of the 100 degree + temperatures that broiled all in attendance. However, in spite of the weather everyone had a great time, there were lots of entries and lots went to charity. Most of the entrants were of the motorcycle variety so the car types have to get their act together and get lots of 4 wheelers out there for the October session. The August rendition evidently owes a lot to Mr. Richard Flores whose donations of gifts and necessary equipment need special mention. I'm sure a nice mark of recognition will be coming to Mr. Flores in the very near future. Also, Don't forget rendition #2 which comes up on the 24th and 25th of October. Do yourself a favor and get out there. For info call 760-252-1197. EDDIE PARKER - We were saddened to hear of the death of Edwin "Eddie" Parker, he passed away August 19, 1998 of heart failure. Eddie was one of the owners of A-1 Towing and Garage in Barstow. He is survived by his wife Valerie and their five children, all under eight years of age (all off road fans} and by his sister, Vicki, brothers Greg and Sandy and his mother, Elsie. There was an.impromptu procession of over 200 vehicles through the streets of Barstow on Saturday night consisting of many of Eddie's friends, Barstow Police cars and a CHP helicopter overhead. Eddie left his mark on the community and will be sorely missed by all. Our condolences to his family. MOVING DAY - White Lightning Racing, Dale White has picked up stakes and moved to a new address. Dale is now located at 6975 Speedway Blvd., Suite DlOl, Las Vegas, NV 89115-1713. Phone 702-871-1661, Fax 702-87_1-6480. We wish you prosperity in your new location. BAJA 1000 DRAWING - Drawing for starting positions for the SCORE Baja 1000 will be really different this year. The actual drawing will take place on Friday, October 16 at the Speedway Cafe in Newport Beach. Simultaneously the drawing will be held in the following location via the internet: Slash X Cafe in Barstow, Chuy's in Simi Valley, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Temecula and Newhall, at Senor Manny's in Parker, at the El Camino Real in Tijuana and in Louisville,.KY at 800-2-07-7671. For more info call Summit at 888-6987289. BAJA 1000 - SCORE has announced that the Baja 1000 race will start in Santa Tomas, about 20 miles south of Ensenada and will finish in La Paz after a 1,000 mile run. Technical Inspection and Registration will take place in Ensenada. SCORE is expecting 250 entries to start the long run and they expect the fastest entries to finish the grueling course in 19 hours. FINAL FLAG -Anton Lafleur passed away on August 29, 1998. Some of us older folk reinember Anton as the VW Dealer in Barstow for many years way back in time and a few tech inspections were held at his facility. We seem to remember a buggy Lafleur built, called a "Twister", it flexed in the middle oi:i. a big Heim Joint. We believe his son Robert raced off road for a while as well as his daughter Ernestine. Our sincere condolences to the en tire fami1 y. SPORTSMANSHIP FORSALE: RacecoClass 1 A-Arm, Super clean from complete rebuild. Fresh 2.6 dry sump Type 4 and DG300 5-speed trans. Fox coilover with Kuster bypass. Front and rear Fox Air bumps, Summers Bros. front and rear. Outboard hubs, 930 c.v.s, Tommy Lee steering, Chenowth shifter. 20" front and rear travel. BFG's on Beadlock Centerlines. !-Dovetail Custom Built 2 axle trailer. All for $25000.00. Call John (760) 337-6108 or (760) 344-2056. FOR SALE: Class 1 Single Seat, Chaparral, all Chromoly, New DG-300 built by Fortin, Engine 2.4, type-4, dual carbs with air boxes, outboard cvj, with Wilwood billet calipers, new axles, coilover front, Saco, Flame-out, everything Hy-draulic is CNC, Fuel Safe custom cell 26. 7 gallons, 2 sets of body pan-e ls, bump stops, Mastercraft, Pumper, Ump steering & air cleaner, Best of Best over $28,000 invested, will part out or sell as Race Ready for $16,500. Rolling Frame-$9,000, Engine-$3,800, Trans-$5,500. Can deliver in the USA, this car is the Whiplash Class Champion 1997. John Raitter ( 602) 832-1875 pager (602) 251-9866, MORE Pictures http:// www.primenet.com/-jraitter. Shourt Course Truck -Factory Ford sponsored 4WD SODA, CORR, Glen Helen, Estero race truck, Available now! Truck wa originally built Curt LeDuc, prepped by Venable Racing,driven by Rob MacCachren. (1) Sway-A-W ay bypass shock and ( 1) Coilover per wheel, BFGoodrich/Alcoa headlocks, 2 full dry-sump race motors by Leon atton; beautifully built and maintained race truck, VDO gauges, $Best Offer $, ref # 665, Ba a Brokers (760) 723-2117. It may be for money, it may be your best effort to bea~ the other guy, but it is still a sport! It's a business to many of us but it still comes under· the heading oaf a sport. Sportsmanship shone at the SNORE NAPA 250 race in Ely last month (see story, page 8) when Dennis Wesseldine saw a class competitor high centered and Dennis stopped his own race to help his competition get going again, He did get him going but at tremendous cost as Dennis' car was hit by yet another competitor in the silt and very badly damaged, putting Dennis out of the race. Dennis' race was over, his son1s f"trst race was rather short and I know many racers would call it a stupid move on Dennis' part, but, you know what they say, "What goes around, comes around." Dennis, Dusty Times salutes your act of kindness and we wish you much success in your future racing activities. We selected Dennis' saga because he is an old friend and we are aware that assistance like this occurs at every race and we hope you all continue to treat your competitors in the true tradition of sportsmanship. Page 54 October 1998 . FOR SALE: F-150 2WD Short course Class 13 or Sportsman 2, Fresh powertrain, 466 cid v8 by-Holbrook, C-6 transmission and torque con-verter by ATD, dual Kusters at each wheel, corµplete and ready to race, some spares. Call Dennis (602) 759-9071 $22,500.00. FOR SALE: Class 1, 10 or SCORE lite 2 seat Chaparral, Hewland DG-300, Summers Bros., Fox, Foddrill arms & spindles, AutoMeter liquid filled gauges, Parker Pumper, Fire System, Beard Super seats, 2 rear spares, 4 fronts, $13,000.00oboCraigwk (602) 934-7242, Home 602 780-3638. FOR SALE: The most beautiful Class 10- imco A-Arm, uster bypass and coilover shocks, FAT Toyota 4AG, electromotive igni-tion, Dyno says 145hp, hooked to a Fortin DGN trans, /S pump off trans, 930 c.v.s w/Fortin cages, CNC billet calipers, Summers Bros. Outboard hubs, BFGs on Beadlock wheels. Everything on this car is powder coated, plated, polished, etc. Only the best parts were used, no expense spared. Cleanes Jimco! Ref #655 $45,000.00 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117, Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1985 F-150 chase truck/ pre-runner rough but extremely reli-able - goes anywhere! 4x4, 4 speed manual tranny, with 351 and A/C,, 9" rear w/Detroit Soft Lock - Beard, Fuel Safe, custom rear susp 2/track rods and 4 Bilsteins, Mallory, Flow Masters -Sony deck, charger, 2 amps, 10s etc. receiver hitch-dual rear bat-teries - 2 way FM radio - 3 5" BFG muds, 5 American Racing 15x7 type 23, tire rack holds 3 spares, no front bumper, NOT CAL emission legal, excellent chase vehicle. $5,000.00 no trades (805) 445-1122, ext4415 days (805) 577-8683 (Simi Valley). OWNER'S LOSS IS BUYER'S GAIN: Buy as a package or separate! (1) Raceco Single seater, FAT Rab-bit motor, Fat ouilt Bus box, 930, Summers Bros. Outboard hubs and brakes, 25 gallon Cell, + 12" Beam, (2) Bilstein Coilovers per wheel, New 3" uster bypass in the rear, SAW 300m $14,000.00 (1) Race car 5-1600, Get started for cheap, Wright rack, arms, spindles, SAW leafs, Bil-stein in Front/Fox in Rear, FAT bus box, 18 gallon cell $7,000.00. (1) 37" Wells Cargo Trailer, Includes Race Radio Base Station setup, Under floor storage, shelving, work bench, inside length is 32" and width is 8', $9,000.00! Make us a package price, all offers considered! Ba a Brokers (760) 723-2117. WHITE LIGHTNING SPECIAL: For sale: Dale White's Class 8 Chevy truck, Super bitchin', Bypass shocks, 710 hp motor by Shaver, MSD, BFGs on headlocks, "Factory" Chevy, Ul-tra clean and professionally built, Fresh rebuild! A solid finisher, Ref #634. Support packages available through T earn White Lightning! $79,000.00. ALSO available less mo-tor/trans for less??? Call Baja Brokers for package breakdown at (760) 723-2117. Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 2 seat Chenowth pre-Runner, dual port, 1600cc motor, Bus box, & c.v.s, Fox Shocks, Wright spindles & arms, Saco box, Sway-A-Way, Centerlines, Y okohamas, 16 gal fuel cell, Deist,Jamar, CNC, Beards, $4,000.00 Paul 818 367-4204. FOR SALE: ACECO Unlimited -2 seater, 4.5 Chevy Bowtie, aluminum V-6 400+ hp Auto trans -934 c. v .s -McKenzies floaters-CNC-FOX-Beard-Deist-Sway-A-Way, all the best, prepped ready to race with spare trans, Tires, dump cans etc., pack-· age deal, $47,500.00 or ? Contact Jeff (714) 441-1212. FOR SALE: Class 9 2 seat Chen-owth, SCORE legal, Chromolly chas-sis, Fresh engine. New trans, new Fox shocks, arms, bars & plates. With complete spares, low race miles $4,000.00 oho (760) 726-9871 eve.· FOR SALE: Baja Bug Pre Runner or Class 5, motor is 2100cc, Mike Thorton Bus Box W/930 c.v.s and Wilwood inboard Disc brakes, Micro Stubs, 22 gallon Fuel Cell, 6" wider beam +4" trailing arms, Combo spindles, Fox shox with coilover front, SAW spring plates and 300m torison bars, VDO gauges aluminum dash, this car is complete and very nice! Only asking $8,000 Ref #626 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117, check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Experienced Fabricator wanted in San Diego area. Call Mike (619) 562-1743. FOR SALE: 6. 7 5-1600/ re Runner St. legal, BLT engine, Bus 3-4 gears, 930s, Wright R & & Arms, Mag-num spindles, Cut Brake, Fuel Safe, Flame out, Sway-A-W ay, Yokos ,Centerlines, Mastercraft, Detch, Oil cooler, extended R-Arms, 3x3 arms, $6,500.00 oho (760) 253-2203. Dusty Times ~ --.... .-•-:-,,,, __ ., ·---,-... -.... .___, .... ,. .. -.,..,, __

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FOR SALE: Class 12 Frame with body panels, rear arms, 22 gallon Fuel Safe, Beard seat, oil cooler-power steering, Sway-A-Way axles, $3,000.00. Call Randy (805) 252-.. 1417. FOR SALE: 091 Bus Box CL 5-1 or pre run. Fresh race prep, chromoly cliff, 930 flanges. 4:57 R&P, FTC gears, any fourth gear ratio you want. $2,400.00 obo, Summers Bros. 300m 1 3/8" stub axles, 4340 spacers, 4340 center hubs, Jamar hats. No brakes, $500.00 36mm Dellorto carbs & link-age, dry sumped $500.00, 22 gal Fuel Safe, Wedge shape for buggie 16"xl6"x32", 2 years old good condi-tion, no filler valve or breather . $300.00 (949) 642-5158. FOR SALE: 94 1-1600 Dugan Built setup for Class 1 short courses Type 1 2275 & 002 Hewland, both have 100 race miles since built. All the good parts one corner to the other. Enough new and used spares to re-place every part on car, no junk. Complete rebuilt and ready to race. $7,500.00 or trade for Fortin 5 speed or Porsche 650. Dennis Dugan (209) 586-1967. CHEVY PRERUNNER- Very clean, and simple, 15+" wheel travel all around, Kuster shocks, National springs, 35" BFG Bajas w/2 spares on wheels, New 375 HP motor, TH-400 race tranny, 9" rear end, '96 fiberglass front clip and bedsides, Autometer LFGs, Beards, harnesses. This truck is also race legal w /fuel cell, harnesses, etc... Call for details. Mike $18,000.00 (760) 723-2117. FRESH 2 SEAT CHENOWTH. Just gone through, no motor and wir-ing but everything else is there! CNC Front Hubs and Brakes, Outboard rear hubs w/4 piston calipers, Hew-land DG300 transaxle, Coilover shocks front and rear, UMP p/s pump and control valve, Fuel Safe cell, drop spindles, nice arms, BFG tires, etc. Call us for more details. Baja Brokers $14,000.00. (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: JIMCO 1-1600 New Fod Combos, new 300m torsion, Wright, UMP, Fox, CNC, fresh mo-tor and trans. Heim shifter, Flame Out, fast car, no expense spared, all the best. $14,000.00. Call Sean (909) 343-3277 or (909) 789-6447. FOR SALE: Hewland DG300, Class 10 trans, new ring and pinion, input shaft, shift forks, 13t through 5th gears and dog rings. Gears for air cooled or water cooled motors.Trans disassembled to be seen, will be built after purchase. $6,500.00 obo Hew-land DG 300 Class 1 trans, just re-built, $6,000.00 obo. Call Kevin at (602) 402-6215 or (602) 334-0096. 2 SEAT PRERUNNER is a 2-1600 but widened 6" front and rear, 930 c.v., Fox shocks, Sway-A-Way ad-justable frt and rr, aluminum body, 4130 Raceco chassis, lights, Center-lines, Beard, 5 points, needs motor and trans. Call Rich (760) 723-2117 $5,400.00. Dusty Times FOR SALE: 1992 Chenowth 2 seat, pre-runner or serious play car. Baja T/A's, Wright, Hella's, New Beards and new Simpsons, fuel cell, 1835 Ken Major Type 1, Mendeola Bus, 4x6 rears, 1 1/4" fronts. Call for info, will mail color photos and parts list. $7,500.00oboMike (602) 947-8406. FOR SALE: HiJumper/Raceco Single Seat Class 9 Challenger. The best of everything too much to list. ALSO 1993 APPLE TRAILER 20' with tire rack, lockable storage box Hnd whwrl bearing grease zurks. Very low miles! New home forces sale. Over $16,000.00 in receipts for parts. Over $21,000.00 invested. Sacrifice everything for $4,900.00!!! (805) 3 7 4-9293 Ask for Gary. PARTS, PARTS, PARTS: 2 sets of 4" longer Foddrill Jumbo front arms $300.00 each. 1) Foddrill Jumbo beam with bushings $300.00. 1) Fod-drill Jumbo beam (not welded) $150.00. 1) Complete front end (beam, 4" longer arms, 4 Fox Shox brand new SAW torsion leafs, · spindles) $950.00. 1) Jeff Fields prerunner bus tranny (fresh) $500.00. 1) Class 5 prerunner (cage, 5x5 rear arms, torsion bars, spring plates) $500.00. Must sell. Call Jeff (760) 3 -6109 ni ht. FOR SALE: 1977 Scout4x4, full size Stock Class, Tough Truck, or pre-runner. 345 VB, Automatic, Dana 44 axles, full cage and dual shock mounts, Rancho shocks, National springs, 33" tires, Beard seats. New paint. Many spare parts. (909) 682-8445 hm, (909) 867-7685 wk. FOR SALE: Chenowth/Neth 1-1600, Championship race car, Best o,f the best, FAT race motor, leakdown and dynotested by FAT performance, Mike Thorton bus box, 930 c.v.s, Thing drums, FOX Shox, Charlynn steering, PIM, Master-craft, some spares included! Not some redneck car but a professional, well prepped race vehicle. You can't find a better deal at $8,500.00 Ref #625 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. Check out our new website at www.ba·aconce ts.com. FOR SALE: Raceco Class 10 or 12 rolling chassis, Fox shocks, Foddrill ft. end, light and fast $6,500.00. Rose 4 speed by Mendeola (new} $3,500.00. FAT Toyota 4AF Class 10Motorfresh$3,500.00 (209) 486-0280 or (209) 645-5716. FOR SALE: Class 9 single seat, Su-per Buggy, FAT motor, 1650 tc St. Peter trans, Super Seat, Parker Pumper, Fox Shocks, 3FG tires, UMP steering, Centerline wheels, CNC, Neal. Best of everything. Priced to sell $9,000.00 obo Doc Holiday,(920) 465-6855. Call after 4 m. FOR SALE: 1997 JIM CO Class One A-arm Car, TRD/FAT/FOX/JIMCO Factory backed, Primm 300 winner/ 3000ccAluminum V6FortinDGN, best components available. All spare wheels, tires, parts- Complete pack-age $60,000.00obo. Call Mike (619) 562-1743. FOR SALE: Very dependable and competitive 83 Toyota 4x4, Class 7, 7S or stock mini, 22R, National Springs, Fox shocks, Autometer, Mikuni carbs, Schroth belts, Op-tima battery, 97 VORRA 2nd place desert and overall champion, many spare parts and tires, $9,000.00 obo. Doug (702) 358-5195. FOR SALE: Chevy Class 8 or Ex-tremely serious pre-runner truck. Have just completed a frame-up res-toration and truck is essentially new. 550+ hp motor, B&M THM400 trans., BFG's, Autometer, Master-craft, Simpson, Fuel Safe 40 gal Cell, Race Shock, KC's , spares and items too numerous to mention, $48,500.00 obo. Call for Fax info sheet and photos (505) 326-0194 or (520) 639-0408 msg. READY TO RACE Professionally built engine and transmission New in crate, never ran. Best of everything. Ready to bolt in and race. Phone Bob today as these units are ready for ship-ment. ENGINE-428 ci. Chevy small block by RICHARD PARABOK. 18degree heads, drysump Rocket motor. Best of everything Carrllo/JE Manley/stock car Products/T&D Shaft Rockers/Stet' s/Lsky/CV /Comp Cams/Fluidamper/Clevite/Del West/ Edlebrock/Cloyes/. Just too much to list. Ready to go. TRANSMISSION-Professionally built by TRANS PROS Turbo 400. Straight cut planetary gears. Blue Race Clutches/Billet 300m input Shaft/Billet Clutch hub/ manual shift valve body/heavy futy bearing extension housing. Has best of everything. Ready to go. Ready to ship. $20,000.00, over $27k invested. Call BOB DELOZIER 1 800-249-9829. FORSALE: l-2-1600TubularCon-cept by Dan Mathews, power steer-ing, trans by Trans West, motor by Ken Seale, BFG Centerline, two motors, 2 trans, 2 set of tires & wheels, 2 much to list. Car only $8,000.00 everything $10,000.00 Marshall (310) 839-6581. October 1998 FOR SALE: Class 5 1600 SCORE legal race car, fresh paint built by Danny Porter, motor by Indio Dune Buggy, Bus trans, JG T ranswerks, Fox Shocks, Suspensions Unlimited, Chromoly front end, Fuel Cell, Many more extras, serious inquires only. $5,800.00 Fast cash sale! (626) 792-1582. FOR SALE: 1998 Nissan Frontier C.O.R.R.-Pro Lite class, Championo3hip truck, best of every-thing, Serious inquiries only, Com-plete/ will brealk up. Call (412) 687-5093. FOR SALE: 1996 CORR legal Chevy S 10, built by Curt LeDuc. Iron Duke motor. 35 Spline Ford Rear End. Kuster Shocks. Mastercraft seat. Extra tires and wheels. 2 extra mo-tors. Willsellfor$25,000.00obo. Call 1-888-266-7677. FOR SALE: PreRunner bumpers custom made. Starting at $125.00 & up. Bed supports starting at $50.00. Email:racer@fly-nfords.com, 1 pair of 10" Bilstein Race series (chal-lenger) w/Heims for $180.00 only used for 4 months (530) 893-5504. 1990BUNDERSON 1-1600project has: beam, rear trailing arms, fuel cell, Mastercraft, limit straps, SCORE light, pedal assemblies, Fox Shocks all the way around, CharLynn p/s unit, UMP power steering pump, steering shaft, body, belly pan, etc ... This is a great opportunity to start racing in a very competitive class for a small investment. Needs driv-etrain, front suspension and misc. Ref #637 $1,650.00 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Mirage 1-1600, MDR Class & Overall champ. Folts trans, prep by Miragef Call for info. $18,500.00. Roger (818) 841-3906 wk#. FOR SALE: Class 1/1600 Raceco, Major Race motor, Mendeola trans, Wright front end, Fox shock, Char-lyn P/S, Fuel Safe, Sway-A-Way, $7,000.00 obo (760) 34~4-0855. CLASS 8 -Newest truck built, Awe-some 500 cid VB by Walker Evans Racing hooked to a special Torqueflite 727 tranny w/custom torque converter. 55 gallon Fuel Cell, A-Arm Front Suspension, King Coilover/Bypass, CNC Calipers, Quarter Elliptic Rear, Chrisman, Eagle GPS. This truck is beautiful! It is like new with only 6 races on it, ever! The best of everything was used and it is well maintained. T on:s of spares Ref #651 $85,000.00 (760) 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. WANTED PARTS WANTED, Fiberglass Ranger bedsides and VW sedan 1 pc front end. ALSO looking for tube bender and dies. I will pickup these items in California or Nevada or meet you at the races. Help me out but be reasonable Please! Danny (435) 628-6320. WANTED: Late model fresh, Competitiva, first Clase quality SCORE race ready 2-1600 vehicle. Ideal would be a complete rase pack-age with spares and vehicle hauler from principal needing to step out of racing or current Ciase. Contact Tim at (310) 546-2122 or TMOORE@CISCNET.ORG. INDEX To Advertisers Baker Performanc·e Products .......... 39 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ............................. 44 Best In The Desert ............................ 11 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................ 5 Cactus Racing ...................................... 39 Cam burg Engineering ........................ 34 Critical Operations ............................ 40 Donahoe Racing Enterprises ............ 43 Estero Beach Short Course .............. 17 Fabtech M otorsports ........................ 19 Fast Wheels ....................................... 42 FAT Performance .............................. 16 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 2 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 40 German Auto ...................................... 10 Glen Helen Short Course Series ..... 35 Granada -Dakar ................................. 15 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 37 King Shock Tech ................................ 36 McKenzie Performance Products .... 18 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 25 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 32 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ......... 7 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 22 Premier Racing Products ................. 36 Quartermaster Professional Racing Clutches ............ Back Cover Race Ready Products .: ...................... 29 SCORE Baja 1000 .............................. 31 SNORE 250 ............................................ 9 SNORE Reserve 250 .......................... 45 Sway-A-Way Corp ............ , .................... 4 Summit Off Road Racing Association ··········;••Y•"····· 13 Terrycable Racing Products ............ 14 Transaxle Engineering ...................... 26 2 Wild Events ..................................... 33 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 41 Valley Performance ..................... ::. .. ·• 46 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 28 Page 55 -

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