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Volume 15 - Number 4 April 1998 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors Jim Baker C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Carol Clark · Jim Culp · · Daryl "No Brakes" Drake John Elkin . Homer Eubanks Michelle Halverson Martin Holmes Ralph Mason Daniel Mainzer Jimmy Mes.sick · Ron Miller Troy Robinson Bob Rule Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Judy Smith T rackside Photo Inc. Art Director Larry Worsham ~ -~ Subscription Rates: $20.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY 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. . DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions br errors. All ads may be subject to editing. 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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 Page SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge by Judy Smith................................................ 8 Swedish Rally by Martin Holmes ...... : ....................................................................... 18 SODA Awards Banquet by Barb & Marilyn Schultz ........................... : .................. 20 M .. O.R.E. Barstow by Jimmy Messick ...................................................................... 22 SNORE Bottom Dollar by John Calvin ................................................................... 24 FRT King Of The Desert by Judy Smith .................................................................. 30 66th Monte Carlo Rally by Martin Holmes ............................................................. 34 PACE Off Road Championship by Homer Eubanks ............................................... 36 t--EPARTMENTS Happenings ................... .' ......................................................................................... 5 Roger Clark Tribute ................................................................................................. 22 Off Road Scramble by PC ........................................................................................ 22 Checkers by the Big Wahzoo .................. : .................................................................. 3 7 F.A.LR.· New.s by Joy Bancroft ................................................................................. 38 • Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ........... : ........ : ....................................... ~ ................ 38 CORE Notes by Sandy Parker .................................................................... : ............. 39 MAG-7 by Stephen Stenberg ............................... : ..................................................... 39 Good Stuff Directory .......................................... : .........................................•........... 40 Classified Ads ............................................................................................................ 45 Trail Notes ........ ; ....................................................................................................... 47 . Index To Advertisers ............................. '. .................. : ............................................... 4 7 . On The Cover Larry Roeseler was literally unbeatable at the Laughlin Desert Challenge, winning both days by over nine and twelve minutes for a resounding victory in the neat looking Chevy. Jason Hatz was able to put two second place finishes together at Laughlin in his Dunrite and that all added up to a first overall in Class 1/2-1600 for the weekend. Color photography by Trackside Photo c:Subscrihe :Joday lo --...... ~DUSTY-TIMES·~--THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD.MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year . -$20.00 □ 2 years -$30.00 □ · 3 years -$40.00 (no credit cards please) Take advantage of your subscription bonus ... Free one time classified ad up to 45 words. 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1998 Happenings ... Harrison Count') Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid Ranch House, Valencia 1-800-42 CORVA ext 503 October 9-11, 1998 Southern Calif. Jamboree Hungry Valley SVRA 1-800-42 CORVA ext 509 ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Caho Baja California de! Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIUP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia 01 l-18-07-3298-5522 March 21, 1998 Brisbane, QLD April 26, 1998 Port Pirie, SA June 6-7, 1998 Finke/Alice Springs, NT June 7, 1998 Sea Lake, VIC July 19, 1998 Kempsey, NSW September 20, 1998 Mt. Gambier, SA November 1, 1998 Goondiwindi, QLD AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFFROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1 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 (7Q2) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 · Apr1l 17-19, 1998 · Tonopah300 June 26-28, 1998 Silver State 300 October 1-4, 1998 Vegas to Reno December 4-6, 1998 T erribles Town Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTHUSIASTS Jim Baker P.O. Box 1583 Ogden, Utah 84402 (801) 627 B.O.R.E. May 2, 1998 Wendover Express Wendover, USA July 11, 1998 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV September 19 1998 Boneville Chailenge 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 . April 4, 1998 Ensenada 2000 Rally Ensenada,BC,MX May 8, 1998 Rim Of The World Rally Palmdale, CA July 25, 1998 24 Hour Rally Mexico City, MX August 81 1998 Gorman Ridge Rally Gorman, CA October 3, 1998 Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, AZ November 14, 1998 T reeline Rally Monrovia, CA CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (213) 560-SHOW Dusty Times May 21-25, 1998 Memorial Day Charity Car 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 l.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Slwrt Coune off Road. Racing At San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637n 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 · Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, ·President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.OBox8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cacbiuilllas Off Road Promotions P.OBox392 Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing May 23-24, 1998 Beaver Dam, WI June 6-7, 1998 Antigo, WI June 20-21, 1998 Crandon, WI July 18-19, 1998 . Joliet, IL Augwt 7-8, 1998 Bark River, MI Augwt 22-23, 1998 Luxemburg, WI September 4-6, 1998 Crandon, WI September 26-27, 1998 Indianapolis, IN CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 March 28, 1998 Annual Meeting 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 (All e,,ents at HanniRan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 c:ir llllinner's' Circle John Herder Is Perfect At Laughlin Season Opener John Herder from Tucson, AZ, the only driver to lead both days of racing, captured Class 1 honors at the season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. Driving his JIMCO VW unlimited desert car running on Bilstein · gas pressure shock absorbers, Herder moved to the front in both weekend races and his combined points total brought him the victory. Herder, the 1997 SCORE Rookie of the Year, runs exclusively on Bilstein shocks. Other Class Winners On Bi/stein At Laughlin ... • ProTruck Class • Class 10 Rick Johnson - Ford F-150 John Phillips - JIMCO • Class 7 •Class 11 . Larry Roeseler - Chevy S-1 o Eric Solorzano -vw Sedan • Stock Full Class - Dave Sykes - Ford . F-150 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 Retico .Road • San Diego, CA 92121 • Phone: 619/453-7723 • FAX: 619/453-0770 April 1998 Pages

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(520) 855-6125 P.O. Box 2910 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series P.O. Box 277 (All races held at Notrees, TX EASTERN OFF-ROAD Mission Viejo, CA 92690 Produced by Uncoln Trail Off Roaders) Morrisonville, NY 12962 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) RACING ASSOCIATION (714) 364-0515 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 Tom Delauder, Sr. MOJAVE DESERT RACING TOYS FOR TOTS 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER P.O. Box 1863 SCORE (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 Ohio 43968 4WDCLUB Glendora, CA 91741 SCORE International UORRA (330) 532-4589 P.O. Box465 (626) 914-7029 Phone 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Karnloops, BC, Canada VZGSLZ (626) 914-9169 Fax Only Calabasas, CA 91302 United Off Road Racing ELLIS DESERT RACING Bob (604) 374-7175 days April 17-18, 1998 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 A!osociation CHAMPIONSillPS Randy (604) 579-9621 eves. Ridgecrest 300 March 20-21 1998 Dave Urbanowicz, President (760) 256-8059 Keidl (604) 828-1795 anytime Ridgecrest, CA 12th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 589 Amwell Road April 17, 1998 March 18, 1998 June 19-20, 1998 San Felipe, B.C., Mexico Neshanic, NJ 08853 Stoddard Valley, CA Short Course Race Lucerne 400 June 5-7, 1998 (908) 369-6550 August 7, 1998 Hannigan Speedway Lucerne, CA 29th Tecate SCORE Baja 500 (AU events at Owego Motor Sports Park, Johnson Valley Bellingham, WA August 14-15, 1998 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico Rte. 434, Owegp, NY) December 5, 1998 May 2, 1998 Spangler 200 July 17-18, 1998 VORRA Stoddard Valier Short Course Race Ridgecrest, CA 27th SCORE Fireworks 250 Valley Off Road Racing Association ESTERO BEACH SHORT Bellingham, WA October 30-31, 1998 Barstow, CA 1833 Los Robles Blvd. May 23, 1998 Barstow 200 September 11-13, 1998 Sacramento, CA 95838 COURSE RACING Short Course RaceBellingham, WA Barstow CA 3rd SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Victoria Galindo May 30, 1998 Primm,NV (916) 925-1702 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico Short Coure Race M.OR.E. November 11-14, 1998 March 28-29, 1998 011-526-176-6225 Thurston County A TV Area Mojave Off Road Racing 31st Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Season Opener April 24-26, 1998 Olympia, WA Enthusiasts Baja Norte to La Paz, B.C., Mexico Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA Baja International Short Course Race June 7, 1998 25277 W. Main St., Suite 283 April 25-26, 1998 011-526-176-6225 Bronco Buster short Course/f ough Barstow, CA 92311 SNORE Spring Special October 2-4, 1998 (760) 253-4453 Southern Nevada Off Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA Truck May 23-25, 1998 Baja 1.5 Short Course Race Goose Lake A TV Area March 13-14, 1998 Road Enthusiasts 011-526-176-6225 Karnloops, BC, Canada Lucerne Valley, CA P.O. Box 4394 Yerington 300 Desert Race May 1-2, 1998 Las Vegas, NV 89106 Yerington, NV FORDA June 13, 1998 Ridgecrest, CA (702) 452-4522 June 20-21, 1998 Short Course Race Horida Off Roaders Thurston county A TV Area June 19-20, 1998 April 17-19, 1998 Top Gun 300 Desert Race Drivers' Associaton Location TBA Buffalo Bill's 400 Fallon,NV 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Olympia, WA July 31-August 1, 1998 Primm, NV(Stateline) July 25-26, 1998 Melbourne, FL 32935 June 27, 1998 Barstow, CA May 29-31, 1998 Top Gun Twilight Race Short Course Race ( 407) 254-5167 Hannigan Speedway September 25-26, 1998 KC HiLites Midnight Special Fallon, NV FUDPUCKER Bellingham, WA Location TBA Las Vegas, NV September 5-7, 1998 November 20-21, 1998 August 14-15, 1998 Yerington to Fallon & Back RACINGTEAM July 11, 1998 Yerington, NV 250 Kennedy, #2 Short Course Race Lucerne Valle:i:, CA NAPA Auto Parts October 10-11, 1998 Chula Vista, CA 92011 Thurston County A TV Area MSBA Ely,NV Fall Short Course Race (619) 427-5759 Olympia Washington Michigan Sport Buggy Association September 25-2 7, 1998 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA 29th Annual SNORE 250 March 28-29, 1998 . July 12, 1998 Dave Barret Las Vegas, NV October JI-November 1, 1998 Buzz Bomb Bronco Buster Goose Lake Enduro 6363 Nightingale Dr. October 30-31, 1998 1998 Championship Salton City, CA Goose Lake A TV Area Flint, .Ml 48506 Terrible's Town 250 Prairie Ci~ SVRA, Sacramento, CA May 23, 1998 Karnloops, BC, Canada (810) 73.0-9221 Pahrump, NV WESTERN OFF ROAD Fud 200 July 18, 1998 Plaster City West, CA Short Course Race NATIONAL MUD RACING SONS OF THUNDER RACING ASSOCIATION July 25, 1998 Hannigan Speedway ASSOCIATION 4WHEELERS Larry Henderson Conquista Gran Carrera Bellin11ham, WA Rt. #1 -Box 380 Race Division ·(604) 538-0692 Tecate, Baja, MX L.I.T.R.E. Dave or Marlene Ryan Keith Stewart WORRA P.O.Box 3241 October 31, 1998 Palatka, FL 32177 (714) 522-1899 Sumas WA 98295 Superstition 250 Jeff Elrod (904) 325-5422 Lake :rstition, CA (408) 926-0522 S.C.T.A. WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Dece r 31, 1998 Jim Aruta NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK Southern California Timing WHEEL TO WHEEL Dunaway Dash (408) 247-4402 ASSOCIATION Association OFF ROAD RACING Plaster City West, CA Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions Office Manager: Mary Carson Patrick McGuire MICillGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 1404 East 3rd Street 2285 Tracy Avenus P.O. Box376 GLEN HELEN RACEWAY 3749 Needmore Hwy Hastings, MN 55033-1415 Simi Valley, CA 93063 Adamsburg, PA P.O. Box 6950 Charlotte, Ml 48813 (612) 437-2459 (805) 526-a805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 . (412) 527-6556 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (517) 543-7214 fnternet: http://scta-bni.or11 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS Gkn Hekn Short Course Championship Series MICmGAN OFF ROAD OF EL PASO SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD 2939 E. Grovers April 5, 1998 CHAMPIONSillPS Joey Vas;rez CHALLENGE Phoenix, AZ 85023 Round 22 M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 13180 Roun Dance Steve Rule (602) 971-3730 June 14, 1998 15529 Jones Road El Paso, TX 79936 (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 March 14, 1998 Grand LedCz' Ml 4883 7 (915) 855-8899 Mike Moore -(224) 272-5400 Gila Monster , Round3 (517) 27-6200 AU races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Gila Bend, AZ July 12, 1998 Take 1-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE May 23, 1998 Round 4 MICHELIN PRO RALLY OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Rock to Rock August 16, 1998 CHAMPIONSillP omo OFF ROADERS INC. 4305 Wootlark Drive Rocky Point, MX Round 5 Sports Car Club of America 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. Tampa FL 33624 September 5, 1998 September 13, 1998 P.O. Box 3278 New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 (813) 962-2857 Snowflake Round 6 Englewood, CO 80112 Jim Kendel (AU Races at Snowflake, AZ October 25, 1998 (303) 779-6622 (216) 339-4674 Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) October 10, 1998 Round 7 March 14-15, 1998 AU races held at Harrison Vulture Mine November 22, 1998 Doo Wop III &IV+ Cou~ Faiwounds. Cadiz, Ohio SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD.-Wickenburg, AZ Round 8 Olympia, WA P.O. Box 706 November 7, 1998 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions Ray Darnitio (360) 249-6173 ONTARIO OFF ROAD Parklands, 2121 Point to Point P.O. Box 762 . April 18-19, 1998 RACERS ASSOCIATION South Africa Rocky Point, MX Norco, CA 91760-0762 Little Creek Casino Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (011)788-5138 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 Wild West Pro Rally (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) Fax (011 ) 880-2170 WISCONSIN GORRA Olympis, WA PACE MOTOR SPORTS SODA OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Bob Grass (206)872-9696 Terry or Bev Friday Georgia Off Road May 8-9, 1998 U.S. Off Road Championship Short Course Off Road 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Racing Association Rim of the World 630-963-4810 Drivers Association Oshkosh, WI 54901 420 Hosea Road Palmdale, CA 900-PRO RACE Terry Wolfe (414) 688-5509 Lawrenceville, GA 30245 Paula Gibeault (760) 375-8704 March 14, 1998 7839 W. North Avenue (404) 963-0252 June 5-6, 1998 Pontiac MI Wauwatosa, WI 53213 FIA WORLD RALLY GPORRA Susquehannock Trail PIKES PEAK (414) 453-SODA Great Plane~ Off Road Racing Wellsboro, PA P.O. Box 6962 May 23-24, 1998 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. Association _ John McArthur (716) 447-7742 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 Lake Geneva Memorial Day 100 1665 Delaware St. 13621 Pierce St. July 31-August 2, 1998 (719) 685-4400 Lake Geneva, WI Oshkosh, Wl 54901 Maine Forest Rally 414-248-8566 Omaha, NE 68144-1122 Rumford,ME PROTRUCK RACING July 11-12, 1998 (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters John Buffum (802) 655-5768 ORGANIZATION Lake Geneva Off Road Nationals Attention 6716 N. 106th St. August 28-29, 1998 (619) 449-6252 Lake Geneva, WI Omaha, NE 68122 Ojibwe Forests Pro Rally March 28, 1998 414-248-8566 Race&Ra/ly (402) 4964846 Eve. Mernidji, MN Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum August 15-16, 1998 (AU races are short course, stadium style. Beryl Ann Burton (612) 529-6821 Los Angeles, CA Mississippi Valley Off Road Challenge Classes: Troph:,, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and October 2-3, 1998 April 11, 1998 . Davenport, Iowa Organizers Quads) Prescott Forest Rally New Mexico State Univ. Stadium 815-778-3641 Prescott, AZ Albuquerque, NM August 29-30, 1998 List your coming events in DUSTY IOK FOUR WHEELERS Jeff Hendricks (520) 445-3218 May 9, 1998 United Off Road Racing Challenge TIMES free! It is the only way some P.O. Box36 October 23-24, 1998 B.C. Place Morrison, II Cleves, Ohio 45002 D&N Bank Lake Superior Pro Rally Vancouver, Canada 815-778-3641 fans know about your event, if they (AU e,,ents staged at the club grounds Houghton, MI May 16, 1998 September 19-20,1998 don't happen to be on your club in Cleves. Ohio) Kevin DeLou11he!l'. (906) 226-884 7 Tacoma Dome Wisconsin Off Road Festival Finals mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your INTERNATIONAL MID-AMERICA Seattle, WA Oshkosh, WI 1998 schedule as soon as possible for May 17, 1998 920-924-6805 ICE RACING ASSOCIATION OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION Mile High Stadium listing in this column; it could bring P.O. Box 8105 MAORA Denver, CO SWORDS you some extra entries! 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SCORE'S LAUGHLIN DESERT CHALLENGE It's a Lang, Tough weekend By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. John Herder was the big Class 1 winner at the Laughlin Desert Challenge, second on Saturday and first on Sunday for the overall in Class in his Jimco. SCORE's Laughlin Desert Chal-lenge, which got the '98 season up and running right at the end of January, was a mighty busy week-end for the off-roaders attending. Things took off on Thursday night with a Pit Crew Challenge that attracted 35 entries, all eager to prove their worth and take a chance at winning the first place purse of $3,500. Just in case they weren't up to snuff, the contest paid back ten places in the buggy class and another ten for the truck pit crews. And once the pit crews were finished changing tires and flinging air hoses around, the Laughlin Leap contest commenced. This was for trucks only, and while some of the buggies felt they could do better, or at least as well, the trucks did a good job of entertaining the spectators. One, at least, may have done too good a job. The format was· very like last September's schedule, except that because the days were shorter, the time allowance had to be shorter. Instead of giving everyone a gener-ous hour-and-a-half, this time they got only an hour and 25 minutes. Just that difference in time allow-ance would let all the events finish before the day turned to night. And David Gallaway flies his Dunrite to first overall in the SCORE Lite class, a pair of second place finishes getting the gold. · the required number of laps was more realistic in this year's version, as some did only three or four, while the faster cars did five, and Class 1 ran six laps. The Trophy Trucks were supposed to run six laps also, but they couldn't quite make it. The physical setup was almost identical to the previous one, ex-cept that an area previously left unused over the VIP tent, was put to good use. The contingency do-nors who elected to could stay there all weekend, with goods on display and/or for sale, and spectators could wander freely into the area, which had a nearly unobstructed view of the infielµ part of the course if they stood over by the fence bordering the area. No one had to miss any of the fun, but it did make for a long weekend for those contingency people who worked three days in-stead of the usual one. The infield was made up of a ser-pentine trail, wide enough for pass-ing, with about eight turns, the big flying jump used for the Laughlin Leap, another jump or two and a hole. There was plenty of action during most of the events to keep the spectators interested. Once again a combination event, with Classes 5/1600, 9, 3, 11 and the Sportsman Buggies started the weekend of racing. That put 22 vehicles out onto the course just as Jason Hatz drove his Dunrite to a pair of second places in Class 1/2-1600, that gave him the overall win, besting the other 24 drivers each day. John Phillips took his Jimco to a second place on Saturday, a first on Sunday and the overall Class 10 win at Laughlin. the sun began to poke up over the mountains to the east of Laughlin. The 5/1600s started first and they stayed in front, with Victor Orellana going into the lead on the first lap. But Bill Driggs broke a c.v. on the first lap and on the second lap Dean Watkins rolled his car over three times, reducing the body to a mass of crumpled sheetmetal, and ending his race. Orellana was not having any problems and stayed in front, al-though he had some pressure from behind as Carlos Iribe, with his 15 yearold daughter, Carla, getting her first ride in a race car, picking up the pace each lap. He was doing a remarkable job, since his seat was collapsing and it must have been harder and harder to reach the ped-als and the shifter as it gradually became a recliner seat. David Gaspar also had his neat car mov-ing along smartly, only a few sec-onds later. But at the end Orellana got the win by a margin of just 58 seconds over Iribe, with Gaspar in third place about three and a half minutes further back after dealing with a broken coil wire. To even things out, on Sunday the Saturday starting order was re-versed, except that anyone who'd requested a rear start was left at the rear, and the rear-starters were re-versed amongst themselves. This put Orellana·•s co-ariver, Juan Delgadillo at the front of the pack, and Gaspar, who thought he was at the end of the front starters on Saturday, but had somehow been considered a rear-starter by SCORE, found himself at the back of the pack. Maybe the extra short of adrenalin was a plus. At any rate he poured on the speed and took the lead on the first lap. Watkins, who'd beaten his battered car into a shape vaguely resembling a VW, rolled it again. This time his mas-ter cylinder ran out of fluid at the same time the throttle stuck full on. He got back on his wlieels and con-tinued to run, passenger door flap-ping, and the rear sporting a decid-edly "fastback" look. Gaspar ran trouble free this time and took the Sunday win, with Iribe again in second place, and Delgadillo in third. SCORE's scor-ing system for this weekend was based on points. Just as in the desert races, so many points were given for each finishing position, and the team with the most points (com-bining Saturday and Sunday) would be the winner. Orellana and Delgadillo had a two-day total that beat Iribe's and gave them the win. Dave Ashley plows through the silt in his Ford, finishing third on Saturday and first on Sunday for the overall win in Trophy Trucks. Larry Roese/er gets up in the air on his way to the overall win in Class 7, winning both days in the super clean Chevy. In Class 9, Kevin Graves went into the lead right away in his Jimco, with Martin Christensen in another Jimco and Brian Jeffrey, in a Raceco, pushing him hard. Graves had got his jetting wrong, and, run-ning too rich, couldn't use third gear much, so he stayed in second. Jeffrey had a flat on the second lap, but Christensen moved right along. Elisandro Yee also had his Tubular Design car near the front of the pack, even though his rear suspen-sion wasn't quite right. Graves went on to take the Saturday win, with Christensen second, exactly one minute behind him. Continued on page 10 Pages April 1998 Dusty Times

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Rick Johnson was the Protruck winner, finishing second on Saturday and taking the gold on Sunday for the overall class win in his Ford. On Saturday, when he'd started in front, Graves hadn't ever seen another Class 9 car. But on Sun-day, when he started near the rear of the pack, he saw almost all of them. By the end of the third lap he was the first Class 9 car on the road, and he was firmly in the lead. Christensen was again running sec-ond, andJimJeffrey, who took over the driving seat from his brother, was third in spite of an infield roll-over. Graves got the win once again, but this time Tech Team had the last word. They weighed the cars, found his to be underweight, to Graves' horror, and dq'd him. That gave the weekend win to Chris-tensen because he now had Saturday's second and Sunday's win, which added up to the victory. Elisandro Yee, and his brother Lob-sam, who drove Sunday, were sec-ond, followed by the Jeffreys. In Class 11, the lone entry of Terry Kiely and Eric Solorzano got only one lap done on Saturday and blew their motor. They spent the balance of Saturday, long into the night, working to rebuild it. They had a lot of help from the Bullhead City NAPA store and also the BFG folks in the contingency area, and got it done in time to get a little sleep. On Sunday Kiely drove it, completed two laps, and was out of time for a third, which was what was required. They went onto the books with finisher points. In Class 3 the Kia Sportage of Darren Skilton and the old, winged Bronco of Kirk Kovel were familiar combatants. Skilton had a clean race and stayed in front, complet-ing his required four laps in an hour and 16 minutes. Kovel did a fourth lap also, but ran about five minutes overtime, so it didn't count. On Sunday it looked like a re-peat, but then just after Skilton went out on his fourth lap he turned around and went back into his pit. He never came out again. Kovel got only three laps in also. But Skilton did his three laps a mite quicker than Kovel and got the Sunday win, to take the weekend victory. On Saturday there were three Sportsman "Buggies", actually all Class 11 sedans, which were re-quired to complete just three laps. Wayne Guidinger and Kent Fagemes were the only team to complete all three laps on Saturday, but they couldn't even get one done on Sunday. That time it was Mark McKinley and Mark T erriguez, who Dave Westhem is just ahead of the silt as he cruises to the Class B overall win, taking first place on Saturday and Sunday in the beautiful Chevy. Martin Christensen flies his Jimco towards the overall Class 9 win at Laughlin, taking first in class both days. Page 10 Bruce Landfield took his Ford to the overall class 7S win, taking first on Saturday and second on Sunday. completed all three laps. But Guidinger and Fagemes had the quicker time, to take the win. The 1-2/1600 cars came next, and with 25 entries, had earned the . right to have the track to them-selves. Vic Bruckmann had his Chenowth working well and he went into the early lead, with Jeff Carr, in aMirage, a close second, and Jason Hatz, in a Dunrite, run-ning third. But by the end of the second la p Hatz had moved into 1 second place, and Carr was third. Hatz was just 25 seconds behind Bruckmann. None of them were having any mechanical woes, but Hatz was finding the course dusty. Buster Harling however, was hav-ing a rough day, and finally, after having rolled his car over on lap 1, lap 2 and lap 3, he decided he'd better quit while he was still in one piece. Bekki Freeman debuted her new Jimco, and christened it with a rollover while trying to pass, but did it no apparent damage. John Prossds Mirage got down to three cylinders, and he pulled out. Rodney Woolf, in an ORBS, was up to third for a while, but he lost his motor on the last lap. The in-field action in this class was terrific. With so many cars on the course there was no time go get bored. Bruckmann had a great run, and took the win, but he had only 28 seconds on Hatz who came in sec-ond. On Sunday, with the reversed starting order, Woolf's co-driver, Scott Webster was first on the road with a rebuilt motor, and he was obviously going to make it hard for anyone to catch him. Hatz was run-ning second, fighting a close battle, sometimes wheel to wheel, with Carr. Bruckmann was having some problem, and was about a minute a lap off Saturday's pace. There was a lot of attrition, but the front run-ners kept things together very nicely. Webster's car stayed healthy this time, and he took the win, with Hatz just 59 seconds behind him in second place, and Carr once again in third, only seven seconds later. When the final scores were figured, Hatz got the win on the strength of his two second places, while Carr's two third places gave him second place for the weekend. The program was a quick mov-ing one, and the announcers would still be congratulating the top fin-ishers in the previous class when the next group took to the track. It hardly gave the spectators time to get a hot dog. The Class 1 cars were next on the agenda, and with 25 entries, this group also ran by itself. There ' was a heady mix of chassis types and motor types in this class, with sev-eral Truggies, some A-armed giants with non-traditional motors, and then a bevy of air-cooled types also. They were required to complete six laps in the allotted 85 minutes. John Herder put his Type IV powered Jimco into the lead on the first lap, but he had Doug Fortin in his V 4 powered Chenowth hard on his heels in second place. On the second lap Fortin closed the gap some, but he was still second. Nick Baldwin was running third in his Chevy powered Aceco. But then he · had a long lap, and didn't come around any more. Herder led through the third lap, and on the fourth lap he hit a rock and flattened a front tire, losing about two minutes. He -dropped back to second, and Fortin took over the lead. Hustling to try to make up time, Herder hit that blasted rock again and on the fifth lap, and flattened another tire. He didn't lose quite as much time that lap, but he didn't move up on For-tin either. Fortin had lost his radio, and didn't know where he was in the standings, but had backed out of the throttle a bit, thinking he needed to save the car for Sunday. Apparently his instincts were good, because he didn't back out too much, and went on to take the win, as Herder finished second 16 sec-=,.,...,,,.,..,,..,.....=,,,....,......,,....,,,.~...,,,,.~-,--,..,.--~-,,, Mike Dondel runs · his Bug towards the overall win in Class 5, finishing first on Saturday and second on Sunday. April 1998 onds later. Dale Ebberts, who'd started second from last in the lineup, had quietly moved up through traffic in his Type IV pow-ered car, and finished third, 23 sec-onds behind Herder. Mike Julson was fourth with a badly bent tie rod on his Jimco. Mark Post had his Chevy powered Riviera in fifth, just a minute and 36 seconds behind the winning time. Only those five cars out of the 25 car field managed to finish all six laps in 85 minutes. Troy Herbst, in the very fast Smithbuilt Ford powered Truggy, finished the race with no steering at all. On Sunday, although the start-ing order flip-flopped, Ebberts was still at the back of the pack, because he had been a rear-starter. Only 22 cars made it back on Sunday, but the survivors were still as hotly com-petitive Even a bit extra competi-tive, with the sort of "go for broke" attitude that comes from knowing that it's now or never. Maybe For-tin wasn't the only one who'd been saving his car for Sunday, but it was obvious no one was saving anything this time. Herbst started his day by record-ing the fast lap time of the week-end, at 13:01. Mike Julson was sec-ond and Fortin ran third only sec-onds back. Herbst's time dropped a bit on lap two as his motor lost a cylinder, but he stayed in front any-way. Julson lost even mcire time and fell back, while Ebberts moved into second place. Herder was now sec-ond and finding the course very dusty from his inverted start posi- · tion. Herbst continued to lead, but it was a close race. Ebberts went out on .the third lap when his crank broke, and Herder stepped into sec-ond place, with Fortin third. For-tin, who said his motor wasn't run-ning right, also hit a rock and flat-tened a tire on the fourth lap. Julson's motor went and he was out of it. Carl Renezeder, in a Toyota powered Jimco, was running well, but not a threat for the weekend win since he hadn't finished all six laps on Saturday. In fact, with Ebberts and Julson out only Herder, Fortin and Mark Post had a chance for the overall. Post had got out of his car, which was running on only five cylinders, after two laps, and Jerry Whelchel was now driving, but Jerry, well-known as a short course whiz, didn't have enough horsepower or laps left to catch up. Herbst lost fourth gear on the fourth lap, but hung on to his lead just the same. But Herder was clos-ing up. And he made up just enough to take the win by three seconds. Herbst held on to his sec-ond place, and was the last one to get six laps in on Sunday. Their times were faster than Saturday's by about a minute-and-a-half. Fortin was third with only five laps done. Herder's combined first and second place gave him the weekend win, while Fortin's first and third put him into second place. Herbst was third for the weekend. The next group to race was an-other combination, putting Trophy Trucks, Class 8 and Protrucks on the track together, for a total of 24 · vehicles. The Trophy Trucks started in front, then the 8s and fi-nally the Protrucks, but they were all jumbled together pretty quickly. The Trophy Trucks were required to run six laps, but Class 8 nd the Protrucks would be finished after five. Confusing everyone, the famil-iar Class 8 Ford of Dave Ashley and Dan Smith was running as a T ro-phy Truck, its limiter straps cut and Dusty Times

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shocks remounted to give it more travel. At the end of the first · lap the lead belonged to Curt LeDuc who was driving a two-years ago SODA car, a Jeep, because his team sees this race as more short-course than desert, though, obviously the truck has been given some desert char-acteristics. In second was Jeff Lewis in his Chevy, with Tim and Ed Her:bst third in their Ford. The Herbsts moved into the lead on the second lap, with Ashley second and Lewis out with a broken transmis-sion. In third now was LeDuc. Lonny Helmbolt rolled his truck when a wheel came off. He also had a small fire. Jerry Penhall was driv-ing Danny Letner's Chevy, but he was having transmission trouble. Victor Orellana was the Class 5-1600 over:all winner at Laughlin, his first on Saturday and third on Sunday doing the trick. David Sykes took his Ford to first overall in the Stock Full Ciass, finishing third on Saturday and first on Sunday. On the fourth lap, while still leading, the Herbst truck finished its lap on a flat rear, but the pit crew was ready and the change didn't take long. LeDuc, running second, showed up a few moments later with a flat front. He, too, got a quick change and went out into the desert, but then was oack in and out again. He was having a fuel problem, and then, adding insult to injury, had a major suspension fail-ure and part of his rear suspension rose up and hit him upside the head. He was uninjured, but done for the day. Since they were required to com-plete six laps, half of the field went Olclt on their sixth, but they were all overtime, and the recorded, official times had to back up to the comple-tion of their fifth lap. The Herbsts, whose rear suspension had gone away also had a _transmission fire on the sixth lap. Still, they got the win because oflheir five lap time, and Mike Tieman, in a Chevy, was sec-ond, less than a minu_te later. LeDuc never got his fifth lap done, and Dave Ashley was third in his old Chevy 8 truck. They all.showed up to try again on Sunday, and this time again, LeDuc took the early lead. Jeff Lewis, as on Saturday, followed him in second place, and Dan Smith, who'd taken over for Ashley, had the old Ford in third place. Things changed on lap two as Lewis lost all his belts. With LeDuc still in the lead, Smith moved up to second and Jason Baldwin, whose Ford had lost its transmission on lap one on Saturday, was now in third place. The Herbst truck was playing catchup after two flats on the first lap. There was one big difference for Sunday - they were required to run only five laps for a· complete r;i.ce, it being apparent that six laps was one too many. Three laps proved to be one too many for Lewis, who broke a torsion bar (maybe overstressed on landing af-ter his winning jump in the Laugh-lin Leap contest?). He continued to run, but was off the pace by ten minutes and couldn't complete his fifth lap in time. Smith took over the lead on the third lap, with Baldwin second, and LeDuc in third. They ran that way to the finish line. The combined two-day total of a win and a third place gave the weekend victory to Ashley and Srnith. In se~ond was Ed and Tim Herbst. Running alongside the Trophy Marl< Turner took his Mazda to the overall win in Stock Mini Class, taking a first and a second place for the top position. Darren Skilton flies high in the Kia, sailing to the Class 3 overall win, finishing in first place both days. Dusty Times T rocks, the Class 8 trucks had Dave W esthem in the lead in his Chevy on Saturday, with Brian Collins, in another Chevy, running a close sec-ond. In third was the team of Ivan and Ollie Penchansky in a Chevy. Wes them continued to lead through the second lap, but Collins, who'd been within a couple of sec-onds, moved up to the lead on lap three. He had only two seconds on W esthem. On his last lap he pulled i{!tO a pit to ha_ve a tire checked, and when he went to leave the motor was gone, and he sat there while W esthem went on to take the win. The Penchansky truck was second, nearly eight minutes back. No one else got five laps, the re-quired amount, completed. They all ca~e back on Sunday to try again, and this time Steve Sourapas took the first lap lead in his Dodge, with Westhem second and Collins, a new motor installed, in third. Collins has updated his truck a bit for the '98 season rules, but says he's not through improv-ing the suspension yet. The Penchansky car was in fourth. Westhem moved up to the lead on the second lap, with Sourapas second, and Collins still third. The ·Penthanskys had major trouble, and then dropped out. Wes them continued to lead, with Sourapas pushing him hard, through the fourth lap. On lap five Westhem developed an ominous clank, ema-nating from his ring and pinion, about six miles from the finish lirie. Sourapas was unable to take advan-WE CARRY AURORA, PYROTECT, PARKER PUMPER TURBO BLUE, VDO, SIMPSON J.T. INDUSTRIES, SWAY*A*WAY WRIGHT PLACE, SACO, EARLS YOKOHAMA, SUPER TRAPP, AUTO FAB SWEPCO, BEL-RAY, TANAKA, $&S BUG PACK, CHENOWTH, UMP BELL HELMETS, KEP, FODDRIL UNI-FILTEfl, K&N, TRI-MIL, PIAA PERMA COOL, BEARDS SEATS, SCAT COMP-U-FIRE, WEBER CARBS tage of W esthem's slight slowing, and neyer got to the finish at all. Westhem still had his win, and Collins finished second about 49 seconds behind him. Nobody else got five laps finished. Wes them, on the strength of two wins, was the weekend victor, with Collins in sec-ond place for the two days. The Protrucks were also racing in this group, and they had a group 0f eight vehicles out on the track. Andrew Wehe had his Chevrolet out in front on the first lap, but by a very small margin. 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Jeff Carr took his great looking Jimco to second overall in Class 1/2-Andrew Wehe embarks in a new class and his first place on Saturday, 1600, finishing in third place both days. fifth on Sunday earned him second overall In Protrucl<s. David Gaspar flies the jump at Laughlin, he was fhird on Saturday, Darnen Jefferies drove his Jimco to a great first on Saturday, second first on Sunday and second overall in 5-1600. on Sunday and therefor a second overall in Class 10 for the weekend. Rob Reinerton took his Ford Ranger to a third place on Saturday, a Mark Cline drove his neat looking Chevy to a pair of first places and first on Sunday and he was second overall in Stock Mini Class. the overall win in swrtsman Truck Class. The lead trucks ran a close race for did not get his fifth lap done. The James Saturday's trucks didn't get back to the another lap, and then, as he rounded truck ran three unremarkable laps and track on Sunday. Roeseler stayed in front, the second infield turn, James tipped his then disappeared, apparently not really again, having no problems. Taylor moved truck up on its side. fu he and his pas- in top condition after Saturday's adven-up to second, while T umer tried to over-senger fumbled with their belts some ture. come a terrible first lap by really charging dripping oil caused a fire to start. The Johnson took the win, with Nuckles around the course. He was faster than on-board system subdued the fire as they second and Hoskins third. When the anyone but Roeseler, but had lost about climbed out safely, but then the flames score keepers added up the points, ten minutes on the first lap, and would began to grow in earnest. Some addi- Johnson, with a second and a first took have needed more than four laps to make tional extinguishers were quickly the weekend win. In second was Wehe, up the deficit. Roeseler found the course hustled to the tum and aimed at the which looked a bit odd to some, since he much rougher than on Saturday, but he flames, and one of the big water trucks hadn't finished on Saturday. However, as still managed to record a faster time, at started trundlingoverto the emergency. SCORE'sPaulFishexplainedit, thedriv- 1:02:38, to take the win. Taylor was sec-futt the extinguishers did the job, the ers were required to complete only three ond and Rubio finished third, with T umer flames were put out, and the damaged laps to get finisher points and he had done the last to finish all four laps, in fourth. truck was righted and towed away. four laps. Nuckles, with a third and a sec-Of course, Roeseler got the weekend In the meanwhile, Hoskins lost his ond, got third place for the weekend, and win, and in addition, he'd also taken the throttle linkage, and dropped back Hoskins was-fourth. Laughlin Leap first prize for a jump of some about 13 minutes, or nearly a lap. Wehe The fifth event of the day was another 97 feet on Thursday night. So it was a sue-went on to take the win, reporting lots combination race, including Classes 7, 7S, cessful weekend for him. T umer, with a of dust, but no trouble. Rick Johnson, Stock Full, Stock Mini and Sportsman second and a fourth, took second for the in a Ford, was second behind him, and trucks. There were 29 of them all to- weekend, a fine showing for a first time Jimmy Nuckles had his Ford third, even gether. racer. though he'd had no power steering from In Class 7 the lead was securely in the In the 7S trucks the first lap leader was the second lap. hands of Larry Roeseler in his Chevy, early Don McCarthy in his Ford, with Bruce On Sunday they all came back again, on. Craig T umer, whose Ford Ranger was Landfield running second in another Ford. even the James truck, with no body pan- declared illegal for Class 7S and moved But on the second lap Landfield went into els, and with a rather scorched look, but into this class, because of stock mounts, the lead and stayed there. McCarthy was ready to race. Andrew Wehe took the ran second. This was T umer's first race, out after two laps after losing a fan belt early lead, but Hoskins was mighty close and he was feeling a little nervous. and having no spare. Tim Braden, in still behind him. Nuckles' truck ran raggedly Damien Mavis was third in another another Ford, moved up to second place, for a while, but finally cleared out and he Ranger. and ran evenly paced laps to stay there. ran third. Dale White was running his first But it was Roeseler's race all the way. At the finish Landfield who wasn't even event in this class, in a Chevy, and with He had no real problems, though a front sure he'd completed his four laps, took the only fair results. He had not completed skid pan did come unfastened and rattled win by 13 minutes. Braden, in second, was all the laps on Saturday, and was doomed a bit. He took the win with eight minutes the only other driver to complete the re-to fall short on Sunday also. on Turner, who was second. Mavis was quired four laps. Rick Johnson took over the lead on the third, and none of the others made it On Sunday they were missing two second lap, and stayed in front. Hoskins through the required four lap$. trucks. This time Braden took the first lap was second, with Nuckles third and Wehe On Sunday Roeseler was back out in lead, with Steve Cirillo, ina Toyota, close fourth. Wehe and Hoskins traded places front again, but this time Tracy Rubio had behind him. In third was Doug Siewert, on the next lap, but on the fourth lap his Ford in second place, with Rick Tay- in another Toyota. Landfield's co-driver, Wehe lost about two minutes and then lor, another Ford, in third. Two of Brett Turley, had lost about five minutes Page 12 April 1998 TOYOTA RACING DEVELOPMENT Iron "W"ill sold separately. Even I van "Iron man" Stewart needs cotton shirts. And T's and hats and jackets. The new Toyota Motorsports/TRD apparel and merchandise catalog. Open one up. 1·888·274·6452 Call and order today. TOYOTA ,_Everyday Dusty Times

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with a first lap flat. By the third lap McCarthy, who had a spare fan belt on board this time, was in the lead. Turley chased him valiantly, but couldn't quite catch him. Siewert tipped his truck up on its side in the infield, and Cody Swarty's front end was collapsing. McCarthy took the win, and Tur-ley finished second about four min-utes later. Braden was third, one lap down, missing a rear wheel. Landfield and Turley took the weekend win, with Braden, recording a second and a third, taking the two-day second place. · The Stock Full trucks numbered five, and the first lap lead went to Manny Esquerra in a Ford. He had about 30 seconds on Mike McComas in his Chevy. Esquerra had a trouble~ free race, except for a first aid kit that came open and flung its contents on the floor, under his feet. He led all the way and took the win by three minutes. Marc Stein, in another Ford, was second, and no one else finished all four laps. On Sunday Esquerra was back in the lead on the first lap, but Dave Sykes moved to the front on the sec-ond lap, about ten seconds up on Esquerra. In third was Marc Stein. McComas was having some kind. of problem that let him complete only two laps. Sykes went on to take the win, doing the last couple of miles with no left rear wheel. Stein was second, four minutes later, and followed in by Esquerra, who'd had a flat. The others couldn't complete all four laps. The weekend winner was a surprise in this class. When the scorers added up the points, they had a t.ie, since Esquerra had a first and a third, and Eric Solorzano was the overall Class 11 winner at Laughlin, taking the gold medal on both Saturday and Sunday. Sykes had a first and a third. But Sykes had not completed the re-quired four laps on Saturday. Still, he got the win, on the strength of hav-ing the faster lap of the two drivers, on Sunday, at 17:42. Esquerra ended up with second place, and Stein, with two second places, was third. The Stock Mini class had only three entries. Rob Reinerton had his Ford Ranger in front at the end of the first lap on Saturday, and Tim Casey was close behind him in sec-ond in a Toyota. In third was Mark Turner in a ten-year-old Mazda. Reinerton put on some speed and increased his lead, but then couldn't finish his third lap. Mark T umer went into the lead on the third lap as Casey lost about seven minutes. Neither was able to finish their required fourth lap, so T umer got the win on the strength of his three-lap time. On Sunday Reinerton was back in front, with Casey second. But then Casey lost a lap, and T umer moved up to second place. Reinerton ran three well-paced laps this time, and took the win, with T umer finishing second. T umer reported losing his ex-haust both days. The weekend win went to T umer or, the strength of his first and second, and Reinerton was second. In the Sportsman Trucks which ran with this group, and were re-quired to finish only three laps, the weekend winner was the team of Mark Cline and Derek Burreson, in a Chevrolet, who completed their required laps both days, and were the. only entry to do so. The final event of the day was a combination that included Class 10, the SCORE Lites and Class 5. They were all required to complete five laps. And SCORE was hoping they'd get it done before it got dark. In Class IO the early lead belonged to Rick Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 . Tropicana Ave. & Arville 800-675-3267 Dusty Times April 1998 Doug Fortin and his Jimco took a first on Saturday, second on Sunday and that put him into second overall in Class 1. Romans, in a Raceco, on Saturday. But he had only a few seconds on John Phillips, Jr., in a Jimco. On the second lap Darnen Jefferies, in a Jimco, went into the lead, with Ro-mans second and Phillips third. There was some exciting wheel-to-wheel racing happening in the infield, as this very closely matched class came Continued on page 14 Ed and Tim Herbst scream through the dust on their way to second overall in Trophy Truck. first on Saturdav and fifth on Sundav in the Ford. , ... -~< ;-:,:.;':~w.=0,;.;;::~"~!.' West Flamingo & Valley View 888-402-6278 Page 13

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Jerry Penhall was a Jong sixth on Saturday, won on Sunday and was Tom Brown found it sort of silty at Laughlin, he finished third on Saturday, Manny Esquerra came over from Parker to take the Ford to a first on the second overall car in SCORE Lites at Laughlin. first on Sunday and that put him in second overall in Class 5. Saturday. third on Sunday and ended up second overall in Stock Full. around each lap. Kent Lothringer, in was really enjoying the power and Jirnco, were third. The sun was set- the Saturday win by about a minute Jefferies was tied with John Bartolotti a Lothringer, broke on the second lap, suspension of a Class 10. He was, you ting, and for this bunch it was hard and a half. Phillips finished second, in a Lothringer on the first lap, with andwasoutfortheday,asdidSteve will remember, last year's overall toseewhentheyrantowardsitsglow. andtheBrookshirecarwasthird. Romans a close third, and Thom Meyers. 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Phillips had planned to drive on Sunday, but had taken a tumble Saturday evening and bruised or cracked some ribs, and decided to let Geiser have some fun. Bartolotti was third. Jefferies and Geiser continued to lead, staying close and appar-ently trouble free. But on the last lap Geiser was running out of gas, and Jefferies' clutch slave cylin-der was coming disconnected. Geiser took the win by a little over two minutes, with Jefferies second and Romans in third. When the weekend totals were figured,· the winners were Geiser and Phillips, who'd had a faster fast lap than Jefferies, at 14:22, on Sunday. Jef-feries was second and the Brook-shire brothers, Ron and Travis, were third. The SCORE Lites, aside from their VW type suspension, were hardly distinguishable from the Class 10 cars. They ran at about the same speeds, and fought wheel to wheel with their A-armed brethren. On the first lap the lead belonged to Danny Anderson in a Mirage, but he had only ten seconds on John Holmes in a Dunrite. In third place was Jerry Penhall, in a Penhall. On the second lap Holmes went into the lead, with Anderson second and now Tom Ridings had moved his Mirage up into third place as Pen-hall lost about five minutes. Anderson was back in the lead on the third lap, and he recorded the fast lap for the class, at 14:51. Holmes was still a close second, and Ridings ran third. Anderson, who found this a very dusty course, but had no mechanical trouble, went on to take the win, finishing less than a minute in front of Holmes. Both Anderson and Holmes had recorded better five lap times than the winner in the Class 10 event. In third in the SCORE Lites, was Steve Greinke, in a Suspensions Unlimited car. Penhall and Ridings failed to fin-ish the fifth lap in time. On Sunday they all came back, and it was Anderson out in front on the first lap, with Dan Worley, in a Jimco, in second place, fol-lowed by Dave Callaway, Holmes' ::a-driver, in third, and George Erl, Penhall's co-driver, in fourth place. On the second lap Ander-son ticked off the quick time for this race,· but then he lost his motor on the third lap and was out. By lap three the ·lead belonged to Erl, with Callaway running close be-11324 Norwalk Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 hindhim.Erlwashavingacleanrace, Continued on page 16 Page 14 April 1998 Dusty Times

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Don McCarthy was a very long sixth on Saturday. but he and his Ford Scott Webster was 13th on Saturday. came back for a big win on came back strong on Sunday for a win but his overall standing was Sunday in Class 1/2-1600 but in the overall standings he was well ' Cart Renezeder drove his Jimco to a seventh on Saturday. fourth on way down, down the list. Sunday and fourth overall for the weekend in Class 1. Marl< McKinley was the apparent overall winner in Sportsman Buggy. Vic Bruckmann drove his Chenowth to the big 1/2-1600 win on Saturday Danny Anderson won the SCORE Lites class on Saturday but a rare winning Sundays race in 1 :23:29. · but the long finish on Sunday put him in third overall for the weekend. DNF on Sunday dropped him from the higher overall standings. and he stayed in front to the end. He The Class 5 Baja Bugs ran with Dondel's. Still, Dondel took the was apparently giving way, and he program ran on time, snafus were took the win, with Callaway second, this group, and Mike Dondel had win, with Nix second. None of the lost about two and a half minutes minimal, and everyone enjoyed andRyanHerzogwasthirdinhisSus-the first lap lead in his plain-wrap others did five laps. on the last lap, which let Brown the tight competition. pensions Unlimited car. For the . car. In second was George Seeley, On Sunday Dondel started out get past him for the win. Dondel With the new season-opener un-weekend, the winner was the but his transmission packed it in in front again, with Tom Brown had the points to get the week- der their belts, the SCORE people team of Callaway and Holmes, on the next lap, and he was off to second, and Mike Nix in third end win, with Brown in second head south to San Felipe to lay ut who'd also won the Pir-Crew chal-make repairs. Dondel stayed in pbce. Seeley was repaired, hut not place. and mark the course for the San lenge, getting their year off to a front all the way, though Mike running at his normal quick pace. The consensus was that the Felipe 250, second race of their sea-fine start. Penhall and Erl took Nix was keeping him honest with Dondel led through the fourth Laughlin Challenge was a success- son, which takes place on March second place. a couple of laps quicker than lap, but by then his suspension ful start to the '98 season. The 20th and 21st. ■ HONDA Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER ro_~-D Racer· and Spectator Discounts •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! DEUVERY TO lHE RA.CFS AVAIIABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD ES EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E3RoSi:I..os~CA..9CXJ63•213.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 ,& SALES, SERVICE, PARTS HONDA Power Equipment Page 16 :-..1 H O N D A PO WE R E QUI PM E N T S PE C I AL I S T Nothings ~r. [i:i f,;,r ov:::.:\1:,1 ?1..•:-!or.r..l.llce :vid ~C"ly. plc-.1,-c lead t.':.t" O~\,l('r s m.1nunl ~-fore Opt"r:&:ing your Hand:. PowC"r Equipment Spc-nlkatlon5 subJeC-t to ct':.m~e '41lhout noti,·e. ·Est::n.He <•11ly b.l:!-ed on rated load. •B.H~t"ry not uidudt"d \\ii~ E~t35.Jl.)$XKI. E:~15000SXK I ;u1d .C:90500SX. uwuh bJ:!t"ry tr.1y kit. wht·ds !< h.\.-a~er. Connectlon to hou~ power requ ires tr,lll:sfer dc-\ite to ,1\01,, ~,sible tn;u:-:,.~ ltJ pc1v,.c-r comp.lny p1.•rsonn<-I Consult .:i qu.1Hfled eleclrl\"l.:in. April 1998 Dusty Times •

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47TH SWEDISH RALLY Makinen Wins Across The Gulf By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Sesden ------------Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki use some reverse lock on their way to victory in the Swedish Rally in the Mitsubishi Lancer Revolution. • wide teflon coated piston wear band fo not drop into large ports. • sealed piston for low speed control a n,1J111\..vi:;11111~• in exter • high temperature stainless steel all • · • unique rod end design and material · d ends from breaki g. . • high temperature Viton seals a cf) • large aluminum reservoir for inc,#s n (2X) and weight savi gs . • 1" shafts are micro-polishe~m_r. nish of a 3-5 RMS. • stainless steel teflon lined s~r~al ith 1/2" or 5/8" ID spa • shock are all owner rebui ble,,wziith .ools to purchase. • electric blue anodiz?.d~ r. L . #ti • La ~ igh flow (weld on kits ~ ailable se < te): ----. //1. ' P.. • Tu.pe e placed to order or we1d~a on b~t~~ customer. '·✓ piston for smooth dainplng;tra9~tions. . • Check.,valves ma . 4140 and heat trea_J ~ 17-4 stawfess for long durability. • ... latge" ODt hecld'~)lve spring designed with low ope~ting stress levels. . ' ' . . I/ th f' b . d t k • reservoir mountm ,e rear o u ,es an rue s. , ;tti 6 fa§I, M l!Ji■:1 .. 11111.11! Custom wound springs for 3" shocks in stt'°~~ Eibac_!fSprings available. We do custom shock work and vehicle set ~ ~/ Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts avallQ.~ ( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. Page 18 King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530~8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask /i.ve., Uri it C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 April 1998 ., Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya took their Toyota Corolla to second overall in the snowy Swedish Rally, just 52 seconds out of the gold. Juha Kankkunen and Juha Repo power the Ford Escort around a corner in the Swedish Rally, taking the bronze medal, seven seconds out of second place. Reigning World Champion Tommi Makinen scored his first win of the '98 season at the Swed-ish Rally and it was Finland's 100th win in the World Rally Champion-ship. The rally was a disaster for Su-baru, for technical reasons which were immediately difficult to de-fine. Ford had hoped for better than Kankkunen's third place finish as he was passed by Sainz near the end. Sainz was happy with second spot after losing time on the first stage and spinning on the second stage. Toyota led for over half the dis-tance and were fastest on the ma-jority of the stages in the capable hands of Sainz and Radstrom and the surprise of the event was the speed of Richard Burns, Makinen's teammate. Michelin had a great rally, win-ning every stage, leading all the way ·and thus getting the outright vic-tory as well as wins in the World 2-Liter, Group N and Teams Cup. Jorgen Jonasson won the 2 liter category for the second year in a row although his SEAT teammate Harri Rovanpera led for a time. The Group N battle was rather one sided, Mitsubishi taking the first six places and the weather was most foul, the temperature hover-ing within the freezing range and there was a lot of broken ice and wet snow. Leg 1 -eight stages - gravel - 14 7 kms. It had snowed overnight and it was the wet sticky snow which stuck to everything. At the pre first stage service park the temperature was 11 below zero and IO kms away at the first stage it was two below. It snowed through most of the morning and by afternoon the tem-perature had risen to zero. Thomas Radstrom led from Stage 2 until the end of the leg, fin-ishing 24 seconds ahead of Maki-nen. Apart from a burst of success on Stage 1, Sainz struggled to keep in touch with.the leaders ending the day 70 seconds in arrears. Kank-kunen was sixth, another 20 sec-onds further back. Somt! of the drama that took place behind the scenes saw Burns making seventh best time on Stage 1, then sliding off the road on Stage Stig-O/of Walfridsson and Benny Melander took their Mitsubishi to 13th overall, first in Group Nin Sweden. Dusty Times

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Jorgen Jonasson and Pecka Svensson apply opposite lock in the Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander take to the air in the Subaru Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen took their Toyota Celica GT4 SEAT Ibiza Kit Car on their way to first place in W2L. lmpreza on their way to fourth overall in the Swedish Rally. to the Teams Cup win in the cold and snow of Sweden. Toni Gardemeister and Paavo Lukandere took their Nissan Sunny Gti to the silver in F2 and to a great 21st overall as well. . 2. Bruno Thiery lost an exhaust on the leader. Harry Joki and Ingemar Karlsson ran their VW Golf Kit Car to a great second place in W2L, 27th overall on the rally. pipe and exhaust fumes did a num-The drastic effect of AT RIGHT: Garlos Sainz (left) and Juha Kankkunen her on him and he too, went off the the conditions could be await the start of the Swedish Rally. They each have. road. Didier Auriol was between seen by studying Burns 21 victories in World Class Rallying. Stages 1 and 2, turned on the stage times. Running 31st overall, road. Jonasson regained the lead in windscreen heater and suddenly ten minutes behind Radstrom he front of Gardemeister and Alister there was fire behind the dash- . scored the fastest stage times on McRae retired his VW with engine board. He had to open the car's one and two. McRae was running problems. master switch to get the fire out. fourth, fourth on the road and In Group N Walfridsson was go-He lost lots of time at the next con- found the conditions very difficult. ing hard and was gradually pulling trol. Mic_helin was using their asym-Stage 12, a 4 7 km section was the ahead of Backlund and Mitsubishi metric GE tire with Toyota and Pir- longest of the rally and everyone held the top four places. elli was well off the pace. · planned on driving it very carefully. Leg 3 -five stages - gravel -94 In Formula 2, the first five stages Makinen did the stage perfectly, kms. Only five stages this day and, were won by five different drivers not only winning the stage but he wonder of wonders, the sun came in four different typ:!s of cars. Ro- also took th~ lead of the rally. out and the temperature was mild. vanpera led initially but soon fell Radstrom spun off and damaged the Makinen felt the final day would be back behind Jonasson. In Group N radiator and shortly after retired a hard struggle. Sainz was a man on there was a close battle between from the fray. Sainz spun in high a mission who wanted at least sec-Mitsubishi drivers Ken Backlund gear and lost a bit of time recover- ond place. Two stages from the end and Stig-Olaf Walfridsson. ing. McRae was having electrical he passed Kankkunen and achieved Leg 2 - six stages - gravel - 139 problems. Eriksson was third fast- his goal. Auriol lost two minutes on kms. As the rally headed northeast est, going from eighth to fourth Stage 16 with electrical problems towards Borlange the weather be- place, passing Auriol and Gron- and fell from fifth to seventh but came milder and the snow turned holm. · ended up sixth. Eriksson lost sixth to rain. The stages became softer Kankkunen had risen from fourth gear and he was effectively out of and now was the time for perfect to second, while Makinen, the new being the winner. tire selection for maximum perfor- leader had started the stage 32 sec-The second best battle of the day mance. onds behind, in second place was 80 was in Group N as Backlund raced Radstrom was holding his own at seconds ahead of his fellow Finn and with Walfridsson who finally broke the head of the field. On the first a further 15 ahead of Sainz. Thiery his teammate's five year run of wins stage he increased his lead by 13 moved from tenth to eighth. Burns here. seconds and then on Stage 10 yet earlier burst of speed had moved him Makinen held his lead at around another 22 seconds. up to 17th place. Gronholm spun and a minute and eventually it was all Makinen was second overall and dropped to sixth place. over. was the second car on the road and In Formula 2 Per Svan was push-In Formula 2 Jonasson kept his was literally running in the tire ing hard and on Stage 10 had a lead lead over Gardemeister and Gron-tracks of the lead car although he of 0. 7 second. On Stage 11, his sus- holm took the first points of the was not noticeably gaining any time pension failed and he went off the season in the Teams Cup. ■ 1 (I) toaat MAICt"IN/lt.■tD Nanni.aenaaki PU, J U) C11rloe SAUIZ/Lut. 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The 1997 SODA Awards Banquet By Barb & Marilyn Schultz Photos: Jeff Nemeck 1997 SODA Driver Of The Year award is happily and graciously received by Jeff-St. Peter who also was the Class 1 and Class 9Champion. The Regency Suites, Green Bay, Wisconsin was the place to be for the 1997 SODA Awards Banquet. The festivities began on Friday night, January 16, 1998 with a Hos-pitality/Expo evening sponsored by BFGoodrich, Goodyear Tire and SODA. Saturday, January 17, 1998 be-gan with both renewing SODA memberships and voting for the various SODA positions that were up for election. A brief Board of Directors Meeting was held as well as general membership meeting. How wonderful it is to see the SODA Family out of their race suits and into their best formal attire! A cocktail hour began at 5:00 p.m. with dinner seating beginning at 6:00 p.m. Four hundred and eighty plus SODA members and guests enjoyed a delicious buffet dinner and looked forward to the actual Awards Ceremony. President Wolfe opened the cer-emony by asking all to observe a minute of silence to remember SODA members and friends who were no longer with us, to take time to appreciate all that we do have and enjoy and to consider those less fortunate than we. Wolfe opened his remarks w_ith seiections from Ann Landers on "Class". "Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident, it can handle what-ever comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for .oil-· ing the machinery of human rela-tions. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small sacrifices. Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money. Some wealthy ''blue bloo<!s" have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. It can never be faked. Class never tries to build itself up by tear-ing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse. Class can ·,;waik with kings and keep its virtue and walk with crowds and keep the common touch." Every-one is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn't make any · difference." President Wolfe went on to thank the hosts for the 1997 SODA Awards Banquet, Diet Shinnick and Ellen Larson and Karen and Jerry Christensen, Jr. Jason Crowder was the winner of Class 1/2-1600 in 1997 and received his award from Tom Schwartzburg for his achievement. It was President Wolfe's pleasure to announce that once again the end-of-the-year monies to be awarded to drivers that evening exceeded the amount given out at the 1996 SODA Awards Banquet. · In 1996 $117,000 was distributed to all drivers who qualified for end-of-the-year payout. For the 1997 SODA series, President Wolfe would be handing out $160,000. Dan Newsome of BFGoodrich took the podium next. Newsome extended his thanks to all of the teams who raced the SODA Series on BFGoodrich tires. He also ex-pressed his appreciation for their loyalty and their friendship. Dan made note of the increased num-ber of SODA Class Champions on BFGoodrich tires during the 1997 season and gave his appreciation for the effort put forth by those racers. Newsome acknowledged and thanked the entire BFGoodrich Crew. Mr. Newsome conduded his remarks. with a thank you to the SODA Board and all of the volun-teers that made a SODA race event happen. President Wolfe next introduced Eric Schultz of Tenneco Automo-tive. Mr. Schultz, on this occasion,. was representing both DynoMax and Rancho Suspensions. Schultz emphasized how important it is to Tenneco Automotive "to be in-volved with authentic racing for testing beyond ·dynos and Cadcams." Schultz also pointed out the importance of marketing their products in front of the racing pub-lic and the race fans. Schultz ex-tended his thanks to SODA for pro-viding that showcase. Mr. Schultz congratulated Class 4 Champion Scott Douglas. Douglas was spon-sored by DynoMax. Wolfe asked that Mr. Tom O'Connor stand and be recog-nized. Mr. O'Connor was present as a representative of Toyota Motorsports. There are a large number of dedicated volunteers who help to make a SODA Race Event pos-sible. President Wolfe acknowl-edged and thanked each of these committees and their respective members. He also extended his and SODA's thanks to all of the 1997 promoters, contingency sponsors, series sponsors, associ-ate sponsors, Expo participants and those companies providing numerous door prizes throughout the evening. The Awards Ceremony then went on to the part that most drivers enjoy the most - the dis-tribution of money won and the crowning of Class Champions. The 1997 SODA Class Champi-ons are as follows: Classes 1 & 9, Jeff St. Peter; Classes 1 & 2-1600, Jason Crowder; Class 4, Scott Douglas; Class 5-1600 & 7S, John Greaves; Class 6, Bill Groboski; Class 8, Scott Taylor; Class BS, Michael Oberg; Classes 11 & 12, The SODA Class B Champion was Scott Taylor who had many. many John Greaves was a double winner, taking the season win in Class Bill Grabowski and co-driver Joe Kentopp were the SODA Class 6 wins throughout the 1997 season, seen here accepting a well deserved 7S and 5-1600 as well, quite a nice showing. recipients at the awards in Green Bay. · ;trop;;;;;;;h;;;;y.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;::;;:=:;;::===============;::;::==;::=====,-The SODA 1997 Class BS Champion was Michael Oberg whose Glenn Mathews was the big winner in Class 11 and 12, and he Cory Friday drove his heart out all season and won the SODA Lites winning ways took him to the class championship. graciously accepted his SODA Championship award. class and received his award with a solemn face. 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The SODA Women~ Limited Champion was Karen Christensen, Paula St. Peter took the Women~ Unlimited Class Championship, The SODA Women~ Heavy Metal Champion is Val Rehn, besting all beating out the whole bunch for the tiffe. adding yet another trophy to the family collection. her competition for the coveted award. Kevin Dawson was presented the Mel Freimuth Lifetime Achievement Betty Gordon presented Joe Federico the coveted Rookie Of The Joe Eppers was one pleased individual, taking home the Sportsman Award for all his services as a driver and a promoter. _Ye_a_r_A_w._a_rd_. -----,--.....,...,,--..,...........,..,,.-=-=--,-----c-=,----=----=--_Of_Th_e_Ye_a_r_A_wa_rd_. ----------,--------Glen Mathews; Class SODA Lites, nition of all SODA racers. new Award for the 1997 Awards Ban-~tingle and Alternate John Huven nouncement of those people who Cory Friday; Class Women's Limited Dennis Schlueter, representing quet. The Board established a received this new Award. were elected to the SODA positions Buggy, Karen Christensen; Class Rampage Racing, took the podium SODA Scholarship Award. President The 1997 SODA Sportsperson of that were up for re-election for1998. Women's Unlimited Buggy, Paula St. next to present the Stand On It Wolfe called the first two recipients the Year Award was given to Joe President Wolfe was re-elected as Peter and Class Women's Heavy Award.ThisAwardisgivenbyRam- ofthisAwardtothepodium.Receiv- Eppers. The 1997 SODA Joe President with Jack Coleman re-Metal, Val Rehn. page Racing in memory of the Team's ing the SODA Scholarship(s) for the Plummer tSODA Rookie of the Year taining his position as SODA T rea-Mr. Thornton L. Schultz, repre- founder, Chad Schlueter. Chad be- firsteverwereGregDanielsandTesa Award was presented to Steve surer. In the Board of Directors senting Crandon International Off gan his racing career in SODA with Schultz. Each winner received a Frederico of Class 1 & 2-1600. Betty race, Thornton "Big Ed" Schultz Road Raceway, assisted President aClass3 truck.Helivedandbreathed check for $1000. Tesa is a first year Gordon, mother of the late Joe and Jerry Christensen, Jr. were re-Wolfe in handing out the highly cov- racing and was particularly noted for student at Marquette University, the Plummer, came forward to present elected to their positions. John eted World Championship Rings. In his hard charging, never give up driv-College of Engineering Milwa~kee, Frederico with the Joe Plummer Huven was elected to serve as a new order to receive one of these rings, ing style. Just as Chad began to real- Wisconsin. Greg is. attending the Rookie of the Year patch and a cash member to the Board of Directors. you must be the winnerof your Class ize his goal as:.. professional racer, his University of Wisconsin, Madison bonus of $100. Many Class Representatives were Race at Crandon's Labor Day Race life was senselessly taken by a drunk campus and is majoring in meteorol- Jeff St. Peter, winner of two elected. Those readers wishing to Event. Those receiving rings were: driver. The Award is presented to ogy. _SODA Class Champions, was have those results many contact BrianCollinsinClassesl&l3;Mark that truck class driver who shows TheAwardstobepresentednext awarded the 1997 SODA Driver President Wolfe at (414) 453-KruegerinClass l-1600;JasonCrow- outstanding quality both on and off are among the most prestigious of the Year Award. SODA or by writing to 7839 West der and Carrie Herzog in Class 2-the track. This year's recipient was awards in off road racing. Nomina- Kevin Dawson was called to the North Avenue, Wauwatosa, WI 1600; Kevin Probst in Class 4; Car JoeZilisch, Class 13 racer. Zilisch was tions for the following awards are podium by President Wolfe to be pre- 53213. Owner Joe Eppers in 5-1600; Stand . presented with the Stand On It made by SODA members. After all sented with a truly distinguished President Wolfe declared the Ambrosiak in Class 6; Jeff Kincaid in Award jacket, a new rack and pin- nominations are in, the SODA Board SODA Award. Dawson was awarded presentation of Awards for the Class 7S; Brendan Gaughan in Class ion from Team sponsors Reider Rae- of Directors carries out a secret bal- the Mel Freimuth Lifetime Achieve- 1997 SODA Awards Banquet of-8; Michael Oberg in Class 8S; Phil ing and Precision Gear. Joe also re-lot voting procedure. The only per• ment Award. Dawson is a twenty ficially closed. SODA members Gourlie in Class 9; Cory Friday in ceived a four-day term at the son who·knows the outcome of the years plus veteran to off road racing. then took to the dance floor and Class 11; Glen Mathews in Class 12; Bondurant School of Driving do- voting until the actual presentation He has "done his time" as a racer and various refreshments for a night Scott Douglas in the Borg-Warner nated by Team sponsor Performance . time is President Wolfe. The winner a promoter. He serves on the SODA of dancing and bench racing! Race; Phil Doyle in SODA Lites; Friction. of the 1997 SODA Promoter of the Rules Committee and has been in- Say, are we glad to be back! We Paula St. Peter in Women's Unlim- Each year the SODA Board of Year Award was presented to Kevin strumental in all aspects of SODA. want to end our coverage of the ited Buggy; Sarah Tate in Women's Directors recognizes those volunteers Dawson, The Lake Geneva Memo- President Wolfe concluded Che Awards Banquet with our particu-Limited Buggy; Nicole and Dennis who put in hours and hours of labor rial Day 100 Race Event. Awards Ceremony with the an- lar signature--see ya' track side!! ■ Schlueter in Women's Heavy Metal. to make the whole show happen. Another new Award for the 1997 SODA Track Announcers Terry This year the Special Appreciation SODA Banquet was the Best Class Friday and Ronn Krueger present Awards went to Karen Coleman for Representative and Alternate Rep-their own Award at each SODA herlonghoursofservicetotheTech resentative. This was designed to Awards Banquet. They have titled Team and Don Scheurers for his honor those Class Reps and Alter-this Award, "A View From The hours, in all kinds of weather at the nates who put their _very hearts and Tower". Friday and Krueger tradi- staging area. souls into their class to represent their tiooally present this award on a hu-The SODA Board of Directors, class as the majority of the drivers in morous note. This year's award was with the enthusiastic approval of the that Class wanted to be represented. an exception. Known to many general membership, had created a Class 11 & 12 Representative Greg SODA fans as "World" and "Fa~ =-==~-------",.,--------, mous", the two popular announcers took those words as their theme. The theme included this thought, from the Pro racers down the ranks to those who have just begun their rac-ing careers, all racers gain their spec-tator recognition from the words of the track announcers and the untold number of people it takes to put on a SODA Race Event. If everyone didn't work together, there would be no stage on which all racing took place. Heroes are not entirely self made, someone has to recognize them as heroes, whether that is done in print or over the public address system of a race track. This year the View From The Tower Award was presented to SODA President Terry Scott Douglas, the El Cajon kid was the SODA Class 4 Champion and he bested a Wolfe in the name of and in recog-_b_un_c_h_o_f=g_re_a_t d_i_iv_e_rs_f;_or_h_is_w,_·n_. ______________ _ April 19~8. X r:" TW.f/iiilJX LtELS BUILT TO ORDER * FACTORY DIRECT CUSTOM STEEL .WHEELS * ALL BOLT PATTERNS ·. •• • 118 • ...... , ~ MASTER CARD • Cl/SA • DISCOCIER • AMEX 1924 EAST 6th ST.• TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74104 Page 21

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Kennedy Takes M.O.R.E. season Opener In Class 10 By Jimmy Messick Round 1 for the M.O.R.E. Se-ries was held in Barstow on January 2nd and 3rd. They had a total of ten cars take the green. The overall winner of the race was John Kennedy in a 10/ 1600 car who completed all of the ten laps in four hours 42 minutes. Class 10 had a total of four cars with only one finisher. Branden Most had the lead overall until lap 7 when a bro-ken trailing arm took him out of the race. Most, with James Ward and Matt Gumz co-driv-ing, set fast lap of the day on lap 4 in 24 minutes 32 seconds. Running not too far behind was Steve McMullin and Tommy Craig who had a couple of flats and axle problems taking them out on lap 8 for second in class. John Kennedy took the restric-tor plate off his 1600 car and ran it with the Class 10 cars, doing a great job out finishing every-one else for the class win. Rich-ard Woods broke on lap 4. Class 9 was the biggest class with five cars: Robby Cockrell and Mike Dupue had a real close battle all day with Michael Rix until the last lap.when Rix broke a ball joint knocking him to third .in class. Cockrell/ Dupue went on to win the class by 26 minutes ahead of Jimmy Messick who ran solo this time with Katherine Proctor, Tommy Massimini and Andrew Lind-quist all sharing riding duties in the race. Messick had a couple of flats and a few other minor problems slowing him down. The team would like to thank The Pit Shop for building a tranny that held up thru three races, M & T Racing and Jimmy's Mom and Dad for all the continuous support. This was the first win for Robby Cockrell and Mike. Dupue who ran a trouble free race. They would like to thank Mike Johnson, Diamond Pa-cific, Barstow Motorcycle, W.P. Harris Construction and Bob Carters Machine Shop for all the help. Finishing fourth in class was Kyle Sahlstrom and Steve Haver in their first ever race. The team had no major problems just figuring things out this time and will get the set up better next time and will surely be tough competitors not too far from now. They would like to thank Mike and Dan Danely for all the help with getting the car done. Rodney Stoye ran out of gas and had a plug wire fall off finishing eight of the ten laps. After a tough year last year and not a great start this year M.O.R.E., in proving not to be quitters, are planning on a sec-ond race on March 13-14 in Lucerne Valley. ■ BUMP STOPS HERE _ Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. Th••• Bump Stop• come complete with a mounting system, poly-eurethane end piece and enough valving to get the job done. ECOMICALLY PRICED AT $319.90 PER PAIR. (INCLUDES MOUNTING HARDWARE AND THE GRADE 8 BOL'I;:., SEE YOUR OFF ROAD RACING PARTS SUPPLIER Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 1-520-427-3551 Page 22 OR CALL US DIRECT 102 Crestview P.O. Box 84S ?arnell, AZ 85362-0845 International Racing Loses a Friend By Graham Robson Roger Clark, well known Inter-national Rally Driver took the fi-nal flag on January 12, 1998. He was 59 years of age and made his mark on the Rally Circuit from the early sixties. Roger ignored physical train-ing, hated practice runs and firmly believed he had a God-given gift for driving a rally car. . In 1964 he won his first Scot-tish Rally and he was the only British driver who could match the Scandinavians in their craft on loose surfaced circuits and he won the coveted RAC Rally in 1972 and 1976. His first factory drive came in 1963, for Reliant, later for Tri-umph and'then after two seasons with Rover he joined Ford and there he remained for 15 years. He won the Group 1 category in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally in a Rover and won three interna--tional rallies in Ford Cortinas, which he prepared, and he was a valuable member of the Ford fac-tory team. He was the most successful British rally driver of all time, win-ning the Circuit of Ireland in 1968 and with a win in Cyprus in 1980, Roger had a very long and stellar career. Roger touched many people in the rally world and many many more in his personal life and he will be sorely ml.ssed. · ■ OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE btJPC Unscramble the four words below and the resulting scrambled letters in the boxed areas and you will have the answer to the question . WHAT THE UNSUNG HEROES IN THE PIT CREW GOT! TARREF KARREM ECTOKS YATHRAS THE April 1998 --□□-□□---□ □ --.-□-□----Dusty Times

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SNORE Bottom Dollar By John Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography Jeff Gaff chased first in 1600 all race long but was only able to take the silver medal, a little over four minutes in affears. Rick Duncan, with a lot of help from Rob MacCachren ~n the 1600 class with ease and they were first overall as well. The SNORE Bottom Dollar, the season opener for the oldest active off road organization, was a howling success and we do mean howling, as later in the afternoon on race day the wind did its bit to cool off the racers. A large busy contingency in-spection on Friday night at Terrible's Town Casino in Hen-derson was the beginning of a great weekend for off road racing in southern Nevada as 60 vehicles gathered to do battle in the Nel-Rob Myerly was the last starter in 1600 but he rocketed through the pack and ended up third in class, fourth overall for the day. PIKE'S SERV,.ICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS Mob,il SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 24 son Hills area. First off the line was John Gaughan who let no grass grow under his wheels as he blisterc..i the thirty some odd mile course with some 43.5 minute laps, (fast-est laps for the race), then he hit his head pretty good on the roll cage and decided to stop. Lo and behold, the pit he stopped at had JC Dean standing there looking at his blown engine so JC hopped into John's car and finished the race. JC's first ride in Unlimited Class and he certainly enjoyed it. John and JC won the Unlimited class with ease and, after their long third lap, finished fifth over-all. Tom Sturgis was the Class 10 winner, leading overall on the first lap but continued on for third overall for the race. Todd Vandawalker tried to give the Unlimited Class winner some competition but had some long laps and finally retired before completing the required six laps. Class 10 was next off the line and Tom Sturgis was fifth off but drove like the wind and took the Class 10 lead ·by the second lap and he cruised on in for the big class win, suffering only two flats during the race and took the third overall rosition for the race. T. ~ Goerkes were the fourth John Gaughan shared the driving chores with JC Dean and between them the KOn the Unlimited Class and were fifth overall after a few problems. car to start in Class 10, Robbie and Billy splitting the driving chores and having brake and clutch problems throughout the race but they took a nice second in Class 10. Clay Flippin was almost last to start in Class 10, but he was lead-ing after lap 2 and things went well until he hit JC Dean and flipped the car, got upright and then had a major break in the·sus-pension late in the race but .still came in for a third place in Class 10. Class 1/2-1600 was next to leave and they had a great 20 car entry. Rick Duncan was the last car to start in class and the lap times were out of sight, taking the lead on the first lap and running away with the race, taking first overall by five minutes. Later on, we found that Rob MacCachren was behind the wheel and Rick was filling in at the last moment, Nuf said. Jeff Carr was the second car to start in 1/2-1600 and Jeff ran a good clean and fast race, second place all the way and not too far out of the lead but low fuel · the last five or ten miles had the en-gine spitting and power was way_ down. So, it was in second spot that Jeff finished and a nice fin-ish it was. Rob Myerly was the last car to start the 1600 i;:lass, a very late entry but he made his presence known as he moved through the class and finished a very respect-able third, fourth overall in the race. B.J. Almberg was tenth off the line in 1600 and he too ran a quick race, in spite of a five minute problem on the second lap. He came in for a nice fourth in 1600 and ended up sixth over-all for the race. The effervescent Day Gang was the 17th car to go in 1600 and the Ryan Schank was the man to-beat in Class 9, leading all the way and taking the pretty car with the pretty driver gold medal with over 20 minutes in hand. ran consistent laps of 49 minutes April 1998 Dusty Times

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.. Ken Flippin Jr had ho"endous problems on lap 2 but carried on to Chick Martin was only inches away from the Class 9 lead but a coil Earl West was the Class 9 third place finisher, spending most of the take the fourth place position in Class 10. wire did him in on the last lap and he took the silver medal. day fighting a balky transmission. ;=:::::========================================:-Mike Powada had no major problems during the race and cruised in Todd Vandawalker had problems on lap 4 and 5 and disappeared Pat Dean had the pleasant experience of loosing the floor in the to the second spot in Class 5-1600 in his neat looking car. from · view on the last lap, taking second place in Unlimited. Orleans 1600 which slowed him to 13th place in class. !ems for most of the day but he to start and although he had no Matt Cunningham was the Class 5-1600 was one of the big winners, reporting no prob-carried on and took the third po- problems to report, he was only eighth car to take the green flag and smaller classes but they had a good !ems except a bothersome plug sition, just a minute out of the sil- able to garner fourth place, some although he had no major problems shootout anyway. Dennis wire the last ten miles or so, tak-ver medal. twenty minutes out of the bronze to report he finished in the fifth spot Wesseldyne and his freshly painted ing the gold medal with five min-Tim Hart was the 10th Class 9 medal. out of the 18 starters. Bug was the first car away and he utes in hand. ~ Cf) uJ 0 c.j 0 .J 6 <( UJ CD z 0 a: ~ <( I (.) a: 0 CD Cf) .J UJ UJ I :1:· UJ z :::; a: UJ ~ z UJ (.) <( ~ <( I 0 :,0:: \2 Cf) a: UJ :1: 0 .J CD <( --, <( CD Cf) a: UJ ~ u:: z o1j :,0:: :,0:: (.) it. 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Mike Powad·a was next to go in So a perfect weekend ended, 5-1600 and although Mike report- nice weather (most of the time), ing no major problems through- absolutely no dust, nobody got out the race, he was well off the hurt and SNORE put on a great pace and finished almost half an race with all concerned having a hour in arrears for second place great time, win or lose. in class. Stay tuned for the Buffalo Bill's In Sportsman Buggy, brothers 400 coming up middle of April, Eric and Andre Gremm were the see you there. ■ Dennis Wesseldine had a brand new paint job and he literally flew through the desert, taking the 5-1600 win with almost half an hour 111 hand. The brothers Gremm did their usual thing, taking the Sportsman Buggy gold medal and winning with about eight minutes in hand. Dusty Times

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FRT KING OF THE DESERT Hovey Wins By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photography Tom Watson drove his Jimco to the 1/2-1600 win, having no real problems and brought the car in for the gold medal, 17 minutes ahead of his competition. El Nino took a breather and presented Fud with a clear and dry race day, sandwiched in be-tween rainstorms, for the King of the Desert race. Located as it was on the Superstition Dry Lake, the event could have been in serious trouble had it rained on the big day. Or, to be more specific, all the folks parked on the dry lake could have been in trouble when the hard surface of the lake turned to slimy mud. Instead, it rained the night before, dampening the course to hold down the dust. The lake w'as a little sticky in the early morning, but quickly dried to a firm surface and none of the pit vehicles had to move. That was handy, because for the King of the Desert race Fud has a short-course style section built into the dry lake, and then the pits are on the outer circumference of the lake, giv-ing everyone a clear view of the fun when the cars drive through that section. For this year's edition of the KOO, the course was 40 miles long,. and everyone did four laps, except the Sportsmen, who were required to do only three. The bikes and quads had run their race in the morning, and the cars and trucks took off at noon, on a fine, sunny day ' with a slight breeze that kept the small amount of dust mov-ing right along. Class 10 took off first, and at the end of the first lap the lead was in the hands of Chris Harrold iri his Acura powered Jimco. Dewey Belew and Jeff Dickerson were second in their 1835cc Raceco, but limped in with a broken bump stop and shock, result of a rollover. They were unable to locate a replacement shock, and had to give up their first atteI!J.pt at TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING HAS MOVED! 118 1' D E N s p 4 T 0 0 5 A V LASSEN □ OL SH D 19763 9761 SAW DUSTY E V TIMES□ D E 18l□ A L OP R R u I NEW~ I R N E L G L I N A E V A V COME BY AND SEE US AT OUR NEW LOCATION T ransaxle Engineering Jeff Field Page 30 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue · Chatsworth, CA 91311 April 1998 Jimbo Zinn and Bill Wesley drove their Baja Bug to the win in Class 5, running second all day but taking the lead on the last lap for a great finish. racing on four wheels. Harrold fore he got too far into the finished his second lap, then third lap, he went back into his put Kevin Basore in to finish up . pit to have it fixed, losing about the day, aiming at the overall eight minutes. But it didn't win. But when Basore rounded matter much, because neither the last turn of the infield sec-Miller nor Waddell was able to tion on the third lap, within finish another lap, and Hovey shouting distance of the start/ went OI). in solitary splendor to finish line, he coasted to a stop win the class and the overall. with a broken c.v. He never There were a couple of Class even got cre:lit for the lap. 8 trucks who might've given In the meantime, the Class Hovey a run for that overall 1 folks weren't having much win, but both had problems better luck. Chuck Hovey still enough to slow them down. didn't have his new car all Jody Mason went into the early worked out, so he was racing lead in his Ford when Craig his old 2800cc powered Corda and Vance Allen, in an~ Raceco, and was in front of the other Ford, lost over a lap with group. In second was Brent some problem. Mason, who has Miller in another Raceco, also only limited use of his legs, and powered by 2800ccs. Third be-drives with hand controls, longed to Josh Waddell, in a found the course to be "flat out 2100ccWaddellchassis,andhe fast fun! " But all his fast fun spent about 20 minutes in his was interrupted by some bent pit after breaking something in tie rods and a tossed power the infield at the end of the steering belt. Still, his problems first lap. took less time to solve than Hovey moved right along, Corda and Allen's, and Mason but he was having trouble with made it to the finish line in his clutch not wanting to dis- time to take the win. Corda and engage. It had made him stall Allen ran out of time, but got in the staging line, and at the second, although a lap shy of a end of the second lap it was giv-complete race. ing him trouble again, so, be-Continued on page 32 r"'"~,..,,,,,,,,.,.,,....,.,.,,.,...,,..,.,,...,.,,;;,,,...,..,,....... ____ -:c-____ = ------== Chuck Hovey took the Raceco to a Class 1 win, staying ahead of the group all race long and then cruisin' to the Gold medal. Jody Mason led the entire Class B race in his Ford, and when the competition dropped out it made his win even easier. · Dusty Times

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Chris Ham,ld and Kevin Basore only managed MO laps in their Jimco thanks to a broken c.v. but outlasted the competition and got the TonySteingraberandJim Grill ran trouble free in their Bug and finished Joey and Ricky Kern in their Kernco had an easy win in Class 100, checkered flag. second in the combined Class 9, Class 5-1600 race. their competition dropping out after the first lap. Todd Stemmerman and David Kephart had the Class 5 lead for the Jeff Franklin and Bob Gall took third place in Class 1/2-1600 but an BobArchibaldonly"gotin·one lapin his toyota, but he dropped out on MO middle laps but dropped to second at the end for the silver medal. after race DQ put them into the second spot. the second lap for unknown reasons in his truck. In Class 5 there was a really and had about two-and-a-half Malinowski finishing three and had 12 minutes on Gall and on the first lap, and stayed hot race, starting on the first minutes to make up. a half minutes behind them in Franklin. Watson moved there. Jim Grill and Tony lap when the three cars came Stemmerman and Kephart third. steadily through the fourth lap, Steingraber ran second in their around within 23 seconds of stayed in front, but Zinn and In Class 1/2-1600, the day with no trouble, and went on Bug, with Randy Brossart third each other. At that time the Wesley were still with them, belonged to Tom Watson in his to take the win, finishing third in his. lead belonged to Lee Finke in only 19 seconds back at the end Jimco. He had a lead of 37 sec-overall. Graves moved the By the end of the second lap his Race Shock Baja, and he of the third lap. Finke had onds at the end of the first lap, Laputz car up to second, but an Pfankuch had a lead of a little had just three seconds on Todd stopped for a driver change,. and it was Steve Laputz, in a on-course infraction cost them over four minutes, and it was Stemmerman and David and now Jim Malinowski was at Chenowth, in second place. He one position, so Franklin and still Grill and Steingraber in Kephart, who were only 20 sec-the wheel, and they were eight had already rolled his car, but Gall took second place while second place. Pfankuch got out onds up on Bill Wesley and minutes down. But the fourth luckily landed on his wheels Laputz and Graves dropped to of the car and put Tim Bebeith Jimbo Zinn in a W-Z-1. lap brought another change. and lost little time. Jeff third. in for the third lap, and he On the second lap the Wesley and Zinn recorded the Franklin and Bob Gall were In Class 100 Mark Gilliland stayed in front, now leading by Stemmerman/Kephart team fast lap for the group, at 50:15, third in another Jimco, a and his Mark Co. Chassis ten minutes. Meanwhile, the had taken over the lead, with and took the lead and the win. minute and nine seconds later. didn't make it through the first team of Chris Andrus and five seconds on Zinn and Kephart and Stemmerman, on At the end of the second lap, lap. That left the team of Joey Danny Ledezma dropped out. Wesley. Now Finke, who'd the other hand, lost about with Watson still in front, and Ricky Kern, in a Kernco, Steingraber and Grill contin-rolled his car over _a_I).g J~J}g~g seven minutes, and dropped to Franklin and Gall had moved out there by themselves. They ued to run second, though on his wheels, dropped to third, second, and Finke· and into second place, and LaPutz, lost about 50 minutes on their they'd lost one shock. who was racing for only the second lap, but otherwise had At the end of the third lap third time, had dropped to good steady times, and finished the lead car stopped for an-. Valley Performance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Page 32 Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater $45,000 Call Dave or 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue or Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 at third after rolling his car again. all four laps, to earn a win. other driver change, and this This time he landed on his lid Of the two Sportsman en-time 16-year-old Julie Kern got and had to wait for help, losing tries, the team of Troy Hansen in to drive the last lap. She about five minutes. He said he and Rick Box didn't make it maintained the pace, and was "a little anxious to go fast." through the first lap, and Dave brought the car to the finish He decided to put his co-Dietrich was able to do only line still in front, to give the driver, Kevin Graves, in for the two long laps in his Bug. But teenage team a win. They had final two laps. Graves, who usu-that gave Dietrich the win. no mechanical problems at all. ally drives in Class 9, was look-. There was only one small Steingraber and Grill finished ing forward to the comparative truck, a Toyota driven by Bob second, their transmission on luxury of the 1600 car. Archibald. He managed to fin- its last legs, just three minutes Watson, whose worst prob-. ish just one lap. behind the winner. And five lem was finding his way Class 9 and the 5/1600s ran minutes behind them was through the infield short-as one class for this purse this Randy Brossart, who'd had a course part of each lap, and fig-race, but each got their own good race with Andrus and Le-uring out the right approach to class points. Not surprisingly, dezma before they broke, and the double jump and the big the Class 9 car, a two-seat reported that his worst problem table-top jump, continued to Kernco with Adam Pfankuch at was that he'd lost his water lead through lap three. He now the wheel, moved to the front bottle. The racing was all over just at dark, and everyone settled in for a well-deserved night of rest. But about three a.m. the rains came, and it was suddenly time for everyone to get up and move out. No one wanted to chance staying parked on the dry lake when it could become a very wet lake at any moment. This meant that the usual awards "brunch" would be short of people, so Fud stood on the road just off the dry lake and handed out the doughnuts to the folks as they left. Ah well. He reported that no one got stuck in the mud. Adam Pfankuch, Tim Bebeith and Julie Kern took the Class 9 win in their Kernco, a great victory for the teenage trio. April 1998 The next FRT event will be the Buzz Bomb, on March 28th at Salton City. ■ · Dusty Times

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Pony Express ... and Class 10. I agree with you in say-ing that off road racing can be brought up to the professional level, possibly even into the mainstream of motorsports. In order for this to hap-pen, I feel someone needs to point out the painfully obvious. WE AB-SOLUTELY MUST REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CLASSES!! This is absolutely vital to the growth of our sport. You only need to look at NASCAR or any other mainstream racing organization to see how impor-tant this is. How many classes show up at Daytona on Sunday? ONE! How many classes at Indy? You see my point? I am not suggesting a single class, however, I believe we can re-duce down to five (gradually), and provide a platform for everyone. My suggestions are: Class 1, 1/2-1600, 8, pro-truck, and a mini-truck class something along the lines of the cur-rent 7S. If we want media coverage, we must be media friendly. Fewer classes would be a good start. The off road community must be willing to make some changes for the good of the sport. If you think about it, much of the hardware from the other classes is interchangeable. If you utilize all the'partsofyour 5-1600car, building a 1/2-1600 car would be relativ~ly inexpensive. Most 10 cars have Class 1 compatible chassis, and so on. .. All aspects of society are changing rap-idly, our sport must respond to these changes and adjust accordingly. The factory money recently abandoned our sport because we no longer pro-vided a cost effective Advertising platform. Lets start by getting the level of competition back up. Fewer classes mean LARGER classes. I look f9rward to hearing other suggestions on how to eliminate or consolidate some of the classes in order to en-hance the level of competition and benefit the sport as a whole. Keep up the good work! Sincerely, • Rodney G. Howe P.O. Box286 Jamul, CA 91935 e-mail: rhowe@cts.com LETTER TO THE EDITOR I'm writing this letter to com-plain about my dastardly treatment at the Laughlin Desert Challenge, but I think our Dusty Times Editor was in cahoots with the perpetra-tor, Larry Roeseler, so I think this letter will never see the light of day. Anyhow, here goes! I'm fairly new to off road racing, and I'm trying to get in good with this paper so as to eat regularly b..,_ means of a paycheck, so I'm trying different aspects of the journalism game. On the last day of the Desert Challenge I was trying my hand at photography at the chicane just before the start/finish line. Due to various physical and mental dis-abilities we won't go into now, I was very close to the track (on the out-side of the tum) bending over to get a good shot of the exit from the chicane, when I was unceremoni-ously deluged with a huge shower of wet dirt. I was non-plussed, need-less to say, then I heard our editor giggling behind me. I guess I did look pretty silly with dirt from head to foot apd in my gaping mouth. What else could I do but laugh. It was my camera so I couldn't throw it at my previous employer and friend. What made it worse, I think was illustrious editor somehow sig-naled Roeseler, as if he didn't have Look!! enough to do, to spray me. I think Mr. Calvin, did I men-tion he was previously my friend, got the idea from Randy Wilson who earlier saw John and purposely took the high line and lightly sprayed us both. ]'accuse , 'cause I hear you're too good a driver to take such a bad line. Such shenanigans, I feel, now that I have cleaned the dirt from all areas of my body, are all part of the racing game and I guess I should be flattered that someone would take the time to welcome me to off road racing by my baptism under dirt. Pat Caplan Director of Marketing (Which I was told was going to be a CLEAN JOB) To: Summit Off Road Racing Assoc: RE: Ideas for possible rule changes with the intent of increasing the level of competition. Dear Summit: I would like to take this opportunity to applaud your efforts in attempting to organize and promote our great sport. I am a former professional motocross racer and have been dab-bling in off road racing for the past five years. I have competed in sev-eral classes including 7S, 1/2-1600, HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. (800) 656-337~ Use it to call and inquire about our "Quick Fix" IRS repair boots or our 11 gallon "Fasf-Fill" dump cans. Both new products can save you race time. Race Sman-Be Safe 103 Press Ln. #4 • Chula Vista, CA 91910 • (619) 691-9171 • FAX (619) 691-0803 What Fudpucker Racing Team is doing Now They are having a Gran Prix ... 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This is going to be a typical Gran Prix. We are going to run by selected classes around an approximately 7 mile loop. We line the racers ~p side by side,_ yes even the ~uggies, Cars and Trucks,' The racer t~at completes the most laps in one hour wins. All races are for one hour, the leader will get the white flag and if nothing breaks, the checkered flag will wave so that the winners last lap is over before time runs out. Usually the last person Is the only one out for the full hour or a little bit more. Schedule of Events for March 28, 1998: Mandatory rider's meeting on the start line 5 minutes before each start 7:00am • ATVs and DSLs 8:00am • Seniors, Super Seniors Masters and Class 3 9:00am • Vets, 125's, Classic, Dual Sport 1 O:OOam • Opens, 250's and 4 Strokes 11 :OOam Mandatory Drivers Meeting for Buggies, Cars and Trucks* 11 :30 • 9, 5-1 600, 7 , Sport Utility and 11 (Sport Utility & 11 sportsman only, no Pro class) 12:30 • 1/2-1600, 100 and 5 1 :30 • Unlimited, 1 0 and 8 3:00 • 9, 5-1600, 7, Sport Utility and 11 (Sport Utility & 11 sportsman only, no Pro class) 4:00 • 1/2-1600, 100 and 5 5:00 • Unlimited, 1 O and 8 *Scoring (to detennine your overall position, not points earned for the series): 1 point for 1st, 2 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd and so on. Your total will be added up for both races and ties are broken by the lowest number in the 2nd race. Exa"l)le: . Number 200 scores a 1 and a 3 for a total of 4 • Number 201 scores a 3 and a 1 for a total of 4 • 201 wins because his lowest score was in the 2nd race Dusty Times April 1998 Page 33

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Harri Rovanpera and Voitto Silander corner hard in the snow in the SEAT Ibiza KC as they run to an 11th overall, 3rd in W2L. Almost invisible in the snow, Manfred StohVPeter Mueller took their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution to first in Group N. Being swallowed up by the spectators, Gilles and Herve Panizzi took their Peugeot 306 Maxi to a great first in W2L. ers' teams among the 106 car entry. Unfortunately, the stage around the streets of Monaco had been dropped, supposedly after a misunderstanding with the WRT A. Also, some stages in the Ardeche and Vercors re~ gions had been dropped and the stages over the 1600 meter high T urini Pass were no longer to be held in the middle of the night. And, as a final note, this was the shortest ever World Champion-ship Rally in terms of stage dis-tance. Leg 1 -six stages, asphalt, 119.6 kms. As always, the main talk is the weather. The forecast for the night before the rally was for snow down to 1000 meters but they failed to mention an immediate thaw the next morn-ing which meant very wet roads, while the Turini Pass would be in full snow and the big prob-lem was the competitors couldn't change tires in be-tween. Toyota had Auriol on inter-mediate and Sainz on wet tires. Auriol took the first stage lead but on Stage 2 hit a bank and damaged the steering. That was fixed at services but the new leader was Liatti who said he had lost his brakes on the stage. Sainz was second and it had started to snow again at T urini and the conditions were treach-erous. Cyril Henny hit a phone pole and lost time, Harry Brunken had a major collision on the road section, causing a massive blockage which forced the organizers to delay the top cars half an hour and the later runners had to miss Stages 3 and 4 altogether. Stages 3 and 4 were tackled as a pair, with no service. Liatti led through Stage 3, but Maki-nen had the lead after Stage 4. For Stages 5 and 6 Burns played safer with tire choices than Makinen and at the end of the day it was apparent that Makinen, who attacked the stages without studs, picked up a 45 second lead, over a minute by the end of the leg. Kankkun-en was quickest with studs up to the halfway point where the ice disappeared but lost every-thing when clear conditions prevailed. McRae was off the pace all day, he had handling problems and there were some poor tire choices as well. Liatti had new rear brakes, Kankkunen dam-aged the rear of his car on Stage 1 and Thiry had been up to third. Sainz went off the road on the last stage, Auriol crashed heavily and he drove 15 kms on three wheels. In F2, SEAT was working with Pirelli and they were finally able to compete with Peugeot · on more even terms. Leg 2 -seven stages, asphalt, 148 kms. Makinen was looking good but six kms into the first stage he collided with a bridge parapet and was out of the rally. The conditions were awful, snow covered ice was every-where with a terribly strong wind. Sainz was driving like the master he is, but Kankkunen was getting closer. The second stage was Sisteron and here disaster struck for the Subarus. Liatti had been ten seconds behind Sainz but after this stage he was three minutes behind. McRae said that wherever there was ice he had no grip at all and Liatti slid off the road, over-turned and landed on his wheels and was able to carry on. As they moved southward towards Monaco, on stages that were at lower altitudes and in warmer conditions, their fortunes improved. On Stages 9, 10 and 11 Subarus made the top two best times and as they reached Monaco Sainz reported his engine down on power and his brakes going away. Kank-kunen was just one minute be-hind, Burns was in third, an-other minute back but still ahead of McRae and Liatti. In F2 Delecour went off the road on Stage 1 and fell·back to third but on the final stage of the day he regained second spot. The car was a real wreck but they got it ;epaired bit by bit as the day went on. In Group N, Manfre~ Stohl led all the way while Giorgio Bedini retired on the second stage of the day. Leg 3 - five stages, asphalt, 91.6 kms. Sainz kept his lead throughout the day although he had .intercom failure, very hard to deal with on a long rally. Burns started slowly and soon the two Subarus of Liatti and McRae got past him. McRae had a slipping clutch but was still able to finish third, his best results here ever! In F2 Panizzi hit a bank on the final stage and as he struggled along he was holding up his teammate Delecour. De-lecour finally got ahead but not for long as Panizzi fixed the flat and came back for the class win. In Group N Stohl led all the way after the first couple of stages. Luis Climent was sec-ond, his first winter rally and was learning his way on ice. 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,, OUALCOM STADIUM, SAN DIEGO, CA stadium Off Road Racing· Returns to southern California side of the left hand sweeper and snuck inside to take second. With Eller out in the loose stuff Rick Huseman also slipped past to steal the third spot. Eller finished fourth. Fifth was Pete Sohren. Eleven cars came out for the Su-per Mod Buggy final. Instead of run-ning elimination events all contes-tants ran in what was called the fi-nal. Jerry Whelchel was quick to put the final touches on the event once it started. Whelchel leaped out front in his Chenowth and made a bee line to the checkered flag. Larry Foddrill grabbed the second spot. Third off the line was Steve Sallenbach who received a lot of pressure from Cory Witherill. Sallenbach buckled under the pressure and stalled in the right hander and held up Witherill, who was glued to his rear bumper. This allowed many of the field to drive past putting both of them out of conten-tion. Wes Elrod inherited third place and had Bill Goshen begin knocking on his rear bumper. Elrod managed to hold off Goshen for a couple of laps. Goshen then saw Gary Gall drive past for the fourth spot. Before Gall could get settled into the posi-tion Witherill, who had finally shook off Sallenbach, charged past. of row one with 17 other riders vy-ing for turn one. Hitt read the flag-man perfectly and hammered the thrbttle to enter tum one first. Jer-emy Schell slipped into second and held the position most of the race. . In round two of the Pro Quads 20 riders came out. Tim Farr domi-nated right from the start. Farr quickly distanced himself from Ryan Detrick and the battle for third raged between Travis Spader and Mark Ehrhardt. Ehrhardt, an-other MTEG graduate, kept the pressure on until taking Spader's third spot. Ehrhatdtmoved up on, and passed Detrick, but ran out of time before he could make any at-tempt on Tim Farr. Third went to Detrick with Spader fourth. By Homer Eubanks The US Hot Rod Association brought off road stadium racing back to southern California on Feb 15th. San Diego's Qualcom Stadium was the host to this historic stadium re-union titled the US Off Road Cham-pionship. Heavy rains the night be-fore and threatening skies on race day dampened fans' spirits and kept many away. For those brave enough to show up they were treated with patchy blue skie~ and some exciting stadium racing. Stadium racing was last seen in San Diego in 1993 at the last MTEG se-ries event. The racing format of this stadium happening was similar to the old MTEG series. In that all the seg-ments of off road desert racing were covered, and an extra bit of enter-tainment was thrown in with Mon-ster Trucks circumventing the off road course. The main attraction was the Stadium Sport Trucks. Desert racers would describe these trucks as Class 7s, and were limited to having four or six cylinder engines. Super Modified buggies and Stadium Lites made up the open wheel classes. The Super Modified buggies were unlim-ited in chassis design with 1915cc air- · cooled and 1650cc water-cooled en-gine limitations. Pro Quads gave the four wheel scooter crowd a show and Stadium Thunder Bikes with four-stroke engines rounded out the pro-gram. A generous purse was offered to ensure plenty of racing action. Sta-dium Sport Trucks were dicing for $16,000 with the winner taking home $2,000. As an added bonus qualify-ing cash was also attached. Super Modified Buggies shared in a $10,000 l?urse with the winner taking home $2,000. Pro Quads and Thunder Bike winners took home $1,000 apiece while the Stadium Lite drivers shared a $3,000 purse ·with the winner earn-ing $750. The track covering the stadium floor was laid out over the football field in a basic U-shape. Two table tops, on opposite sides of the track, made up the biggest obstacles. The drivers would start at the base of one of the table top jumps. A short straight took the action into a sharp 180-degree left hander. A rough sec-tion consisting of five small jumps ended in a sharp 180-degree right hander. A rough section consisting of five small jumps ended in a sharp 180-degree right hander. Heading back up the other side of the U, the drivers maneuvered over a couple of small moguls before turning the ac-tion back down field. This short straight produced the other table top jump. At the end of the straight a left hand power sweeper brought the ac-tion back to the start line. Four separate Stadium Sport Truck races went on as the event had three heat races and then went to a final main event. In round one of the Stadium Sport Trucks Larry Bayer sat on the pole. Alongside him was Ramiro Gonzalez and Chris Brandt outside of row one. In this first round Bayer got off the line in time to lead the pack into tum one. Gonzalez glued his front bumper to the rear of Bayer's truck but couldn't find room for an attempt. On lap three the two ran up on lapped traffic and Bayer tried to drive around the lapper on the outside. The lapper tried to get out of the way but pulled over in front of Bayer leav-ing the inside open for Gonzalez. Gonzalez would enjoy the lead for three laps but just before the finish line traffic held him up in the rough section and Chris Brandt was on hand to take the lead. Brandt crossed over first with Gonzalez trailing. Third was Larry Bayer and fourth Raul Flores. Seven trucks made up the second heat race. Pete Sohren held the in-side spot of row one with Randy Eller between him and Stacey Pike. Eller jumped off the line with enough momentum to take command of tum one. Behind Eller. was Sohren. Then in the first lap shuffle Sohren dropped back to third behind Stacey Pike. Eller quickly pulled a couple of truck lengths ahead of Pike. 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Randy Eller was able to drive first to the checkered with Javier Sacio second. Third went to Stacey Pike and Pete Sohren crossed over fourth. Another set of eight Sport Trucks lined up for heat three. John Greeves sat on the pole with Lee O'Donnell alongside. On the outside was Jeff Elrod. On the start Greeves hole shot with O'Donnell settling into second· and Rick Huseman wrangled the third spot from Jeff Elrod. Elrod was fourth and although several pass at-tempts were made during the heat the finishing order remained the same. In the Sport Truck main event there were 12 contestants. On the pole was John Greeves. Alongside Greeves was Randy Eller and Larry Bayer finishing out the front row. In the second row was Lee O'Donnell inside with Javier Sacio to his right then Ramiro Gonzalez. Row three was Chris Brandt, Stacey Pike and Rick Huseman. The back row con-sisted of Jeff Elrod, Pete Sohren and Raul Flores. .Right from the start Greeves took command. Greeves exited tum one· with Randy Eller in tow. Behind Eller was Gonzalez and Chris Brandt. The order remained pretty much the same until the fifth lap. Greeves drifted too wide in a left hander. Got off in the mud. And Eller slipped into the lead. Eller's lead was brief as Greeves put the hammer down in the rough sec-tion to edge his way back into the lead on the next lap. While battling for the third spot Gonzalez and O'Donnell got crossed up at the end of the back straight. The two ran into the hydro barriers and pulled three sections of the safety fencing onto the track. Both were able to stay in the race but had given the third spot to Larry Bayer. • Greeves was still out front with Eller second. Eller apparently sµffered from rear suspension problems and with each remaining lap allowed third place Bayer to close in. Eller fought Bayer off until the last corner of the race. Bayer saw Eller drift to the out-When all the action was over it was Jerry Whelchel continuing his dominance over the buggy class. For those who remember, Whelchel led the MTEG Super 1600 series with overall main event wins. Larry Fod-drill avoided any confrontations and held on to take second. Elrod was third with Witherill fourth. Fifth was Gary Gall. Bob Briggs proved too tough for the other Stadium Lites competition, · but had to earn his win. In the only Stadium Lite race of the day, Joe Price grabbed the hole shot with Clint Wolsey second and Briggs third off the line. Briggs was able to maneu-ver around Wolsey early but had to study the experienced Price's moves. Price let his Triple E's rear end slip out in the sweeper and Briggs quickly established himself as the man to beat. Then on the following lap Briggs · stalled in one of the short straights and Price again took over the event. Todd Wittman also slipped by Briggs before Briggs got back into the battle. On the next lap Briggs charged to the front by slipping inside Wittman then catching Price and stealing the lead. This time Briggs was able to make it stick. Wittman snuck past Price but Wittman was kept busy as Price ap-plied the pressure. Price made a final attempt around the left hand sweeper but lost traction at the rear wheels allowing Wittman to cross over sec-ond. Price was third with Denise Wittman fourth. Shane Hitt had little trouble tak-ing the hole shot in the Pro Quad action. Hitt lined up on the inside In the Pro Quad final Tim Farr was the dominate rider. Farr was first out of tum one but could feel pressure coming from Travis Spader. Spader stalled out on the third lap and this put Farr way out front with a very comfortable lead. Shane Hitt inherited the second spot but was being worked on by Jeremy Schell. Hitt was kept busy with Schell and couldn't concen-trate on making up the distance between himself and Farr. At the checkered it was Farr, Hitt, Schell and Mark Ehrhardt. Doug Dubach made the Thun-der Bike win look easy. Dubach lined up with the other 15 bike rid-ers but had little intention of stay-ing with them long. At the start Dubach hole shot and before the midway mark Dubach had pulled a full straight away lead over Scott Myers. Myers had his hands full try-ing to hold off Brian "Spud" Walters. Walters took the second spot in turn one after the white came out and once out front put some distance between himself and now third place Myers. Walters didn't have time to focus in on the leader as time ran out giving Dubach the win. Myers held third with Tony Sulek crossing over fourth ahead of Bader Manneh. With five of the seven races in the books the US off road Champi-onship headed back east to finish out the series. In the overall points standings it was Larry Bayer over Pete Sohren with a points spread of 570 to 548. Jerry Whelchel is leading the Super Mod division with a total of 5 72 points with Cory Witherill second holding 558 points. Joe Price is heading up the Stadium Lite division·. Price has earned 429 points to Todd Wittman's 332. Shane Hitt is edg-ing out Mark Ehrhardt in the Pro Quad class with a margin of 584 to 572. Spud Walters is dominating the Thunder Bike competition. Walters has 5 72 to Jere my Shoning's 346 points. ■ SCORE 1996 ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR! FAT SCORES AGAIN AT BAJA 1000: 1997 SCORE Tecate Baja 1000, Nov. 7-9 Class 1/21600 1st Brad Maurer, Rick Paquette & Rick Munyon (VW Type 1) Class 5 1st George Seeley & Dave Snoddy (VW Type IV) Class 9 2nd-Mike Shatynski (VW Type 1) · Class 12 1st George Erl & Jerry Penhall (VW Type I) CONGRATULATIONS POINTS CHAMPIONS 1997 SCORE Desert Series Class 5 1st George Seeley (VW Type IV) Class 12 1st Dave Callaway & John Holmes (VW Type I) WE SUPPORT S ♦ U ♦ M ♦ M ♦I♦ T We use & recommend RACING ENGINES, lRANSMISSIONS AND OfTROAD PARIS Send or call fer our new c.atalog $5.00 April 1998 TA~Ck-1. racJng r,asoll,,e SCORE Engine Builder of the Year for 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 & 1996! Ota PERFORMANCE 1558 No. Case• Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 Dusty Times

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"THE STRAIGHT POOP" from the Big W ahzoo LAUGHLIN -In this unique desert short course type event (complete as many 13 mile loops as you can in 80 minutes), SCORE drew 150 cars and trucks. This race was not an Official Club Event since there were no pits required. But, a number of Checkers participated and here's how they did: Seeley lost the tranny in his five car on Saturday, but scrounged up enough spare parts to regain three of his nor-mal five forward gears for Sunday's run and got a third. The Steeles lost their 1/2-1600 engine on Saturday, but were able to bor-row a spare motor from a female competitor for Sunday. On this second run they could only_ man-age a tenth, and got soundly beat by the nice lady who lent them the engine. Tucker teamed up to co-drive a non-Checkers' open buggy with the team getting a tenth on both days. Jeff Lothring-er was signed up to co-drive a 10 car, but problems popped up and he never got in. The Laughlin Chamber of Commerce has not only ponyed up to become SCORE's 1998 se-ries sponsor, but at this race they also put up $25,000 prize money split between a pit crew challenge and long jump competition. A last minute official Club 5 man pit crew was put together by Rever-end Roy Moore for the Thursday Pit Crew Challenge. It consisted of four Checkers and the lil' Rev, two of which were crippled up (Dan Martin with screws still in his leg, and Mike. Roy's 14 year old kid, who just got a cas~ffhis broken arm). Dennis Crowley and Greg Hulen filled out this Checker team which was working with Seeley driving his five car. Two pit crews competed at a time, with our guys being one of the first to do battle with the clock while changing all four tires. The following account may sound a little like whining to some, but the facts substantiate that 'we was robbed'. Inexperi-enced at this type of thing, the Chamber of Commerce guys had to sort out some screw ups during the early part of this competition. One of them was the compressed air and impact guns supplied in both lanes for the competitors. A low air pressure problem soon be-came apparent as the first three or four competitors in one of the lanes all got penalized for numer-ous loose lug nuts during their post competition inspection. Dur-ing our turn the Checkers com-pleted their required duties in one minute and two seconds, equal-ing the time of the eventual win-ner. But, the Checkers were pe-nalized 25 seconds for five front lug nuts that weren't torqued down tight enough. This, despite the fact that the Rev had enough time to hit all the front lug nuts twice with the supplied impact gun. A pattern of loose lug nuts became clear in this one lane, and continued until a faulty pressure regulator finally turned up, solv-ing the problem. Unfortunately, the affected teams were denied a chance to do it again, so our guys had to go home without any of that Laughlin cash; but worst of all, knowing they were the fast-est, as usual. The Steeles and Tucker also entered the pit chal-lenge with their own crews and both teams won some money. Fifth for $1,250 and an eighth for $750, respectively. Good show, guys! CLUB HOUSE - With this year's racing season in full swing, here's an update on our La Canada hang out. Attendance has remained good after going back to our traditional every Wednesday night 8 PM meeting schedule, even on the so-called 'off Wednesdays'. The doors open up about 7 PM, the bar is well stocked and our racing video li-brary is growing weekly with al-ways something interesting playin' on the TV. A large secure steel container has now been moved o·nto the property and our pit equipment will be moved over right next to our Club House shortly. 1998 is shaping up to be another year of Checker excel-lence. Don't be a stranger! ON-LINE -There's a new 'ASK THE W AHZOO' feature on the Big Wahzoo's web page. Check it out at: www.vmar.com/ idra/wahzoo.html. Thanks again to Vince over at vmar.com (a dedicated 5-1600 racer) for host-ing and promptly posting our Checker updates. To my non-computer Club brothers this may be so much useless information. But, there is a surprisingly grow-ing number of Checkers who are becoming computer literate. Uncle Max, Reverend Roy, Koch, Hibbard, Crowley, Peralta, Jirka, Rosenstein, Kassanyi, Thompson, Moynahan, Tiffany, and Tellier are_ all currently on-line. An e-mail sign up sheet is currently going around at the weekly meet-ings. If you've got e-mail access, make sure you get it down so it Off Road Scramble Answer: Dusty Times Rafter Marker Socket Ashtray The "Cam-Shaft" can be included on our next Club roster. DENNIS CROWLEY has pretty much maintained a low profile throughout his eight years as a Checker. This despite serv-ing as a driver, car owner, pit cap-tain, and long running elected 'Emperor of the Garage'. Now Dennis is starting a new off road business on the internet. Hell, I didn't even know he owned a computer! As I understand it the "Off Road Supermarket" is sort of a recycler-like service for buyers and sellers of previously owned off road stuff. Vehicles, engines, shocks, rims, etc., etc. Potential buyers and idle shop-pers have free access to the info. while sellers pay a nominal monthly fee to advertise their goodies on his world wide web site. You can punch it up at: www.offroadsupermarket.com. Look for the Club to appoint a new committee in the near future to closely monitor this operation for any missing pit equipment. Good luck to ya, Dennis. PAUL DUFFY, the promoter of Mojave Desert Racing, was the Guest Speaker at our February 4th meeting. He talked at length about his upcoming races, an-swered questions, and thanked the Checkers for our support. As a guy who used to work for La Rana, Duffy witnessed Castro's mistakes first hand and is deter-mined not to repeat them. It's hard not to like this embryo race promoter as he seems to under-stand his potential niche in our sport. Plus, he appears to be will-ing to work with the local racers to build a quality low budget rac-ing series in our California High Desert area. MDR's races have not been perfect, but his occa-sional problems are not because he's a fool or a shyster. The Checkers have solidly given our support to this promoter and have seen nothing to date to make us question that decision. AND FINALLY - I know it's a long way off, but we're headed back down to La Paz again this year. There are quite a few Checker cars already signed up to run this legendary race and a map and pit locations for this SCORE race are already laid out on the sign up sheet. Like they've been sayin' for years, "this one could be the last one", so make your plans early to be a part of this year's great off road racing adventure. This is a race that always brings out the best in our Club. The Baja 1000 is the true Holy Grail of desert racin' .and nobody does 'The l-4il' better than the Checkers.■ NEW ADVENTURES IN OFF-ROAD RACING TONOPAH 1130011 APRIL 17, 18, 19, 1998 "AN EPIC NEVADA OFF-ROAD RACE" SILVER STATE 1130011 = JUNE 26, 27, 28, 1998 "THE MOST SCENIC OFF-ROAD RACE IN THE WORLD" "VEGAS TO RENO"---OCTOBER 1,2,3,4, 1998 "THE LONGEST OFF-ROAD RACE IN THE UNITED STATES" "TERRIBLE'S TOWN 1125011 DECEMBER 4,5,6, 199 "THE RICHEST OFF-ROAD RACE IN NEVADA" *THE BEST OF THE BEST* MOTORCYCLES QUADS ~ :~» t.OODrrEAII ELlt1l!.!! ll!E!.'l. TRUCKS CARS 1:allstate::' ,.. carrcntal - !!Dl!ll!ll!B 11-FOR MORE INFORMATION SPORTMOTORCYCLES BESTiruTHE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION 3475C BOULDER HWY. 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FAIR News· By Jay Bancroft This Remarkable FAIR chick that writes the FAIR column appreciates the press from the Checkers. Thank you, someday, you may have one of your very own. I only wish I could keep up with the article every month. I am always trying to play catch up, but until someone else spends as much time at every race and FAIR meetings as I do, I suppose I will keep plugging away at the Dusty Times. We go to the MDR race from November ... Fair had about 12 rac-ers, including a few that don't race all the time. Eric Heiden and Boonie came out to race the truck and had one of their best runs with a FIRST -place. Hall Hibbard and partner Gene Jacobsen in a truck got a second place. The Fays raced, which was a surprise since they have been racing MORE. The girls had a shot of bad luck with the new truck and ended up rolling. I think something broke in the front end, causing the truck to dig in. Bill Markel had some motor problems again and couldn't start the race. Tim Braden had some smooth racing then leading to a first place. · Dennis Beckwith raced his truck ex-periencing only a flat in what he said was a rough course for a truck, he said he spent the day trailing the first place truck and finished second. Our friends in 9 cars started with Max Hanberg getting a first place and the championship. Joel Mohr and Paul Moen had a tough day with a broken shock tower, broke a spring plate, but enjoyed their day with a third even after finding a moment to dice it out with DonJohnson inHanberg's car. Harry Dunne and Roy Smith in their 9 car had a good day. Harry thought he had too much fuel which bogged the car down, but Roy cruised around one .lap to finish second. Mike Giannatasio raced his 8 truck and had a good time. He told me he sure wished he had the Dodge Trophy Truck, as the truck was just pound-ing him to death. I am not sure how he finished, he had quite a bit of down time. FAIR had a great season with MDR, and we appreciate all the races that Paul Duffy and his crew put on. Paul awarded FAIR a plaque for his appreciation of FAIR's support as a Pit Club for the 1997 season. PARKER 400 in December had FAIR racers from Arizona: and Tracy Teston was kind enough to take the FAIR van out for support for the race. Gary Bancroft, Harry Dunne and Bruce Streeper were among the members who drove out to help pit where they could. I am not sure who all the racers were, but I know only of Lee Finke, Tracy Tes ton, and I recall Mike Giannatasio. Sorry guys, I didn't get the final results. Glen Helen was pretty quiet for FAIR this year. We all know that the weekend ended up being a real rainy one. Bill Markel attempted to race only to have motor problems again practicing on Friday. So he never started the truck on Saturday. The Fays raced the truck in the rain, and I understand were the only ones that had windshield wipers. MDR race in January. FAIR had about 12 racep;. It seems most of the FAIR racers this year are kinda do-ing the pick and choose of races. The only one that has stepped up ... is the team of Dave Massingham and Wayne Morgan. They are going to nc~ !"!n•~ •• .-.-IIQl'•·••lf""'W -=t::%e=!: ~ -fj:fti ·, -mifiriw Northern California & Nevada 1998 RACE SCHEDULE MARCH 28 & 29 APRIL 25 & 26 JUNE 20 & 21 JULY 25 & 26 SEPT. 5, 6 & 7 OCT. 10 & 11 OCT. 31 & NOV. 1 SEASON OPENER 1 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA, SACRAMENTO, CA SPRING SPECIAL i MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA, SACRAMENTO, CA YERINGTON 300 DESERT RACE 300 MILE DESERT RACE, 4- 75 MILE LAPS RACE HEADQUARTERS, DINl'S LUCKY CLUB YERINGTON, NEVADA TOP GUN 300 DESERT RACE 300 MILE DESERT RACE, 3-90 MILE LAPS TOP GUN DRAGSTRIP FALLON, NEVADA TOP GUN TWILIGHT RACE 250 MILE DESERT RACE, 4-60 MILE LAPS TOP <SUN DRAGSTRIP FALLON, NEVADA YERINGTON TO FALLON AND BACK 125 MILE POINT TO POINT AND RETURN RACE .HEADQUARTERS, CASINO WEST YERINGTON, NEVADA FALL SHORT COURSE RACE 1 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA, SACRAMENTO, CA 1998 SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP 1 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PLUS MECHANICS AND LADIES Rfi.CE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA, SACRAMENTO, CA VALLEY OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION 1833 LOS ROBLES BLVD. SACRAMENTO, CA 95838 (916) ?~5-1702 • FAX (916) 925-8217 • WWW.VORRA.COM Page 38 April 1998 tty and race the full MDRseason with the 1 unlimited car. They got a late start off the line because after the rain during the night the car just didn't want to get started... they had coil problems. After Dave got going, he was like lightning getting around the pack. But I guess the mud was a little too much for the Beast and some-thing froze in the motor and took them out of the race. Ron Osburn and Danny Drake in their unlimited car had their share of mud and water and got stuck in the dry lake bed and a ditch. After that Ron hit something hard causing Danny some major pain in the upper body and back, he had to get out and John Lucas got in. The day got worse and they broke a fin-ger in the rear torsion adjuster, got it fixed and finished second. Eric Hei-den and Boonie in the truck did not have as good a day as last race. He broke an axle and had to trailer the truck. T&J's finished for a win, after they too found it slow through the lake bed. It was a long day even after down time fixing the transfer case, but the first place win was worth it. Strode.and Hintz in their 5-1600 said they cruised through the day in the mud and found the course was com-pletely washed out in the lake bed. They had a great time though trying to soak the co-driver every opportu-nity they could. They finished with a third. Bill Markel looked like his luck was going to tum around ... especially since now the motor was really work-ing gpod. But he found himself hit-ting hard at the ditch at the cross street near Bessimer and was doused with water several times to stall. Af-_ter the fourth lap Bill started losing gears and realized he had lost the trans. What a shame, he had a great lead, he was out of the race. Joel Mohr and Paul Moen had a little dif-ferent experience in the mud ... they found themselves spinning. The sec-ond time they hit the lake bed the car took on so much mud and water they stalled. This was the situation for the rest of the day, putting them down to finishing fifth. Max Hanberg in his 9 car got a third. I understand he had a lot of down time with some tire problems. Jimmy Messick raced with us and got a second. And the Johnsons who hadn't been out for awhile and raced on their own got the first place finish. What a great job Scott and Brady Wisdom did as Race Managers for this event I understand they put on a mean Bar~B-Q with the help of Don Bowler. The FAIR pits had their work cut out for them all day with keeping up with rags for the cars doused with mud and water. A big thank you goes to Mike Shannon for getting the FAIR van out to the race, and to Don Bowler for driving the van home. Laughlin was a last minute effort to get a group together to support the racers as we were notified at the last minute of several racers. HEY SCORE and MDR racers you really need to let Bill Markel know at least the meeting before a race what your intensions are for racing the off road events! We had great support from the Dan Fisk and Jeff Quinn team at MAIN and Don Bowler and his friend Tim took the road crossing back behind the high school. I ended up hanging out at the road crossing looking for some excitement. Found the makeshift pit to be pretty quiet both days, but we sure saw a lot of action. Testing on Friday found Dan Fisk and Ron Osburn a little sore on the start of the Saturday race. Dan had gone out testing and took Ron Osburn for a ride and found them-selves launching off a berm and land-ing hard after about 100 miles per hour. Dan and Jeff did not finish on Saturday's race or Sunday's race so the weekend was a disappointment in the unlimited car. Mitch Griffin and rider Stacy had some great laps Saturday and Sunday, they ended up with a sixth place. Jason Hatz got the first in 1/2-1600. Mike Nix and Brian Dague in the 5 unlimited with it's pretty new paint job had a good day Saturday with a second, but Sunday wasn't as great as they lost the trans. Tim Braden raced his 7 truck for the first time with SCORE and what a showing. With the SCORE compe-tition he had he was able to end up with a third from both days. The Steinberger ProTruck was not as lucky ... it was a disappointing week-end for that crew. They had prob-lems both days, including running out of gas. They were seventh.Tom Rid-ings had a seventh on Saturday and a fourth on Sunday, I am not sure how he ended up in the 1200 class. George Perret entered the Sportsman 7 truck class to see how his new truck could run. Things didn't start out good for them, they were repairing the power steering before they even raced on Saturday. Throughout the weekend they were involved in some major repairs, but George said they learned a lot and had a good time. Lorenzo Rodriquez (WR Racing) raced his new 1/2-1600 car that he just bought the Wednesday before the race. He did find some handling needs for the new car and struggled during the weekend, but he gave it his best just to be ractn'. Mike Giannattasio brought out the Trophy Truck and Scott McKinney shared part of. the driving. They really did well with a fourth on Saturday and a sixth on Sunday. All in all, FAIR saw a lot of members racing, but many chose to do their own thing... this sounds like a good subject for one of the FAIR meetings as we may see more of these short course races! ATTENTION FAIR MEM-BERS, if you have been to a FAIR · J.Ueeting lately we are seriously con-sidering changing the annual mem-bership dues and Board elections to a calendar process instead pf our cur-rent fiscal July. This would put us in line with the start of the race season. We would like your input, we plan to put it to a vote the meeting of March 4th or March 18th. If you want to be part of this decision, please plan to attend these two meetings. Our challenge is to decide if we con-tinue dues and The Board until Janu-ary 1999 or have our normal Board election and dues in July and have a shortyearuntilJanuary 1999. This is a major change to our by-laws and we feel all members should be aware of this change. CHAl1 CORNER By Joel Mohr First off, I'd like to thank every-one who responded to last month's article. It's great to hear so many people are excited about the new racing season. It sounds like I will be able to have Class 9 race reports from most of the West Coast races, including some team reports, and a few technical tidbits now and then. If anyone else would like to con-tribute, call me, and we'll try to squeeze it in. Ken Freeman, SNORE's race di-rector, called and faxed me the re-sults from the TERRIBLE TOWN 200. Check this out. Eighteen Dusty Times

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Challengers took · the green flag. 18!T! that's the biggest bunch I've seen in a while. Ken told me that ·two cars came from Utah and one guy came from Idaho! (These brave souls undoubtedly heard about the $1,500 first place check SNORE was giving away.) Unfortunately, he couldn't remember their names. Maybe some day we'll get back to the 30 to 40 cars we used to get at the SCORE races. Good job guys (and girls)! My hat is definitely off to everyone who made the show. Judging by the times, there was a good sized group dicing it out in the early stages. Ryan Shank was lead-ing on the clock with Dan Ferell, Mark Bunderson, Kevin Steele, Earl West, Roger Shank, and Chick (Chuck?) Martin all within a two minute blanket afterone lap! That's almost half the field! A couple of laps later, only Martin and West could keep up the blistering pace Ryan Shank had set. It looks like West slowed a bit on laps 4 and 5, and Martin had trouble on lap 5. Ryan Shank and Barry Roland took the win and that $1,500 home. Nice going! I've diced with Ryan before and anyone that can keep up with him has something to brag about. Ryan (as usual) did a mas-terful job of prepping. I'm sure that $1,500 will come in handy. One thing that sucks about results sheets is the lack of co-driver info. Most teams have two drivers, but there's only one driver of record. Maybe someday we can get that fixed (hint, hint). If you haven't heard, SNORE and MDR will be using SCORE's rule book and I feel a need to em-phasize the change in which the cars will be weighed. The cars will now be weighed dry. Dry weight is considered to be the car, without any spare parts, tools, or fuel in it. Single seaters need to be 1550#s, and two seaters need to be 1350#s. The weight difference is designed to keep the playing field level for those of us who like to have pas-sengers along (and to verify our crazy stories about "almost rolled it's"). Trying to get a two seater to weight 1350# full of fuel was next to impossible, and most 9s, in gen-eral, weight about 1500# dry to start with. So adding a little weight to the single seaters (if needed), will make all of the cars closer in weight and closer on the track. Not that anyone was running away with any-thing, but with a restricted car, ev-ery little bit helps. If you need to add weight, remember to have it bolted down and tagged by an offi-cial. Getting DQ'd for being under-weight has happened more than a few times already, and with this change in procedure, will probably happen more often. You can have your car weighed at any public scale for a couple of bucks. Some places even do it free. Check your local phone book under "SCALES". Once again, thanks for your re-sponses, and give me a call if you'd like to contribute (780) 94 7-664 7. See you at the races!! Mag7 Racing Team News By Stephen T. Stenberg Mag 7 Racing T earn is gearing up for its first event of the -year, the SCORE San Felipe 250. The Race d:;ite is March 20-22, 1998, down Dusty Times in San Felipe, Baja California. They will be running four pits, one every 50 miles. Three of the four pits are dual pits. They will take on both vehicles, motor-cycles and quads. The fourth pit is only a gas stop for the motor-cycles and quads. Mag 7 sent out 179 signup forms and race calenders for 1998 to our racers and pit personnel, both here in the States and in Canada, Germany and Japan. Mag 7 yearly dues are upon us again. January is the month, and dues are $15.00 per calender year if you are a pit crew member. If you are a racer with out team, then your yearly dues are payable at the first race of the season with us. Membership dues are used in part to pay for such items ·as in-ternal supplies, copies, mailers, food and drink for our meetings, and to help maintain our equip--ment. Currently, of the 179 members that we have, 47are active racers with Mag 7 and SCORE from year to year. We currently have team members in Trophy Truck, Classes 1-1600, 3, 5-1600, 8, 9, 10, 11, 21 Pro and Sportsman, 22 Pro and Sportsman, 30 Sports-man, and 25 Sportsman. Racer packets are available by calling phone number 760-745-5740 or by faxing Mag 7 at 760-745-1137, and asking for Wayne or Debbie, our Race Directors. A racer packet will be mailed of faxed to you directly. The cutoff for pit support for the San Felipe250 is March 3rd. After that, and up to March 14th, all entries will add a $50.00 late fee to their applica-tions. All racers musy have their spares and gas at the pit pickup location no later than March 13, 1998. The phone number there is 619-582-3728. Ask for Terry. The pit equipment pickup is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, 1998 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. SHARP! You cna call that num-ber for any additional information concerning Mag 7 or to leave a message. Or you can reach us at our updated web page <www.Walsh.com/Mag7>. The T earn is also looking to pit the Ve-gas to Reno race this year. They are planning four pits, one every 100 miles. For the team to pit this long race so close to the Baja 1000 to La Paz, we will be looking for at least 10 entries to be pre-paid in full to us by July 1, 1998. If we get ten or more entries, Mag 7 will be pitting the race. If not, then we will refund all monies paid to us in full. Call for pit fees at phone number 760-745-5740 and ask for Wayne or Debbie. Mag 7 has picked up two new sponsors, along with our long time sponsor, SKS V:,ilvoline Oil in San Diego. Recently, Jobsite Supply Co. in San Diego Ooey Krys) donated to Mag 7 Race Team nine 55 gal-lon Fuel Pumps and eight Bung Wrenches. Also, Nelson Equip-ment of San Diego (Red, Jeff and Greg Nelson) donated a new en-gine to replace a blown one on our Miller Welder #4 from the 1000, and will do the repair at cost. A hearty welcome aboard, and thank you goes out to all three of these companies, for whom we couldn't survive without their help and sponsorship. Mag 7 Race T earn can handle any of your basic pit needs and we will always be there for you as long as you are still racing and the clock is still ticking. So come on down and join the fun and excitment at the 1998 San Felipe 250 on March 21st, and sign up with Mag 7 Race T earn to take care of your racer and pit needs. And if you're not racing_ this race, then come on down any-way and join a pit crew. Watch the race from the sidelines and share in the fun with Mag 7 .Adios until next month and good luck to all those racers that are entered in the race T earn Baja. ■ c.o~R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker The second outing for the CORE race teams was the MOR Wild Wash 250 in Barstow. With the rain, the infamous Barstow holes were full o( ice water mak-ing it a cold sloppy mess for a few laps followed by dust free awe-some racing. With six CORE entries the teams managed to grab two sec- . onds, a third, and a fourth place finish keeping up the fight for the year end points races in three classes and the overall points race. One of the most impressive race efforts was that of Malcolm Bryce and Perry King in their number 1664 single seat 1600. Malcolm started the race and posted three very consis.tent fast laps with no problems. Malcolm handed the car to Perry King who pulled double duty, just stepping out of his Class 9 that he handed over to his son. Petry drove the last three laps and ended up with second place in class missing first place by only five seconds. Mal-colm and Perry now lead the class 1600 MOR points, great job guys, keep it up. The team of Kevin McGillivray and Jim Greenway in their Chen-owth Class 10 number 1056 had a rough fourth lap but toughed it out to grab second place in their class. Jim started the race, clicked off three great laps (including class fast lap) with only the loss of fifth gear to slow him down a bit. Kevin took over on lap four and was having a great run until he attempted to jump a hole that only birds could fly over. The front bumper dug into the ground which endoed the car flat on the lid then barrel rolled five to seven times. This was according to the spectating driver of car 1013 that suffered a similar fate in the same hole. After it was over the driver of 1013 ran over and stuck his head inside the cage and asked Kevin "Are you alive?" Less than three miles from main pit, Kevin hobbled the car into CORE main for repairs. The car survived re-markably well only needing a tire, two quarts of oil, pounding out the dents and duct taping the roof back on. Jim got back in and fin-ished the last two laps, captured second place in class in the eight car field. Kevin may have broken his wrist and some fingers in the crash, we hope he's back on the course soon. The King family Challenger number 956 had a handful of troubles but they forged their way through to finish third in Class 9. As previously mentioned, Perry drove the first two laps with son Jeff riding before they handed the car over to son Jay. Perry and Jeff April 1998 lost some time driving on a flat tire before they got it changed at a CORE pit. Jay and Jeff drove the last four laps having one flat tire, had some cracks welded in main pits, and broke a ball joint on the last lap. The Kings would like to thank CORE pitters Mike Malloy and Greg Shapiro for finding and fixing the broken ball joint so they could finish third out of the eight car field. New to CORE is the very clean and very new Suspensions Unlim-ited two seat 1600 owned by Mike Long. Mike and his family have a long standing relationship with off road racing and it was only a mat-ter of time before the younger generation became active in rac-ing. Mike had L.J. Kennedy and Myself, Sandy Parker drive this race for him in number 1608. Butch Biggerstaff and Don Augus-tine shared the co-driving duties. I started the race and drove the first three laps having no car troubles but did have some prob-lems finding the course markers on the first lap. Also on the first lap we saw fellow CORE racer Mike Malloy upside down, so we assisted in getting him out of the car. I had some of the best racing of my life swapping positions with number 1622. Long time and suc-cessful 1600 racer L.J. Kennedy took over and drove the last three laps posting very consistent times with no mechanical problems. Mike was able to pick up a fourth place trophy out of 15 starters. With a second an fourth place fin-ished in the first two races, I have no doubt that when Mike irons out the new car bugs, this team will be tough to beat! CORE's heavy metal entry was Terry Sheldon's big number 854 Class 8 truck. Only the second race on this super clean truck but they are still working out the gremlins. The guys had a great first lap but broke a rear drive axle on lap two. They managed to get a spare axle to the truck and got it back on the course and made another full lap when the other axle exploded. The truck is said to have over 480 horsepower and with Terry's right foot always bur-ied to the floorboard the truck is always hard on parts. Terry is still leading the MDR points standings after two races, keep it up Terry. The team of Mike and Tom Malloy looked like they were go-ing to dominate 1600 again with Mike passing.everything in sight. Mike started the race in his num-ber 1644 single seat 1600 and got lost two times on the first lap but managed to make up all the lost positions. Just before Pit A he was attempting to pass a car when he hit a berm that rolled the car on the roof. A 5-1600 car pulled up and attempted to negotiate bor-rowing a tire off ofMikes's upside down race car. Mike is currently in College and must have taken some salesman courses since he not only got both drivers out of their car to help him to get his car · on it's wheels but then found a terminal problem on their car that put them out of the race. Ba.ck on his wheels, Mike blistered the course passing back all the chal-lengers and 5-1600s that passed him and started working his way through the 1600s. Completing lap number three the spring plate broke in the main pits, ending his day. Mike and Tom are still close to the top in the MOR Class 1600 points. Main Pit was buzzing with ac-tivity with driver changes and fuel stops for the numerous CORE cars. CORE Main was run by Mike DuBois, Malloys, McGillivrays, and the Greenways. CORE's electronics division got a workout when welding was needed on the King's Challenger. CORE "Able", manned by Jim Wagner and crew changed a flat tire for Jay King's 956 Challenger and worked on a few non CORE cars. CORE "Baker", with Paul Smith as pit .captain, Darin McGuffin, and Greg and Brian Johnson enjoyed the weather and great racing at the Hodge Road Plateaux. The only action they saw was when we pulled in our 1608 to tell them that 1644 had rolled just before Pit A. CORE "Charley", headed by Mr. Brad Inch, Dennis Dean and Scott Gary changed a tire on King's 954 and on a non CORE 5-1600. CORE race teams would like to say a generous "THANK YOU!" to all the members who came out to the race for their support. CORE is growing and gaining momentum and it is all because of the dedicated and professional pit people like you who come out race after race. CORE Pit Club is gearing up to support Darin McGuffin/Ditfield and McGillivray/Greenway in their upcoming Baja 500 races in June. Looking for a professional family oriented off road racing pit organization?. CORE pit club is always interested in finding new members and offering them professional and efficient pit support. CORE has regular monthly meeting~ on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligan's Restaurant in Santa Clarita. For more information pleas call (818) 772-7758 or E-Mail us at race975@aol.com. ■ CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA95 for SODA C~lete blower systems for Single or double seat cars. 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~~D (213)583-2404 SANDERS SERVICE, tNC. METAL PROCESSING 5921 Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90001 SANDBLAST GLASS BEAD MAGNETIC PARTICAL FLOU~ESCENT INSPECTION Mark Smith Larry Smith E1 Centro, CA .................. . 800-989-4645 E1 Cajon, CA ...................... 800-458-2711 Indio, CA ................................. 800-989-3278 Las Vegas, NV ............ ........ 702-643-9200 Long Beach, CA ................ 310-432-3946 Oxnard, CA ............................ 805-485-6900 Perris, CA ............................ 800-969-3835 van Nuys, CA .................... ... 818-786-8180 Riverside, CA .................. . 909-877-0226 All Other Inquiries, contact Sports Racing at P.O. Box 610, Long Beach, CA 90801 800-836-5355 DoN STEVES CHEVROLEl ~·-... --.,.., ... _,.~:_.t--,-'2.-~':"J'i·~ .. ~ -~ -~:·_ ~.,.~~;.4~~ :-:-~~,:_ .. ~ ~ -~::. .. -;::-•• , -: ... ., e . .,., ASK FOR TUCKER Motorsports Diredor Sales & Leasing Whittier Blvd. at Harbor Lo Habra, California 90631 (31 0) 691-6704 (714)521-1102 Fax (310) 691-9396 Custom Preparation & Fabrication Race Trucks • Sugg/es • Pre-Runners (619) 449-9728 FAX (619) 449-2678 9419 Abraham Way, Suite "A". Santee, CA 92071 ----------IEnl ALUMINUM WHEEL STRAIGHTENING 31510 223rd street East Llano, CA 93544 · 805-201-3202 ~ Design Fabrl;;at/on -Installation Darren Ebberts Tony Cerone (909) 340-4684 FAX (909) 340-4689 4!10 E PRINCELAND CT SUITE 4 CORONA CA !1171 !I ,... CVMPUTEf!IZEO VINYL Gf!APHICS & LETTEf!ING IIIH I YIM I ,.._ /.0-C.OST t,LOG SIGNS ( Al:r. P/l?OCESSES) -,.._ Tf!ACJE SH'.JW OISPu•,:rs ,-. = = ~ ''C ,... CJETAILEO & u-1/QUE CJESIGNS ,,.... ';t~JJ;·-~,:E,';,2f£'1f; s ,.._ HI-QU-\LfTY MNNERS ,-.MAGNETICS ,-. LOGO KEPROOUCTONS ,-. ~EAL ESTATE ,-. LOGO & GRAPHIC OES/GN ,-. OECA.LS OFF ROAD RACING SPECIALISTS VVEWING • FABRICA TON • FLAIIIE CUTTING • FFUI/T £/JDS • R£AR TRAILJNG ARMS RACE 0/ASS/S • PRERUNNERS • FOX RAONG SHOX LARRY ROSEVEAR 13,s:i DYNAMICS. UNlr 0 ANAHEIM, CA 92806 PHONE {714) 996-6260 FAX {714)996-6405 Thompson Engineering· Now Offering Hi-Flo Intake Manifolds and Racing Oil Pans for Toyota Engines Distributed by ·RACEREADY aoo-ss&-3378 TOTALLY TRIJCKS Inc. Off' Road and Street True~ After Market Parts, Accessories, Installation a111l Complete Custom Audio -nJI• "'Jec~ ~·., uft 3520 East 1to eo,,,p : ~:r,e' MD~ter Charleston Blvd. }4~pe!tec~ ·ft • M,SO Las Vegas, Nevada gr,,itt~ A,a.tf<> M,efef (702) 457-2809 K& N Get the word out about your business, big or small. Put your business card in the "GOOD STUFF DIRECTORY" and reach new customen. Good Stuff Directoq. Ads are merel~fis].oo per month. Trackside Photo Off-road race photography since 1970 Fidel Gonzales 805-578-34 70 ; P .O. Box 747, Moorpark, CA 93020 l(IICE TN/INS BY JEFF RELJ)'S TRfiNSfiXLE ENGINEERING JEFF FIELD· 818-998-2739 9833 Deering Unit H Chatsworth, CA 91311 TRANSMISSIONS WEST Specializing In High Pert. Transa1des • vw • PORSCHE • OFF ROAD WE RACE WHAT WE SEll (800) 435-0416 • (310) 782-2413 22545 S. Nom:andie • Torrance, CA 90501 [UMP] 619/449-9690 UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEATLANDS AVENUE SUITE A SANTEE. CA 92071 CUSTOM SHEET METAL SHOP AIR CLEAMER SYSTEMS FUU LINE OF POWER STEERING FOR AU TYPES 'vF RACING-& RECREAnONAL VEHICLES PRODUCTION SHO? (TABS, BRACKETS, BODIES, ETC.) BRUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Coast P.O. Box 1319 Phone: (909) 674-9167 34283 Monte Vista Fax: (909) 674-7367 Wildomar, CA 92595 · Pager: (909) 694-7392 RACE CARS BAJA BUGS DUNE BUGS V. W. & PORSCHE FOREIGN CARS NISSAN & TOYOTA • Transmissions • Parts and Service • Complete Welding Lorenzo Rodriguez • 515 So. Vermont, Glendora, CA 91740 • (818) 914-8147

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Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR • ~-1HEUVINK CONSULTING t>u111 ic Rf.l.ATfl>NS & MARKF.f'INC: . EIJ HEUVINK I.AURIE DUNLAP -VICE PRESIDENT 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507 USA 9-09-369-5144 FAX 909-369-7266 From Parts to , Complete Engines .j' 'I Engine Dyno · Service 535 East -,.ri•~at Park Anaheim, CA 92802 714-956-9457 ' MEDIACENTRUM UTRECHT HENGEVELnSTRAAT 2'1416, 3572 KH UTRECHT TIJE NETHERLANDS TEL. 030-2722133, I<'AX 030-2722632 Monn,E 116-5~25:\538, HoME/PR1V1<~.03o-:zz10Jllls, , Off Road Race Truclis • Pre Runners ,t.. - . ~ . . , . PUSLIC'RELATIONS AND MARKETING CONSULTANTS Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels Chassis Design • Engineering • Fabrication . ' . EDWIN C . <JACOBS • . Dale White Racing 3940 Maranatha Circle Las Vegas. NV 89103 70Z·871-I661 PRESIDENT •• .:·soosTA,:E Ml;_L RDAP AKRClN, OHIO 44319 , ~ ·-~ ~-J~)~~::;.7.7?_.~.· •,,;..,!.v ~ t,, ·• ..-.! .· } ........... "" .. ...,, ...... ~ 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 85017 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 LOOK FOR DUSTY .TIMES~ NEW WEB SITE. Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Jimco 1-1600 New Fod Combos, new 300m Torsions. Wright, UMP, Fox, CNC, Fresh Motor & trans, Heim shifter, Flame-out, Very fast car, no exp spared $14,500.00obo. Call Sean (909) 343-3277. FOR SALE: 1997 Points Champion. A-arm Jimco, first place Baja 1000, first place Parker 400-Summer Bros., Kuster, CNC, Fortin, Mastercraft, 30 gal cell, some spares included. anns, spindles etc. Call Danny at (909) 687-5118 8 a.m.-6 p.m. FOR SALE: New Class 9 single seat. FORSALE:.Cherokee 4wd. Class 3 FOR SALE: Class 9, Single Seat, SCORE legal. New rear end, 9" w/ FormerSNOREoverallpointscham1-1 Currie axles 35 spline. 360 motor. 400 pion,· Fox Shox, Parker Pumper, a bo top quality components, Ready to FORSALE:Pre-runner429cu.in.C-Tur transmission:. Goodyear tires race, w/licensed trailer. $7,300.00 w/4 spares. Parker Pumper. 12 · 6 beefed full cage, multi shocks front Rancho shocks 212 spares. 55 gal Fuel (702) 252-8505 or (702) 247-8627 and rear, Ratchet shifter, Auto Fab Safe. Race ready. $l0,OOO.OO obo w/ _G_re_.g.._,_ev_e_n_in_.g,_s_. ______ _ beams,.Beardseats,Simpsonhamess. Albe (6 9) 9 FOR SALE; Dana 60 Rear end Many extras. $6,500.00 obo (602) rt 1 661-112 · (66.5" Flange to Flange), 4.56: 1, 978~2728. FOR SALE: 1987 Ranger extracab Moser Axles, Disc brakes, Big drive FOR SALE: Jimco 4 seat pre-runner, 'pre-runnern unlimited. Caged roll- studs, (5) Alcoa 15x8" Wheels drilled Kuster coilover shocks, Type N, Dual ing chassis with rear/wishbone, front out for the big studs, front rotors for 44 Webers,IRSBus, 930c.v.s,Biganns I beam setup. All coilover with 24" Chevy spindles w/bug studs. Take it &spindles, Ump power steering, Mas-rear, 18" front. Big rod ends, 32 gal-all for $1,350.00 (760) 723-2117. tercraft, Adjustable peddle assem, 5 lon cell, fiberglass, 9" disc brakes, 2 FOR SALE: Street legal buggy. point harness, light bar, .Beautiful Alu- transmissions. Glass/interiors prts. 4 1640cc VW two seater, ext trailing minum body, 136"EB, handles better 35" Bajas, clean FAB, needs little to anns, dual carbs, bus tranny, alum than most off road racers!!! $34,500.00 complete. $6,500.00. Jim (310) 54 2-body. (800) 334-8411 (leave message (619) 588-9226. 2977. . on voice mail) $3,500.00. DON-A-VEE Blow Out Sale - Tro-phy Truck: This is the winningest Trophy Truck of 1997, 540hp VS Motor, Kuster coilover shocks by LeDuc all the way around. BFGs on headlocks, great spares package. Race support and sponsorship negotiable! Call Baja Brokers Ref #638 $79,900.00 ALSO CLASS 8: SOLD, Keep an eye out for this Cherokee with a new paint job at the Baja 500. ALSO; Stock Mini: Factory built by Don-A-Vee racing, 4wd, Awesome Rally/Raid vehicle, call for more in-formation. Baja Brokers Ref #644 $39,900.00. Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. (760) 723-2117. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate i,s 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. · Everything new and neverout of the garage. SAW 300m, Fuel Safe, Fox • Shocks, BFGs on Chrome. Parker, • Beard, Saco, UMP, CNC dual cylin-• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • der, new beautiful aluminum, WR Trans, PCI mount, needs motor and wiring to race. Divorce sale $2,975.00 or Best/Trade. (562) 930-0615. , FOR SALE: 7-1 Ford 460 V-8, com-pletely rebuilt by Private Perfor-mance. Never fired up. Oil pan to 4 barrel carb. Complete for pre-runnor or tow vehicle. $1,200.00 (909) 364-5013. . Dusty Times Enclosed is $ ----(Send check or money order,·.nci cash) Name ------~----------------------~---Address Phone ------------------------------City State __ Zip ________ _ times ---Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Cha ts worth, CA 91311-4408 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• April 1998 Page 45

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.,. FOR SALE: 1997 Ford Ranger, 7S SODA legal, Auto Meter Gauges, Bilstein reservoir shocks, Beard seat, Dana 60 with 35 spline spool. Very strong motor, lots of good parts. Call for details, $14,000.00 con. oho call Thomas (705) 786-1879 FOR SALE: Class 9 single seat, fresh-fast-fun, only the best, FOX, KCs, Tri-Mill, Supertrapp, Dual Master cylinder, S~ay-A-Way, PCI mount and more, plus many spare parts. Ready to win! $5,800.00 firm. Keith (310) 644-9645. Dave (408) 356-5716 cars in IA. FOR SALE: Brand new Toyota 3.5 Liter aluminum V 6 built by Dave Bonner@ FAT Perf. All new top of the line parts. Dyno tested at 340hp and 380 torque. Complete and ready to bolt in $16,000.00 Call Dave at (909) 766-4222days (909) 652-1880 FOR SALE: Class 5 pre-runner. Junco Chromoly chass-is, 3x3 rear arms, FOX shocks, powere steering, major 207a4cc engine, all FTC gears, very clean. $11,500.00, ask for Dale @ (909) 766-4222 days or (909) 652-1880 eves. FOR SALE: Class 1/2 single seat Raceco: 127" wb. 100°/4 Chromoly construction, Torsion Bar Rear w/ Kuster bypass shocks, & Summers Hubs & disc brakes, Beard super seat, Charlyn ps, YOO instrumen-tation, Parker Pumper and more! $9,000.00 oho (may part out) Con-tact Ron Brown@ (602) 843-8223 or (602-369-3198. FOR SALE". 2-1600 Chenowth Pre-Runner, 1600cc motor, Bus trans &c.v.s, Wright Place R&P, Tie rods, Spindles, King Pins and lower arms, Sway-A-Way torsions F/F, Link pins and tie rod ends, Fox Shox with reservoirs 1 # /side front, 3#/side rear. New tires, Centerline rims. Charlyn Power Steering, spare tires and misc., $4,500.00 firm, call Kenny (760) 356-2703. .Page 46 FOR SALE: Parts; *3.0L Porsche 6 cyl complete w/46 Webers & Electro-motive ignition. Needs bottom end work! $3,500.00 *Toyota V-6 Dual Overhead Cam Motor (IMZ) Shock motor, Complete $1,000.00 *Big Type IV Parts: Heads, Crank, Dual 48 W ebers, 911 Alt W !Shroud, Fly-wheel & Clutch and more. Call for prices. *Hewland DG 300 T ransaxle, Billet side covers, Slipper Clutches for 930 or 934.5 c.v.s, Race Ready $5,500.00 Contact Ron Brown @ (602) 843-8223 or (602) 369-3198. FOR SALE: CIASS 1, single seat, 94' RCD (Race Car Dynamics) chassis. Former Sourapas/Fortin, Pate/Ewalt. 2nd pl 97' Primm. LIGHT and strong 1,956 lbs wet. Major/McDowell 2.9 Type IV. Fortin rear hubs, trans, racd. Sweet, CNC, FOX 3" bypass rear, SAW 2" bypass front, 934.5 c.v.s, 20" front, 21" rear, ground up prep, new (Wild Wash) front end and body, no expense spared, thousands in spares including 19 BFGs on Centerlines, spindles, etc. LIKE NEW, Call for list of parts. $39,000.00 oho Call Bill (619) 435-8936. WHITE LIGHTNING SPECIAL: for sale: Dale White's Class 8 Chevy truck, Super bitchin', By-pass shocks, ~-10 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 Team 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. CLASS 8/PRE-RUN CHEVY: Ex-LaRana Class 850, very light clean and sunple, 15+ wheel travel, (8) 2_2" Kusters, National springs, (6) 35" BFG Bajas, New 350cid/375 hp, TH-400 tranny by Steve Culhane, Ford 9" w/spool, "96 fiberglass front clip, Autometer liquid filled guages, Beards, This truck would make a great pre-runner also! Call for details, Baja Brokers Ref #599 $20,000.00 (760) 723-2117 Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Class 11: Sway-A-Way, BFGs, Beard seats, Bilstein $3,500.00. Call John for Details, Afternoon and evenings (760) 868-5694. USED PARTS: Lots of Shrouds Tl/ T4 shrouds, Chenowth 2 seat alumi-mun roof, $125: Many VW Torsion Bars, $20-$50; Jeff Fields Bus Race Trany, $2,800; 12" Bilsteins w/Res-ervoirs, $100; Huge Air BumJ?S $200; Ranger sliding rear window, $40; Oil Coolers $40-$70; Aluminum Radia-tors, $100; Boxes oflights, $10-$55; 18" Lightning Rod Bypass shocks, $275; Empty Flame Out Bottle, $45; Limiting straps up the wazoo, $1 O; Keith Black 440 cid VB Dodge mo-tor, $3,500; 32" Eibach3. 75" ID coils, $200; Custom 4130 Upper and Lower A-arms $600; Supertrapp 19" Stain-less Steel Muffler, $120; Full Race 9" Rear End, $3,000; Dana 60 Summers Race Rear End $1,800; 12" and 14" Fox shocks, $100-$150; Mogi Race C-6 with Torque Converter, $1,200; Chrisman Rear End (less Hubs) $2,000; Chevy VB parts including Aluminum heads, blocks, rods, pis-tons, etc; Edelbrock Fuel Injection setup; Lots of 35" tires including (6) BajaT/Asingreatshape! (760) 723-2117 The Second Lap -Soon you will be able to browse our inventory on-line at www.bajaconcepts.com. ...:r·~f::~~:w.:_.:.,~1)· 15~.~ ... Top of The Line 7S: Ford Ranger 4WD, New Model Body, 3.0L4.Cyl-inder, 290+ HP, Mogi C-4 Tranny, 4 7 gallon Fuel Cell, Fox Front Shocks w/Resevoirs and Adjustable Damp-ing, Kuster Rear Shocks, National Spring, Chris-man 9" Rear End With 300M Axles, 9 First Place. Finishes Including the Baja 1000. Many, many spares, including spare race motor available for $15K. Baja Brokers Ref #584. $40,000.00 (760) 723-2117. Check out our new website at www.baj~concepts.com 1994 Chenowth 2 seater: Includes Hewland DG 300 transaxle. Needs motor and wiring. Wright front end, drop spindles, Coilover/f orsion front and rear, CNC hubs and disc brakes, Summers Bros. Outboard hubs w/ 930c.v. joints, Beadlock rear wheels, Complete fresh prep and car is in immaculate condition! Call for more details Ref #648 $19,000.00 (706) 723-211 7 Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: THE BEST CLASS 10 MONEY CAN BUY: '97 Jimco SS Mid-Engine Toyota A-Arm. Only 3 races on this state of the art Jimco "tum key" car. FAT's best 4AG, Fortins best 5 speed, Kuster bypass shocks, Summers etc. Meticulous attention to de-tail, powder coating, prepped w/ spares. Can easily be converted to Class 1. Over $70K invested, Ask-ing $47.5K. Todd @ (702) 348-7812. · April 1998 FOR SALE: 97 Chenowth 2 sea Class 1, Toyota Ta coma, Forti DGN 5 speed, Kusters front & rear, FodFab front end, 934 c.v.s, Sum-mers rear hubs, CNC front hubs, prepped w/spares, over $70K in-vested, best of everything, $48,500.00 complete oho, or $28,500.00 less mo-tor & trans oho. Jeff (602) 978-3073. FOR SALE: 1997 SCORE Overall Points Champion, True Grit &Mile-stone Award winner. Junco 2-1600 w/Best of Everything, Professionally maintained w/no expense spared. Rev Power motor, DJ Transaxle, Yokohama, Bilstein Bypass shocks, 25 gal Fuel Save, McKenzie's Billet Rear Drums, Charlyn, Ultra Seats, PCI, Intercom. Excellent condition. $25,000.00 spares available. Can also be seen in Hot VW Sept. 97 issue . Call Darnen at (909) 280-1093 or (909) 585-7931 or Casey at (909) 889-5612. FOR SALE; '93 Ford Ranger Class 7, 3.8 V6, 300 hp, V6 Trans, 9" Cone Rear, Cone front hubs, Wil-wood discs, Fox coilovers, Kuster shocks, Travel: 19" front, 23" rear, 35 gal. bladder, Goodyear tires, Ultra wheels, extra tires, Bead lock wheels, engine, trans and rear end parts. $25,000.00 obo (805) 968-1067 days. WINNING MINI-MAG: Bilstein coilover shocks at all 4 of wheel travel, Billet rear hubs, 16" of wheel travel, 570cc Yamaha motor, Parker Pumyer, tons of spares. This car was champion in 1993 and 1994. The ul-timate play car, call for more infor-mation, Baja Brokers Ref #538 $6,400.00 (760) 723-2117, Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 68 Baja, 1835cc, Full cage bumper to bumper, wide beam, Wright rack, Trip le Bilstein rear, Sun-pson belts, Beard seats, Nets, Center-lines, Very dependable, w /trailer $4,500.00 (562) 866-6986. FOR SALE: 1995Alfa Toyhouse5th Wheel, 35 foot E-2 load back ramp for Quads, Motorcycles or Dune Buggy. Self contained 4.0 Kohler gen-erator, 25 gallon gas tank, air condi-tioned, microwave, oak cabinets and entertainment center. $25,000.00or will consider trade for a Class A mo-tor home. (888) 666-3655 or e-mail dollbooks@aol.com. FOR SALE: 1994 7S Ford Ranger, FAT Performance Motor, Raced on one time aluminum head, steel rods, Chromoly cage; Aluminum 9" floater, LeDuc Lightning rod shocks, C-4 auto, Beard Seat, 12 Beadlocks with tires, Fuel Safe, Race Ready with lots and lots of extras, $25,000.00 Firm. Must sell due to wife's illness. (608) 845-9354 CST. FOR SALE: 95 Ford Rariger 7S Fresh Esslinger 2.3 4 cyl, stroker motor, 2-2 BBL 44 Weber carbs, Mogi C-4 Tranny, 44 gal. Fuel Cell, BFG.33-1050 Custer Shocks Ford 9" Rear, 40 spline axles, Flame Out. Fresh Prep race ready, many spares $40,000.00 Consider some trade. 1600-10 car or ? 40' enclosed goose neck race trailer avail. (702) 457-2809. FORSALE: 1988Class 12, 109" WB Single Seat, New 1776 VW, 13" Front travel, 4" Front arms, Fox Coilovers, Combos, 4 Wheel disc, 5x2 Rear Arms, 14" Bilsteins, 22" rear travel, 930s, Fresh Type 2 - 486 w/ Hewlands, Beard, Wright, Charlyn P/ S, Flame-Out, just prepped, can de-liver $7,000.00 Rob (714) 998-3201. FOR SALE: Race Cars, Pre-run-ners, Parts1 All you need for off road. ChecK it ou.t every month, right here, in Dusty Times. STOCK FULL F-150 Awesome truck!!! Driven by Rob MacCach-ren and Steve Olliges. 351 cid by Leon Patten, Valley Transmission did the C6 and Currie built the 8.8" rear end with a spool and 35 spline axles. 17" of front travel with (1) custom Kendall shock per wheel. Nationals in rear 19" travel on (1) custom Kendall shock per wheel. 35" BFG Mud terrains. Very com-petitive truck, hottest fab work, ready to race and win!!! Or throw in a windshield and make a great )?te-runner! Baja Brokers Ref# 618 $40,000.00 (760) 723-2117. Check out our new website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times

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THE ELUSIVE 2 SEAT A-ARM CAR - 1998 Lothringer Class 1, only the best of everything was used to build this car. Huge KING coilover and bypass shocks, CNC pedals, front hubs and billet calipers, Fortin transaxle, Beadlock wheels, 934.5 c.v. joints, Fortin rack and pinion, PCI race radio, Wiks 2888cc Type 4 with 200+ HP, no expense spared and this car just got 1st place overall at MDR 250, Baja Brokers Ref #643 $58,000.00 (760) 723-2117 Check out our NEW website at www .bajaconcepts.com. 2wd Blazer Pre-Runner: Here it is! This Blazer is fully functional pre-run-ner that is tame enough for everyday driving. The best of both worlds. Completely CA smog legal, fully caged, good travel, 300+ hp, 3 seats, What more could you ask for? 350 cid Chevy motor by Don Hatz, oored + 030. Valley transmission Th-400 w/Art Carr shifter. Stock car prod-ucts 9" limited slip Rear End, 4.56: 1 Ring and Pinion. Suspension has 15" travel in front on A-arms damped by 2.5 shocks. Rear is National Springs set up with 16" Travel on dual Fox Shocks per wheel. 36" Goodyear GS-As on Alcoas round out the rolling stock. Baja Brokers Ref #610 $15,000.00 (760) 723-2117. Check out our NEW website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Class 9 Raceco 2 seater. SCORE CLASS CHAMPION 1995. 2nd place, 1996. Ready to race and WIN. Bilstein, BFGs, KC, CNC, Beeards. PCI Intercom, WR Trans. This car has been professionally · maintained by Lothringer Engineer-ing. Tons of spares, shocks, tires, arms, spindles, tranny, engine parts, 4 new dump cans, too much to list. Complete package including 2 axle trailer. $8,500.00. Car only $6,800.00. Days (805) 268-8000 Eve-nings (805) 269-8040. FOR SALE: Chenowth 1000 S-Seat., Comoos w/2' offset, 10 voer front end w/new chromoly F-trailing arms. Bus trans w/930 c.v.s and chro-moly R-trailing arms. Doestech shocks, & Fosx. Almostnew 1600cc motor and some spare parts. $7,500.00000. Greg (817) 548-8501 or write to 710 Carswell Terrace, Arlington, TX 76010. Dusty Times Trail Note5 ... THANKS FOR THE HELP -By the time you read this the 1998 OffRoad Racing Season will be well under way and your loyal Dusty Tunes staff will already have numerous races under their belts. We would like to thank Michael Gaughan of The Orleans Hotel, The Barbary C.OOSt Hotel and the Gold C.OOSt Hotel fur the consideration granted to us during 1997 and fur 1998 as well. Also, we would like to thank Bill Keena at Harras Hotel and Casino in Laughlin for his consideration during the long weekend. 1banks you guys, you'll never know how much it helps. ~ONFUSION - I must be getting old, my mind must be failing \.,..,but there is no way I can rationalire how some of the Laughlin race results came to be. I mean, we have a guy who wins his race on Saturday, finishes in the tc.,, ftve on Sunday and completes all his laps. Yet, the overall winner didn't even complete fuur laps on Saturday (what we used to call a DNF) ran well on Sunday and somehow beats the guy who has completed all the required laps. What am I missing? Who has the answer? Please let us know. AFF ROAD POKER RUN -The Hi-Desert Charities annual \..../Poker Run is on again this year, April 25 and 26. Two 25 mile loops, one fur tmtorcycles, one fur cars and your chance to donate $20.00 to a charirnble organization. You get two runs on the course fur your twenty bucks so it's well worth the effort. Stl3rt and finish at the venerable Slash-X Cafe on highway 247, just a few miles outside of Barstow. For more information call the Slash-X at 760-2521197 or Connie Wessel at 760-252-3093. BE 11-IERE!. 1J AVASU HAPPENINGS -Once again, Desert Steel I. lM:otorsports is putting on their annual show fur any kind of vehicle with a motor in it; trucks, cars, rods, golf carts, motorcycles, you name it and you should be there with it! There are classes fur all in the Bud Ute Show and Shine. March 27 -29 are the dates, the entry fee is next to nothing and you definitely want to be there. For all the infurmation · . call 520-855-6125. DEST IN THE DESERT - Casey Folks, HMIC of Best In The ~rt Racing announced that Ford Motorsports will be one of the many official sponsors of the 1998 Silver Srnte Series. Ford trucks have been named the official truck of the series. Gocxlyear Tire also signed on as a series sponsor fur the '98 season. We'll bring you more on this as it comes in. OVER THE TRANSOM - Right from the horse's mouth, we get the word that Jack Flannery is sitting out the '98 season. He is building a new Class 4 truck fur Jamey Flannery fur the upcoming season and Jed Flannery will drive the old Class 4 truck in the '98 contests. FORSALE: 2-1600Chenowth,new front beam, new torsion housing, Chris Tool Racing Engine, JG Trans, UMP power steerin~, Fox Shocks, $14,000.00obo for more info call L.J. at (714) 771-7324 (days) or (714) 538-8098 (nites). FOR SALE: Class 10 Rev Power Rabbit Race engine 1659cc, 8 valve head, Weber 45 DCOE Side draft carb, Arias Pistons, Carillo Rods, Web-Cam Special Grind Cam, S&S 15/8 Exhaust, 12: 1 Compression ra-tio. Complete w/clutch & Adaptor Plate. 0 miles on Fresh rebuild, good horsepower $6,250.00. ALSO: SCORE 2-1600 race engine, Rev Power. 0 miles on fresh rebuild, Com-plete $2,250.00. Cal Darnen at (909) 280-1093 or (909) 585-7931 or Rev Power at (909) 889-5612. SCORE OVERALL POINTS CHAMPION and TRUE GRIT WINNER DAMEN JEFFERIES had ZERO downtime due to hard parts failure in 1997 because he relies on quality MAGNAFLUX service atJNJ Magnaflux. Experienced in EVERY-THING from Challengers to Trophy Trucks. Call Jason at (760) 240-6939. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Writer wanted to cover motorcycle entries at the SCORE Baja 500 and the 1000. Should have some journal-istic talent and knowledge of current motorcycle desert racing. Call Dusty Times (818) 882-0004. FABRICATORS WANTED: All levels of Fab skills needed. Tube fit-ting, bending, Tig and Mig welding. Sheet metal + aluminum work. We are building to win! ! ! California Pre-Fun. Call Curt LeDuc for interview. (909) 845-8820 Fax (909) 845-5292. WHITE LIGHTNING RACING IS HIRING: Fabricator, Prep techni-cians and crew for off road and pave-ment racing. Send resumes to Dale White 4175 Cameron St. #8, Las Vegas, NV 89103. MECHANIC WANTED: Prep race vehicles & pre-runners, Expe-rience needed. Huntington Beach area. Send Resume to (714) 841-0593 or call (714) 841-0563. WANTED WANTED: Fortin trans for Class 10 car, Fox 12" shocks. Call Marty at (909) 627-2818 or Kevin at (909) 947-3310. INDEX To Advertisers Baker Performance Products .......... 35 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ............................. 13 Beachport ........................................... 17 Best In The Desert ............................ 37 Bilstein Corp of America ..................... 5 Cactus Racing ...................................... 39 Camburg Engineering ........................ 47 Donohoe Racing Enterprises ............ 34 Estero Beach Short Course Race .... 15 Fast Wheels ....................................... 21 FAT Performance .............................. 36 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 2 · Fresh Air Systems ............................. 27 Fudpucker Racing Team ................... 33 Fuel Safe Racing Cells .........•............ 36 German Auto ......•...........•................... 14 KC Hilites ........................................... 23 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 16 King Shock Tech ................................ 18 McKenzie Performance Products .... 26 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 31 Nevada Off Road Buggy •................... 11 PCI Race Radios and Equipment... ...... 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 24 Premier Racing Products ................. 19 R & B Auto Center ... , ............ : ............... 9 Race Ready Products ........................ 33 SNORE ............................................ 28-29 Summit ................................................ 25 Sway-A-Way Corp .......•......................... 7 Toyota Motorsports ........... Back Cover Toyota Motorsports .......................... 12 Transaxle Engineering ...................... 30 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 34 Valley Performance ........................... 32 VORRA ................................................. 38 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 22 April 1998 Also, Larry Ragland hurt nis shoulder and arm in a motorcycle full and will not be able to compete in the Baja ofltaly event in March. Curt leDuc will be driving the Protrude, filling in fur Ragland. FINAL FLAG -Veteran Baja Racer and long time friend Bill Flick left fur the smoother roads ofheaven on February 24th after sufrering a stroke. Bill, a long time off road racer worked with Scott McKenzie and Brian Skipper in the 70s, when Sandmaster was still in its infancy. Scott and Brian helped Bill develq, SOm:! of his many inventions over the years. Often called "Wild Bill", he finished all but one of the races he stl3rted. His sometimes co-driver and crew chief was his daughter, Jan who was one of the early T rackside Photo photographers. Bill retired from racing in the desert in the early 80s but continued with his tnad professor inventions until his death. Bill lived a great 77 years and will.be greatly missed by all tha;e who knew and loved him. Bill leaves his wife of many years, F.ciie, his daughters Jan and Paulie and his biggest funs, granddaughters laura and Karalie. Vaya con Dia;. coming Next Month ... Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 MDR Wild Wash 250 Glen Helen Season Opener Protruck Debut in Las Vegas • .. Plus AD The Regular Features ~ 7501 SLATER A VE., HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92647 (714) 848-8880 PHONE I FAX PRE-RUNNER SUSPENSION FORD RANGER / F-150 *Adjustable Coil Buckets *Dual Shock Kits *Extended Radius Anns (Heim Joints or Urethane) *Custom I-Beams TOYOTA 2wd · *Custom Control Arms (Upper and Lower) *Strut Frames (Heim Joints or Silicon Bronze) *Dual Shock Kits CHEVY/GMC C-1500 *Custom Control Arms (Upper and Lower) *lift Spindles (3" lift) FIBERGLASS FENDERS *FORD (Ranger-F 150) *CHEVY (Full Size-S 10) *TOYOTA (1994-88)(1989-95)(1996-98) *NISSAN (1986½-1994)(1995-1998) FRONT FENDERS, HOODS, AND BEDSIDES CUSTOM FABRICATION *MIG and TIG WELDING BUMPERS ' .. R()fJ.(AGES *CNC PLASMA.CUTTING-'. . SHOCK . *CNC:'TUBE aE;NDING• . ·•f\. P' , ., . • . · - · I f ~; 't , \ , , .. f ,'. · t•. ,.H 1. ' j Page 47

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