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Volume 16 -Number 11 Novembef 1999 DDlliYljl■II ~ = a PubH,h« Em,dtu, . -.~;~~ :::::: IUBB.I « Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp . Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES 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 or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) i, published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 -4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot of the Moi1th ... It was Halloween, 1998 and these two beauties would make even a real witch shudder. Danny·Anderson and Rob MacCachren were obviously enjoying themselves at the party and we hope they have as good a time this year. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will·pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES SCORE Primm 300 by Judy Smith ................................................................. 7 Neste Finland Rally by Martin Holmes ........................................................ I 8 30th Annual SNORE 250 by John Calvin ................................................... 20 BORE Bonneville Challenge by Mike Jenkins .......... • .. , ................................ 26 Whiplash Snowflake 150 by Tony Tellier ................................................... 30 VORRA Fernley/Reno Challenge by Forest Creasy ................................... 38 Dusty People Profile - Rodriguez Family by Judy Smith ......................... ,. 4 7 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ....... .. .. .. . ...... ........................ ....... .................. ................ ....... ....... 5 Trail Notes ....................................................................................................... 6 Baja Pits by Mr. Baja ..................................................................................... 43 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr .................................................................. 43 Checkers by the New Wahzoo ·······················:······················"····················· 43 CORE Re_port by Sandy Parker .................................................................... 44 CRS Report by Sue Robinson ............................ _. .......................................... 45 F.A.l.R News by Joy Bancroft ...................................................................... 45 Mag 7 Race Team by Stephen Stenberg ...................................................... 46 Good Stuff Directory ..................................................................................... 48 Classified Ads ............................................... : ................................................ 53 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 55 On The Cover Larry Roeseler's Trophy Truck led all the way at th~ SCORE Primm 300, trying to see through the horrific dust that enveloped most of the course, but he got his win and was second overall as well. Color Photo Trackside Photo Ron Brandt led three of the four laps at the 30th annual SNORE 250 and was the overall winner as ·well as first in Class l, winning by exactly seven minutes. Color Photo Trackside Photo by Jim Ober Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com c5ubscribe :Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) Name ---------------------Address --------------------City ---------------------St ate Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times November 1999 Page 3

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1999 Happenings ... 01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax December 3-5, 1999 Carrera de Campeones FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 ASOCIACION EST AT AL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 . : San Jose de! Cabo Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia DUSTI TIMES@bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL . P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION · Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net December 3-5, 1999 Terrible's Town 250 Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727 N. Main Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 776-4654 BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Su.e Robinson 845 School House Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: windfall@accessl.net Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward ~PacRallySteward @ Homemail ... com November 13, 1999 Treeline Rally Monrovia, CA Pete Morris (323) 667-2039 . December 9-11, 1999 1 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV Roger Allison (909) 736-1442 Rally Cross/Sprint/Hill Climb CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 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. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS l.C.O. Tom De Lauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE Dusty Times San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ram6n Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 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.O Box8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.O Box392 Calexico, CA 922J2 Mexicali to San Felipe BC, Mex CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing October 29-30, 1999 Las Vegas, NV CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PRO\fOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. I 09 I Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059 October 1-2, 1999 Barstow, CA ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 F AB TECH Off Road Short Course Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 9 J 760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 October 31, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds November 21, 1999 Notorious Dawg Team Race December 5, 1999 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix December 19, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 1999 Dunaway Dash GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road (Jr Winner's Circle Larry Roeseler Scores A Double At Primm 300 and Vegas To Reno Run Veteran off-road racer Larry Roeseler drove the Overall and Trick Truck Class wins at the the full size Team MacPherson Chevrolet K-1500 Best Of The Desert Vegas To Reno event. pickup in back-to-back wins on Bilstein shocks The big 4X4 Chevy truck ran flawlessly in in their last two races. both races to bring the two-truck Team Roeseler won the SCORE Trophy Truck Class MacPherson effort their seventh and eighth wins at the Primm 300 Desert Race before taking of the season running exclusively on Bilsteins. Other Class Winners On Bi/stein Gas Pressure Shocks ... SCORE Primm 300 . Best Of The Desert Ve as To Reno • Jeff Lewis, Class 7 - Chevy S-1 o pickup • Greg Foutz, Class 81 oo -Ford F-250 • Mark Stein, Stock Full - Ford F-150 • Steve Williams, Class 7300 - Ford Ranger • Eric Solorzano, Class 11 - Stock vw • Scott Steinberger, Protruck - Ford F-150 • Doug MacArthur, Sportsman Class • Casey Jones/Ryan Arciero, Class 1 ooo • Steve Barlow, Protruck- Ford F-150'· For all the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 @> KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858/453-7723 • www.bilstein.com November 1999 Pages

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Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (I-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha ■ AU races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, I 1-1600, 5, 7S, I and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU etients st.aged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 JimAruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmore Hwy Charlotte, Ml 48813 (517) 543-7214 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (517) 627-6200 Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad ATV-Money Classes.) MICHELIN SCCA PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Dean Conklin (217) 868-2154 Walt Flack (217) 987-6568 Brad Key (217) 446-4556 Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com November 20, 1999 Barstow, CA October 30-31, 1998 Barstow 200 Barstow,CA M.OR.E. Mojave Off Road Racing Enthusiasts P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 (760) 253-4453 November 6, 1999 Johnson Valley MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1. Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK Page 6 ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 AU races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 JimKendel (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichboume, Public Relations , (5 l9)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 630-556-6100 Vancouer, BC, Can PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCOP.E SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 November 5-8, 1999 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000 TBA, Baja California SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 November 12-14, 1999 The Reserve 250 ; Henderson, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore· (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (AU Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org November 13-14, 1999 El Mirage SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Woodark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Eastba:y Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LID. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing • Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS {619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713-) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # 1 Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 October 30-31, 1999 Short Course • Round 3 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROADCLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 011-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 . WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire · P.O. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 1999 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series November 20, 1999 Apache Gold Globe, AZ December 11, 1999 1999 Banquet TBA 1999 Desert Challenge Bikes & ATV Series November 21, 1999 Apache Gold Globe,AZ December 11, 1999 1999 Banquet TBA WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LID. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 Attention Ra~e&Rally · Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your 1999, 2000 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or raily schedule to: DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. November 1999 Trail Notes ... SCORE POINTS -With only the Baja 1000 yet to go, there are some great points races in various classes and the 1000 will be the race to decide the victory. Class 1/2-1600 has Bruckman and Freeman only 14 points apart, in Class 7S Susag and Landfield are only 6 points apart, Stock Mini ·shows Reinertson and Casey separated by only 6 points, and in Pro truck Steinberger has a slim 2 point lead over Hardaway. Stay tuned here for the final results coming later this year. In the Trophy Truck Division, Ed Herbst has a commanding lead of 56 points over Larry Roeseler and Kreg Donahoe is only 1 point out of the second spot and Dan Smith is 8 points out of third. In Class 1, Troy Herbst is leading Darnen Jefferies by 3 7 points, Ronny Wilson is another 30 points back and Doug Fortin Jr. is only 1 point out of third. In 1/2-1600, Bekki Freeman trails Vic Bruckmann by 14 points. Jim Dizney is 13 points further back and Lorenzo Rodriguez is 54 points behind third place. In Class 3, Darren has a 43 point lead on John Kearney and in Class 5. George Seeley has a commanding lead on Dave Cua. In 5-1600, David Gasper leads Marion Ledezma by 40 points and Carlos lribe is 7 points out of the second spot. Jeff Lewis has a 70 point lead on Craig Turner in Class 7 and in 7S, Cory Susag leads Bruce Landfield by 6 points and Steve Cirillo is a distant third Class 8 belongs to Brian Collins and Class 9 has Eric Fisher leading Jesus Luna by 33 points and Daniel Mora is 13 points away from second. Danny Anderson is leading Rick Ellison by 36 points in Class 10, Steve Myers is 26 points away from second and Chris Harrold is 12 points out of third. Score Lites shows Jerry Penhall leading Steve Greinke by 33 points, Arturo Honold is only 4 points away from second and Dave Callaway is 2 points away from third. Eric Solorzano has Class 11 locked up, and in Stock Mini, Rob Reinertson leads Tim Casey by 6 points. Marc Stein has 83 points on John Griffin in Stock Full and in Protruck, Scott Steinberger has a 2 point lead on both Mike Hardaway and Rick Johnson, who are tied at 169 points. In Sportsman, Walter Prince has Cars· sewed up, Mark Cline owns the Trucks, Takashi Hatsuta leads Under 250cc, Joseph West leads Over 250cc and Jesse Jones is the ATV leader. In Pro Bikes, Ricky Fernandez leads Tom Grisham in Class 21, Johnny Campbell leads Jonah Street by 7 points in class 22, Mike Alsup and Scott Dunlavey are only 6 points apart in Class 30. In Class 40 Gary Tepner has a 17 point lead over Gilberto Velasco and Dave Olen owns Class 50. OFF ROAD COMPETITION CALENDAR. My how time flies. We are getting ready to publish our off road competition calendar which is the centerspread of our January issue each year. We need your race schedule pronto, so we can get your race dates into the calendar. Send 'em quick!!!!! Also, the ad spaces that surround the calendar are up for grabs at $75.00. Don't wait too long, as quantity is limited. CRS TREELINE RALLY. The California Rally Series is hosting the Treeline Rally on November 13. This event is in the backyard of most Angelinos, held in the Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley. The course is noted for having more curves per mile than any other rally in this country. Competi~ors from California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada will be competing in both two and four wheel drive cars. Rally headquarters is at the Holiday Inn, just off the 210 freeway in Monrovia. Entrant vehicles will be on display at the Holiday Inn on November 13th, the morning of the rally. For more information go to the web at califomiarallyseries.com or shults.com.treeline/ EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE RACING -There is going to be short course racing in Europe, at the Hochenheim Ring in Germany in May, 2000. The promoters Rico Anthes is looking for American entries in 1600 buggiest full and Mini trucks. Supposedly the event is fashioned after the old MT stadium races. It is possible that transportation for your vehicle can be arranged by the promoter. If you have any interest you can call Rico at 49-6103-54555 or fax at 49-6103-52428 or e-mail at info@thunder-drome.de remembering it is 8 hours later in Germany than here on the west coast. WEDDING BELLS -Just heard over the grapevine that our old friend Bob Rule tied the knot with Elleda on September 9, 1999. Congratulations to the happy couple, live in peace and harmony and never let off road racing get in the way. FINAL FLAG -we were distressed to hear of the passing of Bob Russo. We first met Bob at Peterson Publishing many years ago and we worked closely with him when he was the publicist for the Mickey Thompson Stadium Races where he was widely known and admired, always having what you needed on a moments notice and always with a smile. Bob was a founding member and charter president of ARRWBA. Bob and his wife Shirley lived in Covina, CA. He will be sorely missed. ATTENTION BAJA 1000 PARTICIPANTS AND CREWS. Regarding the new immigration permits required to travel south of Ensenada. If you are going into the.interior for the race, be advised that the checkpoint at Maneadoro on Mexico l will no longer be checking for the new, hard to understand documents we told you about last month, ·and therefore there is no fee required. Evidently, the Mexican government is responding to many complaints from tourists who have had to spend many long hours in line performing the various chores required for the permit and we are informed that the Mexican government is looking very closely at the law, perhaps for revoking or for amendment. Stay tuned! CORR IN CONNECTICUT -The CORR folks were way back on the east coast last weekend, strutting their stuff at Stafford Motor Speedway. Johnny Greaves sewed up the 1999 Championship in Pro-Lite, his second in a row. He won Round 13 outright and placed seventh in Round 14 and the Pro-Lite crown was his. Jeff Kincaid is second in points, Chris Brandt Jason Degrave, Art Schmitt and Billy Bowles are next in order. Scott Taylor cinched the PRO-2 championship at Stafford also. Scotty finished first in Round 13 and was second in Round 14 and that gave him the championship. He bested Dan Vanden Heuvel, Jamey Flannery, Carl Renezeder, R.J. Flanagan and Evan Evans. 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SCORE PRIMM 300 Herbst Wins once Again By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Once he solved his electrical problem, Mark Bqnderson ran hard to win the Class 9 race by seven minutes. Danny Anderson soloed his Class 10 Jimco to victory, for his second win this year, and also finished seventh overall at SCORE's Primm 300. were catching the last of the start-ers, folks who'd taken the green flag only 10 or 15 minutes ago. Now the dust was truly horrific, and a few of the limited racers, wise to the way of things, simply pulled off the course and waited until the Trophy Trucks had gone by. Still, many were making their way, each one just out of the other fella's dust, moving as quickly as possible. The Trophy Trucks threaded their way through them gingerly. Then at Pit B, about 50 miles into Lap 2, Herbst pulled in If ever a race could be de-scribed with one word it was this one. Dust. Troy Herbst recorded an aver-age speed of 57.9 miles per hour in his Smithbuilt Class 1 car, and won his second overall victory in a row, carefully threading his way through traffic in the uncom-monly heavy dust. SCORE notified its racers just days before the event that due to a BLM error, it would need to make a last minute change in the course. The BLM had given a cattle rancher a permit to graze 300 head of cattle in an area that's been a major part of this course for many years. Unfortunately, they neglected to inform SCORE of this boondoggle until very late in the game. SCORE personnel hurriedly laid out a new track, which, while it started and fin-ished in the same area, adjacent to the Buffalo Bill's parking lot, was different from the old course for about 75% of its mileage. This course even crossed under the·15 Freeway, and then traveled south-ward parallel to it; re-emerging from a.nother underpass back on the east side. There were two pavement crossings, one at the well-traveled Goodsprings Road, which every-one involved would have pre-ferred not to have included in a well thought out course, but the last minute nature of the proceed-ings made it unavoidable. The new course measured about 10 miles less than the original, for a total mileage of 293. Brad Rowland, first time SCORE racer, soloed to the 112-1600 victory in his Porter chassis. Course reconnaissance was for a quick flat fix. A couple of held throughout the day on Fri- limited cars went by and his crew · day, while contingency and tech flagged him out quickly, perhaps inspection went on in the adja- too quickly, because Smith was cent parking lpt. It was apparent right there, having to take slight early on, as viewers watched the evasive action. Herbst charged plumes of dust rise over the pre- hard, but there was a lot of dust. runners, that if there was no wind Suddenly, a Class 7 truck in front on Saturday it would be a dusty of him slewed sideways and race. There were many miles of stopped with a broken ball joint. the talcum fine sili: that charac- Herbst tried in vain to miss it, terizes the area, which sports four scraped all down the side of the separate dry lake beds. The roads little truck, and rolled his own, that thread the edges of those dry landing upside down right next to lakes break down into silt after the 7 truck. Smith, so close on his~ very little traffic, and there was tail, couldn't do a thing and ran to be a lot of traffic on Saturday. into both of them. The accident With a starting field of 155 cars looked so horrible that the pit folk and trucks, most of whom would who saw it sent out a call for am-be trying to do four laps, the traf- bulances and medics, but no one fie was non-stop. And Saturday was injured. Luckily, the occu-proved to be dead calm until late pants of the 7 truck hadn't had in the afternoon, when a feeble time to step out of their vehicle and fickle breeze teased the rac- to look at their ball joint. ers by blowing the dust along the Smith's front end was de-track as often as it blew it off of stroyed and his truck was towed it. "Dust" was the word at the fin- away. But the Herbst truck had ish line. lost only some fiberglas and its tie The Trophy Trucks took to the rods, which were quickly replaced road at 7:00 a.m., and Larry Roe- (it proved to be an advantage to seler had a stroke of good luck have an accident so close to a pit). when he drew the first start posi- They were back on their wheels tion in his Chevy. He took full and running about 17 minutes af-advantage, and recorded the fast ter the incident. The Class 7 truck lap of the day, at 1 :04:02. Behind was out of the race unfortunately. him, the Herbst Ford Trophy While all this went on, Roe-T ruck ran just out of his dust, not seler serenely worked through the quite as quick, and Dan Smith traffic, building a comfortable followed in his Ford, gaining a bit, lead. At the end of the second lap to be second on time at the end he had 19 minutes on the Herbsts, of the lap, and very close to the and Lonny Helmbolt was third, Herbst's bumper. about three-minutes further back But on the second lap they in his Dodge, which was loading up badly, and had a broken shock mount. Mark Post had problems with his Ford truck and retired for the day, while Billy Goerke, in Brian Collins' Chevy had alterna-tor trouble, and was also out. Kreg Donahoe, still running a Class 8 truck while he slowly builds a new Trophy Truck, couldn't finish the second lap either. On the third lap the traffic had thinned a bit, and Roeseler's time crept back up. He'd had one flat changed, and also took on a new air filter as the first one clogged with dust. He held the lead with Herbst still in second and now Brian Coats, in Rod Thomas's .Chevrolet moved up to third as Helmbolt lost about 40 minutes. Coates had a fire in his alternator wires, and he was stopping every now and then to have his battery charged. . Roeseler's day ·was generally uneventful, but as ·he ran past the main pits for the last time, with the finish line in sight, an omi-nous puff of smoke emerged from under his hood. He mentally crossed his fingers and ran on, making the finish for the first win for the MacPherson Tea m's Big Mac. By then no-one cared about the puddle of oil forming beneath it as it sat in the post-race area. The Herbsts lost first gear late in the day, but didn't miss it, and took second place, finishing 13 minutes back. In third it was Coates, a little over an hour later; The Class 1 cars went next, apprehensively eyeing the cloud of motionless dust left behind by the big trucks. For quite a few of these drivers the first lap, usually their quickest, was their slowest, as they tried to find the unfamil-iar course in the hovering dust cloud. They later described their anxiety as they tried to find a happy medium between too fast and too slow. They wanted to go just fast enough that someone coming from behind wouldn't crash into them, but also slow enough that it would be possible Continued on page 8 ~--------~------------~ .,,,---.,.-:-=,,,-.,.,.---,-.-....------,-,,,,,,-, Bekki Freeman and Adam Wik finished fourth in 1600, with no floor Jim Zupanovich & Dick Weyhrich put their years of experience to Jerry Penhall and George Erl finished a close third in the SCORE Lite pan under the driver/co-driver area of their Jimco. good use, finished fourth in their SCORE Lite Mirage. class in their Penhall, a flat tire making the difference. Dusty Times November 1999 Page7

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Steve and Andrew Myers brought their Toyota powered Penhall/Myers After leading the class most of the way, Rick Johnson had a flat that Craig Turner did some hard charging in his Class 7 Ford Ranger, and earned a second place for his efforts. to the finish line in second place in Class 1 o. bumped him back to second in. the Protrucks. to stop before running into some- his tall vehicle, becausene sits a infield stop check in a cloud of one or something that suddenly "couple of feet higher" than the clust, dimly saw the green light became visible as the dust mo- drivers in the buggies, and can glow ap.d mashed his throttle to mentarily lifted. What many often see over the dust the other take off again. The problem was feared were the guy wires on driver is trying to peer through. that he never saw Josh Waddell phone poles along the roads, Chuck Hovey, who has the worst who was in front of him at the which were described as "cheese luck we've seen, was out on Lap 1 check, still not moving. The green slicers" by one worried driver. The with an engine fire, and Pat Dean light had been for Waddell actu-invisible phone poles themselves lost a piston, while Tommy Koch ally. The crash put them both out• were seen as dangerous obstacles, . rolled· Richard Boyle's car and of the race. not to mention the possibility of ended their day early. By now the water truck had broken or stuck race cars. (As did Herbst went into the lead by arrived and its operators were at happen with Herbst and Smith.) the end of the second lap. For least trying to dampen the course At the end of the first lap Koty those who like to know these within the infield. But they were Scheeler, in a Jimco, held the things, his car is not identical to a matter of too little, too late. lead, with a time that was 15 min- his brother's Trophy Truck, but Their high pressure nozzle utes slower than Roeseler's, to enjoys a longer wheel base and wouldn't work, and they dragged give an idea of how he was af- considerably longer travel, front out a hose and tried to dampen fected by the dust. B.J. Richard-and rear. He had Scheeler hard the turn into the finish line stop son had John Gaughan's Chen-on his bumper in second, with area, so such an accident couldn't owth in second place, two min- Richardson and Fortin in third happen again. Their efforts utes later, followed by Troy and fourth, while Steve Sourapas helped some, but there were still Herbst in his Ford powered moved Ryan Thomas' Chenowth occasionally drivers who couldn't Truggy, and then Doug Fortin, Jr. Millennium into fifth place. find their way around the infield in a V4 powered Jimco. Mark Weyhrich had hit a parked race • because of dust from the cars in Weyhrich, in a V 4 powered truck and the collision put him front of them. The finish line flags Chenowth, was fifth. Herbst later out. And at the end of the lap hung limp and still, and the hoped said that he has an advanta$e in Mike Grabowski came into the for breezes didn't_ materialize un-Pages '-\,:/ ·.• .... ,· .. ::.: ...,..,..,....,, @~tr Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 West Tropicana & ANille 800-675-3267 November 1999 til late in the afternoon. • he'd done at the previous race in Herbst-got a relatively dust free Barstow. He said, "The dust was lap on his third time around, and absolutely miserable!" Fortin, who recorded the fast lap for the class, was second, concurred, and had at 1:10:49,puttinghimselfsolidly also had a last lap flat, which he into the class lead, and just un- fo,ed himself, losing time as the der one minute in front of Roe- car fell off the jack "a couple of seler, for the overall lead in addi- times. 11 Julson, who'd struggled tion. Fortin was now second, hat-with plugged air cleaners on. the ing the dust, while Mike Julson, last lap, was third about five min-in a new V8 Toyota powered, au- utes later. In fourth it was John tomatic transmission equipped Gaughan, who'd had flats on both Jimco, had moved up to third by his laps, but fixed only one, choos-virtue of a fairly clean lap. Ryan ing to drive the final 10 miles in Thomas had taken over for Soura- on the other, a rear. lt was prob-pas and they were now fourth, ably a good decision, as he fin-with Larry Job, Scheeler's co-ished just eight seconds up on Gus driver, in fifth only seconds later. Vildosola and Charlie Watters, A new set of obstacles was appear- who were fifth in their Jimco. ing out on the track, as huge boul-They had also had a couple of ders were being unearthed by the flats. traffic, to lie in wait for the un-The Class 8 trucks were next wary racer. on the agenda, but it was only a Herbst, who had three flats all two car class. Brian Collins, who together, one of which he had to was to drive all the way, put his get out and fix on the last lap, Chevrolet out in front of Jim motored on steadily to take the Patelli's Chevy Blazer by over an win, and the overall victory, as Continued on page 10 ~ ;;.:._:}?'\} ·<::,;: West Flamingo & Vailey View 888-402-6278 Dusty Times

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George Seeley had big brake problems, but still took the win in Class 5, which had a 100% finish record. Charlie Bignell and Eric Deen had a trouble free day, but didn't like the dust, as they took the win in 5-1600. John Holmes and Dave Callaway teamed up in their Dunrite again, to get the win in the SCORE Lite class. Larry Roese/er had fast lap of the day in his Chevy Trophy Truck, took the class win, his first for the season. fine sixth place overall, with four good laps, including a fast time of 1:16:04 on the fourth lap. The Protrucks went off the line next, and Rick Johnson put his Ford into the early lead, with about four and a half minutes on Grayson Smith in another Ford. In third it was Joe Heger in a Chevrolet, about 10 minutes back. The first two cars ran almost identical laps their second time around, and Johnson stayed in front, still about four and a half minutes ahead of Smith. On the third lap Johnson re-corded the fast lap for the class, at 1:25:13, and the lead grew to almost 10 minutes. Smith had got out and now Ryan Herzog was by-jowl, and it was some time be- Price in his Bunderson, and Mark driving. Their car had lost the al- fore the scoring and timing folks Hutchins ran about two and a half temator and was running poorly could say ~ho got the win. When minutes further back in his Jimco. on just batteries. Heger had also it was all added up, Smith and Chris Harrold was fifth in his given up the wheel, and Mike Herzog took the victory by 34 sec-Honda powered Jimco. Neither Hardaway was driving, now about onds. Gary Magness was third al- Harrold nor Price managed to fin-20 minutes back. most an hour later, and then ish the second lap. Things were really close on the Hardaway and Heger rattled in, Anderson ran the fast lap for final bp, with Johnson holding on their body work a mess from a very the class on Lap 2, at 1: 19: 20, and to a slim lead. But then, as he fol-hard sextuple roll-over caused moved into the lead, less than two lowed another car he ran into a when they hit a hole about six minutes up on Schlimme. Now ditch in the dust and flattened his miles before the finish. They were Mike Williams ran third in his left front tire. Knowing that Her- anothe.r hour back. Meco, with Hutchins fourth and zog was close he elected to drive The Class 10 buggies went Whit Courtenay in fifth place in the final five or six miles on the next, led around for the first lap a Jimco. Both Schlimme and Wil-flat, thinking he'd lose less time by Ben Schlimme in his Jimco. He Iiams failed to make it through the that way. He probably made the had almost a minute and seven third lap. This was a tough race right decision. At the finish the seconds on Danny Anderson in a for this class. two cars were practically check- Toyota Jimco. In third it was Jim Anderson, having a good day, ----------------------~ stayed in front, and now William Alverson moved to second in his Jimco, about 20 minutes back, an usually big separation for this class. Steve and Andrew Myers were now third, about three min-utes later, in their Toyota pow-ered Myers/Penhall. This is a sec-ond generation race family, their dad having been the first to race a Toyota powered truck about 20 years ago. Brady Helm and Jerry Griffin, in a Lothringer, ran fourth now, while Courteney and co-driver Don Kenniston ran fifth. Of the 20 starters in this class, 11 were already gone. But Anderson was having no trouble, not even one flat. He stopped one time to take on fuel and then stormed on to take his win, backing up his Barstow vic-tory. He was once again high in the overall standings, placing sev-enth overall. Anderson said he was a "happy man." He had nearly a half hour cushion on the Myers family, who finished second, re-porting three flat tires for their day. In third it was B.J. Baldwin, a Las Vegas racer, in a Chenowth, only three minutes behind second place. Courtenay and Kenniston moved up to fourth, and were fol-lowed in by Mark Hutchins and Kevin Soder, another local team, in a Jimco. All told, only eight Class 10 cars managed to finish. It was interesting to note that of the three local teams who ran in this class, all were finishers. In this case did familiarity with the con-ditions help? They didn't know the course particularly, because it was new to everyone, but they do understand silt, dust and r9cks in Southern Nevada. The SCORE Lite cars went off the line next, and John Holmes put his Dunrite out in front, lead-ing by six minutes when they emerged from the dust at the end of Lap 1. Jerry Penhall had his Penhall in second place, followed by Steven Greinke, two and a half minutes later, in a Suspensions Unlimited car. In fourth it was Kevin James, in a Chenowth, while Brian Coneen ran fifth in a Jimco. Continued on page 13 Against a backdrop of the blinding dust that prevailed most of the day, Body panels missing due to a serious accident, Ed & Tim Herbst still Mark Cline powered his Chevy to the win in the Sportsman Truck Brian Coates sails his Chevy to third Trophy Truck. finished as second Trophy Truck in their Ford. class, which ran only three laps in this tough race. • It was a big thrill for Cody Swanty to finally finish a race under the Whit Courtenay and Don Kenniston put their Jimco into fourth place His motor faded a bit, but Rodney Woolf kept his ORBS car moving time limit. He and his Jeep earned a 2nd in Class 7S. in Class 10, in which less than 40% managed to finish. well enough to finish fifth in 112-1600. Page 10 November 1999 Dusty Times

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Brothers Humberto and Gerardo lribe teamed up to finish second in Dale Ebberts and Robert Fama had suspension problems, but toughed the 5-1600 class. ·· · . it out to finish sixth in the big 1600 class. Doug Fortin drove his V4 powered Jimco to. 2hd in Class 1, struggled with a flat on the last lap. 1 Holmes continued to lead ing no problems so far: In fifth it ley, who'd had a front flat, ran through the second lap, but it was the team of Danny Ashcraft third in his Snoddy/Seeley Spe-wasn't all fun as he had two flats and Dave Mason, in a Porter-Pen- cial,-another 41 seconds back, and to fix during his stint, as well as hall. Dave Baeskens was fourth less some power steering problems. Callaway had an untroubled than two minutes later, followed Still, he had three min'utes on race~xceptforwhathe,called"se- by Michael James, 12 minu~es Penhall at the end of that second rious du&t," Dondel passed him on do\Vn, If the dust didn't make a lap. Penhall had no ~e~hanical the last lap, but Callaway just disaster for them,.it promised to problems, but was floundering in stayed on his tail, ~nowing.he'd be good racing.,again, as it had Now Cua, who had to stop for gas finish rate for the day. The first every lap, was back to second four finished within 22 minutes. place, about eight minutes later. • Good race. Baeskens was third, James fourth The 1/2-1600 cars lined up and-Jakobsen had dropped to fifth next, and now SCORE had fig-after his brilliant start. ured out that the early starters Seeley had mostly front brakei; were coming .around pretty on his. last lap, making· it a bit quickly and they'd better step up ·tough in the comers, but he man-the pace a bit, so instead of a 30 aged to avoid problems, and came second separation, from here to home the winner. Behind him the end of the start-order the cars Cua recorded the quick time for started only 15' seconds apart, the dust a bit. In third now it was started over three minutes behind been at Bar$tow. this class, at 1:27:05, while stop- making the dust situation even ping to tighten up his front trail- worse. ing arms a couple of times. He fin- Bekki Freeman had her Jimco ished second, only four minutes in the lead at the end of the first Greinke, another two minutes him. The Dondel/Greinke car re-Jakobsen continued to lead back, also having no mechanical corded the class fast time, at through Lap 2, now with exactly problems, but not liking the dust. 1:22:07 and crossed the line first, six minutes on Seeley. Cua was Coneen was fourth, .about seven but Callaway and Holmes were now five and a half minutes fur- · minutes further back, and James still right there, calculations cor-ther back, followed in short order was just 21 seconds behind him rect, and took the win by a minute by Baeskens and James. Jakobsen in fifth. and 35 seconds: Greinke and lost 20 minutes on the next lap - out. James moved up to come in lap, a little over a minute in third, followed by Baeskens and front of Arden Dennington in Dave Callaway took over for Dondel, who'd lost second and . and Seeley moved into _the lead, Holmes and stayed in front, hav- fifth gear on the last lap, had a in spite of losing a rear brake line. Jakobsen, giving this class a 100% Continued on page 14 ing no trouble. He had about solid second, with Penhall and Erl three and a half minutes on Dale coming in third five and a half Dondel who'd taken over for minutes later. Zupanovich and Greinke, and had driven about 12 W eyhrich, who'd been reduced to miles· on a flat to his pit. George three cylinders for the final 40 Erl took over. from Penhall and miles or so, finished fourth, re-he'd had a flat, but was less than porting that they'd driven "like a minute in back of Dondel. Now gentlemen" and thus had had no ·the team of Dick Weyhrich flats. In fifth it was Ashcraft and · (Mark's dad) and Jim Mason, another 15 minutes back. Zupan~vich, in a Mirage, had Nine of the 17 starters finished in moved up to fourth. This team this class. hasn't raced in a while, but de-Tbe Class 5 Baja Bugs started cided to come and show what the next, and Mike Jakobsen, in a "old guys" wuld do. They said Sandman, was back in stride ai;id their combined age was 114, and out in front at the end of the first their racing experience goes back lap, ahead of Dave Cua by three a quarter century. They were hav- and a half minutes. George See-Brian Collins drove all the way in his Chevrolet to take the Class 8 win, finishing sixth overall also. Jeff Lewis had to replace a power steering pump, but his Chevrolet still took the Class 7 win. Dusty Times s ER R PP A TO CNC {/) ::, I-~ (.) {/) ..J UJ UJ I 3: UJ z :::; cc UJ 1-z LU (.) <( :::; <( I 0 :.:: 0 >-{/) cc UJ YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS! PHONE: (714) 441-1212 FAX: (714) 441-1622 2366 E. 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Troy Herbst picked his way through the dust carefully for a couple of laps then poured it on to win overall in his Class 1 Smithbuilt Truggy. in 4:59:34. Grayson Smith and Ryan Herzog took first place in the Protruck race in their Ford, by a slim 34 seconds. Marc Stein and Mike Mccomas shared the driving in their Ford to take the victory in the Stock Full Class. riguez, while Jim Dizney's co-Wik -and Freeman were fourth. driver, Jon (LJ) Kennedy, had They finished with the front put their Jimco into fourth. half of the floor pan completely Dizney had flattened a tire on folded back, so that from the Lap l. Rodney Woolf was now crossbar under their seats for-up to fifth in his ORBS, 23 sec- ward, there was nothing. Wik's onds later. Anyone could still feet rode on the pedals of win, and 18 cars were still run-course, but his passenger, "A.J. ", ning. Dennington, who'd lost 20 rode the last five miles or so minutes on the second lap, was with his feet up on the dash making up time now, recording (which is about chin level for the fast time for this class, at · him), to keep them from slip-1 :30:57 on the third lap. On her ping down a la a Flintstones car, second lap Freeman had hit and dragging on the ground. something hard with the front Must have been uncomfortable, of her car and tore loose the but he was cheerful about it all. front of her floor pan. Wik de-They had their best time for cided to stop to ti:y to fix it, and that lap, and now were only 13 when he went to start up again, minutes behind the winning car. the battery was dead. They lost tn fifth it was Woolf, who said about 20 minutes with that. "something happened to the his Dennco. In third it was Ja-son Hatz in a Chenowth, fol-lowed by Brad Rowland, racing in Nevada for the first time, in a Porter chassis, 13 seconds later. Lorenzo Rodriguez was fifth, another 3 7 seconds back, in his Lothringer. There were another five cars running as close behind them, and of the 25 starters, only one broke on the first lap. Freeman hung on to her lead through Lap 2, and now she had just under two minutes on Row-land, who was apparently not finding Nevada so different from Arizona. His big problem for the day was a wasp that somehow got inside his full face Rowland, grinning hugely, motor" on the last lap. Ebberts helmet. Disconcerting. In third stayed out front and took the and co-driver Robert Fama were it was Rodriguez now, about win, a remarkable feat consid-sixth, reporting flat tires and a three minutes later, with Brad ering his unfamiliarity with the badly bottoming suspension. In Maurer 4 7 .seconds later in a a_rea. He said he'd had no prob-seventh it was Lorenzo Rod-Jimco. Dale Ebberts ran fifth, !ems, and it was "a lot of fun - riguez, who'd rolled his car late about two and a half minutes real rough!" Maurer and in the last lap, and so badly later in his Neth-Chenowth. Paquette, who sported a big tire damaged the roof that his crew There was still a huge gaggle of mark on the left side of their had to cut it so he could get out. cars running strong behmd the car, souvenir of a run in with a The car had landed on its lead group, and only one more Class 10 car, were second, re- wheels, losing little time. In all, had fallen out. porting only a "couple of un-17 of the 25 starters finished in Freeman made a driver scheduled stops." They were a this class. Points leaders Hatz change, putting Adam Wik in, -minute and three seconds out of and co-driver Vic Bruckmann an:d Rowland did not. He took first. In third it was Dizney and had to replace a transmission over the lead, and was about Kennedy, reporting a flat and and finished 14th. two and a half minutes up on lost brakes on the third lap, but The Class 7 trucks took the Maurer's co-driver, Rick no other problems. They were . green flag next. Jeff Lewis, Paquette. In third it was Rod- six minutes back. Behind them Chevrolet, who was working on ~---------------------~ his fifth straight victory, went into the lead, and had about eight•minutes at the end of the first lap. Craig Turner ran sec-ond in his Ford, with Eli Yee in third in his Ford. Barry Karakas and Steve Nelson, in a Toyota Tacoma, had the misfortune to break that ball joint in front of the Herbst Trophy truck, and they ·were done for the day. On the second lap Lewis built his lead to about 14 minutes, while Turner stayed firm in sec-ond place. Yee was still in third, but was having fuel pick-up problems and kept running out of gas. Lewis, so far having smooth going, had an hour and 44 min-utes lead at the end of the third lap, and it was a good thing, be-cause he had to pull into his pit for a power ste~ring pump change. Turner, who'd spent about two hours with some re-pair, was still second, while Ron Smith, in a GMC Sonoma, now ran third. Yee's co-driver, Perry McNeil, had fallen to fourth, still dealing with the fuel pick-up problems. They also had a tranny fluid lead, and ultimately added 12 quarts for the day. On the last lap, with traffic thinned out and a slight breeze to clear the course, Lewis ran the fast lap for the class at 1:25:02 on what must have been a very rough and dug out track. He took the win with a bit over two hours cushion on Turner, who was second. Yee and Mc-Neil kept their truck running long enough to take third place and Smith finished in fourth, about 10 minutes before he would have run out of time. The 7S truck started next, and first to be in trouble was Bruce Landfield in his Ford, with word coming over the ra-dio that he was at Mile 10 hav-ing the "same engine problem" he'd had the night before. He never did get back into race mode. Tim Braden put his Ford Ranger into the lead, with just nine minutes on Doug Siewert in a Toyota, who was a little over five minutes in front of Rick Paquette and Brad Maurer were only 59 seconds out of first in He had to stop to tighten up his front trailing arms, but Dave Cua stiff Eric Rsher soloed to second place in Class 9 in his Garibay Challenger, Class 1/2-1600 in their Jimco. ~~'"~ took second place in the hard fought Class 5 race. ;=w=it=h=n=o=s=e=ri=ou=s=op="=o=bl=e=m=s=. =========;;;;;,;;;;;;;,;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;::;-Mark Hutchins and Kevin Soder, a Nevada race team, brought their Steve Greinke and Dale Dondel, in a Suspensions Unlimited car, had Mike Julson drove all the way. with VB Toyota power and an automatic Chenowth home fifth in Class 10. a close battle, were second SCORE Lite by 1:34. transmission, to finish 3rd in Class 1. Page 14 November 1999 Dusty Times

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Danny Mora Jr., and his dad, Daniel, teamed in their Chenowth, Shown'here on an infield jump, Jim Dizney and Jon Kennedy teamed For some reason the Tim Casey's exhaust manifolds broke, but he finished with a saggy suspension as 3rd Class 9. to take third place in 1/2-1600 in their Jimco, nursed the poorly running 4Runner in for the Stock Mini win. The crash between Barry Karakas' Class 7 truck, the Trophy Truck of Dan Smith and the Herbst Trophy Truck resulted in this mangled pile of wreckage. Neither of these two went on. No one was hurt in the Brady Helm and Jerry Griffin put their good looking Lothringer into B. J. Baldwin, one of the racers from Nevada, had a good day in his Chenowth, finished third in Class 10. accident. sixth place in the beleaguered Class 1 0 race. ~c-o-d~y~S-w_a_n_t_y_ i n-h~is~' 8~6~J~e_e_p __ m_e_r ,-·-w- h~ i c-h~_q_u_i_e_tl y purred trouble, beyond fee ling his way Comanche. Siewert lost his around for three laps to take through the dust, and his lead computer chip about five miles second place. He'd apparently was up to six and a half minutes into the race, but fortunately had some problems on Lap 3, at the end of Lap 2, after record-had a spare on board. which was over an hour longer ing the class fast lap at 1:43:16. On the second lap Siewert than his other laps, but he The lribe car had moved up to moved into the lead, now with didn't stop at the finish line to second _place, and now Mario 14 minutes on Swanty, who was say what happened. Ledezma ran third three min-having carburetion problems. The Stock Mini trucks, also utes later. He'd been lost on Lap · Bra-den had lost nearly two required to run only three laps, 1 when he drove past a turn in hours with some massive prob-went next, and Rob Reinertson, the dust and went a couple of lems, and dropped to third. No-who finishes more often than miles out of his way. In fourth one else was running. not, ;couldn't get his Ford it was Pavolka and Daniel Fresh Siewert handed over to co-around for even one lap this was fifth a minute or so behind driver, Cory Su sag, and he time. Tim Casey was left to run him. Fresh, who'd reported at stayed in front, nervously by himself, but he didn't have the Fireworks that he'd been watching the truck heat up to an easy day. His Toyota running the same tires for six or 280 degrees. He had 41 minutes 4Runner's exhaust manifolds seven races with no flats, came on Swanty who was now adding both broke, making it impos-to the end of his string on the oil and power steering fluid. sible for his computer to get a first lap at Primm. He had the Braden ran the fast lap for the good reading, and thus the incredible bad luck to run over class, at 2:01:07, trying to catch truck ran poorly all the way. one of those huge railroad up, but he was still an hour and Still, he recorded a fast lap of spikes, and it make him his first 45 minutes behind the lead 2:17:23, and did all three laps flat in a long time. Sad part of truck. in plenty of time, saying it was the story is that Fresh had de-Susag liked this year's version a "great course for us" as he cided to go whole hog, and had of the Primm better than last came in for the win. finally put new tires on the car. year's when they finisheJ about The 5-1600 class started Bignell gave up the wheel to five minutes overtime. They lost next, and they ran the full four Eric Deen after two laps, and their alternator on the last lap laps. At the end of the first lap Deen stayed right in front, en-and had to change batteries Charlie Bign_ell had a two joying a 10 minute lead at the twice to get home, but they got minute lead over Dave Gasper, end of three laps. The Iribes there, still in front, for the win. who was running less than a were still second, in the race by And Swanty, who'd used up a minute in front of Eric Pavolka. virtue of a pre-run transmission case of oil and five quarts of In fourth it was Gary Bancroft, borrowed from the Ledezma power steering fluid, was de-and he had less than two min-team. Dave Gasper got out and lighted to have finally finished utes on the lribe car, being pi-put brother Bill in to drive, and a race within the time limit, and loted by Humberto and Gerar-they'd had a problem when their he got second place to boot! do this weekend. header fell apart. They got 'a Braden had another good lap, Bignell was not having any new one and broke a stud while and finished very close to the time limit, but in plenty of time to get third place. The Stock Full trucks, which ran only three laps, were next to take off. Marc Stein and Mike McComas paired in their Ford and were in front all the way. Stein started, with McCo-mas riding, and at the half-way point, midway through Lap 2, McComas took over and drove to the finish. Their only diffi-culty had been a severely bent wheel on the second lap, and they took the win with three hours to spare. Their first lap h ad been the quick one, at 1:51:07. In second all day it was John Griffin in his beautiful Hum-Dusty Times Practicing for the Dakar Rally, Darren Skilton and Sue Mead made good time in their Kia, took the Class 3 win. November 1999 installing it, so it had to be welded, using up a bunch of time. Shane Pavolka took over for his brother, and they were still fourth, but now Robert Moore, co-driver for Gary Ban-croft, was up to fifth, but they'd been having some problems, Deen and Bignell, who said their day was "pretty much flaw-less", with only one flat, stayed out in front and took the win -by a little over 13 minutes. In sec-ond it was the Iribes, followed in by the Gaspers, who had no flat tires on this tough course. In fourth it was the Ledezmas, Elias driving the final two laps, and dealing with a broken rack and pinion as well as a total of three flats for the day. The Pavolkas came in about four minutes later, reporting that the Ledezmas had passed them when they'd broken a throttle cable. They'd also had a flat. Class 3, which was to drive only three laps here, went off the line next, and John Kearney had his Isuzu Amigo in front at the end of Lap 1, with live min-utes on Sue Mead, a journalist who was driving Darren Skilton's Kia. Mead and Skilton plan to do the 2000 Dakar rally together, and this was a practice run for her. Kirk Kovel was Continued on page 16 Eric Solorzano, Tiery Kiely and Miguel Haro drove with an eye on their rear view mirror, took the Class 11 win. · · High Horse Power / High Mileage Endurance Race Engines Tired of Not Winning Races? Call (909) 927-5304 M W IUILT W/1111/IIO ElltHIIES FOR: TROJIH'I TRUCl(I CIASS II CIASS 41 CIAlt I I l'ltO J'R/ICl(f RILL ffOCl(f SHOU COl/1lSF Rohby Ctordon' Rob Mac( ':ichren ~imon & ~imon/ Dave We,tham Baldwin Racing Rivil!ra Racing/ Tim Scal.1.01 Kyle & Ja.~on Taylor C'huck llan;:, Ste,e Scaroni/ I.~ Planl,,. Fsan E,·an-. Carl Rcnezc-der/ Mark Slcin, And.11aco \lfotof'\pon s Oavc Shoppc1 D & L Racing Scol McMillan l-lanJaway Racing Oa\'C Bryan· C nncjo Offro:.HLI Ctus \0idoS41la' Ri(k John:-.un Jim Knu1.:klc-s ilerz1)g Racing/ Todd Witlmanl \.4ike Lc~k Jame.., (i;rng Ra1.:i11g Page 15

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{ ..: ... ~.. :;,>,-.~ .. ,.-~, . '"' . '• ,, "-'"' '. it," -~-Cory Susag and Doug Siewert, Toyota Tacoma, here caught by a Protruck, had a good day and took the 7S win. Doug MacArthur and Gary Haugley bent their Chenowth's front end, but still took the Sportsman Buggy win. third° in his old winged Bronco, another five minutes back, and Keith Belhasen, in a Jeep, ran fourth,. a couple of hours down after radioing that he needed a drive shaft early in the morning. He'd had to weld a U-bolt to get things back together. Skilton took over the driving on Lap 2, while Mead moved to the passenger seat, and they were in the lead by-about an hour and 15 minutes at the end of the lap. Kearney, driving a bit too hard for this course, broke his rear trailing arms, which pulled the drive shaft.out of its mount. By the time he'd re-paired the damage he'd lost an hour and it was too late to ·try to catch Skilton. Kovel was still third, and Belhasen a distant fourth. Skilton's final lap was the fast one for the class, at 1:48:07, and he took the win by two hours. Kearney ambled home in second place, and Belhasen driving with a sticky throttle, was happy to get a third place, only 20 minutes before his time would have run out. Class 9 ran all four laps here, a tough assignment for them. Daniel Mora, Jr., went to the front right away, leading by about four minutes in his dad's Chen-owth, with Jimmy Messick second in his M & T Chassis. In third it was Eric Fisher, in a Garibay Challenger, and_ behind him, Mark Bunderson, in a Bunderson. He'd ground to a stop when a wire fell off his ignition, and once it was reattached, and he tried to start up again, the battery died. He sat for a long time trying to think what to do, then he un-plugged his radio and there was enough battery to start the car. He said that after that "it was se-rious catchup" time. David Vieira was a victim of the dust, indi-rectly. A~ he ran steadily along on his first lap, the Herbst Trophy Page 16 Truck coming fast, suddenly saw him.through the dust, tried to stop and bumped him. It wasn't a hard hit, but it caught his oil cooler which was mounted in the rear somehow, and broke it, effectively ending his race. At the end of Lap 2 Mora, Jr., was 11:ill in the lead, with three minutes on Messick. Fisher was still third. Bunderson was mov-ing faster than any of them, but had a long way to go. Jesus Luna got hit by a pick-up truck, which destroyed a rear wheel and tire, and once Jesus had made repairs, the starter was bad. He lost a bunch of time. Messick lost his transmission on the third lap, and Mora, Jr., stayed in front, now only 13 sec-onds ahead of Fisher who was getting faster with each lap. Bundersort was now third, a little over a minute behind him, and suddenly it was a brand new race. Bill Rodriguez had taken over for Luna and they were now fourth. On the last lap Bunderson ticked off the fast lap for the class at 1:46:29, to move to the front and victory circle. He took the win by seven minutes, and it was Fisher in second, reporting no problems but having to stop three times to clean his eyes. Once again, he finished without a hood, due to some work on the radio. If he could keep a hood on the car he'd probably have less eye trouble. Mora, Jr., put his dad in for the last lap, and he said the torsion bar on the right side gave out, giving him a rough ride. They were ·third. Rodriguez got out of his car and put Lobsam Yee in for the last lap, and Yee broke the limiter straps and then a shock. But they finished fourth. The Sportsman Buggies went next, and they were obliged to run only three laps. Doug MacArthur had his Chenowth in front, with Walter Prince running second in his Raceco, after losing a power steering belt. In third it was Wallace Hrdlicka, and Steve Knudson ran fourth. MacArthur had crashed hard on the first lap and bent both front trailing arms, but he held his lead, though he also had a couple of flats. Meanwhile, Doug Browne in Prince's Candy Cane Special had a clean lap and held second. Both of the other cars failed to come around again. Gary Haugley got in to finish up in MacArthur's car, and he . recorded the fast lap for the class, at 1:3.4:35 and went on to take the win. Marq Prince, do-ing the last lap in the striped wonder, got out on the dry lake and rolled it over. This was traumatic, si.nce it landed on its roof destroying both roof top candy canes as well as flatten-ing both rear tires. Then they discovered that the jack didn't work. After about an hour they were running again, and came in to finish second. In the Sportsman Trucks, which also ran only three laps, Mark Cline put his Chevy in front right away, and just stayed there. It wasn't .as easy as it sounds, because being at the back of the pack the dust was really heavy for this class and they wandered off course a couple of times. He also noted that he was used "as a bumper" by one of the faster trucks. Chuck Foreman, his only com-petition, did one very long lap, and then didn't come around again. Cline kept moving along, his fast lap being a 2:39:49, to get all three laps done and record another victory. In Class 11 lhere was only one entry, and they negotiated down to a two lap requirement. And it was not easy to get them done. Terry Kiely, Eric Solor-zano and Miguel Haro shared the driving, and it took them nine hours and 16 minutes to get to the finish. They started out by being stuck at the edge of the dry lake, then wisely they pulled up onto the railroad berm to wait for the Trophy Trucks to roar by as they went into their second lap, thus avoiding a possible disaster. Then, on their second lap they had a flat and broke a c.v. at the same time on a nasty rock hill. Re-pairs took a long time. But they got it done, and earned another finish for their record. What at first blush had seemed like a nightmare for SCORE, and took a lot of extra work and time, turned into a race course that everyone liked. If it hadn't been for the dust there would have been no complaints. Sal Fish, SCORE's CEO, regrets that it's · not a course that can be used again. For one thing, it includes highway crossings, which he al-ways wants to avoid if possible, · and for another, it went way too close to the prison at Jean, which made the warden nervous and had him threatening to stop the race at one point. He didn't want people running around in off rnad. vehicles so close to his facility. SCORE's next event will be the Baja 1000, a loop race this year, presumably starting and finishing in Ensenada or nearby. It's scheduled for November 5th through the 8th · ■ November 1999 POSITION CAR# O.ACLASS SCORE PRIMM 300 Sept. 11. 1999 Primm, Nevada Official Resuks DRIVER/CO-DRIVER Trophy Trucks -Unimited trucks - 9 starters. 5 finishers 72 Larry Roeseler 2 19 Ed & Tim HcrbSI 27 3 21 Brian Coates/Rod Thomas 31 4 10 Lonny Hehnboh 69 5 40 Jeff Sto"ers Class I -Unlimited Cars - 26 starters. IO finishers I 100 TroyHerbSI 4 , 2 I\S Doug FortlD .5 112 Mike Julson 8 4 104 John Gaugban/8. J. Richardson 9 s 122 Gus Vildosola/Cbarlie Watters Class 1-2/1600 • I & 2 seat cars, 1600ccs • 25 Sluters, 17 linishers 22 1607 Brad Rowland (solo) 24 2 1614 Rick Paquette/Brad Maurer 30 3 1608 Jim Dizney/Jon Kennedy 34 4 1600 Bekki Freeman/Adam Wik 35 s 1610 Rodney Woolf Class 3 • 4X4 Utility Vehicles 108" or shoner • 4 Slaners, 3 finishers (this class ran only three laps) 85 1 300 Danen Skihon/Sue Mead 87 2 301 Johll Kearney 93 • 3 302 Keith Belhascn Class S - Unlimited Baja Bugs. S Slarten, S finishers 23 502 George Seeley 26 2 501 Dave Cua 33 3 504 Mike James/Mike Kalicki 40 4 505 D,ave Baeskens/Jimmy Sizelove 67 s 503 Mike Jakobsen • VEHICLE Chevrolet K 1500 Ford F-150 Cbevrolet Cl500 Dodge 2500 Ford Ranger Smitbbuilt V4 Jimco V8 T oyoca Jimco ChtnOYttb Toyota Jimco Porter Jiinco Jimco fanco ORB Kia Sportage Isuzu Amigo Jeep Cberokee Seeley/Snoddy Spl Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Sandman Class 5-1600 • Baja Dugs limited to 1600cc motors - IO starters, 8 finishers 48 SS4 Eric Deen/Charlie Bignell SI 579 Gerardo & Humberto lribe SJ sso Dave & Dill Gasper 56 556 Mario & Elias Lcdenna 60 5 559 Eric & Shane Pavolka Class 7 -Mini or Mid-si7.cd pickups - 6 starters, 4 finishers 29 700 Jeff Lewis 66 704 Craig Turner 76 705 Eli Yee/Perry McNeil 78 4 -• 702 Ron Smilh Class 7S · SIO(;k mini or mid-si7..ed pickups - 7 starters., 3 finishers 70 73 2 77 3 720 726 722 Cory Susag/Doug Siewert Cody Swanty Tim braden Cius 8 - two wheel drive utility vehicles - 2 starters, I finisher: 6 SOI Brian Collins Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Dug Baja Bug Chevy S-1 O 4X4 Ford Ranger Ford lunger GMC Sonoma Toyota Tacoma Jeep Coinanche Ford Ranger <.."hcvrolct CI 500 Class 9 .. I &. 2 seal cars, 100" wheelbase: I 600ccs - 7 starters, 4 finishers 55 902 Mark Bundcrson Ounderson 57 948 Eric fisher Garibay Challenger 59 903 Daniel Mora & Danny Mora. Jr. Chenowth 74 4 901 Jesus Luna/Dill Rodriguez?Lobsam Y ce Jimco Class IO• I & 2 seat cars I 6S0ccs, A-arms/water pumpers• 20 Slatters, 8 finishers 7 1006 Danny Anderson Toyota 18 2 1011 Steve & Andrew Myers PcnbalVM)""S 19 3 1021 8. J. Baldwin Cbenowth 32 4 1014 Whit Courtenay/Donald Kenniston Jimco 45 5 1016 Mad Hutchins Jimco Class SCORE Lite• I & 2 scalers, to I 83Sccs, VW type suspension - 17 stancrs, 9 finishers II 1200 John Holmes/Dave Canaway 12 2 1206 Steve Greinke/Dale Dondel IS 3 1213 Jeny PcnhalVGeorge Erl 20 4 1204 Jim Zupanovich/Dick Webyrich 25 5 1210 . Danny Ashcraft/Dave Mason Class 11 • Stock VW Sedan • I staner, I finisher (this class required to run only two laps) Dunrite Suspensions Unlimited Peohall Mirage Porter/Penhall 115 I 1100 Eric Solorzano/feny Kiely/Miguel Haro ' 74 VW Sedan Protrucks - spec class• 4 starters, 4 finishers 16 I 17 2 43 3 ss 4 213 243 207 288 Grayson Smith/Ryan HCrzog Rick D. Johnson Gary Magness Mike Ha,rdaw1y/Joe Heger Stock Full• stock full siz.ed trucks - 2 starters, 2 finishers (this class required to run only three laps) 84 I 90 2 860 861 Marc Stein/Mike McComas John Grilfm Stock Mini - stock mini siz.ed trucks-2 starters, I finisher (this class required to run only three laps) 91 762 Tim Casey Spon.....,, Trucks - 2 starters, I finisher (this cla,s required to run only three laps) 88 1501 Mark Cline Sportsman Buggy - 4 starters. 2 finishers (This class required to run only three laps) Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 OcvTOlet Ford F-150 AM Hummer Toyota 4Runncr Chevrolet 83 I 1402 1400 Doug MacArthur/Gary llaugley Chenowth 89 2 Wa11er Prince/Marq Prince/Doug Drowne Candy Cane Raceco Tolal Starter~: 153 Total finishers: 88 Course: 73 miles 4 laps for most classes, very silty/dusty Wcalhcr: .hot, very little breeze Tl.ME 5:05:32 5:18:46 6:23:47 6:27:26 8:52:27 4:59:34 5:23:00 5:28:52 5:38:46 5:38:54 6:19:06 6:20:05 6:26:14 6:32:27 6:34:06 6:01:54 8:06:57 10:40:36 6: 19:14 6:23:12 6:3 1:59 6:41:31 8:44:10 7:12:41 7:25:57 7:40:50 7:54:34 7:58:42 6:25:45 8:42:54 9:55:38 10:50:38 9:09:33 9:25:26 10:33:37 5:29:41 7:49:17 7:56:15 7:57:22 9:28:34 5:31:21 6:00:47 6:03:40 6:30:00 6:SS:17 5:43:30 5:45:04 S:S0:43 6:04:04 6:20:32 9:16:17 5:57:46 5:58:20 6:49:54 7:57:09 5:56:16 9:02:03 9:28:08 8:08:46 5:50:54 8:29:96 Dusty Times

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49TH NESTE RALLY OF FINLAND Kankkunen Wins on Home Ground By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Juha Karikkunen and Juho Repo at high speed in their Subaru on tneir way to the NESTE' win before an appreciaiive audience. ., Subaru finally has a car, which has won every round of i:he World Rally Champion-ship. Juha Kankkunen won his second everit of the sea-'son, the: third win for ·suba-·ru, taking advantage of the retirement of Tommi Maki-nen who retired with ·clutch 'input shafr' problems. The controversial television live . stage scenario was back again, w'ith more controversy. A sudden downpour handed the stipple mental points of retired rally drivers and denied the drivers who reached the ffn-ish from gaining a good time. Kankkunen's win was the 23rd of his career, more than any other driver has achieved in WRC, but Makinen is still well ahead in Drivers Points. Toyota has pulled even fur-ther ahead in the Manufac-turers Points and there are still four more contests before the season is over. The .Neste Rally Finland, recently known as the "1000 Lakes" was the tenth round of 14 in the 1999 WRC. The rally is held on closed public gravel goads in central Fin-land and it attracted an ex-ceptionally strong entry. There were 11 manufacturers teams represented and all seven teams registered for the full FIA World Championship were entered and 9fficial ~ars from Hyundai, Renault a'nd VW contested the World 2 'Liter Cup. · . . , · · To\iota. cpntinu.ed fo. te·a.d the Manufacturers Points by a large. amount and Tommi M akinen· also' had a,' com-m.anding lead in the, D,rivers Series. The competition was closer in both the Teams Cup series with Lufs Clii;nent and Frederick Dor's private team and in the Group N series wh.ere Gustavo Trelles was leading Hamad Al WahaibL Toyota's team comprised the only two non-Scandina-vians ever to win this event. Didier Auriol and Carlos Sainz are both driving new cars this year. Mitsubishi's Ralliart's engineers fitted higher gear ratios for higher top speeds while the future plans for Tommi Makinen, the only top driver whose contract expires at the end of 1999, was a topic for specula-tion. Subaru had a dream it wanted fulfilled: Finland was the only round of the series that they had not won. No other team had yet won ev-ery event in the current WRC calendar. Since the Scroolis, their last WRC outing, Skoda had gained their first ever WRC win in the Octavia, at the f. Bohemia Rally; the first over-all win for this car and the first outright victory for Sko<;ia _in . any major championship rally for 19 :years i. Armin Schwarz had not di:iven here since·•93 . arid Emil Triner had never .. drivei:i, h,e·re in a turbocharged car.· Triner, who has often competed 10 Finland in small . engine F2 cars, ~as heard ,to s.ay, "It was the. first time I have. ever had to use iny brakes. ori. a rally car in this country!" · The Neste Rally Finland continued its special tradi-tions and its popular appeal. It is the rally with the fastest special stages on closed road sections in the championship. It attracted the highest num-ber of entries since the early '90s. There were 148 starters in 1991 and there were 13 1 entered rhis year. Makinen was hoping to win the same World Championship Rally for the fifth consecutive time. His win last year equaled the fo.ur successive wins of Shjekhr Mehta on the Safari in 1979-1982. This round of the series de-mands special techniques, try-ing to learn the stages on which the organizers have al-lowed three rather than the usual two passes over each stage beforehand. With strict Unaware of the pleasant scenery, Jouko Puhakka and Jakke Honkanen churn through the gravel on their way to first Group N. speed limits in force befor~ the rally, it is quite difficult for newcomers to this event to prepare for driving these roads at very high speeds. The various theories ad-vanced for success at this rally as related by various test en-gineers, team managers and drivers run the entire gamut. "Maximum traction and trying to stop the cars from flying." "The skill and confidence of the drivers and the high speeds means that engine per-formance_ is .also very impor-tant." "Being able to con-stantly maintain high speeds witho:ut unnecessarily lifting off the throttle." "Optimum driveability as well as-making the car fly well" and "maxi-mum driver confidence and high speed stability.'' Obvj-ously ,atl of the above are im.-pprtant. . , · Makinen .was. -constantly questio11ed about his plans for nex,t season. "I will deci9e soon afte('the ~ally" was all he would say. McRae hinted that Tommi would not fit in well at Ford while Sainz said he came this year to Finland less confident than in the past. Delecour said the challenge for Peugeot was divided, "there are two rallies, one for the Finns and one for us." In fact, at the end of the first day there were only four Finns in the top 10. (There were 71 Finn teams entered in the rally.) Leg 1 -Seven stages, gravel, 82 kms. Subarus were defi-nitely on form. First, Kank-kunen then Richard Burns dominated the opening stages of the rally while Makinen struggled on the mostly dry roads running first car on the road. The two Subaru drivers were running fourth and sixth respectively. The conditions varied widely and rapidly, from hot sunshine to cool heavy rain. Did the running order give Subaru their edge? "Maybe, but we did a lot of testing for this event" said Juha Repo, Kankkunen's co-driver. The rally began at a very fast pace, the first stage was won at a speed of 132 kph. Once again, the Toyotas were going reliably. Sainz was not complaining but Auriol said his car was understeering too much while accelerating. Toni Gardmeister spun and stalled the engine at the end of a long straight and that cost him some time. The Fords were not having. a good day. Radstrom was fastest but his car was jumping out of gear and McRae said his car was ,handling -badly. Grist also •. mentioned the pa.c~notes ·were _ too slow. "We pr~ctice a t .. 80 kph and we are rallyii;ig over .these roads at 18.0 kph. Pett.,er -Solberg was 1earning .hi.s way . on his first eve.r Neste_ Rally . after having:front differential hyd,raul'ic probl_ems, and Fred_cly.L,oix \;Vas being caryful after a near miss .on Stage 5. Skoda was _not doing well ei-ther; Schwarz damaged the · rear of his car in the first kilo-meter of the first stage. He made it to the end of the stage but then was forced to retire and Triner went off the road on Stage 5 and lost some time. The highest non-works driver was Markko Martin who never seemed to have the right tires on his Toyota Co-rolla. Sebastian Lindholm had gearbox failure on the very first stage, which was changed at first service. Among the Group N con-tenders, Jesus Puras was en-joying the lose surfaces, not having competed on gravel since 1996 and he was truly enjoying the learning experi-ence. Adruzilo Lopes was wist-fully surveying the missing front fender-on his Peugeot. Stages 4 and 5 were pre-dominantly sandy but were Carlos Sainz a,:,d Luis Moya gave it their all in Finland but they wece Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautiainen fly their Peugeot 206 towards Ignoring the 50km sign, Tapio Laukkanen and Kaj Lindstrom took 1st 18 seconds out of the win in the Toyota Corolla. the finish and a fine fourth overall in Finland. _____ in W2L, 13th overall in the Renault Maxi Megane. 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expected to clear a bit more with every passing car. Mar-cus Granholm was running fifth after Stage 4 and was running 10th on the road. He climbed one place every stage for the rest of the day and at the end he was leading! In the Formula 2 competi-tion, Jarmo Kytolehto led in the Vauxhall for the first five stages then Tapio Lukkanen took over the lead when the rally moved away from Jarmo's home region. Kenneth Erikk-son and Alister McRae Hyundais were not able to get up to the_ fast rally pace. Mark Higgins split the two Hyundais in his VW, while Martin Rowe Vo/can ls,k and Ercan Bodur head for the camera in their Toyota. A great 15th in the second Renault was overall, 1stTeamsCupattheNESTERallyinFinlandwastheirs. having brake problems but was road. Martin retired with tur-wheel punctures, presumably in front of Weardon's bocharger problems after he hitting the same rock as Vauxhall and the two Finnish drove at 80 kph for a replace-Burns. Panizzi had power National Team VWs. In ment, only to find the re-steering failure and also had Group N, Jouko Puhakka was placement turbo was of the an electrical failure, which going well in his Mitsubishi. wrong type. Solberg was also killed the engine for about 20 Trelles was in sixth place, suf-having a bad day, the power minutes, and Delacour in-fering from mousse failure steering failed and Triner was curred road penalties while twice but back on form. having-continuous brake his transmission was being Pykalisto was in second spot, problems with the Octavia. changed. Thit;1.gs were not go-Passonen was in third, fol-There were several disas-ing well for Peugeot, but at lowed by Manfred Stohl and ters on Stage 14. Radstrom least they were still running!· Hamed Al Wahaibi. lost control of his car after a ·In Group N, Puhakka led Leg 2 -Ten stages, gravel, bad landing and ended up all the way, his only problem 201 kms. Late in the previous astride a deep ditch in a very was when he lost his screen day it was announced that precarious place. He lost 10 and lights which were smashed Sainz had been penalized 10 minutes before spectators got by stones thrown by Loix's seconds for jumping the start him back on the road again. damaged car. Paasanen was on the final stage and this Makinen also had troubles still having brake problems, dropped him back ·from fifth near that same spot, he Pykalisto had his front suspen-place to eighth. Peugeot had slowed down for a turn when sion collapse and Al Wahaibi decided that Gronholm could the drive failed completely went off the road. Both of not take penalties and would and his run of Finnish rally these drivers retired from the restart first cat on the road. · ·wins was over. Then his team-fray. Trelles' engine was over-Kankkunen noted that• the mate Loix flipped his car, slid-• heating and Stohl suffered ground temperature was likely iri.g wide on a bend he damage from a heavy landing. to get hot quickly, but, in touched the outer berm and Walfridsson retired with pis-fact, it didn't. It seems that he was over. Burns was going ton damage and Lopes lost 10 the recent rains had made the well, .,etter than any British · minutes when he stopped to road surface surprisingly wet driver had ever done before fix a flat and the jack broke. and the dampness remained a on a Finnish rally. He was sec-In Formula 2, Laukkanen lot longer than anyone antici-ond fastest, even after hitting led as he pleased. He had got-pated. Kankkunen went into a rock and slicing a tire. ten ahead on the first day and the lead on the second stage Kankkune.n was quickest when Kytolehto's Vauxhall · while Makinen was having a overall this time, and Gron-developed power steering bad time, the car was bottom-holm was slowly slipping problems, it just made life that ing out on the rutted first two back. He was having trouble much easier for Laukkanen. stages of the day and of upshifting and by the end of Hyundai lost Eriksson when course, was slowing down as the 12th stage he was back in his front suspension collapsed the underpan contacted the fourth place. They changed after a hard landing and VW road surface. Sainz, however, his transmission after Stage lost Mark Higgins when he was off to a great start; he set 14 when they discovered a hy-went off the road and rolled. four fastest times on the first draulic leak but he was now Svan went off the road for six stages and visibly had the over one minute behind the three minutes and later on best running position. leaders. Sainz was the man on had drive shaft failure. Alister McRae eventually got the a mission. He was jusi: 1.8 sec-McRae struggled with his car to run the way he wanted ands behind the leader on brakes all day and Saarenpaa, it to despite the fact that the Stage 13 but on Stage 14 he in the local team VW broke alternator strap had broken had a top gear, flat out slide. his suspension in an off the earlier on but he was able to That put him 9.9 seconds be-road excursion and he too re-fix it on the road. Auriol was hind the leader and Burns was tired. Rowe had starter prob-not going so well, the car not just .5 seconds behind him! lems but was continuing. handling well at all. Rovan-In the later stages Rovan-Leg 3 -Six stages, gravel, pera had a mousse fail while pera went off the road and 93 kms. Gronholm said the teammate Gardmeister had damaged the suspension. De-last day would be the fairest more troubles with the engine lecour was h aving erratic of the event, with no inheren t stalling while braking after transmission problems and advantages as to running or-long straight, stretches of many drivers h ad left front der at all. Gardmeister made Not often seen all bright and shiny, these seven teams pose for a group shot before the 49th NESTE Rally of Finland. fastest time on the first stage, which got him ahead of the Escort World Rally Car o( Sebastian Lindholm. The most· important battle of the day was the chase by Burns of Car-los Sainz. It took two stages for Burns to catch Sainz. "I just could not match the pace of the Subarus" Sainz la-mented. Auriol was in despair and the team withdrew the entry to give themselves as much time as possible to change the central differential for the final stage. Kankkun-en reached the end of the 19th stage with both left side tires flat but he had only lost a few seconds. Radstrom's car was finally going better after · changing the turbo. His car was also withdrawn then to be ready for the televised stage·. Granholm tried hard to·catch McRae, but with no success. Burns was gradually catching the leader, Kankkunen, there were no team orders, "With Sainz close behind we cannot ease off now!" McRae, mean-while was having serious en-gine problems. He lost over a minute on the penultimate stage and drove very carefully to the final stage. Kankkunen came to the fi-nal stage less than enamored about the live stage to follow. "I am not sure these TV stages are such a good idea", and that was before the stage actually happened. Burns admitted the points were out of proportion. Other drivers felt it was not in the spirit of the rally to vol-untarily retire from the main event just to get extra service time. Under the special rules, the retired cars, Makinen, Auriol and Radstrom did the stage first , and then followed a heavy downpour and for a while the conditions were ter-rible . The weather made a mockery of the whole thing! For McRae, his rally was over just a kilometer from the fin-ish as in a cloud of smoke, on live TV as a piston broke. Gardmeister had bad interior visibility; his car slid wildly on the road and it was a disaster. Solberg continued to gain ex-perience though he was far be-hind and Touhino in the other Escort was driving cautiously with high engine temp~rature and a wheel bearing failure, but he kept going. He reached the finish with no brakes but he still finished in the top ten. Delecour struggled to the fin-ish, with the car still very dif-ficult to drive, but Peugeot achieved their first ambition, all three cars had finished! In Group N; Puhakka and Paasonen were going very carefully. Paasonen was hav-ing · gearbox troubles and Trelles was·worried about en-gine temperature but he had to retire when a punctured tire damaged the wire ·1oom. Mitsubishi took the top nine places in the category. In For-mula 2, Alister McRae, with a less powerful engine could not hold off the second Renault of Rowe and then McRae also had power steering failure. Not good days for Hyundai, especially on the eve of the presentation of their next project, the World Rally Car. In the manufacturers race, Toyota still has a command-ing lead with 85 points. Suba-ru has 68, Mitsubishi 59, Ford 35, SEAT 16 and Skoda and Peugeot have three each. Drivers standings are: Makinen 48, Auriol 38, Kankkunen and Sainz 34, Burns 29, Colin McRae 23, Bugalski 20, and many more down the line. In 2 Liter M anufacturers Cup, Renault has 89 points, Hyundai has 59 and Volks-wagen has 21 . Points in FIA Cup for Pro-duction Car Drivers: Trelles 6 1, Al W ahaibi 52, Puh akka 26, and Stohl has 19. ■ Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen get ready for touchdown in the Armin Schwarz's Skoda Octavia is badly torn up in the rear and finally Tommi Makinen looks great here but he was forced to retire with SEAT Cordoba as the go to a fine fifth place in Finland. retired with damaged suspension. ________ terminal clutch problems in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. Dusty Times November 1999 Page 19

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30TH ANNUAL SNORE 250 Ron Runs Roughshod By John Calvin Photos: Trackside Photo Ken and Clay Flippin took the Class 10 honors, they only had one flat tire to mar their otherwise perfect day. There was no stopping Ron Brandt and co-driver Chuck Sudbury, taking the Class 1 win and the overall and he won the Russell Job Memorial Trophy as well. Dwaine and Rob Walters split the driving, had o trouble free run and took the coveted Class 9 win at the SNORE 250. The flagship race of the Southern Nevada Off Road En-thusiasts had its 30th running late in September at Nellis Dunes, just a hop skip and a jump from Nellis Air Force Base. The race consisted of four 63 mile laps and as usual, Kenny Freeman had found some of the best and the roughest territory available to test the nine classes of cars and their drivers. SNORE is known to give awa substantial bonus mone PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 20 in various classes at every race and the SNORE 250 was no ex-ception. The overall winner col-lected $3,120 at the awards ban-quet, which is not a bad payday for five hours and two minutes of work for you and your car. In the Unlimited, Class 1 Jeez, maybe I'd better straighten up! Jeff Carr went on to win the hotly contested 1600 race in his Mirage race car. · race, John Gaughan took the early lead, although it was a slim one, he led Ron Brandt by only 38 seconds as they started Lap 2. Billy Goerke came along a bit later, he was having problems in the Brian Collins car and was over half an hour off the pace. Lonnie and Don Hembolt bravely took off at the green flag but were never seen again, not compieting the first °lap. Billy Goerke leaves lots of body panels around the course but his chase of first place in Class 1 was in vain. On Lap 2, Ron Brandt moved into the lead, whfch was substantial, as Gaughan was having problems of a serious nature and failed to complete his second lap. Billy Goerke was still having problems but had picked up the pace a bit and was now in the second spot, albeit an hour behind the leader on time. Brandt was having a good run as he finished his third lap in very good time and Goerke was once again slowing down but was still in the race. Lap 3 ended, Ron Brandt handed the car over to Chuck Sudbury, reminding him there were no rear brakes and then sat back to await the out-come. Sudbury came around in good time and the win was theirs. Brandt and Sudbury were the SNORE 250 overall win-ners and Goerke faded into the sunset, not finishing his last lap. Goerke's problem was not the new steering rack, just installed after the Ely race, but was directly related to steering and gave him only a DNF for a hard day's work. The Class 10 contest was a good one with nine cars on the starting line and all re,3dy to go. The Jeremy Gubler/Danny Anderson combo was going to be a hard MikeGaughanandRobbieGoerkehadagoodday, takingthesecond one to beat as they took the lead on Lap spot in Class 10 after a trouble free run. 1, Clay Flippin was hot on their tail, only 55 seconds behind and he was followed by the B.J. Baldwin/Ryan Ellis entry. Sean Sessa was going to solo the race, and he was the fourth car across the line on Lap 1 with the Mike Gaughan/Robbie Goerke car next across the line. Gene Griepentrog was having problems as he was 10 minutes off the pace and only completed the first lap before terminal ills put him on the trailer.Jeff Shiroky and Kevin Colan were also having troubles and they too only got one lap into the books this day. Lee Finke was over half an hour in arrears but was still motoring on and Jim Price never com-pleted his first lap. On Lap 2 it started to shake out a bit as Day Gangi-an her nearly new car to a great second place in 1600 Flippin took the lead, Gubler was now sec-having no problems en en route to the silver medal. Continued on page 22 November 1999 Dusty Times

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Dave Spencer and Todd Johnson split the seat time and ran to a Frank Puglia drove the entire race, got himself stuck for a bit but he great second place in Class 3, not too far away from the class win. came in for a nice second spot in 5-1600. ning fifth and Finke had picked Gubler/Anderson were in the Sessa had a very long third lap, up his pace but was in sixth second spot, about four minutes he lost the battery and all power place. off the pace while Goerke had but thanks to the Geiser clan he Thomas Reck and Greg Frechette had a broken throttle cable but came on in for a nice second spot in Sportsman Buggy. on the third lap, it cost him two and the win was theirs. They and a half hours and his race only had one flat all day and was done. were quite proud of their 24 sec-Lap 3 was run in the hottest taken over from Gaughan and was only down for 20 minutes part of the day but Clay Flippin they were running third, about before continuing on his way. was still running first in class. eight minutes out of the lead. Lee Finke had lots of problems Ken Flippin got in the car for ond gas stop. Second across the the last lap and he cemented line in Class 10 was Robbie the lead with a nice 1:22:33 lap Goerke. He and Mike Gaughan t.lJ BILSTEIN•FOX SHOX•SWA Y-A-WA Y•MYB•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• $ ~ 0 tTl i KARTEK ... -~'Where Off-Road is On/!!" ij ~ .------~ ~------, .-.-----~ -------~ ~ l • ~ -l-fl ~ ~ N ~" t:.J,1111 ,~ ill ~ ....._ ______ __, .,..--; ¾ W ' r ~ < BILLET AIR CLEANER BILLET NC LINKAGE CLASS 1600 RACE NC RACE EXHAUST ~ Q.. 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We don't know how it happened, but Brian Freeman flipped his car just a few yards from the start and still turned the fast lap on Lap 1, perhaps a wee bit of an error in the timing depart-ment? Anyway, assuming Brian was first across the line on Lap 1, there followed in close succes-sion J~ffCarr, Pat Dean and Ed Pauley, all with identical lap times. -Sammy Ehrenberg was next, only nine seconds off the pace. Bryan Anderson was next at 1:18:37, then came Robbie Guevera with 1:18:43, closely followed by Day Gang with nice 1: 18:46.. Rick Boyer came across at 1:20:19, then Dayne Bracken turning the clock at 2:25:02 and he was followed in by Brad Mau-rer, then Chris Hansen and the car of Andy Anderson never completed the fir~t lap. Brian Anderson turned a nice 1: 16:09 on his second lap and took the class lead. Jeff Carr and Pat Dean turned identical lap times on both the first and second laps and were tied in second. Rick Boyer moved into the fourth spot while Ed Pauley came across the line in fifth with two quick laps and Sammy Ehrenberg was running sixth. Day Gang was in seventh spot and she was followed by Dayne Bracken, although not too closely. Robby Guevera was next, then Brad Maurer, fol-lowed by Chris Hansen and Brian Freeman. Rick Boyer never completed his third lap and joined the DNF brigade. As Lap 3 came to a close it was still Brian Ander-son in front. He led Jeff Carr by six seconds and it don't get much closer than that! Day Gang had moved into the third spot in her almost new Bruce Fraley machine although she was suffering from dehydration. Who forgot to put the water bottle in the car? Sammy Ehrenberg was running third and Ed Pauley was in the fourth Dusty Times

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Bert Schneider and Mark Petit shared the steering wheel and took Sean Sessa, shown here saving his tires lost a battery on Lap 3, but Sammy Ehrenberg drove the race solo, had some minor electrical the second spot in Sport Truck, travers· · unes. recovered and finished in third place in Class 10. problems and took a nice third place in 1600. Pat Dean was close to first in 1600 'ti/ he broke a distributor cap on BJ Baldwin started off well but three troublesome laps in a row relegate Teresa Carr and Karrie Bennallack drove a great race in Sportsman, the third lap and that set him down to a fourth place finish. _c..,yo~u~to_a_fo_u_rt_h .... p_la_c_e_in~C_la_s_s_1_0_. ---~-~------ taking a great third place on a tough, rough course. spot Robby Guevera was fifth. ish to hydrate herself after a heavy dicing going on through-and losing a lot of his brakes. Dukes was up two spots to fifth. Dayne Bracken was sixth and great run. Sammy Ehrenberg out the three laps they were re-Ryan and Roger Shank were The remaining six cars in no Pat Dean and Brian Freeman came in third after reattaching quired to race. Jeremy Harmon having problems that never particular order were: Shelton were about tied in the seventh the spark plug wires two or was the leader after the first lap, went away, resulting in very Reeves/Rux, Mike Shimp, Ryan place. Brad Maurer came next three times. Pat Dean was leading by almost a minute and long lap times, especially for Schank, Ken Thatcher, Kevin and Jeff Knupp was running last. fourth, shot down on his third a half. The Todd Johnson/Dave them. Neither Matt Cunning-Walsh, Kevin Sarbacker. Those Only six cars were able to lap when the distributor rotor Spencer car was second, Kevin ham or Dan Bensteap com-not finishing their the second complete their fourth lap -and broke and added almost 40 min-Walsh was running third and pleted the first lap. lap were Kevin Steele, Andy when it was over it came down utes to his overall time. Brad Dwaine Walters was fourth. At the end of the second lap Kisner, Joe Sheble and Tom like this. Jeff Carr and his Mi-Maurer and Ruben Rodriguez Kevin Steele was running fifth the Johnson/Spencer car was in Taliaferro. rage had a trouble free race and had lots of trouble on their third but he was not seen after Lap 1 the lead, the Walters brothers At the end of Lap 3 it was moved into the lead taking the lap but still motored in for a and Joel Davis was running in were a shade over two minutes Dwaine and Rob Walters taking gold medal· in 1600 with an et good fifth place finish. Jeff sixth, fighting a shifter problem behind and Jeremy Harmon was the Class 9 win and the $1,500 of5:ll:0landthatwasgoodfor Knuppbentalowertrailingarm makinggearselectioniffy.Todd inthirdafterputtinghiscaron that goes with it, running a a $2,000 payday. Second into on his third lap but persevered Dukes was running trouble free its head and then fighting a bro-trouble free race. The Johnson/ the checkered flag was Day and took sixth. There were no in seventh and Al Rux was in ken shifter. The Davis/Cobb car Spencer car was second, they Gang, her Fraleymobile per-other finishers in class. eighth place after getting stuck was running in fourth and Todd Continued on page 24 forming flawlessly although Day Class 9 had 27 cars take the needed a bit of time at the fin-green flag and there was some ...;-; '( y --~ ..... , ... " :..--t. _., ........ ~ .. ~ :,t '<it...,,,. ., .. :·r ,,; ~ --~: ...... , " Mike Powada and Greg Price ran their three required laps with no troubles except a flat, another win to their string of victories. Dave Villafana had a sticky throttle on lap 1 but that didn't stop him from winning the Sport Buggy Class at the SNORE 250. 'Dusty Times TRANSAXLE ENGINEERINGt INC CONGRATULATIONS Mike Julson, driving Ron Satters Toyota Powered Junco at the SCORE Primm 300 (3rd Cl~s I )and to Ron Satters, driving his own car for a great finish at the MDR Barstow 300 (2nd Class 1 ) . Race And Win With Transaxle Products Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field November 1999 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 Page 23

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Brad Maurer had some problems in his good looking 1600 and was The brothers Gremm, Andre and Eric led lap I but horrendous problems Jeremy Harmon played the upside down game on lap 2 and it cost rele ated to a fifth place finis position. on lap 2 dropped them to fourth in Sportsman. him, he finished in third place in Class 9. Todd Dukes and Don Haze had a mostly trouble free run and took fourth place honors in Class 9. Joel Davis and Bill Cobb had trouble keeping it in gear but they carried Albert Rux and Shelton Reeves got a wee bit stuck, Jost a break line on and finished fifth in Class 9. but still had a ball in their sixth place finish in Class 9. too running a trouble free three laps and coming in some seven minutes away from the gold. Jer-emy Harmon was third, after getting his shifter welded and was less than six minutes out of second. Todd Dukes and. Don Haze (who ran the last lap} only suffered a blown shock less than a mile from the finish and fin-ished fourth. Joel Davis and Bill Cobb were fifth, fighting a tranny that wouldn't go into gear for all three laps. Al Rux and Shelton Reeves were sixth and the Shimp clan finished in seventh place. One second later the Schank boys came across the line in eighth place~ and were the last finishers in the and the Fergusons were still bring-and Jason Gubler finally struggled SNORE 250, a great race with a class. ing up the rear. in after a three and a half hour great bunch of competitors. The The 5-1600s only had to Greg Price drove the last lap third lap, cause unknown. awards were held at the Gold make three laps and they all but Mike Powada was there to In the Sport Truck Division, Coast Hotel on Sunday morning, · went at it with a vengeance. greet him at the finish as they there were only two laps to run. featuring a marvelous buffet Mike Powada drove the first two took the win easily, having only Dennis McCarthy was running breakfast, compliments of laps and he moved into the lead one flat to deal with through-solo and he took the lead on the Michael Gaughan and the Gold on the first lap. Frank Puglia out the race. Frank Puglia held first lap and there he remained Coast Hotel. One of these days we was running second, less than on to the second spot, Rich while his co-rider bemoaned the have to come up with a really spe-two minutes off the ,pace and Sanchez drove the last lap for loss of their exhaust system, a cial award for this man who gives Milt Moore got himself stuck for Milt Moore and_ they took third, spare tie and a fender, but they so much to SNORE and to off a while but was running third just three minutes away from did win! Bert Schneider and Mark road racing in generai and asks while Reid and Sarah Ferguson the second spot. Last, but not Pettit teamed up once more and nothing in return. The Russell Job brought up the rear. least were the Fergusons who they were second in class, fight-Memorial Award went to Ron MiJ<e Powada finished his sec-had a six and a half hour day but ing a broken shock during the Brandt and the Jean Calvin Me-ond lap with the lead still his and did bring their car across the race. Rudy Suriano only got one morial award was· given to Kevin Frank Puglia got himself stuck for finish line. lap ·in and then retired from the Walsh. a while but still held second. Milt In the Heavy Metal class, there fray. See you a II a c the Moore y.ras still" running in third was only one entry, John Phegley ·. And so it was over, the 30th Race in November. .. whb ran a fairly long first lap and was never seen again. . There was one entry in Class 11 and Frank .. Tomczak ran his one required lap· in two and a half hours and, as usual, with all Class 11 racers, he had a ball, no problems and no flat tires, OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Sport Buggies ran three laps and they all had fun! Andre and Eric Gremm jumped into the early lead, Dave Villafana was less than two min-utes behind with throttle cable problems and the McCormack clan was running third. Jason Gubler was fourth, Tom Reck was in fifth, Teresa Carr was sixth, Charlie Sutton was seventh and Bob Guevara never finished his first lap. Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 7 $8.0.95 $85.95 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15x 6 $105.95 $111.75 15 X 10 $118.25 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 Page 24 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX At the end of Lap 2, Villafana moved into the lead, Jason Gubler had moved into second and Tho-mas Rack was in the third spot. Teresa Carr, driving her maiden race was fourth the brothers Gremm dropped to fifth with ma-jor problems and Sutton was sixth. On the third and final lap Dave Villafana still led the pack and took the gold medal. Greg Frechette drove the Reck car the last lap and they finished second, after overcoming throttle cable problems. Teresa Carr handed over to Terry Bennallock on the last lap and they brought their car in for a great third place, The brothers Gremm were fourth, the Sutton/Bassett car came in fifth November 1999 ,.. Dennis McCarthy drove his Sport Truck Chevy solo and won easily, despite losing his exhaust system and some body panels. Looks good from here! . , ........ ·-~ , 'j ......... _,,":.., ...... _., ~ -"$~ , .: ·: ~~·-· ~.., Frank Tomczak raced across the desert to a great Class 1 win, running trouble free and enjoying every moment of the run. Dusty Times

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1999 Bonneville Challenge Text & Photos: Mike Jenkins Gordon Scott and Eric Kosel won the Heavy Metal Division in their ice looking C.Jl, making it two wins in a row. Scott Smith worked his way into the 1600 lead at Bonneville, finishing the required six laps in record time for an impressive win. off of his last lap to a 51: 17, and of two Jeeps, four full size and Fred slowing slightly with two mini trucks would again 1 :00:26, but hanging in there. prove to ·make an interesting The fourth lap found Scott as mix. Down from the record 14 the new race leader and run-entries at Jackpot, the overall ning another 46 minute lap this points leader, Robin Doutre, time with a :30, that was three had an excellent chance to be-very fast laps within :05 sec-come the first truck driver to onds of each other and serving take home the honors. Now on notice to the rest of the field of to the race, Mike Hickey and what it would take to get the Bo Brunyer (877) were first off lead. Mark fell to second but of the line in their Sano Six was still running a strong race States Distributor Ford, Robin and enjoying the new 1600 Doutre (827) was next in his As the c~ntury winds down, so does the off road race sea-son for the dedicated racers and their crews and let's not forget the hard working staff of B.O.R.E., who have, for the past 11 years put on some of the best off road racing anywhere! The west desert of Utah would again provide the terrain to challenge all whom would dare to put their"skills up for another exciting day of racing. Twenty-five cars, trucks and jeeps showed for the Saturday event. The 1/2-1600 class had eight cars show up for the race, but a fuel cell leak on the 16 77 two seater ofJake and Sharon Man-ess would keep their car in the trailer, the rest of the competi-tors were ready to take to the dirt. Mark Rencher in his Red Robin (1675) was first off the line followed by Todd Bingham in the Dee's Service (1659), next was the (163 1) Nu tsch Farms car driven by Fred Nutsch, Macy Price was pilot-ing Mike Baker's ]-Dot Leasing (1690), Scott Smith followed in his Interior Wood Design (1619) car, then came Roger Bowers in the (1636) Clearfield Auto car, and bringing up the rear was Glenn Cain in the Dun Gud Construction ( 1629). Todd would start things off fast posting a 48:05 for his first lap, Mark was right in there with a lap time of 48: 27, Roger was third running a 49:36 lap, in fourth was Glenn crossing the line at 51: 18. macy was fifth a few ticks behind running a . 51:42, not bad for his first time in the desert. Scott was in sixth class ride, his 48:33 was also Chevrolet and also had Six with a 52:42 due to a flat and a consistent with his previous States Distributor as his spon-lost power steering belt but, was laps and he was going to make sor. Gordon Scott and Eric looking strong and trying to Scott earn the lead. Roger had Kosel (380) would try to make make time to the field, Fred was his name on third again and it two in a· row in the nice nursing his car, turning the wasn't going to give it up, his Scott Pro racing Jeep CJ-7 clockatl:06:03,aminoralter-paceshowedjustabitto52:19, that they hauled all the way cation with Mark caused him a brake problem-caused him to from Oregon along with a to lose his stinger and power miss a turn and run through a complete pit crew and cheer-steering belt but the tried and ditch, he said that it rang his ing section. Mike and Carrey true hands of ex-racer and car bell but he felt that he could Sims (801) were next in the 4 owner, Rick Taylor, got the car finish the race. Ty Bowers was Wheelers 4x4 Center Chevy repaired on the course in just a waiting in the wings and ready truck, another Ford entry was few minutes. The second lap to take the wheel if needed. next, Mark Schifanelli and endedwithTodd(47:45),hold-Macywasinfourthandsettling Juan Harris (880) sponsored ing off Mark by: 18 corrected in to a rhythm, 54: 18 is all that by Andy's, ASE Inc. Cam Pea-time, Roger was still in third it took him to complete the lap. cock and Randy Potter made bettering his time to 4 7: 41, Glenn's lap was all but boring, the trip from Montana again Scott was back to his usual when he tried to pass Macy for and the (713) Village Hair ways, turning fast lap of the day position he got a little out of Design Chevy powered Nissan at 46:25 and closing the gap shapeandputthecaronitslid, was off and running. The with Roger. Macy still in fifth he was down about 30 minutes (711) Poor Boys racing Ford and running a consistent pace but managed to get the car Ranger of Les Seal and Tony at 52:04, Glenn had slowed just righted and running and fin-Durbin was on course next, a little to 54:36 but, keeping it ished the lap at 1:37:44. Fred, and Jeffery and Denise Lange together, and Fred was still in fifth, was having some addi-would play catch-up in the 4 nursing his injured car in sev-tional problems, this time with Wheelers 4x4 Center Jeep CJ-enth with a time of 53:16. Lap the coil and a flat tire and 5 (348). First lap results had 3 would find Todd on the side-would park the car after run-a disappointed Mike parking lines as a spectator with termi-ning a 1 :40: 19. The fifth lap his truck after a short five mile nal engine problems ending his found everyone in the same drive, the race goes on. Robin race much earlier than he positions and settling in. The was pulling all the stops and would like. Mark's 48: 18 would sixth and final lap had Scott 53:54 was all it took to com-be good enough to inherit the taking the checkers with an plete the trip back to the line, lead, but the hard charging excited Mark ta'king second second was Cam with a lap of Scott would turn another quick place money, a still groggy 54:48. Les was third with a lap time of 46:27 and move from Roger in third and Macy finish-time of 54:54, the Sims and fourth to second in one lap and ·ing in fourth. Glenn's turtle Andy turned in identical times was only one minute out of impression caused him to not of 54:4 7, sixth was Gordon first. Roger had a firm grip on be able to start the last lap be-with a 5 5: 14 lap, and the third posting a steady 48:59, fore the leader finished, but Langes were in seventh run-Macy was now in fourth with a fifth was his. ning a 56:42 lap. Just over Robin Doutre gets airborne in his Chevy as he heads for second in Heavy Metal lap time of 52:44. Glenn was in The Heavy Metal class was three minutes covered the _and~-_-_,_._t_t_'ook-=.-=.s-=._l_i~-=.e-=.b-=.e-=.'ll-=.be-=.-=.th-=._e~ __ 1_9_9-=.9-=.Pi-=.o,-=.·n-=-ts-=.-=.Ch-=._am ___ ~'Pl __ ·on ___ ·-=.-=.-=.-=.-=.-=.-=.-=.-=.-=---.-~-=---=---=---=---=---=---fi_if_th_a_n_d_c_u_t_o_v_e_r_t_hr_e_e_nu_·_n_-u_t_e_s __ th_e_n_e_,xt, a0n_d_th_e_c_o_m_b_i_n_a_t_io_n _____ c_o_nt_in_u_e_d _on_p_•_1_• _2a_J __ _, ~ ~. ,; ~~-.,;_~.· ~ aft Mark Rencher led the first lap in 1600 but was unable to keep the lead Roger Bowers flies his 1600 to third spot, even though bad brakes The CJ5 of Jeffery and Denise Lange got as high as second in ?'faavy and finished up in the second spot. and an off course excursion shook him up a bit on the fourth lap. Metal but had to settle for third as the checkers fell. Page 26 November 1999 Dusty Times

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Gary Brennan and Rod Sorenson had a good race, taking the silver Scott Butcher runs through the dust in his neat looking car, leading Pat Ellis ran a good race in Class 9, he ran Idol the third spot almost all the way and took the bronze medal in Class 9. medal in Sportsman at the Bonneville. frolic. · lap 1 in Class 9 but ending up in the second spot. field after the first lap and it time of 57:09. Then there his lap time was 1:14:47 and was going to get better. The were four, the third lap had he was going to have to pick second lap would claim three Gordon move up to first with things up to be able to take teams with the Poor Boys en-.a lap time of 53:49, Robin in home the points championship try stopping. Andy lost a rear a solid second turning in a this year. Cam was still run-hub and the Sims got a flat, time of 1 :02:42 a broken plug ning in fourth with a lap of got stuck and then had prob-wire slowed him down a bit, 1:01:02. Five laps were all that lems with the ring and pinion the Langes were still in third this class was going to run and in the rear end. First place was with a lap time of 1:01 :49. The it was coming down to the Cam Peacock turning class fourth lap had Gordon still in wire, Gordon had a comfort-fast lap at 53:34, second was front with a 58:03, the Langes able lead and took the check-Robin 55:13, third was Gor-moved up to second with a ers in first ending the lap with don. with a lap of 54:29, and time of 58:42, and Robin fell a 59: 16 and making the trip the Langes were fourth with a back to third due to a flat tire, from Oregon fun and profit-Of Rodends & Spherical Bearings able. Robin ran hard and fin-ished the lap in 56 minutes even and it looks like he will win the points championship for 1999. The Langes ran a good race and finished a re-spectable third with a final lap of 1:17:21, steering column problems slowed them at the end or they might have had second. Cam took fourth place but it would cost him another axle and a ride down the hill on a trailer. The Challenge class took to the line five starters strong, the venerable Dave Morse trying to be the only class winner for the past two sea-sons was out of the gate first in his Morse Insurance (996), Pat and Cameron Blackley in their (931) were next fol-lowed by Mike Conner in the on third at 1 :02:52 and was TrueGreen Chem Lawn running a consistent race, his (987), Scott Butcher (969) three laps were one minute was next on the course a_nd apart. Mike was in fourth at Pat Ellis (933) followed. Scott 58:43, the first lap problems crossed the line first with a put him way back from the lap time of 57:53 and wanted rest of the field. Lap 4 had to stay there. Dave was a Dave extending his lead to 11 close 58:41, just about a minutes over Scott and Pat minute back and wanting to still in third, Mike was run-close the gap and secure first. ning hard trying to make up Pat was in third with a lap of some time and was rewarded 1 :02:37 and next to cross was with the class fast lap of Pat and Cameron with a 56:47. The race ended with 1 :09: 11 and Mike with some Dave taking the win for an trailing arm problems slowing unbelievable sixth time in a him down to a 1:47:25. The row and the rest of the class second lap ended with none wondering what it will take to other than Dave taking the bring him down. Scott fin-lead from Scott with a 56:57 ished in second and Pat fin-to Scott's 58:47. Dave has ishedthird.Mikewasrunning just been too tough and his in fourth at the end of the races have been practically race. flawless and that makes for an The Sportsman class was unbeatable combination. Pat again the final race of the day, was still in third with a four teams would do battle in 1 :03: 11. Mike was back in the desert to claim bragging form, in fourth, and his trail-rights over the winner. Randy ing arm troubles seemed to be Vogt (630) was first on the behind him. Pat and Cameron course and Dave Short and had to call it a day when car Shane Schrenk in their (58) problems sidelined them. At Jeep were off next, followed the end of three laps, Dave by Brian Dick and Mike and was still in the lead tripping Chris Chamberlain in their the clock at 57 even. Scott buggy and Rod Sorenson and was trying to close running a -Gary Brennan sharing driving 1:02:36. Pat had a solid hold chores in their 1600 type car. • BACKSAVER ,----.-.-. - . ---------------------, The fi~st lap had Brian in first with a lap of 53:20, making • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • SILICONE HOSE I\IED !iYI\ITHETIC LUBRICAI\IT!i • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE WE SHIP UP§ DAILY TO -ORDER OR FOR MORE INFOFRMA T/ON CALL 800.959. 7757 OR 562.427.2375 Fax: 562.426.5294 CHECK OUT OfJR PRICE§ ON THE WEB AND OUR HUNDRED§ OF NEW ITEM§ AT: www .bakerprecision.com 2865 Gundry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90806 Page 28 Dave Morse drifts across the course, making it a fantastic six wins in a row. his Class 9 competitors just wondering how to beat him. November 1999 very good time. Rod would drive the first two laps and ran a 54:05 to get things go-ing. Randy was in third with a time of 59:40, and Dave turned a 1:08:16. The second lap had Brian setting class fast lap at 52:56 and looking real fast, Randy was also fast with a 57:37 and in second and Rod's second lap was a 1 :06:48. Dave had some troubles with his Jeep and watched the rest of the race from the pits. The third lap had Brian holding on to first with a 56:55 and Gary taking the wheel from Rod and run-ning a nice 56:31. Randy hit a large rock and damaged the front of the car bad enough to end his race. The race ended with Brian taking the win and Gary claiming second in an-other good race in the desert. That's it for the 1999 sea-son,·except for the banquet in Wendover on November 20th. It's been a great year and there have been sbme great races for everyone to watch. Thanks to all volun-teers who set up the courses and make sure that the races are fun and safe. There are some teams that will be rep-resenting B.O.R.E. at the Baja 1000 this year. Good luck to you and we'll be ready to race in 2000! ■ Dusty Times

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Ah, the Good Old Days ' 'SNORE Celebrates Thirty 2505 By John Calvin Mears in a Hi-Jumper, Bob Mac-Cachren in a Sandwinder, Jerry McDonald in a Joe MacPherson Blazer, Bryce Whelchel in a Baja Bug, Bill Foster in his VW, the venerable Bob Rhine in a VW Tow'd, Lonny Hawkins in an unknown, Bill Vlcek in a Corvair, Bill Johnson in a Sandmaster Sheriff, Judy Smith in a Sandmaster Hustler, Gene Hirst and Rick James in a Sandmaster, Drino Miller in a Fuoco, Doug Fortin in a Corvair, Jon Block in an un-known, Jerry Lawless in a VW, our own Jean Calvin in her 1200cc VW, Rod Hall and the ever casual Jim Fricker in a Bill Stroppe Bronco. Don Dayton sent me the re-sults from all the SNORE 250s, 1970 through 1998 and that too is a wonderful cross section of the old and the new, the lucky and the consistent. For ex-ample, Rod Hall and Jim Fricker won their class twice over the years, Bob Leighton and Dave Wallace won twice, Doug and Don Robertson won twice, Rob MacCachren has won his class four times, Jack Irvine and Kit Trenholm won a couple of times, the racing doctors, In-gram and Sauers won their class, Jim and Mark Temple won twice, Brian Collins has won his class three times, Tommy Brad-ley Jr. has a pair of wins to his credit and the list goes on and on. The SNORE 250 has always been a tough race·and this year will not be an exception. There will be a lot of new faces this year and, hopefully a lot of the old ones will be there too. So many of these names bring back different memories, most of them good, some of them not so good. So many people we ha~e known over the years, some of them still with us and active in the sport, others hav-ing gone off to other ventures and some just not here anymore. But, the greatest thing is to see the new faces, the young faces, both male and female who are competing in the SNORE races. They are the future of our sport and they are a wonderfully com-petitive bunch and I'm sure they'll be around for a long time. Just a thanks to the drivers and all the SNORE people who make it all happen. A special thanks to Michael Gaughan who has helped off road racing over the years, and to some of the folks who are or were always there to help Dusty Times with our needs. Thanks to you all. ■ Kenny Freeman sent me a copy of the program for the third annual SNORE 250. It was 1972 and the 250 was running out of Je·an, Nevada, which was then just slightly more than a wide spot in the road. There was Pop's Oasis, a small gas station and casino combined, a coffee shop that had great food as I recall and there was a small motel attached to the. casino, eight or ten rooms and they were always in demand as we raced there many times throughout the year. The course started at Jean, ran west to the California bor-der, west onto the dry lake, con-tinuing west into the hills for 15 miles and then turned north. After swinging back iii.to Ne-vada (did you notice we went into California?) the course turned east, over Wilson Pass towards the town of Arden, then twisted south towards Jean and the start/finish area. The course was 123 miles in length, the motorcycles (yes, there were motorcycles running with SNORE then), had ten hours to complete their two laps and the cars had 12 hours to complete their two laps. GERMAN AUTO There were only eight motor-cycles entered in '72 but just look at some of the names: Jack Johnson on a 250CZ, Scott Harden on a 125 Penton, Casey Folks and Torn Scales on their 125 Husky. Jack Johnson went on to win the Open Motorcycles class and Casey Folks took the 250cc category. Just for the record, the ,Folks/Scales combo -won the 250cc-class in 1970 and 1971. SNORE only ran motor-cycles from 1970 through 1972 and in '73 Scott Harden took the win. There were 143 cars entered, and the class structure was quite a bit different from that we have today. There were only five classes in contention: Four Wheel Drive, Sedan, 1200cc, Double Seat and Single Seat Buggy. Some of the names may mean nothing to the younger genera-tion but a lot of us older folks will remember these guys and gals as the virtual backbone of the off road racing world. Don Rountree driving a Sandwinder, Butch Hickey in an Olds pow-ered Jeep, Ed Venable in a Fuoco, Art Pipkin in a Hi-Jumper, Russ Job in a Bandido, John Stern in a Fuoco, Malcolm Smith in a Sandwinder, Steve Mize! in a Chevy powered Toyota, Michael Gaughan and Lenny Newman trying their luck, Walt Lott in a Buick pow-ered buggy, Orlo Cox in a VW, Les Choat in a Burro, Smokey Stover in a Sandmaster, John Baker in his Bronco, Tom Smith and Roger Gaskill in a some-thing or other, Charlie Brisco in a Fuoco, Ben Bender in a Bronco, Mario AZlesi in a Bandido, Jim Taber in an un-known vehicle, Luther Kutcher, also in an unknown car, Rick · Page 29 ,.-.hfdl1-~ -~ DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2"·5pointmount 3' -5 point mount SIDE 1COVERS IRS. Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000#. .. GERMAN AUTO PRESSURE PLATES RACING 200mm 1700#-2400# PERFORMANCE CLUTCH l'ISC . 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WHIPLASH SNOWFLAKE 150 Brown Dusts competition At snowflake Ron Brown took the overall win on the dusty course at the Whiplash Snowflake (ace, but it wasn't easy. Second place was only 26 seconds back. Brian Brown and Paul Shepard won the Whiplash Snowflake 150 in the trick 295 cid Ron Brown buggy on the Labor Day Saturday past. The soloing Brown defeated a star-studded field of Unlimited cars including John Herder, Cesar Fuentes, ·Rueben Wood, Jim Pierce, and even Gary Anderson. THE COURSE The mile high, Z8 mile loop was quite easy and smooth ... and , fast. Except in amongst the trees where it was tighter'n a calfs ass in fly time. The course was either along straight fence lines over grass covered prairie meadows or through a labyrinth of close packed junipers and pinyon pines. USFS water bar "launch_ers" were commonplace. But safe and fun. The sole deviation from this series -of terrains was the once bladed g, .wer line road rolling across serious, 100 foot high, cross ridge lines. ~ · "This will be the driest race in my 14 years running races up here," is what Jay McKinley said, Jay is,. the "Lash" in Whiplash. Jackie McK. is "The Whip." Luckily, the six laps did not deteriorate the course, structure- · wise, to any degree. No big ledges developed, no silt beds, and all but one of the water bars stayed safe and sure. OK, few rocks came up. But those BFGs Rototilled the dirt removed all traces of moisture. It was extremely dusty, with very little breeze, and became more so than less. Many class races were simply follow-the-leader. Or bump-the-leader. Only the bold could, or would, reach inside the dust plume ahead to make contact. Those that did ... won: Eric Fisher and Scotty Brown's :"1600" and Mark Beeler's hay ha.ulin', ass haulin', '56 FoMoCo. · THE RACE It was a race of attrition and a race against the elements. And against technology. Iucson John Herder ran the fast lap of the event then squandered it, Reuben Wood ran his new six cylinder Subaru motor, fought dust all day, finished a very close second overall. unintentionally of course, wh.en his Electromotive ignition system suffered a literal melt-down but one mile into his second lap. "There were holes burned into the bottom of the modules," reported Shannon Schutz. They had no spares for the usually reliable components. Jim Pierce's V6 pre-runner also had ignition problems ... reaching a few miles further than Herder but still only completing one full lap. · Reuben Wood's Subaru powered car was unable to pierce the dust curtain that Brian Brown tossed up, so the Ron Brown two seat Class 1 took the Overall. Wood was second by seconds ... 26 of those little suckers ... and Cesar Fuentes was third by less than a slim half minutes. The "Pro Ten" race was similar in construct: determined by dirt. Michael Sulgar had a back start, never led, but still beat Randy Miller by three seconds. Ron J;>alke and Steve Vesterdahl were third by 26. Miller actually finished first but back-starting Sulgar won on the dock. The Eric Fisher/Scott Brown "1600" took the Restricted. Pro Buggy win over Kurt Brewer while Juarez racer Enrique Bujanda won Pro 5. Mark Beeler beat down the competition to win Pro 8, as noted. PRO 1: 8 Entries - 5 Class Finishers After trailing Jim Pierce, until his untimely demise, the Brown/ Shepard car charged onward even though "Rueben pushed us all day." Brian Brown had tossed ·the power steering belt on the second lap then had to deal with a seeping oil cooler line question. On their only pit stop, Brown's crew tossed in a couple of quarts, flipped the belt back on, wiped their noses but they _did not even lose a position. The big, loµd colored car runs the ex-Paul Nolte 4.9 liter Pontiac, which is fed by a big old Holley, powering down through a Jeff Fields automatic transaxle. This is one trick car. Will A-arms be too far away? "We had a lot of trouble getting by the Sullivan/ Spooner '8'," Brian explained. "We had two good laps then a 'bad' one," referring to the dusty conditions. After the race they spent but two nights prepping the car for the next weekend's SCORE Primm 300. Their transmission called it quits in the Nevada cross chop. Mucho interest was shown the Reuben Wood power plant. The engine is out of Subaru's SVX -an "All Wheel Drive Performance Coupe." 14,527 were built from 1992 to 199 7. Or so a "www" site says. SVX Engine Specifications: * 3.3 liter, 6, cylinder, 24 valve, DOHC "Boxer" engine (i.e., flat laterally-opposed cylinder layout). *Max Horsepower: 230 @ 5400 rpm. *Max Torque: 228@ 440 rpm. *Sequential multi-port fuel injection with dual spray injectors. *Computerized management system featuring "Limp Horne feature" over-rev protection ( ! ) , ignition and fuel injection monitors. -Spo,.tsman Limited class ran only three laps:~nd Travis Rackley, ~r. took an easy Dave Cookman flew his Baja Bug convertible to victory in the Sportsman Unlimited win'in his two-seater. · class. · The engine weighs about 100 pounds more than a Type IV:_. .. Continued on page 32 -Cesar Fuentes had a hard time with the dust, still managed a close Bruce Greer piloted his striped single seat car to fourth place Gate Feldman had one long lap, but still took second Unlimited third overall in his Class 1 car. in Class 1. Sportsman in his tiger-striped Mini-Mag. Page 30 November 1999 Dusty Times

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:;": ,, •• J>:?s~cr . -~>;crr:"i}'!!;'?: .. u g1' ,' ··· ........ . .. :·: ........ ·· .. ··.. .. Offroad Buggies & Trucks break down into three groups: 1) All Sportsman Buggies, Sport Trucks, and Stock Trucks 2) Limiteds (Challenger, 112-1600, 511600, Pro 7 and Vintage) 3) Unlimited Group (Pro 1-2, 10, 5, B Trucks, "T" Trucks) Each of the groups will race a 60 minute heat on Saturday and a 60 minute heat on Sunday. The best combined finish for the two events will win. Bikes and ATVs will be broken into three groups: 1) Sportsman, Beginner, and First Time Whiplash Racer 2) Pro, Expert, Intermediate, Novice, Senior Expert, Senior, and Super Senior 3) Al/ATVs $u,n,do,y ---------------------------------------------8:00 AM - 9:00 AM First Time Racers, Beginners & Sport Bikes $~tu,rdoy - ' ------·---------------- · -------------- · 10:15 AM -11:15 AM Desert Pros, Experts, Intermediates & 8:00 AM -9:00 AM Desert Sportsman, Limited & Unlimited Novice Bikes Trucks&Buggies 12:30PM-1:30PM AI/DesertATVs 10:00 AM -11 :-00 AM Desert Limited-Pro Trucks·& Buggies · All desert bikes, ATVs, Minis and Peewees classes will enjoy a 12:00 PM-1:00PM Desert Unlimited Pro Trucks & Buggies /and-rush start!!! Minis & Peewees will race on Saturday afternoon in separate RACE FEES: 45 minute events. Pro Trucks & Buggies $275.00; Sportsman $150.00 7:00 PM-. Stadium, Mini & Peewee Awards Presentation Pro Bikes/ATVs $100.00; Non-Pro $60.00 $11,,uf,o;y✓ ·---·:. --------------------------------------Minis $35.00; Peewees $25.00 9:15.AM -10:15 AM Desert Sportsman, Limited & Unlimited $100 payback per entry pro trucks/buggies; 70% payback pro Trucks & Buggies bikes/ATVs 11:20AM-12:20PM Desert Limited Pro Trucks & Buggies BlueWater Resort and Casino is 1:45 PM -2:45 PM Desert Unlimited Pro Trucks·& Buggies offering special room rates Desert trucks and buggies will enjoy a land-rush start!!! to racers! 520-669-7777 As part of the Riverside-style track a: "Mickey Thompson" style stadium course will be created. The stadium event will feature two 8-lap heat races and a 12-lap main event for Stadium Trucks, Stadium Cars, and Superlites/Pilots; two moto format for bikes/ATVs .. The stadium event will take place on Saturday with trophies and purses paid on Saturday night. $o,turdo,y--------------------------------------------9:00 AM Heat 1 & Mota 1 Bikes 1 0:Ja AM Heat 2 & Mota 1 AfVs 1:00 PM Main Event& Moto2 Bikes &ATVs $100. 00 Pro entry fee with 70% payback; $2 5. 00 Non-pro entry fee for bikes/ATV Trophy and awards presentation immediately following final scoring calculations. tu.1.IOat1,, ~lSIJJ'l anti easi111J

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Jack Farmer ran four evenly paced laps to take the win in the Sportsman 10 division. 380 pounds ... plus the radiator and piping. James Kirk of Kirk's Automctive prepared the stock junk yard engine. (Kirk is a member of the prestigious Bonneville "200 MPH Club," which is not for everyone.) The biggest job was remov'ing and cutting out all the unnecessary wires from the stock harness. "Miles of it!" Wayne Patrick is· the pit chief. Gentleman Jim Fowler is Buckeye's "Roving Ambassador of Good Will." Third overall racer Cesar Fuentes is an engine wrapped in a mystery. "Cd. Juarez." He too, was hurt by the dust. Bruce Greer in the "Riviera" Scat car was off pace all day • Fourth. The Ross and Carl-Mike ExtravaRX7ganza struggled. They were pushed around by Mike Doherty during a lengthy second lap. The Carl-Mike Perez Report ("I'm not involved in it anymore. But I help in the pits."): "Whitmoyer's brother Rex was driving the car during the whole race. He is from Georgia and runs a luggage distributorship. They have gotten some backing from a company named "Ricardo of Beverly Hills" to paint the car and trailer. He is a rookie with NASCAR driving experience." Dad Whitmoyer, Russ, rode with Rex and had to change a flat and help put a "5-1600" back over onto its wheels in the pine tree section. Rex liked his introduction to off road racing and "is just getting used to it," explained Ross. "It was a dusty bastard." Graying Gary Anderson had gone through the big Porsche car before the race. They had the car tom completely down · and rewired by Jim W eibel. The Finishers Michael Gale finished all four laps in his Sportsman Mini Chevrolet to take the class win. Randy Miller ran the whole six l'aps himself and left Gila Bender partner Bruce Mills sitting on the bench. This was a good plan, too, for a driver change would have sent them reeling backward in this hotly contested class. Miller reported that he had no troubles and never pitted. "I drove the first three laps all in dust. I could make up ground across the meadows when the wind was blowing then have to fall back when I got in the trees." He said that he caught Brad Leakey's struggling #999 and as he waited for Brad to get over to allow him to pass, Ron Dalke sneaked by. Don Jackson engine was freshened up and Gray Hendricks was on site for Northern Auto support. Witli the car now outfitted with a Chenowth A-arm setup and new Foddrill rear arms, Gary and Mark Crawford were ready to rock and roll. Well, they did not roll but they rocked the boat a bit. A rear brake line was torn off and fixed via the old ViseGrip method. But they then ra·n out of brakes and ran out of course and ran into trouble, hitting a big ol' stump. (Forestry Note: "They" have sawed off 8-inch trees and have left foot high stumps lurking in the weeds.) The bolts holding the steering ram onto the frame broke and direction control was also lost. T hey jimmied up a screwdriver and tie wrap interim solution that allowed some sort of steering authority, but the ram was now leaking and there was no spare to be had. So they were had, instead. Jim Pierce and Brad Chavez brought out the venerable, i.e., graying, two seat pre-run car for a little rest and relaxation but ended up spending a long time fiddling with the motor. It was, eventually, discovered that the crank ignition trigger had failed. JP spent the morning and. afternoon either in wilds or on the end of a rope. · Class Finishers: 1. Brian Brown and Paul Shepherd (1 O/A). 2. Reuben Wood (2 O/A). • 3. Cesar Fuentes (3 O/A). 4. Bruce Greer (10 O/A). 5. Rex and Russ Whitmoyer. PRO 10: 11 Entries - 8 Class Ed Beard broke. "It was fun for one lap. I raced with Randy (Miller) and (Ron) Dalke. Then my left rear caliper wore out the pucks. I had to quit. It wouldn't steer (while) on the brakes." Ed had been battling dragging brake pads on that side for some period of time. "I thought that we had that licked, but they were gone after a lap. It was a dusty mutha! I was in Ron's dust at that first fence .. . the one that the gate was not opened on! Ron got stopped at the gate so I went through the ribboned off cattle guard. I felt so bad about that ... I would have let him by ... for a minute, then I changed my mind." Steve Vesterdahl, Ron Dalke's passenger, confirmed Beard's sneak attack "Ed got by us on the 'hard hill'. We had no Eibach Springs Is proud to announce It's complete nne of ultra high qualitv off-road springs. Available In 10,12,14 & 16 lncb free lenutlls with 3" ID. A well designed & manufactured spring will last thousands of cycles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's why top chassis builder Mille Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what it takes to win ... Now so do JOU. Spring to Success ... ---.11c. • ....... 71i21711 • ~ .............. 1114 Page 32 November 1999 Dusty Times

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t.. .. 1,. i , Jl ,i, ~q The 5-1600 race was a barn-burner, and Team Woodruff finished Stuart Baxter had one long lap, which dropped him back to third place Lowell Arnold brought his vintage Ford out for the day and took home second by only 25 seconds~.-~~-~~---.~----in the 5-1600 standings. _s_ec_o,...n_d~p __ la_c_e ... i_n_C_la .... s_s_B_. __ ~----~~-~-~~-fla ts but our planned splash-Brian did not want to be foo_t_r~e-st_s_t'h-:i_s_r_a_c_e_. ,,."W""'e-.-h_a_d.--to--o--,,f-.,.ju-mper-ing the heat maintenance." The Ken Major and-go was too slow. Randy got stranded out there, all day. nerf '124' but (Rex Whitmoyer) exchanger, he kept adding oil engine has not required any by us in the pits." Shane Robinson looked as if was broken, I think." Scott until he had run too low for too work other than leak-down Ron Dalke said that he was he was going to be a reluctant drove the whole race. "We long. checks and oil changes. Paying physically in the lead after spectator after they dropped a alternate d,riving," Fisher "We had a good dice with the bills: "Can we say 'Thanks' Miller blew the pass on the "9" wheel into an outside ditch near explained. "It's his turn today." Kurt Brewer for a while. We got to Carr Canyon Construction, car of Leaky. They were in the RM19 and laid the car on its They mentioned getting hit by into the '5' cars but never quite Stan's Fence, Cochise College lead until the slow gas stop but right side. His hour-plus lap a "1004", Jim Taggart. "We only caught any '10s'. Other than {where brown is a welding Ron said "Miller wouid have relegated him to Seventh at the got hit once and it was in the that, that is their race story. Zzz. instructor), RDI, Aztec won" if not for ge.tting held up finish.James Martin got to drive same dent that we already had," Trouble-free races make for bad We Id ing, and San Pedro in the dust late in the race. only 22 miles before parking the Fisher laughed. "We always ask copy. Plumbing." Yes. Crook and the troubled Texas car. Long drive, James. for the Rear Start so we ended They now have a lock on the Stop The Presses! Fisher Steve Kuker were raising lots of Jeff Wells had to be towed back up passing all cars except Pete Whiplash "1600" crown and frantically e-mailed that "I dust ... "You get a guy to pull from the Jetting Loop Saturday Gannon who broke too early to plan on taking the overall forgot to mention 'The Sports over then he comes right back evening but recovered and re-pass." Eric enjoyed the race, points championship over the Gallery.' If I forget them the into the track when the first car jetted to a Fourth in class and even the "white-outs that Crook and Arthur "Ten" team Fisher-Brown racing crew will goes by" and derails the freight Seventh Overall. Jeff even had forced us to stop a couple times. with a good race at next have to start paying full price for train. Steve knows first hand on to stop on his first lap to adjust We ate tons of dust. We were month's Point-to-Rocky Point drinks." this as his side of the car sported the clutch so that it would in dust at least 75% of the time. race. "Let me thank Rich Minga John Emerson shook off the a fine "rubbin'.-is-racin'" tattoo release. Wells was displeased But Scotty's got a good memory" over at 'Baja Concepts' ... he got debilitating effects of a pre-race from Crook's right rear tire. with being held for five minutes, and he flew into the dust to us together with Cogbill and Jagermeister Swillfest to Ron's engines are by along with James Taggart, for make those passes. Gannon West for the car and has helped complete the entire racing Tucson's Al Page. "He put in speeding in the school zone. broke an oil cooler and, instead keep us honest on Continued on page 34 drag race tricks. Plus I got 'FAT' Class Finishers: tricks. And Ron tricks." Trick 1. Mike Sulgar (4 O/A). or treat. 2. Randy Miller (5 O/A). Brian Knapp had a cheesy 3. Ron Dalke and Steve. day. His fuel system picked up Vesterdahl (5 O/A). one of those bugs that's going 4. Jeff Wells (7 O/A). around, you know. One time it 5. )im Taggart (9 O/A). would run perfectly. Then the 6. Steve Kuker. engine would starve out', and 7. Shane Robinson. quit then and it would "fix" 8. Crook and Arthur. itself. Knapp finally gave it up, PRO 1600: stopping near a course access 8 Entries - 6 Class Finishers point: If the engine was going Eric Fisher and Scott Brown to quit for 'good', i.e., 'bad', had no trouble with titanium Larry Phoenix took the Class 3 win in his Bronco, finishing almost a half-hour in front of second place. Mark Beeler tried out his new Glass 8 Ford, -and came away winner with six very consistent laps. 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I I I I I Scott Baxter was second in Class 5. He had the correct rear cage for Joe Bombardier had a good day in his Class 5 car, was only three Damon Franks had five good laps, but lost 20 minutes on his final this dusty course. minutes back, in third p_la_c_e·_.....-----.-...---.._---c---. loop, and fell to fourth in Class 5. course. The following post-race number of pines and then could 4. Leo Nenortas and Jager Racing. He was seventh overall. .finding a wide spot in the trees "not up close but personal not ·engage reverse gear. Until Emerson. The Dallas-based Ali Bahr to let an impatient Mike nevertheless" interview took the race was over, he could not 5. Jim Borel and Nils RaceShock rasta-colored car Doherty pass. Milt had a long place in the swank boudoir of expect any help. The spot was Duttom. never made a lap when a lifter fifth lap but finished. John's sumptuous motorcoach. that remote. Bill had to wait for 6. Tom Geringer. went bad. Class Finishers:' "Oh, yeah, baby! I hit four the following Sportsman race to PRO 3: Class Finishers: 1. Mike Del Col and Todd trees and tore a shock off. OK, end, too. Luckily a course 3 Entries - 2 Class Finishers 1. Enrique Bujanda. Bennett. I hit three trees, but _one two worker checked out the linkage Larty Phoenix took charge 2. Scott Baxter. 2. John and Shane Woodruff. times." Consistency pays. "We as Bill sat in the single seater from the flag and beat a pair of 3. Joe Bombardier. 3. Stuart Baxter. got Fourth. It was a good day. and saw that the shift rod was ringers. Tom Swanson's pretty 4 .. Damon Franks. 4. Mike Leung. And I felt good ... after the first now being hung up on the little red CJ ran the same pace 5. Gordon Self. 5. Bilt Milt Moore half of a lap." firewall. "He got a tire bar and as Larry but Tom faded on his PRO 5-1600: PRO CLASS 8: John then went back to sleep, bent the aluminum up and out third lap then was never heard 5 Entries - 5 Class Finishers 7 Entries - 4 Class Finishers said to be looking somewhat like of the way." from again, results wise. The mini VWs emulated Mark Beeler abdicated the a rumpled beached whale. It Bill got a lot of outdoors this Scott Maloney once again their big open wheeled brothers: Class 3 ranks with a brand new, musta been the RV's lighting. Saturday. He even stopped raced his daily driver Blazer and Mike Del Col beat the never tried, bedless, steel "56" The Bizarre Motorsports waving. "I stayed on Brewer's was awarded a fine Second Woodruffs by 25 seconds ... the Ford Class 8 pickup. He has a "organization" had been light until 'Oh shit!'. I lost it. I Place. "Scooby" took a big rock length of a dust cloud. Mike and 600 bhp FoMoCo 460 cid promised by Gary Anderson didn't even get warmed up," Bill in the windshield but the Todd Bennett could see John "crate" engine with work by that "If Emerson wins his class complained. "I even laid off the damage was centered, so he will and Shane's car behind them all Chuck's Speed Center running we'll get naked women to dance beer for a couple of days.:" His not have any trouble driving the day long. "We originally wanted a flat tappet Ultra Dyne on his motor home." John let us wife sent out a Care package truck back to Tucson. Towing a Rear Start but when we drew camshaft. Mark built the down again. with Billy "MexTeca" Tsakiris. his small utility trailer loaded 'One', well..." A good choice, exhaust system and both the Der Alte Krug - Bill Krug -"No, no burros. No tacos. But a with pit stuff and camping gear. considering the visibility Geiser Brothers and John Dyck was running with or ahead of. ham sandwich and a bag of Bet they're glad that Beeler problems. And their other at Dir Trix had a hand in the the pack. For a lap, at least. cherry tomatoes ... they got hit has moved to Class 8. problems. Their Fuel Safe fuel fabrication. "We ran the 'Sway-Then during a momentary lapse real hard when Billy threw out Class Finishers: cell was not safe, it began to A-Ways' in the middle position in control, Bill lost the car. He the sack. I had to drink them." 1. Larry Phoenix. leak last week. Afrer chasing and they worked fine." A hit a wide mud puddle in a tight Tom Geringer was slowly 2. Scooby Maloney. the lea ks into a downward clever-but-shelf item is the RV tree lined right hander, and the running the course to Sixth. PRO 5: spiral, they borrowed the cell of heat exchanger between engine car went loose. The rear end Class Finishers: Six Entries -Five Class Matt McGrath and Dana cooling water and engine hydroplaned, coming around on l. ~Eric Fisher and Scott Finishers Andrew's "11" car. lubrication oil. The compact him. He did a snap-one-eighty Brown (8 O/A). Enrique Began, from Ciudad "We had a 22 gallon and this "cooler" ... about the size of a then the car shot forward to 2. Kurt Brewer. Juarez, raced a top notch Fat was a 15. We had to stop twice half of a pound of butter. .. become lodged between a 3. Phillips and Phillips. Type IV under Pimsa Off Road to add gas. It was a NASCAR mounts on top of the oil filter ·-----------.. speed deal by McGrath. adapter. That's all Beeler ran, I Attention All Racers ! ! ! I Woodruff would catch up to us with the radiator right up front I I in the pits but did not get by." like Dearborn designed it. They could move on him in He runs a 3,500 rpm stall I I clear air: "It would have been speed torque converter on the I I " I tough to get behind him. The Mogi C6 ... and "the engine I M.O.R.E. pays fastlap money every ap to all classes·· I BFG Sport Truck tires worked quits at six thousand." All that You can win from $56.25 to $450.00 every lap, fast lap money!! Let us show you how you can make $675.00 and not finish the race!! · . (You do not have to finish the race to win fast lap money) M.O.R.E. pays a total of $195:00 per car back to the racers!! First in your class and all fast laps and have: 5 cars in class pays $825.00 JO cars in class pays $1,515.00 15 cars in class pays $2,065.00 20 cars in class pays $2,615.00 Payback: $125.00 per car Fast Lap : $60.00 per car Overall: $10.00 per car M.O.R.E. pays $10.00 per car to the overall winner!! (If there is 60 cars in the race, thats $600.00 to the overall winner. In addition to your class purse and fast lap money) ~s~o\) ~~y~ ~ ~o~O~.o~•~• Jan.15 Mar. 18 May20 Aug. 5 Oct. 7 Dec. 2 Barstow, Ca. Lucerne, Ca. Barstow, Ca. Lucerne, Ca. Barstow, Ca. Barstow, Ca. For M.O.R.E. information mail or fax: P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, Ca. 92312-1231 perfectly. It was like we were on torque goes to a 5.13 gear set rails. And if we had to, we could mounted on a spool. spin them to make the turns." He and Bill McConnick were They reported getting pleased with their result, and "whacked" by Reuben Wood well they might. Although and the Browns. others may dispute that. They got $350 in cash on a Mark had to deal with dust $280 entry fee and contingency while Doherty had an extra 30 merchandise awards of: seconds cushion when the VP gas -$100 Sullivan & Spooner truck failed Sway-A-Way -$50 to take its rightful slot in the McKenzie's -$50 line up. He was able to run Fox shocks -$50 times consistent with Mike's Torco oil - $25 until the fourth lap when RaceShock -$50 Doherty got behind a passel of Milt Moore had trouble back markers: Scooby, Brian ·------Fax (760) -253-4453 In the Sportsman truck class, which ran only four laps, Bill Tsakiris took the win easily in his Ford. Page 34 November 1999 Dusty Times

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--_._,. J.,,_ •. . ' ....:... :: :·>?~tf<~;.f ··~ ~-~ .. ) ... ~, The Phillips and Phillips team came home third in their two-seat 1600 Leo Nenortas and John Emerson had a few close encounters with It was close up at the front of the 1/2-1600 pack, and Kurt Brewer car, after a hard fou ht race. =;=;,,=="""," trees, still managed to finish fourth in 1/2-1600. finished second by just a minute and 49 seconds. Randy Miller drove the whole distance in his Class 1 0 car, got held up in the dust, and took second place. James Taggart finished fifth in Class 1 0 and 9th overall, even with a Jeff Wells ran afoul of the speed restriction, got a time penalty tacked stop & go penalty for speeding in a_ restricted zone. on, still was 4th Class 10 & 7th overall. Knapp, Milt Moore, Velen Whitmoyer and Mike Leung. All in the trees. After the first truck bulled its way through, they all had their mirrors honed to a fine finish so as not to hold up other large beings. The later cars might have had it easier. Beeler changed a 49 second deficit into a 1: 2 7 advantage on the clock and bulled his way through the dust in a section of wide open grasslands. Beeler closed hard, appearing through the dust like a bad wet dream. "Beeler's here.!" "Bump!" "Beeler's on us!" Mike was running hard in top gear. "Ka-BANG !" Metal to metal. Head to helmet. The Chevrolet was fish-tailing ... but don't tell Jay McKinley. "Better let him by," I intercommed. After Mark had passed and dusted us we saw what would later be determined to be OUR spare tire bouncing off to the left side. "Odd;" we both commented. We later discovered that Beeler had hit us so hard that he tore off Mike's spare tire mount and jammed our tire into Mark's Ford's grill and bumper. .. finally disgorging it a mile later! "Too bad that it didn't take out his drive line," Mike offered. Mark said that after the Gila Bend race (Doherty) said that "If you want to pass me, you have to hit me." So he did. Mark didn't have to pass Mike to win, however, as he was a back starter and was ahead on· the race clock. Mike was miffed. He had been caught flatfooted without a clue. Now he was stuck in that magic 25 second "dust" window behind Beeler. When Mike got back into Beeler's plume, Doherty could not follow the race track, certainly not in high gear and under full throttle conditions. But Mike tried. Oh, how he tried. And that was hard on the engine. With less than a half mile to go to the finish the engine shut down. No noise, no warning ... other than expected Dusty Times higher water and oil temps but sleeve weld had broken ... lots of in a five gallon bucket, but only was running angle iron on his still in opposition to a high flexure in the past, or on the to have six gallons of coolant front bash bar ... to dissuade (enough) oil pressure. trailer? They welded 'er AND those nine quarts of oil hard back-up shots? Brad ended The universal "No tows properly then took Second overflow the bucket? Pulled the up with a gummed up across the finish line" rule Place ahead of Aaron Frederick motor. Took three hours. Cleaning carburetor and had to fan the squelched any and all chances on the "Black Thunder Racing" floor of shop took one and (l half." clutch to keep the engine up for a Second Place or even a Chevrolet. Mike Coria said that Class Finishers: and on the power band and finish. Lowell Arnold roared by they hit everything out there at 1. Mark Beeler (1 O/A). hitting a tree. They limped to to take "Mike's" Second place... least once. 2. Lowell Arnold. help after holding up the parade then had to be IV'd for Aaron started behind Mike 3. Bassackwards Aaron on the second lap: DNF. Brad's dehydration and exhaustion. Doherty and dogged him Frederick. web site is www.stealth.com Remember that Ford pic.kup unmercifully. }-.,hke couicl 4. ·Miguei Nevarez. ~nd a sprint car manufacturer that broke its back on the Mint? outrun his old truck but PRO 9: wants to buy the title rights. You know, the one from AJ... ,Frederick, having the benefit of 7 Entries 6 Class Kisner got Second Place a that W;).S in ALL the magazines? an operating power steering FiNishers few minutes behind one of the Well, its cousin was out after 13 system, could make up time in Brad Leaky had added a numerous Woodruffs. I wonder years of being i.n. the closet. the trees. Back out on the complex array to the rear cage· if Andy changed that fan shroud Lowell Arnold decided to come plains, however, Doherty could of his super-sano "999". To that got him DQ'd at the recent out and play. "The engine is a increase his advantage. Aaron dissuade hard hits. Andy Kisner Continued on page 36 bone-ass stock 460 (cid) with an would eventually blow up his after market intake manifold TH400 to such a degree that he and a Holley carburetor." Bruce only had reverse. "Blarn;o" White is heading the Not one to be picky about effort after an abortive stint things, Frederick backed all the with Gary Mecham. way from RM 12 to the Finish ... Lowell and partner Binc ·some distance away at RM27.5. Fugate are lobbying for SCORE "I was just ahead of a couple of to make a nostalgia truck class. cars when we started into the "This is what a 'Class 8' used to 'No Passing' zone so I still beat be. No (major) frame mods. We them." He said that driving that want to do both '2000' races. long, looking over his shoulder, BitD and SCORE. I'll bet that was a "pain in the neck." (vgb} there are a lot of out-of-date Aaron took home Third Place: 'Eights' out there that would Here's the late breaking (1) love to race again. But not scoop ... the post-mortem from against guys like Brian Collins. Mike Doherty: "Just in from shop Even before Tech a problem pulling the motor. My untrained. was discovered. Sharp-eyed prognosis is not good. Ever drained Brill.n Knapp saw a cracked weld oil from an engine, expecting nine in the right hand radius arm. A quarts of oil to drain straight down Scott Brown did all the driving in the Fisher/Brown 112-1600 car, to take the win by a little over two minutes. November 1999 Enrique Bujanda, from Ciudad Juarez, had fast lap for Class 5 at 31 :40, took the win by six minutes. Michael Sulger put his clean car into the Class 1 O winner's circle by a margin of just three seconds. Page 35

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Ron Dalke's nice new paint job got dusted out, but it didn't hurt the Andy Kisner put his very neat Jirnco into second place only five minutes Todd Ford had a longish second lap, still managed to finish a nice running of it any/ he took third in Class 1 O. off the winning pace in the Challen=g_er_G_l_as_s_. _______ third place in the Challen~g_er~c~la_s_s_~-~~~-----SCORE Fireworks 250, which his car's well-being. He 5. Kevin Greener. Class Finishers: be over by then!" he "won" then lost. eventually gave up on field 6. Mark Milne. 1. Dave Cookman. Dockery is Ed Beard's Mark Milne had the repairs, and 50 yard dashes, and PRO VINTAGE: 2. Gabe Feldman. brother-in-law. Never a dull misfortune to rip off an upper scraped and ground his way 2 Entries -No Class EL CHISMOSO moment. ball joint on the power line back to the pits on three wheels. Finishers FOD FACTS Ed won the $350 money draw section. There was no good He did, eventually, get the The Vintage class had a rough Steve Kuker ·had Danny for pre-entered cars ... Mike place to pull off, the section offending corner fixed and day. Mark Hubert did not Foddrill complete a new Doherty actually got the draw being too rocky and too close finished the race in five and a complete a lap. Steve Chenowth Magnum "10" car but he was in the Whiplash into trees. He had to work on half hours plus. Clinkingbeard did one fast lap with Electromotive F 1 on a trailer and did not hear his the ex-Larry Dimmett car with Class Finishers: then got wadded up with a Pro 5 MR2 Toyota twin cam. Cub name called. his butt sticking out in the 1. Chad Woodruff. car. Steve hit the turning brake Reporter Steve Ransom reports DRIVERS MEETING track. Whenever a car came by 2. Andy Kisner. and slid sideways into that big that "Steve Kuker was the first to Due to safety concerns, he would have to bolt into the 3. Todd Ford. wash crossing near the Aripine 'flat foot' it across the jump. I've Whiplash invoked restrictions on bushes and fear for his life and 4. RJ Newton. sweeper and ended up on his lid. got a half a dozen pies at the jump Pit Row behavior: "No jumping He lost a lot of oil and plenty of if you're interested. The best-the water bars and no spin-outs!" time before "R.J." Newton highest one is of. .. Doherty." The former refers to the fact that This is the i,ystem run by most TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME off road race winners GO FOR ,Page 36 198~91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDAL.E AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED stopped to bump him back over TOO MUCH SPARE TIME there are five tall jumps through onto his feet. Then the car would "1600" winners Eric Fisher the pits leading to the Start-Finish not start. Musta oiled the plugs and Scott Brown pitted for Line. Jay said that anyone coming real good. DNF. seven motorcycles on Sunday's through too fast will be stopped SPORTSMAN 10: bike race. and held until he feels that they 4 Entries - 3 Class Finishers HICKORY DICKERY have paid the price. Pretty Jeff "Magpie" Venier was DOCKERY subjective,huh?Dohertygotheld acting as Pit Captain as his wife "How far into the corners do while buggies blew by. Trucks and daughter ... Lynn and Annie, you drive that there sprint attract the eye. John Herder took the 1835cc car out on their car?", Darrell Dockery was allowed that he likes to jump the own for the first time. "They had asked. "Oh, right up until they water bars for. the pit crowd and onlybeenco-drivingbeforethis ... start the ambulance!", he if he had a big enough lead he this is the first race by replied. would get air and accept the time themselves." They did some When they were going to put penalty. He didn't get that far. testing and familiarization runs in a can of Flat-Flate into a The next day, the bikes were out in the San Tans, Sycamore, leaking tire, Dockery objected: allowed to leap, lunge, and launch and Florence. Rod at "Carl's ''.We haven't got that much through the pits. Custom" did the engine and time!" When asked "Why?", he OPINIONS Kevin McMullen re-did our read the instructions on the Some opinions expressed here transmission. We had broken the can: "Screw hose onto valve are the author's. You cannot use nose cone." The ladies finished, stem at six o'clock. The race'll them. Get your own. ■ OK? Magpie, huh? "Scavenges at picnic sites" according to Stokes Field Guide To Birds. Steve Arlia broke a spring plate on his twin. They did a little cross country work-out ... walking in from RM18, stopping only to burn smokes. · Class Finishers: 1. Jack Farmer. 2. Langford and Lloyd. 3. Lynn and Annie Venier. SPORTSMAN Limited Buggy: 2 Entries -No Class Finishers Travis Rackley and the Adams Family were limited by the course and circumstances beyond their control. We hope. SPORTSMAN Mini Truck: 1 Entry -No Class Finishers Mike Gale had to bale. SPORTSMAN Truck: . 2 Entries - One Class Finisher Billy T sakiris is getting his right foot wet in the truck ranks, getting a finish in his Ford. Billy runs a popular Tex-Mex eatery in west Phoenix and was racing a "10" car previously. They only deliver at the races, however. Class Finishers: 1. Bill Tsakiris. SPORTSMAN Unlimited Buggy: Chad Woodruff ran six incredibly evenly paced laps to take the Challenger Class win by five minutes. 5 Entries - 2 Class Finishers Brad Chavez got to drive the Jim Pierce car (after the crank trigger had been replaced) and did three laps before losing a rear Ray "RJ" Newton pushed had with his Challenger car and brought it back to the axle. _ch_e_c_ke_fi_ed_ fla~g~,_·n_fo_u_r_th~p_la_c_e_. _______________ _ November 1999 Dusty Times

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{. VORRA Fernley/Reno Off Road Challenge Photos: Chris Radboume Dennis Kordonowy squeaked to the Class 10 weekend win, .with a minute and 30 seconds on second place. Two fabulous days of racing on plete this day. Sam Berri was off Class 1 was faster. Once again Labor· Day went off without a first and with no one paving the Berri was the first boomerang to hitch and brought about a famil- way finished Lap 1 with fast lap return, but the Walds were tired iar result as Sam Berri took the of 36:54. Not to be out done of second only 20 seconds be-overall prize at VORRA's Fernley/ though Jerry and Linda Wald in_ hind. Gillespie got his steering Reno Off Road Challenge: This . their beautiful Ford Truck were wheel on -tight this day, but had was a brand new eve~t for only three minutes back. Not bad some initial problems and came VORRA and. racers alike. Every-for such a technical course. John . in 20 minutes back. The Smith thin,g on this weekend-went great Smith :was next in traveling all vehicle, also known as Kong, had even the winds were blowing and the way from Colorado in his two a rear flat and it took them some the sun was shining at the perfect seat Chevy powered. machine. time-to fix and were over an hour time. The race course was rocky Frank Gillespie was fourth and behind after Lap 1. at first, then very technical, wenl last as he did _not get too far hav-The day got hotter and the through a fast stretch towards • :ng steering woes the first lap and competition followed, as Berri the end and with a small short looked for redemption on Day 2. had a dog fight on his hands as· course section allowed spectators The second lap was much of l'tis came into the halfway point and fellow racers to view the high the same as Berri extended his iri the lead with a fast lap of voltage action. lead over the field by four min-36:25, but the Walds weren't Because of the 23 mile loop, utes and would continue to wasting any time still less than a there were three separate races dominate on Lap 3 and com-minute behind. Gillespie got his throughout each day. Class 1, 10 pleted Day 1 with a total time of truck running again and was still and Sportsman Veteran were 1 :51 :31, best of the day. third. Smith would complete grouped together. Class 8 and Second in was Jerry and Linda only two of the four laps and re-Sportsman Trucks grouped to-Wald about 30 minutes back, af- tired and headed for the Rockies. gether and Class 9, 7 and Sports-ter a long fast lap. Smith would Lap 3 was sure to bring some ex-man Novice with the Pilots were come in third for the day and got citement for the crowds as Berri the last group. It was a similar the checkered flag for the first came flying in for the white flag. format to the Laughlin Chal-time this year only 12 minutes The Walds were expected next, lenge, except the track was more behind the Walds. but broke on Mile 15. I was at technical, longer, and therefore Day 2 required Class 1 to com-that check point and talked to allowed for more cars per race. plete an extra lap and because Jerry, he told me that·a rear axle Also on the second day of racing the track was being chewed up had broken and a loud knock in we were required to do an addi-and spit out you would think lap the motor stopped his journey for tional lap which meant cars had times would be slower. the weekend. to maintain the test of time. WRONG! I guess go for broke or Back at the line Gillespie was Class 1 had only four this race track knowledge got the better of determined to give that truck his C)fc· th'f v«;-lllf Ci Al( i. · ~=~tE~f nr.r-2;~:f~~~~\~::: ff VI his day m first with a time of 2: 2 7: 2 7. Gillespie did finish and RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEL SIMPSON From $299:oo Helmets SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems , single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes. Complete line of PYROTECl. FILLER Safety Products & BEL Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. 5153 Bowden Avenue - San Diego - CA - 92117 - 619-279-2509 ·- - - --- ·---: ·.· ~-.. .. , .... -·:.. Page 38 got mad props for finishing a race and received a second for his ef-forts for the day. The results for places in each · class were calculated by adding the completed times for both days. If a car did not do the re-quired laps the car with the most laps for both days would get the nod and then lap times for same number of laps were considered for places. With that Berri got the win, second were the W alds completing five of seven laps, third was Smith also completing five of seven laps, but completed those laps an hour longer than _, the Walds. Gillespie only finished November 1999 Charlie Bryan had one long lap, but ran good times the rest of the way, to come up Sportsman Novice winner for the two days. 1 four of the seven laps and fin-ter a five minute pit due to a tie ished fourth for the weekend. rod end nut coming off and was Class 10 was beautiful. I know now second less than a minute that Class 1 are fastest cars, nor-behind with a 1 :56: 13. Third af-mally, but Class 10 are by far the ter the checkered were the Par-most competitive cars out there, sons at 2:05:05. Lesher, Robin-bar none. There were six strong son, and Lewis would only finish for both days of competition. On two laps and would finish fourth, Day 1 I will give you one guess fifth, and sixth, respectively. who was first after Lap 1. You're Day 2 was upon us as the sun right, Dennis Kordonowy (core-and blood pressure were going up don-a-way), or as Dennis says as the green flag was going down. "there is the right way, there is Day 1 was awesome, but Day 2 the wrong way, and there is the was even better. Rob Parsons got Kordonowy." Well, he was doing the early start. I pitted with Rob the Kordonowy as a 3 7: 21 on Lap. and whe·n he wasn't looking his 1 was good enough for ·a 90 sec- wife did some repairs on their car. ond cushion over "Flying" Bob It turns out she installed her own Martin. Troy Robinson was third gas-pedal as the Parsons were first in just behind Martin. Rob Par- in. Kordonow.y was next in, but sons was next in with his wife in had six seconds on Parsons on the passenger seat, talk about time. Martin followed Kordon-family bonding. The father and owy in and was only 14 seconds son team of Richard and Ryan behind. Fourth and ticked from Lesher were next in and the team the day before was Robinson only of Walt and Kevin Lewis had a 23 seconds out of first. If you're healthy two plus hour lap and counting at·home that's four cars just looked to take in the Fernley within 30 seconds,. now you can terrain. understand what I mean about Another lap the same result as awesome racing. Kordonowy was not letting up as The Lesher clan was fifth in a 36:41 was good enough for fast about 10 minutes behind and lap for the class and for the en-Lewis was right' behind Lesher tire day and allowed Kordonowy trying to make up for Day 1. to extend his lead by three min-Watch out here comes Lap 2. utes over Martin. Parsons was The Parsons were stilt in the first next in passing Robinson on the ones in, with a 36:55, as I also road as Troy had some problems found out that she also put in an on Lap 2. It would be a while tilt . additional steering wheel, just in the fourth car was in as Fernley case. Kordonowy was right be-desert flared its teeth and swat-hind the Parsons and second on lowed sowe tires as Lesher now time just one second behind, fourth, Robinson fifth, and Lewis with a 37:02. WOW. Next in sixth, were over an hour off the with a 3 7 :03 was Martin now lead. only 16 seconds our of the lead. The checkered flag was now Robinson still seeing only red out and waiting for the Class 10 through his goggles, ran off a leader. Over the horizon came 37:01, and was stilt only 23 see-the first 10, bnt it wasn't Kordon-onds out of the lead. Flat out the owy it was fan favorite "Flying" best race of the weekend. Lesher Martin in the lead and turned his and Lewis were stilt motoring on, fast lap of the day on the last go but still way off the lead. around and received his first win Lap 3 had some shake up in of the 99 season with a 1 :55:33. the standings. The Parsons had Kordonowy came in quickly af-that red machine rocking as a Rick Gonzalez had two consistent days in his Nissan to take the win in Class 7 for the weekend Dusty Times

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third lap of 3 5: 5 5 was good enough for fast lap and fast lap for the entire weekend. I finally learned why Rob was going so fast, as the intercom had broken and he could not hear his passen-ger. That lap allowed Parsons to open the lead on Kordonowy by a healthy 15 seconds, as Kordon-owy could see Parsons coming into the last lap. Third in was Martin trailing the leader by just under two minutes. Robinson was fourth in, but had some prob-lems on Lap 3 and was over six minutes ·out. Lesher maintained an even pace and was still fifth, followed by Lewis with another long lap. The checkered flag was going to be exciting. A red machine was first over the horizon, but it wasn't Parsons, it was Kordonowy who finished Day 2 with an im-pressive time of2:27:26. Kordon-owy needed to beat Martin by 40 seconds to finish first overall in class. Well, Martin didn't waste any time on the last lap record-ing his best lap of 36:38, but it wasn't enough as he finished over two minutes behind Kordonowy with a 2:29:26. Third in was Par-sons as a front flat ended his quest for a first this day, but ran a great race nonetheless. Robin-son came in fourth 22 minutes off the lead, followed by Lesher and then Lewis who could.not com-plete his last lap. Sam Berri recorded Saturday's best three-lap time, at 1:51:31, then backed it up with a Sunday win, to take Class 1 honors. Pam and Dale Smith needed some competition, so were allowed to run with Class 9, and they got the win. The tally for both days re-sembled the finished order of Day 2. Kordonowy .got the gold and .second oyerall with·a total time . of 4:2J:J9. Martin got his best finish ofthe season ,\Yith the sil-· ver and third overall with a time of 4:25:09. Parsons would have tQ settle for third after a blowout of a weekend, literally. Robinson was fourth, the Lesher team was fifth, and the Lewis team got sixth. The Sportsman Veteran class also ran with the ls and 10s and were not to be out done as they sent 13 cars to the line. They were required to do the same amount of laps as the 1 s and 1 Os and were often found passing some of them. The competition started early as Ace and Steve Bradford got the lead with 41 :50. Second in was Keith Ison, then Brent Mittelsadt. Fourth, after Lap 1 was points leader. Randy Miller, then Tom and Ed Kruse. Everett Paul was sixth, Michael , Lehner seveii;th, followed: in. by Hooter Meyer af1d L;ury Naso. Jhe top eight were_ within 1:26 of each other. Day 2 was shortly upon the each other. Seventh belonged to Michael Alhmeyer was in racers with four racers within six Ison, and Lehner was making a ninth and Brad Falin and Bill minutes of the leader and eight come back, now in eighth. The Smith completed Lap I in tenth. ' racers within· 20 minutes. Thi~ other Bradford car, Smith who Joyce Biggs, Jon Gurney, and was going to be exciting. Lehner ripped off the entire right side of Steve and Travis Bradford took who started dead last and fin-the front end, Mittelstadt, and up the rear after Lap I and fin- ished first, was to start first with Biggs were keeping up the rear ished that way after Day 1. Lap 2 the inverted start on the second and would finish the day in that was just as fierce, and on Lap 3 day, but alarm clock troubles in order. ' competition stayed dramatic as the morning hurt as he showed • In fact, Biggs took a nasty Lehner came from nowhere to up late and started about five header off a large jump and sus-take Day 1 with a time of2:06:0l. minutes after his scheduled time tained temporary numbness in Next in was Ison with a time of which opened the door for his her legs. She .was rushed to a 2:06:41,. with the Kruses just six . competitors. After Lap 1 Paul's nearby hospital and is currently seconds back and in third. car was leading with Patrick Tim-rehabbing and from all indica-Paul would be fourth after Day mons behind the wheel turned tions will make a full recovery. 1 trailing by three minutes·, 'fol- fast lap of 39:25. Also Meyer and Believe me, a very scary mo'inent lowed in three minutes_ later by Naso were taking advantage of · and to VORRA's credit was A1hmeyer. Meyer and Naso fin-the front starting position -and handled masterfully and should ished their first race of-the sea- , were next in. Third belonged to ·be praised for their immediate son and were sixth. Ace and Gurney who was lookin-g for attention to the situation. We all Steve. Bradford were seventh, some better luck. wish Joyce a speedy recovery. Miller got•eighth, and Falin-and Kruse, Miller, and Ace ·& Now back to racing. I will just Smith were the last finishers 20 Steve, Bradford were the next jump ahead and tell you what minutes back and in.ninth. three in all within a minute of Continued on page 40 · ' ;· I ' • • ' 1:15}t · · 1st Larry/Shawn Mccallum (FAT Type IV) 2nd George Seeley (FAT Type IV) 1st Danny Anderson (FATToyota4AG) 1st Dave Callaway/John Holmes (FAT Type I) 2nd Dan Worley/Stan Potter (FAT Type I) 3rd George Erl/Jerry Penhall (FAT Type I) Class 14 1st Doug MacArthur/Gary Haugley (FAT Type I) PRIMM 300-September 10-11 Class 1 3rd '~;11!!1600 ~~~ Ii::~~~ mi~ rtes 1st 3rd 1st Ron Satter/Mike Julson (FAT Toyota V-8) Brad Rowland (FAT Type I) Rick Paquette/Brad Mauer (FAT Type I) George Seeley (FAT Type IV) Mike James/Mike Kalicki (FAT Type IV) Danny Anderson (FAT Toyota 4AG) Steve/Andrew Meyers (FAT Toyota 4AG) Dave Callaway/John Holmes (FAT Type I) George Erl/Jerry Penhall (FAT Type I) Doug MacArthur/Gary Haugley (FAT Type I) PERFORMANCE We use & recommend Dusty Times 1558 No. Case • Orange, CA 92867 (714) 637-2889 • Fax (714) 637-7352 November 1999 Page 39 .,.

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J Sam Berri, in the buggy, and Frank Gillespie negotiate the infield, as Bob Martin fought hard and had the win on Saturday, but came up a Troy Robinson didn't manage to get a finish on Saturday, but still took fourth place for the weekend in Cl~a~ss_ 1~0·~~--~----.---,--fas t lap for Day 2 of 41: 23. John Sunday. Racing was fast and fu-Creasy followed in quickly, but rious as points leader Mike that was as far as he would get Koenig led coming into Lap 1 as transmission problems ended only 13 seconds in front of Rick his day. Smith was next in and Gonzalez winner of the Fallon ran consistently and was the 250. Andy McBride followed in only one to finish the required third looking for his second win laps and took home a blue rib-of the season and Fred Calosso bon for the weekend. I had a flat in his neatly painted Ford was on Lap 2 and broke a spindle on running fourth. Tim Schrader Lap 3 and finished second on was running fifth only five min-Day 2 and second overall for the utes back using a little Guns N' weekend. As I would like to Roses to push his ride on this thank those who helped me weekend. Patty Hayos running a change tires and Folsom Lum-Toyota ·and Steve Millward al-ber in Folsom, CA for their sup-most ran identical times in the port of Creasy Racing. Brother 54s and Gary Skipton and James John got third, thanking Folsom Fuhs had some down time and Lumber as well, and Hatch had finished Lap 1 at the back of the more front end problems on Day pack. Berri works his way toward the Class 1 win. little short, to finish second Class 10 for the weekend. happened. Timmons bettered his overall. The Bradfords were not the Baja of Dale Smith. I re-first lap with a second lap of eight as enough and finished turned to the line 10 minutes 38:29, but on Lap 3 broke the fourth on the day and overall. behind and Tom Hatch, the studs holding the air filter to the Miller got fifth overall, Paul was fourth entry, had some ball joints carburetor and lost precious time sixth, Meyer and Nayo ran fast woes and was weil off the lead. fixing the motor and finished enough for seventh, and John continued to dominate back in the pack. Meyer and Alhmeyer won himself an eighth. and finished the required two Naso had problems once again The rest of the field finished in laps in a nifty 1:21:39. Smith and had to bow out early. And this order Smith, Mittelstadt, driving consistently came in a bit Gurney could only get two laps Gurney, Bradfords and Biggs. slower at 1:27:01. I got the flat and finished eighth on Day 2. Far short of the expected turn fixed and ran fast lap of the week-The Day 2 finish mirrored the out, only four Class 9 vehicles end a 38:43 and finished at overall finish as Kruse too took ·took the line, and one of those 1: 29: 15. Hatch came back strong the victory as the last three laps was a Baja Bug allowed to race on Lap 2, but needed a great day were in the 3 7 minute fashion in the class. Day 1 had the broth-on Sunday, 26 minutes behind. and took home the gold with a ers Forest and John Creasy tee-Day 2 was a bit more event-time of 2:34:23 and a two day ing off together. I quickly took ful. I had some problems getting total of 4:41: 10. Lehner would the lead, but soon got a flat on to the line and started two min-struggle through the dust and fin-this rocky course and it took utes after my original starting ish second on the day and sec-longer than usual to change. time and I had to pass all of the ond overall with a total time of John took the first lap lead with seven trucks and the other Class 4:57: 15. Ison ran a great race and an impressive 40:26. He was fol- 9 vehicles. I was able to pass all recorded a third for the day and lowed ir:i three minutes later by the vehicles on the road and ran Visit our website to find out more about TCS at www.tcsperformance.com Page 40 November 1999 2 and was fourth for the week-The checkered flag was rip-end. ping through the air and first on Class 7 followed Class 9 into Day 1 went to Koenig as his lead battle during the weekend. was extended with fast lap of People tell me "how can you the weekend at 40: 12 and a two drive a nine car, it mus.t be lap total of 1:22:50. Gonzalez rough," and I tell them "it has to followed quickly in at 1:25:39. be better than driving a 7 truck." The rest of the pack followed Respectively though, I tell you suit as McBride, Calosso, Hayos, what these racers deserve every and Schrader filled in the top win and every accolade they get. six. Millward, Skipton, and Fuhs One of the biggest classes in re-were only able to complete one cent years, nine trucks to the lap and finished seventh, green flag. eighth, and ninth, respectively. Like the nine cars, they were Between the races "Team only required to complete two Calosso" took time out to re-laps on Saturday and three on member the BURNING MAN Tom and Ed Kruse had a close third on Saturday, then a good day on Sunday to take the weekend win in Sportsman Veteran Class. Chad and Jarad Wilson ran a steady pace both days in their Scout, to take the win in Class 8 Veteran. Dusty Times

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No one in Class 7 Open was able to get a finish, but Matt Thomas got Tim Schrader gave it a good try in his multicolored four wheel drive Mike Koenig had a great day on Saturday, struggled a bit on Sunday, the win by getting the most laps done in his Ford. _tr_uc_k_t,.o,-f1_·n_is_h_th,.i11_d_in......,.C_la_ss_ l._-.--.... _--~~-~~-~ and finished second in Class 7. CEREMONY, or in this case the ished first on Day 2 and first the biggest challenge as the of the lead with a 2:00:24. a-n-d,.,.h_e_u- se-d,--;-it_t_o-..-h.,..is_a_d·v_a_n_t_a_g_e BURNING MIKE CER-overall during the weekend with tight and turning course offered Walton was able to overtake turning a 36:21 for fast lap for EMONY. I guess these guys like, an elapsed time of 4:01 :00. quite a challenge. Four mon-Tranum on the road and finish the weekend in class. His lead really like Mike Koenig or just Gonzalez ended the desert year strous Class 8 trucks took to the third as Tranum did finish and was three minutes over Scahill wanted some karma for Day 2. with back to back wins and ru-road as Tom Scahill took the completed the class for a fourth. and Tranum after Lap 1. Hey, it worked. mor has it that his truck is now early advantage with a 39:44. Day 2 had Brager started first Continued on page 42 Day 2 continued from Day l's up for sale, so give him a call and Scahill couldn't let off as Kenny_ racing as the top contenders buy yourself a winner. Brager was less than a minute continued to battle it out. Cal-Koenig had less than a great behind in second. A few min-osso took the early lead on Lap Day 2 and finished the weekend utes later came the yellow truck 1, followed closely by Schrader in second. Schrader playing in of Dudley Tranum and John using his own illusion. Gonza-his jungle got an impressive Walton had some problems lez was third in eight minutes third for the weekend. McBride early and trailed by 14 minutes. behind and Skipton got his was good enough for fourth fol-Lap 2 did not change the truck fixed and was running lowed by Hayos, Skipton, Fuhs, standings as Scahill ran quick fourth. Koenig and Fuhs had and Millward. lap for the class with a 39:18 some problems on Lap 1 and Along with the Stock 7 and extended his lead to two McBride, Hayos, and Millward trucks, two 7 Open trucks took minutes over Brager. Tranum failed to complete a lap and the greeri flag for the weekend. was hanging tough and contin-headed home in frustration. Matt Thomas could only com-ued to see the leader's dust. Skipping ahead, Calosso and plete one lap on the weekend, Walton got back on that horse Schrader had problems on Lap but it was good enough for the and ran a great Lap 2 to stay in 2 and Gonzalez was first in. win this weekend as Steve the hunt. T he third and last lap Koenig was now fourth by de-Lucena in the other truck was met with regularity as Scahill fault as everyone else had unabletocompleteevenonelap took the victory with a total dropped out. Gonzalez was the andmanagedjustsecondplace. time of 1:58:29. Brager very first truck over the hill and fin- Class 8 started the day with -consistent, but finished just out Kenny Brager had a close second on Saturday in his Chevy, then took Sunday handily, to get the weekend Class 8 win in his Chevy. HONDA Power . Equipment KAWAGUCHI HONDA CORP. POWER TO_~-iJ --Racer · and Spectator D"iscounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PuRPOSE E NGINES =-- ·· ,. __ • ~ ATER PUMPS •?UTBOARD ENGINES I " "" :;: " •·· .. LAWNMOWERS LAWN TRACTORS EB6S00SX j . •RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF We DoN'T HAVE Ir, No ONE Does! -=-"" -=---=-:-= ' • ~cc.:} · 00 . ----• DEllVERY TO TI-fE RACES AVAllABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD :v ~ P-EX1000 . KAWAGUCHI HONDA -3532·E.3Ro-S£Lcs~CA.9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 IHONDA Power Equipment Dusty Times I : VISA I s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s N)~h;~_~ s easier. ta · H O N D A P O W E R E Q U I P M E N T S -P E C I A L I S T 1U lll)t:, I [iii F..:ir opumum pcr!"ormancc 31ld ~c-ty. pk.\t< l·ud lhC' o\mer's nl.lnual tk.·fore op:-r:itlng your Hood."\ Powc-r Equipment. Specilk:itlon:1 subJe<"l tO ct-..lll~C \\1thoul notlt:e. r. d , •£~t1m.1tc only. b3-sC'd on r.1tn'.S load. •BaUC'ry not i.ncludt"d \\1th EM3500SXKI. E~t5000SXKI rule:! £80500$..X. uwu.h b.mcry tr.,)' ktt, wh~ls ,!le. h.U'\iJcr. ConnccUon to hous«" power rcqulcc• tmns,cr ~1~C' to .-n-oi,1 po~siblC' lnJur-y to pm••cr company pcrs,onncl. Consult a qu,1.JlflC'd c1ttlrtd3n. November 1999 Page 41

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It was a tight course for Class 8. Tom Scahill took Saturday's win, but Jerry & Linda Wald ran their Ford in Class 1, managed a second In Class 8 Veteran, Doug Seymour faded on Saturday, but Sunday's one long lap on Sunday dropped him to 2nd for the weekend. place in spite of being~s_h_o~rt_a_c~o_u~pl_e_la"'"p_s_. ----~-~-time was good enough to get him second place. Walton again had problems on fourth. Wilson in their Scout were for a full night of welding to get super. Pilots. Only two chal-the virgin lap and was 17 min-Sportsman Trucks followed seven minutes back, but run-their Ford back on the road for lenged this course and Clint utes out. The·race continued at Class 8 into the desert on both ning well. Lap 2 was still a Day 2. Chapman got fourth only Wolsey bested Robby Wright the same pace as the first day. days. Six strong trucks took the heated battle as Seymor was in finishing two laps and wouldn't this weekend winning both days First in was the one to win. line and it was a three way battle front by only eight seconds over make it for Day 2 either. and is looking to extend his win-Brager completed the four laps between Doug Seymor, Eric Eberhart. Chapman fell back, On Sunday only four trucks ning streak at Prairie City. in 2:34:31 and took Day 2 and Eberhart, and John Chapman. but still maintained third just took the line and the Wilsons It was a very successful week-overall for the weekend by a · Seymor and Eberhart ran iden-seconds over the Wilsons, who needed to make up 14 minutes end with a great turnout and commanding 10 minutes for his tical times on Lap 1 and Chap-were making a charge. to secure a victory. Well, the look for even a greater turnout first victory for the season. man was only two minutes back. At the line Eberhart pulled welding paid off as Seymor be-next· year. Also with the year Scahill had a long Lap 2 and Dan Morose was first, but only out a great last lap and finished gan the day in the lead one 2000 look for more fireworks that cost him the overall, still completed the first lap and with a 2: 16: 14. The Wilsons minute over Eberhart and three and great racing throughout the finishing a very nice second. ended his day and unfortunately kept coming and finished sec-minutes over the Wilsons. year with VORRA. Walton finished the necessary his weekend. ond, 14 minutes back. Seymor Eberhart completed only the The points battle comes laps and a third was not bad for Ben Wald had the distinct maintained third, but not with-one lap and ended his day. Wald down to three short course races his first time out. 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Sportsman Trucks: Ben With Eberhart's failure the Wil-Wald-231, Doug Seymor-222. sons were able-to seal the vie-Sportsman Veteran: Randy torv and were the only ones to Miller-307, Hooter Meyer & complete all seven l_aps. Seymor Larry N aso-25 3. Sportsman ran a great second race and se-Novice: Charles Bryan-298, Ja-cured a second for the weekend. son Sacks-2 79. Pilot: Robby Eberhart still got third with Wright-313, Clint Wolsey-30. Chapman running well enough Class 7 Open: Matt Thomas-48, for a fourth. Wald got a fifth and Steve Lucena-41. Morose's luck just wasn't there Remember, if you are not as a sixth was all he could mus-the lead dog in the sled dog ter. race, the scenery never Sportsman Novice has be-changes. Eject. ■ come a great introductory class Attention and many fine racers have taken advantage of this opportunity. Five large went into the week-end. Terrie Travis got things started and was first in with a-lap time of 49:46. She was fol-lowed closely in by Jason Sacks, then Charlie Bryan. Bruce Brooks was fourth in nine min-utes back in the Kruse's ride. Marcia Watkins could only complete one lap as motor prob-lems caused havoc all weekend. Charlie Bryan took the checkered flag on Day 1 with a time of 1:35:15. Followed in second with no problems was Jason Sacks at 1 :36:26. Travis was overtaken on the road, but still managed a nice third place finish only nine minutes back. Last in was Brooks at 1:51:54. Day 2 was more Bryan as he continued to dominate the field. He was able to take both day victories with a total time of 3:45:47. Brooks got some great track knowledge on Day 1 and finished Day 2 in second and second overall for the weekend. Travis was the last competitor to finish all required laps and completed the weekend with a great third. Sacks only went once and only finished three of the five laps and received a fourth. Again Watkins had problems and finished fifth. 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Baja Pits News By Mister Baja Baja 1000 -700 miles. Ojos to Ojos will be going with seven pits of the seven, six are double pits, all full service pits, El Rayo, El Alamo, Km 126, W. Valle de Trinidad, Erendira, Uruapan and Ojos, will pit for anyone. Call 1-619-449-7777 Carlos and also to reserve your fuel. Prim 300 - six vehicles were pitted for at Pit B, Mile 51. Gerardo Iribe/Ernie Negrete Class 5-1600, second place, again Perry/Yee third place in Class 7 and Miguel Tornel Class 10 was running strong all day. El Alamo 200 -Again Ernie Negrete in the trophy once (11) took a second place. Our long time Baja Pit member and big sponsor Sa bas Munoz in his San Diego Smog sponsor Class 7 arriving half an hour late and taking second place just 120 seconds behind first place Perry/Yee, Class 7, and again a big paycheck. Will Perry/Yee do 30 races this year??? 10-23-99 Baja Pits Octoberfest Off Road Show. Costco (Price Club) TJ will host this year's pit competition and off road show with over 50 off road vehicles from all over the state, again 76 Racing Fuel will sponsor the event. 11-20-99 - Baja Pits/Tecate 125. La'st race of the four race se-ries, open for bikes 125, 250 and Open, Quads 250 and 350, Buggies Class l, 10, 1/2-1600, 12 Class 5-1600 and Class 9 along with Class 7 and 8s. Baja 2000 -Tijuana to Los Cabos??? More information on racing any race south of the border call the Pres. Carlos at 1-619-449-7777 or Mr. Leo at 1-619-267-9928. Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE RESULTS!!! SCORE PRIMM 300: I didn't get a lap by lap account, but local Las Vegan Mark Bunderson took the win on a pretty nice but breezy day at State Line. Eric Fisher was sec-ond, Daniel Mora was third, Jesus Luna fourth, and the DNFers were Jimmy Messick, David Vieira, and Jeff Haneline. If any-one is interested, I'm looking for a SCORE Class 9 reporter for next season. I can't make it to all of the races, and I don't go to Mexico anymore. You don't have to go nuts trying to dig up all of the dirt, just who did what, and maybe find out who broke what, and notes would be fine. I can take what you get and make a story out of it. For what it's worth anyone that would like to report on ANY challenger race, feel free to call or e-mail me. I don't get a lot of space, but I'll squeeze in what I can. MDR BARSTOW 300: Nine 9s lined up for a delayed start be-cause some of the road crossing workers failed to show up at their appointed stations. Nevertheless, Paul got the bases covered, and after only about a half hour, it was business as usual. Six 46 mile loops was the flavor of the day, and we started seventh off of the line. By Pit B we were second on the road with McGuffin out front, but al~ady the gremlins had at-tacked the car and he was nurs-ing a slipping clutch. We got by him at about Mile 35, and at the end of Lap 1 we were leading. McGuffin was only a minute back, with the Walters brothers third (they had won the SNORE race BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bu.mp stop system. These bump stops come complete with a mounting system, polyurethane end piece and enough .valving to get the job done. EXX>NOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. (Includes mounting hardware & grade 8 bolts) See your off road racing parts supplier or call us direct Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview 1-520-427-3551 P.O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 Dusty Times the week before, did a quick re-prep, and decided to join us). Robby Cockrell was fourth, Rob-ert Stapp {who resurrected Sandy Parker's La RANA Championship winning singe seater), was fifth, · Barry Nelson was sixth in the Dave Lawson entry. (Dave has since moved on to 1600dom and will probably never see his name in this column again.) Just kid-ding Dave, I wish you all of the luck in the world. Robert Riffle was seventh, Dan Owen was eighth, and unfortunately, Patty Wheeler in Sean DeFrank's ·car had lost the ring and pinion about 20 miles in. Gary Stevens was signed up, but didn't make th_e start. On Lap 2, we stretched our lead to about five minutes on the Walters who were now in second, . with Cockrell moving up to third, McGuffin dropping to fourth while nursing his clutch, Stapp was fifth, Riffle, Nelson, and then Owen. On Lap 3, I backed it off a notch, and that allowed the Walters to close the gap a bit, while Stapp moved into third, with Cockrell fourth, Riffle was · fifth, Mc Guffin slipped to sixth, and Nelson was seventh. Dan Owen ended up losing his motor and stuck in a canyon with no radio contact. What a bitch! On Lap 4, at FAIR Pit A, I stopped to do a rider change and get fuel. The stop took a little too long, and the Walters closed to within a minute of us. (I've got to get those belts fixed!) Stapp was turn-. ing some good laps and was only 10 minutes back in third. Riffle moved up to fourth, Nelson was fifth, and McGuffin was sixth. Cockrell dropped out when his co-driver pushed the clutch peddle too far and blew the cross shaft. On Lap 5 the fun really started when the· Walters passed me on a really nasty hill. Since I knew they weren't chasing points, my first instinct was to let them go. That lasted about a split sec-ond and the chase was on. About six or seven miles later we re-gained the lead but had our mir-rors full for the rest of the lap. Stapp closed the gap and was only about seven minutes back in third. Nelson was fourth, and McGuffin was fifth after pulling his motor to fix a blown input shaft seal. Riffle retired with a broken axle. On the final lap leav-ing the start/finish we only had about 20 seconds physically, which meant they were leading by · 40 seconds. At Pit A, the gap was only 10 seconds, and I decided to throw caution to the wind and pushed her to the limit. No mat-ter how -hard we pushed, they . were right there. With about seven miles left I climbed a hill and could see over my shoulder to see they wtre about a mile back. We did what we could, and skidded across the finish line hop-ing to hav~ stretched out enough lead to make up the time split. As I pulled into post race tech, Rob Walters stopped me and said that that had gotten a flat with five miles to go. OOOOHHHH MAAAAANNNNNN ! ! ! They got it fixed though, and finished about 10 minutes later in second. Stapp came around third, about 12 minutes later, a very nice showing for his first time out. Barry Nelson soloed, changing passengers twice, and finished fourth. McGuffin was the last 9 finisher, but that kept him within points striking distance going into November 1999 the last race. WOW, four in a row. I think for the first time in my life I'm completely speechless. But I do need to thank everyone for all of the help over the years, and especially this year. SUSPEN-SIONS UNL., SANDRAILS UNL., RD SPRING, FOX, WEBCAM, PRP, McKenzies, and of course, MOHR PERFOR-MANCE. Thanks to my wife Di-ane, MOM and DAD, Tim Nichols (first half rider), Robert Otwell (second half rider), and Chaser Dude Deluxe, Harold Curry. Also Chuck Abella, for handling Pit A. RUMOR MILL: I've gotten quite a few calls from people building or buying 9s, and if ev-eryone shows up at MDR like they say, we could have up to 20 cars next year!! Also Paul Duffy says that the entry fee will most likely stay where it's at. He also said he couldn't make any promises, it depends on what everyone charges him for services. Doug Ingram is putting a car together, Robert Riffle's single seat JIM CO is for sale, and if it sells, he'll be moving to 1600. As I mentioned before, Dave Lawson traded his 9 for a 1600, and the new owner Barry Nelson hopes to nm a full season next year. Sean Defrank bought a new chassis, so Patty and "The Animal" Durrell Wheeler will be campaigning his old Chen-owth. McGuffin also said he'll be moving to 1600, so _his Mirage single seater is for sale, a_nd Chuck Abella and Robert Otwell will be running Jimmy Messick's old car at MDR. The Walters tell me they are going to run MDR and SNORE, a feat that Joel Stanca-vich accompiished in ;92 with LaRana and SCORE winning championships in both series. Good Luck Guys!!! Once again, if you have any questions or com-. men ts, call me at (7 60) 94 7 -664 7, or e-mail me at MOHRPRF@JUNC.COM. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! It was Halloween, 1998 and these two beauties would make even a real witch shudder. Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren were obviously enjoying them-selves at the party and we hope they have as good a time this year. NewWahzoo Well, Checker buds it seems as though that skirt wearing -ass kissing wanna-be Wahzoo must have finally ran out of butts to kiss. Sorry folks, but this Wahzoo hasn't found a butt worth kissing - so if you members, wanna-be members and eve droppers don't like this new Wahzoo's point of view -well then you can kiss my ass. Unless someone else wants the honor or the original W ah zoo comes back you could be stuck with me for a while. Primm 300 The club had eight entries who trekked to Stateline, Ne-vada to try and beat the silt beds and rocks for their share of Score's money. Some of this Wahzoo's info is a little shaky, · so if some of the facts aren't 100% then tuff shit -these are this Wahzoo's interpretation of the stories as I heard them. The club had seven pafd entries and one unpaid inactive (more on that late). We will start with first on the trailer to first in class. Justin LaCore was ru-mored to have one of the most exotic looking and state of the art Jimcos ever built. Although as luck would have it, Justin's car saw more miles on a trailer and tow strap than it did of the desert. Sometime on Friday, while Justin was at contin-gency, Randy La Core decided to take the new car for a little "Hot Lap." About the time the car's speed exceeded Randy's age and possibly his present driving ability, he lost solid contact with Mother Earth. No one is really sure if Randy was testing Jimco's new crumple zones or was trying to take soil samples with the car's roof. Once the car stopped rolling and now missing a few neces-sary parts like wheels. It was time to find Justin and tell him the bad news and recruit him to help load what was left of his new car and get it back to the casino. Needless to say, Justin's race was done on Friday. Tom Koch was the first of six paid club entries to get the green flag. The Ridgecrest Rocket started with typical Tom Koch style -it seems as though Tom put on his race face but forgot to put on his race glasses. Hey Tom, maybe it's about time to get some prescription glasses instead of those reading glasses from the 99cent basket at W alMart. Tom was reportedly seen and rescued somewhere around Mile Marker 9. Al-though that wasn\ the end of Tom's day -he made it around one full lap and then lost his motor. Ty Godde got the green flag on Saturday morning but didn't get very far. I was unable to get any real info on Ty but heard he tore up the rear sus-pension somewhere on the first lap. Dan Martin was another club DNF. Dan gave it all he had to get back to back wins for the club. But as luck would have it, Dan's day would be cut· short. Somewhere on the first lap Dan traded paint with a pre-runner on the course. It seems Dan tried to drive his car through the side of this, bone head's car. During the incident Dan's motor or trans tried to drive itself through Dan's fuel cell. Unfortunately Dan was on the trailer shortly afterward due to the loss of some impor-tant trans parts like gears. Brian and Scott Steele did ev-erything they could to get to the checkered flag but the race beat this team also. After nu-merous stops to the pits for re-pairs on rocker assy and ex-haust they eventually had to call it a day. Walter Prince, the Candy Cane Crusader was only able to muster up a second place. Walter's d ay was not without its fair share of prob-lems. During Walter's driver change our new member Stuart Bradley jumped to help (or so he thought) Walter's co-driver out of the car. After swiftly helping with the belts he went for the pumper hose and. radio wire. After yanking on that stubborn radio wire Stuart re-alized the error of his ways. It seems that somehow the wire Continued on page 44 Page 43

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had gotten itself wrapped around the co-driver's neck. Once this small problem was solved and Walter's co-driver regained consciousness, the driver change was completed · and the car was topped off and sent on its way. As if that wasn't bad enough, Walter's car was hit by a freak tornado and sent into a barrel roll -well, at least that's what the report is, because rumor has it Walter's car has never gone fast enough to roll on its own. Walter's new sleek looking car, shod of its candy canes and about 200 pounds, got a fine second to Sportsman class. George Seeley was the club's only first in class for the club at this race. Except for losing a brake line and having to have it pinched off. George pushed on to grasp the top podium spot. Congratulations George. Rumor has it that George has placed first in all the Primm races run. Now George, if you could only pay your pit fees on time this Wahzoo would really be impressed. Tony Tellier was signed up as a co-driver of a non-checker car -our one un-paid driver. Tony's non-checker ride broke early and was trailered back to the main pit which happened to be next to Checkers main. Tony, being friendly as usual decided to wander over to Checkers main and visit with his buds. Upon entering the main pit Tony was interrogated by Rev Roy re-garding his absence of pit fees in a Checker race. Tony ques-tioned having to pay pit fees since it wasn't his car and he wasn't asking for club support, but would discuss the situation with his council on having to pay fees. Rev Roy, being the good Vice President-that he is, opened "his briefcase and brought forth a copy of the by-laws to show Tony the error of his ways. After a quick look at the bylaws arid quick meeting with ex-President Biliborn, it was found that Tony was right, it wasn't his car so he Once Rev Roy was able to ' get that dirty old foot out of his mouth GOT SHOCKS? 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I guess all you deadbeat members with little or no points must be getting together to save the day, but I highly doubt it. Unless you lazy bas-tards want the club to be a part of the super pits, you need to get your asses in gear and sign up for a pit. Membership par-ticipation has' been so bad lately we couldn't even cover all the pits at the Primm race, not to mention it's a rare occa-sion to get more than 15 mem-bers at a meeting. Maybe you members who are short on points want to get your asses thrown out of the club so you can join one of those pit for hire clubs. If that is the case, don't let the proverbial door hit you in the ass on the way out. Well buds, love me or hate me, but that's this month's Wahzoo column. You guys better watch your backs because this Wah-zoo has a whole new pool of spies. So watch your step un-less you wanna end up in the hots.eat. So long Mr. Bill! From all the Checkers. (Bill Roberson Sr., August 1999.) C.O.R.E. PIT REPORT By Sandy Parker MDR BARSTOW 300 CORE had only four teams run the MDR event, apparently the rest of the cars are already gearing up and saving the equipment for next year. Both Malcolm Bryce and Darin McOuffin are in contention for point series so they will both finish the season with M9R. With thee major races on the same day, most of the CORE teams decided to race locally. RACE REPORTS Team Bryce/McCool (Class 1-1600) The most impressive run of any CORE T earn was the team of Malcolm Bryce and Billy McCool. Malcolm started the race and was the first 1600 offthe line and held it most the day. The only car that passed him was "that girl", but as Malcolln explained, "I passed her back". Malcolm drove the first half of the race having no problems other than getting lost due to the poor course marking (his words not mine!). Starting the forth lap, Malcolm gave the car to Billy McCool in CODE Main Pit. The only problems Billy had was when all three of the pillows squirted out of the car and he couldn't reach the peddles. Mr. McCool flew the car the next three laps and fin-ished the car in the numbero uno position in class and fifth overall. CONGRATULA-TIONS GUYS! ! Team Stapp/Craig (Class 9) Rob Stapp purchased my old Chenow-1000 Challenger and teamed up with Todd Craig. November 1999 Rob was my high school buddy and one of my biggest racing nemesis in the 70's as we both raced our white 1200cc Class 11 cars. Todd is the youngest of the racing C: raigs out of Barstow. I knew from the start that they were going to be a team to contend with, as soon as they loose the "first race back" jitters. Rob started the race and was having fun, pass-ing cars and making up some time. On the second lap a gut-less Class 8 driver, slammed · him off the course damaging the car and tweaking Rob's neck in the process., refer to my continued comments at the end of the report. In pain, Rob radioed in and said he was get-ting out of the car immediately. To make matters worse, Rob blew a front tire so he had to fight the car back to CORE Main. With a tire change and fuel stop, Todd took over and clicked off three very fast laps. The only incident slowing Todd was a blown shock which was changed in less than two minutes at Main Pit. After a few hours while Todd was driv-ing, Rob was feeling better !ind jumped back into the car to fin-ish the last lap. The guys fin-ished third in class out of the ten car field, not too shabby for their first race back in many many yeaxs.· Team Malloy (Class 1600) This was the first race for Mike Malloy's the brand spank-ing new Lothringer single seat 1600. This car is way too clean to thrash in the desert. A few weeks prior to this race Mike had a photo shoot with Hot VW's, so look for it in a few months. Being the preparation perfectionist, Mike was sure to make the car as quick as it is good looking, and he proved it this race. Mike Soloed the race and kept it towards the front of the pack all day. Mike had closed the gap between himself and the Bryce/McCool car where he was ahead on cor-rected time. Approaching Stottard Wells road, Mike blew a rear tire which was quickly changed at the CORE Baker pit. About mid race Mike no-ticed an exhaust-•noise so he called it in and got CORE Main ready for action. CORE Main welded the broken brand new exha~st back together so Mike was back in contention. Mike ended up in forth place in class, not bad for the first race on a new car. Team Mc Guffin/Jeffry/ Dittfield (Class 9) Every once and a while, you have one of those races you would like to forget. This has been that year for Darin McGuffin. Darin started the race with an injured elbow that he smacked into the frame rail last race. He was only able to complete a single lap wanting to get out due to the pain. Af-ter the first lap, Darin com-plained about the clutch slip-ping and asked for an adjust-ment. The pit crew noticed that the trans seal was leaking into the clutch housing and oil was getting on the clutch disk. They decided to make a driver change and have Brian Jeffery make a lap and they would get ready to pull the motor and change the seal. Half way arouna the course they pulled into CORE Baker Pit and had the tranny topped offwith gear oil. They pulled in at the end of lap 2 and yanked the motor and changed the bad seal in about 20 minutes. Brian got back in the car and drove fif-teen miles when a rear torsion bar failed. He pulled into CORE Baker where they in-stalled a spare torsion bar. Brian completed the forth lap but broke the other torsion bar just before the Main pits. Darin quietly asked if anybody had another torsi6n bar, I looked. thru my old challenger parts and found another spare bar. I'm not quite sure if Darin ap-preciated this or not since the tired crew has to rip the back of the car off and install the spare torsion bar. Tom Ditffileld.had the driving hon-ors the last two laps and did it with no problems. I did hear the rumor that Tom stated that this is his "LAST' race in a Class 9 car, yea rights Darin is in a fight for the Class 9 points so he was determined to fin-ished the race, an'd that he did, finishing fifth in class and man-aging to salvage some points. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN (Sidewinder/ Outlet Center road) Kenny Lane was the pit cap-tain who had Mike DuBois, Don and Hilly Smith, .the , McGuffiln and Parker crews assisting hirrt in the running of CORE Main. CORE Main per-formed driver changes and fuel stops for the Bryce, McGuffin, and Stapp cars. A front tire and rear shock were replaced on the Stapp Challenger. An en-gine pull and seal and clutch disk replacement, torsion bar installation were done on the McGuffin car. Welding was done to the exhaust of the Mal-loy car and simultaneously changing of a near flat wopped front centerline. . CORE PITABLE (Hwy 257) The Able pit was manned by Tom Malloy, Kris Bloomdahl, Kris Kehl, Enrique Borja, Mike Lewis, Carlos Perez, Paul Dumas, Eric Telemundo, and Jason Edwards. It's a good thing they brought all the people, since the only thing they did was to give Mike Malloy a splash of fuel and enjoy the beautiful weather and great racing. CORE PIT BAKER (Stottard Wells Rd) The Baker pit kept busy changing a tire for Mike Mal-loy, R&R a torsion bar and add-ing tranny gear oil to the McOuffim car. The Baker pit was run by Brad Inch, Jim Wagner, Dave Woulfe, Lex and Shashum W eh, and Gary and Cara Hall. CORE PIT C}IARLEY (Hodge Rd) Bob Depew, Aaron Snow and the man known only as Tim ran the Charley Pit. The only work the guys did was to non-CORE cars. BITD VEGAS TO RENO The CORE Protruck Team of McGillivray and Ridings at-tempted to make the trek be-tween Las Vegas to Reno in the Best in The Desert race. I say attempted since they had ma-jor mechanical problems off the Dusty Times

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start. Tom Ridings and Dean Cognito started the event and soon experienced transmission fluid retention problems (a big old honkin leak). They used all their spare fluid and borrowed some from competitors and hobbled the car to the first pit where a spare transmission awaited them. Because of the BID broken vehicle recovery rules, it took many hours to get the truck where it could be ser-viced. Only a few miles into the race and already many hours down, they decided not to con-tinue and headed home. The team is already looking forward to next year as the 2000 Protruck racing s.chedule has them racing in some very inter-esting venues. 1999 BONEHEAD AWARD This years "BONEHEAD" award goes to the driver of the 802 Class 8 truck at the Octo-ber MDR race. At the last race this incredibly brave man drove into the back of one of our CORE cars, damaging the car and injuring the driver. The course was 4 trails wide and no horn was used, sounds like an ego problem to me .. Contact me at the number/e-mail ad-dress listed below and I will let you know where to send the check for the damages along with your letter of apology. This driver obviously likes the MDR series where he can run a few fast laps and take out as many slower cars as he can. Lay offneffing the real racers Mr. Trophy-Truck-Wanna-Be and go to SCORE where you can be target practice for the Class lO's on up. No, he would rather run where there are many cars in slower classes where he can drive thru them. I would sug-gest that the driver of this truck spend less money on paint and chrome and invest heavily in driving lessons a,11d p~ychologi-cal sessions to learn how to drive and get over youf "big boy" cqmplex. We don't need this L.A. bastard, road rage, overly aggressive bullshit in the desert, rather keep it on the freeways where your competi-tor carry guns. Searching for a professional family oriented pit support club? CORE is always happy to extend it's family and support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, join us at the meeting or call me at (818) 77 2-77 58 or e-mail me a t race975@aol.com. CRS Report By Sue Robinson Things are pretty quiet this month, September, in the CRS. No rally crosses or stage rallies. Nancy Peterson has retired as Membership Chairman and Treasurer and Tony Chavez has stepped up to take the po-sition.Tony has been an active competitor and organizer with the CRS and is a great sup-porter of the club. His wife, Norma, and daughter, Sondra, are regulars at the rallies as Dusty Times well. Be sure to stop by and say "Hi" to Tony and family at the next event you attend. Tom Bier tied the knot with the companion, Ahava Brooke on September 18th. Congratu-lations! Tom is a regular in the CRS two wheel drive open class -most recently in his yellow Saab. Actually the Saab made it into their wedding invitation as one of the illustrations. Now that is an understanding fiance. We hope to see the happy couple at a rally soon. The Treeline Rally is gear-ing up for November 13th in Monrovia, CA. Two new stages are being added this year. They are a nice addition to some re-ally great tight twisty roads that have been run in years past. The Treeline has a website that can be accessed through the CRS webpage. Check it out. The Laughlin International Rally is shaping up. Roger and Ray have added more roads on the Huvapai Indian reserva-tion. As you recall we ran those in the snow last year. Maybe this year we can see what we were racing on. The rallyists will get to race down to the Colorado River as well. They will run their Superstage again which was a big hit last year. Two courses side by side and two cars running against the clock and each other at the same time. The matchups were lots of fun. Last year Frank Sprongl showed everyone how to get around the slalom course! There is a pre-runner class for all of you off roaders who want to try out rallying. Be careful, you may get hooked. We did I Check out their webpage for more information and an entry form. Scott Bottomly and Tom Grossman of the Las Vegas SCCA region are putting to-gether a Super Rally weekend in March of 2000. They have scouted out a road to run a rally sprint on and then will run a rally course on a dry lake the next day. This will be a good warm-up for rallying later in the season. Dennis Sheean is planning a rally sprint/rally cross weekend in Holtville, CA the middle of February 2000. This was a fun event last year. We shared the airfield with the RAF para-troopers and got a free air show all weekend. Plan to bring your tiki torches and rally videos and we can swap rally stories on Saturday night. Ray Hocker will put on an-other rally school the beginning of the year 2000. At least one more school is planned for next year and possibly an advanced school mid season to improve driving skills and add to previ-ous information presented. A trade show in conjunction with this school is also in the plan-ning. Don't forget membership re-newal time is drawing near. Re-new now and the membership is good through December 2000. Full membership in-cludes a subscription to Dusty Times! Contact our new Mem-bership Chairman and Trea-surer Tony Chavez or pick up a membership form off the CRS w e b p a g e <californiarallyseries.com>. See you at the start line! F.A.I.R. News By Joy Bancroft FAIR'S ANNUAL NOS-TALGIA DINNER AND AWARDS BANQUET WAS ANOTHER HUGE SUCCESS! If you couldn't make the dinner you simply missed the best dinner ever. 159 dinners were served ... I think that broke our record in attendees. The chicken fajitas were delicious including the mouth watering cheesecake for dessert. Old and new members enjoyed the bar available in the banquet room with a slide show and videos going in the background. Af-ter all, what's more important than enjoying a few drinks with friends and talking over all the old race stories. As dinner got underway, awards were presented to some of our "special" mem-bers. Harry Dunne received a "STOP" sign for the rear of his car. Mitch Griffin, who was not present, received a toilet seat attachment for his race car seat. Bill Markel re-ceived a lunch box (I think it was Looney Tunes), for his many stops for sandwiches when he is racing. And fi-nally, Tom Mangione re-ceived an alarm clock. As the old saying goes, "you just had to be there!" Then we got down to the serious awards. FAIR spend time at the meet-ings before the dinner nomi-nating for the first time mem-bers that are long overdue with outstanding contribu-tions. The categories were: RACE OF THE YEAR, PIT SUPPORT PERSON OF THE YEAR, and FAIR PERSON OF THE YEAR. The Board submitted nominations for the "PRESIDENT'S AWARD," and the final de-cision was then made by our President. This award was to go to an individual, who stands out for his or her con-tributions to the entire off road industry. THE WINNERS ARE: RACER OF THE YEAR: Joel Mohr. PIT SUPPORT PERSON: Mike Shannon. FAIR PERSON OF THE YEAR: Bill Markel. PRESIDENT'S AW ARD: Art Savedra. All of the above are so de-serving of their awards ... Joel Mohr who has raced his heart out this year to win his first race and to continue to win while he supports all the races with FAIR providing good pit support whether he is racing or not. And Mike Shannon who has his pit crew at all the We.-wouU Li/a, To Ilttroau.u, Two New-VUUU>Y$ Tt> Our List Of F~~u WE WELCOME: TRAILMASTER SUSPENSION AND BOATEC FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS FOR TRUCKS TAYLOR PLUG WIRES SPIRAL OR PRO-WIRE $24.95 TYPE Ill REAR 5-LUG GERMAN DRUMS $89.95 FOX 5/8 1 '1' COIL OVER W/ RESEVOIRS $280.00 ASK ABOUT NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHIRTS N.O.R.B. 930CV OVER BOOT $10.95 H-4 7' ROUND HEADLIGHT BULBS NEW PIAA H-3 PLATNIUM BULBS BURNS 85 WATTS PRODUCES 130 WATTS OF LIGHT MUST MENTION AD TO RECIEVE AD PRICES ..... VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE www.maccachren.com races and comes equipped with all the necessities and spend_s a lot of time caring for the FAIR van and making sure it gets to the races. And we can't say enough about Bill Markel, he takes on man-aging every race coordinating pits from home and the phone. He spends 50% of his life volunteering for FAIR, or-dering equipment, soliciting new members and, of course, his marketing abilities to help support FAIR when we have promotions and our Annual dinner. And last, but not least, Art Savedra came quickly to FAIR's mind be-cause of strong will to stay so strongly involved in off road. His expertise and knowledge we have all grown to endure and admire with his contribu-tions to the sport and chari-ties. TO ALL OF THE ABOVE ... CONG RA TULA-TIONS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The evening continued on to an hour and a half of our famous FAIR dinner raffle. Bill Markel was the hero be-hind soliciting the off road and automotive industry to donate prizes for our raffle. I am going to guess that the total items we raffled valued at around $7,000. The vari-ety of items ranged from T-shirts, to Store gift certifi-Continued on page 46 CAI.I. TOI.I. FREE 1-888-75·5-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR .. . . . . -,.,~~~ •••• 3054 S. 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cates, to parts, to magazine subscriptions, to discounted labor for service in off road shops, to buggy cages, to shocks, to helmets, to radios, to driving shoes, to dash iden-tifiers, to discounted photos, to wheel straightening, to stickers, to mufflers, to oil and liquid products, to sets of tires, to cash ... and the list goes on. Look for our special thanks to these contributors in this month's Dusty Times or next months ... you can't miss our BIG AD! And how lucky is FAIR and the members to have the support of the race promoters, we can't thank them enough for supporting the club for our Annual dinner with race en-tries. We would like to give a BIG "Thank you" to SCORE, Sal Fish and crew, THE BEST IN THE DESERT, Casey Folks, Mojave Desert Racing, Patricia and Paul. These were but this just shows you we like to have fun, we take this very seriously and include our whole families and significant others. AND NOT JUST AT DINNERS, WE APPRECI-ATE ALL THE GUYS, GALS AND KIDS THAT COME OUT AND SUPPORT FAIR. BAJA 1000 pit support is ready to go with FAIR, our pits are all set up. IF YOU NEED PIT SUPPORT FOR THE 1000, call Bill Markel at (661) 943-1786. FAIR is available to assist your Baja pit needs, you do not have to be a FAIR member. FAIR meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at the Radisson in Fullerton, where the 91 Fwy. and Har-bor Blvd. meet. Magnificent 7 Race Team the big hit of the evening, the By Stephen T. Stenberg, President winners were Harry Dunne the SCORE entry, George Mag 7 is preparing for the Ladwig THE BEST IN THE Baja 1000. Pit Support appli-DESERT, and Scott Stein-cations went out to all exist-berger won the discounted ing Mag 7 members on Labor MDR entry. There were two Day weekend. Mag 7 then winners of the MDR entry, sent out Pit Support applica-except I missed it in my notes, tions in the SCORE flyers it may have been Mike Shan-that were mailed the end ·of non? FAIR also gave away September. Now comes the two free FAIR pit support hard part of gathering all fees. Those winners were those applications back in Gary Bancroft . and Tim and putting together our Pit Lockhart. Special thanks to -Books for the race. Since the Bill Markel. .. he spent two ,. majority of this course is the mo_nths ga~hering up these -same,as the Baja 500 course, items and he did a terrific job . .' that will be fairly easy this Well, that kinda covers the · year. . dinner, next month back to Right now Mag 7 is going racing update. HEY to you through its equipment one outsiders reading this col-last time, readying everything umn ... this may sound boring for t'he race. Lights are or maybe you had to be there, checked. Generators and welders are run. Dump cans are checked and cleaned. Fire Extinguishers are checked out as are our First Aid boxes. Mile and 1/4 mile signs ai:-e being made up. Fuel pumps are being greased and Pit Boxes are getting the once over too. Radios are being connected to antennas and tested. Everything that is needed to operate a success-ful pit is being worked on now. Mag 7 held its first Pit cap-tain meeting on October 5th. Its next meeting is being held October 19th. This will be our final meeting to work out any bugs that have occurred. After this, our next time to-gether will be the Pit Equip-ment pickup, held on Octo-ber 30th in San Diego. Mag 7 is putting together 13 pits. Vehicles will pit every 100 miles on both laps. Bikes and Quads will pit every 50 miles as needed. Some bikes, like the Class 40 Pro Honda of Gary Tepner/Ross Gregory will go 100 miles during the race on four gallons of fuel. Others like the quad of Carmen Cafro will only get 55 miles to four gallons. So ev-ery bike is different. Most ve-hicles, whether they are trucks or buggies will get at least 100 miles between fill ups. Every Mag 7 pit will be equipped alike. That means they will all have FM radios, base antennas, pit boxes, tools, fire extinguishers, first aid boxes, generators a:nd lights, welders, both vehicle and motorcycle dump cans, water, food and a very expe-rienced crew waiting to assist the Mag 7 entry that needs r-----• I FOR SALE I I ' . . 2 SEAT RACECO - WITH 3 MOTORS 2-FAT TYPE IV 3 LITRE, 1 KENNY MAJOR TYPE IV 2.2 LITRE. 48 AND 44 WEBERS. 2 COMPLETE HAL TECH FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS. 3 SPEED TRANSAXLE AUTO. ULTRA. HOWE. MASTERCRAFT. FODDRILL. FOX. FUEL SAFE. SIMPSON. SETRAB. SUMMERS BROTHERS. CNC. UMP. OPTIMA. 2 FIBERGLASS BODIES. EVERYTHING IS NEW OR COMPLETELY REBUILT. TON OF SPARES. WILL SELL AS COMPLETE PACKAGE OR SEPARATE. ALL REASONABLE OFFERS ACCEPTED CALL 949-498-9250 DAY 949-498-4708 EVENING Page 46 November 1999 help. As you know, Mag 7 has been operating pits now for over 30 years. We know our business and our reputation speaks for itself. There Are other fine Pit organizations out there, and a racer should shop around to find one that meets his or her needs. But very few offer what we have. A pit crew that is equally at home with vehicles or bikes. That's the Mag 7 way. If you want to get in touch with us for this race, or for the year 2000 series, you can first e-mail our Race Directors at Newell@cts.com. If you-can't do this, then call them at (760) 745-5740 and leave a nighttime phone number. You can also reach mag 7 through our Race Line at (619)_582-3728. Leave a mes-sage and we will get back to you soon. Finally, you can also check our our Mag 7 web site. The address is http:// www.walsh.com/Mag7. Have a safe race adven-ture, whether you are a spec-tator, racer, chase person or pit person. If you are in the area of one of our pits, stop • by and say hello. Otherwise, take care and good luck to all the racers in the 1999 Baja 1000 race. Until next month, adios from Team Baja, Steph-en Stenberg. MAG7RACE@AOL.COM. P.S. Happy 8th Birthday Nicholas! October 31st, 1999. more Trail Notes ... (Continued From Page 6) to be decided and it will all come to a head in Las Vegas on October 30 & 31. In PR0-4, Rob MacCachren holds a slim three point lead over Scott Douglas. Walker Evans is just four points behind Scott, Jamey Flannery is only two points behind Walker, Curt LeDuc is four points behind Jamey and Jack Flannery is only five points behind Curt. So, we'll see if Rob can get the crown racing at his home town. It's going to be a real shoot-out so you'd best get yourselves to the Las Vegas Speedway for that weekend and see all the action. BEST IN THE DESERT - VEGAS TO RENO -we had hoped to get the stories on the Vegas To Reno race for cars, trucks and motorcycles in this issue but, time ran out on us, so you'll !:rave to wait until the next issue of Dusty Times to read all about it. DUSTY TIMES CONTRIBUTORS - Just a friendly reminder to all of our regular contributors: your submissions must be in 12 point type, double spaced. This greatly assists the typesetters, who have a terrible time reading the single spaced type. So, please, 12 point, double spaced. 'Nuf said. CUSTOM ACCESSORIES, FABRICATION & MANUFACTURING QUICK, CLEAN, QUALITY SERVICE AT A DISCOUNT PRICE -CALL US! We can do almost anything in steel, aluminum or stainless. All work is guaranteed on time at the original estimated price. Installation available. 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DUSTY PEOPLE The Rodriguez Family By Judy Smith You finally get to the fin-ish line, happy but weary, and as yo·u coast up to the crowded post-race area some-one waves a flag, telling you to stop. A small horde of people surrounds your car, and someone is tugging at your left arm, while another is digging into your stub can. You get a pat on the shoul-der, a big smile, and a couple of finisher pins. You wonder vaguely who these friendly and industrious people are. A good portion of them be-long to the Rodriguez family. And this is a story that began over 20 years ago with one of our long time Mexican Na-tional racers. Jesus Luna and Javier Tiznado were racing a Class 11 car in 197 8, and they needed pit help for the Baja' 500. So Jesus called on his cousin, Bill Rodriguez, to come down and work. Bill, who, though born in San Di-ego, was also a Mexican Na-tional, then lived in Tijuana. His dad had a wrought iron furniture factory and was one of the sponsors of Luna and Tiznado's car. While Bill was growing up he'd lived in both Los Ange-les and San Francisco, and he'd picked up a fondness for cars and racing. He was a street racer, and-a drag racer, who lived to get his hands dirty. He'd always built his own motors. But he hadn't tried off road racing up to this time. The '78 500 was a good one for the Luna/Tiznado team: they won the class and infected Bill Rodriguez with the off road bug. When the Baja 1000 rolled around he was in the passenger seat, riding with Jesus. And the fol-lowing year he began driving, and has been teaming with his cousin ever since. They won the SCORE Class 11 champi-onship three times over the years, making history by be-ing the first Mexican Na-tional team to become Class Champions. They believe they still hold the record for the Class 11 time from-Ense-nad a to La Paz, at 26:29:05:90, recorded in 1982. To regress a bit, we need to go back to San Diego. While still in his late teens he met his future wife, Teresa (Terri), who also lived in San Diego. A mutual friend intro-duced them in '72, and, still in their teens they married in 1973. Terri's dad was a fan of the Baja races, but she had never traveled south with him to watch. Five years later, when Bill went to help that first time, Terri's brother went along to help also. And eventually Terri's dad and her brothers became part of Bill's pit and chase crew, going to . the races for many years to help. In the meantime Bill bought a curio shop in 1974 and he and Terri were im-mersed in running their busi-Dusty Times ness and family along with the racing. In August of 1977 the family moved to Tijuana, and now Terri found herself seri-ously practicing her Spanish. She'd never studied the lan-guage in school, but had picked up a fair amount from her many Spanish speaking friends over the years. Now, because she wanted to com-municate with Bill's family, she had to work at it, and she quickly became fluent, though she says that to this day she speaks her Spanish with an "accent." After the 1982 season, Bill and Jesus moved into Class 5-1600, and then up into 1/2-1600 for a while, and back to 5-1600s. They helped the leg-endary Mike Leon, from Mike's Sky Ranch, when he was racing his Isuzu, and even paired up to race the little truck in a 1000. Then in · about 1991 they began to race in Class 9 where they've been since. During the mid-80s, Leon had asked Bill for assistance in layi _; out and marking some of the SCORE courses. Even this became a family ef-fort and Terri remembers that at least once he took his mom along in his old VW pre-run-ner to help with the marking. From that time on he he°lpe-d with every Baja race, and af-ter Leon died in an auto ac-cident, he took on aP.. even larger share of the time con-suming course lay-out and marking effort. Nowadays Bill helps Sal Fish (SCORE's president) by interpreting, negotiating and finding new courses. He also works with the local ecology people, and with SCORE's lawyer, Oscar Ramos, in lay-ing out maps and arranging contracts. In the meantime, he'd be-come a father, and his daugh-ters, Tina (now 22) and Mary {now 15) were growing up as off road fans. In 1994 Tina had been graduated from high school but hadn't yet entered college. She had been helping with a myriad of chores al-ready, such as setting up ac-commodations for SCORE workers, arranging space for the radio room and as an in-terpreter, but now she volun-teered to help at the start line, run in those days with an iron hand by Roberta La Yelle and her husband, the late, be-loved "Charlie Tuna." From that time on Tina helped at every Mexican race. Then, at the Baja 1000 in 1995, which ran from Tijuana to La Paz, Roberta and Charlie an-nounced their imminent re-tirement. Sal, obviously about to be in need of an efficient start/finish line crew, asked Terri and Tina to become his new team. They took it on, bringing along a good friend of Tina's, named Tatum, who hasn't missed a race yet, and younger sister, Mary, to help as needed. Their first official event was the last Parker race, first event of the '97 sea-son, and they've been the start/finish crew at every SCORE event since. Bill hadn't exactly been standing around with his hands in his pockets in the meantime. He'd bought a fur-niture factory in 1992, while retaining the curio-store busi-ness. The factory, which manufactures high-end furni-ture, mostly for export to the United States, consumes -a lot of his time, and takes him up to the Los Angeles area as of-ten as three times a week. Terri says she occasionally goes along as a passenger just so he can drive in the car pool lanes to save a little time on the trip. As the furniture fac-tory grew, it became increas-ingly difficult to also run the cui'io• stores, so in '96 they sold it. Currently the Rodriguezes have 150 em-ployees at their plant, where they manufacture furniture of wrought iron, wood and alu-minum. In '97 Tina began dating Lobsam Yee, who also lived in Tijuana and whom she'd met over the course of her teen-age years. It was apparently coincidental that Yee and his brother, Elissandro (Eli), were also C°Jass 9 racers. By Fe.bru-ary of the following year they were '.'formally dating", and just after the Baja 500 this year they announced their en-gagement. The wedding was held on August 20th, so now the Rodriguez family has an-other race team in its midst. The Yee family is also in the furniture business, lo-cated in Rosarita, and Lob-sam works there. Eli has his own business. They're now racing in both Class 7, in a Ford Ranger, and in Class 1 in J imco. Eli and his co-driver, Perry McNeil, recently won a CORP race overall in the Class 1 car. Lobsam occa-sionally helps Bill by co-cl.riv-ing in the Class 9 car, most recently at the Primm 300, where they finished fourth af-ter some mechanical prob-lems. Bill, busy as he is with his business and several times a year jaunts through the wilds of Baja for SCORE, still works on his own car, building his own motors and doing much of the prep. Bill (who's also known as Memo, and/or Guillermo), and Jesus are run-ning second in the Class 9 points as they head into the final race of the season. Terri, Tina, Mary and Tatum are the ladies who start the day at dawn or ear-lier to see that the pre-race staging goes efficiently, with everyone getting to the green flag in the correct order, and on time. They also check arm-bands at the start and record who is actually in the car. They come back to the finish to direct traffic in the hectic post-race interview · November 1999 and contingency check area, check arm-bands again to record who did the final stretch of driving, and collect and count the check-point stubs for the races that use them. They are the nice people who give finishing drivers the coveted finisher-pirts, and they occasionally run for the medics when a sick or injured rider or driver shows up at the finish line. They also help non-bilingual media when they have ques-tions for the Mexican racers, and they direct racers through the finish line confu-sion to tech. Their team works' at the finish line until the last car comes in, which often means until the morn-ing of the next day. It wasn't easy to step into the job so admirably filled by the La Yelles for decades, but the Rodriguez family and their friends have developed the necessary skills and strengths. Their organiza~ tional talents have helped keep SCORE's pre-race labors moving smoothly, especially in Baja, and their race day ef-forts assure well-run and effi-cient start and finish lines Pony Express ... Dear Big Wahzoo I think you didn't get the whole story on the car awarded to Roland ·Berry by Snore. The car was not advertised as.turn key. It was adver-tised as a Bunderston 2-1600, Wiks Motor. vw Automotive Transaxel. B.F. Goodrich Tires, Loth-ringer Engineering Rear Arms. P.C.I. Radio. CNC, Fox Shocks. sway Away, Ump. Beard's super Seats. Howe Powersteering, Foderal Arms. K&N, KC. Steel Engineers. Imperial Iron. Discount Foreign car Parts. Nevada Off Road Buggy. McKenzies. T. cre-ations and Snore. These are the generous spon-sors and contributors that made it possible for Snore to present this car to Roland. Inciden-tally, Roland is a great guy and has been very understanding about the delay. Ah, the delay. Yes, we have to apologize to Roland for being late. Parts were late, people had other commit-ments, the usual gotcha's that get you when you're-working on a project this size. So, thanks to all these wonderful people and a great cham-pion, Snore. A club of off readers, were able to present $4,500.00 cash, all the Snore entry fees in 1999 paid and a $27,000.00 race car to our 1998 champion, who just happens to reside in California, but belongs to the family of off readers. The members of Snore are from nearly every state, and it was decided to go ahead and make the car turn key for Roland, as our way of apologizing for being late. We think we did the right thing and, remember, the best way to make a club better is to get involved. Fuel Sale~ "Pro C•II" is our top-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready lo ins/all and il's backed by a /u/110 year warran/y. Thanks, Kenny Freeman Fellow Off Reader • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety foam baffling • Cusfom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (BOO) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience for more Info call or write to: e Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 388-0203 (541 )388-0307 fax httptlwNw.fuelsafe.com Page 47

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FOR SALE: 2 Seater Truggy, 350 cid Chevy VS w/Aluminum heads, Leon Patten carb, approx. 380 hp,· built TH400, 20" travel f&r on Fox 2.5" coilover and bypass, 40 spline 9" Full Floater w/discs, full bodies, Mastercraft, Simpson, AutoMeter, Hella lights, CNC, Howe p/s, built by Stewart Race Works, New/never raced. This is an awesome race vehicle $35,000 fully prepped Baja Bro-kers Ref#726 (760) 723-2117. Check out .our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Sell Your Car, Pre-Runner, Parts or Bits & Pieces Right Here ... Dusty Times Has The Off Road Readership You're Looking For. Only $25 for up to 45 words plus $5 with photo. See Form Below!!! FOR SALE: Class 9 race car, fresh engine, new rebuild trans, FOX Loth-ringer shocks, Wright rack, Beard seat, Fuel Safe tank, Flame out sys-tem, Sway-A-Way, spares and trailer $5,500.00 or Best offer. (562) 439-4584. FOR SALE: 2-1600 Raceco, Fresh . motor, Pyramid trans, Fox Shox, Ump Power Steering, Pumper, 300m bars, Thing brakes, Lothringer rear arms, Fuel Safe. $11,000.00 or rent car for Southern California Races. (760) 947-6319. FOR SALE: 1998 MDR points champ. Best of the best, 300 miles of comp. Prep, FOX 2.5 w /position sen-sitive susp, Chromoly l" longer arms, , Type II c.v.s w/300m 930 axles, thing stub axles, SAW spring plates, SAW 29mm 300, bars, New SAW torsion adj., new top 4;86, JG Trans, 12.1 motor, new heads, pistons, cyls, and FAT carb, Boost bottle, new Compu-fire, DIS ION, UMP, Fuel Safe, Beards, J-Mar, VDO, Auto-meter, Susp. Chromoly beam, new Wright rack, Wright arms, & com-bos, New Chromoly tie rods & ends, Fox Big Shafts, Fox steering stab. SAW leafs, new 5/8 adjs, some spares, tum key ready to defend points title. $10,500.00 obo, (714) 255-9501, or 714 967-5098. 7S Ranger-ex Scott Douglas Rough Riders Ford Ranger, This Truck Is Very Professional And It Shows. Very Good History And Wonderful Race Record! Summers Bros. Front Hubs-And Floater Rear End, 4 Wheel Disc Brakes, Custom Shocks W /Remote Reservoirs, National Springs, C4 Trans, Winters Shifter, T.riple Coolers Wich Electric Fans, All Steel Braided Plumbing, Clark Steppler 2851cc 4 Cylinder, Crower Stroker Crank, Esslinger Head, Dual 48mm W ebers, Dual Msd Ignition, 32 Gallon Cell, Fiberglass Front Clif, Are Wheels/Bfg Bajas, Etc. $14,500 Baja Brokers #715 (760) 723-2117. Check Out Our Website At Www.ba·aconce ts.com. FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'x10 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toilet, sink, range, re-frigerator, leather, storage and A/ C 35'x 8 1/2" working and stor-age area wood and tile floor, 2 winches, 2 generator, 1 welder, 2 side doors outside lighting, rear gate, standing roof deck, 5 8' belly boxes, 8 new tires, excellent con-dition, $43,000 asking price or trade for exotic car. Call Fox Mo-tors orts 915 833-7902. FOR SALE: 1-2 1600 CORR S.C. Taylor Chromoly 930 CV"S, BFG, Beard, CNC, FAT, FOX, Fuel Safe, Wright, SwayA WAy, Simpson, St. Peter Trans with the Right gears, 8-real B-Loc Rims, all like new, low race hours plus extras $7,000.00 complete, $6,000.00 w/o motor, must sell (800) 878-6010days,Larry, (414) 259-1601 night. Toyota 7s-Pauter Machine 2.81 stro-ker motor, Toyota Auto trans by Ken Mogi, custom torque converter, Full Floater9" rear end, spool, discs, Sway-A-Way torsions, Henry's ball joints, alloy hubs, 2.5" shocks, National leafs, 33x 10.50 Baj as, complete with spares package $14,000 Baja Brokers Ref #720 (760) 723-2117Checkoutour · website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: PreRunner Ford 96' Body, Full roll cage, Four link rear, w Jarm, Full floating Dana 60, I-Beam front, Fox coilover front and rear. All suspension & steering on rod ends, 3 FOR SALE: Class 1-2 Chenowth, Porsche 3.5 rebuild by FAT Jeff Fields's Automatic w/930 CU's, All Kuster coil over w/bypass, CNC hubs and brakes, Fodrill arms and King spindles, PCI intercom, 3 2 gal. Fuel cell w/Mallory pumps, BFG all around, SACO Magnum Box w/ Charlyn Power steering, entire car has been powder coated, very fast and reliable car to many spares to list. Prepped by Fod Fab maintained by Fox Motorsports. Asking $31,500.00Call Fod Fab (602) 843-6406.=~~;_..~;;:;;=::;;; FOR SALE: Chase Truck: Become a critical part of any team! Get sent to the worst place on the whole race course(fon!). Tow out race cars and other chase trucks (more fun!.) Not a full-blown pre-runner. Go any-where Ford F-150, 4x4 stepside. 351 w/Manual 4-speed (yes, Peter Truscott, that means a "stick" -duh). Factory NC. Beard, Fuel Safe, De-troit Locker, Flowmasters, Mallory Elec. Ignition and distributor, 8 shocks, 4 Bilsteins, holds three spares, dual rear batteries, locking tool box and center console. 35" BFG on American type 23. 2 amps, pull out Sony deck, cross over, bridging mod-ule. Rough pickup ... Why beat up your SUV? No front bumper and will never pass Cal emissions due to mods. $4,000.00 OBO. Not for sale to Pe-ter Truscott or anyone who knows him. (805) 402-3495. FOR SALE: 1991 GMC Top kick, FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevy-Race link steering, 82" Track width, FORSALE: 1987ChevyPreRunner, 3116, 250 hp CAT Diesel, Allison ready, 625hp. Drysump smallblock, Cochane c-6, 6 Goodyears 36", Alu-12 point roll cage, 6 shocks front, 4 automatic,NC,60"sleeperwithfur- Kuster bypass 23" front, Kuster by-minumdashw/Autometer,ArtCarr, shocks rear, 40 gal fuel cell, nace, sink, 7000kw generator. 24ft pass 29" rear, air bump front and rear, Taylor, Casis painted, suspension MasterCraft seats, 4 wheel disc box with workbench and tire race. Dana 6-cone, 80 gallon fuel cell, all powder coated way more $27K you brakes, 9" rear end w/Detroit locker, $59,000.00. Call Art (412) 687-5093 chromoly, Tig welded, Best of ev-finish and save. Mark or Bob (619) · 4 speed auto with O.D., Smog legal STILL FOR SALE: 5-1600, 2 seat-New Engine-New trailer, Xtra Bus trans, six set xtra tires-many-many extra parts-Have pink slip, car ap-rroved by DMV, you can have it all $6,500.00-car ready to race, Contact oe Schnekenbur er 909 787-8549. FOR SALE: 2 seat Raceco with 3 motors. 2-Fat type Iv 3 lltre. 1 Kenny Major type N 2.2 litre. 48 and 44 Webers. 2 complete Haltech fuel in-jection systems.3 spd transaxle auto. Ultra, Howe, Mastercraft. Foddrill, Fox, Fuel Safe, Simpson, Setrab, Summers Brothers, CNC, UMP, Optima, 2 Fiberglass bodies. Every-thing is new or completely rebuilt. Ton of spares. Will sell as complete package or separate. All reasonable offers accepted. Call: (949) 498-9250 da or 949 498-4 708 ni ht. Class 10 or Class 1-Bunderson A-Arm car, Available complete with Type 4/Raceco Auto Transaxle or less just mtr/trans, or just motor, your choice! Summers Bros. Hubs and brakes, Bunderson coilovers and by-pass shocks, Fuel Safe, 930, Center-line. $28,000.00 Complete. Owner is very flexible, call for more details, Baja Brokers Ref #693 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Pgh, PA erything $55k (909) 845-8086. 561-3283. $7,250.00 OBO (909) 987-0500. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ FOR SALE: 1992 Fl50 4x4 ■ ■ Flareside, 3 51 Lightning (passed • Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in ■ '99 Calif smog) , street legal, DUSTY TIMES • E40D, A/C, CD, PS, P/W, PDL, : Concealed Cab cage, (8) Dbl. By-• ■ pass Bilsteins, Bump Stops, 8.8, Classified Advertising rate is only $25 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".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. Enclosed is $ __ _ (Send check or money order, no cash) Name ---------,--------------------------Address __________________ Phone ___________ _ City -----------~------State __ Zip ________ _ Please run ad times ---Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a ■ Page 54 November 1999 ■ 4.10 Auburn, 35" BFG's Center-■ lines, 32 gal Fuel, PIAAS, Simp-son, UMP, (2) Spare BFG's, Con-cealed Receiver hitch, 48,000 mi. $22,000.00 (805) 484-2508 leave message. FOR SALE: 3 Bus Race Short Course Trannys, 7S Ford Ranger, . Ford Ranger front-end parts, Aluminum wheels, 5 Link Sta-dium Buggy, Wright Combo's, Rack, Arms, UMP PS, Bus SC Race Tranny (fresh), 930's, Cen-terlines, rear with beadlocks, BFG's, Rabbit Race Motor, Chas-sis excellent condition, plus new spare chassis all for $12,900.00 Steve Sallenbach. Ho(402) 625-2802, Wk(402) 443-4117. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 7S Ford Ranger, 2.9 li-·ter, Kuster 3" shocks, 9" rearend, 12" front and 18" rear travel,· Fuel Safe cell, 11" disc brakes, Lee steering with cyl, Only raced four times since built and won three times, beautiful truck, must see, must sell cheap $12,000.00 (408) 778-1980. FOR SALE: 1986 GMC Top Kick, 1991 22ft motor home conversion with 32C'8, 250hp CAT diesel, 100,000 miles, NC 7000kw genera-tor, and custom interior, ALSO 30ft FRP Tag trailer with cabinets, work-benches, tire race and toolboxes. $89,950.00. Call Art (412) 687-5093 Pgh,PA. BRONCO 4WD-AutoFab suspen-sion front and rear, 16" travel, Na-tional Springs, 2 link rear, 9" w/posi, 4.11, Freshly rebuilt 351 Wand C6 trans, 4 Beard seats w /3" Harnesses, full interior cage, trick aluminum dash/center console, has only 13,000 miles on it since rebuilt in 8/97, VERY CLEAN! $19,500.00 Baja Brokers Ref #730 (760) 723-2117 .Check out our website at www.ba·aconce FOR SALE: Stadium Lite, Triple E, Fox shocks, Fuel Cell, Goodyear tires, Power steering 500cc + 4 25cc motors, 2 years Pace Champion, 98 Core Winter series winner $8,500.00 (520)667-2194. FOR SALE: Ford Short Course Class 8/CORR Pro 2, Brand new Fab by Troy Johnson, Fox Coilovers, Air Bumps, Champion Beadlocks, Howe Power Steering with Ram Asst, Boatec Body, Need motor and race J?rep. Trailer included, many extras. $18,500.00 obo (805) 494-4907. CHEVY PRO TRUCK-Chevy body, Ron Shaver v8, Bilstein 60mm dual -rate coilovers and 60mm Bypass, Fox airbumps, Chrisman rear end, MSD, BFG 35" Bajas, Great class for beginners or veterans, Very competitive! Can be adapted to either Ford or Dodge. Baja Brokers Ref #722 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 5-1600 or Sportsman desert, has finished every race, new rearend, trailing arms, axles bushings, newly rebuilt front end, 2 races on motor and trans, ready to race, spare trans, tires, wheels, & parts, $5,000.00 (702) 656-2675. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Aceco Fully prepped ready to race. Tig Welded. Wright front arms, com-bos, Suspension Unlimited rear arms. Fox, Saco, JG Trans, 300m Bars, axles link pins, Charlyn, Car has 6 races total. Immaculate con-dition, new Powder Coat, Heim shifter and rod ends. Fuel Safe, Jamar, SeeTrap cooler with fan. (714) 632-1240. FOR SALE: Custom Built 1987 Tube Chassis Blazer 4x4 502 Chevy, Art Carr Trans, 3.73 12 bolt posi, Doetsch Tech Suspen-sion, Aluminum Dash, A/C, ste-reo, Fuel, Oil & Trans Coolers, 33" Bridgestone, 4 Wheel disc brakes, Street legal, Very low miles, $18,500.00. Sonoma, CA, more details Call John (707) 935-7693. FOR SALE: CORR lite buggy, 1999 Class Champion, won Crandon World Championship Race, Fox, Beard, FAT, BFGoodrich, Fast, reliable, spares, $3,500.00 obo. ALSO CORR Single buggy 1999, 2nd overall, won Crandon World Championship race, Taylor Chromoly frame, FOX, Beard, FAT, BFGoodrich, Bead locks, spares, $5,500.00 obo. Trades ? Gary Behrens (608) 788-6141. !SNORE RACE RUTS\ WELL AS ALL OF YOU KNOW BY NOW RY AN SCHANK & ROLAND BERRY PICKED UP THERE 1999 2-1600 BUNDERSON. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL $25000.00 CAR. NEXT TIME SOME ONE CRY'S AND TELLS YOU THAT SNORE IS NO GOOD ASK THEM WHO ELSE IN OFF ROAD RACING EVER HAS GIVEN THE CHAMPION OF THE SERIES SO MUCH!! THEN TELL THEM THAT SNORE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT LIKE RACING AND VOLUNTEER ALL 11-IBRE TIME . THERE IS NOBODY MAKING $100000.00 A YEAR THERE IS NOBODY MAKING A DIME .SO IF YOU LIKE RACING AND WANT TO HELP COME TO A MEM-BERSHIP MEETING 2ND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AND TELL THE OFFICERS WE LISTEN . AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO CHANGE SOMETIIlNG RUN FOR ONE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS . THE 30TII ANNUAL GOLD COAST/ SNORE 250 WAS A BIG SUCCESS WITII SOME TIGHT RACING. THANK ALL THE HELPERS DAN AT CHECK 1 DENNIS WESSELDINE AT CHECK 2 IBFF'S CREW AT CHECK 3 MIKE LARSON AT CHECK 4 TOM STRUGES CHECK 5 AND AL FOR RADIO RELAY THANK YOU ALL . NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DONATED PARTS TO THE.CAR THAT RY AN SCHANK WON. AND DO NOT FORGET THAT THIS YEAR IT IS A 1-1600 TIIAT WE GIVE AWAY WITII A IBFF FIELDS TRANSMISSION AND B. F. GOODRICH TIRES. IT IS A NICE CAR AND WILL BE AT THE RESERVE TECH LINE .PLEASE MAKE TIME TO THANK ALL THE DONORS ON THESE 2 CARS TIIAT SNORE HAS OR WILL BE AWARDING JUST PICK UP THE PHONE AND SAY THANKS . THE GOVERNMENT IS AT IT AGAIN THEY ARE PROPOSING MORE WILDERNESS AND CLOSING OFF ROADS SOME THAT WE RACE ONT AKE 5 MINUETS AND WRITE THEM A LETTER TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK IT DOSE HELP SEE YOU A THE SNORE MEET-INGS THERE WILL BE RACE VIDEOS SNORE 2000 RACE DATES AVI 250 LAUGHLIN NV. BUFFALO BILLS 400 PRIMM NV. KC BILITES MIDNIGHT SPECIAL TBA. SNOREINTBETREES TBA GOLD COAST/SNORE 250 LV NV RESERVE 250 BOULDER CITY NV Dusty Times November 1999 FEB.25-27 APRIL 14-16 JUNE 9-11 JULY28-29 SEPT.22-24 NOV.10-12 TOP-OF-THE-LINE-New! Unfin-ished needs motor, CV's/Axles, Electrical, Paint and final assembly. Built by Penhall/Campbell, 4130, Fox Beard, Susp. Unltd. Beam and rr arms, Fuel Cell, SAW, FodFab spindles, Very Clean car, Beautiful fab work front to rear, Yokohamas on Centerlines .. $10,000.00 Baja Brokers Ref #7 31 (760) 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES HELP WANTED: Jimco is looking for dedicated people to join their win-ning tradition. Positions open for welders, fabricators, assembly & prep personal. Call Mike @ (619) 562-1743 or send resume to Jimco Rac-ing Products@ 10965 Harley Rd, Ste R, Santee, CA 92071. l PARTS/ SUPPLIES \ ' . FOR SALE: Two Way Radio with SCAN Multi-Channel Memory-Su-perior perfonnance-Aluminum chas-sis-55 watts-sensitive reception-no fade-2 color display-multi-function mike-too many features to list-Why spend over twice as much $319.00. For more info call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. FOR SALE: Gear Boxes, (2) 002 with 4:86 R&P (1) 002 with 4:57 R&P. Race quality with the best parts available, FTC and WP gears, Moly Super Diffs, etc. Also lots of spare parts, gears, R&P's, cases and (2) complete stock Boxes. (1) 091 & (1) 75 002 with 4:86. Package Price $6,500.00. Call Joe (908) 874-5795. WANTED . Wanted; Class l0or 12, 2 seater. VW or Toyota, Bus Box or Auto. Must be clean, dependab1e, complete, desert ready, with serious suspension, brakes, and steering. Extras a plus willing to pay $12,000.oo CASH plus or minus for right car. (909) 927-7515 leave message. AD INDEX Baker Performance Products .......... 211 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ................................ B Best In The Desert -Terrible's Town ........................... 17 Nevada 2000 ............................... 27 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................ 5 Cactus Racing ...................................... 38 Camburg Engineering ........................ 42 Converter Shop .................................. 40 Eibach Springs ................................... 32 Fabtech Motorsports ........................... 2 F.A.I.R ................................................. 11 FAT Performance .............................. 39 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 9 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 47 German Auto ...................................... 29 Hettinga Creations Racing ............... 46 Kartek Off Road ........................... 22, 44 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 41 King Shock Tech ................................ 33 McKenzie Performance Products .... 13 M.O.R.E ............................................... 34 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 37 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 45 Patton Racing Engines ..................... 15 PCI Race Radios and Equipment... ...... 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 20 Race Ready Products ........................ 46 SNORE Reserve .................................. 21 SNORE Giveaway Buggy .................. 25 Ed Stewart ......................................... 46 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Toyota Motorsports ........... Back Cover Trans axle Engineering ...................... 23 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 36 Valley Performance ........................... 24 Whiplash Motorsports ...................... 31 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 43 Page 55 --

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