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Volume 16 -Number 3 March 1999 . DllliYlilDIBG Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Daryl "No Brakes" Drake Homer Eubanks , Martin Holmes Ralph Mason Daniel Mainzer Jimmy Messick Ron Miller Troy Robinson Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Trackside Photo Les Wolfe Art Director Larry Worsham .._. ----· Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. 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FEATURES °"-SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge by Judy Smith ....................................... 8 Australian Off Road Championship by Darryl Smith ................................. 16 · ' 67th Monte Carlo Rally by Martin Holmes ...... ........................................... 18 ~ FRT Dunaway Dash by Judy Smith .............................................................. 22 Tecate Hare Scrambles by Ed Trudersheim ............ ..................................... 26 ~ Baja 1000 Chase by Homer Eubanks _-·························································· 28 Superpit Wrap Up by Mike Shatynski ...... .................................................... 31 SNORE Year End Awards ................................................................. : ......... 32 Pace Motorsports at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix ................................ 39 DEPARTMENTS ~;~f~~;;ss.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. ! Checkers by the Big Wahzoo ...................................... ; ................................... 34 CRS Report by Sue Robinson ......................................................................... 34 F.A.I.R. News by Joy Bancroft ...................................................................... 35 Off Road Scramble by PC ............................................................................. 35 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker ........................................................... 36 Mag 7 News by Stephen Stenberg ..................... ............................................. 37 Good Stuff Directory ..................................................................................... 40 Classified Ads ................................................................................................ 45 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 47 On The Cover Troy Herbst took the Class 1 win on Saturday by 54 seconds, started last on Sunday and took third on Sunday fighting a flat tire, but he was the overall winner for the class. Chris Harrold took his good looking Honda Acura powered Jimco to a nice win on Saturday, took second on Sunday after playing catchup all race long and was the Class 10 winner for the weekend. Color photography by Tracksi'de Photo c5ubscri£e <Joda_y lo DUSTY ·TIMES. 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1999 Hai,penings ... (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards (61637/7 0034) _ CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Fiesta de! Sol, Mexicali, BC, MX December 3-5, 1999 Carrera de Campeones Mexicali to San Felipe BC, Mex ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Caho Baja California de! Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars ·only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1 T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net April 16-18, 1999 Tonopah 300 Tonopah, NY May 14-16, 1999 Nevada "200" trail Ride Motorcycles Only -By Invitation Call For Information ' June 25-27, 1999 silver State 300 September 30-October 3, 1999 Vegas To Reno 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 May 15, 1999 Wendover Express Wendover, USA July 10, 1999 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV September 18 1999 Boneville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinson 845 School House Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: windfall@access1.net Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 February 27, 1999 SuperStage Event (ARSG) Laughlin, NY March 12-13, 1999 SCCA ClubRally (Div) Runoffs Doo Wops III/IV Olympia, WA March 19-20, 1999 Rally School - Rally Cross Ridgecrest, CA April 30-May 1, 1999 Rim Of The World (2,3) Palmdale, CA -June 26, 1999 Rally Sprint (NASA) Carlsbad, Ca Summer 1999 (TBA) Reno Rally (3) Reno, NY August 21, 1999 Gorman Ridge (3) Gorman, Ca . September 1999 (TBA) Ensenada Rally Ensenada, BC, MX September 25, 1999 · SuperStage Event (ARSG) Laughlin, NY October 1-2, 1999 Prescott Forest (2, 3) Dusty Times Pres_cott, AZ November 13, 1999 Treeline (3) Monrovia, CA December 1999 (TBA) Ramada Express (2, 1, 3) Laughlin, NY CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW May 28-31, 1999 Memorial Day Pro Car Show National Orange Showgrounds San Bernardino, CA CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON Bl-JACKERS l.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Hamson 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 San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholcz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.O Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax May 7-9, 1999 San Felipe, BC, MX July 3-5, 1999 Laguna Salada, Mexicali, BC, MX August 20-22, 1999 Santa Veronica, BC, MX October 8-10, 1999 CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 Short Course Racing May 29-30, 1999 Lake Geneva, WI June 11-13, 1999 Antigo, WI June 25-27, 1999 Crandon, WI July 16-18, 1999 Joliet, IL August 5-8, 1999 Bark River, MI September 3-5, 1999 Crandon, WI September 24-26, 1999 Indianapolis, IN October 6-8, 1999 Stafford, CT October 29-30, 1999 Las Vegas, NY Cir A Winning Tradition In Off-Road Racin For over 26 years, more off-road races have been won on Bi/stein than any other shock absorbers. Stil_l Leading The .Way! Conventional Bilstein Gas Pressure Shock Absorber • The most successful shock in off-road racing history! Threaded Body Shocks • Adjustable ride height for coilover fitments. • Aircraft quality anodized aluminum spring seats. Fully Rebuildable Series • Reservoir design with high pressure large diameter lines. • Seamless forged tubing. • Large 46mm working piston using Powder Metal technology. March 1999 The Ultimate Off-Road Racing Shock ·9100 Series • Fully Rebuildable. • 22mm rod and 60mm reservoir included. • Highest quality "SS" tube. • Three stage "Wet Seal" rod guide. • 46mm and 60mm working pistons using Powder Metal Technology. • Optional high flow, check-valved bypass tubes: Pages

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CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Exe 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingho.m, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ. 86403 (520) $55-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059. February 19-20, 1999 Lucerne Valley, Ca April 23-24, 1999 Ridgecrest, CA October 1-2, 1999 Barstow, CA ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 01 i-526-176-6225 April 23-25, 1999 Baja International Short Course Race .October 15-17, 1999 · Baja 1.5 Mile Shore Course Race F AB TECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact": BBM Marketi11g Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Associaton 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 February 20, 1999 King of the Desert March 6, 1999 Imperial Valley Fairgrounds March 14, 1999 March Madness T earn Race April 4, 1999 The Kamakazi Gran Prix April 18, 1999 Imperial Valley Fairgrounds April 24, 1999 The FUD 200 May 15-16, 1999 24 Hour endurance June 26, 1999 The Con;quisca Gran Prix July 31, 1999 The Nice T earn Race August 23, 1999 The Sweethearts Kiss September 13, 1999 The Cacti Gran Prix October 10, 1999 The Mudhen Sprint October 23; 1999 The Superstition 250 October 31, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds November 21, 1999 Notorious DawgTeam 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 Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 Page & GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koescers 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOI<; FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All events staged 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 May 16, 1999 7th Annual Spring California Truck Jamboree Hidden Valley Park, Irvine, CA August 15, 1999 13th Annual California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds, · Cosca Mesa, CA 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 LI.T.R.E. . Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS 3749 Needmore Hwy Charlotte, Ml 48813 (517) 543-7214 MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (5 I 7) 62 7-6200 August 1, 1999 Ingham County Fairgrounds Mason, MI · 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 March 12-13, 1999 Doo Wop Washington April 9-10, 1999 Wild West Washington April 30-May 1, 1999 Rim of the World California June 4-5, 1999 Susquehannock Trail Pennsylvania July 30-31, 1999 Maine Forest Maine August 27-28, 1999 Ojibwe Forests Minnesota October 1-2, 1999 Prescott Forests Arizona October 22-23, 1999 Lake Superior Michigan MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Press: Dirty Dave Cronin (314) 838-4215 VP: Walter Flack (417) 987-6568 LTOR-Lincoln Trail OffRoaders Pres: Dean Conkling (217) 830-4215 V.P.: Brad Key (217) "446-4556 Steve Sabo (618) 327-9312 · (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 arkway Drive S. El Monce, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com April 10, 1999 Lucerne, CA June 19, 1999 Lucerne, CA August 7, 1999 Barstow, CA October 2, 1999 Lucerne,CA 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 March 6, 1999 Johnson Valley May 1, 1999 Stoddard Valley June 12, 1999 Johnson Valley August 21, 1999 Stoddard Valley 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 ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsporcs 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 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-IO Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Hamson County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION ,Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 630-556-6100 February 27, 1999 UTEP Sun Bowl El Paso, TX March 6, 1999 Texas Stadium Dallas, TX March 13, 1999 Silverdone Pontiac, MI March 20, 1999 BC Place Vancouer, BC, Can March 27, 1999 Kingdome Seattle, WA PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. king P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/FAX: (818) 225-8102 March 19-21, 1999 Tecace/SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felipe, Baja California Continued on page 38 March 1999 Trail Notes ... A ILING -le has come to our attention that Pam Haliburda, wife of Tom .l"l..Haliburda is ailing and is confined to bed. Pam's birthday is February 28 and it would be nice if some of our readers would take the time to give Pam a call and do a bit of cheering up. Thanks for your help and kind thoughts in advance. 714-530-8807. CORP POINTS CHAMPS -CORP finished their six race series for 1998, having an average entry of 96 cars, a very good year for the club and the racers. In the Pro Divisions, the year end class winners were: Class 1, R.S. Del Prado, in Class 10 Arturo Honold and Luis Barragan shared the win with identical points, in class 1/2-1600 Tom Watson was the big winner, in Class 8 it was Gustavo Coronado taking the win, in Class 5 it was Arturo Lizarraga, Rick St. John eked out the win in 5-1600, A.dam Pfankuch won Class 9, Perry McNeil took Class 7, Fernando Real won Class 7S and Marcos Nunez was the Class n winner. In the Sportsman Classes, Phred Espinoza took Class 10, Sonia Fierro was the 1/2-1600 winners Class 8 went to John Murillo, Michelle Gastelum took Class 5, Jorge Franco was the 5-1600 winner, Ben Dietierich won Class 9, Francisco Romo was the 7S champ, Luis Moctezuma took Class 1 :ind in the Safari Class it was Lorenzo Dojaquez taking the gold medal. Congrats to all the winners and to all the competitors too! · ' CRS CHANGES -Donna Mitchell has stepped down as CRS Director after serving nobly for the last few years. Donna is being replaced by Sue Robinson who now assumes the robe of office as CRS Director. Sue can be contacted at 760-788-3809 or E-Mail at WINDFALL@ACCESSl.NET. We wish Sue all the best in her new position. Also, the new Press Liasion Officer for CRS is Lynette Allison and we certainly welcome her aboard as well. "C'RT IMPERIAL VALLEY FAIRGROUNDS - we goofed last issue by not including J.' the following results from Fud's just before Christmas short course race at the fairgrounds in Imperial. Pro 250 and Pro 125 were won by Andy Harrington, Yamaha, Pro Yee by Jim Willman, Yamaha, Manuel Romeno won Pro A TV on a Honda 250, Andy Estrada Jr. took the 50cc Mini Bike Class, Derek Hatfield took 60cc in Mini, Justin Noble won 80cc Mini, Dustin Murphy was the 125 Sportsman winner, Todd Barnhill w<)s the 250cc Sportsman Vet winner, Steve Hall was the 250cc and up Sportsman winner. Andy Estrada was the Desert Cars winner, John Gaddis took 5-1600 and Chris Bostic was the Superlite winner. ~ ,fICHELIN SCCA PRO RALLY SERIES -Wind River Group, Inc., under 1Vlthe l_eadership of Ed Jacobs has assumed the duties of Official Public Relations Liaison for the series in 1999. The Michelin backed Pro Rally Series is probably the most challenging: one car at a time, against the clock over closed mountain, desert and forest roads and the spectating is fabulous. The nine rally series runs from February to October in seven different states. Look into it, you'll probably enjoy it. Welcome aboard, Wind River Group. OFF ROAD POKER RUN-April is fast approaching and on April 24 and 25, 1999 the Hi-Desert Charities is once again holding their poker run, the proceeds of which go to the Barstow charities. There are two 25 mile loops, one for cars, the other for motorcycles and A TV's. Sign up and go from 8am each day. $20 entry fee gets you two loops on the course. All off road vehicles welcome. California vehicles MUST have a green sticker and an approved spark arrestor if not equipped with a muffler. Get out there and have some fun while you're helping someone else. For more info call 760-252-1197. ll A VASU CLASSIC -if you have a love for power boats you should get to J. lLake Havasu on February 26-28 for the Havasu Classic Powerboat Race, produced by Desert Steel Motorsports. All classes are competing, most racing both days. For more info call 520-855-6125 or E-Mail www.desertsteel.com. T.71W ANIS -The Kiwanis Club of Santa Susana needs your help to produce 1'their "Build A Mile" program, the proceeds of which help provide some vital services in Ventura County. The event takes place on April 24th and they are in dire need of sponsors for T-shirts, printing, etc. If you can help or want to participate in the event, please call Shirley Scott at 805-583-03 77. T TNION - Bell Motorsports and Pyrotect announced their marriage on January U 28, 1999. The companies will now share manufacturing facilities in Sun Valley, CA. For further information call 1-800-669-BELL. "VINAL FLAG -It is with deep sorrow that we record the pas.sing of Ed J.' McCormick, SNORE Vice President and one of the best. Ed was always there when you needed comfort or support and was a wonderful individual. Our deepest sympathy to Ed's wife, L.J. and to the family. Ed will~ sorely missed by all ofus. Say hi to Jean. CHECKERS 25TH -Saturday evening, a night that will live in many memories was the gathering of the faithful and the not-so-faithful at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino co celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Checkers Off road Racing Team. A capacity crowd gathered in the main ballroom for drinks, dinner and speeches along with the installation of new officers, awards of all kinds and guest speakers such as Sal Fish, Judy Smith and Ivan Stewart. There was a slide show compliments ofTrackside Photo and all in all the evening was a great success. We were honored to be invited by the heckers and certainly had a wonderful time. We hope the Checkers have 25 more anniversaries and we hope we will be invited to their 50th in 2024. Thanks, guys. SNORE AVI 250 -The SNORE Avi 250 was held on Saturday, February 6 and a great time was had by all. 72 cars took the green flag and, do you believe it, just like the old days, there were 24 cars in Class 9 alone! The Class winners were as follows: In Class 1 it was Brian Collins and Billy Goerke taking the win, Jeremy Gubler took the class 10 win, Jeff Carr took the 1-2/1600 gold medal, Dwaine and Rob Walters were the class 9 winners, beating out a huge field and Mike Powada and Greg Price cook the 5-1600 honors and in Sportsman Buggy it was Jason Gubler taking the win and in Sportsman Truck Mark Petit and Bob Ryan took another race to the bank. It was a great course on a great day and you can read all the details in the April issue of Dusty Times. T AUGHLIN -Just for the record, Jimmy Messick won Class 9 on Saturday at .L.-the SCORE Laughlin Desert classic and his father also won on Saturday, driving for Joel Stankavich. Warren Messick took Class 7S at the same race on the same day and it was also Warren's birthday. So, is that another first for off road racing or what? Dusty Times

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I I I I I I I I I I , I SCORE LAUGHLIN DESERT CHALLENGE By Judy Smith Herbsts Start Year With Twin Wins Photos: Trackside Photo He couldn't finish on Saturday, but Miguel Tomei won Sunday's heat with a trouble-free run. · through the jumps and turns that made up that section. But on Saturday things got re-ally busy. The schedule called for six races each day, and they started just at daylight and had to run right on time to assure that the final event would finish be-fore it went dark. Each race had a time limit of one hour and 25 minutes, and depending on their estimated speeds, the classes ran more or less laps. Classes Trophy Truck, 1, Protruck, 8, 10, SCORE Lite and 5 all did five laps, while 7, 7S, Stock Full, 5-Jeff Lewis, in the new MacPherson Chevy Class 7 truck, got the win both days on the dusty course. 1600, 9 and 1/2-1600 were re-quired to run only four. Then With a dazzling display of driv-ing skill and a stroke of good luck thrown in the Herbst brothers, Ed, Tim and Troy, drove their Mike Smith built Ford powered Truggies to double victories in SCORE's season opener in Janu-ary. The race has expanded into a four day event, starting out on Thursday evening with the Pit Crew contest and the exciting Laughlin Leap - a long jump on wheels. An amazing number of fans showed up to watch as Dale Ebberts' pit crew showed how it was done. His crew performed the stop and go exercise, which required each team to jack up the vehicle and then change four tires, in 49 seconds, to win the $3,000 purse. The payback was ten deep in the Open Wheel Di-vision, and went back seven places in the truck division, which was won by Brian Collins' team, the White Lightning boys. The odds were evened up a bit by assessing a penalty if a vehicle had knock-offs, and by requiring every team to use a standard jack (no two pump high tech jacks al-Sharing the driving, Jimmy Hook.and Jimmy Messick teamed to win both days in their Class 9 M&T chassis. -lowed). Classes 3, Stock Mini and Sports-The Laughlin Leap, which had man did three laps, while the a Big Truck division, a Small Class 11 Sedans ran only two. Truck division and an Open The laps were 13 miles in length. Wheel division, offered a $1,000 For the most part the schedule purse to the winner in each cat-worked well. If the competitors egory. Larry Roeseler, driving the stayed mechanically sound they Mac Pherson Chevy Trophy could run in the 85 minute win-Truck, flew an awesome 140 feet do~. In some cases there was pre-and four inches to win the Big cious little left over time for de-T ruck money. He bested last tails like flat tires or broken year's 118 foot jump by 22 feet! shocks, but in those cases it af-JeffLewis, in MacPherson's Class fected all in the class, so the play-7 Chevy, was the Small Truck ing field was even. winner, at 99 feet and three The first race of the day was a inches, while Troy Herbst, in his combined event for Classes 5-Truggy, took the win in the Open 1600, 9 and 11 and they were Wheel division, at 129 feet and staged iri the dark and ready to two inches. The audience loves take the green flag just at sun-the leap, and during the race the rise, 6:30 a.m. They went off the same jump is left in place to be-line one every 30 seconds. come a part of the infield course. It wasn't long before they were Thus the audience got to watch back around, and Eric Deen, some mighty fine examples of the who'd been worried about being Leap on race day, some of which cold, was now plenty warm, and surely surpassed the Thursday out in front, enjoying a dust free night distances. . race. And with Gerardo lribe and , On Friday the all day contin-Mario Ledezma right on his gency row was a busy place as bumper (on corrected time) he race teams wound their way had to keep pushing hard. through the vendor displays. On the second lap, as he came There was also course reconnais-into pit row, Deen tipped his car sance going on, and since the over, putting a massive dent in contingency area was adjacent to his door, but had plenty of help the infield short course area, it. to get back on his wheels. was often entertaining to watch . Ledezma's front suspension was the race vehicles work their way going away and the course was Brian Collins drove on Saturday and Dale White on Sunday, to give the White Troy Herbst's Truggy displays all its wheel travel as it flies off one of the jumps in the Lightning team the Class 8 win at Laughlin. _in_fi_el_d_. _H_e_~_a_s_C_l_a_ss_ 1_w,_·n_n_e_r. _______________ _ _ Page 8 March 1999 plenty rough for these limited classes. Deen kept his act together and stayed in front to take the win, finishing the .four laps a minute and 12 seconds to the good. lribe was second, with Le-dezma third just 30 seconds later. They raced a total of 52 miles, and Deen's average speed was 43:565 miles per hour. On Sunday, although they started at the same time of day, it was a very different race. For one thing, the finish order from Saturday was inverted and be-came the start order for Sunday. That put Jim McKay, who'd com-pleted only one lap Saturday, at the front of the pack, and Deen was in the rear. The course, af-ter a full day of racing, was much rougher, and there was no breeze. This meant that the dust hung over the trail like fog making it incredibly difficult to see in some areas. The battle between the Iribe team and Deen didn't last long. Carlos, Gerardo's dad, had taken over, and he led by a bit at the end of the first lap, but then Deen broke a transmission mount and had to soft pedal it the rest of the way. lribe, who'd "richened" up his carburetor for Sunday, found it hard to pass his competitors, but managed to work his way up to third on the road. He took Sunday's win, fol-lowed in by Dave Gasper, and Victor Orellana who finished on a left rear flat. D~en was fourth. SCORE used a points system to determine the weekend win-ners of this event. Every starter got start points, and if-he fin-ished, finish points, each day. In addition each position paid off in points according to how many were in the class. So ... for this event, for example: lribe got five points for starting, five for finish-ing on each day (10 each day), 13 for second place on Saturday and 19 for first place on Sunday. That adds up to a grand total 9f 52 points. Deen got the 20 start/ finish points also, and 19 for his first place on Saturday, but only six points for his fourth on Sun-day, which gave him a total of 45 points, and second place. In the event of a tie, if, as happened, a pair of racers took turns winning and placing second, the one with the fastest lap would be given the. win. It seemed a fair system. The only drawback being in the amount of time it took SCORE officials to calculate and add-up, and then double check the points totals while finishers fidgeted waiting to know their position. In the limited classes it was also hard to know who needed to go Dusty Times

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to post race tech, sci the tech folks did some waiting also. In Class 9, which started right behind the 5-1600s, the race be-longed to Jimmy Messick in his M&T Racing chassis. But he had Rick Poole charging hard behind him in his Jimco. The local team, Joseph Sheble and Craig Chircop, from just across the river in Bullhead City, didn't manage to get their first lap fin-ished, and Forest Creasy, from way up in Sacramento, did only two laps in his Suspensions Un-limited car. But Messick and Poole moved along smartly, with Daniel Mora, all the way up from Baja, running third in his Chenowth. At the end of their four laps Messick had the win by just 30 seconds, and an average speed of 41 : 288 mph. Poole was second and Mora The father/son team of Carlos and Gerardo lribe had a second and a first in the 511600 class, which gave them the weekend win. third. but there were only four of them, On Sunday, they started be-and Creasy was back to give it hind the 5-1600s as on Saturday, another try, starting at the front ,,,..,,.__,_.,,...,.,. ____ __,,,.._...,.,,.,.,...--,,-,,---------------------'-i of this pack. This time he made &#' only one lap, while Messick and Poole continued their duel. At the end of their first lap Messick was first on the road, but Poole wasn't far behind him. Messick repeated Saturday's victory, with Poole in second and Mora, with only three laps done, in third. Messick, with two wins, was the weekend winner for the class. Also required to run three laps, the Sportsman buggies ran with this group, and three of them started on Saturday. Doug MacArthur, a first time racer, moved to the front in his Raceco on the first lap, and stayed there. Walter Prince, who shared driv-ing this day with Doug Browne, Darren Skilton says it's almost impossible to break his Kia. He won the Class 3 followed in the Candy Cane heat both days, to take the Laughlin win. Raceco, which wasn't shifting Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 Dusty Times Tropicana Ave. & Arville 800-675-3267 March 1999 Joel Stankavich and Warren Messick got a third and a first in their 7S Ford, and that gave them the win for the weekend. properly, or running well. And brothers Mat~ . and Greg Blakeman, who each drive one day, followed in third. Their Sat-urday was less than perfect. A rear wheel fell off. At the end of the third lap the exultant MacArthur, who is a past bull rider,, took the win. He said racing off road. was "real close ( to bull riding), but not quite as painful on the body." The same three came back out for Sunday's race, and this time the Blakemans kept their wheels on the car and took the win by about a minute and 40 seconds, with MacArthur second and Marg Princl; in third place. Prince had a nonworking rear yellow light just before the start, and was very grateful that the Blakeman's pit crew fixed it for him so he could start, albeit a few moments late. When the points were applied, the weekend win went to MacArthur. Everyone in the group declared they'd had a blast. Class 11 had four entries, and this early morning start was a shock to their systems. They're used to having time for breakfast before starting at the end of the pack. Required to do only two laps, they had a mere 26 miles in which to win or lose. Eric Solor-zano had his '74 VW·out in front all the way. Mark McKinley ran second and Chris W ood~ard ran third, about three minutes back. Solorzano took the win, with McKinley only 24 seconds back, commenting that the dust was pretty bad. Woodward was third, still a couple of minutes off the pace. On Sunday, with the start or-der reversed, Woodward's luck Continued on page 10 West Flamingo & Valley View 888-402-6278 Page9

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George Seeley had two second-place finishes in Class 5, one by just 3 seconds, to earn the weekend win. Eric Deen, driving into the rising sun, took the 5-1600 win on Saturday, but a trans mount broke Sunday and he was fourth. Dale Ebberts had fast lap for his class both days, got one win and despite fuel pump trouble, was third for the weekend. ran out and he completed only one lap. Solorzano thought his luck ran out also, as his throttle cable pulled out twice and he had to get out of the car and reattach it each time. This time McKin: ley got the win by almost exactly a minute, and Solorzano took second place. When they added up the points, it was a tie. Using their "fast time" tie breaker, So-lorzano was awarded the win for the weekend. As the winners from the first group were accepting congratu-lations and taking their bows, the racers for the second group were lined up and goosing their throttle pedals. This was the big-gest bunch to go out on the track at one time, with a total of 39 starters in the combined classes, 10, SCORE Lite and 5. They would start one every 30 seconds, which meant that as the last few SCORE Lites and the 5s took the green flag, the front 10 cars were already completing their first lap. SCORE had a nice two lane start area, with ample room for merg-ing, but the racers stjll didn't like it much. In Class 10, which was as al-ways, loaded with talent, Danny Anderson's new Jimco looked like a threat, as did Chris Harrold's Honda Acura powered Jimco. But there were several and dusty", and it was hard to spoilers lurking in the dust. At pass. Penner finished second, the end of the first lap, a bunch, with Anderson in third place. including John Penner in his Kyle Whitted, in a Jimco, was Chenowth Millennium, Ander-fourth, with Lugo in fifth. One son, Harrold, Dave Sundquist in minute and 56 seconds separated the Baja l000winningJimco, and the five cars after their five lap, dark horse Wayne Lugo in Rod 65 mile race. Harrold's average Muller's oldJimco (another Baja speed was 54:216 mph, and his 1000 winner) were within about lap times averaged 14.31 min-40 seconds of each other at the utes. front of the pack. Sunday was way different. Not The second lap looked pretty only was their start order re-much the same, but there were a versed, but because there had few missing, among then, Miguel been some dissatisfaction with Tornel, whose power steering Saturday's overlap of start times, had gone away. Brady Helm, in a SCORE decided to close things Toyota Lothringer, was having up and started them just 15 sec-trouble· shifting. ands apart. That did nicely get By the end of the third lap everyone moving before the front Harrold, who started fifth, had runners came around, but with made it to the front, and with the dead calm weather and hang-clear sailing ahead, looked like a ing dust, it made it very difficult winner. He had 16 seconds on for them to see. Penner, who was now second, Miguel Tornel, who hadn't and in third was Anderson, who done a lap on Saturday, got to was discovering that his new car start in front, and he took full had "too low of a rev limiter" for advantage of his dus.t free run. this race. But he was liking the Attrition was heavy on Sunday, way it handled, and feeling lucky with £ive or six cars not getting since he'd driven it for the first even the first lap done, and more time on the day before. . going away on the second. In By the end of lap four Harrold fact, only five cars would be able had almost a minute on Penner, to go around all five times. This • who was still dealing with traf-event calls for full on charging all fie. Harrold went on to take the the time. It's like a pair of very win, saying the course was "rough long sprint races, and it's hard on both driver and car. was fourth, followed in by Rick While Tornel ran dust free on Ellison, who shared his car with lap one, it didn't help much by Penner. When the points were the second lap, because a pall was figured, Harrold had the win, and hanging over the entire area by Penner/Ellison were second, with then. Visibility was poor even if Anderson in third. Since he'd a driver wasn't immediately be-completed no laps on Saturday, hind another vehicle. Lap times Tornel was pleased to move up were slower by about 30 seconds to fifth place with his fine Sun-this time. Tomel had a scant lead day drive. with the Lothringer of John and The SCORE Lites ran with Mike Bartolotti running second the Class 10 cars and 16 of them by seven seconds at the end of showed up to start the season off. lap 2. Harrold ran third, with B.J. They came through in a tight Baldwin fourth in his Chenowth. bunch at the end of the first lap. As cars fell out, Tornel kept Dave Callaway had the lead by on moving smoothly along· in the margin of about nine sec-front, while Harrold struggled ands, with Jeff Kawell, racing in through traffic, trying to catch this class for the first time, in a up. It couldn't be done, though Dunn Tech in second. In third it he moved up through the ranks was Steven Greinke in his Sus-and ran fourth on the road at the pensions Unlimited car. One sur-end oflap 3, and second, behind prise out on the track was the Tomei at the end of the fourth team of Jim Zupanovich and his lap. Attrition helped a lot in the son, Mike, who hadn't raced process. S.till, he couldn't make since early '96. This was their first up the time. Tornel took the win outing in this class also, and Ji~ with 45 seconds on Harrold, who drove on Saturday, looking as if said "that was one of the tough-he hadn't forgotten anything. est 65 miles I've ever driven.';' By the end of the. second lap Tomei averaged 52.232 miles per Callaway had 49 seconds on Jer-hour for the five laps, almost two emy Gubler, in a Chenowth, who miles an hour slower than was now second. Gubler is an ex-Saturday's time, thanks to the 1/2-1600 racer. Jerry Penhall had dust and increased roughness of lost the power steering in his the track. Behind Harrold, B.J. Penhall, and Dan Worley, in Baldwin was third and Anderson Jimco, was without his fourth gear. Almost all of the cars stayed well through the fourth lap, and then three of 'em bombed out on the last time around. But Gubler, whose last four laps were under the 15 minute mark, piled up the seconds and took the win, finish-ing 34 seconds in front of Jeff Kawell. Kawell, who'd had fast lap on his third time around, at 14:39, was a minute and 29 sec-onds ahead of Greinke, ·who was third. Sidelined by problems on Saturday, Jerry Whelchel drove Mark Post's new Class 1 With a win and a second place, Eric Solorzano took the Class 11 event in his '74 Once again, Sunday was a dif-ferent story. Attrition was greater, times were slower and Gubler, poor boy, started in the back. For him this was ironic, since he'd been second from last to s~art on Saturday. Wonder what he could have done if he'd started at the front? The first five cars ran within 16 seconds of one another, and it was Jim Green-way, in a Mirage, in front. He'd failed to finish on Saturday when his clutch wouldn't disengage. Seems sand had got in through a previously undiscovered open-ing, and jammed it up. Now ev-erything was working right, and he charged hard. Dave Callaway, who broke a rocker on Saturday, was second in his Dunrite,. and Manlio Moreno, in Arturo Honold's Jimco, ran third. Honold had driven Saturday. Kawell was fourth and Ron Dalke, who broke on the first lap Saturday, was fifth. car to a win in Sunday's dusty event. ;::s::ed::a=n=. =================================================:::;-Larry McCallum drove the ex-Dondel Class 5 car, won on Saturday, but couldn't finish on Sunday. Dave Cua had a third place and a win in the very closely fought Class 5 battle. As things thinned out a bit Page 10 March 1999 Dusty Times

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(remember, they started only 15 seconds apart), their lap times picked up some, but they were still close. The lead cars were running under 16 minutes, and at the end oflap three Kawell was leading, with Greenway second. Dan Worley, presumably with all his gears this time, ticked off the fast lap for Sunday, at 15:02, but had done a long first lap so he was still back in the pack. Callaway ran third, finding it very dusty, and not liking to go "faster than I can see." Good thinking on his part. In the end, Kawell took the win, with Greenway second and Moreno third. Moreno had sur-vived a collision with another car (unknown who that was), with no more than a cracked rear cage, so was feeling very lucky. When the points were totaled, Kawell, who is a second genera-tion racer, had the win for the weekend, followed by Gubler, Greinke and Worley. The Class 5 cars ran in this group also, and on Saturday as they started out they -found themselves coping with the Class 10 cars that had already com-pleted a lap. Larry McCallum, who was driving the car in which the Dondel brothers won the Class 5 championship last year, was tied to the second with Dave Cua, who got his racing start as a Sportsman here four years ago (when he won the Sportsman event). In third, a man on a mis-sion, was George Seeley, who was wanting to beat that old Dondel car that he had so much trouble with last year. He didn't care who was driving, he wanted to fini:5h Dusty T-imes Very consistent and smooth driving in his Jimco brought Chris Harrold a. win on Saturday and 2nd on Sunday for the weekend win. in front of it. He was just 30 sec-onds in back of it now. By the end of lap 3 Seeley was only 29 seconds back, and he had moved up to second. Cua broke on the last lap, and all the oth-ers had disappeared also, leaving only McCallum and Seeley to take the checkered flag. M_cCal-lum got the win, after recording the class fast lap at 14:56 on his last lap. A disappointed Seeley vowed to do better on Sunday. But it wasn't to be, not really. McCallum was back out in front at the end of Sunday's first lap, and Seeley ran second with Cua in third. But this time McCallum never finished his second lap. By the end of the fourth lap Seeley had a lead of 15 seconds over Cua. But Cua did it to him. He reeled off the quick time for this heat, at 15:25 (16 seconds quicker than Seeley), and moved up to take the win by three sec-onds. Seeley, who said he loves tl\is format, was the weekend winner when "the points were to-taled. The next event was finally a one class race, Class 1, and these folks started one every 15 sec-onds. There were 3 7 of them; more Class 1 cars than anyone had see.n in one place for a long time, and the talent level was very high. Pat Dean, in a Chen-owth with a V6 Chevy motor, was first off the line, and Troy Herbst, with his Truggy, started 13th. Seven cars did their first lap in under 14 minutes: Dean, who was first, then Herbst, 19 seconqs later, followed by Rod Muller in his new Porter 12 seconds further back. In fourth was Mark Post in his high powered all wheel drive· Nye Frank bui_lt car, and John Phillips had his new Jimco in fifth. Nick Baldwin, in an Aceco Hedge Hog ran sixth, with Ryan AVAILABLE SIZES & RATES: - 1.875" I.D. / 50 to 600 lb. - 2.000" I.D. / 250 to 2200 lb. - 2.250" I.D. / 150 to 4200 lb. - 2.500" I.D. / 85 to 1000 lb. - 3.000" I.D. I 200 to 600 lb. - NASCAR Conventionals. - Special Applications. March 1999 Following in dad's footsteps, Kyle LeDuc, 17, took a 3rd and a win in Class 7S for a second place weekend score in his Ford. Arciero seventh in Bob Gordon's Toyota Chenowth. Arciero was just 34 seconds slower than Herbst. Whew! The grandstands, which had never filled up last year, were solidly packed now, and they were getting an eyeful as these cars flew the big jump, occasionally side by side as one would try to pass another before the corner. Unfortunately, Post didn't make the second lap and Muller didn't get the third one done. But there was plenty of tough com-petition left out there. Dean was still the leader, but he had only 21 seconds on Herbst who'd just recorded the fast lap, an amaz-ing 12: 18. John Phillips was third, and Ronny Wilson had his Jimco with a new Scat Y4 motor in fourth, but his suspension was going away. In fifth was Darnen Jefferies in his new-to-him Class 1 car, while Kevin Davis, with· another Seat V4 motor in his Jimco, ran sixth, just ahead of John Herder in his Jimco. Herder had a loose fuel fitting which was sucking air, causing the car to quit. He didn't complete his next lap. Herbst, who knew how tough Dean would be, since he was driving Troy's old car, had hit his stride, and did two more under 13 minute laps, to roll across the finish line in first place. He said he'd hit one of the barriers at the end of pit row on his first lap and "messed up" his steering. Dean, who said he'd had only a little traffic, was second, 54 seconds later. Herbst's average speed was 59.954 mph, and his average lap time was just 13:01. In third place was Phillips, with Wilson fourth and Jefferies in fifth place. Only 17 of them managed to fin-Continued on page 13 Page 11

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James Hall's snazzy looking Class 8 Ford skips over the bumps. He took second for the weekend. Forced to drive both days when his co-driver wimped out, Craig Forrest Rick_ Poole drove his Jimco hard both days to keep the pressure on, got two 2nd places in his Mirage, second for the weekend. but came up second in the Class 9 standings. ish all five laps. On Sunday, with the start or-der reversed, Herbst had his work cut out for him. There were only 30 who made it back the second day, but that was still a lot of traf-fic, and the course was incredibly dusty. At the end of the first lap it was a tie, with Herbst and Herder on the same minute, and in third was Jerry Whelchel in Mark Post's car (Post was ill with the flu). Charlie Townsley ran fourth in his Chenowth, with Ryan Arciero fifth and Mike Jul-son sixth in John Phillips' car. There was a 21 second difference between first and sixth, and a~ other handful c_ame along just one second later. Three or four cars couldn't make the first lap, and another five failed. to finish the second lap, so traffic thinned in a hurry. Only 21 cars com-pleted two7aps, and it was down to 18 on the third lap. Still, the dust hung and make it hard to see. There was a lot of passing going on in the infield, which was watered and thus not dusfy, which gladdened the hearts of the spectators. Arciero p"articu-larly seemed to catch someone in that area every lap. He was a thrill a minute. Townsley jammed his thumb, decided it was broken and he'd had enough, so he put Doug For-tin in to do the final three laps. Fortin was available because he'd lost his motor. He didn't really fit Townsley's car, had to slide down in the seat and drive with his "tippie toes." At the end of the third lap Whelchel led by 19 seconds, with Herder in second place. Now Herbst was third, and one second behind him was Fortin in Townsley's car. Then came Ar-ciero, and Lee Patten in the car Wilson drove on Saturday, fol-lowed by Julson in Phillips' car. They were now 39 miles into the race, which would be like saying they'd hardly go t started in a "desert" event. This was surely desert terrain, but the mental ap-proach to the race was that of a short course event. Whelchel was having a good time, and he just charged to the front, no new-car woes bother-ing him, and took the win, zip-ping off the fast lap for this heat on his last lap, at 12:35. His av-erage speed was 57. 735, about two miles an hour slower than Saturday, thanks to the added roughness of the course and the dust. Herder, his car working properly now, was second, 33 sec-onds later, followed in by Herbst who reported having flattened one tire on a rock, and running four or five miles on it to his pit. They were unanimous about the dust: it was awful. The points total gave the weekend win to Dusty Times Herbst, and second place went to Ford, assumed to be driven by torn off, h~. went no further. Ro~-Chevy that cost him ten minutes, the Phillips/Julson team. Dave Ashley this time, started at seler, his motor damaged after and Chuck Harris, another fierce The big trucks were next to a leisurely pace, went around the being overcooked on Saturday, competitor was out for the week-race, and this was another com-•infield, and parked permanently. did a 33 minute l_ap, and at the end after hurting his back in bined event, with Trophy Some new car bug of major pro-end oflap 3 he was third and no-practice. Trucks, Pro trucks and Class 8 portions had apparently bitten it. one else gmning. Steinberger, who said he'd combined, for a total of 20 ve-Mike Tieman also failed to get Gatrell completed his fourth done almost no maintenance on hides on the track. The Trophy his Chevy through the first lap . . lap, but no-one else was able to. the truck since the Baja 1000 Trucks took off first, with thun-Roeseler came around looking So he got the victory. Donahoe (he's a new father), had moved der and dust, and when they good, in the lead, with Helmbolt was given second, and Roeseler into the lead by the end oflap 3, came back around again the lead just 29 seconds back, and Bald- was third. When the scoring folks and now Rick Johnson ran sec-belonged to Dan Smith in his win another 2 7 seconds further added up the points totals, the ond, in his Ford, followed by Sea-new center seat Ford. But Lonny back in third. Herbst didn't show. win for the weekend went to roni and then Bruce Greer, in Helmbolt was just 20 seconds In fact, he didn't show for two Herbst, with Donahoe second another Ford. On the fourth lap behind him in his Dodge, and laps. It was later reported that and Baldwin third. Wehe ticked off the fast lap for Larry Roeseler, who's driving the he'd had a leaky transmission line In the Protrucks, which ran at the class, at 14:20, but it did him MacPherson Chevy this year, ran and a fire. By the time he came the same time as the Trophy no good, as he didn't manage to third. Ed Herbst was fourth in his around the others were on their Trucks, the· first lap lead be-finish his fifth lap. Ford. The stands were filled to third laps. Well, some of them longed to Steve Scaroni, who has But Steinberger did, and he overflowing, and the hill oppo-were. purchased the Chevrolet truck took the win, finishing 41 sec-site the infield track was also At the end of the second lap that used to belong to Michael onds in front of Johnson. Greer packed with spectators. It was Baldwin had the lead, and tied James, and which caught fire in was third. Heger had been slowed easy to see which vehicles were for third were Roeseler and Don-the infield during the '97 Laugh-by bump-stop troubles, but he de-the favorites. It's tl}e noise and ahoe. Donahoe was in the car lin event. Scaroni had only two cided he liked the truck. Larry size that get them apparently, be-again, bee a use Ian Walker, seconds on Scott Steinberger in Plank, Ford, who finished fifth, cause the Class 1 cars are faster. scheduled to drive, hadn't felt his Ford, and he was five seconds said he'd driven the last half lap Not by much, but still - faster. quite right and had got out on the in front of Joe Heger who was with no oil pressure. It was easy At the end of the. second lap first lap. In fou_rth place was racing a truck for the first time. to see where it had gone, as he Smith was still leading, with Roe-Helmbolt, just a second later, Heger had just bought Jimmy and his passenger were covered seler second, about 25 seconds and in fifth was Todd OatreH, ·Nuckles' Chevrolet. His previous with it: They hustled off to see back. In third was erbst, an-who used to drive a Blazer in race experience was limited to where it was coming from. other 11 seconds down. On the Class 3; and had been unable to one Class 10 race, in which he -On Sunday fleger, his bump third lap Herbst hit his stride and complete two laps on Saturday, didn't finish. In fourth was Kevin stops all fixed, moved into the recorded the fast lap for this in his Chevy. He was obviously McGillivray, in his Chevy. An-lead on the first lap, with Plank, group, at 12:32, which put him driving with an eye to preserva-drew Wehe, who had been ex-his oil leak apparently also fixed, into the lead. Now Jason Bald-tion. pected up at the front of the in second place. In third was Sca-win, in his same old Ford, which At the end of the third lap the pack, had some problem with his Continued on page 14 he says "is always being updated", first car to come round was Don-moved into second, with Kreg ahoe. But he didn't know it. He Donahoe, in a Dodge in third thought he -needed to catch up · place. Smith had dropped to to Roeseler, and was pushing fourth and Roeseler with a long-very hard. When he flew the big ish lap, was now fifth. jump he went so far that his truck Neither Smith nor Roeseler had time to skew to one side got their fifth lap completed. (yaw?) in the air. So it landed Herbst stayed out front, though sideways, and immediately began Baldwin closed up the distance to roll over, and over and over. on the fourth lap, and continued Probably six or seven times, hard. to look very fast right to the end. There was a terrible silence in the Herbst took the win with a 33 audience. The announcer called second cushion'to Baldwin's sec-for medics and the ambulance ond. Donahoe, who wowed the and corner help, and after a few audience with his flying long worried minutes, both Donahoe jumps, was third, another four and his passenger hopped from minutes back, and the last of the the truck, waved at the crowd Trophy True ks to get five laps in. and walked away. At that point, Sunday was even worse. For Donahoe had the lead, but with one thing, the new Duralast the left rear corner of the truck New to the Trophy Truck class, Todd Gatrell didn't finish on Saturday, but got the win on Sunday through perseverance. March 1999 Tim Casey finished first and second in his Tqyota 4Runner, to earn a win in the Stock Mini class. Trophy Trucks had a hard weekend. Tim & Ed Herbst with a win and a two-lap DNF still came up winners when the points were tota!e'a. Page 13 ,

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Craig Turner rides his Ford Ranger like a bronco as he chases down Robert Hayley and Steve 01/iges teamed in their Stock Full Ford to Larry Plank had a mystery o(I leak in his Ford Protruck on Saturday, second place in Class 7. · have a lot of fun and earn second place. still managed a second for the weekend. Hard charging Vic Bruckmann bounds through the whoops in his Chenowth. He had a win and a 3rd and was winner for the weekend. roni, followed by McGillivray. They chased around in a tight group for a couple more laps, and by the end of lap 3 Heger had 1 7 seconds on Scaroni, who'd moved up to second. Plank was third, followed by Wehe, and then McGillivray. Steinberger, who'd looked so good on Satur-day, had briefly entertained the crowd by coming down pit row and through the chicanes in re-verse gear. He'd driven a major part of his second lap like that, but after tangling with an infield fence apparently decided not to go out on a third lap. Heger went on to win, feeling very good about his new toy at the end of the weekend. Plank, who was a bit quicker on the last two laps, couldn't quite catch him, and finished second, 15 sec-onds behind him. Wehe was third. Plank had recorded the quick time, at 14:45. The points winner for the weekend was Heger, with Plank second and Rick Johnson in third. Class 8 ran with this group also, and Brian Collins was in charge all the way. He put his Chevy into the lead on lap 1, with the quick time of 15:33, and stayed there. Even a flat tire, ac-quired while trying to pass a Protruck, didn't lose him enough time to lose a position. He was the only one in the class able to complete all five laps. James Hall, in a Ford, was second with four laps completed. On Sunday Collins' partner, Dale White, drove the truck with the same result. He recorded the fast time on his fourth lap, at 14:50, and was again, the only one to finish all five laps. Once again, Hall was second, with four laps done. Collins and White were the weekend winners. The next event featured an-other combination of trucks. It was Class 7, 7S, Stock Full, Stock Mini, 3 and Sportsman truck. None were expected to do five laps. Stock Mini, 3 and Sports-man did only three, the rest did four. Starting things off with a rush, Jeff Lewis had the Class 7 MacPherson Chevy in the lead by two minutes at the end of the first lap, and it was Craig Turner in second place in his Ford. They ran in that order for the entire four laps, with Lewis taking the win and Turner finishing second. On Sunday Lewis started out with a similar lead, but then slowed after losing a cylinder. Still, Turner had problems also, and couldn't even get through his ert Hayley's Ford, was third, and the last one to finish all four laps. On Sunday it was more of the same, except that the course was rougher still. Once again Esquerra took the early lead, and this time Hayley was second, with Sykes in third. They ran in that order for the rest of the heat, with slightly slower times than on Saturday. Sykes ran the fast lap, at 19:34, on his last lap. At the finish it was Esquerra, Hayley· and Sykes. And for the weekend, it was Esquerra. In the Stock Mini group, running only three laps, Tim His yellow VW looking like a sunrise on wheels, Mark McKinley won one and took a Casey had his Toyota 4 Runner second, was second Class 11 for the weekend. out front with the class fast lap, fourth lap. So Lewis was a two · lens on Saturday and had been a 22:45 at the end of lap 1. time winner, and the weekend forced to drive with one eye Dennis Milner ran second, a winner, in his first event in the closed, which cost him his depth little· over a minute later. In new Class 7 truck. perception. Sunday he wore third was Rob Reinertson in a In the 7S ranks, the first lap glasses. Gary Mecham ran third Ford. Casey led all the way, and lead on Saturday belonged to in a Ford. Reinertson moved up in his Kyle LeDuc, 17 year old son of LeDuc's· second lap was the Ford to second place. At the Curt, in a Ford. He had about 26 quick one for this heat, at 19:36, end of three laps they were the secondsonWarrenMessickwho andhekeptmovingalongwell, only two to get to victory was driving Joel Stankavich's still in th ad at the end of the circle. Casey with the win and Ford (Stankavich had to work). third lap, with Cirillo about 35 Reinertson in second, but In third was Cory Susag in his seconds back in second place. On nearly 14 minutes back. Toyota, another second back. the last lap they were still close On Sunday there was a dif~ LeDuc held his lead through the together, but LeDuc pulled off ferent look to the race. Dr. second lap, but Messick, who'd the win, with a minute and a half Macrae Glass, who'd recently never raced this truck before, was to spare. Cirillo was second, and bought Leo Brown's old Ford, warming up, and his times were in third it was Stankavich, who raced it for the first time on getting better. said his only problem had been Saturday. He decided he hadn't By the fourth lap Messick, the dust. The weekend win went been going fast enough, so he whose son Jimmy had earlier won to Stankavich, with LeDuc tak-picked up the pace a bit for the Class 9 race, was in tume with ing second place. Sunday and had the lead at the the truck, and he recorded the In the Stock Full event, end of lap 1. Casey ran second, class fast lap, at 18:54, as he took Manny Esquerra had Herb and Reinertson was third, but the victory. Susag, who stopped Reno's Fords in the lead from the having fuel pump problems. five times to squirt water on his end oflap 1. David Sykes ran sec-Glass ( who was the builder dirt encrusted radiator, finished ond in another Ford, and Marc of Reinertson's truck), liked in second place, and LeDuc, who Stein, Sykes' brother, was third the way the truck worked at the does all the prep work on the in still another Ford. Esquerra faster pace, and stayed in front truck himself, and must also then ran the fast lap for the group the rest of the way. Casey, who maintain good grades in school, on lap 2, at 18:22, to cement his had something come apart in finished third. lead. And he went on to get the the front end, and backed out On Sunday they all came back win, saying he had no problems of the throttle a bit, was sec-out, and once again LeDuc went except that the course was "re-ond, followed in by Reinertson. into the lead. He had ten seconds ally chewed up" and his transmis-None of the others got three on Steve Cirillo, in a Toyota sion was "wounded." Stein moved laps done. Tacoma, _who'd lost a contact up to finish second, five minutes The Class 3 race was a two back, and Steve Olliges, in Rob-truck affair, with Darren Skil-SCORE 1997 ENGINE BlTlLDER OF THE YEAR! . • • ~ ... ' ' ' - J -a>. - ' •• ' • ~ - - - -.' ._.. • : .... ,., .... ~ • ,-•-.• --:-"-• ~ ·-- ' - • • • ' • • • • ' FAT DOMINATES PRIMM 300 PRIMM 300-Sept. 11-12 Class 1 1st Dale Ebberts (\oW Type IV) Class 10 1st Darnen Jefferies (T(7,'cta 4AG) 2nd Gus Vildosola (Toycta V6) 2nd OVERALL!! Class 5 1st Mike Doodel (\oW Type IV) Class 12 1st George Ertl.Jerry Penhaff (vW Type I) SCORE Engine Bujlder of the Year for 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 & 1997! 2nd George Seeley (\oW Type IV) 2nd Dave Callawayl.k>hn Holmes (vWType I) fil.l1 3rd Ryan Herzog Racing (\oW Type I) _C0~N.1...~R_A_TS_T_0_C_0_RR_P_0_IN_TS_S_E_RI_ES_C_H_AM_P_S_! _______ ~ . 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Kreg Donahoe and Ian Walker's Dodge rolled off the big jump while John Penner and Rick Ellison teamed in their Chenowth Millennium Rob Reinertson, 2nd place in Stock Mini class, tries to keep his Ford leading Sunday's Trophy Truck heat, and it was down for the count. to earn second place in Class 10. out of the way of an oncoming 7S truck. Note winch on front. :-to=-n=-::a=-n-::ia-c:hTis=--=n::-:e::-:a-:-:r:rl y~i:::n::-:ar.e::-:s:-:t-=-r-:-:u-=-c-----~-======T""-:r=======-=== tible Kia going up against John Kearney in Bob Land's Isuzu Amigo. Skilton led all the way on Saturday, his fast lap at 22:07, to take the win. Kearney finished about 13 minutes back. On Sunday it was more of the same, except that Skilton lost a power steering belt on the first jump, and did his three laps without power steering. He took the win again, and Kear-ney completed only two laps this time. So Skilton was the weekend victor. · In the Sportsman truck class there was only one entry, the Chevy of Mark Cline. He ran three evenly paced laps on Sat-urday, and again on Sunday, to give himself a good start on the season points. For the final event of the day the 1/2-1600 buggies gathered at the start, ready to take off for their four laps. They'd just barely be able to get finished before it turned dark. This was a big class, with 21 starters, and lots of possible winners. Vic Bruckmann put his Chenowth into the early lead, but he was only 3 2 seconds up on Bekki Freeman in her Jimco. In third was Craig Forrest in his Mirage, and Adam Pfankuch ran fourth in his Kernco, with Arden Den-nington in fifth place. There was a spread of just .48 seconds from first to fifth place. On the second lap, as Bruck-mann continued to lead, For-rest moved up to second, one second in front of Freeman with Pfankuch still fourth and Dennington fifth. On the third lap the lead three were still the same, Bruckmann, Forrest and Freeman. Seventeen year old Pfankuch was still fourth, about six seconds further back, but as he started out on his fourth lap, a limiter strap broke, the axle disengaged and he rolled to a stop. In the meantime, Dale Ebberts, who ran a Class 1 car all last year, The first time out in SCORE Lites, Jeff Kawell took a second on Sat. & a first on Sun. to be the weekend winner in his Dunn Tech was becoming reacquainted sight of one another -or they with his 1600 Chenowth, and would have been if it hadn't after a fuel pump problem on been so dusty. On the last lap lap 1, was really smokin' around Freeman got a bit confused by the course. He recorded the the dust, lost her good line, and fast lap for the class on lap 3, Brian Steele went by. Denning-at 16:14. ton had also moved up. So at The lead pack, who were all the checkered flag it was running amazingly steady lap Ebberts, Dennington, Bruck-times, stayed right where they mann, Forrest and Steele. were until the checkered flag. Once the points were deter-It was Bruckmann, Forrest and mined, the weekend win went Freeman, with Scott Steele, in to Bruckmann. Forrest was sec-his Suspensions Unlimited car, ond, and Ebberts, who'd finished in fourth place, and Jim Dizney, back in a 1600 after a year or Manny Esquerra drove his Stock Full Ford to two wins, taking the weekend victory also. He said the course was "rough.» 13th on Saturday, was third. He was so surprised to be listed as third that he gave his tro-phies back to Sal Fish and asked, him to check the points total. It was correct however, and he stayed third, with Den-nington fourth and Freeman in fifth place. With a record entry and big audiences, the 1999 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge goes into the record books as a huge success. Each year more racers give it a try, and every-one seems to like the carnival like atmosphere that goes with the location. It's a good site for such a race, with plenty of good, ·relatively inexpensive rooms available, lots of parking, generally nice weather at that time of year, and a feeling of welcome in the town. SCORE now goes to Baja to prepare for the San Felipe 250, scheduled for March 19th through the 21st. ■ so, in fifth in his Jimco. They had all day Sunday to watch the course get chewed up and the dust hang over the desert. And when they finally got going at 3:40 p.m. on Sun-day, the dust would be a major factor. Twenty nine seconds separated the first five places, which were Bruckmann, For-rest, Ebberts, Dennington and Freeman (Bekki). And it went like that all the way. It was Ebberts in front on lap 2, then Bruckmann, Forrest, Denning-ton and Freeman. On lap 3 Ebberts once again racked up the fast lap, at 16:27, and stayed in front, leading Bruck-mann, Forrest, Dennington and Freeman. They were running in Don-A-Vee Grand Cherokee Trophy Truck Driven by Curt LeDuc BFG Project Tires On Beadlo~k Wheels Kuster Coil-Over and Bypass Shocks Kuster Air/Hydraulic Bump Stops Dana 60 Full Floater Rear End Autometer -Borla - MSD 650+ Hp NASCAR Based Mopar V Great Spares Package Included $68,000 Scott Steinberger won the Protruck heat on Saturday, but did part of a lap in reverse Baja Brokers -Phone 760-723-2117 Fax 760-723-9938 www.bajaconcepts.com gear Sunday, and then pulled out. · Dusty Times March 1999 Page 15

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COOPER TIRES SPRINGFIELD 300 zacka Takes The Lot In Final Round In Australia He nearly didn't get to start due to a blown gearbox, but quick repairs sent Matt Owen out to race and win Class 2. It was Brad Zacka's day in his Ford turbo powered Jimco 2 seater, as he took both the Prologue and the overall win. The 1998 Australian Off Road Championship has wound up with the final round recently. Called the Cooper Tires/Spring-field 300 the event was a last minute attempt to get a race as previous plans for the race in Queensland went under water. The race was held on the out-skirts of the Springfield devel-opment, just 20 kms from the center of Brisbane. It was local hero, Brad Zacka who made up for a disappointing year by tak-ing the win. In fact Zacka won everything, the qualifying fast-est lap, his class, and the race overall. Behind Zacka the battle for the overall championship was hotting up. Prologue The track was one of the toughest ever seen and indeed the qualifying' course needed plenty of care. Heading the list was Brad Zacka in the USA im-ported Jimco with Ford Sierra turbo power in a time of 7 .30 neat. Fellow Class 1 car Neville Boyes was next on 7.35, with Dion Simpson. leading -Class 9 next on a 7.35 also. With Matt Owen breaking a gearbox, Troy Crane lead Class 2 on 7.51. Class 3 was lead by Darren Perrin on a great 7 .39 to be fifth overall. Michael Taylor was the quickest of the Class 4 VWs while John Hinz drove his Karman Ghia to lead Class· 5 on an amazing 7 .40 to be sixth overall. John Wager was the sole Class 6 buggy while Les Siv-iour stormed around to lead Class 7. Fabio Zarfati was out for some high placings but al-though'ieading Class 8 was back in 13th spot. Race The fact that the Springfield course was shorter than normal saw the field split into two groups with only one group on the course at one time. There was also some racing on the Sat-urday afternoon as well as on the Sunday. Class 1 Brad Zacka lead from the start and kept the foot down all the way to leave the others in his wake. His only mistake· came when on the fourth lap (last lap Saturday) he went off the track and broke reverse gear and Nev-ille Boyes who was behind, caught up and passed. At the midway point it was Boyes, Zacka, Michael Collins (who started 26th), and Nev Taylor. Taylor had stopped to repair a power steering belt. Bob Mowbray slipped down the. or-der with fuel problems. Towers stopped with a rattle in the mo-tor. Svenson had a rear arm col-lapse while Hutton caught ·a tree. The racing on the Sunday saw Zacka grab the lead back and stretch the gap. With a string of fastest laps Zacka went on to take the win, and a well deserved one at that for a team that spends so much on prepa-ration. Neville Boyes needed finishing points and came in next despite losing a rear shock. He was some two minutes ten seconds behind. Michael Col-lins took third in the Subaru powered car. Nev Taylor held his spot at fourth, while Mowbray came back and despite a flat tire took fifth. In their last race before a rules change bumps them up to 1300ccs, Glen Hancey Michael Taylor had shock problems, but the rest of his class had worse troubles, took the win in the 1200cc Class 3 event. · · and he took the Class 4 win. --------------------------Class 2 While waiting for his group to start Matt Owen had the gearbox stripped and thanks to the Simpsons it was back with only seconds to spare. Steve Willett was setting a cracking pace for the 1600s which lasted two laps when his clutch let go. Troy Crane took ovet with John Brand behind until he slammed a tree. At half way it was Crane in seventh overall and leading Class 2, over Owen, Keith Honour and Joe Bulmer. Mar-shall had broken an axle while Cave _clipped a tree, and Julius had a rear arm give up. On the next day Crane still lead until a tie rod and then a broken cv slowed him. Owen went into the lead despite only running second and third gears. Zetti had a string of dramas on the Saturday and then a flat tire on Sunday. Owen went on to take the win (and sixth overall), while Honour held onto second place. Paul Johnson came back to take third, while Zetti had to settle for fourth. Despite shocker woes, Rowsell grabbed fifth place. Incidentally, Willett fixed his car overnight and ran at the rear of field Sunday, un-doubtedly quickest Class 2 and clocking a third and a second overall fastest laps. Class 3 Sadly a small field of the 1200 buggies in their last run before going up ·to 1300cc next year. Kaleb Schmidt was the most spectacular but soon broke the steering. The racing in groups concept was great as all the Class 3s were all rac"ing nose to tail. At the midway point it was Glen Hancey on top, albeit only two seconds to Maurice Wood. Into the Sunday and the Class 3s lead the field out on the now rain soaked track, Glen Hancey did a fabulous job to run fast laps in "the atrocious condi-tions. Wood had a bent front end slowing him somewhat. Hancey came in for a fine wi.n Gary Turner (L), who rides with him, congratulates Brad Zacka on his Neville Boyes had the lead for a while in his Hunter Rivmasta, but John Hinz, Class 5 winner, had the right combination of tires and car winning weekend. finished in second place in Class 1. for Sunday's wet conditions. Page 16 March 1999 Dusty Times

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\ In the Limited 4X4 class, Les Siviour kept his Nissan out of trouble in spite of the wet, to take the win. Fabio Zarfati nearly came to grief in a mud hole, but a quick tow salvaged his Class 8, modified 4X4, win in his Mitsubishi Pajero. Nev Marshall does a little bicycling in his Viper as he hustles to a second place in the unlimited class. and a ninth overall (much higher if went out later on dry-ing track). Perrin came in for second spot with Wood in third. Brad Cooper went well for a fourth place. Class 4 Only four VW Bajas were on hand to take on the tough con-ditions. It was Michael Taylor setting the pace. Kev Hufschmid was in second until clutch troubles. Taylor made a pit stop to solve shocker prob-lems, but held the lead at half way over Randall and Hufschmid. Next day Taylor made more headway and with Hufschmid out against a tree and then Randall stopped he only had his younger brother, Clayton, to contend with. How-ever, he too went out and it was all Michael Taylor taking the win and 18th overall. Class 5 Everyone felt for the 2WD cars on this track, especially af-ter the rain. John Hinz made the most of having a car best suited and cleared away from the rest. Barry Ross broke an axle in the Torana. Despite stopping for overheating Hinz went on to lead at halfway over Teagle's Falcon ute and Hart's Falcon sedan. Unstead's Falcon joined the DNFs. In the wet conditions Sunday Hinz left the field be-hind. Teagle stopped with a misfire (wet ignition), while Hart pushed on regardless. In the end Hinz took the win, al-most an hour quicker than Hart who won admiration with the fact he beat the conditions. Teagle missed the last lap. Class 6 It was a lonely day for John Wager, the sole competitor in Class 6. However, in most cases on wet tracks the Class 6 com-bination goes qi..ite well against the others. Wager managed to complete all six laps and took the points and the class win. Class 7 The 4x4 battle was down one car almost immediately as Pick-lap with a broken output shaft! ering withdrew after hitting a Dion pressured the overall con-tree in prologue. Les Siviour tenders and at the mid way lead the field away in the slip-point was in fourth leading the pery conditions as second class. Nev Marshall was having placed Colin Hunter slipped trouble with his automatic but and fell over in the sat in second (sixth overall). Landcruiser. Bobbie-Lee Siv-Next day Dion Simpson was on iour was doing her dad proud the pace and moved up over-by slotting in behind him. all. Marshall was back on the Hunter got going again only to pace and Scott Johnson over-break an axle later on. The two came a misfire to put in a Siviour Nissans .were all that couple of laps. Simpson's remained in the class. They charge came unstuck when he were both very cautious on the· rolled and lost a .lot of time. In slippery track and managed to the end he still managed the stay out of trouble all the way class win and pa_ced seventh to the finish. Les took the win overall. Marshall came in next and finished back in 17th over-in second with no other finish-all. Bobbie-Lee drove a fine ers. race to get second in class. In all the tough track John Wager takes a bad bump in his Class 6 Challenger Buggy as he heads for victory circle. Class 8 claimed more than half the event was well run and a credit to the committee to get a long course race so close to a major city. Personal thanks to the KIA _motor group for the loan of a Sportage 4x4. ■ In the modified 4x4 battle field; of the 56 starters only 26 Zarfati would be the obvious made it through. The whole pace setter. The conditions were tough on the Pajero to stay with the lead buggies. Dropping out .of the race were Powers with supercharger woes, Stefanluk with a blown gearbox and Ross conceding the track too rough for the Suzuki. At the mid way point Zarfati was leading the class and holding third overall, despite a leaking rear cliff. Ken Smith's Rodeo sa.t in second with the mighty Su-zuki of Jameson holding third. Into the Sunday leg and Zarfati got into a mud hole and stayed · there for a good five minute~ before getting towed out. His charge back was difficult in the conditions and in the end took the class win with a fine third overall only 19 seconds ahead of fourth overall. Ken Smith was nursing his Holden Rodeo, but grabbed second spot. Jameson punted the potent Su-zuki into a creditable third place. Class 9 One of the smallest fields of single seaters yet saw Dion Simpson head the pack with his father, Paul right on his tail. Paul's luck ran out on the third WE CARRY AU[lORA, BFGOODRICH, PARKER PUMPER P.C.I., HELLA LIGHTS, VDO, SIMPSON J.T. 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67TH MONTH CARLO RALLY Makinen and ·Mitsubishi Manage Monte Carlo By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden The Juha Kankkunen Juha Repo Subaru lmpreza WRCar took the silver medal, almost twp minutes out of the win at Monte Carlo. new car and a new make of tire and he was improving all the time as he became more famil-iar with his new surroundings. Colin McRae finished a great third place and he posted the greatest number of fast times on the rally, which boasted the long-est stages seen in World Rallying in recent years, the first"stage be-ing the longest. ward main road run from Monte Carlo to Gap on Sunday so that the real high speed started the following morning with the long-est stage of the event (48.28 kms.), a lot longer than any spe-cial stage in many years. The only understated factor of the event was the size of the entry: in order to provide sufficient room at the service parks the entry was lim-ited to 80 cars. Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki corner hard in the ice and snow on the way to victory in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Morite Carlo opened the 1999 season with a bang. There were six teams registered for points in the main championship series, more than ever before. Last year's five top teams: Toyota, Mitsubi-shi, SEAT, Subaru and Ford were now joined by Skoda and later in the year Peugeot will arrive to make it seven. There were many changes between drivers and teams for 1999. After eight years at Su-baru Colin McRae had moved to Ford to drive the new Focus for a reported record fee. Juha Kankkunen and Bruno Thiry left Ford to be joined by Rich-ard Burns who had been with Mitsubishi. Freddy Loix came from Toyota to Mitsubishi as teammate to three time cham-pion Makinen and Piero Liatti It was a long awaited for vic-tory at the 67th Monte Carlo Rally as Tommi Makinen and his trusty Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution took the gold medal back to Finland. Tommi led ten of_t_~t:l4. ~1:..~8~!! ~E.1 it was a r~-=-sounding victory, even though there were some moments when it didn't look too bright, Tommi beat his fellow FinnJuha Kank-kunen-by almost two minutes at the final flag and it was a sweet y_i<:t9ry as Tommi had been near the win at Monte Carlo for the past two years but never was able to grab the golden apple. Tommi had to drive one stage with a, missing front brake .caliper while Kankkunen was tryin~_!9 get comf~rta~!~ ~i_1:_h _~ The '99 Rally followed a simi-lar route to last year with a con-tinued commitment to compact-nes~. It started with a straight for-HONDA ·- I Power . Equipment KAWACUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER TtJ_~-D Racer and Spectator D1scounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PuRPOSE ENGINES • WATER PUMPS •LAWNMOWERS •RIDING MOWERS •OUTBOARD ENGINES • LAWN TRACTORS •TILLERS • . ., • EM3500SXK1 CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND· INVENTORY IF WE DoN'r HA VE Ir, No ONE Does! -~ .... ::::-.;::::-::--_ I• ~CI:::J · 00 DEUVERY TO 1HE RACES AVAllABLE • PLEAsE CAIL .AliEAD ~-,·· ~-: .&--EX1000 . KAWAGUCHI HONDA 35.32E.3RoSi:Lcs~CA9C063•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 ! VISA l s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T . s ~ T,....,.h;~IY~ ' . HONDA Power Equipment ii HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST. .1 ~µ1.1.1,_15Seasief. iCi F'or-optimum ~r!ormancc :ind ~t-ty. ph.-.uc tc.:&d the-0\\,1«·1 n\al\ual t>crore opc-r:iUng your Hood:. Po\,\·cr Equipment. Spc-cUkatlon$ subject to d·...in!?,c "'1thout notll'e. •£stlln.1te onl~·. b.:&~d on r.1tcd load. +Battery not included \\1th £M3500SXK 1. E~15000SXK I and £86500$.X. HWllh b.tttery trJy· kit. whttlt & h..ui!?,cr. Conn«uon to house power rcqutre-s tr;.tnsfcr dC'\1&-to ;woi,! p,Msiblc lnjury to po-.·cr company p.:-rsonnc1. Consult.:& qua.lined clecU1ci3n. Page 18 March 1999 Dusty Times

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,. Pierro Liatti and Carlo Cassina plow through the snow and ice to Andrea Maselli and Nicola Area in the Renault Clio Maxi were the seventh place in their SEAT WRCa,; most treacherous conditions Colin McRae and Nicky Grist drove to third place in their Ford Focus second place finishers in F2 on the Monte Carlo run. indeed. · WRCa,; shown here in the treacherous but beautiful mountain area. moved from Subaru to SEAT tions are expected to be unveiled stage of the rally. Freddy Loix around, a telephone pole. Au-drive through a field and get with new co-driver Carlo within the first few events of the and Carlos Sainz disappeared riol went off the road at an icy back on the course. Climint put Cassina. new season including the use of along the way, the F2 category corner but his Toyota only sus- his car on its·side and Stohl was The Ford Focus was not the controlled·central differential on had lost Jesus Puras and Group tained slight body and suspen-marooned far from any help, only new model, there was also asphalt by Toyota. Fly-by-wire N had lost Climent and Stohl. sion · damage. Freddy Loix stuck in the snow in his undam-the Skoda Octavia and Mitsubi-throttle systems are now stan-The mountainous regions to crashed when he lost control ap-aged car. And, Panizzi was in shi. SEAT and Subaru had devel-dard equipment on the latest the southwest of Gap were full proaching an icy bridge; he hit the second spot, in spite of his oped later versions of their '98 rally Subarus. Ford is pioneering of icy patches and Sainz and the parapet, smashed the radia- early 30 second penalty. cars. Mitsubishi was officially transmission systems aimed at Auriol crashed into the aban-tor and he retired soon after. On the second stage Maki-running under the classification improving weight balance defi- cloned wreckage of the pre-rally Burns went off the road twice nen extended his lead while of a World Rally Car and Toyota ciencies in transverse engine de- crews who were looking for ice and lost four minutes for his McRae had power steering and is planning to introduce their '99 sign, cou.pled with improved and ended off the road them-trouble and he sunk to 19th driveshaft problems. RoV"anpera· model in Portugal. Subaru was torque shift controls. selves. The Toyota drivers had place .. McRae was having a spun on stages 2 and 3 and his now carrying the Subaru Stars Leg 1 - Five stages, asphalt, mixed fortune. Sainz hit the great time, his spark plug leads SEAT teammate Lia tti had instead of the 555 tobacco. Mit- 161.16 kms. The first dramas of crashed Subaru reconnaissance were loose on the first stage, been up to second overall on the subishi is now sponsored by the day began when Panizzi and car and accordioned his hood, then burning paint on the ex- rally. As the roads cleared of ice Marlboro and Ford has Martini Dallaville couldn't start their partially obscuring his vision. haust filled the cockpit with McRae began going faster and for a sponsor. Subarus in pare ferme and both Six kms later he missed a twist smoke. Jean-Joseph finished the faster. On the third stage he made 1999 promises continued e~ received 30 second penalties, a in the road and was about to day in 50th place, after spend-fifth fastest time and on stage 4 calation of technology in the ral- nice way to start the·day. There shoot off the edge when the car ing many long minutes off the he was· the fastest overall. lying market. Many new innova- was lots of drama on this longest was stopped by the only obstacle road and finally was able to Continued on page 20 FRT MotorSports Promotions Praenl• Thunder in the Valley Motocross • Short Course Off-Road • Round 2 of 6_ Saturday Evening March 6, 1999 in coniunction with the Annual Imperial County Mid-Winter Fair Info Anyti01e 619-427-5759 WWW .fudrace.com Saasta Chevron • KXO 1230 AM • FM 107 St$11's Auto Body and Painting • Randy Bringle Track Design KSIQ Q96 FM • Sports Center 1300 AM • Tom Watson Electrical D MPANY Best Western Imperial Valley Inn • Driscoll's Sports • San Diego Off-Road Magazine 1st Race 6:00pm • Imperial Valley Expo/Fairgrounds Pit Gates Opens at Noon • Practice 2:00pm • Short Course featuring: Pro ATV's, Superlites, Super 1600's & Sportsman MotoCross featuring: Pro 125, 250 & up, plus Vets • Sportsman Expert or Novice 125, 250 & Up, Vets and Mini Bikes Dusty Times March 1999 Page 19 •

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The Toyota Corolla of Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya was saved from complete destruction by a phone pole, but it makes for a very forlorn Patrice Rouit and Dominique Lamy corner hard on their way to a fifth Horst Ratter and Volker S1Shmidt drove their Opel Astra KitCar to the looking crew. place in F2 in the Citroen ZX 16S at the Monte Carlo Rally. fourth place spot in F2 while many spectators looked on. a men s ra e pro ems wors-ened and on the fourth stage he had a broken disc and Panizzi went into the overall lead. Maki-nen had been having brake prob-lems all day but it came to a head on stage 4 when the bolts holding the brake disc to the hub failed. Makinen drove slowly to the end . of the stage, losing about a minute and a half then took apart the hub himself, removed the loose disc, pinched off the brake line and completed stage 5 sans the brake disc and lost yet another minute. Then came the announcement that Panizzi's 30 second penalty had been removed which meant that he had led on stages 4 and 5 and he was 5.9 seconds ahead of Makinen. · On the final stage of the day there was the dreaded Black Ice on the road and Thiry went straight on a curve as did Panizzi, almost losing his lead. Lundgaard went off the road for about a minute and Holderied was strug-gling with: the power steering on her Corolla. McRae was not go-ing faster than ever, over 44 sec-onds faster than Auriol on stage 5. In F2. Puras came to an end on stage 1 with motor problems. Gardemeister had engine mount woes arid had fitted tires a bit too narrow for good results on stage 3. Bugalski was unable to keep up with the bigger engined cars in the clear conditions but was still sec-. ond until the differential broke on the final stage and he was out of it. Gardemeister was now four minutes ahead of the Renault Clio Kit Car of Maselli and another half minute ahead of Pellerey's re-maining Saxo Kit Car. Leg 2 - Five stages, asphalt, 154.49 kms. Unwanted drama came to Panizzi again as he was unable to start the car and by the time he got to the start he was two minutes late. The day was cold but sunny, there was considerable patches of ice and some snow on the hilly parts of the stages. Fanizzi was fastest on the opening stage and McRae was second ·fastest. Makinen was third fastest, almost 50 sec-onds behind. The World Champion's magic returned on stage 7, the infamous Sisteron stage. He took studless snow tires, pulling well clear of Panizzi and reducing his lead to 5.2 sec-onds. In the pressure of stage 8, Panizzi spun, stalled the engine, had trouble climbing a slippery hill, dropped a minute in time and lost the lead. On stage 9 Panizzi spun again in the snow and Makinen came in the leader at the end of the day, leading by almost two minutes. Liatti lost brake pressure and drove stage 10 with the handbrake, losing ten minutes and dropping Page 20 The SEAT Ibiza Ki/Car was 16th overall and the fifst F2 finisher, piloted by Toni Gardemeister and Paavo Lukander, almost 5 minutes ahead of their competition. to the ninth place position. route was a repetition of the fi-Behind the leaders the priva-nal two stages of the prior day, teers were fighting hard. Burns each done twice again. Even stopped on the final stage for though the race for the lead over two minutes with unex-was effectively over, the con-plained electrical problems ditions were tricky for all the which somehow corrected itself. drivers. There was a good fight Jean-Joseph went off the road for second place between early in the day, damaged the Panizzi and Kankkunen which front suspension then suffered ended dramatically when a loss of power on the final. two Panizzi crashed hard. He hit a stages. Lundgaard rose to 11th wall on the outside of a tum in place and Tabaton in another the ice, flipped into the air, Corolla was 14th, but then spun down the road and hit the stopped on stage 9. Panizzi's pri- wall on the other side of the vately run car was no longer road some 250 feet further on. leading. Delecour's dreams of This left Kankkunen safely beating the Focus cars with his ahead of Delecour, who was private Escort faded when just in front of McRae. On this McRae got ahead of HIS the stage McRae lost a few minutes evening before. when both rear driveshafts be-In Group N Loubst fell down came detached but he then through the field when the radia-gained fastest time on the next ;;=a=======, Brandishing a rumpled front fender on their Toyota Corolla, Didier Auria/ and Denis Giraudet ran to a fourth place finish in the ice and snow on the Monte Carlo. and drove the remaining one 'There were places where even and a half stages on three 5 kph was too fast!' Kankkun-wheels. Renault scored maxi-en noted that this was one of mum W2L points, led by the most difficult rallies he had Maselli on only his first event ever driven. As for the Subaru, in a Kit Car and with a badly it was like a Rolls Royce of .a performing engine as well. In rally car, easy to drive and Group N Duez had a bad mo-handled very well. ment when he hit the wall at McRae finished in the third the same place as Fanizzi had spot. Auriol was fourth and De-and Trelles was slowed with• lecour took the fifth spot. clutch trouble but still keeping There were 84 starters and 48 second place in the category. managed to complete the Makinen was gracious at the course. Mitsubishi leads. the finish, underplaying the terror manufacturers race. Subaru is of driving a three braked car on second with Ford, Toyota and treacherous and icy mountain SEAT making up the top five roads in the dead of winter. places. ■ tor hose failed no less than three stage. McRae rose to third times on the opening stage and place on the second stage and Marc Duez went into the lead and Delecour fell to fifth as Thiry Gustavo Trelles came up to sec-passed him. There was a furious ond. In F2, Gardemeister was battle for what was now fourth pulling further ahead of the pack. place between Thiry, Delecour " After stage 8 he was nine minutes and Auriol. Delecour finally ar-ahead of Pellerey, who then went rested his slide down the stand-off the road and retired on stage ings from third place to sixth 9. Gardemeister was now 12 min-and he finally finished fifth, with utes ahead of Maselli. Auriol up in two stages from Leg 3 -Four stages, asphalt, sixth to fourth. 109.04 kms. The clear conditions In F2. Gardemeister won the of the pri~r two days continued category despite a crash which but there was still plenty of ice wrecked two of his wheels. He Marc Duez and Phillipe Dupuy drove their Mitsubishi Carisma GT to the first place to contend with. The last day's fitted his spare tire to the front ~po_s_i_tio_n_,_·n_G_ro~up_N_. ____________________ _ 67th Rallye Monte-Carlo (MC) 11/20.1.99 WC round 1 World Championship points= WR WO W2 1 ( 1 ) Tommi MAKINEN/Risto Mannisenmaki FIN Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution gA S2TMR (GB) 5h.16m.50.6s.• 10 10 -2 (6) Juha KANKKUNE~/Juha Repo FIN Subaru Impreza WRCar A SBSRT (GB) 5h.18m.35.3s. 6 6 -3 ·en Colin McRAE/Nic~y Grist GB Ford Focus WRCar A S7FMC (GB) 5h.20m.07.4s. 4+ 4 -4 (4) Ojdier AURIOL/Oenis Giriudet F Toyota Corolla WRCar A K-AM941 (DJ 5h.20m.43.4s. 3+ 3 -5 ( 1 9) Francois Oelecour/Oominique Savignoni F Ford Escort WRCar A HUN813 (BJ 5h.20m.51.8s. - 2 -6 ( 16) Bruno Thiry/Stephane Prevot B Subaru Impreza WRCar A S7SRT (GB) 5h.20m.53.1s. -1 -7 ( 10 J Piero LIATTI/Carlo Cassina I SEAT WRCar A B4904UP (E) 5h.23m.48.7s. 2+ 8 (9) Harri ROVANPERA/Risto Pietilainen FIN SEAT WRCar A B5392UL (E) 5h.23m.52.9s. 1+ 9 (5) Richard BURNS/Robert Reid GB Subaru Impreza WRCar A S6SRT (GB) 5h.26m.15.2s. - - -10 (21) Henrik Lundgaard/Freddy Pedersen OK Toyota Corolla WRCar A K-AM4050 (OJ 5h.30m.56.8s. - --11 (8) Simon JEAN-JOSEPH/Fred Gallagher F/GB Ford Focus WRCar A S8FMC (GB) 5h.33m.53.9s. -- -12 (27) Marc Ouez/Philippe Dupuy B/MC Mitsubishi carisma GT N U011 (MC) 5h.43m.31.2s.• -16 (24) Toni Gardemeister/Paavo Lukander FIN SEAT Ibiza Kit Car (1st F2) A B7064UK (E) 5h.53m.50.3s. ---19 (38) Andrea Maselli/Nicola Arena I Renault Clio Maxi (2nd F2) A AJ1770R (I) 5h.58m.30.9s. 10 22 (84) David Truphemus/Pascal Saivre F Peugeot 306S16 (3rd F2J N 2438XC29 (F) 6h.13m.16.3s·. - - -23 (80) Horst Rotter/Volker Schmidt 0 Opel Astra Kit Car (4th F2) N ESCO.PP55 (A) 6h.14m.36.0s. - - -24 (39) Patrice Rouit/Oominique Lamy F Citroen ZX 16S (5th F2) A 7499KE05 (F) 6h. 14m. 43. 1 s. - - -25 (54) Giandomenico Basso/Flavio Guglielmini I Fiat 600 Sporting (6th F2) A AY508NH (I) 6h.15m.43.2s. ---26 (78) Frederic Maniccia/Richard T~aon F Renault Clio Williams (7th F2) N 8024ZV06 (F) 6h.20m.30.4s. --6 84 (39 F2) starters. 48 (23 F2) finishers. •Group winners. +provisional subject to Ford appeal. MANUFACTURER'S REGISTERED DRIVER. Winner's average speed over stages 80.42kph (record) (72.01kph W2L). March 1999 Dusty Times •

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FRT DUNAWAY DASH Marking Makes· It His Race By Judy Smith John Marking put his new Jimco to the test and went home with the overall win. John Marking came from no-where with a chassis and motor combination no one had seen be-fore, to take the overall win at the FRT's annual New Year's Eve cel-ebration. The event, which has become a comfortable and safe way for many Imperial Valley folks as well as a big group of San Diego off roaders to celebrate New Year's, started off, as usual, with a race for bikes, quads and ATVs. Once they'd finished having their fun, the ·cars and trucks took over, getting the green flag for the five lap, 150 mile event at noon. The weather, as it usually is at that time of the year, was splen-did. Sunshine and only a soft breeze, made it very comfortable for the pit folks and spectators. The racers would have liked a little more breeze, to clear the dust,·but that was the only com-plaint. The course was rough. Fud, the C.E.O. of the FRT, pointed to a stretch of ground about 50 feet long just at the be-ginning of the pit area, and ex-plained that it was the "only smooth section" of the track. Pre-runners concurred, and it could only get rougher as first the bikes and then the cars and trucks churned it up. There was very little chance to rest the arms and shoulders, or work the kinks out Eli Yee rolled his Ford on the first lap, but still went on to get the win for himself and co-driver Perry McNeil. Photos: C&C Photo Tom Watson ran steadily all the way to take the win and the season championship in his 1600 Jimco. of the back. Since a Class 1 vehicle had won overall at this event last year, the Class 1 troops got to start first this year. There were two Protrucks competing in this group, because Fud feels they suit that class better than the FRT big truck class. At the end of the first lap, the lead belonged to Mark-ing, but Reuben Wood was only a minute-and-a-half back in his A-armed Jimco. Marking was a sur-prise to a lot of people watching, because he hadn't ~een racing for a while, and here he was with the latest model Jimco, called the "2000 Series", which looked a little strange to the unaccustomed eye, both because it was a new body style and because of the Su-baru motor parked in the rear compartment. Marking had origi-nally put a nice new Subaru race motor into his car, but during test-ing had some problems with oil pickup and had done it in. In a rush to get to the New Year's eve bash, he'd shopped the salvage yards and came up with a used motor from a Subaru SVX, essen-tially the same th1ng he'd had: a 3.3 liter motor, four cams, four valves, six cylinders. But this one had 68,000 miles on it. He was adding water to the radiator just 15 minutes before the start, and then it wouldn't start without a push as he sat in staging. Pit row sages weren't betting on the mo-tor to finish. Marking wasn't so sure himself. On the second lap their times were nearly identical, so Marking continued to lead, with Wood in second. In third place was Josh Waddell in his new Chenowth Millennium, powered by Honda. Steve Scaroni was less than a minute behind him in his Ford Protruck. Scaroni had just bought· the truck from Michael James, and had eagerly taken it out for some testing about a week before the race.· In the natural way of things he rolled it over and Reuben Wood pushed hard in his Jimco, but a fuel stop made the difference, and he finished second in Class 1. crumpled it thoroughly. A week of hard work and persistence had got the truck back together, and Steve to the start line on time. He was having a lot of fun. Also hav-ing fun was Jimmy Nuckles in the other Protruck. Nuckles had ar-rive'd late, and started almost 15 minutes late, so he wasn't going to be a threat unless everyone else had a disaster, but it was clear he was out to enjoy himself. By the end of the third lap the Subaru/Jimco's lead had dropped to 24 seconds. Wood was work-ing hard to stay right there. Wad-dell had dropped to fourth, and Scaroni now had his truck in third place. The fourth.lap was another nearly-identical run, and now Marking was only 26 seconds in front of Wood. But he had a se-cret weapon. As he ran through the pits at the start of his fifth lap Wood was trying to figure out whether his car could do the last lap without taking on fuel. He decided not to risk it, so he pulled in, but had some problem finding his crew and lost precious seconds. He took on just a splash, but it made the difference. Marking, whose "secret weapon" was a 45 gallon fuel cell, did not have to stop, and he went on smoothly to take the win. Wood, as if things weren't bad enough, lost his power steer-ing for part of the last lap also, but he held it in second place, finish-ing only three minutes and 44 sec-onds behind Marking. Scaroni, delighted with his new toy, fin-ished third, followed in by Wad-dell in fourth place. Chuck Hovey, usually a big player in this class in his Raceco, had decided to do something new. He put 16 inch wheels and tires on the front of the car, and be-fore he'd finished the first lap he'd broken an inner tie rod. It took his crew a long time to find him and get the new part to him. He then ran very well for a while, but on lap three broke the other in-ner tie rod. After that they put the 15 inch wheels and tires back on, Steve Scaroni has a new Ford Protruck, and he had more fun than They led for the first two laps, but made extra driver changes, so Adam Pfankuch and Rick St. John had the early lead in the 1600 anybody else driving his first race in it. 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Ron and Scott Plunkett had a great race going until they ran out of Steve Laputz rolled his Chenowth over on the last lap, but took a second in Class 112-1600 anyway. Manlio Moreno came up frf)m Mexicali to solo to fourth place in the 112-1600 class in his Jimco. gas, and dropped to second. but it was too little too late for Hovey. Class 10 was very nearly a to-tal loss. It started out looking like a good race, with Chris Harrold out in front in his Honda powered Jimco. He had two minutes on Kyle Whitted in his Jimco. In third was Bruce Mills and Randy Miller in a Chaparral, another two minutes back. Gary Hamlin and Steve Mamer couldn't get their first lap done. On the second lap, as Harrold continued to lead, doing well in the overall standings also, almost everybody else dropped out, ex-cept Mills and Miller, who were now 11 minutes back, but in sec-ond place, and Dewey Belew who was third, another five minutes back, in a Raceco. Whitted had lost his transmission. Mills and Miller couldn't make it through the third lap, and now Harrold, who had some power steering problems, had a lead of 19 minutes on Belew. But Harrold's car, which ran well on the dusty first lap, wasn't running very well anymore, and they couldn't quite pinpoint the trouble. It was slower each lap. Kevin Basore got in for the final two loops. The car got sicker. The crew rewired a couple of things. The car quit. Basore whacked the computer with a screwdriver to though he never let off the into this class, lost his motor. on get it going again (very high tech). throttle. He took the win, pulled the first lap. · When they came around the fourth time the lead belonged to Watson, who had not made a driver change. Now St. John was second and Laputz still third, fol-lowed by Moreno. Watson went on to do another evenly paced lap and take the win, and the season championship. It was his second championship for the year, since he'd finished off the CORP year with the 1600 championship also. In second place was Laputz, who managed a nice last lap in spite of a rollover. Pfankuch and St. John were third, and Moreno, who at 39 says he's getting too told for this class and will switch to Class 1. It hardly mattered because by now into tht; post race impound to ac- Laputz held his lead through Belew was gone permanently also. cept congratulations, put the lap 2, and was now 33 seconds up Basore did finally get the car to truck in gear to leave and broke on Pfankuch, who was a minute the finish, calling it the "world's something important. The truck and two seconds up on Watson. fastest two cylinder Honda." They wouldn't move under its own Manlio Moreno, the pizza man got the win, but were puzzled by power. Grinning happily, Mason from Mexicali, ran fourth m his their problem. No one else came was towed back to his pit. The Jimco. Laputz was under some-in. Hayleys finished second, after a thing of a disadvantage by now, In Class 5, Todd Stemmerman clean but under-suspended race. having lost a couple of gears, and who was there with no competi-The Class 1/2-1600 entries had was running only in third gear. tion, managed to get only one lap an exciting afternoon. Steve At the end of the third lap done, and then had a long quiet Laputz, in a Chenowth, started off Pfankuch had the lead, but was evening to wait for the new year. the day in front, with a lead of 23 only 17 seconds up on Watson. The Class 8 trucks were led at seconds on Adam Pfankuch. Laputz had dropped to third, and the end of the first lap by Jody Tommy Watson was third in his Moreno held firm in fourth place. Mason in his bright blue Ford. He Jimco, another five seconds back. Pfankuch made a driver change, had seven minutes on Vance Disappointingly, Kevin Graves, and put Rick St. James into the Allen who drives another Ford. In who's just moved up from Class 9 car. 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Vance Allen had a close battle going on for three laps, but was unable to complete all five laps in his fast Ford. Josh Waddell had some new car problems, but took a fourth place in Mark Gilliland fought the good fight, but couldn't get lap five done, his Chenowth Millennium Class 1 car. nevertheless got the Class 100 win. Class 100 didn't have a very · good day. Richard Burnworth led for two laps and then broke for good; Mark Gilliland, in a Markco, the only other entry, got another two laps under his belt, with pretty good times, but then couldn't get the last lap done. He got the win, but was not a five lap finisher. It was a tough day for Class 9 on that choppy course, but most of them managed to get around five times. Julie Kern had her Kernco in the lead at the end of Kern made a driver change, the first lap, but B.J. Bates was and put her mom, Madeline, be-only about a minute and 15 sec-hind the wheel. Bates moved into onds behind her. In third was Ron the lead, now with Plunkett in Plunkett, in his Ronco. Eric second place, about five minutes Allen, in another Kernco, didn't back. The Kerns were now third. manage to complete that first lap. At the end of the third lap Bates Kern continued to lead, now put his dad, Gary, into the driver's two minutes and 39 seconds up seat and Plunkett put his brother, on Bates. In third was still Scott, in to drive. The Plunketts Plunkett. While Trey Sommers, took over the lead, with the Bates one of the Hovey pit crew, out for car in second but only 33 seconds his first race as a driver, ran fourth back, and the Kerns third at the in anothe0r Jimco. end of lap 4. • Largest Selectlea Of Rodemls& · Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • FLUIDYNE COOLERS • AEROQUIP PLUMBING • SILICONE HOSE NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • AUTOMOTIVE & RACING COOLANTS The Plunketts and Bates had a close race going through the last lap, and Bates had the lead for a while. Then Bates found himself down to three cylinders, and the Plunketts went into the lead. At the finish line the teams waited anxiously for the finishers. And waited. And when the first Class 9 car arrived it was the senior Bates, on three cylinders. The Plunkett car was back down the road a bit, out of gas. Becki Kern, the third driver in the Kern car crossed the finish line ahead of them, but they'd got a refill in time to get second place by a very scant 29 seconds. So it was the Bates, the Plunketts and then the Kerns, truly a family affair. Only one 5-1600 car ran as a Pro for this race, and Tony Steingraber and Jim Grill made a nice showing, doing five very good and consistent laps, to get their win and points. In the small truck class the first lap lead belonged to Rodd Fantelli and Charlie Bign:ell in their Datsun, but they were unable to get any more laps done. About ten minutes back was Eli Yee in his Ford Ranger, which was looking a bit crumpled after a very elegant pirouette which landed him balanced on his roof. He needed spectator help to get back on his wheels. In third place was Rex Dale and Colin Mulliner, in a Toyota, another 40 minutes back after a very long first lap. Yee went on to take the lead, let his co-driver, Perry McNeil have it for laps 3 and 4, and then got back in himself to finish it up. They got the win by being the only ones to finish, but even so, with broken shocks and a broken ball joint, they'd had to work for it. Dale and Mulliner got only four laps done for a second place. Yee said his day was "too much fun!" WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE The Sportsman entries were all ·lumped together into one class, re-quired to run only four laps. Only two of them managed to get all four done. Robert Gillingham and Larry Kern (it's a big family) teamed in a new 2000cc A-armed Kernco (origi-nally built as a play car). This was its first race. They had a lead of only a minute and nine seconds at the end of the first lap, and it was Don Meyers and Jeff Zaiser in a 308 c.i. Ford in second place. In third was John and Mark Gaddis in their 5-1600 car. CALL US FOR A FREE CATALOG! WE WILL SHIP AS FAST AS. 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Frank Bongiovanr-ti and Curt Mauly The racers enjoyed the tradi-now put their 5-1600 into second tional bloody marys and doughnuts place as the Gaddis team ran into in the morning, the FRT's way of problems. saying thanks to their racers, before Kern and Gillingham went on to the on site awards presentation. It take the win, followed in by had been a great send off to 1998, Bongiovanni and Mauly, the only featuring terrific weather and excit-other Sportsman vehicle to get all ing racing action. The FRT looks four laps in. forward to another six race series in The FRT racers closed out the 1999. ■ In the Sportsman Class, the new A-armed Kernco of Robert Gillingham and Larry Kern led all the way to victory circle. The Class 1 0 race was one of attrition, and Chris Harrold and Kevin Basore survived for the win in their Jimco. Dusty Times .

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Tecate Hare scrambles Ty Davis, Yamaha, displays his expert form as he wends his way to victory at the inaugural Los Ancianos hare scrambles. Why would a dozen of the top off road motorcycle rac-ers in the United States risk damage to themselves and their machinery, to race for no points, in an event that had never been run before, held in a foreign country? Be-c a use that country was Mexico, and the race was the inaugural Tecate Hare Scrambles, in Baja California, and it was presented by the members of the Los Ancianos Motorcycle Club, purveyors of the legendary Tecate 500 and 250 Enduros, some of the most challenging in history. Faced with dramatic land closures and dwindling (and aging) numbers of riders in-terested in riding classic enduros, Los Ancianos de-parted from a 21 year tradi-tion of 150 to 500 mile enduros and put together the Hare Scrambles in the moun-tains east of Tecate, a pure race over a 15 mile continu-ous loop course. The premier event (and an 80% payback for the fros) brought out the best o( road talent in the country. The field included Ty Davis, Mike Lafferty, Steve Hatch, Fred Andrews, Destry Abbott, Dave Ondas, Nick Pearson, Russell Pearson, Jimmy Lewis, Larry Roeseler, Brian Brown and Jonah Street. All that didn't matter much to Ty Davis though. He had an ax to grind. In 1997, defending his Tecate Enduro Championship, he carded a narrow ( 1. 09 minutes in a five hour event) second place to CRE-mounted Kevin Hines. He had something to prove by regaining his "Tecate" title. From the dead engine, stand-in-front-of your-bike-facing-backwards start, through five laps of the 15.6 mile course Davis was never tested. Even a little. From the noon start till the checkered flag dropped two hours and 50 minutes later, he continu-ally increased his lead with machine line consistency, padding it by 30 to 60 seconds every lap. The course length may have thrown off a few. of the competitors trying to gain po-sitions by skipping pit stops. In pursuit of Davis, Steve Hatch, Russell Pearson, and Larry Roeseler all ran out of gas at some point. Hatch was clearly in the best position to challenge Davis, running in second place, 1-2 minutes back, when his fuel problems foiled his efforts. Fred An-drews' day ended early as well when he smashed his shifter (reportedly twice), on an in-famous Tecate rock. Davis' Montclair Yamaha YZ 250 was followed across the line by KTM's Mike Lafferty, 5: 15 back, and Kawasaki mounted Destry Abbott, 46 seconds behind Lafferty. Dry and horribly dusty just two weeks before the event, several days of rain the week-end before and very cool, breezy conditions on race day made for near perfect condi-tions. · Using a GNCC format with a two hour C/Women/Mexi-can National/Super Senior race in the morning, and a three hour Pro/A/B race in the· afternoon,· the course combined virtually every type· of condition and terrain. Laid out and cut by Tom Dowling and his crew, the wide open sand wash, spectator motocross, tight (very) trees, running water, two track high speed roads, and a scenic run down Neji Wash were highly praised by all the competi-tors. Much of the course had never been raced on before, and the newly cut "virgin" portions were linked with such classic Tecate Enduro trails as Cactus Flats, Niles' Last Trail, Bulletman's, Bar B Ques, and the Dump Road to provide a classic combina-tion. The only blemish on the day was the low racer turn-out. With just under 100 to-tal competitors, the ten Pro entries made up the largest of the 26 classes. Many thought the Los Ancianos' reputation for hammering their competi-tors, combined with their lack of a track record with such an event contributed to the low numbers. The absen-tees don't know what they missed. The field included a num-ber of motolcycle industry arid media luminaries includ-ing KTM's Scot Harden (1st A Senior), Cycle World's Jimmy Lewis (1st A200), Dirt Bike's Ron Lawson (1st A Open), Dirt Rider's Karel Kramer (1st C Vet), Dirt Rider's Ken Faught (1st B Vet), and Thor's Bob Maynard (1st A Sup-Sen). Other class winners in-cluded Boyo Candia (1st B 250, 1st B overall), Kelly Yancey (1st Women), Al-fredo Contreras (1st Mexican National), Richard Millier (1st B Vet), and Dave Olen (1st B Sup Sen). Multi-time Baja 500 and 1000 winner, Tim Morton, was having too much fun for his own good. After watching his wife Jennifer take third place in her ·class in the morning event (her very first race), Tim retired after three laps of the afternoon race with the explanation, "I gotta quit. I'm starting to do stu-pid stuff, and I'm gonna get hurt!" Why would all those pros show up for a non-points, out of season race, in a foreign country? Guess we know now. I~ was just too much fun! ■ OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE ANSWERS: Ratchet, Switch, Limiter, Chassis, Link.age WEATHERMAN'S Mike Laffery, KTM, kicks up a rooster tail as he negotiates a turn. Ron Lawson high-tails it through the Baja scenery. Lawson was the Long time Baja racer, Larry Roese/er, Kawasaki, made a rare error Course had a variety of terrain types. winner of A Open division. and ran out of gas, blowing his chance tor a win. Kelly Yancey, winner in the Womens division, makes her way through Jimmy Lewis, recent winner of the Baja 1000, took first A200 on the KTM mounted Scot Harden was the A Senior winner of the no points a riverbed nicely dampened by a couple of rainstorms. 15 mile continuous loop course. event, which drew high praise from all competitors. · Page 26 March 1999 Dusty Times

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The 7S truck of Team Las Rosa, waits for the green flag under the watchful eyes of the Tecate girls. Just saying "Baja 1000" evokes the thought of adven-ture and excitement to any off roader. Even experienced desert race fans get excited thinking of the 1000. Why? This quest is every bit as excit-ing as one can imagine it to be. So, for those that haven't yet enjoyed the experience the fol-lowing is but one of many sto-ries eagerly told about Baja an_d can serve as an -introduction to this unique adventure named the Baja 1000. The best thing about the Baja 1000 is that everyone be-comes a participant. Maybe not getting behind the wheel of the race vehicle but in the capacity as serving as support for the team effort. So the absolute best way to see the Baja penin-sula is by joining up with a race team. You not only get to see most of the peninsula but also enjoy the excitement of the race. You share in the thrill of the race because you 're part of the team. You are needed to help chase the race vehicle from pit to pit. Be forewarned you will get hands on experience at every pit. There is always some-thing for everyone to do. In a long attrition race like this' the vehicle more of ten than not re-quires more than a simple fuel stop. This continual roving from pit to pit gets everyone caught up in the racing·action. We met surfers· this year who started out on a surfing trip and got so excited about the race they chased the action all the way to La Paz. If yo u have never ·experi-enced a Baja 1000 then let me say the trip is well )¥ort.h the effort needed. It is a great place to make new friends and renew old friendships. After sharing a few hours riding through Baja one gets to know their travel-ing companion very wen: The shared adventures magnify time spent. together and lasting friendships are deeply bonded. After all you have challenged Baja together and have re-turned to tell about it. This trip to La Paz was my third and each and every one has been a true escapade. If you're looking for a road trip then nothing can compare. Make note this is not a casual drive down the peninsula. Be-cause everyone is caught up in the racing action it becomes a test of endurance for each and everyone. It might be a good time to point out that chasing the race can be dangerous. We saw two rolled over chase vehicles and another took out some of the guard rail just before San Ignacio. The best of the roads are narrow two lane black top with no shoulders for emer-gency maneuvers. Hours of pitch black driving are broken up by a set of glaring semi truck lights. Because the road is nar-row passing tow vehicles and slower locals requires a good amount of concentration with each pass. You soon find that in many aspects chasers need many of the traits required of the racers. I did notice that since our last run to La Paz the amenities have improved. The long waits for fuel have been shortened. There were more Pemex sta-tions and most were open. Many of the Pemex stations have been modernized and even offered restrooms with running water. Maybe the wilds of Baja are getting tamed? This year's 1000 was the 31st running of off road adventurers aspiring to conquer the Baja Peninsula. The event was won overall by ·Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart in his Toyota powered Trophy Truck. Team Los Rosas, of which we were a part, fin-ished second in Class 7S with a timed run of 30:48:31 which saw us cross over 91st finisher overall. We started our Baja adven-ture on Tuesday evening. We traveled the short distance from San Diego and settled into the Las Rosas Spa and Resort in Ensenada. Las Rosas is owned by Marco Novelo who also owned the Class 7S Ranger that we contested the Baja Penin-sula in. Las Rosas is a first class resort which made it the perfect place to start such a treacher-ous event. With its luxurious atmosphere, and the surf gen-tly lapping against the sea wall, it was easy to get a good night's rest before e!J,deavoring the Baja 1000. On Wednesday morning we made what we thought would be the final preparations to the Ranger. We then headed to reg-istration which was held at the San Nicolas Hotel. After get-ting registered the truck was taken to contingency row and tech inspection. If you have never been through a contingency row in Ensenada then let me say it is quite the carnival atmosphere. The locals come out in hoards. They enjoy getting an up close look at the racers and their ma-chines. It is here we checked out all the product suppliers and signed up for the highly sought after products and con-. tingency money to be handed out in La Paz. Here is where we made sure the Las Rosas, Turbo Blue, Lucas, Goodyear, PIAA Lights, Tecate, Quimical, and Borla stickers were prominently displayed on the Ranger. Tech inspection turned out to be a surprise as a number of small things were overlooked. This meant Team Las Rosas had to scramble around to get the Ranger prepared. First off the vehicle needed water and food inside the cab. Minor oversight but one never knows how long they may wait for help when broken down in the desert. A set of numbers needed to be added to the windshield. Th e fuel cell's overflow hose had to be routed differently and inside door latches had to be installed. But once all those minor details were accomplished the Ranger was ready for action. For the first time the race was officially started in Santo Tomas which is located 20 miles south of Ensenada. Many races have been run around Santo Tomas but this was the first year it started there. This ex-plains all the mayhem before the race. As throughout Baja, High-way 1 is a two lane paved road. So traffic began to back up a mile or so before Santo Tomas. Anxious racers tried to "go around" the traffic. Then some of the chase vehicles decided they needed to stay clos·e to their race car and also went around. This ended up blocking off bqth lanes. For traffic con-The truck endures SCORE's pre-race tech, a part of the colorful and noisy pageantry Looking weary, Marco Novelo waits for some minor repairs to be finished at the San of every Baja race. . _Q_u_in_ti_n~p_it. _______________________ _ Page 28 March 1999 trol the Mexican Highway Pa-trol let some big trucks come through in what turned out to be a true Mexican standoff. As the big semis inched their way forward everyone worked their way back into the right lane. Mysteriously no oncoming traf-fic became a hood ornament for the Mexican semis. Team Las Rosas consisted of many supporters with the driv-ers of record being Marco No-ve lo, Marcos Hernandez, Bernardo Ramos, and Glenn Harris . We began with four chase vehicles. Actually three as one truck had gone ahead and would meet us mi~way. We had two full size pickups and two Ford Rangers designated to chase. The crew was an interesting lot due to the language barrier. All the drivers spoke some En-glish but the mechanics spoke little, if any. So at the pit stops a lot of hand gestures and nod-ding were implemented in an attempt to get the message across. The Las Rosas 7S start time was at 9:53:30 am on Thursday. We began our chase about 15 minutes later. It was a 112 miles on course to the first pit. The race course more or less headed south just a few miles off of Highway 1. Often we saw the trail of dust put up by the rac-ers. After leaving the official start in Santo Tomas we had our first hair raising experience of the trip. The chase vehicle I was riding in almost got taken out by one of the local inhabit-ants driving a van. As we pu'iled out to pass the van, and another vehicle ahead of him, the van in the rear pulled out to pass also. While we were alongside? He must have pulled midway into our lane. I mean as a pas-senger and being at the point of first contact. I thought we were goners. I swe ar I envisioned that van's front fender crashing d'irectly into my door. Two things saved us. Glenn Harris was at the wheel and his light-ning fast reflexes pulled us over onto the shoulder. The other savior was the fact that a shoul-der even existed. Once we re-alized we had made it Harris looked at me and asked "Did you see that!" "Did I see that?" I replied, "Hell, that was so close I thin.k I just saw Elvis." Fortunately, the .incident was over just as quickly as it had occurred and no one was for the worse. At the first Super Pit near San Quintin, the Las Rosas Ranger needed a front shock replaced and work was done on the radio in an attempt to get better reception. The Ranger was topped off with Turbo Blue racing fuel. Once all the tasks were done the Ranger was un-der way at 5:20 pm. We loaded up and headed to Santa Catavina which was at the 234 mile marker. First serious race related problem was that Novelo got stuck anhe 205 mile mark. At first it was reported he was at the 255 mile mark. This was confusing as we were at the Su-per Pit at mile marker 234 and he hadn't gone through yet. The next report cleared things up when we found him at the Dusty Times

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205 marker. As luck would have it we ran back up the road with the intention of offering help. But before we could reach him he radioed that another racer had stopped and helped him out. At the next Super Pit, Punta Prieta (mile 349), Novelo got out and Bernardo Ramos took over control of the.Ranger. Be-fore Ramos could take off the left rear hub had to be tight-ened. The disc brake assembly used on the Ranger had an in-ternal locking ring that kept backing off necessitating it be tightened periodically. It is here we lost the smaller, older chase vehicle. The truck lost its manual transmission so its cargo was divided among the two full size trucks. They were left to wait for a tow. This leg took the racers away from Highway 1 over to the Gulf of California. They had a fuel stop at Bay L.A. (rm404) and then headed south before turning back west into El Arco (rm502) for another fuel stop. Joe and John headed into El Arco and we headed south to San Ignacio. The Las Rosas Ranger pulled into San Ignacio (rm584) at 3 :45 am Friday. This time the left rear seal had to be replaced. A broken alternator bracket needed welding and Glenn Har-ris replaced Ramos in the driver's seat. The seal we needed was in the truck that went to El Arco. We got on the radio and found they were not far from this pit but· a chase vehicle had hit a guard rail and the road was shut down. We jumped in the truck_ to go back up· the highway to retrieve the seal. Before we could get underway one of the Super Pit hands remembered he had a seal eliminating the need to go. Harris got underway at 4:35. · -Ramos and I decided on a couple of hours sleep at San Ignacio. Before we could get comfortable Harris called in-forming us the Ranger had plowed into the silt and had torn off the right front wheel. They were attempting to get things back in order but 'the ball joint was missing. Having front end parts on board we headed out to retrieve our broken racer. It was here that my ordeal began. I was driving a Dodge 4x4 and had no doubt it could pull through the silt bed. I trav-eled down the road heading west to the beach which was about 40 miles. Once we turned south again the Dodge's power dropped way off. So much so that I thought the torque ~on-ve rto r had gone. I knew it didn't have enough power to pull itself through the silt much less pull another vehicle out. I couldn't go backwards on the course so I was committed to head south. But we found a road that appeared to run alongside the course so we opted for it to prevent breaking down on course. The sun was about to come up so again the decision was made to get some sleep. We hoped to let the ve-hicle cool off and check it later. Again, just as we started to get settled in we heard a noise from an approaching truck. Bernardo Ramos had rode along with me . · Dusty Times and got out to talk with the ap-proaching vehicle. As it turned out the truck occupants were fishermen heading to the fish camp at San Juanico to buy fish and return them to market in Ensenada. The two recognized my travel-ing companion and· were eager to help. They said they would show us a way that had a good packed surface to limp our ail-ing 4x4 back to civilization. We followed the fishermen for a couple of miles and as luck would have it they got stuck. We all got out and tried to dig out the old Ford Box Van but several attempts just buried it further into the silt. By now the two of us were beginning to find humor in our dilemma. Here it was that we were going out to help our bro-DEIST SEAT BELTS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2" -5pointmount 3" -5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS . Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3000/, GERMAN AUTO RACING PRESSURE PLATES 200mm 1700#-2400# PERFORMANCE CLUTCH DISC . Cush locks 4 puc ferramlc . 4 puc ferram/c with spring hub ken racer and ended up need-ing help ourselves. Then when help comes along they get stuck and we need to help them out. So I managed to get the 4x4 in front of the stuck truck a~d we attached a tow strap. With both vehicles pulling we man-aged to get the truck out and stopped about 100 yards down trail in a wash that provided some packed terra firma. It was here that one of our fishermen friends correctly di-agnosed our problem. He no-ticed that little exhaust pres-sure was coming out of the tail pipes. Not ever having a cata-lytic convertor fail before the thought of a collapsed conver-tor never crossed my exhausted mind. So we began to remove the convertor but as luck would have it we needed more tools than we had onboard. What we ended up doing was screwing the oxygen sensor out of the convertor allowing some of the exhaust to escape. With our re-newed power (well more than we began with), we thanked our new friends and outfitted them with t-shirts before heading souta. With the partially clogged exhaust we sounded like a choo choo train but we were happy to be underway. During our down time we. made repeated radio attempts to contact our team. Having en-gine vital signs all looking good we thought we would.make it to the first pit and borrow a chisel or something to open up the convertor further. At that time we hoped we would be closer to the highway and make contact wi-th our other chase crew. With our oxygen sensor out the high tech Dodge computer read lean and began to add fuel to the engine's mixture. This made quick use of ,our existing fuel. Of course, there is no Pemex off road so we decided to use some of the race fuel we carried. Problem was the dump can's hose wouldn't fit into the restricted fuel neck of the Dodge. We made it into the fish camp and with the gracious help of one of the locals we used a hose to siphon the needed fuel ' into the Dodge. Again, it be-came a little comical as the hose we were using had a small pinch hole in it. Our local friend had tried to siphon the fuel but due to the hole it didn't appear to Continued on page 30 GERMAN AUTO SACO MAGNUM RACK BIiiet housing, 1 ½ • allow gear, through bolt mounting complete with stops SACO CV CAGES, BOOTS, AND FLANGES 930 or T-4 cages 930 or T-4 or T-2 flanges Trick boots /specify) . 930CVstar ---------.-.....;· ···--"WEEKEND-YI ARRIOR" LONG TRAVEL BEAMS s• travel-stock width s• travel-widened beam 10• traval-stock width 10• travel-widened beam TRI MIL EXHAUST T-1 1 'la • chrome T-11½"raw T-11518" chrom T-115/8" raw T-4 chrome T-4raw GERMAN AUTO HATS GERMAN AUTO (l-SHIRTS. specify M,LG.XLG PORSCHE STYLE FAN SHROUD Fits T·4 engine, ut/1/zes T· 1 alternator • . Includes alternator stand . MAGNUM SPINDLES MK/ . 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The traffic jam on the highway, leading to the start line. This is a two Second driver, Bernardo Ramos, is all belted in and ready to take off The chase crew had a tough day; had to borrow a hose at a fish camp lane highway, meant for one lane each way. for his stretch, into San Ignacio. to get some fuel into their truck among other tf)ings. be pulling the fuel. So he left breakfast. With fue .... l- 1.,..._n_t.,.h-e-~b-a .... l~I 1.,...·o~i-n~t . ....,G~le_n_n-..-H~a-r_n.,..._s_n_o_t~ic_e_d~-a-r-e-tr-u~ly a blessing amongst a the side of the road. While the hose dangling to the side of Dodge, and in our tummys, we the trail the ball joint left, as it lot of turmoil. Every one of the standing in the passenger's the truck. I was up in the truck were once again underway. skipped across the silt, and, they workers at the Super Pits (all doorway, Bernardo said, "It's on bed rummaging through our When we finally came up to followed the trail and dug down pits really) were exceptionally fire." Thinking he meant it was containers and found a piece of the Super Pit at San Juanico we through the silt until they found helpful. Caught up in the action running I replied, "I know. It tape to cover the hole. In the had intentions of working on the old ball joint. The threads themselves they scurried started." "No," said Bernardo, meantime our friend had gone the Dodge and contacting our on the ball joint had been dam-around each vehicle that en-"I mean it is on fire." His wife to retrieve another hose. As I team. What happened was we aged but they were able to get tered their refuge and attended had joined us at the finish line covered the hole in the hose found out that our race truck it back on. They had to pinch to every detail to help the rac-and when he said fire the sec-Bernardo mentioned something had made repairs themselves off the right front brake line. ers get back on course. Each ond time she must have sprung at>out the hose and I looked and were running ahead of us With the patch work done they and every one of these workers ten feet from the truck. She was down to a small puddle on the by a couple of hours. Instinc-were once again back in the deserve an abundance of praise yelling something in Spanish ground. I mumbled something tively we jumped in the Dodge race. Obviously quicker than for their effort. and getting as far away from the about poor fuel economy and and headed out after them. what we got our convertor prob-Our off road excursion lasted truck as possible. He had run stuck the hose into the fuel fill. Once underway, we realized we lem solved. At the first pit they nearly 140 miles. I think we had around trying to get the hood Funny the things we do when forgot to work on the conver-came to, I believe they said it followed every road that headed open. I leaped from the driver's we are sleep deprived. tor so we planned to get it cut was a Mag 7 pit, they were south. We stopped at every vil-seat and flung open the hood. Having been up for over 30 out at the next town. helped out by the pit crew. They !age and stopped every vehicle Sure enough it was on fire. At hours we decided that food was What we would find out later welded the ball joint nut on we came upon seeking direc-first we panicked and threw dirt needed to re power our systems. on ·was that the race truck had then went on with no front tions. When we did get to the on the fire. When that didn't Problem was the fish camp only lost its spindle and the ball joint brake. road the first town we came to put it out we grabbed our water offered cerveza. So a couple of ripped out. 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We first went to La Paz where we finally limped the Pemex for fuel and then our ailing chase vehicle up to drove it, sputtering and missing the finish line. It was there we all the way, back to the hotel. found out how the Ranger had It is here I bid farewell to my got going again. We also found new friends. They were going to out that on the last leg a rock get cleaned up for dinner and I had torn off the exhaust and still hadn't told the others broke the header at the mani-about our ordeal. I was making fold. The alternator bracket my way through the hotel when had broken again and the car I noticed my American team-came in on battery power. Af- mates gathered around the <lin-ter crossing the finish line it ner table. I know I must have simply died and refused to start been a sight. They didn't know again. what had happened to us. They I had just missed all of our hadn't seen or heard from me English speaking teammates as · since 4 am. So their first sight-they headed to the hotel and ing of me was walking up to their were checking with the Weath-table. We had stopped for some erman to see if we had been re- cold Tecates. I had a firm grip on ported something other than one in my left hand and the rest missing. We partied with our of the six pac was dangling from friends at the finish line before my other hand. I joined them for heading back to the hotel. I a great steak buffet and we couldn't speak a word of Span-laughed ourselves silly swapping ish but seemed to fit right into stories about our Baja adventure. the conversation as Bernardo We slept the night in La Paz told of our ordeal. In fact, then had the catalytic conver-Hernandez's wife asked if I tor cut out before returning spoke Spanish. "No, I just know north. what he went through and can My suggestion to anyone that tell by the gestures." We all had is of sound mind; who has driven a good time and headed for the that far south, is that he should hotel. After leaving the finish stay a couple of days and enjoy line we felt rejuvenated and had La Paz. We felt we had business a sense of completion. Problem to take care of at home and with is we were about to find our or- two drivers in each vehicle we deal was not over. made the decision to head north. On the ·way to the hotel our So, our leisurely stay in La Paz Dodge caught fire. I guess that ended at 11 am on Satuday. We with the engine running so rich did stop and party at Cam's new the excess fuel blowing out the home in Loreto for a couple of exhaust collected on the spark hours and then headed north. plug wires and they caught fire We ended up in San Diego at 8 while inching around in traffic. am Sunday. The truck had died and So ended this Baja 1000 ad-Bernardo had jumped out to venture. But you can bet the push it out of traffic. The en-plans are being made now for gine had started and I pulled off the upcoming Baja 2000. ■ Dusty Times

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SUPERPITS WRAP UP team efforts. The other pits were ably captained by Zeke Zebrowski in Catavina, Mitch Miller in Punta Prieta, Kevin Du Vault in Bahia de Los Ange-les, Sergio Bueno in El Arco, Richard Burnworth in San Ignacio, and Mike Romero at Santa Rita. Boonie did his usual outstanding job of preparation and personally organized four pits while travelling south. He then manned the last pit. All the racers expressed their ap-preciation for the captains and their crews but Dave Gasper said it best, "They were there when we needed them." north of Ensenada provided great hospitality and a rallying point for pitters heading south. VP provided the banners to mark the pits. FAIR provided a meeting place and a checking account for Superpits funds. Best Pits Recognized By Mike Shatynaski The logistics of racing in Baja is a real challenge. But when it's the Baja Mille to La Paz, the challenge is almost in-surmountable.· Faced with the 1998 Baja 1000, racer Brady Wisdom stepped forward to resurrect the Superpits tradi-tion for a third consecutive peninsula length race. And with the Baja 2000 lurking around the corner, Brady and a few other racers decided this could be great practice for that unprecedented race. As could be expected, orga-nizing coverage for this race was almost overwhelming. Brady got off to a great start by getting advice from 1995 Superpits organizer, Dave Massingham. By soliciting sup-port from FAIR, Los Campeones, and the now de-funct Chapala Dusters, nine pits were set up to cover the · length of Baja to support the 14 racers who signed onboard. Boonie Herndon stepped fore ward to take on duties as the race director. As could be ex-pected for the Baja Mille, the support effort became a labor of love for the participants. Even though all racer fees paid to Superpits were put back into the pits to help cover tee-shirts, gas, equipment, and other expenses by pit captains and crews, it wasn't enough to cover the time and effort re: quired. Was the support effort suc-cessful? The results speak for themselves. Ten of the 14 Superpits vehicles finished the race. There were three first place finishers with Bekki Free-man in Class 1600, Dave Cal-laway in Class 12, and Robert Mullins in Class BCl. The two second place finishers were Marco Novelo in Class 7 and Mike Shatynski in Class 9. The balance of the finishers crossed the line by class as follows: Fourth in 5-1600 went to Dave Gasper, fifth in 1 went to Dale Ebberts, seventh and ninth in 1600 went to Andrew Lind-quist and Wes Wisdom respec-tively, and eighth in 9 went to Gary Pentis in his DARE race car. Bekki Freeman and Dave Gasper cinched their class points championships. The racers agreed that the pit captains s1-nd crews lived up to their names and provided "super" pits. Pit captains complimented chase teams who pitched in not just for their own car but for others as well. As I compiled inputs from racers and pit captains, every-one had an endless supply of stories. Pit activity ranged from simple fueling to major repairs. All the pits kept busy through the two long days of the race. After the race, each Superpits racer was given two votes, one for best pit in the north and one for south. In Baja Norte, Superpit 21 in San Quintin captained by Greg Franz was the overwhelming winner. Greg said that his pit was very busy since racers in the early stages came in groups. Dusty Timef Repairs were made to a broken steering shaft in the Lindquist car and to the front suspension of the Pentis car. After the race, the entire crew went Panga fishing out of the Old Mill Hotel. In Baja Sur, Superpit 7 in La Purisima captained by Tom Mangione was the winner al-though the voting for the best south pit was much closer. Tom not only did a great job in his pit, he split up his family and friends to cover the Colonia Purisima pit at the last minute. His daughter Nichole handled the pit captain duties at Superpit 8. According to Tom, the race activity in the La Purisima pit was much more spread out and his crew spent a night, a day and a part of an-other night ensuring everyone got through. Unexpectedly, Tom was assisted by two motor-cycle riders from Israel who were touring the highwaysz of Mexico and coincidentally passed through Baja during this legendary race. The captains of these two best pits were each presented a plaque and a check for their Special thanks is deserved by many Superpits supporters. BFG shuttled fuel for Superpits to various locations down the peninsula. Racer Marco Novelo and his Las Rosas Hotel just I could continue on for pages with more stories. Everyone had experiences that only happen during the Baja Mille. And after the race, all participants had a similar thought in mind: If the Baja 1000 was this fun, the Baja 2000 will be twice as fun. (I'll have to double check my notes to see if "fun" was really the word they used.) I've heard that Boonie is writing his Baja I 000 memoirs and that both Brady and Boonie are already planning on Superpits 2000. I'm onboard but thankfully we've all got a couple years to recover. ■ W BILSTEIN•FOX SHOX•SWAY-NWAY•KYB•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• ~ ' . 0 ~ z m i KARTEK ... "Where Off-Road is On!!!" .i ~- 'm d i ~ . 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1998. SNORE Awards Banquet Photos: Don Dayton Ryan Schank and Roland Barry took the Class 9 crown and also took home a brand new Bunderson 2-1600 after a very_ successful season and a lot of money. The 1998 SNORE Year End Awards. Banquet was held Janu-ary 9th at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. And what an event it was! Michael Gaughan hosted, there was an open bar, and a good time was had b)'_all. To start the evening, SNORE • • wide teflon coated piston wear ba that it does not drop into large ports. • sealed piston for low speed cont • high temperature stainless stt;!el • unique rod end design and d ends from bre \ • high temperature Viton seal I • large aluminum reservoir n (2X) and weight s • 1" shafts are micro-polis of a 3-5 RMS. • stainless steel teflon ' or 5/8" ID spa • shock are all owner r purchase. . . . §-.. i ' flow (weld on kits t';l ai_!.able se rate). ced to order or wel~~n'b~ h customer. ston for smooth dampl~tr~ ions. • C 40 and heat treatlci 17-4 sl'a!!) ess for long durability. Ive spring designed wifh low opefb,ling stress levelll.. • • I',' ; reservoir mountm~r the rear o buggies and trucks. ;Mibfa§!, Custom ou d springs for 3'-' shocks in ngs available. We do custom shock work and vehicle s Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts a ii be'( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. Page 32 King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 March 1999 .. John Gaughan, right, was the Class 1 champion for '98 and he is shown here with brother Brendµn receiving an award for dad Michael .and the Gold coast Hotel. honored its Sportsman winners. The honors went to Eric Gremm in Sportsman Buggy and to Mark Pettit in the Sportsman Truck di-vision. Recognition was then given to the car builders. Transmission Builder of the Year went to Ne-v ad a Transaxle, and Engine Builder of the year was won by Kurt Hadley. SNORE's Heavy Metal Cham-. pion, John Phegley, was crowned next, and John Gaughan, the Class 1 Champion received his award. SNORE presented the Con-tingency Sponsor award to BFGoodrich Tires, and then Race Sponsor Jerry Jones/Napa Auto Parts was honored as was Race Sponsor/Casino Sponsor Mike Gaughan and the Gold Coast. In ascend-ing order the points champs took their bows: Dee third in points, Rookie of the Year and 1/2-1600 Class champion, and he took home $2,310. Sec-ond place in points went to Mark Bunderson, who earned $2,810. SNORE's special honor, the Jimmy Schaefer award, given to an individual who has contrib-uted to the sport of off road over a long period of time, went to Kerry Freeman this year. As a finale, the final award of the evening went to Class 9 points champion, Ryan Schank, who not only won $4,900, but also took home a new Bunderson 2-1600 race car. Ryan won three races•in '98, and over $5,600. Not too bad for a $185 entry fee. SNORE also gave out over $42,000 in bonus money in 1998. The big winners of the year were ourdrivem. ■ Towles was 10th, Bryan Freeman 9th, Jeff Carr 8th, and ·Robbie Guevara, who was 7th took home $910 in points money. For 6th place Todd Dukes won $1,010. The next award to be given was the Driver of the Year honor, and that went to Mark Bund-erson. Dennis Wesseldine won the Sportsman of The Year Award and God knows he deserved it, see Dusty Times October '98. Then it went back to the points champs, with fifth in points and Class 10 champion Tom Sturgis, who won $1,310. Next to the po-dium was fourth in points and 5-1600 season champ, Mike Powada, who won $1~810. Dennis W esseld ine · was then hon-ored with the Sportsman of the year award. Continuing with the points champions, it was time for Rick Duncan, Tom Sturgis was the Class 10 Champion, fifth overall in points and certainly enjoys a kiss from the lovely Day Gang. Dee Towles came over from Pahrump to collect his trophy for 10th place overall in points after a good season. Dusty Times

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"The Straight Poop" from the Big W ahzoo KOCH -Without inferring responsibility on any one party, let me tell ya a tale about a recent CORE/Checker cultural exchange. Tom and some rich CORE guy had parked together out at Cal City while dialing in their ve-hicles for the upcoming Laughlin race. Koch finished testing his open buggy, and the other guy finished testing his Pro Truck. Then, while having a cold one around their tow vehicles, they both let somebody else in their respec-tive crew take their respective race vehicles out for a little run. And yep, you guessed it. Both vehicles came around a hill at speed in opposite direc-tions, RIGHT IN FRONT of · the owners, and smashed into each other big time! They missed hitting head on, but just barely. Both vehicles rolled, caught fire, and had extensive damag~. It suppos-edly almost tore the motor and tranny out of Tom's car, and wrecked the truck's whole rearend. Luckily, neither idiot was hurt. Hey Tom, hang in there dude, your luck's gotta change. LAUGHLIN -With their two day race format, SCORE once again invad.ed· Laughiin Nevada for their Desert Chal-lenge. Although the weather was perfect, the course was ex-tremely dusty. With overall class positions still unclear at RATCHET TIE-DOWNS 5000 Lb. rated 8' $21 .95 10,000 Lb. rated ~~11)/f'-press time, I'll give ya what I got. Off to a great start this year, the 'Seeleymobile' took a first place in Class 5, by plac-ing second on Saturday and winning on Sunday. Con-gratulations, George. Let's hope this means the start of another big drive for that third Class 5 points championship. While piloting one of his many rides, Capt'n Hook easily ·won the Checkers another class win. The Hookster drove to a win during Saturday's seg-ment, and his car owner matched him on Sunday for the overall win. Congratula-tions to Jimmy Hook, first place in. Class 9 ! Way to go, guys. This year should be a busy one for Hook, as he was also elected as our Club Presi-dent for 1999. From kid, to Capt'n, to race car whore, and now Prez. Awesome Dude! Walter Prince and crew, in their open Sport.sman buggy, took a second Saturday and a third on Sunday for an over-all third. The Steele Brothers, Scott and Brian, took turns in their 1/2-1600 car with iden° tical results. Fourth on Satur-day, Fourth on Sunday, and fourth overall (I think). Hey guys, look on the bright side ... at least ya beat Bekki! Jim Greenway was back in his Class 12 car (old 10s) and came home with a fifth over-all spot in class. But, with the satisfaction of a fine second place on his Sunday run. Good show, guys! Some o( our other cl.rivers didn't fare so well. Kevin Davis had his Class 1 buggy back in the action again but DNFed. He managed a sixth on Saturday, but had part of 8' $26.95 Blue• Black• Red Twisted Snap-Hook Long Wide Handle Camarillo, CA 93010 Toll Free Order Line (888) 738-5970 (805) 738-0223 Fax(805)738-0224 COMBO TIE-DOWNS 5000 $12.95 10,000 $14.95 DELTA 5000 L 21" $6 33" $7 10,000 21"-$8. $84.95 ea. ~t,i.i-~~ 500() lb 16fXXJ lb 16000 lb 10000 lb 2000 lb rated rated rated rated rated Page 34 El [ii] .• C.O.D. the rear of his car torn off dur-ing an encounter with the Truggy. The Bartolloti 10 car DNFed with Saturday CVs and, a ·Sunday tranny. Tom Koch rolled his open car ride on Saturday, breaking a front arm. After being re-welded, the car owner broke it again on Sunday. Jeff Lothringer was driving a non-Checker 10 car but finishing info was nil, which generally means he did shitty. If anybody out there missed our big 25th Reunion in Ve-gas, you'll get a full report on it right here next month. I have spies in key positions so we'll really get the 'Straight Poop'. ■ California RaHy series By Sue Robinson The California Rally Series celebra'ted another great year of rallying on January 23rd with its annual awards ban-quet in Burbank, CA at the · Holiday Inn. Donna Mitchell put together another fine evening of year end awards, good food and comedy high-lights produced by Harris Done and Ray Hocker. It is always entertaining to see your competitors in something other than a helmet and firesuit. The year end CRS class award winners were Rui Bra-sil driver ·and Carlos Travares co-driver champions in the four wheel drive class; Carl Jardeval driver and Ole Holter co-driver champs in two wheel open; Steve Bender driver and Craig McHugh co-driver champions in the stock class and finally Doug Robinson driver and Shane Polhamus co-driver champs in the per-formance stock class. The Galal Souki award to the stock class/performer stock class competitor who is voted by his/her class competitors to best exemplify the spirit of helpfulness in the class was won by Doug Robinson. The Kenneth Zimmerman Memo-· rial award was given to two of our long standing volunteers, Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Straub, for their contributions to the club. The Zimmerman award includes a Sparco rac-ing seat donated by Sube Sports. Last seen, Lucinda was arm wrestling Matt for the seat! The Rookie of the Year award was given to the boys in the blue bunny -Steve Bender and Craig McHugh. John Dil-lon presented the Chris Bradshaw Memorial Award posthumously to Chris Bradshaw. This award recog-nizes competitors who com-pete in solo, road racing and club rally. It is a beautiful three faceted crystal sculp-ture, a fitting memorial to a very talented young man. tion, "What does your driver do when he makes a mistake?" Lon swore ."that he slows down and regroups when he makes a driving error and Bill swore he drives like a maniac. It is amazing how well we get to know each other when riding in a rally car during a season. If that didn't have you roll-ing on the floor the Captain Crunch awards followed shortly. This year all" teams who rolled their car during the season had to re-enact the in-cident with one small detail changed -the driver and co-<lriver switched spots. Chrissy Beavis was the eventual win-ner for a great rendition of a spectacular roll at Gorman this year. Her final quote from her driver Terry Stonecipher clinched it "Your parents (Mike and Paula) not to be outdone Alex Tissot has won the award for the first rollover of this year. Evidently he took his beautiful Volvo out to California City for testing last weekend and rolled in a cor-ner. Best yet is it was caught on video with his in car cam-era. I have already ordered a copy for next year's banquet. Public humiliation is what keeps us all humble in this sport. Our regular emcee John Perrige helped the club dance Harris Done, who last year brought us "CRS Jeopardy", hosted his own unique version of the "Newlywed Game" with the "couples" being composed of drivers and co-drivers. The teams were Lon Peterson and the loveiy Biii Gutzman, Paul "This is Rocket Science" Timmerman and Susie Mar-tin, Tom Bier and Ole "Home Brew" Holter and Doug "If It's Red I'll Buy It" and Sue Rob-inson. In response to the ques-. the hours away with great mu-sic and disco lights. It was ru-mored that a limo driven by Joe Jasik, carrying various CRS members, the younger crowd I might add, was seen cruising Sunset Strip at 2 a.m. There is very little down time in the CRS these days. We have added a new Rally Sprint championship to our schedule. 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and 7 in Holtville, California followed on February 21 with an event on the dry fake by Boulder City, Nevada. Two new organizers are putting on the majority of the events -Dennis Sheean with NASA (no not the space program), and Scott Bottomley with the Las Vegas SCCA club. This adds another seven races to our event schedule. The CRS rally school is scheduled for March 20 · and 21. It will be held in Laugh-lin, Nevada. There will be a SCCA rally cross, SCCA li-censing school, a rally sympo-sium on advanced topics for experienced drivers and co-drivers as well as the introduc-tory courses for first time com-petitors. For further details check out our web site <californiarallyseries.com>. Roger Allison and Ray Hocker are planning on put-ting together a Hill Climb in the Kingman, Arizona area. They will follow the same for-mat the Colorado Hill Climb Series uses. The 12 mile road should be a hoot to run up-tight, twisty and lots of switchbacks. Don't miss this event on May 14th. The Ramada Express lnter-na tional Rally will be televised on Speedvision in the month of March. This is an excellent program produced for the American Rally Sport Group by Doug Plummer. There is great coverage of the CRS drivers as well as the interna-tional teams. Check it out! Viewing times are: March 7 - 9 am EST/ 6 am PST/ 11 pm PST March 8 - 1 am EST March 12 -Noon EST/ 9 am PST March 22 - 9 am EST/ 6 am PST/ 10 pm PST March 23 - 1 am EST Finally, it appears we will have lots of new/old vehicles out to run with us this year. Robert Tallini is selling his car and building a new Eclipse. Mike and Paula Gibeault have bought a VW GTI. The big question there is who is going to drive? Will it be Mike, Paula, Michelle or Chrissy? Maybe they will play musical drivers, a regular Chinese fire drill at the time controls. I can see it now, bodies leaping from the car and swapping spots. Tom Bier is working on a new Saab -when will he learn? Even George Pisek has given the Saab (which he rolled up in a ball at Reno) up for a new Audi. We also heard Bobbie Whitman is building a late model BMW. Mark Brown has bought a VW GTI and his son Shane Pelhamus has bought the Robinson's red RX7 to run this year. That makes them a three rally car family since they still have the Toyota FX16 sitting in the yard too. It is al ways nice to have a spare, right? If you are interested in join-ing in the fun check out our web site at < californiarallyseries .com> or give Sue Robinson, our act-ing director, a call at (760) 788-3809 for more informa-tion on the CRS. See you at the start line! ■ F.A.I.R. NEWS By Joy Bancroft Well 1998 is over with and the March issue for Dusty Times is due, and I am still trying to play catch up from the season 1998. I apologize ... it sure would help if we could get more teams to fax me or contact me on their day's events at the races. What I try to share is purely my own knowledge from the race I at-tend or notes from the FAIR meetings. I never claimed to be a journalist or that I too don't have a day time job that works me 40 to 60 hours a week. OK ... so you are all say-ing who cares! Just someone try to keep up with the ar-ticles ... and you all should quit complaining ... enough said! MDR SEASON -It cer-tainly is clear the FAIR racers really spent a lot of time at the MDR races this year. FAIR on an average had 16 racers ev-ery race. We have a great time with out Bar-B-Ques and all the FAIR members who come out with their families and spend the weekend. I am sure the teams all have some great stories and memories they could share for a long time. If you never raced an MDR race with support from FAIR, you'll never know how great our pits are! Each pit has at least two to three teams covering that pit and lots of volunteers who aren't even racing. One group that really stands our is Mike Shannon and Greg Franz who have spent a good part of 1998 taking a pit with real expertise in safety and knowledge of pit-ting and getting a race car ser-viced. FAIR and all the race teams want to thank you for your contribution and we hope we can return the service to you some day! The season brought a Class 1 champion and some real close champions in the season finale. On the final race John Lucas' brand new car with Ron. Osburn as the driver had a few problems and had to settle for second that race to Dave Massingham. But he still has a lot to celebrate, he·is the 1998 Class 1 Champion. Con-OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE bypc Unscramble the five words below and the resulting scrambled letters in the boxes and you will have the answet to the question or statement. Ya Say You've lost Your Buggy -Huh Bunky???? Never Fear! HTERACT IHSTWC RMILTIE SCIASHS " Dusty Times □-----□ □□--~-·□--□-__..I .... I□-· ___ · --□-□-□ THE ' " HERE! March 1999 gratulations from FAIR you had some tough competition this season with Dave Mass-ingham and Tom Koch. Dave Massingham with Mae co-riding drove his heart out on the final season race. It was a tough race but he needed to win so he drove hard losing the air shocks on the first lap. The air shocks caused the car to bottom out so Dave had to drive a lot slower and save the car. The car, however, sus-tained some damage but wit}l some work and oil to keep it going they finished the race in first place and second in the1 class championship. Dave wants to thank all the FAIR pits, especially Mike Shannon and crew. Special thanks to Bill Varnes, the chase teams, Pete an,d Ryan Dutton, Garth Hutchison and Gary/Joy Ban-croft, and Tom .Jensen, that came out to make sure every inch of the desert was cov-ered. Dave can't thank enough, Wayne Morgan, for the opportunity to drive his *Custom Control Arms (Upper and Lower) *Custom Delrin Strut Frames *Dual Shock Kits race car. It's so much .fun. Wayne has watched Dave and Mac drive the heck out of his pride and joy all year and never drove except to test. Thanks, Wayne. Dave wants to congratulate the John Lucas team for taking the championship. Class 800 leaves the season finale with Eric Heiden and Boonie Herndon .as class champions.-They both had a season of ups and downs and spent weekends covering a pit for FAIR. Thanks for all your help! Class 1/2-1600 will con-tinue to be exciting ... we hope to see more of Scott Wisdom in his single seat. Randy Miller and John Miller have a new car along with Owen Potter and Rick Gamble. They raced the 1998 final MDR race and had a good time breaking in their cars. John Strode and Bryan Hintz had a full season with their 5-1600 car. The fi-nal race John was not feeling Continued on page 3 CUSTOM FABRICATION • MIG AND TIG WELDING • . CNC PLASMA CUTTING • TUBE BENDING SPHERICAL BEARINGS *ROD ENDS CRO-MO/STAINLES *MISAUGNMENT SPACERS ¾-1 ½ *UNIBAL CUPS 1"-1 ½" *THREDED SLEEVES ¾ - 1 ¼ RACE SHOCKS BILSTEIN SWAf~A-WAY STANDARD co:w Page 35 _,,,

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well and Bryan drove a lot of the race. They had their fair share of problems from throttle cable that came lose to hitting a big rock, causing a gaping hole in the bottom of the car. They managed to fin-ish the race with a second and was second in class for the championship. Congratula-tions, this team has way too much fun but knows when to get serious. We hope to see more of Stephanie Lozano, we would like to help more, not sure we can give as much help as Bill Markel. He offered Stephanie a trans that he's had for five years just so she could race. Class 9 for the season brought efforts all season from Joel Mohr and Max Hanberg and Harry Dunne trying to chase down The Johnsons. The Johnsons are our friends and we wish FAIR could be a support to them, but obviously they have a great program without FAIR winning all six races. however, congratula-tions to Joel Mohr for second in the championship and Harry Dunne for third in points. It seems Max Hanberg will be one to reckon with in 1999 as he now moves up to 1/2-1600 class. FAIR would like to thank · Paul Duffy for attending our meetings and filling us in on the race information. And thanks to Paul and Patricia for putting on great races. If FAIR can be of any help, just let us know! We love to. contribute to the success of MDR! SCORE SEASON -The SCORE season seems to be a continuing challenge for FAIR. Unfortunately FAIR does not have a team that races the entire race season. We have our racer friends who like to do their own thing, like Jason Hatz and Lorenzo Rod-riguez. We keep in touch with a lot of SCORE racers who used· to be very active with FAIR, but we know they are happy to count on their own people. FAIR is still available if they need us. Yes, we have FAIR racers like Mike Nix, Tim Braden, Mitch Griffin, and Dave Galloway who like to do the non-Mexico races and have had some good fin-ishes in 1998. Congratula-tions, we hope we can con-tinue to help in 1999. Then there are the FAIR Mexico racers. We get a lot of si:ipport from volunteers to help _coor-dinate these races. Each Mexico race is different and we seem to pick up a ·team here and there just because the logistics to race Mexico seem to attract racers to FAIR. Just like "The SUPERPITS" FAIR organized this year. Look for our article from Mike Sha tynski. Glad we could be of support to any racer, even if it meant Mexico, one time only. SQ SORRY WHIPLASH! I did forget to mention how much FAIR appreciated your entry contribution for our an-nual Nostalgia dinner. It was only forgotten by me on my long list of contributors. A special thank you went out from the members who were winners to that entry. THANKS AGAIN! 1999 ANNUAL WORK PARTY -The work party on January 16th was a huge suc-cess. Not only did we accom-plish going through every piece of equipment we owned, but we received an uplift to the van from Pepe Rodriguez. Pep Rodriguez and his shop graciously offered to add some support to the shelving in the van. They did more than that, Valley Perf o:rmance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Page 36 Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater $45,000 Ca Dave or 702-247-1266-or 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 they replaced all the shelving with square tubing and ex-panded metal with support beams. Pepe, we can't thank you enough for the excep-tional workmanship, thanks again! Thank you to the mem-bers who were able to attend the work party, Bill Markel, Billy Snyder, Frank Omboli, Jim Cochran, Randy Ross, Jim Delaney, Harry Dunne and Christopher, Gary Stuivenga, Wes Wisdom and Scott Wis-dom, Don Bowler, Tim Goreham, Mike Shannon and Kevin Shannon, Stephanie Lozano, Joy Bancroft, Tom Mangione, Orin Jordan, Den-nis Beckwith and son, John Strode, Bryan Hintz, and Donald Harper and son. And a special thanks to Gary Ban-croft, Don Bowler, and Dale Stephan for showing up at Bill Markel's the weekend before to unload the FAIR van and then Don Bowler driving the van to Pepe's shop. · ALREADY... SCORE LAUGHLIN 1999 -FAIR didn't anticipate a huge num-ber of racers for support to · Laughlin, but we counted on supporting Tim Braden, Mitch Griffin, George Perret, Dave Galloway, and G. Blakeman. Mike Shannon drove the FAIR van out and set up a booth at contingency. I don't know if he picked up any ad-ditional racers to support, but I do know they had their usual well staffed Shannon group at MAIN and Randy Ross and Jim Delaney were at the first road crossing. Gary and I were at the second road crossing for support for Garth Hutchison and FAIR, but we ended up holding down a spot both days we made available to the Wil-sons and Fleet Fuels. I know Tim Braden finished in the top four both days. Mitch had motor problems which I am sure he doesn't care for me to repeat. But he gave it his best shot, had a motor to put in Sunday morning only to start the race a few miles and lose that motor too. And Dave Galloway had good days both days. Our friends Garth Hurchison and Lorenzo Rod-riguez were very competitive with the 1600 pack. Garth broke a trailing arm on Sun-day and Lorenzo ended up with a sixth for the weekend. I can fill you in on more de-tails next issue after I get more from the racers. HEY SCORE ... I can't help but mention that the KAOS at the second road crossing on Saturday with the over abun-dance of people was due to the useless flag volunteers. I no-ticed that Saturday we saw mostly flag volunteers control-ling the people. But other safety issues were not' being controlled, such as flags out when a car would stop for a tire change. So consequently, it was obvious that Sunday controls were much more stringent from BLM and a SCORE official on site all day. Howe·ver, early Sunday morn-ing when a 10 car pitted nearly on the course, I asked a flag volunteer to put his yel-low flag out, and he said "Don't tell me what to do lady, its the crew chief's job to watch for oncoming cars and wave a flag." I was appalled ... this car_ had stopped for a flat to the crowd, his team was not there or a so-called crew chief (even if everyone truly has a designated crew chief), what did he think this was, "NASCAR?" It's everyone's job to ensure SAFETY. Had the flag people been more re-sponsible on Saturday, maybe it wouldn't have looked like the crowd was out of control. I also resent that BLM found it necessary to run racers and pit personnel out of the road crossing who are knowledge-able abut the activities (not drunks) and pitting for fellow racers, but didn't have the right sticker with the car num-ber that was racing at that time. Does no-one realize that racers and pit personnel, pit for more than one team? Per-haps SCORE and BLM could come up with a better sticker process or issue more stickers for the road crossings per team. PIKE'S SERV.ICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORN_IA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! Mobil RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND THE BEST IN THE DESERT March 1999 JUST A REMINDER -FAIR meets every first and third Wednesday of the month in Fullerton (8:00 p.m.), at the Holiday Inn, where Harbor Blvd. and the 91 Freeway meet. San Felipe and BAJA 500 are around the corner should you need pit support! ■ C.O.R.E Pit Report By Sandy Parker CORE INST ALLA TI ON DINNER The January meeting is the first meeting for the new of-ficers to take the reins and begin the new racing year. Brad Inch, our new leader spoke to a packed house where he took a poll of all the active drivers and began to plan the 1999 racing support. Brad do-nated a special made "Time Out Kid" clad in a CORE shirt which was raffled off and raised $110 for the club. CORE was lucky to have two new prospective members at-tend the new year's meeting. Gary Dubin and Cory Weyer are looking to join the club and allow CORE to pit for their Class 1 car. BEST IN THE DESERT -Terrible Town 250 The Pro truck team of Kevin McGillivray and Tom Ridings ran the year ending Best lri Desert race in Nevada. Only five Protrucks entered but as closely matched as these trucks are, they always put on a great show. Tom Ridings with Greg Shapiro as co-pilot started the race ap.d put the Protruck in the lead. Early in the race, the only down time was digging out the truck after they got stuck twice. A long the way Greg said they had some very exciting moments as they raced over 100 mph door handle to door handle with the Knuckles Protruck. The Knuckles Protruck blew a cor-ner and the SPEC sponsored truck was able to get around them. Extending their lead slightly, they \ihoke a drive shaft that got twisted and bent which beat the bottom of the truck like a wrecking ball. It wound up all the electrical wires, fuel lines, and ulti-mately loqged itself into the fuel cell, thus ending their race. CORE OUTING No.I CORE members, families and friends gathered in Bar-stow on New Year's weekend for the first annual camping/ off roading outing. Quite a few people show·ed up with six cars which made for some fun in the Barstow desert. CORE OUTING No.2 The next outing is 'sched-uled for March 6 and will be held in the Cuddaback off road area near Ridgecrest. Come out, bring your pre run-ner and enjoy the company an.cl fun in the desert without the pressure of the race week-end. SCORE - Laughlin Desert Challenge Dusty Times

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The Laughlin race drew a good field of Protrucks, McGillivray/Ridings were there to do battle. I believe most desert racers were actu-ally hoping to make it out with most of the parts intact. It was a miracle that this team was able to get the truck ready for the race. Eight days before the race the entire back half of the truck was damaged in a test-ing mishap. The easiest thing to do would be abandoning the race and prep the truck for the next race. This team didn't opt for the easy way out. The truck was towed to Bill Yarns Mirage Race Shop and was worked on nonstop until the green flag dropped. The purpose of this pit report is to give credit where credit is due, and this is where massive quantities of credit deserves to be handed out to all the team members who would not give up. I wish I knew the name of everybody that helped, but you know who you are and this praise is for you. As for the race, Kevin McGillivray and Greg Shapiro drove Saturday's race and Tom Ridings and Dean Cognito drove on Sunday. Both days they managed to finish in fourth place just sec-onds out of third. The Protrucks finished ahead·of all the Class 8 trucks, out lived and finished ahead of all the Trophy trucks on Sunday. The Protruck race was one of the most exciting races to watch; appears Ivan Stewart added all the best ingredients in the de-velopment of this popular class. FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING Some new prospective CORE members attended our February general meeting. We would like to thank ·Derrin Griffin and Lex and Shashum Webb for attending and wel-come them to our club. Lex and Shashum h ave already been assign ed club work, to assist Mr. Inch in planning t he many sites to visit in the up-coming CORE Ou ting in Cuddaback off road area. Looking for a profession al family oriented off road racing pit support o rganization? CORE Pit Club is always in-terested in finding new mem-bers and offering them qual-ity pit support. CORE has regular monthly meetings on the first Tuesd ay of the month a t Mulligan res taura n t in Santa Clarita. For more infor-mation please call (8 18) 772-7758 o r e-mail m e a t Race975@ aol.com. ■ MAG7 News By Stephen T . Stenberg Welco me everyon e! The new year has arrived and the MAG 7 Race Team is in full swing. We had our first Board of Directors meeting on J anu-ary 12th. The following offic-ers were reinstated for 1999. The President, is myself, Stephen T . Stenberg. The Secretary is _Hugh McClean. Dusty Times The Treasurer is Terry W alsh. The Race Directors are Wayne and Debbie Newell. The Equipment Manager is Andy Pena. The Communica-tions Director is Eric Will-iams. Clothing and Stickers are managed by Mike Wickersham. Computers and Website are managed by Kevin Walsh. The Medical Advisor is Mike Henning. The Team Historian is Jerry McMurry. Congratulations to all! Let's make 1999 the best year ever for the Magnificent 7 Race Team. . Once again, MAG 7 is go-ing to race and provide pit support for all three SCORE Baja races. These are: The San Felipe 250 in March, the Baja 500 in June, and the Baja 1000 in November. In addition to these, team members will be attending some of the Fud-pucker races out in Imperial Valley. MAG 7 will be pitting the Fudpucker 24 hour endur-ance race for bikes and quads in May. We are taking appli-cations now for bikes and quads that want pit support. MAG 7 will be providing lights, tools, genera tors, weld-ers, dump cans, radios and team members all lined up to assist you in your racing effort all day and all night. Our first SCORE race will be the San Felipe 250 this year. MAG 7 Race Team is tenta-tively planning two pits for this race. Both pits will be in areas where your chase trucks would have a hard time getting in and out. One is at the hundred mile mark. The other is at the 200 mile mark. These are approxi-mate locations until the map is released by SCORE. The pit drop off and pick up will b_e at Pete's Camp, just north of San Felipe. That will be on the Fri-.day before the race and the Sunday after the race. Applica-tions will be going out in Feb-rua ry. The fees have been greatly reduced from last year's race. As you know, racing is now done using race fuel pur-chased in Baja, California. We can purchase the fuel for you, or you can buy your own fuel and drop it off to us at the pit drop off location. Either way is fine. You can contact the MAG 7 Race Team at our website, http:/www.Walsh.com/MAG7 / or send an e-mail to our Race Directors at Newell@CTS.com. The phone number for the Newells is (760) 745-5740. The final cut off (not post date) for San Felipe appli-cations is March 5, 1999. Ap-plications for this race will not be accepte~ after March 5th. For the first time in MAG 7 history, dues have increased. MAG 7 has had the same dues since this team was created back in 1969. They· were $15 per year. Dues cover: office ex-penses, _postage, mailers and equipment repair costs. The dues starting in 1999, have been raised to $20 per year. Dues are payable each year by February 28th. When you be-come a MAG 7 member, the minutes from Board of Direc-tors meetings are e-mailed to you each month. So come out and enjoy the races this year and if you need a quality race team to assist you, then look no further. MAG 7 is a family racing team.We enjoy ourselves both during and after the races. We get together several times a year for family camp-outs and get-togethers. MAG 7 always welcomes new racers and pit support members to their team. You can call our MAG 7 hotline (619) 582-3728 or you can e-mail me directly at mag7race@aol.com. Until next month, adios from Team Baja (Steve Stenberg)! ■ BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspensi~n with this advanced bump stop system. These bump stops come complete with a mounting system. polyurethane end piece and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMIC.ALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. (Includes mounting hardware & grade 8 bolts) See your off road racing parts supplier or call ua direct Yarnell Specialties, In c. 102 Crestview 1-520-427-3551 · P.O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 March 1999 coming Next Month ... 0 SNORE A VI 250 0 Pace Stadium Racing at Anaheim, California 0 MDR Barstow ... Plus MUCH, MUCH, 1n.ore! PRP Premier Racing Products From $149.95. each plus shipping & handling Proudly introduces the "Premo" full suspension seat, at an affordable price with quick delivery and many stylish colors. This is the premier seat for your jeep, truck, race car or buggy. • 3/4" x .065 steel frame for strength • Ballistic nylon inner liner for strength and true suspension feel. • Stylish outer cover with extra foam for comfort and support • High quality vinyl and 100% polyolefin tweed with high resistant to fraying and fading used on cover • Slotted for harness style belts • Four standard colors in stock at all times for quic~ delivery, many other color combinations available. • Low backs and bench seats available PRP Premier Racing Products 1-800-317-6253 I Fax 909-676-6311 Page 37 . l

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Happenings .. .contiinued June 4-6, 1999 Tecate/SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, Baja California July 16-17, 1999 SCORE Fireworks 250 Barstow, CA September 10-11, 1999 Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm, NV November 5-8, 1999 Tecate/SCORE Baja 1000 TBA, Baja California SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NY 89106 (702) 452-4522 April 16-18, 1999 Buffalo Bill's 400 Primm, NY June 25-27, 1999 KC HiLites Midnight Special TBA August 13-14, 1999 NAPA Auto Pares 250 Ely,NV September 24-26, 1999 30th Gold Coast SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NY November 12-14, 1999 The Reserve 250 Henderson, NY SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS This is the i;ystem run by most off road race winners · Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Office Manager: Mary Carson 2285 Tracy Avenus Simi Valley, CA 93063 (805) 526-a805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 __ I_mernet: http://scta-bni.org SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W . 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PACE MOTOR SPORTS IN PHOENIX 31, Fans· At Bank one Ballpark Over 31,000 fans were in attendance at the Bank One Ballp_ark in Phoenix for the U.S. Off Road Championship Series con-flict -on February 6. Travis Spader taking the win, Tim farr took the sec-ond spot and third place went to Jeremy Schell. place finisher. Pace's remaining sched-ule takes these stadium racers to San Diego, Cali-fornia next and El Paso, Texas on February 2 7. March 6 will see them in Dallas Texas and they go on to Pontiac, Michigan on March 13, March 20th they run in Vancouver, Britsish Columbia and the final race of their 11 race series in in Seattle, Wash-ington on March 27th at the Kingdome. If you want to see some real hard and fast racing you should avail yourself to one of the races when they are in your neck of the woods. We promise you won't be disappointed with the racing activities. Give it a try! ■ Five classes were com-peting this night, Super Modified Buggy, Pro Quad, Stadium Lite, Sta-dium Sport Truck and Stadium Thunder Bike. A big field of Super Modified Buffies took the green flag and it was a hotly contested race for the f~rst three or four po-sitions. Cory Witherill took a close one over Jerry Whelchel and Jimmy Nichols was the third Lee O'Donnell was the early leader in the Sta-dium Sport Truck Class but didn't hold it for long, surrendering the lead to Chris Brandt who then led to the finish. O'Donnell took the silver medal, Jerry Whelchel was the third place finisher and Stacy Pike took the fourth spot. ✓ ULTRASONIC CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & 011 Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks / Lines / Fitt~ngs Fourteen Stadium Lites were ready to race and quite a show they put on, for all the spots but first for that belonged to Bob Briggs, a resounding vic-tory. Todd Whitmann was second and Rennie Awana took the third spot. CACTUS RACING Assembled Components ✓ PRODUCTION & ✓ TESTING SERVICES RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES · Magnetic Particle There were 43 Thunder Bikes ready to do battle and there was really no contest here either as Spud Wa.lters took off and left the rest of the field in his wake. Scott Meyers took the second spot and Bob Naughton took the bronze medal. BELL, SHOE!, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA95 for SODA compiete bio-r systems for Singie or doubie seat cars. Rel.met conversions, Cooi boxes, compiete iine of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety Products & BELL MOTORSPORTS We ship UPS Daiiy From $299.00 Helmet & Skirt Visa-Mastercard (Magnaflux / Myglo) Liquid Penetrant (Dye Penetrant / Zyglo) Ultrasonlc X-Ray CRITICAL Twenty Pro Quads took the green flag and there was lots of racing for posi-tion. In the end it was 515;3 Bowden .AV(#.• San Di,go •CA_• 92117 • (619) 279-2509 s EEL E,,, "Ra Ci n g Class 5 Laughlin Winner BFGaadrich· ----------r,~s FAT Performance -Fortin Transaxle Foddrill Fab King Shocks UPtime ~ Perform:11.ncc Proc!ucts Built & Prepped by Dave Snoddy s,gn Pros Checkers Pit Support FOR RACE INFO/P/CS/VIDEO: www.aireHtreme.com www.seeleyracing.com SAME DAY Internet coverage a success PROTOTYPE ✓ CAD/CAM PROGRAMMING ✓ REVERSE ENGINEERING ✓ EDM MACHINING 3043 Oak St, Santa Ana, CA 92707 Ph 714-957-1215 Fx 714-957-1567 e-mail: WBUNN@CRITICAL-OP.COM FAA Repair Station# WB7R288J Thanks: Bruce Anderson, PC/ Radios/Weatherman, Beard Super Seats Deist, Valvoline, KC Highlights,· ProWire, Sway-A-Way Dusty Times March 1999 Page 39

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La■ Vega■, Nevada B91 I 5-1713 70i!-871-1661 Fax: 7Di!-871-648D 900 STATE MILL ROAD ;AKRON, OH44319 330-644-7774 THEONLYREASONFORNOT ADVERTISING IN DUSTY TIMES , ==~~PAINr /1111Pal471NGS<j(GR.Amn;*J,(J~ * •BK,I 11}~ MA/NIE~/'• &v~l/¥~<11-J,/IIIRING-* LS BECA~SE YOU ALREADY HAVE MORE BUSINESS THAN YOU CAN HANDLE Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Whel\,ls 760-949-1220 Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM INC.COM Adam Wik t 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines· Engine Dyno Service 2733 W. Missouri Phoer;iix, AZ 85017 MARK ZOLLER Owner 535 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-9457 Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE ;;:;;;;;;.._....1 FORSALE: 5-1600RaceCar,2seat-FOR SALE: Class 7 Toyota 2nd over- new engine-includes new trailer, ex-all '98 SCORE Season 10 Fox shocks, tra bus trans-tum key-back car off SAW 300m axles, SAW 300m T tbars, trailer-race. Many, many extras-tires 2 Beard seats, National springs, Ford etc. Worth over $9,000.00 driver 9" with Summers Spool, radio w/I-com, 12assed away-cancer-wife will sell all Howe P/steering, Fuel safe 35 gal cell, $7,000.00 extremely good buy. 2 Webers, Crane Ignition, Includes: (909)787-8549page (909)422-2701. Tandem axle t~ai~er, 10 mounted FOR SALE: CORR Sportsman B~Gs, 2 transm1ss1oi:is: extra _head, Stock truck, 1997 Ford F-150, 2nd dnveshaft, axles, Ball Jomts, Spmdles, place in '98 points championship out sheet metal, A-arms, Plus, Plus, Plus, of 15 trucks, 14 Bilstein shocks, Dana . $16,500.00 (805)683-1211, or (805) 60,Heruy'sballjoints,AmericanRac-683-8187 fax. ing Wheels, Goodyear tires, Roller, $9,000.00. (616)267-5135. FOR SALE: 5-1600 Lothringer built & prepped, Full valve prep, rebuilt Fox 2.0 large shaft, 1" longer chro-moly arms, Type 2 CV's will 930 ax-les, New trans, Fresh Wiks motor 80hp, new Lothringer front beam w/ shock towers, new grooved front tires on Centerlines, Spares available, Race suit and helmet, Beard seats, Diest Belts, $9,000.00. Call Guy Pe-tersen (626)357-3873. FOR SALE: SS Jirnco Class 10 A-Arm, Winner of 1997 Barstow 250, Wiks 1835, Fortin trans, rack, pwr str pump, BF Goodrich, Centerlines, some spares. Car is lite and fast. 2000 · pounds wet. $35,500.00. Call Tim at (760)344-1925 if no ans. Leave mes-sage . FOR SALE: Hi-Jumper, Single seat, Fox, Willwood, Summers Brothers, K&N, Power Steering, Centerlines, Pumper 25 gal cell, 2CXXlcc type 1, less then 500 miles, 11 0"wb, Go Racing For $4,900.00 (209) 772-0215. FORSALE: Hi-Jumper, 2110VW, 2 seater, long travel by Suspensions, Unlimited, Adjustable front & rear Bilsteins, Fuel Cell, Centerlines, Ra-dio $5,495.00 (805)498-6049. Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 MOTORCYCLES •KTM . •HUSABERG •HUSQVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS • SUSPENSION M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10C2 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, .CA 92806 714-449-1271 FAX 449-1374 FOR SALE: Fastest Chevy Class 8S short course or desert truck around. Glen Helen 8S & over-all points champion 97, Glen Helen 8S champion, Estero Beach champion 97, 98, this truck has won over 90% of the races run in the last 3 years and is faster then most Class 8 trucks. Its a proven winner at a reason-able cost. Summers Dana 60 full floater, 55 gal fuel cell, Mogi turbo 400-trans, 620 hp 391 cid, Fox, Cone ball joints, Lee steer-ing, Too many parts and spares to list. Serious inquiry only. This truck has a license plate! $25,000.00 obo. With or without spares. (310) 396-0043. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in : DUSTY TIMES. : • 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". NEW AND RENEW AL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO : FOR SALE: Raceco Class lO or DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, • 12 rolling chassis, Fox shocks, enclose $5.00: All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER -CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED • Foddrill ft. end, light and fast -YOUR AD MAY BE PVT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. • $6,500.00 FAT Toyo ta 4 AF __:::_...c:.......::....::..:...=.....::....;==:......:::..=-.c:c....::.....:::........::....::....;:;__.::...::...c..;:::.....;::.;:c...::.....;:..=..=:.....::....;,_::....::....=...:....::..=--;....cc.........=.---"-'-'--'-'--"-"-"--"----'-'-'----""'--"-- • · Class 10 motor, Fresh $2,500.00 ---------------------------------------------• (559)486-0280 or (559)645----------------------------------------=-: 5716. E-mail • kohnstad@hotmail.com. ---------------------------------------------• •~ FOR SALE: 1989 Toyota Project, ------------~---''------------------------------■ Custom upper and lower a-arms, long ---------------------------------------------• travel ball joints, 17" travel modified • andgusetedspindle.9"w/discbrakes. Enclosed is$ ____ (Send check or money order, no cash) Please run ad~--times • • Cab is stripped and ready for cage, Name _____________________ -'-----------Mail to: • full Ivan Stewart glass, 22RE Smog DUSTY TIMES • legal balanced and blue printed, Address-----------------Phone -----------20751 Marilla Street • never started fresh 5 spd:$4,500.00 City State __ Zip Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 : obo must sell. Jason (805)237-0794. ·: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • ■ • • • • • ■ • • • • • • Dusty Times Marc;h 1999 Page 45

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Sell Your Car, Pre-Runner, Parts or Bits & Pieces Right Here ... Dusty Times Has TheOffRoad Readership You-re Looking For. Only$25 for up to 45 words plus $5 with photo. SeeFonn on Page 45. FOR SALE: Class 9 Single Seat, Fresh motor, trans & front end. Car has winning record, Complete car, trailer spares, radials, everything goes, $4,500.00 Tom (760) 949-5020. 2 SEAT PRERUNNER is a 2-1600 but widened 6" front and rear, 930 c.v., Fox shocks, Sway-A-Way ad-justable frt and rr, aluminum body, 4130 Raceco chassis, lights, Center-lines, Beard, 5 points, needs motor and trans. Call Rich (760) 723-2117 $5,400.00. FOR SALE: 3.2 liter Toyota V-6 engine, complete freshly rebuilt ready to go! JE pistons, Carrillo rods, Elec-tromotive ignition, Web-Cam, 3 Webber carbs & air filter assy; adapter plate with flywheel, clutch & pres-sure plate. $6,500.00 ( 414) 268-0040 St.Peter racing. FORSALE: 5-1600onlyracedtwice. Fresh trans and motor. Bilsteins front and rear. New rear arms, axles, flanges, stub axles, and 930 cv's. Fuel safe, Beard, Filler, Sway-A-Way, Wright combos, & arms, BFG and Centerline. Rear Suspension done by Penhall Fabrication,$8,500.00 obo. Call Tom (818)951-5076. FOR SALE: 1-1600 Mirage-97 & 98 MDR Class Champion. $15,000.00 without motor, obo. ALSO Pre-runner 1971 Baja, Full cage, setup as 5-1600, $5,000.00 Call (818) 841-3906 Roger. Both tum key. DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! Page 46 1994 Mirage 1-1600 Race Car-1600cc by On Track, Compufire, S&S exhaust, Bus Box, 4.86 R&P, 930 CV's, 22 gallon Fuel Safe Cell, Fod Spindles, 300M link pins, Fox Shox, 300M Sway-A-Way torsions/ axles, Type 3 brakes on rear, Chen-owth shifter, Flame Out system, Fin-~hed 14outof 15 races! $15,000Baja Brokers Ref #698 (7 60) 723-2117. Check out our website at www. ba · aconce Short Course Truck-Factory Ford sponsored 4WD SODA, CORR, Glen Helen, Estero race truck, Available now! Truck wa originally built Curt LeDuc, prepped by Venable Racing,driven by Rob MacCachren. (1) Sway-A-Way bypass shock and (1) Coilover per wheel, BFGoodrich/Alcoa bead-locks, 2 full dry-sump race motors by Leon Patton, beautifully built and maintained race truck, VDO gauges, $Best Offer $, ref #665, Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 1998 MDR Class 7S Championship Toyota. '85 Xtra cab. Only 6 races on this newly built 4x4. Alcoas, Mastercraft, Parker Pumpers, PCI radio/intercom, Autometer, Flame out. Super reliable race truck. Win yourself a championship. Work assignment forces sale. $11,500.00. Call for more info. Burrows Motor-909 422-1416. FOR SALE: Mirage Single seat 2.9 type 4, Fortin, Fox, Summers Bros, CNC, Wright, Saco, Foddrill $22,500.00 or $15,000.00 without motor, Could be a Class 10 or 12. ALSO Porsche 2. 7 short block-fresh $1000.00, Type 4-2.5 long block, fresh $3,000.00 ALSO misc VW Porsche and off road parts, (805) 726-2986. FOR SALE: '63 VW Baja Bug, stock suspension, Moly axle tubes, type three German drums, 1835cc single port, $1,200 complete, $400 with no trans or eng, less than 1000 miles on eng. & trans. (805)584-8134. FOR SALE: Wiks Type IV Race motor, 80xl05.5 VE Pistons, Pauter rods, Big 2 !tr heads, Car-bon Fiber Shroud, 44 Webers, Autocraft dry sump, 210 hp. Call Mike (714) 527-4495 hm or (714) 903-3900 wk. March 1999 FOR SALE: 2 S/C trans, 002, FTC gears 457 R&P, 091 Moly Carrier, Bearing retainer, Gosset case, 930 flanges, $1,850.00, 002, FTC gears 486 R&P 091 Moly carrier, 930 flanges, case gossets with spare 486 R&P $2,100.00 Used FTC gear set-$300.00 Scott Schwalbe (715) 272-1101. Ford ProTruck-The best class in off-i::oad, 6 of 7 finished the gru-eling Baja 1,000, 351 w by Hammes Bros racing, TH400 trans, Bilstein Coilover and By-pass with Fox air bumps, Chrisman rear end, includes great spares package including short course suspension setup. This truck just beat all the other Pro-Trucks at the Anaheim event, call for more details $85,000.00 Ref #695 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR-SALE: Class One Unlimited-125 inch Raceco 3000 cc Electromo-tive fuel injected Autocraft/Scat En-gine-DG300 transaxle-Summers Brothers-Foddril-Bilstein-Master-craft-T ommyLee-Fuel Safe-Way too many spare parts to list-this car is a winner!!! Call Bernie (505) 255-0212. $20,000.00 obo. Must sell. BUNDERSON 1-1600- Motor by Kent Wallace, Bus Box by Nevada Transaxle, 930 CV, 15 gal cell, Fox shocks, SAW torsions and axles, FodFab spindles, Comes with some spares. This is a very clean, wlll maintained car, perfect for some-one getting started! Proven track record and a great value, you won't find a nicer car for the price. Call for more details. $8,500 Baja Bro-kers Ref #702 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. CLASS 7 Ranger, 4.01 V6, Mogi C4 trans, Custom 3" Bypass shocks and air bumps front and rear, Na-tional-leafs, 40 spline 9" Full Floater, super tough rear-end, PCI radio/intercom, beadlock wheels w/ Baja tires, Autometer, Very clean, prepped, ready to win! $35,000.00 Ref #668 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. OWNER'S LOSS IS BUYER'S GAIN: Buy as a package or sepa-rate! (1) Raceco Single seater, FAT Rabbit motor, Fat built Bus box, 930, Summers Bros. Out-board hubs and brakes, 25 gallon Cell, + 12" Beam, Dual Bilstein Coilovers per wheel, New 3" Sway-A-Way bypass in the rear, SAW 300m $14,000.00 (1) 37" Wells Cargo Trailer, Includes Race Radio Base Station setup, Under floor storage, shelving, work bench, inside length is 32" and width is 8', $9,000.00! Make us a package price, all offers con-sidered! Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. CLASS 8 -Newest truck built, Awe-some 500 cid V8 by Walker Evans Racing hooked to a special Torqueflite 727 tranny w/custom torque converter. 5 5 gallon Fuel Cell, A-Arm Front Suspension, King Coilover/Bypass, CNC Calipers, Quarter Elliptic Rear, Chrisman, Eagle GPS. This truck is beautiful! It is like new with only 6 races on it, ever! The best of everything was used and it is well maintained. Tons of spares Ref #651 $85,000.00 (760) 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 85 Toyota 4x4 full cage 22R motor, 5 speed trans. 9" rear National springs, King 3" Coilover 3 link rear Susp.13" travel up front. 20" in rear. 4.88 gears. 22 gallon Fuel Cell. Beard Seats w/5 points. Can be street legal. $12,000.00 obo. (714)635-1852. 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 axl~s.,. thing stub axles, SAW spring plates, SAW 29mm 300, bars, New SAW torsion adj., new top 4;86, JGTrans, 12.1 motor, new heads, pistons, cyls, and FAT carb, Boost bottle, new Compu-fire, DIS IGN, 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. $11,500.00 obo, (562)690-4028, or (714)967-5098. FOR SALE: 1-1600 FAT Motor, Mendeola trans, Fox shocks, Power steering, Wright box and combos, Sway-A-Way axles and T-Bars, 2nd 98 Baja 500, $10,000.00 Call Pat (714)427-llOOext. 102. 1995 Ranger race truck-Class 7S or 7 open, Only 300 miles on New Es-slinger 4 cylinder, MSD ignition, Mogi C4 race trans, 44 gallon cell, 4WD front suspension w/o 4wd, very strong! Kuster 3" shocks and air bumps, Wilwood brakes, FlameOut, $39,000.00 ALSO 45ft gooseneck trailer w/30 ft. Car space/15 ft living quarters, sleeps five $10,000.00 Ref #696 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: CORR Pro-4 Ford Fl 50, front runner, former Rough Rider tr.uck, Thompson auto en-gine, A TD tranny C-6, Borg Warner transfer case.Kuster/fay-lor coil over shocks w/reservoirs. Asking $30,000.00 w/all spares, enough to rebuild truck twice. ALSO 1989 Ford F700 Motor home fully loaded, great tow ve-hicle $16,000.00. 1993 United Tri-Axle enclosed trailer lights, benches, storage, observation deck plus all the goodies, $1{000.00 Call (715) 487-6098. FOR SALE: 97 Spec Truck-Raced only 5 times, has all upgrades, and only the best. Lots of extras. Super clean- no damage. This complete package has everything to go circle track racing. Over $28,000.00 in-vested. Sacrifice $19,000.00 or best. Call for more details eves (760) 344-5401 days (760) 335-8238 Joel. FOR SALE: 1989 Chevrolet 1 ton Duallie CrewCab, 4x4, US Gear 2 spd, Alcoas, Michilin L TX, CB, AM/ FM/Cassette Stereo, Heavy Duty Hitch, 5th wheel plate, Custom paint, Rebuilt Turbo 400hd, 454, race ra-dio, Excellent condition, 80,000 miles/32 foot encl9sed triple axle trailer, White Insulated, Workbench, 110v/12v interior lighting, excellent condition. Call Mike at (801) 487-3478 or (801) 485-0147. ACECO RACE CAR-Low miles, progressive Foddrill front suspen-sion, Kuster coilovers w/Eibach springs, f&r, Kuster bypass in rear, CNC disc brakes, Charlyn P/S, Beadlock wheels w/Yokohama Tires, FAT Type 2 trans, FAT Rabbit Class 10 motes, alum ra-diator, Setrab oil cooler/fan, 32 FOOT TRAILER, triple axle, in-sulated, work bench, 12/110 volt lights, 1989 Chevy Dually 454 cid, TH400 w/2 speed auxiliary trans, Alcoas w/Michelins; Available as a pkg or separate, less motor/ trans, whatever! Call for details. Ref #692 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Bronco Pre-Runner-Custom built 2WD front end, (1) Kuster Coilover and (1) Big Bilstein per wheel front and rear, air bumps, Cone Full Floater, Cone fr hubs, C6, 400 cid Ford V8, 3 seats, cus-tom aluminum work throughout including interior, 35 Baja T/As, fresh paint job, built in spare, air bottle, winch, tool box, less than 8,000 miles $42,900.00 Ref #685 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times FOR SALE: Triple E Superlite, place 3rd '96 ·Glen Helen SODA Series, Won '95 Mickey Thompson's San Diego Stadium Race. Fresh Klemm Honda 400 engine, Fox Shox, just rebuilt, race ready, many extras, $6,800.00. ALSO '88 Triple E Su-I?erlite fun dirt toy, many extras $3,800.00 Call Norm (909) 678-1424. FOR SALE: Class 1 single seat, Chaparral, all chromoly, New DG-300 built by Fortin, Engine 2.4, type-4 duel carbs with air boxes, outboard cvs, with Willwood billet calipers, new axles, coil over front, Saco, Flame-out, everything hydraulic in CNC, Fuel Safe custom cell 26. 7 gal-lons, 2 sets of body panels, bump stops, .Mastercraft, Pumper, Ump steering and air cleaner, over $28,000 · invested sell for $12,500.00 obo. (602) 832-1875. Pager (602) 251-9866 more pictures at http:// www.primenet.com/-jraitter. FOR SALE: Class 5 no motor, no trans, Fodrill Big Beam, Saco Rack, Fox, Coilover, Summers, Floaters, 300m Torshin, 3" Kuster by pass rear., Flame out, 30 gai ceii, all the best, with spares, no expense spared, win-ner 98 Fireworks 250, car is dialed and very competitive. $22,000.00 obo (714) 527-4495 hm or (714) 903-3900. Mike. FOR SALE: 5-1600-Lauffer race engine, closed ratio bus transmission, 22 gallon Fuel safe, Deist harnesses and nets, 8 Yokohama's on Center-line, Chromolly trailing arms, Sway-A-Way, Fox 12" with reservoirs, front and rear adjusters, new body and paint, KC lights, recent ground-up rebuild, spares clean, fast, reliable, $6,000.00 obo (760) 635-0084. FOR SALE: Lee Leighton built type 4 2912 race engine, 48 Weber Carbs, dry sump, 225hp built with best parts available, for info and specs call Terry at (702)897-4568 or call Lee Leigh-ton at (909)682-3816 fordyno specs. Price $12,000.00 obo or trade. Very reliable engine. FOR SALE: Ranger 5.0 V8 HO EFI, CA Smog legal, reg cab, 83 long bed, 96 fiberglass 2x, l" lift, Nationals, BFG Baja 33's, Pre run bumper frt and RR w/skid plates, 23 gal fuel, PRP race seats,3 spd auto w/Hurst shifter & shift kit. AM/FM/CD, duel exhaust, DK blue, fast, $8,500.00 (619)561-9559, pager (619)898-4164. FOR SALE: 1992 topkick Diesel Truck, 4 speed Allison, 4 Dr Crewcab, Air Ride Seats, Power steering, power brakes, AC, Cruise control, 10,000 lb wench, approx. 35,000 miles. 44 ft Wells Cargo 5th Wheel trailer, living quarte'rs, regis-tered in California as toy puller, Cus-tom Unit $50,000 both. (800)622-0321. KARMAN GHIA CLASS 5-2700cc Type 4, FAT/Weber 48 intake set-up, Bus·Box by ITS, 4.57 R&P, Su-per cliff, Elephant gears, 30 gallon fuel cell, Wright Arms, Woods spindles, UMP p/s Suspensions Unlimited + 10" beam and 3"x3 rear arms, Bil-stein shocks, SAW torsions, spring plates, axles, CNC disc brakes, Very clean! $15,000 Baja Brokers Ref #710 (760)723-2117, Checkout our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE; '93 Ford Ranger Class 7, 3.8 V6, 300 hp, V6 Trans, 9" Cone Rear, Cone front hubs, Wil-wood discs, Fox coilovers, Kuster shocks, Travel: 19" front, 23" rear, 35 gal. bladder, Goodyear tires, Ultra wheels, extra tires, Bead lock wheels, engine, trans and· rear end parts. $20,000.00 obo (805) 968-106 7 days. FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'xl0 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x. 8 1/2 w/toi-let, sink, range, refrigerator, leather, storage and A/C 35'x 8 1/2" working and storage 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 condition, $43,000 asking price or trade for ex- · otic car. Call Fox Motorsports (915) 833-7902. FOR SALE: Package deal: ( or sepa-rate) Bunderson 1600 single seat, race ready, New motor, Light, fast, strong and VERY CLEAN. Match-ing Baja bug for pre running. Runs great. 20' enclosed trailer with drop ramp. Includes spares and extra parts. $16,500 takes all. Call Mark (801)476-8923 or (801)301-5529. March 1999 FOR SALE: Raceco Class 10 or 12 rolling chassis, Fox Shocks, Foddrill ft. end, light & fast, $5,900.00. FAT Toyota 4AF Class 10 motor fresh. $1,900.00. (559)486-0280 or (559)645-5716. E-Mail Kohnstad@hotrnail.com. FOR SALE: 1996 Ford F-150 short box, as seen in July 96 off-road maga-zine, built by the guy who wrote the rules. All the best stuff. Autometer, · BFG tires, American racing wheels, 6:33 Reider racing gears spool & nodular HSG. Carbon metallic brakes, MSD ignition system, Art Carr, Fuel Safe, Deist, Beard Seats, Fox Shocks, Custom rear brakes, Doetsch Tech, K& N, KC Hi-lites, Rugged trail, Poly for vehicles, 351 w w/dart GT40, Edelbrock, Holley, Custom ground cam, as I said all the best stuff. Call 1-920-987 -5021 leave message or e-mail T erFriday@ptnt.net. FOR SALE: GMC Pre-Runner or Race truck, 350/400 trans (Art Carr) 15" wheel travel, (4) Kusters front, (4) Fox's in rear, Deaver Springs, PCI, P.P. trans cooler,46 cell, this truck is race legal in M.D.R., Glen Helen, B.O.W. Etc,goes with ton of spares to start racing. $12,500.00 obo (714)639-8550. FOR SALE: Jimco short course su-per-buggy (1600) or open class race car. 104" wheel base, Fox 2.5'' bypass + coil over rear, coil over front, Men-deola gear box, all the best parts, 4 time class champion in SODA & CORR series with 1 set of American Racing bead lock wheels, complete less engine,$30,000.00 (414)268-0040. St Peter racing. FOR SALE: Class 8 desert truck. Score legal, 600 hp, 400 trans, King coilovers/bypass shocks, 18" front, 24'!.rear, 9" Ford Summer Bros., new 40 spline axles, Howe steering, 40 gal cell, all fiberglass disc brakes, Flame out, MSD, 1998 Best in the Desert Class Champion finished all 4 races, $40,000.00 lots of spare, Call Rick 602 825-6605. ,ffl!-~ FOR SALE: Berrien Chassis, Class 1-9, 2 seat Beard, Saco power steer-ing, 4-12" Fox, CNC pedals, 8 gal cell, 300mm, adj.Torsions, Summers disk f-r, King front, Bumps, Bus w/3rd cliff, · l 9 l 4cc, runs, drives great, aluminum wheels-Goodyear tires $8,500.00 (217)477-4592 Ask for Chip. CLASS 8 - Newest truck built, Awe-some 500 cid V8 by Walker Evans Racing hooked to a special Torqueflite 727 tranny w/custom torque converter. 55 gallon Fuel Cell, A-Arm Front Suspension, King Coilover/Bypass, CNC Calipers, Quarter Elliptic Rear, Chrisman, Eagle GPS. This truck is beautiful! It is like new with only 6 races on it, ever! The best of everything was used and it is well maintained. Tons of spares Ref #651 $85,000.00 (760) 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. EMPLOYMENT WHITE LIGHTNING RACING is hiring fabricators, prep technicians and crew members for off-road, Trans Am and endurance road racing. Send resumes to Dale White, 6975Speed-way Blvd. D-101, Las Vegas, NV 89115. REAL ESTATE FOR RENT: 1500 ft shop space available in fully equipped race car shop, private entrance on street, San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys area, First and last deposit. Checker club member discount $1,000.00 month. Ask for Gregg. (818)994-7475. WANTED WANTED; Off Road Magazines- Jan 1974 & June 1974-12", 14" & 16" shocks with reservoirs. Would also like to find Hot VW mags from 75-83. What have you got? Call Tom (714) 554-3300 or (714) 530-8807. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Baja Brokers ...................................... 15 Baker Performance Products .......... 24 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ................................ 9 Best In The Desert .................................. 7 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................ 5 Cactus Racing ......... : ............................ 39 Camburg Engineering ........................ 35 ' Critical Operations ............................ 39 Fabtech Motorsports ........................ 25 FAT Performance .............................. 14 Fox Racing Shox ................................... 2 FRT Motorsports ............................... 19 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 38 German Auto ...................................... 29 Hypercoils ........................................... 11 Kartek Off Road ................................. 31 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 18 King Shock Tech ................................ 32 McKenzie Performance Products .... 23 Nevada Off.Road Buggy .................... 17 PCI Race Radios and Equipment... ...... 4 Pike's Family Resta·urant ................. 36 Premier Racing Products ................. 37 Quartermaster Professional Racing Clutches ............. Back Cover Race Ready Products .............. : ......... 38 George Seeley Racing ....................... 39 SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 ................. 27 Spec Truck Inc ................................... 33 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Temecula Off Road ............................ 30 Transaxle Engineering ...................... 34 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 38 Valley Performance ........................... 36 Wesco Performance .......................... 34 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 37 Page 47

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