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Volume 16 - Number 4 April 1999 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editori;:;\ 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: DUSTYTIIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 20751Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. P\ease furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot of the Month ... The 1985 Parker 400 was frigid, super cold weather and some snow made the race tough but Jack Johnson piloted the Barbary Coast car to the win in the Valley Performance prepared machine. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $ 10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. Dusty Times April 1999 In This Issue ... FEATURES SNORE A VI 250 by John Calvin ................................... : ............................... 8 PACE Motorsports Stadium at San Diego by Homer Eubanks ................. 14 · 48th WRC Swedish Rally by Martin Holmes .............................................. 20 MDR Wild Wash 250 by Ron Miller ........................................................... 22 FRT King of the Desert by Judy Smith ........................................................ 28 PACE Motorsports Stadium at Anaheim by Ron Miller ............................ 32 Whiplash Motorsports Parker 400 by Glenn Grim/Jay McKinley .............. 36 SCCA Doo Wop I & II by Jim Culp ............................................................ 40 PACE Motorsports Stadium at Phoenix by Homer Eubanks ..................... 42 PACE Motorsports Roundup by Homer Eubanks.: ..................................... 42 Checker 25th Anniversary Party by Judy Smith ......................................... 44 DEPARTMENTS ~:a~i~~;;ss.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. ! Checkers by the Big Wahzoo .................................................... , ..................... 39 CRS Report by Sue Robinson ......................................................................... 46 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ................................................................... 46 F.A.l.R. News by Joy Bancroft ...................................................................... 46 Off Road Scramble by PC ............................................................................. 4 7 Mag 7 News by Stephen Stenberg .................................................................. 47 g~~~J:~~~!r~~~~?::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1~ SNORE Corner .............................................................................................. 54 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 55 On The Cover Jas~n Hatz and his Dunrite moved into the Class 10 lead on the first lap at the MDR Wildwash 250 and went on from there to take first overall in a highly competitive race. Brian Collins shared the driving with Billy Goerke and they took Class 1 honors and the overall as well at the SNORE AVI 250 on the maiden run for the new car.. . 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1999 Happenings ... CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS. l.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(7 19)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 Short Course Racing May 29-30, 1999 Lake Geneva, WI June 11-13, 1999 Antigo, WI ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose del Cabo Baja California de! Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. Cashmere, Queensland, 4 500, Australia AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P l T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 C Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net April 16-18, 1999 Tonopah 300 Tonopah, NV 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 Cha lenge 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@accessl.net Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 March 19-20, 1999 Rally School - Rally Cross Ridgecrest, CA April 30-May 1, 1999 Rim OfThe World (2,3) Palmdale, CA June 26, 1999 Rally Sprint (NASA) Carlsbad, Ca Summer 1999 (TBA) Reno Rally (3) Reno, NV August 21, 1999 Gorman Ridge (3) Gorman, Ca September 1999 (TBA) Ensenada Rally Ensenada, BC, MX September 25, 1999 SuperStage Event (ARSG) Laughlin, NV October 1-2, 1999 Prescott Forest (2, 3) Prescott, AZ November 13, 1999 Treeline (3) Monrovia, CA December 1999 (TBA) Ramada Express (2, 1, 3) Laughlin, NV Dusty Times CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box 400 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. Box 645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 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 (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO HILL Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.O Box 392 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 Fiesta de! Sol, Mexicali, BC, MX December 3-5, 1999 Carrera de Campeones Mexicali to San Felipe BC, Mex CORR Championship Off Road Racing Carla Reid (317) 272-2827/FAX: (317) 272-2900 June 25-27, 1999 Crandon, WI July 16-18, 1999 Joliet, IL August 5-8, 1999 Bark River, Ml September 3-5, 1999 Crandon, WI September 24-26, 1999 Indianapolis, IN October 6-8, 1999 Stafford, CT October 29-30, 1999 Las Vegas, NV CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren. 2405 Baker Ave. r::fr llllinner's Circle Jeff Lewis Takes Class 7 Opener; Continues Team MacPherson Streak Jeff Lewis of San Clemente, CA extended the winning ways of the Team MacPherson Chevrolet off-road racing truck stable with a Class 7 victory at the 1999 season-opening SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge weekend. Running on Bilstein shock absorbers in the debut of a new Chevy S-10 truck, Lewis won both races of this yea"r's modified format at Laughlin, NV. He won by over two minutes on Saturday and expanded his winning margin on Sunday despite being slowed after losing a cylinder. Using Bilstein shocks exclusively, Team MacPherson has produced a record six straight championships in Class 7 competition at SCORE International off-road racing events. :PR_O.~R.acing Series Protruck Re-suits •. _. . . .. ' ,· Laughlin 'Desert Challenge . ' . . Joe Heger ·: Ch_evrol.et~1500 'Pickup OnBilstein Go With Bi/stein! A Winning·Tradition In Off-Road Racing! For all the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 (i> KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road • San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 619/453-7723 • www.bilstein.com April 1999 Pages

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Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 53H589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059 April 23-24, 1999 Ridgecrest, CA October 1-2, 1999 Barstow, CA ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 April 23-25, 1999 Baja International Short Course Race October 15-1 7, 1999 Baja 1.5 Mile Short Course Race FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Associaton 2750Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 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;quista Gran Prix July 31, 1999 The N ite 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 Dawg Team Race December 5, 1999 Rudolph's Revenge Desert Gran Prix December 19, 1999 Imperial County Fairgrounds December 31, 1999 Dunaway Dash GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 1362 I Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. O maha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 Page 6 (All events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Bedder (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 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, Costa Mesa, CA KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 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 4883 7 (517) 627-6200 August 1, 1999 Ingham County Fairgrounds Mason, MI Oeeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Wamors 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 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 (217) 987-6568 LTOR-Lincoln Trail Off Readers Pres: Dean Conkling (217) 830-4215 V.P.: Brad Key {217) 446-4556 Steve Sabo (618) 327-9312 (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING i853 arkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-605 I 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 92311-123 I (760) 253-4453 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 (BIO) 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 Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OFEL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-10 Horizon_ Blvd. exit east 12 miks OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 JimKendel (216) 339-4674 All races held at Harrison 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 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. Icing 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 Tecate/SCORE San Felipe 250 San Felipe, Baja California 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, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 April 16-18, 1999 Buffalo Bill's 400 Primm, NV June 25-27, 1999 KC HiLites Midnight Special TBA August 13-14, 1999 NAPA Auto Parts 250 Ely,NV September 24-26, 1999 30th Gold Coast SNORE 250 Continued on page 54 April 1999 Trail Nate3 ... FINAL FLAG -Joe McPherson's wife Betty, passed away after a long illness. Our condolences go out to Joe and all the family and friends. A donation to your favorite charity in Betty's name would be appreciated. SCARY TIME -Seems like Sal Fish took seriously ill after the Checker banquet, finally got home on Sunday, went into the hospital and there he was until Thursday. Turns out it was some sort of an infection but all is well now. We sorta figured it was exposure to all those Checkers at one time, that'll do anybody in. Anyway Sal,·glad you're up and around and please stay well, the alternative can kill y~u! CHECKERS REVISITED -In our haste to get a quick blurb into Trail Notes last month on the Checker Banquet, we forg.ot to note the new officers for 1999-So, without further ado, here they are: President: Jimmy Hooks, Vice President: · Reverend Roy Moore, Secretary: Vance Scott, Treasurer: Tom Angerman. In addition, the following guys were given the following responsibilities, Dick McCool is the club historian, Dennis Crowley is in charge of all the pit equipment and Mike Duenas is the Pit Coordinator. Congrats to all! V ORRA -VORRA has announced a brand new venue, they now have four desert races for the '99 season. Their first desert race is in Yerington, then a brand new locale, Lovelock, then on to Fallon and thence to Fernley, all races inside the borders of Nevada. See Happenings for all their other dates. F .A.LR. CLEANUP -FAIR is helping in a general cleanup in Barstow on Saturday, March 2 7 and could use your help. The area to be worked is adjacent to the Pit D area behind the college just used in the MOR W~ld Wash 250 a few weeks ago. Get together at the BLM office in Barstow, 2601 Barstow Road and come prepared with gloves, shovels, rakes, trash bags, etc. For more info contact Bill Markel 805-943-1786. FINAL FLAG -Herman Schneider, former director of Legislation and Natural Resources for the San Diego Off Road Coalition, long time advocate for rights for off readers passed away on February 21 after a long bout with cancer. Herman will be missed by all whose lives he touched. ATTENTION DRIVERS & RIDERS -Thanks to those of you who have taken the time to send us a brief fax reporting the details of your race. It helps us a lot to get your war stories but we do need them within a few days after the race is over so we can incorporate it•into the story. So, please, get them in quickly. Fax to 818-882-0005 or 760-868-5743. . GOOD STUFF DIRECTORY -All of you who advertise in our Good Stuff Directory take a good look at your phone number and especially the area code and make sure it is correct. There are so many changes taking place in the area code department it is almost impossible to keep up with you area code is not correct, please call us with the proper code so we can change it or, better yet, if you have a new business card send a few of them along and we'll do the rest. FINAL FLAG - we were deeply shocked to hear that Steve Bishop had been killed in an accident on March 6th, while working on his new home. Steve had raced for many years, he possessed' a great talent for short course racing and had won his share of races. Steve is survived by his wife Linda, his brother Randy and his parents Bill and Kaye. He will be sorely missed. (See page 31) BEST IN THE DESERT -Casey Folks announced that Ford will award $406,000 in contingency money for the 1999 Silver State Series. $86,500 will be awarded for each race for the first and second place Ford finishers, divided by nine classes. An extra $15,000 year end bonus will be awarded to the top Ford finisher in classes 3100, 4100, 7300 and 8100. Also, Protruck has joined with Best In The Desert and will award Ford Protruck racers $3,000 for first place and $1,500 for second place in all four races. 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SNORE AVI 250 · Brian and Billy Break the Bank By John Calvin Photos: Trackside Photo Jeremy Gubler tried out his new car and it was a winner. he took Class 1 O with 12 minutes to spare. Brian Collins introduced his new Class 1 car in winning fashion, splitting the driving chores with Billy Goerke and taking the overall win by six minutes. The first SNORE AVI 250 was a howling success. The first weekend in February ob-viously was the right date for an inaugural race, the weather was perfect, the host ho~el was more than gracious, the par-ticipants were many and ready to race and the racin' was great! ing. really good looking and with Contingency row was out about 500 horsepower it has JeffCarrletsnograssgrowunderhisfeet,hetookthe 1600/eadonthesecondlap behind the hotel and was well all sorts of potential. Billy _an_d_he_ca_m_e_o_n_in_fo_r_th_e_lM_i_n. ___________ _,, _____ _ As usual, Kenny Freeman worked long and hard to get the layout of the course and it was somewhat reminiscent of an old Walt Lott course many many years ago. Contingency, technical in-spection and sign-up com-menced on Friday evening at six and before the evening was over there were 72 cars await-ing the green flag in the morn-attended by racers, support drove the first half of the race Fourth off the line was Tom groups and many hotel guests and then surrendered the car Bradley, Sr. who took the as well who came out to see to Brian Collins and Brian helm for the first half of the what all the doin's were. It got brought the car in for the race and then turned it over rather chilly during the four overall victory. They had run to son Tom, Jr. Tommy hour stint in the great out-in the second spot for the first brought the car in for a third doors but there was. not even two laps but on lap 3 they place in Class 1, just 40 sec-a breeze so it was bearable. went into the lead and there onds or so out of the second First cars to leave in the they remained and they took spot. morning were Class 1 and they the honors with six minutes in Fifth and last Class 1 to left with all the thunder they hand. leave was John Gaughan cind could muster. Steve Houston The third car to leave was B.J. Richardson, looking to was first to go but Steve never the Russell and Ryan Stewart make it two wins in a row, surfaced again and we have 'no entry and they finished the winning last year's last · clue as to what happened to first lap in second place on SNORE race. B.J. led the first him. Second off the line was time but obviously had some two laps but surrendered the Billy Goerke who was starting difficulty on laps 2 and 3 and lead on lap 3 and they contin-. in Brian Collins brand new then disappeared from the fray ued on in second place and car. Fresh out of the box, it is on lap 4. that's where they finished. ~------~----------',.---~-~ John drove the last three laps and ran a bit low on gas just a few miles from the finish line. So it was spit and sputter all the way in and at the finish line the engine finally starved for good and there they sat, second place, waiting for a bit of fuel to get back to the pits. Class 10 was the second group to take the green flag and they were 11 strong at the start although only four of them would see the checkered flag. The Danny Anderson/ Rob MacCachren duo were first off the line and ready for battle in a brand new car and Continued on page 1 D John Gaughan and BJ Richardson led the first few laps in Class 1 but a slow third lap, and running out of fuel on the last lap, put them into Jim Price is the new driver for the Sturgis car and he did himself The Tom Bradley's, Senior and Junior shared the drivers seat at the second spot. ..,.,...-...,,..----proud, taking the silver medal in Class 1 Oat the AV/ 250. AV/ 250, having a great day and taking third~in=C~l_a~ss_1. ____ _ Fourth place in Class 1 O went to the Shiroky clan, after a very Kathy and Rick Harrah shared the driving chores with Andre Gremm Dale Ebberts and Robert Fama had some power steering woes during troublesome fourth lap at the AV/ 250. and they brought their neat looking car to a nice third in 5-1600. the day but still took a nice fifth in 1600 class. Page a April 1999 Dusty Times

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Day Gang drove solo, got her one flip out of the way and then came Don Roberts and Sheldon Paul had a trouble free day and took si!ver Jeremy Harmon shows all sorts of potential, first race on 4 wheels on for a very nice fourth place in 1600. honors in Sportsman Buggy class at the AV/ 250. and he takes second place in Class 9, even with problems. Rodger Shank's keen looking Class 9 gave him problems shifting but he persevered and took fourth place in Class. Ron Coppick said he had no problems, had a great race on a great course and took fifth place honors in Class 9. BJ Baldwin drove solo, had a trouble free race 'ti/ the last lap when the left front wheel kept trying to leave the car but took third in.Class 10. Jim Price ran solo also and checkered flag. he was in the dice all day long Pat Dean ran in the third between first, second and spot for the first two laps but third place, finally settling for then took over second place second and had a couple of on the third lap and there he flats during the race to keep remained, taking the silver him on his toes. medal, about four and a half B.J. Baldwin was the tenth minutes out of the win. Scott starter and he had a hard Smith made a solo drive of it fought battle for the top posi-also and although he turned tions all race long and had a consistent laps all race long he great shot at the win. Then, was just a wee bit off the win-on the last lap the left front ning pace and came on in for wheel decided to go astray and the third place laurels. those lost 15 minutes were just Just off the podium was· the enough to put him down to ever vivacious Day Gang, third place. whose lap times were quite Clay Flippin and Gordon good. Day said she laid the car Bean started in their respec-on its side once and as soon tive cars but neither of them as that was over she settled comple"ted a lap and were down to serious racing and her given the beautiful three let-50 and 51 minute laps took ter classification of DNF. her to a nice fourth place at There were 14 strong en-the AVI 250. trants in the 1600 class and it Dale Ebberts and Robert was Jeff Carr all the way. Jeff, Fama had their sights set on and his good looking car took the class win but they were the lead on the second lap and hindered a bit by troublesome went on for the win with al-power steering and after split-most five minutes on second ting th e driving chores they place, his solo drive being ended up finishing fifth. Brian completely trouble free. Anderson made a solo run at Ten of the entrants made it the AVI 250, laid the car on to the finish line for a 71 % fin-its side on lap 4, continued on ishing ratio, pretty good for a and took a nice sixth place very competitive class. Unfor-when all was said and done. tunately for them, the cars of Dan Bradley drove the first Richard Duncan, Jay Shain, three laps, had to change a Robby Guevera, and Craig sputtering carburetor early on Simmons never made it to the and then had Tom senior fin-Pat Dean had a trouble free day, chased the gold all race long but ended up second in 1600, less than three minutes out of the win. Dusty Times ish the race for a nice seventh place. Senior must have been tired as he also drove the first three laps for Tommy, Jr. ear-lier in the day. You must be in pretty good shape, a lesson for some of the more youthful. Rick Boyer and Tony Mur-ray were pretty close on lap times for the first three laps but on the fourth lap Murray dropped ten minutes off the place and never recovered all of it, thus it was Boyer taking the eighth place finish and Murray sliding in some eight minutes in arrears. Leo Nenortas and John Emerson didn't have the best of days, having problems from the third lap on and they were obviously exhausted after spending over six hours on the course with problems bother-ing them here and there, but they did finish, albeit in the tenth position. the honor roll this race. Stan Hignett only made four of the required five laps and it was the same with Todd • Vandawalker, but it got worse as Bill Avery made three laps, Dale Looney and Eric Shenberger only made three also. Ryan Schank only got one lap in as did Albert Rux but it gets even worse as we see that Kevin Steele only made one lap, Mandy Dixon, Dan Owen and Forest Creasy only made one also while Mike Larson and Earl West never finished the first lap. Dwaine Walters and brother Rob split the driving chores. They were in fourth place at the end of lap 1, move.cl. into second place at the end of lap 2, held second through lap 3, tied for the class lead on lap 4 and then took over on the last lap and got the gold medal after a hard fought battle. Jeremy Harmon, Teresa Carr's son was having his first race on four wheels instead of two and he certainly did it in grand style. He was the second Class 9 car to start and in spite of some clutch and brake prob-Continued on page 13 Class 9 was a picture of the old days as no less than 24 cars went to the starting line. H ell of an entry and they all wanted the win! Class 9 only had to do five laps on this course and there was fully half of the class entry that never made it to the checkered flag. The list of non-finishers in Class 9 was a· bunch of impres-sive names who didn't make Class 9 had a huge entry but the day belonged to brothers Dwaine and Rob Walters who took home the gold, 9 minutes in the lead. SCORE 1997 ENGINE BlTILDER OF THE YEAR! .,,....,,~?-~~?-!':';' -~""'?"~~ -~a - - -~-' . -?.: - - -FAT DOMINATES PRIMM 300 PRIMM 3OO-Sept. 11-12 Class 1 1st Dale Ebberts (VW Type IV) 2nd Gus Vildosola {Toycta V6) Class 5 1st Mike Dondel (VW Type IV) 2nd George Seeley (VW Type IV) Class 10 1st Class 12 1st 2nd 3rd CON~RATS TO CORR POINTS SERIES CHAMPS! _ Class Pro Lites John Greaves {Toyota Tacoma) Class 1-1600 Mike Seefeldt (VW Type I) Class 2-1600 Mike Seefeldt (VW Type I) Darnen Jefferies {Toyda 4AG) 2nd OVERALL!! 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Jason Gubler ran solo, had a dead battery to Contend with but he literally ran . away with the Sportsman Buggy class. Mark Petit and Bob Ryan split the driving chores and won Sportsman Truck, changing a carburetor en route and getting stuck too. · !ems he ran some very fast lap long lap times 'til the last lap times and took the silve-r when things got better and a medal, just eight minutes out of 12th place finish didn't look the class win. Congrats Jeremy! too bad. Tom T aliaferro drove the 5-1600 only had six entries first four laps, Jimmy Messick and one of the pre-race favor-took the fifth and with some ites, Dee Towles had problems great racing they took the third on all three laps that he ran, an spot, not too far behind second unusual DNF for the man from place. Roger Schank was 14th Pahrump. Reid Ferguson ran off the starting line, reported well and in second or third some shifter linkage problems place for four laps but never making downshifting almost completed his fifth and he too impossible but he held in there was a DNF. and took fourth place with Meanwhile, Mike Powada some consistent lap times. and Greg Price started next to Ron Coppick was the sixth. last, ran fourth on lap 1, moved starter and after a solo drive to second on the next lap, with no problems Ron finished moved into the lead on the in fifth place. Terri Pemberton third lap and remained there to was another solo driver and she take the class win with just one had a really good day, report-flat tire to bother them .during ing no problems and .taking a the race. Kevin Streety was the nice sixth in class. Don Haze last to start in class, ran third and brother Rob had a fun day, on laps 1 and 2, moved into sec-Don rolled the car during his ond on the third lap and there stint and not to be outdone, they remained, taking the sil-Rob got himself high centered ver and only a minute and a and flattened a tire also but half out of the win. · they held on and came in for Kathy and Rick Harrah, with the seventh spot. some able assistance from An-· T.J. Flores, Steve Shimp and dre Gremm lost the steering on Ken Thatcher pooled their tal-lap 1 which was expensive in ents, had lots of troubles like time and then fought brake losing a rear shock, fighting a bad clutch, etc., but they fin-ished none the less, bringing the car in for eighth place. Dave Spencer had some help from the famed Johnson broth-ers and after a shaky first lap, they settled down, turned some good times and catne in for the ninth place finish: problems for the rest of the race and ended up as the third fin-isher. Robert Wiederhold only had two good laps, troubles slowed him on 2, 3 and 5 and he ended up in fourth place, last finisher in class. Sportsman Buggy was the next class up and they only had to complete four laps for a fin-ish. Of the eight starters, only two would see the finish line and their lap times were quite fast. Josh Tinker and Thomas Reck had a horrible first lap, a not-so-good second, a so-so third and never completed the fourth. Charles Sutton only got in two laps, Frank Puglia got two. Roy Mankins also finished two laps while Bob Guevera got in one terribly long lap and the McCormick clan never even came around one. Jason Gubler ran like a man possessed for his four laps, cov-ering the course in three and a half hours and arriving at the finish with nothing bad to re-port but a dead battery earlier in the race. Don Roberts and Sheldon Paul reported no prob-lems, just a good rough course to drive and they took the sil-ver medal half an hour behind the class winner. Sportsman Truck class was the last off the line and there were three entries but only one of them would see the check-ered flag. Robby Woolworth and Todd Ashley led the first lap with ease, still held the lead after a terrible time on lap 2 and then dropped from the charts and ·were never seen again. Rudy Suriano ran second on the first lap but they too dropped from sight and never completed the second of the three required laps. Enter the sleeper. Mark Petit and Bob Ryan had a pretty good day, Mark drove the first two and Bob took the last lap. They had to change the carburetor, they got stuck pretty good for a while but on they came to once again take the win in the truck class. And so it ended, 72 cars took the flag, 36 of them saw the checkers fly, a 50% finish-ing ratio and everyone inter-viewed called it a great race, a great course, very technical and lots of fun to drive. Kenny Freeman and crew did it again, great weather, no dust and a gracious sponsor/host hotel. Next on the SNORE menu· is the Buffalo Bill's 400, middle of April at downtown Primm, Nevada. Hope to see you all there and in the winner's circle. ■ Kevin Walsh was doing just fine 'til a small problem on lap 4 set him back in dme and ma-jor problems on the -last lap dropped him way out of the running. He finished in the 10th spot. Tim Hart ran a good first lap, then had nothing but problems for the rest of the race and finished in 11th, while Joe Sheble. had a real lousy race, Mike Powada and Greg Price worlced their way up from fourth place to take the 5-1600 win, by less than fW? _'!'i_nutes. _____ ··-··-·--♦----~ Dusty Times April 1999 · Page 13 ·

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PACE U.S. OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES San Diego, CA Hosts Round&· By Homer Eubanks Photos:Trackside Photo Chris Brandt, Ford, fought off a hard charge from Jerry Whelchel to take the win in the Stadium Sport Truck Main at Pace's San Diego event. 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We do custom shock work and vehicle s Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts r shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. Page 14 King Shock Technology A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 April 1999 Series to town. The event drew only 22,000 devoted stadium types who opted to watch rac-ing rather than spend their President's Day weekend out playing in the desert. But for those who gave up their riding opportunity for some tight sta-dium action it came at them in five separate classes with 146 riders/drivers competing. Stadium racing always pro-vides close, high impact action. As for myself I enjoyed each of the classes fast paced action. However, some argued that the stadium sport trucks lacked suf-ficient power and suspension to set them apart from other classes. But where the vehicles lacked power the competitors made up the difference in hard charging competition. Literally running from the Super Modified Buggy winners circle, Jerry Whelchel climbed into his Stadium Sport Truck and excited the crowd with an attempt at making it two wins in a row. Right off the starting line Whelchel dominated the pack of 12 trucks. Second was Chris Brandt followed by Don Ponder and Stacey Pike. At first it appeared Whelchel would run away with the event but once the pack settled in Chris Brandt managed to take some of the wind from Whelchel's sail. Brandt dogged Whelchel's every move and slipped inside just before going into lap 2. The two were side by side over the table top jump with Brandt edging into the lead. Whelchel reacted quickly and came back nabbing the lead with Brandt then shadowing his every move again. Bob Lee Beyer had rolled over a hydro barrier allowing the front two to separate themselves from the pack. Whelchel held the lead for the next five laps with Brandt as a constant compan-ion. When the two came up on lapped traffic Brandt was able to take advantage of the traffic situation when Beyer again rolled his Toyota just before the finish line. Brandt took the lead with Whelchel now having to work to keep up. Keep up is all he could do for the next three laps as Brandt managed to hold off his advances and take the checkered flag. Whelchel was a close second with Stacey Pike crossing over third. To get into the main event Whelchel first won his heat race. But before he could enjoy the thrill of the win the rough driving committee declared his pass for the lead was excessive and he was docked two posi-tions. On the start Whelchel shared the front row with Randy Eller, Chris Brandt and Bob Lee Beyer. When the green came out Chris Brandt grabbed the early lead with Whelchel a close second. Whelchel chose to make his mGve on Brandt on the last corner before lap 2. Whelchel cut inside but Brandt held a tight line and Whelchel nosed into the door of Brandt. Whelchel made the pass but later had the position taken ·away. Brandt held the second spot with Beyer trailing in third. Fourth was Pete Sohren. On the following rap things remained the same with J.J. Walden limp-ing around with a flat rear tire. With two laps to go Brandt closed in on Whelchel but wasn't able to make it stick. When the final results came out Chris Brandt was declared the heat winner. Bob Beyer second and Jerry Whelchel an official third place. With this the midway point of the season a points wrap up reveals Jerry Whelchel (691) edging out Lee O'Donnell and Stacey Pike (tied at 690). Randy Eller has totaled 663 points over Larry Eayer (651). In the first heat race Stacey Pike came out the big winner. On the grid Pike sat next to pole setter Lee O'Donnell and Larry Bayer and Don Ponder outside of Pike. On the start Pike and O'Donnell elbowed one another for the lead. The two swapped the lead at each corner of lap 1. Pike and O'Donnell flew over the finish jump going into lap 2 but Pike made the best of the following corner and captured the position. Current champ Larry Bayer sat stalled just be-fore the finish line jump when the action came around for lap 3. Once the field settled into position Pike ran away and grabbed the checkered with a five second advantage over O'Donnell. Third was Don Pon-der. Brian Cavitt crossed the finish in fourth and fifth was Raul Flores. A Last Chance Qualifier was used to determine the final Sta-dium Sport Truck starting gate. Six trucks lined up with the top four transferring. Raul Flores sat on the pole, Jeff Elrod sat to the right of Flores. Third on the line was Pete Saldana then J .J. Walden outside. Row 2 had Larry Bayer and Lee O'Donnell. Jeff Elrod left the competi-tion setting still off the start. Behind Elrod was Flores, then Bayer. Elrod wasted little time taking the first transfer spot and ended the race with nearly a nine second lead over Flores then Bayer. J .J. Walden took the final transfer spot. A 12 car field were set for 12 laps of racing in the Super Modified Buggy division with Wes Elrod enjoying the pole spot. Gary Gall was alongside Elrod then Henry Brown and Gary Nierop completed Row l. Inside Row 2 was Jerry Whelchel, Jimmy Nichols, Cory Witherill and Larry Foddrill. Row 3 was Don Kolt, Steve Sallenbach, Bryan Bernloehr and Jim Kandel. Racing action got wound up early· as Gall shot off the line. Seemingly in the same motion Whelchel came from the second row to grab the second spot. Brown had third with Sallenbach crawling all over him for the position, then Wes Elrod. Things settled in again and the front-four positions re-mained the same for the next five laps. Gall was being pres-sured by Whelchel but no seri-ous attempts were made. Brown felt the advances of Sallenbach but again no passes were com-pleted. Whelchel broke the cycle on the following lap as he gritted his teeth through the rough section and managed to hold the inside line at the next corner. Sallenbach kept pressur-ing Brown but Brown had him covered and held the third spot. Dusty Times

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Scott Meyers, from Temecula, California, took the win in his heat and a nice third place in the Thunder Bike Main event. Bob Briggs, in a Briggsbuilt Stadium Lite, won both his heat race and the main event. Cory Witheri/1, Santa Monica, CA, won his heat, was sixth in the main and is tied for points lead with Whelchel. Joe Byrd, from Union City, NV, (#204) edges through traffic to get to his heat win. He was fifth in the main. After getting a bad start, current champion Cory Witherill, had to chalk up the San Diego event as one of those days. Witherill was eighth off the start and Wes Elrod, from Gilroy, California, put himself into the Super Modified main by winning ~he_a_t_ra_c_e_#_4~. --------~---Stacey Pike, from Kingman, Arizona, took the win in his Sport Truck heat, then finished third in the main. had plenty of company from Brown. Brown Once out front Wittman left had to study Bernlocher's moves but man-the racing to his wife D(;!nise aged to steal the position with one lap to Wittman and Joe Price. Denise . go. Wittman was pressuring Price Heat 3 consisted of Jerry Whelchel, the last two laps of the dee, Dwight Lundell, Gary Gall and Kyle but couldn't manage to find an Vestermark. On the start Whelchel opening and had to settle for jumped ahead of the pack with Lundell third. second. Vestermark had troubles early and Bob Briggs came out on top parked in turn 1. On the second lap Gary of Stadium Lite Heat 2. Briggs Gall managed to grab the second spot but managed to keep Tim Baker at Whelchel had run away for the win. bay as Baker was busy fending Vestermark held for third. off Roland Smith. Steve Sallenbach sat on the pole of Joe Price is currently hold-Heat 4. Greg Durman, Wes Elrod and· ing top honors in the series Dennie Lee made up the rest of the grid. challenge. Price has totaled Wes Elrod came out of turn 1 first with Sallenbach second. Elrod got some help on the second lap as Lee pushed Sallenbach around in a corner causing him to stall. Sallenbach however, was able to get going and regain the second spot on the following lap. Third went to Durman. After taking control in the second turn Larry Foddrill dominated the rest of Heat Race 5. Don Kolt had enjoyed the hole shot but had to settle for second. Third was Benny Perry. In the LCQ Bryan Bernloehr made it a wire to wire victory but had the company of Jim Kandel all the way. Third place was Anthony Arens. Current points champ Cory Witherill is tied (699) with Whelchel for the over-all honors. Third is Jimmy Nichols (695) • and Larry Foddrill (687) leads Steve Sallenbach (683). Twenty cars lined up for Stadium Lite main event. First off the line was overall points contender Richard Kosar but Kosar couldn't match the pace set by Beau Briggs. Briggs slipped inside on Turn 2 and quickly checked out. Briggs was beginning to lap the field by Lap 4 and appeared to be heading to an easy victory. Closing in on Briggs was his brother Bob Briggs. Bob managed to take the lead when Beau lost control in the la t corner and was unable to finish. Stacey Fay drove a steady race and managed to take the second spot. Third went to Tim Baker who had a race long battle with Joe Price. Richard Kosar finished fifth. Nineteen Stadium Lites made up the first heat race with the hard charger of the group being Todd Wittman. Wittman had started inside Row 2 and quickly managed to shuffle through the pack to the lead. This is the ~ystem run by inost off road race winners 701 to Richard Kosar's 611. Paul Sutton has 533 and Bob Briggs is fourth with 360. Stacy Fay and Douglas Goodenough are tied with 331. ' · Doug Dubach won the Thunder Bike feature but local rider Dustin Nelson stole the fans attention with his hard charge into second. Dubach made his move off the starting line and came out of Turn 1 first. Once out front he quickly distanced himself from Scott Myers. Donovan Mitchell Continued on page 18 TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR l" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER finished sixth. Jerry Whelchel turned consis-tent laps just over 30 seconds keeping Gary Gall at bay. Whelchel won the feature with CACTUS RACING Gall second· Third crossing the RACEA/R HELMET.S & ACCESSORIES finish line was Henry Brown. GO FOR Larry Foddrill and Jimmy Nichols BELL, SHOE!, SIMPSON followed. Helmets Getting into the main event-SNELL 95, SA95 for had the drivers busy as five heat SODA races and a LCQ were run. In the compl.ete bl.ower systems first heat race Cory Witherill put for Singl.e or doubl.e seat it together. Gary Nierop crossed cars. over second and third was Jim Kandel. Hometown favorite Jimmy Nichols dominated the sec-ond heat race. Nichols was trailed by Henry Brown and Bryan Bernlochr. 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Jerry Whelchel took the win in his super Modified heat and then went Ryan Dietrick, from Tognanoxie, KS, made the trip worth while by Shane Hitt, who came from Buckhannon, WV, to run this race, took on to win the Main event also. winning his Pro quad heat race. his heat and a nice third in the Pro quad Main also. grabbed the third spot. Dustin three laps before his block pass corner he had passed Mitchell. second place money. Myers heat race Donovan Mitchell Nelson came off the second row sent Mitchell rolling over the Now in second place Nelson held the third spot and fourth was first out of Turn 1. Behind and shuffled through the pack hydro barrier. Once around turned up the wick in an at-went to Robert Naughton. Mitchell was current champ to grab fourth before Lap 1 was Mitchell, Nelson went to work tempt to catch Dubach. But Danny Carlson crossed over Spud Walters. Chris Knox over. on Myers. Two laps later Nel-time was to run out on Nelson's fifth. grabbed the third spot. 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Scott Myers had .to earn his second heat race checkered. Off the line it was Chris Ridgeway taking charge. Mark Roop was second and third Robert Naughton. Back in the pack was Myers, who was me-thodically picking off the com-petition. Pulling through the pack also was Dustin Nelson. Nelson however, got too much bite with his Motoworld YZ400F and the bike looped. out from under him. Nelson was able to chase down the rogue cycle and finished in fourth. Myers kept his drive to-gether and managed to take the overall. Mike He.aly grabbed the second spot from Robert Naughton on the last lap. Eleven Thunder Bikes had to go into the LCQ. Dustin Nelson m.inaged to keep con-trol of the event and saw the . checkered first. Second place -~-w·en t fo TYano Legere and Tony Sulek was third. After the San Diego event Chris Knox holds the series points leaq with 662. Chris Ridgeway is second 'with 642. Third place is Spud Walters 587 over Mark Roop with 551. Todd Downs is fifth with 4 5 7. The Pro Quad feature was won by Tim Farr. Farr had to share the limelight with the ever pressing Travis Spader thToughout the entire_ 10 lap event. By the mid way point Shane Hitt closed in on the front runners and began pres-suring Spader. But after all the dust had settled it was still Farr taking the win. Spader second and Hitt third. Tim Farr had set the pace earlier on when he won the first heat race. Travis Hitt came out later and took the third heat race. Keith Little, Ryan Dietrick and Joe Byrd were also heat race winners. Ron Orner made it to the main event by winning the LCQ. By winning at San Diego Tim Farr put himself ahead of the field in the series with 700 points. Second· overall is Jer-emy Schell (682) the Joe Byrd (676). Fourth is current champ mark Ehrhardt and fifth is Keith Little. ■ Dusty Times

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INMEMORY JEANCALVIN 1927-1997 It was March 31, 1997 and a little bit after 6:30 p.m. when Jean Calvin slipped away from · the rat race here on earth and took her place in the next world, which is supposed to be serene and peaceful. We certainly hope it is. Jean founded Dusty Times in December 1983 and it soon became the journal for the off road commu-nity and. it has remained such for many years. Jean devoted her entire life to racing, and the past 25 years to off road racing in particular. Jean was a great fan of the young-sters and watching them rise to tneir particular degree of glory was her passion. Bekki Freeman, Day Gang, Robby Gordon and, oJ course, Brendan Gaughan were some of her favorites and she would literally glow when talking to them or about them. We have en-deavored to keep Dusty Times just as full of news and information as Jean would want it to be. We will continue to pub-lish Dusty Times with the off road commu-nity in mind, ever mindful of your interest, ever reacting tf"'I your criticism and always want-ing to make Dusty Times a better pa-per for all of you to read and enjoy. That's the way Jean would Ldve wanted it and that's the way it is going to be. So, once again, we salute Jean on the an-niversary of her death, knowing she is watching over her beloved newspaper and favorite sport. Amen. FRT MotorSports Promotions Info Anytime: 619-427-5759 • www.fudrace.com in conjunction with Budweiser and Pepsi present Thunder in the Valley MotoCross • Short Course Off-Road • Round 3 of 6 Sunday April 18, 1999 Imperial Valley Expo/Fairgrounds • Imperial Ca 1st Race 12:30pm $25 Pro & Sptmn Entry Fee • $60 payback Pit Gate Opens at 8:00am • Chapel Service 8:30 am Practice 9: 15am • Each class has 2 practice sessions Mo to Cross Pro Classes: Vets • 125 • 250 & up Sportsman Expert or Novice 125 • 250 & Up • Vets • Seniors, 80cc, 60cc and 50cc Mini Bikes Short Course Off-Road Pro Classes: ATV's • Superlites • Super 1600 • 7 • 9 • 1/2-1600 Sportsman Classes: ATV's • 5-1600 & other Dez buggies Sponsored by: Elm's Equipment Rentals• Saasta Chevron· KXO 1230 AM· FM 107 • LIDCO Tom Watson Electrical• Best Western Imperial Valley Inn• Driscoll's Sports Stan's Auto Body & Painting· KSIQ 096 FM • Sports Center 1300 Arn Valley Harvesting and Packing • Track design by Randy Bringle LESAR Desert Rescue • Palomar Communications Dusty Times April 1999 The Bud Fud 200 Desert Race BUGGIES • CARS • TRUCKS Round 2 of 5 of the 1999 FRT Superstition Championship Series Saturday April 24, 1999 Location: Plaster City West Start Time 7:00am IO Times around a 20 mile loop Pro and Sportsman Desert Classes Pre-Running Encouraged LESAR Desert Rescue• SLM Approved Sanctioned by the San Diego County Sports Committee Inc. Start Position Drawing and Contingency Show Saturday April 10, 1999 Charlie's Garage• 760-789-5509 40214th St· Ramona Ca 92065 Horne of Check Point Charlieand Rain Rut Rodd Page 19

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48TH SWEDISH RALLY Makinen/Mitsubishi savor Sweden By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Per Svan and Johan Olsson brought their Opel Astra KC to the first place position in F2, shown here leaving a village in the forest. -vian. place W2L points scorer. Carlos Sainz was the only Consistently hard packed ice driver able to challenge Tommi made the Swedish Rally rather but he was unable to take the predictable for the tire c:ompa-lead at the end and thus fin-nies although Pirelli had a ·ma-ished second for the fourth year jor disaster, almost one second in a row. Thomas Radstrom per kilometer slower than drove well and hard in his Ford Michelin users. Focus WRCar_ and kept in The Swedish Rally is the last -touch with the leader and took of the rallies where local the third place finish, his team-knowledge seems to be an ad-mate, Colin McRae retired vantage. No non-Scandinavian from _the fray after eight stages driver has ever won the rally in with engine problems. its 4 7 year history. Bu_t, some-Kenneth Eriksson was just. how, the urge to drive in sub-abol!t to win the F2 category zero temperatures, on ice or TheMitsubishilancerEvoVofTommi.Makir,enandRistoMannisenmakicutsthroughthefrigidaironthewaytovictoryinthe when engine trouble took him snow covered roads between 48th Swedish Rally. out of the running on the final usually unforgiving snow banks It's getting to be a habit: Rally when Tommi Makinen most eQv.i~ble· record of the stage and thus Per Svan took at what are to be cons"idered Mitsubishi won its sixth· con-won the 1999 Swedish Rally, rally neverh~ving been won by the gold in the Opei and. the breakneck speeds never goes secutive World Cham ionshi and in doi so ke. t intact the an one who is not Scandina-VW of Harri oki the hi hest away and thus more and more .., .................... 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Ford had entered no fewer Cargos Sainz and Luis Moya drove hard in their Toyota Corolla on the '------~-----~-------------' Richard Burns and Robert Reid drove their Subaru through the ice covered roads and took second overall, 18 seconds out of the Thomas Radstrom and Fred Gallagher brought their Ford Focus to a Swedish countryside to a fifth place finish, over six minutes off the win. great third place in Sweden, (Note the narrow tires used for this rally) pace. ;======;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;:;;;-Fifteenth overall and first Teams Cup was the great looking Subaru First in W2L was the VW Golf KC of Harri Joki and Ingemar Karlsson The great looking VW Polo GT/ of Mats Berges and Mattias Andersson lmpreza of Krzysztof Holowczyc and Jean-Marc Fortin, and they were 22nd overall as well in the cold of Sweden, retired from the fray on the first day with engine troubles. Page 20 April 1999 Dusty Times

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The Ford Escort of Markko Martin and Toomas Kitsing finished a great Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen had fuel pressure problems 'on Stig Blomqvist and Benny Melander retired from the battle on Leg 1 eighth overall in Sweden, setting up here for yet another turn. day one and came back to finish in Sweden in the 16th position. after a rollover and Stig didn't get his eighth win of the Swedish. than three types of cars for the were other problems: Sebastian Makinen's magic was evident, egory winner with VW taking which ended when the Swede event! There were the two Fo-Lindholm went off the road in the Toyota troops were trying the top three places in front of crashed hard. cus WRCars for McRae and the Gazprom Ford on the third to refine their suspension set-the one lone Renault. Makinen now heads for Af-Radstrom, an Escort WRCar stage and wrecked the suspen-tings and Sainz was wondering There were only four finish-rica with maximum champion-for their trainee driver Petter sion, the two SEATS were hav-where his efforts would take ers qualifying for the W2L cup ship points and Mitsubishi is Solberg and also there was Stig ing fuel pressure problems but him. and only one (Holowczyc) for looking for a seventh succes-Blomqvist's Puma Kit Car. In eventually Rovanpera's prob-Behind the leaders, the Su: the Teams cup. In Group N, sive victory. The biggest ques-t he Mitsubishi camp the big lems were fixed and he was baru drivers were the besr of Puhakka pulled away from tion must cohcern the reliabil-question was, could Tommi back in the hunt but Marcus the rest, Burns and Kankkun-Waldfridsson, despite a turbo ity of the Ford Focus in more Makinen deliver their sixth Gronholm was out when his en were making similar times, problem. Manfred Stohl was difficult conditions. And, for World Championship Rally win· engine failed. Mats Jonsson ex-but Thiry found his gearshift the highest placed regular Subaru and SEAT, the hope in a row? Only Lancia had pired on the first stage, system was stiffening and dur-championship contender at that.the nightmare of the 48th achieved five successive full Bakhashab broke his front sus-ing the day changed from his fourth after a battle with Swedish Rally will be quickly World Rally wins before and pension and retired. Swedish fly-by-wire back to the tradi-Kristoffer Nilsson's Subaru, forgotten. ■ Mitsubishi wanted their name rookie Freddy Loix vvas build-tional manual system, losing in the record books. Tommi, ing his confidence and his pace almost a minute at service . the triple world champion was quickening and Pasi SEAT were happy that seemed unphased by the possi-Hagstrom, winner of the Arc-Rovanpera's times were compa-bility of a new record and ap-tic Rally which was held in rable to Subaru's although he peared calm and composed. frighteningly cold weather was was down to 22nd after his de-Part of the curiosity of the warm and happy b~t not too lay the day before. Loix was still Swedish is the use of tires with happy with the speed of his learning but enjoying himself far more aggressive stud designs Toyota Corolla. Bruno Thiry and his risen into the top ten. than used elsewhere. The dif-damaged the steering on his Su-In F2, Hyundai led most of ficulty is to decide the way the baru but didn't lost a position. the day but Eriksson lost 80 studs are fitted into the tires to In .Group N Puhakka fit'ted seconds in service and dropped give the best compromise be-his Russian tires and won the to third. Svan took the lead; tween good traction and the re-category on the first two stages. but then lost 50 seconds, also tention of the studs in the· tire Then he fitted Lappis and in service. Eriksson was push-tread blocks. On this event the gradually fell back. Stig-Olaf ing hard but suddenly was un-studs are mounted on fairly Walfridsson finished the day able to select either fifth or narrow tires and they must 3.2 seconds in the lead with sixth gear so the gear selectors withstand unusually high Michelins. The best placed were changed at the next ser-stress. challenger to the Mitsubishi vice. Meanwhile, there was On the F2 front, Hyundai legion was Juha Kanga's Suba-trouble for Alister McRae. Oil was making their first appear-ru, which was fourth. was leaking from the cam belt a nee in the world series this In the Teams Cup two of the cover and it caught fire, dam·-year. Kenneth Eriksson re-three contenders were out so aging the wire loom. Alister put mained their No.1 driver and Krzysztof Holowczwc was the out the fire, continued on, only Alister McRae. was his team-only contender left in the run-to have it happen again, this mate. There were six official ning. In F2, the two H:y.undais time the wiring was terminally entries in the F2 category, were split by Per Svan, though damaged and so the McRae SEAT Ibiza had entered two Eriksson was pulling ahead. brothers were both out of the cars, Opel Astra was in the run-Toni Gardemeister lost 15 min-running. ning. The 1400cc VW Polo utes when the right front strut Andreas Eriksson rolled his Group A car was in there and broke after a run-in with a VW on the 12th stage but con-the Ford Puma Kit Car had Stig rock. In the Formula 3 battle tinued on, while Jorgen Blomqvist behind the wheel (cars under 1600cc), the VW Jonasson crashed his SEAT and and Stig has won the Swedish Polo of Mats Berges retired was through. Of the 12 cars eli-seven times over the years. with engine failure and Stig gible for W2L points, six had Leg 1 -Eight stages, gravel, Blomqvist slid into a ditch, hit now retired thus the remaining 141 kms. Sainz was back in a tree and rolled the Puma. six were all going to be in the form! After months of frustra-Therefore, the best placed was points tables. tion he shot into the lead on Tomas Jansson in the Peugeot In Group Nit was a battle of the first stage and was the only 106 Maxi but he broke the tires. Drivers started to change driver able to match ·the pace gearbox on the last stage of the their brand of tire to suit the of Makinen. However, later in leg, got to the finish but did not conditions, Lappis becoming the day a shortage of the proper restart. Of the 12 W2L con-the favorite on the hard ice. tires allowed Makinen into the tenders, four had already disap-Pubakka started on Niisp tires overall lead and then Sainz peared from the fray. but switched to Lappis on the eased his pace a bit, allowing Leg 2 -Six stages, gravel, long Stage 12. Climint went Tommi to be first car on the 142 kms. This was Makinen's from Avon to Lappi, road next day just in case there day. Sainz's ploy to let Tommi Walfridsson stayed on Miehe-was fresh snow overnight to run first on the road bore bit-lin and through it all Puhakka contend with. ter fruit. On five of the six went back into the lead in his Swedish. driver Thom·as stages Makinen was fastest. His Mitsubishi. Radstrom in the Ford Focus lead, which had been 1. 7 sec-Leg 3 -Five stages, gravel, was the only driver to really ands had now grown to half a 98 kms. The conditions contin-· challenge the Mitsubishi/ minute. The stages continued ued as they had been through Toyota battle. In one impres-to be hard packed ice, with only the preceding days, hard sive moment Radstrom went off a stretch of gravel here and packed ice with very little snow the road at 150 kph, damaged there to break the monotony. either on top or sides of the the front cross member yet he This was a day with few dra-road. The daytime temperature still posted the second fastest matic events, except that Ford was now above zero and there time on that stage ! Also, he lost Colin McRae on the first was a strong chilling wind. was finding the Formula 1 type stage. There was little to say Eriksson, having su rvived clutch difficult to master at the about the top four drivers, as clutch trouble .earlier on retired starting gate. Makinen, Sainz, Radstrom and ..yith engine failure on the final Behind the leaders there Auriol continued to pull away. stage. This left Svan as the cat-Dusty Times April 1999 . PRP Premier R~cing 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 orbuggi · • 3/4" x .065 steel frame for strength • Ballistic nylon inner liner for strength and true suspension feel. • Stylish outer cover with extra foam for comfort and support • High quality vinyl and 100% polyolefin tweed with high resistant to fraying and fading used on cover • Slotted for harness style belts • Four standard colors in stock at all times for quick delivery, many other color combinations available. • Low backs and bench seats available PRP Premier Racing Products 1-800-317-6253 / Fax 909-676-6311 Page 21

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MDR WILD WASH 250 Jason Hatz Wins overall At Barstow, CA · By Ron Miller Photos:Trackside Photo Dennis Peterson took the win in CJass 900, with a cushion of 17 minutes and an average speeq of 34.5 miles per hour. Jason hats put his 1600 Dunrile into Victory Circle at the MOR Wild Wash 250, winning overall by just over five minutes. Simply put, things could not have been much sweeter than the "Pre-Valentine Day" developments of February 13, 1999. That date marked Mojave Desert Racing, bc.'s traditional season opener, the "Wild W ash 250."-The weather, racing action, and num-ber of entrants, could all be summed up in one word, "sensa-tional." An MOR record 94 start-ers waged war under clear blue skies, while the desert sun drove temperatures up into the seventies. As a trio of very fast Class 1000 entrants found out the hard way, there were no rewards for leading this race in the eady stages. Jim Tucker and Tom Craig literally flew through their respective open-ing laps. Tucker was ·the first en-. trant ·to return to the start/finish line, following completion of a very MOR record 39 entrants in Class hasty tour of the rugged Barstow 1600), a new "Wild Wash 250" Jerry Gilreath had Class 500 all to himself, and carried on to take the win with a course. Craig arrived a few mo- king was crowned. Congratulations _St_e_ad_,y~d~_iv,_e_. ______________________ _ ments later, after blazing to the go out to Jason Hatz, who reigned in the race's overall outcome. And ished strongly registering his fifth day's fastest overall lap time supreme as the Class 1600 and did they ever. Off road fans were sub-55 minute lap of the day. (52:02). That pair paid dearly for overall race winner. Hatz com-treated to a Class 1600 "Battle Starkey's untimely setback resulted their eariy race expioits, as both pieted his six iap assignment in Royaie", featuring the race1s even-ln a matc·h race ·between Hatz ana leaders (road and clock) were un- 5:25: 17, to edge fellow Class I 60P LJal winner, runner up, and de- Myerly for .all the marbles. During able to complete another loop. racer Rob Myerly by five minutes fending back to back "Class their final two laps, Hatz was able Classmate Brian Walsh was the and 34 seconds. It was a true acid Champ" Roger Starkey. That trio to pad his lead, by putting another next victim to assume the lead. test for those willing to accept the dueled in very close proximity two minutes between himself and Walsh also sizzled in the early go- grueling challenge laid out by Paul through the first two thirds of the Myerly. · ing, registering a pair of impressive Duffy and his crew. The long race. After four laps had been com- Nobody was going to beat Hatz, 54 minute clockings on Laps I and awaited beginning of the MD R's pleted, Starkey led Hatz by just who averaged 44.3 mph and re-2. Unfortunately, he too was un- third season of racing was launched over a minute, with Myerly racing corded the fast lap time in 1600 able to finish another lap after pos-in spectacular fashion. For all of less than three minutes further (53: 26), but the Class 1000 team sessing the lead. To their credit, 52 the exciting stats and stories read back. Lap'5 proved a costly one for of Kory Halopoff and Harley Let-of the 94 racers who started this on, but please remember to do so Starkey, as it all but eliminated him · 'ner sure tried. That pair finished event were able to stay the entire at a reasonable pace. from contention. Whatever prob- fastest of all, completing each of distance. . _ With nearly\ a third of the en- lems slowed Starkey during that their last three laps in under 53 Upcfa'conclusion o f this incred- trants hailing from one class, that 1 :21 :29 loop, must have been cor- minutes. While their awesome late ible day of racing (which saw an group figured to have quite a say rected by his crew, because he fin- Continued on page 24 ,--------------------~----, In the hard-fought 1600 class, Frank Wagner sailed his Bunderson to Always in the hund, Rob Myerly pushed his Bunderson hard, but Roger Starkey had his Mirage out in front, but one long lap cost him seventh lace and 10th overall. couldn't quite get there. He was second 1600, second overall. dearly- He finished sixth 1600, ninth overall. Mitch Griffin had one slightly less-than-stellar lap, fell to fourth in the Brothers Brian and Scott Steele teamed in their Suspensions Unlimited · Malcolm Bryce ran six consistent laps to bring his snazzy looking car hotly contested 1600 race. 1600 car for a fine third place and fifth overall. _____ home in fifth place in the 1600 class. Page 22 April 1999. Dusty Times

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Whit Courtenay charged hard, finished second in Class 1000 by just a minute-and-a-half. Mark Fodor got a Slow Start on the day, but things improved and his Mike O'Donnell lost 20 minutes on his fourth lap, but still salvaged a bright yellow Aceco ended up third in Class 1000. fourth in Class 1000 and 11th overall. · Kory Halopoff and Harley Letner, ages 15 and 16, took the Class 1000 win, and were third overall. Both are Danny Letner grandsons. · charge wasn't enough to overtake The eye-catching performance the winner or runner up, it did earn turned in by these talented young-Halopoff and Letner third place sters (ages 16 and 15) shouldn't overaii and the Class 1000 victory. have come as too much of a sur-Tim Braden and his "cracked" looking Ford survived the tough course to win Class 725. PIKE'S SERV,.ICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA 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 Page 24 prise. A ter a , t ey're t ir gen-eration racers from the famed "Let-ner family". The teens' experience prior to this event was limited to one other start and time spent working on their grandfather's (Danny) vehicles.The future looks quite bright for Halopoff and Let-ner ,. whose racing careers are con-tingent upon keeping up their grades in school. After the aforementioned "whiz kids" staged their torrid finish. Whit Courtenay was forced to settle for runner up honors in Class 1000. Courtenay raced very well nonetheless, as evidenced by his : excellent final time (5:36:54) and overall fourth place finish. A scant minute and a half was the differ-Marc DeShane rn six amazingly consistent laps to record the victory in ence between the overall third and _C_la_s_s_5_5_o_. ______________________ _ fourth place vehicles' final trailing classmate Malcolm Bryce clockings. A similar margin also by a mere 20 seconds, when that separated Courtenay from the pair began their sixth and final lap. Steele brothers, Brian and Scott, After a terrific battle, Griffin who finished up fifth overall. Brian emerged with a 25 second advan-was actually the driver of record, · tage over his rival. That slender when that team got their season off margin was all that separated Grif-to a good start by taking third place fin, ·who finished fourth in. Class in Class 1600. Mark Fodor also 1600 (and seventh overall), and turned in an impressive perfor- Bryce (fifth and sixth overall). The mance, landing third place in Class aforementioned R9ger Starkey fin-1000 and finishing sixth overall. ished behind that _pair, earning With. the exception of Halopoff, sixth in Class 1600 and ninth over-Courtenay ;md Foder, the top 10 all. Completing the top 10 finish-finishers on the day were all Class ers on the day was Frank Wagner, 1600 racers. Mitch Griffin was whose 40. 7 mph average speed Scott Sells had fast lap of the day for Class 700, at 1 :00:47, and took the victory in his Toyota. Qr. Macrae Glass, Class 1200 winner, puts his very tidy newly purchased Ford through its paces. April 1999 landed him seventh place in Class 1600. Mike O'Donnell raced well, to finish in the 11th position over-all. O'Donnell (fourth in Class 1000 suffered a similar fate as Star-key, as he too was victimized by a sing_le troublesome lap. However, O'Donnell, the final entrant able to complete six laps in under six hours, encountered his problems during a 1: 17:38 Lap 3. It's pretty obvious that entrants from Classes 1600 and 1000 thor-oughly dominated this third run-ning of the "Wild Wash 250". That telltale development was undoubt-edly the result of the extremely rough course racers were asked to traverse. The first racer to break through those divisions' strangle-hold on the top finisi).ing positions, was Class 800 winner Eric Heiden. Heiden, who tallied fast lap time in his class (56:51), required just over six hours to complete his as-signment and secure the 12th po-sition overall. Claiming fifth place in Class 1000 was Shane Brown, who finished less than five minutes behind Heiden. Brown held about a ten minute cushion over Cindy Greinke at the finish. Greinke raced to an· eighth place finish in Class 1600, while earning herself the 14th position in overall scoring. Following Greinke past the finish line were another pair of Class 1600 racers. Mikes Lorenzi and Duenas finished the day about two minutes apart. Lorenzi narrowly edged out Duenas for ninth place in class and 15th overall. The 17th place finisher was Class 550 winner Marc Des-hane. Consistency seemed to be the main ingredient leading to Deshane's well deserved victory. Deshane's elapsed times for Laps 3 through 5 were all w.ithin 4 2· sec-ond~ of each others. Laps 1 and 6, which represented the only ones Deshane didn't complete in one hou,r five minutes and change, took him 1:04:03 and 1:06:57. Randy Miller raced to an 11th place finish in Class 1600. Miller also topped classmate Paul Sullivan (12th in 1600) for 18th place over-.Dusty Times

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Mitchel Pedersen and his Toyota came home fourth in Class 1200 Larry Gross and his efficient looking Toyota were second in Class Keith Pratt deals with traffic as he pilots his venerable Ford to second which had a 100% finishing record. · 1200, averaging 27.5 mph. place in Class 850. in just under seven and a half ...,.====;=-;;:;=,=,~a:=:;:;;;,:;=,=,;;:;:;;;:~r"":;:;:;:;;=====7r====--=======================, hours. Following Gould was an-other trio from Class 1600. Rigoberto Arzate raced at an av-erage speed of 31.9 mph, to place 15th in class a_n__d 29th overall. Classmate Derek Ahearn finished five minutes behind him, and about four minutes in front of Jimmy Hook. Scott Sells averaged an even 31 mph, as he raced to an easy vic-tory in Class 700. Sells' second lap was both his best and the fastest recorded in his class (1:00:47) . Finishing about five and a half min-utes behind Sells was the Class 725 winner, T im Braden. Both Sells and Braden outlasted their com-petitors, who fell victim to attri-tion. A pair of Class 725 entrants, Mike Nixon and Rick Gonzalez, were on their final lap when forced to call it a day. Another, Doug Siewert, completed two thirds of his assignment, while taking fast lap honors (1:05:44). It took him over eight hours, but Bob Quarnstrom kept it together to finish and take the Class 1400 win. Harry Dunne completed the Class 900 scoring, by racing to a third place finish. Dunne averaged just over 30 mph, and used 7:57: 17 to complete his arduous task. Ser-gio Nunez claimed the seventh and final position in Class 1000 scor-ing for the day. The final two fin-ishers in Class 1600 were Rick Gamble (18th} and John Hicks (I 9th} . Stephanie Lozano earned sixth place in Class 550, with a fi-nal time of 8:21 :04. Jerry Gilreath, the Class 500 winner, was in a class of his own. With no competitors to push him, Gilreath cruised to vic-tory in 8:28:41. Daniel Fresh and John Strode completed the order of finishers in Class 550. Fresh placed seventh and Strode eighth, while Keith Westerfield posted that class' fast lap time (1:03:58). Mike Ismail put about an hour be-tween himself and runner up Keith Pratt, to grab the win in Class 850. Pratt averaged 25.1 mph en route Valley Performance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Page 26 Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater $45,000 Cal Dave or 702-247-1266 or 702-873-1962 3636 Mead Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 to a final time of 9:33: 12, while Ismail's stats included quickest lap {1:16:35). Turning your attention now to entrants handed four lap assign-ments, Class 1200 winner, Dr. Macrae Glass, proved himself a cut above. Glass polished off his four laps in 5:32:59, averaging 28 .8 mph. In addition to posting his first win on the circuit, the good doc-tor also sewed up fast lap time in his class (1: 20: 26) . Larry Gross earned runner up honors in Class 1200, while finishing about 16 min-utes behind the winner. Gross had a 38 minute cushion over classmate Dennis Beckwith, who finished third. Beckwith and fourth place finisher Mitchel Pederson each re-quired about six and one half hours to complete their four laps, and both averaged in the 24 mph range. Eric Hardin completed the Class 1200 scoring, by checking in fifth (7:59:35 20.0 mph} . "Defending Class Champion" Mark McKinley continued his winning ways, top-ping a field of four for the Class 1100 victory. McKinley averaged just over 25 mph, while besting runner up Dennis Sletten by about 30 minutes. Sletten put over an hour between himself and third place finisher Julio Curiel, and also posted the class' fast lap time (1 :22: 17) . A single Class 1300 en-trant and a trio .from Class 1400 also participated. Unfortunately, only one member .of that group, Bob Quarnstrom, was able to com-plete his four lap assignment. Quarnstrom, the Class 1400 win-ner, averaged 18.4 mph and fin-ished up in 8:41 :25. Steve Ruddick and Martyn Atkins both completed three laps before retiring for the day. Atkins' opening lap proved to be the fastest in the class ( 1: 10: 10). There remains one final quar-tet, deserving of honorable men-tion for their respective "Wild Wash 250" efforts. That group is comprised of a pair of entrants from Class 900 and another duo from Class 1600. Mike Malloy and Max Hanberg were the Class 1600 rac-ers. Both of those seasoned pros April 1999 Mike Ismail drives what is probably the oldest truck in the race, his Scout, to Victory in Class 800. completed five laps at a 40+ mph clip, before bowing out of action. Similar fates were also bestowed upon Class 900 racers Sean Defrank and Dave Lawson. That pair also saw their respective days come to a premature end, while unsuccessfully attempting to com-plete lap 6. I do believe that does it for the 1999 opener folks. It would be pretty difficult to imagine a bet-ter beginning to Mojave Desert Racing lnc.'s third season (of course, those MOR folks who were stranded for several hours on 1-15 when it was temporarily closed due to 90 mph winds, might disagree). If the February 13th showing is any indication of what lies ahead, the future of off road racing in Southern Califor-nia looks absolutely brilliant. The scene shifts to Lucerne, CA for the next two stops on the '99 schedule. Make plans now to be part of all the. exciting action, when racing resumes on April 10, 1999 with the "Lucerne 300". If your likes include smiling faces and far out places, I'll CU at the MOR off road races.. ■ Eric Heiden always a tough competitor, took the Class 800 win and a great 12th overall in his Ford. Mark McKinley took the Class 1100 win, with four evenly paced laps in his yellow Beetle. ~------------------Dusty Times

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DUSTY TIMES PROFILE John Marking By Judy Smith John Marking's name will be new to some of you, because he hasn't raced for a few years, but he's just built a new car and he's on his way back to the fin-ish line. John, who works for Fox Shox, got his start in the sport of off road when his brother-in-law, Gary Cogbill, started tak-ing him to the desert bike races when John was about ten years old. As it does for most people, their involvement grew. Gary began racing off road cars, try-ing both Class 11 and Class 9. John rode in the Class 11 car when he was about 16 years old and thought it "was the crazi-est thing." For a while the fam-ily concentrated on supporting Gary's racing efforts, but in '86, when Class 9 cars were still powered by 1200cc motors, John got his chance to drive one. That, apparently, was not so crazy. John, who grew up in the Bonita area, near San Diego, was finishing up high school and working as a heating and air conditioning installer. He enjoyed school, especially math, which he found easy. Says he always could figure things out mathematically. He made sure to take trigonometry and calculus in high school, noting, "I've always been a math kind of guy. I figured sooner or later I'd get an engi-neering degree." But, enjoying the sensation of having a weekly paycheck, he says he stuck with the job "kinda long." In the meantime he and Gary had stepped up to the 1600 class and for a while were a nearly unbeatable team. In 1988 he and Gary won the SCORE season points in the 1600 class, at a· time when there might be as many as 60 or 70 cars in that class in a race. It looked as if '89 would be an-other banner year, and in the spring he and Gary -won the Mint, always a major accom-plishment for a racer. John had moved on to work at Jimco, and while racing and preparing the Dusty Times 1600 car, he was building him-self a single seater at night. H e was putting in a lot of long hours. H e felt tired, and then he developed a persistent cough. When he'd had the cough for about six months a girlfriend persuaded him to go to a doctor. He had also discov-ered that he'd lost about 25 pounds. And he'd had other symptoms, like night sweats, but had ignored them. Now, he decided he'd have a physical. When the day came, John said he sat in the waiting room feel-ing like a "wimp." All the other people there were sick, and he thought he shouldn't be wast-ing the doctor's time, and very nearly walked out to get back to work on his race car. But he didn't. And thus, . May of 1989 began a new chap-ter in his life. After the usual round of questions, the doctor took x-rays. John said, "I could tell as soon as they put the x-rays up ... there was a percep-tible change in attitude." It turned out that a tumor the size of a potato was wrapped around his heart and thymus gland. He saw the x-rays and heard the di-agnosis, but still didn't know what it meaht. When he got home he called his sister and asked, "What's a lymphoma?" He'd had no idea he had can-cer. Ironically, he'd missed a chance to have the illness di-agnosed about six months be-fore when he'd cracked a rib. It hurt enough that he went to the doctor, but he and the doc decided there was no need to x-ray the injury, which is fairly typical with cracked ribs. If they had, the tumor would have been spotted six months earlier and his course of treatment would not have been so severe. As it was, John went through six months of chemotherapy and then six months of radia-tion. When he went to the hos-pital the first time, the tumor had got so big it had become difficult for him to breathe. He said, "It was very close for me." When he had his first chemo dosa·ge, he threw up all night, but the n found h e could breathe _in the· morning. They dosed him with a c h emical cocktail made up of nitrogen and mustard, the object being to stop short of killing him, yet kill the cancer cells in the tu-mor. Through the whole course of treatment he continued to work at Jimco. He would take off one day to go to the hospi-tal for the medication, and then take off the next day to be sick. He decided he had to have something to do on his sick days, so he plarrned a really nice shed. It was, he said, a "fill in" project, but it was "kinda fun, and a real well built shed." He had decided the key was be-ing outside, and not just sitting around feeling sick. John ex-plained that while undergoing chemo he would have about 20 minutes in which to get home after being dosed, and then he'd start throwing up for eight hours or so. In addition to the cancer fighting medications, he was given steroids to encourage him to eat, because the chemo treatment often alters a patient's perceptions of how food tastes (he gained 40 pounds), and he was given Hal-cyon, so he could sleep. W ith all this going on John continued to race. His doctor ·didn't like it, in part because John kept rescheduling his medication days so that race day would work out to be on the day he could predict he'd feel the best. He'd been told by a nurse that it would be "in-credibly difficult", and that 40% of the people undergoing chemotherapy quit. She warned him that would be his worst course of action. John felt that the working at Jimco, the racing and the shed project all "kept me going." The only race he missed was the 1000, which went to La Paz. He pre-ran it, but then decided against the race because of the lack of medical facilities along so much April 1999 of the course. T h e year of treatment was over in May of 1990. He had begun work on that engineer-ing degree and had ma_naged to get in three and a half years at San Diego State by the time he got sick. W hen he was diag-nosed with the cancer the school wouldn't give him a leave of absence so he with-drew. O nce done with the can-cer treatment, his life returned to normal, but he was, as could be expected, not the same per-son. He says he now pays atten-tion to "signs" thrown out by his body. He's a dedicated non-smoker, and tries to keep in shape. H e says he's "anti-pill" now, and won't even take an aspirin. Whe n the c hemo stopped he stopped taking pills for good. He tries to keep from getting run down, and makes sure to eat fruit and drink plenty of juices and water in-stead of soda. He believes it's important to drink lots of flu-ids to help wash toxins ou t of his body. In '91 he picked up a ride with Tom Schilling. They started in a 1600, but gradu-ated to a Class 10 car. They had mixed results, but John liked racing in Class 10. In the meantime, he'd started poking around with shock absorbers. He'd been so beaten up by the front end of the car in which he won the Mint that he "knew we'd have to do something about shocks." He started rebuilding and modifying shocks for other rac-ers. Michael D aws, at Fox, wasn't really happy about it, ·and he asked John to come up to their San Jose offices to dis-cuss it. John went, and he took along a little mountain bike shock he'd made for himself, to show to Daws. About a month later Fox hired him to work on their mountain bike shocks. He also went to the off road races to support the Fox Shox racers, which he says was his main in-terest. Having gone to San Jose to work, John discovered there were no off road shops, and there was no desert. It became HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 difficult to race, so his racing got put on hold for about four years. Now, however, he has the best of both worlds. He works part of the time in S~n Jose and part of th e time in San Diego, connected to his desk by ·computer and modem. John works as a designer for Fox, and has designed their en-tire Ii ne of mountain bike shocks, as well as many of their off road units. He's got patents in the works right now, and says there will be new off road stuff coming in the next year or so that will be "quite different." H e loves his job, and says "I thought I would h ave run out of ideas by now, but there's no way. I come up with ideas faster than I can do proto types." Now that he's back near the desert, he's built a new car. It's a two seat Jimco, powered by a Subaru motor, and equipped with Fox Shox. The car is one of the new 2000 Series Jimcos, with a new front en d configura-tion, that he helped Mike Jul-son lay out on the computer. John says, "I like to play with suspen sion geometrics, it's a hobby of mine. The beauty of the computer is you can draw the suspension and cycle it to set up the steering for example. There's no guesswork, it's fact." The first time out of the box the car won overall a t the FRT Dunaway Dash. Then a rash of problems with the motor caused a couple of DNFs, though he did lead the FRT King of the Desert event for a while. While the car is something of a toy for John, as they are for most of us, it's also a tool. He says it's going to be used to test new developments in shocks. As John explained, "it's hard to use someone else's car to test new equipment, because if it should happen to fail, you've cost them the race." He's also planning to use it as a public relations tool, giving rides to prospective shock buyers per-haps, or possible prospective car buyers . Be sure to watch for John and the new car. It won't be long before you see them in the winner's circle. ■ Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. 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FRT KING OF THE DESERT Dondel Brothers Ride Again By Judy Smith Photos: C&C Race Photos ·="'. :~ ~~ Mike and Dale Dondel had a couple of flats, but still took the overall win in their Lexus Lothringer. After a year of dominating the Class 5 series in .SCORE events, the Dondel brothers, WRIGHT PLACE 10 TOOTH PINION GEAR $20.00 WRIGHT PLACE STEERING COUPLER $8.00 WRIGHT PLACE PINION BEARING $10.00 WRIGHT PLACE Mike and Dale, demonstrated that they are no slouches in an unlimited buggy either. They CROW ENT. SPT. BELTS SFI LEGAL RED, BLUE, BLK $74.95 BFGOODRICH TIRES CALL FOR PRICES MSD IGNITIONS FOR STREET & RACE ASK ABOUT PINION SUPPORT COVER $5.00 NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHITRS .... WRIGHT PLACE RACK STOPS $12.00 pr ** MUST MENTION ADTORECIM AD PRICES ......... . VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE www.maccachren.com took the win at the first event of the FRT's 1999 series, with a dramatic drive in their Loth-CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-755-5900 Page 28 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR 1111 ••• • 11: -,;~q_~ 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * B9102 HOURS: MON-Fill BAM-BPM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702}871-5221 FAX April 1999 Eric Williams had an uneventful day in his Jimco; took the 1/2-1600 win by 12 minutes. ringer, culminating in a dash across the finish line with shredded tire flying through the air. This race, generally a four lapper with a short course type infield at the end of each lap, was without the special infield section this year thanks to a mix-up regarding dates and the like. The FRT promises that it will be a feature in their October event. The laps were approximately 40 miles long, and four laps were required of all but the Sportsman classes, who .went around only three times. This year there was a lot of very soft sand on the course, and since the cars raced after the motorcycles and ATVs had thump~d it to an even softer condition, it was something of a challenge to the limited classes. In Class 1 Dale Dondel was the first lap lead e r in the Lexus powered Lothringer, but had only 34 seconds on John Marking's Subaru pow-ered Jimco. Marking was not driving, but had Greg Harvey, a fr iend and racer from South Africa at the wheel. In third it was Bill Gill in his High Ve-locity Special, and Larry Mc-Call um ran fourth, about a minute behind him, after be-ing lost. McCallum was driv-ing his Class 5 car (which was the Dondel's season champi-onship winning car last year) in Class l since no other Class 5s had come to the race. He'd been lost for a while, as had the Dondels. Chuck Hovey, in his Aceco, continued his streak of early-in-the-race bad luck. He flattened a tire at about the same time his shifter pulled out of its slot, leaving him stuck in fourth gear. By the time he'd limped to an on-course pit for a tire change and a shifter fix he'd lost a lot of time, and by the time he got back to the main pit the shifter had come out again. And, he also needed some-thing done about the hole in his power steering cooler. So his first lap was about 25 min-utes over long. After that he was quick. Harvey, in Marking's car, races an almost identical car in South Africa, but with no others like it hadn't any idea how fast it would really go. He sought out Markin:g for a sort of hands on demonstration. Marking had him drive some on Friday, and then gave him some careful instructions. Harvey told him that the courses in South Africa are far smoother than this FRT race, and in fact, are more closely related to a rally th~n an off road race. Dondel continued to lead, and H arvey ran second at the end of lap 2 with McCall um in third. Josh W addell was now fourth in his Chenowth Mil-lennium. On the third lap Marking took over and he recorded the quick lap for the day, at 33:24, and moved into the lead. Dondel had a tire going flat as he pulled into his pit, but it was time for a fu el stop and a driver change anyway. They were second, with McCallum holding on to third. Waddell was still fourth. On the last lap as Mike Dondel took off in hot pursuit of Marking, he saw him pull-ing over about three miles into the lap. Marking had a flat front tire, but that wasn't why he stopped. He thought that he might have lost his motor (a junk yard Subaru, as his race motor was not yet com-plete), and saw some people there to ask. They came run-ning over to the car and asked Jody Mason celebrated his 34th birthday by.putting his Ford into Victory Circle. Dusty Times

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Josh Weddell had his good looking Chenowth Millennium storming, took third in Class 1. Steve Reynolds didn't like his Bunderson's suspension set up, but Jim and Cam McGinley tip-toe through the bumps on their way to third in the Sportsman Class. what was wrong. He asked them to look and see if there was a hofe in his motor. They came back and said, "No, but your motor is on fire!" So he asked them to please put it out. Lacking a fire extin-guisher, they used the next best thing, and poured beer on it, extinguishing the flames. Meanwhile, Dondel pushed hard, and kept watching his rear view mirror, but he never did see any approaching dust. When he hit a tree stump or something of that sort and flattened a rear tire, he de-cided the best thing to do was to go for it. So, for the final three miles or so he ran with a very flat tire, which put one corner of the front end up in the air. By the time he got to the finish he was on shreds and the wheel, but was still moving along. Marking never made it in. McCallum took second place, about 11 min-Dusty Times still managed a nice second in the 1/2-1600 race. utes later, and Waddell was race for themselves. At the third. Hovey, who'd run well end of the first lap Richard the last three laps, was fourth. Burnworth had his 2180cc In Class 8 things got off to powered Chenowth out in a close start, with Robert front by a bit over a minute. Edgmon in front in his Ford, Behind him it was Mark recording quick time for the Gilliland, in a 2164cc powered big trucks at 41 :33. He had Raceco. They went on in that almost exactly a minute on order, but not without inci-Jody Mason in another Ford, dent. Burnworth got lost at and Jeff Norton ran third in the back end of the course his Chevy. Mason was eel-once, and did an extra three ebrating his 34th birthday. or four miles, while Gilliland Edgmon held on for the sec-stuffed the front end of his ond lap, and now had only 39 car, bit his tongue, and then seconds on Mason, but by the had to get out of the car to lift end of the third lap Edgmon the front end out of its pre-was gone and Mason held the dicament. Both reported that lead. He had no problems, and the dust created their prob-went on to take the win, fin-lems. Burnworth went on to ishing only 12 minutes in front take the win, though Gilliland of Norton. Mason headed off charged hard on lap 4 and re-for a combination birthday/ corded the fast lap for the victory celebration. class at 41 :42. They were There were only two of the separated_by only two minutes Class 100 cars (short wheel-and 15 seconds at the finish. base, limited engine size) and In the 1/2-1600 class there they had a close and exciting was a little bit of off road his-April 1999 tory on the hoof. Well -not Garcia didn't ever come so little. Andy DeVercelly around again. (son of Andy, Jr. who is the Williams moved into the son of "Pop" DeVercelly, one lead on lap 2, as Reynolds was of the sport's pioneers), was regretting that he'd pumped racing, and he had his son, his tires up hard so the rocks Andy IV as co-driver. (As far wouldn't be a worry, only to as we know, this is the first have a "bit of a struggle" in case of a fourth generation off the many miles of sand. Andy road racer who's actually got III was now in third place. his hands on the steering Williams drove all the way, wheel. There are some show-but he had a driver change at ing up at the races, but most the end of two nonetheless, are not yet old enough to since he had two passengers: drive.) Andy IV is 16 years Steve Hill and Wes Davis. old. Reynolds also drove all the At the end of the first lap way. Steve'Reynolds had his Bund-By the end of the third lap erson in the lead, and he'd re-Williams had a substantial corded the fast lap for the lead, and Reynolds ran second_ class, even though he wasn't with Andy IV in third, and really happy with the way the looking a bit quicker than his suspension was working. He'd· dad. Paul Keller and Mark done a 42:52. In second place Agee, both first time car rac-it was Eric Williams in a tidy ers, were fourth. Being old Jimco (Jeff Franklin's old car), ATV racers and chase people, and Lupe Garcia followed him they had no clue what kind of in third in his Dez Fab. But Continued on page 30 Page 29

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► Frank Bongiovanni had a good day in his handsome 5-1600, took Becki and Julie Kern fought a slipping clutch all day in their Kernco, Larry McCallum ran his Baja Bug in Class 1, brought it to the finish in second in Sportsman Class. still managed second place in Class 9. second place. Richard Burnworth maneuvers his Chenowth through some of -the Mark Gilliland had his Raceco charging hard, finished second in Class soft stuff as he heads for his win in Class 100. _1_00_by~ju_s_t_tw_o_m_in_u_t_es ..... _,..---------------chassis they were driving, but There's a lesson in here some-second place. Andy DeVercelly Ill and Andy DeVercelly IV co-drove their 1600 car to third place, while Andy DeVercelly II pitted. they were having fun although where. Ten minutes later In the Sportsman class, in they'd been badly lost on the Bignell wets at the wheel and which they run as one group, first lap in the dust. out on lap 3, and he kept the the first lap lead belonged to Williams had no problems truck in the lead. Lawrence was Gary Haughley, in a Raceco, and went on to take the win, running, but had no chance to with the quick time for the while Reynolds, down a bit on catch up, barring disaster. group at 47:15. He had Frank power after his exhaust fell off, Bignell had a tough last lap, Bongiovanni in second place was second. The DeVercellys breaking and losing a front in his 5-1600 car, and in third (who had brought Grandpa and shock, and then flattening a it was Jim and Cam McGinley Grandma out to watch) fin-rear tire a short distance from in another 5-1600. ished in third place. Their car the finish. Still Bignell and Unfortunately, Haughley was a "home built" they said, Fantelli got the win, and the didn't come around again. though not built by them, and other two failed to finish. That put the lead into the was easily as old as Andy IV. Lawrence reported done in by hands of Don Meyers, in his While the fourth Andy had a broken axle. handsome Ford truck. He had more moral support and good In Class 9 it was a battle of just a bit over two minutes on advice than most beginning the 16 year olds. Eric Allen, Bongiovanni in the 5-1600. racers, he does run up against in a Kernco, was driving his For the final lap, Meyers put that bugaboo of teenage racers third FRT race, and at the end his son, Bryan, into the everywhere. He must keep his of the first lap he was in the driver's seat. This was Brian's grades up or he won't be able lead, with the fast lap for this first race (he's 19), but it torace.Hewas,saidhisgrand-group at 52:51. His sister, wasn't apparent by his lap mother, "Stoked." Megan, only 13, was riding. times. He brought ·the truck In the Small Truck class the Becki Kern, also I 6, ran sec-home in first place, getting a first lap record went to Rodd ond in her Kernco. win on his first try. In fact, Fantelli, in his Datsun/Ford, Allen was having a pretty they had so much fun (Dad with a 45: 16. He had clear sail-good day considering he'd been was riding) that they went out ing ahead of him if he had no sick all week (it's wonderful and did a fourth lap, even problems, because Rex Dale what adrenalin will do for the though required to run only didn't get the first lap finished flu) . His throttle got stuck open three. In second place it was in his Toyota, and Steve acoupleoftimes,andhefound Bongiovanniandinthirdthe Lawrence and his Ford lost that a little tricky to handle, McGinleys. about 50 minutes (a whole lap) but kept moving forward. Sis-The race was over nice and on the first lap. Fantelli needed ter Megan bailed out at the end early, with everyone finished the cushion, because at the end of the second lap, and he fin-and/or accounted for by about of his second lap, when he ished by himself, getting the 5 p.m., well before the 6 p.m., pulled in to do his driver win. Becki, and co-driver, an-cut off time. The FRT will run change, he was horrified to find other teen, Julie Kern, battled its second event, the Fud 200, his co-driver, Charlie Bignell, a slipping clutch, which wasn't on Saturday April 24th. You not suited up. Charlie later said much fun in the soft sand. Nev-can find more information that he didn't think Fantelli ertheless, they made it all the on their website, at could get there that fast. way around all four times, for www.fudrace.com. ■ Pos. FRT KING OF THE DESERT February 20, I 999 Car # Driver/co-driver Superstition OIN Area, near Plaster City Results vehicle Class I - unlimited cars, one & two seat, 7 starters, 6 finishers 2 3 4 5 118 103 129 100 104 Mike & Dale Dondel Larry McCallum Josh Waddell Chuck Hovey Greg Hibbs Lexus Lothringer Jimco Bug Cheno\\1h Millennium Aceco I 650cc Toyota Jimco Class 8 - big trucks - 3 starters, 2 finishers 800 2 !IOI Jody Mason Jeff Norton Ford Chevy Class I 00 - short wheelbase buggies, 2 starters, 2 finishers I 2 3 2 Richard Burnworth Mark Gilliland Cheno\\th Rai:cco Class 1-2/1600 - I & 2 seat cars, 1600ccs-'5 starters, 4 finishers I 2 3 4 1699 1601 1603 1602 Eric Williams Jimco Steve Reynolds Bunderson Andy DeVereelly Ill & Andy DeVercclly IV home built Paul Keller/Mark Agee unkno\\n Class 7 - little tmcks - 3 starters, I finisher 700 Charlie BignelVRodd Fantelli Datsun 2:30:51 2:41:50 2:47:12 2:48:50 2:56: 12 2:53:56 3:09:34 3:00:03 3:02:18 2:58:38 3:10:35 3:26:12 4:00:53 3:24:01 Class 9 - I & 2 seat cars, limited suspension, l 600ccs, short whl'elbase, 2 start, 2 fnish 905 2 900 £ric Allen Becki Kem & Julie Kem Kemco Kemco Sportsman Class - various types - 6 starters, 3 finishers (this class require_d to run only three laps) I 2 3 707S Don & Bryan Meyers 550S Frank Bongiovanni 571S Jim & Cam McGinley Ford Baja Bug Baja Bug Course: 40 miles, 4 laps required ( except Sportsmen ran 3) Weather: warm, dry, slight breeze 3:41:18 4:09:06 2:46:37 2:54:20 3:00:11 Charlie Bignell and Rodd Fantelli survived some front end trouble Don and Bryan Meyers had so much fun in their Sportsman Ford that Jeff Norton, seen here flying low, brought his Chevy home in second with their truck to win the Small Truck class. they went an extra lap after taking the win. ~pl_a_c_e_in_th_e_B_i=g_Ti_ru_c_k_c_la_s_s_. ---·-----------Page 30 April 1999 Dusty Times

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Stephen Bishop 1959-1999 Stephen Bishop, 39, died on March 6th from ~ accident at the home be was building in Riverside. He was born July 8, 1959, in Lakewood, CA and lived in Westminster until 1984. He attended schools in Westminster, graduating from Westminster High School. Steve enjoyed w"ater sports, traveling, and off road racing. He built and raced his own cars and was very successful, winning numerous trophies and awards, twice racing in Tokyo, Japan He and his wife, Linda, have lived in Riverside County 15 years where he built homes in Canyon Lake, Corona and Riverside. Steve worked in construction since high school and for Golden Construction for the last 12 years. He is predeceased by grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Bish~p, Texas. He will be sadly missed by his loving wife of 15 years Linda, his parents, Billy and Kay Bishop, Westminster; brother Randy and family of Clackamas, OR; grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Anderson, Riverside; Many aunts, uncles, cousins, four nieces and 5 nephews; his wife's family and many, many good friends. At 17 years of~. Steve started his racing career as co-driver for his brother, Randy, and his uncle, Jon Anderson, known as "A&B Racing". They won their first race, the Mexicali 300 in 1978, along with winning the Baja 500 and Parker 400. They also won Class 10 Points Championship. He raced with SCORE until 1985 , along with winning the Mint 400 and won numerous races in various classes. He then started his short-course career at Glen Helen winning several championships to 1997. Throughout his career he was given various nicknames by announcers and journalists such as "The King", "Bombs.Away Bishop", making "the Bishop move" and "King Bishop". Steve raced in the Tokyo Dome in Japan in 1990 and 1991. He won Ventura Raceways short-course championship in 1997 also. ' Steve was a loving husband, a great son and brother, a dedicated and winning competitor. He will be sorely missed by all who lives he touched. NOT MANY PEOPLE GET TO MEET OR KNOW A TRUE CHAMPION L"l THEIR LIFETIME. J HA VE TO THANK MY FRIEND CURT NELSON FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THE BISHOPS, A FAMILY OF CHAMPIONS AND TO STEVE WHO IS A TRUE CHAMPION. A CHAMPION HAS SOUND BASIC PRICIPLES AND BJLL AND KAY DID A WONDERFUL .JOB OF ENSTILLING THEM INTO STEVE AND RANDY. A CHAMPION IS A PERSON WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO MAKE THOSE AROUND IIlM CHAMPIONS TOO. STEVE DID THIS WJTH Al\lL'I.ZJNG EASE. THROUGH ms PERSONAL SKILLS HE CARRIED ALL OF US AROUND IDM TO THE TOP AND AT THE SAME TJME TAUGHT US HOW TO BE CHAMPIONS. A CHAMPJON HAS TO BE PREPARED AND STEVE ALWAYS WAS. HE WOULD SPEND HOURS AND HOURS PREPARING THE RACE CAR PRIOR TO EACH RACE, SO THAT HE HAD TIME F'OR OTHER THINGS AT THE RACES. HE WAS ALWAYSPREPAREDFORANYTASKTHAT HE ATTEMPTED WHETHER IT WAS DESIGNING AND BUILDING A NEW RACE CAR, OR A NEW HOUSE. A CHAMPION ALWAYS HAS THE TIME FOR OTIIERS NO MATTER HOW BUSY HE IS, AND STEVE WAS THE .MASTER. IT DIDN'T MATIER IF YOU WERE YOUNG OR OLD, WHERE YOU CAME FROM, OR WHAT YOUR STATIJS IN LIFE WAS. HE ALWAYS HAD THE TIME FOR YOU. AS BUSY AS STEVE WAS, I HA VE SEEN HIM TAKE A SATURDAY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AND HAUL THE RACE CAR TO THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS A.ND SPEND HOURS WITH THOSE SPECIAL ClflLDREN. LIFTJ.NG JHEM INTO THE .RACE CAR, TA.KING PICTURES WITH THEM IN OR BY THE CAR, Ai."-"D SPENDING TIME JUST TALK.ING TO THE!\!. I REMEMBER ONE BOY COJ\.1ING UP TO STEVE AND SAYING, "I HA VE A RACE CAR IN MY GARAGE AT HOME BETTER THAN YOUR RACE-CAR.'; HIS MOTHER WAS STAA'DING BEHIND IIlM SHAKING HER HEAD NO, BUT STEVJ!: SAID REALLY! AND SPENT THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES TALKING TO TIDS BOY ABOUT ms IMAGINARY RACE-CAR THAl' WAS AT HOME IN ms GARAGE. AT THE RACES IT DIDN'T MATTER WHO CAME THROUGH THE PITS HE WOULD TAKE THE Th'1E TOT ALK TO TIIEM NO MATTER WHETI-IERHE WAS WORKING ON THE CAR OR GETTING READ'{ TO GO TO THE ST AGING AREA HE STILL HAD THE TIME TO SPEND WITH THEM I ASKED HIM IF HE COULD DISPLAY ms CAR AT A CLEAN AIR CAR FAm I w AS HOSTING AND HELPED ORGANIZE. I REALLY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE TOO BUSY AND EXPECTED HIM TO TURN J\.-lE DOWN, BUT IDS.RESPONSE WAS, "TIIlS SATUDAY? IDON"T SEE \.'\.'HY NOT. A CHA.",:IPJON-IS CONSISTENT AND STEVE WAS CONSISTENT. JHAVE SAT AT MANY RACES WITH A STOP WATCH ON STEVE AND WATCH HIM TURN LAP AFTER LAP WITH TIIE EXACT SAME LAP SPEED UNTIL TilE LATER LAPS WHENHEWOULDQUIKENTHEPACE. STEVE WAS CONSISTENT IN :ms BELIEFS. ms ACTIONS, AND ms DEALINGS WITH PEOPLE. YOU ALWAYS KNEW WHERE YOU STOOD WITH STEVE. A CHAMPION IS w ·ILLL"-G TO HELP A."iYONE AND STEVE CERTAINLYDIDTHATNOMATIER WHATITWAS. I HAVE BEEN ""1TH STE\'-E JN THE PUS AND RACER AFTER RACER WOULD COME AND ASK FOR THIS PART OR THAT PART OR DO YOU HAVE A SPARE TRANSl\-lISSION I CAN BORROW Af'\f"D IF STEVE HAD :IT, :HE WOULD T .OA N' IT. NEW DRIVERS WOULD COME TC• IDM LOOKING FOR AD'\-~C.E AND HE WOULD FREELY GIVE IT KNOW.D'iG THAT SOMEDAY THEY MAY BEAT HIM WITH THE ADVICE HE GAVE THEM. HE WOULD HELP ms NEIGHBORS OR A CHURCH OR ANYONE THAT ASI<ED A.''il> SOME THAT DIDN'T. O.NE NIGHT I WAS AT STEVES HOUSE WORl<ING ON THE RACE CAR AND HE ASKED ME WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO ON THE WEEKEND. I TOLD HIM I WAS PLANNING TO BUILD MY PATIO COVER. HE SHOWED UP AT MY HOUSE THAT WEEKEND AND I ENDED UP CARRYING J\.:IA Tii:RIAL FOR IDMWHJLE HE BUILT THE P!\.TIO COVER . A CHA!\'JPION IS COMP ASIDONA TE A.l"l"D CARES FOR 1HE WELL DEING OF OTHERS, OVER THE TASK AT HAND. WE WERE IN BAJA PRERUNNING F'OR THE PRESIDEl'ffE 500 ON A 'MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ONE YEAR. A.1'ID I BROKE MY ARi'\1. STEVE PUT ME L'f ms PICKUP AND TOOK ME TO THE .HOSPITAL IN BLYTHE AND THEN ONTO AN'AHEIM TO THE HOSPITAL. WE ARRIVED IN ANAHEIM AT FOUR IN THE MORNING AND AFTER HE WAS SURE I WAS ADMITTED AND l'vIY WIFE WAS THERE, HE TURNED AROUND WEJ\T BACK TO BAJA M"D FINISHED 11fE PRE-RUN. I DIDN'T FIND our UNTIL LATER Tan POOR RANDY MADE THE TRIP TO ANAHEIM IN TIIE BACK OF THE PICK-UP. WELL LOnD, lTS YOUR TURN TO .MEET THIS CHAMPION STEVE BISHOP. ms RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITS SELF A.l'ID I HOPE THAT YOU GET THE SAME SPECIAL FEELING OF PRIDE THAT I DID EVJffiY TIME HE WOULD INTRODUCE ME Al"m SAY, "DO YOU )KNOW MY FRIEND, RUSS HENSON?-

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PACE OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Whelchel Taps Trucks At. Anaheim, CA By Ron Miller Photos: Trackside Photo Jerry Whelchel raced in both the Super Modified Buggies and the Sport Trucks, came up winners in the truck at the Pace show in Anaheim. On January 30, 1999, there certainly was plenty of truth to the old racing adage "pace makes the race." PACE was indeed the story that day/night, as the fourth round of PACE Motor Sports' 1999 Off Road Series was con-tested at Edison In tern a tional Field. The event was a huge suc-cess, as Southern California fans enjoyed an unforgettable evening of action packed racing. The pace was torrid throughout, as the crowd of thirty-some thou-sand was treated to a spectacu-lar 32 race show. Another old saying, "there was something for everyone", also proved especially true. Whether fans were partial to races involving 2-wheel, 4-wheel, full size, or mini size ve·-hicles, PACE had 'em covered. That's because the star-studded cast of riders and drivers as-sembled, competed on motor-cycles and quads, and in buggies and trucks. A full moonlit night sky made Edison's evening event even more electric. Congratula-tions to air those talented types who contributed to the awesome Anaheim "air show". With so many super performances being given on Super Bowl eve, offer-ing only some as "highlights" would be doing an injustice. So, if you readers don't mind, I'll just shift gears into race recap time. Any objections??? Good. Race 1 was the first of seven consecutive qualifying heats for entrants competing in the Pro · Quad class. A field of six took part in the opener, with Jeremy Schell proving quickest off the start. Schell set the tone for the • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless Fuel Sale's "Pro Cell" is our lop-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready to ins/all and ii 's backed l1y a full 10 year warran/y. super-tough, triple coated construction • 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety loam battling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 entire evening, when setting a blistering pace and playing a game of"come catch me." When none of his rivals were able to, ~chell claimed the Heat 1 win. Jeremy Reynolds raced second all the way, followed by third place finisfi.er Ryan Detrick. Race 2 was made up of a field of seven Pro Quad class entrants. By the time it reached a conclu-sion, Tim Farr had proven him-self much the best. Farr used similar tactics as those employed by Schell in the opener. He too seized control early, by setting a wicked pace of his own. Jimmy Stephenson and Jack Bednar both tried unsuccessfully to stay near Farr. Those efforts did, how-ever, earn the duo second and third place finishes, respectively. Farr's authoritative win was vi-sually impressive, as he domi-nated the race throughout and won by a distance. Race 3 proved a showcase for ·the talents of Pro Quad class rider Travis Spader. Spader jumped out to an early lead, while Joe Byrd raced just behind him in second. Johnny Hale and Josh Frederick were also in con-tention early, but Spader never did come back to his field. His flag to flag victory over Byrd (who finished runner up) was the Tim Farr gets lots of air with his quad. He took the win in Heat #2. evening's third straight win re-grabbed the pass on Owens and corded in front running fashion. took over command. It was all Race 4 had a field of seven Hitt from that point on, as he doing battle. Keith Little grabbed gamely maintained the lead past the holeshot and set off to the the checkered flag. Owen~ held early lead. Harold Goodman was on for second and Steve Beilman also out quickly, and held the - finished third. second spot over Byron Seed. Race 8 was the evening's first Goodman soon caught a break heat for the Super Modified and inherited the lead, when Buggy class. A compact field of Little appeared to stall. That was four left the line, with Gary Gall all the help Goodman needed to quickly establishing the lead. secure the win, as he maintained Half of that quartet was virtually the lead for the remainder of the eliminated soon after the start, heat. Johnny Gallaher came on . when vehicles driven by Henry to top Richie Owens for second Brown and Steve Sallenbach be-place. · came hopelessly entangled. Run-Heat 5 had six entrants, in-ner up Benny Perry chased Gall eluding the ultra-talented Kory the entire heat, but he was un-Ellis. Ellis has impressed this re- able to seriously menace the win-porter on a number of occasions, ner. and this time ~as one of them. The following heat also con-Ellis seemed unhurried in th e sisted of four Super Modified early stages, as he calmly settled class buggies. Superstar Cory into a stalking position behind. Witherill, the reigning champion leaders Jeff Seegott and Timmy of the class, powered his way out Tauntor. After sizing up that pair to the early lead. Jim Kandel, from the race's third position, David Bonner, and Dennie Lee, Ellis simply blew by the two took up chase in that order. That pacesetters and continued on to trio had considerable difficulty victory. trying to keep up with the ultra-Race 6 also consisted of a half fleet Witherill, except when rhe dozen riders from the Pro Quad leader's vehicle suddenly stalled ' class. Mark Ehrhardt, the de-out. Luckily for Witherill, he had fending champion from the 1998 already opened up a sizable lead series, showed everyone in atten-by that time. After a few tense dance how he earned his niTin-moments, Witherill restarted his ber. Ehrhardt had no trouble at vehicle and ·then easily held all turning back his class rivals. Kandel safe for the victory. . Denny Seifner raced nearest to Heat 10 found another field of Ehrhardt in the early going and four buggies set to do battle in -Raul Perez was closest to the win-the Super Modified class. Jimmy ner at the finish. But nobody was Nichols grabbed the holeshot, going to beat Ehrhardt this time · with Jesse Rooke racing in sec-around, as he powered away from ond. During the pursuit, Rooke's his outclassed competition. vehicle was suddenly spotted Race 7 was the last of the early launching skyward. Upon his de-Pro Quad class heat qualifiers. A scent from that "unscheduled" field of seven riders faced the air, Rooke became hung up on starter, with Steve Owens prov-the barriers. As a result, the race ing quickest of the bunch. Owens had to be _red flagged. Nichols established the early advantage, couldn't have been too happy while Shane Hitt loomed a threat about handing over the comfort-from the second spot. About able lead he was enjoying, but he halfway through the heat, Hitt quickly re-established it follow-ing the restart. Nichols easily raced to victory, with an un-needed assist from his rivals' mis-fortune. Chris Viterbo "only" had to overcome a spin-out to place second. The other two racers weren't so lucky, as one rolled and the other broke. e for more info call or write to: (541) 388--0203 (541 )383-0307 fax http://Www.fueisafe.com The man himself, Bob Briggs, not only won his heat, but then took the main event in the Stadium Lite Class. Hea t 11 featured another quartet of Super Modified class entrants. The always formidable Jerry Whelchel powered his way out to the early lead. Wes Elrod raced nearest the leader early on, and was still holding that posi-tion at the finish. Whelchel had no problem dlstancing himself from the field, and he raced off to a very lopsided victory. T he remaining three Super Modified class entrants seeing 1 Page 32 April 1999 Dusty Times

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Carter Gurnee dives into a turn as he heads for the checkered flag Cory Witheri/1, 1998 Super Modified champ, took a. win in his heat Pete Sohren, from Arizona, led from flag to flag in his Stadium Sport Truck heat, to transfer to the main. and victory circle during the second Thunder Bike heat.. with his high flying driving style. =.--q- u- 1;-. c'k_e_s_t_o....,.ff.,,.-t'h-e--,lr.i-n_e_. ~Rn--;"i c-.k Larry Plank, Ford, flies straight and true here, as he steers a course for victory circle in his Thunder Truck heat. Kyle Vestermark takes a leap as he makes his way to his Super Modified heat finish line and the win. gether on the front end, Dorsey ingly made a career out of being broke and Fay was punted off the in the right place at the right course. Dorsey's vehicle suffered time, and that's exactly where he severe front end damage, while was. · Kufundzich was most ac-Fay's came to rest upside down. : '. comirtodating, as he obligingly;_ Smith emerged with the lead and took the field past the checkered· appeared to _h ~ve escaped un-flag. Steven Nelson placed sec-scathed. Appli.rentfy that was not ond, followed by Mike Royd who the case though, as Smith soon finished third. slowed dramatically with a right Race'l6 featured six entrants rear flat. This brings us to the from the Stadium Sport Truck point in the race when Peter Ku- class. Jerry Whelchel set off to jundzich suddenly enten;d the the early lead, making a strong picture. "Peter ·Kay" has seem-bid to qualify in his second class. Stacey Pike and Chris Brandt were chasing him from the sec-ond and third spots, respectively. Brandt was able to slip past Pike and secure runner up honors, but nobody was going to catch the runaway leader. Whelchel had matters well in hand throughout, and easily blitzed his foes in an-otner impressive performance. Race 1 7 featured six more en-trants from the Stadium Sport Truck class. Randy Eller won the holeshot, and as it turned out, . TRANSAXLE.ENGINEERING,-INC EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE RACEAUTO AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY OVER 250 FINAL DRIVE RATIOS WITH.ADAPTERS & CONVERTERS COMBINATIONS FOR ANY ENGINE $250 RING & PINION, FULL MANUAL 3SP AUTO 1997 SCORE MILESTONE WINNER Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 9131.1 ApriL1999 the heat as well. Eller raced strongly on the front end and was able to set all of the pace. The fleet front-runner was never se-riously challenged, and his easy win meant he'd earned a spot in the "main." Heat 18 featured the final five Stadium Sport Truck class en-trants. Lee O'Donnell immedi-ately powered his way into the lead. Defending class champ Larry Bayer and Bob Beyer du-eled for second behind the race's· pacesetter. O'Donnell continued to widen his advantage each lap · arid never looked a·toser. He eas-ily drew well clear of his rivals, and won as much the best. Beyer emerged from his duel with Bayer as the heat runner up. Race 19 was for entrants in the Thunder Bikes class. 1998 series champion Brian Walters assumed command at once, set-ting a fast early pace. Chris Knox and Scott Myers were in hot pur-suit of the defending class champ, but neither one mounted any se-rious threat to the eventual win-ner. It was flag fall to that's all, as Walters raced his classmates into submission. Knox finished steadily to beat out Myers for the runner up spot. About a dozen more Thunder Bikes battled during Heat 20. Chris Ridgway spurted out to an early lead, while Carter Gurnee and Mike Healy took up chase. Gurnee soon collared the race leader, and then held off second place finisher Doug Dubach for the win. Race 21 was the first "last chance qualifier" of the night, and featured Super Modi-fied class buggies. Kyle Yes termark won the holeshot and set sail on the lead. A pair of Marks, Bonnell and Roop, raced in the second and third positions respectively. Vestermark was very game on the front end, as he fought off the fast closing Bonnell to claim victory. Next up was the last chance qualifier for the Thunder Trucks class. Jeff Ho~kins again proved Johnson and Andrew Wehe tried in vain to keep pace early, but Hoskins continued to extend his advantage. Things suddenly grew pretty intense though, when Hoskins suffered a right front flat with a full lap still remaining. Wehe and Johnson closed in rap-idly, as Hoskins tried desperately to nurse his truck to the finish. He did, but just barely. Hoskins' one time comfortable lead had all but vanished when he just did edge Wehe for the win. The first of two "last chance" qualifiers for Pro Quad class rid-ers soon followed. Richie Owens grabbed the holeshot, with Josh Frederick taking second. Frederick was able to wrestle the lead away from Owen, but he was then immediately challenged by Ryan Detrick. When all was said and dqhe, it was Detrick who emerged the winner. Detrick's spot in the Pro Quad class "main" was secured by his strong closing charge. Similar tactics worked just as well for Keith Little, who closed from off the pace to win the final Pro Quad class qualifier. Steve Beilmam held the early lead in that "last chance" qualifier, with Matt Topham and Johnny Hale also vying for command. Little was racing fourth in the early stages, before he began to steadily pick off his rivals. Little finally worked his way into the lead, just before the field reached the · white flat lap. It was all over at tha t point, as Little quickly pulled away to win clear. Race 25 represented the final opportunity for Thunder Bikes class entrants to land a spot in the finals. Fifteen riders had ex-actly that in mind, when Dano Legers sped off into the lead. Paul Krause, Mark Roop, and a whole host of other riders, were racing just back of the early pacesetter. Suddenly Legers was unseated in a spectacular high speed bail. Following that development, Tony Sulek found himself racing on the lead. Robert Naughton was now holding down second place, with Roop just behind him in third. Sulek continued on gamely, and finished strong to earn the victory. The "last chance" qualifier for Stadium Sport Truck class en-trants was held next. Pete Sohren • certainly made the most out of his "last chance" opportunity. Sohren quickly established com-mand at the outset, and domi-nated his classmates from flag fall to finish. In addition to the winner's game effort, two other _ drivers gave noteworthy perfor-mances as well. One was Brian Cavitt, who earned runner up honors for the heat, with his best effort of the night. The other was __ Dusty Times

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Jeff Hostins, his Ford sporting a handsome paint job, took the win in Peter Kujundzich, ("Peter Kay" for short) was the victor in one of the Jerry Whelchel, here in his Super Modified Buggy,· won his heat and both his heat and the Thunder Truck main event. closely contested Stadium Lites heats. was second in the Main. ;:====:;===:;=======;;===:;============ Larry Foddrill had a great weekend, winning both his heat and the Super Modified main event. Lee O'Donnell put his Toy9ta Stadium Sport Truck into victory circle for his heat. Veteran stadium racer Jimmy Nichols puts his Super Modified through its paces as he heads for a heat win. Jeff Elrod, who was most impres- · sive when racing for two laps with his truck's hood completely covering his windshield. Aher 26 thrilling heat races had been decided, it was now time for the Round 4 "main events." The Stadium Lites class entrants took up center stage for the first main of the evening. The boisterous crowd was treated to a truly vintage Bob Briggs perfor-mance. Briggs, just as he had ear-lier in the evening, blasted imme-diately into the lead. Greg George was once again out after him, while defending class champ Joe Price followed that pair in third. Ron Buccieri, Peter Ku-jundzich, Todd Wittman, and Roland Smith, also' raced for-wardly placed in the early going. It really didn't matter though, as Briggs proved too hot to handle. The Alta Loma, CA star was at his very best when it counted most, and he simply refused to surrender the lead. Steven Nel-son closed from far back to take second, but the night (and the Round 4 Stadium Lites class vic-tory) clearly belonged to Bob Briggs. The second "main" was the Thunder Truck class finale. Once again a field of five,started, and once again it was Jeff Hosk-ins proving quickest. H oskins powered his way to the race's holeshot and was soon enjoying a clear lead. Rick Johnson and Andrew W ehe again faced the unenviable task of trying to reel in Hoskins. O ne by one, those chasing Hoskins began to fade from contention. It started when Wehe fell victim to severe front end damage, and it ended when Larry Plank's truck crashed and caught fire. There would be no such misfortune for Mr. Hoskins. The pride of Brawley, CA cap-tured the Thunder Trucks class victory, by thoroughly don inat-ing his rivals from start to tmish. The Thunder Bikes class "main" was next to be contested. Scott .Myers emerged with the lead, when the field of 20 first began to sort itself out. Mike Healy was running a close up sec-Dusty Times ond on lap 1, and Carter Gurnee was right there in third. Doug Dubach and Chris Ridgway and Knox were also prompting the pace, while manning the fourth through sixth positions respec-tively. It wasn't long before Healy came calling for the lead, and there really wasn't much Myers could do about it. In fact, there wasn't anything that anyone could do about it. Once Healy seized control, he immediately set sail ·for victory. The Costa Mesa, CA standout was abso-lutely brilliant, as he proved much the best in a scintillating performance. Dubach, who closed strongly to earn runner up honors, ran a winning race de-spite finishing second. Both rid-ers put on a tremendous show, and the appreciative fans let them know it. Things got down-right emotional during Healy's victory lap. The Round 4 winner stopped momentarily, as a genu-ine outpouring of affection flowed back and forth between Healy and the Anaheim crowd. The final scene before Healy ex-ited was quite memorable. The hometown hero threw his goggles up into the cheering throng and his fans responded with a thun-dering ovation. The next "main" on the card (after things finally calmed down) , was the Pro Quad class finale. Another full field of 20 was readied for battle. Harold Goodman won the holeshot and was able to establish the early lead. A huge wave of riders was out after him, led by Mark Ehrhardt and Travis Spader. Others racing within striking dis-tance early included Kory Ellis, Jeremy Schell, Tim Parr, and Keith Little. Goodman contin-ued to show the way, while Ellis was weaving his way into third and then second. At that point Ellis had the front-running Goodman in his sights, and he took dead aim on the leader. Soon Ellis had collared the race's pacesetter and taken over com-mand. After that, Ellis' margin of victory seemed about the only issue remaining. Farr did come on strongly to top Goodman for sec-ond place, but Ellis was clearly the race's brightest star. The Valley Center, CA flash proved unbeatable on the night, and "best of the best" in the highly competitive Pro Quad class. The semi-final race of the evening was the "main event" for · the Super Modified class. An all star line-up, 12 deep, was turned over to the starter. Larry Foddrill proved quickest off the line, and blasted his way out to an early lead. Gary Gall got away second, followed by Jerry Whelchel in third, Jimmy Nichols in fourth, and Cory Witherill in fifth. There was a co.nsiderable amount of paint swapping dur1rig this, -the' evening's most action packed buggy brawl. Whelchel bullied his way into the second position, while simultaneously obtaining paint samples from several class-mates. Cory Witherill managed to work his way up into the third position, despite suffering a very rough journey. In contrast, little if any turbulence was felt by the high flying leader. By dictating all of the pace throughout, Foddrill was able to keep himself clear of the carnage. The Glendale, AZ resident easily proved the Super Modified class winner, despite facing a talent-laden field of for-midable foes. The Round 4 "Grand Finale" was the Stadium Sport Truck class showdown. A dozen ve-hicles took part in this, the 32nd race of th e evening. Jerry Whelchel won the holeshot, fol-lowing what everyone assumed was the evening's final start. Un-fortunately, a nasty crash in the · early stages caused the race to have to be red flagged. Kevin Huseman's vehicle suffered con-siderable damage in that melee, and Randy Eller's departed un-der tow. The balance of the field was held for a restart. The result of that restart looked strikingly familiar, as the same four racers who were holding the first through fourth positions, took up those exact same spots once more. Whelchel out-sprinted Lee O'Donnell for the early lead, April 1999 while Bob Beyer and Chris Modified Buggies. Brandt diced for third. Very soon As far as the racing results it became apparent that nobody go, that wraps up Round 4 of the would be catching the final 1999 U.S. Off Road Champion-contest's pacesetter. The only ship Series. Helmets off to all competitors who seemed to close those competitors who took any ground during the course of part, and especially to winners the race were Brandt 'and Stacey Jerry Whelchel, Larry Foddrill, Pike. However, that pair's com-Jeff Hoskins, Bob Briggs, Kory mendable charges would only be Ellis, and Mike Healy. And I settling the runner up dispute. inust add one final congratula-The "front end" was clearly the tions to PACE Motor Sports, for place to be on this particular a truly magnificent show. With evening, as the final race was their talented team of profes-taken in front running fashion by sionals bringing first class rac-w inner Jerry Whelchel. The ing to the finest venues in the Rancho Santa Margarita, CA land, there is no doubt "stadium veteran had himself quite a night, racing is back." 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A somewhat Belated Look At The Parker 400 By Glenn Grim/Jay McKinley Photos:Trackside Photo Rick Poole had a good day in his Jimco, except for this one rock, and took the Class 9 win at the Whiplash Parker 400 Parker, AZ -Parker hosts the official start of off road racing world wide, as the 26th runni_ng of the legendary Parker 400k pounds its way into the history books. As pre-race preparations move into full swing, it's another beau-tifui sunny day in paradise. Not a cloud dotted the skies as cot;rse markers, road clo-sures and spectator area are placed, established, and de-noted. Off road racing's best view-ing area, "The Gauntlet", was expande·a'fo·inclode -3 .5 miles of race course, a series of sphincter testing, high speed jumps and a fall away table top 'that allows drivers to show off their drive shafts while expe-riencing punt-like hang time, before settling back to earth. Additionally, the old "Shea" pit area has been abandoned in favor of the new closer and safer Gauntlet area. La Paz County and the town of Parker operators skill-fully massage the rock free dirt into perfectly faced jumps. The water trucks dump load ' after load of water on the Gauntiet;s track, pit area, and parking areas as the one time · alfalfa fields take on a less placid look. Thursday night slips into Parker as the "400k" early bird spaghetti feed fes-tivities begin to rock the County Seat and Theatre Club till closing time. The next morning a good group ganged up at the Gaunt-let awaiting the start of the pre run. Seventy-one miles of tough terrain lay ahead as, what appeared to be, a well or-ganized caravan leaped into action. Several hours later, the survivors sought out their ·✓ ULTRASONIC CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & OIi Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks I Lines / Fittings ✓ PRODUCTION & Assembled Components PROTOTYPE ✓ TESTING SERVICES Magnetic Particle (Magnaflux I Myglo) Liquid Penetrant (Dye Penetrant I Zyglo) Ultrasonic X-Ray CRITICll ✓ 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@CRlllCAL-OP.COM FAA Repar Station #WB7R288J ·•· OPERATIONS. __ lf Page 36 cars and cre·ws for the push through contingency row's festivities. KLPZ Radio had their van-tage point, Casey Adams played the guitar, crooned some tunes and set the mood of contingency row's festivi-ties. As mar.ketplaces hoisted their banners and set up their shades, Mother Nature set a tornado through town 'that lasted till 10:00 that night. E-z Ups flew into the air, ban-ners were shredded, and mer-chandise blew off the racks. Visibility dropped to zero and the County Seat reaped the benefits as both drinkers and teetotalers packed the place in search of shelter. .The water truck's stellar work in dust control was a dis-tant memory as sand dunes grew in the once wet Gaunt-let area, and the day turned into the worst in Parker his-tory. In spite of Mother Nature's attempt to cancel it, Friday night happened and the driver's meeting went off on schedule. "Don't expect the course markings to be up and don't hit the cones" pretty much summed up the pre-race advisory. Road closures were up and the aforementioned cones lined the entrance to OB's Pub corner as the buggies and trucks congregated on Califor-nia Avenue. A bevy of volun-teers directed traffic and tried to make the necessary sense out of the existing confusion. The PA blasts and the KLPZ morning guys, Keith and Ron, interrogate the Checker's Uncle Max on live radio skill-fully extracting one pearl of wisdom after another. Right on cue, Scotty Gallan, his wife Linda, and their friend Joey dropped delicately from the sky, hanging by strin gs at-tached to a sheet (and they say racers are nuts???) . They land skillfully on the pave-ment right in front of the April 1999 · Local racer, Mike Herrick, '97 and '98 Sportsman champ, started the '99 season off with another win. · Brian Dick brought his bright red two seater home in first place in the Vintage class. Wood car, first in line and soon to be first overall; more on that later. Whiplash Motorsports had sought perm.issions, at.tended countless meetings, mailed mailers, and wrote new re-leases. They brought truck loads of gear, equipment and supplies. They recruited a bus load of volunteers, moved a millio n yards of dirt and couldn't start this race be-cause .. ,Jhey couldn't find the. green flag!!! A red pillowcase found in the Chamber of Com-merce building would have to suffice. So, what was a pillow-case doing in the Chamber of Commerce anyway??? One by one, "Hornet", Whiplash's resident flagman, sent racers hurling down Cali-fornia Avenue en route to OB's corner and the cones that designated the allowed route. Hit a cone, add 20 min-utes to your time. And on to the G auntlet's 100 mph straightaways and stadiums style jumps. Vpon exiting the Gauntlet area, a 71 mile loop of challenging race course awaited competitors. The team that completed the three loops with the best time was the Wood Bros. team (BFG, Geiser Bros.) with a time of 4.08.14 to take Class Pro 1 win and the overall. three minutes and 15 seconds behind Wood was Pro 1-2 driver Nick Gula with a time of 4.11.29. Pro 10 win went to Dave Sundquist (No. AZ Refrigera-tion, Geiser Bros., ORC) with a time of 4.20.34 and third overall. Taking fourth overall and the Pro 8 truck win was local boy Danny Beaver, Beaver put his Parker Motors, Goodyear, Kofa Inn sponsored Class 8 truck across the finish line with a. time of 4 .22.23. Danny's. I:ord turned fast lap of the day, a sizzling 1.18.39. The Beaver run combined with Rick Wiseman's second overall at Whiplash's last event in Globe may signal the return of trucks t'O racing dominance in off road. A true legend in desert mo-torcycle racing and making the truck transition, Larry Roeseler, chased the Parker Motors Ford, but brought too little too late for the win. Roe: seler hooked it up for second in Eight truck and fifth over-all. Finishing sixth overall and taking second in Class 10 was the Crook/Arthur Team (Fin-ish Line Motorsports, RaceShock, Mixteca, BFG, Don's Auto Body, Phoenix Cylinderhead) with a time of 4.45.20. The next Pro 10 car in for third was Whitney C ourtenay # 1001 (OBFM Racing, BFG, Fulton Conway, Road Pro Auto Parts) with a time of 4.59.43 over Class 10 fourth place finisher Greer Team 5.08.14 (GRG Con-struction, Fod Fab). Only 19 seconds separated third and fourth place in the Pro 1-2 cars. The McMullen Team (Kevin McMullen Rac-ing, Fod Fab) captured third with a time of 4.51.15 over fourth place Josh Waddell (The Waddell Group, Sunset Sign Designs, Fat Perfor-mance, King Race Shocks, Chris, Eric, Mom & Dad) with a time of 4.5 1.34. Rick Wiseman (Color Trac Painting, Geiser Bros., Cottman Trans, King Offroad Racing Shocks, A l Differen-tial, Doc Jet) took home third place honors in Pro 8 trucks with a time of 4.53.30 over fourth place finisher #806 Chris Gray (Phoenix Racing Dusty :rimes

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The Arthur/Crook team had good results with their high flying style, finished second in the big Class 10. Radio station KLPZ sent out morning man, Keith, (L) to do the race, A course for R. C. cars kept the little ones entertained during the dull with colorful help from "Uncle Max" Norris. _m~o_m~e_n_ts_o_f~th_e_wi_ee_k_e~n_d_. ~~~--~~-~~---~ Nort1n" Mick Newton ruled with a three lap sachet in his Chevelle in 5.45.09. The true Pro 3 of Larry Phoenix (Flag-s ta ff Engine & Machine, Lakey Tire) took second with DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4·point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2"•5pointmount 3" • 5point mount SIDE CDVERS IRS. Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 2fXJmm·1700# 200mm·up to 3000#, GERMAN AUTO RACING PRESSURE PLATES 200mm 1700# • 2400# PERFORMANCE CLUTCH DISC Cushfocks . 4 puc ferramic 4 puc ferramic with spring hub a time of 6.33.29. Vintage honors went to Brian Dick (Les' Repair) with a time of 7 .35.34 and Steve Roberts (Deco Food Service, Schooner Financial Associ-ates) took second with a time did Jeff and Lynn Venier m Roofing, Parker Petroleum) of 8.03.17. 7.S.3.30. did two laps in the S.port In the Sport 10 class, Jack Another Parker local, Truck class in 4.05.50. Den-Farmer got in two laps with a Randy Merritt (LBJ, Desert nis McCarthy (McCarthy Au-time of 3 .53 .20. Langford/ Distributing, New Life Center, tomotive) 5.34.44 edged out Loyd did a lap in 5.14.02 as Rust's River Glass, Parker Charles Sutherlin 5.36.36. GERMAN AUTO Sport Mini Truck driver Den-nis Hardin did his two laps in 5 .06.15 over Michael Gale 5.52.08 and Unlimited driver Mike Herrick (Herrick Motor-sports, Flame Propane) pulled two laps off in 5.48.28. SACO MAGNUM RACK Billet housing, 1 •1, • allow gear, through boll mounting complete with stops SACO CV CAGES, BOOTS, AND FLANGES . 930 or T-4 cages 930 or T-4 or T-21/anges Trick boots (specify) 930CVstar "WEEKEND-WARRIOR" LONG TRAVEL BEAMS 8 " travel-stock width 8 " travel-widened beam 10" travel-stock width 10" travel-widened beam TRI MIL EXHAUST T-11½"chrome T-11'1,"raw T-11518" chrom T-11518" raw T·4 chrome T-4 raw GERMAN AUTO HATS GERMAN AUTO 1T-SHIRTS. specify M.LG.XLG PORSCHE STYLE FAN SHROUD Fits T-4 engine, utilizes T·1 alternator. includes alternator stand .., -" . .a .MAGNUM SPINDLES MK/ . MK/I I _,,, ~ -\;," I . , ... ((. . C· -.J -w==·-'-= PEDAL ASSEMBLIES CNC Clutch and brake assemblies for cable throttle With black pedal With chrome pedal. With hydraulic throttle Replacement slave SACO RACK AND PINION The toughest available anywhere, alloy gears, full contact housing, hard anodized. Standard rack and pinion Mount plate Coupler . Rack steering stops VALVE COVERS T-4 "no leak" style lits 1. 7, 1.8, and 2.0 SACO ALUMINUM WHEELS Polished finish, bolt to{Jether rears lite spindle mounts too FRONT TRAILING ARMS Link pin ............ 413/J C:hromolv Stock length ......... pr. 1 'I, • longer .......... pr. 2¼ • longer .......... pr. 4• longer-coil over style pr. CHROMOL Y TIE RODS 1 • chromoly tie rods wlends. /~nee/Iv Ford or International/set ... SACO REAR TRAILING ARMS 3" X 3" . ..... . 1·21600, 5-1600 CATALOG. Unlike the day before, there was no wind at all. The tem-perature was 69 degrees and the air was filled with excite-ment instead of sand. Racers, crews and officials gather .::d Saturday night at the County Seat and the Parker Theatre Club in downtown parker for the awards ceremonies. The awards presentation pac~ed the place and was highlighted with a podium presentation and champagne shower by the victors. The Whiplash Parker 400k was the perfect kick off for the 1999 racing season. With the support of the BLM, the Colo-rado River Indian Tribes, and the great city of Parker, the sky is the limit on this race's potential. The Whiplash Parker 400k is not just a race ... it's more like a festival. The community waits all year for this race to come to town and they truly roll out the red carpet. We at Whiplash would like to extend a huge thank you to the following: the entire town of Parker, the BLM, the Colo-rado River Indian Tribes, the Parker Chamber of Com-merce, all involved law en-forcement agencies and 1380 AM KLPZ Radio. Your efforts were greatly appreciated . As for that old cliche of "the good ole days", they're happening now. The Parker 400k is a first class race and will only get better. ■ OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE ANSWERS: Primer Engine Align License Heater TIMING CHAIN 11324 Norwalk Blvd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562-863-1123 FAX 562-929-1461 Page 38 April 1999 Dusty Times

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: : .. : ■ ■::: more· than two hours. It ended f ~ ~·--..--: "'-·· ~fter an interesting ~n~ (ast mov-WEc;M:IIS mgone.hourand,58mmutes. Ev-r-,,_,..._,....,,_ . .,,,.-,;;,.,a■ ■ e~ybody who got in~olved in put-I • . tmg on our reunion, at every "The Straight Poop" level, should indeed be proud of from The Big Wahzoo a job well done. 25TH REUNION -About 350 folks showed up to help the Checkers celebrate our 25 years of excellence in the desert, with . close to 100 of them being Check-ers. A weekend party ensued from Friday thru Sunday at the Gold Coast in Vegas. There were old Checkers roaming around the hotel and casino from every era, and a selection of Checker race · cars were parked on display out-side chat had won in every era. Even the hotel employees were wearing special Checker t-shirts that weekend. Vance Scott and his crew not only decorated the Grand Ballroom in traditional Checker style, but also ran the pre-banquet registration on Sat-urday afternoon so everything would go super smooth that evening. Which it did. Mike Bartolotti, the Club's new Minis-. ter of Promotion, collected an unbelievable amount of stuff from our Checker friends (complete list below), and he and his crew then smoothly ran the evening's raffle. Uncle Max, who served as Party Chairman and hotel liaison, was running around like the prover-bial "chicken with his head cut off' most of the reunion, but did an excellent job for an old retired elevator mechanic. Jeff Hibbard set up and-ran the evening's pro-gram,.promising to limit it to no Dusty Times Our Checkers Reunion ban-quet started with an open-bar compliments of Mike Gaughan. This was just one of many grand gestures provided by Mike, who had welcomed his brother Check-ers to party at his place for this special occasion. At about 7 p.m., while our 'silent' raffle was ongo-ing, dinner was served and was very tasty by banquet standards. Some fine home grown wine was provided to each table compli-ments of the Arciero family. Trackside kept up a continuous slide show of Checker cars in ac-tion shown on two big screens. As dinner ended, the lights were dimmed and a five minute race video by Speedvision was shown. These folks also stuck around to film our reunion for a showing at a later date. The evening's pro-gram began with the presentation of our regular year-end Checker Awards. Three different Checker members served as rotating Mas-ters of Ceremony; Butch Dunn, John Hastings, and Max Norris. All the out going officers were given their appreciation Awards for dedicated service. Then our · new Club Officers for '99 were introduced: Jimmy Hook, Club President; Roy Moore, Vice Prez; Tom Angerman, Treasurer; and Vance Scott as Club Secretary. The following Checkers were then recognized for their out-standing performance in 1998: Pit for a moment of silence and read Captain of the Year ·was Roy the dead Checker roll call, along Moore; the Pitter·of the Year was with giving us a number of inspir-Greg Hewlin; Driver of the Year ing comments about our long time was Fred Nelson in his big V-8 Checker brotherhood. Dr. Ford; Rookie of the Year was Checker and Peralta gave out Mike Bartolotti; And, The Rev-their traditional awards, along erend Roy Moore was finally withtheirownparticularbrandof namedCheckeroftheYear.Con-humor. Prince was typically gratulations, Guys! Special Walter,withacompleterundown Checker Appreciation Awards of Checker nicknames that cov-were also given out to Vance and ered 25 years of good times. Uncle Shirley Scott, and long time Max and Thumper closed the Checker friend Roberta La V elle. show with a popular presentation Three non-Checker speakers of the Checkers perennial Vic followed. Judy Smith led off with Van Ella Award to Jack Waldron. some candid, humorous, and per- He is by far and away the best ol' sonal comments regarding her BLM dude in the whole damn dealings with the Checkers over desert! The Checkers have always the last 25 years. Ivan Stewart was known that, and now everybody next with some personal racing does. About that time a fight stories, some Checker stories, and broke out in the back. Some no·n-his opinions on the future of our Checker infidels were quickly and sport. Ivan also stayed late and painfully ejected, and then all of signed a roll of posters he brought the Checkers lined up for a big for his fans. Sal Fish followed with group photo ... almost like too per-a frank and humorous rundown of feet of an ending for this Checker his interesting 25 year relation- affair. One thing for sure, a good ship with the Checkers, some re- time was had by all ... as always! buttal to Ivan's comments, and · . SPONSORS. OF OUR RE-then pledged to dedicate this UNION -Best in the Dez, year's SCORE's Barstow race to BFGoodrich, Bilstein, Cactus us! "25 Years of Checker Excel- Racing, Carrera Photography, lence in Off Road Racing" offi- Dusty Times, Fresh Air Systems, cially acknowledged at the '99 F&L Fuel, Gold Coast Hotel & Fireworks 250. Now that's cool! Casino, Hot VWs, JE Pistons, Typical of all Checker get Kartek, Lothringer Engineering, togethers, there were some con- McKenzie's Performance, Mojave troversial comments made by our Desert Racing, OffRoad.Com, guest speakers. But, Hibbard in- PCI Radios, Premier Race Prod-sists the speakers knew pretty ucts, Protruck Racing, Red Lion much what all the others were Inn & Casino, SCORE lnterna-going to talk about, and nobody tional, SignPros Custom Letter-was sandbagged. ing, SNORE, Speedvision, Sports A number of Checker speak- Racing Fuel, Sportsman Racing ers followed. Steve Burak asked Products, Summit Off Road As-sociation, Sway-A-Way, Track-side Photography, Tucker Tire- • Covina, VP Racing Fuel, Whip-lash Motorsports, Wiks Racing Engines. And, our own Checker members proudly donated the fol-lowing: Kevin Davis donated a cherry old Rickman Matesse mo-torcycle; The Harman family pro-vided a classic hand knitted black and white Checker bedspread; Vance donated all the table lan-terns; Alan Hensley kicked in a brand new buggy trailer; And the Wahzoo gave a wire welder. It was indeed the "Mother of all Raffles", and the Checkers want to thank all those nice folks who got in-volved! MDR BARSTOW - Ninety-eight cars took off in this six lap, 250 miler, with six Checker cars in the mix. B.J. Bates ran a trouble free race in his Class 9 ride, earn-ing a big Checker win among ten Challenger cars. Congratulations, B.J.! Junior Bates will also be out campaigning his T-Q Midget this season. Rob Myerly, one of our newer and quieter Checkers, fi-nally stepped up and showed us what he had. Soloing his 1/2-1600 car in a big 3 2 car class, our hero picked up a second in class and second overall, despite losing fourth gear on the last lap. The Steeles followed Rob to the flag with a third in Class 1/2-1600, despite Brian rolling the car on the first lap. Good show, guys! Billy McCool had Duenas' 1/ 2-1600 car up near the front when he handed it over to Mikey. Duenas kept it there until the last lap when.he rolled it and had en-·continued on_page 46 Mickey Thompson off-road race tires have made their mark in some of the most demanding races known to man. The Baja 1000, Mint 400, Paris-Dakhar and Parker 400 aren't your average trail-hopping runs. What makes the M/T® off-road race series tires better than the rest, How about exclusive cut-resistant compounds, unique sidewall designs for extra protection and a strong, lightweight, race ·tire construction. 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,, DOO WOP 1 AND 2 1999SCCA Club Rally Report #12 Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Jon Oxford brought the CRS Audi up to the north woods and finished first in Doo Wop 1. What's new? How about a .new season, a new series, some n:ew faces, and some new wheels? That's what was new at the Doo Wop rallies, the traditional season opener for the northwest stage rally crowd. The new season came with the calendar, but the new se-ries came from Denver, as the Sports Car Club of America reinvented the divisional stage rally series as "Club Rally." Sui;e it sounds like a tropical resort, but behind the funny name and graphics are a major overhaul to the class rules. In 1999 the Club Rally classes will mirror the Miche-lin Pro Rally classes of the na-tional series. Doo Wop 1, was a battle be-tween new faces arid new wheels. At the finish Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Jon Oxford edged Vance and Karen Walker by 16 seconds_ in a RATCHET TIE-DOWNS 5000 Lb. rated 8' $21 .95~-10,000 Lb. rated ·,. · 8' $26.95 ·• .· Blue •Black • Red Twisted Snap-Hook Long Wide Handle COMBO TIE-DOWNS BUILT-IN ADJUSTABLE AXLE STRAP INC. 5000 Lb. rated PROTECTIVE SLEEVE 8' $26.95 ~ 10,000Lb.~ 8' $31.95~- --8/ue•Black•Red Twisted Snap-Hook Long Wide Handle 5000 $12.95 10,000 $14.95 DELTA 5000Lb 21· $6. 33• $7. 10,00 $84.95 ea. Page 40 Comorillo, CA 93010 Toll Free Order Line (888) 738-5970 (805) 738-0223 Fax(805)738-0224 --[ii:j ■ C.O.D. duel of Open Class cars. Open is the class where almost any modification is allowed-, and powerful four wheel drive en-tries top the entry. O'Sullivan and Oxford may be familiar to California Rally Series watchers, but Doo Wop l was a rare northwest appear-ance, and the first Northern Pacific Division win for their Audi 4000 Quattro. O'Sulli-van and Oxford jumped into the lead on Stage 2 and were 30 seconds ahead after Stage 4. · A spirited charge by the Walkers in their new Toyota Celica Altrac cut the margin down to 16 seconds at the fin-ish. Vance Walker once again proving to be a very quick study as he posted fastest stage times <;m half of the six stages in his first outing in the Open Class. Behind the battle for the lead, fast Group Five (05) class cars grabbed the next three slots. The 05 cars have only two driven wheels (2WD), but modifications are allowed and there's plenty of power from big, or rotary, en-gines with turbos welcome. Bob Reaves and Tammy Reaves ·started out the new year with a third overall fin-ish, and a first in class with the Somerset Auto Glass Mazda RX3. The Reaves entry is al-ways a crowd favorite, maybe because the tail of the car never quite follows the same -line as the nose, even when the road goes straight. Fourth overall, and second in 05 were John Lane and Scott Huhn in the Racetech Volvo 262. Steadily improving Chris Kouba and Gary Bockman finished fifth in Kouba 's first generation Mazda RX7. The third place Open Class car, Janice Damitio and Am-ity Trowbridge Crazee Espresso Toyo ta Celie a April 1999 #17 The Crazee Espresso Celica of Janice Damitio and Amity Trowbridge came back to collect the second spot in Doo Wop 2. Altrac, couldn't find the winners were O'Sullivan and horse.power and limped home Oxford in Class 1. Reaves and in sixth. Reaves in Class 2, and J. Ta-The first Group Two (02) bor and Poirier in Class 3. finishers were Mike Mailman The third of the quick 4WD and pinch-hitting co0driver Celicas on the top of the start Zach Hoester, seventh overall list, Scott Trinder and Bob in a new orange Titanium Trinder in the Richmond Racing Golf. Another 02 en-Toyota entry, topped the DNF try. Noah Third and Jason list. The Trinders looked set Lane in the Hot Water Perfor-for the third spot when the mance Volkswagen Rabbit motor expired on the final were eighth overall. 02 cars stage. are open to modification, but The winter of 1999 has limited to 2WD with engines brought record setting precipi-of less than 2400cc displace-tation to the Puget Sound. ment. Doo Wop 1 started exactly Jon Tabor and Kevin one week late, after La Nina Poirier in the Tabor Group's dumped three feet of snow on Nissan Sentra were ninth, the Capital Forest to scrub the picking up the first points in . scheduled Valentine's week-the new Club Rally Production end start. A week later, the · (P) class. Cars in this class are weather conditions at the start virtually unaltered from the were promising, but by after-manufacturer's production noon an, ugiy coid wind specifications, except for brought sprinkles to the fin-safety requirements. These are ishing stages. 2WD cars with adjusted en-Doo Wop 2 started in a gine displacement ,limited to drizzle, buf by. the second 2650cc. stage, conditions had deterio-G 2 favorites Todd ·rated into a downpour that Hartmann and Peter Yeeles soaked the stages. Walker and posted the second fastest time Walker made good advantage on the opening stage, but an of their 4WD Celica, and the en.counter with one too many Oregonians raced home first rocks led to a lengthy pit stop overall. Another all weather after Stage 5, the long run Celica carried Damitio and down Hell's Creek. The Intrax Trowbridge home in second Golf team disassembled the place, just 23 seconds off the front suspension in service, lead. pounded things reasonably The 05 brigade again filled straight and finished tenth. the next three slots, the The final new Club Rally Reaves and Reaves Mazda class winners were the Pro-third, the Lane and Huhn duction GT (POT) entry of Volvo fourth, and the Kouba Mark Tabor and Kristen Ta-and Bockman Mazda fifth. bor in a· tidy Mazda 323GTX. Stalled with motor prob-POT is similar to the Produc-!ems early in Doo Wop 1, Rick tion Class, but the entries are Beson and Jack Horn recov-primarily 4WD with powerful, ered to finish sixth in Doo often turbocharged, engines Wop 2 with Beson's innova-with displacements over tive 4WD Mazda Protege. 2650cc. A new Group 5 car, the Northwest Region class striking black second genera-#49 Vance and Karen Walker parlayed a second in Doo Wop 1 and a first in Doo Wop 2 to lead the series at the midway point. Dusty Times

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tion Mazda RX7 Turbo of Dave Hintz an'd Don Swier finished seventh, coming back from an interesting moment on Doo Wop 1 when the turbo hose parted from the exhaust and filled the car with smoke. Doo Wop 2's top show had to be Third and Lane. They dumped the VW onto its side (co-driver's side of course), on Stage 3 . Foi;tunately they flopped right in front of a group of soggy spectators and the safety steward. A little quick help put them back on the road and onto the G2 class win, eighth overall with extra points for style. Jon Tabor and Poirier brought the Production class winning Sentra home in ninth one spot ahead of Tabor Group teammates, the PGT class winning 3 23GTX of Mark and Kristen T abor. Northwest Region trophy winners included the Walker family in Class 1, the Reaves family in Class 2, and Tabor and Poirier in Class 3. O'Sullivan and Oxford plunged from first to DNF when the motor expired with a bang on Stage 1. G2 favor-ites Hartmann and Yeeles lost the steering on Stage 3 and coasted off the course and out of the crowd. Doo Wop 1 and 2 were held on the historic logging roads of the Capital _Forest near Olympia, Washington. Many of the Capital Fore~t stages started out as railroad grades in the first part of the #68 Bob and Tammy Reaves hang it out on their way to a class win in Doo Wop 1 with the Somerset Auto Glass Mazda. century, as timber from these hills built the cities of the west coast. More recently the multiuse forest roads managed by the Washington State Depart-ment of Natural Resources have seen the wheels of the #76 Chris Kouba.and Gary Bockma~ posted strong finishes in the first two rounds of the 099 _W9p_Series in Kouba's Mazda.-~ ,------___________ · __ _ #73 Noah Third and Jason Lane needed a little help from the fans as the rolled to a Group Two class win in Doo Wop 2. world's rally greats. N ames like Alen, Biasion, Buffum, Kankkunen, Mikkola , and Millen have racesd through this \\;'Orking forest. Logging here provides a major source of the funding to build Wash-ington s~hools. ■ . ' #222 The Nissan Sentra of Mark Tabor and Kevin Poirier claimed the Production Class wins in the first two boo Wop rallies. · • HONDA Power t . . , Equipment ._ POWER T0_~-0 -Racer and Spectator Discounts •GENERATORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES •WATER PUMPS - •OUTBOARD ENGINES • LAWNMOWERS • LAWN TRACTORS • RIDING MOWERS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY -IF We DoN'T HA ve IT, No ONE Does! DEUVERY TO 1HE :R..A,.CES AVAIIABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RDSI:Las.AlSGH.Es,CA9CXXi3•323.264.3936, 264.SSSS FAX 264.2136 ·BONDA Power Equipment Dusty Times ' VISA ; s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' .P A R T s .HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT S PECIALIST Nothings easier. ~ for opun:llm p1:r.'or.nanC'e and ~t."ty. plt.".tl--C l·r-ad t.."!t' o·,\,ll"r·s nl.lnu:il b..·fore OJ)("r:t~ine, vour Hond:i. Po'-,:t."r Equipment SPf'c-1flcatlons subJeC'l to d ·..m.:c-v.;thout noth.·e. •£stlm.1te only. b.:isc-d on r.ued load. • B:mc-ry not uu:lude-d \\ith E~t35vOSXK1. E~t5000SXK I and ES05005X. ••\\'it.h bdac-ry tr~,y kit. "'·hn-ls ~ h.'\._.;iC'r. Con.n«Uon to hollSl' power requlrt'S tr.mJSfe-r dt'\1t~ h> .woi,! p<>:ssible-lnjury to power company ~ rsonnel. Consult .i qu~.liOC'd e-le-ctrkian. April 1999 Page 41

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~ PACE OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Stadium Update: Phoenix • Round Five By Homer Eubanks Round five of the U.S. Off Road Championship Series had 31.124 fans witnessing. ground pounding off road stadium rac-ing at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. All in attendance got to see a good cross section of off road racing performed be-tween five separate classes. Stadium Sport Trucks, Thun-der Bikes, Super Modified Bug-gies, Pro Quad and Stadium Lites took their turn wooing the enthusiastic crowd. A full starting grid of Sta-dium Sport Trucks made their way to the Bank One field in the main event. When the green flag came out Lee O'Donnell, Bayonne, NJ quickly established himself by taking turn 1. O'Donnell had won his heat race and was look-ing to make it a clean sweep. Behind O'Donnell was the other heat winner Chris· Brandt, Council Bluff, IA. Brandt managed to out dis-tance O'Donnell at the table top jump for the lead. O'Don-nell fought to regain the lead at every corner but Brandt was driving his new Ford and wouldn't allow a pass. While the two front runners fought over position Jerry Whelchel, Rancho Santa Margrarita, CA and Stacy Pike, Kingman, AZ also battled for the third spot. But just as O'Donnell had to settle for second so did Pike have to settle for fourth behind Whelchel. Bob Beyer, Norco, CA crossed over fifth. Plenty of excitement abounds in Super Modified Buggy racing and the Phoenix main event was no exception. Larry Foddrill, Glendale, AZ had won the fourth heat race earlier and came to the main event with great expectations. Foddrill grabbed the early lead with the current champion, Cory Witherill, Santa Monica, CA a close second. Foddrill couldn't keep up the intense pace and rolled over in the first lap. Witherill inherited the lead with a hard charging Jerry Whelchel in tow. The two pro-vided plenty of excitement but Witherill managed to hold off the advances of Whelchel for the main event win. The con-sistent Jimmy Nichols crossed over a close third after holding off Gary Gall. Fifth was Steve Sallenbach. The heat race winners for the evening were Cory Witherill, Jimmy Nichols, Bryan Bernloehr, Larry Foddrill and Jerry Whelchel. There were a total of 14 Sta-dium Lites vying for the main event honors. Bob Briggs, Alta Loma, CA could do no wrong U.S. Off Road Championship series Round Up By Homer Eubanks For those fans who yearned for the fast paced action avail-able only provided by stadium off road racing, you will be de-lighted to hear that Pace Mo-tor Sports has brought back their U.S. Off Road Champion-ship Series. After catching up with the series in Anaheim I _feel the group has learned a lot from their introduction last year and show to have the mak-ings ·of a great racing program. This 11 race international series is very similar to the long gone, but not forgotten, MTEG stadium series. A broad variety of Sport Trucks, Super Modi-fied Buggies, Quads, Stadium Lites and Thunder bikes pro-· PLEASE! DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP DllliJli1mu11 Page 42 REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! vide all the heart stopping, tire to tire racing fans crave in a show the whole family can en-joy. The U.S. Off Road Champi-onship Series broke ground with its first race of the series in St. Louis' TWA Dome Janu-. ary 9. To demonstrate their commitment to the series Pace Motor Sports announced that over a half million dollars is to be paid out to the series win-ners. This breaks down to $40,000 divided among the top 12 finishers per class at each of the events. The series schedule took them from St. Louis to Hous-ton, TX., Minneapolis, MN., Anaheim, CA., and then con-tinues to Phoenix, AZ., San Diego, CA., El Paso, TX., Irv-ing, TX., Pontiac, MI., Vancouver, BC., and Seattle, WA. .for up to the minute series information check out their web site at www.off-road.com. Going into the Phoenix event the overall series stand-ings has Jerry Whelchel leading the Sport Truck class by two points over Stacey Pike. In the Super Modified buggy division Cory Witherill has accumu-lated 465 points to Jimmy Nichols 463. Joe Price (474) has taken a commanding lead in the Super Lite war over Ri-char.d Kosar with 395 accumu-lated points. Pro Quad leader, Tim Farr, has earned 462 points over Jeremy Schell's 456 points. In the Thunder Bike division the team of Cory Keeney{f odd Downs have the April 1999 in Phoenix.' Briggs came out in the first heat and proved he was ready for action. Briggs jumped off the line in the main event and quickly dominated the competition. With Briggs run-ning away the action shifted to second. There Todd Wittman and Rennie Awana fought the entire event. Wittman how-ever, managed to keep Awana at bay and crossed over second. Awana held third with Joe Price taking fourth ahead of Stacy Fay. Stadium Thunder Bike rac-ing drew a record breaking number of riders with 43 of the thumpers signed up. Two heat races were used to help thin the main event down. In the first· heat race it wa; all Scott Myers. In the second heat reigning champ Spud Walters, Sun City, CA crossed over for the win. When the two were pitted to-gether in the main event, Walters was the one who put it together with a wire to wire vic-tory. The win was Walters sec-ond main event of the season. Close behind Walters was the other heat winner Meyers. Meyers took the second place points after fending off Robert Naughton. Fourth went to edge over Chris Knox 456 to 448. The Anaheim event will be covered in this issue so a brief overview will catch us up on the previous series action. St. Louis, MO -January 9, 1999 At St. Louis the Round 1 winner of the Stadium Sport ·Trucks was Jason Crowder who edged out Jerry Whelchel. Whelchel came back out in a Super Modified Buggy and once again proved unstoppable in a stadium buggy. Tim Farr took home top honors in the Pro Quads class and former stadium · champion Joe Price led the pack of Stadium Lites. Todd Downs rode to vietory in the Stadium Thunder Bike divi-sion. The weather may have been cold outside but the U.S. Off Road Championship Series heated things up inside the Trans World Dome. In true sta-dium fashion the ultimate track -party, sponsored by Carquest Auto Dealers, kicked the Sat-urday evening event off with a bang. Every vehicle and driv~r was available and willing to sign autographs, talk to fans, and answer questions from how many truck loads of dirt did they use to how fast do they go. On track was the 70 Pro Quads, 13 Stadium Lites, 26 Super Modified Buggies, 12 Stadium Sport Trucks, and 42 Stadium Thunder Bikes. In the Stadium Lite main event Joe Price found the perfect line as he took the hole shot and kept the lead the whole race. There was a lot of bar-banging and metal crunching goiIJ.g on be-hind Price with Rich Pierce and Charlie Ragusa battling for the second spot. Pierce· kept out front when it counted with Ragusa a close third. The Stadium Thunder Bikes put on quite a show for St. Louis with lots of air and speed. Todd Downs took the lead from the beginning and never-looked back to see Ridgeway and Ma-Steve Drew. Fifth to cross the finish line was Dano Legere. Pro Quad action brought out 20 of the country's top riders in the main event. Earlier on a total of five heat races were used to bring only the elite rid-ers to the main. Travis Spader, Brick, NJ had taken the second heat race. When the main got underway Spader quickly re-vealed to the other 19 riders he was the man to beat. Spader wasn't alone as he had Tim Farr, Canal Fulton, and Jeremy "The Hich" Schell in hot pur-suit throughout the race. Spader however, was able to set the pace and distanced himself from the pack before taking the checkered. Farr had his hands full with the hard charging Schell. Schell made Farr earn the second spot after making several attempts at the position but when it was over Schell had to settle for third. Fourth went to Harold Goodman and fifth was Jeff Seegot. Other heat winners, besides Spader were; Farr in the second heat. The third heat went to Keith Little and the fourth heat winner was Joe Byrd. Jeff Seegot took the checkered in the fifth heat. ■ son behind him. "Pace Peak", the largest indoor jump ever built at 7 ft., was a launch pad that gave the racers a chance to get some awesome air. Todd Downs won the race which puts him in the # 1 seat g9ing into the second round in Houston. As the Pro Quads rolled up to the start line the crowd went silent in anticipation for the green flag to fall. The first turn of the race resulted in more than the defending champ bar-gained for. Mark Ehrhardt, who holds the #1 plate, was in-volved in some bar-banging and fender rubbing. A three quad pile up slowed down the three riders and Ehrhardt never made it through the pack. When the checkered flag fell Tim Farr no doubt was the winner, but Jones and Hitt diced throughout the show with Jones finishing in second and Hitt in a close third. The Super Modified Buggies put on quite a show. The ob-ject of the game is to keep the vehicle on the track at all times so Bryan Bernloehr needs a crash course in race etiquette. He never saw it coming as his buggy flew from the track and onto the coricrete. The crowd cheered as the rest of the cars flew by with Jerry Whelchel in th.e lead. Whelchel not only led the whole race, but also took the checkered. Stadium Sport Trucks proved to roar like thunder and catch air like birds.1ason Crow-der took the hole shot with Lee O'Donnell and Randy Eller close behind breathing down his neck. The two local boys Ranµy Eller and Don Ponder had little time to rub fenders; as Don had troubles with his Ford early on in the race. When the race came to an end four trucks sat silent on the track, one being O'Donnel with a loose wire, but as all racers-say, "That's racing." Houston, TX -January 16, 1999 The atmosphere at the As-Dusty Times

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trodome was charged with thousands of elated fans at the second round of the U.S. Off Road Championship Series. Saturday night's festivities kicked off with a high flying, . dirt kicking, feature race of the Stadium Lite class. When the checkered flag fell, Joe Price from Parker, AZ had taken his second win of the season. When interviewed at the winner's podium, Price told the crowd, "I can't believe I pulled that one off, I lost my brakes sometime during the race, I am amazed." Price will continue on to Minneapolis ahead of the pack and the leader in the points race. The next class up to the line were Stadium Thunder Bikes. The real battle developed be-tween Scott Meyer, from Sun City, CA and Dave Shade, a Texas native, as they went back and forth until Meyer blew the corner and Shade took the checkered. Todd Downs, Cor-pus Christi, TX crossed over third. The third feature of the night started with an astound-ing 20 Pro Quads on the line. Once the race started, a hand-ful of racers had their tires up in the air and their faces in the dirt. Jeremy "The Hick" Schell from Hornersville, MO took the lead from the start from Mark Ehrhardt, Menifee, CA., last year's champion. Schell drove a flawless race despite the pressure of Ehrhardt breathing down his back. As his first win in the series, "The Hick", wore a smile from ear to ear big enough to be seen on the top row of the cheap seats as he took his victory lap around the track. Cory Witherill, last year's points champion, didn't let his Houston fans down in his Chenowth Buggy. Witherill, from Santa Monica, CA., pulled away from his fellow competitors in the Super Modified Buggy class and con-tinued his lead to the finish line. Back in the second spot Jerry Whelchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA had his hands full keeping Jimmy Nichols, Alpine, CA at bay. Whelchel pulled it off and took the sec-ond spot and added precious points to his overall bid. Third went to Nichols and fourth was Steve Sallenbach, Yutan, NE. The final feature race was definitely worth waiting for, from the very start every single person in the Houston Astro-dome was ready for the 12 Sport Trucks to roll out. Randy Eller, from Taylorville, IL and Jason Crowder from Tallahas-see, FL were neck and neck throughout the entire race, but once Eller slammed the door on Crowder he was on his way to a win. Well, he appeared to be on his way to the win. The bright yellow Ford developed engine problems and drew to a halt. This opened the door for Crow-der, Chris Brandt, and Stacey Pike. the final winner after sev-eral lead changes, was Chris Brandt from Council Bluff, IA in his white Ford. J.J. Walden took the second spot ahead of Stacey Pike. Minneapolis, MN -January 23, 1999. Dusty Times The Stadiu·m Lites heat race was all about Joe Price. After taking the hole shot, he fin-ished the race without a flaw. The Stadium Thunder Bikes heat race was full of high air and tight corners. "Spud" Walters came back from his injuries and won the # l posi-tion for the feature. Chris Ridgeway gave him a run for his money, but took second going into the main. The two truck heats resulted in Lee O'Donnell and Stacey Pike winning. To get the main events un-derway the Stadium Lites were lined up and ready to go. Joe Price saw the green and drove it straight to the checkered. Taking his third win of the sea-son, Price remains the reigning champion. When interviewed after the race in the winner's circle, Joe Price had a smile from ear to ear and told every-one, "I just love winning." The Stadium Thunder Bikes feature gave Brian "Spud" Walters the chance to revisit the winner's circle. After breaking a few ribs and punc-turing his lung in a recent race, Spud took the checkered once again. The· real battle was fought between Chris Ridgeway and Cory Keeney for second place. Ridgeway just couldn't catch Keeney and settled for third place, but not without a fight. · The Pro Quad feature was awesome, Tim Farr pulled out ahead, but close behind him was Keith Little and Jeremy "The Hick" Schell. Schell and Little were neck and neck, but Little kept his line and shut the door on "The Hick" to fin-ish the race in second and Schell in third. When the checkered flag fell Farr was way out ahead and ready to do his victory lap. The Super Modified Bug-gies stole the show. With an inverted start, there was bound to be some exciting rac-ing. Steve Sallenbach and Jimmy Nichols were rubbing tires from the beginning, Nichols took the corner close and left Sallenbach in his dust. Halfway through _the race Scott Schawlbe was ~ - n A -•• a..;.:: .. .. ._....,_,--•---•"rw------.-~ -.:;noiie, g ~ =•lliiilf ~~fllG ----orthern California & Nevada 1999 RACE SCHEDULE bumped in the air on the table top near the start line. Send-ing his buggy end over end. Schwalbe created a red flag then once the track was cleared Jimmy Nichols contin-ued his lead and won with Sallenbach close behind. The 17 Stadium Thunder Trucks were stacked four wide for the feature event of the night. Lee O'Donnell took the hole shot into turn l and took his first win of 1999. Rick Boyer had a near roll over early in the race while Bob Bayer was struggling with a flat right rear tire. Lee won the race with a huge lead. Second place was taken by Randy Eller and third place was Stacey Pike. ■ MARCH 20 & 21 1999 SEASON OPENER 1 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE APRIL 24 & 25 MAY 29, 30 & 31 JULY 9, 10 & 11 AUG. 7 & 8 SEPT. 4, 5 & 6 PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK, SACRAMENTO, CA SPRING SPECIAL 2 MILE SHORT COURSE RACE PRAIRIE CITY SVRA PARK, -SACRAMENTO, CA YERINGTON 300 DESERT RACE 300 MILE DESERT RACE, 4-75 MILE LAPS RACE HEADQUARTERS, CASINO WEST YERINGTON, NEVADA LOVELOCK 250 DESERT RACE 250 MILE DESERT.RACE 4-60 MILE LAP$ RACE HEADQUARTERS: STURGEON'S CASINO LOVELOCK, NV 75 MILES E. 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Approximately 375 at-tended the banquet, held in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel. Ancient history was represented in part by the publisher of Dusty Times, John Calvin, and you~s truly, both there as friends of the group rather than members. Other ancient ones included some of the original founders: Al Rogers, Red Ludford, Gary Leopold, and Butch Dunn. The agenda for the evening actu-ally started on Friday afternoon when many of the attendees arrived at the Gold Coast. The reminiscing was hot and heavy long into the evening, and then picked up again the next morn-ing at breakfast. Throughout Satur-day, especially in the afternoon dur-ing registration in the Ballroom, the bench racing worked toward a fever pitch. A dispiay o( old photos was enjoyed by all, and a slide show, courtesy ofTrackside Photos, enter-tained thell\ also. The banque~ staff was given a brief break and the Ballroom was cleared for a coupl.e of hours to set up the finishing touches, while ev-eryone adjourned for a nap, a shower and a change of clothes. When they all reappeared at about 6 · p.m. the -differences were astounding. Y;i.nc~ Scott sported a Dr. Seuss type hat, about two feet tall and all checkered, Steve "Kassanyi wore his checkered cummerbund, and Russ Welch was in checkered shorts and an old Mint 400 jacket. Scott McKenzie wore an old Sandmaster jacket, from the early '70s. Even Bob Bower, a non-Checker, who'd been asked to help with some on-camera interviews, sported a checkered vest and bow tie. But for the most part, the guests had cleaned up nicely and wore their .!-I Scott McKenzie, founder of the fabled Sandmaster team, sported an antique T-shirt and jacket in honor of the 25th 1999 Checkers officers (L to R): Mike Duenas, Pit Coordinator; Ton Angerman, Treasurer; Dick McCool, Historian; Jimmy Hook, President; Roy Moore, Vice President; and Vance Scott, Secreta . A few old time Checkers mug for the camera ({ to R): Ron Jones, Zola Nagy; Steve Kassanyi and Phil Shipler:__ __ Dusty Times

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Shirley and Vance Scott, who did banquet decor, were honored for Guest speaker, Ivan Stewart, spoke about some personal racing their years of commitment to the Checkers. experiences and the future of off road racing. Greg· Symonds took a lot of friendly ribbing about being the oldest Checker at the banquet. partybestinhonoroftheoccasion. tooffroadformanyyears. an external catheter, how it After the annual announcement Invited speakers were Ivan works, and what kinds of misad-of newly elected officers, the Check- Stewart, who said he'd always ad- ventures can occur with its use. ers special annual awards were mired Gene Hirst and Bobby Touching briefly on the future of handed out. Those can be found in Ferro (very early Checkers), and off road racing, he said it was im-the Wahzoo's column. There were did some recounting of early off portant for us to "get the_ costs also a few traditional honors, handed road racing highlights. He talked down." He thinks we'll see less out by Steve Kassanyi and Lou Per-about the Riverside race. And he desert races, and more of the alta. And the Vic Van Ella award, reminded the audience that off Laughlin type in the future, be-an honor given to a person who's road racing can lead to careers in cause of land closures. He also contributed much to the sport over other forms of motor racing, cit- said that in his opinion, "we have a long period of time, was presented ing the Mears brothers and Cal the most exciting form of motor to Jack Waldron, a BLM man from Wells. He also entertained the sport." the Barstow area who's been a friend audience with an explanation of Sal Fish, another speaker, be-gan his talk by saying, "I'm not a speaker ... I'm usually a target", re-ferring to his long and sometimes contentious history with the Checkers team. He went on to say "I love the desert, SCORE loves the desert, and we want to stay in the desert." In closing he an-nounced that SCORE would dedicate the Barstow race to 25 years of Checker Excellence. Yours Truly spoke briefly about ancient Checker history, men-tioning some of their past accom-www.camburg .. com PRECISION BEARINGS [iWJL~] • largest Selection Of flodends & Spherical Bearings ·• 8ACkSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS 7501 SLATER unit E, HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92647 (714) 848-8880 PHONE (714) 848-1844 Fax OFF ROA • BENT I-BEAMS • CUSTOM I-BEAMS • CUSTOM RADIUS ARMS • CAMBURG/EIBACH COILS . • CUSTOM COIL BUCKETS • NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS TOYOTA • UPPER A-ARMS • SWAY-A-WAY TORSIONS BARS • DUAL SHOCK KITS • LONG TRAVEL KITS • BILLET RACE HUBS • NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS plishments that seemed particu-larly notable, and touching briefly on some personal memories of en-counters with the old Checkers. After the talk and awards the crowd settled down to an evening of getting re-acquainted with old friends. There were way too many to list, but suffice it to say, those wh0 didn't come missed a great chance to re-con-nec t with some people who haven't been around for a while. Good party! ■ • FLUIDYNE COOLERS • AEROQUIP PLLIMBING .BACE SHOCKS . Bl,. TEIN · SWAY-A-WAY Fl ss11:elieR • SILICONE HOSE NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • AUTOMOTIVE & RACING COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE CALL US FOR A FREE CATALOG! WE WILL SHIP AS FAST AS. YOU NEED IT ~~\ ' TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL ,~ (562) 427-2375,FAX (562) 426-5294 \~ BAKER PRECISION BEARINGS raiiiil !UPSl I VISA I \ ~ .2865 Gundry Ave.• Signal Hill, CA 90806 -~ -Dusty Times • 4KC0l VERS - BY PASS - AIR BUMPS • • CAMBURG PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT A FINE DEALER NEAR YOU SOLO MOTORSPORT AZUZA CA, PDC MOTORSPORT BREA CA, DUFFCO SANDIMAS CA, BAJA CONCEPTS FALLBROOK CA, AUTOFAB SANTEE CA, MCKENZIES ANAHEIM CA, April 1999 anger, F•t50,1 PU/T~ I 10,C1500 'f Page 45 •◄ .....

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► Checkers (continued) gine trouble, settling for ninth. The Seefried, Hook, Moore (with Dit-tfield motor) 1/2-1600 entry had lotsa trouble en route. Flat tires, no jack, and a broken stub axle slowed the team to a 17th in class. And last, but not least, Jimmy Tucker blew the engine in his Ten car while leading overall. MDR's first race of the season saw an excellent turnout, but produced numerous complaints about a noticeable lack of down arrows. Let's hope this is just a temporary stage of affairs for "Duffy Racing." IT'S BEEN FUN, DUDES, but this will be the Big Wahzoo's last Checker column. It's simply time for a change. It is hard to believe I've been doin' this column for al-most ten years. And it's even harder to believe that the Wahzoo's identity has been kept secret for all that time. Over the years I've had about 15 Checkers spies feeding me with information, and I want to thank all of those Wahzoo buds of mine for their help and loyal friendship. You guys are now free to do whatever, but your identities will always be safe with me. As for this Checker, I'm goin' out of this deal just like I came in ... denyin' everything! That's all folks! ■ CRS Report By Sue Robinson The California Rally Series racing season started off with a roar this year - literally. The first event of the year was held Febru-ary 6th and 7th on the airfield in Holtville, California. The NASA rally cross and rally sprint shared the airfield with the Royal Air Force Parachute team. While rally cross competitors roared around their course, a Cl30 thundered in and out on the adjacent airstrip carrying the parachutists. I'm not sure who was having more fun, us watching them or them watching us. The first event on the rally cross schedule saw 18 racers take to the dirt course on Saturday. Shane Polhamus rented a Dodge Intrepid and drove from Phoenix to compete in the rally cross. The rental car did double duty as Shane and Dennis Chizma both drove the car. Dennis ran third overall in it with the mini-spare on it to boot! After the official race runs were done fun runs were taken with the course workers in the co-drivers seat. It was a nice way for the racers to say thank you to the course workers and it put some mighty big grins on a few faces. Saturday evening after the barbe-cue, tiki torches were lit and rally videos were shown out of the back of the Robinson's trailer, all that was missing were the pink flamin-gos. Sunday seven competitors ran the rally sprint. The mile and one half course was run four times one way then reversed for the next four runs. Lu and Eke Ryba won the family award for most fence posts flattened on course. Eeke backed over a t-post at the finish and Lu just plain ran through the fence at the finish. They were pre-sented with one of the bent posts at the awards ceremony. Dan Edmunds a new CRS member, really burned up the track and fin-ished first in performance stock Page 46 both days. He runs a little white Mia ta that has "Actual Size" printed on the side. To what are you referring, Dan? Everyone had a great time and a few road racers may be rally converts now. Thanks, Dennis Sheean; for the two days of fun. The following weekend, Feb 13, was the SCCA town hall meeting for rally cross and pro/ club rally. It was held as part of their national convention in San Diego. I counted at least ten CRS members who attended. The morning rally cross session had a lively discussion with lots of give and take. The afternoon session was not as well attended and was somewhat of a disappointment. Robert Garcia brought his Road Race Engineering prepared car down to the convention site to be displayed in the parking lot along with Robert Tallini's car. Scott Bottomley and Tom Grossman hosted a rally cross on the El Dorado dry lake near Boul-der City, Nevada on Sunday, Feb-ruary 21st. They drew a respect-able entry of 28 drivers for their . event. The Las Vegas Region SCCA crowd was eager to try out a little dirt racing. There was a large contingent of rental cars in the Performance Stock class. Do you think the rental company will notice four or five cars with an inordinate amount of dust in them being returned Sunday af-ternoon? The winds came up in the afternoon which made the second set of runs difficult due to limited visibility but in trµe racer form everyone stayed and kept on running. You can always tell a happy driver by the gritty smile! A couple oflucky CRS co-driv-ers have picked up national pro-rally rides this year. John Dillon will be navigating for Kendall Russell. Lee Shadbolt has selected Claire Marie Chizma to co-drive for him. Congratulations to both of the lucky co-drivers. Finally Steve Bender and his wife are expecting a new little co-driver in May. The due date is May 1st which conflicts with the Rim of the World rally. Steve is in a real quandary-stay home or go racing? Maybe the baby will hold off till after the rally so he can participate in both events. Cross your fingers, Steve. See you at the start line. ■ Challenger Carner By Joel Mohr HELLO! I'm BAAAAAACK! ! ! Thanks to everyone that con-tacted me (one way or another), to let me know how much they enjoy reading this dribble the pub-lishers allow me to secrete. It re-ally warms my heart to hear how many people out there genuinely care about Class 9, and many of them don't even own or drive 'em! Maybe someday they will. Thanks again! On to the race re-ports!! SCORE's LAUGHLIN DESERT CHALLENGE: As is typical with SCORE, only five cars started the two day, 13 mile don't come to watch fiasco (race?). No, I wasn't there, but everyone I talked to had the same criticism. No watching unless you paid for it, an extremely short loop, and a confusing format that made little sense to the racers. 'Nuff said. Day one saw a real dogfight between Jimmy Hook (in Jimmy Messick's two seater), and Rick Poole in his Jimco, and the pair diced nose to tail all race. Forrest Creasy came down from upstate California with his Sus-pensions Unlimited, gave chase for two and a half laps, and then rolled it trying to hang with the Hookster. Daniel Mora played it smart, and seemed to be just mo-toring around to collect points. (Rumor has it he'll be the only one running the whole series). Jimmy Hook won the day, but by only a scant 30 seconds. Rick Poole kept him honest, and fin-ished second. Mora finished third, six minutes back. On day two, Jimmy Messick mounted his M&T RACING (aka: DAD BUILT), and steadily pulled away from the rest of the field tak-ing the weekend festivities with Poole finishing second, Mora third, Creasy with two DNF's was fourth, and Joseph Shable, who only completed one lap out. of both days, fifth. Jimmy Messick asked me to thank Mohr Perfor-mance for the trans and front end, Jimmy Hook for the great co-drive and the motor, Anderson Hay, Andrew's Towing and M&T Rac-ing. SNORE's A VI HOTEL & CASINO 250: (No, that's not a misprint.) 25 Challengers made the call to the Laughlin area to try and start sinking their teeth into that 2-1600 that will be awarded to the overall year-end points champion. 25, I think that's the largest group at one race, at one time, since the late 80's! Let's hope they keep on coming,· but unfortunately, we'll start with the early retirees. Earl West, uncharacteristically, didn't make it all the way around, as was also the case with Mike Larson. While we're on the subject of DNF'ers, if you guys or girls have a bad race day, call me and I'll try to squeeze it into the column so everyone else can hear what hap-pened. I know it can be embar-rassing, but sooner or later you'll laugh about it (hopefully). If not, save all of your hard luck stories on tear soaked time sheets, and in a few years we'll do a retrospect on bad careers and see who wins that race. OK? Speaking of hard luck, Forrest Creasy also came to this race but probably could have walked the 32 mile course faster than his ill-fated ride got him around. It must be pretty depress-ing to have traveled so far for two DNFs. Better luck next time. Kevin Steele, Mandy Dixon and Dan Owen all ran respectable lap times, but only made it around once. Roland Barry ran fast lap for the class on his first lap, only to "roll" out of contention. Albert Rux also retired after two go arounds. Dale Looney and Bill Avery went three laps, while the Vandawalkers, and the infamous team of Brian Sallee and Stan Hignet (who led the race ALL DAY) , went four out of the re-quired five laps. It seems every-thing was going smoothly for Brian and Stan, when one of their crew noticed a leaky valve cover as they flew by. Not able to get their attention on the radio, they finally flagged them down, but it was too late, and after adding two quarts of oil, they got about an-other 1/4 mile and lost the mo-tor. Twelve cars did go all the way (Good job!! That's almost 50%!), April 1999 with Rob and Dwaine Walters shadowing leaders Brian and Stan all race long. (If you read my col-umn last year, you might remem-ber my prediction of Rob and Dwaine being the guys to reckon with in '99. I only wish my luck at the slots was that predictable.) When Brian lost the motor, Rob inherited the lead and never looked back: Taking the win by nine minutes, Rob and Dwaine are well on their way to that 2-1600. Second place went to Ed-die Webb, third was Tom and Seanea Talliaferro, with an extra driver's change by Jimmy Messick, who had to relieve Tom on the last lap. Fourth was taken by Rodger Schank in his Mohr Per-formance prepped single seater. Fifth was Ron Coppick, sixth was Tom Pemberton, seventh was the Dukes clan. Eighth was Ken Thatcher, ninth was Dave Spen-cer in the ex-Scott and Todd Johnson car that after a string of 13 wins, apparently broke a shifter on the first lap. All that winning had to wear out something! Tenth was Kevin Walsh, 11th was Tim and Gary Hart, and the last but not nearly the least of the finish-ers was Joe Sheble. I don't have any more info on Joe, but I think he also ran the SCORE Laughlin race. On the results I have, the last name is spelled two different way. Congrats to all, and good luck on the new season. MDR's Wild Wash 250: Nine Challengers came out to Barstow to take on the 4 2 mile loop the Duffys set up on mostly old race trails, with a few new twists and turns up by Barstow College. I was one of the entries, along with the only other old timers being Den-nis Peterson and Harry Dunne. I started off with fast lap of the day, with B.J. Bates in the Peterson entry two minutes behind. New driver Robert Riffle (in only his second race), was running a very respectable third, with Brian Jef- . frey in Darin McGuffin's car fourth. Fifth was Jeff? in the Dave Lawson entry (Max Hanberg's old car). Harry was next, and Sean Defrank came around seventh. Dan Owen and Tracy Teston had slightly longer first laps, but I didn't hear if they had any prob-lems. On lap 2 things were still going well, and I stretched my lead another three minutes. B.J. was still second, Jeffrey moved up to third, with Riffle hanging on to fourth. The Lawson entry was next, and everyone else seemed to be having some kind of down time. On the third lap, I thought my front end was going soft, so I backed if off a notch. B.J. was now seven minutes back in second, and Jeffrey was still third. Riffle broke a spindle, and the repairs took an extremely long time, put-ting him in the DNF columm af-ter sneaking around one more time. Defrank had a flat, and ev-eryone else was sticking to their pace except Tracy Teston who disappeared. On lap 4, due to the Peterson team doing their driver's change, my lead stretched out to nine minutes, and I stopped in Fair pit "A" for fuel and had my front end checked. Dave Lawson was now in third after their driver's change, and Darin McGuffin was now in his car, keeping a steady pace, with Harry not far behind. Dan Owen was the next retiree, with the order stay-ing the same for lap 5, except Dave Lawson, who lost a drum. On lap 6, I had stretched my lead to about 18 minutes, when at about the 14 mile marker the trans in my car started clunking. I pulled into FAIR pit "B", told them what happened, and that I was going to try and make it the rest of the way around. I babied it all the way to about mile 32 be-fore Peterson caught me to take the lead. Two miles later, she said "no more" and our day was done. My first DNF in four years, I guess you could say I was over-due. Peterson took the win, with McGuffin second, and after Lawson and Defrank had termi-nal problems, Harry Dunne sol-diered in for third. Three finish-ers out of nine starters isn't very good, but three of the DNFers (in-cluding yours truly), went five of the six laps. Congrats to the Petersons and B.J. (I heard B.J. and his dad won the Fud race a month earlier), and McGuffin and Harry, for finishing on a really technical yet fun course. Once again if you have any questions or comments, call me at (760) 947-6647. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! ■ F.A.I.R. News By Joy Bancroft MDR -BARSTOW: The MDR race had 94 starters and out of that group FAIR had 26 start. We're excited that the new sea-son started out with some new racers and some old. However, we know it helps when the word gets out that 20 1/2-1600 cars had pre-entered. Bill didn't have any trouble getting enough help for the pits; it seems it was a longer day than we all thought. Off the start FAIR had several 10 cars, Brian Walsh and Frank Omboli were the first set. It wasn't too soon after that it seems just as the racers had just got off the line, we heard Frank had a flat and within minutes we heard he rolled his 10 car. The news finally got through the airways that Frank and his co-driver were hurt and emergency medical attention was needed. It was a scary moment for a while as Frank and his co-driver were taken to the hospital. As time went on we heard it was quite a spectacular roll over, in fact, Bill Thompson from Carrera Photog-raphy and Trackside got good shots and happened to be in the right place. The car showed up late in the FAIR pit and was pretty destroyed in the front and the rear. There was not one single scrape on the body or the roof since the car literally did a pirou-ette in the air end to end ... sev-eral times. Frank explains the wild ride as "not remembering a thing!" Good for him because it must have been quite violent had you seen the damage to the car. Frank shared at the FAIR meet-ing after the race that he had pre-run the course a couple weekends before and was told at the driv-ers' meeting that the 10 cars could fly the road crossing. So he figured "OK", I am on the move and he flew the road crossing and more ... spectators say he never lifted! With all the excitement and Bill from Carrera sharing the slides at the FAIR meeting (they were awesome, thanks Bill), Frank and co-driver were not seriously in-jured. The car looks like a heavy Dusty Times

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hit to the pocket book to me Frank, but we look forward to see-ing you conquer the beast. I un-derstand Brian Walsh thought it was looking like a good day as the car was running good ... until the third lap the car strangely stopped running. It seemed the ignition went bad, or they were not quite sure why it wouldn't run and had to park the car on the trailer. This car sounds so awesome, they just can't seem to get a break. Tom Mangione was out with his old 10 car and found himself a little late to start and was forced to wait and start behind the 1/2-1600 cars. He said the car started out working good, until he lost the swing arm bolt, he got the bolt back in and found himself stopping several times with the bolt falling out. He finally had the bolt welded in. Tom later turned the car over to rookie driver Hershel, and told him to floor it because it kept loading up. Well he floored it all right cutting in front of Harry Dunne. Harry started some finger pointing and cussing going on ... he thought Tom was in the car and later cut Hershel some slack and apologized. Not a good day for Richard Woods either. He DNF'd, was unclear on the story. The 1/2-1600 cars had a real exciting day. FAIR had six cars racing against one another, but in the end Jason Hatz took the over-all and first in class at his first MDR race. Jason had his girl-friend co-ride for the first time through the first half of the race and she really enjoyed the ride. His dad, Gene explained at the meeting they weren't sure how the competition would be but they soon learned who some of the competitors were. Don Hatz apparently jetted the car rich by mistake and tinkered with the carb at a few stops, which Jason said made the car a little sluggish. He had no flats and we hate to think how fast he would have been had the car been working better. Mitch Griffin decided to race since the motor problems at Laughlin ... he found out the prob-lems were due to a plugged oil cooler.. He was off to a good start for the weekend after some test-ing in Randy Ross' 5-Urilimited car. The car was good off the start passing a lot of cars, he soon found he lost the rear brakes and drove on a flat for about eight miles on the third lap. He got pretty charged up after that and was well in the top five, he had a great fin-ish of fourth. We would sure like to see Mitch win a race, he too feels he never gets a break. Your time will come Mitch just keep on racing!!! Hint! Hint! Randy Miller was first off the line, and boy was he excited. Friday was looking up as he and his dad were testing the car with new shocks, I guess until they broke a trailing arm. Fleet Fuels' mechanic took a look at the car and said it could be fixed and offered their local shop. So they spent a long night pulling the car apart to get the trailing arm welded. So when they started the race on Saturday it • seemed like a long day to Randy and his dad Oohn). The first lap they got a flat and watched a lot of cars pass them by. Randy broke the throttle return spring, got it fixed and got another flat. He turned the car over to Dad with two more laps and already a lot of l"ost time to finish 11th. Scott Wisdom started behind Randy Dusty Times Miller at the start in the single seat. I think Scott got a little hot and anxious to pass cars, that on the first lap he tried to pass a car in a twisty turny area and rolled on his lid. He was OK but he lost the roof and the antenna and had a flat, drove on the flat a ways with no roof. He says things got worse as he lost the rear brakes, had throttle problems, said the suspension just didn't seem to be right. Then of all things he lost a CV and had to lose time chang-ing. Brady got in with two laps to go and says he had a good run. The story is the Wisdom brothers have had long discussions about which the aggressive driver is, but of course, Brady will not admit he rolled the car that day too. What's up with that Brady? Could it be you really drive alike ... it's in the genes. Rick Gamble and Owen Potter brought their 1/2-1600 car out and wow did the paint job look impressive. It has the words "BOXCAR" down the hood. Not everyone knows the boxcar story, you should really ask Owen if he has seen any boxcars in the.desert these days and you might get the whole story. Right off the bat they got a flat out of Hodge and Owen had to get out and change the flat. Just got going and got another flat. Lost a CV bolt which loos-ened the stub axle. Fixed that and got two more flats. They finished 18th and never want to see a flat again. Max Hanberg is finally moving up in the world to 1/2-1600 class. I heard that the 9 class guys have mixed feelings with no competition from Max and the Johnsons. Max too was plagued by flats, he seemed to have good lap times with the pack, but broke and DNF'd. Robert Moore, Stephanie Lo-zano and the YEEHAA group John Strode and Bryan Hintz were our 5-1600 racers. I think I counted about ten cars in the class starting. John and Bryan were still putting the car together Friday morning ... what happened guys? Last minute race prep will get the best of ya ... the first lap they had to tighten the battery cable and a coil wire was loose, then a rocker arm stud broke, they were down at MAIN pit for about three hours after they found parts and put it back to-gether. Then a rock got wedged in the CV horn and took some time to figure out. They ended up being the 51st finisher of 52 fin-ishers. Its OK you guys, we know it never stops your party ONNN John and Bryan. It didn't matter where Stephanie Lozano finished she was just happy to finish and finish before the YEEHAA team. Robert Moore finished fourth ... what is it about fourth place with this team? That car kinda has a mind of its own to finish only fourth. Maybe that's why Robert hasn't raced in a while; I guess some things never change. FAIR picked up some seven trucks for pit support for the first time. Mike Nixon and Ken Stahlman. Sorry guys, they DNF'd. Better luck next time. St1ck with us and we will be happy to tell your story, just let me know! Tim Braden in his 7 truck was cruisin for the day. Tim was not feeling good and he al-ways tells me he doesn't have the motor other trucks have but he finished first. Congratulations ... and I didn't even keep times for ya and look where you finished. So I guess it pays to keep a steady pace. Los Amigos... Boonie Herndon and Eric Heiden in the 8 truck had a pretty good day to remember. Eric recently lost his Mom and I understand she really enjoyed coming out to the races. Eric sprinkled his Mom's ashes on the windshield and the ashes blew. off at the start into the desert as Eric drove along. On the first lap the truck lost the brakes due to a broken flex line. Eric complained about stomach cramps so they had to think for the first time about a driver to step in, so Boonie stayed in the truck and friend Ron got in and drove. Bill Markel wanted to know what it took to step in to drive the truck if this happens again and Boonie replied, "IT STARTS AT THE BANK." Later Eric got back in with no problems and finished the race in first place. The 9 cars had a different group for a change. Harry Dunne shared his drive for the first time with Randy Ross. Randy started in the car and bottomed out and put it on its side. Randy was feel-ing a little sore (a big difference between a 9 car and a 5 Unlim-ited or 1600 car), so he got out of the car and Harry got in on the second lap. Harry said the sus-pension felt soft so they adjusted the torsion and added gear oil as a result of some damage from Randy's first drive. Since Randy wanted to redeem himself he got back in the car and cruised for two laps and Harry got back in for the last lap. They finished third place. Dave Lawson was trying out FAIR with Max Hanberg's old 9 car. He broke a drum, replaced, and then broke another drum. I guess they had a lot of downtime and ran out on the time limit. Tracy Teston was out here from Arizona, I heard he might have moved, raced his 9 car with a frustrating day. He broke the throttle cable, then had no brakes, his co-rider got sick, and ended up having a tor-sion finger to finish his day. There was a very young man named Robert Riffle (16 years old) raced and looked good, but he broke a control arm to finish the day after completing four laps. Joel Mohr had a good start in his 9 car with a new rider. Why is it Joel always finds a new rider?? He. said he passed the leader in one spot but before he knew it the leader seemed to walk away. Joel kept up all day until six miles to the finish he lost a tooth on the ring-n-pinion, lost trans and end of day for Joel. · The FAIR Bar-B-Que was an-other success, thanks Bill and family for coordinating the Bar-B-Que. I heard the Fleet Fuels Bar-B-Que was appreciated by all who were able to make it over to the awards. Thanks from FAIR for the meal. We should coordi-nate a Bar-B-Que together some-time! FAIR DESERT CLEAN UP .DAYi I am sure by now all the FAIR members have heard about the CLEAN UP day on Saturday, March 27, 1999, meeting around ·7:00 a.m. We certainly want to see all our FAIR members par-ticipate, and WEAR YOUR FAIR T-SHIRTS!!! This was an idea that Bill Markel came up with as we spend so much time in the desert and it seems off road people get blamed for so much of the trash. So bring your trash bags, gloves, and maybe a small trailer to haul away the big items. It will be a lot of fun and feel re-warding that we all can contrib-ute to cleaning up the desert where we all race. It looks like we may be able to give Slash X some business for lunch! INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TOO! FAIR meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at the newly named Radisson Ho-tel in Fullerton where Harbor Blvd. and the 91 Freeway meet. We invite any guests or prospec-tive racers, spectators who are interested in off road or just wish to get involved. We have a raffle every second meeting of the month. If you are a winner dur-ing the raffle, you may select from a filled table with a wide variety of off road items. FAIR now in-cludes two free pit support fees as part of the raffle every second meeting. Our FAIR BOARD MEM-BERS ARE: President: Wes Wisdom (714) 841-8934 Vice President: Randy Ross (714) 449-0773 Race Director: Bill Markel (805) 943-1786 Treasurer: George Ladwig (909) 612-0112 Secretary: Joy Bancroft (562)697-2752 Sergeant At Arms: Harry Dunne (562) 921-9580 Mag-7 Race Team By Stephen T. Stenberg, President Hello everyone! The San Feli-pe 250 should be running soon and as of March 3rd, Mag-7 has four racers signed up. I'll have a full report on the race action next month. Our next big race after this, is the 24 Hour Endurance Race, down in Plaster City. This race is being held during the middle of May. Mag-7 race T earn will be running a 24 hour pit for all motorcycles, quads and odysseys that are racing. Call or e-mail us for pit infor-mation if you wish Mag-7 help for that race. My e-mail is MAG7RACE@AOL.COM. Our Race Directors, Wayne and Deb-bie Newell's phone number is (760) 745-5740. 'Ti! next month, adios from Team Baja. ■ OFF ROAD SCRAMBLE ,,,,pc -Unscramble the five word• below and the resulting acrambled letters ID the box• and you will have the anawer to the question or atatement. WHAT MR. HOURGLASS NAMED ms SHOPPING CENTERS? RERMIP IENNGE GILNA SLENCIE , TREAHE " April 1999 --□□ □-□ □--□---□□-□-□--□--THE " Page 47

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CARRERA PHOTOGRAPHY P.O. BOX 306 HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92648 (714) 969-6820 E-MAIL: CARRERAPHOTO@MINDSPRING.COM WEBSITE: WWW.CARRERAPHOTO.COM lllf T IOI RACERS WIIO IEIIMB TIE BEST HAMPION BEADLOCK 24CtNG WHEE.LS. U.S.A. WHEELS / CONVERSIONS 8" 9" 10" 11" 12" 13" 15" 18" 17" MILAN qARRf!T 1871 N. BRAWLEY .AVE. FRESNO CA 93722 (209) 275-5183 • FAX 276-2365 www.champlonwheel.com CHENOWTH .iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.=utCING PRODlJCTS. ~NC. 943 Vernon Way El Cajon, CA 92020 (619) 449-7100 Fax (619) 449-7103 www.chenowth.com OCNC;J' Man,factu~B of . . = Bmke and .tl,t,h Pedal An1 Master Cylinders Slave Cylinders CNC, Inc. 1221 West Morenatlvd. San Diego, CA'.921'10 (6J9) 275-166~ Cuttihg and Staging Brakes Hydraulic Throttl!,s Throttle Pedals a~d all of our accessories. Send $3.00 for Catal_og FLOATER REAR ENDS• i-HONT HUBS • AXLES BALL JOINTS• TORSION BARS• KNOCK OFF HUBS (805) 239-2663 Sandy Cone 2055 Hanging Tr~e, Lane - . Templeton. CA 93465 M IKE • GAYLE • JON • DAVE •~VI~ ; .. ;.NOY ~ _· . (W[Y'~ '~~-Parts, Equipment, Accessories & Service 4-Wheel Drive - Mini Trucks • Pre-Runners - Race Prep· 2-Wheel DrivEl 3209-A Thousand Oaks Blvd. • Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 (805) 494-RACE • (805) 495-6119 • (805) 495-3344 FAX(805)495-2339 CROWN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS INCORPORATED AEROSPACE, HIGH PERFORMANCE, INDUSTRIAL HOSES & FITTINGS HIGH PERFORMANCE HOSE & FITTINGS (760) 599-0090 • FAX (760) 599-0070 1185 PARK CENTER DR .. SUITE G • VISTA. CALIFORNIA 92083 ~ '-"ARACING I ii .GASOLINE D TORCO RACING FUELS CALL FOR YOUR NEAREST DISTRIBUTOR 1-800-54-COSBY COS~Y OIL_COMPANY, SANT~ FE SPRINGS, CA 41GUUf41MLX-4U4JC•l+UI VICE PRESIDE N T 1126 N. Marshall Ave. El Cajon, CA 92020 . 619-449-5611 fax 619-449-5713 DE UNZIO HERMAN DeNUNZIO (805) 683-1211 P.O. Box 6057 Santa Barcara., CA 93111 a-;:..i........a...A.:::.L.a...:,.L..:lL...A-=--tl Specializing in ... Bu•Boxe• Swtncaxtu Hewland Fortin Neadeola ND4S Nagnum44 Krebler Automatie PON~ffOE ~-71.&-IN~ • PRERUNNERS • CONSULTING • DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES KREG DONAHOE OWNER • RACE SHOCKS • FULL FABRICATION SERVICE 2831 EAST WHITE STAR U NIT H ANAHEIM, CA 92806 PHONE (714) 632-3033 FAX(714)632-3835 re ES_;;;_7te~ER 5) ~ -/:;NG/NEERING FORD RACING PARTS: RANGE.fl 2. 3 OVER 3000 TOP QUALITY SPEED PINTO 2.0 PARTS m STOCK. -STOCK 2.3 80 PG. CATALOG PHONE (St$} 444-4919 143$ POTR.E.RO FAX (St$> 444-3046 SO. El.MONTE, CA. -;.:•",t,<r>' Shl/1,,, E-Z UP--~:= FREE-ST ANDING, RUGGED STEEL & NYLON SHcL TEAS THAT SET-UP IN SECONDS! VARIOUS Sl!ES & COLORS . AUTHORIZED DEALE_R "CASTEX RENTALS 213-462-1468 PRE-RUNNER SPECL'ILIST !' 6,UMPERS • CAGES • SHOCK MOUNTS SEAT MOUNTS ' • LIFT IUTS • LOWERING IUTS • DUALLYS AIR MG SUSPENSION • SHOW CARS t. DISPLAYS • AlY FA& WORK EXPERT INSTALLATION & FA&RICATION AV.-'IILA&LE FIBERGLASS FENDERS i. REDSKINS TOY OT A-CHEVY-NISSAN-FORD-ElC. 4010 N. PALM STREEr, UNlf 103 FULLERWN. CA. 92635 r.'I. RA(IN, ffJ FUil:-= (714) 8'70-9.422 FAX (714) 870-9132-~. FUE/.S & r&"'-, tUBRICANTS INDUSTRIAL LUBRICANTS ·We Support . MIL SPEC RUST PREVENTATIVES Summit RACING GASOLINE BRUCE CONRAD PRESIDENT 1537 E. DEL AMO BLVD. CARSON, CA 90746 PHONE: (310) 603-2200 FAX: (310) 603-2257 FOREMAN ---;&;:>-RACE Tm,JCK ENGINEERING/ DEVELOPMENT FABRICATIONS/ RACE PREP CHARLIE FOREMAN (619) 467-9211 3438 LOCKWOOD DR. SAN DIEGO, CA 92123 3006 Colina Verde Lane Jamul, California 91935 (619) 66944727 / Doug Fortin

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Phone/Fax (602) 334-0096 Kevin Mcmullen Q.acing OFFROAD TRANSMISSIONS, ETC. 7612 W. Comet Ave. Pager (602) 409-2526 Peoria, AZ: 85345 MENDEOLA RACING Volkswagen -Porsche -Hewland Off-Road & Stadium Racing Transmissioos Parts & Service 290 TROUSDALE #I&J CHULA VISTA CA 91910 619-691~1000 FAX 619-691-1324 805-940-5515 MSD" •r.J ,,, Jr., ,a •4~,, t••1,•,, • YOUR COMPLETE IGNITION SOURCE r lJSTF-=llE~Ul□ns • WIRES • AUTOTRONIC CONTROLS CORPORATION 1 490 HENR Y BRENNA N DR .. EL PASO, TX 7!3!336 [9151 857-5200 • TECH LINE [9151 855-7123 • VISIT OUR WEB SITE: www.msdignition.com Jonathan Corsico Dune Buggy Parts Race Car Parts Foreign Car Parts New Truck Acc. Dept. Custom Machine Work & Fabrication 1 (800) 231-8156 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, AZ 85365 (520) 783-6265 • FAX (520) 783-1253 Jon_ Corsico@offroadcen!ral.com 28 Oak Knoll Road Mendham, NJ 07945 OFF-ROAD-CENTRAL Web Design Specializing in Off-Road Related Web Sites - Creation -- Maintenance -- Hosting -www.offroadcentral.com · OFF ROAD CHASSIS ~ 181 24 GIIAND AVE.. LAKE. ELSINORE, CA 92530 Complete Off Road & Performance Preparation for Trucks & Vans CUSTOM SUSP'IENSION • PIIIE•RUN TIIUCKS AXLE SIEIIVICIE • WELDING et FA■IIICATION NO DISCO TIIUCKS BWMontague Est. 1974 909-678-1029 MPER (909) 360-5906 FAX (909) 360-0436 HELMETS PARKER PUMPER HELMET COMPANY 10427 San Sevaine Way., Ste. L Mira Loma, California 91752 HAROLD NICKS ,~WT~3(Q)'-if~3@7f'I SAFElY EQUIPMENT MAXON, MOTOROLA, ROAOMASTER, VERTEX RADIOS BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON HELMETS IN STOCK WIRING FOR RADIO &/OR INTERCOM STILL ONLY S 12'5. 2888 GUNDRY i\VE. SIGN,\l Hill, Ci\ 90806 310-427-8177 800-869-5636 elf.Ni . Fraley s Pc-rformancc I Enginee 1·ing Jerry Penhall· 714 • 650 • 3035 Fox 714 • 650 • 4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. #B Cosio Meso, CA 9262Z * All Types ol St.eel U Aluminum Fabrication * Tube Bendinc * Almainum U Steel W.ldinc * Custom Machine Work * All Types ol Race Cars 4851 W. Hacienda #4 Las Vegas, NV 89118 Bruce Fraley 702-365-9055 PORSCHE 930 4-speed • 5 years race-tested • •.~ • • , , with no cracked • •• _ • . • ~ · gears or pinions : ,. • ., • Ji /. ~· ~ -• Synchromesh or • ~... ., · , :,, ,,,~ , 4.22 R&P (4.88 option) • #-~.. ./ • Shotpeened 9310 ;, · 'f .A, dog-engagement · , • '\ , · ~\\\~~-7 ~ • Choice of clutches ,../.· , - f :· ,· \,\ ~~ • Gearsets & components 1'.'\;l • Complete race transmission $7,900 • Phone oR Fax (808) 878-6812 P11ci1ion Alloy; 1,/d, fl), 25805 NE 46"' Avenue qJ ~ RfdgeOeld, WA 98642 $ ~ »~ Phone ~~s. <((\,~~ Fax 360-887-2000 100 & 360-887-7279 A High Performance \'8 R:tce Truck Series "Tbe True Dril'er's Class" Tel. 6 I 9.449.6252 Fax 619.449.6470 9-119 Ahraham \\av. Ste. B Santee. CA 9 2071-258-1 DUARTER MASTER E¥Mjtl ·:Mh ~ • Clutches • Flywheels ' • Hydraulic Release Bearlngl • PIiot Bushings • Bel/housings •Starters • Driveshafls • Quick Change Gears • Axle Tube Seals • Cambered Axle Tubes • Cambered Drive Flanges • Pace Race Jacks Our 5.5" and· 7 .25" clutch assemblies are the most durable, longest lasting, cost-effective racing clutches -..., .... _ available. ~ 510 Telser Road • Lake Zurich, IL 60047 ~ (847) 540-8999 • Fax: (847) 540-0526 www.racingclutches.com ~RACING ~ GASOLINE "100 110 114 118" 111etl1anol & n,tro i~ .. rmJ1L•,I"■• • ._._ ■7171~ ■-------___._j C L B ·t I • Commercial Fuels & Lubes ·. . ryan , nc .. • High Performance Lubes 1-800-399-4176 209-537-1565 fax • On-Site Fuel Distribution • Technical Assistance • Fuel & Lubes Handling Equip. RACING TRANSAXLES 1700 EAST MAIN ST. EL CAJON, CA 92021 .,,,,.,,,., CHRIS ROSE (6191 443-2480 _,,,. """"' .. , . .,..,.. ,.,,,.,,_ .,,,,. ,,.,,.,, /1011i11g Specializilg in Race Prep Race to Race Maintenance Chase Support• Score Series Foddrill Trailing Arms-Spindles-racing parts · Corey Sappl119to11 (102) 91!•2711 -7H-3554 •oltll Full Service Fabrication · Magnaflux Service ' Shock Rebuilding 414 S. Roltert Tempe, AZ· 15211 S. B. ENGINEERING "SUPER BOOT., HCR66, BOX 11030 PAHRUMP (CRYSTAL) NV.89048 (775) 372-5335 I 040 South Main Sireet. Fallbrook. CA 92028 l'AC\ 760-71.l-2 I I 7 E-MAIL hajarace ii tth com PHONF 760-723-2 I I 7 c.ALL U'5 Fl!Z-'5T! '----------~--------,-,,,-

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WR cars Race Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle 1815 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5144 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW.WEBCAM I NC.COM t'l:Jlll Lfgldn/n~ -==;il'i...,owertrain I PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING CONSULTANTS EDWIN . JACOBS PRESIDENT 900 STA TE Mll.,L ROAD AKRON, OH 44319 330-644-7774 · ' Off Road Products Trans Welding Complete Powertrain Development, Maintenance and !iupply Engine!i • Transmi!i!iions • Drivelines • Differentials Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels V.W. - Porsche - Nissan - Toyota Lorenzo Rodriguez 515 S. Vermont, Glendora, Ca. 91741 (626)914-8147 ===-~=-=-PA/KT flNP C041/NGS«ORMIKS* J,(JllOt) * •Rlr,I TO~ MAJNUNANCJ'"' Sf~IIYAC..,.J,J/'f;R/NG-1:: 760-949-1220 6975 !ipeedway eIvc1: D-1 Di! La■ Veqa■, Nevada B9115-1713 70i!-87 t-t 66 t fa,i:: 7Di!-87 t-6480 Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service 535 East Central Park Anaheim CA 92802 714-956-945~ Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Short Course Class 8/ CORR Pro-Sportsman 2 great for Glen Helen, Estero Beach or Cran-don. New Fab by Johnson Fab, many new parts, FOX Coilovers, Howe Steering & Pumped & Ram, Bow tech body extras included, only need motor & race prep to race. W /trailer, $16,500.00 (805) 494-4907. ' 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 8501 7 MARK ZOLLER Owner Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 MOTORCYCLES • KTM • HUSABERG • HUSQVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS • SUSPENSION M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10-2 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, CA 92806 714-449-1271 FAX 449-1374 FOR SALE: Seen the Ford contin-gency in BITD? Stock Mini Ranger-Ex Brown Truck! 2wd 1989; 4.0L eng-6 cyl; Auto; Automaster; Beards; Baja T A's, complete truck, needs wiring and shocks, go racing on a budget! $4,500.00 includes lots of spare pans (520) 753-3673. FOR SALE: Toyota V6, Single Overhead Cam, 3.5 liter 300+ h.p., Billet Crank, Carrillo rods, J.E. Pis-tons, Shim under cup, Barnes Dry Sump. Extra parts $10,000.00, Chuck (805) 272-1458. FOR SALE: 1990 Parault Class 9 chassis brand new, with rear adjuster, body, race trans, front race beam, set of tires & wheels, boxes of parts, $1200.00 Perfect beginning off road race car &class (818) 994-7475 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 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 RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DUSTY TIMES - A 45 word Classified Ad is FREE if you act now and subscribe. If you wish to use a photo in your free ad, enclose $5.00. All Classified Ads must be PAID IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED -YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. 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 NC 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. Dusty Times Enclosed is $ ----(Send check or money order, no cash) Name ---------------------------------Address Phone ----------------------~-------City State Zip ---------Please run ad ___ times , Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ April 1999 Page 53

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--· Las Vegas, NV November 12-14, 1999 The Reserve 250 Henderson, NY SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 S.C.T.A. Southern California Timing Association Office Manager: Mary Carson 2285 Tracy Avenus Simi Valley, CA 93063 (805) 526-a805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, TN 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,, Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 · Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252- 1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street #1 Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 January 1-17, 1999 21st Annual Dakar Rally VORRA Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 March 20-21, 1999 1999 Season Opener Prairie City SYRA, Sacramento, CA April 24-25, 1999 Spring Special Prairie City SYRA, Sacramento, CA May 29-31, 1999 Yerington 300 Desert Race Rerington, NY July 10-11, 1999 Top Gun 300 Desert Race Fallon,NV September 4-6, 1999 Fernley Challenge Fernley, NY September 25-26, 1999 Short Course - Round I Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 9-10. 1999 Short Course - Round 2 · Prairie City SYRA, Sacramento, CA October 30-31, 1999 Short Course - Round 3 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Page 54 Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 0l l-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 • WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 1999 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series March 27, 1999 Rock to Rock Rocky Point, MX May 29, 1999 Holbrook Holbrook, AZ July 3, 1999 Surprise or Bye Surprise or Bye,AZ September 4, 1999 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 16, 1999 Surprise or Bye Surprise or Bye, AZ November 20, 1999 Apache Gold Globe, AZ December 11, 1999 1999 Banquet TBA 1999 Desert Challenge Bikes & ATV Series January 10, 1999 Parker 200k Parker, AZ March 27, 1999 Rock to Rock Rocky Point, MX April 25, 2999 Lake Pleasant Lake Pleasant, AZ May 30, 1999 Jp;btppl Holbrook, AZ July 4, 1999 Cinders or Surprise Cinders or Surprise, AZ September 5, 1999 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 1 7, 1999 Sierra Vista/Surprise Sierra Vista/Surprise, AZ November 21, 1999 Apache Gold Globe, AZ December 11, 1999 1999 Banquet TBA WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, WI 5490 I (414)426-0470/(414) 982-7306 Attention llace & Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your 1999 ·schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. . KARMAN GHIA CLASS 5-2700ccType4, FAT;Weber48 in-take set-up, Bus Box by ITS, 4.57 R&P, Super cliff, Elephant gears, 30 gallon fuel cell, Wright Arms, Woods spindles, UMP p/s Suspen-sions Unlimited + 10" beam and 3"x3 rear arms, Bilstein shocks, SAW torsions, spring plates, axles, CNC disc brakes, Very clean! $15,000 Baja Brokers Ref #710 (760) 723-2117, Check out our website at WW->1/.ba · aconceots.com. FOR SALE: 1992 topkick Diesel Truck, 4 speed Allison, 4 Dr Crewcab, Air Rtde Seats, Power steering, power brakes, AC, Cruise control, 10,000 lb wench, approx. 35,000 miles. 44 ft Wells Cargo 5th Wheel trailer, living quarters, regis-tered in California as toy puller, Cus-tom Unit $50,000 both. (800) 622-032 l. A ronco re- unner-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 VS, 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 $39,900.00 Ref #685 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117, Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Class 7S Ranger, 2.9 V-6 custom 3" Kuster shocks 12" front 18" rear, Beard seat, Fuel Safe cell, C-4 trans, 9" rear end, fiberglass and metal fenders, l:milt for Desert and short course, ran 4 short course races since built, race. ready, must see, $17,500.00 (408) 778-1980. Sell Your Car, Pre-Runner, Parts or Bits FOR SALE: Class 1-1600 114" wb, Fox shocks, Fat motor, Mendeola Trans, Power Steering, Wright Box and Combos, Sway-A-W~y, 300 T-bars, Pumper, 930s competitive in 1999 & beyond, 2nd 98 Baja 500. $9,500.00 obo. Calli Pat (714) 427-1100 Ext. 100. 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 galloQ Fuel Cell. Beard Seats w/5 points. Can be street legal. $12,000.00 obo. (714)635-1852. & Pieces Right Here ... Dusty Titnes Has FOR SALE: Must Sell! 91 Ranger 212hp 2.5 lAuto 9" rear FOX shocks, The Off Road Readership You're Look- newGoodYears,fullcageseat5point harness, 4 wheel disc brakes, ready ing For. Only $25 for up to 45 words plus to race in 99; extra rims, spare parts, $5 with photo. Form on Page 53. 84~~s1~sMh0•500·00 OBO (60S) _s_n_o_re_c_o_r_n_e_r_.·._. -~ As we go deeper into 1999 the SNORE points are a very big issue as the award to the poin~s winner for '99 is of great monetary value. The top 10 in points are listed here as well as Sportsman Buggy and Sportsman Truck points. Pos NAME Class Points 1 Dwaine Walters 9 817 2 Jeff Carr ½-1600 778 3 Jeremy Harmon 9 755 4 Jeremy Gubler 10 752 5 Greg Price 5-1600 734 6 Billy Goerke 1 722 7 Thomas Taliaferro 9 715 8 Pat Dean ½-1600 707 9 Rodger Schank 9 695 10 Jim Price 10 690 SPORTSMAN BUGGY 1 Jason Gubler 14 2 Don Roberts, Jr 13 3 Josh Tinker 11 Sportsman Truck 1 Mark Petit 13 2 Robby Woolworth 11 Don't forget, the Buffalo Bill's 400 is next on the schedule, April 16 thru 18 at Primm, Nevada. Be there April 1999 Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 1998 MDR points champ. Best of the best, 300 miles of comp. Prep, FOX 2.5 w/position sen-sitive susp, Chromoly 1" longer arms, , Type II c.v.s w/300m 930 axles, thing stub axles, SAW spring plates, SAW 29mm 300, bars, New SAW torsion adj., new top 4;86, JG Trans, 12.1 motor, new heads, pistons, cyls, and FAT carb, Boost bottle, new Compu-fire, DIS 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. Ford ProTruck-The best class in off-road, 6 of 7 finished the gru-eling Baja 1,000, 351w 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. 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-lor;ks, 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 MOR 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-sports, (909) 422-1416. Bilstein Protruck Drivers Award Bilstein has established a perpetual award for the winner of the Protruck Racing Organization and Ivan Stewart's PRO Racing series. Known as the Bilstein Protruck Drivers Award, this unique trophy will be inscribed each year with the name of the winning driver of the PRO Series. Rick D. Johnson is the first driver honored with this award as the 1998 Protruck champion. Rick and his Ford Protruck won the class at Laughlin, the Baja 500, second at the Fireworks 250 and third in the Baja 1000 . . Shown with the award is Doug Robertson, Ex-ecutive Vice President of Krupp Bilstein of America, (left), Ivan Stewart (center), and Rick D. Johnson, being recognized for his winning 1998 season in Protruck. Dusty Times 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) 723-211 7. check out our website at www.ba·aconce ts.com. 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, Foci Spindles, 300M link pins, Fox Shox, 300M Sway-A-Way torsions/ axles, Type 3 brakes on rear, Chen-owth shifter, Flame Out system, Fin-ished 14outofl5races! $15,000Baja Brokers Ref #698 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. ::::;:;;;;:::;::::::::== 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. FOR SALE: Cherokee 4wd. Class 3 SCORE legal. New rear end, 9" w/ Currie axles 3 5 spline. 360 motor. 400 Turbo transmission. Goodyear tires w/4 spares. Parker Pumper. 12 Rancho shocks 2/2 spares. 55 gal Fuel Safe. Race ready. $7,000.00 obo w/ Steve 011-526-177-0925 or0l 1-526-176-54 72 e-mail trukus telnor. 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. April 1999 FOR SALE: 30' Wellcraft fishing sport, Twin Yamaha 200 H.P. Out-board Motors, Bait tank, VHF radio, AM FM Cass. 10 disk Changer Sound system, Custom built Trail Rite Heavy Duty Trailer, Approx 100 hours, stored indoors. $35,000.00 or trade for Prerunner (949) 587-2445. FOR SALE: Stadium Super Lite, Briggsbuilt Chassis, Klemm Honda 350 motor, Champion Wheels, BFG tires, FOX and works SHOX, Coilover suspension, race or play ready, PACE, CORR, or SODA le-gal, $6,500.00 or trade for Harley or ? (906) 466-2680. FOR SALE: Class 9 Chenowth Chasie, Wright Rack, Mastercraft, Fox Shox, Swayaway, Parker Pumper, Race Ready, Pit Jack 2 dump cans, lots of spare parts & tires $5,300.00, (619) 445-7336, Bring your trailer and helmet & go racing ElCa·onCA. FOR SALE: Jimco 1-1600. See it in this Aprils Hot VW's. Completely prepped· and rebuilt. Zero miles on motor and transmission rebuild. Only 4 races on car, FAT/FEX motor, Mendeola trans., custom Fox Shox. Best of Everything. Call or email for details. $17,500.00 Matt (650) 933-4881 wk, mmiller@corp.sgi.com. 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. Class 10 (SCORE LITE) Bunderson-1776cc Type l, l 7 gallon cell, Bus Box, Summers Bros flanges, 930 CV's, + 10" beam, Woods arms & spindles, CNC/Wilwood brakes, FOX/Curnutt shocks, old single seater but still ultra-reliable, $9,000.00 Baja Brokers Ref #711 (760) 723-2117, check out our website at www.bajaconcepts FOR SALE: 5-1600 w/trailer, fin-ished every race, race prepped, FAT engine, 002 tranny, 4:86 R&P, Type II CV's, PCI intercom, Mastercraft, Swayaway, 19 gal fuel cell, K&N De-ist, Parker Pumper, 6 Fox W /reser-voirs, Centerline, KC's spares $6,500.00 OBO, Steve (520) 364-7620. FOR SALE: Class 10 or 2 double A-Arm Car 16" travel up front. 18" in rear. FOX SHOX, Mendeola bus trans., CNC pedals, and much more less engine. $11,000.00 Days (775) 359-9856 Nights (775) 84 7-7442. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Wanted high quality experienced and reliable tig & mig welder for race suspension components. San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys Area. 10-20hrpiecework. (818) 994-7475. 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, 6975 Speed-way Blvd. D-101, Las Vegas, NV 89115. MISC. FOR SALE OLD RACE VIDEOS-SCORE, HORA, Riverside, Willow Springs, starting 1986. All Classes, profession-ally produced, priced right. Chuck Email-Lasalina@yahoo.com, phone 011-52-615-54026. \VANTED Wanted to Buy: Class 9 two seat roller (with no or blown engine) SCORE legal. Will consider with running engine at right price. Dean Moore 355 W 2nd ste #222, Calexico, CA 92231 or Email dandj@canela.com.sanf elipe.rnx. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Baker Performance Products .......... 45 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ............................. 10 Best In The Desert Racing Association ... 2 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................ 5 Cactus Racing ...................................... 15 Cam burg Engineering ........................ 45 Critical Operations ............................ 36 Eibach Springs ................................... 37 Estero Beach International Short Course ............................ 16-17 Fabtech Motorsports ........................... 7 FAT Performance .............................. 11 Fox Racing Shox ................................ 29 FRT Motorsports ............................... 19 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 32 German Auto ...................................... 38 Kartek Off Road ................................. 18 Kawaguchi Honda .............................. 41 King Shock Tech ................................ 14 McKenzie Performance Products .... 44 Mickey Thompson Tires ................... 39 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 23 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 28 PCI Race Radios and Equipment.. ....... 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 24 Premier Racing Products ................. 21 Race Ready Products ........................ 27 SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 .................... 9 Sway-A-Way Corp .............................. 12 Toyota Motorsports .......................... 13 Toyota Motorsports ........... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ...................... 34 Tri·Mil Industries .............................. 15 Valley Performance ........................... 26 VORRA ................................................. 43 Web Cam ....................................... 25, 33 Wesco Performance .......................... 40 Yarnell Specialties ............................ 35 Page 55

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