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Volume 16 - Number 6 June 1999 DllliJlillDBG ~ · Pobli,h« E=d<os A -E~i~~~::::.: 1-USYSI ~ Associate Editor ~ 111111ta1 -.. ..., Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Daryl "No Brakes" Drake Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Ralph Mason Daniel Mainzer Jimmy Messick Ron Miller Troy Robinson Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Trackside Photo Les Wolfe Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25 .00 per year, 12 issues, USA. Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTITIIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTI TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hill- · side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTI TIMES, 20751Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 -4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTI TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. snapshot of the Month ... Frank Tomczak and Carlton Shirley take a ceremonial tour of the infield course after the race in memory of Ed McCormick, a long time SNORE worker and. officer who passed away earlier this year. DUSTI TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your snapshot of something comic or some disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay $10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclo.se a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. Dusty Times June 1999 In This Issue ... FEATURES Best In The Desert Tonopah 300 by Judy Smith .......................................... 8 WRC Rally Catalunya by Martin Holmes ................................................... 16 MDR Lucer11e 300 by Ron Miller ................................................................. 18 SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 by John Calvin ................................................... 24 New Zealand Recap ...................................................................................... 29 PACE Season Wrapup by Homer Eubanks ................................................. 30 Whiplash Gila Monster 150 by Tony Tellier .............................................. 32 Rallye Ed Paris by Mike Halley .................................................................... 36 Best In The Desert Tonopah Motorcycles by Mark Kariya ....................... 38 Australia Off Road at Ipswich by Darryl Smith .......................................... 42 FRT FUD 200 by Judy Smith ........................................................................ 44 VORRA Spring Special by Ron Miller ........... ............................................. 46 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ...... ,............................................................................................. 5 Trail Notes ....................................................................................................... 6 Checkers Report ............................................................................................ 50 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ................................................................... 50 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker ......... ................................................. 50 Mag 7 News by Stephen Stenberg ..... ............................................................. 51_ Good Stuff Directory ..................................................................................... 52 Classified Ads ................................................................................................ 58 Index To Advertisers .................................................................................... 59 On The Cover Kory Halopoff and Harley Lerner drove a great race at the MDR Lucerne 300, the two youngsters taking their second Class 1000 win, covering the 300 miles course in 5:54:02. Kyle Taylor, in his neat looking Chevy was the overall winner at the Best In The Desert Tonopah 300, six minutes ahead of the next truck in the Mostly Ford entry. 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1999 Happenings ... Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) Calexico, CA 92232 01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax July 3-5, 1999 Crandon, WI September 24-26, 1999 Indianapolis, IN October 6-8, 1999 Stafford, CT October 29-30, 1999 Las Vegas, NV ASOCIACION FSTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Caho Baja California de! Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIIlP Darryl Smith 19 Somers St. ·Cashmere, Queensland, 4500, Australia DUSTY TIMES @bigpond.com AUTOCROSS QUEBEC OFF ROAD Class 10 cars only Renald Vaillancourt 3069 Dagenais West Laval Quebec, Canada H7P 1 T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BFST IN THE DFSERT 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 June 25-27, 1999 silver State 300 September 30-0ctober 3, 1999 Vegas To Reno December 3-5, 1999 Terrible's Town 250 Pahrump, NV BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISFS Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727 N. Main Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 776-4654 May 15, 1999 Wendover Express Wendover, USA July 10, 1999 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NV September 18 1999 Boneville Challenge Wendover, USA BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIFS 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 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, A7. November 13, 1999 Treeline (3) Monrovia, CA December 1999 (TBA) Ramada Express (2, l, 3) Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 90270 (323) 560-SHOW May 28-31, 1999 Memorial Day Pro Car Show National Orange Showgrounds San Bernardino, CA CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION Dusty Times P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS l.C.O. Tom Delauder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road · Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ram6n Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 COLORADO lilLL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions P.OBox392 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 (31 7) 2 72-282 7 /FAX: (31 7) 2 72-2900 Short Course Racing May 29-30, 1999 Lake Geneva, WI June 11-13, 1999 Antigo, WI June 25-27, 1999 Crandon, WI July 16-18, 1999 Joliet, IL August 5-8, 1999 Bark River, MI September 3-5, 1999 CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-80().42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, 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 DFSERT STEEL MOTORSPOR'J:lr A Winning Tradition In Off-Road Racin For over 26 years, more off-road races have been won on Bi/stein than any other shock absorbers. Still Leading The Way! Conventional Bilstein Gas Pressure Shock Absorber • The most successful shock· in off-road racing history! Threaded Body Shocks • Adjustable ride height for coilover fitments. • Aircraft quality anodized aluminum spring seats. Fully Rebuildable Series • Reservoir design with high pressure large diameter lines. • Seamless forged tubing. • Large 46mm working piston using Powder Metal technology. June 1999 The Ultimate Off-Road Racing Shock 9100 Series • Fully Rebuildable. • 22mm rod and 60mm reservoir included. • Highest quality "SS" tube. • Three stage "Wet Seal" rod guide. • 46mm and 60mm working pistons using Powder Metal Technology. • Optional high flow, check-valved bypass tubes. Pages

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1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line RoadWellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS (760) 256-8059 October 1-2, 1999 Barstow, CA ESTERO BEACH SHORT COURSE RACING Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico Oll-526-176-6225 October 15-17, 1999 Baja 1.5 Mile Short Course Race F AB TECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FORDA Florida Off Roaders Drivers' Associaton 2750 Cozumel Drive #1116 Melbourne, FL 32935 (407) 254-5167 FUDPUCKER RACING TEAM 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 June 26, 1999 The Con;quista Gran Prix July 31, 1999 The Nite Team 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 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 ( 402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (AU races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 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 Page & 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 Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors ana Quad ATV-Money Classes.) MICHELIN SCCA PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America P.O. Box 3278 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622 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 Dean Conklin (217) 868-2154 Walt Flack (217) 987-6568 Brad Key (217) 446-4556 .Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 June 5, 1999 Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL July 3-4, 1999 Lindo! Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 31, 1999 Lincoln Trail Motorsporrs Park Casey, IL August 28, 1999 Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL . September 28, 1999 Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL October 2-3, 1999 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL (M.A.O.R.A. sanctioned races. Series Produced by Lincoln Trail Off Roaders) MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com 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 l (760) 253-4453 June 12, 1999 Johnson Valley August 21, 1999 Stoddard Valley November 6, 1999 Johnson Valley MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take 1-IO Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 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) July 3-4, 1999 Cedar Springs Coburg, Ontario, Can July 24-25, 1999 Janetville Jamboree Janetville, Ontario, Can PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 630-556-6100 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 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 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 Las Vegas, NV November 12-14, 1999 The Reserve 250 Henderson, NV SONS OF THUNDER 4WHEELERS Race Division Keith Stewart (714) 522-1899 SODA Short Course Off Road Drivers Association Terry Wolfe 7839 W. North Avenue Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE ·steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore -(224) 272-5400 Continued on page 58 June 1999 Trail Notes ... BAJA 2000 -SCORE has announced as of this date that the Baja 2000 race will start at the north end of the Baja Peninsula and crisscross it's way down to the southern end of Baja, picking up the needed 2000 miles and make it a one way and very loooooong race. Stay tuned here for further details as they are announced. TOYOTA TRUE GRIT -After two of the six SCORE races there are only 33 drivers remaining who are eligible for the Toyota True Grit Award. The award is offered to the drivers of non-factory endorsed classes on the grounds of the highest cumulative point total for all six races. A $12,000 prize fund will be split between the Toyota True Grit winners. Stay tuned for a list of eligible drivers after the Baja 500. MICHELIN PRORALLY SERIES - Diversified Cryogenics is a new contingency sponsor for the rally series. They use a cryogenic tempering process on the brake rotors which takes the rotor to -300° changes the atomic structure of the rotor and the result, they say is that brakes don't fade or warp and last twice as long with less pad wear thrown in as an extra bonus: Also, the official race wear of the series is "Got Balls Race Wear" and their contingency progr~m is certainly unique. Th~ir "Uh-Oh, This Is Gonna Hurt Award" selects the most noteworthy off road excursion by a team in each rally and that designated team receives $300. If their shunt is shown on Speedvision there is a $200 bonus. If there is no award fox a particular rally the award rolls over to the next rally. WALTER PRINCE -An old friend and a great guy, the "Candy Cane" car is Walter's pride and joy but most of us are unaware of Walter's other life. Walter has been heavily involved in water skiing for most of his life, he wrote a book on the subject in 1954 which has been revised and updated through the years. Walter has owned water ski schools in San Diego, Okinawa and Tokyo. Walter was just honored in Cypress Gardens, Florida when his name was inscribed in the Water-ski Hall of Fame for "outstanding contributions to the sport through the years." Congratulations Walter and you certainly have contributed much to the sport of off road racing through the many years you have competed and who could count how may candy canes you have given to little kids and big kids over the years. Thanks for being a part of our sport. BAJA 500 -SCORE has set up Express Reg.istration for June 4 at the San Nicholas Hotel, from 9 to 10 in the morning. Remember, to utilize Express Registration your entry form must be complete and all fees must have been paid. A completed entry form will include All drivers and riders name, addresses, phone numbers, etc. and you had best be complete when you get there. Any change, addition, alteration, etc. carries a $25 additional charge for each change, so be a good guy and make sure all the info is on the form. 'Nuf said. The course will be marked and ready for pre-run~ing on Friday, May 28th. DUSTY TIMES - Finally, we have moved into the 20th century (when it's just about over) and we now have our very own web page, at long last. Just tune in to Dustytimes.com and there we are in all our glory. There are some interesting tidbits on the pages, there is subscription information, advertising info and lots of other stuff. Also, we are thinking of putting some of the classified ads on the web and opening them up to more than just our subscribers. It will cost an additional $10 more but the pictures would be in color and that should make the ad much more attractive. Anyway, take a peek at what we have on line and give us a call if you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see there -and we'll certainly take it under advisement. Beard Seats-Just over the transom is the news that Ed and Barbara Beard have sold their business, Beard Seats but they will continue to. represent the firm in contingency so we will not be deprived of their presence. You may now reach Beard Seats at 562-696-6686. We wish Ed and Barb well in their semi retired position and wish the new owner of the institutio_n good fortune as well. RIM OF THE WORLD PRORALLY -The "Rim" ran once again nearby to Palmdale, CA The rally runs through the desert and mountain roads near Palmdale and, as usual there was enough pavement and dirt/gravel sections to keep some of the top rallyists in this country on their toes. The Rim is the third rally in the SCCA Michelin ProRally Championship Series and the third rally had yet another brand new overall winner! The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV of Garen and Floyd "Doc" Shrader, father and son was the big winner and it was their first ProRally win for the team. Another Evo IV was second, piloted by Pete Lahm and Matt Chester who finished two minutes in arrears The two Hyundai Tiburons' of Paul Choiniere and Noel Lawlor were in the running all rally long but a penalty moved them down to the third and fourth overall positions. Lee Shadbolt and Claire Chizma won . Production GT Class in their Subaru lmpreza, the Toyota Supra of Ralph Kosmides and Joe Noyes were the Group 5 winners and Production Class went to Mark Brown and John Allen in their VW Gti. Look for a full report on the Rim in the next issue. FUD - Seems like FUD and a bunch of volunteers got after the trash situation down Plaster City way on the eighth of May and they really cleaned things up. Fud his own self said he never saw so many tires, they were everywhere. Maybe, like the spot where African elephants go to die, tires migrate to Plaster city when their life is over. But, it's no joke, the trash situation is terrible where we race and play so please, look after your own trash and anyone else's you may find out there in our revered playground and take it out with you. Thanks for your help and Fud wants to thank all the volunteers for their help and the BLM for their help also. 'Nuf said. Dusty Times

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BEST IN THE DESERT TDNDPAH 300 Kyle Taylor Wins ·overall By Judy Smith Photos: Trackside Photo Inc. Kyle Taylor had a near-perfect day and won the BITD Tonopah 300 overall in his Class BOO Chevrolet. Kyle Taylor and his Chevro-let truck took the wind out of Ford's sails by winning overall at the April Tonopah 300 which was heavily sponsored by Ford. Taylor, who dedicated the win to his father, Tommy, recover-ing from serious injuries re-ceived in a terrible (non-race) crash at the final race of the '98 season, led for most of the d·ay, and won by just under six min-utes. His father was there to see the victory. Ford had put up a lot of money in contingencies, with amounts ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 for a first place and healthy second place money in all ten truck classes also. This resulted in an entry heavily weighted for Ford, with 40 of them out of a total of 55 trucks. There were also eight Chevies, two Jeeps, three Hummers, one Dodge and a Mazda. Only ten cars showed up for the various "buggy" classes. Two new classes have been added, bringing the total to 19. There is now a place for "Pure Stock Production Mini or Mid size Sport Utility Vehicle" (Class 3100), and "Pure Stock Production Full Size Sport Util-ity Vehicle" (Class 4100). The course was a point-to-point loop, starting right at the High School in Tonopah and going south to Goldfield, where the racers turned back up to Tonopah, which became the site of one of the fuel and pit stops. Then they moved north of Highway 95 in a couple of loops, coming down near the highway at Millers and then Mcleans. One more loop went north and then east, crossing 95 midway between Highways 6 and 360, and then dropping down to cross Highway 6 and head into the mountains east of Silver Peak. At Silver Peak they had a brief section with a speed limit, and then came northward again, zigzagging through Weepah, and back to finish at the school grounds. The course was described by various drivers as beautiful, scenic, very fast,. tight, technical, very dusty, rimmed with big rocks, and im-possible to pass on. There were silt beds and a sheer drop off and one jump that "makes the Gary Wise came down from Idaho to win the Unlimited Open Wheel Class in his Chenowth. Laughlin Leap look like noth-ing." There was no general pre-running, only one guided tour a few weeks before the race, at which drivers were required to run street legal vehicles only. No race cars were permitted on the reconnaissance trip. The weather for the weekend was near perfect, with a little nip in the air overnight, and bright sunshine with a breeze to blow away some of that pesky dust on race day. The Best in the Desert bikes and quads started at crack of dawn (see story elsewhere in this issue), and the cars took off at 9:00 a.m. They left the line in single file, one minute apart, starting with the Trick Trucks. There were only two of the Unlimited trucks. Dave Ashley was going to be driving all the way by himself in the Ford, be-cause Dan Smith was unable to come. And the other was Lonny Helmbolt, in a Dodge recently purchase·d from Steve Sourapas. The truck is reportedly going to be for his wife and mother, but Lonny was driving it this time. Within the first five miles Ash-ley hit a big rock and flattened a . tire. His truck is a single seater, so he had to hop out and change the tire himself, and in the process, he pulled a muscle in his back, making himself un-comfortable for the balance of the ride. Helmbolt went into the lead while Ashley struggled. Forty-nine miles into the race Helmbolt had six minutes on Ashley, but 94 miles along the way it was down to five min-utes. And when they reached Mile 135, Ashley was only two minutes down. But then word came that Helmbolt was parked by the side of the road, not far past that marker. Ashley went on to take the class win, saying he'd had an "excellent time ... I like this type of terrain, you're workin' to make a car go fast." He went on to say that he horsepower in his V8 engine is "unbelievable." In Class 8000, two wheel drive utility vehicles, Taylor had his Chevrolet out in front right from the start. At Mile 49 he was seven minutes in front of Jim Bosman, in a Ford, who was just a minute ahead of Dave Westhem in his Chevy who was tied with Mike and Greg Bragg, in another Ford. Ivan and Ollie Penchansky were fifth in their Chevrolet, one of Larry Ragland's fine old rides. The Braggs never got on to the next section, but everyone else did. Taylor, who was moving up through Protruck traffic and was finding the course very dusty, broke a rear sway bar, but had hit pit just disconnect it. Otherwise his day was going perfectly. At Mile 94 he was still leading his class, and was also 11 minutes in front of Ashley. Westhem ran second here, with Bosman three minutes later fol-lowed by the Penchanskys and then Eric Heiden in fifth in his Ford. . Craig Turner, Ford, was the only Unlimited Mini Truck to make it to the finish line of Kurt LeDuc and Dennis Hunter shared driving in this middle-aged Jeep, originally Taylor kept building his lead, followed by the other four. Westhem turned the truck over to Randy Salmont, who also found the course very dusty. They had three flat tires for the the 293 mile event. built for European rallies, and !40n Class 3000. Continued on page 10 Gary Mecham, in a Ford, ran out of gas and had to be towed a distance, Mike Mccomas and Marc Stein co-drove their purple and yellow Ford The Hummer team of Eric and Terry Henn ran smoothly, only one flat but still took second in Stock Production Mini Trucks. ____ to second place in the stock-full class. ___ ___ to bother them, and took third in the stock-full Class. Page 8 June 1999· Dusty Times

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Lookin' good here, Joe Custer and Steve Pixley's Ford had a more uused" look after two rollovers. They won Class 7100. Steve 01/iges and Rob MacCachren teamed up in Robert Hayley's Ford to win the stock full-size class. day also. Bosman had a new mo-tor in his truck; and was enjoy-ing a smooth day with no prob-lems except adjusting to his 500 horsepower. Heiden had a mi-nor radio problem, more irritat-ing than serious, when his mike got stuck in transmit and the captivated pit crew listened to his passenger, Kevin Adler, moan and groan, not knowing it was going out on the air, for about a half hour. The Penchanskys broke a rear track rod and had to replace it, but otherwise had only two flats to slow them down. When he pulled up onto the podium for his post race inter-view, Taylor was surprised to learn that he'd won overall. As he accepted congratulations he said "It's amazing -if you have a good day -what happens!" He'd had no flats, and nothing else went wrong. A little un-happy that his class had been started behind Class 1200 (Protrucks) he said, "I raced with the Protrucks a lot; I wanted to whine a lot, but we had a good time!" He passed them all on his way to the win. In fact, he was the second ve-hicle to finish, after starting 20th. Finishing 20 minutes later, Randy Salmont, in Westhem's trucks, said "Kyle really impressed me!" In Class 1200, which had 10 entries, Rick Johnson had his Ford in the lead early, but all but one of the trucks were bunched within three minutes of each other, and the other was only six minutes back. Larry Plank, Ford, and Jeff Hoskins, also Ford were tied one minute back, and another minute later came Tom Ridings in Kevin McGilivray's Ford, Andrew Wehe in his Chevy, Joe Heger in his Ford and Chuck Harris in another Chevy. New to the class, and new to racing on four · wheels, Gary Vosburg was prov-ing to be very capable, only an-other minute back, and bring-ing up the rear Steve Scaroni had already had the first of a se-ries of flats on his Ford, while Scott Steinberger was replacing a broken brake rotor on his *FOR SALE* READY FOR THE BAJA 500 Due to change of plans for '99: 1997 Trophy Truck champion race car as driven by Curt LeDuc. Completely rebuilt and ready to win In 19991 Only 200 miles on fresh motor and transmission. The biggest bargain In off road racing today. The best equipment throughout and easy to maintain. Fully sorted. This Is the most rellable Trophy Truck Available. Always runs In top three. Too many wins to list. 650 solid horsepower V-8 NASCAR Mopar equipped. Currently with Grand Cherokee body. Also have molds for Cherokee Sport. Legal to have dodge Ram, Dakota or Durango body, or strip It down to make a killer Truggy. Priced to sell: $58,000 This Is a crazy price - the motor Is worth 30 grand. Spares/maintenance package negotiable. Prep car all season If you wish. Show up and drive at next event. Just bring suit and helmet to win a championship. Curt LeDuc driving lessons free! Also avallable: Ex Walker Evans desert semi traller. Completely refurbished. Generator, compressor, bathroom, full-length work benches, 2 car capacity, full awning and much, much, much morel $19,700 We are selling to go lnternatlonal All-Terrain Rally Racing. Call Clive Skilton 800-909-JEEP or Curt Leduc 909-845-8820 or FAX 714-633-1724 Page 10 . June 1999 Ford. They'd sorted themselves out a bit when they got to Mile 94, but Johnson was still leading. There'd been some shuffling around, and now Plank, whose car is newly painted with blue and silver metal flake, ran sec-ond, followed by Ridings and then Harris and Heger on the same minute. Harris, who'd hurt his back at Laughlin, had started out a bit tentatively, but after hitting a major bump, which threw dirt up over the hood and gave him a solid jolt, he discovered that nothing hurt, so he began picking up the pace. At Mile 185 Johnson still led, but Harris and Plank were tied only three minutes behind him. Hoskins ran fourth and McGilivray, who was now in his truck, was fifth. Aii of the trucks were still running, and, except for Scaroni, who was having a difficult day, and Steinberger, who'd tried to make up time and had flattened a tire and also run out of gas, were within 16 minutes of the lead. Plank moved to the front when Johnson had a flat, and at Mile 218 Harris and Johnson were tied, just two minutes back, with Hoskins fourth and McGilivray fifth. At Mile 258, less than 40 miles from the fin-ish, it was Plank, and in two minutes, Harris, then Johnson and Hoskins tied, four minutes back. McGilivray, in fifth, later said he'd tried to run his motor too many times, and was find-ing it down on horsepower, while Wehe had brake prob-lems, and needed to pump about ten times to slow for the turns and holes. Hoskins was also driving with a tired motor, which went away about 20 miles into the race when he'd already had two flats and had pushed too hard trying to make up time. Vosburg, who admitted to having been "a little bit ner-vous", had "knocked a wheel off", but still maintained a steady pace. Heger found his motor down on power, and had also broken an "S" rod (part of the steering assembly) which caused the truck to nose-in sharply when it happened. On course repairs cost him several minutes, and he'd also had a flat. And 50 miles from the end Steinberger broke an axle and got stuck. The late running Sca-roni gave him a pull -onto solid ground so he could get moving again and $cott limped in on the broken axle. Within 11 miles of the finish line Plank felt a tire go flat. It had broken a valve stem, and as he worked furiously to put on his spare, Harris and Johnson went past him. Harris got a little extra help when Johnson also flattened a tire, and came in to take the win in his Chevy, with Johnson just four minutes back and then Plank, in another two minutes, in third. McGilivray and Ridings were fourth, and Wehe 'finished fifth. All 10 trucks made it back, Scaroni was ninth, over an hour off the winning time. He said that his drive had been "a joint research project for BFG and the BLM to see how many rocks he could hit and what the effect on the rocks would be." The Unlimited buggies,· Class 1500, had started right behind the Trick Trucks, and spent the day mixing it up in the dust with ·trucks. Except for Jim Stiles, who'd had his old Raceco in front at Mile 49, but then had broken an axle and parked for the day. Gary Wise, from Hager-man, Idaho was second at Mile 49, in his Chenowth, with Ri-chard Boyle in third in an Aceco. Wise was running with-out power steering for much of the early stretch, until he could get to a pit crew to replace a belt for him. Bill Varnes, who hasn't driven in many moons, was al-ready replacing a flat tire on his Mirage. He was not there to race so much as to see how his injured elbow and arm would take the stress of driving off road again. Wise had the lead for the rest of the day, while Boyle ran sec-ond through Mile 135, and then things started to go wrong. His suspension went soft on him, and his transmission was leak-·ing so he had to stop several times to add oil, and he had to fix a flat. Jeff Stiles moved up to second place, but then he "wimped out" (his own words) and got out of the car when painful leg cramps made it al-most impossible to keep his feet on the pedals. Jim Willis took over the driving for the balance of the race. Wise, who runs a FAT 2. 9 li-ter Type IV motor, said he was down a bit on power after los-ing his exhaust, but he had no flats and "had a blast." He took the win, finishing 13 minutes to the good. Second went to Jeff Stiles and Jim Willis, who didn't have any mechanical woes, and they were followed in by Boyle about 11 minutes later. And just a minute behind them was Tom Ridings, who'd taken over for Varnes (after first doing his share in McGilivray's Protruck) finishing fourth in the Unlim-ited buggy class as well as fourth in Protrucks. In Class 1000, which is bug-gies with unlimited suspension but limited engines (a maximum of 1 700ccs for water cooled en-gines and 19 51 ccs for air cooled), only two cars entered. But they had a good battle for most of the day. Jim Cochran drove Frank Omboli's Lothring-er in the lead by just one minute, being chased hard by Casey Jones in his Aceco. Jones had planned to have Ryan Ar-ciero as a co-driver, but Arcier-o couldn't make it so Jones was soloing. Jones had taken the led by Dusty Times

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the time they got to Mile 94, with Cochran, just three minutes back and still moving fast. Ca-sey pushed hard and built his lead by another minute by the time he'd reached Mile 135, but then, while he was in first gear, his shifter broke off in his hand. He had to drive 20 miles in first gear to get to a pit, his Honda motor screaming all the way. Cochran went back into the lead. Jones lost about 40 min-utes with the shifter problem, and that was too much to make up in such an evenly matched race. Omboli did the second half of the race in his car, losing a fan belt at one point, but no problems occurred that slowed him seriously. He and Cochran came home winners, their first win since moving into Class 1000 from limited Baja Bugs. Jones finished second, 35 min-utes back. An early flat lost him some time, but Dave Ashley still managed to take the Class 8000 win, doing all the driving himself. Chuck Harris drove his Chevrolet hard in the very closely fought Protruck race, to take the class win and third overall. In the Class 7200 (unlimited mini or mid-sized trucks) the early lead belonged to Craig Turner, in his old truck which was originally a stock class ve-hicle. He has given it some added travel and a set of coil over shocks to make it a bit more like the unlimited trucks he's racing. That's becaus·e he's waiting for delivery on his new unlimited truck, and is making do with the old one for now. And not doing too badly in it. Rick Taylor was second at Mile 49, only three minutes back, and Steve and Chad Wisniewski had their Chevrolet in third place a minute later. But they broke a spindle just past Mile 78 and were out for the day. Turner had his problems also, and at Mile 86 he got caught in a rut and rolled over, landing on his lid. Taylor came by, hooked on and uprighted him, and went into the lead. By the time Turner'd got going again he ran a minute back. Now Tim Car-roll was third in a Ford, but nearly three hours down, and he did·n't get to the next check-point. _ Turner wasn't damaged me-chanically from the rollover, so he kept motoring along, and came upon Taylor stopped at the side of the course. Turner stopped to see if he could help, but Taylor said it was terminal, so Turner carried on, the only survivor in the class, to take the win. The stock full sized pickups, =::::?;;~:: .... //" r .. J;;L ::::'. .... :.: .. J!t::: Flamingo Road & The Strip 888-227-2279 Dusty Times Class 8100, had a better survival rate, and some close racing. At the first checkpoint, Mile 49, the three lead vehicles were on the same minute. It was Steve Olliges in Robert Hayley's Ford (Hayley was in Hawaii, and 01-liges and Rob MacCachren had rented the truck for this race), tied with Randy Merritt and Steve Solaiza in another Ford, and Bill Hayden and Terry Shel-ton in still another Ford. In fourth place it was Rod Hall in an AM General Hummer, two minutes back, and followed by Darren Oliver and Chris Hery-ford in another Ford, only six minutes behind the lead group. Hall had wanted to enter his Hummer in Class 4100, but be-cause he had no tailgate and his spare tire stuck out in back, the tech crew had declared him to be a stock full sized truck. At Mile 94 Olliges. had a clear lead, but had a cushion of only one minute on Hall,. Oliver was just five minutes fur-ther back and tied with David Sykes in his Ford, while Greg Foutz, out for the first time in his new big Ford had moved up to fifth. The Foutz truck is the first F250 Super Duty body _ raced as an off road truck, and sports the first 4Rl00 automatic transmission, with locking con-verter and overdrive, and, as if that isn't enough, this is the first race truck with the V 10 motor. Foutz was having some new truck problems. He had to stop early on to adjust a too soft suspension, and later broke the adjusters on his shocks. He also replaced a coil, and went through a box of fuses. When they got to Mile 135, Olliges had a tive minute lead, and it was Oliver and Hall be-hind him. Then came Terry and Eric Henn, in a Hummer, who'd already had a flat and lost 10 minutes. In fifth it was Marc Stein, who'd had an early flat, in his Ford. By Mile 185 Olliges had 16 minutes, and Stein had moved up to second. The Henns and Oliver were tied for fourth, and Merritt and Solaiza ran fifth. Foutz was still moving along, but had lost about a half hour, and Manny Esquerra was also on the road, in a Ford, but having a lot of "little problems", like a hood that flipped up and tried to come into the cab, a broken ignition wire and lost lug nuts. Olliges handed the truck over to Rob MacCachren, and MacCachren stayed in front, while Stein handed over to ·coniinued on page ·,-2 West Tropicana & Arville West Flamingo & Valley View 800-675-3267 888-402-6278 M.•·· ·. , ....... ,,__ ·•·¥•<>❖•❖❖• ❖• • ••❖, ...... WW ··-w· .. x. -❖-··.... ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.x.·.·.x.·,.-.-..w.·.-.w.w.-,.w-·-· •.•.•-•w.•.w.•.❖.•.·.«·.····❖"-···• •• · «·•·.·.·•······•······•'-❖"w.•.w.w.<•.··•·❖•❖'-··❖-❖.•. •·· ,.... ••• .. .. ·.·•··❖•• · .. n .... w·,,• .... wwww· .. ·.x·•· , .. I June 1999 Page 11.

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Mike Falkosky and friends built a Ford Explorer in two and a half Jim Bosman had a new motor in his Ford and enjoyed a good day, Tom Geringer and Kurt Brewer had the throttle·stuck full on part of the weeks, then won the small SUV class and big bucks. _fi_m_·s_h1~·n~g_th~,_-rd_in_C_l_a_ss_ B_0_00_.______________ day, took the win in the 1600 class. Mike McComas, who stayed in had moved his Ford into third, ning. _ new springs on, and at one point 10 miles they were in some soft second place, now 33 minutes over an hour down after drive By Mile 94 Williams had had two flats at once on the stuff and Reinertson's motor back. The Henns ran third, with shaft problems early in the closed up a bit, and was within same side of the truck. and trans were starting to get Oliver and Heryford in fourth morning. He was being told on 10 minutes of Reinertson. Glass Reinertson came upon his hot, so they apologetically left and Esquerra had moved up to the radio to "baby" his drive hung in there in third, not quite buddy, Gary Mecham, in a Mecham there and went on, still fifth. Rod Hall was out, his wa-shaft because the crew couldn't trouble free. After his drive Stock Mini Truck, out of gas, so watching for Williams in the ter pump damaged in a collision find parts. No one else was run-shaft problem, he had to put he gave him a tow. After about Continued on page 14 -with a big rock. ~IYi.6¥ MacCachren stayed out front · · and went on to get the win for the team. When asked how he liked driving in this class he said "I like getting behind the wheel of anything." Stein and McCo-mas finished second reporting only the one flat to trouble them. In third it was the Henns, and Oliver and Heryford were fourth·, reporting a seized_ power steering pump and problems with two ignition systems. Foutz moved up to finish fifth, very pleased with the debut perfor-mance of his new truck. Class 3000, for Production Utility Short Wheel Base ve-hicles, had only two entries. Curt LeDuc was driving the Jeep Grand Cherokee that Dar-ren Skilton used to race in ral-lies in Europe, and he had as a co-driver, Dennis Hunter, who is thinking of racing the Dakar Rally and wanted to get a feel for it. In the other vehicle it was Clive Skilton, in the Jeep he used to sponsor as a Class 6 ve-hicle. Skilton had hoped to run in Class 3100 (the new SUV class), but proved to be not quite stock enough. He had John Kearney as co-driver, but John was doing the first half of the course on a motorcycle, in the Over 40 Amateur class. LeDuc and Hunter led the way, all the way, with Hunter taking the final 100 miles or so and having no problems. Skil-ton had problems when a line rubbed and shorted out the electrical system.and set fire to the radio among other things. He had two fires before they found the cause and fixed it. LeDuc and Hunter sailed on uneventfully and took the win, while Skilton struggled and then handed over to Kearney, who'd already won his class on the bike. He got to the finish line with no problems, for sec-ond place, hours behind LeDuc. In Class 7300, for Pure Stock Production Mini or Mid Sized Pickups, Rob Reinertson put his Ford into the lead early on, with nine minutes on Mark Turner in his Mazda. Deputy Sheriff Steve Williams, in a first time out Ford, ran third, another three minutes back. He'd had an early flat and was now trying to catch -up. By the time they reached Mile 94 he'd moved into sec-ond, but was still 14 minutes out. Reinertson was keeping an eye on his rearview mirror and was not relaxing. Macrae Glass Dusty Times 0 I ; • ~ I ~ f/'J ~ ~ > i • ..J ..J a: ~ ~ ~ i ~ • I KARTEK ... "Where Off-Road is On/!!" 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they kept adding springs. By the time they finished there were five return springs on it, and Brewer's right foot must have been numb. In Class 7100, Stock Mini and Mid Sized Pickups, the race was really close at first, with Joe Custer and his Ford tied· with John Gilchrist in Malcolm Vinje's Ford. Vinje is recover-ing from hip replacement sur-gery, and was not yet able to get in the race truck himself. Gary Mecham was back racing, after losing his Ford in a scary fire at the Baja 1000, and he ran third, three minutes back. In fourth it was John Baker, in another Ford, already an hour down af-ter a· major problem before Pit 1. His pitman arm broke and the truck did a slow rollover. Once it was back on its wheels again he couldn't steer it, so he drafted a couple of guys (who knows from where), to run alongside it and shove the tires in the right direction while he chugged along in first gear. In this manner he got to his pit for repairs. (The BITD does not al-low pit crews or chase crews to go out on the course in a ve-hicle to rescue downed race cars.) Meanwhile, Gilchrist moved into the lead when Custer made an error and laid his· truck over on its side. It was a slow motion goof, at about five miles per hour, but put him back into second, and down a little over 20 minutes. Mecham was another half hour back in third, and Baker was playing catchup stiii another 4·5 min-:. utes back. Gilchrist continued to lead, but Custer was catching up a bit at Mile 135, and then he went into the lead when Gilchrist lost the timing belt. Mike Falkosky came along in his Class 3100 car and towed him four miles to a pit. When they got-to Mile 185 Custer had 45 minutes on Me-cham, who, you will remember had been out of gas. He'd been left by Reinertson, but was picked up by Tom Scahill in his Class 8000 truck, and towed at "70 miles per hour through the silt beds!", to a fuel pit. Baker was now just 15 minutes behind him, and Gilchrist was over an hour down after replacing the timing belt. Custer's co-driver, Steve Pix-ley did the second half of the race, and he stayed out front despite a full fledged barrel roll. At Mile 218 he had nearly an hour on Mecham, who was. only 15 minutes in front of Baker's co-driver, Jamie Campbell. Campbell is a biker (brother of ace Johnny Campbell) who ac-ceded to his wife's wishes that he get off the bike (because he "gets hurt too much") and into the relative safety of a truck. Gilchrist ran at the rear of the pack, but it was remarkable that he was running at all. Custer and Pixley took the win, and Mecham was second, followed in by Baker and Campbell, and then Gilchrist, giving the class a 100% finish record. In Class 3100, for the small or mid-sized Sport Utility Ve-hicles, there were but two en-tries. This is not too surprising, since it was a new class and time was short. One of the vehicles was a new Ford Explorer, driven Dusty Times Frank Omboli and Jim Cochran, Class 1000, put their Lothringer into the winner's circle for the first time. by Marc Winocur, and the other was an Explorer pieced together from parts he found in his garage, by Mike Falkosky and a bunch of friends, in two and a half weeks. It looked like it. There were no niceties like matching paint or finished edges, but it looked capable. And capable it was, moving to the front right away. Behind Falkosky, Winocur enjoyed his electric windows, air condition-ing, and a CD player that never skipped. He'd bought the truck eight days before the race, and it took all that time just to make it race legal; there'd been no time for upgrades to the sus-pension. · Falkosky repaid his friends, Greg Hibbs, Alan Seligson and Jim Shaw for helping him build the car, by letting them each ride part of the way. They said ,things "fell off'', iI°ke bumpers for the frame, and the muffler, but they were able to scavenge replacement parts from their chase truck. At Mile 135 they had over an hour on Winocur, who was having the kind of troubles that might be ex-pected. His stock torsion bars sagged and his OEM replace-ment shocks went away. Both teams worried that they might come up against the cut off time. Falkosky and his crew stayed in front all the way, gradually widening their lead, to finish with the win an hour and 40 minutes to the good. Class 4100, for the big SUV s, had a similar story. There were two old Broncos and a brand new Expedition with a killer paint job. {It's reported that when the Ford men at the race saw Falkosky's car and the two old Broncos he gulped and al-lowed as how that wasn't quite what Ford had hoped for when the class was created.) Everett Paul put his old Bronco out in front by Mile 49, and he had nine minutes on the '82 Bronco of Jay Bartlett and Damon Atkinson. This truck began its life as a hay hauler in Utah, and when the farmer wanted to upgrade he sold it to the fledgling off road team for $1,500. Ten days later ( they took Sunday off) it was a race vehicle, and, much ·tike Falkosky's, it did not look re-fined, but it appeared to be a solid truck. In third, in the best looking truck in the class, and maybe in the race, was the new Expedition of David and Charles Elms, with a paint job that shaded from black to ombre green checks at the rear. Elegant! It had all its civilized amenities intact also. At Mile 49 they were only three min-utes behind Bartlett and Atkin-son. Paul, an experienced racer, continued to lead through MiJ.e 135, at which point he had just 19 minutes on the Utah crew. The Elms team was an hour back at that time·, and then de-cided they'd better quit, be-cause they appeared to have transmission trouble, and the car was the daily driver of a family member, and they re-portedly also needed to be able to drive it back home to Texas. Paul then disappeared with unknown problems, and the Utah team had the course to themselves. Almost literally. They had only one shock per wheel ( though two would have been allowed) and no spares (of anything), so when the rear shocks overheated they had to slow down. Maybe that was a good thing. They had no flats and no breakdowns, and went on steadily to get the -win and the coveted $10,000 of Ford money. While the old Bronco may not have been what Ford Jay Bartlett and Damon Atkinson and friends built their Bronco in nine days, took the full-sized SUV win and a fat purse from Ford. June 1999 Rob Reinertson had to run hard to stay in front in his Ford, but still took time to be a good Samaritan, and won Class 7300. envisioned as the ideal winner for this class, it sure proved the point about being "Ford Tough". And the team bright-ened up the finish line. The energetic and enthusiastic group toasted their victory with bottles of milk (some white, some chocolate). The next BITD event will be the Silver State 300, June 25, 26 and 27. ■ POSITION CAR# OA CLASS Best In The Desort Tonopah 300 April 16, 17, 18 1999 Tonopah, Nevada Results DRIVER/CO-DRIVER VEIDCLE 1400 Trick Truck -Unlimited T111cks • 2 starters, 1 finisher 2 1401 Davo, Ashley 1500 Open Wheeled Unlimited Vehicles• 3 starters• 4 finishers 7 1'12 Gary Wisc 12 2 1506 Jeff Stiles/Tun Willi• 14 3 1'17 Richard Boyle 15 4 1316 Bill V ameo/1' om Ridings 1200 Pro Truck Full Sizo Utility V-~hicles • 10 starters, 10 finishers 3 1280 Chu<>k Harri, 4 2 1243 Rick. JohnSOll 5 3 1211 Larry Pim -6 4 1256 Ke,iA McGilivray/Tom Ridings 10 5 1277 AlldrewWehe 8000 Production Full Size Trucks• 10 starters• 8 finishers 1 1 8024 KyloTaylor 8 2 8012 Dav,, Westhem/Randy Salmont 9 3 8004 Tun .:losman 16 4 8016 Eric Heidm/Ke,111 Adler 20 5 8011 Ollie, & I van Penchansky Ford Chenowth Raceco Acoco Mingo Che\10let Ford Ford Ford Chevrolet Ch.-TO!et Chevrolet Ford · Ford Chevrolet · 1000 Open Wheel L'nfunited Suspcnsi011 Limited Eiigine • 2 starters, 2 finishers 17 I 24 2 · 1002 1001 Jamos Coclmm/Frank Omboli Cao<,y Jone■ 7100 Unlimited Mini or Mid Si.zed Trucks• 5 starters, I finisher 19 7208 Crai_3 Tumor 200.0 Open Wheel Restricted Susponsi011 1600<:c VW • 3 starters, I finisher 29 2007 Tom G:ringer/Kurt Brewer 7100 Stock Producti011 Mini or Mid Sized Trucks• 4 starters, 4 finishers 33 1 36 2 41 3 44 4 7107 7112 7110 7108 Joe Custer/Steve Pixley Ga,yMecham John Baker/Jamie Campbell Jim Gilchrist 8100 Stock Productiou Full Size T,uch • 11 starters, 7 finishers 21 8112 Steve Olliges/Rob MacCachren 27 2 8109 Ma,,: Stein/Mike Mccomas 30 3 8104 · Eric & Terry Hem, 31 4 8101 Danen Oliver/Chris Heryford 7:56:10 34 5 8110 Gre1:Foutz 3000 Production Utility Short Wheelbase • 2 starters, 2 finishers 22 1 43 2 3005 3006 Curt LeDuc/Dennis Hunter Clivo, SkilrOII/Johll Keamey Lothringer Aceco Ford Homo Built Ford Ford Ford Ford Ford Ford At',,[ General Ford Jeep Jeep 4100 Pure Stock Production Full Size'Sport Utility Vehicle• 3 starters, 1 finisher 45 4112 Jay Bartlett/Damon Atkinson '82Bron~o 7300 Pure Stoc_k Production l\,lini c,r Mid Sized Pickups • 6 starters, 3 finishers 23 1 25 2 39 3 7301 1jo2 7305 Rob Reinertson/ Annan do Guzman Stove Williams Macrae Glass Ford Ford Ford 3100 Pure Stock Production !vlini c-r Mid Sized Sport Utility Vehicle 2 starters, 2 finishers 40 46 2 3107 3106 Milt,, Falkosky Ma.:Wmocur Ford '99 Ford TIME 6:08:23 6:21:05 6:34:39 6:45:05 6:46:45 6:q:50 6:17:10 6:19:23 6:20:36 ,6:24:46 6:02:10 6:n:01 6:23:31 6:50:40 7:06:38 6:~4.41 7:29:09 7:03:00 7:52:00 8:02:16 ·s:47:05 9: 19:45 10:04:l~ 7:07:50 7:34:45 7:52:34 8:40:31 7:08:33 9:42:45 10:35:30 7:28:10 7:30:12 9:09:29 9:12:24 10:53:15 Page 15

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35TH RALLY CATALUNYA COSTA BRAVA Citroen cops catalunya By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Phillipe Bugalski and Jean-Paul Chiaroni rocket past an unbelieving crowd on their way to the gold in their Citroen Xsara KC, a most astounding victory! T he final breakthrough! Cit-roen scored their first W orld Championship Rally win and it was also the first full champi-onship rally win for a Formula 2 car. Jesus Puras led the first day in his Citroen Xsara Kit Car but was unable to start the second day. So his teammate, Phillipe Bugalski took over from there, fed h·e next two days and gave Citroen its first big win. Bugalski finished half ·a minute ahead of Didier Au-ria! in the Toyota Corolla. T ~yota increased their champi-onship lead over Mitsubishi, whose drivers, Makinen and Loix finished in the next two places, namely third and fourth. Carlos S::iinz, Aurio l's teammate had a bad last day, falling from third to fifth with a couple· of flat tires, then to eighth place with alternator problems and retiring after the 19th stage with battery prob-lems. Both Ford Focus cars re-tired before the 15th stage. Group N was won by Hamed Al Wahaibi in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution on his first ever asphalt rally, most of the Group N drivers having tire troubles along the way. Oriol Gomez took the W2 crown in his Renault Maxi Megane, fin-ishing a great eighth overall in the rally. · The fifth round of the 1999 FIA World Rally Champion-BUMP STOPS HERE Stop the up-travel on your suspension with this advanced bump stop system. These bump stops come complete with a mounting system, polyurethane end piece and enough valving to get the job done. ECONOMICALL'Y PRICED AT 319~90 PER P~ (Includes mounting hardware & grade 8 bolts) See your off road racing parts supplier or call us direct Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 1-520-427 -3551 Page.1& '·-102 Crestview P~O. Box 845 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 ship was run in the Costa Brava region of Spain, the first of three all asphalt events this year, and they are guaranteed to run in clear conditions. Sud-denly things were quite differ-ent. Different driving tech-niques were required, corner cutting is the required style for fast stage times and most all the drivers become expert at shav-ing a bit off each turn. Unfor-tunately, this technique throws a lot of dirt onto the road and this makes things quite inter-esting as .each car adds its share of dirt to the road for those fol-lowing along. This leads to all sorts of different theories on suspension· and brakes as one tries to cope with the ever changing conditions. As usual, the first and third days of the three day Catalunya rally were run on stages behind the Costa Brava coast and Day 2 was run further south in the Tarragona region. There are no-ticeable differences between the two regions. The roads down south are less hilly, more abra-sive and less twisty. Also, the road surfaces down south are built up higher than the sur-rounding ground level, so on these roads drivers must adhere to the asphalt surface, do less of any corner cutting if their tires and suspension are to survive. This was the beginning of the toughest part of the series, four World Championship Ral-lies, on two continents all within 53 days. On this event there were six World Champi-onship Teams in contention, six qualifying teams for the Teams Cup but in the W2L Series only Hyundai and Renault were entered. Freddy Loix was back behind the wheel of his Mitsubishi after his acci-dent in Africa. The Mitsubishis were now fitted with eight pis-ton brake calipers i_n hopes of better and more consistent brake performance on lo ng stages. SEAT also h ad n ew front brakes, just like Mitsubi-shi. Subaru prov'ided t_h e top June 1999"' · J ""~ ~ ••• technical news of the event. All three team cars had fly-by-wire gear shifts as we ll as simi-lar type throttle connections. With this development, no top rally cars were fitted with or-thodox gear shift levers. Toyota had two cars with the Altezza engines. The main difference between the cars was left foot braker Sainz had water cooled brakes, Auriol, a right footed braker had air cooled brakes. Remember, this is home to Car-los Sainz and whenever he en-ters the scrutineering hall in Lloret de Mar the cheering of the crowd is the loudest heard on the entire series. Leg 1 -Seven Stages, 11 9 kms, asphalt -When the two Citroens settled into first and second place on the rally, the exploits of the W RC cars less-ened in the eyes of the rallying public. The recent rains had left a smattering of dust on the roads and the drivers were re-porting very slippery condi-tions, but this was the portion of the rally where corner cut-ting was going to throw dirt onto the roadway so the later drivers would suffe r most. T he rally began badly when the firs t stage had to be can-celled. Unfortunately, the can-cellation was ordered just a few seconds before the first car, Makinen in his Mitusbishi was scheduled to start and it was too late to stop the car. Maki-nen said the spec ta tors were very close to his car but fortu-nately there was no tragedy. However, Makinen was very angry because he was the only driver to run the stage and therefore his tires were much more worn than all the· other competitors whose first stage was Stage 2 so he felt he was at a disadvantage going in. The Toyotas were the only cars that could match the Citroen's speed and the Mitsubishis were the only cars able to rival the Toyotas. Af-ter winning the last two rounds, McRae's Ford Focus did not shine at all. When driving up to the start of Stage 5, in sev-enth place, his engine lost power. He was one minute late starting the stage and he lost an additional four minutes on the stage and after struggling through Stage 6 he was in 39th place. The Toyotas were also having their troubles; Auriol broke two rims on Stage 5 and Sainz fell back on Stage 6, the suspension set too hard. Subarus were not competitive at all but Burns was happy with his fly-by-wire gear shift. The big surprise of the first day was the performance of Armin Scharz in the Skoda, leading both SEATs, on their home ground. Both SEAT driv-ers were reporting a lack of grip, Liatti broke a wheel while cut- . ting a corner and Rovanpera spun and lost a minute on Stage 3. Schwarz found the Skoda too hot inside. "We h ave a roof scoop but it doesn ' t let in enough air!" Sibera damaged the front of his Skoda when he slid off the road. Simon Jean-Josephs Ford was having wheel spin problems which eventually cleared up. The Formula 2 scene was very dramatic. The Citroens seemed to be faster than _ever but Puras had a problem with soft rear tires after h e had swapped the fron ts and the rears on Stage 4 and then he had an overheating problem on Stage 5. "I slowed down a bit for eight ki lometers" but he was still leading the rally, fas test overall. His teammate, Bugalski was also having problems but there were minor. Gomez's Renault broke the exhaust on a rock, Lopez lost his brakes on Stage 3 and also had rear suspension damage. De Belloy retired on Stage 2 when a broken oil filter doused the tires and she spun in her own oil. Eriksson had brake troubles and Alister McRae went off the road on the penultimate stage, hit a tree and lost 13 minutes. At the end of the leg there were only seven drivers able to qualify for W2L points. The two Renaults of Gomez and Maselli, Eriksson's Hyundai, three pri-vate Renaults an d McRae's Hyundai. In Group N, Gustavo Trelles pulled into the lead over Al Wahaibi. Juha Kangas had a flat on Stage 6 and lost five minutes changin g h is tire. Gabriel Mendez retired with two flats at th e same time and Manfred Stohl retired with a broken gearbox and Pernilla W alfridsson hit a rock in her Mitsubishi and retired with a broken wheel. Leg 2 -Six stages, 169kms, asphalt -Again there was much drama as the Citroen of the rally leader, Puras would not start and after 40 minutes of attempt-ing to get tire the car was whh-drawn and Bugalski moved into the lead and immediately set about extending his advantage. Puras had been seven seconds ahead of Bugalski and now Bu-galski was 18.5 seconds ahead of Auriol and he held a lead of about 20 seconds for the rest of the day. Ford had given up their hopes for Championship points and McRae was using the rally for testing for Corsica, soon to come! Makinen, Rovanpe·ra and Burns were all penalized a minute for jumping the start on a stage and with all the factors involved, the timing light, a digital clock, an analog clock all coupled to the same system, no one was really sure how the pen-alties had occurred. But for this, Makinen would have been third instead of fifth. Things weren't going too well for Skoda this day. Sibera had an engine fire while Schwarz had risen to sixth place but he fell back with alternator trouble on Stage 13, power steering problems complicated the issue and on the road section to the service area the battery went dead and he retired. Sainz had overheating problems in the brake department ·but a pad change alleviated the problem and Auriol had his suspension raised and he was happy. The 45 kilometer Stage 13 was the major time of the day. Bugalski went carefully and made best time. Auriol also went carefully and was just a fraction slower than the Cit-roen. Sainz had a front wheel flat and lost about a minute on the stage. McRae also had a flat and stopped to change it after 35kms. M akinen also had a flat

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Corner cutting is the name of the game as the Auriol/Giraudet Toyota Tommi Makinen came in a long third in the Mitsubishi Lancer E vo and Colin McRae and Nicky Grist corner hard in the Ford Focus, all in vain Corolla scrapes bottom on-the way to second overall at Catalunya. picked up six points in the drivers standings. as they retired after the 14th stage, ending the Focus effort. In front of admiring crowds, Oriol Gomez drove the Renault Maxi Megane to a great first place in W2, eighth overall on the rally. Luis Climent and Alex Romani were the Teams Cup winners in the Subaru Im reza, shown here ne otiatin a shar left hander. Luis Lisboa climbs up from the wrecked Peugeot, both he and driver Adruzilo Lopes happy to escape un_ha~r,~m_e_d_. --~= Volkan lsik and Erkan Bodur placed second in the Teams Cup Alister McRae and David Senior were forced to retire their Hyundai competition and they were 11th overall in the Toyota Corolla. Coupe KC with clutch problems at the Catalunya Rally. and Freddy Loix rose to third ers on the drive-mousse insert on Bugalski's win was a great place despite some brake prob-shaft, grease leaked :......,:.;.__....: -'-------=.:.:...c..J Stage 16 and he breakthrough for Citroen and iems. Burns was happy as the out and eventually Hamed Al Wahaibi and Tony Sircombe drove their Mitsubishi Lancer slipped back behind the Formula 2 contingent and tire vibrations had finally gone caught fire. Gomez Evolution to 17th overall, 4th in Teams Cup and first in Group N. teammate Kankkun-it was also Citroen's· first win on away and Thiry was unhappy, had his brake pedal go straight Luis Climent was becoming en. Lunagaard had worn his an orthodox classic rally since "I have to slide the car around to the floor but was able to· more confident with every pass-tires a wee bit too much and he 1971 ! Corsica is next and we'll and that isn't my style, I'm a carry on to service. ing stage. slid into the rails alongside the bring it to you in our usual straight line driver!" Climent In Group N Al Wahaibi had Leg 3 - Five stages, 9lkms, road and holed his radiator. manner. ■ broke a shock which caused his tires working better but asphalt -The weather had him to spin and Liatti also had Trelles lost five minutes with changed. There was rain in the a flat tire. two flats on the same stage. air but only a few spots were af-Suddenly, the Ford Focus ef- Kris Rosenberger had had a big fected and it remained dry and fort catne to an end. McRae's crash on the final stage, rolling hot. Could Bugalski retain his car was withdrawn at the final into a field, way off the road. lead which was now 1 7. 7 sec-service point of the day. Then Neither Guest or Jones had any onds? Bugalski fitted tires a bit Jean-Joseph had an electrical flats during the event on their too soft for the first stage but he failure and his car stopped with Falken and Dunlop tires. still managed to extend his lead a dead battery midway through Trelles was far from happy, by another two seconds. Maki-the final stage and Kankkunen "five punctures on stages and nen made a determined attack, suffered a 40 second penalty one on a road section." Pirelli winning the first two stages af-leaving the final service park. . had introduced a new light ter the third stage he had risen In Formual 2 Bugalski had weight tire for this rally and from fifth to third, helped when few problems but Alister werealreadyconjuringa·newer Sainz had a flat on Stage 17. McRae lost his power steering version with stronger side walls Then he had another flat on belt, with it went the water for the Corsica run. Stage 18 then he lost an alter-pump and overheating ensued. 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MOJAVE DESERT RACING, INC. • LUCERNE 300 Rick Wilson Wins ·in convincing Time By Ron Miller Photos: Track.side Photo Inc. Joel Mohr put his two-seat Class 900 car into victory circle at last and also recorded class fast lap at 1 :09:56. The MDR juggernaut just grats once again to the entire some ways, those steady pre-race keeps rolling along, as evidenced MDR crew, now onward post rainstorms actually improved by yet another super showing in haste to the recap of Race 2. conditions for the contestants. In the club's second race of the year. The weather was clear and addition to smoothing out many There's a very good explanation cold on April 10, 1999, when the of Johnson Valley's holes and why MDR events have been so majority of the field set out on ruts, the moisture also helped a well received and the number of their six lap journey. Class 100 bit with the always troublesome race-day entrants has steadily entrant Paul Retter enjoyed the dust situation. April showers climbed into the triple digits. It's distinction of being the first racer brought more than ju.st May flow-called dedication. MD R's mete~ sent underway. After several days ers, they brought some unusually oric rise to success can be attrib-of spring showers had inundated fast lap times too. The aforemen-uted to the hard work of Paul the local desert, the race course tioned Mr. Retter was also the Duffy, Patricia Williams, and reportedly was routed around first contestant to complete Lap that p.air's handpicked team of some of Lucerne's most difficult 1 and return to the start/finish first rate support personnel. Con-dry lake and silt bed areas. In line. His initial loop took just 49 Jason Hatz made it two wins in two outings at MOR, taking first place in the 1600 class in his' Dunrite. CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA95 for SODA Complete blow~r systems for Single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions, Cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTECT, FILLER Safety Products & BELL MOTORSPORTS We ship UPS Daily From $299.00 Helmet & Skirt Visa-Mastercard 5153 Bowden Av~.• S~n Di~go • G.~ • ~211_7 • (619)_279-2~09 Page 18 minutes and 53 seconds. Rick Wilson proved even quicker when he returned in 49 minutes and 46 seconds. Despite that pair's impressive.clockings, it was their classmate Steven Sourapas who garnered the fast lap honors for the day (49:38). Also among the ultra-swift Class 100 com-petitors taking part in this "300 miler, was Las Vegas, Nevada resident Troy Herbst. Unfortu-nately, after posting a solid Lap 1 time (51:40), the Herbst's "T ruggy" reportedly lost the mo-tor. By the race's halfway point, the once dominating Class 100 contingent was fading fast. Wil-son took over the lead on Lap 3, while half of his class rivals were falling victim to attrition. Then Wilson's remaining four class-. mates began exiting at a rate of one per lap. By the finish, Class 100 had been reduced to one, but that still proved to be enough. After putting away Retter on Lap 4, Wilson faced no serious chal-lenges the rest of the way. To say · it wasn't even close, would be an understatement. By the time Wilson received his well de-served checkered flag, the im-pressive runaway winner held a massive 41 minute advantage. Aided by a blazing average speed of 58.8 mph, Wilson stopped the timer in 5:12:29. Helmets off to Rick Wilson, convincing Class 100 and overall winner of the "1999 Lucerne 300." There was more to the story than just Wilson's exploits, but June 1999 Rick Wilson drove his A-armed Jimco to the overall victory, outlasting everyone else in Class 100 at the MDR's Lucerne 300. make no mistakes about it, he was miles the best on this day. Another sensational perfor-mance turned in by the team of Kory Halopoff and Harley Let-ner, was somewhat overshad-owed by Wilson's wild ride. The two brightest young stars on this circuit polished off their half dozen laps in a solid final time of 5:54:02. That clocking proved just enough to give the dynamic duo their second straight hard fought Class 1000 victory. I cer-tainly understand the feelings of Deja Vu that Whit Courtenay and Phil Markert must have been feeling, following yet another big time effort. After all, there wasn't · a whole lot of difference between that pair's one minute and thirty-two second loss to Halopoff and Letner in this event, and a haunt-ingly similar one they experi-enced in the "Wild Wash 250" (about two months ago). To be. exact, the difference was one sec-ond. Courtenay and Markert, the two driving forces behind the for-midable "MarCourt Racing" team, reside in Louisville, KY and Atlanta, GA. Apparently, judg-ing by their recent pair of super second place finishes, mixing Georgia peaches and Kentucky blue grass makes for one studly racing "pear". Credit goes to those hard charging gents for another game second in their class, and an excellent third overall. Class 1000 was also re-sponsible for producing the day's fourth and fifth place finishers. Mark Foder took just over six hours to complete his assign-ment, while claiming third place in class and fourth overall. Foder, still another gem of consistency from this highly competitive di-vision, also matched his Febru-ary 13th Barstow finish here at Lucerne. Following a short dis-tance behind was John Watkins, who equaled Foder's 50 mph av-erage speed on the day. Watkins' swift final time of 6:04:03 earned him fourth place in Class 1000, as well as the fifth position in overall scoring. I'm happy to report that more than half of the "Lucerne 300" starters ( 4 7) managed to avoid the dreaded DNF virus. To nobody's surprise, it was again the Class 1600 vehicles proving the most durable. A healthy to-tal of 14, from that division's 18 entrants, were able to finish what they started. Jason Matz im-proved his 1999 record on this circuit to a perfect two for two. With another first in 1600. Hatz finished up the day in sixth place overall, while averaging just a shade under 50 mph. He also reg-istered his class' fast lap time (1:00:02), while putting five min-utes and 41 seconds between himself and the 1600 runner-up Rob Herman. Herman finished just under four minutes in front of Class 1000 fifth place finisher Brady Helm, to edge that rival for the seventh spot overall. Finish-ing up just 51 seconds behind Helm was Mark Ruddis, who claimed third place in Class 1600 (and ninth overall}. Completing the order of top ten overall fin-ishers was Roger Starkey k Star-key, a 15 year old high school freshman making his off road de-but, earned a fine sixth in Class 1000. The son of MDR's two time defending Class 1600 cham-pion, got some valuable assis-tance from his immediate family members. Dear 'Ole Dad was along for much of the ride, as was the young driver's sister. Roger Si.. drove the final two laps, while his daughter Cheryl (a high school senior} also lent a hand as the team's other co-driver. The next three finishers on the day all hailed from the 1600 division. Malcolm Bryce was credited with a fourth in class and an 11th overall, when edg-Continued on page 20 Kory Halapoff and Harley Letner teamed to win in Class 1000 again, their Raceco only 1 :32 ahead of second place. · Dusty Times

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Steady, even handed driving kept Robert Moore near the front of the pack, and he took third in Class 550. Brady Helm gives his passenger a new perspective on off-road racing Cindy GreinRe's Suspensions Unlimited 1600 car tip toes across the as he lands his Lothringer. Helm was 5th in Class 1000. desert to a nice 6th place finish. · ing Tim Moore by a scant minute and 33 seconds. Cindy Greinke followed that pair across the fin-ish line, recording a solid sixth in class and 13th overall. Craig Dillon earned himself a more than respectable seventh place finish in Class 1000. Dillon narrowly bested Paul Sullivan for son, Geer credited his son Curt, hide from a contentious field of claimed his class' fast lap honors that division's seventh spot. his father Richard, and also Mike 85 starters, outfinished ·fellow (55: 15), along the way to record-Hanberg's final time of 6:43:07 McIntyre. "Curt rides with me classmate Kenneth Bell by about ing the day's 14th best (inal time. was just 37 seconds better than and Mike rides with Guy" said five minutes. Bell meanwhile, The next four overall finishers Sullivan's, with both men aver-Geer, who added "and my dad edged rival Kash Vessels by ex-were also members of the ultra-aging 45.5 mph for the day. Next built the car." The magnitude of actly two minutes for 12th place game 1600 class. Max Hanberg came Greg Blakeman and Jim his· first career win was by no and the 22nd position overall. Sizelove, who finished up ninth means lost on Geer. "I feel very Robert Moore's consistency on and tenth respectively. fortunate, in a way lucky" he ex-the day was rewarded with a third Blakeman's six lap time of claimed. "I mean a lot of really place finish in Class 550. Moore 6:51:07 was about 13 minutes good racers end up going a long came remarkably close to post-quicker than Sizelove's, placing time before they win their first, ing matching times fmeach of his him just ahead of that rival in the and some never do." The team first three laps. His second and 17th spot overall. of John Strode and Brian Hintz third lap times were in fact iden-John Becker took the class 725 win in his Ford by a margin of 12 minutes, had fast The day turned out to be a matched Geer and Peterson's tical, and the difference between very memorable one for Bryan 42.4 mph speed, and nearly their those two and his first one was Geer. In only his third career rival's final time of 7: 12:40. The just nine seconds. Another ultra-s tart, Geer emerged with a thrill-popular Class 550 runners-up, consistent performer, Joel Mohr, ing 23 second victory in Class who regularly assist MDR offi- was finally rewarded for his de-550. Geer, another talented cials with their course setup du-termination. Mohr, who endured young racer who has literally ties, lost nothing in defeat and an elongated spell of seconditis burst upon the local scene, was completed the day's overall top during the 1998 season, this time quick to share credit for the win 20 scoring. got the gold. J.M. scored a game with his partner Guy Peterson. Finishing in the next three victory in Class 900, by complet-"Guy drove laps five and six" re- slots was another Class 1600 trio. ing his assignment in a final time lated Geer, who finished the day Corey Goin placed 11th in that of 7:41 :57. In addition to break-in 19th position overall. In addi-division, with a final time of ing through for that long over-lap at 1:10:46. Web WEBCAM CONG ALS We ---------·------tion to heaping praise on Peter-7:23:57. Goin, the 21st place ve-due win. Mohr also came away s greatest teams. ~/NGCAMS 1815 MASSACHUsms AVENUE • RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, 92506, USA • 909/369-5144 \} • FAX 909/369-7266 • WWW.WEBCAMINC.COM Page 20 June 1999 Dusty Times

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Daren McGuffin, in a single seat Mirage, took third place in Class Mark Fodor fought a good fight in his two-seat Aceco, finished third in Malcolm Bryce hops over the bumps in his single seat 1600 car, as 900, averaging 36.8 mph for the 300 miles. Class 1000 by just seven minutes. ' _ he works his way toward a fourth in Class. Whit Courtenay and Phil Markert came out from eastern U.S. to put Mark Ruddis ran a consistent six laps to take third place in Class Robert Riffle chased really hard, couldn't quite catch the leader, and their Toyota powered Jimco Class 1000 car in second place. 1600 in his two-seater, only 10 minutes out of first. took second in Class 900 by less than four minutes. with fast lap honors in his class hane was next to complete his out to be the fastest in his divi-eraged well over 30 mph for the place finish, while Lawson's 30.6 (1:09:56). Ray Wright checked *300 mile journey. Deshane, who sion (1: 16:37). Scott Boyd (5th), day. Completing the order of fin-mph average earned him the fifth in just over a minute behind averaged an even 38 mph, placed Rick Long (6th) and Stephanie ishers in Class 900 were Sean spot. Mohr, to complete the order of fourth in Class 550 and recorded Lozano (7th), completed the or-Defrank and Dave Lawson, re-Entrants from Classes 1100 Class 1600 finishers. Wright's that group's fastestlap (1 :07 :33). der offinishers in Class 550. Each spectively. De Frank parlayed his through 1400 were handed four effort on the day landed him 14th Completing the top 30 positions member of that talented trio av-33 .1 mph effort into a fourth Continued on page 22 position in class and the 26th in overall scoring was the Class ■ II 11 spot overall. He was followed in 725 winner John Becker. Becker by Robert Riffle, who raced to a required just over eight hours to good second place finish in Class complete his six lap assignment. 900. Riffle averaged over 39 mph His final margin of victory over for the day, and finished up less class rnnner-up Steve Jacketti than four minutes behind the was 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Class 900 winner. Becker, who averaged 3 7 .8 mph, Bob Hansen's eighth place fin-also secured fast lap honors ish in Class 1000 completed that (1: 10:46). Mike Ismail raced to division's scoring. Hansen's final victory in the 850 class. Ismail time of 7:47:50 placed him in opened a commanding three 28th position overall. Marc Des-hour lead on Lap 1, which turned In Class 1200, which ran only four laps, the winner was Jared Hardin in his vef) trim-looking GMC. The new team of Bryan Geer and Guy Peterson took the Class 550 win by an exciting and narrow 23 seconds Dusty Times WRIGHT PLACE 10 TOOTH PINION GEAR $20.00 WRIGHT PLACE STEERING COUPLER $8.00 WRIGHT PLACE PINION BEARING $10.00 WRIGHT PLACE PINION SUPPORT COVER $5.00 WRIGHT PLACE RACK STOPS $12.00 pr CROW ENT. 5PT. BELTS SFI LEGAL RED, BLUE, BLK $74.95 BFGOODRICH TIRES CALL FOR PRICES MSDIGNmONS FOR STREET & RACE ASKABOUT NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHITRS .... ** MUST MENTION AD TO ·RECIEVE AD PRICES ......... . VISIT ROB MACCACHREN1S WEB PAGE www.maccachren.com CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-755-5900 WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR -····i -G'fl/;~1~ 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS., NV * 89102 HOURS: MON-Fill flAM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)871-5221 FAX June 1999 Page 21

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Steve Jacketti got his Ford to the checkered flag in second place in Major problems with his Toyota cost Fred Espinosa an hour-and-a- Rob Herman ran an evenly paced race to finish in second place in Class 725, behind him everyone else broke. half, but he still managed second in Class 1200. Class 1600. ;=========:==,===========, John Strode and Brian Hintz had a lot of fun if their paint job means Greg Horr had one troubled lap, but finished his four loops in second Tim Moore shows off his special skills, (which he further developed at anything, and also took second place in Class 550. ~Pl__,a_ce___,in,_C_la.,..s_s_1.,....1_0_0.--,-..,._... __ ,----.,......,=-=----,------.--the next race) while earning 5th place 1600. lap assignments, with Jared Har-hours and 12 minutes ahead of day, while putting nearly 30 min-opened a sizable lead during Lap Tim Braden of Class 725 each din proving the fleetest of those runner-up Fred Espinoza. Addi-utes time between himself and 1, which he completed in a class completed five laps on the day. competitors. Hardin polished off tionally, Hardin also posted the third place finisher Mitchel Ped- best time of 1: 13:58. Despite sut-Ditto for Sergio Nunez of Class his laps in 5:57:27, placing first fast lap time (1:26:49) in class. erson. Martyn Atkins emerged fering through a nearly three 1000 and Class 550 racers Jeff ir:_i. ~lass 1200 and finishing two Espinoza averaged 25 mph on the victorious in Class 1400. Atkins hour long third lap, Atkins still Callaghan and Charlie Smith. • wide teflon coated piston wear ba that it does not drop into large ports. • sealed piston for low speed cont • high temperature stainless steel • unique rod end design and • high temperature Viton seal • large aluminum reservoir • 1" shafts are micro-polls • stainless steel teflo • shock are all owne d-.ands from br n·(2X) and weight of a 3-5 RMS. th 1/2" or 5/8" ID spa toois to purchase. flow (weld on kits cl) a·1 . /,/ . ced to order or weldecl o omer . . Ii" ~ ston for smooth dampln r • • C 40 and heat treat d 17-4 s r long durability. ing designed ih low ope ss levels. ·r moun · the rear _, trucks. . ' ·o Custom ';ou d springs for 3" shocks gs available. We do custom shock work and vehicle Custom designed and mfg. shocks & pa shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person t at designed all Kuster Shocks. Page 22 June 1999 topped runner-up Bobby Quam-Class 1600 also sported a pair of strom by 39 minutes and change. compe'titors who completed all Quarnstrom raced an even 26 but Lap 6. That final tough luck mph for the day, while the win-duo was Mike Lorenzi and Scott ner averaged 28.4 mph. It turned Wisdom. The remaining two rac-ou t to be a very _good day for ers who were forced to exit on Dennis Sletten. Although Den-their fourth and final lap, were nis never menaced Mr. Wilson Mark McKinley of Class 1100 for the race's overall victory, he and Dennis Beckwith of Class was a most convincing winner 1200. Let's see now, am I forget-in Class 1100. Sletten easily ting anyone? Oh yeah. There bested runner-up Greg Horr by were no finishers in Classes 500 nearly an hour, and along the and 800, however, Frank Hines way secured fast lap honors ( 1 :03 :59) and Eric Heiden (1:31:16). Horr, who finished (1:09:14) did register those with a similar one hour cush-division's respective fast lap ion over the third-place finisher times before calling it a day. And Kurt Young, stopped the clock now I do believe that's aH folks. jn 8:33:00. Class 1300 winner Act III of MDR's exciting 1999 Greg Crew's task was made a Off Road Show is scheduled to whole lot easier when his only take place on June 19th. We'll be rival suffered through an al-right back here in Lucerne again most unfathomable 5:57:52 for that next event, and you first lap. Crow cruised to an should be too. Things are certain average speed of 23. 7 mph, to get plenty hot around the posted fast lap time of 1:52:38, Johnson Valley then, as both the and completed his simplified weather and the points race heat task in 8:37 :25. up. What better way to celebrate That does it for those contes-the arrival of Summer, than by tants able to complete the entire bringing your family and friends • race. Another 10 entrants ·man-out for an exciting day of off road aged to finish all but their final racing. Admission is absolutely lap, which in this game is cer-free and, trust me on this one, tainly deserving of recognition. plenty of good seats are available. Andrew Gaston of Class 100 and I hope 2 CU there. ■ Mike Ismail knows how to get the best out of a Scout. Here he heads for a win in Class 850. Dusty Times·

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SNORE BUFFALO BILL'S 400 Collins/Goerke Grab Gold By John Calvin Photos: Carrera Photo Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews paired up to win Class 10, had fast lap in their class at 1 :27:33. The Buffalo Bill's 400 was held at beautiful downtown Primm, Nevada on a perfect race weekend, warm tempera-tures, not a cloud in the sky and just a bit of a breeze after the first lap of the long 400 miler. 84 cars answered the call for a well laid out 400 mile race and "the course was great," ex-claimed most of the participants and a great thanks goes to Kenny Freeman, Jr. who once again dedicated much time and effort to the event. It's starting to look like the SNORE races of ancient days as some of the classes are literally bursting at the seams. There were 12 Class 10 cars, 1 7 -1/2 1600s and, do you believe it, 24 Class 9 cars were on the line and ready to go for the gold and 33 more cars in all the other vari-ous classes made for a great race. The loops were 80 miles each and the 1, 1/2-1600, 10, 5 and Heavy Metal classes would run five laps for 400 miles. Class 9, 5-1600 and Mini Metal would have four laps to run, Sports-man Buggy would run three laps and Class 11 and Sportsman Truck would only need to get two of the laps under their belts. Technical Inspection and Contingency were held Friday evening in the rear parking lot at Buffalo Bill's from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The weather was balmy with just enough of a breeze to bring the dust in from the main pit area which was starting to look like a small city of lights as a few thousand people started setting up their pit facilities for Saturday's bash. The race started at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and there was a 12 hour time limit. The first car off the line was a Class 11, owned by Ed McCormick, a well known and well loved SNORE m:ember for many years who passed away a short time ago and the some-what ceremonial lap was driven by Frank Tomczak and Carlton Shirley. The guys said they felt a bit uncomfortable with 83 cars behind them and all of them a lot faster than they were. But, not once were they tapped on their long way around the rough 80 mile course and they came on into the finish line in Robbie Guevara had some quick on-course repairs and brought his Mirage to victory in the 1/2-1600 class, less than a minute up. 3:45:09, completing the lap in for the Class 1 win, covering with no problems and deciding the 400 miles in 7:40:23. A that discretion is the better part good win •for two very capable of valor, they parked the car. So, drivers. with Ed lookil)-g down from pit The 1/2-1600 class saw 1 7 row in the sky, Frank and Carl-cars answer the bell and this too ton watched the rest of the race, was a real race, nip and tuck all cheering on their favorites as the way. Unfortunately, there the day passed by. are always losers and Carlos The Class 1 fracas was a good Cortez and Rick Boyer paid the one for the first few laps but it ultimate price and didn't get soon turned into a one car race. one lap completed. Dan Brad-Russell Stewart took the lead on ley and Dan Martin only got one the first lap, leading by almost lap under their respective belts two minutes at the start/finish, and were never seen again. Pat but Russell never came around Dean broke a spindle, hit his again and Billy Goerke went head pretty good and was re-into the lead on Lap. 2. Chet placed by Brendan Gaughan but · Huffman and Greg Lewin they only completed two laps as (names from the past and wel-did Dayne Bracken. Jack come back), were just a few Romeo, Oreg Anderson, Scott minutes off the pace on the first Smith and Bryan Freeman all lap but they too were never seen got three laps complete but they again, same with Mark Wenrkh too succumbed to the rough and Steve Houston who suf-course and retired from the fered a flat in a bad spot and race. Steve Meierdiercks and then lost the tranny in their Jim O'Donnel had a long day, Chenowth, all getting in just completing the course in a bit one lap. Michael Hart wasn't over nine and a half hours and that lucky; he never completed were glad to see the checkered the first lap. So, it boiled down flag tor sixth place in class. Day to a Billy Goerke, John Gaugh-Gang and Bekki Freeman wer;e an race. But John was having the fifth place finishers, after troubles on each lap and when h<:1-ving a flat on the first lap, Billy turned the car over to breaking a limiter strap and suf-Brian Collins, they had over an fering through lots of steering hour in hand and Brian cruised problems, the distaff crew came , = ==~~--====--,,.-----,------,-,.,,,,,_-------------,,,=------, in for the finish in 9 :33 :35. Greg Price and Mike Powada took the win in their rainbow-striped 5-1600, and also Jason Gubler took the win in the Sportsman Buggy class, which had to run only took class fast lap at 1:59:44 for the BO miles. _th_re_e_l_ap,__s_. ______________________ _ Brian Anderson also had a long day, driving solo for the 400 miles. He had a flat on the first lap and had a tranny that refused to stay in fourth gear, so his rider kept busy holding it in gear and his time of 8:57 :50 was good for fourth place. Third in 1/2-1600 went to Jeff Carr who rolled his pretty red car on Lap 1, had no other problems but spent the rest of the day play-ing catchup but the 23 minute deficit was never to be made up. But, the real race in 1600 was between Robby Guevera and Rob Myerly, both skilled driv-ers with very competitive cars and they were at it all day long. Continued on page 26 After one good lap John Gaughan and B.J. Richardson had a series Randy Reid and Eric Shenberger shared the driving, had no problems, Josh Tinker and Thomas Reck had a few small problems, but still of problems, finished only four laps, for second in Unlimited Buggy and took second place in Sportsman Buggy. came in third in the Sportsman Buggy class. ·_cl_as_s_. _ _ _______ __________ _ Page 24 June 1999 Dusty Times '

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Reid Ferguson and Daryl Eve teamed to drive in Class 5-1600, and Dennis Wesseldine had a lot of repairs to make along the way, still Class 9 was the biggest of the race. Here brothers Dwaine and Rob with a trouble free day, took second place finished 3rd in 5-1600, less than two minutes out of 2nd. Walters motor along towards their third place. Ken Thatcher and Thomas Feores got really lucky, and coasted across Kevin Walsh, Chuck Guy, Jannie Siegal and Rhonda Walsh teamed Jeremy Harmon and Clay Carr had a Jong first lap, but then regrouped and managed to finish seventh in Class 9. the finish line after their transmission went away. for a nice sixth place finish in Class 9. Guevera had a 45 second lead Class 10 had 12 entrants but very good laps and a disaster on after Lap 1 and Myerly led by 2 7 only five of them managed to the third, costing them almost seconds after Lap 2. Guevera led finish the required 400 miles. two hours of down time and their by nearly three minutes after Lap Gordon Beam, Jeremy Gubler almost ten hours elapsed time 3, and he opened the lead to al-and Jim Price were unable to showed their determination to most five minutes after four laps, finish a lap. Jim Tucker got one run the course. Dan Parsons and. but then lost most of his cush-lap completed, albeit a long one Jim Cast didn't have the best of ion with a broken exhaust but and he was seen no more. Robby days, hovering around the two came in for the win at 8: 16:43 Goerke and Mike Gaughan got hour mark for a lap but they too with Myerly 58 seconds in ar-in one good lap, then a fairly persevered and brought the car rears. Myerly said he had no slow one and they too disap-home in 9:45:57. problems and was happy with his peared into the dust. Kyle Whit-Steve McMullen drove the car and Guevera wants to thank ted got in two fast consistent first half, Tom Craig brought 'er Adam Wik and Bekki Freeman laps but he also faded from view hdme after a disastrous third lap for some power steering belt fix- as did BJ Baldwin, after two very when a flat tire and a tube ing. So Guevera took the 1600 fast laps and we have no idea wrapped around the brake ro-win and the $2,000 that went what their problems were. tor cost i:hem a lot of time and along with it as well as finishing The fifth place finisher was they finished third in Class 10, second overall. the Flippin entry who had four 25 minutes off the winning pace. Whit Courtenay and Donald Kenniston took second Valley Performance Custom Accessories Competitive Prices Now Available Barbary Coast Class 2 Two Seater $45,000 Ca Dave or 702-247-1266 or 702-873-1962· place honors in Class 10, the car looking a bit the worse for wear as Whit endoed a few times and that does take some of the fire out of one's drive. Bob Mathews drove the first three laps, handed over to Dan Bentley and they came in for a well deserved win (finally), hav-ing only three flats to deal with throughout the race and the boys pocketed a fat $2,000 check for their efforts and they were fourth overall as well. The Heavy Metal group only fielded three ~rucks and they too had their share of problems. John Phegley only completed two long laps in his tall yellow machine and he retired from the fray for a little more engineering. Robby Woolworth and Todd Ashley completed three laps but they were very long and the guys called it quits after three laps and 11 hours out on the course. The big Heavy Metal winner was Steve Robledo with Glen Bo-hannon riding. They had tranny troubles soon after the start, re-tired to their pit to lick their wounds. Enter a stranger, asking what their problems were and upon hearing of their gear selec-vice and, whoever Jerry is, they retired soon after. want to thank him profusely. Joe Sheble had a NINE Class 9 had, do you believe it? HOUR first lap, then went for 24 entries and these guys are re-another, which was over two ally serious, taking no prisoners hours and then called it a day. in their battles and hard fought Ron Coppick only got in two battles they were. They had to laps as did Mike Larson and complete four laps (320 miles) Forest Creasy and they were and in the limited cars it's a back in the pits for the day. pretty rough rid_e and a long day. Mike Shimp spent almost_ 10 Four of the combatants never. got hours on the course to complete a lap in, s·tan t{ignett, Dale three laps so that was all for him Looney, Todd Vandawalker and and it was ditto for John Kisner Rodger Schank all left early, rea- as he retired after three laps and sons unknown. Albert Rux man-many hours. aged one lap but it was over six The ninth place finisher was hours long, Mandy Dixon retired Todd Dukes who had a trouble-after a two hour lap and Bill some first lap, then got going, Avery managed a 1 :57 lap but came in for a finish after 10 and Mark Petit and Michael Pinkston had four hours down time for fuel pump repairs, still got the Sportsman Truck victory. 3636 Mead Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-247-1266 702-873-1962 tion problems, got under the truck, got himself nice and dirty ~. but fixed their tranny and they were off and running. They won A mysterious stranger helped Steve Robledo with his tranny, and he went on to win the Heavy Metal class in his Ford. Page 26 the class and said their victory belongs to "Jerry's Tranny Ser-June 1999 Dusty Times

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Whit Courtenay and Phil Markert, perhaps the most-traveled racers Steve McMullen and Tom Craig had a complicated flat tire, still Ken and Clay Flippin had an overlong third lap, but good times out there, came from Kentucky to take 2nd in Class 10. managed a nice third in Class 10. otherwise, and salvaged a fifth place Class 10 finish. .. : {:" · .. '$. : .,:· • .#? ¥,..,, ,{ ... ~,.,,,,. __ ;.,,. /'' Dan Parsons and Jim Cast made a fairly long day of it, but managed to take fourth in Class 10 anyway. Rob Myerly had a very close race with Guevara, but had to settle for second in Class 112-1600. After a slow start to his day things picked up and Jeff Carr finished third in the 1600 class. a quarter hours. Greg Becker was eighth in Class 9, having troubles on all but the second lap and was happy for the finish. Seventh place went to Jeremy Harmon and Clay Carr, they too having problems on the first lap and fin-ishing in nine and a half hours. Kevin Walsh took the sixth place finish, running four good laps and finishing in less than nine and a half hours. Fifth place went to Thomas Flores and Ken Thatcher, they split the driving chores, had a good run and then lost the tranny a few hundred feet from the finish and coasted on in for the checkered flag. Fourth place in Class 9 went :· ,..· . , ~: .. ·, .... , ,/> ~'~ .,-'t'":.· ·~.. .·.~i.,;,.,.,,,,..,. r. to Tom Taliaferro who drove the and they put in a great perfor-first two laps, then his charming mance. wife Seanea took the second two The big winner in Class 9, first and although Seanea said she to the flag in eight hours and moved the front end over a bit seven minutes was Ryan Schank they cruised on in for a great and Roland Barry. Their day was fourth place, just five minutes trouble free except for the last lap away from the class win. Rob and when a broken throttle cable put Dwaine Walters turned four them to the test, but they man-quite fast and very consistent laps aged to work it by hand and got and had a great third place fin-the treasured win and a nice fat ish in spite of three, count 'em check for $1,500. folks, three flats, all on the left The 5-1600 class had 10 en-rear. trants and some very good look-The Spencer/Johnson duo ing cars put on a hell of a race. gave it all they had, slowed down John Woodruff, Mike Bean and a bit on the last two laps and - Rob Wiederhold never got a lap in and retired with problems un-known to us. Kathy Harrah got in two laps and called it a day as did Alan Schaible and Kevin Streety, each of them only get-ting two laps done. Dee Towles didn't have a good day, he ran four laps but they weren't particularly fast for him and he settled for the fourth place finish. My old buddy Den-nis W esseldine had his problems also, lost a coil wire, an alter-nator belt and had to have some major welding done at an out-lying pit but came in for third place, less than two minutes out of second. Reid Ferguson and daughter Sarah took the first, second and fourth laps, Daryl Eve driving the third and they did a great job, taking second place in class and having a trouble free day. Mike PQwada drove two laps in his great looking car, handed over the reins to Greg Price and they ran four very last "laps to take the coveted 5-1600 class win. They had no problems out-side of losing a shock on the last lap and they collected $1,500 for their efforts. Well done! Continued on page 28 came in for a great second in class, four minutes out of the win TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING, INC EXCLUSIVE-DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE RACEAUTO AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Ryan Schank and Roland Barry had a late broken throttle cable, still managed to take the win in Class 9. The Spencer/Johnson team had a good run on the tough course, finished second in Class 9 only a little over four minutes back. Dusty Times 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 June 1999 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 Page 27

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Brian Anderson drove all the way. and his rider held the transmission Day Gang and Bekki Freeman had a flat and some steering problems, Steve Meierdiercks and Jim O'Donnell were the last to finish all five in fourth gear all the way. They finished 4th. but still took fifth in the 1600 race. laps in Class 1/2-1600, in sixth place. Sportsman Buggy had eight two and the guys did a great jo , new pump an were on t e roa entries and they had to run taking the silver medal in again. That'swhatyoucalldedi-three laps for a finish. But, there Sportsman Buggy and having a cation to the cause. were problems, Don Roberts trouble free day as well. And so the $NORE Buffalo didn't complete a lap, Bob Gue-In every class there is a win- Bill's 400 came to an end. 84 ve-vera and Pops McCormack only ner and in Sportsman Buggy it hides started the 400 mile race got one lap done before calling was Jason Gubler, running solo but only 36% of them finished it a day and Frank Puglia retired and running very fast. He was their required laps. Pat Dean after a hellish first lap and a not hampered twice with a broken was taken to the hospital for a much better second. Charles exhaust, which he stopped to fix checkup, kept overnight but Sutton was right in the thick of both times and he still com-went home Sunday morning it for his two laps but then di-pleted the course in less than six and is okay, always good news. saster struck and he was hours, a really great run. SNORE does it all again in through for the day. Sportsman Truck was sup-June. The KC HiLites Midnight Thomas Reck drove two laps, posed to run two laps but Bob Special wants your attendance Josh Tinker took the third lap, Ryan and Mark Petit only made on June 25-27, 1999 for a run they had a broken throttle to one lap after losing a fuel pump in the dark and that really sepa-hinder their efforts but they and having to send someone to rates the men from the boys. 'Til took the third spot, a nice fin- Las Vegas for a replacement. then, be safe and be healthy and ish. Randy Reid drove Lap 1, Hell, they were only down for we'll see you in beautiful down-Brian Collins and Robby Goerke teamed in the new unlimited buggy. here dressed Eric Shenberger took the last four hours before they got the town Pahrump. ■ as a Chevy truck, to take the Overall win by 36 minutes. Reno-FernlelJ Racewag "Racing's Field of Dreams" Presents DESERT STYLE SHORT COURSE OFF-ROAD BASH For more info call: Fibercraft (775)329-2039 Sponsors: BUGGIES, TRUCK, CARS, QUADS B FROM FULL RACE TO STREET STOCK CLASSES PRO-$100.00 ENTRY/100% PAYBACK SPORTSMAN- $50.00 ENTRY /25% PAYBACK STREET STOCK- $20.00 ENTRY /10% PAYBACK TROPHIES & TROPHY GIRLS IN ALL CLASSES MUST HA VE THREE VEHICLES TO ·MAKE A CLASS $5.00 ADMISSION PER PERSON, FREE CAMPING SAT. NIGHT Saturday June 19, 1999 Gates open at 10:00am 12-5 pm Tech & Registration 3-6 pm Practice Must be registered to practice Page 28 Event Schedule Sunday June 20, 1999 7-9 am Tech & Registration 8-9:30 am Practice 9:30 am Drivers meeting 10:00 am First Race Awards 30 minutes after last race June 1999 K RENO r..1i!if1, ............ MllpnaltoSclle Tiger Field ~ Reno-Fernley Raceway ... 'f' ·Live Music Saturday night!! LEY, SOUTHO G03MILESTO 0-FERNLEY Sllverado C FemleyHtgn scnool Tof91c:r126,,.,_.......,;. reno-fernleyraceway.com (775)575-7217 Dusty Times

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Steve Franklin campaigned his leopard spotted Cougar for five years, Bryn and Shawn Thompson, Class 9 champions for '98, demonstrate Veteran racer, Steve Goodall, drove his Holden Ute to a season took the Class 3 championship for '98. how to get through the mud gracefully championship in Class 6, has a new Datsun motor for '99. to win a championship he New Zealand North Island 1998 New Zealand Natl·onal should build a truck from Championship as well as the scratch, along the lines of an New Zealand National American Trophy Truck. Championship in Class 8. Since he travels to the States Class 9: (Buggy) -Bryn Th-serl•es Off Road Champ1·onsh·1ps many times a year on busi-ompson and his brother, ness, Warren was able to gain Shawn,. have been racing for Warren Arthur took the 1998 season championship in Class 8 in this Chevrolet powered Ford truck. (photo by Greg Oleson) Off Road Racing is enjoyed on the other side of the globe as much as it is here in the United States. Our friend, Warren Arthur, from Ad-vanced Four Wheel Drive Equipment Ltd., keeps us up-to-date, and this year brought us a list of the '98 season Champions. Many thanks to him for his assistance, and congratulations to all the sea-son champs. Class l: (1633 & up unlim-ited cc buggy) Tony McCall -won every race he entered during the year, also earning the Overall Off Road Na-tional Championshfp of New Zealand for 1998. Class 3: (1225 -1632 cc buggy) -Steve Franklin, from Napier, Hawkes Bay, has been racing for ten years. He started with a Magnum chas-sis powered by an all alloy Honda engine. Then moved into a Cougar race car which he built himself, using a lightly modified Toyota 4AGE 1600 twin cam engine. Has had a good deal of suc-cess in this car, but has a new car for '99 with better suspen-sion and a more powerful Toyota engine. Class 4: (Truck class, up to four cylinders 4 Wheel Drive) -Scott Nicholls. Class 5: (0 -1224cc buggy) -Andrew Thomason, from Dusty Times Christchurch, has been rac-ing for five years. He designed and built his vehicle, which is powered by a Suzuki GTi engine. He won three South Island Off Road events out-right in '98, and in addition to the Class 5 Championship, was also the South Island Short Course Champion, and second overall in the New Zealand Championship. Class 6: (Truck class -six cylinder, 4 Wheel Drive) Steve Goodall, an electrician, started racing 16 years ago, then abstained for about 13 years, and came back again three years ago. His car for the '98 season was a Holden Ute powered by a modified 186 Holden motor with a · Toyota five speed. For the '99 season he's built a new motor: a 2802 Datsun taken out to 3 .1 liters, and fuel injected. Class 7: (Buggy) Glenn Turvey. Class C: (Buggy Chal-lenger class) -Natalie Elliott, who's been racing for many years. This is the first time a · woman has won a National title in New Zealand. Class 8: (Truck class -eight cylinders & up, unlim-ited engine) -Warren Arthur, Managing Director for Advanced Four Wheel Equipment Ltd., decided that In a burst of color, Andrew Thomason flies his yellow, orange and blue car, designed and built by himself, to-the Class 5 championship. (photo by Euan Cameron) June 1999 a lot of ideas and knowledge three years. Their 1998 sea-from racers here. H~ espe-son was hugely successful, cially thanks Dave Ashley with six first places and one and the Enduro Team for all third, netting them the Sea-their help. His truck is a '97 son Championship. While Ford Bronco, with a Chevro-their car for the '98 season let 402 motor. He had five was based on an old VW, firsts and two seconds in the their car for the '99 season is '98 season, and also won the a 2000 Beetle. • This is the i;ystem run by most off road race winners GO FOR. TRI-MIL BOBCAT CHROME 1984-91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 29

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Pace series Champions By Homer Eubanks The dust has settled on the 1999 U.S. Off Road Championship Se-ries. The ten race international se-ries was said to have paid out over a half million dollars among the five designated classes. Of this purse $100,000 was paid out to the top ten class finishers. Chris Brandt, Council Bluff, IA, will support a big number one on his Toyota next year after taking the Stadium Sport Truck champi-onship with 1053 points. Brandt started the season off on the wrong · foot, well let's say in the wrong truck. He changed mid-season and turned his program around to earn wins in Phoenix, San Diego, Vancouver and the final in Seattle. Brandt, sponsored by National Concrete Cutting, managed to best Kingman, AZ, Stacy Pike's effort, who had tallied 1038 points. Right on the heels of Pike all season was Jerry Whelchel, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, who amassed 1034 points. Lee O'Donnell, Bayonne, NJ, was also a threat during the sea-son and took fourth with his 1031 earned points. Randy Eller, Taylorville, IL, finished fifth on the year with 994 points over last year's champion Larry Bayer, West Bend, WI, who mustered up 985 points on the season. Bob Bayer, Norco, CA, earned the seventh overall honors with a total of 983 points. Don Ponder, St. Louis, MO, bested J.J. Waldon's effort 976-886. Raul Flores, San Bernardino, CA, was tenth by earning 745 points for the year. Cory Witherill, Santa Monica, CA, successfully captured his sec-ond U.S. Off Road Championship Series title at the Seattle Kingdome. Witherill edged out Jimmy Nichols, Alpine, CA, by five points to repeat his previous Super Modified Buggy championship effort. Throughout the season Witherill was able to take three of the series main events at Phoenix, Houston and Pontiac to earn 1059 points. Not far from Witherill all season was Jimmy Nichols who finished the season with 1054 points. Both Larry Fod-drill, Glendale, AZ, and Jerry Whelchel shared the third place overall honors by accumulating 1035 points apiece. Steve Sallenbach, Yutan, NE, managed fifth place with 1027 points. Jim Kandel, New Philadelphia, OH, ranked sixth on the season with 978 to Bryan Bernioehr's, Lakeville, MN, 965. Henry Brown, Gilbert, AZ, tallied 900 points for eighth place and ninth was Dwight Lundell, Mesa, AZ, with 584. Rounding out the top ten was Chris Viterbo, Peoria, IL, with 570 points. The Stadium Lite division was a repeat of itself from last year in the first three overall positions as Joe Price, Parker, AZ, once again dominated the class. Price, spon-sored by CT Racing, Goodyear, NGK, Rice Honda, and Shoei Hel-mets, marked top 1041 points on the season with his closest compe-tition coming from Richard Kosar, Milford, OH, who ended the sea-son with 894 points. Price took main event wins in St. Louis, Hous-ton, Minneapolis and top five fin-ishes in every other round. Third place winner was Paul Sutton, Houston Lakes, MO, who totaled out with 756. Fourth for the sea-son went to Stacy Fay, Chino Hills, CA, with 673 points. Doug Good-Notes From The Press Box By Homer Eubanks The PACE U.S. Off Road Chris Brandt would take the se-Championship Series ended its 10 ries as Jerry Whelchel had held a race schedule at the Kingdome in · confident lead going into the sev-S'eattle, WA. The series had enth round. When the dust weaved its way across America settled in El Paso it was Lee starting in St. Louis, MO and O'Donnell taking the checkered made an interna tiona I stop in with Whelchel second and Brandt Vancouver, B.C., Canada before third. O'Donnell also kept the wrapping up in Seattle. In a pre- momentum going when they lined vious issue we covered the events up in Pontiac, MI. O'Donnell won through San Diego, CA making his heat race and went on to win it necessary to wrap up the sea- the main. Whelchel had not made son for all you stadium fans. the trek back east and received An accompanying article de- no points. Stacy Pike had crossed tails the 1999 points Champions over second behind O'Donnell so by now you may know Chris and Chris Brandt finished fifth. By Brandt pulled off a come from the time the series settled into behind upset to capture the Sta- Vancouver Brandt had renewed dium Sport Truck honors. Cory his effort and dominated by win-Witherill regained his Super ning both his heat and the main Modified Buggy title. Joe Price event. O'Donnell couldn't put it also repeated the season as Cham- together and dropped to fourth in pion of the Stadium Lites. Spud his heat and didn't make the top Walters came back from an ear-ten in the main. Jerry Whelchel lier injury to regain his throne as made the Vancouver event but Stadium Thunder Bike Cham-placed fourth. pion. Tim Farr will be wearing #1 Heading into the final round next year in the Pro Quad divi- • Brandt lead O'Donnell 933-927 sion. . for the overall. Brandt came out When the series traveled to El strong and dominated his heat Paso you may not have guessed race. In the second heat race O'Donnell couldn't match the effort put in by Jerry Whelchel and had to settle for second. When the main event rolled around Brandt had everything go his way and took the checkered and overall championship honors. Stacy Pike crossed over fourth but managed to earn enough points for the second overall honors, dropping Whelchf'l to third and O'Donnell finished fourth on the season. Jimmy Nichols had been a thorn in Cory Witherill's side all year. Witherill was looking to re-peat his 1998 champion status and Nichols proved his desire for the honor -event after event. At El Paso Witherill had a 944 to 9 3 7 advantage over Nichols. Nichols was able to keep things interest-ing as he won the main but Witherill was a very close second and still in command of the se-ries. Witherill came back at Pon-tiac for yet another main event win and Nichols dropped to third behind Steve Sallenbach. In true champion form Nichols came back in Vancouver to win the SCORE 1997 ENGINE BlTILDER OF THE YEAR!, ~~!-c~,"---..'!-'~"'=----?~'"' i'T: •i ..,,.. ~i.•, -'" ="¢"""•"'-n"?.!')\' .. ,·.,.. ,"'\" -~ .... ,...__..,, .... .\.!•-~ i\?''" _ -.,,,~_. ~ ... ~'"'J't, -!:': -,,•.,. ?::,-,;>.<:,-\ .. ,"',>:"· , ,,~ .. r~ -• ,r.~ ~,,_,,.,,. _,,.,_..._ FAT DOMINATES PRIMM 300 PRIMM 300-Sept. 11-12 Class 1 1st Dale Ebberts (VW Type IV) Class 10 1st Darnen Jefferies (T(¥la 4AG) 2nd Gus Vildosola (Toyota VG) 2nd OVERALL!! 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Beau Briggs, Alta Loma, CA, made the top ten with his 518 showing. Brian "Spud" Walters can once again be called the "Thunder Champ" as he reclaimed his Sta-dium Thunder Bike championship. Walters had a consistent season by placing in the top five at every event. Walters, who is sponsored by White Brothers, Yamaha, Bridge-stone, O'Neal, Gatorz, Fastline, Regina, Hinson, Throttle Jockey, and Cytem_ax took checkered flags at Minneapolis, Phoenix and Se-attle. Walters bested the Thunder Bike field with 1057 points. Chris Ridgeway, Cypress, CA , was sec-ond with 995. Matching Ridgeway's effort was Chris Knox, Lewisburg, OH, who also tallied up 995 points. Fourth for the year was Mark Roop, St. Paris, OH, with his 958 points. Scott Myers, Temecula, CA, took the fifth spot by earning 822 points. Mark Bonnell, Des Moines, 'IA, edged out Troy Kalina, Phoenix, AZ, 656-636. Todd Downs, Corpus Christi, TX, took the eighth place main but had Witherill crossing over second. Things got crazy in Seattle as Larry Foddrill took the main event. Jerry Whelchel showed he too was still a con-tender grabbing second and Nichols took third. Witherill drove across in a conservative fifth but when all the points were tallied became the 1999 points Champion. Joe Price repeated his 1998 winning season with another outstanding season for 1999 in the Stadium Lite division. Price had garnered over a 100 more points over the competition by El Paso and used consistency to take another title. Price won the overall with 1041 points over second place Richard Koser's 894. Tim Farr wrote himself into the history books with his monumental performance in the Pro Quads division and won the HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 spot with 457 earned points. Ninth on the year went to Robert Naughton, Flagstaff, AZ, 4Jl points over Ryan Detrick, Tonganoxie, KS, who accumulated 424 points during the year. Tim Farr is by far the best Pro Quad rider on the planet Earth. Farr took the championship title after winning five races in a row (which is a U.S. Off Road Champi-onship Series record). Farr gave credit to Baldwin Motorsports, D.G. Performance, PEP, PJI, Rocky Mountain A TV, Titan Tires, and Laeger for his outstanding season. Farr wasn't alone on the track this season as Jeremy "The Hick" Schell, Hornersville, MO, was a close second losing to Farr 1071-1035. Also in the battle all season was Keith Little, Russellville, AL, and Joe Byrd, Union City, TN, who tied for the third overall honors with 1021 points. Last year's cham-pion Mark Ehrhardt, Menifee, CA, dropped to fifth on the season with 1018. Harold Goodman, Romulus, MI, took the sixth spot after edg-ing out Kory Ellis, Valley Center, CA, 977-975. Johnny Hale, Owasso, OK, was eighth with 974. Ryan Detrick, Tonganoxie, CA, was ninth earning 969 points. Tenth place Jimmy Stevensen, Las Vegas, NV, earned 954 points on the season. ■ championship to boot. Farr won five races in a row etching his name in the U.S. Off Road Championship Series records for most consecutive wins. Even with his commanding effort Farr couldn't run away from Jeremy Schell. Schell took second for the season but after winning the Vancouver event had to realize that second was as close as · he could get. Spud Walters managed to re-take the Stadium Thunder Bikes title. Walters had felt the pressure of Chris Ridge through-out the season but when the fi-nal flag fell Walters took the championship honors with 1057 to Ridge's 993 points. Scott Myers had finished fifth in the series after coming on strong at the end of the season. Myers took wins at El Paso, Pontiac, and Vancouver then finished second to Walters at Seattle. ■ Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. (800) 656-3376 Use it to call and inquire about our "Quick Fix" !RS repair boots or our 11 gallon "Fast-Fill" dump cons. Both new products can save you race time. 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WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTS GILA MONSTER 150 McMullen Clan At Gila Bend By A.H. Tellier Photos: Track.side Photo Albert and Jim McMullen drove their V6 Toyota to a great overall win at Gila Bend, AZ, besting their competition by over seven minutes at the finish. With the help of brother Kevin and dad Harry, the Brothers McMullen, Albert and Jim, drove a smooth race to the overall trophy at the Whiplash "Gila Monster 150" on a clear Saturday in Gila Bend, the Fan Belt Capital of America. The balmy weather. .. for Gila Bend, of course ... pre-sented the racers with a pleas-ant day for racing. Al pushed the big 3.2L V6 Toyota Class 1 to a seven minute victory over the VW of Tom Brown (#102), a type IV "5" car in 'l", and 12 ticks over Class 10 winner Ron Dalke. The course was typical Gila country with wide, long, full-throttle, sand washes connected by silt-filled cross-drainage transit sections plus the ground water recharge basin, a bowl, at the start/finish, which has a sta-dium style to it: jumps, turning-brake turns and plenty of help-ful spectators along the margins of the Barry Goldwater Gunnery Range. McMullen race team patri-arch Harry McMullen gave a ballsy pre-race quote: "We fully expect to win", and Al actually backed it up for Dad. Al said that he "slowed down the last lap" ... sort of: a 58:00 first lap; then 58:47 and a "slowed" 58:25. Go figure. The Race Albert got by front row starter Tom Struttmann's V6 Powerglide Jimco and was never seriously challenged. The 100% McMullen two seater stopped for five gallons of fuel on every lap. "We have 48 gallons for 144 miles on a 36 gallon fuel cell... 3 mpg calculated", said Harry. After this fir"st stop they made a pi;ecautionary pullover at the exit of the bowl section . for a change of the outer air fil-ter foam. "Just in case", they said. Brown was the second racer through after the first cir-cuit, some three minutes back while Dalke cut a one hour lap, losing to two minutes the two McMullen brothers. Charles Lathrem (1099) was fifth through the pits but would go no further: "He's from Tuc-son and OA'd the Globe (AZ) race ... but he keeps wreckin' the car", was the quick McMullen take on him. James Martin, The Texas Tornado, was only 15 sec-onds off "Ten" leader "Donkey's" pace who was right behind Lathrem. Martin would also never make another lap. Velen Whitmoyer started 1n the rotary rocket of husband Ross and Carl-Mike Perez. Her first race was last year at Hol-brook, where she won. Ross would take over the controls with his perennial bad back; not a good plan. As Ms. Whitmoyer came in to l1and· over the controis to Ross, Brad Rowland's "1600" was right behind her. Ross then got out of the pits with the other Limited buggies to raise havoc, tossing stones and the like, with the high BHP C-MP RX7 en-gine. Ross, breaking his aching back, had to take it easy, but with Mark Beeler's yellow CJ right behind what's a guy to do? I mean ... •Tom Struttmann reported that "it was the best car he's ever driven ... for 20 miles, any-way. It went where you pointed it ... you just have to keep going for all three laps." Tom broke a tie rod ·end and when he was jerry-rigging a fix he took off the shock bolt and the innards flew out, covering the desert with hardware. He struggled to the remote pit and put 'er on the trailer. On his second lap, Al Mc-Mullen had tossed a power steering belt but, luckily, did not have to get out ... some spec-tators and remote pitters rolled Ron Dalke was the only Class 10 car to make the required laps, all his competition dropping by the wayside at Gila Bend. it back on to the pulley. At the pits they took a spare drive belt along just in case (however, that's better'n carrying a tie rod or a battery or a starter). And they had to stop, again, after the bowl section to have the crew jerk the radio antenna out of the spare tire. In the right seat was Jim Mc-Mullen, the final wire in the McM harness. The McBoys cover all of the three morpho-logical body types: Kevin (Ectomorphic), Albert (Endo-morphic) and Jim (Mesomor--phic) ... and dad Harry (Pit-o-morphic). Jim said that his Bro drove a clean race, but "there were lots of rocks." At the finish impound Albert McMullen admitted to hitting only one car. .. "but just barely." He explained that he tossed the steering belt "about half way 'round, right where there were some pit guys." Co-driver Jim said that "We lost it right where you come up out the canyon and there were guys standing by so they rolled the belt back onto the pulleys." The only other problem was with the (race) ra-dio "when we keyed the mike it would shut off the engine." (Hmm, sounds like the Bobs ... "Radio" and "The Weather-man" ... had better get that pesky EMI under control.) "The course was all sand wash and rocks ... just the same old shit." Gila Bend Tip: The McMullens run boots on the rear shocks but with the long travel they had been bunching up and tearing them. Now their boots are cut in half ... with the rear removed for flexibility and only the front remaining for impact damage. The car is totally McM: "From the tubes on the shop floor to victory", Harry offered. "We got about $40,000 in it and $20K in the engine and $13 (thousand) in the tranny." Kevin got his start with mis-anthropic Pat Hughes ... "If (Pat) wants to take the job, well, OK; and if not, well...". Thus the work was sporadic so Kevin went out on his own and now has CORR cars, PACE rac-ers and a number of southwest cars running his Hewland/For-tin McMullen and Bus gear-boxes. Kev uses his own special side covers and different "in-nards", adding a cooler which puts the lube capacity up to seven quarts. Diez-Quatro (Ten-Four) Eric Pavelka rode right seat in class winner Ron Dalke's SCORE Lite beam car: "We only had one flat, that was it. Ron must have the same (inner) tube guy that I had for the San Felipe race. At one time (in San Flip) all I was running was front tires on aii four corners!" "It was a piece of cake; a walk in the park ... with only one flat. It was an easy race, everyone else just fell apart. That "5" car of (Tom) Brown was too fast to catch. We stayed in his dust all the way ... until after the flat, then we had clear sailing. The car is a Richard Ronco/Tatum two seater, which makes that a Double RonCo car." Matt, once from Fod's, did the body. The car tips the Toldeo Scales ("Honest Weight No Springs") at 1700 pounds. A tech touch is the QAD oil lines to the filter. "The only thing I don't do on the car is the gear-box and that goes to Kevin (Mc-Mullen)." Asked what it would take to beat Jerry Penhall and George Erl, Ron said that it would re-quire a flawless race ... "Erl, I can beat ... Penhall, well, only if he has trouble. After all, this is a 'hurry up and break down' class." A tough guy, Ron races without gloves. Class B had 11 entries and Mark Beeler outdistanced them all, taking the Class 8 win with 13 minutes to spare. Damon Franks didn't have any Class 5 competition but that didn't stop him from turning very quick laps and finishing fifth overall. James Martin's A-armed RCD single seater disappeared, making that long trip back to Odessa (TX) even longer, in-deed. Steve Fanning (1053) lost a tranny in Robert Wood's old car .. . the one with the add-on A-arms. Jeff Wells in the ex-Glen Greer car broke a tranny on Friday and was a DNS. James Taggart (1004) broke a rocker arm on his VW engine which then pulled out the through-block for the stud. "We fixed that, then the tranny went" and it was trailer time. Sounds like Kevin McMullen has three new customers! The "1025" of Kasey Crook and K.C. Arthur threw the timing belt on their Rabbit motor = $$$. Nobody can field Page 32 June 1999 Dusty Times

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Ron Brown chased the Class 1 leader all race long but was only able Mike Doherty drove his neat looking Chevy to the second spot in Todd Gatrell took a nice third place in Class 8 in the Chevy, fighting a to garner the second spot in his strong looking car. Class 8, having a flat and a few minor mechanicals along the way. very long third lap for the good finish. fix that ... gotta love those chain We've been caught between the third race on the car ... they ganza. All passed. the lead, racing side by side drive camshafts. prepping the pre-runner and finished 10th at the recent Winner Brad said that he ran along the freeway. Brewer's Truck Stop Tales finishing the TT." Todd took SCORE San Felipe 250. off in the weeds trying to pass motor is "by me! Hector's fast! There was a large entry in the third. Garcia ran the first lap the but could back the car out... He hit me, he definitely hit me", pickup class ... 11 cars with only Dan Sullivan dropped by the fastest, Rowland was the quick-"and I had a minor miss" ... an Kurt laughed. "It was fun rac-three doing all three laps. Mark Doherty pit, tending to his (bro- est on the second and all three ignition miss ... not a close-call ing with him!" Brewer had a Beeler won with Mike Doherty ken bone) knitting, and re-were within five seconds of one near-miss. His engine is by Larry smiley right front wheel as he in second by 13 minutes. marked on Beeler's win in the another on the final tour. Brad Rosevear ... the chassis is the "tried to up the pace." The Mike and Ed Doherty ef- yellow CJ: "That Beeler is so ir- finished first, physically, then "old" '96 Danny Porter car, the The Fisher-Brown fort was sidelined by a rare rear ritating!" That thing bounces Kurt came in with Hector all one with the suspended pedals. "Maybelline" car , resplendent flat: "This is the first flat in around so much that their hel-over him like a Krishna on an The self-prepped effort is spon-with a flame paint job, is a rare three years of racing on 'Baj as'. mets hit each other." Mike said airport traveler. The winning sored by Finish Line Motor-two seat "1600" J imco with a In the (Sand Tank Wash) it was that "we went side by side with margin was 25% of a heartbeat: sports and Tatum Motorsports, Kenny Major power plant. so soft that the truck drove Mark. I could pull him but the one second! Brewer was back by Caren Hull, DDS and Renegade "Yeah, the special titanium pretty good even with the flat. flat let him get away." 129 seconds with the "Sorry Australian Cattle Dogs ... Brad (passenger) foot rest come There actually was a little crust Kevin Patrick had a disinte-Vista" Fisher and Brown car is a civilian investigator at Luke out." (They threw it out after on the sand, at first. Then when grating fuel cell or some such another 1:23. AFB. the first few miles through the we figured it out and had to crud and had to clean the fil- Jay had the top three pull Kurt Brewer, who looks like infield bowl.) "The race was change (the wheel) Ed had had ters and fuel system got stuck their restrictor plates for the a large Norm Lenhart, said that fast and got faster every lap. no practice ... Then I lost the " ... and blew the tranny in a . Go-No-Go plug gage extrava-he and Garcia were swapping Continued on page 34 power steering belt ... again. Ev-stinking rock pile." erything looks like it's aligned. Tom Buck and the little (Hint: maybe the motor's spin- Buckeroos brought the Honcho ning it too fast ... needs a smaller out for musical chairs, and big pulley on the crank.) "Then I chairs they have to be. Two lost the brakes ... Ed asked if I Bucks fill up the spacious cab. was getting tired, as I was slow-Doherty stopped to check them ing down ... I said "No! We don't out ... "there was glass every-have any brakes!" "Oh", was ·an where and they were climbing she said. Mike said that at one ·out. They waved and I left." point "I bicycled it ... we put our John and Kelly McNeil (700) hands out!" did not finish the first lap in Don Kolt broke all the mo-Sean Mecham's old green car. tor mounts on his truck: "The John's Dad's brother is Perry throttle would come on in the McNeil. whoops ... so I came back" to fire Restricted Entry up the old Bar-B-Q. The single port class battle Scooby, Scott Maloney, was a war, no doubt. The first rolled the box stock Blazer in finisher, Brad Rowland, had to the wash. "We popped a tire in sit and wait for the next two the wide wash and it started cars to fly in before he could hopping and got sideways. The receive the adulation of the wash was not wide enough, I crowd. guess. Not one piece of glass left As the race unfolded it was in the back section. I got a set obvious that Rowland, Garcia of $2,000 King shocks for the and Kurt Brewer were on a mis-rear in the garage. To get the sion ... a mission not to let off. rig back on its feet required a There was a nasty washout lead-guy on a quad, a jack and lots ing into the start/finish and the of pushing. The car is a 383 Pacheo two seater hit it hard. stroker, street legal daily driver. Garcia's super clean Curry Scott is a C-130 driver out of "Telas Belia" two seater is well Davis-Monthan and will be go-prepped by Ventura's Chassis ing to Kosovo. Lucky him. Prep in Mexicali, Baja. Hector, Todd Gatrell was out in the from Sonoyta, Sonora, uses a pre-runner Trophy Truck. "We Victor Romo engine. Garcia's just put on new brake rotors and car is a Curry Fabrication unit just pulled it off the trailer. out of Mexicali. This was only Brad Rowland was second on laps 1 and 2 but he took the lead on lap 3 and took the win in 1600 by, are you ready? Just 1 second was the winning margin. 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...... \ The Fisher/Brown Jimco ran almost as fast as the winner in the Hector Garcia gave it all he had but he and his keen looking car took Kurt Brewer kept the 1600 race hot and heavy, ran wheel to wheel with 1600 class and their fourth place was less than four minutes off second spot in 1600, just one second out of the class win. second place and finished third, less than two minutes off the pace. _th_e_w_i_nn_,_·ng~p_ac_e~--~--~~---~------There were no whoops, the is by Capatch and he mentioned bones Kevin Greener car snuck "Henry Kissenger of Gila and has recently returned from washes were smooth but the silt Nevada Off Road Buggy Supply. in ahead of rootin' too tin' Ray Bend" ... soon to be nominated a two year stint in Japan. I think beds just about engulfed our "With a special thanks to Acme "RJ'' Newton (#998). The time for the Nobel Pizza Prize. the time away really fueled his car for a mile and a half. Mike Auto Sales, Import Auto Sup-difference was ten minutes... Third place went to Brad desire to race as I could not send Doherty was in front of us in ply and (double dipping) which Newton had frittered Leaky and Brigitta Sanz as they enough race videos to keep him the wash and dusted us. Then GregCo Fabricating ... all of away early in the race, R.J. debuted their "9" car fitted with busy. He bought the 5-1600 car he got a flat and really rocked Yuma." stopped at the end of his first King dampers, the ubiquitous sight unseen before he even re-us. It pitted out (helmet) The time honored Bill Krug lap to have his alternator belt McMullen gearbox and a carbon turned to the States. He had a shields. We had no problems." finished seventh. "The car was re-shimmed and an oil check. filter cowl and dash ... plus a Fat bun'.ch of second places in 1998 The car was Erik Fisher's in '95 OK, I wasn't. I mus ta gained The widely flung oil turned out motor. This was a pretty car and finished second overall for and '96 and is self prepped. ten pounds lately and I was to be from a dislodged tranny with Jet Hot exhaust tubes, Whiplash last year. In case he Jeff Knupp was misinformed puffing. Now I'm back to the filter line. No matter, as Ray chromed shrouds ... the whole did not mention, the car was and ran 33 inch Baja BFGs. gym before (the) Holbrook was pleased with his new tough nine yards. The show quality car originally from John_ Holmes in "They are great in the rough (race)." The Alce Krug ("Old Larry Weiser Tuf motor. He had a Tatum M/S chassis ... "we CA. If I remember correctly, but I could only pull second Mug") said that his San Felipe yelled during the 11 minute had them bend the rough tub-you never missed a chance to and third in the big washes. "race" was not OK. "The stop that "After 20 miles the ing then added the.filler pieces make a Johnny Wad joke." And right off the start, in the shifter box seemed to need re-engine loosened up and.started and tabs and mounts." Del Col is running BFG bowl, my co-driver's belts came placing but' then, after the to run good. Larry, you got a But they, too, raced without "Sport Truck T/As" just like loose. I had tb stop to get that swap, I found that the U-joints good motor here!" The engine a spare tire. The brand new car Carlos lribe (Hmmm): 285-70 taken care of." Knupp rattled in the linkage were worn out so had bond straps from the spark-had only 20 miles on it ... it had 15s. Mike does his own car prep off the names: Knupp's own I had to pull my entry." ing plug terminals to the cool-only been out testing at the and Lee Finke does the shocks. Volkspower Race Prep; Shan-Even though ageless Bill had ing shrouds. He was running se-107th Av. and Camelback Prov-He thanks Finishline Motor-non, Amy and Harry; Signs to settle for a back position, he verely shaved Yoks up front. ing Ground. "The suspension is sports for his first win and wife Now; and the Geiser Bros: Rick "was glad just to be here, able Newt's helmet says "Sgt. Pep-really springy; it needs to be Nicole Del Col, which has a and Jeff. Oh yeah, and Chris to race. I cam over one of those per" on the left side. Don't stiffened up." He continued Hansen, the car owner. hills on the bladed.route (out know about the right side. that "I have never driven a Tom Gerringer said that "it east) and there was that white Didn't want to know! desert race car before today. We was a great race ... but I gotta put Hummer (affiliated with the The long snouted, ex-1600, kept a nice pace but got high power steering on this-. I have Holder "1212" crew) then some once of Erik Jones, was now centered. Then that guy tpo1.nt-an UMP pump already. I run a blue Jeep. I hit his tire! An-owned by noted thorn-in-side ing at Mike Leung's 5-1600) got Kurt Brewer motor and a Bill other time I went .airborne, Newton. "R.J." caught the stuck behind us and we helped Capatch "Arizona Transaxle ended up in a tree (shades of wrath of the start/finish people him out then he split! I thought Exchange" gearbox. These short Tommy Koch!) and really by cutting a rock-and-dirt filled we were going to trade helping courses are too short ... I want smacked-my elbow on a frame brodie right at their table. He each other." long ones ... " tube." He showed the swelling. had an excuse: "My throttle Brad is now a wiser, smarter Brian Wilson was the '97 Item of Interest: The Whip-cable got stuck where the guide and non-virgin racer, having Whiplash 1600 champ and lash "1600" guys are putting to-tubes. came apart and I (also) been screwed with. comes down from Las Vegas. gether an assault team for the· had a totally flat left rear tire. The Sean Moss "BOB" car "My chassis is a GregCo ... Greg BitD Y2K race. Jeff Knupp, I had to drive 25 miles on it (he and the Todd Ford #923 Loth-Branch out of (drum roll) Brian Wilson, Chris Hansen carried no spare). When I fin-ringer "wedge" (with Tucker Yuma." Will is the Whiplash and calendar-challenged Krug ished I left off the gas, it didn't Tire stickers and a W.R. Rae-web page man. "We race Whip-are already mentally prepared slow down, of course, so I hit ing Transmission) were not to lash since SNORE is just too for the premier Nevada event. the brakes and it spun out ·complete a lap: pricey, ditto SCORE." His car The Challenged (around t_he flat tire)." After a VWs is equipped with a 21 gallon fuel The Challengers had a good blood-in-the-eye confrontation Dana Andrews, of" 11" fame, cell, a Branch motor, the tranny race for the win as the bare with the dustees, the dustor was helping the Pro 5-1600 win-PIKE'S SERVICE CENTER BAKER, CALIFORNIA CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ..... THANKS! ~~ni} RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS Mobil SERVICE EVERY DAY YEAR ROUND, THE BEST IN THE DESERT Page 34 was "convinced" by Jay McK-ner, Gilbert's Mike and Nicole inley to go over and explain, Del Col who have also been rac-apologize, actually, for the in-ing in MDR. Mike's car still cident. Jay said: "Let me get showed the scars from a mul-this straight. You went a 150 tiple flip at the last MDR race miles and now you have to spin in Lucerne. "And that was not a 180?? How about you going the first time, either", he admit-over ther·e and saying you're ted. "Todd (Bennett) and I did sorry?" it at Snowflake, too." So Mr. Lash himself played Andrews provided a capsule the Peace Maker: "The take on Mike: "Mike is an airbag Solomon of the Sand", the Engineer with TRW in Mesa Steve Clinkingbeard had no trouble taking the Vintage Class win, leaving his competition a lap behind at the finish. June 1999 nice ring to it. Mike Leung got stuck ... twice. "That '999" car (Brad L_eaky) was stuck and I got caught up behind him. Mike runs big 3 lxl0.5 BFG Bajas ... which are pretty big flywheels of Akron plies to spin up. Mike finished a half hour back of Mike and Todd. In the Pro 5 ranks it was a lonely Damon "Ball Park" Franks in ninth overall. Good Sports Steve Clinkingbeard's #67 was the old Chenowth "100" that Mark Stahl won the "500" in. Steve had a strong run win-ning the Pro Vintage class, placing tenth overall, even ahead of Mike Doherty's Chev-rolet "8". Randy Prowse in the Pro Vin-tage (70 VW) lost its "Ferde Berde Auto Body" front clip somewhere between here and Prescott and missed the final liip: DNF. Bobby Creek was up the pro-verbial creek as # 1388 (Sports-man Limited) was smoking off the line and never came around. Jeff Venier (#1251) was using up the suspension in the smooth stuff out of the bowl and could only muster one lap in Sports-man Ten. The Scarla & Holder #1212 was a tandem ... w·ith Dal Holder looking at the back of a helmet all day long. Will that Back Seat Boy race it again? "I am sure that he will", the answer came back. "Does he have normal IQ?" ... depending upon what you consider "normal", I guess. I thought that Gary and B.J. were the only living tandem rac-ers. Bob Elio beat three other Pro Tens ... Bob used to be Kurt Brewer's partner in their origi-nal Challenger. El Chismoso •Kevin McMullen had a Dusty Ti_mes

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Ray Newton was second after the first lap and there he remained, In the sportsman Unlimited Class the Scar/a/Holder car only got in taking the silver medal in Class 9, ten minutes out of the lead. one lap, but it was a quick one at 1: 15: 11. The Sportsman Class 1 O winner was Bob Elio, turning his two laps in 2:28:58, the other three entrants DNF'ing. used/abused Fortin/Hewland "BFG" patch velcro-ed to the really freak out). The set up will pinion that had the gear end back of his driving suit ... open use used NASCAR front hub sheared off the shaft. "But as for opportunities, I guess. components ... heavy but strong long as Doug (Fortin) sells me •Ed and Barbara Beard sold (and cheap!) ... with a zero (gearbox parts)", Kevin said the famous "SuperSeats" to bump steer rack and aux ram set "he's the greatest person in the "Trust Me Tiedowns" in Whit-up. Tom Hyde is CAD engineer-world." The tranny man of the tier, CA. Wow, that now leaves ing the layout. John Dyke is the Valley said that "Ross' Porsche Buckeye with only three indus-flame cut Meister, Jack Woods gearbox was nice but not if you tries: Wood Brothers Hay Haul-is doing the hub adapters and have a lot of power." Kevin has ing, Pierce Aviation and clan-Steve Barton (!) is welding the his handiwork in brother destine dope growing in corn arms. Albert's car, Tom Brown's, the fields. And Gentleman Jim •The Mike Doherty Report: Jeff Knupp/Chris Hansen Fowler, of course. When asked "Had a great time in the Fan "1600", Brad Leaky and "1 O" what he was going to do with his Belt Capitol (GB). Last time Ed winner Ron Dalke. new found spare time, Ed imme- was co-driver was same race •Rueben Wood was check-diately replied "Race!" four years ago, and C-MP's pal ing out the action before he got •Lee Finke said. that he cut Ross lets his wife drive? Is this paged to do some more cotton off the beam of his "5" convert a TREND? Had a great visit field irrigation. He spoke about and sold it to some road racer with you after the race, but had his new engine for his "1" car. from Oklahoma. "He came out to send the crew into town to "We have a Subaru SVX op-here, offered me cash so I went buy more BEER! Hope you posed '6' engine. James Kirk (of to Sears and bought a chop saw. made it to Yumaville without the dormant Jim Pierce "10" We cut it off right at the ped-any help from the DPS! Slight team) is putting it together. We als. This guy's built road course headache Sunday morn, but need to get some time on it be- cars before so he's building what nothing that 300 two stroke fore the '500' if we can. ]P's car he knows: 1-3/8 tubing." Lee is bikes couldn't fix!!! ... next is for sale ... $25K." adding an A-arm front end to time we'll have a REAL party. •Ross Whitmoyer had his his "5" (I'll bet that Seeley will Next Whip race is Indy 500 weekend in Holbrook, AZ. Jay •Sometimes racer, some-McK. was telling me that the times tuner Nels Dutton has town of Holbrook was so completed his medical train-pumped after last year's race, ing ... in Nuclear Medicine ... that they wanted to know if and is now working at the they could have two race dates prestigious Mayo Clinic in this year!" Scottsdale. ■ Kevin Greener outdistanced his Class 9 competition by ten minutes and he was very happy to get the win at Gila Bend. Eibach Springs Is proud to announce It's complete llne or ultra high quality off-road springs. Available In 10, 12, 14 & 16 inch free lengths with 3" ID. A well designed & manufactured spring will last thousands or cvcles, even in the cruelest desert environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what it takes to win ... Now so do vou. Spring to Success ... • ___, IIIC. • 1'11111948 71iZ 8700 • Dll1l'llulr. ...... "'-' -lal 1854 Dusty Times June 1999 Page 35 '-.◄

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RALLYE DE PARIS Kiwi Wins A Mitsubishi Parade ByM.E. "Mad Mike" Halley Photos: Mark Warren The Arthur Odero-Jowi/Jim Hurley Eclipse took second overall in both the Paris by Night and Wandr'n Star events. www.camburg.com 7501 SLATER unit E, HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92647 (714) 848-8880 PHONE (714) 848-1844 Fax OFF ROAD TRUCK SPECIALISTS PRE-RUNNER SUSPENSION CU§TOf4FABRICATION ,. • SHOCKMOUNTS • ROLL CAGES FOR RANGER/ F-150 • BENT I-BEAMS • CUSTOM I-BEAMS CUSTOM RADIUS ARMS CAMBURG/EIBACH COILS CUSTOM COIL BUCKETS NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS • BUMPERS· stlSPeNSION • • • • TOYOTA • UPPER A-ARMS • SWAY-A-WAY TORSIONS BARS • DUAL SHOCK t<ITS • LONG TRAVEL KITS • BILLET RACE HUBS • NATIONAL REAR SPRINGS RACE SHOCKS-----. BILSTEIN SWAY-A-WAY COlL OVERS - 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, Page 36 Ranger, F•1SO. PU/Tacoma S-10, C 1500 FuDsl2e June 1999 .. Group 2 winners J. B. Niday and Allan Kintigh, in their VW Gti, make tracks for the podwm. • L to R: Jim Hurley, ArthurOdero-Jowi (2nd Open Class & 0.A.) Bill Morton, Michael Busalacchi (1 St Open Class & O.A.) Mike Hurst, Rob Bohn (let Group S & 3rd 0.A.). The Karen Burrows/Ken Cassidy husband and wife team took Production GT honors in their Mitsubishi Ga/ant. Seven of the 12 cars entered in northeast Texas' Wandr'n Star (a coefficient two event run during daylight) and Paris by Night (a coefficient three event run into the night) Sports Car Club of America ClubRallyes on 26 March were, for all intents and purposes, Mitsubishis. There were "Mitsu-bishi" Mitsubishis, a "Dodge" Mitsubishi, "Eagle" Mitsubishis and even a "Plymouth" Mitsu-bishi. Fittingly, the top two cars overall, and three of the 'five class winners, were driving "Mitsubishis". Had it not. been for an errant white tall deer, ev-ery "Mitsubishi" entered would have been classified a finisher. Entrants for the event, staged on the roads of the Camp Maxey Texas Army Guard base a few miles north of the second largest Paris in the world, came from Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Illi-nois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. Not only were the cars brought south from Illinois "Mitsubishis", both Okie entries were pickup trucks, as if anyone would find that surprising. Like a well-choreographed script, and unlike most stage rallys, the seeded starting list closely reflected the finishing order for both events. Out front for the duration was a pair of TAD Motors ports prepared, World Rally Championship ca-pable, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolu-tion IVs. The first car on the dirt was in the hands of rallymaster Garen Shrader while eventual winner, and na-tive New Zealander, Bill Morton piloted the second. As-sisting the Kiwi, who was run-ning only his second stateside event, was Michael Busalacchi, a fellow TAD employee. They won every stage of the day but one, only losing one second to the Arthur Odero-Jowi/Jim Hurley Eclipse which came sec-ond overall at both events. Stage 1 was uneventful, but Stage 2 was hard on the pickup truck contingent as Ken Stewart retired his supercharged, 4-wheel drive Chevrolet S-10 with a holed piston and Mike Halley's commuter/rallytruck Dodge RAM 50 lost even more time thanks to being stuck in third gear. Organizationally, this event was unique since "reseeds" (the order the cars tackle the course determined by the potential of the car/driver combination) were done whenever the need ap-peared and·, coincidentally, with the unanimous approval of the competitors involved. Only mi-nor shuffling was accomplished at the "turnaround" between the first two stages, and things stayed pretty much the same from then on. The early, unspectacular re-sults belie the fact that there was sufficient rally car excite-mc!nt to deflect the many spec-tators' attention from the chill Dusty Times

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Oariusz Bosek and Tomasz Zaremba found that their Talon would Mike Hurst and Rob Bohn came from behind on the final stage to take the Group 5 victory in their RX-7. Mike Halley and Michael Brown put their Dodge Ram 50 through its paces as they head for the Production win. corner even with only three tires, and on & off drizzle that defied the day. Following the top two overall and Open Class cam-paigners was the Group 5 battle between the Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn Mazda RX-7 and the Mark Utecht/Diane Sargent Dodge Omni GLH Turbo. Hurst had secured the coeffi-cient two 05 title during the daylight rally with a nearly three minute margin. He was leading the front wheel drive Dodge by over a half a minute when he decided to stop on Stage 3 and accomplish a little preventive maintenance. By the time the Mazda started Stage 4 there was · a 48 second deficit to make up, and Utecht was not about to make things easy. Stages 4 and 5 found Hurst gaining back just nine seconds but he lost seven on Stage 6. With darkness truly settled Hurst cut 19 seconds from the 05 lead on Stage 7 but the deficit still stood at 2 7 ,sec-onds as the announcement was made that Stage 8 would be the final fling. After the event, Mark wrote "Diane and I were convinced that Mike and Rob would not try to make up that much time. We ran a consistent, safe, but not slow (final) stage. On the transit back, I (told) Diane that if Mike beat us after how well we did the stage, he deserved the trophy." And a Group 5 sweep was the trophy Hurst got after taking 30 seconds off Utecht's time on that final stage, winning the class by just three seconds! Production GT was "no con-test" for Mark Larson and Jeff Burmeister right up to the point a white tail deer leapt out of the darkness and into the path of their Eagle T alon. T he deer se-verely rearranged the front end forcing Larson to load his crumpled car onto the trailer while the Karen Burrows/Ken Cassidy Mitsubishi Galant claimed the PbN POT title. Ear-lier in the day, the husband and wife team secured second in POT at the Wandr'n Star. Two classes, Group 2 and Production, had but one entry each. This allowed the J.B. Niday/Kurt Kintigh Volkswagen GTI to claim the W andr'n Star 02 title, while the M.E. "Mad Mike" Halley/Michael Brown RAM claimed both Production titles. The weekend's events marked Mad Mike's return to stage rallying after a 12 year absence. Unfortunately, Niday's VW developed a serious trans-mission fluid leak which kept them from finishing PbN, but their whole team went home with wide grins on their faces. Two other. incidents merit mention only because the events were so incident free. Dusty Times The. 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Cecil, Ben and John won the 025 E class on their Yamaha, just two minutes ahead Of their competition. Todd Davis and Bryan Martin were the 250 E winners, f)esting the competition by half an hour at the finish. The Mundy/Arnold/Ri.Jsse/1 trio rode their unsponsored Kawasaki to the Open amateur win, an hour and a half in the lead. Their stay at the front wouldn't last long, however, and they would eventually finish 41st over-all, seventh Open Pro, a broken radiator certainly not helping their cause. The race started taking shape after less than 100 miles, with the Donnie Book/Ty Davis team inching their Montclair Yamaha/ FM F /Dunlop/IMS-sponsored YZ400F into the physical lead af-ter leading, unofficially, on cor-rected time for a while. About halfway into the race, shut completely off. He came however, the Yamaha team's for- riding in (to the pit), and it looked tunes took a dive when Book hit like Liz (Roeseler) said: like a Tro-che deck after hitting a rock in a phy truck with pieces just hang-sand wash. The crash did major ing. I saw him come in, and my damage to the bike as well as mouth dropped", Davis lamented. Book, who was riding only his sec-Abbott and a number of oth-ond race back after an injury. ers passed the Yamaha, especially He managed to gather himself in the many minutes it sat in the and the bike up, then limped it pits getting fixed by a frantic to Pit 4 where Davis waited. "I Davis and others. They got the mean, he didn't just slide out. He bike patched up (using some of broke the sub frame, he ripped the the parts from the motocross bike seat off, the muffler was almost David had in the back of his truck -------------------------and intended to save for an im-Your main source for the all portant motocross the next day in Southern California), and were barely in the top 10. Nursing vari-ous cuts and bruises, Book let Davis take the bike the rest of the way, and the team wound up fifth overall, fifth Open. I new RaceRunner shock series / . ...-, from Sway-Away. Now avail-~~ able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive 1taceRunner 3" body coil-over design. •NOt:tc• • rswAY-A-WAY Abbott was the first to reach the fallen Book on the course. "I Pearson about five miles. after 5:38:29 over Doug Chiapuzio and that. (Pearson rode a slightly up- James Summers, the other Team dated version of the bike he and Green entry who finished in brother Nick won Vegas-to-Reno 5:41:38. "We were all within 30 with, though it used the cider, seconds to a minute of each other. smaller 620 LC4 motor for its It was tight racing all day long", revvier qualities. And since Nick early leader Chiapuzio said. was sidelined wi~h injuries, Scot "We were having a great day Harden stood by to give the young battling with all these guys up Nevada resident a rest if he front", Dave Hamel insisted. "It needed it. As it-was, a broken en-was neat. You could see everybody gine did in the KTM effort, not was in sight (of one another); it was rider fatigue.) just charge hard all day long. This As tight as the race went up Yamaha ran really, really well. As front, though, it was second rate the day went on, they just slowly compared to the 250cc battle stretched out a small lead then I which involved four teams: two ended up with a flat for the last 50 Kawasakis, a KTM and a Yamaha. miles. That took its toll on me. It At the finish, only six minutes beat me up, It was so fast, too, I separated them with the Team was waiting for that (rear) tire to Green duo of Steve Hengeveld come off the rim. Look at this and Oakley Lehman emerging the thing; it's.hanging by a thread!" class winners (and ninth overall, Hamel and Danny Cooper the only 250 in the top 10) in placed third in class and 14th overall on their FT James Constructor/pro Circuit/ IMS YZ250 in 5:4421. They would've been fourth 250 had the KTM team of Bryan F·olks and David Pearson not been docked five minutes for missing part of th; course in the last pit, six. was feeling real confident, and I just wanted to stay (right) be-hind them since we started a minute behind them (and would be ahead on cor-rected time)", Abbott said. "I actually didn't think we'd be able to pass them; they were riding really good. Then I came around a corner and saw Donnie picking up his bike, he cartwheeled it pretty hard, I think. I stopped for him, and he said he was okay so he just waved me on. From that point on, we rode a really good pace." Scott Anderson and Larkin Wight ran the course on their Yamaha in 6:42:43 for a nice win in 0-40 Pat Tonopah. "I had a pretty good ride", Pearson related. "I caught up to Cowboy (James Summers) a little bit then Bryan hopped on the bike for his last (section). He went around and brought me the bike right behind Chiapuzio. So we pitted, and we headed out. There was a flagman, he was waving me down so I pointed like (asking), (go) down (here)? Yeah, he nodded his head. So I took off down, and I hook on _the course and I took off. I guess I was supposed to go straight. I didn't go straight so they might disqualify me, but ... " KARTEK •.. THE SOURCE for off-road racing equipment and services We now offer complete shock services including custom · revolving and rebuilding. We sell and ser-vice FOX, BILSTEIN, and all SWAY-A-WAY shocks, including the new RACE RUNNER series. 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He passed Davis in the pits there, then got fellow Honda rac-ers Torsten Bos-trom/Jonah Street about five miles up the course and KTM's Russell The Iron Man Amateur win went to Tim Ramsey, he and his Husaberg winning with a five minute margin over the competition. Tim Staab and Garth Sweetland enjoyed an excellent ride that put their Montclair Yamaha/ Precision Concepts/FMF YZ400F far ahead of the rest of the Under 250cc Four Strokes. In fact, they finished sixth over-all in 5:35:40, over 27 minutes ahead of the class runner-up despite a mysterious oil leak some-where in the engine. Page 40 June 1999 Dusty Times

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Robin Rightmire had a twenty minute margin as he won the 0-40 E Don Bird took the second place spot in the lronman Amateur class, Steve Pankas and Richard Purvines teamed up to win the 0-30 A class on his Kawasaki at the Tonopah festivities. only five minutes away from the class win on his Honda. class on their unsponsored Yamaha, winning by over half an hour. Dana Jones and Derek Nye picked up 185 points for their win in 4-SU A, shown here at speed on the Yamaha. Mike Childress and Jesse Thurbush had a good ride on their Honda, Kellon Walch and Nate Pearson took the 125 Pro class, flying across taking the 4-SO A class on their Mom and Roy sponsored Honda. the desert on their Husky in 6:04:12 for the win. In Over 30, on the other hand, the top runners finished within minutes of each other. Class champs Rick Bozarth and Daryl Folke came out on top with a fin-ishing time of 5:36:33 on their Sportsman Cycle/Dunlop/FMF KTM 300 M/XC, even though they deviated from their pre-race strategy at the last minute. "The original plan was for me kept the better rider on, plain and winning duo of Bert Bradford and Don't feel too sorry for the fi-to ride most of the miles, and Rick simple." Rob Phillips who finished in nal rider to cross the finish line. actually wound up riding a little Other notable performances 6:03:06 on their KTM for 20th Though it took Ramey Peticolas-bike more than me", Folks re- included the overall Expert win- overall. Stroud 10:41 :42 to make it to the vealed, saying his back hurt him. ners, a three-man team consist- Defending class champ Cory finish line on his Honda, the 51 "It actually worked out real well ing of Joey Garnder, Justin Lun- Ayers took the Ironman Expert year old from Lyons, Oregon, because he was feeling better than din and Rick Lundin on a Check-win in 6:09:32 good for 23rd over- took home a trophy for winning I was and riding better than I was. ers/Dick Allen's Yamaha YX400F. all. Open Amateur overall, get-Over 48 Amateur. He proved as Strategically, we do that sort of Their 6:02: 10 netted a fine 18th ting their KX500 to the finish in well as anyone else that persever-thing once in a while. We just overall to beat the Open Expert- 6:29:31 for 38th overall. ance pays off. ■ HONDA Power . Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER TO_~D -Racer· and Spectator D'iscounts •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 DoEsf DEllVERY TO THE RACE.5 AVAILABLE • PLEAsE CAIL AHEAD EX1000 KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3532E.3RoSi:La;~CA9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 HONDA Power Equipment Dusty Times ' . ~/SA i s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST Nothings easier. ~ For opumum p~r!"or.nance ;;md sa.f('ly. pk.,~ le::ad lh(' O\~,1~r·s m.mu:i.l bc.·fore o~r;.1.:lng your Hond:i. Po,..·t"r Equipment. S~cilk.:ulons subJC!'<'l lO ct-..1n~e ~1t.l-\oul noth;e. •E;c;tim.ite only. b:1~ed on r.ited toad. •Battery nol mdudt>d \\1th E~135vOSXKI. E~15000SXKI ;uld E90500SX. H\\"ith bdttery tr:.,y kll. whrtls & h.m~er. Conn«Uon to houst" powc-r requlrc-s tr.msfer d~i~ to .woi,! possible tnJu:y to po,.~:er company pl.'.'rsonnel. Consult .l qu.1.lified elecU11..·1;1n. June 1999 Page 41

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Matt Owen took the Class 2 (1600Cc) win after a long hard battle and he was fifth overall, shown here in low flight. It's been a long time coming but the victory by Terry and Mau-reen Rose in the opening race of the ·Australian Off Road Cham-pionship was a very popular one indeed. One of the nicest guys in the sport, Rose has come close many times but never won a Championship race before. The race was as if Rose had written the script with two of his friends in Doug McMillan and Laurie Sven-son filling the top three. Prologue The "Ipswich 300" continued the trend in Queensland to get the races close to the population cen-ters and it worked well. Terry Rose 'sent a message early in the piece by taking out the qualifying to start first. Rose beat Mark Burrows who now has more power with a bigger PRP Premier Racing Produr;:ts 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. 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Other class leaders were Steve Willett (Class 2), Glenn Hancey (Class 3), Michael Taylor (Class 4), James Kelly (Class 5), Les Siviour (Class 7) and Fabio Zarfati (Class 8 and fifth overall). Class 1 The battle between Rose and Burrows was on from the start. For three laps the pair diced with only car lengths in it. Burrqws held the upper hand and the overall lead when he slammed a ditch on Lap 4 and bent the front end. Already gone by this stage were Brad Zacka (clutch), and Nev Taylor (steering). John Towers was slip-ping back with less power from a busted gasket. Michael Collins and David MacGregor were hav-ing a great duel in their Subaru powered cars. Later MacGregor would move up into the lead pack while Collins went out with en-gine problems. Rose meanwhile was reeling off fast laps at the front aiming for that chequered flag. It came after eight laps and three and a half hours of racing. Rose took the class win along with the overall win. Laurie Svenson had used his Porsche power to advantage on the fast sections and claimed second in class (third overall). MacGregor had moved right up to take third in class and fourth overall, a feat which was most impressive. Towers struggled in for fourth in class with Tony · Fehihabar grabbing fifth after dropping back with fuel problems. Class 2 Only 10 cars, but full of quality. Local, Steve Willett lead the field through the opening laps as Matt Owen began to claw his way up &om a low qualifying start. After two laps Owen had moved from 20th overall to be ninth anct more importantly leading the 1600 class. Out early were Graeme Julius and also Troy Crane (cliff). On the third lap Willett's chances were gone with a broken axle. Another local Les Mar-shall took his place as the one to apply pressure to Owen, and at the half way point Owen lead, albeit by less than a minute to Marshall. The duel continued but then a lap later Marshall broke a shock and lost some time. John Brand and Tony Parker were fighting for third place. In the end Owen took the class win and fifth overall. Marshall took sec-ond place and a fine eighth overall. With Parker and Brand having problems, Wener Zetti grabbed third over Brand and then Mark Andrew in fifth. Class 3 The opening lap of the 1300 cars saw Hancey drop from the lead with a misfire. That put Darren Perrin into the led with a close battle behind with Maurice Wood, Kaleb Schmidt, and Brad Cooper. At the half way mark the order was the same although Wood had moved up to be on Perrin's tail. With Cannell out (torsion bar), as well as Hancey and then Cooper, it was a three car battle. Wood slipped back with loss of brakes al-lowing Schmidt through and that's CUSTOM ACCESSORIES, FABRICATION & MANUFACTURING QUICK, ·cLEAN, QUALITY SERVICE AT A DISCOUNT PRICE -CALL US! We can do almost anything in steel, aluminum or stainless. All work is guaranteed on time at the original estimated price. Installation available. 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That put them back even again and in the end Michael took the win over his younger brother. Class 5 Again only two cars but sadly no a good result for either. Peter Adams' Holden ute managed only one lap before gear problems leav-ing James Kelly who only got in three laps in the Datsun 1600 be-fore his day was over. Class 7 It was only the first lap and the attention was on the Limited 4x4s as Les Siviour stopped with a flat tyre and then when he pitted for a replacement, Geoff Pickering went past in his Mitsubishi Pajero Evo. The duel was on and there · was nothing in it as the pair put in near identical times. Brett Plant parked .the Mitsubishi ute with motor problems as did Bob-bie-Lee Siviour with electrical problems. Les Siviour then had more problems as a rear panhard rod broke. Pickering grabbed ev-ery opportunity and stretched the lead. Siviour had another prob-lem, one more stop and there was a Suzuki Sierra 1300 right on his tail. Tony Brose was driving in his first big race and putting pressure on the king of the class. In the end Pickering took the win and 10th overall. Siviour was next, with the amazing Brose following. Colin Hunter drove steady for a fourth in class in the Landcruiser. Class 8 All eyes were on the Fabio Zarfati Pajero now wearing the No. l by being the overall Cham-Dusty Times

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Darren Perrin led the Class 3 Contingent almost from the start and he. It was a long hard fight in Ct ass 4 between the Taylor brothers but Geoff Pickering led from the first lap and although the battle was long was the big winner at the Ipswich 300 late in March. eventually Michael, shown here at speed beat his kid brother to the flag. and very tight he emerged the winner in Class 7. The great looking Mitsubishi Pajero of Fabio Zarfati had problems The Class 9 title went to Doug McMillan who chased the overall win Laurence Svenson drove hard and fast and his car took him to second place in Class 1 and to the third overall position at Ipswich. late in the race but he was still the ClassB winner and sixth overall. all race long to no avail but second overall isn't too bad. pion from '98. He had a good class . the last lap though disaster as he were the best three. Paul Simp-lead at half way over the Ken Smith slipped into the unmarked ditch son showed he was back in form Rodeo, while out of the race were that claimed Burrows earlier and lay with an opening lap that put him Robbie Butler's VS Landcruiser on his side -for quite a while. He at the lead overall. Sadly though (motor pulley), Slav Stefanluk's eventually rejoined to finish class that wasn't to last as the next lap Daihatsu (control arm), and Gus winner and sixth overall. his motor let go. His son Dion was Laird's Suzuki (suspension). Smith Class 9 on the pace too but bad luck was right on the pace but then suf-The entry in the single seater struck him a lap later in the form fered a second gear failure overall, buggies are down for no reason. of a blown gearbox. That left only a minute behind Svenson. On This race only had three, but they Doug McMillan unchallenged for the class win, but McMillan In all it was a good event and wanted the race win and went·af- unique in that for once all the ter Terry Rose's Class 1. At half competitors seemed to like the way he was only two minutes in track, although only 45% actually arrears. The times seesawed and finished all eight laps. The Cham-indeed McMillan was quickest on pionship has now begun and looks the last two laps but it wasn't to like being a great battle once be. Despite a full-on drive Mc- again. Personal thanks to go Mit-Millan scored second overall, and subishi for the vehicle which al-obviously a class win. °lowed race coverage. ii BIGGER BOULDERS • BETTER BUMPS • BOUNTIFUL BRUISES Best payment at 65%, plus the lowest entry fees. Help make B.O.R.E. bigger and better, bring all racing friends and new racers. PRO CLASS "I" 1/2 Unlimited 10 1/2-1600 Mini Metal enuy $245.00 Insurance 100. 00 use fee 20.00 $355.00 PRO CLASS "II" Challenger and 5/1600 enuy $165.00 insurance 100. 00 use fee 20.00 $285.00 SPORTSMAN For the Almost-a-race-car. it's run what you brung. enuy $45.00 insurance 100.00 use fee 20.00 $165.00 EXTRA: CUrrent/Valid membership in any off road association will be honored by B.O.R.E. at your first race. EXTRA: $20.00 off entry fee for early entry with $100.00 binder receive at least two weeks before any race. Dusty Times BONNEVILLE OFF-ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Attn: LES WOLFE 1727 N. MAIN SUNSET, UTAH 84015 (801) 776-4654 June 1999 SEPTEMBER 11th Wendover,. USA Page43

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GREAT RACING AT THE FUD 200 Waddell Wins overall Photos: C&C Photo Josh Waddell put his Honda powered Chenowth Millennium into victory circle for the first time, with the overall win. Everything went right for and Bob Stemke ran fourth in Ford in the lead but he had Josh Waddell at the FRT Fud their two liter Chenowth. The only a minute and 29 seconds 200 in April, and he brought Whitteds zipped off the fast lap on David Bryan, a past Class 8 his good looking Chenowth for the day on the second lap, winner at the Parker 400, who Millennium back to the finish at 18:46, and now had 10 sec-hasn't raced for four years, in line in first place, for his first onds on Waddell, whose car is another Ford, and behind him win with the new car. powered by a Honda NSX mo-came Jody Mason, also Ford, This event was something of tor. The Stolz/Stemke team just eight seconds back. a departure for the FRT people, disappeared for a while on Lap Edgmon, it turns out, while since there was no motorcycle 3, and when they reappeared, seemingly a new face, wasn't and quad event in the _early over an hour down, they had a entirely. About five or six years morning hours. That meant completely sagged right rear ago he got his thrills by riding that the cars and trucks started suspension. They later reported along with Brady Stiles in Tony at 7 a.m., and if the confusion they'd broken a torsion bar, Alvarado's very fast truck. in the staging line meant any-and for some reason took it out (Stiles then graduated to riding thing, it was that FUD racers and installed a coilover shock and driving with Larry Ragland, have become spoiled by the on that corner, and then went and then went on to work for noon start times. Several rac-on, very slowly and gingerly, to Jack Flannery of SODA and ers got to the line date and out-s·ee how many laps they could CORR racing fame -he must of-order. accomplish. They were admired have showed Edgmon plenty The course was a 20· mile for their persistence. It looked about driving.) Edgmon also loop, and the cars ran 10 laps. darned uncomfortable. has some experience at the Cutoff time was 1:00 p.m., so On Lap 5, the Whitteds lost wheel, racing stock cars. But it would be a short day, with a whole lap when a battery blew this was his first off road race the race and awards presenta-up and Waddell went into the in the driver's seat. His truck tion all on Saturday. lead. The Whitteds were still was out for only the second Chuck Hovey was first off second, and the Pomeroys time, its motor had blown on the line in his still new 2800cc third, only 41 seconds back the first try, but all seemed to powered Ace co. Still new be-now. They were moving a little be working o.k. this time. By cause he hasn't yet done much quicker, gaining confidence the end of the third lap he had racing, being beset by "new car" perhaps, as they became accus-three minutes on Bryan, who woes. Before the race he was tomed to their new toy. · had a minute and a half on aware of a small problem in the The Whitteds came back at Mason. set up of the transmission full steam, but there weren't On the sixth lap Edgmon re-which would make it pop out enough laps left to allow them corded the fast lap for the class of fourth. gear. He said that was to catch up -and then fate at 20:38, and he now had just o.k., he'd just put it in neutral caught up with them, and the over seven minutes, while when he came to bumps and eighth lap was their last. Wad-Bryan, whose hood pin broke holes. Hovey never even got· dell, who does all his own prep, and the hood flew up, needing the first lap done, reporting was untroubled by any prob-immediate correction, was just later that he "blew up the lems, and made only one quick three minutes up on Mason. whole nose cone of the trans-stop for a splash of gas at the Edgmon stopped twice for fuel, mission." end of the seventh lap. He but didn't have any mechani-Mark Weyhrich had his new moved along at a very steady cal problems. Bryan felt the Chenowth with a V 4 Scat mo-pace, and took the class win right rear of his truck soften-tor out for a run also -but he and the overall victory. ing, or something, but he kept too, failed to get the first lap The Pomeroys, who said moving along at the same pace, done, and we never saw it mov-their day was "unbelievable", hoping that whatever it was ing. But Kyle and Joel Whitted finished second and promised would hang in there to the fin-had their Class 10 Honda pow-they'd be back to do it again. ish line. ered Jimco fairly flying, and None of the other Unlimited Edgmon took the win, and they were the first car back to cars got to the finish line. was second overall for the day, the line. They were only two In the big trucks the racing finishing 12 minutes up on seconds up on Waddell, who was hot and heavy for the Bryan. Bryan's truck had lost had just under four minutes on whole day, except for Robbie the top bolt on the rear trail-Tom and Troy Pomeroy, in a Faulkner in his Chevy, who had ing arm and the whole rear as-2800cc Type IV powered two very long laps and then sembly was moving in a differ-Raceco (used to belong to Jeff didn't come around again, his ent direction than the front, it Quinn). This was their very front suspension seriously out seemed. Mason was third, a first off road race, and they of whack. At the end of the minute and a half later. were having a ·blast. Rod Stolz first lap Robert Edgmon had his . The 1600 race was another Page 44 June 1999 Bob Edgmon, a relative newcomer to off-road, fought off a couple of challengers to win the exciting big truck class. good one. Eric Williams had his Jimco out in front at the end of the first Jap, but he had only six seconds on Tim Moore in a Chenowth. Andy DeVercelly III ran third in his Home Built car. At the end of the second lap Williams, who could hear something wrong at the back of his car, pulled into his pit to have them check it out, and they found a cracked exhaust. He went on, while they got set up to make repairs at the end of the third lap. He dropped to second, with Moore in the lead. Moore, who is an old bike racer, had retired from racing 15 years ago, and this was his third race in a car. From the way he went over the bumps it was pretty apparent he was a biker, it could be seeri. that he expected the front end to come up, and wanted to sail over the rough stuff on just his rear wheels. He managed to get it done more often than ·not. After Williams got his re-pair done he was five minutes down to Moore. But Moore stopped for fuel and a passen-ger change on Lap 5, and the gap closed up to just over two minutes. Williams stopped at the .end of Lap 5 for his pas-senger change and fuel, and the gap widened to three min-utes again. Moore, knowing he had the. lead, slowed down a bit to preserve the car. But he slowed too much and Williams began to gain again. By the eighth lap he had the lead, by five seconds. Moore's wife sent an urgent message on the ra-dio, and Moore got back on the gas, making his ninth lap the quick one for the class, at 21 :53, and regaining the lead. Now he had 52 seconds on Williams. Not sure exactly where he stood, Moore kept the pressure on the throttle for the last lap, and was on his way to recording an even faster time. He came in to the finish line really hustling, and it was apparent he was going to try to clean the crooked bump at the finish line, biker style. He didn't make it. The car was launched, and did a spectacular cartwheel, landing once on its right rear corner, then bouncing again and land-ing on its wheels about eight inches in front of the finish line as spectators and photog-raphers scattered. Moore shook his head, shifted into low, and crossed the line se-dately as Fud waved the checkered flag. He had his win. Williams finished second, a minute and 24 seconds back. The De Vercelly team was third, running into problems with the throttle on the last lap. Later Moore allowed as how he'd come into the finish line "too hot." He also said the tor-sion bars had sagged and the rear of the car had a lot of kick. That it did .. in Class 100 the two car race was a hot one for half of the race. Richard Burnworth had his 2180cc Chenowth in front from Lap 1, with only 26 sec-onds on Mark Gilliland who drives a 2164cc Raceco. On the third lap Burnworth recorded the fast lap for the class, at 22:16, and by then his lead had grown to 54 seconds. Then Burnworth's exhaust fell off, and he spent a few minutes go-· ing bac°k to pic°k up t"he p·ieces, and then stopping to have it all reattached in his pit. As a re-sult, Gilliland moved into the lead, with eight and a half min-utes on Burnworth. On the fifth lap trouble struck again, and Burnworth lost a power steering belt, and another eight or nine minutes were gone. Now Gilliland had a 16 minute lead. But on the eighth lap he failed to come around, and B~rnworth went on from there, his car running fine now arid all the pieces firmly stuck on, to take the win. He said it was "a good day." Gilliland never did finish. In the little truck class things were exciting for a while, but they all self-de-structed eventually. Terry Brown_ and Bill O'Brien, who haven't raced for many years, were back, in a Ford. It's the same car they raced in the past (originally a Simon and Simon truck), but recently rebuilt by Craig Stewart. This was its first outing, and they put it into the lead on the first lap, with just over four minutes on James Frederick and Jason Fitzgerald in a Toyota. In third it was the Datsun/Ford team of Rodd Fantelli and Charlie Bignell, another 41 seconds back, while Rex Dale and Colin Mulliner ran fourth, 30 seconds later, in a 2400cc Toyota. Steve Lawrence uncharacteristically brought up the rear, nine min-utes down, in his 3.8 liter Ford. He never got a second lap fin-ished. Brown and O'Brien stayed in front, but Fantelli and Bignell moved up to second, exactly four minutes back. Frederick and Fitzgerald were now third, · Dusty Times

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,m ..... , w. :'.~;9<"• Bill Zabrowsti and Gene Levell took the Sportsman class win in their Suspensions Unlimited car. He had to retrieve some pieces of his exhaust during the race, but Rex Dale and Colin Mulliner had to make on-course repairs to their Richard Burnworth still managed a win in his Chenowth. Toyota, but pulled of a win in the Small Truck class. with Dale and Mulliner fourth, four minutes later. Bignell and Fantelli hit their stride on Lap 3 and recorded the class fast lap, a zippy 24:44, to move up to within a minute and 43 sec-onds of Brown and O'Brien. But it was all in vain, because they broke on the next lap and so did Brown and O'Brien. But, while Bignell and Fan-telli came back on a tow rope, Brown and O'Brien had a transmission transplant, and after an hour and 45 minutes were back on the road. Dale and Mulliner had moved into the lead, and they had just 32 minutes on Brown and O'Brien, while Frederick and Fitzgerald, whose fourth lap had been over two hours long, were third, and the last truck still running. Dale and Mulli-ner continued to lead, their cushion growing to 42 minutes · on the sixth lap. Brown and O'Brien, whose transplant Thrifty Val Special Used Complete D\P motor $299.00-ex. (With Warranty) hadn't been entirely success-laps done. tinued to lead, Somers and Jim and Cameron McGinley ful (Stewart later said "all the The Class 900 cars were Perea running second, about drove a 5-1600. The race was parts didn't exactly match"), next, and they had a hard day 20 minutes back. But then close, either team could have were still running but not also. Julie Kern put her Kernco they, too, disappeared, and taken the win, but Zabrowski nearly as well as before. into the lead on the first lap, she was by _herself on the and Levell, whb had no brakes Frederick and Fitzgerald with a minute and two seconds course. After six laps Becki the last four laps, got the vie-pulled out at the end of five on Eric Allen in another Kern got in, and she did two tory. Their fast lap was 29:37 laps, out of time to finish any Kernco. In third it was Trey laps, and then Adam Pfank-on Lap 4. The McGinleys fin-more. And about 10 minutes Somers and Dave Perea in uch got in to finish. He broke ished only a bit over five min-later Brown and O'Brien Hovey's old Class. 9 car, a the replacement ball joint (it utes behind them, actually crossed the line to finish their Jimco. Kern's lead was only 28 was a used one) and the team beating Bongiovanni's time, to sixth lap in a cloud of smoke seconds at the end of Lap 2, decided to call it quits after · take second place. and a stream of trans fluid, ask-and on Lap 3 AUen recorded nine laps, since they had their All the racing was over in ing for a fire extinguisher. The the fast lap for the group, at win and no one else was mov-time for lunch, and after an in-fire didn't materialize, but it 25:39 and.went into the lead. ing. Somers and Perea got formal and immediately grati-was a nervous few minutes, and But then on the next lap he credit for second plate. fying awards ceremony, it was they decided it would be wise rolled the car, doing extensive Only Frank Bongiovanni ran time to play in the desert. to call it a day. damage to the left rear suspen-in Class 5-1600, and he put in The next FRT event will be Dale and Mulliner, mean-sion parts. His father said that eight steady laps and then the Conquista Gran Prix, for while, went on to finish their Allen was in a hurry to get called it a day, his quick time both bikes and cars, at a new seventh lap. They reported home, because it was prom of 31:01 coming on Lap 3. site, about 12 miles east of they had broken a spindle bolt night, and he had a date, so he In the Sportsman ranks, Tecate in the northern edge of and a motor mount, but had got wanted the race to be over which were required to run Baja. It will be a short course, it all fixed, and they said it was early. And for him it was. only eight laps, the lead be-on the roads of a big sand and "fun." They got their win, Kern, meanwhile, was back longed to Bill Zabrowski and gravel operation, and there will Brown and O'Brien were sec-in the lead, even after losing Gene Levell, right from the be ample parking for camping ond, and Frederick and Fitzger-12 minutes while she had a start. 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VORRA's Spring Special Fram Prairie City, SVRA By Ron Miller Photos: Cindy Monroe ~=~~~ Larry Deaton had a good day, taking a second and a first in his Chenowth Millennium, to finish first for the day. Race 2 of Valley Off Road Rac-ing Association's spectacular championship series was con-tested on April 25, 1999. It was another big day for the Robinson clan, as fans and entrants rushed to Northern California like the "forty-nine rs." These thrill seek-ers weren't looking for gold or land. They wanted road, OFF ROAD. Initial reports said nearly 60 settlements popped up, just at Prairie City alone. Those wagon masters weren't chasing fool's gold1 they were after VORRA purse money. The Rob Parsons and Larry Deaton camps landed tentious field of nine took part, the two biggest nuggets. Three led by Chris Ellis. Ellis parlayed other local miners who tapped his favorable pole position start-into rich veins in March, once ing spot into the race's early again filled up their saddle bags. lead. Jason Sacks and Ali Miller That trio included Dave Tarrant, .led the pursuit, with. Charles Randy Miller, and Bill Dorsey. If Bryan and Lenne_y McLean also you readers out there stake claim forwardly placed. Ellis contin-( or claim interest) in these ued to race strongly on the lead, driver's deeds, then I'm ready to while McLean began to close in shine on all the glitter and head from the fourth spot. By the into the race recap. . time the halfway sign was given, This year's "Spring Special" McLean had worked his way card got underway with an ex- · past classmates Sacks and citing heat race for Sportsman Miller. Collaring .Ellis was next Novice Class entrants. A con-on McLean's agenda, but the race's pacesetter continued to show the way. With less than two laps remaining, Ellis clung to the lead, while David Steele moved up into third. Ellis dug in gamely trying to hold off McLean, as those two began their final lap. The Santa Rosa, CA resident however, simply would not be denied. Ellis fi-nally succumbed to McLean's late charge, after having led matters from the very outset. It was a game effort by the winner and a very tough loss for the runner-up. Steele finished steadily to take third, followed by Bryan who placed fourth. John and Billy Manfroy aced both Class 7 events in their Ford, to take the win for the day. Race 2 was comprised of six entrants from Classes 8 and Heavy Metal Vet. Lance Rhine-Dave Tarrant made it two for two for the year, by compiling a first and a second place in the Class 9 race. hart emerged as the overall win-ner, and proved himself much the best along the way. Jarad and Chad Wilson tried unsuccessfully to keep pace with Rhinehart dur-ing the first half of the race. The same was true of Don Sutton and John Chapman, who chased the San Jose, CA speed star through the later laps. Rhinehart took his overmatched rivals all the way, and defeated the overall second place finisher (Sutton) handily. Chapman finished next behind the.top pair, and was followed past the finish by the Wilson duo. Race 3 was made up of en-trants competing in Classes 9 and Sportsman veteran. Jon Gurney was away well, and he established the race's early lead. Randy Miller was stalking him from second position, and Jim Cast followed next in third. Gary Steele led another trio of classmates, as the field began to sort itself out. A quartet of Class 9 racers also shared the track on Lap 1. That number was soon reduced to three, when Forest Creasy got caught up in a Sportsman class tangle. It was Eric Steiger leading the "niners" through that division's first two laps. John Creasy was racing sec-ond and Dave Tarrant was con-tent to track the leaders from third. Both classes saw lead changes take place during Lap 3. Miller surged past Gurney into the overall lead, with Cast and Steele still holding third and fourth re-spectively. Creasy was now lead-ing Tarrant in Class 9, as Steiger suddenly dropped back to third. Miller set said for victory shortly after hitting the front, and Cast seemed to be the only one capable of stopping him. That pair raced 1-2 from the halfway point with Miller of Woodland, CA emerg-ing the winner. Cast was forced to settle for runner-up honors, and Roscoe Cook came from well off the pace to finish third. Mean- . while, Tarrant grabbed the pass on Creasy while that pair diced on Lap 5. It was a lead that Tarrant would not surrender, and he con-tinued on powerfully to victory. Creasy was along for second place and Steiger completed the Class 9 order of finish. Class 10 entrants took center stage next, with a fine field of eight facing the starter. David Kordonowy broke from the third position, but he soon was out winging on the lead. Sam Berri led the pursuit, with Rob Parsons and Troy Robinson also among those giving chase. Kordonowy had matters well in hand on the front end. The Carson City, NV vet-eran dictated the pace through-out, and never did come back to his field. Berri proved best of the rest, to capture the runner-up position. Parsons and Robinson were left to dispute the race's third spot. When Robinson was unable to grab the pass, Parsons claimed third place. Race 5 on the day was con-tested by nine entrants from Class 7. Todd Spicer broke from the pole position, and utilized that advantage to grab the hole shot. John and Billy Manfroy also broke sharply, and that pair raced nearest the early leader. Fred Calosso settled into the third position ~nd Gary Skipton was racing behind him in fourth. Spicer continued to enjoy the advantage, until the Manfroys took over command on Lap 3. Calosso was still .racing third, and Mike Koenig had closed up into the fourth position. The Manfroy duo showed no signs of slowing down, as the number of remaining laps dwindled. The· front-runners had the lead all to themselves, even after Calosso finally got by Spicer (on Lap 7). Second place was as close as Calosso got to the lead, as the . Manfroys were first to the checkered flag. The runner-up closed well, but he simply ran out of time. Following Calosso past the finish line was Spicer, who ended up taking third place. Koenig was next in fourth, and he was followed by Tim Schrader in fifth. The next heat featured a half dozen entrants from the Pilot class. Clint Wolsey established the race's early lead, as Paul Franklin, Robby Wright, and Bill Dorsey, all gave chase. There was very little chap.ge in the running order during Race Jarad and Chad Wilson's Scout went up in smoke, but they still managed a fourth · in Veteran Class B. Traffic was heavy, but when it was all untangled, Randy Miller (center) won the Veteran class, ~ith two first places. · 6, as the ultra-quick Wolsey continued to hold his rivals at bay. Dorsey did move past Wright to assume the third spot, but he was unable to menace Continued on page48 Page 46 June 1999 Dusty Times

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Rob Parsons put together a third and a first in Class 10 to give himself win number two for the season. Lance Rhinehart blasted his way to a pair of wins in his Ford, taking home first place in Veteran 8 for the weekend. either Wolsey or Franklin. Wol-lin emerged with runnePup sey returned a most convincing honors, while Dorsey checked winner, easily leading his class-in third and Wright placed mates from flag to flag. Frank-fourth. Page 48 the halfway point, Tavis surren-der~d the lead to McLean. Miller was now running second, with Ellis third and Bryan fourth. After hitting the front, McLean set sail for victory. His classmates were left to dispute the runner-up result, as McLean went on to complete his Sunday sweep. Miller hung on for sec-ond, with Ellis taking third and Bryan placing fourth. In the day's overall scoring, Ellis fin-ished up second to the winner. Bryan placed third, Miller took fourth, and Sacks finished fifth. Next up was the Heavy Metal Jo_hn Creasy had a second and a third in his stars and stripes Class 9 car to finish second for the day. . Vet and Class 8 finale. A half dozen took part, with John Chap-.man setting the early pace. Lance Rhinehart and Don Sutton raced second and third in the early go-ing. Rhinehart wasted.little time, as he quickly engaged the leader on Lap 2 and took over command. There really wasn't much Chap-man could do about it. He simply chased Rhinehart the rest of the way, before settling for the race's overall second spot. It was either Jarad or Chad Wilson following Chapman past the "checks" to place third, and Sutton finished fourth. Rhinehart was much the best, and was declared the over-all winner in Class 8. Chapman came away with the Heavy Metal Vet class victory, with Sutton tak-ing runner-up honors; Race 7 completed the day's early heats, and featured a com-pact field of five Class 1 racers. Dennis Kordonowy quickly raced off into the early lead. Sam Berri tracked from the sec-ond spot, with Larry Deaton running third and Tim Bowman and George Reese next in fourth. Kevin Ohnstad suffered a blown engine, and was knocked out of the running soon after the start. Kordonowy still held the advantage as the field completed Lap 1. Before the remaining quartet had com-pleted Lap 3 however, Berri had stormed past him and into the lead. Deaton and the team of Bowman and Reese then fol-lowed suit, and Kordonowy was now back in fourth. For all in-tents and purposes, the Class 1 contest was over at that point. Berri simply proved too hot to June 1999 handle, as he powered his way to victory. Deaton finished sec-ond best for the heat, with Bow-man/Reese beating out Kordon-owy for third. With Berri's super Class 1 win bringing a completion to the day's early heats, it was now time to begin .the "Spring Spe-cial" main events. The Sports-man Novice class contestants headed toward their starting positions. A field of seven was staged, led by Heat 1 winner Lenney McLean. Terrie Tavis was out fast and established the early lead. Ali Miller was rac-ing second, with McLean in third and Marcia Watkins in fourth. Following the leading quartet were Chris Ellis, Jason Sacks, and Charles Bryan. On Lap 2, McLean moved up into second place and Ellis took over fourth. As the heat approached The following "main" was for Class 9 and Sportsman Veteran entrants. A field of 10 took part, led by Randy Miller of Wood-land, CA. Miller literally took the track from his rivals, as he blasted into the lead and never LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE 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. Isn't it time you made your mark? Bolt a set · on today. Available at more performance outlets than any other brand. www.mickeythompsontires.com Mickey Thompson Performance Tires, 4670 Anen Road, Stow, Ohio 44224 Tech line 1330) 928-9092 Dusty -Times

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Sam Berri won the heat but dropped to third in the main, for a second In the Pilot Class events, Paul Franklin had a pair of seconds, to finish In the Veteran Class, Jim Cast added up a pair of deuces to get a place final result in Class 1. second for the day. second for the weekend --===================== l Fred Calosso, Ford, was a good steady second place in both events, Sam Berri had a busy day, put himself into second place in the final In the Veteran B class, John Chapman took a third and a second i his highly air-conditioned truck. and took home second place in the final standings. standings in both Class 10 and Class 1. looked back. Jim Cast turned in lead and Parsons moved up to osso suddenly dropped back. his usual fine effort, chasing challenge. Berri tried desper-Schrader moved up to take over Miller throughout and finishing ately to hang on to the lead, but the second spot. Schrader was a solid second. Steve and Travis Parsons was just too tough. Par-soon overtaken by B.J. and Bradford trailed the field early, sons forged to the front on the Tristan Butcher. Those rivals but began moving up on Lap 3. final lap and took the checkered briefly held possession of second Their sustained rally carried the flag. Berri finished as runner-up, place on Lap 5, but Schrader re-pair to a good third place fin-and Robinson beat Dale Smith gained that position the follow-ish. Incidentally, the Bradford for third. Parsons of Corona, ing lap. As the Manfroys sped duo are third generation racers CA also kept his season record through their two laps, Schra-on this circuit: Their Grand fa-unblemishe·d, as he claimed his der dropped out with vapor iock ther reportedly raced for 50 + second overall Class 10 victory and Skipton moved into second. years (without missing a single of the year. Berri again finished The day clearly belonged to the season)! Miller's overall victory as the runner-up, and Robinson Manfroys though, as they swept improved his series record to a repeated his third place finish. to another big win. Skipton held perfect two for ·two. Cast was Next on the card was the fi- second, with Patty Hoyos finish-also the runner-up in that cat-nale for Class 7. A contentious ing up third. Calosso, Koenig, egory, with the Bradfords tak-field of nine faced the starter. and Monroe, finished fourth ing third and Jon Gurney plac-There was a three way battle for through sixth respectively. Cal-ing fourth. It was another wire command in the early going. osso, who landed runner-up job in Class 9 action. For the Mike Koenig held the lead as honors, followed the Manfroys second time this year, Forest the field reached completion of in overall scoring. Hayos and Creasy followed a disappointing Lap 1. Fred Calosso was second, Spicer placed third, with Koenig Heat 1 effort with a sparkling with John and Billy Manfroy taking fourth and Skipton fin-main event win. Creasy wired racing in third. Tim Schrader, ishing fifth. the "niner" field, taking them Gary Skipton, and Mark Mon-The Pilot class entrants took from flag to flag. Dave Tarrant roe, held the fourth through center stage next. After two de-was back in third place for the sixth positions. The Manfroys of fections from the day's earlier first half of the race. He moved San Jose, CA definitely had heat, a field of four took shape. into second on Lap 5, and held "sweep" on their minds, as that Tracy, CA's Bill Dorsey put it that position to the finish. The duo made a bold move on Lap all together when it counted opposite was true of John 2. After grabbing the pass on most. Dorsey out raced his ri-Creasy. Creasy, who prompted Calosso, they took dead aim on vals for the early lead, and then the early pace, outfinished Eric the leader. There was no stop-played "come catch me." Rich-Steiger for third place. In over-ping them, as the Manfroy's ard Wolsey raced nearest the all scoring, Dave Tarrant came raced past Koenig and into the leader in the early going, and away with the big prize again. lead. Several entrants made Paul Franklin did the same Tarrant of Petaluma, CA, also strong bids for second place, but through the late stages. It was improved his '99 VORRA the overall win was never in all Dorsey on the front end how-record to a perfect two for two. doubt. After Koenig and Cal-ever, as he led all the way and John Creasy topped Steiger for the overall runner-up spot. Next up was the main event for Class 10. Troy Robinson seized command at once, pow-ering his way off into -the lead. Sam Berri tracked the paceset-ter from second, while David Kordonowy followed him in third. Rob Parsons and Dale Smith raced in fourth and fifth respectively, and the Keith Waterman/Robert Payto·n team trailed the field early. There was no change on the front end, as Robinson led Berri past the half-way sign. Parsons then began to edge closer, and he slipped past Kordonowy into third. With slightly more than two laps re-maining, Berri took over the Dusty Times Lenney McLean, his paint job obscured by mud, took a pair of wins, to finish the day first in the Novice class. June 1999 romped to victory. Franklin fin-past the race's halfway mark, ished up in second, with Robby and into one of the P.C. co1,;.rse's Wright taking third and Wolsey trickiest turns. There was con-fourth. The day's overall scor-tact between the two leaders, ing was almost identical. Dor-and Berri got all the worst of it. sey (1st), Franklin (2nd), and At that point, the Class l trio Wright (3rd), held their same suddenly became a duo. Deaton top three positions. The only led the abbreviated parade the difference was the Wolsey tak-remainder of the way, and ing fourth place was Clint, ended up winning by a distance. rather than Richard. That a"ilowed Lb. to daim ·both With the noticeable absence the "main" and overall victo-of Kevin Ohnstad and Dennis ries. The Bowman and Reese Kordonowy from the starting team beat Berri in the finale, lineup, the "Spring Special" but the opposite proved true in Class l finale had just three en-overall scoring. trants. Sam Berri proved quick-That was the story my friends, est of that threesome, as he as piece #2 of VORRA's 1999 raced away to the early lead. puzzle was put in place. Kudos to Larry Deaton was right behind the winning camps, and to all 0th-the pacesetter in second, while ers who participated. Congratula~ Tim Bowman and/or George tions also to the VORRA brain Reese followed in third. The trust. for putting together another first half of the race, there· was outstanding show. The "Yering-no change in the running order. ton 300" Desert Race is next up Berri continued to lead, with on the calendar. Come join all the Deaton racing right on his fun in Yerington, NV on May 29-bumper. That duel continued 31. If you do, I will. ■ ·✓ ULTRASONIC CLEANING ✓ CNC MILLING & 011 Coolers / Radiators TURNING Blocks / Lines / Fittings ✓ PRODUCTION & Assembled Components PROTOTYPE ✓ TESTING SERVICES ✓ CAD/CAM Magnetic Particle PROGRAMMING (Magnaflux / Myglo) ✓ Liquid Penetrant REVERSE (Dye Penetrant I Zyglo) ENGINEERING Ultrasonic ✓ EDM MACHINING X-Ray CRITICAl 3043 Oak St, Santa Ana, CA 9Z'T07 Ph 714-957-1215 Fx 714-957-1567 e-mail: WBUNN@CRITICAL-OP.COM FAA Repai'Station #WB7R288J Page 49

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-... www .checkersoffroad.org M.D.R. Lucerne Valley, tech, and registration Friday night was cold enough that Thumper's tattoo would resemble only a black dot. Those who have seen it would say it looks that way all the time. Even the hottest day at Barstow it would still look only like a smudge of grease. Thumper carried on a long-stand-ing CHECKER tradition. As I stood in Lucerne in the freezing cold, my hand frozen to my beer, I realized its time he passed on this CHECKER tradition. Few have actually viewed his tattoo or even knew of this tradi-tion. Jeff Hibbard was rumored to assume this tradition, but was unable to, the CHECKER # 1 would be too thin and all they could get was the "CH". The Bird Bros. were the original CHECKERS to start this tra-dition. As time went by, a CHECKER I'll only refer to as J.R. stepped up to the plate. After a few beers anyone within eyesight was treated to an eyeful of a proud CHECKER and his tattoo. J .R. would lay it out on the table for all to see, it's been on shoulders and a few hands have held it. In Thumper's case probably only his hand and very few sightings. Medi-cal science offers some hope, but Thumper's insurance won't cover the cost and Rosenstein's dad re-tired so Thumper is out of luck. So its time for a new younger CHECKER to take over and carry on this fine tradition. If you're inter-ested in carrying on this· CHECKER tradition contact Thumper and he'll put you in touch with his tattoo art-ist who can do the same tattoo only larger. The Lucerne race started at 7 · a.m. So unless you camped out and froze or were able to get one of the 40 rooms in town you had to stay in Victorville or Hesperia at least an hour away. Three CHECKER cars were slated to start but by 7 a.m. only one showed up at the starting line. Tom Koch's Class 1 car was on the trailer Friday night puking oil from one of the cylinder heads putting an end to the rockets weekend. Mike Duenus was testing his 1-1600 with a new motor. When Mike got out of the car his helmet drove itself straight to the ground. I'm not sure if Mike's head was still in the helmet at that time. There was no report of brain dam-age from CHECKER main, only slight intoxication. The helmet suf-fered severe scratches, and after sev-eral hours of intense rubbing and polishing the helmet couldn't be saved. His pit crew and co-driver determined the scratches were too much, the aerodynamic flow over Mike's helmet would slow the car down. Mike wouldn't be competitive enough to race and there was no guarantee the helmet would not hit the ground again. The fact that the motor wasn't running right and the carb would not work also came into play. Mike parked his car and spent the day pitting. Craig Dillon's Class 10 was also out testing on Friday when his motor let loose. His pit crew and motor builder spent that night rebuilding Craig's motor. Craig was the only CHECKER car to start but motor problems plagued him throughout the day. The exhaust came loose and they broke a shock tower, a tough day for Team Dillon. They finished fourth in Class 10. Page so SNORE 300. Jimmy Tucker and Mike McGee towed up to state line for this race. The first lap Jimmy's shifter broke before Pit B and he was stuck in second gear. After welding his shifter back to-gether Jimmy made up some time but not enough. Mike took over and on the next lap lost a valve cover, lost all the oil and blew the motor, end-ing their day. Was this another of those Kenny Majors' one lap motors? I hope your luck was better tables. A water-cooled motor looks to be in this team's future. Dan "the man" Martin and Dennis Crowley showed up and were ready to race. Dan, what can I say, you and Crow-ley make a good team, you're fast and now I can say you can drive the steer--ing wheel off your car. I overlooked the fact that you ran out of gas at San Felipe , but I can't look the other way on this one. Red locktite it works. Vise grips work well also, and in your case a loose nut behind the wheel has two meanings. Other than this and blowing your motor apart what else could go wrong? Well, how about say a stuck throttle, or rolling your car and a flat tire. A big D.N.F. Rob Marley 1-1600 a racer with a great record and a lot of experience did the club proud. Always a front runner. Rob ran a perfect trouble free day, finishing first on the road only to lose to some local boys by mere seconds. Other than needing water and a radio, it was a good run. Sec-ond place. Mike Alt welcome CHECKER brother, I'm sure you'll be a great asset to the club. I've seen you in pits working, and I like you no matter what they say about you. The CHECKER summer party is coming soon so if you\e interested in donating raffle prizes to the CHECKERS, please contact Jimmy Hook, it's a great way to get invited to this blow-out party. Fathers and sons, that's what go-ing to the desert is all about. The last two races I've had the chance to meet some of these fine young men. And, yes, I know some of you have daughters that race also and I'd like to meet them also as long as they an. of age and good looking, of course. The future of the CHECKERS lies in our sons, we're a male only club. It's great to see Jimmy Tucker and his son working a pit. Dennis Crow-ley and his son tightening bolts on the Martin Crowley race team's car. Bob Wright and his son running from BLM ranger Jack, only to have Dad wreck your new bike. Sean Krepsz and his son, The Krepsz Bros. are bad enough, do we need more? All these young men with the guidance of their fathers are sure to be great CHECKERS. Tom Dittfield, I have very few words _to say to you other than grow up and act like a man before you · enter another CHECKER pit. Thanks once more to all the com-panies and individuals that donated items to the CHECKER raffle for our 25th Reunion. Also thanks to club members for bringing our their cars to display at the casino. I very much enjoyed the Shelby with the nice rack. Any CHECKER would have loved to test drive this one even if the radio was out of tune. Jeff Hibbard and Doug Brown of Hibbard and Brown Racing placed second in a dwarf car race and Ven-tura Speedway recently. Hey, maybe you guys can get rid of that yellow ribbon soon. So you want to be a CHECKER, we're always looking for a few good men. Hey, joining the CHECKERS is not easy. A lot of racers read this column and they won't join for the fear of rejection. Sure we have a blackball vote and we're not always the best influences or role models. Unless you look up to drunks and the regulars at strip clubs. You get the picture, but if you're been to a CHECKER pit or been helped out by the CHECKERS, you'll realize we have first class pits and equipment and members that go the extra mile for your race team. You don't have to be a racer to join the CHECK-ERS, anyone can join and be part of 25 years of a great racing tradition dedicated to winning. ■ Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE REPORTS: MDR LUC-ERNE 300: Seven Challengers made the line for six laps around Lucerne Valley's best and worst trails in a 50 mile loop that was to say the least, interesting. Lap 1 saw two separate incidents that ended the race for two cars, and almost a third. About Mile Marker 7, the Dave Lawson entry snapped what must have been an al-ready cracked drum, and rolled it right in the middle of a tight wash. Luckily, they landed skid plates down, and just off of the race line. We started last off of the line and when I got there Dave was already out and directing traffic. Parts were chased in, and after about an hour and a half down, they were back on the road. The second incident in-volved several problems, and unfor-tunately several people. The prob-lems all started with an ill placed check point sign. At the end of a fast section, the "CHECK POINT 1000 FT" sign was placed where the map said it would be, right before a 90 degree left hander. Well, for some reason the check point wasn't there. About a mile and a half later, in a slightly tighter section, the check point workers had set up not know-ing the other sign was so far away. After seeing the "1000 Ff" sign, and nothing in sight for 2000 ft., this lead . most drivers to thinking the check point was abandoned, and resumed racing. Harry Dunne had made it to where the check point really was, and was waiting for his tum to go. Behind him, Art Valasco and Darin McGuffin were dicing in the dust and didn't see the upcoming check. CRASH! ! ! Valasco slammed into the back of Harry at about 40 mph. Harry initially thought he was para-lyzed, but soon got the feeling back in his legs. (You've got to remember Harry's 62 years young.) Everyone was physically OK, but the damage was extensive. Both cars were defi-antly out for the day and maybe longer. As of this writing, the mem-bers of Harry's pit club, FAIR, are pulling together to get him back to-gether for the June race. (THANKS GUYS!!! from: Harry). Robert Riffle also rolled it on the first lap at "the wall", but recovered with only scratches. On to the rest of the race ... On Lap 2, we were leading by about ten minutes on Robert Riffle who'd had a flat, with Se.an Defrank and Darin McGuffin running almost neck and neck. Dave Lawson had re-covered from his first lap roll-over, but broke a front shock and had to stop for repairs. On Lap 3, my "Chaser Dude", Harold, told me we had about 15 minutes oflead and we could probably back it off a notch. Riffle was in second, McGuffin third, Defrank was next, and Lawson fi-nally got in a clean lap. On the fourth June 1999 go-around Harold said we were up 20 minutes "so take it easy." The rest of the order stayed the same, but McGuffin blew both his rear shocks, and had spares installed. Defrank had a flat, and everyone got through their drivers changes ok. On Lap 5, we were told our lead was now 25 minutes, and we just needed to "get around one more time." We contem-plated stopping to relieve ourselves, but decided to stick it out (not stick it out?). Just before the "wall" I no-ticed a 9 car coming up on us and concluded he must be a lap down, so I pulled over and let him go by. After consulting several sources, we .. realized we just gave away the lead. Apparently Harold was getting his information from Pit "A", and they had missed Riffle on one lap. Randy Rose was now in the car and he had really turned up the heat. Randy, you see, not only had stepped in for an over-exhausted Jim Delaney, he had raced this car before and had done quite well. The whole race turned into one-on-one-for-one-lap. I caught him about Mile 5, and made a move on an outside line. We were back in the lead, but by no means comfortable. I turned up the wick, but Randy wasn't giving up. After about 25 miles I finally put about a minute on him, but, there were still ten miles of rough to go. On Lap 2 my front end had started to feel soft, and I was worried we wouldn't be able to hold him off. In the mean-time Randy had lost second gear, and couldn't get through the rough as smoothly as he needed to. We held him off, and went on to win. Yup, WIN. After ten years, we finally won one. I can't begin to explain all of our emotions that I went through that afternoon. After so many sec-ond and third place finishes, it was like a huge weight had been lifted. I only hope it doesn't take ten more years for our next win. I would like to take a few lines at this point to thank all of the people that have helped me along the way in my seem-ingly endless pursuit of victory. First I'd like to thank Rick Pew and B.J. Bates for letting me ride. Mike Finney, for my first co0drive. Dennis Whit-aker, for my first partnership in a car and a taste of serious competition, Harold Curry for having more faith in me than myself. Harold, you're the BEST!!! Don Richard, for a never ending source of technology. Mom & Dad for making the camping so com-fortable, and my wife, Diane, for mak-ing everything eeeeasy, and for being the best supporter anyone could ever ask for. All of my parts sponsors, PRO, WEBCAM, RD VALVESPRING, SANDRAILS UNL., SUSPENSIONS UNL., McKenzies, CHRIS' VW Dis-mantling/Smallcar Connection, and of course, MOHR PERFORMANCE Challenger Motor & Trans Service. O.K. Enough gloating! Also I'd like to thank all of the riders I've had over the years, especially Jimmy Messick and Tim Nichols, who have been a major help as navigators. The Ross-Riffle team got second only three and a half minutes back, McGuffin was third, Defrank fourth, and Lawson fifth. Not too bad to have five out of seven finish, huh? SNORE'S BUFFALO BILL 400: Another bumper crop of 9s came out to State Line to shuffle the cards in the 'Who's gonna get that 1600" race. Twenty-four cars started the day, but, with four 80 mile loops to contend with, they were dropping like flies early on. Notables Brian Sallee and Stan Hignet showed up with what has to be the baddest Bilstein 2-1/2s on the planet on the rear of their car, but unfortunately only got to use them for about 30 miles before they blew an-other motor. Rodger Schank also lost a motor after stuffing a valve cover into a rock. The Looney/Schenberger team were also out before completing a lap. Albert Rux and crew had a long day, taking six and a half hours to make it once around, while Mandy Dixon and Bill A very had respectable · lap times, but never made another complete lap. According to the results sheet, Joe Sheble took nine hours to make his first lap, and then ran out of time after completing one more. Ron Coppick, Mike Larson, and Forest and John Creasy all had decent paces go-ing, but retired after two laps. Getting around three of the four laps required . was the Shimp team, and John Kisner. · That leaves 11 teams that made the distance, and from the stories I heard, they all had some kind of troubles during the day. Dan Owen finished 11th, Joel Davis was 10th, the Dukes clan were ninth, Greg and Kim Becker were eighth, Jeremy Harmon was sev-enth, Kevin Walsh was sixth, Ken Thatcher was fifth, with the T aliaferros finishing fourth (keep it up Tom and Seanea!!), the Walters brothers taking third missing second place by just over a minute after hav-ing three flats. (They were also only five minutes out of the lead, and could have easily won minus flats.) Dave Spencer is being tutored by the Johnson clan, and with Scott driving the first half, took second. That leaves only the winner, and after a torsion adjustment, a broken throttle cable, and being nerfed hard by a 1600 and a 10 car, Roland Barry and Ryan Schank set fast lap and took home the $1500 check along with $400 more from the Mohr Performance Chal-lenger Pool. I don't have the official points standings,.but.by my crude c~l-culations, the Walters should be lead-ing, with the T aliaferros closing be-hind. I'm sure it will be a dog fight right to the end. Once again, if you have questions or comments, call me at (760) 947-6647. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! ■ C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MDR WILD WASH 250 The race was held on a beautiful day in the Johnson Valley desert. CORE Pit Support Club was out in force supplying pits for seven teams. A CORE Pit witnessed a very nasty crash involving two Challengers which collided in a Check Point. It appears that MOR officials can't com-prehend that placing a check point in the center of a 100 mile straight away isn't a disaster waiting to happen. The CORE workers were very upset wit-nessing this stupid crash, calling on the radio for medical assistance for the injured FAIR drivers. CORE Pit Sup-port Club would like to express its best wishes to the FAIR driver who was injured in this senseless and prevent-able accident. Oh, and did I mention yet that the 7:00 a.m. start time still SUCK! The most recent professional· move by MDR is using an ink pen and scratching your car number on your arm instead of spending a few dollars on arm bands. I wish you could have seen Brad Inch's arm as they wrote a few wrong car numbers on his arm then scratched them off, it took his whole arm. Perhaps next race we will see some tatoos. I think the Checker writer is correct, perhaps we should give MORE another look, remember we supported the MORE races were very professional, paid very well, courses were marked great, and they Dusty Times

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were fun, I miss that! TEAM BECKER (Class 7) The first race under CO RE support was a very impressive run for the Becker Team in their beautiful Class 7 truck. I believe this team will add another level of professionalism to our team, they are a neat bunch of racers. John Becker solo'ed the race with John's wife Vicky and the man known as Falco sharing the passenger seat. The only thing &lowing the quick pace of the truck was for the rider change and very pumping in several hundred gallons of race fuel. This super clean truck clicked off all the required laps in great time and captured first in class honors. CONGRATULATIONS!! TEAM McGUFFIN!JEFFERIES (Class 9) This was an unusual part breaking day for Darin McGuffin and Brian J ef-feries. It sounds like they broke almost everything that can break on a race car. The guys said they hit a hole and exploded three Fox shocks, which I imagine upset the handling of the car? It was reported that th.ey practically twisted the torsion housing out of the car. The car is now at Warren Messick's race shop in Barstow getting an entire new rear half installed. I'm sure Warren will make the car fly. TEAM LONG/RUDDIS/KEN-NEDY (Class 2-1600) Mark Ruddis driving with rider Chris Weddle started and had only a single glitch that slowed them down. The rear trailing bolts kept loosening up which caused the arm to rotate on the spring plate, doing weird things to the handling. L.J. Kennedy and Ron Blank drove the second half of the race and brought the car in for an ex-cellent three place finish, the best for Mike's new state of the art car. The team has had some problems diaiing the suspension to handle exactly as they would like it to. The suspension has been too soft, destroying skid plates for a few races but this race they shot over the mark and set the car up tight, a bit too stiff the guys said. Brad Inch stated it best at the CORE meet-ing, it doesn't quite matter how the car handles, Ruddis and Kennedy could drive a shopping cart and make it look good on the course. Please be;! warned, when these guys find the mark, they will be a force to be reck-oned with, this race demonstrated that they are getting close. TEAM BRYCE/KING (Class 1-1600) The team of Malcolm Bryce and · Perry King hit the dirt in their single seat 1600 car. Perry drove the first half and Malcolm the second half with no down time. The only complaint is that the engine was again low on power and speed. They started 18th in class and finished in fourth place, not too shabby guys. TEAM INCH/DEAN (Class 1-1600) Brad Inch and Dennis Dean teamed up to do battle in the large 1600 class. Brad started the race and worked his way up to the three front runners. Brad clunked a rock shortly after a CORE pit so-made a quick de-cision and drove back to CORE able to have it changed. On the way back to the pit, located at Bessemer Mine Road, Brad drove thru the boonies and nearly drove in Bessemer Mine. Now down a few positions, Brad turned up the heat and worked his way back up to the front within a lap. Brad flew some rollers and landed wrong and tweaked his rib so he wanted out of the car starting the fourth lap. Dennis Dean relieved him and only made it a few miles before the lower engine studs sheared off causing the engine to flop around and break the case and all the mounting Dusty Times brackets as well as waller out the clutch. When the car stopped, their day was done. TEAM LORENZI (Class 2-1600) Mike Lorenzi and Chris Clift started the race and thought they were pushing the car rather hard until CORE President Brad Inch acciden-tally ran into the back of their car, yeah right! Actually there was some discussion about Mike enlarging his rear view mirror at our May general meeting, all in fun of course. Only the third race on the new car, Mike ad-mits he is still learning his and the car's limits. Later on the first lap, a stub axle broke. They got the message back to CORE Main and as quickly as possible a spare stub axle was on the way. They were back on the course with a few hours of down time. Dan Peacock and Dan Boehning took over and drove the next three laps. The only prob-lems was flying down a fast part of the course, the left rear tire/wheel came off and passed them by. After search-ing the desert for it, they eventually got it back on the car and drove it to Main where they called it a day. TEAMDUBINtWEYER (Cbss 1) The CORE unlimited guys, Gary Dubin and Cory Weyer only made it. three laps but had a great time while it lasted. CORE Pit at Mile 7 was called on the radio and asked to run the car around at the pit since he de-parted CORE Main leaking oil, he never made it to our pit. These guys have been having quite a few prob-lems with the car lately but you would never see it in their attitudes, they al-ways appear to be having fun. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN (Anderson Dry Lake/Camp Rock Road) The CORE Main Pit Chief for this race was Mike Malloy. Mike worked the night shift and drove straight to the race :.md was kept very busy keep-ing Main Pit ready for action. Besides the usual fuel stops, they replaced three shocks on the McGuffin Chal-lenger and worked on the oil leak on Dubin's car. . CORE MILE 7 (MDR Mile 7) Able pit was run by myself, Nicho-las Parker, Bruce Pursell, Dave and Davy Girdner, Mr. Rom Craig, and Dennis Dean. We changed a few non CORE car tires and did a fuel stop and driver change for Team Inch/Dean. CORE PIT ABLE (Bessemer Mine) Jim Wagner and Dave Woulf ran the able pit and were kept busy chang-ing tires on Brad's car, changing the stub axle on the Lorenzi car, and wrenching on McGuffin's car. CORE PIT BAKER (Soggy Dry Lake) Blake Daley and the McGuffin crew manned the Baker Pit. The crew changed a rear tire on McGuffin's Challenger and were spectators the rest of the day. NEW CORE RADIO FRE-QUENCY CORE is moving down from its 170's to the 150's by popular demand. CORE has worked with the Weath-erman to establish the new CORE fre-quencies which are 153.245 and 153.155. The new frequencies will be used at the next MDR race. Please jot them down if you ever need to reach a CORE pit. Searching for a family oriented off road pit support club? CORE is always happy to extend its family and sup-port. CORE has monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of every month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8:00 p.m. For more information, join us at the meeting·or call me at (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at race975@aol.com. ■ MAG7 Race Team News By Stephen T. Stenberg, President Hello everyone! Well, the fresh-ness of the San Felipe 250 has worn off now, and its on to the rest of the year's happenings. We asked around· to find out who that was on the SCORE tape of the San Felipe 250 wearing a Mag 7 T-shirt? It turned out to be one of our Baja 1000 Pit Captains, Steve Meyer. He was checking out the race action as a spectator for that race. Good Going Steve getting the Mag 7 in a SCORE taping! Mag 7 conducted its bi-yearly equipment check on May 1 at the T earn' s trailer. All of our welders and generators were checked and cleaned and then started to make sure they were in operational condi-tion. Our lights and FM radios were inspected and tested as were our base antennas. Our Pit Boxes were re-stocked with goods and our First Aid boxes replenished with new supplies. Signs were made and plastic dump cans checked for cracks that can sideline a pit crew quickly. After-wards, Terry Walsh cooked up a great lunch for all participants that attended. Thanks go out especially to Larry Bridgewater and Terry Wickersham who showed up early and stayed late hauling equipment around with me. The next race for us was to be the Fudpucker Racing "24 hour En-durance Race" held down at Plas-ter City on May 15-16th. This race is renown for being brutal to bikes and quads as it circles the same 10 mile desert track for 24 hours. Only one Mag 7 team is competing in this race (as of press time) and this is the team of Gary T epner on his Honda XR 600. Gary's team won this event in Class 40 two years ago with 940 miles. They are back again to challenge that record. Good luck Gary! Gary's team, out of San Di-ego, has also won the Class 40 over-all in the last two SCORE events as well. Since there isn't a need for pitting at this race, some Mag 7 members are heading to Baja to start mapping out their pit loca-tions. A few guys are planning on attending the Fud race, but in what capacity I'm not sure of. Final cutoff to get your name on our Baja 500 T-shirt is May 11th. After that the final cutoff for Mag 7 pit support is May 18th. Normally, our pit crew pickup is the weekend before the race. However, this year, because that weekend is Memorial Day weekend, we had to bump our pit pickup one week to May 22nd. So the cutoff for taking in pit sup-port application was moved from May 25th to May 18th. Mag 7 is of-fering two levels of pit support this year. The first level is Full Support, which gives the racer fuel, tires, welding, everything that a pit nor-mally does for its racer. The second level is Emergency Support, which is just as the name implies. All that is done here is welding and basic wrenching to keep you moving. No fuel or tires are transported to these pits. They are there in case you break down there. Quite a few race teams are signing up with this type of sup-port, just to have welders and tools everywhere around the course. Since Mag 7's policy is to not help any competitor in a class that we have someone racing also, until, that entry June 1999 has either passed us or been declared out of the race before getting to us. Several big name teams that know what we can do for them, elect to sign up for emergency pit service to help hedge their bets on doing well at the races. A team in point is Valdo~ta Racing last year at the Baja 1000 down to La Paz. Vince, the crew chief signed up with two other pit crews, besides BFG to insure that their Class 1 car would have a welder and tools every 25 miles down the course. For the whole 1000 miles! May 7 was one of those 'other' two teams that he signed up with. · For the Baja 500 this year, Mag 7 Pit Support will be offering pits· every 50 miles for full support bikes and quads and emergency pits for all vehicles. The buggies and trucks will have full support pits every 100 miles. Mag 7 is putting out eight pits for this race, but Pits #1 and #8 are a double pit located at Ojos Negros. I'll be the Captain at Pit #1. Pit #2 will be around El Rayo and Stuart Ellen will be running it. Pit #3 will e off of the El Alamo Road with Shawn Wells. Pit #4 will be on Mike's Sky Ranch Road with Wayne Newell and the Mag 7 semi. Pit #5 will e just west of the Valle "T" power station with Tim Barlow. Pit #6 will be east of Uruapan with John Venters. And finally, Pit #8 will be outside of Ojos Negros with Terry Wickersham. So that about wraps it up for the month of June. Mag 7 will take the summer off and come back in early September full steam ahead for the Baja 1000 in November. If you would like to see what we are all about, you can visit our web page at HTTP:// www.walsh.com/Mag7. If you have questions about it support you can contact either me at Mag7Race@aol.com or our Race Directors, Wayne and Debbie New-ell at Newell@cts.com. Either way, we would be glad to assist you with your racing needs as they apply to SCORE racing in Baja. So everyone have fun at both the Fudpucker 24 hour Endur-ance Race and a few weeks later at the SCORE 1999 Baja 500 races. Stop by and say hello this summer if you should see us camping somewhere. A full race report on the Baja 500 will fol-low in the August edition of Dusty Times. ■ !~] • Largest Selection OfRodemls& Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOfflES • BATTERIES • SPALFANS • SETRAB COOLERS • FLUIDYNE COOLERS • AEROQUIP PLUMBING • SILICONE HOSE NEO SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • AUTOMOTIVE & RACING COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER SERVICE CALL US FOR A FREE CATALOG! WE WILL SHIP AS FAST AS. YOU NEED IT ·;~ TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL ~ . (562) 427-2375, FAX (562) 426•5~94 \ BAKER PRECISION BEARINGS UPS -r \ ~ .2865 Gundry Ave.• Signal Hill, CA 90806 r• 11 DAILY 11 v I Page 51 (

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SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee I 100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, TN 37064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600., Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (All Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION and BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:{805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org June 6, 1999 Muroc June 6, 1999 El Mirage June 26-27, 1999 Muroc Renuion (Edwards AFB) JulJI 18, 1999 El Mirage August 14-20, 1999 Bonneville National Speed Week Wendover, UT September 12, 1999 El Mirage October 10, 1999 El Mirage October 20-23, 1999 World Finals Wendover, UT November 13-14, 1999 El Mirage 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 l1eici 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 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 9-10. 1999 Short Course - Round 2 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA October 30-31, 1999 Short Course - Round 3 Prairie City SVRA, Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa Ol 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. Box 376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSPORTs··· 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-25176 (602) 971-3730 1999 Desert Tour Buggy & Truck Series 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 I 999 Banquet TBA 1999 Desert Challenge Bikes & ATV Series Mari 30, 1999 p·btppl Ho b;ool<, 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 1 1, 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 Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: 1998 MDR points champ: Best of the best, 300 miles of comp. Prep, FOX 2.5 w/position sen-sitive su.sp, Chromoly l" longer arms, , Type II c.v.s w/300m 930 axles, thing stub axles, SAW spring plates, SAW 29mm 300, bars, New SAW torsion adj .. new top 4;86, JG Trans, 12.1 motor, new heads, pistons, cyls, and FAT carb, Boost bottle, new Compu-fire, DIS ION, UMP, Fuel Safe, Beards, J-Mar, VDO, Auto-meter, Susp. Chromoly beam, new Wright rack, Wright arms, & com-bos, New Chromoly tie rods & ends, Fox Big Shafts, Fox steering stab. SAW leafs, new 5/8 adjs, some spares, turn key ready to defend points title. $10,500.00 obo, (562)690-4028, or (714)967-5098. FORSALE: 1986Toyota4x4Stock-mini Score 4 street legal. 22r w/We-ber, oversize pistons. Bilsteins w/res-ervoirs, 6-35" BFG muds, 22 gal Fuel Cell, former Whiplash champ, needs some mild suspension work. $3,650.00. 1-888-990-87 41, toll free FOR SALE: CLASS 7S RANGER BUILT BY CURT . LeDUC; Very nice truck, 4wd with custom Borg-Warner transfer case hooked to a Borg-Warner T-5 manual transmis-sion. Nothing but the -beefiest! Gussetted I-Beam, radius arms, frame, steering box, everything! Kuster coilovers in the front and 3" Kusters on the back. National Springs, Full floater 9" rear end, 40 spline 300m axles, SAW rear anti-roll bar. V6 mo-tor, Ported and polished heads, SVO ignition, 32 gallon fuel cell, lots of spares. $20,000.00. Baja Brokers Ref #666 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www. ba j a concepts. com. Valley Off Road Racing Association 1833 Los Robles Blvd. 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. Sacramento, CA 95838 1665 Delaware St. Arizona. FOR SALE: 1998 XCAB FOR SALE: 1976 JEEP GRAND PRERUNNER "BAJA ROD" WAGONEER.Builtinl983forAround FULL CUSTOM BUILT The World Rally. Hi-PerfV8 built to run TRUCK. I-BEAM FRONT onpumpgas. 2tankscaryl00gals.Com-END, 16" KING DUAL RATE pletelyequippedtorace/rallywithonooard COIL OVER AND 5 ST AGE air conditioning, Halda navigation equip., BY PASS, CN C BRAKE CALl-4 spares, radio, c.b., cooler, roll cage, and PERS , CON E HUBS , LEE spare parts. Special trans & transfer case, 4 POWERS TEER I NG . F OU R shocksperwheel.Heavydutyfront&rear LING SET-UP, CONE IND. ends, winch, roof lights. This vehicle is ideal DAN A 6 0 RE AR END . 18 " for Baja 2CXXJ, Nevada 2CXXJ, Canada to KING DU AL RA TE Cancun and any super long distance off COILOVER W /5 ST AGE BY -road events. Never raced since new. Has PASS. CONE FLOATING beeninstorageforover20years.Nowfresh-HUBS, CNC CALIPERS. TOO ened and equipped with 8 Goodyear race • MUCH TO LIST, TRUCK tires.Arareop(Xlrtuni.tyat$17,500.00.Has COMES WITH SPARE MO-currentCalifomiatagstillSept. 19CJ9.Street TOR. CALL FRANK RUSICH legal.CallCliveSkilton(714) 528-5337ext, AT WORK (909) 3 50-2 7 00, 250, (714) 633-0735,orfax(714) 633-1724. HOME (909) 780-6649. (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 Oshkosh, Wl 54901 2 SEAT PRERUNNER is a 2-Yeri~~Jn2i6J~e!~?ctce (4i4H26-04701<414l 982·7306 ~trf.~~:u, t~~~~~;u;o~1:t999i~~h! J~1~ 1600 but widened 6" fron t and Yerington.NV Attent·1on as soon as possible for listing in this rear, 930 c.v., Fox shocks, July 10-11, 1999 column; it could bring you some extra S A W d" t bl f t d Top Gun 300 Desert Race way- - ay a )US a e r an entries! Mail your race or rally schedule l · b d 413 O Fallon, NV R & Rall Q . to: rr, a ummum o y, September 4-6, 1999 ace Y 'I'lfaIUZeFS DUSTY TIMES Raceco chassis, lights, Center-Fernley Challenge List your comin!! events in DUSTY t· B d 5 · ts needs Fernlet , NV ~ 20751 Mar1·tta St., Chatsworth, ines, ear ' poin ' TIMES free. It is the only way some fans d C 11 R· h September 5-26, 1999 1 O motor an trans. a 1c Short Course_ Round 1 know about your event, if they don't CA 913 1-44 \ (760) 723_211 7 $5,400.00. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. 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Page 58 June 1999 • • • • • • • • • FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'x10 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 81/2 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. FOR SALE: ALL NEW PARTS IN BOX. Ford 2300 Crower CM billet rods 6 1/8, $1,100.00 (8) Titanium Del West valves 1.890 and 1.590 8 each $1,500.00. Electric fans Flexalite PN 00112 $75.00, PN 00150 $175.00. 16 volt Ford race al-ternators $100.00 each (4). VDO gage set PN 60093 7, $175.00. Jean 562 434-3301. -~"" Class 10 (SCORE LITE) Bunderson-1776cc Type 1, 1 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: Stadit1m Super Lite, EEE, 500cc &425cc Motors, Fox Shox, Fuel Cell, Goodyears, Power Steering, Race ready, Pace, Corr le-gal, $8,500.00 (520)667-2194. FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp VB 400 trans, Custom Kuster shocks, 22 + travel, coil springs front/quarter elliptic rear, custom built top to bottom, 50 gal fuel cell, disc brakes, radio, intercom, spare motor, tires, much more $75,000.00 (626)359-1768 . FOR SALE: Class 7 Toyota 2nd overall '98 SCORE Season 10 Fox shocks, SAW 300m axles, SAW 300m T /bars, 2 Beard seats, National springs, Ford, 9" with Summers Spool, radio w /I-com, Howe P /steering, Fuel safe 35 gal cell, 2 Webers, Crane Ig-nition, Includes: Tandem axle trailer, 10 mounted BFGs, 2 transmissions, extra head, driveshaft, axles, Ball joints, Spindles, sheet metal, A-arms, Plus, Plus, Plus, $16,500.00 (805)683-1211, cir (805) 683-8187 fax .. Dusty Times

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7s RANGER-EX SCOTT DOU-GLAS ROUGH RIDERS FORD RANGER, THIS TRUCK IS VERY PROFESSIONAL AND IT SHOWS. VERY GOOD HISTORY AND WONDERFUL RACE RECORD! SUMMERS BROS. FRONT HUBS AND FLOATER REAR END, 4 WHEEL DISC BRAKES, CUSTOM SHOCKS W / REMOTE RESERVOIRS, NA-TIONAL SPRINGS, C4 TRANS, WINTERS SHIFTER, TRIPLE COOLERS WITH ELECTRIC FANS, ALL STEEL BRAIDED PLUMBING, CLARK STEPPLER 2851 CC 4 CYLINDER, CROWER STROKER CRANK, ESSLINGER HEAD, DUAL 48MM WEBERS, DUAL MSD IGNITION, 32 GAL-LON CELL, FIBERGLASS FRONT CLIF, ARE WHEELS/BFG BAJAS, ETC. $14,500 BAJA BROKERS #715 (760)723-2117. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.BA ACONCEPTS.COM. F R ALE: Bronco Pre-Runner-Custom built 2WD front end, (1) Kuster Coilover and (1) Big Bilstein per wheel front and rear, air bumps, Cone Full Floater, Cone fr hubs, C6, 400 cid Ford 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. ba · aconce FOR SALE: 1-6000, SPORTSMAN SINGLE, S&K CHASSIS, FOX SHOCKS, FAT HEADS & CAM, BEAD LOCKS, BEARD SUPER SEAT, UMP POWER STEERING, SACO RACK & WRIGHT RACK, SPARE MOTOR, LEGAL FOR CORR OR PACE, ST LOUIS AREA $6,500.00. CALL CHRIS AT (314)677-8613. 1995 Ranger race truck-Class 7S or 7 open, Only 300 miles on New Es-slinger 4 cylinder, MSD ignition, Mogi C4 race trans, 44 gallon cell, 4WD front suspension w/o 4wd, very strong! Kuster 3" shocks and air bumps, Wilwood brakes, FlameOut, $39,000.00 ALSO 45ft gooseneck trailer w/30 ft. Car space/15 ft living quarters, sleeps five $10,000.00 Ref #696 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times 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, built for Desert and short course, ran 4 short course races since built, race ready, must see, $17,500.00 (408) 778-1980. FOR SALE: 97 SPEC TRUCK-RACED ONLY 7 TIMES, 350CI, TOMMY LEE STEERING BOX, CUSTOM AIR CLEANER, FLAME OUT SYSTEM, TACK & GUAGES, HEAD SUPPORT, WINDSHIELD SUPPORT, EX-TRA SPRINGS, GEARS FOR 3/8 MILE, 8 ASPHALT & 6 DIRT WHEELS INCLUDED. READY FOR CIRCLE TRACK RACING. $20,000.00 OR BEST. CALL VANCE (760) 344-6496 EVE-NINGS OR LEA VE MESSAGE. FOR SALE: Toyota V-6, single over-head cam, 3.5 liter 300+ h.p., Billet crank, Carillo rods, JE Pistons, Barnes Dry Sump, Extra parts, $9,000,00 obo Chuck (805)272-1458. FOR SALE: Suspensions Unlimited 1-1600, 117" wheelbase, FAT motor, Mendeola trans. Fox shocks, Power steering, Wright Box and combos, Sway-A-Way 300m t-bars, Pumper, 930's, 2nd 98 Baja 500, 6th 98 Baja 1000. $8,500.00 obo Call Pat (714)427-1100 ext 102. FOR SALE: 1974 Thing, X-Class 5 race car. Fresh 2 year restoration, 105" wheel base, 76" wide track, Wright arms and spindles, 4130 beams, SACO Rack & Pinon, 3" Rough Country shocks, Bus Box, 1835 motor, Fiberglass hood, Center-lines, Sway-a-Way, Pace 16 channel radio, spare parts. $7,000.00, (661) 821-3515. FOR SALE: 1997 Ranger Class "7", unfinished, Chromoly cage, Curt LeDuc and National Spring Quarterlip rear 26" Spring/front 18" Coil, 4.2 new Ford V6 BFG Alcoa, 35 Gal Cell, 40 sp rear end. Call for parts list and info $18,000.00 Bob (619)441-1901. FOR SALE: 1998 MDR Class 7S Championship Toyota. '85 Xtra cab. Only 6 races on this newly built 4x4. Alcoas, Mastercraft, Parker Pumpers, PCI radio/intercom, Autometer, Flame out. Super reliable race truck. Win yourself a championship. Work assignment forces sale. $11,500.00. Call for more info. Burrows Motor-sports, (909) 422-1416. FORSALE: 97'JimcoClass5, 1998 Score Class 5 champion. Car is a proven winner. Best money can buy. Complete rolling chassis, less motor & tranny only. King shocks, Summers Bros., 934.5 C.V.'s , CNC Howe, Saco, Mastercraft, front double bead lock wheels, rear beadlocks, BFGood-rich, $22,500.00 (760)351-8850 eve (909)927-0510. FOR SALE: 1978 Ford F-100, has 50,000 miles on motor, trans, rear very dependable, Art Carr trans, Shifter, Beards, Hella, Auto Fab, Cage, 35" BFG's, Autometer, 351 engine, new brakes, Alt, starter, Belts, Water pump, drive shaft, very cus-tom dash and interior, sound system, Fiberglass hood. $6,500.00 obo.' ( 626) · 357-8425. FOR SALE: Class 11/12 Sportsman Buggy, Class champion, from 96 to 98 also Crown Champion. Top five runner. Mirage chassis, Chromoly tubing, Race ready. Extras! Motor and too numerous to list parts. Must call for list of extras, $5,000.00 920 855-6555. FOR SALE: 1998 Nissan Frontier C.O.R.R., Pro Lite-Class Champion best of everything, Serious inquiries only, Complete $35,000.00 or will break up. Call (412) 687-5093. SEE PHOTO AT WWW.BftJACONCEPTS.COM CLASS lOorCLASS 12-Suspensions Unltd, 2seater, FAT 1835ccType 1, Bus box with 930 CV's, 30 gallon FodFab arms and spindles, Fox air shocks/coilovers, CNC, SAW bars and axles, Summers Bros outboard hubs, this won't last long, ready to race! $23,000 Baja Brokers Ref #712 (760)723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. June 1999 SEE PHOTO AT WWW.BAJACONCEPTS.COM FRESH Lothringer 5-1600-Awe-some car! Motor by Adam Wil<s, WR Racing bus box chromoly beam, Fox position sensitive 7 /8" shaft, FodFab spindles, Saginaw, 300m torsions, 930cv's, Deist padded harnesses, Only 300 miles on entire car an~ just prepped. Comes with tandem trailer. Very trick car with custom dash, re-movable body, Flame Out, Coated exhaust, race radio, intercom, etc. $1{900.00 Baja Brokers Ref #713 (760)723-2117,Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: CLASS 8 FORD; 1st place finisher, Fresh 460cid motor, full race C6 trans, custom I-beam front suspension, 18-20" travel, Bil-stein race shocks, National Springs, Bilstein bypass shocks, on rear, 35" BFG Baj as, Dual fuel cells, Taylor chromoly seats, Autometer, Summer Brothers 9" full floater, Wilwood calipers, full fiberglass body, 10 spare tires and wheels, $20,000 Baja Bro-kers Ref #596 (760)723-2117, check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. SEE PHOTO AT WWW.BAJACONCEPTS.COM A 10 or A 1 Bun erson A-Arm car, Coilover and bypass shocks, No motor/trans, rear hubs, tires and wheels, CV's and axles, bat-tery and tach, 30 gallon cell, front disc brakes and hubs, body, rack and pinion, lights, skid pan, interior, nets, gauges, steering, etc. What a deal for a Class 10/1 A-Arm car! Baja Bro-kers Ref #693 (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.ba·aconce ts.com. SEE PHOTO AT WWW.BAJACONCEPTS.COM GREAT 5-1600-1600 by Adam Wiks, SuperTrapp, Booster bottle, WR Racing, Type II CV's, 20 gallon cell, Lothringer beam, FodFab arms and spindles, Thing drums, Fox 2.0 Shox, Chromoly + l" arms, SAW 300m torsions, Beard, Deist, PCI race radio, Yokohama/Centerline $9,000 Baja Brokers Ref #714 (760)723-2117 check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FORSALE: Jimco 1-1600. See it in the April issue of Hot VW Magazine, Completely prepped, rebuilt and race ready. Zero miles on motor and trans-mission rebuild. Like new. Only 4 races on car. FAT /FEX motor, Men-deola Trans. Custom Fox Shox, Call or email for list of components. $17,500.00 Mat (650)933-4881 wk, matt.miller@sgi.com. FOR SALE: CLASS 7S RANGER BUILT BY CURT LeDUC; Very nice truck, 4wd with custom Borg-W amer transfer case hooked to a Borg-Warner T-5 manual transmis-sion. Nothing but the beefiest! Gussetted I-Beam, radius arms, frame, steering box, everything! Kuster coilovers in the front and 3" Kusters-on the back. National Springs, Full floater 9" rear end, 40 spline 300m axles, SAW rear anti-roll bar. V6 motor, Ported and pol-ished heads, SVO ignition, 32 gallon fuel cell, . lots of spares. $20,000.00. Baja Brokers Ref #666 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES HELP WANTED: Join the WIN-NING team! King Shock Technol-ogy is looking for shop help. No pre-vious shock experience necessary! Will train! Must have good mechani-cal skills! Mail or fax resume to: 10402 Trask Ave #C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 or (714)530-8702 or Kingshocks@aol.com. WANTED WANTED-Building up old Raceco and need some used parts, coilovers, Power steering, Summer Hubs (com-plete assembly), coilover complete front end, seats, etc., if you have something that you think we might need, please call Chad (520)541-0904 ALSO Class 1 single seat $8,500.00. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Baker Performance Products .............. 51 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ................................. 11 Bilstein Corp. Of America ........................... 5 BORE ......................................................... 43 Cactus Racing ........................................... 18 Camburg Engineering ........................... 36 Crandon ..................................................... 4 Critical Operations ............................... 49 Don-A-Vee ............................................... 10 Double D Racing .................................... 23 Eibach Springs ...................................... 35 Fabtech Motorsports ............................... 7 FAT Performance .................................. 30 Fox Racing Shox .............................. , .... 39 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ......................... 17 Fucpucker Racing Promotions ............ 31 German Auto .......................................... 37 Hettinga Creations Racing .................. 42 Hypercoils .............................................. 14 Kartek Off Road ............................... 13, 40 Kawaguchi Honda ................................. 41 King Shock Tech ................................... 22 McKenzie Performance Products ....... 33 Mickey Thompson Tires ....................... 48 Mojave Desert Racing .......................... 19 Nevada Off Road Buggy ....................... 21 PACE Motorsports ................................... 9 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ............ 2 Pike's Family Restaurant .................... 34 Premier Racing Products ..................... 42 Quality German Auto Parts ................. 45 Race Ready Products ............................ 30 Rano Raceway ....................................... 28 SNORE ............................................... 25, 31 Sway-A-Way Corp ................................. 12 Toyota Motorsports .............. Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ......................... 27 Tri-Mil Industries .................................. 29 Vc1lley ·Performance .............................. 26 VORRA ..................................................... 47 Web Cam ................................................. 20 Yarnell Specialties ............................... 16 Page 59

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