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Volume-17 -Number 11 November 2000 Publisher Emeritus Jean C.alvin Editor John Calvin Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Yance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh . Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request . Ml.A t' Contributions: DUSTI TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. 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., 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 9r311, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hillside Rac-ing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pu~lisher. Periodi-cal Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at ad-ditional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTI TIMES, ' 20761 Plu·mmer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Fotir weeks notice is required f,;r change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month~--Marty Reid~r and Jim Taber had a fine day at the 1983 SCORE Barstow Classic. th~ weather was very cold. but Reider was hot and won Class 9 in the Funco Hustler and Marty won the SCORE points championship as well. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. 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In This Issue .. ~ FEATURES Whiplash Snowflake 150 by Tony Tellier ............................................ 8 50th Neste Rally of Finland by Martin Ho.Imes ................................. 18 3 lSt Annual SNORE 250 by John Calvin .......................................... 20 MORE Freedom 250 by John Calvin ........................ , .............. , .......... 26 MDR California 200 by Ron Miller ..................................................... 28 Whiplash Snowflake 100 Bikes by Tony Tellier ···········:····················34 ZR Promotions b-;, Rene Montano ............ , ........................................... 38 Gorman Ridge Rally by Paul Timmerman· .......................................... 40 Australia Round 2 at Griffith by Darryl Smith .................................. 42 Petersen Museum Off Road Gathering by Judy Smith ....................... 44 YORRA Lovelock 250 by Forest Creasy ........................................... 46 · Ojibwe Forests ProRally by Jerry Winker ........................................... 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ............................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes.: ........................................................................................... 6 Baja Pits News by Mr. Baja ................................................................. 51 California Rally Series Director's Report ........................................... 51 Checkers Column by the Wahzoo ....................................................... 51 MAG 7 by Stephen Stenberg ............................ ,. ................................... 51 Good Stuff Directory ........................................................................... 52 Classified Ads ...................................................................................... 58 Index To Advertisers .................................................................... : ..... 59 On The Cover Ron Dalke was the Class 10 winner at the Whiplash Snowflake 150. He drove his home built and home prepped car to a beautiful third overall. Photo by ·Track.side Photo Andy Kisner was the big Class 9 winner at the 31st annual SNORE 250. He had an uneventful day, had a broken shock, won by almost a seven minute margin and picked up $2000 for his efforts. Photo by Carrera Photography Visit Our Website -Dustytimes.com c5ubscr1-£e <Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year □ 2 years □ 3 years -$25.00 $40.00 -$55.00 (no credit cards please) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Address --'------'------'---,-------,------City ~..:,;._ _______________ _ · State Zip -----------------'----· Primary Interest Cars O Trucks O Motorcycles 0 Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - l year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times November 2000 Page 3

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1 Happenings ..• (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: crsdirect@hotmail.com Website <califomiarallyseries.com > John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward sopacrallysteward@hotmail.com November 12, 2000 Treeline Club Rally Monrovia, CA November 18, 2000 RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino AMERICAN TRIALS ASSOCIATION AMA Observed Trials Southern California Championship Series Bill Markum - President (909) 860-1857 24 hr Hotline - (714) 562-7742 E Mail: bmark909@aol.com www.atatrails.com · November 19, 2000 Lucerne Valley/Hammers, CA December 3, 2000 Perris, CA January 14, 2001 Romoland, CA February 4, 2001 Lake Morena/Corral Cyn, CA February 25, 2001 Aguanga/Reed Valley, CA March 11, 2001 Lucerne Valley, CA April, 2001 (TBA) Aguanga/Reed Valley, CA May 13, 2001 Rowher Flat/Canyon Country, CA June 9-10, 2001 Washington WORLD Round June 23-24, 2001 Big Bear, CA ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose del Cabo Baja California del Sur. Mexico AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP 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 BARONA SAND DRAG ASSN. P.O. Box 1521 Lakeside, CA 92040 All Races Are Night Races All Races At Barona Raceway, Lakeside, CA BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 3475 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net December 1-3, 2000 Las Vegas 200 April 6-8, 2001 Terrible's Town June 22-24, 2001 Tonopah 300 September 27-30, 2001 Vegas To Reno December (TBA) Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 341 W. 2575 North Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651 BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lHO (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 Dusty Times CAJOR Club Automovilista Juarense de Championship Off-Road Racing 7210 Gateway East El Paso, TX 79915 (915) 593-4848 Ralph Garcia Ol l-52-16-17-45-42 Cesar Fuentes November 25, 2000 Carrera de La Revoluti6n Start 12 Noon - 5 Hour Time Limit CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinso - Director 845 Schoohouse Road Ramona, CA 92065 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Jean, NV December 8-10, 2000 Ramada Express International Rally Laughlin, NV CANNING ATTRACTIONS P.O. Box400 Maywood, CA 902_70 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA · Don Engleman (Bikes) . (605) 224-4967 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box 332 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON ID-JACKERS I.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 . A. Winning Tradition In Off-Road Racing Performance proven truck shocks for ... (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ramon Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637/7 0034) CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 CODE 011-52-65-52-5928 December 1-3, 2000 (Jr' • Stock Trucks • Lifted Trucks • Lowered Trucks.• Race trucks· For Free Information Call: 800/537-1085 Bilstein's world leading gas pressure shock absorbers are also available for imported and domestic cars, SUV's, vans and rnotorhomes. KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Rd., San Diego, CA 92121 • (858) 453-7723 A ThyssenKrupp Automotive Company November 2000 www.bilstein.com Pages_

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Trail Notes ... LAND RACING -Bob Land and navigator Troy Carpenter competed in the 2000 Australian Safari which was held August 20-27th in the northern territory of Australia. The event is 5,000 kilometers long, has both auto and motorcycle entries and traveled from Alice Springs in central Australia to Darwin on the north coast. Bob took first place in his class (for the second year in a row) and was 9th overall in the automobile division. Bob was driving a stock 4x4 Isuzu. Congrats from the staff at Dusty Times. SCORE NEWS -The drawing for starting positions for the SCORE 2000/ scheduled to run in November. was held last week and the some of the starters are shown here. Johnny Campbell, Honda motorcycle rider par excellance drew first start for the bikes and he'll be tough to beat. The first Trophy Truck off the line will be driven by Craig Corda, a Ford F-150. There were 187 official entries in 23 classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and Quads. The race runs from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas, the southernmost tip of the Baja· peninsula. Other Trophy Truck entrants include Robby Gordon, Tim & Ed Herbst, Larry Ragland, Walker Evans and Ivan Stewart in his Toyota. Other class racers include Troy Herbst, Sammy Ehrenberg, George Seeley, Eric H ardin and Bob Shephard. We will have extended coverage of the race as soon as possible. CORR NEWS -CORR put on a great show at the Indiana Fair Grounds the last weekend in September with 33 trucks competing in the Pro-4 and Pro-2 divisions and 14 buggies going at it in the Pro-Lite group. Indianapolis was the penultimate event of the season, the next and last takes place at Topeka, Kansas on October 21-22. In the Pro-4 division, Rob MacCachren has 22 7 points (8 wins), Rod Millen is close at han_d wit_h 209 points (5 wins), Curt LeDu_c has on~y one w11; _t11:1s season but in third with 191 points. Adnan Cenm 1s 1n fourth with 1 74 points (2 wins) and Scott Douglas is in fifth place with 156 points and non-wins to his credit. In Pro-2 it's Scott Taylor in the lead with 213 points (6 wins) but Evan Evans is knocking on the front door with 210 points (6 wins). Carl Renezeder sits in t~ird with 182 points, Dan Yanden Heuvel has 167 points and Kevin Probst is fifth with 157 points (2 wins). In Pro-Lite Jeff Kincaid has amassed 225 points_ (9 wins). and Chris Brandt sits in second with 195 points (2 wins). Art Schmitt has 167 points, Mark Krueger has 166 and Jason Crowder has 13 9 points ( 1 win). All of the l?oint races are up fox grabs·and the weekend at Indy will be decisive. In the Manufacturers Points·, there are no contests in any divisions. In Pro-4 Ford has all the marbles with 1033 points, Chevy has 365 and Toyota has 208. In Pro-2 Chevy has 1142, Ford 264 and Toyota 105. In the Pro-Lite Division Toyota has 825, Ford 359, Nissan 219 and Mazda has 13 7. We'll give you the final standings in the next issue as the ·CORR season ends the third weekend in October. C RS SCHOOL -The California Rally Series (CRS) is putting on a Performance Rally Sch~ol_, consisting of a Driving Workshop and a Co-Dnv1ng Workshop on October 28, 2000 and a there will be a RallyCross the following day. Learn how to drive a rally car with instruction by Seed 1 and 2 drivers. The Co-Dri~er workshop will hone your skills in the right seat. 'I he session takes place at the Holiday Inn in Palmdale, CA. The RallyCross takes place at Fox Field in Lancaster, CA and starts at 9am on the 29th, For more info call Paula Gibeault at 760-375-8704 or Ray Hocker at 760-375-3289. MORE CORR -The season has already ended for the Buggy and Sportsman Classes and the top five are listed here. Light Buggy Gary Behrens took the gold, Greg Stingle was second, Ben/Lonnie Andrews were third, Jeff Vimig was fourth and Curt Gerald/J~m _Wallace w~re fifth. In Super Buggy it was Chad Hord/R1ch1e Ault takmg the class win, Larry Goudie/Joe Mayberry were second, To_dd/ Kim Wallace were third, Scott Schwalbe was fourth and fifth spot went to Larry/Steve Krieman. In Single Buggy Steven Federico was first, Mike Seefeldt was a very close second, the Steinhardt/Kreuger combo took third, Bob/Gary Blaney were fourth and fifth went to M .A. Peterson/Scott Buth. Sportsman 2 was a runaway, Tommy Bradley taking the win, George/John Schultz were second, Mike Oberg was third, Dan Badoux was fourth and fifth was Dave and Mark Hockers. Sportsman Stock saw Jerry Edgerton taking the honors, Keith Steele was s~cond, Mark Kleiman was third, fourth went to Don Williams and the fifth spot went to the Konitzers. Our congrats to all the contestants. Page 6 Mexicali - San Felipe COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 Colorado Springs, ·co 8093-3 (719) 653-8449 CORP P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Hector Cerecer Ol 1-52-65-66-4458 November 24-26, 2000 Carrera de Campeonata Mexicale Area CORR Championship Off Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 (31 7) 2 72-282 7 /Fax: (31 7) 2 72-2900 CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 *denotes motorcycles & quads *November 19, 2000 Cycle Parts West Notorious Dawg Plaster City, West *December 3, 2000 Yoder's Yodel Rudolph's Revenge Dez Gran Prix Superstition Mountains December 31, 2000 Dunaway Dash Plaster City, West GORRA Georgia Off Road Racing Association November 2000 420 Hosea Road Association Lawrenceville, GA 30245 Dave Barret (404) 963-0252 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 GPORRA (810) 730-9221 Great Planes Off Road Racing Association MOTOWEST WINTER 13621 Pierce St. TRIALS SERIES Omaha, NE 68144-1122 All events at Perris Raceway (402) 333-0517 Eve. Bill Markham Keith Koesters (909) 860-1857 6716 N. 106th St. www.ITStrials.com Omaha, NE 68122 October 28, 2000 (402) 4964846 Eve. December 2, 2000 (I-80 Race Track is located 20 (At Reed Valley with a school) minutes west of Omaha • All December 3, 2000 races are short course, stadium style. January 6, 2001 Classes: Trophy, 11-1600, 5, 7S, 1 February 10, 2001 and Quads) March 17,2001 IOK FOUR WHEELERS NATIONAL MUD RACING P.O. Box36 ASSOCIATION Cleves, Ohio 45002 Rt. #1 - Box 380 (All events staged at the club Dave or Marlene Ryan grounds Palatka, FL 32177 in Cleves. Ohio) (904) 325-5422 INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ICE RACING ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports P.O. Box 8105 Promotions St. Paul, MN 55108 1404 East 3rd Street Steve Beddor Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 (612) 437-2459 INTER-SHOWS NORTHERN OHIO OFF MOTORSPORTS ROAD RACING ASSN. PROMOTIONS, INC. Gary Wulff P.O. Box 2910 (724) 283-2678 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (All events are at Spring Balley (949) 582-2371 Raceway, Miliport, Ohio) KAMLOOPSBRONCO OFF ROAD EXPO 2000 BUSTER (626) 599-8622 4WDCLUB OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS P.O. Box 465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 OF EL PASO Bob (250) 374-7175 days Joey Vasquez Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. 13180 Round Dance Wes (250) 351-2819 El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 867-7788 L.I.T.R.E. All races are at Mountain Shadow Jeff Elrod Lake. Take 1-10 Horizon Blvd. exit (408) 926-0522 east 12 miles Jim Aruta OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. (408) 247-4402 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. MICHIGAN BUGGY New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 BUILDERS Jim Kendel Dune Buggy 'I:rade Show (216) 339-4674 (517) 543-7214 All races held at Harrison www .buggybuilders.com County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio MICHIGAN OFF ROAD ONTARIO OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS RACERS ASSOCIATION M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations 15529 Jones Road (519)-681-4192 (H)/(519) 457-Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 2913(W) (51 7) 62 7 -6200 Ueeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship Warriors and Quad ATV-Money 495 N. Commons Drive Classes.) Aurora, IL 60504 MID-AMERICA (630) 566-6100 OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION www.usoff-road.com MAORA PIKES PEAK Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 Short Course Events P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 MAORA Enduro Series (719) 685-4400 MOJAVE DESERT RACING PROTRUCK RACING 1853 Parkway Drive SERIES S. El Monte, CA 91733 9409 Abraham Way (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-605 l Santee, CA 9207.1-2856 Fax (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449-E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com 6470 November 18, 2000 November 10-17, 2000 Stoddard 300 Baja 2000 (SCORE) Barstow, CA Ensenada to La Paz, Mexico M.OR.E. December 1-3, 2000 High Desert Championship Las Vegas 200 (BITD) P.O. Box 1231 Las Vegas, NV Barstow, CA 92311-1231 **Non Points Event Fax: (760) 253-4453 PURE ENERGY December 2, 2000 PROMOTIONS Leapin' Lizard 250 P.O. Box50 Barstow, CA Ricketts, IA 51460 MSBA (712) 679-2221 Michigan Sport Buggy S.C-A.T. INC. Dusty Times

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Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SAN DIEGO OFF ROAD EXPOSITION (888) 836 7918 January 6-7, 2001 Cajon Speedway SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622/Fax: (303) 694-3654 . SCORE · SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite A Calabasas, CA 91302 (81?) ·225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 Nov.ember 10-17, 2000 T ecate SCORE Baja 2000 Baja California Norte to Baja Sur, Mexico January 18-21, 2001 Laughlin March 1 7, 2001 San Felipe June 1-3 Baja 500 July 13-15, 2001 (Tentative) Barstow September 14-15, 2001 . Primm November 8-10, 2001 Baja 1000 SNORE Southern Nevada Off · Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 270516 Las Vegas, NV 89127 (702) 452-4522 November 3-5, 2000 Reserve 250 Boulder City, 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, Wl 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD . CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or( (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore - (224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 37087 (615) 453-5830 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 SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 Dusty Times (813) 962-2857 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 · Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-3093 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organization Marty Jackson 8307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # 1 Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 3 70-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 Los Robles Blvd . Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-8217 October 28-29, 2000 . 2000 Championship Race - Round 3 , ·Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 0ll-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 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 Buggies & Trucks on Saturdays, Bikes & ATVs on Sundays December 9, 2000 Point To Point Mexico WINSCONSIN MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, Wl 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. Oshkosh, Wl 54901 zr. PROMOTIONS Rene ·Montano . P'.O. Box 2122' Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & A TVs "Only· November 2, 2000 zr. Grand Prix Mexicali, BC, MX Attention Race & Rally Organizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 2001 schedule as soon as possible for listing in this column; it could bring you some extra entries! Mail your race or rally schedule to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 Dusty Times would like to thank All our advertisers for their continued support of our Newspaper. we will soon be starting our 18th year of publication and --we owe it all to you! November 2000 Trail Notes ... CODE+ FRT = A GREAT RACE -It's official! Fud and CODE are putting on a combined race for buggies, cards and trucks. The date is August 11, 2001 and the race will be run in Tecate, Baja, California. CODE is located in Mexicali and FRT in beautiful downtown Chula Vista. We wish them all the best. PRESCOTT FOREST PRORALLY -There is only one ProRally left in 2000, the Lake Superior Rally and that should be a good one. But, the Prescott Forest ProRally, which was run. on September 29-30 was certainly full of competitive stages and we will cover it in depth in the December issue. First overall at Prescott was the Paul Choiniere/Jeff Becker Hyundai Tiburon, followed by the Lon · Peterson/Bill Gutzman Subaru lmpreza and they were just 23 seconds out of the win. Third overall and third in Open was Garen Shrader/Michael Fennell in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. In Group 5 Bryan Hourt/Jay Kowalik took the win by 3:41 in their Honda Civic, leading Mark Utecht/Brenda Corneliusen in their Dodge Omni Turbo. In GT, Roger Hull/ Sean Gallagher took the win in their Eagle Talon, their closest competitor many moons behind. In Group 2, BilrMalik / Amity Trowbridge took the gold in their Volvo 240 Turbo with a six minute margin. In Production, Dennis Chizma/David Weiman were the winners in their Porsche 911, Brian Vinson/ Richard Beels coming in a little over a minute later in their VW Golf Gti. In the Club Rally portion, Joe Noyes/John Forespring won in their Toyota Supra and Peter Workum/ John Rippel took the second spot. In Group 2, Paula Gibeault/ Chrissy Beavis were the big winners in their VW Jetta, beating out Brad Bolf/Gary Garman by a mere 16 seconds. Bruce/Pat Brown won the Open category in their Subaru lmpreza. More in the next issue. OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS -Off Road Productions of El Paso, is Back with a Poker Run! November 19, at Mountain Shadow Lake, El Paso, Texas. It's an all day event. Bring your race car, pre-runner, 4x4 truck, bike, quad or play buggy! We'll be using the existing race course. Contact Joe Vasquez at 915-867-7788 for more info. N.O.O.R.A. UPDATES -The race at Spring Valley Raceway was a huge success. Gary Wulff won the Stock Class in spite of a rollover in Round 1. Steve Eckstine won the Modified Class, Ray· Weakland took the Truck Class and Victor Farr was the winning Odyssey. It must be noted that all these winners donated their prize money to the NOORA organization. RACE & RALLY PROMOTERS -If you are a promoter please send us your 2001 race or rally schedule as soon as possible so we can get it into Happenings and also into our centerfold calendar which graces the January issue. That issue prints just before Christmas, not so far away so Please send us your schedules today! Thanks, it will help all of us. CHRISTMAS ·Is COMING -It really is coming at a very fast pace. It is time for yo u t o get your gift subscriptions to Dusty Times off to those you want to be in the know and it's also time for the thank you ads for the December issue. Give us a call and we'll handle the rest. CENTERFOLD CALENDAR -The Dusty Times Centerfold Calendar appears in the January 2001 issue, not too far away and there is only a limited number of ad spaces available, so let us know your needs soon! CODE RESULTS -Code ran their Las 200 De Botica Santa Maria on October 7 and here are the race results. Elizandro Lee won Class 10, M artin Gonzalez took Class 16, Gerardo Gonzalez won Class 5, Gustavo Coronado won Class 8, Danny Ledezma squeaked out 5-1600, Alez Navarette was the Class 9 winner, Class 7 Pro went to Perry McNeil, Sergio Duron took 7S Pro and Fernando Flores won Class 11 Pro. In the Sportsman classes, Roberto Romo took Class 10, Francisco Pacheco won 1600, Victor Herrera took Class 5, Emilio Rodriguez won Class 8, Jose Soto was the Class 5-1600 winner, Gregorio Casillas took Class 9, Carlos Ramirez won Class 11 . Ricardo Cons, Francisco Delgado and Lorenzo Dojaquez won their classes in the Safari Division. With one race yet to go in the CODE Series, the top 10 point leaders are:· Marcos Nunez 113 (5-1600), Ricardo Com 108 (Safari), Allan Gregory 107 ((5-1600), Alex Navarette 98 (Cl 9), Victor Herrera 88 (Cl 5 Spts), Fernando Flores 98 (Cl 11), Jose Angel Soto 84 (5-1600 Spts), Frederico Fernandez 81 (Cl 9), Sergio Duron 80 (7S) and Arturo Cervantes 80 (5-1600). 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• WHIPLASH SNOWFLAKE 150 Brian Brown ··cool'' In High country By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo -. .;.'~':::·..,..,.,,. ""M, Brian Brown piloted his Pro class Toyota powered Jimco to the Overall win at the Whiplash Snowflake, less than two minutes in front of the second place car. The annual Labor Day ex-travaganza simply known as "Snowflake" produced such a large turnout of cars and people that some called it "The Whip-lash of Off Road Racing." The "Whiplash Snowflake 150" was much more family oriented than, say, the "Burning Man", with lots of kids and dogs. And bozos o n the track, unfortu -nately. Ron and Brian Brown cured the "Herder Syndrome" in their Jimco{f oyota, beating 65 othe·r Pro cars over the• high -6,500' -Aripine track. Midlandian/ • Odessan Jam~s Martin ("l ") was second. Third overall was a BTTW Ron Dalke who beat Charles Lathrem's Honda/ Jimco by three seconds for the Class 10 win. Class 8 winner Jeff Geiser was fourth O/A in the "CWI", two seconds behind Dalke's h o m e built. Othe r classes were equally close: Joe Sheble squeaked out t_he Chal-lenger win by two seconds over the "Woody's II" car of Rick , · Poole. T he spread be tween the top two Sportsman Tens, Ty Loyd and Jack Farmer, was a relatively long nine seconds. The course was typical "Snowflake": stands of gnarly junipers; Ion~ , fast fence lines with safe water bar jumps inter-spersed with tight Ponderosa Pine forests. The ultra smooth course favored the top end, for sure. The Meadow bog was re-s_tricted to the direct line this year by the USFS but after a couple of laps it became a non-issue. Any and all "mud" quickly became "dust", othet. than through gloomy Bill ·Krug Lake. There were 66 Pro entries and 31 Sportsmen. Whiplash split the Sportsman and "1600" Pro classes off from the morning's big. cars. All races were five 31 mile laps with "GP Scoring", when the first car got five 31 mile laps the checkered fla·g was waved for everyone. PRO 1: 8 Entries, 7 5-Lap finishers. Ron Brown was positive about the changes that he had made to the Jimco, he hoped to stop the problems that had be-deviled previous owner John Herder. The in-race shutdowns appeared to be heat related electrical discontinuities. Ron pointed out that the Electro-motive ignition modules h ad been p laced d irectly down-stream of the engine oil cooler, and were mounted on a cross tube that also supported the front of the power plant, a strong source of high cycle vi-bration. Brown moved the modules ·up and onto the main chassis into a four sided alumi-num heat shield lined with ex-haust pipe "wrap", feeding it externa l -cooling air via a "proud" scoop and a flexibl-e duct. "If this doesn't fix it, well, I don't know where to go next!" No sweat Ron. The fix fixed it as Brian took the win with-out so much of a hitch, other than Reuben Wood, _who set fast.lap at 29:03 and "nudged" Brian Brown: "I remembered last year when you wouldn't move over," was the way Ehe third h;md report was worded. Brothers Ron and Paul Ken-nedy took the other car .-the Jeff Fields/GM V6 -to a third. Johnny Phillips' Eye-In-The-Sky Report explaine d the Wood race proble m. "G le n Greer's T -Truck and Reuben Wood get the video highlighter awards: Greer for driving every-whe re but on the track and · Reuben for driving through some corra l at 7 5 mph and COMPLETELY destroying the corral and his left fron t A-arm. Pretty funny to watch, though." (Ed.: The Buckeye crew put a farm jack -figures -under the Ron Dalke pushed hard in his air-cooled two-seat Class 10 car, to take the win and finish third in the overall standings. A -arm and got Wood to finish fifth.) "W e filmed lots of roll-overs. John (Phillips), Sr. , ben t a tie rod (in the yellow "NGM" Scat/ Jimco) while nerfing Robert Scarla (in the Robby Gordon/ Bob· Richey) " Pa nasonic" Ranger). Ricky Geiser fixed it and Dad finished late." James -Martin surprised ev-eryone by showing up with a V6 Toyota in the RCD single seater "Ten" car and was a strong second place finisher. "Three weeks ago we were sit-ting around drinkin' beer and ... " Martin's '97 Camry is stock other than the carb and the. headers. "We checked it afret-the race and it didn't use any water or oil. We put it in be-hind the '10s' Mendeola and set the rev 'limiter to 7.5K but nev.er went beyond 7 .2. We didn't change the suspension or · anything else, even with the bigger motor. It makes passing so much easier. We were half-way done and we said: 'What ~ are -we -doing!?", James laughed. The easy going Tex-ans certainly made an impres-. sive debut in the big bore class. Tommy Greer was suited up in the beautiful Scat/Millen-nium -"I've ·n:e~er even driven .it;,_ -it also had new front arms after Eric "Ricochet" Pavolka · snapped one at the Stateline race. "Danny (Fodrill) made new ones with stouter tubing, although he swore the broken one was good, too!" Foci mus ta contacted a product liability at-torney before speaking out.) T om was the brunt of a few ex-citable boys: Class 10 winner Dalke reportedly drilled Greer and C harles Lathrem and Tom came together over the table top jump. Witness marks on Charles' body panels attest to the close encounter. The crowd of spectators scattered like looters in a riot. Cesar Fuentes drove the fa-mous ex-Greg Diehl car which is still a premier "5" with that Tony Kujala Autocraft/Pauter "VW" engine and liquid cooled shocks. Cesar actually bought the car to broker back in Ciudad Juarez. "I'll let it go for $25K with a tire rack trailer and 11 tires, a windshield, and Arizona registration! " After blowing his Nissan GTP-based V6 engine at The Primm, Fuentes brought the "5" over just to run for points in "l ". "It was a hell of a (bad) day. I had trouble with the Fl -there was no documentation -and Tony and I didn't quite hit it off over the telephone. Vosburg's mecl:i.anic, Mark, helped me this morning. Dur-ing the race the exhaust was way up to 140F so I 'putted' to save it. We needed a lap top to access the FI. I stopped and we retarded the tuning to save the engine. I caught (Tommy) Greer but I couldn't push him; I had to let off and on, off and on, to cool it." Cesar is having Tom Klein build a V 6 sprint car motor, as "there are almost no parts left for the Nissan!" M ark "Zonnie" Cowan -newly skinheaded -drove the skinless Protruck of Steve "Vegpacker" Scaroni with a host of different crew people in the right seat; they stopped ev-ery lap for swaps. Steve had "Stewart's Raceworks" prep mechanic Cowan bring the car as a Fun Day for all the men who busted their butts at the BitD "Nevada 2000". Scaroni takes good care of his people! They ran decent laps, too, to seventh. Carlo Caya said that while "Cesar hit us ... that prep guy did OK" behind the wheel. David Schutte had to hammer ·ex-Tuf Guy Caya: "He's a fair weather, hangin' out with the truck guys." PRO 10 9 Entries, 6 5-Lap Finish -ers Ron Dalke said that he was going to drive it like it was a "big Holbrook: short-course style ." And damned if h e didn't. The Tucson landscaper took h is self-built and self-prepped two seater to a sub-30 first lap over Lathrem's zoot Jimco. "Donkey" even drove wilder than Jeff Wells! Dalke's 1915cc air cooled two seater seemed to have the power ad-vantage at altitude. Or is it just Ron? Eric Fisher drove all the way this time, in the highly competitive 1600 class, to get the fast lap and take the win by a hair over two minutes. ---~------~------------ - . ---Scott Maloney ran his Chevrolet in Class 3 and came up winners after his five laps were done, but it was close and he had only a six minute cushion. Continued on page 10 Page a November 2000 Dusty Times

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Ron BfOW1 and Paul Kennedy paired up to drive their V6 powered car to Recently retired Ed Beard drove his "old" car to a nice third place in Charles Lathrem had a good day with his Honda VTEC powered Class third place in the Pro 1 • 2 class, only seven minutes off the lead time. Class 10, showing one and all what senior citizens are capable of. 1 0 car, and ended up in second place in Class 1 O and 5 overall. ----;===============~==~========~=.'~""'"'::..:.:::.;:..::....c..:....::.=:.....:..:::...:;:~:.....::..:=:;::----80 minute second lap, and was Class 5 had only one survivor, Enrique Bujanda, who had a good day and finished By the time the second 5-lap race took off, the mud had dried and the cars stayed in ninth place in the overall standings. clean. Here, Mike De/Col, who hadn't raced since November, flies his shiny clean 5-1600 to the victory. Jeffro Wells -the man who the end of the Miller-Mills hills only to get stuck behind hip fracture off his bike months taught Matt Murphy how to race, the Buckaroos' Honcho. Buck ago. He did not want to be be-ride -got hit hard by Lathrem's Steve Kuker's two seat Jimco pulled over for "OTT" but then hind the wheel and have to fa. Ken Major Honda VTEC. It was running the old Richard slammed the door on us. The vor that· bad leg. Third place stove in the rear cage. Lathrem Binder twin cam MR2 Toyota huge bounding truck was not Steve Downing: "I was tapped has had little race time and his engine at full song: "We up-the sort of thing that you'd wish in fourth gear and I saw the drive was, therefore, exem-shifted at the 'down' arrows." to stick your nose under, so we Fisher/Brown car coming. I was plary. Wells tells of chasing The first lap was to "educate" had to play follow-the-leader driving as hard as I could and "OTT" Willie Cummins: "We the Garmin "eTrex" GPS dis-until they gave us some room they just horsepowered by me. were on the same radio chan-play and check out the mud. before the Meadow. Cummins Bill Krug, man, he's fast! I was nel and I asked him to pull After that, you could track the split the scene and dusted the glued on his bumper, I didn't over. So he hits the gas and car's position and give a "heads course, we could only hope for lift, and I didn't slow down all goes up this tree! (The one up" as to which way the course a mis-cue on his part. Which day." where Don Kalt would have his went in the cloying dust. A did not occur. He sneaked by Brewer said .that he was misfortune.) more knowledgeable sort might Mark Wright, giving himself "passing Sportsmen (cars) like Ed Beard was a strong coulda woulda shoulda input more rare air: Aw, hell, it was they were 'water'!" Gannon third ... "Aw, this is an old car. "Danger" flags: cattle guards, not for position, anyway, but, agreed, saying, "Brewer.was fly-It wasn't runnin' good. I off-cambers, trees, more trees, hey, you know the drill. ing!" Steve long had a flat tire thought that you were gonna stumps, guy wires, power poles, Kuker, one known to get and did change it yourself "Of catch me. and take pictures? drunks, quads, Suburbans o.n flat&, did the race without one. course" I was in a. hurry and I Blah, blah." Barbara said that the course, etc. It was sug-Until the next morning, when left all my crap along side the "Ed needs a· new car. It used to gested to Steve that we follow the right rear was down. course. I had my helmet all be 'How many seats do we need. the "Sub" off the course and PRO 1600 duct taped up for the dust. I put to sell (to get a new car}?' Now plow him. Steve's too nice for 15 Entries, 10 5-Lap Fin-the small spare on the rear." its 'How many Social Security that. ishers The black Adams and Eve checks do we need?'" Ed has a Off the s~art, behind Beard, A porta-pot full of fast car got a flat and had trouble new Mendeola and arms all we caught some dust -think-"1600" showed up but the dy-with fourth gear, not a good ready. ing that it was Ed -but it was namic Sierra Vista duo of deal on a wide open c_ourse with Jim Taggart, who had done Bruce Mills pulling over, for Scotty Brown and Eric Fisher 15 other hard core "1600s". loac;ls of pre-race maintenance, good. We never saw another came from a back-start to beat They got seventh behind Travis ran for a spell than dropped two "10" car until the first lap when the hard charging likes of Kurt Rackley. They had expected cylinders. "We changed the a struggling Cummins got out Brewer. San Diego's Steve better. Leo Nenortas had plugs, the wires, adjusted the in front. An alert Matt Engstler Downing, Bill Krug, Pete changed from the ubiquitous valves," he disappointedly had pulled the troubled "532" Gannon, Steve Long, and Erik "009" distributor to an Electro-shrugged. "I don't know what over before we had a chance to Jones. The pace was so fast and motive deal with a missing it was." Jim lost loads of time tag him. Cummins was not so so furious that any glitch or tooth crank trigger: "Now it in the pits them did a so-so lap thoughtful. With Steve on his miscue would be paid for by pulls fourth hard and even and trailered it. Bruce Mills got bumper and me Or} the horn many positions. Brown set fast idles. It is not cheap, about to the RM4 point before a pin-Willie became magically moti-class lap from the back; Fisher $900." Leo made do without ion nut came off and that was vated and roared up the PLR is still recovering from a nasty John "Swank" Emerson, had an ,------------------------, James Martin came over from Texas to compete with a V6 Toyota The 1600s ran in the second "event" of the day, with Sportsmen, Class a four lap 12th. Yumans Frank and ·Enrique Rascon had a too long first lap. Frank got stuck up a tree and lost almost a half an hour. Then some overlooked prep . details sidelined brothe-r Rick. The torsion bars had been re-placed backwards, for example, and the car took a low-rider "set". They did get in four laps. Mike -Leung broke a rocker shaft._ "l was in fourth gear, floored ... it broke the shaft right in half. Just more of those new car blues. We have to re-bui_ld the engine and we're go-ing to run SCORE and SNORE races." Tommy Brown's Race Re-port: "I ride with Buddy Rossorelli. I'm kinda like the guy in the tower that's talking down a 12 year old flyin' a 727. I never shut up from when we start -to the checkered. Our pastor says, "Never give up on your kids." Well, Buddv's 43: God help me. The way ·1 look at it, he's just one more dez-racer who coulda been a tree . hugger. PRO 3 4 Entries - 3 5-Lap Finish-ers Scott "Scooby" Maloney jumped right into "3" with a win over some tenacious com-petitors and a newby. Sierra Vistan Adam Crowley bought, sight unseen, the old long wheelbase "Gadzooks" CJ8• S_crambler from John Engle. The car had been languishing for eight, nine years; as proven by the "1988 HORA Fireworks 200" sticker on the door. "All we did was change out the fuel cell -the foam had deterio-rated." If the "Louis Unser Rac-ing Engine·s" decal was any clue, the rig should have a good top end. Scooby's Scoop: "We had five '3s' show _up but one, Mark Wright, felt they had a chance in '8'. First time racer Crowley, one of the Fisher/Brown crew, pulled first to start but he Camry motor in his single seater, and had a good run, finishing 9, Class 3 and 5-1600s on the course with them. Kurt Brewer pushed In his plain-wrap black and white car, Steve Downing ran steadily to second and second overall. his car thru the traffic to finish second, two minutes out. finish in third place in the 1600 race, five minutes off the pace. Page 10 November 2000 Dusty Times

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elected to start last. So the line-up was: AC Commons -Scooby -Franklin (Swanson's #303 red Jeep) -Adam." "Within five miles I was in AC's dust, and had the Jeep in our mirrors. We battled for about five miles and in a fast section (I had it pinned in third gear) the Jeep stayed on my bumper easily. I let him by to beat himself up and give AC something to think about. He caught, and passed, AC. The CJ8 caught us but we held him off in the tight/rough stuff and put some distance on him. We had a hard time trying to get close enough to get AC but his tranny stumbled on a steep climb, allowing me to get a passing position." "We stayed on AC for a bit (one truck length). It was easier in that little dust free window just behind another car. He hit a dip and his Bronco did an impressive wheelie (all at race speed, one truck back). After the wheelie the course opened into a meadow and he let me by. I totally blew it 300 yards later, the corner had a sloping downhill on the outside and I had to point it downhill to keep from rolling. I got it un-der control and back on course, luckily I was far enough ahead that AC didn't get by." "The Swanson/Franklin Jeep was really fast. We came around the first lap and he had eight minutes on us. He was pulling away, fast. At one point he had 11 minutes on us; I was gaining a minute a lap on AC. Ramingo & The Strip Jeff Geiser had things going his way in his Class 8 Chevrolet, and took the victory in the 16 truck field by a minute and 15 seconds. He was fourth overall. On the third lap we came upon position to pass again." the Jeep on its side, gushing oil. "While '303' was down I was Their crew actually tried to able to put 20 minut<!s on him. stop me to pull them over! I AC had a driveline problem slowed down enough to see and had to stop. The Jeep that everybody was OK and caught and passed him on the went around them. They went last lap. The CJ8 pulled over, down in a pretty gnarly corner, he snapped off his brake pedal a 'double-down' 90 that trying to avoid a drunken man pointed you at a 'sucker tree' and his son. Adam then walked on the outside of a hard left. It out to school these ~'individu-looked like he had been steer-als'. As he was walking there he ing away from the tree and laid saw the same thing happen to it over. The checkpoint was a '5-1600 car' trying to avoid less than a half mile away and the idiots. we gestured that there was a "My 'Larry's Engine and Ma-roll-over. AC followed my rine' engine did not skip a beat, tracks around the Jeep, but the nor did the Art Carr transmis-CJ-8 stopped and put the Jeep sion. Our BFGoodrich tires back on its feet. 'Duh'." · worked great; no flats. We did "The last 15 miles we had not stop at all. Whiplash put on three '9' cars catch us and I let an excellent race; the two-race them by. A couple of '1600s' profile worked great. On the tried to get close so I stepped way home I told my co-driver it up and they were never in a Chad, "Not a bad weekend." Joe Sheble and Andy Kisner, their whole car painted like an Arizona flag, had everything their way, and took the Class 9 win by a skinny two seconds. He replied, "What are you talk-Preston and I kept the speed up ing about, that was an awesome and hoped that the dust would weekend." linger and slow him up. But A.C. Commons explained: with only 'Drive' we couldn't "We were going up the PLR pull away. When a clearing ap-hills in third gear, WFO, and proached we let him by. Not we were losing steam so I went long after that we almost blew for second and there was noth-the same corner as Scooby and ing; I went to first and, again, went for second gear as a knee nothing. I was coasting to the jerk reaction and it was there! crest of the first hill and I was As we started the second lap feverishly ratcheting to Neutral the only problem was the lack and then back to Drive w.hen of power above the 4,500 rpm all of a sudden 'Yaaa! We ha-ve · range. We· were unable to power!' We were under way. achieve the red line of 6,000 Seeing Scoob closing, I stood rpm. And the truck really pulls on i~ to keep the momentum hard in that range. We ran the since we only had Drive. second lap, but had to let At the bottom of the PLR, Crowley by at RM40. When we hidden in the shadows, were were about 50 miles we learned two 'gottcha's'. (I should have that the Swanson was on his remembered them from last side by the left hand 90-degree year.) We did a pretty good turn with the sucker tree on wheelie on the first and carried the outside corner (i.e., Kolt, the second one nice ly . Dan Continued on page 13 •• - . 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Erik Jones drove his creatively painted single seater to fifth place in Pete Gannon ran into a plastic bottle of oil taped on a rear bumper and got an ugly oil shower, but he still managed a fourth place finish in Class 1600. the 1600 class, only 10 minutes behind the winner, indicating just Milt Moore piloted his bright-yellow 5-1600 to second place, five how hard fought the race was. minutes and 41 seconds behind the winning car after their 155 miles. Rascon, etc.). As we went by h_e has been righted by Cro-Nley! (We later 'schooled' Adam on not righting someone in your own class: just stop and see if everyone's okay and let them get a different class.) I was starting to settle in and was getting faster every lap. I only blew one corner on Lap 3 and stuffed the truck into the same ditch that Scoob had on the first lap. The only differ-ence is that he is fuel injected and I am carbureted -and I stalled. At this point I learned that the battery switches are not accessible_ while fully strapped in, trying to switch to both batteries to get the truck started. We had zero problems on the fourth lap until we crossed the finish flag when the outer LH U-joint let go and started flopping around. We pulled into the pits and unlocked the hubs and put the truck into two wheel drive; something I had not practiced since buying the truck earlier this year." As we started the fourth lap we were in second and we knew that Swanson was running and coming on strong: we had no room for error or time to slow up. I kept my right foot flat on the floor. Not counting the pit time, we actually did the fourth lap faster than Scoob. How-ever, I think he might have let up a little because he had a comfortable lead and knew we had had some problems. (Ed.: those 'shared' radio freq, again!) We had a bad fifth lap, we ran it about five minutes slower; due to the corner we blew and the tree we ran over trying to drift the rear end around a corner. I learned that I couldn't corner the same way in 2WD as i could in 4x4. We stalled the truck after running over the tree and landing nose down in a ditch. We wasted Only the best components survive the abuse of desert off-road racing • which is why top racers choose MSD lgnitio.,_.r MIO Ignition posas corithlfiney ar many desert and short coune off-road evenu across the country through Jim Conner Racing. Stop by their trailer for details at your next racel trlb ... time getting the truck started again and we ended up in third. We learned that the tranny problems were due to a faulty shift cable, not Lee Myles' Greg Jayko, and the fuel problem was due to the floats being set too high." PROS 3 Entries - 1 5-Lap Finisher The "5" ranks were light, as usual. While there as a passel of "5"-like cars around, some elect to run Sportsman, like Dave Cookman, while others are illegals, like Lee Finke's A-armed Race Shock convertible. Others, like Tom Brown's, are content to remain Garage Queens. Class winner Enrique Bujanda's Cd. Juarez car ran some fast laps -good enough to have been fourth in Class 1. And was Ninth OA. Matt Engstler #532 lost the left trailing arm pivot bolt off his blue and while convert. They everything you'll n o reliably ignite y , race truck or tow vehicle! Dusty Times November 2000 put a drift punch in and hose-clamped it to finish their third lap. A ratchet strap helped se-cure the fix. Their two hour third lap tells it all. PRO 5-1600 4 Entries - 2 5-Lap Finish-ers Ric Sanders came out of the, uh, "garage", with his 5-1600 · after five years in hiding: "It's a Dalke engine." Rick and daughter Samantha, got in two good laps and a bad one. "I busted a spring plate stop then dropped a cylinder. But, hey, it's just so good to be back rac-ing," Ric said. "We'll get the engine back to Ron and get ready for the next one." Mike Del Col: "I had my complete list of excuses prepared: haven't raced since November; brain turned to mush finishing my MBA; out of shape; paper-pusher hands; motor not fresh; afternoon start threw me off; moon in wrong position; wind blowing the wrong way ... the list goes on. Fortunately, I didn't need any of them. Team Ragged Edge Racing scored a big win this weekend -and it felt GOOD. . The car was running great, and we blasted over the (table-top) jump. We raced for about five miles before even getting a glimpse of the two cars in front. We could see the Moore car ahead -and we were gaining ground steadily. As we headed into the trees, he was within reach. I had hoped to catch him before the trees -but he was too fast. We were able to gain more in the twisty-turny pines, and were right on his rear cage. We could also see that Milt had caught Ric. The wind was blowing strong, and it was easy to work through Milt's dust. W e were able to pressure him enough to Continued on page 14 Page 13

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Off to a bad start, after having to start at the back of the pack, season Jeff Spooner and Danny Sullivan lost time with a difficult flat on their points leader Mark Beeler still brought his Ford up through traffic to a Don Kott had a bad time in the Class 8 Pro race, then ran in the Sportsman Truck class and took the win, with four laps done. Chevy, but still managed to finish second in the big Class 8. fine third place finish. Glen Greer transformed his Pro/ruck into a Pro Unlimited Truck for this race, and took the win, finishing sixth overall. let us by. That pumped me up -and we were well into the dust plume of Ric. Within an-other mile we were able to reel him in -and were right o.n his cage. However, his car was really working well, and de-spite some serious honking -he wouldn't let us by. We chased him thru the trees, up and down the PLR, and into the Meadow. I was afraid to give Ric a tap -for fear of sending him into a tree. It was a long race -and patience was in order. Ric's car was really fun to watch -and was pitch-ing baseball size rocks. Finally, in a big 90-degree left -we were able to pull along side -and Ric finally gave us a wave -and let us by. We finished the class fast lap of the day, and continued to make dust and distance for the competition. We had some 20 seconds on Ric after 1. It was cruise-control time: focus, get smooth, and just hammer out the miles. I was satisfied with a 36 minute lap -with the competition falling further behind. Lap 3 was more of the same -until we started into some dust. I was thinking '1600 car' -but it was a 'Sportsman' boggy. I wanted to pass him -to put more dust in front of the other 5-16's. Sounded like a good idea at• the time. I was able to catch him at about RM20 something -go-ing through the prairies and cross-grain ditches. We were working up through his dust -but he was tough. He was able to pull away just enough so that I lost his amber light -and was running on instinct alone. You know the drill -stay in the throttle -count to five -then panic. The dust cleared just enough to see that we were about three feet off the cen-ter of the track -with a BIG ditch in front of the car. The impact was unavoidable, and we were at the top of third gear just hauling. The car im-pacted the ditch with a 'WHOOMP' and we were air-borne. All I can say is that this is the highest, farthest, and most out of shape that this car has ever flown. The car was twisting in flight -and I though it would land square on the passenger side of the car. It was also nos-ing over like a stalled bi-plane ... 'This is gonna hurt .. .' But somehow it landed on the passenger front tire -and settled down without a kick, bounce, or hop. I backed off -expecting something to be broken -but the car kept right on going, it's the closest to di-back over. Three quarts of oil a_nd two quarts of tranny fluid later we were on our way. Only lost about 15 minutes. The truck · wasn't running too good and we had to put a fuel pump in at the pits. On the third lap we went by two other rolled-over trucks and one Mike D; who looked very bored. Tom Hayosh ran his two-seat car in the Sportsman Limited class and had a ball, The truck started running real bad about five miles from the pits so we nursed her in and took the checkered flag. Finished eighth out of 16, even with a roll-over, not that I am happy with that, but I am happy with the determination of our team. I want to thank the Vosburg chase guys. I told them what happened to Gary and they stayed long enough to pull us over before th€;y went after their truck. I really taking the win after four laps, with 10 minutes to _sp_a_r_e. ________ _ saster I have ever been. built Chevy. (Holbrook Race appreciate that. . Vosburg got his 8ffrophy/ · 1 backed off -let the other Note: "Rick Wiseman broke car go -let the dust clear, and the bell housing, or the tail finished the lap. We had our shaft, depending upon when pit crew take a look over the you talked to Mike Doherty.") car as we passed and it was Winner Jeff Geiser ham-back to work. We had several mered Tom Buck's red Class Truck-Protruck back into the 4 on the way to a steriing win. pits with the rear end on fire Jeff caught Steve Kuker's and Tommy Buck hit Don # 1011 at RMS on Lap 2. Kolt's truck as it was on its Danny Sullivan and Jeff side. The Lowell Arnold Ford Spooner, second in class, truck got a little hot on the caught him at the same place PLR: "They added six gallons much later, on Lap 4! Geiser of water, a gallon of oil and it smoked the course to fourth still wasn't full," said crew overall. chief Bruce "Blanco" White. minutes on the field and they had to catch us and pass to win. We cruised for the last two laps and took the win by six minutes. Several '9' cars passed us on the final lap -and I let them go without hesita-tion. They were in a real dog-fight. The Sheble car did give us a tap -and I let him go -he did win. I accomplished exactly what I wanted: drive, test, a victory, and most of all -don't hurt the car. Mission accom-plished. It couldn't have been scripted any better. Thanks to "Signs Now" in Mesa; Kasey and K .C . of 'Finishline Motorsports' for their support and advice; Mike Arthur of 'Kartek', and Lee-Bob at 'RaceShock' for making the car handle -and saving our ass in this race. PROS 16 Entries - 5 5-Lap Fin-ishers There was a large turnout of Class 8 trucks, 1 7, if you count Rick Wiseman, who lost a tranny Friday in the Gieser-Jesse Jones and faithful The truck was hot, indeed, it Litchfield Park companion stunk up the area. At least Travis Williams heard a they were parked off to the "clunk" at RM 19. "We started side on the narrow PLR. Rob-behind Jeff Geiser, we fol-ert Wagner came over from lowed him as he picked off the IV with the Alford some '10s' and Danny Sulli-"Budweiser" center-seater and van ... then my tranny quit. It was gone after one quick lap. was broken, not burned. I feel Spooner and Sullivan got like taking a break from this," one flat; Jeff and Danny had sighed the disappointed aero-to change it all by themselves. space machine shop magnate. "We were in the trees before Keith Moore, TCK Air the PLR. The wheel studs Conditioning: "One mile into were bent and it was hard to the race we passed an upside-get the wheel off. Willie down Vosburg. I he had to Cummins slowed -us up. We swerve to miss a deer, but I am slammed (Gary) Dirks (in the not sure if that's what hap-'7'). He was cutting the pened. 14 miles into the sec-course. I was mad! He was ond lap I caught a berm in a checking up real hard and I hairpin turn and rolled the pushed him 500 feet off the truck on its lid but the Vos-course. They were black-flag-burg chase truck was out look-ging him and he wouldn't ing for Gary and flipped us stop." Or so said an adamant --,---c-c------------- ~ Rick Poole, a long-time Class 9 charger, kept the winner honest, and Tina Schaible floats her nice looking pink 5-1600 Sportsman car over Jack Farmer fought hard, but finished his day second in the Sportsman finished only two seconds behind him in second. ___ the bumps as she heads for her second place in the class. 10 class, only nine seconds out. Page 14 November 2000 Dusty Times

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Ray Newton lost his left front wheel, and then ran two laps that way; With an appropriate cactus man on its roof, the Stuart Baffler two Mark Milne drove his very tidy blue and white single seat Class 9 car finishing three in all, for a DNF, but a fine showing ·of determination. seater bounced its way to fourth place in the Pro 9 division. to third place in class, only a minute and a half out of second place. Danny. is definitely an electrical thing. "9" car and took fourth place,. for Matt Morris' behemoth looked like down to the And now the real Mike The Vl0 only revved to 5.5K; Shelden Greeves broke the Landcruiser to go frn"m perpen-spindle. I saw them go by Doherty story: "We.drew ninth. we need more power." tranny. P.aul Matthews, in the dicular to parallel on the once." But our fourth motor in six (6) Pre-race favorite Mark former N&K car got help from co·urse. Naturally, this gave SPORTSMAN MINI races expired 16.5 miles with-Beeler, who even drew the #1 Cheezer Ken Montijo: "I got Byrd the chance to catch us. TRUCK out any warning signs. The· pit, actually had to start at the him going after a rag joint Once the Landcruiser was out 2 Entries - 0 5-Lap Finish-truck was doing what it was back. The understandably un-broke in his shifter a_t about of the way, the race was on. ers supposed to, and I was doing happy Beeler mis-lined up on RMl l." ·Since Cobb had· nothing but "Tommy Tech". Fisher's what I was supposed to. No staging without the pre-staging PRO UNLIMITED clear air, they put some dis-#1738 had an oil jug taped to mistakes in the first 16 mile. ritual. He figured that there TRUCK tance on us." the rear bumper. "1600" leader After 'smoking' the competi-was little reason to go all the (aka Trophy-Truck or "On second lap, we started Pete Gannon hit it and ex-tion, we coasted into Check 2. way through the pits to line up Trick Truck): 2 Entries - 2 5-seeing other cars in our class -ploded oil all over his buggy. And watched the race from when he could just as easily Lap Finishers. . stopped. The Mike Leavitt Ex-The oil went every which way, i:here. Bored, I walked the oil slide in behind the last "10" The Greer Geiser T-T plorer (in Sportsman Limited?) mostly over Pete and his visor. path. Lo and Behold, there in over by the car start line. The sported boxed upper arm.s; had lost a lot of oil in the esses; The cheap oil (Pete was in-the oily grass was an expensive, staging ladies figured it differ-"Rev A" after the breakage at Kinyon was headed for the censed about THAT aspect, but broken, Eagle Competition ently; Mark then had. to wade Primm. Eric Pavolka said that trailer (his "Fukenbroken" too.) continued to dribble up rod -the bottom half! There is through 15 other trucks. "We he and "JR (Greer) checked out buggy was just that). We saw the hood and also drip down also a hole in our new $300 passed seven trucks on the first that 'Vosburg' hole, we drove Cobb climbing out, they went through an antenna hole in the Canton oil pan that looked like lap! Three were running and into to check it out." Recall on to finish two more laps with top, Gannon was not amused. ithadbeenshotbya 12-gauge! four were down already." what Johnny wrote: "Greer ... three wheels. On our last lap Tom Fi?her apologized: "The Later, after a 'few' beers I Beeler, the points leader by a driving everywhere but on the we passed Sam Oswalt, a Baja Tech gur, cannot afford to act fired 'er up and drove it into mile, salvaged a fine third track." Bug having, some kind of diffi-this way,' he admitted. "'Some-the trailer on seven cylinders, place, however. PRO VINT AGE (over 12 culty. We took the checkered one' suggested that I do that. holding the connecting rod in PRO 9/CHALLENGER years) 10 minutes in front of Tina It was poor advice." my hand!" (Have you ever 11 Entries - 5 5-Lap Finish-2 Entries - 1 5-Lap Finisher Schaible's '5-1600' car." SPORTSMAN TEN heard this one before? -"It was ers The winning c·ar was the Levitt from the FMI shop 5 Entries - 2 5-Lap Finish-running real good, just before The sw\ng-axle class had the 1838cc 2-pott of Ron Bosley was driving the "#3101" Sibbio ers it blew.") top cars and the race did not with Type IV CVs and 12-and-Ex_plor_er. Foutz advertised: As noted, Ty Loyd and Jack The ebullient Mark Wright disappoint. OK, Rick Poole was I -half front and rear. The · "That thing is for sale, to do the Farmer went at it. tooth ·and played his cards exac-tly as disappointed in his two-second "Chenowth I 00" look-alike by' Baja 2000. The truck and all nail, hammer to sickle, back to planned: he entered '8' in his second place fi_nish. SNORE-Ed Beard was the old Coleman the spare parts (enough for two back with Loyd squeaking out not-so-modified "3" Bronco racer and winner Andy Kisner McArthur car. The rear arms years ofracing)? Club Reporter the five lap victory. Farmer's and picked up some gold. "I am and Joe Sheble: "Poole passed had been 'pirated for another Ken Montijo radio-ed in: "Sat-pink, white and blue car is in going where the money is. Af-us (Ed.: with a new strong mo-use and Ed dug out the tooling urday evening it was on the the Baja-familiar livery of the. ter all, I started my career with tor) then when he pitted we for Ron, who whipped up a set. trailer with three wheels, Continued on page 16 Gary Mecham, .. and I have to just left him. We had to give a "He'd never made anything like thank the tranny inan Doug Sports Truck a 'little nudge'." that before," said Beard. Ron (from that now-defunct Me-Good thing that it wasn't Tom won $300.00 in the $5,000 rac-cham legacy). I lost the rear Fisher! Mark Milne was a ing car. shocks and tried to help Kolt. I couple of miQutes behind SPORTSMAN LIMITED stopped and Don immediately Poole. Andy and Jo-Jo finished 7 Entries - 0 5-Lap Finish-tied on the strap but I could 12 minutes behind Fisher/ ers only drag his truck sideways." Brown's "1600" .winner. Tom Hayosh, who has been Greg Foutz' legal "Stock Tucson-favorite Ray Newton Challenger racing in SNORE Full" rig weighs in at a beefy did what he has been doing and MDR, too, was first place 6100 pounds. They took the best: he lost the left front as planned all along: "We.never fuel regulator off the "3101" wheel... then did two laps that got out of the car. What a great SUV then stole it back again to way. Which speaks of the ease time we had! It was so fun to run the N2K Explorer in Lim-of the race course and the te-let the car wind out and go fast. ited Sportsman. Foutz said that nacity of Newt. With less than The RaceShocks that Lee they flat-footed the big truck halfofthefieldfinishingallfive (Finke) put together were over the table top: a Detroit laps, it was a hard event for the tuned to perfection. All I could overcast. That Ford would blot ball-jointer brigade. Todd Ford think about was catching those out the sun. Greg lost third was looking real "fat" at the three cars." gear in the F250: "It was full-start, blowing black smoke. "By RMS I was in the dust pedal in second. 75? We think They dieseled to fifth in class. of Eric Kinyon. I know desert that this (continuing) problem Stuart Baxter bought Greener's racing involves dust, but man, Brian Shugart put his Sportsman Unlimited single seater into the lead on the first lap and then just stayed there, taking the win by almost five minutes. Dusty Times that was a LOT of dust. Realiz-ing they were holding us up, they let us by. Next, it was time for some Byrd hunting: Kris Byrd started 60 seconds before us, and I wanted him behind· me. A few miles later, we caught him. He wasn't moving over. So in one of the tree sec-tions, I ·'lightly grazed' _his rear cage. He said later that it was a very light tap, my first! (Ed.: Intoxicating, huh?) This got his attention, and he promptly· moved over." "Next was Ken Cobb. This is a '9' car, but they raced in Sportsman. After a couple of minutes, we crested the PLR only to find Cobb and Paul Matthews' '9' stropped, waiting November 2000 It was a close race, but Ty Loyd finished his five laps in front and in charge, winning the Sportsman 1 O division by nine seconds, CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 95, SA 95 FOR . SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seat cars. Helmet conversions. cool boxes . . 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r. Gary Dircks ran his Ford Ranger in Class 8 and did a good job, finishing fourth in that very tightly fought race. Newcomer Audie Bozik raced with Rob Ostwinkle in their neat blue and white two seater and the pair finished the day in third, a minute and nine seconds out of second Unlimited Sportsman. Terry Harden put.his blue and white zebra-striped single seat car into second place in the Unlimited Sportsman class. McMillins. Poor Scott Mills could not even make the pro-gram since Dad broke the race car in the Pro l O race. SPORTSMAN TRUCK 4 Entries - 0 5-Lap Finish-ers After its ignominious morn-ing respite on its side, the Don Kolt truck ran the Sportsman race and flat-tracked Matt Morris' high and mighty Chevy/ Landcruiser. Matt, if you recall ITED the "Sportsman Limited" re-13 Entries - 5 5-Lap Finish-port, was sideways on the PLR. Chuck Sutherlin's F250 only got in two laps. SPORTS MAN UN LIM-ers Brian Shugart took his CBR-powered "Woods" car to a re-sounding Overall Sportsman· ~ KC HILITES RACE EXHAUST MICRO STUBS KC offers some of the most durable and powerful competi-tion lighting in off-road racing today, KARTEK is proud to offer a large selection of KC Hilites and accessories to meet KARTEK designed race exhausts are the best on the market. Available in jet coat-ed or raw with gussets on #2 & 4. KARTEK 's micro stubs are used by some of the biggest names in off-road racing today. KARTEK takes pride in the quality and durability of their micro stub , and in the quality parts from which they are a:ssembled. all of your lighting needs. Features super thick flanges, a Megaphone style collector, and a flange to allow the addition of SUPER-TRAPP"' 5-inch discs. Page 16 These trick KARTEK designed units consist of a stock drum precision machined and aug-mented with a billet plate and heat treamed chromoly splined center for maximum durability. . Accept NO substitutes. YOKOHAMA TIRES SUPERDIGGERS are the best off-road tires on the market today. Their aggressive tread pattern and , increadible durability has made them the preferred tires of many off-road race teams . BATES BOOT FLANGE & LIGHTENED 930 & 934/5 CVs This KARTEK exclusive was designed to elimi-nate the CY overheating that is associated with the use of Bates boots. This trick flange sets the boot away from the CV. This flange allows for the use of lightened and standard CY joints. KARTEK 's lightened CYs are precision machined to allow them to stand up to the rig-ors associated with off-road racing. November 2000 win. The air-cooled bike car worked as well as Brian has promised. He cut a fast 31 :44 first lap then was never headed or challenged. He beat the Pro "Challengers" and was behind the first four Pro "1600" cars. It is uncertain why a 600cc car would be running in the "Un-limited" ranks. Doesn't seem to be an issue, as Brian spanked 'e anyway. Car builder_ Jack Woods drove another bike buggy, albeit at a "somewhat" slower pace, getting in four laps and sixth place. New Kids On The Block, #1203, Audie Bozik and Rob Ostwinkle, had entered their clean '82 Raceco two seater in Unlimited Sportsman. The 1915cc Type I car had disks and power steering and was in excel-lent shape with a flashy blue and checkered paint scheme. This was Bozik's first race in Arizona, the car had been raced in the Southeast, GA, AL, and FL. It was said that Audie inherited the car. Audie stopped twice but discovered that he only needed one stop. He missed sec-ond place by just over a minute, 1: 11, and first by seven. Imperial Valley's Tom Wat-son led Steve Downing solo the · black and white "1600" and, instead, took the Scaroni Protruck for five laps in "Un-limited". Once again, everyone got some seat time. Watson is Scaroni's brother-in-law and had his shiny Subaru-powered Alumicraft .Metal Works four seater out for pre-running. Downing is the fabricator at John Cooley's ultra-classy, ul-tra-busy shop. Dave Cookman rolled; Frank Rascon's "1600" almost hit him. Top entry Mike Herrick's "Flame" single seater lost his transmission and only had fourth gear. Ze(O laps. EL CHISMOSO Knuckleheads Chuck Williams and a friend, in car # 1204 were seen going the wrong way on the Power Road during the Friday Poker (Pre) Run .. After the double Fodor tragedy at Bar-stow, what were they thinking? Answer: they were not think-ing. There is no excuse that can be considered an excuse with the race course being "hot" like that. The Dan Winters Post-Race Report: "I went around the track on Monday: three wooden gates were demo-ed and about 50' of barbed wire fence ... five juni-pers were uprooted. The area was left incredibly clean. I can't imagine that any other 'picnic' site that was left this nice after a holiday weekend." ■ Dusty Times

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WRC 50TH NESTE RALLY FINLAND Granholm Grinds Grist By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Flying straight and tree, Marcus Granholm and Timo Rautiainen took their Peugeot 206 to the glory of first overall and into the drivers points lead. Gronholm is really great! He has won the Swedish and Finnish rounds of the WRC in the same year! In the early stages he was chased hard by Richard Bums, but · he crashed on the second day. Then privateer Harri Rovanpera led the race for second place in front of all the other teams until a time con-trol error on the final day allowed Colin McRae to squeeze through into second and also allowed Ford to go into the lead in Manufactur-ers Points. Peugeot finished all three cars in the top six! Five of the six teams completing scored points, leaving only SEAT unlucky once again. Mitsubishi was out of it once again but scored the top 16 places in Group N and Abdullah Bakhasbab beat Frederic Dor in the Teams Cup category. The misfortunes for Subaru in New Zealand meant that they came to Finland with their points leads greatly reduced. Ri-chard Burns was only four points ahead of Marcus Gronholm and Su-baru as a manufac-turer was only one point ahead of Ford. Manfred Stohl led the Group N series in front of Gustav Trelles by seven points: Skoda was absent for this event This classic event is held on closed public gravel roads and the stages are the fastest on the tour. The Neste Rally Finland, formerly called the Rally of the 1000 Lakes is known not only for the speed of the stages, but for the undulating, three dimensional nature. These crests are responsible for making the cars fly through the air for more often and for longer periods of time than on any other rally. Mitsubishi engineer David Hudson said, "On this event a driver must prepare to tum into a comer not just before he can see the comer, but some-times before he can even see the road because the car is still in the . I" air. This year's event was charged with a lot of emotion. It was the 50th in the series and the only world championship rally to have been held for half a century with-out interruption. It is also the 50th time that World Rally cars had been eligible for _world champion-ship competition. This alternative rally car formula, introduced by the FIA at the start of the 1997 season has been a great success. It has in-creased the number of manufactur-ers involved in top level competi-tion from three to eight, and the performance equivalence guide-lines built into the regulations has meant that on many occasions it has still been possible for Orthodox Group A designs, and even Formula 2 cars to win qualifying events out-right. This was also the 50th World Championship Rally for Manfred Stohl, the 28 year old Austrian cur-rently leading the Group N Series . His first appearance was the 1991 Ivory Coast Rally when he acted as chase car driver for his father, Rudi. The summer break, since the last event in July, has been a busy time for all of the teams as they pre-Cornering hard, Jani Paasonen and Jakke Honkanen drove their Mitsubishi Carisma to 16th overall, first in Group N. pared for the wide variety of events recent test Mantta Rally. this fall. All remaining six rallies The weather had been forecast have a very wide variety of charac-as highly changeable, and this was teristics. Not only is one event a fact! Good weather greeted the (Cyprus) new to the series, but cars on their shakedown runs where none of the teams are running cars Gronholm was found to be very fast with the same specs as last year! In and Markko Martin found his addition to prep work, many of the Toyota lost all its power after only teams were investigating causes of 500 yards. The Peugeots promised their failures in New Zealand. Mit- a lot. Gronholm was 2.5 seconds subishi found a run-out of toler- faster over the 3-4 minutes stage ances in their differentials. Peugeot than anyone else, their three cars discovered that a broken ~ooth among the six fastest and at from reverse gear caused Delecour's scrutineering the two Finnish Peu-car to stop. Hyundai found McRae's geot cars were closest to the mini-retirement was caused by a faulty mum weight. heat exchanger which damaged the Leg 1 - 10 Stages, gravel, 128 gear box as well as the engine. kms. It started as another clear day Main technical interest in Fin- but the stages were already damp land was the arrival of two latest enough that the surface gravel . versiqns of world rally cars, Mitsu- stuck together and did not clear bishi and SEAT. Both of these with the passing cars. There were teams have been struggling lately nine orthodox stages run in groups with their existing models and it of three, then after the final service was time for a change! Mitsubishi of the day, cars went to a "Super-had not scored championship special" held around a trotting points since Argentina and SEAT track. Bums was first on the road, since the Safar(Rally in February. his mind not only on this event but Peugeot also made this event the on the whole championship see-first where they fitted remote gear nario. selection systems and featured For-Gronholm, by most accounts mula 1 technology to activate the was the favorite. Of the nine stages sequential gearbox. · on the first day, he won the first There was little news from the five, inching his way ahead of Subaru team which finished 1-2 Bums. Bums went off the road and here last year. Th_ey alone had flatted a tire but the mousse worked scored on every round of the cham-and he lost little time. The first pionship this year until their double blow was the failure of Sainz's en-retirement on the last round, New gine ECU on the first stage. He Zealand. Ford was looking for a could only attain 35 mph and Maki-change in fortune nen just avoided hitting him hard for Colin McRae, a she cleared a crest at 150 kph. On he has only finished Stage 2, Michael Guest lost control here once, back in of his Accent and went straight into 1992. Three Focus a boulder. Fortunately, it was only WRCs were offi- .a damaged inter-cooler and after cially entered and picking up three minutes service more Toyota Co- delay he was on his way. rolla WRCs were By Stage 6 Bums was finally able entered than ever! to best Gronholm. Stages 4 through No fewer than 6 were all new to the top drivers nine, although two and some unusual times were re-were subsequently corded. Sainz was second fastest on withdrawn. Top St~ge 5, his first respectable time seeded Corolla was all event. Makinen and Loix both but the other six Richard .Burns and Robert Reid had a hell of a crash on teams were ready for the second day, first stage but were luck enough to walk Alister McRae David Senior are nicely airborne as they the HF Grifone en- took tires for the second batch of head to a ninth overall finish in their Hyundai Accent. try of Harri Rovan- three stages which were too soft. battl:;;e;,.. --~~-.,.,,;;a;;l,\,l;;a~y;=f~;:;o;;m;;1;:t::;;;:;;;:;;;:::::=====;~======~;;;;:;;;;;::::;;;;;;;;;;; pera," winner of the Makinen wasn't too happy all da,y Colin McRae and Nicky Grist took second overall in Finland, shown Tommi Makinen and Risto Mannisenmaki took their Mitsubishi Cancer Abdullah Bakhasbab took the Teams Cup honors in his Toyota Corolla, here saving wear on their tires. Evo to a fine fourth overall, shown here flying one of the million jumps. shown here with the windshield caved on after his rollover. Page 18 November 2000 Dusty Times

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Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen were third overall in Finland in their Toyota Corolla, a fantastic feat for a non-works car. · long and Loix had a bad landing, which damaged the exhaust and an injector problem caused the engine to misfire. · 0:olin McRae wasn't sure where he was going. He slid very wide on Stage 2 and co-driver Grist said the rhythm was missing but they were getting back to normal as the stages progressed. In fact, they were up to fourth after the sixth stage. Auriol started off in fine style, fourth after the second stage but it did not last. There were handling problems with the SEAT and he thought it was differential troubles. Then he went off course on Stage 6 and the car came to rest on the driver's side. Instantly some spectators righted the car and they were on their way again. "it was disastrous, I could not steer the car, only the rear brakes were working and I could not tum into the comers." Teammate Gar-demeister started more cautiously and gradually speeded up. Kank-kunen had already changed from wider to narrower tires and progres-sively improved, he was in fifth place by the eighth stage. Burns won Stages 6, 7 and 9, still trusting the pace notes. Sainz was far behind the'ieaders and the team had him testing alternative suspension and engine settings. Eriksson had a bolt work loose on his suspension but he was able to repair it himself on a road section. As the rally headed into the evening into the better known sec-tions Delecour was suffering uncer-tain braking problems, possibly caused by the differential. The nice weather had given way to the tra-ditional rain and the course was get-ting slippery. Amongst the privateers, Markko Martin had a nose heavy landing which could only be partially re-paired at the Service Park. Rovan-pera was the star of the show, hold-ing third place all day in his Corolla, ahead of everyone except Gron-holm and Bums. Bakhasbab went off the road but spectators righted him and he was still under way. In Group N, Pykalisto led ini-tially, but then slid wide and was stuck for a minute on a course marker and then damaged the rear suspension on the final stage of the day and had to wait until morning to get it repaired. His earlier delay had let Puhakka into the lead. On Stage 8, Pasonen made his mark by getting ahead of Puhakka. Stohl was going well but his rival Trelles was unhappy and changed the gear-box qt the end of the day, hoping to improve his position. Gabriel Pozzo slid into a ditch and wrecked his suspension. Markko Ipatti had two flats on the first six stages and fell back and then had two more flats to brighten his day. Al Wahaibi's Subaru broke a drive-Dusty Times shaft and he was out. Backlund went off the road and destroyed his oil cooler and he too retired. David Higgin had turbo problems but was still running and in Formula 2 Sebatian Loeb retired his Citroen Saxo when oil leaked into the clutch. Leg 2 -9 Stages, gravel, 165 kms. The prospect of a good fight be-tween Granholm and Bums ended when Bums lost control of his car approaching the flying finish on the first stage of the day and he crashed. This increased Gronholm's lead from 4.1 seconds to 38.3 and it also moved the private Toyota of Ro-vanpera into second spot and ever more impressive, he was holding off Colin McRae. Freddy Loix hit a boulder and broke the radiator, end of his event and Gardemeister ran out of gas as he neared the first Ser-vice Park of the day. Rovanpera had a vibration in one of his wheels, Makinen had a bad landing, causing his co-driver to strain his back and Kankkunen was biding his time, waiting to strike from his seventh overall position. . Still fighting his way up through the ranks,_ Sainz misiud~ed a bend in the road and rolled his car. Thanks to spectators he didn't lose a lot of time and Sainz had himself a flat tire at the end of the 15th stage. McRae had a heavy landing but he was still going very well. And all the Hyundais were running well, they seemed to have reliability now they needed performance, said Al-ister McRae. Auria! was now the sole works SEAT but was about a half second per kilometer off the pace of the leaders. When he arrived at the second major Service Park, his starter failed and he and Giraudet pushed the car uphill to the entry control, arriving two minutes late. As soon as they checked in the starter worked perfectly. Subaru's misfortune was when Kankkunen had a bad flat on Stage 1 7, it broke the head, threw off the tread, we didn't have the electric lug wrench in the car and it tqok over four minutes to change the tire! After all this, the three Peu-geots were all lying in the top six positions. It had been raining for half of Stage 15, Makinen and sev-eral others had fitted tires that were too soft for the ensuing stages. Eriksson lost he high tension lead to the alternator and his car came to a halt. He lost three minutes lo-cating the problem and fixing it! And now Alister's car was sixth and Hyundai was hoping to get into the points. Among the privateers, Markko Martin retired soon after the 12th stage, Tapio Laukkanen's Peugeot engine failed on the 17th stage and Janne T uohino went off the road. In Group N, Puhakka was sec-ond but he was out on the second stage of the day. Stohl had eased up too much and now second place was held by Gianluigi Galli in a Mitsubishi. Pykalisto was still tak-ing it easy on the first three stages and Claudio Menzi retired when he slid wide into a deep ditch and broke the oU radiator. David Higgins retired his Subaru when turbo troubles damaged the engine. In the T earns Cup, Bakhashab was staying just enough in front of Frederic Dor to win the category. Leg 3 -5 Stages, gravel, 117 kms. Five stages remained and there were still dramas waiting to unfold. Makinen was not doing well, it was reported that his engine was leak-ing oil, then the engine started cut-ting out on the fourth stage, but he was secure in an unhappy fourth place. As Gronholm cruised to vic-tory, there was a strange affair sur-rounding second place. A Marshal entered the road section time on the wrong page of Rovanpera's log book and the co-driver assumed 1 (10) :...t.1.-.:us GRONHOL.Mn ,mo Raulia.ncn there were six extra minutes for the ensuing section. He realized the Marshal's error but not before he had suffered a penalty. This put him behind McRae with three stages to run. With one stage to go Harri pulled in front of McRae, but on the final stage McRae moved back into second, 3.4 seconds in front. A sad end to a remarkable run for Rovanpera. Check your log book! Auria! was now struggling with engine problems and was falling back. This let Alister McRae and Kankkunen into the points and again SEAT failed to score. Kank-kunen pulled back and eventually got Subaru two championship points on the final stage. Sainz had a fire in the transmission tunnel on the penultimate stage and had to stop to extinguish it. Delecour had tranny troubles and he rolled the. car on the final stage. Eriksson had a heavy landing, broke the sump which incurred time control pen-alties at service. In Group N, Trelles did not take the restart at all and Galli fell back Peugeoc 206 V.'RC gA l!J655 (H1') 10 minutes wh~n his car got stuck off the road while changing a tire. Pykalisto pulled well clear of Stohl and Walfridsson finished in the sixth spot. In Teams Cup, Bakhasbab finished six minutes in front of Dor. Among the privateers, the toast of the rally was Rovanpera and Hagstrom finished seventh, just out of the points. Markka Martin got up to 10th and Raphael Speerer was 11th, in spite of front suspen-sion problems. Paasonen had got-ten ahead of the leader, Puhakka and finished one spot behind Au-riol. With two stages to go. Solberg damaged his suspension and retired. In F2, Jani Piirtenen in a VW Golf Kit Car finished over 20 minutes ahead of the next F2 car, a Group N Honda 1600cc car! Next is Cyprus, quite a different type of gravel rally. Peugeot is run-ning to schedule in their champi-onship catch-up challenge. Ford is now leading the championship for manufacturers for the first time in five years and Gronholm has gone into the driver's points lead. ■ WC potnt" WR WD re GN IU 10 b 6 2 (S) Colin McRAE/Nicley GriS< ) ( 17) Harri Rov:,npera/Rioto l'\et,laincn f!N GB r-IN FIN FIN F r,n-: Ford lhcing f ocuo \VRC A V 7Fl>IC ( GD l T~yo,. Corolla WRC:: A K-.4Jv[608 (0) .Jh.l2m . .l7.ls.• 3h.23m.4.l lS. )h. 2."\ff\.46. 7s. 3h 2-tm 1 S Rs. lh 2.Sm.43 ls. Jh.l7m.42. ls Jh :!7m.53 6s Jh 21!fn1.30.0-. 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31ST ANNUAL SNORE GOLD COAST 250 Flippin's Find First overall, -Again By John Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography They did it again! Ken and Clay Flippin were the overall winners at the 31st SNORE 250, besting their competition by eight minutes. It's hard to believe that the SNORE 250 has been going on for 31 years, starting back in 1969 but . the mystique remains and the race, as ever was a great one! Dusty Times was there and so was the dust and dirt on Friday evening during technical inspection and contingency as the temperature dropped and it became quite cool and the wind blew, and blew and blew and we all got filthy dirty and we all still had a good time as usual. The race was run at Nellis Dunes, a few miles past Nellis Air Force Base on the road to Salt Lake City. Starting time was nine in the morning and there were four laps to fun for most of the classes and we always have to mention the awards breakfast on Sunday at the -, Andy Kisner took the Class 9 win, only fighting a broken shock during the race and picked up a cool $2000 as well. Orleans Hotel and Casino, hosted as usual by the ever-gracious Michael Gaughan. Someday the off · road world will realize how much Michael Gaughan gives of his time and money to the sport. 'N uf said. There were five Class i cars ready to do battle and they were driven by some of the best, Kory Scheeler, John Gaughan, Pat Dean, Erik Pavolka and Thomas Greer. Scheeler led the first lap, two minutes upon Pat Dean and just three minutes ahead of John Gaughan. Eric Pavolka was an-other three minutes back and Tom Greer had all sorts of troubles and was over an hour off the pace at the end of Lap l. Pat Dean took the lead on the second lap, turn-ing fast lap for the class, had a good lead on Scheeler while John Gaughan disappeared from the charts, as did Erik Pavolka. Bad news, Pat dean disappeared on Lap 3 as did Kory Scheeler and Tho-mas Greer was left all alone to get the honors in Class l . Greer didn't have the best of days but he did get the win in class and was happy for that. Class 10 was next to start and 11 strong were rarin' to go! Two of them never completed a lap, Jus-tin LaCore and Gary Moore. Danny Anderson took the lead on the first lap, leading Michael Gaughan, Jr. by 50 seconds, then came Ken Flippin, 31 seconds be-hind Gaughan and then in order it was Dan Bentley, B.J. Baldwin, Sean Sessa, Jim Tucker, Steve Kuker and Mark Bunderson. Sessa 'joined the dnf's on Lap 2 but the . race was still going strong. Danny Anderson continued to lead on Lap 2, opening up five minutes on Ken Flippin. B.J. Baldwin and Dan Bentley were running neck and neck, Michael Gaughan was next, ~----------------------------------------------------PRECISION 2B65 Gundry Ave. Signal Hill, CA 9DBD6 BDD.959. 7757 562.427.2375 FAX: 526.426.5294 everything you need ta build. maintain and·aperate a racecar Baits, Nuts and Hardware Sparca Seats, Steering Wheels, Suits and Sat'ety Equipment Craw Belts and Harnesses Bell Helmets Spa/ Fans Fire Systems Silicone Turbo Hase Nea Synthetic Lubricants Aurora, NHBB and FK Rad Ends Weldon Fuel and Di/ Pumps Fresh Air Driver Ventilation Systems lntercamp Sea/es and Alignment Equipment Earl's, Aeraquip & Speedt'law Stainless Braided Hase & Fittings Fuel ·sat'e and Triangle Fuel Cells Setrab, Lang and F/uidyne Di/ Coolers see au r cam P-I e t e an Ii n e ca ta I a_g_a t ..... w'--""'--'w....,,.__=w ..... "'-'b=...,,a~h~e.._.r._.,.~r"--""e,.__,c~i-=see....,1,e....,· a=...,,,n=-=---=c"""a=-=m=-=--Page 20 November 2000 Dusty Times

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Joe Sheble drove his Spirit of Arizona to a nice second in Class 9, seven minutes out of fi(st place. The Jim Tucker/Mike McGee duo drove to-a fifth place finish in Class Danny Anderson and Jeremy Gubler looked like the Class 10 winner but a broken c. v. on the last lap cost them dearly. then came Jim Tucker, Mark Bunderson and Steve Kuker. On the third lap, Jeremy Gubler re-placed Danny Anderson at the wheel and he opened up the gap between first and second to nine minutes over Clay Flippin, who had replaced brother Ken. Bob Mathews had replaced Dan Bent-ley and they were next in order, then Bunderson, B.J. Bald win, Gaughan following him and Jim Tucker bringing up the rear. Gaughan disappeared on the last lap. On the last lap, Clay Flippin kept up his pace and arrived at the finish line to take the checkered flag, having no problems to report en route. The Anderson/Gubler car was next, eight minutes behind after losing a c. v. joint on the last lap. B.]. Baldwin drove solo, had a flat on Lap 3 and had a cantanker-ous shifter and he finished four minutes and four seconds out of the second spot. The Bentley/ Ma thews combo were· fourth after fighting fan belts all day long. Jim Tucker/Mike McGee were in fifth place, Mark Bunderson came next after fighting electrical problems most of the day and Steve Kuker anJ Jeff Wells took the seventh place finish. The Flippins earned a grand total of $5000 for their five hours and ch ange behiud the wheel. Not all bad ! 10, shown here saving tire wear in the Nevada desert. Class 1/2-1600 was next off and Lap 3 saw Jeff Carr still leading this was a highly competitive the pack, Day Gang was four min-group. Two of the competitors, utes behind, Koons was still in Glenn Cain and Kurt Brewer never third, Bryan Anderson moved into made the first lap. At the end of fourth, Freeman moved into fifth the first lap it was the soon to be and Sammy Ehrenberg who was in 21 years old Day Gang leading the for Hutchins went to sixth. bunch, not by much, but leading. Merriam was still in seventh, Bow-Jeff Carr was next, 35 seconds be- ers moved up to ninth and Ander-hind Day. Wayne Koons was in son was still in the tenth spot. third, Barry Merriam was fourth, Aaron Hawley called it a day, as Aaron Hawley three seconds later did Mark Rencher. and Andy Anderson in sixth. C.J. As they came to the checkered Hutchins was seventh, Bryan flag on the fourth lap, it was still Anderson eighth, then came Bryan Jeff Carr leading the pack, having Freeman who had rolled his car a trouble free run, first in class, tak-part way round the course. Next ing third overall and pocketing a was Roger Bowers, Albert Rux, nice $3000 as well. Day Gang was Mark Rencher and finally Robby next, running just a bit shy of five Guevara who was having more troubles than he deserved. On the second lap Jeff Carr had moved into the lead, Day Gang had dropped to second, Koons was still in third, Aaron Hawley had moved into fourth and Bryan Anderson was fifth. Bryan Freeman had moved inro sixth, Merriam was next after laying the car over on it's side, then C.J. Hutchir s who was having lots of flats, then Ro~er Bowers followed by \ndy Ander-son and Mark Ren her. Rohby Guevara turned a 1: 22 b t his en-girie was overheaiing ;o he retired from the ha•tL.' mJ Al iert Rux gave up tli,• ·ight 1lso minutes in arrears an s e too av- too goo , that's one finisher! Mic ing a trouble free run. Ehrenberg Newton broke a tie rod on Lap 1, was third, over 20 minutes behind put on a kinda shaky spare, which Day having fought flat tires and let him drive but not race -u he engine troubles most of the day. motored on in, never completing Fourth was Bryan Freema_n, set the first lap. Ditto for Mike Sims, down one position for entering the he never completed a lap for rea-pits improperly. Merriam was a solo sons unknown. John Phegley drove driver and he took fifth Wayne his tall wagon around on Lap 1 and Koons was sixth, Bryan Anderson things were looking good, even took seventh, Roger Bowers was though he was 20 minutes behind eighth and Andy Anderson was the Dennis McCarthy in his Chevy last class finisher in ninth place. pickup. On the second lap Pheg-Heavy Metal was next off the ley turned it on and turned a 1 :51, line and they only had to make just two minutes off McCarthy's three laps to complete their day. pace but the deficit was still 26 Four of them took the green flag minutes. On the last lap Phegley but only 25% of the entry would disappeared and the gold medal see the checkers. If your math isn't Continued on page 22 ~-S■U■P■E■R■T■R■A--■A■T--ET■E■R-■L■E---C YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS! PHONE:(714) 441-1212 FAX (714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVE., ANAHEIM, CA 92806 Rallye 4000 HID Lamps 35 watts ~ Black HEL-74801 Rallye 4000 Euro Bea HEL-74802 Rallye 4000 Pencil Bea :r: 0 ~ m --i ~ 0 z ~-~~-~~--~-----~-7 :n 0 :IJ 0 0 m z 0 Cf) Mark Petit and Mike Pinkston drove their pickup to the Sportsman Truck class win, they were the only finishers in the four truck class. 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... Bryan Freeman rolled on lap 1, made up time from there on in and he ended up just off the podium at the SNORE 250. Mike Powada and Greg Price drove their good looking 5-1600 to a nice The McCormacks drove their Sportsman Buggy to a nice third place second place, suffering two flats and a sticky throttle all race long. after major trouble on the first lap. went to Mc art y w o survive a broken leaf spring and a cracked differential housing. Dennis col-lected $1025 for his troubles. He is an Auto Shop teacher at Burbank High School in California and his students help to prep the truck for the races and he wanted to thank his kids for all their ·help and dedication. There were 1 7 Class 9s all set to do battle and they had a hell of a race, well some of them did! They had three laps to run and on the first lap it was Andy Kisner in the lead, leading Joe Sheble by six sec-onds. Mike Dixon was in third place, then Doug Ingram, Tom Taliaferro in fifth, being only six minutes off the pace of the leader. next came Kevin Steele, running sixth, then came Lynn Dicton, Cameron Blackley running in Day Gang, the beautiful and talented driver ran solo to a great second spot in 1600, less than five minutes off the winning pace. eighth, Ken Thatcher was in ninth Davis was having troubles and run-and Stacy Temply was tenth. Joel ning 11th and Mike Shimp spent • state of the art high flow piston designed to stop valv~"wi:isli~·,s f~pm bending inwards. • wide teflon coated piston w~ar band for use in ef ternal,bypa~s wit~ bi!J tubes so that it does not drop into la~ge ports. / tf' ,... · .. '5-,i' -" • sealed piston for low speed control and maximum da;npmg in external bypass. • high temperature stainless steel alloy ~al, in~: "'-jl' • unique rod end design and material to1sto,lshafts and rod ,mds from breaking. • high temperature Viton seals and a-rings. • large aluminum reservoir for in~a'~ed hea dissipation (2X) and weight savings. • 1" shafts are micro-polished to ifmirfor sGrtace finish cf a 3-5 RMS. y • stainless steel t~flon line. d s·gl{,rica'1 bet<ring~ with 1/2" or 5/8" ID spacers.7 h k II br.>ld z:b-;I r. h ,; '• . I . 1 • s oc are a owner re u1 a e w1t7no s ec1a !001s to purchase. 1 <1/ , ,;; "-• electric blue anodized color .. / /·• , r . -·.,l ~'v--' I "'--.f/ . t '-.,, ,,,{? F '( '1 ~4-ti§ttil; ~--,., / 7 \;' -/1·~-'.., . .I' • L~~g~t: ttf ?J,t'hJgh flow (weld on kits,,aya~ ble s~ arate). • Tube locJt1ons can1l:fo claced to order or welded on by the!i"customer. -,, .•)/alvi6,9fg'1{;7ie piston for smooth damp'lng'tran~ifi~ns. ! ·• -,-,l"ff;1 ''-..../ 'I V,;J-/ • Cheftva~ves"m~chin~cJ from 4140 and heat treated 17-4 sta~9less for long durability. •'-targl OD1check(~lve spring designed with low ope)ifing stress levels. /•" I, back"~tyle reservoir mounting for tt:e rear o( buggies and trucks. ).!' '\ !~ . ll~l§l;#§fih§,d§,l!-:l _Y/., ~ L. Custom wound springs for 3" shocks in s ock. Eibac~ prings available. We do custom shock work and vehicle s ~ Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts ava il,ble'( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Desi~ned and manufactured by the same persorfihat designed all Kuster $hocks. Page 22 November 2000 Dennis McCarthy took the Heavy Metal class in his Chevy, and he was a bit over $1000 richer at race end. more than five and a half hours get-ting in the first lap. But, the really unlucky ones never got a lap in, namely Forest Creasy who was out with unknown problems, Joe Forte never came around, Dan Owen was among the missing, Shawn Sheble was out also and Jeremy Harmon continued the worst sea-son in history, this time breaking a torsion housing and he was out of it, again' At the end of Lap 2, Kisner had three minutes on Joe Sheble and then it was 11 minutes further back to Ingram. Mike Dixon was just one minute behind Doug and Taliaferro was run~ing fifth, 19 minutes off the leader's pace. Roger Schank drove the middle lap for Kevin Steele and they were in sixth. Ken Thatcher was seventh and just ahead of Dale Looney who was in for Lynn Dickton. Looney put the car on its side, then he got hit and that cut his head open a bit but, thank God, he was not se-riously injured. Stacy Temple was bringing up the rear. Joel Davis and Mike Shimp never completed their second lap. On the third and last lap it was still Andy Kisner in the lead, suf-fering only a broken shock to mar his day. Andy received a nice $2000 check for his day at the elJtm:1111,a~ ~f8!81Db Are YOU re9d'I f9r BAJA? 7'UWd ~ &AS& and, etmt'J~~ 1n <p,«1t P~ri'7& aiwzalt WORLDWIDE AIRCRAFT CHARTER SERVICES CALL TODAY FOR PRICING Toll Free 1-866-F LY A JET (1-866-359-2538) AIS9 tfferaNg: HELICOPTER SUPPORT AIR AMBULANCE SERVICES AIRCRAFT SALES & LEASING Dusty Times

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I • ~ ,._ ~ .-,. ., ' • \ -.._ • ' ' ... ....~--Wayne and Alex Koons were running third but had troubles on the CJ Hutchins and Sammy Ehrenberg set fast lap in 1600 but four flats last lap, settled for sixth place, almost an hour off the pace. and motor problems put them into third place at the end. ,-: ~ ,r~:;:: • ... ~,,. :;;. ~~--Barry Merriam drove solo, laid the car on it's side, had some flat rubber and came in for a fifth pla_c_e_t,=·n~is_h_. ---~~-~---~-They too only had to complete three laps for their finish. Chuck Martin took the lead on Lap 1, Frank Puglia was second, just one minute behind and Mike Powada was third, three minutes in arrears. Then came Mike Del Col, only sec-onds behind Powada and Bob Dzi-urawiec never finished the first lap. Lap 2 ended and Martin still led with three minutes in hand. Puglia was still in second, he's the guy who hit Dale Looney earlier on and the battle for third was a doozie. Powada was third, but only 16 sec-onds ahead of Del Col. Cody Swanty took the checkered flag in the Mini Metal, having some troubles on lap 1, but he was good from there on in. Chuck Martin ran solo, had a flat on lap 1 but was trouble free from there on and had 26 minutes in hand at the finish. Lap 3 saw little change, Mar-tin maintained his 20-some-thing minute lead, his only problem all race long was a flat on Lap 1. Greg Price drove the last lap for Powada and al-though they had a few flats and a sticky throttle cable all race long they took the second spot, 26 minutes out of the win. Mike Del Col was third, just six min-wheel. Joe Sheble was still running second, less than seven minutes out of the win and he lost some time with a flat just before the fin-ish. Doug Ingram was trying very hard to catch the first two cars but his tranny kept popping out of gear and he had to settle for the bronze· medal this time around. Tim Dixon relieved Mike for the last lap and he brought the car in for fourth place after suffering a flat tire and losing the coil on the last lap, Ryan Shank replaced Tom T ali,aferro on the last lap and he brought the car in for a fifth place finish with an obviously broken ball joint, occur-ring on the last lap. Kevin Steele was back behind the wheel and he came irt for sixth place, complain-ing of soft suspension and a non-functioning Pumper. Cameron Blackley didn't have a good day, he ran over two hours a lap but he did bring the car home in seventh place. ultimate lono travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lilt spindles, creating 6" of lilt for incredible ground clearance. lf!@v@ll ■ 3' lilt spindles ■ Upper Control arms ~~~W~-' ■ Lower Control arms .IT ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front shocks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit touota long travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 'Ivan Dan' long travel system. Built to satisfy all the serious □H roaders out there. Dusty Times Class 5-1600 was next off and there were five cars in contention. Continued on page 24 · ford lono travel system custom i beams □Hroad bullet proof design provides maximwn strength with 4130 Ou-omo]y steel 1 / Bth' thick plate and tubular inner structure. 1990·94 lord ranger . ., .. performance system Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard □Hering increased tire clearance and 4 • more wheel travel Dual Shock System 2 shocks per front wheel, adds high performance daropening. B' Suspension System used in a racing 1 application with coil over shocks. Using Fabtech custom I beams, this configuration cycles out at 19' of wheel travel extended radius arms Our extended radius arms are offset further inboard for increased tire clearance. Ranger models shown, which include new pivot mounts. 1998-on lord ranger z.s·· performance system 2.5' □I lilt with a 2' increase in wheel travel. 1973-87 C10 ., .. lono travel system Gives you the needed clearance for 33' tall tires. . ' ,u~/{/ ~ November 2000 angled fiberglass e e e I/fiber(!!! include front lenders, bedsides and hoods. The front lenders and bedsides are flared with wheel travel in nund. spare tire mount ~ Constructed using I 1 / 4' steel tubing and MIG welded at the joints for long lasting strength and durability. flat spare tire mount Over 25 Styles stamped steel tabs Our vast assortment of staroped steel tabs simplify your fabrication needs . Call far a distributor nearest you Phone 714-990-8850 -Fax 714-990-8854 www.fabtechmotorsports.com DR E-MAIL US AT info@fabtechmotorsports.com Page 23

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Mike and Tim Dixon had a flat on lap 2, lost the coil and ran on in for Tom Taliaferro and Ryan Shank were in pretty good shape 'ti/ they Doug Ingram drove solo in Class 9, threw an awful lot of dirt but could fourth place, six minutes out of third. broke a ball joint on the last lap and ended up in fifth place in Class 9. do no better than third place. BJ Baldwin drove solo, had one flat and fought a feisty shifter all race long, taking a third place in class 10. · Dan Bentley and Bob Mathews had a bad day, kept losing belts on their Class 1 0 and struggled in for a fourth place finish. Chaz Suttons day was long, he broke a wheel, had a few flats and lost the bolts on the steering wheel but finished second in Sportsman Buggy. man win, fighting off a flat tire, lead, 40 minutes ahead of Mark losing the belts and fighting a Petit. Neither Robby Wool-sticky throttle cable. Sutton ran worth nor Brandon Hughes fin-solo and took second in class. ished their first lap so the He had some real troubles, he contest was now between two broke a wheel, had a few flats, trucks. Alas, Kuhlmay never lost the bolts on the steering completed his second lap so wheel and had shifter problems. Pinkston, who was in for Petit The McCormack clan took a just cruised ar.ound for the class nice third place finish, only 26 win, having three flats along the minutes out of second. Last, but way. utes away from the silver medal and he said he had little or no brakes from the second lap on. Frank Puglia was fourth, he lost a tire and wheel on the last lap and spent some time finding it and getting it back on the car and he was only two minutes out of the third spot. Mini Metal was next up and they too had to make three laps for· the race. Tom Giordano took the first lap lead, leaving Cody Swaney over an hour in the lurch. On the second lap the tables reversed and Giordano had a long lap while Swaney turned a good on. Swanty into third place, one minute and turned a real fast time on the eight seconds out of the lead. last lap but it mattered not as Chaz Sutton was running fourth Giordano failed to complete Lap and Pops McCormack was fifth 3 so the win was Swanty's. We after a troublesome lap. Tom add that Kevin Swaney won the Reck and James Green didn't prestigious Jean Calvin Award, complete their first lap and were given to the last official finisher never seen again. at the SNORE 250. It's a beau-On Lap 2 Sutton took the lead, tifu 1 trophy and it takes a lot of Torres dropped to second, about perseverance to win it. seven minutes off thf' pace. Rick Sportsman Buggy class had Elliott dropped to third, McCor-seven entries and they were all mack was fourth and Joe Ruffo ready to go for their three laps. failed to complete the lap. Corey Torres led the first lap, On Lap 3, Milo Torres took Rick Elliot was second, 34 sec-over for nephew Corey, turned onds behind, Joe Ruffo checked a good lap and took the Sports-RACERS PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENJ' WITH Page 24 PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIDCLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency. We can satisfy 1he insurance needs of all off-road racers. Physical Dam age Insurance for Race Vehicles Trucks Trailers .Tool.&'Equipment EXAJ'\'IPLE Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events Value of Race Vehicle $30,000 x3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage for fire, theft, V &Ml'v1, limited physical damage protection Call for free quote and details Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 November 2000 not least was Rick Elliott, tak- So the 31st SNORE 250 is in ing the fourth and final finish-the books. The weather was go9d, ing position. not too hot and a breeze that The last class off the starting turned into a wind helped the line was Sportsman Truck and drivers out on the course. Next there were four of them ready SNORE event is the Reserve 250, to contest their two lap event. a race you don'fwant to miss. See Bill Kuhlmay took the first lap ya there! ~ Thomas Greer won Class 1, driving his neat looking truck to the win after mucho troubles on lap 1 but he outlasted all the others. Cory Torres and uncle Milo had a flat, lost the belts but soldiered on for the Sportsman Buggy win with 20 minutes in hand. Dusty Times

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MORE FREEDOM 250 Koch Loves Freedom By John Calvin Brian Spencer had an easy win in the Trophy Challenge Class, winning by over an hour at Barstow. . .. -·:~---~, ..... -~f:-t.:::.~ Tom Koch came down from Ridgecrest to take the overall honors at the MORE Freedom 250 with some remarkably consistent lap times. MORE held its Freedom 250 on July 8th in beautiful downtown Barstow and the race was well attended. There was some real close racing and all the entrants reported hav-ing a great time. In the Trophy Challenge a four hour third lap led to his race, which consisted of only retirement. Chuck Abela was four required laps Brian Spen-fifth after the first lap, cer took the lead on the first dropped to the bottom of the lap and there he remained for pile with a three hour lap on Doug Goodenough led the entire way in Class 7A, making some fast times for his the win. Harry Dunne was the the second and after another _req~ u_i~_ed_s,_·x_la~p_s_. _____________________ _ In the Unlimited class Burl Beveridge took the lead on the first lap and then disappeared from the scoring charts. Mike Bragg was running his big Ford truck and.he was next to-start. Mike was haulin' freight on his six laps but he was unable to keep up with Tom Koch, the Ridgecrest Rocket. Tom was averaging just under 60 miles per hour for a lap and he turned his six required laps in four hours and 10 minutes and the class win. Mike was sec-ond, averaging 43 miles per hour and he finished an hour and 20 minutes behind Tom. second place finisher in class long lap on the third he too Copeland ran in the second and his lap times were slower disappeared from the race. spot on Lap 1, dropped to andslowerasthedayworeon. The 5-1600 class was off third on Lap 2, moved back Robert Otwell was in second next and Reid Ferguson took into second place on Lap 3 spot on the first lap, but an al- a five minute lead on the first and stayed in second 'til the most two hour lap on the sec-lap, extended that lead to end. Roger Byrd was third on ond dropped him to fourth seven minutes on Lap 2 but Lap 1, moved into second place. He climbed back into there was no rush as his com-place on the second lap but third place on Lap 3 and there petition, Steve Landis called it then fell back to third on Lap he remained, taking the a day after the second lap so 3 and that's all he got in. bronze medal. the uncontested win went to Class 8A saw Gary Watson Paul Smith was sixth after Ferguson. take the lead on the first lap, the first lap, moved to fifth on It Class 7 A, Doug Good-drop to second on Lap 2, re-the second lap, moved to enough took a two and a half gain the class lead on the third fourth on Lap 3 and that's minute lead on the first lap, lap and go on for the win, fin-where he finished. Ron added a lot more on the sec-ishing his required four laps in Kellman was fourth on Lap 1, ond lap and he was never six hours and nine minutes. moved into second on Lap 2 headed from there on in. He James Phillips had a terribly and then disaster struck and took the win with ease. John long first lap which put him in ~--------------~-~--~---. third place, then he turned fast lap for the class on Lap 2, had a fast third lap and then he was seen no more. Keith Pratt turned two fairly quick and consistent laps but that's all he got in, a short day. There were eight Class 9 cars ready to do battle, but two of them, Sean Defrank and Chad Shupp never com-pleted their first lap. Robbie Cockrell got in one really fast lap but he was never seen again. David Girdner got in three laps of the required six but he never completed his fourth. Steve Holmes com-pleted four laps and was get-Class 5-1600 belonged to Reid Ferguson as he was the only car to Gary Watson was the big winner in class BA, finishing his required Guy Gordon drove his trick looking buggy to second in Class 10, Dust cover the required four laps, all completed with very fast times. four laps in just over six hours. nine minutes out of the win . .,;,:;:;:=======================================================;;;;:;:;--Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner were the second place finishers in Tom Craig ran hard all day but a problem on lap 4 was costly and he Mike Bragg drove his big Ford Pickup to a nice second place in the Class 1600, a penalty knocking them out of the win. ended up in the third spot in Class 10. Class 1 contest. Page 26 November 2000 Dusty Times

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Harry Dunne was second in the Trophy Challenge, shown here running John Copeland only got in five laps at the Freedom 250 but it was BJ Proctor drove his neat looking buggy to a great second in Class 9, across the high desert at Barstow. enough to earn him the second spot in Class 7A. ____ less than six minutes away from the win. ting faster each lap but he never completed his fifth lap. Dennis Peterson was fifth in Lap 1, moved to fourth on Lap 2, moved into third place on Lap 3 and although he did cut into the lead of the second place car, he ended up taking the bronze medal. B.J. Proctor was third on the first lap, moved into second on Lap 2, and although he gained some six minutes on the last lap he remained in the second spot, five minutes and change away from the lead. Todd Craig was the first Class 9 to start and he led all the way.-Three of his laps were under an hour, one was at an hour and the other two were 1:02 and 1:07. He-collected the gold metal and was quite happy with his win. It was a close race in Class 9, but Todd Craig took the win with six minutes to spare at the MORE Freedom 250. Mike Malloy flies across the desert on his way to the Class 1600 win, and he picked up quite a piece of change as well. Class 10 was ready for ac-tion and there was lots of it. Jim Tucker found himself in second spot after the first three laps, slid into first place on Lap 4 and. that's all she wrote; he carried on for the first place honors. Guy Gor-don was in the third spot af-ter Lap 1, dropped to fourth on the second lap, held that position on Lap 3, moved into the second spot on Lap 4 and he held that spot to the end of the rac_e. Tom Craig fin-ished his first lap in fourth place, moved up to third on Laps 2 and 3, slowed consid-erably for the next two laps, picked up the pace again on the last lap and took the third place finish. Sergio Nunez took the first lap in fifth place, had a horrible second lap and was in last place, got going again on Laps 3 and 4 but never finished his fifth lap. It looked like Frank Omboli had it all wrapped up at the start, he led Lap 1 by two minutes, OBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 7 $84.05 $89.10 Centerline Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 6 $117.45 $124.75' 15 X 10 $131.99 Call for Prices 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 (702) 247-1266 We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX Dusty Times . went even faster on his second lap and at the end of Lap 3 he was still leading but the roof fell in and he was never seen again. Roger Starkey, who is normally a good competitor . never made a lap .. Class 1/2-1600 had some great racing and a sort of sur-prise ending. Starting with the unfortunates, Gary Bates en-tered his good looking tandem but Gary never finished a lap. Another guy who has mor<;_ . than his share of bad luck, Brad Inch, got in a lap good enough for third place but he never fin-ished his second lap. Steve . Haver finished the first lap in fourth place, moved up to third on Laps 2 and 3, dropped to fourth on the next lap and he finished in that position. Aaron Bennett ran third on the first lap and according to our calcu-lations he ran ·in the third spot the entire race. Mike Malloy ran second to Sandy Parker and Tom Moessner the entire race and-they were only eight min-utes and change apart at the end of their required six laps. But, the Parker/Moessner entry was penalized 15 minutes for a course infraction (see Pony Ex-press) and it all ended with Malloy taking the win, Parker/ Moessner getting the silver medal. Next on the MORE sched-ule is the Tumblewood 300 in· October, be there! ■ TRANSA~E ENGINEERING. INC SNORE 1999·Transaide Builder Of The Year Congratulations Jeff Carr 1st 1-1600 ;; ,:-¥ .. ,¥ ": ~--~ -~ ' ;.:: ~:~---~'.-SNORE 250 Transaxle Engineering Jeff Field November 2000 Andy Kisner 1st Class 9 SNORE250 818-998-2739 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 Page 27 •

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MOJAVE DESERT RACING INC. California 200 By Ron Miller Photos: Track.side Photo The Osburn/Lucas combo was not to be beaten, they led all the way, set fast lap, took Class 1 and the overall victory as well. MDR's only night race of the year was 'held on August 5, 2000 in Barstow. It turned out to be a night owner John Lucas and driver Ron Osburn will not soon forget. Osburn, who teamed up with David Massingham to race ·wayne Morgan's car to victory in the recent Kartek 400, telephoned Lucas late Thursday of race week to inform him that Morgan's car would not make the Saturday night race. John Criswell flies through the night on his way to a nice win in class 5, his competition 35 minutes behind him. PIKES service cente.r Baker, California Ce/ebra~ing SD .YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR T~VELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 28 After racing together for about five years, Lucas and Osburn had agreed to take this year off for business rea-sons. But Lucas had second thoughts after receiving the call from his long time part-ner. "I felt bad for them, ·they worked so hard to get the car ready. In a weak moment, I said let's race our car," Lucas· said. Osburn _was very hesitant. The car had not run in more than a year, and the motor had not been run in three months. Saturday morning at 6:00 a.m. Osburn called Lucas back say-ing "Let's do it." "The ·motor started on the second crank and we.got the car to tech about one o'clock," Lucas said. The rest of the story, as you will soon find out, is history. 'This year's "California 200" had 75 starters, including eight from Class 100. Andrew Gaston was the first competi-tor underway, but it wasn't long before Osburn came call-ing for the lead. Osburn pi-loted the Lucas machine through a scintHlating 42:02 opening loop, which stood up as fast lap time for Class l 00 on the day/evening . .Once he hit the front, Osburn never did relinquish the lead. The Lucas/Osburn team went on · to capture the overall "Cali-fornia 200" victory by l:4q over Class 1600 winner Brian Logan. Osburn blazed his way to a final five lap clocking of 3:52:39 (46.4 mph). Rick Johnson also turned in a superb effort. Johnson checked in five and a half minutes behind Osburn to earn Class 100 runner-up hon-ors. Troy Pomeroy finished just oYer a minute further back to place third. Gary Gil-bert ( 4th) and Robert Pearsons (5th) completed the order offinishers in Class 100. Class 500 had four starters and two finishers. John Continued on page 30 November 2000 Bryan Geer drove his neat looking 5-1600 Bug to the class _win, running very Consistent laps throughout the race. Ivan Penchansky took the lead on lap 1 and he carried on for a nice win in Class 8, over an hour in the lead. Keith Stevens blew everybody's doors off in the Class ·9 contest, leaving the competition almost one and a half hours behind. Guy Cordon lest the Class 1 O field all the way, turning very quick laps and finishing second. overall. Julio Curiel led the Class 11 contingent for the three required laps and won, but it was close, only four minutes in hand. Dusty Times

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Robert MacDonald led the first lap in Class 9 but a disastrous fourth Geno Licitra was running well in Class 1 O but a fourth lap problem Dennis Sletten came up from Indio to run his keen looking Class 11 and he finished in the second spot, four minutes out of the win. and Cindy Greinke finished victory elude him this time. ninth. Curiel parlayed fast lap time lap put him way down and he finished in the second spot. dropped him to a very long second place. ter taking over command, Wright with a final time of fastest lap time of the entire Geer was fully extended by 3:54:25 (46.1 mph). Logan's day/night in any division classmate Robert Moore. Geer margin of victory was 8:32. (39:4 7) ended up in fifth was up to the challenge how-David Hendrickson nipped place. Bob Weiderhold took ever, and he held off Moore's Roland Barry for third place. sixth, Ed Pauley claimed sev-late charge to win by slightly Owen Potter, who posted the enth, Jerry Zaiden was eighth more than a minute. The ju-Moving on to the three lap (1 :08:39) into a game four divisions. There were three minute win over runner-up starters in Class 1100. Julio Dennis Sletten. Curiel's final Curiel was not about to let Continued on page 32 bilant winning duo, father and son, completed their assign-ment in 4 :52:37 (36.9 mph). Moore, who raced too well to lose, finished with a final loop which proved the fastest lap in SUPPORT OFF ROAD RACING Class 550 (50:28). Danny Drake placed third, Randy Lewis claimed fourth and Guy Evans earned the division a fifth spot. A trio of Class 700 racers took part. Unfortunately, none was able to go the dis-tance. At least Jeff Richardson enjoyed some success, posting the group's fast lap time (55:17). The Class 725 starters also struggled. Four set out, but only Steve Martz was around at the finish. Martz earned the victory by completing his five lap assignment in 5: 20:0 I (33. 7 mph). Martz also edged Kathy Fay by five seconds for fast lap honors (1:00:05). All three Class 800 starters went the distance, but Ivan Penchansky proved much the best. Penchansky posted his division's fast lap time during his initial loop (44:35) and went on to score a one hour victory over runner-up Donald Bundy. Penchansky's final time was 4: 15:02 (42.3 mph). Lowell Arnold followed Bundy past the checkered flag to finish third. There were five starters in Class 900, including defend-ing Class Champ Joel Mohr, who ended up posteing his division's four fastest lap times (all sub-56 minute loops). Un-fortunately, Mohr also re-corded Class 900's slowest lap (3:20:20). Gary Stevens emerged with the Class 900 victory. Stevens won by 1:22:12 over second place fin-isher Robert MacDonald in 5: 14:59 (34.3 mph). A field of eight set out in Class 1000, but only two man-aged to complete all five laps. Guy Cordon tallied fast lap time (44:58) and continued on to easily defeat runner-up Geno Licitra by more than 1-1/2 hours. Cordon averaged 15.5 mph on the day/night, by stopping the timer in 3:57:08. The bulk of the field was made up of Class 1600 con-testants. Fourteen accepted assignments and nine stayed the distance. Proving best of the bunch was Brian Logan. Logan won a hard fought battle over runner-up Bob Dusty Times SUPPORT OFF ROAD RACING SUPPORT OFF ROAD RACING November 2000 GOT SHOCKS? Your main source for the all I new RaceRunner shock series from Sway-Away. Now avail-r=...-/ able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive RaceRunner 3" body coil-over design. •Noc, .... .tWAl"• A •WAY I( EK~~~ 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. Play cars or race cars, Class 9 or trucks, 1/2 1600, even super-long travel A-arm cars, KARTEK gets you handled! r#/;\fiiii) ~ (909) 628-2525 ~LI~ or ' --. (909) 628-0833 o.-.-~a fax (909) 627-4067 14122 Central ave. Chino, CA. 91710 open 7 days a week! Page 31

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In Class 12, Mike Dill gave it his all but second spot was the best he Marc Stein was second in Class 14 in his good looking. Ford, he was Bob Wright got a wee bit slower each lap and finished in second could muster at the MOR California 200. a bit over six minutes out of the class win. place in Class 1600, shown here in landing mode. David Hendrickson was second in 1600 on the first lap, dropped to With only two of his six lights lit, Barry Roland drove through the night Troy Pomeroy ran some quick laps in the Class 1 contest, missed third on lap-3 and that's where he finished. to a fourth place finish in 1600, just a minute out of third. second place by a minute and took a fine third place. elapsed time was 3:44: 1 7 second place finisher Mike times (including 59:45 on Lap 1400. Bobby Quarnstrom Jr. took fourth and Steve (28.9 mph). Chris Woodward Dill. Campbell, who also took 1) and emerging with a 13:58 continued his winning ways. Ruddick finished fifth. followed the "11 Brothers" fast lap honors (53:20) was win over runner-up Kurt Quarnstrom completed his That will do it for this year's past the finish line to claim timed in 2:44:55 (39.3 mph). Puhl. The winner's final time three laps in 3: 17:08 (32.9 "California 200." Only two third. Daniel Fresh checked in a dis-was 3: 03 :3 7 (3 5 .3 mph). mph) to defeat runner-up races remain on MD R's 2000 Class 1200 also had three tant third. David Bowles placed third Marc Stein by 6:27. Quarn-calendar, so make plans to be starters and three finishers. There were four starters in and Greg Crew finished strom also came away with · in Barstow September 30th for Jamie Campbell sprinted away Class 1300. Jim Heine proved fourth. · Class 1400 fast lap honors the "Barstow 300" and Novem-to a big early lead, then much the best, posting that A healthy field of eight (1:01:07). Carolyn Hines ber 18th for the "Stoddard cruised to an easy victory over division's three fastest lap faced the starter in Class placed third, Mark Harber 300." I'll see you there. ■ Spring to Success ... ~ lie. • ,.._ 114811it 8780 • Dlltrellllll': l'nll-....... 80818818fi4 Page 32 November 2000 Eibach Springs is proud to announce it's complete line of ultra high quantv off-road springs. Available in 10. 12. 14 & 16 inch free lengths with 3" ID. A wen designed & manufactured spring will last thousands of cvcles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what it takes to win ... Now so do VDU. Dusty Times

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2000 WHIPLASH SNOWFLAKE 100 The Late Matt Murphy comes From Behind To Win At snowflake Photos: Track.side Photo · He was still putting his bike back together when the green flag flew, but Matt Murphy rode his heart out, and took the Open class win on his Yamaha. · In spite of everything, in spite of his relatives and friends (i.e., brother Dustin Murphy and cornerman Jeff Wells), Matt Murphy (WR400 Yamaha) came away with a strong 1 :58 win over short. slee~ed Dayton Raper on the Whiplash had so many bikes at this race they ran out of numbers. Here we see Douglas Neff winner in the Open class by two minutes. · three lap high plains course. The end of summer (hah!) extravaganza known as "Snowflake" brought out riders and racers in droves. And it brought them in pickups, in motorhomes, trailers, and in vans. There were 305 .two wheelers, 99 Quads, 8 Pilots and 40 Pee-Wees and 75 Minis (the two and four wheeler varieties) for a grand entry total of 507 riders. Whiplash ran out of numbers for the "125" and "30+" classes and had to jump into the "1300" and "1500" numbering series. (Many "assigned" numbers were not entered.) The Quad and Pilot race was the first thing Sunday morning with the 185 MCI, 2, 3, 4, 5 bikes next and 120 riders in the last: Pro, Sr., Pro, Do ftore Than Just Njek Up Dtirtl Mark Oberparleiter rode to victory in the Senior Pro class, squeaking out the win by a very skinny 22 seconds. using a very tight sect10n through the pines with numerous sharp water bars and a tree at every corner. As the track dried out the dust hung like a curtain where the winds could not blow. PROS Murphy was planning on , racing the Yamaha of his brother, Dustin, who was riding in the first motorcycle race, But the bike was still out on the course "somewhere" as Dustin suffered a bad spill and was reported to be at RM117 dustin' himself Rick Watmore clears a jump neatly as he heads for his Off. ·Mu rp.h y victory in the 250cc class. This group had 21 entries. tr e k k e d O u t t 0 6s, 7s, 8s, and first time racers, get the bike, then n·umerous the 9s, of which there were 59. repairs had to be accomplished The first race had, 135 riders before he could i:ace it. The complete all three of the silencer/USPS approved spark planned laps, 66 did so in the arrestor section was replaced, second. The Minis and the the front plate swapped for the Pee-Wees raced after the cars correct "19" number, of on Saturday. course, the throttle; a grip; The motorcycle course and the rear wheel... all this deviated from the car track by was being performed as the Wllnt Wll1h 76 Raclln■ Gasolllne Page 34 : •. • • •~ ••,,,'(•r~ •' ~ Win Free 76 Racing Gas for the 2001 Season! One entry for each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Octane R.aclng Gasoline purchased from CL Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. 1, 2000 through October 31, 2000! Win Free 76 Racing Gasoline (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: Send )'Our proof of purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn: Mitch 237 E. Whitmore Ave. Modesto, CA. 95358 i!t.RACING . ~GASOLINE WWW-.E."aV.-.Y Falrplex - Pomona October 7&8 November 2000 · i!"ARACING V#IGASOLINE ~~~-v, . Authorized Distributors -Southern California, call: KRS Distributing 71 4-81 6-8 98 3 Cosby Oil 1-800-54-COSBY www.cosbyoil.com !l!!I!~tffl For a Distributor Nearest Vou - 800-399-4176 Dusty Times

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. . Dayton Raper finished just two minutes behind first place to take second on his Yamaha 426 in the Open class. Silhouetted against the sky, Eric Brown chased hard, but fell just short Second place in the open class went to Jim Jaquette, on a Kawasaki, Pros were staging on the other side of the pit loop. The first wave was off and gone before Matt could sling a leg over the bike and rush over to the start. They let him go after the third wave of Pros and he was on the gas and gone. At his pit stop -he stopped after Lap 1 (Dayton would do his fueling duties after Lap 2) -Murphy was gone before Wells had the quick-fill really free of the tank's bung and Matt got a load of race gas in his "you know wheres." He stopped, immediately, and they flushed him. The bike was then not willing to re-fire; those pesky 426s. Murph lost a good minute right there. "That gas burned for a while," he said later at the Race Tech box van. "When I got to the 'Start' the third row. was gone. I rode my heart out, I just reeled 'em in! The course was fast but didn't seem as fast as last year." The Yamaha was carrying a 15/46 final drive which should be good for 160 kph." Murphy normally races 125 and 200 KTMs in D27 AMA H&H and GPs . . This was a "holiday". Dayton Raper (2nd/10) was on a 426 with suspension by, who else, Bob Bell's global Precision Concepts. Pro points leader Toby Bryant (3rd) suffered a jammed quick fill during his pit stop after missing his pit and having to perform a quick one-eighty through the Murphy compound. Bryant lost about three minutes to Raper in the pits. Aaron "Air" Tuck (5th/IO) split the Imperial Valley scene for a cool day in the pines. "Fud" gives a little background on Tuck. "He is my hero. At the top of his career, he knew that he could not earn a living racing motorcycles. Therefore, he is now studying at the Motorcycle Institute in Phoenix (under the tutelage of Gary Jensen and Terry Mell!). He told me that he leaves home at 7:00 am and does n~ return until 9:30 or 10:00 pm five days a week. He only gets to ride on occasional weekends and can very seldom race. When he graduates, he will rule desert racing for many years. That young man is just great. He won the Fud 125 250 class championship in 1996, 1997, and again, in 1998. His new KX250 did not arrive until three events into the '99 season and he still not only won the 250 Championship, h e was the Dusty Times of first place, finishing second in the Senior Pro division. seen here skirting the edge of the forest. Steve Stoeckel took the win in the 125cc class by a margin of two minutes and 14 seconds after a very close race. 1999 Racer of the Year and was honored at the D38 Awards banquet as having the best season of anyone in the 20 years of the 'Fud' ers!" Robert Settles (6th) luckily discovered a flat tire before the race and had to rush around to change the wheel. After Lap 2 Settles roared into his pits complaining about brake fade on the fast course so the crew dumped some water on the rear caliper and sent him off to do further battle. Tucson Todd Davis (8th) was seen waving a t his clutch lever. ? But no one around cared. That irascible Lee Henry came up all the way from Ciudad Yuma with a 125 and left without even riding. Reliable sources suggest that the ex-DR racer became irritated at the race delays and returned straightaway to the Territorial Prison where he remains to this very day. An action photo of Lee hangs in the Yuma Appleby's. Number 1 plate holder Harry Nevel did not -complete a circuit of the turnout of serious riders. Mark Oberparleiter, the usual suspect, squeaked by long jump er Eric Brown by 2 2 seconds. Brown is as tall as -Oberparleiter is not. Long time racer Gwin Vaughn was third, Ken Kozlik was a rare DNF-ing one lapper, an unusual result for the strong Scottsdale rider. OPEN A good finish, 5th/19, came to Matt Harper. Matt was a click or two behind "Best in the Desert Racer" Kyle Beshaw (4th) whose dad, Larry, rides sweep. Matt was one of the first riders to run Whiplash events. Back when Jay would get only 25 riders, Matt and side"kick "Hasten" Jason Cobb were always at those fledging events. Rich Watchorn, 16th, took a nasty tumble coming through the pits and "really hurt" his left wrist: "It's broken!" He went back out on his Yamaha but, in a lot of pain, his normal 50 minute laps deteriorated to 62. "I rode with one hand, that last lap course. sucked!" He then iced it SENIOR PRO'S down. With a "Brittany The "Seniors" had a good Spears" sticker on his front race with a small but mighty fender, Rich ought to be """",--------------------, Mark Stockham was the big winner in the Over 50 Division, taking the win by only 51 seconds on his Yamaha. November 2000 In the Over 40 division Will Mundy took the win, by less than a minute. There were 15 entries in the class and only five failed to make it all the way. ashamed of himself. At least, it coulda been a "Rob Zombie" decal. 250 Desi Wolfe (8th/2 l) is from Salome "Where She Danced" -the boyhood home of Garth Sweetland. Mike Voudouris ( 18th) raced a pickup on Saturday -one lap -and went for a longer race on Sunday. Two laps. 125 These guys were all over each other like white on rice. Six minutes, 43 seconds covers the top ten racers! Only Stoeckel (l,st/33) had any breathing room at all, and that's just· on paper. Points leader Charman lost loads of ground to Gary Curtis (who came to the race in Fifth). Mike Crawford, the Riding Realtor, was 27th. He and his daddy ride with sometimes Class 1 buggy racer Gary Anderson ... but we will not hold that against them, or will we? 4-STROKE Jack Gee ( 6th/44) #403 ripped the knobs right out of his '99 WR400's Dunlop 752. "I shoulda used a Bridgestone ED78 ... this was for the Cinders. I did very well. I kept it 'up' all day. The whole thing was a dust storm." Ryan Schrock #460 (2:22:24), Jon Heeley #439 (2:22:55) and Gee (2:22:57) fought the good fight for fourth. Gee said that there was "major dicing for all three laps. It was a 100% Continued on page 36 • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction _• 10 year Bladder warranty • Safety loam baffling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FtA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers fuel Sal•'s "Pro Cell" is • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline our top-of-the-line racing O cell /hat comes ready ta • ver 25 years experience ins/all and it's backed by a e for more Info call or write to: lull 10 Y•ar wamnty, Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe EL SAF 63257 Nels AndefSOn Road Bend, Oregon 97701 RadltgCe/ls (541) 388-0203 · (541 )388-0307 lax http://Www.fuelsafe.com Page 35

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... . There was a grand total of 305 two-wheelers at the Snowflake. David Vogt rode in the 250cc class took second place by just over a minute. FIRST RIGHT: There were nine four-strokes in the MC4 division, and Nathan Schmit, ended up the winner, finishing his three laps less than a minute in front of second place. SECOND RIGHT: Jarrod Bono took the win in the huge Over 30 category, which had 68 entries. He was 39 seconds up on second place at the end of three laps. straight-up race! It was an awesome fast course! I could have used a sixth, seventh and eighth gear. The woods were the most fun. I had fun dicing with other racers among the trees. It was cool to see all the spectators cheering us on. The hairiest moment was my first time going down the steep power line downhill and hitting the water breaks, so fast that I _almost flew to the bottom. Next time it was not so fast! I can't wait 'til next year." If Jack's not busy enough doing the November "Elsinore GP", he's also getting married. Chad Ragland (26th) #456. DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! Page 36 John Stokes soars past the trees here, trying to catch the leader. But Scott Bowen was second in the 125cc division, and only 44 seconds he had to settle for second place, only 36 seconds off the winning ahead of the third place bike. This class had 33 entries. pace in the Over 40 class. -~-»:,_._"; ... -·--.,.., "'!"# "This was actually my first time racing this course. f have been coming to this race for many years, but like my father (i.e., "Lightning" Larry Ragland), did not start racing until I was almost 30. I entered with my cousin John Martensen ( 19th) #411, whose father, Ed, also raced ADRA and SCORE races. We did not do any pre-running and really had no idea what the course was like. I was racing my '98 Kawasaki KLXJ00R, which was a little down on horsepower, especially for this course." "Right off the start, by the second turn, my bike shut down. So there I was sitting next to the course while the groups of riders passed by and I got further behind. Tums out my bike would not run when the fuel selection was set to 'Run', it only worked when selected to 'Reserve'. Why? I still don't know, but I fixed the problem and got the bike running again." "I was two minutes down from this•. It seems like the first 15 miles went by instantly; very fast with some big jumps, followed by some tight, twisty, forest sections with a power line road with some big water bar jumps. The last five miles were fast coming into the finish, where we had to do it again two more times. There were lots of crashed and broken riders along the course, but all in all, a fun, fast course." Matt McGrath (23rd) #415, who now lives in Colorado Springs, turned his Dana Andrews VW "11" car into a competitive motorcycle. OVER 30 November 2000 The Dana Andrews Pit Report "Bike #592, 1:.nnis Zajmi (17 th/62), was carving his way through the S's until the· second t.rip down pit road when a foot peg mounting bolt disappeared. He stopped at the Ragged Edge 5-1600 pit and while he received his gas the Ragged Edge boys sprung to action. After a short and futile search for an alternate bolt, Todd, Mike and Scott put their fabrication skills to work and fashioned a coat hanger fix on the foot peg. Ennis said that it held so well he was able to run full pace for the last lap, including big air on the jumps. The couple of minutes in the pit kept him in the race but cost him a shot at the Top 5 for the class. Another great example of a great car team sticking around to help out the bike guys! For the next race the team has recommended a generous coating of Loctite to keep the infamous vibrating KXS00 from self-destructing again." # 554, Jason Gardner (38th) was still on the course when the next race's riders were out there. Jason was one of the last "Morning Race" guys to do three laps. Scott Turnbull #577 (39th} certainly got his entry fee's worth: 3:39:30, three laps, and a 1 :50:09 first lap. OVER 40 John Stokes (2nd/15) #639 was on one of the new 520 KTMs. Learn more about "Stokes' Law" -the mathematical equation that expressed the settling velocities of small spherical particles in a fluid medium -at http://www. britannica. com/boom/ eb/articleS/0,5716, 71595 + 1 + 69781,00.html. Hans Yanderwaal (3rd} had teamed with winner Will Mundy (1st) and Sr. Pro Gwin Vaughn for the BitD '"Vegas to Reno"' where they were eighth in the "35 +" class. '"Vanderwaal's Force' is a rather weak force as compared to covalent and hydrogen-bond forces." Learn more at http://www.science-projects.com/chemistry.htm. Remember when Steve Richards was the undisputed king of the tiddlers? The 1/8-liter bikes? Riding the wheels off l 25s? Now he can still best the likes of graying Neil Goodell. Brian Steber (6th} #601 was outfitted with cheap (i.e., non-Acerbis} hand guards that were torn off at the flag, but not by the flag, you understand. OVER 50 "Ben's Cycle Works" had a load of riders -Dayton Raper, Dave Gronlund, Mark Oberparleiter, Eric Brown, Gene Bryan, Mark Stockham (lst/23) #717, Mark Fiske (6th) #747, Jack Gee, Rachel Scheiwer and, of course, the Forty-eight new racers came to play at the Whiplash Snowflake, and at the end of the day James Manning was the winner on his Honda. Dusty Times

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graying BCW owner himself #700, who even w tossed a tired cold leg over his Race Tech '00 WR400. Ben Urrea (5th): "It was great. I had lots of fun," Ben lied. "I tweaked my ankle in some whoops and I got heat stroke. I was getting chills; I had it before and now it comes back easier. I wore a Camelback but the Noon start was kinda late. I went fast, way too fast. I was pretty much in the ozone and put the Hondatothewinbyamarginofnineminutes. hammer down; I went for it. event; he stopped at his pits Well, he got it. OK. Fifth with 100 yards before the place, just a shade ahead of checkered flag. Mark Fisk. Ben has a OVER 100 -or maybe backbone T(oil) gauge: "I run even more! Torco T4R and the temp runs Don Bull (2nd/7th) was out between one-fifty and two there, at it agc:.in, on his old hundred." CR500. ''Big Jose" Joe Prosser Danny Sullivan (2nd) also only got in one lap. drove his Class 8 Chevrolet NEW RACERS pickup to another second Rachel Scheiwer (46th/59) place -in the Saturday "Pro" #924, said that she "dropped truck/car/buggy race. Mark the bike four times and stalled StockhamedgedDannybySl it once; I looped it right seconds for his win. Stockham around." If that wasn't said, "I wanted to win this enough, she ran out of gas race more than any other race right at the finish line and 'cause it's the biggest race of• had to push the YX250 way the year. And I like the track. over to her camp on the far Thanks to my sponsor, Ben's side of pit loop. Hmm, maybe Cycle Works, for making my Mike Hansen was playing it bike run its best!" safe and smart. Another off roader was The Bryce Redenbaugh Sam Carlise (7th) who used to (J 2nd) #960, and Mike have/still has a Class 5 VW Redenbaugh (40th), #959, Bug. Mike Hansen (28th) team was in their first-ever-#702 was not paying anywhere bike race. Mike, a particular attention to the VP of Engineering at ,HONDA ·Power . Equipment Honeywell-Allied Signal-Garrett -AiResearch, rode an XR400 tha r .... he bought from White Mountain Mororsports' Tom Kacavas: Part of the oldest group of racers, Don Bull brought The four-stroke riders liked this course because it out his Honda CR500 and took second place five let them go fast. Here; Jeffrey Trimble flies his minutes ahead of the next guy. Yamaha off of a small whoop de do. "It's a great bike; durable, it's got a big tank, and it's fast enough," Mike agreed with everyone else who has had one. "We have a cabin in Overgaard so we were familiar with -had a 'sense' of -the fire roads and the terrain, if not the actual race course." They'd ridden that Power Line Road many times before, so they were not intimidated by that triple-down "kicker" jump, for example. Bryce rode a zoot "HoT"/ "Pro Circuit" CR125 with a hand built Williams Motor Works pipe. "I didn't change were (real) beginners, were the gearing so I was tapped, very friendly, very comforting pinned in sixth a lot. Next and very informative. (Jay) year, I'll change that." Red, came around after the riders' Jr. stopped for fuel from some meeting asking the ('MC9') pitting buddies: "I didn't people if they had any think that the dust was questions.Thecoursewaswell THAT bad," he said, until he marked." Mike mentioned got done and saw how red his that they came upon a rider eyes really were. who was down, with a broken Mike was effusive in his thumb, and four riders stopped praise for the organization and to assist, if they could, and get safety provided by Whiplash. information for the following "The 'Tech' guy (i.e., Tom checkpoint. "Oilcan' Fisher #739) gave us Can't say too much about lots of suggestions and Leon Noel (24th) #947, 'cept support. The other riders, that his name reads the same when they found out that we forward and back. ■ KAWAGUCHI HONDA CORP. POWER -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 Does! Check our website www.Kawaguchihonda.com KAWAGUCHI HONDA 3Ei32E.3RoS-CLas~CA9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 _H()NDA Power Equipment Dusty Times ' . i VISA I s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s No+-h;~n-' . -HONDA POWER EQUIP ME.NT SPECIA.LI,ST . 1Ull.ti5Seasief. ii:i f'or optimum pl•r!omianc-c-and safety. pit".\~ 1·e::ad Lhe o,,,1e-r·s manual bdorl!' 0pt"r:1tlng your Honda Po\l·c-r Equipment. Sptt'tfic-::atton• subject to d:.m~e \l'ilhout nolk't. "E:5tlm.w: only. b::a~c-d on r.llC'd load. •Battery not uu:lud~ "'ith £:1-t35vOSXK I. E~15000SXKI and E90500$X .. HW!lh bdttery tmy kll. whttls & han~er. ConnttUon to house' po""'er rcqulrN tr.msfer d~1te to ,woitl possible Injury to pov.·er company pcrsonnd. Consult a qu.1.llAed rlC'Ctrh:bn. November 2000 Page 37

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GORMAN RIDGE RALLY 2000 Peruvian Flash Rules The Ridge By Paul Timmerman :a . CONDOR b ,, ~ fi~~;t" Tony Chavez and Eddie Cardenas took the overall win in their Mitsubishi Ga/ant at the Gorman Ridge Rally. held in mid August. Tony "The Peruvian Flash" Chavez dominated Gorman Ridge Rally was run on Saturday, August 18th. The rally operates out of the Best Rest Hotel in Frazier Park. The afternoon stages •Jse the Hungry Vaiiey Off Road Vehicle Park, just off , the grapevine, the main northerly route out of Los Angeles. In the evening, the ,ally heads off towar.d Lake Hughes, using some of the same roads as Rim of the World rally. We had a modest sized field of 18 starters this year, down from 30 last yea.r. Miss-ing was some strong competi-tors from last year, including Lon Peterson, George Pisek, and Jay Streets. They are all fielding cars in the national ProRally series. The Ojibwe Forests Pro Rally in Bemidji in Minnesota conflicted with his event. Despite the smaller size, it was a very high quality field, with at least six legitimate national level cars. Last year's winners, Anton Musev and John Dillon were back and looking for a repeat in the Audi Quattro. Anton would have to deal with a number of challengers in the Open class, including former Super-D c hampion Rui Bra-sil, who was teamed up with long time navigator Carlos Tavares. Tony Chavez teamed with his· new light-weight navigator Eddie Cardenes in the Mitsubishi Gallant. Lauchlin and Farina O'Sullivan ran the Mitsubi-shi Eclipse as a Production GT class car. Doug Robinson ·and Sue Robinson are in their second year in a Mazda 323 UTX, now sporting a larger 1.8 liter motor and hopes of pacing the big bore cars. Bob Pendergrass and Jon Weigley continue to im-pr·ess in the unlikely but highly effective 400 HP Chevy Blazer. Paul Timmerman and Suzi Martin were hoping for better luck this year as they shredded a drivetrain last year in their 323 GTX. Finally, Bruce and Pat ·Brown were proudly showing off a brand new 2.5 liter Subaru rally car, com-plete with air conditioning. The 2 WO Open class had four entrants. Richard Byford and Fran Olson are back in ADA VIS GLOBAL MEXICAN INSURANCE FOR AS LOW AS $58A YEAR BY FAX - OR - PHONE 1-800-909-4457 FAX 1-800-909-1007 PLEASE VISIT US AT: http://mexic-oinsurance.com or e-mail us at: INFO@MEXICOINSURANCE.COM Page 40 the yellow BMW 2002. John Shults and Don Shreyer are getting comfortable in the ex-Vance Walker Mazda RX-3. Mark and Scott Peterson are making strides in the Dodge Colt (Lancer Pre-Evo-iution). Robert Sud hop Jr. and Ryan Curtis were out for a second event in a second generation, non-turbo, 2WD Eclipse They learned a lot at Rim and were ready for an-other go. In Performance Stock, Mark Brown and Ole Holter were back after a class win last year in the Toyota FX-16. This was to be Mark's fi-nal rally as he transits toward rally retirement. We all hope he will continue to come out and lend an experienced hand. They had their hands full with the team of Mike Gibeault and Don Sherwood in the 2.0 liter Jetta. Also in the class were Brad Boll and Gary German in the same Honda Accord they rolled here two years ago. Patrick Rodi and Ron Cohen were also entered in an RX-7 GLX-SE. In Stock class, Keith Wheeler and Ken Lazarus in the MGB GT and Sean Otto and Jason Lane in the Mazda GLC challenged last year's class champions Nick Taylor and Pete Morris. We had a nice 80 degree sunny day with light breezes greet us at the Hungry Val-ley Offroad Vehicle Park. This seemed good for both dust and avoiding heat stroke. The six ORV park stages are done on only two roads. We all get four tries on North Boundary and two tries on Powerline/ Wheatfield. The North Boundary stages are a mixture of wide open straights, linked by deep gravel corners, and some tricky lighter sections as the November 2000 The BMW of Richard Byford and Fran Olson took the I 2WD Open Class after a hard fought battle in the mountainous terrain. course moves up into t;he hills below the mountains. The drop-offs and blind hairpins keep teams honest. Any time less than five minutes is fast for this stage. Powerline/Wheatfield is a combination of a rugged ridge route, climbs and descending along a steep ridge, and the faster wheatfield section with huge yumps and narrow gates at road intersections. Both stages are largely memorized by veterans and demand the concentration to avoid losing any time. Tony Chavez led Stage 1 at 4:55 minutes. Behind him were Anton Musev, Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Rui Brasil. Being a rough' rally with lots of chances to stuff a car, a high attrition was expected. The first car was Doug and Sue Robinson parked aiorig Stage 1 with a blown CV joint. Keith Wheeler's MGB also bowed out after only one stage completed with igni-tion system failure. The second stage saw a force major as the first car on the road, Anton Musev, rolled on a tricky, steep, off-camber combination, when he clipped the inside bank. He was later quoted as say-ing "mistakes are very easy when you go fast." The next three cars all had to stop and push the car off the road. Others were also finding the going a bit rough. Mark Peterson explains: "On Stage 2, we loosened out steering when we landed after hitting that section with the 'cips'. Consequently, the car wanted to move around a bit under hard breaking. So on Stage 2, we carried a bit too much speed into the first right hand corner after the dry creek crossing and ended up with the front two wheels hanging over the berm. The car stalled and 3-1/2 minutes and three cars later when we were able to free ourselves." We all got a brief service after Stage 3, allowing the vehicles and teams to cool off, and crews to put back missing pieces. At service Rui's Audi was not running correctly as it was hot and seemed to be running lead due to fuel starvation. Stage 4 was the third time down North Boundary. Bob Pendergrass was turning in a great result, turning a 4:94 in the big Blazer. M ark Brown also nipped under the five minute mark, being the only ZWD car to do it so far. Patrick Rodi pulled a 99% on this stage as they had an off course excursion. On Stage 5 Rui Brasil 's Quattro blew an ECU fuse, forcing the team to stop at the crest of the fastest jump of the day. The cars behind had to take the crest a mini-mal speed, giving only Tony and Lauchlin a clean run at the stage. Tony was having it his own way with consecutive fastest stage time, with Lauchlin typically less than 1 % behind. By Stage 6, the final run in the ORV park, everyone was dialed into the road's tricky sections. Mike Gibeault and Brad Boll also slipped under the five minute mark. After six stages, the teams headed back to the Hotel for a service break, and very brief dinner. Tony and Lauchlin had a very close battle going for overall. Paul Timmerman and Suzi Martin were up to third overall and in class with no chances to catch up. The charging Pstock cars of Mark Brown and Mike Gibeault were right behind as they were putting in clean runs. A three way run for Open 2WD had Ri-chard Byford, John Shultz and Mark Peterson all on equal footing. In Stock class, Nick Taylor was out by a mile as Sean Otto drove for a fin-ish. After a shortened service we were off toward Lake Hughes, and the longer stages. The evening was composed of a run up Liebre Gultch, a trip over Liebre Mountain, a jolting ride down the Maxwell stage into Lake Hughes, and back tracking the last two stages. The roads had been freshly graded, and they cut new water bars iqto the route, making dozens of fierce jumps. The roads are very technical with lots of climb-ing and falling, along twisty mountain roads with berms graded along the whole route. The Liebre Gultch stage is run on a road where construc-tion equipment and water trucks maintain the first por-tion, although the last por-tion reverts to typical rough, steep, and silty stages. This stage always seems to claim· victims, and this year was no exception. Bob Pendergrass had been battling soft tranny all day and it finally gave up. Dusty Times

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Mark Brown and Ole Holter took the win in Performance Stock Class Mike Gibeault and Dan Sherwood were second in Performance Stock In their Mazda RX-3, John Shults and Don Shreyer were first in Group in the Toyota FX-16 at Gorman Ridge. in their VW Jetta running very close to first all rally long! 5 in Club and second in CRS on the Gorman Ridge Rally. on t is stage. surprise on ing up t is stage. e contin-on the stage. Things were get-the last two stages it was seconds in the final tally. the charts is Brad Boll setting ued to drive the car flat out, ting rough in the FX-16, as clearly impossible for me to A large number of points the third fastest time at 8% losing only 10% on Stage 8. flat tires and an incapacitated catch Mike and Mark. SSl 1 helped out with the organiz-behind leader Tony. If Brad This was one of Lauchlin's co-driver cost him some time. is my favorite stage and I was ing this year, including Chief can consistently drive this two fastest stages for the day. Mark suggested a kill switch having a bit too much fuh so Organizer, Harris Done, ably fast, he will be in line for On Maxwell, Tony proved for the intercom would be a Gary told me to back off (he assisted by Ray Hocker, Paula many future class wins. his metal by actually winning good idea after listening to did not like the bushes scrap-Gibeault, Bruce and Pat The Liebre Mountain stage Stage 9 despite the misfire, Ole for several stages. The ing his window). He was right Brown, and Bill Barfoot and is one of the best rally stages refusing to lift over 11 con-teams got a brief break at i:he and so I let go of the throttle the whole gang from Arizona in California, and it is some-secutive waterbars. The start of Stage 11, giving them and started applying some Rally Group who came out to times shared with Rim of the sweeping corners and general a chance to view the stars. right foot brake to slow the learn about CRS style event World. It starts with a nar-downhill nature helped him The delay in SS 11 course car down, what was I think-promotion. row, steep switchbacks climb, mention his momentum, but opening allegedly was the re-ing? I plowed straight into the The next event in the CRS opens into a· sweeping it is still one of the great sult of the organizer's truck bushes and high centered on calendar is the Prescott For-meadow road with several dif-drives of the year. Brad Boll getting stuck in a ditch on the only rocks in 200 yards." est Rally in Arizona, the ferent road surfaces and also made the most of the stage. Patrick Rodi and Ron eighth leg of the 2000 SCC~ widths, including fresh stage turning a time only 0:02 Stage 11 was the last stage Cohen saw a similar fate on ProRally national champion-marble size gravel, and ends behind Lauchlin. of the rally, and was the re-this stage as they pulled a ship. The Prescott Forest with a descent along a rough Stage 10 was the return of verse of Liebre Mountain. 97% on the stage. But they Rally takes place every year in and technical descent Maxwell into the dark after The drama in the rally was far were not alone, as John Shults beautiful Prescott, Arizona. through live Oak forest. service. Lauchlin was making from over. The stage got also put it up the bank and This year, the rally is going to Many of the corners are blind a final charge to overtake softer as it was driven more, broke the radiator on the RX-be run on September 29 and and unmarked and require Tony, but was able to take and the braking points were 3. This may have cost them 30 (Friday and Saturday), third gear, making commit-only 0:01 out of Tony of this very difficult to judge, as the the class win as Richard with an awards ceremony on ment the key to the stages. stage. Mike Gibeault was hav-surface often changed very Byford had somewhat less October 1 (Sunday). More Tony fell off the top of the ing more luck chasing Mark dramatically. Brad Boll noted, damage coming off stage and information about the event stage chart as he suffered a Brown for the PS tock crown, "Through the evening we had took them by almost two min-is available at http:// coil-pack failure before head-taking out nearly 0.5 minutes fun and pushed it a·bit but by utes on the stage and only 20 PrescottForestRally.com. ■ il1tlllllll"'A. ,S BICHllS1~ 1'fJff flHllS1' llilLLI' LAUGHLIN, NEVADA ).. MITSUBISHI MOTORS December 14-17, 2000 U.S.A. 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AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP· ROUND 2 Brown Blows ·em Away At Griffith, NSW Text & Photos: Darryl Smith ···---------------------· I I I 1 I Baja 2000 Racers I I Hotel Villas de Loreto I I l,oreto Baja California ·sur. I I I I • Cleanest rooms, Air-Conditioned I I I I . Restaurant, Bar, Pool, on the beach, I I I I . Ample Secure Parking I I I I • Special Racers and Pre Racers prices ■ I I I . Owned and operated by off road race I I enthusiasts with access to repair services I I I I I I Tell/ax 011-52-113-50586 I I ,vww.villasdeLoreto.co1n I I e-mail villasdeloreto@loretoweb.com.mx I I I I I ·-----------------------· Page 42 AT LEFT: Reg Owen corners hard in the red dirt as he heads to a nice first place in Class 8. In what could only be described as total domination, Andy Brown won everything at the second round of the Australian Off Road Championship.· He qualified fastest and lead every lap to take the win by 13 minutes. Ironically he hadn't raced his buggy since this race at Griffith, NSW, two years ago. Also in a Class 1 buggy was Terry Rose who took second overall ahead oflocal, Les Siviour placing the highest ever for a Class 7 4x4. Prologue There were 48 cars at Griffith and after the Qualifying it was Andy Brown leading with his turbo Nissan power. Terry Rose was second and Brad Zacka third. All were in Class l cars. W emer Zetti was fourth and leading Class 2. Heading up Class 3 was Darren Perrin, while other class leaders were Clayton Taylor (Class 4), Graham Lees (Class 5), Les Siviour (Class 7), Fabio Zarfati (Class 8), and Andrew Ziems (Class 9). Class 1 (Unlimited 2 Seater) Andy Brown took off from pole position and immediately reeled off some very fast laps. First out was Brad Zacka breaking a rear hub in the Jimco. After just one lap Glenn Owen parked his brand new car also with rear hub damage. Then Bob Strawbridge parked another brand new car with clutch failure. Craig Hoare had a more dramatic exit as he launched into the deep water channel and half sunk his car. All the while Brown lead with Rose next and Michael Collins third. Collins though, would be another to damage the rear hub upon contact. Brown went on and took the class win and the win overall, his first since Sea Lake '91. Rose took second after losing time fitting a new battery. Nev Taylor November 2000 Flying high over the muddy terrains Simon Barbary locked up first place in Class 2 at Griffith in June. A great head-on look at Andrew Ziems who went on to take the first place position in Class 9. stormed home for third in class. David Nikiforoff was the only other to complete six laps. Class 2 (1650cc 2 Seater) The early pacesetter in the 1650cc buggies wa s Wayne Green, and he-and Simon Barbary began a great battle. Matt Owen was out early with a broken front arm and Andy Ryan broke a timing belt. Stephen Burrows broke the steering in the car he has now taken over from his brother. The two Johnson brothers were running only inches apart until Andrew rattled the motor. Unfortunately, the Greet) car was out after three laps and left Barbary to have the lead. Zetti was out with no power steering. Barbary went on to win the class and place fourth overall. Coming home hard was Geoff Butler who took second, ahead of Len Levi. Then came Shannon Irvin and then Paul Johnson. Wearing lots of mud and extra weight, the Baja Bug of Kev Hufschmid heads towards the Class 4 gold medal. Throwing as much red dirt as he can, Kaleb Schmidt hustles toward the checkers and a first in Class 3. Dusty Times

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Terry Rose corners hard in his Chevy powered Raceco and churns The Nissan Patrol of Les Siviour on final approach, finishing first in The beautifully painted but muddied Nissan of Paul Grant was the Class 5 winner, shown here approaching the runway. his way to 2nd in Class 1, second overall. Class 7 and he was third overall also. Class 3 (1300cc 2 Seater) It was a lead that Owen's Seater) In the 1300cc group of buggies Corvette powered Patrol would Only three cars in the single it was Perrin leading the way early hold to the end. In the end he seater buggy group. Andrew on. Maurice Wood had.king pin beat home another Nissan, that Ziems basically had a trouble free problems, while Dave Goss had of Ivan Robertson. day and was the fastest on each motor woes. Perrin's problems C1ass 9 (Unlimited Single lap. He went on to take the class win and grab seventh overall. complete all six laps, making it a Glen Spizzo in the new VW tough assignment to be a finisher. powered buggy ran a fine second Personal thanks must go to in class while Ray Ricks was Mitsubishi for the loan vehicles unfortunately out after three laps. making the race coverage · Only 23 of the car~ made it to possible. ■ ; started with a faulty alternator, then a problem gearbox stopped his day. Kaleb Schmidt h ad steering problems and was late out of his pit break. However, he charged back and with Glenn Hancey out with a broken front end, Schmidt took the class win. Young Sean Dow finally convinced his Dad to swap seats and he came. home second in class. Shane Shannon was the only other to get in all six laps. GERMAN AUTO Class 4 (VW Baja) In his Baj a VW, Clayton Taylor set fastest opening lap but then had fuel .pump problems then a clutch failure. That left Kevin Hufschmid who,. as the only other competitor in the class, easily cruised in for the class win in his Baja VW. Class 5 (2WD Sedans & Pickups) Only three cars in this group and Paul Grant's Nissan ute was out in the lead after Lees had fuse problems in the Chev 3 50 powered Porsche. Local legend, Kel Williams, was racing his old Valian t yet again, and mo re serious this year, opting not for the cuppa as the track goes past his front door. Lees closed the gap and the race was close until Lees had a battery fail and was out of time for the last lap. Grant went on to take the class win. The others not making the six lap mark. Class 7 (Production 4x4) On his home track, Les Siviour is unbeatable in his Nissan 4x4. By half way he was up to sixth overall and way in front of second placed ColinHunter'sJeep. Tony •· Brose's Suzuki cried enough with . a broken cliff housing. While David Jameson's late model Suzuki had cliff problems. Hunter had both Geoff Pickering and Bobbie-Lee Siviour applying pressure. On the last lap the Jeep, lost th ird and fourth gear and slipped back. Les Siviour took the class win as. well as an amazing third overall. Pickering came in second and eighth overall. Bobbie-Lee Siviour took third in class, with Hunter fourth close behind. Class 8 (Modified 4x4) Zarfati's Pajero 4x4 started from sixth overall and he soon moved up to be second at the half way and leading his class. Adam Stefaniuk's Diahatsu broke the cliff housing and Ken Smith's Rodeo had trouble with shock hoses. On the fifth lap Zarfati stopped with suspect clutch failure. That left Reg Owen having a welcome run in the lead. Dusty Times • l,._ ..,. ·. '·• .- l -:,.. DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2• · 5 point mount 3• · 5 point mo,g,t SIDE COVERS IRS . 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Petersen Museum Hosts Off Road Multitudes Photos:' Track.side Photo History on the hoof/ (I tor) Bud Feldkamp, Parnelli Jones, Walker Evans and Malcolm Smith enjoy a chance to bench race and reminisce at the Petersen Museum party in September. Well, maybe it wasn't mul-Originally, when Marty titudes, but it was certainly a Fiolka conceived the idea of a huge crowd, much bigger than party to honor 33 years of Baja anticipated. 1000 history, he anticipated that about 200 people would show up to enjoy the Mexican buffet dinner, display of old race cars and a chance to visit CAI.I. TOI.I. 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SAT 9AM-SPM (702)871-52a FAX CLASS 10 5 UNLIMITED KENNEDY CLUTCH KIT STAGE I II & Ill PRESSURE PLATE 4'PUCK DISC ffELEASE BEARING $150.00 WEBER 40-44 IDF CARBONLY -$ 295.00 CLAMP ON 2" SUPER TRAP $37.00 CALL ABOUT SMOKIN' BFGOODRICH PRICES November 2000 Journalist Bill Sanders and wife, Terry, pqse by the old Toyota Landwruiser that ' Bill used to carrypaign with Pete Springer . with some old time racers. But by a Honda executive and once the word got out the Honda dealer John phone started to ring non--McLaughlin, both in Cessnas. stop, and on the big night the They carried spare parts, food crowd was estimated at 1200. •. and a spare bike in the planes. The Petersen Museum spokes-Ekins and Robertson got "of-man announced that it was ficial" times by getting West-the "biggest single event we've ern Union offices to time-ever had." stamp a card at the start and Sponsored by Toyota, finish, and their total time was BFGoodrich, Honda Motor-a remarkable 39 hours and 56 cycles, Wide Open Adven-minutes. Keep in mind that tures and the Rennsport there were no paved roads, no Group, the party was, in part, course markers, no down-ar-a fun:d-raiser for the Museum. rows, and there had been no Atthetimeofthiswritingthe pre-run. Ekins was at the numbers were still being party, sharing his memories of crunched, but there was no the trip. question that a sizable sum Of course, their incredible. had been added to the record started 'the car people museum's coffers. buzzing, wondering if a car In addition to the display of could beat the bikes. Bruce race cars and the chance to Meyers and Ted Mangels meet some special people, thought they could, and in a there was an auction of a few Fiberglas Meyers Manx buggy very special items. Frank Ves-nicknamed "Old Red", they sels went home with an origi-set out to do better, and suc-nal 197 t race ~oster with au-· ceeded. They did a sort of pre-tographs. Another lucky run, by scoping out the roads party-goer took home a poster along the west coast of the from this event, autographed peninsula on their way south-by all the "legends" in atten-ward, and then made their dance. Todd Clement had the ·record attempt on the home-winning bid on a 1971 ward bound trip. They did it NORRA Baja 1000 Trophy in 34 hours and 45 minutes. (they were beautiful), and a The incredibly small buggy in ride in one of the Wide Open which they made their record Aqventure cars in the 2000 run was displayed at the big was captured by Eric Fiore But Baja 2000 party. And Meyers the big attraction of the was there also to talk about his evening was the people who memories of the era. came to reminisce. Also in attendance was Ed ' There were Baja 1000 win-Pearlman, promoter of that ners who dated from the very first Baja 1000 in 1967. Pre-beginning, including Bruce viously, paired up with Dick Meyers, Vic Wilson, Drino Cepek, he'd driven a Land-Miller, and Malcolm Smith. cruiser to La Paz, and he told And predating the first full the _audience that their route blown race, which was held in had been from Tijuana, over 1967, there had been a semi-the mountains to Mexicali and formal record run, in 1962, then through San Felipe and performed on bikes, by Dave on to La Paz. They ran some Ekins and Billy Robertson, Jr. special 10 ply 11 0Ox 15 The pair rode their Hondas Armstrong implement tires from Tijuana to La Paz, chased and had no flats on· the trip. Ivan Stewart grins as major network sports announcer, Jack Arute, interviews Larry Roese/er. 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Caught while deep in reminiscing about pre-running near Santa Ynez,· Parnelli Jones poses with his uBig Oly" Bronco, which he drove in the Walker Evans, yours truly and P.J. all thought this chance to catch up Carl Weir poses with his 1935 four-door Ford sedan which raced in several of fhe early-'70s, with the late Bill Stroppe as navigator. with old friends was just great. early IOOOs. Amazingly. Weir drcNe the car to the m.1seum party, anci home again. np-=-e-=-a-::-irlr:m--=--a=--n=-=s-=-a,-id:r-:-th=e--rL-:a:-::n::--:arc:::r~u:,is~e=--=r=--~======================~=~========:::r-and the tires still exist. An-other bit of history just wait-_ing for an off road museum to come into existence. Malcolm Smith, who raced bikes long before he got into off road cars, remembered that Bud Ekins was his "absolute hero" when he was growing up. (Ekins had been a phe-. nomenal desert racer in the early '50s.) Then Smith went .on to tell about his first Baja race. He said he bought a guide book ori Baja and read it over and over. He told the audience that "it never en-tered my head to pre-run", so he just concentrated on memorizing the guide book. Before the race his pit crews had gone southward ahead of race day, hiding fuel cans here and there. Some were hidden in -local citizens' homes. At one point he remembered ar-riving in a town where his gas was supposed to be in the first house· he came to. Malcolm got off his bike, politely knocked on the door, and asked the lady whp answered, "Donde gasolina?" The woman knew nothing about any gas, so Malcolm decided his crew must have left it in the next house. He went next door and knocked, and again, no fuel. Now the ordinarily polite Smith was pretty ex-cited. He went back to the first house and when the lady came to the door, brushed past her, went into the home and found his gas! After fueling up he went on to get his win. This was the same race in which the checkpoint people were scheduled to open up their check at 6 a.~., and Malc.olm arrived early on tl-i.e evening of the-day before. Scoring was a bit uneven sometimes in those early days. That type of reminiscing. was the order of the evening at the Baja 2000 party, but there was also a lot of careful scrutiny being given to the cars on display. In the main lobby sat a '73 Toyota Land-cruiser with Bill Sanders' n ame on the side, complete with a mannequin in driving gear. P.J.'s Big Oly Bronco had pride of place on a revolving platform at the head of the entryway, and then attendees were drawn to a line of cars headed by the Dune Buggies and Hot VWs single seater built and driven by Drino Miller, and artfully restored. Behind it were lined up the Baja Boot, which both Steve McQueen and Bud Ekins drove, and a Class 2 Blazer (once driven by Frank Vessels Dusty Times (I to r) Jim Fricker, Lisa McAllister of BFG, Rod Hall and Herb Johnson, Jeff (I to r) Bruce Ogilvie, Joe Parkhurst and Bud Ekins, legendary desert biker turned Cummings and Frank DeAngelo (the last three all of BFG, one of the hosts for the car racer share a few moments at the party. Parkhurst founded Cycle World Magazine, evening). Fricker is co-driver for Hall who is the only four-wheeled person to run Ogilvie heads Honda's race effort in Baja. every Baja 1000 since '67. or Bob Gordon) and since tfiis race the seats are being and '68 Baja 1000, and some Manny and I udy Esquerra, raced by Don Adams. A great rented to some non-racers and other miscellaneous clips put Jack Zink, Mel Tyree, Bill display of winning Hondas, some celebrities, and a portion together into an exciting col-Rush and all three of the Cook complete with photos graced of the proceeds is earmarked !age of the best of off road.· brothers, along with Steve another wall and spotted here for charity. Indy racers, Mike The "Legends" who were Holladay. Maybe some of and there including outside in Groff (who has raced in Baja present were introduced and these folks were there, but if the dining area was an assort-once befo"re) and Roberto given a chance to talk briefly, they were I missed 'em and I'm ment including the '73 mid-Guerrero (who hasn't) are and some folks wandered sorry. I'd also love to see John engined Chevy Luv raced by · both planning to race this around with posters, t-shiLts Baker, Darold McDannald, Mickey Thompson. There was year: They were both at the and the old book, "The Off Orris and Jerry Johnson, Larry a 4x4 of unknown heritage, shindig. Guerrero, who's never Road Racer" (published in Minor and, of course, Andy with leaf springs in front and been further south than San '7 6), gathering autographs. De Vercelley II. We looked for brick patterned sides that Felipe (he drove his (Why didn't I think of that?) Mike Patrick and Phil Bowers, dated to 1967 and belonged to motorhome and thought that It was a terrific event. And and where· was Max Switzer? Pet.e Condos. It was probably was quite an adventure!), is in addition to the "legends" How about Doug Fortin, Sr., the best example of the sort of excited at the prospect. He t_here were many people thei:e, Rolf Tibblin, Fritz Kroyer, hybrids that used to appear at said he'd decided to go have a both racers and support folks, Sherman Balch and Bill the Baja races. There was also look at Cal Wells' PPI shop who dredged up wonderful Howard (remember the two a '69 Datsun BRE SSS 510 which isn't far from where he memories of years ago. But seater with the Evinrude mo-with Pete Brock's name on the lives. His notion of an off road there were a whole big bunch tor?). Where were Rick and side and a 1935 Ford four door truck was, to quote him, "an still missing. We'd have loved Roger Mears? (Actually, I sedan which apparently raced old truck with big tires." But to seen Larry Schwacofer and know the answer to that one, the first four 1000s since it wh:en he got a look at the Sid Spradling for instance, they were busy with Roger's had stickers and dash plaques equipment in PPl's shop he and Rod Koch, Larry Earner, son, Casey, and his race with appropriate dates on its said, "I was blown away by the Bob Ferro and Gene Hirst. team.) How. about Don dash. The 1977 Funco Bel Ray technology!" The idea of sus-And where wei;_e,Dick McCool Rountree-; Doug and D o n single seater that Malcolm . pension travel of 20 or 30 and Jerry Lawless-;Tiic k VIck Robertson, C a rroll Ditson Smith and Bud Feldkamp inches just astounded him. and John Watkins, Jack Irvine and Bob Rodine? And Carl ca.mpaigq.ed was_ tli"ere, and While the party had an in-and Kit Trenholm? How about Scholl should have been the· original Funco formal ait, with bench racing Memo Rodriguez, Jesus Luna there, along with John , Wampuskitty. Walker Evans and reminiscing going on in and Javier Tiznado? And Modica.· There are surely had brought a '78 Dodge Class little groups scattered wouldn't it be great to get to-more folks who should have 8 and the Oldsmobile "Ban-throughout the museum, it gether again with Jim and been there, but as it is, for two shee" tliat James Garner drove was well organized and in-Dorothy Sumners and Jake days I've been sitting and was there also. It was an un-eluded a presentation of some and Penny Fogg? Some others staring off into the distance, paralleled chance to see some rare film and video of the '67 who should have come include remembering... ■ Baja history on th.e hoot, and ------------------------------------------, current racers eyeballed the cars _with reverence. In contrast, Larry Ragland's Vortec Chevy was on display as was the PPI Toyota Trophy Truck and a 2001 Toyota Tundra Protruck. There was also a Chenowth Millennium, an Unlimited Class 5 car and one of the Wide Open Adven-ture cars which will enter the 2000 in their own class this year. The Wide Open Adventure group has eight cars (they're all alike, sort of a spec class) which are normally used by -Todd Clement and his com-pany to give tburs to non-rac-ers who'd like a chance to drive a "buggy" in Baja. 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VORRA IN LOVELOCK, NEVADA Faster -Frolics At Lovelock By Forest Creasy Photos: Chris Radboume Ron Foster brought his A-armed Mirage to Lovelock and went home with the overall win as well as the Class 10 victory. Welcome back racers. The second of Vorra's summer se-ries in the desert planted the race track in lovely Lovelock, NV. This was the second year racing in Lovelock and after last year's run in the silt many were calling it Lovesick, NV. Unfortunately, that must have weighed upon many racers as the attendance was the lowest I have seen it in many years. However, Vorra changed the track around and eliminated much of the silt and the track was great. To start the festivities four fast Class 1 s took off at high noon on a great Saturday after-noon. Sam Berri got off the stick well starting last in class, but doing his best to lap the field and came around first with fast lap of the day at 1:05:15. Next in was the two seater of Dan Nutt followed closely by Jerry and Linda Wald in a nice Ford. The race continued and through the halfway point Berri still led and now had about 11 minutes on Nutt and 19 min-utes on the Wald family racing vehicle. The race fell into a nice groove as ·Berri, going into the white flag had a good lead, but like last year the motor doesn't like the Lovelock desert and it let go about 10 miles from the finish. Berri then tried to get his crew to help him and towed the car to the start/finish line where he promptly pushed it over the lin~· for a third place finish. To his dismay he found out that that wasn't legal and would still get third, but no fin-ishing points. Tip of the day, if you can't push it you can't fin-·ish. While this was all going on, Dan Nutt just kept up the con-sistency and finished first with a nice time of 4:52:05 and sec-ond overall. Quickly behind him with a series of flats on the last lap and with the leader in sight was the Walds in second still a great finish for the older Ford vehicle. The last finisher was Everett. Paul. Paul started the race quickly and broke a c.v. quickly into the _race. After getting that fixed he had some time to make up. He started moving through Dan Nutt tan four consistent laps to finish his day in first place in Class 1 and second in the overall standings. Tom Hatch had a good day, but his competitors did not. He took the Class 9 win with three good laps. the pack, but hit a couple of rollers and rolled the car-over. A couple of seconds later the car would be engulfed with flames. Paul was able to get out and grab the fire extinguisher. It didn't work. He somehow got a fire extinguisher from an-other driver, it didn't work ei-ther. He got two more down the road and neithe_r one worked. I write this in because this accident could have been avoided, please replace and check your fire extinguisher before you race, and shake that bad boy up before you use it. Fire sucks, don't let it happen to you. Class IO was the class of the day and five quick starters took off a minute apart. A local from Reno, Bill Smith, led through the first lap with a minute over Ron Foster in a nice orange col-ored A-arm Mirage. The Brad-ford family was in next in a Class 12 racing with the 10s about eight minutes back. The father/son team of Richard and Ryan Lesher had their Rabbit powered machine cruising in fourth another six minutes back and Terrie Tavis; after her first win in her brand new car, was last in 18 minutes back of the leader. In the Sportsman Novice division, Scott Pitts piloted his car around in two almost Lap 1 was over and halfway through the race the tide was turning as Foster was able to overtake the lead and now led going into the third lap, 17 minutes ahead of the Bradford 12 car. The Leshers were now running third only a minute be-hind the Bradfords. Ta vis, who had some problems early in the race was now moving right along and moved into fourth. Smith had about an hour down-time and went first to worst and was on the catch-up trail now. ·NETS ·BAGS _.SEATS ·LIMIT STRAPS ~ Tch'Ch'A,:7: .R~r"~ 1-800-565-4042 10925-F Hartley Road Santee, CA 92071 www.mastercraftseats.com Page 46 identical laps to go home with the victory. Class 8 had a good hard race at the front of the pack and Kenny Brager ended the day in first place in his Ford. ----------------November 2000 Foster would be hard to beat as nothing would slow him down and was flat out the man on this day leading from Lap 2 and the only question would be the overall spot for the day. After charging into the final. turn the clock stopped and did beat Nutt for the overall with a final tally of 4:51:11. Great job Ron. Next in was the grandfather and son team of Ace and Steve Brad-ford running consistent laps and finishing a great second for the silver. Terrie Tavis, Dusty Times

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Steve Millward couldn't get his Sportsman Veteran class single-seater Coming back from a rollover last race, Dan Morose drove his Jerry and Linda Wald came to Lovelock with their Class 1 Ford and to run well, so he got only one lap done, taking the win by default. Sportsman Veteran 8 truck to the win at Lovelock. with help from all her co-dnv-1t, runnmg amazmgly tour fast I he last class to take off was ers and her husband John, laps and taking home the gold the two cars in Sportsman Nov-skipped around the course in class. Jon Eberhart was able ice. Scott Pitts managed two with a third, not bad consid-to keep up for just the first lap quick laps and the class win. ering a couple of roll-overs andthetruckwouldnotgetany Robert Payon in a 5-1600 just and more than her share of further. got the green flag and had a flats. Smith muscled around the track for a fourth and the Leshers just beat the clock for a fifth. A 100% finish rate for Class 10 by the way. The Class 8 trucks started next and ran quickly as Kenny Brager was first in with fast lap of 1: 10: 1 7 trying to defend his 1999 class title. Chris Gray, in a nice yellow Chevy ~ould not make it easy as he followed in closely with a 12:12:37. Next in was Bruce Field four minutes back, and then the hard-charg-i ng Doug Seymor ride only eight minutes back of the field. The field shifted going into Lap 3 as Field assumed the lead over Gray by just three minutes over Gray and four minutes o_ver Brager. Seymor had some downtime on Lap 2 and fell be-hind the leaders by over 20 minutes. Well, it would be a dogfight the whole way and in the end it would be Brager over Gray by just five minutes for a great win and third overall as well. Field slipped in the ranks and fell to third with Seymor running a good pace an finished fourth and another 100% fin-ishing rate. Class 9 only had three start-ers where Tom Hatch would get his first win ever in the desert and finished without any problems and took home all the cash. Great job Tom. Forest Creasy and John Creasy each had problems in their cars. As I lost reverse and then lost the · use of first and second. And John Henry rolled the car hard and put his driving days on hold as the car was destroyed. Class 7 was next with four fast racers with Bill Manfroy leading over Ricky Gonzalez by just seconds. Third in was Mike Koenig and followed closely in by Steve Lucena. Gonzalez ran hard and fast and kept up the pressure on the entire class winning in class with about 30 minutes in hand. With the gold taken the race was for second and Manfroy finished just 49 seconds in second ahead of Lucena. Koenig only managed one lap and fourth was on his platter for the Saturday. There was just one Sports-man Veteran and Steve Mill-ward had a bad running car and managed just one lap, but still got the win by default. Sportsman Trucks were next and only two took the line. With a brutal roll-over in the Yerington race Dan Morose was looking for revenge and got Dusty Times November 2000 went back home with a nice second place. long dnve back to the garage followmg month Dusty I 1mes for to get ready for the next race. you to read, as we experienced The next two races, The Fa!-some delays, but are catching up Ion 250 and The Fernley Off on your reading. I apologize for Road Challenge both have been the delay and will be back up to raced and will be in this or the speed quickly. ■ Page 47

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DJIBWE FORESTS PRORALLY 2000 Hyundai's sweep Top 3 Spots T ext & Photos: Jerry Winker Paul Choiniere was once again victorious with his co-driver, Jeff Becker. Choiniere's Tiburon was atop the Hyundai 1-2-3 sweep. · Paul Choiniere won Round Ojibwe giving Lawler,· Garen 6 of the SCCA ProRally Schrader, and Doug Shep-Championship at the Ojibwe herd a better shot at the For.ests ProRally held in championship. Bemidji on August 25-26. A record 77 cars started The toughest part was that he this year's rally, with light at-held off his teammate and last trition among the front run-year's National Champion ners during the first day the Noel Lawler as well as his event was rather close. Pete stepfather, John Buffum, for Lahm's Mitsubishi Lancer the win. All three Libra Rae-Evo IV had immediate prob-ing Hyundais finished to help lems with engine manage-regain ground in the ment and limped to service. Manufacturer's Cup over Mit-The newly-formed Rally subishi, Subaru, and Toyota. Knight Team of Jonathan The win puts Choiniere in Ryther and Lon Peterson had first in the points chase over problems, also, Ryther had Karl Scheible who is the only engine woes and Peterson bad other winner in this year's se-fuel. Alex Erisoty in an Au.di ries with wins at Rim of the 90 cracked a wheel and lost a World in California, and lot of time. He retired early STPR in Pennsylvania. Ojib-the second day with a blown we was Paul's fourth win as engine. In Production GT the others came at Sno*Drift Ireland's Celsus Donnelly in Michigan's Lower Penin-rolled his Eclipse as did Mark sula, Oregon Trail, and the Larson. In Group 2 the three Maine Forest rallies. Scheible top contenders DNF'ed. Jay only finished sixth overall at Streets blew his engine in a _Page 48 big way in his Toyota Corolla. Nicolas Robinson had a car fire-in his Honda Civic, and Doug Davenport rolled his VW GTI. The rapid Volvo 740 of Group 5 contender Carl Jardevall had a number of suspension woes early on, also, and lost time on the leaders. After the first night the leader was Choiniere (47:59) and Lawler (48: 19) in their Tiburons with Buffum's aging Elantra third (48:91). Just be-hind them were the Mitsubi-shi contingent of Garen Schrader (Evo IV), Doug · Shepherd (Eclipse), yroup N_. leader Karl Scheible (Evo IV), road-racer Peter ·cun-ning ham (Evo IV), Tim Peterson (Evo IV), and Seamus Burke (Evo IV -Gp.N). I In the other classes Pat Richard's Subaru lmpreza led Production GT narrowly over Steve Gingras' Eclipse. Group 5 was led by Mark Utecht, af-ter his class_ win in Maine, . over Bryan Hourt's Honda Civic, and Ralph Kosmides' Toyota Supra. Group 3 was all Bob Neilsen, the organizer of the first Ojibwe Forests Pro-Rally, with a healthy lead over his competition. Dennis Chizma led Production in his 197 4 Porsche 911 over J ouni Pchjolainen's Nissan NX2000 and Brian Vinson's VW GTI. Day 2 saw three special stages to keep the crowd happy. The first was at the Bemidji Speedway just on the outskirts of town. The course wound around the backside, through the infield, and re-verse oval across the finish line in front of the stands. Both drivers and crowd en-joyed this stage while a Pare Expose was held in conjunc-tion with the running of it. After a few more stages in the Paul Bunyan National Forest the cars had a stage held at a ranch just on the outskirts of Akeley. The crowd enjoyed themselves November 2000 Jouri Pohjolainen took Production Class honors in his Nissan 2000 SX, over Chizma's Porsche. · while food and pop were sold at a nearby food wagon. Al-most the entire stage could be watched from a hillside. The competitors had mixed emo-tions as the stage was a bit bumpy. Before the stage is run next year there is a proposal to smooth things out. Stage 7 became an Evo This is the :;ystem run by most off road race winners GO FOR' eater as Cunningham came to a stop with engine manage-ment problems, Peterson rolled, and Burke had his en-gine quit while chasing down Scheible for the Group N championship. Scheible achieved that goal of winning the championship for the class in only the first two TRI-MIL BOBCAT ctlROME 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 Dusty Times

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Noel Lawler and co-driver, Charlie Bradley, clip an apex during John Buffum was teamed with Mark Williams and put in a Mark Utecht and Brenda Corneliousen had the fastest overall the second day of competition. They took second in their steady run to third to help secure points for Hyundai in the time on the final stage trying to beat Bryan Hourt's Civic for Hyundai Tiburon. =====;:;;-manufacturer's title chase. the Group 5 win. They lost in spite of the fantastic effort. Harry and Cindy Krolikowski took second in Group N in their Celsus Donnelly crashed his Eclipse hard on the first night, Subaru WRC after Seamus Burke/Frank Cunningham DNF'd repaired damage, and then competed the second day to take Garen Schrader and Michael Ferrell took fifth overall and were the highest finishing Mitsubishi Lancer Evo of the rally. late in the event second overall and first in class in the Club Rally. thirds of the season. past Garen Schrader for the and the championship will be end of September which pionship game. At any rate, could help garner points for Libra Racing with its Mitsubishi. Subaru had a lot Hyundais will have its hands of west coast drivers that full in the final few weeks. It could also play into the cham-will be interesting. ■ Also, on Stage 7 was the fourth spot. up for grabs. Rhys Millen (son ever popular yump at the Steve Gingras wound up of rally legend Rod Millen), spectator point. The first cars beating out Pat Richard by will debut a factory-backed through made a nice line on less than five seconds for the Evo at Prescott Forests at the the road for the mid pack cars win in Production GT, and and it was like watching a Bryan Hourt just barely held World Rally Championship off Mark Utecht after Hourt event. Utecht, Richard and changed both drive axles at Gingras looked like they were the previous service. The trying to set records for air-amazing thing is that Utecht time. The longest jump was had the fastest time OVER-yet to come and was done by ALL on the final stage. Hourt Mark Sarnecki in a Subaru. had second fastest and to-He flat-footed it all the way gether they impressed the to the yump and after "break-open class drivers at the post-ing the record" the crowd race awards ceremony with went wild. Mark was seen their scores. Bob Neilsen won smiling in a big way while Group 2 in his VW Golf by changing his front suspension over four minutes beating out at the next service. Eric Burmeister for the win. At dusk, the ranch stage Jouni Pohjolainen beat out was run a second time and the Dennis Chizma for Produc-crowd was loving the light tion honors. show as the extra lights were In Club Rally competition added for the final two stages. Seamus Burke beat out Mark Even nasty Minnesota mos-Utecht for the win of the quitoes couldn't deter the 10,000 Lakes Rally held the crowd. One quick stage back first night followed by Todd in the woods remained after Jarvey (Mitsubishi Galant YR-that stage. It would change 4) in _third, the second day's things in several classes of Paul Bunyan's Ride was won cars. by Utecht after Burke blew his In the end the Hyundais engine. Celsus Donnelly made stayed in the same positions . repairs to his rolled car and they finished the previous took second in the event with night. Champagne was Jarvey taking another third. sprayed among all three The final three events on teams. Late in the event Doug the calendar will be held dur-Shepherd was able to squeak ing September and October Pat Richard and his new co-driver, sister Nathaliej took second to Steve Gingras/Bill Westrick in a hard fought Production GT race. Dusty Times Performance Engine Builder/Machinist Gale Banks Engineering is an established market-leading manufacturer of aftermarket performance products for trucks and motorhomes. We are currently seeking an experienced Engine Builder/Machinist to join our R&D engineering machine shop team. Experience measuring, blueprinting, preparing for and assembling high performance V8 engines required. Must be able to precision machine engine components with surfacing, boring and honing equipment. Other machining requirements include aluminum and heavy gauge steel on standard lathes and mills to produce prototype parts for engines, exhaust products, production machines and tooling, MIG and TIG welding. Enthusiasm for automotive technology and a passion for high performance engines are required. ASE certification is a plus. Gale Banks Engineering offers a competitive salary, generous benefits package, and a pleasant and professional working environment. GBE is an Equal Opportunity Employer (that includes you gearheads-!) The offices and facilities are located on a tree-shaded 10-acre campus in Azusa, California, about 10 minutes east of Pasadena. See our website at www .bankspower.com. Please direct employment inquiries and resumes to: Susan Hanson, Human Resources Manager GALE BANKS ENGINEERING 546 Duggan Avenue, Azusa, CA 91702 (626) 969-3888 fax, or e-mail shanson@bankspower.com November 2000 Page 49

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BAJA PITS NEWS W hat a special day to be part of the 3rd Annual Off Road Show south of the bor-der sponsored by both the big-gest newspaper in Mexico, El Mexicano, and Baja Pits Rac-ing Team . It was a d ay to honor all the racers who have been racing since the start of the sport and also the current young teams who will be part of this year's Baja 2000. Over 25 racing vehicles were on hand. The Yee brothers had their Class 1 and, of course, the great Perry McNeil and his new Class 7 Ford Ranger, what a machine. (Will the Jefe be racing since he works for the Ford Motor Credit Company ? ? ? sponsor may be???) Over 22 vendors were on hand. A special thanks for all the donations. There were prizes given away. Also to Javier. Reyes Class 3 Suzuki Racing Team, thanks for all the hard work. NOTE: We will be pitting fo,r the Code Mexicali Race on October 7 and 8, and again for the December San Felipe race. BAJA 2000 Baja Pits will be going with 20 pits . . · Pit # l Ojos Negros -Mile 62 Pit #2 El Alamo KM 37 -Mile 138 Pit # 3 Erendira -Mile 218 Pit #4 San Quintin -Mile 307 Pit #5 Off Hwy 1 Km 104 -Mile 398 Pit #6 Santa Inez -Mile 455 Pit #7 Fish Camp Punta Blanca -Mile 515 Pit #8 N uevo Rosarito -Mile 601 Pit #9 Bahia De Los An-geles -Mile 654 Pit #10 Ent San Francisquito - Mile 724 Pit #11 S. Guerrero Negro -Mile819 Pit # 12 San Ignacio -Mile 902 Pit # 13 N. of San Juanico -Mile 902 Pit # 14 Comondu -Mile 1093 Pit # 15 Leo's Corner -Mile 1166 Pit # 16 Off Villa Morales -Mile 1283 Pit # 1 7 La Soledad -Mile 1352 Pit #18 Rancho Tepelate -Mile 1450 Pit #19 S. La Faz -Mile 1551 Pit #20 Todos Santos -Mile 1657 Finish C a bo San Lucas -Mile 1724 November 5 is the last day t o drop off all your tires, empty dump cans and spare parts. Nobody but nobody knows Baja better than Baja Pits. For more info you can call El Jefe Carlos at 1-619-449-7777 or Leo at 1-619-267-9928 or Carl at 1-619-448-1912 or Angel at 1-619-231-0766 and in Mexico Mario Ramirez at 621-2881. Maps Page so are available to racers only, For gas info for pre-running call El Jefe at 1-619-449-7777. 76 or VP the best of both worlds. Thank you, Mr. Baja. From: The New Wahzoo Just in case you have no-ticed a slight titular change in this column, your powers of observation are to be com-mended. You know, some-times timing sucks. Here I thought the resurrection of the real Wahzoo column would be great, and what hap-pens? Goddamn Hibbard de-cides to come out of the closet and fesses up to having been the creator of the fea-ture all those years. I thought I could slide in there and re-sume the words of wisdom you've come to expect, but now since I've started writing this piece, a new rumor mill will obviously start as all you faithful people will try to fer-. ret out the i~entity of the cur-rent Wahzoo. Well, no prob-.lem, my identity will be safe, 'and henceforth will be known as the New Wahzoo. The only __ possible clue to this identity is written in invisible ink within the mayonnaise jar at the clubhouse , and we all know that mayonnaise ja rs .. have no lips that move. Any-way, it is with pride that I as-sume this great responsibility of presenting you with the facts every month. However, keep in mind that facts are crutches, and I find I get closer to the truth with undi-luted fiction whenever neces-sary. Speaking of undiluted fic-tion from truth, what is this ongoing B.S. between BP Lou and Mr. Hibbard all about. These guys have been en-gaged in a highly agitated ver-bal battle where I am re-minded of two men walking toward each other on a side-walk when one of them crosses the street rather than having to face the other. Ah Ha! Seems there was time when Hibbard and a former brother Checker named Bob Vanegas took up an exchange of a difference of opinion with BP Lou. The subject matter dealt with BP Lou wanting to promote a horserace, or some sort of organized equine event at a ranch in northern Baja, said event requiring an entry fee! That's all it took that nigh t a t our meeting ... Vanegas, thoroughly pissed and well-fueled, stomped out of the room at the Dugout, muttering something about horseshit. The difference of opinion, apparently, was seri-o us enough to prevent Vanegas from coming back to meetings or getting involved any more. Now this by itself would not seem strange at all to the casual observer, but there are a few of us left who remember i:hat both Hibbard and Vanegas came to our club from Chapala Dusters back in the times when Gary Leupold and Jim Taber were racing, and sort of ruling Class 5 in the desert. (Yes, Virginia, there were many Class 5 champions in the Checkers before George Seeley!!) Point of all this, before you ask, is that one left, the other stayed and made good, always repre -senting the club with class. This humble keyboard picker needs to ask, getting back to BP Lo u vs. Hibbard, could there be a subliminal Vanegas influence in these matters? I picked up a turn of phrase off our website the other day ... "passive amulation rec-tus"? Does this have anything to do with the time that Uncle Max ... oh, never mind. Because of deadlines, this column is being written dur-ing some very exciting times ... the return of Formula 1 racing to Indy, Robby Gordon's occasional appear-ances at NASCAR races, the Gold Coast 250, Casey Folks' Vegas to Reno, Cal Wells' successful entry into CART and NASCAR, and of course, SCORE's ultimate endeavor, the point-to-point Baja 2000. Your new Wahzoo can't do it all, but will be observing and taking names at that one, es-pecially scrutinizing the ever-increasing grey hair on the head of one Salvatore Fish!! Does this dude .have staying power with energy to spare, or what?! Brother Vance Scott is in the news again. The continu-ing POW /MIA Run-to-the-Wall saga unfolds, wi th a run from Palm Springs to some-where in Arizona during the first week in October. We need a volunteer to accom-pany Vance, this person's sole responsibility for the duration of the ride would be to prop-erly affix Jane Fonda target decals in all VFW and other urinals encountered along the way. Ho, Kay!! Enough of this for now. The Checkers an-nual awards banquet will be held on December 9th, within the confines of the N.H.R.A. museum at the Pomona Fairplex. It should be quite the function, replete with a guest M.C., and other sur-prises. My personal hat off to El Presidente for pulling off this fine location. That's it, folks. Keep that mayonnaise jar stuffed ... you know what we love to do with rumors! Newsome, you still out there?? C News t:ron,The Director One of the best things about sou them California is the warm summer nights when you can meet with a bunch of car enthusiasts and November 2000 go out and thrash your race ·car or street car as the case may be. In this case it was the evening of September 16th in Corona, CA. Leon Styles held a rally cross at his Tombstone Paintball Park an d 38 racers showed up to play. And play they did! Before the actual rally cross began Leon opened up his "play area" for some fun runs fo r those who wanted to drive some ups and downs around the paintball park. Then around 5:30 the rally cross be gan. Leon had ar-ranged for generators and lights to illuminate the course so racing ran until 9 pm. The Subaru contingent was in full force with at least seven cars. There was even one guy with the Subaru em-blem tattooed on his arm -now that is serious. What happens when he buys a Por-sche? Simon Sirin was also present with his future rally car, a Subaru lmpreza. Kevin Pal showed up with his nicely prepared, soon to be rally car, a Toyota Celi.ca. Josh Joaquot brought his Mazda 323, the Sport Com-pact Car project car he has been writing about. However, it was no match for Doug Robinson's fire breathing red Mazda 323 that eventually set fast time overall for the night. The new anti lag system on the Robinson Mazda causes the car to belch flame out the exhaust as well as pop and b a n g pretty good. Tony · Chavez was second fastest with his trusty Mitsubishi Galant VR4. He gave Doug a serious run for the money all evening. Mike Gibeault and Doug Whited ran Doug's VW GT!. Mike ran some fast times fin-ishing fourth overall and showed us all he hadn't lost his touch on the rally cross course. Doug ran some really nice consistent times as well. The student is learning a lot · from the master. Matt Sweeney a n d Lulu Straub showed up with a 1956 Ford pickup. While the tigh t course wasn't suited to the truck, they still had a lot of fun. Harris Done, film direc-tor and father extraordinaire, came along and drove the truck as well. I think he misses his RX7 however, as he couldn't quite get a handle on the truck's throttle and steer-ing. Rob Tallini, who has been missed by the CRS crowd came out with a Mitsubishi Eclipse that really roared around the course. He hasn't lost his touch. Dennis Sheean brought his RX7 and made a few laps, as did Don Shreyer in h is trusty. H onda Civic. Bradney Boli brought his whole family to run his Hon-da Accord. Unfortunately, he ran into problems on the fun run and didn't get to partici-pate in the rally cross. Just get it fixed for Prescott Bradney. Leon Styles ran his Dodge pickup and made lots of noise and threw lots of dirt for the spectators. Kengo Takahashi did the same with his diesel truck as well. Kengo also drove a Mazda 323 and did a darn good job! Richard Byford ran his bright yeHow BMW 2002. Rod Koch made the long haul from Corona to Corona to race his trusty VW Fastback. John Kidwell brough t his VW Rabbit. He drove the "Bunny" as did Steve Bender. T his car has seen some pretty fast owner/drivers, i.e. Dennis C hizm a and Steve Bend er, and John seems to be follow-ing in their tracks. T o ny De la Cuesta had a little trouble figuring out the course and showed us all how to spin the course on his first run. After that he settled down, he set some good times. Robert Garcia ran a Mitsubi-shi Eclipse and had some fast runs. William and Susan Prince brought their S-10 pickup out from Las Vegas and played in the dirt. Beats the silt don't it! Easier to clean up too. Robert Sudhop also hauled in from Nevada and ran his Eclipse. Leon's event brought out a lot of new faces who will hopefully return and eventu-ally step up to stage rallies. This rally cross introduced some street drivers to the joy of raising some dust and slid-ing some corners. Hopefully next year we can made it a series of summer night rally crosses in i:he L.A. area. The Treeline ClubRally is coming up November 18th. The headquarters is the Holi-day Inn in Monrovia, CA. This year features a new seven mile road with the same tight twisty features the Treeline rally is known for. Plan on running the event, spectating or volunteering to work a checkpoint. Contact Pete Morris for more informa-tion or check out the CRS website at < californiarallyseris .com> for info. See you at the start line! Magnificent 7 Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hi there everyone. N o t much to say this month. We are full bore into preparing for the Baja 2000. Mag 7 at-tended the Petersen Mu-seum, "Tribute to the Baja 1000" bash last month in Los A ngeles. We m e t a lo t of great people, legends in our sport. For me it was a dream come true. How I love those old race cars. The food was great, the conversation stimulating and the women fascinating. The. women there were the cream of some ·of off racing's best, in all arenas. Racers, managers, writers, sponsors, chase personnel, time keepers, moral support-ers, wives and daughters. You name it, they were there, equal to the men Dusty Times

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around 'them. Smart, tal-ented an d full of energy. I will make the prediction that wom en in off road rac-in g will m ake a huge mark on all of us in this next de-cade of racing. If you d on't believe me, just ask Bekki Freeman what her goals are over the next five years? O r wha t Linda Stewart wants for the Pro Truck ra c in g venues. Or our own Judy Smith (Dusty T imes' own Judy Smith) whose writings thrill us all every month. O r the Russian team that is fielding an all woma n Pro Truck entry. Debbie Newell, who, along with her hus b and Wayne, ran the race opera -tions for the Mag 7 Rac e Team for the last five years. And did so with style and grace. All the time balanc-ing a 60 hour week job dur-ing the day. W o m en, m any with full time jobs, tha t sup-port and work in the racing circus that we call Off Road Racin g as well. My hat is off to every one of them and the man y more that I didn't mention here! Mag 7 is filling up with entries quickly. Our initial limit is 40 bikes and 30 ve-hicles. Right now, as of Sep-tember 11th, we have 12 bikes and 16 vehicles. Our interest with dry brake dump cans is catching on. You have ·to orde_r them thru Mag 7 only. I wish everyone would grasp this concept of Dusty Times fueling. NASCAR did years ago and look at how efficient their fueling operations go? The threat of fire would go way down in the pit area if it did. And there would be less contamination of th e ground with fuel spilled from dump cans and fuel open-in gs. T he cut off for our race r's names to be printed on T -shirts has been extended to O ctober 14th. Our first cut off o n ordering dry brake dump cans,.in either four or 11 gallons is Septembe r 30th. Our final cut off for full service pits and dry brake dump cans is-Octo-ber 17th. After that date , we will only accept eme r-gency pits and a late fee will be applied. Mag 7 wishes to thank our sponsors who make this hap-pen for us. SKS Valvoline, who provides us with fluids year around. Off Road Warehouse who provides us with racing parts hard to find. Juice Designs who pro-vides us with banners, die cuts and our logo on the Score web page. William Tel-Data which programs all our radios and provides us with the latest in communi-cations _technology. IMS Products whose expertise in dry brake dump cans has proved invaluable. And .DeWalt Tools, whose elec-tric impact guns will help us provide faster service with removing and changing tires on all our classes of vehicles and bikes. Mag 7 Race Team says thank you to all our sponsors here. Mag 7 was at the Off Road Expo sharing a booth with WRE Racing and T ubeshark. We put on a talk about the upcoming Tecate Score Baja 2000 and our involveme n t with it. Bill 'Krash' Kruckmeye r from Mag 7 gave th e talk both days. D ody from t h e Off Road Expo made it all com e true for us there. Thanks again Dody for all your help and assista nce! And good job Krash on giving the talk for both d ay s ! For those of you wishing to contact Mag 7 concern-ing pits, yo u have three op-tions. First is to visit our web site at www.mag7race.com . Second is to e-mail our Race Director, Fred Schubitzke at Racedirector@mag7race.com. And third is to call Fred at (619) 426-3452, daily from 9 am to 7 pm. PST in San Diego, Ca. If you are look-ing for a place to watch the Baja _2000 and you would also like to be· part of a fa-mous team, look no further. Mag 7 can use your help in any one of our 20 pits. We are pitting this race in con-f unction with Pro Pits of Baja and Wide Open Baja Adventures. We were pit-ting with FAIR, but they had to drop out for manning rea-sons. Mag 7 is the contact team for operations-here. So everyone, take care Attention and be safe. See you either our pre-running later in Oc-tober or out in the desert for the start of desert season. One last thing. As you may or m ay nor know, our desert D:t 'T'e,~ ..,_..s is coming under attack from · ..I..-.I. ..I. • U.1...1...1.. . the Eco-extre mist move-ments. Please get involved in at least one of th e several off road movemen ts trying to figh t th em . If not for your sake, then for your kid's · sakes and their kid's sakes. Otherwise , going t o the desert will one day be just a memory. The sam e memory as we h ave now for local riding areas and tracks that Send us your pit tales, . whether they be of success or woe and they will be featured on these pages (space permitting). Although publication dates vary monthly, material received by the first of the month· will generally be considered for the next issue. Submit all · material to: h a v e bee n closed d own. DUSTY TIMES, GET INVOLVED! Thank yo u . A dios from Team Baja, 20761 Plummer St., Mag7race@aol.com. Chatsworth, CA 91311 •••••••••••••••••••••••• • • : coming Next Month... : • • • ■ Whiplash Grand Prix. of Parker • • • • ■ Australia Round 3 at Kempsey • • • • ■ MDR Barstow 300 • • • • ■ VORRA at Fallon • • • • ■ Main Forest Rally ■ WRC Cypru_s Rally • • • • • : .. ~Plus All The Regular Features : •••••••••••••••••••••••• YEAR ENI> ADS Yea.ra e:n..d ia -the ~i.m.e ~o -tha.n.k a.J.l. -tho•e peopI.e who h.av-e h.e1ped, you. -th.rou.gh.ou.~ -the year. To pu.~ your ad i.:n..~o Du.sty Ti.m.ea for -the Decem.be.:r or -the J a.:n..u.a.:ry i.•au.e, g:lv-e u.a a ca.11 aii.d we'll do -1.he re•~-Full page, B&W $400 -1/2 Page, B&W $300 1/4 Page, B&W $200 November 2000 Page 51 ,f

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Classified ... NOTICE Some of the items advertised in these pages may not be legal for sale or use in all 50 states. Readers are advised to consult appropriate lo-cal or state authorities for i.nforma-tion before purchase of any specific item. :MORE AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Jimco Class 10 Two Seater, Wiles 1915 Type 1, FoltsMD4 Trans, 15" front, 18" rear, CNC Discs x 4, Summers Hubs, Fox Shocks, 930 CV's, Fodrill front arms/spindles, Compcon radio/intercom, Beard Seats, Fresh Prep, Race Ready! $34,500.00 (702) 873-0810. · . FOR SALE: Class 5 Unlimited. Pa utter Type l fuel injected 200hp, Fortin, Foddrill front end, Summer's front and rear hubs with air cooled adapters, Coil over in front, rear 300m torsion with 8 water cool Fox Shocks all around, UMP power steering, SO gal fuel cell, Parker Pumper, CNC calipers on all comers, SACO magnum Steering box w/ ram, PC! hook up, Centerline bead-locks on BFG tires, Beard seat w/ neck brace on 5 point harness. PIM and KC lights, one of the best built and winning 5 car so far, extras inc/ tires w/wheels, open trailer w/tire rack and some miscellaneous parts. $25,000.00. Call Foddrill Fabrication (623~ 582-2499, ask for Dann&i FO SALE: Porsche'! ype 4 otor 2 lOHP, 2800cc, 2L heads, 5th stud, Big exhaust, 2-441DF Webers, clutch, ignition. Complete, ready to run o·r money back. Sell for -$6,500.00 000. ALSO: FORTIN 5 speed DGN/DG trans fresh ready to race BAJA 2000. Sell for $9,000.00. Call Kevin McMullen Racing@ (602) 402- 6215. Dodge Ramcharger-360ci Dodge Magnum V8 crate motor, 4 bar-rel carb, FRESH Mogi 727, Win-ter Shifter, Summer Bros. Rearaxle, Beard Seats, A-arm front suspensions with uniballs, 12" Travel, 4 linked rear with 3" SAW· coilovers, 18" travel. Watch for this truck in the desert! $18,900.00 Baja Brokers Ref#769 (760)723-21-17. Check website at FOR SALE: Ford Pre-Runner (Baja Ready), Street/smog legal, Pro built fuel injected 302, Aluminum heads, Hooker, Morroso, Custom engine and bed cage, 2.5 Fox Shocks, R134 air conditioning, National Springs, 9" Posi, 35" BFG's, Custom bumpers/ Tire mount, Fiberglass fenders, hood, bedsides, all new, $20,000.00 in-vested, $10,900.00. (760) 242-0341. FOR SALE: 1995 Ranger Prerunner, Extra-cab, Gray interior, 3.0L V.6, Stock S speped trans, Cus-tom I beams, 6" wider w/Heirn piv-ots, Custom Extended Radius Arms w/Heim pivots and trans mount, Custom Engine cage/shock hoop (Chromoly), Sway-A-Way Race Runner 12" 2.5 dual rate coilover, Deaver rear springs (Race prepped, Glassworks Custom front fiberglass, Custom £laired steel bed sides, Cus-tom front and rear bumpers, BF Goodrich Baja TA's (33xl0.50-15) on American Racing wheels, Built by Donahoe racing 3-2000. Every-thing new, Immaculate condition. $16,500.00 obo. Please call if in-terested. (77 5) 265-1729. FOR SALE: Pre-runner, A-Arm, four seater, 2888 Fat built Type 4, 091 bus box, Fox coilovers and bypass shocks front and rear, power steerin·g, o·utboard hubs, Centerline Wheels, CNC 4 piston brakes, foll body with windshield, 28 gallon gas tank, Very trick prerunner. Freshly prepped and ready to prerun. $38,550.00 OBO. Days (623) 516-0406 Eves (602) 938-8017. Bronco 4WD PreRunner-Ford 351, Fiberglass hood ~nd fenders, Cus-tom Full Cage Front to Rear, 3Mas-tercraft Seat, Autometer gauges, Aluminum Wheels, Winters shifter, Aluminum dash, Recessed Fender Filler; 35" Baja TIA, 3 Hella Rallye 2000's, Street legal, Custom Front and Rear Bumpers, $23,000.00 Baja Brokers Ref #775. (760) 723-2117. Check o·ut our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Triple E tubular chas-sis, 360cc water-cooled 2 cycle, elec-tric start, belt drive. Updated suspen-sion. Aluminum powder coated body. Lots of spare parts. This car is fast and reliable. $6,000.00 OBO. Call Stu at (619) 296-1060 or (619) 925-0945. FOR SALE: Stock Full, lots of power; great susp; best of parts; call for inf 0. NO tire kickers. $28,000.00 (520) 757-4668. FOR SALE: New 1999 Zero Offroad miles-Street legal, Class 1 Baja Bug, 2900cc FAT, Men-deola trans, King bypass shocks, 5 seater, 40 gal fuel cell, Beadlock Centerlines, Penhall built, fast and show condition. $55,000.00. John (562) 754-7000. FOR SALE: 1997 Pace Big Foot, 48', fully loaded, 12' living quarters,-leather sofa, TV NCR/Stereo, lined + ins, SS work bench, cabinets, 7k Onan, 7'6" inside approx. 15k miles, $32,900.00. Todd 480 488-7991. FOR SALE: Chenowth Millenium Class 1, Rear mounted Fuel injected Scat Y-4, Fortin 5 speed, King shocks, All the best parts, spares, low miles, Very fast car. $85,000.00.Call (520) 977-4191 or email TMRACERl 42@AOL.COM. FOR SALE: Baja Pre-RunReady,4 seat Alumi Craft "A-Arm" pre-run-ner with lots of extras. Mint condi-tion $42,500.00 (619) 469-9644. FOR SALE: Raceco 1-1600, Brand new 1600 Fat race motor, fresh trans, 091 gear box, 486 ring pinion, FTC gears, Brand new Kings 3.0 triple by pass. 300m torsion bars. New Bund--erson beam & torsion housing Charlynn power steering, new Road Master Radio & hand held, & trailer. Car race ready $12,000.00 or best of-fer. (702) 363-7992. FOR SALE: Stadium lite Trip le E, Fox shock, Fuel cell, Goodyear tires, Power steering, 500cc + 425cc mo-tors. 2 years Pace Champion, 98 Core Winter Series winner. $6,500.00. 520 667-2194. FOR SALE: Triple E tubular chas-sis, 360cc water-cooled 2 cycle, elec-tric start, belt drive. Updated suspen-sion; Aluminum powder coated body. Lots of spare parts. This car is fast and reliable. $6,000.00 OBO. Call Stu at (619) 296-1060or (619) 925-0945. FOR SALE: A-Arm Ranger 20" ft travel, 24" rear travel, 450+ hp 351 w Fox Shox & Bumps, Full Floater, Ready to Pre Run Baja 2000. Call Dale for details. (909) 766-4222. FOR SALE: '96 Ford Ranger Stock Mini. BITD Championship Truck. $26,000.00; '92 Ford Ranger SCORE Championship Truck $17,000.00; '86 Chase Truck with '98 Fiberglass 4x4, All trucks have Fox Shocks, Na-tional Springs, BFG tires and are fully prepped with spares. Also '98 Ranger 4x4 with no motor & trans, $5,000.00.RobReinertson (415) 647-0884. FOR SALE: 93 Dodge Race Truck, 360 CI engine, Fuel Cell, Ranchos 727 trans, 35' Goodyear specs with Ultra Wheels, 4.56 locker, new cage in cab, new seats, many extras, $5,000.00. Call Gordon Bailey for details (702) 396-9639. Chevy Stepside PreRunner-1979 Fullsize Shortcab, 350ci motor, Isky Camshaft, MSD Jgnition, Custom exhaust, est HP 350-370, TH400, Art Carr shifter, 14" Travel front with custom 1-Arms, Kingpins and spindles, Fox Shocks, Swing Arm Rear, 14" : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • !I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • : Travel, Coil Sprung, Baja T/A's on • Sell or swat-. your extra parts and pieces in • American Raciog Wheels, Deist • t' • Belts, Mastercraft Seats, A True • DUSTY TIMES. • American Beauty!! $15,000.00 : : Baja Brokers Ref# 773 (760) 723-• • 2117. Check out our website at ,,, Cla&sified Advertising rai:e is only $25 for 45 words each month,',not including name, address and phone number. Adg.$5.00 for u;e • www.ba·aconce of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7".All Classified Ads must be PAID IN AD-• VANCE. REMEMBER - CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PVT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT ·: RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER. . • Enclosed is $ ----(Send check or money order, no cash) Name ----------------------------------Address Phone ------------------------------City State __ Zip -----'-----• Please run ad ___ times Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA_ 91311 ' . • • • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page ss November 2000 FOR SALE: Ford Protruck ready for the B2K. Truck has all-the updates. Complete with spare parts package and full prep. Includes stadium pack-age. $85,000.00 truck and parts $90,000.00 with trailer. 1999 BITD Championship truck. Call Jeff or Clarence. 8am to 5pm (760) 344-4324, (760) 344-2790 . Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'xl O 1/ 2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toilet, sink, range, refrigerator, leather, stor-age and A/C, 35'x 8 1/2" working and storage area wood and tile floor, 2 winches, 2 generator, 1 welder, 2 side doors outside lighting, rear gate, stand-ing roof deck, 5 8' belly boxes, 8 new tires, excellent condition, $43,000 ask-ing price or trade for exotic car. Call Fox Motorsports (915) 833-7902. BAJA 2000 PRERUNNER-Ready for Baja, a 4 seat chassis set up for 3 seats and all spares, parts and gear, awe-some Baja car, coil-over, C lines, Windshield, 930 CY joints, radio, spares trailer, 2173cc Major Motor, power steering, Saginaw box. What a deal! Very dependable PreRunner Red #786 Baja Brokers (760) 723-211 7 or on the web @ baj aconcepts.com. MIKE LESLIE LIQUIDATION-We have ·Class 1 truggy or Trophy T ru:ck vehicle package with or with-out motor, Pro 2 CORR Ford Lucas Truck $69,000.00, Pro 4 Dodge Corr Borg-Warner Champion $59,000.00, 2 Ultra stocks, $15,000.00 each. Will make great desert toys or race them. ALSO a 48' tractor-trailer. Set up for racing with belly boxes, generator, com-pressor, etc. Loaded! $38,000.00 ref# 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784. Check it on the web @ bajaconcepts.com or call Baja Bro-kers at (760) 723-2117. Don't bother Mike and no parts sold sepa-rately just yet. CLASS 9 FOR BAJA 2000-Great value and the cheapest way to race the Race of the Century. Class 9 2 seater, ORD chromoly chassis; Sway-A-Way 300m torsions, SAW axles and spring plates, Fox, Jeff Fields trans, Lawless motor, 22 gallon, large screen GPS, radio and intercom in-cluded, pit boxes, spares, 2nd place at Baja 500. Ready for Baja 2000! ! ! Ref # 777 Baja Brokers $8,500.00. See it @ bajaconcepts.com or call us (760 )723-2117. BAJA BUG PreRunner-Full cage, Ford motor (190 hp), 3" King in rear, Yokohamas, Centerline, AutoMeter, dual batteries, Sway-Away, 3x3 rear arms, Bus box, CNC rear brakes, Very nice, clean car. Too much to list $15,000.00 Baja brokers. Go to bajaconcepts.com-Ref #772. FOR SALE: CindyGreinkes 2/1600. Ready for Baja 2000. Best of every-thing, Former SCORE Champion-ship winning car, recent winner. More spare parts than you would be-lieve, 20 spare wheels and tires. Race quality spare motor & trans. Com-plete log book for car.Contact BajaBrokers Ref# 790. (760) 723-2117. IMPORTANT FOR SALE: Toyota Y6 3.2l 230hp • 220flbs of Torque fresh. Motor has best parts money can buy. It's com-plete from ignition to adapter plate to clurch to exhaust to 3 44 Webber carbs. Motor is sister motor to my 3.4 motor listed in Dusty Times. New price on motor is $14,500.00, will sell for $7,500.00. Call Kevin McMullen Racing @ (602) 402-6215 or email KMRTRANSl@AOL.COM. Now is the time to get your Christmas Subscriptions for friends and family On the move. Also, your thank you ads DODGE PRO TRUCK-Great spec class race truck. 360 cid v8 Turbo 400 Bilstein coil over and bypass/ Chrisman/etc. Stop racing check-books and start racing trucks! Truck has all the legal updates. Ready for Baja 2000, BITD or ? Complete with spares package and full prep. Every-thing goes! $68,500.00 Baja Brokers .. Go to bajaconcepts.com-ref #787. FOR SALE: 95 Suspension Unlim-ited 2 seat Class 10, 12 or 1 or prerunner, . 98 MDR 10 Champion. FOX, Foddrill, CNC, Floaters, BFG, spare parts and body. $10,000.00 less engine and trans. Set up for Fortin with Type I or N. ALSO FOR SALE: Class 12 engine fresh $4,500.00. (All available after Baja) Fleet Fuels Rac-For those who gave their all throughou t ing (714) 633-3635. The racing season so that you could enjoy your sport. Call us soon and we'll help you get your message to your friends. Dusty Times Hot Class 10 2 seater-Best of the Best, Dunrite chassis, King coil-over and bypass, Honda, slightly detuned for longevity, Mendeola top of the line obo, Mid-Engine, brand new, raced 1 time at Laughlin. Injury forces sale, $65,000.00 obo. Must sell, ready to race Baja and finish??? Radio, hel-mets, and trailer included. Ref# 7 50. Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117 or on the web at bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: 7S 1993 Ford Ranger, 1999 Laughlin winner, 2nd in points BITD 1998, 3 liter 4 cylinder Es-slinger motor, T-5 trans, Currnutt shocks, Cone spindles, Summer Bos 40 spline, Ford nine inch, National Springs, K.C. Hilites, Goodyear tires, American Racing Wheels, Race prep with all the spares. $29,500.00. Joel (760) 256-2941 or (760) 252-2206. November 2000 FOR SALE: Toyota Y6 3.41300hp 280flbs of Torque fresh from FAT hasn't been run. Motor has best parts money can buy. It's complete from MSD electronic ignition to adapter plate to 9" clutch to big ex-haust to 3 48 Webber carbs. Mo-tor is guaranteed to run or money back! New price on motor is $19,000.00. Will sell for $9,000.00. Call Kevin McMullen Racing @ (602) 402-6215 or email @ KMRTRANSl@AOL.Com. Bob Gordon's Class 1 Chenowth Millenium car Package, Fat 3.0L V6, Fresh, Top of the line Fortin box, Sway-A-Way, BFG projects, rear bead locks, etc. Fully prepped, ready to race. Remember '98 Baja 1000 to LaPaz? This car was the first buggy to finish! $69,000.00 Go to ba·aconce ts.com Ref# 778. FOR SALE: Chevy S-10 7S Race Truck,. Y-6, 700R4, Summers 9" 4130 Chromolly, Pro built truck, Super fresh and detailed. Don't wait. Ex-Macpherson 7s only 12k firm. Baja Brokers Ref # 789. (760) 723-2117. 2 SEAT MIRAGE Class 12-Major motor, Fox coil-over 2.5 bypass, Hewland DG300, outboard CY's, FodFAb spindles'"'power steering, UMP\, best of best, Super fresh, like new Ref # 788. $35,000.00 Baja Brokers on the web @ bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Just built '92 Toyota 4x4 V6 excab SR5. Built for MDR or SCORE, Fox Shocks, Detroit locker, Beard seats, National· • springs, 300m torsion, lots more. Easily converted to street legal ~rerunner or ready to race! $15,000.00 OBO (714) 685-6701 email:Darren@thehandyplumber.com. PERSONAL SATELLITE NETWORK PSN IS YOUR CHOICE FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD We sell, lease and rent satellite telephones and data devices At competitive prices from Globalstar, lnmarsat and other .services. Rental periods are as short as two weeks. Make your next trip safer and more enjoyable with. a satellite telephone. PSN Is an authorized Stratos dealer. Personal Satellite Network, inc. 800-590-2089 ~ales@ ~h_elp .n~! www .skyhelp.net HELP WANTED WELDER: PRODUCTION · HELIARC & M.I.G.: Off Road Sus-pension Components, Full Time or Part Time, San Fernando Valley area, Self motivated individual with lots of practical welding experience only need apply. Motorsport.engineering@gte.net Send resume to 14757 Lull St. Van Nuys, CA 91405. (818) 994-7475. HELP WANTED: Lothringer Engi-neering is expanding. We are look-ing for experienced fabrication and prep people. We are also looking for general shop help. Do not call, FAX resume to (909) 569-5497. SERVICE & REPAIRS BY PASS TUBE INSTALLA-TION SERVICE: 3/4" 4130 by-. pass tubes installed on any shock 2 1/2" O.D. or larger. Ex-periment with your own place-ment on shock body or we will recommend ours. Assembly in-cludes 3/4" tube bent and mi-tered, 1" valve body, Venturi style piston, spring, cap & ad-j us te r. Complete assembly welded-$125.00 per tube. Weld your own Assembly kits avail-able. Shock service provided. Sway-A-Way, FOX, Bilstein, King, Dealer pricing available. Motorsport.engineering@gte.net (818) 994-7475. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADA VIS Mexican Insurance ............ 40 · Aggressive Suspensions ................... 38 American Rally ................................... 41 Baker ................................................... 20 Gale Banks Engineering .................... 49 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ............. 5, 30 BITD Las Vegas 200 .......................... 33 Cactus ................................................. 15 Camburg Engineering ........................ 19 Champion .............................. : ............. 22 Coast Resorts ..................................... 11 Desert Steel Motor sports ................... 4 Eibach Springs ................................... 32 Fabtech ............................................... 23 FAT Performance .............................. 45 Fox Racing Shox ................................ 12 i Fuel Safe Racing Cells ...................... 35 German Auto ...................................... 43 Hotel La Loreto ........ ; ......................... 42 Michael E. James 1 Insurance Agency .............................. 24 .Kartek Off Road .......................... 16, 31 Kawaguchi Hirnda .............. : ............... 37 KC Hilites ............................................. 2 King Shock Tech ................................ 22 Mastercraft ........................................ ~6 McKenzie Performance Products .... 21 Mojave Desert Racing ....................... 29 I MSD Ignition ...................................... 13 Nevada Off Road Buggy .................... 44 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ...... 17 Personal Satellite Network .............. 59 Pike's Family Restaurant ................. 28 Race Ready Products ........................ 48 Skilton Jeep ......................................... 9 SNORE ................................................. 25 Sway-A·Way Corp .............................. 47 Toyota Motors ports ........... Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ...................... 27 Tri-Mil Industries .............................. 48 Union 76 Racing Gasoline ................ 34 --------------I Valley Performance ........................... 27 Page 59

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