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Volume 17 - Number 1 January 2000 Publisher Emeritus Jean Calvin Editor \Ji..MICHELIN ~!-.. John Calvin !t SCCA ProRally Associate Editor Judy Smith Editorial Assistant Bekki Wikel Controller John Calvin Marketing Pat Caplan Circulation Vance Scott Contributors C&C Race Photos Carrera Photography Jim Culp Homer Eubanks Martin Holmes Mike Jenkins Rod Koch Ralph Mason Ron Miller Wayne Simmons Terry Silbaugh Darryl Smith Tony Tellier Paul Timmerman Trackside Photo Art Director Larry Worsham Subscription Rates: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-1732) is published monthly by Hillside Racing Corp., 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hill-side Racing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the pub-lisher. Periodical Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 91311 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DOSTY TIMES, 20751Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408. Dusty Times wishes you all a very safe and sane holiday season. May you have health and wealth and may all your racing activities be safe and fruitful. In This Issue .. ~ FEATURES Baja 1000 by Judy Smith ................................................................................... 8 12th Telestra Rally Australia by Martin Holmes .......................................... 24 SNORE Reserve 250 by John Calvin ............................................................. 28 Centerfold Pullout Competition Calendar for 2000 ............................... 32-33 VORRA September Short Course by Forest Creasy .................................... -36 Prescott Forest Rally by Darius Greene ......................................................... 40 Best In The Desert Tuff Truck Field Meet by Diane DeLauer .................... 44 Australian Off Road - Round 5 by Darryl Smith .......................................... 46 Lake Superior Pro Rally by Darius Greene .................................................... 48 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ...................................................................................................... 5 Trail Notes ........................................................................................................ 6 SNORE Corner ............................................................................................... 52 Checkers by The New Wahzoo ....................................................................... 52 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr .................... : ............................................... 53 C.O.R.E Pit Report by Sandy Parker ............................................................. 54 CRS Directors Notes ........................................ : ............................................. 54 MAG 7 Race Team by Stephen Stenberg ....................................................... 55 Good Stuff Directory ...................................................................................... 56 Classified Ads ................................................................................................. 61 Index To Advertisers ..................................................................................... 63 On The Cover Larry Ragland was the big winner at the SCORE Baja 1000, driving his elderly Chevy truck to yet another victory. He led all the way, had an almost trouble free race and took the win with 15 minutes to spare. Photo by Trackside Photo Bekki Freeman and Adam Wik picked up the Class 1600 lead halfway through the race and the soon to be one couple took their second consecutive Baja 1000 win in the Wik powered Jimco. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com c5ubscrihe <Joda_y lo DUSTY TIMES THE FASTEST GROWING OFF ROAD MONTHLY IN THE COUNTRY!! □ 1 year -$25.00 □ 2 years -$40.00 □ 3 years -$55.00 (no credit cards please) Name --------------------Address -------------------City ---------------------St ate Zip ------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 Canadian - 1 'year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times January 2000 Page3

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2000 Happenings ... CHAMPLAIN VALLEY RACING ASSOCIATION C.J. Richards P.O. Box332 CMC Continental Motosport Club P.O. Box 3187 Mission Viejo, CA 92690-3178 Fax: (714) 367-1608 June 24-25, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI July 29-30, 2000 ASOCIACION ESTATAL de AUTOMOVILISMO Sam Lasell, Tech Inspector Apto 42 San Jose de! Cabo Baja California de! 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 1T7 (514) 622-4440 BAJA INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 Apartado Postal 31/163 Mexicali, BC, Mexico Mexicali (65) 5542-83 Off Road Races BEST IN THE DESERT RACING ASSOCIATION Casey Folks, Director 34 7 5 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NY 89121 (702) 457-5775/Fax (702) 641-2431 E-Mail: bitdjp@worldnet.att.net February 11-13, 2000 Kawasaki T earn Green Laughlin U.S. Hare Scrambles April 7-9, 2000 Terrible's Town 250 April 21-23, 2000 Nevada 200 Trail Ride Motorcycles Only May 19-21, 2000 Tonopah 300 July 8-15, 2000 · Nevada 2000 October 7-8, 2000 Tough Truck Field Meet December 1-3, 2000 Las Vegas 200 BONNEVILLE OFF ROAD RACING ENTERPRISES Les Wolfe, NEW President 1727N. Main Sunset, UT 84015 (801) 773-1651 May 5-6, 2000 Wendover Express Wendover, UT July 7-8, 2000 Jackpot 200 Jackpot, NY September TBA, 2000 Bonneville Challenge Wendover, UT BRIGHTON SPEEDWAY R.R.3 Brighton, Ontario, Canada KOK-lH0 (613) 475-1102/Fax (613) 475-3250 CALIFORNIA RALLY SERIES Sue Robinson 845 School House Road Ramona, CA 92065 (760) 788-3809 E-Mail: windfall@accessl.net Michael Gibeault, SCCA Steward 149 No. Rawhide Ridgecrest, CA 935558 (619) 375-8704 John Dillon, SoPac Rally Steward SOPacRallySteward @ Homemail ... com January 15, 2000 CRS Awards Banquet Newport Beach, CA January 29-30, 2000 Rally SchooVSCCA Rally Cross Location TBA February 12-13, 2000 NASA Rally/Cross/Sprint Holtville, CA March 18-19, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rallycross & Rally Sprint Jean, NY May 5-6, 2000 Rim Of The World Pro Rally/Club Rally Palmdale, CA August 18-19, 2000 Gorman Club Rally Frasier Park, CA September 29-30, 2000 Prescott Forest Pro Rally/Club Rally Prescott, AZ October 14, 2000 L V SCCA Region Rally Cross Jean, NV Dusty Times November 12, 2000 Treeline Club Rally Monrovia, CA November 18, 2000 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 90270 (323) 560-SHOW CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box645 Pierre, SD 57501 Dave Adams (Pilots and Bajas) (605) 224-9481 Don Engleman (Bikes) (605) 224-4967 Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-8618 CLAIRTON HI-JACKERS l.C.O. Tom Del..auder Sr 1091 Twp. Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 Short Course off Road Racing At Harrison County Fair Grounds. Cadiz. OH . CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICA SAN QUINTIN Calle 6ta Fracc Cd. de San Quintin San Quintin, BC, Mexico Heraclio Patino (011 52 616-5-22-07) CLUB AUTOMOVILISTICO SAN VICENTE San Vicente Off Road Ensenada, BC, Mexico USA Jan Wright (011 52 61746834) Ram6n Castro & Ruben Acevedo (61637n 0034) COLORADO HILL CLIMB ASSOCIATION Barb Vahsholtz, President (719) 531-3642 W/(719)687-9827 H P.O Box 8286 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 (719) 653-8449 CORP Cachanillas Off Road Promotions· P.O Box 392 Calexico, CA 92232 -01152 (65) 66-60 80 01152 (65) 66-6080 Fax CORR Championship Off Road Racing 192 N. State Road 267, Suite 267 Avon, IN 46123 (317) 272-2827/Fax: (317) 272-2900 June 10-11, 2000 Langlade County Fairgrounds Antigo, WI Fort dodge, IA August 12-13, 2000 Bark River Off Road Raceway Bark River, MI September 1-3, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI September 30-October 1, 2000 Indiana State Fair Grounds Indianapolis, IN October 21-23, 2000 Heartland Park Topeka, KS CORVA 1500 West El Camino, Suite 352 Sacramento, CA 95833 1-800-42 CORYA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 Winner's Circle Rick Ellison Paces SCORE Baja 1000 Winners W-dh Near Perfect Run Rick Ellison of Selma, CA ended his first full season of off-road racing on a high note with an impressive Class 10 victory at the 32nd annual Tacate SCORE Baja 1000 run in Baja, Mexico. Driving his Chenowth Millennium, equipped with Bilstein shocks, Ellison and his co-driver John Penner finished nearly 40 minutes ahead of the Class 10 runner-up and wound up an impressive 6th overall after nearly 700 miles of racing. The victory, coupled with their earlier win at the Baja 500 and two seconds, allowed Rick to finish second in class points in 1999. Bilstein Salutes ... Their 1999 SCORE Class Champions! • Class 7 Jeff Lewis, Team MacPherson Chevy S-10 Pickup • Class 11· Eric Solorzano, vw Baja Bug • Stock Full Marc Stein, . Ford F-150 Pickup • Protruck Rick D. Johnson, Protruck Ford F-150 Pickup For all the details contact the Off-Road Racing Department: Call Toll Free 800/537-1085 <.i) KRUPP BILSTEIN OF AMERICA 8845 Rehco Road• San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858/453-7723 www.bilstein.com January 2000 Pages

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Trail Notes ... FINAL FLAG -Unfortunately, we lead off on a sad note. Ted Mangels, long time designer for PPI passed away on November 11, 1999 after a bout with ca·ncer. Ted was a major player in the design of the Toyota Stadium Trucks, the Class 1 Desert Trucks and the Trophy Trucks, all of which were quite successful in their various venues. Ted drove a Meyers Manx in 1966 with his friend Bruce Meyers from Tijuana to La Paz in less than 39 hours, breaking the existing record. In 1967, Ted, with another friend, Vic Wilson drove a Meyers Manx to victory in the first Baja 1000 in 2 7 hours, 38 minutes. Our deepest sympathies go to Ted's family. He will be sorely missed by all of us. MORE BAJA NEWS -The latest on the new tourist laws in Mexico are as follows, courtesy of the LA Times: The 150 peso fee now applies only to visits of more than three days, no matter how far you travel in Baja. The new requirement of a deposit on your automobile while in Mexico goes into effect December 1, 1999 and only applies in mainland Mexico. It does not apply in Baja. Also, just a more than friendly reminder, for your own sake and safety, stop before you cross the border and get Mexican Insurance for the time you will be below the border. It's only smart and it may save you a lot of grief. 'nuf said. MDR SEASON POINTS -The Mojave Desert Racing bunch have finalized the season points and the proper awards will be made at their annual banquet. Points leader is Jason Hatz, second in points is Cindy Greinke, both in 1600. Third place belongs to Whit Courtenay in a 10 car, then comes Joel Mohr in Class 9, Marc Deshane in 5-1600, Kory Halopoff and Mark Fodor, both in Class 10. Jeff Callaghan is eighth in points, he is in 5-1600, John Strode is next, also 5-1600 and Malcolm Bryce rounds out the top 10, he is driving in 1600. MDR puts on some great races, has a good entry for each race . and we hope they will continue to grow as the seasons pass. Congrats to all the entrants and especially to the points winners. SCORE YEAR END POINTS -Well, the season is over, it's time to either celebrate or lick your wounds and get ready for next year. Here are the top three in points in each class for 1999. Trophy Truck -Ed Herbst 312, Larry Roeseler 263, Kreg Donahoe 199. Class 1 -Troy Herbst 384, Darnen Jefferies 337, Ryan Arciero 307. Class 1/2-1600 -Vic Bruckmann 387 (Overall Points Winner), Bekki Freeman 379, Jim Dizney 353. Class 3 -Darren Skilton 302, John Kearney 213. Class 5 -George Seeley 255, Mike Jakobson 135, Dave Cua 1 I 8. Class 5 -1 600 -Dave Gasper 3 3 1, Mario Ledezma 2 97., Eric Dean 265. Class 7 -Jeff Lewis 2 77, Craig Turner 177, Barry Karakas 108. Class 7S -Bruce Landfield 256, Cory Susag 205, Jared Hardin 139. Class 8 -Brian Collins 219, Chris Wilson 90. Class 9 - Eric Fisher 288, Jesus Luna 259, Hector Sarabia 190. Class 10 -Danny anderson 360, Rick Ellison 330, Steve Myers 237. Score Lites -Jerry Penhall 338, Arturo Honold 3 16, Steven Greinke 310. Class 11 -Eric Solorzano 254, Horacio Pereyra 84-Stock Mini -Rob Reinertson 209, Tim Casey 169. Stock Full -Marc Stein 294, David Sykes 167, John Griffin 130-ProTruck -Rick Johnson 256, Scott Steinberger 206, Mike Hardaway 196_ In the motorcycle division, Tom Grisham won Class 21, Johnny Campbell took Class 22, Class 30 Cliff Matlock, Class 40 Gary Tepner and Wayne Grafton won Class 50. ATV honors went to Carmen Cafro in Class 24, Gilberto Santana took Class 25. Sportsman winners were: Cars -Walter Prince, Trucks -Mark Cline, Motorcycles under 250 -Tony Motta, over 250 -Joseph West and A TV Sportsman winner was Gilberto Castro. Dusty Times congratulates all the winners, the runners-up and all the entrants who help promote off road racing. ROBBY GORDON -Well, Robby is going back to NASCAR. He will be using many of the assets of the Irvan-Simo Race Team to start his own Winston Cup team. Robby's· shop will be completed in 2001. He will be running a Ford, # 13 from the Ernie Irvan stable, personnel and sponsors have yet to be named. Go Robby! MEXICO RECOGNIZES FUD-On November 19, 1999, our old buddy Fud was honored by the Baja California government. The ceremony was held at the Mariott Hotel in Coronado, CA. The honorees were recognized because they had promoted and sponsored various activities related to the tourism industry in Baja, California. Fud showe-d up in a white tuxedo (God, would. I have loved to see that) and was the hit of the reception. (Fud usually is seen in blue shorts and a white T shirt). Dusty Times congratulations go to FUD for his tireless effort in the deserts of southern California and northern Baja and his award was well deserved. Keep up the good work! MT TIRES - T he Mickey Thompson Tire Group is putting on a "Test Drive" at Laughlin with the help of Bruce Landfield. MT Tires and wheels will be available for testing on your car or truck on the Friday before the race for your evaluation. Page& (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. l 091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ELLIS DESERT RACING CHAMPIONSIIlPS (760) 256-8059 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526-176-6225 April 28-30, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX October 13-1S, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX F ABTECH 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 December 31, 1999 Dunaway Dash *January 16, 2000 1st Choice Realty Barking Spider Plaster City, West February 1, 2000 King Of The Desert Lake Superstition *February 6, 2000 Precision Concepts Attack Kamakazi · Dez Gran Prix Kamakazi Wash *February 19, 2000 King Of The Desert Lake Superstition *March S, 2000 Cycle Parts West March Madness Team Race Plaster City * April 9, 2000 Tazmanik Hare 'n Hound Plaster City, West April 22, 2000 FUD200 Plaster City, West *June 24, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, T ecate, BC, MX June 24, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, T ecate, BC, MX *July 29, 2000 Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nite Team Race Plaster City, East *August 27, 2000 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September 10, 2000 Cerveza T ecate Cacti Gran Prix KOA Kampground, Rancho Ojai, Tecate, BC,MX *October 1, 2000 Stuart Engineering Mudhen Sprint Plaster City, East October 21, 2000 Superstition 250 XVI Plaster City, East *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 January 2000 420 Hosea Road Lawrenceville, GA 30245 (404) 963-0252 GPORRA Great Planes Off Road Racing Association 13621 Pierce St. Omaha, NE 68144-1122 (402) 333-0517 Eve. Keith Koesters 6716 N. 106th St. Omaha, NE 68122 (402) 4964846 Eve. (l-80 Race Track is located 20 minutes west of Omaha ■ All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, I 1-1600, 5, 7S, 1 and Quads) FABTECH OFF ROAD SHORT COURSE SERIES P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 92860-0762 BBM Marketing Promotions (909) 280-9096 Fax: (909) 280-9097 IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (AU events staged at the club grounds in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O. Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER -4WDCLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZGSL2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICIIlGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (517) 543-7214 www.buggybuilders.com February 27, 2000 Lansing Center Lansing Michigan MICIIlGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSIIlPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. 15529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 4883 7 (51 7) 62 7-6200 July 30, 2000 Ingham County Fair Mason, MI Oeeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Warriors and Quad A TV-Maney Classes.) MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 Short Course Events May 6, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL May 27, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL June 10, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL June 24, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL July 1S, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsport~ Park Casey, IL July 29, tooo "The Edge" Trip le R Raceway Nashville, IL August 19, 2000 Vermillion County Speedway Danville, IL · September 16, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL September 30, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL MAORA Enduro Series May 7, 2000 100k Lindon Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 16, 2000 100k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL September 1 7, 2000 100k "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL October 1, 2000 200k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL MOJAVE DESERT RACING 1853 Parkway Drive S. El Monte, CA 91733 (626) 442-9320/(626) 579-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com February 26, 2000 Wild Wash 250 Barstow, CA April 29, 2000 Ridgecrest 300 Ridgecrest, CA June 17, 2000 Lucerne 400 Lucerne, CA August S, 2000 California 200 Barstow, CA September 30, 2000 Barstow 300 Barstow, CA November 18, 2000 Stoddard 300 Barstow, CA M.OR.E. High Desert Championship P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 Fax: (760) 253-4453 January 1S, 2000 Barstow, CA March 18, 2000 Lucerne, CA May.20, 2000 Barstow, CA August S, 2000 Lucerne,CA October 7, 2000 Barstow, Ca December 2, 2000 Barstow, CA MSBA Michigan Sport Buggy Association Dave Barret 6363 Nightingale Dr. Flint, Ml 48506 (810) 730-9221 NATIONAL MUD RACING ASSOCIATION Rt. #1 -Box 380 Dave or Marlene Ryan Palatka, FL 32177 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 OFF ROAD EXPO 2000 (626) 599-8622 October 7-8, 2000 Fairplex Pomona.CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF ELPASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow uike. Take 1-10 Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles . omo OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 JimKendel (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Hamson County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichbourne, Public Relations (519)-681-4192(H)/(519) 457-2913(W) -PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 www .usoff-road.com January 15, 2000 Houston Astrodome Houston, TX January 22, 2000 Bank One Ballpark Phoenix, AZ January 29, 2000 Ed1Son Field Anaheim, CA February 26, 2000 . Dusty Times

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Sam Boyd Sladium Las Veaas, NV PIKES PEAK P.O. Box 6962 Colorado Springs, CO 80934 (719) 685-4400 PROTRUCK RACING SERIES 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2856 (619) 449-6252/Fax: (619) 449-6470 January 20-23, 2000 Laughlin Challenge (SCORE) Laughlin, NV April 7-9, 2000 Tertible's Town 250 (BITD) Pahrump, NV May 20, 2000 Closed Course Event (SCRAMP) w/Winston West Monterey, CA July S-16, 2000 Nevada 2000 (BITD)** Las Vegas, NV November 10-17, 2000 Baja 2000 (SCORE) Ensenada to La Paz, Mexico December 1-3, 2000 Las Vegas 200 (BITD) Las Vegas, NV **Non Points Event S.C.A.T. INC. Michael R. Icing P.O. Box 277 Morrisonville, NY 12962 (518) 561-3208/(518) 236-7897 SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Sports Car Club of America 9033 E. Easter Place Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 779-6622/Fax: (303) 694-3654 January 2S-29, 2000 Sno*Drift Rally Atlanta, MI April 14-1S, 2000 Oregon Trail Rally Tillamook, OR May S-6, 2000 Rim Of The World Rally Palmdale, CA June 2-3 2000 Susquehannock Trail Rally Wellsboro, PA June 23-2S, 2000 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Colorado July 2S-29, 2000 Maine Forest Rally Rumford, ME August 2S-26, 2000 Ojibwe Forests Rally Bemidji.MN September 29-30, 2000 Prescott Forest R?.lly Prescott, AZ October 20-21, 2000 D&N Bank Lake Superior Rally Houghton, MI SCORE SCORE International 23961 Craftsman Rd., Suite -A Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 225-8402/Fax: (818) 225-8102 January 20-23, 2000 6th Laughlin Desert Challenge Laughlin, NV March 17-19, 2000 14th Tecate SCORE San Felipe San Felipe, BC, MX June 2-4, 2000 3lstTecate SCORE Baja 500 Ensenada, BC, MX August 4-S, 2000 5th SCORE Las Vegas Primm 300 Primm, NV November 10-17, 2000 T ecate SCORE Baja 2000 Baja California Norte to Baja Sur, Mexico SNORE Southern Nevada Off Road Enthusiasts P.O. Box 4394 Las Vegas, NV 89106 (702) 452-4522 February 2S-27, 2000 AVI 250 Laughlin, NV April 14-16, 2000 Buffalo Bills 400 Primm, NV June 9-10, 2000 KC Hil.ites Midnight Special Location TBA July 2S-29, 2000 BUD In The Trees Lacation TBA September 22-24, 2000 Gold Coast/SNORE 250 Las Vegas, NV Dusty Times November 3-S, 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, WI 53213 (414) 453-SODA SOUTHEASTERN OFF ROAD CHALLENGE Steve Rule (800) 313-5621 or (770) 963-0252 Mike Moore -(224) 272-5400 SOUTH EAST OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. President - Geoff Lee 1100 West Main Street D-3 Franklin, 1N 3 7064 Classis 1/2-1600, 5-1600,; Class 9, SODA Class 11 & Sportsman (AU Races at Rally Hill Speedway) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TIMING ASSOCIATION AND BONNEVILLE NATIONALS, INC. 2517 Sycamore Drive #353 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) (805) 526-1805/Fax:(805) 584-8518 Internet: http://scta-bni.org SOUTHERN SHORT COURSE OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. 4305 Wootlark Drive Tampa FL 33624 (813) 962-2857 (AU Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) · SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 Parklands, 2121 South Africa (011)788-5138 Fax,(01 I ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437!(615) 595:a237 (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 (3 I 0) 3 70-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916). 925-8217 March 2S-26, 2000 Season Opener Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA April 29-30, 2000 Spring Festival Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA May 27-29, 2000 Desert race Yerington, NV June 24-2S Desert Race Lovelock, NV July 29-30, 2000 Top Gun Desert Race . Fallon,NV September 2-4, 2000 Off Road Desert Challenge Fernley, NV Sep.tember 30-October 1, 2000 Championship Series - Round 1 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 14-1S, 2000 Championship Series - Round 2 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, Ca October 2S-29, 2000 2000.Championship Race - Round 3 Prairie Ci SVRA Park Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB Profo. Cenovio Gamboa 01 l-52-616-6-21-91 (2-6 p.m.) WESTERN OFF ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Larry Henderson (604) 538-0692 WORRA P.O.Box 3241 Sumas WA 98295 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEEL TO WHEEL OFF ROAD RACING Patrick McGuire P.O. Box376 Adamsburg, PA (412) 527-6556 WHIPLASH MOTORSJ>ORTS 16251 North Cave Creek Road #4 Phoenix, AZ 85023-2976 (602) 971-3730 Buggies & Trucks on SaturdaJs, Bikes & ATVs on Sundays January 15-16, 2000 Parker 400 Parker, AZ February 19-20, 2000 Gila Monster Gila Bend, AZ' March 25-26, 2000 Vulture Mine Wickenburg, AZ May 6, 2000 Rock To Rock Rocky Point, MX June 24-2S, 2000 Holbrook Holbrook, AZ September 2-3, 2000 Snowflake Snowflake, AZ October 7, 2000 Point to Point Mexico November 4-S, 2000 Grand Prix Of Parker Parker, AZ WINSCONSIN.MOTORSPORTS SHOW (414) 747-1711 January 22, 2000 Wisconsin Center Arena January 29-30, 2000 Motorsports 2000 Midwest Express Center WISCONSIN OFF ROAD FESTIVAL Terry or Bev Friday 5913 so. U.S. Hwy 45 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (414) 688-5509 FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4x4 FOREVER, LTD. 1665 Delaware St. - Oshkosh, WI 54901 Attention Race& Rally <Jrganizers List your coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailiing list. Don't call, but mail your 2000 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, 20751 Marilla St., Chatsworth, CA 91311-4404. January 2000 Trail Notes ... For more into, contact Bruce at racetrucks(g)earthHnk.net YEAR 2000 -The off road world is moving into a new century, hopefully a wonderful century for us all. Perhaps sometime in this new century all the promoters will be able to sit down and set their race schedules so as to benefit the racer, not scheduling two or sometimes three races on the same date in the same geographical area. We feel sure that there could be an amicable meeting of the minds without too much trouble. How about a universal rule book? Wouldn't it be nice to have a car able to run in a particular class with any of the promoters, all under the same book of rules? Think about it. That's our little soapbox for this month. At this time we want to wish all of you a very happy holiday season and may the New Year bring· you nothing but happiness and success. Keep racing and keep safe. SCORE AW ARDS -SCORE had their year end awards on December 11 at beautiful downtown Primm, Nevada. Ed and Tim Herbst were the Trophy Truck winners, Troy Herbst, took Class 1 honors and, on top of all that, the Terrible Herbst Oil Company was voted Entry Sponsor of The Year by the ballots of SCORE members. Congrats to the entire Herbst operation!. Larry Roeseler, who has won the fabled Baja 1000 10 times on a motorcycle, finished second in season points in Trophy Truck and he was voted Person Of The Year by SCORE ballots. Jared Hardin was voted Rookie Of The Year, winning 1 race in his GMC Class 7S. Jimco was voted Buggy Chassis Manufacturer Of The Year and Carrera Photography was also honored, each of them for the fourth consecutive year. Adam Wik was voted Engine Builder for the second year and American Honda picked up their third straight title. BFGoodrich was voted Contingency Company and Pit Support Team of the year, Mike Smith was voted Mechanic of the year and Judy Smith once again was voted Journalist of the year. Vic Bruckmann and Jason Hatz were the 1/2-1600 Class winners and they took the overall points as wep. Danny Anderson won Class 10 and Jerry Pe-nhall was the SCORE Lites class winner. These three split the $12,000 Toyota True Grit Award for winning their respective non-factory classes and covering all 2005 miles of the six SCORE races for 1999. Other class champions were: Darren Skilton, Class 3, George Seeley, Class 5, Jeff Lewis, Class 7, Bruce Landfield, Class 7S, Brian Collins,_ Class 8 and Overall Motorcycle Champion, Johnny Campbell. Dusty Times congrats to all of the winners and to all of the competitors, all of whom make our sport so successful. SCORE AWARDS, PART II -We don't often blow our own horn here at Dusty Times, we just constantly strive to be the best there is. We try to keep you, the off road racing world tuned in to what is going on, but, here goes, a little research discovered that the revered SCORE Journalist Of The Yea_r Award, anointed by ballot has been awarded for 24years. Would you believe it, Dusty Times journalists have won that award 20-times! It makes us so proud! Thanks for your support over the years. 'nuf said. Thanks For Everything This is a good time to thank all of the advertisers, subscribers, correspondents and all the friends for the support you have given me these past three years. I am no longer a novice, but I'm far from an expert in the journalism field and I really do app-reciate all the ht}IP you have given me. Jean wore a size 6 shoe but they were very hard to fill. 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SCORE BAJA 1000 Ragland Wins -once More By Judy Smith Photos: Track.side Photo Larry Ragland took the lead early in the day, then stayed there, to win the SCORE Baja 1000 for the fourth time in his Vortec Chevrolet Trophy Truck. Larry Ragland was back in form at SCORE's season ending Baja 1000, once again winning overall in the truck and car division, driv-ing his five year old Vortec Chev-rolet truck. He's now won four times out of the last five years in that truck: This year's 1000 was a depar-ture from the norm in that it was not a point-to-point, or even one big loop. Inst~d it was a two lap race, starting and ending in Ojos Negros. The course didn't travel all the way over to the gulf coast, but after winding through the pine forest south of El Reyo, con-tinued southward and then climbed up to Mike's Sky Ranch, which was the southernmost point. Then it swung out to the pacific shore, ran the beach past Erendira, and climbed inland to Santo Tomas, then Uruapan, Tres Hermanos and back into Ojos Negros. From there they did it all over again. Some teams split the ' race evenly, each driver taking a lap. But others split each lap in half, thus giving each driver less of the course to pre-run, and theoretically at least, the chance A team of five drivers from Canada hustled their Hummer around in good time to take the Sportsman Truck victory by 45 minutes. to get his part down pat. Some drove the whole thing. The time limit was 23 hours and all classes except Class 11 were to run the whole distance. Class 11 was to stop at the end of the first lap, a distance of 336 miles. , Originally, Classes 3, Stock Full, Stock Mini, Sportsman Truck and Sportsman Buggy were scheduled to do only one lap also, but they apparently thought that 336 miles does not a 1000 make! So they were granted the right to do the whole thing. Then SCORE, feeling quite sure that none of them could complete two laps in the time allotted, decided that the winner in those classes would be determined by who went to the furthest checkpoint first. Thus confusing the already mas-sive job of scoring and timing. The usual pre-race festivities took place in Ensenada across from the beautiful Convention Center, on Thursday. Then most teams sent representatives up to the start/finish area to set up their pits, with the result that a tem-porary motor home city equal to the size of Ojos Negros, grew up on its outskirts. Pits lined the dirt road coming in from the south and then jammed into the triangle formed by the pavement, as well as packing both sides of the nar-A broken ring and pinion near the start put David Sykes into catch-up mode in his Ford, but he ultimately went the· greatest distance and took the Stock Full win. row paved road leading into town The backup included all the Tro-from the highway. Where there phy Trucks and most of Class 1 were no pits the locals had set up by the time it was unsnarled, and food and t-shirt concessions. that meant heavy dust and lots of Combined with the permanent traffic for all of those drivers for Federale car checkpoint right at quite a while. that point, this made for a two day Ragland charged on serenely, traffic snarl of huge proportions. advised by his flying chase crew But no one seemed to mind it that he needn't press. At 196 much. The start and finish areas miles into the race, the first time were well set up, far enough off through Valle de Trinidad, Roe-the pavement to minimize con- seler was still 11 minutes behind gestion and preserve safety. It him, and Ed and Tim Herbst, in meant, of course, far less traffic their Ford, were third, followed by for the city of Ensenada on race Ivan Stewart, in his Toyota Tun-day, but still brought the folks dra, fourth and 22 minutes behind back in for the post race celebra- the leader. Dan Smith and Dave tions and awards ceremonies on Ashley were fifth in their Ford, Saturday evening. All together, a but lost their rear-end in the next good arrangement. section, fell way back and finally Race day dawned clear and out. By now Post was done for, dead still. This . was unfortunate, having hit a ditch before El Reyo, since the course was drier than it's and ruined his front end. Kreg been for many a year, thanks to a Donahoe had lost a motor and lack of rain. Long time racers re- was out, and Robby Gordon was ported that many areas normally replacing the transmission in his damp or puddled, were dry, and Toyota. they were predicting dust as bad At the end of the first lap Rag-as it had been at the Primm race. land still led by 11 minutes, and They were right. Just off the start Roeseler hung behind him in sec-line a cloud of dust hovered, ob-ond. Stewart had moved up to scuring the view for miles. Cars third, the Herbsts were fourth and were started one every 30 sec- Manuel Herrera ran fifth in his onds, which didn't allow time for Ford. Gordon was running again, it to clear. bur was another 40 minutes back, The Trophy Trucks were the in sixth place. first to go, and up by-the Ragland's day was nearly Compadre Trail, on the short trouble free. He had a small cali-northward loop that led around to per leak, but his crew got that the pines, Ragland, who'd started fixed quickly, and he also had third, was already first on the what they thought was a fuel road. Behind him, Mark Post had pump problem. It turned out to a problem getting up a hill in his be a sensor problem, and they old Robby Gordon Ford, and be-solved it by switching to his gan to back down. Unfortunately, manual pumps. At Trinidad the he became entangled with Larry second time his lead was still at Roeseler, who'd been right behind 11 minutes, and it was still Roe-. him in his Chevrolet, and the two seler behind him. He, too, was created an instant traffic jam. By having a good day with only a the time Roeseler was able to use couple of flats and a brief brake his four wheel drive capabilities problem to trouble him. Stewart, to shove Post's truck out af the another 15 minutes back, also had way, Ragland had about a 15 a couple of flats. The Herbsts, minute lead on the whole pack, now a half hour down to Stewart, and it paid off for him big time. admitted to five flats, and Gordon had himself back up into fifth place. The team of Bekki Freeman and Adam Wik, in a Jimco, won Class 1/2-1600 in the From Oklahoma, the team of Kenny Phipps and the Becker brothers got the greater Ragland reportedly never let Roeseler get closer than nine min-utes, and at the finish line he had a cushion of 14 minutes, taking the win with a relatively slow av-erage speed of 46.567 miles per hour. Roeseler was second, with Stewart, the Herbsts and Robby Gordon finishing in that order behind him. But a CRB action caused Gordon to be disqualified for "excessive nerfing" at a check-point on the first lap. That moved Herrera up to sixth. Dick Sasser, who said, "It was one 'a them days! ", was the last in the class to get there, taking sixth place with a time of 20 hours and 22 min-1000 for the second year straight, finishing second in the points standings. distance and took the win in the Sportsman Buggy class in their ORE. Continued on page 10 Pages January 2000 Dusty Times

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A heartbreaking problem with the V4 powered Jimco late in the day Always popular in Baja, the Candy Cane trio of Walter and Marq Prince dropped Doug Fortin, Jr. back to fourth in Class 1, after leading most and Doug Browne, in their Raceco, finished third in Sportsman Jim Greenway and Marty Fiolka, Jimco, had to keep adding tranny of the way. Buggies, but took the series points championship. fluid, still took a nice second place in the SCORE Ute class. Hector Sarabia climbed steadily up through traffic to find himself in victory circle in Class 9, at the end of the 672 miles. utes in his Jeep Gran Cherokee. Smith. Yee's co-driver, Perry Mc-Class 1, starting just behind the Neil, ran fourth and Arciero and Trophy Trucks, ran in the same Gordon were fifth, still only 24 dust, and found themselves in the minutes out from the leaaer after same early traffic jam. But once their tie rod problem. They'd gone they got moving again, they made 336 miles and it was just getting good time to Trinidad, where dark. Now they had that second Doug Fortin had the lead in his· lap, over seriously chewed up ter-J imco. In second it was Corky rain, and in the dark, to look for-McMillin in his Ford powered two ward to. One plus, reported by the seat Chenowth, followed by Mark racers, was that there was less W eyhrich in another Chenowth, ' traffic on the second lap, and less then Lobsam Yee in a Jimco, and dust. Troy Herbst in his Smithbuilt When they got around to Ford powered Truggy. The spread Trinidad again Fortin was still in from first to fifth place was just front, with 27 minutes on McMil-seven minutes after the 196 miles. lin and Ewalt. Herbst and Smith There were another four or five were third, Yee fourth and the drivers running very close to this team of Chris Muller, Mike Hal-lead group passing and repassing liday and Rod Muller ran fifth in one another as the dust allowed. a Porter. Chris is Rod Muller's Up in the pine forest, Ryan brother, and was driving for the Arciero hit a tree with Bob first time. Rod, who started in the Gordon's Toyota Chenowth and newer car which had no rear badly bent a tie rod, which had to brakes and was now being driven be replaced. And Rod Muller, in by Darnen Jefferies, would finish his Pontiac powered Porter broke in the older car, on which he was a brake caliper and had to change Driver of Record. Bob Qordon it. Chuck Hovey and Martin was struggling in this segment, his Christensen had problems with light bar wouldn't fit properly due the steering box on their Aceco, to the bent front end, and he and the team of Ronny and Randy couldn't get the lights adjusted so Wilson had power sreering he could see. He stopped at every trouble with their Jimco 2000. pit for more adjustment. Pat Fortin was storming, and at the Dean, John Herder, Weyhrich, end of the first lap had a lead of Kory Scheeler, Scott McMillin, seven minutes, while Corky Mc-John Gaughan, Nick Baldwin, Millin and co-driver Brian Ewalt Ron Brant, Gus Vildosola and still ran second. In third it was Glen Greer were all sidelined by Herbst and his co-driver, Jimmie one disaster or another. Tom an iscovere t at e ost is alternator and battery. Yee, inex-perienced in automotive electrics, hadn't known what to do. Jeffer-ies told him. He got a battery, tied it on, connected up, went back out to the course and managed to get a finish, a disappointing sev-enth, but still a finish. He'd been second. Mike Jakobson soloed the long race in his Class 5 car, to go home with his first Baja 1000 victory, even after repairing a trailing arm. The Class 8 trucks were the next off the line, and when they got to Trinidad, Brian Collins had the lead in his Chevy, but he was only nine minutes in front of Chris Wilson in his Ford pre-run-ner. Wilson, it seems, had re-cently sold his race truck, and then in a fit of what he called "seller's remorse", decided he didn't want to miss the 1000, so he entered the pre-runner. At the halfway point Collins had built his lead to nearly an hour and it was apparent that he was going for a good overall finish. He was fifth overall at midpoint. But then he got up into the hills and broke the truck's front end. Wilson, and his co-driver, Dean Bayerle, were not having a clean run. They lost sec-ond gear early, lost the front drive, and ran a long way with bad brakes. But they got to the finish to take the Class 8 win, air con-ditioning and stereo system still functioning, but electric mirror broken. No one else in the class finished. Koch spent an hour trying to get out of a ditch in Richard Boyle's car, and blew reverse gear in the process. He finally got a tow. Ewalt went to pass a··biker just at the mud puddle near Trinidad, hit the mud, and spun out. He backed out of the mud, then, try-ing to turn around on the narrow road, "got excited" and blew the fragile reverse gear. He did get going, but once he got in fourth gear he couldn't get it out. He stopped at a pit, got it out of fourth, but then couldn't get any gear. End of McMillin and Ewalt's race day. Down on the beach the Herbst car took a funny bump, flew off the course a few feet and ran smack into a spectator car parked unwisely close to the trail. No one was hurt, and their nearby pit made speedy repairs to the front corner, but they were a bit shaken by the incident. Fortin continued to lead until very near the finish, while Gordon struggled with his lights. Things now went right for Herbst and Smith and after the beach incident they steamed around the rest of the way, pass-ing Fortin out of the car and ob-viously in trouble. Herbst and Smith took the win, the first for this car in a 1000, and Gordon and Arciero, their lights pointed in five different directions, were the surprise second place car, 40 minutes later. After another 16 minutes it was Jefferies and Muller, and finally, Fortin, who didn't stop to talk, saying he couldn't tum off the motor. In fifth it was the Muller, Muller, Halliday team, their top left front arm broken and the wheel all splayed out. They'd driven that way for the final 150 miles of the race, said they just had to "slow down", but that it was so dusty it really didn't make much differ-ence. Yee, who'd had such a good day, was parked about eight miles out from the finish, his car totally dead. Dispirited, he got a tow in, and then Jefferies, who'd been racing with him all day, took a · look to see what had gone wrong, " The Prntrucks went next. Troy Herbst and Jimmy Smith once again shared the driving in the Smithbuilt Ford powered Truggy, to bring home a victory in Class 1, their first win in a Baja 1000. ,..,,,..,..,..,..,_,,...~~cc=c=--=-;-,-..,.,,,---,.-~-,-~----,,,,,.,,-,,, Dave Sundquist and Rick Geiser had a good run going in their Toyota Class 1 O had a bad day, and Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren, Jimco, but Sundquist hit a ditch and broke his leg late in the day, who finished second in their Jimco, were also the last Class 1 O car to Dave and Bill Gasper, brothers, shared the driving evenly in their 5-turning them into a DNF, though still third in Class 10. get to the finish. 1600 car, to take second place in the very competitive class. 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Tim Moore and Travis Fletcher teamed up in their Jimco, had a couple Eric Fisher had some electrical problems, and got dust in his eyes, They were in the lead for a while, but Jesus Luna and Bill Rodriguez of flats, but still finished fifth in Class 112-1600, biggest class in the but brought his Garibay Challenger home for third place in Class 9. dropped back to finish second in Class 9 in their yellow Jimco. ,,...ra_c_e_. --,------,-----,---,---,-------=--.,,.--=----Steve Barlow and Andrew Wehe steady pace, and continued to truck, a spiffy Chevy, with a stock rear ended him, making it a short third place it was Rick Geiser, in put Barlow's Ford into the lead lead. They had 23 minutes at San six liter Vortec LQ4 motor and a day for the Helm team. Dave Sundquist's Jimco, and they early, and at Trinidad had 11 min- Vicente on the second lap, a full Hydramatic 4L80E transmission. At Alamo, 105 miles into the were two minutes up on Rick utes on Mike Hardaway and Joe 572 miles into the race. Johnson, Just the equipment a stock race, Mike Sandoval and Morley Ellison in his Chenowth Millen-Heger in their Chevrolet. Rick whose shifter had messed up, had Silverado comes with. Chevy was Williams had their MECO in the nium. Steve and Andrew Myers Johnson was third in his Ford, and been stuck in first for a while, fi-"doing some R&D" with this lead, with just about a minute on ran fifth in their Myers/Penhall. Steve Scaroni, another Ford, ran nally found second, and just ran truck which was driven by the Danny Anderson in his Jimco. In Cont_inued on page 12 fourth. Ryan Herzog and Grayson in that. He was second, with Sea- three man team of Mark Miller, Smith, still another Ford, spent roni only 13 minut~s back in Brian Stewart and Ricky.Johnson. some time buried in a washout, third. Steinberger and his co-The team made good time, and and were fifth. Scott Steinberger driver, Larry Plank, having bro-their major problem occurred had broken an axle on his Ford ken a ball joint at Mile 40 of Lap when a hose came off and pumped early in the morning, but was now 2, were once again playing out all the water. After repairs making up time. catchup, but were fourth, and they got their Baja 1000 finish. Barlow and Wehe had a couple Mike Griffiths ran fifth about four Class 10 followed and they had of flats and they also broke a rear hours down, and too far back to a tough day, a frequent occur-shock, but stayed in front, and finish in time. rence for this class in Baja. Of the had six minutes at the halfway Barlow and Wehe took the 11 cars that started, only two were point. It was Johnson in second. win, with Johnson second, just able to complete the race. Before He'd had a flat and been stuck. over a half hour behind him. He they got to Alamo Willie Hardaway and Heger were third was wishing he hadn't decided to Cummings and Chris Harrold now, and Smith and Herzog had drive it all by himself. In third it were out for unknown reasons, got as far as Erendira, radioed for was Scaroni, nine minutes later, and Brady Helm's Lothringer was a steering box and a generator, then SU!inberger and Plank were a goner also. His co-driver, Jerry and went no further. Scaroni was fourth, over two hours later, and Griffiths had nosed into a ditch, in fourth place and Steinberger no one else finished. doing some. front end damage, moved up to fifth. The next class, labeled Experi- and while he was still sitting there John Becker and Stuart Chase look good from this view, but crumpled the driver's Barlow and Wehe kept a mental, consisted of only one alongcameaSCORELitecarand sideearlyinthedaywhenBeckerlaidtheFordover.TeamtookthewininPlasslS. Flamingo & The Sbip 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com Dusty Times West Tropicana & Arville 1·800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com West Aamingo & Valley View 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com January 2000 ·••--■· ' Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Page 1£"1

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Most of the course was dry and dusty, but there was still enough water A broken arm slowed Jason Hatz a bit, and gave Vic Bruckmann to make it feel like Baja. Here Marcos Nunez and Norberto Rivera splash more miles to drive, but the team persevered and finished second in New to Baja, Kash Vessels and Gary Williams ran well all day, took third irrClass 1/2-1600. Vessels'dad is Frank Vessels, long ago truck and Blazer racer of note. through a puddle heading toward fourth in Class 5-1600. 1/2-1600, winning the season points at the same time. In the next section, Ellison and second, with just under 20 min-by Jose Canchola in a Lothringer. his co-driver, John Penner, find- . utes on the Myers team. But the Ellison and Penner had only ing it a very dusty trip, nonethe-Myers car was hit hard by a Tro-one flat, and stayed in front, lead-less moved into the lead. At phy Truck in the next section, ing by 13 minutes when they went Vicente, Mile 236, they led by and didn't get their race finished. past Alamo, Mile 441, on their seven minutes. Anderson was still Geiser was fourth now, followed second lap. They were finding it Page 12 January 2000 less dusty and less trafficky now. Anderson had moved up to sec-ond, and now he put his co-driver, Rob MacCachren, into the car for the trip up to Mike's and back down to Trinidad, so he (Danny) could get something to eat. (Mac-Cachren, by the way, was taking a very brief break from new-father status, leaving four week old daughter Hailey Chase at home with mom, Shannon.) Geiser was still third and Canchola held on to fourth. On the. final beach section Penner had good running and stayed out front, to take the win. Behind them, Anderson got back in his car, and though he found the final 40 miles "solid dust", made his way back to the finish for second place. Sundquist, while still down on the beach, ran hard into a ditch, which damaged the front a-arm and its supporting bar, which then apparently came back and caught Dave in the leg. He suffered a compound fracture, went first to an Ensenada hospi-tal, then flew to San Diego and on to Arizona and home. While the break was nicely set and on the mend a couple weeks after the race, he still faced surgery to cor-rect damaged ligaments in his knee. And, he didn't get to finish the 1000. The SCORE Lite cars started right behind the Class 10s, and had slightly better results, man-aging to finish five out of 15 start-ers. In the lead at T rinidacf it was Dan Worley and Stan Potter in a Jimco, with six minutes on Jerry Penhall and George Erl in their Penhall. In third it was Dave Cal-laway and John Holmes, in a Dun-rite, another six seconds back, and reportedly already rolled over. Jim Greenway and Marty Fiolka were fourth, less than a minute later in their Jimco, while Dennis Hunter was fifth. Guillermo Quintero was already out, as were the Jandts, and Martin Garibay would get only a little further. At the halfway point for this class· it had already been dark for some time. The lead still belonged to Worley and Potter, but now Penhall and Erl had moved up to second, only eight minutes behind them. In third it was Greenway and Fiolka, who were having to add transmission fluid over and over again, since the bolts that hold the transmission in had fallen out (true story!). Arturo Honold and Manlio Moreno were now fourth in their Jimco. They reported hitting a stalled car at· Mile 80 (did Helm's car get hit twice?) and breaking their front brakes. They were having to stop frequently to work on those brakes, and also lost about 15 minutes when they beat their pit crew to a gas stop. Honold finally just borrowed some from Class 10 driver, Jose Canchola. Callaway and Holmes had dropped to fifth. Things changed in the dark-ness. At Vicente the second time, at roughly 1:00 a.m., the lead be-Continued on page 14 Dusty Time·s

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Matias Arjona, Bruce Conrad and Jim Dizney teamed up in a Jimco, and in spite of a muddy rollover and a case of hypothermia for Conrad, Darnen Jefferies and Rod Muller paired up in the big Porter, to finish Mark and Don Floyd, in an AM General Hummer, were leading at the halfway point, but ended up in second place in the Stock Full class. finished fourth in Class 1/2-1600. third ih Class 1 in spite of serious brake problems. Hoping for their sixth Class 3 Baja 1000 win in a row, the Beal family came over from Texas to drive their Nissan. This year broke their string, and they finished a weary second place. longed to Honold and Moreno, and Moreno had been driving with rio power steering since Mike's, when the base of the power steering pump broke . . Greenway and Fiolka, whose pumper helmets hadn't. worked since before the start, were now second, 17 minutes later, followed by Steve Greinke and Dale Dondel in a Porter-Bonner Hawk. Therd hit Helm earlier in the day and had broken their front end. Jose de Jesus Flores, from Culiacari, on Mexico's mainland, was running fourth in his Mirage, and Penhall and Erl were fifth. Callaway and Holmes had retired after Holmes rolled the car for the second time, and injured his back. He was well enough to ride home with his pit crew, but in too much pain to drive any further. Worley and Potter were also out. Moreno and Honold were fast even without power steering, and stayed in front to take the win. They were almost a half hour ahead of Greenway and Fiolka, who finished second. In third it was Greinke and Dondel, fol-lowed in by Flores, who usually races on much shorter courses on the mainland. Penhall and Erl were fifth after reportedly replac-ing a transmission on the road up to Mike's. No one else finished. Class 5 was next to start. Mike Jakobsen, who would be driving the entire distance himself, put his car in front very early, and then stayed there. He had just under an hour at Trinidad, Race Mile 196, and it was Danny Le-dezma, still learning about the big motor Baja Bugs, in second place. He'd already had an ignition prob-lem, and a leaky fuel pump con-nection. Carlos Cessena ran third, about two hours later, and George Seeley was even further back in 'fourth. Jakobsen was hit by a Class 10 car (he started behind them, so it must have been-someone trying to catch up, or someone he was pass-ing), which badly dented his side of the car, but didn't hurt the function of it. And he had a couple of flats, but at the half way point he still led, though by only 22 minutes. He and Ledezma were enjoying a very close race, and doing some switching back and forth. Ledezma, who'd had no front brakes from the start, was finding this big motor stuff a lot of fun. Cessena never got to the end of Lap 1, but Seeley did, his left side front end heid together by a massive chain. He went no further. Jakobsen had to repair a tr3il-ing arm, and the Ledezmas were down to only first and third gear, but the battle continued. Jakob-sen got his first win at the 1000, driving solo, and the Ledezmas, with dad, Hector, in for the sec-ond half, were second. No one Steve Barlow and Andrew Wehe teamed in Barlow's Ford to take the Protruck win, running in front for the entire distance. else finished. , The big class of the race came next, and happily for them the breeze picked up at about the time they started, and they didn't have the hovering dust cloud that the earlier starters did. It was still plenty dusty, and hazardous, but just a shade less evil and threat-ening. There were 26 starters (Class 1 had 23) . One of the first casualties was Dave Matsui who comes all the way from Japan to race in this class. He stopped, or slowed 9.ras-tically for whatever reason and was clobbered by a Class 7 truck that couldn't see him in the dust. End of the race for both. Tough to come all those miles and go only 10 miles in the race. ently, he never did. At Trinidad Bruckmann still led, now with almost four minutes on Freeman. Dizney was third, but 13 minutes back, and Dan Bradley was fourth, a minute later, in his Bunderson. Bradley is Tom Bradley, ·sr.'s brother, and this was Tom's 22nd Baja 1000, and he wasn't going to miss it just because he no longer has a Class 1 car and the new truck wasn't ready yet, so he opted to race in the 1600 class. Tito Tapia ran fifth now, in his Chenowth. Max 'Handberg sent a radio call asking for a new rear hub at Mile 125, and Anthony Carlson was before Simpson's with no first or second gear (!). Both Freeman and Bruckmann got out of their cars at the Trinidad pits. Adam Wik took over for Freeman, and Jason Hatz got in for Bruckmann. Then, as many other racers did, Freeman and Bruckmann hightailed it back to Ojos to wait for their cars to come in, have a snooze, a little lunch, and get ready for the night-time action. Probably the most dangerous part of their day was that 50 mile drive on the highway, what with other racers, chase crews and the frustratingly slow big Mexican trucks all trying to get where they were going on the twisty two lane road. As he ran down the beach near Erendira, Hatz ran off a ledge and somehow his right hand was tangled in the steering wheel as the car jolted. He. didn't know · what had happened exactly, but · he knew that his hand was really hurting, and from theri on he had to drive left handed, and leave the shifting to his passenger, Brian Thomason. Hatz and Thomason developed a rhythm, with Hatz telling Thomason which gear he wanted, and their times didn't deteriorate as drastically as might be expected. They dropped to sec-ond place, and at the halfway point were just three minutes be-· hind Wik. (It later developed that Hatz had broken his arm.) Dave Continued on page 18 At Alamo, Mile 105, Vic Bruckmann had the lead in his Dunrite, but was less than a minute in front of Mike Lorenzi and Dan Peacock, in a Mirage. Bekki Freeman was third in her Jimco, another minute back, fol-lowed by Jim Dizney, Jimco, and · less than two minutes behind him, Tim Moore in a Chenowth. It was still very early in the day but al-ready distress calls were coming in over the radio. Glen Cain re-ported that a spectator had rolled a rock in front of him, and he was out. And the chase crew was fran-tically searching for Chris Eberz who had not made Check 1 by 2:30 in the. afternoon. Appar-Looking just like the pre-runner it is, Chris Wilson's Ford bumps over a cowcatcher here. Wilson had Dean Bayer/e's help, and the team survived the loss of their electric ·side mirrors to win Class 8. ~--"-:;c_-c--~=~c:=,--Cory Susag and Doug Siewert, in a Toyota Tacoma, ford one of the An early traffic jam and a couple of flats proved impossible to overcome, Albert Arciero arid his brother, Frank Jr. (Butch{paired up in this few water holes on the course. The tea~ did not manage to finish in and Ivan Stewart and his Toyota Tundra could manage only a close Daewoo Korando, which was racing off mad for the first time, to take Class 7S, along with most entries in that class: third place in the Trophy Truck division the victory in the Stock Mini class, which ran only halfway. : January 2000 ·Dusty Times

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and Dizney, back in, was third. He had Conrad riding with him now, because the navigator scheduled to ride had come down with Montezuma's Revenge. As they came into Trinidad in the dark, in the dust, Dizney hit the newly flooded mud puddle (not flooded the first time around) in fourth gear, went sideways and rolled over in a spray of water and mud. They got going forward again without losing much time. Vessels was fourth, about 15 minutes be-hind them, and Moore, who'd had a couple of flats and stopped to help some other racers, was fifth, another 11 minutes back. Chad McNeil had brake problems and light problems off and on all day, but still took the Class 7 win, giving himself a 20th birthday present one day early. Wik felt something odd in the front end, but it didn't slow him, and he brought the car in to take the win. This was the team's sec-ond straight Baja 1000 victory. Bruckmann, weary from his long drive, got second place for him-self and the disabled Hatz, 35 minutes later. Vessels moved up to finish third as Dizney had a cri-sis on the beach. (Conrad, pressed into service as a passenger, hadn't thought to put on a jacket. Down by the beach, damp and already chilled, he began to shiver uncon-trollably. He tried tucking a tarp around himself, but it did no good. Dizney didn't like his looks, so he stopped at Santo Tomas and Hendrickson moved up to third back in their cars now, but Bruck-now, 16 minutes out, in his mannknewhewouldhavetoget Daveco chassis, and one of all the way to the finish; there was Dizney's co-drivers, Bruce Conrad no chance that Hatz could drive or Matias Arjona, ran fourth. In anymore. This was a slight disad-fifth it was Kash Vessels, in a vantage for Bruckmann because Chenowth. Vessels, driving his he would tire, and might not be first Baja race, had a very experi-quite as familiar with the beach enced chase crew headed up by section of the course. Freeman his dad, Frank "Scoop" Vessels, lost _power steering for a while, who used to race the big· Blazer. and also the top light bar, which Lorenzi and Peacock have been was a handicap because those up on their side and Eduardo lights were apparently adjusted Fisher has collapsed his right rear just right. Still, at Trinidad the suspension. second time she was leading by 14 Freeman and Bruckmann were minutes. Bruckmann was second, • SUPER TRAPP AUTO ETER LEE C C Cf) ::::, G t3 ~ UJ UJ I s: UJ z :::i a: UJ 'z: UJ (.) <I'. ::;; <I'. I 0 ~ ~ Cf) a: UJ ~ ID <I'. ~ ID Cf) a: UJ ~ u:: z ~ ~ (.) it (!) ::::, ID YOUR OFF-ROAD SPECIALISTS! :iE :0 G) I -i PHONE: (714) 441-1212 FAX (714) 441-1622 2366 E. ORANGETHORPE AVE., ANAHEIM, CA 92806 I 0 :iE Designed by Raceco in 1990 for military use, re-designed by McKenzie's for Off-Road use in 1994. 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Another four cars in this class managed to get in the finish in time, and two more came in just a few minutes too late to count. Class 7 started behind the 1600s, and their day got off to a rocky start. There were only three of them, and Barry Karakas had started late in his Toyota, Chad McNeil radioed that his Ford had lost its brakes very early in the morning, and Jeff Lewis ran into that stalled 1600 car with his Chevy about 10 miles into the race. Now it was a two car duel. At Trinidad, McNeil, son of Perry, had a lead of 42 minutes over Karakas. They charged on into the night at about the same distance apart, and then before they got to the end of the first lap Karakas had major problems, and used over nine hours for what was generally a three hour trip. He went through the start/finish to complete one lap, but had already used up over 17 hours, and was done for the day. McNeil went on, having to replace all his lights as they burned out, but moving steadily. Up in the pine forest they broke a coilover shock. Eventu-ally he and his co-drivers, Steve Adams and Alfonso Bueno, made it to the finish in time for the vic-tory, just six minutes shy of cut-off time. They started a dual cel-ebration -Sunday would be McNeil's 20th birthday. The Class 7S trucks took the green flag next, and this was a good group with 11 entries, most doomed to failure unfortunately. John Becker put his Ford into the early lead with Jared and Eric Hardin in second in their GMC and Kevin Davis in third in Bruce Landfield's Ford. Javier Sacio was done for the day by 10 a.m., down with a broken spindle. The Hardins didn't last long either, radioing that they were out shortly after going through Mike's Sky Ranch (about 164 miles into the race). At the end of the first lap it was the Landfield truck in the lead, 16 minutes up on Becker who was second, the left side of his truck all crumpled and scratched be-cause he'd laid it over on its side. He had another 22 minutes on Cory Susag and Doug Siewert in their Toyota and Malcolm Vinje's Ford ran fourth, but had already had a fuse problem. This truck, which belonged to Mike Falkosky actually, was supposed to have a total of eight drivers. Vinje and Falkosky were giving a bunch of folks the chance to have a little fun, and. share some of the Baja experience. The schedule called for Vinje, Jim Gilchrist, Greg Hibbs, Mark Hansen, Falkosky, Terry DuTemple and someone named Wayne to each drive a sec-tion. But they were having a prob-lem with a disintegrating fuel cell, particles of which were clogging the fuel lines and fuel filter. Kyle LeDuc and Billy Bunch, in a Ford, had been up to fifth for a while, but they lost a couple of hours and were nexi: reported to be on a trailer. Joe Custer had Paul Krause, one of our finest bik-ers, riding in the passenger seat at the start, and planning to drive, but their Ford apparently had se-rious trouble and they got only halfway after a very long day. Through Alamo the second time our spotters recorded only Becker, .and co-driver, Stuart Chase, who were back in the lead, followed by the Vinje/Falkosky team, always very determined and capable. Landfield's truck, which had broken a spindle up in the pine forest was third about two minutes later, and none of the others got that far. Becker and Chase went on to take the win, in front the rest of the way, and over two hours in front of Landfield, Davis and Brett Turley, who took second, just 10 minutes ahead of the cut-off time. Down on the beach, fighting the clogged fuel lines, the Vinje/Falkosky team ran out of time or drivers, and called it quits, disappointed not to finish but ap-parently having a grand time. The limited Baja Bugs, 5-1600, went next. Twelve cars started, and all 12 of them made it at least through Valle Trinidad the first time. Mario Ledezma had the lead, with 16 minutes on Dave Gasper, who'd had a flat in the pine forest. In third it was Mario Guttierrez, followed by Marcos Numez and Norberto Rivera, and then Dan Pratt. They were almost 200 miles into the race and only a half hour separated the fifth place car from the leader. And a whole bunch of other cars were Continued on page 20 The race belonged to Mario and Elias Ledezma and co-driver Victor Herrera all day. Their only problem was the loss of their clutch, put /hey still won Class 5-1600. Dusty Times

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I' Daffen Skilton added another Class 3 win to a long string of victories, Running in a class by itself, this "Experimental" Chevy, driven by Brian bringing his Kia Sportage back to the finish line 22 minutes ahead of Stewart, Mark Miller and Ricky Johnson, lost all its water, but after Larry Roese/er ran second in the Trophy Truck class most of the day, in his Chevrolet, and finished second, 14 minutes behind Ragland. on fire. The fire was extinguished were the last in the class to get to with no injuries, but the Iribe car the finish. second place after 21 hours and 21 minutes. repairs was able to get the coveted Baja 1000 finish. · still moving along. dreaded Gaspers close up. They Iribes, who would be expected to At the half way point the Le- were now a half hour behind, and be running in this lead pack, had dezma car still led. This was a having trouble with their throw- sent papa, Carlos, off the line but three man team for this race, with out bearing. Guttierrez was still he'd been reported wandering Mario, Elias and Victor Herrera third, another 15 minutes down, around Ojos shortly after the taking turns. Elias had been really and Nunez and Rivera held start. Problem was he'd broken sick for a while and had let the fourth, followed by Pratt. The the trans and was in the process 1 of corralling new parts and pit people to get fixed. Cheery reports came over the radio saying that he'd be back on the road "soon." At Trinidad the second time the Ledezma/Herrera car ran al-most an hour in front of the Gaspers. Bill was now dri~ing, and he'd had a flat and was losing his brakes and watching a "blinky" alternator light. Nunez and Riv-era were still third, another hour back, with Pratt 45 minutes be-hind them, and in fifth it was now Eric Deen and Jim Vidibal who'd lost over two hours early in the day and were moving steadily now. Guttierrez was out and while Iribe had finally got himself on the The congenial Mexicali based team of Arturo Honold and Manlio Moreno ran part of road, reports came in that son the day with no power steering on their Jimco, still took the SCORE Lite victory. Humberto was just past Vicente, (Kt)Kc HiliTES ~------....._ was finished for this race. The Class 9 cars took off next, At the finish it was the Ledez- an even dozen of them. Most of mas and Herrera, who'd h.ad themgotagooddistanceintothe clutch problems for a long way, race, but the Tony and Ivan Go-and no clutch. at all for the last mez car was out early, up by 40 miles. They were just 28 min: Check 1, and Joe Evans was also utes in front of the Gaspers who finished before he went very far. came in second. Nunez and Riv- Raul Lozano, in a Garibay, was in era were third, less than an hour the lead at Alamo, about five min-later, at about 6 a.m. on Satur-utes up on Daniel Mora, in a day. Pratt was fourth, an hour and Chenowth. In third it was Eric 25 minutes later, and in fifth it Fisher in his Garibay Challenger, was Deen and Vidibal another 40 two minutes back. Jesus Luna and minutes out. (Ed. Note: We Bill Rodriguez were fourth in their apologize for not being available Jimco, followed by Gary Keith to talk to ~hese folks, this being Stevens and Alex Pacheco, less the period when we caught a nap than two minutes later. for about an hour and a half. By the time they got to Sorry.) In sixth place, and saying Vicente, the Mora car was lead-they'd had "lots of fun", were ing, with five minutes on Luna Miguel, Tommy and Matthew and Rodriguez. Now Fisher was in Pabloff. They'd broken a clutch third place, 12 seconds back, fol-cable, rolled the car a'nd the trans lowed by Stevens and Pacheco, had been popping out of second about seven minutes later. Hec-gear, but they'd had no flats. They tor Sarabia, in a Jimco, had now made it by just nine minutes, and Continued on page 22 (llAllt:&i> RACll\lli Jim Canner Racing has the entire in11entary at= Rancho ~~Lightning Rad"" §hacks and Repair and Maintenance Kits Al!!iio Rancho. snaa Race Shack!!ii and Part!!ii. Contingency Program Information: SCG>RE, CORR, SNORE, MOR, VORRA; BEST IN THE DESERT, AND ESTERO BEACH. For Product, Technical Information, Contingency Requirements or Award Information for the following Products: RANCHO, MSD, KC HILITES, MECHANIX WEAR, DYNOMAX, K&N, RACERS EDGE, OFF-ROAD INNOVATIONS · 2169. Dayfona • Lake Havasu City, A_Z 86403 • _(520) 855-0912 • FAX (520) 453-9641-• I-mail: jcrace@ctaz.com . . ~ ' , . -Page 20 January 2000 Dusty Times

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Bruce Landfield, Brett Turley and Kevin Davis teamed up in Landfield's Rick Johnson soloed this race in his Ford Protruck, but said it was Steve Scaroni and Curt LeDuc shared the driving in Scaroni's Ford Ford to take second place in Class 7S, winning t{le season points in .="t=oo=m=u=c=h.="=H=e=h=a=d=s=h1=·tt=er='p="=ob=l=em=s,=a=n=d=too=k=s=ec=o=n=d='p=la=c=e=. ==~p="=ot=ru=c=k=, ,,..too_k_th....,if<_d~p----la_cre~lers=-s,thr.a,n----a_n_h,,,o,u----r b_e3h,...,inrd ____ t:--:h_e_w,T·n ____ n1e.,...r.--r __ th_e~p_roc_e_ss_. _______ --=--~c-----,------=---c--minutes behind them. They did not behind. somehow slid it into the rear of the make it to Vicente. Hall (who, incidentally, has 16 Daewoo to hold things together John Penner and Rick Ellison had a dusty first lap, but moved into the front and then stayed there to take the win in Class 10 in their Chenowth Millennium. moved up to fifth. At the halfway point things were different. The Mora car radioed in from Mile 252 that they were bro-ken and out, and Lozano was towed through the line, and then went no further. Fisher had the lead. Behind him by just a hair over a minute were Luna and Rodriguez, and then Sarabia.had moved up to third, an-other 18 minutes back. Stevens and Pacheco were still fourth, and the team of John Castillo, Dave Diet-rich and Jim Zabrowski were now fifth. There were three other teams still running at the halfway point, but none of them, George and Lee Ladwig, Leon Navarette, or Dave Vieria and William Ingham, made it to Alamo the second time. So there were only five teams left .run-ning, and two of them had already taken over 10 hours to go halfway, so it was questionable that they could make the full trip in the 23 hour limit. At Trinidad the second time through, the Luna/Rodriguez team had moved into the lead, with Sarabia in second, only six minutes behind them. Fisher, whose elec-tronic system ha.cl failed, apparently due to a faulty alternator, had ·dropped to third after losing almost an hour. Stevens and Pacheco were fourth, but an hour and a half fur-ther back, and Castillo/Dietrich and Zabrowski were still another 20 Luna and Rodriguez still led at wins at the Baja 1000 in the record temporarily. He made it back down Vicente, but Sarabia had crept up books), and Norman still led at to Trinidad, where the welder and was only three minutes behind Vicente, with nearly an hour on worked and got it fixed. At that them. Fisher was third, but still 55 Floyd at that point. Griffin was an- point, his brother, Frank Jr. {Butch) minutes down, and he'd had to stop other half hour back, and now Dave took over the driving. They led by to wash out his eyes. Stevens and Sykes, who'd broken a ring and pin- over an hour as they left, and Rein-Pacheco held fourth at this point, ion at Mile 15, and lost about two ertson ran second. but were so late they must have run and a half hours with repairs, was Butch, who later said, "It was into closed checks, and ran out of catching up. not that bad", (Remember, he's time. Hall hit a ditch and broke his been driving Bob Gordon's Class 1 Sarabia put on a late surge of steering box, and Floyd was in the Chenowth lately), made good time speed to overtake the leaders and lead at the end of Lap 1, with a time and kept it running. He had an get the victory. Rodriguez and Luna of 11:45. Sykes had progressed to hour and 28 minutes on Reinert-were second, only 12 minutes later, second place, followed by Stein, five son at Vicente. And then Reinert-and Fisher was third, his eyes red minutes behind him, in third. But son was reported broken at Llano and full of dust as usual. Nobody things changed again. Now it was a Colorado, which left the Daewoo else finished. matter of who got to the furthest out there by itself. So the Arcieros The Stock Full trucks went checkpoint fastest. That was Sykes, got the win in the first attempt at next. This was one of the groups who made it to Check 1 with a time off road racing for Daewoo, with an that wanted to run the full course, of 14:35. None of the others got average speed of 23.5 miles per feeling that a one lap race would there, but they are official finish- hour. No one else finished. be too "short." They misjudged ers, as SCORE had declared that Class 3 was a horse of another badly. To a man they all need more anyone in this class (and SF, Sports- color. Originally scheduled to run than half their allotted time to go man Buggy, Sportsman Truck and only one lap, they also opted for halfway, making it apparent that 3) who did one full lap would get two, and they made it. There was none would get two laps in. But official finish points. Thus Sykes an amazing assortment of Class 3 they had a go at it. took the win, followed by Floyd and vehicles at the start, eight of them, Marc Stein had his Ford in the then Stein. ranging from Darren Skilton's tried lead at Alamo, with just under a The Stock Mini scoring would and true Kia to a very stock-look-minute on Rod Hall and Roger work the same way, and they were ing 1970 Ford Bronco. The Japa-Norman in their Hummer. In third next off the line, with only three nese off road champ, Ikue Hanawa it was Mark Floyd in a Hummer. entries. At Alamo the lead car was had his head turning right hand At Trinidad, another 90 miles Daewoo's good looking little sport drive Isuzu Vehicross here, and the down the road, Norman and Hall Ute, called a Korando. Albert Ar- Beal family was up from Texas in had the lead, with Floyd second and ciero was driving, and those know-full force with their '92 Nissan. now Joe Griffith, in another Hum- ing Albert were taking bets about Hanawa had the lead at Alamo, mer, in third. All the others were his ability to drive slowly enough to and was six minutes in front ofSkil-still coming along, and not too far preserve the very stock little car. ton, who ran second and 18 min-SCORE BAJA 1000 OJOS NEGROS/OJOS NEG ROS NOVEMBER 5 - 6, 1999 Rob Reinertson had his Ford in sec- utes up on the Beals. Joe Bolton was ond place, but already almost an fourth, but over an hour further hour and a half down, while Bob back. Sadly, none of the others Land was another six or so hours made it to Alamo. Philip Moulton, CAR# POSITlON OFFIClAL RESULTS DRIVER/CO-DRIVER Trophy Trucks - Unlimited trucks -11 starters, 7 finishers 80 Larry Ragland 72 2 Larry Roeseler 1 l 3 Ivan Stewart 19 4 Ed & Tim Herbst 16 5 · Manuel Herrera Class 1 - Unlimited 1 & 2 seaters - 22 starters, l O finishers 100 l Troy Herbst/Jimmy Smith 110 2 Ryan Arciero/Bob Gordon 121 3 Darnen Jefferies/Rod Muller 107 4 Doug Fortin, Jr. 149 5 Chris Muller/Mike Halliday/Rod Muller Class 1-2/1600 - 1 & 2 seat, 1600cc motors -26 starters, 9 finishers 1600 Bekki Freeman/Adam Wik 1613 2 Vic Brockmann/Jason Hatz 1608 3 Kash Vessels 1603 4 Jim Dizney/Bruce Conrad/Matias Arjona 1645 5 Tim Moore/Travis Fletcher Class 3 -Short Wheelbase 4X4 -.8 starters, 3 finishers 300 349 2 305 3 Page 22 Darren Skilton Carlton, Carty, Spencer, & Kelly Beal Jkue Hanawa (solo) VEHICLE Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet CK1500 Toyota Tundra Ford F-150 FordF-150 Smith built Toyota Chenowth Porter Jimco Porter Junco Dunrite Chenowth Jimco Jirnco Kia Sportage Nissan Isuzu Vehicross TIME 14:26:36 14:40:33 14:49:48 ·15:30:30 18:02:51 15:55:47 16:36:24 16:52:32 17:01:19 17:27:05 17:18:59 17:52:55 18:36:17 19:00:21 19:24:40 21:21:02 21:43:15 22:00:14 January 2000 later in his Isuzu Vehicross. Ulti- in his '70 Bronco, got to Mile 24 mately, Land got to Check 2, andradioedforayoke,butmustnot Alamo, about 102 miles into the have got repaired because he has race, but that's where his times end. no further times. Arciero was not having a clean Hanawa continued to lead run. The wire loom came apart and through Trinidad, where he had he had to fix it, and then about six just 12 minutes on Skilton, and now miles before Mike's a cross mem- the Beals were an hour and 15 min-her in the rear broke: He limped it utes back in third. At Vicente the rest of the way up the moun- Hanawa had 20 minutes, and the tain road, still in the lead, where Beals had closed up on Skilton a he planned to weld things back to- bit. Halfway through their day gether. But the welder was broken. Hanawa still led, but only by seven So Albert found a torsion bar and minutes, and now the Beals, who Class 11 was the only Class required to run only 336 miles, or halfway, and Terry Kiely, Miguel Haro and Eric Solorzano teamed to get the win with a trouble-free day. Dusty Times

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all take turns driving, were just 44 minutes behind Skilton. There hasn't been such a good Class 3 race for a while. When they went through Alamo the second time, Skilton was in the lead, and he had 20 min-utes on Hanawa. The transmission on Hanawa's car had started leak-ing badly, and they used 45 min-utes trying to fix it, and replacing fluid. The Beals moved up to sec-ond, only 17 minutes behind Skil-ton, and now Hanawa ran third, two minutes later. At Vicente, the second time Skilton had 29 min-utes on the Beals, the Iianawa was 16 minutes behind them, adding many, many quarts of tranny fluid as he progressed. Skilton went on to take the win, finishing just 22 minutes in front of the Beals. This family, consisting of Carlton, Carty, Spencer and Kelly Beal, who all drove, missed making it six Baja 1000 wins in a row. They said this race was "long and tiring." Hanawa, who drove all the way, finished in third, 17 minutes later, almost ex-actly one hour before cutoff time. His passenger, whose name we missed, had added 30 quarts of fluid during that final section. It's too bad these folks can't all come out for every race, this was exciting and close competition. We got no race details from Skilton, who was called away from post race interviews to tend to a highway accident involv-ing his brother and a friend, who, driving a chase vehicle, had fallen asleep and rolled over. There were injuries, some broken bones, but none were life-threatening. In the Sportsman Buggy class, the most notable car at the start was the Mirage of Richard Bliss and Richard Young, which was pumping an ominous cloud of blue/grey smoke out over the stag-ing area. Labeled the "mosquito abatement" car by one observer, it was clearly not long for this world, but blithely went on to start anyway. Another sportsman, Jose Diaz, lost the transmi~sion in his Chenowth before the start, so he pulled out, leaving six cars to go racing. When they got to Alamo, Tom Kruse had the lead, and was three minutes ahead of Reid Ehlenberg and George Becker who were sec-ond. In third it was Kenny Phipps, from Oklahoma, and the Candy Cane Raceco of Walter and Marq Prince and Doug Browne ran fourth. They were all still very close together. Doug MacArthur, in a Raceco, 1eported that he'd been hit by a 7S truck, and was out of the race. Bliss and Young, in the mosquito abatement ve-hicle, got as far as Check 2, but not the additional three miles to our unofficial SFG spotters. They reported a blown engine, and must have headed home on the highway which was right there. At Trinidad the "Cane Crusad-ers" had assumed the lead, while Phipps was se~ond only eight min-utes back. Ehlenberg and Becker, having lost some time along the way were third, almost an hour back. The Princes and Browne got down to the beach still in front, but Phipps had moved up to within a minute and nine seconds. Ehlenberg and Becker were now 48 minutes back, and Kruse, the early leader, was. not seen after Check 3 (Mike's). When they came back up into Ojos at the end of Lap 1, Prince, Prince and Browne were first on the road, and had a lead of 34 minutes. Page 23 Assured that they had once again won the season points, they de-cided they'd had enough, and parked the car. Phipps, who was second crossing the Lap 1 line, went on to take the win, arriving at Check 2, the Alamo Cheek, about 95 miles into the second lap, just 11 minutes ahead of Ehlenberg and Becker, who took second. The Sportsman Truck class, with three entries went next, and they had the same scoring rules as the Sportsman Buggies. At Alamo, the lead belonged to Angeline and Dale Vranckx, Doug Granger, Dean Johnston and Richard Czerlau, all down from Canada, in a Hummer. While this was a Sports-man entry, it looked highly profes-sional, with a big support crew all sporting Panasonic Canada livery following them around. Xavier Reyes, from Tijuana, in a Suzuki Samurai, ran second, only 12 min-utes back. Craig Kitteringham and Will Harvey; from Canada and Ohio, in an '88 Bronco, were re-ported "in a precarious position at a ravine, 38 miles past Check l." They'd lost three hours very early in the day and must have been try-ing to make. up time. From then on it was a two car race. At Vicente the Canadian Hummer drivers, who each took a turn at the wheel, had 18 min-utes on Reyes, but when they fin-ished the first lap they were 45 minutes up, and that got them the victory. Our unofficial spotters showed them continuing on for another half lap or so, but they must have been past the check-point closing times, because they aren't on the official sheet. No matter - they got their win, and Reyes took second place. The Class 11 troops were last to start, and they knew they wanted to do only'one lap. Four of them took the green flag, and all four made it through Check I, Mile 42. Horacio and Ramon Pereyra had the lead with about two and a half minutes on the team of Eric Solorzano, Terry Kiely and Miguel Haro. In third it was Pedro Lopez, about an hour down already, and Abel Velasco, in fourth, was another three hours behind. Neither Lopez or Velasco got to Check 3. By Alamo, Solorzano, Kiely and Haro. had moved into the lead, and had over an hour on the Pereyras, who were having serious brake problems. From then on it was the Solorzano; Kiely and Haro team all the way. They had no problems, didn't get stuck, had no flats, and even "floated across" the big mud puddle at Trinidad. They had the fun of being the very first car to fin-ish, while there were spectators and press around to talk to them for a change. The Pereyras, on the other hand, struggled with their brakes, and took turns riding and driving through a long and difficult day. But they managed to finish, in a time of 18: 11, almost six o'clock the next morning, to take second place. Thus, the final Baja 1000 of the 1900s goes into the record books. Next year's race will be the Baja 2000, an epic event, which is planned to include festivities in San Diego, just across the border in the U.S. Then it will start in Tijuana and crisscross the penin-sula for a very long drive all the way to the extreme tip of Baja, fabled Caho San Lucas, for the finish, and all the post race fes-tivities. ■ Class 5 - Unlimited Baja Bugs - 4 starters, 2 finishers 503 518 2 Mike Jakobson (solo) Danny & Hector Ledezma Class 5/1600 - limited Baja Bugs - I 2 starters, 6 finishers 557 1 Mario & Elias LedezrnaNictor Herrera 550 2 Dave & Bill Gasper 578 3 Marcos Nunez/Norberto Rivera 556 4 Daniel Pratt 552 5 Eric Deen/Jim Vidibal Class 1 - modified mini trucks - 3 starters, 1 finishe~ 701 I Chad McNeil/Steve Adams/Alfonso Bueno Class 7S - stock mini trucks -10 starters, 2 finishers 724 1 726 2 John Becker/Stuart Chase Bruce Landfield/Brett Turley/Kevin Davis Class 8 - full-sized 2WD trucks - 4 starters, I finisher 806 1 Chris Wilson/Dean Bayerle Class 9 - I & 2 seat, short wheelbase, 1600ccs - 12 starters, 3 finishers 906 · 1 • 902 2 948 3 Hector Sarabia Jesus Luna/Guillermo Rodriguez Eric Fisher Baja Bug Baja Bug Ilaja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Baja Bug Ford Ranger Ford Ranger Ford Ranger Ford F-150 Jimco Jimco Garibay Challenger Class 10 _ 1 & 2 scaters, 1650cc, water ~ooled o.k. - I 1 starters, 2 finishers 1008 l 1007 2 Rick Ellison/John Penner Danny Anderson/Rob MacCachren Cbenowth Millennium Jimco Class SCORE Lite - I & 2 seat, VW suspension, air-cooled - 15 starters, 5 finishers. 1206 1 Arturo Honold/Manlio Moreno 1214 2 Jim Greenway/Marty Fiolka 1204 3 Steven Greinke/Dale Dondel 1215 4 Jose de Jesus FlO'ies 1205 5 . Jerry Penhall/George Erl Class 11 - stock VW sedans - 4 starters, 2 finishers (this class ran only halfway-336 miles) 1100 l Terry Kiely/Miguel Haro/Eric Solorzano 1107 2 Horacio & Ramon Pereyra Stock Mini - very stock mini trucks - 3 starters - l finisher (TI1is class ran only halfway) 762 l Albert & Butch (Frank, Jr.)Arciero Stock Full - very stock full sized trucks - 6 starters 6 finishers (this class ran halfway to finish, to furthest checkpoint to win) 863 1 864 2 860 3 13: 11: 16866 862 5 861 6 David Sykes Mark Floyd (thru halfway point only) Marc Stein/Mike McComas (halfway only) 4 Roger Norman/Rod Hall(halfway only) Joe Griffin(halfway only) Terry Henn/Chad Hall(halfway only) Protruck - spec class - 8 starters, 4 finishers 299 243 2 227 3 270 4 Steve. Barlow/Andrew Wehe Rick Johnson (solo) Steve Scaroni Scott Steinberger/Larry Plank Experimental Truck - 1 starter, 1 finisher 1300 Brian Stewart/Mark Miller/Ricky Johnson Sportsman Truck - 3 starters, 2 finishers (this class ran halfway to finish, to furthest checkpoint to win) 1599 Jimco Jimco Porter Mirage Penhall '74VW 'VW Daewoo Korando Ford F-150 AM General Hum.mer Ford F-150 AM General Hummer AM General Hummer AM General Hummer Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Ford F-150 Vortec Chevrolet Angeline & Dale Vranckx/Doug Granger/Dean Johnston & Richard Czerlau (halfway only) AM General Hummer 1503 2 Xavier Reyes(halfway only) Suzuki Samurai Sportsman Buggy - 6 starters, 3 finishers (this class ran halfway to finish, to furthest check-point to win) 1404 l 1402 2 1400 3 Kenny Phipps (to second check/second lap) Reid Ehlenberg/George Becker (2nd check, 2nd lap) Walter & Marq Prince & Doug Browne(halfway only) Course: two laps, 336.6 miles each - start/finish in Ojos Negros Weather: warm day, cold night, not much 'Wind Total starters: 168 cars & tmcks, total finishers: 69 cars & trucks ORE unknown Candy Cane Raceco 19:25:38 20: 16:28 18:47:39 19:11:10 20:02:18 21:25:21 22: 13:58 22:54:06 20:44:31 22:50:14 19:27:28 20:41:45 20:52:53 21:42:16 16:27:16 17:08:01 18:26:22 18:55:19 19:20:31 20:41:54 21:08:15 12:00:58 18:11:10 14:18:06 14:35:00 13:06:26 13:11:16 13:19:29 13:43:11 14:11:29 16:54:44 17:29:02 17:38:54 19:50:20 21:32:18 1-4:54:57 15:40:05 16:30:30 16:42:30 11:20:35 January 2000 pusty Times

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12TH TELESTRA RALLY AUSTRALIA Makinen Makes Merry In Australia By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden Richard Burns and Robert Reid take to the air in the Subaru lmpreza, flying to a most impressive win in Australia. Tommi Makinen cruised to Makinen and Didier Auriol his fourth successive World were able to become the Cham-Rally Championship title, and pion Driver. In the FIA Teams Toyota finally gained an un-Cup, the Valencia Terra y Mar, beatable lead in the Manufac-Toyota Mobil Turkey and Fidor turers series. The winner, after Teams could still win. In the a hard fought battle against W2L, unless both Hyundais fin-" Sainz was Richard Burns, who, ished and one won the cat-.\for the second time within a 12 egory, Renault would become ''month period, found an out-champion in Australia. In ,.rright victory overshadowed by Group N, Gustavo Trelles was ,:;,: the championship successes of ' far ahead of his nearest rival -~others. Burns Subaru eventu-Hamed Al W-ahaibi, but here ally won by 11.6 seconds, on an there was uncertainty. Austra-event where the leading mar-lia was the last .event-on which gin was never· more· than -12 a driver' could comply with .. seconds. It was a competent championship rules for the FIA display by Burns o a rally with Production Car Cup, which de-a high attrition rate, particu-mand participation at l a.st larly on the first day, which saw once outside Europe. The offi-Makinen's title challenger, Di-cial start list for this event was dier Auriol, leave the road and the first time those who did not damage the car after an acute qualify for the series could be transmission problem. Colin identified. The question was, McRae crashed into a tree at what happened to points won high speed, Kankkunen earlier in the season by drivers crashed into a tree stump and who were not going to qualify? Delecour was busy breaking By one interpretation, points Peugeot gearboxes. The Ford would be "Bunched Up", mean-Team, who had recently hired ing that Gustavo had already Sainz for the year 2000, was the won his fourth successive title. only works team to finish out This was hard on Al Wahaibi, of the points. whose team Ralliart Germany The penultimate round of had entered a second car for the 1999 FIA World Rally the event in the hope ofblock-Championship took place in ing the chance of Trelles gain-western Australia. Toyota, Su-ing points. Of all the FIA se-baru and Mitsubishi all still had ries, only the Teams Cup could a chance to win the Manufac-not be decided in Australia and turers title, but only Tommi must go to the Network Q Rally of Great Britain. World Championship tactics for as explained by manager Phil Short: "Our tactics for Australia is for our driver Tommi Makinen to finish ahead of his rival, Didier Au-riol. Ifhe does this, it will then be very difficult for Didier to take the title at the final round in England. ff Didier does not finish, Tommi will be cl:v;i.mpion in Australia if he can• finish third or bettet;." News from' Toyota was nos-talgic. 'The cars for Sainz and Auriol were the very liist two works cars to be -built• by TTE, as the cars for England will be rebuilt ones. The Ford of McRae finally had the new Cosworth designed high com-pression engine that had been intended for China. Neither SEAT or Peugeot had done any testing in Australia before-hand, though the Teams Gentlemen's agreement al-lowed three days testing in ad-vance. Subaru brought with them the same two cars which finished 1-2 in Finland. The plans for most teams for the year 2000 were frustrated by delays by Ford in obtaining the services of Sainz. Most of SEAT Sport's recent activities have been behind closed doors, in an endeavor to establish the best possible driver lineup for 2000. Peugeot meanwhile had withdrawn their appeal of the penalty imposed on Delecour for unauthorized access to stages before the SanRemo rally, for fear that more serious action could be taken. No ac-tive front differentials were to be used in Australia and the team's only experience of this event was when Delecour was here five years ago. In the FIA W2L Series, it seemed like the Hyundai Team had lost the will to fight off the challenge of Renault. Renault were represented here by the British based Renault Dealer Team, but when Dean Herridge offered to run his Hyundai in Australia for the price of bring-ing his rally car back from En-gland, his offer was rejected. And when a local privateer withdrew his entry with an Ac-cent from the event, apparently because he was short of funds, no offer of help was forthcom-ing. VW, although now out of the series, was represented by entries from both England and Australia. In the Teams Cup, this would be Frederic Dar's fi-nal opportunity. To have a chance to win, he had to beat his two fellow Teams Cup com-petitors, Hamed Al Wahaibi and Michael Guest who were each in Group N cars. The gravel roads used on the special stages on this event cre-ate a uniq·ue character, with layers of small spherical stones lying loosely on a hard base. The surfaces on the stages can be so slippery it can be difficult to even walk across the road. Pirelli call the problem the "Rolling Stones." Michelin technicians explain that these stones can bond themselves to-gether under pressure, "the trick is to jam the stones mo-mentarily into the tread blocks and then immediately expel them." This technology is not encountered anywhe·ie else ,in the championship. These stones create special demand on precision of driving and tire tread designs and an unfair im-balance of condition for driv-ers when the surfaces become cleaner with every passing car. The organizers, therefore, introduced a most complicated system of equalizing chances for all, which meant on two specific occasions, the drivers themselves chose their own preferred running order on the road. On Friday, the first full day, the top cars would run in re-verse order through the stages. Tommi Makinen was to start the day running 17th car on the road. At the press conference on Friday and Saturday the top 12 drivers would select their starting positions for the fol-lowing day. On the televised final stage, the top cars would run in reverse order irrespec-tive ·of drivers chosen starting positions, at three minute in-tervals, and with gaps for com-mercial breaks. The opinions generally were that this was an attempt to create fairer sport, though Subaru felt it took away one of the important factors in competition, that of correctly choosing tactics. It was also suggested that setting up the car might change as a result. Leg 1 -11 Stages, gravel, 135kms. The main debate con-cerned the order of starting. Decisions came and went but finally there were to be 16 cars running in reverse order, begin-ning with Frederic Dor and ending with Tommi Makinen. McRae was fastest in his Ford at the superspecial Slage at Langley Park, where every driver ran in reverse order. But, when the rally began in earnest the next morning it was Auriol who inched ahead. Tommi had a slight gearshift problem, but catching back his nine second deficit, some five seconds be-hind McRae was not easy to do. Makinen's first break came when Auriol ran into trouble. The Frenchman finished Stage 6 after dropping 25 seconds when he hit a tree. Although Didier was able to reach the next service park where repairs were made, the engine would . not restart. They found the cyl-inders were full of water and the car was withdrawn. This left McRae in the lead with Tommi 5. 7 seconds behind but in second spot. On Stage 8, McRae made three errors, twice he overshot and also had a 360 degree spin, with Maki-nen now .3 seconds in the lead. Both Colin and Tommi had flats on Stage 9 and fell back behind Sainz and Burns, both of ,whom had been delayed on the publicity stages when they made their runs in lots of dust thrown up by the Group N cars. The curiosity of the rally was how the seeding system was working. In front of the 12 works drivers, spaces were left for five non-works drivers. This was highlighted when Dor, seeded first, came under criti-cism when his turbo failed on Stage 8, causing a dust storm for the following drivers. Granholm was angry, he suffered three minutes of delay, Rovanpera about two minutes and Delee-our about half a minute. And . there were a lot of strong opin-ions being bantered about. The drivers were sensing that the system was not working quite as Creating lots of dust, Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya drove their Toyota Toshihiro Arai and Roger Freeman drove their Subaru lmpreza to a Kenneth Eriksson and Staffan Parmander were the first W2L car, ninth Corolla to second in the rally, 12 seconds away from the win. great eighth overall, first in Group N. a real good run. overall in their good looking Hyundai Coupe. Page 24 January 2000 Dusty Times

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Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautiainen kick up all sorts of dust as Photographers snap the Ford Focus of Thomas Radstrom and Fred Harri Rovanpera and Risto Pietilainen plow through the forest in their they head to fifth overall in the Peugeot 206. Gallagher on a one point landing on the way to a seventh place finish. SEAT Cordoba, a sixth overall in the offing. expected, at least on the first McRae drove 12kms with no ta[, each time bemg due to a VW was having trouble getting Luis Climent was the only days stages. The problem with brakes at all. and was unhappy. different cause. Renault's driv-traction and he also lost his driver now a·ble to challenge the front runners was made Then he lost them again and ers took a long time getting rear brakes. Volkan lsik for their teams worse when Dor took six min-had to spin the car into the going and then Laukkanen lost In the Teams Cup, all three honor. utes penalty to force Yoshihiro trees to stop it! Hyundai later 10 minutes on Stage 5 when he drivers disappea(ed. Dor did After the final stage of the Kataoka to run first on the road, confirmed that the two brake slid wide and gN stuck on an not start Stage 9 and the two day, the top 10 drivers were in-and Neil Bates took one minute failures were merely coinciden-embankment. Mark Higgins' Group N drivers retired. So, Conti~!~ o~ page 10 as well for this reason, imping-ing even more on the works drivers running behind. Kankkunen had a short rally. He slid into a tree stump on Stage 5 and abandoned the effort. Possum Bourne retired earlier when the cam belt failed on Stage 2. Delecour· was hav-ing tranny troubles, he lost sec-ond, third and sixth and had the tranny changed. Then there was trouble with the rear differential and then the re-placement tranny started to fail as well. The car was withdrawn at the end of the day. Gron-holm had steering troubles and also the engine was quitting on stages. Then he lost time be-cause of Dor, the steering failed again and he had to really slow down for every curve. Thomas Radstrom's Ford was having trouble getting up to speed. Gardmeister had smoke in the cockpit due to a broken line in the engine compartment but was gradually starting to go bet-ter. Rovanpera arrived with a huge bulge protruding from his tire where the mousse insert was exuding from inside. Katoaka lost his brakes on Stage 8, Freddy Loix had to have his suspension changed when the wheel studs seized onto the nuts and then had to drive two more stages with un-adjusted braking. In Group N, as the rally was actually starting, news came from Geneva that the FIA had decided that the Group N title race was still open. Thus Al Wahaibi was not to be banned from the title by "bunching up" the points scored by drivers who did not qualify. Toshihiro • Arai statted badly with the en-gine cutting out on the super-special stage. On Stage 6, Michael Guest bent his suspen-sion on a rock and on Stage 7, Al W ahaibi came to grief. He slid wide on a bend and ripped off his rear suspension, the end of his championship hopes. Taguchi rolled on Stage 6 and lost six minutes. Konishi had loose rear suspension. T re Iles stopped with drive shaft troubles and Guest retired when he hit a rock. All the stress caused by the FIA inde-cision was for naught! In F2, Kenneth Ericksson went into the lead in Group N, but had steering problems, the alternator bracket broke, caus-ing him 10 seconds service park lateness penalty. Alister Dusty Times DEIST SEAT BEL TS The greatest name In driver safety equipment. 4-po/nt sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2• • 5polnt mount 3• • 5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS . 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The Renault Maxi Megane of Martin Rowe and Derek Ringer flew to Tommi Makinen is one happy fella, 3third in the rally but he won his Colin McRae and Nicky Grist survey the damage to their Ford Focus a nice 10th overall, second in F2 competition. fourth successive World Rally Driver's Championship. after a run in with an Australian tree. vited to the Press Office to se-making a lot of unpleasant problems. Granholm never ing and Arai was back in the while Higgins still had traction lect their starting times. So, noises. He survived the stage, stopped trying, despite an al-lead. He had suffered misfiring troubles, even after a differen-starting with Sainz, then Burns they changed the turbo and the most tragic moment when he and found that running with a tial change. and so forth made their bids, wastegate but the car was not went off the road. Burns stayed full fuel tank eased the problem. So, most of the suspense starting from 10th place back up cured completely. Gardmeister 11 seconds ahead on the last In F2, Eriksson lost time on ended in Australia, Burns took to first, but curiously there were was now well behind, he was long stage of the rally. By now, the opening stage. His f"rant the cherished win and Tommi only nine drivers available so gaining experience for another the pressure was off, two titles suspension was progressively Makinen took his fourth sue-nobody was officially going to year. Radstrom struggled and had been won and Burns toeing-in, making the handling cessive World Rally Champion-start first at all! was lucky to continue after hit-· cruised aroun4 the final stage worse and worse. He was de-ship title. The Network Q Rally Leg 2 - 8 Stages, gravel, ting a rock on the final stage of as the winner of his fourth layed by the dust of Nittel and coming up in England will de-160kms. Overnight Peugeot the day. Kataoka crashed and world rally. spun once. However, Martin cide the W2L and Teams Cup made an official inquiry over retired from the fray, Bates mis-Uwe Nittel was leading Rowe was having trouble with winners and the rally will par-the delays suffered by both judged a corner and turned his Group N until he found a rock the deepening ruts and Eriks-tially be one for fun instead of their drivers due to Dor's dust. Corolla on its side and he too which badly damaged his steer-son was able to stay in the lead business. Stay tuned! ■ The request fo-r a canceled retired. 12th Telatra Rally Auatrali• Perth (AUSI 4-7.11.9' WC round ll WorlJ Cha~p,onah,p stage was denied. Already there In F2 Alister McRae had a l 1•1 Richard BURNS/Robert .. ,. CB Subaru Iaprua WRCar oA Tl2SRT (OBI ~':~!',,.,._. ~~ ~ ~2 TC only seemed the fop drivers drive shaft fail on the first stage ~ ~:: ~~~!~·w:~;::,~~!:t:0~:nn1aenr1•k1 :1" ~1~:~:1;:r0t!~c:::c:~olutlon : :2~:1:c~~) ~~::;::~r~:: : : able to take the restart and but did reach repair at the next ! gi, :~:~~! ~~~:,g~~~r~:•~:uuatn•n :r" ~!~;~::•~~6c~~::a 01 : i~~::,J~8f,, !~:~~=:~~:~:: ~ ~ when the news came from the Service Park. Eriksson thought ~ ~:: ;~~~!:~~:;:~~:::::0 c:tr!~~:;n•n :;~a :~! ~:~~:b:R~=~•r : =~~:~~G,~:: :~: ;~::~1: ::: ~ ~ first stage of Leg 2 that McRae he had a tire going down_ on : g~~ !::~!~~r:r1~:!~~~~~!1~!:•;:~,under ~,ca =~~~~/~~~::a.~xc;n n•t r2, : ~~i!:ri :~;~ !~:~~:::!:!:: · -10 • • was out, the event seemed to Stage 15 and eased off a bit, al-~:h~;◄i.p::~!~~ :~:1~~=~=k RJ.nv•r GI ••n•ult H•g•n• M•xi '2nd '21 A 9•20vsH (Fl .. h.06 .. ··2~·1•-have lost its sting. It happened lowing Martin ·Rowe to catch !! :~:: -Z~r:t::9~~~=~~~!:~dT:~~!~r ~= :;u:!i ~!~P;•~1t3~:r'f!th ,2, ~.:;:!~2fa~~1 !~:i~:::::~!: - -◄ 16 (lOJ Ton1 GARDBHEISTER/Paavo Lukander PIN SEAT Cordoba WACar A B8139UW (EJ fh.13111.]9.·, •. at a flat-out sixth gear bend up a bit on time. Evans crashed 19 (Jll. Tapio Laukkanen/K•l Lindstrom PIH Renault Max, Hov•n• ($th P2J A 90$9VRH IPI 4h.14ffi.46,7a . • - J with a dip and a slight crest. for a second time, putting his When the Ford landed it sud-VW on its roof for about five denly snapped to the left and minutes, but after being righted hit a tree with the right front he was able to carry on. corner. The speed going off the In Group N, Arai lost his road was estimated at 150kph. lead after driving 8kms on a flat Ricky Grist had a painful ankle tire and Nittel went into the and Colin was unhurt! Now the lead. Cody Crocker damaged rally took on a different dimen-his front suspension after try-sion. Burns on that stage had ing lo match Ed Ordynski's just got in front of Sainz and times and he retired. Konishi, now Tommi had inherited third trying to polish his rallying place. If the order stayed like techniques, finally went off the this Sainz was going to clinch road and overturned. the manufacturers title for Leg 3 - 4 Stages, gravel, Toyota and Makinen the driv-1 00kms. The day started off ers series once again. with the two SEA Ts running Granholm was the course first car on the road, with the opener today and suffered on first of the two lapsing into two the slippery surfaces. Radstrom wheel drive. Burns was 4.4 sec-was next and had the same slip-onds in front of Sainz and the pery problems. Sainz was for-fight for fifth place was covered ever changing his set up but by 9.2 seconds. was happier as the day wore on. On the first stage with the Loix was in trouble, first with top cars again running in re-a tire coming off the rim and verse order, Gardmeister's then a front differential failed, tranny problems on the SEAT Gardmeister had rear wheel surfaced once more. The hy-drive only after a central cliff draulic pressure kept fluctuating failure. Richard Burns was and when it went down to zero struggling to extend his lead there was only rear wheel drive. over Sainz but then missed a Loix opted for tires that were a turn and Sainz almost caught bit too wide. Sainz was going him again. Richard had climbed well and took four seconds off up to a 8.2 second lead but it Burns. The difference was now was now down to 1.2 seconds! one second! On the second The long Stage 16 saw the stage Carlos had big problems, battle for the lead still as close the handling was awful for the as ever. Gardmeister was still in first six' kms, then he noticed rear wheel drive and because of the hydraulic pump switch was the "self selection starting or-off and the differentials were der", he was running in front of not working at all. One switch the major players on the rally. and he was back to full speed, He asked the officials if he but the damage had been done. could run behind the cars im-He had lost over 10 seconds and mediately behit1d him. They let with it, any hope of the win. Makinen go through but after a After the penultimate stage similar request Burns was re-Gardmeister reported his trans-fused. Gardmeister did pull over mission problem was getting so and let Burns th rough and then bad that he could hardly climb did t h e same for Sa inz. one of the hills. Granholm was Gardmeister even lost road time passed· by Ro vanpera wh o at the following time control be-jumped from seventh to fifth. cause of his delays. His team-Radstrom was depressed, falling mate, Rovanpera had trouble, from fifth to seventh. Loix was the engine_ running flat and still having rear differential Page 27 Advanced Manufacturer \ of .High Perf Torque Converters s Axles Des19-n Hubs :<''"' Senit Let'o mission lndust't¥ior Over 34 Years. ·,J; ut You In -· · e Winners Circle! i¥ Axles., ,. ,r of aircraft .alloy mate-rials and uses two rge timkeri.ttieahngs per . .# Hub. With the TCS Hub you can acheive a full ,$ 25 Degree Axle Angle. Custom length 930 & 934 Axles are made from 300m materials. Also avialable 31, 35, 40 & 44 Spline Live Axles. TCS can make any size and/ or length. January 2000 Dusty Times

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SNORE RESERVE 250 Gaughan Gets Gold Reserve By John Calvin Photos: •Carrera Photography John Gaughan and B. J. Richardson, a ve,y tough team, had a good day, and took the overall win at the SNORE Reserve 250. It couldn't have been a better another minute onto his lead on day at Nelson Hills as the com-the second lap, added yet another petitors made ready for a very easy minute to the lead on Lap 3, but at first, but progressively rougher things started going downhill on 250 mile run for the gold at the Lap 4 and then disaster struck on SNORE Reserve 250. The sun Lap 5. There was a quick recov-was shining, the temperature was ery on the last lap but the dam-going into the low 80s and the age had been done and it was_ a only thing missing was a breeze, long third place finish, over half but all systems were go. This was an hour out of the top spot. Billy the last race of the SNORE sea- Goerke was running solo in the son and it would be the deciding ' Brian Collins owned· super fast race as to who would win the buggy which masquerades as a overall points and therefore, the truck (Fiberglass works wonders) , annual giveaway of the entirely and he was second after Lap 1, contributed race car which is the dropped to third on the second reward of the points winner. lap, then lost a fuel pump which The Class 1 contest was a cliff was costly and he recorded a very hanger for a while. Robert Wood long third lap. He started pour-took off on the first lap, took the ing the coal to the car on the wan-lead by two min_utes and recorded ing laps but then the tranny the fast lap of the race. He put started to heat up so he cooled it and finished the race in a very respective second spot. The John Gaughan/B.J. Richardson combo is becoming the one to beat in Class i and, believe me, it ain't easy. BJ, who shaved his head rather than buy a larger helmet ran the first half of the race and ran very quick and similar lap times, handing the car over to John in second place. John had a flat on the next to last lap but he kept on flying low and recorded the Class 1 win, both he and BJ having a very nice day. The Class 10 contest was a good one, in spite of many of the hot contenders dropping out of the contest early on. Jeff Shiroky, Shane Robinson and Robby Goerke never made a lap, drop-ping out for various reasons. Jim In Class 10, the win went to Jeremy Gubler and Danny Anderson, in a Jimco, but it was close, and they had only a little less than two minutes on second place. Price set fast lap for the class on Lap 2 and had a two minute lead on the rest of the class but the race gods were angry and he never completed Lap 3. Dan Bentley was mister consistent for the first four. laps, but he too had major problems on Lap 5. He lost a rear shock, replaced it and that too went away and then the transmis-sion was suddenly full of neutrals and he never completed the race. Clay Flippin escaped us in post race interview, but we know his lap times were quick after a ter-rible first lap which had him in last spot, but he carried on and slowly climbed up to the third spot by race end, over an hour off the pace. B.J. Baldwin thought he had it made, the car was performing perfectly on his solo drive but he had major troubles on the third lap when the alternator stand broke and that added 26 minutes to his third lap time. But, he poured the coal on for the last two laps and without rear brakes to help him, he almost made up the lost time. However, second spot was where he finished, less than _two minutes out of the.Class 10 win. The winning Class 10 car was piloted by Danny Anderson and Jeremy Gubler. Danny drove the first half, surrendered the car to Gubler who really turned it on and turned laps of 58, 50 and 4 7 minutes. So, in spite of three flats and nagging ignition problems the boys took the win in Class 10 and were walking on air. The Class 1600 fracas was a good one, and there was lots of contention for the win, not too much time difference between many of the cars during the race. Neither Milo Torres nor Rick Boyer completed their last lap, succumbing to_ various problems. Rudy Rossorelli managed to get three laps done before disappear-ing from the charts and Bryan Anderson only got two laps un-der his wheels and Bryan Freeman had the distinction of being the first retiree in 1600. Robby Guevara was the fastest car in the class, but he never seemed to be able to escape trag-edy. On the last lap, with his win assured he lost a throttle cable and broke a drum which took many minutes to repair and he ended up sixth, over an hour out of the hunt. Pat Dean was also up there in the top few but he too had problems on the last two laps and was 40 minutes away from the.-win, taking fifth in class. The tall and beautiful Day Gang was in the running for the Class 1600 win also. Her only real problem was avoiding a car that was blocking the course and laying her car on its side for a few minutes. Day fin-ished fourth in her almost brand new car. Dan Martin had a great Billy Goerke drove all the way in this Chevy powered truck/buggy A broken alternator stand gave B. J. Baldwin some trouble, but he Clay Flippin had a terrible first lap, but gradually climbed back up owned by Brian Collins, to take second overall, after a fuel pump poured on the steam once it was fixed, and moved up to finish second to third place, over an hour down, and last in the class to get all problem. · in Class 10. six laps in. -~~--------------------Dan Bentley had four good laps, then his troubles began, and a blown Scott Smith had a good run in his handsome car, but one flat tire was Dan Martin tipped his car over late in. the day, breaking an ignition transmission finally put him out, though he's shown as earning fourth all it took to put him into second place in 1/2-1600, seven minutes switch. Some sticky tape and a pair of vise-grips got him to the finish place. behind the winner. _a_s _th_e_t_h_ird_ 1_6_00_. ______ __________ _ Page 28 January 2000 Dusty Times

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Day Gang had a good day going, but while trying to avoid a stalled car she tipped hers over and lost enough time to drop back to After a really good start, Pat Dean had two troubled laps, and Robby Guevara got off to a great start, and recorded class fast lap at 48:56, but disaster fell on lap five while he led, knocking him back to sixth place. fourth place. ended his day in fifth place in the 1/2-1600 ranks. day going 'til the fifth lap when Scott Smith was yet another Jeff was looking to follow up on all hell broke loose. He tipped the contender for the 1600 win. He his SNORE 250 win and he had a car over in some rough stuff and had no mechanical woes during trouble free run, running in the the ignition switch broke. Enter the race, just one flat tire to second spot until the last lap a pair of vise-grips and a lot of reckon with and in spite of all his when he surged into the lead. tape to hold all the wires together, efforts he took the silver medal in Jeff's Victor Torres engine and away we go! Dan finished his class, just seven minutes away brought him to the victory, desert trek 10 minutes away from from the win. Now we come to coupled with lots of help .from the lead in a very respectable third the gold medal winner, Jeff Carr, Webb-Weld. The victory gave Jeff place. in his always good looking Mirage. a nice $2500 prize for the class Dave Spencer and Todd Johnson recbrded the Class 9 fast lap, at win and I believe it gave him the overall points win for the SNORE season. Class 9 had 16 cars answer the call and the racing was close and fierce. There were quite a few DNF's, especially for the Class 9 contingent. Mandy Dixon, Chad Woodruff, Joel Davis and Mike Shimp never completed their first lap. Bill Avery and Kenny Thatcher only got one lap com-pleted before they went the way of all flesh. Dan Benstead got in two long laps and Matt Cunning-ham finished two quick laps be-fore they both disappeared from the charts. Al Rux didn't have the best of Continued on page 34 56: 16, and got a squeaker of a second place, only 17 seconds behind Mark Bunderson had no mechanical trouble, but couldn't see through Dwaine Walters lost some time to a flat tire on his two-seater, and the winning car. the dust. He piloted his Bunderson to a third place finish. ended his day In fourth place, only eight minutes behind the victor. Spring to Success ... IIN:llllrilP, Ille. • "'-949 71i2 8700 • DlllrilllllAlr: Parker~ 1119 88111854 Page 30 January 2000 • Eibach Springs is proud to announce it's complete line of· ultra high qualitv off-road springs. Available in 10, 12, 14 & 16 inch free lengths with 3" ID. A well designed & manufactured spring will last thousands of cvcles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's whv top chassis builder Mike Julson chooses Eibach Sprinus. He knows what It takes to win ... Now so do vou. Dusty Times

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Joe Shebley fought with a loose front-end all race long, still managed to keep moving fast enough to take fifth place in the very competitive Thomas and Seana Taliaferro ran neck and neck with Shebley, but Todd Dukes joined in the Class 9 fray, with five evenly paced laps on Class 9 race. slowed some on the final laps, and ended up taking sixth. the rougher and rougher course, to take a nice seventh place. days, putting in five fairly long laps Joe Shebley was the fifth finisher Mark Bunderson, had no mechani- race, no mechanical woes, no flats Now we come to the and finishing in the eighth posi- in class, fighting a loose front end cal problems, just a bit of trouble to contend with and when they wunderkind of SNORE Class 9 tion. Todd Dukes, who finished in all race long. Dwaine Walters had seeing through the dust and he re- arrived at the finish line they dis-racing in 1999. Jeremy Harmon seventh spot was duking it out all no mechanical woes during the corded a nice third place, only six covered they were only 17 sec-ran his usual solo race, once race long with Tom Taliaferro and race, only one flat to impair his minutes away from the win. onds out of first place in spite of again had no mechanical prob-his wife Seana and they took the performance and he took fourth, Dave Spencer and Todd Todd setting fast lap for the class !ems to slow him down, no flats sixth finishing position in Class 9. only eight minutes out of the win. Johnson had an almost flawless at 56: 16. ----,ccc-----....,..._,.,...,.., to irritate the driver and once ~----.::....::----------'---=------~----~ again he took the checkered flag Jeff Carr ran six really steady lap times in his Mirage, to take the win in Class 1/2-1600 after a very hard fought race. c.areusrum THE VOLKSWAGEN SUPERSTORE 915 w. Foothill Blvd. • Azusa, CA 91702 • carcustom.com BGD•227•5165 626-334-4951 • Fax 626-334-4729 Page 34 and a check for $2000, not too bad for four hours and 48 min-utes of indescribable fun. Con-grats to Jeremy for his win and for a hellava '99 season. In the 5-1600 division, only Greg Price took to the track in the many hued Volkswagen, turned a one hour lap and was never heard from again. 'N uf said about that! The Heavy Metal contingent was not out in force this race. Robby Woolworth only got in three of the required four laps before retiring to the trailer. John Phegley and Jerry Stewart had the first two laps go well but then Jeremy Harmon continued his good season, ran five consistent laps and took the trouble struck and their last two Class 9 win, in a very tight battle. laps were long ones. They wanted January 2000 Dusty Times

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Tom and Greg Reck finished their day with a broken rear torsion bar, John and "Pops" McCormack teamed up in their two-seater, and had Greg Price. Running by himself in the 5-1600 ranks, had one long lap but had done well enough early on that they took second place in the fast lap at 53:59 on their last lap, but earlier problems slowed them to and didn't come around again, still going into the records as the winner. Sportsman Buggy division. a third place finish in Sportsman Buggy. Chaz Sutton and Brad Mauer ran fine early in the day, lost their suspension late in the going, and ended up in fourth in the Sportsman Buggy category. Tammie and Regan Gubler had three good laps, but lost about 22 minutes on lap three, which dropped them back, and they finished fifth in Sportsman Buggy. Mark Pettit lost about 20 minutes on his third and final lap in the Sportsman Truck class, but still took a fine second place in his Chevy. tunately, thetr services are not re-out thts year, as the number quired often but they are there would astound most people. when needed. Thanksalotforyour Don't forget, the SNORE valuable help. Awards Banquet, January 1, to express their thanks to Tommy Bradley and crew for giving them a hand when they really needed it. Their efforts got them a long awaited finish and a win to boot! Congrats to you and your yellow monster. Sportsman Buggy had an im-pressive 11 entries, a darn fine showing for the· last race of the year. However, the Sportsman also suffered from attrition and only six of them managed to make it to the finish line. Don Roberts and Jason Gubler didn't complete one lap and Bob Guevara (Robby's dad), only got in one lap, although it was a decent time of 1 :06. Rick Elliot made it through two laps, his first one was a disas-ter and Eric Shenberger had two good laps (ollowed by a very long third, losing the front suspension and that was the end of his race. Karnie Bennallack had troubles on the first lap, recovered on the second lap, handed over to co-driver Dale and after a scavenger hunt to find the left rear wheel after it flew off they finished the race in sixth place. Tammie and Regan Gubler had a slow third lap and it cost them a position or two as they finished fifth. Chaz Sutton and Brad Mauer were running in fine form until the suspension went away just as they started their last lap, so they sol-diered on and took the fourth place finish. John McCormack and "Pops" split the driving chores and had three good laps, the third lap being _terrible when the exhaust system had to be replaced. "Pops went on to set fast time for the class on the fourth lap, a nice 53:59. When all was said and done, they were third, less than four minutes out of the second spot. Second place in Sportsman Buggy went to Thomas Reck. Tom drove the first two laps with no problems, handed over to Greg and soon thereafter the ·left rear torsion bar broke but they hung in and took a fine sec-ond place in class. The Sportsman Buggy victors were Alex and Wayne Koons. They were running in .second place for the first two laps but moved into the lead on Lap 3 and ran a trouble free race. Dusty Times They took rhe gold medal and had 25 minutes in hand at race end. Congrats to all the Sportsman folk. Sportsman Truck had four en-tries at the Reserve 250. Rudy Suriano never completed the first lap, Ed Geofroy only got in one lap before getting on the trailer. We didn't get to talk to Mark Petit at race end but the reliable Chevy came in for the second spot with a noticeably slower third lap due to????? The Sportsman Truck winner, by a huge margin was the good looking truck of Tommy Bradley, Jr. He and his dad shared the driving chores for their re-quired three laps. Junior doing the first two an<:l dad the final lap. They finished their three laps in 3: 10:02 and wanted to go another lap, they were having so much fun. They were feeling a bit of front end and shock problems on the last lap but they were elated with their win. The awards wern at the Reserve Hotel and Casino on Sunday morn-ing and were well attended. Lots of trophies and lots of money was handed out to the various class winners and runners-up, SNORE donated over $1,100 to the ambu-lance service that has served their races for many years. The South-ern Nevada Volunteer First Aid and Rescue Association is always on station at SNORE races and for-Alex and Wayne Koons ran a trouble free race in tbe Sportsman Buggy division, to take the win by just over 25 minutes. Tommy Bradley, Jr. and his dad, Tom, shared the driving in their new Sportsman Truck Chevy, with Jr. doing the first two and dad finishing up, to take the win. January 2000 So the 1999 season comes to 2000 at Michael Gaughan's an end. We should do a recap Gold Cost Hotel and Casino. of the monies SNORE has paid See you there!!!!! ■ John Phegley and Jerry Stewart had two good laps and then two long ones, but still took the Heavy Metal win. PIKES service center Baker, California Ce/ebr~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 2_4 Hours M · b•I® 0 -1 'SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 35

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VORRA September Short course By Forest Creasy Dennis Kordonowy was second in the first heat, took things in hand in the second heat for the win and was the overall Class 1 winner for the weekend. The first race after the desert series was a rip roaring event. September 25th and 26th was the first of the three race series taking place at Prai-rie City Off Road Park in Sac-ramento, CA. Cars put on their short course rubber, threw out their co-drivers, and put those short course transmissions in for a rock n' roll hoochie coo of a time. Early Tech and Reg-istration took place on Satur-day and racing bi::gan 11 :00 a.m. sharp on Sunday morning. The racing consisted of two moto style events, the second being the tie breaker . . Working front to back, the Class 1 had three take to the line. Sam Berri, Dennis Kor-donowy, switching from his fa-miliar ten spot, and a new-comer Dwight Green. Out front ea-rly on Race 1 was Berri and when he gets out early he does not give in. Kordonowy was second keeping the pressure on, but had to settle for second. Green could not get started and looked for redemption in Race 2. ' The green flag came out for Race 2 and Kordonowy wasn't going to be outdone from Race l as he kept Berri in his rear view mirror the entire race. Al-though Kordonowy was in front of Berri, Green was the real battle for Kordonowy in the race. Kordonowy giving over 300 horsepower to Green were TRANSAXLE ENGINEERING. INC CONGRATULATIONS Mike Julson, driving Ron Satters Toyota Powered Junco at the SCORE . . P~ 300 (3rd Class I )and to Ron Satters, driving his own car for a great finish at the MDR Barstow 300 (2nd Class 1). Race And Win With Transaxle Products Transa:xle Engineering Jeff Fieid Page 36 818-998-2 7 39 9763 Variel Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 January 2000 battling back and forth ending the day in terrific fashion. Kor-donowy ended the day with the blue ribbon, Berri got second while saving his ride for the Vegas to Reno route. Green could not get quite up to speed. and finished third. Sounding like a broken record the Class 10s were out and racing in awesome fashion. A couple of newer 10 entries Kevin Lewis, who lost a trans-mission during morning prac-tice and' Scott Peterson who traveled from Washington, did not even start the weekend. This left four racers for two great motos of racing. Troy Robinson in his single seater took the early lead and looked to secure a podium on this day with a first moto win. David-Kordonowy, son of the great Dennis, drove a copy of Den-nis' ride. David's car only has a five gallon fuel cell though, so he races only the short course events and finished second in Moto 1. Rob Parsons had his desert twin seater out and in third battling up front as well, but still only got third. "Flying" Bob Martin had some problems early in Race 1 and completed one of eight laps ans received a fourth. Race 2 was the tie breaker and Kordonowy needed a first in order to preserve the gold medal. If you believe it, he's even crazier, err faster, than his dad (according to him), and sprinted out early and finished first in Moto 2 and was able to take home the big check of the weekend. The other three, Robinson, Parson, and relief driver Patrick Timmons for Martin had to settle for the fi-nal three spots. Timmo~s, do-ing a great job in relief and first time in the car secured a nice second in Moto 2, bu·t with the bad first round only got a fourth for the weekend. Parson main-tained a constant pace and re-ceived a third for the second race, and third for the week-end. Robinson, a winner early in the day, did a flip flop and couldn't get going finishing fourth in the second race, but the way the scoring shook out received a nice deuce for the day. Class 9 had a few more en-tries than the desert races and five racers took the line. John Creasy took the early lead as I (Forest Creasy), broke an axle off the line and coasted down the track for a great view of the· ,action. John took the lead over Dave Tarrant who was looking for his third straight short course victory. Eric Steiger ran third and Keith Ison off the lead in fourth. It sucked break-ing, but watching was cool from the infield and brother John took the victory in his stars and stripes vehicle. Tarrant ran close, but had to settle for sec-ond. Steiger reported no prob-lems and came in third. Ison got lapped and finished fourth in Moto 1. Race 2 had an inverted start and after replacing the axle with help from my crew began again. I had nothing to lo!:e and ran away from the crowd and finished first in the second moto. I needed some serious help in order to finish respec-tively and that was not to come this day. Tarrant needed to fin-ish in front of brother John in order to take the victory. Heed-ing the challenge, Tarrant went out and finished second in Race 2 and finished first for the third straight time. Steiger passed John• on the r"oad -as a broken ring and pinion ended the sec-ond race early. Steiger motored around and completed the race in third and a great second place for a satisfying weekend. John Creasy coasted around and took a nice third even though trah.smission problems haunted him again. I managed a horrible fourth and slipped further behind in the ·points hunt. Ison couldn't get his ride dialed in right and went home fifth. Class 7 always follows the nine cars in the short course. , Seven slick super speedy 7 trucks took the line for a double race event. The finish-ing rate was great as only one race had problems during the day. A different truck, yet fast, had Fred Calosso taking the lead and was there to stay for the first round. The real race was back in the pack as Mike Koenig, Bill Manfory, and Tim Schrader and his cup holder battled for the two, three,, and four spots. I enjoy watching these trucks, but most of them are painted white and its like watching mail trucks battle for the best parking spot at the post office. Respectively though, I have a lot of respect for these guys, they fly in those stock trucks. Nonetheless, Koenig was able to fend off Manfory for second. Manfory maintained third and Schrader motored in for fourth. Gary Skipton still alive from his desert adven-tures went out and finished a nice fifth. Steve Millward, in an orange truck, took home the sixth place and B.J. & Triston Butcher in their seriously stock speedster, cruised around for a seventh. The Butchers couldn't get it going on Moto 2 as well and finished with a jackpot with seventh in Race 1 and 2 and seventh for the weekend. Deja Vu as Calosso took the ·second win in a row and took home some serious money" for a great victory. Millward in his powerful Ford, took home a great second in Race 2, beating out Koenig at the line. Koenig with a second and a third. was able to secure the silver for the weekend. Millward saved the best for last and took home the bronze. Skipton and Schrader had their own battle going as well, as the winner of this battle got the nod for fourth. Skipton was able to keep Schrader from c;lVertaking him and took home fourth in this competitive class. Schrader completed the required laps and went home with fifth in hand. Manfory had some prob-lems on the second go around, I think an upside-down adven-ture, and got sixth. A couple of truck owners over watered their trucks be-tween races and from there grew four Class 8 vehicles. A couple of newcomers, Dan Canon and Bruce Field, looked to overtake points leader Kenny Brager and hard charger Continued on page 38 Dusty Times

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Dudley Tranum. Canon in his high powered red Ford took the early lead on Brager and Tranum, and won a high heated contest on the first moto . . Brager kept T ranum's ye llow Jeep Truck in the background for a nice second. Tranum managed third and Field only completed half the laps and fin-way through the race and com-pleted Race 1 in firs t. Eberhart's truck flew through the air the best on this day, but was only fas t enough for sec-ond. Newcomer Marsh landed a nice third for his virgin out-ing. Canon in another neatly painted ride maintained a val-iant fourth in a 7-0 pen truck. Seymor finished fifth, looking to close the gap between he and points leader Wald. Sixth went to Sutton, followed by the Wil-sons, the Hix boys, and Ben Wald. ished fo urth. · Canon sh o t ou t into the early lead in Race 2 and despite every effort by Brager to pass him, maintained the lead and • finished first and first, and ob-viously first for the weekend. Brager was back in 2 and 2 and got the silver for the weekend and extended his points lead. Field swapped places with Tranum in Race 2, but still needed a better finish to creep up the finish ladder. Tranum finished more laps and there-fore got third for the day, while Field got fourth. By far the most fun race to watch during the weekend was the Sportsman Truck event. Everything from Scouts, Jeeps, Fords, Broncos, and even a Mad Max Machine went for broke. Well, nine took the line and out of the gate early was the Bronco of John Chapman, the Ford of Eric Eberhart, and the Jee, of James Marsh. Mait Canon followed close behind with Don Sutton, Doug Seymor, Josh & Kyle Hix, an-other family outing for Jared & Chad Wilson, and trusty Ben Wald were all making a run for the top three spots. Chapman gave himself some cushion half-Page 38 Race 2 was much antici-pated and offered more excite~ ment. Sutton was the only anti-climatic piece as his pole position on the second race allowed him to leave the oth-ers behind and finish numero uno on Race 2. The rest of the pack was bound tighter than a new pack of smokes, as Eberhart, Marsh, Chapman, Canon, and the Wilsons all . battled for the second spot. _Every lap the position changed back and forth, one after an-other, and at the line second went to the Wilsons, followed by Eperhart, Marsh, and Canon. Wald crept up to sixth, and the Hixes, Chap-man, and Seymor finished sev-enth, eighth and ninth respec-tively. On the day as parity ran rapid through the class, Sutton got the nod with a great second. race. Coming in with a deuce in hand was Eberhart, followed by Marsh with a nice third for his inaugural effort. Fourth be-longed to the W ilsons, Chap-man was fifth, Canon sixth, and the Hixes got a seventh . Seymor gained a little on W ald finishing in eighth as Ben got ninth. Sportsman Yete'ran was an-other close knitted affair as nine cars wen t after the gold. The green flag dropped and melay appeared as a cluster of cars went after the checkered flag. Jim Cast took control early, but Jon Gurney did not make his run any easier as he trailed just by car lengths. A gn;mp of other cars including points leader Randy Miller and desert specialist Bill Smith, contested Cast for the top spot as well. Further back Millward in his older car, and the two Bradford cars, along with Hooter Meyer's Class 5, and Roscoe Cook's two seater were making up some ground. At the • flag it was a start to finish win for Cast as Gurney couldn't make up the ground settling for second. Smith passed Miller and gained a third while Miller attempted to better his fourth in Race 2. The younger Brad-fords, Steve and Travis, scored a fifth, as Millward managed just a sixth. Meyer motored around for seventh, Cook grabbed eighth, and Ace & Steve Bradford were ninth. Race 2 was quite different than Race 1 except for Mr. Cast as he dominated with his short course special and ac-quired another Win for a sweep and the great weekend. The rest of the field battled January 2000 throughout and the senior Bradford clan were able to se-cure second on Race 2. Third again went to Smith, Gurney got fourth, Miller obtained fifth, then came Cook, Meyer, the other Bradford ride, and finally Millward. At the end of the day Cast swept, Gurney ran good enough for a second, and third went to Smith with a pair of thirds. Miller kept up his consistency with a nice fourth and Ace & Steve Brad-ford came back to get a fifth. The younger Bradfords got sixth, then Cook, Millward, and Meyer closed out the rear. Sportsma~ Novice took the line with eight hungry racers looking for victory. The nice thing about the Novice is they get to follow around the water truck, so by the third lap they all look the same, muddy. Most get around fairly quickly, but Lenny McLean took the hon-ors for the first race and looks to sweep the three race series. Next to take the checkered was Rich Fletcher in an older 1-1600 car. Third belonged to Trisha Robinson, wife to Troy Robinson, in their Class 10 racer. Charlie Bryan, the points leader, looked for a couple more wins before the end of the season finished fourth in his desert racer. Fifth went to Ron Myers, followed by Jason Sacks, Marcia Wadkins, and Terrie Tavis looking for Scotty and wanting more power. The second race was a car-bon copy of the first and, there-fore, finishing places were ex-actly how the moto races fin-ished. McLean would not let up as he swept the class and fin-ished first·on th e weekend. Fletcher went 2 and 2 as well and grabbed a great second tro-phy. Trisha Robinson got two trees and finished third. Bryan extended his points lead for a fourth, Myers was fifth, Sacks, Wadkins, and Tavis were sev-enth, eighth and ninth respec-tively. Pilots were squeezed in amongst the other races and these guys kick some serious butt. These guys are quick. Clint Wolsey, who often races down at Glen Helen and other short course events, swept both races and ran away with money in hand. Bill Dorsey completed both races in the second hole and got the silver on this week-end. Mark Christensen got a fourth and third and finished with the last podium spot. Fa-ther Richard Wolsey got a third and fourth and missed the po--dium with a fourth. Bob Scott couldn't get started and lost out on the competition and fin-ished last. This was just the first of three races. All the races have been completed, but I will leave you in suspense and let you know what happened in the fol-lowing issue. Points are similar to those of last race and many , racers are just looking to finish the year out strong and start over for next year. Pause. If you have to race in the rear view mirror you've al-ready lost. 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,. Prescott Forest Rally Report By Paul Timmerman Photos: Lome Trezise Noel Lawler and Charles Bradley put together a string of fastest times to take first in the Open Class at the Prescott Forest Rally. Prescott Arizona hosted the penultimate round of the Mich-elin/SCCA PRO Rally series. This event saw a combined field of 4 7 entries into the Pro and Club events. This event has been notable for the heat and the desert roads in the· past. Years a_go, it was scheduled dur-ing the summer and tempera-ture took heavy tolls on drivers and cars. With the date now October. 2nd, heat was not an issue. We·wete tre.ated to clear, 50 degre·e mountain: air in· the morning· and highs .ir_i the mid 80s during the ·day. Hard rai~s had hit the area in the· last month, a~d their' efforts were a much bigger factor in this rally. The route included some new stages in the morning, which had exposed rocks, deep ruts, and washouts. One driver felt it was the roughest stages of any rally in North America. An-other change to the event was condensing from a two day event into a single day event. The series leader in Open class for the PRO Rally was the factory supported Hyundai Tiberon of Noei Lawler and Charles· Bradley. They have been runn.ing a 348 hp WRC prot~type motor:" this season, and used it to pow~i: t:9 a com-manding lead, while te·ammates Paul Chqinere and Jeff Becker have bee·n· sidelined by a range of maladies. Both cars were present at -this event, while the Mitsubishi Lancers run by TAD did not attend this event. Lo-cals that could be expected to make strong runs on Open class include the Silver Mitsubishi of Tony Chavez and Ken Cassidy and the multicolored Audi 4°000 Quattro of Lauchlin and Farina O'Sullivan. Both sported shiny new paint and relished the op-port.unity for a t0p· finish in a national round.· Other locals hoping to score some national points included George Pisek and Renn Phillips in their new Quattro S2 and CRS supporters Doug and Sue Robinson in the Bright Red 323 GTX. Doug was giving HID l_ights a try. for the first _time at this rally. ·. , .In Group 5, the KrowHkoskis brought their' Dodge Sh~dow out west to duel with the TRD Toyota of Ralph Kosmides and Joe Noyes. This· category was still up for grabs and both were determined to make it a run for ~\;,-~, .... Ralph Kosimides and Joe Noyes, in a Toyota Supra, took the win in Group 5 and were third overall. the championship. aled in, but has proven reliable In Group 2, Bill Malik and is keeping their hopes for a teamed with Eric Tremblay iri championship alive. Finally the powerful and persistently Mark Tabor teamed with John sideways Volvo. Chad Dykes Dillon in the same Mazda 323 and Deborah Fuller campaigned GTX that ran in Ojibwe with their Toyota pickup, having Lauchlin at the wheel. showed great speed at Rim of In Production class, '98 class the World, but failed to finish. champion Trevor Donison Past Group 2 champion Mike teamed with co-driver John Whitman left the Cosworth Allen in the proven Plymouth ·parked and teamed with Flynn Neon. East coast rallyist Peter Baglin in the trusty Datsun 510. Malaszuk and Darek Szerojko His experience with this car and brought the Daewoo entry to knowledge of desert racing continue their season long make him another strong com-quest. Local Mark Brown again petitor. Bryan Hourt and Pete teamed with Ole Holter in the Cardimen brought their factory Toyota Corolla FX-16, which supported Honda Civic way out was converteo to Production west to have a go as well. this year. From the north woods In Production GT, a large "Mad Mike" Hailey and Emily field of contenders was entered. Weinman came, towing a Seamus Burke and Tom Lawless Dodge rally truck. · piloted a Mitsubishi Gallant, In Club rally, there were a full while Roger Hull and Sean_ 12 entrants for the Open 4WD Gallagher were in their Eagle ' class, swollen 50% by the influx Talon. New to rallying, Patrick of national PGT teams who dual Richard teamed with veteran enter the club event. Running co-driver Ben Bradley in a 2. 5 Audi Quattros were the teams of liter normally aspirated Subaru,. , Laughlin and Farina O'Sullivan, · \Vhile season long competitors· Ron Wood and Kelly Walsh in Lee Shadbolt and Claire-Marie • the VW Specialties Car, and the Chizma were again running the gorgeous red, white, and blue S2 turbocharged Subaru Impreza. of George _Plsek and Renn Phil-Gail Truess and Pattie Hughes lips. Seamus Burke and Tom Law-have been running the whole less dual entered in their Mitsu-season in Mazda 323 GTX's, but bishi Gallant, as did Patrick Ri-had to switch mounts to a chard and Ben Bradley in the Su-rented 323 after a mid-season baru, and Tony Chavez and Ken roll. The rental is not fully di-Continued en page 42 Mike Whitman and Flynn Bag/in, Datsun 510, teamed to win Group 2, Peter Malaszuk and Derek Azerejko were as high as fourth overall, Roger Hull and Sean Gallagher came within a second of the winning finishing second overall. but fell back to nineth in their Production winning Daewoo. GT time, finished second in their Eagle Talon. Laughlin and Farina O'Sullivan, in a multi-colored Audi 4000 Quattro, Bryan Hourt and Pete Cardimen, in a Honda Civic, were second in Henry and Cindy Krolikowski, in a flamed Dodge Shadow, were a took second in the Open class 11th overall. Group 2, fifth overall on the rocky course. close second in Group 5, fourth overall. 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• The local team of Mark Brown and Ole Holter, in a Toyota Corolla FX-16, took second in the Production class. Rallying novice, Patrick Richard and veteran co-driver Ben Bradley, Bill Malik and Eric Tremblay had fuel starvation troubles with their Volvo 240, finished third in Group 2. Cassidy m the Gallant VR-4. No less than six Mazda 323 GTXs were at the rally and all entered this class. T earns included POT competitors Gail Truess and Pattie Hughes, Pacific north East-erners Eric Eaton and Kenny Almquist, and Mark Tabor and John Dillon. CRS regulars in 323s include Doug and Susan Robin-son, Bruce and Pat Brown, and Paul Timmerman, teamed with Ola Lysenstoen. Looking right at home in the rough desert racing in a 2.5 liter Subaru, were third GT and eighth overall. was Bob Pendergrass aria Jon on the national circuit. Gettmg W eigley in the big Chevy Blazer down to business in the second pre-runner. Coffee Fresh Volvo is the team of In CRS Open 2WD class, ten Thomas Liljequist and R. Ander-different teams were entered, with son. Peter Workum is now driv-only a couple extra cars coming ing t~e supercharged Plymouth in off the national circuit. Peter Arrow that co-driver Bill Malaszuk and Darek Szerejko Gutzmann built for him. Justin. seem to have the clutch problems Benham and Chrissy Beavis in the Daewoo worked out. Chad looked confident in the nicely Dykes and Deborah Fuller have prepared Dodge Omni. David been flying in their rally truck. Bill Rogers and Timothy Flood Malik and Eric Tremblay in the brought out a Mitsubishi, while. Volvo have proved their mettle Cable Rhodes and Tyler Rhodes Of Rodends & were running their black and white Mazda RX-7 .. In one of the few second generation Mazda RX-7s, long distance trucker Paul Bojinov is again teamed with Julian Ragalis. Mick Kilpatrick and Jim Gillespy had the trusty Dodge Colt Turbo ready to run. Bruce Tabor and Kevin Poirier brought the Nissan Sentra GT-R down from the northwest. The Performance Stock (Pstock) class '98 runner-up, Arizona native Mark Brown and . Ole Holter dual entered the· Toyota Corolla RX-16. Paula Gibeault teamed with Steve Mendez in the VW Jetta, stat-ing she would not crash·it, be-cause Mike gets to drive Spherical Bearings Treeline in November. "Mad Mike" Hailey and Emily • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • SILICONE HOSE I\IEO !iYI\ITHETIC LUBRICAI\IT!i • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES • COOLANTS Weinman dual entered the Dodge Pickup. Steve Westwood and Alex Gelsomino entered a VW into PStock class, and Steve Bender. and Craig McHugh ran the proven VW Rabbit. In Stock class, Nick Taylor and Peter Morris teamed up again in a Toyota Corolla (what else!), but would have their hands full as the affable Jay Streets and Bill Feyling con-tinue to hammer in their Scott Brothers built Toyota Corolla. This year, the rally consisted of a Super Stage at the county fairgrounds, a first leg south of Jerome, a service at the turn around, back tracked· on the same rough roads, serviced again, then headed north of Jer-WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER §ERVICE WE §HIP UP§ DAILY TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFOFRMATION CALL 800.959.7757 OR 562.427.2375 Fax: 562.426.5294 CHECK OUT DUR PRICE!i DN THE WEB AND DUR HUNDRED§ DF NEW ITEM!i AT: www .bakerprecision.com ome mto tl'ie Chmo Valley. I his mas followed this up with a strmg last leg contains the only famil-of excellent stages later in the iar roads from previous years, event, in which would have been having the hallmark "Henry a podium finish m the national Joy" Stage coming out of the event. This was the roughest of gold mining area. Open· the rally, and having extra driv-stretches on this leg allow top ing wheels did not seem to help teams to reach 120 mph. The much. The exposed rocks on this trip into Limestone Canyon was stage caused numerous flats and repeated this year, where the other troubles. Those suffering rally goes into Oak Forest and included the Robinsons, and does an unsupported turn Nick Taylor. around. The rally then winds The third stage started out as back down through Chino Val-more of the same rough stuff, ley and returns to Prescott. but then opened, but with the The Super Stage was held typical Prescott blind crests, al-just after the pare expose. The lowing the powerful cars to take co-location gave locals a chance back an advantage. Noel Lawler to see both the cars up close and set the first of a string of fastest in action from in the bleachers. times, which no one was able to The high seating affording a equal. Carl Yardeval also turned great view of the action, as cars a great time before the motor took their turns at the dusty started overheating. Having course, running a combination trouble on this stage was Tony of hairpins and straights. The Chavez, who had a power steer-Lawler Hyundai started out the ing fluid fire, which led to an festivities with full anti-lag engine oil fire on the next stage, bang-bang system going, tossing slowing, but not stopping the the car around and using its tre-Mitsubishi. mendous power. The course had On the fourth stage, three very wide lanes, allowing cars to cars dropped out, inciuding the choose a wide range of lines, Paul Eklund's Subaru with a from tight and tidy to wide and broken crank sensor, Paul loose. The rear wheel drive cars Timmerman's 323 with a roll, gaveagreatshow,andthedriv-and Eric Eaton's 323. The ers all got tempted to show off Robinsons had their second flat and kick up some dust. The first on this stage, dropping them nine cars on the time sheets further down the sheets. Behind were all four wheel drive. This Lawler, Mike Whitman and course demanded acceleration. Lauchlin were doing great to al-The Choinere Hyundai was most stay even. having troubles with an oil leak On the fifth stage, the rally from the turbo. With little time returned to the moon-like sur-to change it and risking a pos- face of Stage 2. Bryan Hourt, sible fire, they retired from the who· had only been 1: 20 behind event after a lackluster run at Lawler, slowed after having a the superstage, leaving the job mental lapse, which put them of holding up the Hyundai ban-off course, dropping them down ner to Noel Lawler and com-the sheets to mid-pack. His pany. great drive would bring him The second stage saw back up to the top by the end Lauchlin O'Sullivan set the fast- · of the race. Bill Malik also lost est time, with a gaggle of two about three and a half minutes wheel drive cars behind him, in-on this stage with fuel starva-cluding Bryan Heart, Mike Whit-tion issues. Seamus Burke man, and Chad Dykes. Thomas seemed to get a feel for the Liljequist took the Volvo to a roads by Stage 5 and turned sec-second fastest stage time. Tho-ond fastest time at just over a minute behind Lawler. 2865 Gundry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90806 I v,SA I I• J - -Seamus Burke and Tom Lawless, Mitsubishi Gallant, took first in the closely fought Production GT class, sixth overall. , On Stage 6, heading out of the Jerome Gold Miners, Lauchlin and Farina lost 6:30 dropping back from a fine sec-ond place behind Lawler. This stage saw the end of the race for four more competitors. Chad Dykes Pickup stopped as a small fire in cab fried the battery. Chad said they smelled some-thing then saw the t-shirt stuffed between the seats smok-ing. The wiring underneath was red hot. Ron Wood's Audi lost water in the intercooler and oil cooler and called it quits. Karl Schiebel decided to stop after excessive suspension damage. Carl Yardeval decided to save his motor from overheating by Page 42 January 2000 Dusty Times

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' Doug and Susan Robinson, in a Mazda 323, had troubles with flat George Pisek and Renn Phillips, in their nel,V Audi Quattro S2, broke Justin Benham and Chrissy Beavis, in a Dodge Omni, stopped short anti A-arm and lost lights, finished fourth in the Open class. of a finish, but still recorded a second in CRS 2WD Open. Thomas Liljequist and R. Anderson, in a Volvo, ran Club Rallies only, Chad Cykes and Deborah Fuller, in a Toyota pickup, had a battery Paul Eklund and Dave Jameson, Subaru lmpreza, dropped out on finishing first and second in CRS 2WD Open. fire, DNF'd the National Rally, were first 2WD in the Club Rally. the fourth stage with a broken crank sensor. packing it in as well. On Stage 7, Witty Tom, the race started to settle down as the worst stages were past. But damage from the earlier stages was still showing up on cars as they raced across the Chino Valley at high speed. Paula Gi-beault just missed being time barred when they had to stop and tighten an axle. with just over half the stages completed, some fierce battles were emerg-ing. In 2WD Open Class, Mike Whitman continued to turn consistent, fast times, but Hou rt was closing in after losing time on SSS. In Group 5, the battle between Ralph Kosmides and the Krolikowskis was far too close to call, with less than 15 seconds separating them. In PGT, three cars were still in it, with the Burke, Richard and Hull cars all capable of a first in class. Peter Malaszuk in the Daewoo was holding down an incredible fourth overall and first in Production class, and with that any chance of a battle with Mark Brown was squashed. On Stage 6, heading out into Limestone Canyon, Justin Benham and Chrissy Beavis parked the Dodge Omni, stop-ping a fine run in the Club com-petition, where they were losing only one minute per stage to the top national car. ,. On Stage 9, Limestone Can-yon outbound, there were more troubles. Seamus Burke lost five minutes, dropping back from third overall in his PGT car. A broken A-arm and loss of driv-ing lights cost George Plsek al-most 15 minutes. Mark Tabor also had trouble in his 3 23, los-ing some nine minutes on stage after losing the brakes to a rock. On Stage 10, Kosmides took back the lead in Group 5 from the Krolikowski by only 16/l00ths of a minute. Peter Malaszuk lost five minutes on stage in his Daewoo, dropping him down from fifth in . the time sheets. Steve Westwood also lost time on this stage in the · VW. George Pisek was now j¥st 25/lO0ths behind the Robinsons, Page 43 both being off the pace due to problems, but still battling on for the season points championship in CRS Open 4WD class. On SSl 1, George and Renn's run to overtake the Robinsons came up short as they struggled on without lights. The Krowlikowskis also came up short on ov.erhauling Kosmides, who cemented his lead a half minute pet stage. The final stage, SS 12, saw the results stay largely the same. Roger Hull made an all out at-tack, passing rookie Patrick Ri-chard on the final stage and coming within one second of winning PGT. In the end they had to settle for second in PGT behind Burke and Lawless. In the end, Noel Lawler had it all his way, setting fastest time on most of the stages, and cinching the championship for top national team in Open class. Mike Whitman and Flynn Baglin took second overall in the Group 2 Datsun 510, less than eight minutes down. Ralph Kosmides and Joe Noyes were next, taking the Group 5 win. from Henry and Cindy Krowlikowski, who were just behind in fourth overall. Bryan Hourt and Pete Cardimen brought the Honda Civic home in fifth overall, and were second in Group 2 after losing time ear-lier in the rally. Next in was the closely fought trio of Production GT cars. Seamus Burke and Tom Lawless were the first PGT car sixth overall, and picked up two seconds in CRS 4WD. The second National PGT car was Roger Hull and Sean Gallagher, seventh overall in the Eagle Talon. Patrick Richard and Ben Bradley took their normally as-pirated Subaru to a fine eighth overall, picking up third in na-tional PGT, and they took home a first and third in CRS club r~lly. Peter Malaszuk and Darek Szerejko had a great drive in their Daewoo, taking first in Production class, even after los-ing a large chunk of time in the middle of the rally. They were ninth overall, Bill Malik and Anderson showed their mastery of in the first Club event. Eric Tremblay brought the the roads by taking both a first. Attheawardsceremony,anew Volvo 240 to 10th overall, and and second in CRS 2WD Open. award for Sportsmanship in the third in Group 2 national, and They would have done very well name of Carl Merrill was dedi-a second and third in CRS 2WD in the national as well had they cated. This was a fitting tribute class. In a strange twist, the entered. They will likely see fit to to the man who gave so much to 11th car overall, Laughlin and enter the national event next the sport, and left us last year at Farina O'Sullivan, was second time. Justin Benham and Chrissy Prescott. The winner of this first in national Open class and took Beavis cut their rally short when annual award was SCCA SoPac a first and fifth in CRS 2WD their Dodge Omni stopped, but steward and PGT co-driver, John class. Bringing in their Subaru not before locking down a second Dillon. The next event for the Impreza to a fine 12th overall, in CRS 2WD Open. Peter CRS calendar is Treeline Rally, Lee Shadbolt and Claire-Marie Workum and Bill Gutzmann described in this issue. For the Chiz ma took home fourth place brought the Plymouth Arrow to a. National series it is D&N Bank national PGT points. The "Girls second and a third in Club Rally Lake Superior Pro Rally in Kick Butt!" team of Gail Truess Group 5, and a third in 2WD Houghton, Michigan on October and Pattie Hughes were just be- CRS. In the Club Production class 22-23. On a side note, Overall hind for an uncharacteristic David Rogers and Timothy Flood Prescott and series winners Noel fifth in PGT, and a third and took home a third place. Paula Gi- Lawler and Charles Bradley are fifth in CRS Open 4WD class. beault and Steve Mendez salvaged traveling to the Donnegal Rally in 14th overall was the local team second in CRS PStock in the first their home of Ireland where they of Mark Brown and Ole Holter event. Ron Wood and Kelly will rent a ride in an ex-factory in the Mateo Tools Toyota. Walsh scored a third in Club Group A car. This is a pace-noted They were a fine second in na-Open in the first event. And Mick tarmac rally, so they will have to tional production, 15th overall, Kilpatrick and Jim Gillespy made adjust their style from that used and took home two firsts in the podium with third in Group 2 in the deserts of Arizona. ■ PStock in CRS. Nice work! Doug and Sue Robinson brought home a flat plagued 3 23 to 16th overall, a fine third in national Open class, and fourth and ninth in CRS 4WD Open. "Mad Mike" Hailey and Emily Weinman brought back their Dodge pickup in 17th overall, for a tidy third in national Pro-duction class. They also sewed up a second and third in PStock in the CRS events. Mark Tabor and John Dillon, without brakes, brought the Mazda 323 home 18th overall, to a sixth in PGT, plus a sixth and seventh in CRS 4 WO Open. George Plsek and Renn Phillips got their Audi Quattro to a fourth place in national Open class and took home a fourth and an eighth in CRS 4 WO Open. The last national finisher was the National Production entry of ·Trevor Danison/John Allen in the Plymouth Neon, who netted a fourth place. Chad Dykes and Deborah Fuller DNFed the na-tional but took a first in 2WD Open in CRS for the first club event. Among the "Club Only" com-petitors, there were some notable finishes. Thomas Liljequist and R. January 2000 Fuel Safes "Pro Cell" is our top-of.the-line rac;ng cell that comes ready to install and its backed by a fu/110 year warranty . • Custom Pro Cell Bladders with seamless super-tough, triple coated construction • 1 O year Bladder warranty • Safety foam battling • Custom manufactured aluminum containers • FIA-FT3, SCORE and SODA approved • Custom manufactured fillers • (800) 433-6524 technical hotline • Over 25 years experience for more Info call or write to: e Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 388-0203 (5-41 )388-0307 fax httpJ/wNw .fuelsaf e.com Dusty Times

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Casey Folks And His Best In The Desert's 1st Annual Tough Truck Meet By Diane DeLauer This tidy looking Chevy got a chance to prove just how much off road activity it The BITD 'Tough Truck" event gave drivers an opportunity to see just how tough their trucks were. This High flying Herbst Ford must have been one of the toughest. · On Monday morning, October 4, Casey, or at least heard the stories, 1999, Casey Folks, Director of Best you know if anyone could build this In The Desert Racing Association, course, Casey could! Casey has lived stood on four acres oftlat gravel out- his life racing off road races, now side the Sunset Station Hotel Casino promoting them, but has never ac-in Henderson, Nevada, and won- tually had to build "off road to suit." dered how in the heck he was going So, here you have it. 7:00 a.m. Mon-to build a "tough truck" obstacle day morning, Casey, two laborers course by Friday. But, if you know from American Asphalt and Grad-ing and two bulldozers. Casey starts in the middle and tells the guys to start digging "The Grand Canyon." The men say, "What?" Casey says, "You know, The Grand Canyon!" and that was how this phenomenal course got started. The Tough Truck Field Meet and SUV Expo was a collaboration of ef-HONDA·. . Power · . ,. Equipment · could handle. · forts by Centennial Broadcasting, Sunset Station Hotel Casino· and Best In The Desert Racing Associa-tion. Centennial Broadcasting pro-moted the SUV Vendor portion of the event. They were responsible for the spectacular presentation by Ford Motor Company and the array of 2001, 2002 and 2003 4-wheel drive concept vehicles on display. Ford Motor Company displayed the new F-150 Super Crew, the "Baja Baby" (my personal favorite because it has a great motorcycle rack on the back), a really cool concept vehicle, the F-150 XP, equipped with a matching Jet Ski, and the new "Harley F-150" Truck, which is built in conjunction with Harley Davidson. Look for that truck in the showrooms in the Spring of 2000. One spectacular addition to the Expo was "The Ford T echnol-ogy Tour," a "virtual reality" area with interactive displays. Here you could view an Indy Car, a Funny Car, a Rally Car and a Stock Car, and see what it is actually like to drive one of theses racers. Las Vegas Honda displayed a va-riety of their new Passports, which I understand, a few were sold at the SUV Expo! Integrity Dodge dis-played their new Durango and Ram trucks. Other dealerships repre-sented were United Nissan, Toyota West, Fletcher Jones Chevrolet, West Sahara Land Rover and Findlay Toyota. All of the dealerships reported that they thought the SUV Expo was a big hit and were looking forward to next year's event. The dealer from Chev-rolet said it was a great opportunity to meet with the public and he'd be out next year in full force. The action was definitely over at "Casey's Wild Ride" I mean the "Tough Truck" obstacle course, but the entire event was so well orches-trated that the SUV Expo compli-KAWAGUC~IHONDACOR~ POWER roAi-D -Rac~r · 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 INVENTQRY IF WE DoN'r HA VE Ir, No ONE DoEs! DELlVERY TO 1HE RACES AVAIi.ABLE • PLEAsE CALL AHEAD KAWAGUCHI HONDA -~--:;-.:=:--::--::: /'lftill!~ • '1 • 00 ~\ .j -_:....,;:_. ,V ~ -~--EX1000 3Ei32E.3RDS1:Las~CA~•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 'HC)NDA Power Equipment Page 44 I I VISA ) s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s -HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST Nothings easier. [iai f\)r optimum per."or.n~c~ 31\d ~l."ty . pl..-.,~c: l"~:id lhc:-ovml."r'S n~u:,,I ~rorc-o~r:i.ting your Honda Po"·c-r Equipment. SpecUkatton:i subJ«l to c!'-...ir.!_le "-ilhoul nollce. "E:i~lm.ue only. b:ucd on rated load. +B;\1tcry n11t UH.·ludl!'d \\1th E~135vOSXK I. E~15000SXK I and £80500SX. +♦\\"Ith bd:.tc-ry tr:.,_v kit. wh«ls ~, h.m!_lcr. Connc-cUon to houk' power r~ulrn tr,utsrc-r dc.-\1~ h> ,wo1,! possible-lnjury to P°"•:c-r company pcrsonnc-1. Consult ;a qcallnt"d cll"C"U1cl3n. January 2000 Dusty Times

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.. , Some of the hard working and efficient crew who built the course and Here a plain-wrap Blazer picks it's way carefully down into the hole The water hole was a good test of driver and machine. Here a little sport-Ute churns valiantly into the depths. then kept the action going throughout the day. and around the tire grabbing rocks. mented the "Field Meet" and vice- course consisted of ten (10) traps lows: In Class 1, Steve Williams won versa. Well known race truck driver which included a log roll and log in a 1999 Ford Ranger XLTwith2775 and recent winner of the "Vegas to climb, a mogul run, a rock garden, points. Class 2 winner was Chad Reno" race, Greg Foutz, drove local three (3) water traps, and three (3) Barnhard, driving a 1986 Chevy K-10 media personalities in the "Media timed backup traps. Participants with 2629 points. Class 3 winner was Challenge" in a Ford F-250. Greg were judged on points· lost for stop- Steve Wheeler, driving a 1999 Ford said he had a blast! Duralast/Ford ping, hitting cones, getting stuck and F-250 with 2533 points. Class 4 win-Factory drivers, Dan Smith and backing up. Needless to say, no one nerwasTimConaway,drivinga 1999 Dave Ashley, were on hand to sign received a perfect score and the trac- Jeep Wrangler with 2829 points. Let you to all of the vendors who par- a lot of camaraderie was created. As ticipated and we look forward to see- the "Tough Truck Field Meet" came ing you all next year in the 2nd An- to an end, the Sunset Station out-nual Tough Truck Field Meet and door amphitheater opened its doors .SUV Expo, October 7, 2000! to everyone for a live concert fea-All in all, everyone seemed to turing "Loverboy" and the crowd have a lot of fun, a lot of laughs and danced the night away! ■ autographs, and said they would defi- tors were working overtime helping me add that we think Tim owes his nitely be back next year. Ivan "lron- people get unstuck! wife a romantic dinner for getting her man" Stewart, famous Toyota Fae-One of the greatest·highlights of wet when he went under the water tory driver, was also on hand to sign the day was the "exhibition jumping" hazard! Class 5 winner was Michael autographs and also gave the winner by Tim Herbst in his Ford-powered Kaczmerek, driving a 1996 Suzuki of a raffle a "ride" on the "Tough pre-runner, and Steve Olliges, in his Sidekick with 2901 points. Class 6 win-T ruck" course in his Toyota Pre- brand new shiny red Ford pre-run- ner was Tony Lacker, driving a 1981 Runner. Ivan came to the finish line ner. Tim took off first, through the Ford Bronco with 2722 points. Class 7 with a big smile on his face and said, parking lot and over a 40-foot jump winner was Marc Stein, driving a 1999 "Casey, you did it again, that was a Casey had built. The crowd went Ford Expedition with842 points. And wild ride!" wild! Steve Olliges went next with last, but not least, was Factory Rep Also on hand, was Hummer Fae- Mike Andress harnessed in next to Mike Jones, in Class 8, driving a 2000 tory dealer Rod Hall from Reno. Rod him; I actually heard them laughing Land Rover with 2799 points. helped on the course for a while but when they landed. Steve ended up . Casey Folks adds, "My congratu-couldn't stand it and went and got jumping about five more times dur- lations to all of the winners, to all his Hummer out of display, the one , ing the day. His landings were so who entered and participated and to that he didn't want to get dirty, but smooth, he made them look like he the Best In The Desert staff who did! He ended up giving rides to was landing on a cloud. built and ran a first class Tough people all day, he loved it! The Big winners forthe day were as fol- Truck Field Meet. A great big thank This plain-wrap truck took to flying as if it were built for it, clearing the nasty water CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SON AND GRANDSON DON & CHRIS CARR @ CLASSIC DOOR & TRIM, INC. A special thank you to our son, Clay and Teresa Carr, Caitlin Carr & Josh Harmon, our daughter Kathy and Chuck Doty, Marc & Julianne Doty, who came to all the rac~s, in rain, shine, hot or cold weather to support Jeff and Jeremy in the cheering section. It isn't very often that any family can say that they took f"trst and second place in any sports club. There are so many great racers in SNORE, and the support from the pit crews, the fans and the families cannot be outdone. We are so proud to have been a part of the challenges, _the wins, the losses. It all comes together in-the end and we congratulate Jeff and Jeremy on 1999. Jeff Carr Dusty Times 1999 Points Champion 1999 Class 1600 Champion Jeremy Harmon 1999· 2nd Place Points 1999 Class 9 Cham.pion 1999 "Rookie Of The Year" WHAT A WONDERFUL YEAR January 2000 Page 4$

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r ' Doug McMillan, with Porsche turbo power in his Raceco, was second Before the rain came things looked good for Laurie Svenson, who Matt Owen struggled on a slippery hill with a flat tire, and fell back to in the Class 9 ranks (unlimited single seater) and third overall. finished second in Class 1, fourth overall after the flood. 10th overall, though still 1600 class winner. Pajero of Fabio Zarfati. Round-1600 Two Seater AUSTRALIAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP • ROUND 4 ing out he top five was the Matt Owe~ started in a style Class 9 of Dale Chadburn. 0th-that looked like he was keen to Off . d Act• ers to lead their classes were: finish well and hope Rose went Oa Ion• Darren Perrin (Class 3), Kev out and that would give him · • Hutschmid (Class 4), Jim Kelly the Championship. He would • • • (Class 5 Datsun 1600), John still end up in the lead group Rain Hall Or Shine ~ager (Class 6), and Les Siv-~she sat in fift~ overall lea~-, 1our (Class 7). mg the class. 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Brad Zacka was the one on was stranded with a flat tire the charge and was flying up giving no grip at all. As had after being seeded into the line gone through Rose's mind, up. Also moving up was Joe Owen though his Champion-Bulmer who passed an amazing ship chances were now nil. But 20 cars on the opening lap! eventually he beat that hill and Laurie Svenson had moved up came in still class winner but to join Zacka and Rose for the back in 10th overall. John class battle. It was then that Batchelor would take second in they started their ·fourth lap class, while Don MacArthur and the rain came down as was next over Jim Dwyer and heavy as ever seen. In the then Mark Andrew. Dion Simpson got the win in his V6 Toyota powered Jimco when the race was called mid-way due to bizarre weather conditions, considered dangerous by the promoters. · They say Off Road racers are the toughest breed, but that means nothing when the race gets hit by severe rain, a mini cyclone and even a hail storm. That was the case at the Final round of the Australian Off Road Championship recently. The Springfield 300 near Brisbane was actually canceled after four laps due to what the bizarre weather did to the track. The end result saw Dion Simpson in his USA Jimco/ Toyota V6, grab an overdue win due to leading when the race was called off. All atten-tion was on the battle for the 1999 Championship and that was a favorable result for Terry and Maureen Rose who over-came their biggest mishap to finish and claim the overall title for 1999. Prologue The Qualifying was held in perfect conditions over a chal-lenging but ideal course, setting· the tone for a determined drive -was Terry Rose in his Class 1 Raceco machine. Starting alongside him would be Dion Simpson in a Class 9. Then came the Class 2 of Matt Owen, and then the Class 8 January 2000 course of that lap Rose slid off Class 3 the track and down a hill to 1300 Two Seater lodge against a tree. It seemed Darren Perrin's class lead his Championship was lost. didn't last very long at all as he Zacka came in as the class win-rolled at the first corner off the ner and second overall in the start! Kaleb Schmidt was the Jimco/Ford turbo, with Sven-one to bolt from the group and son not far behind (second in was up into the top 10 overall class, fourth overall). Nev Tay-after just one lap. Warren lor was the next to somehow Walker's impressive new car . master the conditions and fin-was sadly out early, as was ish that lap. Then after what Mark Criminale. Meanwhile, seemed an eternity, Rose ap-Schmidt still lead the class al-peared and took a finish in . though Glenn Hancey had sped fourth spot. He was back in up to keep in touch. Then on ninth place but that was that fourth lap in the rain enough for the Overall Cham-Schmidt struck trouble and lost pionship. Ian Lawrence claimed a lot of time with a flat tire in fifth in class. the slippery conditions. Hancey Class 9 went on to take the class win, Unlimited Single Seater while Perrin made up for his As expected, Dion Simpson earlier mishap and grabbed sec-went out keen to get the win. ond. Schmidt limped in third After a year of terrible luck it and only dreamed of what seemed this was his day as he could have been. Brad Cooper extended the lead. After three took fourth spot ahead of · laps he had over. two minutes David Cannell. lead overall. Elsewhere in the Class 4 class Hayden Tatnell had some VW Baja time to catch up replacing all The VW Baja group com-his motor belts on the Nissan menced a good battle although V6 turbo. Doug McMillan, who just as the roll was cleared from started from a seeded position the first corner Clayton Taylor was up in the lead group with went on his side in the same Porsche turbo power. spot. David Allport went away Chadburn had an earlier flat to lead the class with tire. After the rain though both Hufschmid in behind. Michael Shane Otway and Chadburn's Taylor was very quick but then cars ground to a halt. Simpson had a few problems. After three went on to take the overall win laps it was still Allport, albeit and Class 9. McMillan's charge only two minutes to paid off with a third overall and H ufschmid. Seeing the rain second in class. Jaako Kylma coming was a indication to took third in class ahead of Hufschmid who was a local, Tatnell and Bob Todd. · that things would get. bad very Class 2 quickly, so he ease,d off. Allp(?rt Dusty Times

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In the 1300 two seater, a competitor's bad luck was good for Glann David Allport had a good race going before the rain came, and put In Class 5, 2WD Tin Tops, Andy Stewart had his Cortina running better Hancey who ended up with the class win. himself into the Class 4 (VW Baja) win and an incredible eighth overall. in the rain and moved up to take the Class win. John Wager was running so well and having so much fun in his Challenger Buggy, that he didn't want the race called off. He thought he had a chance to win it all! Les Siviour and his Nissan Patrol didn't mind the rough course and In the Modified 4X4 division (Class 8) Fabio Zafarti was second overall moved steadily ahead to take the Class 7 (Production 4X4) win. for a while, but fell to fifth overall, still the Class 8 winner. came through with a sensa-tional drive to take the class and finish an incredible eighth overall. Clayton Taylor came in second in class with Hufschmid in third. Michael Taylor was credited with fourth place. Class 5 2WD Tin Top Only three Tin Tops in the 2WD group. After one lap it was the Andy Stewart Cortina that got past Kelly's Datsun. After three laps though it was · Peter Adams in the Holden Ute that had passed them both and had the lead. Then in the rain, Stewart had a better run than Adams and came in to take the class win. Adams took second while Kelly was a long way back in third. Class 6 Challenger Buggy Not much to report except John Wager was the sole car in the Challenger class and he was still going strong when the race was called off. In fact he was keen for it to go the full eight laps as he felt it could have been the best chance for a Class 6 to ever win outright!!! Class 7 Production 4x4 Despite the track being a very rough one Les Siviou:: in the Nissan Patrol 4x4 moved steadily forward. His closest op-ponents from qualifying were in trouble, Geoff Pickering (Pa-he had to settle for a class win As you would imagine, there danger. It was certainly a bi-jero = electrical) and Tony and fifth overall, which put him were mixed feelings about the zarre way to finish the 1999 Brose (Suzuki = gearbox). third in the Championship. Ken race being canceled, but when Championship. Personal: Colin Hunter wasn't troubled Smith continued on and claimed all was settled it was the right thanks to Kia Motors for the though and he moved into sec-second in class. decision and no one was put in use of their 4x4. ■ ond place in the Landcruiser Ute just ahead of Bobbie-Lee Siviour in the Patrol. Bad luck for Hunter on the next lap as he banged a tree with a wheel. In the end Les Siviour took the class and 11th overall. Back in second place was his daughter, Bobbie-Lee, while third place was a tight finish with Picker-ing just getting his nose in ahead of Hunter. Brose had a troublesome day but took fifth. Class 8 Modified 4x4 Only two starters but all at-tention was on Fabio Zarfati as to whether he could grab the overall Championship from un-der Rose and Owen. After one lap Zarfati was in second over-all, then he slipped to third over-all. His Class 8 opponent, Ken Smith, had put his turbo Rodeo right up with the top 10 in quali-fying but then broke a shocker hose on the opening lap and lost a lot of time. When the rain came down on Lap 4 it seemed Zarfati would win the Champion-ship as he had finished (even without a working front cliff.), and it appeared Rose and Owen wouldn't make it. But as men-tioned, that wasn't the case and w_as er, ,,1 . • wide teflon coated piston wear band for use in external bypass witl1 big t bes so that it does not drop into large ports. Y , ./ A.., • sealed piston for low speed control andL in external nypa~s. • high temperature stainless steel a11oijal \ • unique rod end design and material toitop s 9 s an rod .ands from breaking. • high temperature Viton seals I 1 • large aluminum reservoir n (2X) and weight savi • 1" shafts are micro-polis sh cf a 3-5 RMS. • stainless steel teflon /2" or 5/8" ID spa • shock are all own s to purchase. . . low (weld on k d to order orwei n for smooth da~ . and heat tre~t ci 1 · r long durability. designed ~fh lo , i ss levels. ountin J6r the .,. • ._... trucks. ou d springs for 3" shocks in s oc • Eibac We do custom shock work and vehicle set< Custom designed and mfg. shocks & parts avaltab '( air shocks, water cooled, pistons etc.). Designed and manufactured by the same person that designed all Kuster Shocks. King Shock Technology Brad Zacka, in a turbo Ford powered Jimco, took the win in Class 1 (unlimited two seaters). A Shock Manufacturing Company (714) 530-8701 Fax: (714) 530-8702 10402 Trask Ave., Unit C, Garden Grove, CA 92843 Dusty Tim~$_ I I I ,·Page4=7

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• I MICHELIN SCCA PRORALLY CHAMPIONSHIP· ROUND 9 D&NBank Lake superior ProRally By Darius Greene Photos:]. Winkler Henry and Cindy Krolikowski know the roads at the Lake Superior Rally, and proved it by winning Group 5 as well as the season championship in their Dodge Shadow. The remote and lightly popu- gan, Huron and Superior. It also lated Upper Peninsula of Michi-can be extremely inhospitable, gan can be a beautiful place, cov-often savaged by piercing cold, ered with densely forested, roll- raging winds and blowing snow. ing hills and surrounded by three It was all of these things when of the five Great Lakes - Michi-the Michelin SCCA ProRally se-ries pulled into Houghton for the October 22-23 season finale. Yet that did nothing to cool the heated battles for the series' un-decided championships, of which there were several. DeShane Bryan Pepp and Jerry Stang won again in Production GT, but almost lost it when their alternator failed on Special Stage 5. Easily the hottest was the clash for Group 5 - which also carried with it the fight for the Woodner Cup, awarded annually to the best 2WD team in the series. Henry and Cindy Krolikowski (Dodge Shadow GT) started the season off with a win, and got three more victories throughout the course of the year. Yet they came into the finale trailing defending class champions Ralph Kosmides and Joe Noyes (Toyota Supra Turbo), who came on strong during the season and had three wins. In Group 2, Bryan Hourt (Honda Civic) held a slim lead over Bill Malik (Volvo 240), who ran more events but had a rash of mechanical problems that held him to just one win. Despite this, Malik's navigator, Christian Ed-strom, led the co-drivers' points over Hourt's navigator. Pete Cardimen, because Cardimen had missed an event earlier. Any of the four could claim their respec-tive championships. Both the driver and co-driver titles were up for grabs in Produc-tion G'r, with Gail Truess (Mazda 323 GTX) atop the driver stand-ings, and John Dillon (multiple cars) leading the co-driver points. In reality, Truess had only to start the event to claim the crown, be-cause Lee Shadbolt (Subaru lm-preza) was not competing. Dillon, though, had to do very well to even have a chance: Claire Chizma (multiple cars) was in sec-ond and could easily overhaul him. Pattie Hughes, Truess' regu-lar co-driver, was in third and well within striking range. Eric Carl-son (Mitsubishi Eclipse) also was within striking distance, in fourth, but had only a _slim mathematical SADDLE BACK SAND & GRAVEL ADVANCED AUTO REFINISHING Marc DeShane / Wayne Lacher -1999 M.D.R. 5-1600 Champions Special thanks to all of our friends, sponsors, and companies that made this poss~ble. We couldn't have done it without you. TBANK-YOU Page 48 -January 2000 He/la ~!TUI AUTOMOTIVE Rick DeShane Gail DeShane Chad Eickhoff David Berry Steve Taylor Shane R~ed Jeff Black IIL■TEIII Dlflf/WAE R.L.H. Comm. Tim Lane Mike Green Jeff McMillen Jamie Cambell The Penhall' s McKeniies R.C. Jones Dave Folts Adam Wik and all the friends that have been involved through the years. Dusty Times

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Noel Lawler and Charlie Bradley came to a sudden stop at the end of Gail Truess and Pattie Hughes had a fine run in the Production GT S55, missing their chance at the championship. Bradley needed category until slippery roads put their Mazda 323 into a tree at the Don Rathgeber is a perennial favorite in the infamous Hairy canary stitches in his chin, Otherwise both were fine. _fin_is_h_o_f_S_S_5_. _________________ Racing 5 liter Mustang, and again had a top five finish in Group 5. chance at the title. the restart in nearby Calumet and treacherous conditions leading to warning triangles, but went off to expect." The 1999 Overall and Produc-the finish in Hancock, at event the curve after the stage's flying avoiding another car. Truess still The Daewoo lads were having tion class champions, with their sponsor D&N Bank's headquar- finish. They went off fast, hit a won the POT drivers' champion- problems with a glitch left over crowns already in hand, could re- ters. tree hard and folded up the right ship, but Hughes' chances at the from the previous event. Every lax and have some fun. That's The field was headed by three front comer. Bradley took a hit co-driver title evaporated on the time the engine dropped to idle it exactly what they did. factory Hyundais, three Mitsubi- that produced major body bruises spot. . quit, and wouldn't restart for two Overall and Open class cham- shi Lancer Evolutions and several and required 26 stitches in his jaw The stage was halted and or three minutes. Much electrical pions Noel Lawler and navigator other quick Open Class runners. -but was back telling his story a wasn't scored. Later, Stage 7 was thrashing, and even changing the Charlie Br\ldley were in their fa-In the Hyundai camp, newly couple of hours later. Lawler got canceled, which put the rally back engine computer, had no effect. miliar factory Hyundai Tiburon, crowned overall champions a sore neck and lots of bruises. on schedule and reduced worker The bug cost them some road but the pressure was off. Produc- Lawler and Bradley, and seven They'd hardly gotten out and exposure to the harsh weather. penalties, but Peter Malaszuk and tion class champs Karl Scheible time champion Paul Choiniere extinguished a minor fire when As the night wore on, the roads Darek Szerejko soldiered on in and Gail McGuire weren't feeling and Jeff Becker were in Tiburons. Joy and Griffin came along and got slipperier and slipperier. Yet their Production class N ubira, any pressure either. So they took Team owner and 11 time cham- also went off, sliding to with a Buffum and Choiniere both felt hoping that a cure could be found. a "busman's holiday" in Lance pion John Buffum and Lance couple feet of the wreckage before that the real issue was visibility, Scheible and McGuire lost Smith's Open class Mitsubishi Smith were in an Elantra. The continuing. Moments later, Gail as the snow fell increasingly the computer on the Evo V af-Lancer Evo V. Mitsubishis included Rim of the Truess and Pattie Hughes crashed . harder. Henry Joy, though, didn't ter ·Stage 1. So McGuire re-Mother Nature was not in a World winners Garen and Doc a few trees short of the wreck. seem fazed. "I love the weather," verted to TSD navigation and kind mood. It was cold, harsh Shrader (Evo IV), Scheible and They'd been alerted by reflective he said. "It's something you come i:_ontinued on page 50 and miserable - typical for this McGuire (Evo V), and 1985 event that was for years very LSPR winner Henry Joy {Evo II), aptly named Press On Regard- with Chris Griffin navigat!?K· __ _ less, the oldest, meanest, tough- . Lawler and Bradley-sfarted first -e-st e-ven r on the -sc-hedule. for the fourth time in '99, but it Throughout the rally, the mattered little. Unlike most ral-Weather Channel consistently lies this year, there was zero opened its bad weather seg- chance of dust. Choiniere/Becker ments with the Upper Penin-went second, followed by Joy/ sula. Fifty-knot winds, freezing Griffin and Buffum/Smith. cold, stinging sleet and driving Pre-event drama included the snow fasl:i.eci' the area afmost entire Daewoo contingent -without let up. Waves along the driver, co-driver, service crew and beaches on Lake Superior were company executives sweating out 15 feet high. the location of the car and trans-It was the same hellish weather porter. The day before the event in which the ill-fated one carrier it finally was located by cell Edmund Fitzgerald sank a genera-phone, several hundred miles tion ago, not that far from away. It arrived with barely Houghton. As recounted in the enough time to clear tech and line Gordon Lightfoot song, in sight of up to start. another ship she suddenly just dis-Also sweating things were appeared beneath the brutal Bryan Hourt and Pete Cardimen. waves in the blink of an eye, tak- They broke a half-shaft on their ing all hands to the bottom. Honda Civic at the previous day's A few of the 68 teams were press stage and found they didn't concerned that they didn't have have the right spare. Finally, they the right tires, or that their cars borrowed a slightly longer Prelude would be at a disadvantage in the half-shaft from Jim Anderson and slick conditions. Most, though, started the event with fingers were expecting exactly what built firmly crossed. this event's reputation for being Several cars had problems very tough. early in the rally, including Jim This year, LSPR was laid out Warren and Chuck Binder, who for 441. 70 total miles, with 141.06 had a tie-rod failure just two miles stage miles. The first 10 stages into Stage 1. Then things seemed were Friday, following a ceremo- to quiet down until the end of nial start in Houghton. The re- Stage 5, when all hell broke loose. maining eight were Saturday, with Lawler and Bradley found Henry Joy and Chris Griffin (front) took second overall in their first rally in a year and a half. Doc Schrader (rear) retired with a failed head gasket. 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··· Jim Anderson and Mark Williams put on quite a display at Brockway Karl Scheible and Gail McGuire switched from their New Beetle to an Mountain by catching the most air. Despite the showy leap, they Steve Gingras and Bill Westrick struggled with the slippery conditions Evo V for the LSPR and wound up in fifth overall. finished fourth in Group 5. on Friday night, but on Saturday they were flying and posted the fastest "a lot of looking out the win- air ... or bottom out. ----~l~h~e-y-.-b_r_o~ke- a~h-a~lf~s~h-a~ft-o_n_t~h-e--d~u-c-t~io-n-Manufacturers' Cham-POT co-driver's championship dows" to keep them in the hunt. Buffum and Smith got things same stage, then limped two and pionship. when she and Canadian Patrick Meanwhile, eventual POT win- underway, followed by Joy and a half stages before they could As the day wore on the Richard finished second in ners Brian Pepp and Jerry Stang Griffin, Choiniere and Becker, get repairs. weather got better. Cars fin- class. Hourt and Cardimen fin-lost their alternator at the end and Scheible and McGuire -Many people caught "big air" ished in Hancock, under a chilly ished 10th overall to claim the of Stage 5 and had to follow Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, on Brockway Mountain and sunset nice enough for a poster. Group 2 win, as well as the 1999 another car in the dark. Just as Mitsubishi. Mike Hurst and Rob joined the "Brockway Air Buffum and Smith were the driver and co-driver titles. they clocked into the service Bohn (Mazda Rx-7) were lead-Force." The big winners were overall and Open class winners, . Production was a father and area the engine died. So they ing Group 5, clearly benefiting Jim Anderson and Mark Will- followed by Joy and Griffin. Joy son battle. Even Moen and Tom pnshed the car to their crew for from some tires purchased a few iams, whose Honda Prelude flew seemed contented. "Any time I Young (Plymouth Neon ACR) repairs. days earlier from the long, hit hard and went off into finish second to John Buffum," battled Brian Vinson and The Shraders weren't so Krolikowskis, who were second-a clump of bushes, out of sight he said, "I feel that I have won Moen's father, Ron (Volks-lucky. They barely made it to in-class and hot in pursuit of the of most spectators. Those who the rally." Buffum, meanwhile, wagen Golf GTi) all the way. end of the first day's activities class championships. did see immediately ran to help, was very pleased with the win They were a mere 0.02 minutes before a blown head gasket on With their electrical scare only to see the Honda come and delivering Hyundai its apart on raw time, but road their Evo IV turned them into behind them, Pepp and Stang fishtailing out of the under-fourth Overall Manufacturers' points dropped Vinson and spectators. had the lead in POT, while growth and carry on down the Championship. Moen further back from winners Saturday began just a tad Hourt and Cardimen were up road at warp speed. Hurst and Bohn got the Moen and Young. milder than Friday. The winds front in Group 2. Malaszuk and The Daewoo brigade also was Group 5 win, seventh overall; Even though they finished had dropped to 40+ mph, it was Szerejko, despite their electrical flying, after discovering a defec-but the Krolikowskis took both third in POT, Chris Czyzio and a few degrees warmer and the problems, had the top spot in · tive knock sensor. Even with championships and the Eric Carlson wore big smiles. It snow was mixed with rain'.'11 Production. the hassles before_that, they still Woodner Cup by finishing sec- was Czyzio's 11th consecutive Teams were looking forward to"'\1 It didn't take long for the ac-were the fastest Production car' ond, two spots back. Toyota finish in this event (Lake Supe-a pair of passes through the.-"" tion to start. The Krolikowskis on every stage. Road points won the Group 5 Manufactur-ricrr and Press On Regardless), spectators Brockway Mountain'~ went off on the day's first stage from the electrical gremlins cost· ers' Championship. as well as his 16th consecutive stage, near Copper Harbor, a-~ (Stage 11), but were back un-them any hope of the win, but Pepp and Stang finished finish at the national level -fast ridge-top roller coaster with derway quickly. Choiniere and they still finished with big smiles eighth to take the Production both remarkable achievements, · lots of opportunities to catch Becker weren't nearly as lucky. and handed Daewoo the- Pro-GT win. Claire Chizma took the and both probably records. ■ Y@@@ WOuff ro/Q&J~~c@O&J~ ·. ~.@!lJ&1Iwff)O@llD l} Our 3rd Cham.p1onsh1p 1n 4 years ! · Thanks to BFGaadrir;lf ~,., c .. ,,,.. Doherty Plumbing Ultra Performance Empire/Cat U.S. Pest Arnold Auto Center Co-Drivers Brett King -Pa.rker 400 M a.rk Dorman -Laughlin. Sat Niek Va.nderwey -Laughlin. 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NewWahzoo As most of you have no-ticed by now, with the ab-sence of last month's col-umn we have a lot of catch-ing up to do. So those of you who had the coals warmed for a roast are saved until next month. Snore 250 Jimmy Tucker and his non-Checker car builder teamed up to go for Snore's Bonus Bucks at this year's Snore 250. Snore used part of the old Mint course out near Nellis. The old Mint course claimed yet another victim. Right off the start Jimmy's car owner hit a big rock and blew a front tire. Being a little shaken up, · the car owner turned the car over to Jimmy. But not before loosening a few im-portant parts on the car. Once Jimmy got in the car he found out what parts were loose as they flew off the car (hey, was that my front tire). Jimmy lost a front corner of the car and had to put it on the trailer. Once again this year we had conflicting dates . MDR and Best in the Desert butted heads on the first weekend of October. Fortunately for the club neither race was a club race. When are these pro-moters going to pull their heads out and start sched-uling these races to avoid this kind of mess. · BITD -Vegas to Reno Jimmy Tucker was the club's only entry or Jimmy once again tried to tackle the deserts of Nevada, but once again it was not meant to be. Before the first checkpoint Jimmy's Checker ride caught fire and nearly burnt to the ground. If not for the Herbst help the car would have been a total loss., The Herbst buggy stopped and Your main source for the all I new RaceRunner shock series · ca.. from Sway-Away. Now avail-== · able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive RaceRunner 3" body coil-over design. •Noe«• 6Y ,SWAY· A •WAY , ... 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 travei A-arm cars, KARTEK gets you handled! fNi.YJ{j r1&J::i (909) 6,;1,8-2525 ~~c::,--~ us., (909) 628-0833 ~ r-r-•_, C1J.d'iJ!iT fax (909) 627-4067 14122 Central ave. Chino, CA. 9171 O open 7 days a week! Page 52 gave Jimmy a big fire extin-guisher. Unselfishness didn't stop there, they also sent one of their chase trucks to help any way they could. MDR -Lucerne/Bar-. stow 300 MDR couldn't have picked a better weekend for their six lap, 300 mile race. Craig Dillon was the only club supported car at this race. Billy McCool and Tom Dittfield were also racing as co-drivers but under the colors of another club. This has been a grow-ing .trend as of late and this W ahzoo thinks that some-thing has got to change. If you people don't need club's support, then you don't need to bring your crew into the club's pits so you can drink. Both Billy and Tom helped their non-Checker car owner to first place finishes -but if you want any more info on their day look in their sup-port club columns not ours. Craig Dillon stepped it up a notch at this race, he dropped in a bigger motor and went for Class 1. Craig non-Checker co-driver started the race with Craig taking over at the halfway point and taking it to the finish. After running mid-way in the pack Craig's co-driver had an untimely flat and lost a lot of time. Craig got in the car as scheduled, but didn't make it very far. With the loss of the input shaft Craig's day was cut short, better luck next time. Baja 1000 Seven club entries ven-tured south of the border for Score's grand finale. Even though the club had four DNFs we still go a couple of podium finishes and two class champion-ships. Tom Koch once ·again teamed ·up with his usual Class 1 ride for the 1000. Tom and his non-Checker ride gave it their all but were only able to get HOURS M-F 9:00 - 6:00 Sat. 10:00 - 3:00 a sixth place finish. Rich-ard Young (team Geritol), Mike Alt and mini rev was once again bit by the DNF bug. Richard wound up with credit for fifth in class out of a six car class. Hey, at least you beat one guy in your class. Better luck next year. Walter Prince com-pleted one lap and put it on the trailer -DNF. Not re-ally sure what put Walter out of this race. Pit 4 re-ported Walter having to trade candy canes for gas on Lap 1, could it be Walter ran out of candy canes to finance his gas needs. Even with a DNF Walter was still able to grab the point title for Sports-man Buggy. Congratula-tions Walter Prince Class 1400 points champ. George Seeley DNF -This was only :.. George's second DNF since building his new car four years ago. George wound up tangling with another car in the pit1.e forest and broke the front end. After a lengthy repair and now on a slower pace George timed out after one lap. George was still able to clinch the points title for Class 5 Unlimited. Bob Wright moved into a 1/2-1600 ride for the 1000. Somewhere during their day they rolled the car. Un-fortunately, that was all the info I was given on Big Air Bob -DNF. Stuart Chase -Somehow weaseled his way into a Class 7S ride and also into club support. No good report was gl.ven on Stuart except that he and his non-Checker truck owner won their class -first place Class 7S. Jim Green-way second place Class 12. The sniveling and finger pointing has been abun-dant since Jim's second place finish. It seems from the stories that this Wah-zoo has heard the loss of his first place finish was due to an inept chase crew. Jim's crew was at. the Santo Tomas pit for Jim's stop. Daily UPS Visa and Mastercard We are happy to announce our new 800 toll free number. (800) 656-3376 The pit reported Jim's chase crew was more wor-ried about their drinks than their helping Jim. Jim came in and was pitted without incident thanks to the work of the pitters. After Jim was gone the pit asked if they wanted to leave the gas for the next lap, but they declined the offer. Big Mistake. Jim showed up around 3:00 a.m. to Santo Tomas pit on his second lap, but where was his chase crew. The pit dld ev-erything they could. to get Jim gassed and on his way. After trying all the pits in the area, no gas could be found. Jim was sent on his way after the guys did all they could for him. At 6:30 a.m. -hey look who showed up -Jim's chase crew, plas-tered, reeking of liquor, they said that the spot they were in was dark and they could not see the numbers on the passing cars. Who would have ever though it would get dark at night. I'm sure there will be a lot more on this story later. After all the problems Jim still had a respectable run second in Class 12 out of 15 cars. Santo Tomas pit was a regular circus. A hurt 5-1600 pulled in for repairs but the pit was unable to help and they had to call it quits. While this driver was waiting to be retrieved by his crew a 1/2-1600 pulled in for help. The co-driver was hurt and wanted out of the car, what luck the 1600 car needed fuel so they de-cided to pump some fuel from the 5 car. While transferring fuel from the car to the dump can it was left unattended. The dump can filled then overfilled and a puddle of racing fuel wandered aimlessly to-wards the lighted cones for the pit (oops -the cones were lit with candles). The puddle caught fire -then caught the dump can and the car on fire. To make matters worse the car was parked under the pits Easy Up, next to their van and their quad. Amazing how fast a good idea goes bad. Luckily for our pit heroes they had plenty of fire ex-tinguishers to put the fire out before anything was se-riously damaged. After the van, quad, the dump can, the Easy Up, and the car were fire free, the pit had a unanimous decision to put out the candles under the cones. Good idea. It seems after this little incident the club is compelled to buy more fire extinguishers. I Use it to call and inquire about our "Quick Fi>t IRS repair boots or our 11 gallon· "Fasf~Fill" dump cons. Both new products can save you race time. Race Sman -Be Sate l 103 Press Ln. #4 • Chula Vi~a_, c_A :19:0 • (61_9) 691-9171 ~~x ~~~)-6~1-os_o3 __ -. . r Next month will cover everything after the 1000. The club is in the process of scouting out a new meet-ing place. If anybody has any suggestions come on down to a meeting and ·bring it up. Tickets for the year's end party will be go-ing on sale soon. January 15th .is the date and the Eagles Lodge in Pasadena is the place. 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this issue -But n ex t m o n th the re is muc h to talk about so be prepared . Challenger earner By Joel Mohr RACE RESULTS: MDR STODDARD 300: Nine 9's took the 7:00 a.m . star t off of Outlet C enter Drive in Barstow, on a day that would decide the Class 9 c h ampionship. We were leadin g Dadn McGuffin by 3 7 points, but with finisher points being a hefty 50, the championship was still up for grabs. Or so we thought. Right up to the drop of the flag, I was wait-ing for McGuffin to show up, but little did we know he had broken his leg on a dirt bike the weekend be-fore. When the flag dropped without Darin in sight, we knew we had the championship, and all of the pressure to 1'just finish" was gone. We could turn up the wick, and go for broke. Which is exactly what we did. Nothing ter-minal, but just one of those d ays when it seemed the luc k well was not only dry, but there was a dust devil in there too. More on that later. On Lap 1, Scott Johnson was driving for Dennis Peterson, and right off the bat set fast lap for the class. Walters was run-ning second, with Riffle third, D a n Owe n was fourth (in his recently ac-quired two seater), then us (after losing a rocker arm about 12 miles in). Daniel Figu eiredo, Ryan Crosby, and last b u t not least, Rus-sell Jones in Billy Bunch's o l d mid-engine Sandwinder. Unfortu-nately, Russ spent over four hours to complete .his only lap, having first blown the rear shocks, and then los-ing th e trans part way into Lap 2 . Better luck next race. On L ap 2, Johnson clicked off anothe r quic k one, but things started to look better for us and we 'moved up to second (we missed fast lap by only 11 seconds). The Walters were third, after suffering four flats already. Owen was holding his own, and Riffle suffered from a noisy trans, so they decided to have Grandpa drive back to Hesperia and get the spare. The change took about 2-1/2 hours but they were back on the road. In the mean time, Figueiredo had disappeared. On Lap 3, Johnson slowed just a tick, and Doug Silcock jumped into the Owen car and moved up to second. The Walters were suffering other problems, and we broke a right upper front arm. (My first ever!) Harold chased in the parts to FAIR main and after only about 30 minutes of down time, we were on the road again. This lap, Crosby disappeared. On Lap 4, Johnson slowed an-other tick, probably from hearing about everyone e lse's p r oblems, a n d the W alte rs were n ow in sec-ond. Silcock was not far be-hind, stopping to check the clutch maste r cylinde r th a t SNORE corner was p ukin g on t h e floor, and we suffered another blow, breaking a driver's side spindle. (Don't go three ·races on those things!) Limping along on th e side of the course, we got rear-ended by an 8 truck. That took out the right rear shock, and we had to call FAIR main to have someone there find my friend with a spare. While T om Mangione was running up the pit area calling for someone with a challenger. rear shock, Mark Bunderson stepped out and offered up one of his that h~ jus~ happened to have with him. Thanks again Mark!!! Also, thanks to whoever it was that ran it out to us. Harold chased out the other parts we needed, and while we were fixing the front end, I smashed the crap out of my finger. I thought it was bro-ken, and blood instantly came gushing out from un-der my fingernail. The crew finished the repairs while I got some first aid. There was no way I could get back in to drive, so I asked Cliff C arter to take over for me. Cliff and Tim took off, and I crossed what was left of my fingers. On Lap 5 , Peterson finally got in his car to finish up the remain-der of the race. Walters was second, and Silcock was third, but watched in hor-ror as a 16 car trying to pass him touched wheels send-ing the 16 into a roll. Doug hesitated, but it looked like an easy get off, so h e con-tinued on. Cliff was tryin g to keep what was left of m y c a r in o n e place, and was I would like to thank all the volunteers that helped in 99, especially my wife Kerry. It was one of the best years ever. The SNORE awards are January 8th at-the Gold Coa~t, :'call the SNORE Hotline, (702) 452-4522 for info if you want to see real money given away. How about $3,500.00, all races in 2000 paid for and a new 1-1600 car for the points champion, 2nd ~ce~a~~~~~~~~~~~oo~ 5th $1,000.00. SNORE will he giving away a new Bunderson 2-1600 roller next year and lots of money. SNORE will be racing in California in 2000, the .irst race in Laughlin will have a ne!"' section that runs in California. SNORE still wants to have a 2 race series with MDR, so if you are tired of racing the same courses over and over talk to your MDR of.i.cers and come try SNORE just 95 minutes from Barstow. Good luck to all of you in 2000! Dusty Times January 2000 just motorin g around. On Lap 6, Peterson was still leading, with Owen back in h is car, in second, and now the Walters would disap-pear with a bad clut ch. That moved us up to third , and I told Cliff to just keep it on all fours. Since the fourth lap, Jim Delaney was in Riffles car, and was hop-ing to finish before time ran out. On th e final lap, Peter-son w alked aw ay handily, having no down time at all. Owen finished second, ex-tremely pleased with their first time out in the "new car." We finished third, with Delaney finishing with only two minutes and 28 seconds to spare. Good job Jim! That finish jumped Riffle to second in the points battle. We ended up with the Championship, my first, but hopefully not my last. You know, when I first started this, I didn't think it was going to take 10 years to win a champi-onship, but after hearing This is the 1,ystem run by most off road race winners fro m a few "older racers", I can't tell you how fortu-nate I am. Many have raced for over 15 o r 20 years and some didn't even have any wins! T his has been an ab-solutely amazing year for me and I have several people to thank. First of all, Harold Curry, for believing in more more than I be-lieved in myself, Tim Nichols, for being there the-whole season, and Cliff Carter for picking up the slack in the driver's depart-ment. Also, I wouldn't have been able to do this without my wife and fam-ily, and all of their help and patience. My sponsors, RD SPRING, WEBCAM, PRP, SUSPENSIONS UNL., SANDRAILS UNL., and of course, MOHR PERFOR-MANCE. I can't wait until next year. I would like to take a few · lines to congratulate all of this year's· champions, es-pecially Jeremy Harmon, Continued on page 54 TRI-MlL BOBCAT q(ROME 198~91 CORVETTE 2 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER , --.;fl:. ~~ .......... ~. 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Page 53

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who came so close to win-ning the SCORE overall championship in his rookie year. Jeremy, those are some fine tutors you have there!!! I am looking for someone to report on the SCORE and SNORE races for next year. If you plan on attend-ing and wouldn't mind tak-ing some notes, E-mail me and we'll set something up. For that matter, if anyone has any earth shattering 9 news, let me know and I'll squeeze in what I can. I hope the holidays are good to you all, and maybe there will be some new racecar parts under the tree! ! ! The next Challenger day at Hodge will be Sunday, the 6th of February 2000. I hope to debut a couple of new products, so it should be interesting! See you next year, and,my E-mail is:, MOHRPRF@JUNO.COM. C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MOR Stoddard Valley 300 rl CORE only had two; teams who competed in the year ending MDR race. As; usual, the rest of the teams-are either saving their money for Christmas or ac-tively getting ready for next year's racing series. · RACE REPORTS Team Inch/Freeman (Class i-1600) . Brad Inch again teamed up with Kenny Freeman, hopes were high as the last time the pair teamed up they dominated and won their class. The race began well as Kenny started and pulled out to an early lead. Nearing the end of the first lap and just past the CORE Baker Pit, located at Hodge Road, Kenny stalled the car. With a low battery, he was stuck until some kind spectators assisted him with a quick push. Kenny lost a few positions and got back on the course with in-tentions of quickly making them back up. Apparently Kenny has never heard about the ugly rhythm sec-tion just past Hodge Road? The Barstow racers call the last part of this section "Fritz Kroyer Hole" as he did the ugly dance here many years ago. I am also quite familiar with it as I bent a few body panels and frame rails in this area. Well, Kenny was another victim of this part of the course as the car got out of shape and rolled hard three or four times. Kenny was OK, but the car was done. for the day, suffering a se-verely bent rear trailing arm, few bent rims and a squished brand new roof cover. Brad will rebuild it and will be back next-year. T earn J effer,ey Brothers (Class 2-1600) A new car to CORE but with familiar faces, Brian Jeffery, along with his two brothers Jim and J9e re-cently purchased the -beau-. tiful two seat 1600 from their friend Darnen Jeffer-ies. They bought the car race ready, the only neces-sary modifications was to change the last few letters of the name on the side of the car. Brian Jeffery has driven with Darin McGuf-The Winningest Pit Club in Baja History! Is now accepting Racer sign ups for race support and emergency repair service for the !!!,t!!P!a!!!m!a!~J!,;~~a!, yet the advantage that has helped win and finish more Baja Races than any other Pit Crew in History. Mag 7 OFFERS • Full Service Pit Support • Refueling Service • Haul Fuel & Spares • 50 Mile Pits When Required • Tire Service • Welding Service • Friendly Pit Exchange • 30 years of Winning • Emergency only Repair ~ervice at Reduced Rates Call 619-582-3728 e-mail mag7race@aol.com On the web at www.walsh.com/ma 7 · Sf,Uud7~to"""S~: ~LL✓A-.s-RAc✓N~ ss_===WILLIAMS ~_,14,ce_ ) == ~-~-~ TEl:□ATA.At/,-~ . Designs 619-698-3904 Jobsite Supply Co. www.race-dezert.com/jdfab ~•.n•f_//,,NE .,.. 619-295-6100 Red-d-Arc Welding ~,!~~ :i:i::: Pacific Rim Mechanical 858-268-4585 619-390-7007 :: (858) 974-6500 , Page 54 fin in his Challenger car for the past few years. Brian and Jim were previously teamed up drivin g the former CORE car belong-ing to Joel Stankavitch. Welcome to .CORE with your new toys, we will do our best to keep you on the track race day! Brian started the race with friend Rich Martinson riding and drove the first four laps. The only problem slowing their pace was a flat tire on the first lap. The goal for this race was to feel the car out and gain expe-rience in the faster class. Brian's words were exactly the same as mine, the first time I drove a 1600: "I don't know if I have the spheres to drive this car competitively." He made me laugh but I know these guys will be very competi-tive in the very near future. Brothers Joe and Jim Jeffrey drove the second half of the race,· having not a single problem.· They did manage to get quicker ev-ery lap, achieving their goal for the race. CORE PIT SUPPORT Core Main (Sidewinder/Outlet Cen-ter road) The Ridlins and Jefferys ran the Main Pit. Their ac-tivity was limited to driver changes and fuel stop by theJeffery'·car. Core pit able (near Walt Lott's look-out) The CORE Able pit was manned by Bob Depew, Rob Stapp, myself and my nephew Nicholas Parker. We had an uneventful day as ho cars stopped into the pits for service. Core Pit Baker (Hodge Road) Jim Wagoner, Lex and Shashum Webb ran the CORE pit at Hodge Road. SCORE BAJA 1000 The Lorenzi ·crew was the only CORE team who attempted the famed Baja .1000. Mike Lorenzi and Malcolm Bryce teamed up to drive the first 96 miles. They had no mechanical problems but did have a minor gravity problem as Mike rolled the car on the side on two separate occa-sions. Mike, still learning how to drive his new two seat 1600 says he has not yet mastered the fast, high berm turns. Mike wanted to thank Malcolm for his advice·and driving tutoring during the race. Mike said at one point: "Malcolm got so frustrated that he reached over and slapped me in the helmet." He taught me a lot, how to en-ter the turns and when and where to throttle. The first roll over was near the start so the local Mexicans as-sisted them in righting the car but the second it took them a while to jack the car over. Dan Peacock and Tal Whginmex took over and drove the next 140 miles. They had no problems, ex-cept that the radio quit working, a scary thing in Mexico. The third driver team to take the car was Bob Wright and Russell Taco. These guys made up some time on the course· posting some really good times. They did notice that the motor was getting tired towards the end of their run. Darin McGuffin and some other dude drove· the last 80 miles before the en-gine did a melt down end-ing their run. For some rea-son, the alternator strap broke which allowed the al-ternator to move around and waller out the fan shroud. With the lack of cooling, the motor over-heated and eventually seized. Mike said the Baja experience was very fun, tiring, and very expensive but all involved had a great time. Searching for a profes-sional family oriented pit support club? CORE is al-ways happy to extend its family and support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Res-taurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more informa-tion, join us at the meeting or call me at. (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at r33ce97 5 @apl.com. CRS Director's Notes The final rally cross has been run in our new series. Congratulations to all the competitors and class win-ners. The November 7th event in Jean, NV was well attended and even saw rac-ers from the San Francisco area come to run. We had one spectator join the "blue bottom" club when she climbed in the rolling out-house and an official de-cided to move the trailer it was on. She is lucky some-one stopped .him before he headed off into the desert with her aboard! The rally cross series was a big success for its first year. The average entry CUSTOM ACCESSORIES, FABRICATION & MANUFACTURING QUICK, CLEAN, QUALITY SERVICE AT A DISCOUNT PRICE· CALL US! We can do almost anything in steel, aluminum or stainless. All work is guaianteed on time at the original estimated price. Installation available. If you have a special need not listed or you think it can't be done, don't hesitate to call and'ask. • CUSTOM FIBERGLASS & BILSTEIN SHOCIS DEALER• WE IUILD EVERYTHING FOR STREET TD FULL RACE .JlfmNGA OlunoNs ~ACING m~• • PRE·RUNNER BUMPERS • SPARE TIRE MOUNTS • IN-CAB ROLL CAGES • MULTIPLE SHOCK MOUNTS • CUSTOM TUBE BENDING January 2000 • AXLE BRACING • CUSTOM SUSPENSION WORK w/Custom Control Arms • CUSTOM FRAMING & MOUNTS for Fiberglass Skins was 25 competitors -not bad for a new champion-ship. A big thank you goes out to Scott Bottomley, Tom Grossman, Ray Hocker and Dennis Sheean for the rally cross events this year. The new organizers of the Treeline Rally learned courage under fire during the November 13th event in Monrovia, CA. The large field of 3 1 rally teams took to the roads Saturday morning with lots of new faces. Paul Bojinov rolled his RX7 on Stage 1 and found a perfect Mazda sized spot on the course to land, blocking the road and holding up the back half of the field. This spot will now be known as Bojinov's Pass. George Plsek Sr. drove the Audi for a change and tore up ,the front corner suspen-sion early on. Now George Jr. can turn the tables and give his dad a lecture ori taking care of the car. It is usually the other way around. Newcomers Will-iam and Julie Yates in the Toyota MR2 finished their first event. William does a killer imitation of Austin Powers that had the timing crew in stitches. George Doganis and Thomas Smith in their brand new yellow RX7 · found the finish line as well. George says he scared himself just once -all of Stage 3. Dan Edmunds and Ken Tooker also tried their hand and succeeded at ral-lying after testing Dan's Mazda Miata in the rally crosses earlier this season. Both George and Dan turned in some impressive stage times for first time.rs! Jose 1,,fercado showed up and coerced Claire Chizma into being his navigator so he could run the rally as well. Tony "the Peruvian Flash" Chavez and his trusty co-driver Ken Cas-sidy finally put enough voo-doo dust on the Galant VR4 to finish a rally intact. Last year Tony was the overall winner at this event and this year he was third overall. He was mighty happy to see the finish line instead of the tow truck. Ben Bradley navigated for Tom Bier in Tom's Saab, despite George Plsek, Jr. telling him that Ben was a "Saab Killer." As you will recall, Ben was navigating for George when he rolled his Saab at the Reno Rally last year. Ben had personal rally signage posted for him on Stage 1 . The signs read "Ben Bradley roller here ... and here ... arid here ... " You get the picture. He took the first sign and had his fellow competitors sign it after the event. The Tabor clan came down from Oregon to check out the rally as well.· They both finished handily even though Kristen was a night carsick. She was awarded four pizzas at the awards ceremony that Dusty Times

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evening. They are planning on leaving their cars and running the Ramada Ex-press International Rally in December. Chad Dykes and Deborah Fuller had a strong run in the Toyota lor to let our the se ams and fet's go racing! See you.at the start line. Magnificent 7 Race Team pickup to finish in the top By 'Stephen T. Stenberg, President five overall. 'Jay Streets and Bill Feyling were the Stock class winners. Steve "Mr. Cool Shades" Bender and Craig McHugh held off Mike Gibeault with daugh-ter Michele in the VW Jetta and Mark Brown with Ole 'Holter in the co-driver's seat of the Toyota FX 16 for the Performance Stock class win. These rac-ers were so close all day it was really fun to watch. Lauchlin and Farina O'Sul-livan won the event over-all in their trusty Audi. Congratulations to the newcomers as well as the old ·regulars -finishers all. The Holiday Inn bar was the after pizza party scene for many of the competi-tors. A conga line formed of people giving the person in front of them a neck and back rub -testimony to how twisty and tight the course was for the racers. The CRS awards ban-quet will be January 15th at the Sheraton Hotel in Newport Beach 6:30 p.m. to ? ? ? $40 per person for dinner and the awards. The hotel has rooms for $89 a ·night. The CRS raffle will be held and lots of great. prizes will be given away. Multiple characte! assassi-nations are planned ·along with a celebrity· roast of someone we alt know and love. Don't miss out on the fun. Don't forget it is time to renew your membership if you haven'1: already done so. We wouldn't want you to miss any of the mailings with results from our events. Membership forms are on the website as well as available from Tony Chavez. The 2000 schedule is fill-ing up fast. Get out your calendar and starting marking off rally dates. This will be our 25th sea-son and we plan to make it memorable. Check out our calendar of events at < californiarallyseries.com >. Dust off those rally q1rs, take your firesuit to the tai-Hi everyone! Another Baja 1000 is behind us again. Or is it? To be really accurate, this is the last Baja 1000 of this century. This year the race was re-ally only 672 miles long. But a rough 672 miles it was. The race ran over the• 99 Baja 500 course twice. Mag 7 Race Pit Crews set up 13 pits for this race, one every 50 miles for our two stoke entries. We were pit-ting 2 bikes, 3 quads and 7 buggies. Of these, only 6 teams lived to finish on time. One team, Jeff Kawell, # 1611 finished a heart-breaking 10 minutes late at the final checkpoint This after being stuck for 1.5 hours on the first lap up in the mountains east of Ojos Negros. Gary Tepner . (#402X) and Ross Gregory, along with Eric Dean and Doug Reynolds, finished second Class 40. However, Gary finished 1st in Class 40 for 1999. Congratula-tions Gary and crew! Our other bike, Terry Barrett (#201X) from Ridgecrest on a Yamaha 400WR fin-ished well too. His team of four riders finished 4th in Class 30. Good riding Terry and crew! His sponsor was "Big Dog" from Florida. Ronnie Burke (#4A) from Virginia and Mike Penland (#54A) from Georgia rounded out our quad finishers. Ronnie took 3rd in class while Mike took 3rd in his Sportsman class, too. Mike comes out every year to race the Baja 1000. Usually, he's riding either a Yamaha Wolverine or, as in last year, a Yamaha Grizzly. This year however he rode a Yamaha Banshee. In the vehicles we had Eric Dean (#552) who took 5th in Class 5-1600. We had Eric Williams .( # 1605) who finished 8th in Class 1/2-1600. This was Eric's first independent race since leaving Ed McLeans "MRE" team last year. Good job Eric! And good job to all of you Mag CA CTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELL, SHOEI. SIMPSON From $299:oo HelmelS Helmet & Skirt SNELL 95. SA 95 FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or double seal cars. Helmet conversions, cool boxes, Complete line of PYROTEC1, FILLER Safety _ProduclS & BE Motorsports. We ship UPS daily. 5153 Bowden A venue - San Diego -CA - 92117 - 619-279-2509 Page 55 7 racers that finished this race It was billed as one of the toughest Baj a 1 000s ever raced and I think it lived up to it's reputation! For the last 5 year Wayne & Debbie Newell have been Mag 7 's Race Di rec tors. They have done a great job and have been dedicated to making sure our racer_s are taken care of, from before the race to after the race is finished. However, Wayne's health has taken a beating for several years now, and Debbie's work load has grown. So with deep sad-ness they have both with-drawn as being Mag 7 's Race Directors and Pit Cap-tains. You will no longer call 760-745-5740 or e-mail Newell@cts.com for Mag 7 business. I want to thank both of them, on be-half of all of our Mag 7 Rac-ers and Pit Support people for their wonderful work over these years. You will be greatly missed. . Also at this time I wish to give thanks to all the sponsors that have kept Mag 7 alive for this racing season. They are in no cer-tain order, SKS Valvoline, Redi-A-rc Welding, Jobsite, Pacific Rim Me-chanical, Streamline Printing, Juice Machine. and Cycle Parts West. All these fine companies, with the exception of Juice Ma-chine are located here in San Diego. Thank you for all your fine and continued support of Mag 7 Race Team. Our sponsors are what keeps making Mag 7 one of the finest Pit Crews in -; the· off road racing scene. Mag 7, for the year 2000, will be pitting the same races as last year. They are the San Felipe 250, the Baja 500 and the new Baja 2000. For now you can contact myself at either Mag7Racc~aol.com or by phone at 61 -425-1 r35. We will have a new Race Direc-tor in place by early January 2000. I also wish to thank my Pit Captains for their great support all year in racing. They are in no certain or-der, Terry Wickersham, Kevin Walsh, Steve Meyel\S, John Venters, Jerry McMurry, Stuart Klien & Los Mocos Crew, Larry Bridgewater, Tim Barlow, Shawn Wells, Wayne & Debbie Newell, Mike Wickers9am, Chuck Guy. These guys are our. lifesavers! Thank you from the Mag 7 Race T earn! Recently, the Yamaha & Honda shop of Motoworld in El Cajon,CA, threw We-wou.U ~ To Introdu.c,e; Two Ne.Mr Vuulorr Tt> Our Lut Of FUU;~u WE WELCOME: TRAILMASTER SUSPENSION AND BOATEC FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS FOR TRUCKS TAYLOR PLUG WIRES SPIRAL OR PRO-WIRE $24.95 TYPE Ill REAR 5-LUG GERMAN DRUMS $89.95 FOX 5/81<1' COIL OVER W/ RESEVOIRS $280.00 ASK ABOUT NEVADA OFFROAD T-SHIRTS N.O.R.B. 930CV OVER BOOT $10.95 H-4T ROUND HEADLIGHT BULBS NEW PIAA H-3 PLATNIUM BULBS BURNS 85 WATTS PRODUCES 130 WATTS OF LIGHT MUST MENTION AD TO RECIEVE AD PRICES ..... VISIT ROB MACCACHREN'S WEB PAGE www.maccachren.com their Annual 48 Madness Sale. }0ag 7 was invited to put up a booth, and did so readily. We provided Gary Tepner's XR600 Class. 40 bike, Eric Williams' "WRE" 1/2-1600 Baj a 1 000 buggy and Stuart Klein's Ford Bronco pre-runner (tha(s for sale by the way). T e event was huge success! Mag 7 made a $100.00 cash donation to the Lakeside · Off Road Coalition to help obtain the Off Road Park in that town. Being a native of San Diego, CA, I have seen all the good, local, off road places such as Bats Valley, Palm Ave., Rice Canyon and the Santee SandPits disappear under the growth of San Diego. Now, we can have a place locally that is setup and run by the State for all our off road n eeds. HOWEVER, while I enjoy taking my family on trips to the little town of Ramona, which is just north of Lakeside, I too will join.the boycott of this town for as long as their town leaders are against this park. And·, I encourage all my friends and racing associates to do the same. Everyone have a safe and happy holiday from Mag 7 Race Team. Adios from Team Baja. PS. Happy Birthday Melinda! 12/10/58. . . CAI.I. TOI.I. FREE 1~aaa-7SS-5900 ... . • * • WE CAN SHIP UPS TO YOUR DOOR .. . . . . ~ GW~~~ •••• 3054 S. VALLEY VIEW #3 * LAS VEGAS, NV * 89:1.02 January 2000 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)87:1.-522:I. FAX Dusty Times

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MIKE MENDEOLA 290 Trousdale Drive, Su~e I & J Chula Vista, CA91910 (619) 691-1000 24 Hour Fax (619) 691-1324 661-940-5515 Specialty Fabrication & Product s·ales Pre-Runners, Trucks & Sand Buggies 2280 Shasta Way unit #115 Simi Valley, Ca. 93065 Lance Fuller (805)522-4499 e-mail@l-!Tf2.SPf2.rSPLUS@JPS.N€r MSD" •r.l ,,, Jr.,'* .,.~,, , ..... ,,. YOUR. ~OMPLETE IGNITION SOURCE GNITIONS • DISTRIBUTORS • W IRES • REV CONTROL AUTOTRONIC CONTROLS CORPORATION 1480 HENRY BRENNAN DR., EL PASO, TX 78836 !915) 857-5200 • TECH LINE 1915) 855-7123 • VISIT OUR WEB SITE: www.msdignition.com Dune Buggy Parts Race Car Parts Foreign Car Parts New Truck Acc. Dept. Custom Machine Work & Fabrication 1 (800) 231-8156 2525 E. 16th St. • Yuma, AZ 85365 (520) 783-6265 • FAX (520) 783-1253 OFF ROAD CHASSIS ~ 18124 GRAND AVE. LAKE ELSINORE, CA 92530 Complete Off Road & Performance Preparatlon·for Trucks & Vans · CUSTOM SUSP'IENSION • PRE•RU N TRUCKS AXLI: SERVICE • WILDING l!t FABRICATION No DISCO TRUCKS Bill Montague Eat. 1974 909-678-1029 -PACIFICALLY LANDSCAPE "&~ 2?, 'Jtat«,,te,, Patrick A Bessie DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION • IRRIG ATION • MAINTENANCE• WATERSCAPES XERISCAPING • ROCKSCAPE Lie . .390104 PFR ( 619) 582-7999 (909) 360-5906 FAX (909) 360-0436 PARKER PUMPER HELMET COMPANY 10427 San Sevaine Way., Ste. L Mira Loma, California 91752 HAROLD NICKS :!:I? ,~~'T~@V~©7J') SAFETY EQUIPMENT MAXON, MOTOROLA, ROADMASTER, \IERTEX RADIOS BELL, SHOEI, SIMPSON HELMETS IN STOCK WIRiNG FOR RADIO &/OR 11\'TERCOM STIU. ONLY S12<;. -2888 GUNDRY AVE. -SIGNAL HILL, CA 90806 • 562-427-8177 ' 800-869-5636 w • A • WHY AREN'T YOU ADVERTISING IN THE MOST WIDELY READ OFF ROAD NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD? -.,. ,,...... ··, ( : .-Fraley s P<"rf onnancc En~nee,·ma . .. ~ Jerry Penhall 94~50-3035 1 Fax 94!M50-4721 1660 Babcock Bldg. #B Costa Mesa. CA 92627 • AD Types ol Steel <J Aluminum Fabrication • Tube Benclinc • Aluminum <J StM1 W.ldinc • Custom Machine Work • AD Types ol Race Cars 4851 W. Hacienda #4 Las Vegas, NV 89118 Bruce Fraley 702-365-9055 -PORSCHE sso • S years race-tested with no cracked gears or pinions • S ynchromesh or dog-engagement • 4.22 R&P (4.88 option • Shotpeened 9310 • Choice of clutches 'IIJ • Gearsets & components • Complete race transmission $7,900 Phone oR Fax (808) 87 -6812 ~\l\> str,1, ~ ~ ~ Todd Francis . ~ Precision· Alloy, 1,/d, ~ 25805 NB 46U. Avenue ~ • ~dgeOeld, WA, 98642# Phone ~~s. 'l;,~ Fax 360-887-2000 '0n & ~ 360-887-7279 ,PRO PROTRUCK RACING ORGANIZATION. A High.Performance Spec VB Race Truck Series "The True Driver's Class" Protruck Sales and Promotion Website: www.protruck.com Email: protruck@prodigy.net · Tel: 619.449.6252 Fax: i19.449.6470 9409 Abraham Way Santee, CA 92071-2584 CUSTOM ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FOR RACE CARS, TRUCKS, PRERUNNERS BUGGIES, STREET Roos, DRAG CARS QUALITY RACE CAR wmING SERVING ALL OF L.A., ORANGE & SAN DIEGO COUNTIES JOE DAVITIAN PGR. 323/340•0277 PROFESSIONAL RAC.E CAR DESIGN & FABRICATION . WINNING OFF ROAD RACES SINCE 1978 INCLUDING FACTORY WORKS SCORE CHAMPION TROPHY TRUCK RT 3, BOX 1970 903/683-1599 Rusk, TX FAX 903/683-8329 OFF ROAD ENTl:{USIASTS -GIVE US A CALL 1-800-929-4360 www.RACESHOCK.coM ~ PhO'enix, Arizona WIX: JliltJ €tggg,· -~..;. Suspension Components For Racing And Recreational Applications Shock Service Available on all brands .••• Fast Tum-Aroundl! • Upgrade"Vour Vehicle Suspension Affordably- Utilizing Our Trade-In Polley (602) 493-3700 Fax: (602) 493-0975 Ing. Alfredo Munoz Rep. En Mbico Gasolina de Alto Rendimianto Para Vehiculos Oeportivos. 1221Secc:. Los Pinos C.P. 22420 Tel: (66) 86-20-76 y 81-37-38 e-mail:76racing@lelnor.ndt

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~~n;;G fi7BENGLASS SPECQ'l.,t./S rs * OH-Road and Bolt-On to Street Fiberglass for: "Ford, Chevy and Toyota" Trucks * Carbon Fiber Parts and Custom Molds 1121 I'll. Buena Vista St. , Hemet Ca. 92543 Ph: 909-654-7334 Fax: 909"'654-2375 See a list of our products ell our web site: http://www.fiberglass1.com JEFF FIELD (818) 998-2739 9763 Varlel Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 ai > ~ <( 0 -~ :B -0 0, C <11 <11 ·-E E ~ 0 0 ,:: z cii .c 0 :5 -0 Q) _Adam Wik 1994 SCORE ENGINE BUILDER OF THE YEAR From Parts to Complete Engines Engine Dyno Service PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING CONSULTANTS EDWIN C. JACOBS PRESIDENT 900 STATE MILL ROAD ; AKRON, OH 44319 330-644-7774 , Cl) g lO <11 v t:: ~~ Cl) <( X Cl) 0 <( UJ UJ LL. ~ o Cl) -::::> Cl) Cl) ~ 0 ,~=::t"~PAINT ,41!11?Q:l411Nc9S«C.R~,C;11<' J<Jll09 * •~ roJMC; MAJN!EAWK:F•fx~IIYAC~J,l!f~IN&"-Off Road Products Front and Rear Trailing Arms • Spindles Suspension Specialists • Custom Wheels 2733 W. Missouri Phoenix, AZ 8501 7 Jack Woods (602) 242-0077 C\J-760-949: 1220 ' ~"e BUMP STOPS HERE (ujP) Automotive • ATV • Motorcycle l 8 l 5 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92507, USA 909.369.5 l 44 • 909.369.7266FAX WWW. WEBCAM I NC.COM Stop the up-travel on your suspension · dv e bum n ""to s stem. UNIQUE METAL PRODUCTS 10729 WHEA TLANDS AVENUE. SUITE #A SANTEE, CALIFORNIA 92071 TEL. • 61 9 / 449-9690 FAX • 619 / 449-8424 J:2:Ull L/gldn/n~ ----.;.;;.i/1. .. owertrain ECONOMICALLY PRICED AT 319.90 PER PAIR. Yarnell Specialties, Inc. 102 Crestview P.O. Box 845 1-520-427-3551 Yarnell, AZ 85362-0845 MOTORCYCLES •KTM • HUSABERG • HUSQVARNA • SERVICE & PARTS • SUSPENSION BRUCE HENDEL Regional Manager VP Racing Fuels, West Coast Complete Powertrain Development, Maintenance and 5upply Engines • Transmissions • Drivelines • Differentials M-F 12-6 VARIOUS SAT 10-2 P..O.Box1319 · 34283 Monte Vista Wildomar, CA 92595 Phone: (909) 674-9167 Fax: (909) 674-7367 Pager: (9091 694-7392 I 6845 Speedway Blvd. K-101 Las Vegas, Nevada 89115 7Di!-87 1- l 661 Fax: 70i!-871-6480 Classified ... FOR SALE: Class 1 single seater, FAT Performance Type 4, 2600cc 5 speed gear box. Wil-wood front brakes and Summers rear brakes, Parker Pumper, in-cludes trailer 2 axle, electric brakes, comes with spare parts, BFGoodrich tires, Centerline Wheels, $39,500.00 for every-thing, Kurt (805) 466-4101. Dusty Times Tig Welded 4130 single seat serious race car. Over 1500 hours in construction in 1995. 1997 Yerrington 300 overall win-ner Class 10. Multiple Class 10 wins. 1997 Class 10 Champion. In-cludes ITC, Mendeola ITC, SAW, FOX, Wright, Summers, Fuel Safe 30 gal on cell, Parker Pumper, Beard, Power Steering. Without motor, $12,000.00 Motor nego-tiable. (775)575-2617. FOR SALE: Brand new 5-1600, All Chromoly has 1 race, 200 mi., best of everything, Fox Shox, 1 Big Shock in rear, all new parts, Parker Pump. Rack, motor and trans are fresh, car is built for tall person, vety comfort-able, strong-fast-need money for new business, must sell $9,000.00 ( 619) 7 66-4689. January 2000 FOR SALE: 91 Ford Bronco PreRunner, 97 fiberglass, Fully caged with pro fabrication through~ out, eight Fat 65mm race shocks, Alcoa's, new Mud 35's, AC, Char-coal Gray Leather, CD. Prerun in style with 3 friends for only. $17,000.00 (760)723-9167. FOR SALE: Chenowth unlimited 2 seat car. FAT 3.5 Porsche, auto, Foddrill beam, Kuster bypass coilovers·. Beautiful car. Fast and reliable. Numerous spares. $32,000.00 Call Koiy (702)477-7575. 2350 ORANGETHORPE ANAHEIM, CA 92806 714-449-1271 FAX 449-1374 FOR SALE: No messing around, this is it. Probably the best working extracab 3 seat prerunner around. All the right stuff. Call for complete details. You've seen it at the races. Featured in July 99 Offroad mag. $120k .. Call Mark Newhan (619)504-1866 or (619)596-0950. FOR SALE: (3) VW Baja Shells, good sheet metal and pans. (3) 1 piece fiberglass ft ends. (1) has full cage for 5-16.00. (2) Ball joint ft. ends. (0 Swingaxle trans. $800.00 for all three. Lake Havasu, AZ (520)453-9688. Page ,;1

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FOR SALE: Lothringer single seat A-Arm. Maxwell air cooled 1835cc motor, Mendeola MD4S trans, Fox Coilover shocks, Summers rear hub, Axe ls by TCS, Fortin steering rack, Fuel safe cell, Centerline wheels w/ Beadlocks, Mickey Thompson tire$. $33,500.00 light and fast. (909)608-0583. FOR SALE: 1997 Race car trailer, Built by EMI Technology 48'x9'xl0 1/2, lounge area 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toi-let, sink, range, refrigerator, leather, storage and A/C 35'x 8 1/2" working and storage area wood and tile floor, 2 winches, 2 generator, 1 welder, 2 side doors outside lighting, rear gate, standing roof deck, 5 8' belly boxes, 8 new tires, excellent condition, $43,000 asking price or trade for ex-otic car. Call Fox Motorsports (915) 833-7902. FOR SALE: Class 7 Jeep, 4.0 liter motor, 5 speed. 16 ft travel 19 rr travel. 2.5 Fox shocks, Fox bumps, electric fans dual radiators. Dana 44 _ 4 wheel disc. Liquid fill gauges. K&N National Springs. 33 gal cell. 33 BFG, spares and pit boxes, PCI radio, intercom. $19,500.00 obo FOR SALE: Class 8 or PreRunner, 1971 Ford F250 shortbed, has full roll cage, 3 7" tires, Alcoas Wheels, Mastercrafts, Alum dash, has wide front end and rear end. No smog req. All Hiem joint steering and Rad. And trac. Bars. Need to be comp real trick truck. $4,500.00 obo. (619) 766-_ Call (702)645-8983. Ask for Rick. FOR SALE: 1998 Ford F-150 Flareside Sportsman Stock or 8S Truck. Best of everything. Fuel Safe, Beard Seat, MSD Ignttion, Ford 9", C6 Transmission, Kruse Motor, BFGs 01,1 American Racing \Vheels, 14 Fox Shocks, and much more. $18,000.00obo, Race Ready. Call Mark at (920)830-8910, leave message. Mike Oberg Motorsports. 4689. , FOR SALE: 1986 GMC Top Kick, 1991 22ft motor home conversion with 3208, 250hp CAT diesel, 100,000 miles, NC 7000kw genera-tor, ·and custom interior, ALSO 30ft FRP Tag trailer with cabinets, work-benches, tire race and toolboxes. $89,950.00. Call Art (412) 687-5093 Pgh, PA FOR SALE: Chenowth Single Seat, New Fat 4AG 16 valve 1650, new Weddle trans, Neal, Wild-FOR SALE: Class 9 Challenger, wood, Centerlines with Beadlocks, 1997 SNORE Class Champion, 2 sets rims & tires, Parker Pump, FORSALE: 96JimcoA-ArmClass 1 single seat. Multiple race winner. Mid-engine Wiks big bore Toyota V-6, Fortin Trans, Fox Ccrilovers. Some spares included, spare engine available also. $40,000.00 Call Kory Scheeler. (702)477-7575. FOR SALE: MDR Class7s Cham-pionship Toyota '85Xtra Cab. Only 6 races on this newly built 4x4. Best 'equipment, Super reliable racetruck. Race prep'd and ready for Baja 2000 or Best in the Desert 2000. Win yourself a champion-ship. Work assignment forces sale. $9,800.00. Call for more info. Bur-rows Motorsports (909)4 22-1416. FOR SALE: Porter 1-1600 Tig Welded, Kuster bypass, new FAT motor & Weddell Box, McKenzie hubs, Beard, PCI, UMP. BFG & Yokohama, totally prepped (to in-clude Magnafluxing). Comprehen-sive spares package. New custom J?aint, major race winner. $14,500.00. (602)494-1608. FOR SALE: Class 10 or Class 1 Jimco A-Arm. This car won the 500 and the 1000 in 1998. It has a FAT 4AG mid engine DON Fortin, 935 CV's and Bilsteins along with all the other bells and whistles. Ready to race. $39,000.00. I also have a 43' gooseneck enclosed trailer $12,000.00. Call Dave at (623)936-8777 or email me - at N2XSSpeed@aol.com. New motor and Trans, FOX, new Fox Shocks w/reservoirs 2 1/2 FOR SALE: Stadium Lite-440 cc Wright, Beard, Simpson, CNC, PCI double by pass, Bumpstops, Earls, Mx2x Rotax-RMP tranny, Fox radio and intercom, Car is in ex-930 stub, Best of everything. Shox, Jaz-Saco-Kreizer-BFG's, 10" cellent shape, fresh prep, ready to $26,500.00 invest. l year ago must fr-l 2"rear travel, never crashed, 8 race and WIN, Trailer and spares sell $15,000.00 obo Have all re-races on chassis-3 on motor, included. $7,800.00 Call Earl ceipts. l-800-789-6516or317-422- $22,000.00w/motor$18,000.00w/ (702)655-8048. 1907. out motor. (262)628-0772. FOR SALE: Stadium Lite, Briggs-build 5 bar, 500cc Honda motor with Billet cases, RPM Billet gear box, Fox Long travel shocks, RPM rack and pinion steering, Cham-pion headlock rims, disc brakes, best of everything. CORE and PACE legal. Tons of spare parts. $9,800.00 or trade????? (714)528-8724. Sell Your Car Pre-Runner, Parts or Bits & Pieces Right Here ... Dusty Times Has Th.e OH Road Readership You 're Looking For. Only$25 for up to 45 words plus $5 with. photo. Toyota 7s-Pauter Machine 2.81 stroker motor, Toyota Auto trans by Ken Mogi, custom torque con-verter, Full Floater 9" rear end, spool, discs, Sway-A-Way torsions, Henry's ball joints, alloy hubs, 2.5'' shocks, National leafs, 33xl0.50 Bajas, complete with spares pack-age $14,000 Baja Brokers Ref #720 (760) 723-2117 Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Hewland DG300 Class 12 Trans. Standard or narrow cliff. $5,000.00. Call Jerry at Pen-hall (949)650-3035. FOR SALE: Bearing Single seat Fat 1650 Rabbit, Weddle trans, CNC, Centerlines w/Beadlocks, Wright Rack, New Fox shocks with reservoirs, Bump stops, Wild Woods, Parker Pumper, 930 stub will separate motor and trans. $10,000.00 l-800-789-6516or 317-7S Ranger-ex Scott Douglas Rough Riders Ford Ranger, This Truck Is Very Professional And It Shows. Very Good History And Wonderful Race Record! Summers Bros. Front Hubs And Floater Rear End, 4 Wheel Disc Brakes, Custom Shocks W /Remote Reservoirs, National Springs, C4 Trans, Winters Shifter, Triple Coolers With Electric Fans, All Steel Braided Plumbing, Clark Steppler 2851cc 4 Cylinder, Crower Stroker Crank, Esslinger Head, Dual 48mm Webers, Dual Msd Ignition, 32 Gallon Cell, Fiberglass Front Clif, Are Wheels/Bfg Bajas, Etc. $13,500 Baja Brokers #715 (760) 723-2117. Check Out Our Website At Www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: Lee Leighton Single Seat Raceco 118" long, Has won many races. Tum Key $14,000.00 obo. Coil over front end & combo spindles, 26 gal fuel cell, long travel arms both ends, special 091 trans, CARR brakes, 35" 16" wheel, 1776cc eng. All pit parts included, 091 extra (909)682-3816, (909)874-2751. FOR SALE: 91 ford Ranger Su-per Cab Prerunner 4.0,has headers, flowmaster, K-N filter. In cab rollcage, full fiberglass, 97 Explorer front end, 8 Bilstein shocks, 12's in front, lO's in back. National Springs in front, big wheel studs, 33" BFG's, Awesome Prerunner, new paint. $7,500.00 (619)766-4689. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• FOR SALE: Two 4ag Toyota en-gines, 1630cc complete, Class 10 $4000.00 each. One has dual 45 side draft W ebers & early head with torque cams. Both engines have all the best. No short cutting on parts, one with late head wild cams and one carb. 1630cc complete. Lee Leighton engines (909)682-3816, or (909)874-2751. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in . DUSTY TIMES . Classified Advertising rate is only $15 for 45 words each month, not including name, address and phone number. Add $5.00 for use of black and white photo, or a very sharp color print. Maximum size 5"x7" .All Classified Ads m ust be PAID IN AD-VANCE. REMEMBER . CLASSIFIED AD SPACE IS LIMITED - YOUR AD MAY BE PUT OFF ONE ISSUE IF NOT RECEIVED IN A TIMELY MANNER . Enclosed is $ ----(Send check or money order, no cash) Name ----------------------------'---------Address Phone ------------------------------City State _ _ Zip ________ _ Please run ad ___ times Mail to: DUSTY TIMES 207 51 Marilla Street Chatsworth, CA 91311-4408 ···············································~····~··················· Page 62 _ January 2000 Suspensions Uhltd. 2 seater-Very • nice Class 10 or Class 12 car, fresh FAT 183 5 and Fortin 5 speed, fresh Bilstein 60mm By-pass shocks, Outboard Hubs, Howe p/s radio/intercom, CNC brakes and pedals, new rack, new front arms, fresh seats, Flame Out system, complete Baja 1000 prep with 30 miles! $28,000.00. Baja Brokers ref #737 (760)723-2117. Check out our website. a t www.bajaconcepts.com. Dusty Times

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FOR SALE: 1991 GMC Top kick, 3116, 250 hp CAT Diesel, Allison automatic, NC, 60" sleeper with fur-nace, sink, 7000kw generator. 24ft box with workbench and tire race. $59,000.00. Call Art (412) 687-5093 Pgh,PA. FOR S ALE: Ford Short Course Class 8/CORR Pro 2, Bran d new Fab by Troy Johnson , Fox Coilovers, Air Bumps, C hampion Beadlocks, Howe Power Steering with Ram Asst, Boatec Body, Need motor and race prep. Trailer included, many extras. $18,500.00 obo (805) 494-4907. FOR SALE: Mirage Superlite-Fox Shox, Beard Seat, 8 gal fuel cell, Wright rack, Ron Davis radiator, CNC pedals, Flame Out system, Fresh motor, 12" travel. Good short course or desert car. Some extras $7,500.00 obo Call ORBS at (520) 783-6265. Chevy PreRunner-Very fresh! 406cid SB V8, low comp. For Mex gas, quiet exhaust, custom TH400 trans, McPhearson fiberglass body panels, I-Beam front w/crossover steering, trailing arm coilover rear, Fox 2.5" Coilovers and Bypass, air bumps, Summers Bros., Dana 60, Big CNC brakes, 75 gallon cell, 37" BFG's on 17" Beadlocks, lots of alu-minum work, Beard wide seats, AC, trick interior, paint by Wally. Best of the best! $90,000.00 Baja Bro-kers Ref#727 (760)723-2117. Check out our website at www.bajaconcepts.com. FOR SALE: FAT Performance, type 4, 2700cc, 9 to 1-103.5 piston 3 bolt Porsche Heads, 5 bolt studs-single or dual Webers, elec. Igni-tion-Head Pipes-PS Pump-Billet pulleys, German Crank-Complete motor, 0 hours, w/receipts in crate $9,000.00 obo (602) 252-5441 or (602) 377-2239. Dusty Times FOR SALE; '93 Ford Ranger Class 7, 3.8 V6, 300 hp, V6 Trans, 9" Cone Rear, Cone front hubs, Wilwood discs, Fox coilovers, Kuster shocks, Travel: 19" front, 23" rear, 35 gal. bladder, Goodyear tires, Ultra wheels, extra tires, Bead lock wheels, engine, trans and rear end parts. Must sell, make offer, will consider trades. $20,000.00 obo (805) 968-1067 days. FOR SALE: Mirage Class 10 or 1. Fresh Rabbitt motor & trans Bus Box, 930 c.v. Beard, UMP, Fox Shox, SAW, Wright rack, Summers Hubs, 4 way disc, Mas-tercraft, Woods rear arms, 4" arms, & spindels, Baja T.A., Car is prepped & race ready. (209) 368-2 7 44. FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevy-Race ready, 625hp. Drysump smallblock, Kuster bypass 23" front, Kuster bypass 29" rear, air bump front and rear, Dana 6-cone, 80 gallon fuel cell, all chromoly, Tig welded, Best of everything $55k (909) 845-8086. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Red, A-Arm 19" travel front, four link rear, 22" travel w/"J" arm, FOX coilover w/air pumps, killer interior w/Taylor, Auto-meter, Vintage air, Aluminum dash, 2.3 turbo coupe motor, C-4, Floater, 35" Yokohamas, see in June 99 Off-Road mag. $39,500.00 Call Bob (619)561-3283. Class 10 or 12 Suspensions Unltd-2 seater, 1835cc Type 1, 091 Bus Bpx, Summer Bros. Flanges and axles, 930CV's 22 gallon cell, Coilover Front and Rear with 300m torsions, etc. $21,000.00 Baja Brokers Ref #736 (760) 723-2117. Check out our website at www. baj aconcepts. com. FOR SALE: Jimco Class 1 Single Seat A-Arm. Competitive & Reli-able, 2nd in '99, Score points. FAT 3.31 Toyota V6, Fortin DGN, For-tin 2.5 ram, P/S on trans, Fox or Bilstein shocks, (your choice), many spares included. Prepped and ready to race. $58,000.00 Jefferies (909)506-5635. FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp V 8 400 trans, C ustom Kuster shocks, 22+ travel, coil springs front/ quarter elliptic rear, custom built top to bottom, 50 gal fuel cell, disc brakes, radio, intercom, spare motor, tires, much more $68,500.00 (626)359-1768. FOR SALE: Chenowth 2 seat.150 pre-run miles on $20k complete rebuild. New Wiks 1835, fresh bus trans by Jeff Fields, new Fox bypass all around, new paint. Awesome pre-runner or Class 10/12 car. Per-fect condition. Some spares in-cluded. $20,000.00. Call Kory Scheeler 702 477-7575. FOR SALE: Ford Ranger Red, A-Arm 19" travel front, four link rear, 22" travel w/"J" arm, FOX coilover w/air pumps, killer interior w/Taylor, Auto-meter, Vintage air, Aluminum dash, 2.3 turbo coupe motor, C-4, Floater, 35" Yokohamas, see in June 99 Off-Road mag. $39,500.00 Call Bob (619)561-3283. FOR SALE: Parting out 5-1600 car. Chassis gone, most other parts there, 2-4" Centerline, Ump Airbox, FAT motor, SwayAway, Beard seat, Simp-son , Oberg, Ford tierod ends, Fox shocks, W right Rack ~nd spindles, Call for I:ist. (402)734-2676, Ump Super fil-ter New $225.00 will sell for $50.00. FOR SALE: Class 1 Jimco 2000-Brand new/never raced. Single center sea t in 2 seat chassis. 500+ hp fuel injected aluminum V-6 Chevrolet, Mogi auto transaxle, 3" Fox bypass. Best of everything. $110,000.00 Call Kory (702)477-7575. FOR SALE: Bullseye lift spindles, One set only, $325.00 only used for 2000; Off of 1/2 ton Chevy pickup (619)208-8867. DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! January 2000 FOR SALE: Short Course 89 Ranger-2. 7 & 2.3 motors both with aluminum head a n d W ebbers, Strange 9 inch 35 spline full floater, Kuster by-pass shocks in front and 4 Fox in rear, Tilton, Quartermaster, Fuel Safe, AutoMeter, Na-tional, Simpson, Griffin, Earl's, T-5 trans, $14,500.00, (630) 851-0155. FOR SALE: Chenowth mag-num, Raced PACE series last year. 1915 cc FAT air cooled motor, Simpson, Beard, Summit brothers, Fortin CV's, CNC, Fox coilovers, Centerlines, Wright Fuelsafe, Oberg, UMP power steering, Flameout, Men-deola Bus box, (402)734-2676. EMPLOYMENT "OPPORTUNITIES '~ • • n •~~ I for dedicated people to join their win-ning tradition. Positions open for welders, fabricators, assembly & prep personal. Call Mike @ (619) 562-1743 or send resume to Jirnco Rac-ing Products@ 10965 Harley Rd, Ste R, Santee, CA 92071. Experienced Fabricator, Welder to work at Penhall fabrication. Call Jerry (949)650-3035. MECHANIC WANTED with race prep experience. 2nd mechanic on Trophy Truck or Class 1. Must be dedicated and able to work well in a team invironment. Call (714) 841-0563. PARTS/ SUPPLIES FOR SALE: Two Way Radio with SCAN Multi-Channel Memory-Su-perior performance-Aluminum chas-sis-55 watts-sensitive reception-no fade-2 color display-multi-function mike-too many features to list-Why spend over twice as much $319.00. For more info call Chuck Strange 909 657-8525. Danny Anderson .................................... 41 BFGoodrich ............................................ 19 Baker Performance Products ............. 42 Barbary Coast, Gold Coast, Orleans Hotels ................................. 11 Barraza .................................................... 21 Beckwith ................................................. 51 Best In The Desert -Nevada 2000 .......... 37 Bilstein Corp. Df America ........................... 5 Vic Bruckman/Jason Hatz ....................... 15 Cactus Racing .......................................... 55 Camburg Engineering ........................... 49 Car Custom ............................................ 34 Carr ......................................................... 29 Chenowth ...................................... : ........ 51 Classic Door ........................................... 45 Jim Conner Racing ................................ 20 Converter Shop ..................................... 27 DeShane Racing .................................... 48 Doherty Motorsports ........................... 50 Eibach Springs ...................................... 30 Walker Evans Salute ............................... 4 FAT Performance .................................. 38 Dave Folts Transmissions ............ : ...... 26 Fox Racing Shox ...................................... 9 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ......................... 43 German Auto .......................................... 25 Herbst .............................................. 16, 17 Hettinga Creations Racing .................. 54 Kartek Off Road ............................. 12, 52 Kawaguchi Honda ................................. 44 King Shock Tech ................................... 47 Mag-7 ...................................................... 54 McKenzie Performance Products ....... 18 Nevada Off Road Buggy ....................... 55 PCI Race Radios and Equipment.. ......... 2 Pike's Family Restaurant.. .................. 35 Race Ready Products ........................... 52 SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge. .... 13 Sway-A-Way Corp .................. Back Cover Transaxle Engineering ......................... 36 Tri-Mil Industries .................................. 53 Valley Performance .............................. 46 Web Cam ................................................ 31 Whiplash Motors ports ......................... 39 Page 63

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