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volume 17 -Number 6 June 2000 DISliYlil■IG ~ r&l 0 ~·~~~ :::::: rara1 , . 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: $25.00 per year, 12 issues, USA, Foreign Subscription rates on request Contributions: DUSTY TIMES welcomes contributions, but · is not responsible for such material. Unsolicited mate-rial will be returned only by request and with a self ad-dressed stamped envelope. Classified Ads: will be published as received, prepaid. DUSTY TIMES assumes no liability for omissions or errors. All ads may be subject to editing. DUSTY TIMES: (ISSN 8750-173·2) is published monthly by · Hillside Racing Corp., 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, (818) 882-0004. Copyright by Hillside Rac-ing Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permis-sion from the publisher. Periodi-cal Postage paid at Chatsworth, CA 9 I 311 and at ad-ditional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change to DUSTY TIMES, 207f · Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 . CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks notice is required for change of address. Please furnish both old and new ad-dress, and send to DUSTY TIMES, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. snapshot of the Month ... The guy on the left is Bob Gordon, the year was 1977 o~ 1978 and the guy on the right??? Well, Mister Moustache is none other than Brian Skipper, known now as head of Sway-A-Way, Inc. but then he was known as a fabulous race car driver. Thanks to Sue Johnson for the pie. DUSTY TIMES will feature pictures of similar "funnies" or woes on this page each month. Send us your sn11pshot of something comic or some_ disaster for consideration. DUSTY TIMES will pay$ 10 for the picture used. If you wish the photo returned, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Only black & white prints, up to 8xl0 will be considered. In This Issue ... FEATURES Best In The Desert Terrible's Town 250 by Tony Tellier ....................... 8 33rd TAP Rally of Portugal by Martin Holmes ..................................... 18 SNORE Buffalo Bill's 400 by John Calvin ............................................. 22 Whiplash Vulture Mine 200 by Tony Tellier ........................................ 28 Best In The Desert Terrible's Town Bikes by Mark Kariya ................. 36 CODE VW Autopartes 200 by Tony Tellier ......................................... 44 VORRA Season Opener by Forest Creasey .......................................... 50 DEPARTMENTS Happenings ................................................................................................ 5 Trail Notes ................................................................................................. 6 Challenger Corner by Joel Mohr ............................................................ 48 C.O.R.E. Pit Report by Sandy Parker ... _. ................................................ 48 CRS Race Director's Report by Sue Robinson ...................................... 49 Mag 7 by Steve Stenberg .......................................................................... 49 Good Stuff Directory .............................................................................. 52 Classified Ads ......................................................................................... 58 Index To Advertisers ............................................................................. 59 On The Cover Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren teamed their driving talents at the Best In The Desert's Terrible's Town 250 to take a resounding victory in Class 10 and a great sixth overall finish. Photo by Trackside Photo The Reuben Wood Class 1 car was the overall winner at the Whiplash Vulture Mountain 200, taking their second win of the season. This was a close one, they won by just seven seconds. Photo by Trackside Photo Visit Our Website Dustytimes.com c:Subscribe <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) □ NEW □ RENEWAL Name ----------------------Address --------------------City State Zip --------------------Primary Interest Cars D Trucks D . Motorcycles D Send check or money order to: DUSTY TIMES 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 Canadian - 1 year $30.00 US ■ Overseas subscription rates upon request Dusty Times June 2000 Page 3

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Trail Notes ... NASCAR WINSTON WEST ~The Orleans 150 was run at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on April 22 and one of our favorites, Brendan Gaughan brought his Chevy Monte Carlo home in fourth place. At the California Speedway on April 29, after 92 laps, Brendan was leading the race but on a green flag restart Brendan was Snickered by two big name Winston Cup drivers and ended up in third place. Keep on placing well and keep winning ! ! ! ! ! MOVING TIMES - Dusty Times is moving! We are relocating our corporate offices to 20761 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311, effective May 31, 2000. Phone numbers are 818-882-0004 and fax at 818-882-0090. Please direct all correspondence to the new address as of this reading. We'll do our best not to screw things up during the move and we know we'll be able to serve you better in our new location. NEW ARRIVAL - Brady and Sherri Helm welcomed their brand new daughter, Carlee Nichole into this world on April 11, 2000 at 3:25am. Carlee weighed in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces and she was 20 inches long. Mom; dad and Carlee are all do~ng well but we did hear that Brady has an inflated chest. MORE NASCAR - Why does NASCAR allow Winston Cup drivers to compete in Busch Series races and Winston West races? It only takes the thunder away from the regular contenders to have to big buck guys come in looking for some additional glory. Mark Martin, etal, driving in the Busch Series is a prime·example. Why not let the lesser dollar teams fight it out amongst themselves and keep the big pros up in Winston Cup where they belong! 'nuf said. SPONSOR HUNTING? - Nina Murphy, who wrote the book "Sponsors, how to Get One, how to Keep One" is looking for a couple more drivers to feature monthly on her web site as "Rising Stars," www.murfink.com. The space on her site is free, but Nina says "Only drivers that are committed to keeping me informed after every race will be welcomed." Nina can be contacted through the site at racebookwriter@aol.com · SCORE BAJA 2000 - S"o,re had a little get together_ for the select few at Michael Gaughan s Orleans Hotel and Casmo on May 1 and 2 and there they released the official course map for the 2000 mile trek from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas. Well, actually the mileage is 1,754 but who's counting? The race course will crisss cross the peninsula to pick up the desired mileage Major ports of call are, Ensenada, San Quintin, Catavina, Bahia de Los Angel~s, San lgn~c_10, Loreto, Ciudad lnsurgentes, La Paz, Todos Santos and fmally the fm1sh at Cabo San Lucas. Tecate Beers will be the title sponsor. As usual, competition will be held in 23 Pro classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles, A TV's along with six for Sportsman entries. The race starts on_ S':'nda_y, November 12. Fastest vehicles are expected at the fm1_sh m approximately 40 hours1 the time limit for the race is 80 hours. SNORE BUFF ALO BILL'S 400 VIDEO - If you were one of the luck one's who graced the Buffalo Bill's 400, ou might want to purchase the video that was made of the race. I(you are interested in getting a copy of the .tape, call Day Gang at 702-361-2855 and make your arrangements through her. We can't wait to see it! TED RIVERS REVISITED - Last issue we disclosed the fact that old friend Ted Rivers had suffered a heart attack but that he was out of danger and the prognosis was good. Well, we are more than happy to report that Ted is doing better, so good in fact that he went back to work on May 1 and he is feeling fine. Music to our ears, keep on truckin ' Ted! BEST IN THE DESERT NEVADA 2000 -July is fast approaching and the Nevada 2000 runs in the middle of the month so if you plan on running 2000 miles in Nevada you better get on the horn and make the arrangements. The race will be run entirely in the state of Nevada and the event runes from July 9 to the 14th. The route is Las Vegas to Mesquite, Mesquite to Ely, Ely to Elko, Elko to Reno, Reno to Tonopah and Tonopah to Las Vegas. NUPTUALS - Just heard via the grapevine that Jerry Garrett · and Laura Byrd have combined forces and will be taking on the world together. RJ. IM OF THE WORLD -51 cars contested the 2000 Rim of The World rally and, as usual, the Rim was getting tougher and ougher to conquer. We only have preliminary results at this time but it looks like Karl Scheible was first overall, running in FIA-N, Peter Lahm was not too far hehind, winning the Open Cla~s, George Pisek was second in Open, Patrick Richard won PGT, Thomas Liljeqvist took GS and Jay Streets won G2. Stay tuned to Du~ty Times for a complete rundown on the "Rim" in our next issue. Page 6 Tecate September 29-October 1, 2000 Carrera Fiesta de! Sol 2000 Laguna Salada · November 24-26, 2000 Carrera de Campeonata Mexicale Area 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 Antigo County Fairgrounds Antigo, WI June 24-25, 2000 Crandon International Raceway Crandon, WI July 15-16, 2000 Kewaunee County Fairgrounds Luxemburg, WI July 29-30, 2000 Fort dodge, IA August 12-13, 2000 Bark River Off Road Raceway Bark River, Ml 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 CORVA Ext 42 Fax (818) 957-4435 D&T PROMOTIONS . Dave Van Deren 2405 Baker Ave. Everett, WA 98201 (206) 339-9079 (All events at Hannigan race track, Bellingham, WA or Thurston County ORV Park, Olympia, WA) DECATUR FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB Decatur, TX 76234 Tom Allen· (800) 662-3649/(214) 641-2090 DESERT STEEL MOTORSPORTS 1865 Commander Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (520) 855-6125 EASTERN OFF-ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION Tom Delauder, Sr. 1091 Township Line Road Wellsville, Ohio 43968 (330) 532-4589 ESTERO BEACH INTERNATIONAL Short Course Racing Victoria Galindo Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico 011-526!176-6225 October 13-15, 2000 Estero Beach Baja California, MX FABTECH Off Road Short Course Series at Glen Helen Raceway P.O. Box 6950 San Bernardino, CA 92412 (909) 280-9096 Contact: BBM Marketing Promotions P.O. Box 762 Norco, CA 91760-0762 (562) 988-6250/Fax: (909) 280-9097 FRT Motorsports 250 Kennedy, #2 Chula Vista, CA 92011 (619) 427-5759 *denotes motorcycles & qunds *June 24, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Conquista Gran Prix Rancho Villareal, Tecate, BC, MX June 24, 2000 Ctrveza Tecate Conquista Gran Pnx Rancho.Villareal, Tecate, BC. MX June 2000 *July 29, 2000 · Affordable Rain Gutters C/M Nite Team Race Plaster City, East * August 2 7, 02000 Saasta Chevron Sweetheart's Kiss Lake Superstition *September 10, 2000 Cerveza Tecate Cacti Gran Prix KOA Kampground, Rancho O jai, 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 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. (1-80 Race Track is located 20 minute~ west of Omaha ■ All races are short course, stadium style. Classes: Trophy, l l /600,.5, 7S, I arul Quads) IOK FOUR WHEELERS P.O. Box 36 Cleves, Ohio 45002 (All.events staged at the club grouruls in Cleves. Ohio) INTERNATIONAL ICE RACING ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 8105 St. Paul, MN 55108 Steve Beddor (612) 937-3816/Fax 474-2769 INTER-SHOWS MOTORSPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. P.O . Box 2910 Mission Viejo, CA 92690 (949) 582-2371 August 13, 2000 14th Annual California Truck Jamboree Orange County Fairgrounds Costa Mesa, CA ·KAMLOOPS BRONCO BUSTER 4WDCLUB P.O. Box465 Kamloops, BC, Canada VZG5L2 Bob (250) 374-7175 days Randy (250) 579-9621 eves. Wes (250) 351-2819 L.I.T.R.E. Jeff Elrod (408) 926-0522 Jim Aruta (408) 247-4402 MICHIGAN BUGGY BUILDERS Dune Buggy Trade Show (5 I 7) 543-7214 www .buggybuilders.com MICHIGAN OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS M.T.B. Enterprises Inc. ! 5529 Jones Road Grand Ledge, Ml 48837 (5 I 7) 627-6200 July 30, 2000 ln~ham County Fair Mason, Ml Oeeps, Trucks, Buggies, Pilots, Road Wamors arul Quad ATV-Money Classes:) MID-AMERICA OFF ROAD ASSOCIATION MAORA Steph Sabo (618) 327-9312 Short Course Events June 24, 2000 "The Edge" Triple R Raceway Nashville, IL July 15, 2000 Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park Casey, IL July 29, 2000 "The Edge" Triple 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 July 16, 2000 100k Lincoln Trail Motorsports Park • Casey, lL September 1 7, 2000 ·1ook "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) 5 79-6051 Fax E-Mail: mdrracing@aol.com June 17, 2000 Lucerne 400 Lucerne, CA August 5, 2000 California 200 Barstow, CA September 30, 2000 Barstow 300 Barstow, CA November 18, 2000 Stodda"rd 300 . Barstow, CA M.OR.E. High Desert Championship . P.O. Box 1231 Barstow, CA 92311-1231 Fax: (760) 253-4453 July 8, 2000 Freedom 250 Barstow, CA October 7, 2000 Tumbleweed 300 December 2, 2000 Leapin' Lizard 250 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 3 2 I 77 (904) 325-5422 NATIONAL TUFF TRUCK ASSOCIATION Butch Chapin Motorsports Promotions 1404 East 3rd Street Hastings, MN 55033-1415 (612) 437-2459 NORTHERN OHIO OFF ROAD RACING ASSN. Gary Wulff (724) 283-2678 May 28, 2000 June 25, 2000 July 30, 2000 Dusty Times

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August 20, 2000 September 17, 2000 October 15, 2000 (All evencs are at Spring Balley Raceway, Miliport, Ohio) OFF ROAD EXPO 2000 (626) 599-8622 October 7-8, 2000 Fairplex Pomona.CA OFF ROAD PRODUCTIONS OF EL PASO Joey Vasquez 13180 Round Dance El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 855-8899 All races are at Mountain Shadow Lake. Take I-ID Horizon Blvd. exit east 12 miles OHIO OFF ROADERS INC. 1427 Goshen Hills Road S.E. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 Jim Kendel (216) 339-4674 AU races held at Harrison County Fairgrounds. Cadiz, Ohio ONTARIO OFF ROAD RACERS ASSOCIATION Rick Tichboume, Public Relations (5 I 9)-681-4192(H)/(5 I 9) 457-2913(W) June 3-4, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken July 22-23, 2000 Janetville August 5-6, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken August 12-13, 2000 Tiverton SepteJDber 9-10, 2000 Tiverton September 23-24, 2000 Eaglesnest Raceway Oshweken PACE MOTOR SPORTS U.S. Off Road Championship 495 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 566-6100 www.usoff-road.com February 26, 2000 Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, 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 July 8-16, 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 Poincs Event PURE ENERGY PROMOTIONS P.O. Box50 Ricketts, IA 51460 (712) 679~2221 July 2, 2000 LCOCasino Hayward, WI 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 903 3 E. 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President - Geoff Lee 1243 Trice Road Lebanon, TN 3 7087 (615) 453-5830 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 (All Races at Eastbay Raceway, Tampa, FL) SUPER SERIES (PTY) LTD. P.O. Box 706 .!'~!_lc!~nds! _ 2121 Sou th Africa (011)788-5138 Fax (011 ) 880-2170 SWORDS South West Off Road Racing Desert Series 4209 So. CR 1300 Odessa, TX 79765 Mike Parker (915) 337-3437/(615) 595-8237 (All races held at Notrees, TX 25 miles west of Odessa. TX) TOYS FOR TOTS (619) 252-1197 /(619) 252-309.3 T.O.R.R.O Texas Off Road Racing Organuation Marty Jackson 8.307 Bauman Road Houston, TX 77022 (713) 694-0207/Fax: (713) 694-8335 TSO c/o Frog Specialties 4050 Spencer Street # l Torrance, CA 90503 (310) 370-9856 VORRA Off Road Racing 1833 Los Robles Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1702/Fax (916) 925-82 I 7 May 27-29, 2000 Desert race Yerington, NV June 24-25, 2000 Desert Race Lovelock, NV July 29-30, 2000 Top Gun Desert Race Fallon, NV September 2-4, 2000 Off Road Desert Challenge Fernley, NV September JO-October 1, 2000 Championship Series - Round I Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA October 14-15, 2000 Championship Series - Round 2 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, Ca October 28-2~, 2000 2000 Championship Race - Round 3 Prairie City SVRA Park Sacramento, CA VICENTE GUERRERO OFF ROAD CLUB · Profo. 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Box 2122 Calexico, CA 92231 Motorcycles & ATVs Only June 18, 2000 El Tractor Tijuana, BC, MX July 30, 2000 Santa Veronica Tecate, BC, MX September 3, 2000 Tijuana GP Tijuana, BC, MX November 2, 2000 zr. Grand Prix Mexicali, BC, MX -Attention Race & Rally Organizers List your _coming events in DUSTY TIMES free. It is the only way some fans know about your event, if they don't happen to be on your club mailing list. Don't call, but mail your 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, 20761 Plummer St., Chatsworth, CA 91311 M-F 9:00 - 6:00 SAT 10:00 - 3:00 -~\ . r'~\~)~ \ "'~'t.~ \~\ - \ f \ r~~-\ \ (BOOJ 656-3376 -~ 103 Press Lane, #4 Chula Vista, CA 91910 (619) 691-91.71 • Fax: (619) 691-0803 E-Mail: rprod1@aol.com Page 7

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BEST IN THE DESERT Terrible's Town 250 By Tony Tellier . Photos: Track.side Photo Tim, Ed and Troy Herbst teamed up in their new four-wheel-drive Ford powered Smithbuilf, to win overall by a narrow margin at the BITD Terrible's Town 250. ------------------The Terrible's Town 250 is touted as "The Richest Off Road Race in Nevada." With $10K up for the 1st Overall car or truck (plus another $10,000 bonus if you are driving a Ford), who could possibly dispute that? It's arguably the richest off road race • anywhere. The sponsoring Herbst family took home their own $10,000 purse after the first finish of the four wheel drive Mike Smith racing car. Designed as a Trick-Truck, the low rider was not able to. be fitted with the necessary Ford livery, so they ran in Class 1. The lack of a truck body meant that the bonus went They ran down the two Unlimiteds that started in front and disposed of the other Trick- · Trucks for a slim 45 second win over Darren and Casey Jefferies in their pre-runner. The Jefferies were actually an unknown to the Herbst team. Mike said that "I didn't even know chat they were entered in the race! We knew that we had Jason Baldwin by nine minutes and were clear of Doug r ortin. We. took our time at. the pits believing that we had that cushion. Ed had a flat with eight miles to go and A.J. (Martin) took his time changing the tire · three and a half minutes. -. -- -· ----- ----··-. u1;.paid. -~---------------------·--· . ' • • "~vi_ ....r}~·:-: 9'.; ,.,, ·. < ! .. :~:.::~ :-~L;~: In Class 4100 (stock, Fu/I-sized SUVs) the winners were John A. and John R. Sunderland, from Valley Center, CA., in an elderly Ford. They had 33 minutes on second place. One of our girls at the finish radioed that ".You guys only have a four minute lead over the next (Jefferies) car!" Smith said that. they radioed Ed that he'd " ... better step it up! There is a car on you!" A.J. asked "WHAT! Well, we better gas it to the finish .... which is right HERE!" A 45 second margin of victory. Smith was naturally stoked about the win and the finish. "When we first drove it it only went 30 miles. Then 45 . Then a hundred.". The front drive train has been, of course, the big question. "Now we have a win. Phwew! We were under a lot of pressure. They were sorta disappointed th~t it didn\ ;i-~ ;t 'San Felipe'!" Mike said that "all three brothers drove at 'Terrible's Town'. Tim started and he was definitely not cruising." Troy did the middle section and, as noted, Ed took it to the flag. Doug (Fortin) later told them that he was surprised that the car finished after that early push. Smith said that all three men thought that the car was mucli easier to drive than the 'Truggy.' Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren were, once again, victorious in Class 10 while self-sponsored Mark Beeler· "Beeler's Landscape Maintenance and Homemade Ice Cream" · beat powerhouses Kyle Taylor and Dave Westhem, among others, for Class 8. The Protrucks proved be gumbo. their _metallic mettle finishing The course made a huge loop Fourth and Fifth:· the Ricks in, around, across, and along the Johnson and Kevin McGillivray . . Reno Highway NW past Beatty. There were six Protrucks in the · Pit access was sweet and traffic Top 15 Overall.: was light, while the Nevada l. 5:08: 11 Troy Herbst, Highway patrol only preyed on Smithbuilt 4WD (Class 1500 Protruck teams. Unlimited). The day long breeze from the 2. 5:08:58 Darnen Jefferies, rapidly heating desert basins Jimco (Class 1500 Unlimited). swept out and up to the mountain 3. 5: 13:40 Doug Fortin, Jimco faces; as the course often skirted · (Class 1500 Unlimited). the nose of the bajadas the winds 4. 5:22:3 1 Ricks Johnson, Ford were crossways to the racers. A (Class 1200 PT). good deal. If you went down-slope 5. 5:24:39 Kevin McGillivray, you'd have the dust with you all Chevy (Class 1200 PT). _the way, either way. 6. 5:28:20 Danny Anderson, Of course, it was rocky. And Jimco (Class 1000) • silty. But you wouldn't have those 7. 5:29:49 Jeff Hoskins, Ford 260 miles any other way. (Class 1200 PT). Veteran "Driver-For-Hire" 8. 5:32:38 Jason Baldwin, Ford Ross Craft noted that this was his (T-T). first BitD race and applauded the 9. 5:34:39 Mark Beeler, Ford overall organization of the event. (Class 8000) • * Drivers meeting to the point; 10. 5:37:05 Sam Berri, Mirage didn't allow people who weren't (Class 1500 Unlimited)• listening to ask stupid questions. 11. 5:44:35 Kyle Taylor, Chevy * Casey Folks. Pretty cool guy, (Class 8000). was readily available and stuck to 12. 5:51:38 Mike Griffiths, his word regarding nur late Ford (Class 1200 PT) . "Outlaw" entries. 13. 5:52:19 Chet Huffman,- * The pit access, pit books and Ford (Class 1200 PT) . · pu markings were v~ry organized J1. 5:56:53 Lonny Hembolt, and accurate. . Dodge (T · T) • · * The great fun course. 15. 6:00:46 Steve Barlow, Ford 1400 -TRICK TRUCKS (Class 1200 PT). _ ,1. 5:32:38Jason Baldwin, Mike THE COURSE Laughlin, Ford; 2. 5:56:53 Lonny The Pahrump Valley sits over Helmbolt, Tony Leonard, Dodge. the third largest fresh water Jason Baldwin was a surprise aquifer in the United States, entry and he made the long tow according to 'Jeff Hibbard, pay off with a win over a finishing "Pahrump~ is a Shoshone Indian Lonny Helmbolt although tire word meaning "Where the water troubles pushed him back to flows out of the rocks." Well, eighth overall. maybe, waterproofing was not as The outstanding performance issue at this Best in the Desert of the first third of the race was race. The gray limestone beds that Gary Vosourg. The ex-Protruck make up the Great Basin fault ." ... was #1 into #2, then it started block mountains easily gave up missing. It never got 'hot' hot, so their tiny. chemically-bonded we just figured that a plug wire CaCO3 particles to provide fine had come off. But when we got to silts for those K&Ns, but not Pit #3 and they were all on, we before turning into tire-tearing pulled a plug and struck water! ledges. Ifit (ever) rained it would Must be a head gasket." Or that Pahrump Aquifer. Asked about his abdication from the formal PRO series he offered that "We don't care any more? No, I guess not. I still think that PRO is a great organization. We bought the wrong truck for the wrong class. It just doesn't work for what we wanted. I hope that Ivan makes millions." They stuck in a Leon Patton engine with Edelbrock heads and a big carb. 1500 -CLASS 1 UNLIMITED BUGGY Jeremy Spirkoff, fresh off his win at San Felipe, did it again at Pahrump, taking the victory in Class 8100 (stock full sized trucks) in his new Ford. The Protrucks had a good day, and most of them finished well up in .the standings. Kevin McGillivray and Don Angel were second in class in their Chevy, and fifth -overall . I. 5:08: 11 Tim, Troy & Ed Herbst, A.J. Martin, Smithbuilt 2WD; 2. 5:08:56 Darnen & Casey ·Jefferies, J imco Pre-Runner; 3. 5: 13:40 Doug Fortin, Jimco Scat; Continued on page 10 • Pages June 2000 Dusty Times

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The Arizona team of Mark and Tim Beeler opted for less sophistication and more reliability. and it paid off. They won Class 8000 by ten minutes, finishing ninth overall in. their '65 Ford. 4. 5:37:05 Sam Berri, Mirage; 5. 10:04: 14 Tim Fitzpatrick, Race co. 1. 8:26:58 Danny Nelson (Sportsman). Over a Bud, Herbst riding mechanic Barry Beacham -not working for a change, as the old Jimmy Smith T-T had been sold -offered some insight into Fast Car Racing. "Once a while the Trophy-Truck would slip 50, 75 feet off the course. When they go, they're going! Suddenly their weight and size, which had been working in your favor, are working against you. You just keep on the power and blast through." Darnen and Casey Jefferies had their pre-runner on the starting line. "This is the old Dale Ebberts' Jimco, with Danny Porter arms and mods. It's a 2850 'Kar-Tee' motor. This did two loops pre-running at San Felipe then we washed it off and came up here." Their VB Porter rocketship was not 100% re-prepped from San Flip so their back-up car was brought out. A 45 second deficit for the Overall ain't bad. For a pre-runner. "We had a good, good time! No troubles; we saw three dust trails, then two, then only one, the Herbsts, and we saw the helicopter all day long", laughed Darnen, who was then heading for the "Buffalo Bill's 400" SNORE race. Richard Boyle couldn't get past Pit 2, out with a broken left rear shock shaft, leaving Tommy Koch on the sidelines. The flashy Ron Satter Jimco was seen DNFed along side the tarmac between Pits 3 and 4. Pat Dean's "Las Vegas Dissemination" buggy was also a DNF. Tim Fitzpatrick seldom seen Type IV Bus "suitcase" motor may have won the "Frontier 500" back to back, under Lloyd Brown's direction, but this was not their day against the likes of Doug Fortin and Sam Berri ... and the Herbst 4WD which started right behind him. He did finish, however. 1200 - PRO TRUCK 1. 5:22:31 Rick D. & Rick·L. Johnson, Ford PT; 2. 5:24:39 Kevin McGillivray, Chevy PT; 3. 5:29:49 Jeff Hoskins, Ford PT; 4. 5:51: 19 Mike Griffiths, Pete Estler, Ford PT; 5. 5:52: 19 Chet Huffman, Ford PT; 6. 6:00:46 Steve Bariow, Ford PT; 7. 6:4 7:55 Scott Steinberger, Mike Bartolotti, Ford PT; 8. 6:48:59 Jason Baldwin and his Ford Trick Truck had some tire troubles, but ultimately held on to win the class by over 20 minutes, finishing eighth overall. ~------~---------- -----------~ Danny Anderson and Rob MacCachren teamed in Anderson's Toyota powered Jimco to win Class 1000 by 33 minutes, finishing sixth overall. ·page 10 Deputies Steve Williams and Charles Braden continued their winning ways, taking first place in Class 7300 by over three hours in their Ford. Ryan Herzog,· Greyson Smith, Ford PT; 9. 7:43:51 Greg Hansen; Dodge PT; 10. 8:04:43 Steve Scaroni, Mark Cowan, Ford PT; 11. 10:54:53 Larry Plank, Ford PT. Winner Rick Johnson got one flat: "there were a lot of rocks," he observed. "We had to change the tire out on the course." Scott Steinberger had mechanical woes but kept up a good front at the finish by interjecting that "We may have lost the battle, but the war's still on!" Johnson was fourth overall with McGillivray in fifth. Jeff Hoskins was seventh. Pete Estler was ecstatic over their only flat tire: "It was when we came over the finish line. This the first race where Mike and I have not had to get out of the truck. Not once!" Chet Huffman debuted his Nils Castillo "Dukes Aerospace Racing Special" to a .close and rewarding fifth place behind Griffiths and Estler. Huffman's · "Dukes" firm makes air control valves, "bleed" or "surge" valves, for turbojet engines. Baja 1000 winner Steve Balow could not quite live up to the pre-race boasting of crew member Tom Medina: "We have a well oiled machine. And a seasoned driver, a salty dog, who is chompin'.at the bit." Scott Steinberger had a few problems. He had a "bad" distributor gear and then blew a drive line out of Pit 3. He hit "4" with a totally shredded right rear tire ... then passenger Mike Bartolotti became nauseous and filled his new Tory Lee Designs pumper and air skirt with 'the remains of a so-called "bad sandwich", "Chompin' at the bit" as it were. Greg Hansen sat in Pit 3 as they changed a low left rear tire and ignored an axle vent puking. "We plowed through the silt in second gear and the engine was getting hot. The tranny was getting hot, we went right to the edge to get clean dirt. We stopped (here) for a checkout. We broke a steering arm and lost 45 minutes." He finished, as did ten of the 11 Protrucks. Steve Scaroni lost body panels and the hood. The engine was overheating but not "over hot." They woti"ld stop and Mark "Zonnie" Cowan would scramble out and dump in water whenever Rick D. and Rick L. Johnson had a terrific day in their Ford Protruck, took the class win and placed fourth overall in the process. :'tw,P' ~ > ~ l. ,, Steve and Tim Lawrence, father and son, teamed up once again, this time in Class 7000, to win the class in a Ford Ranger. June 2000 the gauge got to two-forty. "I had to get out four times to add water," Marc shrugged. That's • where the hood went. On board they carried gallon jugs, baby Gotts and boxes of Evian ("Naive" spelled backwards!). The Scaro'ni pit tally was eight (8) Bars-Leaks, four (4) Alumni-Seals and 40 gallons of drinking water. The Scourge of SCORE, Larry Plank, had a down day as he sizzled a nine inch ring and pinion. ,they swapped the "punkin" outside of the recently renovated strip mall at Amargosa, for the old ring gear was blue as a Gillette. Plank's race ended after almost 11 hours of flogging and thrashing. Rick Hoffman came up two weeks after his Second Place at SF ... and toasted· the rear end. It must be going around. Thad Hutton reported that "We were smelling hypoid then the brakes went out on the rear. .. it was the rear end grease. Then when the grease was all gone the brakes ~ame back but the rear end went away." Rich was the only Protruck not to finish. 800 -CLASS 8 1. 5:34:39 Mark Beeler, Bill McCormick, '65 Ford; 2. 5:44:35 Kyle Taylor, Chevy; 3. 6:04:24 Jess·e Jones, Travis Williams, Chevy; 4. 6:26:02 Dave Westhem, Chevy; 5. 6:36:29 Steve Bruner, Steve Marchant, Jeep Honcho 4WD; 6. 6:53:37 Eric lane, KC Mears, Ford. Here's the deal on class winner Mark Beeler, other than them having no flats; like "Zero". It's not what's on the truck, it is what is NOT. The radiator is up front; "where it belongs." When was the last time you saw that? Mark only runs a small integral "FoMoCo" RV_ oil cooler. No l!nes, no coolers, no mounts, no fans. Less is more lighter, less complications. The Geiser Brothers were instrumental in the set up. The schizo yellow and blue "Riddler" paint on the iron car is optional.. Ford must have been less than thrilled, howeve_r, to have a vintage Ford take the prestigious win, it's somewhat difficult to market that '"65". Jesse Jones got four flats and was running only on two of his four barrels. "I couldn't pull third gear on any of the fast stuff. The counter balance on the secondaries was interfering with the air cleaner post. I could only tum 4,000, so I was playing catch-up. I broke a shock and punched it through the l-iood. Ricky Geiser whipped up a new one then I broke the downstop on Travis' side (Of course - Ed.)." And the right rear axle's outer bearing carrier broke off the tube." Poor Travis, all that destruction -on his side! Chevrolet, Kyle Taylor Chevy from the "Soboba · (Indian) Casino" sported a terrific QAD spare tire release which would hold in a flat. The truck had great aluminum work, most of it hidden as interior body panels. I heard that Kyle had four flats and that someone had five! Steve Bruner and Steve Marchant defied pretty much all odds and all "common knowledge" to finish in their four wheel drive Jeep Honcho. Ouch! They beat the Laneco Racing Ford of Eric Lane and K.C. Mears: Dusty Times

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Darnen and Casey Jefferies drove their pre-runner Jimco to a ve,y '-----------------------_., close second place in Class 1500, sneaking up on the Herbsts almost Doug Fortin, Jr. was third in the unlimited buggy class, and third overall Lonny Helmbolt brought his Dodge back to the finish line in second place in the Trick Truck Class, about 24 minutes behind Baldwin. race. The $400 tear-down and and Adam Wik did the engine. "I inspection fee is good insurance. had one flat and had to do it Our high rpms really kill the ring myself. I just left the spare out and pinion." Anderson said that · there, somewhere before Pit 7. My they limit the little MR2 four .crew was my wife Nicole and my cylinder to 8500 but "it pulls good friend, Mike." Eddie's next race even from five to six." · for the "Joke-A-Thon" unnoticed. The difference was 45 seconds. in his Jimco, about five minutes behind the winner. "John Mull Meats" and "H.E.R. Dutchman Racing" Chevrolet to Ross Craft, Raceco Type I; 4. Racing Engines". (Question: a DNF. Nick went 90 miles and 8:33:56 James Cochran, Frank Wasn't H.E.R. once aligned with broke a uni-ball bolt. He wrote: Omboli, Lothringer VTEC Karlinda Flores, one-time arch-"The truck had only an hour of run Honda. enemy of the Checkers?) Laneco time so we took long pit stops to look Perennial powerhouse Danny had to swap out a steering box at the truck over. One thing that was Anderson had to repair an Pit 1 and lost three quarters of an overlooked in those long pits was that ignition module at RM70. "it was hour. Co-driver, Greg Cox, got the upper ball joint nut had come the Electromotive module's plug," out at the Big Dune pit: "It's loose and at RM90 the bolt failed." Danny said. "I lost about five working good but my lower back "Parts were shuttled in by the minutes. Then I was behind some is killing me. We never got out. black '5-I 600' car of Tony Guzman Pro truck and got a rear flat in the OK, once, at Pit 1 to repair the and the truck was repaired. It was dust. But I made it to Pit 3 so they steering arm." decided to call it quits and give the could change it." Anderson The "other" Bruner, Keith was truck a thorough going-over back at pushed hard to Pit 5, stuck behind a DNF. The crew of Keith the shop." Harley Letner, where Rob Fontana's Chevrolet 4 WD (Tom "Our good deed for the race was MacCachren took over. Mac got Scahill designer and builder) towing a broken down buggy car by the black Letner car after 25 camped out right in Contingency, eight miles back to the road. A quote miles. · burning burgers. DNF. over their radio while being towed · (Letner, the Parker 400 Kevin Davis schmoozed a with a 30 feet tug-um-strap through Overall, would get a DNF after · starting stint in the Paul Retter silt, 'If you guys stop, let us know getting smacked in the cage by Racing Ford which was reported because we can't see your yellow 'some Protruc~ and we were all in to have 620 inches ofV8 power. light'." flames. While we were in Davis was not seen again after 1000 - CLASS 10 BUGGY Second.") losing the motor on the flat road 1. 5:28:20 Danny Anderson, "The Toyota was perfect," on the way out of town. Phoenix Rob MacCachren, Jimco Toyota; Danny said. "Fat's done a great dairy man Nick Vanderwey 2. 6:01 :35 Eddie Saxton, Jimco job. It never missed a beat. We debuted his Steve Arlia "Flying Type I; 3. 6:36:58 Kevin James, send the Fortin back after every But just when you thought that www.epilv.com (powder coating) things couldn't get any worse for car is the following race at Buffalo this class, Anderson noted that at Bills. Tonopah they will have a Fat Ross Craft's Race Report: "The "Celica" VWT powerplant. This Outlaw car worked good for about will be FI and an all aluminum 40 miles then started cutting out for engine. The MR2 has a clunky CI the next .50 miles then finally quit. block. "We have to keep ahead After about 40 minutes of changing of these Honda VTECs" with coils and trouble shooting with the their variable cam timing and all help from Dave Mills, our "5" car alloy construction. The 'Celka' is ,,co-rider, we found the wire to the Toyota's version. "Ten" now ·electronic ignition was p~lled'apart becomes even more intense and inside of the shrink-wrap. Hey, I'm pricey. not a mechanic, what can l say. l Ed Saxton was pleased with his' noticed the alternator clamp ·was second place in his second race, broken. We hose-clamped the alt his first being the SNORE "Avi" down at Pit 4. It broke again and event. "This is a Jimco that I got Karl safety wired it up at the driver through Danny Foddrill. It was an change (Pit 5)." (It looked more like old Class 1." Bruce Frayley rebuilt some hay-baler job from Buckeye, it, Dave Folts did the Mendeola, Continued on page 13 ••••••• , Flamingo & The Strip West Tropicana & Arville West Flamingo & Valley View ~ 1-888-BARBARY 227-2279 www.barbarycoastcasino.com 1-800-0RLEANS 675-3267 www.orleanscasino.com 1-888-GOCOAST 402-6278 www.goldcoastcasino.com Alta & Rampart 1-877-636-7111 Dusty Times June 2000 Page 11

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Chad Hall got his Hummer up close to the front and then the accelerator cable pulled apart. After the fix he still finished third in Class 8100 (Stock Full). In ' Class 3100 (stock, small SUVs) the good lookin' Ford of Marc Winocur and Dave Turner finished second, only 1 0 minutes down to the winning car. Marc Stein and Mike McComas had a steering problem, but got things back together in time to finish second in Class 4100 in their Ford Expedition. actually!) "We ran on three cylinders for the last 60 miles. Problem unknown -off to Fat Performance. Third place, nothing great, but I had a hell of a lot of fun." Last finisher Frank Omboli and Amanda Vicencio sported a new mid-motored Major Honda VTEC. "We tested only last Sunday. Dave Folts flipped the transmission over for the backwards-spinning Honda. Plus we had help from Steve Dos. This engine has the ,most power of these Hondas, other than the Scott-Harrold car." The added weight of the water cooled engine forced them to change suspension valving, up one. on the compression and re-set the coil-overs. The Krepsz', Sean and Frank, lost their power steering in the ex-Kevin Davis "White Pride" Jimco at RM13 and could never seem to fix it. Sean lost the engine literally with sight of Pahrump. When asked if the car works good, Frank . said "Hell, we had a 'fo00' before this! But, eventually, this car will seem slow to me." It is the Jimco of Kevin Davis with a "big boy" seat: "We blew a hole in the head just as we were leaving. So we had to pull it down and fix it, when we wanted just to hang out and drink beer." Sean Krepsz: "We started the car to put it on the trailer and the motor sounded funny. Found a hole blown in the head. Off came the head, down to welder, back to be machined, and bolted back on. At RM 13 Frank reported power steering problems. He stopped at Pit I and everything looked OK. .. no leaking fluid, no missing belt, the reservoir was smoking hot but the ram was ice cold. I told Frank to use those big arms and quit crying. I got in the car at SpFingdale and we were back in fifth decided to just - try to bring it in and maybe someone would break. At RM 187 passed IO IO broke on the side of road; cool fourth place. Then when cresting this hill just before Pit 8 something loud "Bang!", from the motor, then deceleration ... put it in neutral and coasted into pit ... crew said "Try to tum it over." I tried, then crew said "Get out and have a beer, it's over ... broken crank." Best thing was, I wasn't stuck out in the dez for hours ... Put.the car on trailer, left · the pit and saw Letner broken about .a mile later. Damn, could have had Ross' check!" · Brad Palin's "Microlon" single seater had a noisy, noisy motor even before. the start prompting comments such as "I'll bet he doesn't get far." Br:ad did, however, get past Pit 3 after stops of power steering belt fixes arid loose case screen nuts. Brad even took time to talk. He·was not seen at the finish. · "I talked to 'Magpie' (} eff Vi~ner) and they had a very 'interesting story'. They took their Sportsman buggy all the way to Pahrump only to find out there are no Sportsman in their class. So they pony up the difference and enter Pro. They have a major problem with their motor ONE mile· into the rac~. a busted ring, At a, road crossing, Jeff tells the girls - his wife and daughter - to take our the motor and I'll drive into Pahrump and fix it in the truck!" Jeff said that: "The unfortunate aspect of the whole situation was that the first check point had closed 15 minutes before we put the engine back in the car. While we were installing the engine, hell, while we · were repairing the engine, we all pretty much knew that we were going to time-out, but that's one of the things that I love about our team .. We NEVER quit! Never. If there is the slightest possibility to finish, we'll keep on trying: Never Quit!" 5000 - CLASS 5 BUGGYVW 1. 6: 15:54 Mike James, Mike Kalicki, VW. The Outlaws came up for more seat time and familiarization with their car. "Seat time", indeed. Before the start Mike Kalicki was complaining about an early morning bout with Nye County's Revenge: "I lost half my body Mike James and Mike Kalicki washed the car and did a light prep after the San Felipe race, hustled up to Pahrump and t~ k the Class 5 win, finishing 18th overall. Dusty Times weight," he laughed. And that would be.something, would it not? They stopped ori the course to help Ross Craft in the single seater sister '10" car of Kevin James, but still took 18th overall. "We only did a light prep and a wash after San Felipe," they chortled. 7000 - CLASS 7 l. 8:20:06 Steve Lawrence, Jason kent, Ford Ranger. How about that pesky Steve Lawrence? Comes out and motors to the win in his TLR Ranger. 7100 - CLASS 7S STOCK MINI TRUCK 1. 7:03:47 Malcolm Vinje, Jim Gilchrist, Terry DuTemple, Ford Ranger. Terry DuTemple said that their winning Ford lost the power steering outside of Beatty and Jim just " ... muscled it around. We had no flats, but it wasn't cuz we weren't trying," he laughed. , "Hardin clo.sed in on us but Malcolm said 'No!' and kept building the lead back up ... with no finesse, either!" They certainly did push on the power pedal all day. Nick Crouch debuted his Tim Lawrence Racing (TLR) Ranger after seven years! "We did three test sessions at Plaster City. This is Timmy's first complete project. We will do all the 2000 BitD events." 7200 - CLASS UNLIMITED MINI TRUCKS · There were no finishers in this competitive class! If they only knew, they could have backed off. Nah. . Craig Turner endoed big time the "Dirt Pilot" Ranger with the polished APP wheels, diving into a swale, packing the rear shocks then pitch-poling off the front skid plate. "It looked flat to me,". Turner lamented. Passenger Kevin Beach suffered a cracked kneecap. A small boy, Ian Blanton, later said that "(Turner's) radiator flew way over there. They pulled off sheet metal everywhere." Check it out at http://www.race-dezert.com/ motion/unsorted/00tt250 I. The DNFs included the Ford Rangers of Greg Hosmann and Steve Lucena; Kelly "No race is a race without a" McNeil and the aptly named "Team Too Insane Racing" of Steve Roblado. Kelly and John McNeil had a nightmare start: "When we got to the start from our hotel in Henderson {!) _none of the shocks had any 'air'. in them!", Kelly reported. "We bottomed out just driving up onto the Goodyear Mesa! Greg Foutz gave us a nitrogen tank but we had two gauges. We drove to Pit l where the Keit·h Fontana ( #8009) guys traded axle/cliff work for some suspension help." After battling a frayed wire that filled the cab with smoke, they had to struggle with air in the FI lines. "We had air in the fuel lines and no air in the shocks, that's backwards?" They had to bleed the suction lines, again and again, whenever the fuel pressure would drop, barely squeaking by the pit closures. Finally we had five minutes to go the 25 miles to Pit 4 and that was it." Henderson, huh. 7300 - PURE MINI l. 8:11:14 Steve Williams, Charles Braden, Ford Ranger; 2. 11:45:50 Dr. Macrae Glass, Jeff Bailey, Ford. The cops did it again. Lights and sirens, bells and whistles, and all. Ho-hum. Dr. McCrae Glass (5'5") and Jeff Bailey (6'3") could share driving chores but it would be a shoehorn fit for Jeff. Before the race they boasted that "We will Continued on page 14 TRANSAXLE ·ENGINEERING. 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Jesse Jones from Litchfield Arizona lost his rear panels, and had a Running in the ve,y competitive Protruck class, Jeff Hoskins finished Something of .a rarity in this Ford-sponsored series, Kyle bunch of miscellaneous problems on his Chevy, still managed a third third in class in his Ford, and seventh overall, only 21 minutes behind Taylor's Chevrolet fought a good fight, finished second in Class place finish in Class 8000, and 17th overall. ,.,.H--'-cecc"rb-c-s...,,t. ---c-----,---------cc------,--,----c-_B_o....,oo....:.'....,a=-n-'d--'-11....:.t_,h....:.o_v_e_ra-'-II_. --~~-~~-'---~~-~ finish!" We will win! I am the relocation of the cooler?) We kept sideways on the race course." back to the truck. Our truck was no ex-Robert Hayley rig had a few man! McCrae, all the way!" going, knowing it didn't look good. "I got out to survey the damage, more than 500 yards from the miscues that really didn't hamper Hmmm. We passed one truck in our class and and saw thel-beam sticking straight highway. I proceeded to fix the the veteran. "Some oil pumped The Dixon Brothers adde·d were heading to Pit l for help. The out the front of the truck, a bent tie- suspension, and remove the water .. out of the rear and we bent the stiffer rear springs: "It's always too pit was at RM33 and at RM24 we rod and water shooting out of the pump." right seat shock shaft near the soft," Aaron said. "The C4 was came up on a hard right with some radiator. The motor mounts were "Ian finally got to the truck, with eye." The "sabe" vet, who started getting hot so we added a third big ruts. We were going a little too also broken, breaking the shroud and 15 minutes to spare. We were done. ··ninth, a minute behind Spirkoff, cooler and electric fan. We fastandflippeditrightoveronits bendingthefanblades.Inoticedthat Weputthetruckbacktogether,only hadafineracefortheHerbReno moved the engine cooler dow~ side. We hustled out of the truck and the front shock mount was broken to have the Herbsts fly by us on their behind the cab. It had a shroud attached our tow strap. The next clean off and the coil spring had way back around toward the overall but no one else does, so we truckbypulledusoverinaboutfive popped out. Not good." victory." figured ... (A tech review of this minutes and we were going again." "We were two miles from the last change follows in their Race "Bruised ego only; the truck pit so we thought we should try to Report). needed a new left side. We made it fix everything now. Ian started to "We have really nowhere to to the pit and poured in more water. walk back to the pits, the whole way test ( up in Lompoc). To keep The temp went down, but there was being offered rides only to have to from houring out? We have to go a knocking that sounded like a water tum them down. It took him 30 faster." pump going out. We sent our chase minutes to get to the pits and we had Dixon Brothers Race Report: truck to Pahrump for a new pump. one (I) hour to get him back with "Well, this will be short .and We de,ided to continue and meet up parts, fix the truck, and go 16 more sweet. About a mile or two off the at Pit 2 (RMS l). Then at about miles to make the next pit before it start line we started to run hot. The RM35, one of our I-beam pivot bolts closed. He got five gallons of water engine was running right around 250 unthreaded and the suspension arm and a new pump at the pit and and wouldn't cool down. (Note that went south. 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The only glitches were "possibles": When Jeremy left that pit and Randy Merritt had blasted by, a crew member belatedly reported that "the left rear and truss was broken." Spirit Steve headed them off at the pass. Pit 5 to be specific, to confirm that the damage was more cosmetic than structural. At the finish they then discovered that a large desert plant had donated a limb that went through a i:ear tire tread and out the sidewall, narrowly missing the "air" part. With Manny and Tudy Esquerra on their tail they rnuld ill afford a flat, or any down time. Manny Esquerra may have had cracked header pipes but he and brother Tudy had no flats and they kept the Ford howling. The team. · Greg Foutz. was figuratively "driving the wheels off' his Ford. It's fun when you can dice (with SpirkofO like that." Foutz was in the lead at RM35 when he hit a huge rock which snapped the F250 Super Puty Ford sideways in · a Nevada minute.-It was not a major hold up,. but he was blocking the course. Jeff Yokum in the other Andataco Ford ground to a screeching halt at the same spot. It was later reported to be a busted ball joint. Shovels flew before the wrenches came out as they believed that it was a simple "stuck" situation ·but the suspension was backhoe-ed into the gravels. Greg's assault on the Spirit's other huge Ford was curtailed when. they had to jury-rig an electrical/electronic work-around on one a 'them mysterious "Black Boxes" yer always hearin' 'bout, ya know? "Stev·e and I lost an hour," said the ever-pragmatic Foutz. "We had to cut out the harness and do some hot wiring." "Hot wiring" is not the sort of "talent" you might expect to learn in Mesa (AZ)! "I remember one time in band camp ... uh, it was part of the tachometer support wiring." "And we also lost the power steering. We had loads of belts," Greg admitted "but one fit." That would require some sort of Armstrong work. ·"Ahrrg! Iceberg ahead, Mister Foutz. Steady as she goes!" Chad Hall said that he " ... had a fun day? It's been a long time since I've had that much fun (in a car, I'd wager). We did have a fuel line come loose but. that's easy to tell: Continued on page 16 HOURS: MON-FRI 9AM-6PM * SAT 9AM-5PM (702)87.1.-522.1. FAX Malcolm Vinje, Jim Gilchrist and Terry Du Temple put their talents to work in their Ford to take the Class 7100 (stock mini truck) win, in spite of power steering problems. Page 14 June 2000 Dusty Times

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~ 'j [~~,---> It. I ' Mike Falkosky and his crew really know how to keep a truck together, and proved it once again By winning Class 7100 (stock mini SUV) in their Ford. 'smoke in the cockpit!'. It was dripping on a header pipe. And we broke a throttle cable." But that was a mechanical fix. It's not "fly-by-wire." The stop at Pit l was actually fortuitous, even though playing catch-up is no-one's idea of fun. It gave them an opportunity to pass drying cars early and make up time at their pleasure rather than having to force at the final minutes. -But Chad kept the pressure on and worked his way smoothly through the pack to third. Hummer personnel threaten "more suspension and a big motor!" A normal Diesel Hummer has 175 ponies; Chad's still only has 350. They have 6.5 L, 600 horsepower units on Lest stands, according to team spokesman George Thompson who added some color. 'Meanwhile Chad Hall was pushing the big GM Powertrain diesel powered Hummer to speeds in excess pf 100 mph as the team continued to pick up positions against the Fords. At Springdale, almost 150 miles into the race, Team Hummer had moved into fourth place, 25 minutes behind the leader and at Pit 6, 40 miles further on, Chad had moved into third with Sprint Racing's Jeremy Spirkoff in the lead by 14 minutes and the legendary Manny Esquerra only seven minutes up with just over 70 miles of racing to the finish." "As we approached the checkpoint at Cryswl, I could begin to see Manny's dust off ir. the d1.Stancl! and I knew I was reeling him in", Duane Parker and Tom Dunbar, both from Kentucky, are nothing if not enthusiastic. They drove their Jimco to a Class 2000 (1600) win, finishing 40th overall. commented the younger Hall at the Hummer entry home in third position finish line. "Foutz, Beaver, Oliverand off the lead. the rest had all broken down along the, Chad said that his drive was "No wqy and the Hummer had never felt hits, no run(overs) and no errors. as strong as it did when we passed Just a couple of death defying through Crystal and with just over 30 moves. The final 'forty' and the miles to go. I was feeling pretty good final 'forty' were bad. I don't like it about our chances of a good finish." that rough." UnfortuTlfltely, that's when Chad Randy Merritt and Danny learned that he had a defective Beaver had one goal: "We're trying accelerator cable as the gas (sic) pedal to win, that's all! Goodyear gave us sucked all the way down to the floor some new tires,." Their Nevada bringing the car to a standstal. "We've 2000 plans will be based on the first used that cable for the last three two (BitD) races. (Note: The races", said Hall. "Normally they fray Duralast guys told Randy that they in the area where they exit the firewall don't swap race batteries at "Best but this one just failed and the link in the Desert" events but if he pulled right off the cable end." After brings them to the next SCORE dropping almost 20 minutes replacing event - entered or not - they'll swap the cable, Chad brought the him out.) BFGoodrich!AMGeneral!RHI Team Randy ran the cobs out of the -----------------------------------------Mongo Maniacs Parker Motors NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE ~ ~ CALIENTE 250· Race Through .the trees, the sand and the water!!!!!!!!!! June 9-10, 2000 Ford "trying to win", but they had a leaky transmission, lost a shock, .:md the starter. Second leg driver Danny Beaver said that they "were makin' time but with the shock gone and into the whoops we pulled out the front drive line. We had to 'improvise' between Pits 5 and 6." "It was rough before '5', too," stressed Merritt. They used a gallon and ·a half of ATF at Pit 8 alone. The ever-ebullient W. David Sykes put on another one of this soon-to-be-patented road shows. "If you can't lick, let 'em know you were in town." Dave was late-late to the start and had to bully his way into line for his third starting position. He would lose a spark plug lead and battle on on seven cylinders. His busload of dancing girls from Baltimore provided no end of entertainment at the stops. His race number should be "10" ! After the plug lead fix " yko" broke a tie rod then lost a rear tire. He accepted, but did not like, his fifth and final Stock Full finish. Passenger Joe Haight said that they toasted their #1 race engine while testing and pulled an all-nighter getting the San Felipe engine back in. "BFG loaned us a stall. It's under-power, no""'. We killed it at a road crossing and it rolled back into Manny and he cleaned the right side sheet metal and mirrors." 2000 - CLASS 1600 BUGGY 1. 8:52:50 Duane Parker, Tom Dunbar, Jimco. Parker and Dunbar came out from Loo-vu!, Kentucky and got the dirty job done. There i,vere not too many "l/2-1600s" entered. One. 5100 - CLASS 5-1600 VW The black bug of San Franciscan Tony Guzman was in its second race. "We can only test out at Hollister Hills", the guys lamented. That's not quite "the desert". The car was carrying a spare brake drum, a small Sears drawer tool box and two BIG rolls of duck tape. They met the world famous Locos Mocos in SF and were convinced to enter the TT250. They would not complete the event. 4100 -STOCK FULL SIZED SUV 1. 8:32:56 John Sunderland, Ford; 2. 8:55:35 Marc Stein, Mike McComas, Chris Tartar, Ford; 3. 10:19:19 Jay Bartlett, Ford; 4. 11: 12:41 David Elms, Ford. Marc E. Stein reported on his newest ride: "Explore the possibilities and join us in our 'Expedition' - both cars scored Seconds in our classes and we look forward to racing all the races." Ace Motorsports' newest truck, the Expedition, started out great and. took an early lead at RM I 5 after we stayed back just to watch Elms over-drive against to a rock wall. We lost our steering when a pitman ann bolt came loose. We had had to park and swap that for a few minutes putting us back to the back." Chris Tartar fixed it in a quick six minutes. The Ace team had to change an engine the night before and in the thrash no shake-down time was available. "We had another engine true ked up to Primm at 0130!" So it was a real time shake downing. The Jesert can be a harsh proof stand, worse than any shake table of dyno room. "Then we needed to replace the fan, got a flat at RM35, lost a shock bolt at RM50 and then the A-arm bolt at RM 160 or so. But we raced on to the finish for a strong second place. '" 100 I ' came up and pushed in our rear door into the spare. If I see him I'll box (Casey Jones') ears!" Mike McComas took over at the halfway Pit and at RMI 75 he lost an A-arm bolt. They 'stole' a bolt, a smaller bolt, off some spare parts carried in the Expedition. "We had come back from 12 minutes down at Pit 3 to only 90 secona at Pit 8. We were 'winning' then a tranny line came off and we carried only a few quarts of A TF so Mike had to drive pretty slo..y to. the finish." Rod Hall radioed about fluid I See the advertisement on page 23 ----·--------·-----Manny Esquerra piloted his Class 8100 (stock full sized trucks) Ford to the win, finishing 20 overall a'!_d :j0 m}!1'!_te~ up on second placl!:_ ______ ·-Page 16 June 2000 Dusty Times

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coming over the Hummer's hood. "It's not oil, it's not brake fluid. Maybe it's windshield washer.fluid," he hoped. "But it's still coming!" Paige Shim, Chad's "other" and the leading Hummer seller in the SW, said that she doesn't get to race "Diesel and women don't mix!" Rod was formally "out" at Pit 3. Ace T earn owner Stein also reported: The Explorer lost other 'new car' stuff and will be updated and fixed for the.championship run." Mark Winocur and Dave Turner, the builder, set out after Mike Falkosky and had no flats but dismantled the exhaust then struggled with a fuel filter "issue" compounded by a "The (aluminum) radiator is busted up, too many races," Hall admitted. "That's what ya get for trying to run old stuff. The tank cracked. We rustled up ano~her radiator but two miles out of'Lathrop Wells' (i.e. Pit 3 at Armagosa Valley) the engine got too hot and I shut it down. troubled seconcl.ary Macrae Glass and Jeff Baily were the last truck to finish, still took '----"-----=--~=--'=---· ·---'--"--·--'-'--·'_--"--- = fuel filter. With the second place in Class 7000 (modified mini-trucks) after 11 hours and Eddie Saxton took a second place in Class 1000, in only his second · 230(F) is OK, but 240 is the red line. Then you lost a head gasket. The hoses musta been working on the tank." Rod Hall and Roger Norman have a new three year contract with GM" ... and we want this to be "fun" is the official word. magic of computerized 45 minutes. race. His Jimco had a flat but otherwise his day was untroubled. The Elms SUV was driven by Frank Papa, a Texan from Europe,-Hungary by way of Deutschland, _ who "did" Daker: www.pappracing.com. There was a late post-race flap about the strut arrris on the winning Bronco. Jay Bartlett's Green Ford Bronco, i.e., "For Sale: straggled in very late and immediately petitioned Casey Folks. Casey made a snap judgment about the Sutherland bushings: "They're OK. Rule modified. Case closed." The St. George, Utah, car is the cousin of David Clay's # 3112. They were seen performing some "Last minute performance adjustments" in Tech. 3100 - STOCK MINI SUV 1. 8: 16:3 7 Mike Falkosky, Ford; 2. 8:26: 16 Mark Winocur, Ford. engine management systems, the received at all well.) Carlo was before the morning is over," said engine couldn't read what it was doing 104 in the Powerstroke-with-· Stein. "My crew doesn't want to supposed to do, so it didn't do a-chip crew cab F550 gooseneck be out there all day then all night anything very well. They chugged . behemoth. According to Matt when we could start earlier. along on four cylinders, losing to "Junior" Scaroni, his new They like to go to 'Anthony's', Mike by 10 minutes. Stein said the government will, by the way, too, you know?" Falkosky won $57,000 in 1999. abolish such trivial ticketing in Now on a roll, Stein Olde Style: The green "3122" future races. Matt also got a ticket, continued that he didn't like Ford Bronco of David Clay he only did 85. The chase crew is thecolorsofthesigns: "Green suffered a fuel leak in staging. The two for two. Bright side, the cop, has always been 'Go!' to me, yellow one of Robby Woolworth the same one, held them for only a not 'Danger'. Please let Casey and Bryan Zeigler was also a DNF. few minutes, understanding the know this." And who knows what happened urgency of their mission. Highway Robbery? to the "AAA Van and. Trucking" The Greg Hansen PT chase Aaron Dixon: "Before we FMI SUV of Robert Sibbio and Mike truck also was issued a citation just went through Tech, Rob Leavitt, other than a Did Not Finish. past Pit 3. MacCachren was checking out EL CHISMOSO Ace is The Place · our 'Stock Mini' Ranger pretty V Miscreants Marc Stein was somewhat damned close. Later he was Scaroni chaser Craig Caya was critical of the placement of "down" looking the Sheriffs' Ranger over given a citation, uh, cited, well, arrows and turn markers. "Can't we for a long 20 minutes. I was ticketed actually1 as the local have these further up the course? talking to Rob Reinertson later Imperial Valley www. veg You can't attack bad dips in 'Stock' and he said MacCachren was packer.com chase crew petitioned class vehicles. You have to drive gonna build a 'Stock-Mini' the NHP officer. "When we dump a them with care." (Second Overall Ranger and race BitD." hundred buckO on bottled water in driver Darnen Jefferies echoed A Terrible Site these little 'towns', how come we don't these sentiments: "The 'Danger!' http://www.cddb.com/xm/cd/ get special treatment?!" (As one arrows are too close to the danger.") rock /3 0 b 4 d O 8 fa 9 I 7 db f might imagine, this was not "And how about getting started 03530elb02afac467.html. ■ r---------~--------------~ Craig Turner's Ford was new a couple of weeks earlier at San Felipe where he finished a close second. He didn't get to the finish at Pahrump. Red Face Department 1st Place Terrible's Town 250 I I I I I I I I When we composed the Sunderland Racing ad last month, a banner headline fell off the page and was not noticed 'til the paper was printed . . Sunderland was i■t in Pro Class 4100 and he wanted to profusely thank Ford Motor Company for their help and for the generous prize monies that they have been·awarding at the Best In_The Desert Series. Our apologies to Ford Motor Company and to Sunderland Racing. ed ~------------------------J Dusty Times • June 2000 Page 17

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33RD TAP RALLY OF PORTUGAL Burns/Subaru supreme By Martin Holmes Photos: Maurice Selden It took a lot of work, but Richard Burns and Robert Reid took the Portugal Rally win in their Subaru lmpreza, shown here in the blinding dust. Richard Burns scored a debut victory at the Rally Of Portugal with his Subaru lmpreza WRC 2000, the latest version rally car from Prodrive. The only technical problem for Burns was power steer-ing trouble on the first full day of the rally. Victory came but it was not easy. Twice Burns had to pull back and regain the lead of the rally, first because of the power steering problem and then he had to run in very thick dust at the end of the second day. Both times his problems allowed his rival, Marcus Granholm to take the lead. It was Subaru's 30th_World Rally victory (achieved in less than eight years), and Burns fourth world rally win in six events. The Subaru was the technical novelty of the event, al-though Prodrive implemented a policy of secrecy, which cast sus-picion over what had otherwise been a convincing performance. Both McRae and Sainz had new generation engines in their Ford Focus cars, but McRae's blew up and Sainz (on his first event on gravel in the Focus) was still ill at case, finishing third. Skoda gained a point and got both cars to the finish and Peugeot, despite a seri-ous performance shortfall, gained RACERS points with both cars, and one of the happiest moments was when, just before retirement, Petter Solberg son a stage outright. Rovanpera's Grifone Toyota fin-ished fourth, the driver satisfyingly ahead of the two works cars of the team from which he was dropped last year, SEAT. This was the fourth round of the 200 season. After the first three points, which are traditionally held in extreme conditions the Portu-gal Rally is considered the first or-thodox rally of the season. At the previous round in Kenya, Subaru took over the lead in the Manu-PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT WITH Page 18 PHYSICAL DAMAGE INSURANCE FOR YOUR OFF-ROAD RACING VEIIlCLES Call the experts at Michael E. James Insurance Agency. We can satisfy the insurance needs of all off-road racers. Physical Damage Insurance for Race Vehicles Trucks Trailers Tools/Equipment EX.\J.'-'IPLE Liability Insurance for Special Racing Events Value of Race Vehicle $30,000 x3% = $900 Annual Premium $1,000 deductible Coverage for fire, theft, V &l'vHv1, limited physical damage protection Call for free quote and details Michael E. James Insurance Agency 619-445-5797 June 2000 Miguel Campos/Carlos Magalhaes Mitsubishi Carisma GT corners hard in front of the crowd, 15th overall and first in Group N. · facturers title from Mitsubishi but, despite not finishing in Africa, four time world champion Tommi Makinen, still retained the driver's lead. Th\s was the first time this season t~at all seven registered world ch11mpionship teams com, peted in the same event. After be-ing absen~ from the last two events, four time Group N champion Gus-tavo Trelles, having gone back to his former co-driver Jorge de! Buono re-entered the Group N Title race, currently led by Man-fred Stohl. Subaru entered their 2000ver-sion lmpreza World Rally Car for the first time. The new car featured many detail changes, principally a revised cooling system. Final test-ing of the car was carried out the week before the Portugal start by Bums, Kankkunen and test driver, Robbie Head. Mitsubishi confirmed that Makinen's retirement in Kenya was due to fractured plates inside the battery, a problem that was felt elsewhere two other times in Kenya. For this event there were further revisions to the rear sus-pension, aimed at making the .car hand1e_as predictably as possibie in the unusually fast changing sur-faces, in addition to new longer travel suspension first used in Kenya and three spring struts all around for the first time. The front differentials had been straightened for this event. The Fords were fit-ted with a new design steering rack and two cars were to be fitted with the latest specification engine. It has been 12 months since Ford has been in the winner's circle. · Portugal was the final rally for the first version Peugeot 206WRCar before the second model (with triple active differen-tials) appears in Catalunya. They had no problems with the gear box in Kenya but they were not going to use the semi-automatic gear box on the new car until they were completely happy. SEAT driver Gardemeister's co-driver was · passed for competition after his testing accident in kenya. A lack of time since the Safari had denied Skoda the chance to analyze the transmission problems suffered by Climent's car. Hyun-dai were building on experience gained in Sweden. There were no major changes in the specification for Portugal but after rests at shakedown, they decided to altow Eriksson's car to be fitted with a development engine with more power and torque. This rally was nostalgic, it was two years since the Hyundai team first appeared in a European rally and one year since the team scored their first F2 cat-egory win in Europe. There was a team swap for Finnish driver Har_ri Rovanpera. The former regular SEAT driver came with a Toyota Corolla WRCar from the HF Grifone T earn, the same car used by Bruno Thiry at Monte Carlo. Jesus Puras, the current Spanish rally cham-pion and regular Ci~roen driver entered this event in a Group N Mitsubishi from the Santander Company, their first entry at World Championship level. Toyo-tas were back! No less than nine Corolla World Rally cars took the start, many in similar specs to the cars run last year by the factory. There were four T earns Cup entries, including for the first time this year the Turkish team, now called T earn Atakan, with a new driver Serkan Y azici. And, on an opposite scene, this was the fare-well rally for John Buffum, the vet-eran American rally driver, who entered as a finale to his interna-tional rally career. Since 1969, Buffum has won 119 National level or international rallies, making him the sports most successful driver. "I don't mind how I get on, I just want to see how I measure up against these new young driv-en!~ · -Spectator zones were set up on all ·the stages save the last one. Roads leading to the stages on the final day were to be closed to traf-fic 24 hours before the rally ar-rived. This year the organizer com-mittee furthered the theme of spectator management with the dedicated zones and on most stages there was commentary, snack bars, toilets and all the other necessary comforts. Of the 118 entries, over 25% were World Rally Cars, yet among the top half of the field there were only two Kit cars! There were only two competitors front wheel drive cars in the field, a Hyundai coupe and a Renault Maxi Megane. Two WRCars, which were normally used in Portuguese national events appeared, a SEAT Cordoba and a Peugeot 206. Shakedown brought the Subarus into public view for the first time and immediately the team denied close access for the cars. Even fully accredited journal-ists were ordered out of the service part, where they were authorized to go, for reasons which were never convincingly explained: It was an rritant that those working in the high pressure atmosphere of cham-pionship sport could have lived without! 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Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya drove their Ford Focus to a third overall The Gronholm/Rautiainen Peugeot 206 flies like a bird on the way Dust? What dust? The Dor/Breton Subaru lmpreza came through on the very dusty Rally of Portugal. to second overall in Portugal, only 6.5 seconds out of the win. for first in Teams Cup and a nice 19th overall as well . . The Hyundai of Michael Guest and David Green flew to first in F2 John Buffum (right) and Neil Wilson drove a Mitsubishi Lancer The Skoda Octavia of Armin Schwarz and Manfred Heimer plowed and a°27th overall finish in the Rally of Portugal. Evo in Portugal as a Grand Finale to his rally career. ___ through the dust to take the eighth overall position in Portugal. There were a few surprises at and farther than anyone else. "The clutch was slipping and Eriksson fifth gear and Dor's power steer- minute intervals. Dor's dust caused the Baltar Superspecial. Gronholm Skoda was magnificent when it had has engine quit on Stage 9. ing was acting up. Kulig retired af- problems for Hagstrom. Solberg made fastest time and Makinen landed, it was like jumping onto a Climent now had problems with ter he went off the road. crashed his Escort on Stage 10 and thought he only had to make one sofa." Main difficulty was a lack of the gearshift, Martin had a "near Dust was becoming a big prob- Group N leader Campos said he lap instead of two and lost precious power in the engine bay. Erikkson, moment" when he hit a bank in !em for drivers running on the one ~ontinued on page 22 c~:u;dN~g~1tw/~ta~~~~n~e~ ~a;~i;!~~h~~dk~, b:t~i~n~:~e~ A... ua .. ~-=-=•• .,~ @ tM) (21J) hard, losing a wheel and had to re- Alister McRae retired, complete • a;;;;.:::,,.:::,,. llf a;;;; tire. Mendez went on his roof in transmission failure 01: S_tage 4. A N o A C C E_ 5 S O R / E 5 11.!:f70-9422 his brand. new car. As the ro~te used the stages ur .:=g1.:::lfln1 .:=■ont.:= ~ - • 1•1 Leg 1 - Day 2, 11 Stages, gravel, . the .second time, the ruts got .:::J/IJ a;;;;~ ;:::J/1·~ ';:::J/1 4010 N. PALM ST #103 158.Bkms. There were 10 stages, deeper and the damage more ex-----------• ■-----------------• FULLERTON CA 92835 three groups of three stages each, tensive. Makinen's car was.set too FORMERLY FABTECH MOTORSPORTS MON-FRI 8:00-6:00 the first two groups being run twice ~ow and he was scooping up gravel . 1999-2000 CHEVY SATURDAY 9:00-4:00 and then a second Superspecial 111 the ruts. Burns reached the end 2WD C1500 FINANCING AVAILABLE stage. The double stage usage was of Stage 7 with power steering 6 .. ULTIMATE LIFT • intended to keep the spectators in troubles but after a change of the .-CAST ..... .., •• .., -•<•""'"'-ARMS ~/ one spot, not rushing off to yet an- hydraulic pump he set off with a c-:-=:,.;:.~::=;:~ BEDSIDES •' other location, but it had another lead .of 4 7 seconds, due to his ri- s 1749.95 1NS10W.ED FIBERGLASS ___, immediate effect. The high num-vals having their share o'. problems RUNU-nnswm,ou,A ....,_ -s89.95 ~19aD11nnar her of entries meant there was in-on the stage. McRae, m second 1988-1998 CHEVY """.4'®r nur,r,nu1111c,1 sufficient time to. run the stages was delayed when his car bounced 2WD C1500 twice if the original idea of running out of some ruts and into a bank, 4 .. ULTIMATE LIFT every seeded car at two minute in- while Sainz, in third drove 20kms ;:,.:a:"~""':":.:..': tervals was to operate, so when che with no power steering. All this • ,..,.CH......,.-■JHOOCS start list was prepared it was nee-meant was that fourth place Gron- s 1549.95 1NS10W.£D essary to limit the two minute in- holm was now in second place! .... ,..,__ ..... u" tervals only to the top 20 crews, as Gardemeister had hydraulic 1982-1999 CHEVY usual. pressure problems with his trans-2WD S10 On the stages there was imme- mission and Loix hacl his front dif-.-!:~~~~ diate action. At the end of the first ferential changed and that im- • ~,::.~,.:: .. group of stages the lead had passed proved the handling. Eriksson had s 1624.95 ,Nnuuo from Gronholm to M::Rae and front differential problems, Clim-.... ..-" .. '""""UT•"°°'"" then to Burns. Gronholm suffered ent was having trouble changing 1998-2000 FORD from a lot of dust entering the car gears, Lopes had a broken shock · 2WD F150 and that allowed McRae into the and Madeira had water injection -=-==~• 6 .. ULTIMATE LIFT lead but then towards the end of failure. In Teams Cup, Holowczyc ;-:.,.:::us:~,= Stage 3 and for all ·of Stage 4, ended Stage 7 with a front strut • '"""°'.....,..._.SHOO(, McRae had his power steering fail., missing, Radstrom had to stop and s 1699.95 1NS11W.Eo despite his car being fitted with a change ;i ·.•.heel which had broken. .... ... .,,.....,,....,, • ....,"" new design. Running second on and this caused severe dust prob-FORD SUPERDUTY 1<2500/3500 4" UFT S 1599,95 INS'IU.lLD 1988·98 CHEVROLET K1500 6" UFT S1599.95 IN$'11U.1.ED JEEP WRANGLER TJ the road, Burns was delighted to lems for Rovanpera. Kulig had a 4WD F250/350 _...........,,M..,, go into the lead on Stage 4. sticking throttle and Tuohino re-5.5 .. PERFORMANCE LIFT ~~ _ ·· .Auriol had started off fast but tired after trying to drive Stage 7 =..■-=.."::"'':::.'=..:~ ... IV.4~. ~~---~~ the suspension was not ideal, the with a flat tire. • ..... CHP .... o«-■SHOC.s Nl:R,,1 __ _ car was bouncing around a lot. His After the final batch of stages 8~ 1~4,?._;?~•~~K teammate, Gardemeister found his there were even more changes. ==========: ........-1~:..~:;::::;; PDIAfER.lffl.~~?. car was also very difficult to drive. Gronholm was now in the lead, FORD SUPERDUTY !!>r-=:..:J . Kankkunen was out already, fail- Burns was down to third and Maki-4-~p~~cf.t~~S~FT BFGaadrlcf!• jcENTER ~, ing to negotiate a bend and dam- nen and McRae were out of the ......,._ ,..., • ..,.."""°'"" t "f aging the suspension. Makinen was rally. Burns was driving without "'°:'"~~::"c!..."'°" Fal fflaSter GOOD/YEAR JIIIIDSEBTORE also having troubles: he made a power steering. McRae's engine ~1799-957..:=: PIAA Bl LSTEI N J;})-J.j,J;,,j bad choice of tires and his car was broke a connecting rod (11 DNFs 6 .. LIFT A\IULABLE sooN • .?,.:;;i,,1;:.:;;:.:;;.;;; slipping and sliding all over the in 12 starts), and Makinen broke TOYOTA TACOMA TOWING ACCESSORIES SMITTYBILT SURESTEPS place. Loix's car was very stiff but rhe steering when he hit a tree .. PRERUNNER .. & 4WD !:!:!::: A~= .. ~~!:!! .... changing the front differential stump. Sainz was up to second, 1"-~E=-■~.!!..u" helped a lot. Delecour said chere Rovanpera was a happy fourth af-were many small problems wich his rcr making fast time on Stage 8. Peugoet, mainly in the handling Auriol was struggling with han-department. Armin Schwar: was Jling, Loix had another fronr dif-flying his Skoda Octavia higher ferential problem, Delecour's Dusty Times June 2000 HAIIAMIALSNKJT 2 ,MnCH PUIFOlltMANCE HM SHOCKS Page 19

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Markka Martin and Michael Park took their Toyota Corolla to Freddy Loix and Sven Smeets hustle through the dust for sixth Toni Gard!Jmeister and Paavo Lukander drove the SEAT Cordoba seventh overall in Portugal, shown here on a downhill section. overall in Portugal in the good looking Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. to a grea(ninth overall finish in Portugal. had to stop three times because of fully as his sump guard had fallen Burns set off at the pace he had the long delay (42 minutes) was tired when his engine would not the dust! off, Nittel had a swollen elbow af-from the start and immediately going to cause the rally to run into fire at the start of a stage. The Lousada Superspecial stage · ter a g6od bump, Buffum lost 10 passed Sainz into second place. Af- the dark and with the still air, the In Group N, Campos drove as had Gardemeister spin and stall. minutes when he slid off the road ter Stage 13, he was 16 seconds dust would be absolutely horrible. hepleasedinfrontofStohl,Trelles Radstrom found at service that the and Ferryros had to change a wheel behind Gronholm and after Stage Auriol's SEAT broke a drive shaft retired with a misfiring engine and prop shaft had broken; suggesting on a stage when the rim split. 14, only 11 in arrears. Most driv~ and Gardemeister was also having electrical problems. Mendes broke serious problems with the differen- In F2, Lopes took an early lead ers said that tire wear was far more troubles. Delecour was driving with his front suspension and slid off the tial. His team tried to change it at but had power steering failure, en- severe than expected. Martin had terrible brakes, Loix had a broken road. Sanchez drove all of Stage 17 the 20 minute service, but work abling Kris Princen to go in front, his two fronts almost wear away on brake line and Martin had a 40 sec-on three tires and Buffum slid off could not be finished and he was ·then he had alternator failure and Stage 12, swapped them for the ond penalty for lateness having his the road again, losing four minutes. out of the event. the lead then oscillated between rears and then had terrible over- power steering pump replaced and In F2, Guest was now on his Campos was the fastest driver in Guest's Hyundai and the Puma of steer for the next two stages. Ro- Schwarz had a loose steering wheel own, but it was a struggle. He lost Group N. Puras retired with engine Magaud. vanpera almost lost a front wing to contend with. his brakes on Stage 12 when an al-failure, Stohl was driving very care- Leg2 -9Stages,gravel, 179kms. when he hit a guard rail and Au-On Stage 16, Petter Solberg ternator bracket broke and riol was having a terrible time, his scored fastest time and although jammed the power steering pump car all over the road. Loix had it destroyed his tires he was a happy and he slid off the road for a bit. front wheel bearing•failure, Lopes driver! This woke Sainz up, he was Magaud had ~ngine misfire had a tree branch impale itself still looking for a good set up for troubles and could not restart be-under a wheel arch ·and it punc- his car! Lopes arrived with a strut fore Stage 14. • . ,-,,1011 fl -pe 0~e c;ol11 pt . This is the ~ystem run by most TRI-MIL BOBCAT CllROME off road race winners Page 20 1984-91 CORVETTE ? 1/2" OR 3" S.S. TARGA MUFFLER 13220 HALLDALE AVENUE GARDENA, CA 90249 310-217-9233 WHOLESALE ONLY DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED cured a water hose. Eriksson had poking through the bodywork and Leg 3 - 3 Stages, gravel, terrible troubles, slipping clutch, into the hood and Hagstrom ar- 60kms. Could Bums-regain the central differential acting up and rived with a fuel leak and his trunk lead for .the second time? When finally an under the hood fire swimming with fuel! Gronholm's lead evaporated on which put him out, leaving only Burns' prediction of night and Stage 21, from 14 to two seconds, the F2 leading car to represent dust almost came true, Granholm the answer was clear. On Stage Hyundai. Gardemeister still had was first on the road and had no 22, the Subaru was back in the brake problems and Climent was dust but everyone else was suffer- lead by 1.7 seconds and after the havin_g lu_g nuts loosen, probably ing. Gronholm made best times on. final stage the winning margin because they were tightened in Stages 19 and 20 while Burns 11 was 6.5 seconds. Gardemeister extremely dusty conditions. second lead after Stage 18 had spun on the last stage, Loix was In Group N fourth place Leal changed to a 14 second deficit but still having brake troubles, Lopes had an accident that caused the . it could have been worse. Sainz had a tire deflate, but the real ex-stage to be stopped. Nittel retired held third place but lost time with citement came in Group N. The with intercooler pipe problems, a broken drive shaft. Hagstrom had three Argentine drivers who had Campos had a flat but drove on gear box troubles and was staying held third, fourth and fifth all re-with the fla_ttened tire. The acci-in fourth gear. Auriol had no tired! Manzi crashed, Pozzo had dent was significant because it led brakes for the final three stages and transmission failure and Sanchez to a delay of 42 minutes. Gardemeister's car was drinking with a broken drive shaft. Ramon Bums was now catching Gron- lots of oil. Many of the drivers had Ferreyros jumped from sixth to holm at an alarming rate and Gron- no auxiliary lights in the deepen- third! Burns took home the grand holm was unable to fend off the ing darkness and Dor was now prize and it was a happy day for challenge. Burns was worried that alone in T earns Cup as Yazici re-Subaru. ■ JJrd TAP Rally of Portu9al lS/19.0J. 0 0 WCR4 ( l J Rlchard IUR"S/Robert R•i d (tot Harcua GROtofOLH/T.1•0 Raut.1a1nen t 6 J C•r loa SAt MZ/Luia Hoya ◄ ( 161 Karrl Rovanpar.a/Risto P1attl.a1nan ~ (9) rr•nco1a DSLICOUR/Dani.el Grat■loup 6 ( 2 1 Fraddy LO IX/Sven S1r1eets 7 [2~) H•r-kko H•rtin/H.1,.chael P•rk e (11) Ar•in sCHVAJ:tZ:/>fanfc-ed Hielll•r 9 (8) Tonl GARDl:Ml'lSTER/Paavo L\.:kander 10 17) Didiar AURJ OL/Denis Giraud.et Other ill\portant f1.ni1b.ar& 12 (12) Luis CLIHENT/Alex Romani 1~ 137) Miguel Ca,upo•/Carlos Haqalhaaa 17 (J8) Hanfrec.1 Stohl/Peter Huller-19 ( 50) Ram.on Perreyros/COn:i:alo Sao?n:r. 19 (2.a) Fr•d•ric Der/Didier-Bret.on 20 ( S7) Pedro Oiaa oa S1.lv.a/Har1.o Castro 21 ( 58) Amer tco Antunes/Paulo Hour a 2J ( 56) Vi t o r P.:uco~l/Duarce Cost-, 27 ( 35} Michael Gueat./Oavid Creotn ca FI~ • PIH • • IE/GB D ... r • p ,. 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SNORE BUFFALO BILL'S 400 Damen Drives To Win By John Calvin Photos: Carrera Photography Darnen Jefferies won Class 1 by 1 O minutes, he stopped every lap to change co-drivers and gave everybody a ride. · Jim Price had a ho-hum day, no mechanical problems, just one flat tire and an easy win in Class 10, over-an hour in hand. The SNORE folks must have connections with the weather Gods as it was perfect for the Buffalo· Bill's 400 on April 15. All the pre-race festivities took place at Primm, Ne-vada, aka Stateline, com-mencing on Friday evening for technical and contingency inspection. The night ~as breezy and a bit on the cool side but was well attended by rac-ers, pit people and quite a few hotel guests who wan-dered out to see what was going on. The 80 mile laps were pretty fast and were dirty too, but th~re was a nice breeze blowing on race day and that made the course faster than usual with good visibility a definite factor. The sky was cloudless and flag. They only had a race day turned into a couple of flats to hamper summery delight, temps in them during the day and the low 80's and a perfect they finished less than 10 day for racing. minutes out of the lead. RobbyGueverafinallywonanotherrace. He took Class 1600atBuffaloBill's, having The race started at nine Darnen Jefferies drove the a trouble free race and was ecstatic with t_h_e_w_i_n. _ _ _________ _ sharp and there was an 11 entire 400 miles, stopping ready to do battle. Three there were six cars run-hour time limit. Fi •e laps every lap to change co-of the contenders never ning. The Moores, Gary, were the norm, but Class drivers and his lap times got a lap completed, Bill Kevin and Mike finished 5-1600, Class 9 and Heavy were quick enough to Fodor, B .J. Baldwin and all five laps in the freshly Metal only had to make open up a cushion of eight Jeff Shiroky went missing bought Lothringer, their· four rounds of the course. minutes by the end of Lap early on. Mike Gaughan middle lap being about an Sportsman Buggy and 3, then he lost some time turned a great first lap, a hour too long but they did Sportsman Truck only had to second place but he car-bit slower on the second finish in sixth place. The to go 160 miles for a fin-ried on and took the win and then he disappeared. Flippin guys were fifth in ish. with time to spare. Mark Gordon Beam had a hor-Class 10, they too having Class 1 was first off the Weyhrich was only able to rible first lap, a lot better a terribly long second lap. line and Dick Weyhrich get four laps completed, on Lap 2 and then another Dan Bentley and Bob wa~ first to go. Dick drove Gary W .ise only one lap bad lap and he called it a Mathews shared the driv-the first two iaps, and his and both Lonnie day. Tom Jandt was almost ing chores and ran second son, Gary drove the last Hemboldt and Mark a ditto, three laps and on through three laps, had three. They finished the Miller never completed a the trailer. Mark Fodor's the left rear wheel explode first lap in second place lat. times were good for his on Lap 4 and that dropped and that is where they re-Class 10 was next· lip first three laps but they them to a fourth place fin-mained to the checkered and there were 13 cars were his only laps and then Continued on page 24 ~----------------------~ Jeremy Harmon ran three laps, Clay Carr did the last lap. They lost the fan belt, had a flat on lap 4 and it cost them dearly, second spot in Dick Weyrich and son Gary had a few flats but otherwise an uneventful Pat Dean and sibling JC had their share of problems during the 400 Class 9. day as they took second in Class 1, 10 minutes away from the win. miles but they managed a fifth place finish in 1600. Tom Taliaferro and mate Seanea had a good day, running well up all Doug Si/cock and Dan Owen had a good day, each drove two laps, The Shimp's had a fairly good day, getting progressively faster during day in Class 9 and took home a nice fourth place finish. had no problems to hamper them and took a nice third in Class 9. the race and they finished in a nice fifth place in Class 9. Page 22 June 2000 Dusty Times

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Dan Bentley and Dan Mathews got lost a bit, had a severe wheel problem (explosion) but they soldiered on and took a fine fourth in The Ffippin's had a disastrous second lap but picked it all back up The Smith's had three good laps, a terribly long fourth lap but they • Class 1 o. -~--and finished a fine fifth place in Class 10. still finished in the second spot in 5-1600. ish. Dave Bonner was hav-Danny Anderson split the ing up the pace and tak-flat to contend with and strong and they were all ing a real good day until he driving and were running ing a nice second place. winning the class by al-rarin' to go, but it was no .lost all but first gear on the in good form, lost a rear Taking the lead on the most an hour. Jim col-contest. Robby Guevara last lap, drove· about 50 brake caliper on Lap 2 and first lap and never letting lected a nice $2000 for his was fifth to start, took the miles in first and finished that cost them some time it go was Jim Pierce, driv-day's run. lead on Lap 1 and that's all third. Eddie Saxton and yet they carried on, pick-ing solo, having just one. Class 1600 was 12 cars she wrote! Robby had a W BILSTEIN•FOX SHOX•SWAY-A-WAY•KVB•HOWE•CNC•JAMAR•ENGLE•BUGPACK•PROTHANE•SCAT• trouble free day, zirped :: · around in L28's and O c:, l:29's, slowed a bit to the =£= KARTEK· ... "Where Qff_Road .is On//!" ~ ;~d:~i~kt~hela~1i!:ke1:~J ~ 'JJ -';' flag with 18 minutes in W tTl hand. A perfec·t day and ~ __________ ..----------__________ ..----------3:_,:, $ 2 000 winners to boot! U: • Speaking of day, Day Gang z Cfl that is, well, watch out ~ ~• -·Ji ·j j-_. I • lb-~ guys, the effervescent Ms. ~• ~-- _ ,/"·~-\ .'.~--1 .. • - . • tTl Ob ang is gethttng faster and !P'-----.. .... . :i. __ · °''' :X, etter wit every rac.e. - " ,_--=---~,.. . ~ Day was fifth after Lap l, ~ ,__ ________ __. ,..__________ .._ ________ __. .___________ > up to third place on the ,.J BILLET AIR CLEANER BILLET NC LINKAGE CLASS 1600 RACE NC RACE EXHAUST :g second lap, held her posi-0:. Our billet air cleaners This linkage kit is a KARTEK KARTEK's billet air cleaner Jet coated or raw exhaust • tion on Lap 3, turned the en provide a large surface area exclusive, uses our billet air for classes 112 & 5-1600 uses with gussets on #2 & 4. :,: car over to the builder, Ul and resistance to particle cleaner design with heavy a special velocity stack to Super thick flanges. Mega-~ Bruce Fraley and he mo-C:::. entry. 2 or 4 post designs. duty down rods and heim increase carburetor air flow. phone, supertrapp adaptable. z tored on for the last two U: For IDF, IDA, & DRLA. ends. For IDF & DRLA Fits 30/31 stock carburetors. Class: 112 or 5-1600, 10, & 12. tTlO laps and in they came for :> __________ ..-------------. ...-----------. ..-----------, a great second place. A C:. -:, minor suspension adjust-:;; -~-~, --l ment after Lap 1 was the 8 ~~ ~'Ti' ~ -total maintenance on the • ~ -·•._.CW,_ Y• I' ~ car! Rick Boyer and Randy ffi ~ --t"" Jones split the driving and CO ,,(. 'Tl they too had a good day. w ,__ ________ ___, ,__ ________ ___, .__ ________ ~ ,_ ________ ___, F P 1 u g wires ca me loose $ t"" three times during the race • , AUTOMETER™ PIAA™ LIGHTING BEARD™ SEATS FLUIDYNE™ ~ but that was the only prob->-AUTOMETERTM gauges are KARTEK offers a complete BEARD'S™ seats are a MIG FLUIDYNE™ products have ..., l d h , k d W used by top named racers In line of PIAA™ lights for any welded steel frame with dominated winning circles in • em an t ey rac e up· a ,.J all major motorsports. lighting needs. headlights. extra padding and various every type of racing. Q nice third place finish. ~ KARTEK offers a complete dusttights and running lights. styles and colors. KARTEK KARTEK stocks a complete 9 Rob Myerly was at the :_;; line to suit any need. Call for available tenses. stocks most standard colors. line to suit any need. <; helm for the first four laps • .-----------. .-----------. .-----------, ,-----------. 'Tl and he held the car in the 6 ~ second spot most of the ~ \-·t-~-· .: . .---r ::I; J:.hLa~14t~:d Al~~ W ~ • • C/'l Hemsley took over and in 65 • • 3.· ~ spite of much longer lap ::J ___ [!' times they managed a fine en ..__ ________ _, ._ _________ _, .._ ________ __, ,.._ ________ _, ~ fourth in class. The Dean >-- · boys, Pat and J.C. didn't ~< POWER STEERING SIMPSON™ HELMETS PARKER PUMPER™ CENTERLINE™ ~ have too good a day, Pat ;> l<ARTEK offers a complete KARTEK offers SNELL 95 i<ARTEK offers a complete CENTERLINE™ wheels are 8 had lots of flat tires and lin e of power steering approved helmets in shark & line of PARKER PUMPER™ made from heat treated ' system components, from voyager sidewinder styles. fresh air systems. From aluminum. Offered in J.C., who drove the last ~ power steering pumps to Helmets are also available pump assemblies to polished or satin finish. Call I;' two laps had the left front ?; hydraulic ram units. for fresh air hook-ups. replacement filrers. for available sizes. > end come apart'but he was en ...-----,------. __________ __________ ..-----------. C still able to drag the car _j (3 into the finish line for fifth ...J : ; · (; in 1600. Bryan Anderson c2 ' 1 ' ·~ ~ had troubles on the first . ' ' 00 • lap and the problems mul-•, I I . U.. • tiplied on the last three • ....... ~ C/'l laps but he did manage a en ,..__________ .._ ________ __. ..__ ________ .,., .._ ________ __. ~ finish, sixth place, after 8 MICRO STUBS RACE DRUMS FRONT END PARTS TRAILING ARMS ffi ~;~er!~~gKheoi~~ °F:e0tr:~~ ?; Theses KARTEK designed These KARTEK designed KARTEK offers racing link KARTEK offers a complete 7 had help frorri Scott Smith • units utilize seated bearings units consist of a stock drum pins & heim extension pins line of various length rear O but luck was n O t with < and tonger intermediate with a billet reinforcement for rhe all out serious racer. trailing arms utilizing a 4130 0 ~ axles for increased travel. plate & chromoty center hub. Many other parts available. chromoly bearing housing. 0 them this day, they were .. 0 trouble plagued, locked in -VISIT us ON THE WEB @ WWWKARTEK.COM ,, second· gear, etc., but on 0 · 6 they came and took the < .-.~!!1!1!!111!!■~~~~-~~~~~~~~ O seventh position. :i! (909) 3 --------... ----'= [!' Jeff Carr, the reigning < 628-083 Al '1!!!!9. J ,-. 14122 Central c:, 1600 Champion was run-§ FAX HOT-LINE f'Ll -=~~---Ave. Chino, CA. ~ ning well up in the pack ~ (909) 627 4067 __... --~ _..... _.,, ,~ 91710 0 and was sure to be on the Q -~.--..-•.,.~...__-=,,,,,, ~-podium but mechanicals ,-- z took him out on the last •AlJrOCRAFT•CENTERLINE•BALDWIN•Y ARNELL•YOKOHAMA•WEB CAM•FLl)IDYNE•AlJfOMETER• . Continued on page 26 Page 24 June 2000 Dusty Times

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Brian Anderson and Paul Parrot drove to a sixth place finish in 1600, Dave Bonner had it all together but losing all gears but first on the last Cory and Milo Torres only had one flat, got Jost for a bit on the last lap but they got a nice second place in Sportsman Buggy. having a few problems on laps 1 and 5. lap made a Class 1 0 third place finish almost a miracle. John Phegley drove his exotic looking Class 8 to the win at the Buffalo Bill's 400. lap and he suffered a very Sheble, with Mathew rare DNF. Bryan Freeman Fredrick riding finished the and Jeremy Gubler were first lap in eighth place, really on top of it the first moved up a bit on Lap 2, three laps but on Lap 4 the picked up the pace a bit tranny went away and it more on Lap 3 and a bit was trailer time. Paul Sul-more on the last lap to take livan only ~ot in three laps the _gold medal and a$ 1500 before retiring as did Al-check as well. Two in a row bert Rux, neither having a is nothing to sneeze about. fund day. Veteran racer Jeremy Harmon, still. Aaron Hawley entered his smarting from a very short just bought car in the fray, Avi 250 race, drove the did a fine first -lap, slowed first three and was in real on the second and was out good shape for the podium. on the third. Next time, Handed over to Clay Carr Aaron. for the fourth lap and Clay Class 9 was 1 7 strong lost a fan belt, had a flat and guess what? Joe tirebutcamescreamingin Jeff Vetter and Nick Lyon shared the driving time and took a nice Sportsman Truck Joe Sheble did it again! He won Class 9 by just a smidge, but it was yet another win for the Bullhead City tea__m. for second in Class 9, only 28 seconds out of the win. Third place went to Dan Owen and Doug Silcock who ran a nice clean race with no troubles. Tom Taliafierro ran a few fast laps, turned the chores over to wife Seanea and she brought Black Beauty home for a fine fourth place in class after a trouble free day. Mike Shimp and com-pany ran well up for. their four laps and came in for a strong fifth place. Joel Davis and Bill Cobb were doing just fine 'til disaster struck on Lap 3 but they staggered on in for a sixth place finish and they were the last of the finishers. Mike and Tim Dixon led the Class 9 contest from the beginning, in spite of losing second gear 15 miles into the race adn were leading going ino the fourth lap but shortly after starting lap 4 Tim flipped the car a few times, losing both rear drums. These were replaced but the car was withdrewn soon after. Tim and Gary Hart only managed to get three laps finished as did the Woo-druff clan. Mandy Dixon and Robby Goerke joined forces but only got two laps in, Matt Cunningham got in two real fast laps and then was on the trailer. The Thatchers had two very long laps and then gave it up. Dale Looney only finished one lap, Lynn Dickton lost the tranny on her shiny new car on the second lap, Doug Ingram retired with major prob-lems unknown to us as did Andy Kisner and poor Bill Avery was out of the race on the first lap. Kevin Streety ran third in 5-1600 on Lap 1 but he was out fn Lap 2. Chuck Martin was first in the Sturgis car on Lap 1, held the lead on the second lap also but retired on Lap 3. Jeffrey Moore didn't have a great first lap, had even worse second and third laps and then hung it up and got on the trailer. Charlie Smith was running well 'til Lap 4, which was very long, but he came on in for a sec-ond place in class. The day belonged to Frank Puglia, even though he was forced into a long lap to get around a stuck Class 10 car, he motored on in for the first place position af-ter a long day out on the course. In Heavy Metal, Gary Magness motored around in great time but was dq'd after the race and that put John Phegley into the winner's circle. In the Sportsman Buggy class, Alex Koons ran third on Lap 1, moved into the lead on Lap 2 and stayed in the lead to take the gold medal, fighting only one flat and a broken radio. Cory and Milo Torres had a great day, had only one flat to deal with _and getting lost only cost them four minutes and they took the win, just having somewhat soft suspension to deal with. Alex Koons drove his Webbweld prepared car to a nice Sportsman Buggy win, second place honors. Kevin ,........,..,,.,.,,...,,.--=d-r_i_v_i_n_g.'.:::s_o_l=o=w=i=th=n=o=p=r,=o=b=le=m=s=r,=e=po==rt=e-d ___ b=u=t o=n=e=~fi_la=t=. =.-;:==============;~=-:---S ... o.---d .... e ... r--,-a=nd C. J. Hutchins ~ t ~ ... . ...... ·.t .. .,,,..-,. ·., ~,:S:·~..,.. • .,_ .... i . ,<' Rick Boyer and Randy Jones kept losing the· plug wires on their Charles Sutton and ·Tommy Bradley Jr had fan belt problems all race Rob Myerly and Alan Hemsley were right up there 'ti/ they Jost the Chenowth but they "pluggeg_" on and took third in 1600. 'Jong, had a ~ble second lap but took fourth in Sportsman Buggy. clutch on lap 4, slowing them considerably. They were fourth in 1600. Page 26 Dusty· Times

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The Hutchins/Sodor combo were looking at a win but a disibling flat Scott Smit/1 and Kenny Freeman didn't have the best of days but they Eddie Saxon and Danny Anderson teamed up in Class 1 o, lost a rear tire on the last lap dropped them into third in sportsman Buggy. hung in there and got a finish in 1600, albeit seventh place. caliper on lap 2, kept on goin' and took the second spot in Class 10. had a flat on the last lap on Lap 1. Dennis McCar-Burbank. The Mark Pettit/ Next on the SNORE buns up there. The Start/ and it looks like it dropped thy broke an idler arm on Bob Ryan crew had a fairly calendar is the Dusty Finish is right on the street them into third place. the first lap, and that cost long lap and then failed to Times 250 in beautiful in town and we guarantee Charlie Sutton and Tommy him an hour, took the time finish Lap 2, very unusual Caliente, Nevada. If you you will find yourself hav-Bradley had a disaster on to tow Dan Bentley out of for them. And, last but not want a real off road race, ·ing a terrific time with a Lap 2, picked up the pace harm's way and took sec-least, Robby Woolworth· through the trees and the bunch of terrific people. again on Lap 3 and came ond place honors home to never completed a lap. rivers you better get your BE THERE!!! • on in for a fourth place fin-ish . Joe Ruffo also had a di-· saster on the second lap but he finished the required three laps for a fifth place finish. The entire Gubler clan was scheduled to ei-t her drive or ride but they o nly got two laps com-p leted as did David Villafana. Thomas Reck only got in one very long lap and Bob Triggs never got the first lap completed. Last to leave the starting line was Sportsman Truck. Jeff Vetter and. Nie Lyon · took the lead on the first lap and they stayed in po-sition to take the win, over-coming electrical problems MSD~ llflNii[=J~I Frank Puglia took the 5-1600 win with a solo drive, no problems to report and a nice win in his great looking car. Day Gang drove three laps, Bruce Fraley the last two and they took a nice second in 1600 in the Fraley built car... ·-·-·· __ IC& "'® (it)KC HiliTES (Q)W~ N~~ Am-e-r-Lc.a-n ~ c...u.a.tom Wh..ee&,;. ftt)KC HiliffS SPECIAL HID LIGHTS $991199 - $100"0 $B99°0 Per Pair Rebate After Rebate s4o<r 1st Place Contingency Award for All Classes Contingency Program Information: SCORE, CORR, SNORE, MOR, VORRA, BEST IN THE DESERT, ESTERO BEACH, and CODE. For Product, Technical Information, Contingency Requirements or Award Information for the following Products: RANCHO, MSD, KC HILITES, MECHANIX WEAR, DYNOMAX, K&N, OFF-ROAD INNOVATIONS, AMERICAN RACING 2169 Daytona• Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 • (520) 855-0912 • FAX (520) 453-9641 • E-mail: jcrace@ctaz.com Dusty Times June.2000 Page 27

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WHIPLASH VULTURE MOUNTAIN 200 woad and McMullen Duel in the sun By Tony Tellier Photos: Trackside Photo . ' ,.Y' -~\~~~~\ Reuben Wood survived one of the hardest fought races of his career to finish first in his Subaru powered Jimco, but in front by only seven seconds. In a Wickenb~rg dude ranch style shootout, Rueben Wood edged Albert McMullen for the Overall by a slim seven seconds after 150 miles of vulgar Vulture mining roads in one of the hot-test contested car races in some years. Wo.od took the i'ead on the start of the third lap but Mc-Mullen got hack hy due to a Buckeye miscue with only a por-tion of the firral lap to go. But, fust like in NASCAR, the last lap lead ain't necessarily where you wanna be. Not with a Wood behind you. Albert and Tom Lake started third behind Glen "GRG" Greer and Rotary Rex Whitmoyer with Rube 30 seconds behind. Greer inexplicably missed Check 3 and Whitmoyer was sidelined by a dislocated ex-haust flange after a tap from "an Earnhardt fan." On the start of the fourth lap Wood came out of the pits before McMullen and set the pace. Al was not, how-ever, about to let the Buckeye Boy just go and get away. Albert literally tore the tires off the car trying to win. (At the finish the left rear Baja TA was down well into the steel cords. "Man, I didn't know what was happening," said Al-bert. "The tread was flapping up against the side panel next to my arm! When I heard it I thought 'Oh no! There goes the ring and pinion.' This car doesn't pull real good without any tread.") Albert kept hot on Rueben's rear number plate and when WooJ overshot a comer in the dust of the many fearful lappees, he hung a wheel off of a cliff. "I tried to back up and Albett hit me. -I was stuck." Wood said that it was "a tough race." And he did look tired. "I missed that comer and high centered off a cliff. Then Albert hit me in the dust. I couldn't go back up enough to go forward and he couldn't get by ... so I just went off the cliff." Albert later remarked that he knew at that time just where they were, as he had already gone off that cliff on a previous lap. He said that they really got pumped when they saw Rueben stopped: "Yeah! There's Rue-ben! We hit him hard." Albert then got back the lead with the remainder of the last lap to go and put the hammer down. But the Wood crew had the times figured out and had their driver make up 17 seconds CACTUS RACING RACEAIR HELMETS & ACCESSORIES BELi .. SHOE!. SIMPSON Helmets SNELL 9.'i. SA 9.'i FOR SODA Complete Blower Systems for single or douhlc_ scat cars. · Helmet conversions. cool hoxcs. Complete line of PYROTECl. flLLER Safety Products & BEL . Motorsports. From $299.00 and although McMullen fin-ished first on the road Wood won on elapsed time by seven ticks. Wood's fourth lap was a minute faster than McMullen's and his last-one a minute slower. "I was in Albert's dust and some (back markers) might be pissed° at me. There was one '.9' car; I went on top of him." An unhappy Dean Anderson (Sportsman Mini #1701) said that "Rueben hit my (Dodge D50) truck in the fuel cell! It was that, that, '100' car!" Dean certainly can't blame Rueben for his missing grill, bent front bumper and loose radiator shield. And, uh, McMullen was driving car #100, not Rueben (he was # 110) . Oh, well. The two top cars could not nave been more different: Wood has an A-armed, single · seat Jimco powered by a Subaru flat six; Albert and Tom Lake were in their towering Toyota V6 beam car that had to weigh 1000 pounds more than the Wood's Hay Hauler. "The car is too damned big," Albert would . later say. And he was correct, the Vulture course is tight and twisty, not suited for the larger off road cars. Many believed that a "10" would win it. And the Class 10 race was [ _________ --____, Jesse Jones drove his big Ford truck to victory in Class Pro 8, completing three laps in 2:39:50, outlasting his competitors who couldn't make it all the way. another nail biter as Jeff Wells backed up his 'Gila Bend win by edging Ron Dalke and Keith Roether by 16 seconds. Jeff was not close to the Overall, how-. ever, finishing 10 minutes be-hind Wood. Wells started fifth in a field of 11 and was leading, physi-cally, by the start of the fourth lap with Dalke in third place be-hind Dave ·sundquist. The Northern Arizona Refrigeration team then changed drivers and Dave Symes' buckle-in ate up seven minutes and one position. Subse.quent roll-overs would add even more time. Roving Re-porter and sometimes racer Ed Beard explained that "(Symes) was in a hurry, he had been changing a tire. I saw him roll it. He hit three times." The "Challenger" crown went down to the wire where, in spite of finishing with no steering wheel, the last starting '9' car of Keith Randel with-stood three shock Ray Newton's front start advantage. "Manos de Piedras.!" THE COURSE The Vulture Mountain course had the best, or the worst, depending upon one's race results, that the Arizona desert foothills had to offer: b.oulders, exposed rock ledges, gravel washes, cobbles, tight ridge lines, mesquites, ironwoods, sand washes, palos verde, chewed-up two trackers, narrow one-and-a-half trackers, fence lines, stones, and the ubiquitous Jumping Chol-la = nature's way of saying "Keep Away!" And there were a few, too few, miles of straight, roll-ing, power line roads to test overdrive gear, if you were so in-clined. The Sportsman cars ran (gulp!) with the Pros, lapping these back markers became part and parcel of the day's "fun" for bot'h sides. Five 30 mile laps were on the race schedule with "GP" rules; when the first car completes five laps everyone gets the checkered. Only 12 Pros completed five laps, out of the 33 that started. None of the 15 starting Sportsman could do "five" and only the two top Sportsman "10" cars did four. The cars left the start singly in 30 second intervals. PRO CLASS 1 4 Entries - 3 Finishers · 1. Rueben Wood (5 laps); 2. Albert McMullen & Tom Lake (6 laps); 3. Glen Greer (4.82 laps). A dejected Albert just shrugged: "We ran out of tire. The car ran good. These were brand new BFG Baja 35s at the start·. It's like ice with these slicks!" They might have won if they had actually gotten a flat and repiaced the baidy with a real life treaded tire. "And we got held up by other cars. We hit 'em. We pushed 'em. Then we pushed 'em some more. We hit a Class 10. I think that it was the 'Magpie' girls. There was this huge truck stuck in the rock wash and we just used him as a built in berm." (That would be one Charles Sutherlin -Ed.) "There were (broken and stuck) cars every-where." ' Looking for the silver lining, the McMullen crew noted that both cars ran gearboxes by younger brother Kevin McMul-len. The "Vulture" was Rueben's turn in the Wood Brothers' car as brother 'Bert had driven to the Overall in Gila Bend last month. Winner Wood's "Kirk Automotive" boxer motor runs 10.5 to 1 CR and still has the stock cams and rotating compo-nents. "We've got to pick up, oh, at least, 40 horsepower and another 1000 (rpms) ," James Kirk said. "Then we can utilize the four speed Subaru auto-matic transmission with the lock up torque· converter", James threatened. We ship UPS daily. 5153 Bowden Avenue - San Diego - CA -92117 - 858-279-2509 Jeff Wells felt he was lucky to win, since his car's motor had spit out a spark plug '!!_ng before the finish. He won Class 10 by 16 seconds. --~-----Glen Greer in the GRG Con-struction single seater was the first racer off the line and the first, and only, racer to miss Check 3. • What's with these Tucson guys? A week before the .Kuker/Wells "10" missed Check 3 i'h a heart breaker at San Feli-pe. ·Lap charts indicate that Glen gained a seven mint1te ad-vantage over the field by that ploy. Whiplash Race Director Jay McKinley had starter Eddie Burkhart let Greer continue with his run; the final scoring Continued on page 30 Page 28 June 2000 Dusty Times

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. ·' .......... . , h --:;.,,,;_ • • . .·• , ~-· '\-. · . .. , Albert McMullen, in a Toyota powered beam car, was back and forth with Wood all day, ran out of tire tread and finished second in Pro Class 1. Ron Dalke had a good run, with a few close calls, but nothing major, and took a very close second place in Class Pro 10, only 16 seconds behind the winning car. Erik Jones came out to race for the first time in a year and a half, hadn't forgotten a thing, and finished second in the 1600 class. not make up any time. Kuker up to third and James. adjustment became moot. Greer was awarded a third place fin-ish, even after being docked one lap as the final Class 1 car of Rex and Russ Whitmoyer only did one lap. Ross Whitmoyer said that they were "tapped" from the rear, of course, and that shoved in the S-uperTrapp and bent the rotary's header flange, blowing out the exhaust gas.ket. These RX7s need a complete exhaust system to function properly. So they parked it to avoid "AC-DC" concert-level hearing loss and a car fire. Glen Greer did not, would not, should not, dwell on th-e missed check. He also had been stalled on the course: "I lost the main supply fuel pump. I even-tually tried tapping it with a rock and that worked." Those Tucson guys; can't find a check, can find a rock. PRO CLASS 10 11 Entries - 6 Finishers l.JeffWells (5 laps); 2. Ron "Donkey" Dalke & Keith Roether (5 laps); 3. Steve Kuker (5 laps); 4. Tim Taggart (5 laps); 5. Ed Beard (5 laps); 6. The Dual Daves, Sundquist/ Symes (5 laps). "The car never missed a Taggart back to fourth. What a beat," Ron smiled. "It was guy, huh, Jim? better'n than San Felipe (refer-The third "1 O" to finish was ringtohiseighthplaceClass 12 Steve Kuker, who had fast finish in Baja a week prior). "class" lap. He shrugged that he There were '9s' and 'Sportsman' " ... HAD to ram Ed Beard. And everywhere," explaining the look, just like a Fat motor, hold-up. "At the last corner, I there's oil everywhere." Kuker lost a minute to a 'Sportsman'; had, apparently, lost a rear main I couldn't pass him although I seal on his Toyota. Kuker had didn't really slow down, even stopped on-course to swap a left with the dust. I almost went un-rear flat and at the finish dis-der (Jack Farmer). I almost hit covered that the lower ball joint his front skid plate - from the was pulling out the left front A-rear! It was scary. Jeff had too arm socket. The stop for the much clear sailing for us . new spare cost the "ADS Preci-Dalke's trusty sidekick Keith sion Machine" car one position Roether said "a car went off the righL there, although Steve had comer into the cholla. There called in to alert the crew to get was a cholla explosion! Our ride a new wheel ready. It's good to was awesome!" In spite of .the see that Steve's finally having Leaping Cholla, Dalke drove some rare seat time and gets to sans gloves. see that elusive finish line with Ron sidled down to Scoring decent I esults. In the Unlimited Sportsman Division Jeff Gilbert was the only one able to get three Class winner Jeff Wells was amazed to have taken the win as his Type 1 had spit out the #3 spark plug - his engine had sounded raspy for several laps -but runner-up Dalke got mixed up in lapped traffic and could to verify the lap times and in the He "made" Check 3 all five course of being nosey he cor-times, too: "Glen (Greer) laps done, giving him the victory in_~~~ Baja Bug. . . _____ _ rected an• oversight that moved Continued on page 32 I HONDA :·Power Equipment KAWAGUCHIHONDACOR~ POWER Racer and Spectator D'iscounts •GENERA.TORS •WELDERS •GENERAL PURPOSE ENGINES • WATER PUMPS •LAWNMOWERS •RIDING- MOWERS •OUTBOARD ENGINES • LAWN TRACTORS •TILLERS CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT PARTS AND INVENTORY IF We DoN 'r. HA ve Ir, No ONE Doest ~- - - -Check our website " ·,v,v. Ka"'·aguchihonda.com I • 91!~ , I' , 09 \♦.., ~_e,;...~ .. ,:-,., ~ . ~----, KAWAGUCHI HONDA EX1000 3.532E.3RDS-CLas~CA9CXJ63•323.264.3936, 264.5858 FAX 264.2136 ; ; VISA i s A L E s ' s E R V I C E ' p A R T s [If HONDA POWER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST .BQNDA Power Nothings easier. Equipment [iai f'or o"umum pcr!or.nanc-r-and ~ety. pl~.,se tc:id I.he o,\,1tt·s n\.'.10u31 b..•rorc o~r:iHng your Honda Po""·er Equip~nt. S~cltkatlonlf subjttt to ct-..mgc v.1t.hout notl1.."'t!'. •Esthn.itc only. b:lKd on r:lttd load. +B.·mery not indud~ 1,,1,ith £M3SOOSXK1. E'.\-15000S."'(KI and £90500$.X. • •\\"Ith b.ttery trJy kit. \o\0httls & h.a.n!_Zcr. ConnttUon to houSC' power rectulrN tr.ut1rcr d~1tc h> .woh! ~sibk lnjury lo power comp.lny p.:nonnel. Consult .1. qu3.l!Otd t-lttU11,.'"t.:m. . Page 30 June 2000 Dusty Times

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Major shock and shock mount problems didn't stop Ray Newton from maintaining a steady pace, and he took second in the Challenger Charles Sutherlin, the only entry in the Sport Truck class, had a long Jack Farmer had four consistent laps in his two seat Sportsman Class class, only three minutes out. -and stressful day. much of it stuck in a wash, completing only one lap. 1 O car, to take second place, only seven minutes behind the winner. wouldn't let me around." checkered flag with the top for this course," Ed said. "Look. had no chase or pit contact. It Willie Cummings was out Fourth place" 10" James Tag-panel bent in, suggesting an in-I'm getting hit these days!", was a frustrating day for a team with a flat and, I guess, nu thin gart performed a mission of cident. "I was catching some-showing some cage nerf dents. that has had the big wins. The else. According to official OTT mercy for a stranded racer and body," Symes sort of explained. It was Randy Miller's turn in "Vulture" was Randy's turn, (i.e. "On The Throttle") received the old "What goes "I went all the way over, any- ·the "M&M Portable Toilet" partner Bruce Mills baby-sat the sources: "He had a flat, and around comes around" deal: "I way," he accepted, happy not to single seater after a disappoint-pits. something else, he's all p***ed was asked to deliver some parts have to jack the car back onto ing hometown "Gila Bend". Randy was later reported as -he's heading back in," after out to RM18. On the way I got its wheels. "And, yeah, I went where they broke a drive axle having leveled a large desert three minutes out from his start. a flat at RM3 and drove to them over several times." while running up in second plant. "He took out a big hunk PRO CLASS 1600 and told them that they could Ed Beard hit, bent and place. "We got some new ones of this saguaro," was the report. 6 Entries - 3 'finishers have their parts after they changed a wheel and splashed from Geiser but this ninth start The debris suggested, however, 1. Kurt Brewer (5 laps); 2. changed my tire! 'You fix it!"' five. "Ed's not as aggressive as is bad." Randy Miller then a mesquite or ironwood. Erik Jones (5 laps); 3. Bill Krug/ Mike Sulgar had nothing to he used to be," Barbara pretty soon broke a steering Charles Lathrem was a DNF Jeff Knupp (5 laps) . say vulgar, other than that. "I shrugged. "'The Gladiator of the connector bolt, near Check 1, "It goes, it quits, it goes, it stops. Kurt Brewer was in control of cracked a@!%$%$ case. I was Desert' is kinda laid back now." then lost his front brakes. When It sits, it goes. 'It' being a Major the restricted class, finishing actually beating Jeff Wells when "Yeah, Ed said later. "I just the steering shaft was lost he Honda VTEC '4'." 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"We got to Pit I on chopsticks, to flip 'em off. Man, Lap 1," sighed Lee. "We lost he was hurtin'! Even the Rob first (gear) going up out of the Zombie sticker had cactus." wash," offered driver Jim Mali-They had a flat, too. Not a real nowski. Not even Frank Evens' good day for "Action Racing. We laying-on of the hands could Can Do Anything." bless this effort. Continued on page 34 The Challenger winner, Keith Randel, faced a big challenge when he lost the spokes on his steering wheel, was down to the hub and a steering brake. Racing was close at Wickenburg, and Bob Elio took his win in the Sportsman Class 10 division by only seve~ minutes .. _______________ _ Dusty Times

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Eric Kinyon ran three very evenly paced laps, each an hour and a half long, to earn the win in the Sports Mini division in a Blazer. ______ _ Erik Jones was running a new "Larry Motor" -by Larry Weiser of TUF Offroad. "Kurt Brewer got me as I was going to pass Steve Phillips! I got Steve, then Brewer blew by us both! Re-member that long nose '10' I had? R.J. Newton's racing it in '9' now. Man, that was a Sports-man 10 for seven years!" Jones had no t had his car out for "sometime" and he made up for it with second in "1600" and a broken front adjuster. "First rac·e in one and a half years!" Bill Krug admitted that he "had no business being on the course" Saturday. Bill ain't slow, he just '': .. went off the course four times on the first lap. It be-came no fun. And I hurt my shoulder." So he called in and had Jeff (Knupp) run over to the pits and suit up. '"27' worked better than '72' today." Home Depot/Husky Tools-s.ponsored Knupp -www.Teamkwik.com -soldiered on to third place be-hind Erik Jones and from the l,ack chss ;_,_,inner Kurt Brewer. ''Jesse (Jones - C lass 8) arid I had u little tangle", Jeff admitted. "But the Hired Gun made up seven minutes and reclaimed him-self. Even with a lingering respi-ratory infection." Buddy Rossorelli had a card-board rear number" 1656" plate, which must be how they d9 it in the Denver area. "Mile High Racing" -hmmm. This was the Bill Krug two seater that he ran so successfully for so many ·NETS ·BAGS ·SEATS • LIMIT STRAPS years, collecting cholla, and such. The car broke the steer-ing column bracke t off the "dash" cross tube. They were hose clamping it back in place to make a post race sweep for all of the parts that they had strewn onto the course when they rolled it. "At least they HAD a wheel", as Keith Randel might snort! Things must be slow down along the border in Sierra Vista as 1-999 "1600" champions Scott Brown and Eric Fisher made the long trip " . .. to pit for any '1600s'. We were out there for Bill Krug, Brian Wilson, Kurt Brewer, and Stev~ Phillips. Or anyone else." Sorta like Locos Mocos East. "We heard that Brian's pit guys from Yuma got lost and went backwards on the course to the remote pit." (Under the auspices of Whiplash course worker Walter Marshall, ac-cording to a detailed e-mailed report from Brian Wilson.) Jay then DQ'd Willy as he sat dum-foundeJ, in staging. Jay was not in radio contact at that time with Course Marshall Marshall who "told the crew that he ac-cepted full responsibility for di-recting them onto the course." Fisher continued that "Brian became (verbally aggressiv-e) with Jay and Jay responded in kind." Whiplash representative Dave Winters e-mailed: "Indeed the race was held over 40 minutes ~~· 1-800-565-4042 10925-F Hartley Road Santee, CA 92071 www.mastercraftseats.com , Page 34 Kurt Brewer had time for a little chat with some friends while leading, and winning, the 1600 race. He had a five minute cushion at the checkered flag. in an attempt to retrieve the wan-dering (Yuma) chase crew ... none of these activities precipitated the DQ. The briefly mentioned en-counter between the # 1629 driver (i.e. Wilson) and Jay won that (DQ) on its own merits." Wilson did e-mail "I am con-fident that no one on our crew would knowingly do anything in-appropriate. I am very disap-pointed that, after all of ihe years, Jay McKinley would not give · us the tiniest benefit of doubt and get on the radio to find out for him-self what had happened." (Editorial: The Starter coulda let Willy go and then let them sort it out later, like Greer's missed checkpoint?) Eric Fisher also mentioned racing at the "A vi Casino" SNORE race and "it was the land of prep and competition. . There were 19 cars and only six DNFs." The three other "1600" entries from Arizona, Brad Row-land, Leo Nenortas and Kurt Brewer, all broke. "We were glad to get six th . It was our roughest race and SNORE rac-ers said' that it was their easi-est!" (See "Challengers" for Keith Randel's "Avi" com-ments.) PRO CLASS 5 1 Entry - 0 Finishers PRO CLASS 5-1600 1 Entry - 0 Finishers The little VW class was bare -only one car. By consensus, Mark Herbold had the worst bump steer ever seen. The toe-in and toe-out went from plus three inches to minus three over the rollers. You had to drive with boxing gloves. He did not complete a lap. PRO CHALLENGER 6 Entries - 3 Finishers I. Keith Randel ( 4 laps); 2. R.J. Newton (4 laps); 3. Kevin Greener (4 laps). Roocin Tootin' Ray Newton broke the upper rear shock on the third lap and had to wallow in 24 more miles to the TUF pits and a replacement. Then the new shock broke the lower mount. "At the end I caught up to Keith Randel and he hit the brakes in the whoops and I missed my braking and hit him!" R.J. went over to explain to Randel, who had a much better tale of his own. "W as that you who hit me? What was that all about?" Keith changed clothes, swallowed a Bud, and contin-ued. It turned out to be the old "blind leading the deaf' story. Or "The first liar doesn't have a chance!" · "Man! The spokes were breaking out of my steering wheel," Randel said. "I lost two (of three spokes) at about Mile 20 on the last lap. I was saying, 'OK, baby, you break this last one, your day's done!';, With five miles to go Keith, who was "Mister Arizona" a few years -ago, finally did muscle out that last spoke. "I held on to the hub with a rag over my gloves. I used the cutting brake. I went from haulin ass to surviving! Todd Ford was holding me up! He was stuck; held me up. There was a tree on the left. There was a tree on the right! I couldn't go anywhere. They fi-nally moved over." With a missing shock, Ray could not make any moves at all and Keith won by three minutes after starting three minutes be-hind Newt, who would have had to pass to win. Another good race. Keith went to that same "Avi" race as Fisher and Brown and echoed the same senti-ments: "I've never seen '9' cars go around a course like that! I was sixth out of 22 and 15 fin-ishers .. . my SNORE mandated fire extinguisher came loose and took ou_t my pumper. I pitched it out." PRO CLASS 8 3 Entries - 0 Finishers ' Big truck winner Jesse Jones I. pobunded his big red bFodrd in1to su mission as every o y e se self-destructed and he only got in three laps. He skid-plated the truck big time in an ill ad-vised cross drainage ditch as-sault, right next to the pits, with spectators and all, you fol-low? The rocks flew every-where as they turned tail and split. ''.Oh, I meant to do that,"· Jesse laughed, "but not a sec-ond time!" Jones broke the front brake calipers as if he had carried spares with him. Not! After a quick pit inspection, it ap-peared that the rotors went away.: "They weren't turning straight," they agreed from the tapered pads. Coulda been that "stuff', too. "After I lost the right hand caliper it was really settin' up good.for left-handers but, man, it was a grind on the 'rights'. We didn't get intp any cholla," he smiled, "but Travis was chattering so much (on the in-tercom) that I wanted to roost some in on him and shut him up." Jesse had his right rear bed panel returned to him, pretty much unscathed. Keith Moore was driving the ex-Kevin Patrick Chevrolet with Jim Howe on his right. Moore's truck lost a power steering pump bolt. "This thing don't turn in a sand wash without powe.r steer-ing" -Mike Doherty nodded wisely, then snickered. Then a few damaged blades were discov-ered on the aux fan and, most se-riously, a missing lower a-arm pivot bolt and tabs was found. The result was a "DNContinue". Moore said "We went down a jump right into a bank. That's what did it. We caught a bit of cactus, too. We watched it roll right up the hood and thought 'Boy, that's gonna hurt!'. We hit cactus twice but not on my side! They also confessed to wheel walking the truck on its nose. Bill Baren and Jim Holmes were the crew and co-riders. And 'the left rear tire just came apart!'" After a successful. Gila Bend debut the previous month they had rushed out to get some up-graded suspenders - Kings on the back. There's nothing like a fin-ish to get the team pumped up. Now new front arms are sched-uled at Geisers' in association even more of Brett's be~uties, this time for the front. TCK Air Conditioning must already be spending the income from the coming summer solstice sweating , and sweltering season. SPORTSMAN UNLIM-ITED 3 Entries - 6 Finishers Sofa City's Jeff Gilbert got in three laps, two of them quite long, for the win and the only "finish." Charles Williams' car was a low rear rider, scraping and· blading, while Dave Cookman broke the front beam; .the eye came off the coil overs. "We kept on running over bushes when we saw a car coming up behind us!" SPORTSMAN 10 5 Entries - 0 Finishers -~-~ ~::"~ ~---..:.___._-------~---"'-'--' _____ ,_:i_ Bob Elio was rewarded with a ·victory over Jack Farmer's "Mc-Mullin" paint job buggy, both got Veteran racer, Ed Beard, said he's getting old, but still put together five good laps . in four hard laps. T he Magpie and finished fifth in the Pro Class 10 race. ___ ... _____ Girls were casing it early on then June.2000 Dusty Times

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:; ·~ ' 1 . .! ..... James Taggatt lost a little time on his middle lap, but otherwise ran evenly paced times, to finish fourth in Class 10, the big class for the day. Steve Kuker recorded the fast lap for his class, at 41:31 on his first lap, then ran steadily to finish in third place, a little over four minutes behind the lead car. Tim Hayosh guides his two seater carefully through the threatening cacti, as he heads for his Limited Sportsman win. _ was heading for Terrible's Town Arthur sold their "10" to Steve and Mike was just back from the Croll and were lamenting the San Felipe 250. Mike and Nicole lo$$ due to their gain. The Gei-Del Col were out drumming up ser Brothers were schmoozing embroidery work without their 5- • and Sean Senna was taking a 1600. Kasey Crook and K.C. break after San Flip. ■ went from not-so-good to BAD as a lap later their right front arms were jammed up against the stop! Against better judgment they went out of another lap but the fix was not fixed. Dan T raichel wrote: "We took back off on to the track, down the track and · 'Barn!' as a Pro car hits us, again no horn! We move to the right and hit a few trees, then a hard left and there are the Magpie ladies stuck in the middle of the track, pointing to move around to the left." Their 2.25 #2 lap was all she_ wrote. SPORTSMAN LIMITED 3 Entries - 0 Finishers "Toolmaster's" Tim Hayosh in the "VW Werks" two seater got in three very consistent laps for the third Sportsman finish. Craig Joslin did not. Joslin's blue Bug #1333 had the engine flopping loose right off the start! This would prove not to be "OK" but more like "DNF." Daniel Traichel and Kolo Lenski got "Bammed!" by the Pros all day then had a trailing arm hit so hard that the wheel was bent and outer CV broken. And they were stuck. They had to jack the arm away from the torsion, be towed out and hoµred-out. It was a long day in the whoops. They had fun. SPORTSMAN TRUCK 1 Entry - 0 Finishers The only Stock Full entry was Charles Sutherlin's Titanic-sized-but-nice-looking long bed F250. "Long bed, long day" was Mike Dol;terty's wry comment -and, yea, verily, it would come to pass. The big - no, let's make that "huge" truck got bound up in a gravel wash and was used as a berm for several buggies. The "Wickenburg Stripe" along the right rear quarter panel attests to the contact. Daniel Traichel and Kolo Lenski reported that "At about RM3 a white truck came on us, beeped his horn, and we moved over and let him pass. We dropped into a sand wash and to my left I could see that (Sutherlin) truck bur-ied to his axle in the back and spin-ning his tires." See Overall contender Albert McMullen's comments for fur-ther substantiation. Sutherlin was on the course for his first -and only lap - for three hours and 20 minutes. At least he got to see some close rac-ing! Close to him, anyway. SPORTSMAN MINI TRUCK 3 Entries - 0 Finishers Eric Kinyon and Scott Rush had stepped their pace from Parker in the M,!gpie S l O Blazer. "Crash, crash" may have been what my scrawled Race Notes in-dicated, but the two game racers did complete three rigorous laps for the win, running 90 minutes Dusty Y.im,es each, consistently. Dean Anderson's sorry tale was mentioned earlier. Mike Gale's yellow truck worked better'n than usual but not well enough to complete two laps. ELCHISMOSO HANGIN'OUT Class 8 drivers Mark Beeler and Mike Doherty were on hand, but without their mounts. Mark ·GERMAN AUTO DEIST SEAT BELTS The greatest name in driver safety equipment. 4-point sand rail seat belt RACE BELTS 2"-5pointmount 3" · 5 point mount SIDE COVERS IRS. Swing axle KENNEDY PRESSURE PLATES 200mm-1700# 200mm-up to 3ooot. 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t I I j I I ' I .... In the Over-30 Pro class, the team of Darrol and Kevin Brown, brothers Johnny Campbell and Tim Staab, XR650R Honda, finished second in from northern Nevada, took second place honors on their CR S00R Oops! Over-40 Pro, Steve Pitts, from Layton, Utah, recovered nicely, the Open Pro class, only 52 seconds behind the winning team. Honda. dusted off the ATK and went on to finish second in class. BITD SILVER STATE SERIES: TERRIBLE'S TOWN 250 Esposito and Ondas Victorious in Fight to the Finish Photos: Track.side Photo David Ondas and Shane Esposito, on a Kawasaki, fought a hard battle all day, but finally prevailed, winning the Open Pro class, and the $10,000 added purse for the overall win. Any racer hates to lose, but extra incentive often produces· exu effort. That might ex-plain the finish times at the Terrible's Town 250 in Pah-' ump, Nevada, Round 2 of Best in the Desert's Silver State Series. With $ l 0,000 going to_ the overall bike win-ner (and buggy or truck, as well), less than a minute sepa-rated the top three teams, PIKES service center Baker, California Celebra~ing 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR TRAVELING FRIENDS ••• THANKS! RESTAURANT Open 24 Hours Mobil® SERVICE Every Day Year Round THE BEST IN THE DESERT! Page 36 with Team Green's Shane Es-posito and David Ondas win-ning the 270 mile contest in 4:59:13 on their Bel-Ray, Dunlop/ Ace rbis-sponsored KXS00. Runners-up in 5:00:05 were Johnny Camp-bell and Tim Staab on their thundering Dunlop/Honda Pro Oil/IMS-bac):<ed XR650R while another Team Green duo, Destry Abbott and Brian Brown, the defending race and series champs, were just three seconds back for third. And those weren't the closest fin-ishes, but more on that later. Since the Herbst family (owners of the Terrible's Town Casino and service sta-tions) began putting up the big cash three years ago, three dif-ferent teams have struck gold. And with that kind of mon-etary carrot unavailable at any other desert race, it helps aug-ment the competitive boost for the ofteh poorly paid desert racers. Doubt it? Not after talking with Abbott, who replied, "Without a doubt," when asked if the money was a ma-jor motivating factor. "Com-ing into the race, Brian and I were talking about it, and we felt like we had a really good shot. Starting in the back of the pack is really tough, espe-June 2000 Andy Grider and Trevor Sheridan, a California team, took the win in the 4-Stroke Under 250cc Pro class on their Yamaha, placing sixth overall. cially with the competition, but we felt if we rode a smooth race, we'd be right there in contention. That's all we wanted." Honda's Jonah Street led off the start on his XR650R · (he'd share riding duties with Steve Hengeveld), a compan-ion bike to the Campbell/ Staab machine. Montclair Yamaha/Moose/Race Tech YZ426F rider Ty Davis started two minutes later (Pro teams started at one minute inter-vals. Experts and Amateurs took the green at 30 second breaks), quickly caught him and seemed intent on repeat-ing the payday he earned at this race in '98. Though he didn't break away, he re-mained a fairly safe distance out front of Ondas, Street, Campbell and Oakley Lehman on a Price Racing/Pro Circuit/ IMS KXS00, with Ondas and Esposito his main concern. "The Kawasaki guys were riding really well. They were right there. We weren't pull-Continued on page 38 ,--------------------, Ross Williams and Mark Davidge, both from the Vegas area, put together a good day on their KTM and took the win in the Over-40 Pro class by about 25 minutes. Danny Cooper and Matt Gosnell teamed up on their Yamaha to have a great day, a good ride and earned the victory in the 250cc Pro division. Dusty Times

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Mike Garvin, Jon Parks and Lester Lehigh, all from California, piloted their Kawasaki to a win in the Over-30 Pro class, finishing'17th overall. Chad Houck and Tex Mitchell paired up on their XR650R to win the Open Expert division. This was the first BITD race for Houck, and Mitchell was only recently recovered from back injuries. ing much on them. They were 3 and 4, a good 100 miles into always in the hunt." the race. Their prospects The Ty Davis/Russell Pear-looked splendid. son duo led through Pits 1, 2, However, another freak me-•: "'=;·:4\1\."·a_-,; . ~-chanical gremlin struck while Davis sped to-. ward Pit 5, this time due to a · non-pinned part •. , in the crank backing out and wreaking havoc in the lower end. "It was running really well," Eric and Michael Caudillo and Zack Dodson were the 250cc Expert winners on their Kawasaki, 17 minutes up on second place. Craig Huffer, Skipp Cohenour and Willy Hopkins came over from Arizona to run in the Over-35 Expert class. Everything did not go quite as planned, but they recorded a win on their Honda. Davis said. --------"I don't mind getting beat, if I get beat, but just to give it to them, that hurts. Emotionaffy vanquished but physically fine, all Davis coulJ do then was wait for a ride to the pits, though he did give fellow 426 racer Paul Krause gas when Krause ran dry during a pitched three-way 4-stroke Under 450cc Pro battle. Again, more on that later. With Davis/Pearson out of the picture, Esposito and On-~ ,► das took over lead duties with a decent lead at Pit 5 over Hengeveld/Street, Campbell/ Staab another couple minutes behind. Lehman/Doug Chia-puzio held fourth physically, though Abbott/Brown were coming on strongly after start-ing off eighth and 'being slowed with some crashes. "Brian had a couple big get-offs," Abbott reported. "That hurt us. I hopped on early; he was going to ride more, but I ended up riding quite a bit more." "That's the thing with team hopped on the big XR at Pit 5 in third place, Honda teammate Hengeveld within reach: "I followed Steve in his dust for probably 20 miles, from about 10 miles prior to Pit 6 chasing him and just hitting spots of dust, patches of dust and having to back off. I probably got him between seven and 12 miles after Pit 6. He let me by. I had caught up to him really close, and he saw that I was right there. He figured, I guess, if I'd made up that much time, let me try to catch the leaders, which helped us a lot. I made up two minutes on the leaders between Pit 6 and Pit 7 so Steve letting m·e by helped a lot, for sure; I was thankful for that. Staab continued, "That was our first pass of the day be-cause Ty broke [so it didn't count as a 'pass']. We pretty much stayed where we were all day and started picking up the pace as the race went on. I wish it was a couple hundred more miles." Campbell said of his part-ner, "He put in a really great ride all the way to seven and came in ... three minutes down on the lead bike, I knew we had to finish within a minute of [Esposito/Ondas] because they started [a minute] ahead of us so it was pretty much a do-or-die ride from [Pit 7] to the finish. "Our rear brake was fading in and out. Tim had gotten it pretty hot. i just totally went for it. and was slamming ditches. I don't really like to ride that pace that I was go-ing, but I put like a minute and a half on them by the time we got to the finish in that 40 miles. That was my best ride of the day, through that last section. The bike seemed to work pretty well. I just couldn't get my act together, not till the end." '"'" -. ~ Esposito and Ondas had races -sometimes their acts together the best on one person's off, the day, enjoying a trouble and one person's free ride but getting more ner-on. That's just vous the closer they got to the the way it goes. finish -and the $10,000. ' Ir;,_, .. :, ---; . - . Greg Zitterkopf one-hands it around the turn, as he heads for his victory in the lronman Expert division on his Honda. Daryl Folks and Rick Bozarth paired up for a good day on their KTM 300, and took _H_e_i_m~~"h~e~d=a=g=r=e=a=t=1=1t=h=o=v=e=ra=ll=·=========---~=e=-~-~1_n_i_n_~_e_O_~_r_-3_0_ P_ro_d_,_·w_s_w_n_b~y_11_m_m_u_re_s_. __________ _ :i;-,. ·•· .·· ' --* -· ;;,~ I• :.,.. .. -.. •.' _..,-•-.. ,.,,.,~ '~F __,,,--~-__ ;--_...-::.., _;..-··_,. It's usually me "I was a nervous wreck," (befog) off so I Ondas admitted. "At Pit 6, can't say any-even though we had a three thing." minute lead, I was thinking, "I felt like I 'Oh-man, anything can hap-rode really well pen.' I could fall over or what-towar<ls the end. I ever, I was definitely thinking had a slow start hard about it." but finished really Asked what he thought well and made up about in those last miles, Es-a lot of time." posito laughed and answered, Also making "I guess you're thinking about up time was everything. I tried as much as Staab, who I could not to think about the -----Cory Ayers earned a fine second place in the lronman Expert division, Vincent Reger, Cortney Whipple and Bobby Owens, a Las Vegas team, Bert Bradford and Rob Phillips, both from Utah, took second place in bringing h~ Husqvarna back to the finish in_~~--_______ ~!._h~ K_T!vf to second place in the Over-35 Expert division. the Open Expert class, only six minutes out of the lead, on their KTM. Page 38 June 2000 Dusty Times

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dl • '< -~~, .. ,,~ ~ •·. rt, ·y ~i ,. -. -:.;_,i;!;.-·,.,;·'''. them," first time desert racer Sheridan related. "Then Krause picked me off." "I crashed right after Pit 3. Fro·m then on, he pulled about 20 seconds, and we just tailed in until about Pit 5 . Paul Krause had run out of gas in between 4 and 5, and was able to burn some gas off Ty Davis. [Krause] came in right behind us." The team of Mike Ruane, Richard Caselli and Gary Covington didn't quite get to the finish, but took the over 40 Expert division win anyway. Flying high and straight, the Honda team of Dwight Lowell, Charles Lamson and Gary Jackimowicz, all of California, head for the finish and their win in the Quad Expert class. "The pack was all together again, wi thin 30 or 40 , econds [with Fry/Stephensen lead-ing]. The dust was killing me. I couldn't get by [the Fry/ Stephensen bike]. I was trying everything I could to try to get out of his dust, and it wasn't happening. I just held that pace the whole time." money or any of that, just· "It was really relief [when riding and staying up to get it we finished] because I knew to the finish. Yeah, that's a we h ad [both] Johnny and thing can happen." However, the only thing that happened was anticipat-ing how it'd feel to collect $10,000 in cash the next morning at the awards presen-tation. For Ondas, even then the reality of his accomplish-ment didn't sink in. That didn't happen for a couple days, in fact. Hengeveld/Street hung on for fourth while Chiapuzio/ Lehman rounded out the top five. The proverbial blanket could've covered the next four, with three of those teams engaged in a race-long battle for "little" 4-stroke su-premacy, all on Yamaha UX-Fs. "W ell, Sweetland ended up catching me because he had clear sailing with no dust be-hind me, so he was able to pick up a couple minutes. Then I crashed, and he was right on me. For about seven miles, we were riding side by side the whole time into Pit 7, just wide open, in and out of turns." real big payday!" Descry behind us, and David Fry and Kirk Steph-ensen were first off the line in the class on their MX Con-crete/Economy Steel bike fol-lowed by the Paul Krause/. Garth Sweetland Montclair Yamaha/MSR/IMS entry and the Andy Grider/Trevor Sheridan Feather Surfboards/ Sinisalo/Graeme team. Ramey Petico/as-Stroud, from Lyons, Oregon, had a good run on his Honda, riding "[Tuesday). it just sank in," he said. "We stayed an extra day [in Pahrump) and just kind of hung out. I didn't have to work on Monday so we just kind of relaxed. Actually, to-day I went to the bank and de-posited it. That's when it finally hit me. It's great, un-believable. I'm saving for a house -that's what I've been doing for a while. I'm trying to buy a house so it just helps that much more." "By Pit I ,.Grider had passed Sweetland and was ahead by about 10 seconds so we were about a minute and IO sec-onds on the road in front of "We came into the pits side by side. There was a little con-fusion in the pits. There were three dry-break cans ready to go. Nobody was expecting all of us at once because Sweet-land was so far behind and [Fry/Stephensen] wasn't pit-ting with Montclair [Yamaha]. It was a fiasco. We all came in together, and Krause wasn't ready for the solo to the Over-48 Expert victory. · ultimate lono travel Get the benefits of our Long Travel system and 3" lilt spindles, aeating 6" of lilt for incredible ground dearance. fF!@r-@I ■ 3' lift spindles ■ Upper L:□ntr□l arms ~~©W't,I ■ Lower Control arms 8 ■ Coil springs ■ 3 way front sh□ cks ■ Performance rear shocks ■ Rear kit 3-wau adjustable shocR absorber . 0 ~~'=7!:.H.~t~t~ toyo_ta Jong travel system Our Toyota 2 wheel drive, 6' 1van Dan' long travel system. 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5:30:41 to complete the course so they ended up third in class and ninth OA, the adjusted finish order the inverse· of · both the physical finish and starting positions. Breaking up the tight running trio were Over " 30 Pro victors Rick Bozarth and Daryl Folks, who split them up with their Sportsman Cycle/Dunlop/THOR-backed KTM 300 in 5 : 3 0 : I 3 for s eve nth Our photographer caught an awkward moment in the day of Paul and o v era 11. "We got out Putter Ashford and Scott Saunders, who rode their Yamaha well front [ in class] and enough (most of the day) to finish second in the 250cc Expert class. stayed out front," Folks all on their Big Valley the 250cc Pro division on related. "Rick kept pick-Honda/D&S Waste Re-their IMS/Dunlop/Pro Cir-ing guys off [after that). moval/Willis Guy CPA-cuit YZ, their 5:36:48 good Wt! got ourselves in sponsored CRS0OR. for 10th overall. "The day about sixth, physically, Danny Cooper and went good," Cooper said. and stayed that was for Matt Gosneil carried an "My partner, Matt [Gos-Manuel Salazar and Miguel Mereado, both from the the last couple sections. even larger lead to win ne 11 [, started off and. Paul Krause and Garth Sweetland ran close all day San Diego area, traveled north to take second place A 11 in a 11, a.--------~-----------''----------on their Yamaha, finished second in the 4-Stroke in the 4-Stroke under 250cc Amateur class on their great race. The' Under 250cc division just 37 seconds back. _H_on_d_a_. ______________ mo t o r c y c l e bike to come it." "All three of [us] ended up worked excellent -and that is "So Krause ended up get-· crashing from Pit 7 to the fin-300. That's not a 380, it's a 300 ting gas first. Everybody was ish, and it still ended up 1-2-Everybody assumes it's a 380 scattering and couldn't find 3 at the finish, [Fry/ but the 300's our choice." the dump can. Well, they Stephensen) finishing first on Bozarth added: "We starte found one for us. They took the road, Paul Krause finish-[firstinclass"].Wekindofhear off about 30 seconds in front i-ng second and us finishing through the radio [conversa of us by the time we got out of third. And we edged them out tions] that [Mike] Healey ha there. In actuality, we were [to win) by seconds [on cor-broken, then we pulled out still running second because rected time]." little bit of an advantage ove [Krause and Sweetland] had Indeed, Grider/Sheridan the Browns. We just" kept nick-started a minute ahead of us -took the class win and sixth ing away at it, and we knew tha ,. andwewerewithinaminute overall at 5:29:57, with wewereprettycomfortable.We of Team 1, and they had two Krause/Sweetland second in just kind of rode in from there.' minutes at the start on us so class and eighth overall with They owned a comfortable . : we were actually in first place a time of 5:30:34. Fry/Steph- I I-minute margin over brothers . · ·' at the time. All we had to do ensen, while first to get the Darrol and Kevin Brown, theTonyAgu_ilera,KellyHallandJ.L.Wray,allofLasVegas,teamedonaKTMtoride was hold it to the finish.' checkernd Oa , actually took class runners-up and 13th over_l? the. Over-35 Amateur v,ct=o~ry.=. ===========================. Spring to Success ... ~--• ,-9497li2870G • -. .............. ,854 Page 40 June 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 cycles, even in the cruelest desen environments. That's why top chassis builder Mille Julson chooses Eibach Springs. He knows what it takes to win ... Now so do JOU. Dus.ty Times

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brought the bike in [to the first rider change) in the lead. I_got on at two and rode, it was pretty rocky, pretty dusty, but overall it was a good course. We just rode strong all day. I couldn't have a better partner than Matt. Dave Chase built a grea.t motor. The DH l pro-gram that's going on with Yamaha is just the greatest thing right now. It helps us out quite a bit. · "We were second [off the start]. Matt passed him before the first pit, and we just kept increasing our lead after that. I don't know if the other rid-ers had problems or not, but it went real well -just having fun the rest of the day. You· couldn't ask for anything bet-ter." · "I didn't have one crash to-day. I've been training really hard after Laughlin. I had . some problems with my thumb; I almost chopped it off before then. Overall, this was a great day. I couldn't ask for a better ride for me or for Matt." . Conversely, the Expert di-vision winner could have asked for a better day. As it was, a fuel or carburetion problem forced Greg Zitterkopf to stop twice and hastily clean the float bowl on his Honda CR400R. "It ran perfect for, like, the first 100 miles then it seemed like it got dirt in the carburetor or wa-ter or something," he re-ported. "It started running real lean, and every time you'd give it gas, it wanted to die. It seemed like it just ran out of gas the first time so I stopped and took off the float bowl out there, let [ the gas] run for a second, and gas came our. There was some dirt in there Gaiy Bosemer, from Chatsworth, California took first place in the lronman Amateur division on his Kawasaki, finishing his ride in 6:59:41. Curtis Moon, Jamie Graham and Dave Hagedorn were ttie 4-Stroke Under 250cc Amateur winners on their Yamaha. This team hails from Vegas and Henderson. so I was like, "Cool, that I was to come out of a corner must've been it." 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:·I'." .. Mike Kaplan, from Tujunga, California, checks out the photographer L..4-."'----~-~---~----------- -'--' William ·Yokley, from Kentucky and Kim Kuhnle, from Ohio, paired up as he makes his way to the finish and second place in the lronman Nate Pearson and Kellon Walch, riding a Husqvarna, finished second on their Roll Design Quad to take second place in the Pro Quad race, Amateur class, on his Kawasaki. in the 250CC Pro class, and 15th in the overall standings. only 1 o minutes back. Steve Pankas, Las Vegas and Richard Purvines, Henderson, paired on a Yamaha to take the win in the over-30 Amateur Division. Mitchell's first major compe-this year while training on a tition since breaking vertebra motocross track. in his neck at the Baja 1000 Over 30 Expert trio Mike and in.iuring_his back earlier Garvin, Le_s_ter Lehigh ari_~ Ion Steven Heitchew and Rodger Flaming brought their Yamaha back in first place in-the Over-4_0 Amateur class, finishing in 7:40:06. _ __ ~-~-----------------_ -_ ~- -__ -_ -_-_ -__ -_ -~ -__ -__ -_ -_ -_ -_ -..,- -------------being unable to use their pri-,.,.,.,,.~_.· .......... 'A<J--1-¾'"''"• .,.. ~ # ' Ron Darling and Steven Scales, both from Nevada, teamed up to bring their KTM back to the finish in first place in the Open Amateur Division. · Parks inadvertently compli-pit. Luckily, they were able to tated things for themselves hitch hike from pit to pit the when they lost the keys to rest of the way, keeping things their chase truck at the first practically normal. Despite Jimmy Stephensen and Eric Dollente, riding in the Pro division, were the top Quad team, finishing in 6:26:40 on their Honda. mary transport vehicle, they won the class and were 17th overall in 5:53:28. KTM-mounted Mark Davidge and Ross Williams were next bike in, their 5:53:47 earning top Over 40 Pro honors. From there, it took a while before 250cc Ex-pert winners Eric Caucillo/ Michael Caudillo/Zack Dodson crossed the line in 6:37:48, 11rrl overnll on th_f'ir Off Road Race Car Driving Experience Hands on Driving Experience. You drive the car on a 20 mile Long desert course. 6965 Speedway Blvd. #X-113 Las Vegas, NV 89115 702-632-0002 Do Nore Than Just Klick Up Dllrtt Wjnf Page 42 Wll1h 76 Racllna Gasolllne Win Free 76 Racing Gas for the 2001 Season! One entry fur each 25 gallons of 76 100 or 110 Octane Racing G.i&Ollne purchased from CL Bryant or an authorized distributor from Jan. 1, 2000 through October 31, 2000! Win Free 76 Racing Gasoline (up to 250 gallons.) To Enter: Send )Our proof of purchase, along with Name, Address, and Phone to: CL Bryant, Inc. Attn: Mitch . 237 E. Whitmore Ave. Modesto, CA. 95358 ~RACING "'fi:I GASOLINE , ........................ . Falrplex • Pomona October 7 & 8 ~-- - - ------------ -------June 2000 ~RACING ~GASOLINE ~ ••• -. .... -..-.■ • .-n.~•.'!i Authorized Distributors -Southern California, call: KRS Distributing 71 4-816-8 98 3 Cosby Oil 1-800-54-COSBY www.cosbyoil.com For a Distributor Nearest You - 800-399-4176 Dusty Times

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I ~~ ·/1~ ~ ~ ' .,. £ ., J.w· ¥ Doug Eichner and John Gregory, both from California, ran close to the front on their Honda, ended the day in third place in the Pro Quad division. Shane and Shi/ch Strµnk, from Tucson; Arizona, rode their Honda to Todd Hunter and Jimmy Krumme, both from Las Vegas, bicycle their third in the Quad Expert class, just three minutes behind second place. Honda around the corner. They took second in the Expert division. next on the DSC Motorsports/ Rodger Fleming/Steven pert trio of Dwight Lamson/ Jimmy Stephensen on their JS Klotz/No Toil Filters Yamaha Haitchew won Over 40 Arna-Charles Lowell/Gary Pest Control/MS Concepts/ Windgrear/ I WS USA/ Boyesen KX. Right behind the Experts was Ron Darling/ Steven Scales, the first Ama-teur team to finish, their 6:39:02 earning the Open Amateur victory as well on their Miller Beer/Runway 25/ 7-11 KTM. Tony Aguilera/Kelly Hall/ J.L. Wray won Over 35 Ama-teur in 6:45:56 on their Team Aggie/Federal Sign/Richard Shade-sponsored KTM, · they were 3 7th overall. 4-stroke Under 450cc Ama teur win-ners Jamie Gra h a m/Dave Hagedorn/Dave Hagedorn/ Curtis Moon came through in 6:50:35. teur in 7:40:06 on their Cycle Jackimowicz didn't upset the ITP Honda in 6:28:40. GNCC · Steve Pankas/Richard Pur-Parts West/Precision Con-Pros by taking the overall regulars Kirn Kuhnle/William vines won Over 30 Amateur cepts/KMY Yamaha and were Quad win as they did in De-·Yokely from Ohio and Ken-in 6:53:19, 40th overall 'on 49th overall. Ramey Petico-cember. (They weren't racing tucky, respectively, were sec-their Countrywide Esta'te las-Stroud, who doubles as for a $10,000 bonus.) Their ond Pro team and third Quad Planning/Sports We'st Johnny Campbell's trainer, 6:30: 17 was good enough for overall in 6:38:00 on their Yarriaha/IGT blue bike. Garv soloed his Cascade Endurance second overall and the class IMS/ITP/Axxis Roll Design . Bosemer topped the lronman C~nter/Santiam Denter Cen-win on their Leighton Racing/ (A week later, Yokely would Amateur class on his Kawasa-ter XR to the Over 48 Expert CTM/Ou terwears Honda, just miss beating Bill Ballance ki of Simi Valley/Bell/Accele-r-victory in 8:48:27 and won however. at the GNCC in Tennessee ated Funding KX in 6:59:41, 58th overall. The top Quad on the day while Kuhnle would finish good for 42nd overall. Two In the Quad classes.-belonged to Eric Dollente/ sixth.) ■ bikes later came the Pro Sport/ Terrible's Town represented EEC/Bridgestone Honda CR their first BITD event of the of Rich Jesse/Mike Roth/Oren season, instead of being the Wheeler, the 250cc Amateur season finale as it traditionally winners in 7:05:54. has been. This time, the Ex-GOT SHOCKS? Your main source for the all I new RaceRunner shock series ea,. from Sway-Away. Now avail-==-' able in 2", 2 1/2", and massive RBCl!.,f!.!!l!l!/:!.r 3'' body coil-over design. BilBteln . Sway A Way Eillach • HM • QA 1 · CNC Bpar~o • PRP • Fuel Bate Ron Davis Radiators Betrall OIi Coaler, Optima Batteries Methanlx Waar Dusty Times June 2000 ••• 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, includin·g the new RACE RUNNER series. Play cars or race cars, Class 9 or trucks, 1/2 1600, even super-long travel A-arm cars, KARTEK gets you handled! lNffjf] J.J(f///'H (909) 6J,8-2525 ~0--~o.d,J (909) 628-0833 .-.-•_, fax (909) 627-4067 14122 Central ave. Chino, CA. 9171 0 open 7 days a week! Page 43

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.. CODE OFF ROAD VW AUTOPARTES 250 Gonzalez Gets His First By T any Tellier Photos: Mario Vasquez Martin Gonzalez didn't have a perfect rt.in in his Chenowth, but when he crossed the finish line in first place Class 1600 and first overall, none of it mattered. PC scoring program was run and downloaded, as the 5-1600 class proved equally tight. Although Marco Nunez won by 20 minutes, 1999 champion JA and JC Covas had to sweat out their two-second second place over the Allan Gre-gory AGRO car. Winner Gonzalez completed his three Pro laps in 4:09: 13. The last Pro was Pedro Mercado's 7S in 7:50:58. Sportsman entries raced for two laps. The Pro "11 s" dld three. The winning Sportsman was Marcos Nunez and Norberto Rivera, a very comp~titive 5-1600 team, ran three very steady laps to take the win by 20 minutes. Javier Pacheco's 1600 in 3: 09: 08. Mexicali's Martin Gonzalez fourth gear. .. so what else could I RM40 but was wafting some blue The final finishing Sportsman was overcame a personnel problem - a co, I used third!" He had also blown "death" smoke. Once Lobsam went Omar Cortez, second in Class 7 at missing co-driver - to overcome a a rear shock and broken a header on the string back to the trailer the 8:07:49: 15.25·mph. The time limit late start and pass every car in the pipe that, luckily, did not blow hot lead was inherited by i:he "Puro was nine hours. race to Overall the "VW autopartes gases on anything important, like Valle" VW of Gerardo Gonzalez While there were 15 Pro 5-200" three lapper held along the the adjacent power steering pump. (no relation) with Pietro Brassea's 1600s, out of a total of79 cars, there westernmarginsofLagunaSalada. "Muy rapdio" muttered the new Curry "1600", James "Jimbo" were no Pro 10s and only Yee in The victory was the first for the whipped Castenada, riding in his Zinn's "5" and Martin in a tight Class 1. "Auto Stevens" 1600 Chenowth first car race. A local, a line. With 20 miles to go on the fi-The Course driver, who, in addition to being "Chachanilla," Carlos had chased nal lap, Martin banzai-ed in the "5" The course was a mix of the tra-held 25 minutes while fill-in pas-for local Class 10 racer Ray Santos car of Gerardo G. after passing ditional Laguna Salada routes senger Carlos Castenada rounded del Prado. Gonzalez, a.k.a., "El Brassea and a clutch-slipping Zinn. which started near the Mexicali-up the required safety equipment, Bronco," had no flats: "We just Brassea was beaten by 17 seconds! Tecate-Tijuana highway west of La scratched his right eyebaiI ~hen he pressed on th.e pecfaW The Cesar Cons Molina and Simon Centinela peak. Three 62 mile opened his visor to de-dust it. Instrumental in Martin's Over- Ruiz "1600" was behind an addi- counterclockwise laps sampled the The Race all was the unfortunate and expen- tional 54 seconds. Close, indeed. silty soils near the dry lake and the "I passed all the cars today," sive demise of the Scat engine in Gerardo Gonzalez was another 36 rocks north of the autopista. The Gonzalez exclaimed, squinting over the Yee Jimco. The ex-NGM single back. soft sands below the two western a bandaged eye socket. "And I lost seater was seen leading the race at Finish Tech was a-buzz until the bridges - "Las Preitas" - the Rocks -DBA: Discount Foreign We Have In Stock: Ultra Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15 X 7 $84.05 $89.10 Centerline. Wheels 15 X 3.5 & 15x 6 $117.45 $124.75 15 X 10 $131.99 Call for Prices · 3636 Meade Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 Page 44 (702) 247-126~ We Now Do. MAGNA FLUX ~---------------,,...,,....~------------, Ivan and Tony Gomez borrowed a car (from Lalo Mayoral), had the two fastest laps in the class and got the Class 9 victory. · _, ,.. Alberto Gonzalez drove his Class 7 Ford through three steady laps to take the class win by an hour and 45_m_in_u_te_s_. ____ _ June 2000 and "Cachanilla" - were the usual getting stuck struggle. PRO CLASS 1 1 Entry -No Finishers Yee's "crank broke in the Scat engine," said Jaime Medina, who now preps the Jimco. It zippered the pan. Lobsam kept his foot in a bit too much, it was "suggested." Am expen$ive day. Asked if he had driven the car, Jaime could only shake his head and exhale: "Oooo. It's fast!" Medina has been bought out of his share in the Tomei "76" 10 car so is now working on the Snap-On side of the races. PRO CLASS 11 9 Entries - 5 Finishers I. Fernando Rodriguez; 2. Fernando Flores; 3. Hugo Avila; 4. Carlos Macklis; 5. Marco Robles. "The first win after five years," cheered Fernando Rodriguez. "We lost the (engine cover), but so what?" The driver has no gauges to distract him since "the co-driver has them. HE gets that job done," It was a Lalo Mayoral-prepped car, as were many at the race. They were second at the SF250 and com-plained about SCORE "forgetting that these were the cars that started it all!" · Michele Gastelum, Roving Re-porter, provided this on-the-spot description: "I saw 'El Toro Viejo' and Fernando Flores 'Quaker State' car side-by-side, banging fenders! Then Flores got a flat. Victor Her-rera ( #1616) almost flipped at the . road crossing into the pits! Hugo Avila's "Old Bull" now sports Paci-fica Beer as a sponsor. The Flores car and Avila went at it hard with Flores "blinking." "He backed off when we got into the sand" said Efren Gastelum af-ter the first win in the Miguel Mexia car. The right rear fender of the Flores VW was torn by the NASCAR-styler get-together. Carlos Macklis tore the center out of the brake drum and finished on a wildly wobbling left rear wheel. They rolled trying to pass a 5-1600 and had to repair a busted spring plate. Mexicali attorney Arturo Honold changed it. "Carlos has been my crew chief when I race so I returned the favor! Lalo welded it for us. I even supplied the driv-ing suits!" · Greg Horr and the Decks had a flopping left rear fender in their swing-axle car but that proved to be the lesser of their woes as they DNF-ed. PRO CLASS 1600 6 Entries - 3 Finishers 1. Martin Gonzalez; 2. Pietro Brassea; 3. Cesar Cons Molina and Simon Ruiz. Gerardo Gonzalez' "5" had the overall lead with 20 to go as Mar-tin Gonzalez came through hot with Brassca a minute behind and Ruiz Dusty Times

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The 5-1600s outnumbered all the other classes with 15 entries, and Francisco Fernandez and Amado Mayoral ran a very evenly paced In the overall lead for a while, Gerardo Gonzalez dropped to fourth J. A. and J. C. Covas had a rough ride with their suspension sagged, race in their two-seater, to take second place in Class 9, back just a O.A. with a long third lap, still took the win in Class 5. but they squeaked into second by two seconds. minute and 12 seconds. ----;----;-----,--=,-~--~-~~----85 seconds back. It was WFO run Valle/AP Labs" rag top kept Jimbo sions on both ends of the car: "Af- Matt. "We saw that there was a lot Chief wrench and driver Arturo to the checkered for all four. The Zinn at bay as Zinn's "Race Ready ter 10 miles it was very rough." of play in the shifter box. Just out Cervantes had a slick stub axle new race-sponsoring "VW Special"Type l failedanengineoil Theygotthedifficultjobdonewith of the highway tunnel at RM35 holder and had set up new nega-Autopartes" Curry two seater of seal and oiled the clutch, which badly taco-ed wheels on both right there was this big guy with a welder tive camber trailing arms that were Pietro Brassea, Miguel Flores, Car-started slipping "BIG TIME!" side wheels but they still held air. on a trailer. He took, maybe, two--"good through the turns." los Aguilar and Ivan Pacheco was "James" had a beer as they dumped The low-dog suspension ate up a minutes. What a great job he did Alberto Castro and "Stuck kicking a skosh in the rear. It runs in two quarts of Pennsylvania's fin- front fender. on that sheet metal with a stick Throttle Productions" Victor a dog house cooler in line with an. .est out on the course. AGRO-vation: "We broke lots welder." Matt said "He was so big Fabian were moving up when the external one. They tum BFG KOs. PRO CLASS 5-1600 · of stuff and still did good," said Ja-that he couldn't stay in the car to ignition failed at RM30 and Nunez Brassea has made the change from 15 Entries - 8 Finishers son Gregory. "The oil filter mount weld. I acted like a brace; I had to got past. "The ignition turned it-5-1600 effortlessly. Something 1. Marco Nunez; 2. Los Covas; broke off and was flailing around; hold him in with my foot!" And self off. I was so frustrated that I about power steering, I'd guess. 3. Team AGRO; 4. Luis Leal; 5. it might have hit the distributor cap Matt's the right size for that job; punched the dash and the (power) Curry is known as the "Jimco of Erik Muller; 6. Alberto Castro; 7. and tweaked the rotor." Jason said too. came back on. We changed driv-Mexico." · Jose Luis Herrejon; 8. Raul Solano. that he and Steve K. stopped to see "The Covas had a flat and used ers at the "76" pit, then lost second Second runner-ups Simon Ruiz Marco Nunez had oil on the why the engine was sputtering and their air wrench, it was that quick. gear. Then we broke a stub axle and and Cesar Cons - "Mutt & Jeff". - brakes and a broken right rearline. found the loose filter. "The rotor's I caught 'em but couldn't get a tire went. We broke the # 3 "had a good car, no flats but the Theycloseditwithahammer. "We (locating) tabwascracked,chewed through their dust," cold Allen. header and the power went way other two cars were fast too." The had no flats but the left rear was up. That was a blessing in disguise "We had a blast. It was good racing down ... and a bolt came out of the # 1626 car of Victor Herrera going down sitting in Tech." The -otherwise we'd have never known and it wa~ a radical course. Team LH valve cover. Victor and Alberto matched the fastest lap of the race ex-Don Hatz engine has re-done by about the filter. That could have AGRO will take it to the champi- explained their tough day. of Gonzalez' "5" car - l: 17 -but "Popeye," who drove the first half beaten every.thing to death. Then onship," he predicted. "We hit a tree, but it was not wouldnotfinish.Therearwaskick-andbigMarcothesecondhalf.Co-we started flying. Steve was on a Jason drove the #561 'on my shift' ... we honked but it ing a little too much, too. driver Erick Morales was embar- mission." Tractorland car for l-l/4 laps until wouldn't move out of the way and PRO CLASS 5 rassed when they pointed out that Then Allan got in and com-. the dog ears broke, they busted out it broke the windshield. We got 2 Entries - 2 Finishers he (relieved himself) in the car. But plained to co-driver Matt Petersen the King Kong. The disappointed dusted behind the Covas. And we 1. Gerardo Gonzales; 2. Jimbo Erick did all three laps, so he HAD that 'Tm having trouble getting crew slung the green and yellow had to deal with lots of"l ls" at the Zinn. to! · fourth · OK go in third. Then he race car on the trailer and El Jefe dry lake but we weren't about to hit Gerardo Gonzalez' yellow "Pura The Covas' sacked out the tor- had trouble with second," said Mike Jones split for Puertocitos. Continued on page 46 ;----------------------------------------------•'!II•~-----~----, I ·~b. * I I · ,.. -rv,.. 'I-I I ~ ~ 'f-I i****:: FF ROAD RACE! 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Sergio and Armando Duron had the class fast lap at 1.43, and ran a trouble free race in their 7S Nissan to take the win. There were nine Pro Class 11 Cars and Miguel Mexia and Fernando Rodriguez took the lead on lap two and stayed in front to take the win. them. We could~'t pass them until it got rough!" The night before the race the Carlos Davila - Las Pinuelas T earn had to trundle their tranny over to Frederico Montes for repairs. No matter, they did not complete their third lap. PRO CLASS 7 7 Entries - 3 Finishers. l. Alberto Gonzalez; 2. Ignacio Pereda; 3. Oscar Rebeles. Perennial winner and 1999 class champion Alberto Gonzalez forged on in the "Gova" truck to an easy 90 minute win over Ignacio Pereda. The "big" mini trucks had a high attrition rate as less than half of them finished. Eli Yee stuffed the yellow "Baja Wood" truck in a ditch at RM45 and did not continue, heading for the trailer with bother Lobsam's "1" Jimco. Victor Isla's ra-dio reported the truck being bro-ken with "oil all" over the place." The Toyota with beams eventually did two laps but not before stopping to add water (not oil as reported). This is an interesting, well-detailed car with coil-overs and long radius arms, front and rear. Sponsors in-clude "Pro Hogar" and Luis Rene Montano's "ZR Designs." PRO CLASS 7S • 3 Entries - 2 Finishers 1. Sergio & Armando Duron; 2. Pedro Mercado. "We had no flats, no trouble.-Only broken half a leaf spring in Mercado. the rear. But the clutch (release) Alpa Racing's Mercado's -went out right at the finish," ex- "shocks were blown, snapped it off plained winner Sergio Duron. his and we were pretty much screwed. younger brother, Armando, fin-We took some off the pre-runner ... ished the last half of the race. His the headers were coated with oil brother laughed after the race: and smoked very bad." The "Right here! I stalled it at the flag. Mercado team finished nearly two I found I couldn't get it into gear." hours after the Duron truck. Jaime It was easily pushed out of the way Soto had a roll over on the second by tias, tios, ninos, ninas, esposas, lap and was towed in. viejos, viejas: "My family team," PRO CLASS 8 indeed - 20 screaming team mem- 1 Entry -No Finishers bers. Sergio is a body man in San PRO CLASS 9 Diego and does the entire car 8 Entries - 6 Finishers prep: "I have a Miller wite 1.Ivan&TonyGomez;2.Fran-welder." With Sergio driving they cisco Fernandez; 3. Juans Mayoral; blew lots of dust skid plating it 4. Jose Angel Gonzalez; 5. Samuel while passing second place Pedro Cisneros; 6. Manuel Hernandez. Tony and Ivan Gomez sur-Advanced Manufacturer of High Performance Torque Converters & Transmission Parts . prised many people by popping out of the black "Lalo y Pancho" single seater at the finish. The father and son team drove to first place; son Ivan had nasty blisters on the heel dhis hands from the wheel. Tony had a rear flat on the "borrowed" car. "They let us ·race this in CoDe and we race our two seat car in SCORE! This is a good car. It is much narrower." Car owner Lalo Mayoral was busy rim-ning a Chevron Lubricates pit. The first four cars in "9" were Lalo-prepped. The running-up "900" of FraNfer Racing Team is a Lalo Mayoral car, also. Third place #948 Juan Mayoral, Sr. and Jr., had a huge K&N that would never need • High Performance Converters • Input Shafts • Clutch Hubs • Transmission Kits • Custom Length Axles • TCS Designed Hubs changing. · · Race leader Le-onardo and Alejandro Navarrete set up a tor-rid place, too torri~, it would turn out. They tweaked the right front suspension, bad, and never com-pleted third their circuit. . SPORTSMAN CLASS 10 3 Entries - 2 Finishers 1. Miguel Arellano; 2. Eduardo Ainslie. SPORTSMAN CLASS 11 4 Entries - 4 Finishers 1. Juan Carlos Ramirez; 2. Joel Cervantez; 3. Guillermo Aguirre; 4. Mario Leal. Juan Carlos Ramirez's # 1153 sports a "Pancho Villa"-style som-brero on top in the ma~rner made popular (?) by "V-Mar" Vince Alcouloumre's surfboard "Rasta" · car. All four of the Sportsman "Onces" finished and all within 30 minutes of each other. SPORTSMAN CLASS 1600 3 Entries - 2 Finishers 1. Javier Pacheco; 2. Federico Prieto. The newly painted "Hola" Jimco of Federico Prieto was slowed to eight minutes (rom Overall Sports-man Javier Pacheco's win by what sounded a lot like a cracked header. SPORTSMAN CLASS 3 1 Entry - 1 Finisher l. Javier Reyes Martinez. Javier Reyes Martinez, a real es-tate broker from Tijuana, with co-riders Erick Maurico Lopez and ._ Sergio Lopez, had no flats in the little yellow Suzuki Samurai: "It's like a little tractor, it will handle any type of terrain. Of course, it is not a Trophy Truck but I have never turned it over. Samurais never tum over, no matter what the press may say!" -The engine a"nd transmission is by Gary Monk's "Petroworks" (www.petroworks.com) -who added a "2Lo" to the transfer case. The chassis mods are by Steel Dy-namics and the springs by Muelle-Max in TJ. "The engine is stock, no tricks, just the FI, Doug Thorley headers and a (canister/centrifugal t)!pe) air filter. Even the radiator is stock." "I've been racing the Suzuki since I 995. we finished the '1000' to La Paz in ;95. We'd had no troubles with the car untii we burned up a fuel pump in '98 at the Bay of LA otherwise we would have finished that '1000', too. We will race the SF CoDe race then take it down to get ready for the Baja 2000. We're going to add an all aluminum dash." · SPORTSMAN CLASS 6 6 Entries - 5 Finishers l. Victor Herrera; 2. Martin Lizarraga; 3. Miguel Gonzalez; 4. Jorge Delgado; 5. Jose Cervantes. Winner Victor Herrera's steel wheel "Franks" (&Beans?} car may travel to the races on a tow bar but he beat runner-up Martin Lizarraga by well over a half an hour. SPORTSMAN CLASS 5-1600 9 Entries - 6 Finishers 1. Mateo Pabloff; 2. Jose Soto; 3. Arnolfo Lopez; 4. Humberto Ro-driguez; 5. Jorge & Francisco Martinez; 6. Memo Quintana. The # 589 T ractorland sister car of"Jorge y Pancho" did better than their "Pro" car with a fifth place fin-ish. SPORTSMAN CLASS 7 Serving The Transmission Industry For Over 34 Years. ,,,,.,,,.....,,..,..,,., Page 46 Let Our Experience Put You In The Winners Circle! Hubs&Axles Floater Hubs are made of aircraft alloy mate-rials and uses two large timken bearings 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 . i!Vialable 31, 35, 40 & 44 Spline Live Ax-'les. TCS can make any size and/or length. June 2000 \ ~ ..,., "' ,,, .. ,.,. .. w :~ Javier Pacheco, from Mexicali, took the win in the 1600 Sportsman class, and was also the Overall Sportsman winner. Dusty Times

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Ii' Ignacio Pereda, who hails from Sonora, drove his Class 7 Ford to =""'""=--...:......;u=....~...:....=....._= '"'-'o.L..-~~'"""'= Race sponsor, Pietro Brassea, had his VW Autopartes 1600 Cuny in second place. This race was tough for this class, which lost more Fernando and Mario Flores had three steady laps in their patriotically the lead pack all the way, ended the race in second place, only 17 than half its entries. painted Class 11 cai to finish second, about 12 minutes back. _se_c_o_n_d_s_o_u_t o_f_fl_'rs_t_. _______________ _ 2 Entries - 2 Finishers 6 Entries - 3 Finishers nice aluminum interior. With the numbers of pits required teries. At the '2000' we will have 110-watt radios." The 42 member group has weekly meetings in TJ and are running "clinics" for weld-ing, radios, first aid: "We insist that all the crews know how to use everything in the pits." Of course, all customers will use Union 76 race gas. 1. Francisco Romo; 2. Omar 1. Ricardo Cons Molina; 2. Lor- EL CHISMOSO at that lengthy run to The Cape, Cortez. enzo Dojaquez; 3. Francisco Those Environmentalists, Of AlfredoMunozfeltthataconsor-SPORTSMAN CLASS 8 Delgado. Course. tium of groups would be the only 3 Entries - 2 Finishers Ricardo Cons Molina and Ismael · CoDe's May "SF 200" will have way to run the race. "76" will 1. Adolfo Ayala; 2. Arturo Ruiz. Castro Sotelo had a close race for to use the SCORE course but cross combine forces with Mag 7, Arturo Ruiz of Yuma was in his at least half~ lap - nose to tail - over the four washes. Three laps. Ensenada's "El Coyote," Mexicali first race. "We had fuel pump until Cons broke away for the win The Cobb Lee-Bob Show Off Road (which is most of the problems at RM45; we found that while Castro just broke. Cons' "La "Hasten" Jason Cobb and Lee-CoDe people) and two Baja Sur we lost the suction line in the fuel Bala de Plata" VW - "The Silver Bob Finke will add a new style groups. "For those signed up, we tank" to the 351 Cleveland. Bullet"-sportsal770ccengineout Beetlebodytothemulti-colored5/ will have gasoline - and diesel -"Then we broke the trailing arm of Cora Taller Mechanic. "We had 10. "RaceShock: Home of the for pre-running; 24 hours a day," (on the beams)." The same guy no flats," Ricardo said, which was Good Deals." promised Alfredo. He also ex-that welded the Allan Gregory car the key to his success. The detailed Spanish Lesson plained that "76" with 22 spon-fixed it. "We ran without brakes car uses homemade front arms with * Pancho - Francisco sors, they can afford to charge on the left front. That scares the doublers, looks back via loads of * Poncho - Alfonso only a nominal fee for the smaller ### you. I lost it a couple of mirrors, and mounts a tiger doll on * Poncho -"a cloak resembling events, i.e. $15 for this Mexicali times. We were lucky to get the hood. a blanket ... " race. "All our pits have gas and help and co finish." They also lost Lorenzo Dojaquez was the run- United We Stand electric welders. N2 for shocks, a couple of lug nuts. They are part ner-up by a couple of minutes with · The new "Union 76" pit orga-and CO2-impacts for tire of the ever expanding Somerton power from dual carbs on a dual nization has serviced the last two changes. All our race radios are (AZ) Tractorland team. port, suspended on RaceRunners CoDe races and feels that they are SO watts, minimum, and we run Stephen Stenberg, the presi-dent of MAG 7 Race T earn, was visiting the CoDe race. "We stayed at RM7 and RM39 with Enrique Ortiz L., the president of the Union 76 Baja Racing Pit Service. Fellow Mag 7 members liked the race format and the large turnout; Mag 7 would like to get more involved with the CoDe series in the future -in ·betweeJ) the "Baja 500", and SPORTSMAN SAFARI on the rear over steei wheeis and a ready to go for the Baja 2000. them off AC generators, not bat-"The Primm" that we are also running in this year." ■ ~------------------~~--~---,---,,-, Mateo Pabloff took first piace in the 5-160.{) Sportsman division, covering his required two laps in the time of 3:19:40. Fuel Sates "Pro Cell" is our top-of-the-line racing cell that comes ready to install and it's backed by a full 10 year warranty. 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Challenger corner By Joel Mohr RACE RESULTS: BUFFALO BILL'S 400: 17 Challengers met at "Stateline" to tackle an 80 mile loop that was rumored to have some old "MINT" in it. The team of Bill and Jason Aver.y, Micki and Brett Jefferson, with Tom Brown and Ed Looney, was the only entrant not to get in ai: least one loop. Four teams got in only one lap, with the longest being that of Andy Kisner, then Doug Ingram (who apparently thought the race was only nine miles long), then Lynn and Bill Oickton, also Dale Looney and Eric Shenberger, who lost a motor on the second lap. Those retiring after getting in two laps were Kenny and Loyd Thatcher, Matt Cunningham, and Mandy ·Dix·on and Company. Three teams couldn't quite reach the finish line and they were Chad and John Woodruff, Tim and Gary Hart, and the "always fast" team of Tim and Mike Dixon, who rolled out of contention after leading all day. (That's gotta hurt!); Of the cars that did finish it was Joel Davis and Bill Cobb after a very long third lap in sixth. In fifth was Mike Shimp. In fourth it was Tom and Seena Taliaferro. Third went to Dan Owen and Doug Silcock, after Dan mistakenly thought he was in seventh place on the last lap and let his "Fireman" passenger get out to extinguish himself. And in second place it was Jere my Harmon and Clay Carr, who lost a valve cover early on and recovered nicely to finish only 28 seconds behind Joe Sheble, the eventual winner. Congrats to all, and specially Mr. Sheble, making it two in a row. MOR RIDGECREST 300: Eight Challengers started, and the track that Duffy and crew laid out was the best and worst you could possibly imagine. Six 51 mile loops, from absolutely flat out straight-aways, to "I hope I can, I hope I can" passes, it was truly a "challenging" course. Everyone had their thinking caps on though, and five of the starters saw the checkered flag. First to the hard luck stories, then the finishers. Randy Smith turned a very respectable first lap, then on his second, in an attempt to pass another car, was forced off of the track into a car-sized boulder and completely ripped the torsion housing wide open. End of day. Wayne Collins retired after two laps, but I didn't hear why. Gary Stevens was running good, handed his car off to his co-driver, and they broke the ring and pinion on the fourth lap. On to the finishers, fifth place was the best Sean Defrank and co-driver Dave Lawson could muster after running a very close second early on. On the Page 48 fourth lap, Dave got a rear flat about four miles from the nearest pit in a section I akin to "The Goat Trail" from the Parker 400. With the radio not working, and the car not moving, Dave decided to walk a little to see how far it was to the next pit. After about a mile, he decided to go back and try and put a front on the rear. Dave and his rider T.J. got it changed and they were back underway. They got the tires changed, Dave turned up the wick, and his next lap was good for the class's fast lap award. Then on their last go-around, he broke a ball joint, got it fixed and finished. Tom Steeno and Russell Jones finished fourth after running pretty consistent, laps with the exception of their fourth lap, where they had to make some front end repairs. Dan Owen and Doug Silcock, had run the Buffalo Bill's 400 two weeks earlier, put in a fresh set of ball joints, dusted the rest of the car off, and with only some minor front end problems got it around for third place. GOOD JOB! In second place it ·was the team of Dan Folts and Harry Dunne, in only their second race and looking v-ery racy. Who says old men can't fly! Harry and tranny guru Dave Folts led the first lap, kept the car in good standing on the second lap, and let the "Kid" do the rest. Nice going guys, keep it up. The eventual winner was yours truly, only having my roof mechanism disintegrate on the first lap. FAIR supplied the duct tape at P.it C , and except for a scheduled rider -change and some gas, no other stops. I would like to thank my riders, Diego Lupe and Eric Burfeild, who did a great job of helping me keep my rear bumper untouched, FAIR pits, SUSPENSION UNL., SANDRAILS UNL., PRP, FOX, R/0 SPRING, SMALL CAR CONNECTION, my "Chaser Dude Deluxe"· Harold Curry, and my family. THANK YOU! On to the Kartek 400! NEWS FLASH ... SCORE HAS CHANGED THE SHOCK SHAF~ MAXIMUM TO 7 /8". A "Card" was sent to the active SCORE 9 drivers with no warning or reason. The shock shaft diameter was 3/4" but no one offered a 3/4" shaft. FOX offers a 7 /8" shaft and BILSTEIN has a 22mm shaft, which is just less than-7 /8". When I was gathering info for the clarification letter earlih this year, I asked SCORE about external bypasses. At that time they said that they had not come to a conclusion on that issue yet. A decision has been now handed down that EXTERNAL BYPASSES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED. The reason is cost. I called FOX and got .a quote on a Challenger rear shock with 7 / 8" shaft and triple bypasses. They said they would cost $795.00 each! This is a budget class, and .spending more money· for four shocks than yo u would_ for a new chassis is a tad ridiculous. Save the bypasses for the upper classes that can afford them. Once again, if you have any questions or comments, my number is (76.0) 947-6647. My e-mail address is MOHRPRF@JUNO.COM. SEE YOU AT THE RACES!!! C.O.R.E. Pit Report By Sandy Parker MDR-RIDGECREST 300 This was a unique race from our stand po1nt, due to the fact that three of the teams we supported were new to CORE. This is what the CORE members love, providing pit support for new, energetic, enthusiastic racers. It's apparent that all these new teams mesh with CORE club perfectly. They are all quality people, family ori·ented, eager to learn, difficult to quit, and driven to WIN! When you read the race reports, you will understand how lucky CORE is to be associated with these teams. After the race when all. the members were in from the pits, the entire CORE family fathered for a huge BBQ. We served hamburger$, hot dogs, tri-tip steak, carne asada, awesome chili· and all the fixings. We celebrated a Birthday with cake and ice cream for our cool PR person, Shashum Webb. We sat around for hours celebrating, discussing, laughing and hearing all the racer' s war stories for hours around the camp fire. To me, this is the most enjoyable part of racing, being around some of your closest friends, and especially the new friends you just made that weekend. A truly great time! RACE REPORTS TEAM L&S MOTORSPORTS (5-1600) . For this race, I am going to change their team name from L&S to LF &F Motorsports, from Lindsay & Sons to Lindsay, Family & Friends Motorsports. It was cool to see an entire family and a collection of close friends working toward an ultimate goal, as this team showed. I asked the Lindsays to give me a brief summary of the race and what I got was a detailed Lindsay family racing history. I appreciated the effort very much and was very impressed with what this family has already accomplished in the sport of racing. The family has raced almost everything that had wheels, and were quite successful doing it. They ra n/wrenc·hed on Quad racers, various types of SRA sprint cars, to June 2000. NHRA Funny Cars. The only thing missing from all this was the involvement of the rest of the family. They decided to sell their sprint cars and look for a sport where every member of the family would be involved and where the two brothers, Tim and Jeremy, could race together (a life long dream of the two). Being involved in dune buggies and motorcycles almost from birth, it was a natural decision to buy an off road race car. They purchased and prepped a super clean 5-1600 and to quote their parents "and a new Lindsay family racing adventure begins." Tim Lindsay drove and brother Jeremy rode the entire race, their very first off road race but still managed to move the car into the second position within their first lap of racing. They had some typical first race stuff go wrong, like the each and radio rattling off their mounts, and foam falling of the steering wheel, all of which were quickly repaired by a CORE Pit. On the third lap they launched the car out of a hole and landed on one of the Ridgecrest rocks which snapped the stub axle off. They radioed a CORE Pit which alerted their pits about the problem. Shortly, they were in route with the tools and parts to repair the problem. Within an ·hour c·he guys were back on the course. All the pits reported that the car was very fast, handling well, and making up time. On the fifth lap they got the car stuck in a sand wash, but were assisted by another racer, thank you to w horn:ever you are! Later that lap Tim's arm was jammed by a jerk of the steering wheel which nearly broke his wrist. They stopped in the Main Pit to have his wrist wrapped witn-duct tape, a real racer. Driving in much pain they stopped in another pit to have Tim's hand taped even more to better restrict movement. · They headed into the finish line, third in class, and drove thru the waving checkered flag to the screaming of their entire group of family and friends. A very emotional end to a well deserved finish. The guys came over to thank CORE for the support, I tell you these are some very classy guys. I mean racers!! All the members of CORE look forward to providin g our support for this family in the future. Your racing family share many of the same goals and general beliefs that the members of CORE also hold true. How could I ever match a story like that? Glad you asked the question. The answer is in the next three race team reports. TEAM GOMOLKA/ BLANCHARD (Stock. Mini Truck Class) Another new team to off road racing is the husband and wife team of Kyle and Michelle Gomolka. The Gomolka family are long time friends of Darin McGuffin, don't worry we· won't hold that against you. The first race for the truck and first race for both Kyle and Michelle. The plan was for Kyle to solo the driving and to let Michelle ride the first lap and see if she could handle the beating. One lap was enough, she got out and Bob Blanchard got in and rode the remaining laps. Kyle said he made it a goal to get out o f everybody's _way, all you had to do was ask, just honk. The truck ~as unnecessarily hit from behind by the 1623 car who apparently forgot where his horn button was. They didn't want to make an issue of it but were not impressed by one driver's impatience. Due to the heat inside the cab, poorly working windshield wipers, and the A/C system that quit working, they called into CORE Main Pit that they wanted the windshield removed. Upon entering the pits, the co-driver kicked it out onto the hood. The guys almost rolled the truck over, blowing a tire in the process. They were forced to change the tire themselves. They did pull into a CORE pit to have a new ~pare tire·· installed on the truck. They described the last lap as very long and being brutally beat. Kyle said the Toyota truck took .the same beating and worked flawlessly. The guys finished second in class out of a six truck field, excellent run for the first time out, . congratulations!!! Every CORE member who met anybody associated with this team said "what a great bunch of people." After the awards they came to the CORE BBQ and laughed and shared stories for hours. Another example on how confused with the course markings and was headed towards Pit A. He quickly noticed his mistake and found the correct course, unfortunately, two cars got by him in the process. Completing his two laps, he brought the car to CORE Main Pit where he was fueled and the second driver took over. ·Danie l "the wild flying Britt" Poole, almost flew into the car and screamed out of the pits like a man possessed. Daniel (flying the English flag) was scheduled to drive two laps, and was doing a . great job, making three minutes on the leader and passing two class cars. Towards the end of his first lap I heard him on the radio with a very, very .excited voice (with a very thick British accent), "this bloody thing don't handle for schitte, and she is . Dusty Times

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II making a horrible noise." Keith kept saying calm down and spit out the marbles out of your mouth and repeat the message. They kept attempting to siow him down since-he was pushing the car very hard in the worst part of the course, thus overheating the shocks. Daniel said later h e drove most of the first lap o n the front bumper. The car eventually got the last laugh as the ring and pinion puked out the side cover, leaking out all the tranny oil. The next radio transmission was "the crappin' thing is a m aking more noise and the gears are gone." Daniel limpe d the car back to Main Pit, their day was over. Alex Pacheco (waving the Mexican flag), would have been the third driver but didn't get any seat time this race. This team is made up of three close friends, and they do manage to have fun. You should have heard the conversation the rest of the day as they kept most of us laughing. They are great p eople and are much fun t o be around. K eith would like to give special t h anks to M orse Muffler and Fast Toys and Fabricatio n s for their great fab work a fter the last race, and Midnight Impressions for the great team t-shirts. CORE PIT SUPPORT CORE MAIN CORE p·rovided Main Pit service for the Gomolka truck and the Stevens' Challenger. The other two teams elected to provide their own Main Pits. Both the Gomolka truck and the Stevens' Challenger were assisted with fuel stops and driver changes. The truck windshield cleaned to a mirror polish with shoe leather. The Stevens' Challenger was diagnosed in Main to have a broken ring and pinion. Main Pit was run by Tom Malloy, Rob Stapp, Bruce Pursell, and myself. CORE M ain Pit loaded a grinder and saws-all to the 551 team to assist them in some m a j o r repairs. We noticed the y appeared to finish the rac e after the delay, great job guys, I wonder wha t the nice looking red 5-1600 would look like with an offic ia l CORE light and stickers on it??? CORE PIT ABLE CORE Able was only used for relay services as no CORE cars required repairs at this location. The pit was manned by Davy Girdner, Perry King, and Ken and Melody Myers. -CORE PIT BAKER Jim Wagner and Mike Ridlen were the dudes in complete control of the CORE Bake r Pit. The y secured the radio in the 571, Lindsay 5-1600, swapped spare tire s for the 1211 · Gomolka Truck, and replaced the upper trailing arm and shock to the 978 Dusty Times Defrank Challenger. They had an eventful day. CORE PIT CHARLEY The Charley Pit was masterfully and technically operate<i~by the Lex arccl Shashum Webb, Bob Depew and our friendly president Mr. Brad Inch. They removed a wobbling tach and used a roll of duct tape on Lindsay's 5-1600 for Tim's hand and to secure the foam on the steering wheel. They checked the tires on the Gomolka 1211 truck. Searching for a professional family oriented pit support club? CORE is always happy to extend its family and support. We have monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at Mulligans Restaurant in Santa Clarita at 8pm. For more information, join us at the meeting or call me at (818) 772-7758 or e-mail me at race97 5 @aol.com. From The Desk of theCRS Director I recently received a press release for a new rally team who obviously has the right attitude about our sport. Seed 7 as Scott Bottomley and Tom Grossman are caiiing themselves, seem to have their heads on straight or is that backwards. To quote them: "The car is well built and capable of winning the Stock class, so considering our vast inexperience and well known lack of talent we should finish mid pack or worse if we can settle into our normal bickering routine on the fast stages." When asked about his confidence level Scott replied: "Two Clueless Yanks in a Swedish Tank!" referring to their Volvo. After seeing Scott hurl up Guinness like an Olympian the morning after St. Pat's Day it was decided he was a n atural for the co-driver seat. Tom Grossma n was selected as driver after Crew Chief Jeff Cates saw him race a Showroom Stock Mis ta. "He spent more time out in the dirt than on the course", said Cates. Grossma n's motto is "Faster tha n a set o f bleachers." We are eagerly awaiting their debut at the Treeline Rally in November. An unnamed source has made it known that quite a few finish crews are already intimidated by their arrival on the rally scene, "I can't believe these guys are going to be let out on the course, their fun at all cost attitude is liable to confuse serious competitors." I hope so! Dennis Sheean and NASA (no, not the space agency), held a rally cross and rally sprin t in Holtville , C A on February 26th. The weather was fabulous and the turnout was bet te r tha n · last year's inaugural running. 28 drivers participated in the rally cross which included a tow truck class, some people will race anything. The rally sprint, whkh followed, -had s-even competitors. Doug Whitehead and Brian Frew brought out the VW GTI that they have been working on for the past year. It was great to have them cut on the track with their own vehicle and they were loving it! The first Las Vegas SCCA Region rally cross of the season came off without a hitch on March 19th in Jean, NV. Tom and Scott, of Seed 7 racing fame, gave the competitors lots of dry lake to play on. 19 racers showed up with green beer breath the day after St. Patrick's Day to face the course with slightly bloodshot eyes. New member William Prince, took second place in the Group 2/5 class in his pickup truck. Our next event will be the rally sprint hosted by the LV SCCA Region in Pahrump, NV on June 10th. Contact Tom Grossman for more information (702) 453-2699. You might be a rallyist if: You would rather rally than (fill in the ofan.1:-;-T.e~STeep-;-eat, etc., you get the idea.) You wash car parts in the dishwasher when your wife is away. Your garage is bigger than your house. All of your vacations invoive a raiiy. Your child's first word is "Yump." · You spend all of New Year's Day watching WRC reruns on Speedvision. You read old route books for pleasure. You arrange your wedding date so it does not conflict with a rally. (John Dillon take note!) We will add to this list as the season continues. To contact the CRS you can call (760) 788-3809 ore-mail Sue Robinson, the Director at windfall@access 1. net. Check out our we bsit e a t <californiarallyseries.com> for the event schedule, rule book, results, and much more. See you at the start line. Magnificent 7 Race Team By Stephen Stenberg, President Hi everyone! Not much to report this month. Mag 7 is preparing for the Tecate Score Baja 500. Currently we have one bike , one quad, one Class 7 truc k and two buggies. All this as of April 30th. The team is running between 5-6 pits for this June 2000 race. All of our pit applications have been mailed out and we a re seeing them return now. The pit drop off for rn.cer~ and pit -captains is scheduled for May 27th, from 9-11 a.m. The cutoff for racer's names to be added t our Baja 500 T-shirts is the 16th of May. Late fees go into effect after May 20 for entriesreceived then. Mag 7 will be using Baja Union 76 race fuel for this race. A couple weeks ago, Mag 7 traveled to the Baja desert and took in the Laguna Salada CODE race there. Owner Alfredo Munoz and Race Director, Enrique Ortiz L., hosted us from the Union 76 Baja Pit Service. Mag 7 sent three board members, including the President, out to watch · the race at race mile 7 and 39. Everything was run very professionally and the racing was very intense at times. There were quite a few American teams there as well as Mexican teams. And the Union 76 race team wa s as professional a team a s Mag 7 has ever seen. They were complete with air and nitrogen, welders, generators, jacks, tools, FM radios and 8-10 pit guys a t both pits. The Magnificent 7 Race Team would like to get involved with the CODE series. While this year is almost half over, the year 2000 looks like a good possibility. President Stephen Stenberg will bring back a full report at . the team's May 15th, Board of Directors Meeting. Our next race after the · Tecate Score Baja 500 will be the Primm 300 in August. We will bl! running a pit for that race. Our headquarters will be at the Buffalo Bill's Resort. May 7 is looking forward to running this race! This will be our first race back in the U .S . in four years since the runnin g of the 1997 Parker 400. Mag 7 is working hard on our race plans for the Tecate Baja 2000 to Cabo San Lucas. We have assembled the majority of our pit c aptains now and will be gathering together the final captains as h e head into the summer months. All of our Mag 7 captains will be online as of August 1st. For this race, Mag 7 Race T earn is being joined by the professional and veteran Baja team, "Union 76 Baja Pit Service" under the leadership of President Enrique Ortiz L. Our two teams will work good together to service all trucks, buggies, bikes and quads that join up with Mag 7 Race Team. Bikes and quads are being asked to run large capacity tanks for this event as our pits will be farther apart than 65 miles. Calls have been coming in weekly now for several months. Are you pitting? How far apart are the pits? How do we handle our spares? Where can we buy pre-run and race fuel for our vehicles? Do you have FM radios at your pits? Do you have medical supplies in case we are hurt while racing? These are just a sample of the questions that we are answering. Mag 7 is working close with SCORE's CEO, S a l Fish, to make sure everyone that needs a pit has one. Calls and faxes are pouring in from overseas as well. This should be the r ace o f a lifetime! And we are seeing more bike teams that w ant to Iron.man this event as well. I'm looking at doing this mys~lf, eithe r on a Honda quad or on an XR 600. I understand that SCORE is considering making an Iron.man class in the bike/quad classes if he has five or more entries per that class. As usual, you can reach us in a variety of ways. You can either find us on our Mag 7 web page, the address being www.mag7race.com. Fred Schubitzke, · our Race Director can be reached at (619) 426-3452. His fax number is ( 619) 425-3414. And his e-mail is Fredschl@ hom e.com . And finally, you can reach me direct at my e-mail, President@Mag 7Race. com. So, have fun and be safe at the running of the 2000 Tecate Score Baja 500 and we will talk to you next month. Adios fro m Team Baja. R ADA VIS GLOBAL MEXICAN INSURANCE FOR AS LOW AS $58A YEAR BY FAX - OR - PHONE 1-800-909-4457 FAX 1-800-909-1007 PLEASE VISIT US AT: http://mexiroinsuranre.com or e-mail us at: INFO@MEXICOlNSURANCE.COM Page 49

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JI Bill Dorsey does a balancing act with his Pilot, but it turned out o.k., and he went on the get a second and a first, to earn the Pilot Class David Kordonowy gets way off the ground in this great shot. He took Kevin Huseman ran well in both motos, taking both wins, to finish his day as Class 7 Open champ in his Ford. victory for the day. a third and a win, to finish up in second place in Class 1 O. VORRA2..-. -season Opener By Forest Creasy Photos: Radbourne Racing Photography ONE KUSTER CO/LOVER PER WHEEL WITH DUAL RATE COILS, 4" LONGER FRONT ARMS, HOWE POWER STEERING, SACO RACK, 4 NEW MASTERCRAFT SEATS AND PADDED SEAT BELTS, P.C.I. INTERCOM, SUMMERS BROS. FRONT HUBS, NEW TIE RODS & HEIM ENDS, CUSTOM ROOF RACK & REMOVABLE LEXAN WINDSHIELD, POLISHED CENTERLINES, WIRED BY PRO-WIRE, TYPE 4 MOTOR WITH BUS BOX, THE ULTIMATE 4 SEAT PRERUNNER!!!! $28,000.00 CALL JEFF@760-344-6109 OR760-996_-6109 Page so June 2000 We come one and all to the winning. Rob Parsons was next first of nine races being held in in, moving up in class after win-this year 2000. This also happens ning Class 10 and the overall to be the 25th anniversary of points championship in 1999. VORRA. As well as the 25th -The only problem was that he year that Ed and Jenny Robinson had problems the day before have been the leaders of this with his car so he had to use his great organization. The yearly good buddy Jim Cast's car and format stays the same with short did well enough for second. course and desert style racing John Chapman brought his mixed in together. The racing Bronco out and muscled his way starts and ends with short course to third. And last, but not least, racing with four desert races Dennis Dugan broke a link pin squeezed between Memorial and and would only receive a fourth. Labor Day. The second moto was run back-The racing, as well as the wards on the track, but the or-weather, was awesome. The first der stayed the same as Berri race of the season went out took home the gold and the coin without a hitch on the last Sun-that went with it. Parsons was day of March. Ten classes, in-second followed by Chapman eluding the Pilots class took off and Dugan. from the start/finish line. Vorra Class 10 along with a couple shook things up a bit by switch of Class 12 cars took out after the hitting and making racers race checkered next. Five took the both directions. This allowed line in Class IO with Patrick Tim-the track to repair itself and monscorning backfromayear off made it so the cars had to be set-and cleaned house winning one up more conserva tively because of two motos and taking home you had to compensate for each the overall win fo r the day. direction. David, son of Dennis, Kordon-Class 1 only had four racers, owy got caught up in traffic in hut it was still exciting. After Moto 1, but took the win in Lhe Moto No. I it was class president second Class I 0. Walt Lewis got and 1999 class winner Sam Berri fourth for the day and Ron Fos-AT LEFT: In the Sportsman Veteran Class (2 years experience or more) Jim Cast drove his single seat car to victory in both heats, giving himself the win for the day at VORRA 's Season Opener. Long time racer Sam Berri put together back-to-back victories to finish his day with the win in Class 1. Patrick Timmons earned a first in the first heat and a second in the second heat, to get the Class 10 win for the <!_ay in his yellow-flamed high-flyer. Dusty Times

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Rick Gonzalez put together a second and a third in their Chevy, which Roscoe Cook put together a third place and a second place to earn Mark Christensen finished his day in second place in the Pilot class added up to a nice second place in Class 7S at the end of the day second place in the Veteran class in his two-seat Chenowth. race after taking a third and a second in the motos. ter in a new Mirage A-arm had th~ Gonzalez brothers who raced end. do and my car is pretty simple. I If you want to take it easy on the some issues and got fifth. to a _great second place. Gary Following up Cast's act was understand that in order to win course to finish that's one thing, Class 12 had a couple of cars Skipton just edged out Mike Roscoe Cook taking second prepping the car is more impor-but I have met my fair share of and Ace Bradford swept both Koenig for third as Class 7 cham-place. Michael Lehners all the tant than racing in the dust, pass-racers who race so they don't motos and took home first. Keith pion. Koenig only managed way from Reno took third. Len-- ing the cars, or catching a couple have to work on it. Come on, I Waterman could not keep up fourth. Young and up-and-com-ney McLean moved up this year of breaks on the track. If you have the reputation of breaking with the experienced Bradford ing Triston Butcher took home from Sportsman Novice and don't prep you don't win. Cool, I or winning, but I would rather and managed the second and last fifth in a really stock truck and found this class a bit tougher tak-can deal with that, but I prep and have that than hanging 3 's or 4's spot for the newly formed class. lastly, Kevin Davidson took up ing home a fourth for the day. spend money in order for my car on my wall. Prep that car, bury Class 9 got its chance to show the rear having problems all day. Charlie Bryan followed McLean to be competitive and keeping all the vertical pedal on the right, their colors as five took the line. The Open truck battle was up a class after winning the Nov- four wheels on the ground. I prep ancl let's get on it. But that's only Forest Creasy took home both awesome as quick Kevin Huse-ice Championship in '99 and ran in order to race, but there are what I think. motos getting some challenges man dusted the field in both a bit off the pace and -managed those out there that race in or-Remember, if you can see a yei-early from the field, but moved heats and took home the blue rib- fifth. Last and having a troubled der not to prep. Give me a break. low light you are losing, see ya. ■ further away and finished with-bon. Bill Manfroy raced hard for · day was the single seater of Steve out any problems. I would like to a. nice second and Patty .ljayos in Millward. thank my sponsors Folsom Lum- a great looking Toyota had prob-The veteran class had six, but ber, Folsom, Ca., Creasy Motor-lems and didn't start the second Sportsman Novice still had a sports and Creasy Investments. moto and ended up on the trailer good five field. Tom Lowe, with Dave Tarrant, who got double for third. a BMW powered two seater did duty, racing a 10 car as well, fin-One of the greatest reasons not drive like a Novice and ished a nice second on this day. VORRA has been successful for quickly raced to a nice victory. Eric Steiger was the last on the so long is the loyalty of all the Newcomer Alex Baker racing an ·podium with a nice third. Brother racers and the Sportsman classes, older 10 car came out and fin-John Creasy snuck out a fourth which allows racers to start for ished a nice second and getting and Tom Hatch in a great look- less dollars and it also allows for something to hang on his wall. ing two seater, had a dog fight on older cars to race and be com-Ron Meyers brought out his short his hands all day and fifth was his petitive. So with that, six Sports-course special for the bronze. calling. man Veteran (racers with more David Lucas got fourth, and the Class 7 was next and this field than two years experience), took 5-1600 of Robert Pa yon had is growing like no other. Six 7S off looking for the first place tro-some problems this Sunday and trucks took the line and three phy. Well, as I said before, Jim watched most of the racing for a open 7s also went to battle. Do-Cast's got his money's worth win- fifth. ing it again, like last year, Fred ning both heats an_d taking hom_e Going w!th the same theme Calosso took both checkered a first place. Which means his the trucks like to race by them-flags and sailed away to a great single seater took home a first, selves and four Sportsman trucks win on this day. Always fast were second and third for the week-took the line. First was the red With that pedal on the right buried, Forest Creasy charged to the win in both heats, going home with the Class 9 win at the Season Opener. Dan Cannon and his red Ford finished second and first, which gave him the win in the Class B Vet division. Dusty Times fury of Dan Cannon and he just destroyed taking both of the mo-tos. Jim Marsh in his "Anything Scout" lnfernational ran great and got second. Eric Eberhart brought his Ford out and battled closely with Marsh, but still wasn't quick enough for second, finishing third. Josh Hix was fourth breaking early and watch-ing from the sidelines. Last off the line were the four Pilots. I tell you what, if you want to have fun strap yourself into one of those red rockets. All four battled equally and when the score was tallied Bill Dorsey came away victorious. Mark Christenson raced hard for his second place. Clint Woolsey.got third after breaking halfway through the second moto, and Paul Franklin took the green flag and that was about it not com-pleting a single lap and finishing fourth. Racing on this day was great and as I write this the second race of the season came to an end and · will follow in next month's issue. There were some surprises and some continuing victory streaks. Stay tuned for news at 11 :00. I also usually write and tell of the points lead, but nobody cared so I'm starting a new segment, it's called "What I think." What I think. Have you ever met those who wrench on their cars 5 to IO to 20 times longer than they actually race it? 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1941 #E Friendship Drive El Cajon, CA 92020 619-449-3633 619-449-3665 fax Doug Fortin c.,J ~Y:~U5Y§!~,u.s. ~~~~~~~!.~81~i1~~~!n ~ . HELMET CONVERSIONS & REVISIONS. ~ ) ELIMINATE FOGGING AND DUSTI. ~1e: LARGE SELECTION OF HELMETS, BLOWERS, COOLERS, VESTS, & SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEMS. THE BEST AIR SYSTEMS IN RACING THAT MONEY CAN BUY! NOW YDU CAN BR THE RACING GEARS THE WINNERS ARE USING . FTC Racing . Equipment, Inc. 31790 Groesbeck Hwy. Fraser, Ml 48026 (810)-294-5858 Fax (810)-293-0736 THE RACERS CHOICE. Fuel Safe's Custom & Standard Fuel Cells are designed and manufactured to meet or exceed the safety standards set by all racing associatio11s. For your local dealer ~ Call or write for call (800) 433-6524 ~ our FREE Catalog Almalt !lubber Manulact11in1. Inc. 63257 Nels Anderson Road Bend, OR ~7701 USA ph(541) 388-0203 f)c(s-41 )388-0307 Off Road Style Fiberglass Fenders Graphite/ Carbon R & D Services Custom Fiberglass fabrication GlASSUJORKS Unllmlted 15341 Pipeline Lane #B Huntington Beach, CA 92649 (714) 903-564-' -----,. ..... e.:~M) ,. -_,_s.J Buff & Kevin Owners / Fabricators p. 760.510.9586 • f. 760.510.9559 120 N. Pacific St. # J-1 • San Marcos, CA 92069 www.handmmotorsports.com HONDA i13¾1•1·f PERSONAL WATERCRAFT JET BOATS BILLY ROBERTSON (818) 766-6134 (213) 877-7272 BILL ROBERTSON & SONS, INC. 5626 TUJUNGA AVE. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA. 91601 FAX (818) 766-9397 (619) 561-7764 20 Years of Off Road fax 561-4834 Racing irience II@•~~~ p&tFORIAlllCl p We Service & Sell Jeff Howe Char Lynn, Sweet, 9380 Hillvale Ln. Pumps, Gears & Lakeside, CA 92040 Power Rack & Pinion Lee (714) 522-4600 (714) 522-4602 FAX (714) 522-0123 Service Technicia11 dllJJlJIJd V. W. Serulce • Porsche • Audi • BMW• All VW • Toyota • Nlsaan • Honda • Street Strip and Sand Off Road • 6291 B Manchester Blvd. Buena Park, CA 90621 West of Beach Blvd. James Gang Racing and Products CNC Controlled Sheet Metal Manufacturing Facility Coiq,lele Race Vehicle Developtrent Design. Preparation and Fabrication SST. Alum and Tubing 13424 Imperial Hwy. Santa Fe Springs, Ca. 90670 James M. Hali owner-Driver 562-921-2693 fax 562-926-0699 . JG TRANSWERKS ·Go with a Proven Winner· Joe Giffin 3061 E. la Jolla #I Anaheim, CA 92806 JIMCO ~aeut9P~ Mike Julson Russ Jones • . owner (714) 632-1240 · Off Road Race Cars : Complete Shock Service . Parts & Accessories · • Race Preparation · :10965 HartleyHd. : Suite R . Santee, CA 92071-2893 · 619 / 562-1743 · Fax 619 / 562-3379' · e.mail jimcorace@aol.com : www.jimcorace.com Russ Jones Metalw-orks CUSTOM FABRICATION 138 SANTA FELICIA DRIVE SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117 SIIOF: (805) 968-1067 FAX: (805) 968-3♦38 HONDA Power Equipment OUT BOARD ENGINE • GENERATOR SPECIALIST Kawaguchi Honda Corp~ www.Kawaguchihonda.com 3532 EAST 3RD ST. ART KAWAGUCHI Fax 323-264-2136 323-264-5858 LOS ANGELES. CA 90063 T Affordable Family Care Corrective Care Auto/Work Injuries Se Habla Espanol Dr. Steve C. Landis Chiropractor 3621 Farquhar Ave. Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Ph 562-799-9969 24 hr Pager 562-901-8869 PREPARATION & FABRICATION TOYS.PRE-RUNNERS.AND RACETRUCKS (702)-592-1993 fax(702)658-4491 1941 RAMROD STREET HENDERSON NV.89014 POWER E STEERING THOMAS E. LEE Engineering LEE MFG. CO. . . . 11681 PENDLETON.&TAEET SUN VALLEY, CA91362 FAX(818)788-2617 (818)788~1 A lull line of~ StNl'lng gears. pumps and ~ for any type of racing. Magnaflux and Zyglo facilities available. • CUSTOM CHASSIS • RACE PREP • ALUMINUM WORK •· WELDING • ROLL CAGES FABRICATION/RACE PREPARATION 416 FLEETWOOD GLENDORA, CA 91740 626-857-RACE 626-852-8852 fax KENT LOTHRINGER LOTHRINGER ENGINEERING MAGNA-FLUX Service SUspension' Transmission Engine QUALITY RACE CAR CRACK CHECKING DONE BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW RACING 626-857-7223 Assembly • Machine Work • Parts Ken Major 10722 Kenney Street, Suite C • Santee, CA 92071 (619) 596-0886

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Classified ... AUTOMOTIVE FOR SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, SCORE legal, 540hp VB 400 FOR SALE: Raceco-Class 1,2 trans, Custom ~uste_r shocks, seater Ford SVO V-8 Auto• 22+ travel, coil spnngs FOR '1 B h k' M SALE: Class 8 Chevrolet, transax e, ypass s oc s, any SCORE le al 540h VB 400 extras, Just prepped and ready g ' P to race, call Jerry Whelchel for trans, Custom _Kust~r shocks, details. $25,000.00 obo (949) 22+ travel,_ c~1l spnngs front/ 472-2024 quarter elliptic rear, custom · built top to bottom, 50 gal fuel FOR SALE: 5-1600 new car only 2 races: All new parts full chrome molly cage bumper to bumper. Best of everything. Big shock in rear-FOX, Sway-A-Way, 1-2/1600 Arms, full ad-justable-Hiem steering. Parker Pumper, Bus tranny, Bulit-Jamar shifter. Car is turnkey and sharp. $8,500.00 firm. Se-rious only (619) 766-4689. FOR SALE: CORR Pro-2 Ford Truck multiple winner, driven by Greg George and Larry Noel, Motor by Leon Patton, truck was engineered by Brian Kudela, made with all the best parts. Many spare parts in-cluded, Call for list. $80,000.00 obo. Ask for Mike Lesle (909) 678-6603 .. Building new truck and selling this one at a fraction · of the cost to build it. cell, disc brakes, radio, inter-com, spare motor, tires, much more $58,700.00 obo. (909) 392-3321. FOR SALE: 1995 Suspensions Unlimited Class 9. 1998, 1999, Vorra overall class champion, Winner of 2000 Laughlin Chal-lenge. New motor & tranny. Fox Shox, CNC, UMP, Yoko-hama. Fastest single seat 9 car out there. If you can race you will win. $7,500.00. (916) 363-2488. Forest Creasy or FC996@aof.com. FOR SALE: '99 Points Cham-pion Car-'98 "Dunrite Termina-tor" 1/2 Don Hatz engine; Cus-tom Fox Shox, Best Compo-nents-State of the art-"Ready to Race"-Spares included. $25,000.00. Call Jason Hatz (619) 265-0545 or (949) 499-3542. FOR SALE: Class 7 Ranger, New 2 L. V6, Valley Trans, C4, Currie 9inc. 40 spline, Stroppe alum. Frt hubs, race frt beams & radius arms. Wilwood brakes frt & rear. Quarter elliptic rear susp. LeDuc buckets, National Springs, Sway-A-Way torsion bar. Alcoas, Baja Ta's. Need completed. Call for more info $18,000.00 oho.Jim (602) 432-8192. FOR SALE: 2 King bypass 3"x14" tr tube shocks $2,000.00. obo; 2 S.W.A. bypass 4"xl4" tr shocks shocks $1,800.00 obo; 1 new 091 Bus trans, best money can buy with slippers $3,000.00 obo; 1 Fortin 5 speed trans fresh $7,500.00; 1 DG 300 5 speed fresh $6,500.00 obo; 2 Kuster 3"x20" tr shocks $1,600.00 obo. Call Kevin Mc-Mullen (602) 402-6215. FOR SALE: Alum Craft,4 seat PreRunner, Brand new, run 1 · ~;\ lime, ready for paint, 2180cc M:'.t• motor, Bus trans, $40,000.00, (949) 498-703 7. FOR SALE: 3 seat Jimco Class 5 unlimited Prerunner, 15" front travel, 18" rear travel, Fox Shocks with reservoirs, power steering, Bus Box, 930 cv's, Wiks 2800cc, BFG's on Center-line Wheels, Street legal. $20,000.00 (909) 654-3560. FOR SALE: Class 1/1600 Com-plete turnkey motor w/receipts from FAT performance. Only three races logged, all top four finishes or better. Purchased car for other use. Motor $2,200.00 OBO ALSO Close geared Bus Box FTC etc. $900.00. Ship anywhere (918) 445-3747. FOR SALE: 1990 Ford Ranger 7 /7s or PreRunner-2.9L V-6. C-4 w/manual valve body, both fresh and built. 9" rear, floater w/40sp, spool, Wilwood brakes, 18" travel front & rear, 1-3" Bore Sway-A-Way per wheel,-all the best parts, many spares, radios, etc. $19,000.00 (626) 914-5813. FOR SALE: 1995 Prism Class 10 or 12 2 seat. 119" wheel-base, coilovers, Fox shocks, air bumps, Toyota powered, Dual Webers, 002 trans, power steer-ing, Wright Rack & Pinion, Parker Pumper, 930 Cv's and axles. 22 gallon Fuel CeU, Great PreRunner. Large Cock-pit. Runs great. Short course/ desert. $16,500.00 (949) 443-2231. HOT New 2 seat A-Arm 10 car Regie Dunlap R.C.D. chassis, MIP Fngine Honda with Men-deola gear box, 1 race only, King Shocks, CNC, PCI, UMP, Ab-solutely best of the best, All Heli Arc, lots of attention to detail, a definite winner at the races and the car show. Ref #750 Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. FOR SALE: 48 foot Semi-race trailer-painted red with air co mpr es so r /generator /be 11 y boxes/floor and ceiling cabi-nets/stainless counter tops/alu-minum diamond plate floor/tire : rack/spare body rack/large fuel tank/large water tank/battery charger/mounts for awning/al-most new Michelin tires/white formica walls & ceiling. $$make offer. Ask for Mike Lesle (909) 678-6603. FOR SALE: Probst A-Arm Car. C.O.R.R., Super Buggy Class , 8 Bead Locks, Bus Transmis-sion, Rabbit 1650cc ~ngine, Some Spare, with trailer, $13,500.00 Call After 5:00 pm. (920) 682"22 72. FOR SALE: CORR Pro-4 Dodge Truck-Winner of Borg Warner cup. Won races with Scott Douglas, Steve Kelley and Greg George. 448 cu in., small block with best parts money can buy. $70,000.00 obo spare parts included. (909) 6 7.8-6603. Ask for Mike Lesle. Build-ing new ·truck and selling this one at a fraction of the cost to build it. FOR SALE: Jimco 4 seat Prerunner One Kuster Coilover per wheel with dual rate coils, 4" longer front arms, Howe Power steering, Saco rack, 4 new Mastercraft seats and pad-ded seat belts, PCI intercom, Summer Bros. Front hubs, new tie rods and Heim ends, Custom roof rack and Removable Lexan · windshield, polished Center-lines, Wired by Pro-Wire, Type 4 Motor with Bus Box, The ul-timate 4 seat prerunner! ! ! $28,000.00. Call Jeff @ (760) 344-6109 or (760) 996-6109. FOR SALE: 5-1600 or Great Pre-Runner-Danny LeDesma . built everything new. Fuel Cell, Fo< Shocks, Foddrill combos, Parker Pumper, Beard Seats, Wright Rack, New 1835, Bus Trans, Very Clean $9,000.00. (619) 223-1232. Randy. FOR SALE: Trophy Truck or Class-I (yrur choice) 4wd driven by Steve Kelley. Truck finished in the top 3 1n points· for the 2 years it raced. This truck won the milestone award ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • for completing every mile of each race. (Very reliable). Best parts money can buy, truck also has top of the line 430cu in. motor and has spare parts. $70,000.00 obo ask for Mike Lesle. (909) 678-6603. Build-ing new truck and selling this one at a fraction of the cost to build it . Sell or swap your extra parts and pieces in DUSTY TIMES. Classified Advertising rate is only $25 for 45 words each month, not including name, ~dd,ress 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 must be PAID IN AD-V AN CE. 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 20761 Plummer Street Chatsworth, CA 91.J 11 • • • • • • • • • • • • • FOR SALE: 1997 Race car : trailer, Built by EMI Technol-• ogy 48'x9'xl0 1/2, lounge area • 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 w/toilet, sink, • range, refrigerator, leather, : storage and A/C 35'x 8 1/2" • working and storage area wood • and tile floor, 2 winches , 2 gen-• erator, 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 exotic car. Call Fox • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Motorsports (915) 833-7902. Page 58 June 2000 Dusty T-imes

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' FOR SALE: Class 9 Funco chassis, Fox Shocks, new Saco rack, motor new with O miles, spares, trans fresh, Neal pedals, Flameout, Parker Pumper. Bought new 5 car. Car is tum key ready to go. No trailer. $5,000.00 OBO. (619) 671-0730 work, (619) 470-1683 home. FOR SALE: 2 Seat Raceco Race car. DG 300 Dual carb, Type 4, $29,000.00. 2 Seat Raceco PreRunner, Bus trans, Type 4, $17,500.00. Unbelievable New 2 seat Frame, Cell, spindles, Hubs, axles, etc.etc. $19,000.00. DG 300 Fresh Torque Limiters $5,500.00. Henry, week days (714) 516-2348. FOR SALE: Fortin 5 speed trans geared for 1 or l O or 12, can also be mid or rear engine fresh. DG 300 5 speed geared for l or 10 or 12 fresh. 2-3" x 14" three tube king Bypass shocks 2-4" S.W.A. external bypass shocks, Call Kevin McMullen racing. (602) 402-6215 or email at KMRTRANS l@aol.com. FOR SALE: FAT Toyota 4-AG, ~erfect spare for Baja 2000, $7,000.00; Fat Rabbit, $3,000.00. Charles (520) 579-1495. FOR SALE: VORRA legal 2 seater, 3x3's, Bus Box, Wright front, New 1915 (older car) prerun or ? $5,000.00 or trade for Jeep. (916) 381-4621. FOR SALE: Chevy S-10 King Cab, Ex-John Johnson Truck, Protruck motor V-8 4 link. Sommers bros rear end. Fuel Cell. $40,000.00 invested by Rodrigo Ampudia. This truck knows its way around Baja! $35,000.00 (949) 443-2231. EXTRA NICE 2-1600 Chenowth, Major Motor, Mendeola Box, UMP, Bilstein Bypass, top of the line, Fuel Safe, SwayA Way, Extra tall cage, fresh prep low miles, like new. 1 year old $28,000.00 Firm Ref #744.Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. 36' GOOSENECK, LIKE NEW, Low Miles, 29' floor, Alum floor, tandem axles, AC, 110v & 12v light 5000 lb GVW, 8 ply tires, Honda generator, Very clean. $9,800.00 Ref#746. Baja Brokers (760)723-2117. FOR SALE: 87 Ford Ranger Class 7 Pre Runner 4x4 built by Swift Racing-Fully Caged King shocks, Fuel Cell, 9" Detroit, Disc Brakes, Fiberglass, 333" BFG, National Sp1ings, Mas-tercraft seats. Asking $9,850.00 obo. Call (760) 942-9904. DON'T FORGET TO SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS WHO KEEP REPORTING THE OFF ROAD NEWS! Dusty Times FOR SALE; RIVIERA RAC-ING UNLIMITED CAR, Nye Frank Designed Suspension and shocks, 5.3 liter Shaver Chevy V-6 (450 HP), Jeff Fields 3 spee~ Auto Transaxle, Best of Everything, A very proven car, Overall winner of Laughlin Desert Challenge, San Felipe 250 and many top five finishes. Call Jerry Whelchel for details, $75,000.00 (949)4 72-2024. CLASS 1 Package A-Arm Loth-ringer 1 seat, Type 4 FAT/Hew-land DG300, All coil over FOX & Sway AW ay with Bypass tube 5, Outboard Hubs Summers Bros., Bump stop's, Hella lights, and ready to go package inc. trailer and lots of spares $29,000.00 com-plete. Ref #742 Baja Brokers (760) 723-2117. FOR SALE: Jimco 1 or 10. 18" front travel· on Fox remote res coilovers, 24" travel rear on Fox remote res. shocks, Summers Bros. Discs on all four, Out-board 930cv's, Ump Pumper, Custom paint and Fuel Safe Cell, No Motor, $12,000.00 obo, Call (775)482-9298, leave message. FOR SALE: Aceco Class one single seat Fortin DGN-Sum-mers-Foddrill 3.3 Porsche Beam car, currently 4th in SCORE ~oints-$42,000.00 prepped, $26,000.00 less motor and trans. Raceco prerunner-$16,000.00-Bus with diff-coilover-2235 type one, new heads-Kuster bypass on rear, Micro-stub Saginaw P.S., Ron Brant (310) 328-3595. Of Rodends & Spherical Bearings • BACKSAVER • FIREBOTTLES • BATTERIES • SPAL FANS • SETRAB COOLERS • SILICONE HOSE I\IEO !iYI\ITHETIC LUBRICAI\IT!i • MOTOR OILS • GEAR OILS • GREASES ~'-"-'-----~-~-----------l • COOLANTS WE HAVE OVER THE COUNTER §ERVICE WE §HIP UP§ DAILY TO ORDER OR FOR MORE INFOFRMA TION CALL 800.959. 7757 OR 562.427 .2375 Fax: 562.426.5294 CHECK OUT DUR PRICE!i ON THE WEB AND DUR HUNDREDS OF NEW ITEM!i AT: www .bakerprecision.com 2865 Gundry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90806 I VISA I r•1 II -June 2000 FOR SALE: Bronco Pre/Run Chase Vehicle, 35/w, 8k miles since rebuild, Comp. cams, Edelbrock intake and carb, JBA headers, built C-6, cut aligned & trussed I-beams, National Springs, Bilsteins w/bypass and reservoirs, Beard seats, roof rack, fresh 35" Kevlar GSA Race Goodyears. Runs strong. $12,000.00 obo (760) 320-1750. .tv1ISCELLANEOUS Do you need a driver? I have 9 years experience in 5 different classes. I wish to buy a ride for the Baja 2000 or the remainder of the year if available. Please call Mark at (909) 590-7677 (days) or (714) 974-3209 (eves) PARTS/ SUPPLIES FOR Sale: Two-way Race Ra-dio with scan, Superior perfor-mance 55 watts. Too many fea-tures to list. Why spend twice as much. For more info call Chuck Strange (909) 657-8525. - ' INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ADA VIS Mexican Insurance ................ 49 Aggressive Suspensions ...................... 19 Baker Performance Products ............... 59 Best In The Desert -Nevada 2000 ......... 9 Bilstein Shock Absorbers ....................... 5 B.0.R.E ................................................. 29 Cactus .................................................. 28 Camburg Engineering ........................... 43 Coast Resorts ....................................... 11 CODE Off Road ............. , ....................... 33 Jim Conner Racing ............................... 27 Converter Shop .................................... 46 Dickerson ........................................... :. 50 Eibach Springs ..................................... 40 Fabtech ................................................ 39 FAT Performance ................................. 20 Dave Folts ..........•. ~ ..........•.................... 25 Fox Racing Shox ..................................... 2 Fuel Safe Racing Cells ......................... 47 German Auto ................•....................... 35 Michael E. James Insurance Agency ................................. 1 B Kartek Off Road ............................. 24, 43 Kawaguchi Honda ................................ 30 KC Hilites ............................................ 15 King Shock Tech .................................. 47 Mastercraft .......................................... 34 McKenzie Performance Products ......... 32 M.O.R.E ................................................ 31 Nevada Off Road Buggy ....................... 14 Off Road Racing Driving Experience .... 42 PCI Race Radios and Equipment ............. 4 Pike's Family Restaurant ..................... 36 Pure Energy ......................................... 45 Race Ready Products ....................... 7, 21 SNORE ............................................ 23, 37 Spirit .................................................... 41 Sunderland Racin!i ...... : ........................ 17 Sway-A-Way Corp ................................ 12 Toyota Motorsports ............... Back Cover T ransaxle Engineering ......................... 13 Tri-Mil Industries ................................. 20 Union 76 Racing Gasoline .................... 42 Valley Performance .............................. 44 VORRA ........................................... 41, 51 Page 59

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