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Vintage Midwest Short Course Off Road Racing Photos

A recent post on Race Dezert.com brought back a ton of memories for midwest off road racers. The post is filled with photos from the 70′s and 80′s.

Uncle Bob’s Desert Racing Photos

Bob Lewis was a frequent competitor in the southwest desert racing circle in the 70′s and early 80′s. In fact, he was the first off road racer to use KC Daylighters! Below are some of the photos found on this page along with a few others that I have found around the internet. If you [...]

Arcerio Off Road Racing Family

The Arciero family has a long history of racing all forms of motor vehicles, including off road racing. Frank Jr, (aka Butch), Al and now Ryan have won many championships over the years. Make sure to check out their website to learn more about this incredible family.

From The Archives #10

While the PPI prepared factory Toyota race trucks are often associated with Ivan “Ironman” Stewart, this one is driven by Frank “Butch” Arciero Jr. Any idea on what the light on the passengers windshield frame is for? I assume it is a light?

Randall Racing Jeep J-10 Desert Racing Truck

The Randall family has been racing Jeeps in the desert long than I have been alive. Now the 2nd (or is it 3rd?) generation is racing a Jeep J10. Talk about old school! I love it…the red Jeep pickup reminds me of the old Roger Mears and John Dyck Jeep Honchos from the 80′s. You [...]

A Legend To Drive A Legend

Ron Johnson, owner of the James Garner driven Goodyear Grabber Olds 442 race car , is happy to announce that Rick Johnson will drive the restored race car in the upcoming NORRA Mexican 1000. Rick Johnson (no relation to the Ron Johnson, the owner of the car) is fresh off the Trophy Truck win at [...]

Frank “Scoop” Vessels Desert Race Blazer

Some of you may recall our Big Oly Bronco articles here and here . While the Bill Stroppe truck was ahead of it’s time, there was a lot of wild vehicles that followed a few years later. Take for example, Frank “Scoop” Vessels Chevrolet Blazer. I came across these photos on the Old Photos thread [...]

Manny Esquerra Photos

The grandson of infamous Ford racer Manny Esquerra is asking for photos of his grandfather on this thread on Dezert Rangers. Manny passed away during the 2008 Parker 400. Ironicly, he lived in Parker and had a very popular Mexican resteraunt. He started off with a Bill Stroppe prepared Courier, followed by one of the [...]

Old Yakima Mud Bowl Videos

I came across some old videos of the Yakima Mud Bowl from the 80′s on the Pacific Northwest 4 Wheel Drive Association forum . You will have to click on the read more button to view them.

More Photos Of The Vic Hickey 1969 Chevrolet Race Truck

Almost a month ago we did an article on the Vic Hickey 1969 Chevrolet race truck owned by Ron Johnson. At that time, we promised your more photos and here they are! Cliff Coleman is one of the original drivers and will be driving the race truck once again in the upcoming NORRA Mexican 1000 [...]

Ricky Johnson’s First Short Course Win

Talk about action! You have to view the whole post to see the video. Back in 1992, supercross start Ricky Johnson joined the Nelson and Nelson race team to pilot one of their Chevrolet S-10 race trucks in the MTEG Mickey Thompson short course series. In the heat race in Los Angeles, he pushed Walker [...]

Tom Strong Class 4 Chevy Photos Or Info Wanted

Mark Newhan has recently picked up the old Tom Strong Class 4 Chevrolet race truck and is looking to restore it. He has posted on Race Dezert that he is looking for photos or information about the truck. Anyone have any info on this old workhorse? I know he ran a lot of off road [...]

James Garner “Goodyear Grabber” Olds 442

You may recall our article on the Vic Hickey 69 Chevrolet race truck owned by Ron Johnson as well as the article on the announcement of the NORRA Mexican 1000 vintage off road race coming up in September. In the Hickey article, we mentioned that Ron Johnson owns a number of Hickey built race vehicles, [...]

Canadian Desert Racing CJ-7 History

A while ago, my friend Dale Nyeste scanned some old photos and has invited me to post them here over time. For those of you that do not know Dale, he is a second generation racer that works at Baja North , the only off road racing and prerunner shop in Canada. Ironicly, the owner [...]

69 Vic Hickey Race Truck!

I have been talking to Ron Johnson from Washington state for the last year or so. He is, from what I have seen, the worlds best historian on Vic Hickey race vehicles. Not only does he own an incredible amount of photos, magazines and other Hickey memorabilia, but he also owns a few original Hickey [...]

Monster Truck Photo Vault Found!

I have been away for a few weeks visiting my sick father and the rest of my family in BC. Sorry for the lack of updates! Anyways, I was checking out the Bang Shift blog and came across this post with a link to this Monster Truck photo website. Talk about bringing back memories!

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