About a year ago, Todd Zuercher and Andrew Norton (from www.bajabronco.com) located and purchased the Stroppe built Ford Bronco that Rod Hall built in the 70’s. The restoration is almost complete and the Bronco will be participating in the NORRA vintage off road race.
The NORRA vintage off road race is from April 28 to May 2 and I cannot make it! ARRRGGHH! The Swifts have posted up some photos from the test run…anyone want to buy me a plane ticket down?
What an awesome video! This video, taken in 1976 or 1977, features some Canadians that made the long haul down to Florida to race off road with their buggies.
Here is another interesting article that I came across the other day. A collection of 4 photos of Jeeps desert racing in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The article was printed in JP magazine, but is available online HERE. Reid Norden, shared the photos with JP magazine. The photos were taken of his dad, [...]
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Mark Cowan is restoring the infamous Robby Gordon 1966 F100 multi championship winning race truck. The truck, which was nicknamed the “Hay Hauler”, is one of the most memorable desert race trucks in my mind. The truck debuted at the 1987 and while it had old school looks, it was one of the wildest Class [...]
The short course races in the 70’s and 80’s at Riverside Raceway is one of the big races that I really wish I was able to watch. Some of the best off road racing action of the era! Here is a few photos for you that I found on Race Dezert.
I came across an interesting page that has a lot of old Mint 400 and other desert racing photos on the WT4x4 website.
Recently, Kevin Vaughan sent me some photos of the 1972 Jeep CJ-5 that his uncle Jim Vaughan used to race in the desert in the 70’s. I will let Kevin tell the story in his own words. “In 1973, my uncle, Jim Vaughan, bought a 1972 Jeep CJ5 with a 304 V8 and a 3-speed. [...]
The Pirate 4×4 forum is usually made up of hardcore rock crawlers. However, they started a desert and short course racing section about a year ago and it is picking up in popularity. This thread on desert racing Jeeps has some great photos of Jeep CJ-5 and CJ-7’s. Guys like Don Adams and Ray Russell [...]
Last week, we showed you photos of the James Garner Olds 442 off road race car rebuild. Owner Ron Johnson is putting his heart and sole into restoring the car the for NORRA 1000 vintage race in April. We thought it would be neat to post some photos of when Ron found the car and [...]
