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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

The “Terminator” was a 60’s Ford pulling truck that was used in the 1980’s and then retired in 1991 when the truck and tractor pull craze died down. The truck was built by Go Fast Engineering . Hopefully they can send us some more photos. What a great looking truck! The Terminator was built in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]