Earlier this month, we wrote a short article about 3 Ford Edsel that used to race in off road desert races in the 60’s though to the 80’s. With the Swift’s racing their restored Ford Edsel off road race car in the NORRA Mexican 1000 this week, we have been coming across more photos for your pleasure. Thank you to Class 3 Racing.com for most of the photos in this post.

We have located some starting line photos to follow up on our NORRA Mexican 1000 vintage off road race contingency photos we posted yesterday. Thanks to the folks at Off Road Mexico for the photos!

The NORRA Mexican 1000 vintage off road race is on this week, so expect to see a lot of photos of vintage desert race vehicles over the next few days! This first group of photos are from this post on Race Dezert, along with this and this one from Off Road Mexico.

Now for something different…even though it is not 4×4, I think you will enjoy it. This 1934 Model A was apparently modified with larger tires. However, I know that several mail delivery cars in that era were modified like this to get through the snow and mud.

Our series of articles on vintage off road race cars has been very popular. We have seen Datsuns, AMC Ramblers, and of course, James Garners Olds 442. How about a Ford Edsel?

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?

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 [...]

Ron Johnson, owner of the infamous vintage James Garner Goodyear Grabbler Olds 442 off road race car has sent me some more photos of the cars rebuild. Ron is rebuilding the car, which we featured HERE and HERE , to race in the NORRA 1000 vintage off road race coming up on April 28-May 2 [...]

Ron Johnson has made some huge progress on the former Vic Hickey Olds 442 desert race car that was formally driven by James Garner. Check out the new suspension! Ron has posted photos on the restoration thread on Race Dezert. Great job Ron!