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.
Last month, we did an article on the restoration of Rod Hall’s Ford Bronco that he used to desert race in the 70’s. We now have some updated photos for you!
Race Dezert user Bringtheruckus posted some photos of F100 Ford race trucks that his family used to race to this thread on Race Dezert The thread covers bumpside (67-72) and dentside (73-79) Ford race trucks. Some are new trucks being build while some are restorations of desert race trucks and prerunners from the 70’s and 80’s.
Members of Race Dezert have been posting old photos of desert racing in the VORRA series from the 80’s and early 90’s.
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Back in 2005, Kash Vessels (son of off road racing legend Frank Vessels) started a thread about vintage desert racing on Race Dezert.com and posted a photo of his fathers infamous BFG Blazer from the 70’s. The thread gained interest and is currently 116 pages! If there is one thread on Race Dezert, this is [...]
When I was researching the James Garner Olds 442, the AMC Ramblers that raced the 69 Baja 500, and the Peter Brock Datsun 240Z that raced the Baja 500 , I started a thread on Race Dezert about vintage desert race cars. You seriously have to check this thread out! There is a ton of [...]