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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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!
90’s North East Sand Drags
Once again, Sand Drag Central has a great post with some photos of 90’s North East sand drag action. There is a lot more photos on their site!
RIP Romeo
Romeo was a long time member of the now defunct Kamloops Bronco Busters. He was one of those guys that would do anything to help put on the races, no questions asked. Here is some pictures that he took of local Kamloops BC races while he was out on checkpoints, as a corner marshal or [...]
90’s Gravelrama Photos
Once again, there is a great thread over at the Sand Drag Central forum with pictures from some of the 90’s Gravelrama races. This is one race that I have always wanted to attend!
1993 Gravelrama Photos
Here is some photos from the 1993 Gravelrama as posted on the Sand Drag Central message board. It is funny that sand drag race vehicles have not really changed their appearance from the early 80’s up to today.