Dirtsports back issues from July 2007:
THE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER
Jul 01, 2007; ... I remember summer when It was more than just a season. Back in the glory days of my youth, it was a thing of sheer beauty. Eagerly anticipated all through the school year, once that bell rang on the final day, it was three solid months of no class and little responsibility.There was no homework ...
JUNK MAIL
Jul 01, 2007; ... JM Dirt Sports RETRO QUESTIONS It is good to see the Retro Bronco back. However, I was a bit amazed at the new direction it has gone in. Not to say it isn't cool, but wasn't the original idea something built more on a budget? Wouldn't it have been easier to just start with ...
A NATION IN MOURNING
Jul 01, 2007; ... The past few months have been particularly hard on our group's lifestyle, as four beloved members of the offroad fraternity have passed away. Collectively, they represent some of the best and brightest of our family scrap book-a truly unique group of four men that had tremendous impact on the ...
RECORD FIELD ANNOUNCED FOR 39TH TECATE SCORE BAJA 500
Jul 01, 2007; ... Just days before the green flag drops on theTecate SCORE BaJa 500, SCORE International announced the news: entries from 32 states and 13 countries makes this off-road desert race the largest in SCORE history, including 102 racers with 273 career class wins. The sanctioning body that took ...
NISSAN CLIMBS ABOARD WSORR
Jul 01, 2007; ... In the week prior to the World Series of Off-Road Racing's (WSORR) season opener in Owatonna, Minn., the good folks at WSORR issued a press release that named Nissan as the official vehicle of the series. The announcement was welcome news indeed, especially in light of how late in the calendar ...
NASCAR'S BRENDAN GAUGHAN TO HOST WSORR TV BROADCASTS
Jul 01, 2007; ... For the 2007 season, NASCAR star and former short-course off-road champion Brendan Gaughan will provide commentary for the Lucas Oil World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) on Speed TV as recently announced by NeWaveTelevision Productions. "When deciding on the broadcast team, we were cognizant ...
SUBARU ANNOUNCES THREE MORE YEARS WITH TRAVIS PASTRANA
Jul 01, 2007; ... Subaru Rally Team USA announced a three-year extension with its 23-year-old star rally driver,Travis Pastrana, and that he will compete in select World Rally Championship events for the following three years as well. In his second season of rallying, the two-wheel master who landed the ...
BITD TERRIBLE'S TOWN 250 APRIL 27-28, 2007 PAHRUMP, NEV.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Chuck Hovey took the overall win at Best In The Desert's popularTerrible's 250 in Pahrump, Nev. In his Chevy-powered Jimco, Hovey beat the first Trick-Truck to the finish by a scant 54 seconds. This event always attracts a big entry in both Trick-Truck and Class 1500 (open-wheel ...
SMOKIN' WHEELS 2007 APRIL 14-15, 2007 GUAM
Jul 01, 2007; ... A tourist can drive around the entire island of Guam in about an hour, but it's where Japanese off-road racers go when they want to race wheelto-wheel in a three-hour event, lkuo Hanawa, from Japan, took the win in his Toyota Trophy-Truck, driving 103 miles during his three-hour ...
CORR'S CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Jul 01, 2007; ... NEW TALENT AND A NEW TRACK GIVE RISE TO A NEW CORR For Jim Baldwin and his Championship Off Road Racing (CORR) organization, the weekend couldn't have been better. Packed grandstands, awesome racing and beautiful weather all helped to confirm that bringing the door-to-door action of CORR ...
This is where The Cowboy Rides Away: PART II
Jul 01, 2007; ... IN THE SECOND OF OUR TWO-PART EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, WALKER EVANS SHEDS LIGHT ON HIS LOVE OF SHORT COURSE, ENDING HIS CAREER ON THE ROCKS AND AN ASPHALT CAREER THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN As you will recall, faithful reader, in last month's issue we sat down with Walker Evans, known as The ...
BLACK-BOX POWER
Jul 01, 2007; ... CHIPS, TUNERS AND MODULES FUEL THE FIRE FOR TOWING AND FLAT-OUT GOING Electricity often has a mind of its own. Just when we think we're its master, the electrons either don't flow where they're supposed to (check for bad grounds) or rear back and bite us. So even though a lot of hands-on ...
MEAT & POTATOES
Jul 01, 2007; ... Lead by The Irrepressible Doug Davis, WSORR's Historic First Race Was Flavored with a Down-Home Recipe for Off-Road Motors ports Under normal conditions, interviewing Doug Davis is akin to a journalist hitting the editorial lottery.The man is the king of one liners, inside jokes and ...
Race Report: WSORR Opening Rounds Owatonna, Minn.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Veteran off-road racer Scott Taylor came charging out of the gate in the Lucas oil World Series of Off-Road Racing PRO 2WD division battle in his Skyjacker/BFGoodrich Ford and won both rounds of the historic first-ever event of the series. Both days, Taylor battled hard at the Steele County ...
TAILORED TO PERFECTION
Jul 01, 2007; ... THE NEW BREED OF ADJUSTABLE VW DISTRIBUTORS PROVE TIMING IS EVERYTHING When the Bosch engineers scratched up the design for the 1960 Volkswagen transporter's mechanical-advance ignition, they had no idea they had answered VW tuners' prayers for decades to come. Dubbed 010 ...
SEASON SHUFFLER: HARD TIMES IN CORTEZ
Jul 01, 2007; ... With only four rounds in the XRRA Western Series and all events counting for full points this season, every competition is absolutely critical. Unlike last year, no one can drop an event of their choosing. A small slip in one race can easily cost a driver valuable points. Competitors have to be ...
DUAL IN THE DESERT, Part II
Jul 01, 2007; ... WE TAKE A GROUP OF FOUR HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TUNER RHINOS ON A REAL-WORLD DESERT ADVENTURE-THE RESULTS SURPRISED US Fin the May issue of Din Sports, we ran Part I of a two-part story that looked at some of the best Yamaha Rhinos from what, we felt, were some of the finest new breeds of ...
ON THE EDGE
Jul 01, 2007; ... DAN VANDEN HEUVEL JR. COMMAND DECISION It goes without saying that the split between Championship Off Road Racing (CORR) and the World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) has been the controversial dust surrounding the Off-Road Nation for the past several months. And nowhere is the ...
WHAT'S next
Jul 01, 2007; ... INCHWORM LEFTY The Inchworm Lefty is the only available direct bolt-in, low-geared, single transfer-case setup available for the current generation of Toyota Tacomas, FJ Cruisers and 4Runners. The Lefty is a complete transfer case that replaces the stock chain-driven unit and conies ...