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  • #2
    Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

    Now this is something I could get into! :o That is a mean looking Olds.


    Haha
    What I dont get is how anybody would look at a edsel and say "Hey, lets race the Baja 1000 in this' LOL talk about hauling weight threw the sand
    This was cool until the SUV was invented and were considered passenger cars. So the competition switched to SUV's to be competative. :'(
    The Class changed?
    From -- Class 6: Two Wheel Drive Stock Production Sedan
    To (unofficial) ?- Class 6: Two Wheel Drive Stock Production Sport Utility Vehicle
    Makes me want to buy another Skylark to give it this treatment ;D I wanted to in college when it was my field vehicle.

    Great find Brian!

    Escaped on a technicality.

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    • #3
      Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

      I posted this on the pic of the day thread last week.....but now it has more relevance. Lot's of cool stuff on that Race-Dezert link.

      Rod Hall's Maverick



      The Jim Rockford Olds is amazing!
      Time Wasters...
      http://public.fotki.com/JoeGrippo/
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe_grippo/sets/
      http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeGrippo?feature=mhum

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      • #4
        Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

        Cool awesome rides and drivers..



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        • #5
          Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

          I remember building a model of Garners' desert racer back in the day.
          Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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          • #6
            Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

            that is awesome.

            anything and everything, big and small..make it go for a hard race.

            the "press on regardless" is an amazing old footage of to find any.michigan?
            The first I ever saw the tiniest of sube boxers hanging in there...1973.
            they never even gave them big wheels...press on regardless.

            it was more than hard desert. mud ruts as if a mud pit at a truck pull, ice, snow, that slippery top layer of mud hopeless for everything with frozen underneath...

            every possible killer.. trees hanging in the trail smacking at stuff. amazing.

            I liked the camaro with the looong trailing arms. conquer the width of the live axle? could not decipher photo, smart physics regardless. ;D

            Previously boxer3main
            the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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            • #7
              Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

              Trars...Rallying is what 4WD's are for......But I got to admit an old RWD European Ford Escort would be a fun car to race through rough terrain

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              • #8
                Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                Ultra cool!!

                8)
                Thom

                "The object is to keep your balls on the table and knock everybody else's off..."

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                • #9
                  Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                  Hey Monk, we could get 35s under that thing with a Sawzall.

                  Meet you in Reno, I'll buy the beer. ;D
                  That which you manifest is before you.

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                  • #10
                    Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                    Originally posted by Brian Lohnes
                    Hey Monk, we could get 35s under that thing with a Sawzall.

                    Meet you in Reno, I'll buy the beer. ;D
                    Damn you!!

                    ;D

                    Dos Equis?

                    Thom

                    "The object is to keep your balls on the table and knock everybody else's off..."

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                    • #11
                      Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                      The Smothers Brothers ran a desert racer, too - didn't they?
                      Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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                      • #12
                        Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                        I believe there were 10 AMC Hurst SC Ramlbers
                        out fitted for the race and Garner ran one of
                        them.
                        Have some info around here someplace on that.

                        Here it is.
                        Turns out Garner had all 10 cars.



                        Didn't Steve McQueen race a bike there?
                        Thom

                        "The object is to keep your balls on the table and knock everybody else's off..."

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                        • #13
                          Re: James Garner's Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy

                          This gives me ideas...

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