On Wednesday evening I went to see Dust2Glory, the 2nd story of racing in BAJA, on the big screen. I had seen the original Dust to Glory on Amazon a few years ago, and was super excited about Dana Brown’s latest. He did an awesome job on the first movie, really awesome job actually, but the resources and team involved in this second one made me really look forward to what was about to happen. It was everything I thought it would be and more. Unfortunately, it got me thinking about two things. The first time I went to the BAJA 1000, and the list of vehicles I want to drive and am working towards. The list includes Pro Mod, Funny Car, something fast at OUSCI, etc. The first time I went to the BAJA 1000 was a different thing all together.

In 2007, Rob Kinnan, David Freiburger, Keith Turk and I jumped in David’s 4-door 1965 Chevelle and headed to Baja. We had no hotel reservations, no clue, and no chance of getting all the way to Ensenada Mexico without an issue in the all stock and hardly tested 283 powerglide equipped Chevelle. We weren’t worried about it running and shifting, but with Kinnan and I both in the back, along with a giant cooler of beer and all our luggage, this bastard was an ass dragging machine. It was so bad once we got to Ensenada that we had to find a parts store and buy some air shocks. We borrowed a jack and some tools and put it together on the street. It was awesome.

Remember that whole thing about not having a hotel room? Well, Turk and I walk into a big hotel and ask for a room. When the women at the front desk stopped laughing, and we started begging, one of the women mentioned that her sister rented apartments and might have something we could rent short term. An hour later we were meeting this woman at an apartment in town and got the keys to a cool little furnished apartment with tv and power for a few days and it only cost us a couple hundred bucks.

We spent the next next three days enjoying Contingency, and the race and it was one of the coolest most awesome races I’ve ever seen or heard about. I was all in and so was David and Rob. Turk of course was impressed as hell by the motorcycles too and we had so much fun watching all the action and hiking all around town that all I wanted to do when it was done was build an off-road race vehicle and go bombing across the desert. I still want to do that.

I’m not going to give up on my dream of driving in the BAJA 1000, and I know we’ll probably have to start out at one of the other events. But we have to figure out how to beg borrow and steal so we can get into something cool. But what? Rob Kinnan wants in, and I’m sure there are a bunch more of you who will want to help and be our pit crews and such. But what do we race?

That is the BANGshift Question of the Day. What class would you run in the BAJA 1000? Keep in mind that almost nobody can afford to run a Trophy Truck, so lets throw those off the list.

So what is it? Pick a class.