When Joe Grippo isn’t sending us great car show, cruise night, or drag racing photos, he is sending us fantastic tips via the BS hotline (click Contact Us above to send something neat along). This time is was a link to a trailer for an upcoming documentary called “Baja Social Club” that explores the pioneers of the NORRA Mexican 1000 off road race that continues to challenge man and machine today. These were guys with courage and guts that many of us today can’t really fathom when it comes to racing. They didn’t have a heck of a lot of an idea of what they were starting back in the day, but their efforts birthed an exciting and vibrant form of racing that still lives today.
The stories will be told through fantastic vintage footage along with first hand accounts of those wild early days from the men and women who lived them. The trailer of just over four minutes of complete bad assery. From the vintage clips of Big Oly literally bashing through the silt to seeing Bruce Meyers in his Manx rolling over some of the same terrain today, it paints an awesome picture. It sets those immortal men against their own mortality in some sens as most of the guys you see in the film will never be heading back there again. There is an amazing quote about life being like a freight train that opens this trailer and it’ll have you spellbound just like it did us.
This is a great example of getting stories told and documented before their tellers pass to the great beyond. This film serves not only to entertain us but also to preserve some of the incredible history that surrounded the creation of this event and how it was run in the early years. You’ll see so many bitchin’ cars and bikes packed into this four minutes that your head will spin.
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO WATCH THE TRAILER FOR BAJA SOCIAL CLUB!
