Healthy 2WD field at Sandblast

Those are Desert Dog Formula carcasses, that my dad recapped with some Hawkinson treads. 9.50-16.5 caps on a regular 15" tire (the tires were apparently some pretty huge beasties, for going over sand in trucks, back in the day. They're mounted on some chebby suburban 8" rims for the rear, with a pair of chebby Astro rims on the front, with a very similar hawkinson tread, just slightly smaller.

There's a '51 Willys flatfender sitting not 20 yards from the RallyBuickâ„¢, with nearly those same treads. stupid 6-volt charging systems!

--sarge

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Jorden R. Kleier
Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
1990 Mazdog Protege 4WD
1973

starion887 Wrote:
> I am more and more thinking that folks need to cut
> every 3rd block out of the edge rows of tread
> blocks on a standard rally tire.

After I saw this post, while perusing some new Sandblast photos, I saw this:
(#2 Sandblast car)






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/2008 03:49PM by kentmdavis.

SG35 ? You said SG35 ?

Damn John you are an old fucker. I used SG35 and consequently the SG90 in the 80s and early 90s. I think they got discontinued in 91.

An almost descendant of them was GoodYear Kar, a snow tire made in Turkey for Turkish roads, which proved to be poor man's rally tire of choice for many years.

At SandBlast, in my opinion, tires were not the deciding factor, reading the road and not lifting did the trick for us. Against popular belief, we did not have a monster engine, our engine puts 117hp to the ground, it is a 75k miles stock engine with a head and an eBay header.

I like those farm tires though, wouldn't mind putting a set under the Galant for shits and grins. I wonder who sells them in Arizona.

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M.Samli
Phoenix AZ
Gaylant VR4
EVO III GSR (Stolen)


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sagsert Wrote:
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> SG35 ? You said SG35 ?
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> Damn John you are an old fucker. .


I have heard some rumors to that effect, but I've been hearing that same stuff since I was maybe 24.

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