Monday, December 31, 2007

Racers Only Artwork










In order to go racing, we have to pay the bills. Here are a couple of newer designs we have done for our clients over the last month or so.....enjoy!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

The Trophy Truck Killer


Jim Baldwin (CORR CEO) ordered another Chenowth DR2V chassis in the late 80's for his race team. Before the car was finished, the car was sold to Butch Dean so he could build Michael Gaughan (Owner of the Barbary Coast and GoldCoast casino's) a new class 1 race car. The car featured 3.0 Kuster coilover shocks on all 4 corners, unheard of at the time because those shocks were only for trucks. Bruce Fraley and Eddie Webb did a lot of the design work to fit the huge shocks to the Chenowth chassis.
Glenn Harris was the original driver during the 1990 season, with NASCAR Craftsman truck driver, Brendan Gaughan (Michael's son) as co-driver. The 1991 season saw Jack Johnson race the car a couple races with Pat Dean finally taking over the driving duties for good.
1993 was the break through season for this car with an Overall win at the HDRA GoldCoast 300, beating the supposedly faster factory teams like Toyota, Chevy, Ford and Dodge. SCORE created the Trophy Truck class in 1994, marketed as the "Elite" class of the SCORE series. That same year, Pat would go on to win the San Felipe 250 and the Baja 500 (later disqualified for an on track infraction) Overall much to the chagrin of the Trophy Truck teams. From that moment on, the Chenowth was affectionately known as "The Trophy Truck Killer".

Racers Only Motorsports


In October of 2006 we purchased Pat Deans "Trophy Truck Killer" and began a ground up rebuild that took approx 11 months. A lot of hard work, late nights and MANY paychecks later, the race car was ready for it's debut at the 2007 SCORE PRIMM 300 off road race. Basically the same car Pat Dean raced to many Overall wins in the early to mid 90's, the "TT Killer" never missed a beat en route to a first place win in it's inaugural race under the Racers Only Motorsports banner. 1 pit stop at the half way mark for 11 gallons of fuel and a quick look over was only stop made during the 3:31:05 Odessy across the rugged Nevada desert with a 40.93 mph average.
The pit crew consisted of Pete and Randy Corwin, Pete VanRooy, Matt Bare, Ed Crawford, Mike King and Jason Cyrus at the main pit. Chase 1 was Dusty and Macrae Glass with Chase 2 consisting of Eric Record and friends. It was nice to know those guys were out there in the outlying pits but we were fortunate enough not to have to stop.
A big thanks to all of our sponsors who got us to the finish line in first place: JET JOC, Wide Open MRI, BFGoodrich, Beard seats, C&R Racing, Butch's speed shop, King, Vision X, MSD, Comfort-Air Technologies and Artistic Curbing.