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2009
Beemer Bash at Quincy
Small side
car unit, F650.
Dave Hough's Can Am How not to pack.
Only a half mile to view...worth the
hike. As seen form the viewing platform
below. Top of the tree that has been cut at
the center of the photo on the left can be seen at the right.
The top of the tree is about 20 ft. out from the viewing
platform.
We don't need no stinkin GS. In the
woods south of Graeagle.
Board walk at Sand Pond and Sardine lake.
Sardine lake.
What racing should be, load, dirty
and fast .....it was all a blur. In 1987 two
Phoenix area Dwarf car builders, John Cain and John Proctor,
started the Dwarf Car Company, which was the first national
Dwarf car manufacturer. Cain also established the first official
sanctioning body for Dwarf cars, Dwarf Car U.S.A. The little
cars spread across the U.S. and even appeared on ESPN's Saturday
Night Thunder. We're talking motorcycle power, the most
popular engines being Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Honda engines, with
capabilities of up to the 200hp range. The engines range in size
from 1,000 to 1,250 cc and are both air- and water-cooled,
depending on the manufacturer. Also, both gasoline and alcohol
are used for fuel. Dwarf cars are different in that they do
not use a typical chaindrive powertrain (although the first ones
did), but instead contain a normal automotive-style powertrain
setup with a five/six-speed motorcycle transmission, and a
modified Toyota automotive rearend. Six pictures below are of 5/8 scale
Dwarf Cars.
_________________________________________________________________________ These two shot were taken on our way
home form Quincy. More photos of this car at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23404165@N03/2632762470
One of two spillways at
Sardine Lake that flows to Sand Pond.
Dwarf
cars started in the late '70s in Arizona. Executive Editor Glen
Grissom recalls seeing them race in the mid-'80s in southern New
Mexico and Arizona, when they were typically the support class
to Street Stocks, and Late Models were the featured show. They
were quite a novelty at the time, but passed from that stage
rather quickly.
Motors
cooling unit for car 84 mounted in the rear and facing to the rear.
