If you despair that even the measliest kind of motorsports costs more than you have, take heart. In "extreme rock crawling," you can lose for just pennies a day. Dan Dunaway's competition vehicle is a doorless 1989 Toyota four-wheel-drive pickup that appears to have been rolled off a scenic overlook. With the exception of the three-quarter-ton axles, heavy-duty transfer case, 35-inch tires, and assorted bits of scrap steel welded to the frame, it's stock, right down to the wheezy four-cylinder engine. Dunaway, of Mesa, Arizona, figures he has $10,000 invested in the truck -- where is not exactly clear. As his daily driver, the truck has, amazingly, traveled 294,000 miles, many of them up a rock wall. "A lot of newbies think they can do this with just money," says Dunaway, "but money doesn't have a lot to do with it." Dunaway is a pioneer in four-wheel-drive rock crawling, a sport that has in a decade grown from just a few survivalist kooks out west in radical Jeeps to many, many of them, organized by the American Rock Crawlers Association (ARCA).

On a weekend in September, 60 competitors have gathered in Chokecherry Canyon -- didn't the Hardy Boys discover a haunted gold mine here? -- near Farmington, New Mexico, for the final weekend of the five-event Goodyear Extreme Rock Crawling Championship Series. The course ranges over postcard-beautiful acres of honey-colored rock formations that funnel into the canyon's shallow floor. This being the first year of the ARCA championship, some of the finer points of competition have yet to be firmed up. This explains why Dunaway's homely pickup is competing in the same class as Dave Hickman's "Big Iron," a 5000-pound mechanical insect powered by a 450-hp small-block Chevy, with an articulating suspension (Hickman can hydraulically raise each corner of the vehicle 28 inches off the earth's surface), four-wheel steering, four-link suspension a la stadium monster trucks, Dana 60 one-ton axles (4.88:1) with ARB pneumatic axle lockers, and 44-inch Super Swamper tires with double beadlocks clamping the rubber to the rim.

Yet before the weekend is through, Hickman, a rotund music professor at Arizona State University, will blow out his rear steering and radiator, flip over backward, and roll downhill to the great amusement of the crowd. Dunaway's Toyota will negotiate the same hill with ease. In the main, though, competitors field beefed-up Jeep CJs, TJs, and Willys. Points leader Jeff Waggoner pilots a TJ Wrangler owned by Currie Enterprises, a maker of extreme off-road equipment in Anaheim, California. Warehouse For Sale In Lowell Ma"We left ours pretty stock," says owner John Currie, wearing a knee brace to support his anterior cruciate ligament, which he tore pushing the truck over an obstacle. Storage Containers For Sale Saint John Nb"Anybody can buy these parts off the shelf and be competitive." Airedale Puppies For Sale Idaho

In addition to competition anti-roll bars, coils, and shocks lifting the truck a good five inches, Currie has added what he calls a "J" bar, a lower control arm that curves around to connect to the back of the axle housing, thereby preventing axle wrap -- many trucks will be sidelined this weekend with broken ring gears and shattered leaf-spring shackles from the stress of struggling up the rocks. Floor Mats & Liners Plan on taking your truck off road?  If so, please take a moment to browse our huge inventory of off road tires.  We carry all of the major brand names such as Nitto, BFGoodrich, Durun, Fierce, Goodyear, Mickey Thompson, Kumho Tires, Maxxis, Fuel Offroad and many more.  In addition to carrying all of the best brands we also have the lowest prices available anywhere.  Why would you go anywhere else to find your new set off road tires?Only into its second year of production we’ve spotted what appears to be the first slammed Chevrolet Colorado. This truck is laying frame and tucking massive wheels (for a midsize anyway).

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