Round Up

ROUND UP

JOE PARKHURST

ONE OF THE most successful publications we have undertaken, aside from CYCLE WORLD, is DUNE BUGGIES & HOT VWs. We are so pleased with its reception that it becomes a quarterly publication with the current Winter '68 edition. Editor Gene Booth has stuffed this issue with another brilliant array of information on the hottest things on four wheels.

Features include: tips on modifying VWs; instructions for installing Corvair engines in VWs; run-downs on two new entries, the Ocelot and the Vagabond; details on a Harley-Davidson-powered home-built buggy; a report on the recent Imperial Valley buggy meet; details on a blown VW that turns over 108 mph in the quarter; several articles describing the beauties of Baja California for the cross country nut; and a lot more. You can conveniently order a copy for 75<? postpaid, or check your local newsstand; copies should be available there now.

MEXICAN RALLY

Next month's CW will cover the results of the National Off the Road Racing Association's first Mexican 1000 Rally. Entries* which include over 15 motorcycle teams, appear quite good as of this writing. One of the teams will carry the TEAM CYCLE WORLD banner. Jerry Piatt, my old friend and entrepreneur of Leseo accessories, and old desert pro Vern Hancock will ride a Norton P-ll scrambler. ZDS Motors, Norton/Matchless distributors in the West, are co-sponsors of the effort.

Also among the entrants are the holders of the existing motorcycle record, Dave Ekins and his brother Bud. The brothers Ekins will ride a Triumph. Several other Southern Californian desert racing stars will compete for the prize money, alongside of a whole bunch of buggies, "stock" sedans, Ford Broncos, Jeeps, and a mess of even stranger equipment. My money is on the motorcycles, and I hope TCW's Norton will be the one.

INTELLIGENT MOTORCYCLING LIVES

Pacific Basin Trading Company, importers of the ubiquitous Hodaka, has taken unusual advantage of the marvelous Bill Kaysing Intelligent Motorcycling series that appeared in CYCLE WORLD. Each tool kit on every Hodaka sold contains, among things like tools, a special reprint of the series. Quoting them: "Each Fall shipment of Hodakas will contain a copy of Intelligent Motorcycling, an informative and entertaining guide to common sense riding. This booklet is filled with life-saving advice for the beginner and expert alike." Good copy, and true.

The Mexican 1000 Rally, in case you didn't see our October issue, is to be an organized attempt to reduce the time required to commute from Tijuana, Mexico, to La Paz, Baja California.

One facet of our team effort will be an airplane to deliver Vern Hancock to El Arco, where we will change riders for the second half of the 1000 mile run. John McLaughlin will fly it, and CW's newest staff member, Dave Epperson, will be the co-pilot. We'll follow the whole event from the air, so watch for the complete report on the rally in our next issue.

TRIUMPH PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

The annual photography contest has concluded, and CYCLE WORLD contributor Jack Hall won the professional class, outstripping other artists such as the publisher of CYCLE WORLD, who did, however, win an honorable mention for his shot of CW Editor Ivan Wagar roadtesting the Daytona Triumph.

Second prize in the professional class went to James Brammer of Long Beach, Calif., and third went to Abram Schoenfeld of Bronx, N.Y., and C. K. Strowd of Greensboro, N.C., who tied for the award. Winner in the amateur class was Richard Mei of Hamden, Conn. The contest is limited to photographs of Triumphs in action.

CW contributor Gerald West also took an honorable mention, so I don't feel so bad.