The Beast
Vehicle: '90 Chevy Blazer S-10 4x4
Owner: Louis Forrisi, Lexington, NC
Tires & wheels: 235x75-15 Goodyear Wranglers on 15x6 black steel
Suspension: Homemade shackles in rear, torsion bars cranked in front
Drivetrain: Stock 4.3L V-6 engine with 260,000 miles
Performance Mods: K&N air filter, straight-pipe exhaust
Other Doodads: Front brushguard, auxiliary lights, Hi-Lift Jack, Cobra CB, 4-Wheel & Off-Road license plate
Funniest wheeling incident: Almost getting stuck in my own yard while trying to pull another truck out of it after three days of rain
Half Cab
Vehicle: '74 GMC Sierra 3/4-ton
Owner: Jeff de Minns, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Tires & wheels: Stockish
Suspension: Overload springs
Drivetrain: 350ci engine all stock
Performance Mods: Edelbrock intake manifold, Holley carb
Funniest wheeling incident: Nothing too funny yet
Anything you would change: The suspension and I need a winch
Anything to add?: I'd rather have the 250ci inline six-cylinder
Rock Ram
Vehicle: '97 Dodge Ram
Owner: Raji, Reno, NV
Tires: 35-inch Goodyear MTRs
Suspension: 5 1/2-inch Superlift
Drivetrain: 5.9L Magnum V-8, 46RE auto tranny with shift kit and tranny cooler, NVG241 transfer case with 4:1 low range
Performance Mods: Flowmaster exhaust, Optima Red-Top battery
Other Doodads: Front bumper is custom made from 2-inch 0.095-wall DOM and 2x3-inch box tubing, custom sliders
Anything you would change: Put in 4.88 gears, a Truetrac front diff and Detroit Locker in the rear
Anything to add?: Thanks for a great mag!
Okie Disco
Vehicle: '96 Land Rover Discovery SD
Owner: Jim Royall, Tulsa, OK
Tires & wheels: 32-inch BFG Mud Terrains on 16-inch stock alloys
Suspension: 2-inch Old Man Emu medium-duty coils and shocks, no antisway bars
Drivetrain: 4.0L aluminum V-8, auto tranny, full-time transfer case with center locking differential, Detroit Truetrac torque-biasing diffs, replaced stock flex joint with Range Rover U-joint
Other Doodads: Antilock brakes disabled, modified ARB winch bumper, Ramsey 9500 Patriot winch, Wheel Horse dash-mounted clinometer, homemade 1/4-inch aluminum gas tank slide plate, and 3x5-inch A36 steel rock sliders
Race Scout
Vehicle: '77 International Scout II
Owner: Tom Mandera, Helena, MT
Tires: 31x15.50 Terra in rear and 31x10.50 Mickey Thompsons up front
Suspension: Bilstein shocks
Drivetrain: 375hp 304ci V-8 engine, TF727 Gryphin Auto tranny, Dana 20 transfer case, Tom Woods 14-inch slip-yoke driveshaft, Dana 44 axles
Other Doodads: Full rollcage, cage-mounted belts and Beard seats, PCI race radio, full tilt hood, in-car camcorder
Anything to add?: My wife and I race it in short-course races. She has more trophies than I do.
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We're Fired When the Boss Sees This
Vehicle: '45 Ford GPW
Owner: 17-year-old Rick Pw and 50-year-old Rick Pw
Tires & wheels: Steelies and probably Norsemans or TruTracks
Suspension: Leaf springs under the axles back then, over 'em now
Drivetrain: Original 134ci four-cylinder, probably a T-84 transmission, and a Spicer 18 transfer case. But who can remember back that far? Axles were a Dana 25 front and Dana 25 rear with 5.38 gears.
Other Doodads: Flyswatter
Does everything work the way you want?: He eventually swapped in a Dana 60 rear axle, Dana 44 front, Buick 455 big-block, and SM420 transmission and added a Warn/Saturn overdrive to the Spicer 18, all so he could run 35-inch tires
Anything you would change: He claims it's perfect
Funniest wheeling incident: The stories are endless. Drove off a cliff with best friends, drove through the wall of parent's house when brakes failed, drove almost every trail west of Colorado, drove back and forth across the country with the original four-cylinder drafting semis all the way, drove it till the frame broke, drove it through multiple rollovers and lived to tell the tale, still drives it every now and then. Happy 50th birthday, boss. Don't fire us.-4-Wheel & Off-Road Staff