Ramsey_ElWardani
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I can't tell you just how many times over the years that being a Desert Racer has benefited me, away from the desert. I have on many occasions, because of my association with Desert Racing, found myself the recipient of the generosity of other Desert Racers. I have been on both sides of the equation, the giver and the receiver, of acts of kindness and friendship among strangers – bound only by our love of the desert and Desert Racing.
Just the other day, an old friend (almost a brother) that now lives in Oregon, was driving down Interstate 5, through San Clemente. He has been a little behind the Eight Ball the last few years since his development business in Baja folded. He was driving a beater truck that I bought him back in June and the timing belt broke and snapped the crank in half. He pushed it off the Freeway and into San Clemente, and gave me a call. I drove up to get him and we looked all around the area for a place to park the truck until other arrangements could be made. Everywhere within blocks had curbside parking restrictions or limits and we didn’t want to chance getting the truck impounded; only making his problems worse.
Half a block from where he had landed, I saw a Class 7 truck on the rack at a Muffler Shop – there was our solution, I thought. When I went into the shop office the walls were lined with race pictures, many of cars I knew and that belonged to friends.
I want to thank J.R. Stanley and his son Don of, Stanley’s Exhaust Tech, for helping out a fellow Desert Racer and letting us park the truck on their lot for a few days. I am sure many of you know them; J.R. raced and owned a ProTruck, and has raced in other classes over the years.
Thanks again to the Stanleys; and I will “pass it on”.
What have you experienced as a result of being a Desert Racer?
Just the other day, an old friend (almost a brother) that now lives in Oregon, was driving down Interstate 5, through San Clemente. He has been a little behind the Eight Ball the last few years since his development business in Baja folded. He was driving a beater truck that I bought him back in June and the timing belt broke and snapped the crank in half. He pushed it off the Freeway and into San Clemente, and gave me a call. I drove up to get him and we looked all around the area for a place to park the truck until other arrangements could be made. Everywhere within blocks had curbside parking restrictions or limits and we didn’t want to chance getting the truck impounded; only making his problems worse.
Half a block from where he had landed, I saw a Class 7 truck on the rack at a Muffler Shop – there was our solution, I thought. When I went into the shop office the walls were lined with race pictures, many of cars I knew and that belonged to friends.
I want to thank J.R. Stanley and his son Don of, Stanley’s Exhaust Tech, for helping out a fellow Desert Racer and letting us park the truck on their lot for a few days. I am sure many of you know them; J.R. raced and owned a ProTruck, and has raced in other classes over the years.
Thanks again to the Stanleys; and I will “pass it on”.
What have you experienced as a result of being a Desert Racer?
The looks we get from passer-bys on the freeway when we're towing the Class 9 on the open trailer are priceless.
