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Dirt (1979)
Fun for All Ages; Excellent Historical
Dirt (Parts 1 - 9) is available on YouTube and presents a classic historical of off-road motor-sports competitions in the mid-1970s shortly after the Arab Oil Embargo. There is plenty of "retro" music and arguably "Dirt" is similar to Bruce Brown's 1971 epic documentary "On Any Sunday".
Considerable time is dedicated to the 1976 SCORE Baja International (or Baja 500) and the dual between Parnelli Jones, team mate Walker Evans and dune buggy sensation and Hollywood stuntman Bobby Ferro. Roger Riddel was instrumental in placing together the funding and advertising for this feature. Our motorcycle (#449) appears at the end of the movie and I was only sixteen when racing in the '76 Baja event along with Benson Ford, Jr., Elliot Kaplan, Rod Hall and former members of Bill Stroppe & Associates.