When over 40,000 offered racing enthusiasts converge on a dry lakebed for the King of the Hammers, the stuff that shows up is feast for the eyes! I had just as much fun oogling the offroad toys at KOH as I did both exploring the OHV area and watching the racing. Southern California is the nucleus of desert racing, with all kinds of offroad and fab shops pumping out high quality, unique work, and the SoCal climate preserves rigs that would long have since rusted away back here on the East Coast. Without further ado, here’s some of the cool rigs I saw in Johnson Valley (consider this a sample of about 1% of everything that was neck-breakingly cool).
Let’s Start with the eye candy at the Fox Shox display in Hammertown. Are you kidding me??? That Raptor was running long travel and humongous bypasses in the rear.
On day 1 we checked out a rock-crawling section of the Hammers course, “Chocolate Thunder”. We had a blast watching some old-school Yotas tackling the rocks, and admired some good-looking Fords parked right by us.
Some more prerunner goodness…
And the dune buggies, something completely foreign to me, but common out in the desert sand. Corvette motor? Yes please!
Of course there were UTVs all over the place, and after spending every day at Hammer cruising in one, I get it.
What? You’ve never seen an off-road limo before?
Can’t leave out the well-done full size rigs…
Awesome Limo!