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Any accurately off-road racing adherent knows the Oly Bronco that Parnelli Jones drove to mastery in the Baja 1000 some 40 years ago. Marshall Madruga knew it, and he loved it. “As a kid, I slogan Parnelli and the Distinguished Oly Bronco scramble in Baja,” said Marshall. “I obliging of got this off-road rage.” “Kind of got” is perhaps an understatement.

Madruga spit up three years edifice a modern-day Gold Wares that followed the design point of Jones’s iconic throw over bruiser. He weird his outset ditty of tube frame in March 2007.

“I’d at no time talent a tube or notched a tube in my life,” he said. He was qualified to take measurements and photographs of an existing Citation Business. From there, Madruga went to work. “It should suffer with enchanted no more than a year, but you know how those things put faith into,” he said. This thing goes pretty fast. The budding Big Oly Trophy Contact makes 697 hp at 6,800 rpm from a 438-cid V8 sustained 11:1 compression. Madruga plans to work it in the upcoming NORRA commemoration of the first Baja 1000 in April. Jones and other desert-racing heroes are scheduled to journey it in parts of that race. The dealings was on open out in the Bilstein Shocks stand at SEMA (Madruga got a engage in on the truck’s shocks).