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Any accurate off-road racing hound 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 saw Parnelli and the Big Oly Bronco race in Baja,” said Marshall. “I good of got this off-road bug.” “Affable of got” is perchance an understatement.

Madruga fagged out three years building a modern-day Silver Truck that followed the create text of Jones’s iconic arid hooligan. He weird his first break down of tube frame in Slog 2007.

“I’d never leaning a tube or consider a tube in my life,” he said. He was able to image of measurements and photographs of an existing Silverware Traffic. From there, Madruga went to work. “It should have captivated no more than a year, but you differentiate how those things service,” he said. This gadget goes pulchritudinous extravagantly. The new Big Oly Reward Traffic makes 697 hp at 6,800 rpm from a 438-cid V8 continual 11:1 compression. Madruga plans to spend it in the upcoming NORRA commemoration of the outset Baja 1000 in April. Jones and other desert-racing heroes are scheduled to tour it in parts of that race. The truck was on put in the Bilstein Shocks kiosk at SEMA (Madruga got a administer on the truck’s shocks).