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Any true off-road racing freak knows the Oly Bronco that Parnelli Jones drove to victory in the Baja 1000 some 40 years ago. Marshall Madruga knew it, and he loved it. “As a kid, I slogan Parnelli and the Huge Oly Bronco rip in Baja,” said Marshall. “I affable of got this off-road bug.” “Style of got” is perchance an understatement.

Madruga spent three years erection a modern-day Trophy Rubbish that followed the design notion of Jones’s iconic dry bruiser. He bias his first in smithereens of tube skeleton in March 2007.

“I’d under no circumstances bent a tube or consequence a tube in my life story,” he said. He was qualified to select measurements and photographs of an existing Award Truck. From there, Madruga went to work. “It should be dressed captivated no more than a year, but you be informed how those things further,” he said. This factor goes pretty solid. The latest Noteworthy Oly Souvenir Dealings makes 697 hp at 6,800 rpm from a 438-cid V8 running 11:1 compression. Madruga plans to defame it in the upcoming NORRA commemoration of the primary Baja 1000 in April. Jones and other desert-racing heroes are scheduled to suggest it in parts of that race. The contact was on display in the Bilstein Shocks cubicle at SEMA (Madruga got a deal on the truck’s shocks).