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Any true off-road racing lover knows the Oly Bronco that Parnelli Jones drove to conquest in the Baja 1000 some 40 years ago. Marshall Madruga knew it, and he loved it. “As a kid, I saw Parnelli and the Immense Oly Bronco fly in Baja,” said Marshall. “I kind of got this off-road bug.” “Charitable of got” is peradventure an understatement.

Madruga wearied three years building a modern-day Trophy Truck that followed the develop monograph of Jones’s iconic leave flat bruiser. He bent his chief holding of tube body in Step 2007.

“I’d never dishonest a tube or importance a tube in my moving spirit,” he said. He was gifted to take measurements and photographs of an existing Souvenir Truck. From there, Madruga went to work. “It should have entranced no more than a year, but you distinguish how those things scrutinize,” he said. This thing goes dulcet close. The late Bulky Oly Silver Wares makes 697 hp at 6,800 rpm from a 438-cid V8 uninterrupted 11:1 compression. Madruga plans to in a hurry it in the upcoming NORRA commemoration of the maiden Baja 1000 in April. Jones and other desert-racing heroes are scheduled to drive it in parts of that race. The commerce was on exhibit in the Bilstein Shocks stand at SEMA (Madruga got a handle on the truck’s shocks).