Wasted Trails 4x4 magazine 1st Edition | Page 36

Future Lady Rock Bouncer

Anna Cashon came from a past of four-wheeling and off-roading. She was about 4 years old when her“ hot” pink“ Barbie Jeep”, was the beginning. Older and graduating to an old Yamaha 350 four-wheeler too big for her size, then a hand-me-down Honda XR 80 dirt bike from her big brother, and then her first trail ride. That first ride was in a mildly lifted Jeep on Aetna Mountain in Tennessee. She been a customed to dirt bikes, four wheelers and even doing a few doughnuts in her Dad’ s old Dodge Ram, but nothing of this nature. After hitting some ruts, straddling some holes, climbing a couple of rock ledges, meeting new people, and enjoying time with friends, she was hooked and had to have a Rig.
Her rig is a black 1990 Jeep Cherokee XJ with 4 ½ inches of lift, rolling on 33 TSL Super Swampers, with plans for a much bigger build in the near future. Off-roading has been what her weekends have consisted of for the last couple of years, traveling to the Southern Rock Racing Series events, and trail riding at local fourwheel ing places.
Always being around buggys,
the real meaning of a“ rock
bouncer” didn’ t set in until her
first Southern Rock Racing Series
event in Summertown, Tennessee.
Along with her boyfriend and some
friends, they made the trek from
Georgia, expecting a couple of
hill climbs and a roll over or two.
Boy were they in for a Surprise!
Screamin’ Blue, the Hitman, Hillbilly
Deluxe, the John Deer buggy, with
their 500 + horsepower engines
roaring as they came flying past the
crowd, one by one hitting the first
hill called“ flipper.” After the first
buggy hit the hill with no hesitation
at a high speed, it was love at first
sight. This was NOT rock crawling, and she loved it. Don’ t let the“ Pretty Face” fool you, Anna has high hopes of
building a Rock Bouncer and beginning her dream of Rock Racing, and in her words,“ I’ m not like the other girls …
there is no other place I would rather be than on the trails. It’ s what I love.”
36 / WASTED TRAILS MAY 2013