Wasted Trails 4x4 magazine vol 12 May 2014 | Page 10

Pink Pistol Rock Bouncer Build Begins The “Pink Pistol” starts with a bang! Anna Cashon The newest edition to the Rock Bouncing world is now taking off with a brand new build, “The Pink Pistol!” Very exciting news because this buggy will be adding another female driver to the rock racing crew. The driver, Anna Cashon, will be running this rig to its fullest! The 450 to 500 ponies going into the LS1 for this build is being done by Jeff Grass of MJ Motorsports in Modesto, Ca. Barnyard Fab, out of Maryville, Tennessee, is the Building the Custom Chassis around a set of custom seats, sent out by Leo Grillas of Twisted Stitch Seats in Anaheim, CA., and Brendon Thompson of Elite Metal Designs, will be building a set of custom headers. Additional Car Sponsors will be added as they join the build, so follow along as this newest addition to the Rock Bouncing Series unfolds on the pages of Wasted Trails 4x4 magazine. If you would like to become a Sponsor of this build, please contact [email protected] BELOW: Kenny Forbes, Anna Cashon, Kevin Ray Anna won’t be coming into the rock racing world blindfolded, she is already getting lots of seat time by participating in American Rock Crawling’s Powder Puff Races! per Anna “Racing Kenny Forbs’ rig was not what I had planned in the beginning, but I sure am glad it worked out the way it did! When figuring out whose buggy I was going to race in the Powderpuff event, I had planned to run Tim Bacon’s new buggy, simply because he lived only 30 minutes away and I was going to be able to get some seat time before actually racing the buggy. However, Tim was cut short for time on getting the buggy completely finished for the races. In the mean time, I sent messages on Facebook, and asked many people of whose rig I could race. Then it hit me! Kenny Forbs! I sen t him a message on Facebook and he was more than willing to let me race his buggy. We were able to work things out, (like if I was able to reach the pedals) with Kenny being 6 foot tall and me being hardly over 5 feet Kenny’s idea was to, “wear a pair of Hollywood high heels so I could reach!” Fortunately, Kevin Ray, the builder of the rig and my copilot for the race, custom made me pedals so that I could reach the gas and break! Kenny and Kevin were very supportive of getting me started and showing me how everything worked on the buggy. I am looking forward to running his rig again in the future to increase my seat time. Thankfully, no high heels were needed and I was able to race! It was a very exciting first race for me!” 10 April 2014