SANTA VISITS CASTLEGAR

Daredevil trucker Tyrone Malone
field :

has a ‘handle’ on diesel racing

A cloud of smoke! A flush of
color! A_tremendous roar!
t's...it's Tyrone Malone, the
king of daredevil diesel truck
driving!

With a hearty laugh and his
foot pressed to the accelerator,
this rollicking racer sct the
world’s class A diesel speed re-
cord which, incidentally, he in-

vented,

Life for Malone has been full
of booms and busts, but it has
never been dull. Since Icaving
Apache, Okla., as GerelT
Oliver Malone at the age of 15,
he has been a cotton picker,
barboy, dishwasher, resort
owner, car dealer and car
salesman.

He's been rich and he's been

r, but he’s never lost his in-
nate sense of showmanship or
his zest for life.

“It’s no crime to go broke in
America,"’ says Malone, ‘‘but
it should be a crime to stay
broke if you're an able-bodied
man."* Putting his words into

tice after his last financial

Hee he decided to freeze a
hale.

Little Irvy, a 38-foot sperm
whale preserved in liquid nitro-
gen, became the star of ‘whale
of a sale’* promotions at shop-
ping centers across the nation,

Charging 50 cents a person
to see Irvy, Malone hit the
jackpot. At the Minnesota State
Fair the whale earned a whop-
ping $19,000 in 12 days.

His success with Little Irvy
and the whale truck led Malone
back to his first love—trucking.
Youngsters dubbed Little Irvy's
carrier the Boss Truck, and that
sounded tike a good ‘*handle"*
to Malone.

“I'm going to build a
screaming Jimmy diesel three-
axle tractor, the most beautiful
truck you've ever seen...and
I'm going to call it the Boss
Truck of America,"' he an-
nounced,

he Kenworth truck wha
dazzling pop art paint job hit
114 mph te set The world's
speed record for its class at the
Bonneville Salt Flats in 1971,
and the man known as “The

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Malone gives a big O.K. to a young fan who's just completed
an exact Lesney/AMT model kit of Malone’s famous “Super
“Boss,” winner of ‘the world’s diesel tractor speed record.

Malone plans to challenge his
ndag Bandit.

the big, ‘bad’ “Ba
on his AMT “Bandit” mod
on trucking with a “handle

World's Fastest’ has been in
high gear ever since.

Next came ‘Super Boss," a
16,000-pound = customized
Kenworth with a buil

1 “Super Boss” record in
while his young fan works

kit. Both are sure to just keep
on each other's progress

Photo: Dennis Yeandle

executed mold for ‘the kit cost

more than the actual truck!
Another star in the hobby kit
line is Malone’s Bandag Ban-
‘built V-12 twin

V-12_twin-turbo 1,000 hp De-
troit Diesel. The chrome, steel
and fiber glass truck sporting a
ted, white and blue color pat-
tern became the world's fastest
diesel when it clocked in at
144.421 mph at Bonneville in
1976

Soon Malone and his super
trucks were scoring at truck
shows, race tracks and drag
strips, where the ‘*Super Boss”’
reached over 100 mph in about
13 seconds.

Manufacturers of truck parts
Started sponsoring the flashy
racers (Malone was the first to
tace “'Show"’ trucks) and, as he
puts it, “the phone started ring-
ing and hasn’t quit.”

Among the companies to call
was Lesney/AMT, manufac-
turers of precision-engineered
model kit sets. Scaled to 1/25th
actual size, the ‘‘Super Boss’*
Kenworth AMT hobby kit fea-
tures six Bandag slicks, Detroit
Diesel V-12 engine, tilting
hood/fend:

the hearts o!

“MM” jeep, just one of the nine colorful, fast-wheeling Walt
Disney diecast vehicles made by “Matchbox.” Mickey's
friends Minnie, Donald and Pluto also have bright new cars to
cruise along in for endless action fun. Choose one, choose

all—then wheel along and sing a song and join the

ly, color

decals, clear plastic

windshield/windows and re-

lated accessories. The parts are

precision injested molded and,
the

It's time for Family Feasting
The main ingredients in our recipe for
holiday happiness, are over-sized
portions of friendship, seasoned with
faith and trust.

It’s also time to say thanks to all for
patronizing our establishment.
FROM THE STAFF OF

PIONEER STEAK HOUSE

1432 Columbia Ave.

CASTLEGAR

dit, a

turbo 1,200 hp Detroit Diesel,
Malone designed this speed
truck with all available power
technology, and plans to chal-
lenge it against the Super Boss’
record-breaking title at Bon-
neville,

“The Prince of Whales,"’ as
he’s sometimes called, has
eight trucks in his million dollar
plus fleet. ‘*Little Irvy’* and the
whale truck are still around,
along with ‘‘Boss Truck’* who
is hauled by ‘‘Mama Truck,’’
**Super Boss’’ who's carried by
the ‘‘Papa Truck," the ‘*Ban-
dag Bandit’? who rides on
‘*Hideout"* and, not to be over-
looked, ‘*Little Boss.”*

Malone prides himself on
never getting a speeding ticket
in one of his super trucks, but
during stints at shopping cen-
ters he's been known to do
180-to-360-degree spin outs,
leaving billowing clouds of
exhaust and tire smoke all over
Main Street, USA!

Malone considers himself a
trucker’s trucker, and plans to
establish a Truckers’ Hall of
Fame in Arizona.

In the meantime, he’s just
going to keep on truckin’!

Phone 365-6028

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of merriment and glee.
Thanks To You All

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