News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
A repository for Bruce Gezon’s “Smuncher’s Attic” column in Road Rally eNews.
Back in the 1980s, when my wife Carol Gezon and I did all of the administration for The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, there were often cartoons within the route instructions of characters and other items as done by Dave “Footie” Laffitte. One of those characters was a critter called the Sidehill Muncher[Read More…]
In a few sentences, after 60 years, a road rally tradition ended, with these two lines: “This winter’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre has been our last competition. The Old Maltese is fine; 60 years seems to be a good time to say howdy and adieu.” So, with those words, we[Read More…]
From RReNews — The Heart of Dixie Rally Philosphy, provided by Bruce Gezon from his Smuncher’s Attic rally collection, leads off with this statement, “In the Spring of 1970, several adventuresome members of the Tennessee Valley Region cast the variable main road rule upon the rally community in a Heart of[Read More…]
From RReNews — The Alfa Romeo Owners of Oregon have the Dirty Rat Rally, and we think this may go into their rally “bag of tricks.” Our sport has elders who hold the keys to long-used subtle and non-so-subtle tricks and traps. We know the RoadRally Regional Development Committee is seeking[Read More…]
Bruce Gezon posted up asking, “Anyone ever seen or used one of these?” Off to the googley-bits we went to find that Popular Science featured it in their August 1952 issue – the Tachimedion!
The highest honor within SCCA’s RoadRally Program, presented to a deserving candidate by the RRB to recognize an SCCA Member who has gone above and beyond, exemplifying the highest degree of dedication, achievement, sportsmanship, and personal sacrifice to the sport while also making an outstanding contribution to the success of[Read More…]
This month, Bruce Gezon brings us an article from The Stopwatcher, which was published on December 4, 1970. The Stopwatcher was a weekly subscription covering Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. We have chosen to reprint it here and share a copy of the original column. We asked all members of the[Read More…]
The 36th Annual Get the Dust-Off Rallye will be held on Sunday, May 4th, 2025, sanctioned by the MG's of Baltimore and is dedicated to the memory of Richard W. Murphy. It will start and finish at Dejon Vineyards! This will be a GTA (Game, Tour, Adventure) style rallye of[Read More...]