While browsing a few of my favorite message boards I came across this Explorer that I had to share with all of you. I contacted the owner, and he was nice enough to provide us with some great pics and the details of building an Explorer Prerunner that makes for a very versatile prerunner.

The owner of this daily driven Explorer prerunner is a full time student at Cal State San Marcos, Dave Richardson. Along with thrashing around in the deserts near San Diego where he lives he is also an avid surfer.

I am surprised it took so long for someone to come up with this. Mini Trophy Trucks called Trophy Karts. Most might think these are just for kids, well kids do race these in CORR, but for the kid at heart they are a blast!

Owner - Tim Shedarowich Aka Timmy of Dirt Alliance

I met Travis Siflinger of Dirt Alliance at the SoCal Dirt and Sand Expo in August. I knew he had connections to some great prerunners so I ask him to send over some pics, and let’s get them in the magazine. This is the first of many to come.

If you know anything about Prerunners then I am sure you have heard the name Dixon Bros Racing. They have revolutionize the offroad industry by creating long travel suspension kits while still being able to retain 4WD. The Dixons have a long history in offroad racing, and it doesn’t hurt that they have engineering backgrounds. Their background shows in their products. You can see for yourself with the front-end Long Travel Suspension build of our Desert 4x4 Project Ford Ranger.

Early last year I was looking through an issue of Four Wheeler magazine and saw that they were starting a project deemed Project Range Runner. This project was going to feature the new trend in Long-Travel independent front suspensions systems used on four-wheel drive trucks.