The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

Central Oregon's own Bech's Big Bore Bad Boys, raced through the weekend at the Portland International Speedway.

The race on Sunday was hard fought between Bill Cotter of Seattle and Art Brumton of Clovedale, British Columbia, each driving Corvettes with 427 cubic inch engines in a field of 26 race cars.

Brumton held the lead at the first lap, but Cotter got by him going into the turn one, a tight right hand at the end of the main straight.

The two exchanged the lead several times, but Brumton locked up his brakes going into turn one about 10 minutes into the main event, then cooked his tires trying to catch up.

Brumton eventually took fifth, behind the '64 Corvette of Bruce Leven of Hobart, Washington, Jim Hague of Santa Clara, California driving a Shelby GT and Steve MacDonald of Woodinville, Washington in a '67 Chevy Camaro.

Jerry Taylor of Sisters fought off Jim Santimaw of Sunriver for 12th place. Taylor drove what he later described as his best race ever in a '67 Camaro that ran in Trans Am races in the early 1970s.

Curt Kallberg and Eric Dolson were unable to complete the weekend races due to mechanical problems.

It would have been Kallberg's first official race in his 1971 Can-Am McLaren. The wheels on the McLaren fractured in Friday's warm-ups. Kallberg's 1967 Corvette had undetermined engine problems.

Dolson pulled his 1969 Corvette after incurring the same oil pressure problem that plagued him last weekend in Seattle.