From motorcycles to Swamp buggies; from Pike's Peak to Baja California - "Dirt" covers the world of off-road racing and competitions.There is humor, drama, and suspense in this light-hearted view of off-pavement competition.Children will enjoy watching most of the movie because of the unpredictable nature of off-road mishaps, heartbreaks and raw adventure...Of particular interest in the coverage of the 1976 SCORE Baja Internacional (500); 1963 Indy 500 winner Parnelli Jones and legendary Walker Evans who join forces in their switch from Fords to General Motors products and they take on the light and nimble Sandmaster buggies of Johnny Johnson and Bobby Ferro, the V-8 of Mickey Thompson's own buggy he called the "Challenger" and an unpredictable handful of potential winners who would capitalize on any mistakes to front-runners!
Footage captured between 1976 -1978 by Producer Roger Riddell provides a "Viewer Friendly for Families" collection of varied types of off-road competition throughout the U.S. and Baja California; with some trending Pop Culture music of its time, viewers will enjoy the gregarious narration, the vibrant momentum and will walk away at the end, thinking: "Those folks really had some good old fashioned fun!"