So, a side-project of mine for a long time has been the Dirt Empire. The vision for it is to build a large network of desert-related websites and forums covering many different off-road and dirt-related topics such as prerunners and desert racing (trophy trucks, truggies, buggies, etc.), motocross (competition, freestyle motox, etc.) and even other dirt-related hobbies (off-road RC cars, bmx, downhill mountain biking, etc.).

DezertS10.com is the place for S10 Prerunners owners to come together and discuss their favorite off-road platform! S10′s are cheap and can be modified to well-performing desert trucks for an affordable price nowadays. They are pretty capable and their 4.3 V6′s have lots of potential! They are basically a small block 350 with two cylinders chopped off. You can run a lot of parts for a SBC Chevy on them with little or no modification.

So for you all desert guys out there rocking GMC Sonoma prerunners or Chevrolet S10 prerunners, join the crew over at DezertS10!

San Diego based company Racer Services built the new trophy trucks (desert trucks, prerunners) for the “Fast and Furious”

I was out to dinner the other night when I stumbled upon this gem. Looks like they run Windows on the gas pumps, and well.. we all know what happens when Windows is involved! BSOD!! I pulled up to the pump and instead of the usual looping ads, I was confronted with a blue screen of death. It looks like they were running Windows XP and didn’t set it to automatically reboot on halts. I thought this was hilarious.. time to get Geeksquad out here to fix the pump!! LOL! I had to take several pics, here’s one of the better shots.