WORDS BY: JIMMY DURR, COURTESY PHOTOS The b best part about sitting in In-school suspension for hu hundreds of hours as a young punk kid was that I w was allowed to take reading material from the libra library, and the library subscribed to every offroad offroad m magazine. They had years worth of them, and I stud studied them the way I was supposed to be studying studying geography. I never lasted long in the classroom. School S didn’t have much to offer me, but once I got thr thrown in the detention room I was left alone to stud study what would become my lifes work. They They did didn’t have anything called mega trucks yet, but I I l learned all about leaf springs and lift kits. My favorite issues always dissapeared from school and found themselves living in my own personal collection at home. Before long I also dissapeared from school. My last day was one of those snowy ones when school is open but nobody really knows why,(except that maybe the superintendent has a volleyball tournament in june and can’t afford any more snow days). The sixteen year old creature that would eventually become me drove his 1987 Chevy pickup truck on 38.5 inch swampers with a 5:13:1 welded rear end to school on a farmers permit and did an early days version of a Jimmy ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� the school faculty was gathered to watch. Now I’ve FEATURE 60
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