JUNE IS HERE

Tuesday, 04 June 2013 08:54 Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:39 Written by Cassidy McCoy

JUNE IS HERE and we are less than 2 weeks away from the West Virginia Day Festival! Even though we are overwhelmed working on the festival, we are not slowing down a bit. Challenge In The Hills represented another great weekend of races despite the cold, but the racers numbers have dropped so next year get your machines in Tucker County to put on a show in one of the best locations in WV. Even though the number of sand drag racers were down a little, the ones who showed up came to race and made Saturday as entertaining as always. Sunday there was still around 75 runs through the mud, including a few heart-pounding runs courtesy of Ryan Dolan and John Stull in the open class to start the day off. Things wraped up around 5 p.m. giving everyone plenty of time to enjoy themselves before the weather dropped.

Sunday, June 2, we drove South to beautiful Gap Mills, WV where we continued training Ethan, the newest member of our team,and check out the first WVMRA race of the season. Like any WVMRA race, the pits were full of fantastic machines designed to fly through the mud. They started out in the speed pit and moved into the deep pit after an exhibition truch tug-of-war. The crowd sat through the days events despite the rain and cheered with every pass from their favorite racers.

Next weekend we'll be heading to two events that we've always enjoyed. The Wood Festival in Calhoun county will be hosting a mud bog again this year after a a coupe of years hiatus. Ron Allen and his team will be hosting the race this year at 1 p.m. and we are excited to see races at the in Calhoun county again. We will also be sending a team to the Pleasants county mud boggers event at the West Virginia River & Rails Festival in St. Marys. They host a speed pit and a deep pit with things kicking off at noon. The Pleasants County boggers always bring in a great group or racers and a crowd to cheer them on so don't miss the fun at the marina this year.

We are less than 2 weeks away from the West Virginia Day Festival. Check out WVDay.com for all of the days details and join us for a day of fun in honor of West Virginia's birthday on Saturday June 15!

Muddy Month of May

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 11:55 Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:42 Written by Cassidy McCoy

May has been full of muddy events and the rest of the racing season is shaping up to be just as full of motosports fun. To kick May off we visited the wonderful races fans of Coolville, Ohiol for Swampstock's season opener of Saturday May 4th. As usual, Swampstock was host to a great group of competitors who love to race and began the day with a show and shine, which was won by fan favorite Christy Hart and her mud buggy. They competition kicked off just after 3 p.m. and began with the Speed Pit, which got a little bumpy. We took a brief intermission to watch a dry run of the newly set up hill-n-hole ocurse, finished up the speed pit and moved onto the deep pit races. The deep pit was a challenge, but most of the vehicles were able to make a full run and one truck, driven by promoter Kevin Davis, slowly turned onto its side to give me a nice view of the truck's underside. Footage is already on the Hillbilly Proud Youtube channel and was featured on Season 7 Show 6 of The Hillbilly Proud Off Road Show. For more information and future race dates please visit swampstockmuddboggs.com or find them on facebook.

Mother's Day (aka Mudders Day) was full of things to do, and unable to choose just one we decided to split up. One team headed North to Girty, PA for a day of deep pit racing at Shorty's Hollow and another team headed West to Awesome Acres in Carroll, OH for a mud bog.

Shorty's Hollow is always a good time, and Mudders Day marks their first race of the season. The hard work that Shorty, Laura and all of their helpful friends put into working the pit and maintiaing the area is evident and appreciated and generally provides so of the nastiest mud we see all year. Shorty's Hollow has been a fan favorite on the show and videos we air at events because people love to watch the vehilce fight for every inch of forward motion. The audience will usually see at least a couple of trucks fly through the mud, but for the most part they are treated to a show of mud enveloping truck tires and bodies forcing them to a hault. We always have a great time getting "Dirty in Girty" and hope to be back soon. For more information and their monthly schedule visit the website at shortyshollow.com or follow them on facebook.

The race in Carroll, OH was a little different than Shorty's, it wasn't quite as deep or nasty but it was still a challenge and allowed bigger faster vehicles to compete and put on a great show. Steve Rhymer, a long time mud racer and event promoter, and his team hosted the event in partnership with a local group dfetermined to keep kids away from drugs. Together the raised some money and put on a great motorsports show for all of the supporters who showed up despite the low temperature and ridiculous wind. Things kicked off around 10 am with a new addition to Steve's events, a class just for kids which yielded some of the biggest smiles I have ever seen mud racers sport. After that the order went from small to big, starting off with Street Stock vehicles and moving onto the super modified classes. The racers came out in flocks and the race itself had very little downtime, making for an entertaining day of filming. To learn more about Awesome Acres please visit awesomeacres.com and keep your eye on the Hillbilly Proud Youtube channel, videos will be posted soon.

Last weekend, Saturday May 18th, we went home to Jackson County for the Grasslick Mud Racing Association's first race of the year. We love the racers, the hosts and the location of this event and wish them the best of luck building it up, Jackson County is full of gearheads and motorsport enthusiasts. The day was beautiful and the trucks were ready. The venue at Grasslick Mud Races has two tracks, one shallow pit for mud/sand racing and one deeper pit for mud racing. The day started in the speed/sand pit with the larger classes going first and moving down to the Street and 4x6 Class. After that we moved to the mud pit, also going big to small on the classes. Some of the proceed go to support a nonprofit dedicating to sending care packages to Jackson County soldiers overseas, so get out there and support your local military and have some fun, for more find them on facebook GrassLick Mud Races.

This weekend we will be at Challenge In The Hills in Parsons, WV. Hillbilly Proud will be wrapping up the month with one of our favorite races, and the first race Keith stumbled upon that sparked his passion for off road racing and lead our company into motorsports. June 2 we will be in Gap Mills at WVMRA race. June 8 we will be at the Pleasants County Mud Bog in St. Mary's and at the Wood Festival mud race in Calhoun county. June 15 we will be in Sutton at our own WV Day Festival, and you should be too! And we will be at Havoc In The Hills the very next week slinging some mud, see you out there.

Spring is Here

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:02 Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:32 Written by Cassidy McCoy

Springtime is a busy time of year for Hillbilly Proud. Right now we are deep into planning the West Virginia Day Festival and trying to finalize a lot of components, we are uploading events onto WVRacing.com, we are completing our filming schedule for the year, we are already attending events most weekends, we are producing season 7 of "The Hillbilly Proud Off Road Show," we are uploading previous seasons of the TV show on to youtube.com/hillbillyproud and we are bringing out new American made merchandise. I LOVE this time of year.

The West Virginia Day Festival is coming together. We have hit a few bumps in the road so the speed pit is tentative, but most of the pieces are falling into place. The Davisson Brothers Band and the other entertainers have officially put us on their schedule, advertisers are continuously being sought and vendor applications have started arriving. Today I took some time to update WVDAY.com with all of the information that I currently have, so visit WVDay.com and mark your calendars.

WVRacing.com has been set up to provide as much information as possible about as many events as we can find. The hardest part about this is finding the information so if you know of an event in WV, OH, KY, VA, MD or PA please let me know about it so I can share it with everyone. It is also hard to find the time to sit down and edit the site, so the forum is not quite up and running. I am hoping to fix this soon to allow more people to post and share more information about events, vehicles, parts and whatever else racers want to share with one another.

The Hillbilly Proud Off Road Show airs Saturdays at 11:30 am on FOX 10 out of Clarksburg, WV. If you hve missed it, don't worry, we are beginning to upload the series onto youtube. Season 7 is airing on tv now, and season 1 is being uploaded online. The process is a slow and tedious one, so be patient, it's coming soon.

We have restocked on hats and will be picking up a fresh batch of decals from Lizards Grafx out of Grafton tomorrow. Unless it is being discontinued, we have it in stock. On top of that we now have Black Hillbilly Proud Tank Tops and Youth Mud Truck shirts. They are now available online and we will have them at events with us. Benny's Boot Hill and Bearly Used will have a trial run next week, so get them while you can.

This weekend could have been our last free weekend of the season, but instead you will find us at the I-77 Raceway in Fairplain, WV. Come out on Saturday April 20 for som OHV Sprint Car Series races and a night filled with dirt track racing.

Happy Easter

Friday, 29 March 2013 14:37 Written by Keith McCoy

We want to wish everyone a Happy Easter weekend.  Next week we expect new shirts with the design above on them. They are available now on the site for order. When a tough job needs done we put on our hard hats and go to work.  Jesus had one too.  This is the first in a line of no profit shirts that we will be offering in limited numbers.  They are priced at $13.99, which is the lowest we think we can price them and not loose money.  We may make some money off of them but it shouldn't be much after we pay for the shirts, taxes, paypal, and shipping.