Sears and the 1971 Mexican 1000 Here's a Baja story from the wayback machine... Who among us remembers the Sears racing team when they attempted the Mexican 1000 while advertising Diehard Batteries and Sears Steel Belted tires. Here's what I know about that. A Texan company built 5 or 6 mid-engined Corvair power buggies (five I think) and sold the idea to sears of racing them to La Paz. Sears really got behind the effort. They loaded up A box truck with enough tools to supply pitstops every 100 miles no matter where that 100 miles landed. Remember this was back in the '70 race before the paved road was built. That was back when a box truck like that could barely travel 10 mph on the dirt roads....and there were about 600 miles of dirt roads that year. There was a couple of passenger van with this truck full of the teams that would run these pits. That means it would take a week to set up these pits. I know that because the whole front beam broke