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-, ,- - - - - - - - - - II III -= ~ t !' !' 0') ...... lAbovel Kevin Burke and partner Bill Mahneke kept their GS750 circulating to seventh overall. Here, Jeff Steele lGS750 • partners Tom Ballantyne and Dana Wardland another rider follow. lBelowl Dennis Smith lshow nl and partner Ken Farmer rode the Del Amo Suzuki GS550 to first in the 550 class. ' "The win marked the middleweight Suzuki's first competition win in CaIifomia. IAbovel Pat Eagan 1751leads Keith Code (251. David Emde Inland the first wave i nto the sixth turn of the first lap. Second bike to the left of Eagan's right knee in !Jackground is Wes Cooley. (Below l Scott Clough l RD350, partners Bob Crossman, David McClanahanl leads Wyman Winn lSenta Barbara Suzuki GS750. partner Phil Sedillosl inside Don Gorak lKaw 900. partner Miles McClainland Rich Cox lMotorcyclist magazine KZ&50. part· ners Brad 'Zim m erm an and Mary McGheelat the 15-lap mark. The Suzuki crashed and the Cox Kawasaki broke. Cooley and Murphy win the AFM Six-Bour By John Ulrich ONTARIO . CA , APR. 24 IAbove. left) Harry Klinzmann rode with Emde for second ove rall . IAbove. rightlln his first time on a Kawasaki. Reg Pridmore blitzed off 2:12 lap times. IBelow. left) Vance Breese (left) and Paul Ritter chugged their Ducati around 1 % hours between pit stops. lBelow, right! Dain and Alan Gingerelli teamed up on tuner John Lassak's RD400 for an astonishing fifth overall. 8 When 82 Production and Superstreet (Cafe) motorcycles roared off the grid for the 1977 version of the American Federation of Motorcyclists (AFM) Six-Hour Endurance Race, . nobody knew for sure who was going to the Eagan/Terry W augh/J ohn Ulric h win . And after about 45 survivors Yoshimura 845cc Suzuki GS750 team, howled or sp uttered across the finish got the holeshot and led the first lap , line, no body knew for sure who was wi t h Ke i t h C od e ( Racecrafters going to be declared the winner. KZlOOO, partners Cook Ne ilson and Protests of first place overall killed all Reg Pridm ore) right behind a t the hope of any officia l results until a sixth tum , trailed by Em de , Da vid complete audit of scori ng sheets cou ld Bree twor (Triumph 750 T ri de nt , be completed, a task which took all _ p a rt ne r . Jim H ab e r li n ) , Ca r r y night Sunday a nd until about noo n Keoshgenan (CB750 Honda , pa rtners Monday. ' Eric H ed ger and Rudy Ga lind o), Dick J ust before Cycle News went to Kilgr oe (Tom Farrell Kawasaki Zl , press Monday, Wes Cooley, Jr, a nd partne r John Gall ager) and th e pack,. T ony Murphy, ridi ng a Yoshim ura At th e end of the first la p Eagan still R&D of America I ,OOOcc Zl were led , with Cooley and Emde close declared the official overall winners by behind , Traili ng at that po in t were a on e-lap margin over the Mack Cycle Cod e, Keoshger ian, and Paul Ritter Center ZI of David Emde and Harry . (Euromart /Torco O il Duca ti 7505 , Klinzmann. pa rtner Vance Breese), All tha t was obvious from the sta rt was who was leading, Pat Eagan , of (Continued on page 40)