When the turbo diesel debuted, several Scout racers jumped on the bandwagon. Jimmy Jones, Jerry Boone and Sherman Balch all ran turbodiesel Scouts in the Baja 500 and 1000 races into the early 1980s. According to a magazine article of the era, in 1979 Jimmy Jones was the first person to finish the Baja 1000 race in a diesel-powered vehicle, and his Scout was also the first turbocharged vehicle to race. He set a record for the lowest fuel expenditure to that time, spending a mere $30 run the 1,000 miles.
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