The stunt that inspired The Mint 400: Two dune buggies traveling off road from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe, September 1967 Thank you Steve!

Four young men in two dune buggies took the 577-mile off-road trek as a promotional stunt for Del Webb Corp hotels The Mint and the Sahara Lake Tahoe. 

 The drivers set out from Las Vegas on September 7, 1967, and completed the route in 99 hours, 22 minutes.

The following Spring ‘68, Del Webb Corp expanded the desert race into the competitive, The Mint 400, which has continued ever since.

The Las Vegas group made their own roads as they went along, cutting wildly over the 600-foot dunes in the Armagosa Valley, pushing through streams and over desert flats and, finally, up the precipitous Sierra foothills to the shore of Lake Tahoe.

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