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      <title><![CDATA[Off-road legend Stewart takes off in new direction]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Off Road Racing Staff]]></author>
      <attribution source="SignOnSanDiego.com"><![CDATA[http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/28/off-road-legend-stewart-takes-off-in-new-direction/]]></attribution>
      <createdate unixtime="1305525040" delta="37 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/16/2011]]></createdate>
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      <lead><![CDATA[Ivan Stewart has never been afraid of the boulder hidden around the next turn. 'I like challenges,' the off-road legend said Wednesday morning while discussing a major course change to his life. 'I've never been afraid of change. And I want to change directions now.' The 64-year-old Stewart is getting out of the off-road business.]]></lead>
      <text><![CDATA[“Ninety-nine percent of what we own that is off-road related is for sale,” said Stewart.That includes Stewart & Stewart Racing and ProTruck — the manufacturer of one-design, made-to-race off-road pickups that Stewart ran east of El Cajon. It also includes most of his racing memorabilia.“I'm liquidating my off-road business,” said Stewart, who will still be a representative for Toyota and could show up a second straight year in November's Baja 1000.But he'll no longer be building and supplying the ProTruck division. And most of the artifacts he has from a storied 30-year racing career will be on the auction block Aug.&#8201;28.McCormack Auction Co. of El Cajon is handling the sale of ProTruck and Stewart & Stewart Racing as well as the auction of “150 top items” at Stewart's facility. There will also be an online sale of an additional 500 items.Among the items to be auctioned are a 1967 Mercury truck that Stewart himself restored, a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air, a 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner and the race pickup that Stewart so successfully campaigned in the Mickey Thompson series of stadium off-road races.The rolling stock will include some of Stewart's race vehicles, including the two-seater that he and Bill Hrynko codrove to victory before Stewart became a famed one-man act. Also available will be the single-seater that Stewart drove to his second Baja 500 victory.There are other buggies in the inventory. There are also driving suits, shoes, parts … “almost anything you can name,” Stewart said.Why?“I'm simplifying my life,” he said. “I'm changing to something more suited to what I want to be. I still want to be connected to off-road racing. I'll still be at some of my favorite races. But not every day.“I'll be 65 next June. I've got a lot of stuff. I want to change directions.”The direction he is headed will surprise many.Stewart and son Gary have opened an electric bicycle business in Little Italy. The Ivan Stewart Electric Bike Center at 2021 India Street is a far cry from flying across open desert at 100 mph in an 800-horsepower Toyota pickup.“We sell, rent and service electric bikes,” Stewart said. “They are a kick, the perfect way to move around downtown San Diego and see the sights. We're planning to open other branches in La Jolla and Del Mar.”If this catches you by surprise, the man who once lived in a true log house atop a hill east of Alpine now resides with wife, Linda, in a downtown high-rise.“I am downsizing and re-sizing,” said Stewart, who just returned from a Harley-Davidson ride with Linda to the Pacific Northwest.“I have worked my entire life,” Stewart said. “For a long time, I installed fencing. I was great at fencing. I was good at driving and representing Toyota. We built 53 ProTrucks and turned that into a success. I'm just headed in a new direction again.“I won't have the stuff anymore that came with off-road racing. But I'll always have the people as my close friends and the memories.”And for the right price, we can own some of those memories.]]></text>
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