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michael6372 · #1 11-11-2010, 09:45 AM

Hello everyone, I wasn't real sure where to put this but I thought off topic would be the best. If it's in the wrong place, I apologize.

Just thought I'd ask if anyone here used to go to the Street Machine Nationals during the 80s & 90s in Duquoin, Springfield etc., etc. Do you have any photos or experiences you'd like to share from those days? I was never able to go to any of the shows back then but I love the cars from those days(just as much as the cars of today). I have a website dedicated to street machines and am looking for photos, stories etc. to give people an idea of what it was like back then and to show how street machines have evolved into what they are today. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you

Michael.

michael6372 · #2 11-13-2010, 12:03 PM

Anyone??

Wrecked Em · #3 11-13-2010, 01:50 PM

I was there in 88, 89, and 90. I had a great time each year.

DIGI-TAILS · #4 11-14-2010, 06:19 AM

I appreciate your effort to reconstruct the evolution. I hope members here would be willing to share the photos they have. Good luck to your endeavor!!!!

NotStock Photo · #5 11-14-2010, 09:38 AM

Man if it wasnt for Duquoin when I lived in Southern Illinois I might have thought prius's where cool

kochevy67 · #6 11-14-2010, 11:46 AM

I also was there in 88-90 and thought it was great. I have photos but obviously they are not digital they are stuck in an album somewhere.

By the way Escanaba is a cool town I pass through there on my way to our sled trips when the white stuff falls.

michael6372 · #7 11-14-2010, 05:47 PM

CamaroBeau- Thanks for the kind words! I'm hoping someone will want to share some photos...

NotStock Photo-Love your work! Duquoin was the place for sure. alot of history there. Makes me wonder what the cars built today would be like if it weren't for those times...

kochevy67- It snowin' here tonight. Just flurries though, so far...

I know there were no digital photos back then. I also know it can be a real P.I.T.A. to scan and send photos. If you want to share some photos anyway, I might have a solution to the problem.

THANK YOU!!

Michael.

Shmoov69 · #8 11-14-2010, 09:33 PM

Well, I live in Springfield and always have......so I've been to bout all of the ones here. They used to be awesome, but Special Events or whoever it was pretty much ruined it. Raising prices to where it was $65 or so to put the car in and got nothing really. And the gate price was like $15 a head for spectators. Just too much IMO. The local police did not help matters too much also.
Wow, stories.....LOTS of "after show" festivities in the beginning needless to say!! I am still amazed that nobody was ever hurt! The local dragstrip has had their big event of the year that weekend for the last 20 or so years also. But if you didn't want to go there, you could stay in town and see plenty of racing on the streets!
Pictures? That will be hard to find some good ones, but I'll try. I heard that it is coming back here next year, truth??

kochevy67 · #9 11-14-2010, 10:34 PM

I have to see if I can dig any of them up.

DIGI-TAILS · #10 11-15-2010, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by kochevy67

I also was there in 88-90 and thought it was great. I have photos but obviously they are not digital they are stuck in an album somewhere.

By the way Escanaba is a cool town I pass through there on my way to our sled trips when the white stuff falls.

you can scan those pics and share it here...