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Originally Posted by Shmoov69 (Post 316569)

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??

Wow!! Those prices are CRAZY!! I believe it was Special Events(now Family Events) that ran it. It would be cool if you found some pics you wanted to share.

I know there have been some people talking about bringing back the Street Machine Nationals show. I have been working on it as well(by myself though not with anyone else so far). I know the city of Duquoin wasn't too thrilled about bringing it back. As far as it being next year, I have not heard anything concrete about dates, places etc yet.

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Originally Posted by kochevy67 (Post 316572)

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

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Originally Posted by CamaroBeau (Post 316591)

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

kochevy67- Cool! I'd really appreciate it!

If anyone posts some pics here, would they mind if I used them for the website? I am not the type to take any photos without permission so, if you post any, please let me know if I can use them.

Also, if anyone doesn't have a scanner (and they feel comfortable doing so), they could mail their photos to me, I could scan them and send them back. I would be willing to reimburse any shipping costs and pay to ship the photos back to you.

Thanks!

Michael.

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Originally Posted by NotStock Photo (Post 316462)

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

Thats funny,..... I went a couple years. I saw some stupid and funny stuff go on after the show when everyone was cruising, They were good times!! Only a handful of guys were building the high end cars then. Mark Grimes has the blue 65 Malibu still, Wonder where some of the other cars are.

I wonder the same thing. I know Scott Sullivan still has his 55 Chevy. Rick Dobbertin's J2000 is in a museum somewhere, I think he still has his Nova. Rocky Robertson still has his Buick. Mark Grimes still has the Malibu. Other than those cars, I have no idea where the great cars from back then are. I sure wish I knew!!

Michael.

Here's some;

http://www.hubgarage.com/mygarage/fa...vehicles/21132

Here's some more.

http://www.hubgarage.com/mygarage/la...vehicles/16907

I was there for few years right out of around '94, right out of high school, barely remember most of it, :cheers: The Springfield nats wasn't even in the same ballpark as Duquoin. This sounds like something an old man would say, but that was a different era. :hail:

My current car was there at some point during the 80's, it had the green windshield sticker from the event up until a few years ago.

If anyone finds a picture of a black 69 Camaro with tilt front and 3 piece second gen style spoiler, it's mine now! Goofy looking by today's standards, but was probably cool back then.

I was there is 83' holy crap what a blast. Slept in the ditch along the fence. Watched cars drag race along the north side two lane. We were at the top end standing on the edge of the road as cars roared past at 2am.

Watched an AutoBuff photo shoot. ( They had two guys holding a giant sheet to try and block the nude model ) Drugs out in the open along with booze. A cop told us we could get away with anything that weekend except murder.

Sorry no pics just burnt out memories.

Does anyone know how many years they made all lanes one way around the fairgrounds for this event?

That was the 1st show I ever did by myself as a teen. took my pink pro street 69 camaro I was 19. was a blast me and buddies went. the cruising the burnouts, street racing oh yea

IMO, thats pro street race car look is still bad ass.