Event Coverage 1st Street Rod Nationals - 1970

You were just past being a booger picker !!LOL

 

thanks for photos
I still have the event T-shirt folded up in my rod shirt drawer

 

Thanks for sharing all the great pics. This was just a bit before my time as I was born in 71. That being said, the photos really struck a chord with me as I remember the style from my childhood going through the mags that my dad had laying around the house.
I have had a life long love affair with hot rods.
Thanks again!!!

 

Thank you and the wife for putting that together - that was great....guess I would be that 14yr kid dreaming thru the magazine...

 

Nice stroll down memory lane.

 

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, I was there and a little pissed you missed my car in the photos. LOL.
I will be searching for my slides of the event to go with my Dash Plaque. Thanks Again

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

I didn't make the trip until Detroit in 1972, but 2 of my buddies went in my former 1934 Ford chopped and channeled pickup. It even made it into Rod and Custom magazine, showing Jay Fornal welding in the broken battery box mount.

 

Does anyone have a 1st year dash plaque like this one that they would part with?
I wasn't there, only 14 at the time, but I own a '32 roadster that was once owned by Bruce Miller. Bruce later on lived in Portland and published his own magazine. I got to know him during that time. I would like to get a dash plaque to go with the car. Thanks.

 

I'm impressed that you were able to get all that luggage, tools, and spare packed into your roadster. Thank God for the luggage rack. I think I read about that trip when I was in High School.

 

Good luck, the people that attended the first Street Rod Nationals and have a dash plaque would probably never sell it ,I know John told me a guy offered him 500 bucks for his and he turned it down. HRP

 

Also carried 5 gals of gas!---Which came in handy running low in Illinois at a misleading gas station sign advertising open all night & they were NOT!!

 

Thanks for sharing OP. I was also surprised at all the T buckets. It seems like they should have a resurgence sooner or later.

 

Thanks "gentlemen" for the kind words....

"roddin-shack": I bet your cars picture was the one that was blank. Only one bad picture out of the whole bunch...lol

Tic

 

Thank you for the fine production and music selection. The cars with blowers and stack injection were special.

 

Fantastic

 

I was 16 at the time. But so under informed that I didn’t know what a Street Rod was.

 

Loved it, thanks for posting. I wasn't even a glimmer in my parents eyes in 70, (born in 77), but I sure like that era. I wonder if that style of street rod will ever come back in popularity?

@Moriarity I too saw what looked like the Uncertain-T in the pics.

 

Remember reading R&C in study hall of the "plan" for the first Nats. Dreamed of being able to0 go...but my '48 Chev would barely get me from home to school, let alone, get me to Peoria. Never made it to the Nats until '74 in Tulsa.

 

I was back in Michigan, fresh out of the USAF and my last station was in Camarillo, CA. I Fully intended to go but readjustment to civilian life got in the. Made it to Detroit in ‘72 though.

Great job on the pictures...lots of familiar cars....thanks.

 

Great job Leon! That was very enjoyable.

 

Leon,
Thanks so much for the trip down a great memory lane. I love those early Hot Rods as they are where I started back in Iowa. I was in Oskaloosa at this time, only 31 miles from Montezuma Iowa.
Did you ever go to Oskaloosa for the Rollin-Oldies Car Clubs Picnic's Rod Run held at Edmundson Park? Just curious if you knew any of the guys from that area.

So I understand that this picture was taken in 1963 of you and your wife with your Coupe, which she says you have rebuilt 3 times. Tells us about it.

 

Thanks for capturing what is THE WATER SHED event in hot rod history! My car was down, so a friend and I drove up from Rantoul in a grocery getter. I can remember the farmer's field where everyone gathered and both my friend and I were mesmerized 600 , not 200, or 500, but 600!!!! REAL HOT RODS all in one place. Now regional and some local events get that and more. But in 1970, it really was revolutionary and the official beginning of what we know today. Eternal thanks to Tex Smith, Tom Medley, Dick Wells, Cotton Werksman, and one other name I forgot, but he later started Street Rod Magazine, for doing this for us. I can't forget the Peoria hot rod club that did the yeoman work there too. The optimized the phrases that NSRA later adopted, street is neat, and fun with cars! Thanks to all!

 

Deucemac, Bruce Miller is the guy's name you're trying to think of.

Mick

 

I was 24 at the time and most of the attendees looked like I looked back then. Now most of the current attendees still look like I look now. Age is a mean mistress.

 

I did go to the Rollin' Oldies Rod run a few times. I don't know a lot of guys down there. I still go to their cruise nights once in a while. Here is a thread I posted about the '36 Ford a few years ago.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...is-finally-on-the-road.1111395/#post-12619061
You will have to scroll up to the top since I screwed the copy/paste up.

I'm just ready to get it out for the summer but I plan on driving the '34 Five Window more than it this Summer.

 

Thank you for the pictures. I made the second one in Memphis in '71. Made several more thru the years until they opened up the years.

 

Thanks Mick

 

Great pictures. Some of the guys that started our car club were there; we're celebrating 50 th anniversary this year.