Re: [BaadAssGremlins] NSRA

Really Doc. I was looking around the net and you would think the 30 year and older rule was going to be the end of NSRA. I was excited about the fact that after the last 10 years of riding around the outside they were finally going to let me in as a participant. After reading these things I don't think I want to go. While I know it is no 100,000 dollar show car my Gremlin is mine and I have fun if they don't want me there who cares. Second I am not a big fan of street rods to start with. The ones with the full bodies on them are pretty sharp but so many are just frames, V8 engines and a bolt on fiberglass body. You look at a hundred of them then they all start looking alike.

Terry

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Mr. AMC <AMC74HORNET@ webtv.net> wrote:

From: Mr. AMC <AMC74HORNET@ webtv.net>
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] NSRA
To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 7:07 AM

The NSRA in the 70's had a Street Machine/Van division. I know because I was a member. There was 1200 cars and vans at the 1977 event in St. Paul Minn. I know because I was one of them. My wife's 2 sisters lived in Minneapolis. So I had a free place to stay. Drove the 1200 miles myself with my wife, her youngest sister, my 8 year old daughter and 18 month old son. All of us stuffed in my yellow Hornet. Car was 3 years old with 30,000 miles on it. It broke down a midnight on Rt#80 somewhere in Bum ~!@#$% Pennsylvania. When the sun came up I fixed the car and was on my way. I ended up with a picture of the car in a collage of pictures at the start of an article about the show in the Nov. 77 issue of Hot Rod Magazine and in the NSRA Street Scene Magazine. I did become a member of a local car club, the Westchester Street Machine Association who were affiliated with the NSRA Street Machine Van division. I ended up holding 2 different club officer positions before the club changed to the Westchester Street and Marine Association. Boats were not my thing so I left. The trip to St. Paul was the trip of a life time for me. I still have the wooden plaque with the picture of my Hornet on it saying "I Drove 1977"
"Doc"