Post by Dan Erikson on Jan 10, 2006 19:28:20 GMT -5
Last Feb. former IRA Supermodified competitor Ken Monroe and I got together to look through his late Father-in-law Collis Pearson's color slide collection. 4 trays of slides in all that proved to be a wonderful time capsul of Super Modified racing in southeastern WI and northern IL. Most covered 1968-1972 racing at Wilmot and Lake Geneva! We invited 10 guy's we thought would be interested in looking with us and asked them to bring some of their favorite pictures. We also asked them to let others know as well.
Within an hour we had more than 50 people looking over pictures, standing in small groups talking about their favorite memories from the old days! It was truly great to see this many people show up on such short notice. Ken and Colleen Monroe set up the slide projector and started flipping through the slides.
Almost every slide drew comments and stories from those in attendance. It was a great time!!
We will be gathering together again this year in the same format.
Tables will be lined up around the hall. Anyone wishing to bring pictures can set them out for all to see. No fancy speeches!
Come as you are and look for old friends!!
Ken plans on bringing the slides and thanks to Larry Horkan I should have some Super 8 converted to DVD to watch from 1973!
Join us at the Genoa City, WI. American Legion/ Barry's Bar located at 332 Fellows Rd. Yahoo Maps should get you there pretty easily. Our start time is 1 PM until
We hope to contact as many former SuperModified drivers as we can.
If you know one please tell him about this gathering!!! I'm looking for contact information for many of these guy's as well.
Crew members and Fans of the Supers are more than welcome as well!
I'm hoping to post names of those intending to come at my site www.fieldtrumpet.com/VintageIRA
Anyone wishing to contact me can call my cell at 262-210-1026 or email me directly at fivedes@execpc.com