WHERE W ERE YOU IN…? March
(Streetrod Manufacturing & Marketing Assoc.) dedicated to solving problems in the industry. By Debra Starbird Vogele
O n the cover of the March ’88 issue was the winner of the Mid-America Nats “StreetScene Pick,”
Nationals Awards Coordinator Bob Reed had just been appointed by the governor of Oklahoma to serve as a member of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. Bob and several street rodding friends were instrumental In Nationals News, The Siouxland Street Rodders would be the Host Club for the Mid-America Nats and provide the club’s rod repair trailer to assist participants with repair needs.
The SMMA would hold open meetings at all NSRA Divisional events and would
Gary & Wanda Birkstand’s ’34 Ford Tudor. Inside, a new association for the street rod industry was formed called the SMMA
write an update column (SMMA
News) bi-monthly for StreetScene. In Street Sweeper NSRA
F eatured on the cover of the March ’98 issue, the third winner of the 1997 Photo Contest Jeff Kneipper’s Deuce Ford roadster. “A Few
company in 1982 and the company attended their first NSRA event in 1985. For the past eight years they attended all NSRA
events stating that street rodding had broadened their line of steering hook-up components considerably. In Curbside, the NSRA
Minutes With…” talked to Gerry Zordan of Borgeson Universal about the company’s sponsorship of the NSRA Appreciation Day
majority passing all 23 items included in the process. Members of the Rod-n-Tiques present their giveaway ’23 T-bucket kit to winner Corey Orewiler at the 21st Rod Run in Mt. Gilead, OH, with a record breaking 200 cars attending.
Safety Program, now in its 27th
year, tallied 13,781 vehicle inspections in 1997, with the
pins. Gerry bought the
O n the cover of the March ’08 issue Al
Southwest Nationals would celebrate its 25th anniversary in Oklahoma City, urging
Knack’s Deuce roadster,
the second winner of the ’07 Photo Contest. In National News, the new NSRA Sunday $weep$take$ program would begin this year at all Divisional Events, three
participants to visit historic downtown “Bricktown.” In Street Sweeper, the Counts of the Cobblestone Car Club held its 50th Anniversary in Rapid City, SD, and Jay “Mr. Roadster” Ohrberg was inducted into the Grand National
under the name Mr. Roadster now made up a division of Speedway Motors. granddaughter Erica (L) and friends enjoying their ride in his Model A to their homecoming dance. Dean Benton of York, PA, sent in a photo to Write of Way of his
$3,000 cash prizes would be given away to participants at each event. Plus, the
Roadster Show Hall of Fame. The line of street rod products Jay developed and marketed
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