Rob
Part of things
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Dec 31, 2011 14:01:16 GMT
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anyone from hull/yorks remember this? mid 70's to early 80's? my uncle and aunt were members. anyone got pics? cheers!
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hull street freaks?BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Dec 31, 2011 14:19:32 GMT
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I can't help with your search but I hope something turns up! A quick trawl of the net digs up this:  Have you tried asking on Rods N Sods? |
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Last Edit: Jan 1, 2012 13:31:28 GMT by BenzBoy
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`state
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Dec 31, 2011 14:48:50 GMT
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Never heard of it/them at all but wish there was a decent club here nowadays.I`ll have to do abit of digging on google later onbut thats agreat bit of history.
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Look at all the plastic people who live without a care.Try to sit with me around my table,but never bring a chair.
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sowat
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Dec 31, 2011 15:25:57 GMT
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Try the NSRA UK or Rodsnsods forums, few of the old members on both
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Rob
Part of things
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will do sowat, thanks. yeah, hull needs a decent car club. ive seen that pic before, and my uncle and aunt remember the show....
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I too have never heard of it  We used to have a VW club, outcast, that was very strong a few years ago but it just died a few months ago we decided to change it to outcast car club and it's slowly picking up but it's still a shadow of what it was. outcastvw.freeforums.orgAs said, it's kinda dead on there but we're trying to revive it. |
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Remember the days when sex was safe and motorsport was dangerous. Vintage bling always attracts pussy.  |
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A lot of the car clubs round here have been struggling lately. Scarborough cruise went as a club a year or two ago, bridlington cruise is pretty quiet these days and I believe fast and modded have gone under now too.
Will have to sign up on outcast and get some ECM - Outcast nter club stuff going on sometime.
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`state
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Its a shame theres not a club directed at just the retro`s round here or even a meet up this way each month.See afew retro`s driving about bout don't know the drivers.
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Look at all the plastic people who live without a care.Try to sit with me around my table,but never bring a chair.
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May 13, 2023 17:26:53 GMT
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I was a member of the Street Freaks from 1980 until the club folded in the early 1990's. The club was wide ranging as members had motorcycles as well as cars and also members of both sides of the club were involved in Drag Racing at Melbourne near York. The club attended custom shows and rod runs up and down the country, the first event of any year always being Doncaster Custom Motor Show. Indoor shows had the added fun of building a club stand which with us included a back drop. The original meeting place for the club was The Blacksmiths Arms in Witham, Hull, By the time I joined the club had grown in numbers and met at The Priory Inn, Priory Road Hull. As a new member I turned up with a BSA A10 chop which I showed for a few years, during that time the spanners were glowing building a Harley Shovelhead chop which ended up with a 93 cu in motor complete with Don Blocksidge engraving on the outer motor cases.....the bike's name..Lady Eleanor after the Lindisfarne song. A great collection of Street Freak photos can be found on their Facebook page along with posts and comments from ex members as well as general comments. The club sadly is no more but the drag racing at Melbourne continues as the venue has been taken over by Straightliners who are doing a first rate job of putting drag racing back on the map in Yorkshire, check their website for lists of events  |
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Stiff
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May 14, 2023 10:55:32 GMT
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I was a member of the Street Freaks from 1980 until the club folded in the early 1990's. I remember seeing them at my school one weekend at an event being held there. I'm guessing they were still HSF before morphing into the Wanderers as this must have been '78-'80. I don't recall any bikes but do remember the likes of T.N.T. Pegasus, Minor Illusion etc. Blew me away as an excited 11/12 year old. Eta: I think Gregs Pop was there too. |
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Last Edit: May 14, 2023 10:58:24 GMT by Stiff
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May 14, 2023 14:56:45 GMT
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the first event of any year always being Doncaster Custom Motor Show. Indoor shows had the added fun of building a club stand which with us included a back drop. I used to love club stands at The Doncaster shows. Everyone seemed to put so much effort into creating a scene, like full on stage set. I remember one that was a wild west town theme complete with club members dressed in costume (unless that was their regular clothes anyway). There was another club that made thier own beach with sand and palm trees. When I have the time I'll look through my shoebox of old photos to see if I've got any from there. |
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May 14, 2023 17:36:45 GMT
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 the first event of any year always being Doncaster Custom Motor Show. Indoor shows had the added fun of building a club stand which with us included a back drop. I used to love club stands at The Doncaster shows. Everyone seemed to put so much effort into creating a scene, like full on stage set. I remember one that was a wild west town theme complete with club members dressed in costume (unless that was their regular clothes anyway). There was another club that made thier own beach with sand and palm trees. When I have the time I'll look through my shoebox of old photos to see if I've got any from there. Please do Jez, love the old Donny days memories 😎 |
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All of the cars you mentioned were around when I joined the Street Freaks, Greg's Pop RUP22 was actually used in anger at Melbourne Drag strip by Greg, TNT I remember well and Minor Illusion was built and run by Ben Walton. Pegasus was built by Dave Watson and it was an article in the Hull Dail Mail on Dave that started the road to me joining the Freaks The club also used to attend smaller events like your school and it's nice to know people still remember the vehicles. After the first HSF custom show held at Burton Constable Hall the club actually split with the die hard"s remaining Street Freaks and the rest forming The Wanderers Car Club, the split was a personal thing and nothing to do with cars vs bikes, the club still retained some nice cars after the split, one being Ken Westcott's Camero which was another club car raced at Melbourne. Needless to say at the time the split was quite something, but years later we are all talking to each other again.
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Donny Show was brilliant, what ever you liked vehicle wise there was something there for you. The club stands were judged and a prize given for best display. The Street Freak stands in latter days always had humor, but none the less a lot of work went into them. I ended up building from scratch and electric turntable to display my Harley, it did 1 rpm and had a disco type strobe rigged on a trip switch to give a 15 second burst of light each turn, all razzle dazzle but it drew the crowds. On the Sunday teatime as vehicles were leaving the show people used to line the roadside to see the cars and bikes going down the road, it was like harking back to the days of cruises.
In all of this the guy we have to say a huge thank you to, the guy who many years ago stuck his neck out and put up a lot of money to put on THE first Doncaster Custom Motor Show, the guy who started what became a tradition for people who loved custom vehicles of any form......MR CLIFF MOORE YOU ARE A TOTAL STAR.......THANK YOU!
watch this space as I will post some of the photos I have taken over the years at the show and to those who have replied on here thanks for your memories and interest.
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May 15, 2023 20:04:25 GMT
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In reply to an old post try looking up The Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club online, they have an annual car night in Beverley East Yorkshire and I think they still have gatherings at the Humber Bridge north bank car park.
As far as I know their website shows local events and how to join them.
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May 15, 2023 20:17:13 GMT
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To all those who used to love the Doncaster Custom Motor Show here is a picture of the man who started the show and ran it along with The Lone Wolves Car Club. This photo shows Cliff with his Hot Rod taken at The Kyle Cruisers Rod Run in Ayre Scotland in 1983. I had forgotten that most of the custom show photos I took were on 35mm slide so will have to find my slide copier and see if it still works so I can upload them onto here.  |
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May 15, 2023 20:46:15 GMT
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One of the Street Freak stand photos not on 35mm slide.....Doncaster Custom Motor Show and I believe the year of the club split which will make it 1981, the green Cortina belonged to Gary Lang, the Ford Pop belonged to Phil Peam, Minor Illusion Morris....Ben Walton and Marl Tomlinson's rod TNT is on the end of the row.  |
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May 17, 2023 17:28:48 GMT
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Some of the HSF club members chilling out on yet another exhibitors campsite at another rod run in 1983. From left to right....Kay Stapley.....Niki Stimpson......Nick Walker.....Chris Gibson....Dik Stapley. To anyone living near Alexander Road off Beverely Rd Hull you may remember seeing a scrap custom pickup truck in a front yard down there, complete with it's custom paint job inc Junkyard Fugitive painted on the side, the pickup bed filled with soil and the whole thing turned into a raised flower bed. This would be late 80's early 90's and was one of Dik Stapley's builds that had come to the end of it's life.  |
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I feel this is going to become a great thread.
My memories of Donny don't go back that far rattly 90s as a kid then early 2000s when the final shows were on.
Fond memories of standing at the side of the road watching the cars coming out until that was put to an end.
Do you have any slides of the custom scooters from the early days?
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Stiff
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I used to enjoy the Burton Constable shows as they were pretty close and easy to get to for a skint youth. Wasn't there only ever two events? My memory fades with age. I need to scan the (poor quality) pics I took at some point and get them up, along with the pics from the York bash 'A poke in the eye with a sharp stick' which I'm not sure whether it was HSF or Wanderers that attended. I'm struggling to think whether it was Chris Adams (RIP) 'Wild Oats' or his 203 Lowrider that was there? Or maybe both? I'll have to check the pics.
Also, I recall a pic from a while back of a trio(?) of bikes parked at the top of Harley Street in Hull. Wasn't one of them Eleanor? I posted it on my tumblr years ago. Such a cool pic.
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