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Style is the man himself. - Genges-Louis De Buffon in Discours sur le style

"Young men trying to be someone and their friends are there while their trying to do it."

 

The Aurora Autocrats

gather around a Chrysler 300 in 1995.

Signatures added later by those attending 2006 reunion.

Bill Abrams, Norman Abram, Harold Bise, Bill Born, Alvin Clark*, Shirley, Jim Claypool, Virginia, Larry Conway, Larry Conway, Jim Conway, Jim Corbin, Sylvia, Dale Cutsinger, Darold & Pat Cutsinger, Bob Dreyer, Herb Gordon, Don & Fran Gregory (photographer), Dave &Rose Gumz, Merle Harris*, Chuck & Colleen Haussman*, Chuck Holgren, (son) Tom Holgren, Jerry & Carol Hutchinson, Steve Idoux*, Bob & Donna Jones, John Lies, Jerry & Sharon Livingston, Paul & Donna Livingston (not AA member),  Bob & Jan Louden, Gerald & Phyllis Meyers*, (not related) Jim Meyers*, Clyde & Shirley Miller, Bob & Lois Moser,  Wilma A. O'Kane, Bill Paschall*, Harold Pennington, Ron Saltzgiver, Dan Smith (non AA), Roger Thompson, Ben Torrance, and Jim "Woody" Woodrow. (*possibly deceased)

Don Gregory's son has the "Hulk", Rick Gottman, & Ron Pellegrini.

Lloyd Scott of Long Beach, California smashed al existing drag racing speed records with a sizzling 151.007 mph (11 seconds best elapsed time) at the second Annual World Series of Drag racing.

 

1940 Fords

 Many racers had car clubs and 40' Fords in common! Here in 1956 is Darold Cutsinger's 1940 Ford coupe in front of the National Hot Rod Association's Drag (Safety) Safari trailer for the 1st Regional Finals in the Midwest held at the Oswego Dragway. 

1956 Oswego left, 2006 Hunnert Car Pile-up right and below the 2006 PrairieFest Car Show

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