1981 RedBud Amateur National photos

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Werner Straube, professional photographer, came across over 200 of his old photos from the 1981 AMA Amateur National Championship held at RedBud. There were only four classes (100, 125, 250, and Open). Starting the next year, Loretta Lynn's was born. You can see them at his FaceBook site. Hope someone can do a link thing!
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BB67 3/19/2016 9:21am
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Nice, I rode in the 125 class. I dont do facebook is there any where else to view them?Thanks,BB
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Old-Man 3/19/2016 10:29am
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Is this Paul Walker Sr?
I have a Pic of you on your Husky at Pontiac going thru the whoops....have to dig it up and post it....I remember Staube as we called him, good guy

EDIT: I'm thinking of Chris Straube whom I rode with..LOL
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Gary Chaplin...remember him working at Power rider ..his business was RPM. Him and Lou had a falling out

Is that Spreeman? dude was killer fast

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Old-Man 3/19/2016 10:46am
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Man I'm loving these Pics...Amaed how RedBud changed thru the years

Lisa Akin would have made the Mains these days and do well I bet



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Hey Old-Man, did you see #36 on a 125 yamaha while you were in there? Free internet beer if you post them up haha. Should be easy to spot i had the welding hood front # plate and the goonball rear #plate/fender. Hole shot in the first moto so will be up front if he got any of that start, after that i was looking for sand every lap near the rear.
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Hey Old-Man, did you see #36 on a 125 yamaha while you were in there? Free internet beer if you post them up haha. Should be...
Hey Old-Man, did you see #36 on a 125 yamaha while you were in there? Free internet beer if you post them up haha. Should be easy to spot i had the welding hood front # plate and the goonball rear #plate/fender. Hole shot in the first moto so will be up front if he got any of that start, after that i was looking for sand every lap near the rear.
Your in luck, theres a few...remember Connie Fiest?


Look at this dude..He's either laughing or crying...lol


















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paul walker 3/19/2016 11:56am
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Thanks for posting those, Old Man. That's cool you have an old photo from Pontiac! I'm #32 on a Husky in these RedBud shots. Gary and Lou have repaired their friendship. Spreeman is #31 on a Yamaha 250. He won that weekend. So did Mark Hinkle #10 on a a 490 Maico.
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haha none of those #36 are me, unless there is a 36 in the forth photo start. I cant tell if it is 100s or 125s in that one. thanks for trying tho.Man that was a red slime fest.The track and dirt are not even the same now.
I never heard of Feist before that but he went home with the #1 plate beat Liles and Bowen.
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BB67 3/19/2016 12:10pm
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Paul, are you close to Temperance MI? i grew up there.
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Old-Man 3/19/2016 12:20pm
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lotta fast guys from the area during that time
still can"t find that pic-*/ i did find some old pics from the pontiac silverdome race back around eighties
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Paul, are you close to Temperance MI? i grew up there.
Yep. Ottawa Lake. Did you ride in the area BITD?
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Paul,we moved to FL in 1971 when I was 11 so no moto in Mi for me. I kinda remember a MX track called something like Blackhawk?? just south of Temperance but details are sketchy. My cousin and i would ride through farmers fields for miles to get there. I dont know how long that track was around after we moved.
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Who is the guy in the top hat and tails? Andwho is he talking to on the tailgate? Hoffman?

Paul Krause of Krause Racing? AKA Mr.Know-it-all?
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Piston Slap wrote:
Who is the guy in the top hat and tails? Andwho is he talking to on the tailgate? Hoffman?

Paul Krause of Krause Racing? AKA Mr.Know-it-all?
yes, Mr know it all.The other guy looks like Jon Martin but I think its Hoffman.
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Gary Chaplin...remember him working at Power rider ..his business was RPM. Him and Lou had a falling out[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/03/19/128560/s1200_Gary_chaplin.jpg[/img] Is that Spreeman? dude was killer fast
Gary Chaplin...remember him working at Power rider ..his business was RPM. Him and Lou had a falling out

Is that Spreeman? dude was killer fast

I was at this race with some of the Maryland District 7 riders, Glen Taylor, Mike Farmer, John Huston, David Witter, Skip Schildoher

I had a full blown 81 RPM KX250 that was an absolute Turbo Crank rocket!
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Paul,we moved to FL in 1971 when I was 11 so no moto in Mi for me. I kinda remember a MX track called something like...
Paul,we moved to FL in 1971 when I was 11 so no moto in Mi for me. I kinda remember a MX track called something like Blackhawk?? just south of Temperance but details are sketchy. My cousin and i would ride through farmers fields for miles to get there. I dont know how long that track was around after we moved.
Rode a few hare scrambles at Blackhawks, and Lumpy, Glen Taylor was blazing fast. Got to know the Schildhauers a bit. Mr Schildhauer was a fun guy! I lived a block from RPM's shop and became good friends with Chaplin and the Snider family. Great moto people. They did build rocketships!

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Kinda funny I was born in Toledo but we lived in Temperance. RPM was popular in FL also. I always wanted a RPM engine or at least a turbo crank. All my shite was bone stock except for the Yamaha bulletins, 60 ignition on the 250s and 250 carbs on the 125s and maybe a boost bottle???
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Remember "Impreglon" That Power rider/RPM was doing? I think that was a bunch of shit... I think Big Lou sprayed WD40 on the parts and put them in his oven to bake it on..LMAO!


Then those Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 Stage 4 engine MODS?..LOL good times

RPM had it's hay-day back in the 70's early 80's before my time
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Old-Man 3/20/2016 4:05pm
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Don't want to high jack your thread Dr Walker but I hope you don't mind me posting these pics of the Silverdome and a couple from RedBud...Think you'll and other will appreciate them.
Sorry about the Camera but it was one of those disposable Kodaks Laughing








































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Old-Man 3/20/2016 4:09pm
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The one pic there of the dude on the Honda #456 is Jeff Beckington
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paul walker 3/20/2016 6:42pm
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Thanks for taking the time to post those. The Silverdome was host to some amazing supercross racing. I remember 1200 amateur entries, and racing until 1 am lol!! And you are correct. Michigan/Ohio has produced a fair number of decent motocrossers.
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Old-Man wrote:
Remember "Impreglon" That Power rider/RPM was doing? I think that was a bunch of shit... I think Big Lou sprayed WD40 on the parts and put...
Remember "Impreglon" That Power rider/RPM was doing? I think that was a bunch of shit... I think Big Lou sprayed WD40 on the parts and put them in his oven to bake it on..LMAO!


Then those Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 Stage 4 engine MODS?..LOL good times

RPM had it's hay-day back in the 70's early 80's before my time
Should have been "Impreglon 40"haha, spray & bake that on you Turbo crank good for atleast 5 holies.Do you remember that lava shite "Extrude hone"? Was forced through the cylinder polishing the ports?That was popular for a while.
Cool photos from Pontiac, I like the ones of Stanton drinking Gatorade from a bottle. You had to shake it up, all the white goody was at the bottom and Guy Cooper and his HOT wife too.

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