I wasn't a member, but I remember the name. I was a bit younger than Stan - graduated from Virden High in '61. The big boys would let us hang around, but we weren't in the "in" group. We were the "Potsies" to their "Fonzies."

My crowd was running 49 - 52 Chevys. Mine was a nosed and decked blue '52 post with a Corvette six, Fenton splits, dual carbs, rolled pans, '55 Pontiac bumpers on the front, mesh/doorknob grille and spiders on reversed-rim wheels. I blew away some small block Chevy V-8s at the eighth mile strip in Springfield. Lucky it was only an eighth. They were coming on fast.

Do you remember a Cadillac-powered white '32 (I think - could have been an A-bone) Ford roadster from the Virden area? Bill "Woody" Woodruff was pretty well known in the local hot-rod circles.