13th ASRF Street Rod Nationals - 1997 - Hawksbury, NSW.

13th Street Rod Nationals - 1997 - Hawksbury, NSW.

Entrants started to arrive from Monday the 24th, but things started to really get going on the official 1st day (Thursday) with the start of registrations, an informal observation run to scenic Kurrajong nearby, and a twilight race meeting at the racecourse in the evening.
Good Friday was the drag day at Eastern Creek and for an y entrants wanting an alternative, there was Australia's Wonderland theme park nearby. (we chose to go to the drags and it was fantastic!)
Saturday was an open day to the public, and was well catered for with entertainment such as bands, engine blow-ups, rocker cover racing, an impromptu show and shine, lots of cruising, rides in rods and children’s entertainment.
Sunday was another big day, with the public streaming in to see the rods in action. They weren't disappointed, with more cruising, entertainment and rides in rods going all through the day. This was also the big day for the entrants prize draws, and in the evening the major draw for the 1932 Ford Roadster.
Monday was a wind down day, with a pancake breakfast, and a cruise to Australiana Village with over 100 rods attending. Macquarie Towns Hot Rod Club put on a BBQ on the Monday night for those who stayed on.
The combination of over 900 entries, excellent cruising roads in the showgrounds complex, excitement of the hot rod drags held at Eastern Creek on Friday, big crowds for the show 'n shine (estimated at 22,000 over the event) a god selection of trade stands, plus all the other attractions arranged for entrants, made the Hawkesbury Nationals a great street rodding event, and a credit to the organisers!

Rod Hoyling VIC, 23 T Bucket. Won 1st for TOP T BUCKET	Neale Ide NSW '34 Ford Tourer. Low & Black. COOL	Steve Davies 32 Hiboy, yellow with checks, stands out in a crowd.	Martin Evan VIC Blue 34 Ford Roadster.	Greg Geary's 29 Sport Coupe ran hard at the drags.
Paul Reid's '34 Coupe captures the nostalgic look.	Peter Twidale Toowoomb, QLD, '30 Ford 2 Door Hiboy Tourer	Grant Walford's 35 Coupe. One of the many flame jobs there.	Brenton Creasey VIC 52 Ford Custom, rego JUNKB-4.	Darren Cahill QLD '35 Chev Tourer. Low production numbers.
34 Tudor Sedan & 32 Roadster from Spades Club, VIC.	Peter Quaife, VIC, 32 & 34 5W Hiboy chopped coupes.	Gary Livingstone NSW, recession black 28 Ford tourer.	Flamed 36 Chev sedan, peter Koning VIC. Top flame job.	Rod Hadfield, Castlemaine Street Rodders, 32 Hiboy.
Mario (Elvis) Colalillo, Early Editions, NSW, 34 Roadster	Nostalgic '32 Hiboy Roadster at the drags, HEP 32 rego.	Basic & fun. Leigh Gosper's '28 Ford Pick-up, NSW.	Ray Ellis, Romans, NSW. 32 Ford Tourer.	John Muscat, NSW. 34 Ford sedan. Winner TOP FORDOR.
Peter (Pedro) Wright, USA Outlaw body 34 Chev Tudor	Mathew Jansen ACT 37 Ford Roadster, Crusin'.	33 3W Coupe, blown sidey, D. Langdon TAS, State Director.	Crusin' the Complex, Chris Henry Slingshots VIC, in his blown sidevalve '27 T Pick-up. The crowd loved it!	The NSW Street Rod Committee display stand, in the Traders Pavilion, was kept busy with Street Rod Committee members on hand to answer questions about street rod rego and NSW street rod construction guidelines. Shown here, (standing) Emmanuel Cambourakis, (sitting) Bob Kurtz & Ken Baker.
The Police joined in the fun and took the opportunity to have a ride in a rod. Geoff Crone had just taken the officer pictured for a ride in his 1928 Roadster. Senior Police remarked that they were very pleased with the behaviour of the entrants throughout the event.	These 3 legendary street rods have entered and attended every ASRF Nationals since their inception. L-R, Ian Shaw VIC, 1927 T Tourer, Andy Morris TAS, A Model Tourer, Leon Spessot VIC 1940 Ford Convertible.	Ian Cameron congratulating Adam Grigg, winner of the under 21's Give Away T Bucket. The sponsors of the bucket were : Rolling chassis & body assembly - Designed Chassis, Gold Coast ; V6 Chev donated by Smits Engineering, Beenleigh QLD; Converter and Trans, Select Automatics, Geelong VIC; Wheels, Street Wheels, Penrith NSW ; Tyres, Huskisson Tyres, NSW ; Chroming and Polishing, Custom Chrome, Nerang, QLD ; Paint, Mathew O'Loan, Logan QLD.	Maurice & Marlene Hall of Canada, presented their Canadian Pick trophy to Graeme Martin for his 1934 Ford Hiboy Coupe. The Hall's picked up a trophy themselves for Longest Distance Travelled.	Ken Brownlee of Deuce Customs VIC congratulates the winner of the 32 2 door Tourer body. This was the first one out of the mould in Ken's new line of body styles which are already proving to be very popular.
Peter Hayes, proprietor of Windsor Cycles and a member of Macquarie Towns Hot Rod Club, donated an alloy BMX bike as an entrant give away, which was won by Nicole Stewart.	This great prize of a Fiat Topolino pedal car was manufactured and donated by the Pain Doctor (Hans Kreuzen) of Maryborough QLD. The frame was set up by Windsor Cycles NSW, paint by Charlie Saliba NSW. Lucky winner of the pedal car was Peter Bartlett of Victoria. Junior Rodders Jessica and Adam Goodhand are shown here beside the pedal car wearing their Junior Rodders T-Shirts. Adam won the under 9's colouring competition.