Dan Jackson                                        Vito Lombardo                                   Searea Russell               


Carl Foster                                                         Chuck Dykstra                                                           Ken Firlik                    


 Troy Brewer                                                                         Bill Orrman                                                             John Plantenga

 Lyle Buffem                                                                       Warren "Goose" Hull                                 Tremolos "Greek" Karmenlago

                          Mark Telder                                                      Robyn Smith
       This group brings us up to 1978 which is when we officially became the "Grand Rapids Street Racers Association".  

  The Grand Rapids Street Racers have been around for over 35 years as a club, longer as a group of car enthusiast. We came together because we were alike. We loved fast cars and enjoyed working on them to make them even faster. We like to cruise around in them being loud and proud. We like to drag race them and we like to show our hard work off. And we like to raise a little hell now and then.  So we hung out, worked and played together as a group. We cruised downtown in the early days, when you still could. When we cruised into town everybody would refer to our group as "street racers" because we drove our cars as well as drag raced them. The name stuck. We also got a reputation for being trouble makers just this side of a jail cell. Well some was deserved some wasn't. We were after all just kids with fast cars. Well about 1978 or so one of the group, Troy Brewer thought it would be a great idea to make the club official and made himself president. We got t-shirts jackets, began sponsoring car shows and other events, Vito's 4th of July parties were legendary. Since this did not require us to do anything other than what we were already doing we said fine.
     As we became part of the Street Machine National scene we met many people like us, and made many life long friends. The club through these events became known on a national level. People we met from all over loved to hang with us cruise the night away. They looked forward to these events as much as we did. If someone from this area managed to get their car in a national magazine you can bet they belonged to our club.    
    

Here are the Street Racers from the 1980's

1979 Robert Whitman	1979 James Bartlett	1979 Larry Pratt aka"Bimbo"	1980 Rick Robinson	1980 Steven Grinwis
1980 Steve Amato	1980 Greg Wyeth	1980 George Anderson	1980 Rick Jansma	1980 Ron Sheldon
1981 Mike Arnsberg	1981 Randy Closser		1981 Steven Grinwis	1982 Kirk Wakefield
1982 Jimmer Kline	1982 Scott Leys	1982 Butch Allessio	1982 Jeff Carlson	1982 Bob Wakefield
1982 Jerry Clement	1982 Darrin Dean	1983 Dan Devires		1985 Mike Tomczak
1985 Bill Bayer	1985 Scott Oshinski	1985 Dan Fouts