History 1983 Kustom Kemps of America (Kustom pics)

This year will be Kustom Kemps of Americas Lead Sled Spectacular's 40th year. Like always I'm really looking forward to the show. Since it will be the 40th I hope to see some guys that hadn't been there for a while. Show has changed a little but still a lot of kool kustom people to talk to.

My first KKOA show was the first Spectacular in Wichita. That was the year I caught the Kustom bug. Saw the following pics posted on a social media outlet and felt like I should share them with ya guys. Looking back at them from 1983 sure brings back kool memories. If you would like to add your own pictures, please do... Happy Trails, Mick

 

Good pics, enjoyed them. Thanks

 

Love your threads. Wichita was in 81. in 83, it was in Springfield Ohio for those of you who don`t know. It was a great show and our first time in Ohio. I was just there last week.

 

Thanks for clearing it up the year confusion... You were blessed to make them. I wish I would have made more of them in the eighties. Fortunately a lot of guys took pics. Looking back, the shows were special and just too kool

 

Some pictures from the 83 show. I think we stayed at the same hotel as the pic`s were taken above. The Headquarters was down the road.

 

Love, Love, Love this Club Coupe. Just got to see it in Classic & Custom Car magazine.
The Chromed dash is the Kat's Meow..... Thanks for adding the pics.

 

You are right it was too kool. I kick myself for not attending more of them. Early eighties I was a college kid and just didn't have the money to travel. Thankfully we had Doug Reed and a lot of guys document how kool it was. Fortunately I had the Fundamentals and Gary Mundy to keep me into Kustoms.

 

A couple more from the Hotel.

 

Thanks for those great pictures. I only ended up entered at one of the events and it wasn't that big but still had some killer cars.

 

Lead East was one of Terry Cook's shows, not a KKOA production. Still cool you were there.
I did the artwork for Lead East.

Mick

 

Here's Street Rodders coverage of #1
hope you can read it , it's kind of difficult to get the print dialed in.

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Street Rodders coverage of #2

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@rudestude Wow, thank you for posting the event coverage.

 

Saw a few shots of this one in this thread. I took this picture at the Autorama picnic that we used to go to at the end of the car show season around the mid eighties.

 

It now resides in the Speedway`s Museum in Lincoln Nebraska. I get to see it yearly. I guess I haven`t scanned it yet.

 

Neat pictures, always love seeing the early KKOA pictures.

 

do you have any more information on the Green custom? car to pick-up. Did it start life as a 58 Chevy? I'm thinking it must be a 60 era custom because of the styling?

 

Here's some more coverage of #2 from different magazines...
Again sorry for the poor quality pics...
Combination of old magazines, bad eyes , dirty glasses, poor lighting, shakey hands...mmm seems like there is some kind of old warning that you would get as a kid in them words....magazines...shaking of the hand,,,leading to bad eye sight/blind ooohhh ya I remember..

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