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This weeks collection comes to us from Shannon Gillette in Arizona.

After seeing the Superbowl of Motocross shots and hearing they are adding the New Orleans Super-dome back on the circuit I got to thinking about these pictures I had. I took these at the 1980 New Orleans round of the SX series. I used my 110 camera I bought with my paper route $$. I was 12 or 13 years old at the time. My dad was a longtime racer and Indian Dunes local. We had moved out to Panama City, Florida in 1976 and lived there until 1982. Anyway, my dad use to race all the GNC AM. day stuff on the Sunday's after the SX events, so we went to lots of SX events from as far back as I can remember. I saw Darrell Schultz win both of his Daytona's too!!

Luckily I still had these awesome shots in the photo-mat envelope. hahahaha.. Here some of the shots I took in 1980

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MXflorida wrote: 6:37pm December 27, 2011

I was a mechanic at this race, great to see the old pics !

zoom804 wrote: 8:17pm December 27, 2011

Nice stuff Shannon...For those of you that don't know Shannon, he is the PR machine behind the ABA (American Bicycle Association) the biggest BMX sanction in the country, which just joining forces with the NBL (National Bicycle League). Not only can he rail a BMX bike, he was one of the first group of riders to start riding 4 strokes back in the late 90's.

joemotocross589 wrote: 5:22am December 28, 2011

The photos of doug demokos*sp? bring back a memory. I raced w/ doug in michigan before all the wheelie king started......250 moto a branch county competition club...gee like 1977.....Racing near the front, then all the sudden Doug was no place to be seen, few laps later, I see the cat, wheeling, non stop around the track???? Next thing ya know everybody knows who he is, R.I.P. doug.