February: A very popular pasttime in the NRSCCA was to run the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Massacre was a national participation map rally on a Rand McNally road atlas with a course from one end of the coast to another, run with a set of what could only be called diabolical instructions. The contestants had approximately one month to answer a set of questions. Nebraska Region had about 10-12 members who ran this event every year for many years, and some of them even trophied!
April: On a Thursday morning during spring break, a new member was added: April Doctor. April didn't actually join SCCA until several years later, but her birth didn't inhibit her parent's participation in the club. April's first "SCCA road trip" was to the Des Moines Challenge at three months of age, along with her parents and Bill and Eileen Berg in the Berg's motor home, which parked for the night in Greg and Sam Scharnberg's driveway. Greg and Sam live outside the city and they have roosters ... 'nuff said.
May: News Release SCCA: "After more than 10 years of silence, Continental Divide Raceway is being reopened by Colorado Region." A driver's school / regional was held Juny 27-28. At that time, Colorado was still a part of MiDiv, so this was great news for our drivers.
September: At the National Solo II Championships in Salina, Kansas, NRSCCA had another driver, Gar Anderson, bring home a first place trophy.
December: The Governor's Cup was changed to the Worker's Cup and Lance Kilgore was the first worker to receive it.
(award) "Worker's Cup
January: The year started off with an Ice-Khana at Dam Site 11 at 96th and Fort Streets.
April: Nebraska Region participated in the Omaha Auto Show.
August: The Des Moines/Nebraska Challenge was at Eppley Airfield and was put on by Molly Riley (Anderson) who was a former member of DMVR before moving to Omaha in the 1970's.
Also August: Nebraska Region held the MiDiv Solo II Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Air Park. There were 22 NRSCCA drivers entered (out of a total of 117 entrants).
September: NRSCCA held a dual-driver Solo II at Southeast Community College. A dual-driver event teams a novice driver with an experienced driver and their times are added together.
January: The National Convention was on a Cruise Ship to the Bahamas. About the only meeting held was the R.E.'s meeting and the rest of the four day trip was just plain fun.
April: About 13 years previously, Jerry Miller talked a group of about eight to ten NRSCCA members into working the local Pine Wood Derby. Each year the SCCA would be asked to return and this year was no exception. John Bly judged the Pine Wood car show and he really got into doing that. He even decorated his own car (but didn't run it).
November: A new class of race car was introduced: Sports Renault. SCCA announced that the program went over the million dollar mark in the first two days.
December: The annual banquet was "hexed" and had to be rescheduled for January. If the ice storm that cancelled it originally wasn't enough, when the banquet was finally held in January at the Skyline Woods Country Club, they had only one working oven and, needless to say, the dinners weren't served exactly on time.
January: The Snoball Slalom was held at Dam Site 16 (Standing Bear Lake) and there were no problems with the ice this year. It was 16 inches thick!
April: NRSCCA held a "Split Rally" which started at both Lincoln and Omaha and ended in the middle at Louisville, Nebraska.
Also April: Back by popular demand was the Dual Driver event at Southeast Community College which again teamed up a novice driver with an experienced driver.
June: The NRSCCA was part of the Omaha Motor Sports Spree. We held a Solo II on the streets of downtown Omaha.
