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This weeks collection comes to us from Mike Kolar in East Lansing, MI.

Attached are press packets I got when I sat in the press box at the 1987 Pontiac Supercross. The only one missing is Team Yamaha which my brother (a Yamaha fanatic) still has- it had rider photos (Broc Glover and Jeff Leisk) and are framed in his basement bar. However, I kept the rest. Check out how many riders Team Suzuki had. Also, zoom in on Ron Lechien’s riding photo- he has no gloves on! What’s up with that? You should have someone at Racer X ask him about this- inquiring minds want to know!!

- Mike

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BD25 wrote: 9:56am January 3, 2012

Very cool, I still have press kits from 88 and 89. They sure treated ya right in the press box when Camel and Coors Light were the sponsers. The buffets of food and free drink plus the freebies for every one! I still have some of the Camel note books and a couple supercross ash trays. AAAAHHHHH those were the days!!!!!!

PShaw wrote: 7:13pm January 3, 2012

Mike, I also had the same press kits that you have in your collection as well as press kits as far back as Team Yamaha 1978. Every year I would write letters to all the factories requesting press kits that included the shinny black and white 8 by 10 photos (usually a riding photo and a head shot) stickers, and posters. I had tons of this stuff, but most of it unfortunetly was ruined when my basement flooded. That was 14 years ago and i still miss having that stuff. My favorite stuff was the Yamaha-Hannah and Honda-Hannah pictures and stickers. I think Davey Coombs must have thought like me and knew people would like to look at this stuff someday. I know he has a awesome collection of MX memrobillia as well. Wish I still had mine.