Kurt Strecker,Viva Broncos circa 69 thru 76

[Cabo Kurt]

Greetings;

I am Kurt Strecker, and owned Viva Bronco's, San Diego, CA. in the old days . At beginning!

My wife and I hand laid some of the first Bronco fender flares and plastic hoods in the market.

circa 1969... We sold to Stroppe and Duffy. I had a small assembly line and produced a Viva Bronco roadster for street/offroad consumption for 8 years. We got to as many as 11 in a month. They are out in the country and I get emails from owner wanting info on their production and authenticity.

I had posted on your forum some info but was sailing around the world and unable to get my junk out of storage. I'm landed in Gold Canyon, Arizona and willing to share any history of the old hoss I can.

Visa Vi.

Big Ol' Parnelli

Bill Stroppe, Signal Hills

NORRA old days racing

Score and Mickey and Sal, at the beginning.

Over 20,000 miles up and down the Baja.

At one time we had more cars running Baja then Stroppe and Duffy, Fairway Ford combined.

DAVE DEAL, THE ORIGINAL Big Deal cartoonist hand drew our entire Bronco catalog and put us on the cover of Cartoon magazine, with Harry Jackman, Mears, etc..

Have scanned some stuff that might be of interest to your readers.

I was contacted by some magazine editors to do a story but lost their contact info.

 

[Tom Dummer]

PICTURES! I can't read without pictures!

 

[Unknown]

Sounds like interesting history, start at the beginning and tell us the whole story. If you need help with pics let us know.

Welcome to CB by the way!

 

[thegreatjustino]

Cool post. Would love to see some photos of the old days.

 

[NGABronco]

HaHa, Welcome aboard!!!! Hope to hear all the stories you want to share!!! (I'm sure there are some you won't share!!!);D;D

All my wheeling has been on the East side of the US, so I love to hear the left coast stuff!!

 

[glass76]

Pics, scanned images, more stories, whatever you got we want to see and hear about it!

 

[BigToe]

Can't wait to hear some stories and see some great old pics. Welcome aboard.

 

[BluebroncoNC]

Indeed! Greetings, welcome, always good to talk to folks who share a passion.

 

[NicksTrix]

welcome aboard kurt. thank you for being open to sharing some interesting history. I'd be happy to help you post up anything you'd like to submit. just email it to me. nick at nickstrix.com

 

[toddz69]

Welcome aboard, Kurt. Been a long time since I communicated with you. You were in Scottsdale the last time we chatted.

Todd Z.

 

[gritz]

This is going to be good. Please Kurt tell all the Baja stories you can.

 

[bmc69]

I was contacted by some magazine editors to do a story but lost their contact info.

I can't wait to see and hear more! And I would bet that someone from Bronco Driver magazine will be in touch with you before too long... ;D

 

[PaveBronco]

Very interested to hear Bronco History from someone who was actually there, this is going to be good.

 

[BajaBronco]

Kurt , great to see you back on here. Glad you landed and am excited to talk to you. Sent a couple PMs a couple years back about the Harris' old racer he said he remembered selling to you. Would love to know more about that Bronco, the Stud.
Anyway, welcome back.

Andrew, BajaBronco.com 4085155615

 

[Hank_]

Welcome to the site! Wow what a great history with your broncos. I would love to see the art work done by Dave (Big) Deal. I was lucky enough to purchase a couple pieces of Dave's work several years ago. Thanks for taking the time to post up.

Henry

 

[Gud Racing]

Welcome to the site! I have heard many stories about Viva Bronco's over the years.