Our History
1975-1981
The Early Tin Dusters met with people from other clubs and participated in
their first road tour. The tour started off in Quincy, IL., to Pittsfield on to Louisana Mo., then to
Hannibal Mo., taken in all the beautiful fall colors along the way. At the conclusion of the tour
the group met back up in Quincy for a family style picnic.
1981
1981 saw the club host their first official Fall Color Run on Quinsippi Island.
1985
We celebrated our 10th anniversary. Our Rod Run again started to increase in size this year with the same format as before. We had 69 cars.
1986
1986 saw things change in a big way. A group of Street Rodders from St. Louis asked us to expand our event to a two day format because they were coming in to Quincy and they would be staying over one night anyway. One of the local hotels said that if could book at least 50 rooms they would host a free hog roast we booked all the rooms in the hotel! We had 223 cars that year and donated $515 to the Special Olympics.
1989
Because of the growth of the event we had to relocate from Quinsippi Island to Upper Moorman Park.
1990
In 1990 we held our 15th annual Fall Color Run and boy did things ever start happening. We had some of the local businesses donate items such as a Chevy motor a Chevy transmission and a commercial air compressor for giveaways to those attending the event. Because club members had been marketing our event the attendance grew and we had 497 cars. Unfortunately we were no longer able to have our picnic because we couldn’t feed everyone who attended. This also was the first time the club decided to identify a local charity to start giving our funds to and that charity was Camp Callahan.
1995
The 20th annual Fall Color Run was held in 1995. With the event now being held as a three day event and with the increase in cars and foot traffic we had the full support of the City of Quincy and all the local business support groups. Because of that support from the business community we were able to host a hospitality room for our Friday arrivals. With the increase in cars, 577 this year we also had an increase in revenue which allowed us to be in a position to donate $2,750.00 to Camp Callahan.
2005
Attendance continued to grow for our 30th annual Fall Color Run held in 2005 hosting 860 cars and raising $7,450.00 for Camp Callahan.