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    DIRTY STUFF

    Aug 11, 2021 3 minutes
    WILLIAM PORKER

    EDITOR Andrew contacted me. “Street Machine is officially turning 40. Can you make mention of that in your next column?” “Really? Is it that long?” I checked my records to see when I began writing Dirty Stuff for then-editor Phil Scott: 1985!

    Phil wanted three columns first up, to make sure I could write good stuff and keep it up. The first of these appeared in the October/November 1985 issue, which makes it almost 36 years – and man,

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