You have to join the forum to see the page. Here's a glimpse from the East-Coast Street Racing section:
New York and New Jersey offered some of the most intense street racing the world has ever seen. The period from the mid-1960s through the early-mid-1970s was most certainly the pinnacle of the action. During this period there was something of a battle going on between New Jersey and New York street racers. This battle though, raged on during the night and into the early morning hours before sunrise. Most of the action between racers of the two neighboring states battled it out in the streets of New York - the New Jersey guys would come and take on the racers from Brooklyn, Queens and the other boroughs of New York City. Entering the late 1960s, it is said the NJ racers began making the NY racers look bad. They were winning and thus taking a lot of money off them. New York was the location of big time, high dollar, all-business street racing. During the time period there was also a heavy connection between street racing and drug dealing, as many of the successful racers funded their street racing activities (new cars, parts, tune-ups, etc.) with cash funded through the sale of drugs, notable heroin. The wave of NJ racers storming into NY and winning would not last though, as a few certain individuals from New York turned the tides and began sending the NJ boys back home - and with much thinner wallets than they arrived with. Two of the NY racers who were largely responsible for this went by the names "Super John" McFadden and Ronald Lyles, both from Brooklyn. These two, among several other New York and New Jersey racers of the time, went on to race professionally in Pro Stock - several of them becoming very successful. There were several other racers of the time who would eventually go down as legends in the history of street racing. Continue reading below to be introduced to a few of them. Also note that the racers listed on this page didn't just race from stoplight-to-stoplight for grins, they were driving real all-out race cars on the street and raced for thousands of dollars on a single run. This was big-time, serious, all-business street racing.
Lots of history and pix. Highly recommended.
Oh, here's another link to a long Van Nuys Blvd. thread on same forum that you can view without being a member:
