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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: HYPER8oSoNic]
#506157
12/20/09 05:52 AM
12/20/09 05:52 AM
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Florida STAYcation
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The village idiot's idiot
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Hey, that sound like Jimmy Addison's ride. I
could be wrong, I thought he was a Detroit runner.
Please correct me if I am, this is too good a bit
of history to mess up on.  
 A LOT of people got dusted off by that
car.
The SILVER BULLET was Addison's car .. but I don't think the car was ever actually in Detroit. He had a Sunoco gas-station in Birmingham Mi... on Woodward Ave.
I owned that car for about a year ..... it was sold to me with a max-wedge motor in-parts ..in the trunk.
I sold the car to James Rose ... minus the engine, converter, trans and center section.
BTW ...I still have the J-converter.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: jake4cars]
#506162
12/21/09 01:19 PM
12/21/09 01:19 PM
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Now - Port Orange,Fla. Former...
MIKES_DUSTER
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I didn't start my street racing until the early 70's but I was lucky that my neighborhood was full of guys a little older than I who took me with them. This crowd included big block Chevelles and Camaros plus a lot of RoadRunners and even a couple of Six Pack cars. I grew up in central Conn so we had the Berlin Turnpike where a real mean black 67 Hemi GTX hung out and the East West service roads in Hartford. It was a great time to be young. I remember one of the older guys had Tourette's syndrome pretty bad where he couldn't hardly carry on a conversation but after three beers he settled down, stopped shaking and could really row his 4 speed Chevelle with the best of them, go figure!. The streets today are too crowded to do the same stuff but it was fun then.
Joey
My dad hung out at the Berlin Turnpike back in the 70's with a 440 68 GTX. then the both of us hung out there is the 80's and 90's with a 69 Black RR and a 69 HEMI orange notchback cuda that was tubbed. We raced ALOT on rt 71,rt 72 and rt 9. The BIG hang out was Roy Rogers in the 80's-90's. We used to do our burn-outs in the parking lot or Roys and then drive out onto the pike, and race from the light, up the hill towards the Grantmore!!!
Heres the RR
Heres the cuda at a Papas Dodge Cruise.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Mopar Grandpa]
#506164
12/22/09 12:10 PM
12/22/09 12:10 PM
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Highland, MI.
Sunroofcuda
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Highland, MI.
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Short story:
I was cruising Telegraph Rd. one evening around 1977 in my 1970 340 Cuda 4-speed - the car was a GOOD running 340 Cuda too. I'm cruising along & up alongside me pulls a 4-door 66 or 7 Coronet with 3 guys in it, the car sounds like it has a bad exhaust & it's ugly to boot - all banged-up & in primer - it would be beneath me to even race it. So I figger it's time to put these clowns to bed & blow them away - mainly to just get away from them. So we hit it & they absolutely WALK me! I mean, away they go like I was standing still! WTH???
No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: HYPER8oSoNic]
#506165
12/22/09 02:45 PM
12/22/09 02:45 PM
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Atlanta GA
spank04
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super gas
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Atlanta GA
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Woodward Ave,grew up 1/2 mi off it on catalpa from 61 on,was a great time for sure
license in 68
many rides in hot cars
many races
many junkers
driveins
dealerships full of cool cars
friends with cool cars
cheap gas
cool cops
cool park at 13 & woodward 69/70
48 imperial limo Woodward cruiser 69-71
60 val wgn
65 val ute
69 aussie val wgn
78 stepside
60 savoy 4dr
84 lebaron ragtop
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
#506166
12/22/09 04:04 PM
12/22/09 04:04 PM
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Posts: 1,141
Phoenix,Az.
hemicop
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Phoenix,Az.
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The Silver bullet was running a poked Hemi and it was that engine to be known for all the spankings it gave to the competition.
I have never heard of the Bullet taking a tour of duty out here to NY for some action, but I could be wrong.
I know if it did, then it would have gad to go through the "Mudd Brothers" and or "Heavy" among other greats to be legendary.
The only Hemi B-body I can ever recall seeing was this ugly, mud brown '67 or so. It had tinted widows, sat relatively low for the era & rarely ran anyone, but when it did, it ALWAYS won. The only time I saw it actually seem to have to try was against a '69 Camaro badged as a Z/28. What it actually had in it, only God knows, but the Hemi still beat it by about a car length--that was a close race for that car......
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
#506168
12/24/09 09:55 PM
12/24/09 09:55 PM
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Desert Tracker
HYPER8oSoNic
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The Silver bullet was running a poked Hemi and it was that engine to be known for all the spankings it gave to the competition.
I have never heard of the Bullet taking a tour of duty out here to NY for some action, but I could be wrong.
I know if it did, then it would have gad to go through the "Mudd Brothers" and or "Heavy" among other greats to be legendary.
I do believe that, Malcolm (God rest his soul,
great man), Ronnie, Rufus and "Mudd Brothers" did
know of Addison, but there was no East Coast run
ever done. If there was, VERY FEW knew of it.
 
"Stupidity is Ignorance on Steroids"
"Yeah, it's hopped to over 160" (quote by Kowalski in the movie Vanishing Point 1970 - Cupid Productions)
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
#506173
12/26/09 12:52 AM
12/26/09 12:52 AM
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Islip, Long Island, NY
BigBlockBill1951
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There was a guy I knew way back, his name was Walter...... he was a big hit at 150 st back in the mid-70's. He had a 63 Savoy (Tan) that cleaned up from the stories I heard. He was fast and good at the game you need to play. They even gave him a nick name "The Conduit Killer" At first he had no headers and street tires, then slicks, then headers, then a cage had to go into the car. Talk about a plain brown wrapper, he almost suckered me in with my nova, but just something about his car didn't sit right with me.... good thing, I saved my money, this was just when I first met him
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: BigBlockBill1951]
#506174
12/26/09 01:05 AM
12/26/09 01:05 AM
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Florida STAYcation
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The village idiot's idiot
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HOW many guys remember the rituals that some people would go-through to give-it-a-shot ? They would take 5 MINUTES or more ...with their tire-prep, changing the timing and burn-outs ....etc. Guys would plug-up traffic on 96, 696 or 275 ...even as late as 3 am in the morning  And THEN - I remember a race where a guy was racing a dude from Toledo in a nicely prepped Mustang that was on-the-hose with worn-out DOT cheater tires. He hit-the-bottle WAY too early and BOUNCED OFF 6 different cars that were watching the race. He JUST MISSED mine !
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