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Yes I do. The Volvo belonged to a friend of mine that was known for building some out of the head cooky car combos that ate everyone for Dinner.

He had a Dodge Diplomat yellow cab with a low-low 12 second 340 in it that was wrecking havoc with all the Grand Nationals back in the mid eighties.

The motor in my car now is original 413 I bought from him way back out of a station wagon.
He is one of the fastest talking Puerto Ricans I know. Old school sweet gent that will cut your marbles off with a mean combo.

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Then you also remember that wicked mid eighties
Toyota Starlet/Tercel with a hyped up RX7 rotary
engine and drivetrain. Came out of the South
Bronx, I believe. Mopped up a LOT of runners back
on the Conduit (150th), The Hutch and Cooper Av.

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AAAAhhh, Connecting. Where Chrysler probably invented their Direct Connection logo.
I drive through those caverns almost every day during the Summer when I go fetch my Dodge from upstate Sleepy Hollow.

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I just simply nicknamed it "The Queens
Track/Strip". Still a memorable favorite of mine.
Great place to .

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Certain BB Cuda was probably Billy from upstate. He had that thing on kill covertly running high 11's with stock HP exhaust manifolds way before the F.A.S.T guys were in vogue. All due respect to the F.A.S.T guys.
Drunk Mike or Budweiser Mike was no joke on the go pedal and steering. The more he drank, the better he drove and cut a mean hand drop.
I DO NOT condone drinking and driving, especially racing.
For the record, Fountain lost its edge once the un-appreciates bled over from Columbia St. aka Redhook.

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Alcohol+11sec. ride equals collateral
damages, lawsuits, hospitalization leading to the
avenue of DEATH. . AS far as the
spillage from Columbia St., the actual problem
was wannabee spectators who wanted to "create their own runs" wheras pro runners like yourself
organized it SAFELY and PROFESSIONALLY!! There is
no place on the street for the foolhardy or the
showoff. The concept is to line up, get it on
quickly/safely and DISSAPEAR!! Organization is
the KEY!!

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I'm thinking we need some more racing stories like (1) how did you entice a guy/gal to a race? (2) Did your date ever sit shotgun when you were racing? (3) Did she yell at you to either slow down or go faster? (4) Did she give you a big ole sloppy wet kiss when you won? (5) Did she smack you in the head when you lost?

We need more details for the younguns. They missed out on some pretty good times when things were a little safer and I think a lot more fun.

So go back to the archives of your brain and share some more of your street racing memories.

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this pic, from the late 80s with my son,

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Yes I do remember that Starlet. Dark Brown in color with nothing left in it but the Rotary.
The skinny Spanish kid behind the wheel could drive a mean stick shift.

I was cleaning house that day on First Ave and then they bring this thing on a small trailer and try to sic it on me, I declined with a bow and said, it's all you now, the rest of the pie is for the taking.
I was smarter than I looked.

There was also this rugged ghetto assembled white MG with a Grand National turbo motor stuffed in between the fenders, and I mean stuffed. The hair dryer stuck out the flimsy card board hood like an alien exiting out of Sigourney Weaver's stomach.
Never could get it to spool up enough.
Later after some good fine tuning hands were on it, it turned out to be a terror on 150th st.

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Yeah, that same Starlet waxed over a 78' Nova
on the Conduit (150th). The Nova was blue
and ran pretty hard on the street. The guys that
ran the car were from Ridgewood/Glendale area.
They were pretty much on their game, not that
night. That MG sounds like it's local, maybe off
of Rockaway Blvd.(near the airport). Seen it once
before the GN motor was installed. Interesting
how they made it work!

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I saw a couple of wrecks at Fountain, one was a really nice 57 chevy made a pass and hit a car on the topend, another was a vette and Grand National hit each other taking off on the starting line.

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Yeah there were some brainless knuckleheads out
there. The "old site" at Fountain, used to be
really smooth back in the late 60's (pre-Starett
City). Kept up the surface before the dump closed
down. When they started racing on Vandalia St.,
it was good till more people crowded the area.
Walking around the cars during runs or stepping out in the path of the cars during runs. Just
plain stupidity!!! A guy almost lost his eyesight
due to steel cords shooting off the rear tires,
holding the rear end down on a car doing a hard,
dry, burnout. Or launching a car, only for it to
lose traction 100 feet out and plow into the crowd. Bad night for everybody!!! Flatlands wasn't
as bad but also had it's nightmares also. The bad
thing about Red Hook was that the roadway was
kinda narrow to run and if you were not careful,
you could either go into "the drink" or T-bone/
headon crash with some unsuspecting car being
nosy. Really hairy place to run, great if you
cut a race very late (few people). But one way
in and out, bad news for getting caught.

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AAAAhhh, Connecting. Where Chrysler probably invented their Direct Connection logo.
I drive through those caverns almost every day during the Summer when I go fetch my Dodge from upstate Sleepy Hollow.

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Just to put it out there, the Fount is probably
off-limits by now. I might be years late with this info Lee, but you are probably w-a-y ahead
of me on this. Bad news.

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M G ..... oh - I got beat - and VERY badly !

HE hooked ... and I did not. LIKE it would have made a diff anyways !!

The THING that was the most-impressive about that car .... was it was QUIET....

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Doc, at least you tried. My hat is off to you.
Had it been me, he would have burned me 60 feet
from the start. I pick my street fights well, he
would have knocked me out of the ring!!
Good thread, man.

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Doc, I did get a chance to see the online tribute
to the Silver Bullet. The argument as far as the engine/tranny was really heated, but I don't
remember Jimmy running a Bauman-style scoop or
a tunnel ram setup on his car. He did built it to
be incognito and of the stelth nature with a
stock ramcharger hood scoop. The car that Manuel
had was a built up version of Jimmy's X. It looked
more at home on a trailer, or with slicks in the
staging lanes of Michigans dragstrips. Very interesting thread man!!

H S ... TRIED ? ..... that "race" was done with a MAJOR .....

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Doc, at least you DID line up with the "Bullet"!

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With all due respect,
the reason why Highways were utilized for a good run was that the cars in New York were to fast to try and race on an ordinary street.
Like I said before, I would have loved as well as the rest of the street world for that matter to have seen a run off with Detroit's Silver Bullet up against one of New York's finest.

I still love the Detroit street stories of legend with a passion.

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MO-TOWN + MO-PAR = MO'BETTER GOOD TIMES.