Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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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.
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!!
"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 story
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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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.
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!
"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 story
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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.
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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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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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....
...and FAST ! [/quote
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.
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 .....
Doc, at least you DID line up with the "Bullet"!
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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Wow, this post brought back a few memories for sure. I was cruising our local mall/pizza place one Saturday night around 10:00 p.m. in my 4 year old, bright red '70 Roadrunner. This local kid pulled up in a hoped up '70 Mustang and off we went to run 'em out on I-64 just east of Lexington, Kentucky. He had me off the start and I missed 2nd gear with my pistol grip (who hasn't) but I pulled him badly on top end with the speedo pointing straight down way past 150 mph indicated. That 'Bird was shaking like a tin can, man. Anyway as I slowed down I heard a bad rattling coming out of the engine bay, really bad. I limped it back to the pizza place and a crowd formed around my car with the hood opened. A good buddy of mine looked in and shouted, "heh guys, it's the alternator bolt! it's backed out and is hitting the fan, yeah, right there as he reached into the whirling fan idling at 1,000 rpm.....it about sawed his fingers off! After we got over the shock of all that blood, we all went in for more pizza......God in heaven, those were the day's man..........
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