Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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06/18/10 09:23 PM
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Ah Fugggetttabbouttitt!! We are ALL the same behind the wheel, under the hood or on the sidelines. It's just the ignorant ones who bring the tensionon!!
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeet...some are a LOT better than others when "behind the wheel" and "under the hood."
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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06/20/10 02:04 PM
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Ah Fugggetttabbouttitt!! We are ALL the same behind the wheel, under the hood or on the sidelines. It's just the ignorant ones who bring the tensionon!!
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeet...some are a LOT better than others when "behind the wheel" and "under the hood."
Qwik426
That may be true of driving skill, but the issue here is the BS that keeps us from having good runs /helping out one another to run better/good friendship and sportsmanship and keeping things SAFE and ORDERLY. Fights, drunkeness, disagreements due to social/religious backgrounds even RACE, is not my idea of enjoying "late night runs" or spectating/running at the strip. A lot of DIFFERENT folks from DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE helped make this mode of sportsman/pro event very popular all over the U.S. In short, it's bad enough to have conflict with other countries, but to have conflict and hatred toward each other here in the U.S., is just plain NONSENSE!! Many guys and gals paved the way in this sport for us to not only learn technology, but to evolve from the cancer of racial tension. It is only THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO BE IGNORANT TO OTHERS THAT CREATE THESE PROBLEMS AMONGTS US!!! And that is just STUPID!!!
"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
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06/22/10 04:02 PM
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hemicop, I wasn't as clear as I should have been in my post from page 5 of this thread, my bad. All the street racing witnessed firsthand by me happened in Montgomery after I moved here.
However, here are the several pics of the street racing going on at 6th street.
The only folks/cars I can identify are Lonnie F's Anglia in pic #1, Scott S' 1969 GTX in pics 3-5, and Charlie M's 1969 Camaro in pics 7-8.
Lonnie always ran Ford small blocks in black machines. Prior to the Anglia he owned a wicked looking 1965 Falcon with wrinkle wall slicks out back/Cragar S/S all the way around. Unfortunately I have no pics of that one.
Charlie had pulled the Camaro out of a junkyard in its original non-running green/green/307 configuration and turned it into a really sweet ride dark blue with gold stripes running a stroked chevy small block/4 speed/3.73 12 bolt riding on chromed Centerlines.
Scott's GTX was an original 440/red/black/console auto car with great top end.
Great pix, they remind me of the good ol' daze of street machining, cruising and hanging out with like-minded gearheads during the mid-late-1970s to the latter part of the 1980s. My friends and my cars (plus most other cars on the street at that time) were not 100% show car restored and OEM original, perfect to the max (like today) and we didn't care! We had a blast and that is what counted.
Here's my car from Friday evening June 17th, 1988 in line for tech at Raceway Park, the one and only time I drag raced it (on the strip ).
My car was an 114,000+ mile original 440 GTX w/Torqueflite trans, 3.23-geared 8 & 3/4 rear (non-Suregrip) with power steering and manual brakes that I converted to 1968 Street Hemi power during Fall-Spring 1986-87.
The HEMI's hp and torque was transferred to the ground via a 1970 Hemi 4-speed trans from a wrecked 1970 440 GTX, and a 3.54 Dana from a 440 4-speed 1968 GTX that I parted out in 1977 on out to the L60 x 15 Pro-Trac tires (hard street compound) mounted on Centerline aluminum rims.
The HEMI engine was a standard bore Hemi from an 1968 Dodge Charger R/T Hemicar that I had bored +.020" oversize with a Sig Erson .515/.505"/276 degree duration mechanical cam. In a nutshell, it was basically a stock rebuild Street Hemi engine with 2 & 1/8" dia. Hooker Headers, electronic ignition and Direct Connection aluminum water pump housing.
It was a fun car and great street cruiser. My best time through the mufflers (no H-pipe exhaust system) was 13.78 @105.50 with tons of tire spin (2.20 60 ft. times). Not too bad a performance for a mid-90s temp, very humid Friday evening and (at that time) 250 lb. driver pulling the Hurst shifter handle.
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P.S. I forgot to add that I installed an adjustable pinion snubber on top of the Dana center section that gave me a 'bump' each time I powershifted a gear.
P.P.S. I just remembered: I also moved the battery from the engine compartment to the trunk mainly because a section of the inner fender panel area and battery tray was eaten-through by battery acid!
Last edited by Qwik426; 06/22/10 06:24 PM.
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