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I have to say you guys are lucky to have been around back then. I was down at south ave. a few weeks ago to watch some people run. I was the only muscle car there, along with two hondas and two nissans. I decided to run and the two "built" cars lost by a few car lengths, and the other two wouldn't run me. Would have been nice to run another old car.

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Import's are gaining popularity rapidly! Isn't
like the old days!! New era coming in!

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I love these stories. Well done Gramps & all contributors. I've read the thread from front to back & wished I was there!

(Aussie story)

I had a mild 351 cleveland in an XB falcon & had a run out on the backroads in Virginia SA when I was 18 & new zero (unless it came to the quality of [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] & azz) against a 6cyl hemi charger. I thought I had him easy. Not! He pumped me in the quarter. It wasn't untill the age of the internet, or me being bothered to research the facts that I saw they ran a 14 second pass factory.
I was converted to Mopar on the spot.
Thanks again for the stories & have fun.

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Got a LOT of respect for those XB Falcons. They are sought after here in the U.S., since the day
those flicks "Mad Max" and the "Road Warrior" hit
the silver screen here in the U.S. Built right, those "Clevelands" are VERY hard to beat!! XB's
ARE NO JOKE modified!!

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I used to hang at Manhattan Speed with the old gangsters there that were into DOHC Fords and Fat chevies. Joe was a big Blue Oval man. Real cool and nice guy.
I loved the old grunt man that was always grumpy but knew a lot of stuff as well, I can't remember his name.
Now I hang very little at S&K Speed in Rockville center because it is busy in a new way and not that kind of place where you could bench race all day.

I respect their knowledge and ability to sell because of that same reason, knowledge.

They are very good at parts and parts in stock. Probably one of the best Speed shops in the nations East Coast.
Street action rumors run crazy there.

By the way, Fountain Ave wrote out its own death nail by virtue of the idiots that came to over run it.
That is why I stopped Arm dropping there after a few good years.
A lot of deadly accidents reflecting the pier at Columbia St.
Some peoples brains are not as advanced as the cams their cars lope to.

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with ya!! The Fount was on a slow death
pace after the late 80's. Was the haught for some well-respected street-turned to class (strip) racers in it's EARLY years!! Lee, you got my update?

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For me, I usually hung out at "Competition Speed" in Jamaica, Queens. The owner, Larry Chin, didn't have a huge inventory but he was real supportive of young guys like me & hadabout 4 or 5 pretty serious streetracers running out of his shop. One of 'em had some weird connection to Pontiac as the guy had 4 or 5 RamAir IV or V engines stuffed in his garage. Larry always helped me out as much as he could & my first "serious" build of an engine came from his shop. Of course there were other shops nearby--- "Charlie's Speed Barn" on the L.I.E. service road or B&R (?) Performance on Francis Lewis Blvd. that seemd to do alot of business.
Anyone remember any of these?

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I often went to S/K (Queens and L.I) to get my
goodies. I do remember B&R, as well as Competition
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for us on staten island, it was s.i. speed... and for chassis work, there was a guy with a shop on richmond terr.... his name escapes me for the moment(memory is gone from smelling too much leaded sunoco)...

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Know those fumes all too well..err..was it 98..
99..or..101 oct. Can't remember it clearly!! Nah, maybe it was the smell of burning rubber that did
it for me!!

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for us on staten island, it was s.i. speed... and for chassis work, there was a guy with a shop on richmond terr.... his name escapes me for the moment(memory is gone from smelling too much leaded sunoco)...

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for us on staten island, it was s.i. speed... and for chassis work, there was a guy with a shop on richmond terr.... his name escapes me for the moment(memory is gone from smelling too much leaded sunoco)...

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I love these stories. Well done Gramps & all contributors. I've read the thread from front to back & wished I was there!

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It was a different time back then, a time when most of us didn't have too many responsibilities but we sure had a lot of fun and ran a lot of pretty fast cars, fast for that day as there wasn't any nitrous or turbos running the streets back then.

When my buddies parents would leave for the evening (they leased a Marathon gas station that had an extremely large lot and we had the Hertz truck and car rental agency there) we'd race the rental cars and trucks across the parking lot just to kill time and see which car was the fastest. I remember driving a '65 or '66 Cobra Mustang, black with the gold stripes, one night and almost didn't get it stopped before running into traffic on the street. The disc brakes on that thing were terrible!

The cool thing is that his parents never caught us but I'm sure they knew about it as there were 2 other gas stations on the same corner and they knew the owners very well.

We even stole parts off the Mopar rentals for our own cars. I AM NOT PROUD of that but I couldn't afford a new set of plugs and plug wires so I found a donor car....it just had a Hertz decal on it.

How bout some more racing stories guys and gals????

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The chassis shop was Straightline Performance. Mikey T was the guy.

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Mikey T was a friend of mine, but he didn't come along until the later 80's after Super Stock was gone. Mikey was partners with Barry Pitard of NY Speed when he had the place on the Terrace. Barry, BTW is "Bobby" from the Quarter Million Quarter Mile story in Cars Illustrated.

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