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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: 6PKRTSE]
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09/20/10 12:24 PM
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Also on this same car I had the brake lights wired to a toggle switch. I would never ask for "a car & the leave" but if someone would offer it I would take it. If they were watching my taillghts & waiting for the brake lights to go out as I left. It was usually too late as I was already moving before they realized it & they would have to try to play catch up.
Back to my VHT stories. I also had this car's factory washer bottle filled with VHT & the pissers plumbed to the rear tires so no-one had to get off of my car to pour the VHT down. I only a couple of old pictures of it on computer
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: 6PKRTSE]
#506438
09/20/10 12:29 PM
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Some more. its the black one on the right next to my red 70 that I still have today.
1963 Belvedere 440 Max Wedge Tribute
1970 Charger R/T S.E. 440 Six Pack
1970 Challenger R/T, 528 Hemi
1970 Charger 500 S.E. 440 4 BBL
1970 Plymouth Road Runner 383
1974 Chrysler New Yorker 440
1996 2500 RAM 488 V-10 4X4
2004 3500 Dually Cummins 4x4
2012 Challenger R/T Classic.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: 71cudaddict]
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09/20/10 05:27 PM
09/20/10 05:27 PM
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Phoenix,Az.
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Was the owner about 7 feet tall? if so it was a 82 caddy black with a454 chevy motor 91 style nose and spray he worked for me in the late 80s in brooklyn car ran in the 12s looked and sounded stock. Rickey
That's him! Nice guy! As I said I sent about a half-hour BSing with him & he invited me back another day. He's got a beautiful '71 340 'Cuda with billboards & a shaker hood. He did own up to the Caddy running 12s though I didn't want to bring that up. I need to scrounge up what few pics I have from back then to bring with me on my next visit.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: 71cudaddict]
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09/20/10 11:02 PM
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Was the owner about 7 feet tall? if so it was a 82 caddy black with a454 chevy motor 91 style nose and spray he worked for me in the late 80s in brooklyn car ran in the 12s looked and sounded stock. Rickey
I vagely remember the car. Seen it one time in action, if it's the same ride, Sounded like a
BB mid-seventies Caprice with good pipes on it!!
Didn't spend hardly any time in the 80's - early
90's, in NYC. Got married, moved to the "desert
plateau", started a family in the military scene.
But the car, I do remember now (landau top, can't forget that). I would think he was part of the "big car" competition, that Scotty's (PG PERF)
Buick and the "other" Caddy (teal-turquise) created from late-sixties thru the late seventies, early eighties. 66-68 was the Buick
Wildcat era, 430's and 455's!!(Gotta show SOME respect)  
"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: fullmetaljacket]
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09/21/10 12:47 AM
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Phoenix,Az.
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please bring the pics from back then so that we can look and drool over dinner. I'll bring my vintage stickers, some never before seen by most.
I may have a special guest that may join us at the table as well.
I'll try to see what I can find. Alot of that stuff got lost in my move 30+ years ago. I think I still have some pics of my Pinto & maybe the magizine article on it. If I can find Larry or get ahold of John I'll see if they'd like to join us.....
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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09/21/10 12:56 AM
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Florida STAYcation
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some of the land yachts that were sleepers & some of the guys we knew mainly by their cars.
SLEEPERS ? ... gotta love 'em !
I probably had MORE fun on Telegraph and Woodward with my 68 Satellite wagon than with anything I ever had. GOOD 440 ... quiet as a mouse ....a pair of OEM Imperial muffs ...and rear-end gear ranges from 3.23 to 5.57 !
IF I was real fiesty on Friday and Saturday nites ...I would strap-down 2 alum extension ladders on the roof rack and put empty boxes in the back to go really "stealth" on-'em ! 
At Detroit Dragway(running as many THREE times a week there) and on the street ...I made about 20k$ over the years with that car.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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09/21/10 10:07 AM
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Carson City, NV
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In 1963 I bought Maverick's 60 Dodge Phoenix. It had a 383 with the 15" ram tube intake, headers and lots of tuning. My cousin worked for Swanson Used car lot and one weekend, he showed up with a 57 sedan delivery Chevy with a 409 in it. We went out to the road that ran along the 134 freeway near Griffith Park. We raced and I anialated him. He said that He didn't realize that a Dodge could be that fast.
Later that year my job sent me to Denver for schooling. I drove the Dodge to Denver. On Friday night while cruising downtown a new 64 Pontiac with a 421 wanted to race. I still had the 2.93's from the trip so he put a fender on me and then the ran tubes took over. I beat him so bad that I was stopping for a signal about 4 blocks down when he caught up. He was so embarrased that he ran the red light. I used to cruise around the park on Sundays. Nobody wanted to race because the Pontiac spread the word "Don't mess with the black Dodge".
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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09/21/10 11:16 AM
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I never saw a wagon, although I did hear of 'em being used. I think it must've been a regional thing. Most of the sleepers I saw were the land yachts I mentioned & perhaps the best of 'em were mid/low 11-sec. cars when sprayed, although my friends Impala was quite a bit quicker than that, but that really was a racecar more than a yacht.
There was a guy herein Phx in the late 70s that had an late 60s Caddy, Caddy-powered that was good for low12s/high 11s. It was the first time I ever saw a 2 4-bbl set-up on a Caddy motor--really a pretty neat car since it wasn't "cross-bred....
Cadillac started the dual quad setup in the mid 50s, on their 331 engine. El Dorado use, the engine made 270 HP IIRC. Idled at a ridiculous 400 or so RPM, again IIRC.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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09/21/10 02:40 PM
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Scottsdale A.Z
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Yeah, he mentioned some of the land yachts that were sleepers & some of the guys we knew mainly by their cars. Of course we BS'd about the hang-outs and all & lamented how it all went away & how out here there really isn't much of a street scene for what we like & remember. On the plus side, he did mention quite a few guys out here from NY that miss this kind of stuff too. I figure when I finish my latest project maybe we can get some guys together for a kind of "NYers convention" & have some fun.
THERE is some street action out here. Also street racing at the track.We race with arizonas fastest street cars heads up 4.00 pro tree.3 differnt classes.a few are in the high 7s. speed world is a lay back track so crew members are allowed on the line witch really feels like the street.Also there is AZ grudge raceing witch is similar but its 1/8 mile. still only street cars pro tree heads up. radial class 6.50 class and out law.If you come out stop by say hello I have a 69 green gts that Irun in the 10.oo class my son has a67 camaro that runs low 9s should have both cars out,for the a race this sat.night if your interested.  Rickey
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