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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: hemicop]
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09/09/12 03:01 PM
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Texas
Daty Rogers
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There were a couple memorable cars around here, a 327 Vega that belonged to a friend of mine, a really nasty 289 Maverick, but the best was Wilke's 440 black Cuda, it pretty much owned the street around here. Every Friday and Saturday after cruising Forest Lane we'd all head over to Manyana road in Dallas's warehouse district and street race, good times. Wilke would take on trailer cars and whoup them! Every couple hours the pokes would show up and shoo us away, meet back in 15 minutes and have at it. They never handed out tickets though, just show up, turn on the lights and we scatter.
-Daty
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: HYPER8oSoNic]
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09/10/12 12:22 PM
09/10/12 12:22 PM
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Phoenix,Az.
hemicop
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The "South" was jumpin' in the 80's.
Columbia St. was for those suicidal maniacs and their audience.
150th was the Vegas style Money pit.
The "Fount" was the recreational relapse arena for those seeking youth.
The "Hutch" was the hush hush 150th wanna-B.
The list goes on and on till the break of dawn.....
So true, FMJ!!  And list does go on:
Francis Lewis Blvd (73rd Ave-Union Turnpike) was the "watered down" 150th street.
Cross Bay Boulevard was Queens version of South Ave.
Kent Ave, Brooklyn, was a "little known" spot to run, basically a truck route.
Clearview Expressway was similar to the Bayonne Bridge approach (S.I.). Bordered around the Cunningham Park area(Union Turnpike-73rd Ave-GCP-LIE) annexed to Francis Lewis Blvd and Union turnpike sites.
Utopia Parkway
Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn (floyd bennett field-kings plaza)
Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn (Grand Army Plaza-Empire Boulevard)
Union Turnpike (Douglaston Parkway-Stronghurst Ave)
Just a "few" ex-racing haunts!  
Ran all the ones in Queens at least once, though I preffered Francis Lewis & the Clearview for some reason. Had a great run near St. Francis Prep (Bishop Reilly H.S back then) one night against a '69 Chevelle. After 3 passes the cops come down from the opposite direction, bounce over the median to go after us & I'm thinking I'm screwed now! The Chevelle tries to outrun them while I pulled over, my buddy caught up to me, put the car on a tow strap while the cops blew by us looking for the Chevelle. They caught him as we towed by as they were cuffing the driver. He was shouting we were the guys he was racing & that we should be booked also. The cops ignored him & we just crawled on by grateful they were more angry for him running than wanting to get both drivers
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: hemicop]
#506565
09/10/12 01:13 PM
09/10/12 01:13 PM
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Long Island, NY
shakerjoe
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hemicop - what were some of the shops that were selling parts back then...when I started cruising FLB in 1982 in my 69 Superbee there was B&R on FLB between 35 and 34 ave's - Gabby and Mike behind the counter - there was also Speedworld on Queens Blvd. closer to my house - think there was a pretty good place in Richmond Hill but I can't remember the name...picked up 4 yellowbirds when I got pulled over by the 111pct. one time...then when I joined the ranks and got assigned to the 109, loved hanging out on FLB on Fri/Sat nights checking out the rides...was kind of fun being in uniform and talking to the rodders - met FullMetalJacket that way! That was pretty funny Lee! btw - did the girl on Connecting with the bumper sticker drive a vette? Somehow that pops into my head - there was a real hot blonde who drove a blown bigblock orange camaro around 108st. and the LIE when I worked at a service station there back in 81-83...
Last edited by shakerjoe; 09/10/12 01:17 PM.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: hemicop]
#506567
09/11/12 01:26 AM
09/11/12 01:26 AM
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Desert Tracker
HYPER8oSoNic
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The "South" was jumpin' in the 80's.
Columbia St. was for those suicidal maniacs and their audience.
150th was the Vegas style Money pit.
The "Fount" was the recreational relapse arena for those seeking youth.
The "Hutch" was the hush hush 150th wanna-B.
The list goes on and on till the break of dawn.....
So true, FMJ!! And list does go on:
Francis Lewis Blvd (73rd Ave-Union Turnpike) was the "watered down" 150th street.
Cross Bay Boulevard was Queens version of South Ave.
Kent Ave, Brooklyn, was a "little known" spot to run, basically a truck route.
Clearview Expressway was similar to the Bayonne Bridge approach (S.I.). Bordered around the Cunningham Park area(Union Turnpike-73rd Ave-GCP-LIE) annexed to Francis Lewis Blvd and Union turnpike sites.
Utopia Parkway
Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn (floyd bennett field-kings plaza)
Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn (Grand Army Plaza-Empire Boulevard)
Union Turnpike (Douglaston Parkway-Stronghurst Ave)
Just a "few" ex-racing haunts!
Ran all the ones in Queens at least once, though I preffered Francis Lewis & the Clearview for some reason. Had a great run near St. Francis Prep (Bishop Reilly H.S back then) one night against a '69 Chevelle. After 3 passes the cops come down from the opposite direction, bounce over the median to go after us & I'm thinking I'm screwed now! The Chevelle tries to outrun them while I pulled over, my buddy caught up to me, put the car on a tow strap while the cops blew by us looking for the Chevelle. They caught him as we towed by as they were cuffing the driver. He was shouting we were the guys he was racing & that we should be booked also. The cops ignored him & we just crawled on by grateful they were more angry for him running than wanting to get both drivers
Francis Lewis Blvd had great bite, even after they replaced the "china rock concrete" with asphalt. Same with Union Turnpike. Smooth most of the time, cause it's kept paved.
"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
[Re: shakerjoe]
#506568
09/11/12 11:54 AM
09/11/12 11:54 AM
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Phoenix,Az.
hemicop
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Back then we had " Charlei's Speed Barn" that oddly, was on the access road of the LIE around 220th St. if recall correctly. Of course B&R was around then, "Competition Speed", my friend's shop in Jamaica was where I usually went-----and there was a tiny speed shop on Northern Blvd (can't rememebr the name) that had a handful of cars that ran pretty well. Thinking back, "Charlie's" sponsored Scott Shafiroff when he had his GT-1 Camaro, my friend's shop sponsored several cars---an A990 Mopar, A/MP Camaro, 2 Chevelles & Nova & he also had a really cool sleeper '66 Impala with the Camaro's spare engine (496 cu in.) hooked to a clutch-turbo that did prety well on the street.
Somehow I recall the shops in Brooklyn & the Bronx having better cars & of courseplaces like "Speedwin", "Motion" & a feew others on L.I. seemed to have more professional set-ups to me. I DO recall a REALLY cool Anglia from S&S Speed shop (Bronx?) that ran a killer small-block Chevy.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Wagonmaster]
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09/16/12 03:01 PM
09/16/12 03:01 PM
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Phoenix,Az.
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It seems there are a lot of NYers remembering the good old days, here. Well, just for y'all, here's a video. Hope you like it...even some racing in the snow!!
Drag racing on Long Island
I got that DVD! Never really knew what went on on LI, seems few guys travelled "into the City"  . SOOOOOO many guys had shops or worked in gas stations, they just did theirown work. What surprises me, is how fast the cars were for so simple a modifications compared to now. Grant it, some of the stuff wasn't exactly for the street but living so close to the action in a densely populated area simply meant you could walk to a parts store, fix the car & drive home . One of my '55s was so unreliable I regularly threw in a toolbox in the back figuring WHEN it broke I'd be prepared. One friend of mine kept blowing up his GTO so many times I think we put every type of Pontiac motor, even an OHC 6, in it---had to say the best one was a 421 he got from somewhere--seeemed to have even more torque than his 455! For all the crap we played with, I'd have to say the most reliable was my friend's Dart & John's Gremlin! 
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Well said!! Just wondering.. Was "The Hit Man" a ex-gasser ride? 
