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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: peabodyracing]
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12/24/13 10:49 PM
12/24/13 10:49 PM
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Florida STAYcation
dOrk !
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FUNNY this topic shows up now ....with a fresh Monkey OUTlaws topic here tooooo..... The FARM TRUCK was on a trailer in the last show  Now I can see this being the case when they all went to Texas .. but to a local race.  .... STREET stuff were real STREETERS back then. FOR SURE slower than this NOS aided stuff of 2013 .... but real drivers. My HATS OFF to this guy though .....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQxXT0BpB4
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: dOrk !]
#506620
12/24/13 11:07 PM
12/24/13 11:07 PM
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Minnesota
peabodyracing
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Minnesota
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Was glad to see this post come alive again. Fun reading.
Made me recall one more story from the 70's. Lived right out the outskirts of Rochester, MN and had a nice, new 4 lane road at the end of the block which worked out good for trying out changes made to my 61 Lancer wagon. I'd low profile it down the street (neighbors didn't care for the open headers), get on the 4 lane, check for traffic and make a pass. I'd then quickly drive back home, into the garage and shut the door. I'd do this once or twice a month probably during the summer when we'd hit the drag strip every chance we got.
One day late summer I stopped to talk with a neighbor I'd not met before, who lived on the 4 lane. He was working on a 55 Chevy so I'd stopped to visit.
While we're talking a red Porsche goes by at high speed. Leo says, "damn it there goes another one" I asked what he meant.
"There's a weird looking green wagon that shows up out here and acts like this road is a drag strip. My brother is a county sheriff and they keep trying to catch the guy. No one knows who it is" I just said "oh"
Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Wagonmaster]
#506621
12/25/13 12:04 PM
12/25/13 12:04 PM
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Phoenix,Az.
hemicop
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I'd like to hear the story behind this...
IIRC it was during the opening of thePetersen Museum or the opening of their new offices.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Mopar Grandpa]
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12/25/13 05:18 PM
12/25/13 05:18 PM
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New Jersey, USA
yella71
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New Jersey, USA
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The story I recall the most is a night a bunch of friends and I took a ride to seaside at the jersey shore. 5 guys all around 180#s each in a 70 cuda 383 pretty much stock with just headers as far as I know. I was riding in the back seat we had just gotten off the garden state parkway and were heading east in rt 35 in toms river. Lots of traffic lights along that road. at one light a Camaro pulls up in the other lane with a large hood scoop with 350 on the scoop. my friend in the passenger seat started to let the guy and girl in the chev know that that rat was a rat and could never beat our mopar. the light went green and my friend driving nailed it. the chev got out first but after second we got out about a car lenth and he could not catch us. we then did it to him 4 more times at the next 4 lights before he learned about mopars.
71 challenger convertable, 64 sport fury 383 ci with factory air
99 sebring convertable
89 CTD pup
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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12/25/13 06:16 PM
12/25/13 06:16 PM
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Mass
DAYCLONA
I Live Here
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I Live Here
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SInce no one seems to remember a story, here's one from my rookie cop days.
Central Ave.in Phoenix used to be big cruising spot--- North of McDowell Rd., the street machines cruised, South of there,you had the lowriders. One night I'm sitting near the intersection & the usual array of cars are driving past until there's a large gap in the traffic. I hear two motors revving so I look up the street & see two cars at a stoplight getting ready to go at it. The Pontiac easily jumps his opponent & wins but gets caught at the light I'm sitting at. When the light turns green for him I pull him over. The driver immediately jumps out of the car & starts shouting about how he had no brakes & couldn't control the car. I walk over, step on the brake pedal & naturally, it's just fine. I explain to him what I saw & heard & issued the appropriate citations. Another officer sitting South of my location was able to catch the other car so both received the same citations.
Now in all honesty I wouldn't have had too much of a problem with their antics but to run a race on a crowded Froday night in central Phoenixwas pushing the enverlope just a little too far. This is where tht cop discretion "thing" comes in & even the drivers didn't gripe too much about the tickets........
I usually just read these threads for laughs, but your story reminded me back in the day (70's) of one of my many run ins with the local LEO's...we had several areas where street racing was "tolerated" in the wee hours by LEO, after a regular nite out street racing with my Challenger T/A, my bud and I decided to head back to our part of town, while sitting at a light, headed towards the highway, my bud said "don't look now, but this guy on the side wants to race you BIG TIME!"...so I brought the RPM's up as the light was nearing green, dumped the clutch, nice launch, rowed through the gears, never saw a fender approaching my passenger window,...but did see a red gumball light me up! in the rear view mirror, now I wondered where that cop came from?, as I scanned the traffic behind me at the light,...so I pulled over, looked at my Bud, who was white as a ghost, and he said "Man! that was a cop on the side of you, I was just kidding you! Holy Sh1t"...I will say the cop was jerked, but after he calmed down, he said I had some big stones doing that with a marked cruiser on my passenger side at a light...if he only knew  , I only got a warning, and actually a laugh out of the cop after things settled down, his partner however wasn't amused,...but I guess he was outranked?
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: DAYCLONA]
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12/25/13 06:23 PM
12/25/13 06:23 PM
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On The Boat, On The Lake, Wa. ...
amxautox
Still Retired. Still Posting on Moparts. A Lot.
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Non racing but a Cop story a few short years ago;
On a one way 4-lane street at a light where the two right lanes turned right only and the left 2 lanes turned left only, no thru lanes/'deadend', and major intersection in Renton, Wa. I was in the leftish lane of those 2 right turn only lanes, and a cop car was in the right lane.
We both started to turn right and he almost ran over a pedestrain in the crosswalk, but stopped in time. He was paying more attention to my car, I was driving the AMX. Then we both waited for the ped to get on across the street.
Tom
"Everyone should believe in something; I believe I'll go fishing."
-Henry David Thoreau
Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: DAYCLONA]
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12/25/13 10:27 PM
12/25/13 10:27 PM
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Phoenix,Az.
hemicop
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You would be surprised how many cops are closet gearheads, especially the older ones. I guess 'cause we were all so used to the old big-block cop cars we just didn't wanna quit! On a related (and somewhat boastful) note  I can remember the first Hemi Dart I ever saw--- it was the Mutt Bros. streetracing their Dart in a rare appearence in Queens. It was the dead of Winter, bitterly cold, but that Hemi fired up while under an overpass & I never forgot it! Never heard anything like it, either. So after years of messin around, I FINALLY completed my 3rd Hemi Dart just this month! The other 2 all lacked something, but THIS one--I think it'd do those boys proud! Unfortunately I don't know how to post pics! 
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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12/25/13 10:33 PM
12/25/13 10:33 PM
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amxautox
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You would be surprised how many cops are closet gearheads, especially the older ones. I guess 'cause we were all so used to the old big-block cop cars we just didn't wanna quit!
On a related (and somewhat boastful) note I can remember the first Hemi Dart I ever saw--- it was the Mutt Bros. streetracing their Dart in a rare appearence in Queens. It was the dead of Winter, bitterly cold, but that Hemi fired up while under an overpass & I never forgot it! Never heard anything like it, either. So after years of messin around, I FINALLY completed my 3rd Hemi Dart just this month! The other 2 all lacked something, but THIS one--I think it'd do those boys proud! Unfortunately I don't know how to post pics!
Ya been here FIVE years and you don't know how to post pictures YET?! Come on man, post pictures.
There is a thread by Wild Bill saved in the archives on how to post pictures, look it up and give it a try or 3 or 6. 
Tom
"Everyone should believe in something; I believe I'll go fishing."
-Henry David Thoreau
Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: bobby66]
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12/25/13 11:39 PM
12/25/13 11:39 PM
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Texas
Daty Rogers
World's Greatest Husband. I love you Robyn
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World's Greatest Husband. I love you Robyn
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Well, there was the time the LF brake caliper failed on my Hemi Road Runner while racing on Emerald Lane over in Dallas. Not much of a shut down area and things got pretty hairy.  
Emerald Ln, haven't thought about it for years, used to watch the big hitters down there. Wilke would shut them down, then drive away. He did not have a trailer, he only lived a few blocks away from me. Emerald sucked for street racing. Good times.
-Daty
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your s
[Re: hemicop]
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12/26/13 05:37 PM
12/26/13 05:37 PM
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RSNOMO
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I can remember the first Hemi Dart I ever saw.... streetracing
You never forget your first...
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