Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Red Bird]
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The Duster you guy's speak of was a good friend of mine's car till he had to go on vacation. Mike bought it and doubt he changed much but not really sure. It was a Yellow with black side stripe 340 auto. My friend had a ported set of heads and 11.1 pistons with if I remember right a Cam Dynamics 585 solid . The trans was a Manual VB done by Vitar and later Select. 8 3/4 T/A convertor and 5,13 gears. In it's day pre Mikey it went 11.70's. My buddy used to stack carb. spacers to make a home brew tunnel ram under the Six Pack scoop. It cleaned it's share of clocks when Ronnie owned it... Mike bought it and primer'd it to protect the innocent. I forgot how Mikey used to double park the Nova on 3rd ave. and then come out after quenching his thirst and repave the Avenue. Ron
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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street race in fl, made the guy take out nitous bottle, guy does a huge burnout nobody can see anything. during the confusion and all the smoke his pal jumps into the trunk with bottle hooks it back up, stays in trunk and they win race.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Pure awesome. I love (REAL) street racing. The personalities, the incredibly varied cars and ideas, the sheer testosterone floating around the starting line/pits (the same where we raced). Things you would NEVER see on a track...
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Red Bird]
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Back in the mid 80's Mike Petito had a primed duster that he drove from Brooklyn to Staten Island. Just about every Thurs night he showed up @ Masters Shopping Plaza w/his sidekick John looking for action.
mid 80's... south ave was long over by then...
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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Back in the mid 80's Mike Petito had a primed duster that he drove from Brooklyn to Staten Island. Just about every Thurs night he showed up @ Masters Shopping Plaza w/his sidekick John looking for action.
mid 80's... south ave was long over by then...
South Ave. itself was over, but the service road along the West Shore Expressway was hot all through the mid 80s. Thursday nights were good for 100 plus cars.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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Back in the mid 80's Mike Petito had a primed duster that he drove from Brooklyn to Staten Island. Just about every Thurs night he showed up @ Masters Shopping Plaza w/his sidekick John looking for action.
mid 80's... south ave was long over by then...
Nope may not have been the actual street but that's what us locals called it.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Red Bird]
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mid 80's... south ave was long over by then...
From the mid 80's on, Gulf Ave was the proving grounds which was referred to as South Ave like the 3 fellas said above. We lived it.........
Gulf was n AWESOME place to run...I made probably a thousand passes there in at least a dozen different cars over the years. It was great UNLESS you happened to be wheeling a really fast car, then it could get pretty hairy. Not the marked quarter itself (actually just over 1000 feet) but the shut down area could really get your attention. Right after the finish line, there was an increasing radius curve, and then a field where some guys kept horses and trailers. The pavement was all choppy and usually covered with horse sh*t and mud. I remember one night we were alone out there and I was trying to get the bugs worked out of my friend Stan's Hemi Challenger. It had a full house Mansau 426 in it, 4 speed, 14x32's and 5.13's in the Dana. So I finally get this thing to where it gets past it's second gear stumble, and it's flat out haulin bananas up through 3rd...felt too good to not grab a handful of 4th, so I went for it. I should have known better! I go blazing past the stripe, just a blur in the night...all smiles and then I realize I gotta get this thing stopped...HA! The 10 inch drums go instant fade. I'm standing on the brake pedal, it's barely slowing down, and I'm into the bad part of that curve at probably 75 MPH. Cars's bouncing up and down on the slicks, front wheels are sliding across the muck and I'm seeing nothing but death and dismember-ship through the windshield. To this day I have no idea how I managed to not roll that damn thing, but I got through curve and the only damage were the holes I bit through my tongue. I never drove that car again without a helmet and belts. Man I miss those days!
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Red Bird]
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I remember when the shaft came out of the challenger on Gulf.
Ha, which time? We split at least three yokes and twisted two shafts that I can remember..one of them tried to get in the car with me. Went through a couple of 833's too. My name for that car was "El Destructo".
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Red Bird]
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mid 80's... south ave was long over by then...
From the mid 80's on, Gulf Ave was the proving grounds which was referred to as South Ave like the 3 fellas said above. We lived it.........
wow didn't realize that gulf ave was the new south ave... guess on gulf ave like south, u could park your car, pull out a beach chair, and watch em racing all nite, and never a cop in sight...
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: RJS]
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The Duster you guy's speak of was a good friend of mine's car till he had to go on vacation. Mike bought it and doubt he changed much but not really sure. It was a Yellow with black side stripe 340 auto. My friend had a ported set of heads and 11.1 pistons with if I remember right a Cam Dynamics 585 solid . The trans was a Manual VB done by Vitar and later Select. 8 3/4 T/A convertor and 5,13 gears. In it's day pre Mikey it went 11.70's. My buddy used to stack carb. spacers to make a home brew tunnel ram under the Six Pack scoop.
It cleaned it's share of clocks when Ronnie owned it...
Mike bought it and primer'd it to protect the innocent.
I forgot how Mikey used to double park the Nova on 3rd ave. and then come out after quenching his thirst and repave the Avenue. Ron
Hey I didn't know that was Big Ronnie's car.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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The Duster you guy's speak of was a good friend of mine's car till he had to go on vacation. Mike bought it and doubt he changed much but not really sure. It was a Yellow with black side stripe 340 auto. My friend had a ported set of heads and 11.1 pistons with if I remember right a Cam Dynamics 585 solid . The trans was a Manual VB done by Vitar and later Select. 8 3/4 T/A convertor and 5,13 gears. In it's day pre Mikey it went 11.70's. My buddy used to stack carb. spacers to make a home brew tunnel ram under the Six Pack scoop.
It cleaned it's share of clocks when Ronnie owned it...
Mike bought it and primer'd it to protect the innocent.
I forgot how Mikey used to double park the Nova on 3rd ave. and then come out after quenching his thirst and repave the Avenue. Ron
Hey I didn't know that was Big Ronnie's car.
Amazing what primer will do!!
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
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I remember when Mike with his Box nova finally met his match with a Black 68'-9' Charger that had been hunting for him for weeks between gulf and Fountain. When they finally met at Gulf, I flagged the race with my bias leaning with the Charger of course, this even being that I was good friends with Mike over the years and had a Chevy myself. That's one of the reasons I knew I had Mopar blood in my veins. I knew Mike would take the hole shot based on his launch tactic of leaving at the top of my down drop, the Charger charged and caught him while negotiating a sideways dance. They neatly tucked their victory into everyone's memory banks, including mine and disappeared into the night, never to be seen again.
That sounds like Jimmy's car aka "UFOOLU" NY plate read. Beautiful stock looking black 69 charger 440 w/spray.
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Re: Street Racing in the 60's & 70's - Tell them your story
[Re: Qbird]
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I remember when the shaft came out of the challenger on Gulf.
Ha, which time? We split at least three yokes and twisted two shafts that I can remember..one of them tried to get in the car with me. Went through a couple of 833's too. My name for that car was "El Destructo".
LOL.....I remember coming down to Gulf one off night if I recall and seeing the challenger in full race trim...open headers (sounding like a top fueler) doing some nasty holeshots. The big boots were no match for the power. The wheel hop was incredible until there lies some tubing on the Gulf. It was sick!
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