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Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: emarine01] #604313 02/05/10 10:24 PM 02/05/10 10:24 PM
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fullmetaljacket master F Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,849	South Conduit or as we all knew it "150th St."was as I remember it till the late 90's all old school china rock concrete all the way pass the two underpasses. Now it is repaved with Tar top. I've escorted many a race car to that front line and it was bumpy getting there, but the strip itself was relatively smooth. "Connecting" is half way repaved now with new school concrete but just at the front line it is a bit bumpy on the tar top.

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: fullmetaljacket] #604314 02/05/10 10:30 PM 02/05/10 10:30 PM
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B1KILLER OP pro stock B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,596 BX, CT, FL.	Quote: South Conduit or as we all knew it "150th St."was as I remember it till the late 90's all old school china rock concrete all the way pass the two underpasses. Now it is repaved with Tar top. I've escorted many a race car to that front line and it was bumpy getting there, but the strip itself was relatively smooth. "Connecting" is half way repaved now with new school concrete but just at the front line it is a bit bumpy on the tar top. You know where we go now, the starting line is nice

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: B1KILLER] #604315 02/05/10 10:39 PM 02/05/10 10:39 PM
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fullmetaljacket master F Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,849	Oh yeah. Sweet spots have either been burnt by idiots in their fart blow torches or neglected by New York's finest department of Highways.

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: hemicop] #604316 02/05/10 11:35 PM 02/05/10 11:35 PM
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GoodfellaHenry70 member G Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 85 Rhode Island	Quote: OHHHHHHHHHHH where top begin? There's bveen threads about NYC streetracing & many on the site have contibuted. IMO, the fact is, while Detroit was undoubtedly the center of it all (naturally!) NYC had, I think, more character & more "professional" streetracers than most anyplace else.If there was a trafficlight somewhere & 2 musclecars were stopped, you'd have a race- and the big boys knew how to safely setup some high-dollar runs without all the risks you see nowadays...... Reminds me of the Berlin Tnpk down in Conn. days many years ago. Probably couldn't get away with that stuff today. "No big deal...It's called Advanced Dilusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage." Just call me Hank.

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: emarine01] #604317 02/05/10 11:39 PM 02/05/10 11:39 PM
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hemi-itis I Live Here Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 12,587 Great Neck,LI,new york	Quote: South conduit was a very bumpy place to race in the mid 70s, but it sure drew a fast bunch of heavy hitters It was bumpy in the 70's,80's,90's and into the new millenium It was 3 wide lanes of hard hookin concrete.It could take hours of to set up an 11 second race. Last edited by hemi-itis; 02/07/10 05:05 PM. HEMI-ITIS has no cure. My condition is fully BLOWN!!

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: GoodfellaHenry70] #604318 02/07/10 02:16 PM 02/07/10 02:16 PM
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fury62 member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 167 DANBURY CT	I can remember racing in 64,65 on the sprain brook parkway, Yonkers, N.Y. a suburb of NYC. the parkway was not finished at the time, so you could race from the enter ramp south with no traffic.cars came from far away as peekskill, and the bronx. One state trooper had a 65 gto as a chase car!! those were the days!!

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: fury62] #604319 02/07/10 02:34 PM 02/07/10 02:34 PM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	Quote: I can remember racing in 64,65 on the sprain brook parkway, Yonkers, N.Y. a suburb of NYC. the parkway was not finished at the time, so you could race from the enter ramp south with no traffic.cars came from far away as peekskill, and the bronx. One state trooper had a 65 gto as a chase car!! those were the days!! i grew up right off the sprain parkway entrance ramp. you could hear the cars at night. i raced many a night there with my Cuda and 340 duster.yes those were the days.and down on Central Ave. in front of Nathans and Korvettes dept. store we also raced on the weekends.

Re: When racing was fun, NYC #604320 02/07/10 02:54 PM 02/07/10 02:54 PM
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emarine01 master E Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,695 nc	Any body remember a place in Rosedale Queens, I think it was named mentone ave, A 1/2 mile 2 lane with a one lane train bridge @ the 1/2 mile mark, it was close to Frances Lewis blvd.

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: Dart1031] #604321 04/08/10 05:57 PM 04/08/10 05:57 PM
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cammer427 member C Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 1 Ontario	Quote: Nice The first article says someone bought Dick Landy's 70 Pro Stock Challenger to street race it That was Art Leong and a guy named Vinnie Maida who bought Landy's Challenger in '72. It was to be Art's first NHRA car. He was also going to do a "little street racing" with it, but he never finished the car. He teamed up with Ray "Tex" Cook on a '71 Charger R/T and sold the Challenger before finishing it. After picking up the car from Landy, Art stopped in at Benson Burgers in St Albans to show it off for fun on the way home. It didn't actually have an engine or transmission at the time. We were just talking about this very thing over at ClassRacer.com... http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=7052&page=8 (it's mentioned on page 8 and 9)

Re: When racing was fun, NYC [Re: cammer427] #604322 04/08/10 07:00 PM 04/08/10 07:00 PM
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hemicop super stock H Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,141 Phoenix,Az.	I'd guess there was probably a dozen or so quality pro-level built cars streetracing back then...and that was ust in Queens! Brooklyn had therir own groups, so if you were gonna run with the big boys you had to have REAL deep pockets back then. Today it would literally be like buying Greg Anderson's or Warren Johnson's old P/S & racing it--what would THAT cost??

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