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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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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......
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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i was in the middle of it all back starting in 69 and then in the early to mid 70's.
sometimes it got pretty ugly with the money.
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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When I was growing up my friends were heavy into the street racing seen in NYC, it was krazy, I would see them renting motors, switching bodies, changing the color of their primer on the cars to catch another victim  Have also seen much tragedy  All in All, it was some great time. My friend till this day still has a Sox and Martin Challenger in the BX, in pieces, and wont let it go for nothing, I'm hoping to inherit it one day 
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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Nice The first article says someone bought Dick Landy's 70 Pro Stock Challenger to street race it 
I just read an article in a magazine about that car. I think the car is in HAWAII now. I think the story went something like ,this guy street raced alot and wanted to go faster and bought a HEMI challenger and sent it to Landy so he could set the car all up. I think thats how it went.
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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Dick Landy challenger. I know the car and the owner also. I will also keep him private.
He windowed the dual distributor motor years ago.
The Cuda he had the engine in was a special invited guest of mine at my Art show in 1994.
Yeah, the stories are long, can't even start now.
By the way, the Maverick in the picture belonged to a friend of mines that was running a Rat for some time, can not remember for sure if it was at that particular run.
The motor is @ a well known hemi builders shop 
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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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
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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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.
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
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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)
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It was 3 wide lanes of hard hookin concrete.It could take hours of 
