Quote: I didn't start my street racing until the early 70's but I was lucky that my neighborhood was full of guys a little older than I who took me with them. This crowd included big block Chevelles and Camaros plus a lot of RoadRunners and even a couple of Six Pack cars. I grew up in central Conn so we had the Berlin Turnpike where a real mean black 67 Hemi GTX hung out and the East West service roads in Hartford. It was a great time to be young. I remember one of the older guys had Tourette's syndrome pretty bad where he couldn't hardly carry on a conversation but after three beers he settled down, stopped shaking and could really row his 4 speed Chevelle with the best of them, go figure!. The streets today are too crowded to do the same stuff but it was fun then. Joey
My dad hung out at the Berlin Turnpike back in the 70's with a 440 68 GTX. then the both of us hung out there is the 80's and 90's with a 69 Black RR and a 69 HEMI orange notchback cuda that was tubbed. We raced ALOT on rt 71,rt 72 and rt 9. The BIG hang out was Roy Rogers in the 80's-90's. We used to do our burn-outs in the parking lot or Roys and then drive out onto the pike, and race from the light, up the hill towards the Grantmore!!!
