This isn't from the '60's or '70's since I didn't graduate high school until '85, but I think it fits the thread.
I spent the summer of '87 in Huntsville Alabama working at a local fried chicken restaraunt during the evenings. Once we closed the store for the evening I would drive to a well known street racing place. It was about a mile long, then had a curve to the left, then another mile until it ended, straight as an arrow, flat as can be, brand new pavement. We drove to the end of the road, turned around and parked on the sides. The bench racing would get heated up. My red 73 340 Duster was a pretty quick street car but was new to the scene that summer. I had made friends with Charlie who had a B5 blue '70 Dart Swinger 340 4-speed, it was really fast. So just to get the action going, he and I lined up. That Dart wore me out! But within a week or two, it dropped a valve so I was left to hold up the Mopar banner that summer.
Not long after that,we were out there again. Charlie was a real talker and would egg the other guys on to get them to race. We had heard of a '67 Mustang being built which going to be fast. It finally shows up, no hood, tunnel ram and 2 4-barrels sticking out, pretty impressive looking, everyone was crowded around it for a while. Charlie knew the guy, walks up and says, "hey, is this thing fast?" The guy says "We'll see". Charlie replies "See that little Duster over there? I bet it will whip your a$$!" I think my jaw dropped to the ground as everyone whipped around to look at the "little Duster". So, the Mustang owner wasted no time in getting in and lining up. I thought "what am I doing? this will be embarrasing". Charlie dropped his arms and the Duster hooked up and proceeded to take the win. Believe it or not, the Mustang owner never slowed down to come back to the starting area, he just left, I never saw it again.
Whenever there wasn't any racing action going on, there was a Chevy Monza with a small block 400 in it. We would race just to get other people interested in racing us. If he was running his small shot of nitrous, he would win by a car length or so. If it was all motor, I'd get him by a car or so. We had a blast.
If anyone is from Huntsville and remembers this place, I'd really like to hear about it.
Dave