Re: When racing was fun, NYC
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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02/05/10 10:30 PM
02/05/10 10:30 PM
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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 nice
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Re: When racing was fun, NYC
[Re: fury62]
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02/07/10 02:34 PM
02/07/10 02:34 PM
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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
[Re: Dart1031]
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04/08/10 05:57 PM
04/08/10 05:57 PM
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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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