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Lots of Cool Places to Street-Race.
Even some great Musclecars. Each contingent had their own pack to follow. Big-Body Chevy's, Corvette's, Nova's, Camaro's, Ford, Mercury, Olds, Pontiac, Buick, AMC, and VW's and the Foreign Cars.
Even Plymouth versus Dodge. Man those guys hated each other!
Remember 1968 thru 1972, not too many tracks running
'Bracket Racing'. So if you had a car with an Edelbrock aluminum intake, Holley carb and 8" tires, if you went to the track you got classed in
Modified/Production, and your street-car got pounded by a track-car.
On the street, anything went. And it was great fun 'After Midnight'.
PC

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Yes back then if you changed almost anything you were put in Modified or Gas. And had to run off that record. Most cars just ran at the track for fun. Some tracks (Englishtown Raceway Park Etc) seperated the cars a bit with Cups (trophies) or Bucks.

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Two non muscle cars that I remember was Flip's Speed Shop's volvo and a Nash Metro
named Classical Gas.Short wheelbase and a S/B chevy on a concrete roadway.Very scary.
Anybody remember Mitchell's on 86th st. in Bklyn?They had the girls on roller skates there to bring you your food.Car hops.And how about New Park Pizza on Crossbay Blvd.Way better pizza than Pizza City.

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Mitchells became Wetson's then (and now) Nathans.
New Park Pizza was real Pizza

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Still is Art.I ate there the other night.Still 1970.

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What's the name of the racer who bought it from S&M? Where is it now? I always find it exciting to hear of ex-race cars that were purchased by street racers... especially when they're still around and haven't been crushed and melted into a fleet of tea pots and toasters. :rolleyes:

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Hey, don't forget.
'Don't Cook Tonite, Call Chicken Delight'
And White Castle with the 'tangy taste of onion' at "19 cents" a burger.
If you ate before you raced, your hands would slip of the Hurst "T" handle.

Art, The NHRA classifications really killed alot of street cars from racing.
Just who didn't have a car with an Edelbrock dual-plane aluminum high-rise, a Holley 780 dual-feed, and an Accel dual-point. Any tire size bigger than F-60's would be over 7", sending you into S/S, or M/P or Gas.
And the 4-speed street guys, didn't have the Lakewood Bell-Housings
(we all called them 'scattershields').
'A Fanabla'
* Kind of like the early suggested brackets, A 12.99 ET for big-block street cars, and 13.99 for small-block street cars. Cars had to be driven to the track, and with license plates. Had to run-off the 12.99 or 13.99 ET. Any intake, carb, hood scoop and any tire that fit within the wheel-well. Headers, and you could pull off the exhaust system, completely. Only safety items, Scattershields, helmets and seat-belt.
That would have worked.
PC

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No idea who bought it from them originally, If I remember correctly it was a younger gentleman. The car is now in Don Snyder's collection, restored, except for the 1/4's.

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I came face to face with Dick Landy's "Pepsi Cola" Challenger. At the PRI show last December.
Vinnie Maida and I bought that car from Landy in 72 (I think) That was to be my first NHRA car. We were going to run it in C/Gas with a clutchflite and a "prostock" Hemi. And some street racing. We rented an open trailer. Towed to California from Brooklyn to pick it up with a slant six plymouth fury. I even got a bank loan for that car, Landy had to put a number on the car to satisfy the bank.
I never got that car finished.
I teamed up with Tex (Ray) on the 71 Charger, and the rest is history.

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Thanks for the info Steve. I believe Don Snyder also owns the '65 A/FX 427 SOHC Mustang Dyno Don raced in '69 then sold to Tab Talmadge who then street raced it in and around NYC. Very cool stuff!