Connecting Highway

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Pretty much the only street racing going on around NYC are the fart pipe thug crowd.The guys with real fast cars go to Englishtown/Atco and run no time.Sometimes for money.
You can tell a money run because there's about 100 people around both cars.Most of them have a piece of one of the cars.After they go down the track there's a bunch of trash talking then they go back to the pits.Sometimes they come back out and do it again.
On the street the smart guys keep away.Getting caught is mandatory impoundment of the car and maybe worse.
It's good they're off the strees.Most of them have ***** for brains anyway.

Yo wassup wit dat? Why you be dissin' us?

M68

[hemicop]

Originally Posted by mopar68

Yo wassup wit dat? Why you be dissin' us?

M68

I think that says it all..........

[Carl Juliano]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Carl your old man used to race a Studebaker buckboard at Connecting.One HP.They had to sweep the road down after he made a pass.

LOL, he never showed me pictures of that one!.......never heard about it either!.....lol

[cammer427]

I don't know how many of you bother with Facebook, but there's also two social groups dedicated to the Connecting Highway and Cross Bay Blvd & South Conduit/150th Street:

Group: "We Raced on Cross Bay Blvd. and The South Conduit"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=307813812940

Group: "Connecting Highway"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54726643443

[Paul Ceasrine]

Yonkers Joe,
I remember the 69' L-88 Corvette that the body shop guy owned.
He had his girlfriend drive it, and on the back was lettered,
'If you can beat me, you can eat me'.
What was his minimum, $500 per race?
Raced 'heads-up only', no car-length handicaps.
Don't remember anyone coming up with that amount of cash back then
71'/72'.
Never saw it at E-Town or Dover, but it was supposed to be a
11.50 machine. Yes, it was a street driven. Hung out along
Central Avenue Scarsdale/Yonkers..
Close-ratio, w/4.56's.
P

[chris ok]

there was a vette like that at fountain in about 83 when I joined the scene(18 year old w a war torn stock 69 GTO). A lot of older killers spotting out and running us down. after wards late negotiations at TSS on Linden or Airport Diner on Conduit w the big guns running on 150th thru early 90's(now all blacktop w no racing, but the parallel service road.......).

Don't worry guys, NYC is alive and well, just more underground, except for posted videos, which you can find on youtube if you look.

Yes the fartpipe kids generation does not get it like we(the generation after you all,30- 40 somethings now). But we are "still alive and well".

Thanks for the look back on NYC street racing. True NYC history.

[hemicop]

Some of the streetracers were actually a bit better or at least on par with some pros of the day. I heard there was a pic. of russo's L-88 'vette beating Ronnie sox's S/S GTX and Bernie Agaman was good enough to win a few Nat'l championships. Of course the Mutt Bros. eventually developed into a legitimate P/S team & who could forget the "Wild Pumpkin" race team of Brooklyn Heavy? ...and Scott Schafiroff was no "virgin".
Except for Dave Maskins & some rogue Mopar engineers I don't think you hear of too many admitted streetracers turning pro except those in NY

[GaryGoFast]

Originally Posted by gremlin1945

All of the recent bitching and moaning is starting to get stale.
Just to lighten things up I'd like to hear from those who frequented the following Friday,Saturday night circuit in NYC.
Connecting Highway
Laural Hill Blvd.
Francis Lewis Blvd
Review Ave-Van Iderstien fat rendering co. stunk lik hell
The Conduit (150th St)
Columbia St-Red Hook Bklyn
1st Ave.-Bush Terminal
Fountain Ave-not one of my favorites
Mitchells-Roller skate waitresses
This was in the late 60's early 70's.I got my first ticket one night at Connecting.Had a new
1969 VW bug and cops caught me racing another VW(he had Calif. plates,didn't pay ticket).The
cop gave us speeding ticket (55 in a 50)
instead of "Speed contest".
Was there one night when they ran a front engine dragster on highway.
Anyoneremember John D'Andrea?Had a 1970 Gremlin with a 390 AMC motor,won alot there.
How abouttheFish Kid or George he Greek?
Shaffroff had more than afew motors running around then.
The heavy duty races went off after 2AM down at the Conduit.Bklyn Heavy etc.Alotof $ changed hands
Just a few memories from misspent youth.The rest is blank.

Ed F.
NHRA #15
IHRA #1945
T/SA

You fail to mention:

The Wedge Inn
The Hutch
I95 / Tardi's
Shea Stadium parking lot

Got my 1st ticket for loud exhaust at Connecting Highways

[Mopar Steve]

Originally Posted by hemicop

Some of the streetracers were actually a bit better or at least on par with some pros of the day. I heard there was a pic. of russo's L-88 'vette beating Ronnie sox's S/S GTX and Bernie Agaman was good enough to win a few Nat'l championships. Of course the Mutt Bros. eventually developed into a legitimate P/S team & who could forget the "Wild Pumpkin" race team of Brooklyn Heavy? ...and Scott Schafiroff was no "virgin".
Except for Dave Maskins & some rogue Mopar engineers I don't think you hear of too many admitted streetracers turning pro except those in NY

Ronnie's '68/9 Road Runner S/S car was bought by an NY street racer. To this day the car still has the radius on the 1/4's.

[Ron Steiner]

There is a book called Muscle car Confidential that has stories and pictures of almost all the locations mentioned. My best experiences were on the clearview expressway with cars blocking the traffic at the union turnpike entrance while pairs of cars raced a marked off 1/4 mile. My ultimate race was with my brand new '68 Camaro 396/375 racing and beating a GTX street Hemi on union turnpike those were the days.