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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 |
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Hey Eddie.
We were at all of the above. We raced "Brooklyn Heavy", the Smallwood Bros, Fast Eddie, Maxie,, George Elliot etc. Used to race to get enough money to go to the nhra national events LOL All the traveling we did years ago and neither one of us had a drivers license. Taken away for street racing. I got popped twice in the same night at first avenue by the same cop. He asked me why I didn't leave after the first ticket (speed contest) I told him I had to make some money to pay for the ticket LOL. Those were crazy days, but fun. |
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I remember when Bruce Springsteen (didn't recognize him at the time) was hanging out at the Burger King on the Conduit in ENY. We thoght they were IRS agents looking into the money that was bet. LOL
Rember the Crossbay Dart? we made five figures off them in one night. |
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I dont remember that particular Dart butI do remembera Hemi Dart at Columbia St. pier.They called the guy the barber.ColumbiaSt. was where my 55 Chevy was pretty much destroyed bykids inRed Hook park.I parked it in front of the entrance,so that when the cops came I wouldn't get a spectator ticket (Loitering).One Sat. night the cretis rolled an 8' utilityco. cable reel into the passenger sde.I sold the car and that money went to buy my wifes engagement ring.I look at that ring now and just sigh.(Car wouldhave more monetary value,but after 35 years the wife was the better deal). Ed |
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Scott;
Probably the best part about those times were that you could actually park these cars in the street.I grew up in Manhattan in Greenwich Village and parked these cars on the street in this order: 1960 Pontiac CatalinaW/a 389 hydra matic 1969 VW bug- stinger exh.-Empi mags 1956 Nomad-red/white w/r/w r&p interior,straight axle,440 mopar,727. 1956 chev 2 dr. s/w handyman special,265, auto,brown on brown. 1955 chev 210-283,4bbl,4speed,blackr&p interior. 1966 Mustang notchback,awful green,289,2 bbl,3 speed stick,factory air. Howlong would they last in todays world? Ed I get some good stories from Ken all the time. |
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Those were the days.
Scott I still didn't have a garage in the 90's I put my FWD stockers together in the street in front of my house There was more crying and sandbagging back then than you realized. We didn't care if you came with a Volkswagrn with 4 flat tires we always argued for a spot.Those guys on pinks are amatuers when it came to begging for a spot. LOL Back then we used my 440 wedge motor in about 9 different bodies. Some of the cars we beat became our partners LOL Shep from Chrysler told us We would have made some of the Chevy racers proud. LOL. We also did a SS/A type hemi motor that we ran in our 71 Charger RT.The only place we raced that was 150th Street or the Willowbrook expressway in Staten Island. That motor we lent to a superstock racer at E'town one year and it was within a tenth of the 2 bullits he grenaded earlier that day. Our 71 charger was an original factory hemi car, I believe the last one to roll down the assembly line. And I sold the shell for $300. One of my many "MISTAKES" Last edited by art leong; 09-16-2007 at 12:27 AM. |
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Hi Art, Just how fast was that Charger. I remember in the 70s you beat my friends 10.70 Valliant like it was a go cart. Remember all the big money grudge runs out at West Hampton at the end of the day. They usually ended with a few brawls and a knifing or two. All the cars had no time written on the window. Those were the days, Paul.
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Hi Paul. I remember racing a grey primed valiant, was that the one? I think we got 1 and the break. We hooked up a switch to the brake lights to remain on when we left. Very Very effective if you were sitting in front with the break of the tires. People would key on those huge tail lights, and see them getting smaller LOL.
We never made an all out timed run with the charger. But the motor went10.18 in a SS/AA car in July (90+ degrees) |
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