I did a LOT of street racing from the mid 70's to the mid 80's, then I maintained some street race cars for a guy we called Bottle Bob, then I went on to some "time only" track racing at LACR and Terminal Island, where Big Willie made me a proud member of the Brotherhood Of Street Racers. When I street raced, we did it in the wee hours of the morning, in industrial parks with no intersecting side streets, and NO-ONE parked on the side of the street we raced or there was no race. So, please don't mistake what WE did with the vehicular stupidity on the news currently that the mis-informed news call street racing. Anyway, this is "somewhere" in SoCal this past Sunday. It was an invitational, 8-car shootout, winner takes all, $100 buy-in with several side races afterwards
My car's not ready, so i went with Steve67. He went to the final round! But, had a Nitrous solenoid fail. He beat some pretty stout cars on the way to the final. A really quick, turboed Miata "gated" Steve, which is RARE, and I thought he might have been in trouble, as turbo cars can really pull, but Steve managed to drive around him. He lost in the final to a 78(?) Elcamino that's rumored to run bottom 9's. In this pic, you're looking at about 50 feet behind the start line. Note the end of pavement near the front trailer tire. We were at the center of nowhere
"we did it in the wee hours of the morning, in industrial parks with no intersecting side streets, and NO-ONE parked on the side of the street we raced or there was no race. So, please don't mistake what WE did with the vehicular stupidity on the news currently that the mis-informed news call street racing". Thats well said Groucho ! I spend countless hours in horror watching these kids "race" on You Tube videos and it isn't anything like what we did 25 years ago. I wish they'd figure it out, not tell the world where they're going, and do it with some sort of precautions in mind.
the rest of the posts will go blah blah blah stupid blah blah blah dangerous. all I have to say is BAD ASS!!!!!
Lol - i love the Nova yanking the hoops on the street! We used to do a lot of similar stuff up here but the Fast and the BiCurious ruined it for us.
Very cool stuff!!!!! Yup we would go in the middle of the night, no one around, not a huge crowd fun stuff!!!!
We wouldnt go to the "middle of nowhere", But we had a 360 degree view. 70's. 65 cutlass F-85 convertable,330,factory 4 speed,$200.00 Lotsa fun. Thats all I can say.
This is plain bad ass! i think there was a monster garage episode were they built a 60sumthing lincoln for one of this races. Good times for sure! more pics of the action?
From Life Mag. from the 50's here's the link...just type in what you want..."hot rods" Etc. http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Somewhere on youtube, but I don't know how to find it. Hopefully someone here will and post the links
Groucho, If the mods havn't strung him up or run him off the HAMB yet there is a Bottle Bob here that (I'm fairly certain from what I know about his past locations and activities) is the same guy you mention above. Bottle Bob and I used to frequent another message board in the mid 1990's (at least - it was the old usenet days) and have a common aquaintance/buddy from there. If you havn't already made contact, maybe you'd like to look him up here if your interested in getting back in touch. -Bigchief. *** EDIT ***- I just checked one of BottleBob's first posts.....Nevermind. I'll go back under my rock. Argh.
Before the guy's and I started the Strays Car Club. We were in that late night group of steetracers that stayed away from those jack asses. I was building a 65 Nova, Rudy had a nasty(that he called it his street car) Camaro that he was almost ready to pull out. Then those rice rockets fucked it up for the valley.
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