shawnee mission east cl*** of 1964........winstead's drive in, on the plaza........motor city [used corvettes]........carl's speed shop, arrow speed shop........wes jerde speed shop.....**** harrel.....checking out the back rows of the fly by night car dealers on troost ave. Saturday night at the outlaw kcta.....going to lawrence kansas sat nights- red dog inn....had a' 40 chevy coupe with a 265 v8..............any body else old enough to remember these places?? It sure was great then! Thanks! Mark
When I was running around, we would go to Peter's drive-in on State Ave. Did go Lawerence drags also. Another strip, but not legal, was Speaker Rd. that we went to quite a few times down in Turner area. Was down there when cops raided it one night. Alot of red lights came from everywhere right when a couple cars left the line. Was at Peter's when Car Craft mag came to town todo coverage of it. It got pretty wild with the cops that night. Just a few I remember.
thats some funny **** peters was the placeto be,left there one niteshowing off kck finest let me take home 7 s***ches on the crown of my head. he let all the air out on the spot, went backthe next weekend and showed off some more 427 4 speed chevelle.its only ran 11.70 but i was cool . i thought.1970 till its demise.
RodHot, you mean this? Check out the story and see who set it up! And, I remember all those places but the outlaw KCTA should have been cut up into helicopter landing strips by about 1968 after the "new" dragstrip on Noland Road opened wasn't it? Tom Hand
For us KCMO boys it was Sydney's on Brush Creek, then if nothin was shakin it was off to Peter's on State Ave. in kansas. The drag strip was the top of the hill on Ward Parkway headed south. Watch the bumps in the curb lanes(3 lanes), they would launch a car like a ramp. And let's not forget the I-70 Drivein when we had that backseat gal with us. Oh ya and if she couldn't make it to the drive-in there was the Starlite parking lot!!
Some cl***ics there for sure, **** Harrel is one of my all time drag racing heros. He came to Grand Island, Ne. with his awesome 62 409 and knocked the local hot shots off, he was a warm guy and fun to be around. he did a race set up on my pals 62 409 Bel Air hardtop. Super Stock cl*** was most of the time the big highlight of the drag race cl***es. Real great memories. Thanx for stirring em up. ~sololobo~
Shawnee Mission North 1965, remember going to a drive-in on State Line and a drag strip on the Mo. side seems like it was an old air strip. Went with a friend, in 1965, who had an orange '32 pick-up with a buick motor to a car show in Lawence I think at the field house. Got there at mid-nite, cleaned the car up for the show and slept in the bleachers the next day. Damn that was a long time ago, but damn good times. Anyone remember Zarda's dairy had some great bannana splits.
Yep, That was the night. Ha, remember the **** & Jay show. That was some funny **** right there. Use to have that mag with that night, lost it over time. Thats damn cool about you being involved.
If I'm not mistaken,bare with me, but if I remember right, the old air strip you guys are talkin bout was down by the river on the Mizzou side. Close to there was where they use to train the motorcycle cops at a place call "squirel cage". Wow long time ago, was very young, memories could be jumbled
Yep, the old track was on Front street right by the Chouteau (SP?) bridge which has now been replaced. They cut big gaps in the track in the mid to late 60s to keep anyone from driving on the track but you know, I can't for sure recall when. Dad would know, I'll ask him. They used it for police training that is for sure. I have some other cool stuff form that Car Craft weekend in May 1980. A lot went on behind the scenes. I have some cool **** and Jay photos we took from before we hit the streets that fateful weekend. I have never seen more cars or been more scared than when we clogged up Noland road in MO and State in Kansas. Tom Hand
SME cl*** of 66. I was more in to the circle track scene. Riverside on Friday night, Lakeside on Saturday night and Olympic on Sunday night. Did go to Winsteads on the Plaza. Drove a 1931 Model A Coupe to school everyday. Interesting that we both have 46-48 Desoto Coupes now. Remember seeing Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts at the Red Dog one night.
was at the doug clark concert. also saw wilson picket at the red dog a**** others. ike and tina turner were regulars at the tee-pee in lawrence. favorite bars in lawrence were the stables, wagon wheel. KC bars---rainbow tap room on state line, some other place, street car on the plaza..........car dealers with superstocks.......site bros plymouth, van chevrolet. sat night for street drags, or the old outlaw strip. i heard there is a KCTA reunion---any info..please contact me!..wes jerde and **** helped me with my first serious engines.......never forgot the help...seldom lost a race......still in my system...check out my 8 second dart [1/4] in my pictures. lookinf for any photos of wes jerde's CHEVY TOO LATE car. thanks to you guys for your in put!!!!!!!!!! mark
That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.....I am young so peters, and all the good O'l places was before my time.....I would love too see more pics and info on these places....
was at kci the nite wes jerde rolled the chevy too,just after he had sold it. the new owner asked him to drive for him. i was with the die hard altered that ran out of **** harrel sponsorship. was in harrel shop when al vanderwoude brought a empty hemi block and torqueflite trans case for mock up to change mr chevrolet to a ed pink hemi. car picked up from 7.09 to 7 flat first weekend. spent a lot of time at noland road and manhattan kan, lawerance once in awhile. used to drive down to the plaza to topsys for carmel corn and other goodies
I drive for FedEx and was rollin' down Independence Ave last Friday when this caught my eye. I almost slammed on the brakes but thought I'd better deliver and hit it on the way back for a few shots. Pace's was a speed shop that opened in this building in 1956 but had been in another building since the late 40s. I talked to Joe Pace the son of the original owner, just a few mins after I took this. He was really cool and also excited to see the Mexican grocer had pulled the old wood off the front and this was under it totally preserved. I had a great idea that I would run my truck down and shoot a few pics of it parked out front. I waited until Monday thinking I had plenty of time. I was sick to my stomach when I pulled up last night with a buddy and camera in hand. They had started s****ing the sign to prep for new paint. I am so mad at myself for not running home after work Friday and grabbing my rig for a few shots. Here is how it looked on Friday and what it looked like last night. Also a few vintage shots from the 50s. Enjoy. Junk4cash
Also remember Lockwoods. They sold all kinds of paint. Metal flake, candies and such. I was from Sedalia and was up in K.C. a lot. I grew up in the 50s but spent time at the drag strip, Carls, Winsteads and a lot of the other places you mentioned. Later, ****
Wish i was there-born in '71. But Speaker, Winsteads, Front St, yeah, still happening. There's still abit of the Lawrence Drag Strip pavement left to take pics on if you know were to look.
Wasn't this near or part of "Arrow Speed Shop" in the late 60's-70's? Arrow was a big player back then. Southwest High School Cl*** of 74
SMN 79. I remember nearly all of the above stated times... Remember the Little Red Wagon and the Hemi Under Gl*** at KCI in '67? I was there with my dad and his friend that ran an awb '67 Belvedere with a Hilborn injected Hemi called 'Brand X'. Anyone else remember that car?
That's right, we'd go Sunday mornings for the drags, kinda hard to find the place. Did a lot of cruising and drag racing on Metcalf Ave., hung out at the McDonalds across from a car dealer. Anyone remember Roger Bracket that got a new 427 Impala every year? His old man owned the KFC in OP and he worked there after school. Went to Shawnee Mission West for a year then to South the first year it opened, Cl*** of '68.
Anyone remember Evil Knivel flying in and landing on the track at KCIR for his stunt? I believe it was 73, we were there, and thought it was about the coolest thing since sliced bread.
Liberty High cl*** of '66 and I remember most all these places you guys posted. Thanks for the memories.
SMSouth cl*** of 69: Mugs Up just off Metcalf at 75th, down to Sydneys on Sat nights. Worked at Cl***en-Morse on Metcalf 2nd shift, guy there had a 65 Biscayne he put a 409 in, boy would that thing come out of the hole! how about Rapid Ronnie Runyon from Ronnies Speed Shop. Had my elbows on the counter so much down at Arrow Speed I think I wore a groove in it. How about Wild Woodies?
Southeast, Cl*** of '67. Meyer Boulevard before school back in fall of '65, and there was a guy whose last name was Sharon. Had a '65 426 Wedge Belvidere and raced it on Meyer against a '65 GTO, a 4-4-2 and a '62 409 owned by a guy named Jerry Voelk, I believe. Voelk eventually built the 409 to be unstreetable, but wow did it scoot. Sharon had been quite successful until the GTO, the 4-4-2 and the 409 were recammed and warmed up. He got tired of losing, so one day he shows up with a new white '66 Belvidere II with dog-dish hubcaps. The fenders had these little medallions that on first glance loooked like the 318 "V-eight" strips. But they weren't. They said HP2. My friend and I knew what it was because we saw the car a week earlier as it rolled off the car carrier at the back of Site Bros. Chrysler/Plymouth. Sharon's street hemi flat out owned Meyer Boulevard from then on. A couple of months later, my friend turned 16, got his license and was given the family's old '57 four-door DeSoto to drive to school. It had a 341 hemi, and despite its weight, still could fly once it got going. Oh, and Pace Automotive sold lots of parts for my '29 Model A when I was in college. Years later I wrote a story in the KC Business Journal about his son's movie car replicas: The Ghostbusters' ambulance and Back to the Futures Delorean. Small world.
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