Did you grow up around Seattle in the sixties?

Are you Rick R.?

 

Anyone from the area know what happened(or have more pics) of this? I have been trying to track this down to get some pics of it for my dad (and see if I can get my paws on the intake).

Here is a rundown that my dad wrote up. Im pretty sure that it isn't the exact intake off the Dragmaster Dart though.






Here are some pics out of Northwest Rod News mag.

 

No one has mentioned the street racing that went on on the unfinished Alaska Way viaduct upper deck or through the Lake Washington tunnels and across the floating bridge or the Tacoma tide flats. Maybe it was all a fantastic vivid dream?

 

Does the 70'z count? Lived behind Jim Greens Speed Center in Lynnwood, street raced at Golden Gardens, The Gut Colby, used to race stop light to stop light on 99, etc. Those were some great times that I miss dearly. Lon

 

I was around South Tacoma a lot in the early 60s ('61-'62) Me and all my buddies tended to drive around with green wheels. OD to be exact. In fact the whole ride was green. I even had matching outfits to wear when I was driving it. I hated green.

 

Grew up in Puyallup,Wa. 30 miles south of Seattle.Home of Puyallup Raceway Dragstrip.This is what we drove in the mid to late sixties. I put this car together because it's what I wish I had in '68 when I was in high school. '65 Corvette 350hp 327,Muncie 4 spd,Hurst shifter,4.11 posi,Americans mags. Hey nineinch,what about Highland Hills,6th Ave,and Busch's in Tacoma?

 

I know this D.P. is from 86 but does anyone remember Leslies? This was from the last show they had there I was just a little kid but I had some good times there. I won a Miller beer sighn as a door prize when I was 6 year old. My mom flipped out when I came home with it in my arms and a big S eating grin on my face.

 

Been watching this post with interest as I was working for Boeing in Renton from late 58 till 61 helping build 707s. KOL KJR bring back GREAT memories for "REAL" rock and roll,was walking up the court house steps in Seattle to pay a "defective mufflers" ticket when they announced the plane crash that took Buddy, Big Bopper and Richie. Lived on Magnolia Bluff overlooking the Ballard Locks then..
I drove a 34 Ford 4dr with loaded up 59AB (48Merc) in it. Wide whites with 56 Dodge Royal Lancers on it (still have them). Also had a 37 ford coupe, flatmotor, a pink 36 3 window with a 265, tri power, Fenton cast iron headers, 37 La Salle adapted to the orig 36 rearenddropped axle, 40 juice brakes, white pearlescent int, etc.and my dependable driver was a black 56 F 100 with a loaded up 292in it, dropped axle and big and littles and as the rage was then, a name, "Weekend Warrior". Will post some pics if I can figured out how.
Other Rods and Customs were: a metallic maroon 51 Merc 2dr with a healthy, rumbling, Olds in it named "Tug Boat", a green 59 Pont, (a Conv I think) named "Green *****net", another black 33 Ford many door named "Old Crow" with a loaded up Flatmotor, a black 40 Ford SD with a white skunk type stripe down the middle, I think called "Lil Stinker" but not sure, long time ago, a white 58 Pont that had sea waves painted front to rear in the inset trim, was kinda unusal. Gas was 18/19 cents a gal at most of the gas stations, Stinker stations were the cheapest as I remember. Will post more cars as I can recall them. Spent a lot of time at "Cubbys" and the "Barrel" in Renton.
Was a founding member of the "Nobles" car club of Queen Anne and a member of King County Youth Auto Council. And remember the fri sat nite drags at Sun Field east of Kent.
Weekend drags at Bay View, Mt Vernon and Shelton, Aberdeen, still have some of the trophies from there somewhere.
Dances at Hieser's Shadow Lake, if I recall correctly, I saw the Ventures, Fleetwoods, and others there. Gary, lead singer of the Fleetwoods, still lives in Mt Vernon area and drives a *****n white Deuce Roadster Hiboy.
One of my biggest regrets, I quit Boeing the week before Elvis open the Worlds Fair with the Space Needle and I missed him
Enough babablin, will post more and pics as I can recall events. Will post a pic of the unfinished, chopped, primered, full fendered, 34 Vicky I had and sold in 61, maybe someone will recognize it and knows where it went. Hopefully its on the road or stored somewhere.

 

No, I am not Rick R. I am Rich S. I bought the car from Rick R. I couldn't buy the track nose from Greg M. in Colorado so I sold him the car and he restored it.

 

Man this is a great pick me up from the Sunday night gotta go back to work tommorow blues! Grew up around the Lynnwood, Everett area. I am a little later model, I was driving & cruizing in the 70's. J.P. Patches, pulling wooden hydros behind our stingrays during Seafair week. My folks were Dodge people, they bought every new car they owned from S.L. Savidge. I did get to do a little 60's cruizing with my older sisters boyfreind, remember lotsa lowered stuff, level & raked, painted wheels with spiders, chrome reveresed. My era, Cragar SS, slotted mags, satin Centerlines if you had the $. Jacked up Muscle cars, a few straight axle cars. Racing Airport road by Boeing, Cruizing Colby, Renton loop. Sno-King Drive in, Aurora Drive in. Man those were the days, we had it made.
See ya. Have a nice week everybody John

 

I lived on American Lake in the mid-sixties, and campaigned a black 65 Dodge Coronet 500 up and down the West Coast. Sponsered by Lakewood Automotive. Chrome reverse with blackwalls...it was a "business" machine...and it flew like a scalded six legged cat. THAT was the time to be alive and active...

 

I lived in Portland in the 60s except for a 3 year stretch in Uncle Sam's army. I cruised 82nd street in my 57 Pontiac tudor sedan with a '59, 389 and a muncie 4 speed. It was cool to dump the front bumper and raise the car, which I did. I ran OEM style chrome reverse wheels with the factory hubcap clips and stock 57 dog-dish caps with the paint removed from the centers.....INterior was original tutone blue but kept imaculate. Gl***pacs were mandatory.
Bought a 57 chevy hardtop with late 60s corvette 8 inch ralleyes, built 327, 4 speed and a complete 70 monte-carlo black brocade interior....had the requesite headers and purple hornies with a 310 degre cam.....
almost forgot about my 68 GTO...it was almost new and I was able to buy it damaged in the front.....cheap! 350 HP 400, 4 speed with the mandatory jacked-up suspension and 8 and 10 inch cragars...man, I miss the 60s

 

I sure did. My family mover back to the Seattle area in'57 from Portland. I spent a lot of time hanging out in the Rainer Valley. mostly the **X around Rainer Av. and Empire Way. Street raced at the Mt. Baker tunnels to the floating bridge, nothing beats the sound of raceing through a quarter mile tunnel. Week end night at the **X were a moving car show. I've got a lot of great memories from that time in my life.

Thanks ........Jack

 

Moved to Bellingham in '65 and lived right behind the old **X on Dupont, after it had been turned into a used car lot. Lots of Corvettes, Mopars and tri-5 Fords and Chevs for a kid to drool over. That's when the "Little Stinker" Corvair was being worked on at Allied Transmission down the street. Of course they just HAD to try it out on Dupont St. and Northwest Ave. after they finished working on it for the night... And the time the C/Dragster got push-started heading down hill from WWC...

Cruising Cornwall from Bunks to G-P, or cruising at Birch Bay. A buddy blew the rear-end out of his '53 Ford at the Bay; a few minutes later a deputy sheriff pulls along side and asks if he needs any help. "No Sir, think we're OK". Cop was laughing his *** off as he left...

Going to the drags at Arlington and SIR. KJR and the "Emp"; brings back lots of memories.

Like has already been stated, we mostly ran black painted rims with baby moons, some with trim rings. Chrome wheels if you could afford 'em and mags if you were filthy rich. All with narrow white walls or red-lines, later on.

 

Man, that's what I'd call the perfect '64 Impala. This angle reminds me of the old AMT "Street Shaker" box art from 1974!

 

Cl***ic! Slots, meats, stance, and no NCRS in sight.

 

graduated in 69 from a place north of seattle, painted my 62 chevy metalflake green, looked like a frog going down the road. Remember kjr "police Blotter" with Charlie Brown and Ty Flint???

 

Thank you for the great pics!! I dig the Corvair stuff

 

Damn, I hadn't seen how much this thread grew.

Great stuff! This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to bring out of the cobwebbed recesses.

So many memories of my own are being kick-started.

My older cousin took me for a ride in his '36 Ford pickup with a 265, four-speed when I first moved out here in '80.

We "shot the tube" , aka the 188th tunnel by SeaTac, against a 'Vette.

I remember going to shows at Leslie's in Tacoma. Funny, they must've had a surplus of Miller beer signs. My dad had the winning raffle ticket for one of those, and it hung in our garage forever.

The pictures are great, guys! Keep 'em coming!

 

Im going out to the Bremerton swapmeet this weekend and will swing by my dads place and grab some more of his albums if I remember. If your out at the meet and you see a guy with a shaved head, long red beard and a shop jacket with a "Gearhead" patch on the back and a "426" patch on the front remind me to post more old pics. I will be in "car land" and not thinking about it.

 

Hey, was there a group of asian guys that raced Corvettes back then in Rainier Valley? I am interested in information on a 57 or 58 corvette g***er. It still has some metalflake green paint and a green lexan windshield. Early Pontiac rear end, really high up with big window halibrands on the back and a chrome transverse leaf spring front end with 12 spoke spindle mount Americans in front. I was told this car belonged to someone from the aforementioned. That was the story anyway...

 

black '57 vette.nick named "yosh".lived up around the exhuast specialties store on rainier ave.more will to come later.

 

Mrrich, I don't have any memory of ,the discribed 57/58 Corvette. I did hang out in the Rainier valley from mid 58 thru 62. the details are a little dim after 50 years. sorry I could not be more help.

......Jack

 

Anyone know what happened to this one? The mention of exhuast specialties reminded me. I want to get some pics of the car if it is still around the area and see if any of the motor/****** set up is still alive.

The notes are what my dad wrote down. Im pretty sure that the injection set up wasnt the one off the DM dart but it was LIKE the one off the DM dart.

 

I know this is an old thread,but i thought it might ring a bell. My father drove this car in north seattle(1966-1970). Street raced at Golden Garden's with a Jim Green built 327. When i was a kid he used to play his c***ette recording of a 1966 KJR session with Pat O'day. I remember the barracuda adverti*****t. Bah Bah Rah Rah Cu Cu Dah Dah!! Anyways my father still prefers mix matched wheels,he says it was the way to go!!! Does anyone remember this car???

 

I managed to slide into the Red Carpet to see the Sonics back in the day. Even hung around the door when they played at Curtis High School in October of 64. I was on permanent suspension and not allowed in....

I took tickets at Puyallup Drag strip when my brother wasn't involved with a race car so I saw the first Thunderbolts come through the gate. Love at first sight, then when I saw and heard them run it was a serious eargasm. Love those cars so I built up my own 64. Definitely not a 'Bolt though. Usually run black rims and the original poverty caps but have a pair of Hollywood mags for the period look.

 

Yeah, the "Gardens" was the place to be, any night of the week during summer. In the late 60's it was all about sticking m***ive rubber out of your rear wheel wells. Raised white letters were getting popular after the skinny white walls got over done. M/T, or Wide Ovals usually. Chrome reverse was real popular because they were cheap. If you could afford it you would have Keystone kidney bean slotted mags, or Cragers. Shackles weren't as embarr***ing like they later became, so the rake was kinda high in the *** end. I NEVER saw a primer black car, but occasionally a primer red Hot Rod would roll in. Most primer was used where someone had removed some chrome trim. Naugahyde diamond tuft was the most popular interior, until the van craze kicked in, then it was no limit. Fur, ****e, or even astro-turf, in many colors. Thanx for the trip.

 

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Born in Bellingham 1941 and left in 1958 for the USMC. My sis stll lives there.
Had this Olds and I took a picture of it in '60 visiting my Mom in Bellingham. Before this I had several cars but my favorite was a light blue '40 Ford coupe in '58 I believe and I hand painted dark blue scallops around the headlights. Also had a '32 Ford pickup in Bellingham that I kept until 1973.
Mike

 

Seattle in the 60's was great in it's own respect. Graduated in 1963 from Auburn High School. Drove a Blue 49 Ford in High School and a turquoise 55 Chevy Hardtop with 301" SBC after graduation. Stret Racing was no dream in the south end of Seattle. Did considerable street racing with the Chevy especially down around the Duwamish Juction through the Boeing complex and the Lake Washington Floating Bridge Tubes. Golden Gardens was also good, but I didn't make it there too often. When we went racing legal there was SIR, Thun Field and Bremerton. Hanging out and crusing were also great in the south Seattle area. The Renton Loop was awesome. Rainer Ave. and Keno's and Herfy's. Locally in Auburn, Auburn Way was where we cruised between The A&W and the Artic Circle. Wouldn't want to go back in time to there, but it was good when it happened.

 

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