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So THAT'S how you spell PACOIMA, I'd forgot. Projects? No way. Really? That sucks. It was, at one time, a beautiful place and a great place to...
If you say so Eryk. Hear from Gary yet?
Spent my allowence getting to the streets up here. But I save FAST.
The Ford tractor place across from the store? Whose your friend behind the RV place? I'll stop by and say "HI".
A 406?????? FINALLY A FORD ENGINE!!!! (excuse me, what? that's a small block what? Why didnt they call it a 405 or a 407?) OK, I see, just wanted...
And today I had an appointment to Manage an Automotive Center. Instead I got caught up in this thread. Oh well, I'm that good, I'll call in the...
Thank you and DAM that's bitchin!!! I remember waiting HOURS!!!!!! to get in. But those were great hours!
HA, ha, ha, ha, nice zinger SoCal!!!
Now THERE'S an ICON!!!! I could only giggle when I past him in the pits. A true racer and someone I respected from afar.
BUT!!!!!! You ain't gonna be hearing ANYTHING about you can't drive up and down a public street. That question has already been raised in FEDERAL...
The words "Hot Rodder" were bad, bad words back then. Kinda like "Biker" use to be. Rodders were here, there and everywhere. We/they never really...
I returned from Nam in April of '67, Oscar's was open. I left for Chicago street racing in July of '68, Oscars was still open. I returned from...
Again, between Saticoy and Vanowen and would be on the NORTH side of the street as VNB goes east and west, how many sunsets AND sunrises did I see...
aaaaaaaaaaand the low riders, just down the street was "Stick City"
Oscars was Saticoy and VNB (Remember Saticoy ended at the big lot (I think GM owned it). Chevy's Inc. met at what is now Rydell's, Canyon Ford...
In 1971 fri. night became date night and sat you left your lady at home unless she was into street racing or you were lookin for a quick lay cause...
Do I hear the sound of balls bangin togeather? I ain't come'in down to squatters. I ride 1200 miles I'll run'um outta the lot!! lol.
Lotta Bitch's on this page! Bad Bob is BITCHIN, no a bitch. And Groucho? You still funny. Snort snort.
Nice shots!!! Thanks. So Harvey's is up and running? How about A & W on Hawthorne? The 'Wich Stand? Zorba's? Scot's in Downey? The Goodie Goodie...
Come'on guys without women like that who'd keep a lowrider from listing? Or pre-loading the chassis on a drag racer? lol.
5'10"?????? What are you gonna be when you grow up? :D Just a LARGE? Well hell that ain't bad kid. I retract my previous statement. I must go eat...
Yeah Groucho, bet there's a lot of change on the floor of your shop that you can't pick-up. Enough for a couple of TOMMY BURGERS. At 63 I take the...
Welded to their chairs? You kill me Groucho!
Pretty close to true. They came to us in '71 and promised us a dragstrip in the Sepulveda Basin if we would organize and stop street racing....
I'd get one but they aren't issuing paper money up here in Washington yet and the mail only comes every 6 months, weather permitting. Lost 3 good...
Have we found GARY YET!!!???
Here's one that's still alive up in the GREAT NW, GASSERGARAGE.:eek: It sat all night long without a peep, so I don't know if it ran. Musta had a...
He speaks!!!!
Bitchin shots and I remember seeing the HOLLYWOOD foothills from my front porch (13957 Terra Bella, 1951-1964) in 1951 and the smell of strawberry...
And Centrailia, Wash., upon recently getting electricity AND running water, was FRICKIN HOPPIN on Fri. & Sat. night. And late nite "ACTIVITIES"...
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