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Originally Posted by 67ragtp
Born in 61 more than likely on the older side here. Going to high school in the mid to later 70s we got to really see the old iron filling the parking lots and running the streets, it was awesome. For me, I was 15 and my brother had a 69 chevelle ss 396/375 4speed car. In northern jersey and the NY area, street racing was nuts, all the way down sunrise highway in long island home of Baldwin Motion. My first car was a 71 chevelle ss 454/425hp I guess it was an ls5 car, bone stock with 39000 miles on it. Those were the days when you could get a a crane fireball cam, lifters a holley 850 at a swapmeet for 150bucks. Needless to say we beat the snot out of those cars, we were lucky to get through spring and summer with out replacing a muncie gear box. Funny thing is, back then we thought those cars were the fastest things on the planet, probably high 12 to mid 13 second cars always traction deprived. We really had a blast, cops basically gave you a tongue lashing and sent you home, really a different time.
Rich
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Amen.....Great times....We had a quater mile area in Fremont,Ca in an Industrial area in the mid seventies where the police would come out and just send you home..they would thank you for not racing on the Boulevards..
Good times...Fremont Cruise, Livermore cruise, Santa Rosa cruise..All gone now...