Street Racing Articles

[markjohnson]

That Car Craft Street Racing article is really a great read. I remember that article well. The '69 Camaro Z/28 owner was 20-something and his car was pretty radical with a nice Rat motor(468 CID, I think), Lenco 4-Speed and big tires under the rear. He was supposed to race some kind of bad-ass'ed Corvette the weekend Car Craft was in town but the Vette was a no show. So then they agreed to race Kevin Lawrence and his BBC '69 Chevelle that even had a 4-Speed if I remember correctly. I think the cops showed up and put an end to anything happening before the race went down. Kevin Lawrence later ended up with the old Doc Dixon '69 Camaro M/P car and turned it into one of them Chi-Town Outlaw Super Stockers about 20 years ago.

[Tenney]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He was supposed to race some kind of bad-ass'ed Corvette the weekend Car Craft was in town but the Vette was a no show. </div></div>

This one ...?

[jannes_z-28]

Here is an old thread about it with a few scanned articles:

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...3204#Post363204


Jan

[kwhizz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

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I remember that article...I think that those were code names for Kwhizz and Stefano! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>




Must have been Stefano........I &quot;Never&quot; participated in anything that was &quot;Ilegal&quot;, unsanctioned, unsafe, and I never exceeded the Legal posted speed limit anywhere on the streets of Chicago...........I was a &quot;Model&quot; citizen growing up in the Windy city...........Now....Stefano I'm not so sure about.........

[Xplantdad]

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[SS427]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kwhizz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I &quot;Never&quot; participated in anything that was &quot;Ilegal&quot;, unsanctioned, unsafe, and I never exceeded the Legal posted speed limit anywhere on the streets of Chicago...........I was a &quot;Model&quot; citizen growing up in the Windy city...........</div></div>

Yeah, sure you were.......... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

[ZiggyL78]

Great stuff.I remember a similar article.I think the Camaro was orange and in the beginning it started with the guys prepping the Camaro.One guy had just arrived with a couple of bottles of NOS and some other guy had gone out to pick up the new slicks.Same deal.I don't think the race ever got off.
I also remember a number of articles about the Connecting Highways area.I think it was in NY?It really got crazy.They would drop some wreck on the entrance ramp to block the traffic.I remember one race were they were actually going to do it in the middle of winter.A couple of the brothers had developed some burnout mix that wouldn't freeze.LOL.
The one that stands out the most was an article about some stroked GTO.It was an old article as I had used it for an essay in high school back in 1969.I couldn't believe that my Grammer teacher actually went for it and believed I really wrote it.I got a AAA+ and the teacher told me that I should consider a career in writing.LOL.If you are reading this Mr Guyat.I ended up working for the Beer Store for 32 years.

[1969z280]

For years, guys from the Southside of Chicago raced big block Corvettes and punched-out Cadillacs on a one-mile section of the Skyway on Saturday nights. They even had the start and finish lines painted. It was crazy! Then CarCraft came to do a story and the whole scene was shut down by the police. It was all about gearing and torque in a one-mile street race.

[markjohnson]

I've heard of that &quot;Flying Mile&quot; race a long time ago. I remember a particular story about a highly modified Oldsmobile Quad 4 that raced there.

[L-79 Nova]

A lot of us in the Detroit area used to race on Northline road, now part of Metro Airport. Ron....