Oldschool racing

Well this isn't my story but one of my dad but I thought it was a pretty funny story so I'll share it.

My dad used to race in Philly back in the day and he told me that it used to be huge down there like starting at 11 or 12 and not ending till about 5 am when the sun would come up. Well he said they used to have ice cream trucks actually come and try to sell Ice Cream to them. Well one time they convinced two of the Mr. Softee trucks to line up with each other and they do, they get ready to go and launch when then one truck broke the drive shaft and wound up doing a pole vault in the middle of the street. Thats my story... not much to to it but I thought it was funny.

my stepdad has similar stories. He used to build and race V8's, you know the ones with just a bucket for seating, frame and an engine/tranny.

Thats funny about the ice cream trucks, racing on the streets was more accepted and organized back then

yea my dad used to race a firebird (old school first year) and he did so much to that baby... i hate him to this day because he sold it for 5k to help buy this house.... argh

philly races are still like that, but IMO, you'd have to be an idiot to go to them now. Just gonna get hit by some 16 year old or arrested. But anyways, funny story.

u wanna talk oldschool.. my friends dad somehow got a 454 into a
model T ... the most recent race i heard of was against a boss hog with nitrous.. guess who won lol ... those hogs are sick.. but they say he was hanging with him until he sprayed.

Yeah my pops used to race a 440 6 pack cuda, that turned like mid-low 11's. But yeah as far as the racing down in philly is just retarded now. But a lot of the poeple who used to go down there meet up around me in Doylestown now so thats pretty sweet cause thats like a 10 minute drive as opposed to an hour for me.

Doylestown is overrun with Jettas :biggrin:

My dad wasn't 16 until '76 so he missed the musclecar era, but he remembers a neighbor kid down the street that had a 1969 Camaro SS with a 454 that was later added from Yenko Chevrolet, it was hugger orange with black SS stripes. He said his fondest memory of the car was when he was pumping gas at a nearby gas-station at 12 years old, he filled up the car and when the guy left he left deep black skidmarks all the way down the road about as far as he could see. I've been there, its kinda cool to imagine it. :smile:

My dad rolled in 1971 Rally Nova with a 427 back in the day, hes still got it but now it sits in a garage somewhere waiting to prowl again. I know guys who really tore up the streets on Hwy. 20 in the 70's one guy had a 55' chevy with a 502 that would pull a three foot wheelie. Another guy 21 traffic violations by the time he was 21 on a Kawasaki 750. I carry on the tradition cruising a twenty mile stretch of highway in my 80' malibu with a 383 I've raced 46 different cars and only lost once to a Vette oddly enough no ricer has dared to show his face on my highway after I rolled an R34 up and smoked it.

my dad has alot of those stories lol....old school is the shit

My dad used to have a 49 Chevy pickup, a real grampa truck, with a 454 in it. It had a camper on the back so it always hooked up real well. One day he was towing a car on a trailer back from a junkyard or some place and lined up at a light against some Mopar muscle car. He blew the car away and vividly described all the trash the other driver talked after getting beat by a beater grampa truck with a camper and a trailer with a car on it.

My dad doesn't tell me any stories, although I now he used to have a Chevelle, and his list of cars also include an Mk III Supra Turbo when they came out in the 80s, an early 90s Porsche 911 (when I was a youngin), and a SL somthing before I learned how to drive (dont think it was the 600). He had an S600 when I was learning how to drive, and driving that was fun...it was like driving a marginally fast tank...

My dad started working on cars at 13 and got both GM and Mercades certified back in the day. His first car was a '69 Firebird with the works. He told me that he used to spend every weekend under the car. I asked him if he ever took it to the track and he said his best time was 12.6. I always ask about street racing stories but he never tells me. I think he doesn't want to encourage me. Even though he drives a Grand Marquis now, I think he still has the itch. After all, he is helping me upgrade my turbo this weekend...

the story i love from my dad is about his brother, he used to have a GTO and he would get lit and go do a burnout infront of the police station and run the cops up my grandmas road to her house. keep in mind its on top of a mountain, so the road is very windy and hilly.

does it seem unfair to any of u guys that our dads had this stuff and we dont? mine ran everything from a 70 Challenger R/T to an 70 454 LS6 Chevelle. o and one of those sick Kawasaki 750s mentioned earlier lol. everyone should have a 750 two stroke haha. whered these cars go? i know the chevelle got sold cuz it was a 4 speed and his first wife couldnt drive a stick. every cloud has a silver lining tho- theyre not married anymore r they?

My grandpa use to tell me He use to thrown his ignition timing off on his 68 RS/SS CAMARO with a flick of a switch, and when hed pulled up next to some guy the car was popping and clacking and smacking and the guys would smile and rev there engine and ask if you want to run for accouple bucks and my grandpa would agree and like acouple of seconds before they would go hed flip that switch and the igntion would go back and the car would sound mean and he still from this day rembers the faces of those guys when just a second before the race they heard that 327 roarr, Yea it was a 327 not oringal motor but he had camel humps 2.02/1.6 he pulled off high 12's with that little 327 and he says he use to love eating on the 1st generation firebird 400's cause they think they were the shit except afterwards when they find out they got spanked by a little 327. I find it intresting how he threw the car on and off timing. hopefully hell show me and ill do the same to my car