Re: Whatever happened to Brooklyn Heavy?

On Friday, 29 May 1998 at 09:00:00 UTC+2, RACECARART wrote:
> >Robb, Gang, If memory serves me correctly, That Dart was an ex-Dick
> >Landy piece. Franko
> Franko, Gang,
> Not sure about that, I think that Lyles had that Dart while Landy still had
> his. The Brooklyn crew was famous for buying ex-name cars though. They had a
> few Sox cars, the ex-Nicholson Jerry Harvey SOHC A/FX Mustang, Joe(?) Bambace's
> 11th Commandement '64 Hemi Plymouth and a few others. I have a magazine
> article(by Seymore Balz!!) about the street racin' in Brooklyn at that time and
> it shows the Sox and Dyno Don cars. 
> The Newark, NJ area had a big street race scene also in the early seventies. I
> never attended them but a bunch of the guys used to bring their cars out to a
> marginal road next to Rt 280 here in Parsippany NJ and test n tune! These cars
> never saw a sanctioned strip and thus followed no rules... " run what ya brung"
> even if it had not roll bars, blowproof bellhousings and such. We always stood
> behind the cars, never next to or down track(?) as they came towards you. The
> police never bothered them during test time either.
> Joel
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