Fastest Street Cars In Your Town, 'Back In The Day'

Nice to see this thread revived.
I grew up in a relatively small town just north of Philadelphia.
I gotta say, when I was a child that place was motorhead nirvana.
There was all kinds of stuff running around.
In the early 60's Billy Neal was featured in the Max Wedge advertising, he switched from Chevy in '63, knowing that nothing else stood a chance. Though he was a serious racer, you know that thing was on the street. Another guy, an 1/8 mile racer,was running around in '55 chevy with a hotted up 283 with like 5.38 gears and a 3 speed... he used to tell me he could pull out of his driveway (on the main drag) and hit 95mph before crossing the railroad tracks like 200 yards away.
By the early to mid 70's the place was crawling with wild stuff. One guy running an LS6 chevelle with a 1050 dominator, headers, ladder bars, was supposedly fastest. Another in a '69 GTX, 440, big carb, headers,4.10 gears. The two of them were said to be unbeatable, though neither would run my dad's buddy with a '67 shelby GT500. I don't know what all he had done, but he was a great mechanic, and he had spent over $4000 in parts and machine work back then. His car was estimated around 650 hp.
Then there were all the smaller players, a 427 Yenko camaro, lotta smallblock cars. One guy driving around in a '56 chevy with a tilt 'glass front end, no bumper or grill, 327, tunnel ram, 4 speed two 'glass buckets and a rollbar, big cut-out rear wheel openings (think Two Lane Blacktop), 4.56 gears. A '55 nomad with a 427, candy purple with a silver metalflake top. '65 GTO with a 455... Not really a lot of Mopars running around.
Of course, right at the end of my street, at the main drag there was an exotic car dealer, too. I saw more Lotus, Ferarri, Lamborghini than you could shake a stick at. They would run down my street to get to the next road, that had about 3/4 of a mile with like 3 driveways on it. They also had what were already "old" road race cars like Porsche 904s and other cool stuff. They also had these miniature replicas of Ford GT40's, LM Ferarri's, and the 904's. I'd say they rolled on 8 or10" wheels, and looked perfectly to scale...Maybe 1/3 or 1/2?Had a 100cc Kart engine on them, beautifuly painted, the GT40 and 904 were closed cockpit, the Ferarri, open. I would love to find one now...
Oh yeah, I might have stolen the emblem off the nose of a Jensen Healey with a 440 when I was like 12... Hey, it was loose...
Don't even get me started on the bikes, or the later stuff...