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

RzeroB said

I grew up just "upstate" of NYC and I remember some of those guys. Can't forget the infamous Mudd brothers and their legendary Hemi Dart as they were right there with the rest of the NYC heavy hitters. But those guys were all in a league of their own. Guess you could have called them "semi-pro" cause their rides were purpose built race cars being driven (probably illegally) on the street. Those "semi-pro" cars were far removed from what the fastest "amateur" young guy was ripping around in his home town with. But it is those "young guns" that I like to think of with this thread as it is those guys that I can best relate to and like hearing about. :burnout:

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"Young guns? Little guys? There were plenty of them, too! Speaking speecifically of Queens, NY (Flushing, Bayside,etc.) there was Paul Russo's L-88 'vette, Lary Chin's '66 Impala, his speed shop's '66 Chevelle, John D'Andrea's yellow Gremlin among others. These guys all ran somewhere in the high 10s/high 9s which, considering P/S back then were doing mid/low 9s was pretty good. Paul had a great shot of him at NY NAt'l running against S&M's GTX---wish I had that, that seemed to be his high-point. John's Gremlin was shown in a past issue of HMM in an article on NYC streetracing back in the day. We all played on the street back then & NYC being so large I'm sure there were cars I never even saw that could run with or even beat these guys. It was great fun back then.........