woodguru wrote:
I grew up in Vacaville that Hiway 80 goes through between Sacramento and SF, it seemed like there were an inordinate number of seriously built hotrods the kids in our high school had with t***splanted built 427's and other highly built engines.
The main d**g got cruised back and forth, and there were a few parking lots of closed stores where kids congregated and looked at cars. every once in awhile a challenge from someone talking smack was accepted and they went out to sit at the light and it was on. The best and longest d**g went right by the police station, so that was discouraged at some point, so an alternate place got set up on the edge of town where there was a straight rural road, all the kids started going out there and it became the Friday night race hangout.
I had friends that had a big shop out in the country where their dad helped them put engines in things that were not normal, one of their monsters was a built 426 Hemi in a 60's Dodge van, it was impressive, but a dud at the d**g races. His brother bought a Plymouth GTX with a 440 with two 4 barrel carbs and a 4 speed, we thought that was going to dominate but it had huge power but no traction off the line.
Growing up in the 60's and 70's the car street racing thing was different, it didn't seem like the kinds of stupidity we see now that k**ls people was a thing...but then another factor is that common cars and motorcycles are way faster now, which may be getting people into trouble that are in over their heads.
I grew up in Vacaville that Hiway 80 goes through ... (
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Back in your day the Model A was it and it couldn't out run a HORSE.