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art leong 01-05-2010 10:36 AM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez (Post 160935)
I remember Heavy's cars along with alot of Schiroff motored cars.The car that stands out was a 64 Galaxie with a cammer.Whipped a corvettes *** coming and going.
Anybody remember the Fish Kid and George the Greek?Hows about Al Cap?
Jeez I wish someone would really invent a time machine.
You left a few out Ed

Ed Fernandez 01-05-2010 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by art leong (Post 160992)
You left a few out Ed
Time creates memory loss Artie.
How about,Nunzi's cars?Some crew there.D'Andreas gremlin was a killer back then,mostly at connecting highway.I remember a nash met called Classical Gas.Had a small block in it though.Saw Flip's Speed Shop's volvo a few times.Too many cars so long ago.
Was there the night they ran a front engined dragster at connecting too.

Pelle A 01-05-2010 04:54 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
One of the cars found its way to Sweden over England, here´s a lesson in Swedish (yes, google it)
http://www.wheelsmagazine.se/fragapr...icle225777.ece
Here is some pictures from a local Swedish event "Mopars at the strip 2009":
http://www.hemicuda.se/Bilder/Mopars_at_the_Strip_2009/
Scroll down to find that the Sox & Martin Brooklyn Heavy is doing well
Visit http://www.hemicuda.se for more Google exercise.

/Pelle Andersson

cammer427 01-25-2010 12:12 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
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Originally Posted by Joe Abbazia (Post 160924)
Herb jr how did heavy pass and were was he living?
Joe,

He was living in Brooklyn and was 74 years old (he died January 2, 2010). His grandson told me he had diabetes "along with many other complications" so I assume it was old age or one of his ailments.

cammer427 01-25-2010 12:22 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
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Originally Posted by Joe Abbazia (Post 160930)
No Ed that wasnt me but a friend of mine but a cammer mustang from him in 84 I will have to tell you about when I see you.Stay well old timmer.
I think the guy you are you thinking of is Tab Talmadge, rather than Rufus Boyd (?). Is your friend Kurt Vogt? If so then you're thinking of a '65 A/FX 427 Cammer previously raced by Don Nicholson then purcahsed by Brooklyn street racer Tab Talmadge back in '69 which he raced on the street. The car eventually disappeared into the back of a Brooklyn storage garage where Vogt tracked it down then purchased from the owner (Talmadge had sold it to someone else by that time). I don't know of any other Cammer Mustangs in New York at the time but I'm sure there may have been. If this is the car you're thinking of, then I don't believe Brooklyn Heavy owned the car after Talmadge, at least I never heard that (and since Heavy went to jail in '75 or '76 for 25 years, it most likely wasn't him the car was purchased from, especially since the Feds took all but one or two of his cars in a raid). But anything is possible :) Is this the story you're thinking of?

cammer427 01-25-2010 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Casey Miles (Post 160968)
Eddy (Google Eyes) and Freddy had Heavy's 1969 Camaro sitting in front of their shop in Wantagh for years and wouldn't let anyone near it. It was an Orange SS Camaro. They were waiting for Heavy to get out of the envirement he was in. Heavy and Freddy, rest in peace.

Casey Miles
248H
Eddy and Freddy's last name was Leyte, wasn't it?

art leong 01-25-2010 04:32 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez (Post 161023)
Time creates memory loss Artie.
How about,Nunzi's cars?Some crew there.D'Anreas gremlin was a killer back then,mostly at connecting highway.I remember a nash met called Classical Gas.Had a small block in it though.Saw Flip's Speed Shop's volvo a few times.Too many cars so long ago.
Was there the night they ran a front engined dragster at connecting too.
Ed I remember a "Nunzi" tuneup. Points plugs and a camshaft. LOL You realy need the Italian accent to appreciate this.

art leong 01-25-2010 04:37 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cammer427 (Post 164976)
I think the guy you are you thinking of is Tab Talmadge, rather than Rufus Boyd (?). Is your friend Kurt Vogt? If so then you're thinking of a '65 A/FX 427 Cammer previously raced by Don Nicholson then purcahsed by Brooklyn street racer Tab Talmadge back in '69 which he raced on the street. The car eventually disappeared into the back of a Brooklyn storage garage where Vogt tracked it down then purchased from the owner (Talmadge had sold it to someone else by that time). I don't know of any other Cammer Mustangs in New York at the time but I'm sure there may have been. If this is the car you're thinking of, then I don't believe Brooklyn Heavy owned the car after Talmadge, at least I never heard that (and since Heavy went to jail in '75 or '76 for 25 years, it most likely wasn't him the car was purchased from, especially since the Feds took all but one or two of his cars in a raid). But anything is possible :) Is this the story you're thinking of?
There was a cammer mustang with a tunnelram from South Jersey I believe. They were friends of Max. The guy with the beatup GTO. We ran them on the Willowbrook with the hemi car. Got lucky twice.

Ed Fernandez 01-25-2010 04:48 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
Doesn't anybody remember the Galaxie with the cammer at the Conduit?I remeber it like it was yesterday.

Joe Abbazia 01-25-2010 06:32 PM
Re: Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.
 
Ed I remember that car,I watched at national speedway leave the line and the back window blew out.I was 12 or 13 seems like yesterday.


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