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Got my 1st ticket at Connecting Highway, loud exhaust, I ran on the Conduit/150st. But we made or lost our money on the Hutchinson River Pkwy. Used to hang out at the Wedge Inn. mid 70s

gary federico

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Boy you guy's are "old".

A group of us ran several cars, two look-alike black 52 olds (the 2nd one was parked off Astoria Blvd for the race), a prime 55 Chevy with an olds tri-power engine, and even a Packet, along several others up into about 1970/71. Saw lots of arguments about cheating after prearanging a race by someone switching an engine. However, to me just hanging out to see who showed up with a real serious race car on a trailer or truck at the BowBow or Cross Bay Blvd. Would also go to West Hampton, New York National and to Islip to race.

After getting out of a couple of "speed contest tickets", learned that the cops would have to hear the agreement to make it stick in court, I got smart or dumb and just raced at the AHRA/NHRA tracks and off the streets.

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Hey Artie, Remember the green RoadRunner?

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A friend of mine had a yellow Gremlin,390 AMC, auto that was an 11 sec. ride. His friend had another one in yellow with a 304Amc.They did quite well for a while.

Ed

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Yes Al I remember it well made us a lot of bucks.
Do you remember the night I crawled under it to put in the drirve shaft , and fell asleep while doing it. LOL

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Back in the early 60s I lived near Moses Lake Wa. There were a lot of untimed speed contests with guys from the Air Force base. I had a 54 chevy with a 354 hemi and I was paired up with a 32 five window with a 392 hemi. When we left the line as I watched the 32 drive away I noticed a motorcycle pull out behind us. When we got out at the end he went by on his back tire. Had to be going close to 100. The rider was our local Honda shop owner Bob Kneivel. That was before he was Evil. Boy what an outlaw he was, probably still is.

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Hey Ed, Im vouching for my dad, Carl sr....he ran at all of the above with various rides. He tells me alot about the Conduit and Crossbay. When my bro and I raced our 66 chevelle we ran mostly Francis Lewis, sometimes at 20th ave in Whitestone.Im 40 yrs old now, I remember National Speedway like it was yesterday, standing on the roof of dads 70 chevelle wagon, watching him run his 4spd 55 chevy, then the 67 Camaro. He flat towed forever, and my brother and I became 2 of the fastest tire changers around!...LOL, we had slicks on the car before some guys backed their cars off the trailer!!

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In case some of you haven't heard of the website dedicated to it: http://www.connectinghighway.com

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Nice site.My memory is a bit foggy but I think the red VW shown was the one I rn my VW against the night we got tickets for "speeding:.I think we weren't going fast enough to set a ticket for "speed contest".
The mentioned about the cops hosing down the highway.One night while they were doing that a guy and his family was doused by the stream of water and hit the outer wall.The cops rolled up the hose and got out of there like a bat out of hell.
They mentioned the night a rail was unloaded and run down the highway.To the best of my knowledge it wasn't a fueler,it was a SBC powered slingshot.I was there.Maybe another time a fueler was there.
One car that sttod out was an ill handling SBC powered Nash Metropolitan.It was brown and named Classical Gas.Scary car.

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One of the best cars out on 150th st. was Andy Harris's 67 Nova, I never saw him lose a race. It was 9" tires and no hood. I happened to be in the tower at W.H. and seen him go very quick without the spray. That car was deceiving. I can't even remember how many races I went to on 150th st, but I saw an awful lot of money change hands.

Casey Miles
248H