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Thats was Bernie that had the gas station right next to the Bayonne bridge. We used to buy aviation fuel from him.
The only partnership Ray and I had was Leong and Cook Racing Engines and the race cars.
Ray owned a Fork Lift repair shop in Elizabeth for a while.
Before we became partners. He was partners with George Elliot in a gas station on Hylan Blvd, then a junkyard (chop shop) in Staten Island. That got them a little vacation time.

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I ran into him at Z-max last Sept. on Sunday of the National event just before the 4 lane TF and FC exhibition runs. I go to E-town every year, for all 4 days, but I never run into him there.
Bill Seabrooks - superfan1
Bridgeport, CT

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Ah, ok. I thought it was Ray that had the gas station right at the Bayonne Bridge after I read the caption for this photo (I think Norman Blake wrote the captions - do you and Ray know Norman well?):

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/u.../RayCook-2.jpg

What year was this photo taken, Art? Also, can you tell me some specs on it? Whatever happened to it? It looks like it definitely was a street king!

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/u.../RayCook-1.jpg

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Hay Artie do ya still have the bellbottoms from the picture?

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Ed were you at this race?or were you driving around the village in your 57 chevy.

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Joe,I never went up to the Bronx.All my trips were to Connecting Hwy,Laurel Hill Blvd, Review Ave and the Condiut and Crossbay Blvd in Queens.Very rarely we went to Maurice Ave and Francis Lewis Blvd.In Brooklyn we went to Columbia St,3rd Ave and very rarely Fountain Ave.
The Village was never a car area.I hung out in Rockaway Beach with all my Irish alcy friends.

Joe,did you have bells like Arties?

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Those pics have been in about 10 different articles. The captions are not right. Bernie didn't street race then. That was the Willowbrook Expressway not the West Shore. That was probably 1974. Tex (Ray) was behind the wheel , Thats me holding the passenger side of the car. It was a 68 roadrunner with my 440 wedge with STR Intake manifold and 2 holleys. It had a Prestolite transistorized ignition so the plugs stayed clean. We drove it from Wetsons (Mitchells) to the Willowbrook. Car ran a best of 11.0's I think we gave that big block Nova the break of the tires. I know we won.
In the second picture you can see Al Masota (Al Cap) watching. I don't know what happened to the car. But the motor is still alive and well last I heard.
Yeah I think we know Norman LOL We left him in Bowling Green Kentucky One year Forgot about him till we were about 200 miles up the road. But thats another story

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Wow, I never expected them to mess up those captions so badly. So that's not Bernie Agaman in the Nova and the Road Runner didn't do high-nines? It's still a startlingly wicked automobile.

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I doubt Ralph Truppi would have appreciated Bernie street racing. I do have a real neat Bernie story but I won't put it in writing. Those same pictures and a few others were used in a bunch of articles. Norman is a great photograher. One of the articles came out the year after we won the world championship. And Wally Parks brought a copy to us and wanted to know more. I explained that that was from about 6 years ago. Told him I could show him the same pics in 5 year old magazines. And nothing more was said.
But the one thing we got over on was that neither Tex or I had a drivers license when we were racing in B/SA. Luckily nobody asked to see one.

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Ed I was never a bell bottom guy,do you think art is telling the truth about beating that nova?a 375 chevy could never get out run by a 440 boat anchor.HAHA

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ED never was a bell bottom guy.Do you think art is telling the truth about beating that nova?no way a 440 boat anchor could out run a 375 chevy.HAHA

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That boat anchor worked pretty good. We got that guy 3 times that was the second time.
And the Nova was no 375 that was an aluminum head 427 with a dominator. A load of good parts. But none of them working together.

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ART i know your **** ran but who put that 427 together stevie wonder!!

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You have to realize back then you didn't have all the support stuff or testing procedures you have now. An 11 second car was fast.
It was a lot of make a change "if it feels good it worked" That car would foul plugs bad. He would go to the track change the plugs and go mid 11's. That was the purpose of driving from Brooklyn to Staten Island no stopping to tune up. That was why you see me behind the cars. If he would have cleaned it out I would have devoloped a malfunction and not run.
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Art I agree but I know some guys that bought a l88 crate motor back in the day and put it in 67 vette drive to the track and went 10.80.BUT I know what you mean.

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Are you referring to Charlie "Astoria Chas" Snyder? His "KO-MOTION" 'Vette was originally a 435-hp 427 car before he dropped in an L-88.

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Hey Ed
I supplied the photos and the right info to the Editor, he decied to use it in his own way. He is the one who screwed up the info,not me. No one's names were suppose to be spcifically mentioned either. I was pretty miffed when this came out.
Art, you should tell them the whole story about that night in Staten Island with the Nova and how it ended for everyone involved. Remember Ray passing the cops. Also the other one about Froggys car on the Trailer out at 150th Street and Tex looking for his dog! They should all get a kick out of that one,LOL!!:D

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Here are the two hooligans when they did it legit back in the day. ;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385/...f3b53867_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/...9790b7f1_o.jpg

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The photographer himself! Good to see you on here Norman.

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How have ya been Norman? Are you coming to RP for the old time drags this year?I'll
chauffeur you there if need be.Let me know.Bring Billy D.He can drive you down in the new Challenger.

Ed

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Art, do you know if Walter still has the Challenger, I haven't seen him in twenty years or so, Paul.

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Now who's the guy on the left in the Dart?

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/u...roRacers-2.jpg

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I going to answer all the questions. I'm just busy right now. Finally got the motor and trans in.
Also I'm going to move this over to the lounge. I don't want to hijack Heavy's passing.
And my old stories aren't related to class racing.
I'll post here when I'm going to answer. Probably later today or tomorrow.

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Answered in "The Lounge"

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Art, which car were the Smallwood Bros running at the time? What did you race them with?

Whoops. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention that this was still Heavy's thread. I'll ask the question again in another thread.

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http://114.imagebam.com/download/0Xu..._spotlight.JPG

Can anyone identify all the guys in this pic? I'll start:

Second from left, Jim Carney.

Fourth from left, Carmen Rotunda.

Seventh from left, Brooklyn Heavy.

Furthest to the right, Brooklyn Heavy's dad

Pete

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Third from right I believe is Heavy's grandfather.

Sixth from left is (again, not entirely certain) Levi Holmes.

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I saw him at CT Dragway...labor day weekend race-1971. Reason I remember this was
track announcer said Garlits qualified at Indy at 6.21...don't know why I recall this...
Remember a hot, muggy day in East Haddam...

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Thanks for the info. I think that's Levi too. Btw, I started a Brooklyn Heavy thread in the Nostalgia Stock and Super Stock section:

http://classracer.com/classforum/sho...524#post477524

Pete

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Not a great photo..."Heavy" in Modified trim....

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By the way, the giant on the right is supposedly Heavy's dad.