Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy passes.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by cammer427

Anyone race, or see a race involving Levi Holmes, Tab Talmadge, Mutt Brothers, "Fast Earl" Mitchell, "Wicked Will" & James Smallwood, "Super John" McFadden, or Heavy himself? Also, does anyone recall a fellow named something along the lines of Willie Camrod ("Cam Rod" maybe)?

I remember most of them. We ran the Smallwood Bros camaro (tunnel ram small block)
In the Bronx on an elevated section of highway. Didn't win.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

OMG! Artie has more stories than an 80 year old sailor! Each one better than the last! Jim

Yes we did some crazy things back then. I stood in front of a cop car (with lights and sirens) one time so we could get the race off. They were actually pushing me with there bumper.

[thomas sheehan]

"fast earl" Mitchell is still around. I ran into him at etown last year...

[jdee1212]

Hey Artie how about Eliot and Keven and that bad tempest.Butch McKennon. The Westshore exp before it was open. raced for hours uninterupted.

Joey Dee

[art leong]

Originally Posted by jdee1212

Hey Artie how about Eliot and Keven and that bad tempest.Butch McKennon. The Westshore exp before it was open. raced for hours uninterupted.

Joey Dee

That was one fast poncho. I believe they kept the car at Staten Island Speed. Paul Blevins was around once in a while with them.The first real prostock motor in a street race car (not counting the bought ones) Kevin Codd was a wizard with the tuning. And Elliot Wakem, was Elliot Wakem LOL
I made it a habit not to be around when that car was out. Never had to explain things that way. We knew what we needed to beat the car, and knew there was no way we were going to get it.
My partner Ray (Tex) Cook was partners with George Elliot (Hemi guy) before I was partners with Tex. And they donated to the Elliot Wakem cause a few times.

[Lynn A McCarty]

Originally Posted by cammer427

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?

I was told that story at Milan by Sonny Lipton?(I think I have that name right now passed) The Top Stock racer who used to drive for Herb Sr to all the National Events. Man he told some stories as a black man driving through the South in the late 60's and early 70's. He told some very difficult stories, but in such a remarkable way. Sonny drove the stocker and SSer Hemi as part of the team I think. I heard about Heavy's involvement in NYC it was simply amazing. So was Sonny's barbecue. I could have listened to those stories about Racing, Heavy, Sonny for days.

[Dan Bernay]

Tried to upload a photo of the Duster Heavy ran.
This is the car i remember at Connecticut Dragway.
Douleclick for larger image.

[Frito]

Originally Posted by Lynn A McCarty

I was told that story at Milan by Sonny Lipton?(I think I have that name right now passed) The Top Stock racer who used to drive for Herb Sr to all the National Events. Man he told some stories as a black man driving through the South in the late 60's and early 70's. He told some very difficult stories, but in such a remarkable way. Sonny drove the stocker and SSer Hemi as part of the team I think. I heard about Heavy's involvement in NYC it was simply amazing. So was Sonny's barbecue. I could have listened to those stories about Racing, Heavy, Sonny for days.

Sonny Shipman!

[cammer427]

Originally Posted by art leong

I remember most of them. We ran the Smallwood Bros camaro (tunnel ram small block)
In the Bronx on an elevated section of highway. Didn't win.

Art, it sure is an honor to be on the same board with you. I have a million questions to ask I'm running out the door so I'll just ask one at the moment: Did Ray Cook own a gas station in Bayonne? Were you involved in it?

[Dennis P Chapman]

I don't know if Ray did but Bernie Agerman did.