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Hummmmm,
Corrigan Drive Street racing ??? Nary a race never developed on Lebanon Church Rd. as cars would run past Spear Chevrolet..... (Jerry Spear Jr. died along with Don Yenko in that mid 80's plane crash) at 100 mph stopping at the "tunnels" on 885 for a 1,000 ft warm-up on there way to SouthPark & Corrigan Dr.then onto rt 88 by Trax Farms & Mineral beach. I swear it wasn't me who during a street race on Corrigan,,pulled out behind a RA GTO & a 440 RoadRunner and Blew them both off the road with a small block 69 Camaro...... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img] There was some serious "Action" in West Mifflin ,Munhall (Kennywood Blvd) & Corrigan Dr/Rt 88 South Park in the mid/ late 70's - 80's. Mark, I was from West Mifflin .....Nordeen Dr. and Never 'lost' a race in those days. . . My engine guy and brother is Crew Cheifing a Pro Nitrous PDRA Camaro today and back then Built combinations that were unbeatable.... John, nice seeing your thread.... by the way this response ,,,qualifies as the 69 Camaro was a CRAGAR SS equipted car!!!! |
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This is my 1970 Chevelle L78 4:10 rear-end 12 bolt paint stripe delete I ordered from Vietnam through Karen Chevrolet Phillipsburg, NJ. These mags were put on when I got home May 1970 came home Christmas week 1969 my dad worked at Karen Chevy and had car sitting in garage when I got home that week to drive then put back in garage until I got home in May 1970 then put the Hooker headers on, Intake and Holley, air shocks and rest of stuff to street race in Easton,Pa. where everyone would go to race on main street through town and on Route 22. Green house my dads house 25 Wilson St. 6 houses down from where Karen Chevrolet used to be my dad would walk up the alley to work Phillipsburg, NJ
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Terrific! Is that Astros blue?
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Great story. Love the car!
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Barry,
do you have that still or was it traded off? My Dad, in 70, bought a rolled over LS6 from a Viet Nam Vet,,,,a week before his mom cosigned 1/2 the loan just as he got home from Nam....no insurance and out of cash, he sold it wrecked. As a pre-teen my uncle showed me how to "cut up a car" with an acetylene torch... Just in the last few years I sold off the engine & trans (M22/LS6 combo) The bench seat shifter sold at Carlisle, the ZL2 COWL INDUCTION air cleaner ,I still have. Astonishing,,,,, a week later Dad bought another 70 Cowl hood car that a discharged Nam Vet had run off the road into ambutment (Silver / Black) LS5 ,,,,,I have that AC as well. Word got around and don't you know a Daytona Yellow Z/28 and an L88 Corvette was acquired in similar cases. All wrecked before the first payments were made,all un-insured and by service men home from Nam. At one time that summer and fall , I think there were as many as 7 wrecked/totaled Chevy Hi perf cars in our driveway and back yard. Interesting enough we still have parts & pieces left from those. .. I was 11 and the second coolest kid in our neighborhood. Tom |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hummmmm,
Corrigan Drive Street racing ??? Nary a race never developed on Lebanon Church Rd. as cars would run past Spear Chevrolet..... (Jerry Spear Jr. died along with Don Yenko in that mid 80's plane crash) at 100 mph stopping at the "tunnels" on 885 for a 1,000 ft warm-up on there way to SouthPark & Corrigan Dr.then onto rt 88 by Trax Farms & Mineral beach. I swear it wasn't me who during a street race on Corrigan,,pulled out behind a RA GTO & a 440 RoadRunner and Blew them both off the road with a small block 69 Camaro...... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img] There was some serious "Action" in West Mifflin ,Munhall (Kennywood Blvd) & Corrigan Dr/Rt 88 South Park in the mid/ late 70's - 80's. Mark, I was from West Mifflin .....Nordeen Dr. and Never 'lost' a race in those days. . . My engine guy and brother is Crew Cheifing a Pro Nitrous PDRA Camaro today and back then Built combinations that were unbeatable.... John, nice seeing your thread.... by the way this response ,,,qualifies as the 69 Camaro was a CRAGAR SS equipted car!!!! </div></div> Tom... are you taking about the Orange SS350 car you showed me pictures of? I remember Tim G. telling me that thing was a real runner with the little 327. If you want to talk Pittsburgh street racing in the early 1990s, the place to be on Saturday nights was New Stanton by the old Sony plant. On Sunday it was down under the Thornburg bridge by the Pittsburgh / Ingram border near the broadhead projects. |
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yep...
an old "tired" 68 Corvette 350 horse 327 , Zip 510 750dp mallory & 3:73's ran 12.50-12.80 off the street @ 106-109 mph..... a little faster with small slicks .... little car with small tires, would pull the wheels a few inches on launch. I did have Lakewood slappers on it with Gabriel adjustable drag shocks on 4 corners. The car was extremely quick,fast and launched hard. |
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does this count? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
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OMG. #&%$@'&$ SO UGLY YET SO KOOL... THATS THE BEST ONE I EVER SAW.....JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW CRAGARS CAN "KNOCK THE FUGLY" OFF ANYTHING !!!
his retro tastes are well covered in a shrunk down 70's love machine...geez, I can't believe I like it. hope no one else sees this thread...lol |
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Day2, Do you have some pics of your car(s), old or new?
An acquaintance of mine's son has that yellow/black '69 RS with the tunnel ram, and I believe he has another '69 in blue maybe? My brother and his buddies used to go to New Stanton; my brother had a burgundy Fox body convertible and his buddy had a series of Mopars (71 Cuda as well as a twin turbo Viper now). I miss the car scene in WPA. |
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Day2's Old Camaro
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Mark... you must be talking about Donnie Bell. Yellow '69 RS w/ black stripes and a tunnel ram. His other '69 is a red convertible.
That yellow '69 used to get driven a lot, yet he kept it spotless. It used to make some appearances at the Sunday night street races in Crafton in the early 1990s too. The "mopar" guy you mentioned... is he from Washington, PA? There used to be a guy that had a 'lil red express, a white AAR cuda (clone maybe), and a green '68 Dart GT 340 4-spd that he used to run down in Crafton. |
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novadude, yes, that is Donnie's Camaro. Does he still drive the yellow one? Beautiful car.
The Mopar guy is Jon Ohnhouse (sp?), a friend of my brother who is a shop teacher at Eliz Fwd I think. He sold most of his old Mopars and has that twin turbo Viper that is ridiculously fast. Here are some of Tom / Day2_69Z's photos. The time slip is from his red '69 above; the red Z is his current Camaro; the two pics of the Garnet Red COPO are of a ZL-1 he drove BITD, and the black '69 was a BITD pic. Thanks Tom for sending these great pics. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...ime_slip_1.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...9-toms_z_1.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...0-toms_z_2.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8211-tom_5.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8212-tom_4.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8213-tom_3.jpg |
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Tom... I remember the family dealership (Martins Auto Corral) just south of Century III mall on Rt 51. You guys used to always have all kinds of cool muscle cars on the lot back in the early 1980s. I didn't get my license until 1988, but I was obsessed with Chevelles, etc from about age 8. I blame my Dad, as he got me into the whole car hobby. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
As an aside... I met Tom back in about 1991 when I was in college working a summer job at a Chevy dealer. I was driving a brown '70 Nova SS clone to work as a daily driver back then. Started life as a 230 ci PG car, and I converted it to factory buckets / console, PDB, 350/TH350, 8.5 10-bolt posi, multi-leaf springs, SS hood, etc. Some people seem to think that clones are a relatively new thing, but I can assure you that people like me who couldn't afford the real deal were creating SS cars from base models even back then. It was much easier to buy a $500 base model and "upgrade" as money allowed. Of course, back then you could find the "good" SS parts for affordable prices in junkyards and at swap meets. Even 30 years ago, we all knew there was something special about a real numbers matching car though. Anyway... back to the Cragar discussion... |
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Thanks Mark,
cept, They're Hugger Orange ! The Z/28 ,SS350 & ZL1 are HUGGER Orange. Post those 12 second time slips from the 69 SS !!! Please Post the Black 70 1/2 Z/28 with CRAGARS as well,, after all, this is a Cars with Cragars thread....lmao. The ZL1 was Carl Dwiggins car from Conover, NC. February 1987, Friday the 13th., He just got it back from Dave Tenell & asked me to drive it on his back 40,,,,said it had a "miss in it" and wanted my thoughts. Needless to say the "miss" was just a '180' Cammed Aluminum 12:1 427 that needed "opened up" !!!!.. Carl gave me a personal tour of his Massive 5 Pool building, 120+ car collection and capped it off "allowing me the privilege and pleasure to drive that Beast" He helped me acquire the Orange Z pictured above. The ZL 1 went to Reggie Jackson along with about 15 others a few years later..... I think that car is in a Private collection here in Pa. now.?? Tom |
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John,
Your Dad like a lot of our Dad's are well commended!!! This Hobby is one of the greatest ! Our lot, was opened because we "out grew our neighborhood" with all the cars we had. My Dad who will be 79 this Saturday, November 15th. is still an avid car guy frequenting ALL of the local race tracks in Western Pa. from dirt to asphalt to drag strips every weekday and weekend there is a Race. Martin's Auto Corral operated from 1983 till 1999 when the State put the new bypass in for the "43" super highway. Which is now the Greatest place to run Wide Open if you wanna go 150-200+ mph !!! Dad always liked seeing us with CRAGARS on our Cars....and helped us "GO FAST" n FASTER !! My older brother Joe, Runs with a Pro-Nitrous PDRA 69 Camaro as Crew Chief/tuner/engine & trans/chassis set up Einstien for Camp Bros. Supply out of Canosburg. That car runs 3.80's @ 198 & finished 4th in points for 2014 behind Lizzy & Pat Mussi.... it ran a 903 SONNY's /MUSSI Billet , Injected motor . New Motor is a MUSSI for 2015. |
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Sorry for the color error; here's Tom's other pics:
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8218-tom_6.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8219-tom_7.jpg |
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All this talk about the Pittsburgh "scene" back in the day... I often wonder what happened to all of those cars? On any given summer night, the Corrigan drive parking lots were like a car show. Growing up in a city neighborhood, I can remember the following cars parked on the streets in the early 1980s within blocks of our house:
'71 Chevelle SS 4-speed Mulsane (sp) blue w/ white stripes (and Cragars) '69 Camaro RS 4-spd - grey primer black vinyl roof (and Cragars) '66 GTO automatic - white with black vinyl roof (aftermarket chrome steel slots) '68 GTO automatic - red (Cragars) '65 Impala SS - Maroon w/ Cragars etc I took my drivers test in my Mom's daily driver in 1988 - frost green '69 Malibu 2-dr hardtop 350/TH350 w/ rallys, eagle ST radials, and a SS hood that me and my Dad added. These cars were literally everywhere you looked in the 'burgh back in the day (and most had Cragars... trying to keep this a little on topic! LOL). |
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John, I know what you mean. We had a brown 70 Camaro with centerlines, a Cranberry 70 SS 454 Chevelle, a white and a red 69 Camaro base 327s, a 67 Chevelle SS with a 427, a 69 B5 blue Charger, a brown 57 Chevy (most with cragars) and a 69 Pace Car all on the way from my house to school that just sat there 97% of the time.
Tom and I were discussing some of the muscle cars that were around when we were much younger (mid-late 70's) that were some hot rides and wondered where they are now. One was a chopped 70-ish Camaro with a naked woman on the side that was painted over in all black, and a silver 68 Z/28 that was body off restored and painted with multi-color stripes that ran over the trunk lid and hood and then down through the firewall and underside of the car. That car was painted by a guy who Tom and I both knew, and it was amazing. I'd love to see what that one looks like today. |
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Mark,
Google Brake Service on Cochran mill Rd. South Park or Broughton,Pa.... Norm LeBlanc was owner, now deceased. From what I know his wife leases out the business.. rumors run that she has the '68Z/28 at home (I thought she sold it) Tom |
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Hey Tom, I searched on Google, but didn't see much.
That car is just a perfect example of 70's Street Freak Goodness, I loved it. I wonder if anyone has any pictures of it out there? I think he took that to the World of Wheels show BITD. |
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Hey Jefferson !!! Love the nova ! Looks great ! Great stance too. Don't change a thing! keech
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Agree - great stance and wheel / tire size combo on the green Nova!
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Russell,
VERY NICE [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] Dan |
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Like the split bumper!
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Cool looking 67!
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Cool looking 67!
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Cragars,roll bar,Tow Tabs and long slapper bars.
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My Beast
Rich http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...icture6998.jpg http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...icture6997.jpg My Buddy's 70 Chevelle SS with Cragars http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...icture6994.jpg http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...icture6993.jpg |
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Are YENKO site Members now getting a Promotion from Summit , Jegs and of course CRAGAR INDUSTRIES ?
this is the best advertising than any magazine has out. Buy 3 get , get 2 more ! ???? |
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Yes the $$$ is GREAT!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mr.4speed</div><div class="ubbcode-body">https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-67_camaro.jpg
</div></div> Long bars ??? those are home made I'm sure,,,square ends, not angled and Way Too Long.....kinda fits in with the "whole build" of the late 70's assortment of 'used' parts. I bet it was a BB & parked more than driven. Wow...so many looked that way and not just Camaros |
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You did not say any thing about the 1/4 home made cut out too.
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