grew up near midway airport (southwest side), in our neighborhood had 2 GTOs jacked up like that (one blue lace and the other was yellow), a 64 nova (white) and a 57 chevy (candy apple red), still vividly etched in my memory. Most raced on archer avenue. The 57 chevy I knew expoded into a million pieces on a bad race. Back then it was safe for kids to be out at night watching the hot rod races a couple of blocks from home, on a warm summer night.
When I turned 15 or 16 I was able to pump gas after school at a key gas station on Archer so I saw even more of these cars come in the station from different areas if the city, many with their front ends way up in the air. We used to hang the gas pumps to make extra money from people not paying attention on a fill up, but never did it to guys that drove street racers (or likely face a beating).
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