Street Racing Scene

[L78_Nova]

Sunday was our local cruise night and late night action jumped around to different spots as there was usually some police action. Every once in a while I guess it was the policeman's ball because the cops were nowhere to be found. We had a spot leaving the west edge of the city where a two lane divided city road went over an overpass ran for another 3/8 mile or so divided (with lights) then came together as a quiet rural hwy. Cars (and crowds) would gather and line both sides of the still divided portion and guys would line up and race back towards the city using the hill of the overpass for shutdown.

We were there for a couple hours one hot summer night and guys were racing pretty steady. I recall a blown small block T bucket with 15 x 33 Mickeys racing a motorcycle about three times. There was some crazy dude on a trike lapping back and forth doing wheelies... runners and shorts only!! one hand on the bar, one waving in the air and standing on the back rack, He was wheelieing past about 40 mph the full 1/4. I thought that was gonna get ugly but he managed to keep it upright.

The next weekend I missed but my buddy had a race set up so he headed out with slicks on and open headers. His race didn't materialize, Shortly after the action started, the cops showed up in force completely shutting down both ends of the road so no one could get out then started writing tickets for whatever they could drum up. My buddy and his friend had pushed his car down a dirt field road alongside some trees and hid until things had cleared out around 2 AM.