Belmont and Harvys

[Charles]

Are there any pictures of the Turk's ride? He had a fast white 1968 Camaro with a rat motor...

[PeteLeathersac]

Great stories, pics and thread PJ...more, more!.

I heard many tales of Harvey's and this era cars over the years...nice to see and hear more facts of what was going on only an hour or so away from where I was growing up!.

On a sadder note, the area being discussed isn't far from where the Golden Horseshoe Dragway was and the location of Dick Harrell's fatal accident in Sept. '71..

~ Pete

[P.J.]

I found some more stuff.
remember that the loss was for a rainy track
and I lost to a ford with my 327 275 hp 4 speed 66 chevelle
butternut yellow black interior.
PJ

[greencopo]

I really like those old tickets. I notice the price on your Daytona 500 hundred ticket is $8.00. I am going this year, 40 years later I am paying $180.00 per ticket in the Oldfield tower.

[Keith Tedford]

Scott (Greencopo) might not have known about COPO cars back then. He does now. We were at Harvey's a couple of times in '68 but they were both off nights. We were in Belmont Chev-Olds, just up the street, in the summer of '69 and they had a COPO Chevelle in the lower level show room.

[P.J.]

Ya thats when the lonely chevelle challenged all the factory built fords and chryslers.Mario Andretti gave us many thrills that day. And the $8.00 was for for the infield. I still have an NOS program from the race track.

PJ

[P.J.]

I often visited Belmont to get warranty on my 66 chevelle ss
and while waiting I would go in the showroom and on their used car lot to check out the cars for sale.I would drool
every visit .
PJ

[ZiggyL78]

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Are there any pictures of the Turk's ride? He had a fast white 1968 Camaro with a rat motor...

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Turk's Camaro was an factory L78 car.He blew the motor up and had a "special"warrenty replant 427-425 dropped in.Later he added a big cam,tunnel ram,headers and gears.It was called the Commonlaw.A buddy of mine bought the car and drove it on the street.It ran low 11s which was pretty quick in those days.Man that car was fast.Even with 11.50 slicks it was a hand full in 1st&2nd and didn't hook till 3rd gear on the street.Alot of cars would pull a couple of lengths on him out of the hole but once that car hit 3rd it was all over.Last time I heard Turk was doing boat tours in Florida.He was a wild man.All the cops knew him well.I remember one night they pulled him into the station for probably his 10 DUI.He wouldn't blow and when the Sargent took him aside for a little talk,Turk smacked him right in the face.The boys really beat him up bad that night.

[Charles]

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Are there any pictures of the Turk's ride? He had a fast white 1968 Camaro with a rat motor...

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Turk's Camaro was an factory L78 car.He blew the motor up and had a "special"warrenty replant 427-425 dropped in.Later he added a big cam,tunnel ram,headers and gears.It was called the Commonlaw.A buddy of mine bought the car and drove it on the street.It ran low 11s which was pretty quick in those days.Man that car was fast.Even with 11.50 slicks it was a hand full in 1st&2nd and didn't hook till 3rd gear on the street.Alot of cars would pull a couple of lengths on him out of the hole but once that car hit 3rd it was all over.Last time I heard Turk was doing boat tours in Florida.He was a wild man.All the cops knew him well.I remember one night they pulled him into the station for probably his 10 DUI.He wouldn't blow and when the Sargent took him aside for a little talk,Turk smacked him right in the face.The boys really beat him up bad that night.


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Thanks Ziggy!