Belmont and Harvys

[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