Street Racing Articles

[ZiggyL78]

Is anyone out there collecting old street racing articles?I'd like to start a collecton.I'm looking into a book my cousin has that is titled Confessions of a Street Racer,or something like that.HiPerformance Cars magazine had some good ones back in the 80s.
Thanks

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Check old Philly Inquirer newspapers. There used to be TONS of articles relating to street racing.

[C1SS396]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Check old Philly Inquirer newspapers. There used to be TONS of articles relating to street racing. </div></div>

Some good videos on Youtube also right Fast [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JF9TpBeMCk

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[Dave Rifkin]

One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

[Xplantdad]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

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I remember that article...I think that those were code names for Kwhizz and Stefano! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[C1SS396]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

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I remember that article...I think that those were code names for Kwhizz and Stefano! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>

November 1978 Car Craft

[kwhizz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

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I remember that article...I think that those were code names for Kwhizz and Stefano! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>




Must have been Stefano........I &quot;Never&quot; participated in anything that was &quot;Ilegal&quot;, unsanctioned, unsafe, and I never exceeded the Legal posted speed limit anywhere on the streets of Chicago...........I was a &quot;Model&quot; citizen growing up in the Windy city...........Now....Stefano I'm not so sure about.........

[ZiggyL78]

Great stuff.I remember a similar article.I think the Camaro was orange and in the beginning it started with the guys prepping the Camaro.One guy had just arrived with a couple of bottles of NOS and some other guy had gone out to pick up the new slicks.Same deal.I don't think the race ever got off.
I also remember a number of articles about the Connecting Highways area.I think it was in NY?It really got crazy.They would drop some wreck on the entrance ramp to block the traffic.I remember one race were they were actually going to do it in the middle of winter.A couple of the brothers had developed some burnout mix that wouldn't freeze.LOL.
The one that stands out the most was an article about some stroked GTO.It was an old article as I had used it for an essay in high school back in 1969.I couldn't believe that my Grammer teacher actually went for it and believed I really wrote it.I got a AAA+ and the teacher told me that I should consider a career in writing.LOL.If you are reading this Mr Guyat.I ended up working for the Beer Store for 32 years.

[Pulnaway]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One article that I can't forget was in an issue of Car Craft (I think). I detailed an arranged high dollar street race that was supposed to take place late one night in the Chicago area.
One car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 RS that was owned by a guy named Scotty Brown. The car had a nasty tunnel rammed big block, narrowed rear and a Lenco transmission. His opponent was Steve Lisk and his 1971 Hemi Challenger, also tunnel ram equipped, narrowed Dana 60 and a Lenco.

The article starts describing the cars unloading and prepping for the race when the cops show up, or something like that. Whatever happened the story ends without the race taking place.

</div></div>The Steve Lisk Hemi Challenger was in the Hot Rod Sept 77 issue. It was also in the Sept 2010 issue (Where are they now? )

[ric]

I was in high school at the time and happened to pick up that copy of Car Craft in the school library and that story has been locked in my memory ever since.

There's some pretty cool info on Steve Lisk's Challenger floating around the web with pictures of it still in great shape today being freshened up. I wonder what happened to Scott Browns Camaro?

That was a cool article. Thanks for filling in some of the info that I couldn't remember.