Belmont and Harvys

[P.J.]

There were about 20 cars there parked at the side of the road and the jack was a standard car jack needed the distance for spacing the lights just like the drag strip.
PJ

[AlsV8vair]

I have this one photo but not of a car at Harvey's but one sponserd by Harvey's.
sorry that's all I have to contribute.

thanks

Al

[P.J.]

Thanks Al
can you tell us a little about the car what year was the pic taken
PJ

[greencopo]

Interesting topic for me. My after school part time job was working at Stu,s Tire Service down the road from Harveys. After school I would go to the area car dealers such as Belmont,Grant Brown,Little Bros. I would pick up the cars that needed tires. Did not know any thing about COPOs back then but I did get to drive some pretty fast cars I rember. We would go back on the side streets somtimes and really put down a lot of rubber. We where always told if we got caught burning the rubber we would be fired. We used to hang out at Harveys at night, and I remember going up to Pine Valley Dr. for street racing back then. I can rember the fellow that used to cook the hamburgers there his name was Les. I am still in the area quite often all the car dealers are gone and Harveys is now a Carribian resturant. I do have one picture that I will try to post if I can figure out how.

[HiHorse]

nice shot

[ZiggyL78]

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Interesting topic for me. My after school part time job was working at Stu,s Tire Service down the road from Harveys. After school I would go to the area car dealers such as Belmont,Grant Brown,Little Bros. I would pick up the cars that needed tires. Did not know any thing about COPOs back then but I did get to drive some pretty fast cars I rember. We would go back on the side streets somtimes and really put down a lot of rubber. We where always told if we got caught burning the rubber we would be fired. We used to hang out at Harveys at night, and I remember going up to Pine Valley Dr. for street racing back then. I can rember the fellow that used to cook the hamburgers there his name was Les. I am still in the area quite often all the car dealers are gone and Harveys is now a Carribian resturant. I do have one picture that I will try to post if I can figure out how.

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Wow!Lots of memorys in that photo.The silver LS6 Chevelle in the top of the photo looks like Tony Ponteaire's car.Back then they called him the Barber because of his hair doo.Famous racer today.I wacked him a couple of times with my L78 Nova.I was from the Markam & Eglinton Harveys.The white Cougar with the stripe on it was owned by a guy named Deetter I think.It was a Ford factory race car put back on the street.The Telegram news paper did an article on street racing one year and on the front page Deeter was doing a burn out.Man.The copps never left him alone after that.A couple of other names come to mind.Moe Cola had a blue LS6 Chevelle and a guy named Jimmy the Greek had an LS6 Chevelle that had a LS7 in it.Since I'm so old I may have some of these names wrongMan the s**t and performances that went on in that parking lot were unbelievable.Was Less the old guy behind the bar that looked like he was 75 with his grey hair sticking straight out?He could ramble with the best of them.Great stuff.

[Keith Tedford]

Would this be Deetter's car. Although I never met him, Turk's name was familiar in Oshawa in those days.

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...01686729tigOmX

[ZiggyL78]

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Would this be Deetter's car. Although I never met him, Turk's name was familiar in Oshawa in those days.

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...01686729tigOmX

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Yep.That's the one.I think when it was just a track car it had a 428CJ in it but when Deeter had it it was a 351.

[AlsV8vair]

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Thanks Al
can you tell us a little about the car what year was the pic taken
PJ

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my brother snapped that photo , may have been early 70's . the guys at CanadianDragRacing group filled me in on the car awhile back but I can't recall the story. car was called Quarter Pounder as you may be able to make out in the photo.
my brother says it was probably at the Automotive building.
I will go through my files and find the story on it.

thanks

[Mr70]

WoW!..great pix & stories.
This sorta makes up for all the Anne Murray songs you put us through down here.