Belmont and Harvys

[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

[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.

[MosportGreen66]

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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

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Thats awesome!

[Rick Cell]

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.

The Roadrunner is or was owned by Danny Soper. The car was called the Ground Pounder. Imagine a car sponsored by Harvey's with the quarter pounder name on it Jim Coleman would of had a fit if macs had a quarter pounder back then.

[AlsV8vair]

Sorry I was meant Ground pounder , Quarter pounder I think was a Fiat.

[P.J.]

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

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Good one Rick
PJ

[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