Belmont and Harvys

[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

[P.J.]

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found another article that puts names on the club members
of Weston High performance
Hope that maybe these names will generate some memories
and you might even want to post your info

PJ

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[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.

[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.

[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.