History What us trad rodders were doing in the 70's...

[Harms Way]

Bump ?

[Rocky Famoso]

In 1975 and briefly in 1976, a bunch of street racers in British Columbia convinced the local authorities to shut down a strip of highway between Osoyoos and Keremeos for some legal street racing and attracted quite a few cars, including the 1965 GTO that belonged to the mayor of Keremeos.
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[Harms Way]

Found these on line 1974 or 75

[WelderSeries]

Here are some more photos along the same vein if you're interested.

http://www.welderseries.com/blog/category/history/

[falcongeorge]

Originally Posted by Rocky Famoso

That was the cover that originally turned me on to late-forties style cars...The first Traditional revival.

[flatoutflyin]

All my old pictures were Polaroid, and they are either lost or terribly faded. Found two this weekend. Nothing radical but a 30,000 mi. really clean '65 Chevelle 283 3 speed 2dr post with air I bought from Beechmont VW for $1000.00. The girl in the chair was my then current girl friend. Was I really that skinny?

[Rocky Famoso]

[50cali8er]

hehe, what an awesome thread

[Rocky Famoso]

1978,HAROLD LAWRENCE 54 FIAT

[porknbeaner]

Originally Posted by flatoutflyin

All my old pictures were Polaroid, and they are either lost or terribly faded. Found two this weekend. Nothing radical but a 30,000 mi. really clean '65 Chevelle 283 3 speed 2dr post with air I bought from Beechmont VW for $1000.00. The girl in the chair was my then current girl friend. Was I really that skinny?

You probably were, up until about 1984 I was a 28x28.

[Rocky Famoso]

JOE RUGGIRELLO, this car is currently getting restored/rebuilt
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[Rocky Famoso]

LOU MANCINI

[hemi]

[Retro Jim]

I don't have any pictures anymore since the first wife had them !

They were some greatest times for me and I did do a lot of street racing like the rest of us did . Back in the early 70's I had a few good cars but my best one was my 1969 Dodge Super Bee . Yellow with black stripe and black interior . Bought the car from the husband of a friend that my first wife worked with for $300 ! Car had 67,000 on it and was really clean too . He bought it new and I was the 2nd owner . I beat the living hell out of that car until I sold it for $300 to a kid back in the early 1980's .
The car was good to me but ended up going through 3 transmissions before I sold it ! I really miss that car more than any other I owned .
Back where I lived , if you didn't have a big block under the hood to bring with you , you didn't have a snowball chance in hell of walking away with any money !
our track was along an old road that was pretty straight and OK to race on . It ran between 2 farms with no houses in sight so we were safe to have the race when we wanted to .
I will have to say , I never ever remember someone getting into an accident or anything like that . We all had good cars that were very safe to run !
The closest drag track from my house was 75/80 in Monrovia , MD . The famous RT30 Raceway on RT30 in Thomasville , Pa was about 1.5 hours away and there were others that were with in 1.5 hours from our town .
Now most are all gone and no place to race a real 1/4 mile anymore . That just plain sucks !
The 60's & 70's were the GREATEST time for drag racing and time to have grown up ! I was born in 1953 and was driving legally in 1972 . I still do have the same mustache as I had back in high school but with more hair on the chin now .
Yes those were the BEST time for anyone to grow up that LOVED Drag Racing and very fast cars !

Retro Jim

[tbird37821]

ah , the 70's...i remember some of it. And now for my 100th post in 5 1/2 years !

[trashn'l]

How about buying a carb from Super Shops on Saturday night and putting it on in the parking lot. I spent a lot of time and money at the Super Shops on 82nd street in Portland, OR. Man, those were fun times!

I ran across this old Super Shops transporter sitting along side the road in southern Oregon. I would love to have it to haul the my Willys to the track when it's finished. I had to take some pictures.

[OahuEli]

Originally Posted by trashn'l

How about buying a carb from Super Shops on Saturday night and putting it on in the parking lot. I spent a lot of time and money at the Super Shops on 82nd street in Portland, OR. Man, those were fun times!

I ran across this old Super Shops transporter sitting along side the road in southern Oregon. I would love to have it to haul the my Willys to the track when it's finished. I had to take some pictures.

Ah yes, Super Shops, the candy store of gearheads! Sure do miss those stores!

[Carnuba]

Originally Posted by trashn'l

How about buying a carb from Super Shops on Saturday night and putting it on in the parking lot. I spent a lot of time and money at the Super Shops on 82nd street in Portland, OR. Man, those were fun times!

I ran across this old Super Shops transporter sitting along side the road in southern Oregon. I would love to have it to haul the my Willys to the track when it's finished. I had to take some pictures.

Ah yes, Super Shops. I remember them well. Call on the phone....Hello, this is Super Shops Van Nuys, my name is Brad, I'm wearing yellow socks, a brown shirt, black pants, black shoes, our specials today are bla bla bla....how may I help you? Er, uh, I forgot why I called...........

[Larry T]

I probably went in a Super Shops a couple of times in my life. The one I was in was basically a wheel and tire store that had a few performance parts to go along with it. I'd visit Jackie's Automotive in Lubbock or either of the Hot Rod Exchanges in DFW before I'd go to one. But I don't guess any of them are around now, so........

[porknbeaner]

Originally Posted by Larry T

I probably went in a Super Shops a couple of times in my life. The one I was in was basically a wheel and tire store that had a few performance parts to go along with it. I'd visit Jackie's Automotive in Lubbock or either of the Hot Rod Exchanges in DFW before I'd go to one. But I don't guess any of them are around now, so........

I never visited super shops until the '90s when Erson owned it (maybe late '80s). The one locally was a tire store but it either had perfomance parts or woould get them within a day. I know why they went out of business, they even gave scruffy skinny germs like myself a mega discounts just for the asking. I remember when I needed a fuel pump in a hurry once they had a mallory 110 in stock I ended up with the pump and a by-pass regulater for about 40 bucks.

Damned shame they are not around any more.