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I'm in my early fifties, and have lived on Long
Island most of my life. I started going to the Stock Car races at Freeport
Stadium with my dad in the late fifties and also to Islip Speedway. It was
really a blast, especially the figure 8 at Islip! I shudder to think, though,
about some of the cars that were destroyed. My dad also ran in the drag races at
Riverhead, L.I. in a stock '54 Hudson Hornet with Twin-H power. Later on, he
bought a used '56 Chrysler 300 B with manual steering and windows (and radio
delete!) and ran with that. He still owns the 300, but only drives it
occaisionally, no more drags -- he'll be 84 in January!
Ross Klein
'56 Imperial sedan
'Life's too short to drive 'ordinary' cars"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 1:48
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: THIS REALLY
ANGERS ME!!!!!!
FWIW, I feel good about notifying the "Imperialists" - group
about a 64
IMP 2-dr, in O.A. v.g. condition, (missing only its engine),
near here,
was 'slated' to be gutted & "derbied".
Black leather
interior, too.
Dunno about its disposition, but @ least I 'tried' to
intervene.
Anyone else recall the Wide World of Sports segments, in the
early-mid
60's featuring glorified Demo-derbies (30's -40's
"modified" cars), @
the Islep , NY Speedway, featuring a 'flat' figure-8
track, with
crossover- intersection?
Neil Vedder
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