In an ongoing effort to find the history of my '57, I came across this picture from a newspaper dated July 29,1968. It was taken on Third Avenue, between 29th and 17th streets,in Brooklyn, NY, just before these two cars were about to race. Apparently, the police pulled in a moment later to prevent that. The caption for the picture stated that about 75 tickets were given out that night to drag racers. The Vette in the photo shows numerous similarities to pictures I have of mine, although all could be just coincidental. My '57 had a hood scoop, fenderwell headers, missing parking lights, missing fenderscoop chrome inserts, damaged front pan, Grant steering wheel, a crack in the front passenger side fender (same place), even a hole in the rear passenger side bumperette where the antenna is. None of this might mean anything but...
I put this picture in in hopes that someone may recognize it and perhaps give me some history of the racer. Could this car and mine be the same? The license plate on the Vette is a NY plate, 1110-BZ. There must be some NY street racers from the '60's and '70's out there. Any one recognize the car, or raced at that spot? You can admit it now you're safe, retired and a grandfather. Who would suspect? How about pictures of Corvette street racers from that time? Anyone have pictures they would share with us all? Not to glorify street racing, but for nostalgia sake. The other picture is my car in 1971. Feel free to comment or contact me. I appreciate any information. Thanks.
I put this picture in in hopes that someone may recognize it and perhaps give me some history of the racer. Could this car and mine be the same? The license plate on the Vette is a NY plate, 1110-BZ. There must be some NY street racers from the '60's and '70's out there. Any one recognize the car, or raced at that spot? You can admit it now you're safe, retired and a grandfather. Who would suspect? How about pictures of Corvette street racers from that time? Anyone have pictures they would share with us all? Not to glorify street racing, but for nostalgia sake. The other picture is my car in 1971. Feel free to comment or contact me. I appreciate any information. Thanks.
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