Remember the SDS in the Universities? Real rabble rousers. I saw the dean of men nab one by his neck and told him to move on. It was worth cheering about.
Change your e and r around and you got it..Zayre. You coud find some bargains in Zayre's. Do you remember JM Fields stores?
Where were you raised? Here in CA, drag racing led America. And by 1960, most of the kids raced on the streets and some of us were drag racing on various tracks. My first Chevy with the low power was used on some Sundays at the track. But we had a lot of guys with much faster cars so some of us commenced to build racing engines. I owned R&R Advanced Engineering in 1961 where my work was on racing engines for the most part. i also sold new engines and short block to customers at p;rices equal or better than at Vic Hubbard Speed shop. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vic-hubbard-speed-marine-head-hunters-hayward-cc.663363/ Looks as if Vic Hubbard speed shop faded into history. Let's over this part of an article and see where I fit in. I knew Jerry Light fairly well. Jerry was a stepson of Vic Hubbard. Hubbard was the local fire chief. Meekland Ave also housed the Hubbard shop where customers could also use them to build racing engines. Meekland Ave is the street I once exceeded 125 mph on late at night in my first 1956 Chevy. My car went this fast only with a modified engine done by me and buying and using rear gears designed for an automatic transmission. I never ran a Powerglide Chevy. I also bought from the Fremont store since I live there. I knew both of the Forsberg brothers. I knew Al Hubbard quite well. Below shows the Forsberg brothers in a blown fuel dragster. I got orders from Hubbard's to turn stock heads into racing heads. Jerry Light in his later years John Middleton and I were class mates at Hayward High. The Fors berg brothers were behind is in class at Hayward. I got to know them at the drag races. M.EDELL, JAN 20, 2012 SHARE POST#3 Hubbard's bought this very large building and it was this that closed down. It had been a huge seller of booze. Guy in this photo holding front wheel was Denny Milani. I was about to buy his dragster when I got my draft notice and of course never bought his dragster. Denny got killed drag racing. I will post one more photo. This old panel on the trailer was called the BREAD TRUCK. Do not mess with the Bread truck since it was very very fast.
My best friend of over 50 yr.s bought a VW bug in 1968 first car. Most restaurants had curb service, my favorite was The Varsity in Atlanta. One of my first jobs was curb waitress on roller skates at A&W with famous root beer floats. Roller skates with keys.
Yea I put my arm out for years out of habit blocking one of my kids in the front seat. Black and white only TV's. Dracula and Frankenstien.
Thanks for correction. I sure do remember all of them. Most all of the ones you mentioned were in down town Atlanta. Downtown businesses without bars on the windows and doors.
I'm from Atlanta Ga. and the only thing I know about gears is everytime we took the Chevy to the drag races we'd snatch a gear out by 2nd . So we put a 456 positive traction gear [ I think it was 456 ? ]. We were just kids running stock in at this time a 1963 SS Chevy. Later I rolled over in a 67 Chevelle 3 in the floor with a 396 and that would skit. Picking up homeless mangy dogs and putting burnt motor oil on them to cure the mange. It would turn a hairless half starved animal into a show dog in no time flat. Can't do that anymore it will KILL the poor mutt. Too many additives.
In 1962, I was at Fort Benning for airborne training. I left Columbus and went over the river to Alabama to their local drag. The guys loved wheelies. LOL Here in CA, we tried not to do wheelies. 456 gears is what I used to drag race. For high speeds I used the 336 gears as I remember this. Lousy for drags but good for high speed runs. Positraction was great. I never put oil on dogs. Sounds like they might like it. LOL I was in the Army from early 62 until Feb of 64 and getting back and soon married, I found she was not wanting me to race. It wasn't the speed so much as she wanted me to buy her a home, so I did that. Probably you caused the shifter ring to slip off. I did that a few times. It is not called that but it makes shifting smoother. I will now rush off to recall the actual name of this special ring. OK, they are Synchro rings. I had forgot the name. I was a pal to Bobby Smith who came from Atlanta and served with me in Germany and he as the Col. Clerk and I clerked for the Captain.
I owned a very cool Studebaker Golden Hawk with the super charger on top. I really enjoyed that speed burner. Nice design too.
NEVER PUT OIL ON DOGS NOW ,it is not the same oil it was back then in the 50s when we did it. By 1963 all kinds of additives. People killed theii dogs thinking it was the same stuff. Stations stop saving it and giving it away because it was dangerous. I'm surprised I remembered the gear size.haha. VNam was just starting up in 63 wasn't it? Glad you didn't have to go through that one. Veit Nam and CCR, Hendrix, hippies, flower childs and hip hugger pants.
Those little red balls of liquid in mom's attic. She said it was to put fires out if they started up there. Dot candies. Wax Lip candies. Pixie Stix candies. Flix candies. There is an old fashioned candy store on the net but I don't have a link. Google it. I LOVED those flix chocolates in the foil tubes! Being out late and parents not freaked out about it. Roller skates that clamped on to your oxford shoes and the key to tighten them around my neck.
Do you remember the buck teeth wax candies. I don't remember the flix candies. I remember the candy cigarettes. Your parents always knew what you did before you got home if it was something you weren't suppose to do.
I think I messed up. Yes there were 456 gears but there also were 411 gears. I had the power to use them effectively. The set of 456 I owned, I allowed a guy to borrow, who also raced, to get from my home. I made a mistake taking him to my home. He saw the super engine I was building and he stole the roller cam shaft and the high rise 2-4 bbl set I i bought at Hubbard's and was new. I bought the roller cam and kit from FOX brothers who later got very famous selling their products to bikers. I bought the Iskenderian 5 cycle T set up.Let's give you the idea of how my car sounded. https://www.foxracing.com/us/moto/?...Ds7NVDtDoHBk63yYQlT43mC_f7eHanfBoCjkwQAvD_BwE
I managed 2 years in the Army with no hints they would ship me to Vietnam. See, in 62-64, all it was for most Americans was a few short articles saying we had special forces there. Most in the Army are not special forces so naturally few then went there. It was 1965 when the wheels came off and Johnson sent hundreds of thousands there and I was back to being a civilian.
Let me see if I can find that Old Fashioned candy website. Flix came in red, blue, green and gold foil wrapped tubes full of chocolate that was formed to look like Hershey Kisses. This was before Kisses even existed I think. Such delicious chocolate too! Anyway, I will go look and see if I can find the link.
Well darn. I was spelling it wrong. Here is the candy store and a pic of the Flicks. Yum. I should order some. https://www.oldtimecandy.com/discontinued/flicks-chocolate-wafers/
Listen to this Corvette. This comes pretty close to how my drag racer sounded like. The 5 cycle Isky cam has a very pronounced kind of rough sounding Idle but trust me, it is not actually missing as it seems to but when it comes alive, it is one heck of a rush.
I had a 70 something GTO. Had the hood scoop, reverb radio, 4 speed, wide tires, metallic blue. Man, do I miss my Goat!! I just can't remember if it was a 1972 or 1973..or even a 1970! Too much Ripple and Boones Farm wine back in those days.
http://www.iskycams.com/the-legend.html When you bought the 5 cycle T, you got new special design valve springs, a special retainer for the springs, special aluminum retainers to fit into the valley of the engine to hold in the roller lifters and of course the camshaft. More than merely a camshaft, it was a total kit. In 1961 dollars, I spent about $300 for the kit and it had run in a Corvette and won many races. So, I knew the performance ahead of the purchase.
I bought a 64 Corvair Monza and installed the reverb kit. Funny how that seemed so awesome. My current car has a lot of speakers which are the Bose and is a tricked out radio. I just recall that I married a woman who owned a Pontiac. Most of the time she drove it. I drove my Lincoln MK IV at the time that I rebuilt the engine and installed a cam shaft to give it 100 more horse power. The current car reaches a top speed of 150. Gets there pretty fast too. Those Goats also had plenty of power. My ex's Pontiac was decent to drive but not really a hot rod. Ladies, keep chatting about wax lips and we will handle the cars. LOL
lol @ Robert and his cars. Mine was so hot roddish that I raced for pinks. No guys followed through either when I left them in the dust. Men. Meh.
