Your teen age cruisin' hang outs
On the south side of Chicago, we had Duke's Drive In - home of the world's fastest street cars.... They were consistently in the top three picks of the country for both Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines back in the 70's and 80's... They would literally draw over 1000 people on the end of the block every Friday and Saturday...
There were many street races negotiated there... The car owners would talk smack to each other, then challenge each other to a race to be run at one of our local "spots" after Duke's would close after 10 PM... There were some true 9 - 10 second street races that originated there... They would trailer the cars out to the designated race spot after someone scouted the spot and gave the 'all clear' on the CB and then unload them, race, load them back up and get the f*ck out of there before the police showed up... Those races were usually ran between 12 AM to 2 AM out in the boonies... Most of those races had a $2000 bet between the two cars, in addition to all of the side bets between the spectators...
Sadly they closed this summer... Cruising there died out in the 90's for some reason and it couldn't draw the crowd that they used to...
However, they had a great turn out the last few weekends that they were open, that was almost like the 'good ol days'... Here's some pictures from Duke's last cruise night.... This isn't even half of the the crowd that they used to draw on a weekend night back in the day, but still a good turn out...
Some of the coats that they sold inside...
This is an original M-code 69 Barracuda... I knew this guy's uncle who also had a 68 Dart GSS... How great is it to have two original 440 a-bodies in the family... I however could not find the owner of the Barracuda that night to ask how his uncle is doing...
Don't be fooled by this 78 Dodge truck... It has a 360 with nitrous that beat a 68 Hemi Charger... It can run 13 seconds or better... I remember him from the old days, he was a regular...
On the south side of Chicago, we had Duke's Drive In - home of the world's fastest street cars.... They were consistently in the top three picks of the country for both Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines back in the 70's and 80's... They would literally draw over 1000 people on the end of the block every Friday and Saturday...
There were many street races negotiated there... The car owners would talk smack to each other, then challenge each other to a race to be run at one of our local "spots" after Duke's would close after 10 PM... There were some true 9 - 10 second street races that originated there... They would trailer the cars out to the designated race spot after someone scouted the spot and gave the 'all clear' on the CB and then unload them, race, load them back up and get the f*ck out of there before the police showed up... Those races were usually ran between 12 AM to 2 AM out in the boonies... Most of those races had a $2000 bet between the two cars, in addition to all of the side bets between the spectators...
Sadly they closed this summer... Cruising there died out in the 90's for some reason and it couldn't draw the crowd that they used to...
However, they had a great turn out the last few weekends that they were open, that was almost like the 'good ol days'... Here's some pictures from Duke's last cruise night.... This isn't even half of the the crowd that they used to draw on a weekend night back in the day, but still a good turn out...
Some of the coats that they sold inside...
This is an original M-code 69 Barracuda... I knew this guy's uncle who also had a 68 Dart GSS... How great is it to have two original 440 a-bodies in the family... I however could not find the owner of the Barracuda that night to ask how his uncle is doing...
Don't be fooled by this 78 Dodge truck... It has a 360 with nitrous that beat a 68 Hemi Charger... It can run 13 seconds or better... I remember him from the old days, he was a regular...
