Ice man, what’s the issue here. Are people wondering if it really raced on the streets here? There’s no doubt it did, I saw it a few times. Once up close near the train tracks on Conant Ave near Mt Elliot. I didn’t know the owner’s name but he was meeting a guy named Eric to look at Eric’s new Mickey Thompson unbelievably wide tires on his street Road Runner. Eric was running a Ramchargers ‘68 hemi in his car. How do I know that? I was his neighbor, my father owned the Ramchargers Road Runner (with a 440 6bbl in it) for a few years. Eric’s father was a former Indy engine builder and bought the RR when Ramchargers upgraded to the Cuda. Eric knew he couldn’t catch a race riding around in a full race looking car with the giant Kendall GT-1 billboard on the side so he pulled the hemi and put it into his B5 RR. One evening he outran multiple Highland Park cops and they knew him. The sad part of this story is that a judge ordered the engine DESTROYED. Some dudes came out to his home on Miller Street and filled the block with concrete! Eric subsequently picked up a push-button 413 wedge car and continued his hobby. I lived on the next street and shared an alley with him, I’ll bet there’s still rubber on that pavement to this day. Here’s the RR in its racing livery. Somewhere I have a picture of me sitting in the garage next to it, it’s the fastest car I’ve ever driven, definitely the sweetest sounding. I’m going to read more of this thread, good to hear from some local guys who did the “midnight shift” around town.
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