Late 60's/early 70's look

I've seen this article before. What wasn't mentioned was there were actually some big name racers that would show up at these places to race their match-race cars when they were in NY for an appearence at one of the drag strips.Some relatively big-name local racers cut their teeth out on the street too and even back then some guys were running for thousands of dollars for one race. I have no idea what it's like now but I'm sure it's nowhere near the funit was back then --- the cost of the cars & legal hassles took care of that....