#EAST JOHN ST MACS SPEED SHOP PRO#

From day one, I will work to establish a program that the entire University of Evansville campus community and the city of Evansville will be proud of. Growing up in the city, I understand what the Purple Aces program means to the community. 'Evansville is such a special place for my family and myself and the opportunity to come back to where it all started means the world. 'It is a dream come true to return home,' Ragland said in a statement. The Evansville, Indiana, native takes over the Purple Aces' program less than a month after new athletic director Ziggy Siegfried fired Todd Lickliter, who lasted less than three years on the job. Ron was too young at the time to remember but he was there for it all.Butler assistant David Ragland will be Evansville's next men's basketball coach, the school announced Tuesday. Those years are really memorable for racing. Most of you have heard of Royal Pontiac, he beat them a few times racing on Stecker. John Cozzo, RonвЂ™s dad, had the fastest of all the cars racing on Stecker, a 65 GTO 389 Tri-power, 4 speed, with a 488 rear end and 12 inch Racemaster slicks and a (little0 work done on the engine. Chrysler had their fast cars too, but did not rule like the GTOвЂ™s did. Pontiac ruled even the streets of Dearborn. showed up Ford may have reigned in this video but when Pontiac GTO came on the scene, especially the 389 Tri-power version, the story changed a lot. This allowed for easy escape when either Police Dept. Stecker was a favorite for racers because of the location, on the Detroit and Dearborn City border, this was important because Stecker Street was in Detroit, while the parking lots racers parked in belonged to Dearborn.

It was always jumping on Friday and Saturday nights for many years. Stecker was a real favorite for drag racing. Glad I survived and soon took my racing to sanctioned tracks. For some reason I couldnвЂ™t set up a decent race that weekend with that setup.ДЄltho there were some wrecks, luckily there were never any fatalityвЂ™s. My neighbor, who ran an Anglia in mostly B/Gas, talked me into sticking on a tunnel ram, dual quad setup he had tried on his gasser but didnвЂ™t like. I had a 68 Nova, homebuilt, with a decent 427 that would run mid 11вЂ™s on slicks(if I didnвЂ™t break anything). I watched one go for $1500 between a 454 Camaro and a Hemi Challenger (Challenger won by a 1/2 car length). Most races were for bragging rights, but on many occasions money changed hands.

#EAST JOHN ST MACS SPEED SHOP PRO#

There were everything from stock 4 door sedans, motorcycles(1 of the fastest there was a pink Sportster) and borderline Pro Stock cars that would run down close to 9 seconds. I wasnвЂ™t there when it happened, but heard that one night a State Patrol cop took his cruiser down the вЂњstripвЂќ. The racing took place on sections that were not yet open to use, so the police never gave anyone a hard time, and would sometimes show up in their personal vehicles. An Interstate bypass was being built and on Friday and Saturday night it looked like a local dragstrip. If anyone has personal knowledge about the Sunday drag races on Stecker Road, please check in and give us a briefing.

A pair of Detroit Police cruisers are taking in the scene, which suggests that the racing took place with at least the knowledge of the local authorities, if not their official approval. This is Ford country, with the sprawling River Rouge complex barely a mile away.ДЄt around the 1:50 mark in the video, we find some interested spectators. ItвЂ™s not surprising to see so many Fords here, given the neighborhood. YouвЂ™ll see plenty of Fords racing here, including a вЂ™64 Galaxie and a bevy of вЂ™63 1/2 Galaxies with their trendy new fastback sports roofs. The venue is Stecker Road on the far West Side, an industrial area right against the city line between Detroit and Dearborn. Here it is: real street racing as it was done in the Motor City in 1964. WeвЂ™re just glad someone had the foresight to save this brief 8mm home movie, and that it was eventually converted to video. We can forgive the slightly obtrusive musical track. This priceless little clip shows semi-organized drag racing on the streets of DetroitвЂ™s West Side in 1964.

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