Urban Legend or Not ?

[HoosierGTA]

Nice read , Thot I was never going to get to the end but, yeah I doubt that it was for that much cash .That would be 'bought like a million now.

[Brian Lohnes]

"Rapid" Ronnie Lyles! How cool!

The first thing I think when I hear that name is Hemi Colt. Man those cars were insane, and Lyles was real good at wheeling his down the strip.

Great story, great history, by all accounts a very good guy and racer.

Cool.

Brian

[antmnte]

I have read about the Dart before in a very old issue of Super Street cars. I actually have a friend that owns a Vette that supposdly was once owned by Brooklyn Heavy . It looks like a Baldwin Motion car but is undocumented. Seymor Balz is acually the alias of the guy that owned Super Street cars magazine. His real name was Engledrum. Thats a great read. I wish someone would write a book with pictures from those days here in NY I hear similar stories from the guys around here all the time though not as great as that.

[Not A Duster]

there is only 1 man standing that is my father EUGENE from the MUTT BROS They went on to race pro stock in the 70's check out our website ronaldlyles.com

Very cool.

[SpiderGearsMan]

DEFEO RULES - make Tony Mopar a car junkie
brooklyn heavy , jersey city heavy , go to englishtown on a sunday and there is a heavy hanging around somewhere
street racing on fountain avenue , US231 , connecting highway , the hutch , rt 21 - where did you think the old pro stockers ended up ?

[SpeedJunkee's Carbs]

Cool story....bookmarked there website so I can go back and read more later.....

[RyanWalker]

Bitchin story.

[terry russell]

Cool I read it in the 90s and a few other times sence.

[ethelkilledfred]

[boxer3main]

I have heard about that race from some old timers I know out in NY. A lot of old hardcore street racers were also drug dealers IIRC. I believe Brooklyn Heavy went to jail on a pile of charges related to drugs and the cops made a big deal about towing his street racers and race cars to the impound lot.

that mentality lingered into the 80s local.

pos life, and there is the freakin super car outside the leaning mobile home..

in fact one was quite blatantly known...
I saw what must have been his car, beaten to crap, even 14 years later. I had learned some of what it took to keep this particular chassis going...as funds to go extreme existed.

as bad as the rush gets for the junkies.. sometimes factual things linger.


The truest clean story I stick to today is my dads rusty beetle playing with brand new chevelles (in 1969).