CarCraft Glorifying Street Racing??

[alan627b]

Hi Scott, probably saw you at least once as I spent most weekends from 1980 to the early 90's resealing Dodge street with rubber. You are right, most of the real racing happened on Abbot Drive and/or Storz Expressway. Abbot was solidly in Nebraska though.. depends on where you are as it heads downtown parts might be in Iowa around Carter lake. Watched some races on Locust street where it went around the airport, and found out the airport police take enforcement seriously.
Raced a few times on 120th north of Fort (what were we thinking?) and also way up north on the highway over one of the dam sites.

Bill, you nailed it with the cellphone comment.. the Hondoids all carry them and if one of the saw a race going down the phone came out, and pretty soon a whole pack of buzz bombs would show up and ruin everything. These guys don't seem to understand that if you fly around making a racket, driving around with all that neon crap and 3 sets of foglights on, that someone is sure to notice. Trash some private property or drive on a business' lawn, and kiss your racing strip goodbye. That is what pretty much destroys a cruise strip too. What a drag....
Alan

[Blazerteam]

Well..i see no lawn chairs here..

[CDMBill]

New CC profiles one of the LA Street Racer TV show cars. So the editorial direction seems in part to address the idea that most Car Craft refers don't run their stuff at the track. I'm told there is more to come in this vein.

[alan627b]

I would imagine that the larger the city you live in/ the busier the cops are, the easier it is to get a race off. Where I live, the copters can get to any place we would race from anywhere else in a matter of minutes. Not enough surface area. I used to see races like in that video, but it's pretty hard to do that anymore. Here's to the good old days.
I guess that's the ONE advantage I can see to living in a big city.