Hey,
to start question, just let me say that i am 17 years old, going to be a senior in high school and have a fully custom '89 f150. since the majority of guys who post are older than me, i just wanted to get an opinoin....

Is there anyone out there who is not against streetracing?? i know that i dont have the typical suuped up import, but i love to go out on friday and saturday nights and line up with anyone willing. it seems like everyone thinks this is the worst thing ever, but i know a lot of adults, including my dad and uncles, who didnt use to think twice about racing there old mustang against anyone who gave them a bad look. and im pretty sure alot of u guys use to drag your old muscle cars back in high school, and yall turned out ok. do u think that everyone is just over reacting now? or do u think people were just more laid back 20 or 30 years ago?

im really intersted in hearing ALL responses, i hope this question made since. thanks..
Mike

 

I brought an old thread back to the top for you to read.

Perhaps this will help you.

 

The cops stay on top of that stuff around here due to all the inexperienced kids and they're 17 second rice buggies. I could remember going out and clicking off a few runs on a Friday and Saturday night. Finding a Goat, or a rustang, or even a slopar to line up with wasn't a problem, this was even as little as a few years ago. Our old hangout was out of the way, nice and straight, and no traffic.

These days, 8000 kids show up, and run they're mom's accord's and civics four wide. That pretty much killed it for me. Made it too hard to slip away before the fuzz closed down the street.

I guess they are the hot rodders of today, but I see nothing appealing about those little shopping carts. Spending 15 grand on wheels, body kit, wing, tailpipe off tractor trailer, paint, and stickers, then having a little old blue hair blow you away on one of those scooter chair things just isn't my cup of tee.

 

In the last couple of years, I have found myself at 3 illegal street races, where many folk would line up, and roar off. I have never participated in these because of the 3 times I have witnessed it, I also witnessed 5 wrecks, where people got injured, and cars were seriously damaged. One such time was in Houston where the person who brought me had his car hit by an idiot racing into the crowd.

Those three nights at the races have put me off the street race mania for good. Too dangerous by far for my liking.

This being said, I have a very fast truck, that is not passed by very much at all. (until I get to the speed limit.)

Theo

 

I don't know what the law is in other states but in the state of North Carolina if you get cought drag racing on a public road the cops take your car and it becomes property of the state. Even if you are still paying for it. Plus you go to jail. IMO I say if you want to drag race go to your local drag strip. At the drag strip you can do all the grudge racing you want. That is what i use to do. But now I just like going and watching the grudge races. Those guys (most of them are novices) show up with mom and dad's cars and trucks and usally leave on the back of a wrecker after they blow the engine or wipe it out. Heck, I've even seen the family camper go down the drag strip. Makes for an interesting Sat evening.

 

We don't have a 'Local' Drag strip. I know of one a little ways away, but I dont know if they hold grudge races. Hell, those bloody sewing machines are a joke. Line up with a buddy at a stoplight once in a while, FUN. 8000 kids. DUMB.

I want to live in the 60's !!!!!!!
grrrr

 

Well if your like I was when i was 17, you probably have already decided and your just trying to get some guys in your corner. I love racing, and I have had fun at street races and legal dragstrip racing, but make no mistake, they are different. I would tell you that its much more dangerous now, then when i was involved because there are a lot more cars racing and people watching and the cops are much more intense about catching you. If you have dragstrip near where you live, go to a grudge night and try it out. I bet youll like it so much, and when you race at a dragstrip there is no question about who won the race, or who cheated, just my 2 cents. Have fun anyway.

 

The list of stupid things I did when I was young is very long - street racing is on the list. It takes only seconds and one bad incident to change a life. Good luck.
Dono

 

Racing on a closed track is twice as exciting. Do what you can to get to a drag strip sometime and check it out. Stop light racing to 50 mph or so occationally is fun too.

 

I street raced a lot in my 89 GT and damn near got killed or killed someone a few times, it's not safe at all but I guess when the bug hits and you're young. Heck I still have a go with people now and again but typically on highways or high speed roads where entrants from side roads are rare and typically no higher than posted speed limits if you know what I mean.

Go to a dragstrip, if you don't have one, why not start checking around you may find a few people that would want to start one, that would be a better use of your time.

The funny thing is that in a lot of cases you can't compare racing these days to racing of th 60's. For one there were a lot less cars around back then and the cars of today don't take much to make insane speeds. Take that into account and add the fact that younger people today tend to have more ***** than brains and you get the problems that are present now.

A friend of mine viewed an illegal street race a month or so ago and there were 3 wrecks alone in the hour or so that went on. Not to mention the 2 other accidents that happened when the cops showed up and people who were just sitting there started ripping out of the parking lot and t-boned each other, brainless simps.

 

Like most, been their done that and watched a friend die. Don't get me wrong, I still like to drag, but you won't catch me doing it on the street.

 

I think you're just caught up in the Fast and the Furious craze. Heck, I was and I'm 36. Street racing is stupid and dangerous, especially for inexperienced drivers. I thought so when I was your age and I think so now.

That doesn't mean I didn't do it or don't still do it.

Sometimes, for me, it's a matter of ego. Not boosting mine, shooting someone elses down. There's nothing funnier than blowing away a sticker'ed up ricer in my wife's minivan. Especially when I let off at the speed limit and the ricer blows by and gets pulled over for speeding.

I'm not going to tell you not to do it, because you probably will anyways. But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone to encourage you. Just think of all that can happen. Not only losing your license, car, or life, but what could happen to anyone else in the general vicinity. Use your head and be safe.

10 years from now you can either tell a story about a guy who got killed in a street race, or someone will be telling that story about you. Your call.

Kevin K.

 

from a younger guy.....


REDROCK------> a place i use to go to every friday and saturday night. about 3 years ago. it was an old, straight service road, very little traffic, industrial traffic if any, other than the racers.

i was great... all sorts of muscle cars and mud trucks tearing it up. plenty of goodnights, until the STUPID RICERS started showing up. and the crotch rockets. then the accidents and deaths started somehow? hmm wonder why...

a perfect racing spot from the early 70's where some of my highschool teachers raced when they were young, is now ruined.

i think 3 people died before the cops shut it down.

my point? its not worth it. even if youre just watching, well- i almost got hit one time, car doing about 100 MPH couldnt keep it straight and almost hit me.

find a LEGAL track nearby you, spend 30 bucks, do it legally, get a trophy whether you win or lose, and walk away to tell about it. you might not even get beat up for winning a race.

 

Street Racing kills! Racers, riders, slow old grey hairs, pedestrians, people waiting at Bus Stops, Moms with kids in strollers and Cops in Cruisers.

We have an enormous problem where I live with High Speed Rat-Racing! This isn't Stop-Light Dragging, this is the 180K weave in & out of 60K traffic kind of racing like on the movies and every one of those Deaths that I listed are real.

Our trucks may be fast, but what the "Super Tuners" are able to do to the new cars is something else. The Power to Weight Ratio vs. Traction is the determing factor in acceleration. With todays Hi-Tech suspensions & tyres being able to get all of that horsepower down on the pavement. What makes these cars so dangerous is there rolling acceleration. They can go from 60 to 140K in 3.4 seconds, my 67 GTX couldn't do that! It would just lite up the rears and look real pretty.

When I was a Firefighter/Paramedic a hundred years ago, my partners and I got fed up with the local street race scene after pulling bodies out of mangled metal for years at a certain industrial park. We asked the business owners for permission to use their property and hid a couple of pumpers at each end of their strip and waited for the crowd to gather on a
Friday night, then we blocked off the ends and flooded the course with our monitors and had the local constabulary take some names give a little lecture and contact parents and insurance companies. That hot spot never re-opened.

If you want to race, get the proper training & equipment. Only race under controlled conditions on closed circuits or a sponsored track. Your life is to valuable to risk on the unknown accident waiting to happen and I'm sick and tired of picking your bloody asses up!
JK

 

If you are going to do it, use your head. Only go to the speed limit and let of (then watch the guy you left behind speed by and get a ticket. . . seen it happen and its funny as he!!), and also something that everyone should know is know what your vehicle's limit is, what your ability's limit is and know how to read a road like your favorite book.