Toronto.Harveys 1979.On the street.

[ZiggyL78]

I can't believe I didn't find this till now.Kinda brings a tear to your eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fsw5Jfravg

[Stefano]

Very Cool film!

[mockingbird812]

Cool flick! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[Tracker1]

is that one of the old ford total performance canadian clinic cars or just painted up like it, I wonder?

[ZiggyL78]

Yes it was.Ford originaly campaigned the car with a 428 CJ.It was quick on the street but with the 428 at the track it was one BMF.Some of the comments under the video are total BS.
Check Keith Tedford's post with a pic of the car when it was a race car.

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...veys#Post279923

[ZiggyL78]

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I think the track was open for 5-6 years.It changed hands a couple of times.After the track closed we would pull the barriers aside and race on weekends.They finally used a grader to carve up the track.
Here is a shot of my Vega running the &quot;Polar Express&quot; on one of those secial days.As you can tell I was already off the mark as the Nova was sleeping.This is real &quot;arm drop&quot; racing.It's a poor pic but you can see a number of spectaters holding a beer.

[realzed]

Too bad - wish there was a strip near Toronto still - but I'm guessing that is what in the end determined the fate of this one, considering especially how much the city has grown Westward..
I did try a Google Earth search of the area to see where it might possibly have been located - but it appears that they obliterated any remnants of it well, as nothing jumps out now as having been a possible site.
I have a few friends who travel down to Cayuga and London to race but with the price of fuel and time it takes to get there from N. Ontario it becomes a very hard deal to do on a regular basis and only for the 'well heeled'..
We need a strip up North here and there is one sort of 'in the works' but these days $$'s are hard to free up from even the most sympathetic of donors and supporters..
Thanks - Randy

[ZiggyL78]

This one looks like it will happen even though it is 3 1/2 hours from Toronto.

http://www.kingofthenorthdragway.com/

[Postsedan]

That has to rank as one of my all time favorite youtube videos [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

[markjohnson]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ZiggyL78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't believe I didn't find this till now.Kinda brings a tear to your eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fsw5Jfravg </div></div>

Wow, I stumbled upon this video myself yesterday and was just blown away by it. It's great and extremely well done. Every town had it's &quot;Milner&quot; and this is the typical story of one of them.