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Originally Posted by duke_lbz
I agree some are getting out of hand but ive been going for 10 yrs now and you used to could get away with a burnout or two and they didnt care. But now they have cops every 500 yards or so waiting for anyone to even try anything.
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Pretty much for a good reason. I used to cruise Van Nuys Blvd in the '70s, and drag racing right there on that street is really dangerous. Most people knew to stay out of the way, but there is always some squirrel who's going to make sure he doesn't lose the race, up to and including running red lights. We took that stuff off to Raymer Street by the railroad tracks behind the GMAD plant, or over to Chandler Street where there were even fewer lights. You'd see some
crazy speeds out there. I'm not going to rat myself out about speeds I've done there, though. I will say that it would have been a big ticket if caught on the
freeway, when the speed limit was still 65 MPH. Based on the crazy crap I pulled in my youth, I watched my sons like a hawk.