From the sixties- we used to race on a service rd. that ran parallel with the x-way. In the Cadillac area it was the Boone rd. Or up in Manton.

On the west side it was "Lake County Dragway". An informal gathering on Sundays. Timed with a stopwatch and headlights on the finish line. An old rd. back in the Michigan woods.

When I was in college it was Hall st. In StLouis Mo. They used to run full blown drag cars down there. This was late sixties.

We got busted in a C/Gas 57 Corvette on a closed (unopened new x-way) rd. in Missouri. It was February and no tracks were open. Cops let us go!

Back in Michigan, In the Flint area it was (and still is) St. John street. Then the famous gatherings at the Small Mall in the eighties, Car Craft even had an article about it. Racing on the North End, up by Ternsteadt plant.

Then there was Sunday street racing up near M-13 and the Saginaw county line. Cops used to bust it up about every other week. Their famous line was " We know you haven't been racing here because we don't see any tire marks on the pavement". (actually the road looked like the staging lanes at any strip!).