I lived in the Bay Area ,Santa Clara Valley, back then, 50's and 60's. There were still orchards all over back then with roads flat and straight between them and we did a lot of straight line racing at night on them. If we stayed on one road too long one of the farmers would call the sheriff and we would get run off, the sheriff never seemed to get there in the middle of a race. Then we would Cruze the main between 1st and 2nd street in San Jose. I have to say though that our favorite activity involving cars, besides working on them, was to park in an orchard and watch the "ants eat the apricots" or maybe drive to Santa Cruz,park on the beach to watch the "submarine races". It is amazing how we survived those times but everyone I knew back then did.

Jack.