Im young for a Drag Racing. You ol school guys started it . But not gonna rehash story. This place is Vintage. They call it the Road to nowhere! The road is a 2 lane highway with a light Guide rail, up the middle of the road . Back in the day it cost a fortune. Nobody figured out why they never connected this road to Carnegie. And why it never went to McKee’s Rocks,. Huge Mystery. $$$$$
So today I find out after 35 years of potholes . The cement Highway got repaved by Asphalt . Fresh NEW Asphalt. The road is in City of Pittsburgh . The only way Police can interfere . Is Crafton Ingram police. But once you are on the tarmac . It’s on the city property. This place was the ultimate Drag race track.
Yes Steve I spent many a Friday night down at the "Crafton Quarter Mile" everyone would stand along the side of the road and watch the races. there were no high dollar race cars there, just a bunch of kids having fun. I had a 78 Camaro with a stock 350, never beat anybody. I remember one night my buddy had a 70 Monte with a 396, we lined up against a dulley chevy pickup, he smoked us, lol. we would race for as long as we could, usually got a couple hours in before the crowd would start screaming "5 0, 5 0!' That meant the cops were here, every body would scatter like rats when you turn on the lights. never got caught, I don't think the cops ever really busted anybody, they would just come through as a way of saying, ok, guys. time to go home. Good times, thanks for the memories Steve.
I was at work Friday when a State Farm Insurance adjuster came through the Body shop at work. I noticed one of my body man talking to him . Turns out he use to be the owner of Marburger Autobody. He sold. Now Adjuster. So I said Kieth. I grew up in Crafton . Some how I said man I Remember when I was 12 my dad would throw the Go Cart in the trunk of car and a gallon of Gas and dump me off at the Joseph Horne’s warehouse. Witch faces this road to nowhere. I said Kieth I would do laps around warehouse and each time I would come around corner and look up. There would be a girl in a Tube top raising here arms and then dropping them. The cars would take off spinning and squealing. Kieth said he went over the Bridge last week and looked down on the road and realized it was top coated “ Brand New Asphalt! Well everyone knows that the cement highway had potholes everywhere. Impossible to race on. Kieth said he is going down this weekend to be the first to lay a burn out !! He has a 67 Chevelle with ls6 Bette motor in it. So I asked him to give me heads up . So we can get some videos of us coming off the line . Oh the good ol Days. Dave we have a new hang out. **** that’s better than going to a cruise. That will be the Big Fall cruise
Dave that strip is Famous! Everyone knows that place. Lots of Vintage history. With these I Phones the news will spread like wild fire.
The fastest car down there in the late 80’s was a Ford EXP 9” cut real short tubbed out . And Nitrous. It was Solid red . I know the car and owner. He was the fastest in Pgh. Period. Another guy had an 67 Nova yellow nitrous . But he hit a curb at the Kmart cruise in North Park (McCandless) got the car airborne. And landed on a police car. That was the end of cruises in North hills of PghPa. 5 years before that a 69 Camaro yellow rolled on McKnight rd. That ended that cruise.
Late 70’s at Thornburgh Bridge (road to nowhere) strip . The fastest car was a 69 Dodge Dart 440 candy apple red. Very fast
