@@ajcarlton88 My Mom born then. She never had to do a driving test. She went to the Post Office and paid $2.00. Mom's daily driver was a 1964 Thunderbird, electric convert top, and 85 mph seemed like the standard speed with her.
As a black man from the UK into Drag Racing since a kid in 80s and have many muscle car books mags and DVDs, your channel is one of the best channels on UA-cam, I did not know much about black men street and strip racing until watching your channel. Keep up the good work buddy 👍🏾👍🏾
As a white boy from Illinois I couldn’t admire him more. Racing people are family first and fierce enemies on the track. Ford people stick together like glue and we all bleed blue. The color of our skin isn’t relevant in any way. That’s just something left wing politicians use to divide us.
I love the interviews with these seasoned racers. The history they share paints an exciting picture of times past. This man shares credit with all his old friends but he certainly stands out. Thank you for the video!!
Great interview I am the person that went into Brooklynn in 1988 and located and purchased the Dyno Don Mustang . I met some of these guys and interacted with them. I purchased the car off of Mrytle Ave from a person named Tex. Everyone had a street name. Lucky Harris helped me find the car. I knew of Camrod and Tab Talmadge , Jesse Johnson etc . When Lucky and I loaded the car onto his ramp truck we took it over to Tabs to show it to him. Two magazines did an article on me and finding this car in the city. Randy Delisio did the restoration and then we raced it a few different tracks. Rockingham, Milan and Epping NH.
My dad helped tune comet at capitol raceway. A couple of guys used to use a exit ramp off 295 to test cars. Not sure if it's still there but it was in the 2000s. Rubber been down as far as the 90s
Thank you for doing this video. These guys were there at the very beginning of hot rodding in America. Unfortunately they will not be with us forever. It is important to hear from them first hand what it was like back then. The cars are only part of the story, the real story is the people who owned, modified and raced these cars.
Great history. I saw Philly street racing in the 80s but i wish i was around to see these guys run back in the 60s in the streets. Nice job documenting these great people.
Hey Parker. I think since you are on a roll with interviewing old NY/NJ street racers. A great person to interview is Carmen Rotunda. He owned Rotunda's speed shop in Bloomfield, NJ. He was a driver for Brooklyn Heavy and some race teams. He is an awesome source of information for ny/nj street racing and early pro stock drag racing.
Amazing History ! Wish we could go back to those days. I started street racing in the mid 70's in Ontario Canada, and a couple times a year we would head over to Detroit to race ! It was unbelievable!
Bad Ass!!!! I grew up as a kid in the 60's and 70's in Albany, NY. All of my family, including my mother, used to street race muscle cars back then. I can still picture people working on their cars in their small garages in the neighborhood that I grew up in. The guys that didn't have the money for a garage worked on them right on the streets parked next to the curb. There were muscle cars everywhere back then and a lot of street racing too. All the neighborhood kids, including myself, would always run up to the muscle cars and look through the windows to see if they were 4 speeds. Automatics were frowned upon back then. I couldn't wait to get my license and my first car that was set up for street racing, which was a dark green1969 Chevelle SS 396 4 speed 375 hp car. I was extremely fortunate to grow up in an era where street racing was still great. I remember the passion for street racing in cars brought people together, creating a family. This went on 7 nights a week and you never knew who was going to show up at the meeting spots. Guys would work together on their cars till 3 or 4 in the morning test running them, go home, lay down for 10 minutes, get up, get their boots on and go to work. The relationships and memories that were created lasted lifetimes and this created new generations of street racers just like me. I believe it's in our DNA. I have a Facebook friend that I met back in the 80's that purchased a Boss 429 Maverick. In the process of sanding it down for a restoration, he discovered it was a Fast Eddy Maverick. That's when I met him. My friend and I went into his garage for some Mustang parts he had listed for sale and then he showed us old photographs and the old paint job exposed underneath. It was an incredible find. I know he had it listed for sale on FB Marketplace because of age and health issues, but I'm not sure if he sold it. Thank you very much for making this video with Willie "Camrod" Campbell because he is definitely one of the OG's of New York street racing and I followed in his footsteps like so many others. I was also a union laborer at Local 190 and did demolition and used that money for my race cars. This was a very important part of street racing history that had to be documented, and you did an amazing job at it!
Great interview! Amazing history! Being from NJ, I know alot of the places he talked about where they would race. Drag racing was huge in the NY, NJ and PA area during the 60s up to the early 2000s. Things started to change and the new generation in this area was not into drag racing like it did back then. Great times! You would drive 30-40 miles and there would be 200-300 shops devoted to building race cars. Now, you’re lucky if they are a handful of the Speed shops like back then.
Excellent....Video....We would love to hear more....we need to remember our past...and also that is one sweet looking Maverick....God Bless and God Bless the USA...
Willie Campbell is a New York City Legend, would love for him to sign my '65 Fastback Mustang. Where is Mr. Campbell located now? Took the South Conduit to work for years, Fountain Ave, Bedford Ave. too. Still get my speed equipment from SK Speed in Lindenhurst, NY. Heavy's Garage was across from where I worked on Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn.
Dig that action RaiderX we also did some of what Camrod was up to in Cleveland in the 70s down near the steel mills on Quigley but also @, W 44th, W 41st as both are one ways.... @ Quigley the hills would fill up across from the street to watch the action as boom boxes jammed out all nite until the green machines (Cops) came around to chase us out
HI PARKER , Such history you have been documenting with these guys. EXCELLENT WORK . BOOSTING CARS , PAYING OFF COPS DAMMMMM LOL What a cool guy , wish I could have been there , back in the day , ENGLISHTOWN had shutdown befor I could run there , but may make it a track 1 day. Please find as many of these guys as you can TY
👍🏼😎 nice touch on what it was like back in the day..born in the 60s my dad and his brother's and cousins, sisters all from south Carolina moved to new York and my mother's side from Pennsylvania all did the same seeking a better life if opportunity. All my uncles were into street racing. Monty Carlos, buick Riviera, 63 impala's anything 😂😂. I loved going to English town raceway park. I live in Pennsylvania now as an adult and seems tuner cars are what's going on today but I will always love oldschool muscle on the streets and miss the days of car meets on franny Lou, Bqe, queens boulevard the 69s and 70s was when my love of street cars took to my blood.😂😂🏁🏁🏁ps..as a Gm guy I'll tell you in my opinion the Mavericks were underrated and had so much potential but it is what it is😂😂 nice post!👍🏼😎
Wow. I came out of the womb Blue Oval as my dad, his dad etc ( you know the drill) . I consider myself very well versed on older Ford muscle, yet I never heard of Willie. What a great bit of info to stumble into. Thanks so much for the video brother. I just forwarded it to my adult son in Texas , a new generation Ford man with his first two new FORDs ( 2023 Mustang and 2023 Bronco) . Just trying to pass the history forward.
That picture at 13:46 I have read about in one of my muscle car magazine's, I loved that story, about a I believe a Camaro and a Dodge, very cool story!
damn I remember the conduit by the 90s it was just a Water down place of memories, these guys were the heavy hitters of the conduit, us little teens were hanging out at connecting, then take a ride to fountain ave, then conduit,
This is excellent. This is history that lifelong drag racers have no idea of. The real underground truth instead of polished pages of Peterson publishing company’s magazines.
my landlord is an old skool italian from Williamsburg Brooklyn. he told me about the street racing in brooklyn. he bought a 1964 GTO off the show room floor and raced it on the street and on the brooklyn queens Expressway. they would have 3 cars in the back. each would take a lane while driving . then slow down and come to a complete stop so the traffic would stop behind them. then the 2 cars in the front would race down the expressway with no one in front of them. one of many stories i have heard.he said there were pontiac car clubs ( which he was part of ) chevy car clubs,dodge car clubs ect where all the guys would hang out in brooklyn .
Yes, Thats the same Fast Eddie, Camrod is referring to. He had 2 Camaro's both maroon. 67 and 68. He ran an Amoco Gas station on the corner of East 3rd St and Franklin Ave. He was my original inspiration for getting into drag racing. May He RIP.
@douglasjames1538 I love those Pinto engines. BTW Mr. Jackson's good friend and racing team mate Clarence Davenport passed away a few weeks ago he was 88 years old. I'm not sure if you knew him.
Can’t remember but I’m sure I met him. Spent a lot of time looking up to fast Eddie , and the boys on grammaton avenue with the Buick wild cat. All the old street racers were good to young guys
@@douglasjames1538 The guys with the Wildcat, Warcat racing are alive and doing well. They moved to Atlanta suburbs. The Wildcat was totalled 25 years ago in a racing accident. They are definitely great men for sure.
Parker would you be able to get me in contact with Willie? He bought a car off me years ago that I have been trying to track down and possibly get back
6:00 or so. My Dad paid cash money for a 1958 Edsel. It had the 361 solid lifter motor and would wind. Dad said that was the fastest car he owned, 135 mph all day long from Thunder Bay to Saskatoon and on gravel and on the square, 11 hours. Dad could sit and do donuts shifting gears from the push buttons in steering wheel center, and make black tire smoke. Tires in those days were made of natural rubber and would burn. Gary and I had to educate Dad on the new tire smoke colour in 1980. Tire smoke was light blue.
WE NEED A MOVIE OF THIS HISTORY !!!!
Yes we do!
Ving Raymes as “Heavy”
Samuel Jackson as
“Camrod”
Starring Denzel
hall of fame
Absolutely
I about fell outta my chair when he said 1939… this man is history. Thank you for this. Would’ve never known about him without you. Cheers
Same. I thought DANG,......
@@ajcarlton88 My Mom born then. She never had to do a driving test. She went to the Post Office and paid $2.00. Mom's daily driver was a 1964 Thunderbird, electric convert top, and 85 mph seemed like the standard speed with her.
Same age as my dad and I’m glad I still have him
As a black man from the UK into Drag Racing since a kid in 80s and have many muscle car books mags and DVDs, your channel is one of the best channels on UA-cam, I did not know much about black men street and strip racing until watching your channel. Keep up the good work buddy 👍🏾👍🏾
As a white boy from Illinois I couldn’t admire him more. Racing people are family first and fierce enemies on the track. Ford people stick together like glue and we all bleed blue. The color of our skin isn’t relevant in any way. That’s just something left wing politicians use to divide us.
Thank you for preserving the history of drag racing legends, like Willie, the Smallwood brothers, again Thanks!
What an era to live through, I could listen to Camrods stories all day.
My Father is an Amazing man!❤
You should be proud😎dudes a go getter
He is a living legend
I grew up in street racing.....love the ol guys who created it.....mad respect to them all
I love the interviews with these seasoned racers. The history they share paints an exciting picture of times past. This man shares credit with all his old friends but he certainly stands out. Thank you for the video!!
The history we had here. I thank this Gentleman so very much for this he's a treasure awesome stuff
Great interview I am the person that went into Brooklynn in 1988 and located and purchased the Dyno Don Mustang . I met some of these guys and interacted with them. I purchased the car off of Mrytle Ave from a person named Tex. Everyone had a street name. Lucky Harris helped me find the car. I knew of Camrod and Tab Talmadge , Jesse Johnson etc . When Lucky and I loaded the car onto his ramp truck we took it over to Tabs to show it to him. Two magazines did an article on me and finding this car in the city. Randy Delisio did the restoration and then we raced it a few different tracks. Rockingham, Milan and Epping NH.
Do you still have the car? How can I find the magazine writeup on you finding the car? What magazine and issues was the write up in?
My dad helped tune comet at capitol raceway. A couple of guys used to use a exit ramp off 295 to test cars. Not sure if it's still there but it was in the 2000s. Rubber been down as far as the 90s
Awesome I really enjoy your work with these interviews I’m 71 from NJ and I know most of these gentleman. Great memories!!!
This is a dam good interview. I wish like hell we could make a movie about these old legends
Thank you for doing this video. These guys were there at the very beginning of hot rodding in America. Unfortunately they will not be with us forever. It is important to hear from them first hand what it was like back then. The cars are only part of the story, the real story is the people who owned, modified and raced these cars.
You can tell right away that this guy is a class act. 😊
Great interview! Someone needs to do a full length docu on Mr. CamRod and all those guys from back in the day.
Great history. I saw Philly street racing in the 80s but i wish i was around to see these guys run back in the 60s in the streets. Nice job documenting these great people.
Hey Parker. I think since you are on a roll with interviewing old NY/NJ street racers. A great person to interview is Carmen Rotunda. He owned Rotunda's speed shop in Bloomfield, NJ. He was a driver for Brooklyn Heavy and some race teams. He is an awesome source of information for ny/nj street racing and early pro stock drag racing.
Amazing History ! Wish we could go back to those days. I started street racing in the mid 70's in Ontario Canada, and a couple times a year we would head over to Detroit to race ! It was unbelievable!
Awesome video Parker. Please keeping bringing these legends to video .. Much appreciated.
Damn glad you put this on UA-cam.
Bad Ass!!!! I grew up as a kid in the 60's and 70's in Albany, NY. All of my family, including my mother, used to street race muscle cars back then. I can still picture people working on their cars in their small garages in the neighborhood that I grew up in. The guys that didn't have the money for a garage worked on them right on the streets parked next to the curb. There were muscle cars everywhere back then and a lot of street racing too. All the neighborhood kids, including myself, would always run up to the muscle cars and look through the windows to see if they were 4 speeds. Automatics were frowned upon back then. I couldn't wait to get my license and my first car that was set up for street racing, which was a dark green1969 Chevelle SS 396 4 speed 375 hp car. I was extremely fortunate to grow up in an era where street racing was still great. I remember the passion for street racing in cars brought people together, creating a family. This went on 7 nights a week and you never knew who was going to show up at the meeting spots. Guys would work together on their cars till 3 or 4 in the morning test running them, go home, lay down for 10 minutes, get up, get their boots on and go to work. The relationships and memories that were created lasted lifetimes and this created new generations of street racers just like me. I believe it's in our DNA. I have a Facebook friend that I met back in the 80's that purchased a Boss 429 Maverick. In the process of sanding it down for a restoration, he discovered it was a Fast Eddy Maverick. That's when I met him. My friend and I went into his garage for some Mustang parts he had listed for sale and then he showed us old photographs and the old paint job exposed underneath. It was an incredible find. I know he had it listed for sale on FB Marketplace because of age and health issues, but I'm not sure if he sold it. Thank you very much for making this video with Willie "Camrod" Campbell because he is definitely one of the OG's of New York street racing and I followed in his footsteps like so many others. I was also a union laborer at Local 190 and did demolition and used that money for my race cars. This was a very important part of street racing history that had to be documented, and you did an amazing job at it!
Bravo,I miss Fountain Ave!❤
Excellent interview and very nice car. Thanks Camrod and Parker.
❤ the interviews.....keep them rolling w/ all this legends.....💪✌️
Another great interview Parker you're the best!
Great interview! Amazing history! Being from NJ, I know alot of the places he talked about where they would race. Drag racing was huge in the NY, NJ and PA area during the 60s up to the early 2000s. Things started to change and the new generation in this area was not into drag racing like it did back then. Great times! You would drive 30-40 miles and there would be 200-300 shops devoted to building race cars. Now, you’re lucky if they are a handful of the Speed shops like back then.
My Uncle Cam needs a documentary. If the world only knew his whole story. He’s always had antiques and rods in the yard. 💪🏿
Excellent....Video....We would love to hear more....we need to remember our past...and also that is one sweet looking Maverick....God Bless and God Bless the USA...
Thank you for the interview OG Cam
Willie Campbell is a New York City Legend, would love for him to sign my '65 Fastback Mustang. Where is Mr. Campbell located now? Took the South Conduit to work for years, Fountain Ave, Bedford Ave. too. Still get my speed equipment from SK Speed in Lindenhurst, NY. Heavy's Garage was across from where I worked on Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn.
Legendary street's of racing for sure.
Dig that action RaiderX we also did some of what Camrod was up to in Cleveland in the 70s down near the steel mills on Quigley but also @, W 44th, W 41st as both are one ways.... @ Quigley the hills would fill up across from the street to watch the action as boom boxes jammed out all nite until the green machines (Cops) came around to chase us out
HI PARKER , Such history you have been documenting with these guys. EXCELLENT WORK .
BOOSTING CARS , PAYING OFF COPS DAMMMMM LOL
What a cool guy , wish I could have been there , back in the day , ENGLISHTOWN had shutdown befor I could run there , but may make it a track 1 day.
Please find as many of these guys as you can
TY
Summer nights at Fountain Ave East New York, Brooklyn. Great times! Salute!💪🏾💨💨💨
One of the coolest stories for sure this is awesome these guys are legends
Awesome interview! Thanks for sharing. RW
I'm from NC and have family in Warreton, norlina, henderson, Manson...etc great interview
I know all about them parts of NC.
I moved from that area 20 years ago. I used to do a little work for Big John Fogg back in the day, the owner Fogg Exxon in Henderson.
I’m 73 and in the U.K. what a great story.
Wow this guy is so cool…definitely a movie .. and thanks for sharing this.. for I would never of known of him too…great history
Thanks for you Getting this History out Much more we can learn
great video documenting history… thanks for sharing!
👍🏼😎 nice touch on what it was like back in the day..born in the 60s my dad and his brother's and cousins, sisters all from south Carolina moved to new York and my mother's side from Pennsylvania all did the same seeking a better life if opportunity. All my uncles were into street racing. Monty Carlos, buick Riviera, 63 impala's anything 😂😂. I loved going to English town raceway park. I live in Pennsylvania now as an adult and seems tuner cars are what's going on today but I will always love oldschool muscle on the streets and miss the days of car meets on franny Lou, Bqe, queens boulevard the 69s and 70s was when my love of street cars took to my blood.😂😂🏁🏁🏁ps..as a Gm guy I'll tell you in my opinion the Mavericks were underrated and had so much potential but it is what it is😂😂 nice post!👍🏼😎
Wow, that's a serious car for an 85 year old ! That whole scene would have been unreal back then....a low 10 on the street in '69 !!
Wow amazing stuff brother ty for finding these og's and getting them to tell some history 👏
Awesome! Very cool story!💯
Love these videos man. Thank you for putting a spotlight on these legends.
Great interview… And beautiful Hot Rod Unk..! 🔥🔥🔥
They sure don’t make um like they use to. He definitely seems like an OG
Good stuff, love street racing, love the post of history!
Gone in 60 Seconds and the Fast franchise wish they could be this man. What an amazing interview.
Great interview of Cam.
Great interview... love hearing stories from the street legions of the 60s and 70s
Wow. I came out of the womb Blue Oval as my dad, his dad etc ( you know the drill) . I consider myself very well versed on older Ford muscle, yet I never heard of Willie. What a great bit of info to stumble into. Thanks so much for the video brother. I just forwarded it to my adult son in Texas , a new generation Ford man with his first two new FORDs ( 2023 Mustang and 2023 Bronco) . Just trying to pass the history forward.
That picture at 13:46 I have read about in one of my muscle car magazine's, I loved that story, about a I believe a Camaro and a Dodge, very cool story!
I'm enjoying this !
damn I remember the conduit by the 90s it was just a Water down place of memories, these guys were the heavy hitters of the conduit, us little teens were hanging out at connecting, then take a ride to fountain ave, then conduit,
Great interview!
they should make a movie called STREET RACERS-we need a new car movie
Here in Vermont in the town called Berry Vermont.We have a racetrack called thunder road
To hear it come from the guys who were there versus some Hollywood movie director is priceless.
Great video
Excellent job
I wish he would of filmed that old school box truck transporter. They are so cool.
Excellent history! Thank you kindly!
This is excellent. This is history that lifelong drag racers have no idea of. The real underground truth instead of polished pages of Peterson publishing company’s magazines.
Them boys was selling work and racing cars. Legends.
Thank you 😊😊
my landlord is an old skool italian from Williamsburg Brooklyn. he told me about the street racing in brooklyn. he bought a 1964 GTO off the show room floor and raced it on the street and on the brooklyn queens Expressway. they would have 3 cars in the back. each would take a lane while driving . then slow down and come to a complete stop so the traffic would stop behind them. then the 2 cars in the front would race down the expressway with no one in front of them. one of many stories i have heard.he said there were pontiac car clubs ( which he was part of ) chevy car clubs,dodge car clubs ect where all the guys would hang out in brooklyn .
Thank you for preserving his story
Great job!!!
Good stuff, being a 76 YO racer from Sou Cal back in the 60’s was interesting to heard about some east coast racing.
RIP 1StockF30
Thanks, enjoy the video.
R.I.P. Fast Eddie from East Orange N.J. 1965 Pontiac G.T.O.
thank you @backyard Barn finds for the story
I remember a FAST EDDIE JACKSON ran a short stroke small block Camaro in the seventies . Ran out of a gas station shop in Mt Vernon NY
Yes, Thats the same Fast Eddie, Camrod is referring to. He had 2 Camaro's both maroon. 67 and 68. He ran an Amoco Gas station on the corner of East 3rd St and Franklin Ave. He was my original inspiration for getting into drag racing. May He RIP.
Yes,he was a really nice guy to a kid wanting to build a fast 4 cylinder pinto. Good advice
@douglasjames1538 I love those Pinto engines. BTW Mr. Jackson's good friend and racing team mate Clarence Davenport passed away a few weeks ago he was 88 years old. I'm not sure if you knew him.
Can’t remember but I’m sure I met him. Spent a lot of time looking up to fast Eddie , and the boys on grammaton avenue with the Buick wild cat. All the old street racers were good to young guys
@@douglasjames1538 The guys with the Wildcat, Warcat racing are alive and doing well. They moved to Atlanta suburbs. The Wildcat was totalled 25 years ago in a racing accident. They are definitely great men for sure.
That white Mustang in the background look good..
Great story !
I'm in my 50s and from NYC my memories of Brooklyn racing was Fountain Ave. They were racing there like it was legal hundreds of people every weekend
Another great story.
This was great.
great job them were the days
HISTORY!!!!!
Yes we need a movie on this… Where can we read more about this guy??
Great story definitely motivation 💪🏽💪🏽
Legend great story like to have seen the pictures just a little bit longer
Noted* 👍👍
I just followed. This channel is too cool.
RESPECT TO THIS MAN, Alot of HISTORY!
Damn he look good good memories..85 years old
Thats crazy Parker knows who Frank Matthew's is.
Atlantic Ave. Has to be in east new york. 👍🏽👍🏽 my uncle & cousin probably knew/know this legend.
Poor man trying to explain stock street racing to this kid😂God bless him
Thunder Road came out in 1958 staring Robert Mitchum with his son.
Tha ks man. Flushing ave
Parker would you be able to get me in contact with Willie? He bought a car off me years ago that I have been trying to track down and possibly get back
Iam from warrenton were was that interview done
Great Vid.
Awesome man
To cool!
I just watched thunder road last nite now watching the marvelous man must be an omens
My kind of friend, I have 1949 silverstreak 2 door coupe and 1967 mustang coupe 351 Windsor, I to hear history from those who liveit COOLEST DUDE
6:00 or so. My Dad paid cash money for a 1958 Edsel. It had the 361 solid lifter motor and would wind. Dad said that was the fastest car he owned, 135 mph all day long from Thunder Bay to Saskatoon and on gravel and on the square, 11 hours. Dad could sit and do donuts shifting gears from the push buttons in steering wheel center, and make black tire smoke. Tires in those days were made of natural rubber and would burn. Gary and I had to educate Dad on the new tire smoke colour in 1980. Tire smoke was light blue.