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Originally Posted by _e_w_
I was reading the LA Times online today and on the top of the page was an advertisement for a podcast from LA Times studio called "Larger Than Life." The tagline is; "A new documentary podcast about L.A street racer Big Willie Robinson."
Seems to me that what I have suggested isn't too far off base and that there is a market for LA Street racing stories. Maybe it's time for one or more of the players to contact the LA Times or a Producer.
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I knew Big Willie from the Brotherhood Raceway days down on Terminal Island ripping people with our 12 sec. VW Ghia. That would be a great cult film subject, as him and Tomika were a very interesting couple in their Superbird drag hemi cars!
I don’t remember any black people, when I was driving our 1970 429SCJ Country Squire to the gambling entertainment of the older guys in the Whittier Blvd street racing scene! My Father for my privilege to drive, made me go fill up all of the cars 63 356, 68 Vette, the Dragon Wagon Country Squire. I made friends with a gas station Owner, that put a private pump in the back of his station for his friends to avoid the gas lines! That bought me time to go do some racing, tank up the cars, bring them home over the hill and home to Hacienda Heights full! The Special install 429 SCJ blew up, so got a 460, putting the 429 heads on that to raise compression, hooker sides, Ansen mags!
But guys talked about the old days! I ran the Box Factory with the Wagon, I ran Nabiscos with the Ghia years later, and Four Lanes near Valley with my fathers Vette or stop light to stop light stuff like on Lambert or Bloomfield. If I had my Dad’s vette, naturally I went to show off driving it up on Turnbull, to be the big shot!
Back to Big Willie, they staged races down in the parking lot south of Whittier on Mulberry/Santa age Springs Rd at the park- I think it was York Field in Santa Fe Springs, north of Los Nietos. That was before my time! But Big Willie and crew came to run the Whittier Boulevard crowd a lot.