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Story by Dennis J. Quitoni • Photos courtesy the Pacer Collection and Dave Milcarek
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Fuel Altereds. When Hot Rod Wild Willy, The Mob, Pure Heaven at the end of New York state. And
magazine did a story about Pure and all the others that rocked our like the California cars, this one
Heaven, I fantasized I was the world in the heyday of the 1960’s, also had a name – “The Tasmanian
driver that smoked the tires from that I would like to tell the story of Devil.” East coast racers in 1960
one end of the quarter mile to the one more. didn’t have very many drag strips.
other. And it was me, not wild Willy There was a small one on Long
Borsh that controlled the winged This one was also based on the Island, but others were over bridges
express wheel stand. There was coast, the east coast, as east coast and at least one hundred miles
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