If you lived in the New York area in the 1960s and street-raced your muscle car, the Connecting Highway was the place to go. It's just a short stretch of roadway that connects the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, NY, but all the big-money drag races were here.

The Connecting Highway gained more notoriety when Joe Oldham dared to write about the motorsport that most everyone knew about, but hardly anyone talked about, in the August 1968 issue of Cars magazine.

This era is over now, but there's no proper tribute to the cars and the drivers in any of the car museum we've visited. So the "veterans" of the Connecting Highway have started their own room on the web.

It's called Connecting Highway Tribute, and anyone who raced a car here is invited to submit photos (like this 1967 Oldsmobile 442) and stories of their experiences to this living collection.

After the jump, there's an old Super 8 video of drivers prepping their cars for racing on the Connecting Highway.

Connecting Highway Tribute

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