yes it was for sure!! don, smokey, grumpy, all of the old names were there and happy to talk to fans!! even in the early 1980's!! at least here in the Midwest!! we had short track (1/8th mile) and it did bring a few big name drivers!!
I don’t remember it being that great of time to grow up with the Vietnam war looking you in the face after High School. But I do enjoy this video now looking back on what I missed during those four years of my life.
Loved the muscle cars of the 60s and early 70s. Raced my '68 440 Dodge Charger, my '70 Stage 1 Buick and won my class at the World Points final in "Yellow Fever" a '69 big block Corvette. Great memories. Thanks to all of those contributing early film people.
You've got to love the paint jobs from that era. Back then I was building plastic models of the Blue Max, and other funny cars. God, I'm getting old. Thanks for uploading these great videos.
I had those models too. My dad would be grocery shopping, I'd be looking at the models, reading the boxes, then over to the magazine rack and page through the Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines. Really cool back then.
Maximum Hardcore now everyone screams racism when you school a dumbass who thinks talking fast grabbing his dick and being loud means your right. I don’t know how many times a black dude talked his way out of paying after he lost broke the rules or just backed out a race after he saw what we had. We don’t even race at our track and when we get called out by a Mexican or black we just laugh and leave. Not even worth it anymore And I’m HISPANIC!!!
Thanks for the video, those days were great,brought up around this era,remember these names,went with my sister and her husband, who drove several kinds of cars, and was killed in 1978at Maple Grove,dodger Glenn, brings back memories good ones.
Thanks so much for this! Early 70s York US30 dragway is we’re we hailed from. How fortunate we were to live that in that time period. The strip, the street, and the music!!
I'm almost 50 years old and remember seeing all these cars run back in the day. Ray and the Blue Max was my favorite!! It's kind of funny how they didn't even consider aerodynamics on the body styles back then!!
what a great time to be a kid in, dad owned a '67 impala SS for a long ass time lols.. and i mean long time. on my 16th b-day before he passed he gave it to me. still have it in my garage... still gotta do shit to it but yeah. rip father, never forget that birthday present...
Thx for those runs down memory lane! with the likes of, 'Big Daddy Don Garletis, Don 'The Snake' Prudomme, Tv Tommy Ivo and Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowny were always fan favorites of mine
Lawrence Mott when I went through my first divorced I lived in the Bay Area by parents live three or four miles from the Fremont drag strip those were the days goodies Speed Shop Big Daddy Don Garlits Shirley Muldowney Don the snake Prudhomme damn I'm 67 now and living in Montana divorced again where's the drag strip LOL
My memory isn't what it used to be. Who was the driver of the Mongoose ? When I was a kid, I collected tons of the original Hot Wheels and had the Snake and Mongoose. They were I think the only ones that you could lift up the body and see the motor. Sorry to ramble and reminisce....
@@hopeyoung5482 Tom Mckewen drove the Mongoose and I think I may still have those two Hot Wheels in a box someplace around here. Sadly, McKewen passed away about a year ago.
I remember most of these cars from the few issues of Drag News that came into the UK. Cars go much much faster now but somehow the 1970s Funny Cars and Top Fuel racing seemed much more exciting.
When you think about these guys that ground there own cams and were experimenting with porting heads its amazing to me. You can say they made their own power.I couldnt do anything without the internet.
I snuck into the winter nationals at pomona back in 1970 when I was 15, and I had a hot young foxy chick with me. Fast forward to today and now I'm almost a geezer. Sucks!
You old, decrepit, derelict mofos kill me. Where did the name “funny car” come from? Because the cars *looked* funny, compared to their street legal counterparts.
When he teamed with Fabrage racing became "Team Brut" top notch guy, first class operation, loved his rig, coolest paint job in my opinion, until Fabrage was sold. That family loved him. He'd match race at my local track, 'Smokin' US 30 Dragstrip, where the great ones run!'
thank you.loved watching my driver in the black magic all segrini.i crewed for him 6 months match race circut.i now work part time for the nhra safety safari.thanks all for all that you taught me.
Great racing when it was about the car,builders and driver. Now it's all about the sponsorship money. Used to hear the races all summer in Fremont,California at the raceway, You could hear the top fuel, jet and rocket cars all the way to the hills!
Innes Muecke There's nothing like the 1970's race cars, and regardless of which motorsport.... Well, those "flying teapot cars" Formula One had back then were an exception, but still! Nothing compares to vintage stock cars and vintage drag racing.
Thanks for uploading this. I've only been to one drag race in my life (the 2015 Gatornationals), but wow... The 70's proved to have as exciting of dragsters to see as did the stock cars of the era.
I watched some of them race at Amarillo drag strip back n the 70s..and I have been 2 Ennis drag strip 4 the nationals. Back n the 70s they were breaking speed records and it was awesome. But know it is freaking insane, the speed and horsepower the cars put out.
Brings back a lot of memory's those were the days. Cool old school racing I love it. I've been looking for any video's of Doyle Patton he drove a 71 Corvette 427 550-600 HP drag car it was red white and blue called THE GENERAL in early 70's. He died in 2014. He still had the car when he died the family sold it to a friend of his that is going to restore it to period condition. It was untouched for 40 years in his garage still on the trailer. I found pictures online but can't find any vids of it from back in the good ole days.
I remember watching a lot of these on the weekends when I was a kid When ABC's Wild World of Sports was king. I also remember a lot of these same cars in my brothers "Hotrodding" magazines.
"Hot Rod" "Popular Hot Rodding" but "Car Craft" was my fav. Had a centerfold pic of the ChiTown Hustler at the lights at a night race on my wall for years growing up as a kid.
7:45 Al Segrini - Black Mahic 9:03 Richard Tharp 9:53 Shirl Greer - ChiTown Hustler What personalities those drivers had. I was only 12 or 13 when this was filmed, but was begging my father to tear down the swingset and build a rail out of the tubing, Told him I'd be his crew chief. He wouldn't.
Really brings back memories I was born in 74 and was at drag races before I could talk. My dad had a 73 Triumph and raced at Atco he stopped in like 77, but I was his sidekick and LOVED going to the races. I was a daddys girl and always loved the sounds, the smells all of it. I wish I had a video of him on the track, I miss him so much he was taken way to soon. We had so many plans and I left our house at 11am and he was fine and came home at 6pm and found him on the floor I thought he fell asleep but no he had a massive heart attack at 55 years old. Worst day of my life, I'm balling my eyes out now and it happened 17 years ago...
Man the Funny cars where so much cooler back then. Back then I practically lived at Irwindale, Orange County, Lions, Pomona. I remember all these teams.
Went to a drag race when I was younger and thought it was pretty cool and loud. But to be there back in this time era would've been 10X better! Thank you for uploading this! I very much wish I could go back in time and experience life in these more simple times...
Utterly fabulous motors. Most true petrolheads would give their eye-teeth to own any of these vehicles, either to play with , or just clean and dream with...
God I MISS those days ..when a can the little guy had a chance..was car n driver well mechanics also but was way more of an even field in those days..gr8 footage ..thanks
That was the time. In High School in the mid seventies, I worked at the local private airport refueling planes with 100/110 octane fuel. I bought a Willys and put ever Penney I made into it. I spent the next 4 years building engines and racing. Best time of my life.
I built over two dozen FC's and TF's in the late 60's very early 70's (scale models). When I got older with nothing to do, my buddies and I would blow 'em up w/ M80's or burn 'em. Oh well, I still have some photos of many of them.
How kool. I spent a lot of years watching and grudge racing at Great Lakes Drag a way Union Grove. When the funny cars still looked kinda like real cars. Awesome stuff, Thanks !
New England Dragway Is going to have an NHRA meet this year, the 1st time since the WWCS meets! Also in June, the 20th to the 23rd. Alot of these cars ran at New England as well.
Two stories about these 1970s drag racers. I lived in Hamilton, Ontario, not too far from Cayuga Dragway. We had match racers come in all the time. My 16th birthday. March was freaking cold. This was the day I fell in love with Shirley Muldowney. She was leaning against the roll cage of her pink dragster and I asked for her autograph. She tried but her hands were cold. She said, "Hold your hands out." I did. She put her's between them and said, "Rub them together." I warmed up her hands and she gave me her autograph. Another time it was Jungle Jim and Al Segrini. Jungle had the big box truck then. He was standing in a side door and I asked for his autograph. He said, "I have to go kick Segrini's ass. I'll catch you when I come back." Well, he blew the engine on that run. I beat him back to the truck. He got out of a pick up truck and threw his helmet into the hauler as hard as he could and he was very very colorful with his language. Then he saw me standing there and said, "I owe you something." He went into the hauler and came out with a photo and signed it for me.
In the 60's drag racing was the king of motor sports and muscle cars and street racing were a big part of the American culture. The kids that lived thru that, usually turned out to be pretty good drivers.
You just gotta love a car when its named "The Shy Town Hustler" , great video of just how hard these guys had to work just to get it across the line. and how about that strong representation from the Pinto stables. anouncing for drag racing has clearly improved now that its mostly former racers.
It's funny, NHRA created the small block weight-brake cars in hopes of ending the Hemi's dominance in Pro Stock. By doing so they created the dominating little monster known as the 351C Pinto.
really good to see the old big names and cars again! thanks for keeping the video up! i hoped to see flaming burnouts in the show. front engine rails were outdamstanding until big daddy lost his belongings...
I'll bet those short wheel based Pintos were hard to drive, they look like they're all over the track. Thanks for posting, lot of great personalities I haven't heard in a while.
I love how diverse things were back then. "Oh a jet car vs an altered funny car? sure why not" All the cars look too generic now and it's sad. Yes they are faster but they lack the charm. It seemed the cars themselves had personalities in this era too.
Takes me back, with a tear in my eye. Truly the best of times in drag racing.
The most exciting time in drag racing history IMO
"I'm Batman" Going slower is more exciting??
What a fantastic time to grow up!
Melody Hintergardt yes it was
yes agree
yes it was for sure!! don, smokey, grumpy, all of the old names were there and happy to talk to fans!! even in the early 1980's!! at least here in the Midwest!!
we had short track (1/8th mile) and it did bring a few big name drivers!!
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I don’t remember it being that great of time to grow up with the Vietnam war looking you in the face after High School. But I do enjoy this video now looking back on what I missed during those four years of my life.
Loved the muscle cars of the 60s and early 70s. Raced my '68 440 Dodge Charger, my '70 Stage 1 Buick and won my class at the World Points final in "Yellow Fever" a '69 big block Corvette. Great memories. Thanks to all of those contributing early film people.
Wow seeing Ray Beatle and the Blue Max brought back a ton of memories as a kid!!
Raymond Beadle was my favorite too. The Blue Max was such a cool name. What a sportsman, showman, great personality for the sport!
Ahh I am so happy to have come of age during this era.
You've got to love the paint jobs from that era. Back then I was building plastic models of the Blue Max, and other funny cars. God, I'm getting old. Thanks for uploading these great videos.
I had those models too. My dad would be grocery shopping, I'd be looking at the models, reading the boxes, then over to the magazine rack and page through the Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines. Really cool back then.
@@happydays8171 And if you were lucky there would be a few shots of Jungle Pam in that Car Craft. ;+)
Racing was way cooler then, than it is now.
Ashroyer86 mechanical, do it yourself, learn from your mistakes versus, all electronic
What makes you say this?
Absolutely- back when America wasn’t a bunch of pusses
Maximum Hardcore now everyone screams racism when you school a dumbass who thinks talking fast grabbing his dick and being loud means your right. I don’t know how many times a black dude talked his way out of paying after he lost broke the rules or just backed out a race after he saw what we had. We don’t even race at our track and when we get called out by a Mexican or black we just laugh and leave. Not even worth it anymore
And I’m HISPANIC!!!
What are you talking about? We live in an era where you can buy a car that does 10 sec in the 1/4 mile. Electronics; sure. But it'll still kick ass.
I love the snap, crackle, pop of these old school engines.
Thanks for the video, those days were great,brought up around this era,remember these names,went with my sister and her husband, who drove several kinds of cars, and was killed in 1978at Maple Grove,dodger Glenn, brings back memories good ones.
Thanks so much for this! Early 70s York US30 dragway is we’re we hailed from. How fortunate we were to live that in that time period. The strip, the street, and the music!!
" WHEN MEN WERE MEN and CHROME WAS THICK"
I'm almost 50 years old and remember seeing all these cars run back in the day.
Ray and the Blue Max was my favorite!!
It's kind of funny how they didn't even consider aerodynamics on the body styles back then!!
what a great time to be a kid in, dad owned a '67 impala SS for a long ass time lols.. and i mean long time.
on my 16th b-day before he passed he gave it to me. still have it in my garage... still gotta do shit to it but yeah.
rip father, never forget that birthday present...
David Ross that's America brother, god bless your DAD
Thx for those runs down memory lane! with the likes of, 'Big Daddy Don Garletis, Don 'The Snake' Prudomme, Tv Tommy Ivo and Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowny were always fan favorites of mine
Lawrence Mott when I went through my first divorced I lived in the Bay Area by parents live three or four miles from the Fremont drag strip those were the days goodies Speed Shop Big Daddy Don Garlits Shirley Muldowney Don the snake Prudhomme damn I'm 67 now and living in Montana divorced again where's the drag strip LOL
My memory isn't what it used to be. Who was the driver of the Mongoose ? When I was a kid, I collected tons of the original Hot Wheels and had the Snake and Mongoose. They were I think the only ones that you could lift up the body and see the motor. Sorry to ramble and reminisce....
@ Stoney Stone...You prob should be ask’n: “Damn, where’d all my shit go after two divorces!?! LOL
@@hopeyoung5482 Tom Mckewen drove the Mongoose and I think I may still have those two Hot Wheels in a box someplace around here. Sadly, McKewen passed away about a year ago.
@@Zoetropeification I used to have them back when they came out. Always wanted Mongoose to win.
I remember most of these cars from the few issues of Drag News that came into the UK. Cars go much much faster now but somehow the 1970s Funny Cars and Top Fuel racing seemed much more exciting.
When you think about these guys that ground there own cams and were experimenting with porting heads its amazing to me. You can say they made their own power.I couldnt do anything without the internet.
I snuck into the winter nationals at pomona back in 1970 when I was 15, and I had a hot young foxy chick with me. Fast forward to today and now I'm almost a geezer. Sucks!
its crazy how fast time seems to go after the fact.
Back in the day I did not know many girls who were not into cars. Cars not Guns were your manhood.
RICK RICHARDS welcome to the club !!
that's why they make viagra you know =)
I Agree with that ! I'm one too ! Time. flies !
If this ole world is here for another hundred years, I wander how they’ll look back at this time. I’m just glad that I got to live thru the 60’s, 70’s
drag racing back then is better than today funny cars looked like heavily modified street cars. it was fun back then
You old, decrepit, derelict mofos kill me.
Where did the name “funny car” come from?
Because the cars *looked* funny, compared to their street legal counterparts.
Hey bro nice picture 👍
Segrini's Black Magic was one of the prettiest cars at that time....always immaculate
When he teamed with Fabrage racing became "Team Brut" top notch guy, first class operation, loved his rig, coolest paint job in my opinion, until Fabrage was sold. That family loved him. He'd match race at my local track, 'Smokin' US 30 Dragstrip, where the great ones run!'
Love Bud Lindemann's colorful commentary, he was the coolest :)
I'm in love with this era of Drag Racing. It was great! Thumbs way up for this video!
thank you.loved watching my driver in the black magic all segrini.i crewed for him 6 months match race circut.i now work part time for the nhra safety safari.thanks all for all that you taught me.
why don't they name the cars anymore
I loved the 1970's. This is awesome. Thank you. ROCK ON!!!!!
9:19 love Glidden driving the Mustang II and then follow it with the Blue Max beating the Chi-Town Hustler!! Sweet!!
Great racing when it was about the car,builders and driver. Now it's all about the sponsorship money. Used to hear the races all summer in Fremont,California at the raceway, You could hear the top fuel, jet and rocket cars all the way to the hills!
No shit, how you supposed to fund a top fuel dragster? With the money you earn working on McDonald's?
70's funny cars, sooo good!
Innes Muecke There's nothing like the 1970's race cars, and regardless of which motorsport.... Well, those "flying teapot cars" Formula One had back then were an exception, but still! Nothing compares to vintage stock cars and vintage drag racing.
Awsome to see cars that looked like the real street cars!!! And not just a fiberglass body.
How cool to see those beautiful old bodies duking it out! That's for posting this lost gem of American iron.
"may go all the way to Milwaukee on the rear wheels"
LMFAO!!
Connie Kalitta! Wow-
Econoline van vs Dodge Dart!!! GREAT wheeelies!!! WOW!!!
And that was some sharp-looking Vega!!!
Thanks for sharing man!
A part of my mind has been rejuvenated! Great to see footage of all those awesome cars! Those were the days!
All the delicious engine roars - gives me chills like nothing else could!!
Thanx a bunch for posting this!!!
Great memories...
i can't help but wonder how many of those classic beauty's are still existing today, tearing up the strip's and Streets...
still awesome today since i was a kid!!
Thanks for uploading this. I've only been to one drag race in my life (the 2015 Gatornationals), but wow... The 70's proved to have as exciting of dragsters to see as did the stock cars of the era.
I watched some of them race at Amarillo drag strip back n the 70s..and I have been 2 Ennis drag strip 4 the nationals. Back n the 70s they were breaking speed records and it was awesome. But know it is freaking insane, the speed and horsepower the cars put out.
Yep. World Finals used to be in Amarillo Dragway back in the day. Used to live near there back then. Goin' racin' was fun!
The cars looked much better back then.
so true
So did the women.
Love this, I remember the LA Dart at Budds Creek when I was like 10 years old. 55 now
Brings back a lot of memory's those were the days. Cool old school racing I love it. I've been looking for any video's of Doyle Patton he drove a 71 Corvette 427 550-600 HP drag car it was red white and blue called THE GENERAL in early 70's. He died in 2014. He still had the car when he died the family sold it to a friend of his that is going to restore it to period condition. It was untouched for 40 years in his garage still on the trailer. I found pictures online but can't find any vids of it from back in the good ole days.
Those wheely cars are so badass!!
Love to see those old cars again! Thank you for putting this up! :)
I remember watching a lot of these on the weekends when I was a kid When ABC's Wild World of Sports was king. I also remember a lot of these same cars in my brothers "Hotrodding" magazines.
John Hill Nj
"Hot Rod" "Popular Hot Rodding" but "Car Craft" was my fav. Had a centerfold pic of the ChiTown Hustler at the lights at a night race on my wall for years growing up as a kid.
Love these old drag racing videos. Thanks for sharing
2:50 I love the awesome wheelie's !!!!
Love those wheelstanders!
7:45 Al Segrini - Black Mahic
9:03 Richard Tharp
9:53 Shirl Greer - ChiTown Hustler
What personalities those drivers had. I was only 12 or 13 when this was filmed, but was begging my father to tear down the swingset and build a rail out of the tubing, Told him I'd be his crew chief. He wouldn't.
This is one great video. Geeeez I hope they never take this clip down....
Epic! wonderful! outstanding!! thank You for the ride!
I have seen all these big names race back in the 1970's man it was a great time in life
Really brings back memories I was born in 74 and was at drag races before I could talk. My dad had a 73 Triumph and raced at Atco he stopped in like 77, but I was his sidekick and LOVED going to the races. I was a daddys girl and always loved the sounds, the smells all of it. I wish I had a video of him on the track, I miss him so much he was taken way to soon. We had so many plans and I left our house at 11am and he was fine and came home at 6pm and found him on the floor I thought he fell asleep but no he had a massive heart attack at 55 years old. Worst day of my life, I'm balling my eyes out now and it happened 17 years ago...
Man the Funny cars where so much cooler back then. Back then I practically lived at Irwindale, Orange County, Lions, Pomona. I remember all these teams.
Looked like rockingham dragway in those last clips , I remember all these cars , nice video !
What I remember first in life of drag racing..great times
I'm almost 53 and I remember those days watching my dad race his 69' Nova
Many great names I remember well from that area, I still have my 1971 Vette and drive it weekly.
Went to a drag race when I was younger and thought it was pretty cool and loud. But to be there back in this time era would've been 10X better! Thank you for uploading this! I very much wish I could go back in time and experience life in these more simple times...
Utterly fabulous motors. Most true petrolheads would give their eye-teeth to own any of these vehicles, either to play with , or just clean and dream with...
Wow! I sure do miss these days , remember just about all of them!
Wow! Does that brings back the memories. I grew up in Union Grove and spent many weekends at Great Lakes Dragaway. I saw all those cars in person.
Thanks for posting this! So many memories. Roland Leong's Hawaiian, Bill Shrewsberry's L.A,. Dart, Sox and Farmer, Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick, et al.
God I MISS those days ..when a can the little guy had a chance..was car n driver well mechanics also but was way more of an even field in those days..gr8 footage ..thanks
my dad used to rece back in the 70s and 80s. he drove a sexy ass pro street 67 camaro. he has a picture hanging in the garage of him doing a burnout
That was the time. In High School in the mid seventies, I worked at the local private airport refueling planes with 100/110 octane fuel. I bought a Willys and put ever Penney I made into it. I spent the next 4 years building engines and racing. Best time of my life.
Races was televised on the weekends remember as a kid tuning in. We also had a local track international drag way.
This is AMAZING.
OLD IS GOLD :)
Awesome footage!
Gotta love the 70's
I remember in the seventies, building the Blue Max model. ...memories!
I built over two dozen FC's and TF's in the late 60's very early 70's (scale models). When I got older with nothing to do, my buddies and I would blow 'em up w/ M80's or burn 'em. Oh well, I still have some photos of many of them.
Back when Funny Cars actually looked like the street version.
Front engine dragsters. Scary.
How kool. I spent a lot of years watching and grudge racing at Great Lakes Drag a way Union Grove. When the funny cars still looked kinda like real cars. Awesome stuff, Thanks !
Love Pro Stock and Super Stock . 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
These days are gone forever.
Great video.
see the size of that low hanging oil pan on the Road Runner right at the start WoW . ..
+shawn harold fox firth
That was a 6 quart oil pan. A buddy of mine had one on a '68 Dodge Charger with a 383 in it.
awesome footage thanks for sharing it
I wish they had secretly filmed Ronnie's powershifting technique.
He'd put any automatic or modern smg to shame.
I know, watched him leave the line in this clip, really pulled on the car in the other lane in 2nd gear, and you know it was his shifting!
New England Dragway Is going to have an NHRA meet this year, the 1st time since the WWCS meets! Also in June, the 20th to the 23rd. Alot of these cars ran at New England as well.
I could watch videos like this for days! Nice work!!
😀when the cars still look REAL.
Thank You for posting this awesome vid !!
My first car in 1981 was a $50.00 Chevy Vega. Had no brakes, stopped it with the e-brake handle and neutral for months and through 1 winter !
Two stories about these 1970s drag racers. I lived in Hamilton, Ontario, not too far from Cayuga Dragway. We had match racers come in all the time. My 16th birthday. March was freaking cold. This was the day I fell in love with Shirley Muldowney. She was leaning against the roll cage of her pink dragster and I asked for her autograph. She tried but her hands were cold. She said, "Hold your hands out." I did. She put her's between them and said, "Rub them together." I warmed up her hands and she gave me her autograph. Another time it was Jungle Jim and Al Segrini. Jungle had the big box truck then. He was standing in a side door and I asked for his autograph. He said, "I have to go kick Segrini's ass. I'll catch you when I come back." Well, he blew the engine on that run. I beat him back to the truck. He got out of a pick up truck and threw his helmet into the hauler as hard as he could and he was very very colorful with his language. Then he saw me standing there and said, "I owe you something." He went into the hauler and came out with a photo and signed it for me.
Thanks for the great video upload guys
Happy new year guys 2019
Oh yeah! Great video thanks for taking me back to my youth.
Nice to see my local track out of Union Grove Wi. Great Lakes Dragaway!! WAHOO!
In the 60's drag racing was the king of motor sports and muscle cars and street racing were a big part of the American culture. The kids that lived thru that, usually turned out to be pretty good drivers.
Why are there thumbs down? What's not to like?
Kyle Wirth - probably thumbs down for the lack of turbo'd Civics...
Civic owners realizing their asses would get kicked by cars from 50 years ago.
Those are people in mental institutions, they have WiFi now in the middle room, a friend told me.
You just gotta love a car when its named "The Shy Town Hustler" , great video of just how hard these guys had to work just to get it across the line. and how about that strong representation from the Pinto stables. anouncing for drag racing has clearly improved now that its mostly former racers.
It was Shirl Greer's "ChiTown Hustler" out of Chicago...
Bob Glidden was tearing up the track for a long time.
It's funny, NHRA created the small block weight-brake cars in hopes of ending the Hemi's dominance in Pro Stock. By doing so they created the dominating little monster known as the 351C Pinto.
One of the all time very best!!
Thank you for posting this!
really good to see the old big names and cars again! thanks for keeping the video up! i hoped to see flaming burnouts in the show. front engine rails were outdamstanding until big daddy lost his belongings...
that old vette took it like a champ...hell that wouldve totaled any modern car
Loved Wide World of Sports Sunday afternoon when I was a kid
I'll bet those short wheel based Pintos were hard to drive, they look like they're all over the track. Thanks for posting, lot of great personalities I haven't heard in a while.
AH PURE AMERICANA! I remember seeing all these great legends.
This dates back to the days when there were less than 100 people around the cars at the tree and you can actually see the cars!
I love how diverse things were back then. "Oh a jet car vs an altered funny car? sure why not" All the cars look too generic now and it's sad. Yes they are faster but they lack the charm. It seemed the cars themselves had personalities in this era too.
Love this stuff, great to see it! Thanks for posting this!
Danm those wheelies were good!