I grew up in this era and practically lived at the drag strip for quite a few years. This is my kind of racing. Man, I love these cars. A '40 Willys coupe just doesn't get any better.
I was born in 54... Growing up in the 60's and 70's was literally the very best of times. We tore up more parts racing and loved every minute of it. Girls, racing and fast cars.
@@larrycumbo2023 Most people don't know about those cars. Everyone knows Yenko. There was also a Baldwin/ Motion. Unbelievable fast cars. I grew up when they were new.
I was born in the 60s. Went to high school in the late 70s. There is nothing quite like the sound of a big block V-8. Cars today will never have the soul and the class of the cars back then.
Born in 51 my gasser was a 41 Ford Business Coupe old 392 Hemi and a 3 speed with od, changed to a 4 speed a year later. Built it myself in Pops garage starting at 14
I worked Capital Speedway (near DC) as security in the 50s. I got to see Garlits and others in action from 20 feet away. That will bring tears to your eyes real quick!
I and my friends bought factory muscle cars, no extra tinkering, every thing original, including exhaust system. I'm 76 now, graduated in 1964, got a chev impala 2 door hardtop. It had a factory 300 hp 327 and a 4 on the floor transmission..... it was very fun to drive! We would have our own 1/4 mile strip on a county tar road. We lived in a rural area. Nothing like the sound of a powerful V-8 engine working! Thanks for the memories! Ron
The prewar Willys coupes, the Henry J, English Ford Anglia, and the 70s Opel GT are the 4 cars I can think of that look completely normal as a drag car and look totally ridiculous when 100% stock
I've 'been in Texas for the last 40 years but I grew up in Chicago. I loved this track! Used to go to all the fun shows in the 70's and early 80's. Broadway Bob riding on the front of jet dragsters and such.. This place and US 30..... like the commercials used to yell at us......"Where the great ones RUN!!!". PS...anyone remember The Backup Pickup??
Wish that I had an alarm clock that sounded this healthy! Sour Grape Nova seemed to hook pretty good. But the Joker had an off day. Otherwise, keep em coming! Nice videos
The gassers were great but what i enjoyed more were the modified production cars. Those wild high winding small blocks and looking like your everyday street cars.Nothing like them
I was born in 1947 so I was old enough to see the mid 50's cars run. The height of the drag culture's influence on youth and the general public was the late 50's to the mid 60's. The rails, gassers and stockers were amazing. The nitro and burning rubber fumes, the crowd going wild. It was all really the greatest show ever. Never mind the experimental cars. I saw two hydrogen peroxide and Turbonique cars run. The Jet Dragsters at the AHRA and "outlaw" straps were a memory for a lifetime. Yeah there were fires, engine explosions and Crashes but that was a lesser occurance. And often the guy you were rooting for was eliminated. But through it all, and I still go to like 8 or 9 events a year, the drags were one of my absolute best times.....
Thanks for posting this! Is the 301 car a Henry J? It's an interesting coincidence. My fathers friend Fritz used to have a gas station down in the Miami area on US 301 called the 301 garage. My dad worked for the local Don Allen Chevrolet dealer at the time. He and Fritz raced a Henry J #301 and an Oldsmobile in the Hollywood area on the dirt track along with figure 8 racing there. Fritz went on to work for AJ foyt years later on his team.
that sour grape, i had a 62 chevy deuce in 75. 326 motor off road cam, 556 rear end, hurst competition shifter. quick little car. takes a lot of money to keep it running 10's quarter mile.
That lope on the Joker is soooooooo sweet. What happened on his pass? Was looking forward to that match up. AMC9L, that has got to be one of the nicest Ramblers out there. Thanks brother!!!
@@mrshifter8220 Really like Joker, have seen him run hes fast, and I love its a 4 speed. But that black 62 is bad, 8.99 is a slow pass for him. Joker runs high 9s low 10s.
@@rader1175 Yep, an 8.99 is awesome....actually I like all of them.....8's, 9's 10's, 11's, 12's and 13's.....lol. I run in the 9's myself.....well used to, only do nostalgia runs (granny shifting) locally and shows...hitting 70. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas.
@@mrshifter8220 Thanks, happy holidays to you, thats great to hear , ran geezers at the grove this year at 67. What currently are your rides ? Also check out S.E.G.A. South East Gassers Assciation all 4 speeds ! Keeps us young , keep rowing those gears !
We see the transformation of those beautiful cars and what they produce is a desire to cry, as there can be people so insensitive when destroying their beauty and that American beauty of the 50s, 60s, this only gives rage and impotence.
I think I have seen that black Oldsmobile with the flame paint job before at Bradenton Florida almost 30 years ago. If it is the one I think it is, he has two of them.
0:10, my uncle had a 'vette just like that....he drag raced...all I remember is my dad bragging that the car put out 600 hp. Would it be this gasser class?
I lived in those times it was wonderful, I was always tearing up my hot rod I was only 16 or 17 and a good looking girl moved in our neighborhood she said for 2 years she didn't know what I looked like Because all she ever saw was my boots hanging out underneath my car. I drove it like I stole it⚙️⚙️⚙️🚀🚀🚀
Oh huh I've been to the same place I saw the joker car I think it was a little lifted then what I saw in the vid and that old corvette and the flame car
I love the sound of good old American muscle! The sounds that come out of these new cars are hideous. It doesn't sound like power, it sounds like crap.
Maybe it's just me, but I've always considered a gasser as on that has the body up off the front wheels (a high look) and big, fat, wide back tires, like the 2 at 3:39, and 6:10 into the video.
Just imagine when the United States goes all Electric vehicles we will not have to listen to this disgusting Beautiful sound and these old cars HOW SAD
For drag racing you don't need a big gas tank. You're only going 1/4 mile per trip. Putting the tank on the front made it easy to access. The 1st company that put these small aluminum gas tanks on the market was Dean Moon's Moon Engineering (in whose shop the 1st Shelby Cobra got its Ford V8 installed) represented by the famous "MoonEyes" symbol. Thus such tanks were commonly called "Moon tanks". This front mount Moon tank was very popular for many classes of drag racers back then. Later on safety fuel cell tanks were developed and they got located in the back. So you don't see the front tank on modern race cars. Only on vintage race cars or photos from the 50s through 70s.
What happened to the car industry? It used to be so interesting, beautiful, every car was different, yet still gorgeous. Now look, everything is dead silent electric gubbins, they all look like some kid has tried to make a car with a cardboard box. How much I would pay to live back when they still made beautiful cars like these.
I grew up in this era and practically lived at the drag strip for quite a few years. This is my kind of racing. Man, I love these cars. A '40 Willys coupe just doesn't get any better.
I like the Corvette best and I'm not a GM guy. 0:05
I was born in 54... Growing up in the 60's and 70's was literally the very best of times. We tore up more parts racing and loved every minute of it. Girls, racing and fast cars.
Yep. I grew up same time. I always loved GASSERS
I remember OHIO GEORGE MONTGOMERY and WILD WILLY BORCHE.
Same here got my 70ss454 chevelle copo from Nikky Chevrolet in chicago. Was a monster
@@larrycumbo2023 Most people don't know about those cars. Everyone knows Yenko. There was also a Baldwin/ Motion. Unbelievable fast cars. I grew up when they were new.
Hell yeah I know what you're saying I was born in 53 I live 2 miles from the drag strip US 30 in Northwest Indiana.
I was born in the 60s. Went to high school in the late 70s. There is nothing quite like the sound of a big block V-8. Cars today will never have the soul and the class of the cars back then.
I agree born mid 50's went to high school in 1970 awesome era for cars
I was having a bad day until I watched this ... I am at peace with the world once again .. :)
Have a good day👍
What an amazing era of automotive manufacturing art and design, beautiful looking cars.
Couldn't agree more!
@@AutoMotoCha9L yeah, they don't make em like that anymore. 70's were fun.
The BEST Sounding & Looking Cars in my opinion. The BEST Vehicles EVER!
Thanks for Another Great Video!
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Ahhh...the sweet aroma of leaded-gas exhaust
The best!
I'm 68, and in England,,
This is absolutely fantastic,, thank you so much,, 🚙🚘
Glad you enjoyed it
Every second of that video sounded like music to my ear's! THANKS!
Great to hear! Thanks for watching 👍
thanks for showing the et and mph , love these gassers
Thanks for watching 👍
Me too
Born in 51 my gasser was a 41 Ford Business Coupe old
392 Hemi and a 3 speed with od, changed to a 4 speed a year later. Built it myself in Pops garage starting at 14
Music to my ears. Love the wheelies, wahoooo!!!
A few of these cars make it to Rock Falls for the Gasser Weekend......great video thank you! 👍
Born in 59. We cruised and street race through the late 70,s and early 80,s all night. Flat tappet cams and cheap 98 octane. Best times ever.
Good old days👍
Absolutely love these car’s
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I worked Capital Speedway (near DC) as security in the 50s. I got to see Garlits and others in action from 20 feet away. That will bring tears to your eyes real quick!
These cars are awesome thanks for sharing. 🤟🤠👍
You bet👍
I and my friends bought factory muscle cars, no extra tinkering, every thing original, including exhaust system. I'm 76 now, graduated in 1964, got a chev impala 2 door hardtop. It had a factory 300 hp 327 and a 4 on the floor transmission..... it was very fun to drive! We would have our own 1/4 mile strip on a county tar road. We lived in a rural area. Nothing like the sound of a powerful V-8 engine working! Thanks for the memories! Ron
And now they will try to mimic those great sounds with speakers on future E/V's
The prewar Willys coupes, the Henry J, English Ford Anglia, and the 70s Opel GT are the 4 cars I can think of that look completely normal as a drag car and look totally ridiculous when 100% stock
I can smell the high-octane burning now
Great Video, thanks for sharing ! Fond memories !
Glad you enjoyed it👍
Good ol' days...Get in, sit back & hang on!! 😀👍⛽🚔🏎🏎🏎🏎
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Those are some very modern old cars. I remember when getting out of the 12's was quite an accomplishment.
This is most excellent. Wicked respect for old iron.
That little purple high revving nova sounded the best.
I've 'been in Texas for the last 40 years but I grew up in Chicago. I loved this track! Used to go to all the fun shows in the 70's and early 80's. Broadway Bob riding on the front of jet dragsters and such.. This place and US 30..... like the commercials used to yell at us......"Where the great ones RUN!!!". PS...anyone remember The Backup Pickup??
Broadway Bob was the legend 👍
Love the Gasser era!!!🎉
Cars had soul then. Now they all look the same.
I miss those days. Run what ya brung.
sho nuff, used to just drop exhaust to the headers, 62 deuce, 556 rear. fast car. loved it!!!!
Great Lakes Dragaway! I spent lots of time there in the 70's. The Olympics of drag racing was so much fun!
I went to Great Lakes Dragaway last Saturday it was last race for the year
music to my ears!!
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Wish that I had an alarm clock that sounded this healthy! Sour Grape Nova seemed to hook pretty good. But the Joker had an off day. Otherwise, keep em coming! Nice videos
New videos coming soon👍
The gassers were great but what i enjoyed more were the modified production cars. Those wild high winding small blocks and looking like your everyday street cars.Nothing like them
The AMC and the Blue Nova were my favorite.
YEAH!! that Rambler was awesome. i used to race a 62 deuce like the sour grape. super fast little car.
Thanks for posting back in days
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I was born in 1947 so I was old enough to see the mid 50's cars run. The height of the drag culture's influence on youth and the general public was the late 50's to the mid 60's. The rails, gassers and stockers were amazing. The nitro and burning rubber fumes, the crowd going wild. It was all really the greatest show ever. Never mind the experimental cars. I saw two hydrogen peroxide and Turbonique cars run. The Jet Dragsters at the AHRA and "outlaw" straps were a memory for a lifetime. Yeah there were fires, engine explosions and
Crashes but that was a lesser occurance. And often the guy you were rooting for was eliminated.
But through it all, and I still go to like 8 or 9 events a year, the drags were one of my absolute best times.....
Thanks for watching and sharing your story👍
Man I love that sound
I'm a softie for Anglias and Willys. I was born in 54 as well and appreciated the cars from back then as well as the smell of real premium fuel!!
Love the Anglias! This an the fuel altered were fun to watch.
Great video. Thanks.
Thanks for posting this! Is the 301 car a Henry J? It's an interesting coincidence. My fathers friend Fritz used to have a gas station down in the Miami area on US 301 called the 301 garage. My dad worked for the local Don Allen Chevrolet dealer at the time. He and Fritz raced a Henry J #301 and an Oldsmobile in the Hollywood area on the dirt track along with figure 8 racing there. Fritz went on to work for AJ foyt years later on his team.
These cars look and sound great,laud.❤❤ That's the way it is supposed Tobe bravo!!❤❤❤❤ Forget the electric whining baby's cars.❤❤❤❤🎉
That's right!
Real cars!!! 😎💪
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Great video. Thanks for that!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow. Beautiful !
Thanks for watching!
that sour grape, i had a 62 chevy deuce in 75. 326 motor off road cam, 556 rear end, hurst competition shifter. quick little car. takes a lot of money to keep it running 10's quarter mile.
LOVE THE GASSERS!
Now that's how a race car is supposed to sound
The FFVP really sticks out.
And the greatest looking cars..
Smells great!
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That lope on the Joker is soooooooo sweet. What happened on his pass? Was looking forward to that match up. AMC9L, that has got to be one of the nicest Ramblers out there. Thanks brother!!!
Joker had some issues with gear box
@@AutoMotoCha9L Too bad, that's the match up I wanted to see....
@@mrshifter8220 Really like Joker, have seen him run hes fast, and I love its a 4 speed. But that black 62 is bad, 8.99 is a slow pass for him. Joker runs high 9s low 10s.
@@rader1175 Yep, an 8.99 is awesome....actually I like all of them.....8's, 9's 10's, 11's, 12's and 13's.....lol. I run in the 9's myself.....well used to, only do nostalgia runs (granny shifting) locally and shows...hitting 70. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas.
@@mrshifter8220 Thanks, happy holidays to you, thats great to hear , ran geezers at the grove this year at 67. What currently are your rides ? Also check out S.E.G.A. South East Gassers Assciation all 4 speeds ! Keeps us young , keep rowing those gears !
Wow what a parade!
What Id give to have an old Willys, or Willys P/U. Just plain badazz.
Pure mussel, pure masculine unlike the 4 cylinder rice burners kids drive today..
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We see the transformation of those beautiful cars and what they produce is a desire to cry, as there can be people so insensitive when destroying their beauty and that American beauty of the 50s, 60s, this only gives rage and impotence.
I grew up in LA Puente , Calif. " Do not live in Cali. Anymore " but on Thurs. Nites you could hear Irwindale loud , and clear. Now the cats go whir.
Very cool for an old man.
Very cool!!!!!!! 👍👍
Thanks!!
@@AutoMotoCha9L 👍
I think I have seen that black Oldsmobile with the flame paint job before at Bradenton Florida almost 30 years ago. If it is the one I think it is, he has two of them.
Glorious innit? :)
Broadway Bob is smiling
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The smell of racing gasoline
good stuff dou sour grape always a fav to win infin your bettin for hot dog money hahaha thanks scooter out
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You know you’ve come to the right place when you see a Willy’s coupe and a Henry j
Loved the straight front axel with Haibrands and narrow tires, lokked great on the street back then.
In the 70's it seemed after dinner like everyone raced on the downtown streets of Victoria BC. What the hell happened to freedom.
O for Pete's sake ! That blue Willys !
Vroom Vroom Vroom!
0:10, my uncle had a 'vette just like that....he drag raced...all I remember is my dad bragging that the car put out 600 hp. Would it be this gasser class?
PROPER 💯🇨🇦
Thanks for watching👍
I lived in those times it was wonderful, I was always tearing up my hot rod I was only 16 or 17 and a good looking girl moved in our neighborhood she said for 2 years she didn't know what I looked like Because all she ever saw was my boots hanging out underneath my car.
I drove it like I stole it⚙️⚙️⚙️🚀🚀🚀
Good old days👍
Oh huh I've been to the same place I saw the joker car I think it was a little lifted then what I saw in the vid and that old corvette and the flame car
I love the sound of good old American muscle! The sounds that come out of these new cars are hideous. It doesn't sound like power, it sounds like crap.
My thoughts exactly. Just today I heard a new Corvette romping on it, sounded like garbage.
Pardon me , one of the sickest support vehicles I seen was the black elco .
What it is ?
👍👍 we al hotrodders should do our thing like we use to do goddamn
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Murica!
8:21 The wheelie in the 40 Willys bent the front axle when it landed.
Maybe it's just me, but I've always considered a gasser as on that has the body up off the front wheels (a high look) and big, fat, wide back tires, like the 2 at 3:39, and 6:10 into the video.
Dangg !
So what was the purpose of the raised front ends back then?
Weight transfer
Just imagine when the United States goes all Electric vehicles we will not have to listen to this disgusting Beautiful sound and these old cars HOW SAD
These cars will always be around
I have an electric car, but can't let go of the gassers
What’s the little tank on the front? And why is it on the front?
It's a front mount fuel tank
For drag racing you don't need a big gas tank. You're only going 1/4 mile per trip. Putting the tank on the front made it easy to access. The 1st company that put these small aluminum gas tanks on the market was Dean Moon's Moon Engineering (in whose shop the 1st Shelby Cobra got its Ford V8 installed) represented by the famous "MoonEyes" symbol. Thus such tanks were commonly called "Moon tanks". This front mount Moon tank was very popular for many classes of drag racers back then. Later on safety fuel cell tanks were developed and they got located in the back. So you don't see the front tank on modern race cars. Only on vintage race cars or photos from the 50s through 70s.
Knew that vette would be fast.
Why front suspension on gasser drag cars is raised so much?
To assist in the weight transfer during rapid acceleration
@@AutoMotoCha9L Thank you
If you like this clip? Here's original footage of Green Valley Raceway (Texas) - Drag Racing back in 1965
czcams.com/video/Vkmy7untl0I/video.html
Absolutely beautiful cars
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Judd V8 or 410 Sprint Car have no competition
i wished collette davis was here. her hellcat powered gasser would be a riot
Ooooooo wet spot😂
Tesla with playing cards in the spokes...
Most of those cars look like they were put together wrong.
“I tote u dose springs go on da front”!!!
Straight front axles look cool and okay in a straight line but suck for street driving.
What happened to the car industry? It used to be so interesting, beautiful, every car was different, yet still gorgeous. Now look, everything is dead silent electric gubbins, they all look like some kid has tried to make a car with a cardboard box.
How much I would pay to live back when they still made beautiful cars like these.
Not, none of these cars are stock.
Those cars didn't have them motors in them in the 60s so that doesn't count
Probably his dad
Best sounding is the 1969 Lola MKIIIB Porsche 917 and the 1963 Cheetah full throttle down the straight away.