Vintage Drag Races - 1962
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2006
- I found this gem in a box of 8mm films given to me for a transfer job to DVD. It's a series of "run what ya brung" drag races at Island Dragway, Great Meadows, NJ in 1962. The guy I'm doing the job for was driving the blue '62 Impala SS 409. Enjoy!
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Wow, I have to say thanks for this youtube video. Some people would never have shared this. This one is great.......Real history.
the good old days...run what ya brung and drive it like you hate it...thanks... what memories
I owned a 59 thunderbird like the one in this video. I ran that thing 140mph everynight on the way home. It felt like it was floating on air. Man the good ole days. Rich
Fantastic!
what an awesome video some killer cars and the old fuelies are so cool
Drag racing in the snow, gotta love it. Handful of Pontiacs, way cool video. Thanks for posting.
Reminds me of attending my first drag event at 'double D'....that was Detroit Dragway in 1962.Seen Dyno Don Nicholson driving a 409 Chevy Biscayne & the Super Super Stock winner was another 409 from Arizona.They were goin' 12s then & we thought it was sooo fast.
Yup, newest ride in this neet video is '62. Thanks Rich Galdi for convert and post and Thanks 626262impala for hanging onto the old 8mm. Now that you have it saved digital and friends can see this until your days are done. I'm an old pfart too and like a fool, didn't keep my stuff. Thanks again :-)
I wish I could have grown up then. I'm 18, and you seniors knew how to build them. Heres to 327s with 4.11 rear ends!
Even Better With 4.88s!
This is not only a super video, but one of few that has not a negative comment. Growing up in Bergenfield, my freinds and I would make the weekly commute to Island in '61 and '62 out rt46(before I80 was completed). We'd have breakfast at the Hacketstown Diner spend the day in the pits and always return with white shoe polish on the windshield and left rear window indicating the class. I ran a C/G (gas) and then a B/A (altered), both street legal. We graduated in '62 and went then separate ways.
There's quite a few vintage racing video's out there, but this one ranks among the best. Thanks much gents for keeping the old 8mm, and to Rich for converting to digital then posting for our fun and help us remember our young and fun times.
I raced street legal motorcycles at Island Dragway from 1999 to 2020, and still hold the track speed record for ALL motorcycles at 168 mph. I did this as a 65 year old on my street legal (no slick, no wheelie bar) 2003 Suzuki GSX-R1000 using a 60 hp nitrous shot. I also held the ET record set in 2019 at 8.50 seconds in August of 2019 at age 69 without NOS or a turbo. I believe someone has gone quicker since then, but I don't think anyone will go faster than 168 mph on a bike since there is only 1,800 feet to stop. I had a bad crash on August 23, 2019 trying to stop from 162 mph on a track wet with late night dew that put me in the hospital for a month. But I came back in 2020 at age 70 and made my final pass before selling my bike and moving to Florida. I closed out my motorcycle racing career with a final pass of 8.60 seconds at 160 mph, then hung up my helmet for good. On another note, the crowds you see in this awesome video are rarely seen at Island, or any other track today. The stands are, sadly, not full even at an NHRA national event with Top Fuel Dragsters and Nitro Funny Cars. The NHRA today is struggling to fill out a 16 car field in those two Pro classes. The 1960s truly were the golden age of drag racing, and Island Dragway was center stage in that era.
..."but that 413's really diggin' in!"
very cool!
I want a TESLA with a 409
Great stuff
Perfect Jan and Dean song
awesome. i go there often, its cool to see how its changed in 45 years
This is pretty cool...I work at Island Dragway and it was way more crowded back then...
Great music and video. If my memory is correct Island dragway opened right around 1962. The green and white 55 looks a lot like a car I had and raced back then. I remember the pits were full of trees then. Sure brings back some nice memories.
+Dave V Just watched this again a year later. Still great. The black 58 Impala convertible looked like one of my cars too.
+Dave V I think the songs are Drag city by Jan and Dean and for sure Shut down by the Beach Boys. A couple of my old favorites.
it opened in 1960
man, that was way cool! thanks for sharing.
Great!!!
Tach it up!!
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.
1:27 what a magnificent black machine
1:27
Don Garlits broke the 200 MPH quarter mile at Island Dragway... i raced there too years ago...
Who else has some old movies converted to video from Island Dragway in New Jersey? Especially around the early 60's?
By absolute dumb luck ! I was at Island Dragway with fellow members of the Road Rebels Auto Club from Hawthorne, NJ 'THIS VERY DAY'. Standing on the roof of my 'cherry' 49 Plymouth to watch Don Garlits and his Winds Jammer 1. Little did we know, so many years ago, that we were watching history made. Breaking 200 mph in the quarter mile. Thanks so much for posting this video.
AWESOME VID!!!
That video was Most Excellent! Good tunes, too!
I like it...alot!
this was the first place 200mph was broke by the one and only big daddy don garlits.
I was there when TV Tommy Ivo beat him I met Tommy later Don Garbage as Tommy called him came back and won the SUMMER NATIONALS
..........maybe all the Mopars broke down on the way to the track.
Awsome just freakin awsome!!
THIS IS GREAT I WAS BORN TOO LATE 1963 IN ELIZABETH NJ WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO HAVE BEEN A TEENAGER BACK IN THE LATE 50'S AND EARLY 60'S .
that was awesome..I wanna venture out to this track one day..I've never been there..great video!!!
AHhhhh ! Island Dragway - one great ol' strip ! Those were the days . . .not only at
the dragways but in our nation in general !
1/4 mile track 1/2 mile shut down area a sand trap and a cable before the railroad tracks The Prock and Howell Willys ran 169 mph on fuel the chute didn't open over ran the shut down area and the sand trap hit the cable cut the roof off almost cut the drivers head off hit the roll bar and stopped the car [ Kirk Douglas lived on the house on the hill behind the pits ]
@Bluedeuce32
One day we'll have to have a video viewing garage run.
good shit
ppost more man
Bob: I really don't know either. My buddy has taken some lately of my Nova and his Gran Prix (under "Slimbo5"), but they are digital and are easily put on the computer. I guess yours are 8mm or VHS and have to be changed first. Too bad; I'd love to see if my '61 Chevy is in any of them. - Charlie
@Bluedeuce32
Charlie, I have some from "The Patch" 1962-64, I have some earlier from Montgomery and some mid '60s from E-Town .
I don't know how to put the here or I would.
Bob
noticed they matched most races Ford Vs. Chevy, the way it was back then....
I resent that statement, I raced there in 62 and now isn't that bad.
16 years old that year, would have loved to have been there, at the other end of the strip though. That's the end that counted.
I want to move to DRAG CITY!
...and not a single Mopar???!!! I guess they weren't allowed to race, because they were too fast!!!
Oh man,i love the old days of drag racing,i really miss going to the track to smell the rubber and the fumes,lol.Was better back then,at least there wasnt a bunch of dime-a-dozen econo boxes fart piping around.
That '59 Chevy smoked the '59 Ford!
what is the song in the beg?. and whats the song at 2:09/4:02?
Where did u see the 64 Impala? i only see 62 Chevy Impalas!
who is the music by? i love surf rock.
Music, no. Car sounds, yes!
Oops! Right, I've been spoiled by the digital age.
Plowed snow on the side of the track.
what is the song name?
Great film..!! The blue dragster appears to be the Kulp-Nocentino-Van "Outlaw" out of Bristol PA. If so, I believe the engine and chassis were built by Jack Kulp not Dragmaster. Any chance I could get a copy of this DVD? My late father was Jack Kulp the owner/builder of the Kulp-Nocentino-Van "Outlaw". I'm always looking for memorabilia involving my Dad. Thanks.
Great film! You have some rare footage of a Dragmaster dragster- the blue 'slingshot' dragster uses a custom frame/chassis from Dode Martin and Jim Nelson-the dragmasters. (see the current issue of Rodders Journal for more about them.) I just interviewed them last week for a tv/film project-(www.vintageventuremedia.com) They would enjoy seeing this great old footage! Thanks for sharing!
they put a piece of blue plywood on the front as an airfoil if you do wheelies you loose the race
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thats a good video but its not 1962 cos theres a 64 impala
Hello, I am working on a documentary about vintage drag racing and looking for authentic footage. Is there anyway you could put me in contact with the owner of this footage? I would love to use it with their permission.
Would like to see it with any original sound?
no sound on 8mm
I agree, but then you'd be like 74 years old now and would stink.
LOSE the music! Let's hear the engines!