Good morning, I am a 63 years young die hard Ford guy!! Thank you for sharing this awesome video of two awesome Fords of drag racing history!! It was sad when you mentioned Jim was gone, but the sons are carrying on his legacy!!! Be safe, GOD BLESS!!!
My dad was a Comet & Cyclone fanatic. When I was a teenager, we both had 65 Comets (still have them) my dad found out about Jim’s cars & called him up. We lived a couple towns over & Jim invited us over to his garage.if I recall, plans for heading south were in the works. Not only was Jim one of the coolest guys with fantastic stories & knowledge, he was generous with his time and he gave us 2 of the Cristmans Comet posters. I have one of them right here next to me. Thank you for this story, much of those details have faded in my aging mind.
My dad was a Ford man. He always said the only car he ever owned that he never drove to top endwas a 58 Fairlane with a 352 interceptor engine. He said when you got to 120 mph the front tires started to float up. I remember that car as the family car in 1959. Bright red paint, R.I.P. L.E. Hilliard 😎😘
I seen the 65 Comet on display at the Floyd Garrett muscle car museum in Sevierville Tennessee back in 2005, I was in awe of seeing this car, I had the magazine article telling of the restoration of this car. At that time he was still making exhibition runs in the 65 Comet, good seeing this car again
Unbelievable story!!! These cars were some of my favorites as a kid. Wide world of sports introduced this tennessee kid to the world of drag racing. Thank you so much for sharing.
LOVE the qoute on the memorial poster: "gasoline is for washing parts, alcohol is for drinking, nitrous is for dentists, NITRO is for RACING!! Godspeed Mr Barillaro, quite the Legacy you have left behind, and what a beautiful tribute your sons have made to you. Thanks for sharing HRH!
Jim was a nice guy. I met him in the 80s because he was building a 406 for my friend Bob Costa and we went to his house to see him. I couldn't believe all the Ford stuff he had back then in that barn in CT. I do remember he also had a T bucket that had a Boss 9 in it and then sitting behind the barn was Gas Ronda's original 63,5 lightweight Galaxie and a 69 Mustang funny car that might have been Mickey Thompsons. There was also a bunch of other cars spread around the property. Thanks for the video. brings back memories.
Just came across this video and it brought tears to my eyes. Jim was my uncle. My family lived in Madison, NJ but we spent a lot of time with him and our cousins in CT. THANKS SOO much for this. It just made my day. Brought back many many memories.
I'm pretty sure I met and talked to Jim at a 2006 Ford car show in Phoenix at the Cardinal Stadium. He had both of the Comets there, and I took several pictures of them; especially the '65 with it's radical engine set-back and driver compartment. There were many other heavy hitter Ford drag cars there, it was just the most amazing show I had been to.
Concerning the Jack Chrisman Funny Car. If it's the original body, then my older brother and I made that body at B&N Fiberglass in Vandalia, Ohio. We built 10 bodies together including bodies for Nicholson, Chrisman, Schartman, Don Garlits, Roger Lindamood, Miss STP, and others. I just hated all the itching from sanding the body edges! Glad to see it all together. Ten years later, I was building Funny Car, and TF chassis under Tony Casserez. We did the Blue Max, Don Prudhome's Hot Wheels car, Gene Snow's TF chassis, and the Carrol Bros. TF car. The good old days. I would show up to work in my T-Bucket powered from a retired 426 Chrysler from an A-Fuel Altered (not de-tuned). I can't believe that it didn't kill me! Scarry car!
I drove and raced a 1968 Torino GT Fastback fully pro'ed from 86 to 94 and I knew of his funnycar, I had no idea he had the pair of Comets! I cannot say how happy I am for just this, and I'll be waiting to see the next videos.
I got the honor to meet Jim and heat treat some timing gears for him back around 2007, he was a great guy with plenty of awesome racing stories... R.I.P. Jim
@@arkhsm when I was in high school, I had a catalog from a company called Ozports that restored Australian Falcons and sold them in the u.s. I wanted one so bad.
@@johnmartinii77 That would have made for one RARE piece of kit for sure. I've had a '67, 'two '71's, '87 '89 '95 and have just purchased my '01 just recently. It runs one of the last 302W's ever sold by Ford in the world, hand built by one man on a special niche line. Factory fitted roller rockers, bigger 70mm throttle body, headers, bigger valves in GT40P heads, port matching, head shaved... all by FORD...295hp !!
Great Story! Great pictures of CT Dragway in it's heyday! CT dragway was the first drag strip I ever went to, first place I drag raced at, and I raced at the last official held there. Miss that place!
Right on, my first time at a dragstrip was there in 1970, I was 10 years old. I ran my Sportster there in '82 and never looked back, racing up and down the East Coast for the next 20 years or so. 👍🇱🇷
I remember hanging out at Jim's Speed Emporium on the Chamberlain Hwy back in th day. We were a bunch of gearheads from New Britain learning, wrenching and swapping racing stories at the shop. Every weekend we would head out to Colchester CT to CT Dragway to run what we brung. Those burnouts 🔥🔥 up and down the Chamberlain were good fun and practice, outrunning the Meriden PD over the Berlin town line. 😀
That was an amazing story thank you for sharing it and showing all the old pictures I love Everytime you post some more hotrod history again thank you so much!!!!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video of this Ford drag racer ! He was definitely a passionate Ford fanatic who helped make the world of drag racing so interesting!
If there was ever a car with styling better than a Comet Caliente I don't know what it is. My brother had one and later sold it.....I should have bought it.....darn, darn, darn... I'd give a lot to find one today that I could restore.
I enjoy all of your episodes because it’s part of my history, all of these things bring back a lot of GREAT MEMORIES of a time of high school and being a teenager. Thank you sir!!!!
Love the Comets & the history behind this family.! I still have the original article about Jack Crisman & the GT-1 funny cars. I think it was Car Craft magazine. Thanks for all the research you do to make this one of my favourite channels !
Incredible video ... having met the brothers I can tell you they are really great guys . Thanks for showing the shop and relaying the rich history of this legendary family to those of us who aren't able to see it in person .
Your Nichē is SOL-LID my friend. These story’s would go untold otherwise. Ty for taking ALL the time in researching and producing videos like this. This is akin to what historical Egypt shows do for my wife, WHAT YOUR STORYS DO FOR “CAMMER” Dreamer guys like Me, LIKE US…. 👍🏻
OMG...once again you have done an incredible job, at documenting motorsports history. Jim was no doubt 100% Italian. And it shows in how passionate he was towards all that he loved. God Bless you for sharing this with all of us. JT Florida Dragstrip Riot LLC
I know John Healey's sons. We went to school together in East Providence, Rhode Island, a couple miles away from Tasca Ford. John was quite the mechanic. He travelled the circuit, tuning the Tasca Ford Pro Stock Mustang with Bill Lawton at the wheel. I was just a kid. Bob Tasca was a brilliant mind. Never thought I'd be talking about it on TH-cam, 55 years later.
I remember going into a speed shop in Lynnwood, WA. On display was a Ford 427 Cammer WITH twin turbos (keep in mind) those turbos were huge not like todays turbo (s). Anyway, including the twin turbos that engine was really really wide (both turbos were mounted off to the side if the front of the heads) could not believe how wide the engine was. I asked the guy at the parts counter if the engine was ever in a car, he said something like do you really think that thing would fit in any car, no it was used in a boat. Until you personally look at a 427 Cammer, in person, you will not believe what a monster of a engine that thing is; even with no huge ass twin turbos hanging of the side.
back in the 70's in owasso, okla. lived a racing legend in tulsa and beyond was a man named jack tanner. man he knew how to make cars move. he helped many a young dreamer build his car. he had in his garage (bot shop) garage a car built by Ford that was never titled. on fenderwell and firewall was metal I'd tag that said what car was and that it was not built to drive on street and was not issued a title. the car was a white Ford galaxie thunderbolt (I cant remember the year it was, I think it was a 1963, it had a 427 aluminium engine. I was pretty young and tho I was already a car fanatic, I wished I would have paid more attention to everything he told me and my best friend johnny hale (he had a 67 GT fastback 390/4spd) his dad butch got a 70 mach 1 named Tulsa Time. I moved to Florida but kept track of Hale racìng in collinsville, okla. they built some very fast fords. I figured jack tanner name would pop up here, because if his Ford thunderbolt. thanks for the memories
just overwhelming! funny thing is i was just flipping through an old car mag and read a feature on the '65 version of the comet. i still have a hand-me-down hot rod mag with the first (white) version of the car that i read about when i was a little boy in the 70s. bless the memory of jim barillaro.
Great video, excellent camera work and narration,very well done. I am friends with Mr. Barillaro's sons and had the good fortune to meet and talk with him several times. I also get to visit their shop often and see this amazing place up close.
Great video I'm a hard core FORD man sorry your dad as a legend has passed on to the legends of drag yards bless his soul it's a great loss of immaculate knowledge . Thanks for the video .
Good day my friend. What can i say. Your stories and the way you handle all you say are top notch top quality Brother. I've been tuning in your channel and just wonderfully done. Thank you May one day I shake your hand brother. Take care 👍
Those front tires near the end of the video has a connection to Hawaii , if true . Jack Chrisman and his 1964 Comet paid a visit to Hawaii Raceway Park in 1964 . He was brought to the Islands by a local Lincoln / Mercury dealership owned by the late Jimmy Phluger . Phluger also owned the only drag strip on Oahu .
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I’m a Chevy man but I believe we can all admire this 👍👍
Good morning, I am a 63 years young die hard Ford guy!! Thank you for sharing this awesome video of two awesome Fords of drag racing history!! It was sad when you mentioned Jim was gone, but the sons are carrying on his legacy!!! Be safe, GOD BLESS!!!
My dad was a Comet & Cyclone fanatic. When I was a teenager, we both had 65 Comets (still have them) my dad found out about Jim’s cars & called him up. We lived a couple towns over & Jim invited us over to his garage.if I recall, plans for heading south were in the works.
Not only was Jim one of the coolest guys with fantastic stories & knowledge, he was generous with his time and he gave us 2 of the Cristmans Comet posters. I have one of them right here next to me.
Thank you for this story, much of those details have faded in my aging mind.
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+Mr. Twister: Cool post you put up, brother! Well done, sir. You've painted a nice picture of who Jim was, evidently.
My dad was a Ford man. He always said the only car he ever owned that he never drove to top endwas a 58 Fairlane with a 352 interceptor engine. He said when you got to 120 mph the front tires started to float up. I remember that car as the family car in 1959. Bright red paint, R.I.P. L.E. Hilliard 😎😘
you dad was a wise man 🤘🏽🚀
This makes me so happy and so sad at the same, the greats are going away, we need to keep the history alive
At least in this case his sons are carrying tge flag forward and honoring his past and achievements.
I seen the 65 Comet on display at the Floyd Garrett muscle car museum in Sevierville Tennessee back in 2005, I was in awe of seeing this car, I had the magazine article telling of the restoration of this car. At that time he was still making exhibition runs in the 65 Comet, good seeing this car again
Good to see this collection and his history,a true Ford man with Ford motors,nothing angers me more than seening GM sh-t in old Fords
Like that W motor in the coupe up on the hoist, it annoys me too my fellow Southern Hemisphere Ford Fan !!
Unbelievable story!!! These cars were some of my favorites as a kid. Wide world of sports introduced this tennessee kid to the world of drag racing. Thank you so much for sharing.
LOVE the qoute on the memorial poster:
"gasoline is for washing parts,
alcohol is for drinking,
nitrous is for dentists,
NITRO is for RACING!!
Godspeed Mr Barillaro, quite the Legacy you have left behind, and what a beautiful tribute your sons have made to you. Thanks for sharing HRH!
Two of my favorite drag cars of all time ! The Comet and the GT-1, wow !
Jim was a nice guy. I met him in the 80s because he was building a 406 for my friend Bob Costa and we went to his house to see him. I couldn't believe all the Ford stuff he had back then in that barn in CT. I do remember he also had a T bucket that had a Boss 9 in it and then sitting behind the barn was Gas Ronda's original 63,5 lightweight Galaxie and a 69 Mustang funny car that might have been Mickey Thompsons. There was also a bunch of other cars spread around the property. Thanks for the video. brings back memories.
GREAT VIDEO, Thanks...I Needed a Drool cup 10 sec. in...So thats what Heaven looks like.
good job guys
Just came across this video and it brought tears to my eyes. Jim was my uncle. My family lived in Madison, NJ but we spent a lot of time with him and our cousins in CT.
THANKS SOO much for this. It just made my day. Brought back many many memories.
I'm pretty sure I met and talked to Jim at a 2006 Ford car show in Phoenix at the Cardinal Stadium. He had both of the Comets there, and I took several pictures of them; especially the '65 with it's radical engine set-back and driver compartment. There were many other heavy hitter Ford drag cars there, it was just the most amazing show I had been to.
I bought a motorcycle from the twin brothers.... They were such cool guys....
Still have my pictures of those two funny cars from car craft magazines from the mid 60's. The sohc engine was king back then.
Concerning the Jack Chrisman Funny Car. If it's the original body, then my older brother and I made that body at B&N Fiberglass in Vandalia, Ohio. We built 10 bodies together including bodies for Nicholson, Chrisman, Schartman, Don Garlits, Roger Lindamood, Miss STP, and others. I just hated all the itching from sanding the body edges! Glad to see it all together. Ten years later, I was building Funny Car, and TF chassis under Tony Casserez. We did the Blue Max, Don Prudhome's Hot Wheels car, Gene Snow's TF chassis, and the Carrol Bros. TF car. The good old days. I would show up to work in my T-Bucket powered from a retired 426 Chrysler from an A-Fuel Altered (not de-tuned). I can't believe that it didn't kill me! Scarry car!
I drove and raced a 1968 Torino GT Fastback fully pro'ed from 86 to 94 and I knew of his funnycar, I had no idea he had the pair of Comets! I cannot say how happy I am for just this, and I'll be waiting to see the next videos.
I got the honor to meet Jim and heat treat some timing gears for him back around 2007, he was a great guy with plenty of awesome racing stories... R.I.P. Jim
i started a window tinting business 31 yrs ago. my brothers 65 comet was the first car i learned on. awesome video! im 1 hr north of knoxville
66 -70 falcons are my favorite my first car, a 68, I've had since 1986. I've owned 12 falcons. I have a 67 falcon I'm working on now. Love em!
You'd love Aussie then, Falc's built there from '60 to '16 !!
@@arkhsm when I was in high school, I had a catalog from a company called Ozports that restored Australian Falcons and sold them in the u.s. I wanted one so bad.
@@johnmartinii77 That would have made for one RARE piece of kit for sure. I've had a '67, 'two '71's, '87 '89 '95 and have just purchased my '01 just recently. It runs one of the last 302W's ever sold by Ford in the world, hand built by one man on a special niche line. Factory fitted roller rockers, bigger 70mm throttle body, headers, bigger valves in GT40P heads, port matching, head shaved... all by FORD...295hp !!
The urn is so cool👍
I used to see Jim at Ct Dragway, then after when he owned a toy train store. Great guy!!!
AWESOME AWESOME VIDEO !
What a collector of cars and part the two sons are keeping the legacy going good on them 👍🇦🇺
What an incredible story on this racing family. 60-70 years of history. Thanks for showing us this fantastic story. Too cool champion. 👍
Owned a 66 cyclone GT 390 4 speed when I was 17 . Wish that car had survived !
Killer video and a great review of an important piece of Americana Roots drag racing history!
Great Story! Great pictures of CT Dragway in it's heyday! CT dragway was the first drag strip I ever went to, first place I drag raced at, and I raced at the last official held there. Miss that place!
Right on, my first time at a dragstrip was there in 1970, I was 10 years old. I ran my Sportster there in '82 and never looked back, racing up and down the East Coast for the next 20 years or so. 👍🇱🇷
Same here! CT Dragway was my first track too! Sure missing that track everyday. 👍🏁🔥🏁
I remember hanging out at Jim's Speed Emporium on the Chamberlain Hwy back in th day. We were a bunch of gearheads from New Britain learning, wrenching and swapping racing stories at the shop. Every weekend we would head out to Colchester CT to CT Dragway to run what we brung. Those burnouts 🔥🔥 up and down the Chamberlain were good fun and practice, outrunning the Meriden PD over the Berlin town line. 😀
Thanks
That was an amazing story thank you for sharing it and showing all the old pictures I love Everytime you post some more hotrod history again thank you so much!!!!
I met him in his shop and he give me a couple poster it was so cool to see the race car and the engines he had. He was a very nice and cool person.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video of this Ford drag racer ! He was definitely a passionate Ford fanatic who helped make the world of drag racing so interesting!
Great video
Wow. Fabulous!!! Wish I could like more than once.
If there was ever a car with styling better than a Comet Caliente I don't know what it is. My brother had one and later sold it.....I should have bought it.....darn, darn, darn... I'd give a lot to find one today that I could restore.
I enjoy all of your episodes because it’s part of my history, all of these things bring back a lot of GREAT MEMORIES of a time of high school and being a teenager. Thank you sir!!!!
Love the Comets & the history behind this family.! I still have the original article about Jack Crisman & the GT-1 funny cars. I think it was Car Craft magazine. Thanks for all the research you do to make this one of my favourite channels !
He was THE MAN back in the day. Local Boy done good. If you were into Fords his shop was the place to be.
That's awesome. Great story
Thank you for thr video.That Torino looked "tuff"! Or as the kids now say"sick"!
I really love seeing old cars and hearing the history about them
Incredible video ... having met the brothers I can tell you they are really great guys .
Thanks for showing the shop and relaying the rich history of this legendary family to those of us who aren't able to see it in person .
Great vid tommy.
I have an original 1964 copy of hotrod mag with chrismans comet on the cover.
Very nice post . You did a wonderful job on this video . Thanks for taking the time
Your Nichē is SOL-LID my friend. These story’s would go untold otherwise. Ty for taking ALL the time in researching and producing videos like this. This is akin to what historical Egypt shows do for my wife, WHAT YOUR STORYS DO FOR “CAMMER” Dreamer guys like Me, LIKE US….
👍🏻
Thanks for a peek in the shop Mr
Killer collection man
Thanks so much for sharing!
A very rare look into the history of Ford and drag racing. Super cool stories!
OMG...once again you have done an incredible job, at documenting motorsports history. Jim was no doubt 100% Italian. And it shows in how passionate he was towards all that he loved. God Bless you for sharing this with all of us.
JT
Florida Dragstrip Riot LLC
All I can say is wow and thank you so very very much again!
amazing show on here today great job on it stay safe down by you guys
Great stuff 👍👍
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing, me and my Dad are Ford guy's👍 ,got goose bump's from all 427 sohc stuff!! Thanks for sharing their story!!
Amazing story!
Your videos are so cool for us old timers, thanks.
True Ford man all the way to the end in and the stories made it that much better hats off to this arconic Builder
Another great one.
Great video. When the Ford SOHC is mentioned I think of Pete Robinson
I know John Healey's sons. We went to school together in East Providence, Rhode Island, a couple miles away from Tasca Ford. John was quite the mechanic. He travelled the circuit, tuning the Tasca Ford Pro Stock Mustang with Bill Lawton at the wheel. I was just a kid. Bob Tasca was a brilliant mind. Never thought I'd be talking about it on TH-cam, 55 years later.
Very cool, thank you for sharing!
@@HotRodHoarder My pleasure.
Fuck yeah, Connecticut Dragway & John Healy!!!👍Excellent episode as usual, thanks.
I remember going into a speed shop in Lynnwood, WA. On display was a Ford 427 Cammer WITH twin turbos (keep in mind) those turbos were huge not like todays turbo (s). Anyway, including the twin turbos that engine was really really wide (both turbos were mounted off to the side if the front of the heads) could not believe how wide the engine was. I asked the guy at the parts counter if the engine was ever in a car, he said something like do you really think that thing would fit in any car, no it was used in a boat. Until you personally look at a 427 Cammer, in person, you will not believe what a monster of a engine that thing is; even with no huge ass twin turbos hanging of the side.
This is watching video GOLD!
You, Sir, are a National Treasure ......... Thank you for giving us the history of Americana .............. :-)
Nice to see a few of my shots there that Jim got from me years ago.
back in the 70's in owasso, okla. lived a racing legend in tulsa and beyond was a man named jack tanner. man he knew how to make cars move. he helped many a young dreamer build his car. he had in his garage (bot shop) garage a car built by Ford that was never titled. on fenderwell and firewall was metal I'd tag that said what car was and that it was not built to drive on street and was not issued a title. the car was a white Ford galaxie thunderbolt (I cant remember the year it was, I think it was a 1963, it had a 427 aluminium engine. I was pretty young and tho I was already a car fanatic, I wished I would have paid more attention to everything he told me and my best friend johnny hale (he had a 67 GT fastback 390/4spd) his dad butch got a 70 mach 1 named Tulsa Time. I moved to Florida but kept track of Hale racìng in collinsville, okla. they built some very fast fords. I figured jack tanner name would pop up here, because if his Ford thunderbolt. thanks for the memories
Great story 😥
his boys did right by him.........family history is very important .thanks for all you do also for letting us relive the past !!!!!!
I remember seeing the Jack Chrisman Comet at Englishtown back in the 80's doing exhibition runs. That car sounded nasty on nitro!
This is a great video of a great story in the world of Hot Rods and Drag Racing !
Great story! Jim's current Five Window has the best stance of any I've seen. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Thank you twins for keeping up dad's tradition. That is rare these days, so thank you both again.
Thanks for sharing this really cool automotive racing history! It's important that it remains and is not forgotten.
i learned to drive in a 65 comet, it was my dad's car and it was an awesome car
Amazing video man great job
WOW! Amazing collection and story! Thanks for sharing.
Another great video. Thank you
Wish I could hit the like a thousand times. Super video.
just overwhelming! funny thing is i was just flipping through an old car mag and read a feature on the '65 version of the comet. i still have a hand-me-down hot rod mag with the first (white) version of the car that i read about when i was a little boy in the 70s. bless the memory of jim barillaro.
speachless......
Just sweet man.
amazing !!
Another fascinating, well researched, respectfully presented video. Thanks again for your continuous hard work
Thats So COOL. WOW
Another great video! Thanks for the stories and education!
Awesome story!!!
Great episode!! I remember the wheel stander and funny car.
You could spend hours going thru these things!!
Well done/ Nice collection of cool stuff. I only met Jim once back in the late 80's and didn't know of his history.
Great video, excellent camera work and narration,very well done. I am friends with Mr. Barillaro's sons and had the good fortune to meet and talk with him several times. I also get to visit their shop often and see this amazing place up close.
Great video I'm a hard core FORD man sorry your dad as a legend has passed on to the legends of drag yards bless his soul it's a great loss of immaculate knowledge . Thanks for the video .
Fantastic video. You have out done yourself again brother. Thanks so very much!
What an absolute great story mate thanks for sharing that rare piece of drag racing history..✌from Australia
Top notch great job
Good day my friend. What can i say. Your stories and the way you handle all you say are top notch top quality Brother. I've been tuning in your channel and just wonderfully done. Thank you May one day I shake your hand brother. Take care 👍
Thank you for such a classy tribute video.
I always enjoy your visits to the past. Keep it up!
Those front tires near the end of the video has a connection to Hawaii , if true . Jack Chrisman and his 1964 Comet paid a visit to Hawaii Raceway Park in 1964 . He was brought to the Islands by a local Lincoln / Mercury dealership owned by the late Jimmy Phluger . Phluger also owned the only drag strip on Oahu .
Very cool