NITRO REVIVAL WHY CACKLE?
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The term Cacklefest is one that Steve Gibbs or anyone outside of the NHRA cannot formerly advertise with his Nitro Revival out of trademark reasons, even though he's the one who made the practice famous amongst those celebrating the history of drag racing.
The name might be trademarked, but the practice isn't.
Every year at Gibbs' Nitro Revival, a good number of vintage race cars line the racing surface at Irwindale and participate in the ritual of firing their nitro-burning engines and letting them idle with an occasional throttle whack. They simply sit there and cackle, just like in the good old days.
Video artist Les Mayhew captured the spirit of this practice in a video feature. Turn up the sound, you're going to be mesmerized.
@3:32 hey that's me with AHRE Darin Williams JR! Awesome video Les it was a pleasure meeting you, Darin and Bobby!
Hats off to people like Bill Pitts and Steve and Cindy Gibbs. This was the first nitro revival I attended. It won't be the last!
They do an impeccable job!
@@curtis3653 wish I was there 👍🇦🇺
@@jamieteal2107 oh man it's so awesome! cheers from USA!
Grew up with these cars. Couldn't get enough. Went to 64 Funny Cars at Seattle International Raceway (now Pacific Raceway) and races at Puyallup Raceway Park (now gone) as much as I could. Built models like no tomorrow (still do) And so wish I could go back and stay. Thank you for this Competition Plus TV.
Nice! Bill Doners 64 funny cars at SIR we're on point! I'm too young to remember Puyallup
Thank you CPTV, for spotlighting this endeavor. I've been going to cacklefests for a number of years now, and each one takes me back to 1964 and my first (of many), drag races in Southern California. In addition to building models, and reading drag racing publications, I was listening to Irwindale from my bedroom window on weekend nights. Because it wasn't long distance, I repeatedly called Irwindale and listened to the recorded message about upcoming race weekends. After some begging, and promises made about yard mowing & keeping grades up in school, Dad took me to my first race. Eight top fuel dragsters and eight AA/FA's....on a warm So Cal night. The sights, the sounds, the burnouts, the header flames at night....all of it was just what I had hoped it would be....and I've never left drag racing since that first night (and as soon as I was licensed, I was racing in my 66' Plymouth Valiant). And like the Gibbs say...and its so very true...."young & old, it makes people happy!!!". ✌😎
54/55 Years ago, my first trip to the drags, Irwindale Raceway. Magic! Seems like a few weeks ago sometimes...
@@michaelmiller9483 👍🇦🇺
63 was my 1st. Yr. and 1st. Race was watching S/S and TF at Lion's. Neighbors was racing a 62 409 against Hayden Proffitt and others of the time. fond memories!
Sounds so familiar !!! Thanks Dad.
I met Bill Pitts a couple years ago and got to hang out with him and some other guys with these cars. Great experience. Bill is a great guy. I met Bob Higginson at the GNRS in 2021. Bob did a great job recreating "the Surfers" dragster. These events are the historic equivalent of being able to see and hear stars of the past like John Wayne, or Marilyn Monroe. LOL! God bless these people for restoring or recreating these historic cars.
And Adam Sorokin drives "The Worlds Fastest Small Block Chevy" nostalgia Top Fuel front engine dragster
in SSF's Champion Speed Shop livery carrying on his Dad's legacy. Mike was tragically killed when the clutch
exploded while driving the Surfers fuel dragster in '67. Adam was an infant.
Like he said "Back before you needed a million dollar sponsor" ! That's what's soooo Koool about nostalgia racing, at least so far !
Been going to the drags off and on my whole life since OCIR back in the late 70s to early 80s too! Its the old days that were the funest!
Makes me feel happy! I love the sound of these cars.
Ditto that 👊🇺🇸👍
Chrysler FirePower , the best production V8 ever made ( smh that there is still no aftermarket replacement block ). Thanks for keeping the FirePower lit Fellers !!!
Beautiful....Would love to be there one day...Best Wishes from UK
There is nothing better than a cackle fest my neighbors didn’t care for my dragster starting at home and now due to health problems I only have a 572 on a rack but it still cackles on the rack
The ones with the super slow idle are the best..
Well said, when the average guy could , lost to history now. And thats how life is. thank you for the memories.
There is just something right about the cars drowning out the fireworks. Never been to a cacklefest, but I've been to a number of nostalgia events, especially the early ones in the late 80's to mid 90's, those cars fill the air and my heart with happiness.
Love that kind of music, perfectly tuned and ready to let go.
When Drag Racing was more than just 2 cars spittin' smoke N fire down a 1/4 mile, but a time where it was more about fun, the drivers, character N absolute Chaos! No races where you didn't have to qualify cause there weren't enough cars to have a full field, but instead like 30 fuelers N funny cars vying for 8 or 16 spots. When every driver had an "alter-ego" i.e. the snake, the ace, mongoose, big D, the chizler, the grump and on and on! And Joe Six Pack could actually compete against the pros working on his car all week in the backyard with a few hundred bucks insteada like 40 million or whatever. Today's NHRA would fall flat on its' face if the cars N drivers of the past magically came back. \m/
Engine warm up and wacks were a big part of the thrill back then. Miss those days, warm on alky then switch over to nitro. Always enjoyed 1st timers seeing that. Running on alky it was the loudest thing they ever heard and I'd be like... Wait...Watch...watch... nitro RAP RAP RAP RAP BOOM RAP RAP RAP. I loved it.
Cackle fest and drag racing, the greatest shows on earth!!!!
Lovely stuff, gives me goosebumps!
2023 - yup, it still brings a tear to the eye...
And it ain't from the nitro.
My Dad wasn't a car guy but I got the bug. My Hot Rods started in 1/25th scale and grew from there.
I begged my Dad to take me to Beeline for the Winter Nationals somewhere around '68 - '70. It was the
first time seeing fuel cars. He never became a fan but we were at Manzanita, Phx. Int. Raceway, Firebird,
Tucson, Winslow and even once at Fremont in CA. My sons got the bug with many trips to Bakersfield
for HRR and March Meet. I got to race my oldest at Sears Pt (I let him win LOL) in my '66 Suburban and
he in his low 11's '65 Nova wagon gasser. Nitro rules !!! I can almost smell it.
Awesome when they simulate the dry hop and the car litterly leaps off the ground ready to just scream down the track. I cant tell you how much i love these nostalgia slingshot rails!❤️👍
Guy with the intake scoop hat at about 4:20.......best hat ever :-)
So DOPE I cant get enough of it.....
Nice! I use cacklefests as my tranquility music!🥴
Watching a top fuel dragster cackle is about as much fun as the Special Olympics
@2:52 check out Kenny Youngblood!
❤ The Cackel Fest
Enjoyed the Story.
There's no other sound like a nitro burning motor.
Les is the best
Not a dry eye? that typically happens when exposed to burning nitromethane! it's also followed by burning sinuses,throat and lungs
The Surfers! Yeah,Bob Higginson!!!
Soon enough, when they want to spark some life into the residents of the assisted living facility, I hope someone has the sense to play a Cacklefest Video.
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Why Cackle? Well, I'll tell ya', 1. Because you "CAN', 2. Because you have the fuel and Last but NOT LEAST, 3. You have the MONEY!!!!!!
I hope there was a Swamp Rat there. 😉
Make. A. Pass.
Better than nothing
There ain't no sound like nitro.
Those front engine cars killed a lot of guys I think they're averaging one a month,or more,,
Exaggerate much
At one point, that may not be an exaggeration. It was very dangerous back then, the rule book today is full of improved safety because of the lives lost back in the day.
Incredible the technology we have now…but todays cars lack the mystique of these beautiful and downright sexy vintage cars
@@joen5332 that was at Lions,, I read ,the rest of the country not sure,,,
@@peaceloveandnitrogirl I grew up in that era matter of fact my dad worked on a top feeler out of California and this is what I just read I knew they lost a lot of guys but that was one of one a month was a lot and what I've read that was that lions
@@peaceloveandnitrogirl there was not drivers getting killed once or more a month
Love the sound of the old nitro breathing dragsters....
I keep hoping someone, someday, builds a track in So. Cal.-- Drag Racing is becoming extinct in the place where it all started, & no-one seems to care...
Ain't gonna happen. Irwindale just closed a couple of days ago but we get an exciting new Industrial Park in it's place !!!!!