Great times, great sport, fun fun fun. Those of us that are old enough to have been there in person really relate to this stuff. Wish I had a time machine.
I remember (as a 10 year old) getting up early for some test n tune at Colton dragway on the Saturday before for the Winternationals . Then on the way from Colton to Pomona we sheared an axle hub on the trailer and sat on the side of the 10 fwy in Pomona for almost 8hrs. Finally got it fixed and we were lucky to make the show with only one Sunday morning pass. The first round we won but the diggers chute failed to open and ended up on the approach road to Bracket Field airport with too much frame damage to continue. My uncles spent all the time on the dragster and no time on the POS trailer. But I would not trade those days for anything in the world. I still dream of owning a ramp truck after seeing them pass us when we were sitting there on the side of the road with a broken trailer
Great video with some classy haulers. Mostly professionals tho. Wasn't too many little guys in the day that could afford those set-ups. We were always driving ours, then beating them, and hoping they wouldn't break, so we could get home. Love the twilight zone hauler, with the frt of the rail hanging over the cab. American ingenuity at its best. (LOL).
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The sixth one is a neighbor of my cousins, great rig and good people!!
@32 seconds that's the Lagana's family top fueler, "Twilight Zone". Look close. This is modern day. The 18 wheeler rig behind Lagana is the Werner team, with Clay Milican driving. I raced IHRA during that time and watched them come in with their fueler strapped to the ramp truck, motor covered with plastic, parking between 18 wheeler rigs with million dollar sponsors. Bobby Lagana Jr. wanted to be the first top fueler to run 4 seconds off a ramp truck. He was. 2003 at Martin Michigan...making his ramp truck famous...
Thanks for sharing those were some nice haulers
Everything used to be so much cooler and bad ass back in the day
This is so many levels of awesomeness! Thanks for gathering and sharing!!!
LOT OF GREAT MEMORIES....SUPER VIDEO !
Great times, great sport, fun fun fun.
Those of us that are old enough to have been there in person really relate to this stuff.
Wish I had a time machine.
0:34 and 2:19 Lagana's Twilight Zone top fuel on a budget, everyone else had eighteen wheelers they came on a ramp truck ...gotta love an underdog.
I remember (as a 10 year old) getting up early for some test n tune at Colton dragway on the Saturday before for the Winternationals . Then on the way from Colton to Pomona we sheared an axle hub on the trailer and sat on the side of the 10 fwy in Pomona for almost 8hrs. Finally got it fixed and we were lucky to make the show with only one Sunday morning pass. The first round we won but the diggers chute failed to open and ended up on the approach road to Bracket Field airport with too much frame damage to continue. My uncles spent all the time on the dragster and no time on the POS trailer.
But I would not trade those days for anything in the world. I still dream of owning a ramp truck after seeing them pass us when we were sitting there on the side of the road with a broken trailer
I remember as a kid "T.V. Tommy Ivo's" hauler with the two rails and the corvette on top at Fremont....
Great video with some classy haulers. Mostly professionals tho. Wasn't too many little guys in the day that could afford those set-ups. We were always driving ours, then beating them, and hoping they wouldn't break, so we could get home.
Love the twilight zone hauler, with the frt of the rail hanging over the cab. American ingenuity at its best. (LOL).
The sixth one is a neighbor of my cousins, great rig and good people!!
Was that the Lagana's? Did they live in EastChester NY?
@@universalexports6119 You in N.Y. too?
THANKS always had a interest in them 🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷🐺🏁🏁🏁🏁🇺🇸
So many different beautiful color schemes id settle just to have all these trucks and cars in toy size 🤗
Every single one would make great model kit subjects... Are you listening model car companies! These would sell like hotcakes.
2:37 westborn chrysler plymouth grafting a van body to a semi cab''''''''ingenious! great vids count
@32 seconds that's the Lagana's family top fueler, "Twilight Zone". Look close. This is modern day. The 18 wheeler rig behind Lagana is the Werner team, with Clay Milican driving. I raced IHRA during that time and watched them come in with their fueler strapped to the ramp truck, motor covered with plastic, parking between 18 wheeler rigs with million dollar sponsors. Bobby Lagana Jr. wanted to be the first top fueler to run 4 seconds off a ramp truck. He was. 2003 at Martin Michigan...making his ramp truck famous...
2;19 Lagana's next to Doug Herbert's top fuel rig ... Lagana's are with the Capco team now
Now THESE are race cars, not the fiberglass fakes of today where one looks just like the other
Snake and the mongoose are prob my two favorite funny cars I guess cause we had them as hot wheels wen kids
Yep. Remember the old Ed Roth stickers that came in bubble gum cards? All the guys had 'em on their notebooks at school, me included. :)
Some teams need 4 semi's nowadays. This was the time that if you didn't win you might not have enough money to eat.
Guess I'm old, remember seeing triple nickel and the hauler at the track
I remember passing them on the hiway as kid and learning to drive met maney at the tracks
I met Tommy Ivo when I was a kid, still got the signed picture, good looking trucks ! 👍
Omg this is so freekin badazz!!!
Ya baby!..................THE complete package!
Now we’ve got dull colored crew cabs and dull colored aluminum enclosed trailer transporting our cars. I with it was the 70’s. 😔
Some innovative haulers back then,, Like everything else,, simpler & better. Now it's all BS same with NASCAR
:I live down here in FL, near Don Garlits Museum. Nice to go there & see all the funny cars & rails from that era.
I grew up in the wrong years
belissimas maquinas.
Back when trucks weren't computerized crappy dumps
I was born in the wrong time period