Sammy Miller blows out the windows of the control tower at Santa Pod in 1982
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- Sammy Miller had tweaked the rocket in Vanishing Point to try and beat the 3.7 second rocket car record of Kitty O'Neil. He only managed a 4.73 but succeeded in shattering virtually every window pane in Santa Pod's control tower!!! timetraveldvds.blogspot.co.uk/
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I Saw it live, bloody deafening. I remember Dave Lee Travis being there he was there racing. He also judged the wet T shirt competition, lol Happy days.
At least it wasn't Jimmy Saville.
I remember being there and reckon that the glass hit the track before he completed the run! Probably the most remarkable sight I have ever seen in motor sport. The bang from the rocket engine produced a huge shock that shattered the windows. Amazing.
+Richard Ings
i was there on an LC
I was 16 years old stood in that crowd,counting down... Than it literally vanished!! Now I am 56 and I have nev er seen anything like it since. ❤
Me too
Miller what a legend...he still has the fastest terminal speed and elapsed time on a drag strip anywhere in the World....he use to stay in the same hotel as us in Wellingborough and we chatted with him on many occasions....and without a shadow of doubt, him, Jim Reed and Dave Grady were three of the nicest guys you're ever likely to meet in drag racing....may they all be resting in peace !.....by the way Miller's fastest time in the 80's at Santa Pod was 3.58 secs elapsed time at 386 mph ,and I was lucky enough to be stood on the banking that day !
+rael1999 I was there too when Sam did the 3.58 standing quarter. If I remember correctly it was a damp meeting where everyone struggled for grip except Sammy. lol
+g7usl ....Yeah lol...of course Sammy didn't need any grip as it's all thrust, apparently the gas produced expands 20,000 times it's volume when it's realised out of the back of the car....I also remember when there was a field of 16 Funny Cars,16 Methanol Dragsters and 16 Methanol Funny Cars all at one meeting and Sammy the Cherry on the cake with his Vanishing Point and Oxygen Cars !
ItzMini Melt Suffering from hydrogen peroxide inhalation? "Allowed" 🤔 You might well be correct in saying there is a speed restriction on JET cars at NHRA tracks/ events. Do not know of any ROCKET cars in action anywhere?
Nobody elsewhere in the world do drag races... So....
@@honumoorea873 ...Err this was in the UK and there are drag racing tracks in Scandinavia, Germany and Australia...as well of course at the home of drag racing the USA.
Saw this live... noise was unbelievable!!! Our machine was doing a 7 second run his was 3!!!!
I was there that day unbelievable, still talk about it today .
I remember the deathly silence after it all occurred, people were in shock !!!
Fake news
I was there that day! Sammy Miller always a crowd pleaser. The Pod in the late 70's and 80's, Happy Days! Just avoid the bogs....
Oh those toilets were terrible. Someone had graffitied " I can't breathe "
How is it possible that I've been in drag racing for my whole life and never heard of this man?
It ran on hydrogen peroxide its banned now. Probably why you haven't heard of him. The banned it not long after that as it had to be kept cold. If it wasn't kept cold everything around it would incinerate in flames. To my knowledge
that brings back many happy memories, loved going to santa pod.
0:18 best exhaust pop ever, pushed him forward a few inches!
What a time to be alive!!
I was there. Once witnessed, never forgotten!
man this is so brilliant to see!, I remember my nan telling me about this particular day and always stuck with me, she took me to Santa Pod every school holiday for years loads of us would go,I never got to see Sammy tho,1 year it was rained off or something like that so I never got to see it, I saw jet cars tho, vampire, scorpion,funny cars Panic,showtime, purple power, TF dragsters,TF dragbikes(my favs)Brian Johnson, I did own a signed large postcard of him,& a signed Mobil 1 Tee shirt liv berstead autograph which I never Took off 😂,loved her 😍😂, great days I'll treasure for ever, I want to Go back to Pod 1 day
I remember Sammy blasting down Miami/Hollywood Dragway and Moroso Motorsports Park in West Palm Beach lots of times, he was always super nice to my son.
I love how the launch caused the camera to glitch
Its so fast, it turns color TV into black and white @ 1:00
Daniel Kim I think it went back in time for a second to the black and white era.
I dont think its the speed. I think its cause it makes a shockwave and the heat
@@Shangledangle was a joke
xD
@@karazami6594 a good 1 :D
I saw this car rip all the sheet metal cladding from the legs of that gantry about 5 years earlier. They obviously didn't learn from it. He did 4.42 seconds on that occasion.
that's just fucked
Remember being there for this like it was yesterday not 33 years ago.
Could well have been here ..I remember standing in the shed behind and the roof flying everywhere..great days
Was in the shed behind him. My mate ended up with grit in his long curly hair. good old days.
I was there that day with my brother and his mate took me to santa pod i was about 22 i am 67 now and its still wow rip sammy miller
It makes me wonder how far away you could safely stand but still feel a significant percussion from that car when he throws the valves open.
For comparison I live 5 miles from Zmax Dragway in Concord NC, And I hear all the top classes run. Top Fuel and Funny Car rattle my shop.
@@mykemech same i live 3 or 4 miles from Santa pod and can hear the dragster. What's great, by the time the sound reaches us, the race has already finished. Lol. I heart the jet car yesterday. Matter of fact. Anyone that isn't a local would assume the government are doing some secret research with rockets nearby lol
Last time I sat in the end stand at Avon Park watching a demo run of a Top Fuel dragster (can't recall who, though) the exhaust pulses nearly scrambled my guts.
I remember it well I was standing on the grassy bank on the right of the strip...very loud but something you don't forget.
I was there that day .. brilliant...a great man Sammy miller..RIP Sammy ..thanks for the memories ❤
I was at a small track in N.C state when I saw my first rocket car, seriously dangerous to be close to the track. You won't even see the car and the bulk of the second you will, your eyeballs experience serious pressure and you hair could get burnt. The "Time Machine" went end over end, just outside the quarter mile sat the roll cage and rocket stripped of all fiberglass and rubber just a pilot, motor and roll cage.
I was lucky enough to see him run at SP
Smashing run.
Slammin' Sammy Miller. I remember him. Love it. Having rocket and jet cars at a race is a good way to learn what is nailed down at the facility and what is not. I recall somewhere (Sacramento, I think) seeing many feet of what was an otherwise sturdy wood fence behind the line topple from rocket blast. That was around the mid 1980's or so, and I believe the Pollution Packer was the car.
My brother says that was Fremont . I remember seeing Dave Anderson in the Pollution Packer at Sacramento too .
And Paula Murphy at Sears Point .
Urban legend has it that one time at Lancaster Drag Strip, there was a jet show and one of the cars blew a tractor trailer off of its wheels as it was going down the thruway.... about a half mile away or so from the track!.. nowadays there is a wall at the front end of the track because of that 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@NCOGNTO So long ago.. but I remember that we were running somewhere in northern/central California when that happened, and clearly visualize the frack running north to south.. so yep.. could have been Fremont since I think their track ran that direction. Did Sacramento run that direction, too?? I know Bakersfield did.. and so did Fresno.
@@FromMyEyesToYours I still make T shirts to celebrate these World's Fastest cars
I remember seeing this in my Guinness book of Records back in the '80s, where it gave top speed, acceleration etc. and saying it made the driver go temporarily blind. Never seen a vid until now, I swore twice 😁
First part lie, last part lie
I think he ran a few times that weekend i was in the viewing area of the tower with my dad i was about 12 i think he ended up in a field on a previous run
I saw that car in Hollywood, Florida. If you blinked, you missed the run. A turbine jet car blew out the windows of the tower in West Palm Bch, Florida also.
So fast you wouldnt even think its real. 😂
That is SICK fast! And that was 1982. Wow.
Was there that day, astounding accelration too. Anyone remember ticket holders had the chance to go to Bedford to see a film. In the film windows in the house blew in by a poltergeist. Everyone burst out laughing and said there's Sammy!
Didn't happen.
The States was a fun place in the 80s. Glad i got to visit it a few times ovsr thay decade
This is actually in the UK at Santa Pod Raceway in Podington.
Remember it well, we were in the pits.
Wow…just wow! Sad we don’t see rocket cars in nowadays
Makes me wonder how fast he could make it if he kept going.
The top speed is about 317 mph
Crazy thing is the number on the side of the car is the year he passed away. What are the chances of that?
It's like literally riding an explosive shock wave. I'd shat my pants, but I'm afraid there isn't time for that before it's over.
How loud is the car in the video?
Utterly brilliant lol
I’d like to thank my neighbor Mr. Hank Kozak for when I was a kid he had this guy bring the car to our block it was freaking amazing I have a picture somewhere
You were only supposed to blow the bladdy doors off
Rocket cars existed in the early 70's
Yeah Sammy built 'Spirit of 76' in the 70's.
A 3.25 second in Netherlands
When and where ? Think it will an 1/8 of a mile which he ran in Holland.
1.06 ANYONE KNOW TED MOULTS NUMBER
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Has this record even bean beaten yet?
Sammy Miller still holds the 1/4 mile ET world record for a drag strip at 3.58 @ 386 mph..
Im not sure the year is correct on this vid..... i started going to the pod as a kid
I remember the double decker bus being blue.... and then white im gonna say mid to late 80s
it is 1982 Richard, it's the September 1982 World Finals meeting
Might be my memory then.... the pod signs look old . n i remember the bus being white and being blue i dont think i started goin till... 85 86
Means i got to see Sammy tho
All I could hear was an explosion.
^^ I was actually here then
father then pulled us off the banks to get his autograph
faster than tesla
Not only was i there living that moment -- i also got Slammin Sammy to sign a framed photo ... would consider parting with .... any offers ??
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Howard Temple-Redshaw
May be an image of 3 people and car
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Howard Temple-Redshaw
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Howard Temple-Redshaw
Any ideas on value --- i guess it could be compared to a signed photo by Donald Campbell ... after his fastest run in Bluebird ??
Ironic that he passed in 2002 in an non car related accident and the number 2002 is printed on the rear quarter maybe we all get hints of our end date just too subtle to realise.
I know it's just coincidental but this happens alot anyway just come across this after a random search for OG dragstrips in uk and this popped up
Crazy man. Thx for mentioning.
I believe that too.
His vanishing point was 2002....
its to bad we cant see a better angle
Why does not everyone on earth know about this.
I have been talking to people all my life and almost nobody knows about this dragster vanishing point !!!!
Why is not every car newpaper writing articles about this amazing car at least once a year !!!!
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5 4 3 2 1.. and the car vanishes
Thats nice haha..
i was there...
No you weren't
Barry Haywood I smell bullshit !!!!!
How the fuck can rubber move a car on pavement that fast? Just insane.
It's not. This car has a jet engine that provides thrust and moves it.
@@marine4lyfe85 Yeah that was kind of a stupid comment
@@yommish It happens to the best of us.
@@marine4lyfe85 Rocket engine, not jet...
1400lbs of thrust pushes both ways lol
Shit and I have a twin rocket engine sat in my garage right now that is 31,700lbs thrust and I'm thinking about putting that on a dragster lol 😆
hope insurance covers it lol
didnt kitty o'neil do a 3.22?
where was it?
Tʜᴇ Gᴀᴍᴇ Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʀ yes he did 380mph in 3.3 second on a drag its the wrold record and his best time
***** no its on a drag track he reach 380mph in 3.3sec. on the 400m (1/4mile)
jesus sons omg. A veyron gets to 60 Mph in 2.5 seconds. Imagine going 6 times faster in roughly the same time! Must be truly face-ripping
......Kitty was a woman and it wasn't on a drag strip. Sammy's is the fastest recorded time on a drag strip.
😆
If I want to watch a jet go pass I'll go to a air field
It's a rocket car, better get yourself off to Cape Canaveral.
Oops 😬🙊,
E X C E L L E N T !! x :)
Sorry Linda - Kitty O'Neil went 3:22 @ 412 MPH - that's an FIA World Record and you can see it on TH-cam at "Kitty O'Neil , Stuntwoman") Not far from the 2's .
No. You won't find her quarter mile time/speed was ever officially ratified by any governing body (either NHRA or FIA) because it did not meet the relevant stipulations. She did set the absolute speed record for a woman driver (a two-way average of 512.71mph) but the FIA only recognises the outright LSR. It doesn't have separate classes by gender.
@@maunsell24 actually , you could have watched the YT video of Kitty O'Neil to see for yourself .
Is Sammys "record" backed up by ANY sanctioning body ?
Kitty's is and I have the FIA records sent to me by Dick Keller (Blue Flame / Speedquest on YT) and it's not "gender based" - it's the Fastest quarter mile ever in the POLLUTION PACKER
@@NCOGNTO I can't find a YT video with the title you mention. Link please.
Furthermore, to my knowledge there is no video footage of her 3.22 run. Even if there were it's not proof of the e.t. Only calibrated timing gear can do that.
What has Kitty's time got to do with POLLUTION PACKER? One iteration of that car was wrecked and its driver Dave Anderson killed at Charlotte Motor Speedway in March 1974. Vern Anderson drove another (a different car) to the FIA record in August of that year at Bonneville. That is listed on the official FIA site. Kitty's claimed e.t. didn't occur until 3 years later. Furthermore I did not say that Sammy's 3.58 was backed up by any sanctioning body. If, as you state, Kitty's figure is an official FIA record why is it not listed by them?
@@maunsell24 here you go - look at 6:28
Did I mention I have the FIA printout from Dick Keller who built Sammy Miller's engines ? And the BLUE FLAME .
Kitty's engine was a Tony Fox rocket in the POLLUTION PACKER
I make T shirts of these cars .
th-cam.com/video/ImpvGrLq5Qs/w-d-xo.html
@@NCOGNTO Thanks for the link. A mere statement in a video commentary is not proof. If the FIA printout you have confirms the 3.22 e.t. then why does it not show up in their OFFICIAL World Record listing for Category C Group TH Class RT Rocket Thrust Propulsion? AFAIK the car she drove to that time was Ky Michaelson's 'Rocket Kat'. It the Fox rocket motor in that car was previously fitted to POLLUTION PACKER that Vern Anderson drove to the FIA official quarter mile WR in August 1974 at Bonneville, so what? It doesn't therefore follow that the FIA somehow recognises her e.t. as the current record.
sorry ..i aint buying it .. f##k the converter theory .. a bust ass junkyard 318 with stock cast worn pistons slapped together against a 700 hp tunnel rammed dynoed 429?..those heads cost $4000 a pair bare .. . the 600 lbs ft number on torque would make that truck blow right by .. .. if Tony won why did Andy pump his fist ? this was an April fool's race...that money got handed right back after the cameras went off
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