That orange multi car hauler is the coolest I've ever seen. Man those were the good ole days of racing. Would have loved to worked with those guys on cars. What a thrill that would have been.
Oh this was Cutting edge technology. Folks these days just use a different type. You can be there today too. Plenty of old 60's and 70's cars around and drag strips are nearly every where.. Folks still fabricate their own stuff too..just a lot easier with the tools and Pre made parts available to the average Joe today. Its just a matter of passion. ; )
"Pure brain no technology" ... ...umm, where do you think the "technology" came from? Itself? It takes just as much brains and ingenuity to win races today as it did back then.
I was a old farm boy who could only dream of a drag car but loved to go to the races at Houston Texas and Victoria and SanAntonio Texas. How times have changed, I'll still take the old days when it was a sport. I'm 75 now but still Young at Heart 😎
This 72 yo man got a real kick out of seeing memories of being an speed infected teen of the day. Many cars from Ohio, where I lived then. These folks would often stay up half the night to assist a fellow racer who might beat them the next day. The trophy isn't as shiny when one gets it on a bye run.
Your teen years looked like great time to be a young man; more social and less complicated. Wrenching on cars was probably alot more fun too. I'm 31 and videos like this sometimes make me wonder what I missed being born a generation or two later. Thanks for the insight
@@HulkSmash86 You only miss what you never tried..Get out there and play with an old car. Its never too late. I was 35 before I took my first ride in a purpose built vehicle..I have built a few of my own in the last 13 years. Just do it.
I grew up a few miles from Detroit Dragway. Spent a lot of time out there in the 60's. Saw a lot of big name racers out there. Lots of fun for not a lot of money.
When I was 11, my dad took me to that Oklahoma City race in 1959. I remember the Dragliner and the Green Monster. Dad drove a D/Gas 55 Chevy at the local tracks around Colorado Springs, CO.
I'm an old fart that was racing back in 1968. I sure do miss the simplicity of those days along with the friendship of the fellow racers regardless of their brand preference. The average guy had a chance to enjoy success back then because there were loads of small drag strips around and those goof balls with their million dollar race cars weren't there to shut everybody down week after week. As with most sports today, it's not about the guy who has the brilliant imagination and who is willing to work on his car every night till 1 am then go to his regular job the next day, it's about the rich guy who can buy the best equipment and have other people build their car for them. Then have the audacity to plaster their name all over the car as if they built it.
I couldn't agree more, Charles. All the real fun and authenticity are gone now because now it's all about who's got the deepest pockets(Corporations), not about the little guy on a budget, who can truly think outside the box.
I wasn't around yet but when I was a teenager in the late 80s my older brothers and friends and I would go to some of the local tracks and travel to others around the country in a74 Chevy suburban 454 and a 77 Dodge crew cab 440 no air windows down with the coolers of sandwich and Pop in the vehicle's with all are tools and a couple clean pair of underwear and socks not much we didn't need much. One car was a 1940 Willys pickup truck with an Oldsmobile motor and a Chrysler rear end and the other car was a Henry J with a 392 Hemi hillborn injection out of a race boat and all the cars were very rough shape but they ran good we didn't care what they look like.. I'll never forget them times in my life they where the best.. we had so much fun with very little money.. we we're at a track in Colorado and one of the trucks over heated in the mountains and it seemed at the time everyone that was at the track that day either helped us fixed it or loaned money for parts offered tools to help us get back on the road.. and and we ask for their address and phone numbers so when we got back home we could mail them money for helping us out with the parts and stuff and not one person was worried about it it was like we we're all family.. now all the local tracks are gone.. but I got them memories priceless
William Charles when my friends and I where teenagers going to the track we would look up to you guys. You set examples and we learned from your generation.. it was fun now the kids after me don't have that my generation can't afford it or the tracks are gone. There's nowhere for them to go. So our youth is missing out on alot
There are plenty of brackets that you can race in that don't require millions of dollars. Go play in the 13's and see how consistent you are. Just because you have done it in the past and then moved up, is no reason you can't move back down a bracket. You sound like a buddy of mine that refuses to watch anything that isn't burning Nitro, just not drag racing to him.
What a great old movie, from a simpler time when men where men and could do what we want and be respected for it. Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed it.
When I was 13. We used to hang out during the summer (1963) weekend drags at the Tri-Cities airport, in Endicott, NY and hitchhike as the vars came out to the main road, and hoped they'd give us a ride. We frequently did! Those old vettes and street Gassers were really something!
I was 4 years old in 1959. We lived near Plainville, Conn. I heard the sound of the dragstrip every night. This film hits it out of the ballpark. The only thing the producers missed was the use of Rocknroll instrumentals instead of the strings and parade music.
WOW! Nobody was standing around poking and swiping at a smart phone the whole time. They just talked to each other face to face. Bet the food back then was much better also...
the 50's will always be the best era. Best hot rods, best cars, cool music, women were women, men were men, people had manners and respect for others, no drugs..........
@@cooldaddy2877 No, and neither did about 280,000 citizens that overdosed from Heroin, Amphetamine Cocaine and Barbiturates between 1952 and 1958.... Plus the use of LSD, Mushrooms and Marijuana were a normal thing for the hipsters of the day. Just because You didn't know them doesn't mean they weren't High as a kite.. Lenny Bruce should ring a bell at least.
@@redneckhippiefreak Thought so. Drugs were extremely extremely rare back then and you certainly couldnt get them on every street corner like today. Typical revisionist.
awesome old film and footage. these people are all true ledgends of the sport. back to basics stuff. not like now where you need big bucks or your wasting your time. thanks for posting.
You have to imagine where you would SEE these films....Indoor Custom car shows, a curtained display space, folding chairs and ash trays. You could hear the racing while waiting in line to sit inside the curtained area. A thrill as a kid.
so funny, I grew up late '60s, early '70s in the muscle car heyday, i've driven a 1972 lightly modified 1972 440 RT Charger to a 13.2 in the quarter mile, quite a feet in the day, and now we have Hellcats and such capable of 10s from the dealer........this is great, but the cars look sooooooooo slow, love this
God, I wonder if any of these guys are still alive!!! It'd be amazing to talk to them about all of this stuff!! If I had a time machine, I'd be back in the 50's for sure!
Not very many around. One of Holman Moody's mechanic machinist managers lives by me he is 84 looks 60 very sharp. Quit the racing business and opened a Diesel shop in Key Largo fl.
Wow, thanks for this dude! I got a box of HotRod magazines still from highschool. Just posted vinyl originals from 1946 of my grandpa with old family pics too, if yer bored? Old Car slideshow too...
For sure, i get a kick out of the modern no prep/outlaw racing, but theres nothing like the late 50s/early sixties era! Real gasser, recap slicks,airplane engines, slingshot dragsters, and every motor/power adder combo you could imagine! Ive even seen some pictures of a group that took a 327 and made it reverse flow, breathing through side drafts on the exhaust ports and shooting exhaust out the intake side! Back before you could basically buy a race motor off the shelf what your team could do as far as engineering was everything.
dont know, im not an engineer lol but heres some photos www.google.com/search?safe=strict&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=979&ei=dyq9W5mGE8-ItQW6-JCIDA&q=reverse+flow+sbc&oq=reverse+flow+sbc&gs_l=img.3..0i30.1038.5593..6060...0.0..0.66.870.16......2....1..gws-wiz-img.....0..0j35i39.tvkx32Q_gzw
I miss the smell of leaded gasoline that was back in the day they had a different sound a different smell and open trailers pulled by a pick up truck nobody has opened trailers anymore that was the fun of it back then going to the races and seeing the cars heading to the track to because nobody had enclosed trailers I used to get there early and watch the cars coming in the pits and wondering who's going to show up and who's the heavy hitters coming in that was the 70s at atomic speedway Chillicothe Ohio I miss those days
I know right !!.. most of these guys were ex military.. o-ringed blocks and heads were a take away from aviation I'd imagine. Also.. that cam he pulled out was a Solid Roller !!.. talk about cutting edge.
To hear the announcer tell it at that track it seems speed thru the traps is what it's all about and ET time is secondary. When my generation raced in the fifties it was ET, ET, ET, and top speed was just interesting.
Yeah the hypocrites just moved it into other people's countries under the guise of a green America. So now they wonder why all the crime in the cities, where there once was an economy that thrived and people had work. The elites Right wing or left wing don't give a crap about the earth, they Love money. Sleepy Joe has interest and money coming from his Ukraine oil business. You know, the big guy. Consider this. How much oil, gas and burnt rubber fumes did Garlits and guys Like these here smell and bathe in daily? some are still alive in their 80s and 90s.
therockkkkher I just moved from Texas to Oklahoma in the heart of Native American territory and have learned that true native Americans and their history is truly unknown by the rest of “America”. Yeah btw I heard the native Americans statement in the video and thought the same things.
I used to work at my local drag track. I gotta be honest. Drag racing itself isn't all that interesting to me. But the people. They're some of the nicest, funniest, smartest, most helpful, and generally well rounded people I've ever met. Some of em can be a little on the extreme end sometimes. But for the most part. They're honestly some pretty awesome people. They do get quite rowdy tho. Lol. My family worked there long before me and they knew the owners pretty well. We would stay for some of the after parties sometimes with them and some of the drivers. Especially on big weekends. Man. They party HARD... Lol.
Cool film. I was fortunate at age 16 to attend the Kansas City Nationals. Went pretty early in the a.m.. Took two pictures of the Arfons sleeping on cots in the pits next to their two dragsters. Over time the pictures were lost. Somewhere I do have a picture of the track crew putting up the startline banner before race day..
58 thumbs down Im sure 58 millennials who got tired from just watching people physically work it just scared the hell out of them and the thought of just having to talk to another human put them over the edge
I'd rather any day run my old school cars and turn a wrench to gain a tenth than push buttons on a lap top.... ran my first 9sec in 1987 huge back then. My first 8 was in the 90s and now in the 7s and looking at 6s all old school.
as soon as the time machine is invented, this is were I will be.....everyone here has muscular arms, and is skinny or average! but im more into this AMERICAN MADE machines!
Its cool looking at all the classic daily drivers, but i wonder if they were ignoring them like I would be ignoring some 2018 ford in the parking lot at a modern event
Can't wait till my two nhra cars are finished that raced in all the big nhra races one is a 1965 slinger top fuel alcohol dragster that has raced in 4 major national nhra races but the guy who owned it and drove it just did it for fun and as a hobby and didn't have the money to run and be as fast as the top guys in the top fuel class and funny car classes thats why i was able tk get them so cheap cause he wasnt a famous driver from back then and if he was a famous top fuel driver from.back then o woildnt be able to afford or even get a hold of cars like the ones I got. I paid 4500 for the top fuel car as a complete roller minis motor only and the funny car was a complete roller body and all and all it needed was a engine as well and the paint work and everything was still in great shape just slightly faded and looks aged but it looks good with no rust it just shows it's age like any paint job would when kept in a garage for years and years and never sat outside so I left the body and paint work alone cause it's truly a time capsule of nhra drag racing. I have a Chevy 410 c.i motor on alcohol in the funny car making 670 HP and the top fuel car has a 400 c.i 790 HP alcohol motor with a blower but I have a big pulley on the blower to limit the power cause it's sketchy going 180-200 mph down the track in a vintage top fuel car and I don't wanna wear out the engines fast as well cause it took me 5 years to slowly build and acquire all the new parts to afford to build the motors at 22k for the top fuel engine and 12k for the funny car engine. The funny car engine was way cheaper cause I got it as a complete running motor the way it is now except it just needed a refresh so I paid 4500 for the motor and then had it rebuilt and put a bigger cam and better heads on it. It it's a blast driving these time capsules on open track nights at the local 1/4 mile strip and do some grudge races against fast modern dragsters with same type or close to same HP numbers as mine and I race them a few times a year in a heads up vintage drag racing series where we race just for a trophy and no points and the pay out of you win is only 1k dollars of you end up winning the last race. And if you make it to the top 10 out of 36 cars in the series they give you the registration fee money back and they give you 2 gallons of fuel for free for the next event which is nice and if you travel more then 300 miles to go to a race event in the vintage series they pay for your fuel for the truck/hauler that you use to get car to the track with a receipt or receipts proving what you spent on diesel or gas to get to the track and they have hotel sponsors that give us drivers free rooms for the weekend if needed and we don't have to pay registration fees of you travel that far or further
WOW JUST WOW! When did they start prepin the track? Maybe im looking at it wrong but it looked like a gearbox bolted to the timing cover side of the block? Those intake manifolds were crazy too, very low profile.
Times like these, you just wish it would never change! Great times!
Glad the leaded gas is gone though.
This brings back good memories of the Fremont drag strip in California, when life was simple and people were normal. I wish we were back in this time
This was very refreshing to watch... If only we could go back to those days.
That orange multi car hauler is the coolest I've ever seen. Man those were the good ole days of racing. Would have loved to worked with those guys on cars. What a thrill that would have been.
Pure brain 🧠 no technology
Real masters of mechanics no computer 💻 pure passion for cars 🚙
I wish I was there
Oh this was Cutting edge technology. Folks these days just use a different type. You can be there today too. Plenty of old 60's and 70's cars around and drag strips are nearly every where.. Folks still fabricate their own stuff too..just a lot easier with the tools and Pre made parts available to the average Joe today. Its just a matter of passion. ; )
"Pure brain no technology" ...
...umm, where do you think the "technology" came from? Itself?
It takes just as much brains and ingenuity to win races today as it did back then.
Wish we could go back to them days and keep America great.
I was a old farm boy who could only dream of a drag car but loved to go to the races at Houston Texas and Victoria and SanAntonio Texas. How times have changed, I'll still take the old days when it was a sport. I'm 75 now but still Young at Heart 😎
This 72 yo man got a real kick out of seeing memories of being an speed infected teen of the day. Many cars from Ohio, where I lived then. These folks would often stay up half the night to assist a fellow racer who might beat them the next day. The trophy isn't as shiny when one gets it on a bye run.
Your teen years looked like great time to be a young man; more social and less complicated. Wrenching on cars was probably alot more fun too. I'm 31 and videos like this sometimes make me wonder what I missed being born a generation or two later. Thanks for the insight
@@HulkSmash86 You only miss what you never tried..Get out there and play with an old car. Its never too late. I was 35 before I took my first ride in a purpose built vehicle..I have built a few of my own in the last 13 years. Just do it.
In many ways the most exiting days of drag racing, before the big bucks took hold of the sport. I love this movie !
I grew up a few miles from Detroit Dragway. Spent a lot of time out there in the 60's. Saw a lot of big name racers out there. Lots of fun for not a lot of money.
When I was 11, my dad took me to that Oklahoma City race in 1959. I remember the Dragliner and the Green Monster. Dad drove a D/Gas 55 Chevy at the local tracks around Colorado Springs, CO.
I'm an old fart that was racing back in 1968. I sure do miss the simplicity of those days along with the friendship of the fellow racers regardless of their brand preference. The average guy had a chance to enjoy success back then because there were loads of small drag strips around and those goof balls with their million dollar race cars weren't there to shut everybody down week after week. As with most sports today, it's not about the guy who has the brilliant imagination and who is willing to work on his car every night till 1 am then go to his regular job the next day, it's about the rich guy who can buy the best equipment and have other people build their car for them. Then have the audacity to plaster their name all over the car as if they built it.
I couldn't agree more, Charles. All the real fun and authenticity are gone now because now it's all about who's got the deepest pockets(Corporations), not about the little guy on a budget, who can truly think outside the box.
I wasn't around yet but when I was a teenager in the late 80s my older brothers and friends and I would go to some of the local tracks and travel to others around the country in a74 Chevy suburban 454 and a 77 Dodge crew cab 440 no air windows down with the coolers of sandwich and Pop in the vehicle's with all are tools and a couple clean pair of underwear and socks not much we didn't need much. One car was a 1940 Willys pickup truck with an Oldsmobile motor and a Chrysler rear end and the other car was a Henry J with a 392 Hemi hillborn injection out of a race boat and all the cars were very rough shape but they ran good we didn't care what they look like..
I'll never forget them times in my life they where the best.. we had so much fun with very little money.. we we're at a track in Colorado and one of the trucks over heated in the mountains and it seemed at the time everyone that was at the track that day either helped us fixed it or loaned money for parts offered tools to help us get back on the road.. and and we ask for their address and phone numbers so when we got back home we could mail them money for helping us out with the parts and stuff and not one person was worried about it it was like we we're all family.. now all the local tracks are gone.. but I got them memories priceless
William Charles when my friends and I where teenagers going to the track we would look up to you guys. You set examples and we learned from your generation.. it was fun now the kids after me don't have that my generation can't afford it or the tracks are gone. There's nowhere for them to go. So our youth is missing out on alot
There are plenty of brackets that you can race in that don't require millions of dollars. Go play in the 13's and see how consistent you are. Just because you have done it in the past and then moved up, is no reason you can't move back down a bracket.
You sound like a buddy of mine that refuses to watch anything that isn't burning Nitro, just not drag racing to him.
Check out the 9 sec Buick GS! Lifts the Beast off the ground! U.S.A.
What a great old movie, from a simpler time when men where men and could do what we want and be respected for it. Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed it.
95 years "amazing" great story , great people ... great work
"On any sunday" watch it. Love this. I'm a younger gen-x and this was my jam growing up. We rocked a 67 charger.
I sure miss the Detroit drag way.
The commercials still burnt in my head. ......Sibley at Dix !!
When I was 13. We used to hang out during the summer (1963) weekend drags at the Tri-Cities airport, in Endicott, NY and hitchhike as the vars came out to the main road, and hoped they'd give us a ride. We frequently did! Those old vettes and street Gassers were really something!
😍I love going back to this video and watching time and time again! 👍
Hands down one of the best videos I've ever seen on TH-cam
I was 4 years old in 1959. We lived near Plainville, Conn. I heard the sound of the dragstrip every night. This film hits it out of the ballpark. The only thing the producers missed was the use of Rocknroll instrumentals instead of the strings and parade music.
WOW! Nobody was standing around poking and swiping at a smart phone the whole time. They just talked to each other face to face. Bet the food back then was much better also...
The food WAS better and a heck of a lot CHEAPER. : - )
the 50's will always be the best era. Best hot rods, best cars, cool music, women were women, men were men, people had manners and respect for others, no drugs..........
Hit the nail on the head there, Cool Daddy!
"No Drugs" If only that were true..
@@redneckhippiefreak Did you live through the 50's and 60's?
@@cooldaddy2877 No, and neither did about 280,000 citizens that overdosed from Heroin, Amphetamine Cocaine and Barbiturates between 1952 and 1958.... Plus the use of LSD, Mushrooms and Marijuana were a normal thing for the hipsters of the day. Just because You didn't know them doesn't mean they weren't High as a kite.. Lenny Bruce should ring a bell at least.
@@redneckhippiefreak Thought so. Drugs were extremely extremely rare back then and you certainly couldnt get them on every street corner like today. Typical revisionist.
awesome old film and footage. these people are all true ledgends of the sport. back to basics stuff. not like now where you need big bucks or your wasting your time. thanks for posting.
So weird watching a video about cars that doesn't have electronic music. :O
You have to imagine where you would SEE these films....Indoor Custom car shows, a curtained display space, folding chairs and ash trays. You could hear the racing while waiting in line to sit inside the curtained area. A thrill as a kid.
Man all the different cars are amazing.
This is great, I love these old car documentaries!
1959,? Ancient! Famous people, before they were famous! Great video!
Grew up At Old Dominion Speedway, Sure miss it these days. 😢😢
Days gone by you can only dream about now. Love this video. Thanks for sharing your video.
When America was America, and racing was racing.
Seeing them on 66 brought back many a good memory.
Love their crew cuts
A reflection of simpler times...
I missed the best era there will ever be by one generation
TheArcAsylum : @ least your brilliant enough to know and admit it.
Man you got that RIGHT!!! BUT I didn't from 64 -70 I was there, Stone,Woods Cook, the crazy AA Fuel Alt's. Then AA fuel Dradst
We are the lucky ones. Many who made this possible, died in WW-1, WW-2, and Korea. Thank God we live in the USA and thank God for President Trump.
AMEN, Craig!
so funny, I grew up late '60s, early '70s in the muscle car heyday, i've driven a 1972 lightly modified 1972 440 RT Charger to a 13.2 in the quarter mile, quite a feet in the day, and now we have Hellcats and such capable of 10s from the dealer........this is great, but the cars look sooooooooo slow, love this
God, I wonder if any of these guys are still alive!!! It'd be amazing to talk to them about all of this stuff!! If I had a time machine, I'd be back in the 50's for sure!
Not very many around. One of Holman Moody's mechanic machinist managers lives by me he is 84 looks 60 very sharp. Quit the racing business and opened a Diesel shop in Key Largo fl.
The tow wagon is awesome! This is what good music sounds like.
Wow, thanks for this dude! I got a box of HotRod magazines still from highschool. Just posted vinyl originals from 1946 of my grandpa with old family pics too, if yer bored? Old Car slideshow too...
One tow car and trailer, today it would be 2 or three semi trucks with the driver and crew flying in.
I live in Dayton, Ohio and to see Ohio George Montgomery on here was a treat he's a friend of the family.
Fantastic. So easy living then.
Thanks for the memories.
Sweet...! I grew up in Santa Ana, California...home of the SCTA....
Imagine! Meeting up without the use of a cell phone! LOL
Sweet Willys! THANKS for posting! :)
Twisted cam lifter @ 18:00, took off the pan to check it?!?! I like the front-drive blower, those were the days!
The wagon is so beautiful 😍
The white t shirts and coveralls are killing me
Where can I get some of this music? It's cool
Wow. No burnouts. 170mph and no parachutes. Awesome stuff.
i was thinking some one could have made some type of tire heater for that air plane engine car burning the buallies all the way down the track.
bustin justin Yea we were crazy.. I am the guy who drove the Red 41’ Willy’s I’m on Scot’s phone.
Huge shiny brass balls...LOL
who would dislike this video ? thanks for posting it
Interesting to see how the world of drag racing was when I was three weeks old.
The green pickup is a 1957. The semi with the car trailer is a 58 or 59. Given that this movie is from 1959, these were well-financed teams.
Thanks for posting this!!!
This makes me wish i was born in the usa in the 30's, so i could join the car culture community back then.
Man i wish i was around back then, those were the days!
This was a high tech video back in 1959.
If only drag racing was still like this.........
For sure, i get a kick out of the modern no prep/outlaw racing, but theres nothing like the late 50s/early sixties era! Real gasser, recap slicks,airplane engines, slingshot dragsters, and every motor/power adder combo you could imagine! Ive even seen some pictures of a group that took a 327 and made it reverse flow, breathing through side drafts on the exhaust ports and shooting exhaust out the intake side! Back before you could basically buy a race motor off the shelf what your team could do as far as engineering was everything.
@@barneymiller7894 why would the do that? intake cfm need to be higher than exhaust cfm
dont know, im not an engineer lol but heres some photos www.google.com/search?safe=strict&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=979&ei=dyq9W5mGE8-ItQW6-JCIDA&q=reverse+flow+sbc&oq=reverse+flow+sbc&gs_l=img.3..0i30.1038.5593..6060...0.0..0.66.870.16......2....1..gws-wiz-img.....0..0j35i39.tvkx32Q_gzw
Funny how this is a popular style people use today in documentary film making. Some things never change.
I miss the smell of leaded gasoline that was back in the day they had a different sound a different smell and open trailers pulled by a pick up truck nobody has opened trailers anymore that was the fun of it back then going to the races and seeing the cars heading to the track to because nobody had enclosed trailers I used to get there early and watch the cars coming in the pits and wondering who's going to show up and who's the heavy hitters coming in that was the 70s at atomic speedway Chillicothe Ohio I miss those days
Saw three race cars on open trailers about two weeks ago. One was a Chevy II, a Camaro and a Anglia. I was in heaven!
Wow, I had to idea they were doing O-ringed heads in 59.
I know right !!.. most of these guys were ex military.. o-ringed blocks and heads were a take away from aviation I'd imagine. Also.. that cam he pulled out was a Solid Roller !!.. talk about cutting edge.
Notice how the blower is directly mounted to the crank. Very interesting, I have never seen that done before and I wonder why they don't do it now.
Dave Brittain to be honest I am amazed they don't have it 8n that location. But most likely complexity during services
Those were the days!!!!!!!
It’s like drag week in a since most are trailered but they drove track to track with out all the big equipment
The very first picture shows a v-10 with a disconnected header. Why?
To hear the announcer tell it at that track it seems speed thru the traps is what it's all about and ET time is secondary. When my generation raced in the fifties it was ET, ET, ET, and top speed was just interesting.
Crazy how primitive drag racing was or auto racing in general.
Note the smog when the convoy crosses the bridge in St Louis. Some things have got better.
Yeah the hypocrites just moved it into other people's countries under the guise of a green America. So now they wonder why all the crime in the cities, where there once was an economy that thrived and people had work. The elites Right wing or left wing don't give a crap about the earth, they Love money. Sleepy Joe has interest and money coming from his Ukraine oil business. You know, the big guy. Consider this. How much oil, gas and burnt rubber fumes did Garlits and guys Like these here smell and bathe in daily? some are still alive in their 80s and 90s.
He said "weather was beginning to look a little on the threatening side". Then it started to rain. Its not smog. Fog.
I wonder how much these racers could improve their ETs with just today's tire technology.
A bunch, but it all works together.
Ahhhhhh , The good old days
I have now found to coolest video on TH-cam..
Love the historic hot rods
11 thumbs down? This is Priceless.
therockkkkher
I just moved from Texas to Oklahoma in the heart of Native American territory and have learned that true native Americans and their history is truly unknown by the rest of “America”. Yeah btw I heard the native Americans statement in the video and thought the same things.
Yeah that will be kid's that can't stop looking at phones and laptop's & live in a games world.
At the pace they were driving to the track it must have taken a month. Who was the announcer at the Detroit race?
if this was how it really was ( when i was 1 year old') then i want to go back but be 18 years old!
Yep Must Have Been Fun !!! To Bad It Is'nt That Simple Today Good Ol Comeradery !!!
I used to work at my local drag track. I gotta be honest. Drag racing itself isn't all that interesting to me. But the people. They're some of the nicest, funniest, smartest, most helpful, and generally well rounded people I've ever met. Some of em can be a little on the extreme end sometimes. But for the most part. They're honestly some pretty awesome people. They do get quite rowdy tho. Lol. My family worked there long before me and they knew the owners pretty well. We would stay for some of the after parties sometimes with them and some of the drivers. Especially on big weekends. Man. They party HARD... Lol.
just send me back in time to there,,, the things i would do to a small block chevy,,, hahaha
👌😂👍aaahhhh I can see grampa Munster on the track his Dracula!
Wow what a time in life👍
You can have all my stuff if i could go back to socal in this time. I would start over from scratch. U can have my iphone.
What's really cool is Phil Parker's son found the exact Willys he races in this video. Phil Parker is now refurbing it. flic.kr/p/24ovYuR
Cool film. I was fortunate at age 16 to attend the Kansas City Nationals. Went pretty early in the a.m.. Took two pictures of the Arfons sleeping on cots in the pits next to their two dragsters. Over time the pictures were lost. Somewhere I do have a picture of the track crew putting up the startline banner before race day..
The glory days.
Was this meet during the NHRA nitro ban?
I was born too late. I should been born in the 30s so I could've been here in my 20s.
58 thumbs down Im sure 58 millennials who got tired from just watching people physically work it just scared the hell out of them and the thought of just having to talk to another human put them over the edge
I'd rather any day run my old school cars and turn a wrench to gain a tenth than push buttons on a lap top.... ran my first 9sec in 1987 huge back then. My first 8 was in the 90s and now in the 7s and looking at 6s all old school.
Arti Arfonzz and his green monster... And 25 years later he would have his green monster tractor with a helicopter jet engine
izzy, Art Arfons was ingenuity personified. He wasn't a trained engineer, he was
entirely self-taught. Genius.
C/G -A 1955 chevy 2dr sedan with a straight front axle and a 301 V-8 with dual quads
When i was young I would borrow my dad's car and he would say "No Hotroding" :)
I grew up with an ex top fuel funny car and top fuel dragster owner/driver as a family friend.
Where's the munster Koach?
as soon as the time machine is invented, this is were I will be.....everyone here has muscular arms, and is skinny or average! but im more into this AMERICAN MADE machines!
Its cool looking at all the classic daily drivers, but i wonder if they were ignoring them like I would be ignoring some 2018 ford in the parking lot at a modern event
Looked like a couple of 32 coupes in the bunch. Our hired man used to drive one. Often wondered what happened to it.
Yep, i believe the Parkers brown coupe was a 32
Can't wait till my two nhra cars are finished that raced in all the big nhra races one is a 1965 slinger top fuel alcohol dragster that has raced in 4 major national nhra races but the guy who owned it and drove it just did it for fun and as a hobby and didn't have the money to run and be as fast as the top guys in the top fuel class and funny car classes thats why i was able tk get them so cheap cause he wasnt a famous driver from back then and if he was a famous top fuel driver from.back then o woildnt be able to afford or even get a hold of cars like the ones I got.
I paid 4500 for the top fuel car as a complete roller minis motor only and the funny car was a complete roller body and all and all it needed was a engine as well and the paint work and everything was still in great shape just slightly faded and looks aged but it looks good with no rust it just shows it's age like any paint job would when kept in a garage for years and years and never sat outside so I left the body and paint work alone cause it's truly a time capsule of nhra drag racing. I have a Chevy 410 c.i motor on alcohol in the funny car making 670 HP and the top fuel car has a 400 c.i 790 HP alcohol motor with a blower but I have a big pulley on the blower to limit the power cause it's sketchy going 180-200 mph down the track in a vintage top fuel car and I don't wanna wear out the engines fast as well cause it took me 5 years to slowly build and acquire all the new parts to afford to build the motors at 22k for the top fuel engine and 12k for the funny car engine. The funny car engine was way cheaper cause I got it as a complete running motor the way it is now except it just needed a refresh so I paid 4500 for the motor and then had it rebuilt and put a bigger cam and better heads on it. It it's a blast driving these time capsules on open track nights at the local 1/4 mile strip and do some grudge races against fast modern dragsters with same type or close to same HP numbers as mine and I race them a few times a year in a heads up vintage drag racing series where we race just for a trophy and no points and the pay out of you win is only 1k dollars of you end up winning the last race. And if you make it to the top 10 out of 36 cars in the series they give you the registration fee money back and they give you 2 gallons of fuel for free for the next event which is nice and if you travel more then 300 miles to go to a race event in the vintage series they pay for your fuel for the truck/hauler that you use to get car to the track with a receipt or receipts proving what you spent on diesel or gas to get to the track and they have hotel sponsors that give us drivers free rooms for the weekend if needed and we don't have to pay registration fees of you travel that far or further
Awesome footage but What's with the dorky music in all these old documentaries?
WOW JUST WOW! When did they start prepin the track? Maybe im looking at it wrong but it looked like a gearbox bolted to the timing cover side of the block? Those intake manifolds were crazy too, very low profile.
thats a blower corey
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Good ol' days...
Old school for life