Thank you for your comments. Just to clear a few thing’s up, we start this car on regular gasoline not alcohol. The driver in this video is a girl. We don’t have straps on our supercharger because they weren’t required in 1969. That is the last time this 1965 car was raced. No, it doesn’t sound like today’s top fuel cars do because it’s almost 60 years old. The little red tank strapped to the frame rail is for the gasoline, there is another tank near the front of the car that has the nitromethane in it. We did not race with the red tank. Hope this helps.😊
@@kne2323From the other FED’s that I’ve seen they are usually in the ball park of 3-4k and maybe 5 if you are lucky. Not my car but just in case you don’t get a response you have an estimate.
@@drag.race.god7316 yeah I was thinking 4-ish but honestly never heard it discussed before. Plenty of numbers on Pro Mods, Outlaws, Top Fuel, etc. I’ve seen a couple of the original nitro cars run but don’t see them much here in TN. They must have been quite a sight back in the day!
I was the Safety Firefighter at the starting line at Connecticut International Dragway in the 1970s. When the Nitro rails and funny cars came to the line, everyone evacuated the starter's booth, except me. I knew if and when one of these blew, you had seconds to get the driver out. I miss the ground vibrating under me, the smell of nitro in the morning, the thumping of the engines. This brought me back to a better place and time. Thank you!
I remember being 10ft from John Force and his crew when they fired up his Castrol funny car. I lasted about 30 seconds...eyes burning, no oxygen to be found. I swear my heart skipped a couple beats. I hope NHRA never dies!! A lot of memories with this video
@@MikeFleming-ts7viI had to stand behind about 5 cars for a total of 15 minutes of straight nitro 😂 the best and worst time of my life. Couldn’t breathe or see but it was great.
@@drag.race.god7316 Going from mild to wild ,that sound is so intoxicating... Gotta spend a few bucks to have some wild fun,and I'm ok with that I guess cause ive got a little and I'm doin ok. I know how to make a large pile of money get small,because I love cars too. Can ya possibly give a little estimate of how much it cost to do that little run-up? As far as fuel,oil ,maybe figure in a couple hundred for some wear parts like valves /rings etc. Like for example say a valve lasts 20 cacklefests(I dont know) and it costs 100$,then that run just cost 5$ on that valve and ya got 15 to go. Loose numbers is fine ,I'll take a guess and say that litrle escapade cost 400-500$? Folks its ok,its only money,realize you cant take it with you so you should party hard in the later years,like this.
@@MrTheHillfolk Actually 1 minute of running this % of nitromethane is around 300 dollars. These cars run on nitro from 2-3 minutes. You have to do a bunch of internal work to be able to support the fuel change also. It’s probably around 1300 dollars to run a car like this for 3-4 minutes.
@@drag.race.god7316 Wow that's a heck of a party! 😁 I'm still stuck in pre-pandemic prices occasionally. I knew the nitro was really pricey ! Thanks for the info , I work with some older guys and try and absorb every word they speak to me, I've noticed the knowledge and the older generation fading away. (I'm 51)
Nah alcohol is for basic driving. Its burns cleaner than gasoline, gasoline cars can run fine off of alcohol And gasoline was never meant to be burned to begin with. Alcohol is meant to be burned
The sudden donning of the HPD by the crew chief was a dead giveaway that the sound was fixing to change radically, and put a grin on every face. AWESOME VIDEO ! ! !
Fremont drag-strip in Fremont CA. As a high schooler, I spent many, many weekends there. Don the “snake” Prudhomme. Shirley “Cha-Cha” Muldowney, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits. Those were the days! I knew all the gate personnel and got in free, plus a pit-pass! Saturday nights was “grudge night.” All you needed was a helmet and you could settle scores with locals. Much safer than the street scene today’s youth are stuck with. They have no place to blow off steam, SAFELY! Sad. 😔
A video is good but experiencing that in person is a next level experience. The noise, vibration, and smell really helps you realize your living at that moment.
The most Awesome engine sound Ever !! ....From smooth gasoline running to most Explosive wicked sound.....Really invigorates this old guy & brings back early '60's strip pit sounds !! ....Thx for sharing.....
I agree my friend. I’m 73 too and longingly remember the days when AA/Fuelers were configured this way. Sitting back there on the differential with all that raw torque running between your legs. Awesome ! I guess it was Don Garlits who was a pioneer in front driver rails, in that time frame anyway, but while it was a whole lot safer, something was lost. Loved those days watching Garlits, Kalitta, Muldowney, Ivo, Prudhomme, McEwen, my memory dims, but you get the idea. I can see it yet. And smell it.
I'm 70 and the first pass with a rail on nitro was a life-changing moment to me... never could I conceive such sound could emerge from a piston engine without exploding/coming apart in a billion pieces...still amazes me to this day with shorter tracks/faster E.T.s/faster speeds/etc. John Force is older than I am and that dude is STILL kickin' butt!!!
@@davidweimer8880 Grew up going to Lions in So. California in the late 60's.Dragsters where in the low 7's.Coolest thing about Lions was Tuesday night run what ya' brung grudge racing. A tech inspection and a helmet and a seat belt you could go through the lights 3 times for 5 bucks....Good times !
I'm 67 and been watching these guys since I long as I can remember . Damn few in person unfortunately. Even tapping the throttle, listening on my phone is cool. 200 in the quarter passed long ago . So many rules ,and safety improvements have come along . And over all the years of speeds climbing,times dropping, grenaded engines ,wrecked ,rolled and completely destroyed works of engineering art , there are still folks willing to climb in , release the brake and stomp the go pedal to the floor and try like hell to keep it going straight long enough to beat the car next to him who is doing the same. Knowing the whole time this could be their last day on earth . No matter. Just go . Let's see what happens. Amazing ain't it?
Whittier, Ca circa ~1970. Rode my bike to my girlfriend's house (not driving yet) and we're chillin' on the front porch. I hear a nitro car fire up pretty close! "Bye, Dear. Gotta find this!" I head toward the music (it IS music!) and find the source less than a half mile away. Its the "L.A. Hooker" funny car that I had seen at the Winternationals just a few months previous. The crew was running the engine in the driveway of a house in a housing tract. Don't know what the neighbors thought but I was lovin' it. Good times!
Love the powerful simplicity of nitromethane. Makes me cry, but I love every tear😅 Back when most anyone could afford to go racing. I sure miss the good Ole days. I pray there are drag strips in Heaven.
@@Bobbymull7174.... With regards to your comment.... "Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”, and Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. "Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again." (John.3:3-7) There most likely Will Not be drag strips in "heaven"..... but, I completely understand the sentiment.... I owned, built (engines & all the other Non-chassis components) and drove FED's for 18+ years starting back in 1972. It's a nice thought, though.
And the simplicity of nitromethane can be attributed to the two oxygen atoms it brings to the party. It takes about 32 pounds of air to burn 2.2 pounds of gasoline, but only 3.7 pounds of air are required to burn the same amount of nitromethane. Liquid supercharging on steroids. And you're right about those sweet tears of joy!
You have to love that instant joy that kicks you in the pants when nitromethane is introduced into the mix. Man that’s just so satisfying to listen to .
back in 80's i was standing In Larry Minor's Pit when they fired up,,i was pretty much walking past the Header when the exhaust thru me back a few feet,eyes burning stinging wet blast!! Awesome 🍺LITE 👍🏼
This was just what I needed to hear. The ol' Bear is waking up. I'm thankful I grew up in the 70's and 80's when street racing was still present. I've spent many nights racing in Detroit.
Boy this brings back sounds of my childhood! I grew up about 7 Mi away from Englishtown Raceway in the 1960s! Even that far away I could hear them clearly in my backyard every Saturday night! Wednesday was amateur night but they have a few Funnies and maybe a jet car up there! It was only $2 on Wednesdays, those were the days!
That's just EVIL! Sounds like 90% pop! Reminds me of 1974, I was fifteen, at the Gatornationals in Gainesville, FL. I was standing around the burnout box steadily going deaf when one of the NHRA guys handed me some earmuffs and a broom! He told me if I was gonna' stand around, I might as well sweep "marbles" and keep the burnout trough full of water. I had to fetch food and drink for the starter crew and the safety guys off and on. After they fed me lunch and kept me hydrated (You guessed it! All the Gatorade I could drink!), I was a marble sweepin', water splashin sonovagun! I had a blast! Learned a ton of stuff, got sunburned like hell, half-deafened, and methanol/nitro nuked sinuses and eyeballs! I wouldn't have traded that long weekend for nuthin'!
Driver so calm...he's sitting two feet behind a hand grenade ( the engine), with a hand grenade between his legs (the transmission), and another hand grenade under his seat ( the diff). Plus two rubber bombs at his elbows ( the tires). Got to respect the nerves on these drivers.
@@mikebaker9574 I saw her move her head. That's real 60's gear, the stars and stripes open face helmet, goggles and respirators. If you watch closely, you can see her breathing heavily and kind of squirming around a little when it is switched to Nitro.
It dropped to almost backfire when it switched. I was chanting "More idle!, More idle!!". He did jump in and twick it a bit. Kenny Bernsteins car was louder than all the rest when it would switch. Dale A would reach in and crank the magneto a bit,,,for more fun. Van Halen, Hot for Teacher, crank it up!. The intro is a Top Fueler, thanks to Alex. Love it when a Fueler switches over. Thanks for the clip. Thumbs up.
I will never, ever forget the first time I heard a Top Fuel Dragster! It was at a small drag strip in Upstate NY, in a valley at night. The air was humid and dense and that sound echoed everywhere. The sound gave me the chills as I had never heard anything like it! Became a regular at the drags there and we got so close to the start you could smell the nitro, and feel the car in the ground like it was being hammered with Thor’s own hammer. Fun times.
Greetings from SF Bay Area California! This video just showed up in my feed so of course I had to click and... ahhh, music to this man's ears! Thanks for the smile.
A major reason for my tinnitus is watching these beasts from the starting line during a long day of racing in Portland or.My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and Jesus built my hot rod.
That what that engine was running on until Crew Chief flipped the lever and let that 392 start drinking the good stuff. I was 11 or 12 when I saw my first Top Fuel Dragster start and it absolutely blew my mind that they started the engine on low octane pump gas
I had the pleasure of getting access to John Force’s pit at Norwalk years ago, yes top fuel engines are indescribable. Also felt like I had been tear gassed🤣
I remember these as a kid in the 60s. Awesome sound. You hear it and feel it. Can't imagine driving one of these with that crackling beast 3 feet in front of you. 2:25 - I don't think the giant in the top left screen will have any trouble seeing this demo 😎
Love the cackle of supercharged engines running on nitromethane. Drivers of front-engined fuel dragsters and funny cars have serious cojones. I can't imagine being behind one of those engines when they blow.
Aussie here. Don Garlits lent my dad his "Big Daddy" top fuel rail for one of our school celebration get togethers. We had it in our workshop and parked out front of our house in its trailer for a week. As a 9 year old, i never gained so many friends so quickly 😂. At the school, people wanted to know if we were going to be giving rides around the block.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
THANK you from the bottom of my jaded, sick and tired old heart! That is, like my old friend Geo used to say, " the greatest music you've ever heard or will hear is one of those double A fuel machines on a run down the track", . And Geo was right, it was up at Kent, Washington where Geo and I went to test his thesis, I have never heard anything like that.... standing mid track, when they went by I had to cover my ears and bend at the waist to accommodate the pummeling the sound created.... magnificent!
@alanbauch2815 I spent many days at drag strips in the sixties to mid seventies , everywhere I could hitch a ride! Never will I forget that sound and thrill of the giants of that time,it was truly thunder of the gods of racing!
You knew this unit was pre 1970, the motors in the front. Remember when "Big Daddy" almost lost a foot? The next year, he introduced the modern rear mounted engine, "Swamp Rat" that car was considered experimental. It ran solo and is on display at Don Garlits drag racing museum in Florida. It is always great to see operational history. We have to know the past, so we understand the present.
Still remember when the first pictures of Don Garlits' rear-engine Swamp Rat came out - Hot Rod Magazine, if my memory is still working. After seeing the setup of the new car, and thinking back to some of the driver injuries in front engined Top Fuel machines, a few of us car crazed high schoolers sat passing it around, and somebody said, (slightly censored) "Why the heck didn't anybody do THAT before?" There was me and another guy who were stone "Big Daddy" fans, and two other guys who had different favorite cars. It wasn't long before the idea caught on. Never got to run a big Hemi on full Niro, but our local strip had weekend races for small-block rails running Nitro - kind of "3/4 size." One of the strongest contenders was the son of a local GM dealer, and he had all the money he wanted, no problem. Real slick machine, beautifully put together. Then he got waxed by a team made up of kids from local farms, who had an old barn as a workshop and plenty of talent and imagination - just not bags of money. They were MoPar, so of course those were our guys. They rolled out a rear-engine mini-rail, blown but based around a 340 block. Took GM Junior to the cleaners right off the bat. Not as loud as the big Hemi, but it was still very loud and considering it was not full Pro, a really good machine. Looked kind of odd - they'd done the paint with several foo-foo cans that didn't quite match People laughed when it was rolled up - right until it left the line. That was one loud crowd when the front-engine "Farmbuilt" MoPar beat the old-school big-buck rail.
@@DS-ss396 Usually they start on gas by spraying into the injector and then it picks up the methanol, after the engine warms up go to nitro. Gas to nitro on a cold engine is not good. They do go gas to nitro in-between rounds because the block still has heat in it. been there done all of this.
@@klutchdust4346 i remember once they told me it made in cast iron. I was shocked to learn that but that was back then when i was younger. Later the college years taught me many things about how blocks made in relative in heat conducting and and what not. This dragster above looked like a cast iron as it retain heat better. Despite the weight it pulls good.
When the guy picked the ear protection I rushed for the TV volume... JESUS I can only imagine the chest thumping those guys are feeling next to that engine with wheels! Great video!
Just think. When we're forced to go electric you'll be able to get the electric mixer out of the kitchen cupboard to make engine revving noises. Long live nitro.
Many years ago I was in the pits at the Southern Nationals checking out the fuelers. They were warming up the engines and checking for leaks as usual before qualifying. The one I was looking at fired up and as soon as it started cackling, I went into a deep trance like state of total euphoria and suddenly, Rod Serling appeared ! His lips moved but I couldn’t hear what he was saying. He smiled and gave me a wink of approval while giving the thumbs up gesture. When I heard the fuel shut off and the engine dying down, he slowly vanished. The dream was gone but I had become comfortably numb. Now you know the rest of the story 🏁.
I love seeing the flames coming out of the pipes at idle. When I was a kid in the '70s going to the World Series at Cordova, that's one of the coolest memories I have as they backed up from the burnout.
Pretty badass having your head directly behind and in line with high octane, high pressure, engine parts and a nod away from two massive slick tyres turning at insane speeds.
I was a kid in the pits in Australia in the early 70s With the ‘Camel Filter’ funny car. I remember when the ‘LA Hooker’ and the ‘Vulture’ came over from the US and kicked everyone’s asses. Lol. Jim Reed was the best Aussie top fueler back then I think. I won’t forget those times.
Yeah, the motors blowing up was bad, but worse was the differential location. It was literally in the driver's crotch. Driver's knees were cradling that pumpkin, and if either the diff or driveshafts grenaded, somebody was going to have a VERY BAD day.
Thank you for your comments. Just to clear a few thing’s up, we start this car on regular gasoline not alcohol. The driver in this video is a girl. We don’t have straps on our supercharger because they weren’t required in 1969. That is the last time this 1965 car was raced. No, it doesn’t sound like today’s top fuel cars do because it’s almost 60 years old. The little red tank strapped to the frame rail is for the gasoline, there is another tank near the front of the car that has the nitromethane in it. We did not race with the red tank. Hope this helps.😊
What’s a rough estimate on the HP of that car? Just ballpark….
@@kne2323From the other FED’s that I’ve seen they are usually in the ball park of 3-4k and maybe 5 if you are lucky. Not my car but just in case you don’t get a response you have an estimate.
@@drag.race.god7316 yeah I was thinking 4-ish but honestly never heard it discussed before. Plenty of numbers on Pro Mods, Outlaws, Top Fuel, etc. I’ve seen a couple of the original nitro cars run but don’t see them much here in TN. They must have been quite a sight back in the day!
@@kne2323 1800 to 2000 horsepower
@@BigDaddy-fq5mu That’s without nitromethane
You know sh!t is about to go down when the mechanic reaches for the ear protection
How is the crowd not holding their ears?? When I stood near one of these when it started up my ears literally hurt instantly.
wimpy
@@neonnoodle1169Everyone had one of those orange plugs in their ears. So did I!
Oh yeah. I saw him grab the hearing protectors, and I said to myself, "It's _on_ ..."
@@42lookc and that was on gas
I was the Safety Firefighter at the starting line at Connecticut International Dragway in the 1970s. When the Nitro rails and funny cars came to the line, everyone evacuated the starter's booth, except me. I knew if and when one of these blew, you had seconds to get the driver out. I miss the ground vibrating under me, the smell of nitro in the morning, the thumping of the engines.
This brought me back to a better place and time. Thank you!
I remember being 10ft from John Force and his crew when they fired up his Castrol funny car. I lasted about 30 seconds...eyes burning, no oxygen to be found. I swear my heart skipped a couple beats. I hope NHRA never dies!! A lot of memories with this video
@@MikeFleming-ts7viI had to stand behind about 5 cars for a total of 15 minutes of straight nitro 😂 the best and worst time of my life. Couldn’t breathe or see but it was great.
long gone now.....to bad....been there.....
I miss that Dragway too.
What's really truly truly frightening is some of those race teams were insane enough to go past nitromethane and run hydrazine.
That nitro attitude change will never get old.
@@Kroam-Bonezit’s not unburnt, it’s literally exploding in the chamber
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@@drag.race.god7316
Going from mild to wild ,that sound is so intoxicating...
Gotta spend a few bucks to have some wild fun,and I'm ok with that I guess cause ive got a little and I'm doin ok.
I know how to make a large pile of money get small,because I love cars too.
Can ya possibly give a little estimate of how much it cost to do that little run-up?
As far as fuel,oil ,maybe figure in a couple hundred for some wear parts like valves /rings etc.
Like for example say a valve lasts 20 cacklefests(I dont know) and it costs 100$,then that run just cost 5$ on that valve and ya got 15 to go. Loose numbers is fine ,I'll take a guess and say that litrle escapade cost 400-500$?
Folks its ok,its only money,realize you cant take it with you so you should party hard in the later years,like this.
@@MrTheHillfolk Actually 1 minute of running this % of nitromethane is around 300 dollars. These cars run on nitro from 2-3 minutes. You have to do a bunch of internal work to be able to support the fuel change also. It’s probably around 1300 dollars to run a car like this for 3-4 minutes.
@@drag.race.god7316
Wow that's a heck of a party! 😁
I'm still stuck in pre-pandemic prices occasionally.
I knew the nitro was really pricey !
Thanks for the info , I work with some older guys and try and absorb every word they speak to me, I've noticed the knowledge and the older generation fading away. (I'm 51)
A wise man once said. Gasoline is for washing parts, alcohol is for drinking and nitromethane is for racing.
Wise man once said. He who goes to bed with itchy butt, wakes up with stinky fingers.
@@zantar2482 wiseman once said who that bites fingernails should not scratch ass 😝
Confusions says: Man with hole in pocket, feels cocky all day
@@scottakasprite Rofl, that's a great one
Nah alcohol is for basic driving. Its burns cleaner than gasoline, gasoline cars can run fine off of alcohol And gasoline was never meant to be burned to begin with. Alcohol is meant to be burned
The sudden donning of the HPD by the crew chief was a dead giveaway that the sound was fixing to change radically, and put a grin on every face. AWESOME VIDEO ! ! !
That HPD coming out was my cue to lower my headphone's volume a few clicks.
@@PsychonauticExplorer LOL
I had to do the exact same thing.
What a melodic symphony.
N O T H I N G sounds like a nitro powered engine.
Ill never forget the captivation as a kid in the 60s during the golden age of drag racing. Love that cackle.
Yep the 60s and 70s maybe around 81 82 were the best years.
Fremont drag-strip in Fremont CA. As a high schooler, I spent many, many weekends there. Don the “snake” Prudhomme. Shirley “Cha-Cha” Muldowney, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits. Those were the days! I knew all the gate personnel and got in free, plus a pit-pass! Saturday nights was “grudge night.” All you needed was a helmet and you could settle scores with locals. Much safer than the street scene today’s youth are stuck with. They have no place to blow off steam, SAFELY! Sad. 😔
@@clydepurse3680 Yes! Been there many many times as a kid. Truly the golden age.
rather hear that...than KH'S cackle......
@@matthewtarka2804 😆
A video is good but experiencing that in person is a next level experience. The noise, vibration, and smell really helps you realize your living at that moment.
You forgot the Nitro in the Air making your Eyes Sting and Water....
@user-pe8ce7kg5n that's what I meant by smell but your right, that is a lot of the experience.
@@PaulDouglas-i5m the sting is because after burning its no longer nitromethane its nitric acid
You also forgot that you won't be able to breathe as the atmosphere is concussing and slamming yer chest shut.
Haha, you’re all correct, experiencing this in person, definitely arouses ALL your senses 😄
Same thing happens when I switch my lawnmower to nitro every Saturday morning.
"After some modifications, I got my mowing time down to 10.37 seconds!"
😂
Lol. That's funny stuff.
@@evlkenevl2721 The only drawback is the lawn has brown scorch streaks in it afterwards.
Lol
The most Awesome engine sound Ever !! ....From smooth gasoline running to most Explosive wicked sound.....Really invigorates this old guy & brings back early '60's strip pit sounds !! ....Thx for sharing.....
They warmup on alcohol. Can't run nitro in a cold engine. It will hydro lock.
I'm 73 and think I still get those feelings when I hear one of them ground thumpers running near me.
I agree my friend. I’m 73 too and longingly remember the days when AA/Fuelers were configured this way. Sitting back there on the differential with all that raw torque running between your legs. Awesome ! I guess it was Don Garlits who was a pioneer in front driver rails, in that time frame anyway, but while it was a whole lot safer, something was lost. Loved those days watching Garlits, Kalitta, Muldowney, Ivo, Prudhomme, McEwen, my memory dims, but you get the idea. I can see it yet. And smell it.
@@davidweimer8880 Yea, after he blew half his foot off.
I'm 70 and the first pass with a rail on nitro was a life-changing moment to me... never could I conceive such sound could emerge from a piston engine without exploding/coming apart in a billion pieces...still amazes me to this day with shorter tracks/faster E.T.s/faster speeds/etc. John Force is older than I am and that dude is STILL kickin' butt!!!
@@davidweimer8880 Grew up going to Lions in So. California in the late 60's.Dragsters where in the low 7's.Coolest thing about Lions was Tuesday night run what ya' brung grudge racing. A tech inspection and a helmet and a seat belt you could go through the lights 3 times for 5 bucks....Good times !
Nothing like an old 392 hemi on ~60% nitro.
The 60’s were the days of real drag racing.
This was actually 97%!!
@@drag.race.god7316excellent!
@@drag.race.god7316 That was a hot mix for back in the day.
Beautiful car, keep her cackling!
The only guys that I knew of in the day that ran all nitro was the AA/F rail the "Surfers". Sorkin drove that as I recall.
@@drag.race.god7316 I thought it sounded way too nasty for 60%.
The cackle with the blower whine is just the best sound ever !
There is NO sound like it, buddy...or the fumes/watery eyes/ears ringings/etc.
@@jeffnelson7915 do watch the ears, mine are screwed from too much when I was younger. You can still feel it with 40dB cans on.
I'm 67 and been watching these guys since I long as I can remember . Damn few in person unfortunately. Even tapping the throttle, listening on my phone is cool. 200 in the quarter passed long ago . So many rules ,and safety improvements have come along . And over all the years of speeds climbing,times dropping, grenaded engines ,wrecked ,rolled and completely destroyed works of engineering art , there are still folks willing to climb in , release the brake and stomp the go pedal to the floor and try like hell to keep it going straight long enough to beat the car next to him who is doing the same. Knowing the whole time this could be their last day on earth . No matter. Just go . Let's see what happens. Amazing ain't it?
In the 1960's , loved saving my money to go to US3O Dragstrip in Merrillville, That nitro sound was almost ETERNAL ❗
@@marklesnick5211 Did you go every Sunday! SUNDAY! _SUNDAY!_ ?
Whittier, Ca circa ~1970. Rode my bike to my girlfriend's house (not driving yet) and we're chillin' on the front porch. I hear a nitro car fire up pretty close! "Bye, Dear. Gotta find this!"
I head toward the music (it IS music!) and find the source less than a half mile away. Its the "L.A. Hooker" funny car that I had seen at the Winternationals just a few months previous.
The crew was running the engine in the driveway of a house in a housing tract. Don't know what the neighbors thought but I was lovin' it. Good times!
Venice Ca in 1974. Miller's Jolly Roger 3 blocks from my house. We used to hang in his garage and "help" wrench on the car. Great times.
the kind of neighbor I'd love to have!
Love the powerful simplicity of nitromethane. Makes me cry, but I love every tear😅 Back when most anyone could afford to go racing. I sure miss the good Ole days. I pray there are drag strips in Heaven.
I'm with you my friend. Probably is but with no wrecks, just angels having fun.
If there isn't I may go the other way 😂😂😂😢
@@Bobbymull7174.... With regards to your comment.... "Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”, and Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
"Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again." (John.3:3-7) There most likely Will Not be drag strips in "heaven"..... but, I completely understand the sentiment.... I owned, built (engines & all the other Non-chassis components) and drove FED's for 18+ years starting back in 1972. It's a nice thought, though.
And the simplicity of nitromethane can be attributed to the two oxygen atoms it brings to the party. It takes about 32 pounds of air to burn 2.2 pounds of gasoline, but only 3.7 pounds of air are required to burn the same amount of nitromethane. Liquid supercharging on steroids. And you're right about those sweet tears of joy!
You can’t even afford to go grocery shopping these days.
You have to love that instant joy that kicks you in the pants when nitromethane is introduced into the mix. Man that’s just so satisfying to listen to .
It goes from grampy's ol' truck running at the drive thru to the Tasmanian Devil on meth !!!
back in 80's i was standing In Larry Minor's Pit when they fired up,,i was pretty much walking past the Header when the exhaust thru me back a few feet,eyes burning stinging wet blast!! Awesome 🍺LITE 👍🏼
This was just what I needed to hear. The ol' Bear is waking up. I'm thankful I grew up in the 70's and 80's when street racing was still present. I've spent many nights racing in Detroit.
from cute little kitten to rabid lion with the turn of a lever
Nicely said...
My father raced dragsters and funny cars in the 70s. Loved the sound of those supercharged hemis.
Boy this brings back sounds of my childhood! I grew up about 7 Mi away from Englishtown Raceway in the 1960s! Even that far away I could hear them clearly in my backyard every Saturday night! Wednesday was amateur night but they have a few Funnies and maybe a jet car up there! It was only $2 on Wednesdays, those were the days!
All of it is wonderful information sir. Very happy to see and hear a genuine piece of Drag Racing history. Thank you for making this possible
That's just EVIL! Sounds like 90% pop! Reminds me of 1974, I was fifteen, at the Gatornationals in Gainesville, FL. I was standing around the burnout box steadily going deaf when one of the NHRA guys handed me some earmuffs and a broom! He told me if I was gonna' stand around, I might as well sweep "marbles" and keep the burnout trough full of water. I had to fetch food and drink for the starter crew and the safety guys off and on. After they fed me lunch and kept me hydrated (You guessed it! All the Gatorade I could drink!), I was a marble sweepin', water splashin sonovagun! I had a blast! Learned a ton of stuff, got sunburned like hell, half-deafened, and methanol/nitro nuked sinuses and eyeballs! I wouldn't have traded that long weekend for nuthin'!
Happen to see a little old lady there driving a 1974 or 75 Dodge DEMON? LOL!🤷♂️😎👍
OMG that is the craziest change over Iv ever heard!! I could literally listen to that all freaking day that is beautiful
Driver so calm...he's sitting two feet behind a hand grenade ( the engine), with a hand grenade between his legs (the transmission), and another hand grenade under his seat ( the diff). Plus two rubber bombs at his elbows ( the tires). Got to respect the nerves on these drivers.
It's a dummy
@@mikebaker9574it’s a real person, the NHRA required a person in the car while running.
Driver identifies as "She - Her" and "Fast Girl" !
@@mikebaker9574 I saw her move her head. That's real 60's gear, the stars and stripes open face helmet, goggles and respirators. If you watch closely, you can see her breathing heavily and kind of squirming around a little when it is switched to Nitro.
@@manstersr I'd be squirming too if I had a blown nitro hemi...
Now that takes me way back to my youth .As a teen i spent many a weekend at the strip watching those fly past .
It dropped to almost backfire when it switched. I was chanting "More idle!, More idle!!".
He did jump in and twick it a bit.
Kenny Bernsteins car was louder than all the rest when it would switch. Dale A would reach in and crank the magneto a bit,,,for more fun.
Van Halen, Hot for Teacher, crank it up!. The intro is a Top Fueler, thanks to Alex.
Love it when a Fueler switches over. Thanks for the clip. Thumbs up.
I'm 66 and I love anything drag racing related...I like this video, good stuff, brings back memories..👍🏻🇺🇸
thats the most violent thing i have seen since watching a kitten sleep
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Sounds awesome! Throttle whacks were a lot smoother back in the day. Now it's just an instant whomp and the shock wave hits you.
Ain’t nothin quite like a blown Hemi.
Especially a Kieth Black on Nitro
You are referring to the racing engine of course. I had a blown Hemi in my 2014 Dodge Ram, actually it wasn't pleasant at all.
@@scottgorman7166 Yes, the one in this video.
@@woodyw6891oh yea I know...just messing around. My Hemi was (blown) damaged.
@@scottgorman7166 So sorry for your loss ;-)
I will never, ever forget the first time I heard a Top Fuel Dragster! It was at a small drag strip in Upstate NY, in a valley at night. The air was humid and dense and that sound echoed everywhere. The sound gave me the chills as I had never heard anything like it! Became a regular at the drags there and we got so close to the start you could smell the nitro, and feel the car in the ground like it was being hammered with Thor’s own hammer. Fun times.
Love the “old school” slingshots! Sitting astride the pumpkin. This was how it was done, back when 300 mph in a 1/4 mi was thought to be unreachable!
Greetings from SF Bay Area California! This video just showed up in my feed so of course I had to click and... ahhh, music to this man's ears! Thanks for the smile.
I didn't realize you could switch them over like that! Amazing.🏁
Hey grandpa you should probably wear earmuffs you- WHAT
The music of my people.
A major reason for my tinnitus is watching these beasts from the starting line during a long day of racing in Portland or.My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and Jesus built my hot rod.
Is that gas can zip tied to the rails🤣🤣🤣!? Don’t know why, but that struck me as fu**ing EPIC🤣🤣
That what that engine was running on until Crew Chief flipped the lever and let that 392 start drinking the good stuff. I was 11 or 12 when I saw my first Top Fuel Dragster start and it absolutely blew my mind that they started the engine on low octane pump gas
@@gullreefclubthis was actually alcohol that they start these cars on. The just pump a little bit of pump gas into the intake as a lubricant
I had the pleasure of getting access to John Force’s pit at Norwalk years ago, yes top fuel engines are indescribable. Also felt like I had been tear gassed🤣
What a sweet sound!!! Thank you for those awesome few minutes.....
That beautiful music scared the crap out of him!!! That’s how you grow fans of NHRA! Great job getting him there!
Boy, I could listen to this for hours. Sweet rig!
Music to my ears. Simply beautiful!
Everybody is just standing and staring. My grin would go completely around my head.😊
Thats crazy how it sounds like a normal v8 on gasoline, then sounds like an absolute monster at the flip of a switch.
Sweet! So cool! A very nice demonstration. Always wanted to drive one of those types of dragsters too.
This shows how a motor purrs like a kitten when it's on gas, but turns into a nasty, angry machine when switched to nitro. Good stuff.
The throttle response is awesome !
I remember these as a kid in the 60s. Awesome sound. You hear it and feel it. Can't imagine driving one of these with that crackling beast 3 feet in front of you. 2:25 - I don't think the giant in the top left screen will have any trouble seeing this demo 😎
Love the cackle of supercharged engines running on nitromethane. Drivers of front-engined fuel dragsters and funny cars have serious cojones. I can't imagine being behind one of those engines when they blow.
A sound as sweet as the voice of an angel
60 year old technology is still amazing...this engine is a true pioneer to what's out there today...
The sound of an old school supercharged Hemi on Nitro will forever be one of the best sounds on Earth.
It may be extremely loud, but still music to my ears. So crisp and powerful, woah
Aussie here. Don Garlits lent my dad his "Big Daddy" top fuel rail for one of our school celebration get togethers. We had it in our workshop and parked out front of our house in its trailer for a week. As a 9 year old, i never gained so many friends so quickly 😂. At the school, people wanted to know if we were going to be giving rides around the block.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don Garlits is such a cool dude! He was also super nice! Definitely would like to meet him once more.
Yeah right , sure he did
Thats Aussium
Of course it was the Big Daddy himself who redesigned top fuelers with the motor in back, after one blew in front of him.....
Fun fact, Don Garlits also designed the rear engine dragster after he lost half of one of his feet to a front engine dragster.
That poor driver in the back,
She isn’t riding it, she’s strapped to it
Think I speak for all of us when I say " Damn those were the days" we sure do miss 'em.
You DO!!!!!!
Love this! Reminds me of Iriwindale, Lions and OCIR back in late 60s early 70s....
When my feral cat switches to nitro he's a chainsaw with legs! Great video!
Thank you! 🙏🏼
THANK you from the bottom of my jaded, sick and tired old heart! That is, like my old friend Geo used to say, " the greatest music you've ever heard or will hear is one of those double A fuel machines on a run down the track", . And Geo was right, it was up at Kent, Washington where Geo and I went to test his thesis, I have never heard anything like that.... standing mid track, when they went by I had to cover my ears and bend at the waist to accommodate the pummeling the sound created.... magnificent!
@alanbauch2815 I spent many days at drag strips in the sixties to mid seventies , everywhere I could hitch a ride! Never will I forget that sound and thrill of the giants of that time,it was truly thunder of the gods of racing!
wonderful 60's rail! Very impressive that it just purrs like a kitten on gasoline, then feed the good juice and it's like a lion roaring!
Nothing better than the sound of a nitro dragster!
Thing sounds insane, what a monster! Very good video!!
Thanks!
You knew this unit was pre 1970, the motors in the front. Remember when "Big Daddy" almost lost a foot? The next year, he introduced the modern rear mounted engine, "Swamp Rat" that car was considered experimental. It ran solo and is on display at Don Garlits drag racing museum in Florida. It is always great to see operational history. We have to know the past, so we understand the present.
Still remember when the first pictures of Don Garlits' rear-engine Swamp Rat came out - Hot Rod Magazine, if my memory is still working. After seeing the setup of the new car, and thinking back to some of the driver injuries in front engined Top Fuel machines, a few of us car crazed high schoolers sat passing it around, and somebody said, (slightly censored) "Why the heck didn't anybody do THAT before?" There was me and another guy who were stone "Big Daddy" fans, and two other guys who had different favorite cars. It wasn't long before the idea caught on. Never got to run a big Hemi on full Niro, but our local strip had weekend races for small-block rails running Nitro - kind of "3/4 size." One of the strongest contenders was the son of a local GM dealer, and he had all the money he wanted, no problem. Real slick machine, beautifully put together. Then he got waxed by a team made up of kids from local farms, who had an old barn as a workshop and plenty of talent and imagination - just not bags of money. They were MoPar, so of course those were our guys. They rolled out a rear-engine mini-rail, blown but based around a 340 block. Took GM Junior to the cleaners right off the bat. Not as loud as the big Hemi, but it was still very loud and considering it was not full Pro, a really good machine. Looked kind of odd - they'd done the paint with several foo-foo cans that didn't quite match People laughed when it was rolled up - right until it left the line. That was one loud crowd when the front-engine "Farmbuilt" MoPar beat the old-school big-buck rail.
My brain makes me smell that nitro exhaust just from the SOUND of the car burning it. Love it!
Mandatory bare hand on head temp reading accurate from many years of calibration
Great stuff, I must admit that I started to worry about over heating running that long yet I admit that they know what they are doing.
These cars have a 3 minute limit I believe so there is no concern over starting to overheat!
A cackle worth listening too
Sounds like a 10 year old shaking a dozen marbles in a coffee can! 😂
It's sounds streetable on straight methanol!
I think it is gasoline that they warm it up on.
@@DS-ss396 Usually they start on gas by spraying into the injector and then it picks up the methanol, after the engine warms up go to nitro. Gas to nitro on a cold engine is not good. They do go gas to nitro in-between rounds because the block still has heat in it. been there done all of this.
@@klutchdust4346 i remember once they told me it made in cast iron. I was shocked to learn that but that was back then when i was younger. Later the college years taught me many things about how blocks made in relative in heat conducting and and what not. This dragster above looked like a cast iron as it retain heat better. Despite the weight it pulls good.
I can almost smell the fuel! With that Redline oil it's the best smell in racing ❤Respect
That is an awesome cackle! Kamala Harris does a pretty good impression of an old school 392 Hemi...sorry I couldn't resist!🤣🤣🤣
The speed with which that engine reacts when he cracks the throttle is awesome.
That and jet sound is totally the sounds of freedom!!!!
I love my fellow humans because of things like this.
That's an excellent demonstration of how much more energy dense nitro is
he was like a conductor for an orchestra and everyone said bravo!
When the guy picked the ear protection I rushed for the TV volume... JESUS I can only imagine the chest thumping those guys are feeling next to that engine with wheels! Great video!
Thank you!
Awesome! Now put that in a 76 Aspen R/T.
Clean burning Nitro Methane, is a beautiful sound.
Just think. When we're forced to go electric you'll be able to get the electric mixer out of the kitchen cupboard to make engine revving noises. Long live nitro.
I love fossil fuels.
Forced electric will never catch. It's too unreliable and dangerous to the environment. The government may try, but it will fail.
I just can’t wait to watch the kitchen aid 500… 🙄
God that sounds AWESOME and music to the ears!!!!!
Love the fuel cell.
Don’t think that was a “ fuel cell” the pumps would have already sucked that plastic can dry and had it imploding😂😂😂
That was just a can of pump gas to start it, nitro tank will be at the front of the chassis.
The safety strapping holding it in was my favourite 😂. Glad for this comment, as i was going to say....
@@Markycarandbikestuffcorrect!
Switch at 1:00
This so bad ass!!! Awesome 👌 I've seen this done in person. It's spectacular
If music does come from heaven it would sound like this
Gotta save this to my library so I can listen to it on a large blue tooth speaker lol!😎👍
Love those Ol Diggers and Nitro fumes
@@dennisshappka5699 I love the smell of nitrous in the morning.
@@davidshouse2429nitrous is an oxidizer, this is nitromethane!
That's NITRO BLOWN HEMI Music unlike a turbo charger engine OR a crappy electric car You can't Beat the power and sound ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It shatters our perception of reality like stepping into a strange new dimension !
Twilight Zone it is
Many years ago I was in the pits at the Southern Nationals checking out the fuelers. They were warming up the engines and checking for leaks as usual before qualifying.
The one I was looking at fired up and as soon as it started cackling, I went into a deep trance like state of total euphoria and suddenly, Rod Serling appeared ! His lips moved but I couldn’t hear what he was saying. He smiled and gave me a wink of approval while giving the thumbs up gesture. When I heard the fuel shut off and the engine dying down, he slowly vanished. The dream was gone but I had become comfortably numb.
Now you know the rest of the story 🏁.
I love seeing the flames coming out of the pipes at idle. When I was a kid in the '70s going to the World Series at Cordova, that's one of the coolest memories I have as they backed up from the burnout.
And what about the "sweet" smell of that Nitro. One of my favorite smells on earth!
The wind was blowing toward me so I got the most out of anybody. No regrets. Just couldn’t see, smell, or breath for any of the other cars 😂
Pretty badass having your head directly behind and in line with high octane, high pressure, engine parts and a nod away from two massive slick tyres turning at insane speeds.
Cant wait to put this on the stereo when i get home.
I’m telling you it sounds fucking awesome.
Infinity SM 152 towers and a polk 10 sub…
😎🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🔊🔊🔊
Probably sounds like a firing line
I was a kid in the pits in Australia in the early 70s
With the ‘Camel Filter’ funny car.
I remember when the ‘LA Hooker’ and the ‘Vulture’ came over from the US and kicked everyone’s asses. Lol.
Jim Reed was the best Aussie top fueler back then I think.
I won’t forget those times.
Good times. 👍👍👍
That’s an old school drags from the 60’s. They switched to put the motors behind the driver because of injuries when the motors blew up.
Yeah, the motors blowing up was bad, but worse was the differential location. It was literally in the driver's crotch.
Driver's knees were cradling that pumpkin, and if either the diff or driveshafts grenaded, somebody was going to have a VERY BAD day.
My 1st winter nationals was in 63 and the old slingshots were awesome especially the 1’s Big daddy created.
Reminds me of times I spent at San Antonio Drag Raceway when I was a kid.....🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Most Fun you can have, with your clothes on!!! God that is music, to my Ears!!!