Great job guys!!!!! You guys especially Steve are true purist to this era of drag racing such as I which, is why I don't attend so-called nostalgia events anymore....keep this shit going and let's get the purity, showmanship and respect to keeping it true to the era back and make it the main focus and put speed and performance on the back burner.....now on to part three
Those were the cars that got me interested in drag racing at around age 10. Friends were buying comic books and I was buying HOT ROD and CAR CRAFT. We all read MAD, and the occasional Playboy furtively made the rounds. Barbi Benton. R-rrr! Then Jungle Pam came around and everyone’s mind was blown. The best part was Arrington, Lieberman, Graeber, Grumpy, K&G were all local to us.
I’m 73….we had a ball at the strip watching these match bashers run at Detroit Dragway and Motor City Dragway. My brother ran a ‘32 Bantam coupe in the c/altered class , he built a ‘39 Pontiac c/gasser. Good times , we saw the Little Red Wagon run when it was unlettered and was trying to run good laps but the thing wouldn’t NOT pull giant wheelies. A few months later it came back all lettered up and wheelied for show. I remember Jay Howell ran fuel burning Ford Bronco that was just insane. Everyone came through town , we saw ‘‘em all. Logger, Marsh, stuffy and Rupp ran a injected small block Chevy on nitro that would run with the AA/F guys til they got a handle on the clutches. Some times I think it couldn’t be real,but it was easily the absolute best time to race and spectate. Sadly those times will never return.
Iron blocks, aluminum heads, no blowers, mechanical fuel injection, 10 inch tires, setback and bumper height rules, steel bodies with fiberglass bolt ons. Let's roll.
The problem with running a Chevy in a nitro class is the servicing issue. Because they have stud mounted rockers they need to be adjusted with between round service. The shaft mounted hemi rockers just get slapped back on top of the head. with a 392, 10 nuts per head, including rockers and head studs, no adjustment necessary. with a rat motor you have 8 rocker nuts, which need adjusting, and 16 head studs. That's a whole lot more work to do between rounds.
The Don Gay car was beautiful....66 GTO or Tempest body. The Candy red with gold leaf got me......I remember 2 very special model kits from back in the day as well, Miss Deal, and The Dodge Revellion.
I'm a little late lol. Thats a AWESOME IDEA Steve had for those cars racing, it's a year or so later now does anyone know if it was or is being tried??????😮😮
YO FYI...SEGA(southeast gassers) has an A/FX class. You can take the entirety of modern NHRA and shove it compared to the absolute spectacle of a show they put on.
That’s ironic that you would ask… Drag Racing was so popular at that time, NASCAR jumped in with both feet and became another sanctioning body and ran Drag Races. That’s where the U/FX class name came from in the early years of Match Racing.
Prior to the world going insane, I was in the middle of some pretty heavy conversation on Facebook about the subject matter of correct appearing altered wheelbase match racing. There's a good 10 or so cars in the midwest that fit the bill for this right now. As soon as a group of these beasts hit the track, the numbers would probably double fairly quickly. Just like in 1965. Let's hope that things get back to normal sooner rather than later and maybe we will see it soon.
Robert we would love to make this happen, the cars and participation is what would make it really happen. We cannot afford to make a class and no one participate.
@@AmericanHotRodAssociation I would love to see it happen. Try contacting Steve DeTar, son of Ted, on Facebook. He's pretty tapped in with a bunch of these guys. I've spoken to several of these dudes on FB when my Drag Racing Page was still active and prior to that when I was a moderator on 60s 70s drag racing photos, my old group is still there, but it is now dormant. Robert Hill's Drag Racing Page,rip. There was some pretty heavy discussion going on and even some videos posted of a couple of these cars in action... Tell Tony to pick up the phone when he sees a number ending in 8303.
Quain Stott has been messing around with the idea of an fx class for a while now and it would probably be a pretty good idea to work on contacting the cousins Platt. They both have cars that fit the bill of what you're looking for.
@@AmericanHotRodAssociation We have 4 altered wheelbase cars running now in the A/FX Funny car class with the Souutheast Gassers Association the 2 Platt cars are involved with 2 other cars and several others being built.
Check out the Southeast coast gasser series they run sort of the -67 rulebook , imagine that with funnys and dragster (with just better saftey hoops etc but with some kind of 60 s rules and hard limits on fuelpumps and ignition, perhaps even only direct drive and no warmup burnouts just like the old days,, and we would love t see that show again , modern dragracing is simply put not fun anymore its gotten way to serious ,, and also i think stuff like the cool paint jobs just like the Gasser series mentioned people are missing these things today, people are sick of sponsor wrapped up milliondollar cars
How SEGA uses the gasser rules from 67 plus some of their own to keep things under control and SEGA is hard core on the rules and it serves the class well and the racing is very tight and entertaining. There’s a bunch up here in western Canada running 70s Funny Cars just search Rocky Mountain nationals funny cars
I got to experience a handful of the Rocky Mountain funny cars last year at Kearney Raceway Park in Nebraska. Most of the stuff they were running was around 20 years old but still entertaining. But nothing compared to the show that Funny Car Chaos put on about a month later, and the best part was the local guy(what's up, Justin!) who won B class with an honest to God 1976 Monza (body and chassis never separated!) that used to belong to Roger Lindamood with a low buck small block Chevy!
I appreciate you guys talking about Bobby's Chevamoco. I happen to be one of the guys who helped restore the car and own it. It's a wild car.
Great job guys!!!!! You guys especially Steve are true purist to this era of drag racing such as I which, is why I don't attend so-called nostalgia events anymore....keep this shit going and let's get the purity, showmanship and respect to keeping it true to the era back and make it the main focus and put speed and performance on the back burner.....now on to part three
Those were the cars that got me interested in drag racing at around age 10. Friends were buying comic books and I was buying HOT ROD and CAR CRAFT. We all read MAD, and the occasional Playboy furtively made the rounds. Barbi Benton. R-rrr! Then Jungle Pam came around and everyone’s mind was blown. The best part was Arrington, Lieberman, Graeber, Grumpy, K&G were all local to us.
Don't forget Malcom Durham " strip blazer !!" 😀😀😀😀😀😀😁😁😁😁😁🚘🚘🚘🚘🍺🍺🍺🍺
I’m 73….we had a ball at the strip watching these match bashers run at Detroit Dragway and Motor City Dragway. My brother ran a ‘32 Bantam coupe in the c/altered class , he built a ‘39 Pontiac c/gasser. Good times , we saw the Little Red Wagon run when it was unlettered and was trying to run good laps but the thing wouldn’t NOT pull giant wheelies. A few months later it came back all lettered up and wheelied for show. I remember Jay Howell ran fuel burning Ford Bronco that was just insane. Everyone came through town , we saw ‘‘em all. Logger, Marsh, stuffy and Rupp ran a injected small block Chevy on nitro that would run with the AA/F guys til they got a handle on the clutches. Some times I think it couldn’t be real,but it was easily the absolute best time to race and spectate. Sadly those times will never return.
I'm so glad I came across this channel
Up here in my neck of the woods at Kil Kare Dragway in Xenia, there was a Gasser event advertised running with 1967 rules.
That was Southeast Gassers, check out our Gasser video and it will explain some of their rules and perspective.
I attended kil kare show it was great
I ran at kilkare for quite a while. Good to see its still open. I fled Ohio for TN several years back.
Iron blocks, aluminum heads, no blowers, mechanical fuel injection, 10 inch tires, setback and bumper height rules, steel bodies with fiberglass bolt ons. Let's roll.
It's mind blowing how badly Tony is stuck in 1985.
The problem with running a Chevy in a nitro class is the servicing issue. Because they have stud mounted rockers they need to be adjusted with between round service. The shaft mounted hemi rockers just get slapped back on top of the head. with a 392, 10 nuts per head, including rockers and head studs, no adjustment necessary. with a rat motor you have 8 rocker nuts, which need adjusting, and 16 head studs. That's a whole lot more work to do between rounds.
Dunn - Reath rear engine funny was a beast !!!
As a tech guy you are talking something incredibly difficult to police. Those guys running 170mph in those stuck together cars were nuts!
The Don Gay car was beautiful....66 GTO or Tempest body. The Candy red with gold leaf got me......I remember 2 very special model kits from back in the day as well, Miss Deal, and The Dodge Revellion.
Infinity was a beautiful car!!!! Top shelf pontiac!!!
I'm a little late lol.
Thats a AWESOME IDEA Steve had for those cars racing, it's a year or so later now does anyone know if it was or is being tried??????😮😮
Crewed on Whit Bazemore funny car in 1996 and Lew Arrington iii was the guy who i helped with !!!! Good fun and a Great guy !!!😁😁😁😁😁🚗🚗🍺🍺
Sheldon gecker was a super comp racer and a bracket hitter from the '70s and '80s
I think the transition to the modern Funny Car began with Pat Foster.
YO FYI...SEGA(southeast gassers) has an A/FX class. You can take the entirety of modern NHRA and shove it compared to the absolute spectacle of a show they put on.
It’s amazing more drivers were not killed during this era.
This made me happy.
Good show guys
This is good stuff. Keep up the good work.
SEGA for Funny Cars
Model it after Quain Stouts South East Gassers!
Love the pay the looser idea.
Cool vids. How popular was drag racing compared to Nascar back then?
That’s ironic that you would ask… Drag Racing was so popular at that time, NASCAR jumped in with both feet and became another sanctioning body and ran Drag Races. That’s where the U/FX class name came from in the early years of Match Racing.
Steve, you need to check out the Meltdown Drags in August of 2022. You will love the nostalgia correctness
I'm hoping to debut my car at that race!
Best nastalgia race at one of the best old tracks around!!!! I've had my afx gto there every year!!! Zettle Bros !!
Gentlemen have you heard about a flying Dutchmen funny car
Prior to the world going insane, I was in the middle of some pretty heavy conversation on Facebook about the subject matter of correct appearing altered wheelbase match racing. There's a good 10 or so cars in the midwest that fit the bill for this right now. As soon as a group of these beasts hit the track, the numbers would probably double fairly quickly. Just like in 1965. Let's hope that things get back to normal sooner rather than later and maybe we will see it soon.
Robert we would love to make this happen, the cars and participation is what would make it really happen. We cannot afford to make a class and no one participate.
@@AmericanHotRodAssociation I would love to see it happen. Try contacting Steve DeTar, son of Ted, on Facebook. He's pretty tapped in with a bunch of these guys. I've spoken to several of these dudes on FB when my Drag Racing Page was still active and prior to that when I was a moderator on 60s 70s drag racing photos, my old group is still there, but it is now dormant. Robert Hill's Drag Racing Page,rip. There was some pretty heavy discussion going on and even some videos posted of a couple of these cars in action... Tell Tony to pick up the phone when he sees a number ending in 8303.
Quain Stott has been messing around with the idea of an fx class for a while now and it would probably be a pretty good idea to work on contacting the cousins Platt. They both have cars that fit the bill of what you're looking for.
Quain has already added an FX class and the Platt boys are involved.
@@AmericanHotRodAssociation We have 4 altered wheelbase cars running now in the A/FX Funny car class with the Souutheast Gassers Association the 2 Platt cars are involved with 2 other cars and several others being built.
Check out the Southeast coast gasser series they run sort of the -67 rulebook , imagine that with funnys and dragster (with just better saftey hoops etc but with some kind of 60 s rules and hard limits on fuelpumps and ignition, perhaps even only direct drive and no warmup burnouts just like the old days,, and we would love t see that show again , modern dragracing is simply put not fun anymore its gotten way to serious ,, and also i think stuff like the cool paint jobs just like the Gasser series mentioned people are missing these things today, people are sick of sponsor wrapped up milliondollar cars
How is Steve?
Great
How SEGA uses the gasser rules from 67 plus some of their own to keep things under control and SEGA is hard core on the rules and it serves the class well and the racing is very tight and entertaining.
There’s a bunch up here in western Canada running 70s Funny Cars just search Rocky Mountain nationals funny cars
I got to experience a handful of the Rocky Mountain funny cars last year at Kearney Raceway Park in Nebraska. Most of the stuff they were running was around 20 years old but still entertaining. But nothing compared to the show that Funny Car Chaos put on about a month later, and the best part was the local guy(what's up, Justin!) who won B class with an honest to God 1976 Monza (body and chassis never separated!) that used to belong to Roger Lindamood with a low buck small block Chevy!
Sheldon Kornblatts was killed in the "Snoopy" car, Sheldon Gecker is very much alive and still racing in the bullshit "index" classes.
Watch a Southeast Gassers Association race video