This DOES bring back the GOOD times. Saw several of these in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri back when times were fun. Yes, I am in my 70's now, but still remember throwing a 4 speed.
WAYNE WILSON,YES IT BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES, staying up all night Friday,getting the rod ready to blast anyone who comes up next to ya,my favorite was side bets,i ran a 273 cuda formula S it was light and lightweight crank and steel rods,7200 rpm here we come,can't out horsepower em,out rev em,it worked,my youth was not mis-spent it was the best days of my life,all smiles
strattuner: I bought my best friend's Dad's Fourmala S factory 383 camando auto/tac/console/pistol grip factory shifter/4:10 posi black on black cool Mopar bucket's One owner "A" title. My best friend and I Rebuilt the engine in 1979 High school Mattawan Mi then his Dad Bob took it home never fired up the engine it sat for five years or so in Bob's garage then I bought it for $800 all extra crome and Mopar dealership papers flyer's posters an the Fourmala S factory paper work that Bob had collected over the year's way cool stuff. I kept the Cuda S for about three years in my sister's garage never touched it then sold it to a man in Bangor Michigan. I never took it out of Bob's name then we never seen or heard of the Cuda Fourmala S for over thirty plus year's (it was still in Bob Baugher's name when I sold the Cuda with the "A title" ) Then just about five or six years ago a man called Bob on the phone and asked him about his Cuda Fourmala S that Bob had ordered special with the 383 Camando and all the factory Go-fast part's years ago from the dealer ship. You see the man had bought it and wanted to make sure it was all factory correct an original and if Bob Baugher was the man on the "A title" and wanted to make sure it wasn't a fake title. Bob was so excited when the man called about that cool old Cuda Fourmala S that use to be his and wanted to buy it back but then man never returned Bob's call's. Bob had said to me Dustin you know what that Cuda is worth now?? We both just laughed and said only if we had kept it right... Bob and his wife both have passed away recently I miss them both and my best friend Mike there Son every day...
Damn...This video brought back so many memories for me I actually cried. Those were the days. No corporate hospitality suites, no semis. No rockstar wannabe drivers. Just drag racing. Thanks for posting this
My mother and father both raced our family car which was a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 and then a 68 Road Runner. In the 60's my brothers and I grew up at Martin 131, Milan and Onondaga raceways and what a wonderful way to grow up and be exposed to drag racing. My little brother carries on the family past time and still races in Michigan and the car is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500...
Simply put, this video is golden. Reasonably good photos interwoven with good movie cam work resulting in a damn good historical piece. I love that it wasn't centered on the big names of the time. Sundays in middle America, that was a time to remember. Great all around job, and thanks.
like every thing from days gone by; this is when it was fun. who cares if they go 300mph today.this was the day of man and machine; NOT computers running the cars. THANK YOU ... great pictures and memories
Growing up in the mid 60's,Lions Drag strip in So.Cal was my neighborhood track.I took machine shop and auto shop classes in high school(Hamilton High),worked after school at a Chevron Station in Culver City Ca.Then,I could afford to go racing on the weekends.Tuesday night at Lions was run what ya brung night.If it passed inspection and you had a helmet,for 5 bucks you could take 3 passes.there was also E.T. bracket racing on weekends .I guess those are our good old days(Except for the draft !)And they where!!
WOW, just saw myself watch that first red truck go past at mid track! I'm the sandy haired kid sitting on the hood of my buddies 1960 Ford Galaxy! thanks!
I didn't want to leave that 'Chisler' without the 'R'. Also wanted to mention another famous dude, 'Ohio george Montgomery'. Thank you again for the tim,e capsule. I would swap today with that era anyday. The world today is seriously FUBAR
+The Dude It makes no sense considering how drag racing has a worldwide following... And the fact that dragsters were so much better looking in the 60's and 70's!
Thanks for this video, just found it. Lol, at 73 I got excited seening all those '40 Willys Coups, and '33-'34 Fords.....You made my day. Wish I had picked up a Willys Coupe when I could...Thanks again!!!
the good ole days of drag racing. I ran a 87 camaro 556 ci big block till the cost started taking away from my family an had to give it up. I've not been back to the drag strip in fear the smell of raging fuel an rubber would have me addicted once again.
Another great job John. How about one with the Modified Production cars of the early 70"s? Maybe Dave Avery's D/A Chevy II? You keep crankin em out and I'll keep watching em! The "Renegade"
Hey John, I stumbled on your video and discovered my dad was featured on it. He is driving a black 56 ford Victoria named EL TORRO. 3:48. Thanks for the video.
Your welcome John , great bid , I hope some younger guys check it out , in sure they will like it , ya know John I vividly remember going to docking late 60s , 70s and up to mid 80s , simpler times good clean fun , have a good one.
I got hooked on drag racing and Hotrods when I was a teenager in the sixties here in the U.K. Nothing has changed, I’m almost seventy & still have a ‘32 Ford Roadster street rod and love drag racing. Thanks for taking me back to those amazing times 👍👍👍
Hi there! I am assuming your original videos did not contain sound? If you do have the original footage of the Hole Shot 6 (6 cylinder Anglia) with sound, can you please post? This was my father in law's car :D Thanks!
I just realized that of all the thousands of decades of human history, I happened to be 17 years old in 1960. The following ten years of Girls and Gassers can never happen again. Take me now, Lord.
About the cars they were home made fast. Today you can buy a fast factory car but i don't think i would be as proud of that. I write awful but hope i make some sense.
hi, I just saw myself in the video Gasers at 131 Drag way in the 60s! I'm the sandy haired kid sitting on the White Ford Galaxy hood at the fence at mid track! as the little red truck goes past at speed! thanks!
It was fun wasn't it. I have done my part to ruin several 55 chevy's, several Oldsmobiles, even 62 Corvette. Hindsight, my word for the day. I had the opportunity to race there at the Super Chevy Show in 1995. It is a great track. Thanks for taking the time and sharing.
Love this vid! I'm a legit geezer (75) who prefers the racing I used to see at I-30 Drag Strip in Indiana-bracket aces like No Big Thing, the We-Haul Camaro, Karen's Camaro, et al-to today's more corporate scene.
WOW thanks John! i went to US131 throughout the 70's seen some of these cars still racing then. loved to watch Wild Willie Borsch? with his altered all crossed up and him never letting up.
I watch this one everyday .. Gasser's Rule .. soundtrack is Krazy Kool esp. CCR those times were the Best except for Nam .. God Bless The Unfortunate Sons .. I feel bad for those kids who gave it all .. that's the way it was and ya take it all as Precious Time . Thanks man .. Mike
John, Awesome footage - excellent editing and soundtrack choices. Love the old footage mixed in... Takes me back to being a kid and the smells involved with the drag strip. I finally have a '63 Nova gasser of my own - took me long enough.
I remember seeing "Shake Rattle and Run" at US 30 Dragstrip (Outside Gary, IN). I miss those good old days. I turned 16 in 1977, got into drag racing late 70's early 80's. Just as corporate sponsorship was getting into it. My best friend and I would go down to the hobby store, and buy all the drag racing models of our racing idles, build them, pretend they were racing on the pool table. Then a 9 second car would draw a crowd in the pits. Going to the track you'd see, "Car in tow" written in shoe polish on rhe rear window, if you couldn't afford a trailer.
I just love the 60s. Guys were cutting up everything. And I do mean everything. Vette's, tri-5's,. It didnt matter as long as you could fit a V8 in it. And back then??? When something was "trick"??? It really "trick". Just a cool time to be alive and racing.
Jon Alarcon your friends are LUCKY to have known them. Stone,Woods & cook were TRUE LEGEND’S Of drag racing. Their ‘41 Willy’s were AWESOME!!👍👍☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
tec61 your 1000 percent correct infact when lenny woods died my friend Mike Johnson was totally bummed out , my friend Joe grezbyk brother mark knew them from the Downey California area. You know how old street hot rodders are , in fact I want to say they shared the same shop complex mark had his Porsche shop and the stone woods and cook had the other shop, these guys are legends, there is another old hot rodder drag racer my buddy Joe grezbyk knows that is the famous Don Hampton of Hampton blowers ,his shop is still in Downey infact joe and I have breakfast with don Hampton at stox restaurant from time to time , he is a nice guy and so is his wife. Iv talked to her on you tube and she says hes always working and nothing slows him down
Jon Alarcon HOLY CRAP! Don Hampton?? ANOTHER freakin legend!! You guys are almost legends urself for just knowing them HAHA(no disrespect for saying that😊✌️👍👍) my dad was friend’s with DYNO DON NICKELSON(pro stock legend) that’s all I have LOL😀oh well better than nothin👍👍.THANKS for sharing that GREAT story.
The name above all names, “Stone, Woods and Cook”. I’ve got old pics of them and the Hurst Hemi Under Glass at the Southern Nationals at Bristol in 1964. Those Willises were getting rare.
These were proper fast cars, built by the best master mechanics and devoted drivers with balls! Today's generation of young drivers have no idea what real cars were! Hot rods Live forever!
Thank you for the video, brings back alot of memories in the 70s wasn't born till 71 but that's what drag racing was then you hit all the local hangouts during the week
Great video,takes ya back to when drag cars were a work of personal art,no advertising painted all over them , BlueMax,JungleJim ,ChiTownHustler,I miss them days,thanks a million
I remember when I was in the Marine's home on leave back in I believe 1970 at Miami Hollywood International Raceway I got to work with the Chi Town Hustler Pit crew.It was a match race best 2 out of 3 That night the lost there streak of consecutive wins ,when in the 2 round they lost a blower belt and and only won 2 0f the 3 races.
its so sad to see these old cars on film because its like this era is being replaced with ricers and imports do you know why i hate the imports or ricers? its just they look gay and you never see a honda or a toyota or a hyundai on the track, these cars are and still would be considered the best and most liked cars by car guys, yes everyone has an opinion and i dont care what other people say this will always be my favorite group of car.
john...i live in jackson...well spring arbor anyways...thank you for this video..its one of the best ive seen..i am too young to have been there in these glory days..my folks always say i was born too late.. this can let me see what it was really like. not just the cars but the era. ive been longing for onandaga to reopen as it has history like 131 does..again..thank you for the look back in time....
wow 131 Dragway looks alot diffrent now, i live bout a half hour away from it and go to the big IHRA and Mopar meet up there every year, to bad NHRA doesnt have there meet up there anymore, great vid!!!!
I'm trying to find info on a '55 Chevy gasser I used to owned (never raced it) Southern California. Orange '55 Chevy. 427/428 Ford motor. Cars name: "Half-Breed" Car used to belong to Gene Putnam from Ojai, CA. Jim Data of Ojai told me the car had been through many hands during the 60's and 70's. It's the only gasser I've seen with a windshield cut-out for the dual quad scoop. Car is long gone, but I still have the motor and is about to come to life again after 30 years.
Very Cool!!! I was born in '67 and have never been to the drags, but have always loved Gassers the best! Used to have a couple around here in the 80's on the street. A '56 Chevy with flipped El Camino (?) spindles and a '62(?) Chevy II with a straight front axle. They were the coolest cars in town! Thanks for doing the video with them in action!
Great video. You have to love the old gassers. I built and raced a 34 Ford C/Gas coupe in the late 1960s. Very fun time when most raced just for the fun of racing. Not many guys had sponors and no one had a lot of money. Thanks again for this walk down memory lane....!!!
love the the old willys and anglias great footage and thank you for the time you put in to this you are a true hottrodder im showing it to all my friends god speed to you brother old guys rule jimbo hail
This a great video. Thanks for putting this out here.The green and gold gassser at the begining of the video has been for sale the last 2 years at National Street Rods in Kalamazoo. I believe it is called the Dandy Lion. I took some pictures of it both times .
I grew up at the drags, as a result I race my Blown 57 Chevy Gasser. But seeing the Stone Woods and Cook Willys really hits home. I am friends with Mike Cook the son of Doug " Cookie" Cook and spend a lot of time looking at pictures from one of the first travelling drag race teams. What a honor it is to be exposed to so much of that. If you get a chance visit my channel and see my visits with the Cooks.
This DOES bring back the GOOD times. Saw several of these in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri back when times were fun. Yes, I am in my 70's now, but still remember throwing a 4 speed.
WAYNE WILSON,YES IT BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES, staying up all night Friday,getting the rod ready to blast anyone who comes up next to ya,my favorite was side bets,i ran a 273 cuda formula S it was light and lightweight crank and steel rods,7200 rpm here we come,can't out horsepower em,out rev em,it worked,my youth was not mis-spent it was the best days of my life,all smiles
strattuner: I bought my best friend's Dad's Fourmala S factory 383 camando auto/tac/console/pistol grip factory shifter/4:10 posi black on black cool Mopar bucket's One owner "A" title. My best friend and I Rebuilt the engine in 1979 High school Mattawan Mi then his Dad Bob took it home never fired up the engine it sat for five years or so in Bob's garage then I bought it for $800 all extra crome and Mopar dealership papers flyer's posters an the Fourmala S factory paper work that Bob had collected over the year's way cool stuff. I kept the Cuda S for about three years in my sister's garage never touched it then sold it to a man in Bangor Michigan. I never took it out of Bob's name then we never seen or heard of the Cuda Fourmala S for over thirty plus year's (it was still in Bob Baugher's name when I sold the Cuda with the "A title" ) Then just about five or six years ago a man called Bob on the phone and asked him about his Cuda Fourmala S that Bob had ordered special with the 383 Camando and all the factory Go-fast part's years ago from the dealer ship. You see the man had bought it and wanted to make sure it was all factory correct an original and if Bob Baugher was the man on the "A title" and wanted to make sure it wasn't a fake title. Bob was so excited when the man called about that cool old Cuda Fourmala S that use to be his and wanted to buy it back but then man never returned Bob's call's. Bob had said to me Dustin you know what that Cuda is worth now?? We both just laughed and said only if we had kept it right... Bob and his wife both have passed away recently I miss them both and my best friend Mike there Son every day...
@@strattuner I had the dodge dart version 273,4 barrel,4speed.posi rear. all factory equipt.Cant forget that square exhaust tip.
@@dinajet then you know how they squatted and ran pretty strong,we had good gas in them days
Damn...This video brought back so many memories for me I actually cried. Those were the days. No corporate hospitality suites, no semis. No rockstar wannabe drivers. Just drag racing. Thanks for posting this
My dad was El Torro racing at around 3:50. His trophies lined the walls of our garage!!!
My mother and father both raced our family car which was a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 and then a 68 Road Runner. In the 60's my brothers and I grew up at Martin 131, Milan and Onondaga raceways and what a wonderful way to grow up and be exposed to drag racing. My little brother carries on the family past time and still races in Michigan and the car is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500...
Modest Budget on the rods, towing with station wagons and older trailers. Wow Days of my youth and memories of a different time
Simply put, this video is golden. Reasonably good photos interwoven with good movie cam work
resulting in a damn good historical piece. I love that it wasn't centered on the big names of the time.
Sundays in middle America, that was a time to remember. Great all around job, and thanks.
Thank you so much, Mitch, for taking time to watch my video and leave a nice comment. I appreciate it very much!
John
This is by far one of the very best videos I have ever watched, make more please !!!!!
Great old movies. Thanks.
Sweeeeeeeeeet ! Mighty-Fine footage,always look forward to seeing another vid !!!
Thanks, really enjoyed it...
My home town track where 4 generation's of Baker have race
like every thing from days gone by; this is when it was fun. who cares if they go 300mph today.this was the day of man and machine; NOT computers running the cars. THANK YOU ... great pictures and memories
mechohaulic Well said! Thank you for watching and commenting.
John
Growing up in the mid 60's,Lions Drag strip in So.Cal was my neighborhood track.I took machine shop and auto shop classes in high school(Hamilton High),worked after school at a Chevron Station in Culver City Ca.Then,I could afford to go racing on the weekends.Tuesday night at Lions was run what ya brung night.If it passed inspection and you had a helmet,for 5 bucks you could take 3 passes.there was also E.T. bracket racing on weekends .I guess those are our good old days(Except for the draft !)And they where!!
You took the words right out of my mouth. Today, it's all about sponsers and Cubic Money!
Back when you worked all day, came home worked on the car until.... They did it for the love of the sport & don't forget the trophy.
Well said my Friend
WOW, just saw myself watch that first red truck go past at mid track! I'm the sandy haired kid sitting on the hood of my buddies 1960 Ford Galaxy! thanks!
Gary Stevens ...those were the BEST DAYS for Drag Racing.
what a trip to see yourself in one of these old drag video's...
when cars looked nice and the drivers were poor....great stuff...thank you
Storeisclosed seriously
This was when drag racing was fun and affordable . I have many great memories from racing gas class in the 60 s
This video is so American that it brought apple pie to tears!
and Lucky Strikes and Coca-cola
Yeah, the old day's when you could lift the hood of a car and see the ground on both sides of the engine.
Thanks for the memories.........no 4 door imports or RapCrap "music" here!!!! ;-)
haha! nope, certainly not, just a bunch of old white guys with fuel hungry/low HP ...yet good looking... cars.
@@ihycoi396 Also old English 1950's cars
What's not to like?
This is absolutely awesome, always loved gassers. Wish I could have been there in their heyday but I was born too late ..
I was there and It Was AWESOME! Just saying.
My father drove the "Shade Tree" Chevy.
I didn't want to leave that 'Chisler' without the 'R'. Also wanted to mention another famous dude, 'Ohio george Montgomery'. Thank you again for the tim,e capsule. I would swap today with that era anyday. The world today is seriously FUBAR
How could 17 ppl not like this what are they nuts I could almost smell the nitro an the alky
+The Dude It makes no sense considering how drag racing has a worldwide following... And the fact that dragsters were so much better looking in the 60's and 70's!
Better days,sadly passed . Great bit of film,thanks for posting,made me smile the whole way through 😆😆😆😆😆👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for stopping by, Garry. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
John
Sure do miss all this. Excellent job John. Sometimes i wish we could turn back the clock.
Thanks for this video, just found it. Lol, at 73 I got excited seening all those '40 Willys Coups, and '33-'34 Fords.....You made my day. Wish I had picked up a Willys Coupe when I could...Thanks again!!!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
John
Stone Woods Cook one of the most iconic drag cars from my youth.
the good ole days of drag racing. I ran a 87 camaro 556 ci big block till the cost started taking away from my family an had to give it up. I've not been back to the drag strip in fear the smell of raging fuel an rubber would have me addicted once again.
I feel so sorry for your loss man and you should go anyways. its good for the heart and soul 😉
Sorry about your loss!
😢
Go to the strip. And find a kid boy or girl and teach them. That will your legacy.
Another great job John. How about one with the Modified Production cars of the early 70"s? Maybe Dave Avery's D/A Chevy II? You keep crankin em out and I'll keep watching em! The "Renegade"
The best ! thanks for posting !
Hey John, I stumbled on your video and discovered my dad was featured on it. He is driving a black 56 ford Victoria named EL TORRO. 3:48. Thanks for the video.
Loved those Vicky Ford's.espcially with straight axe.one of the most beautiful cars built. Thank your dad from me.
Your welcome John , great bid , I hope some younger guys check it out , in sure they will like it , ya know John I vividly remember going to docking late 60s , 70s and up to mid 80s , simpler times good clean fun , have a good one.
Mmmm, smells good, hun. What's for dinner? Green onions, gassers, and a tall glass of Clearwater. Baby, you're the greatest!
Perfect Tunes !
Thanks for preserving history man
I got hooked on drag racing and Hotrods when I was a teenager in the sixties here in the U.K. Nothing has changed, I’m almost seventy & still have a ‘32 Ford Roadster street rod and love drag racing. Thanks for taking me back to those amazing times 👍👍👍
Hi there! I am assuming your original videos did not contain sound? If you do have the original footage of the Hole Shot 6 (6 cylinder Anglia) with sound, can you please post? This was my father in law's car :D Thanks!
+throttlegals My 8mm camera had no sound, sorry.
I just realized that of all the thousands of decades of human history, I happened to be 17 years old in 1960. The following ten years of Girls and Gassers can never happen again. Take me now, Lord.
sure wish I was old enough to be around back then, my gasser will be done in the spring, can't wait until I get it on the track
Thanks for sharing an important decade of drag racing. I really enjoyed the music and you mixed it perfectly with the cars.
the cars back then may not have been as fast as they are now ,but to me they were more fun to watch most of them was old classic,s
About the cars they were home made fast. Today you can buy a fast factory car but i don't think i would be as proud of that. I write awful but hope i make some sense.
3:50 my dad El Torro racing team
hi, I just saw myself in the video Gasers at 131 Drag way in the 60s! I'm the sandy haired kid sitting on the White Ford Galaxy hood at the fence at mid track! as the little red truck goes past at speed! thanks!
Thanks for taking me back. I hung around there in the early 70's. Ran my new Nova there.
You're welcome, thanks for checking this out!
John
It was fun wasn't it. I have done my part to ruin several 55 chevy's, several Oldsmobiles, even 62 Corvette. Hindsight, my word for the day. I had the opportunity to race there at the Super Chevy Show in 1995. It is a great track. Thanks for taking the time and sharing.
Thank you for this video. I grew up in the 60's and spent time at Detroit Dragway and cruising Telegraph.
Love this vid!
I'm a legit geezer (75) who prefers the racing I used to see at I-30 Drag Strip in Indiana-bracket aces like No Big Thing, the We-Haul Camaro, Karen's Camaro, et al-to today's more corporate scene.
Good times.
Excellent video, love those gassers!!!
WOW thanks John!
i went to US131 throughout the 70's seen some of these cars still racing then.
loved to watch Wild Willie Borsch?
with his altered all crossed up and
him never letting up.
I watch this one everyday .. Gasser's Rule .. soundtrack is Krazy Kool esp. CCR those times were the Best except for Nam .. God Bless The Unfortunate Sons .. I feel bad for those kids who gave it all .. that's the way it was and ya take it all as Precious Time . Thanks man .. Mike
At 8:05, the baddest of all AA/Ger's, the Malco Gasser. No brag just fact.
Have to disagree, Stone wood's and cook set the bar
John,
Awesome footage - excellent editing and soundtrack choices. Love the old footage mixed in... Takes me back to being a kid and the smells involved with the drag strip. I finally have a '63 Nova gasser of my own - took me long enough.
Thanks for the kind words and good luck with your gasser! Thanks for watching!
John
what can one say but AWESOME !
Great stuff. Begs the question - where are they now?
shake rattle run still going to this day.
same car.beautiful machine it is.
I remember seeing "Shake Rattle and Run" at US 30 Dragstrip (Outside Gary, IN). I miss those good old days. I turned 16 in 1977, got into drag racing late 70's early 80's. Just as corporate sponsorship was getting into it. My best friend and I would go down to the hobby store, and buy all the drag racing models of our racing idles, build them, pretend they were racing on the pool table. Then a 9 second car would draw a crowd in the pits. Going to the track you'd see, "Car in tow" written in shoe polish on rhe rear window, if you couldn't afford a trailer.
I just love the 60s. Guys were cutting up everything. And I do mean everything. Vette's, tri-5's,. It didnt matter as long as you could fit a V8 in it. And back then??? When something was "trick"??? It really "trick". Just a cool time to be alive and racing.
Just was wondering if you have any more footage of that era at Martin? I was there that day running in a stock class. I grew up there during the 60's.
I have two friends that knew the stones woods and cook guys and my friends are old time racers and hot rodders
Jon Alarcon your friends are LUCKY to have known them. Stone,Woods & cook were TRUE LEGEND’S Of drag racing. Their ‘41 Willy’s were AWESOME!!👍👍☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
I us too see them at westhampton in the 60 s great car stone woods an cook
tec61 your 1000 percent correct infact when lenny woods died my friend Mike Johnson was totally bummed out , my friend Joe grezbyk brother mark knew them from the Downey California area. You know how old street hot rodders are , in fact I want to say they shared the same shop complex mark had his Porsche shop and the stone woods and cook had the other shop, these guys are legends, there is another old hot rodder drag racer my buddy Joe grezbyk knows that is the famous Don Hampton of Hampton blowers ,his shop is still in Downey infact joe and I have breakfast with don Hampton at stox restaurant from time to time , he is a nice guy and so is his wife. Iv talked to her on you tube and she says hes always working and nothing slows him down
Jon Alarcon HOLY CRAP! Don Hampton?? ANOTHER freakin legend!! You guys are almost legends urself for just knowing them HAHA(no disrespect for saying that😊✌️👍👍) my dad was friend’s with DYNO DON NICKELSON(pro stock legend) that’s all I have LOL😀oh well better than nothin👍👍.THANKS for sharing that GREAT story.
tec61 I know who dyno Don is he definitely a big time racer
The name above all names, “Stone, Woods and Cook”. I’ve got old pics of them and the Hurst Hemi Under Glass at the Southern Nationals at Bristol in 1964. Those Willises were getting rare.
8:58 Stone, Woods and Cook, this was a black owned team.
Thanks for sharing, I lived in Kalamazoo for 40yrs and that was my home track.
Think Cook was sleeping on that last pass,but he caught him.Man does this bring back memories.I had hair then.Thanks for sharing.
Paisano
awesome , Stone Woods and Cook , The Maz Big John .....
Could not agree more two of the best.
These were proper fast cars, built by the best master mechanics and devoted drivers with balls! Today's generation of young drivers have no idea what real cars were! Hot rods Live forever!
Thank you for the video, brings back alot of memories in the 70s wasn't born till 71 but that's what drag racing was then you hit all the local hangouts during the week
Great video,takes ya back to when drag cars were a work of personal art,no advertising painted all over them , BlueMax,JungleJim
,ChiTownHustler,I miss them days,thanks a million
I remember when I was in the Marine's home on leave back in I believe 1970 at Miami Hollywood International Raceway I got to work with the Chi Town Hustler Pit crew.It was a match race best 2 out of 3 That night the lost there streak of consecutive wins ,when in the 2 round they lost a blower belt and and only won 2 0f the 3 races.
i agree just times were better then i just miss the old times
I'm mid 70s now but I remember these days well. These were the days.
True drag racing!
No laptops running cars in these days. Just some old guy with a stethoscope and a real knack for finding HP where you could.
Nothing like seeing the local dragstrip in the old days. Thanks!
its so sad to see these old cars on film because its like this era is being replaced with ricers and imports do you know why i hate the imports or ricers? its just they look gay and you never see a honda or a toyota or a hyundai on the track, these cars are and still would be considered the best and most liked cars by car guys, yes everyone has an opinion and i dont care what other people say this will always be my favorite group of car.
to all that dont know...this track is the famous 131 dragway in martin michigan..it is located on the west side of the state..all of the famous afx
john...i live in jackson...well spring arbor anyways...thank you for this video..its one of the best ive seen..i am too young to have been there in these glory days..my folks always say i was born too late.. this can let me see what it was really like. not just the cars but the era. ive been longing for onandaga to reopen as it has history like 131 does..again..thank you for the look back in time....
cool. i think that's my dad's car at :33
wow 131 Dragway looks alot diffrent now, i live bout a half hour away from it and go to the big IHRA and Mopar meet up there every year, to bad NHRA doesnt have there meet up there anymore, great vid!!!!
This was some amazing footage. Very well put together. I enjoyed watching it over and over. Great job! Thanks for posting it.
I'm trying to find info on a '55 Chevy gasser I used to owned (never raced it) Southern California. Orange '55 Chevy. 427/428 Ford motor. Cars name: "Half-Breed" Car used to belong to Gene Putnam from Ojai, CA. Jim Data of Ojai told me the car had been through many hands during the 60's and 70's. It's the only gasser I've seen with a windshield cut-out for the dual quad scoop. Car is long gone, but I still have the motor and is about to come to life again after 30 years.
Clearly remember going when i was young.
thanks what great memories and music
Thanks for posting this great vid.
I live like 40 mins from there. Been going there since I was a kid. Cool to see how it was in the 60’s compared to now. 👍🏼
Very nice video, brought back many good memories.
Thank you for sharing this video fantastic awesome footage - even the girlfriend loved it too👍🏻
love it!!!
So here it is! My video response to this awesome footage! Thank you again so much John! th-cam.com/video/opeJAr2sKxo/w-d-xo.html
+Karen Chisholm Thank YOU, Karen, for including some of my film in your great music video. Love that song! Wishing you much success!
John
My fav back in the day was Big John's Mazmanian.
Very Cool!!! I was born in '67 and have never been to the drags, but have always loved Gassers the best! Used to have a couple around here in the 80's on the street. A '56 Chevy with flipped El Camino (?) spindles and a '62(?) Chevy II with a straight front axle. They were the coolest cars in town! Thanks for doing the video with them in action!
I actually saw the stone woods and cook car run years ago...
I remember these sundays at our local track. thank you
Wow! What incredible footage and photos.Talk about style! I love these cars.Thank you🏁
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. You have to love the old gassers. I built and raced a 34 Ford C/Gas coupe in the late 1960s. Very fun time when most raced just for the fun of racing. Not many guys had sponors and no one had a lot of money. Thanks again for this walk down memory lane....!!!
love the the old willys and anglias great footage and thank you for the time you put in to this you are a true hottrodder im showing it to all my friends god speed to you brother old guys rule jimbo hail
El torro racing was my dad! What an awesome race!
Those were the days !
Best 9 minutes 29 seconds of my day! Thanks!
I had the " stone , woods , cook " model car for years. One of my favorites.
such a great video, to see the vintage cars the way it use to be aw back in the day..love it
This a great video. Thanks for putting this out here.The green and gold gassser at the begining of the video has been for sale the last 2 years at National Street Rods in Kalamazoo. I believe it is called the Dandy Lion. I took some pictures of it both times .
I grew up at the drags, as a result I race my Blown 57 Chevy Gasser. But seeing the Stone Woods and Cook Willys really hits home. I am friends with Mike Cook the son of Doug " Cookie" Cook and spend a lot of time looking at pictures from one of the first travelling drag race teams. What a honor it is to be exposed to so much of that. If you get a chance visit my channel and see my visits with the Cooks.
Thanks for this blast from the past.I've also got a couple of pics being there." Ruff and Reddy" from South Haven comes to mind.