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** GREEN VALLEY RACEWAY - TEXAS
~ Dick Harrell never seen before interview & his 1966 Nickey Chevy II along with Gas Ronda, Announcer, Jon Lundberg, Pete Talmadge, Ray Capps among many other greats.
****AHRA World Point Championship Finale Drag Races at Green Valley Raceway with Pete Talmadge and the biggest names in the sport like Gas Ronda, Dickie Harrell Mr. Chevrolet, good old Texas boy, Ray Capps, CKC Racing J.E. Kristek and the greatest voice ever, Jon Lundberg announcing in the tower, plus, so many other drag racing legends! Thanks for watching. Feel free to share to keep the memories from fading.
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This is the best classic drag racing footage I've seen on YT, thanks so much. I was 16 in '69, so in '66 I was just reading about these racers/cars in the HR magazine hidden behind my math text book in school. I've always loved the door-slammers. This footage is especially cool for me because I live only a few blocks from the old GV Raceway location. While the neighborhood grew up around it, the track and timing tower remained until just a few years ago. Thanks again!
supernash ive heard alot of stories about the 409 motor from my dad
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supernash Our Dad used to take us there. Gene Snow from Ft Worth and all these guys. A great trip back in time. Didn’t Harrell go into 4x4s later? Also went to the SCCA races SCCA Sunburn races. These trips left an indelible mark on my brother and I.
I love this video because my grandpa built cars for dickie Harrell and I treasure the memories
Brings back a lot of memories of Green Valley Raceway. Went there lot of times in the late Sixties. My brother Kenny Bernstein had his first race in a AA/FD at green valley.
Incredible video of my Grandfather I can;t thank you enough for posting!!!
John Ronda Jr saw your grandpa at Palmdale in the 60 s he'd beat the gas dragsters in his Mustang,unbelievable!
Cool I remember seeing your grandpa at Irwindale Raceway. I grew up in Covina in the '60's - my folks bought their cars at Russ Davis. Gas Ronda was a hero to us.
FORD POWER!!!
when I was a kid growing up in west Texas, I got to meet Mr. Harrell. He became my hero. I'll never forget him. That was a long long time ago. I'm 70 now.
This is real drag racing.... No computer controlled stuff. Engines, fuel, and drivers....
Not to mention the analog system to send the ET slip info from the booth down to the track! Awesome stuff!!
Exactly 👍🇬🇧
My dad would take me to Green Valley every summer in the mid 60's when i was just a kid. I loved that place. We lived in Pleasant grove in Southeast Dallas and the track was way out in the country back then or so it seemed to a 10-12 year old kid. I'll never forget the first night race I saw there. Thanks for sharing.
wow ,Dick Harrell in 66 chevy II super sport .red with cragar SS mag wheels,what a gem
This was such a cool surprise. I was three when this was filmed. I grew up at this track. My dad won the 1969 world championship at green valley in factory stock. My entire childhood revolved around this track and drag racing. Blew my mind when he said green valley in Smithfield Texas. Sadly because of urban sprawl it's saw it's demise in the 80s. I even saw evil Knievel jump at this track. Thanks for posting this.
I used to watch Gas Ronda in SoCal 1964-1970, so seeing this video was a real pleasure. Gas was always may favorite drag racer.
Thank you very much for posting this video it is pure gold!
our family lived and still live close to the now long gone Green Valley Raceway, saw Mr Harrell race many times. Good Times.
I loved the old AHRA! The rules were less restrictive and freer than the stodgy NHRA. In the 1960s, my home track was Alton Dragway, RIP, an AHRA track that did not require a driver’s license to race. This allowed 15 year old me to make my first pass down the quarter mile driving my mom’s 1963 Chrysler. Today, at 70 years of age, I am still an active drag racer thanks to those halcyon days of my youth growing up in the golden age of drag racing . Now I race a street legal drag bike with no wheelie bar and a DOT rear tire, and hold the track ET record at my home track in NJ at 8.50 seconds for street legal bikes, and the track speed record for all motorcycles at 168 mph.
THANK YOU VALERIE !!!!!!! This is amazing to watch.
Thank you for watching!
A telephone pole at the end of the shutdown? Isn't it amazing how we learn things the hard way. I remember this era well, my father taking me to all the area tracks. He was a B17 mechanic during the war and was a motorsport fan rather than a stick and ball fan. I sat in race track bleachers instead of ballparks. He would grudge his 60 Ford 352 4 barrel and l can still remember the smile. I later raced my 70 Olds W31 4speed in the mid seventies. I still go to the area tracks when I'm able, the ones that sill exist anyway, and go to Indy almost every since 1973. Thanks Dad, l love and miss you.
Absolute finest footage of my past era. Thank you!
Great video, it takes me back to when I used to hang out at the Valley. The best era of drag racing for me. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for posting. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. Love how people held themselves in conversation and an interesting time for hot rods and building speed.
wonderful footage! thanks for posting the best nostalgia drag racing I have ever seen.
I really enjoyed the effort in putting this together, thoughtful and insightful.
Thank you for posting this video.. I'm a 1967 baby and it's nice to see how respectful and humble it used to be back in the day
..excellent racing
Holly cow! Who would have thought the guy with blower problems would go on to become one of the greatest tuners of all time. R.I.P double A Dale Armstrong.
Broght back lots of memories used to drive up there from Houston In the late 1960s and 70 's with a pair of Race Masters in the trunk Thanks again
Loved this! Thanks for posting!
Fabulous! Thank you, really enjoyed this. I'm involved in nostalgia drag racing here in the UK and its great to see these cars in the environment they were truly in. If I had a time machine, I'd definitely go and visit these events.
I remember reading a magazine in the 90's or so a guy purchased a Harrel prepared Nova, I think. When he went to pick up the car Dick took him for a ride he would never forget in the guys car, putting it through the paces. I think Don Yenko used to do the same thing. What cool times.
Sunday! suanday, Sunday! At Green Valley Raceway! Been there it's awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this gem with us. Those were the days!
Thank you for watching! =)
Raced at Green Valley dozens of times. I wasn't from the area but we looked forward to making the trip and racing there a couple times a season. Beautiful Race track. It was one of many drag strips that are gone.
All the big names made it to Green Valley. Used to race my 67 Ram Air GTO. Some of the best times ever!
My first drag race as a kid was at Green Valley, thanks for the memories!
This is PURE gold. Thank you for this living history.......
My uncle Mike took me to see these guys at capital raceway this brings back some cool memories ....Thanks for the post.......
Just found your channel while watching some drag racing. Subscribed right away.. You have brought back so many memories. Was driving with my dad from Tucson to Kentucky in the mid 60's and we stopped for gas in New Mexico and seen some pictures of a drag car with the name Dickie Harrell on it. Thought wow we must be related....somewhere down the line..? Anyway we got some autographed pictures that I still have somewhere. Drag racing was a passion growing up in the 60s and 70s. I was either wrenching or at Tucson Drag Way.
Thanks for bringing back some great memories !
GREAT vintage racing! Thank you for posting.
Fantastic video! Thanks for posting.
What a great video ,thank-you. Don Garlits had a suburban in the black and white paint style that he used back in the day also.
What a great time in racing history.
Forget Dragstalgia nights ... I just found my catnip ... the real deal old school baby! I love it ...
I remember 3 trips to this famed drag strip. The first was Drag Racing in 65 or 66. We lived in Mesquite blocks from the rodeo Grounds. Before 635 and I20 to the south this was no easy feat. My next trip was 68ish. They raced stock car type racing with the long straightawayand on the return lane. Turn left and right. Tommy Smothers was a participant. The last was for the final NHRA sponsored event before they closed the track in 85 or 86. Great Racing. Great Video. thanks for posting...
thanks Valerie for posting!
Lovin' this video so cool and the rule of lining up way ahead of the other car is something I've never seen before thanks again!
back then, we did not have the computerized multi stage starting tree
so that had to alter the car position to do a handi cap start for 2 mismatched cars.
Now days they can just program the tree to delay the lights for the non handicapped side, which is kind of nice because you still get your ET since you still break the lights on launch.
Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks 👍🇬🇧
Great Video !!! Pure Excellence !!!!! Ray Capps is a Riot...
Dad took me to watch the races there many times in the 60's, got my drivers license in 67' and bracket raced several cars at Green Valley for years after that. Great job of digitizing this terrific piece of history! Very nice.
Thank you! Growing up the 60s and 70s was like no other era ever! Glad you enjoyed this as much as we did. :-)
@@DickHarrell yepper, no better time
Every time he ran head hunter I got more excited about the interview. I could talk to him for hours.
You have to be an old timer to realize how rare this is. Gas Rhonda? He's in my July 1970 issue of Hot Rod. Slick old Pete Talmadge and Dick Harrel. Wow.
AHRA played a key role in the development of drag racing. There was the famous Tulsa challenge to the Indy Nationals back in 72 which ushered in better pay for racers.
I think we need a new version of AHRA to bring the fun and sport of the hot rodder back.
Thank you! We agree with you 100%
@@DickHarrell would be awesome to bring this kind of racing back
Yeah. Nhra is dead.
Ahra is back.
this is awesome..wow ..great vid. thanks for the upload.
Was a great video.. my mentor was crew chief on the "Gas Rhonda" is the 70's, (and a lot of others).. how far has this sport come...wow
Come a long way, but not as fun to watch. Technology kills everything
Great video. Much appreciated. Thanks.
just awesome,,,thank you
Dear Valerie, I remember your dad very well. We were just little kids but I remember your Dad taking me for rides when we all lived in Carlsbad NM. My Dad Don Dixon just loved your Dad! They both worked for US. Borax. My Dad was a mechanic there. I remember going for test rides in your Dad's cars way back when. Do you remember that 67 Chevy II he had glassed in with only the roadster roll bar? He asked me one time what I thought of it. Being a 5 yr old boy I told Your Dad, " It's so ugly" Your Dad just laughed. Take care Val! DDDave Dixon
Valerie, I knew your father, Dick Harrell, at Carlsbad, NM where I grew up. My two older brothers may have gone to school with him - they graduated from CHS in '49 and '50. I remember in 1958 when your father was in business with Harold Saunders in a small building down past the east end of Church St. You have some excellent video. I had almost forgotten about those days. I used to see Bill Garrett often at Garrett Auto Supply - Bill was well aquainted with your father. Wish you the very best for the future.
Tanks for much😉 👍👍👍👍real cool
Great video..Dick Harrell at 9:44 into the video. Unfortunately I was at Toronto International Dragway when he lost his life.....RIP Dick.
for sure Stephen!!!!
I was there at TID that day, too.
I was working at TID that day a very sad day....
my dad set two class records with his Flathead 6 Plymouth gasser was a 47 Plymouth with two ones I still have the car and the trophies if anyone has any footage I would love to see it
Absolutely one of the coolest drag racing videos ever. I was a high school senior in 1966 and this video took me right back to that time of great music, hot cars, and beautiful girls. Thank you so much!
Very cool 😎
I could watch this all day
Fabulous vintage footage. Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm off to check out the 1965 Winternats @ Bee Line Dragway in AZ(that track is lonnnnnnng gone!). This is far more fun than reading before retiring for the night.
Thank you for your feedback. We think it is the best drag racing flashback of how the greatest era used to be. Thanks for watching =)
This is wonderful!!! My dad found this, he was there! There is one frame of people sitting under the tower at 1:13:20 but it's hard to tell the people sitting there. It's pretty neat that my dad found this, thank you!
Used to go there for Drag Racing and SCCA Racing. Great to see this again👍👍😎😎 Man, a lot of drag racers came from local area, never realized.
Thanks for posting this up too about the late 70s is when drag racing was cool.Now the cars all look the same no more wild paint jobs too make them stand out they all just look the same.
Fantastic footage
Excellent !
CKC nova at 6 min with the late great J.E. Kristek.....AWESOME!!!
thank you!!!!!!!!!
I was at the drag strip near Acton, Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe Dragway when Dick Harrell crashed at extreme speed onto the side of the track after the finish line. I think it killed him instantly as the car body parts flew off before the car hit some trees about 75 feet to the side of the track at about the 1,500 foot point. The OPP Ontario Provincial Police came and since nobody from track helped him, i stepped in to help the cop measure all these distances with his tape measure. I was wearing an orange jacket so when we needed to walk onto the track to take a measurement, i held up my arms, and they stopped the racing for a couple of minutes. We spent about 40 minutes taking every possible measurement and the report by that cop was made public and published in the Toronto and area newspapers after the coroner held his hearing. I was so angry at their track manager for not helping the cop. The racers didn't find out that Dickie had died until i told them. The cop told me the truth. That day was a dose of reality for me. My name is Mark Smyth.
I remember that .....so sad.
Mark S is the wreck on video?
Saw him run the day before, he did a flame burnout. So sad.
Mark Smyth, we would love for you to email us privately. dickharrellperformance@gmail.com
Dick Harrell's daughter had no idea a police report was made. She has a lot of unanswered questions about her father. Thank you for sharing.
Oh man....I remember hearing about that.....what a MASSIVE loss of racing talent...I was in a state of disbelief for days...very sad..
This is drag racing! Love these cars.
The Gas Rhonda Show and
Well deserved
Excellent footage! I miss those days!
Thank You.....
When I first started drag racing in the 70s some of the guys that were older than me used to be the flagman,
in the towers located at the end of the strip who would decide the win-loss.
It was the old Checkered Flag who decided.
One of the stories I will never forget is he said when the Dragsters would run, they would spend more time focusing on it swerving down the track.
to where they had to make a split second decision if they were going to "jump" out of the Crow's Nest.
Ah, the good ole Days!
Bet that short wheelbase Bronco was a handful to handle going down the track.
The good old days of drag racing.
💥 Great Footage Of The Beginning Years Of Drag Racing… I Was 12 💥
This is amazing!
Amazing footage
My first race car. 66 Chevelle 396 right behind Dickey Harrell. You got to look fast.
I own one in my garage right now. 396 solid lifters....Mint condition. Just took it out for a terrorizing neighborhood run.
Van Tastic My car was Aztec Bronze looks alike.
Van Tastic My car was a 360 hp car with no plate.
Van Tastic Good luck with your build. I love the 66. Great car.
gotta' love the Head Hunter...low buck guy makes good!
love the Dick Harrell interviews!
Great post!
Love the Video and only live 3 miles from the Harrell shop. Love it when any New Mexican making good and Dick was a Champ.
Mike
Awesome video. Actually saw my Dad in the video (White Lightning 62 Bubble Top). Would love to own a hard copy! thanks for posting!
Your dad and the White Lightening 62 are some other videos on you tube.
The summer of 66' seems like yesterday went I spent the summer at my Grandmothers farm after leaving 3rd grade. I was a kid but was heavy into cars and the HotRod scene then. One of my favorites at the time was the 57 Chevy. I knew it would be a classic even before it was a Classic.
I'm using 80% methane, Been running the Same pistons, Same rings.
"For a year now""....in my Hemi!
Leaning on his Fender in a nonchalant discussion.
As he climbs into it for another pass and in a short sleeve t-shirt / open face helmet...
Oh Yaaa...
The good old days
That young man was Cool 😎. I really digged his drop top Mopar. I hope he's still alive n well.
Love that guy. My kinna people.
THIS was drag racing !! You Tube diamond 💎!!
that handicap system is so interesting...
instead of delaying the lights....ya just start one car infront of the other lol!
Some very respectable numbers, both in ET/MPH & prize money.
Great interviews along with the racing... Gas Ronda what a champion... ps wasn't sure about some of those handicaps starts though lol...
Dick Harrell was my hero. He built a stock class Corvette for my cousin that would lift the front wheels off the line.
Thanx Val
Great memories of beautiful Green Valley in its best days. If viewers think that Ray Capp's chopped-off Dodge "Headhunter" was a crude machine, you should have seen the parts-shedding, oil-smoking clunkers he raced in earlier days. He was frequently lucky to keep them running long enough to get to the finish line. I used to laugh at them, until Mike Burkhart pointed out to me that Ray was always out there competing, giving it the best he had, and sometimes winning. Mike was right--Ray was a winner because he was a fierce competitor.
If Ray Capps is still with us, please give him our best from us at Dick Harrell!
My name is Scott Harrell born in fort worth and my sisters were born in Dallas. I know that I have kin in the hill country and have met some. Love the show.
Bingo! Thank you!
Absolutely love it...& seein Dikie Harrell woth his nova just iced it wow!...those were the days!...whis we cpuld bring em back
Sorry bout the spelling..lol!
There was my 66 Malibu in the beginning!!!
Awesome
Second time around, but still cool. Priceless footage and commentary,
JT
Florida Dragstrip Riot 4 (10-31-20)
BEAUTIFUL.......
GAS RHONDA ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES AND THE S O H C
I can't not re watch the head hunter interview over and over. That ole feller was tickled to death. I would've been too. Man that was great. He was from the sticks back in texas lol.
Have seen video of a friend of mines dad in his one of only 2 made 1965 cutlass 442 w40 ..its the only one in the world since the other one was totaled in a drag race in florida... it still looks brand new with stupid low miles... only.2 people checked the box in 1965 for the w40 package... is a beautiful car..
Harrell's Nova is one sweet looking racecar !
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