I wish motocross was still as it originally was, on natural terrain. My first real race was in 1980, in Calgary Canada and the track looked a whole like this; grass, rough, hills. This is motocross. It’s cool to see David Bailey before he went to Honda and dominated, particularly cool to see him on that Kawasaki👍 And Mike Guerra on a Husky winning at Unadilla= PURE GOLD! And that was just the support class! Every childhood hero of mine is racing against each other in the main race, Lackey, Hannah, Ward, Mike Bell, Breker, Howerton, Sun, Tripes, Reid, Barnett! This is the only video I have ever seen of Hannah riding an open bike! Just spectacular Mr. Bailey! Thanks for sharing!!!
I was there every summer ca. 1978-1982 and saw a lot of the greats. I bought Pat Moroney's Husky CR250 after the 1977 race season. Man, that thing was a rocket, piston bored waaay out! As the local hero, Pat always got the biggest audience response on his way through the gravity cavity. I felt real privileged to have his bike, which was the first Husky I ever owned. After that I became a Husky freak riding CR250s, a CR390 and the king of them all, a 1982 CR430. I saw some of the footage on here of how Unadilla looks now and it seems to have been turned into a supercross track, no character. When those guys started practice it was just all grass up to there elbows until they got it well beaten down after an hour or two. It was a very wild, natural track back then I just loved seeing all those US and European pros having it out there. I still have the old posters from the events on my walls today and they were classic, too, with the tag line: "Global powers invade the premeir US track in an all-out battle to be world champion. Be there." Enough said!
Nailed it. We started going in '78 as well. Still get there today, but there is no comparison. MXSports has guided the Robinson's wrong. No more grass, or over seeding ,filled in and flattened out the iconic start, added 3-4 SX obstacles and it is so smooth (save for the slot car ruts when they over water). Crazy they took the gnarliest natural track ever nd have dumbed it down. This video is how it should have remained
Those were all 250's in those motos. Its was the support class Bailey was in. The 500cc class was ended after the 1979 Tran-Am series when Noyce and Malherbe came over. That was the last of the big bore fall races.
Cool. Im from las vegas and we used to go to the spring national @saddleback, usgp-Carlsbad,superbowl of mx,LA coliseum and the fall trans am back at saddleback. Magically mystical…
What a gem of a video....brings back a lot of memories of some of my heroes. Howerton, Hannah, Barnett, Glover, Ward, Sun, Lackey, Reid, etc. I remember seeing David Bailey as a privateer on his Kawi at a Colorado national.....i was thinking, who is this guy? Lol. Thanks for the videos Gary!
HI Gary! Jimmy "Ther Greek" Gianatsis here.... I see Brad Lackey on his factory #711 Kawasaki KX450 at the 4:40 min mark so this must be the Open Class shown at the beginning of your video, and I see Roger DeCanter in street clothes stsnding in the Mechanics Area and hear announcer Larry Myers saying Roger isn't racing this year and I don't see any other Europeans. Then the video jumps into the 250cc Support Class at the 7:00 min mark, which seems to be the premier race since it has all the top Ameican riders like LaPorte, Hannah, Marty Smith, Marty Tripes, etc. So the Open Class had fadded away as the Trans-AMA's premier class. So sad.
1980 Silver Sands against Bob Hannah remember that Gary? GREAT RACING HERE TOO RACED MYSELF IN MICHIGAN MAFIA FLYING DENNY BENTLEY IS IN THIS ONE WITH DAVID GREAT RACING THANKS GARY WHEN YOU AND David taught KEITH BOWEN AND MYSELF WE WERE AMA AMATUER BACK THEN AT FREEDOM HILLS STANTON MICHIGAN DENNY BENTLEY 582 USED TO DOMINATE OUT THERE BACK THEN JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU TODAY GARY AND DAVID YOU BOTH THANKS GUYS LOVE YOU MAN 👨 😀 👍 TROY STOLL ☺️ 😀 👍
Good morning Jimmy... Good to hear from you. What you been up to? Well also good we are still here. To many guy leaving us. You know I had another thought, What year did you start doing your thing at the races? Man it been a good one, I was there for the best of times and so glad I got to take so many photos and videos. I am really enjoying transferring all this stuff and getting out there for everyone to see. I have so much that I don't think I am going to get it all done before I die. How about you? You must have some good stuff? Anyway good hearing from you.
Yeah. You can go that much faster on a fully groomed and prepped course. If they had the race that track now, they would complain that there is grass on the course and there are too many bumps.
Bob Hannah didn't like anyone he was racing. Broc, because he had to let him by at a race so Broc could win the Championship. By orders from Yamaha, Bob was not happy..... Bob was a winner and wasn't about giving anyone any thing.
@@wandellasbell8843 Actually we are all wrong . It was the 1980 Trans-USA race at Unadilla on October 5th won by Kent Howerton. I was blessed to have been there as a team LOP Racing mechanic for Steve Martin #51.
Check out Bob Hannah between 5:38-5:50. What the heck is he wearing? Is it a prototype of the HRP Flak Jak? Later in the video he appears to be wearing a traditional JT style chest protector.
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It was a better sport back then. More accessible to the average guy. It was the golden age of motocross.
I wish motocross was still as it originally was, on natural terrain. My first real race was in 1980, in Calgary Canada and the track looked a whole like this; grass, rough, hills. This is motocross. It’s cool to see David Bailey before he went to Honda and dominated, particularly cool to see him on that Kawasaki👍 And Mike Guerra on a Husky winning at Unadilla= PURE GOLD! And that was just the support class! Every childhood hero of mine is racing against each other in the main race, Lackey, Hannah, Ward, Mike Bell, Breker, Howerton, Sun, Tripes, Reid, Barnett!
This is the only video I have ever seen of Hannah riding an open bike! Just spectacular Mr. Bailey! Thanks for sharing!!!
🗽And local 😋boys too Kickass Kessler👍
@@petertothRC-FPV Tom Rice was fast too !
I was there every summer ca. 1978-1982 and saw a lot of the greats. I bought Pat Moroney's Husky CR250 after the 1977 race season. Man, that thing was a rocket, piston bored waaay out! As the local hero, Pat always got the biggest audience response on his way through the gravity cavity. I felt real privileged to have his bike, which was the first Husky I ever owned. After that I became a Husky freak riding CR250s, a CR390 and the king of them all, a 1982 CR430. I saw some of the footage on here of how Unadilla looks now and it seems to have been turned into a supercross track, no character. When those guys started practice it was just all grass up to there elbows until they got it well beaten down after an hour or two. It was a very wild, natural track back then I just loved seeing all those US and European pros having it out there. I still have the old posters from the events on my walls today and they were classic, too, with the tag line: "Global powers invade the premeir US track in an all-out battle to be world champion. Be there." Enough said!
Nailed it. We started going in '78 as well. Still get there today, but there is no comparison. MXSports has guided the Robinson's wrong. No more grass, or over seeding ,filled in and flattened out the iconic start, added 3-4 SX obstacles and it is so smooth (save for the slot car ruts when they over water). Crazy they took the gnarliest natural track ever nd have dumbed it down. This video is how it should have remained
Wow that uni-trac was really something and so was David. Thanks, always loved your movies, a true pioneer.
Wish Unidilla was still like this last year the track was smooth as a highway
Thank you Michael, so glad I have all them to share and time the transfer and post. Stay safe.....
I went there in 1979 and stayed the weekend in the car . Had a blast , I was 19 .
So much better back then! My dad used to take my brother and I to the Trans-AM events every October. Wild back then.
Those were all 250's in those motos. Its was the support class Bailey was in. The 500cc class was ended after the 1979 Tran-Am series when Noyce and Malherbe came over. That was the last of the big bore fall races.
Unadilla's glory days, went there many times and it was magical.
Cool. Im from las vegas and we used to go to the spring national @saddleback, usgp-Carlsbad,superbowl of mx,LA coliseum and the fall trans am back at saddleback. Magically mystical…
250 GPs, TransAM, MXDes mudder, honored to have been there four times in the 80s. The track then was epic.
What a gem of a video....brings back a lot of memories of some of my heroes. Howerton, Hannah, Barnett, Glover, Ward, Sun, Lackey, Reid, etc. I remember seeing David Bailey as a privateer on his Kawi at a Colorado national.....i was thinking, who is this guy? Lol. Thanks for the videos Gary!
As usual Gary, we all owe you a sincere thank you for capturing these great events.
THE premier natural terrain, 'grass track' from back-in-the-day... that got 'paved' once a year with dirt... Love it. Thank You Professor Bailey!
Oh man,this brings back so many memories. Back to my youth when it didnt hurt just to walk.
Thanks so much,I love this stuff!
Can you imagine how nice that was to ride in that nice grass and topsoil!
That factory RH was in a league of it's own...
So was kent…nobody could touch him ‘80 & ‘81. Back-to-back ama 250cc national mx champion..kent could ride.. unbeatable in his championship years…
First time there...1972. Lot's of memories at that track!
Thanks for all of this great Unadilla footage. It's getting me pumped for MX rewind.. just wish the track could still be that epic.
Awesome, good ole days air cooled 2 strokes. On a proper old MX track(once the grass got chewed up).
Fantastic racing! What a great time on a super tough all natural track.
Wow. Cool how you can tell the riders are feeling their way around in practice
David was really pushing it 2nd moto 👍🏼 I was a freshman in high school that year 😊79-80
8:34 Roger DeCoster watching the race.
thanks Gary great video.
Outstanding
Loved this track.
Nice to see a Swedish Husqvarna up front...
Awesome
Carlqvist clinched his 250cc title there in ‘79…
Well sky shot was kind of there. This was before they thought that it was important that MX spend more time in the air.
hi gary thanks for posting i still have your book
Awesome!
I can't believe they changed the track and took the tree turn out .
Dave was so good. Those early Kawasakis were loads
HI Gary! Jimmy "Ther Greek" Gianatsis here.... I see Brad Lackey on his factory #711 Kawasaki KX450 at the 4:40 min mark so this must be the Open Class shown at the beginning of your video, and I see Roger DeCanter in street clothes stsnding in the Mechanics Area and hear announcer Larry Myers saying Roger isn't racing this year and I don't see any other Europeans. Then the video jumps into the 250cc Support Class at the 7:00 min mark, which seems to be the premier race since it has all the top Ameican riders like LaPorte, Hannah, Marty Smith, Marty Tripes, etc. So the Open Class had fadded away as the Trans-AMA's premier class. So sad.
That white barn is still standing!
Your videos are top rate..Thank you for all these new races..Being from the Dilla area I can relate.
By today's standards, this is a GNCC course. Braaaap!
AMEM Robert
MINE WAS IN 75,FLORIDA.
sweet
Thanks real MX for sure
Super Event
OOPS...... Thanks Reese.. I am old so do I get a little break?
1980 Silver Sands against Bob Hannah remember that Gary? GREAT RACING HERE TOO RACED MYSELF IN MICHIGAN MAFIA FLYING DENNY BENTLEY IS IN THIS ONE WITH DAVID GREAT RACING THANKS GARY WHEN YOU AND David taught KEITH BOWEN AND MYSELF WE WERE AMA AMATUER BACK THEN AT FREEDOM HILLS STANTON MICHIGAN DENNY BENTLEY 582 USED TO DOMINATE OUT THERE BACK THEN JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU TODAY GARY AND DAVID YOU BOTH THANKS GUYS LOVE YOU MAN 👨 😀 👍 TROY STOLL ☺️ 😀 👍
Think that turn around the tree was to tough for the riders today !!!
Doubtful
Good morning Jimmy... Good to hear from you. What you been up to? Well also good we are still here. To many guy leaving us. You know I had another thought, What year did you start doing your thing at the races? Man it been a good one, I was there for the best of times and so glad I got to take so many photos and videos. I am really enjoying transferring all this stuff and getting out there for everyone to see. I have so much that I don't think I am going to get it all done before I die. How about you? You must have some good stuff? Anyway good hearing from you.
Who's 711 on a works kawasaki, Lackey in a 250 race? wonder what was up with that.
If you watch at 1.25 play back speed ( its in your settings). It looks like a modern MX race!
Yeah. You can go that much faster on a fully groomed and prepped course. If they had the race that track now, they would complain that there is grass on the course and there are too many bumps.
Bob Bailey created all of motocross just ask him
I can almost smell the Pj1 and belray oil ...
I smelt Castrol R.
Bob Hannah didn't like anyone he was racing. Broc, because he had to let him by at a race so Broc could win the Championship. By orders from Yamaha, Bob was not happy..... Bob was a winner and wasn't about giving anyone any thing.
Keith bowen didn't like Bob Hannah, either did rick johnson.
Why does Bob Hannah hate Broc Glover?
Was sky shot even here back then?
Where's that one no name kid on the white 125 Mugen ?
It was the 250 USGP. Johnny was still asleep in California...
@@JohnBoyDeere This is a Trans-Am race, not a USGP.
@@wandellasbell8843 Actually we are all wrong . It was the 1980 Trans-USA race at Unadilla on October 5th won by Kent Howerton. I was blessed to have been there as a team LOP Racing mechanic for Steve Martin #51.
@@wandellasbell8843
Yes, USGP July
Trans-AMA/USA October
I can tell by the trees and the fact that people are wearing jackets this is October.
Are you inquiring about ‘83 ama mx 125 cc and ‘84 ama 250cc sx national champion Johnny “o-show” o’mara…
Seems like kawa drivers had a little more luck with theire suspension ,and the Last peak hp was Not deciding the win ..
screw tractors and loaders,let the bikes cut the track in
Sorry ,kawa empleyment drivers ,were owners of best suspension. ...for everybody to buy ,suzuki had more advantage
Gary: Trans-AMA not Trans-Am.
Check out Bob Hannah between 5:38-5:50. What the heck is he wearing? Is it a prototype of the HRP Flak Jak? Later in the video he appears to be wearing a traditional JT style chest protector.
Standard JT front/back protector with the snap on cloth name piece on back.
seems soo real. not polished. wonder what kids of today will say about today in 40+ years?