I was very disappointed to not see Dulcich and Freiburger on my ballot at the poles but I still pulled the trigger on a firing order t shirt from your store and some campaign stickers. Thanks for offering such cool clothing designs.
This history of the early NHRA needs to be shown to the various city councils and county commissioners shutting down drag strips and race tracks across the country.
Hey David, LOVE the TH-cam content. It’s such a nice mix of the traditional car media with large audience appeal, and flashes into more “nerdy” wormholes like cool old signs and niche history. I am in my mid 20’s and I’ve always been interested in cars, but since the beginnings of the roadkill MotorTrend universe its transitioned from being a fan of someone like Tony Angelo when he was in Formula Drift to more traditional American endeavors like hot rods and muscle cars. I was wondering if you would ever consider doing a “How to” video for preparing for a road trip in an older car (pre 1975 for instance) My dad has got a 72 Maverick with a 6 cylinder that’s always run decent, but its never gone on a real roadtrip since he purchased it. I’m dying to take it on a roadtrip similar to your video in Idaho. I just don’t have the budget to spring for fixes and parts and mostly tools on the road, and have no idea what to think about preparing for little foibles along the way. Maybe I’m overthinking it, either way, thanks so much for the new content!!
I’ve driven cheap old cars for decades, and I’ve only driven cars I can walk away from serious distances. “If this breaks down on me in Wyoming and I can’t fix it, will it kill me to just catch the Grayhound home?” If it currently runs & drives well, start doing bigger and bigger loops around home. Every other weekend so you can fix stuff you found last time in between. Figure out what the auto chains carry for it-and get 2 of what they don’t online. Don’t cheap out: safer to fix stuff in a garage than beside the road. When was the last time the grease caps up front were off? Or the rear drums? Do the basics, get it reasonably safe, and go have an adventure.
Man..I was born at the wrong time...I'm 58, born in 66... I would have LOVED experiencing this history, that "genesis" of drag racing and all. My background: Sportsman Class/Street Outlaw and 60's-era Gassers. I like all the Big Three, but mainly turn towards Mopars: 47-50 Plymouth and 41 Willys coupes. Current drag and drives are my 78 Impala Aerocoupe and 68 Galaxie 500--former police car. Last 2 Mopars were a 72 and 73 Valiant. All of these cars maintained the "sleeper" look, as factory looking as possible, except for the Gassers, of course. Brief try at dirt tracking with a clapped out 71 Nova I bought for $300 from Auto Trader Magazine: No good--I sucked..lol.
Frieburger I love the history that you give. My dad has the first Hot rod magazine ever produced and just about every single one from then until now. I grew up reading those magazines and I love the history that you bring to it. I love watching your videos. My hats off to you sir.
I love that you put it on the drag strip. I own a 66 mustang 6 cyl and I would love to go down the track and see how slow it really is. Love your videos. Thank you.
As an Australian that come to know of you as just a boy at powercruise in Perth all those years ago, I absolutely love listening to you talk about the history of a world I’ve idolised since a young sick boy reading car magazines but to continually keep me hooked, as a bit of a history nerd the 60’s really was the greatest time for drag racing and land speed racing…. Yours and Brian Lohnes are easily the best historical car channels on TH-cam. Thankyou for everything you’ve done for the Automotive industry David, if you’re ever back in Aus I’d love to shout you a corona Cheers mate 🍻
I was born in 1945 and lived through all the drag racing around Sacramento, California. One of my neighborhood friends, Greg Maher, his father had Maher Firestone Store, ended up running the Sacramento Raceway, east of Sacramento, for years. Thanks, David. I love all this history about drag racing. Your first-generation Chevy Camaro here, could be made into an amazing street rod or dragster?
@@dangarrison3503 Thanks Dan. When Greg and I were around 16 we went to the old California State Fairgrounds to all the different races on the Sacramento Dirt Mile. After school, I worked at the BF Goodrich store on 16th St, and Greg and I would pack the track between races with our big service trucks from the two tire stores. We took our service truck to the races to help the racers with their tire needs. We had open-wheel Champ Car races, new Stock Car races, and motorcycle races. Those were the Good Old Days for us.
In 1957 we would ride our bikes to the California State Fairgrounds on a Saturday where they had a 1/8th mile drag strip. There was a new 1957 Chevy with a 283cu V8, 3 speed, and a 1957 Ford with a 312ci V8, 3 speed racing each other.
@WilliamKiene I went to school with David Smith Jr and his brother Mike. Our ranch was 2 miles from the track on Jackso rd/ Eagles Nest rd. David and I both had 63 plymouths, I would drive to the track on slicks and open headers. Sacramento Mile was a big deal , so was West Capitol Raceway.
One Saturday night in 1958 I stole moms brand new 2-day old 348cu in Chevy wagon and we ran it at Lyons. Two or three weeks later a dealer replaced the engine because of oil in the radiator. Two years later and finally with a driver's license I would start the first of many trips to San Fernando Raceway, wish I still had some of those round San Fernando "Trophy Winner" decals. Over the years we would drag various cars at Pomona, Irwindale, Rosamond, Carlsbad, Orange County (El Toro?) and Riverside. Great memories! Yah, I'm 80 now. PS: My stock 1950 Ford would have beat your 18.54 by 3or4 10ths.
Awesome video again David! I loved the old hot rodders racing on the Pomona Road race course, right up my alley! Thank you for sharing some of the origin stories of hot rodding with the masses.
Frieburger, I just love your channel. Really interesting history and stories from race tracks to cars and drivers to old buildings and signs. Keep doing it! Keep telling stories!
Please do an entire episode, or ask Lohnes to, on the Bean Bandits. Vi (ola), Joaquin's wife, and daughter Jackie were my neighbors for 10 or so years after he passed. Their stories were amazing, and deserve to be remembered. Thank you
Another GREAT episode! As my son and I watched this I said “man this makes me wanna do a road trip with Freiburger! I sweat you’ve got to be on of the most interesting perplexed alive ! Thank you for taking us along!!!!
Pomona Winter-nationals: Recall descending the tower stairs as the Hurst girls were ascending. One highlight not forgotten. (Was there on / with a press-pass). Thank You Dave for the details of the Pomona early days and startup of the L.A. County Fairgrounds drag strip / racing in general; news-print stories, dates, names and changes that occurred over the *many* years. 💯% 👍
Was at our club's car show a few weeks ago, and I heard the story of a car driven there by an old guy. The car was a sweet '41 Mercury. The old guy was Don Garlits. Sitting down and hearing a story from a living legend was amazing. And if you're anywhere near Ocala, Fl, you have to go to his museum. So much racing history in there.
Always great to hear about the history of drag racing. I grew up in Southern California. As a kid I can remember a funny car about 3-4 blocks from my grandmothers house in Wilmington Cal hearing it fire up all the time. We would ride our bikes over there and listen to it.
First drags on their own track : 1952. Only 17 years later and your cars pops out. That's like it happening now only back in 2007, which seems like yesterday to me. I'm impressed that my first car's drag time of 20.5sec isn't too far away from your car's one. But mine was a 1987 1.1 litre, 50 hp Ford Fiesta here in Europe. High gas prices and tiny roads means my drag time that I found online is "estimated". Hi from Prague ! 🙃
I don't think there is anyone else I can sit patiently listening to facts as you. You make it entertaining. While I was sick I marathoned Road Kill. Then after I started Road Kill Garage and now I'm on Engine Masters. Such excellent content here. Thank you for sharing. Love the Camaro by the way. I can't win where I live but it's a sweet car.
David we know that you will at some stage give this strip a good tyre flogging! Thank you for such great content we live you man! Be safe and God Bless buddy from the land of Mighty Car Mods team! 😇🙏🤩
Thanks, once again, David, for an awesome history lesson!! Really great stuff!!👍 when I was a kid, I'm 68 now, I used to love reading about the Winternationals in Hot Rod & Car Craft!! I believe in 70 or 71, Roland Leong crashed the Hawaiian F/C at Pomona. That was huge news!! Then I remember an article where a guy bought the wrecked car, rebuilt it, put a blown BBC in it, slapped a Nova flip top body on it & drove it on the street!! Man, those were the days!!
Roland never drove his own Funny Car entries. He drove a dragster only a few times in his earliest days. Driver Larry Reyes won the Winters in 1970 in Roland’s car and Butch Mass did the same in 1971. I don’t recall which story you’re recalling, but it rings true.
David, don't look now but I think you're being stalked by the Cherokee's! Incredibly interesting stuff all round. Please keep up the great work you do.
Great you posted this - Ironic it's 3 days after the announcement that Irwindale II is closing forever on Dec 21. I grew up here in the 60s 3 mi from Irwindale I. My wife's cousin was an Irwindale cop and starter there. I wonder if there will be a push to open Pomona for muffler racing one night a week/month to keep kids off the streets again. Irwindale I was partly owned by Harry Snyder who owned In-N-Out it's nice his grand daughter is keeping In-N-Out and drag racing together in SoCal. She still races her dad's Willys and her own Funny Car on occasion. Hitting El Mirage this weekend with the grandson should be fun.
I have a 68 with the 6 and it drives great. A center mounted engine and it’s going to handle great. Good luck with trying to find a fan shroud, only ac cars had them. Mine has ac, and I’ve never seen another. Great video! ….and great audio even with the window down.
Hi david...just wanted to say I like watching all ur videos...I find them very educational in ways...and like that 68 camaro...that is awesome...we up in massena n.y don't see them often ...unless they been touched at some point otherwise all rusty....keep up the great job...big fan..
Camaro looks better with the Cragars. I started getting Hot Rod magazine in 1966. I grew up in the north east so the magazines were my connection to the hot rod world. Back then, Hot Rod covered drag racing so I got to live all though events vicariously through the magazine (along with Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Popular Hot Rodding, and National Dragster). I moved to SoCal in 1988 and one of the first things I did was hit the Pomona Swap Meet. Was a regular there for many years along with the LA Roadsters Fathers Day Meet and later, the Grand National Roadster show and of course the Winter Nationals and the Finals. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
@@TheDavidFreiburger Me neither. I hear it's nothing like it used to be. Used to do Long Beach too but haven't been there in years either. I do miss the old days of SoCal.
David I've been going to the drags since I was 11 I'm now 80 I went first time to great bend Kansas . Grew up in Escondido and discovered there was a drag strip in San Diego . Have been addicted ever since .
I hardcore miss old school Discovery and History channel stuff. When you could get a cool story and learn something too. I could listen to Frieiburger drop knowledge bombs all effing damned day. Makes for great BG noise when I'm working.
I was very disappointed to not see Dulcich and Freiburger on my ballot at the poles but I still pulled the trigger on a firing order t shirt from your store and some campaign stickers. Thanks for offering such cool clothing designs.
yeah i need a couple of his shirts for sure!
Write em in. But thats a waste. Gotta vote for Mr. Trump.
@DanBeanner-zo3ms it still would have made me happy to see them on the ballot. Lol
@@DanBeanner-zo3ms Success 👍👍👍
Frieburger knows so much hotrod history and the way he likes to include every detail in his stories really makes him perfect for TH-cam.
Nice, thanks
He has been listening to Lohnes!
The cars, the history, the off the beaten path road trips , thanks for taking us along
Thanks for coming along
This history of the early NHRA needs to be shown to the various city councils and county commissioners shutting down drag strips and race tracks across the country.
Different world now. NOTHING talks except money anymore. There's more money in housing developments and malls than in drag strips.
Hey David, LOVE the TH-cam content. It’s such a nice mix of the traditional car media with large audience appeal, and flashes into more “nerdy” wormholes like cool old signs and niche history.
I am in my mid 20’s and I’ve always been interested in cars, but since the beginnings of the roadkill MotorTrend universe its transitioned from being a fan of someone like Tony Angelo when he was in Formula Drift to more traditional American endeavors like hot rods and muscle cars. I was wondering if you would ever consider doing a “How to” video for preparing for a road trip in an older car (pre 1975 for instance) My dad has got a 72 Maverick with a 6 cylinder that’s always run decent, but its never gone on a real roadtrip since he purchased it. I’m dying to take it on a roadtrip similar to your video in Idaho. I just don’t have the budget to spring for fixes and parts and mostly tools on the road, and have no idea what to think about preparing for little foibles along the way.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, either way, thanks so much for the new content!!
I’ve driven cheap old cars for decades, and I’ve only driven cars I can walk away from serious distances. “If this breaks down on me in Wyoming and I can’t fix it, will it kill me to just catch the Grayhound home?”
If it currently runs & drives well, start doing bigger and bigger loops around home. Every other weekend so you can fix stuff you found last time in between. Figure out what the auto chains carry for it-and get 2 of what they don’t online. Don’t cheap out: safer to fix stuff in a garage than beside the road. When was the last time the grease caps up front were off? Or the rear drums? Do the basics, get it reasonably safe, and go have an adventure.
Man I absolutely love this car , growing up a buddy had a 68 with the straight 6 and the glide brings back a lot of good memories
Thank you for the hot rod history lesson!
David that is my Mom,Carol Cox,that you mentioned-thanks
Your mom was cool as an iceberg
Oh wow, neat!
That is so cool. Plus, yea I'm gonna say it, ❤.
My home track is Cordova, and it’s the oldest continuously operating purpose built drag strip in the USA. Love that Camaro
It opened in 1956. It is home to the World Series of Drag Racing that started in 1954, prior to the US Nationals.
@TheDavidFreiburger I've lived within 50 miles of Cordova my entire life. I haven't been in quite a while but the 90's were a blast there.
Great seeing and hearing about all the tracks I knew growing up in So Cal. Thanks David.
David, Thanks for the R/seat, HIstory Ride.
🏁
Man..I was born at the wrong time...I'm 58, born in 66...
I would have LOVED experiencing this history, that "genesis" of drag racing and all.
My background: Sportsman Class/Street Outlaw and 60's-era Gassers. I like all the Big Three, but mainly turn towards Mopars: 47-50 Plymouth and 41 Willys coupes. Current drag and drives are my 78 Impala Aerocoupe and 68 Galaxie 500--former police car. Last 2 Mopars were a 72 and 73 Valiant. All of these cars maintained the "sleeper" look, as factory looking as possible, except for the Gassers, of course.
Brief try at dirt tracking with a clapped out 71 Nova I bought for $300 from Auto Trader Magazine: No good--I sucked..lol.
Frieburger I love the history that you give. My dad has the first Hot rod magazine ever produced and just about every single one from then until now. I grew up reading those magazines and I love the history that you bring to it. I love watching your videos. My hats off to you sir.
I love that you put it on the drag strip. I own a 66 mustang 6 cyl and I would love to go down the track and see how slow it really is. Love your videos. Thank you.
Still my favorite track, went to my first nationals there, great memories, thanks Dave.
I learned, I laughed, I cried. Fantastic content man!! keep it coming, I will keep watching, over and over.
Hahah. Cool. Thanks for watching.
XJ Camera Truck!
Came to comment this. It looks good!
As an Australian that come to know of you as just a boy at powercruise in Perth all those years ago, I absolutely love listening to you talk about the history of a world I’ve idolised since a young sick boy reading car magazines but to continually keep me hooked, as a bit of a history nerd the 60’s really was the greatest time for drag racing and land speed racing….
Yours and Brian Lohnes are easily the best historical car channels on TH-cam.
Thankyou for everything you’ve done for the Automotive industry David, if you’re ever back in Aus I’d love to shout you a corona
Cheers mate 🍻
That is a nice clean 68 camaro. Great little car Freiburger. Love all your content and shows.
David , I really enjoy this type of video history , thank you for posting
Grew up in San Berdoo , you brought some good old mermories , Thanks David love the channel !!!
I was born in 1945 and lived through all the drag racing around Sacramento, California.
One of my neighborhood friends, Greg Maher, his father had Maher Firestone Store, ended up running the Sacramento Raceway, east of Sacramento, for years.
Thanks, David. I love all this history about drag racing.
Your first-generation Chevy Camaro here, could be made into an amazing street rod or dragster?
Dave Smith owned and operated Sacramento Raceway. A friend of mine Bonny Philson drove/ partnerd with Maher funny car " Ladies First"
@@dangarrison3503 Thanks Dan. When Greg and I were around 16 we went to the old California State Fairgrounds to all the different races on the Sacramento Dirt Mile.
After school, I worked at the BF Goodrich store on 16th St, and Greg and I would pack the track between races with our big service trucks from the two tire stores.
We took our service truck to the races to help the racers with their tire needs. We had open-wheel Champ Car races, new Stock Car races, and motorcycle races.
Those were the Good Old Days for us.
In 1957 we would ride our bikes to the California State Fairgrounds on a Saturday where they had a 1/8th mile drag strip.
There was a new 1957 Chevy with a 283cu V8, 3 speed, and a 1957 Ford with a 312ci V8, 3 speed racing each other.
@WilliamKiene I went to school with David Smith Jr and his brother Mike. Our ranch was 2 miles from the track on Jackso rd/ Eagles Nest rd. David and I both had 63 plymouths, I would drive to the track on slicks and open headers. Sacramento Mile was a big deal , so was West Capitol Raceway.
This makes me wish Connecticut dragway was still around, it lasted until about 1986
One Saturday night in 1958 I stole moms brand new 2-day old 348cu in Chevy wagon and we ran it at Lyons. Two or three weeks later a dealer replaced the engine because of oil in the radiator. Two years later and finally with a driver's license I would start the first of many trips to San Fernando Raceway, wish I still had some of those round San Fernando "Trophy Winner" decals. Over the years we would drag various cars at Pomona, Irwindale, Rosamond, Carlsbad, Orange County (El Toro?) and Riverside. Great memories! Yah, I'm 80 now. PS: My stock 1950 Ford would have beat your 18.54 by 3or4 10ths.
Great stories! Thank you for sharing.
Awesome video again David! I loved the old hot rodders racing on the Pomona Road race course, right up my alley!
Thank you for sharing some of the origin stories of hot rodding with the masses.
Thanks for digging it
Lets gooo hope future video about the history of the og roadkill muscle truck ❤
Frieburger, I just love your channel. Really interesting history and stories from race tracks to cars and drivers to old buildings and signs. Keep doing it! Keep telling stories!
Please do an entire episode, or ask Lohnes to, on the Bean Bandits. Vi (ola), Joaquin's wife, and daughter Jackie were my neighbors for 10 or so years after he passed. Their stories were amazing, and deserve to be remembered. Thank you
I like the wheels you picked for the Camaro.
Love this history about the car culture in combination with a nice road trip in an old nice car 🙂
I would watch a show with you just explaining the history of iconic racetracks
David, this works. keep doing it this way. Thanks for everything you do.
Another GREAT episode! As my son and I watched this I said “man this makes me wanna do a road trip with Freiburger! I sweat you’ve got to be on of the most interesting perplexed alive ! Thank you for taking us along!!!!
Perplexed is right
@ I meant PERSON lmao
Pomona Winter-nationals: Recall descending the tower stairs as the Hurst girls were ascending. One highlight not forgotten. (Was there on / with a press-pass). Thank You Dave for the details of the Pomona early days and startup of the L.A. County Fairgrounds drag strip / racing in general; news-print stories, dates, names and changes that occurred over the *many* years. 💯% 👍
Was at our club's car show a few weeks ago, and I heard the story of a car driven there by an old guy. The car was a sweet '41 Mercury. The old guy was Don Garlits. Sitting down and hearing a story from a living legend was amazing.
And if you're anywhere near Ocala, Fl, you have to go to his museum. So much racing history in there.
Great History Lesson on Pomona.. Lots of things i did Not know... Well Done DF..
Always great to hear about the history of drag racing. I grew up in Southern California. As a kid I can remember a funny car about 3-4 blocks from my grandmothers house in Wilmington Cal hearing it fire up all the time. We would ride our bikes over there and listen to it.
Back when people ran funny cars out of their garages
First drags on their own track : 1952. Only 17 years later and your cars pops out. That's like it happening now only back in 2007, which seems like yesterday to me. I'm impressed that my first car's drag time of 20.5sec isn't too far away from your car's one. But mine was a 1987 1.1 litre, 50 hp Ford Fiesta here in Europe. High gas prices and tiny roads means my drag time that I found online is "estimated". Hi from Prague ! 🙃
I think I can watch a lot of videos of Freiburger giving lectures on hot rod history while driving in LA. The B roll and photos were cool too.
Thanks!
amazing!! love all this info. all of freiburgers videos need to be saved for later generations. sadly all this history will be lost at some point.
Watching you Cruise in the Camaro while I build a model of my dad’s first car. A 68 Camaro.
Woo!
Time to hangout with Uncle Dave.
Nailed it again! The content just keeps getting better! Keep it up.
The cruising master of cool history.
Let the good times roll..
Thanks for sharing some history about Pomona.
Wow, impressed!! First time down the freeway and the hood stayed on, no car wash cooling stops!
Beautiful ride!!
I don't think there is anyone else I can sit patiently listening to facts as you. You make it entertaining. While I was sick I marathoned Road Kill. Then after I started Road Kill Garage and now I'm on Engine Masters. Such excellent content here. Thank you for sharing. Love the Camaro by the way. I can't win where I live but it's a sweet car.
Great, thanks for all those hours!
best channel ever with a built XJ as a chase/camera vehicle..
These history lessons are awesome. Thanks for sharing them Freiburger 🤟🏻
The more I see that Camaro, the more I like it!
David we know that you will at some stage give this strip a good tyre flogging! Thank you for such great content we live you man! Be safe and God Bless buddy from the land of Mighty Car Mods team! 😇🙏🤩
Thanks for watching down there!
Channel is awesome. Really enjoying the videos and history. Finding it fascinating. Keep up the great work.
I really enjoy hot rod story time with D/F!
Thanks!
I live down the street from Pomona. I can hear the NHrA from here. Also building a 23 model t hot rod. Love this place the swapmeet is here too
Man I wish I wasn't so broke all the time keep up the great work thanks for the great videos as always.
That dang camaro is cool..nice history too sir
Thanks, once again, David, for an awesome history lesson!! Really great stuff!!👍 when I was a kid, I'm 68 now, I used to love reading about the Winternationals in Hot Rod & Car Craft!! I believe in 70 or 71, Roland Leong crashed the Hawaiian F/C at Pomona. That was huge news!! Then I remember an article where a guy bought the wrecked car, rebuilt it, put a blown BBC in it, slapped a Nova flip top body on it & drove it on the street!! Man, those were the days!!
Roland never drove his own Funny Car entries. He drove a dragster only a few times in his earliest days. Driver Larry Reyes won the Winters in 1970 in Roland’s car and Butch Mass did the same in 1971. I don’t recall which story you’re recalling, but it rings true.
@TheDavidFreiburger You are correct. Roland wasn't driving. It was his car, though. With a Dodge Charger body.
David, don't look now but I think you're being stalked by the Cherokee's! Incredibly interesting stuff all round. Please keep up the great work you do.
WOW!!!!!! Another excellent excellent episode. Love all the history you share.
Loving this new weekly content! Fantastic!!!
But what happened to all the MotorTrend shows?!
These hot rod history videos are awesome🤘😎🤘
Looking great. I bought swag because I love that Camaro.
Great story David, thanks!
ATTENTION GET YOUR JUNKER OUT TO IRWINDALE BEFORE DEC 2024 WHEN IT CLOSES. THAT WILL BE HISTORY TOO
Second this
Great you posted this - Ironic it's 3 days after the announcement that Irwindale II is closing forever on Dec 21. I grew up here in the 60s 3 mi from Irwindale I. My wife's cousin was an Irwindale cop and starter there. I wonder if there will be a push to open Pomona for muffler racing one night a week/month to keep kids off the streets again. Irwindale I was partly owned by Harry Snyder who owned In-N-Out it's nice his grand daughter is keeping In-N-Out and drag racing together in SoCal. She still races her dad's Willys and her own Funny Car on occasion. Hitting El Mirage this weekend with the grandson should be fun.
I love the history content ! David take care of my camero I’ll pick it up soon enough 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I have a 68 with the 6 and it drives great. A center mounted engine and it’s going to handle great. Good luck with trying to find a fan shroud, only ac cars had them. Mine has ac, and I’ve never seen another. Great video! ….and great audio even with the window down.
I remember hearing the top fuel motors launch from several miles away in Glendora, Ca.
Hi david...just wanted to say I like watching all ur videos...I find them very educational in ways...and like that 68 camaro...that is awesome...we up in massena n.y don't see them often ...unless they been touched at some point otherwise all rusty....keep up the great job...big fan..
You should come to Shelsey Walsh in the UK, first started in 1905, not quite a dragstrip as you know it but up a hill.
Camaro looks better with the Cragars.
I started getting Hot Rod magazine in 1966. I grew up in the north east so the magazines were my connection to the hot rod world. Back then, Hot Rod covered drag racing so I got to live all though events vicariously through the magazine (along with Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Popular Hot Rodding, and National Dragster).
I moved to SoCal in 1988 and one of the first things I did was hit the Pomona Swap Meet. Was a regular there for many years along with the LA Roadsters Fathers Day Meet and later, the Grand National Roadster show and of course the Winter Nationals and the Finals.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Yup, I did the Pomona Swap Meet for many, many years. I haven’t been there in a long time,
@@TheDavidFreiburger Me neither. I hear it's nothing like it used to be. Used to do Long Beach too but haven't been there in years either. I do miss the old days of SoCal.
Love the pic of Pomona 10:35. 56 Nomad with louvered hood.
And any updates on the fbomb camaro
Thanks, David you have the best content!
man the old Crummy-Maro looks great toodling down the highway!
David,, Very informative, sure like this format thumbs up
Thanks!
It’s easy to see that you have been paying attention to Lohnes channel. I like it 👍🏻
I grewuo just 2 blocks from Pomoa track in Laverne. We used to ge free tickets at school in 60s and 70s
Can't wait to win your Camaro, 🔥🔥🔥
Got a shirt ordered. Next paycheck maybe add a hoodie, 😮
David I've been going to the drags since I was 11 I'm now 80
I went first time to great bend Kansas . Grew up in Escondido and discovered there was a drag strip in San Diego . Have been addicted ever since .
Wow, Great Bend must have been quite the experience back then.
Cool to see you out on your own channel.
Hey, thanks!
Great automotive history thanks DF
In my back yard! Love Pomona!
I'm looking forward to meeting you in Person someday David Freiburger.😊😊😊😊
I will say out of all the cars that you've driven this one has a nice headliner in it.
Great video & history. Thanks. Who's in the cool looking XJ that's tailing you and providing exterior video shots??
Love the history.
Also the Cragars need to stay 👌
I hardcore miss old school Discovery and History channel stuff. When you could get a cool story and learn something too. I could listen to Frieiburger drop knowledge bombs all effing damned day. Makes for great BG noise when I'm working.
Off the start, that shortened Gray Pinto - from what is shown, is well done. ...
We had Sacramento Raceway for 50 years, and it closed last year, now our closest is Kingdon, it host 4 races a year.
Great history !!!!
I grew up in Pomona about 3 or 4 miles from that dragstrip. Sadly, my Dad got transferred to Kansas before I ever had a chance to go.
That is a sweet Camaro brother!!!! Great job!!!! I like the blacked out panel!!!! Looks killer!!!!
Cool, thank you
Man that was a sick XJ following you for a while.
I love how you called Maserati a mazdarati!!
Force of habit
@ sounds better your way! The roadkill way!
So cool.
NHRA started in Great Bend KS IIRC.
Love it David!
The XJ camera rig ❤ 😍
Great stuff David!!