Talk about ol'school. Thats when racing was real racing. I remember sitting on the wheel well handing my dad tools when I was a kid and we were rebuilding engines. Everyone one of those cars were beautiful.
Jim Powell here. I was there at this time period. Watched these cars line up and race. From the cruising and racing from light to light, to racing is some areas that were off the grid. Then to the strip on Saturday to watch in person what I am watching now. To me the very late 50’s through the 60’s was the best for American car racing. The movie American Graffiti showed what was going on across the nation with its teenagers and early 20 year olds. Thanks for putting this up for viewing.
@@AutoMotoCha9L I know those cars that are really high in the front or called gassers and are usually 55 Chevys but what's up with those cars? Was it just a car with high suspension and for what reason?
My racing days. 1961 Chev 348 hp 350 c.i. Later in 1962 1962 Chev 409 hp 409 c.i. Raced at Islip and Westhampton on Long Island and once at Elizabeth town NJ. No fancy starting lights, just a guy with a flag. Great days with several friends.
These cars are beautiful!!! I remember clearly going to Natioanl Speedway on Long Island every Sat. night in the 60's and watching these cars run...great times!!! Thank you for this great video!!
Cool, I am 64 and grew up on LI, yeah I was at that track a few times early 70's, even saw Grumpy there with his Vega!!! An older friend of mine's buddy from Port Jefferson area had a 427 L-88 Camaro he used to race there, got into the 10's... Honestly most of those old cars had issues with running better than about 14.5. I had a friend with a dead stock 1970 396 Chevelle, 4 speed with 331 gears, he BARELY got into the 14's mid 90's and MPH dictates HP
Thank you so very much AutoMotoCha9L for going to the dragstrip, watching the drags thru a view finder instead of sitting back and enjoying the show, editing the footage andd uploading the finished product for our viewing enjoyment. I live very far away but if I lived within a reasonable distance of Byron I would be at EVERY gasser and old school race possible.
ltlron In Memphis mid 60s on Summer ave between Zayre parking lot and Krystal hamburgers, Saturday on Presidents island, Sunday Lakeland Dragway. The smell of alcohol n nitro, rubber and clutch plates, I lived that era through and through, 390/4:10 10:50@127
Many fine memories from back then at Island Dragway in Hackettstown, NJ. The racing of the likes of Sox and Martin, Grumpy J., Jungle Jim etc. are forever embedded in memory.
I have to agree and I came along in tge 70's. I prefered molars and had a 67 and 68 big block notchback barracuda 1 drag 1 street/strip. 1 fuel injected nitromethane and the other running an old school str-15-8 cross ram with nitrous plumbed through the lower back side of intake and rear floor under back seat had been cut and lowered so it looked stock where nitrous tank under back seat and trans tunnel modified for solenoids. When I got in a pinch I could swap those motors and tune the alcohol motor to run on cam 2 but it wasn't the best thing to do and all without a laptop.
Every Saturday We went to the track somewhere Maple Grove, Cecil county, Atco, English town, And sometime Delaware Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania h*** yeah.
Absolutely awesome vid!! When I was a kid in the 60's, I was totally into race cars. Other guys bought baseball cards, I bought hot rod magazines and the packs of gum that came with hot rod cards (yep, they had 'em). When I see the 'ultra' cars nowadays, and the 'new' Challengers, everything done FOR you, I miss the old days even more. Thanks for sharing this!!
@@AutoMotoCha9L One has to appreciate, we are truly the ONLY culture that spawned a motor-driven culture such as the American hot-rod, driving, traveling, racing culture. Europe had their race cars, but I never saw any evidence of its integration into the lifestyle (think, 'American Grafitti') the way we Americans did it. Forgive an old patriot....but WE did things with cars that no one else EVER did. ;)
Todays so called street racers wouldn't have lasted 2 days back when you didn't have a computer to tell the computer in their cars how to tune them on the fly. I just don't see todays racers actually turning a distributor to put in or take out timing, or even knowing what the road calls for. Can you imagine them sliding under their car and changing servo springs to soften or stiffen shift pressure? Now that was old school street racing!
AHRA at fremont dragstrip from the 1958 thru 1974. Winternastionals in pomona in 1964 thru 1974. Stock Eliminator that they've never really have viewed. My fathers orange 1933 flathead 5 window coupe was a legend in that 4 speed that almost never lost any class or eliminating rounds.His name on his 1933 was Watts and Ferro.big #403. E/mp ,he ran 11:13 et., 123.4MPH was a record time.
It's a shame there's so few fans in the stands. These guys and gals, the car owners pour their hearts and souls (not to mention untold thousands of dollars and hours) into their builds for their enjoyment and the enjoyment of fans. What has happened to Byron nowdays? How much longer can Byron stay around if there's no fans to fill the grandstands and keep the strip in the black?
I grew up with a guy that had a 427 Novacaine, raced Super Stock, watched trying to catch a name on that car. Those were AWESOME times to be growing up, BEFORE Factory Hot Rods. When 300 hp was HOT 👍 American Muscle🇺🇸 USA-1🇺🇸
Ric H: Thank You, definitely not the guy I knew. My friend had a late 60’s Nova, raced at New England Dragway in NH. Very catchy name, not surprised others have picked up on it & used it. In the late 60’s Super Stock Class up here ran the Low 10’s. That’s the speed of many cars straight off the Assembly Line Today. Thanx Again, I was still beating my head between a car door wondering! (kidding) I was still curious though. 👍😁
We use to get caught by the only state trooper on a Harley in my home town. The trooper took his own money and opened a drag strip at an abandoned airbase for all us high schoolers. I had a Chevelle 396 rat good ole days come back.....
I remember seeing these great machines back in the early 70's. Back then 2000- 3000 horsepower funny cars were big time. To bad out here in Norfolk VA the closest tracks are 80-100 miles away. Nothing but street racing around here. No place for people to legally run their 400-500 horsepower Mustangs, Camaro's and Dodge's. Where is this Byron Dragway located, I might be able to go over there for a weekend. Keep up the Great memory uploads.
1974 468 BBC for sale... Fresh rebuild...,3,000$..pan to carb. Starter fly wheel,,new headers, New billet distributor.. aluminum air gap intake.1 Inc spacer scorpion 1.7 roller rockers..nice cam ..ready to drop in and run..300 miles brake in..no leaks runs great..400+ hp...new pistons..all new King coated bearings..heads reconditioned...new springs. 3 angal valve job...heads and block resurfaced.. ARP fasteners...... Mississippi..free local pick up....ready to go..
Funny story.... I was just watchin' another GASSER video and the obligatory TH-cam commercial was Billie Eilish push noise cancelling headphones.... I'm glad she knows how I feel about her music!
Those were the good old days. Now they choose to spend weekends at local malls instead. Thinks got changed I see less and less spectators at our local drag strip
I remember running down Telegraph back in the sixties and early seventies remember running down Telegraph I think there was a 64-68 Nova named Novocaine pretty fast but we blew it f****** doors off with a 289 Ford comet
I worked at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in NJ and the Russo/Santo car would always show up for our "nostalgia" shows on on our 1/8the mile track. I was the starter and the car is beautiful.
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I’m 70 yrs old still into drag racing sure does bring back a lot of good memories ! Thanks
This is "Drag Racing" at it's finest!! I'm 77 and I remember those times. Great video! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Those were the good old days thank you for bringing back memories beautiful vehicles
Talk about ol'school. Thats when racing was real racing. I remember sitting on the wheel well handing my dad tools when I was a kid and we were rebuilding engines. Everyone one of those cars were beautiful.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Jim Powell here.
I was there at this time period. Watched these cars line up and race. From the cruising and racing from light to light, to racing is some areas that were off the grid. Then to the strip on Saturday to watch in person what I am watching now. To me the very late 50’s through the 60’s was the best for American car racing. The movie American Graffiti showed what was going on across the nation with its teenagers and early 20 year olds. Thanks for putting this up for viewing.
Thanks for watching!
Great back ground music 🎵🎶 and all the cars look and sound nasty and hungry to race.👍💯😎💪🆒
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, thanks. Bring back so many great memories.
I have many more to come stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Watchin your videos is the next best thing to being at the track! Great job!
Glad you enjoy it!
It just don't get any better than this best videos on you tube period thanks fellas awesome channel
Catering to my HP addiction. Thank you.
Nothin better than the look of them ole straight axle cars! Love em
Love the sound of those cams.
Theres a time and a place for everything. Back in the day this was cool and today it's still cool.
Old school great cars
Time after time after time…..yet another amazing video, with amazing sound. Thank you sooo much guys.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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That is so friggin cool!!! love the gasser's and the vintage steel what an awesome video of an awesome day! almost got a tear!!
Thanks for watching!
@@AutoMotoCha9L I know those cars that are really high in the front or called gassers and are usually 55 Chevys but what's up with those cars? Was it just a car with high suspension and for what reason?
My racing days. 1961 Chev 348 hp 350 c.i. Later in 1962 1962 Chev 409 hp 409 c.i. Raced at Islip and Westhampton on Long Island and once at Elizabeth town NJ. No fancy starting lights, just a guy with a flag.
Great days with several friends.
These cars are beautiful!!! I remember clearly going to Natioanl Speedway on Long Island every Sat. night in the 60's and watching these cars run...great times!!! Thank you for this great video!!
Thank you for sharing your memories and thanks for watching greatly appreciated!
1JUSTGOTLUCKY1 I went to Niagara Dragstrip 1968-1973 long lost Love
Cool, I am 64 and grew up on LI, yeah I was at that track a few times early 70's, even saw Grumpy there with his Vega!!! An older friend of mine's buddy from Port Jefferson area had a 427 L-88 Camaro he used to race there, got into the 10's... Honestly most of those old cars had issues with running better than about 14.5. I had a friend with a dead stock 1970 396 Chevelle, 4 speed with 331 gears, he BARELY got into the 14's mid 90's and MPH dictates HP
So great!
Thanks for watching!
Great quality video of these classic cars...awesome!
Glad you like them!
Great video. It sure is good to see good old Byron,Illinois it's been so many years that my buddies and I hanged around there. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
There's no compromise for horsepower , . Very nice 🏁. 🏆
Yet another great video them gassers are sweeeeeeeeeet
that was awesome. brings back the good old days. thanks for sharing. have a great day. thanks. mike.
Thank you for watching! I am working on second part editing new video stay tuned!
keep out the good work. right up my alley. thanks. till next time. thanks.for the awesome.work. Mike.
Great video thanks...
Fun video ,thanks for posting !
Thank you for watching!
That takes me back to when I put model cars together 😁😁😁they are just Bigger lovin’ it👍👍👍
Funny you said this, yesterday i was wondering what happen to my old model cars that i put together and my baseball cards lol.....
I remember going to the drags at Orange county drag strip 1970s ...........in California
I remember when you can run across the freeway and get in free an the bug-ins good times
I pray for no accidents no one hurt in these beautiful cars so beautiful
Thanks for watching!
Luv to watch bad ass drag racing
I love it thank you so much
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so very much AutoMotoCha9L for going to the dragstrip, watching the drags thru a view finder instead of sitting back and enjoying the show, editing the footage andd uploading the finished product for our viewing enjoyment. I live very far away but if I lived within a reasonable distance of Byron I would be at EVERY gasser and old school race possible.
Thank you for watching!
Just Beautiful
Takes me back to watching my older cousins race at US 30.
ltlron In Memphis mid 60s on Summer ave between Zayre parking lot and Krystal hamburgers, Saturday on Presidents island, Sunday Lakeland Dragway. The smell of alcohol n nitro, rubber and clutch plates, I lived that era through and through, 390/4:10 10:50@127
Great rides and great racing
Thanks 👍
Many fine memories from back then at Island Dragway in Hackettstown, NJ. The racing of the likes of Sox and Martin, Grumpy J., Jungle Jim etc. are forever embedded in memory.
Thank you for watching!
@@AutoMotoCha9L 👍
Just awesome
Love that 66/67 Nova just because of the Ed Roth art work. 👀👀👀
Good job Yoder that car is badass, see you in Syracuse
Man I love these 😍 cars thanks
My favorite type of cars to film
Awesome footage! Love the gassers! 😎👍
Thanks! 👍
Great video! Lots of cool stuff!
Thanks!
I have to agree and I came along in tge 70's. I prefered molars and had a 67 and 68 big block notchback barracuda 1 drag 1 street/strip. 1 fuel injected nitromethane and the other running an old school str-15-8 cross ram with nitrous plumbed through the lower back side of intake and rear floor under back seat had been cut and lowered so it looked stock where nitrous tank under back seat and trans tunnel modified for solenoids. When I got in a pinch I could swap those motors and tune the alcohol motor to run on cam 2 but it wasn't the best thing to do and all without a laptop.
Thanks for watching👍
This is the best !!! Old school racing,no computer, you have to use a screwdriver, wrench,and a good ear to make these cars run !!!!!😎
Couldn't agree more!
Love the old car's.
Old school power!
Every Saturday We went to the track somewhere Maple Grove, Cecil county, Atco, English town, And sometime Delaware Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania h*** yeah.
Great buddy
I've been to Byron several times and always love seeing the gassers. Rolling sculptures.
Byron is my favorite dragwway
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These cars are so cool. An era back before big money took over racing. I have a 64 Fairlane. Won’t be pretty like these but still love her.
Absolutely awesome vid!! When I was a kid in the 60's, I was totally into race cars. Other guys bought baseball cards, I bought hot rod magazines and the packs of gum that came with hot rod cards (yep, they had 'em). When I see the 'ultra' cars nowadays, and the 'new' Challengers, everything done FOR you, I miss the old days even more. Thanks for sharing this!!
Thanks for sharing your memories!
@@AutoMotoCha9L One has to appreciate, we are truly the ONLY culture that spawned a motor-driven culture such as the American hot-rod, driving, traveling, racing culture. Europe had their race cars, but I never saw any evidence of its integration into the lifestyle (think, 'American Grafitti') the way we Americans did it.
Forgive an old patriot....but WE did things with cars that no one else EVER did. ;)
Gassers Forever !!!
👍
Absolutely love the gassers! Fwiw, that silver Chevelle ran a silky smooth 11.69.
Love that gold 55
Old school drag racing rocks🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
love it was half owner in a couple cars in late 60s is. still. my favorite sport. today
Mine too!
Todays so called street racers wouldn't have lasted 2 days back when you didn't have a computer to tell the computer in their cars how to tune them on the fly. I just don't see todays racers actually turning a distributor to put in or take out timing, or even knowing what the road calls for. Can you imagine them sliding under their car and changing servo springs to soften or stiffen shift pressure? Now that was old school street racing!
Agree!
Thank You!!
Thank you for watching new videos coming soon!
When run what you brung meant something.Too the real men who built those beast! HOOAH!
Agree!
Good Stuff 👍
I love that Gold 55 Crankestien sweet
AHRA at fremont dragstrip from the 1958 thru 1974. Winternastionals in pomona in 1964 thru 1974. Stock Eliminator that they've never really have viewed. My fathers orange 1933 flathead 5 window coupe was a legend in that 4 speed that almost never lost any class or eliminating rounds.His name on his 1933 was Watts and Ferro.big #403. E/mp ,he ran 11:13 et., 123.4MPH was a record time.
Used to love shuffletown back in the 80s
Dinosaurs burning “vegetable juice” on the way to extinction.😂😂😂😂😂
LOL
The Russo & Santo car [3:25] has a long history...! I saw him run it at the Dover Dragstrip reunion at Lebanon NY's quarter mile several years ago.
that shooting into the sun tho
It's a shame there's so few fans in the stands. These guys and gals, the car owners pour their hearts and souls (not to mention untold thousands of dollars and hours) into their builds for their enjoyment and the enjoyment of fans. What has happened to Byron nowdays? How much longer can Byron stay around if there's no fans to fill the grandstands and keep the strip in the black?
I grew up with a guy that had a 427 Novacaine, raced Super Stock, watched trying to catch a name on that car. Those were AWESOME times to be growing up, BEFORE Factory Hot Rods. When 300 hp was HOT 👍 American Muscle🇺🇸 USA-1🇺🇸
The Driver name on Novacaine is Steve Diogre from Indiana.
Ric H: Thank You, definitely not the guy I knew. My friend had a late 60’s Nova, raced at New England Dragway in NH. Very catchy name, not surprised others have picked up on it & used it. In the late 60’s Super Stock Class up here ran the Low 10’s. That’s the speed of many cars straight off the Assembly Line Today. Thanx Again, I was still beating my head between a car door wondering! (kidding) I was still curious though. 👍😁
Every time you hear a burnout, a climate hippie cries! 🏎💨
Good one LOL
@@AutoMotoCha9L Do you guys ever come to Ringgold Ga Brainerd motorsports park
Tuff!!
Stupid
Finally I found a safe comments section. Love this vid
Thanks for watching!
Ah, the good old days
Thanks for watching!
The whole world has to be jealous we have some kick ass big boy toys and the fans to prove it god bless amercia ✌🇺🇸😎
We are blessed to have the best racing events in USA god bless america !!!
Gassers FOREVER!
We use to get caught by the only state trooper on a Harley in my home town. The trooper took his own money and opened a drag strip at an abandoned airbase for all us high schoolers. I had a Chevelle 396 rat good ole days come back.....
Thanks for sharing your memories
OH HOW I LOVED THOSE DAY'S,,,,
BUT I'M A BETTER MAN TODAY 👨
Pre skinny jeans🤘
Real cars .
I remember seeing these great machines back in the early 70's. Back then 2000- 3000 horsepower funny cars were big time. To bad out here in Norfolk VA the closest tracks are 80-100 miles away. Nothing but street racing around here. No place for people to legally run their 400-500 horsepower Mustangs, Camaro's and Dodge's. Where is this Byron Dragway located, I might be able to go over there for a weekend. Keep up the Great memory uploads.
most any airport will let you run yo car
Playmusic
Gives me eargasams
1974 468 BBC for sale... Fresh rebuild...,3,000$..pan to carb. Starter fly wheel,,new headers,
New billet distributor.. aluminum air gap intake.1 Inc spacer scorpion 1.7 roller rockers..nice cam ..ready to drop in and run..300 miles brake in..no leaks runs great..400+ hp...new pistons..all new King coated bearings..heads reconditioned...new springs. 3 angal valve job...heads and block resurfaced.. ARP fasteners...... Mississippi..free local pick up....ready to go..
Mmmmmm, I Remember Riding In Cars Like That And Getting So Wet that I Stuck To The Seat !!!
Dammit girl, lol
@@454easy heh heh heh heh heh
That just Beautiful...Best comment I've read all year.
clearly the best comment on the internet
My kinda girl
Mmmmmmmmm….. listen to the song of my people!!!!!!
Was almost tempted to put in a set of ear plugs watching this lol
LOL!
Funny story.... I was just watchin' another GASSER video and the obligatory TH-cam commercial was Billie Eilish push noise cancelling headphones.... I'm glad she knows how I feel about her music!
Those was the day win I watched my dad:
You gotta root for any car with Rat Fink art work on the side.
Monster's Inc. Hell yeah
Byron dragway did not make much on spectator attendance fees this day, grand stand are almost empty! Too bad, I love watching gassers.
Yeah, some really cool stuff to see too.
great job filming & are you using an external microphone????
I don't use an external microphone.
Reminds me of the dirty D at sibley and dix
Just like being st the good old BULLDOGBASH
Agree!
Camshaft idle have really change since the 60's
GADZOOKS!! These were all Models I bought as a Kid!
I wish Connecticut had a drag strip so the younger kids wouldn't be speeding on the roads they have something to do on the weekends
Those were the good old days. Now they choose to spend weekends at local malls instead. Thinks got changed I see less and less spectators at our local drag strip
We also get together and try to get one in Connecticut I'd love to see a drag strip in Connecticut
I remember running down Telegraph back in the sixties and early seventies remember running down Telegraph I think there was a 64-68 Nova named Novocaine pretty fast but we blew it f****** doors off with a 289 Ford comet
Drive the highways...race at Lions
Anyone remember Great Lakes Drage Way.
69, to 73 ?
I heard that place hasn't change much since 70s
Cool but some look pretty scary to drive................ They sit so high
:)
That "Russo / Santo" car been around for a long time. 50 years? Maybe more.
I worked at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in NJ and the Russo/Santo car would always show up for our "nostalgia" shows on on our 1/8the mile track. I was the starter and the car is beautiful.
@@russhoffman6301 Remember that car from my 20's..... I'm 73.
I remember it from Baylands (Fremont).
Albert E. Kelley
Automobile Sumo wrestling.
Gassers..Why the name and why the weird front end???Great looking though!!!
only in america beautiful
No replacement for displacement