I'm an old guy and the 80's was the best time for drag racing for me. We had to build motors from reading Hot Rod magazine. No turbo's and the only superchargers available were 671 and 871 blowers that came off of semi trucks. Parts had to be ordered by phone and then hope you get them. We had cast steel heads and blocks so no light weight aluminum for us. I would port and polish the heads with a grinder and it took weeks. All said it was the greatest time for street racing, The video brings back good memories, Thanks.
Because you had to do with less and try to work around cost-based obstacles. That made all those muscle cars way more valuable, despite their limitations. It was a different era. You couldnt just buy shit bc it didnt exist.@theupscriber65
@@theupscriber65 Look at the car scene now, all full of tiktok kids and clout chasers bragging about shit that everyone else can buy or do. No one is unique anymore or willing to put in the hard work.
I'm a chevy man myself, but that Falcon sure had an awesome sound and snatched 2nd gear with ease. Four speeds and big cams always. Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed it all.
My neighbor had a 64 Falcon with a screaming 289 351 heads Lunati cam etc, he was an engineer and I never saw a car go around it ever. That thing shifted at 8 !
They were 3K cars back then, we thrashed around, not knowing they would ever be 70k collectors as today… hilarious.. a friend offered me a free 72 Cuda, with all correct 340 numbers matching, and we had so many E Bodies around, I said no thanks, I don’t like the taillights in that year.. lol!!!! They were all so plentiful, back then… 57 Ragtop beetles were 500-1000… haha.. time flies people, enjoy life, and appreciate it. This is NOT a dress rehearsal…:)
I'm 62 & the 70 & 80's were the best times for me & my Hot Rods, we'd go to the local Denny's, make call out's, then meet over in the industrial area, most places were closed that time of night, except for a few semi's coming & going once in a while.
Yep. Used to go to industrial areas to run since there was no traffic or intersections. We would have lookouts for both cops and other traffic and would make sure streets were clear before running. About every street racing crash you hear about these days are from those running through intersections, curved roads or heavy traffic areas.
Right on we from clas of 1978 Yuma Az. had fun fun fun , i was lucky to have a 1967 Chevelle for my fifteenth birthday, But couldnt drive it for almost half a year, i had to get my Drivers License permit :) , my borther who is 3 years older had a 1969 SuperBee Man the fun times at Yuma Union High we had real deal
I had a 71 Plymouth Valiant Scamp with a 230hp 318 and a 3 speed manual transmission.We raced down an industrial drive that also had very little traffic at night.My Scamp only weighed a little over 3,000.Couldnt run with the big blocks but a fun little car.We had a blast.
That was me in the blue 79 Z28! What a wonderful find! I remember that day. I always wondered what happened to the video. Never thought I'd actually see it. Thanks for posting! Great memories.
@@stevenvanheel3932 that's what i like about now actually. i like also there's many options.i am more of a car guy not so much a brand guy, i like ford, dodge, chevy etc.
I was stationed at fort Ord (on the Monterey peninsula) 84-87 I had a 1968 pro-street Camaro with 408 cid big block back then. I ripped all around Salinas, Monterey, and Santa cruz in that thing back then . These guys were at nearly the same place and time, doing the same thing I was. I hope those that are left alive in this video are still out peddle to the metal keeping these old school beasts alive like I try to do.
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I love muscle cars myself. Missed cruising in the 80's through Waikiki along with my friend in his '69 Camaro SS. I was a Chevy guy but switched to Ford. Have couple of S197's.
Ah man, I was 22 back in 86 and everything about this is so nostalgically awesome right down to the old VHS date stamp :) It's interesting to see how we reacted to being recorded back in the day as opposed to now because back then we were rarely recorded. Remember that guys, I mean it was only once in a blue moon that someone would actually bring out a Camcorder to tape something we were doing and quite honestly in was kinda of thing when they did because it rarely happened lol!
I, too, was 22 in 86. And I was thinking the same thing. Not only did a camcorder rarely show up (and they were way bigger than a cell phone), but RUclips and the Internet (as far as we knew) didn't exist. There was no thought what-so-ever that a recording might get viewed by thousands of people. And scenes like this played out in towns all across the country.
I never saw narrowed rearend street cars in the 80s. Our cars needed paint and were fairly stock with headers carb and maybe a cam. These were wealthier kids than I at that age!
Yeah... and nobody I knew had a blower either. The fastest street car (daily driver) I knew of was a friends dad. He had a 72 camaro w/a small journal 327 that he had built by a race shop. I personally rode in it and saw the tach swing to 8k rpms on the 1-2 shift (turbo 400) where it laid a good 40ft patch from the eagle ST's. He told me it ran a 11.99 at 117mph w/slicks and mid 12s on the ST's at Bradenton Dragstrip. It was bright orange w/white stipes and was in perfect condition. And he drove it daily to work 17 miles each way.
We scrounged the best factory "performance" parts we could find used. Double hump heads, less restrictive exhaust manifolds, maybe an aftermarket intake and a used holley.
In the late 70's in my area the lucky guys got a low mileage grandma driven Dart, Nova etc. for 16 birthday while the rest of us had to work low paying after school/weekend jobs to save for a 2 door beater to mod.
@@a.t1313 I bought my first car in 1982, paid $450 for it, 1967 Cougar that came from California so it wasn't all rusted out. SLOOOOOOOOWwwww.... 302 two barrel. I planted and grew 3 acres of sweet corn, sold it from the back of dads F250 in town. Made $2500, dad kept $2000, then drove my car to work in town for three years before I turned 16. By the time I got to drive it, everything was worn out. I was able to drive it for less than six months total. I wanted a GTO, but couldn't find one at the time. In 1986 a wrecked 72 GTO showed up at the local junk yard, so I bought it for $175, it needed the passenger side fender, bumper, headlight bucket, and a hood. The 400 was gone, and in its place was a 350 two barrel. In 1987 I put a 400 back in it and had some fun until a rod bearing decided to part company. I bought a 79 10th Anniversary TA in July that year, drove that until I enlisted in '88. The TA hasn't moved since September 88. Still have all three of those, and many others. I rarely sold anything back then, so I have lots of parts and cars now. I did work for neighboring farms to earn money, I didn't get anything from my parents. They liked to take what I earned. When I got back from the USAF in 92 I started building cars again, in 1997 I had a 79 Formula I bought in Germany running mid 11s through the mufflers with a mild 455. Current summer daily drivers are a 65 GTO with a 455 wearing the heads/intake from the 79 Formula, and a 70 Cuda 340. I have lots of old Pontiacs.
Oh, such a better time to live. I graduated in 86 with a 79 z/28. Good times. Today's people can't get themselves away from video games long enough to enjoy life the way that we did. I made a few of those home videos myself! Great times...
Class of 84’ here, bro I’d go back so damn fast I can’t stand the way shit is these days. Oh yeh I had a 67’ Mustang coupe came with a 3 speed and 2 barrel, my uncle put a Top loader intake 4 barrel and cam and that little hooker would scoot. I picked my date up and her dad says oh no she ain’t going anywhere in that 😆 I said buddy here, take my keys I’ll drive your Lincoln he lit up like a Christmas tree no problem he says. Good times
Your generation made it this way, just remember that. You were responsible for raising us right and you failed. You only have yourselves to blame for the state of our society today
Lol I was born in 90 but I was definitely born in the wrong era. I just got done building a 383 stroker for my 81 Cutlass drag car, keeping it old school with the SBC. Definitely looked like simpler and better times back then.
@@bigrig. you’d have loved it bro trust me things were light and loose we all got along. We didn’t have all the stress we have from the bullshit goin on these days.
One of the coolest videos I've ever seen on RUclips. A couple years before my friends and I were doing this same thing pretty much. 1989-90 was around the first year. Really cool for the people in the video to have and look back on.
Back when people actually communicated face to face, met up and congregated without needing anything more then a capable ride that sounded right, a tank of high-test, badass cassette tape collection, a few doobs and a time & place.. Nobodies me 2ing anybody, nobody needed a "safe space" and nobody was allergic to goddamn peanuts... we were tough and nails back then 💪
So you're praising the ability of men to sexually assault women without repercussions and the fact we ignored people who had allergies? (Because peanut allergies has and will always be one of the most common allergies) Man the internet is truly the lowest common denominator
Remember street racing back in the 80s like it was yesterday. Out till the sun came up. Good times. Loved the sound of a gear drive like in that Camero. Nice cars I that vid. Thanks for sharing. Good tunes!
@6:25 ❤❤❤❤❤ That bad ass nova. My friend, Tony had a 74 Nova when we were in Highschool. And even though is wasn’t built like these cars, his dad had peoped it up for him some. Headers, a cam and some air shocks lol. We were the coolest dudes on our block. PostScript: I have one question and if you answer, you must answer HONESTLY. Does watching this make any of you kinda sad? Sad at knowing that our teen years are gone forever and that our kids will never know the simple pleasures that we knew as kids? I’m wondering if it’s just me.
Nope, not just you brother. I graduated HS in 77, so my first car/truck was a 66 El Camino 327 4 speed 4:11, 12 bolt posi that I bought in 74ish for 500 bucks. Beat a lot of cars with that thing.
@@speedyg2577 wow. Sounds amazing. I was 89. But we all street raced on Friday nights after football. Football was and still is the most important thing in here in Odessa Texas. Lol.
Class of 88. Was doing the same thing. On 12/28/86 I was a Jr. in high school. It was a Sunday and Christmas break so we probably went pheasant hunting durning the day and partied with our girlfreinds that night. :). Makes me sad that my daughter and her friends don't get out and do things like we did.
I was 16 in 86. Sad that teenage years are gone forever = No not at all. Ignorance and rebellion cost me way too much to ever go through that again. Now if I could go back in time w/my brain and maturity of today... I'd pretty much have made every decision the opposite. Simplicity of life = 100% YES (If I was a sales weenie I'd have said 10,000%... but I'm an engineer and you can't fill anything more than 100% 😁 )
@@wydopnthrtl That's an honest thinking. We make a lot of bad decisions at that age. But no way to know and understand it before hand. Hormones and adrenaline at that age are uncontrollable. Obviously some guys were more bad than others, those didn't end well and never got to be an engineer.
Excellent video. Just people hanging out doing test hits with their hot rods. I wish someone in our group had a video camera back then. In '86 we were hitting the streets every Friday night in Poughkeepsie NY along route 9.
Love this video. My heavy street racing days were 97, 98 years in good ol abilene tx. Lol. Some of the best times of my life for sure. Altho this was around 10 years earlier and somewhere else Seeing this brings back alot of memories. Something about street racing that gets and stays in the blood nomatter when, who and where your at.
Used to go to Kevin's Burgers, Canoga Park, California back in the 1980's. Still have my 65 Mustang Fastback and my dad's original #'s matching 67 Shelby GT 500. Great memories!
Where was that Burger place. Spent a lot of time in Northridge, Lumber city, Van nuys (BofA lot) and out by the res where the damn almost broke in the 71 sylmar earthquake. Roxford?
@@johnclemans7802 I remember the Jack in the box on the southeast corner and the gas stations on those corners. Rode the RTD along roscoe and desoto a lot before getting a DL. Place is very different today. No more dirt streets in that NE quadrant of the intersection. Remember a guy lived over off Winnetka/Chase that had a stock elim 67-68 Mustang or two.
This is my 3rd comment is 7 mins of the vid Im sorry.. but I really appreciate these type ' pre cell phone ' vids that enthusiasts captured and preserved from back in the day. It's rare, epic and genuine.
Ahhh...1986! Remember it well!!! I was 14 and we lived on a rural blacktop in the country. Cars would race on that stretch of road damn near every fri/sat night! Got my ol' 77 Nova Concours 305 smog 2bbl in 1989, built it into street/strip with a mild 350/350 TCI 2800 stall & Richmond 3.90 rear in 1993! FUCK I miss that car AND my youth!!!!!
I was a senior when this was filmed. It was a couple years later that I started street racing. Had a 69 step side with a 402 in it, home ported heads, decent cam, Holley intake and 750 carb, some deep gears, and the widest slicks I could tuck up under the step sides. It did quite well. That Falcon appeared to have Mickey Thompson SS on the back. You were the man if you had them on the back of your car and they were the soft compound ones! Good times back then when you used your brain, knowledge, and skill to build something instead of your Visa Gold card. Video brought me back in time; just needed some actual racing, it was good though, Thanks.
I could watch this all day long! I grew up in Watsonville and was 13 at this time. My neighbor had a bad ass orange 69 Camaro with a 4 speed and tunnel ram and was always doing burnouts up and down the street. These guys probably came across him at some point in time. My parents met at the drag races in Salinas in the mid 60’s when he was stationed at Fort Ord. This brings back all the “feels” 👍
Brings back GREAT memories of hanging with my gear head buddies outside of Atlanta Georgia. We had fun times! THANK YOU for sharing this old VHS tape. All the cars are cool but the Falcon with a Cleveland is my favorite. My late best friend ran a built Cleveland in his 67 Mustang fastback. He was unbeatable at the time. It ran high 11's in the quarter. Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
Wow ,this really brought back memories I was 19 and this is what we were doing to. No cell phones, you phoned your buddies from the phone screwed to the wall and when all agreed to show up they did and stayed as long as you did. Man I miss those days. Even the Scorpions playing was on point. Thanks for uploading this super cool
I’m so pissed I never got to experience the 80’s, or be an adult in the 2000’s. I didn’t even begin adulthood until 2014, when the world really started going to shit.
America really changed after 9/11. Innocence lost and tech advancements allowed for major surveillance in the name of ‘safety’. Patriot Act was bipartisan.
This video brings back so many awesome memories. Every day during lunch in high school, a group of us would go drag race. I won a few, lost a few, but i had one hell of a time doing it.
Brings back memories. I remember trying to squeeze 500 hp out of a small block chevy. It took some serious cash to achieve that. Today my Scat Charger comes that way, not to mention a line lock and programable stall converter all at my finger tips. Computer stores all the parameters of performance on board. Even has a G meter for traction information. A shit ton more i just can't remember it all.
I had a 65 Falcon convertible 289 4spd that i cobbled a NOS fogger plate and a solenoid switch from an airconditioner that i activated with my finfer the button was on the shift handle...i usually guessed when to hit it after looking at the tach..hopefully i wouldnt hit the nitrous in between 1st and 2nd gear..hopefully it come on when im already squarely in 2nd gear..it was 'hit or miss'..i blew the guts out of the engine once or twice,fragged a clutch a couple times destroyed a 9in detroit locker....now all the nitrous can be dialed in on a screen and the computer actuates the nitrous...wow! Those SCATS come with A/C,Power seats and windows,all the EGR stuff intact...all the stuff we dumped back then in order to gain some power and drop weight...amazing machines the Challengers,Camaros and Mustangs are today
@@chadhumphries3970 true...but once a gear head gets their hands on it and start tweaking and tinkering and putting their heart and soul into improving the machine then it does have a soul. Galaxy 427s,SS 396 Camaros,454 Chevelles,440 6 pack 'Cudas and Chargers,Boss 429s all came from the factory with disgusting and unholy gobs of souless power from the factory...then the Demons of the Drag Strips Yenko,Shelby,Mickey Thompson,Glidden and whole bunch of other average guys tweaked and tuned them and created machines filled with skill,talent,nitromethane induced lunacy and ferocious holeshots...the modern cars all come from that..no car comes with a soul from the factory
I owned at 1967 and a 1968 pro street camaro in 86. I was stationed at fort Ord near where this video was shot at the time. A nice 68 or 69 Camaro would set you back about $4500 with fresh paint, deck stripes, and mild rebuilt engine.
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I have a 2004 and a 2005 puck up trucks that I drive every day that are not that old in my opinion, but as old as your cars were in 1986. Somehow, I doubt that my trucks will be worth tens of thousands in another 30 to 40 years. In 1990 I got my 1st car, a 1970 El Camino with a 350 4 barrel. Loved that car.
@@CarbonGlassMan You are right on that! I graduated high school in 1984 and my dad told me back then to enjoy the old 60s and 70s muscle cars while I could because that era would never come back. I have been doing my best to drive mostly old school classic ever since!
1987 doing the same shit just different bros😂same tunes which I still listen to thank you very much. Still have cars that I run that are from this era. Good times 😂 beat em break em fix em. You know. This vid made my day thanks. So much has changed. But still having fun. 😂 F.P. HIGH SCHOOL Tacoma Wa. Class of 87 baby oh ya. Peace freinds.
We had many nights of street racing.... wouldn't dare try it in the day time of course we had 5X the cars. I'm like paulc a hard-core Chevy guy.... 2 66' Chevelles one a sweet SS, also a 69' SS , a 70' and 72' Vette among others that was from mid 70' to late 90's.... The Falcon is nice love rear end action as be bangs the gears the Camaros are cool hey man its just nice seeing all of those rides and old school hang-out with friends just having fun. Yes those were simpler times my gearhead friends as we would all find out. I miss the cars but marriage houses and two boys took place of hot rods and racing... so today i do it from the sidelines ✌️🙂 Thank you for the video
I guessed that the 64 Falcon was Cleveland powered. I was 16 in 86 and those were great times. I was building a Cleveland powered 66 mustang. Should’ve threw some Sammy Hagar in there or some Iron Maiden. Great video.
That's what I'm saying, phones are ruining all the fun. Everybody are zombies these days. Not me though I'm carrying on the torch. Just built a 383 stroker for my drag car
I know a guy who still has his first car from HS. It was 1 yr old and is a 76 2D maverick w/302. White w/black interior and no rust. Every time I go back home I drive by his house and see if he still has it and his 2nd car which is a 87 Mustang LX 5.0L. Yep... he still has them.
Love the intro and the old footage that’s awesome thanks. Nice older cars you don’t see everyday. I love how the majority of cars were doing the one wheel burn out 🤣 like manufacturers thought that was gonna fly.
Back in the 70s, we had drag nights and we would get together in a grocery store parking lot and when the stores closed and we have like a car show and then everybody would go out onto the street, which was a main drag out there and we'd have Drag Racing and them on the. Weekends, when that's over during the day. We go over to the local drag strip and have run what you brung And it was all legal as far as we cared until the cops came along to break it up.
I'm 71 and was into all that in the 60's and 70's. Friday and Saturday were street racing nights, Sunday was all at the local drag strip. Fun times for sure. This film would have been better if the cars had actually raced each other.
Back in my day we would get aquarium air lines connect to the windshield washer reservoir fill with clorox and water position the hoses over the rear wheels wet the tires and did a real burn out..we also had line locks..class of 73..
I miss street racing. Yeah it was dangerous, but no more than what would happen at a track. Just without the on coming traffic. I also enjoy watching it. I know the Philly crew still street races. I wanna see that in person once. I see it on RUclips a lot. Looks fun as hell
@@robduncan2816 If you go to a track you know you are at a dangerous event. Walking to your mailbox and getting run over by a street racer is what being innocent is. I worked at a dragstrips for 22 years I understand the risk by fans or racers.
@rolltide9547 I know some innocent who got killed at tracks before. When a car clears the wall and innocent by standers are near, someone is bound to get injured or killed. Maybe not as much as street racing, but it happens and it could also happen
@@markharris1473 They took the chance going to a track with takes the innocent part out. Walking your dog down the street and getting killed by a street racer is what being innocent is about.
I was 5 months old. If I had known how expensive classics would become I would’ve bought one back when I was a baby. I think it would’ve been easier then than it is now 😂
Wow I was on 30 years old then holy crap I feel old . I miss the 80s so bad I was living in Utah and with state of very Hot women I miss those 80s women too best times of my life
torque is torque. thats what wins street races. your 351W could be built to provide GOBS of torque. i had one in a 72 galaxie- the valve timing is wack stock from ford.
It seems like it was a lot harder for annoying people to call the cops when they didn’t have cell phones! That’s hard for me to imagine- I never knew a world without cell phones and computers.
Big Dawg, definitely the Falcon. It's got the motor for sure. Did his thing with well tuned ladder bars on a narrowed (not much) 9inch and steep gears. The gray Camaro has the chassis setup down pat. That rear suspension flat works. Orange Camaro ain't gonna beat 'em here. Let him get 'em on those mountain passes with the curves and he's gone. Nova with the peg leg rear,just wait till he shows up with posi-trac and he'll be in the mix. That later Z-28, contender in the hills. I grew up in Smyrna Ga. and it was Lower River Road and stretches of 41 hi way towards Cartersville. Oh those were the days weren't they? Man I loved every minute of it....
I was turning 7 years old! This type stuff is epic! I think where are those cars today? Especially that tubbed Camaro with the Pete Jackson gear drive lol
There was a guy who used to drive a brown Falcon to Gonzales high school back in the day ('73). It looked just like this one. I believe it had a 427 then. Could it be the same one? @@ruazfast
I ended up with my falcon in 1976. Where the rear fenders cut like mine? Looks like my car was originally white and someone painted it blue and when I got it was black primer.🧐@@jamesbronson8713
In 1986 we raced on Bloomfield Rd in Gilroy about 30 minutes north of where this video was filmed. Was hoping to see some cars I recognized from back in the day.
@@steveww07 You know what boomer means? They have been doing this way longer than you and paved the way. Would you diss your ancestors for coming to America? No respect. Boomer checking A/F, pulling a plug and knowing how to read it, Gen X or Y, let me get my laptop. Nothing wrong with that, you won't mess up the manicure.
@@larrytheableguy3441 you sound mad. You think checking a spark plug is anything as complicated as AFR with a laptop? Man yall boomers are full of S***. Yall threw junk together and really thought you were something special.
I'm looking for information on a car that my dad and I built, and raced in Modesto in the 80's. there's a couple of pictures of it, in my pictures. it's in grey primer. it was a 69 dodge dart gts. it was a 340/727. we raced it in Modesto in the early 80's. we raced against a guy named "Tim", he at the time had a Pontiac. and a guy named "Jed" who had a 426 wedge. we sold our dart to a Mexican named "ralph" (I think) in about 1985. some people who were around the street racing crowd in the early 80's, used to call our dart "the sling shot". we had a reputation of never getting beat off the line. any info would be appreciated. I'd really like to know what happened to the car
@@dangarrison3503 nice! We had a 67 belvedere 1. (2 door post) we took out the 273. And put in a go 440. Purpleshaft hydraulic. 727 3000 stall. 8 3/4 with 3.91.( we couldn't find the lower gears we needed) we really took our time putting the engine in. We got all the right linkage little bolts etc. When we were done you couldn't tell that it wasn't originally a 440 car. Of course the vin tag would still give it away. That car, for no more then we had in it ran pretty good.
This video was on my first birthday Dec 28, 1985 was the year i was born. Them Chevies needs positraction DAMN! That Ford is doing it 👍🏿 and I'm a bowtie boy!
The good days!!! I start 92 still going on have Camaro 68 Street week car 1100hp Only 12 psi Boost ProchargerF2 Big staff3 Efi E85 Fjuel.Nice Happy Engine..Have even more Cars Amerikan Muscle cars!❤️🖐
I'm an old guy and the 80's was the best time for drag racing for me. We had to build motors from reading Hot Rod magazine. No turbo's and the only superchargers available were 671 and 871 blowers that came off of semi trucks. Parts had to be ordered by phone and then hope you get them. We had cast steel heads and blocks so no light weight aluminum for us. I would port and polish the heads with a grinder and it took weeks. All said it was the greatest time for street racing, The video brings back good memories, Thanks.
What was so great about not being able to get anything?
Because you had to do with less and try to work around cost-based obstacles. That made all those muscle cars way more valuable, despite their limitations. It was a different era. You couldnt just buy shit bc it didnt exist.@theupscriber65
💯 I was born in 67. This was every Friday and Saturday and sometimes at open lunch in highschool 😂
@@theupscriber65 Look at the car scene now, all full of tiktok kids and clout chasers bragging about shit that everyone else can buy or do. No one is unique anymore or willing to put in the hard work.
@@theupscriber65 Improves your creativity, expands your fantasies, like reading a book when I was a kid, comparing with watching a CGI movie.
I'm a chevy man myself, but that Falcon sure had an awesome sound and snatched 2nd gear with ease. Four speeds and big cams always. Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed it all.
It might be a comet
It's a 64 falcon🧐
My neighbor had a 64 Falcon with a screaming 289 351 heads Lunati cam etc, he was an engineer and I never saw a car go around it ever. That thing shifted at 8 !
@@deborahchesser73757,000 is enough for me. 🧐
It's a definitely a Falcon Sprint, I have one rust free in my yard that needs to be restored.
Back in the day people got together to do burnouts without a cell phone
That's Right
They would have if they could
The camcorder was the cellphone
A burnout with no cell phone 😱 seems unbelievable 🤔😀
No shit they weren’t hand held then
They were 3K cars back then, we thrashed around, not knowing they would ever be 70k collectors as today… hilarious.. a friend offered me a free 72 Cuda, with all correct 340 numbers matching, and we had so many E Bodies around, I said no thanks, I don’t like the taillights in that year.. lol!!!! They were all so plentiful, back then… 57 Ragtop beetles were 500-1000… haha.. time flies people, enjoy life, and appreciate it. This is NOT a dress rehearsal…:)
I'm 62 & the 70 & 80's were the best times for me & my Hot Rods, we'd go to the local Denny's, make call out's, then meet over in the industrial area, most places were closed that time of night, except for a few semi's coming & going once in a while.
Yep. Used to go to industrial areas to run since there was no traffic or intersections. We would have lookouts for both cops and other traffic and would make sure streets were clear before running. About every street racing crash you hear about these days are from those running through intersections, curved roads or heavy traffic areas.
Right on we from clas of 1978 Yuma Az. had fun fun fun , i was lucky to have a 1967 Chevelle for my fifteenth birthday, But couldnt drive it for almost half a year, i had to get my Drivers License permit :) , my borther who is 3 years older had a 1969 SuperBee Man the fun times at Yuma Union High we had real deal
Too bad about the spelling & punctuation thing you never grasped.
For us in ny area it was Vandalia ave , red hook,and the conduit in brooklyn not burn outs but real drag racing
I had a 71 Plymouth Valiant Scamp with a 230hp 318 and a 3 speed manual transmission.We raced down an industrial drive that also had very little traffic at night.My Scamp only weighed a little over 3,000.Couldnt run with the big blocks but a fun little car.We had a blast.
I really do believe that we grew up in the best times. We had the best music too.
Before rock and roll died.
100%
Amen!!!
@@bighoudini6130corporate rock now, Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons on the rock stations! 🤦♂️
That was me in the blue 79 Z28! What a wonderful find! I remember that day. I always wondered what happened to the video. Never thought I'd actually see it. Thanks for posting! Great memories.
The 1980s': blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats. It's now 2020 and I'm wearing blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats.
If it ain't broke. but are you wearing crocs with socks?
Ahh yes! Back when if you had 400hp to the ground you where king of the streets.
Now making 400hp out of a 350 is pretty easy lol.
Now it’s 1,000 but they’ve never driven a 400 WHP car, so I get a hellcat engine cheap after they wad it up in the first 50 miles
@@ROBIN_SAGEmy thoughts exactly. 600hp is the norm and with some tuning and couple mods you’re 800+
For sure, 400 hp was a hell of a lot back then!
@@stevenvanheel3932 that's what i like about now actually. i like also there's many options.i am more of a car guy not so much a brand guy, i like ford, dodge, chevy etc.
I was stationed at fort Ord (on the Monterey peninsula) 84-87
I had a 1968 pro-street Camaro with 408 cid big block back then.
I ripped all around Salinas, Monterey, and Santa cruz in that thing back then .
These guys were at nearly the same place and time, doing the same thing I was.
I hope those that are left alive in this video are still out peddle to the metal keeping these old school beasts alive like I try to do.
I was running around at those times. Cruise downtown on Friday and Saturday night. Looking for races 👍
Dam this video brings back so many memories of the simple days . Love it thanks for video the
I was also at Planet Ord, 91 to 93. I had no muscle car though :(. You still have your 'Maro?
@@not1but2and37 unfortunately no, but I have a couple other muscle cars (I'm a wrench at a small hotrod shop).
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I love muscle cars myself. Missed cruising in the 80's through Waikiki along with my friend in his '69 Camaro SS. I was a Chevy guy but switched to Ford. Have couple of S197's.
Ah man, I was 22 back in 86 and everything about this is so nostalgically awesome right down to the old VHS date stamp :) It's interesting to see how we reacted to being recorded back in the day as opposed to now because back then we were rarely recorded. Remember that guys, I mean it was only once in a blue moon that someone would actually bring out a Camcorder to tape something we were doing and quite honestly in was kinda of thing when they did because it rarely happened lol!
Thanks for watching everyone.
I, too, was 22 in 86. And I was thinking the same thing. Not only did a camcorder rarely show up (and they were way bigger than a cell phone), but RUclips and the Internet (as far as we knew) didn't exist. There was no thought what-so-ever that a recording might get viewed by thousands of people. And scenes like this played out in towns all across the country.
Back when life was simple,i miss those days for sure, thanks for sharing.
I was born only a few days before this was filmed. Crazy!
When technology goes up...human intelligence goes down.
What a flashback to high school in the 80's. I LOVE the Centerline rims. Such a new and amazing look back then.
I never saw narrowed rearend street cars in the 80s. Our cars needed paint and were fairly stock with headers carb and maybe a cam. These were wealthier kids than I at that age!
Primered hot rods were a thing back then. I've seen some new cars today that look like clearcoated primer grey
Yeah... and nobody I knew had a blower either.
The fastest street car (daily driver) I knew of was a friends dad. He had a 72 camaro w/a small journal 327 that he had built by a race shop. I personally rode in it and saw the tach swing to 8k rpms on the 1-2 shift (turbo 400) where it laid a good 40ft patch from the eagle ST's.
He told me it ran a 11.99 at 117mph w/slicks and mid 12s on the ST's at Bradenton Dragstrip.
It was bright orange w/white stipes and was in perfect condition. And he drove it daily to work 17 miles each way.
We scrounged the best factory "performance" parts we could find used. Double hump heads, less restrictive exhaust manifolds, maybe an aftermarket intake and a used holley.
In the late 70's in my area the lucky guys got a low mileage grandma driven Dart, Nova etc. for 16 birthday while the rest of us had to work low paying after school/weekend jobs to save for a 2 door beater to mod.
@@a.t1313 I bought my first car in 1982, paid $450 for it, 1967 Cougar that came from California so it wasn't all rusted out. SLOOOOOOOOWwwww.... 302 two barrel. I planted and grew 3 acres of sweet corn, sold it from the back of dads F250 in town. Made $2500, dad kept $2000, then drove my car to work in town for three years before I turned 16. By the time I got to drive it, everything was worn out. I was able to drive it for less than six months total.
I wanted a GTO, but couldn't find one at the time. In 1986 a wrecked 72 GTO showed up at the local junk yard, so I bought it for $175, it needed the passenger side fender, bumper, headlight bucket, and a hood. The 400 was gone, and in its place was a 350 two barrel. In 1987 I put a 400 back in it and had some fun until a rod bearing decided to part company. I bought a 79 10th Anniversary TA in July that year, drove that until I enlisted in '88. The TA hasn't moved since September 88.
Still have all three of those, and many others. I rarely sold anything back then, so I have lots of parts and cars now.
I did work for neighboring farms to earn money, I didn't get anything from my parents. They liked to take what I earned. When I got back from the USAF in 92 I started building cars again, in 1997 I had a 79 Formula I bought in Germany running mid 11s through the mufflers with a mild 455. Current summer daily drivers are a 65 GTO with a 455 wearing the heads/intake from the 79 Formula, and a 70 Cuda 340. I have lots of old Pontiacs.
Oh, such a better time to live. I graduated in 86 with a 79 z/28. Good times. Today's people can't get themselves away from video games long enough to enjoy life the way that we did. I made a few of those home videos myself! Great times...
Class of 84’ here, bro I’d go back so damn fast I can’t stand the way shit is these days. Oh yeh I had a 67’ Mustang coupe came with a 3 speed and 2 barrel, my uncle put a Top loader intake 4 barrel and cam and that little hooker would scoot. I picked my date up and her dad says oh no she ain’t going anywhere in that 😆 I said buddy here, take my keys I’ll drive your Lincoln he lit up like a Christmas tree no problem he says. Good times
Your generation made it this way, just remember that. You were responsible for raising us right and you failed. You only have yourselves to blame for the state of our society today
Lol I was born in 90 but I was definitely born in the wrong era. I just got done building a 383 stroker for my 81 Cutlass drag car, keeping it old school with the SBC.
Definitely looked like simpler and better times back then.
@@bigrig. you’d have loved it bro trust me things were light and loose we all got along. We didn’t have all the stress we have from the bullshit goin on these days.
@@deborahchesser7375 For sure! I just keep to my self anymore and work on my race car.
One of the coolest videos I've ever seen on RUclips. A couple years before my friends and I were doing this same thing pretty much. 1989-90 was around the first year. Really cool for the people in the video to have and look back on.
Back when people actually communicated face to face, met up and congregated without needing anything more then a capable ride that sounded right, a tank of high-test, badass cassette tape collection, a few doobs and a time & place.. Nobodies me 2ing anybody, nobody needed a "safe space" and nobody was allergic to goddamn peanuts... we were tough and nails back then 💪
I like how u also got to watch it on the same day the vid was created just 35+ yrs ltr
I am getting goosebumps with nostalgia! Loving the music. Your comment sounds like preaching to me brother. Preach on man , preach on..............
So you're praising the ability of men to sexually assault women without repercussions and the fact we ignored people who had allergies? (Because peanut allergies has and will always be one of the most common allergies)
Man the internet is truly the lowest common denominator
Peanuts suck ass anyway
Cant be serious about the peanuts thing lmfao
Remember street racing back in the 80s like it was yesterday. Out till the sun came up. Good times.
Loved the sound of a gear drive like in that Camero. Nice cars I that vid. Thanks for sharing. Good tunes!
I believe you're hearing the blower whine. And yes, it's an awesome sound!
@6:25 ❤❤❤❤❤ That bad ass nova. My friend, Tony had a 74 Nova when we were in Highschool. And even though is wasn’t built like these cars, his dad had peoped it up for him some. Headers, a cam and some air shocks lol. We were the coolest dudes on our block.
PostScript:
I have one question and if you answer, you must answer HONESTLY. Does watching this make any of you kinda sad? Sad at knowing that our teen years are gone forever and that our kids will never know the simple pleasures that we knew as kids? I’m wondering if it’s just me.
Nope, not just you brother. I graduated HS in 77, so my first car/truck was a 66 El Camino 327 4 speed 4:11, 12 bolt posi that I bought in 74ish for 500 bucks. Beat a lot of cars with that thing.
@@speedyg2577 wow. Sounds amazing. I was 89. But we all street raced on Friday nights after football. Football was and still is the most important thing in here in Odessa Texas. Lol.
Class of 88. Was doing the same thing. On 12/28/86 I was a Jr. in high school. It was a Sunday and Christmas break so we probably went pheasant hunting durning the day and partied with our girlfreinds that night. :).
Makes me sad that my daughter and her friends don't get out and do things like we did.
I was 16 in 86.
Sad that teenage years are gone forever = No not at all. Ignorance and rebellion cost me way too much to ever go through that again. Now if I could go back in time w/my brain and maturity of today... I'd pretty much have made every decision the opposite.
Simplicity of life = 100% YES (If I was a sales weenie I'd have said 10,000%... but I'm an engineer and you can't fill anything more than 100% 😁 )
@@wydopnthrtl That's an honest thinking. We make a lot of bad decisions at that age. But no way to know and understand it before hand. Hormones and adrenaline at that age are uncontrollable. Obviously some guys were more bad than others, those didn't end well and never got to be an engineer.
If we had a time machine how many of us would go BK. I absolutely would without hesitation.
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Not only would I... I'd learn about investing and today have a warehouse FULL of those period correct muscle cars.
100%
Excellent video. Just people hanging out doing test hits with their hot rods. I wish someone in our group had a video camera back then. In '86 we were hitting the streets every Friday night in Poughkeepsie NY along route 9.
The Boston song playing around 1:31 is "Cool The Engines", which was a song off of Boston's newest album at the time. :)
That album was the Third Stage, came out in 83' I think
@@JamesDierken Third Stage was released 1/1/86. I had just bought a 73 Z/28 LT/RS around this time. Wish I still had it.
pretty sure ALL the songs from third stage were by boston?!
Nowadays we have tiny phones. This goomba was walking around with a camera the size of a van on his shoulder😂
Yes, it was a VHS camera
This video is exactly 37 years old to this day. 12-28-1986 -- 12-28-2023
Amazing calculation
MISS THOSE DAYS. THEY WERE THE BEST‼️ GOOD FRIENDS✔️GRATE CARS ‼️ GOOD CLEAN FUN☝️
if you call drugs, drinking and a hooker good clean fun, i guess. lol
Love this video. My heavy street racing days were 97, 98 years in good ol abilene tx. Lol. Some of the best times of my life for sure. Altho this was around 10 years earlier and somewhere else Seeing this brings back alot of memories. Something about street racing that gets and stays in the blood nomatter when, who and where your at.
Used to go to Kevin's Burgers, Canoga Park, California back in the 1980's. Still have my 65 Mustang Fastback and my dad's original #'s matching 67 Shelby GT 500. Great memories!
Where was that Burger place. Spent a lot of time in Northridge, Lumber city, Van nuys (BofA lot) and out by the res where the damn almost broke in the 71 sylmar earthquake. Roxford?
@@Rob-db4cc DeSoto Ave and Roscoe in Canoga Park.
@@johnclemans7802 I remember the Jack in the box on the southeast corner and the gas stations on those corners. Rode the RTD along roscoe and desoto a lot before getting a DL. Place is very different today. No more dirt streets in that NE quadrant of the intersection. Remember a guy lived over off Winnetka/Chase that had a stock elim 67-68 Mustang or two.
Love how people just talked with each other. Everything seemed so natural. No phones, no poseurs, and no masks.
Why bring masks in the comments? Get over it already snowflake!
We are in Idiocracy now.
@@zh9119 100% agree
@@zh9119 divide and conquer the stupid ignorant plebs
Nothing has changed but the obvious....
This is my 3rd comment is 7 mins of the vid Im sorry.. but I really appreciate these type ' pre cell phone ' vids that enthusiasts captured and preserved from back in the day. It's rare, epic and genuine.
The 80s were a lot of fun.
My God do I miss those days.
Ahhh...1986! Remember it well!!! I was 14 and we lived on a rural blacktop in the country.
Cars would race on that stretch of road damn near every fri/sat night!
Got my ol' 77 Nova Concours 305 smog 2bbl in 1989, built it into street/strip with a mild 350/350 TCI 2800 stall & Richmond 3.90 rear in 1993!
FUCK I miss that car AND my youth!!!!!
We would go downtown on Friday and Saturday nights and look for races. 👍
I was a senior when this was filmed. It was a couple years later that I started street racing. Had a 69 step side with a 402 in it, home ported heads, decent cam, Holley intake and 750 carb, some deep gears, and the widest slicks I could tuck up under the step sides. It did quite well. That Falcon appeared to have Mickey Thompson SS on the back. You were the man if you had them on the back of your car and they were the soft compound ones! Good times back then when you used your brain, knowledge, and skill to build something instead of your Visa Gold card. Video brought me back in time; just needed some actual racing, it was good though, Thanks.
Hi, Falcon had McCreary circle track tires. 👍
I could watch this all day long! I grew up in Watsonville and was 13 at this time. My neighbor had a bad ass orange 69 Camaro with a 4 speed and tunnel ram and was always doing burnouts up and down the street. These guys probably came across him at some point in time. My parents met at the drag races in Salinas in the mid 60’s when he was stationed at Fort Ord. This brings back all the “feels” 👍
I grew up in Gonzales and was in the 6th grade when this was filmed!
That Falcon sounded the best out of them all.
Hi, That's my 64 falcon. It did run pretty good. It has a 351 Cleveland in it.
@@ruazfastMy bad I thought it was a comet I have a 64:2dr sedan with a 302 roller Birds the word!!
@@ckelley63Hi, I also used to have a 65 comet before this car.
This just popped up. Really enjoyed this . My falcon was a 65 futura. Oh the memories. 74 GTO ran high 9s. Yes, I had turned a few wrenches on her.
@@danielseymour6726 I do like to hear the people, Enjoy the falcons 👍
Brings back GREAT memories of hanging with my gear head buddies outside of Atlanta Georgia. We had fun times!
THANK YOU for sharing this old VHS tape.
All the cars are cool but the Falcon with a Cleveland is my favorite. My late best friend ran a built Cleveland in his 67 Mustang fastback. He was unbeatable at the time. It ran high 11's in the quarter.
Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
Wow ,this really brought back memories I was 19 and this is what we were doing to. No cell phones, you phoned your buddies from the phone screwed to the wall and when all agreed to show up they did and stayed as long as you did. Man I miss those days. Even the Scorpions playing was on point. Thanks for uploading this super cool
The gear driven timing system in that Camaro sounded wild. It's interesting to see what was considered fast when I was 6 years old !!
I’m so pissed I never got to experience the 80’s, or be an adult in the 2000’s. I didn’t even begin adulthood until 2014, when the world really started going to shit.
That was 2016 when everything went to shit, you know why. 🎃🤡
lets bring politics into it- don't talk that way about your next prez....
Sorry you missed the good old days. 👍
@@tommurphy4307I think you must mean next federal penitentiary inmate.
America really changed after 9/11. Innocence lost and tech advancements allowed for major surveillance in the name of ‘safety’. Patriot Act was bipartisan.
The best of times for sure. I had a 67 dodge dart GT. Was a quick car. And so much fun for very little money.
This video brings back so many awesome memories. Every day during lunch in high school, a group of us would go drag race. I won a few, lost a few, but i had one hell of a time doing it.
Brings back memories. I remember trying to squeeze 500 hp out of a small block chevy. It took some serious cash to achieve that. Today my Scat Charger comes that way, not to mention a line lock and programable stall converter all at my finger tips. Computer stores all the parameters of performance on board. Even has a G meter for traction information. A shit ton more i just can't remember it all.
I had a 65 Falcon convertible 289 4spd that i cobbled a NOS fogger plate and a solenoid switch from an airconditioner that i activated with my finfer the button was on the shift handle...i usually guessed when to hit it after looking at the tach..hopefully i wouldnt hit the nitrous in between 1st and 2nd gear..hopefully it come on when im already squarely in 2nd gear..it was 'hit or miss'..i blew the guts out of the engine once or twice,fragged a clutch a couple times destroyed a 9in detroit locker....now all the nitrous can be dialed in on a screen and the computer actuates the nitrous...wow!
Those SCATS come with A/C,Power seats and windows,all the EGR stuff intact...all the stuff we dumped back then in order to gain some power and drop weight...amazing machines the Challengers,Camaros and Mustangs are today
Its not easy trying to get as much horsepower as you can for the next guy to race.👍
@@getoffenit7827I have nitrous on my 64 falcon. It can make a big difference when you're racing big block cars. 👍
New cars with gobs of power from the factory also have no soul
@@chadhumphries3970 true...but once a gear head gets their hands on it and start tweaking and tinkering and putting their heart and soul into improving the machine then it does have a soul.
Galaxy 427s,SS 396 Camaros,454 Chevelles,440 6 pack 'Cudas and Chargers,Boss 429s all came from the factory with disgusting and unholy gobs of souless power from the factory...then the Demons of the Drag Strips Yenko,Shelby,Mickey Thompson,Glidden and whole bunch of other average guys tweaked and tuned them and created machines filled with skill,talent,nitromethane induced lunacy and ferocious holeshots...the modern cars all come from that..no car comes with a soul from the factory
A 69 Camero was only 18 years old in 1986. Crazy to think about how new they were then.
I owned at 1967 and a 1968 pro street camaro in 86. I was stationed at fort Ord near where this video was shot at the time.
A nice 68 or 69 Camaro would set you back about $4500 with fresh paint, deck stripes, and mild rebuilt engine.
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I have a 2004 and a 2005 puck up trucks that I drive every day that are not that old in my opinion, but as old as your cars were in 1986. Somehow, I doubt that my trucks will be worth tens of thousands in another 30 to 40 years. In 1990 I got my 1st car, a 1970 El Camino with a 350 4 barrel. Loved that car.
@@CarbonGlassMan You are right on that!
I graduated high school in 1984 and my dad told me back then to enjoy the old 60s and 70s muscle cars while I could because that era would never come back.
I have been doing my best to drive mostly old school classic ever since!
True. I had a 73 Z/28 as my daily at this time. In the summer of 87 I found a 46 GMC that I also dailied. Still have the truck.
not a copo.....lots more@@Steve_Kelly_Oak
Feel like the wraith will pull up any second.
This brings back memories. When I raced in Queens NY. Thanks for sharing
Damn I miss those days
1987 doing the same shit just different bros😂same tunes which I still listen to thank you very much. Still have cars that I run that are from this era. Good times 😂 beat em break em fix em. You know. This vid made my day thanks. So much has changed. But still having fun. 😂 F.P. HIGH SCHOOL Tacoma Wa. Class of 87 baby oh ya. Peace freinds.
Having fun, not getting out of control, and nobody passing by trying to pick a fight. We need this back.
@@mikead24 I'm 25 and don't identify with 99 percent of my generation. Just wasn't raised to buy into all the bs. Old school parents are a blessing.
Are you serious? All we did was race, pull trucks, go mudding, smoke, drink, F$%k and FIGHT. Your group must have been a bunch of wussies
We had many nights of street racing.... wouldn't dare try it in the day time of course we had 5X the cars. I'm like paulc a hard-core Chevy guy.... 2 66' Chevelles one a sweet SS, also a 69' SS , a 70' and 72' Vette among others that was from mid 70' to late 90's....
The Falcon is nice love rear end action as be bangs the gears the Camaros are cool hey man its just nice seeing all of those rides and old school hang-out with friends just having fun. Yes those were simpler times my gearhead friends as we would all find out.
I miss the cars but marriage houses and two boys took place of hot rods and racing... so today i do it from the sidelines ✌️🙂
Thank you for the video
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the natural progression would be to an early caddy cts-v- chipped up to 750hp on ethanol. now, THATS a chevy!!
I guessed that the 64 Falcon was Cleveland powered. I was 16 in 86 and those were great times. I was building a Cleveland powered 66 mustang. Should’ve threw some Sammy Hagar in there or some Iron Maiden. Great video.
Good ole drag racing no ones using cell phones no social media no go pros just gear head’s getting together to see who has the biggest engine
That's what I'm saying, phones are ruining all the fun. Everybody are zombies these days. Not me though I'm carrying on the torch. Just built a 383 stroker for my drag car
I'm so glad this was recommended to me.
Still have my 70 maverick from the 80's sold my Rachero and Elcamino
I know a guy who still has his first car from HS. It was 1 yr old and is a 76 2D maverick w/302. White w/black interior and no rust.
Every time I go back home I drive by his house and see if he still has it and his 2nd car which is a 87 Mustang LX 5.0L. Yep... he still has them.
I own a 74 maverick luv this car
Love the intro and the old footage that’s awesome thanks. Nice older cars you don’t see everyday. I love how the majority of cars were doing the one wheel burn out 🤣 like manufacturers thought that was gonna fly.
These were the days..not the crap u see today. God I miss that.
I miss those days, love the music. I had a Plymouth Duster in 86'
Awesome video man dose this sure bring’s back memory’s….ive give almost anything to go back to those day’s
Back in the 70s, we had drag nights and we would get together in a grocery store parking lot and when the stores closed and we have like a car show and then everybody would go out onto the street, which was a main drag out there and we'd have Drag Racing and them on the. Weekends, when that's over during the day. We go over to the local drag strip and have run what you brung And it was all legal as far as we cared until the cops came along to break it up.
I'm 71 and was into all that in the 60's and 70's.
Friday and Saturday were street racing nights, Sunday was all at the local drag strip.
Fun times for sure.
This film would have been better if the cars had actually raced each other.
We usually raced on the weekends, Friday and Saturday night.👍
now they have eighth-mile strips. thats just a glorified stoplight race.....
back up 10 more years and a fellow i knew had a falcon like that with a BOSS 351 .. was virtually unbeatable ..
Yes, the Cleveland was supposed to flow Pretty good.🧐
that was the first thing you tried to find for your 289- those cleveland boss heads.
@@tommurphy4307 i built a bogus BOSS 302 in 76 but tried to run an automatic trans .. could`nt make it work .
Back in my day we would get aquarium air lines connect to the windshield washer reservoir fill with clorox and water position the hoses over the rear wheels wet the tires and did a real burn out..we also had line locks..class of 73..
I miss street racing. Yeah it was dangerous, but no more than what would happen at a track. Just without the on coming traffic. I also enjoy watching it. I know the Philly crew still street races. I wanna see that in person once. I see it on RUclips a lot. Looks fun as hell
Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track. Street racing is 1000x more dangerous.
@@rolltide9547 "Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track" incorrect
@@robduncan2816 If you go to a track you know you are at a dangerous event. Walking to your mailbox and getting run over by a street racer is what being innocent is. I worked at a dragstrips for 22 years I understand the risk by fans or racers.
@rolltide9547 I know some innocent who got killed at tracks before. When a car clears the wall and innocent by standers are near, someone is bound to get injured or killed. Maybe not as much as street racing, but it happens and it could also happen
@@markharris1473 They took the chance going to a track with takes the innocent part out. Walking your dog down the street and getting killed by a street racer is what being innocent is about.
37 years ago today, how time flies 😹
Today as I’m watching this it’s 12/28/23. This was a cool algorithm video
I was 10 then, oh how times have changed. We do in fact run the tracks backwards every few weekends now lol.
I was 5 months old. If I had known how expensive classics would become I would’ve bought one back when I was a baby. I think it would’ve been easier then than it is now 😂
Love those cars. Nova, camaro, and the Falcon.
Wow I was on 30 years old then holy crap I feel old . I miss the 80s so bad I was living in Utah and with state of very Hot women I miss those 80s women too best times of my life
God this brings back memories. My first true hot rod was a 77 Z28. Aluminum head 355. Ran 12.30 on pump gas. We street Raced all night. What a blast.
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My dad’s 64 Falcon was the fastest car on the streets with a 351w. Sleeper with Moons.
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torque is torque. thats what wins street races. your 351W could be built to provide GOBS of torque. i had one in a 72 galaxie- the valve timing is wack stock from ford.
We used to race on the streets in the 80's until the sun came out and go home and sleep and wait until dark to do it again
The good old days, when you could race anywhere, anytime.
It seems like it was a lot harder for annoying people to call the cops when they didn’t have cell phones! That’s hard for me to imagine- I never knew a world without cell phones and computers.
@@stevenvanheel3932it was great without cell phones, but even in the 80s, I wished I was in the late 60s during the heart of muscle car era.
Big Dawg, definitely the Falcon. It's got the motor for sure. Did his thing with well tuned ladder bars on a narrowed (not much) 9inch and steep gears. The gray Camaro has the chassis setup down pat. That rear suspension flat works. Orange Camaro ain't gonna beat 'em here. Let him get 'em on those mountain passes with the curves and he's gone. Nova with the peg leg rear,just wait till he shows up with posi-trac and he'll be in the mix. That later Z-28, contender in the hills. I grew up in Smyrna Ga. and it was Lower River Road and stretches of 41 hi way towards Cartersville. Oh those were the days weren't they? Man I loved every minute of it....
Falcon doesn't have a narrowed housing, it's just out of a 57 Ford 9-in. 👍
I was turning 7 years old! This type stuff is epic!
I think where are those cars today? Especially that tubbed Camaro with the Pete Jackson gear drive lol
The owner sold it, then bought it back and then sold it later. Was sold in a different town. Last I heard it had a big block in it.
@@ruazfast that's amazing ! Thanks for the great footage!
a lot of them have emigrated to japan
Oh, yeah! Traction bars, Cragars, and Centerlines! Fun times!
Who found this video? That's me with the big block camaro. I never saw the video. I went back to Tucson after that day.
😎Awesome🍀✌️
Hell yeah, the glory days......
Where is that Falcon today? It would be the hit of every car show now.
Yeah that's my car. The falcon hasn't run for over 20 years. I usually say that the kids now missed out racing and cruising downtown. 👍
There was a guy who used to drive a brown Falcon to Gonzales high school back in the day ('73). It looked just like this one. I believe it had a 427 then. Could it be the same one? @@ruazfast
I ended up with my falcon in 1976. Where the rear fenders cut like mine? Looks like my car was originally white and someone painted it blue and when I got it was black primer.🧐@@jamesbronson8713
That box chevy is timeless.
Gotta love the braided line hose covers and the piece of threaded rod 4" to long for the air cleaner, one tire fryers. Those were the days.
it's crazy to think those cars are only around 15- 20 years old there, most less
Was disappointed seeing all those small blocks until he opened the hood on the orange 69 Camaro nothing better than a big block and a 4 speed 🇺🇸💪🏻
In 1986 we raced on Bloomfield Rd in Gilroy about 30 minutes north of where this video was filmed. Was hoping to see some cars I recognized from back in the day.
What about the IBM plan down the road?
When car guys were actually into cars and were actually modifying them unlike today. 😢
Yep. Today's "car guys" slap stickers and fart cans on their jalopies and call it good!
@@Biden_Cult_Morons Don't forget the Chinese turbo kit, a cold air intake and NOS.
ok boomer
@@steveww07 You know what boomer means? They have been doing this way longer than you and paved the way. Would you diss your ancestors for coming to America? No respect. Boomer checking A/F, pulling a plug and knowing how to read it, Gen X or Y, let me get my laptop. Nothing wrong with that, you won't mess up the manicure.
@@larrytheableguy3441 you sound mad. You think checking a spark plug is anything as complicated as AFR with a laptop? Man yall boomers are full of S***. Yall threw junk together and really thought you were something special.
Back then cars had 750 Holley Double Pumpers. Now they have ABS and SRS (air bags). We need to go back!
OMG now days kids think a double pumper is 2 penis pumps.
That's funny. You mentioned 750 double pumper. That's what I had on the Ford 👍
I'm looking for information on a car that my dad and I built, and raced in Modesto in the 80's. there's a couple of pictures of it, in my pictures. it's in grey primer. it was a 69 dodge dart gts. it was a 340/727. we raced it in Modesto in the early 80's. we raced against a guy named "Tim", he at the time had a Pontiac. and a guy named "Jed" who had a 426 wedge. we sold our dart to a Mexican named "ralph" (I think) in about 1985. some people who were around the street racing crowd in the early 80's, used to call our dart "the sling shot". we had a reputation of never getting beat off the line. any info would be appreciated. I'd really like to know what happened to the car
I’m in Modesto rn 21 with my 65 SS Malibu
I street raced in the 80s in Sacramento. Cruised Modesto back then too.
@@dangarrison3503 they were the good ol dayys. What car did you have?
@@ihateliberals518 I had a 63 Plymouth Belvedere 496 big block 727,3000 stall 8 3/4 w 4.30s. I had the same set up in a 71 Duster
@@dangarrison3503 nice! We had a 67 belvedere 1. (2 door post) we took out the 273. And put in a go 440. Purpleshaft hydraulic. 727 3000 stall. 8 3/4 with 3.91.( we couldn't find the lower gears we needed) we really took our time putting the engine in. We got all the right linkage little bolts etc. When we were done you couldn't tell that it wasn't originally a 440 car. Of course the vin tag would still give it away. That car, for no more then we had in it ran pretty good.
12/28/86 that’s my birthday!!! I’m a car guy, it’s very cool to see this was happening on the day I was born!
Happy birthday coming up!👍
the 70s were still in effect in 1987 in the rural areas 😅
Btw... I appreciate the Ford, but the Square body and other Chevys are why I hit the thumbs up ;)
Cool video. I was waiting to see someone line them up, but cool still.
We just went out there to just to do burnouts and screw around, and car show. 👍
This video was on my first birthday Dec 28, 1985 was the year i was born. Them Chevies needs positraction DAMN! That Ford is doing it 👍🏿 and I'm a bowtie boy!
Thanks!👍
That brings back a lot of memories killer video
People say 2000's style is the best, but that's just far from ever being right, 80's is looking fire
Hell Yeah Even The 50s, 60s, 70s,
The cars in this video were not specifically "80s style".
@@Kev27RSwe just had the '60s cars in the '80s 👍
@@ruazfast Yeah!
@@Kev27RSthe cars in the 80s ,centerline, cragers snorkel hood scoops, they certainly were.
High School early 80's we were doing the same thing in Wyoming. All my money went into my car.👍
Ahh, back when aftermarket parts were affordable.
This is amazing! Subscribed immediately following watching it.
I like how a lot of these cars are bound to have the same transmission that we use today, the TH400
And they are in the middle of nowhere. Now days people are doing 100 in and out of heavy traffic. I dig theese guys i was a month old lol.
i wish i was around in this era, i dont like how things are today
The good days!!! I start 92 still going on have Camaro 68 Street week car 1100hp Only 12 psi Boost ProchargerF2 Big staff3 Efi E85 Fjuel.Nice Happy Engine..Have even more Cars Amerikan Muscle cars!❤️🖐