This was truly the best era for funny cars. Real mustang, camaro ,barracuda bodies ,not the one design bodies in NHRA today . These cars had real character .!
Hello yes sir agreed thank you so much for your comment. I’ll pass that on to NHRA lol Please stay tuned for thunder Valley action coming up next month. Will be there for three days filming and uploading videos. I believe they’re gonna have the nostalgia drag cars. Also thanks for being my RUclips channel. Please subscribe happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
The bodies today don't even remotely resemble a production car. They look like a cross between a submarine and a fighter jet, and they are all identically shaped.
Hello Mopar nut I’m one of those also are we related lol you’re very welcome. Thank you so much for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hello Kenny, yes sir same here. It’s what shaped the mold me into wanting to see those cars back in the day. Fortunately, me and my dad went to the Gatornationals starting in 73 and we never missed a year till 2000 thanks for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday 🇺🇸🇺🇸.
I built gene snowe the snowman .look a prudommes cuda you could put that on road without a top fuel motor.body not cut to shit..what do present day F.C.resemble...to me it looks like siding for a house
OMG!! This brought back so many great memories!! The Coca Cola cavalcade was one of my fondest memories!! The cars weren't that fast by today's standards, but what a show those guys put on!!! Wow!! Thanks!!
Hello Roy Super cool I didn’t really remember that I believe they did that gatornationals in the early 70s. I’m not sure when you’re seeing these cars I wasn’t looking on how they were lined up I will have to look into that. You’re very welcome thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe.✌️😎
I remember when O.C.I.R. would have nothing but funny cars for a show. They would line them up just at the start of this video. The 60's/70's was a awesome time for drag racing in Southern California. I'm glad that I grew up there to see it first hand.
I lived close to OCIR back in those days too. I lived in Laguna Hills back behind the cow fields behind Lion Country Safari. I would ride my dirt bike across those cow fields. Then I would come up behind Lion Country Safari, and then drive up Irvine Center Drive a little ways. I would then go over that bridge that crossed over the I-15 freeway that led up to the back entrance of the El Toro Marine base, which is where the OCIR front gate was.
Hello yeah I wish I would’ve grown up in California and to be there in the 60s and 70s must’ve been amazing time. Everybody was so much further ahead on technology on the left coast and we were on the right coast but got to see it all at Gatornationals Sounds like great memories so I’m putting all this out because it’s positive good stuff makes people happy in today’s world we need the memories of the 70s when the world was such a better place to live I’m still stuck in the 70s. Thank you so much for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Golden era of funny car racing----long smokey burnouts with burnout smoke pouring out of the windows--dry hops---test the traction at the starting line--all gone---NHRA never learned its the show not quicker ets--wimpy burnouts nowadays ---cars look the same----can't take my memories away.
Hey Buster agreed I guess that’s why they call it nostalgia drag racing There’s a lot of things in life that don’t compare to the 70s it was a special time to be at the dragstrip no doubt we always will have those memories and I’ll keep on bringing it thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe and tell your friends. Thank you. 👍✌️
Thank you ! My Dad & Brothers ran the Big Cat F/C and later bought Mr. Pickett.. I was so fortunate to be raised in that Era & be prt of all this. I'm 62 now. And without doubt these days were Golden.
Hello while it sounds like super good memories of you guys actually having a car and working it with the family team correct? That’s good stuff yeah I am right in your age range and that’s why I’m doing this because it was some good times. And great memories thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you.✌️👍
Hello Mark, yes sir agreed the 70s was the best decade for funny cars Probably some of the best memories of your life blow them pictures up put them on the wall of your garage so you keep those memories close. I did the same thing with my dad dragracing through the 60s and 70s thanks for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday to you 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome, brings back memories.. color me gone was one of my favorites, snake vs mongoose crowd pleasers.all of the best. Detroit dragway!! Sibly at Dix.!!. There was a car called the warlord, i think out of Chicago or Detroit, i think was a Cuda,man that car jumped all 4 wheels of the track!. Thanks for the video
These your my funny cars when I was a little kid my dad rest in peace 🕊️ use to take me and my older brother to a dragstrip called us30 dragstrip in Indiana . good times. Miss my dad 😭.
Hello Pedro yes sir me also my dad used to take me to the drags from late 60s on through. It was something we always did together my dad‘s gone also so I know how you feel brother just keep them good memories locked up in that vault, so you always have them thanks for being my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you👌✌️
Hello Mike, you know I never had a chance to see that car. I wonder where that car is if it’s in a museum somewhere I’ll have to look into that. Thanks so much for that information. Appreciate you being on my RUclips channel. Happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Those were the days. I remember in Washington state at Seattle International raceway going to watch 64 funny cars every year Those guys would close the track down around 10- 11 o'clock at night and they would cut the lock on the gate and they would get into the tower and turn the lights back on and run all night long it was amazing
Hello Mike wow that’s a great story man. Nothing like drag races all night. Sounds like some great memories thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you 👍✌️
Great pictures from a great era. I always preferred Super Stock or Pro Stock back in the day but the funny cars and what we called rail jobs back in the 60s and 70s hold a dear spot in my drag racing heart.
Hello Keith, yes sir I always love pro stocks as well, but funny cars I thought were the coolest I think was the coolest of pro stock is you could go buy one on the off the showroom floor that was similar and we resonated with that at least I did thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe ✌️👍
The purest Funny Cars of all time! Always I enjoy videos like this. Anyway. I'm not sure but I read that the Golden Commandos team also competed in the funny cars class in 1967. Is it true and what car was it? Many thanks
Hey man, yes sir the best of the best yes, the golden commando team that was a 1965 satellite AFX car I believe they ran it in the 65 and 66 season. I’m not sure on 67. I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for your continued support. Have a great holiday weekend. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@MUSCLECARCORNER426 Anytime, sir!👍 Yes, I agree. They started with the '63 Plymouths. Then, of course, the most famous AWB cars in 1965. In the same year introduced F Stock Plymouth Barracuda - Goldfish. Apparently in 1967 they introduced their first full funny car know as the "Dune Buggy with the Flip Top. In my opinion it wasn't a plymouth.
That opening photo reminded me of the Coca-Cola cavalcade funny cars that rolled into Edmonton for their Fox Hunt program on a Wednesday night. 32 of them fired up all at once! They drove off the track and as soon as the track was clear the racing began. Long smoky burnouts, lots of dry hops, it was a show.
Hello, yes I love that picture. It shows the sign of the time how many fun cars were it’s a great way to showcase Heading to thunder Valley nationals next month stay tuned. More 70s funny cars and slingshot. Thank you for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe thank you and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
I wish Nostalgia Funny Cars had to run THESE very types of bodies!! No body modifications , No skirts ,No long wheel base !! Today’s funny’s ARE NOT NOSTALGIA !! When SOME guys would test drive a new car over the weekend , pull a mold off of it and return it to the dealership on Monday ! Now these are cool cars , hand painted and lettered , just awesome !!
Hello Alex, yes sir, I agree it be really neat to have NHRA bring back those bodies and doing nostalgia tour I believe there’s a program called funny car chaos. I’m gonna have to look into that jungle. Pam‘s husband was telling me about it. He runs a car in it. I’m wanting to get to look at a bunch of these funny cars when I go out to California I’m gonna try to get with Prudhome he’s got collection of his cars and some others and I want to go through the NHRA museum out there in California as well. I just love the 70s Funny cars please view, cranking jungle Jim’s car and interview with jungle Pam. It’s pretty good if you haven’t seen it thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe and happy holiday 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Just a lil before my time! For me, The best era for funny cars was 72' up til 84', Thats when the "independents" pretty much all gone from the sport. It came down to corporation sponsorship to continue racing. Pretty much all local tracks had closed so either you were in or out. You decided "in" you had to go all the way 18wheeler, crew w/uniforms on salary, 2 cars, spare motor(s) and parts, the works! Today, You can lease an ENTIRE racing operation !
Hello well that’s OK. I agree. I started going to gatornationals in 73 and you are 100% right on that up until about 85 Great information sure sounds like you know a lot for being before your time. Thanks so much for your comments and information. Thank you for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe please stay tuned for coverage this coming weekend thunder valley nationals. They’re going to have nostalgia funny cars running, and I will be there to capture it, stay tuned ✌️😎
Hello yes sir that was super cool paintwork on that car that was one of my favorites like jungle Jim also Thank you so much for your comments and your memories back when you were 10. I’m sure you enjoy drag racing happy holiday. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@MUSCLECARCORNER426 Hello sir,i remember Shirley Muldoney with her PINK top fuel dragster in 80s and 90s at SANAIR (Montréal) Québec Canada 🇨🇦😁😁Since few years,my friend and I we go to Epping New Hampshire to see drag racing . 1992 was the last time of (LE GRAND NATIONALE MOLSON)in SANAIR our fxxxking gouvernement stop this AMAZING event because pollution bla,bla,bla...We went to Englishtown NJ,or Reeding PA,few time but it is very far from Québec 🇨🇦 about 10 hour driving.Now,to go to Epping,less then 4 hour It is very FUN !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH amarican people YOU KNOW HOW HAVE FUNNNNN !!!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 Excuse my orthograph i am french guy from Québec 🇨🇦😁👍OH !! I FORGOT,I never see REVELL WILD MAN on RUclips, Could you post It ?? Thank you.👍👍😁🇨🇦
Hello Troy, you must be on the West Coast. I’ve never been to either one of those tracks unfortunately thanks so much for your memories and being on my RUclips channel please subscribe. 👍✌️
This was truly the best era for funny cars. Real mustang, camaro ,barracuda bodies ,not the one design bodies in NHRA today . These cars had real character .!
Hello yes sir agreed thank you so much for your comment. I’ll pass that on to NHRA lol Please stay tuned for thunder Valley action coming up next month. Will be there for three days filming and uploading videos. I believe they’re gonna have the nostalgia drag cars. Also thanks for being my RUclips channel. Please subscribe happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was just gona say that. A toyota funny car...what has this come to pro stock is a bullshit body also.
@@lorenzolomascolo2647 AGREE !!! BULL SHIT WALL TO WALL 🤧👎🖕☹️😭
The bodies today don't even remotely resemble a production car. They look like a cross between a submarine and a fighter jet, and they are all identically shaped.
Hello John, I agree nothing like the 70s and early 80s in Funny Car It was the best thanks so much for your comments 👍😎
Absolutely my all time favorite era of drag racing!! Thank you for sharing this with us.
Hello Mopar nut I’m one of those also are we related lol you’re very welcome. Thank you so much for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
I assembled many models of the Revell sponsored funny cars in the '70s. Good times.
Hello Kenny, yes sir same here. It’s what shaped the mold me into wanting to see those cars back in the day. Fortunately, me and my dad went to the Gatornationals starting in 73 and we never missed a year till 2000 thanks for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday 🇺🇸🇺🇸.
I built gene snowe the snowman .look a prudommes cuda you could put that on road without a top fuel motor.body not cut to shit..what do present day F.C.resemble...to me it looks like siding for a house
OMG!! This brought back so many great memories!! The Coca Cola cavalcade was one of my fondest memories!! The cars weren't that fast by today's standards, but what a show those guys put on!!! Wow!! Thanks!!
Hello Roy Super cool I didn’t really remember that I believe they did that gatornationals in the early 70s. I’m not sure when you’re seeing these cars I wasn’t looking on how they were lined up I will have to look into that. You’re very welcome thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe.✌️😎
I remember when O.C.I.R. would have nothing but funny cars for a show. They would line them up just at the start of this video. The 60's/70's was a awesome time for drag racing in Southern California. I'm glad that I grew up there to see it first hand.
I lived close to OCIR back in those days too. I lived in Laguna Hills back behind the cow fields behind Lion Country Safari. I would ride my dirt bike across those cow fields. Then I would come up behind Lion Country Safari, and then drive up Irvine Center Drive a little ways. I would then go over that bridge that crossed over the I-15 freeway that led up to the back entrance of the El Toro Marine base, which is where the OCIR front gate was.
@@christophersanders5007 That's awesome. We had it made and didn't know it.
Hello yeah I wish I would’ve grown up in California and to be there in the 60s and 70s must’ve been amazing time. Everybody was so much further ahead on technology on the left coast and we were on the right coast but got to see it all at Gatornationals Sounds like great memories so I’m putting all this out because it’s positive good stuff makes people happy in today’s world we need the memories of the 70s when the world was such a better place to live I’m still stuck in the 70s. Thank you so much for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Golden era of funny car racing----long smokey burnouts with burnout smoke pouring out of the windows--dry hops---test the traction at the starting line--all gone---NHRA never learned its the show not quicker ets--wimpy burnouts nowadays ---cars look the same----can't take my memories away.
Hey Buster agreed I guess that’s why they call it nostalgia drag racing There’s a lot of things in life that don’t compare to the 70s it was a special time to be at the dragstrip no doubt we always will have those memories and I’ll keep on bringing it thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe and tell your friends. Thank you. 👍✌️
Thank you ! My Dad & Brothers ran the Big Cat F/C and later bought Mr. Pickett.. I was so fortunate to be raised in that Era & be prt of all this. I'm 62 now. And without doubt these days were Golden.
Hello while it sounds like super good memories of you guys actually having a car and working it with the family team correct? That’s good stuff yeah I am right in your age range and that’s why I’m doing this because it was some good times. And great memories thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you.✌️👍
Best era for Funnies, I saw Cha Cha, Mongoose, the Virginian, et al at 42 back in '70-'71 as a kid with my dad, still have the pictures.
You should scan them and make a video just like this. That would be cool.
Hello Mark, yes sir agreed the 70s was the best decade for funny cars Probably some of the best memories of your life blow them pictures up put them on the wall of your garage so you keep those memories close. I did the same thing with my dad dragracing through the 60s and 70s thanks for your comments please subscribe and happy holiday to you 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome, brings back memories.. color me gone was one of my favorites, snake vs mongoose crowd pleasers.all of the best. Detroit dragway!! Sibly at Dix.!!. There was a car called the warlord, i think out of Chicago or Detroit, i think was a Cuda,man that car jumped all 4 wheels of the track!. Thanks for the video
These your my funny cars when I was a little kid my dad rest in peace 🕊️ use to take me and my older brother to a dragstrip called us30 dragstrip in Indiana . good times. Miss my dad 😭.
Hello Pedro yes sir me also my dad used to take me to the drags from late 60s on through. It was something we always did together my dad‘s gone also so I know how you feel brother just keep them good memories locked up in that vault, so you always have them thanks for being my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you👌✌️
Great stuff here,takes me back to 1972 at Dragway 42 funny car nationals and 1973
At 62 now. Memories of Dragway 42, Norwalk.. my Dad & Brothers ran the "Big Cat" we match raced every wknd. Get times to remember.
Yeah , man , those were the days for drag racis egressive beautiful cars , beautiful women
The Dunn - Reath car was a rear engine configuration . Engine was an iron block 392 built by Ed Donovan. Thanks for putting this together.
Hello Mike, you know I never had a chance to see that car. I wonder where that car is if it’s in a museum somewhere I’ll have to look into that. Thanks so much for that information. Appreciate you being on my RUclips channel. Happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Those were the days. I remember in Washington state at Seattle International raceway going to watch 64 funny cars every year Those guys would close the track down around 10- 11 o'clock at night and they would cut the lock on the gate and they would get into the tower and turn the lights back on and run all night long it was amazing
Hello Mike wow that’s a great story man. Nothing like drag races all night. Sounds like some great memories thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe thank you 👍✌️
Love it the best times
Hello, Maurice agreed thank you so much for being on my RUclips channel. Stay tuned for more NHRA action please subscribe thank you.👍
Great pictures from a great era. I always preferred Super Stock or Pro Stock back in the day but the funny cars and what we called rail jobs back in the 60s and 70s hold a dear spot in my drag racing heart.
Hello Keith, yes sir I always love pro stocks as well, but funny cars I thought were the coolest I think was the coolest of pro stock is you could go buy one on the off the showroom floor that was similar and we resonated with that at least I did thanks so much for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe ✌️👍
The purest Funny Cars of all time! Always I enjoy videos like this. Anyway. I'm not sure but I read that the Golden Commandos team also competed in the funny cars class in 1967. Is it true and what car was it? Many thanks
Hey man, yes sir the best of the best yes, the golden commando team that was a 1965 satellite AFX car I believe they ran it in the 65 and 66 season. I’m not sure on 67. I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for your continued support. Have a great holiday weekend. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@MUSCLECARCORNER426 Anytime, sir!👍 Yes, I agree. They started with the '63 Plymouths. Then, of course, the most famous AWB cars in 1965. In the same year introduced F Stock Plymouth Barracuda - Goldfish. Apparently in 1967 they introduced their first full funny car know as the "Dune Buggy with the Flip Top. In my opinion it wasn't a plymouth.
thank for the video...seriously.... wow. thank you.
Hello yes sir you are so welcome. Thank you for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe and happy holiday. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow such good times,(r.i.p. English town NJ ❤😂
Hello yes, I agree I never got a chance to get to Englishtown, sounds like great memories for you 😎✌️
'60s & '70s funny cars were the best models to build.
Remember square roll cages and round steering wheels?
I was at the races that are shown from Byron/ Rockford, when I was a child.
Today, the FUNNY CARS don't even resemble production cars!
That opening photo reminded me of the Coca-Cola cavalcade funny cars that rolled into Edmonton for their Fox Hunt program on a Wednesday night. 32 of them fired up all at once! They drove off the track and as soon as the track was clear the racing began. Long smoky burnouts, lots of dry hops, it was a show.
Hello, yes I love that picture. It shows the sign of the time how many fun cars were it’s a great way to showcase Heading to thunder Valley nationals next month stay tuned. More 70s funny cars and slingshot. Thank you for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe thank you and happy holiday.🇺🇸🇺🇸
I wish Nostalgia Funny Cars had to run THESE very types of bodies!! No body modifications , No skirts ,No long wheel base !! Today’s funny’s ARE NOT NOSTALGIA !! When SOME guys would test drive a new car over the weekend , pull a mold off of it and return it to the dealership on Monday ! Now these are cool cars , hand painted and lettered , just awesome !!
Hello Alex, yes sir, I agree it be really neat to have NHRA bring back those bodies and doing nostalgia tour I believe there’s a program called funny car chaos. I’m gonna have to look into that jungle. Pam‘s husband was telling me about it. He runs a car in it. I’m wanting to get to look at a bunch of these funny cars when I go out to California I’m gonna try to get with Prudhome he’s got collection of his cars and some others and I want to go through the NHRA museum out there in California as well. I just love the 70s Funny cars please view, cranking jungle Jim’s car and interview with jungle Pam. It’s pretty good if you haven’t seen it thanks for being on my RUclips channel please subscribe and happy holiday 🇺🇸🇺🇸
PS: I remember the “Coke-A-Cola Cavalcade of Stars “ ! Fuel Altereds ! The MOB , PLAN A , etc.. Still with me to this day !
Just a lil before my time! For me, The best era for funny cars was 72' up til 84', Thats when the "independents" pretty much all gone from the sport. It came down to corporation sponsorship to continue racing. Pretty much all local tracks had closed so either you were in or out. You decided "in" you had to go all the way 18wheeler, crew w/uniforms on salary, 2 cars, spare motor(s) and parts, the works!
Today, You can lease an ENTIRE racing operation !
Hello well that’s OK. I agree. I started going to gatornationals in 73 and you are 100% right on that up until about 85 Great information sure sounds like you know a lot for being before your time. Thanks so much for your comments and information. Thank you for being on my RUclips channel. Please subscribe please stay tuned for coverage this coming weekend thunder valley nationals. They’re going to have nostalgia funny cars running, and I will be there to capture it, stay tuned ✌️😎
At 13:08 REVELL WILD MAN.I had this model KIT 1/24 Was fun to assembly and VERY hard fix decals.in 1973 I was 10 Y O.
Hello yes sir that was super cool paintwork on that car that was one of my favorites like jungle Jim also Thank you so much for your comments and your memories back when you were 10. I’m sure you enjoy drag racing happy holiday. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@MUSCLECARCORNER426 Hello sir,i remember Shirley Muldoney with her PINK top fuel dragster in 80s and 90s at SANAIR (Montréal) Québec Canada 🇨🇦😁😁Since few years,my friend and I we go to Epping New Hampshire to see drag racing . 1992 was the last time of (LE GRAND NATIONALE MOLSON)in SANAIR our fxxxking gouvernement stop this AMAZING event because pollution bla,bla,bla...We went to Englishtown NJ,or Reeding PA,few time but it is very far from Québec 🇨🇦 about 10 hour driving.Now,to go to Epping,less then 4 hour It is very FUN !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH amarican people YOU KNOW HOW HAVE FUNNNNN !!!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 Excuse my orthograph i am french guy from Québec 🇨🇦😁👍OH !! I FORGOT,I never see REVELL WILD MAN on RUclips, Could you post It ?? Thank you.👍👍😁🇨🇦
The 66 Chevelle at 2: 27 👍
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👌👍 thank you Mary. Enjoy your holiday weekend. I don’t know if you have a holiday over there or not 🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸
THOSE WERE " FUNNY CARS "
Absolutely the best time in drag racing! 💯
Couldn't agree more!👍✌️
I remember Orange County 32 funny cars, Seattle 64!
Hello Troy, you must be on the West Coast. I’ve never been to either one of those tracks unfortunately thanks so much for your memories and being on my RUclips channel please subscribe. 👍✌️
I still go every year to famoso and firebird in Boise! Priceless!😉👍
Hello Troy nice that’s what I want to go hopefully next year 👍✌️
@@MUSCLECARCORNER426 race at famoso outside of Bakersfield is first week in March, Boise race at firebird is mid August.😉👍