Boundary Bay Raceway Bill Jenkins Dick Landy match race
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- This is the match race between Bill Jenkins and Dick Landy. This vintage video was filmed at Boundary Bay Raceway, Vancouver, B.C., in 1975. Boundary Bay was operated by the Canadian Hot Rod Association, founded in 1973 by Rick James and Darryl Fischer. Also known as Boundary Bay International Raceway, or BBIR. Commentary by Rick James and Ray Romund.
There will NEVER be another drag racing era like the 60s & 70s! I grew up in the middle of it all!
It was special , it was our generation !
Beat of the best pound those gears
I've seen Jungle Jim at SIR. I met his son yrs later at Gainsville.
These guys are icons and you can not replace them you will never see this again God bless these guys
Dick and Mike Landy and Bill Jenkins hard chargers. And great Champion's
These guys were my my heroes back in the day when I was a young man!. RIP guys!.
Love to see those moments from back in days. Im glad to grow up in that generation watching Bob Glidden, Lee Shepard , Dick Landy , Darrell Alderman and few others
Thanks for the memories
Yeah it was magic growing up in those days so I'm glad I got to do that. People perceive things so differently today but those of us that came out of the 60s and 70s were very free spirit fun-loving people and not tied to cell phones Etc. It's good to have a cell phone and a computer so that we can watch these things again, in fact I have watched races that I was at all those years ago on here LOL magic days that went by too quickly
Craig Adams agreed .
Dont forget Ronnie Sox
Rest In Peace Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins and "Dandy" Dick Landy both racing in Heaven these days.
Grúmpy&ßóx,màtkvjrezmddddddddddddda
Well it's not forget Lee Shepherd, The man, The myth, and The legend! RIP😇
And in the near lane , BOB GLIDDEN!!!😦😦😦😦🏁🏁🚘🚘🍺
Just love that era especially the names, like Grumpy, Dandy Dick,Cha-Cha, Big Daddy ,Jungle Jim , The Snake and many more that just made it so fun !
Agreed! When either the driver's name was on the car or the car had a really cool name like "The Winged Express", "Brutus", "Black Magic", Grumpy's Toy", "Swamp Rat XI", "TV Tommy Ivo", "Jungle Jim", "Jade Grenade", "Sparkling Burgundy"....damn, I could probably list a couple hundred more.
Dyno Don, Rambunctious Gene Snow, Tom the mongoose Mc Ewen
We used to go to Atco and Cecil County. My dad and best friend. One day we saw Dick Landy at the truck stop in Paulsboro, NJ. We got autographed pictures of his car.
At Atco Raceway you could talk to the drivers while they waited in line to race. I remember Bill Jenkins telling a young man, “In order to win money you have to spend money.”
Ah, yes, RIP Atco...
My dad took us to a couple local 1/8 mile and 1/10 strips in the late 60's to early 70's. My first trip ever to a 1/4 mile strip was to Maple Grove for its season opener in 1973; the main event: Best 3 out of 5 Match Race between Grumpy Jenkins and Dandy Dick Landy. On what was probably Grumpy's home track, Landy took him in 3 straight races. They put on a great show and that made me a pro stock fan.
thanks for posting this vide. Dick landy, grumpy jenkins, arnie beswick, tasca ford, nunzi pontiac were all legends !!!!
Little did I know in 1974 I would see this on my phone at age 62!
Memories are all we have with these guys but damn they were good memories ! Thanks for posting 👍
My Dad had a 76 vega with a 331 small block and ran 1100s back in 79,80,,,,i was 5 years old,,,,and it's awesome to see this video of The Grump because I Know my dad followed him close in the super stock books,,,,,,
Back when Pro Stock cars were largely stock bodied. Even the funny cars were recognizable in the seventies.
Such good memories here,I sure do miss those days, thanks for the upload
You’re welcome!
I can tell they really loved drag racing through the enthusiasm in their voices! They sounded excited and only talked about the race not any bs like the ESPN annoucers. Being a hockey fan I've been interested in Canadian lately. I'm sorry to hear that they passed away. May they rest in peace.
It sure is nice being able to watch this from a device in my pocket, but I'd still rather have been around back then.
You’d have gotten laid too.
This is back when you could actually identify the cars. No cookie cutter cars.
Agreed, today all the same .
However, the March meet in Famoso is like going back in time to the 70s
Nostalgia funny cars are AWESOME.
Not as fast but they race 1/4 mile!!
Yeah but Bills vega right here is the reason why pro stock sucks today. Landys dodge was a real dart sport with a hemi and roll cage, the vega was a tube chassis with a vega body stuck over it. They allowed him to do it because it was a small block, which wasn't any disadvantage because the car was feather light. Those rules stuck and well, you have what you have today because of it and that vega was the one that did it!
What kind of trans did they run
@Adam Fears winged Express is AWESOME.
Did you catch the Little Red Wagon?
@@Cutlass_Rudd Well, I guess you gotta blame someone for your anger!!
That is EXCITING drag racing!!! Grumpy, Landy and the rest of the first wave of early '70s Pro Stock drag racers knew how to PUT ON A SHOW.! WOW! Yea, it was THAT GOOD! Take lessons youngsters, it's not about the numbers, it's about the show!!!
FarOutRadioMusic 👍👍
Anyone else notice Ken Dondero in the background working with Jenkins? One of the coolest people. RIP to all 3 of these guys.
Ahhh 1960s and early 70s Drags, Super Stock & Pro Stock !!!
Just the BEST, I'm Glad I was old enough to see many with my Dad and then lots more on my own when I got a car ! The Best times : D
great vintage video. there isnt enough of these races on RUclips. thanks!
Thank you!
A little known fact is the NHRA wanted to slow up the Hemi cars in SS/A because the Ford and Chevy guys were looking very bad. The more weight they put on the Hemi cars the quicker they went. So the NHRA declassified SS/A as a pro class and invented Pro Stock and allowed light weight tube chassis, small blocks aluminum engine components , etc. and a lot of fiberglass. The Hemi cars were forced out of Pro Stock for being too dominant. It wasn't until much later the big block Hemi cars were allowed back but had the run new NHRA sanctioned engine architecture which again made the Hemis noncompetitive.,
If you want anything screwed up the NHRA will do it for you.
Man oh man this is good stuff! Reminds me of my childhood. Wish there were more videos like this on the Internet.
I just can't believe how fast those cars were then. Not all the electronics and hardware like now but still Hella fast.
I remember getting Grumpy Bills Autograph at the Gate Way Nationals in St Louis Missouri in the early Seventies and what was Crazy about the Event was Grumpy Bill's car and the car hauler were Stolen the morning of Elimination and later that day Grumpy Bill's Race car and his Race car hauler were found in a east St Louis warehouse and the Motor and Transmission had been stolen I'll remember that as long as I Live
I witnessed it also, at 8to12 yes old. It was more fun back then.
How far drag racing has drifted ......no computers.....just machine and driver. These were some of the best years....match racing....manufacturers.....head to head competition....just drag racing at its roots.
Hi Darryl, I'm paul from Ladner be !! I look out my window on 66 St and see plans landing everyday..... I was blown away to see this and appreciate it.... My dad took me to watch corvettes etc race around cones in the early 80 s. ... Your buddy did a great job of announcing and what an inspiration for guys like me 49 now and started 8 th grade at tail end of seeing Novak and chevelle and dodge darts and dusters etc. I aspire to get more involved in the car building end ( my passion is paint and body) .... But those 60s cars are the pinnacle of all the passion that went into the hobby.
I just love old " original" movies and reminds me of a great time in history. Thanks
That brought back memories. I especially enjoyed the glamorous fashion show and dancing with brooms before the race.
Man i miss Grumpy Jenkins i have a few of the plastic model cars of his never been opened going to build the vega now after watching this awesome video thanks fellas
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
I always loved those match racing and miss them to this day. The best at match racing was Dyno Don Nicholson were he won 90 percent of his match racing. He had to. That was the only job he had. So it was win or starve.
These were 2 great legeds!! Have great respect for both of them!!
I used to have an extensive model collection of drag cars, mostly 70's Pro Stockers: Grumpy's Toy, Sox & Martin Barracuda, "Fast" Eddie Schartman, Maverick, "Dyno" Don Nicholson Pinto, Bob Glidden Plymouth Arrow, The Motown Missile, Butch Leal's California Flash. Real race cars!
Same here.
Back in the days of creativity
Brought a tear to my eye
Yep, those were the days!
PRO STOCK MADNESS Thanks Darryl.
CRAZY KELLY WFO You’re welcome!
Steve Ford I was there that day i remember the excitement and drama great old vidio
Yes it’s awesome to watch! Did you view the Grumpy and Landy interview videos also?
My neighbor had his holley carb hot rodded by Grumpy 3 months before Grump died. It was in a weird named car magazine on his wall. The very last pic of Grump in any magazine. Grumpy could make a Holley faster than anyone. Period.
@@darrylfischer4244 No I Didn't but I did see the cars and drivers close up in the pits. Landy was running a D-5 Hemi Against Grumpy's small block.
@@donrutter6765 Holleys don't meter fuel, they dump...
This was great racing!
dave king was my favorite racer back in the day built his own cars in the garage of his parents house on 97th ave in surrey got to watch close up when he fired them up every kid on the block was there hooked me for life on racing thank you Dave
97th and what road? My paper route was from 96th to 100Ave & KGH to 132 rd, but I do not recall Dave King though..
97th ave and 115 st block from royal heights school could here his car fire up when i was down at the flats by the river
Omg!..I love this guys!..Keep em coming✌😁👍
The first time I went to drag strip I was 14 years old. Saw dick landy race. I remember the cigar. At 73 I still go to that track and still think obout that day. The golden age of drag racing. Good stuff guys.😢
Bill Jenkins was known as the Giant Killer, his 331 small block out ran those Mopar 426 hemi's
He outran them when they carried an extra 350 pound weight limit. He got his ass kicked by numerous Hemi Mopars when the extra weight was not added!
This is back when competition had clout.
Great old footage, imagine if every Racer at the track took this long to make a pass.
They were a booked in show at this race, they took all the time they wanted. It was super cool, I was there(11 yo)!
Did that guy actually say those cars were close to stock?? Wow!!
No computers, just old school know how!! That's why I love the old school days!
thank you for posting this! was there that day!
Small block Chevy beating big block mopar
@@ericartz7331 ...340 small block Mopars have taken down big blocks of all manufacturers... GM included
Bring back great memories ! : )
IT AIN'T WHAT IT USE TO BE!!!!!!
The first announcer is Rick James, founder and president of the Canadian Hot Rod Association and Boundary Bay Raceway. He was a parapalegic due to a late 60's street racing accident, my best friend, and racing partner. He started the club, built the race track, organized and managed everything, and was the one who contacted and got Bill Jenkins, Dick Landy, Jerry Ruth, and Billy Meyer to come to the track. With him is Ray Romund, owner of Romund's Chariot AA/FC. Rick passed in 2004, as has Ray
I remember these two when they were racing. This was race will be interesting.
In 1966,Jenkins ran a L79-optioned, 327/350hp Chevy II. Its light weight placed the Nova in NHRA’s A/Stock class, pitting it directly against the 426 Hemi. This huge mismatch propelled Jenkins to legendary status with his giant killing, small-block Chevy II. Jenkins also blew away NHRA’s Hemi-dominated A/S record to 11.66!
MOPAR IS NO CAR.
I saw Jenkins run that car VS sox and martin at Island dragway Great meadows NJ, Jenkins gave up 100 Cubes and still shut down the Hemi... I think the times were low 11's and mph in the high teens..
Grumpy was a different kind of racer and it paid off for him. Being a friend with Wally Parks was helpful too.
Boundary bay?! Holy shit, cool to see this, my region of BC :D
DistractulatinMyCase
I had forgotten about this event at Boundary Bay nearly dropped my for when I saw it. Pretty amazing they would come up to Canada and on the west coast at that.
Announcers cracked me up.lol
@@donziperk This was the weekend after the Seafair Nats. These guys were booked in show, but normally they all went to Spokane on this weekend.
Back in those days even in Pro Stock there was still some place for fan identification. A Mopar had its shape, it's aerodynamics and it's head design as did the others. Today drivers in NASCAR for example are actually driving not Fords Chevy or Mopars and Toyotas but rather NASCARS. Looks to be pretty much the same in drag racing. Corporate meat packages piloting clone cars. Yawn.
I agree 100%. If Nascar and others would only realize that it's a big reason why their attendance is down. The manufacturers war was always a humongous part of the sport. People usually took their favorite manufacturer and then chose their favorite driver from there. I don't think that is the case anymore. I can't sit through a whole race nowadays. I have better things to do and I have RUclips to look back at the exciting racing that used to be if I want to.
Nascar started screwing up in the 90's. Trying for parity. Screw that, we don't want parity, we want the best car to win. I remember Bill Elliott making up 2 laps under green to win at Talladega in 1985.
Is anyone as stupid as Me and realize what a great time it was and We were seeing American history made? if there's a supreme being, thanks for letting Me live, see, and be interested in drag racing and cars in this historic era. By the way, I wasn't killed at Yellow River dragstrip, and by shear luck.
How was it luck?? Were you there?
Yeah even though it's illegal, I cut my teeth street racing six-pack Mopars in the seventies. I have owned three of them and one Hemi car. Today I honestly like the memories of all of the vehicles from back in the day. Hard to believe it's been over 40 years ago from those years... We lost a lot of friends along the way some to disease and others to accidents oh, how we survived to make it this far is amazing. But what great memories most of it was
GREAT VIDEO.....SUPER MEMORIES.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Oh the good old days when they had to drive the cars back. I used to run modified eliminator back in the day, and we would break drive train parts because of the rosin residue that got left behind after they ran.
Two of the greats!
Yeah Bill, great video.
Atco just closed and Englishtown closed several years ago. Now we go to Maple Grove in PA. Kenny Koretski is spending money there to improve the track and grounds. JDM Engineering opened a facility in Texas.
This is what's called a "show". Pro Stock now is lame in comparison.
They should have already gotten shed of Pro Stock and replaced it with Pro Mod.
EVERYTHING now is lame in comparison to what everything used to be.
To watch em up close in the Pitt's was something to see. I would have been thrilled to hand Grumpy a wrench.
When pro stock actually had some "stock"in it.Nascar had some "stock "in it too.
Fond memories seeing these guys a Detroit Dragway.
That was my first taste of drag racing. I still remember listening to my transistor radio and hearing, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. I started going in the late 60s. Every now and then head over to Milan. Sometimes Saturday night at Flatrock speedway, my dad's cousin raced a late model there.
I wish I could have been alive when Jenkins was at his prime, I never got the chance to chat with him because I didn't find out about him until couple years after his death, he is one badass that's for sure
He was a hero of mine... I got to make him laugh at my home track one day!
Met him at a race in South Dakota. Great guy.
I watched Grumpy at Atco when I was a kid. Also Sox and martin. And jungle Jim.
Stock body mid-70's econoboxes dressed up and modified as serious Pro-Stockers.
It doesn't get better than this.
True showman right there !
That was an awesome race!!
I saw the majority of these guys out at Colchester Dragway and early 70s awesome days
Now, We Have Pro Greg...er, Pro Summit, uh, Pro Stock! Thanks for posting how it USED to Be!
Landy and Grumpy both pushing brooms! LOL!
this is gold
these cars are soooo damn cool
Jenkins all the way on this one! My man!
The good ol daze of real drag racing....
70 grand at the starting line.... those were the days.
Grumpys Toy, 1974 Vega recently sold for $220,000 at Mecum auctions.
Gotta be a record dollar amount for selling a Vega.
Wow!
Borrowing a line from an old song: "those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end"........
Close to stock? And I am close to brad Pitt
guysmalley maybe in canada....
Solid doors, all metal body yeah it's stock.
Yeah no Vega ever came with a V8.
My Vega came with a v8 in it used. 😂
"Just throw a muffler on it and drive it to work...Street Legal" LMAO
This isn't the factory hotrods,I like prostock when they raced what was sold to the public like the Hemi Cuda.no Vega ever had a V8.
But Monzas did when they were introduced in 1975....
I don't remember what you are talking about. NHRA has almost always allowed non standard engines in cars unless it was the stock or superstock classes. Is that what you are talking about?
Wow. What cool historic footage. Did you get these tapes from Delta Cable or have them all along? I asked about ten years ago but the guy told me they switched to a different format and would have no way to even play them if they still had them.
sox& martin were some of the greatest.
So difficult to stay with those high performance cheys.Jenkins was king,no factory backing.Sorry mopar boys.
Lol because nhra changed the rules so chevys could win
@@jameshardin4326 only because Chrysler was caught cheating many times
Old school, no bs racing.
Rick and I went to Delta cable in 1976 to see if we could get the tapes. We were hoping to also get the tape of the match race between the James and Fischer AA/GS Willys and Ray Romund's AA/A Corvette, but they couldn't find it. They only found this one, and told us that the others may be gone because they often taped over their old videos. The original tapes were 1" format, so they made us one in beta. I brought a beta copy when I moved to California, and had it copied to vhs in 1979.
Darryl, Delta Cable also broadcast the races at Mission for a couple years when the new track first opened in 92. They called the show "Smoke and Thunder" and it seems only the lucky buggers in Delta (like me) could see it on TV. I asked them if they saved them and was told they changed the format (digital now?) and had no way to play the old stuff.After the Boundary Bay track closed there was illegal racing on the same strip about 1980-81, the old rubber was all still there. That drew huge crowds and got shut down with big steel gates. Then the airport got reactivated and street racing moved to the road in front, parallel to the train tracks. There was one legal race on airport since then about 15 years ago. The RCMP put on a 1/8th mile event on the E-W runway at the eastern end. That got shortened to 500 feet after just a few runs because a fence across the runway separated the RCMP driver training area from the rest of the airport. The mayor heard about it afterwards and raised a stink and got all non- aviation activity banned from the airport.
It's amazing how much they allowed the drag racers to prep the track and their tires. Not today. You do what's allowed and get your ass to the line! But back in the day the could do burn out after burn out, bring their own sticky juice or Rosen to put on the track and run any tire they wanted. And for the time, with the cubic inch limits they had to deal with, especially after the illegalized the Hemis, they ran some damn quick times. One kid I recently talked to couldn't believe they were well within the 8's running small blocks. These guy today are spoiled with turnkey mountain motoars they can buy off the shelf. Back then it was all about what the builder brought to the track! The way it should be, period!!!
these guys are not running the track or nhra they are running exhibition type matches, or better called match races between the drivers, the track would set it up, so what the drivers are doing is part of the show they put on for the track/fans, lots of big names in drag racing were part of it, one of the most famous or showy was jungle jim and his beautiful assistant jungle pam, check out the show they put on, pam could drive the crowd mad when she dropped down to check under the car for leaks.
NHRA should have more summer events in the lower mainland, summer in BC is completely comparable to southern California
REAL GUYS, REAL CARS
If you look at the win light it is an arrow points to left lane for Grumpy's toy.
killer dry burnouts!! Boundary Bay how cool is that!?!?
Freakin' Awesome!!
I wonder what those guys would think about this “no prep” fad going on now?
I don't know if it's true but I heard tell of Grumpy eating an apple while racing down the track.
RIP Mr. J. Miss you.
Back in does Hotrod days Racing was more of a selfmade Cars, and coming up with New ideas, but it was truly Racing for the Love of Racing and just making the Car go just a little faster every other weekend at the track.
Recently I decided to have it transferred to DVD, but the VHS had gone bad and the color was all washed out. I looked everywhere, and I finally found the original Beta, which was still in perfect condition.
I thought the first time I saw this video, it showed all 3 runs, not just the last 2..?
Great video 👍👍👍👍👍👍best I've seen in awhile 😎😎😎😎😎😎
There was some obvious “fake wrassling” antics going on here but still it’s more interesting than modern racing.
Yeah. Gotta put on a show for the paying customers. Grump and Dandy probably enjoyed discussing the antics afterwards while they were having burgers and fries at the diner down the road.
Great quality video for 1975. I'd like to see a Pro Stock racer drive back down the track to give the starter a piece of his mind today. I couldn't imagine that happening now. Do you know what year the last production body shell made the Pro Stock field?
Yep it was probably the only time a racer drove back down the track!! Grumpy was pissed because the starter waited too long to start the tree countdown
I don't get why, though. ??? It wasn't long at all by today's standards. Perhaps it seemed that way after numerous burnouts and prepping the track himself. All that might have made him anxious. I do hate how the announcers here (and today too) will run their yap right through a verbal argument.... we want to hear it!
Grumpy was a rule pusher. There was no prohibition of the Vega but even a mild 350 is too much for a stock unibody. Grumpy told them for 'safety purposes' he needed the tube frame and they could hardly deny it. It and Grumpy were such a hit the first year that they left the rules as they were. He also chose a 327 knowing he could make it rev faster than a 350, which would be necessary to get the HP and top-end speed he needed. There was a lot more science going on than is apparent and Grumpy was seeing the whole picture, not just focused on the engine like everyone else was.
what were the ets? and please note how much of this was a show for the crowd...that's what match racers were paid for...