Drag cars nowadays are even crazier. Don't despair for the past when the present is even crazier! We still have street drag racing and now 10 second tire and tune only cars!
Ty Highway Oh here we go. I can never watch a single drag race or car video where there isn’t some old grease ball hill billy trying to tell me about how government programs like the social security he’s now collecting, that he said wouldn’t be there when he came of age, has just ran this country into the ground. Why does being a gear head have to be synonymous with a lack of intellect?
I grew up by Rockingham motor speedway late 60s and through the 70s and 80s , I remember these cars , blue max , jungle Jim , and many others , truly we're the good old days . It's like being on a time warp , a lot of nice cars , great video.👍👍🏁
you ran for the factory back in the day for real?? If you did that had to be awesome I would of loved to of been born to see this because this is real drag racing not like today racing
@@79tazman I was a central engineering guy. I tested and drove everything. Whole different atmosphere then today. I sure was having a great time and I got the job cause I had a Honorable discharge from the Navy.
Mopar ruled back then and all of these years later, we are still King of the blacktop. Dodge Challenger drag Pak is the NHRA Factory stock class champions and ran in the 7s, which is also a record for the event
@CC Ryder Funny GeeM couldn't build anything to compete in Nascar so they flexed their corporate muscle to get rules changed forcing Ford and Chrysler to run smaller displacement engines and restrictor plates on the intake manifold's basically using two barrel carburetors under the the B.S. that tire tech could not keep up with speed's the Ford's and Mopar's were generating at the super speedway's and where was GeeM? Still selling crap to loser's like you so they could payoff all their cronies for implementing these changes. Support GeeM all you want. I prefer support winner's Chrysler, Ford, AMC, Studebaker, etc.👍
No kidding about the auto stores. The last 4 times I went to auto zone to get a simple car part, like an exhaust manifold stud, I walked out empty handed. They have everything in these little packages. They had studs for 3 different cars. Anything else they have to order it. If it's not in the packages, we have to order it. They removed the lead from fuel, but they keep the flouride in the water. I want a pair of Hello Kitty boxer shorts.
i miss the 70's im 50 now i was just a kid but i remember people was good back then i had good friends then i loved cars so my favorite toys was cars i had ever hotwheel and alot of the match box cars i had great child hood miss my old friends so much love you guys you always on my mind you help make my child hood spacial if you see this message i want to say i love you miss you guys so much
I'm 52 and Matchbox cars were a dream. Love the cars of the 60s and 70s. Sure were good old days. I now have a 1980 Volare with a built 360 and reliving these glory days. Have fun my friend and keep your HotWheel cars alive. Cheers !
I'm 57. Born 61, senior hs 1979 so i caught all the good years. My buddy had a Black 1969 CHevy with a 396 just like the Bruce song racing in the streets, this was NJ racing back in the day, jersey shore, good times. LOl, I had the hot wheels and matchbox with the orange track in the 60's early 70's.
How could anyone not like this video! Imagine drag racing Kia`s, electric cars and solar cars! Yawn! While eating a veggie burger and a tofu whatever with a green drink of crap with a paper straw! Guts, gas, exhaust, real food and life baby! That is what freedom and America is all about!
My favorite car was The Sox & Martin 1970 'Cuda that tore up everyone. NHRA began to screw MOPAR by forcing the unbeatable Hemi cars to carry more weight than the Fords, Chevy's, Pontiac's & other assorted non-Mopar cars. I am talking about carrying hundreds of pounds. It was like dragging 6 people behind the Dodges & Plymouths. Still, Ronnie Sox drove the car like all heck & shifted the car so quickly that it sounded like an automatic shifting. You could see the front end pop up through each gear. Yes, these were the best of times when all Americans were of one mind. Not the BS going on now where hatred is spread by the media & Hollywood.
I was born in 63 so I hear that 100%. the cars today are cool and fast but still lack the character and charisma those cars had. and real drag cars were shifted manually !!! by some very talented drivers. and lets not even get started about libtards and leftist pig's. in Hollywood. PUSSY'S !!!!
Don't forget about the late great,Bob Glidden! His 351C powered Ford PS' s were winning so much, NHRA kept adding weight to his cars. He'd just find more hp & keep on winning! That's why they gave him the nickname "Mad Dog"!!! Later on, they all went to 500 c.i. & made it heads up racing,& he still kept winning! RIP to all the late great racers!💖💖💖
@@Mike583 ….I am a major fan of the MOPARS in Pro Stock during the 70's when MOPAR owned the muscle car scene. I must admit....I liked Bob Glidden & his 351 Ford's. Anything but Chevy. I loathed everything about Chevrolet. Lousy car, lousy fans, lousy looking cars. They were a mess....
The Jungle Camaro and the Dunn Reath Cuda, both with fresh paint and very few stickers, best looking funny car bodies ever! The car bodies would never look better than 1970/71 because of the coming of the uglier body styles. The cool California Charger dragster is still out here in California. Kudos to the sweet film making and shots, wish this ran for the whole event I would watch the whole thing.
Way back in the day when I was real stupid, 1978 I bought a street Legal 1970 Sox & Martin cude' 440 6pack . One of a handful that Plymouth sold for $1,800.00 It had 21,000 miles on it.It was spotless It beat everything in Pahrump Nv at that time.. kept it 3 months & traded it for a 1973 chevy truck. What a deal. To this day I still kick myself in the ASS.
It was a great time to be alive. No homeland security, you could ride in the back of your dad's pick up truck, drink a beer in public, people were smarter, the good ol days. If only they could build a time machine, I'd be the first in line.
Once you actually drag race on a strip and win, you'll never forget it. It gets in your blood, never view the sport the same, you're addicted! 1982, I was in a 12 second bracket racing, it would get down to me and a Nomad 3 weeks in a row, 1st 2 times I beat him, 3rd time he got me, every shift I could see his front wheel edging into my preferal vision, beat me by a fender at the finish. Never was I so pumped with adrenaline. Just like the Bruce Springsteen song, When the strip shut down, we'd run 'em in the streets! What a great time to be alive.
I just watched John Force win his 150th race now in 2019. I think the racing in this video is much more exciting. The engine sounds are awesome!! These cars were ones we had - our neighbors had. Now race cars are only owned by millionaires.
Now 40 years later my friend is knocking on running a 7.5 in a Honda civic with a 1.8 liter next season. Those guys were cutting edge, now some street cars are faster. Those old boys would laugh if you would have said that to them at that time.
@CC Ryder Consider yourself lucky then because GeeM's my family owned were rolling crap. I will thank GeeM however because it opened my eyes at an early age. If skinned knuckles and depleted savings account's are your thing, by all mean's, own a Chevrolet.
I remember mowing the lawn on the side of my house when I was 14 in 1965. The drags were on on my transistor radio, and they had just anounced a 'Rail' going through the traps at 180 mile per hour....... I remember thinking they will never be able to go much faster, that had to be about the top speed possible....... Ahhh yea.. Now were going 250 and better...lol....
Thank you. So true. America has become a bunch of pansies. Back in the day, no bicycle helmet laws, no seat belt laws, R12 Freon air conditioning, good lead based automotive paint, auto parts stores stocked auto parts instead of Hello Kitty steering wheel covers, candy bars and scooters. No tampon commercials at dinner time, and people took responsibility for their own mistakes.
back then my dad and his buddies had cars like these, not drag racers but just plain ol street muscle and when they were bored and didnt have anything to do, they would get together and get the cops to chase them just so they could run from them lol. they would even go so far as to slow down the let the cops catch up just so they could punch the gas and leave them behind
Two twin brothers from my town Bob and Fred Gillings beat Dick Landy 2 out of 3 runs at Great Lakes Drag strip in Union Grove , Wisconsin back in the day. Bob and Fred raced all over the country until the 90's when Fred died of kidney failure.
Dirk Pitt girls were way better then. Now half of them are fat and lazy. Then the others try to be boys. Today’s society shames women for taking there roll as a woman. There still is hot girls though luckily lol
I'm pretty sure i had Revell models of most of these cars when i was a kid. I miss these days of GREAT racing. Look at Landy changing his own carb. Drivers were much more hands on in the days before big $ racing. Nostalgia drags is the way to go. I can build a 9 second car, so I can relate to this more than a sub 4 second top fueler. Ronnie Sox, Mr. 4 Speed! RIP, Ronnie!
Gracias! Thank you and I appreciate it..... Shocking to think that kids today have street cars that are way faster than the pro stock cars of this era!
I had a friend with a Cuda 6 pack and he could lift the front end off the ground at take off. What a beautiful car. 2400$ in 1979 could buy you the top of the line 1969 camaro z-28. AW, THOSER WERE THE DAYS...
I could have sworn I saw a Honda Civic out there with drag slick on the front. Maybe he was a time traveler from another dimension. Muscle Rice in da hawse!
Very cool...Since I've been watching this over and over, I pulled out my 1/64 dragsters and funny cars. Come to find out there's more out there than I have in my collection. I guess they couldn't model every single funny car or dragster there was, just the prominent ones.
I remember getting Dick Landys autograph at New England Dragway in 1971 when he was driving the same challenger in this video..i was 12 years old back then and thought that was so cool....i saw the same car (minus the motor) at the Mopar nationals it was for sale with its faded paint ..i wonder what it sold for i bet it was over 100,000 grand
Look at the Funny cars back then they were still real cars unlike today's Funny cars are nothing tube chassis with a lightweight shell that goes over it
Those were the cool days in drag racing. Now all the funny cars and dragsters are all the same. Seen one you seen them all. Not as much character to them like the old days.
Probably one of the most famous cars in this video was jungle Jim every kid who has built model cars knows that car and king fish was a good car to and this is back when they didn't have to rebuild the motors after every run
Working on the carburetors, while smoking while they are full of gas.. The 1970's were awesome
Unless it is vaporizes it is almost impossible to ignite gas with a cigarette. Try it some time.
Dick Landy never lit those things
@@firebird74521even then the cherry on a cigarette isn’t nearly hot enough to ignite gasoline.
Landy didn't smoke.
Sadly, a moment in time, passed. It can not be repeated nor duplicated.
Craig Cricket > Nostalgia drags are pretty close.
Drag cars nowadays are even crazier. Don't despair for the past when the present is even crazier! We still have street drag racing and now 10 second tire and tune only cars!
@@philspaghet its a good old case of confusing nostalgia with quality
same with the 90's Japanese street racing.
Sadly ..
Big Blocks with a 4-spd.. 426 Hemis, 427 Big Block Chevy and Fords 427..real Pro Stock..
They had SO much more character back then.
Every Car is just amazing. Even the ones in the parking lot. What a great F@#king era!
Just think running 10s and below with experience, guts, and no damn computer tuning or fuel injection
Or a bottle!
back when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. and chewing on a stogie during the run was still accepted
+Dean Meyer Damn straight.
racing is still dangerous
@Peter Burnett Well they were still arounding back then, but they weren't so dickheaded as now.
Ty Highway Oh here we go. I can never watch a single drag race or car video where there isn’t some old grease ball hill billy trying to tell me about how government programs like the social security he’s now collecting, that he said wouldn’t be there when he came of age, has just ran this country into the ground.
Why does being a gear head have to be synonymous with a lack of intellect?
@@DrBIeed It isn't, it's just that the least informed are the most didactic.
My man was slammin gears with the cigars
Back then it was chevys in chevys, fords in fords and chryslers in chryslers. Not like today where everyone runs keith black hemis.
The good old days of racing, not like today with all those fairies with million dollar sponsors!
yeah these guys raced because they loved it they even worked on their own cars today the drivers just drive and it's all about the money
@@79tazman Not always. People also race for fun.
I don't know why this was in my "recommended" section, but I didn't regret watching it.
I grew up by Rockingham motor speedway late 60s and through the 70s and 80s , I remember these cars , blue max , jungle Jim , and many others , truly we're the good old days . It's like being on a time warp , a lot of nice cars , great video.👍👍🏁
The 70s Cars, Racing, Music, Women and it was ok to smoke everything was better in the 70s I Want to go BACK!!!!
This is my past for sure. I was with Chrysler performance engineering and a driver and mechanic. I sure miss the excitement and satisfaction.
you ran for the factory back in the day for real?? If you did that had to be awesome I would of loved to of been born to see this because this is real drag racing not like today racing
@@79tazman I was a central engineering guy. I tested and drove everything. Whole different atmosphere then today. I sure was having a great time and I got the job cause I had a Honorable discharge from the Navy.
Geez those mopars were kings weren't they?
Conhemi
Damn straight
Nope, not until the biggeraftermarked motorblocks appeared, like Arias a.s.on
Yes they were 🤘🏻
Not as much as this video depicts...
64fairlane359 bs.
Mopar ruled back then and all of these years later, we are still King of the blacktop. Dodge Challenger drag Pak is the NHRA Factory stock class champions and ran in the 7s, which is also a record for the event
Ruled? www.ihra.com/nitro-jam-results-stats/nitro-jam-records
@CC Ryder Funny GeeM couldn't build anything to compete in Nascar so they flexed their corporate muscle to get rules changed forcing Ford and Chrysler to run smaller displacement engines and restrictor plates on the intake manifold's basically using two barrel carburetors under the the B.S. that tire tech could not keep up with speed's the Ford's and Mopar's were generating at the super speedway's and where was GeeM? Still selling crap to loser's like you so they could payoff all their cronies for implementing these changes.
Support GeeM all you want. I prefer support winner's Chrysler, Ford, AMC, Studebaker, etc.👍
Got to witness all eras, from the 60's to now. Never a bad era, still to this day, the most awesome sport on Earth.
real deal muscle. Dang those women were nice.
Dick Landy was a great race car driver in the 70s, Sox & Martin (Ronnie Sox) was my favorite team back then.
And the California Flash.
3:20 Racing while "smoking"a Stogie...gotta love it!
I still remember my days watching the gatornationals 1979 . those were the real days for all of us .
the 70s when the car makers didnt care about environment and just made asskicking cars
Your talking about the 60's
bandal494 It was the 70's that choked these cars out bro.
Nothing cool about not caring for the environment. Don't shit where you eat.
The 50's is where the real freedom of great car designs were. Nothing was restricted. 😎
I don't know My 2019 797 Hp Hellcat kicks some ass with a warranty and drive it to the golf course with my buddies @ 24mpg!
Drag racing with a cigar in his mouth...man times were good.
No kidding about the auto stores. The last 4 times I went to auto zone to get a simple car part, like an exhaust manifold stud, I walked out empty handed. They have everything in these little packages. They had studs for 3 different cars. Anything else they have to order it. If it's not in the packages, we have to order it. They removed the lead from fuel, but they keep the flouride in the water. I want a pair of Hello Kitty boxer shorts.
i miss the 70's im 50 now i was just a kid but i remember people was good back then i had good friends then i loved cars so my favorite toys was cars i had ever hotwheel and alot of the match box cars i had great child hood miss my old friends so much love you guys you always on my mind you help make my child hood spacial if you see this message i want to say i love you miss you guys so much
I'm 52 and Matchbox cars were a dream. Love the cars of the 60s and 70s. Sure were good old days. I now have a 1980 Volare with a built 360 and reliving these glory days. Have fun my friend and keep your HotWheel cars alive. Cheers !
you miss the 70s, looks like you missed out on an education as well
I'm 57. Born 61, senior hs 1979 so i caught all the good years. My buddy had a Black 1969 CHevy with a 396 just like the Bruce song racing in the streets, this was NJ racing back in the day, jersey shore, good times. LOl, I had the hot wheels and matchbox with the orange track in the 60's early 70's.
@@thebob3712 Yeah , & don't forget peoples was good back then.
In the Early 70s.. MOPARS RULED
And 50s 60s 80s 90s 2000s
@@rickyedwards5911 Bob Glidden, lee sheapard and warren Johnson call bullshit.
Dick and Mike Landy were wonderful friends, we worked together for two fantastic years. Thank you for the memories, Gentlemen!
How could anyone not like this video! Imagine drag racing Kia`s, electric cars and solar cars! Yawn! While eating a veggie burger and a tofu whatever with a green drink of crap with a paper straw! Guts, gas, exhaust, real food and life baby! That is what freedom and America is all about!
Sox & Martin drag racing team is legend
This is what I grew up on! LOVED it then, still LOVE it now!
My favorite car was The Sox & Martin 1970 'Cuda that tore up everyone. NHRA began to screw MOPAR by forcing the unbeatable Hemi cars to carry more weight than the Fords, Chevy's, Pontiac's & other assorted non-Mopar cars. I am talking about carrying hundreds of pounds. It was like dragging 6 people behind the Dodges & Plymouths. Still, Ronnie Sox drove the car like all heck & shifted the car so quickly that it sounded like an automatic shifting. You could see the front end pop up through each gear. Yes, these were the best of times when all Americans were of one mind. Not the BS going on now where hatred is spread by the media & Hollywood.
happening right now in factory stock in nhra chevys and fords cant keep up with the dodges extra 50 pounds
I was born in 63 so I hear that 100%. the cars today are cool and fast but still lack the character and charisma those cars had. and real drag cars were shifted manually !!! by some very talented drivers. and lets not even get started about libtards and leftist pig's. in Hollywood. PUSSY'S !!!!
Don't forget about the late great,Bob Glidden! His 351C powered Ford PS' s were winning so much, NHRA kept adding weight to his cars. He'd just find more hp & keep on winning! That's why they gave him the nickname "Mad Dog"!!! Later on, they all went to 500 c.i. & made it heads up racing,& he still kept winning! RIP to all the late great racers!💖💖💖
@@Mike583 ….I am a major fan of the MOPARS in Pro Stock during the 70's when MOPAR owned the muscle car scene. I must admit....I liked Bob Glidden & his 351 Ford's. Anything but Chevy. I loathed everything about Chevrolet. Lousy car, lousy fans, lousy looking cars. They were a mess....
The Jungle Camaro and the Dunn Reath Cuda, both with fresh paint and very few stickers, best looking funny car bodies ever! The car bodies would never look better than 1970/71 because of the coming of the uglier body styles. The cool California Charger dragster is still out here in California. Kudos to the sweet film making and shots, wish this ran for the whole event I would watch the whole thing.
Love this old stuff. I was just a kid at this time. But it's so cool to see now, wishing I could try it. Just awesome stuff !!! Thanx...
I have great respect for all this old iron. Love chrysler all Gm and all Ford!! Owned all brands alot of these brands in my life.
Way back in the day when I was real stupid, 1978 I bought a street Legal 1970 Sox & Martin cude' 440 6pack . One of a handful that Plymouth sold for $1,800.00 It had 21,000 miles on it.It was spotless It beat everything in Pahrump Nv at that time.. kept it 3 months & traded it for a 1973 chevy truck. What a deal. To this day I still kick myself in the ASS.
It's a "Joy and Pain" resonance to view this type of retrospect !...Humbled to have gone down this memory lane...Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍👍
What a trip down memory lane!!!!!
Everything was better back then!
Can't seem to spot any Civics :S?
It was a great time to be alive. No homeland security, you could ride in the back of your dad's pick up truck, drink a beer in public, people were smarter, the good ol days. If only they could build a time machine, I'd be the first in line.
Mopars ruled the dragstrips back then and today.Look at top fuel and funny car today all powered by the HEMI
What times it couldn't get any better than 60,70 & 80 Live it, Race it and still Love it.
Every car in the final was a Hemi.
Wow never knew all this was on youtube. Reminds me of the days of running my 71 GTX 440+6 at the 75/80 Drag Strip in MD.
Once you actually drag race on a strip and win, you'll never forget it. It gets in your blood, never view the sport the same, you're addicted! 1982, I was in a 12 second bracket racing, it would get down to me and a Nomad 3 weeks in a row, 1st 2 times I beat him, 3rd time he got me, every shift I could see his front wheel edging into my preferal vision, beat me by a fender at the finish. Never was I so pumped with adrenaline. Just like the Bruce Springsteen song, When the strip shut down, we'd run 'em in the streets! What a great time to be alive.
The Keeling and Clayton TF dragster was beautiful!!! One of my favorites.....
Thats some cool old footage....love it
These guys were great. I love watching doing dry hops when moving up in the staging lanes.
That's back when racing was good
I just watched John Force win his 150th race now in 2019. I think the racing in this video is much more exciting. The engine sounds are awesome!! These cars were ones we had - our neighbors had. Now race cars are only owned by millionaires.
Now 40 years later my friend is knocking on running a 7.5 in a Honda civic with a 1.8 liter next season. Those guys were cutting edge, now some street cars are faster. Those old boys would laugh if you would have said that to them at that time.
that's pretty good for an eighth mile
Now I understand why NASCAR back when Wendell Scott was racing his Mopar ( that he did himself ) had to make it more " fair " for the Chevy and Ford🤣
Went to the US Nationals for the first time in '70, I was 17 & hooked!
Thank you for posting this,,,,, pre corporate racing, where talent and skill mattered more than money
Those hemi mopars were stomping those Chevy big blocks 😂😂😂
Kurt we were king,but man chevy and ford chased us to perfection,AMERICAN IRON OF YESTERYEAR,IT WAS TOUGH TOUGH
@CC Ryder Right, because drag racers care so much about the longevity of their cars. That must be why they baby them so much kappa.
@CC Ryder Yeah right. GM built their crap to last to the end of the warranty then fail. Ford was a little better, maybe.
@CC Ryder Consider yourself lucky then because GeeM's my family owned were rolling crap. I will thank GeeM however because it opened my eyes at an early age. If skinned knuckles and depleted savings account's are your thing, by all mean's, own a Chevrolet.
@CC Ryder Just curious, an all original Coronet RT?
Smoking a long ass cigar while doing the run. Now this is awesome.
sox & martin!!!
I send a shout out to my MOPAR brothers......
No dataloggers, no active suspensions and DRIVERS actually tuning their own cars-----------It doesn't get any better than this!
And Don Garlits really thinks electric dragsters will be popular??? There was more character in this bygone era than an American Idol showdown...
Drag Racing Legends forever lives..!!
I remember mowing the lawn on the side of my house when I was 14 in 1965. The drags were on on my transistor radio, and they had just anounced a 'Rail' going through the traps at 180 mile per hour....... I remember thinking they will never be able to go much faster, that had to be about the top speed possible....... Ahhh yea.. Now were going 250 and better...lol....
Thank you. So true. America has become a bunch of pansies. Back in the day, no bicycle helmet laws, no seat belt laws, R12 Freon air conditioning, good lead based automotive paint, auto parts stores stocked auto parts instead of Hello Kitty steering wheel covers, candy bars and scooters. No tampon commercials at dinner time, and people took responsibility for their own mistakes.
back then my dad and his buddies had cars like these, not drag racers but just plain ol street muscle and when they were bored and didnt have anything to do, they would get together and get the cops to chase them just so they could run from them lol. they would even go so far as to slow down the let the cops catch up just so they could punch the gas and leave them behind
Thanks much for the "California Charger", I have never seen this car race, but many models and many pictures, I can dream.
@dimeandsixx Yeah he does, never lifts his right foot till hes through the traps! Thats the way its supposed to be. Great vid.
I love the Bill jenkins Camaro.
Two twin brothers from my town Bob and Fred Gillings beat Dick Landy 2 out of 3 runs at Great Lakes Drag strip in Union Grove , Wisconsin back in the day. Bob and Fred raced all over the country until the 90's when Fred died of kidney failure.
all those hot chicks are like 70 now.........
+1DirtbikeBoy lol hey we're only 58...lol
Oh snap rofl.
I know.
As are many us drivers like 70 too.
Dirk Pitt girls were way better then. Now half of them are fat and lazy. Then the others try to be boys. Today’s society shames women for taking there roll as a woman. There still is hot girls though luckily lol
Go challenger!!
In the 60's you could buy a car, take if off the lot and go straight to the track
I want to live in the 70s
I'm pretty sure i had Revell models of most of these cars when i was a kid. I miss these days of GREAT racing. Look at Landy changing his own carb. Drivers were much more hands on in the days before big $ racing. Nostalgia drags is the way to go. I can build a 9 second car, so I can relate to this more than a sub 4 second top fueler. Ronnie Sox, Mr. 4 Speed! RIP, Ronnie!
Gracias! Thank you and I appreciate it.....
Shocking to think that kids today have street cars that are way faster than the pro stock cars of this era!
That sure was a badass Plymouth Prius!!!!
Bill Grumpy Jenkins would actually smoke a big fat stogie going down the track in his Pron Stock Chevy!
lucus1959 grump was the
real deal
Me an a few friends went to nationals in 68 69 an 70 we all lived in Akron Ohio we street raced N loved it
These were grat times!! No doubt about it!!
I had a friend with a Cuda 6 pack and he could lift the front end off the ground at take off. What a beautiful car. 2400$ in 1979 could buy you the top of the line 1969 camaro z-28. AW, THOSER WERE THE DAYS...
You gotta love those times,
I remember Ontario Motor Speedway, Lions, Irwindale, and Pomona. Those where the days
smokin a cigar...while changing carbs...with high octane fuel...and in the 70's. He has brass balls
thanks for sharing , this was a great movie
I could have sworn I saw a Honda Civic out there with drag slick on the front. Maybe he was a time traveler from another dimension. Muscle Rice in da hawse!
A real gem, thanks for sharing!
Very cool...Since I've been watching this over and over, I pulled out my 1/64 dragsters and funny cars. Come to find out there's more out there than I have in my collection. I guess they couldn't model every single funny car or dragster there was, just the prominent ones.
“His clutch shattered under the strain of a shift.” I w o n d e r w h y
I remember getting Dick Landys autograph at New England Dragway in 1971 when he was driving the same challenger in this video..i was 12 years old back then and thought that was so cool....i saw the same car (minus the motor) at the Mopar nationals it was for sale with its faded paint ..i wonder what it sold for i bet it was over 100,000 grand
this is better than modern drag racing. Back when muscle was still new and pro stock actually looked like stock cars
Colchester drags in Ct...! Miss those days!
RIP Dandy Dick Landy....he is a legend. he will be missed.
as a teen I saw Gene Snow's 70 Challenger funny car for sale in a Quebec Auto Trader in 1984-85 with a pontiac 455 complete for only 10,000$
back when the pro stocks still looked like real cars wish i could have witnessed it
Look at the Funny cars back then they were still real cars unlike today's Funny cars are nothing tube chassis with a lightweight shell that goes over it
Those were the cool days in drag racing. Now all the funny cars and dragsters are all the same. Seen one you seen them all. Not as much character to them like the old days.
love the launch of Dandy ..... DON'T FORGET THE CIGAR
So sad drag racing used to be so cool looking wish the cars still looked like this
this was Racing-Racing the way it was meant to be
2:00 that is some awesome shifting!
So freakin cool!
Probably one of the most famous cars in this video was jungle Jim every kid who has built model cars knows that car and king fish was a good car to and this is back when they didn't have to rebuild the motors after every run