same here. some times (living in a home right out of the 1970s), when I sit in my chair with out opening the curtains, I swear its still the 1970s (until i play video games on the la[ top)
Had a wonderful chance to see Jim Dunn rode his last ride in his Fireman's Quickies flopper in Sacramento in 1990 before he went team owning. This man is truly a nitrohead legend with full determination to live and breath nitromethane throughout his blood veins! Good luck, Big Jim, WE STILL LOVE YA!!!!
there's an avenue for you in NFC...older body styles, limited fuel/mag, MUCH slower though! I started to love funny cars because the DIDN'T look like a street car! Altered wheelbase cars, then the flip top cars...now the aerodynamic monsters they are!! Who gives a shit if they don't look like the factory version??! It's FUNNY CAR racing...the name came about because they 'looked' funny. (and they hadn't figured out what to call them...lol) I love nostalgia AND the big show cars...BUT...you can't have 8' header flames and 330 mph funny cars without LOTS of fuel and aerodynamics!!
Man this movie brings back the memories!I seen it in the theater when it first came out back in the day. I think I was 11 or 12 years old.I had seen most all the Nitro Drags at Fremont where I grew up, the past is all but a faded memory.It's all gone now.This movie has cheesy music,though. Thanks for sharing this.
Nice. My Dad wouldn't take me to go see it because his friend told him it was all racing in the dark and wasn't any good. So my Dad bought me a plastic model of Jungle Jim instead. I got to see Funny Car Summer when I was much older and could appreciate it better. I got the best of both worlds.
Nice memories. I still see Jim Dunn at the drag races, I've been to many races at OCIR it was a great track. My dad and I saw this movie when I was a kid. We saw it at a local movie place. Cool footage of the Sush Matsubara driving.
I met Dave Beebe in Porterville, California in the 1990's. He ran a U-Haul and a small used car lot with his wife, Janet. We talked about this movie at length, and even though at the time he was still involved with vintage racing at Famoso, he said that "those days" were the best in his life.
My dad and his friends would race at Piedmont during the 70s. Their cars were mostly factory. My uncle ran what was considered a funny car back then although it was more like pro stock. It is a '72 Boss Mustang. Notice I said *_is_* a 72 Mustang, that's because he still has it. He bought it new and gutted the interior and would periodically switch it to street legal. He loves that car much that now he has 2 of them. This movie brings back great memories. The cars my dad raced were a '65 Plymouth and a '72 Plymouth. Both are sitting in my back yard.
I saw this in the theater at the age of 12 when it came out and I haven't seen it since. But I have thought about this movie occasionally. It's really cool to see Mike Dunn as a kid before he became a champion drag racer, and to see the vintage funny cars when they blew up or went sideways down the strip about as often as not.
I was 12, so was my girlfriend and her mom was 30. The three of us would get a pizza, go to the movies and have an ice cream cone afterwards. They were both cute as all hell; at the end of each evening I hugged and kissed them both goodnight. Great friends, wonderful times. Wish I could go back and enjoy it all over again.
The March Meet and Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso has great, nostalgia funny cars and rails. They actually still race 1/4 mile unlike NHRA current funny cars and Top Fuel cars.
Same here. "Home movies" Lived there at OCIR three days a week, most nights test and tune. Summer 79-fall 83. Stationed at El Toro MCAS, too close to miss. Driving a HEMI road runner. Right over back fence of base. Cross railroad tracks...main parking lot. When we couldn't afford a big event ticket, we'd watch through the brown wooden fence at starting line. Spent a lot of times at parties on top of the tower there.
I literally grew up at all the racetrack's of So-Cal, but my first race, at the ripe ol' age of "8 day's!" was at the long gone Fontana strip, where my gear head, race lovin Daddy ran his 59 Pontiac StarChief in the bracket's there, so my first love has always been dragracing! I was at every OCIR meet in this film & nearly every other So-Calif ( plus a couple at Fremont ) race. I even raced go-karts with Mike Dunn! Mike's kart racing was over when it started, Mike flipped his new Margay kart at the old Adams kart track in Riverside CA ( I'm proud to say it's still there today! ) & Big Jim said "that's it, if Mike is gonna get hurt, he's gonna do it in a racecar, not a go-kart!" LOL! I was at the pit-area concession stand, buying a hotdog at the 74 Funny car manufacturers meet at OCIR, when who did my 13yr old eyes see, but the sexy as hell Ms Jungle Pam! I was staring a hole thru her & she saw me ( drooling I'm sure 🤤 ) she chuckled & winked at me, I damn near fainted on the spot! 😂 Thanks for posting this racing classic flic, if you are from this area & era, it is required viewing. It's a damn shame that nearly all the track's & strip's of So-Cal are long gone, every single track lost to greedy ass land developers ripped out a piece of my racer's soul 😖 #SnakesStillTheGOAT
To bad NHRA let the cost get out of hand. I enjoy seeing a car go 250 mph as I do 320 mph. I do not need that speed if it will cause the sport to fade away because of cost. The good old day that took grit.
My uncle steve was the one who was the driver of nelson carters super chief i wasnt born at the time but man i wish i couldve seen these cars in there prime
just effing beautiful that dunn funny car.i love nitro but race cars have doors.i ve raced a modified 64 malibu ss on streets with blown 540 bbc.run middle nines in street trim.twin 850 holleys allowed somewhat reasonable gas bills.downtown you rule with 9 sec car that does not heat up in traffic lights.tires were hoosier 21.5x33x15.good traction....
great trip down memory lane the 60's,70's and 80,s were the best years in America history as far as my life goes!!
same here. some times (living in a home right out of the 1970s), when I sit in my chair with out opening the curtains, I swear its still the 1970s (until i play video games on the la[ top)
Had a wonderful chance to see Jim Dunn rode his last ride in his Fireman's Quickies flopper in Sacramento in 1990 before he went team owning. This man is truly a nitrohead legend with full determination to live and breath nitromethane throughout his blood veins! Good luck, Big Jim, WE STILL LOVE YA!!!!
Makes one weep! Funny cars looked so cool then! Today, there's zero resemblance of a funny car looking like a production car. Love this movie!
Hii
there's an avenue for you in NFC...older body styles, limited fuel/mag, MUCH slower though! I started to love funny cars because the DIDN'T look like a street car! Altered wheelbase cars, then the flip top cars...now the aerodynamic monsters they are!! Who gives a shit if they don't look like the factory version??! It's FUNNY CAR racing...the name came about because they 'looked' funny. (and they hadn't figured out what to call them...lol) I love nostalgia AND the big show cars...BUT...you can't have 8' header flames and 330 mph funny cars without LOTS of fuel and aerodynamics!!
Same with NASCAR and INDY, all chips off the old block.
Then go to The March Meet or Hot Rod reunion in Bakersfield, Famoso race track.
All nostalgia, 1/4 racing in funny cars and dragsters
Yes, same body today just painted differently in Dodge, Ford or Toyota, etc
Man this movie brings back the memories!I seen it in the theater when it first came out back in the day.
I think I was 11 or 12 years old.I had seen most all the Nitro Drags at Fremont where I grew up,
the past is all but a faded memory.It's all gone now.This movie has cheesy music,though.
Thanks for sharing this.
Nice. My Dad wouldn't take me to go see it because his friend told him it was all racing in the dark and wasn't any good. So my Dad bought me a plastic model of Jungle Jim instead. I got to see Funny Car Summer when I was much older and could appreciate it better. I got the best of both worlds.
Nice memories. I still see Jim Dunn at the drag races, I've been to many races at OCIR it was a great track. My dad and I saw this movie when I was a kid. We saw it at a local movie place. Cool footage of the Sush Matsubara driving.
Funny Car Summer and Le Mans are my favorite racing movies and was lucky to see them both when they came out, I was 13 when FCR came out
@11:04 Dig his commentary... "We were gone 5 weeks and that's what I called a vacation." Gotta love it!
I met Dave Beebe in Porterville, California in the 1990's. He ran a U-Haul and a small used car lot with his wife, Janet. We talked about this movie at length, and even though at the time he was still involved with vintage racing at Famoso, he said that "those days" were the best in his life.
My dad and his friends would race at Piedmont during the 70s. Their cars were mostly factory.
My uncle ran what was considered a funny car back then although it was more like pro stock. It is a '72 Boss Mustang. Notice I said *_is_* a 72 Mustang, that's because he still has it. He bought it new and gutted the interior and would periodically switch it to street legal. He loves that car much that now he has 2 of them.
This movie brings back great memories. The cars my dad raced were a '65 Plymouth and a '72 Plymouth. Both are sitting in my back yard.
Saw this at the drive inn when it came out, been hooked on drag racing since my dad took me to Fremont years ago.
OCIR is the best track forever.
I saw this movie @ a drive-in when it was released in '74. I have wonderful memories of that epoch.
I saw this in the theater at the age of 12 when it came out and I haven't seen it since. But I have thought about this movie occasionally. It's really cool to see Mike Dunn as a kid before he became a champion drag racer, and to see the vintage funny cars when they blew up or went sideways down the strip about as often as not.
Andy Harman looks like we are the same age
popcorn movie . Dunn didnt get any of the 5 million it grossed he said. Suppose to get 10 percent
I did realize it was released big screen.
Absolutely fantastic.👍🏆💥. Thanks for uploading. 😀
Man I miss Steve Evans.
Great movie, they should make a part 2 following Jim Dunn now.
1970 Plymouth hemi cuda funny car one of the coolest muscle car and funny car in the world
I saw this in a drive- in movie in Sparks, Nevada when it was new
These guys made it into the wonderful sport it is today.
If they swapped out the amateur music soundtrack, and used the best rock of 1965-1974, it would be hard to think of a movie more bad ass.
I was 12, so was my girlfriend and her mom was 30. The three of us would get a pizza, go to the movies and have an ice cream cone afterwards. They were both cute as all hell; at the end of each evening I hugged and kissed them both goodnight. Great friends, wonderful times. Wish I could go back and enjoy it all over again.
That sounds awesome 👍
heck I don't know what impressed me the most - the racing or his sideburns lol
O k great movie definitely miss those days spent most weekends at tracks every where across USA brought back great memories thanks for uploading
One of the Coolest movies of all time.
This was a good movie love watching it in pass brings back a lot of memories
I remember watching this movie around 1970, maybe 1975. LOL, So long ago.
The March Meet and Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso has great, nostalgia funny cars and rails. They actually still race 1/4 mile unlike NHRA current funny cars and Top Fuel cars.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I seen this also as a kid, at a drive in. I have also thought of this movie from time to time. Thank you.
this is still going on all over the place, on little privately owned drag strips, across America, local hometown heroes, celebrating American Dreams
Same here. "Home movies" Lived there at OCIR three days a week, most nights test and tune. Summer 79-fall 83.
Stationed at El Toro MCAS, too close to miss. Driving a HEMI road runner. Right over
back fence of base. Cross railroad tracks...main parking lot. When we couldn't afford a big event ticket, we'd watch through the brown wooden fence at starting line. Spent a lot of times at parties on top of the tower there.
love it when the kid said, I'm going to take classes in Accounting ...hope he became an Accounted .....
I remember seeing this movie with neighborhood friends when i was 12 at a small movie house in Huntington Beach where i grew up
I literally grew up at all the racetrack's of So-Cal, but my first race, at the ripe ol' age of "8 day's!"
was at the long gone Fontana strip, where my gear head, race lovin Daddy ran his 59 Pontiac StarChief in the bracket's there, so my first love has always been dragracing!
I was at every OCIR meet in this film & nearly every other So-Calif ( plus a couple at Fremont ) race. I even raced go-karts with Mike Dunn! Mike's kart racing was over when it started, Mike flipped his new Margay kart at the old Adams kart track in Riverside CA ( I'm proud to say it's still there today! ) & Big Jim said "that's it, if Mike is gonna get hurt, he's gonna do it in a racecar, not a go-kart!" LOL! I was at the pit-area concession stand, buying a hotdog at the 74 Funny car manufacturers meet at OCIR, when who did my 13yr old eyes see, but the sexy as hell Ms Jungle Pam! I was staring a hole thru her & she saw me ( drooling I'm sure 🤤 ) she chuckled & winked at me, I damn near fainted on the spot! 😂
Thanks for posting this racing classic flic, if you are from this area & era, it is required viewing.
It's a damn shame that nearly all the track's & strip's of So-Cal are long gone, every single track lost to greedy ass land developers ripped out a piece of my racer's soul 😖
#SnakesStillTheGOAT
It’s was dangerous, exciting, and unpredictable.........unlike today
great movie/doc of family drag racing right before the 1st arab oil embargo when gas was affordable.
Thanks for sharing !!!
70s funny car on a non lit track at night and it appears they dont have a headlamp strapped on or anything either..the balls on these guys our massive
big jims rear engine funnycar was a very popular car.. big crowds always surrounded his pit.
Oh Man, It was nice seeing Jungle Pam in all her glory at 52:40 -- Those were the days at OCIR!!!!
Also at 1:03:05
To bad NHRA let the cost get out of hand. I enjoy seeing a car go 250 mph as I do 320 mph. I do not need that speed if it will cause the sport to fade away because of cost. The good old day that took grit.
It was so much better when the cars looked like what we drove and were powered by the brand .
My uncle steve was the one who was the driver of nelson carters super chief i wasnt born at the time but man i wish i couldve seen these cars in there prime
Wow does this bring back memories
Take these cars over todays cars
Well I’m glad Mike decided to be a drag racer instead of an accountant.
I saw this at the local Saturday Matinee when I was a kid. So cool to find this.
A great movie. Where's the remake.
Thanks so much for this!
Welcome
Who need wings to fly......
Seen this when I was a kid
Just awesome!
Why did you cut the movie before it ended? Who won that last race?
thanks for sharing
Прикольный фильм.👍
okay, so it's cheesy, but it's really enjoyable.
Bicycle drag race footage: 1:11:27.
saw this when I was just a kid at the drive in
just effing beautiful that dunn funny car.i love nitro but race cars have doors.i ve raced a modified 64 malibu ss on streets with blown 540 bbc.run middle nines in street trim.twin 850 holleys allowed somewhat reasonable gas bills.downtown you rule with 9 sec car that does not heat up in traffic lights.tires were hoosier 21.5x33x15.good traction....
cool 70s
God, when B films were the lead at the drive in. I loved cars but this was a pointless movie
What’s the story between mike and Jim? It’s pretty obvious that they don’t speak
that was a pretty cool old documentary,but they could have picked better music for a drag racing movie lol
yes I agree, there was definitely great rock music back then with bands like Alice Cooper,Kiss,Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Aerosmith,Rush etc.
OMG I love your type of Music , let there be Rock :) Rock N Roll aint noise pollution !!
yes, the music is whimpy and brutal!....lol
Sorry, but the music makes me so happy! Love the movie too! P. S. Female here ")
Not for the times . It was cool to be laid back , long hair and groovy .
is this Jim Dunn who does the commentary for NHRA or the father?
Jim Dunn is featured in the movie. His son Mike, also seen here as a 12 year old, is the former NHRA announcer.
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Linda V and more lovelies on a 1968 GTX at 1:02:00