I know what you mean brother, I use to run shine in the 60's and 70's,,, no more,,, to dam old.!.. I did out run the cops a few times, thank God I never got caught.!
Ascot WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST race tracks in ALL OF AMERICA for cars AND bikes. Spent MOST of my youth RIGHT THERE and STILL MISS IT today. THE saying used to be IF you COULD GO FAST AT Ascot you COULD GO FAST ANYWHERE. And AGAIN it was that way for bikes OR cars !
@@sergeantmasson3669 boy you should be an answer with the rocket scientist thank you for letting us all know that 😉🧀 some more cheese with that one is fine you love it you want some more of it bend over that Rover take over bend over that Rover take over you love it you want some more of it
Some of my best childhood memories are from Ascot. Just parking in the housing tract across the street and hearing whatever was racing that night made me almost spin in circles waiting to cross the street. The good old days when noise and racing was not pushed out of southern California - Saddleback hillclimbs, SanBerdoo speedway, Carlsbad motocross, Long Beach harbor boat races, Brotherhood raceway drags in San Pedro - so much as been lost but still remain in my memories.
Hi Robert. My dad took me to Ascot in the '60s a few times. As a kid I loved the figure 8 races followed by the demolition derby. Very exciting for a nine year old boy. Another lost track is OCIR between El Toro and Tustin. In the mid seventies, a friend of mine and I would go on "Fox Hunt" nights. Girls got in for free and for an extra buck or two, you got a pit pass. Great times watching all classes of dragsters from stock to top fuel. We even saw a jet car, the "Green Mamba Jet".
@@grantrichards4950 OCIR is a fond memory for me too..... those were the good ol days for sure. I hate going back to So Cal now - except in my memories.
Now if NASCAR went back to these type cars, it would rebound. These are awesome and the sound is perfect. And yes you will get tire squeal on that hard clay dirt track.
@@yawningchasm33 :Santa Maria, Oildale, Perris, Hanford, Chico, Placerville, were among some of the tracks still operating after Ascot. There are more,I just can't think of their names. Perris was built to replace Ascot.While a nice track there will never be another Ascot.The best dirt track ever in California, GONE.
Fun stuff. The car is mega tight, but I don't know how they adjusted for that back in those days. I'm just amazed they could keep power to the ground with the tires of that time. Tapped the wall on that last lap.
The fake ass "cars" they "race" today is what is killing Nascar. Race stock cars like this with roll cages in them and fuel cells is all that would be needed. It would bring back the action, thrillers, and pride of ownership that we had in those days.
SIXPACFISH NASCAR has ruined "Stock cars" its all about HUGE money they have forgotten it started as a bunch of shine runners that were outstanding "shade tree mechanics " everybody built their own. Now 4 or 5 companies. Build them ALL they buy a kit and put their sponsors graphic package on it. And NASCAR makes them run restrictors to alledgedly keep the speed down but in reality it just bunches up the field and causes better TV wrecks........the sport at this level is done.....support your local tracks wher you can still afford to take your family
Do you know what you’re asking for? I’d much rather watch 3,400lb tube chassis cars with 7-800 horsepower on a 9 inch tire than a bunch of caged, front wheel drive 6 cylinders.
Stock cars need to be "stocker" Maybe Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, etc,with factory Stock bodies, limited engine mods with the actual engine blocks that come from the factory, no more restrictors since they will be slower but fans can actually identify with them. Also, consider a dirt track once in a while!!. Just sayin.
Finally someone who really "gets it"! I want to see cars race that I can go into the showroom and buy. I don't care about the phony body shell they strap onto that hand made go kart frame all with the same engine. If it only comes with a 4 cyl you race a 4 cyl. If it only comes with a auto you race a auto. Real car racing again.
LOL> I had a 63 1/2 Galaxie with a real strong 390 and I had trouble with that roving big ass rear end on many occasions. I loved the look of it and still do. Wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
@@jeffduncan9140 426, but in the atmosphere of the mid-late 60's you wouldn't dare homologate an engine that would be illegal (427 CI max) after a bottle brush honing, or if bore tolerances were at the high end of spec. 5 thousandths of an inch over the factory bore would be enough to put you dead on 427.0 cubic inches. Chrysler just went with 426, Chevrolet's mark I "Z11" big block 427 was 426.02ci, Pontiac SD 428 was 426.61ci and so on.
When I was a kid, our family lived a stones from Ascot. Sometimes we’d sneak under the fence to watch the racing, and get our ass caught. Now it’s a skyscraper.
Ascot Park in Gardena! Used to go there as a kid with my folks and their friends for sprint cars! There’s a shot of the track in the original Gone in 60 Seconds with Parnelli Jones had his Bronco stolen! Those were the days! 🏁
Joseph Brown before you correct me, do a little research. Google 427 Ford FE. Do you think Ford would’ve raced NASCAR and put a Chevy motor in their car?
@@Route5Garage_5.0tbrd88 I'm a Chevy guy. Year's ago I had the opportunity to drive a friend's 69 mustang that was FE powered. I absolutely loved the power and torque of that engine.
My brother-in-law had one of these beasts in 1964 that he drag raced at US 131 Raceway in Martin, Michigan. When he came over to our house to pick up my sister you could hear him coming from 1/4 to 1/2 a mile away. Used to screw up everyone's TV, too. Plug wires weren't as insulated then as now. Just raw horsepower. They'd go see a movie then out to a country road set-up for drag racing and get it on. Sister was scared to death of that car, but would jump in every night with a smile and come home looking like a ghost, chalk white. He was a hell of a mechanic then and taught me a lot about cars and especially engines. Good Lord, how I miss those days.
When Daytona opened in 1959 it was only the third paved NASCAR track. Everything else were dirt tracks like this one. In late 1964 I went to a 300 lap USAC stock car race at Ascot. Good racing.
I saw Redline 7000 when it was first released. A terrible movie. I was 14 and into slot car racing. I had an Aurora HO track in my parent's basement and as a joke I named the track The Mike Marsh Memorial Speedway. I wrote it in felt pen in the infield. Those were the days.
Love that big block with the open headers. I had a 68 Mustang with a 428SCJ 4-speed and open Hooker Super Comp headers. Just a 24 inch collector slipped on the back. That was my drag racing car. I loved the sound. When you dumped the throttle in 4th and were coasting down it just sounded angry. I wish I could have seen the real stock cars running.
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@SonderMann1982 The movie is "Red Line 7000", a lot of good footage in it, especially 1963-64 Ford and Mercury. When cars were real cars, not plastic computer driven toys like today. You can find the film on VHS tape on eBay, I don't think there is a DVD of it?
Don't know why this popped up in my Recommendations just now in 2021, but it's great!! Was out in the garage last week digging through an old box of trophies I've got from Ascot from racing my Motorcycle around that place....
@WildTrikes - you said "All engines after the flat head v8 are hemi (Hemispearical heads)" Sorry, no. Very few engines have hemispherical combustion chambers, you can count them on one hand. Wedge shaped chambers are far more common. Even in race engines. The only 427 Ford engine with a hemi combustion chamber was the 427 SOHC engine. It was banned by NASCAR before ever being run in a race. The BOSS 429 was not a true hemi, it was referred to as a "semi-hemi", and it was not a FE engine.. All other FE engines were wedge combustion chambers.
Why the fascination with "hemi"s? Kinda ancient history. Pent-roof chambers (valves closer to parallel) with multi-valves, have shorter flame-travel and better volumetric efficiency. Then less need for all that iron and cubes, and lighter too..
A pushrod engine takes up a lot less space than a DOHC engine of the same displacement and cylinder configuration, so if made of aluminum alloy, it can be lighter too, especially if you bore it out for maximum cylinder diameter and more cubes. Think of a GM LS7 - 427CID and 505-536 naturally aspirated horsepower and not even with direct injection and continuously variable valve-timing that the newer smallblocks have. Compare a Nissan VQ-series V-6 next to one sometime.
Doug Scott ikr? Some people don't get it. my dad owns a 1956 Dodge Custom Royal with 318 cid Super Red Ram "semi hemi"...he's had to tell folks who think they know cars that it's not an actual "hemi" as in hemispherical combustion chambers. Still, they sound great though...something in the exhaust note signature is different than other engines, regardless of the muffler being used.
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I once saw Junior Johnson in an interview talking about putting the brand new 390 V8 from a 1959 Cadillac ambulance into his bootlegging car. He said it went so fast he had trouble focusing on the sides of the road. That's what you call a good power-to-weight ratio.
Maybe some of the older viewers already know or suspect this. I remember being at the drive In in 1965 when I was 16 and I also remember this scene well, or it’s awful close. James Caan or some other sandy hair’d actor was playing the driver of a 64 yellow Ford stock car that had had the steering mechanism screwed up. I’m not sure, 56 year old memories aren’t always real trustworthy. But it seems like it maybe was done on purpose so this young driver would look bad or to see how good he might be, although he didn’t know about it. Anyway it took about 3 times I think for him to figure out how to compensate for the faulty steering, so it ended up he was able to prove that he was really one hell of a driver. I’m pretty sure this was a small part of that movie scene, Redline 7000. Where I come from, there was a stock car driver in those days who could’ve also handled that scene easy, his name was Ernie Derr.
Tires will squeal on a dirt track only if it "takes rubber." If it is dried up and enough cars are on the track it will leave rubber marks and get very black. At that point, the part of the track with rubber on it will become the fastest part of the track and you will hear the rubber sound like this (though hard to hear over the engine compared to this). Man racing is fun.
That is the real deal when it comes to Stock Car racing. Big ass heavy car with a Big Block settin' between the front wheels. My first stock car was one. It use to wear me out.
@1custom1234 its a scene from a movie..where the actor is running in a car that does look like Johnson's car (in the movie they just use footage from his racing over 2 years as the actual racing scenes) however Johnson is not in that car
Holy cow, a 427 with open headers, skinny tires on a dirt track at full throttle,NOW THAT TAKES BALLS MY FRIEND!
427's got a mean-ass growl!
Man those were the days. Cale Yarborough was my driver back in those days and I’ll never forget seeing him in that big old mercury cyclone at Daytona.
Yup-Him and Buddy Baker had some bad ass Mercury's for sure.
Back when driving school consisted of running shine through the hollars.
I know what you mean brother, I use to run shine in the 60's and 70's,,, no more,,, to dam old.!.. I did out run the cops a few times, thank God I never got caught.!
Best way to learn u either made it or got caught they never caught ol JJ he would hold her wide open on them dirt roads lol
Just the sound of that engine is so perfect.
I saw him race at Daytona when I was young. Yeah, I'm that old.
back when sex was safe and racing was dangerous
Lol good one
If God hadn't intended man to eat pussy he wouldn't have made it look like a taco!
Snidely Whiplash LMFAO! Good one!
Epic
Seems somewhere a remark was made bout "Foot in the Wood" issues.
I love the sound of that beast in the engine bay. Hooray for the Galaxie
The only thing NASCAR shares in common with this is the empty grandstands.
so edgy
Hilarious
damn bro you got the whole squad laughin
@@Thomas-ib9iu its true
Truth! NASCAR is dead!
Ascot WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST race tracks in ALL OF AMERICA for cars AND bikes. Spent MOST of my youth RIGHT THERE and STILL MISS IT today. THE saying used to be IF you COULD GO FAST AT Ascot you COULD GO FAST ANYWHERE. And AGAIN it was that way for bikes OR cars !
Love that sound of pure raw horse power from that 427. That is a real Stock Car... you can tell its a Ford.. vs todays Stock cars that all look alike.
Man that 427 sounds vicious!🤠
“Ascot Park” man oh man does that bring back memories, such as Dick Lane announcing for the Jalopy Races. Progress can sure screw things up
I loved the figure-8 racing on Sundays. Many memories.
They still have horse racing at Ascot at least.
Hell yeah! When stock car racing was the wild west. Dear God I so love that sound.
that sound is music to my ears... also the '64 galaxie is one of my dream cars.
That's how he ran that shine wide open.No one could run with Jr🔨🇺🇸👍
Seeing it is Junior Johnson, this is one of Holman Moody's finest engines...
No 7 litre Fords mentioned. Don't know why.
@@tallen4520 Ford 427 is 7 litre, PUTZ.
@@sergeantmasson3669 boy you should be an answer with the rocket scientist thank you for letting us all know that 😉🧀 some more cheese with that one is fine you love it you want some more of it bend over that Rover take over bend over that Rover take over you love it you want some more of it
@@jerrygoad3093 If ignorance is bliss, you must be greatly overjoyed.
Some of my best childhood memories are from Ascot. Just parking in the housing tract across the street and hearing whatever was racing that night made me almost spin in circles waiting to cross the street. The good old days when noise and racing was not pushed out of southern California - Saddleback hillclimbs, SanBerdoo speedway, Carlsbad motocross, Long Beach harbor boat races, Brotherhood raceway drags in San Pedro - so much as been lost but still remain in my memories.
Hi Robert. My dad took me to Ascot in the '60s a few times. As a kid I loved the figure 8 races followed by the demolition derby. Very exciting for a nine year old boy.
Another lost track is OCIR between El Toro and Tustin. In the mid seventies, a friend of mine and I would go on "Fox Hunt" nights. Girls got in for free and for an extra buck or two, you got a pit pass. Great times watching all classes of dragsters from stock to top fuel. We even saw a jet car, the "Green Mamba Jet".
@@grantrichards4950 OCIR is a fond memory for me too..... those were the good ol days for sure. I hate going back to So Cal now - except in my memories.
What a great sound
Luke Sprenkel I love the sweet music of the brutal 427
That's a Ford, son!
FE performance engine from FoMoCo
We used to go to Ascot all the time when I was a kid. Good times!
Now that's A REAL"STOCK CAR !!!
Just the sound of that engine is worth the price of admission.
Now if NASCAR went back to these type cars, it would rebound. These are awesome and the sound is perfect. And yes you will get tire squeal on that hard clay dirt track.
I've heard a pickup truck squeal the tires spinning them in loose sand.
Too dangerous! Never make it out of the OSHA engineering training seminar!
Love the sound out of those engines
Killer driving! Engine is a beast!
Sounds beautiful now that's what you call driving
427s rule! I sure miss Ascot Park
the last dirt track in California GONE
Spent many weekends at Ascott growing up in the 70s.
It was mainly dirt track motorcycles
@@kingcraven8056 I saw some of the best flat track motorcycle racing ever at Ascot Park!
@@yawningchasm33 :Santa Maria, Oildale, Perris, Hanford, Chico, Placerville, were among some of the tracks still operating after Ascot. There are more,I just can't think of their names. Perris was built to replace Ascot.While a nice track there will never be another Ascot.The best dirt track ever in California, GONE.
Fun stuff. The car is mega tight, but I don't know how they adjusted for that back in those days. I'm just amazed they could keep power to the ground with the tires of that time. Tapped the wall on that last lap.
Brings back a lot of good memories.
The galaxy really can in fact DRIFT...with that awesome long duration cammed 7litre twisted O...JUST AWESOME...😀😀😀
What great clip of film to watch on a cold wet Friday evening waiting for warmer days 👍
This clip is from movie redline 7000 starring James Caan as Mike Marsh
I remember seeing this movie in 1966; Redline 7000. The sound is just as good as I remembered! Thanks for posting!
I remember that movie, Redline 7000!! Saw it at a drive in (remember those?) with some friends. How about Fireball 500??
I own Redline 7000 on DVD good movie rest in peace James Caan
Just think of the skill it takes to turn left and breathe through your mouth at the same time at those speeds! Bless you heroes.....bless you
😠
The fake ass "cars" they "race" today is what is killing Nascar. Race stock cars like this with roll cages in them and fuel cells is all that would be needed. It would bring back the action, thrillers, and pride of ownership that we had in those days.
SIXPACFISH NASCAR has ruined "Stock cars" its all about HUGE money they have forgotten it started as a bunch of shine runners that were outstanding "shade tree mechanics " everybody built their own. Now 4 or 5 companies. Build them ALL they buy a kit and put their sponsors graphic package on it. And NASCAR makes them run restrictors to alledgedly keep the speed down but in reality it just bunches up the field and causes better TV wrecks........the sport at this level is done.....support your local tracks wher you can still afford to take your family
Cars today have too much plastic.
Do you know what you’re asking for? I’d much rather watch 3,400lb tube chassis cars with 7-800 horsepower on a 9 inch tire than a bunch of caged, front wheel drive 6 cylinders.
Stock cars need to be "stocker" Maybe Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, etc,with factory Stock bodies,
limited engine mods with the actual engine blocks that come from the factory, no more restrictors since they will be slower but fans can actually identify with them.
Also, consider a dirt track once in a while!!. Just sayin.
Finally someone who really "gets it"! I want to see cars race that I can go into the showroom and buy. I don't care about the phony body shell they strap onto that hand made go kart frame all with the same engine. If it only comes with a 4 cyl you race a 4 cyl. If it only comes with a auto you race a auto. Real car racing again.
LOL> I had a 63 1/2 Galaxie with a real strong 390 and I had trouble with that roving big ass rear end on many occasions. I loved the look of it and still do. Wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
OMG that Ford 427 sound...like no other💙💙💙
Ford didn't make 427 .
@@jbrown1971 , they had what they called a 427. Supposedly, it was actually a 425 but they rounded up so that it would be 7.0L.
@@jeffduncan9140 426, but in the atmosphere of the mid-late 60's you wouldn't dare homologate an engine that would be illegal (427 CI max) after a bottle brush honing, or if bore tolerances were at the high end of spec. 5 thousandths of an inch over the factory bore would be enough to put you dead on 427.0 cubic inches.
Chrysler just went with 426, Chevrolet's mark I "Z11" big block 427 was 426.02ci, Pontiac SD 428 was 426.61ci and so on.
Love that sound! Dirt track racing is cool! No resemblance to today's NASCAR...
Safety, was minimal just raw power and skill not like today's..racing with computers and all that extra stuff..
dont even watch nashit today .waste .like slot cars .
france family screwed it up
And when the cars raced bore more than just a passing resemblance to what you could find in the dealer showroom.
NASCAR today is BORING.
When I was a kid, our family lived a stones from Ascot. Sometimes we’d sneak under the fence to watch the racing, and get our ass caught.
Now it’s a skyscraper.
Ascot Park in Gardena! Used to go there as a kid with my folks and their friends for sprint cars! There’s a shot of the track in the original Gone in 60 Seconds with Parnelli Jones had his Bronco stolen! Those were the days! 🏁
How enlightening! I had never heard tires squealing on dirt before! Awesome engine sound though!
Best youtube video ever! Ford FE's sound so gnarly uncorked.
50tbrd88 you got that right.
That big block had a huge cam, man that thing sounded mean.
Not a ford motor 427
Joseph Brown before you correct me, do a little research. Google 427 Ford FE. Do you think Ford would’ve raced NASCAR and put a Chevy motor in their car?
@@Route5Garage_5.0tbrd88 I'm a Chevy guy. Year's ago I had the opportunity to drive a friend's 69 mustang that was FE powered. I absolutely loved the power and torque of that engine.
My brother-in-law had one of these beasts in 1964 that he drag raced at US 131 Raceway in Martin, Michigan. When he came over to our house to pick up my sister you could hear him coming from 1/4 to 1/2 a mile away. Used to screw up everyone's TV, too. Plug wires weren't as insulated then as now. Just raw horsepower. They'd go see a movie then out to a country road set-up for drag racing and get it on. Sister was scared to death of that car, but would jump in every night with a smile and come home looking like a ghost, chalk white. He was a hell of a mechanic then and taught me a lot about cars and especially engines. Good Lord, how I miss those days.
I can't get enough of this! You can't beat a FE BBF motor!
Real car! Real racetrack! I miss real people!
When Daytona opened in 1959 it was only the third paved NASCAR track. Everything else were dirt tracks like this one. In late 1964 I went to a 300 lap USAC stock car race at Ascot. Good racing.
love those classic muscle cars! they are just the best
I always love watching them race on dirt tracks
I have seen races at Ascot raceway back in the 60's. Always a fun time! Onward!
I never saw a race at Ascot, but I recall in the late 70's or early 80's going there to play foosball at their arcade. Fun times!
He learned those moves while runnin' 'shine :)
god, i love the way the pipe comes out of the side!
Real cars, real talent
I saw Redline 7000 when it was first released. A terrible movie. I was 14 and into slot car racing. I had an Aurora HO track in my parent's basement and as a joke I named the track The Mike Marsh Memorial Speedway. I wrote it in felt pen in the infield. Those were the days.
My first brand new car....64 Galaxie 500 390/300hp w/4-speed. Loved that car.😃
I used to watch for this movie just to see Junior work is Magic back in the sixties no VHS no internet just a TV Guide and Hope rest in peace Junior
Bet Junior had a ball filming this scene! Great sound.
Back when I was a teenager I would hear the deep bellow of the big V8s from SIX MILES AWAY!
I was a big fireball Roberts fan I was 11 when he died RIP
Tiny Lund days.
That's a F#*!ing beast!
I drive like this daily to get my first cup of coffee!
Love that big block with the open headers. I had a 68 Mustang with a 428SCJ 4-speed and open Hooker Super Comp headers. Just a 24 inch collector slipped on the back. That was my drag racing car. I loved the sound. When you dumped the throttle in 4th and were coasting down it just sounded angry. I wish I could have seen the real stock cars running.
I had one of those. Mine had a 427 t oiler it was a drag car.
And people think drifting is a new sport.
Those were the days.
Cops were taught it as part of cornering techniques in the 1960s and probably earlier.
I wish we could hear the discussion right after ...” it’s almost perfect “
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Love Bug,
Bullit,
Vanishing Point, Diamonds are Forever, The French Connection, Duel,
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,
and White Line Fever!
...to name a few!
@SonderMann1982 The movie is "Red Line 7000", a lot of good footage in it, especially 1963-64 Ford and Mercury. When cars were real cars, not plastic computer driven toys like today. You can find the film on VHS tape on eBay, I don't think there is a DVD of it?
Don't know why this popped up in my Recommendations just now in 2021, but it's great!! Was out in the garage last week digging through an old box of trophies I've got from Ascot from racing my Motorcycle around that place....
From the movie "Red Line 7000". James Caan was so COOL in this!
Damn!! That looked like fun.
That's What Race Cars are Supposed to Sound like, Old School Racing Was Awesome
Sounds like a pissed off, snorting dragon.
When your trunk is where your hood should be, you done messed up!
AWSOM!!!!,,, good thing he didn't pile up on the wall that's a nice car
Great footage! Just like he's out runnin' shine! Keep'um comin'!
That 427 is screaming I love it
427 ford
JR.liked ascot.great race track.
that was badass
OK ...now THAT looked like fun...!!!
Used to pit for a friend that raced there in high school. Tiny lil track.
@WildTrikes - you said "All engines after the flat head v8 are hemi (Hemispearical heads)"
Sorry, no. Very few engines have hemispherical combustion chambers, you can count them on one hand. Wedge shaped chambers are far more common. Even in race engines. The only 427 Ford engine with a hemi combustion chamber was the 427 SOHC engine. It was banned by NASCAR before ever being run in a race. The BOSS 429 was not a true hemi, it was referred to as a "semi-hemi", and it was not a FE engine.. All other FE engines were wedge combustion chambers.
Why the fascination with "hemi"s? Kinda ancient history. Pent-roof chambers (valves closer to parallel) with multi-valves, have shorter flame-travel and better volumetric efficiency. Then less need for all that iron and cubes, and lighter too..
A pushrod engine takes up a lot less space than a DOHC engine of the same displacement and cylinder configuration, so if made of aluminum alloy, it can be lighter too, especially if you bore it out for maximum cylinder diameter and more cubes. Think of a GM LS7 - 427CID and 505-536 naturally aspirated horsepower and not even with direct injection and continuously variable valve-timing that the newer smallblocks have. Compare a Nissan VQ-series V-6 next to one sometime.
It was called a Blue Crescent Hemi by Ford . Look up the word Crescent ?
Doug Scott Hemi Ford Tempo. Big woop huh?
Doug Scott ikr? Some people don't get it. my dad owns a 1956 Dodge Custom Royal with 318 cid Super Red Ram "semi hemi"...he's had to tell folks who think they know cars that it's not an actual "hemi" as in hemispherical combustion chambers. Still, they sound great though...something in the exhaust note signature is different than other engines, regardless of the muffler being used.
I would like to see these drifters do it on dirt..I'm not saying they couldn't do it but respect the dirt guys.
onebigkahuna69 we invented what they call drifting we been drifting on dirt before they built cars we could fit in..
NASCAR needs to bring back a few dirt tracks to cup racing.
Love the sound effects, burning rubber on a wet dirt track !!!!
That good ol' boy can drive!
Arguably Hollywood’s greatest driver-stuntman, as well as actor of over 70 feature films, Carey Loftin 7/23/14 - 3/4/87 (83yo)
Love Bug,
Bullit,
Vanishing Point, Diamonds are Forever, The French Connection, Duel,
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,
and White Line Fever!
The day's of hay n clay are sorely missed, but still can be found here and there if u care 2 look
I once saw Junior Johnson in an interview talking about putting the brand new 390 V8 from a 1959 Cadillac ambulance into his bootlegging car. He said it went so fast he had trouble focusing on the sides of the road.
That's what you call a good power-to-weight ratio.
Maybe some of the older viewers already know or suspect this. I remember being at the drive In in 1965 when I was 16 and I also remember this scene well, or it’s awful close. James Caan or some other sandy hair’d actor was playing the driver of a 64 yellow Ford stock car that had had the steering mechanism screwed up. I’m not sure, 56 year old memories aren’t always real trustworthy. But it seems like it maybe was done on purpose so this young driver would look bad or to see how good he might be, although he didn’t know about it. Anyway it took about 3 times I think for him to figure out how to compensate for the faulty steering, so it ended up he was able to prove that he was really one hell of a driver. I’m pretty sure this was a small part of that movie scene, Redline 7000. Where I come from, there was a stock car driver in those days who could’ve also handled that scene easy, his name was Ernie Derr.
Cars looked like road cars and no need for aerodynamics on a dirt track. More fun to watch.
Tires will squeal on a dirt track only if it "takes rubber." If it is dried up and enough cars are on the track it will leave rubber marks and get very black. At that point, the part of the track with rubber on it will become the fastest part of the track and you will hear the rubber sound like this (though hard to hear over the engine compared to this). Man racing is fun.
advacoRRR not true
That is the real deal when it comes to Stock Car racing. Big ass heavy car with a Big Block settin' between the front wheels. My first stock car was one. It use to wear me out.
Likely a "side-oiler". Those motors were almost bullet proof for the time.
A friend of mine dad was a friend of Jr Johnson's. We got to go visit him and he was very normal guy.
Back when NASCAR was a pure american racing with a big american cars, unlike nowadays we have a damn Toyota in an American Race.
Them cheatin' Yoders even being in NASCAR in the 80s was a big mistake. I respect Davey Allison, but what's so special about him driving a damn Yoder?
@1custom1234 its a scene from a movie..where the actor is running in a car that does look like Johnson's car (in the movie they just use footage from his racing over 2 years as the actual racing scenes) however Johnson is not in that car
I want one, only make mine a 63 1/2 fast back please!
Had 2 63 1/2'S back then, both 427.
Make mine the same.
Actually, any Galaxie will do.
No replacement for displacement. Back when gas was 10 cents (or so) a gallon.
Boys and girls, let's remember, shall we? "This is a movie." What you see and hear may not be as it seemed LMFAO
I've heard that Bobby Allison did some driving in Red Line 7000. It's fairly likely he was in that car.