This was Drag Racing!!!

[nhdungeonracer]

[moparjenny]

Ah, I love this kinda stuff. :)

Thanks for posting this, Dickie!

[dreinecke]

That is freaking awesome!!!

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I remember so many of those cars. The Mazmanian and Stone Woods & Cook cars, Anglias, Willys, etc. Those were some great Sunday afternoons. Some of the best fun about V8 Stock was that you had already been to the parking lot and back again by the time these beauties ran.

[moparjenny]

[BRP32]

Awesome!

Just Awesome!!!!

Thanks for sharing!

I grew up at the race track when my Dad and Uncle use to race years ago.

Norwalk Raceway Park, Dragway 42 and Thompson Drag Raceway was where I was at every weekend back then.

Good times and great memories!

Wayne (Bolton's Speed Shop) :D :D :D

[HRWJim]

Very Very cool. I remember a lot of those and had built models of few. my father ran a 55 Chevy in C gas with a 409 in it. Those were fun days. Jim

[ourwayband]

way Cool!!!!!!
Thanks for posting!

Rusty

[olskoolslotz]

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[sixtiesracer]

Old school Gassers,Fuel Altereds, and Funny Cars,when they were truly "funny looking".Nothing like drag racing "back in the day"!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

[waaytoomuchintothis]

It was so accessible back then. If you wanted to go to the drags with a car, it didn't require mortgaging a house to do it. You went to a junk yard (every town had one that everybody knew was the place to go for lightweight older bodies). You either built or bought an engine and drive train, got the frame together (every town had a Maw & Paw's Welding Shop), and painted it yourself. You could either splurge and buy fancy lettering, or get a sign painter to do it for advertising his own shop on the car. Put that heap on a trailer and go haaaaulass. I'm still furious that insurance companies, lawyers, and corporate greed made it impossible for kids of my boys' generation to play with the marvelous toys that we built.

[john56h]

NICE! Thanks for sharing.

Technology is what has diminished racing of all types, but especially drag racing. The tires and suspension designs have allowed more and more power to be "hooked up" and the little guy (i.e. hobbyist) is pretty much priced out. Sure the speeds are up, but I think the spectator appeal in the 60's was:
1. See cars beeing manhandled by their drivers. A little out-of-control is what fills the seats. Seeing how different drivers are able to get off the line quickly while their car's tires want to spin and their chassis wants to wander is more interesting than watching every car cut a perfect light and rocket straight down the track like it was shot from a gun.
2. The fans associated with the local drivers and cars they would see right in their own community...and then the few shows a year that brought in nationally known drivers was the icing on the cake, and a "can't miss" event.

I think the road racing and oval racing has been similarly affected....it's just more fun to watch drivers skidding around in mildly modified stock vehicles with tires that will only take so much before traction is lost. That's what is missing in racing these days all the way from local level action like this video, to the Indianapolis 500.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Well said.

[DAVE]

Yessir! There's a ton of this stuff on the internet. I can sit and watch these old movies
forever. And it doesn't matter what dragstrip. Hot rods are universal.

[Broman62]