Anyone got a list of good hot rod videos? I dont mean American Grafitti or Hollywood Knights, I am looking for non-fiction. There is one metal work one I want to get (Covell or Fournier I forget which one right now) that deals with patch panels and hammer and dolly work etc. Any other good how-to's or do***entary / archival material (old drag racing??) Thanks-
http://www.hotrodmemories.com/categorylist.php?SearchString=New I have a few videos I bought from these guys, mine are late sixties and early seventies drag racing footage, lots of g***ers and rail jobs. Paul I see there inventory has increased!
maybe o/t , but I've bought a lot of tapes from Wolverine video, he used to advertise in Rod and Custom. It's just a guy walking around shows with a video camera, but the price is good(25bucks). And for east coast guys such as myself , a couple of hours walking around Paso or El Mirage on video is a great way to spend a cold snowy day.
Here are a few good ones, -"How to chop a top, the Winfield way" -"Building a model A front fender" Tin Bashers Video INC. -"Hammer forming" Ron Fournier -"How to gas weld aluminum" Ron Fournier -"Bucks, Patterns & Forms" Ron Fournier -"Making Motorcycle Gas Tanks" part 1 & 2 Ron Covell Also there is a Pin striping video that was made in the late 70's or early 80's that if you didn't know that you were watching you would think it's a total piece of ****, but it's actually Big Daddy behind the camera asking questions while a very old haggard, smoking, drinking, funny Kenneth Howard (von dutch) is striping and giving his view of life. It also stars Bob Spina out of Las Vegas who pulls some lines that were cool at the time but look like they belong on a big rig now days. I met Bob Spina last summer; he is one hell of a nice guy and bad*** pin striper. I think there is one more person but I can't remember who it was now.
I've got the Potpourri 1 & 2 videos narrated by Don Tuttle, an old Santa Ana track announcer. Very good stuff from the late forties to the sixties. There's another video he did with just old footage from Santa Ana that I haven't gotten yet. Here's a link where the videos are available. http://www.bonnevilleworldwide.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BSS&Category_Code=BMV-1 Here are better descriptions of each tape. SANTA ANA DRAGS - THE BEGINNING Santa Ana Commemorative drag races filmed at Palmdale Raceway in California... Vintage colour movies of the Santa Ana drag strip 1952 - 1959, narrated by Don... Interviews by promoters CJ Hart and Creighton Hunter... Other interviews include dragster drivers 'THe Hustler' Art Chrisman, 'Bean Bandit' Joaquin Arnett and 'Mr Flathead' John Bradley... Thanks to a movie camera mounted on Hayden Proffitt's blown Chevrolet dragster and the twin-engine blown Chevrolet dragster of Howard Cams, you'll see how it feels to drive down the Colton and Long Beach drag strips, at speed ! The history of Santa Ana, the first commercial dragstrip and some stories about the drivers who raced there. POTPOURRI 1 : 1952 - 1961 HOT RODDING IN THE 50's Pomona Drag Strip - flagman starting, no Christmas tree, no bleachers or guard rails either... Henderson Drag Strip in Nevada, where some of the fastest dragsters compete for Top Eliminator... Long Beach Drag Strip, tire-smokin' compe***ion runs... El Mirage, dry lake time trials... Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Trials - see Mickey thompson's streamliner, powered by four Pontiac engines being tested the week before he set a new land speed record of 406mph... Quarter and half-mile drags at Los Angeles International Raceway in Riverside... Santa Ana Drag Strip, the nation's first commercial, organised drag strip... See what the dragsters looked like back in the early 50's. POTPOURRI 2 : 1948 - 1964 THE WAY IT WAS Long Beach 'Lions' Drag Strip, tire smokin' runs filmed in the mid 50's including those by Glen Ward, Jack Ward's car with John Mulligan driving and the Gary Cagle roadster... Orange County International Raceway, mid 60's footage shows some of the top cars of the time - Kalitta, Pruhomme, Karamesine, Ivo & Pete Robinson, just to mention a few... Santa Ana, back to the early 50's when a 20 foot rolling start was the way to go... Bonneville. 1953 - 1964 footage shows some of the early streamliners... Pomona Winternationals, footage shot in the mid 60's featuring lots of g***ers and altereds and some of the first funny cars... El mirage Dry Lake, early and mid 50's footage shows lots of high speed action including the So-Cal belly tank... Colton, this is the strip where Joel Cruzen, the co-narrator, was the track announcer... Great Bend, Kansas 1955, the first NHRA National Meet. Calvin Rice was Top Eliminator and National Champion. Rare views of the Bustle Bomb.
Check out K & S Video. Ken Sargent and Skip Readio have been taping events in Australia, Canada and the United States for close to 20 years. http://ksvideo.com/ Joe Szafran 1940 Ford Tudor
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