I love coming across clips like this. Someone's early color 8mm silent film footage just documenting the cars and bikes running down the... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Great clip, true drag racing... no electronics to do the work for you! How about you guys putting together a dvd of your favorite vintage drag clips with some funky music so I can play on my movie screen in my shop... I bet you'd sell the hell out of them!
Very cool clip, did I see a packard in one of those frames...? If I had a time machine I would make the settings to arrive during this film. I know there were not a lot of moving cameras back then, but I wonder how many more films there are out there like these....
Man what a cool video But i did not see any cars with skulls all over them or exhaust 6 ft high or License plates for doors or mail boxes for scoops. These guys must have missed the "Back in the day" memo!!!!
YEP!!!----Thats the way it was back then, I was there one of those weekends,----Watching the film in silence, I can still hear guys missing second gear shifts!!UGH!--- --Left for Korea after watching some of these "Screamers"----Remember the old "Bustle bomb"?---He ran 2 Flatties in tandem, shifting kinda wierd!!!! We would DRIVE a '38 Tudor Ford to the drags---Race all day---DRIVE back to Inglewood!!!----Long trip back then---Before ANY FREEWAYS!!!!-------DON
It looks like that T coupe was leaving the line harder than most of the other cars. That probably explains the girl holding the trophy.
1952 sound about right, Don? Beautiful . . . great find, Jive-Bomber . . . in color, too . . . Fantastic!!! How 'bout that limo?
Awesome Video! It really makes you appreciate what our cars have been doing for years and years. It is awesome to see old school gear heads going at!
This great stuff just keeps on turning up...think that the abbreviated coupe is Harry Duncan's "Doodlebug." His grandson is on here, hope he sees it....Harry Duncan was one of the real pioneers who ran drags, lakes, Bonneville, Daytona, etc...ran with Chrisman, etc, built some really class cars.
Very cool vid. Has it been posted before because I feel like I've seen it? That #98 coupe is dreamy! Also, I think I spotted the Bertilloti (sp?) Bros. Roadster? The one with the early style flames on it.
I think parts of it have been posted...didn't the 98 coupe belong to Doug Hartlett? It was in a lot of early Hot Rod and Hop Up issues..think you are right about the Bertolini Bros roadster also...(I probably spelled it wrong too!)
Wow, that was awesome. As close as I guess we'll get to a time machine! I forwarded the video link to my Step-Dad, he and his buddies raced at Santa Ana in the mid-50's. Wonder if he'll recognize anyone in it?
Don That's the way I do it now, When the schedules are right. I change gears to 4.62s, bolt on a set of 8in wrinkle walls and drive to the drags. 25 miles. Run all day and drive it back home. Change gears, put the street tires back on and go for a burger!!!
Deuce = LOVE @358 SEEMS TO BE A DIP 30 FOOT FROM THE START ? surprised the bikes did not wheelie out of it
Thought I'd bring this back up for them what missed it . . . too bad the sun wasn't at his back, but man, the real deal. California Rake, baby!
Ok so there is no sound, the video quality sucks, and the cameraman is looking into the sun . . . but man, y'all need to see this footage from back in the day that Jay posted a few years back.
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