History Drag Racing...when it was fun!

http://www.youtube.com/user/biscaynenick

not spam, just cool

 

Get over it...it's not the 60's anymore...move on!

 

sweet vid

 

NIce video but the lack of gaurd rails looks scary for the fans.

 

I saw Wally Bell's 57 on the Pocono deal. COOL! Those were good times racing. Seventies were good too. Lippy

 

That was real cool. Nothing better than old 8mm footage.

 

It is cool to hear the guys shifting,Neat video.

 

Roadster looked like alot of fun...

 

Thanks Bob, that brought back a lot of great memories!

Max

 

Neato!

 

That was way cool!! Gotta love youtube

 

The 60's can be relived, we did it at Eagle Field! Search Eagle Field on youtube.

 

Thumb through a Rod and Custom or Hot Rod mag from the '60's sometime, then listen to some '60's era music...

 

Jim Amos' always does a great job.

 

Very neat video, thanks for sharing, it was a time when you would really get excited to go to the races.

 

Cool vid man. Love watching that white roadster pull a wheely of the line.

Thanks for sharing.

 

I agree 100% !

 

Spent many Sat. nights and Sunday afternoons at strips just like 'em, first with the '57 chev. in the mid to late '60's, then ran the Willy's coupe from '69 into the early '70's. When we started racing, the classes were determined by cubic inches. Somewhere along the line it changed to cubic money... Thank's for the memories...

 

What a tool! An asinine comment like that makes me wonder, what are you doing on this site?

Thanks for posting Bob. Much appreciate the look back.

 

Brought back a lot of memories from the 60's when we use to go to The Grove and up to Kaukauna early Sunday mornings to watch our buddies race. Thanks for sharing.

Mowman

 

loving the topo at 2:49 in the vid..A&A on the side?? wish someday someone would post a pic or vid of my topo from back in the day...it has history, but damned if i know any of it..........

 

its all gone wrong after the end of the gassers

 

Very nice, we would spend every weekend at the track. Gary

 

That was cool to wake up to,,Thanks

 

Do you mean to tell me it wasn't always beer can racing? And they actually had three peddles back then?
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But all joking aside that was a cool video thanks for sharing!

 

The '40 Chevy gasser with A&A was/is Joe Amato. He still has the car. I wonder if his auto parts store, which became Keystone Automotive, also sponsored the Fiat?

 

Cool video, That white 55 Chevy had about the crudest radius job I have ever seen. Looks like they maybe used an axe.

 

I was thinking the same thing! It is to bad!

 

????? if you don't want to watch it, DON'T!

thanks for posting it bob.

 

Back in the day, a lot of guys would mark a radius with a string and pencil, cut it with tin snips, and roll the edge back under with a cresent wrench... Some were better at it than others...