Best Drag Racing Era

The day the slipper clutch arrived drag racing headed down hill. Bracket racing made the slope a little steeper. It went over the edge when the NHRA dropped Fuel Altereds and Gas dragsters.

P.S The Weekly Rivero, Fox and Holding high back car ruled!!

 

Being one of those older guys, I must agree.

For me it was So. Cal. at all the great now gone strips. Lions, Irwindale, Orange County, Ontario, along with The Patch, Fremont, Fontana and Pomona and a few more. I raced them all back in the 67-78 years and loved the racing and people/friends made.

Those days are gone now and great memories remain. The younger ones are out making their mark and gathering their own memories, but they'll be different than mine. Not better or worse, just different.

Here's a link to some of my old toys from back then.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/JEANS32/

 

HUMM...I wonder what BIG DADDY would say...POP.

 

Now I can't speak first hand but I really like the cars in the Mid to Late 50's. 3dnsouth has some pretty amazing pics of a roadster that I love...







I really like all years of Drag Racing up into the 70's but for some reason the backyard ingenuity of the earliest days really get me going. More Accessible? Plain Old Cool.

 

The early/mid 70's, when Funny Cars and Fuel Altereds ruled the earth!!!!

 

Me too! Attended NTSU 67 to 70 and saw the same. I worked at the Villa Capri Motel in Denton and met many racers who stayed there, Sox and Martin to mention two. I ran my 63 Galaxie with a 406 and two fours at Green Valley. Those were good times.

 

When dragsters left like this.

 

SAMIYAM & KING CH***IS : I couldn't agree with you more....

Nostalgia drag racing in my little opinion is also headed for another slight down fall. We will all contiue to attend as it gives us a glimse of the good ole' days, which differs to a certain degree what era that was.

Where is Nostalgia Drag Racing now; we have cars with huge $ invested, such a particular fellow who shows up with a chrome molly funny car cage under his g***er with more electronics and independant suspension tricks than ever existed in the complete field of g***ers back in the day. The best part, he believes he should run with the vintage guys... Get off of the porch and go play with the big guys then, its a new car with an old body....

Just because its an old body style, does not mean the car should even be running. I don't care if the wings and / or spoilers have been removed as turns out being nothing more than a new, high tech, naked 130" wheel base altered... What the heck is that doing at a nostalgia race ?

As I once saw on a vintage drag car : Iron heads are for drag racing.....

Excellent post and great pic's....

 

70s Lots of match racing, real live cl*** racing and cheaper fuel . Funny Cars looked like a streched production car not a space ship or door stop. Pro Stock were a lot more "Stock" than what they run now.

 

Was great up untill NHRA killed JUNIOR STOCK... big mistake...left a lot of us with a lot of money invested out in the cold.

 

Yup, first Jr. Stock and then Modified (1981) . NHRA left a lot of people "out in the cold".

 

I like everything Pre 1965, Dover Reunion is Sunday September 5th, need to get "Alley Oop" ready.

 

I've been at it since '63, have to say '63 to about '68-'69.
after that just a politicized, commercialized mess.