Coolest Historic Drag Racing VIDEOS Ever

[stitcherbob]

Professional or amateur, whatever ya got - post 'em!

Let's start with The Dragmasters

 

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"In drag racing, even the losers receive some compensation to offset the costs of competition, for it costs UPWARDS OF 75 TO 100 DOLLARS to make a single run in one of today's fuel dragsters!"

 

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[FABMAN]

Professional or amateur, whatever ya got - post 'em!

Let's start with The Dragmasters

Thanks Bob, really cool videos and to hear name's like George Montgomery, Darrell Zimmerman Div 5, great to look back at the History of Drag Racing.

 

[Toejam]

I remember seeing a movie about Drag racing as a kid, nothing fancy like Fuel cars are anything. But they show a number of cars going down the track! All were Late 40's-Late 50's cars, and it was in Black and white! Can't for the life of me find it or the title.

 

[stitcherbob]

I have a couple of tapes made a while ago one was called "Hot Rod Potpourri" and was all old drag racing videos and some newer Bonneville runs thrown in. It was narrated by two old track announcers, one was Don Tuttle, an old Santa Ana track announcer.

 

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found the lists for the tapes contents...great stuff if you can find them for sale

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 Tuttle...
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' competition 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 gassers 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.

 

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Live TV in drag racing is nothing new...

 

[glofria]

Adam 12 episode 100, "Who Won?" Nancy Matter's dad '52 Ford beat my dad's '68 Camaro in the climatic end.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/46171

 

[FABMAN]

Adam 12 episode 100, "Who Won?" Nancy Matter's dad '52 Ford beat my dad's '68 Camaro in the climatic end.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/46171

Adam 12 episode 100, "Who Won?" Nancy Matter's dad '52 Ford beat my dad's '68 Camaro in the climatic end.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/46171

Gino, couldn't find it

 

[glofria]

Gino, couldn't find it

Jesse, it works for me.

Of course, you can Google search "Adam 12 Who Won?" that's how I found it. Or it could be that your firewall is set too high.

 

[FABMAN]

Jesse, it works for me.

Of course, you can Google search "Adam 12 Who Won?" that's how I found it. Or it could be that your firewall is set too high.

Thanks

 

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