It was special , it was our generation !

Beat of the best pound those gears

I've seen Jungle Jim at SIR. I met his son yrs later at Gainsville.

Yeah it was magic growing up in those days so I'm glad I got to do that. People perceive things so differently today but those of us that came out of the 60s and 70s were very free spirit fun-loving people and not tied to cell phones Etc. It's good to have a cell phone and a computer so that we can watch these things again, in fact I have watched races that I was at all those years ago on here LOL magic days that went by too quickly

Craig Adams agreed .

Dont forget Ronnie Sox

Dick and Mike Landy and Bill Jenkins hard chargers. And great Champion's

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Well it's not forget Lee Shepherd, The man, The myth, and The legend! RIP😇

And in the near lane , BOB GLIDDEN!!!😦😦😦😦🏁🏁🚘🚘🍺

Agreed! When either the driver's name was on the car or the car had a really cool name like "The Winged Express", "Brutus", "Black Magic", Grumpy's Toy", "Swamp Rat XI", "TV Tommy Ivo", "Jungle Jim", "Jade Grenade", "Sparkling Burgundy"....damn, I could probably list a couple hundred more.

Dyno Don, Rambunctious Gene Snow, Tom the mongoose Mc Ewen

We used to go to Atco and Cecil County. My dad and best friend. One day we saw Dick Landy at the truck stop in Paulsboro, NJ. We got autographed pictures of his car.

You’re welcome!

You’d have gotten laid too.

Thank you!

Agreed, today all the same . However, the March meet in Famoso is like going back in time to the 70s Nostalgia funny cars are AWESOME. Not as fast but they race 1/4 mile!!

Yeah but Bills vega right here is the reason why pro stock sucks today. Landys dodge was a real dart sport with a hemi and roll cage, the vega was a tube chassis with a vega body stuck over it. They allowed him to do it because it was a small block, which wasn't any disadvantage because the car was feather light. Those rules stuck and well, you have what you have today because of it and that vega was the one that did it!

What kind of trans did they run

@Adam Fears winged Express is AWESOME. Did you catch the Little Red Wagon?

@@Cutlass_Rudd Well, I guess you gotta blame someone for your anger!!

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Small block Chevy beating big block mopar

@@ericartz7331 ...340 small block Mopars have taken down big blocks of all manufacturers... GM included

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

Same here.

He outran them when they carried an extra 350 pound weight limit. He got his ass kicked by numerous Hemi Mopars when the extra weight was not added!

I agree 100%. If Nascar and others would only realize that it's a big reason why their attendance is down. The manufacturers war was always a humongous part of the sport. People usually took their favorite manufacturer and then chose their favorite driver from there. I don't think that is the case anymore. I can't sit through a whole race nowadays. I have better things to do and I have KZfaq to look back at the exciting racing that used to be if I want to.

Nascar started screwing up in the 90's. Trying for parity. Screw that, we don't want parity, we want the best car to win. I remember Bill Elliott making up 2 laps under green to win at Talladega in 1985.

Yes it’s awesome to watch! Did you view the Grumpy and Landy interview videos also?

My neighbor had his holley carb hot rodded by Grumpy 3 months before Grump died. It was in a weird named car magazine on his wall. The very last pic of Grump in any magazine. Grumpy could make a Holley faster than anyone. Period.

@@darrylfischer4244 No I Didn't but I did see the cars and drivers close up in the pits. Landy was running a D-5 Hemi Against Grumpy's small block.

@@donrutter6765 Holleys don't meter fuel, they dump...

CRAZY KELLY WFO You’re welcome!

They were a booked in show at this race, they took all the time they wanted. It was super cool, I was there(11 yo)!

How was it luck?? Were you there?

Yeah even though it's illegal, I cut my teeth street racing six-pack Mopars in the seventies. I have owned three of them and one Hemi car. Today I honestly like the memories of all of the vehicles from back in the day. Hard to believe it's been over 40 years ago from those years... We lost a lot of friends along the way some to disease and others to accidents oh, how we survived to make it this far is amazing. But what great memories most of it was

Yep, those were the days!

DistractulatinMyCase I had forgotten about this event at Boundary Bay nearly dropped my for when I saw it. Pretty amazing they would come up to Canada and on the west coast at that. Announcers cracked me up.lol

@@donziperk This was the weekend after the Seafair Nats. These guys were booked in show, but normally they all went to Spokane on this weekend.

97th and what road? My paper route was from 96th to 100Ave & KGH to 132 rd, but I do not recall Dave King though..

97th ave and 115 st block from royal heights school could here his car fire up when i was down at the flats by the river

They should have already gotten shed of Pro Stock and replaced it with Pro Mod.

EVERYTHING now is lame in comparison to what everything used to be.

To watch em up close in the Pitt's was something to see. I would have been thrilled to hand Grumpy a wrench.

When pro stock actually had some "stock"in it.Nascar had some "stock "in it too.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

He was a hero of mine... I got to make him laugh at my home track one day!

Met him at a race in South Dakota. Great guy.

Yep it was probably the only time a racer drove back down the track!! Grumpy was pissed because the starter waited too long to start the tree countdown

I don't get why, though. ??? It wasn't long at all by today's standards. Perhaps it seemed that way after numerous burnouts and prepping the track himself. All that might have made him anxious. I do hate how the announcers here (and today too) will run their yap right through a verbal argument.... we want to hear it!

That was my first taste of drag racing. I still remember listening to my transistor radio and hearing, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. I started going in the late 60s. Every now and then head over to Milan. Sometimes Saturday night at Flatrock speedway, my dad's cousin raced a late model there.

Wow!

guysmalley maybe in canada....

Solid doors, all metal body yeah it's stock.

Yeah no Vega ever came with a V8.

My Vega came with a v8 in it used. 😂

"Just throw a muffler on it and drive it to work...Street Legal" LMAO

I saw Jenkins run that car VS sox and martin at Island dragway Great meadows NJ, Jenkins gave up 100 Cubes and still shut down the Hemi... I think the times were low 11's and mph in the high teens..

these guys are not running the track or nhra they are running exhibition type matches, or better called match races between the drivers, the track would set it up, so what the drivers are doing is part of the show they put on for the track/fans, lots of big names in drag racing were part of it, one of the most famous or showy was jungle jim and his beautiful assistant jungle pam, check out the show they put on, pam could drive the crowd mad when she dropped down to check under the car for leaks.

Darryl, Delta Cable also broadcast the races at Mission for a couple years when the new track first opened in 92. They called the show "Smoke and Thunder" and it seems only the lucky buggers in Delta (like me) could see it on TV. I asked them if they saved them and was told they changed the format (digital now?) and had no way to play the old stuff.After the Boundary Bay track closed there was illegal racing on the same strip about 1980-81, the old rubber was all still there. That drew huge crowds and got shut down with big steel gates. Then the airport got reactivated and street racing moved to the road in front, parallel to the train tracks. There was one legal race on airport since then about 15 years ago. The RCMP put on a 1/8th mile event on the E-W runway at the eastern end. That got shortened to 500 feet after just a few runs because a fence across the runway separated the RCMP driver training area from the rest of the airport. The mayor heard about it afterwards and raised a stink and got all non- aviation activity banned from the airport.

And an extra 100lbs

And he had 100 extra cubes.

Johnnie Guitar Rosin was a sticky powder that used to be used for super traction. Made from tree resin I believe. We also used to use sticky VHT liquid traction compound under the rear tires.

Thanks! Up here in the great white north ( Canada) I saw them spraying VHT but don't remember the yellow rosin.

It was made out of pine resin. when it got hot it stuck to everything...!

But Monzas did when they were introduced in 1975....

I don't remember what you are talking about. NHRA has almost always allowed non standard engines in cars unless it was the stock or superstock classes. Is that what you are talking about?

Landy won the other two...

Yeah. Gotta put on a show for the paying customers. Grump and Dandy probably enjoyed discussing the antics afterwards while they were having burgers and fries at the diner down the road.