Sadly, a moment in time, passed. It can not be repeated nor duplicated.

Working on the carburetors, while smoking while they are full of gas.. The 1970's were awesome

They had SO much more character back then.

Big Blocks with a 4-spd.. 426 Hemis, 427 Big Block Chevy and Fords 427..real Pro Stock..

Every Car is just amazing. Even the ones in the parking lot. What a great F@#king era!

Just think running 10s and below with experience, guts, and no damn computer tuning or fuel injection

My man was slammin gears with the cigars

back when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. and chewing on a stogie during the run was still accepted

The good old days of racing, not like today with all those fairies with million dollar sponsors!

Back then it was chevys in chevys, fords in fords and chryslers in chryslers. Not like today where everyone runs keith black hemis.

This is my past for sure. I was with Chrysler performance engineering and a driver and mechanic. I sure miss the excitement and satisfaction.

I don't know why this was in my "recommended" section, but I didn't regret watching it.

Mopar ruled back then and all of these years later, we are still King of the blacktop. Dodge Challenger drag Pak is the NHRA Factory stock class champions and ran in the 7s, which is also a record for the event

Got to witness all eras, from the 60's to now. Never a bad era, still to this day, the most awesome sport on Earth.

Dick Landy was a great race car driver in the 70s, Sox & Martin (Ronnie Sox) was my favorite team back then.

The 70s Cars, Racing, Music, Women and it was ok to smoke everything was better in the 70s I Want to go BACK!!!!

I still remember my days watching the gatornationals 1979 . those were the real days for all of us .

Geez those mopars were kings weren't they?

I grew up by Rockingham motor speedway late 60s and through the 70s and 80s , I remember these cars , blue max , jungle Jim , and many others , truly we're the good old days . It's like being on a time warp , a lot of nice cars , great video.👍👍🏁

i miss the 70's im 50 now i was just a kid but i remember people was good back then i had good friends then i loved cars so my favorite toys was cars i had ever hotwheel and alot of the match box cars i had great child hood miss my old friends so much love you guys you always on my mind you help make my child hood spacial if you see this message i want to say i love you miss you guys so much

real deal muscle. Dang those women were nice.

the 70s when the car makers didnt care about environment and just made asskicking cars

Drag racing with a cigar in his mouth...man times were good.

3:20 Racing while "smoking"a Stogie...gotta love it!

No kidding about the auto stores. The last 4 times I went to auto zone to get a simple car part, like an exhaust manifold stud, I walked out empty handed. They have everything in these little packages. They had studs for 3 different cars. Anything else they have to order it. If it's not in the packages, we have to order it. They removed the lead from fuel, but they keep the flouride in the water. I want a pair of Hello Kitty boxer shorts.

This is what I grew up on! LOVED it then, still LOVE it now!

In the Early 70s.. MOPARS RULED

Sox & Martin drag racing team is legend

Dick and Mike Landy were wonderful friends, we worked together for two fantastic years. Thank you for the memories, Gentlemen!

Love this old stuff. I was just a kid at this time. But it's so cool to see now, wishing I could try it. Just awesome stuff !!! Thanx...

It's a "Joy and Pain" resonance to view this type of retrospect !...Humbled to have gone down this memory lane...Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍👍

My favorite car was The Sox & Martin 1970 'Cuda that tore up everyone. NHRA began to screw MOPAR by forcing the unbeatable Hemi cars to carry more weight than the Fords, Chevy's, Pontiac's & other assorted non-Mopar cars. I am talking about carrying hundreds of pounds. It was like dragging 6 people behind the Dodges & Plymouths. Still, Ronnie Sox drove the car like all heck & shifted the car so quickly that it sounded like an automatic shifting. You could see the front end pop up through each gear. Yes, these were the best of times when all Americans were of one mind. Not the BS going on now where hatred is spread by the media & Hollywood.

What a trip down memory lane!!!!!

How could anyone not like this video! Imagine drag racing Kia`s, electric cars and solar cars! Yawn! While eating a veggie burger and a tofu whatever with a green drink of crap with a paper straw! Guts, gas, exhaust, real food and life baby! That is what freedom and America is all about!

What times it couldn't get any better than 60,70 & 80 Live it, Race it and still Love it.

Way back in the day when I was real stupid, 1978 I bought a street Legal 1970 Sox & Martin cude' 440 6pack . One of a handful that Plymouth sold for $1,800.00 It had 21,000 miles on it.It was spotless It beat everything in Pahrump Nv at that time.. kept it 3 months & traded it for a 1973 chevy truck. What a deal. To this day I still kick myself in the ASS.

I have great respect for all this old iron. Love chrysler all Gm and all Ford!! Owned all brands alot of these brands in my life.

It was a great time to be alive. No homeland security, you could ride in the back of your dad's pick up truck, drink a beer in public, people were smarter, the good ol days. If only they could build a time machine, I'd be the first in line.

The Jungle Camaro and the Dunn Reath Cuda, both with fresh paint and very few stickers, best looking funny car bodies ever! The car bodies would never look better than 1970/71 because of the coming of the uglier body styles. The cool California Charger dragster is still out here in California. Kudos to the sweet film making and shots, wish this ran for the whole event I would watch the whole thing.

Everything was better back then!

Once you actually drag race on a strip and win, you'll never forget it. It gets in your blood, never view the sport the same, you're addicted! 1982, I was in a 12 second bracket racing, it would get down to me and a Nomad 3 weeks in a row, 1st 2 times I beat him, 3rd time he got me, every shift I could see his front wheel edging into my preferal vision, beat me by a fender at the finish. Never was I so pumped with adrenaline. Just like the Bruce Springsteen song, When the strip shut down, we'd run 'em in the streets! What a great time to be alive.

These guys were great. I love watching doing dry hops when moving up in the staging lanes.

The Keeling and Clayton TF dragster was beautiful!!! One of my favorites.....

Can't seem to spot any Civics :S?

Wow never knew all this was on youtube. Reminds me of the days of running my 71 GTX 440+6 at the 75/80 Drag Strip in MD.

That's back when racing was good

Thats some cool old footage....love it

Those hemi mopars were stomping those Chevy big blocks 😂😂😂

Every car in the final was a Hemi.

Now 40 years later my friend is knocking on running a 7.5 in a Honda civic with a 1.8 liter next season. Those guys were cutting edge, now some street cars are faster. Those old boys would laugh if you would have said that to them at that time.

Went to the US Nationals for the first time in '70, I was 17 & hooked!

Thanks much for the "California Charger", I have never seen this car race, but many models and many pictures, I can dream.

Thank you for posting this,,,,, pre corporate racing, where talent and skill mattered more than money

I just watched John Force win his 150th race now in 2019. I think the racing in this video is much more exciting. The engine sounds are awesome!! These cars were ones we had - our neighbors had. Now race cars are only owned by millionaires.

Drag Racing Legends forever lives..!!

I remember mowing the lawn on the side of my house when I was 14 in 1965. The drags were on on my transistor radio, and they had just anounced a 'Rail' going through the traps at 180 mile per hour....... I remember thinking they will never be able to go much faster, that had to be about the top speed possible....... Ahhh yea.. Now were going 250 and better...lol....

Mopars ruled the dragstrips back then and today.Look at top fuel and funny car today all powered by the HEMI

back then my dad and his buddies had cars like these, not drag racers but just plain ol street muscle and when they were bored and didnt have anything to do, they would get together and get the cops to chase them just so they could run from them lol. they would even go so far as to slow down the let the cops catch up just so they could punch the gas and leave them behind

I had a friend with a Cuda 6 pack and he could lift the front end off the ground at take off. What a beautiful car. 2400$ in 1979 could buy you the top of the line 1969 camaro z-28. AW, THOSER WERE THE DAYS...

Very cool...Since I've been watching this over and over, I pulled out my 1/64 dragsters and funny cars. Come to find out there's more out there than I have in my collection. I guess they couldn't model every single funny car or dragster there was, just the prominent ones.

thanks for sharing , this was a great movie

Now I understand why NASCAR back when Wendell Scott was racing his Mopar ( that he did himself ) had to make it more " fair " for the Chevy and Ford🤣

I'm pretty sure i had Revell models of most of these cars when i was a kid. I miss these days of GREAT racing. Look at Landy changing his own carb. Drivers were much more hands on in the days before big $ racing. Nostalgia drags is the way to go. I can build a 9 second car, so I can relate to this more than a sub 4 second top fueler. Ronnie Sox, Mr. 4 Speed! RIP, Ronnie!

Smoking a long ass cigar while doing the run. Now this is awesome.

A real gem, thanks for sharing!

That sure was a badass Plymouth Prius!!!!

sox & martin!!!

I remember Ontario Motor Speedway, Lions, Irwindale, and Pomona. Those where the days

Two twin brothers from my town Bob and Fred Gillings beat Dick Landy 2 out of 3 runs at Great Lakes Drag strip in Union Grove , Wisconsin back in the day. Bob and Fred raced all over the country until the 90's when Fred died of kidney failure.

And Don Garlits really thinks electric dragsters will be popular??? There was more character in this bygone era than an American Idol showdown...

I love the Bill jenkins Camaro.

Me an a few friends went to nationals in 68 69 an 70 we all lived in Akron Ohio we street raced N loved it

You gotta love those times,

I remember getting Dick Landys autograph at New England Dragway in 1971 when he was driving the same challenger in this video..i was 12 years old back then and thought that was so cool....i saw the same car (minus the motor) at the Mopar nationals it was for sale with its faded paint ..i wonder what it sold for i bet it was over 100,000 grand

I could have sworn I saw a Honda Civic out there with drag slick on the front. Maybe he was a time traveler from another dimension. Muscle Rice in da hawse!

I want to live in the 70s

Thank you. So true. America has become a bunch of pansies. Back in the day, no bicycle helmet laws, no seat belt laws, R12 Freon air conditioning, good lead based automotive paint, auto parts stores stocked auto parts instead of Hello Kitty steering wheel covers, candy bars and scooters. No tampon commercials at dinner time, and people took responsibility for their own mistakes.

@dimeandsixx Yeah he does, never lifts his right foot till hes through the traps! Thats the way its supposed to be. Great vid.

Gracias! Thank you and I appreciate it..... Shocking to think that kids today have street cars that are way faster than the pro stock cars of this era!

RIP Dandy Dick Landy....he is a legend. he will be missed.

So freakin cool!

all those hot chicks are like 70 now.........

These were grat times!! No doubt about it!!

No dataloggers, no active suspensions and DRIVERS actually tuning their own cars-----------It doesn't get any better than this!

Colchester drags in Ct...! Miss those days!

2:00 that is some awesome shifting!

OMG, what a fantastic clip. Really truly a magical time for fans of the digs. I LOVED drag racing so much when I was a kid during the '60s and 70's. One of the fondest memories of my childhood. Thanks so much for sharing!

back when the pro stocks still looked like real cars wish i could have witnessed it

In the 60's you could buy a car, take if off the lot and go straight to the track

Nice shot of JJ!

Bill Grumpy Jenkins would actually smoke a big fat stogie going down the track in his Pron Stock Chevy!

smokin a cigar...while changing carbs...with high octane fuel...and in the 70's. He has brass balls

this is better than modern drag racing. Back when muscle was still new and pro stock actually looked like stock cars

Go challenger!!

nice video!

Great video! Thanks.

“His clutch shattered under the strain of a shift.” I w o n d e r w h y

I would love to see this whole video. Where did this tidbit come from, and can I buy it still? Cali Charger was always my favorite dragster, even when it went rear engine. Big drag racing fan from back in the day. Can go back even further than "Hemi Under glass".

4 Sp manual in those cars. Now that's insane.

love the launch of Dandy ..... DON'T FORGET THE CIGAR