I ran there once back in '73 and turned 10.7 in my '57 Ford Custom 2dr sedan E/G. Ford de-stroked 427 FE engine. I still have the car and now it does high 9's at Epping NH, New England Dragway.

This is the way racing should be, muscle cars and big engines. Love it

The gassers were at the heart of early drag racing, and we owe a debt of thanks to the genius who conceived of the class. By 1959, gassers dominated at smaller drag strips across the country. The first time I saw an A/GS in action that year I was standing near the finish line at Midway drag strip near Dallas. When the car blew by me at 126 mph, I saw a small object bouncing down the track behind it. It passed by so close to me that I could almost have reached out and caught it. The cap had blown off the breather tube of the Olds engine during the run. Lord, what fun that was.

Man does this bring back memories. I'm 70 now but in my teens we used to camp outside the tracks in Ok, Texas and I remember sleeping in the ditch outside Liberal Kansas drags. We didn't have any money for motels. I used to live 10 miles from Amarillo Dragway and the World Finals were the best..A shout out to Don Garlits. We'd see him at different tracks and always talked to him asking dumb questions but he was always a cool guy. He'd have a set of heads on the tailgate of his Dodge pickup working on them and you could talk to him. Thanks for the gasser memories guys. 👍

Great camera work for showing the clocks after each run.

My crowd was into muscle cars. I always loved it. 1/4 mile was marked off on a country road and we would go out there and watch them race. Oh those days.

Oh wow back in the day.... original Drag racing 😎...Ahh such memories 😎

In 71 Had a 55 Chevrolet figure 8 stock car. Ran ARCA. Could only have 6 cylinders. 235-6 850 Holley, Hooker Header 3 speed. Ran 14 seconds at Detroit dragway.

Back in my day, I'm 71, the stands and pit area would have been packed with fans and hot babes!

Love the gassers…drag racing history on display…great video work showing the times, too many don’t.

So ! That's where all the 2 door chevys went. Great work.

Reminds me of American Graffiti when Harrison Ford was driving that big block 454 1955 Chev Bel-Air with the roll-cage.

Hell yeah .raised on racing and this takes me back to the great days ..I love to race and race anything. Love the vid bro

Gassers were the coolest looking cars around. True drag racing.

The little color yellow. That's is how we raced when we had a big block versus a smaller one. In the sixties big blocks came alive about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way down the drag strip. That is when the best range of torque kicked in. I ran a 7-liter ford and got my butt kicked many times until I reached 60 mph and then the big block would kick in. hoo rah The only car that kicked our butts all the time (GTO's, Chevells, Vetts, Hemis's) was a Sunbeam Alpine tiger. He would pull away from us like we were standing still at any speed. That is what you get with a 2,700 pound car versus 4,000 lbs. I do miss building those cars.

Up until 1967, I was a regular at the Lebanon Valley Drag strip, in Lebanon, N.Y. These cars sure bring back memories!

I'm a JOKER, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker.......................the boys/gals were gettin' it today! Wegner's Auto Body Alky, love that lope.....what a beauty. Good one AMC9L.

Excellent video. I grow up around gaser and street comp. 60s and early 70s.

I love seeing old school drag racing there's nothing better then watching these true man an machine drag racing I don't care for newer cars drag racing doesn't feel the same

Excellent video, excellent action, excellent everything!

I've loved all gassers since I was a kid in the '60s, got to see many races at Englishtown Raceway. A model builder, I have many gassers in my collection. Love the yellow Henry J. But there will NEVER be a gasser like the Willys, '33 and '40/41...

Reminds me of the day's spent at SIR in Kent WA. Running my 65 Nova .

Byron Dragway has an excellent starting line crew.

Congratulations !!!! Great camera work, and the first drag vid that I seen that clearly shows the time & speed. Am in my 70's and fondly recall that era. Was a Chrysler "line mech" in late sixties. a great time!!! Tho then and for years was into Austin Healeys and not drags racing. (younger bro had a 426 wedge, A/FX) built by me. Early 70's had a 4600 lb 66 Chry 300 440, .60 overbore, cam , adj rockers, alum 2) 4 manifold, elect ign, headwork. Freeway killer!!! At speed you could watch the gas gauge move down!!! Honestly!!! The good old days!

I went to Meltdown in 2011 with my grandfather and uncle. Was an amazing weekend!

Really enjoyed this video, I grew up in Albuquerque NM, early 70`s, when Funny Cars were the big thing! Dunn & Reath, The Hawaiian, Shriley Muldowney... Then.. Back in the day in Northern California Sears Point, now Sonoma Raceway, used to have events like this.

Kudo's to the video man, I could watch this all day long one of my favorite all time Gasser's Stone Woods and Cook.

Great video ❤️👍🏻 I appreciate you showing the clocks….🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Just came across this video , I really enjoyed watching it , I love Gasser's and when HotRod's were Hotrod's . Great video thank you for sharing 👍. 😈☠👍✌✌

Enjoyed it very much Auto 👍 Thank you

Really enjoy everything you post. Thanks.

Brings back memories of my '55 Chevy and misspent youth.

I can watch this all day.

Always enjoy the videos. Best racing ever.👍😎✌️

Loved all those gassers.! As always, great drag racing action. ! Thanks Automoto!

God Bless America!!!!!!

Remember going to the Drag Races at SIR in Washington back in the 70’s-80’s. They advertised 64 Funny cars but had fuelers, pro-stocks and these classic gassers. A jet dragster would show up every once in awhile. They let females in free so great place to meet girls. Never understood the popularity of NASCAR. The Drags are so much more exciting. Thanks for posting this vid

These are some serious old school hot rods! MAGNIFICENT!!!

Loved that red blown altered🤟

Great video!... J & D 🎶 Drag City 🎶

I saw a lot of gassers on November 6th. at Irwindale Dragstrip, they were so awesome. ❤️ them.

Good Job on this, Im hoping to join these boys real soon in "Driving Miss Crazy" Blown 57 Chevy,

Awesome. thanks for sharing. I love gassers

I remember seeing drag racing in Hawaii, I think it was 67 and the Hemi under Glass did an event at the Marine air station. That was way cool . It was free also , I was in 8th grade then.

Greg Stelse is an outstanding driver driving an outstanding car, his 57 Pontiac Star Chief 'The Joker'!

I"m impressed at how quick many of these cars are! wow!

"WHEN CARS WERE COOL AND MEN WERE TOO"😎

Looking great John

I gotta get me some more of that sound, love it!!

Man, gassers are SO COOL!

👍👍🙂 That Corvette was fast 8.97! Love those old full body cars you know just like the original funny cars just awesome you don’t have to have $1 million card have fun you get a full body like one of these put some Willy bars on it stick a big block in it and a blower and have a lot of fun awesome !!

Seen Shirley McDowny in 90s. CT race way in 82. I used to be a flagger back in early 70s at Riverhead.

It's been several years at least but I recall seeing the Skairlane showing up at SEGA meets. I believe it's running a Cammer.

Awesome cars(plus one pickup), great camera and camera operator!

Very cool- thank you. Cars look very authentic. I wonder how strict the rules are for true vintage tech underneath the skin.

THIS is what I call drag racing !! To much money in it now and to many rules !! These guys had to know how to shift, BUILD AND drive... I could watch this allll day !!

Thanks for showing the times!!!!!

Brings back memories watching this

Cars from when you could look at a car and knew what it was without having to look for the name on it like today's clones.

Camera guy is killin it!! Lovin the variety of kick ass vehicles.

We used to pay $1.00 on Saturday to watch the drags at Lincoln speedway Levittown Pa back in the 60's.

Nice camera job! Thanks!!!

Here's nothing like going to one of these,it's so awesome!

These cars just make me smile

2:39 woah! a 4 door drag racer! it’s the 56 chevy in the background

Thanks for that ! I really enjoy gassers , as I have one myself.

I grew up in the late 50's and into the muscle cars of the 60's. I had a good job and made better than the average wage in those days. I bought a two-year-old 1964 corvette roadster in 1966 327 original 340 hp with added speed equipment. We raced on the country roads out of town for $5.00 or $10.00. Some of the best years of my life. Got drafted into the Vietnam war and three years later when I came home nobody was street racing anymore. I went on and discovered flying. Sold the corvette and learned to fly. Another best times of my life again. I am 78 years old now. Lost my medical card to fly due to high blood pressure after 15 years. Today I have a 63 Corvette roadster with a 2010 Corvette LS 1 engine and 4L60 auto trans. I think I may sell the car this summer and say goodbye to hotrods!

Thanks as always Auto

I'm 77 now; enjoyed running my D/G Fordrolet in Texas and California during the sixties. The sport was much more fun back then, IMHO, because there were few sponsors, making it mostly a contest of owner/driver ingenuity. I believe the sport became diluted when we lost the "run what you brung" practice of shadetree mechanics which was supplanted by professionals who had trick factory stuff we little guys couldn't get. At some tracks we had flagmen and very rudimentary timing equipment (speed only; no ET). Great fun.

Wow does that bring back memories ,Todays cars go like hell ill give them that ,But to me its all a mixture of the loud exhaust with the carburetor sound , gas and exhaust smells and the whole car shaking and pulling you into the seat . In the mid to late 70s I had a 69 Road Runner with a 383 it wasnt the fastest thing out there ,but damn it felt good. It wasnt in bad shape and primer grey ,I only paid 800 bucks for it LOL . probably cost a bit more today .

Love it great video 👍💯

I lived it. My home track is still in operation. Island Dragway Great Meadows NJ. Garlits broke the 200 MPH barrier in 1964. Check out their FB page.

The best drag race video ever.

Great camera work and editing. Subscribing

Beautiful cars and hot rod mastercraft.

that's when drag racing was fun and pure

Great camera luv it

‘40 Fords. Willis’. Stone, Woods & Cook. Run what you brung.

Gasers are the old school drags. Good Stuff

This was when Drag Racing was fun !!

Nice way to spend a Saturday.

I love it! Drag racing as it should be....

Excellant !!!!👌👍

Super Bitchen spent every DIME i have ever made on Motor Yachts Motor Cars and Surfer Girls cheers from Padre Island TEXAS

This is the kind of cars we loved to see at U.S. smoking 40 drag strip Union Grove Wisconsin. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY SEE BIG WHEELS BURN OUT!

Great job on the video! You shot it so we could see the times for both lanes which isn’t always the case and is very frustrating.

Loved the good old days

Great camera work 👍

Awesome racing

Just plain SWEET !

I realize that electric cars are just around the corner, but I want to hang on to gasser madness as long as I can.

GREAT CAMERA WORK... :-)

The supercharged Vette in race #2, one of the closest possible wins imaginable. Ford hits traps at 148 @ 8.96, vs Vette 149 @8:97. Vette wins from RT holeshot.

How fun.... Love it.

I felt like I was there👍🏼

A friend of name Dick Scribner had a yellow 56 Chevy that never lost a race back in the day it's all documented.

3:55 Best race of all.

That’s great 👍🏻🇺🇸

Thanks.

Sweet !