I was there too, Bryan . Halcyon days . 🥰👍

I had one...red,white and blue......then also had the yellow Vega wagon funny car....A friend of mine has the Pinto funny still in the box we found at a auto swap meet in the early 90's....

I remember them at New York National including the purple gang from Long Island

WHAT !!!

Thanks !! It's actually extremely difficult to locate the real old time equipment.

@@stevenandersen3525 I am French and we don't see many of these on our shores. Thanks for such videos that give us a peek into the golden age of those marvels.

Cool that a commenter knows who this dude is. 'Legend', barely cuts it.

@@tomj4406 He and Ma and Pa were always a must visit in their pit at the races,alway a beautiful car and the nicest people!

Amen. ❤

And you are ???

@@stevenandersen3525 Just somebody that grew up in New Brighton. Ate more Sun burgers and fries with mayonnaise that I can count. Street raced on Central Ave, Lake street, and on Hoover St in the early 70s.

@@nojunkwork5735 Cruzing and racing on Central from the Sun Drive-in to the White Castle before they gave you the electric chair for street racing was to much fun. The guys that raced on Hoover Street had some of the quickest cars in the Twin Cities area some of them being trailered in. The older brother at the Skelly station in New Brighton was one of the best custom car builders in the midwest. My favorites were his 55 El Camino and 50 Chevy Fleetline. And the younger brother had that Peanuts painted Brandywine land rocket 55 T bird with the 425 HP 396 Chevy in it. Those were the best of times. What were you driving at that time I grew up in Mounds View and had a 69 GTX 440 4sp.

Perhaps a P-51, Sea Fury , Bearcat or Spitfire at full whack ,

And you drive a Prius

@@elchafalote8555 NEVER!

Smells apacolyptic!

And?

I've seen Don Garlits smoke the full length of the strip . edit. To the uninitiated, that meant smoking the tyres and burning rubber for the full length.

I both start and shut down this engine on regular gasoline, mostly for safety reasons . . . considering it runs on 95% nitromethane. Also the gasoline does leave a residual amount of oil in the upper cylinders preventing any potential seizure the next time it's started.

An apparent You Tube edit !!!

That's Tom Hoover, who's car it was originally back in 1966 !!! . . . and who went on to create a career as a professional drag racer over the following 40+ years !!!

I’ve watched Tom race here in Oz several times, an absolute legend. Beautiful FED by the way, love it 😎

Sorry for the very tardy response. The motor came out of a 1958 Chrysler New Yorker !!!

1958 Chrysler New Yorker

392 Gen 1 Hemi

Gasoline. Nitro is so caustic and generates such a hot fire in the cylinders that there's virtually no upper cylinder lubricant left. Gasoline has a small amount of oil in it so it's used to replace that residual lube in shutting down the engine.

Actually the water jackets in the block on this particular engine have been filled with lead. Filling the water jackets is a necessity when using a high percentage of nitromethane to prevent the cylinders from exploding into that area.

@@stevenandersen3525 Yes sir, Still, it's interesting that without a cooling system, without the air rushing past even, they run it and rev it a good solid 10 minutes, seems like. Would love to know what temp those heads got up to

@@stevenandersen3525 I've heard of them using concrete as well

That might be due to these differences: the new top fuel cars have more that 100 additional cubic inches, a supercharger with more than double the capacity, two magnetos producing nearly 100 amps v/s the mag on this car that makes about 3 amps . . . and many other issues. This car makes about 2,800 hp running on 90% nitromethane by comparison to 11,000 generated by the new versions. This video was shot over 6 years ago. Since then there have been many new changes made to the motor. If you want to see it more currently, look for the video shot 3 years ago in the lineup on the right side of your screen titled: Alcohol to NITROMETHANE

actually they start them on pump gas then switch them to nitro, the change in sound and the raw fuel coming out the exhaust is the sign of good times.

They did if you had the expertise to install one !!! . . . especially in the cars of the '50's & '60's .

These cars started with the truck pushing them then hitting the mag switch !!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😄😄😄🍺🍺🍺

No. Magnetos generate the current necessary to power the ignition. Starters and batteries are unnecessary and heavy, the enemy of drag racing.

@@artmchugh5644 Correct . . . however for these cacklecars in 2020 we needed to be a bit more creative and decided to build in a hi tech mini starter in order to keep the appearance of the car as close to authentic as possible. Except for this one detail, this car is restored back to the original state it was in when it was built in 1966. Blower starters did not appear until late in 1967.

@@stevenandersen3525 I got to ride in the push truck , go out on track and push TV TOMMY. IVO. Back to the line after a fire burnout at Try-cities dragway in Saginaw Michigan in 1970 !!!😄😄😄😄😄😎😎😎😎😎

No sir . Tom and his Fueler are the real deal

My sincere apologies. Tom was the real deal . I'd no idea he died in October last year . See you soon Tom .

@@peterbellwood5412 tha real hot rodders I was born in66 I lived to watch tha Munsters to see grandpaws hot rods hearing toms rail was true music to my ears the fun they must've had ;-) to all the pawpaws that carried on traditional hotrods

Yes and it did take a bit of shoe-horning in !! Thanks to the Japanese, their mini starters running on 18v are more than adequate to start one of these old iron Chryslers. My assistant does need to shut off & unplug the alcohol embilical once I turn the fuel shutoff back on. Since this configuration I've made a lot of major changes to the motor in general as well as now run a totally different actual tuneup. Thanks for the nice note !! steve

LOL . . . that's a first for me to hear !! Wonder what might happen if I put you in it for a test start !!???

At least it's not in the back 🤨

No offense intended . . . but starting at 4:40 is like having sex starting only at the orgasm !! . . . LOL

You're joking . . . right !!??? Try closer to 3,000 hp running on 98% nitromethane.

Music to the ears of us gear heads! Not to mention the eye candy!

If you have to ask you'll never understand.

Keeping a part of history alive......To us it's important .

How the f**k would you know !!! FYI . . . that's me in the car, which is also mine BTW, and inasmuch as I do start it to warm up on alcohol, there's an obvious moment when I clearly switch it over to 92% nitro. I think it would serve you as well as a lot of other more innocent real fans if you might take some time to learn something about these cars before shooting your mouth off !!!! You clearly must be emulating your moronic president !!!

When the motors idle got deeper do you think he was putting the nitro to it or do you think they installed a choke and he pulled by accident, you moron?

@@stevenandersen3525 gosh how i miss those days. Between US30 dragstrip and Memphis, i caught many races. Good to see those beauties preserved and appreciated by folks like you. Thanks

@@stevenandersen3525 ..wait..who has a moronic pres? You must be referring to a nation other than the US of A, or one of the presidents between Reagan & Trump. Proof? Watch his ralley by Mt. ARushmore..or the one he just did in Macon, GA. Very sharp, energetic and ..his only mistake is not firing Doc. Fauci and putting the scamdemic behind us..opening up the secondaries on our economy, like it was for the entire 3 yrs prior.

@@tomj4406 Steve is taking about JB. You know, the ruination of our nation and way of life.

Your comment is just too stupid to even attempt to make fun of . . .

@@stevenandersen3525 I can’t help the fact you’re not creative enough to come up with something... ...seriously

@@greenidguy9292 LOL !!!!!!!

Very good, you win a cookie! They aren't going to do a burnout in a parking lot at a car show. Go back to your childish video game.

You clearly have no experience with this kind of a car running on 95% nitro !!! If that blower pops, where do you think all that very explosive fuel under pressure is going to go !!??? What you can't see is the fact that I also have an onboard halon fire extinguishing system as well.

@@stevenandersen3525 If that's the case, the dude helping standing near the car should have one on as well.

@@WillyWillis1965 You're absolutely correct in that assumption !!!! The difference being that he is NOT inside a quite trapped space and like I am in . . . and likely able to have someone grab the fire extinguisher located on the back of the starting cart to put him out. Over all the years I've been involved with nitro racing, I can recall several times that this exact kind of event happened. In all of those cases, those closest to the explosion were burned, the worst being the driver in the cockpit.

kind of like a bomb squad suit. you wear it when near bombs, aka a supercharged mill running a mega mix of nitro, lol. it doesn't matter if the car is moving or motionless, it's the engine that the driver needs protection from..specifically the fuel therein.

@@tomj4406 100% correct !!