Takes me back, with a tear in my eye. Truly the best of times in drag racing.

What a fantastic time to grow up!

The most exciting time in drag racing history IMO

Wow seeing Ray Beatle and the Blue Max brought back a ton of memories as a kid!!

Racing was way cooler then, than it is now.

Ahh I am so happy to have come of age during this era.

You've got to love the paint jobs from that era. Back then I was building plastic models of the Blue Max, and other funny cars. God, I'm getting old. Thanks for uploading these great videos.

Loved the muscle cars of the 60s and early 70s. Raced my '68 440 Dodge Charger, my '70 Stage 1 Buick and won my class at the World Points final in "Yellow Fever" a '69 big block Corvette. Great memories. Thanks to all of those contributing early film people.

I love the snap, crackle, pop of these old school engines.

Thx for those runs down memory lane! with the likes of, 'Big Daddy Don Garletis, Don 'The Snake' Prudomme, Tv Tommy Ivo and Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowny were always fan favorites of mine

When you think about these guys that ground there own cams and were experimenting with porting heads its amazing to me. You can say they made their own power.I couldnt do anything without the internet.

I'm almost 50 years old and remember seeing all these cars run back in the day. Ray and the Blue Max was my favorite!! It's kind of funny how they didn't even consider aerodynamics on the body styles back then!!

Thanks so much for this! Early 70s York US30 dragway is we’re we hailed from. How fortunate we were to live that in that time period. The strip, the street, and the music!!

I loved the 1970's. This is awesome. Thank you. ROCK ON!!!!!

drag racing back then is better than today funny cars looked like heavily modified street cars. it was fun back then

70's funny cars, sooo good!

Love Bud Lindemann's colorful commentary, he was the coolest :)

what a great time to be a kid in, dad owned a '67 impala SS for a long ass time lols.. and i mean long time. on my 16th b-day before he passed he gave it to me. still have it in my garage... still gotta do shit to it but yeah. rip father, never forget that birthday present...

I remember most of these cars from the few issues of Drag News that came into the UK. Cars go much much faster now but somehow the 1970s Funny Cars and Top Fuel racing seemed much more exciting.

still awesome today since i was a kid!!

If this ole world is here for another hundred years, I wander how they’ll look back at this time. I’m just glad that I got to live thru the 60’s, 70’s

All the delicious engine roars - gives me chills like nothing else could!!

The cars looked much better back then.

Segrini's Black Magic was one of the prettiest cars at that time....always immaculate

I'm in love with this era of Drag Racing. It was great! Thumbs way up for this video!

Those wheely cars are so badass!!

Thanx a bunch for posting this!!! Great memories...

Connie Kalitta! Wow- Econoline van vs Dodge Dart!!! GREAT wheeelies!!! WOW!!! And that was some sharp-looking Vega!!!

Great racing when it was about the car,builders and driver. Now it's all about the sponsorship money. Used to hear the races all summer in Fremont,California at the raceway, You could hear the top fuel, jet and rocket cars all the way to the hills!

"may go all the way to Milwaukee on the rear wheels" LMFAO!!

Thanks for the video, those days were great,brought up around this era,remember these names,went with my sister and her husband, who drove several kinds of cars, and was killed in 1978at Maple Grove,dodger Glenn, brings back memories good ones.

i can't help but wonder how many of those classic beauty's are still existing today, tearing up the strip's and Streets...

9:19 love Glidden driving the Mustang II and then follow it with the Blue Max beating the Chi-Town Hustler!! Sweet!!

I watched some of them race at Amarillo drag strip back n the 70s..and I have been 2 Ennis drag strip 4 the nationals. Back n the 70s they were breaking speed records and it was awesome. But know it is freaking insane, the speed and horsepower the cars put out.

thank you.loved watching my driver in the black magic all segrini.i crewed for him 6 months match race circut.i now work part time for the nhra safety safari.thanks all for all that you taught me.

I snuck into the winter nationals at pomona back in 1970 when I was 15, and I had a hot young foxy chick with me. Fast forward to today and now I'm almost a geezer. Sucks!

Awsome to see cars that looked like the real street cars!!! And not just a fiberglass body.

Thanks for sharing man! A part of my mind has been rejuvenated! Great to see footage of all those awesome cars! Those were the days!

I have seen all these big names race back in the 1970's man it was a great time in life

I remember watching a lot of these on the weekends when I was a kid When ABC's Wild World of Sports was king. I also remember a lot of these same cars in my brothers "Hotrodding" magazines.

Love those wheelstanders!

Love this, I remember the LA Dart at Budds Creek when I was like 10 years old. 55 now

How cool to see those beautiful old bodies duking it out! That's for posting this lost gem of American iron.

Love to see those old cars again! Thank you for putting this up! :)

Love these old drag racing videos. Thanks for sharing

Brings back a lot of memory's those were the days. Cool old school racing I love it. I've been looking for any video's of Doyle Patton he drove a 71 Corvette 427 550-600 HP drag car it was red white and blue called THE GENERAL in early 70's. He died in 2014. He still had the car when he died the family sold it to a friend of his that is going to restore it to period condition. It was untouched for 40 years in his garage still on the trailer. I found pictures online but can't find any vids of it from back in the good ole days.

Awesome footage!

Really brings back memories I was born in 74 and was at drag races before I could talk. My dad had a 73 Triumph and raced at Atco he stopped in like 77, but I was his sidekick and LOVED going to the races. I was a daddys girl and always loved the sounds, the smells all of it. I wish I had a video of him on the track, I miss him so much he was taken way to soon. We had so many plans and I left our house at 11am and he was fine and came home at 6pm and found him on the floor I thought he fell asleep but no he had a massive heart attack at 55 years old. Worst day of my life, I'm balling my eyes out now and it happened 17 years ago...

2:50 I love the awesome wheelie's !!!!

I'm almost 53 and I remember those days watching my dad race his 69' Nova

This is one great video. Geeeez I hope they never take this clip down....

This is AMAZING.

Thanks for uploading this. I've only been to one drag race in my life (the 2015 Gatornationals), but wow... The 70's proved to have as exciting of dragsters to see as did the stock cars of the era.

OLD IS GOLD :)

Races was televised on the weekends remember as a kid tuning in. We also had a local track international drag way.

Wow! I sure do miss these days , remember just about all of them!

Wow! Does that brings back the memories. I grew up in Union Grove and spent many weekends at Great Lakes Dragaway. I saw all those cars in person.

Looked like rockingham dragway in those last clips , I remember all these cars , nice video !

Went to a drag race when I was younger and thought it was pretty cool and loud. But to be there back in this time era would've been 10X better! Thank you for uploading this! I very much wish I could go back in time and experience life in these more simple times...

Many great names I remember well from that area, I still have my 1971 Vette and drive it weekly.

Epic! wonderful! outstanding!! thank You for the ride!

my dad used to rece back in the 70s and 80s. he drove a sexy ass pro street 67 camaro. he has a picture hanging in the garage of him doing a burnout

I remember in the seventies, building the Blue Max model. ...memories!

Thank you for posting this!

Thanks for posting this! So many memories. Roland Leong's Hawaiian, Bill Shrewsberry's L.A,. Dart, Sox and Farmer, Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick, et al.

I could watch videos like this for days! Nice work!!

Gotta love the 70's

see the size of that low hanging oil pan on the Road Runner right at the start WoW . ..

I wish they had secretly filmed Ronnie's powershifting technique. He'd put any automatic or modern smg to shame.

Thank You for posting this awesome vid !!

What I remember first in life of drag racing..great times

Thanks for the great video upload guys Happy new year guys 2019

Love this stuff, great to see it! Thanks for posting this!

awesome footage thanks for sharing it

Man the Funny cars where so much cooler back then. Back then I practically lived at Irwindale, Orange County, Lions, Pomona. I remember all these teams.

Back when Funny Cars actually looked like the street version. Front engine dragsters. Scary.

New England Dragway Is going to have an NHRA meet this year, the 1st time since the WWCS meets! Also in June, the 20th to the 23rd. Alot of these cars ran at New England as well.

It's funny how people still build gassers and cackle cars while the ground sniffers have been erased from existence.

God I MISS those days ..when a can the little guy had a chance..was car n driver well mechanics also but was way more of an even field in those days..gr8 footage ..thanks

Utterly fabulous motors. Most true petrolheads would give their eye-teeth to own any of these vehicles, either to play with , or just clean and dream with...

I love it. Thanks for the video!

7:45 Al Segrini - Black Mahic 9:03 Richard Tharp 9:53 Shirl Greer - ChiTown Hustler What personalities those drivers had. I was only 12 or 13 when this was filmed, but was begging my father to tear down the swingset and build a rail out of the tubing, Told him I'd be his crew chief. He wouldn't.

Oh yeah! Great video thanks for taking me back to my youth.

Thx for posting!

How kool. I spent a lot of years watching and grudge racing at Great Lakes Drag a way Union Grove. When the funny cars still looked kinda like real cars. Awesome stuff, Thanks !

😀when the cars still look REAL.

Omg this is amazing , absolutely amazing

really good to see the old big names and cars again! thanks for keeping the video up! i hoped to see flaming burnouts in the show. front engine rails were outdamstanding until big daddy lost his belongings...

Why are there thumbs down? What's not to like?

This dates back to the days when there were less than 100 people around the cars at the tree and you can actually see the cars!

You just gotta love a car when its named "The Shy Town Hustler" , great video of just how hard these guys had to work just to get it across the line. and how about that strong representation from the Pinto stables. anouncing for drag racing has clearly improved now that its mostly former racers.

Loved Wide World of Sports Sunday afternoon when I was a kid

Love the old stuff

Really captivating 🤩 Those were awesome

Nice to see my local track out of Union Grove Wi. Great Lakes Dragaway!! WAHOO!

Bob Glidden was tearing up the track for a long time.

I'll bet those short wheel based Pintos were hard to drive, they look like they're all over the track. Thanks for posting, lot of great personalities I haven't heard in a while.

Danm those wheelies were good!

So happy I lived through this time in history

A great video! Thank you for sharing =)