Motion Pictures The Hot Rod Story Drag Racing (VIDEO)

Cool vintage drag racing 48 minutes worth

 

... great near hour of eyeballs on this. Glad nobody was home. Cool post, thanks man.

 

Damn, you know you're getting old when you remember seeing most of these cars run. If I'm not mistaken, I was at Riverside the day this was filmed.

 

Us young'ins only wished we could of lived in your shoes

 

LOL. Before the Riverside raceway there was the Colton drag strip. I lived in Riverside, and was at the raceway for their first race, and many after that.
Gotta go back & watch the tape again. I think one of the dry lake scenes shows my racing partner sitting in his roadster. Need to get a second look to make sure.
They also ran 1/8 mile drags on the back straight at Riverside. Not as exciting as 1/4 mile.

 

That was pretty cool. Great way to start my day.

 

Best hot rods I've seen on video

 

This one deserves another pass ...

 

been here before but, worth doing again

 

That WAS COOL!!
No wonder: Tom Medley, Technical Producer.

 

The good old days .

 

Yup, the good old days. The days when you could still build a car in your garage without mega-bucks, and still stand a chance of bringing home a trophy every once in a while.

The days when X/R and X/OG were still recognized drag classes.

 

Great stuff,Austinrod! Thanks for posting it; I havn't seen that one in decades.