Motion Pictures 1-Adam 12 ,see the man, street racers !

http://www.hulu.com/watch/46171/adam-12-who-won#x-0

check out Reeds 53 Ford Gasser and others !

 

pretty cool! I used to love that show.

 

That picture of Wild Willie in the office is pretty boss.

 

Dick Clark as the hard ass track promoter

 

Thanks for the link.

That was Lions, right?
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I had lunch with my Dad today, and I asked him about Lions drag strip and how it got started. He said that there was a plan to let the street racers use the L.A. river bed as a drag strip before Lions was built. The county wouldn't let them use the river bed because someone might lose control and crash into a bridge support and damage the bridge.

How about that, the county was worried about a car damaging a 6 foot wide by 30 foot long piece of reinforced concrete. Go figure.
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That was pretty cool! Looked like Lions Dragstrip to me....

 

Cool vid.I remeber watchin those shows when I was a kid.Even wore those shoes that they wore.Brings back some memories of growin up.

 

wow that jolted the old memory banks...

 

That will show officer wells!!!!

 

Pretty cool espisode, my son and I use to watch it together along with Emergency.
By the way that is a '54 Ford running a FE motor and yes it was Lions Drag Strip.

 

man i wish i was alive when those shows were on! the was the best one ive watched in a long time!thanks for the link

 

That's cool. I wish they still made shows like that.

 

this is so bad ass,

 

That brought back some good old memory's ! I was 12 years old when that was on TV.
Thanks for the post and the link!
60'

 

Wallabys....I wore them too!

 

Damn that Fat Charlie.....

 

Hulu is a pretty neat website, they have lots of cool old shows on there including Dragnet. Another old favorite of mine is ChiPs; you can watch episodes of that at http://television.aol.com/show/chips/62397/episodes They have Emergency! as well. http://television.aol.com/show/emergency/62782/episodes

 

yep! that was lions drag strip.... spent many hours there as a kid.

 

A little hokey but a LOT of fun.

I kept still framing the video to check out the details.

THANKS for the link!!!

 

I just watched the whole thing. Thanks for posting it.

 

Wowway cable has a channel 101 in the Detroit area that plays all the shows that you guys have named. Adam-12 is on at 6:00pm and Dragnet is on at 6:30pm. I have been waiting for this one to play, now that you posted it, I will have to see if hulu has a couple of more tv shows I have been looking for.
George

 

kinda miss those 70s shows from my high school days..........anybody notice the AHDRA sticker in the ford drag car??Yeah I thought TV LAND was the cable channel for all the old good stuff now those asshole are playin crap like home inprovement (the remodel show) and scrubs...damn

 

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He said that there was a plan to let the street racers use the L.A. river bed as a drag strip before Lions was built.

I'm laughing that you mentioned L.A. River on a Adam-12 post. I used to do glass work on those TV cars and Adam 12 were a kick in the ass to drive. the special tires they used. a dog 2 barrel 318 could peel rubber as long as you held the pedal down and 4 wheel crossed up drifts at 20-30 mph.
ruined me for any chase movies those practice slides are what they use to set the cameras. so everytime I see a car running in a movie I know where and which way their gonna make a turn.
I've raced in the L.A. River and that running water (every few years there is water) has made the concrete so smooth that my 59 Triumph Bonneville could peel 50 of rubber all the way thru first and part of second gears. The good part is a stock flat motored car could light em up too! hard to blow up a trans or rear end

 

I remember that show too, watched it all the time when I was young. Watched it and emergency, did you.

 

Ever notice in the opening the dispatcher says "one Adam 12 a 211 in progress, handle code 3" Problem is that she never gives the location!
Great show, watched it all the time in the 70's.
Dig the injected Vette @ about the 16 minute point.

Wasn't the Two Lane blacktop 55 also featured in an episode of
Adam 12 ???

 

Great cars! Scary part is, Donnie has my old seventies hair cut...

 

My dad grew up in Maywood and tells stories about racing and horsing around in the L.A river bed. Every time I watch the movie Repo Man, the sceen they do in the river bed reminds me of his stories.
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What no police car pictures!

 

Too funny! Wallabys, then Waffle Stompers, then Earth Shoes. I like the overhead Tach in the Camaro and the rough rear fender flare job on the Olds Cutlass? 442?

 

That was classic man...thanks for posting