Motion Pictures Mickey Thompson 69 Mustang Funny Car with a blown nitro 427SOHC vintage Drag Race

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Super cool video! Now the monkeys were unexpected!

 

that an awesome video! thanks for sharing

 

Ongias was absolutely one of the best natural drivers ever. I'll never forget his wreck in the Interscope car at the Indy 500.

 

Do you have any links, info, video on M/T's grand am?

This IS my fav funncar of all time despite the fact that i'm a chevy fan first and foremost and always will be.

 

That is the same car that hit another and knocked it up on the rail at Dallas.

 

damn that was good!

 

Thanks Al! Killer stuff! Ongias and Thompson indeed! Slim

 

Thanx for the porn.

 

Makes modern funny car racing look a little mundane. 1500 hp eh? Doesn't seem like much compared to todays 7000 hp FCs, but I could watch those 7 second guardrail to guardrail passes all day and be itching for more. Todays 4 second cookie cutter FCs kinda make me yawn, no wonder they can't fill the stands.

 

Sure beats watching the Oscars! Thanks.....

 

Wow what a ride!

 

Awesome!

 

Every thing but the testosterone smell! Who would have ever thought those days were numbered? Woke up one morning and it was all gone, what a shame..................................

 

im spent!!! time for bed....

 

Nothing better than that!!

 

Excellent...thanks brother.

 

I can't see the video!

 

Love seeing old footage.
Said it was mostly from Bristol but I see alot from Tulsa.

 

FUCKIN HIPPIES!!! WoooHooooo!!!! I loved it. There certainly was something about those days. I was just a kid but remember it all so well.

 

Saw that car race at Lions (maybe more than once). The combination of Ongais and Thompson was hard to beat in '69. Awesome; thanks for posting the link.

 

Cool.

 

Look at 1.57 , M/T gets heated with a couple track officials

 

Cooool!!!

 

If you are referring to the crash at the 69 NHRA Spring Nationals at DIMS that killed Gerry Schwartz that is not the same car but was the sister car that was driven by Pat Foster. Foster built both the red car that he (Pat)drove and the blue car that was driven by Ongais. Ongais certainly had more success with the blue car than Foster had with the red car. The red car always seemed to be plagued with problems.

408 AA/D

 

man do those cars jump around at the big end after pulling the chutes...balls of steel.

 

^^^ X2 on that.

 

Very cool vid! I'm a Chevy guy, but I LOVE those SOHC motors!!

 

Classic! Thanks for posting. I think the era mid 60's to late 70's was the greatest time for drag racing. I have no interest in big time drag racing now. All the pro cars, weather dragsters, FC or pro stock (if they are still called that) look the same. I do attend the local 1/8 mile drags a few times in the summer.

 

Thanks.