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  • Outstanding job on the overdubs!

  • Did you happen to catch the prices of the "regular" and "ethyl" gas on the A-Frame sign in front of the gas station? It was .30 cents and .34 cents. Yes....you read it right. How in the hell did we get to this stage?

  • Awesome video! I love to see how it was done back then. I wish I were around then racing instead of nowadays with all the Jap cars and money it cost now, Thanks!

  • I still remember the days.

    Drag Racing every Saturday night.

    The crash barrier was hay bales and the pits were the bare area on the other side.

    You stopped by the local airport and got some 120 octane avgas, put on bigger tires, added new sparkplugs and headed for the strip in time to qualify.

    Somebody painted a number on your car with shoe polish you went racing.

    You hoped that your car didn't break because that was what got you to work or school on Monday.

    It was more fun in a lot of ways.

  • It's to political for me its always the same winners. John Force is an asshole and he cheats. Tony Schumacher over rated and Greg Anderson stuck up. I like IHRA better more down to earth racers and at least they fuelers still run the 1320 in stead of a thousand foot witch sucks.

  • thats some really cool old footage,my dad would love to see this.would take him back to "THE GOOD OLD DAYS"!

  • see now we have jap crap on the track these things sounded angery and ripped appart the track. None of that 4 cylinder shit.

  • @Crumpetmaster1 sounds like someone's mad they got beat by one.

  • i only hope that little fella at the end grew up to be a bad ass drag racer!

  • thanks for not ruining it with some head banging bs music

  • @slydog122 amen these cars are their own music.

  • @slydog122 amen!

  • this movie is great keep up the good work

  • Also,  there are no boring stories just uninterested listeners.

  • I am sorry that you did not enjoy our full length fully narrated video. Most of our customers enjoy learning the history behind the footage. If that is not what you want I guess you will have to look elsewhere for your videos.

    Jim Amos Bee On Video

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  • Drag racing has come A long way! People build 9 sec cars on a " budget " now a days. And they launch like planes. But I love it all..

  • Not sure if this has been pointed out, and overall you did a fair job of dubbing the sound, but at 4:30, that small block Chevy either has a Mopar starter, or you screwed up a little bit lol.

  • why is drag racing not fun anymore?

  • I have had several comments relative to the title of this video: Drag Racing When It Was Fun. To fully understand what I mean you have to see the complete fully narrated video rather than this brief teaser clip. In no way am I inferring that Drag Racing is not fun in the past, present and future. Hear the Pro's talk about when they used to race just for the fun of it rather than the big business it has become. I hope this helps to clarify the true meaning of the title.Jim Amos .

  • @amos6013 What the title means is, this was when homegrown boys made these bare bones, high horsepower ground pounders in their one bay garage at home or in their drive way, in their spare time with money that come out of their own wallet! Now adays everybody has factory endorsement and unlimited budget. It takes the fun out of it because the local boy cant compete on a national level like they used to in these days!

  • @amos6013 i understand and completely agree corporate always wants to poke there noses in everything nowadays.

  • @ColtonKuhn1 its the money.

  • OH YA.............

  • @buffspringfield For What It's Worth, Mr Soul!

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  • nothing like the sound of a carborated big block.

  • I have these DVD's they are AWESOME!!

  • The EMPI Inch Pincher VW. WOW....I haven't seen that thing in decades! I think the guy who drove / owned it was named Dean something. That little thing just ruled their class for seemingly years, nationally. It hardly ever got beat. Someone help me, but wasn't it something like a 12.90 car....or better? Thanks joel in tucson

  • I'd say 80% or more of those cars were stick... old school grabbin gears nothing finer

  • Drag Racing is still Fun

  • man that cadi at 2:07 is gettin it

  • I am "shickled Titless' !!! sooo missin my 74 LT1 Camaro, first time I raced it the shift from 1st to 2nd put the ashtray in the back seat and snapped off my traction bars....good times at Decker Lane in Austin Tx, stationed at Bergstrom AFB, late 80's!!!

  • Nice work. I looked at it fairly critically and for the most part it sounds like it was shot with an on-camera mic. Too bad there wasn't a video camera in every pocket back then. Most of the people who look at this have never heard the sound of dollars spinning past their ears in a film camera and just don't fully appreciate what they're seeing.

  • Man i wish i was born at a different time

    

  • @Destructionx93 me too man me too

  • i dont care that the sound is not authentic to the car your seeing...its still IMHO protrays what you would have seen and heard when those cars raced back in the day....love it...thanks for posting

  • I have purchased your videos and I want to tell everyone that you won't be disappointed !

  • she's so fine my 413 wedge!

  • That car at 4:50 looks mean and at the same time sexy, nice to see impy from way back. When I was young there were 2 kinds of people , those with bugs and those that wanted one. LaMirada drive in , dont think I ever saw the end of a movie always had to go race a bug with my friend Scot Hebert.

  • I have had several comments relative to the sounds contained on our video clips. At Bee On Video we attempt to bring silent film alive with real car sounds that we dub onto the footage. We have a large library of sounds featuring all brands and types of vehicles. We are proud of what we do with the sounds. We attempt to use accurate sounds for Fords, Chevys, Mopars, ect. We do not do rock and roll music only the pure sounds of drag racing vehicles. Jim Amos Bee On Video

  • I have had several comments relative to the title of this video: Drag Racing When It Was Fun. To fully understand what I mean you have to see the complete fully narrated video rather than this brief teaser clip. In no way am I inferring that Drag Racing is not fun in the past, present and future. Hear the Pro's talk about when they used to race just for the fun of it rather than the big business it has become. I hope this helps to clarify the true meaning of the title. Jim Amos .

  • nice video but why is it not fun i still think it is in fact I love it.

  • Man, hearing those old Mopars launch at 4;12 gives me goosebumps. There is no better sound that that!!

  • @Statimtek Yeah, it's too bad the sounds were just added on to the video... The average video camera in the early 60's couldn't record sound.

  • @punkazzgearhead Maybe so but that's what the old girls sound like for sure.Another great video check out "Wheels up Max Wedge Nostalgia Super Stock." Im sure that is the real thing and that noise will make your hair stand up " )

  • Now this is what it's all about

    Great video Thanks

  • ohh man....the times when 32's and 55's were cheap and out there in bigger numbers.they became so expensive...wish i could be there! :P

  • Brings back memories watching my Dand and even my Mom run

    the 1/4 mile. Crybabies won't run the distance anymore.

  • ...V8 sound...something never changes...=)

  • Hkd

  • hell yeah, now days they just race plastic cars from the 90s

  • wow, this is good !!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is when the average joe could join in the fun, but now it is mostly out of his reach, and beyond his pocket book anymore... Yes, when drag racing was fun is right...

  • Any body remember or have any pictures or video of the BEER WAGON ?It was an AA/A Anglia that had Sunshine Beer adds on it ! It ran in the READING ,PA. area. I.E. : YORK,NAZARETH , READING area. It was co-owned by Ed Sloan and Denny Brown.Ed is my older half brother !!Oh the car ran from the late 50's and in the 60's.

  • These were the pioneers. Drag racing today, like contemporary pop music, has become dull and predictable, a mass produced commodity.

  • @imjustpassinthru Actually, the pioneers were after WWII and they operated on old airstrips primarily in So. Cal, but in fits and spurts elsewhere.

    But you're right about any individualism existing in racing anymore.

  • @MrStrictlyStock .... Actually what I was thinking, and this is merely an assumption, is that back then -- the post WW II period into the 1950s and 60s -- those guys were experimenting doing things with engines, drive trains and aerodynamics that had never been done before. Now, I suppose, the techniques are so well documented that anyone with money can duplicate or mass produce a race car. My prejudice is that all experimentation has ended. Nostalgia has its own conceit.

  • @imjustpassinthru Virtually all experimentation that the little guy can afford to do has been over for at least 2 decades.

    The Ford flathead was modified by anybody with a set of wrenches until the high compression overhead valve V-8 came along. Then the focus was to put these Olds and Caddy engines in Fords, Chevys and Studebakers. That evolved into everybody with a set of wrenches modifying the "new" stuff.

    The muscle car era was the beginning of the end for tinkerers and experimenters.

  • when 4 speeds were king

  • @MrChevynut All stock classes back then had a class for automatics, because they weren't supposed to be able to compete with the sticks.

    Chrysler's Torqueflite was the first factory auto that could not only compete, but often be the top eliminator. The 64 Plymouths and Dodges were the beginning of this.

  • best music iv heard since outlaw country

  • check out the price of fuel at 16sec in

  • @IDColeman1 I remember when we had the gas war at my brothers Alantic Gas station at 28 cents a gal. late 63 early 64. It was called Alantic gas before they changed it to Arco. $5 - $6 filled your tank, it cost me that now when I cut my lawn!

    Life was GREAT, the Country was booming back then!

  • @mikestheman3

    How much money earned Mr. Joe Average back in 1964? In 1964 the average gas price in Germany was 0,58 DM per liter (2,19 DM per Gallon) with the average monthly wage being 530 DM. Thanks.

  • @Waalkes About $3 an hour.

  • @mikestheman3 my dad said in 1973 gas was 28 cents a gallon and he went through 4 tanks of gas a night in his 62 nova

  • @mikestheman3 In the gas wars in Buffalo, NY in 1965, I paid as little as .17/gal. $.20 was about normal.

    The most potent stuff was Sunoco 260 - seems that stuff was more than two bits a gallon.

    Atlantic & Richfield merged to form ARCO.

    The country COULD boom back then because it had less than 1/4 the government we now have. Taxes were a pittance, by comparison. 1965 began the flood of third world immigrants that we have grown to love supporting.

  • @MrStrictlyStock You were lucky! I pumped gas from 1960 to 1975. Gas in New England was 27 to 30 cents in 63-64, in 1973 the gas went from around 35-38 cents to then jumped to around 65 cents, at times we had to raise it slightly higher. We even got to the point where we would serve only our good custumers and told the strangers we were out of gas, no gas signs where very popular back then. Now they're predicting over $5.00 a gallon very soon! I remember when Sun 260 was 41 cents at 102 octane.

  • @mikestheman3 Gas and auto prices always seem the lowest where the demand is the greatest. Western NY was booming then. I pumped gas at a Mobil station - they had a deal called the Red Horse Derby - you got free numbers when you bought gas and on TV at night the winning # was disclosed. Nobody ever seemed to win, and certain numbers were always impossible to come by. I figured it out one night when I realized the boss was putting certain numbers in the safe. Mobil had the thing rigged!

  • @MrStrictlyStock Wow imagine that, it sounds like government controled. lol. Do you remember in the early 70s when GATES had an executive disguised driving from station to station buying a few $ worth of gas. So as normal U always asked 2 check his water & oil. The car would have a bad rad hose, frayed belt, something/anything worn or weak & U told him it needed to be replaced he give U a plaque w/ quarters & silver dollars, it was a way 2 push their product, he was called the GATES MYSTERY MAN.

  • Just as it was back then "speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?"

  • Holy Smokes.....check out that "fender surgery" at 2:40 on that 55 Chev. That guy should'a failed tech just on principle alone.

  • @naderchaser wow i think your right on that on fuck

  • @naderchaser Not all that different from the full cut out wheel wells on the 55 Nomad.

  • "SO MUCH MOTOR, SUCH LITTLE TIRE"[=

  • The close lane at 2:19 is jaw dropping. What I'd do to own that!

  • Awesome video!!! Real men and women bang gears and pop clutches!!

  • Oh yes,superb

  • Man this is a awesome vid, What a era of bad ass steel and power!

  • how do i get a copy of this?

    

  • shit now we end up with the rice patty racers today what a rip off

  • so what is it now being a racer my self i still find it fun

  • all stick shift cars..real drivers in those..

  • Thanx for posting!!

  • so many 4 speeds awsome

  • It must have been awesome to live back ion the 60's.

  • Whic year is this, what a good work of camera..

  • Yeah...! I want to see more.

  • Those were the days ,I used the go to National Trails Raceway, back then

  • Magnifique video

  • Badass all the way!!

  • This video is awesome. Love the cars too.

  • Can't help but wonder what happened to all these cars. I have a feeling most are no longer with us.

  • Sweet thanks, My did you to race in the 50

    60,

  • Drag racing is still fun.

  • The Vargo footage is great!!! Got any more??

  • our full length video has more

    beeonvideo

  • A+ great post thank you very much

  • Its still fun. nice video's.

  • 4:22 that was great to see some original footage of the legendary Inch Pincher! It's crazy how much drag racing has changed.

  • Being an announcer at Numidia back in the late 1970's and doing it now, it was great to see some footage of Numidia from the 1960's. Dr. Pratt the original owner, Max Naylor and Bob Dimino, the current owner have brought this track to the forefront in NHRA Division 1.

    I am thrilled that this is posted. I should be at the Pocono Drag Lodge reunion also and hope to hear some good stories there. Thanks again.

  • Hey man, Im a well traveled man myself...spent my youth at the drags...fremont...orange county.irwindale....all the northern tracks...latley i been all over the u.s.a...not not as fun as it was in the 60's and 70's..Chris Holton

  • @ClintLickler Are you part of the Holton lineage that had a little something to do with the Hemi motor?

  • Damn we had fun then did we not, I only hope I can make one more pass.

  • WOW!! Great video, Numidia with no guard rail or fence, and PDL, so open frrom what it is now, can't wait to get my copy at the PDL reunion this weekend! How many other videos do you have from the tracks that are in this one?

  • Nice work Jim, keep up the good job. I look seeing old race footage.

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