Vintage Dragsters

[MrRonnieG]

Tom McKwen, a year or more, before he ever got the nickname "Mongoose" for kicking the Snake's ass all over SoCal strips. His partner, at this time, was a legend when it came to turning wrenches ~ Gene Adams. This was also a year before "zoomie" headers were introduced. And The Snake, in this VID, was driving one of the most well known top fuel cars ever ~ Greer-Black-Prudhomme. Motor man Keith Black, along with Ed Pink and Dave Zeuschel, were that era's best at building engines.

[kirkconway]

this was THEEEE best era in drag racing EVER

so many cool car's, and time's were different in the 60,s and early 70's,

[robkal56]

Smoke 'em if you brought 'em!

[xPBRmeASAPx]

thanks for sharing this awesome video, very very apprecited

[barthoedemaker]

Thanks for showing this. Amazing footage.

[elevatormechanic]

BALLS

[throttlemonster]

awesome, thanks for posting.

[dieseldave71]

Man, that was great!

[asianiinvasion]

beautiful American culture

[2004LEBUSA]

The old slingshots were fun to watch in the day

[ThomasDeLello]

Where did this footage come from... is there more of it and can I buy that on DVD...? I got the Jackson Brother's stuff.

[000darkstar000]

OMG!!!THIS IS PURE*GOLD*GOLD*GOLD*****Best vid!m8!this is Special 2 me i was born in 63!i luv this vid*thnx so much*****thnx*u,r the Best*

[MrNailhead]

Fantastic piece of history....wish there were more of these

Lee...

[holman26]

wow mommer this is aewsome

[THUNDERDOMEXXIV]

yo ford, Look at the way they launch from the start, The wheels are just smoking, Nowadays most race cars have launch control, purrdy cool ha ?

[OzzInter]

@THUNDERDOMEXXIV

In those days there were no burn-outs.

Just come to the line and go on the green!

The run was done with essentially cold tires.

Notice how "squirrelly" the cars were off the line.

The cars were much slower, in MPH, but were more unpredictable to drive than

todays high tech TF and TA dragsters

[hmzaox]

@OzzInter They maybe of been slower but image if they did burnouts back then and like a dragster of 2 day of engine ontop rare axle they might beable beat i mean 185mph back in 60s DAMN

[bluespower]

nice vid thanx

[nitrostalgia]

Finally one with sound!