That video sums it up pretty well. The best looking drag car color scheme in drag racing. Mr Four Speed. They left out Mopar's are King, but we all knew this anyhow. Thank you Ford and GM for slathering your pathetic names on Mopar powerd drag cars.
Man it'd be tough trying to hold one of those little Cuda's steady with a screaming 426 pushin some giant slicks, and raiseing the front end up a few feet....
@AudreyH1fan I couldn't figure out for the longest time why the kids wasted their time and money on a Honda, Acura, Mitsubishi... then it dawned on me that this is the crap they have to work with. A *ROUGH* 1968 Charger/Chevelle/Mustang would run the $3000 that it cost to buy and build their Civics.
i dont care what anybody spews out their blow hole. it took real men to drive cars like that.and not to mention the talent working a 4spd like he did. he was truly king of the stick shift.
Ronnie Sox, Dick Landey, Jim Liberman DAMN I wish I'd been old enough to know the things I know now back then. I swear I was born in the wrong decade man
@walkerheaders I'm 57 yrs old and in 1968 I was 14, you say you are 53, you would have been 10 yrs old then. You must have a good memory of that race if you were there.
@bigmrclean "Vain". And using the Lord's name in "Vain", is when you get in a pinch and cry to the Lord for help, and when it is over, go back to your sinning ways. The word you were searching for is "Blasphemy".
This was back in the day when men were men and women were women! Most of you mofo's posting here weren't even shiting in your diapers yet! So keep the pie holes shut and be glad great drag racers like these lived for the sport! 1968! You had to be there!
thats not the issue. the issue today is that nhra and ihra pro stock requires far less skill than before 1973. in '73 they started using lencos which are clutchless, just pull the next lever and keep it tagged...and now pro stock uses air shifted clutchless tranny's. (planetaries i think they're called?) also dont require any skill, just bang the lever into the next gear. now in super stock its basically all autos or clutchless trannies. what happnd to the clutch? thats still cool rite?
@APontiacof455cubes Yes, those sissy lencos, etc. don't get it. Ronnie was the best. NARROW and bumpy track too, that's what separates the real wheel men from the wanna-bes.
@APontiacof455cubes There all great drivers, but use a Lenco, the A-833 was MUCH harder to handle and to be consistent. I would love to see Ronnie racing a G-Force powered 'Cuda today. R.I.P. Ronnie Sox!
I agree but, Ronnie was a natural-born stickshift racer and could handle it. I bet many others would've lifted halfway thru low gear... and set the frontend down on the oil pan!
At 11.3 sec/118mph, my '68 340-S (4-speed of course) is fun but I'd give my eye teeth to make ONE pass in an SS/A car!
I regret that I missed the opportunity to shake Mr. Sox's shifting hand. RIP Ronnie.
Ronnie Sox shifted the newer cars he didn't need it easy he was that good.He ran race cars from the 50's till just a couple years ago.You can see by this pass.Alot of guys would have let up but he didn't.Full Pass.
his good, but todays internal short throw rail shifters make it so much easer, and positive to shift that it doesn't really take to much to drive them hard, it's just learning to do it with the gas mashed the whole time. that's the line between men and boys. this guy would like'em.
im 20 and only a very few kids like me actually have respect and know about these cars. i was definatley born in the wrong generation nothing can compare to those days. we get introuble for doing that stuff now or any stop light racing.
@ashleyshuggybear right on. Im 19 and same story here. I was raised in the western suburbs of minneapolis, which was fun til I was in highschool, then I got bored cause there wasnt a place to ride my dirtbike, race my car (even tho we still did), offroading places got built up with houses....it sucks now. Thankfully, there actually is still an 1/8 mile dragstrip in a farm field about 40min west of the cities, awesome nostalgic feeling. And of course we have brainerd raceway which is a riot
@ashleyshuggybear Lol yes i agree frnt wheel drive etc etc are not muscle and its crazy how they messed up the street racing scene?wannabe gangsters starting fights and the laws are unreasonable too? no place to let the street racers play with consent to risk etc just take our money ?
He was the greatest! All my drag racing buddies think they can shift great until they see a video like this of the master... All they can say is "wow"!
This was indeed an 1/8th mile pass, 1970bird. Ronnie Sox was THE epitome of 4-speed slammers with Dyno Don Nicholson a close second. May both men R.I.P. and we thank them for all they did for the sport of drag racing. Nice post, Filty11.
LONG LIVE THE KING.
Hot80s 2 months ago
Ronnie.
Mr. 4-speed
SMG type transmissions got their ecu programming from Ronnie's Brain.
Best manual shifter in world period.
Hot80s 4 months ago
holy shit that man knows how to drive power shiftin all the way
posi454 5 months ago
first RONNIE SOX car was a Z11 Impala
mark4tk 6 months ago
I watch this video everyday before signing off of my computor. R.I.P. Ronnie Sox, Thanks for the memories.
TheAbbfan 7 months ago
ronnie sox driving a slushbox
mark4tk 1 year ago
@mark4tk uh, no. The car is a 4 speed... Ronnie (R.I.P.) drove Crash Boxes, not Slush Boxes hence the Mr. One Speed moniker.
mta415 6 months ago
That video sums it up pretty well. The best looking drag car color scheme in drag racing. Mr Four Speed. They left out Mopar's are King, but we all knew this anyhow. Thank you Ford and GM for slathering your pathetic names on Mopar powerd drag cars.
Tarten46 1 year ago
Man it'd be tough trying to hold one of those little Cuda's steady with a screaming 426 pushin some giant slicks, and raiseing the front end up a few feet....
DodgeMan360 1 year ago
as soon as i heard the corny elevator music and saw people holding video cameras along the strip i knew it was the 90s.
dunno why people see someone say something about the 60s and automatically assume they think the video was from then...
imathewsman 1 year ago
Mister Four Speed always.
speedskiff2 1 year ago
This is my favorite Sox and Martin Car.
VDragulaV 1 year ago
holy crap taht driver has some charisma and he dont fuck around eaither
StreetSurfinn 1 year ago
Super awesome people, 'Lil Boss was the best ever at driving a four-speed.
james6speed 1 year ago 2
That was a sweet paint job.
mercmarc 1 year ago
this was when cars were good unlike now when everything is a honda
AudreyH1fan 1 year ago
@AudreyH1fan I couldn't figure out for the longest time why the kids wasted their time and money on a Honda, Acura, Mitsubishi... then it dawned on me that this is the crap they have to work with. A *ROUGH* 1968 Charger/Chevelle/Mustang would run the $3000 that it cost to buy and build their Civics.
Zynx812 1 year ago
i dont care what anybody spews out their blow hole. it took real men to drive cars like that.and not to mention the talent working a 4spd like he did. he was truly king of the stick shift.
scottcurl1 1 year ago
One will note that Ronnie didn't lift when she made the move to the left. Just kept banging them gears. They don't do it like this any more.
11Bee3O 1 year ago 2
I love how he gets so out of shape and never lifts, not even to shift! Thanks for the awesome footage.
slimholiday 1 year ago
Ronnie Sox, Dick Landey, Jim Liberman DAMN I wish I'd been old enough to know the things I know now back then. I swear I was born in the wrong decade man
ITS4390 2 years ago 2
dude i say that all the time.
i wasnt meant to live in this 2000 bullshit
please TAKE ME BACKKK haha
proxima777 2 years ago 3
I am well aware that this video was shot in the 1990's ! I was referring to the year 1968 when this Cuda was being raced!
The point I was trying to make was... I WAS THERE! I watched SOX & MARTIN race this car when it was new!!! GET IT?
GOD DAMN! Some of you Mofo's are dumb!
Halftrac 2 years ago 8
Thank you....but some of them are.....
philty11 2 years ago
thats legendary man. lucky bastard
APontiacof455cubes 1 year ago
@Halftrac
that was shot at quarter aces dragway in pennsylvania. i was there and shot some footage when Ronnie raced Bob Reed in the pair of cudas.
walkerheaders 1 year ago
@walkerheaders I'm 57 yrs old and in 1968 I was 14, you say you are 53, you would have been 10 yrs old then. You must have a good memory of that race if you were there.
surrynet 4 months ago 2
@Halftrac in case you guys dont know it mr.hoover is tom hoover of the ramchargers
joeyw30 9 months ago
@Halftrac That's really good, Use the Lords Name in Vein. Was that really Necassary? You and the Good Lord need to have a little talk about that.
bigmrclean 8 months ago
@bigmrclean Thats between me and GOD! Not you!
Halftrac 8 months ago
@Halftrac When you type that out for everyone to view including little kids, It's between anyone who reads it.
bigmrclean 8 months ago
@bigmrclean "Vain". And using the Lord's name in "Vain", is when you get in a pinch and cry to the Lord for help, and when it is over, go back to your sinning ways. The word you were searching for is "Blasphemy".
AntiSemantic1 2 months ago
Watching that guy still gives me the shivers. Man!
robkal56 2 years ago
Richard Petty ain't the King, Ronnie Sox is.
mcleanartists 2 years ago 3
Almost sounds like an auto. There's a reason they called him "Mr. 4 speed".
ryansiki 2 years ago
thats what im talking about pound the gears and dont even think about lifting what gardrail ronnie rocks hes my idol
colwag 2 years ago
I saw them at my local track in SC in 1968...the most awsome 1-2 shift i have ever seen or ever will.
cnftnf 2 years ago
Speaking of "shiting" diapers. This video is NOT 1968, more like early 1990's.
Ronnie is fondly remembered here. I shook his shifting hand and saved my last email from him too.
tomp64 2 years ago 2
The video is shot in 1993....25 years after the legendary 1968 CUDA ..
That would be...1968 is the year and model of the driven CUDA.....
philty11 2 years ago
Your a dumbass, the car is a 68, not the video
jameson155 2 years ago
@tomp64 Lucky guy......Ronnie ...The Man !!!
honkeytonker 1 year ago
That pass makes the hair on my neck stand up...
jammingjimbo 2 years ago
This was back in the day when men were men and women were women! Most of you mofo's posting here weren't even shiting in your diapers yet! So keep the pie holes shut and be glad great drag racers like these lived for the sport! 1968! You had to be there!
Halftrac 2 years ago
The true men of the Sport, no turbo chargers or other bullshit like that !
duvall821 2 years ago
thats not the issue. the issue today is that nhra and ihra pro stock requires far less skill than before 1973. in '73 they started using lencos which are clutchless, just pull the next lever and keep it tagged...and now pro stock uses air shifted clutchless tranny's. (planetaries i think they're called?) also dont require any skill, just bang the lever into the next gear. now in super stock its basically all autos or clutchless trannies. what happnd to the clutch? thats still cool rite?
APontiacof455cubes 2 years ago
@APontiacof455cubes
I agree with you... let's see Erica Enders row that Cuda down the strip... yeah right!!!
scabeba 1 year ago
Well lets see the current pro stock drivers handle this hemi hell, Greg Anderson, Jason Line, Warren Johnson, Kurt Johnson...
APontiacof455cubes 1 year ago
@APontiacof455cubes Yes, those sissy lencos, etc. don't get it. Ronnie was the best. NARROW and bumpy track too, that's what separates the real wheel men from the wanna-bes.
retiredscot 1 year ago
@APontiacof455cubes There all great drivers, but use a Lenco, the A-833 was MUCH harder to handle and to be consistent. I would love to see Ronnie racing a G-Force powered 'Cuda today. R.I.P. Ronnie Sox!
james6speed 1 year ago
those people were too close to the track. one slip they are done..
myfordranger 2 years ago
man that thing looked like a wild ride , talk about hooking up lol . ive loved their cars since i was a kid :)
mopar or no car!
wrathchild2k 2 years ago
I agree but, Ronnie was a natural-born stickshift racer and could handle it. I bet many others would've lifted halfway thru low gear... and set the frontend down on the oil pan!
At 11.3 sec/118mph, my '68 340-S (4-speed of course) is fun but I'd give my eye teeth to make ONE pass in an SS/A car!
I regret that I missed the opportunity to shake Mr. Sox's shifting hand. RIP Ronnie.
pdq340 2 years ago
Ronnie Sox shifted the newer cars he didn't need it easy he was that good.He ran race cars from the 50's till just a couple years ago.You can see by this pass.Alot of guys would have let up but he didn't.Full Pass.
DonniePD 2 years ago
Mr 4 speed
rollfitty69 2 years ago 3
his good, but todays internal short throw rail shifters make it so much easer, and positive to shift that it doesn't really take to much to drive them hard, it's just learning to do it with the gas mashed the whole time. that's the line between men and boys. this guy would like'em.
ezcondition 3 years ago
true mopar guy, true mopar
426hemiscamp 3 years ago 3
im 20 and only a very few kids like me actually have respect and know about these cars. i was definatley born in the wrong generation nothing can compare to those days. we get introuble for doing that stuff now or any stop light racing.
ashleyshuggybear 3 years ago 10
@ashleyshuggybear right on. Im 19 and same story here. I was raised in the western suburbs of minneapolis, which was fun til I was in highschool, then I got bored cause there wasnt a place to ride my dirtbike, race my car (even tho we still did), offroading places got built up with houses....it sucks now. Thankfully, there actually is still an 1/8 mile dragstrip in a farm field about 40min west of the cities, awesome nostalgic feeling. And of course we have brainerd raceway which is a riot
APontiacof455cubes 1 year ago
@ashleyshuggybear Lol yes i agree frnt wheel drive etc etc are not muscle and its crazy how they messed up the street racing scene?wannabe gangsters starting fights and the laws are unreasonable too? no place to let the street racers play with consent to risk etc just take our money ?
deannaber 1 year ago
He was the greatest! All my drag racing buddies think they can shift great until they see a video like this of the master... All they can say is "wow"!
DaCarGuy69 3 years ago 3
R.I.P. ronnie
harley145000 3 years ago 5
philty11 show the kids(world) how Ronnie does it.
add the tags; manual transmission shifting powshifting technique etc
600SELV12 3 years ago 2
OK I added the tags....thanks for watching
philty11 3 years ago
Ronnie had Balls & then some.
Race In Peace my Friend.
600SELV12 3 years ago 2
r.i.p. ronnie
svo65 3 years ago 4
how in the sams hell did he keep that thing from flipping over, hitting the guardrail, and wrecking that car?
WOW
alan6102000 3 years ago 2
hmm. i believe thats the 1/8 dragstrip up near Carisle, PA.
1970bird 3 years ago 2
This was indeed an 1/8th mile pass, 1970bird. Ronnie Sox was THE epitome of 4-speed slammers with Dyno Don Nicholson a close second. May both men R.I.P. and we thank them for all they did for the sport of drag racing. Nice post, Filty11.
8secondBusa 3 years ago
Those were the days!
robwiley01 3 years ago 2