Drag Racing - Pacific Raceways 1963

[bcbcbcbcdc]

Good ol' S.I.R

[franknblunt]

Trying to identify the engines in these fantastic rigs. Need to up the skills. Early on I could mosty see Chevy powering those slingers but then, I believe, a variety of Hemi's started to appear.

Jerry Ruth could have been there but wonder if Big Daddy Garlits and the Swamp Rat made it up to Washington during this?

Another research project for web surfing ...

Thanks for sharing some amazing racing history. Seeing that early rear engine digger was especially awesome.

[YoshiTheShiba]

Very cool thx 4 sharing !

[Ripley44mag]

Wow 1st rails.

[Polybun]

wait a minute, I just spotted a rear engine dragster. Well ok sure it was a VW powered thing but... 1963, world's first rear engine dragster?

[chevyracer70]

Cool cool cool drags on mothers day

[M4OON]

whoooaHH - Look at the tyre smoke at 0:52 & 1:42 - thank goodness tyre technology has moved on !

[naderchaser]

Wonderful footage! Thanks to both you and Tex. Looks like a gorgeous track.....but a pretty big dip at the big end!

[barnfresh60]

i like to see old footage, and this is up there with some of the best, thanks to you and your dads mate for this stuff....its a gas...

[vf74tomcat]

Diggers rule!!!! Way cooler than todays rear engine dragsters!

[gedd74]

I am too young to have seen this type of drag racing but it gives me goose bumps to watch this film . Now all dragsters are almost identical and sponsership everywhere I think I was born too late , thank you so much from Australia for posting this footage.

[kawentzmann]

If someone here needs vintage sounding music for their videos feel free to contact me.

[CSXer]

SWEET! 8mm of the good old days!

Thanks a bunch for posting!!!!

[rhellman]

Bitchin' rods. Thanks for posting!

[TheCanine2]

Now THAT'S cool...

[mindeloman]

the good old push start days with no reverse. My dad talked about how much they hated it when their driver would do a long burn-out and then every pit guy would have to run out and push it back to the line.

[skyvalley49]

Gret video! I started going to Pacific Raceway when it was the old "S.I.R." (early 70's) Still remember seeing all the "old timers". Don "the snake", Ed "the ace", "fireman Jim Dunn, Jerry "the king", and many local drivers. Who can forget "16-32-64" funny cars. Only bummer was the long "burnouts" no reversers, they had to be pushed back. But what a great time. Drag racing has come a long way (maybe just a little bit to commercial now) but still the greatest motorsport on the planet!!!

[GwaiiEagle1]

Never went there, but I can vividly remember the ads.

S.I.R. in Kent-64 Funny Cars!

[honkers34]

I live about 10 miles from there but i can still hear them loudly

[GonzoNugent]

Awesome footage. Thanks for putting this up at YouTube.

[NcalBiker]

Anyone have some video of some of the sidewinders? They seem to have been forgotten.

[tmoney6323]

i race there

[Scrapheap71]

Is some of this early Pomona footage??

[solracer66]

No, it's all from Pacific Raceways

[Scrapheap71]

Where is that??

[wldchld55wagon]

In Washington not too far from Seattle, its where the Northwest Nationals are held

[Echosrm230]

I live close to pacific raceways maby like 15 to 20 miles from there

[34D2234]

this is a excellent video, i presume 8mm film, nice and clear great color, well filmed,. if you get this converted to dvd or blueray, since there is no sound, doesnt matter, add some old beachboys tunes to it or something of that period in rock and roll, it would be awesome, i remember those days like yesterday, they were the best days of all!

[sakepwr]

PietjeZz, you're right - this was before Xmas trees came on the scene. If I remember right, the flagman's name was Larry. Crazy dude. When they were running elims and he was out there between the cars, he'd wave the flag and then run like hell!

In the early-mid-60's the fastest cars were running 8's. I recognize a bunch of those cars. I was probably there that day. My Dad and I were track photographers then.

[Blacklightroom]

this is great .. this is in my fathers earliest drag days, when he was in the Mid-West, before he made West Coast (Twiggy) Top Fuel Dragster

He now runs the Nostalgia FED Circuit :) :) :)

Thank you so much for sharing!

Joseph A Krupinski

[PietjeZz]

wow! priceless! so they were no x-mas threes? cars didn't burnout before launch it seems!

Does anybody know the average et time they clocked????

[solracer66]

Looks to me that there is someone standing about 20' from the start with a green flag. You can just see him in a couple of the runs about a minute and a half into the video.

[samw454]

Thank you so much for posting. An amazing time i'll never get to experience.

[stuing]

Priceless footage. Can you believe the bending frames on launch? Dunno if I'd have a go?

[MoparBrion]

I'm a long-time drag racing fan; you won't believe this, but that was the day I was born!

Too cool! Thanks!

[aud6875]

i help run  that track

[67mustangreg]

Thats hellah cool, I was there yesterday

[7car7]

Great video, thanks for sharing! My local track.

[jacalais]

great footage, pity no audio.. a walk thru the car park back then would have been impressive to see today...

[rodgazinya]

Cool to see what the track used to look like.. Being a local track to me..

[E5Bobby]

Thank you for sharing this. Truly things were simpler back then. I missed the sound too.

[ratrod426]

Looking for vintage hydrogen peroxide rocket cars appreciate any info on it? great vid love it!

[mmmmna]

Very nice to see what they used to be. Interesting that some that were not blown couldn't spin the tires very much. Truth be told!

[belredroad]

That's cool stuff!

[Vintagedude]

great film!

[AADRAGS]

AWESOME! THANX FOR THE POST!

[alkyiroc]

Wow! I wish this old 8mm film had audio.