One of these day music companies will realize that putting a song on a video is FREE advertising! And making it unavailable (or taking it off) will just make the consumer not want to purchase anything from said music company bc it makes them lose respect from the consumer... It really upset me that this work of art you created has to be EDITED and ruined because of big corporations...
Do you have the original vid saved on file??? if yes could you send it, or even burn to disc, as i would love to watch with the original music, was my favourite vid on the tube till music was ripped off!
Can even hear it in my head while watching it! makes me sad when the little thing we enjoy in life are taken due to red tape!
I mute the sound on this video, and open a second one with "Dear Mr Fantasy" playing. WMG can fuck off. Their actions only make me less inclined to buy music.
all the new laptop "drivers" could only aspire to be 1/4 (pun intended) the driver Dandy Dick Landy was and still is in my eyes. automatics have nothing on him. any moron can make one of them shift . may i always be blessed with the left leg disease "clutchitis"
CARBURETORS ,PUSHRODS , BIG PISTONS AND 4 SPEEDS FOREVER !!
so this morning i was at the deli getting breakfast and i hear on the noisebox "mr fantasy". so all day while i was working on my Duster and Dart , all i could think about was getting home to watch this video with the excellent choice of music and W.T.F.!!!!!!!!!! this is by far the best video out there and now it has lost some of its feel. i will forever remember that song for this. SARGE , thanks for the best video on the internet and for your service and sacrifice for our country.
its amazing how much has changed since then. those cars look so flimsy. (awesome but not safe) You can't do a burnout from the lanes to the line, we've moved the starter back behind the cars. No one uses armco rail anymore. Its like a saw. but I suppose the biggest difference is no one names their car any more. now its "our royal purple, summit racing pontiac" and it used to be "watch out for BLUE THUNDER". That was something a kid could fall in love with.
To drillsgt98th, After giving you this footage I like it. Only because you and I have a passion for old school. To all that have have seen this video it was taped off of espn in the early 90's buy me and was forgotten until now. Drill you did a ok job, Jbee
drillsgt98th ?? Can you upload this video again and maybe they won't catch it right away or is this going too far?? If WMG is thiss stuck up I don't think I want any of their music from now on!!
yes my friends, they removed all the soundtracks. nothing i can do about it. all i have left is the vids with the original audio which is hosted here on youtube.
@drillsgt98th What an awesome video. I run dear Mr fantasy in another browser while I watch this. There's something about the combination of that song and watching Dandy Dick Landy pound through the gears that almost brings tears to my eyes. The good old days! Thankyou!
I can't believe they removed the audio. The music is 40 years old! I wonder who is protecting Beethovens interest everytime any of his music is replayed?
jrsn2guitars are you talking about the same sox and martin that runs at great lakes dragway now? There is a older mopar called sox and martin that runs there.
@68SSCAM He never smoked it.Story is that one day someone gave him a cigar,and he put it in his mouth,and never lit it,but was never seen without it.Basically he had an unlit cigar in his mouth at all times.
I was at the US Nationals at Indy the first year of the Pro Stock class. I'll never forget the sight of those cars pulling up to stage, doing three or four dry hops before staging. They looked like a bunch of leap frogs! It was so cool! They don't do that anymore. Ronnie Sox won the first pro stock race at the US Nationals in his beautiful Sox and Martin Hemi Barracuda. Check out the pictures and movies that I took at that race. Great video! Great music! Thanks for the compliment on my video.
in czech is only one dragster ( Big Red Team ) ford 32 body with BBC 1000 HP and as truck is International Harvester school bus with red color, dragster have bad driver and times is very very slow
Hi , I'm Czech (Europe) , this is super video with great songs , whats is second song please ??? in czech republic is dragracing very small populary sport and races it is once of year on airport, i have Mustang GT 5.0 1989 and Ford F-SuperDuty 7.3 as car rescue. Mustang is origonal - engine , clutch , transmission , and rear and is factory original , this mustang is 12 second car (Is great time) transmissin is 5-speed manual, only ona man in Czech Rep. owned car with blower. Bye
Defo my favourite vid ever, watch it constantly! should use the same music with other footage, its perfect with it! well done on a perfect capturing job, i want to be there.
The site of those clips is at Ontario Motor Speedway in Cal. So that would be the Supernationals, the year would be 1970 as Garlits switched to a rear engone car in 71 unless thats a short clip from another strip. Thanks for uploading it. It brings back fond memories of those racers and that era when I was a teen. I wish more people would upload.
its 1971 and it says in the vid its OMS. check the other versions i have of it. its a documentary with the date imposed on it. i dont think theyd shot the documentary with the wrong date on it. glad you like.
garlits debuted his revolutionary swamp rat XVI at the winternationals in 1971. You can see a short clip of one of Garlits older front engine cars in that video which did not run in 1971. They must have used footage from a variety of races then at OMS. In the video description you typed "Summernationals" However the "Summernationals" were only held at Englishtown NJ. The only national events held at OMS (Ontario Motor Speedway) were called the 'Supernationals"
absolutely, it is the supernats, when i posted this i typed in the wrong thing. even the narrator in the original version says it the supernats. that part was my fault.
Go to Beaver Springs Dragway north of York, Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 13th (this Sunday) and you will see this live. It is the Nostalgia Super Stock Nationals. Tons of vintage Super Stock cars and early Funny Cars.
I would love to find a copy of the original where you can hear the cars and hear what Dick Landy is saying. I met him several years ago. What a great guy.
thanks for all the responses. im glad you all love it as much as i do. this footage was on a lost vhs tape that i received from my friend joe. these are my heroes, men from a greater time.
one of the main reasons im putting a 4 speed back in my car. because thats the way they are supposed to be./ when drivers could drive and not just push buttons and hang on for an air shifted ride. :D
awesomeeee. i was born and raised racing =] started racing jrdragsters at 8 and stepped up to the 68' fastback stang when i was 17! thanks pops =] 'if you're not gaming the tree, you have no game!'
i can remember going too that same drag strip,ontereo motor speed way when i was a kid man i loved those days when the floppers did there short hop and along with prostock those were the days.
You can see a live performance of this exact song, done by the original guy (Steve Winwood) in July 2007 at the Crossroads Guitar Festival... watch?v=Awjvm_-72Us
Excellent vintage footage of a great period in drag racing. One quick correction, however. This was not shot at the SummerNationals (as sub-title suggests); most, if not all, appear to be at the World Finals at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, a track more famous for hosting the California 500, a USAC (Indy car) race. The track lasted from 1970 til 1980.
Thanks for making & posting this! I've made more than a few quarter mile passes myself, and my friends and family can never understand the beauty of this sport.
This one really takes me back... the drivers working on their own cars... shifting that 4-speed... and smoking a cigar the whole time!
I love the shot at 3:05 of the driver slamming gears with a cigar clenched in his teeth! Now that is style. :) Man, those were the days. Nothing like buring rubber, racing fuel, and chest pounding engine noise.
wow the good ole days of racing the black top strips i wish i was there and who sings that somg i like it wars it called thas an awsum video i loved it thank for posting it
Verry cool video! I love the footage some of it looked very familiar I know I have seen some of it before but it has been at least 20 years! Wow maybe even 25, very nice! Thanks for sharing!
this here is an excellent video, im only 17 so i too was born in the wrong decade :( i love old cars (especially Muscle Cars) and old music, (especially old rock, but the oldies are good too!)
Truly awesome! Its sad to think a lot of the pioneers of drag racing are gone,the talent & technology these icons have shared with us and the entertainment will live on as long as we keep it alive.
Awesome. The glory days of Super Stock when the cars were factory cars, not like now with a bunch of custom bodies all powered by MOPAR-based HEMIs while pretending to be Fords, Chevys, or whatever. Don't get me wrong. I love the NHRA today too, I just prefer cars that are closer to what we can actually own. I would like it even more with the original sound of the cars and the commentary from legends like Dick Landy. Awesome video indeed.
I wish I were born in 56 not 76,That way I coulda been a teenager back when these cars were plentiful,and the music was awesome.Drag racing today is a pale cold lifeless comparison to what wnent on back in the day.
Very well done. But it's really dating my age. And we'll never see rhese times again. Miss them big time. Don't much care for the direction Drag racing is going these days. (nopi)
One of these day music companies will realize that putting a song on a video is FREE advertising! And making it unavailable (or taking it off) will just make the consumer not want to purchase anything from said music company bc it makes them lose respect from the consumer... It really upset me that this work of art you created has to be EDITED and ruined because of big corporations...
mynuffinfutsitch 1 year ago
those were the days
laliebre40 1 year ago
Fucking You Tube Nazis. I'm getting tired of this Copyright bullshit
tusweetforu 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK! BRING BACK TRAFFIC!
corey4406 1 year ago
What the Hell happened to the music?! This totally blows chunks. Where is Mr. Fantasy? This USED TO be a kick-ass video. Now it is repulsive.
monaco74 2 years ago
This sure "SUCKS" with this crap music.The original was awesome!
77dragraceRT 2 years ago 2
Brought back a lot of memories. I used to drag race a 69 Roadrunner back in the day. Wish I could go back.
Zectron2348 2 years ago
Yay!!! it works!!! sweet!!!
soxduster1 2 years ago
Ahmen ...Boycott WMG. I will play Mr Fantasy on another screen good idea.
LittrellGlenn 2 years ago
Do you have the original vid saved on file??? if yes could you send it, or even burn to disc, as i would love to watch with the original music, was my favourite vid on the tube till music was ripped off!
Can even hear it in my head while watching it! makes me sad when the little thing we enjoy in life are taken due to red tape!
soxduster1 2 years ago 2
Hey :D
First Thank you for this great video! I wish I lived back in that time....
I saw the vid a couple of months back, and I really like the music on the original post... Could you PLEASE tell me what the songs were??
Dick Landy Is my absolute hero!!
Thank you and Greetings from the netherlands!!
gijs474 2 years ago
I mute the sound on this video, and open a second one with "Dear Mr Fantasy" playing. WMG can fuck off. Their actions only make me less inclined to buy music.
toadjackson 2 years ago
This was the BEST video on youtube but some JERKS , no scumbag money grubing whores took the original soundtrack off. Thank you drilsgt98th!
briggenoniel 2 years ago
Great video!! Not so great music... Where's Dick Landy's voice? I'd like to hear the CARS too!
GTfan60 2 years ago
dude , check my other vids for the original cut of the documentary. dick landy speaks quite a bit in it.
as for the music....we can all thank warner music group for pulling the original songs off of it.
drillsgt98th 2 years ago
all the new laptop "drivers" could only aspire to be 1/4 (pun intended) the driver Dandy Dick Landy was and still is in my eyes. automatics have nothing on him. any moron can make one of them shift . may i always be blessed with the left leg disease "clutchitis"
CARBURETORS ,PUSHRODS , BIG PISTONS AND 4 SPEEDS FOREVER !!
bigblockdartgts 2 years ago
so this morning i was at the deli getting breakfast and i hear on the noisebox "mr fantasy". so all day while i was working on my Duster and Dart , all i could think about was getting home to watch this video with the excellent choice of music and W.T.F.!!!!!!!!!! this is by far the best video out there and now it has lost some of its feel. i will forever remember that song for this. SARGE , thanks for the best video on the internet and for your service and sacrifice for our country.
bigblockdartgts 2 years ago
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bigblockdartgts 2 years ago
its amazing how much has changed since then. those cars look so flimsy. (awesome but not safe) You can't do a burnout from the lanes to the line, we've moved the starter back behind the cars. No one uses armco rail anymore. Its like a saw. but I suppose the biggest difference is no one names their car any more. now its "our royal purple, summit racing pontiac" and it used to be "watch out for BLUE THUNDER". That was something a kid could fall in love with.
lucasoptura 2 years ago
What happened to the traffic? Fucking you tube.
tusweetforu 2 years ago
SHAME ON ME!! this is the first time I've seen this!!!!!! dang sure NOT the last! GREAT POST!!!!!!!!!!!
shredBucketheadshred 2 years ago
what the hell this video's music used to be mr. fantacy by traffic....what the hell is this? awesome video....but better with appropriate music :)
1969MustangMACH1 2 years ago
To drillsgt98th, After giving you this footage I like it. Only because you and I have a passion for old school. To all that have have seen this video it was taped off of espn in the early 90's buy me and was forgotten until now. Drill you did a ok job, Jbee
jbee69 2 years ago
drillsgt98th ?? Can you upload this video again and maybe they won't catch it right away or is this going too far?? If WMG is thiss stuck up I don't think I want any of their music from now on!!
MoparDonny 2 years ago
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I watch this video about once a month and now there's no soundtrack? Can't believe this copyright junk. Welcome to our new economy my friends.
MoparDonny 2 years ago
What happened to Traffic's Dear Mr Fantasy soundtrack ??
Zakdogblue 2 years ago
yes my friends, they removed all the soundtracks. nothing i can do about it. all i have left is the vids with the original audio which is hosted here on youtube.
drillsgt98th 2 years ago
@drillsgt98th what i do is open two windows one plays dear mr fantasy and the other your video muted works perfect
hey drillsgt98th dear mr fantasy goes so well with this video its a shame they removed the soundtrack and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
USA #1
dacrd 1 year ago
@drillsgt98th What an awesome video. I run dear Mr fantasy in another browser while I watch this. There's something about the combination of that song and watching Dandy Dick Landy pound through the gears that almost brings tears to my eyes. The good old days! Thankyou!
10sec440 7 months ago
I watch this video about once a month and now there's no soundtrack? Can't believe this copyright junk. Welcome to our new economy my friends.
MoparDonny 2 years ago 2
about once every two weeks for me.
carbons4 2 years ago
Crap!!!!!!! Best video on Youtube
carbons4 3 years ago
I can't believe they removed the audio. The music is 40 years old! I wonder who is protecting Beethovens interest everytime any of his music is replayed?
Such bull!!!!
wizeguyrc 3 years ago 2
awesome
macomber45 3 years ago
SOOO awsome, make me wish i was around during those times...
opelgt7319 3 years ago
someone want to chat
want to chat with singles hA
Balthazor92 3 years ago
what's the song?
MASTERCARDUZ 3 years ago
Dear Mr.Fantasy by Traffic
Raaanch 3 years ago
Great !!!
ChrisTurbo 3 years ago
Inspiring stuff! Musics pretty cool too.
RortyCorty 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
crappy tunes, great footage. thanx for sharing.
walkerheaders 3 years ago
jrsn2guitars are you talking about the same sox and martin that runs at great lakes dragway now? There is a older mopar called sox and martin that runs there.
talonracer1977 3 years ago
there are many copy / tribute cars made to sox and martin mopars. most of the originals are now either destroyed or in museums.
drillsgt98th 3 years ago
Friend of mine has a real documented 67 Sox & Martin car.
carbons4 3 years ago
Simply the BEST Muscle Car Video on the You Tube!!!
Congratulations and thanks for sharing this whith us!!
porlon290782 3 years ago 5
How cool is Dick Landy smoking a cigar while driving down the 1320 slamming in the gears!! Excellent footage!
68SSCAM 3 years ago 6
...and Grumpy Jenkins, can't forget him, still smokes those cigars today!!
68SSCAM 3 years ago 4
@68SSCAM He never smoked it.Story is that one day someone gave him a cigar,and he put it in his mouth,and never lit it,but was never seen without it.Basically he had an unlit cigar in his mouth at all times.
FATMIKED5183 3 months ago
I was at the US Nationals at Indy the first year of the Pro Stock class. I'll never forget the sight of those cars pulling up to stage, doing three or four dry hops before staging. They looked like a bunch of leap frogs! It was so cool! They don't do that anymore. Ronnie Sox won the first pro stock race at the US Nationals in his beautiful Sox and Martin Hemi Barracuda. Check out the pictures and movies that I took at that race. Great video! Great music! Thanks for the compliment on my video.
jrsn2guitars 3 years ago
Thank you very much , this is great song.
subarkov 3 years ago
in czech is only one dragster ( Big Red Team ) ford 32 body with BBC 1000 HP and as truck is International Harvester school bus with red color, dragster have bad driver and times is very very slow
subarkov 3 years ago
Hi , I'm Czech (Europe) , this is super video with great songs , whats is second song please ??? in czech republic is dragracing very small populary sport and races it is once of year on airport, i have Mustang GT 5.0 1989 and Ford F-SuperDuty 7.3 as car rescue. Mustang is origonal - engine , clutch , transmission , and rear and is factory original , this mustang is 12 second car (Is great time) transmissin is 5-speed manual, only ona man in Czech Rep. owned car with blower. Bye
subarkov 3 years ago
The second song in the film is Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
PickleMan333 3 years ago
The second music is: Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence.
The first music is: Traffic - Mr. Fantasy.
For me, the best video and the best sound in one package is here!!
Congratulations drillsgt98th!!!
signaloflight 3 years ago
great video. you cant beat the old race cars for looks and sheer horsepower
camaroboy1968ss 3 years ago
One of the best videos on youtube! Fond memories ,good music,cant beat it. Post as many as you wish!!!!
carbons4 3 years ago
Defo my favourite vid ever, watch it constantly! should use the same music with other footage, its perfect with it! well done on a perfect capturing job, i want to be there.
soxduster1 3 years ago
The site of those clips is at Ontario Motor Speedway in Cal. So that would be the Supernationals, the year would be 1970 as Garlits switched to a rear engone car in 71 unless thats a short clip from another strip. Thanks for uploading it. It brings back fond memories of those racers and that era when I was a teen. I wish more people would upload.
AWSmith1955 3 years ago
its 1971 and it says in the vid its OMS. check the other versions i have of it. its a documentary with the date imposed on it. i dont think theyd shot the documentary with the wrong date on it. glad you like.
drillsgt98th 3 years ago
garlits debuted his revolutionary swamp rat XVI at the winternationals in 1971. You can see a short clip of one of Garlits older front engine cars in that video which did not run in 1971. They must have used footage from a variety of races then at OMS. In the video description you typed "Summernationals" However the "Summernationals" were only held at Englishtown NJ. The only national events held at OMS (Ontario Motor Speedway) were called the 'Supernationals"
AWSmith1955 3 years ago
absolutely, it is the supernats, when i posted this i typed in the wrong thing. even the narrator in the original version says it the supernats. that part was my fault.
drillsgt98th 3 years ago
Whats song is this????
tusweetforu 3 years ago
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" by Traffic. 1967.
super70bird 3 years ago
Thank You... Nice song? Just never knew you sang it... :)
tusweetforu 3 years ago
Go to Beaver Springs Dragway north of York, Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 13th (this Sunday) and you will see this live. It is the Nostalgia Super Stock Nationals. Tons of vintage Super Stock cars and early Funny Cars.
omcx1 3 years ago
I would love to find a copy of the original where you can hear the cars and hear what Dick Landy is saying. I met him several years ago. What a great guy.
omcx1 3 years ago
i have the original. should i post it?
drillsgt98th 3 years ago
Yes. That would be great.
omcx1 3 years ago
thanks for all the responses. im glad you all love it as much as i do. this footage was on a lost vhs tape that i received from my friend joe. these are my heroes, men from a greater time.
drillsgt98th 3 years ago
best video on youtube
1969MustangMACH1 3 years ago
What a fantastic video!
I remember most of those cars.
Please post more videos if you can.
5 Stars......... awesome!
dart1966man 3 years ago
Great video! Thanks.Also the music is right.
hammondleroy 3 years ago
that era of racing is what its all about no throttle stops just pure heads up racing racers of today wouldnt have the balls to drive those cars
patanneranner 3 years ago 4
You said the pure truth patanneranner!
We never knew what we HAD, till we lost it!
69moparman 3 years ago
one of the main reasons im putting a 4 speed back in my car. because thats the way they are supposed to be./ when drivers could drive and not just push buttons and hang on for an air shifted ride. :D
nemodapimpfish 3 years ago
Hell yeah. I heard that Ronnie Sox actually slowed down when he put an auto in his pro stocker, he was such a fantastic driver.
skoczzy 3 years ago
thanks sarge, truly a film of legends. more please!
4forty4 3 years ago
ecellent video. i cant stop watching it.
1969MustangMACH1 3 years ago
I was 7 or 8 months old in the summer of 1971...and my father had a car than...good video
bigwebb810 3 years ago
Thanks for showing it the way that it used to be. I miss the 70s the 80s,That was the best drag racing. When our cars where all diffrent.
Chevy Ford Dodge Amc and so on and so on.
hammondleroy 3 years ago
The B E S T of the B E S T!
Thank you and many greetings form Germany!
Marcus
DickLandy 3 years ago
awesome video!!!
bighemicuda 3 years ago
godspeed dick landy, ronnie sox, and jungle jim liberman !
nemodapimpfish 3 years ago
cool man cool the challenger was the best
videodude4001 3 years ago
thanks for proving that the "good old days" really were GOOD
great video
SeleniumRectifier 3 years ago
awesomeeee. i was born and raised racing =] started racing jrdragsters at 8 and stepped up to the 68' fastback stang when i was 17! thanks pops =] 'if you're not gaming the tree, you have no game!'
mystang8urimport 3 years ago
i can remember going too that same drag strip,ontereo motor speed way when i was a kid man i loved those days when the floppers did there short hop and along with prostock those were the days.
nhragirl16 4 years ago
Nice power shifting
pepsikatt 4 years ago
And i cant see one single import.Nice
pepsikatt 4 years ago 2
Amen to that. Those were the days. Thanks for the great video.
phoenixstl1 3 years ago
When the Cuda's and the Challenger's were the new ones on the market...
When the classic rock was all the soundtrack for such things...
When the engines were as big, as today's Japanese cars...
These were the days!
crazybreadeatingman 4 years ago
OUTSTANDING!!
the good old days!
reg light bulbs.
Real cars!
What a era!
smithkart 4 years ago
woooooo!!! what is the first song? great!!!!
thanks
hotrodgangster 4 years ago
Dear Mister Fantasy by Traffic. Great song. I like the Big Sugar remake too.
electricshockproof 4 years ago
wonderfull stuff nothing is like the heyday of super stock
foxgpgirl 4 years ago
Awesome vid thanks for posting it! Great footage.... things will never be like that again but we can all have our fun!
sactoeazy 4 years ago
would have liked to hear some of the real sounds of the racing
suzukimx121 4 years ago
The golden age of drag racing for sure. Watching Dick Landy banging the gears is something else. His left foot is a blur when hitting that clutch.
1rarefish 4 years ago
There is nothing better than watching old musclecars drag racing. thanks
bwg502 4 years ago
pro stocks that were actually stock bodies.....what a concept!
Jackamoo1 4 years ago
Crossover delay? Trans brake? Stutter box? They never heard of them. Drag racins was much simpler back then...and dare I say better.
oldrustycars 4 years ago
Wow.......Can't really say how much I enjoyed this footage. Would like to thank whoever made this video. THE BEST ONE I'VE SEEN!!!
QuickBuick87 4 years ago
what an awesome video !! ...thanx
zigman1962 4 years ago
Love this video!
You can see a live performance of this exact song, done by the original guy (Steve Winwood) in July 2007 at the Crossroads Guitar Festival... watch?v=Awjvm_-72Us
blueONwhite 4 years ago
even as a die hard bowtie freak i must admit those mopars ruled the strip and nobody can take that awy from them
rip ronnie and dick
skorpionhbg 4 years ago
amazing and wonderfull. one of the best vids i know!
o0Hacki0o 4 years ago
awesome footage!!!.."kingfish cuda" was baddass..anybody remember the "sassy gremlin" driven by paul pittman??...it was in the gasser class.
goyim1999 4 years ago
Awesome vid. Great footage.
electricshockproof 4 years ago
A time when Pro-Stocks and Funny Cars looked like street driven cars, not like some freakin turtle shelled UFO crap they race now!
Yo Greg, Jeg, Conally .etc. lets see ya grab a four speed and win every week like they used to do!!!!!!! MOPAR FOREVER!!!!!
R.I.P. Ronnie & Dick you will never be replaced!
69moparman 4 years ago
awesome best ever so cool
ianandjess426 4 years ago
LOVE this footage...
Actually, I think it's the '70 World Finals at Ontario (Calif.)
55racer 4 years ago
The best video on youtube. PERIOD!
Sickcycles666 4 years ago
wow gives me real chicken skin!
i've dreamed to build a real doorslammer
and when i vieuw this movie it gives me te strenght
but from who is this music??
americanjukeboxshop 4 years ago
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" by Traffic, from the album of the same name, 1967.
super70bird 4 years ago
dragway park
dasiedai 4 years ago
WOW - AWSOME! THX A LOT!
You made my week! The spirit of the 70ies is written all over it... just great!
Rgds from Switzerland
Goldcoastcustoms 4 years ago
Excellent vintage footage of a great period in drag racing. One quick correction, however. This was not shot at the SummerNationals (as sub-title suggests); most, if not all, appear to be at the World Finals at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, a track more famous for hosting the California 500, a USAC (Indy car) race. The track lasted from 1970 til 1980.
rpasley 4 years ago
What is the name of the song and the artist who sings?
taunus72 4 years ago
steve winwood & traffic - dear mister fantasy
bees1979 4 years ago
Thank you!
taunus72 4 years ago
Thanks for making & posting this! I've made more than a few quarter mile passes myself, and my friends and family can never understand the beauty of this sport.
This one really takes me back... the drivers working on their own cars... shifting that 4-speed... and smoking a cigar the whole time!
blueONwhite 4 years ago
THAT WAS A GREAT VIDEO THANKS.
headman1969 4 years ago
wow u know common sence stuff....i realyl wish i could find more old nostalgia video like this with the audio of the cars
kicker684 4 years ago
that guy with the cigar was dick landy. the cigar was a trademark of his, as well as building kick-ass hemis
champskii 4 years ago
I love the shot at 3:05 of the driver slamming gears with a cigar clenched in his teeth! Now that is style. :) Man, those were the days. Nothing like buring rubber, racing fuel, and chest pounding engine noise.
monaco74 4 years ago
Damn right, that was awesome!
N2SHAVOC 4 years ago
Great video, you should make one of these for the Trans Am racing of old.
1PotatoeMasher1 4 years ago
great video/ blues. "Can ya here me Kowalski"
swanny227 4 years ago
oh thank you thank you! Amazing! MAde my day!
frankieperrone 4 years ago
wow the good ole days of racing the black top strips i wish i was there and who sings that somg i like it wars it called thas an awsum video i loved it thank for posting it
badachevy 4 years ago
This is what the automotive world is all about!
thearmedmonkey 4 years ago
Great Video a real trip back through time!
soaleman 4 years ago
MORE!MORE!MORE!
nitrostalgia 4 years ago
Best video on You Tube.... Thanks
camaronut468 4 years ago
Beautiful! 5 stars!
Dart392 4 years ago
there is an asome pic of dick landys challenger on google just type in on images dick landy and then go to page 4 =)
hellokittyboy426 4 years ago
Just check how fast Dick Landy changes gear @ 3:o3 now thats a talented driver!
artfuldodger426 4 years ago
i wish i could a been there
cnh320generallee 4 years ago
that was a really cool video good 1
gravityman666 4 years ago
Traffic, very appropriate. Great vid
Robkat3751 4 years ago
Verry cool video! I love the footage some of it looked very familiar I know I have seen some of it before but it has been at least 20 years! Wow maybe even 25, very nice! Thanks for sharing!
bigshooter461 4 years ago
How can I get a copy of this video? Bill AKA DESOTOHEMIBILL
crossram5 4 years ago
Finally an old video with appropriate music. Very nice.
Back in the days when Pro Stock cars were not funny cars and funny cars actually looked like cars!
dawnnaYT 4 years ago
back when cars were cars and people actually had to drive instead of relying on electronics and slush boxes.
dragracer117 4 years ago
some nice cars back then.
darkrx777 4 years ago
10 out a 10, so cool
thanks for the vid...
ozwild 4 years ago
Bloody cool vid....well done!
Moparmal 4 years ago
check out the king or queen of green contest! start a revolution!
dizz420 4 years ago
this here is an excellent video, im only 17 so i too was born in the wrong decade :( i love old cars (especially Muscle Cars) and old music, (especially old rock, but the oldies are good too!)
motley1989 4 years ago
Please, tell me the name of the first song in this video? thanks
tripleblack77 4 years ago
Which the name of the music that touches in this video?
tripleblack77 4 years ago
someone pls tell me the name of the last song in this video? thanks
BloodyFingerz 4 years ago
Simon And Garfunkel › The Sound Of Silence
RoadRunner7272 4 years ago
Truly awesome! Its sad to think a lot of the pioneers of drag racing are gone,the talent & technology these icons have shared with us and the entertainment will live on as long as we keep it alive.
artfuldodger426 4 years ago
Lots of memories, great nostalgia, good old days, too bad the sound was not with it, well done nonetheless.
scatpack440 5 years ago
wicked video, I was born in the wrong decade...haha, whats the song playing in the background?
corey4406 5 years ago
hey corey....my name is jay and i too was born in the wrong decade. lol....the name of that song is "Mr. Fantasy" by traffic
chevynova8 5 years ago
rock on
corey4406 5 years ago
Awesome. The glory days of Super Stock when the cars were factory cars, not like now with a bunch of custom bodies all powered by MOPAR-based HEMIs while pretending to be Fords, Chevys, or whatever. Don't get me wrong. I love the NHRA today too, I just prefer cars that are closer to what we can actually own. I would like it even more with the original sound of the cars and the commentary from legends like Dick Landy. Awesome video indeed.
omcx1 5 years ago
Yes... I know exactly what you mean. Back in those days, we went up to the line with both our works AND out ideas.
ThomasDeLello 5 years ago
Thanks so much for that video, so hard to find that stuff. I love it. Cheers
samw454 5 years ago
I wish I were born in 56 not 76,That way I coulda been a teenager back when these cars were plentiful,and the music was awesome.Drag racing today is a pale cold lifeless comparison to what wnent on back in the day.
LIVEVILIVE 5 years ago
Awesome man . Memories just keep flashing in my head
Thanks for the kick in the pants
chevyrod56 5 years ago
The guy with the cigar is "Dandy" Dick Landy, who passed away a couple of weeks ago....
Dave31452 5 years ago
The song is Mr. Fantasy by Traffic, featuring Steve Winwood on vocals....
Dave31452 5 years ago
What's the song ??? It's so freakin' coool !!!
montrealkicksass 5 years ago
Wow ! Nice video ! (but ... no mustang ;) )
Exxxxxodus 5 years ago
Thats because Fud didnt win a damn thing back in the late 60's and early 70's in SS or Pro stock....
MOPAR or no car!!
Moparmal 5 years ago
Wow! Really Nice.
calearonson 5 years ago
Very well done. But it's really dating my age. And we'll never see rhese times again. Miss them big time. Don't much care for the direction Drag racing is going these days. (nopi)
bigred5379 5 years ago
real racing man tuned with ear drums not computer data
squidfart 5 years ago
Landy @ sox were the men, old skool
jbee69 5 years ago
ahhhh love those times, if only i got some props.
jbee69 5 years ago
Just awesome. Thanks for all the old memories.
Apryl340 5 years ago
nice stuff keep it coming
skorpionhbg 5 years ago
awsome thank you
ohio68javelin 5 years ago
The footage of Landy along with "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is
almost sad with the recent passing of Dick. It was
still great to watch. Thanks.
nixjag1 5 years ago
Wow. All the big boys from 'back in the day'. I still love seeing those guys and their cars. Pure greatness. Thanks Drill Sgt.
peteymonster 5 years ago
The best video on YouTube. Pure Automotive Porn!
Landy was the man!
289dual4s 5 years ago
The best video on YouTube! It's Automotive Porn!
289dual4s 5 years ago
Makes me wanna go out an crank the ol MOPAR up an make a few more passes.Thanks man.
bigiron383 5 years ago
what a top video.
hemiVALIANT 5 years ago