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Drag Racing - Pacific Raceways 1963

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Uploaded by on Jun 3, 2007

Video from the Mothers Day drag races, May 12th 1963 at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington. This was shot by a friend of my parents, Tex Steere, who asked me to help convert it for him and has graciously allowed me to post it on YouTube.

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  • Is some of this early Pomona footage??

  • No, it's all from Pacific Raceways

  • 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????

  • 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.

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  • Good ol' S.I.R

  • 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.

  • Very cool thx 4 sharing !

  • Wow 1st rails.

  • 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?

  • Cool cool cool drags on mothers day

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

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

  • 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...

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

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