......and stupidity on the left by dumping oil all over the last portion of the track...... I think he was the only one who didn't bother to pull off of the race line after slamming his oil pan on the prepped part of the track!!!🤤🤯🤬
I remember when Bob Glidon was winning all those pro stock races. He hated wheelies. He said they would set up their suspension so that would transmit into forward motion. Makes sense to me.
In #1, he was standing on his exhaust, that's what made it come down awkwardly. If I knew my car did wheelstands I would not have em exiting out the rear lol!
they have 5 prizes you can win at this event, highest, longest, most photogenic, most violent and best overall so if you are throwing sparks you are probably in contention for most violent.
In 1976 our autoshop built a 66 Chevy II just like the one in this video with a 283 punched out to 292 cubes. It ran a roller cam with a single plane manifold topped by a 1050 dominator, powerglide and olds rear end with ultra low gears around 5.13's or so. We took the car to the 76 winternats at Beeline Dragway just outside Phoenix and ran it in the 10.90 bracket. The point was back in those days you could run a semi professional class and get a tax deduction for the first two years of competition as long as you tried to make a profit in the end. That meant running the regional race series and showing up ready to do your best. Reagan fucked us out of that dream, but in 76 it was still a valid thing to teach students to reach for. So we showed up with a borrowed car, with borrowed Trans and rear end and an engine we built out of the Auto aclub fund and went for the gold. Along the way there was this guy with a brand spankin new 76 454 Camaro running the same class. All weekend long we watched as this guy did his burn out, then did a dry hop and a wheel stand at almost every launch. We lucked out and didn't square off against him until the semis. We had run consistent as hell 10.90's with a car that had a motor that was too small sporting a carb that was too big all weekend long. (Along the way I met Don Garlits! He is an awesome racer who took every minute he could to share with the next generation and the generation after that, trying to get them interested I. Something that wasn't going to land them in jail. He was my personal hero, and I was never prouder of him than when he refused to take sponsorship from the tobacco or alcohol companies, which at the time I was supporting, to keep him at the track, the man knows hat the word ethical means unlike our leadership today. Anyway we came up against daddy warbucks and his money powered Camaro in the semi final round. I held the car every round to keep it in the burnout box, something you could let a minor do today no matter where you ran. We did our burnout, then our dry hop getting the tires hot enough then scraping of the marbles. He did the same. When we staged we were nervous as hell as he cleaned the clock of everyone he went side by side with. We had gotten their by shear consistency. The cars staged and the lights cycled to the green light. His car stood almost straight up, almost the perfect launch, it rolled about ten feet and stopped, dead in its tracks. And when we looked at where his car had sat before the tree went green, there was his pumpkin, sitting there in a pils of gravel and gear oil. I looked up and saw our car run through the traps with a perfect 10.90! The next round we got cocky, but I'm not sure out teacher felt that. He staged the car after the burnout, moving with purpose. The tree lights cycled through to green. The cars launched hard. We watched, not breathing one little bit until the cars broke the light beams at the tall end. The Chevy two with its high winding 292 screaming like mad had traversed the quarter mile in 10.89 seconds. I held my breath as I looked over to the other cars ET. 10.92. Danm it! To lose by going too fast seemed like a crime after the months of hard work we had put into the car, some of us staying after school to comp,tee their task. I guess in retrospect, second place and what we accomplished with so little against so much was honorable, but it sure didn't seem like it at the time. We loaded the car back onto the trailer, dejected, loaded our tired bodied on the school bus and headed home. Without ever seeing the outcome of the pro classes. Damn! But it was worth it. So get your kids involved in racing if you race yourself. And if they're not interested mentor some kids who are. It's a worthwhile pass time. It's an education that will follow them anywhere they go. For instance decades After I went to DeVry after spending over 20 yrs in the auto parts industry doing everything from delivering parts to counter sales, to managing counter sales to managing production of an engine remanufacturer and ending up manning the phones for TRW and Sealed Power on their 1-800 tech Line assisting builders from the average joe to Jack Roush, Richard Petty and Bob Gliddens teams with technical details they needed when buying our engine parts. I changed careers to the electronics industry, expecting to make enough to finally get a car up and running.... you guessed it, the 10.90 bracket. My first week at Intel I found myself working on the ground breaking Itanium 64 bit server processors. In the manufacturing step I worked there was a problem loading the processors into to a circuit board that allowed them to be operated at full load for the equivalent of 90 days at full capacity of the processor. The theory was that most defects show up in the first 90 days of use from the buyer of the product, so Intel chose to age the product under the harshest conditions for the equivalent of 90 days so that any defects would be detected and not passed onto the customer, something AMD wouldn't do because it effects their bottom line. The machine that loaded the processors into the test interface board was having reliability problems. After watching it operate for ten mi utes I could see that it was loading too fast and the spring loaded heat sink doors were "floating" the same way vales float when they rev to high. Two weeks later, watching upper maknagement fumble around like mad they decided to put a high speed camera inplace to see what was happening and they foun that my automotive experience had pointed me in the correct direction. They slowed the loading process and everything worked great after that. Never doubt a good rag racer!
Holy crapoly....my damn palms are all sweaty from watching this!! Great vid everybody! Thanks for sharing this with us and take care out there!!;)Peace to All of Us!!;)
Your not a true hot rodder.. Drive it, break it, fix it & do it again.. So if you have a hot girlfriend you won't Bang her because you worry about wearing her pussy out??????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is an annual insane wheelie competition, just for s**ts and giggles. But it does seem pretty stupid, because some of those cars are serious and expensive race cars. I cringed when that Chevy II bottomed out, OUCH!
Thanks Thompson, and yes I really did give one away with wire spoked wheels from a ford truck scrap in my field, but I look positive to modern technology. I remember my dad bringing home a 69' Camaro SS fresh off the showroom floor that to the day he died claimed it was a POS...
this was Byron ,il. maroon cutles was flipped backwards before.. seen most them cars for past 10yrs at the wheelie contest they do evry yr..most of them are from Rockford,il. I useto live there.. good shared video.. espn is there every yr
He's also an actor performing in a fake car on a green screen. The car you see is a detailed model driven by a stunt driver. The car wheelies because the put the gear ratio to 5:57 and put about 500 lbs. in the ass of the car.
lol mad sarcasm.. and jason hook, the car wheel stands in that movie when the tyres are being lit up, so in reality the car wouldnt wheelie,, hollywood tricks mate.
Mark emarc We all know it's Hollywood tricks, that's what I was suggesting when I brought up the gear ratio and ass-weight. Now I should point out that, in the more recent films, the driving and racing itself is mostly real, albeit performed by stunt drivers. Paul Walker actually did most of his own driving, the guy was a well-experienced road-rally driver. The '99 Skyline in the 2nd film? His personal car. Now you wanna talk no-bullshit, watch the parachute-car jump in the 7th movie. No CGI involved. They simply flew two planes over Pikes Peak, dropped two cars apiece with GoPros mounted all over the place, and equipped them with remote-controlled parachutes.
It's quite clear the last one had some damage, but I'm still handing it over to "High Wild" for the front left wheel snapping off and going underneath the car
3:27 *No Wheelie var, vs Wheelie bar* Wheelie bar wins. *Always!* Now seriously, whats is up with these big budget, big horsepower builds, and no wheelie bars?
I dont know, my dad drives drag, I drive courses like Barbers MS here. Great track just too many damn FIA races and very few track days. 0 budge on winter drifting. We can talk tracks all day but secluded 3 mile curvey roads that two guys can sit at both ends to prevent cop drama and traffic. My 71' z28 holds curves and shoots straight. I love here on the road. Now that I can help you with. 145 for a good long 1 mile straight. 42, the 3 mile smile, and good ol' I65 northbound around chilton county exit 212 north. The higway is blocked on both sides so on coming cops cant do shit. as for this video, most are from the same track, others no.
Tyler Churchwell Yea I live right next too Barbers, they used to have track days all the time, and we enjoyed going. Sorta got out of it though the last 5 years, haven't really built anything except a couple lifted Dodges.. Steele was always horrible, it was built over swamp, and if I remember right the IHRA had too cancel all their races due to track conditions.. Laster Mtn.is fun, and really loud..
Tyler Churchwell Speaking of roads, my grandparents live in Hwy 25,which goes from leeds all the way too vincent, and it is a seriously fun road.. Dead man's curve is a nail biter coming down the mtn though..
GroddOfWar 777 Yea man, was steele the track IHRA shut down due to the drop off at the end? 3-4 years ago some rich dude rolled up in a car that had power that should have been placed in a kitted funny, but the chevelle won but he was clocking 190 at the finish. Full on rear break failure with one chute failure. Went sailing off the end killing him, shutting the track down. Ive heard about 25 but my crew never runs there. BTW be careful on 42 if you run it starting at 145. 1/4 the way through you will go down a huge hill looking over a dairy farm. 300 yards later you will have a 90* turn. Many racers have been killed going off at a good 100. Thats why we start on I65, then when we see lights we get off on 42, park a few walkies; beginning middle and end, then we drag again to end the night. its good fun, and because of our "tracks" being connected the only time we get pulled over is if too many show or an idiot brings an UC with him. Hit me up if you ever want to run, the roads have been raced on since the 50's. We have the safest routs but its up to you to keep the car straight. We also GPS cars before a pink is throwed down to prevent runners and road rage. Ill pm times and meet spots if interested. cars range from muscle all the way to ferrari/lambo, but right now the guy to beat is driving a skyline r33 GTS/rb30 bore driven in from mexico. He only races pinks so thats how he has the cashflow to keep kicking our ass.
Like the different camera views and slo mo stuff. Been shooting drag racing pics off and on for nearly 40yrs. Got a bucket truck now, may get some different views. Yeah, cuda bought a drone but can't trim trees with one of them.
2:57 - damn that's going to be expensive.... there was a car that came to Moroso speedway in W.Palm Beach, Florida that instead of a footbrake he used a left and right brake lever in the car and cut a square hole in the floor installed plexiglass and did wheelstands the entire length of the track. the crowd loved it. I don't know how many runs he made but it was alot. coolest wheelstanding car I ever saw. he made it look easy.
Derek Taney ive seen videos of stuff like that...my grandpa used to drag race a nova and a grand prix in the ihra...i have always loved drag racing and sand drag racing
Omg! Where was the trailer behind that cutlass, for the guys enormous balls? They couldn't possibly fit in the car!! The way he stayed in it was awesome!!! And that sunfire at the end did a nice dance too!!
What would even be more exciting is set up some of those concrete guardrail blocks sideways at the finish line do a giant ass wheelie then run full speed into the barriers !
Some serious damage likely occurs to the engine when the car finally lands; can you imagine that heavy crank getting slammed into the bearings and caps?? Would not trust the block after this kind of punishment...
that car @1:25 looks like the old datsun B210 we used to fix up and drag race in the 80"s along with the 280z man u could just about do anything to them cars was one of the first 4 cylinders with thick enough piston walls to modify to extreme
1:56. why does just about everyone who drag races have that stinking Grant wheel. my 70 charger has the same one and it was a drag car with slicks on it before it was parked in the late 90s. I hate that ugly wheel.
+Aziz Lamar They're cheap and SUPER easy to take off and on? That's what i can think of. I have one on my 280z and honestly the wheel is small enough to carry in my backpack as a security because the old locks on that car aren't exactly the best.
Felepeno yep you're right. I noticed they were real small and I don't like the design at all. Well I've got to break down and rebuild my steering column anyway so I'll toss the old thing away.
