I know what you mean brother, I use to run shine in the 60's and 70's,,, no more,,, to dam old.!.. I did out run the cops a few times, thank God I never got caught.!
Ascot WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST race tracks in ALL OF AMERICA for cars AND bikes. Spent MOST of my youth RIGHT THERE and STILL MISS IT today. THE saying used to be IF you COULD GO FAST AT Ascot you COULD GO FAST ANYWHERE. And AGAIN it was that way for bikes OR cars !
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I saw Redline 7000 when it was first released. A terrible movie. I was 14 and into slot car racing. I had an Aurora HO track in my parent's basement and as a joke I named the track The Mike Marsh Memorial Speedway. I wrote it in felt pen in the infield. Those were the days.
Some of my best childhood memories are from Ascot. Just parking in the housing tract across the street and hearing whatever was racing that night made me almost spin in circles waiting to cross the street. The good old days when noise and racing was not pushed out of southern California - Saddleback hillclimbs, SanBerdoo speedway, Carlsbad motocross, Long Beach harbor boat races, Brotherhood raceway drags in San Pedro - so much as been lost but still remain in my memories.
Hi Robert. My dad took me to Ascot in the '60s a few times. As a kid I loved the figure 8 races followed by the demolition derby. Very exciting for a nine year old boy. Another lost track is OCIR between El Toro and Tustin. In the mid seventies, a friend of mine and I would go on "Fox Hunt" nights. Girls got in for free and for an extra buck or two, you got a pit pass. Great times watching all classes of dragsters from stock to top fuel. We even saw a jet car, the "Green Mamba Jet".
@@grantrichards4950 OCIR is a fond memory for me too..... those were the good ol days for sure. I hate going back to So Cal now - except in my memories.
@@yawningchasm33 :Santa Maria, Oildale, Perris, Hanford, Chico, Placerville, were among some of the tracks still operating after Ascot. There are more,I just can't think of their names. Perris was built to replace Ascot.While a nice track there will never be another Ascot.The best dirt track ever in California, GONE.
@@jeffduncan9140 426, but in the atmosphere of the mid-late 60's you wouldn't dare homologate an engine that would be illegal (427 CI max) after a bottle brush honing, or if bore tolerances were at the high end of spec. 5 thousandths of an inch over the factory bore would be enough to put you dead on 427.0 cubic inches. Chrysler just went with 426, Chevrolet's mark I "Z11" big block 427 was 426.02ci, Pontiac SD 428 was 426.61ci and so on.
Now if NASCAR went back to these type cars, it would rebound. These are awesome and the sound is perfect. And yes you will get tire squeal on that hard clay dirt track.
Fun stuff. The car is mega tight, but I don't know how they adjusted for that back in those days. I'm just amazed they could keep power to the ground with the tires of that time. Tapped the wall on that last lap.
When Daytona opened in 1959 it was only the third paved NASCAR track. Everything else were dirt tracks like this one. In late 1964 I went to a 300 lap USAC stock car race at Ascot. Good racing.
Ascot Park in Gardena! Used to go there as a kid with my folks and their friends for sprint cars! There’s a shot of the track in the original Gone in 60 Seconds with Parnelli Jones had his Bronco stolen! Those were the days! 🏁
LOL> I had a 63 1/2 Galaxie with a real strong 390 and I had trouble with that roving big ass rear end on many occasions. I loved the look of it and still do. Wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
The fake ass "cars" they "race" today is what is killing Nascar. Race stock cars like this with roll cages in them and fuel cells is all that would be needed. It would bring back the action, thrillers, and pride of ownership that we had in those days.
SIXPACFISH NASCAR has ruined "Stock cars" its all about HUGE money they have forgotten it started as a bunch of shine runners that were outstanding "shade tree mechanics " everybody built their own. Now 4 or 5 companies. Build them ALL they buy a kit and put their sponsors graphic package on it. And NASCAR makes them run restrictors to alledgedly keep the speed down but in reality it just bunches up the field and causes better TV wrecks........the sport at this level is done.....support your local tracks wher you can still afford to take your family
Do you know what you’re asking for? I’d much rather watch 3,400lb tube chassis cars with 7-800 horsepower on a 9 inch tire than a bunch of caged, front wheel drive 6 cylinders.
Stock cars need to be "stocker" Maybe Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, etc,with factory Stock bodies, limited engine mods with the actual engine blocks that come from the factory, no more restrictors since they will be slower but fans can actually identify with them. Also, consider a dirt track once in a while!!. Just sayin.
Finally someone who really "gets it"! I want to see cars race that I can go into the showroom and buy. I don't care about the phony body shell they strap onto that hand made go kart frame all with the same engine. If it only comes with a 4 cyl you race a 4 cyl. If it only comes with a auto you race a auto. Real car racing again.
Joseph Brown before you correct me, do a little research. Google 427 Ford FE. Do you think Ford would’ve raced NASCAR and put a Chevy motor in their car?
@@Route5Garage_5.0tbrd88 I'm a Chevy guy. Year's ago I had the opportunity to drive a friend's 69 mustang that was FE powered. I absolutely loved the power and torque of that engine.
Arguably Hollywood’s greatest driver-stuntman, as well as actor of over 70 feature films, Carey Loftin 7/23/14 - 3/4/87 (83yo) Love Bug, Bullit, Vanishing Point, Diamonds are Forever, The French Connection, Duel, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and White Line Fever! ...to name a few!
My brother-in-law had one of these beasts in 1964 that he drag raced at US 131 Raceway in Martin, Michigan. When he came over to our house to pick up my sister you could hear him coming from 1/4 to 1/2 a mile away. Used to screw up everyone's TV, too. Plug wires weren't as insulated then as now. Just raw horsepower. They'd go see a movie then out to a country road set-up for drag racing and get it on. Sister was scared to death of that car, but would jump in every night with a smile and come home looking like a ghost, chalk white. He was a hell of a mechanic then and taught me a lot about cars and especially engines. Good Lord, how I miss those days.
Love that big block with the open headers. I had a 68 Mustang with a 428SCJ 4-speed and open Hooker Super Comp headers. Just a 24 inch collector slipped on the back. That was my drag racing car. I loved the sound. When you dumped the throttle in 4th and were coasting down it just sounded angry. I wish I could have seen the real stock cars running.
Don't know why this popped up in my Recommendations just now in 2021, but it's great!! Was out in the garage last week digging through an old box of trophies I've got from Ascot from racing my Motorcycle around that place....
When I was a kid, our family lived a stones from Ascot. Sometimes we’d sneak under the fence to watch the racing, and get our ass caught. Now it’s a skyscraper.
Maybe some of the older viewers already know or suspect this. I remember being at the drive In in 1965 when I was 16 and I also remember this scene well, or it’s awful close. James Caan or some other sandy hair’d actor was playing the driver of a 64 yellow Ford stock car that had had the steering mechanism screwed up. I’m not sure, 56 year old memories aren’t always real trustworthy. But it seems like it maybe was done on purpose so this young driver would look bad or to see how good he might be, although he didn’t know about it. Anyway it took about 3 times I think for him to figure out how to compensate for the faulty steering, so it ended up he was able to prove that he was really one hell of a driver. I’m pretty sure this was a small part of that movie scene, Redline 7000. Where I come from, there was a stock car driver in those days who could’ve also handled that scene easy, his name was Ernie Derr.
Now that's my Baby a 427 top oiler nothing sounds like them even the 427 side oiler didn't have that sound BUT the Infamous 427 probably the Greatest engine EVER BUILT
That is the real deal when it comes to Stock Car racing. Big ass heavy car with a Big Block settin' between the front wheels. My first stock car was one. It use to wear me out.
@SonderMann1982 The movie is "Red Line 7000", a lot of good footage in it, especially 1963-64 Ford and Mercury. When cars were real cars, not plastic computer driven toys like today. You can find the film on VHS tape on eBay, I don't think there is a DVD of it?
I once saw Junior Johnson in an interview talking about putting the brand new 390 V8 from a 1959 Cadillac ambulance into his bootlegging car. He said it went so fast he had trouble focusing on the sides of the road. That's what you call a good power-to-weight ratio.
Tires will squeal on a dirt track only if it "takes rubber." If it is dried up and enough cars are on the track it will leave rubber marks and get very black. At that point, the part of the track with rubber on it will become the fastest part of the track and you will hear the rubber sound like this (though hard to hear over the engine compared to this). Man racing is fun.
