IMO, the 70’s were the Golden Years of tractor pulling! Man I remember getting the crops in, fire up the irrigation, pulled the Turbo IH 1206 into the quonset, swap out the wide front end for a narrow front end. Throw the big tires on the back, juice up the engine a bit, grab a rack of weights, load it up on the flatbed, fill the coolers up with Schlitz, ham sandwiches and potato salad, and go hit the Midwest circuit with our cronies, County and State Fairgrounds, pulling somewhere every Saturday & Sunday! You’d caravan about 20, 25 of your closest friends for a heckuva party every weekend, going out to a good steakhouse and Live country music after. Life was genuine, wholesome and a great time back then!
Old School America The cool America! Where did it all go wrong and down hill? I will tell you where, the Government stepping in telling the Parents and Teachers not to be so harsh on yr kids and yr pupils. So basically now we have wimpy overweight kids.
That's awesome.. in about 81 my dad was a hired hand on a huge grain and livestock farm and he bought a beautiful 1969 Ford f250 for $1k.. he then turned it into a pulling truck. Had the original 390 4 speed manual. Headers through the hood, welded axles, dump truck clutch, ran off fuel he got at a drag strip. Him and a buddy built it over the winter and might have had 8k into it and was going up against guys who were sponsored trucks and special cut tires. This was when they started building pulling truck chassis and sticking the hollowed out steel body on the chassis.. cool thing was we traveled all over the midwest pulling in the summer..he was beating these guys who had purpose built trucks.. alot of fun until his now ex wife wouldn't quit sleeping with everyone she met and she left and didn't come back for quite some time ..
WOW! 1976 was the first year I went to the National tractor pulls at Bowling Green. This isn't from that event, but some of the same tractors were there. I recognize Lloyd Mcvey's Super Banana. He was years ahead of his time with a turbocharged Chrysler Hemi. I also recognize the Loud Mouth Lime. A few years later it would be a triple-engine tractor.
Holy shit going back in time machine ! Probably 1975- 78 ?? What race track was this filmed ? Hadn’t seen Kinzers sled in a few moons. Kinda twin to original buck sled….
I see wildman Lloyd McVey and his Super Banana from Oakwood Illinois made it to Pennsylvania. I used to watch him drag race at Coles County Raceway near Charleston before he got the tractor pulling bug. He’d darn near always win the stock eliminator and his wife would already be at the trophy desk before he made his last run. Smug pair……..
omg omg omg that was dave stangle, was it was that him and the super banana is lloyd in the interview section, omg this is an awesome video, who is the guy at 12:00, i meet art and dusty at the twin creeks pull in canada, great video, wow
