My heart jumped into my throat when I saw that Model TT truck. Twin engines, six-wheel drive, fat bobcat tires....with old-timey grill and headlights, and a beautiful blue metallic paint job. It almost looks too dainty to be a puller, but there it is.
I saw a few USHRA shows in the 80's. At the Pontiac Silverdome, they really put on a spectacular show in about 1983. Allen Gaines was there in the Orange Blossom Special 2wd truck doing an exhibition pull. It was a beautiful truck, something like a '37 Chevy with a supercharged BBC. The original Bigfoot truck was also there doing car crushing, and it was the highlight of the show. They had a couple of school buses that he would climb on top of, then get out and wave to the crowd. When he crushed the buses, every flashbulb in the place went off, and that was spectacular, too.
Im so happy this was recommended, I was born that year, i would never have expected already back then to see jet engines on pullers! Amazing to discover!
I was also born in February of 1991, on the 18th. Some of the best humans on Earth were also born that year. We're the last of the old souls to exist, anyone born after was given the "shit end of the stick" as I'm always told.
You haven't lived until you've been to an 80-90s indoor pull. Nothing like the sound and feeling on earth. Wow orange blossom special and midnight express. Got a ton of pics of each from back then somewhere. Art Arfons. The John Force of tractor pulls. I'm 13 again.
Met old Art Arfons a few times.really nice guy to talk with.have known Ron Warschkow and Troy for several yrs .grew up about 20 miles from them.another great group of guys
I was 11 lmao! And it's not like today with all the camera magic and ridiculous commercials. I used to love those Budweiser cans coming up the ramp on the sled. It made me the man I am today!
Back when we still had beer commercials on TV. Oh no,not beer commercials. The kids might become future alcoholics. 🤣🤣 But they allow rap music,and they wonder why kids hate the cops and riot and loot and burn shit.
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Who ever recorded thanks for doing a great job and posting it.I remember back in the 80's when they would come to Tampa,Fl.I always went to them thanks for sharing.
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Man I miss those old twin 1710 turbocharged Allison engines! Not many around anymore...In the 60s and 70s there were thousands of surplus aircraft piston engines like this for sale and sometimes cheap. The good old days!
I remember watching Art and some of the other tractors at the Cass County fair in Michigan around this time. I was about 10 years old. There was a guy who played the Grand stand named Johnny Cash too. I wish I had been older because I didn't know how cool it was at the time.
13:34 If you look closely, you'll see the front wheels stay just a few inches off the ground the whole way down the track. At the end, the announcer says the tractor was too nose heavy. I don't know about that.
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There was some kind of back story that went with the truck in the thumbnail when it came to Texas one year - something about it belonging to Al Capone in a previous life.
I miss when race cars, pulling trucks and off road racers were built nice enough and had enough chrome to also appear in the indoor winter car show circuits, I miss trucks and cars having names and cool paint jobs instead of being wrapped with sponsor stickers.
It STILL is real. Lol. Just bigger horsepower and bigger weights. Hence why they increased the distance. Can you imagine today's pullers pulling these trailers in that vid in the short arena??? Today's pullers would jerk these tiny trailer and haul about 50-60mph in that building. THAT is the only thing thats changed. Now we got pullers with 4x4 trucks with 2-3 600+cubic inches engines and tractors with 5-8 engines so massive that one of these engines would shit on two of back then's modified tractor engines.
Allen Gains with the original orange blossom special! From Georgetown ky use to have Enus and Miss Daisy from Dukes of Hazard at the pulls as special guest! In MtSterling ky! An ole Art Arfon from Ohio!
I am really curious if the modifications he did for the engines having flames coming out during the run, other than making it appear like a Nitro dragster or Funny car, etc. (which is brilliant and makes it an unforgettable piece of history and something every fan would always remember) had any performance benefits or not..? I mean it is Art Arfons after all, lol, so probably looks AND performance, lol 😊
