Amazing how quick people are to throw history into the garbage can. Automobiles are such a huge part of the United States history. Thanks for saving these tapes.
@WickedTornado You are very welcome. I'm a car designer in my career for the past few decades especially with high performance and supercars, even got the chance to meet the original Hemi retired designer for Chrysler many years ago. I have lots of respect for the folks with passion who fired up this industry back then. Keith Jackson did a great job too being icing on the cake.
The 1959 Riverside Raceway segment was not an NHRA Event, it was a Drag News Invitational meet. Plus Garlits and Jack Chrisman never raced each other as Chrisman's Sidewinder was a Gas Dragster where Garlits ran Fuel.
not bill jenkins , he and sox & martin went heads up and sox redlit and jenkins still caught sox at the 67' nationals . jenkins car was also a 396ci camaro , sox had a 426ci hemi
Awesome video, thanks for posting. Question: at 12:30, why is Arlen Vanke so late to launch? Was he asleep at the tree, or was that a handicapped start?
Those cars that had a handicap were in a different class. This was before 1970 when Pro Stock went heads up. That is why it is called stock eliminator.
