CLASSIC REWIND - 1984 NHRA U.S. NATIONALS, INDIANAPOLIS 

Back here now one week after the passing of the greatest race announcer to ever grace a hot mic RIP Big Mac, for you are Legend 🙏 🎤 #GOAT

In 1984 my grandparents gifted my mom and dad a JVC VCR. In 1983 I discovered drag racing and with the new video cassette recorder I recorded the 84 U.S. nationals. After viewing the race easily over hundreds of times within a year or so the tape finally gave out. Now 51 years young I can still see myself sitting on the living room floor watching my heros! 🤘🏼

When Dave McClelland says Lee Shepard and Bob Glidden's name the hair stands up.

I WAS AT THIS RACE . I'M FROM COLUMBUS OHIO . GREAT TO SEE JIM HEAD GET HIS FIRST WIN IN FUNNY CAR . PLUS TO SEE BIG DADDY GET HIS 6th AT INDY . A GREAT WEEKEND THAT I'LL NEVER FORGET .

Miss Pat Garlitz looking very young in 1984. Rest in peace Mam!. Got her and Big's autograph on the same sheet in 1985 at a SuperShops? meet and greet/ fund raiser thing. She laughed about it, Big smiled and said, "thank you".

I find myself rather watching these 37-year-old drag races than 2022 drag races I really miss these days

I think this was the race where he took the dragster out of the museum to race at Indy.

This race made me a Jim Head fan, I know it was only luck, but he won ! He had bad luck many times after, mostly it was a lack of sponsors. You could never tell if he could win, but when he did it was great watching an underdog win. His car simply said HEAD most of the time !

In the uk a tv programme in conjunction with the owners of santa pod raceway built a slipstreamer top fueler with no wing, it was to be driven by the program presenter,a lady with no drag racing experiance. She did a couple of idles down the strip and 1 ,100ft launch. It scared her silly and they got an extremely experienced fuel driver dennis priddle to make a pass. He dam near flipped it and was all over the track,only his reactions and experiance saved a massive crash. The car was stripped of its ' aero bodywork and rebuilt as a normal rail. Dennis said the hardest thing to do is to get your foot off the throttle (as its in a sort of cage) as you automatically brace yourself fearing a crash is coming.

I wish I could've made it to Indy. My dad did, racing their BB/GD a few times in the late 60's. He has pics & home movies from back then. They built their own cars & trailers then. I can still remember riding in the truck push starting it at our home track, New England Dragway, who he was partially responsible for it being built. Miss the old days.

Pull an old car out of the museum and win. He didn't come for the beer . that's Big Daddy for ya !!

The good old days when it didn't cost you a million dollars to run the season.

The background music is so 1984! I love it

I love this era, when funny cars look like the actual production car not a a fiberglass part car part square box...

The next time jim head won indy he stopped cory mac from winning 5 races in a row

Whats the deal with Tim Grose’s FC parachute deploying before the finish line? TWICE?

I was there

The Black car

What am I seeing at 35:22?? Some random car flying across the top of the screen?

I was there.

So great! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this! Watched from start to finish. Super happy to see Big Daddy win. What happened to Snake though? I saw he was there talking to Garlits in the pits but did he not qualify or did he just come to watch? And where was Shirley? She also didn't qualify?

Larry minor sold some potatoes...

Isn't this exactly what happened to Shirley when she had her big accident? 3:25