CLASSIC VIDEO - 1983 NHRA WORLD FINALS, OCIR FINAL EVENT 

Steve and Dave, the best commentator combo in Drag Racing ever!

Better racing,best commentary these were great days.

O.C.I.R. opened in August 1967. In July of that year I was helping to tighten the bolts on the guard rails working for a friends construction company. I was 13 years old. I was at the very first race and the "LAST RACE" in Oct 30th 1983. I was at nearly every race until it closed. I was on the PITS side at this race. Over the years there I raced my own 57 NOMAD (13.78 @105) 62 Impala (16.24@ 87) 68 Camaro (12,58@112) Happy to have this video. Great memories.

I grew up in Orange Ca. back in the day I saw multiple races here @ OCIR!. They were amazing, soo much fun. This was the real era of drag racing

Man I miss Steve Evans........ No announcer even comes close today.

Thanks for sharing this. The late 70s to early 90s has to be my favorite era of drag racing, reminds me of being a kid and watching with my Dad on weekends.

This was probably the golden Era for me I was a little kid in the 90s it was like 92 and I found my grandpa s old nhra tapes and he had em all man I started watching the 79 season he had the winter national s the US national and the world finals of 79 and I was hooked

I was there with my Dad and a friend from school who had never been to a drag race before. Unfortunately OCIR, one of the best facilities/tracks, would close in '84. RIP OCIR and thanks for all the good times and great memories.

I was there...thank you Dad!!!

I prefer to watch these races over todays meets. I loved working the WWCS meets at NEDway when I was in HS in the early 80's.

Thanks for posting! You guys have better classic show selection than NHRA.tv, haha!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! MANY HAPPY MEMORIES!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

These videos are priceless thanks for posting …I was a little kid in New England visiting Epping with my dad getting my first doses of Nitro when some of these guys were running….

I grew up in OC and near that drag strip. Sure missed it after it closed. Thank you Irvine Company!

Holy shit, what action, those were the days 1/4 mile.

What a flashback to OCIR!!! Loved that track. Watched many races, even drove my own car a few times. My how safety has changed in TF, and car development. Loved the commentators. They spoiled us, didn't they?

That's when racing was Old School Cool!

Great video I always liked going to the drag races I made it to the World Finals in 77 when it was at Ontario Speedway Thank You for the great video

OCIR wow, I remember my Dad, Jim Bernard, racing his Top Fuel Drag Bike at this track. This and Ontario were home.

I was there for that race - lots of memories at that track! I did a few grudge night drags made in my ‘69 Cobra Jet Mach One and also did motorcycle drags there.

As much just flat out Bad luck Snake had during his driving career, it's amazing he won as much as he did! I was at this race, but I let my party'n overload my senses that time & can't remember most of it LOL! Too much Delorean dust & Jim Beam as I recall, life in So-Cal was just a big party in those day's 🥴👍

Great memories

I remember attending this race, The last one held at OCIR. It's interesting how far drag racing has come. Door cars now run quicker and faster than the fuelers in 83

I have a few Diamond P telecasts from the mid to late 80's on VHS from the NASHVILLE NETWORK if anyone is interested in presenting them on RU-vid.

It amazes me that you can see the sketchiness compared to these times too new times.... Straight savages. Insane to think how far we’ve came

This is awesome ... Thanks for the cool vhs gold !

I use to love Diamond Sports.

Awesome machines!

It was a bummer when OCIR closed forever, that place was the tits. Pit areas were a bit shabby but the racing, the crowds, atmosphere, everything else was off the scale awesome.

In 83 they still went a 1/4 mile. This should be good.

I wonder is there any film/video of the Funny Car 64 for future Classic Videos? I'd get a kick hopefully out of seeing Funny Car 64's be even Premiered Formally in Space or On Front Channel TV in some shape.

Coronavirus sent me here...just watching old races.

The song in the beginning is Frank Stallone far from over👍👍👍👍👍

Dunn was never done " roland leung ? Absolutley a classic.

Steve Evens was the voice of dragracing amazing how it's all gone dwn hill,to just boring and bullshit!

I was a young man in 83. I was 17.

Steve Evans...and I remember when 250mph was fast and 2000hp was crazy...till Kenny bernstien did the first 300mp

Mike Dunn sure was hard on engines and himself in those

I wonder if Jim Dunn asked Roland (are you trying to kill my son ?)😮

10:14 Ron Capps?

They had to shorten the track because the car were going to fast.

Was this track part of riverside international speedway

Rolland tried so hard to kill Mike.

DIAMOND P SPORTS CAVALCADE

Orange County International Raceway..... O.C.I.R. - “The County“…."The Super Track" I helped build the track at only 13 years old in July 1967. They gave us tickets to the first event and I was infected, injected addicted to drag racing since. I was at the track over 100 times for the next 18 years until "The Last Drag Race" Oct 29th 1983. I always wanted to make a scale track so I finally hit ebay and bought every legendary car I could find that I saw at the track prior to 83. My one of a kind Tribute display has over 400 cars and a scale 22 foot drag strip. With a monitor playing every video I could find on the track. This one will be added. I made a video of my display that is at my page

where was Big Daddy?