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The 1970s was the decade of transition for the Top Fuel dragsters. Of course, there's the obvious where the engines went to the rear from the front. But there are little tidbits we picked up on along the way, such as a crewmember adding nitro to a dragster's tank while running after the burnout.
There are the cameos by Buster Couch showing he was more than the starter, but a champion for the racer as he pushed Don Garlits back from the burnout in his triumphant return victory. A few years later, Couch sticks his head in the cockpit to inform Pat Dakin he has a single, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Then, after Garlits wins Pomona, there's the random person who runs on the track in celebration. How about a shirtless Top Fuel racer or two once they remove the fire jacket?
There's the advent of the female Top Fuel driver with Shirley Muldowney and the men who hated to lose to her. None hated it more than Don Garlits, with Richard Tharp, the 1976 NHRA champion coming in a close second.
There's all kinds of gems in this compilation which will leave you scratching your head and wondering, "How didn't we kill a driver, media or race fan."
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@johnwick-ii6il 11 месяцев назад

As a 10 year old gearhead, this was a great time to be alive. The Nation was still all about hot rods and racing. Even JC Penny sold wrinkle wall slicks. There was plenty of racing based cartoons on TV. I wore my grease stains to school with pride. Being the only 10 year old at the school who knew, and did mechanics.

@ronjones-6977 9 месяцев назад

I was 7. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw that first race. I HAD to have The Snake's Hot Wheels car that year.

@eric7922 Месяц назад

totally agree...golden age man. I had the Snakes Revell yellow Barracuda FC and later the Snake Army dragster. Prudhomme and Beadle were my guys but Muldowney was so awesome, she kicked ass, what a gal.

@55555711 Год назад

I grew up in 1970s great times people back then were more friendly and kept there word

@cowboysfan782008 Год назад

I did too, and no kidding. Also, if you wanted something you actually had to "earn it", and that system worked and made us all better. The combination of every ones' feelings being so important, along with the every one gets a trophy has NOT made us a better or more unified Nation, it has weakened us, to say the least!

@sergeantmasson3669 10 месяцев назад

Don Garlits helped many of us to get into NHRA top fuel racing. Me being one of them..

@dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

Don worked on his car I seen him at Cordova

@jtsheppard4787 Год назад

As a senior really enjoyed this video thank you for sharing.

@Apocalypse_Cow 8 месяцев назад

I remember 90% of the races in the video. Thanks for the compilation! 😎👍

@mikebaker9574 10 месяцев назад

Excellent video for us top fuel lovers !!!!! I came at the right time in life, I've seen every car on the video run and have attended a few of the races shown. But i still go to this day despite all the changes, it's still drag racing!!!

@joebloggs6206 Год назад

Wish we could go back to those days!!

@ChrisONeill-eb9vd 9 месяцев назад

I Grew up in the 70s not far From Irwindale Raceway and could hear the cars from my Backyard Running on Nitro scent in the Air and going to OCIR 😊❤Love those times

@Mike_Collins392 Год назад

Really cool seeing the rear distributer engines ( iron 392 and 417 Donovan ). They have a distinct sound ( crisp ). These were the engines that should have " evolved " , but cooperate money went to Keith Black and a few others to support the later engine. The iron block 392 was a production car engine with no consideration given to strengthen the block for anything other than being a daily driver. And here they are ( this video ) still competing in the most demanding class ( for an engine ) in drag racing 12 - 15 years after they were discontinued . And the only engineering support for the old engines was trial and error , home grown see if it holds methods. The later 426 still had paid factory engineers working on it even after it was discontinued . Anyway , thanks for the video , really cool job putting this together .

@FromMyEyesToYours 10 месяцев назад

My memories are very pleased to read your post! Long story long... our family raced top fuel cars in the 79's-80's, and during the early years of fighting the budget we went the 392 route. I remember one that came straight out of a 1957 Chrysler Imperial (it seems) that they towed to our shop directly on its way to the junk yard. The sludge.. my God, the sludge.. that was inside that motor when we cracked it open was hilarious. Like the owner had never changed the oil in the thing (my teen friends and I had a ball playing car bash with the body and glass). In the end I believe that block lasted a good 20 or more hard runs before we windowed it with a broken rod, with the heads surely going onto another 392 somewhere down the line. We probably went through three of those old production 392s for the first two years of cutting our teeth, then got serious with the Donovan 417 when it first came out (which actually had some various design traits of the 392), and then beyond with some Keith Black elephants for a total of 14 seasons. Glory days, I tell ya. Then we ran out of money. The End.

@oneblessedude Год назад

Wonderful footage of a great era...would like to see more from the mid 60's...push starting from the top end..

@redriverraider Год назад

Excellent Bobby! IMHO the best era! Thanks!

@CalvinWalker2000 Год назад

Great footage! Anytime we get footage from the '71 Winternationals, I'm happy. Wish we could get the whole thing, but this is just fine. Thanks for putting this together.

@VIRGONOMICS Год назад

Long live Drag Racing , especially Dragsters .

@mikebaker9574 Год назад

Nice video. Teaches younger folk about how it was in the great days !!!

@dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

They could have flown past Lindbergh. That dang parachute

@williammeszaros3382 8 месяцев назад

Great footage ! That was so sweet....back when men had balls !

@dsgb83 9 месяцев назад

I was 9yrs old at the 87 Southern Nationals , it was awesome !!

@sofalugger Год назад

Truly Awesome ....Halcyon Great days...How things have changed

@dr.erikbarrington3621 5 месяцев назад

I miss the sportscasters who would give you a whole blow by blow and adds the excitement along with the details.

@vincereynolds6092 Год назад

Really enjoyed this. Great footage! Amazing to see how Top Fuel evolved in the course of a decade. Thanks for putting this compilation together.

@Brianscoronet 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the upload

@bestcowboygiddyup 9 месяцев назад

These were and still are the good old days! I love watching this old competition. All great drivers were great and it’s a skill and luck sport, but I’ll always favor Big Daddy Don Garlits! Shirley was an inspiration to this sport and set the way for other woman to compete in what was traditionally a men’s only event. As a 10 second 1/4 mile competitor through 2001, I hated being beat by anyone. Man or woman, I never discriminated. Gol darn it I sure was happy (like happiest guy in the world) when I won! Yahoo!

@RichardWitty-wr9lo 5 месяцев назад

This is so cool

@billyandmyboyzayn9128 Год назад

Awesome 👍thought I heard Capps name 2x in this video

@stephenmitchell3569 Год назад

One of the nicest Christian men alive and smart sportsmanship, invented the rear dragster along with many other things. Great example for young and old !!!

@genefogarty5395 Год назад

Lmao, he may be a christian, but he's anyhing but nice.

@davidleonard8369 9 месяцев назад

@@genefogarty5395who told you that? Shirley?

@guests5863 6 месяцев назад

Big is the class of NHRA, and Dragracing since he entered the sport, met him several times at different tracks as well as his museum in Ocala, 👍

@slotcargene1 6 месяцев назад

Big did NOT invent the rear engine Dragster - there were several rear engine cars going back to the early-mid 60's including Tony Nancy's 22 Jr. Top Gas cars - but he was the first to make it work successfully. That's not actually true either, as Duane Ong was already running a rear engine car at the time - the Castrol Pawnbroker - which was a competitive car. Garlits' was the first killer RE car. What most people don't know was that while Big was building the RE car, Pat Foster had already run a Woody Gilmore-built RE fueler, but it crashed heavily at Lions on one of its first runs. It was Foster - talking to him from his hospital bed - who told Garlits what changes to make to the car to make it work properly.

@jimhiscott2918 Год назад

You have got to love this. I am so old lol😅😊. The sling shot was so deadly due to shattering clutch components. If you look at history i dont think Predone ever had this failure? McGewen (The Mongoose) I dont belive did either. Big Baddy had a bad one. I think it was in Pomona if my memory serves me right.

@dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

Clutch adjustment after engine rebuild

@craigwilson4439 4 месяца назад

The flywheel amputation saw. Yeah, Garlits had a bad one that left his foot hanging by the tendon. He would later laugh about the old ambulance driver closing the door on his very painful leg. I'm Australian and a second generation rodder who grew up hearing those guys as household names. Great old footage that would never have been available to the general public in this country. With RU-vid I watch as much 50's and 60's stuff as possible. Such a damn shame what the world has become.

@LarsonPetty Год назад

Met Garlits back in the 1990s. He's kinda a d!ck when the cameras aren't rolling. Don Prudhomme is cool as a bag of ice, tho. Shirley is a sweetheart, too.

@sitarnut 11 месяцев назад

Shirley... the Champ!

@Jameskelley7872 Год назад

I met Mr. Garlets at his museum 2 years ago, he was my hero until i met him, he is not nice in person.

@genefogarty5395 Год назад

I met him a few times many moons ago when I drove a transporter for Don Nicholson. Garlits was mot very well liked by many, but he was respected and revered by all in the racing community. As opposed to someone like Nicholson that was a pleasure to be around even after a loss, he always had time for fans and anybody that wanted to hear a good story.

@jimhiscott2918 Год назад

The new rear engine top fuels needed a lot more down for e on the rear wing however they haven't figured that out yet

@68promod Год назад

Awesome!!

@petercunningham3469 6 месяцев назад

Good man

@CriticoolHit 9 месяцев назад

Yo lets go cha cha!

@55555711 Год назад

See how people talked back then more nicer know days 2023 talk so bad to one another

@Smorkels Год назад

Great video, but the sound level fluctuates wildly.

@CompetitionPlusTV Год назад

when you are dealing with rare and hard to get video of 40 years or more - we kind of feel lucky to get what we can

@Smorkels Год назад

I agree 100%, and thank you for making this available. This video is priceless. I could normalize the audio for this video. @@CompetitionPlusTV

@artartful854 Год назад

Just reinforces my low opinion of the media. I heard one reference to ET in the first 20 min. Seems almost incredible that they took so long to pick up on the fact that ET and starting line reaction determines races, not speed.

@CompetitionPlusTV Год назад

remember, this was a compilation, not the entire version of the video. Most of that early broadcast footage came from Wide World of Sports, a sports variety show - not the gearhead Daimond P.

@artartful854 Год назад

@@CompetitionPlusTVOk

@darrellderon296 11 месяцев назад

Hello 👋👋👋 how are u 🙂 smiles 😁

@generalmassive1907 Год назад

No matter how many times I see that jim nichals crash it makes me cringe 😬

@Greg-nq4dj Год назад

Whatever happened to the driver they never really said anything kind of leaves you hanging

@edgarbeat2851 Год назад

@Greg-nq4dj he was at the banquet that night Don was still shocked. It was mentioned on Dimond P Decade of thrills Don narrating the crash.

@carlbergen2553 2 месяца назад

The absolute best time in drag racing 💯

@billyandmyboyzayn9128 Год назад

56:30 Ron Capp?

@CompetitionPlusTV Год назад

Not the same one.

@dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

I don't çare

@craigyoumans2578 Год назад

No doubt a smart man has done a ton for nhra but I went to his museum donlacks people skills I will never go back he was a arrogant little man to us

@genefogarty5395 Год назад

That's the general consensus about DG, he's just an a$$hole. I never understood how a guy that had so much success could be such trash in person. And he'll thump the bible all day long, hypocrite is a good description for him.