Ingenuity In Action 1959 NHRA Hot Rod Film 

Times like these, you just wish it would never change! Great times!

This brings back good memories of the Fremont drag strip in California, when life was simple and people were normal. I wish we were back in this time

That orange multi car hauler is the coolest I've ever seen. Man those were the good ole days of racing. Would have loved to worked with those guys on cars. What a thrill that would have been.

In many ways the most exiting days of drag racing, before the big bucks took hold of the sport. I love this movie !

This was very refreshing to watch... If only we could go back to those days.

Pure brain 🧠 no technology Real masters of mechanics no computer 💻 pure passion for cars 🚙 I wish I was there

Wish we could go back to them days and keep America great.

This 72 yo man got a real kick out of seeing memories of being an speed infected teen of the day. Many cars from Ohio, where I lived then. These folks would often stay up half the night to assist a fellow racer who might beat them the next day. The trophy isn't as shiny when one gets it on a bye run.

I was a old farm boy who could only dream of a drag car but loved to go to the races at Houston Texas and Victoria and SanAntonio Texas. How times have changed, I'll still take the old days when it was a sport. I'm 75 now but still Young at Heart 😎

When I was 11, my dad took me to that Oklahoma City race in 1959. I remember the Dragliner and the Green Monster. Dad drove a D/Gas 55 Chevy at the local tracks around Colorado Springs, CO.

I grew up a few miles from Detroit Dragway. Spent a lot of time out there in the 60's. Saw a lot of big name racers out there. Lots of fun for not a lot of money.

95 years "amazing" great story , great people ... great work

I sure miss the Detroit drag way. The commercials still burnt in my head. ......Sibley at Dix !!

"On any sunday" watch it. Love this. I'm a younger gen-x and this was my jam growing up. We rocked a 67 charger.

Hands down one of the best videos I've ever seen on RU-vid

So weird watching a video about cars that doesn't have electronic music. :O

WOW! Nobody was standing around poking and swiping at a smart phone the whole time. They just talked to each other face to face. Bet the food back then was much better also...

You have to imagine where you would SEE these films....Indoor Custom car shows, a curtained display space, folding chairs and ash trays. You could hear the racing while waiting in line to sit inside the curtained area. A thrill as a kid.

I'm an old fart that was racing back in 1968. I sure do miss the simplicity of those days along with the friendship of the fellow racers regardless of their brand preference. The average guy had a chance to enjoy success back then because there were loads of small drag strips around and those goof balls with their million dollar race cars weren't there to shut everybody down week after week. As with most sports today, it's not about the guy who has the brilliant imagination and who is willing to work on his car every night till 1 am then go to his regular job the next day, it's about the rich guy who can buy the best equipment and have other people build their car for them. Then have the audacity to plaster their name all over the car as if they built it.

When America was America, and racing was racing.

1959,? Ancient! Famous people, before they were famous! Great video!

This is great, I love these old car documentaries!

Love their crew cuts

the 50's will always be the best era. Best hot rods, best cars, cool music, women were women, men were men, people had manners and respect for others, no drugs..........

Man all the different cars are amazing.

I live in Dayton, Ohio and to see Ohio George Montgomery on here was a treat he's a friend of the family.

Seeing them on 66 brought back many a good memory.

so funny, I grew up late '60s, early '70s in the muscle car heyday, i've driven a 1972 lightly modified 1972 440 RT Charger to a 13.2 in the quarter mile, quite a feet in the day, and now we have Hellcats and such capable of 10s from the dealer........this is great, but the cars look sooooooooo slow, love this

This makes me wish i was born in the usa in the 30's, so i could join the car culture community back then.

awesome old film and footage. these people are all true ledgends of the sport. back to basics stuff. not like now where you need big bucks or your wasting your time. thanks for posting.

Fantastic. So easy living then.

When I was 13. We used to hang out during the summer (1963) weekend drags at the Tri-Cities airport, in Endicott, NY and hitchhike as the vars came out to the main road, and hoped they'd give us a ride. We frequently did! Those old vettes and street Gassers were really something!

I was 4 years old in 1959. We lived near Plainville, Conn. I heard the sound of the dragstrip every night. This film hits it out of the ballpark. The only thing the producers missed was the use of Rocknroll instrumentals instead of the strings and parade music.

Imagine! Meeting up without the use of a cell phone! LOL Sweet Willys! THANKS for posting! :)

What a great old movie, from a simpler time when men where men and could do what we want and be respected for it. Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed it.

The tow wagon is awesome! This is what good music sounds like.

Grew up At Old Dominion Speedway, Sure miss it these days. 😢😢

A reflection of simpler times...

One tow car and trailer, today it would be 2 or three semi trucks with the driver and crew flying in.

The white t shirts and coveralls are killing me

Those were the days!!!!!!!

Twisted cam lifter @ 18:00, took off the pan to check it?!?! I like the front-drive blower, those were the days!

😍I love going back to this video and watching time and time again! 👍

Thanks for the memories.

Sweet...! I grew up in Santa Ana, California...home of the SCTA....

Ahhhhhh , The good old days

who would dislike this video ? thanks for posting it

The wagon is so beautiful 😍

Days gone by you can only dream about now. Love this video. Thanks for sharing your video.

Wow. No burnouts. 170mph and no parachutes. Awesome stuff.

Thanks for posting this!!!

Wow, thanks for this dude! I got a box of HotRod magazines still from highschool. Just posted vinyl originals from 1946 of my grandpa with old family pics too, if yer bored? Old Car slideshow too...

This was a high tech video back in 1959.

Love the historic hot rods

I missed the best era there will ever be by one generation

I have now found to coolest video on RU-vid..

👌😂👍aaahhhh I can see grampa Munster on the track his Dracula!

I used to work at my local drag track. I gotta be honest. Drag racing itself isn't all that interesting to me. But the people. They're some of the nicest, funniest, smartest, most helpful, and generally well rounded people I've ever met. Some of em can be a little on the extreme end sometimes. But for the most part. They're honestly some pretty awesome people. They do get quite rowdy tho. Lol. My family worked there long before me and they knew the owners pretty well. We would stay for some of the after parties sometimes with them and some of the drivers. Especially on big weekends. Man. They party HARD... Lol.

God, I wonder if any of these guys are still alive!!! It'd be amazing to talk to them about all of this stuff!! If I had a time machine, I'd be back in the 50's for sure!

Man i wish i was around back then, those were the days!

The green pickup is a 1957. The semi with the car trailer is a 58 or 59. Given that this movie is from 1959, these were well-financed teams.

To hear the announcer tell it at that track it seems speed thru the traps is what it's all about and ET time is secondary. When my generation raced in the fifties it was ET, ET, ET, and top speed was just interesting.

Crazy how primitive drag racing was or auto racing in general.

Can't wait till my two nhra cars are finished that raced in all the big nhra races one is a 1965 slinger top fuel alcohol dragster that has raced in 4 major national nhra races but the guy who owned it and drove it just did it for fun and as a hobby and didn't have the money to run and be as fast as the top guys in the top fuel class and funny car classes thats why i was able tk get them so cheap cause he wasnt a famous driver from back then and if he was a famous top fuel driver from.back then o woildnt be able to afford or even get a hold of cars like the ones I got. I paid 4500 for the top fuel car as a complete roller minis motor only and the funny car was a complete roller body and all and all it needed was a engine as well and the paint work and everything was still in great shape just slightly faded and looks aged but it looks good with no rust it just shows it's age like any paint job would when kept in a garage for years and years and never sat outside so I left the body and paint work alone cause it's truly a time capsule of nhra drag racing. I have a Chevy 410 c.i motor on alcohol in the funny car making 670 HP and the top fuel car has a 400 c.i 790 HP alcohol motor with a blower but I have a big pulley on the blower to limit the power cause it's sketchy going 180-200 mph down the track in a vintage top fuel car and I don't wanna wear out the engines fast as well cause it took me 5 years to slowly build and acquire all the new parts to afford to build the motors at 22k for the top fuel engine and 12k for the funny car engine. The funny car engine was way cheaper cause I got it as a complete running motor the way it is now except it just needed a refresh so I paid 4500 for the motor and then had it rebuilt and put a bigger cam and better heads on it. It it's a blast driving these time capsules on open track nights at the local 1/4 mile strip and do some grudge races against fast modern dragsters with same type or close to same HP numbers as mine and I race them a few times a year in a heads up vintage drag racing series where we race just for a trophy and no points and the pay out of you win is only 1k dollars of you end up winning the last race. And if you make it to the top 10 out of 36 cars in the series they give you the registration fee money back and they give you 2 gallons of fuel for free for the next event which is nice and if you travel more then 300 miles to go to a race event in the vintage series they pay for your fuel for the truck/hauler that you use to get car to the track with a receipt or receipts proving what you spent on diesel or gas to get to the track and they have hotel sponsors that give us drivers free rooms for the weekend if needed and we don't have to pay registration fees of you travel that far or further

I wonder how much these racers could improve their ETs with just today's tire technology.

Notice how the blower is directly mounted to the crank. Very interesting, I have never seen that done before and I wonder why they don't do it now.

Funny how this is a popular style people use today in documentary film making. Some things never change.

Interesting to see how the world of drag racing was when I was three weeks old.

Wow, I had to idea they were doing O-ringed heads in 59.

The glory days.

It’s like drag week in a since most are trailered but they drove track to track with out all the big equipment

Wow what a time in life👍

Real gear heads! Nuff said

58 thumbs down Im sure 58 millennials who got tired from just watching people physically work it just scared the hell out of them and the thought of just having to talk to another human put them over the edge

Good ol' days...

I was born too late. I should been born in the 30s so I could've been here in my 20s.

If only drag racing was still like this.........

Cool video... one race

When i was young I would borrow my dad's car and he would say "No Hotroding" :)

Note the smog when the convoy crosses the bridge in St Louis. Some things have got better.

if this was how it really was ( when i was 1 year old') then i want to go back but be 18 years old!

This vid is just cool...

just send me back in time to there,,, the things i would do to a small block chevy,,, hahaha

I grew up with an ex top fuel funny car and top fuel dragster owner/driver as a family friend.

Yep Must Have Been Fun !!! To Bad It Is'nt That Simple Today Good Ol Comeradery !!!

as soon as the time machine is invented, this is were I will be.....everyone here has muscular arms, and is skinny or average! but im more into this AMERICAN MADE machines!

What's really cool is Phil Parker's son found the exact Willys he races in this video. Phil Parker is now refurbing it. flic.kr/p/24ovYuR

Party over. We’re history.

11 thumbs down? This is Priceless.

Arti Arfonzz and his green monster... And 25 years later he would have his green monster tractor with a helicopter jet engine

You can have all my stuff if i could go back to socal in this time. I would start over from scratch. U can have my iphone.

Old school for life

Its cool looking at all the classic daily drivers, but i wonder if they were ignoring them like I would be ignoring some 2018 ford in the parking lot at a modern event

A much better time in life

C/G -A 1955 chevy 2dr sedan with a straight front axle and a 301 V-8 with dual quads

Looked like a couple of 32 coupes in the bunch. Our hired man used to drive one. Often wondered what happened to it.

I miss the smell of leaded gasoline that was back in the day they had a different sound a different smell and open trailers pulled by a pick up truck nobody has opened trailers anymore that was the fun of it back then going to the races and seeing the cars heading to the track to because nobody had enclosed trailers I used to get there early and watch the cars coming in the pits and wondering who's going to show up and who's the heavy hitters coming in that was the 70s at atomic speedway Chillicothe Ohio I miss those days

The Dragmaster seems to have rear disk brakes !

At the pace they were driving to the track it must have taken a month. Who was the announcer at the Detroit race?

Lol at 17:27, Nick just throws the Burrito Wrapper to the ground!. haha.