THE DAY A V6 RAN IN PRO STOCK 

1986 when microphones and moustaches were equal adversaries!

Who else got recommended this several years later😑😂🤦‍♂️

The only pro stock running an engine that could have come stock in the car.

Anybody else catch the parachute blowing out on the Ricky Smith mustang?

Buddy was waaaay ahead of the curve....Turbos were nothing new, but people forget just how effective they are. Buddy remembered and built that awesome Buick.

If your named Ricky, Buddy or Bobby , your destiny is to be a racer

Ingersoll & Glidden; two class acts. The car of Ingersoll's that I remember most is his turbo Pinto that ran in modified eliminator. Hated it when NHRA did away with modified eliminator. As far as I'm concerned, the NHRA is so political & way to expensive to even attend anymore.

Ingersoll was an innovator, as he said himself. Had he been allowed to continue with his turbo v6, who knows where he would have taken it. Consider this, the best run ever recorded by a turbo v6 is 6.75 @ 205. This was in 2010, Len Freeman was driving. This car is a novelty only, the Buick turbo v6 is not run in any competition as far as I know. Had Buddy continued he would have been in the high 6s before the end of the 80's. Amazing.

cleetus can't get a 7 with ruby or leroy it seems. how tf did this guy almost run a 6 with a v6?

I remember when the Grand National came out, they would bring them to the drag strip and out run the guys with thousands of dollars and hours in their cars. It sure did piss a lot of people off at the drag strip.

One thing that has been almost forgotten after the success of Buddy's turbo V6 Pro Stocker is his earlier car. A low 10 second, 2 liter turbocharged AA/MC 4 cylinder Pinto. He and Ohio George Montgomery dominated the class in the mid to late 1970's, and inspired my Dad back then to give up traditional V8 powered drag race cars for a turbo Pinto that he built and raced for several years afterwards.

For you kids watching this today, these fuzzy faded picture isnt from old video, this is how things looked in the 80s and it was great.

Imagine what an incredible tuner he must have been to be pumping that much air through a v6 with 1980s tech, without melting it down.

That's insane for 1980's tech.

Back when NASCAR and NHRA were accessible to the common man.

I remember these days like it was yesterday. The Buick V6 twin turbo was like alien technology. The Bob Glidden T bird is one of my favorite race cars.

There's a reason the Grand National was the fastest production car in the US in 87.

Now there's more turbochargers than N/A

The world wasn't ready....

A course the Buick Gran National made a statement.

I did engine build and development on that engine at Mclaren Engines in Livonia Michigan and I can tell you there was a lot of power left on the table. It was a very impressive motor and Buddy was a impressive guy. I was lucky and built a lot of Indy Buick v6 engines...

I Was There with the crowd Cheering over Buddy and his V/6 Buick!

Buddy Ingersoll was a top builder and fabercater he could make enything he touched go real fast

What a gentleman Bob Glidden is.

even though these are dated old clips, it looks so cool, there was a relatable nature to it they had real cars doing crazy speeds making f&f seem real after it came out.

The IHRA was so underrated.

When pro stock was actually interesting

"there's no replacement for displacement" Yeah but look how much displacement it took

My dad saw something with a turbo v6 run a 200 mile a hour pass. The guy instantly got kicked off the track. My dad was so impressed with that guy. I think my dad wants to do the same..

imagine that same buick with modern turbos. same boost same everything just not caveman turbos since they went undeveloped and under utilized for another 20 years. that thing would have smoked that whole event. thats pretty impressive how close he came to winning it anyways with what he had at the time.

I love the Buick v6. Such a great engine

Those 3.8 Buick motors are friggin bulletproof

Ol Bob mit have been smiling.....but he wasent going to let that happen 👌👌👍👍

International Hotrod association: There is no replacement for displacement!💪🏾 Buddy: 🙊

Man back in the day NHRA was amazing

The turbo Buick Awesome

Turbos ftw

6cyl cars should get back in the pro stock game💪👍

I remember watching this when it happened, well on TV Live might not have been a thing back then. I got into an argument, with my dad over this car. He kept saying the turbo was cheating. I was like #1. He has less than 40% of the cu. in. of the v8 pro stocks, he needs the turbo's to compensate. and #2. The name of the class is Pro Stock, Name one car in the 1980's that comes factory with a 500- 700 cu. in engine, much less a big block of any size. The Buick Regals were coming with a turbo V6, since the late 70's i think Edit, someone in my comments said i had misestimated, by NHRA standards it's actually slightly over 50%, But using the biggest legal engine at the time (IHRA 700 cu in Mountain motors), I took the 268 divided it by the 700 To come up with .382, move the decimal 2 places (38.2%) and rounded up you get 40% so my math (yes simple math) stands

Respect to Ingersoll who was ahead of his time

Pro Stock is supposed to be no power adders. Now Turbos dominate !!!!!

The day v6 ruled the world!❤

Little did they know how prophetic it was of turbochargers future

I remember watching buddy Ingersoll race his cars. in an interview, he said he was running 125 psi of boost! how the hell he kept the cylinder heads on that engine is beyond me!

The birth of the Grand National GNX the little V6 that could!

He had them boys running scared for a minute

The trackside commentator reminds me of the Micro Machines guy from the 80's TV commercials

All the comments are either from 8 years ago or 1 day ago lol

Doesn't matter who "showed up with a twin turbo v6" it matters who gets the W. And that was a FORD Thunderbird with a FORD MOTOR that won.

I was there incredible sound and at one pass tire shake was bad have a picture of the engine looks like a pile of python snakes

How did NHRA handle this? Made the Buick illegal, of course. None of the board members sells Buicks or V6 parts...

1980's boosted boys vs cleetus mcfarland

These were my glory days, the IHRA rocked, now the NHRA like Nascar is destroying the sport. How about let's make it about the racing again. All NHRA cares about is how much the executives can pocket, the fuel drivers are in trouble, especially the small teams, pro stock is like a dying dog, just limping along with all camaro's, where are the other makes, ruled out of existence is where.

Way ahead of his time. Look at Honda’s now making 1000 hp

Man I miss Bob Jenkins. Dude was a master behind the microphone

the OG ecoboost.

Buddy’s car was so bad ass. I got to see it at maple grove. Shame it never ran a full schedule

This was my first drag race!!!! I remember all of it!!!!

Bob Glidden such a humble man..... he was the best in those days nobody could beat that 351 Clevland Ford Engine

268ci!! That's incredible! I wonder how many rpm's he was running?

Buddy ingersoll was a guy bob glidden, rick smith etc. all complained that buddy was running a power adder (only car) and everybody else were all motor did not like the fact buddy had a leg up on everybody............ I remember watching these guys racing at the winter nationals and the finals IN CALIFORNIA back in the 80;s the best time to watch PRO STOCK....

how much boost from twin turbo and how much mm turbo was used?...was the 268 bored oiut from the 231 ci

Back before building boost on the line was an unknown. ;-)

I remember this and I was a kid at the time. I could be wrong but I think he submerged the inter coolers in liquid nitrogen. Ahead of his time is a HUGE understatement. He’s still a legend to me 🤟🏻🏁

@ 4:42 "this turbo charged thing" LoL The term n/a hadn't even been coined yet, he said a twin turbo setup vs the "normal" ... power plant @ 5:08

I think old bob used some nitrous in that final

I’m building a twin turbo Series II 3800 right now - in an S10 pickup. Should be interesting.

If he had a v8 with the turbos the whole race would of bn no contest

I get why they didn't want to mess with having a turbo car in Pro Stock. The rules were easy to enforce the way it was: 500 cid, carbs, gas. You start adding boost and it really is hard to equalize things so everyone is on the same playing field. Nobody would have ever been happy....if they adjusted a rule, either the boost guys or the displacement guys were going to cry every time. And rightfully so. Boost is basically just a way to increase the "effective displacment" of the engine....but trying to make that on a level playing field the a normally aspirated engine would be tough now, much less back then. People get hung up on the smaller motor making the same power, but it's really not that big a deal...you're just forcing the same amount of air into the smaller motor that the bigger motor can suck in on its own, then you add more fuel and make more power. That's a gross simplification, but it's exactly what you're doing. Boost, Nitrous, Displacement. All do the same thing, effectively, but in different ways with different issue to overcome that go along with each method. I did love watching Buddy innovate back then, though. Was great to read about and see.

Street cars are running what pro stock cars of the 80s were running. Wow! How times have changed.

“I’m not a fan of turbos”, well ya should be because a engine that was 2/3’s the size of yours was destroying everyone.

RIP Bob Glidden. You are the GOAT! 😎

This is probably one of the coolest videos ive ever seen

"It only takes one Ford to put a hundred Chevys back on the trailer."-Bob Glidden. That right there is why I've always been a Ford racing fan and you can add Ferrari and Porsche to that list too. RIP Bob. Thanks for repping the Blue Oval all those decades with absolute class.

I'm curious about that Top Secret Coating they used on the track surface. Lol

Glidden & Smith hated (feared more like it) that Buick

Buick was changing minds in the 80s. They were running v6 engines in Nascar also and winning with them. And who can forget the fastest production car in the 80s was the Buick regal gnx with that turbo v6.

i love the v6 turbo ,buick really out did themselves.

When Pro Stock was really f#$king stupid. 700cid Thunderbird. Sure aceholes. That Regal was the true Pro Stock racer of the era. A shame it does not have enough low torque or mid-range HP to ever best Glidden. What a farce. Well, regardless people always came to see Glidden win back then.

Its honestly crazy how in 1986 everyone was amazed at a turbo car running 7.3 in a quarter and now turbo i6 and v6 cars are running 6s in a quarter. Technology and knowledge have come a long way in just 34 years

I'm Only Here For The Awesome Hairstyles!! And Mustaches!!

As a Ford man ill admit Gliddens BBF Boss had its work cut out for him against that TT Buick

Poor Buddy, beats everyone in the class, then lose's to the GOAT in the final's & get's called a loser 😲 That's Dragracing, I guess, at least when you get to the very top anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️

What a badass car. Wonder where it is today.

all you need to do is up the boost to beat the 8 cylinder

Bob got on that juice on top end that the only way he could hold off that little v6.

Big cubic inch made up motors is what killed Pro Stock racing for me. I still will watch it sometime but I think that they should run what you could actually get in the car. And I would rather go stand outside in the middle of a field with an iron rod in each hand during a lightning storm than watch a bunch of Chevrolets run up and down the track. Watching NASCAR today is like watching a bunch of jelly beans. I don't even bother.

Learn something new everyday. (Or maybe relearn?) been watching drag racing since 1970, loved those old pro stock mopars. But don’t remember Buddy’s Buick with the turbo small block. Thanks for the history lesson 👍🏻😎

I love how people shit on a car just because it has half the cylinders. or even 2 less.... When people are so confident that they'll win, then something like this buick comes along and humbles them the fuck up.

What a great piece of racing history.

Wonder if the turbo set up from the Porsche 935 would have helped

You can adjust the cubic inches with a turbo......lol

1986 - Unlimited Pro Stock runs 7.3 sec 1/4 mile 2005 - Street car runs 6.9 after driving 1000+ miles at Drag Week (Larson’s Nova) 2019 - Pro Mod runs 5.9 after driving 1000+ miles at Drag Week (Bailey’s Camaro)

While this turbo V6 was a brief novelty that we look back on with fondness, I wonder if you had mentioned to these guys in 1986 that Fuel injection would someday supplant carbureted fuel delivery as the de facto class standard, what they would think?

Oh the good ole days When pro stock cars raced on an actual track. And not on some side street

Can't help but believe he laid down the ground work for all the turbos that not only comes on new vehicles but hot rods also. He proved you didn't need a big block to run with them and beat them.

2:58 that chute didn't want any part of it.

remember their was no computer to look at, this was racing at its best

Buddy had to throw that race......no turbo charged car falls off after 2/3 of the track....Buddy was told not to win and this proves it

Imagine being a big block pro stock race and a dude pulls up in a v6 Buick 3.8 liter and then you get the jump then he blows past you