Those were the great days of nitro funny car racing. And Raymond Beadle was one of the best !!

I remember seeing Raymond Beadle and the Blue Max pull into National raceway on LI to test and tune before the Englishtown race one year. It must have been around 1977 or so. No big rig, just a pickup truck and a trailer. Good memories.

This is a wonderful tribute to one of the best funny car drivers. I saw the Blue Max many times and Raymond Beadle always was one of my favorites. Very well done.

A true icon of Top Fuel Funny Cars and arguably the most liked drivers.

Such good memories here,,,Damn I miss those days .But so grateful I grew up in those times and saw him and talked with him at Dragway 42 In West Salem Ohio 1972....

Something fell off.

Sure Miss NSD..

Most people won't forget his big smile and that great car!!!!

Blessed to have watched him on a sunny 🌞 day ,and disturb the peace with nitro . See you when I get there

zoomie headers don't belong on a normally aspirated engine...you are losing power

One of the best altered videos I have seen. The most badass machines in the world. God bless you brothers

Wow thanks ☺️Nitro for this video of Raymond’s races, we matched raced him at Green Valley race way, we were the Texas Yankee Chris Bergs funny car from San Antonio ,Tx.he was a down to earth guy, great fiend .thank .

Sad NSD closed, too much of a good thing, I guess.

I think most ofaa teams dispersed into fcc

Still ofaa low et holder!

So they don't actually go down the track?

A Funny car without the body.

Ya need a pic or 2 of the 82 Gatornationals when beadle had a slow drift, over corrected flipped it on its roof into opposite lane guardrail tore the body off then flipped in back on the tires and beadle drove it through the traps in his lane, in less than 10 seconds.

Dragster Jr

Looks like an awesome facility!

I wish we still had fuel altereds this side of the pond.

Man I ran into this guy nice person down to earth nice shop awesome set up

Looks like an early versus a late ? Who was faster ?

Looks like it's been a while since you posted! Welcome back! Great video, BTW!

Ets

What percentage are they running?

Nostalgia Eliminator 1 (7.60 index).

STUNNING cars!

The cars just sound so crap in comparison to nitro cars of the 80's. What have they done to them to make them sound like that! that swisshing sound? Whers the crackle and the dry hps, Bap!,Bap, Bap, creaping into stage. Very littel excitement like there used to be. Some of the engines still look good though.

My favorite funny car RIP

Best camera work ! Audio !

Going by the "win Light" he did.....

In 1977 I was 11 years old . And I walked the 12 Mike's to PIR Portland international raceway to watch blue max and others race at the 32 funny car race. When I now see a picture of the blue max car from the area a instantly feel like a kid again. It takes me back to a wonderful time in my life. I simpler carefree time of excitement and fun . MR Raymond Beadle you are always remembered and loved.

Burnout not good.

I am going to another GATORNATIONALS, moved from the Spring to Sept. 25th thru Sept. 27th in my hometown of Hogtown! Thanks to the COMMIES IN CHINA for the DELAY! Not! NO THANKS FOR COMMIES, EVER! But it's ''Nitro baby!'' And long-live the BLUE MAX! Forever, BLUE MAX!

Was a huge fan of his as a kid mid to late seventies.. awesome

A little girl growing up I wanted to meet him and touch the car.

One really nice guy!

Any other coverage of this event? Can't find anything else but a promo video for it.

I love the promod verse fuel altered races, they're a lot of fun..! I do know that they need to run it as a standard elimination bracket not Chicago style though whenever possible... the Nitro Fuel altereds and the pro mods/outlaw Pro mods are all able to run into the 3.70s or 3.60's on a decent night ...but sadly, with the outlaw fuel altered Association specifically (even though in the past it was always a 4.00 index for qualifying, then number one qualifier to the final and everybody else races but it's still fastest time to get you to the final...so a lot of a Nitro guys had timers to shut off in qualifying, bit that's all...BUT... since you can run Nitro, methanol or whatever percentage of both you want, they made a rule a few years back to maybe keep pricing down and especially to keep some parody between the Nitro guys vs alcohol guys - so instead of running balls-to-the wall in the finals/eliminations -- they set a minimum ET (3.80 I think..?) that you can't exceeded, period... unfortunately when you have cars shutting off after 2 seconds and coasting during an eighth mile race, the quality of the event somewhat starts speaking for itself...which is a bummer because I love fuel altereds AND that organization... there are Nitro guys that have their cars set to run wide open throttle to the 8th without going too quick but anytime you have a class where both Nitro and alcohol cars are running the same blower, there won't be parody because they have it set up to where the fuel altereds cannot put a new clutch in, keeps costs down and such. Which is great for a while but anyways, too much battling on my end LOL thanks for the awesome upload!

Raymond Beadle, Jungle Jim, and Shirley " Cha Cha " Muldowny were my favorites back in the day when Drag Racing was " Drag Racing " and NASCAR had real Stockcars

I am probably the only Max out here named after the Blue Max.

You can tell the difference between the nitro altereds and the ones on alcohol other than the flames the sounds are distinctly different

Who owns that beautiful chevy 2?

My uncle molded and painted the fiberglass

Fuel Altereds Forever.

Love the shot at 1:28 showing the two greats that were from my hometown of Lubbock, TX. Do miss Raymond and rooting for Kenny. ☹️☹️😔😔

Love the shot at 1:28 showing the two greats that were from my hometown of Lubbock, TX. Do miss Raymond and rooting for Kenny. ☹️☹️😔😔

E.T ???????

excellent audio