I love seeing the old track, spent many days and nights there. Great memories and good times...

I was there, in Don Hale's B/A...Sweet Memories of the old Track...Except the pot holes on the return road..

Too bad they decided to land Coke planes on off wknds.

Cool stuff back in the day!

Moose was really ahead of its time in my opinion, they were just making the fastest and best looking cars, and they still do

Yes 👍 please 🙏 😮😊

What a beautiful car, not to mention 440 six pack 70s were badd ass

That sound!!

I was there cruisin in 82. 😂

I miss being on speedway in the 80s on a Saturday night.everyone remember what went on at the jack in the box parking lot ?🙂

Graduated h.s. In 84 tucson az. In 1983 i had a 69 firebird 400 big block holley 750 double pumper, centerlines. No internet. Just Don’s hot rod shop.

i work at a sandwich shop downtown and can imagine that the majority of the people we serve could be these people haha

Fords n chevs were cool......chryslers mopar were ugly and nerdy

John Force towards the end of the video!

And the white boys would cruise from 6th/speedway to speedway and Columbus and back with they hotrods or daddy cars

LATINO would cruise from waterburger on 6th avenue to 22nd Street turn back down 6th avenue best yrs ever in the 1981 to 1995

COOL!! Thanks for posting this! My Charger 500 got in some good screen time😎. This has to be some time around 1983~84 I think.

I love those old school breathers! Badass!

Have you seen what it looks like now

Sp 4449 high speeds fast

Sp 4449 step-top whistle SP&S 700/NP 3 chime whistle

Sp 4449 daylight express

Sp 4449 goes to northern Califórnia

Sp 4449 está soando o sp&s 3 chime whistle igual a voz da prima aline

Sp 4449 world's fair 1984 new Orleans

Sp 4449 going to new México

I’ve sat on those bleachers when I was a kid. 1974-75.

Hi! I was telling more friends from back in the day about your channel and this video in particular, where my car and others that we recognized are in it in the Mopar show after the Tucson Dragway footage and the car show part is now gone🙁. Did you shorten it? Is that part in a separate video now? I am curious for obvious selfish reasons!😁. I was friends with Bill Sr. and really enjoy seeing these home movies on your channel.

Very 😎 cool.Dick and Kim LaHaie turning wrenches!

looks just like my ford, i cant tell if its orange or yellow though.

Late night marijuana drug strip

Perfect place to land an airplane filled with marijuana!

Good times. I remember cruzin in my Buick T-type

Wtf it looked like it has a 69 grill from a super bee o

Love it! Thank you for uploading this!

Omg wow, I was here! I was 8 years old! My uncle Steve took me to this. Talk about being taken back to my childhood! I remember the Coke car killing it and my uncle bought me one of those plastic helmets with the dark visor. What a memory!

Went to Southwestern International Raceway all the time back in the early to mid 2000’s. Now that I’m back in Southern Arizona I plan to be there alot again. It’s a great track

Bitchen video. Thanks. Miss those days.

I was at Tucson drag way in 1973-74 as a child still have memories from there. I hate it’s gone😢

Dual 1/4 mile "burnout" race! That was nuts. Everyone was having traction issues.. must be slippery in the desert.

Great ! Do you have any of Ray Allens 70 SS/EA Chevelle ?

I remember hear the funny cars and rail cars from my moms house on Sarnoff and 22nd Street…Another cool upload..

Those were great times, I drove around a Red 1967 Chevelle that said Bad Co. on the back window. Pete Jackson Gear drive…. Great town to grow up in the 80s. thanks for the upload.

Wonder if that is Ken Heiser in the Maverick?

I remember this flood, I was at the U of A .

EVEN WITH NO SOUND...GOOD STUFF!🙌🏾💯

Pretty cool seein John Force here

Was this an AHRA or NHRA sanctioned track at this time and do you know when jet cars had limiters put on them?

What a joy to have surfed into THIS! I've been a Tucson boy since age 6 in 1961, when we moved here from asthmatic-Nebraska for my brother. It cured him within a year....period! I grad from CDO high in '73, so most of our cruising was done around the early-mid-late 70's. I'm trying to think where your Dad shot this cool vid......where that tunnel or under-bridge area was? Must have been pretty far east on Speedway? Some of it looks like around the Swan Rd. area on Speedway.....I just can't see those bldgs clearly enough except the Jack in the Box and the Valley Bank. Hey Tucson had some pretty decent hi-po iron back in '86 on the streets....lots of MoPars for sure. Heard some guy was bragging about his 10 second Chevy street car......I really doubt that in '86. Maybe.....but doubtful. Most were 14-13-and a few 12 and occasionally.......very occasionally.....an 11 second car. What say you? To illustrate.....my dearly departed buddy had 1 of 114 made '71 Corvette with the rare 454 LS-6 engine and a 4 spd. It was dark green with black leather interior. It was box stock except for a L-88 induction (carb / manifold) put on it. We drove it from north Tucson out to Tucson Dragway one afternoon......borrowed a set of used slicks from the O'Rielly Corvette Drag Car (Eddie Wilson-RIP) and uncorked the headers. That was all we had on it.....and all we did to it. Our best was a 12:34 at 110. Now....I think that had my buddy taken his Vette to a place like Townsend Racing Works and had them put a super-tune on it....adjusted the valves (solid lifters) for track runs, and did a little magic with the distributor, etc.....that the Vette may have run 12:0's or even tickled the 11:90's. Maybe with a pro driver rowing the 4 speed too. That was one rare Vette.....you oughtta see what those LS-6 Chevelles and Vettes bring up at Barrett-Jackson nowadays......easily upwards of $200K if they're MINT. This was a rare car putting out close to 500 horses at the flywheel. So you see.....some guy bragging that he's got a 10 second street car, yeah.....possible.....but it would be VERY VERY unlikely. It would have to basically be a full-on race car that was street driven for a few hours one night. Not the same thing.....not the same animal. SO......Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. Got any more like it? This did my old Tucson-desert rat heart a ton of good. joel in tucson

Is that the old Jack in the Box just west of swan? Sure looks like the area I remember but Junior, LoL youre 10 years passed me 🤣🙋🏼‍♀️ I was out playing mid 70s! So much fun so many wonderful memories. Thanks for the show!