Was that a Surfers blower at the end? It wasn't yella!😆

I worked with a guy thay worked for Lapoint broach in Hidson Mass that made the broaches for the Olsmobile blocks

Didn't James Warren win it 3 years in a row???

Hey Bill! I actually wrote you on Facebook haha This is so cool you had this experience! I was born in 1986 so I was thinking this was around that time? Just was wondering what year this was? What was it like meeting Bob and being on the show?

That was so much fun to watch Bill. Jan and I really enjoyed that. By the way, how’s the magic car doing?

Priceless! Looks like 1979? Am I close? LOL!! I hope all is well. I hope Kathy and I can get back to the GNRS in 2025.

Man, what a lucky guy! That beautiful lady and winning all those prizes! It doesn't get any better than that.

Bill, that's wonderful, it's Jay from San Clemente!

How about that! When was that Bill? Beings things were built to last back then, do you have anything from the show? I have fond memories of watching these old episodes when they were new back in the day!

Congratulations, Bill!! 😊😊😊

That was a thoroughly enjoyable watch! Thank you for posting… great job!

Awesome....looks like this was filmed in the early '80s....maybe?

That is a blast from the past Mr. Pitts.

I still have the decal in a shadowbox with other old drag racing stuff! Hanging in garage. Great memories!

In the day

4.10ts And ten mph

Mr. Pitts, please reach out to me. My brother passed away and I now have a bunch of my Daddy's stuff. I would love for you to have his Lion's Drag Strip jacket. P

Kent fuller may have built the chassis ?

Some of the best documentation. Ever

Complete with the 55 pushing

The friend in South Pasadena was Bruce Burness

From Wikipedia: After Morrison's death, Courson continued to live in Los Angeles. Former Doors manager Danny Sugerman became friendly with her in Los Angeles during this time and later wrote in Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess about an experience of taking quaaludes and snorting heroin with Courson.[16] On April 25, 1974, Courson died of a heroin overdose on the living room couch at the Los Angeles apartment she shared with two male friends. Like Morrison, she was 27 years old when she died. Her cremated remains were interred in the mausoleum at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California. The plaque reads "Pamela Susan Morrison 1946-1974", even though "Morrison" was never part of Courson's legal name. Several months after her death, her parents inherited her fortune. Jim Morrison's parents later contested the Coursons' executorship of the estate, leading to additional legal battles. In 1979 both parties agreed to divide the earnings from Morrison's estate equally.[17]

Getting more and more power out of the motor AND using less fuel is proof of their brilliance.

Wow, these guys were brilliant and way ahead of their time. The ideas they had and the thought processes and the way they tried things and went too far and backed up to optimize the performance of the motor is amazing.

We can't be friends if you don't like the Surfers

What's on the poster that rolled down at 9:33?

I can't site the publication from ailing memory, but I had read an article blaming Mike Sorokin's demise to the rear end in the car locking up and tearing free from the chassis. It recounted him trying to climb out of the cockpit trying to escape the spinning differential at over 100 MPH... But my web searches only cite claims that solely blame a clutch explosion tearing the car in half. Can anyone shed light on this and possibly cite the magazine issue I'm referring to?

More cool+awsome than tear engined rails, but also MUCH more deadly if clutch or flywheel comes apart! < can cut rail in half, taking your feet+legs also---- Sorokin,orange co.67?☠ Engine fire could burn driver to a cinder( zoo keeper mulligan indy 68? ☠, " nothing he could do"

Read my comment from the previous video....Thanks Bill Pitts!!!

So your telling me the these guy put two hemis in a 2CV? Hot Rodders, go figure!!!!

Even better the second time around. Thanks Bill !!!!!

I owned a 354 hemi ran it on the streets in Los Angeles early 80s used to go to Joe Reaths speed shop He would wait on me . Joe took me in the Back to see the Race DeSotos 🎉 I absolutely hate it they call these new dodges hemi's

Ford Cammer... 😎

Those main caps @ 2:26 .. . I wonder if you could just take 4140 stock, drill and ream for the studs, harden to about 58 Rockwell and surface grind or Blanchard grind it on one side, because those pictured look to me like some kind of forgings.Would you necessarily have to line hone the block for the main studs? Tom did say, in the previous video no 26, that they never line honed the 1st generation Chrysler block and I assume he meant for anything !!

Can't believe NASA didn't grab this guy

His basic scientific approach makes you understand it no laptops just basic physics

Remember them well lions drag strip as a 14 year old boy

Nice series with great insights too bad they only raced for 2 years

We'd love to see a visit with Ricky in 2024, thanks for all the knowledge Bill. Great vids 👍

Would love to know how they did the tires back in the day

H stock! That's what I ran My beater 57 Chevy in 1964. It was fun in those days. You could run anything if it passed in inspection.

I wonder why the guys that ran the 331 seemed to favor 354 heads when the 331 heads had the bigger port volume. I guess I'd have to know why Chrysler went to smaller volume ports for both the 354 and 392. I suspect it had to do with velocity for the same reasonb not to make your exhaust valves too large in diameter. He sold that Gilmore car to the Canadian team for their first "Royal Canadian". It was destroyed in a road accident .on the trailer I believe. Somebody reproduced the Canadian team's replacement car. . Somebody ought to reproduce that car right there as it was when it was the Lechien and Drake digger in the heyday. It's the kind of no-frills bare rails strictly businnes that I came to favor early on. If'n I was a thousandair I'd do it but I couldn't afford even the 331 at what they bring anymore much less everything else. The only driving I might be bold enough for is idling through downtown Escondido on Nitro Night. I'd have so use the "saving the vintage 331" for an excuse for not racing. So somebody ought to reproduce it. Great example, not too long and not too short, naked and pretty. Woody Gilmore So Cal digger of the 7 + second Smoke Run Era..

Me and my high school buddies would go to Ramona and watch the races. We thought the Surfers were real surfers like us, so we really like them!

Last watched this 3 yrs. ago. What an absolute JOY to witness this once more. Thank you Bill for all you do for our sport. jbeintucson

Just watched 'The Surfers" again for the second time, it's been excellent series.

Tip the can!

Awesome racing memories...thanks

Thank you kindly Bill... And I just wanted to say, that Tom Jobe, was one of the nicest and kindest person, I ever met. Sincerely, Gary Lane

Man that is one bad dragster

Bill I'm sorry it has nothing to do with you it's just it's been a very very tough month