No one knows how he leaned out engine to spool turbos via high exhaust gas temperatures. He took it to his grave with him. Fucking Legend

Had it been NHRA, Buddy would've sent a Hoosier home crying. IHRA let 700 cubes vs. 231 with some hairdryers, seems fair, lol.

Buicks ,,,,fast with class! The bitches, cried loud enough to put a stop to a v-6 buick! If buick would of continued, they would of dominated,,,

Hidden in the frame rails

Spray that nitrous Bob

About 500 shot of nos on top end

Bristol to me was much nicer looking than now no shade

Too bad the tranny had overheated and started slipping mid track, buddy said his rpm's shot up towards the end due to slippage.

No Street Outlaws can replace they joy I had as a kid when watching Pro Stock.

I grew up on Elm street in Zeigler Illinois, Buddy's garage was about a block from us , we had no AC , windows open in the summer , he worked on those cars all night

Back when pro stock was fun, and not pro mod camaro. Miss the pontiacs, oldsmobiles and buicks.

The real question is .was Bob gliden using NOS at this event....I Believe he was ...

Yeah. Buddy lifted after mid-track to let Bob win.

When cars were cars, and not these cookie cutter cars of today that all look the same.

Buddy brought a promod to a prostock race.

I remember seeing Buddy run at the 87 US national ,incredible man and car .he was ahead of his time

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The irony is he was the closest to being an actual "Pro Stock" than most of them running then.

As much as I liked seeing this car run and what a great story this race was, I agree that the car shouldn't have been in the class. It was easy to see where power adders were going and I'm glad we saw a split here to keep Pro Stock naturally aspirated and give rise to Pro Mod just 3 1/2 years later!

Of course it was outlawed. That's what people do when they can't compete AND WIN against something. They gang up and start whining until they get their way. 🙄

A power added race motor against naturally aspirated race engines. This is like a blower powered car against a non blower powered car. Nothing magical here. F-15 vs a By-Plane. So they let a F-15 jet powered plane race a By -plane combustion piston powered. But honestly it was probably done as a stunt. Just to have a GM beat a King Ford. 😂 This race should have never really been allowed.

Buddy was a pioneer doing this back then all the big block nitrous guys wanted to ban him

Sucks nhra ruined this technology. Buddy was so far ahead of his time

I wonder with what we know about Glidden today if he needed to thank NOS. Lol

All you glidden guys can say what you want but I know Buddy gave glidden that race . He knew the protests ready had he won . all buddy needed to do was push the panic button and he would have had plenty of boost to walk right past Bill mid track . But Buddy proved his point and did it 30 yrs before everyone else even started using Dryer's ...Case closed..

I have loved turnos since I was a kid and the grand nationals were killing everything on ant street with that little V6. There were always a few guys who would build turbo cars and just murder everyone, instead of others seeing the light, they would ban turbos or just not switch over. Tom Nelson talks about tearing down turbo 1500 plus street engines and the bearings look new. Gale Banks talks about his turbo off shore boats in the 70s or 80 just obliterating everyone and lasting the whole season with no damage, of course they were banned in favor of inefficient roots blown motors with less HP, that costs more and didn't last.

Fortunate enough to see Buddy Ingersoll test and tune at OCIR back in the early 80's. Orange County Raceway was the hangout for racers Wednesdays, Fridays and the weekends.

Man i need tht buick v 6 motor👻🚀

What a great video of how exciting Pro Stock drag racing used to be. Brand recognition, cars that resembled production cars, legendary driver's and rivalries. All the best things that are gone from NHRA Pro Stock today.

Turbo Vs Nitrous

That turbo back half 😉

I watch this every week, the Buick V6 will never die with me

Fucken never late in a 3.8 boys

And a couple of years later the great 86/87 intercooled GNs and T-types take over all the RUSTANGS and SLOVETTES.

Ingersoll and his Buick v6 started it all !

Turbo Vs nitrous...😅😅😅

Everyone complains about the 500 inch motor not being available in OEM cars. It wasn't the manufacturers fault. NHRA made this rule because of all the weight/CID issues and the tech people constantly bending rules for some and hammering other drivers. So THEY decided on the 500 CID rule.

so you people are all worked up over your twin turbo Buick beating some naturally aspirated V8s. please. put some turbos on that big Ford of Glidden's and it would make that Buick look silly. Buick ain't never had shit.

Just don't maken like use to , RIP Buddy . Great footage btw

You can tell alot of people don't understand forced induction and power adders. they want to talk about a V6 going against a V8. The truth is Back when the Pro Stock class was formed. They did that to get away from bracket style racing. And there was a set of rules for that class as well. Some racers demand heads up racing. And some didn't mind bracket racing. but the Pro Stock guys loved heads up racing. And I think they saw Buddy as a intrusion on there way of racing in that class. They were worried it would ruin the class if they started letting turbo assisted cars run in Pro Stock. Kinda like the guys that only want a car with matching numbers. They are called purest. versus a car that is the same as the matching numbers cars. But there car doesn't have any matching number parts. Matching numbers cars bring more money when they go up for sale. So Pro Stock drivers like it that way. I don't think any Pro Stock driver watching Buddy Ingersoll run his car as fast as he did that day had any doubt it was only a matter of time before Buddy would be winning alot of Pro Stock races. Is was more of an intrusion on there class then it was they were afraid of a turbo power car being faster than a natural aspirated car. Because anybody that knows engines would already know horsepower and torque is KING. It would be no different if a electric car raced in Pro Stock. It just doesn't fit in the class or the rules. If you disagree with me. Then lets run a top fuel dragster against Buddy's car and see who wins. Each class has rules for a reason. Drag racing is not about having the fastest car on the planet. It about having the fastest car in your class. Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny cars are the fastest in a thousand feet. You won't see a Pro Stocker racing against a top fuel powered car period. They are not in the same class based on the rules for each class. Consider this. Look at Pro Mod cars. They run 5.78 E.T. times at over 250 MPH. Those cars have power adders on them like buddy had. Current Pro Stock record naturally aspirated only run 6.50's at 213 MPH. Do you think Pro Mod and Pro Stock should run heads up against each other? I don't think so. My hat go's off to Buddy Ingersoll for reaching the level he did. But if his car was legal according to the rules. He wouldn't have been allowed to run that day. I think it was done on purpose because all the attention it received in the drag racing world and all the publicity it received made alot of people go by a turbo for their car or truck. And people got rich off of installing them on customers cars. Think about it. Maybe Buddy could have beat Glidden that day and decided not to beat Glidden because it would have caused too many problems all around. It was also rumored that buddies clutch was pretty worn out by the final round against Glidden. Some guys love power adders on their cars. And some don't. Back then during the Glidden Ingersoll race. Most guy's didn't care about power adders. Today more guy's want power adders more then guy's who want just raw power. Its a matter of personal chioce and generations that come and go. One day we will all be racing Electric cars. I could strap myself to a rocket and go top fuel racing i suppose. If NHRA let me. I'd say NHRA is going to piss off some top fuel people. Especially if I can get to the 1,000 foot stripe before anyone else. Top fuel people would be protesting the same as the Glidden Ingersoll race drivers did. It was cool to watch though.

like how much boost was buddy putting out with the twub turbo?

Glidden was spraying the hell out of that car

I saw Buddy run his Regal in Comp eliminator at Indianapolis in 1985. He was running quicker and faster than the Pro Stocks of the day, so I thought he should be allowed to run with the "big boys". The pro stock prize money must have been much larger than winning in comp. Buddy Ingersoll was a true innovator in drag racing. Anybody that can build a 268 cube engine to run with 700 cube engines deserves a lot of respect as an engine builder. I saw his twin turbo V6 Skyhawk with liquid Nitrogen intercoolers at Englishtown in 1987. Awesomely fast, too. He was definitely an innovator.

buddy Ingersoll was way ahead of his time.in this age of pro mods turbos dominate the track.too bad nhra is a fixed game like all other sports

I remember this. You could buy a turbo V6 in a Regal but you couldn't buy a mountain motor in any of the Ford, Chrysler or Chevy offerings. The other racers were bitching about Buddy's car racing in Pro Stock but his was the only legitimate representative of a vehicle you could buy off a showroom. They were afraid he could turn it up at will whenever he needed to in order to beat his opponent. The other racer were just scared of that bad Buick.

V6 twins still rock the track

We all know Glidden was cheating back then.....he was the master! The question is, where was he hiding the nitrous? Billy is takin that one to the grave lol! It's funny that after all those years Pro Stock is about to change rules and go will small engines with turbos.

Funny thing is, 30 years later, a single turbo 274 cid V6 can STILL mop up the floor against today's 500 cid V8.

Damm i remember this buddy ingersol at pomona back in the late 80's early 90's i believe he ran in the modified class he'd run rail's and didn't win much but he was FAST for a v6! dig the video!

It took a Ford to smoke him.