I'm an old guy and the 80's was the best time for drag racing for me. We had to build motors from reading Hot Rod magazine. No turbo's and the only superchargers available were 671 and 871 blowers that came off of semi trucks. Parts had to be ordered by phone and then hope you get them. We had cast steel heads and blocks so no light weight aluminum for us. I would port and polish the heads with a grinder and it took weeks. All said it was the greatest time for street racing, The video brings back good memories, Thanks.
@theupscriber658 ай бұрын
What was so great about not being able to get anything?
@Cheesesock8 ай бұрын
Because you had to do with less and try to work around cost-based obstacles. That made all those muscle cars way more valuable, despite their limitations. It was a different era. You couldnt just buy shit bc it didnt exist.@theupscriber65
@DiscoGreen8 ай бұрын
💯 I was born in 67. This was every Friday and Saturday and sometimes at open lunch in highschool 😂
@kuya_akie8 ай бұрын
@@theupscriber65 Look at the car scene now, all full of tiktok kids and clout chasers bragging about shit that everyone else can buy or do. No one is unique anymore or willing to put in the hard work.
@zh91198 ай бұрын
@@theupscriber65 Improves your creativity, expands your fantasies, like reading a book when I was a kid, comparing with watching a CGI movie.
@paulc42138 ай бұрын
I'm a chevy man myself, but that Falcon sure had an awesome sound and snatched 2nd gear with ease. Four speeds and big cams always. Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed it all.
@wilyumfalcon48028 ай бұрын
It might be a comet
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
It's a 64 falcon🧐
@deborahchesser73758 ай бұрын
My neighbor had a 64 Falcon with a screaming 289 351 heads Lunati cam etc, he was an engineer and I never saw a car go around it ever. That thing shifted at 8 !
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
@@deborahchesser73757,000 is enough for me. 🧐
@anonymouscitizen96308 ай бұрын
It's a definitely a Falcon Sprint, I have one rust free in my yard that needs to be restored.
@kkoz_2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day people got together to do burnouts without a cell phone
@marquanbrand-moorehead1887 Жыл бұрын
That's Right
@goldenltd19708 ай бұрын
They would have if they could
@herbienbrian28 ай бұрын
The camcorder was the cellphone
@EarlyV8Dude4178 ай бұрын
A burnout with no cell phone 😱 seems unbelievable 🤔😀
@felipemarquez67818 ай бұрын
No shit they weren’t hand held then
@bryandoll79488 ай бұрын
I really do believe that we grew up in the best times. We had the best music too.
@bighoudini61308 ай бұрын
Before rock and roll died.
@zipzap47067 ай бұрын
100%
@RexDaves5 ай бұрын
Amen!!!
@richardwetzeliii41954 ай бұрын
@@bighoudini6130corporate rock now, Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons on the rock stations! 🤦♂️
@jeffsousa3998 ай бұрын
They were 3K cars back then, we thrashed around, not knowing they would ever be 70k collectors as today… hilarious.. a friend offered me a free 72 Cuda, with all correct 340 numbers matching, and we had so many E Bodies around, I said no thanks, I don’t like the taillights in that year.. lol!!!! They were all so plentiful, back then… 57 Ragtop beetles were 500-1000… haha.. time flies people, enjoy life, and appreciate it. This is NOT a dress rehearsal…:)
@VernLeRoy19628 ай бұрын
I'm 62 & the 70 & 80's were the best times for me & my Hot Rods, we'd go to the local Denny's, make call out's, then meet over in the industrial area, most places were closed that time of night, except for a few semi's coming & going once in a while.
@brian965978 ай бұрын
Yep. Used to go to industrial areas to run since there was no traffic or intersections. We would have lookouts for both cops and other traffic and would make sure streets were clear before running. About every street racing crash you hear about these days are from those running through intersections, curved roads or heavy traffic areas.
@albertchavez26938 ай бұрын
Right on we from clas of 1978 Yuma Az. had fun fun fun , i was lucky to have a 1967 Chevelle for my fifteenth birthday, But couldnt drive it for almost half a year, i had to get my Drivers License permit :) , my borther who is 3 years older had a 1969 SuperBee Man the fun times at Yuma Union High we had real deal
@gavinvalentino60028 ай бұрын
Too bad about the spelling & punctuation thing you never grasped.
@tyronealleyne4028 ай бұрын
For us in ny area it was Vandalia ave , red hook,and the conduit in brooklyn not burn outs but real drag racing
@jenkemjones688 ай бұрын
I had a 71 Plymouth Valiant Scamp with a 230hp 318 and a 3 speed manual transmission.We raced down an industrial drive that also had very little traffic at night.My Scamp only weighed a little over 3,000.Couldnt run with the big blocks but a fun little car.We had a blast.
@jilpoke3 жыл бұрын
The 1980s': blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats. It's now 2020 and I'm wearing blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats.
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
If it ain't broke. but are you wearing crocs with socks?
@davedave28828 ай бұрын
Back when life was simple,i miss those days for sure, thanks for sharing.
@30AndHatingIt8 ай бұрын
I was born only a few days before this was filmed. Crazy!
@rowds8 ай бұрын
When technology goes up...human intelligence goes down.
@SloppyMouthJoey8 ай бұрын
Ahh yes! Back when if you had 400hp to the ground you where king of the streets.
@stevenvanheel39328 ай бұрын
Now making 400hp out of a 350 is pretty easy lol.
@ROBIN_SAGE8 ай бұрын
Now it’s 1,000 but they’ve never driven a 400 WHP car, so I get a hellcat engine cheap after they wad it up in the first 50 miles
@Jus10-born2Run8 ай бұрын
@@ROBIN_SAGEmy thoughts exactly. 600hp is the norm and with some tuning and couple mods you’re 800+
@TheZaxx8 ай бұрын
For sure, 400 hp was a hell of a lot back then!
@JohnDoe-xl1ig5 ай бұрын
@@stevenvanheel3932 that's what i like about now actually. i like also there's many options.i am more of a car guy not so much a brand guy, i like ford, dodge, chevy etc.
@billdowhower3358 ай бұрын
I never saw narrowed rearend street cars in the 80s. Our cars needed paint and were fairly stock with headers carb and maybe a cam. These were wealthier kids than I at that age!
@BruceLee-xn3nn8 ай бұрын
Primered hot rods were a thing back then. I've seen some new cars today that look like clearcoated primer grey
@wydopnthrtl8 ай бұрын
Yeah... and nobody I knew had a blower either. The fastest street car (daily driver) I knew of was a friends dad. He had a 72 camaro w/a small journal 327 that he had built by a race shop. I personally rode in it and saw the tach swing to 8k rpms on the 1-2 shift (turbo 400) where it laid a good 40ft patch from the eagle ST's. He told me it ran a 11.99 at 117mph w/slicks and mid 12s on the ST's at Bradenton Dragstrip. It was bright orange w/white stipes and was in perfect condition. And he drove it daily to work 17 miles each way.
@theupscriber658 ай бұрын
We scrounged the best factory "performance" parts we could find used. Double hump heads, less restrictive exhaust manifolds, maybe an aftermarket intake and a used holley.
@a.t13138 ай бұрын
In the late 70's in my area the lucky guys got a low mileage grandma driven Dart, Nova etc. for 16 birthday while the rest of us had to work low paying after school/weekend jobs to save for a 2 door beater to mod.
@SweatyFatGuy8 ай бұрын
@@a.t1313 I bought my first car in 1982, paid $450 for it, 1967 Cougar that came from California so it wasn't all rusted out. SLOOOOOOOOWwwww.... 302 two barrel. I planted and grew 3 acres of sweet corn, sold it from the back of dads F250 in town. Made $2500, dad kept $2000, then drove my car to work in town for three years before I turned 16. By the time I got to drive it, everything was worn out. I was able to drive it for less than six months total. I wanted a GTO, but couldn't find one at the time. In 1986 a wrecked 72 GTO showed up at the local junk yard, so I bought it for $175, it needed the passenger side fender, bumper, headlight bucket, and a hood. The 400 was gone, and in its place was a 350 two barrel. In 1987 I put a 400 back in it and had some fun until a rod bearing decided to part company. I bought a 79 10th Anniversary TA in July that year, drove that until I enlisted in '88. The TA hasn't moved since September 88. Still have all three of those, and many others. I rarely sold anything back then, so I have lots of parts and cars now. I did work for neighboring farms to earn money, I didn't get anything from my parents. They liked to take what I earned. When I got back from the USAF in 92 I started building cars again, in 1997 I had a 79 Formula I bought in Germany running mid 11s through the mufflers with a mild 455. Current summer daily drivers are a 65 GTO with a 455 wearing the heads/intake from the 79 Formula, and a 70 Cuda 340. I have lots of old Pontiacs.
@bornwildshootingchairs24998 ай бұрын
What a flashback to high school in the 80's. I LOVE the Centerline rims. Such a new and amazing look back then.
@Johnnywhamo8 ай бұрын
Ah man, I was 22 back in 86 and everything about this is so nostalgically awesome right down to the old VHS date stamp :) It's interesting to see how we reacted to being recorded back in the day as opposed to now because back then we were rarely recorded. Remember that guys, I mean it was only once in a blue moon that someone would actually bring out a Camcorder to tape something we were doing and quite honestly in was kinda of thing when they did because it rarely happened lol!
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching everyone.
@TheZaxx8 ай бұрын
I, too, was 22 in 86. And I was thinking the same thing. Not only did a camcorder rarely show up (and they were way bigger than a cell phone), but KZbin and the Internet (as far as we knew) didn't exist. There was no thought what-so-ever that a recording might get viewed by thousands of people. And scenes like this played out in towns all across the country.
@bigtires1002 ай бұрын
That was me in the blue 79 Z28! What a wonderful find! I remember that day. I always wondered what happened to the video. Never thought I'd actually see it. Thanks for posting! Great memories.
@donniegreathouse728 ай бұрын
If we had a time machine how many of us would go BK. I absolutely would without hesitation.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
✋
@wydopnthrtl8 ай бұрын
Not only would I... I'd learn about investing and today have a warehouse FULL of those period correct muscle cars.
@zipzap47067 ай бұрын
100%
@nervouswreck3928 ай бұрын
MISS THOSE DAYS. THEY WERE THE BEST‼️ GOOD FRIENDS✔️GRATE CARS ‼️ GOOD CLEAN FUN☝️
@Steve_Kelly_Oak8 ай бұрын
I was stationed at fort Ord (on the Monterey peninsula) 84-87 I had a 1968 pro-street Camaro with 408 cid big block back then. I ripped all around Salinas, Monterey, and Santa cruz in that thing back then . These guys were at nearly the same place and time, doing the same thing I was. I hope those that are left alive in this video are still out peddle to the metal keeping these old school beasts alive like I try to do.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
I was running around at those times. Cruise downtown on Friday and Saturday night. Looking for races 👍
@kieffer90482465518 ай бұрын
Dam this video brings back so many memories of the simple days . Love it thanks for video the
@not1but2and378 ай бұрын
I was also at Planet Ord, 91 to 93. I had no muscle car though :(. You still have your 'Maro?
@Steve_Kelly_Oak8 ай бұрын
@@not1but2and37 unfortunately no, but I have a couple other muscle cars (I'm a wrench at a small hotrod shop).
@not1but2and378 ай бұрын
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I love muscle cars myself. Missed cruising in the 80's through Waikiki along with my friend in his '69 Camaro SS. I was a Chevy guy but switched to Ford. Have couple of S197's.
@bryandoll794810 ай бұрын
Oh, such a better time to live. I graduated in 86 with a 79 z/28. Good times. Today's people can't get themselves away from video games long enough to enjoy life the way that we did. I made a few of those home videos myself! Great times...
@deborahchesser73758 ай бұрын
Class of 84’ here, bro I’d go back so damn fast I can’t stand the way shit is these days. Oh yeh I had a 67’ Mustang coupe came with a 3 speed and 2 barrel, my uncle put a Top loader intake 4 barrel and cam and that little hooker would scoot. I picked my date up and her dad says oh no she ain’t going anywhere in that 😆 I said buddy here, take my keys I’ll drive your Lincoln he lit up like a Christmas tree no problem he says. Good times
@greasycanadian8 ай бұрын
Your generation made it this way, just remember that. You were responsible for raising us right and you failed. You only have yourselves to blame for the state of our society today
@bigrig.8 ай бұрын
Lol I was born in 90 but I was definitely born in the wrong era. I just got done building a 383 stroker for my 81 Cutlass drag car, keeping it old school with the SBC. Definitely looked like simpler and better times back then.
@deborahchesser73758 ай бұрын
@@bigrig. you’d have loved it bro trust me things were light and loose we all got along. We didn’t have all the stress we have from the bullshit goin on these days.
@bigrig.8 ай бұрын
@@deborahchesser7375 For sure! I just keep to my self anymore and work on my race car.
@CaptainInsano-go6vo8 ай бұрын
This video is exactly 37 years old to this day. 12-28-1986 -- 12-28-2023
@alfderbabybenz70927 ай бұрын
Amazing calculation
@davidcorkill62374 жыл бұрын
Remember street racing back in the 80s like it was yesterday. Out till the sun came up. Good times. Loved the sound of a gear drive like in that Camero. Nice cars I that vid. Thanks for sharing. Good tunes!
@PhaQ28 ай бұрын
I believe you're hearing the blower whine. And yes, it's an awesome sound!
@xp8368 ай бұрын
My God do I miss those days.
@ESPLTD3228 ай бұрын
I’m so pissed I never got to experience the 80’s, or be an adult in the 2000’s. I didn’t even begin adulthood until 2014, when the world really started going to shit.
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
That was 2016 when everything went to shit, you know why. 🎃🤡
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
lets bring politics into it- don't talk that way about your next prez....
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Sorry you missed the good old days. 👍
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
@@tommurphy4307I think you must mean next federal penitentiary inmate.
@HerrPoopschitz7 ай бұрын
America really changed after 9/11. Innocence lost and tech advancements allowed for major surveillance in the name of ‘safety’. Patriot Act was bipartisan.
@larryburns46058 ай бұрын
Still have my 70 maverick from the 80's sold my Rachero and Elcamino
@wydopnthrtl8 ай бұрын
I know a guy who still has his first car from HS. It was 1 yr old and is a 76 2D maverick w/302. White w/black interior and no rust. Every time I go back home I drive by his house and see if he still has it and his 2nd car which is a 87 Mustang LX 5.0L. Yep... he still has them.
@timothywatson82848 ай бұрын
I own a 74 maverick luv this car
@ckelley63 Жыл бұрын
That Falcon sounded the best out of them all.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Hi, That's my 64 falcon. It did run pretty good. It has a 351 Cleveland in it.
@ckelley638 ай бұрын
@@ruazfastMy bad I thought it was a comet I have a 64:2dr sedan with a 302 roller Birds the word!!
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
@@ckelley63Hi, I also used to have a 65 comet before this car.
@danielseymour67268 ай бұрын
This just popped up. Really enjoyed this . My falcon was a 65 futura. Oh the memories. 74 GTO ran high 9s. Yes, I had turned a few wrenches on her.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
@@danielseymour6726 I do like to hear the people, Enjoy the falcons 👍
@brianlanderman34628 ай бұрын
Damn I miss those days
@maxpower0018 ай бұрын
Back when people actually communicated face to face, met up and congregated without needing anything more then a capable ride that sounded right, a tank of high-test, badass cassette tape collection, a few doobs and a time & place.. Nobodies me 2ing anybody, nobody needed a "safe space" and nobody was allergic to goddamn peanuts... we were tough and nails back then 💪
@tyturnin39808 ай бұрын
I like how u also got to watch it on the same day the vid was created just 35+ yrs ltr
@vdog47998 ай бұрын
I am getting goosebumps with nostalgia! Loving the music. Your comment sounds like preaching to me brother. Preach on man , preach on..............
@Kloppin4H0rses8 ай бұрын
So you're praising the ability of men to sexually assault women without repercussions and the fact we ignored people who had allergies? (Because peanut allergies has and will always be one of the most common allergies) Man the internet is truly the lowest common denominator
@yourfirsthouseinminecraft45317 ай бұрын
Peanuts suck ass anyway
@atomicbogator67997 ай бұрын
Cant be serious about the peanuts thing lmfao
@kravin748 ай бұрын
One of the coolest videos I've ever seen on KZbin. A couple years before my friends and I were doing this same thing pretty much. 1989-90 was around the first year. Really cool for the people in the video to have and look back on.
@valricogarcia8 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Just people hanging out doing test hits with their hot rods. I wish someone in our group had a video camera back then. In '86 we were hitting the streets every Friday night in Poughkeepsie NY along route 9.
@supertruckerextraordinaire11 ай бұрын
Nowadays we have tiny phones. This goomba was walking around with a camera the size of a van on his shoulder😂
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Yes, it was a VHS camera
@AgentZ72 жыл бұрын
The Boston song playing around 1:31 is "Cool The Engines", which was a song off of Boston's newest album at the time. :)
@JamesDierken8 ай бұрын
That album was the Third Stage, came out in 83' I think
@seththomas91058 ай бұрын
@@JamesDierken Third Stage was released 1/1/86. I had just bought a 73 Z/28 LT/RS around this time. Wish I still had it.
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
pretty sure ALL the songs from third stage were by boston?!
@abraxaseyes878 ай бұрын
Love how people just talked with each other. Everything seemed so natural. No phones, no poseurs, and no masks.
@tho4648 ай бұрын
Why bring masks in the comments? Get over it already snowflake!
@zh91198 ай бұрын
We are in Idiocracy now.
@TinyTim-wp6jn7 ай бұрын
@@zh9119 100% agree
@TinyTim-wp6jn7 ай бұрын
@@zh9119 divide and conquer the stupid ignorant plebs
@Triggernlfrl7 ай бұрын
Nothing has changed but the obvious....
@Biden_Cult_Morons8 ай бұрын
Love the Boston playing at the beginning. That album Third Stage had been released earlier in '86 shortly before this video was shot. I spent many days and nights jamming that cassette cruising my '72 Olds Cutlass 👍🏻
@goobernoodles8 ай бұрын
Hearing Boston at 1:23 was rad. lol
@RedBud3158 ай бұрын
I wish I had never sold my '70 Buick GS Skylark with the 350. Only 9948 made and I personally never saw another one in person. Heck only seen pictures of a few. P.S. 1st concert in '78 at Anaheim stadium was VH(1st album) Sammy Hagar(1st solo album), Black Sabbath w/Ozzy and Boston(also 1st album).
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
stage1 ragtop auto- buicks version of the turbo 400 (super turbine??) was the stock racer to have- my buddy had one in akron and it was damn quick.@@RedBud315
@CarbonGlassMan8 ай бұрын
A 69 Camero was only 18 years old in 1986. Crazy to think about how new they were then.
@Steve_Kelly_Oak8 ай бұрын
I owned at 1967 and a 1968 pro street camaro in 86. I was stationed at fort Ord near where this video was shot at the time. A nice 68 or 69 Camaro would set you back about $4500 with fresh paint, deck stripes, and mild rebuilt engine.
@CarbonGlassMan8 ай бұрын
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I have a 2004 and a 2005 puck up trucks that I drive every day that are not that old in my opinion, but as old as your cars were in 1986. Somehow, I doubt that my trucks will be worth tens of thousands in another 30 to 40 years. In 1990 I got my 1st car, a 1970 El Camino with a 350 4 barrel. Loved that car.
@Steve_Kelly_Oak8 ай бұрын
@@CarbonGlassMan You are right on that! I graduated high school in 1984 and my dad told me back then to enjoy the old 60s and 70s muscle cars while I could because that era would never come back. I have been doing my best to drive mostly old school classic ever since!
@seththomas91058 ай бұрын
True. I had a 73 Z/28 as my daily at this time. In the summer of 87 I found a 46 GMC that I also dailied. Still have the truck.
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
not a copo.....lots more@@Steve_Kelly_Oak
@duckedup8 ай бұрын
This is my 3rd comment is 7 mins of the vid Im sorry.. but I really appreciate these type ' pre cell phone ' vids that enthusiasts captured and preserved from back in the day. It's rare, epic and genuine.
@johnclemans78028 ай бұрын
Used to go to Kevin's Burgers, Canoga Park, California back in the 1980's. Still have my 65 Mustang Fastback and my dad's original #'s matching 67 Shelby GT 500. Great memories!
@Rob-db4cc8 ай бұрын
Where was that Burger place. Spent a lot of time in Northridge, Lumber city, Van nuys (BofA lot) and out by the res where the damn almost broke in the 71 sylmar earthquake. Roxford?
@johnclemans78028 ай бұрын
@@Rob-db4cc DeSoto Ave and Roscoe in Canoga Park.
@Rob-db4cc8 ай бұрын
@@johnclemans7802 I remember the Jack in the box on the southeast corner and the gas stations on those corners. Rode the RTD along roscoe and desoto a lot before getting a DL. Place is very different today. No more dirt streets in that NE quadrant of the intersection. Remember a guy lived over off Winnetka/Chase that had a stock elim 67-68 Mustang or two.
@dentoldani34608 ай бұрын
Ahhh...1986! Remember it well!!! I was 14 and we lived on a rural blacktop in the country. Cars would race on that stretch of road damn near every fri/sat night! Got my ol' 77 Nova Concours 305 smog 2bbl in 1989, built it into street/strip with a mild 350/350 TCI 2800 stall & Richmond 3.90 rear in 1993! FUCK I miss that car AND my youth!!!!!
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
We would go downtown on Friday and Saturday nights and look for races. 👍
@chaelodoul94018 ай бұрын
@6:25 ❤❤❤❤❤ That bad ass nova. My friend, Tony had a 74 Nova when we were in Highschool. And even though is wasn’t built like these cars, his dad had peoped it up for him some. Headers, a cam and some air shocks lol. We were the coolest dudes on our block. PostScript: I have one question and if you answer, you must answer HONESTLY. Does watching this make any of you kinda sad? Sad at knowing that our teen years are gone forever and that our kids will never know the simple pleasures that we knew as kids? I’m wondering if it’s just me.
@speedyg25778 ай бұрын
Nope, not just you brother. I graduated HS in 77, so my first car/truck was a 66 El Camino 327 4 speed 4:11, 12 bolt posi that I bought in 74ish for 500 bucks. Beat a lot of cars with that thing.
@chaelodoul94018 ай бұрын
@@speedyg2577 wow. Sounds amazing. I was 89. But we all street raced on Friday nights after football. Football was and still is the most important thing in here in Odessa Texas. Lol.
@seththomas91058 ай бұрын
Class of 88. Was doing the same thing. On 12/28/86 I was a Jr. in high school. It was a Sunday and Christmas break so we probably went pheasant hunting durning the day and partied with our girlfreinds that night. :). Makes me sad that my daughter and her friends don't get out and do things like we did.
@wydopnthrtl8 ай бұрын
I was 16 in 86. Sad that teenage years are gone forever = No not at all. Ignorance and rebellion cost me way too much to ever go through that again. Now if I could go back in time w/my brain and maturity of today... I'd pretty much have made every decision the opposite. Simplicity of life = 100% YES (If I was a sales weenie I'd have said 10,000%... but I'm an engineer and you can't fill anything more than 100% 😁 )
@hb-ol9oc8 ай бұрын
@@wydopnthrtl That's an honest thinking. We make a lot of bad decisions at that age. But no way to know and understand it before hand. Hormones and adrenaline at that age are uncontrollable. Obviously some guys were more bad than others, those didn't end well and never got to be an engineer.
@QuietDriver978 ай бұрын
Having fun, not getting out of control, and nobody passing by trying to pick a fight. We need this back.
@QuietDriver978 ай бұрын
@@mikead24 I'm 25 and don't identify with 99 percent of my generation. Just wasn't raised to buy into all the bs. Old school parents are a blessing.
@theupscriber658 ай бұрын
Are you serious? All we did was race, pull trucks, go mudding, smoke, drink, F$%k and FIGHT. Your group must have been a bunch of wussies
@os73498 ай бұрын
Feel like the wraith will pull up any second.
@pearlguy63518 ай бұрын
Good ole drag racing no ones using cell phones no social media no go pros just gear head’s getting together to see who has the biggest engine
@bigrig.8 ай бұрын
That's what I'm saying, phones are ruining all the fun. Everybody are zombies these days. Not me though I'm carrying on the torch. Just built a 383 stroker for my drag car
@raymondguzman19078 ай бұрын
Love this video. My heavy street racing days were 97, 98 years in good ol abilene tx. Lol. Some of the best times of my life for sure. Altho this was around 10 years earlier and somewhere else Seeing this brings back alot of memories. Something about street racing that gets and stays in the blood nomatter when, who and where your at.
@bryantg76417 ай бұрын
The gear driven timing system in that Camaro sounded wild. It's interesting to see what was considered fast when I was 6 years old !!
@peteartussee1202Ай бұрын
This video brings back so many awesome memories. Every day during lunch in high school, a group of us would go drag race. I won a few, lost a few, but i had one hell of a time doing it.
@gregcampbell30647 ай бұрын
I was a senior when this was filmed. It was a couple years later that I started street racing. Had a 69 step side with a 402 in it, home ported heads, decent cam, Holley intake and 750 carb, some deep gears, and the widest slicks I could tuck up under the step sides. It did quite well. That Falcon appeared to have Mickey Thompson SS on the back. You were the man if you had them on the back of your car and they were the soft compound ones! Good times back then when you used your brain, knowledge, and skill to build something instead of your Visa Gold card. Video brought me back in time; just needed some actual racing, it was good though, Thanks.
@ruazfast7 ай бұрын
Hi, Falcon had McCreary circle track tires. 👍
@anthonymartin56628 ай бұрын
These were the days..not the crap u see today. God I miss that.
@motocrossman188 ай бұрын
You can feel the 80s culture thru the video. No non sense talk and people talking to one another with respect. Not to mention some Scorpions as the cherry on top. I miss when people truely treated eachother well.
@zipzap47067 ай бұрын
Scorps for the win!
@PJHEATERMAN8 ай бұрын
Brings back memories. I remember trying to squeeze 500 hp out of a small block chevy. It took some serious cash to achieve that. Today my Scat Charger comes that way, not to mention a line lock and programable stall converter all at my finger tips. Computer stores all the parameters of performance on board. Even has a G meter for traction information. A shit ton more i just can't remember it all.
@getoffenit78278 ай бұрын
I had a 65 Falcon convertible 289 4spd that i cobbled a NOS fogger plate and a solenoid switch from an airconditioner that i activated with my finfer the button was on the shift handle...i usually guessed when to hit it after looking at the tach..hopefully i wouldnt hit the nitrous in between 1st and 2nd gear..hopefully it come on when im already squarely in 2nd gear..it was 'hit or miss'..i blew the guts out of the engine once or twice,fragged a clutch a couple times destroyed a 9in detroit locker....now all the nitrous can be dialed in on a screen and the computer actuates the nitrous...wow! Those SCATS come with A/C,Power seats and windows,all the EGR stuff intact...all the stuff we dumped back then in order to gain some power and drop weight...amazing machines the Challengers,Camaros and Mustangs are today
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Its not easy trying to get as much horsepower as you can for the next guy to race.👍
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
@@getoffenit7827I have nitrous on my 64 falcon. It can make a big difference when you're racing big block cars. 👍
@chadhumphries39708 ай бұрын
New cars with gobs of power from the factory also have no soul
@getoffenit78278 ай бұрын
@@chadhumphries3970 true...but once a gear head gets their hands on it and start tweaking and tinkering and putting their heart and soul into improving the machine then it does have a soul. Galaxy 427s,SS 396 Camaros,454 Chevelles,440 6 pack 'Cudas and Chargers,Boss 429s all came from the factory with disgusting and unholy gobs of souless power from the factory...then the Demons of the Drag Strips Yenko,Shelby,Mickey Thompson,Glidden and whole bunch of other average guys tweaked and tuned them and created machines filled with skill,talent,nitromethane induced lunacy and ferocious holeshots...the modern cars all come from that..no car comes with a soul from the factory
@Diecastjoe8 ай бұрын
When car guys were actually into cars and were actually modifying them unlike today. 😢
@Biden_Cult_Morons8 ай бұрын
Yep. Today's "car guys" slap stickers and fart cans on their jalopies and call it good!
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
@@Biden_Cult_Morons Don't forget the Chinese turbo kit, a cold air intake and NOS.
@steveww078 ай бұрын
ok boomer
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
@@steveww07 You know what boomer means? They have been doing this way longer than you and paved the way. Would you diss your ancestors for coming to America? No respect. Boomer checking A/F, pulling a plug and knowing how to read it, Gen X or Y, let me get my laptop. Nothing wrong with that, you won't mess up the manicure.
@steveww078 ай бұрын
@@larrytheableguy3441 you sound mad. You think checking a spark plug is anything as complicated as AFR with a laptop? Man yall boomers are full of S***. Yall threw junk together and really thought you were something special.
@MustangGTA3908 ай бұрын
Brings back GREAT memories of hanging with my gear head buddies outside of Atlanta Georgia. We had fun times! THANK YOU for sharing this old VHS tape. All the cars are cool but the Falcon with a Cleveland is my favorite. My late best friend ran a built Cleveland in his 67 Mustang fastback. He was unbeatable at the time. It ran high 11's in the quarter. Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
@jackray3334 ай бұрын
God this brings back memories. My first true hot rod was a 77 Z28. Aluminum head 355. Ran 12.30 on pump gas. We street Raced all night. What a blast.
@twowitnesses74 ай бұрын
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@coinslotsandjoysticks25728 ай бұрын
We used to race on the streets in the 80's until the sun came out and go home and sleep and wait until dark to do it again
@thefoxdoctor10725 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah, the glory days......
@mikechandler93227 ай бұрын
I could watch this all day long! I grew up in Watsonville and was 13 at this time. My neighbor had a bad ass orange 69 Camaro with a 4 speed and tunnel ram and was always doing burnouts up and down the street. These guys probably came across him at some point in time. My parents met at the drag races in Salinas in the mid 60’s when he was stationed at Fort Ord. This brings back all the “feels” 👍
@TSalad_Bowl-uy7ci7 ай бұрын
I grew up in Gonzales and was in the 6th grade when this was filmed!
@chriswright96597 ай бұрын
Was disappointed seeing all those small blocks until he opened the hood on the orange 69 Camaro nothing better than a big block and a 4 speed 🇺🇸💪🏻
@msh68658 ай бұрын
I graduated high school in 1986 and we we're doing the exact same thing in KY on Friday and Saturday nights. We would meet up to agree on terms...who would flag, who might get a car length head start or something similar, look over each other's rides and agree on money (if any) then, go to our spot and race. We did it again and again. Of course, always on the lookout for police. Sunday nights we'd go to the drive in to hang out, chase girls and maybe even watch the movie. No cell phones, no Internet and no politics. Just kids racing, hanging out and having fun. Much better days.
@Coronetguy6 ай бұрын
The best of times for sure. I had a 67 dodge dart GT. Was a quick car. And so much fun for very little money.
@Chriskmeg8 ай бұрын
My dad’s 64 Falcon was the fastest car on the streets with a 351w. Sleeper with Moons.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
👍
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
torque is torque. thats what wins street races. your 351W could be built to provide GOBS of torque. i had one in a 72 galaxie- the valve timing is wack stock from ford.
@madmanmechanic88478 ай бұрын
Wow I was on 30 years old then holy crap I feel old . I miss the 80s so bad I was living in Utah and with state of very Hot women I miss those 80s women too best times of my life
@KING4aday468 ай бұрын
Love those cars. Nova, camaro, and the Falcon.
@trevorhooten3758 ай бұрын
And they are in the middle of nowhere. Now days people are doing 100 in and out of heavy traffic. I dig theese guys i was a month old lol.
@shockingguy8 ай бұрын
37 years ago today, how time flies 😹
@blakesmith21018 ай бұрын
High School early 80's we were doing the same thing in Wyoming. All my money went into my car.👍
@Pointlesshandle488 ай бұрын
I was 5 months old. If I had known how expensive classics would become I would’ve bought one back when I was a baby. I think it would’ve been easier then than it is now 😂
@stevenvanheel39328 ай бұрын
Back then cars had 750 Holley Double Pumpers. Now they have ABS and SRS (air bags). We need to go back!
@larrytheableguy34418 ай бұрын
OMG now days kids think a double pumper is 2 penis pumps.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
That's funny. You mentioned 750 double pumper. That's what I had on the Ford 👍
@mylifebelike75738 ай бұрын
Today as I’m watching this it’s 12/28/23. This was a cool algorithm video
@matthewmann89518 ай бұрын
1987 doing the same shit just different bros😂same tunes which I still listen to thank you very much. Still have cars that I run that are from this era. Good times 😂 beat em break em fix em. You know. This vid made my day thanks. So much has changed. But still having fun. 😂 F.P. HIGH SCHOOL Tacoma Wa. Class of 87 baby oh ya. Peace freinds.
@JoeHernandez12107 ай бұрын
This brings back memories. When I raced in Queens NY. Thanks for sharing
@Hotdaddy5368 ай бұрын
Back in my day we would get aquarium air lines connect to the windshield washer reservoir fill with clorox and water position the hoses over the rear wheels wet the tires and did a real burn out..we also had line locks..class of 73..
@bigbow628 ай бұрын
We had many nights of street racing.... wouldn't dare try it in the day time of course we had 5X the cars. I'm like paulc a hard-core Chevy guy.... 2 66' Chevelles one a sweet SS, also a 69' SS , a 70' and 72' Vette among others that was from mid 70' to late 90's.... The Falcon is nice love rear end action as be bangs the gears the Camaros are cool hey man its just nice seeing all of those rides and old school hang-out with friends just having fun. Yes those were simpler times my gearhead friends as we would all find out. I miss the cars but marriage houses and two boys took place of hot rods and racing... so today i do it from the sidelines ✌️🙂 Thank you for the video
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
👍
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
the natural progression would be to an early caddy cts-v- chipped up to 750hp on ethanol. now, THATS a chevy!!
@williemoon75228 ай бұрын
back up 10 more years and a fellow i knew had a falcon like that with a BOSS 351 .. was virtually unbeatable ..
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Yes, the Cleveland was supposed to flow Pretty good.🧐
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
that was the first thing you tried to find for your 289- those cleveland boss heads.
@williemoon75228 ай бұрын
@@tommurphy4307 i built a bogus BOSS 302 in 76 but tried to run an automatic trans .. could`nt make it work .
@Crazytownmetal68 ай бұрын
I miss those days, love the music. I had a Plymouth Duster in 86'
@not1but2and378 ай бұрын
Oh, yeah! Traction bars, Cragars, and Centerlines! Fun times!
@josephvladyka32217 ай бұрын
The 80s were a lot of fun.
@speedyg25778 ай бұрын
Gotta love the braided line hose covers and the piece of threaded rod 4" to long for the air cleaner, one tire fryers. Those were the days.
@richardresendez23257 ай бұрын
Good old days no fighting just having fun and driving fast!
@byrnc9278 ай бұрын
That box chevy is timeless.
@richardturk71628 ай бұрын
I'm 71 and was into all that in the 60's and 70's. Friday and Saturday were street racing nights, Sunday was all at the local drag strip. Fun times for sure. This film would have been better if the cars had actually raced each other.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
We usually raced on the weekends, Friday and Saturday night.👍
@tommurphy43078 ай бұрын
now they have eighth-mile strips. thats just a glorified stoplight race.....
@tho4648 ай бұрын
In 1986 we raced on Bloomfield Rd in Gilroy about 30 minutes north of where this video was filmed. Was hoping to see some cars I recognized from back in the day.
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
What about the IBM plan down the road?
@theupscriber658 ай бұрын
These cars were fast when I was a kid. Now they'd get their doors blown off by most new cars.
@LOUCABRASI8 ай бұрын
Definitely. My stage 1 audi s3 will gap them all day. Still, bad ass cars back then. Sound awesome as well.
@davepritts4942 ай бұрын
Awesome video man dose this sure bring’s back memory’s….ive give almost anything to go back to those day’s
@martythornton6048 ай бұрын
The good old days, when you could race anywhere, anytime.
@stevenvanheel39328 ай бұрын
It seems like it was a lot harder for annoying people to call the cops when they didn’t have cell phones! That’s hard for me to imagine- I never knew a world without cell phones and computers.
@martythornton6048 ай бұрын
@@stevenvanheel3932it was great without cell phones, but even in the 80s, I wished I was in the late 60s during the heart of muscle car era.
@hb-ol9oc8 ай бұрын
Nice to see those kids, no smoking, no marijuana, no drinking, no guns. Just having an healthy fun.
@shawng79028 ай бұрын
I was 10 then, oh how times have changed. We do in fact run the tracks backwards every few weekends now lol.
@YOUR_MOTHER_WENT_TO_COLLEGE8 ай бұрын
DAMN!!!...................You talk about a retro throwback vid, times definitely looked a lot more fun and simpler back then. Love my Chevy's, love building big raw natural power with great parts and precise building. But now I mostly just twin turbo everything,😅 but you'll always see a nice big fat dominator sitting on top of my intakes. Whether it's a daily or strictly track, no replacement for displacement.🏎🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬
@joshreynolds7298 ай бұрын
Love the intro and the old footage that’s awesome thanks. Nice older cars you don’t see everyday. I love how the majority of cars were doing the one wheel burn out 🤣 like manufacturers thought that was gonna fly.
@jarmominkkinen94098 ай бұрын
The good days!!! I start 92 still going on have Camaro 68 Street week car 1100hp Only 12 psi Boost ProchargerF2 Big staff3 Efi E85 Fjuel.Nice Happy Engine..Have even more Cars Amerikan Muscle cars!❤️🖐
@StainlessTIG28 ай бұрын
I guessed that the 64 Falcon was Cleveland powered. I was 16 in 86 and those were great times. I was building a Cleveland powered 66 mustang. Should’ve threw some Sammy Hagar in there or some Iron Maiden. Great video.
@duckedup8 ай бұрын
Btw... I appreciate the Ford, but the Square body and other Chevys are why I hit the thumbs up ;)
@simpleman97508 ай бұрын
That brings back a lot of memories killer video
@jimparsons617 ай бұрын
Back in the 70s, we had drag nights and we would get together in a grocery store parking lot and when the stores closed and we have like a car show and then everybody would go out onto the street, which was a main drag out there and we'd have Drag Racing and them on the. Weekends, when that's over during the day. We go over to the local drag strip and have run what you brung And it was all legal as far as we cared until the cops came along to break it up.
@dw88408 ай бұрын
I happen to be watching this today 12/28/2023. 37 years ago to this date
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
Yes, that was the good old days 👍
@zipzap47067 ай бұрын
I miss these days!
@user-do1nl6sq3u7 ай бұрын
That truck has the coolest tires ever made groundhog Mudders I wish I had that truck short bed 3/4 tons from the factory I'm guessing they didn't mess around with them in the 80s
@finzgar4208 ай бұрын
it's crazy to think those cars are only around 15- 20 years old there, most less
@soundwave78554 жыл бұрын
People say 2000's style is the best, but that's just far from ever being right, 80's is looking fire
@marquanbrand-moorehead1887 Жыл бұрын
Hell Yeah Even The 50s, 60s, 70s,
@Kev27RS10 ай бұрын
The cars in this video were not specifically "80s style".
@ruazfast8 ай бұрын
@@Kev27RSwe just had the '60s cars in the '80s 👍
@Kev27RS8 ай бұрын
@@ruazfast Yeah!
@dangarrison35038 ай бұрын
@@Kev27RSthe cars in the 80s ,centerline, cragers snorkel hood scoops, they certainly were.
@markharris14738 ай бұрын
I miss street racing. Yeah it was dangerous, but no more than what would happen at a track. Just without the on coming traffic. I also enjoy watching it. I know the Philly crew still street races. I wanna see that in person once. I see it on KZbin a lot. Looks fun as hell
@rolltide95478 ай бұрын
Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track. Street racing is 1000x more dangerous.
@robduncan28168 ай бұрын
@@rolltide9547 "Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track" incorrect
@rolltide95478 ай бұрын
@@robduncan2816 If you go to a track you know you are at a dangerous event. Walking to your mailbox and getting run over by a street racer is what being innocent is. I worked at a dragstrips for 22 years I understand the risk by fans or racers.
@markharris14738 ай бұрын
@rolltide9547 I know some innocent who got killed at tracks before. When a car clears the wall and innocent by standers are near, someone is bound to get injured or killed. Maybe not as much as street racing, but it happens and it could also happen
@rolltide95478 ай бұрын
@@markharris1473 They took the chance going to a track with takes the innocent part out. Walking your dog down the street and getting killed by a street racer is what being innocent is about.
@fasnuf8 ай бұрын
37 years ago today. Strange this is in my feed.
@vernonyow15098 ай бұрын
So much better back then than now...
@TurboV8boi8 ай бұрын
I like how a lot of these cars are bound to have the same transmission that we use today, the TH400
@JoeR2038 ай бұрын
Ahh, back when aftermarket parts were affordable.
@MoparMissileDivision7 ай бұрын
This video was recorded almost exactly two months after I met my wife at a backroad race like this. We have been married for 36 years now and have four children and eight grandchildren! My '72 Road Runner 528 (poked and stroked 440 with the block being the only OEM part on it!) is still going strong at 51 years old!