Byron WheelStand Contest 2021 - Full Coverage

[@tomeighty]

Want to see more of my Wheelie videos? Check out this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJTNemZogNCmis0

[@evanjohanning9773]

This would a James taal event for sure 🤣

[@TopGearfooligans]

I was looking for this comment 😂🤣😂🤣

[@nathanreed2610]

@@TopGearfooligans same here lol

[@Goat-vy2bi]

George is also now a qualified bumperdrager

[@darrenosborne3657]

Love it

[@jeffbamford805]

I'm sure it would (be) a .his Chevy doesn't know how to stay down ..

[@ProTreeVideos]

Heck yeah brother!! I love these wheelie videos! Thanks for the coverage 👍

[@tomeighty]

Thank you buddy! This race almost didn't go off, there was a huge rain delay and when they dried the track off there was a storm coming in hot and they had to get this all done as quick as possible. I was happy to just be able to get a video out of it all. ha ha. Thanks again buddy.

[@kwik440]

Holy cow Tomeighty, do you ever sleep? you're all over the country making these AWESOME videos !! Thank you : ) glad to see Jason fixed his Oldsmobile, man,that thing got tore up !

[@tomeighty]

Thanks buddy, I just love traveling around to different races. Best job ever! ha ha

[@JackDaniel617]

Door Slammers, Gear Jammers and Wheel Standers yes Sir this is a good one!

[@bubbakushingtonIII]

I like that a lot of the cars doing this event looks like they're straight from the 90s. Perfect example is the grand prix or maybe an oldsmobile but that purple and pink paint job looked right out of a hot rod magnet.

[@snipeatyou]

I believe the original version of that car was built then. That one is car 3 I believe. The other two got tore up

[@billb.7105]

@@snipeatyou Yep. He's wrecked that car at least twice.

[@GixxerKris]

The guy who owns that car has a body shop, car always looks great.

[@philbetthauser9547]

Great footage of the wheel standing championship Tom.

[@tomeighty]

Thank you Phil. And thank you for all the effort you did to get Chinto to the winners circle. I watched that FB live feed and wow that was just unreal what you guys went through in the staging lane right before the race. I was nervous just watching it all unfold. But you pulled it off and nobody in the stands knew what was going on. Thanks again for your part of it all.

[@philbetthauser9547]

@@tomeighty thanks Tom. we wanted to do what ever it took. To get Chris to make his run , and good thing it was the winning pass !

[@r1game626]

The cuda is awesome, the cutlass clean, smooth wheelie man. That maro with the purple and green stripes is clean.

[@danmyers9372]

Thanks Tom! Interesting that 1320 Video was there filming. Haven’t seen them post a video of the event.

[@snxc1627]

@anonymous Wait really? Was it because of street racing?

[@michaelmoon6675]

The barracuda looks pure badass..💯💯💯💯🆒😎💪💪💪☝️ and all the cars are badass as well..😎💯🆒💪💪☝️

[@pablo_vs_paul4856]

WOW! Respect to all these pilots! Fast n Furious physics at its best! No CGI/Movie magic here!!

[@DrangeDragRacingTeam1967]

That red 67 Nova is beautiful😎👍

[@jeffhyde7934]

The one thing I miss from Illinois, is going to this every fall for my birthday! At least it's on KZbin!

[@davesracingchannel9261]

Dude I love love Wheelstanding action it's the Best!

[@PokePullHits]

That orange comparo looked nuts

[@coreypruka5501]

Great video, Tom!! Wow! At the 5:11 mark it doesn't look like Richard Rawlings has aged well at all. :-D

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@thewolfe1338]

The most beautiful music

[@PCgonerogue820]

Thank You Tom for a wheels up video

[@jimjakosh2506]

The chevy motors makes those fords go!!

[@tylermartin2631]

That ford pinto is so freaking cool!

[@hippiemiller]

At least the cutlass didn't get killed this year

[@brianrigsby7900]

3:31 what was that car constantly revving?

[@ericmueser]

5:28 That barracuda is the meanest sounding car I've ever heard

[@glb5053]

Pinto wins the wheelie contest, brunette in gray jeans wins the cake contest.

[@gs1100ed]

Made me look!

[@davem6685]

Is it a requirement that you have to wear a black T-shirt to these events?

[@grabasandwich]

11:51 highlight of the video

[@TonieChambersYT]

🤘Awesome video!!! Love watching these. Keep up the great content!!🤘

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@TonieChambersYT]

@@tomeighty no problem.

[@MariusClaudiumelencu]

Super 💯 Tare 🎉

[@Leon-ld3ht]

The Ford Pinto has to be one of the best cars to build for drag other than the Vega,Opal,Chevette and Bobcat

[@tomeighty]

Wow, I totally forgot about the Bobcat car. I have not heard that name uttered in a zillion years. ha ha.

[@BCaldwell]

Mercury Bobcat.... Now that's old school 🤘

[@waltmoore3095]

Gremlin.

[@stevehardeman7209]

Where's the little red wagon

[@tomeighty]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmqVaWiCbc9-qZI

[@glennwallace607]

I just knew the pinto was going to take it . Not only was it the longest , it also was dam near straight up and down 90 degrees.

[@Mr_Chode]

he would have kept going too but the rear tires left the ground for a few miliseconds.

Jackstand will show you how to do it. With no concrete in the trunk.

[@claynesbit7552]

For real. I see better wheelies from dudes like that, that aren’t trying to wheelie

[@brandonthomas2412]

I was thinking the exact same thing lol

[@kodybell4616]

Ik for sure not all of these cars run concrete in the trunk, some of them are just straight up drag cars i remember in an interview from the 2019 contest one of the drivers said he even nopreps his car and that it became a wheelie car because its chassis became outdated for drag racing

[@660Chronicles]

Been waiting for this video!

[@tomeighty]

Thank you, hope it was worth the wait!

[@RCaddix60]

Love this VID SO MUCH

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@teresakoeman1737]

Gotta love those wheelies

[@johnlany3940]

Great show

[@joelbell9082]

remember seeing the Little Red Wagon live and it would blow all their doors in he did a wheel stand almost the whole quarter mile

[@kitsunaigoober64]

Im fascinated on how this is even possible

[@bigiron8831]

BEAUTIFUL BYRON HELLINOIS..... home of the Nuclear Meltdown my backyard since 1967. GET IT ON.....

[@richardisley1937]

410' is totally sick!!!

[@victormernelko9827]

😁😁👍👍 Thank you!!

[@chrishamilton2559]

3:27 is that the HRM Crusher Camaro? That thing is a legend!

[@chrishamilton2559]

No way. Freiburger still has that car, right?

[@skylerrodgers1124]

@@chrishamilton2559 the one in the video isn't the real crusher camaro, freiburgers is yellow aswell with an ls7, freiburgers impala has since adopted the crusher name with the original motor out of the camaro

[@joehanna501]

@@skylerrodgers1124 it's actually a tunnel ram small block last I recall.

[@skylerrodgers1124]

@@joehanna501 its an ls7 they did the swap in the middle of a show and live streamed it, had a blown big block that is now in frei burgers impala. Finnegan drove it home from the show over 700 miles in the snow, was a great episode.

[@joehanna501]

@@skylerrodgers1124 watch roadkill garage. That cars had like 3 engines since that episode. That was what season 3 or 4?

[@MrBlackbutang]

I wait all year for this! Buick fast with class. Thanks everyone! Spooln272

[@rilwicc5002]

Thats crusher orange mustang sounds so danger😂😂

[@robertf9521]

Three words..the little red wagon!

[@michaelmoon6675]

The pinto was purly the best of all.numrow 1.😎😎✌️💯🆒💪☝️☝️☝️🔥🔥

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

I wheelie liked this. :)

[@that_whit3boy]

2 years later but love when they wheelie it makes me HAPPY

[@morphman21]

I see 1320video was at the event. Can't wait to see the video from them when it comes out

[@tomeighty]

Yes they should have a great video coming out soon. They had GoPro's on a lot of cars too. Thanks for watching!

[@gcartwright1720]

There are racectracks....then theres Byron. 1/4 mile action. The same thing goes for Tom....one guy who digs deep for the extra good footage

[@tomeighty]

Thank you, i appreciate it. And yes Byron is a very special race track.

[@rustedratchetgarage6788]

Lol i thought it was a pun about Tom Byron the 70s "movie" star

[@rustedratchetgarage6788]

Need a heavy duty suspension ideally a long travel prerunner on slicks

[@billb.7105]

The 'vert Olds has been around a long time and has the battle scars to prove it.

[@glb5053]

Buick GS

[@prkefi3989]

Imagine seeing one of the cars doing a wheelie on the highway

[@davefroman4700]

LS George - "You call that a wheelie? Hold my dew!"

[@MoneyIsLifeee]

I was there😁

[@jeancharlesrabaux5658]

Houa the mopar + camaro one bel air hummm surtout the barracuda plymouth y love it

[@Turbo4Joe363]

I love how a ratty looking Pinto beat all the pretty high dollar cars. Buick and Cuda were cool too!

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

I knew that Pinto would take the win. I would put my money on that, a Gremlin, a pacer, or any car built that way. A light, stubby little car like that is gonna fly sky high.

[@joen5332]

I don't understand why the guys that were running wheelie bars even got into competition because they had no chance whatsoever because they were going to be limited on what they could do because of them bars

[@davem6685]

Just out there giving it hell. I’d drive those things every chance I had if it were mine.

[@3DFLYLOW]

As guy who knows nothing I'm wondering is there any special modifications to the frame that you have to do to make this work. It just seems like you would destroy your car on landing.

[@tomeighty]

Most drag cars already have stiff or supported frames but the big deal is the shock towers and the type of shock you run on these cars. Depending on the type of car you most likely need to reinforce the shock area for the hard landings and make sure it doesn't blow through the sheet metal holding it in. And they type of shock that is best is one that has a lot of travel to absorb the landing and not have the body of the car take the hit. Thanks for watching! Tom

[@StrictlyService905]

I never understood the reason for this, but never wanted to question/doubt it because it’s everything the inner 8 year old craves Inside.

[@Mr_Chode]

I really liked that Barracuda 5:29

[@sinnerssaint4712]

That Buick GS was way too nice to risk...cool though

[@kanervatie]

3:10 noobie here, how come the Camaro sound like that? It's like a cam lobe, but it's not cam doing that.

[@Christian-pg3zh]

I think it's because of the big blower

[@glb5053]

Google blower surge.

[@ObiWanBidoofy]

The chinto had a great run there. When I saw it for the first time, I wasn't too sure about it. Then it proved to be stiff competition against the likes of ambrosini

[@KevanleeRice]

Talk about mountain motors I like doing a jungle orders myself

[@lairythegamer3.0]

i went to byron wheel stand competition this year and how come you didnt put the gremlin in the video?

[@steeznsteve]

Where’s jackstand jimmy?

[@timothysmith1135]

Where was the orange gremlin

[@kevinshiley9061]

This may have been after he wrecked it.

[@tomeighty]

He had an oil leak after he did his burnout. Something must have broke to cause the leak because I'm sure they would have had it fixed if they could have.

[@af1132racing]

Was that Fred from 1320 filming?

[@mpmassacre91]

The last race I went a truck did the entire 1/4 mile plus some more.

[@Rocknracing69]

No Rick Johnson?

[@cjbert6790]

Looks kinda sad compared to some of the older events.

[@pookysdad4884]

Too many of em had wheelie bars, and they all sucked.

[@TheMsalatte]

It was at this moment I realize need for speed pro street made my idea of a wheelie contest severely exaggerated 😅

[@bartbullock9742]

Short wheelbase pinto is a natural

[@conanthedestroyer7123]

The back wheels have no steering. Risking the wall every time.

[@bartbullock9742]

I've ridden thousands of wheelies on my bike, I rode one 11 MI. Riding wheelies in a car is an absurd art form

[@michaelmoon6675]

How would you feel about being in the passenger seat.😆😆😆😊💯🆒💪☝️of any of these cars.

[@DreamTheory1994]

he said im taking this win or putting it on the lid!

[@jeffjohnson1464]

That crusher orange camaro is absolutely beautiful. Hell I love them em all though. But why do this to these gorgeous cars with all that time and money in??

[@Horatio-Monroe]

Nice.

[@chrisbond6056]

Nothing says horsepower like the sound of a blower spinning

[@kharmastreams8319]

This has to be the most american thing to fall into my youtube feed.. 🤣🤣

[@jamespepper2541]

CHEVY POWERED PINTO!!! 😆😆😆

[@CallofDoobie585]

Made sure he say whassup to Jay lol

[@MrBlackbutang]

Ford power!

[@FrankHampton-t7m]

Of course the Pinto wins. Power to weight ratio is ridiculous

[@MrCarnutbill67]

They need to give me that red Chevy II before it gets destroyed. I’ll love it and rub it and talk sweet nothings in it’s ear.

[@777DanielG]

You like the way I gas you baby? 🤣 Baby I love it when you're polished 🤣 Here's new caps baby, real gold.

[@hunter3551]

Imagine how scary ts would actually be

[@michael61985]

Some of them cars in the early part of this vid couldn't hardly get the front wheels off the ground

[@tomeighty]

One thing I didn't mention in this video was that there was a huge rain storm for an hour right before this event. They dried the track as good as they could and rushed the drivers to get the event in because another round of rain was coming soon. So it was kind of a cluster of a year for this wheelie contest. Thank you so much for watching and you might want to check out my video from 2020, that was a wild year for the wheelie contest. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJTNemZogNCmis0

[@robertkennedy1666]

I don't understand why people showed up with wheelie bars

[@sprintmademe]

I think some of the guys misunderstood the term wheelie bars.

[@firebirdude2]

Pintos always win wheelie contests

[@gerrycomfort7027]

A WHY ARE CARS WHIT WHEELY BARS THERE.

[@terryt8828]

watch hat next

[@pookysdad4884]

Why the hell do some of these cars have wheelie bars? Ya cant win a wheelie contest with wheelie BARS! And why is it the same damn cars competing every year?

[@ericfitzpatrick5319]

Some of these beasts have way too big of cams not to be able to keep their front ends up.

[@DragonJ-ui9gg]

I’m sorry but there’s really nothing like the sound of high rev’s of a muscle car or seeing a car hang the wheels the way these guys hang it out, let’s not forget the smells of burning rubber, cam2 and VP racing fuels, nitromethane burning your eyes out of your head and the pounding on your body from the raw horse power . You just got up love drag racing.

[@MyFaultRanch]

this destroys too many irreplaceable cars. i was glad to see some drivers keeping it modest fun over destroying cars

[@snipeatyou]

Where are the irreplaceable cars? It’s not like they are out there tearing up rare cars. All they are tearing up is mass produced cars.

[@unsafevelocities5687]

@@snipeatyou Mass produced cars that are not in production any more, hence they're only going to get rarer. This isn't rocket science.

[@snipeatyou]

@@unsafevelocities5687 they made over 200k 1st gen camaros per year. They made a ton of cars and they are still common. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they are rare. Also they are already making replacement body parts for nearly everything

[@unsafevelocities5687]

@@snipeatyou Production figures =/= what has survived. I think you'll find it's a lot harder to replace panels than you're suggesting.

[@snipeatyou]

@@unsafevelocities5687 no it’s really not. I can find plenty of parts for my Chevy vega and that’s not even a wanted car. Plenty of old cars are still around. Most sit inside and never get driven and are wasted. Cars are meant to be driven. Most race cars were either race cars when new, wrecked, blown up, or rusty when they were turned into race cars. I’d be more angry at derby people trashing old cars than people building race cars. At least race cars get driven

[@brandonpage2658]

They need wheelbase classes