CLASSIC VIDEO - 1983 NHRA WORLD FINALS, OCIR FINAL EVENT

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[@outdoorfuninthesun2393]

Steve and Dave, the best commentator combo in Drag Racing ever!

[@Slinger43]

Best pair in all of Motorsports IMO & I've heard um all 💪👍

[@Slinger43]

@supertubr Brock was a great guy, but not even on his best day 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@AliasMark69]

O.C.I.R. opened in August 1967. In July of that year I was helping to tighten the bolts on the guard rails working for a friends construction company. I was 13 years old. I was at the very first race and the "LAST RACE" in Oct 30th 1983. I was at nearly every race until it closed. I was on the PITS side at this race. Over the years there I raced my own 57 NOMAD (13.78 @105) 62 Impala (16.24@ 87) 68 Camaro (12,58@112) Happy to have this video. Great memories.

[@oldsaerotech1167]

Thank you, thank you, for sharing a slice of life.

[@markgeary5897]

Better racing,best commentary these were great days.

[@abusivesystems9844]

I grew up in Orange Ca. back in the day I saw multiple races here @ OCIR!. They were amazing, soo much fun. This was the real era of drag racing

[@georgehorn1970]

I lived down the street and could hear the cars racing. It was a sound of beauty and a call to the track. Those were the days and I wish they never took that raceway out.

[@jasonrackawack9369]

Thanks for sharing this. The late 70s to early 90s has to be my favorite era of drag racing, reminds me of being a kid and watching with my Dad on weekends.

[@chrisnizer5702]

I was there with my Dad and a friend from school who had never been to a drag race before. Unfortunately OCIR, one of the best facilities/tracks, would close in '84. RIP OCIR and thanks for all the good times and great memories.

[@hansjakob9495]

Actually OCIR held their final event under the heading the "Last Drag Race" two weeks after the World Finals on Oct 29th, 1983.

[@danswrld]

Man I miss Steve Evans........ No announcer even comes close today.

[@codyalbright4137]

Dearly missed Dave McClelland and Steve Evans they were the best man Chris economaki sucks big Wang man I hate that guy but Evans was a God darn legend man

[@georgehorn1970]

When I was growing up, I remember listening to these cars racing on weekends. That raceway was part of our childhood. I used to race dirt bikes on the track that was adjacent to the drag strip. The smell of exhaust still lingers in my head

[@codyalbright4137]

This was probably the golden Era for me I was a little kid in the 90s it was like 92 and I found my grandpa s old nhra tapes and he had em all man I started watching the 79 season he had the winter national s the US national and the world finals of 79 and I was hooked

[@brandonthomas2870]

I was there...thank you Dad!!!

[@MoxieMike66]

I prefer to watch these races over todays meets. I loved working the WWCS meets at NEDway when I was in HS in the early 80's.

[@jamesd2514]

These videos are priceless thanks for posting …I was a little kid in New England visiting Epping with my dad getting my first doses of Nitro when some of these guys were running….

[@markgeary5897]

That's it so long for now,this has been a Diamond P presentation, Steve and Dave the very best

[@mrmagoo916]

Holy shit, what action, those were the days 1/4 mile.

[@FuriousRodimus]

Thanks for posting! You guys have better classic show selection than NHRA.tv, haha!

[@centralcoastcamper9631]

I grew up in OC and near that drag strip. Sure missed it after it closed. Thank you Irvine Company!

[@johnbehneman1546]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! MANY HAPPY MEMORIES!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

[@golf25radioman]

What a flashback to OCIR!!! Loved that track. Watched many races, even drove my own car a few times. My how safety has changed in TF, and car development. Loved the commentators. They spoiled us, didn't they?

[@mroptical1982]

Great video I always liked going to the drag races I made it to the World Finals in 77 when it was at Ontario Speedway Thank You for the great video

[@Thomas63r2]

I was there for that race - lots of memories at that track! I did a few grudge night drags made in my ‘69 Cobra Jet Mach One and also did motorcycle drags there.

[@Slinger43]

TFMC? If ya did, hell I probably saw ya race! I too was there in 83, unfortunately don't remember much about this one, little too much Jim Beam & afew other assorted substances 🥴 Had a very high tolerance for those things, but come'n off have'n the flu, well excuses-excuses 😉

[@Thomas63r2]

@@Slinger43 well, the haze above the grandstands was not entirely tire smoke !

[@raider101416]

OCIR wow, I remember my Dad, Jim Bernard, racing his Top Fuel Drag Bike at this track. This and Ontario were home.

[@bsanford5072]

That's when racing was Old School Cool!

[@russelldesalvo3728]

I remember attending this race, The last one held at OCIR. It's interesting how far drag racing has come. Door cars now run quicker and faster than the fuelers in 83

[@MrDejast]

I was there too, from camp Pendleton 76-84. Was good times. This brought back some good memories.

[@peghead]

I have a few Diamond P telecasts from the mid to late 80's on VHS from the NASHVILLE NETWORK if anyone is interested in presenting them on KZbin.

[@Slinger43]

As much just flat out Bad luck Snake had during his driving career, it's amazing he won as much as he did! I was at this race, but I let my party'n overload my senses that time & can't remember most of it LOL! Too much Delorean dust & Jim Beam as I recall, life in So-Cal was just a big party in those day's 🥴👍

[@chrisnizer5702]

It was a bummer when OCIR closed forever, that place was the tits. Pit areas were a bit shabby but the racing, the crowds, atmosphere, everything else was off the scale awesome.

[@cvoxoisgodly]

It amazes me that you can see the sketchiness compared to these times too new times.... Straight savages. Insane to think how far we’ve came

[@dansprinkle2955]

Great memories

[@terryharding7476]

Steve Evens was the voice of dragracing amazing how it's all gone dwn hill,to just boring and bullshit!

[@thomasdaddio741]

This is awesome ... Thanks for the cool vhs gold !

[@tonygeinzer6034]

I wonder is there any film/video of the Funny Car 64 for future Classic Videos? I'd get a kick hopefully out of seeing Funny Car 64's be even Premiered Formally in Space or On Front Channel TV in some shape.

[@Slinger43]

I totally second that motion! 😃👍 I was at those Manufacturers 64 meets & there was NOTHING COOLER! 🤔... Well, maybe the Dragracing Grand Prix's at Irwindale Ca, but it was hard to beat OCIR on a warm summer's night 💪😎 Fox Hunt anybody? 😏

[@ronaldernst1967]

I use to love Diamond Sports.

[@ronaldernst1967]

In 83 they still went a 1/4 mile. This should be good.

[@Slinger43]

It was! & thanks to the saved video tape, it still is!! 💪😎 #1320orNothingAtAll!!

[@TheThemattyo1]

Dunn was never done " roland leung ? Absolutley a classic.

[@Slinger43]

The most UNDERRATED driver in NHRA history! Big Jim's kid was a bona fide Baddass! 💪😎

[@bearmarsh6579]

Coronavirus sent me here...just watching old races.

[@chrislore2681]

The song in the beginning is Frank Stallone far from over👍👍👍👍👍

[@peteboss4519]

Awesome machines!

[@gtrdriver27]

10:14 Ron Capps?

[@Slinger43]

No, Terry Capp, former TFD US NATIONALS Winner. I believe Ron Capps was actually on Shirley's team at this time in NHRA history, as a junior crew member under Raun Tobler 👍

[@ronaldernst1967]

I was a young man in 83. I was 17.

[@larrynorsworthy8582]

Me too 👍

[@robertb.8783]

Steve Evans...and I remember when 250mph was fast and 2000hp was crazy...till Kenny bernstien did the first 300mp

[@johncholmes643]

Mike Dunn sure was hard on engines and himself in those

[@brianiswrong]

He tells a story were he shut the engine off after hearing/ feeling something was wrong. Roland told him " unless it's on fire or upside down,keep your foot in it" I can do that said Mike.

[@billyandmyboyzayn9128]

I wonder if Jim Dunn asked Roland (are you trying to kill my son ?)😮

[@brianbooher7318]

Was this track part of riverside international speedway

[@hansjakob9495]

No, OCIR was located off the 5 fwy and Sand Canyon Ave in East Irvine Ca.

[@Slinger43]

Riverside International Raceway was just about 🤔....45-50 mile's East of OCIR, but they did have Drag-Racing on the back-stretch at RIR back in the 60's 👍

[@AliasMark69]

Orange County International Raceway..... O.C.I.R. - “The County“…."The Super Track" I helped build the track at only 13 years old in July 1967. They gave us tickets to the first event and I was infected, injected addicted to drag racing since. I was at the track over 100 times for the next 18 years until "The Last Drag Race" Oct 29th 1983. I always wanted to make a scale track so I finally hit ebay and bought every legendary car I could find that I saw at the track prior to 83. My one of a kind Tribute display has over 400 cars and a scale 22 foot drag strip. With a monitor playing every video I could find on the track. This one will be added. I made a video of my display that is at my page

[@davidgeorge000]

Rolland tried so hard to kill Mike.

[@sk8rcoach]

where was Big Daddy?

[@nicolas2970]

In 1983 Big briefly retired from driving to open the Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala Florida with 1st wife Pat

[@Slinger43]

@@nicolas2970 only wife!

[@nicolas2970]

@@Slinger43 Did he never marry Lisa Crigar? in 2015

[@Slinger43]

@@nicolas2970 Well, nobody on google seams to know 🤷🏻‍♂️ Everything I found just says he purposed, but nothing that says it actually happened. Big & Pat were such a wonderful love story, I gotta say I kinda hope the second wife didn't happen. Of course, that said, it's Big's life, not mine & whatever he did, I hope he's living out his life Happy! 👍

[@Slinger43]

@@nicolas2970 Hey bud, just came back to say Big did get remarried, you were absolutely correct 💪 I hope someday soon Hollywood make's a big $$$ movie on Big Daddy's amazing life story, but I'm 60yrs old now, so they best HURRY!! 😂👍

[@ronaldernst1967]

They had to shorten the track because the car were going to fast.

[@johncholmes643]

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