RARE TELEVISION BROADCAST OF 1978 NHRA GATORNATIONALS

[@outdoorfuninthesun2393]

These videos are addictive. Best announcers too.

[@davidtimms3201]

I love these old Diamond P telecasts with Dave McClelland and Steve Evans. Many fond memories of going to the US Nationals each year and seeing these drivers compete.

[@joshuagibson2520]

I miss this America and I wasn't even born till 79.

[@neilpuckett359]

1980 is when everything started downhill for the middle class.

[@mgp870]

@@neilpuckett359 and things will get much worse now!

[@taylorpinkney7253]

@@neilpuckett359 the 80s were the best time for me and my brothers growing up

[@KennyInVegas]

Sad to say but if you're not a Boomer ... ya missed out on a GREAT COUNTRY!!!!!!

[@larryphillips7349]

Born 69 but Im grateful to have grew up at OCIR. Great time to be a kid running around the pits but yea I think we all miss this America. Especially now. Everything is screwed up.

[@cskvision]

Keep posting these races, love them! Steve Evans and Dave McClelland are legends

[@bikebuilder8567]

with commercials!!! wonderful'! thanx buddy!!. OJ Simpson!!! fantastic!

[@happydays8171]

Thanks so much for posting this. I was 16 then, went to my first drag race and was hooked!

[@larryphillips7349]

9yrs old running around the pits. Im so blessed to of had a dad that took me to OCIR every weekend there was a race. Thanks dad

[@shawnwilliford1788]

Love that you left the old commercials in too. Takes me back man

[@coleheister7390]

who tuned in just to hear Dave& Steve call the action??

[@ManFa_Q]

ABCs Chris Economaki was the best at drag racing announcing

[@SuperHenryVa757]

The guy they have now Lohnes is so bad it’s almost unwatchable

[@robturner110]

This is one of the coolest things I've watched in a long time. This took me back to my childhood.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Please ALWAYS include the classic commercials!

[@larryphillips7349]

Amen

[@vicodumb]

1978, one year out of high school. Them wuz the days!

[@joshuagibson2520]

I was negative 1 year old lol. Vicy viky huh... never cared for them but use to love me some oxy!

[@vicodumb]

@@joshuagibson2520 You get it!

[@PrettyChrome]

Thank you for this, love watching the old commercials too!

[@dozer1642]

Thank you for posting this! Amazing footage of a simpler time.

[@MrCarburetor]

Love this !!! Recently visited the don garlitts museum.

[@Heavywall70]

That Henry J with the SOHC Ford would still be a hot car , 43 years later.

[@psyopgypsy]

Ahh the good old days when you could do a 232 mph pass with duct tape holding your windscreen in 😁

[@jimhiscott2918]

I was probably surfing at Newport cali when this race was going on. I sure did love NHRA drag racing back then. The following year in 1979 I started racing Motocross at Saddle Back. I was 15 years old.

[@moparone7962]

Did you do the big uphill double "suicide mountain" at saddleback?

[@joshsantana7792]

I wish we could go back to the 70s and 80s they were the best years.

[@themanfromphoto]

I found it was originally broadcast on Saturday May 13 1978 at 2PM on CBS. At least in Buffalo it was. Race was run on March 12.

[@joshuagibson2520]

I was born 9 months and 27 days later.

[@chrisschott9645]

Drag racing at it's best, thanks fr the memories, know alot of these drivers and cars,miss them and racing families.

[@ronniemullis8717]

I was there and also at all the Gatornationals before and up to 2014. The Gatornationals is the best drag racing on the planet.

[@butchcassidy3373]

I had one of Grumpy Jenkins motors one time. Wish I'd never sold it. It carried my old Corvette down the road pretty damn quick.

[@psyopgypsy]

There is a painful amount of ads in this but retro drags from before I was born. Yes 👍

[@hjc5458]

Anyone notice the IHRA sticker on BIGs car? That doesn't happen now days.

[@derekleyendecker6456]

Ross Gerken what a machine!! 10,000 rpm small block Chevrolet All over the place on the starting line Brings the Corvette back in the groove goes 9.97 for the win with a engine under 300 cubic inches. Best class in motorsports history

[@Hoffas_beneficiary]

....with a 5 speed Nash box !

[@jf5505]

You gotta love those fuel F/C pre-stageing dry hops back in the day

[@fatjeezussouthtexasoutdoor5244]

I was two, my daddy was in prison, my momma worked two jobs .....and these were the happiest days of my life. My first menories s are of Cha-Cha Muldowney winning my mom's some money one year in the early 80's, it was a good Christmas that year.

[@MrRebustr]

When i was a kid like under 10 i won a truck at a raffle in church..was a 1976 bonanza and i had to wait 6 years to drive it .....i never let it goe ..it still drives me to the stores and out of town for fishing trips and hiking trips ...im from California....best truck and i had a few

[@bubbasmith1410]

Yes the hay days of drag racing WOW love it was 18 years old then working in the gas station and racing

[@tacworx2]

Brings back sweet memories !

[@Markcigar1]

WHen pro stock was actually worth watching🧐

[@rjb6327]

Sure do miss what used to be drag racing. Racing with no BS. Wow a whole 1/4 mile. Look at all those old people walking around and those chicks! Grandmothers today. RIP Steve

[@angusmctavish153]

Trying to work out what they all had set up in the back of their support pickup truck. Is that a small sleeper or a big toolbox?

[@Ladysman_217]

Lol the O.J Simpson Hertz commercial

[@kcav5374]

Love these old videos, funny thing; First person they talked about was Andy Mannarino crashing "his Mustang pro stock car" (Actually Gapp & Roush owned) years later (1994-2002) I worked for Andy Mannarino in his engine shop in Detroit years after working for Dick Arons & Wally Booth (1984-1989) Sadly we buried Dick Arons earlier this year...

[@squishycakes9087]

RIP Paul Longnecker..2018

[@-MacCat-]

I tuned in for the racing, which was cheaper and more relatable, albeit slower. The ads were an absolute bonus!

[@imanonattorneyspokesperson]

Classic commercials

[@bigunone]

Check out the announcers hair now then find some of the 80s races Talk about blasts from the past, sad so many are gone

[@shawnshane4211]

My dad was the owner/driver of the TF that didn't fire up at the line first round about 8 minutes into the video. I showed him this video. He said he set the valves up on 6 instead of up on 1. There wasn't any way it would have fired up. He is still mad at himself after 40 plus years.

[@MrZeke701]

Hi. You are the kind of guys my Uncle and myself would like to meet. Stay cool!

[@crazytrain7114]

Probably the most common error ever, the marks line up, but did someone else move the crank before timing? Happened to me when I rebuilt a friends GSX

[@chrisauten2039]

Big Daddy saying he hoped to still be around drag racing 5 or so more years. I'd say he did that and then some!!! 😆😆😆

[@andyharman3022]

The War Eagle was one of the best looking funny cars of all time.

[@smokeymcbongwater3561]

Drag racing is far out man

[@crazytrain7114]

JJ!

[@MrDjh66]

Love it all GMC and Chevy dualies

[@Lightnin42]

Big Daddy 💯☝️

[@chuckstroud1410]

Interesting commercials. Unlike today, not many food commercials. Pretty much beer, motor oil, and car rentals. Today, along with bing 4 times as many commercials, every other one is McDonalds or a pizza place.

[@deantait8326]

Dang broken axle. Just a guess

[@StFidjnr]

0:53 name that blower pop

[@kurtbarrett6785]

It's mind boggling, that there have been present day, street legal cars, that have run faster than the nitro cars of 78! Love the commercials too... It's funny as hell to see how bad they were, the year I was born!

[@crazytrain7114]

And how, exactly do you think you got fast?

[@Slinger43]

I grew up at the dragstrip's of So-Calif, we used to just laugh at Billy Meyers, cause that boy went through more part's than any two other fuel racer's combined! 😆 Oh well, Billy was a rich kid, guess he could afford it 🤷🏻‍♂️ Was so happy to see a true Baddass Wheelman in Dale Pulde FINALLY WIN a big-time drag meet! He has too be, to this very day, the most underrated FC driver Ever! 💪😎👉DP

[@larryphillips7349]

Amen Dale Puldes beautiful War Eagle was one of my fav cars. I grew up with dad at OCIR and never missed Sat night or match races. 64 funny cars and jet cars. More than miss the good ol days of raw racing.

[@Slinger43]

@@larryphillips7349 Summer Fox hunt anyone?? 😏👉👙

[@miketane9973]

when raceing was fun

[@mr.george-pht]

The north place and time of Florida man.

[@jf5505]

Top Fuel funny car has come a long way from quarter mile (1320 feet) speeds of 240.To today's funny car on a good run at the 660 foot they're running 276 mph and 337mph at 1000 foot.

[@neilpuckett359]

It was a much better show back then! And look at all the independents they're all gone now,an era that will never return.

[@larryphillips7349]

@@neilpuckett359 yea but if you were there to enjoy lifes best times you were truly blessed. It will always be a part of us.

[@sunsetranch9780]

Life before DemocRats

[@moparone7962]

They had them back then also, they were just the village idiots and no one payed attention to them. Problem is they kept breeding more idiots and here we are today.

[@KennyInVegas]

Yup....... they've destroyed everything: Families, sports, religion, abortion, schools, etc... truly disgusting what has happened to our once GREAT country in 1978

[@dmeemd7787]

sweeeet

[@dieselrotor]

It's weird that after several minutes of watching, You forget this was 40+ years ago and Your right back in time. It all seams modern, the fashion looks normal and it doesn't feel dated. Anyone know what I mean ? And just think, Biden will be Your President in 2021. Well that ruined it.

[@bobbydavis2299]

I totally get it, I was 18 in 78, if only we could go back there... And yes 2021 with obidin, scary times.

[@user-ellievator]

@@bobbydavis2299 LOOKOUT BOBBY HE'S GONNA GETCHA! OH SHIT IT'S BIDEN HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!

[@dieselrotor]

@@bobbydavis2299 I was 13. Was sure a much much better time. Too bad We didn't know it then to fully enjoy it.

[@bbbildhuu]

What a snowflake ❄️

[@dieselrotor]

@@bbbildhuu Funny how You snowflakes steal things like "snowflake" and elections. You forgot Your own PC insults, I'm a boomer snowflake. Ugh, they are stupid.

[@JesusisJesus]

This is great if you watch cleetus and Jeremy.

[@TCougar1]

These were fantastic times, and the paint jobs on the dragsters and Funnys that was real paint jobs is just incredible compared to todays ugly vinyl coated and also boring shaped funnycars .

[@JG-jn1cn]

So sad they shut down Englishtown New Jersey

[@timothypuvogel5468]

OMG weird to see oj Simpson lmao..wow interesting stuff

[@jimmycline4778]

3:30 Back when woman respected men!

[@matiasalba46]

Maybe they don't respect YOU

[@larryphillips7349]

And vice versa

[@Xfishf00D]

Oj did it

[@derekleyendecker6456]

Nothing like Modified Production

[@TubeScrewed]

Why does the right lane win 90% of the time?

[@moparone7962]

You can only watch this if you're wearing English Leather

[@nicolee.french8534]

@mopar one .. "OR, Nothing at All!" Aunt Shirley was and still hard core 💯🏁🏁

[@tomlangley6236]

RUN OJ!!!...RUN!!!!

[@jeanettejack2152]

The last time I was this Early, OJ was innocent!!

[@listentomoremusic45]

Thrown up hands

[@JJ-zd5ld]

I see OJ. I see OJ man, and he looks scared

[@parcans]

Best prank call in history

[@crownironman]

Go OJ

[@richardmountz3865]

For NHRA to only pay $11,000 for T/F winner while WP was padding his pockets is to this day a disgrace.

[@erikshen1107]

And by SEX PANTHER....SEX PANTHER IT WORKS 60% OF THE TIME....ALL OF THE TIME

[@joemarchinski914]

fkn cool....thanks mr. peabody👍🚀