Grumpy Jenkins Small Block Vega VS Dick Landys slick Dart Sport Match Race

Muscle Car Jr Inc Vintage Video of the day . Some 70's Pro stock Match racing action. Battle of the Cigar Chompers, Grumpy Jenkins Small Block Vega VS Dick Landys slick Dart Sport . How Pro Drag Racers paid the bills back then. Local track promoters would grab some big names to spice up the show. The malaise era was in full swing but you have to admit they made for some cool looking race cars. I love the dry hops too. the last time I did one I spewed my rearend all over the track 😀
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[@55chevytruck]

I am 68 and they were the good old days! Now nostalgia and stock and SS are the only classes I like now.

[@mikeperry1620]

Yeah buddy!

[@joelee1487]

Ditto 55 !

[@rayfabbri3759]

The best era for the sport

[@larrytidwell7885]

Does anyone remember the drag strip at Ste Genevieve and a 66 Chevelle named "War Lord".

[@stephenmiller5023]

The “ mind games” these two played on each other ( and almost anyone else they lined up against ) made this era of Pro-stock racing very entertaining. Back when “ Men were men” and could back up their own cars without a spotter in front to direct them backwards. Both Dick & Bill wrote the book on how it’s done . 😎👍

[@sherwinstaudt1881]

And they built them tuned them and drove them. People that grew up in that era was blessed, young people nowadays don't know how great it was. Another thing back then if you look at the crowd Barbers didn't make much money LOL LOL lol.

[@stephenmiller5023]

@@sherwinstaudt1881 😆👍. Yeah , no “ Man -buns “ to be seen either ….😉

[@ssnerd583]

...unless it was Jungle Pam!!! or one of the ones from that era :)

[@donaldedler8892]

Pro stock match racing got me hooked when i was a kid. God bless ronnie sox and TDR

[@MuscleCarJr]

It was the way the made $$ & it was great to watch , I miss it

[@donaldedler8892]

When they won they would run the car back up the track.

[@alleyoop1234]

This was at Boundary Bay airport, outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I was there !!

[@rader1175]

Wow thats cool ! Is the track still there ? Maple Grove Raceway Reading Pa. is 5 mi. from the house. I am there in season, more than i'm not. Watching and starting to race again after having retired.

[@alleyoop1234]

@@rader1175 I have no idea if it is still there, it was an old WW2 airport. I have not been anywhere close to there in probably 35 years..

[@rader1175]

Has to be a great memoir.@@alleyoop1234

[@bryanguthrie-ej1fb]

I miss seeing the dry hop

[@MuscleCarJr]

some A$$ wouldnt back out of the water box so I could do another burn out after an oil down delayed us 25 minutes so I tried a dry hop & blew my rear end all over the track

[@rader1175]

Sucks, never had that. Had shifter stick in rev. after second full throttle hop, long enough to lose round. After winning first rd. What were you running ?@@MuscleCarJr

[@user-uc1ie1js5j]

Can't never forget Grumpy Bill Jenkins. He was Mr Chevrolet himself. still can't touch those Chevy's to this day.

[@polarablues64]

Boy they had a different kind of theatrics back then. I find NHRA kinda hard to watch these days. Not like when I was a kid.

[@MuscleCarJr]

They put on a show!

[@larrybrooks2885]

love the old school guys sox&Martian!😅

[@JohntheStriper]

Boundary Bay raceways in 1975. An old airport near Vancouver BC.

[@alleyoop1234]

I was there !!

[@bluesky-ud9wg]

It was always hilarious to me that everyone did a Dry Hop back then. Peeling the "sticky" off the tires and heating the clutch, engine, etc.

[@DonaldJones-hy7yp]

Love that car so cool

[@lorenzowoodson624]

SBC FTW!!! 💪🏾

[@arneminderman3770]

Great!! Thanks!

[@MuscleCarJr]

more to come!

[@MrMakemyday3]

bst part of those days no rev limiter

[@MrMakemyday3]

this is the short version, misses both of them with the brooms putting dow the rosin

[@maxfastest]

Amazing what you could build with corporate sponsor money .

[@alschneider6364]

Not a real track...Saw this race at Boundary Bay Airport...We dragged there in the 70's.

[@fourfortyroadrunner6701]

LOL "not a real track." LOTS of dragstrips were either active or former airfields/ runways back in the day I'm 75

[@alschneider6364]

@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 Just stating it WAS an airport..NOT a racetrack with better grip...We used to race there every weekend in the 70's

[@gaetanodetorrice5555]

Didn't Bill grumpy Jenkins complained that the Dodge Colt had a hemi in it and it wasn't fair. Something to that nature😂

[@MuscleCarJr]

The colt was a death machine, and came long after the Vegas, Domination by one makes for less participation teh weight breaks make for some cool stuff

[@gaetanodetorrice5555]

@@MuscleCarJr thank you 👍 yes 👍

[@antibowtie440]

Bob glidden ran a small block MOPAR in a Plymouth arrow and spanked everyone.

[@gaetanodetorrice5555]

@@antibowtie440 cool thank you 👍👍👍

[@averymacleod6199]

@@gaetanodetorrice5555 the colts where the nuclear option and not allowed in official competition due to how ridiculously dangerous and fast the hemi powered tin cans were

[@Martin750hp]

Does anybody realize that the near lane is a DUSTER not a Dart? Stick Shifts for Life .....

[@user-Dr.]

I think it is a Dodge demon.

[@briansauer6695]

Thought that myself.

[@charlesjones2563]

It is a Dart Sport as correctly stated in the title.

[@briansauer6695]

@@charlesjones2563 Those Darts and Dusters were always confusing with that body style. i always think of a Dart as that more square, boxy body style . Did the early 70's Dart go to that more stretched out look? If so, when did they stop being boxy? I know Dusters are Plymouths while Darts are Dodge. It's just as confusing when, in the early 60's, there were the Chevy II's that were boxy, but then they became the Nova at some point and the Chevelle had the same boxy look.

[@charlesjones2563]

I worked at a Dodge dealer back then. Darts and Valiants were boxy 2 or 4 door models, Duster and Demons were sporty 2 doors. 1973 they hung big bumpers on the same old body style just like Chevy did the Nova that year. Gone was the 340 and Demon name, replaced by the Dart Sport 360.

[@larrytidwell7885]

Grumpy was the best gear jammer on the circuit. Herb Mccandless, Mr 4 speed, wasn't to shabby, but in my opinion Grumpy was the best

[@roadking99jokerst60]

Ronnie. Ken. Don. I watched Grumpy change His Own tires between rounds in the pits. 52 years ago.

[@sergeantmasson3669]

Nicholson often beat Jenkins in pro-stock.

[@hipoman8087]

Which they would say which track that was at.

[@superfuntime3107]

Boundary Bay drag strip in Canada. It was only open for a couple years 1972 to 1975.

[@hipoman8087]

@@superfuntime3107 From 11-17 years old was in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls drag strip was there. Remembered walking there from base housing and seeing those cars. Wheelie cars, historic funny cars, top fuel & prostock. Big names! Cut my teeth there. lol. Great memories.

[@MrMakemyday3]

street legal my ass

[@jimdandy7323]

who needs headers on the car lot

[@kurtpoblenz2741]

Must be nice running a Chevrolet that weighs less than the mopar. Pro stock died in 1972 , when the nhra changed the rules , so Chevrolet could actually win a pro stock race.

[@MuscleCarJr]

It was the best era ever Innovation Ford chevy mopar everyone was winning

[@kurtpoblenz2741]

@@MuscleCarJr …. Nope. Pro stock died in 1972.

[@larrysmith8635]

Chevrolet all the way baby

[@chucktaylor9190]

SBF boys needed to add 300lbs vs SBC boys.

[@daleostrom3613]

Grumpy does pretty good as long as Bob Glidden stays home.

[@user-Dr.]

Yup, the old SBC far better engine, I got into road racing about 10 years ago, left the strip, I built a couple gen 4 Camaros, using the ole gen 2 LT1, come up with an engine build producing 625 naturally aspirated HP on 93 octane, incredible road course machines, Mustangs have fallen off the map, poor power plants, that's why the use Chevy power in NASCAR and Trans Am.

[@dennislaws5187]

Not gonna show the way Bob Glidden whooped his ass over and over are you?

[@mdsank00]

Grumpy, Sox, etc were pioneers…Not too many dominated the sport for as long as Glidden or W Johnson…good stuff

[@kevinkotchevar2339]

NOS does wonder

[@alleyoop1234]

BG was not at this race.

[@dennislaws5187]

@@alleyoop1234 waant my point, I meant this is making this guy look like the king and he wasnt shit when it came to Bob.

[@alleyoop1234]

@@dennislaws5187 He was the king that day at that race, and dozens of others around north america. Nobody can take away his Wally's.