I raced my 1956 dragster in the first Top Secret Drags at the Seneca Army Depot!

[@stevehammel2939]

To me this is drag racing where everyone can participate and have a great time.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Right 👍

[@frankdillon6127]

for sure , no multimillion dollar sponsor's needed. greasy tee shirt and a old beater helmet and your good to go!

[@georqedubyakush6066]

Vintage drags just look better on an air strip, its how God intended. Your dragster is bonkers and i love it

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I agree! 💯💯

[@whicker59]

I was just about to eat breakfast when this popped up. Forgot about breakfast and loved every minute of this. I LOVE these vintage dragsters, but I've never been a fan of 1//8 strips; however 1/8 is perfect for a few of these elderly cars.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I hear you on the 1/8 mile, most of these cars are old hot rods, not racecars. It was just a period event to emulate days gone by.

[@Bata.andrei]

I could listen to that Buick idling all day.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Me too!

[@taco472]

Lots of kool ‘Old School’ hot rods , Cadillac, Olds, and Hemi powered. 👍

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Yes, that was their goal. Had a vehicle cut off date of 1964 to keep muscle cars and modern stuff out.

[@mikewinkelman7015]

Love your car , it's a beauty the way it is. Your very lucky to have it .Great video.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thanks. It's pretty much built from junk I had laying around.

Love it! Takes this old man back many years.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@mrgransport]

Love the sound of a nailhead Buick.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@BillKurn]

My thoughts exactly!

[@Raydawg]

Now this is my kind of drag racing. I love it Josh your dragster is so cool. Gasers oh yeah! I've told many kinds That, I'd be more excited and happy to run down the track in an American car maybe a 70 chevelle being the newest with a 572 14 71 blower manual trans and lose the race over going down the track in a lawn mower and maybe winning. And yup you survived. Thanks for the fun have a great week.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It was a really fun event. The cutoff year for the show is '64 so no muscle cars or "modern" stuff allowed.

[@Raydawg]

@@QuickSpeedShop I could live with that. 😆

[@WilliamKiene]

I sent this one to some of my friends who are hot roders in their 70s and 80s now. Good video of really old hot rods. Thanks. My favorite car is the 1953 Studebaker Commander. When I was young, my parents bought a 1956 Studebaker President station wagon.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thank you 👍

[@SillyBob242]

65k views! Congrats man!! Enjoy your work, lots of your stuff that doesn’t get 65k views is really great and I enjoy that too. Keep on keepin on!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thank you, that means a lot 💯💯

[@WarHeroA21]

Dear Quick Speed Shop: It came out 👍

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Good, I'm glad I didn't die!

[@whicker59]

I think the Starter Gals had almost as much fun as the drivers.

[@GreggGonzalez-ei1gu]

Awesome stuff your dragster is cool get it race ready and high speeds 👍

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I didn't build it for that. It's just junk thrown together to make noise and look cool

[@johnquick574]

Looks like a great event ! Great footage , you be careful in that Hot Rod !

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It was definitely living on the edge. I can't believe I went 50 mph on 70 year old tires!

[@stevierudy5022]

Nothing like the sounds at a drag strip!!! GREAT runs, get new tires and get up to 100 mph! The Dragster sounded tough!! YOUR dreams are coming true on the track!!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I don't really think I should go anywhere near 100 mph in this thing...unless I want to die! ☠️

[@stevierudy5022]

@@QuickSpeedShop OK, try for 75 mph!! Have fun with it!!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I don't think my mom would like it if I died. This thing is completely unsafe! 😐

[@patrickm.8425]

​@@QuickSpeedShop I'll do it, I'll die, it'd be a blast!! And imagine the video footage you could get!! YEEEEHAWWW!!! 💪 You've got way too much frontal lobe, dude!! ha ha ha

[@Allen-m5k]

INDEED!

[@ronbunker5778]

What a fun day! Glad you got to run your dragster!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It was an awesome first time show. Next year should be bigger and better!

[@thomashamilton8252]

Seneca Army Depot...I used to live a few miles from there. There is a group of white deer that are in captivity on the base.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Yes, I've seen them. I used to drive by and see them 20 years ago on my way back and forth to Ithaca on 96.

[@someonehasthisid]

Some of these cars are getting on down the track and that maroon 4 door Ford is one of them!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It had a hopped up overhead in it. I think it was a SBC, but never saw the hood open

[@xrsuperduper7660]

Super cool!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@LeDibeau]

Whadda cute, neat, cool and mean lookin dragster ya drive :-)

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thanks 👍

[@LeDibeau]

@@QuickSpeedShop I think there is nearly absolutely no unnecessary part on it. The style I like :-)

[@QuickSpeedShop]

100% like it would have been, back in the day.

[@frankdillon6127]

remember the sound of a slingshot with a Buick engine with a log intake and 8 two barrel carbs. at Davis Monthan AFB Tucson Ariz 1959. the track was a vacant runway lent to the local Tucson timing association. those local unsanctioned drag strips were a hoot!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Awesome 💯💯

[@paulhare662]

Too cool. Congrats. The 65 Nova I spent several years building makes it's maiden voyage down Cecil County Dragway this weekend. 350, mild cam, 700r4, 3:08s, built to cruise the interstate. Hoping to run under 14.0. Looking forward to seeing more of your car as tuning progresses.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Good luck with the Nova. Unfortunately, I didn't build this dragster to actually race. It's just a pile of junk parts put together to make a big, noisy, rolling display. It's really pretty unsafe and shouldn't be running competitively. I just ran at this show for photo ops and fun.

[@paulrickman7549]

Feel the tension, man what a ride.​@@QuickSpeedShop

[@chadschlifke771]

Great Video Josh! Thank You.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@noblespeedequipment]

Can’t wait to be racing there next year !!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I think it has the opportunity to be a big event.

[@stevemellin5806]

Lots of fun. Sounds cool

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@thomashamilton8252]

Can't believe Paul towed that rod all that way. I know he didn't take the T way

[@QuickSpeedShop]

About 1.5 hrs down 5 and 20

[@alblake5994]

Very cool guys !!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@BLECHHAUS]

"Gasoline forever" :-) 👍

[@mechanics4all405]

FANTASTIC

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@OdySlim]

Your car is really bad ass. I wouldnt change a thing. perhaps a little tuning. Im sure you had a great time. Regards from Ody Slim

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thanks. I literally just bolted on a junkyard AFB carb that am that ran better than the original Rochester 4-Jet .

[@Morsels_monsier]

Cool. REBELLIOUS SPIRIT like some of those beautiful lady icons of that time and who would forget james dean

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@babaloo42]

You got a Darrell Waltrip look goin with those glasses.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let's go racing!

[@oldsilkhat7893]

This event is gonna be big next year. Hopefully we'll have some driving cars for it.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I think so, it was super fun!

[@mattskustomkreations]

These cars are so freakin’ cool!

[@pauldashwood2897]

Great stuff ..

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@crimtsun]

Might just be my middle-of-knowhere sensibilities, but I've never understood the fuss people have about 1/8 mile racing. Every track I've raced at has been an 1/8 mile or even shorter. At the end of the day, you're still racing.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It's actually good for these old cars because you don't get going too fast with old cars and parts.

[@whicker59]

I understand the meaning, but telling a racer "it's just for fun" is like telling a squirrel his hickory nuts is just for looks.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

None of it was serious, it was just for fun. That being said, people did get after it and that white Model A coupe did frag his awesome 392 hemi on Sunday.

[@vincentbowman1373]

Shut the f^ck up whicker. I don’t know any racers that would cry about that. Stop talking shit you don’t know anything about racing stop speaking for other people. Let him have fun. That’s why I race, and that’s why 90% of other people race. So if you race and you’re insulted by that statement, you’re a pussy. Let people have fun. And STFU

[@funone8716]

Wow wish I knew I would have checked it out

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It was kind of a last minute deal. They advertised mostly on FB and IG. I'm pretty sure it's a go for next year.

[@funone8716]

@@QuickSpeedShop That old dragster is a hoot. Cool.

[@Badazz69Camaro]

Amish owned, last few years was a No Prep Event Drag racing and drifting hosted by Show Styles been there the last 4yrs. Even Daddy Dave from Street Outlaws was at one of the No Prep events. Not easy to find spot.

[@georgebrooks1077]

looks good

[@nickfay2359]

Man I'd LOVE to bring my 1965 Comet that I've built to be a clone of a B/S car. It has some new tech and nitrous on it, but it could be taken out or not used..that wld be alot of fun!!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I think as long as it looked close to that period it would be fine

[@wildcat6669]

you need to do a low drop with dynaflows to get a good launch, trust me it makes it feel like a different car all together

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I would have tried low, but the shifter has no detents and I was afraid to shift 1-2 and go thru to park. This event was just for fun and my dragster is completely unsafe for high speeds

[@Mercmad]

@@QuickSpeedShop It's only as unsafe as you think it is...LOL. And I too wondered why didn't do the low takeoff. Even in a big Buick,that low range start is a kick in the back. My younger brother had a 322 with a jag Moss box behind it. In a T that was really dangerous,especially with 17 year old driving it.😁😁

[@ABRetroCollections]

I would have loved to see the finish of that race between the FirePower coupe and the 427 gasser. If that FirePower was a 392, they would be nearly matched.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

The coupe was pretty fast as well as the Chevy. 392 threw a rod on Sunday and broke the block so that was the end of that.

[@ABRetroCollections]

@@QuickSpeedShop Oof, hopefully the owner has intentions on getting it up and running again.

[@pr3modeling239]

Man, this is SO COOL!!! BTW, I lost it when you pulled out the "Dazed and Confused" line "Man, I saw this, two for one, right next to the sea monkeys" You just gained a new subscriber. That old dragster is SO COOL!!! I even showed it to my wife, but man, you need to put some speed parts in the old nailhead, she needs a cam and some real carbs, and it might have just been the audio on the video, but she sounds like the ignition is breaking up on hard accell... That thing needs to smoke the baloney's the length of the strip like the old days....

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thanks 👍. It's just a car I built more of as a display. It's not safe at speed, the tires are 70 years old! I want to put 6x2s on it someday. The carb on it was junk so it wasn't running very good.

[@craigpennington1251]

This fun drag racing. Not NHRA. They really do need a timer & a display for the lanes. Thanks for posting an outstanding event. Finally, we get to Hear & See the cars run. Not some idling around a parking lot with terrible music & talk.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It's just for fun, heads up, no times. A throwback to 1950s airstrip racing.

[@patrickm.8425]

I don't think "the video" came out, I haven't seen anything!! Also, we're going to have to have a talk about this not getting good video of the front engine diggers!! You're gonna give me a heart attack here, man! Awesome video cover most other things there, then the front engine dragsters come up and it's like: "yea... whatever" smh - lol Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Sorry about that with the dragsters. They didn't run them that often and I wasn't just standing at the line all day. They is a lot of coverage of the other cars because they were constantly running all day, all weekend. The dragsters only ran a few times.

[@lotgxj9215]

😂 1:13 after that speech i think all the fun just get sucked out of the air 😅

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Nope, everyone had a great weekend. It was just for fun. No egos or crybabies

[@ate71622]

Love me a nailhead!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

👍

[@Ajen1959]

The body on your rail is kinda coffin shape,so be very careful! lol

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It's definitely one step away from getting hurt bad. That's why I call it the Deathtrap Rail Dragster.

[@MojoMedicineMan]

🎉🎉🎉

[@Lacedmushroom]

Nothing says "safety first!" like a mid-century dragster.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Absolutely!

[@rodney1818]

I think I may have seen that white hemi-powered model A at a car show in Ohio but that was way back in the 80s

[@QuickSpeedShop]

No idea it's history. I think it had Tennessee plates on it

[@rodney1818]

@@QuickSpeedShop I'm fifty I think I was like fifteen then

[@jasonmushersee]

would it help to adjust toe & camber to control steering?

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It actually drives straight down the track. It has 10 degrees of caster so it pretty much wants to go straight no matter what. The out of round, 70 year old dryrotted tires, W-II seat belt, worn out steering box, unsafe roll bar and barely functional brakes are the main concerns! 😂

[@akadog6319]

Need to tune that thing, before race day. we do not have any idea how well it could run.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I know. It's literally just a display piece built from all old parts. It's not safe to run at speed. Rear tires are 70 years old, fronts 50 years old, unboxed Model T frame, WW2 seat belt, no trans shield. Complete deathtrap and 100% historically accurate which equals 100% unsafe. I just ran it for the crowd for fun.

[@mikewhite7462]

@@QuickSpeedShop ok, I get it

[@michaeldonohue9760]

Video came out!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Yes

[@opaic777]

great vid thank you much, sounds like the dragster is running too rich and too low of an idle fouling up your plugs

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I just put an old AFB carburetor on it that morning to get it running. The carb isn't tuned and needs to be rebuilt. It's just for fun, it's not a competitive race car.

[@hollyquick8374]

23K!!! Danggg

[@steveoz6442]

When its "just for fun" everyone gets to participate and nobody whines because politics and money are not involved!

[@DavidHuber63]

Your alive

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I think so

[@weekendwarriorwade]

Did you have any white deer run out in front of you? 😂

[@QuickSpeedShop]

No, didn't see any, but have seen them before on the other side of the base.

[@rickhughett6713]

I see you talking

[@alexander1485]

too bad he was on the wrong side of the sun at the start line

[@Laxpowertoo]

It didn't come out dude😭

[@QuickSpeedShop]

What didn't come out?

[@krtt750]

Why not a 1/4 mile? C'mon man!

[@QuickSpeedShop]

I didn't set up the event. These are all old cars with old parts. 1/8 mile is fast enough

[@danmiller2715]

A whole lot of junk. LOL

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but this as close to as "back in the day" as you can get.

[@woolyhighlander7280]

Why play a film of the most careful, boring guy out there ?

[@QuickSpeedShop]

This is coverage of a brand new vintage drag racing event, not just a video on my homemade dragster . You know why I'm careful and boring, because I built that dragster from junk I had laying around for a display piece. It was never meant to be raced or driven at high speed. The tires on it are 70 years old, the seat belt is from WWII, the brakes are barely functional. That being said, I ran it about 8 times for the people at the event and, guess what, they loved it. So what if I only went 40-50 mph in it, that was way more than fast enough to put on a show. So why don't you go build an era correct dragster out of all vintage parts, with a great big old Nailhead, and set up your own vintage drag event so you can show us how awesome and dangerous you are.

[@steveoz6442]

Politics and money make fun events not fun

[@OutOfOrderGarage]

Great event! A lot of great looking cars and trucks. I timed your run when you had the camera onboard and I got about 10.60. Your later runs with Ted filming seemed faster. That blue Olds powered 34 Ford is Mike from youtube.com/@thisoldhotrod?si=MI2tNLqrCxn25JOG Are you going to Hershey this year? Which space; I’ll stop by to say hi.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Yes, we'll be at Hershey Mon-Fri. Chocolate C036-CO39. The engine wasn't running the best, just swapped on a junk carb and the secondaries didn't open. Still, it was fast enough for fun and the really dryrotted tires!

[@paulhare662]

What does that calculate into for a quarter mile time? I guessed it would do a 15.8 quarter mile. Was I close? Never mind, I looked it up. Comes out to a 16.3 by my calculations.

[@QuickSpeedShop]

It's slow because I took off in high gear, the thing has like 2.78 rear gears, and the junkyard AFB doesn't fit the intake, allowing only the primaries to open. On top of that, I wasn't going for max speed. All 4 tires are severely dryrotted and the rest of the rig is just thrown together for fun. If I had something happen and had crashed I would probably be hurt bad.

[@OutOfOrderGarage]

Great runs in spite of all the things that aren’t ideal!

[@paulrickman7549]

​@@OutOfOrderGarageReminds me of the old used car thing. There is a difference between runs great and runs, great.

[@soflojit]

14:02 to skip all the bullshit

[@soflojit]

Nevermind it runs like dogshit anyway

[@QuickSpeedShop]

Thanks. It's a fun, 1st time event. It's a display piece I built for fun. It's not an actual racecar. Maybe if you watched the 14 min of "bullshit" first you would have some kind of comprehension of what you watched before making stupid comments.