Pro Mod Vintage Drag Racing Bakersfield California

[@DragStripRiot]

View vintage playlist here: kzbin.info/aero/PLACD516E7883A3227

[@tomp64]

This is cool footage. Tom still has the car , still looks exactly the same.

[@13RACERX]

BACK N THE DAY PRO MODS !!!!!GREAT VID

[@alloyfillmore425]

This was really good racing super turn out I was there.

[@mizzpink98z24cavi]

Great video! great car! My mom had a '62 impala but 4 door. She didn't race it but it was a pretty nice car. Thanks for sharing this video! I am a daughter of a drag racer.

[@ozzzzy81]

love the classic mod footage!!!

[@JohnW1711stock]

Bunker got around him at the very end. Cool.

[@peterbiltroy]

All motor....the way drag racing belongs! Damn this is cool.

[@mizzpink98z24cavi]

Oh man. Imagine what it feel's like to be in there!

[@mothertree]

Looks like the 55 might have got him at the end! It may be the 55 pro mod that Jeff Blackburn now owns.

[@jonathangianguzzo1043]

Big burnouts, dry hops, 4 speed Lenco's... Back when Pro Mod was Pro Mod...

[@DragStripRiot]

We miss those days for sure.

[@dynodon100]

Back then the tires were junk, you had to had them really HOT before you could get ANY traction.Today's STREET tires have as much traction as the slicks of the day.Now you need little if any real heating to go fast. I started racing in 1968 , yep I am old!

[@dieselcanuck87]

dynodon100 I was wondering why so many burnouts🤪

[@stevennewman3125]

Gotta love a freakin Lenco!

[@wastedrubber]

great video, can definitely tell the era based on the fanny pack @ 2:00

[@yblocker]

Vicious!!!

[@lorenthoman4659]

I have pictures of this car when he crashed at the Texas Motorplex back in the 90's.

[@scabey]

very cool......

[@mrpearl1]

Radical Impala!!!!!!! But I think he got beat by the car on the left side of the track.

[@dgarr64]

Bob bunkers 55 was "The Folsom Flash"

[@caduceus33]

Why did it take about 3-1/2 minutes to even start the race?

[@MarkMeadows90]

It's all about the prepping. Spraying the burnout box with water. Car rolls up, does a burnout to heat up the tires. Reverses back into staging area. Rolls up to the staging lights. And launches. Prepping and skill work to get the quickest elapsed time. That's what drag racing is all about.

[@Abo_Borneo480]

Soundrenaline......... Yummy !!

[@pauldeitz5055]

look at that 62 go.. love it

[@ezcondition]

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez come on with!!

[@nitromethane222]

where are your gloves tom

[@TheCatoblepass]

its like driving a vulcano

[@biomecaNICK]

my father have an orange 67 camaro with 2 white lane. He will give it to me once he repair it.

[@SimandDriver]

@mustangtomiata First thing I noticed too.

[@chadshepard3449]

that's not a impala ...that's a bel air lol

[@gpokrywiecki]

this is not a Bel Air and not a Impala too, this is a Chevy Biscayne 409 1962. You can confirm this in the book: Vintage and Historic Drag Racers

[@chadshepard3449]

watch the full clip. it says bel air on the side .

[@jvracingvids6529]

Chad Shepard definitely a Biscayne, the belaire is more round, front end not as wide as the impala or biscayne. look up robby Walden, hes got a 62 belair all white, ran 7.0s back in the days.

[@chadshepard3449]

aint that the one with the 3 dominator carbs ?

[@jonathangianguzzo1043]

Looks like a sedan, which is a Biscayne.

[@magnus5356]

Safety third. No need for gloves right...

[@donaldwigfield8605]

1500 hours isn't enough anymore

[@wesley_Certified]

I have a chevy nova promod

[@wesley_Certified]

it has 1500 plus hp

[@wesley_Certified]

it has 1500 plus hp

[@chuckmekere]

aint no fart can import that can do this