Strange Cars at The Drag Strip - Ultimate Edition

[@tomeighty]

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[@BIGBADWOOD]

5 STAR VIDEO ❤

[@stevenreyes3680]

When you said strange, you were not kidding. I love it !

[@gasser217]

PERFECT VIDEO !! Thanks !!!!

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@joshuagibson2520]

I appreciate the gratuitous slo-mo. 😅😅😅

[@tomeighty]

My favorite part as well. ha ha

[@patrickroeill8746]

Man you nailed it lol great video thanks

[@tomeighty]

Thank you, glad you liked the video.

[@rockbottomracingmarcandlinda]

The Cackle Cars starting at 20:38... I can assure you the drive shafts are not removed. Those cars don't have a drive shaft, just a splined couple that mates the transmission to the differential. Not quite sure how they would be able to disable them, but they are being towed likely because there is no cooling system on those cars. As for disabling, maybe they remove one of the mating pieces of the coupler. Cool Vid :)

[@victoramato4692]

That Model A snow mobile is a 31. Tall radiator with black insets top and bottom. 30 is all nickel,29 is a short radiator. Just sayin'. Great video, loved it.

[@tomeighty]

Thanks for the info on that! Have you ever seen one of those in real life?

[@victoramato4692]

@@tomeighty The model A 's yes. The snow options, just in pictures.

[@kirbyfreeman663]

I was born in 1959. as a kid i remember seeing all these cars in the wild. my older brother own a few of them. thanks for the memories,.

[@bobshotrodgtx3835]

I love old school front engine dragsters anyway ,but that one was cool as hell. Also, love them ole molk trucks, dont even need to be fast.i'd love🎉 to pull up at a local cruse nite in that baby. ! Thanks tom. Great vid.

[@jameshuffman835]

Just normal racing, run what you bring! Hell I've done a couple '"hits" on a 1959 Cushman at Milan dragway!

[@BigfootsnMopars]

Love the collection of unique Cars!!The Dragster at 29:20 belongs to my engine builders son.

[@brandygray5894]

Cool video 👍

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@jimfisher4795]

Awesome video, kept me entertained. Thx

[@tomeighty]

Thanks for watching and glad you liked it! Happy New Year.

[@matthewmonsour9802]

Love your channel

[@tomeighty]

Thank you! Happy New Year!

[@Phillips1]

I’ve seen one of those old ford pickups that you like so much but it had a blown big block with about 1500HP and could do wheelies lol

[@cjbecker1683]

Did you ever hit Rock Falls this year 🤔 Great video & that PT Cruiser is insane 👍

[@tomeighty]

I did not get out to Rock Falls this year. It is really hard for me to shoot they kind of videos I want over there, so that kind of frustrates me.

[@cjbecker1683]

@@tomeighty So is WIR or GLD your home area 🤔Amazing to see the traveling these racers do as many of the cars here come to Rock Falls for the Gasser Weekend 👍

[@tomeighty]

@@cjbecker1683 WIR is my home track but they only run cars on Friday and Saturday's, and not every weekend. So I travel to get more content.

[@davidmtaylor973]

I was born in '67 I remember quite a few of these cars here showing

[@davidmtaylor973]

I remember my mother having two Pontiac with a Grand Prix or Bonneville Bonneville is what it was two door and a four-door she had five kids I remember the two door

[@stevenreyes3680]

The small coupe bodied rails @ around 20:40 in is a Fiat Topolino, like the one Frank Pedregon from the mid to late 60’s. We saw that car at San Fernando drag strip. Cruz and Tony were in diapers then.

[@richardfinney3179]

A topolineo body digger was so cool lookin

[@Phillips1]

3:17 1320 video spotted lol

[@joshuagibson2520]

The wheelie cars are cool, but I can't figure out why they don't have some softer suspension up front with at least some travel.

[@joshuagibson2520]

The red truck\van model was doing a reverse wheelie once he brought it back down. Very unstable.

[@tomeighty]

Yes that Old School VW Bus doing the Wheelie was way out of control, and those old vehicles that did Wheelies back then did not have a rear suspension at all to them. The sidewalls of the tires were the suspension, so if there was any bouncing around that would take care of it. And in the case of a huge bounce it would actually get the tires off of the ground. Dragsters actually have same rear suspension set up in them, that's partially why they have such tall tires.

[@stevenreyes3680]

The black 1950 Studebaker slammed to the ground gave me goosebumps. Sort of reminds me of my 1951 Henry J I drove to high school in 1969.

[@tomeighty]

Yeah that thing was special, looks like a spaceship.

[@fastamx069box8]

Yeah, as an official old fart, I grew up with these cars. Fremont Drag Strip was 20 minutes away from home. We had an AMC Ambassador Station Wagon with a 390 CID. It would tow our trailer during the day and burn rubber at night. My first car was an AMC AMX 390 4 speed. I had that for 40 years. I will be dead in the next 15 years so you go out and keep finding these rare gems. Todays cars are cool. But speed by Tech is not the same. There was an old saying that there was no replacement for Cubic Inch Displacement except Cubic Bucks... I guess that's still true today. God bless and Jesus is still Lord of Lords and King of King. Happy New Year 👍

[@tomeighty]

Happy New Year! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@timothyharrison8953]

Nice video, but it seems a lot of this was out before. I guess because I'm a Ford guy and was looking, but seventies Cyclones and Mon-tee-gos were on my radar. So yeah, I remember seeing them as a kid.

[@rctopfueler2841]

My friend has a orig 63 avanti R2 in mint condition garaged its whole life .way ahead of time in design

[@sjcottsi]

The Studebaker Champion of that year was called a two-row corn picker.

[@RobertFisher-hw7to]

Had a 67 Pontiac grandprix rag top with 428

[@tomeighty]

Awesome. Very unique looking front end on those cars, I like it.

[@matthewmonsour9802]

Ive thought the same thing about not seeing the cars out in the wild as a kid. Born 1970. Iwpuld see the cutlasses with the 2 stripes.

[@korjodaraccoon]

I've seen a avanta before it was dark brown and in exhalent condition I believe the owner bought it new and has been taking it to shows sense in the Midwest

[@jamesmusisca7547]

5:51 sometimes a dragsters too light

[@matthewmonsour9802]

Yes! Dodge Coronet.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

2:33 all he said to the garage is tune it up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tuzonthume]

My friend Kaiser had a 4d Montego in Dark Green. Looked like an army staff car. 6cyl 3 on the tree.

[@blackshiny5758]

12:30 is that Leroy's unadulterated cousin?

[@matthewmonsour9802]

We also had a 1980? Pontiac station wagon with a 350 buick engine i think. I was young.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

27:19 that's a frame and an engine

[@jamesmusisca7547]

1:45 it all started somewhere

[@emericblair5597]

I have seen old cars like you have talked about. I had a 1960 ford farlane, 1965 ford mustang , a 1969 dodge cornet, a 1965 firebird, a1965 z-28 a 1974 vette a 1976 vette but I am a old man born in 1953. I raced my cornet and my z-28 I had the most of my fun in the camaro.I ran a 12.69 sec in the z-28 . The farlane and the vetts were not very fast.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

50:30 slightly modified

[@richardfinney3179]

The topolineo bodyed altered and digger were the coolest looking

[@richardfinney3179]

Crosleys were sold through the Sears department store catalog

[@ramblerdave1339]

Before the Henry J / Allstate? Why haven't I heard about this before, with all my studies of the independent manufacturers? 😮

[@jamesmusisca7547]

i love old chevy dodge ford vans with big long set of side pipes candy apple red just truckin

[@matthewmonsour9802]

My dad had a 1975 pontiac grand prix. I think it had a 400 in it.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

econolines i use to see them all the time back in the day my brother in law had one

[@jamesmusisca7547]

i didn't know they had a country mile on a drag strip

[@jamesmusisca7547]

it's not what it looks like it's what it is

[@richardfinney3179]

We called the A bodyed altered a slingshot altered

[@craigpennington1251]

The Fierro is still JUNK. As far as muscle cars are concerned, I've own a lot of them & yes, they were out & about ripping up the roads every day. Cops were very busy. Best car I've ever owned was a 1966 GTO that had a 428 H.O. massaged with a 4 speed & 410:1 posi 12 bolt rear. No power accessories & at 60m.p.h. I got 19-21 m.p.g. depending on what brand of 100 octane was in the tank. Mostly AVGAS all the time. Pays to have friends at the airport. I really miss those cars. Had the big Chryslers & Mercs & a few Coupe DeVilles. I wish I had them all back. The big 2 door coupes were the most comfortable & the Chryslers handled damn good for a 22 foot boat.

[@BelowAmbient]

HOW IS A ROAD RUNNER A STRANGE CAR NOW LOL

[@jamesmusisca7547]

mercury with an LS