Strange Cars at The Drag Strip - Ultimate Edition

Here is a video collection of some strange cars that I have seen over the years at the drag strip. I'm not making fun of any of these vehicles because I respect anyone that puts in the time to get a vehicle out to the track and race it. But sometimes you ask yourself "what were they thinking"? And of course the answer doesn't matter because obviously that is what the person is into and it is much better to have a variety of vehicles showing up at the track rather than everything the same.
Point in example is the first car that is the Gasser Pontiac Fiero, the owner of this car wanted to pass on his knowledge of fabrication onto his Grandkids and found a cheap platform of a vehicle to start hacking into. And once he was done it might not have been the fastest car at the track but for sure it was the most talked about vehicle there, and nobody would question that once this guy touched that Fiero he obviously made it better. Because I can guarantee you that if a regular Fiero pulled up to the line nobody would give it a second look at all.
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I hope you enjoy this huge collection Strange Car videos I have put together from over the years.
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[@tomeighty]

Happy New Year! I invite you to check out my New Merch Page -----> www.tomeighty.com

[@stevenreyes3680]

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

[@shadowhixon1420]

Love seeing my Vega on the video from the ice drags!! Awesome shots thank you!

[@tomeighty]

Glad you liked it. Very unique looking out there.

[@geoffholmes7291]

Nice runs bro

[@larryc8607]

It looks like you are holding your own !

[@bryancohn9406]

The red dragster at 22:05-23:05 is a Chassis Research Company dragster designed and built by Scotty Fenn, the first production drag race car available to the market in the early 60's. His pointed frame with lever shocks was a trademark of his original design that was very successful for many years. Cool to see such a neat old race car!

[@gasser217]

PERFECT VIDEO !! Thanks !!!!

[@tomeighty]

Thank you!

[@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,.

[@FuzzyPotato.1]

I'm also a fan of the 70-80 vans, just like the one from the A-Team!! That one was the bomb, seen a replica in person that was pretty cool.

[@davidkilts1670]

Nice video, thank you!

[@tomeighty]

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it.

[@elvispresley3340]

NEATO stuff - CHEERS from AUSTRALIA

[@patrickroeill8746]

Man you nailed it lol great video thanks

[@tomeighty]

Thank you, glad you liked the video.

[@marconius101]

As a Dutch car fan, this makes me very jealous, building your own drag car and drive from track to track in a organised event. This is impossible in Europe. Here your car needs to checked out by the authorities to get a licence plate... So i love looking at these vids and those from 1320video, Cleetus McFarland and Steve Morris and a lot more...

[@sojourner650]

There are certain states within the USA that also check your car (e.g. Illinois), but I am not certain how detailed the inspection is.

[@tomeighty]

Yes that is something pretty special we are able to do around here.

[@masjuggalo]

It's mixed here in the US. Some places do require annual inspections. Some don't. To be fair, drag racing is really the most grassroots Motorsport we have access to well, the only one that doesn't require a dedicated vehicle. I mean you can do like dirt bikes, four wheelers circle track but that's about it. Do you guys have like grassroots rally racing? If so, I'm jealous of that

[@alking4153]

These car's aren't driven to the tracks we don't want the mileage put on the engine their towed or on a trailer but you are right many can be licensed for the street but the engine's are detuned and a battery and starter added.

[@IANHANDS]

You allow yourself to become jealous.

[@BIGBADWOOD]

5 STAR VIDEO ❤

[@quickdeuce]

Cool video,, Thanks Tom!!

[@JohnKelley-vg7zr]

I've seen all these cars "back in the day". I saw a Studebaker Metro a few days ago w/a small block Chevy in it, and a nice paint job. I was at Lions Drag Strip 1969, in the lineup. Big Willie of the LA STEET RACERS pulled up behind me in his Dodge Super Bird w/the Hugh rear wing. BIG WILLIE was huge!

[@Mike-ru6ni]

Yea and a Bully. Tried to take over our organized racing.

[@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.

[@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.

[@mathewmolk2089]

I like them too (Check my last name)

[@joshuagibson2520]

I appreciate the gratuitous slo-mo. 😅😅😅

[@tomeighty]

My favorite part as well. ha ha

[@stevecompton9150]

do you ship to the UK , as the postal option is only for the US . And I loved the video 👍👍

[@tomeighty]

Thank you, and sorry but I only ship in the US as of right now. But if you goto this link to the company where I get the belts from they will ship it over seas. Thanks, Tom buckle-down.com/products/gm-seatbelt-belt-black-webbing

[@SettledBatches]

1:37 - Nothing strange about that car. It was built to the "Competition Coupe" rules in the early '60s. Not what the rules-makers intended, but what the rules-readers could easily see. In the mid-west we had NHRA tracks, so no "fuel" at the time, but good fun.

[@scottinWV]

Wow! Ice drags!

[@matthewmonsour9802]

Love your channel

[@tomeighty]

Thank you! Happy New Year!

[@BigfootsnMopars]

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

[@quickdeuce]

Re the snow mobiles,, 120mph on those teeny fronts has got to be a worry some thang! It would be for me for sure! 🙂

[@purebredamericanmutt]

My dad had a 70/71 Montego. Got totaled when he was driving north on 95 around St Augustine FL. The seat was bent back as was the steering wheel. I think that was the car I took my driver's license test in.

[@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.

[@quickdeuce]

The Nash,, I can't imagine how strange it would feel to drive with the throttle on the passenger side of the trans tunnel. Weird. My sister had one of those Nash Ramblers when she was in high school '65 thru '68.

[@jameshuffman835]

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

[@rapidrrobert4333]

KK, my home track in the late 70s.

[@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

[@t0ast_0000]

That Topolino on the thumbnail is was one

[@quickdeuce]

@14:00,, we can ALWAYS count on Farm Truck and AZN to bring 'tha show'.

[@davidmtaylor973]

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

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@quickdeuce]

@43:23 thru 46:49,, re the Merc Cyclone GT,, My eldest daughter was born in 1970,, making her 2 years older than Tom BUT those Merc's (in spite of the production numbers shared) were rare as hell to see on the road ion those days and even more rare to see now days. A friend of mine had a 1972 Cyclone GT with the 429 in it. It was true to form for Mercury in those days with an interior as nice as a Cadillac but performance and economy was not it's strong suit.

[@scootosan]

The Montego's were scarce back then even before your birth. The Ford dynasty's advertising department must have been starring at the sun on the Merc's. I am in the group (a very small group) 4dr HT, 2dr HT and a Wagon and I wonder the production count would be on a wagon with the 250 IL6 and 3 on the tree and if you're lucky PB, PS and a radio. I like all that moves and the weirder the better.

[@louislepage5111]

😅I like the racing in Wisconsin 😊😊😊😊

[@scootosan]

The Merc Cyclone grill. That's not an ashtray..... it was for military ordnance.

[@scootosan]

I had a 67 Grand Prix 2dr HT and console it was a boat although the styling takes flight.

[@ShephardInvestments-o9z]

LOL... These all make me laugh.

[@warrentopping4442]

Not strange at all...... they're COOL!

[@orionbennett776]

I don't think those econoline pickups are seen nearly as much as the Dodge version the A100 pickups aka Little Red Wagon ... probably the most popular cab forward truck in drag racing. I have one of the Dodge A100's now, getting a power plant update from slant six to a 360 magnum.

[@RealDougFields]

The Altered at 29:30 ish is a Fiat Topolino

[@sojourner650]

39:21 I honestly expected better than 11 seconds for that "banshee" quad. Maybe rider error? (Not saying I could do better.)

[@snapon666]

I had a 1970 mer montego mx brougham 2 dr column shift bench seat 429 4 barrel c6 auto bought from an estate in commiefornia with less than 40000 miles on it not great off the line but would bury the 140 speedo

[@kerrybassett4468]

The Lockheed P-38 was not a fighter jet, 49:42

[@SettledBatches]

21:36 - That was also a car built to the rules as a "Competition Coupe"; you should really do some research before you make a public axx of yourself. 22:46 - You really don't have a clue, do you? One more "Competition Coupe"

[@ArthurHarrington-p7q]

Fast TOPOLINO

[@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

[@mathewmolk2089]

With the execption of the ;ast 2 Fords I have seen every one of these cars, and me and my family have owned a couple and I have worked on well over half of them. - Nothing odd" about any of them as far as I am concerned.

[@Phillips1]

3:17 1320 video spotted lol

[@richardfinney3179]

A topolineo body digger was so cool lookin

[@scootosan]

Classic event. Run whatcha brung .....

[@PitsTasteGood]

Do ya think that Self Driving Tech will be able to safely take funny cars to their next limits?

[@PitsTasteGood]

OH! Like imagine, the Throttle being controlled by AI while the gear change and steering is all driver based. That way, the cars will reduce their reaction time and always apply the perfect amount of gas without the "Foot lifting off" type thing.

[@donluthringer7173]

I am 95 and some of these cars I had never seen, Good show. 1 25 2025

[@57menjr]

60s and 70s drag cars lol lol

[@horstd.engart9362]

Was ist an diesen Fahrzeugen seltsam ? Es sind Dragster !

[@luisestebanr6311]

Panty dropper for the win❤

[@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.

[@dannmohr5721]

The Studebaker…… hands down……🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrBpritch100]

Old school rail cars with a body or a half of a body slapped on em aren't really that strange. EDIT: the more you watch the more you realize this is actually just a whole video of pretty ridiculously normal vehicles. The odd actually strange unit however nothing that stands out aside the bar table...but then again that's been done 5000000000x now also. More proof youtube is just becoming the same ol same old re filmed and re done crap with a new clickbait title slapped on it. Huge L. But then that's probly why youtube in a whole is dying off fast.

[@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? 😮

[@sjcottsi]

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

[@rctopfueler2841]

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

[@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.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

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

[@djsandvig1]

Cackle….NOT crackle……just sayin’

[@matthewmonsour9802]

Yes! Dodge Coronet.

[@phillipragsdale3382]

cackle cars not cracke cars

[@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.

[@RobertFisher-hw7to]

Had a 67 Pontiac grandprix rag top with 428

[@tomeighty]

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

[@jamesmusisca7547]

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

[@tuzonthume]

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

[@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

[@matthewmonsour9802]

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

[@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]

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

[@richardfinney3179]

The topolineo bodyed altered and digger were the coolest looking

[@jamesmusisca7547]

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

[@jamesmusisca7547]

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

[@jamesmusisca7547]

5:51 sometimes a dragsters too light

[@matthewmonsour9802]

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

[@jamesmusisca7547]

27:19 that's a frame and an engine

[@richardfinney3179]

We called the A bodyed altered a slingshot altered

[@blackshiny5758]

12:30 is that Leroy's unadulterated cousin?

[@jamesmusisca7547]

50:30 slightly modified

[@jamesmusisca7547]

mercury with an LS

[@BelowAmbient]

HOW IS A ROAD RUNNER A STRANGE CAR NOW LOL

[@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.

[@youdoofus]

@12:48 it might very well be a miata, i agree. but it has to be said, like most 1/8,1/4 mile racers, this idiot has ZERO throttle control.....