For you Old Guys--

[flyboy2]

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqCm7YO2GOI&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Ingenuity in Action 1958 NHRA Hot Rod Film[/nomedia]

 

[Kevinc5a]

Good stuff...thanks

 

[dg_moore]

Fond memories - back in the day (50's) my buddies and I would pile into somebody's car and drive to Wattsburg, PA, about 35 miles, and watch while guys with much more permissive (or, more likely, lied-to) dads than ours abused the family sedan in the quarter mile.

I just learned that the Wattsburg drag strip is still in operation 55 years later. My dad's car - a 57 Pontiac Bonneville - blew the wheels off all of my friends' family cars on local back roads, but I never had the moxie to run it on the strip.

I remember how amazed we all were that there were other teens who could actually afford a car of their own, let alone have enough money to soup them up.

Thanks for posting this - takes me back a bit.

 

[ASHDUMP]

What the hell was that?

I wasn't even a thought back then. If I can't watch it on my iPhone it is useless to me.

 

[2ez24get]

I met Wally Parks back in 2004 at SEMA. Took this video myself. Look for Wally in the 1958 film at time stamp 24:55 he was the founder of NHRA.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SRDfb37Uw"]YouTube- NHRA Wally Parks SEMA 2004[/nomedia]


John Force and Don Purdhomme were there also.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaz2gUpEiA"]YouTube- John Force SEMA 2004[/nomedia]

 

[dg_moore]

What the hell was that?

I wasn't even a thought back then. If I can't watch it on my iPhone it is useless to me.

Believe it or not, everybody has a life - even us old guys. We just have a little more history than the younger guys...

 

[Rockynight]

I really enjoyed that! A big thanks! : )