Local DRAG CAR Survivor and Other Cool Stuff at Paradise Dragstrip Toy Drive

Paradise Dragstrip is one of my favorite drag strips, and they host a really great Toy Drive event in December. Rain cancelled the event two weekends in a row, but they were finally able to pull it off before Christmas. Special guests included Mike Finnegan and crew, along with his Blasphemi '55 Chevy and Rubber Duck Firebird, which used to sit under the carport at Paradise Dragstrip. Sleeperdude was also on hand running his burnout cars, the Gremlin and Pinto.
Drag racing action was cut short because of a bad crash that tore up the guard rail and timing system, so we didn't get to see all the cars run, but it was still a good time at the drag strip.
My favorite part is always the swap meet, and as soon as I walked up on it, I spotted an old drag car that deserves some recognition. From my best guess, this is a late '70s or early '80s drag car, built from scratch by Lesley Anderson. Lesley is one of the local Ford drag racers from back in the day, and built this Model A using an aluminum frame and a fiberglass body. The paint and lettering still looks great, and the car has an awesome old school round tube front axle. The owners of the car were stripping it down and selling off everything...it was tempting but we didn't buy it.

[@Sleeperdude]

I think that black S10 was the fastest thing there that I saw.

[@gearbanger57]

His crewman was pretty quick to getting up after that fall.

[@Mike-Olds-1]

👍🇺🇸 That black S-10 pickup gets with the program 👍

[@dannybenfield1164]

Very cool I can't wait for summer to watch drag racing live

[@genelewis2962]

Thanks always look forward to your videos

[@chriscurry236]

Josh and your channels are just awesome! Love the Family atmosphere!! Always including the kids and Family, which takes it over the top for me 👍, I have had the pleasure of watching The Georgia Shaker 3 race at several Southeast Gasser's races over the past couple years in the AFX class,and needless to say,That car is a Beast!! A huge fan of SEGA!!

[@tyskieandturbos]

Do you have a link to Josh’s channel? I can’t find it, cheers

[@stevensonelias2722]

Always posting some great videos,watching from the caribbean,thnxx👍

[@JCImageInc.]

Love the shot at 8:06! Dude, you are making such a badass channel, thank you so much!!!

[@Axial_Andrew]

Almost there, 100k, let's go!!

[@terryeustice5399]

A cool video. Some neat drag cars. I watch Sleeperdude. His videos as well.
Thanks for sharing.
💯👍👊

[@davida.p.9911]

Very cool footage!! Sleeperdude was awesome in his runs! 😎👍🏁🏁 Thanks for sharing!!

[@mick_1949]

Thanks champion 👍🇦🇺

[@justinsanders2705]

Great stuff as always Hoarder! 👏 💪

[@hankpugh4980]

ALLRIGHT,love this kind of stuff! And Im a roundy round guy.... (but I'm old)

[@bryanguthrie-ej1fb]

My local track. Made my first pass there in 1984

[@snakebite2841]

👍👍

[@josephmiller3513]

How much did they want for "sea train"

[@jimpuglisi7973]

Saw it on Facebook marketplace it sold pretty cheap cool roadster

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

👍 🏁🏁 👍

[@paytonhardin1738]

That orange gremlin bad ass car same guy Drive the yellow Ford pinto Dollars store sticker on the side of the door orange gremlin will run I think old boy name is josh I think. But fast orange gremlin ❤🎉.

[@user-ix4dl1dy7q]

You only regret the ones you don’t buy