I'm an old guy and the 80's was the best time for drag racing for me. We had to build motors from reading Hot Rod magazine. No turbo's and the only superchargers available were 671 and 871 blowers that came off of semi trucks. Parts had to be ordered by phone and then hope you get them. We had cast steel heads and blocks so no light weight aluminum for us. I would port and polish the heads with a grinder and it took weeks. All said it was the greatest time for street racing, The video brings back good memories, Thanks.
Because you had to do with less and try to work around cost-based obstacles. That made all those muscle cars way more valuable, despite their limitations. It was a different era. You couldnt just buy shit bc it didnt exist.@theupscriber65
@@theupscriber65 Look at the car scene now, all full of tiktok kids and clout chasers bragging about shit that everyone else can buy or do. No one is unique anymore or willing to put in the hard work.
They were 3K cars back then, we thrashed around, not knowing they would ever be 70k collectors as today… hilarious.. a friend offered me a free 72 Cuda, with all correct 340 numbers matching, and we had so many E Bodies around, I said no thanks, I don’t like the taillights in that year.. lol!!!! They were all so plentiful, back then… 57 Ragtop beetles were 500-1000… haha.. time flies people, enjoy life, and appreciate it. This is NOT a dress rehearsal…:)
I'm a chevy man myself, but that Falcon sure had an awesome sound and snatched 2nd gear with ease. Four speeds and big cams always. Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed it all.
My neighbor had a 64 Falcon with a screaming 289 351 heads Lunati cam etc, he was an engineer and I never saw a car go around it ever. That thing shifted at 8 !
@@stevenvanheel3932 that's what i like about now actually. i like also there's many options.i am more of a car guy not so much a brand guy, i like ford, dodge, chevy etc.
I never saw narrowed rearend street cars in the 80s. Our cars needed paint and were fairly stock with headers carb and maybe a cam. These were wealthier kids than I at that age!
Yeah... and nobody I knew had a blower either. The fastest street car (daily driver) I knew of was a friends dad. He had a 72 camaro w/a small journal 327 that he had built by a race shop. I personally rode in it and saw the tach swing to 8k rpms on the 1-2 shift (turbo 400) where it laid a good 40ft patch from the eagle ST's. He told me it ran a 11.99 at 117mph w/slicks and mid 12s on the ST's at Bradenton Dragstrip. It was bright orange w/white stipes and was in perfect condition. And he drove it daily to work 17 miles each way.
We scrounged the best factory "performance" parts we could find used. Double hump heads, less restrictive exhaust manifolds, maybe an aftermarket intake and a used holley.
In the late 70's in my area the lucky guys got a low mileage grandma driven Dart, Nova etc. for 16 birthday while the rest of us had to work low paying after school/weekend jobs to save for a 2 door beater to mod.
@@a.t1313 I bought my first car in 1982, paid $450 for it, 1967 Cougar that came from California so it wasn't all rusted out. SLOOOOOOOOWwwww.... 302 two barrel. I planted and grew 3 acres of sweet corn, sold it from the back of dads F250 in town. Made $2500, dad kept $2000, then drove my car to work in town for three years before I turned 16. By the time I got to drive it, everything was worn out. I was able to drive it for less than six months total. I wanted a GTO, but couldn't find one at the time. In 1986 a wrecked 72 GTO showed up at the local junk yard, so I bought it for $175, it needed the passenger side fender, bumper, headlight bucket, and a hood. The 400 was gone, and in its place was a 350 two barrel. In 1987 I put a 400 back in it and had some fun until a rod bearing decided to part company. I bought a 79 10th Anniversary TA in July that year, drove that until I enlisted in '88. The TA hasn't moved since September 88. Still have all three of those, and many others. I rarely sold anything back then, so I have lots of parts and cars now. I did work for neighboring farms to earn money, I didn't get anything from my parents. They liked to take what I earned. When I got back from the USAF in 92 I started building cars again, in 1997 I had a 79 Formula I bought in Germany running mid 11s through the mufflers with a mild 455. Current summer daily drivers are a 65 GTO with a 455 wearing the heads/intake from the 79 Formula, and a 70 Cuda 340. I have lots of old Pontiacs.
Oh, such a better time to live. I graduated in 86 with a 79 z/28. Good times. Today's people can't get themselves away from video games long enough to enjoy life the way that we did. I made a few of those home videos myself! Great times...
Class of 84’ here, bro I’d go back so damn fast I can’t stand the way shit is these days. Oh yeh I had a 67’ Mustang coupe came with a 3 speed and 2 barrel, my uncle put a Top loader intake 4 barrel and cam and that little hooker would scoot. I picked my date up and her dad says oh no she ain’t going anywhere in that 😆 I said buddy here, take my keys I’ll drive your Lincoln he lit up like a Christmas tree no problem he says. Good times
Your generation made it this way, just remember that. You were responsible for raising us right and you failed. You only have yourselves to blame for the state of our society today
Lol I was born in 90 but I was definitely born in the wrong era. I just got done building a 383 stroker for my 81 Cutlass drag car, keeping it old school with the SBC. Definitely looked like simpler and better times back then.
@@bigrig. you’d have loved it bro trust me things were light and loose we all got along. We didn’t have all the stress we have from the bullshit goin on these days.
I’m so pissed I never got to experience the 80’s, or be an adult in the 2000’s. I didn’t even begin adulthood until 2014, when the world really started going to shit.
America really changed after 9/11. Innocence lost and tech advancements allowed for major surveillance in the name of ‘safety’. Patriot Act was bipartisan.
Back when people actually communicated face to face, met up and congregated without needing anything more then a capable ride that sounded right, a tank of high-test, badass cassette tape collection, a few doobs and a time & place.. Nobodies me 2ing anybody, nobody needed a "safe space" and nobody was allergic to goddamn peanuts... we were tough and nails back then 💪
So you're praising the ability of men to sexually assault women without repercussions and the fact we ignored people who had allergies? (Because peanut allergies has and will always be one of the most common allergies) Man the internet is truly the lowest common denominator
Remember street racing back in the 80s like it was yesterday. Out till the sun came up. Good times. Loved the sound of a gear drive like in that Camero. Nice cars I that vid. Thanks for sharing. Good tunes!
Excellent video. Just people hanging out doing test hits with their hot rods. I wish someone in our group had a video camera back then. In '86 we were hitting the streets every Friday night in Poughkeepsie NY along route 9.
@6:25 ❤❤❤❤❤ That bad ass nova. My friend, Tony had a 74 Nova when we were in Highschool. And even though is wasn’t built like these cars, his dad had peoped it up for him some. Headers, a cam and some air shocks lol. We were the coolest dudes on our block. PostScript: I have one question and if you answer, you must answer HONESTLY. Does watching this make any of you kinda sad? Sad at knowing that our teen years are gone forever and that our kids will never know the simple pleasures that we knew as kids? I’m wondering if it’s just me.
Nope, not just you brother. I graduated HS in 77, so my first car/truck was a 66 El Camino 327 4 speed 4:11, 12 bolt posi that I bought in 74ish for 500 bucks. Beat a lot of cars with that thing.
@@speedyg2577 wow. Sounds amazing. I was 89. But we all street raced on Friday nights after football. Football was and still is the most important thing in here in Odessa Texas. Lol.
Class of 88. Was doing the same thing. On 12/28/86 I was a Jr. in high school. It was a Sunday and Christmas break so we probably went pheasant hunting durning the day and partied with our girlfreinds that night. :). Makes me sad that my daughter and her friends don't get out and do things like we did.
I was 16 in 86. Sad that teenage years are gone forever = No not at all. Ignorance and rebellion cost me way too much to ever go through that again. Now if I could go back in time w/my brain and maturity of today... I'd pretty much have made every decision the opposite. Simplicity of life = 100% YES (If I was a sales weenie I'd have said 10,000%... but I'm an engineer and you can't fill anything more than 100% 😁 )
@@wydopnthrtl That's an honest thinking. We make a lot of bad decisions at that age. But no way to know and understand it before hand. Hormones and adrenaline at that age are uncontrollable. Obviously some guys were more bad than others, those didn't end well and never got to be an engineer.
That was me in the blue 79 Z28! What a wonderful find! I remember that day. I always wondered what happened to the video. Never thought I'd actually see it. Thanks for posting! Great memories.
I'm 62 & the 70 & 80's were the best times for me & my Hot Rods, we'd go to the local Denny's, make call out's, then meet over in the industrial area, most places were closed that time of night, except for a few semi's coming & going once in a while.
Yep. Used to go to industrial areas to run since there was no traffic or intersections. We would have lookouts for both cops and other traffic and would make sure streets were clear before running. About every street racing crash you hear about these days are from those running through intersections, curved roads or heavy traffic areas.
Right on we from clas of 1978 Yuma Az. had fun fun fun , i was lucky to have a 1967 Chevelle for my fifteenth birthday, But couldnt drive it for almost half a year, i had to get my Drivers License permit :) , my borther who is 3 years older had a 1969 SuperBee Man the fun times at Yuma Union High we had real deal
I had a 71 Plymouth Valiant Scamp with a 230hp 318 and a 3 speed manual transmission.We raced down an industrial drive that also had very little traffic at night.My Scamp only weighed a little over 3,000.Couldnt run with the big blocks but a fun little car.We had a blast.
Ahhh...1986! Remember it well!!! I was 14 and we lived on a rural blacktop in the country. Cars would race on that stretch of road damn near every fri/sat night! Got my ol' 77 Nova Concours 305 smog 2bbl in 1989, built it into street/strip with a mild 350/350 TCI 2800 stall & Richmond 3.90 rear in 1993! FUCK I miss that car AND my youth!!!!!
Love this video. My heavy street racing days were 97, 98 years in good ol abilene tx. Lol. Some of the best times of my life for sure. Altho this was around 10 years earlier and somewhere else Seeing this brings back alot of memories. Something about street racing that gets and stays in the blood nomatter when, who and where your at.
This is my 3rd comment is 7 mins of the vid Im sorry.. but I really appreciate these type ' pre cell phone ' vids that enthusiasts captured and preserved from back in the day. It's rare, epic and genuine.
I owned at 1967 and a 1968 pro street camaro in 86. I was stationed at fort Ord near where this video was shot at the time. A nice 68 or 69 Camaro would set you back about $4500 with fresh paint, deck stripes, and mild rebuilt engine.
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I have a 2004 and a 2005 puck up trucks that I drive every day that are not that old in my opinion, but as old as your cars were in 1986. Somehow, I doubt that my trucks will be worth tens of thousands in another 30 to 40 years. In 1990 I got my 1st car, a 1970 El Camino with a 350 4 barrel. Loved that car.
@@CarbonGlassMan You are right on that! I graduated high school in 1984 and my dad told me back then to enjoy the old 60s and 70s muscle cars while I could because that era would never come back. I have been doing my best to drive mostly old school classic ever since!
Wow ,this really brought back memories I was 19 and this is what we were doing to. No cell phones, you phoned your buddies from the phone screwed to the wall and when all agreed to show up they did and stayed as long as you did. Man I miss those days. Even the Scorpions playing was on point. Thanks for uploading this super cool
I was a senior when this was filmed. It was a couple years later that I started street racing. Had a 69 step side with a 402 in it, home ported heads, decent cam, Holley intake and 750 carb, some deep gears, and the widest slicks I could tuck up under the step sides. It did quite well. That Falcon appeared to have Mickey Thompson SS on the back. You were the man if you had them on the back of your car and they were the soft compound ones! Good times back then when you used your brain, knowledge, and skill to build something instead of your Visa Gold card. Video brought me back in time; just needed some actual racing, it was good though, Thanks.
Brings back GREAT memories of hanging with my gear head buddies outside of Atlanta Georgia. We had fun times! THANK YOU for sharing this old VHS tape. All the cars are cool but the Falcon with a Cleveland is my favorite. My late best friend ran a built Cleveland in his 67 Mustang fastback. He was unbeatable at the time. It ran high 11's in the quarter. Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
I could watch this all day long! I grew up in Watsonville and was 13 at this time. My neighbor had a bad ass orange 69 Camaro with a 4 speed and tunnel ram and was always doing burnouts up and down the street. These guys probably came across him at some point in time. My parents met at the drag races in Salinas in the mid 60’s when he was stationed at Fort Ord. This brings back all the “feels” 👍
Brings back memories. I remember trying to squeeze 500 hp out of a small block chevy. It took some serious cash to achieve that. Today my Scat Charger comes that way, not to mention a line lock and programable stall converter all at my finger tips. Computer stores all the parameters of performance on board. Even has a G meter for traction information. A shit ton more i just can't remember it all.
I had a 65 Falcon convertible 289 4spd that i cobbled a NOS fogger plate and a solenoid switch from an airconditioner that i activated with my finfer the button was on the shift handle...i usually guessed when to hit it after looking at the tach..hopefully i wouldnt hit the nitrous in between 1st and 2nd gear..hopefully it come on when im already squarely in 2nd gear..it was 'hit or miss'..i blew the guts out of the engine once or twice,fragged a clutch a couple times destroyed a 9in detroit locker....now all the nitrous can be dialed in on a screen and the computer actuates the nitrous...wow! Those SCATS come with A/C,Power seats and windows,all the EGR stuff intact...all the stuff we dumped back then in order to gain some power and drop weight...amazing machines the Challengers,Camaros and Mustangs are today
@@chadhumphries3970 true...but once a gear head gets their hands on it and start tweaking and tinkering and putting their heart and soul into improving the machine then it does have a soul. Galaxy 427s,SS 396 Camaros,454 Chevelles,440 6 pack 'Cudas and Chargers,Boss 429s all came from the factory with disgusting and unholy gobs of souless power from the factory...then the Demons of the Drag Strips Yenko,Shelby,Mickey Thompson,Glidden and whole bunch of other average guys tweaked and tuned them and created machines filled with skill,talent,nitromethane induced lunacy and ferocious holeshots...the modern cars all come from that..no car comes with a soul from the factory
That's what I'm saying, phones are ruining all the fun. Everybody are zombies these days. Not me though I'm carrying on the torch. Just built a 383 stroker for my drag car
You can feel the 80s culture thru the video. No non sense talk and people talking to one another with respect. Not to mention some Scorpions as the cherry on top. I miss when people truely treated eachother well.
1987 doing the same shit just different bros😂same tunes which I still listen to thank you very much. Still have cars that I run that are from this era. Good times 😂 beat em break em fix em. You know. This vid made my day thanks. So much has changed. But still having fun. 😂 F.P. HIGH SCHOOL Tacoma Wa. Class of 87 baby oh ya. Peace freinds.
I graduated high school in 1986 and we we're doing the exact same thing in KY on Friday and Saturday nights. We would meet up to agree on terms...who would flag, who might get a car length head start or something similar, look over each other's rides and agree on money (if any) then, go to our spot and race. We did it again and again. Of course, always on the lookout for police. Sunday nights we'd go to the drive in to hang out, chase girls and maybe even watch the movie. No cell phones, no Internet and no politics. Just kids racing, hanging out and having fun. Much better days.
@@steveww07 You know what boomer means? They have been doing this way longer than you and paved the way. Would you diss your ancestors for coming to America? No respect. Boomer checking A/F, pulling a plug and knowing how to read it, Gen X or Y, let me get my laptop. Nothing wrong with that, you won't mess up the manicure.
@@larrytheableguy3441 you sound mad. You think checking a spark plug is anything as complicated as AFR with a laptop? Man yall boomers are full of S***. Yall threw junk together and really thought you were something special.
I miss street racing. Yeah it was dangerous, but no more than what would happen at a track. Just without the on coming traffic. I also enjoy watching it. I know the Philly crew still street races. I wanna see that in person once. I see it on UA-cam a lot. Looks fun as hell
@@robduncan2816 If you go to a track you know you are at a dangerous event. Walking to your mailbox and getting run over by a street racer is what being innocent is. I worked at a dragstrips for 22 years I understand the risk by fans or racers.
@rolltide9547 I know some innocent who got killed at tracks before. When a car clears the wall and innocent by standers are near, someone is bound to get injured or killed. Maybe not as much as street racing, but it happens and it could also happen
@@markharris1473 They took the chance going to a track with takes the innocent part out. Walking your dog down the street and getting killed by a street racer is what being innocent is about.
Love the intro and the old footage that’s awesome thanks. Nice older cars you don’t see everyday. I love how the majority of cars were doing the one wheel burn out 🤣 like manufacturers thought that was gonna fly.
Wow I was on 30 years old then holy crap I feel old . I miss the 80s so bad I was living in Utah and with state of very Hot women I miss those 80s women too best times of my life
Love the Boston playing at the beginning. That album Third Stage had been released earlier in '86 shortly before this video was shot. I spent many days and nights jamming that cassette cruising my '72 Olds Cutlass 👍🏻
I wish I had never sold my '70 Buick GS Skylark with the 350. Only 9948 made and I personally never saw another one in person. Heck only seen pictures of a few. P.S. 1st concert in '78 at Anaheim stadium was VH(1st album) Sammy Hagar(1st solo album), Black Sabbath w/Ozzy and Boston(also 1st album).
stage1 ragtop auto- buicks version of the turbo 400 (super turbine??) was the stock racer to have- my buddy had one in akron and it was damn quick.@@RedBud315
I was 5 months old. If I had known how expensive classics would become I would’ve bought one back when I was a baby. I think it would’ve been easier then than it is now 😂
I'm 71 and was into all that in the 60's and 70's. Friday and Saturday were street racing nights, Sunday was all at the local drag strip. Fun times for sure. This film would have been better if the cars had actually raced each other.
Back in my day we would get aquarium air lines connect to the windshield washer reservoir fill with clorox and water position the hoses over the rear wheels wet the tires and did a real burn out..we also had line locks..class of 73..
In 1986 we raced on Bloomfield Rd in Gilroy about 30 minutes north of where this video was filmed. Was hoping to see some cars I recognized from back in the day.
This video was on my first birthday Dec 28, 1985 was the year i was born. Them Chevies needs positraction DAMN! That Ford is doing it 👍🏿 and I'm a bowtie boy!
The good days!!! I start 92 still going on have Camaro 68 Street week car 1100hp Only 12 psi Boost ProchargerF2 Big staff3 Efi E85 Fjuel.Nice Happy Engine..Have even more Cars Amerikan Muscle cars!❤️🖐
Back in the 70s, we had drag nights and we would get together in a grocery store parking lot and when the stores closed and we have like a car show and then everybody would go out onto the street, which was a main drag out there and we'd have Drag Racing and them on the. Weekends, when that's over during the day. We go over to the local drag strip and have run what you brung And it was all legal as far as we cared until the cops came along to break it up.
I was born and raised in Salinas, I was in my early 20's and know Old Stage Road well, I think I remember a few of these cars dragging South Main Street back in the days before Mexican criminal street gangs force it to end by fighting, shooting and stabbing. It was just good clean fun for many years before they took over.
It seems like it was a lot harder for annoying people to call the cops when they didn’t have cell phones! That’s hard for me to imagine- I never knew a world without cell phones and computers.
These first gen Camaro’s were a dime a dozen back then. I bought my ‘70 Z-28 for $1000 in 1992. from the mid 70’s into the early 90’s People were practically giving away old gas guzzling muscle cars for more fuel efficient economy shit box junk.
That truck has the coolest tires ever made groundhog Mudders I wish I had that truck short bed 3/4 tons from the factory I'm guessing they didn't mess around with them in the 80s
There was a guy who used to drive a brown Falcon to Gonzales high school back in the day ('73). It looked just like this one. I believe it had a 427 then. Could it be the same one? @@ruazfast
I ended up with my falcon in 1976. Where the rear fenders cut like mine? Looks like my car was originally white and someone painted it blue and when I got it was black primer.🧐@@jamesbronson8713
@@ruazfast A lot of young people leave comments on UA-cam saying "I wasn't even born yet" with regards to certain videos, so it's kinda fun to have found one that was filmed 30+ years ago but literal days after I was born.
I'm looking for information on a car that my dad and I built, and raced in Modesto in the 80's. there's a couple of pictures of it, in my pictures. it's in grey primer. it was a 69 dodge dart gts. it was a 340/727. we raced it in Modesto in the early 80's. we raced against a guy named "Tim", he at the time had a Pontiac. and a guy named "Jed" who had a 426 wedge. we sold our dart to a Mexican named "ralph" (I think) in about 1985. some people who were around the street racing crowd in the early 80's, used to call our dart "the sling shot". we had a reputation of never getting beat off the line. any info would be appreciated. I'd really like to know what happened to the car
@@dangarrison3503 nice! We had a 67 belvedere 1. (2 door post) we took out the 273. And put in a go 440. Purpleshaft hydraulic. 727 3000 stall. 8 3/4 with 3.91.( we couldn't find the lower gears we needed) we really took our time putting the engine in. We got all the right linkage little bolts etc. When we were done you couldn't tell that it wasn't originally a 440 car. Of course the vin tag would still give it away. That car, for no more then we had in it ran pretty good.
I was turning 7 years old! This type stuff is epic! I think where are those cars today? Especially that tubbed Camaro with the Pete Jackson gear drive lol
i seen this pop up and smiled cause i had 25 mins of fun to watch. a view in life from a time people say were glory days. im 5 mins in and i remember why i hated the 80's poor cars. i love the cars but ugh smog motor days sucked. its crazy that those cars were fast then. and a minivan can smoke them today. i have a single cylinder 2 stroke moped for a toy that would smoke these cars and most cars today too. my daily driver is an suv. with a motor i built and i was like man im gonna see all these cars and wish i could race them. and im like i better bring the scooter so nobody gets beat too bad. i would actually have a close race with these cars in my winter beater. a cheap little s10 truck. i cant believe how slow these cars were. i grew up in some big car areas so we had literal racecars that were much faster when i was a kid. ik not here to knock these guys at all. i realize just how spoiled ive been. my daily driver is my quickest car and it gets 35 mpg naturally aspirated v8 swapped into an suv. how is that faster than what i grew up dreaming of and its faster than a brand new 100k supercar corvette. took me 2 years to race one and i had to ask him did you forget to hit the gas? like literally asking him if he wanted another shot maybe he launched in reverse. idk i had a little v6 grand am when i was a kid and threw a couple cheap parts on it that were laying around the house. just stock parts from other cars. by the end of it i got it to clear 13 sec 1/4 miles in the early 2000's just a cheap daily the big racer guys in my town i grew up watching were scared. these people raced for thousands of dollars. they were too scared of even a grudge match with me. what is wrong there. i popped the hood showed them it was v6 count the spark plugs read the intake. they told me i had a v8 and a turbo in a fwd car. a few ppl told me it was rear wheel drive. i showed them my 2 foot long exhaust pipe wheres the turbo. wheres those extra spark plugs i forgot to put in i guess. idk it all just seems weird to me. one night at a party i heard a man with a mustang bragging and i was like i can beat you with a grand am. he called my bluff. i told him exactly why and how and gave him the numbers and all the other mustangs i beat. the whole party piled in the cars and headed to the strip. it looked like this video both sides of the road though just cars and people. i literally blew my transmission racing him. i left him siting at the start line and i let him get the jump. i was a car length ahead of him when the race started. by the time i hit second gear and he seen the tires chirp and my tail lights starting to fade. that man tasted his each and every word. by the end of the track my final drive had went for its final drive and that was ok. i won limped my car back home and it sat in a pool of victory. it looked like a blood bath. when i used to race it was always just for fun a few wanted to race for pinks and im like man i cant take ur car. i just wanna see how fast ur car is ill pay for your gas. sounds to me now. i should have been the one racing for money and taken those pinks. the old guys who raced for thousands of dollars were scared to lose. and their car would never be feared again if they lost. they picked their races because they were scared to look dumb. but they looked dumber backing down to a kid in a 200 dollar car. the first rx7 i ever seen i raced there he told everyone how much money he spent building this rotary turbo motor. everyone was running naturally aspirated those days and were scared to run it. i was like hey man ill race you and the parking lot got real quiet. 10 thousand dollar motor turbo whats a rotary. lemme see that thing run lets go. people called their friends to come see this thing. i beat that man badly. like hey man im sorry but i dont let out. i wasnt gonna sand bag cause you were losing. what if i did and you caught up. i told him you should have kept that 10 grand and bought my car. he sold that rx7 and came back with a v8. the same things i ate for breakfast. he never beat me and pry spent 40 thousand dollars on a few diff cars before he stopped showing up. people stopped racing me. and i stopped going. literally nobody would race if i came by it was boring. so i found better things to do. but every time someone pulls up on me and tries to race. i smile and ask them do you really wanna do that. they say yes i wanna see that thing run. you asked for it. i had a man almost pop his eyes out of his head over my daily. he asked me to pull over and see this thing up close pop the hood. i showed him my money maker. my reliable daily driver i built to get to work and back. he asked me to build one. i told him what he needed why and how and where to get it. he never paid me to build it he never got it built. but i fixed his car so he could atleast drive it. didnt take a penny from him even though he offered and told him save his money and call me when hes ready. that man wont even wave at me when i wave at him.
Back in the 70s, When I got my falcon I had to get it registered and smogged. It had two carburetors on it when it got smogged. It would really kill them these days, How much emissions it put out.🧐
Mid 80s we took our vacations and went to Illinois for the car craft street machine nationals. Where pro street really became popular. Started going back to it at duquoin the last 5 years still a good time but not as wild as back in the day
I haven't been to that part of the road in a while. But I doubt there could be that many more houses out there. I know there was a small subdivision out that way. But we have a lot of farmland around us. It would take a lot of houses. 🧐
Was in Tx doing pushups for the USAF when this was filmed, soon to be just up the hill in Victorville where we had two 1/4 mi. strips to race on. The sweetest was tubbed LS6 70 El Camino dual nitrous 9 sec.
I can see why the mid east and south didn't invite westerners to showdowns in the 80's. At the beginning the only car that would do proper burnouts was the SS nova or Camaro. My pops had a Satellite Plymouth with Mickie's in like 86 with a column shift that would burn the tires off the rim. That was just my dads weekend cruiser. His buddies had Prostreet Blocks and high rise intakes and 1st stage blowers and I remember they would blow the tires off them cars at Piedmont man. All the cars look so aggressive then they perform and I'm like "aint no way" with all those parts that they are barley spinning a tire and I know those are huge rear tires and the power ratio today is much bigger but some of those cars even at that time were monsters right off the showroom floor. But I guess that's what happens when no fords are around
Man... Funny you mention that. I keep getting the idea of pulling a bunch of you UA-cam stars together and making a spoof of that. Already got Skank and Gutterboy picked out.
I'm an old guy and the 80's was the best time for drag racing for me. We had to build motors from reading Hot Rod magazine. No turbo's and the only superchargers available were 671 and 871 blowers that came off of semi trucks. Parts had to be ordered by phone and then hope you get them. We had cast steel heads and blocks so no light weight aluminum for us. I would port and polish the heads with a grinder and it took weeks. All said it was the greatest time for street racing, The video brings back good memories, Thanks.
What was so great about not being able to get anything?
Because you had to do with less and try to work around cost-based obstacles. That made all those muscle cars way more valuable, despite their limitations. It was a different era. You couldnt just buy shit bc it didnt exist.@theupscriber65
💯 I was born in 67. This was every Friday and Saturday and sometimes at open lunch in highschool 😂
@@theupscriber65 Look at the car scene now, all full of tiktok kids and clout chasers bragging about shit that everyone else can buy or do. No one is unique anymore or willing to put in the hard work.
@@theupscriber65 Improves your creativity, expands your fantasies, like reading a book when I was a kid, comparing with watching a CGI movie.
Back in the day people got together to do burnouts without a cell phone
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They would have if they could
The camcorder was the cellphone
A burnout with no cell phone 😱 seems unbelievable 🤔😀
No shit they weren’t hand held then
They were 3K cars back then, we thrashed around, not knowing they would ever be 70k collectors as today… hilarious.. a friend offered me a free 72 Cuda, with all correct 340 numbers matching, and we had so many E Bodies around, I said no thanks, I don’t like the taillights in that year.. lol!!!! They were all so plentiful, back then… 57 Ragtop beetles were 500-1000… haha.. time flies people, enjoy life, and appreciate it. This is NOT a dress rehearsal…:)
I'm a chevy man myself, but that Falcon sure had an awesome sound and snatched 2nd gear with ease. Four speeds and big cams always. Thanks for posting this video, enjoyed it all.
It might be a comet
It's a 64 falcon🧐
My neighbor had a 64 Falcon with a screaming 289 351 heads Lunati cam etc, he was an engineer and I never saw a car go around it ever. That thing shifted at 8 !
@@deborahchesser73757,000 is enough for me. 🧐
It's a definitely a Falcon Sprint, I have one rust free in my yard that needs to be restored.
I really do believe that we grew up in the best times. We had the best music too.
Before rock and roll died.
100%
Amen!!!
@@bighoudini6130corporate rock now, Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons on the rock stations! 🤦♂️
The 1980s': blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats. It's now 2020 and I'm wearing blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball hats.
If it ain't broke. but are you wearing crocs with socks?
Ahh yes! Back when if you had 400hp to the ground you where king of the streets.
Now making 400hp out of a 350 is pretty easy lol.
Now it’s 1,000 but they’ve never driven a 400 WHP car, so I get a hellcat engine cheap after they wad it up in the first 50 miles
@@ROBIN_SAGEmy thoughts exactly. 600hp is the norm and with some tuning and couple mods you’re 800+
For sure, 400 hp was a hell of a lot back then!
@@stevenvanheel3932 that's what i like about now actually. i like also there's many options.i am more of a car guy not so much a brand guy, i like ford, dodge, chevy etc.
I never saw narrowed rearend street cars in the 80s. Our cars needed paint and were fairly stock with headers carb and maybe a cam. These were wealthier kids than I at that age!
Primered hot rods were a thing back then. I've seen some new cars today that look like clearcoated primer grey
Yeah... and nobody I knew had a blower either.
The fastest street car (daily driver) I knew of was a friends dad. He had a 72 camaro w/a small journal 327 that he had built by a race shop. I personally rode in it and saw the tach swing to 8k rpms on the 1-2 shift (turbo 400) where it laid a good 40ft patch from the eagle ST's.
He told me it ran a 11.99 at 117mph w/slicks and mid 12s on the ST's at Bradenton Dragstrip.
It was bright orange w/white stipes and was in perfect condition. And he drove it daily to work 17 miles each way.
We scrounged the best factory "performance" parts we could find used. Double hump heads, less restrictive exhaust manifolds, maybe an aftermarket intake and a used holley.
In the late 70's in my area the lucky guys got a low mileage grandma driven Dart, Nova etc. for 16 birthday while the rest of us had to work low paying after school/weekend jobs to save for a 2 door beater to mod.
@@a.t1313 I bought my first car in 1982, paid $450 for it, 1967 Cougar that came from California so it wasn't all rusted out. SLOOOOOOOOWwwww.... 302 two barrel. I planted and grew 3 acres of sweet corn, sold it from the back of dads F250 in town. Made $2500, dad kept $2000, then drove my car to work in town for three years before I turned 16. By the time I got to drive it, everything was worn out. I was able to drive it for less than six months total.
I wanted a GTO, but couldn't find one at the time. In 1986 a wrecked 72 GTO showed up at the local junk yard, so I bought it for $175, it needed the passenger side fender, bumper, headlight bucket, and a hood. The 400 was gone, and in its place was a 350 two barrel. In 1987 I put a 400 back in it and had some fun until a rod bearing decided to part company. I bought a 79 10th Anniversary TA in July that year, drove that until I enlisted in '88. The TA hasn't moved since September 88.
Still have all three of those, and many others. I rarely sold anything back then, so I have lots of parts and cars now.
I did work for neighboring farms to earn money, I didn't get anything from my parents. They liked to take what I earned. When I got back from the USAF in 92 I started building cars again, in 1997 I had a 79 Formula I bought in Germany running mid 11s through the mufflers with a mild 455. Current summer daily drivers are a 65 GTO with a 455 wearing the heads/intake from the 79 Formula, and a 70 Cuda 340. I have lots of old Pontiacs.
What a flashback to high school in the 80's. I LOVE the Centerline rims. Such a new and amazing look back then.
Oh, such a better time to live. I graduated in 86 with a 79 z/28. Good times. Today's people can't get themselves away from video games long enough to enjoy life the way that we did. I made a few of those home videos myself! Great times...
Class of 84’ here, bro I’d go back so damn fast I can’t stand the way shit is these days. Oh yeh I had a 67’ Mustang coupe came with a 3 speed and 2 barrel, my uncle put a Top loader intake 4 barrel and cam and that little hooker would scoot. I picked my date up and her dad says oh no she ain’t going anywhere in that 😆 I said buddy here, take my keys I’ll drive your Lincoln he lit up like a Christmas tree no problem he says. Good times
Your generation made it this way, just remember that. You were responsible for raising us right and you failed. You only have yourselves to blame for the state of our society today
Lol I was born in 90 but I was definitely born in the wrong era. I just got done building a 383 stroker for my 81 Cutlass drag car, keeping it old school with the SBC.
Definitely looked like simpler and better times back then.
@@bigrig. you’d have loved it bro trust me things were light and loose we all got along. We didn’t have all the stress we have from the bullshit goin on these days.
@@deborahchesser7375 For sure! I just keep to my self anymore and work on my race car.
I’m so pissed I never got to experience the 80’s, or be an adult in the 2000’s. I didn’t even begin adulthood until 2014, when the world really started going to shit.
That was 2016 when everything went to shit, you know why. 🎃🤡
lets bring politics into it- don't talk that way about your next prez....
Sorry you missed the good old days. 👍
@@tommurphy4307I think you must mean next federal penitentiary inmate.
America really changed after 9/11. Innocence lost and tech advancements allowed for major surveillance in the name of ‘safety’. Patriot Act was bipartisan.
Back when people actually communicated face to face, met up and congregated without needing anything more then a capable ride that sounded right, a tank of high-test, badass cassette tape collection, a few doobs and a time & place.. Nobodies me 2ing anybody, nobody needed a "safe space" and nobody was allergic to goddamn peanuts... we were tough and nails back then 💪
I like how u also got to watch it on the same day the vid was created just 35+ yrs ltr
I am getting goosebumps with nostalgia! Loving the music. Your comment sounds like preaching to me brother. Preach on man , preach on..............
So you're praising the ability of men to sexually assault women without repercussions and the fact we ignored people who had allergies? (Because peanut allergies has and will always be one of the most common allergies)
Man the internet is truly the lowest common denominator
Peanuts suck ass anyway
Cant be serious about the peanuts thing lmfao
Remember street racing back in the 80s like it was yesterday. Out till the sun came up. Good times.
Loved the sound of a gear drive like in that Camero. Nice cars I that vid. Thanks for sharing. Good tunes!
I believe you're hearing the blower whine. And yes, it's an awesome sound!
Excellent video. Just people hanging out doing test hits with their hot rods. I wish someone in our group had a video camera back then. In '86 we were hitting the streets every Friday night in Poughkeepsie NY along route 9.
@6:25 ❤❤❤❤❤ That bad ass nova. My friend, Tony had a 74 Nova when we were in Highschool. And even though is wasn’t built like these cars, his dad had peoped it up for him some. Headers, a cam and some air shocks lol. We were the coolest dudes on our block.
PostScript:
I have one question and if you answer, you must answer HONESTLY. Does watching this make any of you kinda sad? Sad at knowing that our teen years are gone forever and that our kids will never know the simple pleasures that we knew as kids? I’m wondering if it’s just me.
Nope, not just you brother. I graduated HS in 77, so my first car/truck was a 66 El Camino 327 4 speed 4:11, 12 bolt posi that I bought in 74ish for 500 bucks. Beat a lot of cars with that thing.
@@speedyg2577 wow. Sounds amazing. I was 89. But we all street raced on Friday nights after football. Football was and still is the most important thing in here in Odessa Texas. Lol.
Class of 88. Was doing the same thing. On 12/28/86 I was a Jr. in high school. It was a Sunday and Christmas break so we probably went pheasant hunting durning the day and partied with our girlfreinds that night. :).
Makes me sad that my daughter and her friends don't get out and do things like we did.
I was 16 in 86.
Sad that teenage years are gone forever = No not at all. Ignorance and rebellion cost me way too much to ever go through that again. Now if I could go back in time w/my brain and maturity of today... I'd pretty much have made every decision the opposite.
Simplicity of life = 100% YES (If I was a sales weenie I'd have said 10,000%... but I'm an engineer and you can't fill anything more than 100% 😁 )
@@wydopnthrtl That's an honest thinking. We make a lot of bad decisions at that age. But no way to know and understand it before hand. Hormones and adrenaline at that age are uncontrollable. Obviously some guys were more bad than others, those didn't end well and never got to be an engineer.
Nowadays we have tiny phones. This goomba was walking around with a camera the size of a van on his shoulder😂
Yes, it was a VHS camera
That was me in the blue 79 Z28! What a wonderful find! I remember that day. I always wondered what happened to the video. Never thought I'd actually see it. Thanks for posting! Great memories.
If we had a time machine how many of us would go BK. I absolutely would without hesitation.
✋
Not only would I... I'd learn about investing and today have a warehouse FULL of those period correct muscle cars.
100%
This video is exactly 37 years old to this day. 12-28-1986 -- 12-28-2023
Amazing calculation
I'm 62 & the 70 & 80's were the best times for me & my Hot Rods, we'd go to the local Denny's, make call out's, then meet over in the industrial area, most places were closed that time of night, except for a few semi's coming & going once in a while.
Yep. Used to go to industrial areas to run since there was no traffic or intersections. We would have lookouts for both cops and other traffic and would make sure streets were clear before running. About every street racing crash you hear about these days are from those running through intersections, curved roads or heavy traffic areas.
Right on we from clas of 1978 Yuma Az. had fun fun fun , i was lucky to have a 1967 Chevelle for my fifteenth birthday, But couldnt drive it for almost half a year, i had to get my Drivers License permit :) , my borther who is 3 years older had a 1969 SuperBee Man the fun times at Yuma Union High we had real deal
Too bad about the spelling & punctuation thing you never grasped.
For us in ny area it was Vandalia ave , red hook,and the conduit in brooklyn not burn outs but real drag racing
I had a 71 Plymouth Valiant Scamp with a 230hp 318 and a 3 speed manual transmission.We raced down an industrial drive that also had very little traffic at night.My Scamp only weighed a little over 3,000.Couldnt run with the big blocks but a fun little car.We had a blast.
Ahhh...1986! Remember it well!!! I was 14 and we lived on a rural blacktop in the country.
Cars would race on that stretch of road damn near every fri/sat night!
Got my ol' 77 Nova Concours 305 smog 2bbl in 1989, built it into street/strip with a mild 350/350 TCI 2800 stall & Richmond 3.90 rear in 1993!
FUCK I miss that car AND my youth!!!!!
We would go downtown on Friday and Saturday nights and look for races. 👍
Love this video. My heavy street racing days were 97, 98 years in good ol abilene tx. Lol. Some of the best times of my life for sure. Altho this was around 10 years earlier and somewhere else Seeing this brings back alot of memories. Something about street racing that gets and stays in the blood nomatter when, who and where your at.
Love how people just talked with each other. Everything seemed so natural. No phones, no poseurs, and no masks.
Why bring masks in the comments? Get over it already snowflake!
We are in Idiocracy now.
@@zh9119 100% agree
@@zh9119 divide and conquer the stupid ignorant plebs
Nothing has changed but the obvious....
My God do I miss those days.
The 80s were a lot of fun.
This is my 3rd comment is 7 mins of the vid Im sorry.. but I really appreciate these type ' pre cell phone ' vids that enthusiasts captured and preserved from back in the day. It's rare, epic and genuine.
That Falcon sounded the best out of them all.
Hi, That's my 64 falcon. It did run pretty good. It has a 351 Cleveland in it.
@@ruazfastMy bad I thought it was a comet I have a 64:2dr sedan with a 302 roller Birds the word!!
@@ckelley63Hi, I also used to have a 65 comet before this car.
This just popped up. Really enjoyed this . My falcon was a 65 futura. Oh the memories. 74 GTO ran high 9s. Yes, I had turned a few wrenches on her.
@@danielseymour6726 I do like to hear the people, Enjoy the falcons 👍
MISS THOSE DAYS. THEY WERE THE BEST‼️ GOOD FRIENDS✔️GRATE CARS ‼️ GOOD CLEAN FUN☝️
if you call drugs, drinking and a hooker good clean fun, i guess. lol
A 69 Camero was only 18 years old in 1986. Crazy to think about how new they were then.
I owned at 1967 and a 1968 pro street camaro in 86. I was stationed at fort Ord near where this video was shot at the time.
A nice 68 or 69 Camaro would set you back about $4500 with fresh paint, deck stripes, and mild rebuilt engine.
@@Steve_Kelly_Oak I have a 2004 and a 2005 puck up trucks that I drive every day that are not that old in my opinion, but as old as your cars were in 1986. Somehow, I doubt that my trucks will be worth tens of thousands in another 30 to 40 years. In 1990 I got my 1st car, a 1970 El Camino with a 350 4 barrel. Loved that car.
@@CarbonGlassMan You are right on that!
I graduated high school in 1984 and my dad told me back then to enjoy the old 60s and 70s muscle cars while I could because that era would never come back.
I have been doing my best to drive mostly old school classic ever since!
True. I had a 73 Z/28 as my daily at this time. In the summer of 87 I found a 46 GMC that I also dailied. Still have the truck.
not a copo.....lots more@@Steve_Kelly_Oak
Wow ,this really brought back memories I was 19 and this is what we were doing to. No cell phones, you phoned your buddies from the phone screwed to the wall and when all agreed to show up they did and stayed as long as you did. Man I miss those days. Even the Scorpions playing was on point. Thanks for uploading this super cool
I was a senior when this was filmed. It was a couple years later that I started street racing. Had a 69 step side with a 402 in it, home ported heads, decent cam, Holley intake and 750 carb, some deep gears, and the widest slicks I could tuck up under the step sides. It did quite well. That Falcon appeared to have Mickey Thompson SS on the back. You were the man if you had them on the back of your car and they were the soft compound ones! Good times back then when you used your brain, knowledge, and skill to build something instead of your Visa Gold card. Video brought me back in time; just needed some actual racing, it was good though, Thanks.
Hi, Falcon had McCreary circle track tires. 👍
Brings back GREAT memories of hanging with my gear head buddies outside of Atlanta Georgia. We had fun times!
THANK YOU for sharing this old VHS tape.
All the cars are cool but the Falcon with a Cleveland is my favorite. My late best friend ran a built Cleveland in his 67 Mustang fastback. He was unbeatable at the time. It ran high 11's in the quarter.
Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
I could watch this all day long! I grew up in Watsonville and was 13 at this time. My neighbor had a bad ass orange 69 Camaro with a 4 speed and tunnel ram and was always doing burnouts up and down the street. These guys probably came across him at some point in time. My parents met at the drag races in Salinas in the mid 60’s when he was stationed at Fort Ord. This brings back all the “feels” 👍
I grew up in Gonzales and was in the 6th grade when this was filmed!
The gear driven timing system in that Camaro sounded wild. It's interesting to see what was considered fast when I was 6 years old !!
Having fun, not getting out of control, and nobody passing by trying to pick a fight. We need this back.
@@mikead24 I'm 25 and don't identify with 99 percent of my generation. Just wasn't raised to buy into all the bs. Old school parents are a blessing.
Are you serious? All we did was race, pull trucks, go mudding, smoke, drink, F$%k and FIGHT. Your group must have been a bunch of wussies
Brings back memories. I remember trying to squeeze 500 hp out of a small block chevy. It took some serious cash to achieve that. Today my Scat Charger comes that way, not to mention a line lock and programable stall converter all at my finger tips. Computer stores all the parameters of performance on board. Even has a G meter for traction information. A shit ton more i just can't remember it all.
I had a 65 Falcon convertible 289 4spd that i cobbled a NOS fogger plate and a solenoid switch from an airconditioner that i activated with my finfer the button was on the shift handle...i usually guessed when to hit it after looking at the tach..hopefully i wouldnt hit the nitrous in between 1st and 2nd gear..hopefully it come on when im already squarely in 2nd gear..it was 'hit or miss'..i blew the guts out of the engine once or twice,fragged a clutch a couple times destroyed a 9in detroit locker....now all the nitrous can be dialed in on a screen and the computer actuates the nitrous...wow!
Those SCATS come with A/C,Power seats and windows,all the EGR stuff intact...all the stuff we dumped back then in order to gain some power and drop weight...amazing machines the Challengers,Camaros and Mustangs are today
Its not easy trying to get as much horsepower as you can for the next guy to race.👍
@@getoffenit7827I have nitrous on my 64 falcon. It can make a big difference when you're racing big block cars. 👍
New cars with gobs of power from the factory also have no soul
@@chadhumphries3970 true...but once a gear head gets their hands on it and start tweaking and tinkering and putting their heart and soul into improving the machine then it does have a soul.
Galaxy 427s,SS 396 Camaros,454 Chevelles,440 6 pack 'Cudas and Chargers,Boss 429s all came from the factory with disgusting and unholy gobs of souless power from the factory...then the Demons of the Drag Strips Yenko,Shelby,Mickey Thompson,Glidden and whole bunch of other average guys tweaked and tuned them and created machines filled with skill,talent,nitromethane induced lunacy and ferocious holeshots...the modern cars all come from that..no car comes with a soul from the factory
Good ole drag racing no ones using cell phones no social media no go pros just gear head’s getting together to see who has the biggest engine
That's what I'm saying, phones are ruining all the fun. Everybody are zombies these days. Not me though I'm carrying on the torch. Just built a 383 stroker for my drag car
You can feel the 80s culture thru the video. No non sense talk and people talking to one another with respect. Not to mention some Scorpions as the cherry on top. I miss when people truely treated eachother well.
Scorps for the win!
1987 doing the same shit just different bros😂same tunes which I still listen to thank you very much. Still have cars that I run that are from this era. Good times 😂 beat em break em fix em. You know. This vid made my day thanks. So much has changed. But still having fun. 😂 F.P. HIGH SCHOOL Tacoma Wa. Class of 87 baby oh ya. Peace freinds.
I graduated high school in 1986 and we we're doing the exact same thing in KY on Friday and Saturday nights. We would meet up to agree on terms...who would flag, who might get a car length head start or something similar, look over each other's rides and agree on money (if any) then, go to our spot and race. We did it again and again. Of course, always on the lookout for police. Sunday nights we'd go to the drive in to hang out, chase girls and maybe even watch the movie.
No cell phones, no Internet and no politics. Just kids racing, hanging out and having fun. Much better days.
This brings back memories. When I raced in Queens NY. Thanks for sharing
When car guys were actually into cars and were actually modifying them unlike today. 😢
Yep. Today's "car guys" slap stickers and fart cans on their jalopies and call it good!
@@Biden_Cult_Morons Don't forget the Chinese turbo kit, a cold air intake and NOS.
ok boomer
@@steveww07 You know what boomer means? They have been doing this way longer than you and paved the way. Would you diss your ancestors for coming to America? No respect. Boomer checking A/F, pulling a plug and knowing how to read it, Gen X or Y, let me get my laptop. Nothing wrong with that, you won't mess up the manicure.
@@larrytheableguy3441 you sound mad. You think checking a spark plug is anything as complicated as AFR with a laptop? Man yall boomers are full of S***. Yall threw junk together and really thought you were something special.
I miss street racing. Yeah it was dangerous, but no more than what would happen at a track. Just without the on coming traffic. I also enjoy watching it. I know the Philly crew still street races. I wanna see that in person once. I see it on UA-cam a lot. Looks fun as hell
Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track. Street racing is 1000x more dangerous.
@@rolltide9547 "Nobody innocent ever got killed at a track" incorrect
@@robduncan2816 If you go to a track you know you are at a dangerous event. Walking to your mailbox and getting run over by a street racer is what being innocent is. I worked at a dragstrips for 22 years I understand the risk by fans or racers.
@rolltide9547 I know some innocent who got killed at tracks before. When a car clears the wall and innocent by standers are near, someone is bound to get injured or killed. Maybe not as much as street racing, but it happens and it could also happen
@@markharris1473 They took the chance going to a track with takes the innocent part out. Walking your dog down the street and getting killed by a street racer is what being innocent is about.
Love the intro and the old footage that’s awesome thanks. Nice older cars you don’t see everyday. I love how the majority of cars were doing the one wheel burn out 🤣 like manufacturers thought that was gonna fly.
I miss those days, love the music. I had a Plymouth Duster in 86'
Wow I was on 30 years old then holy crap I feel old . I miss the 80s so bad I was living in Utah and with state of very Hot women I miss those 80s women too best times of my life
Love those cars. Nova, camaro, and the Falcon.
Love the Boston playing at the beginning. That album Third Stage had been released earlier in '86 shortly before this video was shot. I spent many days and nights jamming that cassette cruising my '72 Olds Cutlass 👍🏻
Hearing Boston at 1:23 was rad. lol
I wish I had never sold my '70 Buick GS Skylark with the 350. Only 9948 made and I personally never saw another one in person. Heck only seen pictures of a few. P.S. 1st concert in '78 at Anaheim stadium was VH(1st album) Sammy Hagar(1st solo album), Black Sabbath w/Ozzy and Boston(also 1st album).
stage1 ragtop auto- buicks version of the turbo 400 (super turbine??) was the stock racer to have- my buddy had one in akron and it was damn quick.@@RedBud315
Hell yeah, the glory days......
I was 5 months old. If I had known how expensive classics would become I would’ve bought one back when I was a baby. I think it would’ve been easier then than it is now 😂
Awesome video man dose this sure bring’s back memory’s….ive give almost anything to go back to those day’s
The best of times for sure. I had a 67 dodge dart GT. Was a quick car. And so much fun for very little money.
I'm 71 and was into all that in the 60's and 70's.
Friday and Saturday were street racing nights, Sunday was all at the local drag strip.
Fun times for sure.
This film would have been better if the cars had actually raced each other.
We usually raced on the weekends, Friday and Saturday night.👍
now they have eighth-mile strips. thats just a glorified stoplight race.....
High School early 80's we were doing the same thing in Wyoming. All my money went into my car.👍
Back in my day we would get aquarium air lines connect to the windshield washer reservoir fill with clorox and water position the hoses over the rear wheels wet the tires and did a real burn out..we also had line locks..class of 73..
Back then cars had 750 Holley Double Pumpers. Now they have ABS and SRS (air bags). We need to go back!
OMG now days kids think a double pumper is 2 penis pumps.
That's funny. You mentioned 750 double pumper. That's what I had on the Ford 👍
Oh, yeah! Traction bars, Cragars, and Centerlines! Fun times!
Was disappointed seeing all those small blocks until he opened the hood on the orange 69 Camaro nothing better than a big block and a 4 speed 🇺🇸💪🏻
In 1986 we raced on Bloomfield Rd in Gilroy about 30 minutes north of where this video was filmed. Was hoping to see some cars I recognized from back in the day.
What about the IBM plan down the road?
Btw... I appreciate the Ford, but the Square body and other Chevys are why I hit the thumbs up ;)
This video was on my first birthday Dec 28, 1985 was the year i was born. Them Chevies needs positraction DAMN! That Ford is doing it 👍🏿 and I'm a bowtie boy!
Thanks!👍
The good days!!! I start 92 still going on have Camaro 68 Street week car 1100hp Only 12 psi Boost ProchargerF2 Big staff3 Efi E85 Fjuel.Nice Happy Engine..Have even more Cars Amerikan Muscle cars!❤️🖐
Back in the 70s, we had drag nights and we would get together in a grocery store parking lot and when the stores closed and we have like a car show and then everybody would go out onto the street, which was a main drag out there and we'd have Drag Racing and them on the. Weekends, when that's over during the day. We go over to the local drag strip and have run what you brung And it was all legal as far as we cared until the cops came along to break it up.
I was 10 then, oh how times have changed. We do in fact run the tracks backwards every few weekends now lol.
I was born and raised in Salinas, I was in my early 20's and know Old Stage Road well, I think I remember a few of these cars dragging South Main Street back in the days before Mexican criminal street gangs force it to end by fighting, shooting and stabbing. It was just good clean fun for many years before they took over.
The good old Days 👍
These cars were fast when I was a kid. Now they'd get their doors blown off by most new cars.
Definitely. My stage 1 audi s3 will gap them all day. Still, bad ass cars back then. Sound awesome as well.
The good old days, when you could race anywhere, anytime.
It seems like it was a lot harder for annoying people to call the cops when they didn’t have cell phones! That’s hard for me to imagine- I never knew a world without cell phones and computers.
@@stevenvanheel3932it was great without cell phones, but even in the 80s, I wished I was in the late 60s during the heart of muscle car era.
These first gen Camaro’s were a dime a dozen back then. I bought my ‘70 Z-28 for $1000 in 1992. from the mid 70’s into the early 90’s People were practically giving away old gas guzzling muscle cars for more fuel efficient economy shit box junk.
That truck has the coolest tires ever made groundhog Mudders I wish I had that truck short bed 3/4 tons from the factory I'm guessing they didn't mess around with them in the 80s
Where is that Falcon today? It would be the hit of every car show now.
Yeah that's my car. The falcon hasn't run for over 20 years. I usually say that the kids now missed out racing and cruising downtown. 👍
There was a guy who used to drive a brown Falcon to Gonzales high school back in the day ('73). It looked just like this one. I believe it had a 427 then. Could it be the same one? @@ruazfast
I ended up with my falcon in 1976. Where the rear fenders cut like mine? Looks like my car was originally white and someone painted it blue and when I got it was black primer.🧐@@jamesbronson8713
It’s a trip knowing this video was filmed a few days after I was born!
That is kind of funny 👍
@@ruazfast A lot of young people leave comments on UA-cam saying "I wasn't even born yet" with regards to certain videos, so it's kinda fun to have found one that was filmed 30+ years ago but literal days after I was born.
@@30AndHatingItsometimes I mark things in life with what car I owned. 👍
@@30AndHatingItit is funny sometimes what was going on in certain times of your life.
Sorry I missed your birthday 👍
I'm looking for information on a car that my dad and I built, and raced in Modesto in the 80's. there's a couple of pictures of it, in my pictures. it's in grey primer. it was a 69 dodge dart gts. it was a 340/727. we raced it in Modesto in the early 80's. we raced against a guy named "Tim", he at the time had a Pontiac. and a guy named "Jed" who had a 426 wedge. we sold our dart to a Mexican named "ralph" (I think) in about 1985. some people who were around the street racing crowd in the early 80's, used to call our dart "the sling shot". we had a reputation of never getting beat off the line. any info would be appreciated. I'd really like to know what happened to the car
I’m in Modesto rn 21 with my 65 SS Malibu
I street raced in the 80s in Sacramento. Cruised Modesto back then too.
@@dangarrison3503 they were the good ol dayys. What car did you have?
@@ihateliberals518 I had a 63 Plymouth Belvedere 496 big block 727,3000 stall 8 3/4 w 4.30s. I had the same set up in a 71 Duster
@@dangarrison3503 nice! We had a 67 belvedere 1. (2 door post) we took out the 273. And put in a go 440. Purpleshaft hydraulic. 727 3000 stall. 8 3/4 with 3.91.( we couldn't find the lower gears we needed) we really took our time putting the engine in. We got all the right linkage little bolts etc. When we were done you couldn't tell that it wasn't originally a 440 car. Of course the vin tag would still give it away. That car, for no more then we had in it ran pretty good.
This is amazing! Subscribed immediately following watching it.
Cool video. I was waiting to see someone line them up, but cool still.
We just went out there to just to do burnouts and screw around, and car show. 👍
37 years ago today. Strange this is in my feed.
I was turning 7 years old! This type stuff is epic!
I think where are those cars today? Especially that tubbed Camaro with the Pete Jackson gear drive lol
The owner sold it, then bought it back and then sold it later. Was sold in a different town. Last I heard it had a big block in it.
@@ruazfast that's amazing ! Thanks for the great footage!
a lot of them have emigrated to japan
i seen this pop up and smiled cause i had 25 mins of fun to watch. a view in life from a time people say were glory days.
im 5 mins in and i remember why i hated the 80's poor cars.
i love the cars but ugh smog motor days sucked. its crazy that those cars were fast then. and a minivan can smoke them today.
i have a single cylinder 2 stroke moped for a toy that would smoke these cars and most cars today too.
my daily driver is an suv. with a motor i built and i was like man im gonna see all these cars and wish i could race them. and im like i better bring the scooter so nobody gets beat too bad.
i would actually have a close race with these cars in my winter beater. a cheap little s10 truck.
i cant believe how slow these cars were. i grew up in some big car areas so we had literal racecars that were much faster when i was a kid.
ik not here to knock these guys at all. i realize just how spoiled ive been. my daily driver is my quickest car and it gets 35 mpg naturally aspirated v8 swapped into an suv. how is that faster than what i grew up dreaming of and its faster than a brand new 100k supercar corvette. took me 2 years to race one and i had to ask him did you forget to hit the gas? like literally asking him if he wanted another shot maybe he launched in reverse. idk i had a little v6 grand am when i was a kid and threw a couple cheap parts on it that were laying around the house. just stock parts from other cars. by the end of it i got it to clear 13 sec 1/4 miles in the early 2000's just a cheap daily the big racer guys in my town i grew up watching were scared. these people raced for thousands of dollars. they were too scared of even a grudge match with me. what is wrong there. i popped the hood showed them it was v6 count the spark plugs read the intake. they told me i had a v8 and a turbo in a fwd car. a few ppl told me it was rear wheel drive. i showed them my 2 foot long exhaust pipe wheres the turbo. wheres those extra spark plugs i forgot to put in i guess. idk it all just seems weird to me. one night at a party i heard a man with a mustang bragging and i was like i can beat you with a grand am. he called my bluff. i told him exactly why and how and gave him the numbers and all the other mustangs i beat. the whole party piled in the cars and headed to the strip. it looked like this video both sides of the road though just cars and people. i literally blew my transmission racing him. i left him siting at the start line and i let him get the jump. i was a car length ahead of him when the race started. by the time i hit second gear and he seen the tires chirp and my tail lights starting to fade. that man tasted his each and every word. by the end of the track my final drive had went for its final drive and that was ok. i won limped my car back home and it sat in a pool of victory. it looked like a blood bath. when i used to race it was always just for fun a few wanted to race for pinks and im like man i cant take ur car. i just wanna see how fast ur car is ill pay for your gas. sounds to me now. i should have been the one racing for money and taken those pinks. the old guys who raced for thousands of dollars were scared to lose. and their car would never be feared again if they lost. they picked their races because they were scared to look dumb. but they looked dumber backing down to a kid in a 200 dollar car. the first rx7 i ever seen i raced there he told everyone how much money he spent building this rotary turbo motor. everyone was running naturally aspirated those days and were scared to run it. i was like hey man ill race you and the parking lot got real quiet. 10 thousand dollar motor turbo whats a rotary. lemme see that thing run lets go. people called their friends to come see this thing. i beat that man badly. like hey man im sorry but i dont let out. i wasnt gonna sand bag cause you were losing. what if i did and you caught up. i told him you should have kept that 10 grand and bought my car. he sold that rx7 and came back with a v8. the same things i ate for breakfast. he never beat me and pry spent 40 thousand dollars on a few diff cars before he stopped showing up. people stopped racing me. and i stopped going. literally nobody would race if i came by it was boring. so i found better things to do.
but every time someone pulls up on me and tries to race. i smile and ask them do you really wanna do that. they say yes i wanna see that thing run. you asked for it. i had a man almost pop his eyes out of his head over my daily. he asked me to pull over and see this thing up close pop the hood. i showed him my money maker. my reliable daily driver i built to get to work and back. he asked me to build one. i told him what he needed why and how and where to get it. he never paid me to build it he never got it built. but i fixed his car so he could atleast drive it. didnt take a penny from him even though he offered and told him save his money and call me when hes ready. that man wont even wave at me when i wave at him.
If you have race cars around you then you probably have a race track,Pretty close. Are race tracks are about 3 hours away 👍
Where were all the laptops.
And not 1 brick phone in anybody's back pocket, checking every 30 seconds.
I like how a lot of these cars are bound to have the same transmission that we use today, the TH400
These days, there would be protests if you did this in California. You might get fined and arrested for carbon emissions.
Back in the 70s, When I got my falcon I had to get it registered and smogged. It had two carburetors on it when it got smogged. It would really kill them these days, How much emissions it put out.🧐
@@ruazfast Except now I think anything made before 1975 is emissions exempt in cali so probably not
Ahh, back when aftermarket parts were affordable.
its refreshing to see no little wheelers, no bandwagon bubble hoods, no ruined holesawed fenders for exhaust... bring back the good ol days!!!
Derrrrrpdrrpdrrpderp
I remember a guy had a Duster 340 and raced a Oldsmobile 455. The 455 ate him up. Late 70 80s.
Really dig the '64 Falcon Sprint (?)
Yes, it's a 64 falcon Sprint 👍
Mid 80s we took our vacations and went to Illinois for the car craft street machine nationals.
Where pro street really became popular.
Started going back to it at duquoin the last 5 years still a good time but not as wild as back in the day
I bet that beautiful valley is full of houses now. Love the video, thanks for sharing!!
I haven't been to that part of the road in a while. But I doubt there could be that many more houses out there. I know there was a small subdivision out that way. But we have a lot of farmland around us. It would take a lot of houses. 🧐
@@ruazfast that's great to hear! That is a really beautiful place. Thanks again for sharing. Love these videos that take me back to those days.
the Nova went down the road just as fast as that big bad Falcon
Yes the nova is pretty fast.👍
@@ruazfast yea it has a blower on it .
I miss these days!
I'm only 34 but these Vids are great.
@@Taylor.Dude. bro did you see date on post??? Im 40 now captain
So much better back then than now...
That ONE FORD gotem all beat
Was in Tx doing pushups for the USAF when this was filmed, soon to be just up the hill in Victorville where we had two 1/4 mi. strips to race on. The sweetest was tubbed LS6 70 El Camino dual nitrous 9 sec.
For once the YT algorithm is useful
Most beautiful engines ever.
the 70s were still in effect in 1987 in the rural areas 😅
Damn. I was 2 1/2 years old when this video was filmed.
I can see why the mid east and south didn't invite westerners to showdowns in the 80's. At the beginning the only car that would do proper burnouts was the SS nova or Camaro. My pops had a Satellite Plymouth with Mickie's in like 86 with a column shift that would burn the tires off the rim. That was just my dads weekend cruiser. His buddies had Prostreet Blocks and high rise intakes and 1st stage blowers and I remember they would blow the tires off them cars at Piedmont man. All the cars look so aggressive then they perform and I'm like "aint no way" with all those parts that they are barley spinning a tire and I know those are huge rear tires and the power ratio today is much bigger but some of those cars even at that time were monsters right off the showroom floor. But I guess that's what happens when no fords are around
i wish i was around in this era, i dont like how things are today
thought at first this was Bailey Road near Morgan Hill, watched many grudge matches there & ran from the cops too! Good times
It was Salinas 👍
Thought these were some outtakes from the movie the WRAITH
It’s totally the same vibe, I agree.
Man... Funny you mention that. I keep getting the idea of pulling a bunch of you UA-cam stars together and making a spoof of that. Already got Skank and Gutterboy picked out.