@@HuntersMoon Thank you for making such great quality historical videos! It's totally awesome that you take your time and it shows with high quality content. Keep it up dude, your channel is probably one of my favorites in the last couple of years and I assume that I'm not alone. Every time I find one of your videos dropping, I'll actually drop everything to watch one of your videos. Don't change anything. I like it all so far.
There is a movie called 'American Speed' in development which is about the Whittington Brothers. One thing that got missed was the DEA case against WorldJet got dropped. It turns out that one of their other clients was the CIA.
That "one guy", for anyone curious, is John Ficarra, who told a slightly less all-inclusive, but still very interesting version of this story on the VINwiki channel. He's one of my favourite storytellers, and I recommend anyone who doesn't know about him to watch the video where he tells the story of LeMans 1965.
Patreon when? You can easily make a career out of this dude. Excellent editing, writing, production. You have a signature style & sound. It's all there. Just have to give a full year of working at only this.
My dad funded his racing career with the proceeds of selling illicit substances back in the 70s and 80s. He actually held a record at pike’s peak. Think it was engine class. He did it in a ford capri with a cosworth motor. He also took Porsches and vettes up there too
Statute of limitations dude.... It don't matter... I'm retired now too I used to sell 50-80# of hydroponic bud a week in SoCal to medical dispensaries for a year and a half working with cartel members on this side...picked up a few tons total outdoor originating in the San Bernardino forests in the time as well. 12 kilos of coke too... Wish I would have saved the money. I laundered most of it through my own business paying taxes legitimately on actual amounts made using cash receipts thru my drafting business I also made custom gun parts too and sold some guns illegally... Statute of limitations is great. I did 3 yrs in prison for marijuana sales but conviction is since overturned .. Just saying. It's all public record and it's non issue as it's over 20yrs ago for most part. Nothing within the last 10. Cheers 🎉😂
I really thought this channel was dead. Every now and then I'd go back and watch the older stuff. Thanks for not giving up. The quality of this channel is top notch.
ok, this made a BUNCH of things make sense from my high school days... the 'guy' i used to 'get' from called it 'whittington weed' and i am NOT kidding... 84-89 i think.. but.. if i knew this, then it would make sense that i DON'T remember!!
I absolutely love how you coved obscure stories in the automotive world, and yet you do it so well with such a unique video style, thank you hunters moon for providing the automotive community with interesting stories that many may have never known if it weren’t for you ❤️
I've been waiting for a new Hunters Moon video for ages and it just happens to be about one of my favorite motorsports stories ever! Keep up the great work love this channel!
Classic Reagan’s shining city on a hill…the serial wife murderer gets out, lives it up on his yacht, and the guy who imported weed gets life (thank f’ck that got rectified…eventually).
Great to see a new Hunter's Moon. All your documentaries are top quality and highly entertaining. I love them and watch them as soon as i get the notification. Thank you.
Thanks for this video. It's good to have you creating new content. Always great videos you are producing. The '70s and '80s were wild years. I was born in '65 in Los Angeles and lived about a mile from the beach next to LAX Airport with Marina Del Rey on the other side . Lots of money lots of drugs lots of money being made from drugs. From '84 after graduation from high school in '83 a couple of my friends and I made a bunch of money, nothing even close to these guys in this video but we had a couple of hot rods each motorcycles, we snow skiid and played golf and surfed in Hawai'i and Mexico and Fiji, we spent almost every night of the week at nightclubs and after hours speakeasy clubs, we had lots of girls and ate at top restaurants in LA, we turned heads everywhere we went because we would drive up in our '67 Chevelles and '67 Camaros , we had one hard top and one convertible each, my roommate had the Camaros and I had the Chevelles, motors were street racing built running on aviation fuel and thundering down the streets we had crazy sound systems in them before people were doing that to cars, especially not White Boys but we wanted to hear music above the noise of the race motors. The valets at the restaurants and clubs loved our cars and we always had hot girls with us. Then we started working in the adult entertainment industry my roommate as a graphic artist for video and magazine company and I worked in a notorious strip club one of the largest in LA. One of my sisters worked for Playboy in the executive offices and I became a VIP Bunny Head tie pin holder. Those were the days. I turned 30 in '95 and moved out of LA without telling anyone because I could feel the heat and noticed strange things happening that meant I had too many things going on and becoming too well known. Gave it all up and moved away and became anonymous. I didn't tell people about my life before my moving where I ended up. A couple people had seen photos in my house and wondered how I was able to get concert tickets with backstage passes for almostt any concert and how come I had a lot of Playboy items, various things like golf tees and ball markers and pocket knives and t shirts and picture of Hugh Hefner and I arms around each other with drinks in our hands and pictures of me and playmates and one of my exes who was in Playboy and acted on one of the more famous daytime soap operas on tv.. My life slowed down a bit but it has been wild still, not like it was in the '80s and '90s.
These dudes were sus. Left that chick in Fl never seen again. She shouldn't have ever jumped in his car and left her husband lol. Im randomly commenting my thoughts here as I'm too busy and gotta get going $$$$
id be dead without it. ironically. sodoium azide induced lung failure. collapsed lungs. copd. only thing that clears goo out of lungs stopping me from drowning. finally off doctors meds, and inhalers. able to walk around little bit more and putting on weight. the cold nearly killed me last year. it wasnt until august infection cleared up. i was written off for life. a bit more work and fine tune diet i think i may work again.
About 15 years ago there was a race team in my area that seemed to have large amounts of money. They came out of nowhere. Well, after a few years they were busted for selling pot and the team immediately disappeared.
I wish you uploaded more, but it would make your videos less special. It’s like a holiday when you upload. Happens very rarely, but is always appreciated. Nice vid
I am kind of annoyed this channel doesnt have more subs given the absolute top tier level of the content. I hope hunter earns a good living off his efforts on this channel. It is superb.
I met Don Whittington while I was working at Ft. Lauderdale executive airport about a dozen or so years ago. He was a feisty, take no shit kind of fella. I couldn’t help but admire the qualities of someone like that. Not condoning what he did but he had the guts to go out there in life and do what he wanted regardless of the consequences.
What a heck of a coincidence!! Today I was outside absorbing some UV when I heard some round motors flying overhead. It was a DC3 pretty high up. In the early 80s we moved to Snellville and several nights a week I would hear a pair of radials flying south. It amazed me that somebody was still using a DC3 for regular cargo hauling. I guess my house was directly south of Road Atlanta !!
When the whittington brothers were liquidating my dad almost bought one of their enclosed racecar trailers, they were pretty big in the southeast USA drag racing scene
We had a similar case in Portugal, with a team using racing both for money laundry and to smuggle drugs hidden on racing cars and spare parts shipped from above.
I made Ser.#261 in '97 for John Paul Jr at Indy. He was very quiet, soft spoken, and the nicest guy. We briefly discussed my background working on the deep-V ocean racing boats in Ft. Lauderdale/Pompano Beach in the '80s, but he indicated that his involvement wasn't something he wanted...tons of remorse was obvious. I told him that everyone understood and not to worry about it...he smiled and seemed relieved. Growing up doing some amateur racing and teaching in SoFla myself, we had a lot in common. I really liked working with him on his steering wheels. He was very cooperative in sorting the design over time...he enjoyed remolding the grips until they were perfect. Godspeed, JP Jr., Sir.
Yes! Excellent story that I’ve read about many times. Living in Florida and working for many different race teams. I’ve heard a lot of old timers. Talk about this stuff. Thank you for sharing the content. Great editing job.
Hi, i ve seen the Newsweek Paul 935 JLP Racing a few years ago at a german vintage car dealer. After a little research i found out that it was one of the smuggler car.
Crime In Sports podcast did a story on randy lenier a couple of years ago IIRC. it's two comedians that do a true crime podcast centered around sports stars who "screw it up" in the end, a LOT of fun to listen to! and the research is deep so you really get a good story.
Honey wake up!! Hunter’s moon is back without banger. Never leave us for this long again 😭 the light was starting to leave our lives. I’d gladly pay for a Patreon, or a members account on this channel if you had the time / were able and willing to post some shorter, easier to make content or whatever you like really. Even just talking about what directly interests you in the auto world would be cool! Thanks for another great video in a sea of Ai slop nonsense that’s quickly consuming the car / motogp side of UA-cam.
Johnny was such a good guy. As much as people didn't want to deal with the Pirate they loved Johnny who could drive anything fast. I was wondering if you would cover a super interesting point on the Whittington's but you didn't so obviously didn't have that part. Pablo in my old IROC, that's an interesting story :)
Such an underrated channel, every time I listen, I want to go finance a bad decision
Fucking right
I have this same problem making the videos!
@@HuntersMoon Thank you for making such great quality historical videos! It's totally awesome that you take your time and it shows with high quality content. Keep it up dude, your channel is probably one of my favorites in the last couple of years and I assume that I'm not alone. Every time I find one of your videos dropping, I'll actually drop everything to watch one of your videos. Don't change anything. I like it all so far.
If we all chip in we can get 3% of a racing team and 100% bad decisions along the way 😂
This video and the story of monster Tajima gave me hope to one day run the pikes peak after my 40's (30 ATM)
Man, their story is just really wild it needs to be a movie. As one guy once said it's like "Boogie Nights meets Days of Thunder."
I agree and if i'm honest,it's like something straight out of a movie only it actually happened and it's not a fiction.
There is a movie called 'American Speed' in development which is about the Whittington Brothers. One thing that got missed was the DEA case against WorldJet got dropped. It turns out that one of their other clients was the CIA.
That "one guy", for anyone curious, is John Ficarra, who told a slightly less all-inclusive, but still very interesting version of this story on the VINwiki channel. He's one of my favourite storytellers, and I recommend anyone who doesn't know about him to watch the video where he tells the story of LeMans 1965.
It's already a movie called Fat N Furious about this
You know today is a good day when hunters moon uploads
i'll look ... Hunters Moon.
Patreon when? You can easily make a career out of this dude. Excellent editing, writing, production. You have a signature style & sound. It's all there. Just have to give a full year of working at only this.
I cannot agree more. 👍💯
Yeah, more Hunter's Moon. Let's go!
LMAO, its rehashed snowflake crap and the voice is a train wreck, Muppet 🤣
Patreon pays off quickly. Do it.
My dad funded his racing career with the proceeds of selling illicit substances back in the 70s and 80s. He actually held a record at pike’s peak. Think it was engine class. He did it in a ford capri with a cosworth motor. He also took Porsches and vettes up there too
Yeah, i really would not put out information like this on the internet.
Shhh, the feds MIGHT be listening lol
Statute of limitations dude.... It don't matter... I'm retired now too I used to sell 50-80# of hydroponic bud a week in SoCal to medical dispensaries for a year and a half working with cartel members on this side...picked up a few tons total outdoor originating in the San Bernardino forests in the time as well. 12 kilos of coke too... Wish I would have saved the money. I laundered most of it through my own business paying taxes legitimately on actual amounts made using cash receipts thru my drafting business I also made custom gun parts too and sold some guns illegally... Statute of limitations is great. I did 3 yrs in prison for marijuana sales but conviction is since overturned ..
Just saying. It's all public record and it's non issue as it's over 20yrs ago for most part. Nothing within the last 10.
Cheers 🎉😂
@@SHAGG13ayyy
hillclimb stories are always wild!
I really thought this channel was dead. Every now and then I'd go back and watch the older stuff. Thanks for not giving up. The quality of this channel is top notch.
ok, this made a BUNCH of things make sense from my high school days... the 'guy' i used to 'get' from called it 'whittington weed' and i am NOT kidding... 84-89 i think.. but.. if i knew this, then it would make sense that i DON'T remember!!
You did it! Thanks for listening to our suggestion. Super stoked to watch this
This inspired me to go sell NOS at LA backyard shows to fund my desire to buy a spec miata.
...For how much for just 1LB of it from you?
selling galaxy gas for a cup miata is insane work bru... need a partner??
@@laurant420could be the energy drink too, you never know
Just went on a binge watch of these videos last night and now a new one is out in the morning.
I absolutely love how you coved obscure stories in the automotive world, and yet you do it so well with such a unique video style, thank you hunters moon for providing the automotive community with interesting stories that many may have never known if it weren’t for you ❤️
I've been waiting for a new Hunters Moon video for ages and it just happens to be about one of my favorite motorsports stories ever! Keep up the great work love this channel!
Been awhile, welcome back! ❤
Classic Reagan’s shining city on a hill…the serial wife murderer gets out, lives it up on his yacht, and the guy who imported weed gets life (thank f’ck that got rectified…eventually).
Great to see a new Hunter's Moon. All your documentaries are top quality and highly entertaining. I love them and watch them as soon as i get the notification. Thank you.
Thanks for this video. It's good to have you creating new content. Always great videos you are producing.
The '70s and '80s were wild years. I was born in '65 in Los Angeles and lived about a mile from the beach next to LAX Airport with Marina Del Rey on the other side .
Lots of money lots of drugs lots of money being made from drugs. From '84 after graduation from high school in '83 a couple of my friends and I made a bunch of money, nothing even close to these guys in this video but we had a couple of hot rods each motorcycles, we snow skiid and played golf and surfed in Hawai'i and Mexico and Fiji, we spent almost every night of the week at nightclubs and after hours speakeasy clubs, we had lots of girls and ate at top restaurants in LA, we turned heads everywhere we went because we would drive up in our '67 Chevelles and '67 Camaros , we had one hard top and one convertible each, my roommate had the Camaros and I had the Chevelles, motors were street racing built running on aviation fuel and thundering down the streets we had crazy sound systems in them before people were doing that to cars, especially not White Boys but we wanted to hear music above the noise of the race motors. The valets at the restaurants and clubs loved our cars and we always had hot girls with us. Then we started working in the adult entertainment industry my roommate as a graphic artist for video and magazine company and I worked in a notorious strip club one of the largest in LA. One of my sisters worked for Playboy in the executive offices and I became a VIP Bunny Head tie pin holder. Those were the days. I turned 30 in '95 and moved out of LA without telling anyone because I could feel the heat and noticed strange things happening that meant I had too many things going on and becoming too well known.
Gave it all up and moved away and became anonymous. I didn't tell people about my life before my moving where I ended up. A couple people had seen photos in my house and wondered how I was able to get concert tickets with backstage passes for almostt any concert and how come I had a lot of Playboy items, various things like golf tees and ball markers and pocket knives and t shirts and picture of Hugh Hefner and I arms around each other with drinks in our hands and pictures of me and playmates and one of my exes who was in Playboy and acted on one of the more famous daytime soap operas on tv..
My life slowed down a bit but it has been wild still, not like it was in the '80s and '90s.
You forgot to mention Whittingtons K3 tricks like HOLE, and weirdly fast refuelling in LeMans. John Ficarra told W brothers story on VIN wiki.
Saw that one and it's a very nice telling of W brothers story.
Also the hidden nitrous bottles in the A pillar
John Ficarra is one of my favourite storytellers, but I'm still watching this one, since I like Hunter's content.
imagine all the lives lost over a drug that never killed anybody.
I know so many people who "don't do drugs" yet they consume a MUCH more dangerous drug than cannabis called alcohol lol
These dudes were sus. Left that chick in Fl never seen again. She shouldn't have ever jumped in his car and left her husband lol. Im randomly commenting my thoughts here as I'm too busy and gotta get going $$$$
id be dead without it. ironically. sodoium azide induced lung failure. collapsed lungs. copd. only thing that clears goo out of lungs stopping me from drowning. finally off doctors meds, and inhalers. able to walk around little bit more and putting on weight. the cold nearly killed me last year. it wasnt until august infection cleared up. i was written off for life. a bit more work and fine tune diet i think i may work again.
About 15 years ago there was a race team in my area that seemed to have large amounts of money. They came out of nowhere. Well, after a few years they were busted for selling pot and the team immediately disappeared.
Honestly some of the best car vids on the internet. Kudos to another great video 🍻🥂
I was a drug runner in Australia in late 90s,, 9000km was a regular round trip run
Again another banger with the best voice on UA-cam!
I wish you uploaded more, but it would make your videos less special. It’s like a holiday when you upload. Happens very rarely, but is always appreciated. Nice vid
I am kind of annoyed this channel doesnt have more subs given the absolute top tier level of the content. I hope hunter earns a good living off his efforts on this channel. It is superb.
Video I've been waiting for your view on 1980s Drug Smuggler turned Racers
there are a few videos about smuggling within motorsports, i think its josh revell does some
I met Don Whittington while I was working at Ft. Lauderdale executive airport about a dozen or so years ago. He was a feisty, take no shit kind of fella. I couldn’t help but admire the qualities of someone like that. Not condoning what he did but he had the guts to go out there in life and do what he wanted regardless of the consequences.
And yet another top-of-the-line video from this guy 💪
Yes!, love your videos, such amazing editing and quality!😊😊
I have switched the notification bell on because every video you do is quality
dude this is a whole movie! very great production 🙌🙌
subbed, didn’t think i’d actually sit here and watch a full 22 min story 😂😂
What a heck of a coincidence!! Today I was outside absorbing some UV when I heard some round motors flying overhead. It was a DC3 pretty high up. In the early 80s we moved to Snellville and several nights a week I would hear a pair of radials flying south. It amazed me that somebody was still using a DC3 for regular cargo hauling. I guess my house was directly south of Road Atlanta !!
When the whittington brothers were liquidating my dad almost bought one of their enclosed racecar trailers, they were pretty big in the southeast USA drag racing scene
HES BACK!!
I'm so upset I'm 3 days late to seeing this 😢 I love these videos and I hope you keep making them ❤
Great video bro and thanks for all the clips of those beautiful Porsches
Dude this is awesome. Well done
Missed your content.
Welcome back
Keep up the good work
The king is back!
He is backkkkk!
👍👍 Hands down my favourite auto channel . Keep it up
I just subscribed because of the comments looking forward to watching more of your content
Really Great video as always.
Thanks
We had a similar case in Portugal, with a team using racing both for money laundry and to smuggle drugs hidden on racing cars and spare parts shipped from above.
I feel like all Motorsports/Automotive channels struggle to break out of the their niche, this channel has the potential
I really love this channel 😁 this is interesting story, you did great work, like usual
Awesome man! Thank you again for blessing us Hunters Moon.
I to have stories with my E30, but I won’t self snitch lol.
Love stories like these
Randy was awesome on the smoking tire podcast,,and I love this period In racing and the beautiful 935
As usual another great video!
I’ve been looking forward to something like this ever since hearing about the Whittington Brothers on VinWiki.
I made Ser.#261 in '97 for John Paul Jr at Indy. He was very quiet, soft spoken, and the nicest guy. We briefly discussed my background working on the deep-V ocean racing boats in Ft. Lauderdale/Pompano Beach in the '80s, but he indicated that his involvement wasn't something he wanted...tons of remorse was obvious. I told him that everyone understood and not to worry about it...he smiled and seemed relieved.
Growing up doing some amateur racing and teaching in SoFla myself, we had a lot in common.
I really liked working with him on his steering wheels. He was very cooperative in sorting the design over time...he enjoyed remolding the grips until they were perfect.
Godspeed, JP Jr., Sir.
Okay, got it! As you wished in your last words in the video, i quit my job, started smuggling and be a racecar driver!
but shortly after i woke up -.-
great video.
My weekend is perfect ❤
Bro remembered his password. Great to see you again with another captivating video of vehicular shenanigans.
Thanks for sharing man!!! Never knew about this!!
Oh yessss the era of IMSA international marijuana smuggling association 🤟🏾🏎️
Also the 935 is just a beautiful race car
Aaah, it's another Hunter's Moon video! Amazing!
Yes! Excellent story that I’ve read about many times. Living in Florida and working for many different race teams. I’ve heard a lot of old timers. Talk about this stuff.
Thank you for sharing the content. Great editing job.
Absolutely unbelievable story, how have I never heard of this before
This was awesome, subscribed
Hi, i ve seen the Newsweek Paul 935 JLP Racing a few years ago at a german vintage car dealer. After a little research i found out that it was one of the smuggler car.
Crime In Sports podcast did a story on randy lenier a couple of years ago IIRC. it's two comedians that do a true crime podcast centered around sports stars who "screw it up" in the end, a LOT of fun to listen to! and the research is deep so you really get a good story.
Fascinating stuff.
One more great video!
I missed this channel
I LOVE YOUR VIDS I WAS WAITING SO LONG
Whith synth songs in this really great video? The music and the whole video is world class + !
The music is perfect
Totally awsome, thanks
Nice video, as usual!
Wow, this was great
Honey wake up!! Hunter’s moon is back without banger. Never leave us for this long again 😭 the light was starting to leave our lives. I’d gladly pay for a Patreon, or a members account on this channel if you had the time / were able and willing to post some shorter, easier to make content or whatever you like really. Even just talking about what directly interests you in the auto world would be cool! Thanks for another great video in a sea of Ai slop nonsense that’s quickly consuming the car / motogp side of UA-cam.
babe wake up, hunters moon uploaded :)
This has to be the craziest story in the history of sports. I've been waiting for decades for someone to turn this into a movie.
I live In Muncie and it’s pretty cool to hear this guy graduated from ball state
This would make for an awesome Smokey and the Bandit style reboot.
This is the coolest story i ever heard on UA-cam legitimate race car drivers turned Drug smugglers in their heyday
great to see at least one of these people made it out well
IMSA. International Marijuana Smuggling Assn.
Commenting just because I love the channel :)
I really miss the 80s
Johnny was such a good guy. As much as people didn't want to deal with the Pirate they loved Johnny who could drive anything fast. I was wondering if you would cover a super interesting point on the Whittington's but you didn't so obviously didn't have that part. Pablo in my old IROC, that's an interesting story :)
Excellent video
Crazy how all of these dudes raced together
Love your channel! Not sure how it would do for a video, but i think it would be cool if you covered the story of James Dean and little bastard.
Great vid and perfect pacing. Subbed 🤙🏽
Vic Lee is another good one from the British Touring Car Championship
A story told the way you could only tell it. Nice deep dive into the truth
They 100 percent used Road Atlanta as a runway. I have family members who own a farm right next to the track
These stories would make great "based-on-true-story" racing movies.
*Honey! Hunter moon has uploaded*
Hunter's Moon IS BACK BABY
Love the content you deserve it
Those guys were living the life
no glaze shit yu gotta keep uploading 😂 everytime yu in my recommeded my mood instantly improves
maestro randy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they should make movies ab out this guys
Omg the Whittington bought there car from my favorite team to ever run mazda's i loved the mazda team joest days