Motocross: New Orleans AMA National Motocross Highlights 1973 - 1976 Waggaman, Louisiana
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Super 8 film footage highlights of New Orleans Motocross Nationals held in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Check out my UA-cam videos of the individual races (except 1973 due to camera problems) on my UA-cam channel.
This is honestly one of the coolest videos I've ever seen in my life. I just watched it with my 6-year-old son
I was there! Best of times for sure! Thanks, for the video!
Johnny CUTRERA You’re welcome!
Beautiful!! Thank you so much!!!
Marty was truly one of the greats of our sport.
Every kid wanted to be him back in the 70's, including me !
@@timsr.6706 I discovered the sport in 76 after Hannah came from "under a rock" and kicked butt until he broke his leg water skiing. I was a new kid in a rural area also, 12 years old, and that true story of individualism, how greatness can come from anywhere, set the tone for the rest of my life.
But I have found out it is not a very common spirit anymore,---the "self". Now I did get fired a couple times for mouthing off like Hannah when I knew I was right. I didn't realize that when you are employed, you have to be the best in the world at what you do to get away with it. :)
Thank you I was just sharing that with my 6-year-old son that is just beautiful
The music fit perfectly. Can never get enough of seeing the #1 plate.
That boy could ride.
Tasteful. Thank you for not feeling the need to add heavy metal/grunge/whatever the heck as a soundtrack. Great footage of the greatest era.
Classic. It sends a chill through me and makes a little misty eyed. Its okay because I'm going riding tomorrow and I'm 53 years old!
RIP Marty Smith
I was there at some of these races ,we lived in River Ridge, we went to watch Marty Smith and Tommy Croft, I took pics of them , ah the good ole days...
I raise my first race on the MR 50 at this National and won my classes 1975 1976
@@bnfvision3080 Not bad for a stock bike. :)
The best dirt my knobbies ever touched. Deep soft loam where you could drift a side slide for what seemed like forever. Banging a berm was like hitting a cloud. 30' high levees made for great aerobatic jumps if you wanted to show off. Raced there in 74/75 in 125/250 expert class.
love old vintage motocross videos. this is a very good one.
I remember riding that track. The first time it scared the crap out of me. It was a fast track. If you were going too fast out of the River bed you would blow the next turn. The jump would give you wings if you hit it too fast. What great memories I have of those years riding a Bultaco.
Great old school pictures of dirt track in waggaman la. sure do miss this old track...
I raced there for years before moving to California. I loved that track. It was right on the Mississippi River.
I finally got to see "One chance to win" here on YT, and I see a big river boat floating past, but the camera was low enough and I had no idea a river was there. "What the heck is that doing there?" :)
I raced this weekend at this track for the nationals on my first mr50 won my class my first national championship 🙏 great memories
Yes Honda wanted my lil brother to ride for them . We used to ride our motorcycles there when the track wasnt being used . Fun times .
That's some excellent footage. I was at Waggaman for one of the Nationals race days in 1976. I was there with the crew that shot the film "One Chance to Win".
Steve Shelley Thanks! There is an unedited version of the '76 race on my channel.
I have that DVD and I've really enjoyed it! Great shots and editing on there.
August 29, 1976 was my 20th birthday and I was just tagging along with my sister, Angela Shelley, who worked on the film with her boyfriend at the time, Charles Manuel. My sister wrote the narration script and Charles Manuel was the director and lead camera guy. Can you check the closing credits and let me know if you see their names (Angela Shelley & Charles Manuel)? I saw the film when it was playing locally here in theaters in the New Orleans area when it came out and their names were included in the credits then.
Steve Shelley Yep, they are listed. He and she are listed under CAMERA along with 6 others. She is listed as co-NARRATION WRITTEN BY with Jim Gianatsis.
David.....Thanks very much for going to the trouble for me.
Wow! I remember racing on this track back in the 70’s. XR 75 and then a YZ 100. Never to the level of these guys tho. Although I did get to see them race. Track was located on the batchure of the Mississippi River. Marty Smith was the man to beat back then in the 125 class.
wanna know whats cool,, I lived in Waggaman,, that's right during those years we just walked three blocks to the river levee,, down by the convenience store right there on river road.. my grandparents ran a concession stand during those races,, all weekend we got to be there way before the races started.. seen plenty of dirt fly,, bikes scream and racers soar....those were the days before the super dome.. my cousins still live in that lil place..I was there in the summers as a teenager spending the summers with my grandparents,,I just showed my second cousin this video and the other ones of the dirt tracs behind the levee,, and all he wants to be is a dirt bike racer ,, he had no idea how an old grandma (I'm 61 now) could experience some awesome things,, I guess kids nowadays think dirt bike racing only happened in their lifetime..Good ol Waggaman...life is still good..
Deb cothran Interesting story Deb! Do you know if there is still any evidence of the track being there? David
I was there back then .That track by the mississippi river was a death defying challenge .
We didn't know anything. We were kids. We thought days like that would last forever, and get better.
I think they could have. What kid can afford a 13 grand bike on his own?
I raced there. 100cc yamaha
I don’t know who owns the batture either
♥♥♥♥♥....Old MOTOCROSS ....♥♥♥...díky díky díky !!!! :) :*
I haven’t been behind that levee since ohmaybe 1975 it’s probably been washed away over the years that doesn’t mean anything nowadays tho
It’s a sand pit now, nothing there that would let you know that there was ever a track there
I started going with my grandparents they ran the jaycees food and drink concession trailer after I broke free of that when I really got into
My teen years the group I hung out with would jump across the track from a high mound across the top of the riders as they came flying through and land down the low side of the embankment if we were lucky. Some in our group got caught and were thrown out but there was never enough fence to keep us out we always knew where the easy ins were
Real Moto back then ! look at Today…Cheezy Cheese Ball Corporate Puke