I had one...red,white and blue......then also had the yellow Vega wagon funny car....A friend of mine has the Pinto funny still in the box we found at a auto swap meet in the early 90's....
Some of the coolest machines built and that view of him in the cage is something I would love to have on the wall, but with the correct background. Stunning piece of history that set-up.
This video is 8 mins. ~ 42 secs. in length. The car is started on alcohol at 4 min. ~ 46 secs. and runs on it for 1 min. ~ 9 secs. Then we switch it over to nitromethane at 5 mins. ~ 55 secs. and it runs for 2 mins. 7 secs. before we shut it down at 8 mins. ~ 2 secs. using a squirt bottle with regular gasoline.
Great to see some of those early beasts are still ready to go.I remember these running at National speedway on Long Island, NY back in the 60s.looks like it’s in excellent condition.
This reminds me of when I used to live near Niagara Dragstrip in Niagara Falls, NY back in the mid-1960's. Went to many drag races there always was thrilling to see the front-engined fuel dragsters run there they were machines of beauty, thunder and smoke..back then they would often smoke the rear tires all the way down to the time trap.
@@stevenandersen3525 I am French and we don't see many of these on our shores. Thanks for such videos that give us a peek into the golden age of those marvels.
I built a bad ass 440 nitro methane monster. I fired it here at one time and I reckon some neighbors a tad distance away weren't too happy. Cops showed up they loved it but I was gently informed some kind of mufflers rather than open headers would be slightly appreciated and also to please refrain from doing it when the sun is not shinning. It was only 10:30 pm had to hear it.
Been a Tom Hoover fan for many years talk to him at the alignment shop many times. Tom, George Wepplo, Peanuts, Don Ness, Ralph Humrick, The Petersons at New Brighton Skelly. I was lucky enough to have met them all.
@@stevenandersen3525 Just somebody that grew up in New Brighton. Ate more Sun burgers and fries with mayonnaise that I can count. Street raced on Central Ave, Lake street, and on Hoover St in the early 70s.
@@nojunkwork5735 Cruzing and racing on Central from the Sun Drive-in to the White Castle before they gave you the electric chair for street racing was to much fun. The guys that raced on Hoover Street had some of the quickest cars in the Twin Cities area some of them being trailered in. The older brother at the Skelly station in New Brighton was one of the best custom car builders in the midwest. My favorites were his 55 El Camino and 50 Chevy Fleetline. And the younger brother had that Peanuts painted Brandywine land rocket 55 T bird with the 425 HP 396 Chevy in it. Those were the best of times. What were you driving at that time I grew up in Mounds View and had a 69 GTX 440 4sp.
Wow, what an amazing machine... made my hair just stand watching it on the Tube. Anyone know what was squirted into the intake just before he shut it off?
I both start and shut down this engine on regular gasoline, mostly for safety reasons . . . considering it runs on 95% nitromethane. Also the gasoline does leave a residual amount of oil in the upper cylinders preventing any potential seizure the next time it's started.
I've seen Don Garlits smoke the full length of the strip . edit. To the uninitiated, that meant smoking the tyres and burning rubber for the full length.
Gasoline. Nitro is so caustic and generates such a hot fire in the cylinders that there's virtually no upper cylinder lubricant left. Gasoline has a small amount of oil in it so it's used to replace that residual lube in shutting down the engine.
That's Tom Hoover, who's car it was originally back in 1966 !!! . . . and who went on to create a career as a professional drag racer over the following 40+ years !!!
Check out the video description that simply says: "This is a video".........Good thing ya cleared that up for us......I was thinking it might be a smoke signal, lol. By the way: "This is a comment".
@@artmchugh5644 Correct . . . however for these cacklecars in 2020 we needed to be a bit more creative and decided to build in a hi tech mini starter in order to keep the appearance of the car as close to authentic as possible. Except for this one detail, this car is restored back to the original state it was in when it was built in 1966. Blower starters did not appear until late in 1967.
@@stevenandersen3525 I got to ride in the push truck , go out on track and push TV TOMMY. IVO. Back to the line after a fire burnout at Try-cities dragway in Saginaw Michigan in 1970 !!!😄😄😄😄😄😎😎😎😎😎
Yes and it did take a bit of shoe-horning in !! Thanks to the Japanese, their mini starters running on 18v are more than adequate to start one of these old iron Chryslers. My assistant does need to shut off & unplug the alcohol embilical once I turn the fuel shutoff back on. Since this configuration I've made a lot of major changes to the motor in general as well as now run a totally different actual tuneup. Thanks for the nice note !! steve
Actually the water jackets in the block on this particular engine have been filled with lead. Filling the water jackets is a necessity when using a high percentage of nitromethane to prevent the cylinders from exploding into that area.
@@stevenandersen3525 Yes sir, Still, it's interesting that without a cooling system, without the air rushing past even, they run it and rev it a good solid 10 minutes, seems like. Would love to know what temp those heads got up to
That might be due to these differences: the new top fuel cars have more that 100 additional cubic inches, a supercharger with more than double the capacity, two magnetos producing nearly 100 amps v/s the mag on this car that makes about 3 amps . . . and many other issues. This car makes about 2,800 hp running on 90% nitromethane by comparison to 11,000 generated by the new versions. This video was shot over 6 years ago. Since then there have been many new changes made to the motor. If you want to see it more currently, look for the video shot 3 years ago in the lineup on the right side of your screen titled: Alcohol to NITROMETHANE
@@peterbellwood5412 tha real hot rodders I was born in66 I lived to watch tha Munsters to see grandpaws hot rods hearing toms rail was true music to my ears the fun they must've had ;-) to all the pawpaws that carried on traditional hotrods
How the f**k would you know !!! FYI . . . that's me in the car, which is also mine BTW, and inasmuch as I do start it to warm up on alcohol, there's an obvious moment when I clearly switch it over to 92% nitro. I think it would serve you as well as a lot of other more innocent real fans if you might take some time to learn something about these cars before shooting your mouth off !!!! You clearly must be emulating your moronic president !!!
When the motors idle got deeper do you think he was putting the nitro to it or do you think they installed a choke and he pulled by accident, you moron?
@@stevenandersen3525 gosh how i miss those days. Between US30 dragstrip and Memphis, i caught many races. Good to see those beauties preserved and appreciated by folks like you. Thanks
@@stevenandersen3525 ..wait..who has a moronic pres? You must be referring to a nation other than the US of A, or one of the presidents between Reagan & Trump. Proof? Watch his ralley by Mt. ARushmore..or the one he just did in Macon, GA. Very sharp, energetic and ..his only mistake is not firing Doc. Fauci and putting the scamdemic behind us..opening up the secondaries on our economy, like it was for the entire 3 yrs prior.
You clearly have no experience with this kind of a car running on 95% nitro !!! If that blower pops, where do you think all that very explosive fuel under pressure is going to go !!??? What you can't see is the fact that I also have an onboard halon fire extinguishing system as well.
@@WillyWillis1965 You're absolutely correct in that assumption !!!! The difference being that he is NOT inside a quite trapped space and like I am in . . . and likely able to have someone grab the fire extinguisher located on the back of the starting cart to put him out. Over all the years I've been involved with nitro racing, I can recall several times that this exact kind of event happened. In all of those cases, those closest to the explosion were burned, the worst being the driver in the cockpit.
kind of like a bomb squad suit. you wear it when near bombs, aka a supercharged mill running a mega mix of nitro, lol. it doesn't matter if the car is moving or motionless, it's the engine that the driver needs protection from..specifically the fuel therein.
That is an awesome bit of nostalgia. Absolutely LOVE the body work. Nothing better then the moment the nitro makes it into the cylinders.
Very cool! Reminds me of the old COX .049 powered Eliminator dragster from when I was a kid.
I had one...red,white and blue......then also had the yellow Vega wagon funny car....A friend of mine has the Pinto funny still in the box we found at a auto swap meet in the early 90's....
Some of the coolest machines built and that view of him in the cage is something I would love to have on the wall, but with the correct background. Stunning piece of history that set-up.
sweet music
Tom hoover and his father,were big supporters of Santa Pod in the 🇬🇧 they were always made welcome by us Brits on there travels. 👍
I was there too, Bryan . Halcyon days . 🥰👍
This car is beautiful. I love the old slingshot Fuelers.
This video is 8 mins. ~ 42 secs. in length. The car is started on alcohol at 4 min. ~ 46 secs. and runs on it for 1 min. ~ 9 secs. Then we switch it over to nitromethane at 5 mins. ~ 55 secs. and it runs for 2 mins. 7 secs. before we shut it down at 8 mins. ~ 2 secs. using a squirt bottle with regular gasoline.
Beautiful machine lived next to Cecil county dragway back in the days i used to love to see these guys come
Yes, rear engine dragsters are the norm now, but there is something so nostalgically beautiful about a classic front engine beast.
Very cool,the car still looks great,and seeing Tom there was a real treat,haven't seen him since late '90's,thanks for this!
Cool that a commenter knows who this dude is.
'Legend', barely cuts it.
@@tomj4406 He and Ma and Pa were always a must visit in their pit at the races,alway a beautiful car and the nicest people!
Great to see some of those early beasts are still ready to go.I remember these running at National speedway on Long Island, NY back in the 60s.looks like it’s in excellent condition.
I remember them at New York National including the purple gang from Long Island
Simply beautiful, can imagine the feel with every throttle crack,
This reminds me of when I used to live near Niagara Dragstrip in Niagara Falls, NY back in the mid-1960's. Went to many drag races there always was thrilling to see the front-engined fuel dragsters run there they were machines of beauty, thunder and smoke..back then they would often smoke the rear tires all the way down to the time trap.
Brings tears of Joy to my eyes, ah nitro
Also, brings a ringing to my ears
WHAT !!!
Great stuff. I also love the look of the helmet and its double filtration cartridges. Vader style. Priceless.
Thanks !! It's actually extremely difficult to locate the real old time equipment.
@@stevenandersen3525 I am French and we don't see many of these on our shores. Thanks for such videos that give us a peek into the golden age of those marvels.
Memories
Growing up i hung out with the Butters&Gerard fuelie. Lions Drag Strip days. My dad got to match race with Frank Pedragon. Love nitro
I built a bad ass 440 nitro methane monster. I fired it here at one time and I reckon some neighbors a tad distance away weren't too happy. Cops showed up they loved it but I was gently informed some kind of mufflers rather than open headers would be slightly appreciated and also to please refrain from doing it when the sun is not shinning. It was only 10:30 pm had to hear it.
Beautiful railers.
Been a Tom Hoover fan for many years talk to him at the alignment shop many times. Tom, George Wepplo, Peanuts, Don Ness, Ralph Humrick, The Petersons at New Brighton Skelly. I was lucky enough to have met them all.
And you are ???
@@stevenandersen3525 Just somebody that grew up in New Brighton. Ate more Sun burgers and fries with mayonnaise that I can count. Street raced on Central Ave, Lake street, and on Hoover St in the early 70s.
@@nojunkwork5735 Cruzing and racing on Central from the Sun Drive-in to the White Castle before they gave you the electric chair for street racing was to much fun. The guys that raced on Hoover Street had some of the quickest cars in the Twin Cities area some of them being trailered in. The older brother at the Skelly station in New Brighton was one of the best custom car builders in the midwest. My favorites were his 55 El Camino and 50 Chevy Fleetline. And the younger brother had that Peanuts painted Brandywine land rocket 55 T bird with the 425 HP 396 Chevy in it. Those were the best of times. What were you driving at that time I grew up in Mounds View and had a 69 GTX 440 4sp.
Very cool. Thanks!. I don't think alot of folks know of the TIME and money invested, , just to cackle one.
Absolutely love that sound there is nothing like a slingshot
Amen. ❤
Form follows function. It still amazes me that hot rodders built machines of such beauty. Don't know what other word to use.
First time I've seen this video .. better late than never ... so glad UA-cam recommended it! The ultimate "Fire In The Hole" video!
NOTHING LIKE THE SMELL OF NITROMETHANE IN THE MORNING
I love the smell of nitro in the morning. It smells like.......victory.
And you drive a Prius
@@elchafalote8555 NEVER!
Smells apacolyptic!
The year I was born. Great year for cars.
Well that just made my day. Good old nitro whack.
Nothing on this planet cooler!!!
Perhaps a P-51, Sea Fury , Bearcat or Spitfire at full whack ,
What a real dragster looks like!
They are wonderful memory cars but the racers don’t miss them. Nice car!
Snap-cackle-pop, nice & crispy!
When that nitro meets the spark the real party starts. Nothing like a fire breathing nitro hemi.
Wow, what an amazing machine... made my hair just stand watching it on the Tube. Anyone know what was squirted into the intake just before he shut it off?
I both start and shut down this engine on regular gasoline, mostly for safety reasons . . . considering it runs on 95% nitromethane. Also the gasoline does leave a residual amount of oil in the upper cylinders preventing any potential seizure the next time it's started.
I can smell that sound from here.
A friend of mines dad used to artwork for him on his cars here n there in rochester minnesota.
Starts as a slightly grumpy Dr Jekyll, a Dr you'd be nervous about seeing. Finishes as Mr Hyde!! Cancel the appointment, I suddenly feel fine!😮
Saw this car run at Minnesota Dragways several times. It ran 7 secs at 225. Hoover got burned pretty good at least once sitting behind a blow torch.
I saw Tom Hoover and Don Garlits do side by side flaming burnouts on a Wednesday night drag race!
And?
I've seen Don Garlits smoke the full length of the strip . edit. To the uninitiated, that meant smoking the tyres and burning rubber for the full length.
Waiting to hear the cackle and all I hear is that FUCKIN HARLEY! !!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🍺🍺🍺🍺
Beautiful Hotrod.
One loud machine! ❤
What is sprayed into the intake at the end to kill the engine?
Gasoline. Nitro is so caustic and generates such a hot fire in the cylinders that there's virtually no upper cylinder lubricant left. Gasoline has a small amount of oil in it so it's used to replace that residual lube in shutting down the engine.
I miss those days!!! Who is the guy in the white shirt that gets to stand next to the Rail?? Great video and sound also!
That's Tom Hoover, who's car it was originally back in 1966 !!! . . . and who went on to create a career as a professional drag racer over the following 40+ years !!!
I’ve watched Tom race here in Oz several times, an absolute legend. Beautiful FED by the way, love it 😎
Nitro in the morning.....................................feels like victory!
Love getting handed my equipment, makes u feel Worthy.... Love the car too!!
That’ll always be amazing
Sounds great - is it an iron block?
Sorry for the very tardy response. The motor came out of a 1958 Chrysler New Yorker !!!
1958 Chrysler New Yorker
392 Gen 1 Hemi
what a beauty
Awesome stuff
Tom Hoover... COOL!
When I get my Tesla, that is the audio I want for the external speakers as well as the piped in engine sounds.
Check out the video description that simply says: "This is a video".........Good thing ya cleared that up for us......I was thinking it might be a smoke signal, lol. By the way: "This is a comment".
An apparent You Tube edit !!!
Who said: Gasoline is for cleaning parts, alcohol is for drinkin' and Nitro is for racin'?
2024 now. So, how is that dragster doing?
THAT'S THE SH*T I'm TALKING ABOUT!
Niagara Dragstrip.. Niagara Falls New York.. The Great Days Of The Past..
So freakin cool.
Fine machine
she really starts to cackle when they switch it to nitro
Skip to 4:41. You're welcome.
NICE
Sweet!!
👍👍👍
For the rest of the day everyone said WHAT?
Then 5:50 for 'full ign advance'.... ; )
actually they start them on pump gas then switch them to nitro, the change in sound and the raw fuel coming out the exhaust is the sign of good times.
Hoover Wheel Alignment Minneapolis
👉 4:40 Start there. You're welcome.
No offense intended . . . but starting at 4:40 is like having sex starting only at the orgasm !! . . . LOL
@ 6:25 my pants begin to fit tighter in the front.
LOL . . . that's a first for me to hear !! Wonder what might happen if I put you in it for a test start !!???
At least it's not in the back 🤨
Dragsters didn't have a battery and a starter,wtf?
They did if you had the expertise to install one !!! . . . especially in the cars of the '50's & '60's .
These cars started with the truck pushing them then hitting the mag switch !!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😄😄😄🍺🍺🍺
No. Magnetos generate the current necessary to power the ignition. Starters and batteries are unnecessary and heavy, the enemy of drag racing.
@@artmchugh5644 Correct . . . however for these cacklecars in 2020 we needed to be a bit more creative and decided to build in a hi tech mini starter in order to keep the appearance of the car as close to authentic as possible. Except for this one detail, this car is restored back to the original state it was in when it was built in 1966. Blower starters did not appear until late in 1967.
@@stevenandersen3525 I got to ride in the push truck , go out on track and push TV TOMMY. IVO. Back to the line after a fire burnout at Try-cities dragway in Saginaw Michigan in 1970 !!!😄😄😄😄😄😎😎😎😎😎
Starts at 5:00
Really, where's his pants and shoes?
On board starter? Nitro changeover by driver? High side 5:50.....wowser
Yes and it did take a bit of shoe-horning in !! Thanks to the Japanese, their mini starters running on 18v are more than adequate to start one of these old iron Chryslers. My assistant does need to shut off & unplug the alcohol embilical once I turn the fuel shutoff back on. Since this configuration I've made a lot of major changes to the motor in general as well as now run a totally different actual tuneup. Thanks for the nice note !! steve
They ran it quite a while considering it has no cooling system.
Actually the water jackets in the block on this particular engine have been filled with lead. Filling the water jackets is a necessity when using a high percentage of nitromethane to prevent the cylinders from exploding into that area.
@@stevenandersen3525 Yes sir,
Still, it's interesting that without a cooling system, without the air rushing past even, they run it and rev it a good solid 10 minutes, seems like.
Would love to know what temp those heads got up to
@@stevenandersen3525 I've heard of them using concrete as well
Release the Kraken.
It doesn't sound anything like a nowadays top fuel engine
That might be due to these differences: the new top fuel cars have more that 100 additional cubic inches, a supercharger with more than double the capacity, two magnetos producing nearly 100 amps v/s the mag on this car that makes about 3 amps . . . and many other issues. This car makes about 2,800 hp running on 90% nitromethane by comparison to 11,000 generated by the new versions. This video was shot over 6 years ago. Since then there have been many new changes made to the motor. If you want to see it more currently, look for the video shot 3 years ago in the lineup on the right side of your screen titled: Alcohol to NITROMETHANE
Skip to 4:45...
Well, there is 8:42 seconds of my life that I will never get back.
Grandpa Munster
No sir . Tom and his Fueler are the real deal
My sincere apologies. Tom was the real deal . I'd no idea he died in October last year . See you soon Tom .
@@peterbellwood5412 tha real hot rodders I was born in66 I lived to watch tha Munsters to see grandpaws hot rods hearing toms rail was true music to my ears the fun they must've had ;-) to all the pawpaws that carried on traditional hotrods
4:42
Yeah but can it beat a Tesla?
What was the point of that?
Music to the ears of us gear heads! Not to mention the eye candy!
If you have to ask you'll never understand.
Keeping a part of history alive......To us it's important .
Some leftover toys
But, but...it never moved. 👎
Your comment is just too stupid to even attempt to make fun of . . .
@@stevenandersen3525 I can’t help the fact you’re not creative enough to come up with something...
...seriously
@@greenidguy9292 LOL !!!!!!!
Very good, you win a cookie! They aren't going to do a burnout in a parking lot at a car show. Go back to your childish video game.
Gotta be pushing 300 hp
You're joking . . . right !!??? Try closer to 3,000 hp running on 98% nitromethane.
That’s not nitro he’s running, it’s alcohol. Hey, ‘ya gotta baby those antiques.
How the f**k would you know !!! FYI . . . that's me in the car, which is also mine BTW, and inasmuch as I do start it to warm up on alcohol, there's an obvious moment when I clearly switch it over to 92% nitro. I think it would serve you as well as a lot of other more innocent real fans if you might take some time to learn something about these cars before shooting your mouth off !!!! You clearly must be emulating your moronic president !!!
When the motors idle got deeper do you think he was putting the nitro to it or do you think they installed a choke and he pulled by accident, you moron?
@@stevenandersen3525 gosh how i miss those days. Between US30 dragstrip and Memphis, i caught many races. Good to see those beauties preserved and appreciated by folks like you. Thanks
@@stevenandersen3525 ..wait..who has a moronic pres?
You must be referring to a nation other than the US of A, or
one of the presidents between Reagan & Trump.
Proof? Watch his ralley by Mt. ARushmore..or the one he just did in Macon, GA.
Very sharp, energetic and ..his only mistake is not firing Doc. Fauci and putting the scamdemic behind us..opening up the secondaries on our economy, like it was for the entire 3 yrs prior.
@@tomj4406 Steve is taking about JB. You know, the ruination of our nation and way of life.
was ein Aufwand für nichts
kinderkram
Dude.....ease up, you're not driving anywhere.......no need for the suit-up. Jeez
You clearly have no experience with this kind of a car running on 95% nitro !!! If that blower pops, where do you think all that very explosive fuel under pressure is going to go !!??? What you can't see is the fact that I also have an onboard halon fire extinguishing system as well.
@@stevenandersen3525 If that's the case, the dude helping standing near the car should have one on as well.
@@WillyWillis1965 You're absolutely correct in that assumption !!!! The difference being that he is NOT inside a quite trapped space and like I am in . . . and likely able to have someone grab the fire extinguisher located on the back of the starting cart to put him out. Over all the years I've been involved with nitro racing, I can recall several times that this exact kind of event happened. In all of those cases, those closest to the explosion were burned, the worst being the driver in the cockpit.
kind of like a bomb squad suit.
you wear it when near bombs, aka a supercharged
mill running a mega mix of nitro, lol.
it doesn't matter if the car is moving or motionless, it's the engine that the
driver needs protection from..specifically the fuel therein.
@@tomj4406 100% correct !!
SWEEEET👍👍👍
4 moter heads only 😊