Ghost Drag Strip Stories
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2016
- Twelve minute promo from the 2 hour and 6 minute full length video available through Jim Amos' Bee On Video. The spirits of drag racing past come to life in this video production. Peterson Memorial Dragway, 522 Kreamer Drag-O-Way, Pittsburgh International Dragway. Real car sounds and fully narrated. This Promo is just a teaser. The full length video is an absolute MUST SEE. www.beeonvideo.com
No more ghost drag strips. US 30 is on my way home, I gave 5yrs of my life going to that strip twice a week, won my bracket 2 weeks in a row, i purposefully drive around it. Too many memories. Sacred ground, saw Don Garlits there regularly, spoke to Don Prudhomme, Tom Hoover, Al Segrini, John Force driving a Citation bodied funny car, then his Coca Cola Corvette, and many match racing greats, sometimes 6 funny cars or top fuelers a night. What a GREAT time to be alive!
Wow. There was a time when SUNDAY!SUNDAY!SUNDAY! Was a day everybody would go to a strip and they really were everywhere. What happened? First the economy. Between oil embargo changing attitudes on fuel consumption, and a major shift in commerce on all levels. The '70's really ushered in the disposable culture we now live, and that means the manufacturing and service jobs really dried up. Radios, TV's, appliances went solid state. Many small items, paper cups, textiles, virtually every item in the home shifted from being US to foreign produced, so wages went down on average wholesale and never recovered. Even the merchants suffered as specialty shops, green grocers, butchers, clothing stores, were homogenized to the supermarket or lot store. Racing is a pass time that requires money, and less young people could afford to break in. Even older professional people could not continue, so by the '80's community participation withered and the traveling money acts would see no need to visit the small tracks. Thank you for presenting a time capsule in American cultural history that only exists in the memories of our seniors and on these rare films. Especially love the history of the specific campaigns.
Minnesota Dragways needs to be added to this video. One of the best! You will see many of the pioneers of racing......
holy shit that jet powered go cart at the end lol
Pretty much grew up going to PID back in the days..lots of fun..never knew who you would see back then..always big names came through..good friend of mine Jack McDonough ran a 66 Chevelle called "Distinction"..helped n his pit crew..rode in the car being towed to the track every Sunday am...good times..and he`s still running to this day at Keystone..oh man what nice memories..
Riverside raceway in Pearl Mississippi. Don Garlits raced there in 1980. I raced my 1970 Dodge Challenger and my 1971 Plymouth Cuda there also. The drag strip was torn down to make way for the new Pearl high School. Pearl, Mississippi.
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Mr Amos "Thank you Thank You!" man this is so rad man my late pops would of loved this "rip pops" im from the uk n well pops was from the States "fort worth" and he bread me as an American so I dig this like you can imagine. Man this country suck! but let me tell you you got my custom and I wanna build pro mod chassis and have a speed shop I've just got to do another five to ten more years in the oil and gas industry to have enough money then if I can move to the state if the biz in the UK is successfull enough. but anyhu thanks Mr Amos. hope you have more vids to offer cuz it's all I watch man. sky TV the best thing on there by a mile is Street Outlaws and sky sold the rights to esp so I don't get to watch the nationals anymore unless I double my subscription to get bus channels also so that kinda sucks but to see the golden years drag racing is unheard of so I'll take your details and make some flyers and take them to santa pod, Avon and to toecap meets for ya. if that's OK with you Mr Amos?! thanks again buddy. Mikey.
I ran at PID in my 57 Ford,,, those were indeed heady days
Man those chooks get to drag every day. Livin' the dream. Well, for a lil' while.
Thanks for posting. Cool stuff
Great video thanks!
as a central pa native...this is awesome!!!
There's a old drag strip in Comstock Wisconsin on the other side of a lake that was called Tenora drag ways that shut down in the 70s . Everything is gone except for the tar strip and one old galvanized out building that looks to have been built there back in the day . One one side of the track there is a big expensive cabin or small mansion which I assume are the people who own what's left of the drag strip but I never see anyone around the few times I have gone out but of course they have no trespassing signs up where the tar road is connected to what would have been the staging lanes back in the day running South to North. The guy who originally owned it sold it to another person and the local car club I am in some of the members were trying to get this person to let us have our yearly car show on the track then maybe some drag racing but the guy got sick and died and his wife was let's say mentally not right in her age so it got sold off to who ever owns it now . Some years ago I was talking to a old timer who flew airplanes and he had said for a while the old track was used as a landing strip until the owner died . We are going to try and contact the new owners now just to see if they would let us have our car show out at it if possible we were talking about just last weekend because one of our members used to drag race at it when he was 16 years old before it got sold and shut down so hopefully this can happen at least once . There could never be a fully functional drag strip at the place now because there are a lot of cabins all around the lake so I'm sure that the people who own the cabins would complain about the noise with open headers that would echo across the lake like crazy and I bet back in the day it sounded sensational to say the least . There's a mention of the strip in the book Lost Drag strips but not much info other when it started and when it shut down and some Arial view of the track from a airplane that took a over head picture of it that's kind of deceiving because if you look at it you see what you might think is where the track used to be but in reality the tracks connected to the tar road now on that south end where the staging lanes were and this road goes by the track out to a turnaround but by looking when driving by I think I could see where the entrance to pay to get in as a spectator would be as well as where the drag cars would have their own separate lane to take to pay admission to then go in and get tech inspected to be approved to race which would be the East side of the track. I bet now half the people who either own a cabin in that area or live in that area don't even know that there used to be a drag strip in that area years ago .
Mind Blowing video.. I saw my late Grand Father!!!! Talk about shock and awe... Now no longer wonder where I got it from or who I caught it from.... I got race gas & drag strip asphalt in my veins...
Also an important part of Canadian racing is well thank you for your time
Cool video man!
Great footage. In the Dallas area, I first went to the drags at Yello Belly in 1958. It is not a ghost strip, it is still open. Of course, there are no signs left of Circle, Midway, Cedar Hill, or even Green Valley drag strips.
that go cart was WOW COOL
Thanks