This is so cool! Anybody remember how hard it was to catch your favorite drag racing or stock car event on TV back in '65? My only go to in my three-TV channel market was ABC Wide World of Sports, a weekly show that featured several sporting events in round robin format. OMG, I sat through so many hours of ice skating, tennis doubles and bowling just to catch a few treasured moments of racing so I could get inspiration for my next Revell or AMC model car build. Wonderful memories...

@johnhennery8820

Жыл бұрын

Same here always building a model I had quite a collection

@georgemunford3804

Жыл бұрын

That's cool

I was at this show. I grew up in Phoenix and my dad took me to these races for my 16th birthday, Jan 30 1965. It was great!

@MrWolfTickets

4 жыл бұрын

That is so cool. One of the best things about KZread is that people like you can chime in. It's almost unreal (considering if this was on tv, and you missed it, you would NEVER see it again!!!)

@maximuswedgie5149

4 жыл бұрын

I wish crowds would show up to family events like this nowadays. It’s cool you got to experience this in person

@jpgasser4863

3 жыл бұрын

Any chance you remember Speed Engineering Speed Shop and their Willys truck?

@bradfordeaton6558

3 жыл бұрын

@@jpgasser4863 I remember but vaguely...that was a long time ago! Were you there?

@jpgasser4863

3 жыл бұрын

@@bradfordeaton6558 Own the truck. Just trying to find leads on it.

I grew up in Phoenix in the 60’s and 70’s. Back then I remember it as being out in the boonies at least driving from north Phoenix. I can still hear the radio adds. “Beeline Dragway.....BEELINE DRAGWAY....Saturday Night.....SATURDAY NIGHT!!!...” It truly was grassroots racing. The AHRA events would offer the chance to see a Garlits, Ramchargers, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, Sox & Martin, etc. otherwise my local favorite was John Loper with his Chevy powered Anglia. First Gasser in the 9’s. N/A of course. Loper had a speed shop on East Camelback in Phoenix. Beeline was pretty basic..couple of porta potties and wood bleachers. I don’t even recall that they had a concession stand. We used to bring our own drinks and snacks. Great memories. Thanks for posting the video! John

@MrWolfTickets

4 жыл бұрын

Some go, SOME BLOW!!!! (I heard that was a 70s California radio spot) thanks for sharing the details about the venue. It's nuts that no one would want to sell concessions to 6k people in attendance!!

@BPoweredLove

Жыл бұрын

Back when Glendale/Northern Roads were north Phoenix and Bell Road was WAAAYYYYYY north Phoenix!

I love these old drag racing videos, as I'm a bit of a drag racing history enthusiast! I first discovered drag racing as a teenager in the early 1970s and remember some of these drivers' name in magazines of the time. Keep these video coming! Regards from Australia.

I was there as a kid in 68!

i wonder how many of those old school dragsters are laying out in a field somewere forgotten

Memories! I built a model kit of _Color Me Gone,_ can't remember if it was _Revell, AMT or Monogram_ but I had my _Rat Fink_ on my model shelf!

The AHRA allowed and promoted nitromethane fuel cars in the years when the NHRA would not... BUT... The March Meet at Bakersfield's Famoso Drag Strip was the bigger fuel event then. This video was made just when the NHRA relented and brought on the fuel cars. I lived it.

I grew up in Scottsdale Az..Beeline Drag strip was close to my home...it was on The Salt River Indian Reservation. It's been gone for years, after the strip was closed the military used the strip portion of the track for some kind of devise testing.

@BPoweredLove

Жыл бұрын

And a skeet and trap range was built just next to where the track was. It closed around 2008.

I’m proud of my grandpa - Dean Turk. Thank you for sharing this video!

Old school drag racing. This is what its about.

Great video with some of the first funny-cars . Landy's Dodge was one of my favorites back then . Chris "The Greek" still drives in top fuel to this day !

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! The very first funny cars! Very strange looking modified wheel base cars. Looks to me like they were trying to go incognito and get away with things that weren’t quite listed in the “rule book”!

Loved the Commentary on these old clips

wow.. spent alot of fun filled days and nights at BeeLine.. Great movie!

@Oldrbutnowisr

7 жыл бұрын

and more fun nights cruising Central - - used to run down from Snowflake to look for some street action on weekends

@abandoned_classics5029

5 жыл бұрын

Oldrbutnowisr I bought an old 65 white mustang fastback up in pine top. Has some evidence of it being raced. You remember anything like that??

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

Oldrbutnowisr Love the name and I’m right there with you. It must be genetic...

Awesome footage from back in the day!!! I'm lovein it thanks for sharing this with us!!!.

Agreed this is when dragracing was lots of fun gave the low budget teams a chance many different makes models etc

Maloney Motors, Canton, Oh...!!! thanks for posting.👍👍

My mom was queen at the winter nationals, in 1967 and gave Connie Kalitta a trophy. My dad was a photographer and raced a dragster the Desert Digger at Beeline.

Holy crap! This is awesome! Thanks!

Wicked vid, cheers for posting.

Heck, I love just looking at the push cars, let alone the dragsters.

It was actually just north of Mesa Az on Hwy 87.It is still called BeeLine hiway.Its about 2or 3 miles ne on 87 just past 1st dirt road after Gilbert road.not much left but the outline of the track can still be made out.I remember some of the best eliminator racing ever.Non stop back to back racing all day long.

@BPoweredLove

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Then a skeet and trap shooting range used that exit, sitting just next to where the track was, facing northward towards the Beeline. It was there until 2008 and the whole area has been abandoned ever since.

@Sed1676

Жыл бұрын

I remember the drive to Beeline from our home at 9th Ave and Northern back in the 60’s. It was a good 45 minutes to an hour drive. I saw Grumpy Jenkins there along with Dyno Don Nickerson and many in others.The AHRA events always drew a good selection of national contestant.also saw Bob Glidden and his two sons racing at the speed world track located out in the tulles in the rar NW part of valley. Those were the days.

My first car was a 63 Plymouth Fury 2dr hrdtp 440 push button shift automatic!

Kick-Ass footage!! \m/

It’s sad, majority of those cars are either rotting somewhere or disappeared somewhere along the years

Back when reaction time (by driver not computer) and driver ability won the race and NOT the engine/computer. Ah the good old days....

mopars kicking some arse. love it

My uncle DEAN TURK Raced here. Dean TURK passed away last week. He will be missed on building heads for allot of people. Dean is Seen in this video.

Color me gone was badass

True old school drag racing. No turbos, super chargers and fuel injection. Just pure muscle cars.

@therealmaxspeedster

6 жыл бұрын

Top Fuel was *all about* superchargers and fuel injection...

@kevinpatrick8788

5 жыл бұрын

Max Speedster i think hes referring to the super stock classes .

This is the series that TheGreek dominated. My favorite driver. I honestly only watch NHRA now if he's running the event.

My husband used too go too that track in the 70s shame that it is gone.Firebird got too expensive.

IN THE DIRT? KEEP ON IT!!

That bunch of engineers at MOPAR sure was a great force, before Darth Vader!

Wow I Love it real AMERICAN cars with steal Bumpers KOOL!

I remember these so well I went to Hobbs NM a lot to race I love to watch Dick Harrell . Another favorite was fennel tubes from Lubbock and James Buttler of Morton Texas with ford falcon little red , and license plate that said ( remember Me )

I still have a 63 Polara in my garage

I found one of the color me gone cars in Oregon hanging off the clips and nobody would bother the guy finally sold it to me

@MrJohnnyDistortion

3 жыл бұрын

Hanging off the clips?

6:00 the precursor to the Sega 'blast processing' ad

I was born 30 years to late!!!

Burnouts and real Christmas trees were very big changes to the starting line. What year did those start?

Man I loved that track

My god...where are these cars today?

The world has gone to shit in a hand basket. Give me the good ol days.

Sadly, just a few weeks earlier John Milner was killed by a drunk driver while driving home from a day of racing in California, can't remember the track. He was a great street racer back in the late 50's/early 60's around Modesto California and with some decent sponsership they say he could have been one hell of a Top Fuel man....

@outdoorfuninthesun2393

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it was Fremont. John wins the race in Top Fuel against the factor sponsored Hunt Brothers. Gets killed while driving from the track. 😥

look at all the mopars. they ruled the dragstrips in the 60s

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

But in a couple years Grumpy switched to Chevys and starting stomping on all who stepped. It comes and goes. The design of the big block Chrysler with the hemi heads though, would continue to dominate but only in top fuel. It worked so well under supercharger boost at high rpms with the timing set extremely advanced, to the point where that kind of thing was never seen before! Garlits said that he and his peers never really squeezed the full potential out of the 426 hemi until they changed the chassis to the rear engine setup, where they weren’t so afraid of loosing a valve and exploding the blower right in their faces. Once the engine was behind them, they found they could push it to extreme conditions and set new records on every outing! Garlits said that every run he would advance the timing another degree and the car would get faster and faster to the point where it would pop and crack and bang and he was sure it would blow during the run but instead it just put out more and more power and set record after record.

@kevinpatrick8788

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Tucker jenkins switched to chevys after i think 1964 and then competed in pro stock in late 60s to early 70s and did well but most of the time jenkins lined up against ronnie sox he lost . in 70 and 71 sox was so dominant with his hemi cuda that jenkins got wally parks to impose weight penalties on any hemi powered mopar starting in 1972 season . sox never won a national event after that bs and was this was a disgrace to the sport. decades later when ronnie sox was getting inducted into the drag racing hall of fame parks appologized to sox for screwing the mopars over. too much politics creeped into drag racing and now its a corporate shitshow where you have to be rich and have huge sponsorship dollars to even race

@ryanmac8283

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevintucker3354 He did real good in sixty six and seven.But sixty eight through seventy one mopars dominated.lol They basically created pro stock so chevy and ford could compete.But sox and martin still dominated the first two seasons of pro stock.

That is a cavalcade of A990 cars

Mopars kicking ass & not a Ford or Chevy in sight.... great day 👍🏻... mopar or no car!!!!

@shimshonbendan8730

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm, maybe you forgot about the domination by Pontiac with their 421 Catalinas and the 409 Chevys. Remember that GM, under threat of antitrust laws being applied because of their total market domination, forbade their divisions from racing. In 1962, GM had 53% of the market and the Justice Department was watching them carefully. If they got to 60%, they would have been broken up. There was no direct GM factory support until the early 1970s. Let's see, how many Can Am, Trans Am, LeMans and F5000 races has Mopar won?

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

B'Chayil Ben Dan You’re absolutely right, and I’ve finally learned in my older age that the picking side in historical car wars is only a personal preference! The more you look into all areas the less you can support your ideas of why one is better than another. Apply this to politics and set yourselves free!!!

@kevinpatrick8788

5 жыл бұрын

B'Chayil Ben Dan mopar had the 413 and 426 max wedge to compete with them when the sd catalinas and 409 chevs were racing in early 60s

@amc401nash6

4 жыл бұрын

It's a known fact that Chrysler fibbed about the shipping weight of their cars in the early 60's to gain an advantage in super stock. After being called out on the matter they released the Gen2 Hemi which was a racing only design and never a practical production engine like the Ford, Pontiac and Chevy. In other words, if you bring a machine gun to a knife fight there's no reason you shouldn't win.

I owned the mule for a while

@rickbiggers4096

6 жыл бұрын

My dad owned the Mule 1965 ply ,Made it into a Funny car

Good times.

Six cylinder audio over a super stock Plymouth WTF hahaha cool footage

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

Right!!? I hate this old bullshit dubbing over the original sounds!!

E.J.Potter."The Michigan. Madman.At 2:20?

@threynolds2

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is.

@roadking0073

4 жыл бұрын

Most definitely. Man, that guy had balls that had as much horsepower as his bike did!

White Levi's!

Mopar or Nocar

@LtJackboot

6 жыл бұрын

'Ya gotta HAVE Mopar to BEAT Mopar'

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

I miss my 67 Plymouth valiant 273 that had a swapped in 340 and 727... I don’t want to kick myself anymore but that lightweight car on around 350 horsepower was the loudest and most fun car I’ve ever had and if I had only....

@MGB18

4 жыл бұрын

You mean FIAT right? lol.

@MGB18

4 жыл бұрын

Montana FIAT Boys: This was AHRA drag racing. LOL.

Hmm Grumpy Jenkins drove a mopar at one time???

I never heard (or don't recall) staggered starts back then.. How'd they know how much of a lead to give the car starting ahead of the other guy? Maybe it was an AHRA thing?

@firebirdjone

7 жыл бұрын

Not sure about AHRA, but stagger starts were in the NHRA 1959 rule book, we used those rules for the nostalgia races we put on years ago. From what I remember you got a car length per tenth ET difference. Didn't really work out all that well though, lol. For instance, when it came time for top eliminator at the end of the day one might be a 14 second car and the other a 9 second slingshot. The car would start half way down the track.

@firebirdjone

7 жыл бұрын

To help explain that better, in 1959 they didn't have a christmas tree, they had flagmen, which we also used at our events. So the flagman would have to walk down track.

Cool as all get out. Where would these films have been screened?

What kind of starting system were they using at the Bee Line...? I don't see a tree and the starter hasn't got a flag... Looks like he brings his hands together up over his head then touches his fingers together... I have never seen that... The tree was available to most tracks in '63.

@bretmuldner

5 жыл бұрын

There was a stop light on wires at the start

@ThomasDeLello

5 жыл бұрын

I see that now... awkward if you ask me.

@labrd41

5 жыл бұрын

Flagman during handicapped races. 16:14

@ThomasDeLello

5 жыл бұрын

Dick Clark...?!

Hmmm looks like Mopar dominantion no Chevys?

Looks like Mopar hemis ruled the day.

@woolyhighlander7280

5 жыл бұрын

Still do !

Tom Hoover, father of the Hemi?

@6bblbird104

6 жыл бұрын

No, different guy. This Tom Hoover was from Minnesota and raced Fuelers and Funny cars. The Father of the Hemi was from PA and worked for Chrysler corp.

@seancahill3219

4 жыл бұрын

Showtime!

It looks like their tree was set up for instant green, but also looks like the starter was flagging with his arms 🤔

That drag strip was somehow involved in the downfall of Frank Kush, coach of ASU

I still have my ahra see on patch but I'm looking for Ron shimek in the vidio

Another deserted race track on Indian land.

This place is now abandoned. Just checked it out a month ago.

@pauldashwood2897

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame there’s a few like this now good ole days..

@seththomas9105

5 жыл бұрын

like most things engine based it has become so Godd*&n expensive to race. :(

Mopar 2 U!

Mostly Chrysler

Y'ALL REMBER MASTER FIELD MIAMI? HOLLYWOOD /MIAMI DRAG WAY CAME AND WENT 67/???

@ORego-em8yf

4 жыл бұрын

CAPTAIN SALTY , yes I do! By Miami Dade college north campus!! Great times!

LOL. All Mopars

HEADRESTS ANYONE? put a tiger in that durn tank why don't ya!

Mopars galore, sadly because GM got out of racing 2 years prior to '65. Biggest mistake of GM ever, even worse than producing the Vega.

@Oldrbutnowisr

7 жыл бұрын

which ( Vega ) in the hands of my old aquaintence Da Grump from Malvern Pa. later spanked the mighty Mopars with their dual distributor big blocks with little SBC . Also look up this vid " Tom Heatley Vega crash" that happened in 2001 at NED a friggin hose clamp let go on what would have been a 7.90 pass causing the right rear to lose traction and the car to shoot across the track hitting the Jersey barrier then tumbling and sliding across the finish clearing the return lane in the air and landing upside down . Tommy has a time slip with an 8.39 with a 6 so when he tells someone he's been faster on his roof than they've been on 4 wheels he ain't kidding . That Vega was a Vanishing Point chassis with a Pat Musi 632 w staged 500 shot of nitros. Y'all can thank our lovely camera guy for the great shot of the Jersey Barrier and the quote "ya gotta be bullshittin me" as the car shoots across the track instead of actually catching the action - - a little PS any of you reading this if you know anything of old Arizona racers from my days at Beeline - - Del Blades ( the Rapier), Joe Rundle ( the Red Rat), John Loper (Lil Hoss), Ronny Timbush (Born Bad) please give me a shout . And let me also say I hated this starter thank God for "the TREE" and actual handicapped starts from the same launch pad

@AmericanSurvival001

7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Joseph GMc got out to save itself embarrassment (lack of HP ) and this is all privately owned street racer vehicles anyway

@gerilynntarvin9402

6 жыл бұрын

GM officially got out of factory backed racing but continued to fund racers such as Grumpy Jenkins. NHRA became GMs bitch as GM sponsored behind closed doors the races by providing all support vehicles to NHRA.- thus the "factoring" of the Mopar and Ford Hemi's by making them run ballast to allow Chevrolets to win. Jenkins cried the Hemis had an advantage-- NHRA made the "inline valve heads " rule to eliminate the hemi's but allowed the BBC's porcupine heads as being "almost inline valve heads".THAT led to Ford and Mopar losing for a while. there is still no super stock that can compete with the 1968 Hemi Darts and cuda's.

@LtJackboot

6 жыл бұрын

I had a Vega- 74 Kammback Wagon with a Malibu 350 and TH 350 with a 2 stage kit- THEN I put some 292 heads on it! Low 11's in the 8th (we don't have a full size track here)

@west4057

4 жыл бұрын

patrick - another one of GM s great decisions. i know, i worked at the messed up place.

Great videos but wish we could hear the real car's and not this .its all the same sound bytes over and over

Yeah, thanks to GM getting out of racing 2 years earlier, all we see is Mayflowers. Down with GMC.

@dday9257

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Joseph Yea GM had to get out they didn’t and still don’t have anything to complete with the Chrysler Hemi.The king of the racing engines

No Gas Ronda 65 champ in A/FX.

To me rails are nothing but super modified go-karts. Not a car!

Mopar Mopar and another Mopar

T/F running 7s . There's street cars running in the low 6s these days ! LOL

@steveornancampbell4756

Жыл бұрын

Those were the days. All the greats showing up in Phoenix in the winter. Heroes just doing what we all loved. Count the names of the legends at the "Winternationals". I was there at Beeline and wish these days had never ended. Thanks for the great memories.

@Sed1676

Жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed watching local racer Johnny Loper running his Chevy big block powered British Anglia. It was a. Handful.

It’s MOPAR or no car!

Do you see a fat person? Male or female?

@seththomas9105

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, and it was that way until the 1990's and kids started to sit at computers all day.

@VitaminDurs

4 жыл бұрын

@@seththomas9105 except all the fatties were our parents, not the kids sitting at computers

It looks like a Mopar car show 99% of the cars there are all mopars LOL!! It's all Dodge Vs Plymouth

Real Deal Drag Racing, before the Big Corporate Monster destroyed the sport.

This was when we had real drag racing! All this fun and excitement and it was cheap to go to and almost free. Then the NHRA turned it into a money grubbing greedy event for the promoters. I family guy can't bring his wife and kids because the prices fucking hijack you!