I will forever love this track man so many memories. RIP ATCO DRAGWAY

I had a 750Kawasaki triple 2 stroke Drag bike for over 33yrs. AWSOME sport

One of the best 60s drag videos on KZread!

I lived in Sicklerville and W.Berlin NJ after i got out of the Navy back in the 80s I raced a 73 Plymouth Duster.@ Atco

No beer? I was involved in the mid 60's and there was always beer. Beer in the garage, on the strip always. And no one ever talked like this guy. We had no quarrel with bikers and they had no quarrel with us.

Thanks for the memories

In those days, those Slingshot dragsters smoked the tires all the way down the track. If they could’ve hooked they would have went a lot faster.

great video! I happen to own the Lyndwood dragster that is seen at the 11:33 mark in the video. originally owned and raced by the team of Solomon & Rorre's A/D team out of Havertown PA. they ran in A/D with a 98" wb Lyndwood dragster with a 394 Olds and a 6-71 supercharger on gas.

@MoxieMike66

2 жыл бұрын

My dad and his buddy Ed Bernier ran BB/GD's back then w/a 392 Hemi and a 6-71 blower. Wonder if they ever raced each other. They ran Shirley a number of times, my dad has home movies of it.

@paulross9287

2 жыл бұрын

Way cool!

My dad owned the Hairy Canary former factory a/fx car converted to small block Chevy fast for the times , campaigned from 65-70 fun for me as a young teen 🤪

Wish I could have been in this era.

@MrDonSnow

6 жыл бұрын

mike smith today a lot of stock factory cars are faster. I know my 2001 Volve turbo is. It's copletely stock but well tuned with the best parts. I have been an auto mechanic for 42 years.

@chikendagr8994

5 жыл бұрын

mike smith Slingshot cars were deathtraps. You’re sitting behind the rear axle and you have an engine that is running nitromethane right in front of you. Nitromethane doesn’t even need extra oxygen to ignite because it carries its own.

@ixlr8677

3 жыл бұрын

it was all you heard and more.

This is a hidden gem of a video

In this video at 0:35 seconds you can see the back end of miss Phil worth the last name baker that is my family’s old care really cool to see in the video

Boy lots of memories. Miss the smell and feel standing next to the cars.

Good video. I was a customer of K&G Speed Associates with the meager money I had. Chris was always helpful, even with people like me who weren't really 'players.' Their "Chop your ET" executioner T-shirts, sold for 2 bucks in the '70's, were a regular part of my wardrobe.

I still live like this! Tire smoke, blowers and loud exhaust

that is so awesome..gotta find more ol videos!!

I race at Atco quite a bit. Great track.

These are the original Street Outlaws !

No laptops hooked to tuners,,,just an ear , reading plugs, and pray like hell.

My fathers friend owned that 48 Austin, eventually it broke the axle on a launch and threw the car thru the fence and flipped....car was from Philly.

@bashbarbershop9208

4 жыл бұрын

was that jim the painter

Very cool Thanks for posting...

Ive gone 30 years thinking i have an autographed Big Daddy Don Garlitz poster with Rat Fink on it. Looked up Rat Fink - Different "Big Daddy". Lol. Thats Ed Roth. Still a cool poster.

Lou Reed at 1:10. Love these old videos!

Thank's for sharing..

Boy, if that piece....audio voice and all, didn't just "drip" the early -mid sixties...nothing did. What fun! Tom Brookshier / the "voice"....he turned into a long-time major-league sports announcer. I didn't realize it was him until the credits. It sure didn't sound like him. I wonder if those two guys with the fuel burning coupe are still breathing air? Did they stay married.....that's the big question, haha.

loved that description of our forfathers.

RIP Atco. At least Maple Grove is still around.

@ThomasELeClair

3 ай бұрын

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,The grove will be around as long as Drag Racing itself,,,,,,,,unless the fascist feds shut it down..............................

this is a true classic!

With arm pits allowed to drip copious amounts of BO, one could also trim off a 1/10 of second at the drags in the 60's. But the guys that sweat the most usually lost too.

We ran both cars and bikes at Atco. Later when the other drivers were coming in from the cities, we moved to Maple Grove Dragway. Then we had the same problems there.

@garybrader8447

Жыл бұрын

What problems?

@shadowdog500

Жыл бұрын

@@garybrader8447 I assume he means long lines. When the staging lanes were packed years ago you’d be lucky to get four runs.

@garybrader8447

Жыл бұрын

@@shadowdog500 OK, thank you. I would think that spectators might consider that an acceptable problem.

great film wasn't long enough .

i luv this video .!!!

Awesome!

I like this track close to my home&i hope it continues keep these young kids off the street as i say race the strip Not the street

Don't you just love the lack of ANY guard rails?? Awesome!!

@barryanderson6318

4 жыл бұрын

Jungle Jim used to go into the grass and back on to the track back then I saw it with my own eyes

@larrydrozd2740

4 жыл бұрын

@@barryanderson6318 Yep...so did I. A few others come to mind too. We had US 30 and Great Lakes where I grew up....safety in the 60's was an after thought. It wasn't just drag racing though, Formula One was way worse!!

Drag Man ! Drag!...yeah!

If you know what they look like, at 2:26 that's a young as fuck Bob and Etta Glidden!!!

@ThomasELeClair

3 ай бұрын

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,dead wrong.........................................................................................

He is wearing a chair!

Whats the name of the corvette song that plays at the beginning, i could only find princes vette song on youtube but not this one.

@schlockfink

9 жыл бұрын

The song is Called "tough little buggy" by the New Beats. it's a song about a corvair.

@stevenfaucher7533

9 жыл бұрын

oh thanks appreciate it

"They wear special suits of asbestos and breathing masks" Yikes! D:

Anyone know frank antoniello he raced dragster called the dragonfly in the 60s early 70s the antoniello brothers

I didn't realize that "no deodorant" was a hot rodding prerequisite. That'll save me some money from now on, since I'm not expected to wear deodorant. Its more money I can put towards headers and such. Is antiperspirant allowed?

@scrunchymacscruff1244

4 жыл бұрын

SPLASH a little Blatz under the armpits

the sickies on motorcycles no wonder the bikers pushed back !!!

BTW, they didn't make firesuits out of asbestos!

It looks to me like your photographer got caught flat footed for the Garlits exhibition run that night at 19:53 on the time dial...!!!

@mrrolandlawrence

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas De Lello sounds like he says DG clocked at 204 mph!

@ThomasDeLello

8 жыл бұрын

+Roland Lawrence I was at Great Meadows on Aug. 3rd 1964. The track loudspeakers were so poor that I never knew what happened that day until I read it on the exhibit poster at the Palm Beach Raceway where DG had his #6 Swamp Rat on display...! That was about ten years ago and Tommy Lemons was still with us.

@ThomasDeLello

5 жыл бұрын

Check out my KZread Channel... 40+ videos of mine about cars, drag racing, airplanes both model and real and my music too.

Cool video cars where slow back then

Where did you find this?! I need a copy of this! Far out! :)

south philly

“Overpriced hotdog and a cup of flat Pepsi”. Boy. Nothing has changed! We can make better power out of smaller engines but can’t even get a Fresh Pepsi?

gettin noizy in joizy!!! now e town shuttin down absolutely sad state of affairs!!!

@edwardchascsa4191

5 жыл бұрын

If people don't start standing up our sport as well as all carbon footprint sports will be shut down by the left liberals. But don't ask them about their frequent plane trips causing pollution and ruining the environment.

@larrydrozd2740

5 жыл бұрын

@@edwardchascsa4191 Liberals? Um....its more of a fact that kids are just not into cars like we were beck then. There are way too many other things to preoccupy themselves with instead of some complicated, expensive drag race car. I know suburban kids in their 20's that STILL do not have a drivers license!! Don't need one and have no use for one. They like cars, its just something "old guys" are into....they're not.

@edwardchascsa4191

5 жыл бұрын

@@larrydrozd2740 partly right. We have plenty of young people racing. History is repeating itself. They love street racing. The reality is it's motorcycles, powerboats, snowmobiles, tractor pulls anything with a engine. Oh yeah the Green New Deal includes your daily driver. Check that out.

95% good old Chrysler "Early" Hemis ! They're still doing it all over North America, they were only built from 1951-1958, pretty amazing eh ?

I don't much like the script for this video. It seems like it was written with a condescending attitude, insulting the people in the sport while explaining it poorly.

@garybrader8447

Жыл бұрын

The narrator needs a slap.

Was that Bob frey in the booth

@dutyhole1734

8 жыл бұрын

+Krit Campbell i thought it was too !!

@barryanderson6318

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that was Bob, He was funny as hell on the mic, like a comedian

I'v never bought a Doo Dad or a Hee Haw...

It was less safe then and I'll bet there was less anxiety among those guys.

0.0 asbestos suits. But they didn't know.

Unfortunately, Atco Dragway is permanently closed.

Philly Modifiers

Paint stocker running over 100 at 12 seconds? Huh

the 554 Coupe sounds Fat ! (running too Rich )

Did he say they wear clothes of asbestos?? Lol

Not sure why the masks, barely hitting 100mph

@mikebaker9574

Жыл бұрын

The video said 200 MPH

No deodorant yikes

Great time capsule for Drag Racing. Stand up racers or our sport will be stamped out by the same people that want liberal leftist socialism and won't let Trump build a southern control barrier for our safety.

@larrydrozd2740

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have to make this about some stupid political bullshit?? Jeez....

@Romans--bo7br

5 жыл бұрын

@@larrydrozd2740.... he's speaking the truth about making a "stand for the sport"..... there Are those on the "left" who want ALL forms of motorsports... "Gone"!

@larrydrozd2740

5 жыл бұрын

@@Romans--bo7br Who cares? This is the same bullshit "they" have been saying for decades.....ain't gonna happen. You know what will kill motor sports? Lack of interest!!! Nobody shows up......it goes away. Again....not the format for this stupid political bullshit.

@woolyhighlander7280

4 жыл бұрын

Simply Tweet Donald and remind him that "Drag Racing" is an all American Sport, and he'll probably promote it ! Help keep it going, it's important

He has his wife trained to go drag racing, it’s a family thing!