O loved the AHRA!! They were like the old football AFL in that they were less stringent on the rules and let the racers race! With the old NFL, it was always a run up the middle in a cloud of dust, but the AFL players would make crazy low percentage passes that excited the fans. Like the NFL, the NHRA was just stodgy and stiff with the rules. For example, in the early Sixties, the NHRA would only allow a 7 inch wide tire for Super Stock cars whose factory horsepower could totally overwhelm a 7 inch wide tire. And at the 1964 Indy Nationals, NHRA officials saw the drivers of some Super Stockers putting a liquid traction compound on their slicks in the pits and ordered all of the drivers to change tires before running another round. This caused the Ramchargers the win in Super Stock Automatic. The AHRA would never have done this.

1960s my grand parents lived on doremus street within sight of the lynch road plant detroit where my grandpa worked for plymouth . he was a total plymouth fan , drove nothing but furys . my uncles had every sox n martin photo and model car . sox n martin were huge stars to 1960s detroiters . seeing this with the additional bonus of the greatest announcer ever in keith jackson covering it is great . give me a 1970 sox n martin plymouth duster every time , underrated classic

My Dad & Uncle were in the beginnings of NHRA . I have been hooked since seeing the hot rods in our service station. First race 69 Grand national's at Detroit Dragway. Been in my blood my whole life.

RAMCHARGERS SHOULD MAKE A COMEBACK......

Those Hemis killed the fords & chevys 🤘🤘🤘

@joshuadavis862

4 жыл бұрын

More like the Ford's were the hemis only competition.

@arthurwells7778

4 жыл бұрын

and where were they the fords

I remember losing John Mulligan in a top fuel accident. If I remember correctly, the engine blew in his slingshot dragster and some engine parts came back and hit him. Took that hard as a young kid. Beebe & Mulligan were one of the teams I really dug! Thanks much, bud.

@elwoodljordan

7 жыл бұрын

robkal56 he died from extensive burns (blood poisoning)

@erniestevenson3705

4 жыл бұрын

Yes he was very good at what he did it's a sad that he had perished with some of the best drivers I've ever seen and known that it was believed was that Lions drag strip when he lost his life rest in peace Mulligan

I was 6 in 69. I'd give my left one to go back to see these Mopars at the track.

@bigviking0001

6 жыл бұрын

I was there. It was a fantastic experience. I was 13 and life was just one far-out thing after another. Watching the "Hawaiian" fly through the air was special!

@70stunes71

5 жыл бұрын

uncle skeeter glad we lived it. Really miss those 70s. That's why I'm still in the game just a little on the sidelines now trying to get a car together. It's funny working on vehicles and engines that were built so long ago now. Actually glad to see the top three manufacturing their brands of hot rods still to this day ensuring at least a future where we can still see them out on the roads and racing. Not sure if we can turn the youth around though to put more interest at the tracks. I'm a die-hard Mopar guy.

@edwardchascsa4191

3 жыл бұрын

@@70stunes71 hope you are having luck putting your car together. I was 11 and was hooked immediately. Kinda in the same boat trying to get my 67 chevelle "the Hustler" back together.

Times were good then. Simpler. Glad I saw them. Too much tobacco tho. Nasty. No masks. No Covid.

Man this is good to watch wen I was a kid I loved some of these guys Ronnie Sox vanke Arlen will get this I can’t believe vanke didn’t beat that other cuda

Awesome footage

Sounds like the old ABC Wide World of Sports announcer.

@shimshonbendan8730

5 жыл бұрын

It is. It is Keith Jackson.

Yes, THANK YOU, both of you! Rare rare rare! :)

thanks

A hot track and not much grip, good driving at 1.34

Now this is drag racing everybody ran hemis lol I guess a lot still runs hemis the best motor mopar or no car

S+M were the team to beat well into the '70s

Wow thank you

What year was the Sox and Martins flat bed truck and is it still around?

@Brianscoronet

Ай бұрын

It could be a 67, 68, or 69, I believe someone found it a restored it.

Keith jackson

one of the best ive seen. the footage of john mulligan is priceless!