STREET RACER - 1997 Los Angeles Street Racing Documentary

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A documentary about the growing popularity of street racing in the Los Angeles area, circa 1997, featuring San Fernando Road, Terminal Island Raceway, and Los Angeles County Raceway.
First film by director Alex Ranarivelo
Followed up by "The Last Race" and then "Born To Race".

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  • @Boots_And_Slicks14
    @Boots_And_Slicks1412 жыл бұрын

    I remember '97 growing up near the SFV. LS1's were brand new technology,you could still get 92 octane for under a buck and a half,dial up internet was the big thing, most people did not have cell phones yet, having a 13 second street car made you untouchable for the most part... I honestly miss the days when guys from my generation would go out and do stuff rather text and update their wall on Facebook.I know this sounds hypocritical,but, I would give up the technology we have to have those...

  • @joshuagarvey9362

    @joshuagarvey9362

    3 жыл бұрын

    Heck ya.So good back then.My 13 second street car would bust so much azz.LS motors and vortex heads were non existent.Glenoaks and pieoria,Roxford,Gleanoaks,Mason.I remember meeting at Kevin’s Burgers every weekend.

  • @Boots_And_Slicks14

    @Boots_And_Slicks14

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joshuagarvey9362 Yup, been to all those spots except Kevin's Burgers unfortunately. I did go to Cruisers though, watching everybody leave was fun.. Better times for sure.

  • @davecharell9581

    @davecharell9581

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just do it the underworld is still out here

  • @deebee9751

    @deebee9751

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said. This internet and cameras on phones really messed up the up coming generation which they waste there teenage years away and by the time people ask how there teenage life was, Oh I was On my phone other than all of us OGs have millions of stories to tell of what we did everyday and got to live life at our fullest young years being so productive back then. I'm glad we got to live it and would not want to re live this generation ever.

  • @starcups8522

    @starcups8522

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deebee9751 I was born in 01' and i hate the times i got to live. I would do anything to be born in the 80'.

  • @deebee9751
    @deebee97512 жыл бұрын

    Wow my 96 Midori Civic HB made it in this video. This was the bomb back then. I had my 500whp Prelude back then and used to drive to Sylmar Street Races with slicks on and just racing and having fun with all the other fast cars there. Funny thing Is I still have my Midori Civic HB to this day. lol

  • @devinecomedy43

    @devinecomedy43

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember the first night that thing came out. Everyone was 😮

  • @gregmorgan9989

    @gregmorgan9989

    4 ай бұрын

    Sylmar & Dennys under the freeway...🙌🏾👊🏽🏁

  • @deebee9751

    @deebee9751

    22 күн бұрын

    Thank you bro. Funny I still have that ek hb but its been a shell since 2001 but im now in the process of doing an awd on it.

  • @billmadison2032
    @billmadison2032 Жыл бұрын

    In Florida then. I had a 93 Mustang GT all bolt ons, 2 kits. High 10 low 11 second Street car. I went 6 months without a loss. What a great time to be alive and young.

  • @notone4029
    @notone40295 ай бұрын

    The “Golden Era” Miss those Days!! Take me BACK!!!

  • @spillow762
    @spillow76211 жыл бұрын

    1997 probably the best year in the USA in terms of everything...

  • @roadmaster9777

    @roadmaster9777

    5 жыл бұрын

    Spillow and I was born so

  • @tisoy909

    @tisoy909

    2 жыл бұрын

    MAGA

  • @dipperpines4271

    @dipperpines4271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Except for gang violence

  • @DANKSTAR209

    @DANKSTAR209

    6 ай бұрын

    Was 16 and loving these california modesto streets

  • @spankthemonkey3437

    @spankthemonkey3437

    5 ай бұрын

    Cigar in the Whitehouse😃

  • @idontlikecops1
    @idontlikecops111 жыл бұрын

    danm those hondas looked pretty clean for the mid 90's look at all them teggys!

  • @c20xe200016v
    @c20xe200016v11 жыл бұрын

    Great documantary. Brought back many memories.

  • @nicccfury4979
    @nicccfury49795 жыл бұрын

    1997 - 99 was the shit period if u live in so cal u know how fun it was

  • @IMSOHIGH619

    @IMSOHIGH619

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree salute from San Diego CA good ol days SO CAL WAS TRULLY DEFINED IN 97 I still got my civic

  • @ThePapo1980
    @ThePapo19809 жыл бұрын

    I started Driving in 1996 on my own, 1995 with a parent. July 15, 1996 I filled my truck up first time in Ballwin Missouri for 88 cents. Unbelievable to think today. 5.0s and SS camaros, firebirds ruled the streets and muscle cars. "Ricers" were just getting started. And for awhile especially afterThe Fast and Furious in 2001, ricers began and dominated the old muscle car way, of spray and pray. But the last 5-6 years if you are still in the scene street/strip, you can see this technology, tunes,chips, computers, TURBOS being turned back towards the old V8 cars. Mustangs, Camaros, Chargers etc. IRS is almost common place, the rides are amazing. And the power and speed they are putting down/ plus handling is blowing a lot of 4 cylinders out of the water again. 10psi on a 4 banger, is still lagging on 10psi on a V8. And the increase is exponential with the bigger motors and PSI increase. Its neat to see the full circle that being ran, where will it end..,Who cares as long as we keep going faster!

  • @CamaroAmx
    @CamaroAmx11 жыл бұрын

    i remember those days. i got my lisence in early 2000 and by end of summer had a low 13/high 12 sec car and i never lost a race with it (still have the car). if i wanted to hang with my freinds or even talk to them, i just went to their house. i didn't even get a computer until dec 01. it was alot better. there were more kids playing outside in the summer back then, now teens hardly leave the house. most teens don't even want cars cause they don't see the need. they just use computers or text..

  • @Thejordanenthusiast
    @Thejordanenthusiast8 жыл бұрын

    All those VW's though. Love it. What I wouldn't give to be in my 20's back then. Seems like muscle and tuners weren't ego tripping back then about who had the better car.

  • @joshuagarvey9362
    @joshuagarvey93623 жыл бұрын

    Omg heck ya man this was my era.Was so good back then.Race what you brought and not all the B.S like today.

  • @Boots_And_Slicks14
    @Boots_And_Slicks1411 жыл бұрын

    I remember all that! I used to see MANY pre-'74 (That was the cut-off for smog then) Camaros (even first gen ones) Novas, Malibus, ETC for under $3,000. These were complete, running and driving cars that you could restore/hop-up while you drove them. I remember it was around 2002 when prices of old iron started sky-rocketing.

  • @banemafia4629
    @banemafia46293 жыл бұрын

    So this is why integras are so expensive

  • @EnSkate
    @EnSkate12 жыл бұрын

    awsome! this is Californian history

  • @masterkey1887
    @masterkey188712 жыл бұрын

    yup my dad had an 89 and kicked ass with it here in Texas along with his 87 turbo regal which we still have to day

  • @leeroyjenkem3471
    @leeroyjenkem34712 жыл бұрын

    3:17 song name?

  • @brandobee2264
    @brandobee22642 жыл бұрын

    They used to trip off street racing now the real concern is with sideshows 😂😂

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    Yup sideshow idiots and people building cars just for IG clout

  • @juansimon5802
    @juansimon5802 Жыл бұрын

    this is my era, seeing lacr and battle of the imports was crazy. was building racecars in my shop while i was in high school and racing at lacr and famoso was all we had other then the streets. they opened irwindale 1/8 mile in 03 cause fast and furious had every kid with a honda or mits. on the streets tryin to race. lol cool video

  • @TheLlamanzaresCompany
    @TheLlamanzaresCompany4 ай бұрын

    Friends, nice cars, good memories.

  • @kenichi3047
    @kenichi30472 жыл бұрын

    My dad from san diego raced some of the members from redline racing which make a apperance in the video my dad wasn't even from La he was from san diego

  • @AccordTorneo
    @AccordTorneo2 жыл бұрын

    What's the name of that song at 3:15

  • @asst5
    @asst511 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the song that starts off at around 3:16? Thanks

  • @CamaroAmx
    @CamaroAmx11 жыл бұрын

    i was still running my AMX undefeated against imports into 2003 on the street. in the late 90s/early 2000s some musclecars were still affordable and gas was still cheap.i missed out on handfull of $1000 V8 running and driving musclecars around that time period. in my area in the early 2000s, there were no fast imports. there were modded ones, but nothing a decent factory stock V8 couldn't beat.

  • @GnarshredProductions

    @GnarshredProductions

    5 жыл бұрын

    2018 now lol. I think all the old school carburetor v8 guys just gave up and retired to the car shows. Realized they don't stand a chance against turbo ls swap cars, hellcats, and all the turbo imports now that they are actually fast as the technology improved and stuff bacame more available.

  • @EASTSIDE-313

    @EASTSIDE-313

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@GnarshredProductions u don't have a clue lol

  • @IcanDriveIt

    @IcanDriveIt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EASTSIDE-313 4 cylinder cars are in the 7s now. The game has changed

  • @EASTSIDE-313

    @EASTSIDE-313

    Жыл бұрын

    @@IcanDriveIt and 8 cylinder cars run in the 3s, what's your point? 🤣

  • @spankthemonkey3437

    @spankthemonkey3437

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@EASTSIDE-313only 10thousand HP cars that can't drive on road🤷🤦🏼😆🤣

  • @VF1Skullangel
    @VF1Skullangel11 жыл бұрын

    This was back when the street racing scene was done right. Long before that fucking movie hit and ruined everything.

  • @TexasAce
    @TexasAce12 жыл бұрын

    What stands out to me is how dang slow all those cars are. Things have come a LONG ways in the last 15 years.

  • @Treaxvour

    @Treaxvour

    4 ай бұрын

    They are eco boxes with bolt ons. Sentras, accords.

  • @haskiMK
    @haskiMK2 ай бұрын

    does anyone know the song from 3:17? I am still looking for it. I found that 'dextrous - victory payback remix' has the same intro...

  • @fenderfan8543
    @fenderfan85432 жыл бұрын

    "came from the factory with 500 hp" lol......right on bud.

  • @Julius_FL5
    @Julius_FL511 ай бұрын

    4 years before the original Fast And Furious movie

  • @jaimeramirez-perez7198
    @jaimeramirez-perez71982 жыл бұрын

    What's the song that's starts at 3:17

  • @haskiMK

    @haskiMK

    2 ай бұрын

    dj dextrous - victory payback remix has the same intro, but I still can't find this

  • @steveelco114
    @steveelco1142 ай бұрын

    My inly complaint . Wish it was longer . Awesome 👍

  • @danteisme
    @danteisme2 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure this has already been said or noticed since this video is 10 years old now, but @6:32, is that Rj devera?

  • @svenvanbastelaere2275

    @svenvanbastelaere2275

    4 ай бұрын

    Im pretty sure that this is Rj Devera.

  • @kochj23
    @kochj235 жыл бұрын

    It is nice to see shots of Kevin's burgers. Friday's at Kevin's until the shooting across the street when that kid died. Everything went downhill from then. It is funny to see The Road back in the day.

  • @marioremondino9837
    @marioremondino98372 ай бұрын

    This takes me back….. Having a 14 second hatchback was such a big deal because you could hang with stock mustangs and F bodies.

  • @josephcrisamore5098
    @josephcrisamore50983 жыл бұрын

    Is the scene dead? I used to see tuners running the streets where I lived now I don't see any when I'm looking to race

  • @infelicitas

    @infelicitas

    Жыл бұрын

    Come to texas man, they're everywhere

  • @noble20xx56

    @noble20xx56

    7 ай бұрын

    Heck nah. Still going strong. I hear people tearing it up ever weekend.

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    It's dead up here where I live in Washington State

  • @SadeT617
    @SadeT61711 жыл бұрын

    Look at those amazing gas prices. 1.29 psh if only it was that much now a days.

  • @ncr-letsplayproduction882
    @ncr-letsplayproduction8824 жыл бұрын

    What is the car that race against the first gen of Rabbit/Golf at the beginning of the video?

  • @gtauto7923

    @gtauto7923

    4 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a Mitsubishi starion.

  • @rocsti5402
    @rocsti54023 жыл бұрын

    Alex I should get a hold of you I wrote a movie you'd probably love. I seen the last race like over ten years ago and my love for alice dj comes from the ending. I loved that short too.

  • @LoneStarBoy713
    @LoneStarBoy71311 жыл бұрын

    The song at the beginning is the song Reptile fights Lou cane or what ever his name is I. The mortal kombat movie

  • @chicagochris1988
    @chicagochris198811 жыл бұрын

    I'm not the only one commenting about the amazing gas prices of the video haha :)

  • @masterkey1887
    @masterkey188712 жыл бұрын

    the song at 10:50 does not need to be put to imports of any kind

  • @milkee798
    @milkee7984 жыл бұрын

    I was there Sylmar Gardena Carson

  • @TrayDuece14
    @TrayDuece143 жыл бұрын

    Hells yea this is when i fell in love with japanese imports!!!

  • @bmgbryanmgar883

    @bmgbryanmgar883

    3 жыл бұрын

    American muscle beats import every time

  • @TrayDuece14

    @TrayDuece14

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bmgbryanmgar883 ummm okkk. Carry on..

  • @L30GH05TDUD3

    @L30GH05TDUD3

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bmgbryanmgar883 yeah, however in the tuning area muscle is limited, while in the jdm you can tune your car to be more powerful than a muscle car, and even a supercar if you invest enough

  • @modlist6129

    @modlist6129

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@L30GH05TDUD3 what? Lol any car can be made fast with enough money lol muscle cars can be “tuned” to make good power lol

  • @grandiewandie

    @grandiewandie

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bmgbryanmgar883 yeah until it gets gapped by a Miata after the first 3 hairpins.

  • @alexchavez4978
    @alexchavez49783 ай бұрын

    What a fun time

  • @jayhughes2418
    @jayhughes24184 ай бұрын

    Shit. We already had 8 and 9 sec cars on the streets in Philly, NJ and NY in 1997

  • @sdfsdfsdferr
    @sdfsdfsdferr11 жыл бұрын

    I'd have to say street racing modified cars are pretty much dead. Well here in Canada it is anyway it use to be extremely popular but in the last 15years insurance has seriously increased a stock 4 door Civic is over 310$ a month :/ Modifie it you will struggle to get insurance and if you do it's so high it's not worth it, and no one wants to street race a stock 100hp car.

  • @barryrussell4106
    @barryrussell41064 ай бұрын

    I was in San Diego with 67 ss chevelle 396 could hardly get a race. The tuner guys knew better.

  • @joshuagarvey9362
    @joshuagarvey93623 жыл бұрын

    Kevin’s Burger’s

  • @spiderman1321
    @spiderman132111 жыл бұрын

    England is currently almost $3 a litre and $500 road tax a year for a 2 litre

  • @naughtmeenaym869
    @naughtmeenaym8695 ай бұрын

    An LS5 did NOT have 500 HP. You're thinking LS6.

  • @james31615
    @james3161511 жыл бұрын

    Gas prices back then were the best

  • @sebastianniqvist3144
    @sebastianniqvist31443 жыл бұрын

    I wonder where are all these people now...

  • @joshuagarvey9362

    @joshuagarvey9362

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still alive and participating lol.Nit going to stop me.

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    Middle aged adults with children and grandchildren lol

  • @98snakehorse
    @98snakehorse9 жыл бұрын

    Its crazy how much the car seen has faded. Still a lot of die hard drag racers out there but not like I remember it as a teenager.

  • @epramos6800

    @epramos6800

    6 жыл бұрын

    Died out because the State of California started crushing cars when they were impounded for street racing. Meaning, you can't get your car back ever...

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    Now its mostly just street takeovers and for IG clout

  • @CamaroAmx
    @CamaroAmx11 жыл бұрын

    Now? i don't know. i don't think there's much action around anymore (not in the last 6-7 years). i used to be able to hear them, now silence. no groups gathered anywhere. most of the real good cars are owned by older guys. they get on it once in awhile, but mostly just cruise around no real messing around.

  • @Moe99721
    @Moe997213 жыл бұрын

    7:20 steve aoki in the 90s

  • @JustinSimm90
    @JustinSimm9012 жыл бұрын

    Lol at $1.37 being a high price for gas XD

  • @jhr1572
    @jhr15724 ай бұрын

    Hey I think I see myself about to make a pull. Lucky Racing.

  • @CamaroAmx
    @CamaroAmx11 жыл бұрын

    i still kick myself for not buying the white 71 383 auto Roadrunner for $800 in late 2000. but i had just bought my AMX a week earlier and didn't have the money. it was clean, ran good and had no rust (amazing around here). last i heard with what they go for now, i could sell it and all but buy a house with the money.

  • @CamaroAmx
    @CamaroAmx11 жыл бұрын

    $1.37 was high for the time,but its LA. Gas was around $1/gal well into 2002 when i graduated high school in Pa. i remember laughing at a full service station charging nearly $2/gal for regular in 2001. i said no one would pay that kinda of money for gas. nowadays i'd be all too happy to. that station went out of buisness soon after but the prices were still up until gas hit nearly $5/gal in the summer of 2007. just as a reminder i guess.

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    Now $5 to $6 is the normal price

  • @CamaroAmx

    @CamaroAmx

    5 ай бұрын

    @@FELIPE8226M I’m paying $3.45/ gal. $5-6 a gallon? Where do you live? Hawaii?

  • @FELIPE8226M

    @FELIPE8226M

    5 ай бұрын

    @@CamaroAmx Washington State its $5+ for 91 in my Bmw, never mind I just checked its $4.50 right now it went down recently lol

  • @Brandonsk33n
    @Brandonsk33n11 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to take me eg coupe back in time and show them what a 63mm turbo can do at 30 psi lol

  • @sdfsdfsdferr
    @sdfsdfsdferr11 жыл бұрын

    1.30$ a Gallon to think where i live these days we pay 1.30$ a Litre ...

  • @nagyba
    @nagyba11 жыл бұрын

    I like Born to Race better :D

  • @TheCamarodude96
    @TheCamarodude9612 жыл бұрын

    The muscle cars got too fast and had to go to the dragstrip XD

  • @ghost9431
    @ghost943111 жыл бұрын

    it takes a lot of work but yes a skyline and supra can beat pretty much everything in a drag race including bikes. but if you build up anything you can get it to go fast

  • @milkee798
    @milkee7984 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah and WEST COViNA!!!

  • @toxicmagnum5269
    @toxicmagnum52697 жыл бұрын

    look out 1320

  • @naughtmeenaym869
    @naughtmeenaym8695 ай бұрын

    So so sad. That's LA? No wonder. In Texas we had 8-second race cars on the street in 1997. Got married that year. Still married to the same lady. Civics killed street racing.

  • @josephcrisamore5098
    @josephcrisamore50983 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Built My Nissan !

  • @angeljuarez8307
    @angeljuarez83076 жыл бұрын

    if I was dat cop would let den race there not going over the limit

  • @braxwright31
    @braxwright315 жыл бұрын

    Let's not use motley crue for hondas...

  • @Mau5heads4u
    @Mau5heads4u11 жыл бұрын

    *Facepalm*

  • @budgetbuiltmusclecars5861
    @budgetbuiltmusclecars58613 ай бұрын

    He knows nothing about cars or street racing.

  • @dqkittenbubble
    @dqkittenbubble11 жыл бұрын

    "The end of the rule of the muscle car." What a joke. The muscle car is still king and if you can afford a 1970 Chevelle ss 454 you can afford some gas. Chevrolet all the way.

  • @bigpun313
    @bigpun31311 жыл бұрын

    Tell that to the Toyota Supra and Nissan Skyline lol!

  • @antoniorafael7343
    @antoniorafael73434 ай бұрын

    That MK1 tho 🔥

  • @briandunphy5244
    @briandunphy52444 ай бұрын

    Lol, LS6*

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