Awesome, would love to see this class in NHRA!

Love Tim Wilkerson! One hell of a nice guy! Sold me a set of Pistons years ago that had a few runs on them.

I love how the run with you two was basically "I've got a crazy idea that's gonna cost a lot of money" And they're like "Hey! I have the same crazy idea that costs a lot of money!" And you both are just like "Sweet! Let's do crazy shit together!" and we all get to watch and cheer.

I grew up with fuel altereds in the mid 60 ‘s my neighbor was the owner of “Pure Heaven 2”. R T Reed was his name we raced OCIR ,Irwindale , and Lions.the car is still in the NHRA museum in Pomona

@roudydog3063

2 жыл бұрын

Funny you say Neighbors, our Neighborhood, was always rumbling with Steve Hair, Mike Sullivan and Sometimes Ed Moore prepping for Fontana push starting on the back street by the Flood canals North San Bernardino Nothing like a fuel engine at Midnight I was in Highschool

I can appreciate the feelings... we sat on the AA/FA record for years (Phoenix FA) I had the privilege to work with Ron Fassl and Amos Satterlee for nearly a decade and learned an awful lot.. Ron and Amos had spoken of you guys and am happy you mention them in the history of AA/FA... Tear em up guys... I can appreciate the "Nostalgia" FA but my heart lies with the "Modern"

@timwallace1851

3 жыл бұрын

Loved watching you guys run at Boise! Ron was way ahead of his time for sure. Had he not had the crash I bet he would have been the first to 300! And yes nostalgia is cool but the "transformer" big show style AA/FA will always be my favorite

@randalljames1

3 жыл бұрын

@@timwallace1851 Boise was always fun.... The night we went off the big end and plowed that field was tough.. But what was cool were the horde of fans that helped us clean the car up while I got the fuel tank fixed.. Could not have done it without the help from fans..

As a fellow altered driver, this is something to aspire to. Congratulations

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

The world is a better place with more altereds.

Excellent! Steve Evans said back in the 80s... "Richard Hartman rarely has an uneventful run."

Congrats Richard..Enjoyed working with you on Bruce's car. Class act and wish I would of stayed around.

NHRA needs to bring this class back. Congratulations guy's on this historic run💪💯💯💯

@recrdholdr

3 жыл бұрын

This or have a Nostaglia funny car class.

@CTX50

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Way more fun to watch then Pro Stock or Pro Stock Motorcycle

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Even a once a year exhibition, at the US Nationals or something, would be really cool!

@danmyers9372

3 жыл бұрын

@@LivingNitro - see my other post. Car needs to be at the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion races! Would be cool to get both cars there for match races!

@f-4gww458

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah basically a funny car without the body, but damn that was awesome. Please,please NHRA make this a pro class.

Nothing thumps your chest like a nitro burning engine. I love how you can tell the moment they stop bottle feeding the engine alcohol and it starts running on basically pure nitro haha

I still got goose bumps watching them make that record pass again! Seeing it here doesn't produce NEAR the emotion and excitement as it did saturday when being there to see it happen in person. Excellent job yall!! That was a solid stick and move from the whole team right down to the driver. Thanks for making that day extra special for me and my family more than you know.

Awesome. Being an ex drag racer, the ride description had me on the edge. Lol shame the camera couldn't handle the SPEED.

Love the way the camera " gives up" at the end.

@nzsaltflatsracer8054

3 жыл бұрын

@Better Time Yeah you really should see it moving backwards before getting in front of it!

Being there to witness it was amazing first time iv ever seen any car go over 300

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you got to see it!

that's a perfect example of AMERICAN ingenuity!! making dreams come alive, well done!!

Richard and Tim are my heroes. Good to hear the whole story and watch their progress.

Sometimes I get bored and I watch the NHRA racing but I like it I used to go with my husband RoyRodriguez to the Alamo motor complex but not anymore since I got separated I haven't gone to the races but pretty soon I'll go back thanks NHRA and come back to San Antonio Texas 210 baby

@brandonsavoy2915

2 жыл бұрын

Aww I haven't been to the races in yes either maybe one day we can go

I remember altered bleach burnouts when I was a kid in texas...crazy! You guys took me back... Thank you and big congratulations!

Been saying this for years! NHRA bring back the fuel altereds! Even Ron Capps races them! Them and Ron Fissel, Ricky Ruiz, Nevada rattler, Alaskan grizzly, the mob, Texas ranger, baboon, pure hell, etc... this would add so much to the NHRA National events!!! Come on guys!!!😉👍

Love these guys! 💪 Altereds at Irwindale in '71 I was there. Yea baby 👍👍

I’m 76 so I remember the FA’s of old. Am I the only one that see todays fuel altered’s as funny cars without tops.

Thank you for mentioning Ron fassl. 💯 name... would have been cool in the video to have the old guys from Boise and fire Red raceway runs...like Mac McCord... Ed moore.... Ray higley.... Tim Bennett..... The list goes on and on but congrats on doing the 300-mph hour pass...💯

Drag racing needed this. Congratulations to everyone involved. 🔥

Great job to Richard and Tim and the team who assembled and service this car! The Hartman family is awesome. They deserve all the great things that come their way. I have been fortunate to work with them over the years. Worked for Virgil from 02-04 on his Top Fuel cars. Was so lucky to get to know Richard and his family through the years. Great racer, and awesome family man!

Indeed Fuel Altereds have been fan favorites since they first showed up at drag strips in the 60's with the Winged Express likely being the most famous. Seeing these guys keep the dream alive and run amazing modern day speed and ET is AWESOME!! I join all others in hoping NHRA take a look at these guys and consider the fans, bring back Altereds and Gassers!!

Congrats to the Hartman and Wilkerson Crew on a bada$$ run. I have many childhood memories of The Hartman's running @ then Firebird (wildhorsepass) in Phoenix of both Richard and Rhonda in Corvette bodied Funny Cars. And Ron Fassl in "The Phoenix" Funny Car and AA/FA was a staple at all the summer events like The Coors 32 funny car he really could put on a show good times!!

Most likely the last major milestones fueled by nitro we will see in our lifetime (I'm 53). Fuel altereds has been a favorite since a young boy and wish NHRA would give them a competitive class like the promods. Congratulations all that was badass!!!!!!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

That would be incredible to see. Maybe they could run the class at the US Nationals as a special one-off.

Totally awesome 👏 and I love all this. I’m so amazed and I hope I can see this car run in person. This is so cool 😎! Great job for everyone on the crew for making this happen 👍🏻!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

I really hope they get to run the car again too.

BIG congrats to Richard & Tim, and the whole crew!! 👍👍👍🥳. My first drag race attended was 1965, Irwindale....8 TF FED's, 8 AA/FA's...and I was hooked. 55+ years later I still am, and love racing the Heritage Series 😎

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Nitro gets you for life!

I have never seen a car hit the high side of the fuel system like that it’s a total different beast when he hits the high side just before staging the car. Normally you can hear it change the tone but this car hits so hard it rocks back and forth lol that’s awesome

@danmyers9372

3 жыл бұрын

Good pick up!

It is now 2023, but, All I can say is, Amazing video of hitting the 300 mph mark for your Dragster. Thanks for the video and take care.

Congratulations, what a run!!

Growing up AA/FA were so Bad Azz! Absolutely awesome what your vision and team were able to accomplish. 👍👍🇺🇸🏁

Congratulations! Love what you’ve done! My name is Scott Smeaton and when I was younger I had. A similar dream / concept for a Fuel Altered... thanks to Phillip iller and technical input from Doug Kruse the THE MOB flip top funny car inspired bodied car with a chassis came to be! Seeing your car put a big smile on my car.

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

This class is like manhandling a wheelbarrow down the track while it has a running nitro engine in it .. Wild willie would be proud

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Pro Wheelbarrow!

I love it!! NHRA really needs pull their heads out of their asses and bring exciting cars like this to their events

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

The NHRA have some really cool cars too. That said, this Altered would certainly be awesome to see at one of their events.

Always loved this class,right from the wild willie winged express days? Nothing more explosive,than a short wheelbased blown hemi,not the fastest,but damn,the most exciting? Yeah boi

-Mind blown. I must have been under a rock during this project. Congrats!

WOW!!! Thank you for posting this video.

Cool beans!! I’ve loved fuel altereds since the mid sixties. Congratulations 🍾

i was there.i know people have said this is not a true fuel altered.i don't care, it was outstanding!

I watched the really wild crazy altereds run. I'm talking about Pure Heaven and Pure Hell among many others. That was the most insane crazy fast hand full I've ever seen. Those cars were all over the track. It took real steel ones to drive those! You have accomplished something that I never thought would happen. Congratulations on the accomplishment. Well deserved!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Altereds are the wildest.

Great video! Chaos Texas was the best race I have ever been to!!! Can't wait until 2022!!

Thank you 'Living Nitro',, this was an excellent video. It was awesome to witness the guys go 4:92 @3:04! They'll be back to go deeper into the 4's and faster. Yes, I clicked that LIKE and subscribed!!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing, it really helps the channel.

great work by Wilco and crew....super nice car...looks so so racy.

Kind of think it was perfect the way the camera just reached to the sky in the end :-) Damn, what a great video!!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We will say it was intentional 😂

Nice intro music and snipits, nice 👍, good job summit racing, thank you summit, and I remember the Irwindale reunion at my track LACR, with Bernie long John that was a lot f years I helped out when he needed me, , nice thanks BigAl California.

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Just pure bad assery right there!

Very cool video, Congrats to Tim and Richard

Congrats to Tim Wilkerson Richard Hartman and crew. That's one bad fuel Altered.

That car is so beautifully dialed in. I liked the channel

@Tina-di4lx

3 жыл бұрын

Cool how the car looks a little retro with the front wheels and extra cowlings It defies all and goes faster 👍🏻

Tim Wilkerson is a nice guy for doing this and good things come to nice people

Such a beautiful story and video. Thank you for this. I often wonder... if AA/FA was still an NHRA class (as I so wish it was) and all of the sponsored money, effort and time were put into it that are put into Funny Car and Top Fuel, I wonder what kind of E.T. and top speeds they would be capable of? Thank you again for this wonderful video.

LOVE IT LOVE IT, outstanding job to you and the crew, and you talk about women in sports. Its so great to see how excited they were when you ran that 304

That is amazing. Congratulations to all involved,Woo!

Great job Wilki. Back in the day you would get used parts from the big funded teams,then turn around and beat them with their old parts.now that's using your noggin. JERSEY Bill

@guskuratlejr9228

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao you got that right he bought a set off of Force then hauled ass while John went up in smoke!

NHRA is on Notice, Fans loved this! REMIX TIME... 😂... THIS was the coolest thing ever.

Congratulations to everyone involved! Quite an accomplishment. I was wondering when this would happen.

id rather see this car make 1 run every week of drag racing than watch a whole bracket of pro stock motorcycles.

I have no idea where this channel came from but I am SO glad I found it. Fantastic work!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

We're new around here haha. Thank you for subscribing and we look forward to bringing you lots more drag racing!

@johngass

3 жыл бұрын

@@LivingNitro I just happened upon your channel during downtime at the track last weekend and it's instantly to the top of the list for me.

Love the "March meet" ! But this is special ! Cool 😀

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was!

Great Job fellas Awesome video, beautiful altered...

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Really appreciate the talk over vedio...really informative 👍

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Really enjoyed that. Congratulations to all involved

Fantastic journey!!!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Love the paint, beautiful car guys!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

We agree! Thanks for being a subscriber.

Would love to see fuel altereds regularly here in the UK. But only one I know of is Havoc,& the owner has retired it,no one knows if that's permanently, hopefully not,awesome machine.

Was there for Q1 Friday Night After he shut it off, I knew they'd Hit 300 Saturday!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome runs all weekend.

I smell a new class that may wake NHRA events up!!!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see it a couple of times a year!

The AA-FA class would get the crowds back at NHRA events!

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

@outdoorfuninthesun2393

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, me included. Imo, Pro Stock should just go away.

That thing is a beast. Imagine if they had some time to pick at it

Awesome job guys

I didn’t realize your allowed to use the term user friendly when you are referring to a fuel altered . Guess I was wrong , Great Job !

This needs to be a class !

Oh, super video!!!! Thanks

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 This is awesome!!!

Well done Cheers

Very Awesome!

Eyes wide and mouth open this whole segment. This is how drag racing used to be and should be. Tim Wilkerson.....what a guy, loved this! If anyone can answer, what % nitro would you use for these motors?

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Somewhere between 80 and 90%.

Just plain cool.

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Such a beast.

Awesome !!!

The camera getting pushed up, that was the shot!

If i remember correctly it was one armed wild willie borsch at the fremont raceway in the 60s that always drove off the race track in one these cars

Hell ya that was awesome

Awesome stuff.

@LivingNitro

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

How damn cool; just to do it, throwback.

awesome!

When you're so fast the GoPro can't handle it.

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

True that!

@frank-xp6pj

3 жыл бұрын

The GoPro handled it , it just wasn’t secured tight enough

anyone else watched this more than once? 😊🤘🏻

Well when you use a Fuel Funny car and remove it's body and put a Altered body on the Chassis you'll most likely do 4 second runs at 300 mph.

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Harder than it looks. The aero is vastly different.

So its a funny car chassis, engine with a clutch management system, you put a Bantam body on it a make a pass and you are faster than a real traditional AA/FA. Great, so proud of you.

@budddove6480

3 жыл бұрын

You seem jealous and triggered. He literally mentioned doing things the way he did, out of respect for those classes. Dont worry old timer, he isn't trying to change your repetitive old program. A true drag racing enthusiast is proud of this team. A grumpy old turd is jealous and triggered.

@randalljames1

3 жыл бұрын

If you can not see the significance of a 300mph run in anything? sorry for you.. Having run one of these cars for almost 10 years? That sir is impressive... hate like you need to but it takes a class act and serious skills to push on of these "Modern" AA/FA to that kind of speed and ET..

@danmyers9372

3 жыл бұрын

Did you forget to take your pills today? Haters gotta hate I guess.

thank you for posting this it reminds me of long time ago with fueled Alters as young man mid 70s Wide World of Sports had everything drag racing NASCAR my introduction to sports a fuel altered car for drag racing was always the meanest thing in the world better than a funny car myself thank you for showing me your car because the front end I would use like a old dirt track racing Ford front end from the 20 30s I would put covers over the tires with probably canards more Formula 1 sports car stuff you know to help keep the front end down that would look cool you got front fenders they're called Wings old school that's kind of the way I would put my front end he could put canards on front side pods of that Ford Dirt Track racer Grill also more downforce on the front figure out the Wing a little better you could put some canards on the rear side panels also in front of the rear tires that might help us migi antique wedge body top fuel drag racers the Mongoose and the snake and yes that's the most important thing ball last one oh my God I'm not even doing this college at you make headed thank you for bringing the show back to the drag races Tom the mongoose the trick Camaro the Mustang stuff like that it's all sport no show anymore Grudge matches pay maybe not you guys so much but they bring in the crowd back the designing ever think about using a couple different wings like in Formula 1 start thinking about something of that designed to break the air in front of the tire

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

very cool!

Subscribed 👍👍

@LivingNitro

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

So cool.

Question for ya'll? At the 14:25 mark the guy standing next to the car was pointing down towards the blower as if he was relaying something to you as the driver or something else. What adjustment was he wanting made there. Thanks. And this video is great can't wait to show it to my dad.

Art

Awesome

that was fun

Sweet sad things badass ride got to be scary oh God bless you