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03-16-2011, 11:45 PM | #1 |
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1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
Slideshow from the 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals at Frontier International Raceway in Oklahoma City, OK. 8 mins long. Super Stock, Stock, Funny Cars, Dragsters.
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03-17-2011, 06:07 AM | #2 |
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Re: 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
Thanks, Gregg! The slide show presents a very rare photographic chronicle of one of the sport's greatest debacles. I included it in an article I penned for Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine almost twenty years ago. It can be read at:
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03-17-2011, 08:18 AM | #3 |
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There are some dear friends in this slide show who have long since left us. I looked at these photos and thought of all of the whining and complaining that goes on here about how bad the pits are, not enough room to get the motorhome parked and heaven forbid that a super stock car have a "not factory hood scoop." Brett hope you are doing well. That is one super photo of the "Ramchargers" smokie burnout.
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03-17-2011, 08:52 AM | #4 |
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Great shots. Once I started the slide show, I was mesmerized until it was done.
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Re: 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
LOVE IT......Thats when drag racing was something !
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03-17-2011, 11:20 AM | #6 |
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Re: 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
cool names
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X-Tech, you are correct. Seeing these slides brings back a lot of memories. I was thinking of a conversation Ronnie Sox, Bobby Warren and myself had one night at the reunion in Henderson. We were talking about the amount of equipment and everything involved in drag racing now and the amount of money involved. Ronnie commented that all of the money that sponsors spend that the car owner has to answer to all of those sponsors. He said "there is no way that the drag racers today can enjoy racing as much as we did, even though we raced, in most cases three or four times a week in all different locations hauled everything in a truck."
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Re: 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
I had forgotten about that track. Everybody parking in the dirt.
Don't remember the last time I saw a funny car with ladder bars..
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Re: 1970 AHRA Grand American Nationals - YouTube
If memory serves me right, it was the Pogue brothers 58 Ford that mowed the tree down. Fun times! I loved AHRA.
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