Awesome video...Jenkins/Landy match race '75

[Rory McNeil]

I don`t know if it was 74 or 75, but I do remember that Jenkins vs Landy match race at Boundary Bay dragstrip very well. I was 17 or 18 at that time, and I was living in Delta BC at the time, which is the town that the Boundary Bay track was located. I really wanted to go to that race, as it was a much talked about event, but my Dad said "too bad, ya gotta cut the lawn today" (1/2 acre with a cheap pushmower with no bag meant an all day job, with the raking and hand trimming the edges (No Weed Wackers in those days!)
Luckily Delta Cable 10 covered the drags at Boundary Bay, so I saw this footage on TV that night. The next day, I went to Mission Raceway, and although the Grump had headed south back to Seattle, I did have the pleasure of watching "Dandy" Dick Landy run his Dart a few times. I still have a photo I took of Landy working on the Darts engine in his striped bell bottom pants, with a large crowd milling around the car. Although the fact that Landy showed up at Mission was very cool, but not unbelievable, most of us were stunned that him AND Jenkins had been at Boundary Bay the day before. Compared to Mission, Boundary Bay was a very basic local old airstrip runway hobby track. In fact, in that video, you can see an old red bus. THAT was the timing tower! I only raced a few times at Boundary Bay, it only ran as a dragstrip for a couple of years, and was then turned into a municapal airport , which it still operates as today.