Maybe drag racing isn’t your thing. But this professionally made movie from 1959 that chronicles one team’s efforts to build the winning dragster, and haul it from California to Detroit behind a ’51 Chrysler Town & Country shows a slice of life from a different era. Drag racing at the time was still an amateur undertaking, and the cars didn’t all look alike. That era would end soon, but here’s a trip down the strip in 1959.
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! 🙂
Variety, backyard ingenuity, a lack of corporate sponsorship–all things that are missing from current motorsport. It’s too bad, as technically innovative as modern race cars are, they are largely unattractive, too expensive, and all the same.
On that note, I attended the practice/qualifying day at Belle Isle Park in Detroit for the Tudor United Sportscars, Indycars, and World Challenge cars, and the World Challenge Caddy CTS-Vs looked and sounded awesome!
It still exists, just not in the ‘big’ categories.
True! I loved watching the SCCA runoffs back when they used to be on Speed Channel.
Thank you for posting this reminder of a simpler age.