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Loved the wheelstanders and their sparks, what a show. Did your track get the car/truck with the rocket engine? Talk about screaming down the track!
Saw Don Garlits, (he's still alive at 92), Ronny Sox, a lot of the greats. Also watched Mark Pawuk when he was still wet behind the ears, before he made it to the national scene.
Good times is right!
Never got to see the rocket powered rigs, our local track was an 1/8th mile. I lived out in the sticks.
The rocket cars were awesome to watch, especially at night.
Had to share this one since it was posted by 👉🏼VeeDub👈Racing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCtOhmEDgo
Here's another:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwTvp1Wom8
Rocket cars continued to run at NHRA tracks up through the early eighties. This was many years after the two fatal crashes. They were banned in large part because the concentrated hydrogen peroxide became prohibitively expensive.
A shame.... :(
our local track was an 1/8th mile.
Never heard of an eighth mile. You'd think out in the sticks, you'd have the space for a quarter mile?
And I thought our track was out in the boonies!😄
The closest NHRA 1/4 mile dragstrip was in New Hampshire.
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