In my hometown, Toronto. As I remember the muscle car scene back then. Great times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7RbiAKFqKU
pretty scary when Snidely Wiplash gets out if the car, not sure if he was scoping the streets for safety or about to shoot a porno....
makes you think just how "fast" those 15/16 second cars where with all tgat noise and zero traction, thanks for posting
The Cougar looks to be a "ringer" from the Ford of Canada drag Team. I could be wrong.
I got in contact with the guy. He seems to be a great guy and very modest. Fellow Torontonian. I easily found him on Facebook. He said the car still exists now with a 428. The small movie so reminded me of the streets of Toronto when I was in high school. Brought back my youth for a moment or two.
Here is another pilot for the current crop of street race programs. In this one a Chevelle imitates a Cars and Coffee Mustang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxwJ0T45EdI
Quote from: gt350hr on June 03, 2021, 11:13:51 AM
The Cougar looks to be a "ringer" from the Ford of Canada drag Team. I could be wrong.
He said he worked for Ford and bought their team car when they were finished with it.
Makes perfect sense!
Cool find, Richard. Fun to watch. That's actually a pretty well put together short film, for what had to be zero budget. I like the shot of the chick lighting her cig off the guy's.
My buddies and I made a few very-amateur 8mm car movies too, in the mid-70s.
Ours were mostly car chases, fights, stunts, abuse of our friends' & parents' cars and houses, and a lot of bad acting.
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on June 03, 2021, 01:52:41 PM
Here is another pilot for the current crop of street race programs. In this one a Chevelle imitates a Cars and Coffee Mustang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxwJ0T45EdI
Loved all the single traction cars, the land yachts doing doughnuts, the chevelle with the blower that turned into a bulldozer and the guy in the three wheeler with a death wish that kept popping up in front of the cars as the raced....PRICELESS !
That '70 Charger isn't as quick as its driver thought, when the guy on the 3-wheeler nearly beat him! ;D
Another slice of life. Looks very-early '80s by the clothes and cars. No 5.0 Mustangs or Camaros. Plus it's videotape...so no earlier than what...1980?
I had one of the first giant VHS cameras with the heavy bag with the recorder. Probably 1980.
Unfortunately, we'd stopped making car movies by them, which is too bad. Would really enjoy hearing the sounds of our cars and the voices of my long-gone pals.
I had to laugh at watching that clip. brought back some fond memories. I was a part of that scene back in the late 70s in SO CAL. This group didnt seem to have their stuff together .If someone was doing donuts like that he probably would have had a severe beat down from one of the group or all of them. Our group was pretty well organized as far as teenagers went, we had a starter, spotter vehicles at both ends, biggest guy of the group held the money and loved to fight given very little provocation ;D. Walkie talkies to inform of the winners, if it was close. We had probably 100 to 150 people to show up on any given weekend. The cars in the clip appeared to be lucky to get to maybe 70 mph in the quarter, they couldnt even beat a 250 atc of the time :-[ Peg leg cars running 17-18s need not show up. We would shuffle from one street to the next if the long arm of the law showed up. There were a few trailered cars running 9s- 10s that would race, it took about 15 minutes to get there unload make the bet, race , reload and boogie. Craziness of youth was a very fun time!
427heaven: Same time frame and location for me. Mid '70s through about 1983 when cops really started closing down venues like Van Nuys. Plus it got dangerous when the gangs and other bad guys started showing up.
The typical guy and his buddies cruising in a Camaro or Mustang ran 14s or 15s. A handful were 13s. Lots of burnouts from stoplights, and some head to head racing on a side street. When something like a Vega with a 427 rolled out of a trailer, we all gathered to watch.
Yes, we were much more organized than those squirrels in the video. We called those kids "bubble gummers."
Ever go to Pershing Dr behind LAX? Huge street-racing crowds on that 2-mile-long, straight, 3-lane that was virtually uninhabited late at night. Saw some truly badazz casr go at it. We used to gather at the Bob's Big Boy on Manchester to size everyone up and make the bets.
I learned alot from the OLD guys... 25 year olds? BOTTLE BOB 9 second 69 corvette... Larson bros. MOPARS 440 DARTS- DUSTERS... RON MILLER with his 69 MUSTANG dual quad 427 HIGH RISER, unlike the squirrel in the video you would NEVER reveal what was under that hood. I /we were usually in the SAN FERNANDO valley at... GLENOAKS, PEORIA, SAN FERNANDO RD, DEVONSHIRE, WENTWORTH, VAN NUTS BLVD, SEPULVEDA. We would scatter like cock roaches in all directions when the FUZZ showed up, could make 50- 100 bucks a night not bad when you could buy gas for 30 cents a gallon and a burger was a dollar. AAAH good times from the distant past. ;D
I am eating up your stories, gentlemen. Keep them coming.
We had a video tape reel to reel player around 1970. There were pre - recorded video tapes for it, one we watched over and over was Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. It was 16 MM video tape, black and white but color ones were available - if you could afford them!
TV stations were using video cameras generally by the early 1970's. Sitcoms were done in video tape by then too.
Quote from: Side-Oilers on June 03, 2021, 05:12:57 PM
That '70 Charger isn't as quick as its driver thought, when the guy on the 3-wheeler nearly beat him! ;D
Another slice of life. Looks very-early '80s by the clothes and cars. No 5.0 Mustangs or Camaros. Plus it's videotape...so no earlier than what...1980?
I had one of the first giant VHS cameras with the heavy bag with the recorder. Probably 1980.
Unfortunately, we'd stopped making car movies by them, which is too bad. Would really enjoy hearing the sounds of our cars and the voices of my long-gone pals.
More likely these two cars were 12 second cars. I went to the drag strip around 1977 (Green Valley, outside Ft Worth Texas) and was running easy 15.50's in my daily driver which was a 4 speed, 3.0 to one peg leg 289 powered 1967 Cougar. Another friend of mine went that particular day, his 327 powered '64 Nova with 3.73 / Posi / 4 speed was running 12.20's until the drive shaft snapped.
Quote from: FL SAAC on June 03, 2021, 09:42:04 AM
pretty scary when Snidely Wiplash gets out if the car, not sure if he was scoping the streets for safety or about to shoot a porno....
makes you think just how "fast" those 15/16 second cars where with all tgat noise and zero traction, thanks for posting
Quote from: Side-Oilers on June 05, 2021, 11:32:27 AMEver go to Pershing Dr behind LAX? Huge street-racing crowds on that 2-mile-long, straight, 3-lane that was virtually uninhabited late at night.
Pershing Drive was part of the Cobra demo ride from the factory on Imperial. In 65 they moved the people off the west side (Surfridge) and demoed the houses due to noise. It made a fun track until they fenced it off.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9405569,-118.4193123,2681m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
SA & CS had an office in this building on Pershing (north of the airport) while he was living in Marina Del Rey. 80s - 90s timeframe (if my feeble mind remembers right)
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9570858,-118.4429393,3a,90y,267.12h,98.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saXcNJud2oUFS2E47PiESUQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Look at the palm trees on the map picture. So exotic. Makes me want to get back to California despite its problems. At least see 1042 Princeton Drive and so forth. Rodeo Drive and so on.
Has anyone ever climbed up on their fender and into the engine compartment to wipe the base of the carb? ;D
He knew he was being filmed. I am sure it was done for dramatic effect.
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on June 05, 2021, 12:49:18 PM
Quote from: Side-Oilers on June 05, 2021, 11:32:27 AMEver go to Pershing Dr behind LAX? Huge street-racing crowds on that 2-mile-long, straight, 3-lane that was virtually uninhabited late at night.
Pershing Drive was part of the Cobra demo ride from the factory on Imperial. In 65 they moved the people off the west side (Surfridge) and demoed the houses due to noise. It made a fun track until they fenced it off.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9405569,-118.4193123,2681m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
SA & CS had an office in this building on Pershing (north of the airport) while he was living in Marina Del Rey. 80s - 90s timeframe (if my feeble mind remembers right)
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9570858,-118.4429393,3a,90y,267.12h,98.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saXcNJud2oUFS2E47PiESUQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Correct. My parents lived there (on Vista del Mar next to the little park) when I was born. Very nice houses & great ocean views, all torn down for the LAX north runway expansion. (The park is still there.) We moved to Culver City after that. Not quite as nice of ocean views (none.)
Several scenes of those 1970s 8mm car movies we made (I posted on another thread) were shot on Pershing (drag race scene, and car-to-car shootout) and in those abandoned house locations. Quite a few houses had yet to be demolished at that time. A Rockford Files episode used one (on Waterview, I believe.)
How's that for boring & esoteric minutae for all the rest of you guys who have no idea where we're referencing.
That Google Maps location you posted on the office building is 100%. Been by it many times. Rode my bike past it as a kid. Catty corner from it on Pershing at Manchester was a large 1950s liquor store. I think the timeframe for CS being at that location would be earlier than '80s however. (Definitely before he got in with Chrysler. He was in Bel Air then.) Didn't he live in Playa del Rey in the '66-67 timeframe? Before much of Marina del Rey was completed.
Quote from: deathsled on June 05, 2021, 02:56:56 PM
Look at the palm trees on the map picture. So exotic. Makes me want to get back to California despite its problems. At least see 1042 Princeton Drive and so forth. Rodeo Drive and so on.
Come out and visit, Richard. Would be great to meet in person.
Van
Quote from: Royce Peterson on June 05, 2021, 12:27:55 PM
We had a video tape reel to reel player around 1970. There were pre - recorded video tapes for it, one we watched over and over was Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. It was 16 MM video tape, black and white but color ones were available - if you could afford them!
TV stations were using video cameras generally by the early 1970's. Sitcoms were done in video tape by then too.
Agreed on the timeframe of professional video for TV stations, sit-coms, etc. I'm just referencing AFAIK the first home movie style video cameras as being around 1980. Mine was a Panasonic with a giant camera that sat on your shoulder, and a heavy sling bag for the recorder. Others may have come earlier, but I hadn't seen one. We had a Sony betamax player circa 1978.
I suspect this was filmed on professional level video camera equipment and edited professionally too. When I was in high school my sophomore year (1972 - 73) we were using black and white video cameras and editing the videos. It all seemed to be from the future! That particular film is easily way more professional than anything I was doing.
Quote from: Side-Oilers on June 06, 2021, 12:53:10 AM
Quote from: Royce Peterson on June 05, 2021, 12:27:55 PM
We had a video tape reel to reel player around 1970. There were pre - recorded video tapes for it, one we watched over and over was Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. It was 16 MM video tape, black and white but color ones were available - if you could afford them!
TV stations were using video cameras generally by the early 1970's. Sitcoms were done in video tape by then too.
Agreed on the timeframe of professional video for TV stations, sit-coms, etc. I'm just referencing AFAIK the first home movie style video cameras as being around 1980. Mine was a Panasonic with a giant camera that sat on your shoulder, and a heavy sling bag for the recorder. Others may have come earlier, but I hadn't seen one. We had a Sony betamax player circa 1978.
Quote from: Side-Oilers on June 06, 2021, 12:19:02 AM
Quote from: deathsled on June 05, 2021, 02:56:56 PM
Look at the palm trees on the map picture. So exotic. Makes me want to get back to California despite its problems. At least see 1042 Princeton Drive and so forth. Rodeo Drive and so on.
Come out and visit, Richard. Would be great to meet in person.
Van
Thanks for the invitation Van. I may take you up on it!