1966 French Documentary on American Drag Racing at Lions

[nitromaniac]

Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian has given me permission to post this link

1966 French Documentary on American Drag Racing at Lions

www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=dragster&num_notice=1&total_notices=1

[CRR]

Pure nostalgia! I only ever went to Lions once and that was just a couple of weeks before The Last Drag Race in 1972 when it disappeared for ever.

[dan tournay]

About 3/4 the way through the cars are going over some rollers and then being pushed through and brushing down the tyres. I've never seen that before. What's the purpose of doing this? Are they being weighed?

[CRR]

Dan, that's the way they started the cars at some strips at that time. Of course, some strips didn't have such "modern" facilities as roller starters and they had to make do with pushing down the fireup road. Regarding wiping the slicks, they were just doing what crews do today, that's cleaning them.

[Benni]

Hi Dragster (History) Fans !
Has anynone seen the french movie "The Last Adventure" ?
It is from 1967 and starrs Lino Ventura & Alain Delon, directed by Robert Enrico.
And it shows Lino (a junkyard owner) building and driving a (fake) blown front engine !
It also features some (french?) racing footage and I wonder where this was taken,
because the first dragrace at Santa Pod was in 1966,
and I do not know where the french guys were racing in 1967,
or that they did it at all in those early days.
Benni
btt: That documentary was great, talk about "boiling the hides" !