One of the birthplaces of Pro Modified, Shuffletown Dragway in Charlotte, NC, was a training ground for many of the class' pioneers with their Sunday afternoon Quick Eight competitions. On any given Sunday in the late 1980s, you could see Charles Carpenter, Tommy Mauney, Scotty Cannon, Ed Hoover and Blake Wiggins just to name a few.
We came across this YouTube gem featuring the first round of Top Sportsman Quick Eight action at the IHRA Gateway Nationals in St. Louis. Scotty Cannon won the competition and became the first and only driver in the pre-Pro Modified era to win the Saturday night Quick Eight and Sunday's Quick 32 bracket race.
This video was shot at an IHRA points race held at Brainerd Optimist
Drag Strip in North Georgia, just South of Chattanooga, Tennessee. A
building was blocking the view down track but there's some good
starting line footage with some excellent sound. This should get your
heart pumping. a A lot of the old IHRA runners such as Dennis Mitchell,
Bill Pucket, Tim Freeman and Wayne Allison are just a few of the names
you'll see.
Back in the early days of Super Gas, when electronics were taboo, the
NHRA featured elaiminations from the 1982 Gatornationals. The 1983
season was the second full season for the 9.90 class and a driver could
actually enter and have a reasonable change of winning with an
all-steel car and a manual transmission. Watch this old Diamond P video
and you can see just how much the face of this class has changed.
This rare video gem was broadcast on Speedvision and features coverage of the 1975 IHRA Pro Am Nationals, the traditional spring race hosted by Rockingham Dragway. Back in the day the IHRA provided an alternative to the larger NHRA and to be honest, the racing wasn't that bad. You'll see in this two-part video rewind footage of Don Garlits, Shirl Greer, Raymond Beadle, Bob Glidden, General Lee Edwards and more. It's just the perfect video for a holiday weekend.
Today's classic video rewind comes courtesy of Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian's
DragStripRiot66 YouTube channel. She presents classic home video
footage of her legendary Comp eliminator racing father Frank Mazi and
the family's BB/Altered Opel at the 1984 NHRA Springnationals in
Columbus, Ohio.
Today's Classic Video Rewind features a home video gem from the 1970 NHRA Springnationals at the former Dallas Motor Speedway in Texas. Winners at this event includes Bob Gibson (Top Fuel), Leroy Goldstein (Funny Car) and Ronnie Sox (Top Fuel). It's a long video, but worth the time for anyone wishing to travel back in time.
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was an American action/adventure
sitcom that ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981. For its second season the
show was renamed Lobo. The program aired Tuesday nights, at 8 p.m.
Eastern time. The lead character, Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo, played by
Claude Akins, was a spin-off character from another television series,
B.J. and the Bear.
