RARE VIDEO FIND - 1966 NHRA WORLD FINALS FROM TULSA


 

Travel back in time when the dragster would slingshot down the strip with the engines in the front, Funny Cars were still in Competition Eliminator and the Super Stocks were as the true factory hot rods.

According to NHRA, the event, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, set an attendance record when 37,000 spectators attended the NHRA World Championship and Tulsa Invitational drags there, exceeding by a good margin the previous attendance record for any sports event in that city.

This event was originally broadcast on NBC, presented the legends of drag racing from Top Fuel to Top Gas to Super Stock.