Cool Drag Video: A Look Again At Detroit Dragway On The Final Weekend Of The 1989 Season
There are few useless drag strips with extra mythology surrounding them than Detroit Dragway. In contrast to locations on the west coast that received well-known for match racing and all that different stuff, Detroit Dragway was on the bleeding fringe of the manufacturing unit horsepower and drag racing wars of the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies. The monitor operated till the later a part of the Nineteen Nineties however by then the magic was largely gone. We’d enterprise to say that no different monitor in drag racing historical past noticed extra clandestine manufacturing unit motion than Detroit Dragway did over time.
From manufacturing unit automobiles dressed as regular runners however truly powered with labored up engines to the very stockers. tremendous stockers, and FX automobiles that may come to outline their manufacturers to a era of drag racers, Detroit Dragway was the place that they had been examined, sorted, and scienced out probably the most. Whereas this video doesn’t function any of that stuff, we do get a have a look at the automobiles that had been racing within the larger Detroit space throughout the finish of the Nineteen Eighties.
In fact, the state of affairs in and round Detroit wouldn’t precisely be rosy by way of the Nineteen Nineties and by 1989 the losses from automakers had been beginning to mount. We’re not going to go all Debbie Downer on you right here nevertheless it bears mentioning that we’re doubtless wanting on the tail finish of the “good years” at Detroit Dragway.
Speak about an old style place, proper? No partitions to get in the best way, the starter working issues from a pleasant stand within the heart of the monitor, and the texture of a joint proper out of the 60s. Jon Lundberg was a longtime announcer at this facility, and naturally in 1959 and 1960 this monitor hosted the NHRA US Nationals.
On this weekend it was only a bunch of devoted drag racers, velocity freaks, and muscle automotive geeks getting their final licks in earlier than a protracted winter and an unsure future descended over Detroit. The place continues to be an unbelievable mecca for automotive expertise and we’re hoping many of those racers stay part of that scene.
Because of Barry Rabotnick of Survival Motorsports for posting this video!
Press play beneath to see this video window into Detroit Dragway historical past circa 1989 –
