Now this is pretty awesome. You are about to take a trip back in time to the 1970s and more importantly that trip will take us to a couple of the country’s drag strips like Thunder Park to see nitro funny cars, top fuel dragsters and whole bunch of different sportsman cars. The piece was made for a news magazine show and it is very in-depth for the time. They visit racers Mike Gearing and Brett Wilson no only in their shops but at the track. There’s Bruce Springsteen tunes used in here and it really provides a cool look at the scene in New Zealand back then.
As you will hear the reporter mention, there were about 10 fuel cars in the country back when this was made in the 1970s. We know that the country has a pretty awesome drag racing scene these days but we are not sure that there are any top fuel cars or nitro funny cars left at this point.
We dig the fact that the numbers were so small that funny cars and dragsters matched up for competition and threw down for the crowd.
A neat watch and interesting historical perspective here.
Hit the image below to watch this really awesome video from the 1970s –
That was good. A definite time machine look at simpler times.