This right here is awesome. Imagine taking a drag car stripped of every unnecessary thing outside of the engine, chassis, transmission, axles, and wheels and placing it on a drag strip that has been stripped of all the frills found at so many other places. That’s exactly what you are going to see here in this video made back in the 1980s at the legendary George Ray’s Wildcat Dragstrip in Paragould, Arkansas. For those of you wondering, yes the track is still very much in business and no, it has not changed a lick. Still narrow, still devoid of anything but traction, a tree, and a win light, it is one of the greatest places in the sport of drag racing, bar none, end of story.

So apparently this dude had crashed his car and repairs were made to the chassis. Before they got ahead of themselves and slung a body over the chassis the guys took the machine to the strip to get the basic setup correct. Well, they showed up and according to the dude narrating the video, it rained that day so everyone packed it up and went home.

These guys seemingly asked to stay to just make some short squirts off the starting line and Ray consented. In fact, you’ll hear George tell the crazy story of a guy with a gun to get this video started.

We love seeing the car with no body, the guy with a t-shirt on, and the meanness of the alky injected big block powering it all.

This channel has some really amazing footage from George Ray’s on it and you should check it out if you really love the sport of drag racing and one of its most amazing tracks.