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1973 Drag Racing Documentary: Burn On – See The Best Jungle Jim Video Interview Ever!


1973 Drag Racing Documentary: Burn On – See The Best Jungle Jim Video Interview Ever!

To us, nothing is cooler than old school drag racing movies coming out of hibernation and finding their way onto the internet. We were tipped off to the newest and coolest one out there today. It is a 1973 film called, “Burn On”. This one is especially awesome because it was filmed at the 1973 AHRA Grand American race at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. The highlights of the video include some truly epic racing footage and the best Jungle Jim video interview we have ever seen. He talks about racing Funny Cars, fire, and danger.

You’ll see old school New England Dragway in all of its glory. If you think that the “guard rail” looks like plumbers pipe, that’s because it is. Seriously. You’ll hear long time track announcer Jan Landers screaming in his high pitched frenetic tones, see fans packed to the rafters, and some of the coolest race cars of the era beating on each other while surrounded by the lush New Hampshire forest.

This is 16-minutes of pure historical drag racing perfection!

We’ll be LIVE STREAMING the 2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion This Thursday through Saturday…stay tuned for the link! This video will get you in the moodS

PRESS PLAY BELOW FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST DRAG VIDEOS EVER!

Burn On : Drag Racing Documentary (1973) from Brink Media on Vimeo.


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14 thoughts on “1973 Drag Racing Documentary: Burn On – See The Best Jungle Jim Video Interview Ever!

  1. Steve

    That radio commercial voice over at the end is a rare treat and hard to find on today’s internet. I can still hear my local broadcast from 40 years ago ringing in my ears.
    RACE FANS and HOT RODDERS! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! AT DETROIT DRAGWAY! 200MPH NITRO BURNING FUNNY CARS! CONNIE KALITTA’s BOUNTY HUNTER MUSTANG! SHIRLEY CHACHA MULDOWNEY’s PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER! ROGER LINDAMOOD’s COLOR ME GONE CHARGER! ROLAND LEONG’s HAWAIIAN CHARGER! RAMCHARGERS! BLUE MAX!
    BE THERE!

  2. Paul

    F/Cs looked like cars back then, still had fan appeal. Speed didn’t matter. ET was only who won or lost. No one cared how quick the race was. It was quality showmanship with noise, fire and smoke. If you can’t win……..be spectacular ! Thank God for the Crower glide.

  3. Dirty Doug

    1973, hmmm, Epping,… lessseeee….

    yeah I remember;

    I was crewman on #100 AA/A -Ron Scott’s National Record holding red T roadster [ 436 Hemi poked to 486, -on blackie carbon ]

    I used to start it off the blower snout with the 24V aircraft starter like the flopper guys did….squirt gas in the bugcaatcher, get the nod, and WhoooomBah!

    One time we forgot to remove the Coors cans off the zoomies,
    -and …. well you can guess the rest They musta went 60 feet in the air.

    Yeah those were the daze all right.

    Because I was the ‘crewman’, and chief backer’upper and all,…
    I got to stand about a foot behind his T when it launched.

    Almost as good a rush as drivin’… Almost. It has a clutchflyte in it and every time it shifted it came off the ground and came down lookin’ for the guardrail. Whoa doggies that dam car went 1400 feet in a 1/4 mile pass it did. Fun stuff to be sure.

    Yeah, Epping was, -and still is, a really neat place to be. And one of my faves,… [ the old S.I.R. in Seattle bein’ another…]

    yeah, those were the days all right… I can smell the fumes now.

  4. Gil Coraine

    I’ve been reborn! Thanks to Brian and whoever unearthed the copy of “Burn On”. The film had great insight and special effects for 1973. I remember when a young filmmaker named Peter Ogilvie and his small crew from Cambridge, Mass came to the track to ask about filming. They knew nothing about drag racing, but we opened our doors to them (good racing footage was almost impossible to come by back then). After some trial runs, they came back for the Grand American to shoot for real. We had no idea how it might look and sound until we went to their studio. It was in an old church with a gorgeous pipe organ. Jack Doyle, Cy and I reviewed the raw footage and “helped” with the editing. We were blown away. I ended up with a copy but lost it somewhere along the way. Thanks again. DVDs? See you at the NHRANEHRR.

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