I have that Cecil video,it's a great one.Neat to see how much our home track has changed over the years.I hauled a backhoe for Malcom Durham one time,back in the 80's,delivered it to his parents farm in North Carolina.Rode in his Corvette with him,when he took me to the lot to show me where it was.A real gentleman.
i dont know if that 65 was the Z16 he got, but Malcom did receive one of the 201 thru Hicks Chev
the car is still in Md, i know the guy that owns it, but its a shell now
the Z16 used the 300 tail lights and some special trim and it looks like some of those parts are still on Malcolms drag car but I'm not sure because some parts are missing.
There was another Z16 that was used as a drag car called "The Sizzler" and it ran a crazy Turbonique Rocket powered rear axle
here is a cool article on the guy who drove it and he mentions the Z16
The blue car at the beginning of the video is not a Z16. It has Malibu SS emblems on the quarter panels, and has chrome C-moldings on the rear around the taillights.
Here's another video with an eye on a really young Atco Raceway (NJ) from the early 60's with a narrator describing drag racing to the average unknowing citizen back then.
"It's a sport baby !!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PGJU6XP8KrE#t=903
Really cool the way the narrator describes the sport of drag racing right from the start.And,I like the way the early cars seem so much different from how the later muscle cars are.(at 7:20 of the above video is the craziest race car in a car hauler I've ever seen.Plus at 10:30 is a 65 Chevelle funny car-"fiberglass" )
And,Here's Ray Allen's 70 LS-6 at York dragway, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAf9hgn7Dig
for the impatient it's 3:45 of the video.At 3:10 there's Big Daddy in a funny car, never knew he drove a funny car.
Yes that's why they made burnouts through it and backed up, to make it sticky. They wanted to launch in the same tracks as the burnout. If you'll notice in the video, as soon as they got past the rosin tracks, the tires would spin, car would fishtail, and engine would free rev for a bit. Part of the match race show was the drivers/stars getting out and sprinkling the rosin in front of their car while the announcer was whipping the crowd into a frenzy. I went to a few of those match races in the 60's/early 70's. With some podunk tracks having no fences you could get pretty close to the cars as they burned out and launched. Dangerous but plenty exciting.
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